Happosai's Big Adventure, or
  Anything Goes In The Future
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i was recently sent a link for something
called the "Transformation Story Archive"
(oddly enough, it seems someone posted
Happi Days there, without telling me about
it. C'mon people, at least tell me about it if
you're gonna do things like that.)
this story is the result, as the stories there
all seem to have very similar "flavors"-
LEMON WARNING. well, sex isn't actually
depicted, but it's hinted at very strongly.
oh yeah, i don't own any of these char.
gregg, metroanime@aol.com
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    It was shortly after the Nanban Mirror
had been broken, then fixed using 
Scotch tape. Not the best of fixes, but
Happosai never let minor details stand
in his way.

    Imagining all sorts of things that one
could do with a time-travelling mirror,
Happosai allowed visions of lechery to
overwhelm him briefly. Why, he could
add to his collection of silky darlings
the most famous of bras and panties,
cop feels and ravish women noted
for their legendary beauty.

    "They'll call me MISTER Happi
from now on," chuckled the evil
martial arts master. His eyes tracked
some of the people who didn't
appreciate him. One ungrateful
wretch in particular. "First, though,
some payback."

    Happosai considered what he'd
just seen on the television earlier.
The spaceships didn't hold his 
attention. Scantily clad alien beauties,
on the other hand... Even better,
some of the gadgets in that show.
A paralysis beam would just give 
him SO much opportunity for 
mischief.

      Just thinking about it brought
a tear to his eye. Even though it
was a false tear, it was enough to
activate the fading power of the
Nanban Mirror.

    "Nanban Mirror," Happosai said
thoughtfully, "take me to a far future
where I can get my hands on some
REALLY high tech playtoys!"

	The mirror's flaring had
brought unwelcome attention. Ranma
was already leaping forward. "Hold on,
you old lech, what scheme are you up
to this time?"

	Ranma was, however, too
late.
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	Happosai reappeared and
wondered where he'd actually gone.
This couldn't be the future, could it?
It looked like a vast park, no buildings
were showing at all.

	Happosai decided to wander
around. He was sure that there had to
be something here.
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	Ranma had just turned around
and shrugged at Akane when there was
another flash of light.

	"So, old man, you get lost?"
Ranma's eyes widened. The old man had
an impressive collection of gadgets that
were strapped on him, some sort of helmet
with goggles, a device that looked a LOT 
like some kind of flamethrower, and a little
gadget that looked like some futuristic
pistol pointed directly at Ranma.

	Without any threats or gloating,
Happosai pulled the trigger and a glowing
beam struck the stunned Ranma. Ranma
fell down, a shocked look on his face.

	"Ranma?" Akane looked from
Ranma to Happosai. "What did you do to
him?" She dropped back into a defensive
stance, watching the pistol in Happosai's
hands.

	The glow from the helmet caught
her completely by surprise.

	"Relax, Akane," said Happosai
with a soothing tone. "Everything is fine."

	Akane nodded, feeling the 
tension melt out of her. Everything was
fine.

	"You want to help your dear
master, don't you, Akane? You just love
helping me. Anything I want must be a
good thing, right?"

	Akane nodded, a smile appearing
on her face. Of course she wanted to help
her master. She just LOVED helping him,
because anything he wanted to do just 
felt so RIGHT.

	"So, Akane, come along, and
help me with enlightening the others,"
Happosai jumped down to the ground
and waited for Akane to climb down.
The paralyzed Ranma could wait a 
little longer. First things first, he 
decided. He avoided the two shogi
players and entered a room at the
top of the stairs.

	"What? Oh, it's you, old
man." Nabiki looked up from her
ledger with a sigh. "Whatever you
want, it's going to cost you..."

	The odd play of lights
had caught Nabiki in the face as 
Happosai turned the device back
on. Akane entered the room and
quietly closed the door behind her.

	"Ah, Nabiki, you're going
to be a big help to me, and you're 
going to love every minute of it."

	Nabiki nodded, looking
a little confused.

	"Akane, sit next to your
sister. That's a girl." Happosai 
looked from one to the other, making
sure both had gotten a full dose of
the device's influence. "Nabiki, you'll
bring Kasumi up here for me, won't
you? Don't let her suspect anything
is unusual, though. Won't this be fun?"

	Nabiki smiled. Yes, this would
be fun. She found Kasumi in the kitchen.

	Within five minutes all three
of the Tendo daughters were sitting side
by side. Happosai grinned. This was too
perfect. The hypnopathic helmet was only
one of the powerful little gadgets he'd found
in that future world's underground civilization.

	He'd add Soun and Genma before
setting down and relaxing. Having those two
fools as guards, and chaining down Ranma
before the paralysis wore off, these were 
priorities. As for these three...

	"Listen carefully," said Happosai
with an evil chuckle. "You three are my slaves,
and you LOVE being my slaves. Your definition
of what is good is what pleases me, you will
define evil as anything which displeases me.
And you SO much want to be good little girls,
don't you?"

	Happosai was heartened by the
enthusiastic nodding of all three. With gadgets
like this, he could do things that he'd only 
dreamed of doing before. "You are going to
be of big help to me, and we will have all sorts
of fun together. You'll like that, won't you?"

	Again the enthusiastic nodding from
all three of them. Happosai sighed. He was SO
tempted to enjoy himself now, but there were
other things to do that would be even more
pleasing.

	Happosai laughed and told the three
what they had to do.
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	Ranma watched as three girls vanished,
appeared, vanished, appeared, vanished and 
appeared yet again. Each time they appeared they
were laden down with a new set of strange devices,
and a gloating Happosai would kick him as the 
procession walked past.

	Akane came back a final time,
hoisted Ranma over one shoulder, and took
him inside the house.

	Ranma still couldn't move more than
his eyes, but the overall impression he was 
getting was anything but good.

	Akane and Nabiki were wearing
bra and panties, nothing else. Kasumi was
wearing an apron as well. The two fathers
were off elsewhere in the house, though
Ranma really didn't think either of them would
have been any use even if Happosai hadn't
done anything to them at all.

	"Well, Ranma," Happosai said
after the still paralyzed Ranma had been 
thoroughly tied up by Akane and Nabiki,
"I suppose you're wondering about all
this?"

	Ranma glared as best he could.

	"I've been to the future, my boy.
A very far future. Technology is a marvelous
thing, y'know. No people, I got my suspicions,
but I don't know where they went. Imagine 
my surprise when I found out they could do
such incredible things as matter>energy>matter
conversions. Change one thing into another
just as easily as speaking to a computer and
you have whatever it is you want in seconds.
Amazing stuff, but with nobody else there, 
kinda lonely.

	"Y'know what else was amazing,
you bring some of those computers on line,
and THEY were lonely too. So I brought a
few of 'em back. Ah, I'm such a noble person,"
Happosai grinned at the helpless Ranma. "Oh,
Akane, you're going to have the honors here."

	"Of course, master!" Akane
scrambled for one of the gadget piles, a look 
of joy on her face that she had the chance 
to serve her master further.

	"Oh, yes, Ranma. Left to themselves,
they'd eventually recover from this little mind
manipulation. Unless, of course, I reinforce it
so that it becomes permanent." Happosai 
watched Akane walk back.

	"Akane, now take the injector and
give Ranma a good strong dose of those little
robot thingies."

	"Nanobots," supplied Nabiki 
helpfully as she rubbed her master's shoulders.

	Ranma watched as a smiling Akane
pushed the end of a rod into his arm. There 
was a brief hissing noise.

	"Now, Ranma, I know how much
you hate your curse. This will cure you. No
longer will you ever have to change from a
guy into a girl again. Since your uncursed 
male form is such an eyesore though, that's
the one we'll be deleting. Isn't that just
marvelous?" Happosai found it amusing
the way the blood drained from Ranma's
face.

	"I got that mix of nanobots from
the equivelant of a cosmetic surgery clinic,
by the way." Happosai watched Ranma 
carefully. "You've always been cute in your
girl form, now we just alter the male form
with these little gadgets and presto. You'll
still have a curse, but you'll be transforming
from my lil' Ranma-chan to a completely 
different woman instead of that boy form.
A lot less trouble, don't you think?"

	"Oh, and to make this really
amusing, I'm going to let Akane's mind
control lapse. She'll remember EVERYTHING
she did, though by then you won't, and 
I'll have my impenetrable fortress before
much longer."

	Happosai licked his lips. "Oh,
yes, I DO plan on getting that chef, the
gymnast with the botany fixation, even
Shampoo...Oh and with similar shots of
those robo-whatsisits, I'll have Cologne
back to the way she looked when she 
was younger, maybe get rid of the duckboy
and the pig the same way..."

	Happosai fondled Nabiki who
shivered in ecstasy. "I'm just too generous,
look at how happy I'm making those around
me. Heh heh."

	Ranma twitched, finding movement
returning to his limbs at long last. The itching
that had spread from the point of injection had
now spread over most of his body.

	"Ah, Akane, pay close attention to
Ranma there. That's a good girl. When you
remember all this later, it'll be interesting to
see how you handle it." Happosai snickered.
"Oh, and Ranma, the mental changes that I'll
put in- making you nice and docile and 
respectful for your old master...well, these
devices tell me they're 34% certain that you'll
still be aware of everything, somewhere, 
buried underneath the new personality."

	Happosai looked around the room.
"But before all that, I think that Akane-you
ought to give injections to both that fat fool
Genma in his panda form, and to your own
father. They've failed me too many times in
the past to ever be completely forgiven. 
Then I think we'll go visit a few places."

	His eyes flicked back to the 
shaking Ranma. "Don't worry, m'boy. You'll
sleep through most of it. I won't even do the
mental changes until you see what I've done
to some of your friends.

	"Revenge you see, is a dish best
served cold, and savored to the fullest 
extent."

	Ranma watched as Happosai 
left the room, only to return with a number
of gadgets. Nabiki was clothed again and
carrying something that looked like a rifle.

	"Akane," Happosai called.

	Akane ran in, smiling, having 
been doing exactly what she had been told
to do, and prostrated herself before her master.

	"Akane, we're going out for a
little while. You be sure to keep an eye on
Ranma here, make sure he doesn't get away.
If he gives you any trouble, use the paralysis
gun on him again."

	"Yes, my master," agreed Akane.
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	Ranma felt the paralysis gradually
leaving him, but one look at Akane convinced
him not to try simply breaking free of the chains
and trying to get the mirror.

	She was taking her orders quite seriously,
and he doubted that the gun had wavered an
inch since she'd taken her position there.

	"So, Akane, how's it going?"

	"It is going quite well, Ranma."

	"Oh, geez, I bet Happosai's gonna
have trouble at the Cat Cafe." Ranma was 
speaking hopefully, but he noticed the flicker
of doubt on Akane's face.

	"I'm sure the Master will emerge
victorious." Akane said as if convincing 
herself.

	Ranma tried not to grin. Happosai
had made her too dependent on him! "Well,
gee, you know, he doesn't know about those
rooms under the Cafe. You remember where 
Cologne has that big damn hot tub where she
was tormenting me with the Phoenix Pill?"

	Akane nodded, looking slightly
more upset. The Master might not know of the
traps the old woman would have!

	Ranma struck again. "Damn, this
paralysis stuff stinks. I can't even scratch.
All I can do to get at you is imagine how 
pissed Happi is gonna be when he finds 
out you didn't give him some important
information."

	Akane checked his ropes, 
thought about it, then hit him with another
paralysis blast. Then she took off at a run.
She could tell her Master and be back before
Ranma could get free. 

	Ranma grinned. By making them
such thoroughly dependent slaves, Happi 
had also lowered their ability to make rational 
decisions.

	He couldn't move much, but he
could see the Nanban mirror and knew what
he had to do.

	To cry, all he had to do was think
about what was going to happen to Akane in
the meantime.
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	well, we can see where this one's
going, can't we? Ranma clenching the mirror
in his teeth, has the Nanban take him to the
same future that Happosai left, and then has
to get out of his bonds.

	During this time, the nanobots are
doing their preprogrammed function (as well
as partially blocking the effects of the paralysis 
beam.)

	Ranma's in the future. Happosai's
consolidating his little empire, and using the
future technology to become a version of
Ben Yulin (from the "Well Of Souls" series
of novels by Jack Chalker, i think it was Quest
but i haven't read the series in years.)

	When Ranma gets back, it's future
tech vs future tech, but Ranma knows a little
bit more about the limits and problems with
this stuff- and WHY there's nobody left in
that future world.

	Just a little rock being thrown out
there, to see if it makes a splash or just vanishes.
Frankly i think this is one of those pieces that
others with more experience in epics and lemons
could write better...

ja ne,

gregg