Why, look at this!! The third one at last!! Thanks to Johnd for
finally getting me off my ass and getting this done.
/To Die\ A Godzilla/Ranma/Nuku-Nuku crossover.
Chapter 3
Cologne and Shampoo had already packed most of the
stuff underground and were almost finished. An excited and
panicked voice came out from the small radio on the last
table still out in the main room of the Cat Cafe declaring
the advance of Godzilla unstoppable.
"Shampoo, do you have everything we need while we're
away, packed?"
"Yes, Great-grandmother." Shampoo shouldered the
backpack. She was excited, it was rare for something this
incredible to happen.
Cologne stepped outside the door to take a look around
and also to breathe in some fresh air. Imagine her surprise
as she watched something fly out of the sky and crash into
and through the roof of her cafe. She heard Shampoo scream
as she jumped inside.
"Wow, it worked," said Kyusaku pulling off his helmet,
covered in dust and pieces of cement.
Akiko stared out of her large window in her office.
Ryuusuke, her son, stood next to her and both stared in
fascination as the large creature, a remnant of a world long
dead, mutated and woken by a human folly, stood and roared
at them just half a mile away from where they stood, in the
building of Mishima Corps.
Akiko held her tears bravely. She had failed in
stopping the monster and in doing so had lost the honor of
Mishima Corps. Worse, her son had been witness to his
mother's failure. "Kyouko!"
"Yes, maam?" Kyouko had been sitting in the corner
nervously waiting for her mistress' next command.
Akiko turned around and held her son in front of her.
"Akiko, please take Ryuusuke to the top floor and prepare
operation Paragon."
"Miss!? You can't mean it!!"
"Mom!? What's operation Paragon?"
Akiko sighed and held her head in her hands. "There's
nothing else that Mishima Corps. can do except save itself.
Ryuusuke, please, go with Kyouko. I have to finish some
things, I'll be right up."
"Mom, I'll wait right here for you!"
"NO!! Ryuusuke, go!" Akiko turned around toward the
window and watched as Godzilla slowly began to walk towards
the source of its recent misery. Mishima Corps.
"C'mon little master." Kyouko dragged the little boy
with her towards the door then out.
"Mom!! MOM!!" Ryuusuke felt something wrong with
this. His mother was up to something and his small heart
beat furiously in fright. "MOM!!!"
Akiko waited until she could no longer hear Ryuusuke's
screaming voice and then with tears in her eyes she turned
toward the radio and yelled her commands to the operator.
Ryouga stared at the destruction around him, he
couldn't believe it. He grabbed a man running by him and
demanded what was going on.
"Don't you know!! Godzilla!! Godzilla!!" With that
the man pulled out of Ryouga's grip with impossible strength
and ran down the street.
"Godzilla!? What's that?" Ryouga stopped another man
and asked him where he was.
"Nerima," said the guy then ran off.
"Nerima..." whispered Ryouga to himself then stared at
all the rubble around him. A fear froze his heart and
Ryouga dropped his precious backpack and umbrella so he
could run as fast as possible. He didn't know where but he
had to get to the Tendo dojo and calm his fear.
"Whew! Oh, thank you!!" Kyusaku accepted the bowl of
ramen and hungrily slurped the noodles into his mouth.
"Hm... so even mankind's technology couldn't defeat
that ancient monster." Cologne lit her pipe.
"Ancient? Godzilla was a side product of nuclear
testing." Kyusaku managed to get out between mouthfuls.
"By the way, I'm out of cigarettes, do you have an extra
pipe?"
"No, Xing-Di has been around for centuries. Man's
meddling with nature has only made him stronger, not only
that, you had waken him from his centuries of slumber."
Cologne gently opened a box and gingerly pulled out a
yellowed paper. "I had found this years ago."
Kyusaku wiped the hair out of his eyes and took the
paper from Cologne and took a close look. "Incredible!!"
"Yes, Xing-Di, or as you Japanese call Godzilla, was
defeated many years ago by a woman from my village. She
died defeating it, but not before ensuring that her
knowledge was passed down."
On the old crumpled paper was a simple drawing of a
large dinosaur like creature and on the drawing, right above
where the creature's right leg would be was a Chinese
character. This particular character stood for sleep.
"Hmmmm," Kyusaku held his chin in thought then
exclaimed, "AH-HA!! I assume you have a stove!?"
Mishima Corps. rocked and shook down to its foundation.
Godzilla was quite near it now and the giant monster had
mistaken the shaking for fear, a common occurance he was
used to from prey. Godzilla was confused as their was a
loud sound like thunder and the ground beneath him shook and
his prey started lifting off the ground.
Kyouko held onto a hysterical Ryuusuke as Mishima
Corps. took off into the sky.
"Mom!! What about mom!!" Ryuusuke cried out
hysterically, unsure why he was fighting or what he would
do.
Kyouko just held onto the boy, not wanting to reveal
the truth. Below them, on the ground where Mishima Corps.
used to stand was a Golem 2000, one of Mishima's more
powerful mecha. And in this mecha sat their beloved
president ready to give her life to restore honor to Mishima
Corps.
Arisa sat in the weapon's console of the Golem 2000.
She heard her beloved president's voice over the intercom
asking if she was prepared. "Yes, maam," said Arisa
confidently. Even if she were to die today, Arisa would not
regret it. She would now have a chance to redeem herself
after that horrible defeat when she was in Heavy Metal and
also she would be fighting side by side with her heroine,
Mishima Akiko.
"Remember Akiko, don't hold back, aim for the monster's
eyes. I'll use the Golem's enforced arms to try to keep the
monster off balance."
"Yes, maam!"
"OK, let's GO!!!" Akiko hit the switch that opened up
the holding block and the Golem shot out like a rocket and
landed on the ground in front of Godzilla, who roared in
surprise.
The Golem 2000 that Akiko was using was a prototype and
the biggest mecha of its kind and resembled a giant brown
tarantula. Despite its impressive size, it was dwarfed by
Godzilla who stood several hundreds of feet above the mecha.
Stormclouds rolled in and a sharp wind began to bend
the top of trees. A few drops of rain fell.
Ranma stood on the roof of the house to get a clear
view. He had stopped when he saw the giant skyscraper reach
and disappear into the clouds. He felt the raindrops and
ignored the change that occurs to him whenever he gets wet.
He saw the giant mecha, that seemed to him to come from the
comics he has read, challenge Godzilla. She hoped it was
enough.
"Hurry!! Hurry!!" Kyusaku waved toward what looked
like a running stove.
"Oh, hush, I'd like to see you carry this," said an old
ancient voice from underneath.
But Kyusaku wasn't listening, he could see the monster
now and something almost as big as it. "My God!! A Golem
2000!!"
"What is that!?" Cologne put the stove down.
"A Golem 2000!! Ouch!!" Cologne rapped Kyusaku over
the head.
"Don't get cocky with me, boy!!"
"Ok! Ok!!" Kyusaku turned toward the stove that
looked like some child had crazy-glued a bunch of lights to
it. Kyusaku opened the oven and inside could be seen what
looked like a giant needle. "Hmmm... are we going to need
it?"
"Your Golem 2000 doesn't look like its going to last
much longer."
Kyusaku pulled out his binoculars and took a closer
look. The old mummy was right, the Golem 2000 had an
assortment of dents and holes along it and was missing an
arm. "Hmmm...." Kyusaku looked a little longer than
screamed and yelled in surprise. "Watch out!!!" Kyusaku
grabbed the old woman and jumped out of the way as a missile
passed over them. "Who the hell is shooting that thing!!
Arisa!?"
"Thank you," said Cologne wiping her dress, "but I
would have been safe. Anyway, should we use this thing?"
"Sure." Kyusaku flipped a couple of switches then
aimed through a hole he drilled through the top of the
stove. "Here goes!!" Kyusaku slammed the top of the stove
and the giant needle shot out with a bang.
And then bounced off of Godzilla's tough hide.
Kyusaku and Cologne stood dumbfounded.
"The mutation," said Kyusaku searching his pockets for
a cigarette. "Not only did it give him mutant breathe it
made it tougher too."
"Where am I?"
"WAAAAAAAAHHH!!!" Kyusaku and Cologne jumped in
surprise at the arrival of Ryouga and his question.
It took Cologne a second to realize the importance of
Ryouga's destined arrival. She jumped on his back.
"Hey, what are you doing!?"
"Shut up, boy!! You're going to defeat that monster!!"
"M-me!?"
"Yes!! The breaking-point, boy!! The breaking-point!!
Now run!!"
"Okay," said Ryouga, not really sure what was going on.
"W-wait," yelled Kyusaku, "what's going on!?"
"We have two of those needles, right!?" Cologne yelled
back from Ryouga's back, "Just aim and get ready to fire!!"
Kyusaku aimed the stove again and waited for the
miracle.
"President!! I have no more missiles!!"
"Don't worry, Arisa. The Golem can still fight!!"
Akiko frantically searched through the instruction manual.
"Ok, lets see... the red button then the cirle one next to
it." The Golem shook and groan then the radio turned on. A
radio announcer was yelling out to the populace of Japan to
run away before Godzilla reached them. "Hm... wrong red
button," said Akiko, "ah! Here it is!!" Akiko pressed the
button and the Golem raised a large arm. Akiko looked next
to the red button and was about to press it when she said,
"Wait! That's not a circle!? It's an oval! Did I press
the wrong one?"
Arisa, having nothing else to do, watched the giant
monster they were fighting in fear. At the moment, it
seemed intent on roasting them with its nuclear blast.
"President!!"
"What is it!?"
"Something small is running toward's Godzilla!! It
looks like... It looks like a BOY!!!"
"There, Ryouga!! There!!" Cologne yelled loudly in
Ryouga's ear.
Ryouga couldn't believe what he was about to do. He
jumped in the air and pulled his arm back and trusting his
instincts yelled, "BAKAI-TENKETSU!!!" and thrust his finger
forward, into, and through one shell of Godzilla's thick
body and all of the sudden found himself blown back by a
fountain of hot blood and pieces of scale and falling to the
streets.
Godzilla roared in pain.
"NOW!!" Kyusaku slammed his hand down on the stove and
a second giant needle shot out, this time imbedding itself
into Godzilla's leg. "YAHOOOOO!!!" Kyusaku jumped up in
the air then stopped.
Godzilla roared again, not even yawning, and kicked the
Golem 2000 out of it's path and continued down the street,
destroying buildings and other big stuff.
"KSAMAAAA!!!" Ranma jumped off the building and ran
down the streets looking behind him. Godzilla was quickly
catching up to her and they were already near the Tendo
home.
Ranma barely got there before the giant monster, who at
the moment decided to blast the surrounding area. The
monster was slowly turning its head, spreading the nuclear
blast turning Nerima into toast.
Ranma stood between it and the Tendo home. In her mind
she could still see Akane behind her, inside the house,
still packing. There was no way she was going to let a
stupid monster by her. Ranma yelled and cursed at the
monster, who ignored her. Ranma yelled and cursed some
more.
Godzilla continued turning its head and eventually
turned toward the Tendo dojo and Ranma. Ranma felt herself
covered in flames. Ranma did what she always does when too
frightened to think. She punches.
Godzilla felt something pound into its chest and cut
off the steady stream of nuclear fire as it felt itself
being pushed back. It roared in anger and frustration
because no enemy could be seen.
Ranma was surprised and relieved as the most powerful
of her body's arsenal swooped through her body and shot out
of her extended arm and formed a giant twister swirling
pieces of cement, garbage, and even cars into Godzilla and
began to push the giant monster back. Ranma yelled in
delight, she would not fail!!
Godzilla strained its neck and swished its tail about
straining against the giant wind. It planted both feet down
firmly into the ground and stubbornly stretched its head
foward and released another deadly blast of fire.
Ranma saw the blast shoot out of Godzilla's mouth and
she stubbornly held her fist out. She refused to lose.
The nuclear blast was again impossibly stopped but this
time their was a standoff. Godzilla did not stop its
nuclear blast after it was stopped but instead kept it
steadily flaring out of its open mouth.
Ranma watched as the fire slowly pushed itself past her
hurricane and felt her fist shake as she became more and
more tired. Ranma dropped her arm and sighed as she said,
"It was a short life," and felt the nuclear fire sweep her
away, like dust.
Godzilla, puzzled, turned and continued on its path,
miracuously leaving Tendo Dojo unharmed.
"WAAAA-AH!! Ah?" Ryouga jumped up and stared around
him. He was covered in thick blood, the stench of it
entered his nostrils and he could hardly think of anything
else. He noticed Cologne besides him.
"You did good boy, but all for nothing," said Cologne
sadly.
"Hm... I wonder how Nuku-Nuku is doing," said Kyusaku
lighting a cigarette. He had gotten it from a nearby
abandoned store and had left some yen on the register.
"Cologne!! Please, take me to Tendo Dojo!! I have to
go there!!"
"Ah!! Worried are you? Don't worry, they probably
packed and left like everyone else."
"It doesn't matter!! I have to see for myself!!"
Ryouga was hysterical and waving his arms spreading drops of
blood everywhere. He was a horrible sight.
"Ok, Ok. Calm down, sonny."
It turned out that the Tendo home was not too far off
and Ryouga breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was
undamaged.
"What's this," said Cologne noticing that the area in
front of the dojo had been wrecked and the homes around it
too. Cologne looked around her and almost felt her strong
heart lose its strength and die as it should have years ago.
A ponytail, one end burned together, the other end
tied, lay in front of the Tendo home. Cologne looked at the
destruction around her and saw how it somehow had stopped in
front of the Tendo Dojo. She immediately realized the
horror of what had happened.
Ryouga saw Cologne's transfixed gaze and followed her
eyes to the twisted hair. He breathed in sharply.
"What's this," said Kyusaku.
Ryouga bent over the ponytail in disbelief. "Why!?
Why Ranma?" Ryouga held back his tears and denied the
feelings that rushed from his crushed heart. "You died
before we could properly fight!!"
"Son-in-law died saving the Tendo Dojo," said Cologne
pointing out where the destruction ended to Kyusaku.
"Your son-in-law must have been an impressive man,"
said Kyusaku not really sure how to react.
Hearing this Ryouga could no longer hold in his sadness
and gripping the hair to his face collapsed on the floor.
Nuku-Nuku looked about her and tried to get up. She
was in an empty alley and had fallen into a pile of garbage
bags which partly covered her. When she failed to stand she
realized that she no longer had a pair of legs. What used
to start at her waist was now only melted plastic, metal,
and a scraggly bunch of wires. Nuku-Nuku quickly did a body
scan. The computer parts of her brain quickly calculated
the amount of damage and how much more damage was occuring
as more time and time passed without fixing the previous
damage. She had about an hour. "Now what," said Nuku-Nuku
to herself then sadly remembered the burning helicopter and
Papa-san's last words. "I failed," said Nuku-Nuku and began
to cry then screamed as something landed out of the sky next
to her.
After Nuku-Nuku calmed down she took a look at what
landed next to her. It was a girl, a naked girl! The girl
looked as if she had rolled in ashes or something and as if
her hair had been burned off, pieces of it still evident in
small scruffs.
"Oi, you allright? Oi," said Nuku-Nuku prodding the
unconscious girl.
"Let me sleep, Akane, its Saturday," mumbled the girl.
"Akane?" said Nuku-Nuku then prodded the girl again.
"Leave me alone," said the girl and blinked her eyes
then sat up in surprise. "Where am I!!"
"In garbage," stated Nuku-Nuku simply.
Ranma stared left and right and noticed that she had no
clothes on. She stared at the long red-haired girl in front
of her and screamed when she saw the mess of bolts and wires
where the legs should have been. "Wh-what happened!?"
The two explained what had just happened to each other
and a little bit of their past lives. Each time Ranma
looked too long into the other girl's eyes she got really
nervous and couldn't help but quickly look away. Nuku-Nuku
realized that something about her scared the slightly burnt
girl but she just figured it had to be because of her being
an android. But despite this the two formed a strange bond
of acceptance.
"So we both failed," said Ranma to the pretty android
as she stood up and peeked out of the alley. It was
deserted. "I want to check on the Tendo home, do you want
to come?" Ranma blushed as she stood in front of the
android, she could feel a cold wind blowing through the
alley.
"Yeah!" Nuku-Nuku said enthusiastically then frowned.
"But Nuku-Nuku have no way to walk."
"That's ok," said Ranma and gingerly picked up the
fallen android, ignoring the strange shivers she got when
touching the android, underneath the arms and placed her
across her back. "Hold on, I don't like being naked so I'm
going to run. OK?"
"Hai!!"
At that, Ranma ran towards the Tendo dojo.
"Ranma..." Ryouga felt each and every strand of hair on
the ponytail, that he had so often wanted to pull out of
Ranma's stupid head, lovingly and regretted every moment
they fought. He remembered when they had once both found a
strange half-black, half-white puppy and had nursed it back
to life. He still owned that dog. Ryouga could feel new
tears forming and tried to hold them back as he gripped the
ponytail. All of the sudden the ponytail was pulled out of
his hand and all sight was replaced by fist that dropped him
on his back.
"Give me that," said Ranma and jokingly tried placing
her ponytail on the back of her head.
"Nuku-Nuku!!" Kyusaku picked up his android daughter
and looked sadly at her. "Are you OK?"
"Papa-san!!" Nuku-Nuku began to cry, "Nuku-Nuku
thought Papa-san dead!!"
"Haha!! See, I'm all right!" Kyusaku inhaled his
cigarette. "But Nuku-Nuku, you should be more careful!
This is going to take a long time to fix!" Holding her with
one arm he began to fiddle with some of the wires sticking
out of her bottom.
Nuku-Nuku began to giggle.
"Ranma! You asshole! I thought you were umph!!"
Ryouga was interrupted by a burst of blood erupting from his
nostrils at the sight of Ranma's breasts.
"Ryouga, you look absolutely horrible covered in
blood!"
"Well, so what!? At least I'm not standing around
naked!"
"Why you..." Ranma folded her arms across her chest,
"Listen, Porky, I just got blasted by that monster. I think
I deserve some respect here! After all, I saved the Tendo
dojo!"
"Save!? So what!? If you weren't here, I would have
been and saved it myself!?"
"Yeah? You and what map!?"
"Ms. Cologne, what should we do now?" Kyusaku turned
to the dried up old thing that was staring at Godzilla miles
away.
"We can't do anything. He going to destroy everything
in his path until he gets what he wants. We tried
everything."
"Oh well," said Kyusaku then removed his lab coat and
placed it on Ranma. "Can't go running around like that, you
know."
"That's ok, I can just go inside and grab something
myself."
"Papa-san?"
"Yes, Nuku-Nuku?"
"Pass me to Ranma-chan please?"
"Um...OK." Kyusaku passed her to Ranma.
"Y-yeah?" Ranma shivered again.
"I want to speak to you privately."
Ranma walked a little away. The rest watched as Nuku-
Nuku whispered something into Ranma's ear and Ranma's
strange reaction. Then the two argued and Ranma finally
capitulated. They turned to the others.
"Papa-san?"
"Yes, Nuku-Nuku?"
"Bye-Bye." With that Ranma suddenly began to run away
holding the android closely.
"What!?" Ryouga yelled out.
"You sure about this," said Ranma.
"Nuku-Nuku sure. Nuku-Nuku not allow big monster
destroy Japan."
"Alright," said Ranma and shut her mouth and
concentrated on catching up to Godzilla.
She ran clutching the android to her body unsure why
her body kept freezing whereever it touched the android.
But she was sure of one thing in her mind, the android was a
special being and was willing to give her life to others.
After ten minutes of hard running she at last reached
Godzilla's massive body.
"Throw me," said Nuku-Nuku.
"What!?"
"Throw me into Godzilla's mouth."
"What!? You said you had a weapon that could defeat
Godzilla!! I'm not throwing you into that creature's
belly!"
"Listen to Nuku-Nuku!! Nuku-Nuku's body dying. Papa-
san have no time to fix. But Nuku-Nuku can still stop
monster. Throw me! THROW ME!!" She hugged Ranma to her
and gave her a small kiss on the cheek, smiling sadly.
"Nuku-Nuku," said Ranma, her eyes getting wet. "I
won't forget you." With that, Ranma lifter the android
above her head and with unerring aim shot the android into
the sky toward Godzilla's huge mouth.
Nuku-Nuku watched as the creature's head approached her
incredibly fast. She waited until she was pass the teeth
then released the command that would destroy her.
Godzilla's head exploded!!
Ranma covered her eyes, the tears being blown off her
face from the wave of heat that descended upon her.
Something shot out of the explosion and headed south.
"She did it!!" shouted Ranma then sadly remembered that
it was at the cost of her own life. She waited for the rest
of the monster's body to fall over.
It never did.
"That's it," said Kyusaku and handed the binaculars
back to Ryouga. "Thank you Cologne, Ryouga, I'll see you
later!!" With that Kyusaku ran off toward the south.
"Well, wasn't that rude," said Ryouga.
"Maybe he had something to do," said Cologne.
Godzilla roared as the smoke clear around it's head.
Ranma gaped at the monster, her jaw wide open in shock.
Godzilla's head was no worse for wear, it's teeth now shiny
clean from the explosion. Ranma was still gaping as the
giant monster stepped on her.
Kyusaku entered the alley and saw the crevice in the
cement. "Aha!! There she is," he said picking up a small
heavy metallic ball. Pulling out a portable computer he
attached it to the ball with a metallic wire and turning on
the computer he began to type.
"Nuku-Nuku?" he typed.
"Papa-san!?"
"Are you OK?"
"Papa-san, where am I? Its dark and Nuku-Nuku
scared!!"
"Don't worry, Nuku-Nuku, Papa is here. I'm taking you
home to your new body."
"New body?"
"Let's go!!" Kyusaku picked up the metal ball and ran
out of the alley laughing.
"Arisa!? Arisa!?" Kyouko had flown down with Ryuusuke
in a helicopter and both were now searching through the
rubble where Mishima Corps. use to stand.
"Mom!? Mom!?"
"Waaaaa-hahhh!!" Kyouko fell over as Akiko jumped out
of the ground where she was standing.
"Mistress," said Kyouko.
"Mom!!" Ryuusuke hugged his mother who looked totally
worn out.
"Where's Arisa," said Kyouko.
"You're standing on my head."
"Ah...life is back to normal at Nerima!!" The radio
announcer blasted cheerfully, "For those of you who have
survived Godzilla's trek through our small city you'll be
glad to know that Foxxy Shopping Mall south district is
doing fine and that there will be school tomorrow..."
"This sucks," said Ranma eating an apple.
"I'm proud of you boy," said Soun. "Only you could
have protect the Tendo dojo!"
"That's right Soun!! Isn't my son wonderful!" Genma
was eating several riceballs at a time.
"You are insane," said Akane, "You have one broken arm
and two broken legs. Was it worth it!? Dad has insurance,
you know."
"That's right," said Nabiki, "I set it up last year.
We could have gotten someplace better to live if you hadn't
stopped that monster."
"Hm... I wouldn't have mind living more downtown," said
Kasumi, "Closer to the Foxxy Shopping Mall."
"This really sucks," said Ranma.
Godzilla entered the water glad to finally be past the
annoying land and the small hard things that kept attacking
it. It sighed happily, bubbles emerging from its mouth into
the sea as it swam deeper and deeper into it. The urgent
message in its brain that first caused it to awaken was
finally calming down. It looked around at the bottom of the
sea and saw all the ancient bones lying around, most covered
up in sand. The strange urgency turned into a soothing
sleepy feeling and Godzilla slowly closed its eyes, finally
glad to rest again. It landed on the bottom, rocking the
seafloor. Godzilla slowly let out another breathe and
another and then lay still, comfortable amongst the remains
of its ancestors.
And this, was the end of Godzilla.
The End.
BlahBlahBlah: Ahem. Hello, my name is Roy Rim and I am the
author of the fanfic you have just enjoyed and read. This
last chapter is not as good as the first two but I no longer
have the time to spend on fanfics as I used to. RL keeps
getting in the way. Anyway, my thanks go to K-chan, WW, the
BOY, and Johnd who have been successful in building up my
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