Warp Reality
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Chapter 5
Prelude to a war
Moments before Ranma first arrived·
Sailor Pluto aka Setsuna Meiou, was guarding the time gates as usual when it
happened. Pluto was suddenly knocked to the floor and unconscious by a large
amount of chaotic energy.
Pluto regained consciousness a couple of hours later and felt something was
very, very wrong. First of all she couldn't feel her future self presence
from Neo-crystal Tokyo anymore. Secondly she can't feel the time gates power
anymore, and that had her more worried. Pluto picked herself off the floor to
see the time gates or what left of it. The time gate was still there but
where once was one singular timeline the Senshis' was working toward to
ensure, was now only one of the hundreds of timelines the time gates was
showing. What even worried Pluto more was that even if the time line should
some how have change, the Crystal Tokyo future timeline should have been the
dominate one. Now instead she only saw one Crystal Tokyo timeline and
hundreds of different ones where the Queen was married to a tall man with a
pigtail-like hair style, she also saw other time lines where different
Senshi's was married to the same pig-tail man in different timelines also.
Also much to her surprise, there was even several with her and the man in it.
Pluto tried to access those timelines to find out what happened but was
stopped by the Plutos' of those timelines. Eventually, Pluto decided to find
out what the connection the man had to the rest of the Senshis' and Hokage
futures. After many hours of searching she finally decided to give up having
trying to find anybody who looked like him throughout the time line, she
deducted that the man was not born from this reality but from a different
one. Things like that had happened in the past but she always either
eliminated them or sent them back to their own reality. Pluto always tried to
send them back but for those who could not be sent back she eliminated by
either killing them, which she only do to bad guys' or erase their memories.
Lucky for her 99 percent of the cases were evil related so she always gets to
kill them and the other one- percent are cases she sent back to their own
time.
Pluto, having done this many times, stepped up to the time gate to use its
power to find the intruder in her time stream. She placed the staff on it and
began her search, it took her an hour but she found it in the end. Pluto was
never so worried in her life. The intruder was, in her definition, chaos
incarnate. The boy emitted chaos level that was only match by Galaxia
herself. In a quick rush she tried to send him back to his own reality by
using the time gates powers, but it failed because of the chaotic energies
the boy have surrounding him. The situation was hopeless he would disrupt
their timeline and because of all the chaotic energies surrounding him she
couldn't determine if he is good or evil even if the other time lines shown
that he was good. The bright side was the boy had not reach his full
potential yet, so she should be able to kill him quickly with one shot of her
Dead Scream attack if she could catch him off guard. She thought about
letting him lived but it was to risky, most of the stuff that needed to be
done to make Crystal Tokyo a reality would be ruin by this boy compassion to
help the weak. A lot of people will need to die for Crystal Tokyo to become a
reality but this boy, as she saw from various timelines, will interfere and
manage to save a lot of people. That's why she decided he will die when the
timing is right.
She watched as he defeated Mikagami with one blow.
She watched, as Mikagami wanted a rematch.
She watched as Nodoka tell the stories of her husband death.
She watched as the boy her teammates identify as Ranma told his story. After
listening to the story for a while about curses and kidnappers and how he was
Mrs. Hanabashi son, she too felt that he was full of B.S. Only when Recca
threw Ranma into the water and he turned into a she, was Pluto convince, at
least partially anyway. Pluto also felt jealous of the girl figure and
beauty, she know she wasn't ugly but compare to the girl standing in the
water she felt like an ugly duckling. The girl possessed a aura around her
that screamed out Hot and Sexy. Putting her own jealousy, she still was sure
that killing this boy turn girl was the key to repairing the timelines and
making Crystal Tokyo a reality. One shot is all it would take and right now
the girl was leaving herself wide open.
"One shot" Pluto mused "For a future of peace and happiness, but is it worth
one person life?" she asked herself. Her replied in the end was a yes. So she
teleported in front of the still daze beautiful girl and level her staff at
her.
"Dead Scream" she said in a whispered.
NOW·
Everything happened in slow motion for the spectator in the Hino's yard. They
saw just moment's ago how Recca threw Ranma into the pond to prove his story
and how Ranma had transform into a girl, just not Ranko like Ranma said he
was. The girls stared at the beautiful girl who had emerge instead of Ranma
and felt no small amount of jealousy. The rest of the boys' stared at the
white hair girl with no small amount of lust except for Koganei.(He only 12
you know.) Haruka was openly leering at the girl, much to Michiru annoyance.
" What an incredibly beautiful girl." Nodoka thought with a little wonder,
but she still was trying to look for Ranma to emerge from the pond.
Kage was just speechless.
Then before anyone can react, Sailor Pluto appeared in the yard right in
front of the beautiful girl. They saw her level her staff at the girl and
shot out her deadly attack, the Dead Scream. They saw as the ball of energy
hit the girl dead center in the chest and pushed her into the pond she was
standing in. They saw the water heated up then exploded upward. What they did
not see, had they been looking upward and not at Pluto, that when the water
exploded a tiny little figure with dark hair was also shot up in the air with
the water and flung into a random direction.
"It is done." Pluto said with a sigh to no one in particular. That was when
the yard exploded into a furry of activities.
" What the hell did you do Pluto?!" asked a stunned Ranko and Fuko.
" What did you do?" Was Nodoka question, as many similar questions were also
voiced to her.
Pluto held up her hand to silence the crowd. " I know many of you want answer
to what I did and why." Said Pluto, while everyone else nodded. " Well this
time, I will tell you why."
Pluto proceeded to tell them of what happen. She told them of how the
timeline was split and fracture due to Ranma arrival. She told them of how
Ranma chaos energies matches those of Galixia, which gave everybody a
collective shudder. The battle with Galixia is one they would prefer to
forget and not have to go through again. She told them how their effort to
make Crystal Tokyo a reality wouldl be disrupted by Ranma. She told them that
with Ranma alive, the future will be uncertain and that very reason is why he
had to be eliminated.
"I regret killing him, but this is for the future Utopia of Crystal Tokyo."
Said Pluto with real regret in her voice. "It had to be done Hanbashi- san, I
am sorry for the loss of your son, but he really wasn't your son." Said Pluto
sympathetically to Nodoka.
"S-so, he was really related to me?" asked Ranko.
"If you can call it that." Said Pluto. " Well I have to be going now, just
remember, what I did was necessary to ensure the future of Crysatal Tokyo. Ja
ne." said Pluto and with that disappear in a flash of light.
Everybody in the yard was left to think upon what Pluto said. The Outers' had
no qualms about it, while the Inners' and Ranko felt guilt and regret at what
had been done. Team Hokage understand that sometime you have to do thing you
don't like to ensure the greater good, Nodoka felt a loss of a son she would
never get to know, while Kage tried to comfort her.
The Timegates·
Pluto stared at the Time gates with a worried look on her face. " That funny"
she thought " The Time gate should have been repaired with the elimination of
Ranma from the Time stream."
Pluto checked the timelines again and sure enough it was still split and
fractured. She tried to find the problem but came up with nothing. Then she
realized that it might not be the Timegate problems but something else. She
then did a scan of chaotic energies present in the Time stream and was nearly
knocked off her feet when she encountered the large amount of chaotic
energies once again.
" Can't be." she thought franticly. " He supposed to be dead."
Normally she could rewind time at will to view what happen previously and
find out what happened, but now with the time stream fractured and split, it
would take a large amount of her power to control the chaotic Timegate. She
started to power-up her staff and stuck it in the time gates. She rewinded to
what happen when she shot the Dead Scream at Ranma. She saw her Dead Scream
hit the girl and plunged her into the water, but what Pluto saw next
surprised her. All of a sudden some kind of marking flared on the white-hair
girl face. The markings' seem to disperse her projectile, heat up the water
and changed him back into a boy. Pluto frown at why that could have happen.
Even with the chaotic energies, her Dead Scream should have killed the girl.
Form the expression on the girl face, it showed that her blast did catch
girl-type Ranma off guard. The only way the girl could have with stand it is
if she had a high level of magic in her. When Pluto did the scans earlier she
detected no magic. She tried to run a scan now before the girl got blasted
and still came up nothing. She then scanned the boy after ward, shape shifter
had been known to have a high degree of Magic resistance, but she still came
up with nothing. She then scanned it when the strange markings flared up and
what she saw there horrified her. The Magic level shown when the markings on
the girl face when it flared were extremely close to Queen Serenity power
level when she was alive.
" Kami" said Pluto in a whisper. She then did a scan after she transform into
a he and still showed no magic property in the boy what so ever.
"Maybe he only has it in girl form." She mused to herself. She watch as the
boy was flung all the way to a familiar looking dojo. She watched as the boy
crash straight into the dojo and startle Ryoga and Akane. She watched as
Akane attacked the intruder in her house with Ryoga help. She heard Ranma
said
" Oh Kami no!, not this again!" this in referral to when Akane pulled out her
famous mallet.
Pluto heard Ryoga said " Whoever you are, for startling Akane, PREPARE TO
DIE!" and launched his bandanna at Ranma.
Pluto heard Ranma said, " Damn can't fight close. Oh well gotta use that
trick now." And with that pull out a five -yen piece said "HAPPO GO-EN SATSU".
Pluto watched as Ranma drain the energies out of Akane and Ryoga and she saw
Ranma seemed less tried then he did before.
" A Yoma" said Pluto in awe, maybe this was a new threat that she didn't know
about yet "This Youma could be our greatest challenge yet." said Pluto to
herself. " Maybe it was trying to infiltrate the Senshis' and attack them
when they least expect it. I have to warn the others." And with that pull her
staff out of the time gate and teleported directly to the Hino's shrine.
The Hino Shrine·
It was a few minutes after Pluto left and everybody was still feeling regret
over what had happened to Ranma when Pluto appear again. Before anyone could
said anything, Pluto raised her hand up to ward off their question.
"Listen up everyone, we have a huge problem." said Pluto " Ranma is not dead,
wait don't get so excited yet." The last statement made to Nodoka who face
seems to brighten up, " Ranma is a youma" said Pluto quickly. Everyone stared
at her in shock. " It true, I have proof" and she proceeded to tell them what
she discovered.
By the time she was done, everyone was pissed, including Nodoka but she still
doubted Pluto words, so torn between Pluto proof of Ranma Youma nature and
her only possible connection to Genma through Ranma, she remained silent.
" Let get him everyone" said Recca , everyone raised their fist in agreement.
" Wait, before you do anything rash, remember what I told you guys, his magic
power level is extremely close to the late Queen Serenity." Warned Pluto..
" The Tendos' said the Ryoga and Akane are still unconscious." said Ranko ,
who just got done calling the Tendo to confirm Pluto story. " I destroy that
youma with my bare hands for hurting my friends and pretending to be my
mother son." Said Ranko with barely contain rage.
Suddenly, there was a knock at the door, everybody stood silent and held
their breath. Recca looked over to Mikagami and the both nodded as the
approach the door silently. Everyone got ready to do battle, as there was a
second knocking. By then Reeca and Mikagami was at the door. Recca looked
over to Mikagami and held up three fingers. He mouthed the word " On the
count of three" with no sound. Mikagami just nodded his head. Recca held his
three fingers up and put one down leaving only two, Mikagami already had his
Ensui weapon in the form of a water blade. Recca then put another finger
down, which only left one, Mikagami tense up and prepared to pounce. Just as
Recca silently called for Saihai, his fire blade and prepared to put the last
reminding finger down. They heard a familiar voice call out " Hey is any one
home?" Everyone let out their collective breath that they been holding.
Usagi recognized that voice anywhere, " Mamo-chan " she said happily and open
the door to let him in.
"Heya Odango-atama" said Mamoru Chiba as he gave Usagi the cold shoulder and
walk past her to Pluto. " You called me for an emergency?" he ask Pluto.
Everybody felt sad for Usagi, something happen between her and Mamoru near
the end of the fight against Galixia, they try to find out once but both of
them would not talk about it.
Pluto nodded her head and started to tell him everything, by the time she was
done Mamoru was in rage " He dare to hurt the Senshis'!" He then looked over
to Pluto " Count me in, what the game plan." He said
Pluto nodded to everyone and proceeded to tell them her strategy.
"Ok, here is what we going to do. Since he has so much chaotic energies he
can easily disrupt our scanner, so we are going to have to search by eyesight
and foot." Said Pluto
" Pluto why can't you search by the Timegates?" asked Usagi , everyone nodded
their head in agreement, "Wouldn't that make the search easier?"
" I can't use the time gates anymore" said Pluto silently with a hint of
misery in her voice, everyone was so shock by the news that they didn't
notice Pluto misery.
" Why not Pluto?" asked Usagi as gently as possible, Usagi was very
perceptive when it comes to people emotion and she detected the hint of
misery in Pluto voice.
" It because of the chaotic energies Ranma is emitting, it disrupted the time
stream power and I just recently used what left of the linear time magic to
find out Ranma plan. You see, the linear time power is gone for now, it would
take too long for it to recharge. We have to hurry to stop Ranma or else he
can do Kami knows what disruption to this time stream." Everybody was silent
as Pluto continue to explain her strategy
" Now since he is powerful, we will spilt into three teams, that way we can
stand a better chance at fighting him." Said Pluto.
" Team One will consist of Recca, Mikagami, Domon, and Koganei lead by
Mamoru." She paused to see if they have any problems with the arrangement,
seeing none she continued.
" Team Two will be Rei, Makoto, Minako, and Ami they will be lead by Usagi."
She stopped again to see if they have any objection with THIS arrangement.
Even though they not as good by themselves, they can be nearly unstoppable at
a team. Beside they work well together and they know that. Seeing no
objection she continued.
" Last and least is Team Three, which will consist of Fuko, Ranko, Haruka,
and Michiru lead by me. Any question?" asked Pluto again, seeing none, " OK,
remember, Ranma is more dangerous as a girl then as a guy, try to make him
avoid cold water which will make him/her stronger. As a boy she/he has no
magic powers so she/he should be easy picking for you guys. Understand?"
Everyone nodded once.
" Remember, you find him you call us in, as a group we can beat his girl form
when it comes to that." Said Pluto
" Tell you what, why not make this more interesting" Said Ranko, " First one
to find him get an all expense paid dinner to any restaurant of their choice."
"DONE!" said Recca.
" You should get ready to lose." said a confident Minako
"Enough, let go find him" said Pluto, with that they left Yanegi, Ganko, Kage
and Nodoka behind to pray for their success. Although Nodoka was still angry
at being trick, a small part still believe Ranma story.
Miscellaneous part of town·
"Stupid Ryoga and Akane, why they had to go and attack me for. If they just
let me explain none of that incident would have happen." Said Ranma to no one
in particular.
"Well I better split town before the other find me." he thought " I will miss
mom though, Maybe I'll write one day to tell her how I am doing. Yeah I do
just that" he thought happily, so happily in fact that he missed five male
figure on a roof looking at him.
Up on the rooftop·
"Do we call the other?" asked Domon.
"Why, let show those girls that we can take him all by ourselves." Said Recca.
"I don't know guys maybe we should call in." said Mamoru , who is now dress
as Tuxedo Kamen.
"I agree with Chiba-san." said Mikagami.
"Well that only leaves you Koganei, what do you say?" said Recca as all head
was turn to the 12 year old boy.
" I say we kick his ass and show that guys are better than girls!" said
Koganei with a grin.
"Oh well, too bad for you, three against two, we won." said Recca smugly.
"Alright then, lets do it your way." Said Tuxedo Kamen , as they jumped off
the roof and close in on their prey.
Down below·
" GOD DAMNIT!" said Ranma as he had no clue as to where he is. "I starting to
feel like Ryoga, Man lucky thing for me the battle aura I took from Ryoga and
Akane stopped the pain I felt from that lady blast." HE remembered Pluto
blasts with a shudder, he should have died by all rights, but somehow he
survived.
Suddenly Ranma sensed danger, he felt a small object flying at him and caught
it.
"What the hell? Said Ranma as he saw what he caught. " A ROSE?!" he exclaimed
out loud in disbelief, over the years he faced many things but a rose was a
new one. "Aw man" he thought to himself "Not another Kuno, the Kamis' can't
be THAT cruel."
" That right buddy, your playing with the big boys now."
Ranma stopped his musing and turned his head to the sound of the voice. He
saw Four figures that he recognizes. He didn't know the fifth one who was in
a Tuxedo while holding a rose in his right hand and a cane in his left. He
then looked at his rose then look at the Tux guy rose. He kept look back and
forth from the tuxedo guy to the rose in his hand, much to the other
confusion. They wonder what he found so interesting about a rose. Finally he
spoke, " Uh did you gave this too me?" asked Ranma , Tuxedo nodded. "Um,
sorry to break the news to you but uh·"
"But·." Said Tuxedo Kamen, curious about what Ranma found so interesting
about his rose.
" I don't swing that way" said a blushing red Ranma.
Team one did a collective jaw drop, followed by the face fault. Several
minutes later they recovered only to find Ranma gone. They been trick, they
realized.
"DAMN YOU RANMA!" yelled Tuxedo Kamen.
Several Blocks away·
"HAHAHAHAHA, those bakas'!" said Ranma out loud as he continued to laugh.
"Well at least I am rid of them," he said just as he danger senses flared
again to warn him to jump to his right. He heard a loud voice shouted
"NARDARE, DAN EN!" and saw a bunch of fireballs missed him be several inches.
He landed on his feet to see the same guys earlier getting into a ready
battle stance.
"Hmm, who the baka now?" asked Recca, who had a smug grin on his face.
Ranma looked at each of them carefully to asset their fighting ability.
"This" he thought with a sigh "would take some time."
To be continued...