Sorry about the cutoff.  Apparently Hotmail can't handle a large text file.  Here is the part 2 of Chapter 1.




Back in the ice cream shop, the Inner and the Outer Sensei's were sitting around the table discussing about what Setsuna told them.

"Yammy!  This flavour is gooooooood!"

At least, they tried to.

"USAGI...  STOP eating.  NOW."
"Rei, you should try some too!  This is really really good~!"
"USAGI!!"
"Waahh!  Scary!"

Setsuna was rubbing her forehead as she felt another headache coming, over the one she was already having.  Haruka had put her head down on the table, trying to ignore the commotion.  Michiru was slowly tasting the ice cream, as if she wasn't hearing anything any more.  Hotaru nervously looked around the other Sensei's, feeling really uncomfrotable.

The Inner's?  They were used to the-Artist-formerly-known-as-the-Princess so they paid no attention to her performance.  In fact, the Inner's were only ones who made any kind of comments in the group.

Except Rei, that was.  She was still screaming at Usagi.  Mamoru?  He had put both of his hands on face, with his elbows on the table.  Not a word came out of his mouth ever since Setsuna came.  The defender of the Earth was not feeling well.

They were all occupied with their own thoughts so much that they almost didn't notice anything around them.

All but one.

Setsuna's eyes shot up.  There was some serious power approaching them.  Instinctly she turned her head towards the door.

Just then the door opened.

Entered the powerful beings.  A boy of late teen, and a girl of around 12.

By then the Outer's noticed the change in Setsuna and also turned their attention to the door.  But all they could see was a giggling girl hanging onto a boy's arm, probably her brother or something.  There seemed to be nothing special about them.

But Setsuna could feel it.  The enormous power that was glowing inside the boy.  It was so great that she could barely breathe.

By now the Inner's turned their heads too.  Even Usagi and Rei stopped their fighting as all of their friends seemed to pay their attention to this boy with a little girl hanging onto his arm.  Mamoru was staring at him too, despite not having a clue what he was looking for.




As the clerk behind the counter busily scooped up an ice cream cone, Tenchi smiled as Sasami practically drooled looking at it.  The place he lived didn't have many shops around so he had very few chance to take the young lady of Jurai out for a little treat.  The fact that he was living with other females in the same house didn't help matter much.

Tenchi was the lone child.  He didn't have many opportunities to make new friends, as he had to work at the shrine ever since he was young.  He had very few regrets in his life, and one of them happened to be not having a sibling.

Now his house was over-crowded.  There wasn't a day went by without something happening.  But among all those occupants in the house, Sasami was the only one who he could feel as a normal family.

'Well, there is a goddess sleeping inside of her, but aside from that Sasami is perfectly normal.  Okay, so what if she is actually over 700 years old?  Um, she IS the owner of the most powerful spaceship in the universe, but other than that...  Wait, she is also an alien...  Um...'

Tenchi shook these thoughts out of his head.  The important thing was that Sasami thought of him as her brother, and he thought of her as his sister.  They were family.  Throughout his life there were very few people who came even close to that kind of relationship with Tenchi.

'There was, what's her name?  I can't seem to remember...  It's been a long time since I saw her...'

Just then, the clerk handed him two ice cream cone.

"Here you go."
"Um, thanks.  Here's yours, Sasami-chan."
"Wow!  Thank you, Tenchi-niichan!"

When Tenchi handed Sasami her ice cream, he noticed a group of girls sitting on a table.  For some reason all of them seemed to be staring at him, but as soon as he looked at them they turned their gazes away.

'What was that all about?'

Then Tenchi noted a man of early 20's who was still staring at him.  With confusion clearly on the face, the man turned his head back to the table, just to find all of his other companions looking away.  The man blinked, turned his head back towards Tenchi, blinked again, and turned back to the table, and blinked a few more times.

All Tenchi could do was to send him sympathetic glance.  A poor man alone in a bunch of girls.  Whoever the man was, Tenchi felt his pain.  After all, he felt the pain everyday.(2)

It was then when Tenchi noticed one of the girls who was still staring at him.  In fact, she was GLARING at him.  The girl, or rather, the woman was sending a clear message of "I don't like you and I hope you know it too."

Tenchi nervously waved his hand at her, but her glare seemed to deepen.

'Who is she?  Why is she glaring at me?  Did I do something wrong?'

He was shaken out of his confusion by Sasami's voice.

"Tenchi-niichan!  Here!  Here!"

The young princess was waving at him from a table near the window.  Without a hesistation Tenchi walked hurriedly to the table.  Faster he get away from the woman, the better.

When Tenchi sat down he stole a quick glance towards the woman.  She was still glaring at him.  Almost voluntarily he gulped.  There was nothing like a glare of a scorned woman.

'I wonder why she's so mad at me?'




"Setsuna, what's wrong?  Do you know that boy?"

The mentioned Sensei turned her head just enough to reply to Ami.

"No."

Then she turned back at glaring at the boy.

By now everyone was confused.  The boy seemed to be nothing special, if not a caring brother.  They had no idea why the ever-calm Sailor Pluto was looking at him as if he was the last remaining sweater at a department store sale.

The brave Sailor Venus asked a question.  She was always the bravest among the Inner's.

"Um, I know this is none of my business, Setsuna.  But don't you think he is too young for you?"

But then she was never known for her brain...  Needless to say, her question didn't sit well with Setsuna.

"......"

Quietly the Guardian of the Time Gate turned her gaze at Minako.  Without a single word was coming out of her mouth, but the look in her eyes were telling more than Minako wanted to hear.

"Sorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorry!"

Ignoring the babbling Sensei of Love in front of her, Setsuna returned her attention back to the table.  To avoid a further stupid question, and to have them aid her in this, an explanation was in order.

"USAGI!!  YOU ARE EATING AGAIN??!"
"Waaaaahh!  But I can't help it!"

Yes, an explanation was in order, indeed.




"Tenchi-niichan?"
"Huh?  What is it, Sasami-chan?"
"Is anything wrong?  You didn't even touch your ice cream."
"Ah!  It's melting already!  It's, no, nothing, hehe..."
"?"

Sasami pondered a bit but soon went back to enjoying her ice cream.  Tenchi did the same, but his mind was still on somewhere else.

'What could I possibly do to that woman?  Do I even know her?'

A chill went down his spine, not because of the ice cream but because Tenchi remembered his last time he saw a woman angry.  It didn't help much when the angry one happened to be the self-claimed greatest scientist in the world.  What was worse was the fact that some might doubt her greatness, but none would doubt her madness.  Either way, directed at him or not, he suffered the wrath of females once too many in his life time already.  He had no desire to add up on that count.

Then he heard a big shout from the table where the woman was sitting.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTT?!?!?"

Somehow Tenchi was beginning to feel the sense of doom.  Slowly, he turned to look at the group of girls, who now were glaring daggers at him.  Some of them were even showing sign of fear.  Whatever the woman told them about him, they clearly didn't like it.

'Gulp'

Trust me, Tenchi.  That gulp wasn't big enough.




"Are you telling me that the skinny boy sitting over there is more powerful than the entire Negaverse?!?"

Makoto hissed at Setsuna with an irritation clear in her voice.

'This really isn't fair.  How come every good one is either taken or dangerous?'

To add on to her irritation, Setsuna's answer was very quiet but sure.

"Yes.  I don't recognize the origin of his power but it surely isn't something to be laughed about.  He is very strong.  I suspect that he might be the cause of the disturbance."

The response of each Sensei to this was all different.

"Good.  Let's crack his skull."
Always hot-headed Haruka.
"Let's not rush things, shall we?"
The reasonable one of two, Michiru, was busy keeping her partner in line.
"Um, what is the Negaverse?"
Hotaru, who was the one of the most powerful Sensei's but also the youngest, had no idea what they were talking about.
"Setsuna!  How can you be so sure that that CUTIE over there is so dangerous?"
The boy-crazed Sensei of Love, Minako.
"She is right!  He looks very kind, just like my old boyfriend!"
One who was NOT the Sensei of Love, but just as boy-crazed as her if not more, Makoto.
"Absolutely!  Can I have your ice cream, Makoto?"
The Princess Usagi who could rule a galaxy if she could rule with her stomache.
"USAGI!!"
Rei, who could burn her opponents just with her temper.
"Rei, calm down!"
Ami was also busy, calming the Sensei of Fire.

Setsuna rubbed her head again.  She could feel that it was going to be a long day.

Seeing Setsuna in distress, Ami quickly came up with an idea.

"I know!  I can analyze him with my computer.  It might not be enough to find out the truth, but it might give us some clue to what we might have to do with him."

Others nodded.  Things like this was Sailor Mercury's expertise.

With their approval, Ami took out her miniature super computer, not knowing that themselves were already being scanned by the greatest scientist in the universe.




In her lab, Washu was typing frantically as she watched the screen.  On the screen there were nine female and a male sitting around a table.

'Very interesting.  Very interesting indeed.'

A smile crept up to Washu's face, which was still covered with black shoot.  When she restored the house and came back to her subdimension lab, a surprise was waiting for her.  She was so eager to look through it that she didn't even bother to wash her face.

'Good job, Tenchi-dono.'

It was a brilliant idea to install a highly-sensitive all-use sensor in Tenchi's watch.  The only hard part was to install the sensor WITHOUT Tenchi realizing it.  Sure, if Washu asked Tenchi wouldn't have refused.  But...

'Then where is the fun in it, huh?'

With that thought she began to laugh maniacally.  It was fortunate that the sensor was only one-way equipment.  Otherwise the subjects on the screen would have fled the scene before Washu could blink.

'One of you must be the one I was looking for.  Which one is it?'

But even with her sensor there just wasn't enough data.  To investigate further Washu would have to bring them here.  But she couldn't decide which one she should teleport here first.  So she used the only satisfactory scientific method to solve her dillema.

"Mini mini mani mo..."

When in doubt, trust the word "coincidence."  After all, many of the scientific achievement stood on the ground of pure "coincidence."

"Mini mini mani mo... huh?  There are another power source?!  And they are approaching where Tenchi-dono is!  This needs further looking into..."




Skuld suddenly stopped at the corner of the street where the ice cream shop was located.  A frown slowly made on to her face as she reached into her pocket.  With one swift motion, she took out her Mr. Looky, which started beeping frantically.

"Skuld?  What'cha doing, kid?"
"Sshhhhhhhh!"

The goddess of the past was confused as she watched her sister scanning the area with that ridiculous stick of her.

"What's wrong, kiddo?  Your ice cream's only feets 'way."
"I think Mr. Looky picked up something."
"What?  That funny-looking piec'f stick?"
"IT'S NOT FUNNY-LOOKING!  Beside, it really did pick up something."
"Okay.  Then what did that FUNNY-LOOKING stick find?"
"I SAID IT'S NOT FUNNY-LOOKING!"

By now Keiich and Belldandy caught up with them.  With worry apparent on her face, Belldandy asked.

"What is it, Skuld?  Did you find something?"

Skuld looked back at her machine.  Soon the frown on her face deepened, and she answered with very serious tone.

"I am not sure this is what we're looking for, but it is in...... that store over there!"

With that, her finger pointed their original destination, the ice cream shop.

A big sweat formed on the back of everyone.  Then Urd spoke.

"I'm sure that's what we're lookin' for, because WE 'WERE' LOOKING FOR THAT FREAKING ICE CREAM SHOP!"

"No, no!  I didn't mean the ice cream!!  What I meant was that there are some powerful beings in that store!!"

"Huh?"




Just outside of the shop, a pigtailed boy in his late teen, in another word, Ranma Saotome was walking by(3).

Ranma was rather in foul mood.  He was waken up by rather nasty nightmare, then there was another free flight by Akane Air.  His landing just happened to be in front of Mr. Blue Thunder of Frinkan High, then later came the Black Rose of Hebereke High.  Between one who was trying to kill him and one who was trying to paralyze him, any hope he had for a peaceful day was long gone.

However it didn't help his mood much.  Ever since his fight with Saffron Ranma had been feeling rather depressed.  Sometimes it was lost appetite.  Sometimes it was no desire to fight.  Everyday it was in different form, but the feeling was always there.  It was as if he was missing something.  No.  That was not it.  It was as if he lost something before but just realized that now.  Whatever he lost, it was something important, precious even.  But he had no idea what it was, and that was eating him inside out.

Ranma sighed.  He was the heir of Anything Goes.  He was the best martial artist in Nerima.  He was a man, damn it.  Then what was this empty hole he was feeling inside?

Hole.  The word made him stopped in the middle of a street, as it reminded the nightmare he had last night.  The boy had a hole in his chest, and out of it the man came...

'He was... he was... '

Suddenly Ranma was feeling dizzy.  He put a hand on his forehead as he leaned on a wall with his back towards it.  It felt bad.  Whatever he was feeling, it felt really bad.  He wanted some relief.  Like a soak in the furo.

Then he saw a shop, and smiled half-heartedly.

'An ice cream shop...  It might not be so bad right now...'

Ranma loved ice cream.  It was a little embarassing but he really did.  He could understand why girls loved it so much.  When in a bad mood, sometimes having an ice cream really did the trick.  Unlike usual he wasn't that enthusiastic about it though.  But right now he wanted a mood booster, the quicker the better.  The furo also would be good but it was too far from here.  The shop was right there, and he had some spare changes in his pocket.

'Ah heck.'

Depressed or not, he was still Genma's son.  While not bottomless as it once was, his Saotome stomache was still a Saotome stomache.

'Just one for now.'

With that thought Ranma walked to a nearby restaurant to find some cold water.




Back in the ice cream shop.

At Sensei's table, Ami turned on her computer and began to analyze the subject.

'Odd.  There are two power source over there.  One is big, but other one is even bigger than that...  Could it be that the girl also have some power?  Huh?  Wait a minute...'

"What's this?!?  The computer is detecting another power source!"

"WHAAAATT??!?"

At hearing this, everyone at the table was now on their feet, even Setsuna.  This brought the attenion of all the people in the shop, which were only three people, the clerk, Tenchi and Sasami.  They were all sweatdropped as they watched nine people practically on one girl's throat.  Noticing they were being watched, Setsuna was the first to find her composure and sat down.  The rest followed.  But Setsuna soon hissed at poor Ami.

"What do you mean there is another power source?"
"Um, well, that is...  The computer is picking up something outside of the shop.  There are three of them.  In fact, they are coming towards this shop..."

Just then, the door opened, revealing three beautiful women and one nervous guy.




The three goddesses of the Norn walked towards the counter as if nothing happened.  But carefully they were eyeing everyone inside.  They could feel the concentrated supernaturaly power in this place, but there were just too many of them.  It had them worried and slightly nervous.

Keiichi had no idea what was going on, but he was still worried and VERY nervous.

After they ordered a sundae for each of them, they sat at one corner of the shop.  The view was such that they could see the entire shop in one glance.  As soon as they sat, Urd spoke in hushed voice.

"There're something goin'n here alright.  But there are too many.  I can't count'em."
"Me neither, onee-san.  There is one concentrating around that boy and another big one coming from those girls, but I can't distinguish the individual ones."
"No problem!  I have just a thing for such a situation!"
"Um...  What are you guys talking about?"

Ignoring Keiichi's confused question, Skuld took out a small glasses with lots of gadget attached to it.




In Washu's lab, the red-headed scientist was watching the monitor intently.

"Hmm, those three are very strong.  The guy is nothing to look at, but there must be something if he is in the company of those three."

A rather nasty grin came up to her mouth.  She had a special experiment for such a male specimen that was illegal in many countries for its cruelty and indecency.  But she was a scientist, not a saint.  Ethic and moral was not in her vocabulary.

"Hehehe.  Eh?  The sensor seems to be unstable.  Too much power maybe?"




Back in the shop, Tenchi was feeling rather hot.

'Weird.  I am eating an ice cream.  How could I be hot?  Odd.  Did my watch always heat up like this?'




Haruka spoke in small but irritated voice.

"What now?"

"I can't seem to isolate the power source.  There are just too many with too much power in such small area.  Oh no, the computer is out of control!"

"What?!?  Why?"

"I think there are so much power is concentrated in this one small area that the computer can't handle it!  The power sensor inside of the computer must be overheating!"

As if it wanted to prove Ami's words, the computer monitor began to show a bunch of irregular waves.  Then Ami began to scream.

"Aack!!  My computer is getting hot!"

"Turn it off!!  Turn it off!!"




Over in the goddesses' side, things weren't going better either.

"Huh?  The meter scope is not working well.  I can only see a weird signal that keeps blinking."
"Maybe it's broken, kiddo."
"It's NOT broken, Urd!  Wait.  You didn't touch it, did you?"
"Why would I wanna even touch your STUPID glasses, you brat?!"
"It's not a glasses!  It's Accuarate'ometic 3000!"

"Urd-neesan, Skuld!  Calm down, both of you!"

Unknown to the goddesses, a ray of smoke began to rise from the "Accuarate'ometic 3000."  Fortunately Keiichi noticed this.

"Um, guys?  I think something's wrong with that... thingy.  Um.  Guys?  Guys~?  Hello~?"

Unfortunately nobody was listening.





Outside of the ice cream shop, a wet, pig-tailed redhead whistled a tune as she walked towards the door.  As she reached for the door knob there was only one thought in her mind.

'Triple ice cream cone!'




Tenchi and Sasami wide-eyed at now glowing watch on Juraian prince's wrist.



All the Sensei and Mamoru began to edge away from the computer as it began to shake.



Keiichi waved his arm frantically as he watched more smoke coming out of the glasses in Skuld's hand, but the goddesses weren't listening.




Ranma-chan opened the door with a smile and spoke rather louldy.

"One triple chocolate ice cream cone, please!"




WHOOSH!

The glowing watch on Tenchi's wrist was set on fire.

"Aaaaack!!  Fire!!  Hothothothothothot!!!!!"
"Tenchi-niichan!"

Without wasting a second, Tenchi ran to the men's room.  Sasami could only run up to the its door, but kept shouting anyway.

"Water!  Put it in the water, Tenchi-niichan!"

Inside Tenchi looked around frantically to find some water.  As soon as he saw a small pond he put his entire arm in it.

The fire was out and he was safe.

Then Tenchi realized something.

'A pond in a washroom?  Wait a minute...'

He looked down to where his arm was, sighed, and blamed it on one and the only possible suspect.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!"

A moment later he added.

"CCHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN!!!!!"( )




At Sensei's table the vibrating computer finally stopped.  Sadly when it did, it blew up too.

BOOM!

"Duck!!"

Even before Makoto's warning everyone was under the table.  Fortunately the explosion wasn't that big.  It just burnt up the computer and the small surface of the table.  Not taking chances however, the Sensei's stayed down until it was sure they were safe to look up.

"My computer..."

Ami spoke first with tearful eyes as she looked at what was once her computer, but now only a smoking heap of junk.  Rei and Makoto patted her shoulder trying to comfort her, as they knew how much it meant to her.

"My ice cream..."

Usagi spoke later with also tearful eyes as she looked at what was once her ice cream, but now only a dripping puddle on the table.  Mamoru patted her shoulder trying to comfort her, as he knew how much it meant to her.




Keiichi was never a brave man, but when needed he took charge.  Just like right now, when he took the glasses off Skuld's hand and tried to throw it away.

KABOOM!

But then again, he never succeeded in any of his previous attempt.  Why would he start now?

"No!  Keiichi-san!!"
"No!  My Accuarate'ometic 3000!"
"I told ya it's broken!"

As Belldandy tried to revive smoking Keiichi, another arguement broke out between two goddesses.




Ranma-chan watched with a big sweat on the back of his head as he watched the three different things happened right in front of his eyes.  He turned to the clerk, who was now doing nothing but blinking, and asked.

"Um, what's going on over there, and there, and there?"

"I-I have no idea.  They have been acting weird, but not this weird."

Ranma-chan had to agree, it was weird.

But then again, she was from Nerima.

"By the way, my ice cream?"




In her subdimension lab, Washu's eyebrow twitched as she stared at now blank screen.

'Just when it was getting interesting...'

Apparently the power in the vicinity was over the sensor's limit.  Washu was rather surprised for this turn of the event.  Whoever those people were, she would have to watch them carefully.

One thing still bothered her though.  Just before the screen became blank there was an abnormality for a very brief moment.  All the sensor's meters were at its peak.  It might have been just the coincidental add-up of the powers, or it might have been another source being detected.

'But what more could possibly be there?'

Right then was when the big screen in front of her began to crack, no doubt due to the sudden feedback from the sensor.  Slowly and quietly, the screen began to lean forward.  It was very thin, but it was also definitely big.

'Eeep.'

Washu's last concious thought was that sometimes, wider was NOT better.






Chapter 1 end.


(1) NO, NOT THAT WAY YOU PERVERT!!  This is a crossover, NOT lemon, you sicko!!

(2) To those who disagree with him, what are you, a machocist?

(3) Who did you expect?  This is Ranma crossover!
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