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        Well, I'm going to try this fic, so don't start sending me hate mail
for changing the character or anything.
        This is a very dark and serious Ranma Alternate Reality, not everything
turns out right in the end, people kill and are killed. Power and greed are
rampant, but so is heroism, and self sacrifice.

Read on and enter Ranma 1/2: Dark Empire.


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                           Ranma 1/2: Dark Empire
                           
                           Part 1: Kuno's Triumph



        "Grrr...so many reports to fill out, so little time!" said Lt. 
Corneal Nabiki Tendo as she threw her hands into the air. She ran her hand
through her hair and returned to her work. She picked up another report, and 
began to fill it out.
        Nabiki had changed in the last nine years. She still carried her self
with the same air as before, but she no longer extorted her friends and 
family, no, now she was devoted to her job. She was now the second in command
of the Black Lotus Corps Third Office. She was in charge to rooting out all
traitor within the empire's military. One word from her could have nearly
anyone arrested and executed. But that was not her true calling.
        There came a knock at her door, and Nabiki raised herself from the 
desk, and opened the door.
        "Yes?" she said to the man standing outside of the door.
        "Um, his Majesty, the Prince Regent, wishes your presence." said
the man.
        "All right, when does he want me?" 
        "As soon as possible, he will be in his quarters until 6 to nigh, when
he'll be in the dinning hall." The man turned and left.
        She closed the door and returned to her desk. She looked up at the
photo graphs of a happier time. She took one of the pictures down and looked
at it. It was of Herself, her two sisters, Akari, Ukyo, Ranma, Ryoga, and 
Dr. Tofu, all standing before a hall, decked out in their finest clothes.
She looked and saw herself standing alone to the left side of Kasumi and Dr.
Tofu. It pained her to think of why. She was alone for the reason that Kuno had
gone away, returned to the Imperial capital, to be crowned the Prince Regent.
She remembered that he had returned a few days later, but he was changed. He
was no longer a lovable fool, but something darker, and truly evil had come
over him, and he had his troops arrest Dr. Tofu and hang him for being a 
traitor. There was no real evidence that Tofu had been a traitor, but she 
believed that Kuno had merle wanted to demonstrate his power to the people.
She shuddered at the though. She picked up another report and read the summary.
"Bounty Hunters on Felix Nine." was the title. The thing that she took notice
was the one that was shown in the picture attached. The bounty Hunter wore
a red suit of heavy armor, a helm, and had a light Plasma pulse pistol at his
waist. The odd thing was the way he was holding his cup. It seemed so familiar.
Nabiki sighed and stood up and pulled her black uniform jacket from the back
of her chair and put it on. Her uniform was jet black, with red piping around
the edges. A black skirt that ended at the waist and a white shirt and black
tie completed the uniform. She also had various awards covering her right 
breast and lanyards encircled her arm. She turned and left her quarters.



        Somewhere far, far away, Ranma Saotome, rebel hero, sits at the
controls of his ship, the Tendo Dojo II. He has aged, for the better, his
boyish good looks have matured into a handsome young man. He where's a purple
Chinese shirt, black pants, and black boots. 
        "So, you're sure everything is all right?" said Ranma to the view
screen before him.
        "Yes, yes Ranma, everything is fine here on Gologotha Secundus. I 
mean, how can the empire find us?" said the figure on the screen.
        "Akane, I love you, and I don't want anything to happen to you."
        "I know. Stop worrying yourself. I'll be seeing you in a few
days on Hikawa, so don't worry. I have to go now." the screen in front of
Ranma blinked of and Ranma leaned back in his chair.
        "Ah! Hikawa is 7 hours away from here!" Ranma grabbed the yoke and
punched a few buttons, soon he entered hyperspace.

        "Ah! I have them now!" Yelled Kuno as he finished watching the
transmission sent from Akane to Ranma. "Those fools, do they not know that
the empire can hear every word that they said?" Kuno got up from his command
chair and walked down the catwalk that was over the crew pit. " Captain
Moribishi, set course too Gologotha Secundus." Kuno yelled at the man
standing at the other end of the catwalk.
        "Yes my Prince!" Said the man. He gave a stiff bow and began to 
bark orders at the crew.
        Kuno turned again to another man. "General Kobayakawa! Prepare you're
troops!"
        "Yes my lord!" The man bowed and walked off.
        "Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" Kuno tilted his head back and
began to laugh a sick evil and twisted laugh.
        Nabiki stared at him. "What does he have planned?". A chill ran up
her spine at the thought of some of the stuff Kuno has done. Nabiki takes
a second another look at him, and walks off.

        "I still think you talked too long!" Said a man to Akane.
        "What? There are thousands of subspace channels, the empire cannot
be possibly monitoring them all." Replied Akane. Akane had remained the same,
but she had grown taller, and no longer had the "big boned" look. She wore
a functional blue shirt, and combat pants.
        "Commander Rozenburg! Commander Rozenburg! The Imperial Fleet has just
come out of hyper space! They're launching landing pods!" Said a terrified
trooper coming into the room.
        "My god! Seal all entrances! Raise the Laser and Ion Cannons! Get them
charged up!" Commander Rozenburg yelled out. "And you, we must get you to a 
ship! Corporal!" He turned to the soldier.
        "Yes!"
        "Get Miss Tendo to a ship now! And get out of here!"
        "Now, just wait..."  Akane began to protest when a massive explosion
rocked the base, and a loud speaker began to blare.
        "Imperial troops have entered the base! Imperial Troops have...
*SQUAWK*" 
        "Shit! There's no time to argue!" Yelled Rozenburg, he opened a
closet and takes out a rifle. He then pulls out his pistol from his holster
and hands it to Akane. "Here." is all he says and leaves.
        Akane stares at the weapon for a second and goes out the other door.

        A hundred Imperial "Dread" troopers march down the halls of the base,
laying waste to all opposition that stands before them.
        Kuno walks behind them, clad in back armor, with a sword belted at his
waist, and the odd crackle of light that showed a personal defense field was 
up. 
        A Rebel trooper came out of a door way, and fired at Kuno, only for 
his shot to be absorbed by his shield. 
        Realizing that the shield was only effective against energy attacks, the
trooper raises his rifle high about his head like a club and charges Kuno.
In a single effortless motion, Kuno draws his sword, activates it's power 
field, and cuts the Rebel trooper from head to groin, and replaces the
weapon.
        "Fool."

        "Go! Go!" Shouted the pilot of the shuttle that Akane was on as he
chinked and weaved to a avoid the attacking imperial CAF (Combat/Assault 
fighters).
        Akane tired to get a bead on them with the shuttles rear facing bubble
turret, but was unsuccessful, for the inverted wing shaped craft were way
to agile for a weapon that was designed to fight off larger ships. 
        "We've got a fire in the cargo hold!" Came over the intership radio.
        Akane looked up and saw the massive form of the "Kuno's Glory"
looming up behind them.
        "I think that's the least of our worries!" She shouted.
        "Holy Shit! How the fuck does something like that move so fast!"
        "Arrrrgh! Fuck! The hyperdrive is shot! We can't make the jump to 
light speed!"
        Akane fired a few rounds at the massive, 3 mile hull of the ship.
        There was a learch and they stopped.
        "Jezus H. Christ! Were in a tractor beam!"
        "Try launching some rockets! The tractor beams tracking system will
be confused by them, and they'll strike the tractor beam projector!"
        "That's a good idea but we don't have any Fucking rockets!"
        Akane shook her head. "Damn, who's talking?" She said to herself.
        "Wait! Drop some cargo! That'll still confuse it!" 
        The ship jumped again, and they were moving again.
        Then they stopped.
        "Goddammit and all kinds of other stuff you're not supposed to say,
they have more than one tractor beam."
        As Akane was in the back, she could see the doors swing open, 
preparing for their ship.
        "Well, Ranma, I won't be seeing you on Hikawa." said Akane, as the
Ship entered the hold. Akane could see the Nabiki's face through one of the 
windows the lined the hanger. Akane reached for the trigger, but stopped when
she saw the look on the face of a sister she hasn't seen for 7 years. It was
of great concern.

        Ranma landed his ship on the waiting landing platform on Hikawa.
        His mother came out to meet him.
        "Hey mom, where's Akane." Asked Ranma as Nadoka embraced him.
        "She's been captured by the Empire." said a man in red Armor standing
in a crowd of Rebel troopers.
        "WHAT!!!?"


                            End Part 1



        Whoa! Short or what! Well, that's just part 1, and part 2 will be
out soon....so until then....
Don't you dare send me mail about character changes, hey, a lot can happen in
9 years, especially in a universe such as this.
feedback is at the same Tyrant channel, same Tyrant time 
walker@mail.accent.net.







Geoff Walker, The Tyrant Pax, Hentai Omega, Megumi Shirow-sama
Offical Grand Inqusistor Of the Cult of Nabiki Tendo
"Well, there goes the buisness, Hyuck! At least I got 
paid!"
	- Nabiki, Tendo Christmass Scramble

"Onward Bugrom Soldiers, Onward Muldoon Preistess, onwards Shadow tribsmen,
fight till you're deceased."

"Dammit Luigi, you told me to take a left at the Gallera, and now I'm her
flying over F*cking Mt. Fuji...I don't even think that Mt. Fuji is IN Canada"

"And Di iz how ve Say good-bye in Germany, dokter Jones."