Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong	


 
 

  Ranma and Ryoga and Priss were walking down the street when Ranma 
spotted someone he recognized. It was Lisa. She was walking home, 
carrying a bag of groceries, grateful that her work was finally over, 
that she could finally kick back and relax for a change. She had a very 
bad day.
  "Hey, look, it's Lisa!"
  He ran across the street to meet up with the young looking girl. Ryoga 
and Priss followed suit. Ryoga greeted her warmly while Priss gave a 
curt but rather cold salutation, not knowing who this girl really was.
  "She helped fix Akane after she got hurt," Ryoga said to Priss.
  "How's Akane?" Lisa asked curiously, already knowing the answer. It 
wasn't because she was arrogant, but rather she knew she had done a good 
job.
  Ranma smirked, "She's fine. She could use a reprogramming cause she's 
still a tomboy-"
  "I won't stand here and let you say that about Akane!!!" Ryoga spat.
  "Anyway," Ranma continued, ignoring Ryoga, "Thanks a lot for all that you've 
done. You brought back the one person I really cared for, not once but twice, 
and I can't thank you enough. You're really great,"
  Lisa blushed. She could get used to all this positive criticism, "Um, 
where are you three headed?"
  "Back to Genom Tower," Ranma replied. When Lisa gave him a curious looked he 
knew she wanted to know why, "We plan on destroying the factory that makes all 
those boomers that attack us. We figured it would be best to destroy all the 
annoyances at the source,"
  Lisa wondered if she should tell them. Afterall, they were going to attack her

place of work. But then again, she never really liked working for Genom and 
could get a job in no time, what with her skills, "Well, if you wanna destroy 
the factory easily, there's a main computer on the bottom floor that oversees 
the security of the factory. If you destroy it, the factory is defenseless. 
You'll be free to do whatever you want without having to worry about a laser or 
such hitting you from behind,"
  "Really?" Ranma said, eyes widening, "Cool! That'll make it much much 
easier for us. Thanks again,"
  "What are you going to do after that?" Lisa asked. She knew Ranma 
wanted to take Genom down. If she knew of a time, then she would start 
looking for another job. But first, she would embezzle the money that 
Genom owed her for all that overtime she put in but didn't get paid for.
  "I got this OMS chip thingie that I plan on letting the world know of 
Genom's plans. That way, Genom'll go down the tubes when the media gets 
wind of it. I don't wanna blow the tower up because the debris will most 
likely get someone killed," Ranma said in one breath. He reached into 
his pocket and handed Lisa the chip, "See, there's the chip,"
  Lisa looked at the chip for a moment. It was small but rather heavy 
for its size. It looked like a regular nanochip, except it looked like 
it was made to withstand extreme cold.
  "This looks like a chip that would be used on a satellite," Lisa commented, 
eyeing it carefully.
  Ranma snapped his fingers, "So that's how they're gonna control all 'em 
boomers. They're gonna send it via satellite. All you would need is two, one for

the western part of the world, the....western hemisphere and another chip for 
the eastern hemisphere,"
  Priss' heart skipped a beat. God, how can Genom be so damn diabolical to think

of something like that?! They're monsters! They deserve to die! 
  "You wanna hold it?" Ranma asked, "I don't want that chip breaking because 
it's useless if it doesn't work..,"
  "What are you saying, Ranma?!" Priss asked loudly, "W-why are you 
giving it to her? That chip is very important!"
  "That's why I wanna give it to Lisa here. She can take care of it," came the 
innocent reply.
  Lisa hugged the chip close to her bosom, "I'll take real care of it. 
You can trust me,"
  Ranma smiled. 
  Priss' face faulted. Who was this girl? How can Ranma trust someone so 
blindly? And a person from Genom at that?! What is he, out of his mind? 
She'll just take the chip and return it back to its rightful place, 
Genom's hands!
  "Um, when do you plan on exposing Genom?" Lisa asked after a short 
moment.
  Ranma smirked, "Why? Ya wanna steal from them before it all goes down 
the tubes?"
  Lisa blushed.
  "Huh? Y-you mean I was right?" Ranma asked, "Wow, I must be real good. 
But about the money, ya don't really have to worry about it. Ryoga and I 
stole a lot from there and stashed it away. You can take that. We plan 
on stealing some more anyway. The money is in an abandoned factory in 
the southern most part of that artificial island. There should be enough 
money in there to buy an island..,"
  "I only want the money Genom owes me, that's all," Lisa said.
  "Well, think of it as a bonus...for helping us out, ne?" Ranma was 
almost having fun being so nice, "Anyway, we're gonna get going now. 
Don't worry about getting the chip to us. When you see us, just give it 
to us. It's not like Ryoga or I are goin' anywhere anyway, right?"
  Ranma smiled warmly, "Well, take care, Lisa. See ya,"
  "Bye,"
  Lisa watched as Ranma and Ryoga and a reluctant Priss walked off 
toward that looming tower jutting up into the sky in the distant 
horizon. When they were almost too far away for her to see, Ranma 
stopped and to wave goodbye to her before he and his friends continued on 
with their journey. 
  "I trust her," Ranma answered Priss' question.
  "How do you know her?"
  "From my childhood,"
   Priss was still curious, "How?"
  "She hit me in the face with a brick," Ranma said, turning toward Lisa 
to wave goodbye.
  Lisa waved back before she carefully put the chip in her coat pocket 
and headed toward her apartment. After having seen Ranma again, her day 
seemed to be on the up and up. It seemed she was having a better day 
than she thought. 
  It seems seeing Ranma again had made her day.

  Ranma looked up at the huge supercomputer, Ryoga and Priss at his side. It had

taken the three of them well over an hour to reach this point. 
  "Man, that's one huge computer," Ranma commented, his neck almost hurting from

being bent back at such an angle. Ranma took it one step further as to getting 
down on his back and looking straight up, "That's better. Now my neck won't hurt

when I try to look up at the top of this computer. Jeez, I can't even see the 
ceiling. It's so damn high..,"
  "Get up, Ranma," Priss said, "We get your point,"
  Ranma got up and said, "Y'know, it's ironic that of all the places 
that needs security, the computer that oversees it doesn't have any..,"
  "Perhaps it was because no one expected us to get this far," Ryoga 
commented, looking around at the vast room.
  The underground factory wasn't really even a factory. It was more 
along the lines of a city located practically two miles underground and 
with a mile high roof. The place was huge, at least a mile in any 
direction from where they were. Throughout the factory, were other, 
smaller factories, each of them specializing in producing certain parts 
for certain boomers. The whole place looked like something out of a 
science fiction movie, this technologically advanced looking underground 
city.
  "You have a point," Ranma agreed, "It was a rather risky task getting 
here,"
  Ranma and Ryoga had had the fight of their life, dodging and 
destroying everything that stood in their way. They shouldn't have 
underestimated Genom. The supercomputer, having realized three intruders 
that didn't work for Genom, began creating boomer after boomer, sending 
them all after the three as soon as they were created.
  As Priss was running through the 'city', she realized that she really 
shouldn't have come. She was slowing Ryoga and Ranma down. What was she 
thinking? And it didn't help matters any bit that she was without her hardsuit, 
Ryoga having destroyed it when they were in Genom Tower. One direct hit from a 
laser would be fatal for her, while a direct hit on Ranma and Ryoga would be 
nearly impossible, both of them capable of dodging them.
  But now, they have reached their destination, the main computer.

  "We're under attack again?!?!" Sylia asked, shocked.
  Linna nodded, "We have to get the hell outta this truck. We're sitting 
ducks!!!"
  Everyone was in the Knight Sabers' transport truck, on their way to Nene's 
apartment so they could think of a plan, when bullets started raining down on 
them from everywhere.
  Nene shrieked in terror as an arm busted through the ceiling of the convoy 
they were in and slowly started ripping it apart.
  "Guys, there's a boomer on the top of the truck and I can't shake him 
loose!!!" Mackie's voice filtered through the speaker. He was driving, swerving 
the truck back and forth, hoping to cause the boomer to lose its balance, much 
to no avail. The girls were all having trouble trying to keep their balance 
within the truck.
  Madigan and Carper, whom were both handcuffed to the back of the truck, 
realized that they were going to be rescued.
  "Hurry up!!!" Madigan shouted toward the boomer.
  As she said that, the arm pulled back out through the opening, and 
after a moment, a boomer came crashing down into the truck from the 
opening.
  "Shit!!" Linna shouted, scurrying for her hardsuit, "It's inside!!!"
  Akane looked around and noticed that none of the girls were in their 
hardsuits, all of them vulnerable. She had to do something. Knowing that 
she was the only one capable of taking on a boomer in hand to hand 
combat, she got into her battle stance, "Hey, you, over here!!"
  The boomer's back was toward Akane. It was facing Madigan and Carper.
  "Kill them!" Madigan told the boomer. The boomer was holding a mini, a high 
powered rapid fire weapon generally used for helicopters. There was no way the 
girls would be able to dodge those bullets, even if they were in their hardsuit,

which they were not.
  The boomer didn't respond to Madigan's command.
  "Kill them now!!!" Madigan gave another order to the boomer, using her 
free hand to point toward Akane and the rest standing right behind it.
  The boomer raised its mini gun toward Madigan and Carper.
  "Oh shit!!!" Carper shouted, realizing the boomer was going to kill 
them. They were its target, not the others. He tried to scurry away but 
the handcuffs where holding him fast. He couldn't go anywhere.
  Madigan was trying the same, shrieking for dear life as she realized 
her life would end at any moment.
  Akane, realizing the boomer was going to kill Madigan and Carper, 
lunged forward and grabbed the boomer's gun arm, pushing it toward the 
ceiling as it opened fire. Unfortunately, it was a little too late and 
several bullets struck Carper.
  Carper fell to his side, motionless, blood falling from his mouth.
  "Carper!!!" Madigan shouted as she desperately tried to get to his 
side, the handcuffs holding her back.
  "No!!!" She tugged at the handcuffs so hard that her wrists started to bleed 
from the strain and pulling.
  The boomer continued to open fire, the bullets of the mini gun 
riddling the ceiling with holes, as Akane tried desperately to keep it 
from aiming at anyone. Unfortunately, its strength was far superior to 
that of a sexaroid as its gun arm slowly started to lower back down.
  Akane, knowing that it was useless to fight against this thing in 
brute strength, resorted to her training. She needed to apply physics 
into play. 
  Without thinking, Akane gripped the boomer's arm and pressed her hip 
against the boomer's hip, sending it over her shoulder and crashing 
onto the truck floor. Knowing that it would be up on its feet in 
moments, Akane sent a elbow crashing down on the boomer's skull, caving 
it in. The boomer twitched for several moments before it stopped 
functioning.
  The truck continued to swerve.
  "There's more on the roof!!!" Mackie's voice came from the speaker.
  "They're after Madigan and Carper!!" Linna shouted, "Get rid of 
them!!" It was the only strategically thing to do. It didn't bother her to 
sacrifice Madigan and Carper's lives for their own. 
  "No!!!" Akane shouted, "We can't abandon them!!" 
  "I'm getting rid of 'em," Linna said in a cold cold voice, quite odd coming 
from her. They had been through enough. They didn't need this. This wasn't their

fight.
  Madigan's throat constricted as she saw Linna walking toward her, 
stepping over the non-functioning boomer. She knew what was going to 
happen. Linna was going to throw them out of the truck and be rid of 
them once an for all. 
  "I-I d-don't want to die!!" Madigan pleaded, tears forming in her 
eyes. She looked over toward where Carper lay motionless, his body only 
moving because of the swerving truck.
  Linna shook her head, "And neither do we. Those boomers are after you, 
not us..,"
  Another boomer came through the opening. Akane did the exact same 
thing to it, but this time, slamming it down on top of the other boomer 
and caving its skull in.
  The truck was hit hard from its side, so hard that it flipped over 
onto its side, sliding to a halt.
  "Shit, now we're in trouble!" Linna commented, getting up, shaking the 
cobwebs from her head.
  Akane climbed out of the truck through the opening the boomer had 
created and quickly checked her surroundings. There were two boomers 
standing on top of the side of the truck. They both carried large 
cannons and were aiming their guns toward the truck under their feet.
  "Hey, over here!!!" Akane said, waving her hands, hoping to get the 
boomers' attention.
  They paid her no mind.
  Mackie smashed through the front windshield and ran away from the 
truck quickly, not bothering to look back until his was a good distance 
away.
  The boomers started opening fire on the front of the truck. The rest 
were in the back. 
  All of a sudden, one of the boomers exploded,
  "What the?!" Akane managed to say, right before the blast from the 
impact sent her backwards.
  Leon's car skidded to a halt right in front of the truck. The 
remaining boomer, realizing that Leon posed an immediate threat, aimed 
its cannon toward the car.
  Leon, wearing a pair of shades, a large missile launcher resting on his 
shoulders, said, "Eat this!"
  He pulled the trigger and a missile shot from his launcher, sizzling 
through the air and hitting the boomer square in the chest, causing it 
to explode into nothing, destroying it.
  He dropped his missile launched to the ground and walked toward Akane, 
"You okay, miss?"
  "Um, yeah, I think so," she said, slowly getting to her feet.
  At that moment, Sylia, with Madigan slumped unconscious over her 
shoulder, emerged from the opening, followed by Nene and Linna, both of 
them half-dragging a bleeding Carper.
  "Nene? Is that you? What are you doing here?" Leon said, recognizing 
one of his fellow co-workers.
  Nene's eyes widened, "L-Leon!"
  She recalled that Leon wasn't supposed to be back from his undercover work 
overseas until tomorrow. Why was he back so early?
  "No time for talking, we hafta get rid of the suits," Linna said into 
Nene's ear.
  Nene nodded, "Yeah,"
  She spotted the rocket launcher on the ground by Leon's car, "Over there,"
  Linna, knowing what she had to do, handed Carper over to Nene and 
quickly ran for the rocket launcher. She ran right past Leon and picked 
up the rocket launcher and aimed it toward the truck.
  "W-what are you doing?" Leon said as he noticed Linna picking up his weapon. 
Civilians weren't supposed to be handling AD Police weaponry.
  "This," Linna said right before she pulled the trigger. 
  A rocket shot from the launcher and hit the gas tank of the truck, 
sending it up in flames. The explosion was so intense that everyone was 
blown backwards from the blast.
  Linna looked at Sylia and noticed her nod in acknowledgement at a task 
well done, eliminating the hardsuits if there was a chance their identity was 
going to be discovered. Even though Madigan and Carper knew, she threatened them

with death if they ever revealed their secret identities.
  "I seriously hope there was a good reason why you did that," Leon 
said, taking off his shades.
  "Um, there were boomer's in there. I didn't want them coming out. 
That's all," Linna replied glibly.
  Leon smirked, "I guess that's a good enough reason as any," He looked 
over toward where Carper was and noticed he was badly hurt, "We better 
get him to a hospital before he bleeds to death,"
  He walked over to his car and popped the trunk, taking out a first-aid kit. 
  He walked back to where Carper was, Madigan close to his side, and 
began to administer pressure on his right shoulder, where he took it 
the hardest. He wrapped several bandages around the area and said, 
"That'll do for a little while," He looked at Madigan, and his eyes 
creased as he commented, "You look familiar,"
  Madigan said nothing. They had met once when Leon had stormed into 
Genom Tower looking for someone to arrest for the death of someone close 
to him because a boomer had gone berserk.
  "Don't you work for Genom?" Leon asked, his eyes piercing.
  Madigan bit her lip. After what had happened, she realized exact what 
Ranma had meant that Genom didn't care. Why else would they have sent 
boomers out to eliminate her and Carper, because they had failed them? 
It was too bad, she didn't learn until a gun was put to her head to make 
her realize just how bad Genom was. 
  "No, I don't," she replied, hiding her sadness, her resentment toward 
herself for being so naive about Genom. 
  "Oh, nevermind," Leon said, turning his attention away from her and 
walking toward his car to call the local firehouse to put out the fire 
from the burning truck.
  Madigan look down toward the ground vindictively, knowing exactly the 
hatred everyone shared toward Genom.
  "Not anymore," 
  
  Ranma raised his hand toward the computer and let a volley of ki-
blasts shoot from his fingertips, every ball of energy hitting the 
computer.
  Ryoga did the same.
  Priss just stood there, not really knowing what to do. Then she 
realized that she had her grenade launcher with her. She reached into 
the pockets of her bike outfit and pulled several parts to the launcher 
and put them together in a matter of seconds. Once appropriately put 
together, Priss began shooting her launcher toward the computer.
  "Hold up!" Ranma said, stopping what he was doing. He turned toward 
Priss and said, "You remember what I taught you and what I taught Sylia? 
Ya wanna take a crack at throwin' a ki-blast?"
  "W-what?" Priss said, shocked.
  Ranma placed his hand on her shoulder, "C'mon, jus' try it. It's fun. 
Yo, Ryoga, quit blowin' that thing up and let her do it,"
  "W-what do I d-do?" Priss asked dubiously, "I have no idea what I'm 
supposed to do..,"
  "Hold your hand out," Ranma said softly. When she did so, Ranma closed 
his eyes and let his ki flow into Priss' body. 
  As energy flooded into her body, Priss couldn't believe this 
unbelievable feeling. It was something she had never felt before. She 
could feel this tingling sensation forming in her fingertips, this 
energy all building up and wanting to go somewhere.
  "Jus' picture shooting somethin' from your hand," Ranma then said.
  A massive ki-blast shot from her hands and hit the computer, damaging 
it. The kickback from sending that ball of energy caused Priss to fall 
backwards and onto Ranma.
  Ranma chuckled as he got to his feet, "There ya go. You jus' threw a 
ki-blast. See, it wasn't that hard,"
  "Hold shit!" was all Priss could say to comment on what had just 
happened. She couldn't believe what she just did. The damage she caused 
from that single ki-blast was ten time more powerful than all the shells 
she had when she used her grenade launcher.
  Ryoga smirked, "Anyone can learn it. It just take a bit of 
concentration, that's all,"
  "H-how long?"
  "Dunno," Ranma said, thinking for a moment, "a few days. But gettin' 
it that powerful will probably take longer,"
  "It'll take much longer than a few days," Ryoga said, "You're looking 
at several decades to learn it,"
  "Then how did you learn it in a few days?"
  "We had to..," Ranma replied. He didn't bother to tell her that he 
learned it because Ryoga had learned it before him. He needed to learn 
it because Ryoga would have been able to beat him. 
  Priss said nothing. There was probably something more to it than Ranma 
was letting on. It must have had something to do with Ryoga. 
  Ranma looked up at the badly damaged computer, "You think that's 
enough or should we do some more damage?"
  A phalanx of newly made boomers entered the room, guns hoisted. Ryoga 
shot a single ki blast at the group, destroying them all.
  "Y-you guys are getting stronger," Priss commented.
  Ranma nodded, "Uh huh. With ki, it's like working out at a gym. The 
more you use it, the stronger you get,"
  He walked over to one of the boomers. It was no longer functioning, but was 
still somewhat intact.
  "Hey, Priss, you know how much one of them boomers weigh?" he asked 
curious.
  "I dunno, 'bout two tons. Why?" came a rather curious reply on Priss' 
part.
  Ranma bent over and picked it up with one arm, his fingers digging 
into the boomer's metallic chest. He looked at it for a short time 
before he turned around and threw it at the computer.
  "Nothing much. It's just that I remember a not too long ago, this lady 
asked me to move her car because she thought I was some boomer...and I 
had trouble moving it. But now, it's easy," Ranma replied, "I never even 
realized I was getting stronger as time passed. That's all,"
  Priss was silent. She was still comprehending the strength it must had 
taken to throw a boomer of that weight across the room. Sure, Ryoga had 
lifted a barbell equal in weight, but he never threw it.  
  "Man, that's one tough computer," Ranma said, looking up at the 
slightly damaged computer. Of course, he could destroy it easily with a 
simple seppukku blast, but he couldn't help but admire how long the 
computer had lasted under such intense attacks like Ryoga's ki-blasts 
and Priss' grenade launcher.
  "Jus' use a seppukku blast," Ryoga muttered.
  "Are you kidding me?! That's overkill! It'll be like opening a piggy 
bank with an atomic bomb!!" Ranma quickly shot back, his glance jumpy. 
He was scared that Ryoga was about to attempt throwing one of those 
blasts.
  "Seppukku?" Priss asked, "What do you mean by that? What's a seppukku 
blast?"
  Ranma looked at Ryoga first, "Don't you dare throw one of those," He 
then turned toward Priss, "Um, well, it's kinda hard to explain. A 
seppukku blast is the strongest ki-blast we know,"
  "How strong?" she asked. She felt this shudder surging through her 
body as she realized that Ranma and Ryoga were even stronger than she 
had already witnessed. Even though Akane had mentioned about Ranma being 
far stronger than he really was, she had never really seen Ranma so 
disturbed at the thought of something so powerful.
  Ranma said, "Well, if I'm stronger than I was before, and if only I threw that

blast, it would probably destroy this whole place. And yes, we would all die. If

Ryoga and I both threw it...I don't want to even imagine how much damage it 
would cause. Our seppukku blasts are those blast I mentioned earlier, y'know, 
about how it's like a nuclear blast minus the radiation,"
  Priss stood there, staring, wide mouthed.
  Ranma turned around and started throwing regular ki-blasts toward the 
computer, "There's no need to use those anyway. C'mon, Ryoga, what're 
you standing there for? Help out..,"
  Ryoga shrugged his shoulders before he did as he was told. He, too, 
started throwing ki-blasts at the computer.
  A rocket flew into the vast room and hit Ranma in the back, 
hard....real hard! The explosion from the missile sent Ranma flying 
forward onto his stomach, sliding on the cold steel floor to a halt 
where he lay motionless.
  Ryoga turned around and caught sight of yet another new batch of 
boomers. But this batch was different. They were unlike anything Priss 
had ever seen. The computer, which had a very advanced AI system, 
realized that its existence was in grave jeopardy and created a heavily 
armed group of boomers, instead of those regular batch of military 
boomers. 
  There were three of them.
  "Oh shit," Ryoga swore. Those boomers looked scary, much worse than 
any he had ever seen. He looked at Ranma, who was on the floor 
motionless, and then back at the group. All three were slowly spreading 
apart, making their way around Ryoga, attempting to surround him.
  Priss turned her grenade launcher toward the nearest boomer and pulled 
the trigger. The projectile sailed through the air and hit one of the 
boomers in the chest. It did nothing.
  "What the hell?!" she said, shocked. The boomer took a slug right in 
the chest and was still standing. That slug should have blown its entire 
upper torso off. As she stood there, she realized what had just 
happened. The computer, attempting self preservation, was forced to 
create a new breed of boomers. Like an animal trapped in a corner, it 
got desperate, if that was possible, and was forced to take drastic 
measures.
  The closest boomer turned toward Priss and raised its cannon.
  Ryoga, realizing what was going to happen if he didn't do something, 
ran toward Priss and grabbed her, leaping up into the air. 
Unfortunately, he wasn't quick enough as a missile struck Ryoga right in 
the back. Gritting his teeth, Ryoga twisted in mid-air, still holding 
Priss, and fired a massive ki-blast down on one of the boomers.
  "Shi Shi Hakodan!!!" he shouted, the ki-blast shooting forward and 
destroying the boomer.
  But now, the other two boomers opened fire, firing everything they've 
got at their target, some actually hitting, but most missing.
  Ryoga gritted his teeth and he was struck constantly, cursing his lack 
of speed. He was unable to dodge quick enough. His lack of speed was 
only compensated by his brute strength. 
  "That's it!!!" Ryoga said to himself.
  "What? What's it?"
  Ryoga ignored Priss, having more important things to worry about than 
answering questions. He landed on his feet, dropping Priss to the floor 
and charged toward one of the boomers. He crossed his arms and held them 
up in front of him, protecting his face and chest as the boomer shot 
missile after missile toward him, each one hitting him. When Ryoga was 
close enough, he kicked the boomer in the chest, his foot leaving an 
imprint, sending it slamming into the wall...hard, denting the metallic 
wall behind it. He ran forward and kicked the boomer again, sending it 
right through it. 
  Ryoga was struck in the back with yet another missile, the pain 
excruciating. He fell forward onto his knees and hands, feeling this 
unbelievable rage flooding through his body, this rage that he was 
receiving such punishment from a boomer. 
  He got to his feet and turned toward the boomer, his fangs showing as 
his gritted his teeth in rage, only to receive a devastating blow to his 
face as the boomer used its jumpjets to propel forward and hit him with 
the butt of the cannon. 
  "You motherfucker!!!!" Ryoga shouted, exploding with uncontrolled 
rage "That fucking hurt!!!!"
  Ryoga stood there, receiving yet another skull crushing blow to the 
head by the boomer, but remained unfazed. When the boomer went to land 
yet another blow, Ryoga screamed, "Die!!!" as he reached a hand forward 
and grabbed the boomer's face, lifting it off the ground with ease. The 
boomer raised its cannon and fired a missile right into Ryoga's chest. 
All that did was make Ryoga more angry.
  A missile flew in through the opening in the wall that boomer had been 
kicked through and struck Ryoga in the back. 
  Ryoga, still holding a boomer in one hand, turned around to face the 
other boomer as it entered the room through the opening, a shoeprint 
embedded on its think armored chest. The foot-imprinted boomer shot a 
missile at Ryoga, not even caring if the missile hit its brethren, only to 
have Ryoga punch the missile head on.
  "Good, you're still alive, you'll pay for that!!!" Ryoga spat. He 
turned toward the boomer he was holding and raised his free hand toward 
its chest and said, "Shi Shi Hakodan!!! Shi Shi Hakodan!!! Shi Shi Hakodan!!! 
Shi Shi Hakodan!!!" He shot four consecutive ki-blasts into the boomers chest. 
The blast sent to boomer flying into the machine, destroyed beyond 
recognition. But Ryoga wasn't satisfied. Not yet.
  As the other boomer continued to open fire, none of the missiles 
harming him, Ryoga walked over toward the computer and pulled the 
ravaged boomer up. He lifted its lifeless exoskeleton and slammed it 
back into the computer, continuing to push forward, pushing so hard that 
he literally walked into the computer before he was satisfied that the 
boomer would no longer function...ever.
  He turned toward the foot-imprinted boomer and sneered, "Now it's your 
turn!!"
  If that boomer could feel emotions, it would fear its life as it 
continued to fire its cannon at its target.
  Priss watched in awe and almost terror as she saw Ryoga ravage the 
hapless boomer. She watched as Ryoga walked slowly up to the boomer, 
withstanding everything it threw, and grabbed one of its arms.
  Ryoga jerked backward and yanked the boomer's arm right out. He then 
grabbed the other arm and yanked that one out also, picking up the gun 
it dropped as slamming the butt of it into the boomer's face, caving it 
in. The boomer, no longer functioning, froze and started to fall 
backwards, only to have Ryoga reach forward and dig his fingers into its 
chest, preventing it.
  "Oh no you don't!!!" Ryoga said, fangs showing menacingly.
  He picked the boomer up and proceeded to slam it up against the wall, 
slamming it over and over and over again until it fell completely apart. 
Once it was in pieces, Ryoga wanted to make sure it was dead so he shot 
a ki-blast at the thousands of parts that littered the floor.
  "Ryoga, that's enough, it's dead!" Priss said, scared. She had never 
witness something so horrifying in her life. She couldn't believe what 
she had seen. Ryoga took blast after blast in the chest and back yet 
remained unfazed, controlled by pure rage. But now, now that he had 
destroyed to boomers utterly, he had to calm down. It looked like he was 
about to explode as his ki flared brilliantly.
  Ryoga turned toward Priss.
  "Ryoga, it's me, Priss!" she said. She noticed this unfamiliar look in 
his eyes.
  For one terrifying moment, Ryoga didn't recognize her, but when he 
did, his rage filled face disappeared. 
  "A-are you all right?" he asked, noticing that she wasn't bleeding anywhere. 
He had totally forgotten that she was there when he went into that rage. His ki-
blasts, if strong enough, could have gotten her killed.
  "I-I'm fine," Priss said, her voice a bit shaky.
  Ryoga said, "I'm glad to hear that," As he started to calm down, the 
pain from before was finally starting to register. He winced in pain as 
he felt this excruciating sensation traveling throughout his back, as if 
it were on fire. He ignored it as he looked over toward where Ranma was.
  Ranma remained motionless, a small puddle of blood forming.
  "Hey, Ranma, you alive?" Ryoga said, walking over to him. He felt his 
heart almost drop as he realized Ranma wasn't responding. He just lay 
there, totally motionless. 
  Ryoga kneeled down next to him, "Yo, Ranma, wake up. You okay?" Ryoga 
didn't want to imagine just how bad a condition Ranma was in. Ranma had 
taken a missile in the back, full force, caught totally off-guard. Ranma 
would have easily survived that if he had been aware of that missile. His 
ki would have protected him somewhat. But that had never happened.
  Ryoga was more susceptible to getting hurt when being hit from behind than 
being hit in front but his Bakusai Tenketsu training had made him less likely to

get knocked out by something like that. Ranma, on the other hand, had received a

blow that would had easily disoriented Ryoga for several minutes.
  Priss quickly ran up to where Ranma lay and kneeled down next to him, 
ever so gently turning him over onto his back. She was relieved to see 
the steady rise and fall of Ranma's chest.
  "Where can I find some water?" Ryoga said, coldly. 
  "What?"
  "Where can I find some water? Ranma needs water..," Ryoga repeated. He knew 
Ranma, like himself, didn't really want anyone to know of the curse, but he knew

Ranma would make an exception, "It'll heal him. Water will heal him....just like

it did for me,"
  "W-water?" Priss asked, not knowing whether to be shocked at the thought of 
water being able to heal Ranma or Ryoga actually helping out. Didn't they hate 
each other? 
  "Splash him with cold water..," Ryoga said.
  A missile flew in through the door and hit Ryoga yet again. Luckily, he 
caught sight of it out of the corner of his eye and managed to shield 
his whole upper body from the explosion. He was sent flying into the 
side of the computer.
  "Goddamn, when will these guys stop coming?!" Ryoga said with a sneer. 
He raised a hand and shot several ki-blast through the pair of doors, 
destroying whatever was standing on the other side. He looked at Ranma 
and said, "Don't worry, Ranma, I'll find you some water, but first, I'm 
gonna get rid of this damn computer,"
  Ryoga closed his eyes and started concentrating. 
  "Ryoga, look out!" Priss shouted, pointing.
  Ryoga opened his eyes, just in time to see a missile flying back in 
through the door and hit him. He quickly got to his feet and shook his 
head and sighed.
  "Man, this has gotta stop!"

  "Waitaminute, two guys just went to Genom to destroy it?!" Leon asked, 
dubiously.
  Nene nodded, "But it's actually the factory that makes the boomers that 
they wanna destroy,"
  "God, is that possible?" Leon said, more to himself than anyone, "Man, 
I've been away for two weeks and all this happens? What else have I 
missed? And where's the lovely Priss? I betcha she missed me,"
  "Anyway," Sylia said, a bit annoyed, "We better go and stop them,"
  She turned toward Madigan, "Are you sure it'll self destruct?" 
  Madigan, bent on revenge toward Genom for their uncaring ways, had 
explained everything to the girls when Leon had gone back to his car to 
rant and rave to the firestation about what was taking so long.
  "What? What self-destruct?" Leon asked curiously, "What are you talking 
about?"
  Linna turned toward Leon, "Nothin', darling. Just go over to your car 
and stand there looking pretty. This doesn't concern you," She turned 
toward Madigan, "How do we know you're not lying?"
  Madigan was silent. After what she had done, she wouldn't be surprised 
if no one trusted her.
  "That's easy," Sylia said, "We bring her with us,"
  The sounds of sirens could be heard getting louder and louder now.
  "What are you talking about?!" Leon shouted, very annoyed. He didn't 
like being left out of the conversation, even though it had nothing to 
do with him.
  Nene turned toward her co-worker and said, "Leon, basically, something 
bad is going to happen under Genom Tower if we don't do something...and 
in order to stop it, we have to get there and stop it from happening,"
  "You?" Leon said, almost shocked, "How are you girls going to be able 
to stop this whatever from happening. I mean, this is Genom we're 
talking about. How are you going to be able to get in there, where ever 
it is? I'll call for back up. If what you're talking about is true, I 
don't think AD Police are gonna sit around and wait for it to happen 
before they take action,"
  "Don't worry, we can take care of ourselves," Akane said.
  "You're coming with us!" Sylia said, grabbing Madigan by the arm, "You 
better not be lying. I don't care how much you hate Genom now, I still 
don't trust you,"
  "I want to be with Carper!" Madigan said, trying to pull her arm away.
  Sylia's grip tightened, "No, you're not! You're coming with us whether 
you like it or not!"
  "I should never have told you!"
  "You bitch!" Sylia slapped Madigan. It felt good, almost too good. 
"People are going to die if we don't do something! How can you be so 
goddamn heartless?! Maybe we should have let you die in that truck!!"
  Sylia gave Madigan's arm a hard yank, letting her know that she wasn't 
going to take more protests from her, and that she meant business. 
Madigan glanced back around her shoulder to look at Carper.
  Sylia, Linna, Akane, and Madigan rushed down the street toward Genom, 
but not before Sylia turned toward Nene and said, "Nene, you hafta 
evacuate everyone in and around the Tower, in case, god forbid, we don't 
make it!"
  Nene nodded, "Okay!"
  She walked over to Leon's car and reached underneath the driver side seat and 
took out a magnum. She threw it at Sylia where she caught it gracefully, "Good 
luck!" she said as she threw her a box of ammo Leon also kept under his seat.
  "M-my gun!" Leon said, "Why did you give her my gun? Does she know how 
to use that thing?"
  Nene turned toward Leon and said, "Leon, just trust me when I say she 
Does," She picked up the radio, "Now, we've got a city we hafta evacuate,"
  Leon shrugged his shoulders, "All right, but boy, am I gonna enjoy 
hearing your report after this,"
  Nene smirked. She would write the report up, telling him everything 
about what she knew of Ranma and Ryoga and what they had been doing. 
However, she was going to leave out some rather revealing details, like 
Genom finding out where the Knight Sabers' headquarters were...
  "Oh boy, you definitely will,"
  
  Ryoga, badly beaten, bleeding from several wounds, half-dragged Ranma 
down the corridor, toward a restroom if this place had one, blood 
trailing behind. Ryoga had had the fight of his life, several times, as 
he was forced to fight a dozen or so of the same boomers that had hurt 
Ranma badly.
  Ryoga was limping on a bad leg, one shoulder dislocated, his good arm 
being used to drag Ranma. Priss, who was by his side, also hurt. She had 
been caught too close to too many explosions that had hit Ryoga. She 
wasn't as hurt as Ryoga, but she was a lot less useful fully healed than 
a very hurt Ryoga.
  "Ranma, you moron, why the hell didja have to go and get yourself 
hurt?" Ryoga muttered, "I should just leave you here to bleed to death. 
It's your fault you got caught by surprise like that, not mine. But 
noooo, you had to get knocked out, you wimp!"
  Ranma stirred a bit, moaning in pain, "Ugh..,"
  "R-Ranma?" Priss said, "A-are you all right?"
  Ryoga stopped and looked down at Ranma, "Yeah, wake up now, why 
dontcha? After I got rid of all those boomers,"
  Ranma slowly opened his eyes, "Ugh, w-what...hit...me..,"
  "Can you get up?" Priss asked, slowly trying to pull Ranma onto his 
feet.
  He slowly got to his feet, his legs very weak, more supported by Ryoga 
and Priss than his own two feet. It took his several tries before he 
could stand, somewhat supported. He was seriously disoriented because of 
that missile. 
   "Oh god....m-my...back...it feels like its....on fire," Ranma managed 
to say. He was too weak to really care about doing something to help 
alleviate the pain. His legs and arms felt like jelly. His head felt 
like it was too heavy for his neck to support. He managed to lift his 
head just long enough to see something down the corridor.
  "Hey...look...it's a....boomer..," he managed to say.
  "What?!" Priss said. She looked up, just in time to see a missile 
flying straight down the corridor. 
  "Look out!" Ranma said, pushing Priss out of the way with weak arms 
right when the missile struck him in the chest. He was send flying 
backwards through the air where he tumbled on the floor, blood 
splattering onto the walls everywhere.
  Ryoga, having been holding him when the missile struck Ranma, was blown 
toward the side, slamming into a wall. He coughed several times, the 
wind having been knocked out of him.  
  He slowly got to his feet, very weak, wiping the blood from his mouth.
  "What the hell? I thought I destroyed that computer already..," he 
said, holding his rib, which was most likely cracked. He shot a ki-blast 
down the corridor and destroyed the boomers. After having done so, he 
fell to his knees, very very weak, too tired from expending to much 
energy and taking such a beating.
  "I can't go on," Ryoga said weakly, falling forward onto his stomach, 
unconscious.
  "Ryoga!"
  Priss was now all alone, Ranma and Ryoga both out cold.

  Linna and Akane and Sylia and a reluctant Madigan ran down the street, 
running as fast as their legs could take them.
  "Which way is the best way to getting down there?" Linna asked.
  Madigan quickly answered, "Through elevator nineteen. That will lead 
you down to the main corridor which is around two hundred yards away 
from the main computer,"
  There were several hidden booths located throughout MegaTokyo that acted as if

they were abandoned business booths when they were really elevators that lead to

Genom's underground factory.
  "Two hundred yards?!" Sylia said, "Isn't there one closer?"
  Madigan shook her head, "No,"
  Sylia sighed, 
  "Boy, this is going to be one hard task..,"
  Akane smirked, "You could say that again,"
    
  Priss, her heart in her throat, dragged Ranma as fast as she could, 
not caring that Ranma was very cold beneath her fingers or that his 
breathing was rather unsteady. If what Ryoga had said was right, then 
none of that would matter as soon as she splashed him with water. She 
would then go back for Ryoga.
  She continued to drag him down to the corridor and around the corner, 
realizing there was no where to go but down for she found herself 
standing on a metallic platform suspended a hundred or so feet up the 
wall. She looked down into the pit below her and saw a massive pool of 
coolant.
  "Where the hell am I?!" she said, looking over the safety rail. She 
wondered if coolant was a good enough substitute for water.
  She didn't have much to wonder for a missile flew right by her head, 
missing her by inches, exploding when it hit the wall on the other side 
of the vast room. She didn't even need to look behind her to realize 
there were boomers behind her. 
  She looked around and realized there was no place to go but up or 
down. She could go up, but she didn't have a jet pack or thrusters or a 
hardsuit for that matter so the only other way to go was straight down, 
into the pool of coolant.
  Taking a deep breath, she hoisted Ranma up over the railing and pushed 
him over, jumping over a second later, the landing exploding the moment 
she and Ranma crashed into the pool of liquid.
  Priss quickly swam through the slimy liquid to the surface and gasped 
for air as soon as she reached the top. All she did was managed to gasp 
just enough air to scream as she saw several boomers descending 
downward, their cannons aimed right at her.
  Ranma-chan burst through the surface, gasping for air, screaming, "Hot 
water!!! Where's the hot water?!"
  Priss looked at Ranma, who was now in his cursed form, "Ranma? Is that you?"
  Ranma-chan looked at Priss, "Where's the hot water?!"
  A missile shot into the pool of liquid, narrowly missing Ranma-chan.
  Ranma-chan looked up and say the descending boomers. Without even 
thinking, Ranma-chan lifted her hand toward the ceiling and shouted, 
"Hiryu Shoten Ha!!!!"
  A massive whirlwind generated from Ranma-chan's hand, surrounding her, 
spiraling up at the descending boomers. The coolant in the pool got 
sucked up with the wind, creating this massive reverse whirlpool, 
everything funneling upward. Priss, standing in the middle of the pool, 
looked around and saw the surrounding liquid twisting around her, 
shooting up into the air. It felt as if she was in the middle of a 
whirlpool where she could reach out and touch the coolant in every 
direction.
  Ranma-chan stood right next to her, and turned her attention toward Priss and 
said, "Priss, where's the hot water?"
  Priss looked at Ranma, or at what Ranma had become. She couldn't 
believe she was looking at a girl now. Ranma had been a guy one moment, 
and now he was a girl.
  "Yes, this is my curse!" Ranma-chan said exasperated, "I turn into a 
girl when hit with water...or anything water based. I don't wanna stay 
in this form! I hafta change back! I need some hot water!" 
  She ignored the upward spinning column of coolant surrounding her and looked 
up. The boomers where no longer there, having been swept up all the way to the 
ceiling and most likely destroyed from the impact.
  Ranma-chan grabbed Priss' hand and ran in a random direction, sending 
a ki-blast right through the wall of twisting coolant and running right 
through it, emerging out on the other side.
  Ranma-chan looked around and saw a door and quickly ran for it. She needed to 
find some hot water and fast. She ran right through the door, not bothering to 
waste precious seconds knocking it down, as he half carried Priss with him.
  Ranma-chan looked down the corridor and caught sight of another pool of 
coolant. Where the hell was she? She released Priss and ran up to the pool and 
stuck her hand into it. It was freezing, just like the other pool he had just 
been in.
  She closed her eyes and began sending all her ki into it, heating it up 
at an intense rate.
  After a minute or so, the pool began to boil. As soon as it did, Ranma 
jumped in.
  Priss ran forward to the pool but couldn't get to close because the 
pool had been percolating rather violently. If any of the coolant 
splashed on her, she would get seriously scolded.
  Ranma emerged from the pool, now in his original form, looking a full ten 
years younger than before.
  "All right! I'm back in my real form!" he said with a smile. He looked 
at Priss, who was totally speechless.
  "Where are we?" Ranma said. He waved a hand in front of Priss' face 
"Priss, my curse, I'll explain it to you some other time. Where's 
Ryoga?"
  "H-he was in the corridor, a hundred or so feet above us..," she 
finally said. He was still staring at Ranma, unable to comprehend 
this...curse. 
  In the other room, the coolant came crashing down on the floor and 
pool, Ranma's whirlwind punch finally having subsided. Ranma turned 
toward the other room, "That's the room that leads back up?"
  Priss nodded, "The opening is about a hundred or so feet up,"
  Ranma reached a hand forward "C'mon, let's go back up. Hang on tight,"
  When Priss unconsciously reached forward and took hold of his hand, 
Ranma jerked her toward him and threw her over his shoulder. 
  He ran into the room and jump as high as he could, propelling off the 
wall and continuing to triangle jump until he reached the door that lead 
onto the landing that the boomer's destroyed.
 "Is that the opening?" Ranma asked, still holding onto Priss, the 
fingers of his other arm digging into the wall, holding him up. He was 
gesturing toward the opening on the other side of the room. 
  Priss nodded. She looked at Ranma's fingers and couldn't believe that 
he had just dug his fingering into solid concrete and they were holding 
him and her both up on a totally vertical wall. She was about to ask how 
he could do that but shrieked as Ranma kicked out and jumped right 
toward the opening, landing in the corridor.
  Ranma let Priss go and started running down the corridor, Priss 
following closely behind.
  As yet a new batch of boomers emerged in front of the two, Ranma 
didn't bother to take cover, sending ki-blast after ki-blast down the 
corridor, destroying them easily.
  "Where is he?" Ranma asked, still running, not even winded from using 
so much energy.
 Priss pointed, "Just around that corner,"
  Ranma rounded the corner and easily caught sight of the unconscious 
Ryoga. Ranma kneeled down next to Ryoga and gently tapped his cheek, 
"Yo, Ryoga, you still alive?"
  Ryoga opened his eyes weakly, "Yeah...,"
  Ranma chuckled, "Don't worry, buddy. You'll be okay, I've gotcha,"
  He picked Ryoga up and threw him over his shoulder and turned around 
proceeding back down the corridor and toward the pool of coolant he had 
been thrown in just before. 
  Priss, not really knowing what she should do, followed closely behind, 
but not before she heard Ryoga mutter something weakly.
  "I'm...not...your....buddy..,"
  
  Madigan looked out the glass elevator at the underground 'city' 
expanding before her as the elevator descended. She could see the route Ranma 
and Ryoga had taken simply by the carnage left behind. She looked toward the 
where the main computer was located and the many corridors surrounding it. They 
would have to traverse through the corridors, which would still be infested with

boomers so they could make it to the main computer. Of course it would be 
infested with boomers, if they weren't then that meant Ranma and Ryoga had 
disabled the main computer...which meant the self destruct would be in admist a 
countdown. Luckily, she didn't hear the countdown on the speakers.
  "T-those corridors," Madigan said, pointing, "They lead to the main 
computer,"
  "What are those?" Akane asked, pointing toward these large cylindrical 
chambers just on the outside of those corridors.
  "They're the coolant ducts that are used to keep everything from 
overheating. There's an underground network that circulate the coolant 
to every machine throughout the factory," Madigan replied. She pointed 
toward the large and looming structure located near the heart of the 
'city' and said, "That's where the supercomputer is. We have to make our 
way there..,"
  The girls witnessed an explosion erupted from one of the maze of 
corridors down below.
  "That's most likely Ranma or Ryoga," Sylia commented. Linna nodded in 
agreement.
  From down below, bullets flew upward and struck the glass of the 
elevator, shattering it. Madigan and Linna quickly fell to the floor, 
taking cover, shielding themselves from the glass. Akane backed away 
from the glass, crouching low.
  Sylia, on the other hand, pulled out the magnum and carefully aimed it 
toward to location the bullets where coming from.
  "Sylia, what are you doing?! Get down!" Linna shouted to Sylia, 
worried that her fried was going to get herself killed.
  Sylia pulled the trigger twice. 
  The firing immediately stopped.
  "What happened?" Madigan asked. "Why did it stop firing?"
  "I shot out its eyes. It can't hit what it can't see..," 
   
  Ranma stopped his fighting, "Did you hear something? I could have 
sworn I just hear gunfire from somewhere else..,"
  Ryoga, now totally healed and younger looking, turned toward Ranma, "I think 
so, I heard it also. How about you, Priss?"
  The little time it took for Ryoga to move from the pool of coolant to the pool

with the heated coolant Ranma had made had made him aged backwards quite a bit.
  Priss said nothing. She was still transfixed on what she had seen when Ryoga 
took his cursed form.
  "Yeah, yeah, I know. I turned into a piglet," Ryoga muttered, a bit annoyed. 
He preferred people not to know of his curse since the more people knew, the 
better the chance Akane would eventually find out, "But will you please quit 
staring at me like I'm some kinda ghost and pay more attention..,"
  Priss blinked a few times, "I can't believe it, you turn into a 
goddamn piglet..,"
  The muscles in Ryoga's jaw tensed, "I know! You don't hafta remind 
me..,"
  Ranma snapped a finger in front of Priss' face, causing her to start 
and become more concerned with other things than Ryoga's curse.
  "W-what is it?" she asked.
  He said, "Did you hear something? Like gunfire? I could have sworn I 
heard it,"
  "It's probably your imagination," Priss commented. It was probably the 
sounds of more boomers on the way that he heard.
  Ryoga shook his head, "I don't think so. I heard it also. What should 
we do? Should we go back to the computer or go check it out..,"
  Priss took a moment to think, "I dunno. Okay, how about this. Ranma'll 
go ahead and blow the computer up. Ryoga and I will go check out the 
noise, whatever it is,"
  Even though she had no idea what she was walking into, she didn't feel nearly 
as worried with a totally healed Ryoga around, or a totally healed Ranma just a 
short ways away.
  Ranma nodded, "Okay. I'll come looking for you as soon as I blow it 
Up,"
  He turned around and ran down the corridor, dodging the lasers from a single 
boomer that stood in his way and punching its skull in as he ran right past it, 
disappearing around a corner.
  "C'mon, let's go," Ryoga said, turning around and heading down the 
corridor in the opposite direction.


-OneShot
Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong
http://www.anime.sobhrach.com/~jeffwong/index.html
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