Ben looked around. Yeah, it looked like the right place. Stone walls,
little washer woman (what was her name, anyway?), P-chan walking past
with Ryouga's clothes in a pile, Mousse flying over head. Yep, it was
Nerima. Now, since he was probably going to live here from now on, he'd
have to get used to the rules.
1) Forget all laws of physics and chuck most of your knowledge of
almost everything save Math, spelling, grammar, English and Japanese.
Everything else is useless.
2) You will, against your will or not, become romantically involved
with someone. It does not matter whether or not you want this.
3) You will gain a rival. It doesn't matter if you fight or not. It's
just a matter of time.
4) Anything that can go wrong will go wrong and it'll most likely
involve YOU.
5) It's dangerous to think rationally. It might do you good, but it's
still dangerous.
6) For kami-sama's sake, make sure that you can dodge REALLY well when
entering a fighting oriented world or one that has a lot of fighting.
7) If you're going after someone who already has followers or fiancees,
make sure that you can at least defend yourself against them. Some can
and WILL go psycho and you'll most like wind up wearing 'Cement Shoes'.
8) If Akane, Shampoo, Ryouga, Genma, Soun, Kuno and/or Kodachi think
you're wrong, they'll believe you are wrong, even if you give them
undeniable proof that you're right.
9) Never eat Akane, Shampoo or Kodachi's cooking; Never follow or
listen to Ryouga for directions; Don't get into a rivalry (if it can be
avoided) with the stronger fighters; Try not to get a standard Jusenkyo
Curse (I.E. what's been seen in the series. It's all been done to
death); and finally, if there's an invasion of aliens, demons or
tentacle creatures, make sure you have sufficient rations, weapons and
shelter, you'll need it.
And 10) If you accidentally wind up in an alternate world, forget
everything you know about the world. It's probably completely wrong.
(If this rule comes into play, listen to gossip to find out if the other
rules still apply).
So long as Ben remembered these things, he should be able to survive
three whole days in Nerima. Of course, this was if he was feeling
pessimistic. He'd probably stay alive for about a week, if he were an
optimist.
Ben decided that first things should be done first. His background
needed to be established, should he manage to actually LIVE in Nerima.
So, he headed off for the nearest Police Box. The police officer
directed him to the appropriate govenment building.
After waiting eighty-two hours in line (government red tape makes
EVERYTHING slow, regardless of what country it is), Ben headed off to
find a job. After all, you had to be able to support yourself in this
town. If you couldn't, you'd wind up slave to someone.
An hour later, he managed to find a small tea shop to work at. The pay
wasn't awesome, but it was work. The next thing for him to do was find
a place to live that wouldn't be disturbed. It was relatively easy to
find an empty lot, especially in Nerima.
After that, he had to get enrolled in school. He was a senior, so the
chances of him meeting the Ranma 1/2 cast were low (Thank Kami-sama).
It wasn't that he DIDN'T want to meet them, it was just that trouble
seemed to follow them. (Wow, talk about summary.)
Ben sighed as he listened to the teacher, a Mr. Touji Fujisawa. He had
messy black hair, brown eyes, wore a black jumpsuit of an odd nature and
occasionally called for a Nanami or Makoto to answer a question. When
he did that, the class pretty much remained silent as apparently no one
was named Nanami or Makoto.
At least the man knew his history and his geography. Unfortunately,
this was supposed to be Remedial Japanese. A class that Ben needed as
he could only make choppy-Shampooish sentences. At least he knew the
Kanji and Romanji. Now if he could only speak it properly.
It was now Math class. Ben struggled to keep from yawning. At least
the teacher was oblivious enough so Ben could read a book. Ben decided
that maybe taking Geometry to restart his brain wasn't the best idea.
Then, Ben noted some giggling off to his left. He ignored it and
continued to read. Just as it was getting to the good part where Phalse
was thrown into the Elemental Plane of Positive Energy when the giggling
just got too damn annoying to continue reading. He turned to see two
girls looking at a comedy book and giggling uncontrollably. Ben sighed.
When would he finally get into a class where people were MATURE?
He decided that the situation that he desired would probably be at the
end of the world.
Ben yawned as he sat under a tree near the school. It was currently
lunch time. Furinkan was just too dull on off days. Of course, all of
the class were taught by people who either had nothing left to lose or
were the only ones available.
Then, he took note of someone sitting down nearby. He glanced and
realized that it was one of the girls who had been giggling
uncontrollably in Math class. though she was calmer now. She was
shorter than him (as he had found out after class) by about seven
inches. She had light brown hair that was and had blue eyes. Next to
her was the other girl, who had been giggling hysterically. She had
black hair that seemed to defy gravity, brown eyes and was the same
height as the first girl.
Then, a young man carrying what looked like a staff rapped in cloth
walked over. He was about the same height as the girls, if not slightly
taller, had spiky black hair and brown eyes as well.
"Asako-chan, Mayuko-chan, what was with that giggling fit earlier?" the
boy asked.
"Nothing." the black-haired girl replied, though her face said she was
ready to burst into laughter again.
"Asako-chan, you shouldn't lie to Ushio-kun." the brown-haired one
scolded the black-haired girl
Asako frowned, then sighed and pulled out the book from earlier. She
held it up to Ushio. Ushio looked at it, then burst into laughter and
fell onto the ground, clutching himself as he laughed himself to tears.
Ben shook his head and went back to his book. He was nearing the part
where Giogi Wyvernspur manages to kill Flattery's Blue Dragon form.
After school, Ben watched as Ranma-chan and Akane walk home as he
headed for his new job. Ranma-chan was reading something.
"....signed, Kurenai Tsubasa. Hey, is Tsubasa a boy's name or a girl's
name? Ah, I guess it could be both." Ranma-chan commented.
"Don't tell me your father got you engaged AGAIN." Akane said,
irrately.
"Don't ask me." Ranma-chan replied.
Ben sighed. So, they were only this far. And, as expected, a pop
machine suddenly charged Ranma-chan and slammed into the wall. And a
young 'woman' fell out. Ben decided to just get to work. No point in
wasting his time right now.
After a long (and boring) day at the Tea shop, Ben headed for his tent
and crawled in. He made triple-sure that no one was sleeping in his
tent (you were never sure in Nerima), got in his sleeping bag and did
his darndest to get to sleep.
Of course, when he did, he had a dream of being a break-dancing pirate
on a ship full of beautiful women, but enough about that.
The next day, Ben watched in boredom as Tsubasa and Ranma-chan had a
'sell-off'. Ranma-chan didn't, of course, do so well until she decided
to put on a bunny outfit. Then, Tsubasa appeared in a tree costume.
"HA! Looks like you lose! You still have an okonomiyaki left to
sell!" Tsubasa laughed.
"That's because I asked her to save one for me. That last okonomiyaki
is mine." Ukyou Kuonji declared, pulling out a coin.
Tsubasa's heart fell as she saw Ukyou take the last okonomiyaki from
Ranma-chan's bin.
"Darling Ukyou.....," Tsubasa began, her eyes tearing up, "....all
right. If that's the way you feel....I'll go away now"
"Tsubasa!" Ranma-chan said, leaping after her.
"Ranchan!" Ukyou exclaimed.
"Ranma!" Akane yelled.
"How dull." Ben muttered, having known what was going to happen since
the whole thing began. At least he won at Nabiki's betting pool. And
at the odds that Nabiki offered, he was going to get triple what he bet.
Especially since he made an extra bet that one of the losers would run
off crying and the other would chase her.
"I don't know how you knew, but I'd like to know your secret." Nabiki
said, handing Ben his winnings.
"Let just say I am lucky at these things." Ben said while smiling
evilly.
"Uh-huh. And I'm a giant purple iguana." Nabiki replied.
"You might be. I am farsighted." Ben joked, leaving.
"Man, he really needs to learn how to speak Japanese." Nabiki
commented.
"<I heard that.>" Ben replied in English.
Nabiki blinked and tried to translate the sentence.
"What?" Nabiki asked.
"<Huh? Damn, slipped back into English,>" Ben muttered to himself
before speaking up, "I heard that."
Ben left, counting his money. Nabiki glared after him.
"I'll find out how he knew or my name is Mud." Nabiki said.
"No, that's my name." Mud replied.
Nabiki rolled her eyes and left Mud to his stupid joke.
"<Damn Conjunctions. I wish I could speak Japanese as well as I can
speak English.>" Ben muttered to himself as he wiped the tables at the
Jinnai Tea Shop.
"<Maybe if you spoke Japanese more, you'd learn it faster.>" the
store's owner, Ms. Nanami Tsuki, said, causing Ben to yelp and jumped
into the air briefly.
"Hai, Tsuki-san!" Ben said, bowing.
"You tend to forget that I lived in the US for a few years. Anyhow,
I'm not one to scold you. After all, I know how tempting it is to slip
back into your own language. The first lesson you must learn is that,
no matter HOW tempting it is, never do so. Speak in Japanese, think in
Japanese. Do everything in Japanese and you'll learn Japanese well
enough." Ms. Tsuki told him.
Ben nodded.
"Are you done cleaning the tables?" Ms. Tsuki asked, brushing some of
her premature grey hair out of her face.
"Hai, Tsuki-san." Ben said, bowing.
"And don't call me Tsuki-san. Call me Nanami-chan. Or I'll break your
fingers." Ms. Tsuki said, before laughing briefly.
Ben laughed along too until he noticed she was glaring at him with her
piercing blue eyes.
"Gomen nesai." Ben said, bowing.
"It's okay. I just hate people who call me Tsuki-san. It makes me
feel eighty. And I'll have you know that this hair is from stress. I
happen to be twenty-five." Nanami replied.
"Hai, Nanami-chan." Ben responded.
"Make sure you close up." Nanami said.
Nanami smiled and left, muttering something about 'that damn
Demon-Goddess swiping her man' and 'her damn ex-brother and that bug
queen bitch'. Ben paused briefly, then decided that he REALLY didn't
want to know.
Then, a burst of light filled the room as Nanami left. A blond man
stood in the middle of the room. His hair seemed to grow straight up.
He had on a purple jacket with a sword strapped to his back.
"Damn, wrong time." Trunks cursed as he vanished in the same burst of
light that brought him here.
Ben decided he REALLY didn't want to know and just closed up the shop.
He put on his jacket and hat before locking the door.
As Ben walked back to his empty lot/home, he noted there was some
activity in the park. He walked over in time to see Umino start
declaring his love for Naru just before the Dark Kingdom monster
attacked. Ben sighed and decided to just let thing be as he walked
home. The senshi would handle things here. Of course, he was a bit
baffled as to why that was happening here. Wasn't Juuban district
somewhere else?
The next day was a free day, so Ben decided to spend some time just
lounging in the park. Ranma-kun was waiting for Tsubasa at the
fountain. As usual, the pack of cats ran by, causing Ranma to latch
onto Tsubasa for dear life, who in turn, launched Ranma into the
fountain. Ben watched in amusement as Ryouga walked out of a grove of
trees, in front of Ben and behind Akane, and into another grove of trees
as Tsubasa noted that Ranma-chan was now in the fountain. Tsubasa
yelped and grabbed Ranma-chan and raced out of the park.
Ben WOULD have just ignored the whole thing, but he saw Kei and Yuri,
trouble consultants for the WWWA, chasing a suspect and firing at
boomers. He decided that maybe it would be better and safer to follow
Tsubasa and Ranma-chan. Besides, this would be another sign that he
might not be in the right universe.
As he and Akane chased after Tsubasa and Ranma-chan, he heard
Ranma-chan mumble something about a 'hot bath'.
"Your wish is my command!" Tsubasa declared, taking off faster.
It wasn't hard following Tsubasa and Ranma-chan, especially seeing as
Ben had spent the morning finding all of the more important places in
Nerima, especially the Tendo Dojo.
Soon, the four arrived at the Tendo Dojo where Tsubasa tossed
Ranma-chan into the bath where Soun was currently relaxing.
"Um, young lady...." Soun began.
Ranma burst out of the water.
"Oh! It's just YOU." Tsubasa said.
"Look, why can't you just like guys?" Ranma asked.
"Cause I don't! I've got to get going if I'm to see my dear Ukyou!"
Tsubasa snapped.
"But-AAAAH" Ranma yelped as he slipped and tore the front of Tsubasa's
dress.
Akane and Ben looked in. Then, Akane noticed Ben.
"Hey, who are you?" Akane asked.
"Innocent bystander. The park was getting dangerous, so I decided to
follow you." Ben replied as an explosion was heard in the distance.
"Good point." Akane replied, glancing in the direction of the
explosion.
"Um, you might want to given her something to wear. He just tore her
dress." Ben commented.
"Oh, yeah." Akane said.
Akane took off her school jacket and put it over Tsubasa where the
majority of the tear was. However, as much as Ben didn't want to
notice, he couldn't help but notice the evidence that Tsubasa was indeed
a girl.
"Why do not I help her home? It would seem that your friend will need
an ice pack." Ben said, gesturing towards Ranma, who was currently
clutching his jaw.
"Thanks a lot. Ranma, you're such a jerk!" Akane said, heading off to
get an ice pack.
"Thubaha?" Ranma asked through clenched teeth.
Tsubasa turned back to Ranma.
"Thorry about that." Ranma said.
Tsubasa sighed.
"It's all right. I guess I AM weird. But it's the way _I_ want to
live my life, okay?" Tsubasa asked.
Ranma nodded. Tsubasa smiled slightly.
"I'm sorry I called you butt-ugly Ranma. See you tomorrow." Tsubasa
said, leaving Ranma and Ben a bit confused.
Ben lead Tsubasa home to make sure no perverts or thugs tried to take
advantage of her. As they reached Tsubasa's house, Tsubasa turned to
Ben.
"Thank you for leading me home." Tsubasa said.
"It is nothing." Ben replied.
"No, seriously, thanks. I don't think I could've made it home."
Tsubasa replied.
"You are welcome." Ben said.
"You never said your name." Tsubasa said.
"Ben. You?" Ben asked to be polite.
"Kurenai Tsubasa." Tsubasa replied.
Ben waved as he left. Not the canon Ranma 1/2 world, but then again,
he never assumed that it was.
Ranma-chan yelped as she ran to school. Tsubasa was chasing her in a
sign outfit while managing to carry a bouquet of roses.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" Ranma-chan yelled.
"I should have known." Ben muttered to himself.
That afternoon was a bit more lively at the Tea shop as people came in
to enjoy some hot tea on such a cold and wet day. Ben almost didn't
hear Nanami scream and the evil laughter of a perverted old man. Ben
growled to himself as Happosai leapt out of the Manager's office and
began running for Ben, no doubt to steal some tea and snacks. Ben hoped
that his limited karate training would help here.
Ben slid to the side, delivered the rest of the tea and snacks while
snap-kicking Happosai in the face. Ben then spun around and swatted
Happosai outside with his tray, sending the old pervert into the wall.
"Wow. Maybe I should make you a bouncer too." Nanami commented,
looking at Happosai's downed form as everyone in the resturant clapped.
"Maybe. Then again, maybe not. I will go dispose of him." Ben said,
walking outside.
He grabbed the tiny form and noted that Happosai couldn't possibly
weigh more than a football. Smiling evilly, he kicked the pervert
skyward just like he used to do with his old football.
[Hmmm, maybe I should go out Football.....nah. With my luck, it'll be
Martial Arts Football.] Ben thought to himself.
Ben went back into the shop and began working again. After work, he
decided to work on his skills. If he could stop and punt Happosai,
chances were that he could get up to the level of the better fighers.
Then again, maybe he was stronger because he was from a different
dimension. As he was about to get home, he noticed a Cardian. Deciding
to try out his theory, he took up a fighting stance. He just had to
remember what he had learned in all his karate classes and practice it.
Following a mild butt-stomping, Ben pulled himself out of the street
where the creature had set his body into the concrete. With a lot of
pain, he stumbled to Doctor Tofu's clinic, ignoring Trunks who appeared
again, cursed and vanished again.
"Well, nothing broken or fractured. You'll get quite a few large
bruises, but otherwise, you'll be fine." Dr. Tofu related to him upon
finishing his examination.
"That is good." Ben replied.
[At least I know I'm not stronger.] Ben thought to himself.
That meant his catching Happosai and punting him into orbit was just
luck. Now, he was determined to get better. Once he healed.
About a week later, Ben had finally healed. By pure coincidence,
Nanami had decided to take a brief holiday and closed the tea shop for
two weeks. Ben took the oppurtunity to head up to the mountains and
begin his ultimate training session. In two weeks, he'd be better than
a majority of the fighters in Nerima or he'd die trying. He lit a large
campfire, dumped chestnuts in and the training began.
For three days, the mountains echoed of almost constant with English
swearing and cursing. On the fourth, a victory whoop. Ben laughed
maniacally and crushed the chestnuts in his hand. He went over to the
nearby lake and caught himself eight fish with the newly found speed he
had.
Up until the fourteenth day, the English swearing and cursing echoed
through the mountains again. By the end of the last day, the mountain
were echoing explosions and evil laughter.
"<Kachuu Teshin Amiguriken, check. Bakusai Tenketsu, check. Time for
the... aw, son of a bi- better get back.>" Ben muttered to himself in
English as he noticed that his little vacation was over.
Of course, Nanami had mentioned that she was going to hire more help...
maybe in a week or so, he could return to the training.
The following week and a half were boring as all heck. The tea shop
and school both were rather boring since the Tsubasa incident. Then,
Tsubasa got a job at the tea shop Ben worked at. Ben spent the rest of
the week showing Tsubasa the ropes of the job. The following week, he
took another vacation. He spent half of it chasing down boars and
taunting them into charging him. And, by the end of the week, he was
covered in bandages and launching pigs above the clouds.
"<Hiryuu Shoten Ha, check.>" Ben gasped out, smuggly, before
collapsing.
"HA! Pigs'll fly the day you beat me, Ryouga." Ranma commented.
They both stopped and watched as a boar flew into sight on the horizon,
shoot past them from above them and out of sight. Ryouga lunged at
Ranma.
"THAT DOESN'T COUNT!" Ranma replied.
When Ben returned to school and to work, he was much more confident
that he'd be able to survive. After all, he was better than Ryouga and
Ranma combined. But according to his check list, he wasn't even a third
of the way to the power level he would require to become the most
powerful fighter in Nerima. After all, Happosai and Cologne were still
far stronger than him. However, Ben made one big flaw in when he
started his training. He had forgotten a law he had developed while
watching Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon and Ranma 1/2. And it goes like
this:
Law X: If a fighting character grows more powerful than the rest of the
cast, he or she will instantly become the target of even MORE powerful
fighters. And if there are no such available fighters on Earth that can
currently defeat that first fighter, one will be imported from outer
space, another dimension or the nature of the fight will differ.
Example: Ranma is the most powerful fighter in the Ranma 1/2 series
normally. However, Ryouga, Mousse, Kuno, Happosai, Cologne, etc. always
find ways to become even stronger. Ranma usually must train heavily to
gain a new technique to defeat the new strength. Yet, the fight is not
always physical. Ranma also fights opponents that play poker, deliver
ramen, etc. This is how the nature of the fight can differ.
Ben had forgotten this in his quest to become stronger than the rest of
the fighters in Nerima. He was in for a rude awakening.
Ben looked over his list and tried to figure out something that would
be relatively easy to learn.
1. Kachuu Teshin Amiguriken /
2. Bakusai Tenketsu /
3. Hiryu Shoten Ha /
4. Hiryu Shoten Ha: revision 1 /
5. Hiryu Shoten Ha: revision 2 /
6. Mouko Takabisha
7. Shishi Houkodan
8. Full Shishi Houkodan
9. Kame Hame Ha
10. Hadoken
11. Ray of Light/Crescent Beam
12. Final Heaven
13. Dragon Dive
14. Teleportation
15. Flight
16. Martial Arts Super-Jump (note: Flight would make this rather
absurd)
17. Super Ben Big Bang Attack
18. Ultimate Attack (decide later)
19. Final Attack
"Hmmm, flight would seem to be the next task." Ben muttered to himself.
Ben stood in the middle of the lot and began trying to figure out a way
to fly.
Meanwhile, in accordance to Law X, a small spherical object shot
towards Earth. It was ahead of schedule by a few decades, thanks to a
handy wormhole, but Earth would rue the day that wormhole opened up.
Inside the capsule, was a warrior who was more powerful than anything
Earth had seen in it's long history. Ben would know who this person was
and what this person would herald the beginning of.
It had taken a while to even begin floating a bit. It took longer to
get comfortable with the fact that he WAS flying. It was about after a
full two days of practicing and getting used to it that Ben could say
that he knew how to fly reasonably well. He still had trouble with
sudden air currents appearing, but he was all right with it. Better
than he was with the Japanese language. Still couldn't get those darn
conjunctions down.
It didn't take long for Ben to attract a crowd of people by flying to
school. Especially the attention of the martial artists. Ranma in
particular, who couldn't fly (Ranma could, however, throw big rocks,
rotten fruit, small black piglets, etc). Ben found the idea of teaching
Ranma anything a tad absurb. He knew as well as anyone that the instant
you try to teach something to someone, everyone else will want the same
teaching. And he wasn't going to bother with that kind of a mess,
because it was only a matter of time until someone he disliked wanted to
learn and he'd make a snide comment and get stomped on.
He also found out that his ability to fly had just been coincidentally
timed with the release of Superman. Ben knew this was the fault of slow
translators. He'd have to wait a few years before even seeing the
release of Terminator 2...again. In any case, the release of Superman
had begun a train of thought for the girls in Nerima. Superman could
fly. Ben could fly. Superman could lift someone. Ben had proven that
he could no doubt lift someone (without looking like he was lifting
ninety thousand pounds). The movie had a really romantic scene in the
clouds between a man in blue and red tights and a girl. Ben wouldn't
look all THAT bad in blue and red tights.
Now, had Mikado Sanzenin been the one to learn this talent, he would've
been more than happy with the resulting mob of girls who wanted to be
his girlfriend.
Ben was far from Mikado Sanzenin. In fact, Ben would've killed anyone
who even TRIED to compare him to Mikado. It should be noted that Ben
hates Mikado because Ben hates Casanova-wannabes. It would be okay to
have a fanclub, that wasn't the problem with Ben. It wasn't the fact
that the fanclub was almost completely made of females. That wasn't the
problem either. It wasn't the fact that Mikado was once the subject of
his sister's twisted fantasies. That wasn't the problem either
(although, it did cause Ben to get nine bottles of Pepto Bismal when his
sister went on to tell him about said fantasies. Ben finally shut her
up by claiming that Mikado was bishonen, thus he was gay. Ben's
black-eye and dislocated shoulder healed in a mere six weeks). It was
Mikado's attitude towards women. He thought of them as nothing except
maybe toys with a sexy bodies. Ben had no doubt in his mind that if
Mikado did not have a fanclub, he'd be a necrophiliac or at least, a Bud
Bundy clone. But, enough about that.
Ben wasn't pleased with this development because of a few reasons. 1)
This meant he was now more popular than everyone else thus upping the
stakes, so when and if he decided to start a relationship with anyone,
it would become very difficult. 2) This also meant that a pack of girls
followed him constantly. 3) This _also_ meant he'd have to tell them to
go back to their own classes. 4) This meant that they'd tackle him
later at lunchtime and try to offer him their lunches. 5) This meant if
he took one, he'd have to take all of them. 6) This meant he'd have to
EAT all of them or risk them crying or bragging. 7) This meant he'd
have to apologize to them. 8) This meant that the next day, those who
he might've offended would bring even MORE food for him to eat. 9) This
meant stomach pump. 10) This meant listening to apologies and trying to
calm them down. 11) This meant he felt guilty about not being able to
eat that much food. 12) This meant he'd become so depressed that he'd
learned the Shishi Houkodan after two days. 13) This meant he was going
to be followed by martial artists. 14) This meant Nabiki was going to
get interested in him and trying to resist Nabiki's business deals was
like trying to get a stack of playing cards to stay together on that old
washing machine that you had to battle to keep it from leaving the
laundry room (Author's Note: If you haven't actually had to do it, then
you've no doubt seen it or heard of it). Mind you, without cheating and
taping or gluing the cards in place. Yeah, that improbable. Not even
an egotistical self-insertion character would be able to resist her.
Within the bounds of Reality, mind you.
Anyway, this was the pressure pot that began to build in Nerima. It
had been aching for something or someone to pounce on and beat the
living crap out of, so it was only a matter of time. Ben was that
someone. Everyone in Nerima was the pouncer. The tension was so thick
that you couldn't cut it with a knife, you needed a chainsaw and nine
hours of free time. All it needed was the right spark to explode,
sending the stuff against the fan. And remember, when the stuff hits
the fan, it doesn't distribute evenly.
To Ben, it seemed to start right out of the blue. To the rest of
Nerima, it had been coming for days, weeks even. Ben was being watched
by the martial artists of Nerima. The martial artists were being
watching by Nabiki's surveilance team. The surveilance team was being
watched by everyone in Nerima that wasn't a martial artist and had put
down money on who would be the one to spark the explosion that was sure
to rock Nerima.
Surprisingly, it came from Kasumi asking Ranma what he was doing on
Mrs. Tseng's roof, startling him and causing him to bolt upright too
quickly, making his pants drop down around his ankles, which immediately
made him trip, roll down the roof and fall down in front of Ben. Ryouga
immediately jumped out of hiding and declared that Ranma wasn't going to
get the secrets from Ben by seducing him, which in hindsight, sounded
really stupid and immediately caused all Ranma's fiancees to leap up and
demand to know from Ranma if what Ryouga was babbling about was true,
which caused more and more people to leap out of nowhere to make
comments until finally, it broke down into an all-out brawl.
To his credit, Ben lasted ten whole minutes before being slammed
half-way through a wall, head-first. Ranma lasted fifteen minutes
before having his head buried into the pavement. Ryouga lasted fourteen
and a half before the combined assualt of all of Ranma's fiancees
defeated him. The immediate seven square blocks lasted nine minutes
before being totalled completely.
(What Ranma was doing on that roof is his own damn business, you
perverts! - TharzZzDunN)
And for those who care, Yuka won the betting pool by betting that
Kasumi would start the whole deal by startling Ranma, causing his pants
to fall down around his ankles and trip him sending him rolling down an
alleyway/roof and stop/land in front of Ben. And since she had bet on
such long odds, she'd won even more money.
When Ranma woke up a day later, he found that Ben had hovered home and
Ryouga had gotten lost on his way to the bathroom. He was upset. Not
only had Ryouga called him a pervert, but he never even got to hit the
Eternal Lost Boy for the comment. There had been way too many people in
his way. Amazing how many people popped up just to comment or fight.
But, Ranma had to wonder who that guy in the red 'Security' shirt and
the golden framed glasses was. He felt like he knew the guy for years,
but couldn't place the face. He really wanted to know, because it was
most likely that he was the one to plant Ranma's face in the pavement,
saying something about him "deserving Ukyou more than Ranma" and
"Spatulas forever".
Ben fully recovered from the whole situation about three days later,
but had been active since the day following the incident. Of course, he
was tortured with feverish nightmares of the Wizard of Oz, featuring
Kodachi as the wizard, P-chan as Toto and the starting line-up for the
1976 Philedelphia Flyers as the flying monkeys.
Ben was hovering to school for the next week, though. This brought
more attention from the martial artists. The pot had boiled over, but
someone seemed to have put fresh water in, as well as some ramen noodles
and some spices.
"I AM NOT GAY!" Ranma declared, defending himself.
"HARK! YOU WOULD DARE TO QUESTION WHAT THE GREAT TATEWAKI KUNO'S EYES
SAW?! NOW, SURRENDER THE PIGTAILED GIRL AND AKANE TENDO!" Tatewaki Kuno
declared, holding his freudian phallic symbol before him.
It should be noted that Ranma had just started taking psychology.
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End Chapter One.
C&C, MSTs and anything else will be accepted. If I get enough
responses (i.e. more than two), I'll continue this story.
I have no clue what to call this except: The Insipid Adventures Of Yet
Another Self-Inserter.
Oh well. I had some help in parts from ????? (who helped me with the
scene with the Cardian), Huh? (who helped in the last scene) and C-chan
(who insisted on the whole boil over scene).
Ben McCrillis <aka. A-kun>
reply at akun15@hotmail.com
"Hey, what's this do?" - David
"NOOOOOO!" - Ren and Amelia
*CLICK* Suddenly, they were surrounded by glowing metal golems.
"AAAAW, F*(K!!!" - Ren
Scene from Slayers Revival, coming.... oh, I don't know. But I _AM_
actually working on it, unlike those other fakey scenes I make up.
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