[FFML] [Ranma][DBZ] Return of the Horse

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Return of the Horse - Chapter 01 - Part 1

by Schemer schemer@houston.rr.com

Disclaimer: I don't own em, don't sue me

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Wish Granted

***

And in a brief shimmering of golden light two figures emerged, one
male and one female. "Well lets go, it will be good to see everyone
again" stated the male figure as he rose into the air and turned toward
the blonde.

"Fine, lets move" stated the female figure. She rose into the air
and followed a certain pig-tailed man heading east.

***

They could have made the trip in a matter of minutes at full speed,
but they kept it at a relatively slow pace as they flew along. Almost
an hour had passed before they finally landed at the outskirts of the
Nerima ward.

"This way" stated the man. As he started walking down the street,
the woman following without a word.

The pair was dressed in loose fitting black pants, the male also wore
a black silk shirt, the woman a white silk blouse with a black vest
over it. Those that did and were able to tear their eyes away from
their bodies to look at their faces paled upon seeing who the male was.

"They seem afraid of you" stated the female, it wasn't a question
just a simple observation.

"It probably has something to do with how I left this world" replied
the man.

"And?"

"I told you how I left, what do you think."

"They are afraid of your retaliation against those that sent you away."

"Probably" stated the man as he turned the corner onto another
street. "We should probably stop and pick someone up before we head
there" commented the man.

"Who?"

"Tofu"

"Ahh the doctor"

"I do not know how they will take my returning, they may be in need
of his services before this is all done" he said stopping outside a
familiar looking clinic.

***

Two hours later three figures, two male one female exited the clinic
and headed down the street. "Your sure you want to do this?" the
older male to the younger.

"Yes, we need to settle this. "How is your relationship coming with
Kasumi?"

"Slow, I don't always freak out when I hear her name now, but being
close to her in a non-professional atmosphere usual will send me into
it."

"That�s good to hear."

"Well hear we are" commented the older man to the pair as he stopped
outside a familiar looking dojo. The Tendou Dojo if you haven't
already guessed it.

"Let's get this over with" said the younger man as he rapped on the
frame surrounding the sliding door before taking a step back.

A brief shuffling was heard before the door slid open revealing a
very tired looking Kasumi. "Oh hello Doctor Tofu, who are your two
friends."

"Don't recognize me Kasumi?" asked the younger man.

"OHH MY... RANMA, Ranma-Kun your back" said Kasumi. Which brought a
thundering from inside the house as every occupant inside the house.
In short order Nabiki, Genma, Nodaka, and Soun were all standing at the
front door staring at the trio. "Please Ranma-kun come in and bring
your friend too" said Kasumi as she led everyone to the table and left
to go get tea. Tofu since he had heard most of the story when they
stopped by his clinic, just went to a corner and sat down. He felt
he should only disturb everyone if his skills were needed. This was
not his fight after all and if what Ranma said was true he was more
than capable of handling himself.

"And who might you be?" inquired Nodaka to the female which
interrupted Soun and Genma's 'Ranma's home and so now he can marry
Akane wedding Dance'.

"My name is 18" replied the woman.

Nodaka blinked "18?".

"Yes"

"I see... and what is your relationship with my son?"

"We are together" said 18, which cause Ranma to start chocking on his
tea.

"You could have worded that better" was all Ranma was able to say
before he was set upon by the two father figures.

"How dare you cheat on your fiancee!!!" screamed a Soun going into
his demon head. "Ohh to have such a dishonorable son, who would throw
away the honor of the Saotomoe name" ranted Genma.

Two chi blasts later and there were two unconscious adults.
"Ranma... now that the idiots are done maybe you can explain to us
(indicating Nodaka, Kasumi, and herself) why you look so different,
and while your at it you can explain how you were able to come back,
and who she (indicating 18) is. Cologne told us it couldn't be done,
that you were trapped" said Nabiki. The other two women after hearing
that took note of the changes, he seemed older than before more
muscular, a few inches taller making him roughly 5'11'', and there was
the look in his eyes that seemed to he had seen more than he should
and that he was haunted by it.

<Sigh> "Ya I guess, we should probably call some of the others if
there still around and get them together so we don't have to tell this
more than once... by the way, how much time has passed since I
disappeared?"

"Nine months why?" said Nabiki feeling this was leading somewhere
"How long was it for you?"

<scratching the back of his head> "Heh A bit longer than that... I'll
try and explain it all when everyone gets here."

Nabiki studied him for a moment then nodded, "This better be good
Saotomoe..."

**** To Be Continued

A.N. I'm pretty sure most were able to figure out who the pair was.
It probably got old not naming them until the end but I had to go with
what I felt was right. Might as well spill the beans this will be a
Ranma/18 pairing.

Definitely going to be a mini-series, 3-5 Chapters at the most.

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Return of the Horse - Chapter 01 - Part 2

by Schemer schemer@houston.rr.com

Disclaimer: I don't own em, don't sue me

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"RANCHAN!" <Glomp>

"Heh... it's good to see you too Ukyou, how have you been?"

"Great now that your back no Ranchan!" she said as she tightened her
hug.

"You might want to let him go before he passes out..." remarked 18.

"Ranchan... who is this?" asked Ukyou narrowing her eyes.

"Can't bre... athe"

"Oppps sorry sugar"

"S'all right" replied Ranma after regaining his breathe.

"So...."

"Hmmm... I'll explain when everyone gets here."

<Crack, Smash> And a wall surrounding the Tendou compound was
reduced to rubble.

"Airean!" <Glomp>

"Get off my Ranchan!"

"Airean mine!"

And a fierce tug of war started with Ranma in the middle being pulled
in two directions. Cologne came hopping into the building on her staff
with a caged duck in her hand. "Well son-in-law you continue to
surprise me, the artifact those two fools used was suppose to send you
into a different dimension."

"It did"

"Hmmmm, I see, and how is it that you were able to return and no one
else has been?"

<Shrugs> "I dunno about the others, probably didn't know about the
dragonballs."

"Dragonballs?"

"I'll explain when everyone is here..."

"Might as well start now Ranma, I haven't been able to get a hold
of Akane, I don't know where she is" remarked Nabiki.

<Shrugs> "Ya I guess..."

"When Ryouga and Mousse used the Nan Ban Mirror on me that day..."

*** Flashback

"Ranma, you have made our life's hell for the last time!" screamed
Ryouga.

"Ya Ya, whatcha ganna do Ryouga, Mousse.... all talk, don't even
think about anyone else but yall's selves" quipped Ranma.

"That�s enough Saotomoe, I finally found a way to free Shampoo from
your sorcery" said Mousse. "Note to self" he thought, "stop hanging
around Kuno."

"Ya ya, I'm leaving your ganna make me late for school" and with that
Ranma took off headed for school.

Mousse and Ryouga followed and caught up just as he was entering the
School yard. "Were not done with you yet Saotome" called Mousse.

"Aww man give it a break" remarked Ranma.

"Ranma for making our life�s hell, we banish you from this world" and
with that Ryouga pulled out a Nan Ban Mirror fragment, sliced his arm
with it so it dripped with blood coating the mirror, and held it so it
reflected Ranma's image and said "Begone", and he was.

*** End of Flashback

"... I'm not exactly sure where I ended up, apparently I was
unconscious when I arrived on the other Earth.

My first memory, was waking up on an operating table and some old guy
with a funky hat standing over me. I blacked out again shortly after
that, when I came back to the same old guy was there again. He
explained that one of his observer drones that filmed the high powered
warriors of the planet had caught my arrival and his interest was
piqued and he brought me to his lab.

Apparently the world I arrived on is more technologically advanced
than this one and he was able to use some scanning device to determine
my 'power level' and view my memories. While I wasn't nearly as
powerful as the fighters he was after apparently my adaptability and
learning curve were 'off the scale' as he put it.

He began augmenting my body, using machines that let him alter my
DNA and splice new DNA into it. He also added cybernetic implants into
parts of my body that kept me under his control, and made me stronger
and faster. Basically I became a puppet I didn't have much control.
Heh, one good thing though his genetic manipulation eliminated my curse.

It was like I was a passenger in my own body I still new what was
going on and could control my actions for the most part but it was like
my counceaus had been removed, I knew what was right and wrong but it
was like it didn't matter anymore. The only reason I wasn't
immediately send out to find and destroy his enemies was I was able to
fight or reword his commands just a little bit, not enough to make much
a difference but you see the guy Guerro was a rabid perfectionist and I
was put on stasis until he could fix this 'problem'.

Eventually this group of 'high powered warriors' found his base
after he sent out a couple weaker androids to kill them. Apparently
a couple of the fighters weren't human and were from a race called
Saiyan's from a planet Vegita.

Anyway, these apparently a couple of these Sayian's had gotten quite
a bit stronger when they had to defend the ummm other earth from this
evil guy called Freezer on another planet. Well you see, Guerro's
observer droids didn't know this so he wasn't prepared to face their
new powers.

When it became obvious to Guerro he was going to lose to these
warriors he was able to make it back to his lab and revive two androids
one male and one female from stasis, 17 & 18. 17 & 18 apparently were
quite a bit stronger than these warriors, even though they despised
Guerro, Guerro still felt he could still control them. He thought
wrong, the android 17 killed Guerro.

The Z team as the warriors called themselves were shocked at the
androids actions and didn't really do much but gawk. Then 18
apparently found my stasis pod, with the display of who and what I was
and decided to release me.

When I was revived I found most of my memories were 'sealed' I guess
would be the best word. Apparently Guerro thought he could control me
better if my memories from this life weren't a problem. The only real
though in my mind was the last command Guerro had given me, which was
to kill one of the Saiyan's called Goku, apparently the strongest
person on the planet.

When the Z fighters heard this they tried to destroy us. They blew
up the mountain the base was located in, in hopes that it would kill
us. No such luck, 17 & 18 wanted to have some fun and decided that
kicking the crap out of them was the best way to do it.

One of the fighters named 'Vegita' was quite a bit stronger than the
others and was able to change his form to increase his power. This
'Super Saiyan' as he called himself was suppose to be the penicle of
what his race could achieve, he had the power to destroy the world in
his first form, so you can imagine how powerful his 'Super Saiyan' form
would was. He was quite surprised when 18 still beat the crap out of
him and left him for dead, his friends were all shocked that she had
dispatched him so easily.

Since none of the fighters were Goku I hadn't felt the need to get
involved in the fighting, and stood off to the side just viewing the
beauty of nature. Kind of strange, I mean me not wanting to fight, but
hey when you got some cybernetic chip in you act different. Eventually
17 & 18 got tired of playing with the Z team and we decided to go find
Goku.

We could have flown there, o wait I haven't mentioned that.
Apparently when Guerro was implanting the stuff into my head he also
crammed in allot of techniques like using ones chi to fly and firing
chi blasts not based on emotions, and several others. Anyway as I was
saying we could have flown to this Goku's house but 17 wanted to drive
for some reason.

So we 'borrowed' this van and set out. To make a long story short
17 & 18 decided to cause lots of destruction all in the name of having
fun. I didn't really do much except sit in the van, if it wasn't about
this Goku I wasn't interested. Anyway, apparently one of these Z
fighters had come from the future and so there was this time travel
machine that one of Guerro's last experiments was able to use to
travel back in time.

Apparently in the future the Z fighters had managed to kill us and
this creature wasn't able to achieve its 'perfect' form, so it traveled
back in time so that it could. Apparently to achieve its perfect form
it needed to absorb 17 & 18, needless to say they were not to pleased
with this idea. They fought with this 'Cell' as the guy liked to be
called several times before 17 made a mistake and was absorbed by Cell.

Now, if I haven't already mentioned it before 17 was stronger than 18
and so 18 was a little scared of the prospect of being absorbed as
well. Apparently some of my memories were slowly breaking through
Guerro's seal and I remembered something about protecting the weak, so
just as Cell was about to absorb 18 I entered the fight.

Cell was good, he was very good. He was quite a bit more powerful
then me, but my technique was better so I was able to hold my own for
the most part. I'm not sure what would have been the outcome of that
fight if Vegita hadn't shown back up, he apparently wanted to fight
cell and I could tell he was more powerful then cell was so I allowed
him to.

Then the fool goes and allows cell to absorb 18. I was pissed 18
had treated me well, so I kinda exploded at Vegita. I beat the holy
crap out of his ass even though he was more powerful.

Cell found this amazingly funny and decided that he would hold a
tournament to prove how much more powerful he was than the Z team and
gave them 10 days to prepare for his 'tournament'. With that he took
to the air and left, I was about to follow and try to free 18 when this
man popped out of nowhere and grabbed me then teleported my ass to this
island in the sky.

Apparently this man was Goku, needless to say the commands Guerro
left kicked in and I started fighting with him. I must admit he was
amazing, I have never met such a good fighter. It wasn't his technique
heck none of the Z team had any real fighting technique it was his speed and strength they were phenomenal. Chi blasts were wasted on
him. It is depressing to thing about, he was good, but could be so
much better. The talent, the skill was all their, I knew I should have
lost that fight and at the final moment, where I was prepared to end
it, more memories filtered through. They showed me I didn't have to
kill to win, and I was able to fight off the effects of the chip in my
head.

One of the earth's scientists named Bulma was able to block out most
of Guerro's programming and removed some sort of self destruct device
from my chest. She wasn't able to do anything about the chip in my
head though so most of my memories were still locked away. All this
took about 2 days, so there were only 8 more before this tournament.

Without the effects of Guerro's programming effecting my actions I
was pretty much trusted by the Z team. Why I dunno, I nearly killed
Goku, but apparently since I was able to stop myself I was ok in their
minds. When I got back up to this 'floating island' in the sky Vegita
and his sun Trunks the kid form the future were coming out of this
room. Apparently this room allowed the user to train for 1 year in
about 1 days time.

Apparently Goku also realized that while I had won our fight, that
there was no way I could beat cell. As an android my power level was
pretty much as high as I could get it while his could still go up. He
asked me to train his son and himself in this 'room'. The room could
only hold 2 people at a time, so for the first year I went in with Goku.

I taught him everything I know, he was the best student a person
could ask for. A quick study and when he wasn't eating or sleeping we
were fighting or I was teaching him the Anything Goes style. In all of
about 6 months he had learned everything I had to teach, there wasn't
much of a point of me staying, I wasn't strong enough to spar against
him effectively anymore and he would increase his power level faster
without my interfering so I left the room.

Needless to say when I arrived half a day early and without Goku
the others were shocked. When I told them the reasons though they
understood. Apparently Goku had always been a quick learner, not as
fast as myself but quick none the less.

When the day ended Goku came out in his Super Saiyan form, apparently
he had spent just about every second since I had left in that form so
it felt second nature to him, by staying in that form it helped
increase his power level faster since it burned chi so fast.

Goku then went in with his son and spent only a couple hours in
their, apparently showing him how to reach his second form. When he
came out it was my turn again and I went in to train his son 'Gohan'.
Like his father he was a quick learner, and picked up our style very
fast. I quickly ran out of stuff to teach and left the room since a
person could only stay in there 2 years maximum as Gohan continued to
train himself.

When Gohan exited the room he was a changed man, he had grown several
feet and gained allot of muscle mass. Apparently this was another
thing about Saiyan's as soon as they hit puberty they grew incredibly
fast. He was also in his Super Saiyan form like his father and the two
set out to enjoy what little time they had left before the tournament.
The others just took their turns in the room, knowing it wouldn't
really make a difference if Goku couldn't beat Cell then what hope
would they have.

And that�s pretty much the whole story" concluded Ranma.

***

Stunned silence...

More silence...

"Wa.. Wait a minute, what the hell do you mean that�s pretty much
it..." sputtered Nabiki. "What the hell happened to Cell, how did you
get home, what happened to 18 she said jerking her thumb at the android
sitting on the deck looking at the pond." The others just nodded their
heads and waited for the answers, still stunned.

It was about this time that the rest made the connection between the
android in the story and the Girl sitting by Ranma.

<Sigh> "Heh" laughed Ranma scratching the back of his head. "I don't
remember to much of it, what I was told by the others is that sometime
during the start of the tournament I attacked cell screaming something
about giving 18 back and was killed."

Stunned Silence...

Ranma continued "Apparently Goku fought cell and bowed out after it
became obvious that no matter what he did, he couldn't beat cell. He
picked his son Gohan to go next, needless to say everyone thought he
was nuts. Apparently though Gohan has some hidden power that comes out
when his friends and loved ones are in danger, Goku was counting on
this and when Cell decided to start hurting the other Z fighters.
Gohan snapped. They said after he pummeled Cell for a good while he
shot a huge 1 handed chi blast that obliterated cell so that his
regeneration powers couldn't help him. Now all that the Z fighters had
to do was fix all the damage Cell caused.

Apparently that floating island I was on was the home of the Guardian
of the Earth. This guardian created these dragonballs, 7 balls that
when brought together granted the person 2 wishes. Why 2 I dunno, the
first wish was to restore all the damage done during the fighting, the
second wish was to bring back to life everyone that was killed by
cell. So myself 17 & 18 as well as allot of the population of Earth
were brought back to life.

These dragonballs though could only be used once a year and the Z
fighters had other friends which were in the afterlife which they
wanted to bring back. So it was a couple years before I was able to
use the balls to remove Guerro's cybernetic implants. Over the
course of those years 18 & I grew closer and I guess you could say
eventually became a couple. Once the cybernetic implants were removed
my memories were returned and I was able to remember you all. The
second wish we used to come here, Goku said he would contact us when
the dragonballs returned in a year to see if we wanted to return."

Stunned Silence...

<Thump> Heads turned... "Akane" Ranma whispered.

**** End chapter 1

A.N. It's my story I know I changed allot of the cell battle but IT MY
STORY!!! Goku lives at the end, heck King Kai lives at the end too,
17 & 18 died when Cell absorbed them so the dragonballs brought them
back. If you don't like it tough :P

Man, this part got long, hope you enjoyed it. I switched into first
person from Ranma's pov during Ranma's recap of his life, seemed the
best way to do it. I could also use a set list of pre-readers so if
your interested email me at schemer@houston.rr.com

Definitely going to be a mini-series, 3-5 Chapters at the most.