At 04:55 AM 8/11/97 GMT, OneShot wrote:

 "You guys have to get out of here!" Priss told Nene "It's a goddamn moster!
It's got projectiles that's far worse than any boomer we ever encountered!"

  Why would Priss say "projectiles"?  Ranma's attacks would look like
directed energy attacks.

 Priss and Nene watched silently as the boomer slowly made its way toward

them.

They were holding their breath, not daring to breath. In just a few short
seconds, it would all be over. They both kenw that boomers had a weak spot

that

they couldn't see what was coming up from behind them.

  What is the reference for this boomer weakness?  I would think that
combat boomers would have at least a simple proximity motion detector for
their rear.

 "We must retreat!" Linna said as she slowly got to her feet "Our suits

can't

take much more damage!" She was shocked to look down and see a large chunk of
her armor fall to the floor. The armors exoskeleton had fallen off. All that
remained was the thin inner armor that protected her body. She saw shocked to
see her other two friends' armor fall off.
 The blast enveloped Nene entirely. Before the blast abated, he launched a
massive ki-blast "Mouko Takabisha" Ranma watched with a smirk as the ki-blast
was popelled forward from his hurricane blast. He watched at the boomer stuck
its had out to block it, but it was useless.The blast struck the boomer at

such

intensity that it was blown backward several years, sliding on the ground

to a
                                              ^^^^^

  Now that is a powerful blast.  

 Nene was shaken terribly from the impact of that blast, but thanks to her
suit, she wasn't killed. She knew she would have the biggest headache the

next

  Didn't she lose her most of her armor before?  How would the remaining
armor protect her so well? 

day, provided she survived this fight. As she laid their on the ground, she
wondered how on earth they were going to defeat this boomer. Her thoughts

were

interupted when she felt this burning sensation on her chest. She looked

down at

her chest and realized that her armor had melted from the intense heat. The
armor was glowing bright red. She knew that the heat would eventually

engulf the

entire suit, and the best course of action was to get out of her suit

before the

armor melted completely, fusing onto her skin and killing her.

  Do Ranma's chi attacks manifest as heat? (New crossover -  Ranma vs. Dr.
Freeze!)

 Ranma continued to look at the boomer curiously. He didn't really need

to kill

these boomers. If he met them again, he would be able to defeat them again.
During thise battle, he had only exerted a fraction of his energy. There

was no

  Wasn't Ranma concerned earlier in the story about the amount of energy
that he had used? 

need to kill these boomers. He didn't have to worry about them returning

back to

Genom headquarters and give them data on his fighting abilites because all of
his energy came from his ki, and there was no way Genom could reporduce

that. Ki

was something only humans could possess.

  "Ms. Madigan, I would like you to meet our new special consultant on
bio-energy weapons, Mr. Tarou."

 Linna looked up at Ranma. Boomers wer programed not to attack other

boomers,

meaing if he thought she was a boomer, then that meant he was human since

boomer

deviate from its programming "Y-you mean you're not a boomer?"

 "Look," Ranma said "I'm sorry for what happened. I thought you were

boomers.

You're friend here made me realize that you're human. I'm human also, just

like

you"
 Nene said nothing. She just stood there and looked up at Ranma in

disbelief.

He was human? How could that be? Her sensors had never picked it up. But then
again, the power that he was able to generate might have keep her sensors

from

picking it up.

 Priss just stared down at Rama's outstretched hand. What kind of joke is

that,

she thought. This boomer was acting human. There was no way a human could
genterate this much power "You're not human. You lie" She gritted her

teeth as

pain shot throughout her body as she cocked her arm back. She was about to

cave

this boomer's face in, but the pain was too much for her to bare.

  There should be more doubt of Ranma's statement that he is human.  What
the Knight Sabers have seen him do would be considered superhuman. 

 "You mean about my hatred toward Genom?" Ranma started out slowly. When

Priss

nodded, he sighed and spoke "My best friend, Ukyo, was killed by a combat

boomer

that Genom created. The boomer went beserk and killed her. the boomer should
have never been created in the first place. And for that, I'm gonna make

Genom

regret having done so. It's all personal"

  Waahhh!!  You killed Ucchan!  

  In reference to another post about age, I personally think that Ranma
should be in his 50's.  It explains his incredible power levels and combat
expertise and permits you to dabble with the Ranmaverse characters' lives
post 1997.  Ranma could still be youthful looking, either a function of his
curse or of his martial arts training.

                                                                         dml