The disclaimer, practically every character here is NOT mine.  They all belong to their respective company.  I am using a lot of them, so I can't list them all.  Beside, I am gonna add more series to the story later on.  Don't sue me.  You won't get a penny out of me.  Trust me, you won't.  For others, there are SOME characters I made up, but who cares?  I don't.


Ranma Crossover fanfic

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STALLION

Chapter 3.

< For every hero, he requires a villain.  For him to look GOOD, he needs damsels in distress. >


Part 1.




Inside the park, people were enjoying the holiday with their family or the loved ones.  It was a perfect day for some outside fun.  The students were in their summer vacation.  Many workers were let off early because it was saturday.  The weather was just great.  In every aspect, it was perfect for a day in the amusement park.

All the rides had long lines in front of them, the grass field was covered with picnic blankets, and the pool was swarmed with so many people that it was hard to see WATER.  The park was surely overcrowded, but it didn't prevent people from enjoying the moments.

It was a place like this where the evil loved to strike.

A man stood on a branch of a tree.  He was in a uniform, the one not unlike the ones of the Negaverse but with some differences.  His uniform was all-black, and there was a mark of yellow circle on the chest.  The biggest difference was, however, that the clothes itself had subtle, but dark flame surrounding it.

He smirked as he watched the happy people down below.  He had a purpose to serve and it required some energy, but little different one from the one that those weenies from the Negaverse had been collected.

It was the fear.

It was the chaos.

It was the agonizing pain of human suffering.

"Enjoy, you poor mortals.  Soon you are going to thank me for letting you have the moment.  Right before you scream of your terror!  Khhahahahahahahaha!!!"




"Wow!  That was fun, wasn't it, Tenchi-niichan?  Tenchi-niichan?"

"*Gasp* Hold.. there.. sec..  I just.. need.. catch.. my breath..."

The master of Tench-ken was on his knees, breathing deep in and out.  He had been in a space fight.  He had been on a speeding spaceship.  He even had been INSIDE a black hole.  But nothing could have prepared him for a ride in the horrifying "Hurricane Sandwich" roller-coaster, the brand new feature of the park.

The car rolled, turned, twisted, spinned, and dropped.  It was a death-defying experience.  He was very sure of it because during the ride, he saw the Death watching him from the ground while waving his scythe anrily at him.  Whoever invented that ride must have been working on a new torture method.

"Come on, Tenchi-niichan!  I want to try that one over there!"

"Huh?"

Tenchi looked up to see where Sasami was pointing.  He paled as he recognized the ride.  It was supposed to be the brand new sensation.  The dreaded "Drop Zone."  They made you go up and, well, drop.  Another painful ride that lasted only in seconds but made you wait in fear for hours, since it already had a very long line in front of it.

"No I don't want to die" would have been his honest answer to the girl's request, but Sasami was looking at him with one of those puppy eyes.  Tenchi could feel a doom coming down on him.

Then the hand, or rather the voice, of rescue came to unexpecting Tenchi.

"Tenchi-chan?"

Tenchi blinked.  No one had called him "-chan" for close to a decade now.  Who could that be?

He turned towards the source of the voice to find a woman.  She was in a traditional kimono and had a long bundle on her back.  There was something familar about her face though...  Sudden recognition hit his brain as his mouth gasped.

"...Auntie Nodoka?"



A spaceship landed on the lake beside the Masaki house.  If NASA found out about this they would have their fit.  A good thing for their hearts that the ship had avoided any detection as it made through the Earth atmostphere.

Minagi(1) was in good mood.  It had been a while since she visited her sister and surrogate mother.  Hinase was a good companion, as well as a good spaceship, but she really loved her relationship with her earth friends.  She visited them as often as possible, and today was one of those visits.

This time it was a little different, she noted, when she jumped down from her ship and landed in front of the gate.  It was a little odd to find their house in silence though.  Whenever she visited, Masaki Mansion had always been filled with either laughs or battle noises, usually the latter.  But today it was in absolute quiet.  But Minagi shrugged it off, and proceeded to open the door.

But when she she found no one inside, Minagi frowned.  This house being empty was even weirder than it being too quiet.  One truth always held in Masaki household, and it was that it was overcrowded.  There were already eight live-ins, nine if you counted Ryo-ohki.  They were frequently visited by super-powered villains, the galaxian empire royalties, or friends from out of space such as herself.  But today it was totally empty.

"Anybody here?  Ryoko?  Ayeka-san?  Washu-sa, chan!  Chan!  Um, Tenchi-san?"

Nobody answered her call even when she made to the living room.  Then Minagi quickly took the battle stance when she was surprised by a small movement under the carpet.  She took out her energy sword, and approached it very slowly.  She began to eye the carpet carefully as she slowly lifted it to see the underneath.

"Myah!"

"Ryo-ohki!"(2)

Minagi was relieved to find the familar cabbit there.  She picked it up with her hands but she found that its eyes were full of tears.

"What's wrong?"

"Myah!  Myah!"

Somehow it was trying to say something but Minagi couldn't understand it.  She didn't share a link with the cabbit like Ryoko or Washu did.  But soon she realized that its ear was pointing towards the upstair.

Putting Ryo-ohki down, Minagi summoned her sword out again and walked slowly, eyeing the upstair.  Even when she carefully stepped up the stairs, there was no movement whatsoever.  But when she arrived at the top, she could hear faint groaning and moaning.  The sound was coming from behind one of the closed doors.  Holding her sword firmly in her hand, she reached out to grab the doorknob and turned.  Without making a sound, she cautiosly opened the door.

When she entered the room, she almost dropped her sword because of her shock when a terrifying scene displayed in front of her eyes.

First time in her life, she had felt the true fear.  Whatever did this must be very powerful.

Then someone tabbed on her shoulder.

"Hey, Minagi"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!"



Outside, Azaka and Kamidake were doing their best impression of two gate posts.

"Kamidake."

"What is it, Azaka?"

"Don't you think we are missing something today?  We have heard scream and shouting so far, but something just doesn't seem to add up right."

Kaboom!!

"You mean that?"

"Oh yeah.  There you go.  What a peaceful day it is."

"Indeed."




Sailor Pluto was not happy.  At the moment she was trying her best to contain the Time Gate's power.  The Garnet Orb, the talisman on the top of her staff, was also very powerful, but its strength was barely enough to keep the vibration of the Time Gate at minimum.  First time in millernia, Meiou Setsuna regretted being the Guardian of this, this headache maker!

She did note somethings during this though.  First of all, it seemed that something had caused some of the timelines to merge together.  Secondly, the Time Gate was resonating with it.  Third, it was very powerful, even more than the Time Gate itself which was already giving her hard time.  This was no longer the matter of her guarding the Time Gate.  If not controlled, there was no telling what this thing could do to her plan.  Something she thought to be a small wave on a pond just turned into a tsunami.

Unknown to Pluto, another one was about to merge into the already crossed timelines, the one that was very close to her......



As Sailor Saturn, Hotaru was the most powerful Senshi in the Solar System.  With her Silence Glaive, she could wipe out an entire army of strong youmas in one attack.  Her attack, Silence Wall, was a force to be reckoned with.  She could destroy the entire system if she wanted.  Even the mighty Sailor Pluto wouldn't mess with her lightly.

But when she was not in her Senshi form, Tomoe Hotaru was one weak, helpless girl.

Hotaru was also lost.  That made the already bad situation even worse.

It was only moments ago when the Outers entered the park, shortly after their embarassment over an attempted entry without a ticket.  The guard at the gate lectured them for quite a while.  Things seemed to escalate even worse when agitated Haruka held up the guard by his collar.  Fortunately Michiru came back with the tickets just in time, or they would have been arrested.

Hotaru had no idea how she got separated with Haruka and Michiru.  She was standing beside Haruka just now but in a blink of eyes, both Haruka and Michiru disappeared.  The most dangerous Senshi of the Solar System became a fragile young girl sobbing and calling for her guardians.

"Haruka-papa...?  Michiru-mama...?"

Her eyes were glimmering with tears, and her mouth started to quiver as Hotaru looked around to find her friends, but with no avail.  People around her were smiling and laughing as they went on their own way, too happy in their world to even pay a glance at her.  She was among hundreds of people, but she felt lonely.  In every direction she looked there were only strangers, having fun with their family or friends.  She was the only one who was alone......

Hotaru really didn't like being alone although throughout the most of her life she had been alone.  During the time of the Moon Kingdom, people feared her power and the prophecy that declared her to be the bringer of disaster.  After her incarnation, she was outcasted and avoided by her peers for having mysterious healing power.  Even after her rebirth after Paraoh Ninety she had made very few friends, most of them being the Senshi's.

All those moments of her life that were filled with being feared and detested made her very vulnerable to emotional scar.  Times like right now was one of those moments.  She was in the sea of strangers and nobody even looked at her.  Loneliness.  As familar as it was, Hotaru still feared the emotion.  Only thing that kept her from breaking down was a few happy and comforting memories that she had held in her mind.

Like that person she met before the Moon Kingdom fell......

'Huh?  What was his name?  I can't seem to remember...  But wait, who am I talking about...?'

"Umph!"

"!"

Her thoughts were suddently interrupted as someone bumped into her.

"Ah!"

Hotaru felt down on the ground.  She felt as if a wall just walked into her, how weird the expression might be.  Already fragile, Hotaru simply didn't have strength to stand still after such impact.

"It hurts..."

Hotaru rubbed her bottom.  Her hip was sore, but overall she was okay.

"Hey!  Are you hurt?  Sorry.  Gee, I seemed to bump into people a lot today..."

The man, whom Hotaru now noted to have a pigtail and a bit older than her, reached out his hand towards her.  With a little blush on her cheek, she grabbed his hand and got up.  It was then when she noted that he had the the most kind, deep looking grey eyes she had ever seen......



Pluto's room was a total mess now.  Suddenly some blasts came out of the Time Gate and started to break everything in their path.  Even the Garnet Orb was now vibrating with the Time Gate.

"What is going on here!?!"

Setsuna was now on her knees as the Time Gate's power started to overcome her own.  If here stood any other Senshi, she would have been out of the game long ago.  But Sailor Pluto wasn't a normal Senshi.  She still held her stance against one of the most powerful force in the universe.

"I must control it!  This castle can't stand this much longer!"

All of sudden, a blast came directly at her.  Pluto didn't have enough time to avoid it and got hit square on her chest.  Not a scream could make out of her mouth as she flew backward and slammed right into the wall.

Her limb body slided down the wall as she tried her best to stay conscious.

'I, I must stand!'

While she battled to keep her eyes open, another big blast came out of the Gate.  But this time the Gate failed to stand the power of the blast.  Just as suddenly as it lit up, the Time Gate shut down in a blink, some crack appearing on its surface.

Setsuna was so glad it was all over that she failed to notice the fact the Time Gate was now damaged.  Right before she slumbered into the unconsciousness, she softly muttered a name, one that even she herself had forgotten......

"......Killan......"




Skuld was in hell.

Well, not the real one.

But it was pretty close.

Everywhere she looked there was a huge machine that served no purpose whatsoever.  A giantic wheel that just kept circling around, a long snake-like train on a twisting track that went nowhere, a large pendulum that had a big pirate ship on its end, and etc, etc.  They just stood there and moved in the same routine over and over again.  The worst thing was that these stupid mortals actually seemed to enjoy these, as the machines had lines of people waiting for their turn.  So she couldn't even attempt to blow them up.

This place was the youngest goddess' nightmare.  Skuld really wanted to get out of here.

But she couldn't leave until the boy left first.

The boy who she STILL hadn't found yet.

"Aaack!  Where is he?"

Skuld muttered some frustrated words.  She had been searching for the boy for about half an hour, but with no avail.  There were just too many people here.

The goddess almost swore out of agitation.  Times like this she really wanted her sister Belldandy.  Heck, even Urd might be good right now.  Not being as experienced as her sisters, the youngest goddess simply didn't have necessary skills to detect the boy's power.  Without her gadgets, anyway.

"That's it!  I can still use my Mr. Looky!  Oh, I am such a genius."

Skuld took out Mr. Looky again and began to slowly search the area.  Her eyes were closed to focus her ears to the beeping sound of Mr. Looky.  Good thing she did that or she might have seen the confused stare of people around her.  A fairly large audience was started to gather around to look at a strange girl doing a strange thing.

Beep!!

"Yes!!  He must be over there!"

The audience was surprised out of their wit when Skuld snapped her eyes open and shouted.  Paying no heed to them the goddess ran towards the direction her stick pointed.

"This time, I won't lose him!"

Skuld didn't know that what she picked up wasn't the boy, but something very dark and evil......



"!"

The goddess of the present lifted her face when she felt a chill down her back.  There was something dangerous near her sister.  She could feel it.

Belldandy was a first-class goddess, not only because of her magic but also her skills.  Her fortune-telling was famous amongst her peers for being so accurate.  Somehow she had a knock at it, and it also gave her some vague sense of prediction on near future.  She really enjoyed using this ability as it could help people a lot.

This time, however, it told her a very upsetting news to her.  A danger was coming close to one of her loved ones.  Her own sister, no less!

"I have to go help her!"

"Help whom, Belldandy?"

The voice of a young kid shook her out of her thoughts.  Keiichi.  She forgot about him.  He needed her right now.  But her sister......  Belldandy was in turmoil.  With tears showing on her eyes, she turned to her love.

"Keiichi-san......"

"Eh?  What's wrong?  You are crying!"

"Oh, Keiichi-san......  Oh what should I do..."

"What's wrong, Belldandy?  Tell me!"

"It's... it's Skuld......"

"?"

With quivering voice, Belldandy explained her problem.  Keiichi knew that Belldandy's predictions were rarely wrong.  So it was very shocking for him to find out that one of the goddesses were in near trouble.

"Um, then what are you still doing here?  She needs help, doesn't she?"

"But Keiichi-san...  How about you...?"

"Huh?  Me?"

Then a realization hit him.  He couldn't help but feel very touched by her deep devotion to him.  But he shook his head vigorously.  Morisato Keiichi might be a wimp, but he knew what was right.  Right now Belldandy was needed more than him somewhere else.

"Don't worry about me.  I'll be fine."

"But..."

"Urd should be home soon, and I'll be back to myself in no time!  Nothing to worry."

"Keiichi-san..."

"Skuld needs you right now, doesn't she?  Go on.  I'll be fine."

"Yes..."

Wiping her tears away, Belldandy turned away from Keiichi to find a mirror.  Before she left, however, she didn't forget to thank him.

"Thank you for your understanding, Keiichi-san.  I..."

"Nothing to thank me for.  Just go."

But Keiichi called her once more before she left.

"Belldandy?"

"Yes, Keiichi-san?"

"I'll be waiting..."

To his words, Belldandy answered with another tear-stained smile.  Then a bright light filled the room as she disappeared into the mirror.  Keiich sighed when the light was gone.  He couldn't help but feel that sometimes, Belldandy was too good to him for her own good.  He stepped towards the kitchen to make himself something to eat.

"!!"

It was then when he realized something.  Everything in the kitchen was so big compared to him now.  Well, it was him who got smaller, but that wasn't the point.  How was he going to cook with things that were almost as big as him!?!?(3)

"Where are you, Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd!!!!



"Achoo!"

Urd rubbed her nose.  She must be catching a cold or something.  No wonder if she thought about it, standing in front of a big refridgerator full of ice cream all day.  In the middle of summer, she was already feeling chilly.

"No blowing your nose in front of the products!!"

"Yessir!!"



Kasuke washed his face in the washroom of the restaurant.  The old lady was kind enough to let him use their washroom, even after he created a scene in front of her store.

"*sigh* What was I thinking?  A girl disappearing into the bucket!?!  Get a hold of yourself, Kasuke!!"

It was then when the mirror in front of him began to glow.  Much to his astonishment, a beautiful woman stepped out of the light.  The light had died out soon and the woman now stood on the ground.  The woman blinked when she saw him, smiled, and bowed, then left the room.

All through this, Kasuke just stared at the mirror.

From the top of a tree, a long-robed figure stood on it.  The top branch of

the tree didn't seem all that strong, but somehow the figure was able to stand on it.  Inside the robe, a pair of smiling eyes watched down below, not only the happy crowd on the ground, but alos the mysterious man in black uniform.

"Hehehe!  It seems 'they' are in this wonderful fun place.  It's really fine establishment, I must say.  It's gonna get even better when that gentleman down there begins his thing.  Oh today is gonna be so much fun, and I don't have to lift a finger!  Hohoho!  Enjoy, humans!  Wahaha!!"




The man in black started his plan, not knowing he was being watched.  He took out a small orb out of his inside pocket.  The orb started to glow under the sunlight.  The man snickered, and threw the orb down the tree.

The orb fell, pulled by the power of gravity.  When it reached the ground, however, it didn't break into pieces.  Rather, it just seemed to blow up as the light from the orb expanded dramatically.  Soon instead of the glowing orb, a huge ball of light began to shine.

The light was so intense and big that the passbys stopped in their steps.  Some thought it was another new display by the park, even though some doubted why they had it in such a strange place.  They were met by a security guard when they approached the light ball, however.

"Wait!  Wait!  Don't go near this!  It might be dangerous."

His words actually surprised the crowd.  One guy at the front asked the guard out of curiosity.

"You mean this isn't one of your display?"
"Um, no.  I haven't been informed about a display in this location.  I don't know what it is, but this definitely isn't one of the park's features."
"Then what is it?  You just don't have a shining lightball drop out of... sky......"

The guy started to mumble as his face turned into that of the fear.  All the eyes of crowd seemed to get bigger and their mouth opened widely.  The guard was confused at the sudden change, but froze dead when he heard a nasty snarl of an animal behind him.  He slowly turned his head to his back, and found a group of monsters standing in the light.

Everyone froze for a second, until one of the monsters opened its mouth.

"Kaoh!"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!"

Then everyone started to run away.

For the crowd of their size, the evacuation was rather smooth and fast.  Living in Tokyo meant having lots of practices in the art of taking shelter in the midst of disaster, since there were lot of things happening around the city.  Earthquake, typoon, gas terror, heavy rain, Godzilla, youma attack, martial arts fight, street fights, and on and on and on......

Within next few minutes, almost every visitors in the park heard the news and ran out to the exit.

From the tree, the man in the black uniformed blinked as he watched the

entire park being emptied out faster than Kobe Bryant taking his first shot during a Lakers game.  He had expected chaos and blood as his monsters began to tear the humans apart with their bare hands.  But he never expected to find the entire complex vacated in mere minutes!!  His minions seemed to be confused as much as their master, since they just stood in the light.

Out of the man's hearing range, a figure was laughing his head off from the top of a tree.



part 1 ends.


The (#) explanation will be on the 3rd part of this chapter.

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