Roidma

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma, DragonballZ or any of the series portrayed here. This is simply fanfiction.

AUTHOR'S NOTES: This takes place when Akane transferred the engagement to Nabiki.

In DragonballZ this takes place right after Goku was killed with his brother Raditz.

"THOUGHTS" !!SPECIAL EFFECTS!!

Chapter Five

As Ranma's body lay unmoving on the ground, his subconscious mind was still working. "It's a good thing I learned Simulate Death from that Shaolin monk while I was on that training trip with my father. Even though I'm not dead, it's going to take a while for me to relocate my neck. As it is I'm going to have to concentrate."

After an hour of concentration, Ranma snapped his neck back into place and got up. "Whew! That was too close for comfort. I'm sure Dr. Gero made Gosunkugi into an android but why? I'm going to have to train a lot harder in order to defeat that guy; he's very powerful."

Ranma then noticed the words, Thirteen was here, written in large letters on the ground near him. "So he calls himself Thirteen. I better get out of here." Ranma then flew off for home.

XXX

"Yawn!"

"So you're awake, child." Shampoo looked up at her great-grandmother looming over her as she lay on her own bed in her room at the nekohantan.

"I have bad dream, Great Grandmother. I dream Mousse beat me by tickling me pink and finally knocking me out with a shiatsu maneuver," the amazon said as she shivered despite the heat.

"It was not a dream, Shampoo. It was all real. Mousse somehow managed to increase his power and even learn secret amazon techniques."

"Aiyah! No way stupid Mousse beat Shampoo."

"Take a look at what you're wearing, Shampoo," the matriarch ordered.

As Shampoo regarded what was left of her clothes sliced into what looked like a skimpy bikini she gasped and covered herself with her hands embarrassed. "Is Mousse really so strong and fast? Mousse could kill Shampoo if Mousse want."

"Yes, that's true. He may even be stronger than Ranma at this point. I still haven't figured out how he got so much power. But he managed to merge his curse so that he's now a beautiful swan instead of an ugly duckling. His sight is also a lot better. If he was any other amazon male except for that fool, Mousse, I would say marry him but I don't want that fool polluting my bloodline. There must be some way of nullifying Mousse' claim."

"Wouldn't he have to beat Ranma since Ranma has defeat Shampoo?" Shampoo asked hopefully.

"Normally you'd be correct but Mousse somehow knows amazon law very well. He correctly stated that Ranma can simply surrender his claim on you. We both know Ranma has made it clear he does not want to marry you despite our efforts. But I'll think of something."

XXX

Nabiki woke up trapped in an energy stasis field of some kind which held her arms up and suspended her in the air. "Where am I?"

"So, Sleeping Beauty has awoken. You may never have heard of me but my name is Tao Pai Pai," the android assassin said, announcing himself as if he were royalty.

"I've heard of you. You're basically a guy who likes to kill

"Let me at her, Boss. I'll rip her a new one! I'll jack her up good and make her wish she had never been born!" Wolfman said a few feet behind him.

"Shut up! Now, as soon as Ranma gets here we can begin with the festivities."

"Ranma's a lot more powerful than I am. You'll rue the day you challenged him," Nabiki answered despite her compromised position.

"How is it that you're so much like Goku?" Tao asked ignoring the threat. "I had no idea there were any others besides him. I've spent days searching for him and I haven't found him. The only ones who come close to him are you and this Ranma."

"I'm not telling you anything. Now get me out of here or else!" Nabiki threatened as she again tried in vain to break free of the stasis energy field which held her in place.

"Even though you have similar DNA, you don't have a tail like Goku did," Tao remarked.

"Let me at her. I'll make her talk," Wolfman said as he admired Nabiki's physique.

"You'll be quiet, Wolfman! She defeated you and I don't like failure. Be grateful I still think you and your gang will be useful to my plans." At this Wolfman was silent.

"What plans are those, Tao?" Nabiki asked, wanting to know what the villain had planned.

"I plan on taking over all of Asia. I'm starting with Japan then Korea and so on. Eventually I'll rule the whole earth. In time I'll have an army of machines who will do my bidding. My only concern was Goku getting in my way. I've since gotten a lot more powerful since my last defeat at his hands. But I have no idea where he is."

"I have no idea where Goku is either. But Ranma will track me down and when he does he'll deal with you!" Nabiki replied.

"Of course he'll try to rescue you but he won't beat me. I'm far too powerful." Then Tao turned to Wolfman. "Has your number two contacted the Tendos and told them where Ranma can find Nabiki?"

"Yeah. Jako should be there right now," Wolfman answered.

"Good."

XXX

"Hey! Open the door!" Jako said as he pounded furiously on the door of the Tendo household with ten members of the Black Tiger gang backing him up.

!!POW!! "What do you want? Are you here for another beating? And where is Nabiki?"

"Ow! I'm not here to fight you. And as for Nabiki she has been captured."

"I'll go and get her!" Akane said brimming with confidence.

"Oh, shut up. You're no match for Tao Pai Pai. Yeah, that's right. That's who we're working for. He wants Ranma to show up at this address. Make sure he comes alone. If anyone else shows up here Nabiki will be killed," Jako said handing the note to Akane. "Ranma has until sundown." With that Jako and his crew left.

"I'll kick the daylights out of that Pai guy!" Akane exclaimed but her father, Soun put his hand on her shoulder and shook his head.

"Tao Pai Pai is the most dangerous assassin in the world. Don't take him lightly, Akane. Ranma should be back anytime now. So we'll wait for him and tell him about Nabiki being captured."

"I can take him!"

"Akane! We'll wait for Ranma!" Soun demanded, surprising Akane by putting his foot down.

XXX

"Huff! Huff!"

"Keep on running Ryoga! We have ten more miles to go. Thought I wouldn't recognize your massive strength and endurance, did you?" Master Roshi asked as he ran up ahead of Ryoga.

"No, Sensei!" the lost boy called out as he ran with the ten tons of weighted clothes he wore.

"You should have told me about the fact that you get lost so easily."

"Yes, Sensei!"

"And there's also the fact that you turn into a pig. I know all about Jusenkyo. There's a way to merge your cursed form into yourself to make you more powerful and not be burdened by being changed with the application of water."

"There is?!" Ryoga asked hopefully.

"Yes. Keep on running. Before that happens we will have to work on your speed and reflexes; you're way to slow! Now move! Move! Move!" Master Roshi ordered the lost boy.

XXX

"I'm home!" Ranma called out as he landed at the Tendo compound.

"Ranma!" Akane called out. "You have to hurry. Nabiki is in trouble. She's been captured by Tao Pai Pai. He'll kill Nabiki if you show up at this address before sundown." Akane handed Ranma the note and stared at him as he read the note.

"I'll get there right away," Ranma said determined.

"Be sure to take him seriously, Ranma," Soun Tendo said seriously. "Tao Pai Pai is one of the most powerful assassins on the face of the earth. Be careful, Son."

"I'll be careful." At that moment his stomach growled.

"Here, Ranma," Kasumi said handing him a small green bean. "This will help tide you over and energize you. Nabiki told me all about this so make sure you eat this before you get there. You look as if you've been in a fight and gotten beaten up badly."

"All right, Kasumi. Thanks." !!MUNCH!! "That really helped me to again, Kasumi." With that Ranma flew off.

XXX

"First of all, Mousse, tell me how you learned amazon techniques. Then I want to know how you mastered said techniques in such a short amount of time," the amazon elder interrogated.

"I told you what you wanted to know. If you like I'll go get Ranma to turn over his claim to me," the former duck boy turned swan man stated lazily.

"I know all about your transformation and why you're so powerful now. But how did you learn secret amazon techniques? You've learned in a week what would take some amazons a lifetime to learn. Before you marry Shampoo you will answer my questions."

The two of them were in the Nekohantan which was about to open in a few minutes. Mousse had not only worked hard but fast impressing both Cologne and Shampoo with his super human speed. He had gotten the prep work done and cleaned the restaurant in record time.

"All right. When I got my powers, one of my powers is the ability to see through anything, another is the ability to see from a distance. Therefore I have the equivalent of X-Ray and telescopic vision. In addition to that I have learned how to develop a photographic memory and the ability to understand and learn things quickly."

"Yes. But how did you... Oh, I see you used your vision powers to look through and read all the ancient amazon martial arts secrets. But some of those would take a long time to learn. There's no way you could have learned those techniques so quickly, new power or not."

"I discovered a place called the Room of Time. In this place someone can train for a year. When I left the Room of Time only a day had past."

"So that's it. Do you know it's illegal for a male to learn those techniques, Mousse? I don't care how powerful you've become. You can be thrown out of the tribe for that."

"If that happens I'll just beat Shampoo again and she'll have to marry me anyway. Besides, the rules say I wasn't allowed to enter the areas where those scrolls and books were stored. They don't exactly say I can't learn the techniques if I can learn them without entering those forbidden areas."

"That's a lot of double talk. You've broken the spirit of the law while supposedly keeping the letter of it. I'm sure the Council of Elders will agree with me when I petition your victory over Shampoo null and void."

"You know my great grandmother, Hair Care, don't you? She's also an elder. She's ready and willing to back up my claim despite my unorthodox ways of becoming more powerful. Face it, Elder Cologne. I'm marrying Shampoo."

"So you think, boy."

"The elders have already discussed it. The last thing they want is someone with the massive amount of power and skill I have leaving the village. They'd prefer it if I stayed within the tribe. Keep in mind that I know a lot of other techniques the amazons don't know about. I'm perfectly willing to share my fountain of knowledge with everyone."

While talking to the new Mousse, Cologne noticed how Mousse had grown a great deal within the quasi year. He not only was more powerful and skilled but he was more mature as well. "I will discuss this with the other elders. I don't think they'll over rule me. Don't be too hopeful about marrying Shampoo. When you fail to marry Shampoo, I'm sure some other amazon will be happy to marry someone with your power. Now get back inside and get to work."

Mousse walked back inside confident of himself giving Shampoo a knowing smile as he quickly got to work.

XXX

"He's coming, Boss!" Wolfman called out as he saw Ranma flying towards the Black Tigers new base of operations which was now Tao Pai Pai's headquarters.

"Yes. I can sense Goku's ki signature but it's somewhat different just like the girl is here is different. You know the plan, Wolfman. I want you to see you fight him first. Now go," Tao ordered.

Ranma looked around observing the formerly abandoned but now refurbished warehouse that had many windows and was six stories high."I wonder how many guys are in there. Well, here goes nothing."

"Stop right there, dude!" Wolfman called out breaking out of one of the windows and flying towards him. "Let's see how tough the mighty Ranma Saotome really is."

"You wanna find out? That's just fine with me." Wolfman flew at Ranma with speed faster than the human eye could follow but Ranma was faster and was upon Wolfman before he knew what was happening and struck him in the stomach and head butted Wolfman when he lurched forward. When Wolfman was stunned Ranma punched him in the jaw with a right cross.

"Ungh!" Wolfman moaned. "So you drew first blood. I'll still kick your ass. You've been over rated for months now. And I'm going to prove that right now."

"Where's Nabiki? Tell me where she is or else!" Ranma threatened.

"Spare me the threats! You don't scare me even though you've been taking steroids. Now let's finish this fight."

"All right. If that's how you want it."

"That's exactly how I want it. No more talk. Let's do it!"

Ranma flew into Wolfman hitting him with thousands of punch and kick combinations putting his previous tenshin amaguriken to shame. "That good enough for ya?" Ranma said as Wolfman slumped into unconsciousness.

!!CLAP!!CLAP!!CLAP!! "That was well done, Ranma. But what I want to know is how you got Goku's DNA. I know you're not Goku but you have a similar ki signature. The girl has a similar ki signature to Goku as well. I wonder why," Tao Pai Pai said sizing Ranma up.

"Where is Nabiki?!" Ranma demanded.

"We'll get to that. But there's a difference between you and Goku. As strong as Goku is he is not as big and strong as you are. Even the girl's brute strength is impressive. What kind of steroids have the two of you been taking?"

"Neither of us are taking steroids!"

"Spare me the denials. I don't care if you take steroids. It will make defeating you that much easier since all that muscle will simply slow you down."

"The muscles I have don't slow me down. But if you want to fight, let's do it!"

"Of course. Hiyaaaah!" the assassin screamed as he moved in on Ranma at super human speed.

XXX

Hikaru Gosunkugi also known as Thirteen flew into the secret hideout of Dr. Gero which was located inside one of the mountain areas of Japan that was regarded as uninhabitable. "I've done it. I've destroyed Ranma. Now Akane is mine!"

"Fool! You have not destroyed Ranma! Look at the video screen. He's still alive," Dr. Gero stated as he glared at the teenage boy while the video screen showed Ranma flying away from the scene of the battle.

"I was sure I killed him. I snapped his neck!" Gosunkugi stated nervously.

"I don't believe I wasted so much time increasing your power. If you can't do what I want I'll just take all of your power back!" Dr. Gero threatened.

"No! No!" Gosunkugi protested.

"I hope not. Even so. I have two other androids I'm working on. They will be even more powerful. If you can't do the job they can!"

"I can do it!"

"Then go find Ranma and kill him. If you do that, I'll give you even more power. My sources tell me sooner or later Goku will be coming back and when he does I want him eliminated. Do you hear me?!"

"Yes, sir. I hear and obey." With that Gosunkugi flew off in search of Ranma.

XXX

Ranma and Tao Pai Pai were fighting toe to toe with countless punches, kicks, blocks and counter attacks going back and forth. Finally, Ranma got in a solid combination which sent Tao Pai flying through the wall of the formerly abandoned warehouse.

"So! First blood goes to you. Enjoy it while you can. That will be the last attack that gets through my impregnable defenses," Tao said as he tagged Ranma with a powerful ki blast.

"Aargh!" Ranma screamed as his shirt was vaporized. "I'm not backing down, Pai." Ranma moved in on the powerful assassin and struck with a jab which Tao dodged and then grabbed Ranma's arm and threw him over his shoulder several feet into a nearby tree.

"Hyaa!" Tao screamed as he blasted the area Ranma was in with a quick dodon blast but Ranma had gotten out of the area in a nick of time as the tree he had previously slammed into turned into sawdust.

"You'll have to do better than that!" Ranma then blasted Tao with his own ki blast and as Tao evaded the blast Ranma attacked with an area effect ki energy blast which covered so much of the area Tao was in so that he couldn't move out of the way fast enough.

"Aaarrgh!" Tao yelled as he fell back but still held his ground. "I'm surprised you can fire off ki blasts so well but it really doesn't matter. I'll still defeat you in a short time. I don't regard you as the main course. You're the appetizer, while Goku's the main course."

"You can forget about Goku. He has better things to do than fight someone he's already beaten up before. I'm your opponent. You want to fight, then fight me!" Ranma called out as he struck the ground with his foot creating a shockwave that bowled Tao Pai Pai over, striking him from the ground. Before the assassin could regain his footing Ranma was on top of him hitting him with thousands of punches and kicks that Tao couldn't all together block or evade.

"Ungh! I find it hard to believe you're this skilled. You may even have more skill than Goku but you haven't mastered all the abilities a Saiyan body offers. I realize you're not even a carbon copy or clone. I'll just have to destroy you and your girlfriend."

"Never!" Ranma screamed as he ran up to Tao Pai at super speed and started pummeling him but Tao struck Ranma with an open palm strike to the face that sent Ranma several feet back.

"You probably never heard of this but old age and treachery always triumphs over youth and skill," Tao Pai Pai said calmly.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"This!" !!BOOM!! The bomb the assassin had planted on Ranma during their fight blew up, shooting Ranma up in the air. Ranma's clothes were in tatters as he came crashing to the ground with a thud. Ranma's pants were reduced to the size of swimming trunks that barely covered him as he got up and faced his opponent. Even the string that held his pig tail in place had been blown to smithereens making his now long hair come cascading down on his broad shoulders.

"You look like the barbarian you really are. Going native?"

"I'm really not worried about it," Ranma said breathing deeply as his muscles contracted. "I always liked Conan the Barbarian anyway."

"Gosh, he's gorgeous!" one of the girls in the crowd which developed said as she practically drooled all over herself as she admired the long haired boy.

"You can say that again. Arnold Schwarzenegger eat your heart out!" another teenage girl swooned.

XXX

Back in the warehouse Nabiki was still being held in an energy stasis field. Akane had sneaked in the abandoned warehouse and taken out a few of the Black Tiger gang members guarding Nabiki. "Nabiki! What have those perverts done to you?!" Akane exclaimed as she regarded Nabiki's current state of undress.

"Nothing really, Akane. There's a lever over there. Could you pull it up?"

"Oh, yes." As Akane pulled the lever up the stasis field vanished dropping Nabiki to the ground in a heap.

"What the?! The chick's free!" a gang member said, running into the room.

"Oh, shut up!" Nabiki said, appearing right in front of the guy and cold cocking the him with a left hook. As more gang members came into the room Nabiki and Akane beat them up sending them into a world of hurt and unconsciousness.

"You bitches are through!" Jacko said running in the room shooting at them with an uzi. !!RATATATATAT!! Nabiki immediately got in front of Akane letting the bullets bounce off of her rock hard body. "What the?! Talk about tits of steel!"

"Get over it all ready!" Nabiki said taking the gun from him and breaking his jaw with a right hook that knocked him out.

"So you and Ranma are bulletproof, too?" Akane asked her older sister.

"Well, pretty much. Having a saiyan body has it's perks. Let's get out of here, Sis."

"Um, Nabiki."

"What is it, Akane?"

"Will you put something on? You've been prancing around and fighting in your panties without the least bit of embarrassment. Your breasts practically defy gravity as it is, you're giving me an inferiority complex!"

"All right, Akane. Let's see about placating your ego and finding something for me to wear." Nabiki and Akane looked around and saw some gang jackets and some jeans hanging in a closet.

"Here we go," Nabiki said putting the two sizes two small jacket on which still showed a lot of her ample midriff. Then Nabiki put on some jeans that they found which clung to her hips. "This will have to do for the time being. So Akane, are you happy now?"

"You look like something out of a music video. We're going to have to go shopping later," Akane said as she regarded the clothes that made Nabiki look even hotter than she did before.

"Well. Nothing we can do about that now. Let's go outside and see how Ranma's fight's going." Nabiki walked outside with Akane following her.

XXX

!!KAPOW!! Ranma struck Tao Pai Pai with a powerful wing chun, straight punch that sent the assassin through a couple of medium sized trees. "Oof! I don't think Goku ever hit me that hard," Tao Pai said as he checked his jaw. "It's all irrelevant. I'm a lot more powerful than I was when I fought in the last tournament when Tien Tenshinhan defeated me. I am even more powerful than Goku or you for that matter."

"You're just full of a lot of talk. There's no way you're beating me I have too much to fight for!" Ranma stated as he walked towards the assassin.

"Are you talking about your busty girlfriend and her family. I think I'll have my way with her before I kill her, after I've killed you."

"No way!" As Ranma ran at Tao Pai at inhuman speeds the assassin grabbed him and threw him into some nearby bushes. While the former pig tailed warrior was entangled, Tao blasted him with an attack that did no serious body damage but bypassed most defenses stunning him. "Yeargh!"

"And now. Aaaaaah!" Tao screamed as he increased his power, making the ground around him shake. By the time he was done Ranma had recovered and gotten himself free of his previous entanglement. "You are too late, Boy. I am now more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

"Just bring it," Ranma said motioning with his hands.

"Oh, I shall." Tao Pai Pai ran at Ranma with so much more speed than before that he surprised the Conan the Barbarian look-a-like, knocking him into the sky. Then he blasted Ranma with a more powerful dodon ray.

"Aaargh!" Ranma screamed as the now more powerful attack engulfed him.

"I'm surprised you survived that but there's more where that came from," Tao Pai said, flying up in the air. "I think I'll soften you up a bit." The assassin blasted Ranma with a machine gun type energy barrage Ranma couldn't all together avoid.

Then Ranma did the unexpected. He fled. "Where did that guy go?" someone in the crowd said as Ranma flew off.

Nabiki's crew had figured out where the Black Tigers and therefore Nabiki was. They also knew about the upcoming fight by lurking in the shadows and gathering information as they always did. Then they sold the information about the fight to anyone who had paid for it. By this time, most of the students of Furikan High were there along with some other people watching the fight.

"This has been almost as good as the last Tenka-ichi Budôkai!" a teenage boy called out.

"Is he coming back?" another asked.

"I don't think so. I guess he figured he'd get his ass kicked."

"Here I figured the great Ranma Saotome was a lot braver than this. Now I'll have to... Ungh!" Tao Pai flew forward as he was struck from behind. "What the?!"

"Did you call me a coward?!" Ranma asked as he struck the surprised assassin with several super speed punch and kick combinations that ended with Tao's head being rocked back.

"What happened? Ranma came back from another direction. But that's impossible!" Akane exclaimed.

"What Ranma did, Akane, was fly away and keep flying away until he flew all around the world and struck Tao Pai from behind," Nabiki explained. "Flying around the world is part of Ranma's training."

"Ungh! You're full of tricks, aren't you?"

"You silly rabbit. Tricks are for kids!" Ranma answered with a smirk.

"You dare mock me by comparing me with Boss Rabbit? You'll pay for that. Haaa!" Tao Pai struck Ranma with a flash attack which blinded the former pig tailed martial artist. While Ranma was getting his bearings Tao Pai Pai attacked with fists of fury, striking Ranma countless times and eventually knocking him several yards back and further up into the air in a diagonal fashion. Tao Pai immediately appeared above the flying Ranma and struck him with both hands together in an axe handle fashion, knocking him back down towards the ground.

"No more snappy comebacks?" the assassin asked as he flew down on Ranma faster than a speeding bullet smashing into him with so much power he sent Ranma crashing into the ground practically impaling him into it.

"It's not over yet!" Ranma said struggling to speak as he broke out of the ground, leaving a Ranma shaped dent in it.

"You cannot hope to defeat me, Ranma. You are a poor substitute for Goku," Tao said as he quickly grabbed Ranma, holding him up by the throat choking him.

"I won't give up! Koff!"

"Is that so? Jiiiiii!" Tao Pai Pai said powering up for another dodon ray.

"He's powering up for another one of his ki blasts. I don't know if I can survive another hit like that. I'll have to break out of his hold,"Ranma thought to himself as he grabbed of his opponent's fingers pulling it away from the other fingers causing Tao Pai to let him loose.

"Not bad but too late. Haaa!" the assassin screamed as he attempted to tag Ranma with a very powerful dodon ray which missed! Ranma had shuffled over to his right practically gliding on the ground as he moved with enough speed to barely get out of the way of the blast. The crowd gasped as the dodged dodon ray obliterated the old abandoned warehouse.

"Aieeeeeeee!"

"The guys we left inside got killed by that last blast!" Akane exclaimed excitedly.

"I don't know if I would have survived that," Nabiki thought to herself as she saw the building which had been her prison come crumbling to the ground.

Ranma then clapped his hands together and thrust them forward sending a shockwave right into Tao Pai which the assassin had run right into. "Ungh!" Tao Pai moaned as the shockwave knocked him back. Then he flew up into the air and came down on Ranma like a dive bomber shooting auto fire ki blasts out of his hands.

"Aaaah!" Ranma screamed, shooting up in the air much like some who had been too close to a exploded bomb would do.

"Fat lot of good all those muscles are doing you now, eh? And now for the coup de grace." Tao Pai landed and was about to prime himself up for another powerful dodon blast when he noticed Ranma practically flying towards him on the ground.

!!POW!!CRACK!!SMASH!! Ranma threw a volley of hand to hand attacks of which only a few got in. But the ones that did get through caused the assassin's head to snap back while he took one on the chin after lurching forward when Ranma had snap kicked him with a forward thrust in the stomach.

"I'm going to have to beat you so much that I'll be sure you're dead!" Tao Pai Pai said with menace as he responded to Ranma's attacks with a volley of attacks of his own. At this point they had both thrown caution to the wind and were attacking going all out on offense.

"Ungh!" Tao Pai moaned being knocked back several feet, but he kept himself stable by doing an deftly done acrobatic maneuver which allowed him to land on his feet. He now faced down the Conan the Barbarian look-a-like before him. "This guy is good. I'm surprised I didn't notice such a powerful and skilled fighter before now. This town of Nerima has had a reputation for powerful martial artists which I had thought to be overrated."

"I don't recall this guy being so powerful. From what I saw on the tapes Dr. Briefs showed me I figured this would be a walk in the park but somehow Tao Pai Pai has become a lot stronger. I don't know how much more damage I can take. I need to end this quick," Ranma thought to himself while he regarded his opponent and took the time to recover.

"Aaaaah!" Tao screamed as he ran at Ranma with such speed that he overwhelmed him, putting Ranma on the ropes so to speak with a flurry of punches and kicks. Then finally !!BLAST!!

"Aaargh!" Ranma cried out in pain and surprise as the close range, dodon ray struck him dead on. Ranma flew back several yards due to the power of the blast. As Tao Pai Pai walked towards him he saw smoke coming out of Ranma's still intact chest.

"It's not over yet, Tao," Ranma said getting up in a lot of pain.

'It is over, fool! Defeating you now will be very easy. You're in no shape to fight anyone now." With that the assassin moved in, attacking Ranma with super fast punches, most of which connected.

"It's looks like Ranma's going to lose, Nabiki!" Akane called out with concern as Ranma got pummeled.

"Not exactly. Don't you see what Ranma's doing?"

"Yes I see. He's getting clobbered!" Akane answered.

"He's going in a spiral. Doesn't that spiral look familiar?" Nabiki said with a side glance.

"Oh, yeah!" Akane exclaimed finally getting it.

"What are you two talking about, Nabiki?" Hiroshi asked with Daisuke standing next to him. Both of the boys couldn't take their eyes off of Nabiki's exposed midriff as they regarded the Saiyan girl.

"You'll see," Nabiki said ignoring the drooling boys.

Ranma kept moving in a spiral as he got pummeled. "It's almost over, boy! Give up! A few more attacks and I'll send you to your ancestors," Tao Pai said sensing victory was at hand.

"I'm not giving up. You'll have to try harder!" Ranma yelled as he kept going in a spiral.

"I'll keep that in mind," Tao said as he increased his attacks in volume and in power totally unaware of what was waiting for him.

Eventually the spiral ended and Ranma screamed, "Dragon Ascension Wave!" knocking the world's greatest assassin high up into the air. When he came crashing down to the ground with a huge thud, he didn't move; he didn't get up.

"Huff! Huff!" Ranma gasped as his chest contracted.

"Wow!" some of the girls in the audience gasped enjoying the view of Ranma's barely clothed form.

"You did it, Ranma!" Nabiki called out running towards him with Akane right behind her.

"You all right, Nabiki?" Ranma asked as he regarded her.

"I'm fine, Ranma. I knew you'd win; you always do."

"You had more faith in me than I did in myself. That guy was really powerful. I wasn't sure I could beat him," Ranma answered with a sigh of relief.

"Nonsense! You're the best." With that Nabiki gave a Ranma a big, long enduring kiss while putting her arms around him. Ranma responded to the kiss and put his hands on her back through her jacket caressing her gently. Everyone there gasped over the sight of the two quasi-saiyans embracing.

"Nabiki! Your jacket is coming off!" Akane said while the two ignored her.

"Very good, Son-in-Law!" a voice called out.

"Cologne! What is it?" Ranma asked not happy to see her.

"I had no idea you had become so powerful. I envy Shampoo," she said admiring the muscular powerhouse. "It's about time you made an honest woman of Shampoo and marry her."

"I'm not marrying Shampoo. I thought we already discussed this."

"Wrong! You discussed it. You know the laws. If it wasn't for me you would have been beaten by Tao Pai Pai. He's the greatest assassin on the earth."

"I would have found some other way to defeat him if necessary. But I thank you for all your training."

"Is that it? You think you can just string Shampoo along? We will not be, ignored."

"Don't go Fatal Attraction on me, Cologne," Ranma said testily.

"Don't worry about it, Ranma!" Mousse called out as he landed in front of them with Shampoo in tow. "As you might have guessed I've defeated Shampoo. All you have to do is hand the marriage rights you have on Shampoo over to me and we amazons will get out of your hair."

"Mousse! I told you to stay at the Nekohantan until all the after closing work was done!" the diminuitive amazon elder said angrily.

"The work's done. I'm a lot faster than I used to be and I also see a lot better. Why is it that you haven't told Ranma my defeat of Shampoo and my willingness to take Shampoo off of his hands?"

"No want marry stupid Mousse! Want marry Ranma!" Shampoo said as she happily admired Ranma's current, Conan the Barbarian look. "Do you hate Shampoo so much you let Mousse have Shampoo for self?"

Ranma looked at the amazons for a moment. "Hate has nothing to do with it. I told you I wasn't interested in you, Shampoo. You can have her, Mousse," Ranma said as he held Nabiki closely in his arms.

"Come on, Shampoo. You're married to me now. Ranma has just turned you over to me," Mousse said with a sense of triumph.

"Not so fast, Mousse. I'm going to discuss this with the other amazon elders. There's no way I'm going to let Shampoo marry a blind fool like you," the elder responded.

"I find it strange that you were ready to force Ranma to marry Shampoo because of your high faluting amazon law and now that said same law mandates that Shampoo marry Mousse you want to skirt said same law," Nabiki said in a matter-of-fact manner.

"That is none of your business, little girl. Stay out of it!" Cologne sneered.

"If it involves Ranma it is my business. I hate how you enforce your laws on everyone else then say, 'it's none of your business," Nabiki said stoically.

"This isn't over." With that the diminutive elder leaped off. Mousse then grabbed Shampoo, sprouted his wings and flew off after the elder.

"Gee. I didn't know he could fly," Sayuri said as she saw them off.

"Yes. And his wings are so beautiful. I wouldn't mind being with him," Yuka responded wistfully.

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