Ranma Half Moon chapter 58, "Tokyo Death Match! Ranma-ko's hardest battle ever!" Part 1
Author's note: This episode happens during the Sailor Moon episode 31, "Loved and chased! Luna's worst day ever."
Note: Space Pirate Strawberry, Parfait, and Chewy are non-cannon characters in a one of my previous fan fics, Yu Yu Hakusho Re Pure.
Luna fervently searches for clues for where the final Rainbow Crystal might be.
However, Luna is a little too fervent.
"You have a lot of nerve!"
Luna looks around the dark alley that she is searching. She finally sees a pint-sized cat. "Why do you say that?"
"Oh, pretend that you don't know that you've invaded our turf."
"Sorry, I have no clue as to what you're talking about."
Luna suddenly hears an enormous cat behind her clear its throat. Luna looks around to see a large, terrifyingly evil looking cat looking at her with bad intentions.
"That's my boss. Chewy. I'm the second in command, Mini Chewy."
"But, I don't want any trouble."
Luna hears a low rumbling. She can start picking out the word "Nyah". She looks past Chewy and sees an army of nearly a hundred cats.
"It doesn't matter what you want, it matters what we want. And, we want lunch."
Luna realizes that Mini Chewy means that Luna is soon to be the main course for the evil stray cat army's next meal.
Terrified, Luna bolts and races past Mini Chewy. I hope I am not surrounded. So panicked is she that she doesn't notice Mini Chewy biting on her tail as she races past.
The cat army races after Luna, but Chewy doesn't move, mostly out of laziness. You would think that after I tricked Space Pirate Strawberry into getting captured by the pet store owners that things would calm down? Chewy sighs.
Luna races out of the alley but finds herself cut off from escaping in a parking lot.
The army closes in on her. Oh, no! I may have less than a minute to live.
Suddenly a fish skeleton lands in front of the army division's leader. The leader looks up to see the terrifying outline of the Iron Jaw Gang's second most feared enemy, Rhett Butler!
Realizing that one hundred of them against Rhett Butler was terrible odds against them, the army retreats by walking backward, so scared of Rhett Butler that they did not want to lose sight of him for one moment.
It takes nearly a minute for Mini Chewy to realize that his army has run away. When he does, he grins and retreats, exploiting the fact that the larger black cat was still in shock.
When Mini Chewy makes it back to Chewy, Chewy is having a fit.
"Boss, boss, that cat is a member of Rhett Butler's gang."
Chewy nods and calms down. "Don't worry, we know where Rhett Butler lives. Setting a trap shouldn't be hard."
...
Mamoru's phone rings.
"Hello, it's Rei-chan! I found a delicious pastry place. Won't you please take me? I may not look it, but I am a pretty sophisticated, hip girl. You can count on me for knowing where the next hot place is. Oh, I guess I am babbling. Please give me a call."
Rei sighs. Yeah, quoting Morning Musume lyrics really makes me sound hip.
Mamoru looks out on the city from his balcony. For too long Zoisite has beaten me for the Rainbow Crystals. Not this time. This time, nothing was going to distract me.
Mamoru's phone rings again.
"Hey Mamoru, it's Ranma. I just thought I would check up on you. I haven't heard from you in a week, so I thought I would make sure you were okay. Not that there's any particular reason why I would be concerned other than the lack of your phone calls. Well, give me a call."
Mamoru nods to himself. No distractions until he gets the final rainbow crystal!
Ranma-ko sighs. Even though I kept the news of Hino Rei kissing another guy to myself, it is likely that the word has leaked back to Mamoru. Maybe Mamoru needed time to himself?
Luna put her injured tail in a fountain for pain relief.
Ami sits by her side, busily entering the coordinates that Luna had received from the mission control computer.
Luna sighs.
"That must have been very terrifying."
"No kidding. What do I have to do with stray cat turf wars?"
"Hey guys!" Makoto joins them by the fountain. "What are you doing, Ami?"
"The computer is almost ready to show us where the last rainbow crystal is. This will be our first time to get ahead of the curve and beat Zoisite to the punch."
Makoto smiles. Ami is so cool that sometimes I felt a little inadequate.
"Hey guys!"
But that feeling often passes quickly.
Usagi looks around. "Where's Rei?"
Ami blushes. "It's Sunday, so she wanted to go on a date."
"Date? Moe."
Ami smiles. "Okay, ready. This will tell us where the next rainbow crystal is!"
"But, my wand isn't blinking."
"The computer will tell us where it is."
...
Ranma-ko walks along the street. Is there was something that girls do that is supposed to cheer boys up?
Suddenly, the Rainbow Crystal in her breast pocket feels warm. Minako must be nearby.
Ranma-ko races over to Minako's house and vaults to her second-floor balcony. The sliding door is ajar, and another note is taped to it. Ranma-ko reads the note.
"Please do not try to stop me. The mission is more important than I am. Please save the earth. Minako."
Ranma-ko hears some pounding from inside. She runs in and rescues Artemis from the closet where Minako had thrown him.
"This is bad."
"I saw the note."
"Ranma, there's something you need to know. Minako might not always show it, but she is a fearsome fighter. Trying to stop her from committing suicide might not be safe."
"You forget, the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts accepts all challenges."
Artemis nods, but looks obviously worried.
"Where did she go?"
"When she threw me in the closet, she said something like 'time to make a splash'."
Ranma-ko gasps. There is a bridge nearby that was high enough to be fatal if someone tries to fall the wrong way.
"Don't wait for me."
Ranma-ko leaves the apartment at a dead sprint. This is going to be really, really bad.
To Be Continued!