Ryoko Saotome
A Ranma 1/2 / Tenchi Muyo crossover
Parts 12-15
By Thrythlind

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PART 12: CAAAAATTTSSSS INNNN SPAAAACE!!!!

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Ran-Ran's first thought as she blinked awake was that she may have made a mistake of some kind. She remembered a short fight with that blue-haired woman. It was a terribly short fight, and the woman had taken her down quickly. She patted herself down to make sure there was nothing missing and then took stock of her situation.

She was in a room with three walls, and a third open space leading out into a hallway. There was a slight buzzing sensation that most people probably wouldn't even notice. Looking around at the room and noting the bare, rather hostile nature of the room, concluded that she was in a cell of some sort. The only thing she couldn't figure out was why there were no bars.

"What's that buzzing?" she asked quietly.

She frowned suspiciously at the open hallway and reached out a hand. There was a flash of light and something burned her hand. As she pulled it back she saw a rippling wall of energy where the bars would be.

"Magic," she whispered reverently. Then continued in a deadpan tone. "Or I'm stuck in one of those stupid outsider 'science fiction' shows." She turned to examine the other walls. Eventually her eyes found the air vent. All those stupid shows had people escaping through the air vents. Surely in real life it wouldn't be that easy.

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"The little savage found the wall," Carella said smirking as he watched the security camera. The communication station started flashing and the human turned away from his entertainment to see what was going on. "It's the general channel."

"Just let it play and see if it's important," Irashi growled irritably. "Don't give me a running commentary while I'm trying to pilot."

"Grumpy about not getting to test run the goods?" Carella asked with a smirk. "You know they're worth more intact." Irashi growled a little as the communication screen displayed an angry Ryoko.

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"Ryo-Ohki!" Ryoko yelled angrily. "Break atmosphere, now! Scan all ships in this area! I know those two creeps don't have the credit for anything but a standard cloak! Open a broadcast to the general channel."

Ranma braced against the floor at the sudden acceleration but was standing up soon enough. He blinked at the sudden transition from day to apparent night and the sight of the planet dropping underneath them. A hologram that he thought he recognized as the solar system appeared in the center of the ship's bridge with various notes pointing out tiny bleeping dots here and there.

"Are these guys any good?" Ranma asked.

"I'm busy here!" Ryoko snapped. She turned back forward as a communication screen popped up. "I know you two freaks can hear me!! Carella, Irashi, if you want to live! You turn back with that kid now! You don't want to make me track you down!! Fucking, cowardly body snatchers! And you KNOW what'll happen when the GUILD hears you took a bribe from a bounty!"

********

"Kiyone," Mihoshi called out. "Ryoko's broadcasting a message." Kiyone came up forward from the living quarters and sat down in the pilot's seat as Ryoko shouted into her message into the system.

"Don't answer," Kiyone said. She held off a moment, considering.

Kiyone turned away from the screen and powered up the ship. As soon the ship's systems locked everything down, it was rising into the sky. Up to the edge of the atmosphere.

"Hold us in the planet's edge," Kiyone said. "I'm going to take a look around."

"Okay, Kiyone," Mihoshi said. She hesitated as she thought of something else. "Should I pull up the weapons and everything?"

"Do that," Kiyone said. She turned away from the console to look over the small system hologram. "I see about five ships in the system. That's Ryo-Ohki, making a big statement and going strong." She tapped a few keys and the map revovled showing the other side of the Earth. "There's another ship." Kiyone paused a moment to double check and make sure no Earth craft were encroaching on her, unlikely as that was.

"Wow, it's bright," Mihoshi commented. "Like it's lit up or something. Can anybody see that?"

"No," Kiyone said. "The cloaking's not down that much." She watched it following discreetly behind Ryo-Ohki's path. "I pretty sure I know who that is, but why is she going so bright? Even standard is almost shut off, anything less and Earth would spot her."

"So why doesn't Ryoko see her?" Mihoshi asked.

"I get the feeling that Ryoko's busy right now," Kiyone said. She waited for the blip to get into the line of sight for her first remote probe and then pulled a visual. "There you are."

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"She just fucking signed our death warrants," Carella said irritably. "What the hell did we do to her?"

"Ryoko doesn't like the slave trade," Irashi commented. He flipped a few controls and increased the acceleration on his ship.

"Ryoko's dead," Carella retorted.

"That certainly looked like her to me," Irashi said.

********

Ranma watched the map hologram as one of the blips started speeding up, the hologram seemed to block it out and extract it. Putting it up on the main screen for Ryoko's benefit. Ryoko smirked as they sped up.

"Second stringers," she muttered. "Only about a lightyear ahead. I'll catch them by the next star."

Ranma watched the hologram some more, trying to stay out of the way, and watching it move along with Ryo-Ohki's motion. He glanced a little further down at a blip following along behind them. He pointed at it.

"What's this?" he asked. Ryoko glanced back over her shoulder for a moment.

"I'm trying to save your little girlfriend's hide before she ends up somebody's toy," Ryoko snapped. She stopped as she stared at the blip. "Ryo-Ohki, that's what I think that is, isn't it?" A third hologram pulled out of the system map and blew it up into a visual of the ship. It was Ken-Ohki.

"She wants to see you fight," Ranma said. "All this just to test you out." He frowned and cracked his knuckles.

"Nagi is mine!" Ryoko insisted. Ranma nodded, but still frowned. "You can have anything that's left, if there is anything."

"Was that the moon we just passed?" Ranma asked.

"Pluto," Ryoko corrected. "What the hell? That static's...a sub space signal..."

"Ryoko," Ranma said hesitantly. "You should look at this."

"WHAT?!" Ryoko blinked and stared at the holo map. "Oh, fuck..."

As they pulled out of the Sol system Ryo-Ohki's sensors found themselves with less interference and an enhanced range. Which is why they suddenly found at least twenty ships on the edges of the sphere of Ryo-Ohki's reach. A series of schematics started flashing through a screen as Ryo-ohki identified the oncoming ships.

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Nagi tapped her fingers irritably as she followed Ryoko. She had half hoped that Ryoko's little act would have flushed out Makibi as well as the idiots she had sat out as bait. If the investigator was making a move she was being very quiet about it. Nagi narrowed her eyes.

"Ken-Ohki," she said. "You're showing me everything, aren't you?"

"Ciao," Ken-Ohki responded, hesitantly.

"Ken-Ohki," Nagi repeated cooly. "Are you showing me everything?"

"Ciao, ciao," Ken-Ohki responded. "CIAAAOO!"

"It's not your place to figure out what's best for me," Nagi said icily. "Show me what you're hiding."

"Ciao," Ken-Ohki said mournfully. Nagi's eyes grew wide as she looked saw the oncoming blips.

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"Where the hell did these guys come from!?" Carella demanded as the screen was filled with cops and military.

"They have to be after Nagi," Irashi said, hopefully. "I'm going to take it to that debris field and try to hide until they pass by.

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"Patroller, patroller, patroller, patroller, patroller," Ryoko said as the schematics scanned on her heads up display. "Cruiser, cruiser, cruiser, merc, merc, merc...more patrollers, cruisers. Where the hell did these guys come from?"

"They're cops?" Ranma asked. "Will they help?"

"Cabbit class ship, identify yourself," an impersonal man asked, popping up on yet another screen.

"How do you drive with all this stuff in the way?" Ranma asked.

"Who do you think this is?" Ryoko snapped angrily. She glanced at the ship Ryo-Ohki was tracking and noticed that it had changed course to a small debris field. ~Like that's going to throw me off.~

She glanced back to the communication screen in time to see the cop turn to the side.

"Are you the Ryo-Ohki?" the man asked.

"No," Ryoko said irritably. "I'm Ryoko, the ship is Ryo-Ohki. What the hells going on."

"Be advised we're here to apprehend the first class criminal Nagi," he said. "Please stay out of the action."

"Kiyone," Ryoko growled.

"Ryoko," Ranma said quietly behind her. She turned a look at him and hesitated a moment. Ran-Ran wasn't particularly his favorite person, and neither was Shampoo, but he wasn't going to let her get carted off somewhere while Ryoko went for vengeance. Not if he could help it.

"They couldn't catch her anyway," Ryoko muttered angrily. Then she turned back to Ranma. "Let's get this over with quickly."

"Thanks, Ryoko," Ranma said.

"Can you spare a couple of patrollers to make sure a couple snatchers don't get out of this field?" Ryoko asked irritably. "I'll take care of the work." ~And then I'll be there to push Nagi's face in.~

"I think we can spare that much," the officer said.

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"Ken-Ohki," Nagi said angrily. "Get us out of here, NOW!!"

"Ciao!" Ken-Ohki responded firmly. Nagi frowned angrily.

"And what do you think the Jurai will do to me?" Nagi asked, firmly.

"Ciao. Ciao."

"Oh, there's no death sentence," Nagi agreed. "But there's always a cryo-tank malfunction. An attempt to escape. A transportation accident. Do you really think I'd survive imprisonment?"

"Ciao!" The cabbit stated firmly.

"For my own good," Nagi shook her head irritably. She knew that Ken-Ohki was telling the truth. Cabbits always thought the best of their pilots. And there was no way she was going to get Ken-Ohki to change her mind here. She had banked on almost total loyalty. She had not thought that the loyalty would go so far as to cause Ken-Ohki to treat her like a child.

She turned to look at the on-coming ships. Perhaps it was time to find a less conscientious mode of transportation. Ken-Ohki would fall back in line after Ryoko was dead. She snatched one of the floating crystals in the bridge and waited, staring at the sub-space static that was probably Makibi's coded message.

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"I'm going to check on the prisoner," Irashi said. "If all else fails we can use her as a hostage." The neko-jin stepped out of the pilots chair and grabbed a shock rod as he wandered back in the ship toward the brig.

"The GP is surrounding the field," Carella called out over the intercom.

"What about Ryo-Ohki?" Irashi asked into his communicator.

"The field's interferring with the sensors," was the answer. "It's not in range yet, if it's coming."

"She's comin..." Irashi stopped as he came to the brig. The empty brig. "Oh hell."

"What's wrong?" Carella asked.

"The girl got out of the cell," Irashi said. "I thought you were going to rig that air vent."

"We ran out of money," Carella reminded him. "Remember? We had to pay your alimony to that neko-jin woman. You should have warned me she was still in the service."

"Oh shut up," Irashi grumbled. "Can you find anything in the vents? And it's Ctarl-Ctarl you idiot, why can't any of you on this side of the galaxy get it right!?"

"Nothing in the vents," Carella said, ignoring him. "There's the...hey...where'd it go?"

"Where'd what go?" Irashi asked dangerously. "Ryo-Ohki?"

********

"Let's do this fast," Ryoko said irritably. "I want to get back before Nagi's finished killing all those cops."

"Anything I should know?" Ranma asked.

"Try not to break the hull," Ryoko said. "The shields should hold the atmosphere in, but it isn't worth risking."

"Nothing really damaging then," Ranma nodded. "I'll go this way."

"This day is turning into a real waste," Ryoko muttered in token resistance, as she directed Ryo-Ohki to follow Ranma.

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Ran-Ran snuck around a corner and suddenly found herself in what looked like a cockpit for an airplane. She blinked and looked out at the debris field and the unfamiliar star shapes beyond.

"I'm actually off the planet," she whispered in shock.

"What, YOU!"

And Ran-Ran was reminded that she was not alone in this place. She turned to look at the ugly, beat-up male that was shouting at her. Obviously he was a poor fighter if had all those scars all over himself. He apparently didn't know how to get out of the way.

"You! Ugly male," she shouted, switching to Japanese. "You lock Ran-Ran in that magic box?" The man stood up and started to come at her.

"Yep, and your goin-" Carella was interrupted by the supposedly defenseless girl's solid strike to his stomach. He doubled over and felt another thud as he remembered just why he preferred to cover Irashi in fights.

"Stupid outsider!" Ran-Ran repeated, kicking him back against a wall.

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Ranma turned a corner and found himself standing at one end of a hallway, across from someone. To be specific a cat person. Ranma froze as shiver went up his spine.

"Why do I get the cat?" he wondered. The man smiled.

"Ahh," he said. "You obviously have heard of reputation in battle. Well, you should feel honored to be defeated in combat by a Ctarl-Ctarl."

"Couldn't you just give back Ran-Ran and we can skip this part?" Ranma wondered hopefully.

"Miao?" Ryo-Ohki muttered behind Ranma.

"AAAHHH!!!" Ranma shouted flipping around to see Ryo-Ohki. "Don't do..." He stopped as he ducked under Irashi's attack. The cat man landed gracefully on his feet and immediately twisted about to attack Ranma again. Ranma shakily blocked the strike.

"You are skilled," Irashi admitted. "But I have never been defeated." That got Ranma's attention focused for a moment. He snapped his fist forward, felt the sting of the hit and frowned.

~Bakusai Tenketsu?~ He concluded. ~Or something similar.~ His opponent took the chance to smirk at him and chuckled. Ranma looked at the super tough cat person and felt a fresh shiver down his back.

"You see how futile it is," Irashi said. "We cannot be harmed by mere human fists." Then he lashed forward with a kick and laughed as Ranma dodged back.

"Oh m..man," Ranma muttered worriedly, letting himself be pushed back. "Why does it gotta be cats?"

"I am not merely a cat you, fool," Irashi declared. "I am an immortal, unbeatable, Ctarl-Ctarl."

Ranma twitched at the word immortal, suddenly imagining a feline Saffron. That train of thought brought him to remember what Saffron had done. Sweating profusely in fear at facing the cat, his eyes still narrowed. He attacked again, and the arrogant cat man stood ready to accept it. And the other thousand or so strikes that accompanied it in the twelth of a second the attack lasted.

Irashi's head whipped back and he tumbled to the ground. The catman jumped to his feet, expecting at any point that Ranma would follow up the attack. Instead Ranma merely backed up.

"That does it, you pathetic human," Irashi shouted. "I planned to save this for Ryoko, but for actually daring to wound me, you have earned my full power!!" ~As full power as I can get without a moon.~

"Full..." Ranma whimpered watching the cat man tense up. "...power?!" Then his opponent grew and changed, into something that made Kuno's tiger look small. Ranma took off screaming down the hallway, Irashi close behind.

"Miao?" Ryo-Ohki said, confused before following. She kept the transformed neko-jin in sight listening to Ranma's yells. As usual after meeting a full-blooded member of a race that Ryoko claimed descent from, Ryo-Ohki felt a renewed understanding of her partner's volatile nature.

"A DEAD END!?!" Ranma shouted. "MASAKA!!!!" Even as bestial as he became with the transformation, the neko-jin seemed to be laughing as he turned the corner to see Ranma plastered against the wall.

"Nice kitty," Ranma said shakily. "G...g...g..g...good ki..ki..kitty." Ryo-Ohki blinked and teleported to Ranma's right.

"Miao?" Ryo-Ohki asked. At that sound, Ranma stopped shaking and seemed to fade completely out of awareness. His arms and legs came away from the wall and curled up into a one-legged stance for a moment.

"Rrrooowwwww," Ranma yowled and then dropped to all fours, back arcged. He looked at Irashi with narrowed eyes. "gr.r.r.r.r.r.r.r..khiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii."

"Miao?"

Even Irashi, in his transformed state, paused for a moment. Then both cats leaped at each other.

********

"You take Ran-Ran home!" the young Amazon demanded angrily.

"All right! All right!" Carella snapped. He'd felt worse before, but this girl obviously had the advantage over him in hand to hand. "Just let me get to the pilot's seat."

"No tricks." It wasn't a question. Of course, while she was saying it, Carella was already moving to his seat. She wasn't even watching him closely, she had been right, he was a poor warrior. Why should he cause her concern?

"No tricks," Carella agreed, smirking as he turned to face her and fired the hold out blaster holstered in his chair.

Ran-Ran blinked and felt it strike her shoulder before she realized he was making a move. She stared at the gun in his hand and clutched at her burned, and now bleeding shoulder. Both stood frozen like that until Ryoko simply appeared behind Carella, floating.

"Not so tough now, eh kid?" Carella asked. "Won't get as much for you now, but that's life. What are you looking at?" Ran-Ran's eyes were wide, focused on Ryoko.

"I really hope that you aren't what Nagi wanted to test me against," Ryoko growled. Carella stared up and pointed his gun in the direction of the voice. Ryoko grabbed the weapon and crushed it, along with the hand holding it.

Carella stared at his crushed hand, whimpering quietly until Ryoko knocked him unconscious and then glared at Ran-Ran.

"You're a real pain in the ass, did you know that?" Ryoko asked. She paused a moment and closed her eyes, obviously concentrating on something. Then her eyes flashed open. "You alright kid?"

"Uhhh, you flying?" Ran-Ran asked. Ryoko nodded angrily.

"I don't have time for this," she grumbled and closed her eyes again. Next thing Ran-Ran knew, she was in a crystalline room with a view of the stars.

"She sorcerer?" Ran-Ran asked.

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"What's this Ryo-Ohki's saying about you being a ca...?" Ryoko stopped as she turned a corner to find devastation. The walls, floors and ceiling were shredded beyond repair, ir was like looking at confetti. Ryoko was thanking the heavens that they weren't yet near the hull. "What the hell happened here?"

One of the already weakened walls was caved in from the other direction as a huge feline was pushed through the wall. The cut and bleeding beast stood unsteadily up on it's feet as Ranma, looking a little beat up himself scampered through the new entrance, and enlarging it as he passed. Ribbons of metal peeling off from his area.

~Ryo-Ohki,~ Ryoko projected, concentrating. ~How much damage has been done?~

When she got the answer she cursed and opened her eyes to see Ranma and the feline viciously clawing at each other. Ranma was easily winning, and the only reason the other hadn't already fallen was that Ranma would back off to give his opponent space to recover for a bit. And then he launched forward again attacking the other until it started to fade again. He was actually playing with the monster.

"RANMA!!!" Ryoko shouted. Ranma looked to Ryoko and cocked his head for a moment. His opponent took a chance to attack and found itself casually slammed to the floor.

"Rowr?" Ranma cocked his head the other way, and then bent to grab his dazed opponent by the scruff of his neck and happily padded over to Ryoko and deposited it at her feet. Ryoko blinked down at her feet as Ranma happily circled her feet, purring.

"What in the world is wrong with..." There was a loud groaning sound. Ryoko closed her eyes and reached out to Ryo-Ohki. ~GET EVERYONE OUT OF HERE NOW! NO WAIT! Just me and...never mind.~

Ryoko looked around Ryo-Ohki's bridge and glared at the two unconscious snatchers.

"Miao?" Ryo-Ohki asked.

"Put the two jerks on ice," Ryoko said. "And head for Ken-Ohki." Ryoko growled as the two bounty hunters were absorbed into Ryo-Ohki's form, creating cells to hold them when they woke up.

The day was about to get a lot better, in a moment she'd be able to track down and destroy Nagi. Which was when she got something of a shock. No debris, no destruction. And Nagi no where within reach of Ryo-Ohki's senses.

"What happened here," Ryoko asked.

"Miao," Ryo-Ohki said. Ryoko blinked in surprise.

"Ken-Ohki turned her in," Ryoko repeated. "Her cabbit? You wouldn't do that to me, would you?"

"Miao!" Ryo-Ohki sounded somewhat offended. Then she was bowled to a sitting position by Ranma pushing at her legs. Ryoko's eye twitched irritably.

Ranma climbed onto her lap and nuzzled against her cheek, still purring happily. Ryoko blinked and tried to ignore Ranma, unsuccessfully.

~Great, it takes him going crazy to make him affectionate.~ Ryoko blinked and stared deadpan straight forward. "What, am I thinking?" Ryoko asked irritably.

She floated up to her captain's chair, Ranma comfortably purring in her lap. She felt really tempted just to boot him into the wall, but it was too much effort. Especially if he decided to try to tear the place up afterword. As he was right now, at least he was safe. He probably couldn't hurt Ryo-Ohki, but why take the chance.

Then Ranma pecked her lips and settled down in her lap. Ryoko blinked in surprise and stared forward in a slight blush before whipping to the nearest crystal.

"You aren't recording this, are you?"

"Miao," Ryo-Ohki said in a why would I do that manner.

Ryoko growled and watched the leaving police ships. Idly petting Ranma without really realizing it.

"Don't you dare think this is it, Nagi," she whispered harshly. She glanced back over her shoulder as she sensed Ken-Ohki arrive from whereever he had hidden. "This won't keep her away from me."

"Ciao," Ken-Ohki said pleadingly.

********

The police officer left for the cockpit with a sneer of disgust on her face. She left Nagi's gear on a table across from her gear, confident in the strength of the Galaxy Police brig. She didn't notice the handcuffed Nagi take the crystal in her hand, a sentimental item she had said, and slice through the bands. There was virtually no sound as she drove the crystal through the wall, into the cell controls on the other side. Nagi strided out of the cell and collected her energy whip on her way to follow her captor to the officer's partner.

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PART 13: Cat-Like Reflexes

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�����"One of the heros that toppled that poseur emperor Kagato was discovered alive today," the news broadcast said. �"When the space pirate Ryoko not only helped lure the assassin Nagi out into the open where she was captured by Galaxy Police forces, but also rescued a native of the now famous planet Earth from two slave traders." �The screen switched to a view of an enraged Ryoko walking down the corridor of a Galaxy Police craft.

������"Get that *bleep* thing *bleep* OUT of my face!" Ryoko shouted full into the view screen before stomping past the reporter. �"When did the *bleep* G *bleep* P let you *bleep* on these *bleep* anyway!!" �The camera followed her, its program obviously not possessing a self-preservation sub-routine.

������"You seem upset about something," the reporter asked through the automated drone. �"Aren't you pleased to see Nagi captured and facing justice?" �Ryoko whirled and reached out, grabbing the camera and growling at it.

������"I will be *bleep* PLEASED when that *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* are torn out and stuffed up her *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* you *bleep* *bleep*." �This was followed shortly by static and quick switch back to the news room studio.

������"And so Ryoko sums up the general feeling that populace has for the most-wanted criminal Nagi," the anchor person said. �"Certain shortsighted officials are even clamoring to reactivate the death sentence for...*click*"

������"Ryoko is alive," Sasami said with wonder. �She turned a reproachful look toward Washu. �"Why didn't you tell us this?" �She wasn't, as it seemed speaking in the Imperial third person, that was an affectation Sasami left for formal occasions. �Unless she was speaking for the Empire she felt uncomfortable with such an attitude. �No, she was speaking for herself and her sister.

������"I didn't want to get your hopes up," Washu explained. �"By the time we found she had survived it looked as if Nagi might have already killed her." �Sasami nodded and sighed, looking very tired. �Even as a virtual figurehead with other people to run most of the day to day affairs of the empire, this task was too much for her at times. �

������"We have bigger problems," Azaka said entering the room. �"The ships escorting Nagi to the Galaxy Police Headquarters have gone missing."

������"She's escaped," Sasami gasped, surprise and then anger clear on her face. �That woman, that woman had shared their hospitality, had pretended to be an ally. �Then she had nearly killed them all. �She sighed, trying to calm down.

������"She has half the galaxy looking for her, your Highness," Azaka said. �"She'll be caught eventually."

������"I..." she paused. �"I think we should invite Ryoko to the palace. �Before Nagi really does kill her."

������"She might not come," Washu said.

������"She has to come," Sasami insisted, pleadingly. �"If Ayeka...she has to come see Ayeka at least." �The two adults looked doubtful. �"Please, I want to see my all my family again." �She sighed, very tired.

********

������"Where am I?" Ranma muttered as he blinked awake. �He glanced around and found himself in the wide crystal room looking out on to stars. �To his left was a great round sphere streaked by huge bands. �"Ryo-Ohki?"

������"Miao," the ship responded, speaking from all directions. �Ranma nearly freaked again, almost imagining cats everywhere.

������"Don't do that!" Ranma snapped. �"What happened? �I was runnin' from that..." he paused as he noted a small streak of red marring the otherwise clean ground. �"Oh kami...where's Ryoko?" �A door opened in the one of the formerly clear walls, showing the starfield to be a projection on a crsytal wall.

������"Miao," this time the voice came from one isolated crystal hovering near the door.

������"Through there?" Ranma asked. �The crystal bobbed in what Ranma interpreted as a nod. �He strode quickly across the room and walked in, nervous about what he'd find.

������"Do you know what this is you little brat?" Ryoko was yelling at Ran Ran, waving around a piece of paper. �"This is called a subpoena! �Thanks to your little fuck up I have to show up in court and testify against those fuckin' flesh traders!"

������"You speak very dirty," Ran Ran said back. �"You no proper woman. �You you..." Ran Ran paused and spoke something in the Amazon version of Mandarin that basically translated to gutter-crawling bestiality prone freak of nature that didn't know honor from a �latrine. �"Musk!!"

������"I don't know what that means," Ryoko growled. �"But I KNOW it's an insult. �It is an insult, right?" She turned absent mindedly to look at Ranma, who was looking quite relieved at this point.

������"You're alive," Ranma said in obvious relief. �Ryoko blinked.

������"Ehh?" she said. �"What are you talking about?"

������"There was blood on the..." he noticed the sling around Ran Ran's arm then and blanched. �"That wasn't me, was it?" �He asked nervously, pointing to Ran Ran's arm.

������"Huh, she got shot," Ryoko said confused.

������"And the blood was from that?" Ranma asked.

������"Nope," Ryoko said. �"That came from the nekojin you tore apart, along with their ship. �After that all you did was follow me around and...stuff." �Ryoko blushed slightly and quickly turned to face Ran Ran, not noticing Ranma blanch and quietly leave the room. �"As for you...what's wrong with you?" �Ran Ran's face suddenly looked shocked.

������"Neko-ken Ranma no attack you?" Ran Ran sounded dismayed.

������"Well, I guess he can recognize friends either..." Ryoko turned toward Ranma only to find him gone. �"Where'd he go?"

������"No way," Ranma muttered to himself in the main room. �"Ain't no way."

********

������Shampoo was a mess. �Pacing back and forth through the back room of the Nekohanten as her extended family watched nervously. �Her normally flawlessly sculpted hair was dissarrayed and heavily mussed. �Tufts of the purple stuck out at odd angles as Shampoo ranted in alternately enraged and worried Mandarin.

������"This is our fearless leader?" Ryuu asked dryly. �He turned to see the effect of his joke and immediately noted two glares being leveled his way. �The master of the Yamasen sweatdropped and shrugged. �"Just kidding." �

������The sound of someone knocking on the front door seemed to galvanize Shampoo into motion. �One moment she was there, the next she was gone, apparently trying to compete with Ranma in the speed category.

������"Yes?!" Shampoo shouted as she opened the door. �On the other side of the door were those friend's of Ranma's new "wife." �Both were wearing some sort of uniform that looked reminiscent of this countries police forces, though there was something odd about them. �"What you want?" �She paused, closed her eyes and got a hold of her speech. �"What do you want?"

������"We came to tell you about your daughter," the blonde one said.

������"That's sister, Mihoshi," said the dark-haired one irritably. �Shampoo noted the green hair and idly wondered if the woman was of Amazon stock.

������"Oh right," Mihoshi said. �"Anyway, your sister is fine and -urk!"

������"What you know about Ran Ran!!" Shampoo demanded angrily, throttling the blonde woman. �"You tell Shampoo now or...let go!" Shampoo glared back at her husband and brother in law, each holding back one arm, as her target got her breath back.

������"Let them talk before you tear them to pieces," Mousse said. �Kiyone sweatdropped at the words as she helped Mihoshi stand up. �The green-haired woman smoothly unbuttoned the holster of her gun, making it ready to draw.

������"You let go of my arms right now," Shampoo growled. �Mousse and Ryuu glanced at each other before obeying the command. �Shampoo straightened her back, took a deep breath and glared at the two visitors. �"Where is my little sister."

������"She's fine," Kiyone said quickly. �"She should be back any moment."

������"Oh," Shampoo said, giving a sigh of relief before returning to a glare. �"How do I know you're telling the truth?"

������"Because Ryoko and Ranma saved her from a couple of slave traders," Mihoshi gasped out. �Shampoo twitched. �"She got shot in the shoulder," Shampoo twitched again. �"But they had a medic fix her right up." �Mihoshi unnoticing of Shampoo's reactions continued along blithely as she got her breath back. �"Lucky she wasn't on the bad guy's space ship when it blew up..." Shampoo twitched, and Mousse was backing away from her, giving Ryuu signals to do likewise. �Right by Shampoo, Lin Lin had arrived and was somewhat mirroring her big sister in reactions.

������"Mihoshi," Kiyone moaned, with her hand in her face.

������"And Nagi could have really hurt her too," Mihoshi said. �"Imagine a little girl trying to challenge the most wanted criminal in galaxy." �Shampoo and Lin Lin almost face faulted. �"I mean Nagi blew up half a space fleet and demolished the palace of the strongest Empire in the galaxy just to get at Ryoko. �I couldn't imagine what she would be willing to do to a little girl like that." �Shampoo and Lin Lin both seemed to freeze into pale marble statues before toppling over. �"Anyway, we might have to call her to testify later, okay? �Hey what happened to them?"

������"Mihoshi," Kiyone muttered. �"Next time I'll do this part, okay?"

������"It's good news," Mihoshi said. �"Why are they acting like that?" �Kiyone groaned and then looked up into the dark sky and at the glittering purple structure she could barely see above them. �Then the ship vanished.

������"Hello, Kiyone," an angry voice said behind her. �Kiyone turned around to see Ryoko glaring at her. �Ranma was a little back from her, looking troubled about something. �The other Amazon sister stared around for a moment before seeing her sisters in a faint and rushing towards them.

������"Now Ryoko," Kiyone started nervously. �"I was just trying to protect you." �Behind her, Shampoo and Lin Lin had recovered and were giving Ran Ran a scathing Mandarin lecture. �Mousse was providing a great deal of help on this task, causing the background to be filled with loud, angry, Mandarin. �The sound changed to that of interrogation after Ran Ran said something.

������"Oh, yes," Ryoko said tightly, walking forward angrily. �"I know that." �She snapped out a fist and sent the police woman sprawling to the ground. �"Thank you!" she spat, before starting to stalk down the street away from the scene.

������"Hey wait, Ryoko!" Mihoshi shouted. �"What was that for? �Nagi would have kille..." She was stopped by Kiyone placing a hand on her shoulder.

������"She barely tapped my," Kiyone said, wiping her mouth.

������"Wait!" Shampoo called out, rushing towards the silver haired woman. �Ryoko whirled to face her, barely noting Ranma moving to back her up.

������"What is it!?" Ryoko demanded. �

������Shampoo regarded the woman closely, cautiously. �From what she had heard, Ranma and this woman had battled each other to a draw after more than a day of fighting. �That meant that Shampoo herself had no real chance in a battle against her. �Fortunately that wasn't what Shampoo had in mind.

������"Ranma-Neko liked you?" she asked coolly, watching both Ranma and Ryoko as she asked the question.

������"Eh?" Ryoko said, taken aback. �"You mean when he was acting like a cat?" �Shampoo noted the worried and embarrassed look on Ranma's face and the slight, but discernible blush on Ryoko's face.

������"I see," Shampoo said, straightening her back. �She smiled briefly. �This might blow Ran Ran's chance out of the water, hopefully she knew that, but it meant something else for someone else Shampoo cared about.

������"You see what?" Ryoko asked cautiously. �Then to her surprise Shampoo suddenly gave her a companionable hug, backed off and bowed to the confused space pirate. �All this provoked a shocked yell from Ran Ran behind her. �Shampoo's smile faltered a moment, but returned as she said something in Mandarin. �Then she turned about and began to stalk toward Ran Ran again.

������~This girl will have to learn about recognizing opponents that are too dangerous,~ Shampoo thought to herself.

������"What was all that about?" Ryoko demanded from Ranma. �Ranma stared blankly for a moment, looking flustered before answering.

������"Uh, she was talking too fast," Ranma said hesitantly. �"I couldn't get it."

������"There's something about this 'Neko-ken' you're not telling me," Ryoko said coolly. �She turned about and stalked down the street a few moments before lifting slightly off the ground and floating. �Ranma took a relieved breath before following.

������"Ryoko," Kiyone called out. �Ryoko hesitated a moment and glanced over her shoulder. �"If I weren't a police officer, I'd probably agree with you. �I do what I have to do."

������"So do I," Ryoko snapped.

������"Maybe you should talk about this when you're both less upset," Ranma suggested, hoping to get away from the Amazon's before they explained to Ryoko just what Ranma was leaving out about the Neko-ken. �~It had to be some kind of fluke.~

������"Whatever," Ryoko muttered. �"All day wasted on this crap." �She huffed, crossed her legs mid-air and then vanished.

������"Great," Ranma muttered. �"Now where'd she go?"

������"Miao," Ryo-Ohki answered at his feet. �He glanced down at the cabbit, one of two Kiyone noticed and rolled his eyes.

������"Great," Ranma said. �"That means mom's gonna lecture me about 'lover's spats' or something." �He threw his hands up in mild disgust before jumping to the rooftops, followed by the cabbits.

������"Since when did Ryo-Ohki connect with anybody other than Ryoko," Kiyone wondered quietly.

********

������"Okay, listen," Ukyou said irritably. �"You and I may agree on the goal, but that doesn't mean tricking my ninja into doing something for you, under my name!"

������"It is all for the greater good," Nodoka insisted. �"And it certainly worked. �They have not been seen all day." �A light appeared in her eyes as she continued. �"I am certain that my son is proving his manliness right now."

������~Man, she's scary sometimes,~ Ukyou thought.

������"Excuse me," a new voice interrupted. �Ukyou and Nodoka turned to see Ryoko floating there in mid-air. �"There's something about this Neko-Ken that no one's told me about yet. �Maybe you could fill me in."

������"Errr..." Ukyou watched the hovering woman nervously. �"What do you mean exactly?"

������"Neko-ken?" Nodoka repeated. �"What is that?" �Ryoko and Ukyou glanced at her in surprise.

������"Nobody's ever told you?" Ukyou gasped.

������"I have heard it mentioned," Nodoka said. �"When I asked, Ranma said that it was a technique his father trained him in that didn't quite work."

������"He didn't explain more than that?" Ryoko asked.

������"I do get the feeling that he was afraid I might take issue with his father over it," Nodoka said. �Ryoko smirked viciously and vanished for a moment, reappearing with a slim book.

������"Take a look at this," she said tossing the book to her rather odd mother-in-law. �As Nodoka started to peruse the book she turned to Ukyou. �"Now what is so big about Ranma liking me while he's looney?" �Ukyou blinked and then cracked a wide smile.

������"Excuse me ladies," Nodoka said tightly, walking to the side to grab her sword. �"I must have a word with my husband." �Ukyou and Ryoko smirked as she left the room.

������"You haven't answered my question," Ryoko said, irritable again suddenly.

������"Well," Ukyou said, smiling. �"To my knowledge the only two people that have been safe around him like that were this little old lady he knew as a kid, and..."

������"And who?" Ryoko demanded, a smouldering fire in her eyes.

������"And Akane," Ukyou said. �Ryoko blinked, suddenly not sure of what to say. �The silence was broken by a scream of effeminate terror, followed shortly by a panda rushing out through the room holding a sign reading "I was tricked into it! �I swear!"

������"Get back here, Genma!" Nodoka was screaming as she followed after the panda, blade out. �"If you think I'm letting you near our next child!"

������"Next..." Ukyou blinked, watching after them. �"Wha-"

������"So you're saying he's got the hots for me is that it?" Ryoko said in disbelief. �She laughed nervously. �"Not that I'm not the hottest thing in twenty galaxies, but you think that cold, emotionless prude is capable of that?" �She laughed again. �"Thanks for the joke lady, I needed that after today." �She alighted on the ground and walked past Ukyou, still chuckling and sweating slightly.

������Ukyou watched her go with a slight smirk on her face. �She turned again at the sound of the door opening to see Ranma walking followed two of those little rabbit things and looking nervous and perplexed.

������"Is there a reason Mom's chasing Pop through the town?" Ranma asked. �"I mean a specific reason."

������"Ryoko showed her the Neko-ken manual," Ukyou said. �Ranma flinched. �"So, I hear you've been a good kitty." �And Ranma flinched again.

������"She told you," Ranma guessed.

������"Mmhmm." �Ukyou nodded, giving him a knowing smirk.

������"And you told her," Ranma guesssed.

������"Mmhmm." Ukyou nodded again, her arms crossed.

������"Great," Ranma said, deadpan. �He looked at Ukyou and then frowned. �"Oh come on, it doesn't mean anything. �I never attacked you, or Kasumi or Nabiki."

������"None of us have ever been stupid enough to get near you," Ukyou said. �"And I don't think anything would attack Kasumi."

������"Yeah, right," Ranma said. �"Look, it doesn't mean anything okay!" �He walked past her toward his room. �"Tomorrow we're getting this thing annulled and we each go our separate ways, got it?"

������"Right," Ukyou smirked.

********

������"That friend of yours told me something funny," Ryoko said as he entered the room.

������"Oh yeah?" Ranma said. �"Well don't believe it."

������"Right," Ryoko said dryly. �"That's what I said."

������"Yeah, there our tons of people I haven't attacked like that," Ranma said.

������"That's what I thought," Ryoko said, gaining back something of her footing. �"Must be able recognize allies for allies or something." �She lay back on the bed, relaxed, but vaguely disappointed.

������"Guess so," Ranma said, sitting down next to the wall and getting ready for a night's rest. �"Akane's the only one the cat ever kissed."

������"Urk."

********

������Ran Ran paced in her room listening to the giggling from her twin's room. �She frowned and considered her punishment. �House arrest, though Shampoo had called it "being grounded" for some reason. �It was probably something she picked up from these outsiders. �How dare Big Sister Shampoo punish for doing what any Amazon would do, get rid of an obstacle? �And why was she so happy about this sorceress and HER Airen?

������She paced a few more times and looked toward the mirror.

������"Of course know," she muttered. �"THIS mean WAR." �She tried to pose and jerked her shoulder. �"After shoulder all better."

������And with that she grabbed one of those silly outsider disc things her sister had brought back from her "honeymoon" with that Ryuu person. �She seemed to remember a couple of stories that had some good ideas for winning someone's heart. �Something with a black and white cat chasing around some other black and white cat while things kept turning white and falling apart around them.

������"Rabbit funnier though," she muttered as she found the proper disc.

********

������"Do you have a fiendish sorcerer and a fair damsel in need of desparate rescuing registered here?" a heavily bandaged samurai in a rather ratty hakama. �The innkeeper blinked in confusion at the figure before her and then checked the log.

������"No sir," she said, confused. �"I don't see that name registered anywhere here."

������"Then perhaps you can show the Blue Thunder of Furinkan ab open room so that he might recoup from the battles laid before him by the most foul Saotome?"

������"Well we have one such room," the innkeeper said. �"This way mister Blue Thunder?" �She turned and walked toward the corridor, a lurching mummy with a bokken behind her. �"Be careful of the doll on the..."

������"What foolishness is this woman!" Kuno demanded. �"Some child has left their playthings scattered about the hallway, you should take care to be more thorough in your cleaning." �The woman winced as he brushed the doll off the pedastal to the floor."

������"...pedastal." �She sighed and shook her head. �"I suppose this means you will not be enjoying your stay at the Vengeful Spirit Doll Inn."

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PART 14: Anulling we will go

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"Got everything this time?" Ryoko asked.

"Yes," Ranma said, showing his wallet. It had been on the kitchen counter at home, which was somewhat strange. He didn't remember leaving it there. "ID, the damn license." Said license now sported several tears, water stains, and other marks of wear and tear. "All we need is YOUR ID."

"I know that!" Ryoko snapped back. "That's why we're here this early, right?"

It was barely past dawn and they were both sitting in the lobby and waiting for the staff to arrive and open up. It could be called sitting anyway. They were both defying gravity to varying degrees. Ranma was perched on one of the rope line-dividers, apparently with virtually no weight. Ryoko, on the other hand, was apparently reclining on an invisible sofa.

"This time we're getting this thing fixed," Ranma said. ~Before...~

"Right," Ryoko said. They were quiet for a moment. "How long do you think it will be before your mother notices we skipped out?"

Ranma shrugged.

A janitor walked into the lobby, caught sight of the both of them and promptly tripped over a wastebasket.

"Hey, are you okay?" Ranma asked. The janitor screamed and backed away from them on his hands and knees, before finding his feet and running into the halls away from them.

"What's his problem?" Ryoko asked, sitting up to a crosslegged position. She was still about four feet off the ground, of course.

********

"Ranma, Ryoko-chan," Nodoka called out, knocking on the door to what she was currently thinking of as their room. After a moment of no response she risked a glance into the room, to find it empty. She crossed her arms and considered the possibilities, before sighing in exasperation.

"Well," a raspy voice declared. "It seems like the newlyweds took their activities elsewhere." Nodoka didn't bother to look towards the window for the source of the voice.

"I presume they're down at the city offices trying to get this anulled again," she sighed.

"Hmmm," the voice said. "I'll have to hurry if I am to see this woman then." There was a shuffling motion from the window, followed by the sound of drawing steel.

"Then you might wish to choose another direction," Nodoka said coolly. Happosai looked nervously at the sharp pointy piece of steel that had somehow materialized between him and the lovely woman.

"Right," he said. "Perhaps I'll come back when you're feeling a little better then."

"I wouldn't bother," Nodoka said. She waited for the withered old pervert to leave before she walked to the telephone.

********

"Ucchan's," Ukyou said into the phone cheerfully. "How may I, oh...Nodoka. How can I help you?" Ukyou sweated a little, talks with Nodoka were getting progressively more nerve-racking.

"Good morning, Ukyou-sama," Konatsu said, still sounding somewhat apologetic. Ukyou had not been happy with him stealing Ranma's wallet. Ukyou waved and gave him a welcoming smile, before turning back to the phone.

"The pervert is back in town?" Ukyou almost shouted. "Of course, I'll tell Tarou. Better him to deal with that little jackass than anybody else. He actually wants to find the creep. Thanks for the warning, for a moment I thought you were calling just to rope me into some scheme." ~I have my own schemes, thank you very much.~ "Where are they anyway? Thanks."

"Happosai is back?" Ryouga called out. "Don't worry!! I'll get him out of town!" He headed for the door, a desperate looking Ukyou trying to cut him off.

"Ryouga! Wait!" she shouted as Ryouga left the building. "Last time you..." her voice turned flat as she stepped into the street to find no Ryouga. "...vanished for a month."

"Do you need anything, Ukyou-sama?" Konatsu asked.

"That does it!" Ukyou snapped. "Next time I'm taking a page from Soun and Genma's book. That jackass is going to wake up some morning wearing a tuxedo and get marched right on down the aisle! GRRR!"

"Ukyou-sama?" Konatsu repeated. Ukyou whipped around to look at him and calmed down for a moment. "Do you want me to go inform Tarou-san about this?"

"Yeah, yeah," Ukyou said. "Go. And if you see Ryouga drag him home got it?"

"Hai, Ukyou-sama," Konatsu said, bowing and leaving the door. Ukyou looked around the resturant and sighed.

"Now I have to set up everything myself," she muttered.

********

"This is a replacement birth certificate?" the clerk asked the silver-haired woman.

"Yes," Ryoko said.

"What happened to the original?"

"A fire," Ryoko answered, tapping her fingers. The man looked at her suspicously.

"Well, it does appear to be properly notorized," he said finally.

~That's because Ryo-ohki created the files for me...~ Ryoko thought. ~She gave me everything but the fuckin ID.~ She turned to glare at the cabbit who did a good impression of whistling innocently.

"You have no school records," he noticed.

"I have one of these things," she displayed the equivalency diploma.

"You mean that you've never been to school?" the man said, surprised.

"I've never lived a normal life," Ryoko muttered.

"I ain't been to school much in my life, either," Ranma shrugged.

"Gee, I couldn't tell," Ryoko said sarcastically.

"Like you said," Ranma responded. "You don't have room to talk."

"I'll bet you don't even know what quantum generator core is," Ryoko noted.

"What is it?" Ranma asked crossing his arms. Everybody turned to look at Ryoko.

"It's the primary power producing unit of the Azkaba model X-23 tournament variation fighter craft," Ryoko said smuggly. "I used to be pretty hot on the competition circuits."

"I meant, something real," Ranma said, talking fast. "Not video games."

"Video games!" Ryoko retorted, then noticed Ranma was glancing at the clerk. "Right...you'd call it just a game. Do you know how much money you could make on those tournaments?" Ranma started to answer. "I was making a name for myself, another year or so and..."

"Excuse me," the clerk interrupted. "As interesting as your career in playing a child's game is, I have other work to do today, so can we get this done with?"

"Yeah," Ranma said. "Let's get this finished." Ryoko frowned a little and turned back to clerk irritably.

"What else?!" she snapped.

"Do you have any of your employment records?" the clerk asked.

"Actually," Ryoko said. "I do." She pulled out a small sheath of papers and turned them over.

"Pay stubs, employment records and tax returns," he said. "Originals, for the last year up until about half a year ago. No job right now?"

"No," Ryoko said grimmly. She continued quietly. "I had to leave...family emergency."

"Well, this makes things much more believable," the man said. "Still, I wonder, why these weren't destroyed in your fire?" He looked at her suspiciously again.

"I keep those somewhere else," she said.

"I see," he said, with an air of "not very organized" plain in his voice.

********

"So why didn't you stay in those competition thingies," Ranma asked when they were outside the door.

Most everybody else was still trying to find the right office to go to, so they were pretty much alone in this part of the building. Buried with the rest of the useful offices on about the third subterranean level.

"Well," Ranma asked when Ryoko didn't answer.

"I killed a cop," she said reluctantly, Ranma had told her some of his secrets. Ranma stared at her and frowned.

"You did what?" he asked, holding off from making any judgements yet.

"Don't worry," Ryoko said. "He was a crook."

********

Ryoko groaned awake and squinted as she found the bars of her cell. That confused her quite a bit. Since when did the GP use such primative containment systems. She glanced around to try to ascertain her surroundings, the hangover wasn't helping much.

"Looks like a cave," she muttered irritably. "What happened?"

She sat up and clutched her head as she tried to figure it out. She had gotten that endorsement and broken into the wet bar for a little celebration. No more day job for her after this. Then Ayeka had come back from somewhere and found her on the bed, and called the cops. Nothing new so far, except the endorsement, if this kept up she'd be more than a footnote on the lower circuit records.

It was cold too, but this was before she had her accident with the cryo-freeze, so it didn't bother her much. Still it made it seem even less a GP jail. And then there was the damn hideous snoring sound outside of her cell. The GP did not sleep on duty, not where the cameras could see them.

"Hey! Where the fuck am?!" she shouted, immediately clutching her head.

"Quiet you!" a raspy voice shouted back. "I'm trying to sleep!"

"I couldn't fucking care what you're trying to do," Ryoko snapped back. "What's going on?!"

"You'll get your answers at the block," her jailor answered. "Now shut up or I'll risk damaging the goods to make you shut up!"

~Block? Damaging the goods?~ Ryoko thought. She narrowed her eyes and growled. "Slavers."

She stood up and walked to the bars and looked down the hall. Past the large, slovenly, and again sleeping guard she saw a what appeared to be a cop talking to another pirate. She briefly considered attacking right then, but decided against it. She'd wait a few hours for the hangover to die first...unless they tried to move her. Then she'd have to attack.

********

"I met Ryoko in the same place, none of the creeps had the empathic talent to connect with her," Ryoko said.

Ranma nodded and looked around to see if anyone was listening before gesturing for her to continue.

"There was a raid later," Ryoko said. "I saw the same cop shooting at another detective. I killed him, a third cop turned in time to see me kill him, and I guess decided I killed both of them. She took a shot at me. I took a shot at the pirates advancing behind her, then me and Ryo-ohki left, the police chased me. It was the first time I realized how powerful I was. I'd been in some street fights, and some competitions that turned dirty, but that was the first time I really cut loose completely. I was about...seventeen, I think."

"So you shot a crooked cop, but you can't prove he was crooked," Ranma said. She gave him a fatalistic look.

"Ayeka didn't believe me either," Ryoko said. ~She said so at least, but if she's the one the sprung me?"

"Did I say that?" Ranma asked. Ryoko looked at him surprised. "Is that way you went to prison?"

"Nope, I was convicted on fraud," she said. "They couldn't prove it was me, that third cop vanished, so no witnesses. Heard she was drummed out of the force in disgrace. They somehow thought I paid her or some..." She recalled the battle vividly for the first time in years. Especially that third cop's cold, angry, impotent face. "I ruined her life just by not killing...her."

"What is it?" Ranma asked, noticing Ryoko go pale.

"Shit!" she snapped.

"Ciao," Ken-Ohki said in confirmation as Ryoko stared at him questioningly.

********

"What's wrong," Ranma asked again, as Ryoko stalked ahead of him seeming somewhat out of it. Talking about that first battle had upset her seriously. And it was something sudden, something she hadn't thought of before.

"It's nothing," Ryoko snapped. "Not a concern. So let's get back to what we came here for, and get this foul-up fixed."

"Yeah, I guess," Ranma said doubtfully. He glanced down the line and nodded. "We have everything now?" Ryoko revealed her temporary ID and nodded.

"Let's get this over w-"

"EEEK!" some shouted further down.

"AHH!! Get it away!!"

"PERVERT!!!"

"YIIEE!!!"

"What the-?" Ryoko started to say.

"SWEETO!!!" an old withered voice declared.

"Oh kami, not him," Ranma groaned.

"Get back here you old freak!!" another voice shouted. At that voice Ranma smacked his hand into his face.

"Isn't that one of the people that was at that party?" Ryoko asked as she also recognized the second voice. "What's he doinNNgGK!! HEY!! Who the bloody hell!?" She reached down and grabbed Happosai from his new found perch and growled.

"Ranma, my boy," Happosai said. "When did you meet such a lovely specimen as this?"

"None of your business you freak!" Ranma snapped.

"You know this pervert?" Ryoko's voice was practically burning and crackling with anger.

"Unfortunately," Ranma admitted.

"Ranma!" Happosai snapped. "I demand you and your wife show proper respect to your master!"

"I'll show you proper respect!" Ryoko snapped, hands glowing with power. She blinked as the old man seemed to vanish from her grasp. "Where'd he?" The sound of splashing water brought her to look over at a brown haired Ranma-chan struggling to pry the old man of her.

"Get offa me you freak!" Ranma shouted, tossing the old man to the ground. She huffed and puffed angrily.

"Ahhh," Happosai said. "I can just imagine what the honeymoon was like!" Ryoko and Ranma actually got angrier at that.

"You're gonna pay for that freak," Ranma said grimmly.

"Oh, and who's gonna make me?" Happosai asked. Ryoko gathered her power, smirking viciously.

"Ya didn't just get me with that water old man," Ranma pointed.

"Huh?" Happosai asked. "What are you...oh...Pantyhose, are you still here?" Ryoko didn't even blink at the huge minotaur like thing that seemed to have joined the fray.

"Huh huh," the minotaur chuckled throatily.

"You're going to fry old man," a red glowing Ryoko declared.

"Ain't no way you're getting away from all three of us!" Ranma added, cracking her knuckles.

"Heh, we'll see about that," Happosai declared.

********

Ukyou came upon the wreck of what she remembered as being the city offices building and blinked. The place was an absolute battle zone.

"What in the world happened here," Ukyou asked out loud.

"Oh, you brought your own smashing tool," a woman said next to her, pointing at the monster spatula.

"What are you talking about?" Ukyou asked.

"Don't you know," another said. "That perverted underwear thief is here!"

"You mean that little withered old man in the ninja suit?" Ukyou asked in a flat tone.

"That's the one," a third woman said. "He's fighting a monster and two martial artists right now, but if he gets out he'll have to get past us. This time he's going down permanently."

"He's over there! He's over there!!" Ranma-chan's voice shouted out.

"DIE PERVERT!!" The shout was followed by the sound of a loud explosion.

"HROOOOO!!!!" Then there was a smashing sound, like something large smashing through a huge piece of building.

"I don't think--urk!"

Ukyou stood there looking embarrassed and irritated as a shape in brown cloth flew out of the wreckage of the building and into the horde of waiting women where it was promptly pummelled by the huge amount of women.

"Gee, and here I thought it was just a friendly warning," Ukyou said to herself, thinking about Nodoka's call. After the women were done pummelling the freak he sat there on the ground twisting painfully.

"Paaaannntiiiess," he groaned, shortly before being smashed by Ukyou's spatula. She saw Pantyhose's monster form collapse a wall to get out of the building and stride forward.

"Tarou, catch," Ukyou said, flipping him a flattened pervert okonomiyaki.

"Huh," the monster said, catching the prevert. Then he flew off to find somewhere to force the old man into changing his name.

"He. Just. Won't. Die." Ryoko growled as she floated out of the building to watch Tarou fly off.

"Believe me," Ranma-chan said next to her. "I know how you feel."

Ukyou noted the brown hair, she thought Ranma looked pretty good in that color. Brown hair was very cute in her opinon, much better than any other hair color obviously.

"Now what were we doing?" Ryoko asked.

"We were about to get in line to get everything annulled," Ranma said.

"Right," Ryoko said. "Let's get..." Ukyou cleared her throat.

"Ukyou? What are you doing here?" Ranma asked. The chef pointed at the building and smirked.

"That makes it kind of hard to get anything anulled doesn't it?" Ukyou asked. Ranma and Ryoko looked, and groaned.

As they stared a charred and battered piece of paper fluttered down to the ground in front of them. Ranma and Ryoko watched it flutter down with a feeling of foreboding until it landed and remained where they could read it.

"Speaking of things that won't die," Ranma muttered as they stared at the marriage certificate.

********

"Want to talk about what was wrong with you before the freak showed up?" Ranma asked as they ate lunch at Ucchan's.

Ukyou and Konatsu were too busy handling the lunch rush to watch them too closely, so they had some privacy. Ryoko frowned and glared at him for a moment, before answering.

"You know the third cop," Ranma said quietly. "The cop they thought was paid off by me? The one who got kicked out and vanished in disgrace?"

"Yeah?" Ranma responded.

"I think it was Nagi," she said. She slumped.

"Man," Ranma said. "That's why she hates you."

"So it is my fault then," she said, quietly. Ranma watched for a moment.

"You can't change it," Ranma said quietly.

"I KNOW that," Ryoko said. She paused for moment. "What I need is a time machine or something and fix my mistakes that way." Ranma frowned and leaned back, obviously thinking about something. "What is it?"

"I need to show you something when we get home," Ranma said. Ryoko rolled her eyes and snorted.

"Another moral lesson from the local zombie?" Ryoko asked, not even noticing the home reference.

"No," he said quietly. "A mirror."

"A mirror?" Ryoko asked, straightening up and looking at him irritably, and a little confused.

********

"Did you get everything straightened out?" Nodoka asked as Ranma and Ryoko walked into the house.

"No," Ranma said. "Happosai and Pantyhose showed up and we tore the place up, place will be closed for a while now."

"Oh, that's too bad," Nodoka said happily.

"Riight," Ryoko muttered as they passed Nodoka into their room. "Now what's this mirror thing you're talking about?" Ranma walked to his desk and opened a drawer. He drew out a small hand mirror.

"The Nanban Mirrior," he said sadly. "It takes you to the past."

"It does what?!" Ryoko snapped angrily.

"It takes you back in time," Ranma said. "Or shows you the future."

"Why didn't you tell me about this before!?" Ryoko screeched loudly. "All this time, and at anytime I could have gone back to save Tenchi!! You, you!" She paused and frowned. "Wait...why haven't you used this yourself?"

"I used it," Ranma said tonelessly.

"And you couldn't do it?" Ryoko asked nervously. "Couldn't pull it off?" Ranma sighed and looked at the mirror before handing it to Ryoko.

"You'll understand when you use it," Ranma told her softly.

"How does it work?" Ryoko asked cautiously

"You have to cry a tear onto the the glass and think about where you want to go," Ranma said.

"That's it?" Ryoko asked. Ranma nodded. She looked back at him and stared silently for a few seconds. "I suppose this is it then."

"Maybe," Ranma said, sitting crosslegged on his bed.

"Thanks Ranma," she said softly. She forced herself to look away from him when he didn't answer. She focused on the mirror and let herself unleash a small stream of tears that fell softly on to the glass. Then she vanished in a flash.

Ranma stared at where she had been standing and waited.

********

Kuno blinked and looked around the huge room.

~ZOUNDS!!!~ he thought loudly. ~The sorcerer has transported into the den of a giant!!! Wait, what has happened to my voice?~ As he watched a huge bandage wrapped figure lurched to the doorway and then turned to look at him.

"Disrespectful one," the giant mummy said in a strangely familiar voice. "I am well aware of all your crimes now, and you shall be punished accordingly. Make peace with your gods in what little time you have."

~The vile beast means to eat me then,~ Kuno thought. ~Fine then, he shall not defeat the Blue-? Where is he going?!~ The huge mummy lurched out of the room. Kuno struggled to follow him with strangely stiff legs. Obviously his injuries were more serious than he thought. And he couldn't seem to find his bokken.

~Aha, a giant toothpick!~ he declared. He toddered over to the item, the evil giant drawing further and further away. ~Hmm, he must fear my deadly blade.~ Then he tried to pick up the toothpick.

~CURSES! Why can my hands not pick up this infernal stick!~ It's hard to grip with fingers that do not move.

He was still trying to pick up the toothpick a hour later when he suddenly found himself at the foot of a huge drop. He lay there blinking confusedly for a few seconds.

"AH HA!!!" he shouted. "The giant must have known that it's defeat was at hand and released me rather than facing my righteous wrath!!" He stood up, or tried to, and felt every nerve in his body prick painfully. It was almost as if he had actually fallen or jumped from that huge cliff and landed in this pile of large, hard stones.

"Maybe the giant threw me down to Earth thinking it would kill me," Kuno said weakly, but confidently, from the ground. "Yes, that must be it. Well, the sorcerer's minions shall not find me that easy to fell! Saotome shall fall!!!"

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PART 15: Time Pirate

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Ryoko stood up in the wake of the flash and looked around, and gawked at the familiar pure blue skies.

"It worked," she said quietly. "YES!! All right! I'm HERE!!" People that had taken very little account of someone appearing out of nowhere in the middle of the beach turned to look at her questioningly. Ryoko glared around at them, putting on her best pirate expression. She was surprised when a life guard approached her not seeming very concerned at all.

"Excuse me, miss," he said. "This is a private beach, only the Jurai royal family and their servants should be here."

"Who do you think you're talking to?" Ryoko demanded angrily. "I'm...." She snapped her fingers. Of course, she wasn't a pirate yet, no one would recognize her, and she didn't have time to waste. "...sorry, my ship must have got the wrong coordinates or something."

"Well, just leave and stop bothering the Jurai," he said. "Wait...don't you work here?"

"Maybe a while ago," Ryoko said, smirking as she lifted off the ground. The man watched non-pulsed and blinked as the silver-haired woman vanished from sight. Such powers were not unheard of, but it was still notable. He swallowed nervously, suddenly wondering if he had just escaped a severe beating.

********

Ryoko watched Ayeka ranting at the dirty cop about how much of disgrace the blind drunk was.

"I wish she would just leave my presence and stay away," Ayeka snapped angrily. "She is nothing but trouble! Always attracting trouble."

"Just keep yelling Princess," the older Ryoko smirked. This was the perfect opportunity to fix everything. Her younger self was still unconscious in the room, and what better witnesses than Princess Ayeka and her retinue? So there was no way that her younger self would get blamed for this. She glanced to the mirror on the wall to check her disguise, with luck they'd be hard-pressed to connect her with the Ryoko of five years ago. Then she started forward.

"It'll be taken care of, your highness," the damn slave trader said. "She'll never darken your..." He cut off when the older Ryoko suddenly appeared between him and Ayeka.

The cop reached for his gun, but was far too slow. The silver-haired woman slashed upward with her energy woman, slicing him in two. She spat on the body as Ayeka screamed behind her.

"Like dealing with slave traders, brat?" Ryoko asked coolly. "Next time find a honest cop." Then she vanished away before Ayeka could get over her shock and strike back.

Ryoko listened to the commotion that remained from the janitor's closet nearby. She smiled victoriously and drew out the mirror again. She wiped its surface and looked into it.

"Take me to Tenchi in five years," she whispered. letting her tears fall again. She vanished in a flash as the impromtu search opened the door to her hiding place.

********

Ryoko's joy faded quickly away as she found herself near a ship window looking over a system of asteroids.

"Where the hell am I," Ryoko asked nervously. She couldn't see Tenchi anywhere, couldn't feel him. And there was something familiar about the area of space she was in.

"So what was so important about this planet?" a voice down the hall asked. "It seemed like just a little backwater nothing." Ryoko danced back and up, fading most of the way into the ceiling as the guards passed.

"The Emperor commands, we obey," the second guard said. Ryoko saw them pass under her. "Find that old man and destroy his world, who are we to question him?"

"Killing all those people," the first said.

"There must have been a good reason," the second suggested firmly. As they passed away Ryoko floated back down to the floor and looked on the asteroids.

"R..." she stopped and shook her head clear. "I have to fix this."

********

Ryoko watched Ayeka ranting at the dirty cop about how much of disgrace the blind drunk was.

"I wish she would just leave my presence and stay away," Ayeka snapped angrily. "She is nothing but trouble! Always attracting trouble."

"Just keep yelling Princess," the older Ryoko smirked. This was the perfect opportunity to fix everything. Her younger self was still unconscious in the room, and what better witnesses than Princess Ayeka and her retinue? So there was no way that her younger self would get blamed for this. She glanced to the mirror on the wall to check her disguise, and then started forward.

"Wait!" a harsh whisper commanded. Ryoko growled and turned to look at the voice, she was running out of time, her window would close any moment.

"What do you..." Ryoko blinked as she saw a familiar face sticking out of the wall. "Want?" It was herself looking rather haggard, battle-weary and older.

"Get in here," the third Ryoko said.

"What the-?" she didn't get any further, the new Ryoko snatched her and dragged her into the room.

"You can't stop this," the newcomer Ryoko said.

"Why not?" Ryoko demanded suspiciously. "I don't go to that hellhole, I don't become a wanted woman, Nagi doesn't get kicked out of the GP."

"Nagi dies on the raid," the newcomer said. Ryoko shrugged.

"Good! I don't care what happens to her! Just Tenchi!" Ryoko snapped.

"Yeah?" the future-Ryoko asked. "He's dead." present-Ryoko stared at her shocked that she could just say that like that. "Earth was blown up so...Ranma dies too." She spoke regretfully, ashamedly.

"What?!" present-Ryoko snapped. "HOW?!"

"Kagato," future-Ryoko said. "How do you think?"

"Why didn't you stop him!"

"I've been trying!" future-Ryoko snapped angrily. "The only way I can think of to fix anything is to stop us from doing this here. We're going to need those years as a space pirate. Find something else."

"Fine!" present-Ryoko snapped. "I know just the thing." She smiled viciously and drew out the mirror again. "What are you going to do?"

The future-Ryoko drew out her own mirror and sighed dejectedly.

"I have to fix what I messed up," she said.

"Isn't that what I'm doing?" the present-Ryoko asked.

"I'm just keeping you from making the same mistake," the future-Ryoko said as she cried into the mirror.

********

Inagi Aoi strode sullenly down the street considering the new pirate that had ruined her life. She would hunt down that...girl if it was the last thing she did. She could have had a career. She could have been powerful, important. More than just a common street brawler everyone expected her to grow into.

"Hello, Nagi," a voice said behind her.

"My name is Ina...you!" Nagi growled seeing the woman that had ruined her life. She stopped and frowned. This woman was significantly older, more than four years older. The softness of the teenaged years was gone, this was a full grown woman.

"You're disappearing permanently this time," the woman said. She started to move forward, an energy dagger in her hand. Inagi glanced around for any sort of weapon she could use against this monster, but nothing was apparent.

"I'm not going down easily, pirate," she growled anyway, prepared to make this a fight.

"You're three years too early to compete with me, Nagi," the woman said smiling. She swung back a hand, and then there was a flash and suddenly Inagi saw two of the woman standing there. One holding the other's hand back.

"Don't tell me we have to keep HER alive too!" the first snapped angrily. "If she lives Tenchi dies!"

"If she dies now," the second said. "He still dies, and everybody else still! Remember the trip to Jurai!?" Inagi stepped back quietly as the two identical women argued about her fate. She readied herself for battle while catalogueing everything the two were saying.

"She was trying to keep the Jurai and GP from taking her kill!"

"And we wouldn't have gotten away without her!" Ryoko insisted.

"First Earth blows up and now this!" Ryoko snapped. "You're me plus experience! Can't you do anything?!"

"Earth blowing..." she seemed stricken, then calmed down. "Oh right, I told myself that," the second said. "If you had brought Ryo-Ohki back with you, I might have been able to do something!"

~Time travel,~ Inagi realized. She glanced around and backed away. She had no chance winning a fight here, and maybe she could use this information in her favor. The second Ryoko glanced vaguely in Nagi's direction, sending a hate-filled gaze her way, but nothing else. The first was fully concentrated on her double.

"Nagi is as bad Kagato," the first snapped. "She's going to kill hundreds of innocent people just to get to me. And that girl, she's going to sell off that girl to those slavers again. All because some idiots think I paid her off!"

~I do what?~ Nagi blinked, then narrowed her eyes angrily. ~She knows what happened to me? Good, I won't have to tell her then.~

The other-Ryoko glanced at her again and then back to her double. This time, Inagi figured it out.

~She wants me to leave now.~ She glanced at Ryoko. ~I'll defeat you Ryoko, but I'll never be this monster you call me.~

"Look, I can find Ken-Ohki," the Ryoko that wanted her dead insisted. "Then I can keep everybody covered in the trip." Inagi didn't hear the rest.

********

Ryoko was starting to get used to that flash that occured on her arrival and departure between times. She stood on Jurai and looked up into the sky, any moment the battle was going to begin. And this time she'd have to deal with Nagi and Ken-Ohki. She had wanted to avoid that. She could almost curse herself for interferring in killing the damn bounty hunter, letting that bitch escape from under her nose.

Now she had to wait and find a way to stop Nagi from killing everybody again.

********

Nagi watched the scanners point out Ryo-Ohki smashing through the planetary defenses on the way out from the planet. Obviously in a hurry to be away. Nagi frowned. That wound of Ryoko's must have gotten worse, and Ryo-Ohki was taking her for help. She couldn't follow yet, not with these bumbling Jurai clambering around her. By the time she got off a star burst to clear the battle around her, Ryo-Ohki would be long gone. Then Nagi would have to face Ryoko with these friends of hers. She frowned.

"Ken-Ohki, alter trajectory toward the Yag..." Nagi paused, and remembered Ryoko arguing with herself. "Bely that, move away from the Yagami according to the detective's plan. Starburst as soon as the planet is clear."

"Ciao?" the cabbit responded.

"Their fault for messing with me," Nagi said. "We need the burst to get out of this mess." She frowned and glanced back toward Jurai. "I am not a monster, pirate."

********

Ryoko waited for the debris to start following. She couldn't think of a way to save both the Yagami and Tenchi, but she was certain she could destroy every piece of debris that was going to rain on the palace. She was capable of that.

Ryoko had briefly considered helping Tenchi face Kagato, but she reluctantly decided against it. She would still have to be much more powerful to face Kagato. And if she were there, Kagato wouldn't hold back like he had against Tenchi. She would fall and so would Tenchi. Tenchi getting help would be just the proof Kagato would want that he was more powerful.

At least that is what another future self had told her. That Ryoko had barely managed to go back, dying and torn to pieces, and stop Ryoko from making that mistake. Ryoko had given the woman a quick funeral in an out of the way grove, intensely disturbed at the prospect of burying herself.

No, stopping the debris cloud was her best bet for saving Tenchi. With just Tenchi there, Kagato wouldn't take him seriously, and then Kagato would fall. At least she hoped so.

The debris never started to fall.

Soon the small, for Jurai, city that she was in began filling with cries of celebration and triumph. Ryoko listened intently to the shouting, confused and frightened that it meant that Tenchi had lost his duel. It didn't take long to kill that theory.

"Imposter thrown down, lost prince found. Princess Ayeka restored" The news was everywhere.and Ryoko soon heard something intelligible.

"Nagi didn't attack the..." she stayed silent for several minutes. "What changed this..." She thought back to the argument with herself. "She couldn't have changed her mind...could she?" Ryoko shook her head and sighed. "Now all I have to do is find Tenchi and..." she smiled, looked down into the mirror and sighed.

This mirror had given her back her life. No, that was wrong, Ranma had given her back her life. She smiled about that, thinking about the pig-tailed martial artist.

"Thanks jerk," she whispered. Though something was bothering her about this whole thing. If Ranma had used the mirror, why was Akane still dead? She thought about it and sighed. "Tenchi will still be there."

********

Ranma watched the wind of his hiryu shoten ha's carry the fire rocks towards the Jusendo taps. He wasn't going to make it, Akane was going to die because of those tornados. Because of his attacks.

He barely noticed the bright red flash amongst all the other blasts of energy, but he certainly saw the suddenly surging Jusendo waters. And they were washing his direction under the flailing winds and rock. He relaxed. The water was coming to him. Everything was going to be okay.

********

Ryoko was momentarily discouraged as Ranma screamed Akane's name in rage and despair. Then the black haired girl stirred in his arms and the martial artist pair sat there celebrating each other's survival. Ryoko watched the scene with a pang for a few moments, and was surprised by the momentary surge of regret.

"Time to go surprise Tenchi," she whispered, taking the mirror out again.

In flash she was in the hills surrounding the Masaki shrine.

After a little reconnaissance she found the house was where it belonged, and she had seen Yosho and Tenchi's dad from a distance. She glanced up and smiled. Tenchi would be coming home soon, and she knew the perfect place to surprise him.

She appeared on the stairs, expecting to appear in front of Tenchi. She found nothing.

"I guess he's late today," she said quietly. Then she heard something further down the path and vanished away toward the sound.

Ryoko froze in the trees as she saw Tenchi seemingly dancing on the path with...herself. She stared shocked and confused at this new problem.

"What, I don't..." she stopped and slumped to the ground. "Of course, I still survived this time. That's the me of the past."

Ryoko had Tenchi.

But she didn't.

"There's only one way to fix this," Ryoko said in a dead tone.

********

The space pirate Ryoko, now a renowned hero, lay sleeping on the bed, breathing shallowly. Doctor Gunri shook his head and wiped his hands, amused. He'd never thought he'd see the day when Ryoko was heralded as a hero of the Jurai. It was amazing what some people made of themselves.

He left the room and quietly closed the door behind him. He completely missed the flash that announced the second Ryoko's arrival.

The future version of the space pirate stood over herself and looked down hesitantly at the unconscious earlier version of herself.

"I have to do this," she whispered. She summoned a bright red shaft of energy and held the dagger sized energy blade over the sleeping body. "I've been meaning to kill myself all this time anyway." She half-laughed at that.

All she had to do was replace this extra and Tenchi would be hers. Everything would be fine.

She raised her hand and held it there for several moments. Until she dropped her hand to her side, letting the dagger dissipate.

"Damn it," she whispered, crying freely. She took out the mirror again and held it to her. "I want to go home."

The Ryoko on the bed woke up to see a flash and a vanishing silloheutte.

"What was that?" she wondered briefly.

********

Ryoko collapsed to the floor of wherever it was she was now and felt the loss of Tenchi keenly all over again. She tossed the mirror into a corner of the room. She didn't even care where she was.

There wasn't anything left to go back to now. Ranma had his Akane, and Tenchi had Ryoko. She had really fixed everything all right. She had fixxed herself our of everything. She was worse than a ghost. This was almost worse than them being dead.

She barely noticed that there was another person in the room until they kneeled down beside her. She turned to look to see Ranma's worried face.

"Welcome back," he said. "Are you okay?"

Ryoko stared at him for a moment before she realized that she was back to her own timeline. The flood of relief and joy was immense and immediate as soon as the fact occurred to her. She grabbed the martial artists collar and dragged Ranma forward.

"You wou.." Ranma's response was cut off by Ryoko's forceful kiss. His eyes popped wide in surprise. He should have been angry. He should have been stopping her. He shouldn't have been relieved at the attention. He certainly shouldn't have been returning the kiss, however right it felt.

"Is everything alright in...Oh!" Nodoka asked as she opened the door. Ryoko and Ranma snapped shocked and embarrassed looks toward the woman in the door as Nodoka gave them a knowing smile. "Excuse me, I didn't mean to interrupt." She quickly and quietly closed the door again.

"ARRR!!! Ryoko shouted angrily, pushing Ranma away from her angrily. "Why did you even give me that damn thing!!" She stood up away from him.

"I told you I used it!" Ranma shouted back standing up as well.

"You didn't bother to say why it didn't work!" Ryoko snapped back, poking him in the chest as she said the words. "I buried myself once! I almost murdered myself in my sleep afterwards! You could have said something about how it works! You could have told me that all I'd do is make alternate timelines!"

"Well..." Ranma said. Ryoko leaned back and crossed her arms waiting for an answer. "Sorry bout that!"

"Sorry?" Ryoko repeated. "That's all you have to say?"

"I just thought," Ranma said quietly. "Maybe you could make it work." Ryoko growled and turned away from him.

"I couldn't," she said. "I saved your Akane." Ranma blinked in surprise.

"Thanks," he said quietly. "I guess that's one more world that isn't messed up then."

They remained quiet for a while staring around the room.

"What are we going to do about your mother," Ryoko asked finally.

"I don't know," Ranma said. "Hard to convince her nothing's happening, now."

"I wasn't myself," Ryoko said.

"Yeah, that trip can fool with you," Ranma agreed.

"So you don't take it seriously then?" Ryoko asked cautiously, she looked to him expectantly.

"No more seriously than you," he said equally cautiously.

"You kissed back," she reminded him, setting the matter of answering back to Ranma.

"I didn't think you'd be back," he said.

"You wanted me to come back?" Ryoko asked hesitantly.

"Well..." Ranma started.

"I'm hungry," Ryoko said quickly, walking past Ranma towards the door. "Let's go get something to eat alright?" She turned to look at him. "Alright?" ~Don't answer, don't answer.~

"I kinda hoped you'd be back," Ranma said.

"You answered," Ryoko said.

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