Series:    La Femme Ranma
Chapter:   #2 "Welcome to Section"
Author:    Akraen (S. Metcalf)
Email:     akraen@hotmail.com
Website:   http://www.akraen.com
Category:  Ranma x-over with La Femme Nikita (+ cameos)

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"I wa` ri`... she's def`nat`y fema`" he heard a slurred voice
state. He instantly recognised it as belonging to that agent who
had tricked him. He didn't have to like being kidnapped, but if
all their agents were as smart and willing to do the job as she
was then there were worse groups of people to be defeated by.
'Yes, I am definitely getting to like that woman.' he thought
with an indulgent smirk before allowing himself to return to
sleep. Now that he had been captured he didn't have to worry
about avoiding it and he already knew he could escape whenever
he wanted to. 'After all... I've still got my trump card...'

-=- -=- -=-  - * -  -=- -=- -=-

"So what's the details about our chameleon in there?" Operations
asked as he stared at the bed the recent arrival still slept
upon.

The woman sharing the darkened room with him paused thoughtfully
as she too stared into the lighted room, "For starters she is
most definitely female. We haven't figured out yet how she can
imitate a larger male but we will run further tests once she
awakens. As for her other... abilities... we found no traces of
any physical aids either chemical or mechanical in nature within
her body structure. It seems she somehow has figured out how to
control her (extremely healthy, might I add) body to harness and
release the 'energy'."

"Incredible. Now if only we could duplicate this with all our
agents.." Operations mused out loud.

"I sincerely doubt it would work..." the woman said with a sigh,
"from the results we've managed to get back, her abilities are
from a unique mixture of many things. So far we've been able to
possibly account for most of it by genetics, training,
discipline, and diet but even then it doesn't completely add up
to the same results in our simulations. No, what we have here is
a miracle and I say we use her now that we have her."

"It will be difficult to contain someone like her..." the man
mused. "And almost impossible to reshape her into a willingness
to help the section. In fact I dare-say she might be even more of
a trial than Nikita herself was..."

"You could well be right." the woman was silent for a moment
before continuing, "It's funny that the harder of a time we have
of creating an agent, the better they eventually become... first
came Michael and look at the result we have from all our work.
Next came Nikita... I lost track of the amount of times we almost
gave her up for a lost cause and yet she's almost reached the
same level as Michael already. Just imagine the results this one
may obtain for us.."

"Yes, perhaps the risk is worth the possible reward with ones
such as these. Very well Madeline you may transfer her to the
field agent training regiment."

"I thought you would say that... it's already been done." she
replied without emotion as she continued to stare down at their
newest addition to the family.

"Sometimes I'm not sure whether to kiss you... or kill you."

"Good, then I'm doing my job right."

-=- -=- -=-  - * -  -=- -=- -=-

Ranma finally awoke to a blinding headache as his eyes grew
accustomed to horribly bright unnatural lighting that filled the
room 'she' was imprisoned within.

"Ah, I see you are finally waking up." an unknown female voice
noted.

Ranma turned to grin at the 'hidden' window causing the
occupants to become a little confused as no one else had ever
figured out about that little enhancement to the room, and also
that 'she' could continue to grin after having been captured by
her own over-confidence.

"Actually I woke up from your stuff a long time ago. I just had
gone a long time without sleeping and decided to make it up now
since I don't know when I'll get anymore after I decide to
escape." Ranma replied with a chuckle.

"Being a little over-confident again, aren't you?" the woman
asked.

"Not at all, I still have a few secret aces in the hole that I
doubt you all have been witness to..." she smiled at the fake
wall as she continued, "I assume that by now you have already
had a thorough medical examination done upon me and have
discovered my 'true' gender?" she asked with an enigmatic smile.

"Yes, you are a very healthy young woman indeed."

"Mm..." Ranma nodded her acknowledgement, "well then I don't have
to tell you of the one 'sure-fire' way of keeping a chameleon of
a girl such as myself locked in here. After all if it's so very
obvious what gender I am if I escaped all you would have to do
is have a gender check at the clearing points and I couldn't get
through..." she shrugged as if she didn't care.

"Yes, we thought of that..." the voice replied.

"I'm warning you now, by the way, that I'm going to make a total
of two escape attempts.. neither of which I'd bet to be stopped.
However, if you people somehow manage to keep me here through
both of them... well then I'd guess you're good enough to keep
me and I won't try a third time. I realise you stand nothing to
lose and everything to gain by this but you're in power and
deserve the better odds, as a certain woman I know would say, do
you not?"

"That's certainly very... generous... of you." the voice replied
with a sound of humor ringing true.

"Yes it is isn't it?" she smiled, "Oh before you go... please
give my regards to that woman who managed to trick me into here.
Can't help but admire someone willing to drug themself in order
to take a target down." and with that Ranma turned away from the
fake wall and lay back chuckling to herself.

Just as the people within the secret room were about to leave,
she stopped laughing for a moment.

"Remember what I said... two attempts... the first of which will
be tonight..." then went back to chuckling.

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"She's certainly confident about herself isn't she?"

"Yes... and that worries me." the woman stopped and thought to
herself for a moment, "I hadn't thought before now about
security but she was right about how to avoid her escape... see
to it that gender checks are carried out at all exits from this
point on. And stop any females pretending to be male." she
states into a microphone and watches several figures scurry to
complete her orders.

"Smart... but I thought you agreed when she said we had probably
already done so..." he laughs quietly, "ah, I see..."

"Yes, now she thinks we came up with something which we didn't..
which means she will respect us more. Plus by simply agreeing to
everything she says security wise we learn of even better ways
to stop her..." the woman stares back at the girl in the
containment room with an enigmatic smile on her face.

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'Just about now they should have the new security system set
up.' Ranma smirked to himself at how easy this escape would be
thanks to the "knowledge of his 'true' gender".

Ranma walked over to the fake wall and knocked to draw their
attention.

"Yes?" a new, unfamiliar voice replied.

"Can I have something hot to drink please? All that ice cream
earlier has really made my insides freeze... some coffee or
cocoa... hot tea perhaps...?" Ranma resisted the urge to use his
smile to back up the request due to the likelihood of it giving
his intentions away.

There was a short silence before the original voice gave the
affirmative aloud.

After smiling at the secret room for a moment Ranma walked over
to his bed and stripped it of the sheets. He then walked over to
the secret glass wall and with a cheerful wave and a wink, began
to cover the view of his room.

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"You realise of course that this is her first escape attempt."
one person stated with an amused voice.

"It had crossed my mind..." the woman replied with her own droll
humor as she smirked at the viewing wall which was covered well
enough to render it useless.

"You're thinking of letting her try...?"

The woman shrugged then said in a careless manner, "I like the
initiative and spirit she is showing here. Besides... we've
sealed off all the exits from her chameleon pretending scheme
thanks to that gender check. I say we let her try and use her
attempt to discover how lax our security is down here..." she
said with an amused tone while her face remained impassive.
"Besides... even if she somehow does manage to escape she still
has the tracker under her skin. Without knowing it, she just
lost that bet regardless of her own skills..."

"I do love the way you think sometimes..."

-=- -=- -=-  - * -  -=- -=- -=-

Ranma waited patiently for her order to arrive knowing that with
it's arrival he would finally be free of this place.

'It all relies upon whether I judged that woman correctly or
not. If she added the security measures I offered, as if
accidentally, and if she was affected by my cavalier attitude
about my capture, and most important of all is if she's as
confidant of my inability to escape as I am of them not being
able to hold me.'

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[Beginning of a scene possibly unsuitable for younger audiences.]

Grumbling a man entered the room Ranma was being kept in.' Why
do I have to be her maid?' he thought. Just then he caught sight
of first her renovations then the captive herself as she lay on
the bed with her eyes closed.' I don't know who this girl is but
she just made a huge mistake.' he thought with a gleeful grin as
he realized that as long as he kept it quiet no one would ever
know what exactly had occurred within the room. Quickly he set
the tray on the floor and quietly he walked over to the bed
after undoing his pants. 'You and me are going to have some
'fun' little girl.'

He reached out and grabbed hold of her neck and grinned
sadistically down at the girl as his other hand started to open
the shirt she had been changed into.

"Oh yeah.. for such a small girl you certainly are well
developed. I'm going to enjoy you..." he smirked as his hands
groped at her chest. Somewhere in the back of his mind alarm
bells were going off but he ignored them. After all he was in
control and she wasn't fighting back.' She must be too terrified
of what's happening.' he decided.

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Inwardly, Ranma was both seething and snickering at what this
man was doing to 'her'.' He must not have been told how badly I
could mess him up yet...' He really wanted to just tear this guy
apart but he needed to take this man out without a single sound
and the only way to do that was if his mouth was occupied with
something.' But if he even tries to actually do it all bets are
off!' he snarled mentally to himself.

And so Ranma reluctantly just allowed for the pawing of 'her'
body and the removal of 'her' clothing as he waited for the
moment he would strike, all along he kept up a look of
frightened horror upon 'her' face.' On the plus side every piece
of clothing he removes from either of us is one less I'll have
to remove later when I switch clothes with him...'

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The man gleefully removed the 'frightened' girl's skirt and
panties and then stared at red locks he revealed. He plucked at
a few hairs making the girl squirm in discomfort. Finally, he
lowered his head to suck upon one of the girl's breasts at the
same time he positioned himself for entering.

Suddenly the body beneath him which had up until now only
slightly shivered in fear and drawn back in horror, erupted into
a fury of attacks. As he was blacking out he tried to call out
for help, forgetting that his mouth was currently full of her
body.

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Ranma spat in disgust upon the face of the comatose form of the
man. 'Pig! Even the old pervert isn't as disgusting as you are!'

Quickly Ranma finished removing the clothes from the man and
then put them on. Next, simply as punishment for what he had
attempted, Ranma tugged the panties and skirt upon his unmoving
body and then used his air pressure trick to 'tattoo' the words "attempted rapist" on both his chest and his face.

After spitting once more onto the unconscious man, Ranma quickly
picked up the contents on the tray and splashed it upon himself.
Then with a final look of anger and disgust at the sleeping
pervert, he exited the room and began to make his escape.

[End of scene possibly unsuitable for younger audiences.]

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'Damn!' Ranma cursed to himself as he heard the language being
used. Why did I have to always sleep in Ms. Hinako's classes?!

As he walked over to the checkout point for leaving the complex
he listened to what the people ahead of him were saying and
doing and hoped for the best as he "winged it".

"NEXT!" the grumbling attendant stated. 'This security check is
stupid.. if Madeline and Operations hadn't ordered it themselves
I'd just refuse to do this!' He looked up at the oriental man
whom he didn't recognise. "Open your shirt and pants for
identification." he muttered under his breath as much as he
dared.

"You kidding right?" Ranma asked as well as he could in English.

"I wish... orders from up top... something about a girl who
tries to imitate males." the agent rolled his eyes as the two
men both chuckled.

Shrugging as if to say "this is stupid" Ranma quickly did as he
asked and showed that he clearly was indeed male.

"Alright you can pass... and good luck on the mission!" he
cheerily called out to the departing escapee.

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"Who are you?" one of the men on the team he had just 'joined'
yelled as he swivelled his gun to the stranger that had got into
his team's vehicle.

"Hibiki... transferred to section hour ago. Ordered to you team
to prove self think. Oh and lady with dead voice said keep close
eye on self." Ranma shrugs the question off.

"Hmm don't know English well do you?" seeing Ranma's simple
shrug he snarls to himself. 'Great... well at least I know he
must be telling the truth if he said I was to keep watch on
him...'

-=- -=- -=-  - * -  -=- -=- -=-

"Status report, Craig?"

"Doing better than hoped. This new guy Madeline assigned to us
is like a whole squad by himself!"

Suddenly a female voice spoke up, "I didn't assign you anyone
new, Craig.."

"WHAT?!" he yelled. "But he said you sent him and told me that I
was supposed to keep a good eye on him and give you a report
after the mission!"

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"She couldn't have gotten out could she?" Operations and
Madeline looked at each other in shock.

Quickly Madeline ordered security to enter the containment room
and remove the sheet from the wall inside. She then sent a
request to the field team, "Craig... what does this fake agent
look like?"

"Oriental... in his teens... dark black hair in a pig-tail...
and he can't speak English that well..." he said in shock as he
stared at where the 'agent' was cheerily waving at him as he
listened to them talking over the communication set he had been
issued.

"DAMN! She's good!" he heard an anonymous voice say from the
other end before the sound of a hissed command to be quiet.
"Where is this agent at currently, Craig?"

"He's currently standing about 20 feet away from me waving
cheerily and winking as he listens to us talking on his own
set..." the shocked agent replies.

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"My god..." someone at the base says into the hushed silence
that had overtaken everyone, including the usually unflappable
Madeline and Operations.

"Birkohf I want that tracer reactivated now!" Madeline turns as
she notices the sheet coming down off the window.

"Security, what's the situation?"

"Containment has failed. We found the guard knocked out inside..
and I think you'll want to see this... the girl seems to have
written a note before she left."

"Alright bring it to me, quickly!" Madeline turned her attention
back to the field unit. "Ranma... I must admit you succeeded in
getting out... although I'm curious as to how you did so..." she
spoke in Japanese.

There is a moment of silence and then a chuckle is heard through
the speakers. "Actually it was easy... and you helped me." was
said with what sounded like a smug voice.

Just then the security team entered dragging the unconscious
form of the guard between them.

"What is the meaning of this?" Operations bellowed and as he
noticed the clothing on the man, "and why is he dressed like
that?"

"The woman apparently exchanged clothes with him sir..." one of
the guards said uncomfortably.

"...and we brought him because she wrote the note _on_ him."
another finished and then they hefted the body into a standing
position.

Madeline and Operations only raised an eyebrow when they read
what had been written on the man, but Birkohf gasped and backed
away.

The speakers decided to take this moment to make their presence
known once more, "I'm assuming since you aren't replying to what
I said that you found my present?"

"Yes, we have. Very... entertaining, Ranma."

[More stuff possibly unsuitable for younger audiences.]

"Hey, he deserved it!" an indignant voice returned. "That hentai
came in and started taking a poor, harmless little girl's
clothing off and tried to molest her." then a chuckle before he
finished, "I could have stopped him at any time of course but I
didn't want him alerting you all of my escape so I simply waited
until his mouth was occupied then knocked him out. The poor
sobbing little girl survived the trauma without being shamed of
course but I decided the same shouldn't be said about him!" he
finished with a snarl.

[End of stuff possibly unsuitable for younger audiences.]

Most of the people within the room weren't able to follow along
thanks to the language barrier but the three people who
understood Japanese looked distastefully at the finally waking
man that had been brought in.

"Security take this man down to the punishment room. He will be
taken care of later." Operations ordered. "Berkohf do you have
the tracker working yet?"

"Yes, sir. But he isn't moving. He seems to be content talking
with us."

"I want recovery teams there within 10 minutes."

Madeline decided to address the escapee once again, "The man has
been taken care of for his attempt. Now could you please tell us
exactly how you came to go from being in containment to being
out in the field with one of our teams?"

"Be glad to... but do you mind if I tell it in pieces? I'm on a
mission after all..." he replies with a laugh.

-=- -=- -=-  - * -  -=- -=- -=-

"...so whenever I get wet with cold liquids my cursed form
appears, whereas hot water reverses the process..." Ranma stops
talking long enough to leap ahead and knock out a man who had
been running down the stairs with a gun before continuing, "so I
decided once I heard the conclusion about my exact gender to
simply use it to get me out. I knew you hadn't setup the
'special' security check yet and so voiced it knowing you would
make that change. Sure enough when I..." he stops to duck down
as heavy fire is sent his way by two gunners.

A minute later he resumes, "Sure enough when I got to the
security station at the exit the men checked for gender and
ignored the fact that I was 'new' and didn't know english well.
Before you discipline him for it though, remember he was only
ordered to check that one thing."

"Hmm I think that's the lot of them. Now is there anything else
you would like to know or should I make the rest of my escape
now?" he jokes out loud.

"Are there others... cursed... like you?"

"There's a bunch of us actually. One of my friends who thinks he
is my enemy turns into a pig. One of my fiance's turns into a
c-c-ca... a furball that chases mice. Her admirer turns into a
duck. There was this rude jerk who turned into a hideous
monster. And a couple of other weird cases like that. And lastly
my father used to turn into a panda..." he trails off.

"My condolences on your loss." the man replied in an uncaring
tone.

"Yeah, well... anyway I wouldn't suggest trying to grab any of
them."

"And why not...?"

"Because it would ruin you all. If you tried to capture Ryouga
you would probably wind up lost somewhere in the desert. If you
tried to capture Taru he'd probably intentionally transform then
tear this place apart. Shampoo, Mousse, Herb, Kima, Rouge and
the others with the various curses all have some serious backing
behind them both physically and also diplomatically."

"Then we'll just create our own agents with this place..."
Operations broke off as he heard the sigh.

"Sorry that option isn't available either. You see I kind`a blew
the place up a little while ago..."

"WHAT?!"

"Well... actually, I blew up the mountain and that caused the
valley to be destroyed as well. Same thing though."

"Let me get this straight.. you blew up a mountain AND destroyed
a valley?"

Ranma shrugs although they can't see it, "I was mad... the guy
was trying to kill my fiance and she was almost dead. I killed
him instead. Blowing up the mountain and valley was just a side
effect..."

This time the reply is in english and Ranma fails to interpret
it. "I don't believe this guy! He blows up a damn mountain and a
valley trying to kill one man and just calls it a side effect!",
but it is understood by everyone else causing gasps to be heard.

"Anyway, the bad guys are all unconscious so I'm going to leave
now. It's been fun.." and with those parting words Ranma dropped
the communicator to the dirt.

-=- -=- -=-  - * -  -=- -=- -=-

"I want her... him... _whatever_ back, people!"

"We're tracing as speak, sir." Birkohf replied as he watched the
screen before him.

"When we find him I want all available teams to converge on his
position. We are _not _losing this one!"

Birkohf stared at the monitor and watched the speeding blip
travel, waiting for it to stop.

-=- -=- -=-  - * -  -=- -=- -=-

'They'll be after me again pretty soon.' Ranma thought to
himself as he hopped onto yet another roof then off to the next.
'This time I need to keep alert for _anything_ if the blond was
anything to go by.'

Ranma looked around and decided he had gone far enough, and so
decided to sit down and think things out for a change.

'Last time they somehow managed to follow me even with my best
disguises. How were they able to keep track of me?' He couldn't
figure it out. It seemed as if they knew where he was going even
before he did.

He stopped and smiled as his next disguise made itself available
before his eyes.

-=- -=- -=-  - * -  -=- -=- -=-

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