After the next session at the Tendou dojo, Makoto decided to work 
up the nerve to get closer to Ryouga.
  "Umm...Ryouga-sensei?" she asked as the bandana boy was toweling 
off from today's session.
  "Yes, Kino-san?" Ryouga said, oblivious to the blush on the girl's 
face.
  "Sensei, please...call me Makoto. Or Mako-chan, that's what all my 
friends call me."
  Ryouga smiled. He couldn't help but like this girl. She was so...
nice. "Alright, then you can just call me Ryouga." Putting away his 
towel, he said, "So, what was it you wanted to ask?"
 "Well, my friends and I are hanging around town for the afternoon, 
and I was wondering...if maybe you'd like to grab a bite to eat." She 
blushed.
  Akane happened along at this moment, and smiled. "Ryouga-kun would 
love to go out with you, Kino-san. Wouldn't you, Ryouga-kun?"
  Ryouga suddenly realized that the brunette was asking him out on a 
little date, and that Akane was encouraging it. He thought about this 
for a long time. Recent events had proven to him that Ranma and Akane,
 as much as he hated to admit it, were going to be together. He 
looked at Makoto. She's cute enough, he thought to himself. And nice. 
And I really don't want to be alone, and she did ask me out...
  "Sure, sounds great," he said, somewhat nervously.
  
  She'd happened across an interesting tidbit. 
  With nowhere to call home, she just started poking around in 
everything she could find. She'd discovered two things of interest.
  One was that her former associates had been defeated, and all but 
one were dead. This angered her. She'd been denied her revenge.
  The other thing she found ensured she'd still get revenge on her 
other enemies.
  She had discovered, in an odd setup hidden beneath a gaming center, 
*their* identities. This was useful indeed.
  If only she could get out of here...

  "So who's the new girlfriend, sugar? She's cute."
  Ryouga blushed. Makoto giggled. 
  They were sitting at the counter of Ucchan's Okonomiyaki-ya. Kuonji 
Ukyou  wished Ryouga would be able to get Akane away from her Ranchan,
 but she could find it in her heart to be happy for the lost boy. He 
was a friend too, after all.
  "I'm Kino Makoto," the brunette said  as Ukyou slid a big platter 
with one double-sized deluxe okonomiyaki, cut in a heart shape, in 
front of them. Both blushed at it. 
  Ukyou smiled easily as she began working on another order. "Kuonji 
Ukyou, okonomiyaki artist extraordinaire," the chef offered. 
  "Ukyou's the best okonomiyaki chef I've ever seen," Ryouga added, 
getting over his mild embarrassment enough to break apart his 
chopsticks and take a piece of the okonomiyaki. 
  Makoto dug in also, and beamed. "This is delicious!" she said. 
  "Glad ya like it sugar. I'll leave you two crazy kids alone to chat,
 gotta take care of the other customers," Ukyou said as she snatched 
up an order pad and ambled over to a table in the back corner of the 
shop.
  At said table sat four teenagers and a younger child. The girls 
were trying to remain inconspicuous, but the young cook knew better. 
"Hey girls, better order something if you wanna stay here and spy on 
your friend," Ukyou said, causing the girls to jump and look 
embarrassed.
  "How'd you know?" Usagi hissed.
  Ukyou winked. "I'm not much older than you, y'know. I may not 
always act like a normal girl, but I know how a girl's mind works." 
The teens at the table decided not to pursue the issue further, and 
began ordering.

  This...this was...
  She'd stumbled across quite a find.
  She'd blundered her way into a heavy industries company. The 
security on the systems was tight, but nothing she couldn't deal with.

  She liked it here. This place dealt with some sophisticated 
technology she could use to implement her revenge.
  More importantly, she found a way OUT of this infernal limbo.
  If she had a voice to laugh with, she'd be laughing maniacally. As 
it was, she contented herself with imagining laughing maniacally as 
she tapped the ridiculously overpowered electrical grid for this 
place.

  (Author's note: okay, so  I lied...there is something being 
borrowed from another anime series here...)
 
  The technicians and security staff of Mishima Heavy Industries were 
buzzing about, trying to figure out just what the hell was going on. 
Natsume Akiko and her two aides stormed about furiously, demanding 
answers and getting more than sufficiently angry when none were 
forthcoming.
  Every security system in the entire corporate headquarters had 
suddenly gone into some kind of reset mode moments earlier. The 
problem was something from outside the system, and yet the techies 
believed that it was also *inside* the system. The stream of 
technobabble would be enough to make anyone scream. Akiko didn't care 
about the babble. She wanted to know who was screwing around with her 
company, and why, and what she could do about it.

  If she had a body, she would be having a massive orgasm right now.
  The sheer POWER she'd tapped into was enough to make her giddy. She 
flowed into the massive generators, soaking it up, letting it 
permeate her essence, becoming twice, four times, ten times, a 
hundred times more powerful than she'd been before.
  She decided that the first thing she'd do when she got out would be 
to have that orgasm. 
  Then she'd get her revenge.

  A peaceful Saturday found the Inner Senshi spending the day in 
Nerima, getting some shopping and pigging out done before the class 
scheduled for that afternoon.
  It was something of a surprise when they ran into Ranma, Akane, and 
Ryouga in town.
  The trio of martial artists were relaxing at Ucchan's. Ryouga had 
managed to stick around the dojo all week without getting lost, and 
the three were using their new roles as sensei in order to try to get 
along better with one another. It helped that Ranma and Ryouga both 
liked to make wisecracks about Chibi Usa.
  So, the six girls and Mamoru walked into Ucchan's, and almost 
immediately Makoto veered off towards the table where Ryouga was 
sitting. The rest of the group just laughed and got their own table. 
Ukyou soon tended to everyone's okonomiyaki needs, and another lazy 
afternoon in Nerima got  underway.
  It's times like these that life throws a wrench into the works.

  At MHI, pandemonium ensued. 
  Something was drawing massive amounts of power from the generators, 
and bringing most of the plant's  manufacturing facilities online. 
  And there was nothing anyone could do to stop it.

   She had all the power she needed now. She started up the factory's 
production lines.
  She was pretty good with machines, and with magic. Although she'd 
never created a servant on her own before, with the knowledge she'd 
gained from months of peeking where she didn't belong, she figured 
with the resources of this place, and her own power, she'd have no 
problems.
  Now, it was time to release herself from this infernal existence.

  Akiko was screaming her head off as she surveyed the power 
facilites. Nothing could be brought under MHI control. "I want to 
know who is doing this to my company!" she screamed at the top of her 
lungs.
  Everyone froze in shock when a maniacal cackle echoed through the 
room.
  "This company belongs to me now!" announced a feminine voice which 
seemed to come from everywhere.
  "Show yourself!" yelled Akiko.
  "If you insist," the voice replied.
  The generators began to spark.
  A black, swirling portal opened in the center of the room.
  A petite woman with shoulder-length blond hair and bright red eyes 
floated  out of the portal. She surveryed the chamber with a 
predatory gleam to her gaze. Her appearance was met with fear, awe, 
curiosity...lust?
  She looked down at herself, feeling a draft. She was stark naked.
  Blushing, she closed her eyes. With a flicker of light, clothing 
appeared on her body: a black tube top made from several star-shaped 
pieces of cloth, a frilly yellow and black skirt and yellow tights. 
In one hand appeared a golden staff with a twisted end containing a 
black star. 
  "Who are you and what do you think you're doing?" Akiko demanded.
  The blond gave her a haughty smile. "Why, I am the new owner of 
this company and of your very souls."
  "Nobody owns me!" Akiko snarled.
  "Oh, but I do," the blond answered confidently. She waved her staff.
 The room was filled with glowing blue stars as she shouted "Charm 
Buster Enslave!"
  Within seconds, everyone in the room  was on their knees before her,
 including Akiko.
  The blond chuckled. "Now, swear your allegiance to your new leader..
.Chairwoman Mimete!!!!!"


To be continued....C&C welcome!

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