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Chapter Six: Reunion

"..." : Japanese
... : Thought
[...] : Written text
{...} : Telepathic link

Created: 06/28/2003 Rewrite: 08/18/2003 Updated: 10/31/2003 -

I leave her alone for ten minutes. How'd she vanish so quickly? Ranohki asked herself. And why isn't she responding?

One would think that finding a redhead would be easy, after all, how many could there be in the Tokyo area? Ranohki began to wonder if there was a redhead convention in the area, having found yet another redhead. This one had the braid... But she wasn't Ranma. For one thing, the eyes were the wrong color.

-

Akane sweatdropped. "She dropped the HOUSE on someone?"

Washuu, who had a matching sweatdrop, nodded. "I can't figure out how Mihoshi managed it, the device was only designed to teleport one person, not an entire house..." The Greatest Scientific Genius In The Universe replied. "Fortunetly the girl survived." Washuu added.

"Where is Mihoshi, anyway?" Akane asked.

-
"Excuse me Sir, where am I?" Mihoshi asked a passerby.

"You're in Nerima, miss." The youth replied.

Nevermind the sign that said: [Moscow city limit], in Russian.

The astute reader will take this as a sign of who Mihoshi had asked.

-

"I sent her to another reality, she'll never get back here." Washuu replied to Akane's question.

"So, how is the girl she dropped the house on doing?" Akane asked.

"Not well, I put her in a regeneration pod..." Washuu trailed off. "Why are you here, anyway?" Washuu asked.

"I drew the short straw." Akane replied, looking sheepish.

"Excuse me, miss, can you direct me to the Tendou Doujou or the Saotome residence?" A voice asked.

Akane and Washuu turn toward the voice. The latter paled, having caught sight of someone else. Mihoshi was with the youth...

"I'm back Washuu-san, that was fun, can I do it again?" Mihoshi asked.

Washuu facefaulted. While Akane sweatdropped.

"Are you alright Washuu-san?" Mihoshi asked, leaning over. Unfortunetly, there was a control console right where Mihoshi placed her hand to counterbalance herself.

Electricity began to arc throughout the lab, blowing up tubes, consoles, screens, lights, panels, and one of a kind devices...

Washuu never felt so powerless, or helpless before. Her lab was being destroyed, the power arcing, wires and conduits being blown clear of their mountings, and coming into contact with things that aren't designed to carry that much power, lights, panals, circuits, people. Waitaminute, people?

The youth and Mihoshi appeared to be recieving a severe shock, then Washuu heard a scream. It came from Akane, who was now being electrucuted, by a circuit that carried enough power to create and sustain a large pocket dimension, much like the one the lab was in.

-

She awoke with a jolt, of electricity. She looked up, and saw some kind of metal, and the image of a house falling from the sky came to her mind.

She could hear explosions all around herself.

Then she heard a scream.

That scream pierced through her heart, and acting on instinct, she launched herself through the wall of the tube she was in, toward the scream.

Electricity arced through her body, and she was unconscious shortly thereafter.

-

Washuu stared on in shock as she heard another explosion, this time coming from the regeneration pod. She saw a red blur streak past her, and knock Akane away from the arc.

-

Ryouga heard Akane scream, but couldn't do anything, his body was still convulsing from the shock he recieved a few seconds before. That was when he saw a red blur streak past. And with his martial arts training, he saw that the 'streak' part was literal. As in, the girl was naked.

Then Ryouga's brain caught up with his thoughts. Girl. Naked. And then Ryouga passed out, with a nosebleed.

-

Akane slowly regained consciousness, as she did, she became aware of a weight upon her. She pried her eyes open, and caught sight of lots of red. All of which hair.

She looked down, and saw the owner of the red hair was a girl, about her age, and naked.

Or she assumed naked, as all the hair made it a little hard to guess.

Akane felt the girl on top of her begin to stir.

-

As Ranma regained her senses, she became aware of three things. One, She was a she. Two, she was naked. Three, she was on top of another girl. Naked? And her eyes flew open.

-

Akane felt the girl stiffen, less then two seconds later, she could see the other girl's face... And eyes.

Red hair, check. Sapphire blue eyes, check. Female, check. Pigtail, absent. Akane thought to herself. "R-ranma?" Akane asked the redhead.

-

"To continue our top story, the biggest blackout in Japan's history doesn't show any signs of coming to an end soon. Please everyone remain calm."

"Somehow, this HAS to be Mihoshi's fault." Washuu said.

"Where are Akane and the redhead?" Ryouko asked.

"I saw them heading toward the shrine." Katsuhito replied.

"Emergancy workers continue to try to restore power to the affected areas. Oddly, Nerima is unaffected."

Washuu left the room, she had other things to do, like rebuilding her lab.

-

Ranma and Akane watched the sunset.

"How'd you end up here, anyway?" Ranma asked.

"Just after your mother broke the engagements, Dad sent me here to train under my Grandfather." Akane replied. "So why DID you pound Tenchi's father though the wall so hard?" She asked. "And why are you wearing that?"

'That' being a black knit semi-translucent T-shirt, with a pleated forest green skirt that stopped just above her knees.

"This?" Ranma asked. "The shirt was the only clean one I had left, although I do like the skirt."

Akane sweatdropped. "That's not what I meant."

Ranma looked confused for a few moments. "Oh!" She exclaimed. "Mom got the idea that I should wear 'proper' clothes when I'm a girl."

Akane nods, not fully understanding.

"So, what's new with you?" Ranma asked.

Akane looked at the stairs. "You'll see." She smirked.

"Greetings, beautiful princess Aeka, come to my ship and we shall wed!" Some guy exclaims. "Oh, dear, where are my manners, I'm prince Rumpelstiltskin, of the Shitsurei Empire."

Ranma looked at Akane, then at the prince, then she laughed. "That's-" Snicker "-the stupidest name I've ever heard." The redhead laughed.

"You mean you actually ARE Aeka?" Rumpelstiltskin asked.

"Who's Aeka?" The redhead asked.

"So, you're not Princess Aeka of Jurai?" The prince asked. "Then you must be Princess Sasami of Jurai!"

Ranma shakes her head.

"Princess Taishi of the Houchou Kingdom!"

"Nope."

"Princess Eiko? Princess Noriko? Princess Atsuko? Princess Rei? Princess Kaede? Princess Rina? Princess Mai? Princess Ai? Princess Inuyasha? Princess Himura? Princess Usagi? Princess Misato? Princess Ayaka? Princess Michiru? Princess Kei? Princess Midorigame? Princess Aimi? Princess Hime?"

"Those aren't my name." The redhead replied.

"Princess Tendou Akane of Jurai?"

Ranma sweatdropped. "I'm not her either."

"Princess Ouji? Princess Oujo? Princess Serenity? Princess Lina? Princess Mel? Princess Reiko? Princess Makoto? Princess-"

"Prince NO BAKA!"

Ranma blinked. She looked at Akane's mallet, and shuddered.

"-Steph-ouch!-anie?" The prince asked, as he sailed off into the sunset.

-

Meanwhile, with her lab destroyed, and everything needed to make a new one gone, Washuu was working on dismantling the Prince Trap, which was just some place for Akane to mallet princes to. Said place just happened to have some of the parts she needed to start rebuilding the lab.

Washuu heard a sound. A chilling sound.

The sound of a body about to fall into the trap.

-

"Excuse me, where am I?" Asked a somewhat confused Mihoshi, she was sure it had been snowing a few minutes ago...

"500 yen." The girl replied.

-

"Where am I now?" Ryouga asked, partly himself, partly anyone else.

"...push." Ryouga puzzled to himself, as he stared at a button. A large, circular, and red button. With yellow and black print.

The actual writting on said button was [Don't push.] But, Ryouga's Russian wasn't that good.

"Well, it says to 'push'." Ryouga mused to himself, then he pushed the button.

-

"If this wasn't Mihoshi's fault, I'd swear it was the redhead's." Washuu grumbled to herself.

-

"... and this is Ranma." Akane finished introducing Ranma to the assembled residents of the Masaki Shrine. Washuu, however, was absent. Mihoshi too.

"Ranma-san is a GIRL?" Aeka demanded.

Ryouko laughed. "I didn't know she swung THAT way." She chortled.

Sasami shrugged it off, after all, odd things occurred all the time here. And stranger things had happened.

Katsuhito nodded.

A somewhat bruised Nobuyuki developed a lecherous grin...

And Tenchi... Blushed to the shade of red of the redhead's hair, and developed a bit of a nosebleed.

Thus, it was a typically atypical day at the Masaki shrine. It became oddly quiet. Very oddly quiet.

Well, the silence didn't last long, as the wall was blown in.

When the dust cleared, Ranma was nowhere to be seen. They heard a sound, as a spaceship taking off.

Akane groaned. "Looks like prince what's-his-baka-name, kidnapped Ranma."

-

Around the same time, on said Prince's ship. There was a redheaded girl swearing enough to make Ryouko blush. Or a sailor, for that matter.

And, yes, Prince Rumpelstiltskin DID kidnap Ranma.

He had also KISSED _and_ FONDLED her.

Which put the redhead in a mood somewhat-worse-than-bad.

-

Meanwhile, on the bridge of the ship, the prince was nursing a black eye and a broken nose. While mumbling something about needing to get stronger restraints.

-

A few hours later, Ryouohki managed to catch up with the prince's ship.

After Akane had told four GP officers where they could put their speed regulations. In terms that DID make said officers blush.

"That's a big ship." Tenchi observed.

"We'll split up and look." Said the tomboy as she activated her Juraian Sentoufuku. Aeka followed suit.

Tenchi shrugged, and did the same. Ryouko activated hers, although hers is not Juraian.

Katsuhito shrugged, and picked up three bokutou, then a fourth to wield.

-

Meanwhile, Ranma had been pummeling the door to her cell, at Amaguriken speed, for the last hour.

SHE really hated it that the prince managed to somehow change her clothes.

This was because her current attire was, somewhat more than a little revealing. And nearly 100% translucent. And she wasn't wearing underwear.

Or, rather, she had been wearing that. Her battle aura destroyed it two hours ago.

-

Akane traversed the maze of corridors, and it was a maze. She had allready passed the same bulkhead five times. AFTER she had marked it.

She was lost.

-

Of course, Akane wasn't the only one. In fact, so was everyone else.

What they didn't realize was that the maze was part of the prince's infalable-security-system.

Too bad the designers hadn't taken into account THIS group of individuals.

-

Tired of punching the door, she settled for blasting it. Besides, her knuckles were sore.

-

Akane had just started down a corridor when her danger sense flared.

She saw Tenchi enter from the other end of the corridor, and relaxed. Before she tensed up again, because her danger sense had continued to scream 'this dangerous place, leave now'.

Which is when the door exploaded out from its frame. And tore through the bulkhead on the other side. And repeated the process through a few more.

Because of some obscure law of anime, a dust cloud was created by the erstwhile door. Which had made three doorways.

When the dust cleared, however, there was a redheaded girl standing there. She looked ready for a fight. Although she was completely naked. Well, with the exception of what little cover her hair gave, but...

Although, if Ranma tried she could cover quite a bit of herself, as her hair now went down to just above her ankles.

Tenchi, who's STILL not used to underclad females in close proximity, and being a typically hormonal boy, developed a nosebleed, even as he turned to prevent said occurrance.

-

After having blasted the door, she ran out into the corridor and waited for the dust to clear, she wanted to see what she was doing, and see if she could find new clothes.

Well, the dust cleared, and she was in a corridor, with three paths she could take. One to her right, one to her left, and one where the door had torn through the bulkhead. There were also two people. One, a boy, he looked like Tenchi, but she could be wrong. The other, a girl, she looked rather a lot like Akane, but she couldn't be, could she?

"Um, Ranma, shouldn't you put something on?" The blushing tomboy asked the au naturel Ranma.

Ranma looked down, and promptly made a somewhat futile effort to cover herself with her hands.

-

After Akane explained the sentoufuku ring to Ranma, three times, the redhead was finally dressed.

"Now, where's what's-his-name?" The redhead wasn't asking anyone in particular, more she was asking herself.

"Don't you think we should get off this ship?" Akane asked, hopefully.

"Someone get this molester's hands off of me!" A female voice screamed into the intercom.

"That sounded like Aeka!"

"I didn't think we would." Akane commented.

"Now, where would that *pervert* be?" Strangely, it wasn't Akane, but Ranma who had asked that.

Ranma went through the doorway that had been made by the door, down a corridor, and soon found someTHINGS, they didn't appear to be alive, or even humanoid.

-

It was supposed to be simple, grab girl, render her out of it, take her home, break her in, add her to harem, and hunt for next girl. But this girl, although part one had gone off without a hitch, part two, where most girls would be out of it for a few hours, at least, didn't work. Hence his black eye. What was worse, this girl seemed to have broken free, and was now making mincemeet out of his security drones.

And bulkheads.

At least he _had_ managed to find one princess this time, but she seemed almost as strong-willed as the redhead was. It would take weeks for the broken nose to heal. Damn redhead, when I get home, I'm going to have to REALLY _break_ her in. Rumpelstiltskin grumbled to himself.

-

Speaking of the redhead:

After charging up a small blast, she blew another section of bulkhead into a million pieces. And found herself confronted with about a hundred security drones.

Said security drones hesitated for a moment. And another.

If one looked inside the communications circuits of the drones, they would have seen that the drones had a very bad feeling about the redhead, and their continued functionality should they fight her. Unfortunetly for them, the command to attack was sent priority one.

At which point, they attacked.

And were promptly made into scrapheaps by the somewhat-more-than-mad girl.

-

Ryouko continued to wander the corridors looking for the redhead, or at least the others.

-

Ranma's warpath had allready lain waste to nearly a third of the ship. Which was fairly impressive when one considered the size of the ship. But now, she was at the end of a corridor, and there was a door.

Ranma charged up a blast, and blasted the door. Instead of the, by now typical, door gets blasted and disintregrates, this time the door was only dented.

Ranma's eye twitched.

She blasted it again, and it developed a small hole in it.

Eye twitching more than before, she blasted it a third time, and this time it had one of the desired effects, as it was blown off its hinges, and into the room.

-

Prince Rumpelstiltskin was sweating like a pig, the redhead had single-handedly destroyed every defense leading to the bridge, and about a third of the ship as well.

He heard something bang against the door.

He had the distinct impression that he was, for lack of a better word, screwed.

A second bang, and this time a small hole appeared.

He hated to think he would have to do it, but it looked like he wouldn't have a choice in the matter.

A third bang, and the whole door took flight, and imbedded itself in a well.

He was seriously beginning to think that going to Earth had been a bad idea. But now wasn't the time to dwell on foolish ideas, now was to time to ensure his survival, he withdrew a sword hilt from somewhere on his person, and activated his energy sword.

-

To Tenchi, this scene seemed eerily familar, although usually the one whom they came to rescue wasn't the one leading the warpath through the ship. For that matter, they usually OPENED doors, and went through corridors, they didn't usually go through walls, by blowing them up, nor did they usually blast doors to pieces, or in the most recent case, tear it off its hinges.

However, he took a slight amount of comfort, or familiarity, in the prince, Tenchi had yet to learn his name, wielding an energy sword, at least that fit with what he was familiar with. Tenchi prepared to activate Tenchiken, but stopped when he saw the redhead's hand glow, in a disturbingly familiar fashion.

-

Ranma saw that Rumpelstilskin had some kind of energy sword, although it looked more like a lightsaber from Star Wars than like what she had come to think of as an energy sword.

So, he wants a sword-fight? The redhead thought to herself. Then he'll get one.

A ball of orange energy formed in Ranma's hand, she closed her hand around the ball of energy, which promptly became a beam of light, that looked much like a lightsaber, except without any kind of hilt.

"Let's go, pervert!" The redhead exclaimed, as she charged at Rumpelstiltskin.

Ranma was surprised that her sword didn't slice through Rumpelstiltskin's, such was her surprise that she was almost hit by the second swing, which she saw in time to dodge. She did so by flying straight up. She then flew over the head of, and landed behind Rumpelstiltskin. Once she did, she spun around at high speed, but again the prince's sword blocked hers.

It really annoyed her that the prince had blocked her swing with only one hand on his sword, his other hand had a ball of energy, which Ranma saw for what it was a little too late, and she was thrown by the blast accross the room, and into a console.

Ranma extracted herself from the console she had crashed into, and charged at the prince again. "KACHUU TENSHIN AMAGURIKEN!" The energy sword vanished, and Ranma's fists were encased in energy, then her hands blurred out of existance, as she punched the prince two thousand, five hundred and twenty-seven times. The prince flew accross the bridge, and impacted against a console.

The ship jerked a bit, and everyone lost their footing, well, everyone but Ryouko, who was flying, and Katsuhito, who was smirking.

"I thought we were here to rescue her, but it looks like it'll be the prince who needs rescuing." Tenchi observed, as Ranma's sword reappeared.

Rumpelstiltskin extracted himself from the console, he looked like he had just been run over by a train. A three mile long train. He fired an energy blast at Ranma.

Ranma brought her sword into guard position, the blast hit the sword, and Ranma was thrown back, however the energy blast was deflected, and so, both Ranma and the energy blast went in two different directions, and impacted two different consoles.

Rumpelstiltskin wasn't taking any chances, he prepared to fire another energy blast at Ranma. Only to scream in shock, rage and pain as an energy net appeared around him. The pain was because the net disrupted the bindings on the energy, realeasing it.

"Prince Rumpelstiltskin, We're here to arrest you for kidnapping, assault, and crashing into GP headquarters." A Galaxy Police officer said.

-

"Ryouohki, let's go home!" Ryouko exclaimed.

"MYAA!" The ship exclaimed.

-

After a bit of mental work, Ranma figured out how to deactivate the sentoufuku. Only to realize something. She was still naked, and she was having some trouble accessing her interspatial pocket. Which was why she had been wearing the semi-translucent T-shirt and the forest green skirt in the first place.

She heard a chuckle from nearby and spun around ready to deal death.

"I found something of yours." Katsuhito said, before tossing something toward the redhead.

Ranma caught it, and it turned out to be her clothes. The ones she had been wearing before she was kidnapped. She glanced back at where Katsuhito was, and found he wasn't there.

Remembering her nudity, she quickly got dressed.

"I suppose next I'll find out that Akane's the princess of some far away kingdom." Ranma joked to herself.

Then she remembered what prince Rumpelstiltskin had said before Akane had malleted him.

"Nah, couldn't be." The redhead said, shaking her head.

- End Chapter Six:

Author's notes:

YATTO! I finished this chapter, after three or four or who knows how many false starts, (hence the rewrite date stamp), a massive case of writers block, homework, studying, etc... all led to this chapter taking a long time. Add to that this one is one I _had_ to tell, because it's a major turning point in the story.

And yes, I finally got around to reuniting Ranma and Akane, but the chapter seemed too short, so I threw in a prince.:) On that subject, I know that it was the neo-queen who was guessing names, but I couldn't resist. As for his empire, it means 'rudeness', and kidnapping someone is rather rude, so...

Sorry to those I told that things were finally going to be explained in this chapter, I couldn't get both sets of occurances into one chapter, so I decided to split them into two. So, next chapter should finally answer some questions, and probably raise a few more.

And why was Ranma wearing that T-shirt and skirt? Because I thought it would look interesting. And I wanted something that would weird Akane out.

And no, the prince didn't make Ranma's hair grow, it had been that way since Ranma woke up. Actually it had been longer, but Ranma had trimmed it a bit. That will be explained in the next chapter though.

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