DB Sommer wrote:
And here we go on that long and twisty path again. :)
At this rate, you might catch up soon!
Paul Durant -- Hearing with Galaxy Police, case number TER2-656278
for a traffic violation.
Heh. Cute.
He's meant to be a very memorable character. :)
Ayeka nodded. It was indeed a pretty planet, foreign vapors
foreign? In what sense.
I have no idea. Will reword.
Ayeka bit back a yell of anger at the comment.
Why did she take it wrong?
That gets explained later.
"The decoy will not be activated until we reach Shanghai -- three
days from now -- and remove as many innocents to safety as possible.
Satellite imagery suggests that the city is deserted, and because of
that, intact. I'm not yet sure where the Chinese government moved
the populous, but with the city essentially at our disposal, I
should be able to create -- within a day or so of arrival -- a gate
with enough range to take everyone to, say, Australia. Then we can
activate the decoy, taking a much smaller and faster moving force to
the Joketsuzoku controlled territory, which is... here."
Eh? Why smaller? I thought everyone was going.
Some of the people are just dead-weight in the grand scheme of things.
Patterson, to Norris's left, spoke up, frowning in consternation,
That's awkward. I'd reword it.
Me too.
areas. What can stop then
them
Whoops.
Washuu smiled, then shook her head, explaining, "You'll see when you
get there... it should be completely safe, and I think Yosho wanted
to talk to you when you came back. Something about training."
"Oh?" Ranma asked, raising an eyebrow.
That will perk his interest.
Who doesn't want to get beaten by an old guy with a stick?
The pair of them peered about the landscape. Broken gray stone and
largely featureless dusty plain surrounded him, lending Ranma an
Probably the moon
He shot for it, after all.
Ranma frowned thoughtfully, staring at the constructs, while his
partner began sniffing curiously at the first of the undamaged pair.
Might be a good idea to get Little Ran Oh away from them. Wouldn't want them
devoured, after all.
Maybe was a little too obvious, there....
He watched her until she crossed the distance between the two,
catching her easily as she launched into a hug that would have
toppled him, were he not braced for it. "Ranma-papa-san!" she
caroled happily. "Are you feelings
feeling
Yeep! Adjusted. :p
Grinning toothily, Ranma shrugged, waving the bokken experimentally.
"Yeah, well, Pops said that I should know how to use weapons -- all
of them -- and if I knew them better, I'd be able to fight them
better without weapons."
Might be good to have him cringe a little at the memory of his father,
Yeah, he should.
Yosho smirked, but hid the expression quickly behind a mask of
patience. "I've got a lot more experience, Ranma. It'll take you
some time to reach my level. Now, your level of control is
impressive enough that I'll spare you the more basic drills. Watch
my feet, I want you to copy this stance..."
Ranma does learn fast, to be sure.
Against reavers, adaptation is the name of the game.
Ami watched Ranma train. The boy, despite his odd ears, and sharply
drop this 'and' since you have one after it.
Done.
He and Yosho trained, though in Ami's eyes, it was more Yosho beating
on Ranma with a stick.
It's a form of training, yes. Ranma is learned why it's best not to get hit.
Heh. True enough.
The two fell silent, simply watching, until Minako drifted to sit
with them, watching Ranma studiously. "Wow," the blonde said,
without preamble, "he'd make a great senshi, if he were a girl."
Heh. Playing on another ff convention, are we?
Actually, the next two lines contain the titles of certain other
Ranma/Sailor Moon x-overs -- kind of like when Ranma has a passing
thought about 'Honor and Love' in chapter five.
Ranma stared, unsure of how to take that,
Ranma; Something along the lines of 'Oh no, not again," comes to mind
Hah!
words, "I admit, I was a little angry that you thought that we
needed to be protected...
especially since they did.
True enough.
Michiru frowned dubiously, but looked to Haruka for guidance. For her
part, Haruka was uncomfortable with the idea. She didn't trust any
boys around Hotaru in general,
After all, boys were yucky. Only a girl would understand what girls went
through, and therefore were better.
Er....
"That's okay," Hotaru assured them, "I'll talk to him with his daughter!"
Michiru's face turned pale. "Ranma has a daughter?"
Michiru: Yuck. Boy-girl sex. Blech.
Waaaaait a minute here -- you aren't really Donny Cheng in a Mr.
Sommer suit, are you? ;)
recorded on _this_ scroll is a Saotome Genma -- we'll have an ally
that can see us through this mess without having to rely on...
Ranma.
Heh. Oh bitter irony.
Or something like that.
She'd trust the girl more with if head was no longer attached to her
shoulders, but that was a 'bad thing' and she wasn't supposed to decapitate
anyone.
*snicker*
But it would be mean to ignore both of them, simply because she
didn't trust the one -- and the first smelled too honest to be mean
to.
too.
Er.... I meant 'mean towards', which is right, not 'mean in addition
to'. I think.
The old woman eyed the three girls with their proffered lunches, and
smirked widely. "I see my idea wasn't so original after all," she
commented.
Heh. Now Cologne's coming on to him.
It was bound to happen eventually. No! Wait! I mean -- next question!
Ranma looked around slowly, noting the younger girls growing nervous
as they waited for him to make some kind of choice,
Now if he were Vegita, he'd merely kill all of them. :)
Well, he LOOKS like a Saiyan....
Yosho smirked, slapping Ranma on the shoulder companionably,
Yosho: Personally I'd have made a run for it, like I always do.
The old man seems to know how to avoid getting into these situations.
good." For a moment, he nearly forgot that the girl who had made the
meal for him had only an hour or so prior shot a bolt of lightning
at him,
My, he did bounce back quickly
Masu regenerative powers. And Hotaru's attempt at healing him, of
course.
forest, though Michiru couldn't explain _why_ it felt ancient.
Merely that it did.
Heh. How mysterious.
Not a Fushigi Yugi ref. :p
"Well, if Tokyo were still around, we could search through legal
channels..."
"I think if that can be done, Setsuna will do it."
I don't think it can be, though. Civilization has pretty much taken a
powder.
I like the way you say that.
He had used his speed -- fast enough that none other than probable
probably
Whoops.
"I'm not going to be your friend because you gave me food,"
Not being an enemy is not the same as being a friend.
No, but where there are common goals, alliances can be forged.
me. But see if you can get them to take the handcuff off -- I could
break it, but I think that'd just make them mad."
Probably
Norris seems to deal with the insanity pretty well, I'd say.
a heartbeat later. "And I thought that it was so great that you two
are starting to make up because it's sad to have to watch people not
be friends!"
Yep. That's Usagi.
And a whole lot of it.
Ryouko spared the other woman a glance, then resumed, "Anyway, the
nobility was angry because the Laruma had ships but weren't nobles,
so they decided the best way to deal with it was either to kill all
of their trees, or kill all of them."
Heh. Not very 'noble' of them, was it?
Nope.
Tenchi looked to Ayeka for confirmation, and all that she could say
in defense was, "Well... they _are_ Laruma."
Nice attitude. Show generations of irrational racism don't die easily.
Actually, I think it's a pretty bad attitude. But I also think it
captures the mood pretty well.
winking. "What I heard, was
don't think you need the comma
It's been executed.
"Yes!" Ayeka proclaimed, raising her head triumphantly. "Juraian law
is fair and just!"
"Even if the nobles who uphold that law aren't," Ryouko noted.
That's usually the problem. The best you can hope for is to set up a system
that deals sparingly with the society and let society try and run itself.
The more power given to fewer individuals, the more easily the system is
corrupted.
Politics are an ugly thing.
serve in the council. Are you asking because you wish to mock me, or
do you truly not know?" The man seemed genuinely confused.
Tenchi: Why to mock you, of course. HAHAHA!
Heh!
Ayeka's eyes rolled up into her head as she slumped out of her seat
and collapsed onto the floor.
Heh. That didn't take long.
She also fainted when Tenchi was made Emperor. Hm. I may have
started a trend....
"Good," Tenchi said, smiling grimly. "Then let's get to work."
Heh. Revolutionaries make poor leaders, though. We'll see if this works.
He'd be better off making slow changes or bumping off the existing members
that would stand in his way.
Probably.
Will get to more soon.
Hey, thanks for taking the time to C&C this monster!
D.B. Sommer