Gaia's Awakening
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' ' are for quotes in talks
{ } are for thoughts
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Chapter 2
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This new journey to the USA, Los Angeles to be exact, was a little
shorter than the last one. The party knew the way now. The hardest
part would be the infiltration itself...
So, just before arriving at the city, the group used the stolen beetle
uniforms, Ranma using the Justicers' brown version.
Dressed like this, it was easy to enter the city. No civilian would
dare to oppose one of the "agents of the new peace", and specially not
a group returning from a mission. Not knowing exactly where was the
nearest garrison, they had to ask someone.
"Excuse me!" shouted Ranma in the street they where in. "We are from
out of town and we'd like to know where is the nearest guard post!"
Nobody could work the courage to answer the soldiers.
"Hurry! We haven't all the day!" Ranma added after seeing nobody would
answer him.
"D-down this road and..." someone finally started to mumble.
"And?" asked Ranma authoritatively.
"A-and you'll see a g-great building at y-your left..." the small man
finished with trouble.
"Thank you." Was all Ranma said before the Amazonian party started to
walk toward their next destination.
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The building was effectively higher than the others, easily five
stories. Its entrance was guarded by two beetles who, seeing the group
coming toward them, engaged a talk.
"Stop! Where are you from?" asked one of the guards.
"We are the last survivors from an attack on a city, somewhere south
from here. Having nowhere to go, we came back here to receive new
orders." Explained Ranma, being the apparent leader of the group with
his brown armor.
"How much were the attackers?" asked the other guard to add in his
report, officers just loved details in a repot.
"Well, we didn't really have time to count them, but after two thirds
of my men were killed, I knew that we couldn't win. They seemed
chinese though." Answered Ranma, their covert carefully planned all
the way from China.
"Okay. Go see the Justicer in there. He'll give you your new
assignments." Acknowledged the first guard and allowing them to enter.
"Thanks. Guys, follow me." Ranma 'ordered' to his troops.
While Ranma went to talk to the Justicer ruling this district, the
others 1disguised Amazons waited for him in the main guard room.
The local Justicer bought the story as easily as his guards, and soon
the Amazon elite could travel to the local training center, at the
request of Ranma.
The Justicer didn't want to grant his comrade's, but Ranma pointed
that he lost more than half his troops, so he needed to train them
some more before he could safely guard another city.
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This new travel, even if it wouldn't get them closer to the
headquarters, would be a great chance to gather informations. It
brought them into another district, close to the downtown.
The training center itself was not as impressive as the guard post.
Only two stories. But the area it occupied was easily ten times
larger. The group came to a halt when the reached the main door, with
two guards.
"Hi! Here is my training order." Told Ranma to a guard while giving
him the authorization signed by the post's Justicer.
The guard studied the document, then he allowed the group in. Ranma
took back the paper and the Amazons entered the complex.
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Knowing they needed to be as careful as possible, the Amazons stayed
there, 'training' in their reduced power level. They knew that their
presence here would soon become suspicious so they'd have to act
quickly.
There hadn't been no attack on a city southern from there, after all.
But the little time they were earning was precious, they learned a lot
on the beetles. THAT was the goal of this mission.
By now, they knew the exact location of the main headquarter. Ma
Yuan's hive. But there was more... They learned that there was another
rank of beetle above the Justicers : the War Princes. If they could
see a War Prince's power level, they would have another ace on their
sleeves for the upcoming war.
And so Ranma brought together his friends to discuss a plan. They
needed to know where to find one of these War Princes. The plan was
simple : if a beetle was too powerful, he needed to be promoted to the
next level. So if Ranma, showing a normal Justicer power level, was
able to shortly show a stronger power, he might be noticed.
In the next days, each Amazon started to show some increase in power,
like their Justicer squad leader. The rise in power was modest, but it
was way past what a classic beetle could do in a month.
So... Justicer Ranma being the leader and trainer of this squad, he
was called to meet the basement's Prince. Their crazy scheme worked,
and they didn't even knew there was a Prince here at the training
facilities.
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Ranma was in front of the door of the Prince's office. He knocked,
then entered the room when he heard a voice ordering him to enter.
"Justicer Ranma here to report, Sir." Said Ranma, the gathering of
information these last days had paid a lot, and they learned the
beetles codes easily.
Behind the desk, the Prince was standing in front of a window, with
his back toward Ranma. He seemed to look at the training ground.
"I had some doubt at first, but after these few days, I knew it was
you, Ranma..." said the man after a little while, clad in a red beetle
uniform and a better armor than the one given to the Justicers, he
also had a Sword of Justice fastened to his belt.
{This voice... no, it can't be...} thought Ranma, hatred starting to
show on his face.
The man turned toward Ranma, revealing his own face.
"I'm very disappointed in you, boy." Said the man, seeing that Ranma
had recognized him.
"Pop... Of all the thing I thought you'll never do, this was at the
very bottom of the list." Spat Ranma at his father.
"You don't even know what you're talking about, boy. But I must say
I'm surprised to see you in this armor. When did you join us?" asked
Genma with a frown.
"Hu... Hahaha, you actually thought I joined the beetle army? After we
joined the rebellion, I didn't stop just because our forces were
crushed the first time. I've more pride than that!" Ranma laughed at
his father face.
"So I suppose you're just a spy for these Amazons?"
"What if I am? I learned more with them in these last months than I
did with you in all these years."
"Son... surely you misunderstood the real motive behind all this."
Genma told his son. "All our old acquaintance are not dead."
"What? I SAW them die with my own eyes!" Ranma shouted back.
"Some didn't die. They joined the army, and now they operate under my
command as Justicers. Some are even here, training."
"Yeah... sure. You converted them into animated zombies, and now
you're using them like some toys in your foolish war."
"Ranma. You don't understand the Master real goal..."
"I know enough to say that some innocent are lobotomized or even
killed for NOTHING!"
"You always were a disappointment to me back then. I see that you
stayed the same... I must thank you, despite your pathetic actions."
"Hu?"
"You brought me some good warriors to convert..." chuckled Genma.
"DON'T YOU DARE !!!" shouted Ranma while crossing the space between
him and his father in an eye blink.
Genma easily blocked the punch, being prepared for the attack.
"That's it, son. Show me what you learned with these so great
Amazons." taunted Genma while pushing his son back.
"It'll be my pleasure, you bastard! I was waiting for this day!" said
Ranma while powering up, removing the blocks he put on himself to pass
as a Justicer.
"It's time for you to learn to show some respect to your betters,
boy!"
They engaged the fight.
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On their training quarter, the Amazon felt Ranma increasing aura.
"Aiya... what is he doing? He want to fight the Prince all by
himself?" asked Shampoo.
"The only thing he'll succeed to do is to get himself killed." Ryoga
answered her.
"We got to help him, the jerk can't possibly win by himself." Added
Akane
"The Prince aura is far too much for any of us to beat him." Pointed
Shampoo.
"Well, I'm not gonna let the fool fight alone!" shouted Ryoga, while
dashing toward Ranma's position.
"STOP!" ordered a passing Justicer. "You are all under arrest!" He
motioned to his troops to arrest the disguised Amazons.
"WHAT?" shouted Ryoga.
"Hu Ho... problem." Added Shampoo.
"Seems we'll have to get by them first." Announced Akane, getting
ready to fight for her own freedom.
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After only a few minutes of fighting, Ranma was reduced to a bloody
pulp, while Genma showed only minor bruises.
"You disappoint me more each passing day, son. Is that all you got? I
was waiting for much more." Genma continued to taunt.
"Argh... I'm not *puff* finished *puff* yet..." Ranma warned his
father between gasps.
"To say that your friends must already being converted at this
time..."
"Wha...?"
"When I asked you to come, I also ordered to my troops to arrest your
friends. With some luck, they are still fighting for their lives."
Genma informed his bloodied son.
"DIE!" screamed Ranma projecting himself on his father, too surprised
by the sudden speed to dodge. The two men impacted on the window,
passing through it and then crashing on the ground bellow.
Genma quickly disengaged from his son.
"There. This is way better."
Ranma got up with trouble and leveled his eyes to his father's,
burning with rage.
"I'm gonna tear you apart, old man! I dunno how, but I'll do it...Even
if it's the last thing I do!" Ranma warned his father, starting to
unseal his nekoken. He slashed the air, sending a razor sharp wave of
chi toward his father.
{So the boy mastered the nekoken...} Genma thought to himself, smiling
mentally. He countered the nekoken attack by a vacuum wave of his own,
the two attack canceling each other, Genma then blurred and punched
his son on the jaw, sending him several feet farther.
"You think you can beat me? You can't even stand on you feet without
trouble."
Ranma started to crawl back up, using a nearby wall to help himself to
stand back up.
"I'll... never... give up. Ranma Saotome don't lose!"
"You don't even know when you already lost, boy. Stop this nonsense."
Genma walked up to his son and kicked him in the ribs, sending him
flying.
This time, Ranma didn't move.
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The other fight was not going well either. Not that the beetles could
harm any of the Amazon, but the Justicers were another story.
For each foe that bit the mud, two would take his place. The Amazons
knew that they were soon going to lose the fight, but they hoped to
see the number of beetle to finally start to decreasing.
"Urhh... We have to end this a way or another. Ranma is not going to
make it without our help!" cried Akane.
"Well, I'm already running out of chi here... even if I could get to
Ranma, I would be unable to help him... his aura is becoming weaker
and weaker." Shampoo shouted back.
"He have better to not die here... Only I have the right to kill him!"
mumbled Ryoga to himself.
"Less talk! More fight!" Shampoo shouted again, the Amazon letting
herself be consumed by her ancestor's battle frenzy.
Without any warning, all the beetles detector exploded at the same
time.
"Wha.." Akane started to say.
"What's this... Who could be strong enough to make a detector
explode?" Ryoga asked to his comrades. "Anyway, that's our chance.
Bakusai Tenkestu !!" He shouted mightily, his technique sending rocks
everywhere and hiding them in dust.
Using the distraction, the Amazons could beat the beetles between them
and Ranma. They started to run for their lives, the last Justicers
following them.
"Could it be... Ranma?" Akane whispered with hope in her voice.
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Genma noted that Ranma's flesh was losing it's color and paling.
{He's already suffering from blood loss? What a wimp!} thought Genma.
He then noticed that Ranma's HAIR where paling too, getting discolored
and golden.
"What the..." He said, surprised. He didn't have more time as Ranma
started to stand up again, his whole body glowing gold.
When Ranma was upright, he gazed at his father, the pupils of his
eyes, still burning with rage, had somewhat turned emerald.
"You had enough warning, old man. I told you I'll tear you apart."
Without even a blur, Ranma had his fist buried deep in Genma fat
stomach. He followed by a spinning kick on the jaw and send his father
flying on the other side of the room.
"How did you...?" asked Genma while he spitted blood.
"I dunno... I told ya I didn't know how I would kill you. But now that
I have the power to, I'm gonna do it." Ranma replied coldly while he
walked up to his father.
Genma tried to attack his son with all his might, but his fist was
caught easily by Ranma.
"Who's pathetic now, old man? Not as boasting now that you're on the
receiving end, eh?" A quick hit on the elbow easily broke his father
arm. "You should have followed me when I went to China. Now, it's my
duty to see that you'll never harm anyone again."
Ranma used his grip on his father fist to project him on a nearly
wall, causing his father to spit more blood, but he was still standing
up.
"I'm truly sorry to have to do this. But you didn't give me the
choice." Tears were running freely on Ranma's cheeks now. "Kachu
Tenshin Amagouriken!!"
Several hundred of punched rained on the red armored body of the man
knew as Genma Saotome, destroying his Prince's armor, breaking bones
and reducing him to a bloody pulp.
Ranma caught his father by the neck to keep him from falling. With his
other hand, he summoned his nekoken chi claws.
"Farewell, father." Ranma whispered more to himself than his now
unconscious father. With a quick movement, he cut his father head off
of his shoulders, ending the fat man's life.
---
The blue armored Amazon group was finally getting to where Ranma
fought, they had now far less followers.
When they did get there, the first thing they saw was a victorious
golden haired Ranma. Then they saw the headless corpse of the Prince.
Seeing the chi claws on Ranma's hand, they understood that he had
somewhat succeeded to kill his mighty opponent.
Their stupor caused them to stop there. Ranma's emerald eyes, still
filled with hatred and some blood lust could have helped too.
The last following Justicers were catching their targets up. Ranma,
seeing them, dashed forward without any warning. His now increased
speed allowing him to cut the last five Justicers in a few seconds,
using only a couple slashing movement to cut all them in two.
He then stood there, looking at all the blood at his feet.
"Ranma?" Akane asked.
"Yes?" he asked back, his voice sounding tired, but cold too.
"We need to leave, now that we have been identified." She told him.
"Sure. Let's go." He answered while turning back toward the amazons.
They noticed his now pallid face.
"How do you did this?" Ryoga asked his rival.
"I dunno. I was so angry at him... and when I thought it was finished,
I felt this new power burning through me."
"I think we need to report to the Matriarch as fast as we can." Said
Shampoo to cut some tension.
"Yeah... Let's get back home." Added Akane.
"Ryoga. The Prince... he was my father..." Ranma told his
friend/rival.
"What? It was this bastard that was ruling here?" The fanged boy
asked.
"Yup. I wanted to only beat him up good at first. But he made me so
angry." He explained.
"Don't worry, man. I'd have done the same thing." Ryoga told him.
"Thanks."
They used their last strength to take the air and they put as much
distance as they could manage before they had to get their feet back
on earth. Sometime during the flight, Ranma's body returned to normal.
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Chapter 2 End
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Author's notes:
Like I said in the previous chapters, the rewrite is more to correct a
few things and change back Ranma's transformation into one of a true
super saiyajin.
Maybe I'll fuse the 2 next chapter.. or not... all will depend on
their length... I won't have a chapter shorter than 15K like chap 4
was before... :o
Vampyr 666 Vampyr6@wanadoo.fr
http://www.chez.com/vampyr666
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