Ranma Half Moon chapter 113 "A Revolutionary Transfer Student" part 7
Author's note: This episode happens during the Sailor Moon episode 41 "I won't run from love anymore! Ami and Mamoru's show down".
Author's Note: Albator, Le Corsair de L'Espace is the opening theme for the anime series "Space Pirate Captain Harlock".
Author's Warning: This is a total crack chapter. Read at your own risk.
Parfait looks at Strawberry and gives Strawberry a quizzical look. "Boss, we have a problem. It's several miles to Rhett's territory as the crow flies, and to avoid Chewy's territory, we'll have to walk several more miles. We don't have enough energy to carry Rhett that far."
Strawberry nods. "There's only one way then, but it's risky."
Rhett raises an eyebrow.
"We'll have to use the subway."
Parfait's eyes double in size. "You're kidding right? The subway stays in Chewy's territory for ten stops."
"Do you have a better idea?"
"No."
"Any better ideas, Rhett?"
Rhett Butler shakes his head.
"Well, the longer we stay here, the better the chance that Chewy's scouts will see us and Chewy's gang will start an all out war."
Butler and Parfait nod in agreement.
"So, to the subway!"
Haruka leads Ranma-ko down the street towards the subway. Ranma-ko appears to be out of it.
From out of nowhere, three girls appear before them. "What it the meaning of this Haruka?"
Ranma-ko snaps out of her stupor. "Old girlfriends of yours?"
"Fan club members from the high school."
The apparent leader of the girls, a girl with blond hair, steps forward. "Why is the Rose Bride walking with someone who isn't the duel champion? And, if she can do that, why isn't she doing that with me?" The girl lets out an ear-splitting, high-pitched laugh.
"Nanami, I think you're jumping to conclusions. Ranma is a friend of both me and Haruka. There's nothing suspicious going on."
"Nothing suspicious? I always wondered why boy Ranma's cousin has never had a boyfriend."
Ranma-ko raises an eyebrow. "I happen to be serious about martial arts. Not all girls are obsessed with boys."
The three girls crack up.
Nanami looks at Ranma in an insinuating manner. "Very suspicious."
Haruka steps forward. "I'm not going to let you harass my friend. Now, scram."
The three girls run away, happy to have been "corrected" by Haruka.
"Teenage girls can be so mean."
Ranma-ko nods.
Haruka helps Ranma down the steps into the subway entrance. They pass by an abandoned radio which plays a sad song. They board a subway car and it takes off.
Strawberry and Parfait walk down the subway steps, levitating Rhett Butler behind them.
The song on the radio ends. "Space Pirates, looks like you got yourselves in a pickle. The reaper is at the next stop with his sickle."
Strawberry sees a scout of Chewy racing down the subway tunnel back toward Chewy's territory. So it begins.
The next subway car stops. It is fully automated with no humans on board. The three voyagers enter and immediately case the car for combat capabilities. Rhett carries the radio with him. It is going to be a long night.
On the next stop, three members of Chewy's army enter the car. They laugh among themselves, thinking that a bunch of cats were committing suicide by gang warfare.
The door closes.
Chewy's warriors turn around to see their prey and freeze in their tracks. They claw at the door, trying to get out.
The car stops at the next stop. Another contingent of Chewy's army is waiting, but before they can enter, Parfait ejects three members of Chewy's army who are in the car at high speed, and knocks them down.
"Good job, Pirates, you bought some time. But, will it be enough to stop the crime?"
The third stop is uneventful since they are passing through a Space Pirate stronghold.
However, on the fourth stop, they are back in Chewy's territory, and the word had already spread.
Strawberry notes in amusement as five members of Chewy's army enter the car. They carry sticks and they have painted their faces with Kabuki make up (like the members of the music group Kiss).
The radio plays the American song "Rock and Roll All Night".
At the fifth stop, Parfait ejects the five cats, levitating them by their sticks which are hooked to their collars.
The voyagers finally reach the tenth stop.
"Okay guys, it's only two blocks by foot from here, but this is still Chewy's territory, so look sharp."
Parfait and Butler nod.
They exit the subway stop and don't see any members of Chewy's army.
They walk for one block before they hear bottles being tapped together.
"Piiiiiiiiiiirates, come out and plaaaaaaaaaay!"
Strawberry looks down the alley and sees two cats who are knocking two bottles together and also sees Mini-Chewy, the owner of the annoying voice. They also see several hundred members of Chewy's army, ready to tear them apart. "This is a displaced person. We're merely escorting him back to his own territory."
"I'm supposed to believe that?"
"You don't have to. You might have enough soldiers here to take us down, but you realize that even if we were to lose, we would take with us ninety percent of your army."
"So?"
Strawberry smirks and addresses the entire enemy army. "I want you guys to look around. What I am guaranteeing is that if any of your fellow soldiers within a three-feet radius of you lives, you won't".
Mini-chewy laughs. "Do you think you can intimidate my army? They have nerves of steel, ready to die for the cause. They ..." Mini-Chewy stops in mid-sentence when he realizes that the three voyagers are walking off. "Where are you going!"
"Look behind you."
Mini-Chewy looks around and realizes that he is totally alone. He runs away.
"I don't know how you did it, but you succeeded, Space Pirates. You proved me wrong, so I guess I should play your song." The radio that Butler is still holding plays "Albator, Le Corsair de L'Espace."
Five members of Rhett's meet Rhett at the next block.
"Strawberry, Parfait, I want to thank both of you. Tonight the peace was sorely tested, but thanks to you war was postponed."
Strawberry raises an eye. "Postponed?"
"Eventually there will be a day when war must break out. Let's live our today's to make sure that war is not our immediate tomorrow's."
Strawberry nods and slaps paws with Rhett. "Well said, my friend. Come on Parfait, time to head home."
Rhett pushes two of his army members forward. "They will guard you as you pass through my territory."
"Thanks."
As Strawberry and Parfait walk off, they can hear the radio fade in the distance, playing the end of a song they both knew too well ...
"Oh, my dear friend, even if I know the Earth has no tomorrow ... Nevertheless, I must protect it and keep fighting on. I will lay down my life for what I believe, I will lay down my life for what I believe!"
End of A Revolutionary Transfer Student