Sailor Moon vs. Ranma 1/2
Different Transformations

Chapter 5: No Offense, But Throwing Flowers Is Kinda Gay

	Akane slowly opens her eyes.  The blast had knocked her down, and
she could 
feel soot all over her.  As her vision begins to focus, she sees Ranma on
top of her.  As 
she wraps her arms around Ranma, she could feel his back was burned.
	"Ahhh," Ranma cries, as he begins to push himself off her.
	"Ranma!  You're hurt bad!" she worriedly says as she slides
herself from under 
him.  "We gotta get you to Dr. Tofu."
	Ranma, obviously still weak, points behind her.  In her concern
for Ranma, she 
didn't even notice that energy was still swirling around the area like a
weak tornado.  She 
turned around to see that the source of it was a few yards away by Sailor
Moon.  It looked 
like the person with Happosai was saying something to her while he was
laughing.  All of 
a sudden, Happosai raised his hand, which glowed with energy.  He was
about to kill her!
	"Get the hell away from her!" screams Sailor Jupiter as she began
running to 
Sailor Moon's aid.  She jumps into the air with a "Jupiter Thunder Crash,"
unleashes a 
bolt of lighting straight for Happosai.
	With incredible speed, Happosai leaps into the air as the ground
beneath him 
explodes.  He points the palm of his hand at Jupiter while airborn, and
unleashes a 
negaforce blast at her.  Jupiter slams against the wall, and limply falls
off.
	"I don't know what's going on, but even Happosai couldn't do
that," bursts 
Ranma as he flies towards Happosai with his fist extend.  "We had a
problem with 
possession before, but a good punch ought to take care of that!"
	With a casual grace, Happosai strikes Ranma's wrist with his
smoking pipe, 
throwing him into the pond.  Except this time Ranma was thrown with such
force, he 
continues propelling until he impacted against the bottom of the pond.
	Seeing Ranma hurt, Shampoo rushes towards Happosai.  "You better
not hurt 
Shampoo husband!"
	Ukyou then shoves her way ahead of Shampoo and cries "Stay out of
this, I'll 
avenge Ranchan!"
	Mousse runs after Shampoo screaming "But Shampoo, I'm right here
and I'm not 
hurt!"  He continues to chase Shampoo.
	"The bittersweet taste of vengenge is a delight Tatewaki Kuno
shall not lose," 
says Kuno as he draws out his Bokken and begins to run down Happosai.  "To
be denied 
that which I appetently awaited is an offense not to be taken lightly!"
	Before Happosai has a chance to react, all four of them had
pounced on him and 
began trashing him.  Shampoo and Ukyou were stepping on him due to their
defense of 
Ranma.  Mousse was doing it because Shampoo was.  And Kuno, well, who
understands 
anything Kuno does.
	"Saotome, is that not the master they are stopping into the
ground?" asks Soun, 
observing the melee from the porch.
	"Uh-hu," grunts the Panda form of Genma.
	"Shouldn't we be doing something about this then Genma?"
	"Uh-hu."
	Genma and Soun are quickly also at the cloud of dust the others
were at, all to 
eager to join in the stopping of the master.  To their surprise, they
could actually feel his 
wrinkled little body being stomped under their feet!  He usually had
pulled his 
disappearing trick by now.
	Happosai's body should have been mangled by now, but this was no
longer 
Happosai.  While they had been thinking they were finishing him off, he
had amusedly 
drawed them all in close and allowed himself the time to replenish some of
his energy.  
Nuclear explosions could take the wind out of someone.  With a burst of
energy mixed 
with his enhanced strength, he threw them off of him by brute force as
much as by an 
energy blast.  Everyone flew off of him in every direction, landing and
smacking into 
things hard.
	"Allright scouts," commands Mars, "let's keep those creeps from
Sailor Moon."  
The reamining scouts begin to run at Happosai.
	Sailor Moon herself was still trying to regain consciousness.
Right next to her, 
Malachite was too busy observing Happosai's fury to finish her off.
	"Mars Fire..."
	"Venus Crescent Beam..."
	"Mercury Bubble..."
	None of them got to finish their special attack as winds begin
swirling around 
Happosai, who then pounds his hands into the ground crying "School
Anything Goes 
Martial Arts Final Attack Bean Jam Blowout!"
	With that said, a twister flies towards the scouts and begins
spinning them in the 
air as it lifts them higher into the sky.  The twister dissipitates and
leaves the scouts 
crashing back down to the earth in a crumpled stack. 
	"I guess that takes care of that," a smug Malachite remarks.
"Only one loose end 
left," he says as he turns to Sailor Moon.  "I don't even know why I'm
bothering with 
you, you are obviously no threat to me now.  In fact, it's almost shameful
to think that my 
dear Zoicite had to die because of a insignificance like you.  Consider
this payback.  
Happosai, kill her slowly."
	Sailor Moon had struggled onto one knee, but still couldn't get
her bearings.  She 
hears the death order, but is in no condition to react.
	"Stop!" protests Akane as she steps in to block Happosai.  "You
still have to get 
through me first."  Akane then attempts a kick at Happosai who easily
dodges, and then 
she throws a punch at him.
	Happosai begins to let his battle aura take his shape around him,
and with the 
outstretched arm of his aura self, grabs Akane by the throat lifting her
off the ground.
	Akane tries to draw in air, but nothing is coming in.  She tries
to twist the wrist 
but its too strong.  She kicks wildly, but can't hit anything.  The world
starts to turn dark.
	"Hey you old letch!" cries a new female voice.  Happosai casually
turns his head, 
still holding Akane.
	Ranma had reverted back to girl type, and began pulling a bra from
her chest.  "I 
got something to show you," teases Ranma.
	"Although I would find a strip show slightly amusing, I have more
important 
business to attend to," calmly states the new Happosai.
	"There isn't a trace of Happosai left in there," thinks Ranma.
"He would have 
been at me before I blinked."
	Before Ranma can do anything, Happosai had flung Akane straight at
him.  
"Akane!" Ranma cries as he jumps at her, hoping to catch her.  He catches
her, but the 
force of the throw sends him flying back into the house, crashing through
walls.  He puts 
his back into everything trying to protect Akane.
	"Moon Tiara..." Sailor Moon begins, but a backhand by Malachite
throws her 
back to the ground again.  She begins trembling with fury, fright, and
shame.  Here she 
was, the moon princess, and she was completely helpless.  Tears begin
forming again, but 
she tries to hold it in.  With a trembling voice, she says "Do what you
will with me, but 
leave my friends alone."
	"Your in no position to request anything Sailor Moon.  In fact,
you'll be in no 
position period soon enough.  Happosai, for the last time, do it!"
	But again, Happosai is suddenly attacked.  Two small blurs begin
streaking left 
and right.  As they dash across Happosai, they leave scratches all over
his frame.
	"What is this?" he cries as he tries to get the black and white
blurs, but they were 
too small, fast, and agile.
	"Artemis, I can't keep this up much longer," moans Luna.
	"We have to Luna, if we slow down, he'll finish us," replies
Artemis.
	"Enough of this ludicrousness, I'll finish her off myself," roars
Malachite.  He 
begins forming a huge energy ball.
	"Moon Tiara Magic!" cries Sailor Moon as the tiara flies at
Malachite.  Caught by 
surprise, Malachite releases his energy ball at the tiara.  They both
negate each other's 
force, and the tiara falls to the ground.
	"Nice try, but no more second chances."  Malachite prepares to
blast off Sailor 
Moon's head with an energy blast.
	Suddenly, a swirl of energy forms behind Malachite, and a figure
appears out of 
it, landing on Malachite's back with a strong jump kick.  
	Malachite stumbles forward, but is able to hover in the air before
regaining his 
footing.  "Who dares!' he hisses.
	"Your orders were specific Malachite.  Gain possession of Happosai
and return 
with him to Queen Beryl.  What part of that did you not understand,"
chaffs a Tuxedo 
clad man with a top hat and cane.
	"You!  I should finish you off here and now, but I don't have the
time for this.  It 
doesn't matter really, because you have all become of no consequence to
me," grins 
Malachite as he begins to disappear.  "But just to be safe, I'll take
myself a hostage," he 
laughs as he reappears on the porch next to Akane, who boy type Ranma was
leaning on 
for support.
	"Oh no!, Never again!" roars Akane as she grabs Malachite's arm,
and with a 
sudden surge of strength, heaves him back outside.  He shifts his
direction and flies 
straght for the still unconscious Ukyou.  "Any old hostage will do," he
gloats as he grabs 
her and teleports away.  "Come after me, and it'll be the last you see of
her!  Let's go 
Happosai!"
	Finally getting the hang of his new powers, Happosai forms a force
shield around 
him.  Luna and Artemis bounce of this hard.  He then disappears in a flash
of light.
	"Damn!  He got away," curses Tuxedo Mask.
	"Ukyou, come back here with her!" screams Ranma as he leaps to
where 
Malachite had disappeared.  "Why don't you take Kuno instead!"
	Sailor Moon had managed to stand up, but was still only shoulder
level to Tuxedo 
Mask.  "Tuxedo Mask," mutters Sailor Moon weakly.  "Are you back on our
side?  Have 
you finally remembered our past?"
	Tuxedo Mask turns around and stares at her coldly.  Then, with an
evil smile, he 
says "I assure you, I'm not going back empty handed.  Either hand me the
moon crystal 
or prepare to meet your maker.  Either way, I win."
	Sailor Moon breaks down into tears.  Not her usual wails, but a
genuine broken 
heart.  She almost wants to give him the wand and be done with it.  But
she holds on, and 
implores "I can't give you the crystal.  I'll restore your memories no
matter what it takes.  
Maybe then, we could finally be together.
	"With a meatball head like you?  You must be joking," laughs
Tuxedo Mask.  
"Meatball head?" he wonders.  "Just give me the crystal and then
everything will be fine.
	"NO!  Get away from me," Sailor Moon cries as she begins to
scramble away 
from him, "your not the real Tuxedo Mask!"
	"I see you're not going to listen to reason," he remarks as he
moves his cane into 
an attack stance.  "Maybe you'll listen to this."
	"Stop!" bellows Ranma in a tired voice.  "I don't exactly know
what's going on 
around here, but I get the feeling she's the key to everything, so back
off now.  Or else."
	Tuxedo Mask quickly throws a rose at Ranma's head.  Ranma easily
grabs it with 
his hand and crushes it.  "Man, I've seen some pretty lame special attacks
in my time, but 
throwing roses?  That has got to be the gayest thing I've ever seen."
	"Then perhaps you'd like to test your manhood in a real fight
little boy?  Or are 
you just a scared little girl," taunts Tuxedo Mask.
	"I'm not a girl!" screams Ranma as he leaps at Tuxedo Mask.
	"Ranma wait!" Akane yells after him.  "You're in no shape to fight
him!  You're 
too weak and banged up!"
	"Stay out of this Akane, I've got something to prove."
	Before he knows it, Tuxedo Mask had struck him in the stomach with
his cane.  
Ranma quickly twists in the air so he catches the back of Tuxedo's head
with his elbow 
as Ranma falls to the ground.  He lands on his feet.
	"Not bad boy, perhaps you'll prove amusing after all."
	"The only thing funny after this will be your face."
	"Ranma, don't hurt him, he doesn't know what he's doing," pleas a
sobbing 
Sailor Moon.
	"That won't be a problem," brags Tux as he throws a hail of
flowers at Ranma.  
Ranma uses the bee sting technique he learned at Mt.Terror and is able to
swat all the 
roses down without taking a hit.  "What?" utters a shocked Tuxedo.
	Ranma then barrels down at him landing a kick into his face.
Still reeling, Ranma 
uppercuts him, and follows it with a spinning roundhouse that sends Tux
flying into the 
wall of the Tendo house.  Ranma then rushes at him again.
	Tux points his hand at Ranma and suddenly a blast of energy shoots
out.  Ranma 
crashes into it like a freight train.  Ranma falls to the ground in pain.
"Guess I was 
already exhausted," Ranma realizes.
	Tux, seeing his opponent down, quickly kicks Ranma in the gut,
then slams his 
cane into Ranma's back.  Ranma falls to the ground loosely.  "Heh, nice
fight, but now 
you die," mumbles Tux through cleenched teeth.  He picks out a rose, ready
to lodge it 
into Ranma's head.
	"No, wait!" cries Akane as she begins to run to Ranma's side.
Acting on instinct, 
Tuxedo throws the rose at Akane.  If she were as slow as Ranma always said
she was, the 
rose would have struck her heart.  Instead, she is able to move so it only
slashes her left 
arm.  "Ungh," whinces Akane.
	"Akane!  Nobody touches my fiancee!" screams Ranma as he throws a
foot into 
Tux's chin.  He quickly pulls himself up to his feet and cries "Tencho
Amagureken!" as 
he begins to drive his fist into Tuxedo's gut a few hundred times in a
matter of seconds.  
Ranma falls to the ground exhausted while Tuxedo falls to the ground
clutching his 
stomach, trying to breathe again.  The cracked ribs weren't helping.
	Coughing out blood, Tuxedo also coughs out "I'm... not through
yet... fight until 
my... last breathe."
	"To your... last breathe... it is then," rebuts Ranma, after he
realized Akane was 
only scratched.
	Sailor Moon, realizing that both of them meant what they said,
quickly pulls out 
her moon wand.  "I hope this to works on Tux again," she thinks.  "Moon
Healing 
Activation!" she chants as she forms a circle around her with the moon
wand.
	A bathe of light showers Tux, as he begins to tremble in midair.
He gets out a 
low howl before falling back to the ground.  "Don't know... what you tried
to do... but it 
didn't work."
	A defeated Sailor Moon falls to the ground.  "I didn't get his
memory back.  I... I 
don't know what to do," she cries.
	"Memory?  He lost his memory," thinks Akane.  Akane quickly runs
over to 
Shampoo who was finally beginning to awaken.  "Shampoo wake up!  It's
important!  
Ranma's life may be at stake, wake up!"
	Hearing Ranma's name, Shampoo quickly regains her composure.
"What wrong 
with Ranma?  Shampoo help him fight," she says as she readies to attack
Tux.
	"No Shampoo," Akane says as she tries to holds her back.  "What we
need is the 
Xiang High Fiatsu attack and formula 109.  You've got to use it on the guy
in the Tux!"
Akane looks at Ranma and Tux who had both begun to get to their feet.
Someone could 
get seriously hurt this time.  "You've got to hurry Shampoo," pleads Akane
nervously.
	"Die!" the two combatants scream at each other as they both move
in for a final 
blow, but Ranma quickly stops as he sees a blur leap onto Tux's back.
	With amazing speed, Shampoo trims Tux's hair, shampoos it, combs
it, and blow 
dries it all in a matter of seconds.  Tux falls to the ground as Shampoo
leaps off his back.
	"Tuxedo Mask," yells Sailor Moon as she rushes to his side.  She
rolls him over 
onto his back, and props his head up.  "Please be okay, Tux, please... say
something."  
The tears had begun to flow, and her cries turned into sobs.  "It's me,
meatball head, 
wake up and make fun of me.  Please, just wake up."
	"You and your meatballs are definitly not the first things I'd
like to see when I 
wake up," joked a still very groggy Tux.  He's surprised by the sudden hug
from Sailor 
Moon, who was sobbing uncontrolably into his chest.  He whinces in pain,
"What's 
wrong with her," wonders Tux.  He slowly begins to push her away.  "Your
friends are all 
waking up and my ribs still hurt," he gently murmurs.
	Sailor Moon, trying to regain control of herself, regains her
composure, wipes the 
tears away, and teases "it's about time you woke up, Mars.  And here, I
had to get back 
Tuxedo Mask all by my little self."
	"Hey, I did most of the work..." Ranma tries to say before Akane
put her hand 
over his mouth.
	"Is it true Tuxedo Mask, are you really back on our side?" asks
Mars.
	"If you people are willing to take me back..."
	"Of course!" Mars happily chirps as she prepares to hug him.
	Out of nowhere, Sailor Moon shoves her away.  "How could we
survive without 
you," she says as she hugs him herself.
	Tux looks down on her in confusion.  "What's wrong with Serena?
She's acting 
as if she has some sort of crush on me," he ponders.
	"Sailor Moon, even with Tuxedo Mask back on our side, I still
don't know if we 
have enough firepower to take out Malachite, Happosai, and Queen Beryl,"
observes 
Luna.  "With Happosai on their side, the negaverse may be unstoppable!"
	"We have to go to the negaverse," comments Tux seriously.  He
turns to all the 
scouts.  "I'm assuming the five of you can teleport there with me along."
	"You ain't going nowhere without me.  That creeps got Ukyou, and
I'm going to 
get her back," declares Ranma.
	"I'm going too.  Ukyou is a friend of mine as well."  Akane pauses
after she says 
this.  A thought had crossed her mind, "Ranma's so worried about her,
maybe she's the 
one he actually lo...," she shakes the thought off, worrying she was
actually about to get 
jealous of the insensitive creep.  "Ukyou is my friend, and alot nicer
that Shampoo or 
Kodachi," she says to herself.
	"Shampoo no see why Ranma so worried about stupid spatula girl,
but Shampoo 
go where husband go."
	At the moment Kuno regained consciousness, he had quickly run over
and swept 
Mercury off her feet.  "The devil himself has tried to prevent the advance
of our desire, 
but even he dare not perturbed the blue thunder, Tatewaki Kuno.  Now my
blue haired 
beauty, let the glow of the blue thunder smother you," he poets as he
moves in to kiss her.
	"Snap out of it Romeo, she didn't get hit that hard," reprimands
Lita as she lifts 
him by the hair and then smashes his face to the ground.
	"Wow, that's some chick," remarks Ranma. 
	"Ranma, no Baka!" yells Akane as she knocks him upside the head.
	"Let's stick with english," a sign Genma holds up reads.
	By then, Mousse had awaken and was talking about the names he
wanted to give 
his first son /or daughter to a stone fountain.
	"By the way pops," questions Ranma, "are you coming along too?"
	"Yeah dad," Akane also asks.
	Genma holds up a sign saying "Ding Dong the witch is dead, the
wicked witch, 
the wicked witch...," while Soun starts singing the same tune.  Genma
grumbles to the 
tune as well.
	"You know, if you thought Happosai was bad before, what do you
think it'll be 
like once he starts to rule the world?" taunts Ranma.
	Genma and Sound both fall down in a weird pose that only Japanese
people find 
amusing.  Genma holds up a sign reading "I need to pack my toothbrush."
	"Okay then, it's set, we're all going to save Ukyou and get
Happosai back to 
normal," Ranma shudders at the thought that the old Happy was actually
preferable.
	"I don't know if we have enough power, but I guess we'll have to
try.  Everybody, 
hold hands," orders Luna.
	As they all hold hands in a circle, a bright glow begins to
surrond everyone.  
"Kuno, you're squeezing the blood out of my hand," pleads Mercury.
"Shampoo, you're 
hand is so... hairy," claims a bewildered Mousse holding Genma's hand.
"Rei, we need 
to talk about... us," silently whispers Tux to Mars.  "Ranma..." Akane
begins.  "Akane..." 
Ranma says at the same time.
	"Bye, bye everyone.  Have a nice trip.  Mr. Saotome, you forgot
your 
toothbrush..." but before Kasumi can give it to him, a bright beam of
light shoots upward 
from inside the circle.  "Sailor Teleport!" the scouts shout and they all
disappear with the 
light, leaving only a few chunks of dirt falling back to the earth.
	"Oh my, I do hope they all take care of themselves."
	Luna walks beside Artemis.  "Do you think they're ready for this
Artemis?"
	"I would have liked to have held this off at least another week,
but I guess it 
really is a moot point.  They're the only ones that can do it now."
	"Hmmm," grumbles Nabiki.
	"Is something the matter Nabiki?" Kasumi asks.
	"It's just that I feel like I could've made a fortune off that
ditzy blond girl.  Now 
she's gone, and so's my best customer Kuno.  Not only that, but Ranma and
Akane 
basically generate in one way or another all my business.  They'd better
all make it back 
or I might have to adjust my spending."  Inside, Nabiki thinks to herself
"Guys, you have 
to all make it back safely."

	In a flash of light, Tux and Sailor Moon reappear and fall onto
the ground.  
Nobody else follows them.

Chapter 6: The Negaverse; A Nice Place To Visit, But You Wouldn't Want To
Die There

	A wave of negaforce energy, sharp as a razor, hot as magma, and
stronger than 
steel, smashes its way through those unlucky denziens of the negaforce who
happened to 
be within the vicinity of Queen Beryl when she found out what had happened
in Nerima.
	"I can't believe this!" she howls.  "Not only does that magit
Malachite runaway 
with the most powerful human, but I lose Prince Darian to those Sailor
Brats and their 
new friends.  To top it all off, now they're HERE!" she roars as another
wave of 
negaforce energy destroy anyone who might have survived the first
onslaught.  "It's about 
time I took the initiative."
	With a snap of her fingers, a man dressed in the usual negaforce
uniform, appears.  
Upon further inspection, his uniform is a different color from the usual
grey and dark 
grey shades.  Instead, it is predominantly dark grey with purple.  The man
himself has 
very silky, long black hair tied into a pony tail, and a very young face.
His size is not 
particularly intimidating.
	"Fossilite, are you ready to become a full time general in the
invinciple forces of 
the negaforce?" asks Beryl.
	"Did Malachite disappoint you as much as all the other's already
my Queen?  Do 
not fear, I shall triumph where all the others have failed," the young man
guishes 
confindently.
	"You're still a little too raw if I had a choice, but I don't have
anyone else at 
hand.  You're the most promising of the vermin we've produced in the last
century, so 
you get the nod."
	"My Queen, you have no need to be unconfident, I shall crush your
foes.  Are they 
not at this moment scattered and disorientated?  They shall be less than a
challenge."
	"Do not be too overconfident my neophyte, that has been the
downfall of many 
others.  Until you have completed this mission ridding me of those acursed
scouts and 
brought back Happosai and Malachite, you shall not receive your
generalship.  In fact, I 
feel a more experienced, if not incompetent, hand may be needed in this
matter," she 
says as she waves her hand in the air.
	An energy maelstrom begins to swirl, and a huge diamond can be
seen to take its 
place.  All of the sudden, the diamond shatters, and a blond figure with
short hair wearing 
a negaforce general uniform falls onto the ground, completely
disorientated.
	"What... what happened to me.  I was just fighting Tuxedo Mask...
I failed my 
mission and came back... then, then..." he stops as he remembers his
merciless Queen 
encasing him in a block of ice for all of eternity.
	"Welcome back Jeddite," Beryl greets.  "Keep in mind, if it wasn't
for the 
desperate times around here now, you would still be frozen for all time.
As it is, I need 
all the suitable hands I can get."
	He stares at her, trying to grasp the full picture.  This woman,
who would have 
frozen him forever if she didn't need him, now wants him to be her lackey
again?  He 
srhugs it off and realizes he would have done the same.  The negaverse
permits no mercy.  
"What would you have me do my queen?" he answers humbly.
	"Fossilite, update Jeddite on our current situation, and cooperate
with him to the 
fullest.  He is afterall, still your superior.  And one more thing
Jeddite, if you accomplish 
the tasks before you, I shall grant you a reprieve from eternal darkness."
	"Your majesty is too generous," bows Jeddite as he follows
Fossilite.
	"I don't need this skeleton barking orders at me now.  Damn the
Queen, I could 
have handled those brats by myself," thinks Fossilite.
	"Who is this welp?  I must prove to the Queen that I am her top
general and need 
not some novice following me around," muses Jeddite.

	Tux slowly regains his bearings, teleportation can whack your
senses around, and 
realizes that they're on hard rock floor.  He looks around and just see's
rock everywhere.  
They've materlized inside some caverns.  "I think I've been here," he
tries to remember, 
then realizes that his memories of being a negaforce agent were fading.
	"Uhhh," groans Sailor Moon.  She crawls to Tux, and plops herself
into his lap.  
"Where is everybody?"
	"I don't know for sure, but I think we either didn't have enough
power to teleport 
everybody, or we all teleported, but couldn't stay together due to the
number of people, 
and were all scattered somewhere in here."  He pulls himself up as Sailor
Moon's head 
hits the ground.  "Sailor Moon, don't you have a way to communicate with
the other's?"
	"Yes, I do Tuxedo Mask, but I don't want to use it quite yet," she
says as she 
walks up to him.  "I was hoping we would find some time alone to talk
about us."
	"Us?" Darian questions with a confused look on his face.
	"Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask.  Serena and Darian.  Princess
Serenity and 
Prince Darian.  Us."  She holds his hand with both of hers.  "Don't you
remember?"
	"Prince Darian... no I don't remember ever being a prince.  I'm
Darian, and for 
some reason or another, I turn into Tuxedo Mask.  I know I'm supposed to
protect you 
and the moon crystal, that much is clear to me.  Actually, I was hoping
the crystal would 
help me understand my past a little better, but it didn't really."  He
pulls his hand away 
from Sailor Moon.  "But I don't remember any 'us.'  The only person I've
been with 
lately is your friend Sailor Mars, who I figured was Rei after I found out
you were Sailor 
Moon.  Before I got impaled."  He turns around to look at Sailor Moon,
whose eyes were 
beginning to fill with tears.  "Do you know something I don't?  Something
about my 
past?  Was there a us a long time ago?"  He quickly grabs Sailor Moon by
the arms and 
looks at her sad face.  "That would explain some of my dreams actually.
Serena, tell me 
the truth, is there something I should know?"
	Serena wipes the tears from her eyes.  She wants to tell him so
much that they 
were destined to be together.  That they had risked each other's life for
their love.  She 
wanted him to tell her he loved her!  She backs away from Tuxedo Mask.
"No, it's 
nothing.  It's just that I used to have this silly crush on Tuxedo Mask,
that's all."  She 
contniues to wipe her drenched eyes, desperately trying to stop crying.
"Besides, I don't 
think I like him as much *sniff* since I found out he was a jerk namned
Darian," she 
tries to joke, but her crying breaks her voice.  She had to admit to
herself that Darian 
doesn't love her.  He didn't love her before he got impaled, there was no
reason he would 
after.  Whatever they had in the past, it did not carry into the present.
	"Hey meatball head, I used to think Sailor Moon was pretty cute
too, boy was I 
blind!" joked Darian.   He knew there was more to this then she was
letting on, but he 
didn't want to push.  He took a hold of her hand.  "We should be moving
now though, the 
negaforce might find us here if we stick around in one place too long.
We'll call the 
others once we put some distance from here."  He leads her down the
caverns.  "Honestly 
though, I guess I am pretty stupid not being able to figure out you were
Sailor Moon.  
Both of you are clutzy meatball heads.  Not too many people like that
besides you out 
there," he chides.
	Serena follows after him like a little puppy, tightly holding his
hand in hers.  She 
was beginning to feel better, and couldn't just let him make fun of her
like that.  "You're 
also pretty dumb if you thought that lame mask was hiding your identity.
I suspected you 
were Tuxedo Mask the whole time, but couldn't believe a stud like him was
you.  Guess 
that mask hides your beady little eyes."
	"You have a problem with my eyes," reacts Darian amiably.
	"Not at all," Serena thinks as she looks into them, before turning
away quickly.  
They continue walking into the dark caverns directionless.

	"Shampoo, it's just you and me now, all alone, together in the
dark," Mousse 
gushes as he hugs a large boulder.
	Shampoo smashes his face into his affectionate rock.  "Stupid
Mousse, Shampoo 
no want to be stuck here with you for long.  Stop raping rock and we go
find Ranma."
	"But Shampoo, we don't even know if Ranma made it here.  For all
we know, we 
we're the only one's.  In fact, we don't even know where we teleported to.
I don't even 
know where we were trying to teleport too."  Mousse, glasses in place,
begins to move 
closer to Shampoo.  "The two of us could be stuck here forever in these
caverns," Mouse 
says out loud while images of him and Shampoo making a life in these
caverns alone, 
without that stupid Ranma interfering, drift through his head.  He begins
to imagine them 
cooking together, watching Fushigi Yuugi on T.V., playing tennis in these
caverns, 
laughing and enjoying themselves in each image.  An image of Shampoo
giving birth 
comes to him, and together they raise a lovely young... DUCK!
	"Ahhh!" Mousse yells out as he breaks from his daydreaming by
Shampoo 
kciking him into the wall.
	"Now, now, you'd better all save your strength.  You're going to
need it," 
harasses a strong, yet young voice.  Fossilite appears hovering in the
air, looking very 
confident.  "Would you both like to kiss each other goodbye?"
	"Me die first before kiss Mousse," rebuts Shampoo.
	"That's the idea," Fossilite cackles as he unleashes a negaforce
blast at her.  
"What?" he mutters out as his blast is shielded by... a huge shield.
Suddenly, a ball and 
chain strikes him in the face.  
	"Neither of us is dying, least of all Shampoo!" cries Mousse as he
wraps his 
chains around Fossilite.  Fossilte is then slammed to the ground.
	Shampoo lands on Fossilite's head.  Then turns around to Mousse.
"Dumb 
Mousse, Shampoo jump clear of blast, no need your help."
	Just then, Fossilite is able to flip to his feet and attempts to
kick Shampoo, who 
easily dodges and uppercuts him straight up into ceiling.  Fossilite
bounces off it back to 
the ground.
	"Now I'm mad," declares Fossilite as negaenergy begins to build
around him.  
Suddenly, the energy takes shape as twin blades, and cuts off Mousse's
chains.  Fossilite 
then rechannels the energy, and shoots a blast of energy straight for
Shampoo, too fast for 
her to dodge.
	"Ai ya," Shampoo squeeks as immenante death approached her.
	"Shampoo, look out!" Mousse cries as he jumps at her and throws
both of them 
down to the ground.
	"Mousse, get off Sham...," Shampoo stops as she notices Mousse's
right leg 
drenched in blood.  Apparently he pushes her out of the way, but couldn't
get clear 
himself as the beam slashed his calf.  It was a clean cut, and the wound
was charred so it 
didn't bleed too much.  But it hurt like hell, and wasn't going to heal
easily, if at all.
	"Shampoo... are you... alright," Mousse grimaces.  He attempts to
stand up, and 
with the support of the wall and his indomitable will, gets onto his feet.
"You're not 
going to touch Shampoo, I'll protect her if it kills me."
	"Noble words boy, prepare to die by them," Fossilite says right
before a port-o-
potty shaped as a duck slams into his face.  
	Mousse then tries to advance, but falls down, the pain in his leg
too much to bear, 
least of all walk with.  "Must... protect... Shampoo," he stutters out.
	"No Mousse, you save self first.  Shampoo take care of
self-admiring young 
man," Shampoo says as she steps in front of him.  She flies at Fossilite
and throws a hard 
right punch, but hits nothing as he suddenly disappears.
	"I've wasted enough time with you peons," chortles a voice that
echoes 
throughout the caverns.  "I have a better and slightly ironic way of
taking care of the two 
of you," Fossilite laughs.  "Carnality, I summon you!"
	All of a sudden, a mist appears behind Mousse.
	"Mousse, look out behind you," warns Shampoo, but it was too late.
The mist 
enters Mousse's body.
	"Arghhh," Mousse cries out while his entire body shudders, and
finally falls to the 
ground.  He then slowly rises, and stands up, his leg apparently healed.
	"Mousse, you okay?  You heal fast."
	Without warning, a chain with a weight attached to it flies at
Shampoo.  She's 
able to dodge it, but Mousse swings the chain around, wrapping it around
her legs.  The 
weight then slams into her knees, knocking her down.
	"He was ready to die to save you.  Let's see how well he takes it
after he realizes 
he's the one that killed you," laughs Fossilite.  "I'd love to see this,
but your other friends 
need to be taken care of."
	"Mousse, what wrong with..." Shampoo tries to say, but is instead
lifted into the 
air, and spun.  The world becomes a blur to her as she is spun faster and
faster.  All of a 
sudden, the world stops spinning and turns black for a moment.  Shampoo
open's her 
eyes to see herself flat on her face.  Her whole backside hurt.  Mousse
had let go of the 
chain and she crashed into the cavern wall.
	Her head becomes on fire as she's lifted up by her hair.  He
stares into Mousse's 
eyes, but see's nothing but an unfamiliar icy gaze.  "Mousse, listen to
Shampoo, you have 
to..." but she is cut off by having her face slamned into his knee, and
then flung across 
the room by her hair.
	"I've been reading this boy's thoughts, and you're one mean bitch.
Do you even 
comprehend what he feels for you?  I'd be doing him a favor by killing
you.  You most 
certainly deserve this," an emotionless voice of  Mousse cracks out.
	Shampoo had managed to relax the muscles in her legs enough to
slip them out of 
the chain.  "Shampoo knock sense into you," she cries as she attempts a
flying lariat at 
Mousse.  He easily sidesteps it and slams his palm into her back, sending
her crashing 
into the rocks.
	Mousse spreads his arms as two razor blades come out of them.
"The sad thing 
is, the boy won't even appreciate what I'm doing for him.  He'll probably
kill himself 
after finding your cut up body and his blades covered in your blood,"
muses Mousse.  He 
then dives at Shampoo.
	She dodges him, and spins around as her foot connects with his
face.  Mousse 
stutters back, and Shampoo flies at him with an axe kick snapping his neck
back.  But 
Mousse was stronger than ever now, and Shampoo was not prepared for him
lunging 
forward after that kick.  She moves, but a blade glances her abdomen.
While she reacts 
to the cut, Mousse had already spun around and the other blade slashes her
right below 
her breasts.  She falls to the ground trying to contain the crimson
seeping out of her.
	"Stupid girl, go fight or he kill you," her mind tells her, but
she can't help 
clutching her throbbing wound.  It just hurts too much, and all that
blood...
	"Goodbye Shampoo," Mousse says as he prepares to cut her head
open.  As he 
begins to swing the blade down, his arms suddenly jerk and he misses her
head by inches.
	"What?" he wonders right before a gurgle of pain begins to come
out of his 
throat.  "No, this can't be happening, noarghhh," he screams as his whole
body trembles.  
"I've taken over... noooo!" a voice cries right before another voice comes
from Mousse 
saying "Cold day... in hell... before I let you kill Shampoo... with my
body!"  Mousse 
falls to the ground, still shaking hard, fighting the demon inside him.
"Did enough 
damage... to my love... already," Mousse begins but the emotionless voice
cries out 
"WHY DO YOU DO THIS?"  Mousse starts tremoring hard enough that he was
digging a 
hole in the ground.  "Because... I Love Her... for the last time... GET
OUT OF ME!" he 
screams as the purple mist shoots out of his body.  Mousse falls to his
hands and knees, 
while the mist begins to take form.
	"Fine then, I'll kill you both myself," a winged creature wearing
a white tunic 
roars.  A face resembling the devil himself, and feet that resembled
talons were 
additional features to the beast.  Cupid in the mind of Tim Burton if you
will.
	"Carnality will have his woman," the creature says as a bow and
arrow suddenly 
appears in his hands.  He prepares to release it at the still recovering
Shampoo.  
Suddenly, a sword slashes the bow to pieces.
	"You have to get through me first!  And thanks for healing my leg,
allow me to 
repay you," Mousse says as he charges the demon with a claw on one wrist,
and a sword 
in his other hand.
	"Prepare to die for your bitch whore," the creature replies as his
two arms turn 
into bows.  They rapidly fire arrows at Mousse, who manages to block them
all.
	"Heh, I guess fighting with Ranma all the time improved my martial
arts," 
Mousse realizes right before he slashed off the monsters hands with the
claw, and 
impaled his head with the sword.
	"*gurgle* True love... prevails," the exposed head gurgles out
before Carnality 
reverted into mist with a burst of energy and dissispated into the air.
	Mousse falls back to the ground.  Exorcising himself had taken all
the energy he 
had.  He then compeltely collapses.
	Shampoo walks to Mousse, her sleeves torn off and wrapped around
her cut, and 
lifts him into her lap.  "Stupid Mousse, you okay?" she gently asks as she
strokes his hair.
	"...Sorry I cut you Shampoo... wouldn't blame you... if you hated
me," he 
delirously stammers out.  "But please forgive me... I love you."
	"Shampoo no hate you Mousse," she whispers to him.  
	Mousse could feel her breath on his face.  He strives to open his
eyes, and finds 
Shampoo's face very close to his.  Was he that delerious?  "Shampoo...,"
Mousse starts.
	Shampoo's finger touches his lips.  "Shhhh," she shushes, and
moves her lips 
towards his.
	Mousse couldn't believe this.  He had waited how many years for
this?  One, 
two... he had waited all his life for this!  His whole body felt numb, but
he still struggled 
to move his head towards hers.  They get closer and then... he blacks out.

	"I can't get through to anyone else with the communicator.  The
different 
frequency and waves inside the negaverse can't be compinsated without more 
equipment," a frustrated Mercury complains as she plays with her computer.
"But I've 
traced them, and it seems everyone else made it here too, it's just that
we all teleported to 
different places due to the surplus of people teleporting."
	"My blue haired beauty, let us neglect our comrades and instead
take advantage 
of the intimacy the heavens themselves have granted us," Kuno recites as
he pins 
Mercury to the wall.  "Surly, the gods themselves have shown they advocate
our love."
	Mercury is able to squirm free from Kuno.  "I wonder if anyone
else is having this 
problem," she wonders.  "No Kuno, our first priority is to find the
others.  The negaverse 
will easily dispose of all of us if we don't all regather soon."
	"Not soon enough," a voice grumbles.  Jeddite suddenly appears
standing on a 
large boulder.  "Hello Sailor Brat, remember me?"
	"Jeddite!" Mercury exclaims instantly recognizing her old nemisis.
"Queen Beryl 
must be very desperate to bring back a flop like you."
	"The Queen did the right thing freezing me after all my failures,"
Jeddite says 
before releasing an energy blast that blows a hole in the ground, sending
Kuno and 
Mercury flying.  "The right thing, but I'll prove to her it wasn't the
wisest after I dispose 
of you!"  He then flies straight at Mercury.  Before he knows it, a sword
had struck him 
in the back.
	"Vile demon!  You shall not be laying your repellent claws on my
Juliet."  Kuno 
says as he raises his bokken into the air.  "Prepare to face the wrath of
the blue thunder of 
Furinkan High, feel the timber that has shattered many evils already, I,
Tatewaki Kuno 
oooof!" Kuno grunts as a negaforce blast sends him skidding across the
rocky ground.
	Mercury wonders who had the bigger ego, Jeddite or Kuno.
	"Enough of that distraction, let us prepare to finish our long
battle," Jeddite 
seethes as he stares at Mercury, who was already in a fighting stance.
	All of a sudden, Jeddite winces in pain as he's slashed across the
back.  He turns 
around to see Kuno upright again.
	"Ha ha ha!  Feeble-witted hell spawn!  Did you think the kendo
master Tatewaki 
Kuno would be so easily defeated?  You are truly the most asinine soul of
all hades.  
Prepare to return to your lair," clamors Kuno as he slashes away at
Jeddite.
	Jeddite easily grabs Kuno's bokken with his bare hand, and while
Kuno struggled 
to wrench it free, blasts Kuno with another negaforce blast with his free
hand.
	Kuno is laid out against the rocky wall; the craggy edges of it
begin to tear at his 
flesh.  As Jeddite lets out a laugh, he increases the pressure on Kuno,
who is further 
squished against the wall.
	Mercury forms a bubble between her hands, then spins around while
reciting 
"Mercury Bubble..." and finishes her rotation with the bubble levitating
in the air with 
her arms crossed.  ...Blast!" she shouts as the room suddenly fills with
fog.
	Jeddite's powers are momentarily neatralized as Kuno limply falls
off the wall, 
still clutching his bokken tightly.  Mercury runs to his side, and slides
his arm around her 
shoulder, attempting to lift him up.
	"Kuno, try to walk, I can't carry you by myself," pleads Mercury.
	"And where would I walk to?  No, this fowl beast has only begun to
taste the 
might of Tatewaki Kuno," Kuno raves as he pulls himself away from Mercury,
but falls 
to the ground.  "Just a short recipt, and I shall smite the demon back to
the abyss."
	"Kuno, we don't have time for your ego...," an irritaded Mercury
begins but is cut 
off when Jeddite suddenly appears before her.  She attempts to throw a
punch at him, but 
he grabs her fist, and slaps her across the face.  Mercury twists to the
ground.  Her head 
was spinning wildly.  Of all the scouts, she had the least stamnia against
pain.
	"With you down, it's only four to go," gloats Jeddite as he
prepares to blast 
Mercury.  He is interuppted by a sound of a flying sword.
	Jeddite flies in the air as the sword crashes into the floor,
sending chips of rock 
flying everywhere.  "You idiot, I'll make sure you stay down this time!"
exclaims 
Jeddite.  But before he knows it, a heavy swing by Kuno is barely dodged
by him.  Then 
he looks down and see's a streak of green blood across his chest.  Not
dodged after all.
	"So the creature doth bleed?  In the immortal words of Arnold
Schwarzenegger, 
'If it bleeds, we can kill it,'" recalls Kuno as he makes another attack
at Jeddite.
	"The Sailor Scouts never drew blood," a startled Jeddite thinks.
Infuriated by 
this, he lands a bare knuckled punch on Kuno's face that sends him
staggering 
backwards.  "Foolish boy, now you've sealed your fate.  Screw the Sailor
Brat, you die!"
	"Scum of the negaworld, how dare you even touch the lovely blue
haired venus, 
least of all stike her!  Surely you are the basest of all devils," rants
Kuno as he moves in 
for his quick strike technique.  "Tatatatatatatatatatatatat!"
	Jeddite was fast, but not fast enough to avoid all of Kuno's
blows.  He felt nick 
after nick across his whole body.  He was beginning to lose a signifigant
amount of 
blood.  "RAAAAH!" roars Jeddite as he launches a crest of energy that
sends Kuno 
winding in the air before crashing into stone.  Jeddite releases another
blast that misses 
Kuno, but the explosion sends him airborn again, before gravity retakes
control.
	His whole body throbbed like it never had before.  Against Ranma,
it was either a 
concussion or temporary parylisis.  Ranma, no one, had ever subjected him
to such a 
brutal beating before.  He could see wet red dripping onto the floor.  He
chuckled at the 
sight of his blood.  In this moment, Kuno grasped something that was
hardly ever in his 
hold.  He grasped what little sanity he had.  Kuno knew he wasn't going to
defeat this 
monster.  This monster would beat him until he died.
	"Flee my fair one, away from this contemptious beast and me,"
beseeched Kuno.
	"I can't just leave you," argued Mercury, who had finally
recovered.
	"Your doubt in me is ill founded.  Just place your faith in me,
and I shall surely 
prevail with a goddess' belief in me," Kuno assures.  He then turns to
face Jeddite.  "Now 
go while I finish off this foul miscreant!"
	"You'd better run while you can Sailor Brat.  Finishing off this
fool won't take 
long," a furious Jeddite pronounces.
	"Learn to hold your tongue villan," yells Kuno as he charges
Jeddite again.  He 
was hoping his quick strike attack would work against him again.
	It didn't.  Jeddite wasn't about to be caught in it again.  Before
Kuno can get 
close, he unleashes a thunderous blast at Kuno.  Kuno is thrown like a rag
doll before 
landing with a sickening CRUNCH against the ground. Never to admit defeat,
Kuno 
somehow holds onto consciousness, but realizes he was taking longer to get
up than 
usual.  In fact, he wasn't getting up at all.
	Jeddite moved towards Kuno to crush his head under his feet, but
before he gets 
there, "Mercury Bubble Blast!" was heard again.  Instead of mist however,
a burst of 
bubbles popped against his face.
	"Damn girl, prepare to join your partner's fate," thunders Jeddite
as he shook his 
head.  "Unnghhh," Jeddite cringes as a sharp pain was felt in his left
leg.  He looked 
down and saw... Kuno's blade had gone right through his thigh!
	"Her partner's fate... is perfectly content," a half-concsious
Kuno states right 
before Jeddite backhands him.  Kuno falls flat on his back, still
clutching the blood 
soaked sword.
	"Stop hurting him!" shouts Sailor Mercury.  "That's the last time
you lay your 
filthy hands on him!" she screams.  A stream of water begins to surrond
her right hand.  
As she spins around crying "Shining Aqua Illusion!" the water forms a long
whirlpool 
trailing her hand, which she flings at Jeddite.
	The cyclone of water smashes into Jeddite with amazing strength.
The force of it 
sends him right through a cavern wall.  He lay there under the rubble for
awhile, before 
finding the strength to rise.  "I will... not fail the Queen... I will
never... be sent... to 
oblivion again," bellows Jeddite as he stands upright, rubble sliding off
of him.
	"I'd be more concerned of me than Beryl right now," barks Mercury.
"Mercury 
Ice Bubble Freeze!" she cries as a blast of cold strikes and surronds
Jeddite.
	"Not... again," utters Jeddite before he is completely encased in
a block of ice.  A 
mix of surprise and fear was frozen on his face.
	Mercury was surprised at her own might.  She'd never been that
aggressive 
before.  She was still in awe of herself before she remembered the half
dead Kuno.
	"Kuno," she yells as she falls down to his side.  "Kuno, speak to
me.  Are you 
alright?  Talk to me," begs a concerned Mercury.
	Kuno's eyes flutter open, and he turns his head to look at
Mercury.  "Have I 
passed the mortal plane?  Because an angel now greets me."
	"No Kuno, we beat Jeddite, and all thanks to you," Mercury thanks
as she begins 
to tend to his wounds.
	"Alas, I cannot *coff* take this honor.  It is obvious that my
hide was indeed 
salvaged by the god of swift, by my dear Mercury," Kuno humbly speaks.
"But, it is true 
that my assistance in all but killing the knave, was an important
contribution to your 
success."  He grabs Mercury's hands and implores "we have defeated the
rapscallion 
together.  We shall thank each other by allowing me to date with you!"
	Mercury pulls her hands away from Kuno.  "You've obviously not in
the right 
state of mind right now, considering your beating.  Your wounds are
serious, you need to 
get some rest.  Don't forget I still have to find the other's if we have
any hope of getting 
out of here.  We'll move as soon as you feel better."  As she says this, a
smile creeps onto 
her face.
	Kuno lies down to rest at her command.  Kuno was obviously hurt
bad if he 
relented in his pursuit of a girl.  While he does, Mercury takes out a
piece of paper and 
writes something on it.  She then hands it to Kuno.
	"What is this fair maiden," inquires Kuno.
	"It's my phone number," gleems Mercury as her smile widens.  "You
can give me 
yours later.  By the way, I've been wanting to ask you what you thought of
Shakespeare?"
	"His verse pales in comparison to my prose.  His work is simple
jingle's 
compared to my elegy," boasts Kuno.

	"Akane!  Akane!" Soun hysterically cries as he runs around the
cave, looking 
under every rock for her.  "Akane!"
	Genma pulls out a sign and smacks Soun across the face with it.
"Calm down," 
the sign read.
	"Thank you Saotome.  I needed that," replies Soun.  He takes out a
water kettle 
and pours it on Genma.  "Lucky I always carry one of these around, eh?"
	"Heh heh, lucky indeed Tendo.  You wouldn't happen to be carrying
around a go 
board would you?" asked Genma.
	"Actually, I do carry the pieces with me, but we don't have a
board."
	"That's alright, we'll just draw one on the dirt!"
	"Why, what a spledid ide... wait a minute.  Don't you care about
your son AND 
MY DAUGHTER!" roars Soun as he turned into his monster self.
	Genma held out the "calm down" sign again, and hid behind it.
"Alright, alright, 
we'll play later.  Let's just see where the cavern leads," Genma timidly
replies.
	They both continue to wander around the caverns, Soun crying for
Akane the 
whole time, and Genma stuffs his face with the buns he brought.
	"Saotome, let me ask you a question.  What would we do if we did
happen to find 
the master?"
	"Errr, I hadn't really thought of that.  Probably what we usually
do, fall at his feet 
and beg for forgiveness for trying to kill him.  Why do you ask?"
	"Because there's a weird glow coming out of that cave up ahead."
	"Ahhhh!" Genma screams as he's suddenly a mile away and still
running.
	"Dad?" a familiar voice cries out.  "Is that you dad?"
	"Akane!  Akane my dear baby!" exclaims Soun as he runs towards
her.  He finally 
see's her, but she's all alone.  "Where's Ranma, Akane?"
	She runs up to him and buries her face in his chest.  She was
weeping, and sobs 
out "There... there were these monsters *sniff*.  Ranma tried to save me,
and they... oh 
my god, *sniff* it was.. it was so terrible daddy."  She stops and pulls
up her head to look 
at her father.  "Ranma's dead daddy, I barely got away."  She breaks down
in tears again.
	Genma had found his way back to Soun after hearing Akane's voice.
He heard 
her announcement.  He couldn't believe that his only son was... was dead.
"Ranma's... 
dead," Genma states somberly, more of a startled statement that a
question.  "Where... 
where's his body."
	"Oh my god," she sobs, "They... Jesus Christ... they ate him."
	"Ranma... they didn't even... leave a body."  Genma drops to his
rear from shock.  
"Are.. are you sure?  This can't be happening.  My boy... Ranma never
loses."  He looks 
at Akane, and notices something different.  No, not really different, but
missing.
	"Saotome, I'm very sorry about what's happened.  This must be very
difficult," 
soothes Soun.  "But we'll avenge Ranma's death.  We'll pay them back
tenfold."  He 
turns to Akane and orders "Where are they Akane?"
	"She continues crying, 'I don't *sniff* I don't know.  I was
running as fast as I 
could."  She lets out a moan and continues to say "I'm so sorry
everybody... I should have 
stayed with Ranma.
	"Should have stayed with Ranma?" Genma thinks.  And then it hits
him, what 
was wrong.  What was missing from Akane.  Genma quickly gets to his feet
at punches 
Akane in the face, sending her flying.
	"How dare you toy with my feelings like that you witch!" shouts
Genma as he 
pounces at Akane.
	"Genma, have you lost your mind?  I know Ranma's death is
difficult, but 
Akane's not to blame," Soun shouts as he grabs Genma, trying to hold him
back.
	"You don't understand Soun, let me go and I'll explain!"
	Akane slowly gets up, blood dripping from her lip.  She licks the
blood and let's 
out a wicked smile.  In a flash, Akane had smashed Genma's face with her
fist.
	"Akane, that wasn't necessary," scolds Soun.
	Genma breaks free and charges at Akane.  Akane ducks, but Genma
also leaps 
and twists in the air so he kicks Akane's back on his way down.  "That
isn't Akane, 
Soun!  I noticed something was missing.  I couldn't figure it out until
she mentioned how 
she didn't stay with Ranma.  It didn't add up; Akane would stay by Ranma's
side because 
she's more than willing to fight all the time," Genma explains as he lands
a foot to 
Akane's face.  "The one thing about Akane is she's always mad, she's
hardly ever not 
angry.  Because of this, there's always a battle aura around Akane, it's
always there if 
you look hard enough.  But this imposter has no battle aura, only darkness
surronds her," 
Genma says right before Akane grabs his arm and slams him to the ground.
	"Akane, is this true,' asks a befuddled Soun.
	"She's not Akaerk!" Genma recoils in pain as Akane kicks him in
the stomach.
	"Not bad old man, I never figured I'd be given away by something
most human's 
couldn't percieve.  Apparently, you bunch of rogues are beyond the average
human.  
Maybe I'll let you live to become vessels for the negaverse," a gruff
voice threatens.
	"How dare you mock my daughter!" Soun roars as he lands a flying
fist to the 
imposter, knocking her rolling across the floor.  Genma and Soun then both
jump kick 
the creature against a boulder.  The creature lay still.
	"We still got it Tendo," Genma proudly beams.
	"We never lost it Saotome."  The two then begin exchanging high
fives.
	The imposter's eyes suddenly flick open.  "I'm not quite through
yet," the 
imposter bawls as Akane's skin is split apart as another creature rises
out of the old shell.  
In a flash of light, a figure completely amorphous and black is seen.
Only two red eyes 
could be made out.
	"It's... it's some kind of living shadow Saotome."
	"Shadow or no shadow, the two of us are unstoppable Tendo."
	They both then charge at the creature.  They both throw a punch
together, but 
their hands hit nothing and instead smashes the granite.
	"Foolish humans, I am not quite so easily defeated," snickers the
dark creature 
before it sinks into the shadows and vanishes.
	"The coward!  Obviously the two of us scared him off, eh Tendo?"
	"Ha ha ha, Saotome.  It's good to see you happy again after your
son's death."
	Genma hits Soun upside the hit.  "Ranma's not dead!  It was a
trick!" he yells.
	Before they knew it, long, black tendrils had wrapped around their
legs and 
slammed them into the sides of the cavern, repeatedly until they were both
unconscious.  
The shadow figure emerges fully from the floor.
	The shadow looks at its defeated foes, and does something
unexpected.  It 
vanishes into thin air.  "Perhaps I should let Beryl work a little harder
after all her foul 
ups.  I think I'll just watch from the sidelines for now," the creature
thinks.

	Ukyou wakes up to see the grim visage of Malachite staring at her.
She was 
completely tied up.  "Y'know, I'm not into this kinky stuff," riles Ukyou.
	"You humans have such dirty minds.  I would not degrade myself to
mate with a 
lower species."  Malachite walks to Ukyou and picks her up by the the
excess rope.  "Tell 
me something, do you hope your dear 'Ranma' will come and rescue you?  Are
you sure 
his love for you is that strong?"
	Ukyou starts to say something, but stops.  "Does Ranma really love
her?  She 
couldn't really tell.  Sometimes he'd be really sweet, but usually he was
pushing her 
away.  Could Akane be the one he really loved?" she wonders.
	"Hmph.  Your silence answers my question," says Malachite as he
drops her back 
to the ground.
	"My Ranma is coming, you'll see!  Whatever is between us, Ranma
would never 
leave me here with a creep like you!" Ukyou shouts back defiantly.
	Malachite is suddenly silent, as if he were listening really hard.
"It appears you 
are right.  Kind of a no lose situation though isn't it?  If Ranma didn't
love you, he would 
stay home, but he'd be safe.  Him coming shows his feelings, but now..., I
kill him," 
Malachite grins.
	"If you hurt him," Ukyou screams as she tries to crawl her way to
him.  "I'll make 
hell your new address!"
	"If I get my way, I'll rule hell," Malachite cackles as he
disappears.

	"Ranma, sit down for a sec, we've been walking for an hour now and
I'm tired," 
moans Akane.
	"Heh, for such a masculine girl, you sure don't have alot of
stamnia," taunts 
Ranma right before a rock was smashed over his head.
	"I don't know Ranma, you don't look so good.  Maybe you need to
get some rest 
too," smirks Akane as Ranma lays there with a foot long bump on his head.
	Ranma's quick healing abilities pull through again as he's
suddenly up and about 
making fun of Akane again.
	"You know, I still didn't exactly heal entirely yet from saving
your butt so many 
times today.  Were you crazy to think you could stop Happosai by
yourself?"
	"It's not like you were doing so great of a job yourself, were you
Ranma?  
Besides, if you didn't notice, I did stall them long enough until the
Tuxedo guy showed 
up."
	"Oh yeah, that Tuxedo guy was great.  Especially when he tried to
kill you and 
me with a flower!"
	"It wasn't his fault!  Weren't you even listening!  He was
brainwashed and... OH!  
I don't even want to bother explaining it to you."
	"That's fine with me, I don't really feel like listening to you."
Ranma jumps to 
his feet.  "Let's go, the sooner we find the others, the better."
	Ranma lifts her up by the arm, and couldn't help but say "have you
gained weight 
Akane?"
	A rock was split in half by his head before he knew it.  "How does
she move so 
fast," he wonders.  Then, something catches his eye.
	"Get down Akane!" he warns as he pushes her to the ground.  A
purple blade 
whizzes over them, and flies back to a gloved hand.  "You again!  What'd
you do with 
Ukyou!" Ranma shouts.
	"Don't worry about your friend.  She's perfectly safe.  Or at
least was.  I warned 
you what would happen to her if you showed up.  Now, I'll kill her as soon
as I'm done 
with you two.  Your bad luck that you happened to wander where I was.  I
was perfectly 
content to let Happosai take care of the lot of you, but I guess I'll
dispatch of you two 
myself," Malachite declares.
	"Akane, go try to find the others, I'll take care of this creep
and save Ukyou," 
Ranma commands as he leaps closer to Malachite.
	"Ranma, no!  You said yourself you weren't healed yet, and this
guy is obviosly 
more than human.  Let's just run and find the others together," pleads
Akane.
	"I don't exactly think this guy is just gonna watch us run away
you idiot.  Just be 
a good little tomboy and run," orders Ranma.
	"You know, I'm a martial artist too.  You think I can't fight this
guy with you?  
Your better off with me than without me!"
	"Yeah right!  I'll be too busy saving your hide like usual than be
able to 
concentrate on fighting."
	"Then maybe you shouldn't worry about me so much cause I sure
ain't worried 
about you!"
	"Someone has to take care of a dummy like you!"
	"Ranma, you take that back!"
	"Dummy, dummy, dummy....," and on and on they go as Ranma and
Akane start 
arguing bitterly.
	Malachite at first thought this was a strange technique of
confusing him.  If it 
was, it worked.  However, after about five minutes of this, he realizes
this was for real.  
With a heavy sigh, he forms an energy ball to wipe them both out.  He had
so hoped for a 
challenge too.  "Oh well," he thought as he released the ball.
	Sensing the heat, Ranma quickly grabs Akane and leaps into the air
as the ball 
pulverizes the rock under them.  "Try to land on your feet," Ranma warns
as he gently 
pushes her towards the exit.  He then flies straight for Malachite.  "Time
to get serious!"
	Before Ranma could reach Malachite, Malachite shot a blast at
Ranma that sent 
him flipping in the air.  Ranma was able to compensate for this and lands
on his feet.
	"Impressive boy, but deal with this," threatens Malachite as he
again launches 
another ball of destruction.  
	Ranma avoids it, and boasts "you're not the only one able to throw
around energy 
blasts."  Ranma leaps to the right of Malachite, and quickly chants "Mouko
Takibishya!" 
as a Chi blast emerges from his hands and slams into Malachite's side.  
	Unprepared for this, Malachite hits the ground on his other side.
He never knew 
humans had the ability to generate energy blasts as well.  This would be
something he 
had to remember.  He prepared to prop himself up with his arms, but his
right arm was 
numb.  Malachite's mouth dropped in shock.
	Ranma was waiting for Malachite to get back up.  "Are you just
gonna lay there, 
or are you gonna fight?" taunts Ranma.
	With his left hand, Malachite quickly throws an energy blade to
cut off Ranma's 
head.  Ranma easily dodges, but the blade suddenly explodes behind him in
a storm of 
energy, knocking him down.  Malachite, back on his feet again, slams his
left palm into 
the ground as energy glowed from his hand.
	"Feel my full wrath, child!" screams Malachite as a crack of
energy runs through 
the ground to Ranma, where it explodes in a geyser of energy throwing
Ranma into the 
air and then falling down hard.  Ranma was already crawling back to his
feet, but 
Malachite was about to launch an energy ball at Ranma again.
	BONK! reverbrated through the room as Akane squashed Malachite's
head 
underneath her gigantic mallet.  "Come on Ranma, get up and let's finish
him," instructs 
Akane.  Before anything else happens, Malachite releases a surge of
negaverse energy 
knocking her to the ground.  As he got up, it was obvious the shape of
Malachite's head 
wasn't correctly proportioned anymore.
	"Don't you dare touch her!" shouts Ranma as he lands a flying kick
in 
Malachite's chest, sending him staggering.  Ranma gets in close for hand
to hand, but 
Malachite suddenly grabs Ranma's head with his right hand and lifted him
into the air.  
The arm felt better now, especially compared to the pain in his head.  He
decided to 
repay Ranma my shattering his head like a melon.
	"Any last words before I crush your head?" asks Malachite.

	He was getting worried.  He had a hard enough time finding
anything on normal 
streets.  What in the world was he going to do now that he was stuck in a
maze of 
caverns?  Thoughts of being stranded here forever rushed through his mind.
"What if I 
never hear Akane's sweet voice again?  I... I have to find my way out of
here!" he panics.  
	"HOW IN HELL DID I GET HERE!?" bellows Ryoga.

Author: I didn't want to do it!  Honestly, I really didn't want to create
a new character, 
but I needed another villan. And yes, I realize he has an incredebly
stupid name, my friend laughed for days before she stopped.  But I don't
know geology, alright!  YOu think of a rock name out of the blue. I
realize Chapter 4 had way too much action, and seemed more of a slugfest than Chapter 2, but I needed it to move the story
along.  By the way, I'm interested in people's reaction about what happened (or didn't happen)
with Shampoo and Mousse.  Also, I wanted to show that for all of Kuno's crap,
he could be a bit noble.  I chose Amy with Kuno because I figured she was the only one
that would tolerate Kuno.  But I think they're just friends.  E-mail all comments to
schi@uci.edu.  One more thing, as you can tell by now, the alignement of
the text is all screwed up, but I'm happy with having quotations.
However, if anyone knows how to solve the problem, please e-mail me.  
The next chapter, Ryoga finally shows up in "The Pig We've All Been
Waiting For."