Genom Corporation: Madigan and her assistant were alone, to discuss the
discovery of a superboomer running loose....whom happens to be Ranma.



  Carper walked over to a screen that was on one of the walls of his office and
clicked on a button. It showed a profile of a household boomer, the first kind
of boomer Genom had created "Well, there's the simple boomers, the ones used for
everyday human chores, which is a class 1-A boomer. The number '1' states its
powerlevel output, while the 'A' states its revision type"
  "I know that you fool" Madigan spat, "Now get on with it. You're already
trying my patience"
  "Sorry," he said. He took a breath and continued "Well, as you know, the C-55
combat boomer is a class 3-C Boomer model. The BU-12b is a class 4-B model while
the Dobermans are a class 4-E model. And as you know, the higher the revision
number, the deadlier the boomer. That means a C-55 boomer which has been
upgraded to class, say, 3-E or even class 3-F, would be able to destroy a class
4-A or even a 4-B boomer"
  "Yeah," Madigan said, leaning up against Caper's chair. She felt a bit angry
for the little lecture, but she knew he was trying to getting to the point "get
on with it"
  "Well, out most most advanced boomers, the four prototype one that were wiped
out on the artifical island not too long ago, were class 5-A models. So that
means, as of right now, the strongest boomer Genom can create is a 5-A model
boomer. Now, based on the boomer association class scale that we have and use,
this superboomer that the Knight Sabers seemed to have created seem more along
the lines of, get this, a class 23-A model boomer."
  "What?!"
  "Yes" Carper said "As of right now," He emphasized his words as he his open
hand on his table "he would be considered a 23-A model superboomer." 
  "What do you mean 'right now'?" Madigan asked. She swallowed the lump that had
formed in her throat. This was almost too much for her. Something of that class
must be be out of Genom's technological grasp by over fifty years.
  "This is the class it is associated with because of what we know about it,"
Carper continued, "Its projectiles are that of a class 23-A model boomer, but we
have no idea what kind of class it is in hand-to-hand combat. Also, we have no
idea what else it is capable of. Even though it seemed to have destroyed all
four of our prototype 5-A boomers, we have the funny feeling it was not only
holding back, but had only used a fraction of its energy"
  Madigan sat down in one of the office chairs. This was too much for her. How
can the Knight Sabers have created a superboomer this powerful? It was
impossible.
  "Well, what do you think about the Knight Sabers," Madigan asked, looking up
at the screen. It showed a green, wire-framed outline of Ranma, all the way down
to his pig-tail "What class would you consider them in?"
  "Well, this is just a hypothesis," Carper began "I think it's somwhere around
the 6-A to 6-B class"
  "You mean they created a boomer that is nearly four times more powerful?" she
asked shocked.
  "Yes," he said in a calm and rational voice "This superboomer seems capable of
taking out the entire Knight Sabers at once"
  "Shit!" she cursed. She knew how powerful the Knight Sabers were, and the
thought of something that was as powerful as all four of them at once made the
hairs on the back of her neck stand on end. She was was here to take over
Mason's job after his death, which also meant the disposal of the Knight Sabers.
And now that they had this superboomer working along side them, things had taken
a turn for the worse.
  "I wonder why the would create a monster so powerful?" she said  to herself
thoughtfully "I can't imagine what might happen if it goes beserk?"
  "As much as I want it to go beserk while in the precense of the Knight
Sabers," he took a deep breath, wondering if it was all right to speak even when
he wasn't being spoken to "I would rather not find out"
  "Well, what about this boomer's intelligence level?" she asked. Maybe the
boomer lacked intelligence because something might had been sacrificed for the
extreme power output, and intellience was most likely. Heck, if there was
something that could generate that much power, it wouldn't even need an AI chip.
All it needed was a program that discerned the Knight Sabers from boomers.
  "Well, if we use the same boomer assiciation class, it would still be leaps
and bounds over out own boomer AI chips. It seems to have the same intellegence
as the Knight Sabers, except it also has the ability to adapt. It semeed like it
is capable of incorporating strategy into its fights"
  "What does that mean?" she asked.
  "Let's say that superboomer is engaged in combat with, say, ten of our
prototype boomers," Carper said "And it's fighting them under an overpass or
major highway. It is probably capable of realizing that blowing up the highway
above the boomers would easily wipe out all ten boomers at once instead of
fighting them all one at a time"
  "Goddamn!!! How is it capable of doing such things?! This is absolutely
ludicrous!" Madigan felt a bit dizzy. This wasn't a superboomer. It was more
like a walking army.
  "It's so intelligent that it wanders the streets as we speak. It seems capable
of interacting with society as if it were totally human. Also, there's more,"
Carper conitnued, "This superboomer is _extremely_ agile, so agile that it is
capable of dodging bullets"
  Madigan has heard enough of the bad news. She needed some good ones "Okay,
enough already on its capabilites. What do you have on its weakness?"
  Carper smiled "You're gonna like this. This superboomer can't fly. It's most
probable that the ability to fly was sacrificed for the power output. Also, it
has virutally no armor whatsoever, meaning a single cannon blast would destroy
it. This boomer also seem to be programmed to protect human life if possible.
That's all I have on it so far, but this definitely helps balance the scales a
bit"
  Madigan sighed. Although she now knew of its weakness, it wouldn't help much
at all.
  "But don't worry," Carper said, "I have a plan. We found someone, a human,
that is capable of generating powers akin to this superboomer we're up against"
  "Human?" Madigan said in shock "This has got to be some mistake. How can some
human generate power like that? Where is it all coming from?"
  "I can't explain It," Carper said, "We found him living in the mountains
around China a few weeks ago while we were up there looking for another location
to set up another boomer manufactory. We tried to scan him, but we couldn't, so
we assumed he was some new superboomer our competitors created, so we sent one
of our scouting boomers in for a closer inspection. The person, somehow, was
able to feel the boomer's presense, but he showed no hostile intentions. He
actually started communicating with our boomer, and it turns out that the person
was not only human, but was fooled that our scout wasn't a boomer. From what I
gather, although he's japanese, I believe he's been living in China for most his
life, and has no idea about boomer how much technology had advanced since China
isn't as developed as Japan"
  "Where is he now?" she asked, "I want him to help us out"
  "I'm sorry," Carper said weakly, "But that's not possible. We have no idea
where he is." 
  He had a tendancy of getting lost....


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