TRIO:
THE VISITOR OVER STAYS HIS WELCOME!
"WHERE AM I NOW??!!!!" Ryoga yelled as he wondered the streets of
New York.
He had found his back pack and umbrella but had gotten lost on his
way back. "CURSE THAT GIRL," he thought, "it's her fault! If she
had just taken my other things and just not my clothes, I wouldn't be
lost right now! I'll bet Ranma has her brainwashed or something.
That HAS to be the only logical explanation!"
He came to a dead end alley and instead of going back, jabbed his
right hand forward and hit the small wall in just the right place as
he cried, "BAKSAITENKETSU!"
The wall exploded and Ryoga continued to walk forward. Then he came
to another building and repeated the move. This time he walked
through a surprised family's living room and he said to the family as
he passed by, "Excuse me."
Meanwhile, at Eclipse Tower.....
Brunt and Bombard sat around with nothing to do. "DAMN," the
robotic liutenent complained, "I HATE having nothing to do."
"Well, what IS there to do?" Brunt shot back, "Eclipse Lord is still
pissed because the Trio beat his Inner Four and the Inner Four are
even more pissed because of that!"
"Maybe we could go after the Trio ourselves," Bombard replied while
rubbing his hands.
"After what happened last time?"
"I still say they got lucky! We can take 'em."
At that instant, the building shook as Ryoga was continuing his
travels in his unique way. Eclipse Lords voice reverberated through
the room, "BOMBARD! You aren't practicing your 'Death Storm Barrage'
again?!"
"N-n-no master," Bombard stuttered as he did a robotic version of a
gulp, "that wasn't me."
"Brunt! Find out what it was!"
"Yes master," Brunt said as she ran over to the view screen and
turned it on.
The view screen cut to a shot of a wall on the bottom floor of
Eclipse Tower. Suddenly, the wall was blown inward and Ryoga walked
into the shot. "Who's that?" Bombard asked as he watched over Brunts
shoulder.
"I don't know," Brunt replied, "but he's trained in the art of
Baksaitenketsu."
"Isn't that the same style you know?"
"Yes. I wonder what he wants."
The microphone on the camera was very powerful and it picked up
Ryogas muttering of, "Ranma, when I find you, I'll kill you."
"So," Eclipse Lords voice sounded interested, "he is after Saotome
as well as us."
"He seems to be lost," Brunt noted.
"So give him directions! Just make sure he gets his battle with
Ranma!"
"Yes master," Brunt replied with a bow, (Even though she couldn't
see him, that didn't mean he couldn't see her.) "Come on Bombard.
Let's have our rematch."
"OH BOY!" Bombard was practically bubbling with excitement, "Time to
blow them to little bits!"
A little later....
Ryoga was STILL lost. He wandered the streets until someone behind
him said, "Excuse me. I've heard you're looking for a Ranma Saotome?
"
Ryoga whirled around and faced the woman who had spoken. "Who the
hell are you and what do you want?" he snapped.
"My name is Brunt," Brunt said with a bow, "and I want to help you.
"
"Why?"
"I have my own reasons to destroy Saotome as well," Brunt explained,
then she pretended to break down and cry, "he... he humiliated me.
He... he... I can't even.... it's too horrible."
Brunt went deep into her act of crying and Ryoga saw red. "RANMA,"
he thought, "I WILL *KILL* YOU! THIS IS YET ANOTHER REASON FOR YOUR
DEMISE!"
Aloud he said, "I understand. I will help."
Brunt said, "Follow the flying camera up there," she pointed at
Camron, who was sitting on a ledge, "it will find Ranma for you."
"Thank you," Ryoga said as he followed Camron, who flew up and away.
As soon as he was gone, Brunts cries turned to an evil laugh.
12:00....
"Lunch time," Usagis mind thought.
Usagi was about to race out the door but something warned her to
stop. She did so just as Ranma-chan came down from a jump, Joque
close behind, swinging his oversized egg beater. "Yew DARE," the
cook exclaimed, "to eat lunch at anothair restaurante?! DIEEEE!!!!"
Ranma-chan growled, "Listen. My back hurts," then she hit Joque
with an uppercut that sent him hurling off into the sky, "AND I'M
*NOT* IN THE MOOD!"
Usagi had just watched the display in amazement but grew concerned
when she saw her friend hunch over slightly and groan. "Are you all
right?" she asked.
"No," Ranma-chan replied, "but I'll be fine by tonight."
"You sure?"
"Yeah. So what are you doing here?"
"I work here."
Ranma-chan got a look at her surroundings and commented, "We went
farther then I thought."
"I know what will make you feel a little better."
"What?"
"I know this great Chinese restaurant near by. Come on."
With that, Usagi grabbed Ranma-chan by the arm and started to drag
her down the street. "OW," Ranma-chan complained, "go easy on my
back would ya!"
High above them....
Great Sayaman was on patrol, zooming through the air, looking down
at the people on the ground. Then he was buzzed by a camera like
object. "Hey," he yelped.
Then he noticed the black circle with the white outline, stamped on
its right foot. "That thing is from the Eclipse Syndicate?" he
thought.
Suddenly, he was blasted by two small rockets that hit him on his
blind side. He went tumbling forward and turned to look at his
assailant. "You again," he growled and landed on the roof the robot
had fired on him from.
Bombard laughed and replied, "Nice to see you remember me. Now it's
payback time. While Brunt and some weirdo in a bandana handle your
friends, I, Bombard, will handle you!"
"Weirdo in a bandana?" Sayaman thought. Then it hit him, "Ryoga!"
Aloud he said, "Let's make this quick then."
"Oh, it'll be anything but quick."
A horde of Scarab Demons suddenly popped up and surrounded Bombard.
"Okay boys," Bombard ordered, "it's party time. ATTACK!!!!"
Sayaman powered up and cried, "KAME-HAME-HA!!!"
The big burst of energy shot forth and destroyed the Scarabs in 0.
00001 seconds. Bombard did a robotic version of a blink and said,
"Very well then, Plan B."
A missile loaded in Bombards arm port and he aimed it at Sayaman.
Sayaman laughed as he said, "Come on now. That stuff didn't work
last time, what makes you think it will now?"
"Simple," Bombard shot back, "this missile has the force of a
miniature nuclear bomb. I'll bet that's more then enough to take out
you!"
Bombard shot the missile from his arm port and Sayaman dodged out of
the way, not sure if he was THAT tough. The missile shot past and
then turned in mid air, back towards Sayaman. Sayaman dodged again
and after it passed him, it turned back towards him again. "Oh by
the way," Bombard quipped, "that missile is locked onto your body's
heat signature and it won't stop until it blows you away! BOOM!
HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Sayaman flew up into the air, desperate to find a way to lose the
missile.
Meanwhile.....
Ranma-chan and Usagi were walking down the street, unaware of Camron
spying on them. Camron floated down to where Ryoga was waiting and
said, "The gophers are out of the hole."
"Huh?" Ryoga asked.
"The cheese is in the pantry and the mouse is ready to dine."
Ryoga planted a fist on top of Camron and yelled, "STOP TALKING LIKE
THAT!!!!"
Camron staggered slightly and said, "Um. The one you're looking for
is right outside this alley."
"Thank you for your help," Ryoga started to move off.
"The exit is the other way!" Camron exclaimed.
"I... knew that."
Outside the alley....
Usagi didn't know what was happening. One second, she and Ranma-
chan were just going to eat lunch and the next, a familiar voice
shouted, "RANMA!! YOU ARE MINE!!!!"
Then, Ranma-chan shoved her out of the way and she heard an ear
splitting crash as Ryoga bolted out of nowhere and slammed into Ranma-
chan. Usagi got up from the ground and blinked at the hole in the
wall of the restaurant left by the two martial artists colliding.
The people inside the restaurant stared back and then ran away.
Ryoga was a bit surprised that he had gotten the drop on Ranma, but
he wasn't complaining. Everything was going his way now. He had
been helped by some nice people, he had gotten the drop on Ranma,
Ranma seemed to have amnesia, so Ryoga figured he could use his
special techniques without Ranma being able to anticipate, Ranma was
a girl so he had an even bigger strength advantage then he normally
did, and he noticed as Ranma tried to rise and the way she was
hunched over...
"He's injured," Ryoga inwardly chuckled, "this is it. Revenge at
last!"
Ranma-chan roared, "What the hell is with you?! You don't seem to
be with the Eclipse Syndicate, so why are you after me?!!"
"Eclipse Syndicate?" Ryoga asked.
"ANSWER ME!!!"
"I don't know what the hell you're talking about! This has nothing
to do with any 'Syndicate'! This is personal!"
"What could I have done to you to make you hate me so much?"
"It doesn't matter! The time for talk is past! DIE!"
Ryoga charged and threw a fist at Ranma-chan's face. Ranma dodged
as quickly as possible and thought, "I have to end this quick. I'm
in no shape for a fight."
With that Ranma-chan cried, "KATSU TENSHIN AMAGURI KEN!!!"
The storm of punches hit Ryoga 456 times and threw him back into the
far wall of the damaged restaurant. Ranma-chan smirked, but quickly
lost her confidence as she saw Ryoga stand and growl, "Is that it?"
"Oh man," Ranma-chan thought, "what is this guy made of?"
Ryoga stormed forward and hit Ranma-chan in the stomach hard with
his left fist. Then, as she doubled over, he followed up with an
elbow to her injured back. "ARGH!" Ranma-chan cried as pain laced
through her spine and she fell to the floor.
Even though she was hurt, she still had much of her situational
awareness and quickly spun on the floor and leg sweeped Ryoga. They
both jumped to their feet and Ryoga smirked as he said, "Good. I
don't want this to be TOO easy. I want my revenge to have..."
CLONG! A frying pan hit Ryoga on the head. Stopping him in mid
rant. "OW," he complained and turned in the direction the blow had
come from, "what the..."
CLANG! This time he was bashed directly in the face by a VERY angry
looking Usagi. She had gotten the frying pan from the kitchen, which
had been abandoned when the fighting had started, and she thought
that if it had worked once, it would work again. "Listen little girl,
" Ryoga said between blows, "You(CLANG) don't(WHACK)
understand(CRUNCH) what's(CLACK) going(THWOCK) on."
"*I* don't understand what's going on?!?!" Usagi replied in a growl
that sent a shiver up Ryogas spine, "FIRST, you attack my friend for
no good reason! SECOND, you try to worm your way in as a cute little
pig! THIRD, YOU SAW ME IN MY UNDERWARE!!!! How many other girls
have you done that to?!! How may others have been fooled by your
cute little act?!! I bet you try to sleep in every girls bed you can
find!!!!"
"NO," Ryoga spat back, "I only sleep as P-chan with dear Akane... uh
oh."
"THEN I STRIKE FOR AKANE!!!!"
Ryoga knew it would be wrong to hit her but he would defend himself.
"BAKSAITENKETSU!!!"
Ryoga thrust his fingers at the approaching frying pan and the pan
shattered on impact. Usagi looked at her broken weapon and gulped as
all her anger quickly drained away, along with all the blood in her
face. Ryoga looked at her and said in his "put the fear of ME into
them" voice, "Get... OUT!"
Usagi quickly complied. Ryoga turned back and found the place Ranma-
chan had been was now empty. He looked around and didn't see her
anywhere. He yelled, "I thought that you couldn't sink any lower
Ranma! This has proven me wrong! COWARD!"
He began to move towards the back of the restaurant. He had
intended to go out the front but... well, this IS Ryoga. He looked
around and thought, "How did I get in the kitchen?"
Ranma-chan was hiding under one of the steel tables in the back of
the kitchen. She thought, "I don't like running and hiding like this
but the fact of it is, I'm in no shape to do much of anything else."
Meanwhile....
Great Sayaman was running out of ideas and fancy maneuvers. He had
tried doubling back, stalling and dropping, looping, zig zaging and
other techniques, but he still could not lose the missile that
followed him. He had tried to destroy it several times with ki balls
but the missile had some kind of guidance system that let it avoid
them. "Doesn't that thing run out of fuel?!" he thought grimly, "How
am I going to shake this thing? I've tried fire balls? How about a
Kame-Hame-Ha? No. Too risky. I might blow up some buildings in the
process. I have to find some way to be able to utilize it."
The he got an idea. He straight up, at full speed. The missile
followed him as he went higher and higher in the sky. Sayaman shot
through the clouds and headed farther up, the missile close behind.
It was getting hard for Sayaman to breath as the atmosphere got
thinner. Then as they reached what he had calculated to be about ten
thousand feet, Sayaman undid his cape and tossed it over the missile
as he jarred to a halt and let it pass him. As he suspected, the
cape was more then enough of a drag on the missiles momentum. As it
tried to turn, Sayaman cupped his hands at his side and....
"KAME... HAME... HA!!!!!!!"
The large blast of ki energy slammed into the missile and blew it
away. The warhead detonated and the blast sent Sayaman hurtling
downwards. He fell for two thousand feet before he managed to stop.
He then cruised back down under his own power. He landed on a roof
somewhere in mid town and thought, "That's two capes in four days.
I'm not gonna be able to fight crime and look cool doing it if I keep
going at this rate."
Then he flew off to locate his friends.
Back at the restaurant....
Ryoga looked around, hunting for Ranma-chan. "Where are you?!" he
roared.
"Right here!" Ranma-chan cried as she popped out from under the
table and kicked Ryoga in the small of the back, followed up with a
shattering elbow to the back of the head.
Ryoga stumbled forward and sent a back fist into Ranma-chans face.
The female fighter fell backwards and rubbed her jaw as she tried to
regain her senses. Ryoga muttered, sounding depressed, "Have you
fallen so far that you would result to such underhanded tricks?"
Ryoga started to glow and Ranma-chan back off nervously. "What the
hell is he doing?" Ranma-chan thought as Ryoga raised his right hand.
"SHI-SHI HAKODAN!!!!"
The ki burst which flew from Ryogas outstretched hand slammed into
Ranma-chan and she cried in pain as it sent her hurtling into the far
wall. Ranma-chan slumped to the floor, a small trickle of blood
running from a cut on her forehead. "It's over," Ryoga declared,
"now d..."
"Hold it!"
Ryoga turned around and addressed the shadow that stood in the
doorway with, "Who the hell are you?"
For a second the figure debated answering with, "I'm Batman" or "I'm
your worst nightmare" but then decided to stick to the normal routine.
"I am the one who will stop your abuse against women! I shall not
forgive you for this! I am Sailor Moon! The champion of justice!
In the name of the Moon... I'll punish you!"
Ryoga had been still digesting the first part of Sailor Moons speech.
"'Abuse against women'?" he asked, "I've never abused a woman in my
life!"
"What do you call trying to see a friend of mine naked? Not to
mention what you're trying to do to that young woman right there?"
"Hey, wait a minute! You don't understand! You see Ranma here is
really a guy! His being a girl is just a curse!"
Ranma-chan, who was half conscious, thought, "Guess that answers
that question."
Sailor Moon, who already knew about Ranmas curse but had to pretend
she didn't, said, "I'm supposed to believe something like that?!
Besides," her voice dropped menacingly, "what do you mean being a
girl is a CURSE?!"
"Well," Ryoga stammered, "you see, umm, err, ah... oh poo."
Sailor Moon drew her Moon Scepter and, "MOON PRINCESS HALATION!"
The bolt of crescent moon shaped energy shot past Ryogas head by
inches. "Missed me," Ryoga taunted.
Sailor Moon raised her hand and said, "Wait for it."
The blast hit a sink behind Ryoga and disintegrated it. The water
shot up and sprayed over the room. "ARRRRRGH," Ryoga screamed as the
water came down on him, "NO! I'M CHANGING! CHANGING! WHAT A WORLD!
WHAT A WORLD!"
P-chan crawled out of his human clothes and looked up as Sailor Moon
looked down at him and smirked as she picked him up by the bandana
and said evilly, "Now what should I do with you? Maybe I could try
out my cooking skills again. How does roast pig sound?"
P-chan turned pale and fainted in fear. Ranma-chan stood to her
feet unsteadily and replied, "You trying to cook him? That's too
cruel. We could at least turn him over to someone who's good at it.
Everybody deserves at least a LITTLE dignity when they die."
"You can be so MEAN sometimes!"
"I'd love to argue with you but I'm just a little injured right now,
so can you just drop it!"
Sailor Moons anger faded as she saw Ranma-chan suddenly double over
as another wave of pain proved her point. "Are you going to be okay?
" she asked.
"Yeah," was the reply, "although I'm probably gonna hurt like hell
tomorrow. By the way, what took you so long?"
"I was trying to see if I could find Gohan. No luck."
"I wouldn't say that," Great Sayaman said as he came in through the
hole in the wall, "Sorry I'm late. I was a little busy. Bombard
decided to show up and give me a little gift," then he saw the pig in
Sailor Moons hands, "Is that Ryoga?"
"Yep."
"So what were you going to do with him?" P-chan chose that moment to
come to as Sayaman finished with, "I'm in the mood for pork chops."
P-chan fainted again.
Outside....
Brunt and Bombard walked over to the decimated restaurant and saw
Camron fly towards them. "Report," Brunt barked.
"The pig is sausages," Camron replied.
"We don't want to go through this right now," Bombard said as he
loaded several missiles in his wrist ports and aimed them at the body
of the smaller robot, "so you better stop talking funny."
"Ryoga failed," Camron said as he sweated oil, "it seems he has a
power like Ranmas, except he turns into a little pig when he's hit
with cold water."
"Rats," Brunt grumbled.
"Umm," Bombard replied as he scratched his head, "I thought he said
'a pig'."
Brunt slugged Bombard in the face.
"What are you waiting for," Brunt snapped as Bombard rubbed his face,
"you wanted to 'blast'em'!"
"So?"
"START BLASTING!!!!"
Camron quickly flew away.
"ALL RIGHT!!!!" Bombard cried.
All the missile ports on Bombards body loaded. His chest plate
swung open, reveling the thousands of tiny missiles inside and all
the missiles fired at once, all targeted to take out the three heros
inside.
Inside......
Sayaman caught a flash of light winking off something out of the
corner of his eye. He turned and saw Bombard starting to fire. He
threw himself at his friends as he yelled, "GET DOWN!"
The missile crashed into the restaurant and the kitchen. The
explosions rocked the building and the three heros cringed after each
one. The barrage continued for a full two minutes, several times
Sayaman yelped as a missile hit him. Finally, the barrage stopped.
Sayaman, Sailor Moon and Ranma-chan got to their feet. P-chan was no
where to be found.
Back outside.....
"GET THIS DAMN PIG OFF ME!!!" Bombard roared.
Brunt peeled the attacking P-chan off Bombards face and looked at
him as she said, "You've outlived your usefulness to us. Good bye."
With that, she reared back her leg and punted him over the horizon.
Brunt then turned back to the restaurant and said to Bombard as he
prepared to continue firing, "Hold it. Let me do the honors."
"Be my guest," Bombard replied with a mock bow.
Brunt slinked over to one of the few remaining support beams of the
restaurant and she thrust the first two fingers of her right hand at
it as she cried, "BAKSAITENKETSU!"
Inside again....
Ranma-chan looked up as she heard a creaking and saw large cracks
beginning to form in the ceiling. "Aw man," she groaned as the
ceiling collapsed down on them, "this day sucks."
Outside once more.....
As the building collapsed Brunt grinned and turned to Bombard as she
said, "Elvis has left the building."
Above them, Sayman, Yin Yang-chan and Sailor Moon all said in lame
Elvis imitations, "Thank you very much."
The two liutenents looked up to see Sayaman with Yin Yang-chan and
Sailor Moon holding onto his arms as he floated down to the ground.
"Don't look surprised," Sayaman quipped, "I'm faster then a speeding
ceiling."
The two liutenents looked at each other and Bombard shook his head
"no" as an internal systems check warned him of a possible overheat
if he fired again. Brunt grumbled, "Eclipse Lord is NOT going to
like this," as the two of them hit their teleportation devices.
When they were gone, Sailor Moon asked, "Guys? Where'd Ryoga go to?
"
"I don't know," Sayaman said.
"Good ridence," Yin Yang-chan snorted, "I hope we never have to see
him again."
"I don't know about that," Sayaman said, "he strikes me as the type
who always shows up at the worst possible moment. We might have to
contend with him again someday."
Somewhere.....
"Ranma," Ryoga (back in human form) thought, "I'll let you live
today. However, if you ever return home, you'll find that you've
lost Akane to me forever.... now I just have find my way back to
Tokyo."
With that, Ryoga walked into the sunset.
END OF EPISODE
NEXT: A dark day is coming for one of the members of the Trio. It
involves Seer, a powerful spell.... and that's all I'm at liberty to
say.
Find out what happens in: TRIO: WOE BRINGER