Many thanks to my pre-reader Saotome Genma Saotome_Genma@hotmail.com

 

That's Not What Happened

Chapter 1 (part 2 of 2)

By Oberon

Ffml_use@hotmail.com

 

            Ranma watched with embarrassment as Viluy roughly threw away
her own school uniform.  "Will it ever end?" he shouted silently.  Here
he is, stuck in a girl's body, and girls are still throwing themselves
at him while he was still a girl.  "Can it get any more perverted?" he
wondered.  Trying not to look at the girl, who he had no doubt was
naked, Ranma danger sense suddenly flared.  Though years of "Ranma
prepare to die." Ranma reacted with trained instincts.  Making an
impossibly high jump into the air, he was actually relieved to she that
the girl, Viluy, was not naked but rather in outfit as ridiculously
looking as Mimet's.  Ranma did not have to be a rocket scientist to
figure out that the girl is part of the Witches 5, the energy blast she
was trying to hit him with was a dead give away.

 

            The witch appeared to be surprised but that did not stop her
from trying to change the trajectory of her blast to intercept Ranma.
Angling her arms upward, Viluy's Magic Buster missed Ranma by mere
inches.  "Wow! That was close!" thought Ranma.  If Viluy had angled her
attack a little steeper, he would have been deep-fried.  "But it's too
late for you!" he grinded as he realized that before Viluy could attack
again he would already be in range.  "Meteoroid Kick" Ranma announced
aloud his attack.  With one swift attack to Viluy's head Ranma send his
opponent flying toward the wall.  With a loud thud that corresponded to
Viluy's head impacting with the wall, Viluy was at least temporary sent
to the land of darkness.  "And to think, not so long ago I would had
trouble hitting girls.  Oh well, at least we know for sure this is the
nest of the Death Busters."  Moving around the ruined laboratory Ranma
decided to ignore the bell that signified the beginning of the exams
opting for a more detailed search of the basement.

 

 

 

 

             Viluy awoke some time later with a blinding headache.  It
was the not the kind of headache that associated with a hang over, not
that she would know what that felt like.  It was certainly not half as
pleasurable.  No, it was the kind of headache if her head collided with
a solid conceit wall and the wall cracked into a spider web.  Now that
Viluy saw the state of the wall, she realized it was exactly that kind
of headache.  Picking herself off the floor Viluy stood on weakly trying
to regain her balance while her eyes could barely focus.  "I get you for
this you little twit.  I tried to be nice but now you're gonna get it."
Viluy vowed to herself while shaking her fist at the concrete above her.
"Ouch" suddenly overwhelmed by the dizziness.  "As soon as I get some
Aspirin and an ice pack."

 

 

 

 

            "The waves are becoming restless and the ocean is getting
wild." Michiru spoke cryptically while unconsciously mimicking Setsuna's
usual senseless drivel.  That is saying a lot considering Setsuna's
usual drivel gives more glimpses into the future than the predictions of
the best psychics on their best days.  However, unlike Setsuna's
rambling there was at least one person, besides the speaker, who
understands what is being said.  

            

            "Michiru, you feel it too?" Haruka confirmed her lover's
feelings on the state of the world.

 

            "Yes.  Something strange and unexpected is coming."

 

            "There's a ghostly and horrifying energy circumventing in
the building." Haruka suddenly whirled around feeling strange in the
air.  ".I've felt it a long time.  I'll find out what's in here this
time." Haruka vowed to discover why she and Michiru were drawn to this
school in the first place.

 

            "Do you want to go down stairs?"

 

            "Yes.  We need to face whatever is there."

 

            Deeper and deeper the two outers went and deeper and deeper
into the heart of the heart of the Death Buster.  Finally, with no more
stairs to take and no more hallways to run though the duo came to a
door.  It was not the inviting kind of door with the words "This way to
unimaginable earthly pleasures" written in big neon letters.  No, this
is the kind of door that is titanium reinforced and requires a digital
ID card to open.  So, why is it that two students with student IDs were
able to open this so-called secure door with a swipe of their identity
cards?

 

            With a gentle push on both sides of the double doors from
each senshi, the door was opened to reveal a pitch-black room.  Inside
the room was an atmosphere that obscured the floor with a yellow acidic
looking mist.  Walking deeper in the throne room of Mistress 9 the two
outer sailors saw the master of the Death Busters herself.  Atop a short
flight of stairs sat Mistress 9.  With a small contingent of stuffed
animals behind her, little Hotaru looked every bit like child ruler in a
bad mood. With a gasp, the outers realized who the little girl was.
"Messiah of Silence!" Michiru exclaimed.

 

"The ultimate root of evil!  We'll get her this time!" Haruka shouted in
declaring their intensions.

 

            Hotaru's face was hidden in the shadows while the shadows
themselves danced around her.  With a teddy bear in her arms, Hotaru did
nothing to distort the outers' perception of her character.  Realizing
this was there best opportunity to correct the mistake they make earlier
in letting Hotaru escape the outers charged into action.

 

            "Stop!" the outers heard someone familiar yelled from behind
them.

            Turning around, Haruka and Michiru confronted the person
that had interrupted their mission.  Standing proudly before the two
outers was one of their most hated individual.  Ranma Saotome presently
in place of Mizuno Ami was not the favorite of the outers for a very
simple reason.  It was Ranma's direct interference with the outers
attack on Sailor Saturn that allowing the Messiah of Silence to escape,
this alone was a sign of evil in the eyes of the outers.  As anyone in
their position would understand, stopping Haruka and Michiru's attack on
Hotaru again only further support the misconception that Ranma has
allied himself with the forces of evil.

 

            "Touch one strand of hair on her head and I'll hunt ya to
the ends of the earth." Ranma promised the two outer senshis.  It was
probably in not Ranma's best interest to have said that, but he said it
anyway without thinking first.  Proving once again that Ranma's
condition of sticking his foot in his mouth is quiet permanent.  Ranma's
little threat also proved to the outers that without a doubt he is
working with the Death Busters.

 

            "You fool!  She will destroy you when she brings about the
Silence." said Haruka emotionally. 

 

            "Ya can't be sure of that." Ranma countered.  "She's just an
innocent girl who is being used by the Death Busters.  So what if she is
Sailor Saturn, the soldier of destruction and all that, she's still a
little girl.  Even the soldier of destruction can choose her own path.
There's no way that she would destroy the world for no good reason."
showing every bit as much emotion as Haruka.

 

            "Stop trying to confuse us with your lies!  We could see
right though you!" shouted back a belligerent Haruka who was itching to
teach the arrogant baster a lesson.  And if he should some how get hurt
in the fight then so be it, it will just mean a few weeks in the
hospital for Ami once they get rid of Ranma.  Having exhausted all words
of piece and persuasion in their last meeting what it has comes down to
is a confrontation between two martial artists.

 

            "Who ya calling a liar ya unisex sissy!" Ranma replied in
anger.

 

            "Come on you body stealing parasite, let's settle this right
here, right now." Haruka challenged the Martial Artist.

 

            Giving the tall girl a confidant smirk Ranma moved into his
usual fighting stance.  "Come and get some."

 

            "Any time bitch." Haruka readied herself in a kendo stance.

 

            Seeing this might endanger the success of their mission
Michiru tried to stop the fight between Haruka and Ranma.  Putting a
hand on the shoulder of her lover, Michiru reminded her life mate why
they where here.  Though some unspoken link that only exists between two
people in love Haruka knew what her partner was trying to convey to her.
Shifting her gaze to her beloved, Haruka gave Michiru a small knob to
signify that she understands and to convey that she was ready.  Without
saying a word, the two lovers sudden turned around and started to make a
run for the Bringer of Silence.

 

            "Cowards." Ranma swore to himself as he saw what the two
were doing.  Jumping from his position Ranma leaped over the older girls
and landed between them and Hotaru.  Turning around Ranma returned to
his stance intending to deter the two from reaching and killing the
little girl Hotaru.  "Stay right there!"

 

            "Found you at last!" said a fourth voice from the doorway,
instantly sky rocking the tension in the room.  Viluy appeared in the
room.  After waking up from the beating she received from Ranma, Viluy
had spend almost half an hour searching for the aspirin and ice pack
while trying to hunt down the person how had  beaten her.  The nurse's
office turned out to be a bust as the nurse herself was out to lunch and
had locked away the supplies.  Busting down the supplied cabinets got
her as far as the ice pack but she had accidentally melted the plastic
wrappers around aspirin.  Pissed and in extreme pain Viluy decided to
find then make the Mizuno girl die slowly and painfully.  When professor
Tomo confronted her on why she had not began her mast crystal harvesting
she actually told him to fuck off.  He was certainly pissed at her
insubordination but she was even more pissed at Ami.  So after flipper
the professor Viluy continued her search for Ami while cursing her name
every other step.  Now that Viluy had found her in the basement, she did
not even care that her boss was in the room or about the two other Mugan
students and just starting blasting.  "Magic Blaster." Viluy shouted in
one swift as motion she threw away the ice pack that comforted her
bruised face then extended her hand toward Ami.  Unfortunately, in her
raged mindset, Viluy failed to realize that Haruka and Michiru were in
the way of the blast.

 

            Equally unfortunately were Haruka and Michiru who had done
nothing to provoke Viluy but was blasted never the less.  Falling on the
ground, there bodies twitching from Viluy's Magic Buster, the two outers
received no sympathy from Ranma as he prepared to face Viluy.

 

            "Die!!!" Viluy shot widely at Ranma.  This time the distance
between them actually worked to her advantage as her rapid berserk shots
kept Ranma at the defensive.

 

            "Shit." Ranma swore while narrowly dodging another shot from
the insane and probably brain damaged witch.

 

            "Stop dodging!" Viluy fired another round.

 

            "If only I could get close enough.  Arrr!!!" Ranma screamed,
the latest volley actually managed to glance his leg while he was
dodging in med air. Landing on the ground while still twitching from the
electrical attack Ranma saw that Viluy was already preparing another
attack, and this time he would not be able to avoid it.  "Mouko
Takabisha" Ranma threw his ki blast at Viluy hoping it would distract
her long enough to recover.  

 

As Ranma fired off his ki blast Viluy also fired her Magic Buster.  The
electrical attack and ki ball collided closer to Viluy than to Ranma.
The concussion force resulted from the explosion defected the trajectory
of the Magic Buster into the wall and knocked Viluy off her feet.
Taking the opportunity Ranma charged the berserker trying to subdue her
before she has the opportunity to retaliate.  With every ounce of his ki
he could muster Ranma pushed his burning muscles into overdrive hoping
that it will be enough.

 

Viluy was thrown off the ground but it did not take her long to recover.
In less then 1.5 seconds after being knocked down Viluy was getting
ready to attack again.  Just like last time Viluy was not fast enough as
she was about to fire, Ranma was already upon her.  "Chestnuts roasting
on an open fire." Viluy heard her opponent shout just before her
opponents arms disappeared and Viluy felt herself pummeled by unseen
forces.  In Viluy's insane state of mind, she was able to ignore
completely the pain from the blows.  If not for the concussion force of
the blows along and the short distance between her and Ranma, Viluy
would have fired before one of the blows knock her arms out of firing
position.  With the last blow, Viluy was once again flying though the
air.

 

Ranma was in terrible pain.  After executing the Chestnut Fist his arms
felt like unresponsive dead weights.  Unresponsive, but it did not mean
he did not feel the protests of his over exerted muscles.  The rest of
his body was not very happy either, his leg feels like it would barely
support him in an erect position and he was having trouble contracting
and relaxing his diaphragm.  "It least she's in a worst shape." Ranma
mused.  Falling to his knees Ranma thought that relaxing his muscles a
bit will allow him to recover but as the seconds ticked by the pain only
increased along with his difficulty in breathing.

 

"HA HA HA HA." Viluy's laughter got Ranma's attention.  "You fool!  The
nanites I programmed are stabbing into your body and soon only your
heart crystal will remain." The witch laughed again at Ranma's plight.
"Now die!!!" screamed Viluy as she prepared one more dose of nanites to
finish the job.  It was probably the stupidest action Viluy ever
performed in her life.  It probably had a lot to do with banging her
head on the wall earlier or it was just her over confidence in her own
technology.  Whatever the case Viluy did not notice the crack in her
nanite control gauntlet as she fired the final blast.  Viluy really
should have checked the integrity of such delicate device before fire,
especial after it had been though such a tough battle.  As it is,
Viluy's attack backfired and her nanites turned on her own creator and
without an intelligence to direct its actions, those that was inside
Ranma and the outers stopped functioning.

 

"It's sad really.  All that techno stuff and it couldn't even take a
good old fashion ass kicking." Ranma smirked but then he seems to
realize what is happening to Viluy.  Viluy could do nothing but lesson
to Ranma as the nanites decomposed her body to nothingness.  "I'm
sorry." Ranma added just before Viluy's body vanished completely.

 

Like all action adventures in the spirit of India Jones, the throne room
started to crumble just as the villain was defeated.  Stone arches and
concrete started to fall on the ground as the room shocked violently
with the formation of a portal behind the Messiah of Silence.  A cloud
of falling debris obscured the swirling vortex of darkness as it quickly
shucked in the mountain of stuffed animals even as it lifted the Messiah
along with her throne into the air.  When the cloud cleared enough for
Ranma to see though, Hotaru was already disappearing into the vertex.
Not wasting any and another opportunity to rescue Hotaru from the
clutches of the Death Buster, Ranma tried to enter the vortex before it
closes.  Running toward the closing vortex at the top speed that his
tired and abused muscles would allow Ranma used all his remaining energy
to make one last jump for the vortex when he reached the bottom of the
stairs.  

 

Alas, our story would have had a completely different ending if he would
have made it.  In one possible scenario Ranma would have been killed on
the other side of the portal as he was still too weaken from the Magic
Buster.  In another scenario, the Death Buster would have been
unprepared for Ranma's arrive though the vortex allowing Ranma to rescue
Hotaru.  In any case, these talks of what it would have been are
irrelevant see as to the fact that Ranma fall face first on to the
ground right in front of the portal.  With the last of his energy spend
Ranma could only watch as the portal closed before him.

 

T.B.C.

 

Author's note: it has been brought to my attention that unisex, sissy
could not exist in the same insult but I think it could, and here is
why.  If think of muscularity and femininity as two opposite extremes
then unisex would be between the two extremes.  Now according to
definition "sissy" is some a man who acts or looks like a woman, this is
an obvious reference to Haruka's crossdressing.  The insult is not that
Haruka is unisexed but rather it is an assault on her femininity and
sexual orientation, for a sissy is still a man.  Thanks to my pre-reader
Saotome Genma Saotome_Genma@hotmail.com

 

P.S. I'm no longer looking for pre-readers, one is enough in my opinion.
But if I were to increase the number I currently have I already have
someone in mind.  If my need should expand beyond 2 pre-readers I would
make another announcement.



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