          RANMA 1/2 vs. STREET FIGHTER: Interference
          Story by BAHUMUTH
          Based on fictional characters by Takahashi Rumiko/Capcom
          Send comments to: BAHUMUTH@iamerica.net
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               "I love you." said Ranma to Akane.
                Ranma  and  Akane  stood on a rock  formation  several
          hundred  feet  above the roaring ocean,  both  holding  each
          other  in  their arms tightly. Surrounding them,  below  the
          rock  formations,  were  all of their  friends  and  family.
          Although  all of them were still dazed by the recent  string
          of events, each and every one of them heard Ranma say it.
                "Oh,  Ranma..." said Akane, overcome by emotion,  "Oh,
          Ranma. I.... I love......"
                Before  she  could  finish, the two  embraced  in  the
          deepest,  most passionate kiss ever imagined. Tears streamed
          from  Akane's  eyes as they held each other tight.  After  a
          long,  heroic,  (untold)  story,  Ranma  and  Akane  finally
          realized how much they needed each other and now had finally
          admitted  their  feelings  for  one  another  in  one  great
          explosion of emotion.
                Shampoo looked on with a frown on her face. One of her
          maces was broken and it was obvious she had been in a fight.
          She was dressed in an extravagant kimono that seemed to have
          been  ripped up by some previous unknown adversary. Although
          she  now  realized she would never get Ranma to  truly  love
          her,   she  seemed  somewhat  complacent  and  perhaps  even
          accepted  it. She looked over to Mousse, the man  who  loved
          her  unconditionally. "Maybe Mousse not  so  bad.....",  she
          whispered.
                Ryoga looked like he had been roasted alive. His  skin
          was  blackened to a crisp, but he seemed not to  notice.  He
          looked  on  to the scene of Ranma and Akane with streams  of
          tears flowing from his eyes.
          He  had  seen this coming for a long time now,  but  he  was
          still  shocked by it. His love for Akane was pure,  pure  as
          the  driven snow. He loved her for everything that she  was.
          The good and the bad. Even her clumsiness that was so much a
          part  of  her was ingrained into his love for her. And  yet,
          even with this love, he had found trust in another woman  in
          the  heroic adventure he had just barely lived through.  His
          eyes wandered over to Ukyo.
                "About  damn time." mumbled Nabiki drinking  some  tea
          through  a straw, looking up to the romantic scene. She  was
          dressed  in  a jet aircraft uniform issued to pilots  flying
          harriers. The uniform was now covered with oil and dirt. She
          then  looked  over to Kuno and smiled at the predicament  he
          was in.
                Kasumi  was dressed in the sexiest lingerie you  never
          did  see her in. Even so, she still wore her innocent smile.
          The  romance of the scene got to her and she began  to  have
          thoughts  of a somewhat love interest of hers that  she  had
          never admitted to anybody. She looked over to Dr. Tofu.
               Sasuke was wearing a blue kendo outfit that looked like
          a  miniature  version  of  what Kuno  normally  wore.  "Poor
          master...."  he  whispered, plucking  at  one  of  his  long
          whiskers. He then looked over to Kodachi and was startled at
          what had happened to her.
                Genma and Soun were both holding up Japanese fans  and
          crying  in  happiness. Genma looked like he had been  tarred
          and  feathered while Soun's skin was still pale and his hair
          still stood up on end from the ghastly sight he had seen not
          minutes  before  this  incident. In  their  happiness,  they
          hugged each other, and then got stuck from the tar that  was
          still on Genma.
               Nodoka, Ranma's mother, stared at the scene holding her
          katana which was now stained with green blood. She had found
          out  about  Ranma's and Genma's curse and had been  gracious
          enough  to  not  force  them  to  commit  sepuku  for  their
          dishonor.   She  was dressed in a black ninja jumpsuit.  She
          had  several wounds on her side and arm. The mask across her
          face only showed a single tear forming in her eye.
                Cologne,  Shampoo's  great grandmother,  and  Happosai
          looked on in quiet thought. For the first time in 250 years,
          Cologne  had broken a sweat. Her staff was broken  as  well.
          Happi's  rear end was so swollen it seemed like he had  been
          kicked  in the ass even more times than usual, if  that  was
          possible. "I guess I should have known this would eventually
          happen.",  Cologne said to Happai. "I wonder what  bra  size
          Akane wears." he replied.
                Kodachi  was tied up in her own ribbon, but she  could
          still  look  up  to see the scene between Ranma  and  Akane.
          Under  a  green  Chinese cap with a star on it,  streams  of
          tears  flowed from her eyes. She would have screamed  except
          one  of  her  wooden gymnast tools had been  shoved  in  her
          mouth. Sasuke walked over and untied her and pulled the tool
          out  of  her mouth. "Th- thank you.... Sasuke." said Kodachi
          looking down. Sasuke gave her a warm smile.
                Dr.  Tofu  sat nearby quietly drinking a cup  of  tea,
          seemingly  unchanged from the prior events.  "It's  been  so
          long,  I  wonder  if I can still even give a  karate  kick."
          thought  Tofu. He then turned his eyes to the woman  he  had
          secretly had a crush on for years, Kasumi.
                Kuno  was  totally naked and drenched. He watched  the
          scene, expecting himself to feel like ripping Saotome's head
          off.  But,  strangely enough, he didn't move. He probed  his
          dreams  to  find the cause for such apathy. His  mind  raced
          through the prior events, and then all at once, it all  made
          sense!  "I  love  Nabiki Tendou." he said to himself.  "More
          than  Akane or the pig-tailed girl. I love her more  than  I
          ever  loved them." Kuno then realized what he just said  and
          tears  of  grief  and disgust flowed out of  his  eyes  like
          rivers.
                Ukyo was dressed in a blue school uniform and had  her
          hair in a ponytail, seemingly trying to pass as a guy again.
          The  uniform had small blast marks on them, as  if  she  had
          somehow  narrowly avoided being caught in an explosion.  She
          looked  at  the  scene and wished the best  for  those  two.
          During  the  course of the adventure, she  had  decided  she
          liked  Ranma more as a friend than a husband. She had fallen
          in love with Ryoga.
                 "Geez,"  thought  Mousse,  "out  of  all  the   weird
          adventures  we've  been  on, that was  definitely  the  most
          exciting!" He then lowered his glasses to gaze over  at  the
          only woman he had ever loved, Shampoo. With his glasses back
          on,  he  realized for the first time that he was  wearing  a
          pink  leotard.  "How the heck did this get  on  me?!?!?"  he
          shouted.
                Back  on  the rock formation, Ranma and Akane released
          their  grasp. "Akane...." said Ranma, seeming like he wanted
          to say something. "Yes?" asked Akane. "Um," stuttered Ranma,
          "Do you uh, well, um, do you want to, you know......"
               "Yes." replied Akane.
                After another hug, Akane decided to walk down and make
          sure  everyone was okay. Ryoga walked up the rock formation.
          "Ryoga...."  said  Ranma, realizing he had seen  everything.
          "Well Ranma, you beat me." Ranma looked on, not sure how  to
          reply.  "You  beat me in martial arts. And you  beat  me  in
          taking Akane. And now there's only one thing I can do."
               "Ryoga....."
                Ryoga  extended his hand. "Friends?", he asked.  Ranma
          looked at his hand. "Best friends!", replied Ranma, grasping
          his hand and shaking heartily.
          
                                   *****
          
               Two days later they were back  in Tokyo.
               "RANMA NO BAKA!!!!" shouted Akane as Ranma flew through
          the  roof. Ranma had accidentally walked in on Akane  during
          her morning bath and had paid the penalty. Even though Akane
          had finally admitted to herself that she loved Ranma and was
          ready to give herself to him, she still enjoyed sending  him
          flying when he was stunned from walking in on her, which was
          the  only  time  she  could  ever defeat  him.  Ranma  being
          stronger than her was something he never let her forget  and
          it felt good to beat him on those rare occasions.
                When  Ranma made it back to the house, he was  in  his
          girl  side. He had obviously fallen in a pool of water  upon
          descent.  Kasumi gave him a note. "What's this?" asked  Ran-
          chan.  "I think it's a formal letter of challenge." answered
          Kasumi,  walking on to continue her sweeping. "Geez! Another
          one? Maybe I should start a scrapbook....." she said opening
          it. It was a letter of challenge, but not a personal one. It
          was  a flyer inviting her to test her strength and skill  in
          the International Street Fighter Tournament. "Street Fighter
          Tournament?" she said, reading it.
                "It  is  a  league of super fighters from  around  the
          world.  Although on the outside it is merely  a  contest  to
          test the strength of these warriors, on the inside it is the
          work  of  a mad military dictator named M. Bison to try  and
          recruit  powerful warriors into his Shadow-law, an organized
          crime  syndicate  for his plot of world  conquest."  said  a
          familiar, raspy voice. Ran-chan turned around to see Cologne
          and  Shampoo, who was holding a similar flyer. "You got  the
          same challenge?" asked Ran-chan.
               "Shampoo going to test strength! Ranma, you fight too?"
          asked Shampoo.
                "Why  would I want to do something stupid like  that?"
          asked Ran-chan.
                "WHAT???",  screamed Genma appearing behind  Ran-chan,
          "How  can  you say that, Ranma? The Anything-Goes School  of
          Martial Arts must accept ANY challenge at ANY time. Have all
          of  your  training been for naught? It looks like you  never
          WILL be worthy to carry on the Saotome School!"
               Soun walked by with a toothbrush in his mouth and waved
          at Cologne and Shampoo.
                Ranma  poured hot-water on himself from a  kettle  and
          replied,  "You know what, pop, you're right. I'm not  worthy
          to carry on the school...."
               "Now, wait a minute, son......" stuttered Genma.
                "Guess you'll just have to let your OTHER son carry it
          on...."  said  Ranma, walking off and being  followed  by  a
          pleading Genma.
                Ryoga  walked in holding a similar flyer and  a  gift-
          wrapped package. "Is this where you register for the  Street
          Fighter Tournament?" he asked.
                "You're going to fight in the Japanese circuit,  too?"
          asked Nabiki.
               "You mean this isn't Siam?" he asked.
                Akane  had just finished her bath and had put  on  her
          clothes. She walked in drying her hair and singing  a  small
          tune.  "Nights in white satin.... never reaching the e-  Oh,
          Ryoga! You came for a visit?" she asked, seeing the package,
          "Did you bring me any souvenirs?". It seemed rude to ask but
          Akane  had  gotten  so  used to the  souvenirs,  she  simply
          started expected them.
               "Oh, no, i'm sorry, Akane.... I guess I.... forgot." he
          replied.  Akane  looked a little confused but  accepted  it.
          "Well, that's okay."
                "Well,  Shampoo  going  to get  ready  for  date  with
          Mousse." said Shampoo, waving goodbye.
                "You're going on a date with Mousse?!?" asked Akane in
          surprise.
               Shampoo nodded with a smile.
          
                                   *****
          
                A  few  days  later, a large group of people  gathered
          around to see the great Street Fighter Tournament. The first
          fight  was  being held in the street and a crowd  surrounded
          the  area.  The  fight scheduled was between  Mousse  and  a
          monster from Brazil named the Blanka.
                "All  right you ugly piece of shit! Prepare  to  die!"
          shouted  Mousee. An elderly woman (who had caused a  lot  of
          Ranma's  transformations thanks to her  seemingly  pointless
          act  of  throwing water on the sidewalk with a large  wooden
          spoon.)  was  cowering on the ground, covering her  head  in
          fear of her assaulter.
                "Mousse!  Put  on glasses! Big ugly green  thing  that
          way!"  shouted Shampoo. Mousse put on his glasses and looked
          behind  him  to see a green monster with red hair  and  huge
          claws.
                The  referee  walked up. He was dressed in  a  Chinese
          military uniform and kept a large sword strapped to his back
          since  he  was  part of the Cult of the Musclesword.  "Round
          one. Fight!" he shouted.
                The  Blanka  shot  at Mousse, giving  a  blood-curling
          scream   as  it  rolled  in  mid-air  towards  him  like   a
          cannonball.  Mousse  opened his mouth  in  terror  and  then
          jumped away in the nick of time. He started throwing daggers
          at  the monster. The Blanka got hit by a few of them, but it
          only  stunned  him. Blanka then jumped at Mousse  with  it's
          claws coming down in an arc. Mousse jumped back in time  and
          decided  to  take to a lamp post. He leaped up unto  it  and
          began  to  say  "From the rugged mountains of deepest  China
          comes a special technique, passed down through 3000 years of
          his...." The Blanka kicked the lamp post from under him  and
          shot  upward  in  his cannonball motion striking  him  point
          blank,  sending him flying. The Blanka then pounced  on  him
          and  began  chewing  on him with razor sharp  teeth.  Mousse
          screamed. A bucket of water hit Mousse from far away and  he
          turned into a duck, enabling him to fly away. Shampoo  threw
          another  container  of water at Mousee, this  time  an  open
          kettle  full of hot water. Mousse changed back into  a  man,
          injured  but  still  fighting.  "So  be  it."  said  Mousse,
          shooting an array of chains and spears out of the sleeves of
          his loose Chinese clothing. The spears hit the Blanka in the
          chest  and stomach, causing it terrible pain. Just  then,  a
          charge shot through the chains, electrocuting Mousse. Mousse
          hit  the  ground, smoking and smouldering.  The  Blanka  had
          transferred  the electrical power it could harness  in  it's
          body  through  the metal chains. Mousse was unconscious  and
          out of the fight. The Blanka roared over him triumphantly.
          
                                   *****
          
                "Well,  he should be just fine in a day or two."  said
          Dr. Tofu, examining a barely coherent Mousse.
               Mousse had his leg pulled behind his neck and he seemed
          to  have  received several medical shots in  the  cheek  and
          nose. His arm was still bleeding profusely from a large  cut
          and  an  I.V. had been hooked up to his belly button.  Ranma
          was already there, looking at Mousse with worry. He had been
          delivering a present to Dr. Tofu from Kasumi. Unfortunately,
          Mousse had been brought in at the same time and Dr. Tofu had
          started  working  on  him while he was still  excited  about
          getting  a  present from Kasumi, which was always the  worst
          time  to  be  examined by Dr. Tofu. Dr. Tofu  was  just  now
          getting over it.
                "You know, Ranma." said Dr. Tofu, "I was wondering why
          you never wear a uniform to school...."
               "Yeah, right." replied Ranma, "I'd like to see them try
          i-"
                Just then, Shampoo walked in through the door (without
          opening it.) "Ni-hao! Mousse all right?" she asked.
                "Yes," replied Dr. Tofu, "He should be just fine in...
          AHH!!!  What just happened to you, Mousse?!?" Dr. Tofu  went
          into the other room to get some more bandages for him.
               "Shampoo bring biscuits and tea for Mousse and Ranma.",
          said Shampoo.
                "Thanks, Shampoo.", said Ranma, grabbing and devouring
          the  food.  Now that Shampoo had started dating  Mousse,  he
          didn't have to worry about Shampoo sneaking any weird  stuff
          into the food she gave him.
                Ranma  finished  his tea and began to  feel  a  little
          funny. "Shampoo! I love you!" shouted Ranma, jumping up  and
          hugging Shampoo.
                Shampoo smiled a devilish smile. "Love potion  in  tea
          make you fall in love with other sex you first see. Now  you
          know  Shampoo  not give up so easy. Fight with Blanka  prove
          Mousse not right man for Shampoo.", she said.
                "Shampoo...." Mousee called weakly, reaching out,  but
          mistakingly  grabbing  hold of Betty,  Dr.  Tofu's  skeleton
          instead of Shampoo. Shampoo dragged a love-sick Ranma behind
          Mousse, out the busted door.
                Dr.  Tofu  walked back in the room.  "What's  all  the
          ruckus  in  here?" he asked. "Oh, Shampoo left me some  tea.
          How nice of her." He drank the tea while he kept a visual on
          Mousee. Then he started to feel a little funny. Just then he
          heard Kasumi's voice. "Dr. Tofu....."
                Dr.  Tofu  turned around with an excited look  on  his
          face.
                "Ranma  didn't come back after I sent him to you  with
          the present. Did you get it?" asked Kasumi.
                "Oh, Ranma? He's very nice, thank you." said Dr. Tofu.
          However,  Dr. Tofu's glasses were so fogged up  he  couldn't
          see Kasumi in the slightest bit.
                "Well,  I hope you enjoy it." said Kasumi, giving  Dr.
          Tofu her brightest smile. She hoped he would think about her
          after as she left.
               Dr. Tofu's glasses started to fog down soon afterwards,
          and he still felt a little funny from the tea he had drank.
                "Dr.  Tofu,  is Ranma here?" asked Akane,  walking  in
          through the smashed door.
               "Akane?" asked Dr. Tofu, turning around to see her.
                "I guess not. Where can he be? Tell me if you see him.
          Bye,  Dr. Tofu!" Akane said, running off to continue looking
          for him.
               "Akane........" breathed Dr. Tofu.
          
                                   *****
          
                The next fight was being held in the parking lot of  a
          Japanese  fire  station. Several fire trucks and  fire  cars
          were parked around the battle area. The fight scheduled  was
          between Kuno and an Indian by the name of Dhalsim.
                "I'm  sorry, sir. But weapons are strictly  prohibited
          from  the  fight."  said the referee,  referring  to  Kuno's
          wooden sword.
                "What  words  you speak, foul dastard?" spouted  Kuno,
          "The  last man who fought used spears and daggers!  How  can
          you ban my Tatewake kendo sword?"
                "Hidden  weapons are legal." replied the  referee.  At
          this Kuno got very angry and then began trying to stuff  his
          wooden sword into his sleeve.
          
                "Oh,  great." said Nabiki, "Kuno baby is  weak  enough
          with his sword. This is not going to be a very long match at
          all."
               "Weak with his sword?" replied one of Nabiki's friends,
          "...but didn't you see him smash the Furinkan High wall with
          that sword?"
               "Yeah.... so what?" asked Nabiki.
          
               "Round one. Fight!" shouted the referee.
                Kuno  had gotten his sword stuck in both his  sleeves,
          leaving  his  arms outstretched on both sides,  leaving  him
          totally  defenseless. "Yoga Fire!" Dhalsim shouted, shooting
          a  fireball  out of his mouth. Kuno, helpless, screamed  and
          jumped  out  of the way. Dhalsim shot another  fireball  and
          then  another. Kuno ducked and jumped his way forward.  Just
          then,  Dhalsim's  leg  shot out long, impossibly  long,  and
          kicked  Kuno in the face. Kuno fell backwards, breaking  his
          sword.
          
                "Did  you see that?" asked Nabiki's friend. "It  looks
          like  that guy can stretch himself like taffy!" Nabiki  just
          nodded, concentrating on the fight.
          
                Kuno got up, dazed. Dhalsim's arms then stretched out,
          tripping his legs out from under him. Kuno fell again,  this
          time face first. The next time he got up, he decided to make
          a  run for it. But suddenly, Dhalsim teleported in front  of
          him. "Yoga Nougee" he said, grabbing Kuno and putting him in
          a  headlock. He then began to rub his knuckles up  and  down
          Kuno's  head,  giving him the most painful nougee  Kuno  had
          ever  felt, all the while yelling "Yoga!" over and  over  in
          his ear.
          
                "You  think that guy trains under Yoga?" asked one  of
          Nabiki's friends.
                "What  makes you say that? Hey! Where did Nabiki  go?"
          replied the other.
                Nabiki seemed to be talking to one of the firemen that
          was sitting on a nearby fire truck, watching the fight.
          
                "Yoga! Yoga! Yoga!" Dhalsim continued shouting, giving
          Kuno  even more of a headache. Kuno then placed a well-aimed
          elbow  into Dhalsim's skinny chest. This stopped the nougee,
          but  then  he felt himself being lifted up and thrown.  Kuno
          flew  into a nearby fire truck, shaking it. One of the hoses
          fell down and hit him on the head.
                "Aha!"  exclaimed Kuno. Dhalsim stepped up and  yelled
          "Yoga  Flame!"  issuing forth a flame from his  mouth.  Kuno
          grabbed  the  hose  and pulled the lever, shooting  forth  a
          blast  of  highly-pressurized water,  right  into  Dhalsim's
          mouth, shooting him back against the fire station's wall.
          
          
                "That doesn't count as a weapon?" asked a handsome man
          with a hand puppet on his hand.
                "No," replied the referee, "that's considered part  of
          the environment."
          
                 The water continued pressing Dhalsim against the wall
          for a while until Kuno said "That is enough." and turned off
          the  hose. The water stopped and Dhalsim fell to the ground,
          barely  coherent. "Just kidding!" shouted Kuno,  turning  on
          the  water again, hitting Dhalsim. Kuno laughed hysterically
          as he kept the hose focused on the Indian.
          
                "Doesn't  it  take a lot of men to hold  a  hose  like
          that?" asked one of Nabiki's friends.
                "I'm  sure  Kuno baby can handle that  much."  replied
          Nabiki, returning.
               "It sure is lucky that hose fell down, isn't it?" asked
          her other friend.
               Nabiki smiled and replied, "It sure is."
          
                                   *****
          
                Shampoo  and Ranma were in the back of her  restaurant
          french  kissing.  Ranma slowly unbuttoned Shampoo's  flowery
          jumpsuit. Shampoo smiled and stood up, pulling her suit over
          her  shoulders,  allowing it to fall  all  the  way  to  the
          ground.  Ranma  looked  up in awe  of  her  beautiful  body.
          Shampoo  sat  back  down on Ranma's lap, wrapping  her  legs
          around  Ranma  and pulling off his red Chinese shirt.  Ranma
          began  feeling  up  Shampoo.  Shampoo  closed  her  eyes  in
          ecstasy, finally getting the man she always wanted.  Shampoo
          began  to  straddle Ranma, moving her body up  and  down  on
          Ranma's  lap.  The two continued kissing, as  Shampoo  began
          pulling off Ranma's pants and boxers.
          
               Nearby, Cologne was watching through a secret peephole.
          "It's  a  good  thing I found that old love  potion  in  the
          basement.  It probably would have been a lot easier  if  she
          had used the potion before Ranma and Akane officially became
          a  couple." she thought. "Ka sera sera." she whispered. Just
          then  she heard a noise and looked back to see Ryoga walking
          up to the restaurant.
                "That  darn  fool  will  ruin  everything!"  whispered
          Cologne.
                "Before Ryoga could knock on the door, Cologne  opened
          it.
                "Where's Ranma?" asked Ryoga, "The next Street Fighter
          match is coming up and he's in it."
                "Well  what  makes you think he's here, boy?"  Cologne
          asked accusingly.
               "You mean this isn't the Tendo house?" asked Ryoga.
                Just  then, Cologne noticed a small figure  trying  to
          sneak  out  of the restaurant's window. The small thief  was
          carrying a huge bag of food and underwear.
                "Hey!  Come  back  here with that!"  shouted  Cologne,
          hopping after him on her staff.
                "What  a haul! What a haul!" cried Happosai, gleefully
          skipping away.
                Ryoga walked in. It was dark, but he heard some noises
          coming from the back of the restaurant. He decided to go and
          make sure it wasn't another thief.
          
                Shampoo  had slipped off Ranma's pants and boxers  and
          they  were  now totally naked. Ranma was sucking on  one  of
          Shampoo's  luscious breasts, causing her mouth to hang  open
          in  ecstasy.  Shampoo then kneeled up and reached  her  hand
          behind her and took hold of Ranma's organ. She caressed  it,
          moving her hand up and down the length of his rod. She  then
          slowly, carefully, kneeled back down on it, allowing him  to
          penetrate  her.  She  gasped for a  second  and  then  began
          cradling up and down on top of him. Ranma moaned in  ecstasy
          as  they  made love on the floor. Then Ryoga walked in.  His
          eyes bulged and he stuck out his forefinger an pinky on each
          hand  in  surprise. Ranma turned to look  at  him  and  fear
          struck his heart for the first time. Shampoo looked annoyed.
                Before anyone could say anything, Ryoga heard the door
          to  the restaurant open. Figuring it was Cologne, Ryoga went
          back  to  the front of the restaurant to confront her  about
          what was going on.
               "Let's stop, Shampoo." said Ranma.
                "No!  We  interrupted one thousand too many times.  We
          finish this time!" ordered Shampoo.
               Ranma couldn't argue with her. He was under her spell.
          
                Ryoga  walked back into the main restaurant  area  and
          once again his eyes bulged.
               "Have you seen Ranma?" asked Akane.
               "Ranma? Ranma? Nooooooo, ofcourse not! Why would I have
          seen  Ranma?" Ryoga replied, holding up his hands. Just then
          some  moaning  were  heard  from  the  other  side  of   the
          restaurant.
                "That  was  him,  wasn't it?" asked Akane,  looking  a
          little angrier now.
                "NO!" shouted Ryoga, but Akane started walking to  the
          back. "Trust me, Akane, you don't want to go back there!"
          
               Shampoo was now jumping up and down on Ranma as fast as
          she   could.  Shampoo  began  moaning  faster  and   faster.
          "Hiya.....hi-ya.....hii-
          yya.....hiya...hiya..hiya.hiyahiyahiya...." Then  they  both
          let out a scream of ecstasy at the same time as loud as they
          could.  Ranma  gave  a  manly moan  while  Shampoo  screamed
          "HIIIIIIIIIYYYAAAA!!!!!!!!!". They  both  stopped  to  catch
          their breath. Akane opened the door.
               "Akane?" asked Ranma.
                Akane said nothing. She just ran, holding her face  in
          one hand and slamming Ryoga into the wall with the other  as
          she passed.
               "Akane......" said Ranma.
          
                                   *****
          
                Ranma's fight with the Jamaican kick-boxer Dee Jay was
          cancelled  due  to Ranma not showing up for the  match.  The
          next  fight was taking place in the park. A crowd, including
          a  martial  arts cheerleader, a giant phoenix,  and  an  old
          knick-knack store owner, gathered around to watch the  fight
          between the two young Chinese girls, Shampoo and Chun-Li.
               "A teenager?" asked Chun-Li, "Are you sure i'm supposed
          to fight her?"
               "Shampoo come from amazon tribe. Trained to fight since
          child times." replied Shampoo.
               "Very well." said Chun- Li.
               "Round one. Fight!" said the referee.
                Shampoo jump kicked at Chun-Li, who barely ducked  it.
          Chun-Li came back with a kick, which Shampoo dodged. "Sha-do-
          ken!"  cried  Chun-Li, letting loose a ball of blue  energy.
          The  energy  ball  caught Shampoo by surprise  and  hit  her
          square  in  the  face. Chun-Li then jumped, coming  down  on
          Shampoo  with  a  razor sharp heel. Shampoo  feigned  injury
          until  Chun-Li  was close enough and then  jumped,  doing  a
          flying  kick into Chun-Li's gut. Chun-Li feel back.  Shampoo
          jumped, doing a flip in mid-air to come down on Chun-Li. But
          then  Chun-Li did something unexpected. She did a  handstand
          and  started twirling her legs around so fast, they actually
          picked her up and started hovering at her like a helicopter!
          Shampoo  hit Chun-Li's helicopter kick and went flying  into
          the crowd, hitting a group of people.
                Amongst a bunch of strewn about citizens, Shampoo  lay
          face  down. As she opened her eyes, she realized  her  mouth
          was  open and was resting on the mouth of someone else.  She
          raised herself up to see that she was laying on Kodachi, and
          had  been accidentally kissing her. Kodachi opened her  eyes
          and  looked at Shampoo. Amongst the crowd, a pair  of  twins
          with  red and green hair with hearts on their shirts  stared
          with  their mouths agape. A girl with large eyes  wearing  a
          ribbon  pointed at her while her older sister, a tall,  sexy
          woman with a broom-like weapon strapped to her back kept her
          hand   over  her  mouth.  Several  voices  could  be   heard
          throughout the crowd.
               "Holy hippo spit!"
               "So she's THAT type of girl....."
               "SHOOBY DOOBY DOO....."
               "Why couldn't I have been 5 more steps to the left?!?"
                Shampoo got up, looking complacent. Suddenly, her face
          turned apple red and she charged back into the park. Shampoo
          charged  Chun-Li  with a series of punches.  Chun-Li  dodged
          backwards,  in attempts to get out of her path in  any  way.
          Shampoo  continued charging Chun-Li onto a see-saw.  Chun-Li
          backed up to the top half of it and let Shampoo come  up  to
          her.  When Shampoo did, Chun-Li pushed her hands on Shampoos
          head, propelling herself up and pushing the half of the see-
          saw Shampoo was standing on down to the ground. Chun-Li then
          landed  on the other end of the see-saw, propelling  Shampoo
          up,  causing  Shampoo  to  lose  her  balance.  Chun-Li  hit
          Shampoo's  back with both palms, punching her off  the  see-
          saw.  Shampoo hit the ground, got up, and jumped on a nearby
          jungle  gym  and  took  a  defensive posture.  "Sha-do-ken!"
          shouted Chun-Li, letting loose another energy ball. The ball
          hit the gym, destroying a bar or two, but Shampoo had jumped
          out  of the way. Chun-Li jumped at Shampoo, kicking. Shampoo
          dodged it and Chun-Li hit the bar with her foot. "OUCH!" she
          cried,  holding on to her foot with one hand and  trying  to
          keep herself from falling off the jungle gym with the other.
          Shampoo then flipped downwards holding onto the bar she  had
          been  standing on and then came up on the other side of  it,
          below  Chun-Li, kicking feet first. The kick pounded Chun-Li
          off the jungle gym and onto the ground.
          
                Meanwhile, Kodachi, with a bar of soap in  her  mouth,
          was  hitting  a nearby fire hydrant with one of her  gymnast
          tools  to try to get some water to wash her mouth out  with.
          Finally,  the hydrant gave way, and a stream of  water  shot
          out  a  few  meters away, hitting Shampoo, who was  standing
          defiantly  over Chun-Li on the jungle gym. Kodachi  put  her
          mouth to the spray, gargling with gallons of water.
          
                Chun-Li  got up but didn't see Shampoo. Instead  there
          was  a cute cat. "Awww...." said Chun-Li picking up the cat.
          The cat seemed nice enough so she held it up to her face  to
          look  into  it's  eyes. Scratch! Four deep claw  marks  were
          scratched into Chun-Li's face. Blood mixed with tears as she
          covered  her face over with her hands, dropping Shampoo  the
          cat.  A tea kettle hit Shampoo on the back-side of her head,
          causing one huge tear to develop under her left eye. The tea
          kettle  was unopened and none of the hot water had  splashed
          on  her.  She  looked  back into the crowd  to  see  Mousse.
          "Oops...."  he said.  Shampoo the cat knocked  the  lid  off
          with  her  paw  and  dunked  her  head  inside  the  kettle,
          reforming  to  human. "Stupid Mousse...." she said.  Chun-Li
          had just peeked past her hands to see Shampoo coming in with
          a  fist. The punch connected, sending Chun-Li sprawling into
          a teeter-totter. Then the time ran out.
          
               "That was a dirty trick, young missy!" scolded Chun-Li.
                "If  heat  too  much,  get out  of  kitchen."  replied
          Shampoo.
               "Round two. Fight!" shouted the referee.
                Chun-Li  came in with a flying kick. Shampoo tried  to
          block  it, but the kick was harder than she thought and  her
          arm  snapped back and elbowed her in the face. "Sha-do-ken!"
          Chun-Li  shouted,  loosing  another  energy  ball  that  hit
          Shampoo,  sending her flying back. Chun-Li charged  Shampoo,
          who got up and ran up a slide and jumped back on jungle gym.
          Chun-Li  followed,  flipping as she jumped,  and  came  down
          kicking.  Shampoo ducked inside the jungle  gym  so  Chun-Li
          would  make  the same mistake twice and kick the  bars.  But
          instead,  she landed next to the jungle gym with a bunch  of
          kicks, each hitting the bars with the flat side of her feet.
          The  kicks began to get faster and more powerful and Chun-Li
          began  yelling "Ya-ya-ya!", kicking THROUGH the metal  maze.
          Metal  twisted and flew as Chun-Li started breaking  through
          Shampoo's shield. Shampoo jumped out shortly before  getting
          pulverized  by  her mighty legs. Hitting the ground  several
          feet  from  Chun-Li,  Shampoo got up  and  watched.  Chun-Li
          ducked  down and brought her feet back up again and  started
          swirling  them  around for another helicopter kick.  Chun-Li
          flew  at  Shampoo,  with  her  powerful  legs  swirling  for
          Shampoo's face. Then Shampoo saw one of the metal bars  from
          the  destroyed jungle gym nearby. She rolled over to the bar
          and  picked  it up, ducking as Chun-Li's legs  flew  kicking
          just  above her head. Shampoo then raised the bar  into  her
          helicopter kick. Chun-Li's legs were swirling around so fast
          that  they  kept kicking the bar over and over again  before
          she  could  stop.  Chun-Li cried out  in  pain  as  the  bar
          continued  to bash her legs with each swirl. Shampoo,  still
          keeping  her head ducked, leaned back and kicked Chun-Li  in
          the face, sending her flying backwards into destroyed jungle
          gym. Shampoo fell to the ground to catch her breath. The bar
          she  had  used  to  stop Chun-Li's kick was now  grotesquely
          bent.  Mousse  ran up and grabbed her, hugging her  tightly,
          shouting "Shampoo, you won!" A large sweat drop appeared  on
          the back of Shampoo's head.
          
                                   *****
          
                Ranma  sat in a kneeling position on one of  the  many
          walls  besides  a Japanese street, thinking  over  the  past
          events. Things had gotten so confusing.
               "Here." said Ryoga, throwing him a vial.
               "What is it?" asked Ranma.
                "An  antidote." replied Ryoga, "Seems the old  pervert
          stole more than just bras and pannies this time."
                Ranma drank it. "Hey, why are you helping me so  much,
          anyway?"
               "I told you. We're friends now.", replied Ryoga, "Akane
          must  hate  me now that I tried to stop her from seeing  you
          and Shampoo so there's no point in me going after her now."
                 "Akane!"   cried  Ranma,  holding  onto   his   head,
          "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ranma waited a  few  seconds
          to  catch  his breath. "Why is this happening to me?!?!?  It
          seems like we're caught in some alternate reality!"
               "You're telling me." replied Ryoga.
               "I can't believe Shampoo used me like that!" said Ranma
                "Believe  it. If it's one thing I learned  about  this
          world,  you  can't  count on anybody. Everyone  is  out  for
          themselves and their wants and needs and they'll  step  over
          anything or anybody to get it." said Ryoga, "Well, my  fight
          is up next. I'll be seeing you."
                "Ryoga,  wait!" shouted Ranma, leaping off  the  wall.
          "It's good to have someone on my side for once."
                "I'm  through working for my own end. I called you  my
          friend so by my blood, I will work at every end to help  you
          as I would help myself." With that, he took off his belt and
          stretched  it, making it as hard and as sharp as  steel.  He
          swung the belt-knife, cutting his hand.
                 Ranma  took the belt, but it fell limp in  his  hand.
          "How  does  he do that?" thought Ranma. Instead, he  reached
          back  and  undid  his  pig-tail to produce  the  dragon-hair
          string he kept his pig-tail bundled up in. Clenching it,  he
          pulled  the twine out of his hand quickly, cutting his  hand
          open. The two shook hands, becoming blood brothers.
          
                                   *****
          
               "Where the hell is he?!?" shouted the huge Russian bear-
          wrestler.  Zangief was getting restless since it was  taking
          so  long for his opponent to show up, and he paced back  and
          forth on the ice. Over the skating rink intercom, the Street
          Fighter  announcer,  a man by the name of  Kuman  Ryuu,  was
          talking  his  way through the delay to keep the  crowd  from
          getting  restless. "Hahaha! Zangief is always known for  his
          light-hearted sense of humor. He's just as likely to yuk  it
          up  with  his  opponent as he is to fight  him."  Meanwhile,
          Zangief was cutting himself, a hobby of his to try to ignore
          pain.
                "We  found him!" said the announcer. "We're lucky that
          Ryu  saw  him and led him to the arena when he did. The  kid
          was heading outside the city for Okonowa."
               "Idiot." said Zangief.
               "Now where am I?!?" asked Ryoga.
               "You're in the battle arena." said the referee.
               "This looks like the skating rink!" cried Ryoga.
                "It is. This fight is being held on ice." replied  the
          referee, pushing him into the rink.
               "WHAT?!?" shouted Ryoga, sliding in.
                "Round-one-fight!" said the referee as quickly  as  he
          could.
               Zangief charged him. Luckily, he was not much better on
          the ice than Ryoga. He slipped and fell, sliding at Ryoga at
          a  dangerous  speed.  Ryoga jumped and  was  able  to  avoid
          getting   bowled  over.  Ryoga  then  took  off  3  bandanna
          boomerangs while he flipped and threw them at Zangief.  They
          hit  Zangief,  cutting  him, but he seemed  not  to  notice.
          Zangief  got up, and ripped out a piece of the skating  rink
          wall.
                Ryoga  hit the ground on his feet and kept  going.  He
          slipped and fell face down.
          
                "What a disgrace to the school." said a tall, handsome
          man  in  a skating suit, watching the fight from the outside
          of the rink.
                "It's Charlotte!" screamed an annoying girl in a  pink
          skating dress.
          
                 When Ryoga turned around, he saw a huge chunk of wall
          coming at him. He screamed and rolled out of the way as  the
          wall hit the ice right next to him, causing a large hole  in
          the rink.
                "Ryoga!",  cried  Ukyo  from outside  the  rink,  "Try
          these!". Ukyo threw him something.
               "Snowshoes?" asked Ryoga.
                "Well they're better than normal shoes, jackass!"  she
          retorted.
                Zangief  walked over as Ryoga was putting on the  last
          one.  "That canine tooth hanging out of your lip  makes  you
          look  like a dork. Why don't you get a dentist to fix that?"
          said Zangief.
               "Ahh, shut up!" retorted Ryoga, tying the last string.
                Zangief kicked at him as if he would kick a dog. Ryoga
          jumped  straight up, although the snowshoes made it awkward.
          Zangief  then began swirling around with his arms  extended,
          like  a  screwdriver. Ryoga had nowhere to go and fell  into
          it,  and smashed into Zangief's huge fist upon descent.  The
          screwdriver  fist sent him flying into the far  end  of  the
          rink,  busting  the  wall  quite  a  bit.  However,  Zangief
          realized  he had just corkscrewed himself halfway below  the
          ice. The freezing water stung at his chest scars.
               Ryoga got up, holding his side. "Hang in there, Ryoga!"
          shouted Ukyo, standing next to a half-black, half-white dog.
          Zangief pulled himself out of the water slowly so as not  to
          break  any more ice around him. Ryoga took out his belt  and
          straightened  it  out so he could use  it  as  a  sword  and
          approached  Zangief, who had just gotten  out  of  the  ice.
          Ryoga  sliced at his face. Zangief blocked with his  massive
          arm,  giving  himself a large cut on it. Zangief  backhanded
          Ryoga,  dropping  him.  As Ryoga opened  his  eyes,  he  saw
          Zangief picking him up and opening his huge mouth. Teeth bit
          down on Ryoga's head. "Ahhhh!!!!" cried Ryoga, "He 's EATING
          me!!!!!!" As Zangief chomped down on him, Ryoga pulled out a
          tool  he  hadn't used in a while. Ryoga then elbowed Zangief
          in  the  face  and  flung himself over  Zangief's  shoulders
          wrapping  Zangief's neck several times with a  light-weight,
          yet  incredibly  strong cord. The cord belonged  to  special
          hand-cuffs  Ryoga had made to keep Ranma from  escaping  him
          when Ryoga had been out to kill him. He now used it to choke
          Zangief. This worked at first but then Zangief reached  back
          and grabbed Ryoga. He pulled Ryoga back over in front of him
          and  stuck Ryoga's head in between his legs and then grabbed
          Ryoga's  legs,  holding  Ryoga in an  upside-down  position.
          "This is the end, kid." said Zangief.
                "This  is  it, folks! Zangief's spinning pile-driver!"
          cried  the  announcer in awe. Zangief launched himself  into
          the  air,  flying up 30 feet to the ceiling of the  building
          while spinning around in mid-air.
          Zangief then began spinning and spiraling downwards with 256
          pounds of bear-wrestler bearing down on Ryoga's head.  Ryoga
          thought of one chance. He pulled the handcuff end out of his
          sleeve  and threw it upwards. The handcuff flew up, catching
          a  thick  pipe  just below the ceiling of the building,  and
          locking  itself in place. Ryoga closed his eyes  and  prayed
          the  cord was short enough. Zangief came spinning down  hard
          and then there was a sharp tug. Ryoga opened his eyes to see
          himself hovering several inches face first from the ice. The
          cord  wrapped around Zangief's neck had caught  him  on  his
          descent  and he now stood hanging grotesquely from the  cord
          handcuffed to a now bent ceiling pipe.
          
                The  medics,  a tiger-boy, a wolf-boy, and  a  cloaked
          figure  hovering  above the ground tried  to  fit  the  huge
          Russian  into  the ambulance, but they were having  trouble.
          Ukyo  helped Ryoga out of the rink. Zangief lifted his  head
          from beneath a yellow blanket with a ducky and a balloon and
          yelled in a horribly scratched-up voice, "Next time we meet,
          i'm going to rip your arms off!"  The announcer followed  up
          with "That Zangief. Always the light-hearted joker!"
          
                                   *****
          
                Akane was sobbing in her room. "How could I have  been
          so stupid?!? I always knew Ranma loved Shampoo! Why? Because
          she's  cute  and i'm not! Why else would he keep telling  me
          that?!?  If  he  really loved me, he wouldn't be  constantly
          reminding me how uncute I am!" Akane buried her head in  the
          pillow.
                Akane sank into a deep depression, telling herself how
          horrible  she  must  be if Ranma had  cheated  on  her.  She
          decided  if she couldn't have Ranma, she might as well  have
          anyone that would readily take her without insulting her, no
          matter what her feelings were of him. Although inwardly, she
          hated Kuno, she hated all boys, she decided to seek him out.
          No  matter  what,  HE  wouldn't deny  her.  And  atleast  it
          wouldn't  be  a surprise if he cheated on her. Ranma  wasn't
          the only one who could find love in another's arms!
                Akane ran downstairs telling Kasumi she was going  out
          and  ran out of the house, right into Ryoga! "Oh! I'm sorry,
          Ryoga!"  yelled  Akane as she ran on, thinking  he  was  all
          right. But Ryoga, still injured from the fight with Zangief,
          had been knocked out cold. Kasumi walked out to wave goodbye
          to  Akane  but  then  saw  the  unconscious  Ryoga  who  was
          obviously beat up as well as bleeding from the head.  Kasumi
          brought him inside to treat his wounds.
          
               As Ryoga woke up, she saw Kasumi's smiling face staring
          back at him. "Wh- what happened?" asked Ryoga.
                "I  don't know. I found you outside. You seemed really
          hurt,  so  I  brought you in to take care of you."  answered
          Kasumi.
                "You brought me in?" asked Ryoga. In all the times  he
          had  been  injured before, people always just ran past  him,
          not giving a second thought if he was really hurt or not.
               "Uh-huh. I hope I didn't wrap your bandages too tight."
          replied Kasumi.
               Ryoga looked at himself to find he had been cleaned and
          bandaged! He couldn't believe the amount of trouble she  had
          put herself to!
               "What happened to you?" asked Kasumi.
                "It  was  from  the  Street Fighter Match.",  answered
          Ryoga, "Ukyo had been helping me to Dr. Tofu's but I guess I
          lost her somehow....."
          
                "Jackass!"  shouted Ukyo, still searching the  streets
          for Ryoga.
          
                Kasumi brought some food in for Ryoga. "Please eat up.
          You must be hungry." said Kasumi in her nice, caring voice.
                Ryoga ate some. It was delicious. This had always been
          what he imagined married life was like.... pure heaven.
                "Now,  I  need  to sew up that cut  you  got  on  your
          head...." said Kasumi.
                "Are  you sure you have to do that?" asked Ryoga,  not
          sure about getting stitches in his head.
               "I'm afraid so." answered Kasumi.
               Kasumi laid Ryoga's head on her lap and began to do her
          nursework on Ryoga. Despite the pain, Ryoga enjoyed having a
          woman  care  over  him like that. He began  to  daze  up  at
          Kasumi,  dreamingly.      Then, Dr. Tofu popped in.  "Hello,
          is anyone in?" he asked.
               "Oh! Dr. Tofu!" exclaimed Kasumi, standing up.
               "Ouch!" said Ryoga, whose head fell to the floor.
               "Oh! I'm so sorry, Ryoga!" apologized Kasumi.
               "No. It's all right!" assured Ryoga.
               "Is Akane here?" asked Dr. Tofu.
                "I'm  afraid not." replied Kasumi, trying  to  give  a
          delightful smile, nevertheless.
               "Oh, thank you." said Dr. Tofu, leaving.
                Kasumi  went  back to sewing up Ryoga, saying  "That's
          odd."
               "What is?" asked Ryoga.
                "That's  the  first time i've ever seen Dr.  Tofu  not
          joking around."
          
                                   *****
          
               Ranma was watching the crowd gather for the next fight.
          He  watched the crowd part as an elephant-riding  girl  made
          her  way  through  but  he  was mostly  thinking  about  his
          complicated  love life. There was no way  in  the  world  he
          could  ever  regain Akane now after what she saw.  But  then
          again,  there  were all those women who chased  him  around.
          After all, he was no longer a virgin. His innocence had been
          stolen from him, so there was no point in continuing to save
          himself  for  someone  he truly cared  about.  But  he  sure
          wouldn't  want to have anything to do with Shampoo now,  not
          after  what  she did to him. He thought about  Kodachi,  and
          then had to stop himself from puking. Then there was Ucchan.
          Although he had always considered her just a good friend, he
          had  to admit, she was cute in another sort of way. And  she
          had  admitted  to him she had those feelings for  him,  too.
          Akane  was lost to him forever now, so he might as well  try
          to go out with Ucchan now.
               "Have you seen Shampoo?" asked Mousse, walking up.
               "No." answered Ranma.
                "Where  is  my sweet, wise-headed Nabiki,  Saotome?!?"
          shouted Kuno, jumping out bearing his wooden sword.
               "How the heck should I know?!?!?" yelled Ranma.
               Just then, two men in karate outfits walked up to them.
          One  was a blonde-headed American in a red outfit , and  the
          other  was a Japanese man in a white outfit. They introduced
          themselves  as Ken and Ryu, from the School of  Sheng  Long.
          The three of them looked at the two men strangely.
                "We  are dedicated to stopping M. Bison, who plans  on
          gathering  powerful  warriors like yourselves  to  join  his
          Shadow-law  crime  syndicate,  which  trades  in  drugs  and
          weapons  so  as  to fulfill a plot of world conquest."  said
          Ryu.
               "Yeah. And we were hoping you guys would be cool enough
          to help us." followed Ken, in an American accent.
               "Us? Help you?" replied Ranma.
                "Yeah." replied Ken, "One of the students of the Sheng
          Long School, Akuma, has already joined M. Bison's gang.  And
          we  were  hoping you'd help us stop the fourth student  from
          doing the same."
               "Fourth student?" asked Mousse.
                "The  fourth student of the Sheng Long School is  Dan.
          And although he is not as powerful as the other three of us,
          the only reason he has not joined M. Bison is because of his
          own  arrogance. We fear if he loses the upcoming battle,  he
          may decide to join Shadow-law." said Ryu.
                "So you want us to make sure this Dan guy wins?" asked
          Ranma.
               "To help preserve world peace?" continued Kuno.
               "Make sure the warrior from your group that fights next
          is the weakest." said Ryu.
               "Weakest....." said Ranma.
               ".....warrior....." said Mousse.
               ".....huh?" said Kuno.
          
               Sasuke was pushed into the ring.
                The match was Sasuke vs. Dan. It was being held inside
          a  ring on a heightened platform. The crowd, including seven
          lucky  gods, the town administrator, and a horse carrying  a
          young  man  and  woman,  and elderly woman,  and  a  monkey.
          surrounded  the ring. Susake cowered back to the  three  who
          had  pushed him into it. Dan stood on the other side of  the
          ring,  dressed in the same kind of karate suit Ken  and  Ryu
          were  in,  but  in a much wussier pink. He  gave  Sasuke  an
          arrogant smirk.
                "But  I  don't  want to fight a World Warrior!"  cried
          Suskae.
               "You don't have to! Thou dost simply have to lose....."
          replied Kuno.
                "Yeah!"  said Ranma, "but don't make it  too  obvious!
          Okay?"
               "Round one. Fight!" shouted the referee.
               Sasuke cowered up to the middle of the ring.
               Dan began summoning ki energy into one hand! Sasuke had
          seen Chun-Li do something similar!
               "Ha-bitch-slap!" shouted Dan, releasing the energy ball
          in  a  back-handed motion. Sasuke cried out and covered  his
          face. But nothing came. He peeked out when he thought it was
          safe.
               "Damn! Missed." said Dan.
          
                "MISSED?!?" shouted Ranma from the other side  of  the
          ring. "That energy ball didn't even leave his hand!"
                "We told you." said Ryu, "He is a little more arrogant
          than powerful."
               "I'll say." replied Ranma.
          
                Dan  continued shooting his 'energy balls' in a  back-
          handed   motion.  "Ha-bitch-slap!  Ha-bitch-slap!  Ha-bitch-
          slap!"  Each  time,  Sasuke covered his face,  expecting  an
          energy ball to hit him.
                "Damn! Keep missing!"exclaimed Dan, "You force  me  to
          use my super move on you, foolish mortal!"
               "Oh no!" cowered Susake.
                Dan jumped back and began going through arcane motions
          while  speaking mystical words of power. "Now face the wrath
          of  my super-taunt!" shouted Dan. Dan began taunting Susake,
          calling  him names, rolling around on the ring, and  flexing
          his muscles.
          
               "THAT'S a super move?" asked Ranma.
                "What  kind  of  fighting school are  you  guys  from,
          anyway?" Mousse asked Ken and Ryu.
          
                Sasuke  remembered he wasn't supposed to make  it  too
          obvious. So he decided he'd better attack him. Dan continued
          taunting  Sasuke even when he was within striking  distance.
          Sasuke  punched at him but purposely missed. Dan fell  over,
          dead. The crowd cheered. Sasuke looked around, confused.
          
               "What the heck happened?!?" shouted Ranma.
               "I fear the sucker punch was too much for Dan." replied
          Ryu.
               "BUT HE DIDN'T EVEN TOUCH HIM!!!" shouted Ranma.
               "I guess the air pressure alone did him in, then." said
          Ryu,  "Let  us  have  a  moment of silence  for  our  dearly
          departed Dan."
               A few seconds passed.
                "I  never liked him much, anyway." said Ken,  breaking
          the silence.
          
                                   *****
          
                Shampoo was sitting on a lamp post thinking about  her
          run-in  with  Kodachi  earlier  that  day.   She  had  never
          experienced kissing a girl until today, except for the  kiss
          of  death.  Up  until now, she had always thought  of  those
          kinds  of people as pervert-girls. But now she had to admit,
          there  was  certain.... forbidden pleasure side to  it.  She
          smiled  at the thought of doing it again, only it not  being
          just an accident.....
          
                                   *****
          
                Kodachi  had been brushing her teeth for 6 consecutive
          hours. She was walking to the next Street Fighter match when
          she heard a voice come out from the shadows.
               "Hello, Kodachi."
                Kodachi jumped and back-flipped in a defensive posture
          with  ribbon in hand. "We'll be teaming up in a later match,
          today."  said the masked Street Fighter walking out  of  the
          shadows. He had a French accent and was dressed in a matador
          costume and wore a claw on his right hand. "I have something
          that you might find interesting. Something that can make you
          a lot more powerful than you are now....."
                "And  what is that?" asked Kodachi. The masked  figure
          produced a vial of liquid.
               "What is it?" asked Kodachi.
                 "It's  water,  from  a  certain  training  ground  in
          China......"
          
                                   *****
          
                The  next fight was a double match. Mousse was to team
          up  with a karate master from Hong Kong named Fei Long. Ukyo
          was to team up with a sumo-wrestler by the name of E. Honda.
          The match was to take place in Boulder Brother Mountains.  A
          small  crowd  of people, including a casino king,  a  french
          gaijun   who   was  stretching  his  mouth  to  unbelievable
          proportions,  and his governess, traveled  to  the  mountain
          range just to see the fight.
                "You  sure you feel okay enough to fight, kid?"  asked
          Fei Long.
               "Hehehe. Don't worry about me...." replied Mousse.
                A  small man with sunglasses, an artist's cap,  and  a
          hairy mole on each cheek walked up to Fei Long, talking in a
          weird voice. "Sir Long, are you sure you don't want to  star
          in  my next martial arts movie? Make big-bucks! Become great
          movie star!!!"
                "I told you, China. Making movies is not for me. I'm a
          martial  artist  first and foremost. My  calling  is  here."
          replied Fei Long.
                "Tell you what. You let us film this match, and I give
          you and your friend here 2.5 billion yen each, okay?"
               "Fine, whatever." replied Fei Long.
               "2.5 BILLION YEN?!?!?" shouted Mousse.
          
               "2.5 billion yen?" exclaimed Nabiki, watching the match
          start from the crowd.
          
               "Round one. Fight!" shouted the announcer.
                E. Honda rested his huge arms on his legs, ducking low
          to  take  a defensive posture while Ukyo jumped to a  higher
          cliff.  Fei  Long decided to take to the mountaintops  while
          Mousse  charged forward on his unicycle. E. Honda,  weighing
          in  at  304  pounds,  suddenly shouted "Uh  Hoy!"  and  shot
          forward head first like a bullet at Mousse. Mousse,  a  very
          competent unicycler, jump/flipped onto E. Honda's back as he
          flew past him.
          
                Nearby,  some  physists were  taking  notes  on  their
          clipboards.
                "You're  right!  Mr.  Honda  DID  break  the  laws  of
          perpetual motion and universal gravitation!" said Mr. Noto.
               "Well, there goes those laws." said Mr. Soto.
               "Uh, gentlemen, did you miss all of the fireballs being
          thrown all over the place?" said Konatsu.
          
               Ukyo threw her mini-spatulas at Fei. Fei dodged all but
          one,  which  stuck into his side. He grimaced at  the  pain.
          Ukyo did a flying kick into Fei Long, causing him to fall 10
          feet  onto  E. Honda. E. Honda, surprised by the fall,  fell
          back.  But  Honda recovered in time to grab  Fei  and  start
          hugging him to death.
                While  Ukyo looked down at the scene, a cord  suddenly
          flew  from  behind her, grabbing her tight, and pulling  her
          from the cliff and swinging her around her captor in a lasso-
          motion. "Now, prepare for death, young lady!"
               "Mousse, it's me! Remember?" shouted Ukyo.
                "Oh,  yeah. Sorry." said Mousse, putting Ukyo down  on
          the  ground  softly. Ukyo then kicked Mousse  in  the  face,
          falling Mousse and causing his Unicycle to fly behind  Ukyo.
          "Idiot." she said.
                Fei Long broke the hug and sent his body spinning into
          the  air, kicking upwards with such an incredible force,  it
          set  E.  Honda on fire! As Honda got up and started slapping
          himself  to  put  the fire out, Fei Long  pulled  the  mini-
          spatula  from his side, grimacing in pain. He turned  around
          to see some sticky white substance hitting him, sticking his
          two hands together.
                "That  batter  is stronger than super-glue!",  boasted
          Ukyo, "Now you'll have to make do with just your legs!"
                Fei  Long  pulled his arms apart, breaking the  batter
          cuffs without a second thought.
                "Oh yeah?", yelled Ukyo, "Well let's see how well  you
          do in hand-to-hand comb-"
                Her  sentence was stopped short when she realized  she
          had no more breath in her lungs to talk with. The next thing
          she  knew  she was flying in the air into the  side  of  the
          cliff,  causing  a  few boulders to  fall  on  top  of  her,
          knocking her out. Fei Long had rushed her, punched her  out,
          then  grabbed her shoulders, flipped over behind her, picked
          her up from the shoulders behind himself, over his head, and
          had  thrown her into the cliffside. Mousse looked at  it  in
          amazement. He hadn't even seen Fei's hands move!
                "Uh  Hoy!" shouted E. Honda shooting at Fei Long  from
          behind.  Hearing  the battle cry, Fei back flipped  over  E.
          Honda  as he flew past him. E. Honda then turned around  and
          rushed  at Fei, slapping. E. Honda's hands began slapped  at
          Fei  Long so fast, it appeared to onlookers that he had  100
          hands!  What was even more miraculous was that Fei Long  was
          dodging  them! Fei Long stepped back with each slap as  fast
          as he could, until he stepped on a unicycle and slipped. The
          unicycle  flew  at Honda, who smashed it into oblivion  with
          his  slaps. Fei Long used the opportunity to jump kick Honda
          in  the  head,  which stopped his slaps. He  then  set  into
          motion his punches, each hitting Honda on a vulnerable spot.
          He then grabbed E. Honda's shoulders and flipped around him,
          attempting  to  use the leverage to pull off another  throw.
          "What  the  hell are you trying to do?" asked E. Honda,  not
          moving a inch as Fei Long, sweating profusely, stood on  the
          back side of Honda trying to lift him up.
                They both froze dead in their tracks as a voice picked
          up  from  high above them. On the cliff was Mousse chanting,
          "From  the  inner  sanctums of the White  Lotus  Society,  a
          secret  organization  of Chinese martial  artists,  comes  a
          technique,  so  feared and respected,  the  emperors  of  23
          different dynasties sought after it's knowledge to no avail.
          Through  3000  years of Chinese history, this one  technique
          has caused armies to perish and kingdoms to fa-"
                "Just do the damn move!" shouted Fei Long, who was now
          being kneed while E. Honda had him in a headlock.
                "Phoenix Fire Swoop!" shouted Mousse, jumping from the
          mountainside, flame spewing out behind him as he  descended.
          E.  Honda  had  long  gotten bored of Mousse  and  had  been
          ignoring  him.  Mousse pounced on him,  igniting  his  head,
          rebounding off 10 feet away. Honda patted his head  out  and
          then kneed Fei Long on the side and then brought his massive
          leg high up to kick him in the back of the head, hitting him
          twice  in  one move. Fei Long fell to the ground, dizzy.  E.
          Honda  then shot himself upwards into the air, flipped,  and
          came  down  heading straight for Fei Long's head.  Fei  Long
          looked  up just in time to see a gigantic butt smashing  his
          face  deep  into the rocky floor. Fei Long stretched  out  a
          hand with his pinky and forefinger out.
                "Pretty  good.  But  now can you handle-  WHOA!"  said
          Mousse,  just  barely dodging another one of Honda's  bullet
          shots. Honda got up and shot at him again with an "Uh hoy!",
          this time sending Mousse dodging into a the narrow corner of
          a  mountain.  E.  Honda came up behind him so  as  to  block
          Mousse  in. Mousse was surrounded by mountain on  all  sides
          now, so that there was no way to dodge. "Uh Hoy!" shouted E.
          Honda  shooting  at Mousse. As quickly as  possible,  Mousse
          shot a bola rope from his sleeve to a high boulder, wrapping
          itself  around  the rock. Just as quickly, Mousse  retracted
          the  rope,  pulling  himself up the mountainside.  E.  Honda
          smashed head-first into the mountain wall, getting his  head
          stuck inside. His body fell limp.
               "Phew...." breathed Mousse, hanging from above.
          
                                   *****
          
                "I  brought you a snack, Ranma, since you didn't  come
          home  for lunch." said Kasumi, walking up to the outside  of
          the ring where Ranma was sitting with Kuno, Sasuke, Ken, and
          Ryu."
                "You  did?  Thanks!" said Ranma, grabbing the  package
          Kasumi made for him.
               "Oh, who are your friends?" asked Kasumi.
                In  the  background, a pale-faced priest with a  funny
          hat,  holding a small wooden box was running after  a  naga-
          like spirit.
                "Oh, this is Ken and Ryu." said Ranma, "They're trying
          to save the world from an insane crime lord."
                "Well isn't that nice. Would you like to have some tea
          and biscuits? I have plenty for everybody." said Kasumi.
               "Thanks!" said Ken, grabbing some biscuits.
               "And you Mr. Ryu?" asked Kasumi.
                Ryu  closed his eyes and raised his hand, shaking  his
          head, "Thank you."
                Suddenly some water splashed Ranma from behind.  "What
          did  you do that for?!?!" yelled Ran-chan looking behind him
          to see his father with an empty pail.
               "To prove how sloppy you're getting Ranma! If you can't
          even  hear-" Genma stopped in mid-sentence as he was  lifted
          into the air.
               "I would advise you to apologize to my friend...." said
          Ryu, hoisting Genma from his feet.
               "Uh, well...." said Genma.
               "It's okay, Ryu! He's my dad!" said Ran-chan.
                 "Oh.",  said  Ryu,  setting  Genma  back  down.   "My
          apologies, sir."
                "Ryu!"  said  Ken with a surprised look on  his  face,
          pointing to Ran-chan.
               Ryu turned to see that Ranma was now a girl. "So you've
          trained in Jusenkio. I have heard of it's curses that change
          people  into  different things when cold water  splashes  on
          them."
                "Then  what you are stating is that Ranma Saotome  and
          Ranma the pig-tailed girl are one and the same person?" said
          Kuno.
                "I've  been  trying  to tell you that  for  years!!!!"
          yelled Ran-chan.
                "Ranma,  the male.... is Ranma the female.  He  simply
          takes forth the velumptious body of the pig-tailed girl when
          the curse is revitalized...." continued Kuno.
               "Yep. Uh-huh." said Ran-chan.
               "The spirit of Ranma Saotome enters the body of the pig-
          tailed girl at the splash of cold water?"
               "YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" shouted Ran-chan.
               Kuno ran off to be sick.
               "About damn time." mumbled Ran-chan.
               Soun then walked up.
                "Hello, father.", said Kasumi, "What are you  and  Mr.
          Saotome doing here?"
               "We're going to fight in the tournament." replied Soun.
                "You  two?  Boy, are you guys going to get your  asses
          kicked." replied Ran-chan.
               "Ranma! That isn't very nice!" scolded Kasumi.
               "Yeah, Ranma!" shouted Genma.
               "....even if it is true." finished Kasumi very quietly.
                "Yeah, Ranma. You should watch your mouth in front  of
          your father." said Ken.
                Ran-chan  leaned back, looked up and rolled  her  eyes
          with a "Ffffff."
                "Don't worry," said Genma, "Tendo and I will be taking
          down  whatever  opponents  we  will  face  with  the  HELL'S
          WITHERING DEATH technique!"
               "How right you are, Saotome!" concurred Soun.
                "Oh my, Mr. Saotome. Isn't that the name of that store
          at the end of 34th Street?" asked Kasumi.
               "WHAT?!?!?" shouted Soun and Genma together.
                "Yes.  That's  the name. I believe it's  a  registered
          copyright,  so  I don't think you can use that  name."  said
          Kasumi.
                "Well,  then perhaps we should pay a little  VISIT  to
          that store..." said Genma, cracking his knuckles.
               "Yes.", smiled Soun, "Perhaps we should...."
          
                Ran-chan, Genma, Soun, Susake, Kasumi, Ken and Ryu all
          stood in front of the 'Hell's Withering Death' store. It was
          filled  with  teddy  bears, dolls,  and  purple  and  yellow
          balloons. The pillars holding the roof were painted to  look
          like  candy  canes and toy airplanes attached to strings  on
          the  ceiling  flew  around in a circle from  the  inside.  A
          schoolboy with really dark spots under his eyes walked  out,
          cradling  an antique, evil-looking, kimono-wearing  doll  in
          his hands.
                "Man,  I  don't even WANT to call it Hell's  Withering
          Death, anymore....." said Genma.
                "That  technique sounded a lot cooler about 5  minutes
          ago." said Ran-chan.
               "I love this store." said Sasuke.
               "Hey, how old are you, anyway?" asked Ran-chan, "You're
          voice  and facial hair make you look too old to be the  same
          age  as  me,  but then again, you are pretty short  and  you
          don't act like an adult...."
                "Uh, well.... Hey! Isn't that Halley's comet?!" Sasuke
          said, pointing to the sky. No one looked up but he ran  away
          anyway.
          
                                   *****
          
                "Where  the heck could Kuno be?", Akane asked herself,
          "Honestly!"
                Akane  had been looking for him for hours, wanting  to
          tell him he had finally won her over. Akane stopped dead  in
          her tracks.
               "Shampoo....." Akane said, "Now what do you want?!?"
                "Shampoo come to tell Akane something very important."
          replied Shampoo.
               "And?"
                "Shampoo no longer care for Ranma. Akane can have  him
          now."
                "Well  who  said I wanted him in the first  place?!?!"
          yelled Akane.
               "That goes double for me, honey." said a voice from the
          side.
               "Ukyo?" asked Akane, turning to see the ukonome martial-
          artist bandaged up.
               "I'm looking for love from a REAL man, now." said Ukyo.
               "Ryoga?" asked Akane.
               Ukyo nodded.
               "Akane...." said Shampoo.
               Akane turned to Shampoo.
                "Shampoo  sorry  for  all  she  did.",  said  Shampoo,
          "Shampoo  worried Ranma would fall in love with  Akane.  But
          Shampoo no longer care for Amazon law."
                "Well,  thanks, Shampoo.", said Akane,  "But  i'm  not
          really interested in Ranma.... atleast not anymore."
               "Well, good for you, Akane. You go girl!" said Ukyo.
               "Who need man anyway?" said Shampoo.
               "Guys.......", smiled Akane, "Thanks....."
          
                                   *****
          
                The next match was Soun and Genma versus a huge Native
          Mexican by the name of Thunder Hawk, and an African American
          boxer, who used to hold the world boxing title holder  until
          he  was  banned from the circuit, Balrog. The match  was  to
          take  place  in  a huge room filled to the brim  with  large
          punching  bags, so much so that one could not even see  your
          enemy  on  the other side of the room. To make it even  more
          confusing, the walls had top to bottom mirrors. The room had
          no  ceiling  so  onlookers could  watch  the  match  from  a
          banister  above, although it was hard to see with the  metal
          beams holding the punching bags in the way.
               "So how good are you anyway, Tendo?" asked Genma.
               "What is that supposed to mean, Saotome?" replied Soun.
                "Well, for a martial artist, i've never seen you fight
          much at all."
               "You'll find out soon enough."
               "Round one. Fight!" shouted the referee.
                Balrog  smashed  his  gloved  fist  into  the  nearest
          punching  bag. The force caused it to hit the next  punching
          bag which hit the next, all the way to the other side of the
          room where it smashed into Genma, knocking him to the floor.
               "Survival tactics," said Soun, "Split up. Hide, strike,
          and run."
               "I'm with you, Tendo." replied Genma.
                T.  Hawk  began ripping out punching bags and throwing
          them as he went along. Suddenly, Soun jumped out from behind
          one of the punching bags. T. Hawk punched. And hit a mirror.
          He  had punched so hard, some large chunks of the glass  was
          sticking out grotesquely from his bloody fingers.
                "Hahaha.  Not very smart." said Soun, pointing  at  T.
          Hawk.
                T.  Hawk smashed his glass-cut fist into Soun's  face.
          The  glass  that had been sticking out of his fist  now  cut
          into Soun's face. Soun flew, hitting each punching bag as he
          flew backwards, barely missing Genma, and into the mirror on
          the  side of the room. The mirror cracked and Soun fell down
          face first.
               "You forgot the run part, Tendo." muttered Genma.
                Balrog  was walking around, looking for one  of  them,
          when  a  foot  stuck out and tripped him.  Genma  jumped  on
          Balrog's  back  and grabbed his throat in a headlock.  "Come
          on,  give up!" cried Genma, realizing he wasn't really doing
          too  much damage. He then felt himself being picked  up  and
          raised  into  the air by the large Native Mexican.  His  own
          throat  was  being  squeezed now. Just when  he  thought  he
          couldn't  take it anymore, T. Hawk back handed him,  sending
          him to the floor.
                Genma  scrambled away, behind some punching  bags.  T.
          Hawk and Balrog split up, looking for him.
               While crawling, Genma pulled out a walkie-talkie.
               "Ready for plan G-64, Tendo?" said into it.
                "Just  let me find some of my teeth...." crackled  the
          walkie-talkie.
                Balrog  came  up  behind Soun, seemingly  looking  for
          Genma. He pulled back for one of his famous running punches.
                T.  Hawk  found Genma crawling around trying to  hide.
          Once  Genma  saw him, he got up and ran. T. Hawk  jumped  up
          and,  suddenly, flew straight at Genma's back with a  flying
          headbutt.
                Soun  and  Genma jumped out of the way as Balrog  flew
          past  them,  fist  first into T. Hawk, smashing  the  Native
          Mexican  with  a  resounding "CLANG!",  sending  him  flying
          backwards, clearing out a large amount of punching bags, and
          into a mirror, smashing it.
          
               "Did you hear that?" asked Ken, watching the fight from
          above, with Ryu, Ran-chan, and Kasumi.
               "Sounded like those boxing gloves are filled with led!"
          said Ran-chan.
               "That isn't very fair." said Kasumi.
          
                "I  thought you said it was supposed to take  care  of
          both of them, Saotome." said Soun.
               Genma shrugged his shoulders.
               "Looks like it's time for...." said Soun.
               "Yes, Tendo, I believe it is." replied Genma.
                Balrog backed up for another running punch in the area
          clear of punching bags.
                "HADES' DECAYING DEMISE!!!!" they both shouted.  Genma
          kneeled  on  the  ground. Soun then  jumped  on  Genma,  who
          hoisted  upwards,  sending Soun in the air  towards  Balrog.
          Balrog  shot forward with his fist- too low- as Soun  karate
          kicked  him in the face. A millisecond later Genma ran  into
          him with his own running punch to the stomach.
                Balrog  was  stunned, but only for a second.  He  then
          pulled his fist back as if to hit Genma, but instead reverse
          punched  an  unsuspecting  Soun  behind  him  with  a   loud
          "CLANG!".  Soun hit the floor, unconscious and  out  of  the
          fight. Balrog then turned and grabbed Genma before he  could
          get  away. The boxer started headbutting Genma in the  face,
          over  and over again, just as T. Hawk started walking  back,
          looking about ready to kill someone.
               A katana hit the ground next to T. Hawk. Balrog stopped
          pounding for a minute. Genma looked up at the beams  to  see
          who  had thrown it to him. Nodoka! Then she really DID  want
          him and Ranma dead even though she had said they didn't have
          to   kill  themselves  when  she  found  out  about  Ranma's
          curse......
                T.  Hawk picked up the katana with a crooked smile  on
          his face.
               "How could you?!?!?" shouted Genma to Nodoka.
               "Soun and Genma win!" shouted the referee.
               "WHAT???" all three conscious combatants said.
                "Only  hidden  weapons are legal. That  katana  is  in
          violation  of  the  rules.  Balrog  and  Thunder  Hawk   are
          disqualified." continued the referee.
                Balrog  looked angrily at T. Hawk. T. Hawk smiled  and
          just  shrugged.  Balrog smashed T. Hawk in  the  face,  with
          another resounding "CLANG!", dropping him.
               Genma looked up, "Thanks!"
               Nodoka smiled.
          
                                   *****
          
               "Does the boy suspect anything?" asked M. Bison.
                "No,  my master." replied Vega, the masked French  man
          with the claw.
                "Ofcourse  he  doesn't. He's an  uncultured  lout  who
          couldn't  think his way out of a perpetual paper bag."  said
          Sagat.
                M.  Bison, who wore a red commanding military  uniform
          with  a  skull and wings pinned cap, was having an  informal
          meeting  with his fellow cohorts. Next to him was  Akuma,  a
          large  red-head who wore a karate suit similar  to  Ken  and
          Ryu's  only this one was black with the Japanese symbol  for
          'Death' on the back, who was sitting at a table. Across  the
          table  was Sagat, a Thailand Mu Tai fighter, a tall mountain
          of  muscle, who wore only a pair of shorts. He was bald, had
          a  patch over one eye and bore a huge scar on his chest.  In
          the  corner,  polishing his claw in a kneeling position  was
          Vega.  They  were  all  in a small music  store  rented  and
          changed to fit their needs by the Shadow-law.
                "Well  we are going to change that when we get him  to
          join Shadow-law." replied M. Bison.
                "Snotty  little  shit. Why are we incorporating  brats
          into Shadow-law, Bison?" asked Akuma.
                "Because he has more potential than any of you had  at
          his age, Akuma." replied M. Bison sternly.
               Akuma frowned and looked the other way.
          
                In  the  other  room, a small form  jumped  from  it's
          listening  position to the floor without making a sound.  "I
          need to tell Master Kuno about this." thought Susake. Sasuke
          had  decided  to  spy on the Street Fighter Vega  since  his
          master was to fight him in the next match. Sasuke once again
          tip-toed past the traps the Shadow-law had set up to prevent
          intruders,  remembering how to pass each one safely.  Sasuke
          then tripped and fell on a piano.
          
                The  sound  echoed into the room the  Shadow-law  were
          meeting in.
               "Vega!" commanded M. Bison.
                Vega had waited for M. Bison's command but was outside
          the  room  before  Bison finished the last syllable  of  his
          name.
          
               Sasuke was out of the store and running down the vacant
          street  as fast as possible. He could hear Vega catching  up
          on  him.  He  tripped and fell again. Vega launched  himself
          into the air, reaching his claw back above Sasuke......
          
                                   *****
          
                Nabiki  was sitting in a chair, waiting for  the  next
          Street Fighter match, while calculating with her abacus.
                "How  much  does  a  yacht go for these  days?"  asked
          Nabiki.
               "I don't know." replied one of her friends.
                "Let's see...", continued Nabiki, "Kuno has about this
          many  acres of land..... and must have this much in  savings
          and bonds...... divided by his sister when his father passes
          on....... take away inheritance taxes......."
               "What are you doing?" asked the other friend.
                "Mousse DOES have more money than Kuno baby....." said
          Nabiki.
                "What  ARE  you  talking about  Nabiki?"  pleaded  her
          friend.
               "Wedding plans." replied Nabiki, winking.
          
                                   *****
          
                "There  you  are,  Kuno!" said Ran-chan,  running  up,
          "Where have you been? Our match is up next!"
                Dark  clouds were forming in the sky. Kuno was  hulked
          over  on  the ground, crying. A dog was next to  him,  which
          also seemed to have a tear in it's eye.
               "What's wro- uhhhh....." stuttered Ran-chan.
                Sasuke  was on the ground, dead. X's were on his  face
          where his eyes used to be. His back had been pierced in four
          places.
               "Oh no......" said Ran-chan.
                "The  foul  memnok  who smote Sasuke  dead.......  WAS
          VEGA!!!!!" shouted Kuno, tears flowing out of his eyes  like
          rivers.
                "Yeah..... I can tell the guy with the claw did it....
          that's him, right?" said Ran-chan.
               "By the blood of Sasuke, I swear to repay Vega ten-fold
          for  this horrific crime!!!!" shouted Kuno, taking  out  his
          wooden  sword and raising it high into the air as  lightning
          crackled above.
          
                                   *****
          
                The next match was to take place on the Tendo rooftop.
          Because  of  the  gate  around the  Tendo  place,  the  only
          spectator that could watch the fight was a flying bull and a
          group  of  pheonix-winged people. Just as Kuno and  Ran-chan
          came  running up, the announcer said, "The match is  Kodachi
          and  Vega  versus Kuno and the pig-tailed girl.  Since  Vega
          normally  fights  with  a claw, he  has  asked  if  the  'No
          Unhidden Weapons' rule be void for this match...."
                "Gladly!"  shouted Kuno, pulling out his wooden  sword
          and  jumping  on the roof across the street from  the  Tendo
          roof, where Kodachi and Vega were.
               "Yeah!" shouted Ran-chan, following him.
               "Round one. Fight!" shouted the referee.
                "Sister!  The  foul wretch you fight with  killed  our
          beloved Susake!" shouted Kuno.
                "Your  tricks won't work on me, brother dear. Besides,
          i'd hardly call Sasuke beloved!" replied Kodachi.
                "Bah!  Enough!  Saotome, kick my sister's  ass."  said
          Kuno.  With  that,  he swung his sword with  such  speed,  a
          whirlwind  shot  out, headed for Vega. Vega waited  for  the
          whirlwind to come to him, and then attempted to jump it. But
          the  whirlwind had more force than he thought and it  sucked
          him in, spilling him to the ground.
          
                "Since  when  could  he  do that?"  thought  Ran-chan,
          jumping for Kodachi.
               Kodachi threw 3 gymnasts' tools at Ran-chan's body. Ran-
          chan,  with  incredible  dexterity,  pulled  her  chest  and
          stomach  right, then left, then right again  within  half  a
          second,  dodging  each  one while in mid-air!  Kodachi  then
          threw  her  ribbon, which Ran-chan caught in mid-air  before
          landing on the roof. Kodachi threw another tool, which  Ran-
          chan  dodged by jumping off the other side roof while  still
          holding on to the ribbon. Kodachi kept hold of the weight on
          the  ribbon. She knew she had the pig-tailed girl where  she
          wanted  her,  but she didn't want to give up her  ribbon  by
          dropping it. She thought about how she could use this to her
          advantage when a humungus tug at the ribbon sent her  flying
          off the roof. As she fell she saw that the pig-tail girl was
          hanging  upside from the roof, before Kodachi hit a bar-bell
          lying right next to the Tendo pond. Ran-chan snickered.
                Ran-chan,  recognizing she was hanging  right  outside
          Akane's  room, had hung herself on the ceiling  while  still
          pulling on the ribbon, had pulled out Akane's bar-bell, tied
          them  to  the  ribbon,  and  let them  go,  sending  Kodachi
          falling.
          
                Kuno hit the ground, swinging at Vega. Vega dodged  it
          by jumping on the side of the Tendo wall and began climbing.
               "Wretched arachnid!" spat Kuno.
                Vega  jumped towards Kuno, screaming in a high-pitched
          voice.  The  claw struck Kuno on the chest. Kuno fell  back,
          seeing the cut was deep and bleeding heavily.
               "Hehehe." screeched Vega, from beneath the mask.
                "'Tis but a scratch!" said Kuno, smashing Vega's  face
          with his kendo sword, breaking his mask.
               "Arrrrgh!!!! My beautiful face!" shouted Vega, grabbing
          at his face.
          
                The  darkened skies began to crackle, and rain started
          to pour down. Ran-chan drop/flipped to the ground, to see an
          overlooming shadow grow above her.
                "Holy  shit!!!!"  screamed  Ran-chan,  pointing  at  a
          humungous black dragon.
                From  out of nowhere popped the Jusenkio guide saying,
          "Ahhh.  She  must  have fall in spring of  Dracnichan.  Very
          terrible  legend says large dragon fall and drown 3400  year
          ago. Very tragic story." while his daughter Plum held up the
          sign with the name of the curse.
               "Tragic my ass!" screamed Ran-chan.
                Kodachi  the dragon blew a stream of lava at Ran-chan.
          Ran-chan jumped, holding onto the roof of the Tendo's house.
          
                "Looks  like  it's all over!" said Vega,  hearing  the
          dragon  through the pouring rain on the other  side  of  the
          house.
                "Have  a taste of the rage of Tatewaki Kuno!"  shouted
          Kuno,  now  swirling his sword in one hand. The sword  began
          swinging  with such speed, it turned yellow with  force  and
          began to sound like a helicopter blade.
                Vega  clawed  at  him.  The  sword  caught  his  claw,
          shredding  it  to pieces and then went on into Vega's  hand!
          Vega  screeched as his hand was torn into a million  pieces,
          blood  splattering everywhere! Kuno then racked Vega, turned
          his back, and elbowed him in the face.
                Vega  slid, tripping Kuno off his feet, double-elbowed
          Kuno's back into his knee, and then punched him in the  side
          of the face, falling Kuno. Vega got up and spit on him.
          
                 Kodachi  clawed  at  Ran-chan.  Ran-chan  dodged  it.
          Kodachi  clawed  with  the other hand. This  time,  Ran-chan
          grabbed  hold of the claw with her legs and held on  as  the
          claw came back. She then flipped off the claw, and flew onto
          the  top  of  Kodachi and punched her in  the  eye.  Kodachi
          roared  in pain, and began shaking her head. Ran-chan,  with
          great agility, danced and jumped her nose each time it  sped
          past  her as Kodachi's head shook. Kodachi then pulled  back
          and  bit at Ran-chan. Ran-chan flipped down and grabbed  the
          ribbon  and  bar-bell. Kodachi shot another round  of  lava.
          This  time Ran-chan was forced to jump into the Tendo  pond.
          Kodachi got an idea and shot a stream of lava into the pond.
          Steam shot up as the lava cooled and hardened, trapping Ran-
          chan underwater.
          
                Vega was holding on to the stump of his right hand and
          breathing heavily as the cold rain hit his back. Seeing Kuno
          had  lost a lot of blood, he knew Kuno was out of the match.
          He kicked him, and got his foot caught! Kuno had grabbed his
          foot!  Kuno got up and threw Vega to the ground, and  picked
          up  his sword. Vega got up only to be pole-vaulted by  Kuno.
          Vega  flew  through the fence into the next door  neighbor's
          yard.  Amazingly, he got up. Kuno ran at him with his wooden
          sword but Vega jumped up and hung on to the neighbor's  roof
          with  his only hand and pulled himself up. Kuno ran  to  the
          broken fence to see Vega was trying to make his way back  to
          Ranma.
                He followed Vega from the ground. Vega then stopped to
          jump  onto the Tendo roof. Kuno saw something. A latch  used
          for  holding  a flag attached to the roof. As  Vega  jumped,
          Kuno jumped straight up, high above the Tendo roof and threw
          his  sword  hilt-first downward through the rain. The  sword
          hilt  hit  the  latch,  sticking the  sword  in  an  upright
          position. As Vega fell for the Tendo roof, planning to  grab
          it  with his left hand, he saw a sword sticking straight  up
          at  him! Unable to dodge it, Vega impaled himself on  Kuno's
          sword.
          
                The lava had caused the pond to get very hot, changing
          Ran-chan back into a guy. With renewed strength, he held his
          breath and began smashing the bar-bells into the hard  lava.
          He busted a hole into it and was able to climb out back into
          the cold, pouring rain. Kodachi saw this and chomped down on
          him.
                "Eat it!" shouted Ranma, as he pulled the bar-bell  up
          and  shoved it in Kodachi's mouth length-wise up, . The cold
          rain  changed Ranma back into a girl. Using the ribbon still
          tied to it, she swung it to wrap around Kodachi's mouth. She
          pulled  it tight, causing Kodachi great pain as the  ceiling
          of  her  mouth bit into the barbell. Ran-chan then used  the
          Chestnut  Fist, continuously punching Kodachi  in  the  nose
          with  incredible  speed. She followed the  punches  with  an
          upward kick, pushing the floor of her mouth deeper into  the
          bar-bells. As Kodachi held on to her mouth, Ran-chan flipped
          over to the tree in the Tendo's yard. She waited for Kodachi
          to  recover and yelled "Ohhhhh she-bitch!" to grab Kodachi's
          attention. The dragon ducked under the tree to swipe at her.
          Ran-chan ducked the swipe, which cut down the tree. The huge
          oak  fell on Kodachi's head, pushing her head down, breaking
          through  the hard lava above the Tendo pond, and  under  the
          hot water, changing her back to an unconscious human.
                Kuno  stumbled back to where Ran-chan  was,  "What  in
          blazes?".
               "Kuno! You don't look so good." replied Ran-chan.
               Kuno collapsed.
          
                Ran-chan  stood  nearby as paramedics  with  umbrellas
          rolled  Kuno  into the ambulance. "Sasuke  is  avenged."  he
          said, as they closed the doors.
          
                                   *****
          
                "So  what  did you want to talk to me about, Grandma?"
          asked Ryoga.
                "Is  it true that you and my son-in-law have called  a
          truce?"  asked  Cologne, standing on the lunch  bar  in  her
          cafe.
               "What about it?" replied Ryoga.
                "Then  it  may interest you to know that the  military
          leader  behind these fighting matches is planning to  kidnap
          Ranma and use mind control to make him one of his Shadow-law
          warriors." said Cologne.
                "What?!?  How do you know that? Where is  Ranma  right
          now?" asked Ryoga.
                "I  overheard the American boxer Balrog talking  about
          it,  and  Ranma  is  fighting in a match  right  now."  said
          Cologne.
                "Good. He shouldn't go near him then. Where can I find
          this guy who's in charge?!?" asked Ryoga.
               "His name is M. Bison." said Cologne, "And he is in the
          old  music store on 39th street. But if you are going to  go
          fight him, then you had better prepare for it. You will have
          to  smoke this." Cologne said, pouring bits of an herb  into
          her pipe.
               "What is it?" asked Ryoga.
                "They're  leaves  from  the  Cannibus  Sativa  plant."
          replied Cologne.
               "Hey!" shouted Ryoga, "I'm a martial artist! I train to
          keep my body fit and healthy! I can't be messing around with
          that stuff!"
                "Be  that as it may, it may be your only choice." said
          Cologne.
               "No way!" said Ryoga.
                "Listen  boy." continued Cologne, "If you confront  M.
          Bison  with a clear mind, he will be able to use his psycho-
          power  to  take  over your subconscious  mind.  Smoking  the
          marijuana plant will change your brain wave pattern and make
          it harder for him to brainwash you."
                "I see. In that case, i'll do it." said Ryoga. Cologne
          lit  the  pipe  and gave it to Ryoga. Ryoga  sucked  in  and
          coughed out a lung.
               "Easy does it, boy." said Cologne.
                Ryoga continued smoking the pipe. Cologne refilled  it
          twice more and then ran out. Ryoga noticed his perception of
          time and space had changed. He looked at the world as if  it
          was  a  movie with slow frame speed. He noticed his span  of
          attention  had shortened dramatically as well. Cologne  once
          again gave directions to Ryoga and bided him good luck.
          
                Ryoga  walked up to the old music store. Balrog leaned
          against the door guarding it.
                "I  made it here without getting lost." thought Ryoga,
          "Man, I must be even more messed up than I thought!"
                Ryoga took to the top of the building and looked  down
          at  Balrog. The black boxer was eating a banana.  Ryoga  had
          the  munchies  but ignored it. He took one of  his  bandanna
          boomerangs off and threw it  in the alley, knocking  over  a
          trash  can.  Balrog  went to go check it out.  Ryoga  jumped
          down, jimmied the door open with his belt, and snuck in.  As
          Ryoga   began  looking  around,  he  started  thinking   how
          incredibly  stupid Balrog was. He had to be the  epitome  of
          stupid to fall for an old trick like that. Ryoga did all  he
          could to keep himself from laughing when he fell over a trip
          wire.  An alarm went off throughout the building, and  Ryoga
          ran  into  the  room behind the counter. He  turned  on  the
          lights to see a large man in a red military uniform.
               "Are you M. Bison?!?" yelled Ryoga.
                "Yes  I am. You made a mistake breaking in here, boy."
          said the uniformed man, whose eyes began glowing red.
                Suddenly, Ryoga felt his mind being probed, then waves
          of  emotion  began flowing into his head. Ryoga realized  M.
          Bison had figured out his mindset and was not trying to take
          over his mind. Instead, Bison was flooding him with feelings
          of  despair and hopelessness. Although only a small  portion
          of  the  mind attack was affecting him, the effects  of  the
          marijuana were heightening the emotions tenfold. Ryoga  fell
          to his knees in hopeless depression.
                "Now  do  you  understand? You're life is nothing.....
          it's not even worth living.... do what must be done..... end
          it all....." said M. Bison, smiling.
               "FOOL!" shouted Ryoga, getting up.
                M.  Bison  stared at him, not understanding what  went
          wrong.
                "WHERE DO YOU THINK I GET MY POWER FROM?!?!?!?"  Ryoga
          shouted.  His battle aura caused his body to grow twice  his
          size  as  he  began to summon dark energy inside his  hands.
          "SHI  SHI  HOKODAN!!!!!" Ryoga shouted,  releasing  a  giant
          blast of energy at Bison. M. Bison jumped out of the way  as
          the  energy  shot  past him and exploded through  the  brick
          wall,  knocking out Balrog, who had been on the  other  side
          when the umbrella hit.
                Ryoga ran at M. Bison and punched him, but it was only
          a  shadow  of him. M. Bison reappeared behind him, laughing.
          Ryoga elbowed at him, to try to get him offguard, but again,
          Bison  disappeared and reappeared in another  position.  The
          next punch Ryoga gave was grabbed. Ryoga screamed in pain as
          M. Bison began squeezing. Blue flame then appeared around M.
          Bison  and  caught Ryoga, engulfing him in it,  sapping  his
          energy. M. Bison let go and Ryoga fell to the ground.
                He barely opened his eyes when M. Bison was falling on
          him.  Bison stomped on Ryoga's head, and then came  down  on
          him, smashing his head again with both hands. Ryoga was able
          to   ignore   the   incredible  pain  and   shoot   upwards,
          uppercutting M. Bison. M. Bison stepped back, surprised  but
          not  stunned. He had himself come down to his level for that
          attack  but  had  not  expected any retaliation  after  such
          damage  taken to the head. Ryoga swept at him,  but  it  was
          slow  because  of  the  effects of the marijuana.  M.  Bison
          jumped  it, flipping backwards. Ryoga got up only to met  M.
          Bison's  feet, smashing into his face and then  legs.  Ryoga
          expected  to  hit the floor but instead felt  himself  being
          thrown  into the wall. Then, before he could open his  eyes,
          he  felt stainless steel cuffs around his arms. His eyesight
          prefocused only to see M. Bison finishing locking  his  legs
          in chains also. He had been cuffed to the wall!
                "You  must be one Ranma Saotome's friends." smiled  M.
          Bison.
                "You've got to be kidding! Ranma's the cause of all my
          suffering!" replied Ryoga.
                "Then  you won't mind telling me where he is.  We  had
          been keeping track of him but he disappeared after the fight
          with Dan." said M. Bison.
                "How the hell should I know?" said Ryoga, but he  felt
          his mind being pried into.
               "Hmmm. If that's the way it's going to be, then I guess
          I  have no use for you." said M. Bison, pulling out a  large
          hunting  knife  from  his boot and  putting  it  to  Ryoga's
          throat.  "I'll make this simple." continued M. Bison,  "Tell
          me where Ranma is or face a slow, agonizing death."
               A few agonizing seconds went by.
               "Death!" said Ryoga.
          
                                   *****
          
                The  next  street fighter match was  Akane  and  Guile
          versus  Shampoo and Cammy. Guile was an American  Air  Force
          captain and Cammy was a British Special Forces agent.  Guile
          wore  camouflage  pants and a grey T-Shirt  reading  'Army'.
          Cammy  wore  2  long girl-like braids, a no  arm/leg-sleeved
          jump  suit and had camouflage painted on her arms and  legs.
          The  match was to take place in the woodlands outside Tokyo.
          Deep  within the woods, a ghost-like voice bellowed "Gyuoka-
          san.....  Gyuoka-san....." A crowd of  onlookers,  including
          Akane's friends, an elderly man talking about Rio-Genzoa,  a
          martial  arts  take-out expert and her father, stood  around
          Akane and Guile as they prepared.
               "M. Bison killed your friend?" asked Akane.
                 "That's   right.  When  I  get  my  hands   on   that
          scumbag....." replied Guile.
                "I'll make sure we win!", said Akane, "So you can  get
          your chance with Bison!"
               Guile smiled. "Thanks, kid."
               "Round one. Fight!" shouted the referee.
                Akane and Shampoo charged each other. Cammy jumped  up
          and  began  swinging on the tree limbs. Shampoo kicked  high
          but  Akane  ducked  it,  placing a well  placed  punch  into
          Shampoo's stomach. Shampoo fell back saying, "Akane....  you
          a little better than I thought."
                Just  as  Cammy  flipped over them, Akane  jumped  and
          grabbed onto Cammy's leg.
                "Hey!"  shouted Cammy, losing hold of the  limb.  They
          both fell, hitting the ground. Cammy then felt herself being
          picked  up  and  bodyslammed  by Guile.  Meanwhile,  Shampoo
          picked up Akane and began punching her in the stomach.
               "Shampoo still stronger than Akane!" said Shampoo.
                "Akane! Duck!" shouted Guile. Guile focused his  power
          into  his hands and then swung them together shouting "Sonic
          Boom!" A circle of force shot forward, barely missing  Akane
          and hitting Shampoo. Shampoo flew back, hitting a tree.
                "Let  me return the favor!" said Cammy, grabbing Guile
          and  doing the exact same body slam on him. She then  looked
          on to Akane, fists in a defensive posture. Cammy reeled back
          and  jumped forward in a sideways position so as to make  it
          harder  to  hit  her. Cammy brought her  elbow  in,  hitting
          Akane,  and  then  back-fisted her in the same  move.  Akane
          tried  to  punch back, but Cammy blocked it by grabbing  her
          hand  and  pulling  her hand to the ground,  hunching  Akane
          over. Cammy then shot her legs up and around, grabbing Akane
          from  behind. Cammy let go of Akane's hand, and hurled Akane
          back  over her and slammed her to the ground with her  legs.
          Cammy then picked up Akane and threw her.
                Shampoo  came to just in time to see Akane  flying  at
          her.  Shampoo jumped and grabbed hold of a branch  as  Akane
          hit  the  tree. The limb she held shook as the tree  cracked
          from  the force of the throw. Shampoo flipped onto a  nearby
          tree branch.
                Guile  was  just getting up when Shampoo fell  on  his
          back,  smashing him back down to the ground.  Then  she  was
          off.  Guile  tried  to get up again but  was  hit  again  by
          Shampoo  jumping down from the same tree branch on  him  and
          jumping  back  up. Guile wondered how long she  thought  she
          could  do  that.  The  third time Shampoo  jumped,  she  met
          Guile's boot as he backflipped and flash kicked her. Shampoo
          was  stunned, but was somehow able to grab hold of the  tree
          branch with her hands.
                "Cannon Drill!" shouted Cammy, flying at Guile,  boots
          first.  Guile  jumped and landed on Cammy  as  she  hit  the
          ground  and  shouted "Sonic Boom!" shooting  another  energy
          circle  at  the  limb  Shampoo was on. Shampoo  let  go  and
          backflipped  to the ground safely. Guile turned and  blocked
          Cammy  as she punched at him. Then Guile was kicked  in  the
          head  from behind. He turned to deal with Shampoo  but  then
          was  hit  by  Cammy's boots as he heard  her  shout  "Cannon
          Drill!"  once  again. Before Guile could fall, Shampoo  gave
          him and uppercut.
                Shampoo jumped at him, but Guile rolled away.  Shampoo
          skidded  and  then  felt  her  arm  grabbed.  Guile  started
          swirling in a topspin motion, taking Shampoo with him. Cammy
          could  do  nothing or be hit by Shampoo as she swung  around
          and  around.  Guile  finally let go, sending  Shampoo  high,
          smashing into a tree. Shampoo then fell to the ground.
                "Cannon  Drill!" shouted Cammy, hitting  Guile  again.
          Guile  jumped  back another sonic boom at her. Cammy  jumped
          it,  coming  at Guile. Guile was ready and backflipped  with
          another flash kick, missing Cammy. "Front kick!" she shouted
          jumping upward and then flipping herself feet-first. She met
          Guile  in mid-flip and kicked him. Guile retaliated  with  a
          punch  to  the  face. Cammy fell back. Guile punched  again,
          this  time  connecting her arm. Cammy fell  back  more.  The
          third  punch  came  at  her stomach, but  Cammy  dodged  it,
          causing  Guile to smash his fist into a large oak tree  with
          all   his   might.  Guile  shouted  in  pain  before   Cammy
          uppercutted him and then pressed against the ground to shoot
          her   leg  up  again  once  again  shouting  "Front  Kick!",
          connecting  Guile  once  again in the  jaw.  Guile  hit  the
          ground, unconscious.
          
                                   *****
          
               Ryoga looked horrible. He was still feeling the effects
          of  the  marijuana  but  he  had been  beaten,  burned,  and
          horribly scarred for refusing to talk. M. Bison had left the
          torturing up to Sagat, who was now teasing him with a jug of
          water.  "Don't you wish you had just a little drop to drink?
          Huh? Just one drop? Maybe you can have the whole jug if  you
          tell me what I want to know....."
                Ryoga  said  nothing.  Sagat smiled  and  said,  "Well
          then......"
                Just then, Akuma walked in. "Sagat, stop fucking  with
          the  brat. The kid's had enough and he isn't going to  talk.
          Help me find the other shit yourself."
                "Fine then. I will set this water down really close to
          you,  then.  Perhaps  it  will help  you  conceive  yourself
          drinking from it's moistened bounty. Hahaha! And when we get
          your  friend, i'll be able to repay Ryu for this....",  said
          Sagat, pointing to his chest scar, ".....and he'll feel more
          than TWICE the pain you're feeling!"
                "Sagat! Can we get the fuck going?!? Or do you need to
          prove your dick is bigger than his too?" snapped Akuma.
                "Wait  for me...... i'll be back......" taunted Sagat,
          walking to join Akuma.
                Ryoga looked at the jug of water sitting on the  table
          inches away from him.
                "If  I  can only get my..... headband." thought Ryoga,
          reaching for his headband. He grabbed a piece of it and  was
          able  to pull it off. Ryoga began swirling the headband with
          one finger and then launched it. the headband missed the jug
          of  water, but came back like a boomerang, hitting the  jug,
          splashing the water on Ryoga.
          
                                   *****
          
               Kuno was walking to the final Street Fighter match with
          his  arm  in  a cast and half his face wrapped in  bandages,
          while  thinking "Those doctors think they can keep the great
          Tatewaki  Kuno  from being in the final match?  They  surely
          thought  of  a nature so wrongly, such an err  is  not  even
          human."
                "Upperclassman Kuno!" shouted Akane running up to him,
          "I finally found you!"
               "Akane Tendo! You felt the sting of battle as well?"
                "Uhhh.... yeah.", replied Akane, "Uhhh... Kuno.....  I
          was thinking.... well.... you know......."
                "Worry  none such well as you are.", replied Kuno,  "I
          knoweth  now that the ill you begot me was not to mask  your
          true  feelings for me, but a true statement of  your  actual
          sentiments. I accept your position and will no longer  chase
          you  like  the  fiendish carnivore I must  have  beset  upon
          myself. You are free to fly as you will."
                "Uhhh.  Well, actually, I was hoping you were still...
          um..... interested....." said Akane.
                "Well  what  have you two been up to?"  asked  Nabiki,
          walking up behind them.
               "Nabiki!" exclaimed Akane.
                "Oh!  Nabiki Tendo, my love!!!" shouted Kuno, grabbing
          for her.
                Nabiki  held up one hand, stopping Kuno in his tracks.
          "Not  so fast Kuno, baby. I'm afraid I have another interest
          in my love life. So you can just....."
               "Another love interest?" asked Akane.
                Just then, Ryoga in pig form began scampering down the
          street as fast as his little piggy feet could carry him.
                "P-Chan!" cried Akane, holding out her arms as  P-Chan
          leapt into them, "What happened to you? You look all cut and
          bruised!"
               "Honestly, sis. What is it that makes you like that pig
          anyway?" asked Nabiki.
                "P-Chan?  I  don't  know. He has personality!"  stated
          Akane.
                "Oh,  please."  said Nabiki, "If a pig  had  a  better
          personality, it would cease to be a filthy animal."
               "My sweet Nabiki, what is this about another LOVE?!?!?"
          shouted  Kuno,  "I  will destroy him!  Or  my  name  is  not
          Tatewaki Kuno."
                "I  don't think you're going to be destroying  anyone,
          Kuno baby." said Nabiki, referring to Kuno's bandages.
               "Akane!" shouted Dr. Tofu, "I'm so glad I found you!"
               "Huh? What is it, Dr. Tofu?" asked Akane.
                "I  LOVE  YOU  AKANE!" he shouted grabbing  at  Akane,
          causing  Ryoga the pig to jump out of Akane's arms  and  run
          away.
               "WHAT?!?!?" everyone shouted.
                Akane stared at Dr. Tofu. She had been in a crush with
          him  for  so  long  before.  And  now.....  after  all  this
          time.....  he had feelings for her?? How could this  happen?
          She  thought  of herself finally being with  Dr.  Tofu,  her
          childhood dream.....
               "No." said Akane.
               "What???" remarked Dr. Tofu.
                "I've  already had to go through so much to  get  over
          you...... I can't. I can't switch love on and off like that.
          It just doesn't work that way...." said Akane.
               "Dr. Tofu?" said Kasumi, who had just now walked up.
                "Huh? What do you want?" said Dr. Tofu, trying to  get
          Kasumi to say what she needed to say as quickly as possible.
               "It's Kuno that I want!" said Akane, grabbing Kuno.
                "You see there's a matinee at...." Kasumi started, but
          was  interrupted by Ryoga who was steaming  from  hot  water
          being poured on him.
                "Uhh..... Kasumi could I have a word with you?"  asked
          Ryoga.
                "What is it, Ryoga?" asked Kasumi, never able to  deny
          someone a word.
                "Get  off me you crazed lunatic!", shouted Kuno, "It's
          Nabiki Tendo that I love!"
                "Uhh.... Kasumi...." stuttered Ryoga, "I was wondering
          if you would go on a.... a.... d-d-date with..... me."
                "Oh.  I'm so sorry, Ryoga." replied Kasumi,  "But  i'm
          afraid that you're a little too young for me."
                "Oh."  said  Ryoga, hanging his head, "I understand.",
          feeling yet another heart-break.
                "Stay  back  if  you know what's good for  you,  Kuno,
          baby." warned Nabiki.
                Kasumi  then returned her attention to Dr. Tofu.  "I'm
          sorry, Dr. Tofu. As I was saying, there is a matinee in town
          and...."
                "Take yourself." replied Dr. Tofu, grabbing Akane,  "I
          love Akane!"
                 "Shampoo!"  shouted  Mousse  with  his  glasses  off,
          grabbing Kasumi.
               Kasumi screamed, holding her hands up in the air.
                "Hey!  Get your hands off her!" shouted Ryoga, kicking
          Mousse.
                "So  you want to take away my darling Shampoo?"  asked
          Mousse, riling back into an attack position.
               "Oh! Mousse!" exclaimed Nabiki, pushing Kuno off of her
          and running for him.
                "Bring  it on, duck boy." said Ryoga, pulling out  his
          umbrella.
                "So you are the scoundrel that stole my sweet Nabiki's
          heart!" shouted Kuno, "Prepare to die, bird-brain!"
                "Hey  there you are, you big silly! Hey, what happened
          to you, Ryoga?" Ukyo exclaimed, grabbing Ryoga.
                "Hey!  Not  now! I'm in the middle of a fight!"  Ryoga
          shouted.
               "Hey there, Mousse." said Nabiki, "I have a proposition
          for you. How would you like to take me out on a date?"
               "Huh? Not interested." said Mousse.
                Meanwhile, Kuno lunged at Mousse, tripping over Akane,
          who  was  huddled  over sobbing on the ground.   Akane  then
          looked up and asked "Shinnosuke?"
               "Who are you?" was the reply.
                "Oh,  come  on now. What do you have to  lose?"  asked
          Nabiki.
                "I'm  sorry,  Akane. I'm just not interested  in  you.
          Where did Shampoo go?", responded Mousse to Nabiki.
                "Aren't you even going to thank me for helping you  in
          the fight?", Ukyo asked Ryoga.
                "What a haul! What a haul!", shouted Happosai, jumping
          through on everybody's head. Two Chinese girls holding  bags
          of  seeds,  an  incredibly sexy reform school  teacher,  and
          someone dressed up like a mailbox ran by chasing after him.
                "I  tell you what. I'll promise you can get to atleast
          second base with me, deal?" asked Nabiki.
               "Sorry." replied Mousse, putting his glasses back on.
               "Oh! I'm sorry, Ukyo.", said Ryoga, "Thanks. Now I need
          to go....."
               "What is wrong, Akane? I love you!" pleaded Dr. Tofu.
               "I'll pay!" pleaded Nabiki.
                "I  said i'm not intere- Whoa!" shouted Mousse, barely
          ducking out of the way as Kuno swung his kendo sword at  his
          head.
                "Ni-hao!",  greeted Shampoo, jumping in, "Anybody  see
          where...."
               "Shampoo!!!" shouted Mousse.
                "Kuno,  are  you  SURE you won't go  out  with  me???"
          pleaded Akane.
               "What is going on here?" asked Kasumi, fainting.
               "Sure as the heaven's w- oof!" said Kuno, being cut off
          by Mousse jumping on his head to make his way to Shampoo.
                "Kasumi!" cried Ryoga, seeing Kasumi faint, but unable
          to move from Ukyo's grasp.
                "Ucchan!" said Ranma wearing his green Chinese clothes
          and  a  smile,  "I  wanted  to  tell  you  something  really
          important. Whats' say we go live happily ever after?"
                "You  really have to work on your form, Ranma, honey."
          replied Ukyo, looking back but still holding onto Ryoga.
               "Ranma! I'll show him!" whispered Akane, "Kuno!!!"
                "I  love  you, Shampoo!" shouted Mousse,  grabbing  an
          unwilling Shampoo.
               "Then you don't want to go out with me?" asked Ranma.
                "Sorry, Ran-chan..." replied Ukyo, "It's Ryoga I  love
          now."
               "W-what?" stuttered Ranma.
               "Hey, now! Wait a minute!" said Ryoga.
                "Akane Tendo," said Kuno, "What dost thou think you're
          doing?!?"
                Ranma  looked at Ukyo holding on tightly to Ryoga.  He
          then  saw  Shampoo and Mousse holding each other,  and  then
          turned his head to see Akane trying to kiss Kuno! "How could
          this have happened?" said Ranma in shock, "NO ONE is in love
          with me anymore?"
               "*I* love you, Ranma sweetums!" cried Kodachi, grabbing
          Ranma from behind.
                "Get  off me!" shouted Ranma, "I'd rather be loveless!
          Let go!"
                "Is  that  pot  I smell on you kid?" Guile  questioned
          Ryoga, walking in on the scene.
               "What???" cried Ryoga.
               "Oh, Ranma...." soothed Kodachi, "Aiiiiiieeeee!!!"
               Ranma looked behind him to see Shampoo grabbing Kodachi
          from behind the same way Kodachi was grabbing him.
               "Come back here, my love!" shouted Dr. Tofu.
                 "You're   going  downtown,  pothead!"   said   Guile,
          handcuffing Ryoga.
               "Oww! What are you doing to my arm???" cried Ryoga.
                "Monkey  wrench." replied Guile, "No one gets  out  of
          it."
               "Get off me you pervert!" screeched Kodachi.
                "Shampoo  love  the  way  she  felt  when  you  kissed
          her......" said Shampoo.
               "I did not! I kissed Ranma!" screamed Kodachi.
               "Whatever!" replied Ranma.
                "Shampoo?" asked Mousse, "What are you doing with that
          strange girl?"
                "Hey,  what do you think you're doing with my  darling
          Ryoga?!?" yelled Ukyo.
                "Here, let me show you how I kissed my darling Ranma."
          said Kodachi.
               "Oh man!" said Ranma, "I am SO out of here!"
          
                                   *****
          
                The final street fighter match was a 3 on 3 match.  On
          one  side was Ranma, Ken, and Ryu. On the other side was  M.
          Bison,  Sagat, and Akuma. The match was to take place  in  a
          field  outside Tokyo. The sky grew red as dusk  was  setting
          in.  The  only spectators were a huge man in a green  karate
          outfit,  a  man with a straw hat and a black mask  over  his
          eyes, and a huge ghost cat.
               "Whoa. That's a big scar on that bald guy." said Ranma.
               "Ryu gave it to that S.O.B. back when Sagat was head of
          the  Street Fighter Challenge, didn't you, buddy?" said Ken,
          putting Ryu in a headlock.
               "I'm afraid so." replied Ryu.
               "So, you ready, Ranma my man?" asked Ken.
                "Are you kidding? I'll take them all on with one  hand
          tied behind my back!" said Ranma.
               "Right on!" remarked Ken.
                "Arrogance  gives  strength but  causes  the  fighting
          spirit  to  falter. Wisdom allows a proper  distribution  of
          strength and power." said Ryu.
               "Round one. Fight!" shouted the referee.
                "Hyper!  Hyper!  Hyper!", shouted Sagat,  shooting  an
          array of yellow energy waves.
                Similarly,  Akuma  began shooting  energy  ball  after
          energy ball.
                Ranma, Ken, and Ryu all jumped out of the way  as  the
          missiles of energy hit nearby, exploding. "Those guys  throw
          balls  of energy like they're throwing punches!" cried Ranma
          in   despair.  M.  Bison  just  watched  and  smiled   while
          levitating a foot off the ground.
               "Ha-do-ken! Ha-do-ken! Ha-do-ken!" shouted Ken and Ryu,
          firing  back  at  them.  Ken shot energy  balls  similar  to
          Akuma's,  but  Ryu's  energy balls  looked  more  like  blue
          fireballs.  The shots Ryu and Ken fired began  blocking  the
          attack either by dissipating the energy balls and waves shot
          at them, or causing Sagat and Akuma to block or jump instead
          of firing another energy attack.
                Ranma  then  saw an energy wave coming  at  his  feet.
          "Whoa!"  he  shouted,  jumping it.  "Watch  your  feet!"  he
          shouted.
                Ken and Ryu heeded the warning and jumped as an energy
          wave  or  two shot past them. But the jumps put Ken and  Ryu
          off  key, causing them to have no time to fire back. Ken and
          Ryu  dodged the next array of energy waves and energy  balls
          with  much less ease. Ken got hit by an energy ball and  Ryu
          was  hit  in the face by an energy wave, stunning  him  long
          enough to get hit by a low energy wave.
                "Concentrate your shots on Sagat, so he  doesn't  have
          any  time for any low shots!" shouted Ryu. Ken and Ryu began
          shooting at Sagat. Sagat, now dodging energy balls from  two
          different angles, began ducking and dodging any way he could
          and stopped shooting hypers.
                "This  is fine. But what do we do about Akuma?",  said
          Ken.
                "I'll  handle  it."  replied Ryu. Ryu  began  shooting
          fireballs at both Sagat and Akuma, keeping up to speed  with
          both  of  them. With Ken and Ryu busy keeping  up  with  the
          energy  war, M. Bison began to phase in and out  closer  and
          closer to the two.
                "Oh no you don't!" shouted Ranma, jumping at M. Bison.
          M.  Bison smiled a split second before Ranma hit his  pyscho
          shield  and went flying away. Ranma hit the ground far  from
          Bison, saying "Man, that guy is tough." A shadow loomed over
          him. He looked up to see Akuma.
                "You  impertinent fool!" insulted Akuma. Akuma's  eyes
          shimmered  dark red and his entire body glowed  with  battle
          aura. "Did you really think you could do any good in a fight
          amongst  REAL  warriors?!? You make  me  sick.  Prepare  for
          death, you insignificant piece of garbage!"
                "I guess this isn't going to be one of those times  we
          all  become friends in the end." thought Ranma, getting  up.
          "Blah,  blah,  blah.  Are you going to  fight  me  or  not?"
          replied Ranma.
                Ken  and Ryu had heard Ranma warn them of Bison coming
          up  behind  them. With Akuma distracted, Ryu took  his  time
          with the next fireball. Unlike the others, this fireball was
          red.  He  shot  it at Sagat, but adjusted the speed  of  the
          throw.  Sagat  jumped it, but too early.  The  fireball  was
          slower  than expected and he landed on it, catching  himself
          on fire. Sagat screamed and began rolling in the dirt to put
          himself out.
                Meanwhile, M. Bison had made his way there. Ryu  faced
          him  in  a  defensive posture. But Ken charged him, shouting
          "Shri-u-ken!",  attacking  with  a  super  uppercut  against
          Bison.  Ken  shot upwards with his fist flaming with  power,
          but   Bison  had  disappeared  before  it  connected.  Bison
          materialized  in between them, attacking both of  them  with
          power fists. Ken was smashed on his descent and flew to  the
          ground,  rolling. Ryu blocked the punch but still took  some
          damage from the energy surrounding Bison's hands.
                Ryu  swept M. Bison and then tried to hit him  with  a
          short  Shri-u-ken, so as not to allow too much open  if  the
          attack  failed.  M.  Bison did disappear before  the  dragon
          punch  connected,  and  reappeared  behind  him.  Ken   came
          charging  back and jumped kicked at Ryu. Ryu ducked  as  the
          jump kick connected with Bison's face. But Bison took it and
          grabbed  Ken, throwing him into Ryu. The two hit the ground,
          rolling from the force of the impact.
                "Back-to-back."  said Ryu, "And be ready  for  him  to
          appear." Ken nodded and the two stood back-to-back. M. Bison
          appeared  on Ken's side. "Ha-do-ken!" shouted Ken,  shooting
          an  energy  ball at Bison. Bison disappeared, and reappeared
          in  front of Ryu.... where he was ready for him. Ryu  jumped
          and began throwing kick after kick after kick at M. Bison in
          mid-air.  The first kick hit, and then M. Bison blocked  the
          next  few  and then grabbed Ryu's leg while he was still  in
          mid-air.  Ken turned around and stared at Bison, shocked  by
          the  counter. Ryu had the same complacent, emotionless  face
          he always did, as if accepting it. M. Bison began glowing as
          blue  flame  surrounded  him again. The  flames  grew  thick
          around  him and Ryu and then Bison shot forward head  first,
          knocking both Ken and Ryu to the ground with the blue  flame
          enveloping them, sapping their energy.
          
                Akuma jump-kicked at Ranma. Ranma jumped back, dodging
          it.  But Akuma kept kicking, going into his hurricane  kick!
          Ranma  jumped  and dodged his kicks over and over  again  as
          Akuma  kept coming at him. Akuma then jumped into  the  air,
          shooting an energy ball at Ranma, hitting him in the side of
          the  face. Ranma fell back. Akuma swept his feet faster than
          Ranma  could  recover.  "This guy is good!"  thought  Ranma,
          hitting the ground.
                Akuma  jumped and shot two energy balls down at Ranma.
          Ranma  rolled  out  of their path and flew  at  Akuma.  They
          punched  and  kicked at each other in mid-air, Ranma  taking
          most of the blows. Ranma then kicked at Akuma as he hit  the
          ground,  but  Akuma grabbed his leg, and flung  him  to  the
          ground  again.  "I'm just no match for this  guy.  He's  too
          fast." thought Ranma.
               Akuma lifted up his knee and began hovering towards the
          grounded Ranma. Ranma didn't like the glimmer in Akuma's eye
          and  jumped  away from his charge immediately. Akuma  missed
          Ranma by an inch and a great flash of blackness erupted from
          him, engulfing the surrounding area and blinding Ranma.  "Oh
          man!  I'm glad I wasn't in the middle of THAT! Now  I  can't
          even  see."  thought Ranma, "Wait a minute. If I can't  even
          see, then he must be even more disoriented." Ranma tried  to
          recall from memory where everyone was.
               "Hey, man! That move sucked!" shouted Ranma, jumping to
          a  new  position, "When are you going to stop playing around
          and fight me for real?"
                "Sucked?  My  Raging  Demon Attack  SUCKED???"  ranted
          Akuma.
                "Yeah!"  replied Ranma, just barely getting his  sight
          back, "It sucks. So do you."
                "Then  let's see if you like this one!" shouted Akuma,
          summoning tons of ki energy in his hands.
               "Man, I hope this doesn't kill me." thought Ranma.
                Akuma  powered up and let loose a multitude of  energy
          against Ranma. Ranma, who had gotten his sight back just  in
          time,  jumped  out of the way as the energy pulse  flew  out
          past him, smashing into M. Bison.
                M.  Bison  got up from the massive energy attack.  "So
          Akuma....." he shouted, "You thought i'd be weakened by this
          fight  and  you  could become the leader of Shadow-law  that
          easily?" With that, M. Bison's eyes glowed white.
                Akuma regained his sight and soon realized what he had
          done.  He  didn't like this. He had thought  of  taking  out
          Bison  and  becoming the leader of Shadow-law, but  only  if
          Bison  was  weak enough. He sure wouldn't have attacked  him
          now,  not  when  Bison  was still strong.  "Bull  shit!"  he
          countered.
                "Don't think me a  fool. Your thoughts betray you. Now
          you will see what happens to traitors!" sneered Bison.
                Ranma looked to see Ken and Ryu still recovering  from
          Bison's  energy-sapping attack. And Sagat was heading  right
          for  them! Ranma ran and intercepted him. "Out of  the  way,
          young  underdog. It is time that old debts  be  repaid.  Ryu
          will at last feel the agony and humiliation of defeat!" said
          Sagat.
               "No way, man. Fight me!" stated Ranma.
                "Then  prepare  to  face  the consequences."  retorted
          Sagat,  cracking his knuckles. Sagat kicked at Ranma.  Ranma
          ducked  and  came  up with his back towards Sagat,  elbowing
          him.   Sagat  retaliated with a devastating punch,  dropping
          Ranma immediately and with great pain. Ranma was not used to
          fighting men of such incredible strength!  He weakly got  up
          and  took a defensive position. "Hyper knee!" shouted Sagat,
          flying  at  Ryu,  kneeing  him in the  stomach  with  enough
          strength to drop an elephant. Ranma lost his breath.
          
                Akuma  shot  upwards with another super uppercut,  but
          once  again, M. Bison had disappeared. Akuma jumped  up  and
          shot two energy balls at Bison. They both hit Bison's psycho
          shield  and bounced back, hitting Akuma. Before Akuma  could
          even fall, M. Bison, surrounded by a blue glow, levitated up
          to him, wrenched his throat, sucking his energy, elbowed his
          head  then face, racked him twice, then picked him  up  over
          his head and threw him.
          
               "Ken....." gasped Ryu, getting up, "are you okay?"
               Ken's eyebrows twitched, as if opening his eyes was the
          hardest   thing   in   the  world,   as   he   fought   with
          unconsciousness.
                 Akuma  hit  the  ground  ungracefully  next  to  Ryu,
          scratching Akuma's face and body horribly. His black  karate
          suit  was ripped to shreds and only hung from a few  threads
          on  one  of Akuma's shoulders. He picked himself up, weakly.
          "Fucking master of cheapness....." muttered Akuma.  He  then
          fixed his gaze on Ryu.
                "How  does it make you feel...." asked Akuma,  "....to
          see us both in such dishonor?"
               "Dishonor?" asked Ryu, "What are you talking about?"
                Akuma chuckled "Ryu, you've always had difficulty with
          the obvious. Look at you. You're losing."
                "I  don't  concern myself with keeping score,  Akuma."
          said Ryu, "The fight is everything."
               "How can you sa- forget it." replied Akuma, "But before
          I'm taken out, I want to give that bag of buffalo shit a run
          for his money. Will you help me?"
               Ryu smiled. "Ofcourse."
          
                Ranma  luckily found out he didn't need breath in  his
          lungs to dodge Sagat's energy waves. "Stand still you little
          rodent." commanded Sagat, "Hyper!" Ranma continued to  dodge
          Sagat's  attacks  until he could find an opening...  but  it
          didn't seem to be coming soon. Ranma knew there was only one
          way he was going to be able to defeat Sagat.... fight dirty.
          Sagat continued to shoot energy waves and attack Ranma,  but
          somehow, Ranma dodged every time. Then, at one point,  Sagat
          threw  his  fist  a little too far. "There!" shouted  Ranma.
          Ranma  came  in with with the Chestnut fist to  the  throat,
          hitting  Sagat  in the gullet over and over again.  He  then
          poked  him  in his only eye, kicked him in the throat,  then
          pulled  his leg back and kicked him on the side of the  face
          and  then brought it back, kicking Sagat again with the back
          of  his  foot. Blood spewed from Sagat's lips. Sagat grabbed
          Ranma's  face and stared at him with his one bloody eye  and
          began to squeeze. "You're.... still.... conscious???" choked
          Ranma. Sagat elbowed Ranma on the side of the head and  then
          smashed  him  in  the  face. "Kyper Kuppercut!"  said  Sagat
          roughly,  his  voice torn by Ranma's attack. Sagat  came  at
          Ranma  with  his  fist shooting up. But his  blurred  vision
          caused  him to miss Ranma, sending himself high in the  sky.
          Ranma  took the advantage and jumped up with Sagat, throwing
          another  series of Chestnut punches. Each hit Sagat's  face,
          causing  him  to convulse. Sagat then reached  his  peek  of
          elevation,  at  which point Ranma flipped over  the  stunned
          Sagat,  and  threw his weight across to turn  Sagat  upside-
          down.  Sagat  came  falling, hitting the  hard  ground  head
          first.
          
                "You  rest, Ken." said Ryu. Ryu and Akuma  charged  M.
          Bison.
               M. Bison laughed, "Come and get me!"
                "Now!"  shouted Ryu, shooting a red fireball at  Bison
          while  Akuma jumped and began doing the hurricane kick above
          it. M. Bison jumped the fireball and kicked Akuma out of the
          hurricane  kick. Akuma flipped and landed on his feet  about
          five  feet  from  Bison.  Ryu  shouted  "Shin-Kuu-Tetsu-Pen-
          Kiouke!"  and began a hurricane kick. Akuma jumped and  shot
          an  energy  ball  down at him while Ryu charged  Bison  from
          behind.  Bison  slid  along the ground  under  Akuma.  Akuma
          landed  just  as  Ryu came charging up at  which  they  both
          shouted "Shri-u-ken!". Both fists connected with Bison  this
          time,  and both of them shot up high into the sky with Bison
          as  a passenger. Akuma and Ryu landed with grace. Bison  hit
          the ground on his back, blood trickling from his mouth.
                "I am through fighting you on your own level!" said M.
          Bison getting up. A pyscho shield appeared around him and he
          began  levitating off the ground. "Now die!!!"  he  shouted,
          pointing  at Ryu. Ryu was picked up by an unknown force  and
          thrown  several  feet away, hitting the ground.  Bison  then
          summoned a purple morning star-shaped energy ball and  threw
          it  at  Akuma. The sharp points surrounding the energy  ball
          cut  into  Akuma  just  before the  ball  of  energy  itself
          exploded, sending Akuma into unconsciousness.
          
               When Ryu opened his eyes, he saw a hand outstretched to
          him. He grabbed it and Ken pulled him up. Ranma was by Ken's
          side.
               "Looks like you really ticked him off." said Ranma.
                "What  do we do now?" asked Ken, "We can't even  touch
          him with that psycho shield on!"
                "We'll have to trick him to lower it somehow and  then
          stun  him  long  enough to get all our shots  in  before  he
          reactivates his shield." said Ryu.
               "Stun him? We can't stun him! He wasn't even stunned by
          your hurricane kick, Ryu! He caught you in the middle of the
          attack!" said Ken.
                "But yours is faster, Ken. When we get the chance, use
          it!" replied Ryu.
                M. Bison had now levitated over to where Ken, Ryu, and
          Ranma were. He summoned another purple morning star and shot
          it  at  the  three of them. All of them jumped in  different
          directions  as  it  exploded on the ground.  Bison  summoned
          another and shot it at Ken. Ken backflipped, dodging another
          explosion.
               "Trick him to lower his shield, huh?" said Ranma. Ranma
          ran over to Bison, who was just about to summon another.
                "Hey  Bison! I heard you wanted me to join Shadow-law.
          How were you intending to do that?!?" shouted Ranma.
               "No, Ranma. Don't!" shouted Ken.
               "He can take over your mind!" shouted Ryu.
               Bison laughed. "Like this." he said.
                Ranma  felt  something grab at his mind.  "NOW!!!"  he
          shouted.
                Bison's  psycho-shield was only down for a  second  to
          make the connection with Ranma's mind. It was .3 seconds too
          much.  Ryu  had  already been summoning ki, and  at  Ranma's
          signal,  he  shouted "SHIN-KUU-HA-DO-KEN!!!!",  releasing  a
          multitude  of  energy similar to Akuma's super  attack.  The
          energy  burst  hit Bison, stunning him in it's  wake.  Bison
          regained  his  thoughts quickly and tried to reactivate  his
          shield,  but  Ryu's  super attack  was  preventing  it.  Ken
          charged  in  and jumped Bison, shouting "Tetsu-Pen-Kiouke!",
          attacking with his hurricane kick. Ken's hurricane kick  was
          fast, it even stunned Bison, but not for very long.
                Ranma  ran  up and hit at M. Bison, but only  hit  his
          psycho-shield.  "Arrrgh! It's too late!  His  shield  is  up
          again!" shouted Ranma.
                "That's right." said Bison, "And i'm not letting it go
          down  again." But then both he and Ranma noticed  something.
          Ken was inside the shield behind Bison.
                Ken  powered  up and then shot at M.  Bison  with  his
          strongest  attack. "SHEN-U-KEN!" shouted  Ken,  shooting  up
          into  the  air with his flaming fist jabbing over  and  over
          again  into Bison's face as he brought the warrior into  the
          air  with  him. The move was so powerful, it caught  Bison's
          clothes  on fire. Bison lost control of his shield  and  hit
          the ground.
               The others didn't allow a second to lose. Ranma ran in,
          attacking with the Chestnut Fist, hitting Bison in the  back
          over  and  over again. Even so, Bison tried to get  up.  Ken
          went  into  his  flaming fist dragon punch, burning  Bison's
          face  as  he  shot  up.  Ryu shot  red  fireball  after  red
          fireball,  adding  to  the fire. Ranma  kept  hitting,  even
          though he was taking damage from the heat. They attacked and
          attacked,  not  daring to allow Bison any time  to  recover.
          Finally,  one  by  one,  they stopped attacking  from  total
          exhaustion and damage from Ken's and Ryu's fire attacks. The
          fire  soon died out. They all breathed a sigh of relief when
          Bison did not get up.
          
                                   *****
          
                Ranma, Ken, and Ryu were catching their breath  inside
          an  open  ambulance truck. Two young medical trainees,  each
          with  a black or white dot on the front of their shirt, were
          checking them out to make sure they were going to be okay.
                "Hey  Ranma,  how did you know about  Bison's  pyscho-
          powers?" asked Ken.
                "Oh,  well,  this old ghoul I know met me  before  the
          fight and warned me about it." said Ranma.
                "Then how did you know his psycho-shield would go down
          when he tried it?" asked Ryu.
                "Well....  I  didn't." replied Ranma, looking  at  the
          ceiling, "Kinda just guessed it."
                Akuma  walked up behind the truck, looking in  through
          the open doors.
               "Hey! It's what's-his-face!" said Ranma, pointing.
               "Akuma!" exclaimed Ken.
               "I came to talk to Ryu." said Akuma.
               "Looking for redemption?" asked Ryu.
                "No." said Akuma, "I came to give my regards. That  is
          all.  I still plan to gain my full potential in control  and
          power. But my affiliation with Shadow-law is over. Ryu,  you
          could  gain your full potential too, if you could just grasp
          the 'evil intent'."
               "Whatever that means...." said Ranma.
                Akuma  continued, "I also plan to fight you again  one
          day, and win. So you had better watch your back." With that,
          Akuma left.
          
                                   *****
          
                The  victory party at the Tendo house did not  have  a
          very  festive  tone. Everyone was trying to stay  away  from
          each  other.  Shampoo lingered on one  side  of  the  table,
          wishing  Kodachi would somehow accept her feelings for  her.
          Ukyo  leaned on the other side, thinking about how her  only
          love  was probably going to spend the next few years in jail
          for drug possession. Soun and Genma the panda resided on the
          adjacent  sides  of  the table, realizing  Ranma  and  Akane
          getting  together now was hopeless. Kuno was in the  corner,
          drowning  his sorrows for his lost Nabiki with  saki.  Akane
          stayed  in  her  room,  not wanting to see  anybody.  Nabiki
          silently  debated whether to continue trying with Mousse  or
          to  settle for Kuno. Mousse had found out his one true  love
          had  dumped  him  for another woman and was trying  to  hang
          himself in the bathroom. Even Kasumi was depressed about the
          past events. Ranma sat out on the porch of the Tendo's yard,
          staring into the pond. He could tell the only person  having
          a  good  time was the principal of his school and that  made
          him  even  more depressed. "If there was only  some  way  to
          change what happened. Things would be different." he said.
               "But there is...." said a familiar voice.
          
                                   *****
          
               The next day, Ken and Ryu were walking down the street,
          carrying  their totebags. They had heard the Street  Fighter
          Challenge was moving out of Japan and was now headed towards
          Vietnam.  Ryu  intended to go, but Ken was on his  way  back
          home to America to see his wife. They both looked up to  see
          Ranma, standing in the middle of the road.
                "Don't worry, Ranma. We weren't going to leave without
          saying goodbye." said Ken.
                "That's not why i'm here." said Ranma, shadows looming
          below his eyes.
               "What is it?" asked Ryu, "What's wrong?"
               "I'm here to fight you, Ryu."
               A moment or two passed.
               "What for?" asked Ken.
               "I saw that Bison guy last night." said Ranma, "He told
          me he could use his psycho-whatchamacallit to change Akane's
          mind.  Make it so she'd forget what happened between me  and
          Shampoo.  I  have to do it, man. I have to beat you,  that's
          it."
                "You  can't trust Bison, Ranma. He's just using  you!"
          said Ken.
               "Ranma, calm down and think clearly." said Ryu.
               "Shut up. Shut the fuck up! There ain't nothin' I won't
          do  to  get Akane back. You hear me? NOTHIN'!" roared Ranma,
          "I messed up once. I'm not gonna let a second chance get by!
          Understand?"  Ranma's  muscles rippled  like  never  before,
          stretching  his skin. His blood flow was 97% adrenalin.  His
          bones  became as hard as steel. His hair flowed up  and  his
          eyes glowed a dark red.
                A  crowd  of people began to gather around, whispering
          and  pointing. "I've never seen Ranma THIS mad before." said
          Kage no don.
                "Very  well, Ranma." said Ryu, putting down his  bags,
          "If  fate  gives you the battle, then it seems  your  friend
          will  forgive you through ignorance. But I can't allow Bison
          to alter a young girl's mind for your own devices." Ryu held
          his  palm outstretched and went into meditation. He felt the
          wisdom and peace of his chosen path. The ancestral powers of
          'the  discipline'  entered him. The spiritual  power  flowed
          inside him and glowed from within. "I will fight you."
               "Fine then." said Ranma, charging.
                Ryu ducked as Ranma jump-kicked at him, sending a  few
          spectators  flying twenty feet away to the  ground.  "Whoa!"
          shouted Kage no don, "Stand back! WAY back!"
                Ranma  flipped,  grabbed  Ryu's  karate  suit  by  the
          shoulders,  and  flipped again, sending Ryu head-first  into
          the  concrete.  The  crowd gasped. Ranma  punched,  but  Ryu
          grabbed  the  punch with his legs. He twisted his  legs  and
          Ranma's  arm made a horrifying cracking noise. Ranma  karate
          chopped  at  Ryu's  leg but Ryu blocked in  with  his  knee,
          hurting it greatly. Ranma swept both of Ryu's legs out  wide
          and  grabbed his collar, pulling him up and around to  throw
          him.
          
               "Look! Ranma's still using that arm!", said a classmate
          of Ranma's with curly brown hair.
                "I  heard some conditions of weakness are just mental,
          but  that's ridiculous!" said his friend, a straight, black-
          haired fellow.
          
                 Ryu  used Ranma's own force against him and  adjusted
          himself so that Ranma threw himself. But Ranma held  on  and
          they  both went flying through the pane glass of a  hardware
          store  with a paint display. Part of the building's  support
          fell down and tons of sawdust and smoke flew up from within.
          When  Ryu  and  Ranma got up, they were  both  covered  with
          variant  colors  of  paint and horribly scratched  from  the
          glass.  Ryu  and Ranma both picked up huge metal beams  from
          the  wreckage. The beams clashed. Ryu swung an arc at  Ranma
          who  had  to  make  an emergency leap to dodge  it,  falling
          backwards on the ground with his legs spread apart  high.  A
          bunch  of  mirrors hung on the store's wall a few feet  away
          smashed from the from the air pressure of the arc. Ryu  then
          swung  downwards between Ranma's legs. Ranma threw his  beam
          up,  catching  it with his feet, blocking the  arc  just  in
          time.  From the space in between his legs, he grabbed  Ryu's
          leg  and pulled him to the ground. Ryu hit his head  on  the
          hard  floor. Ranma slid his beam back down to his hands  and
          shot  it  over  Ryu's  leg, hitting him  hard  in  the  hip,
          cracking  it. Ryu flipped backwards, clipping Ranma  in  the
          face. Ranma then came in with an overhead arc, towards Ryu's
          head.  Ryu  tried to block, but the block fell from  Ranma's
          crushing blow. Ryu's beam fell out behind his back while  he
          was  still  holding  it  and  Ranma's  attack  struck  Ryu's
          shoulder,  breaking  it. With Ryu's arms  holding  the  beam
          behind his back, Ryu had no defense. Ranma came in with  his
          Chestnut  Fist,  but  Ryu bent the beam  against  his  back,
          breaking it into two halves, and brought both halves against
          Ranma, striking him on each side of the face, throwing Ranma
          to the ground.
                Ranma  and Ryu jumped at each other at the  same.  Ryu
          grabbed  Ranma in mid-air, but Ranma pulled Ryu's  arm  back
          with  such force, it snapped like a twig. Keeping Ryu's arm,
          Ranma  took  his  other hand and began hitting  Ryu  in  the
          stomach  with  the Chestnut Fist, rattling the shingles  off
          the roof of the hardware store. But before they even hit the
          ground,  Ryu was somehow able to position his back in  front
          of  Ranma  to  get  back leverage in his arm.  As  he  swung
          around,   he   shouted  "Tetsu-pen-kiouke!"  and   continued
          swinging  with  kick  after kick,  hitting  Ranma  with  his
          hurricane  kick. Ranma took the kicks and then flew  through
          the  wall of the store, into a street on the other side. Ryu
          jumped out after him.
                Ranma  got up from the street and began to summon  his
          inner  strength.  A  red  glow like never  before  began  to
          surround him. Ryu began summoning huge amounts of ki  energy
          into  his  hand,  causing him to glow with a powerful  white
          light.
                "YAAAAA!!!!!" shouted Ranma, shooting a deep red burst
          of dragon-shaped energy at Ryu with his fist.
               "SHIN-KUU-HA-DO-KEN!!!!!" shouted Ryu, shooting a blast
          of bright white energy with his two out-stretched palms.
          
                Akane was looking outside of her window when she saw a
          huge flash erupt from deep within the city.
               "What the?...... Ranma!!!"
          
               The two energy attacks met half-way, blasting into each
          other. Both Ryu and Ranma were still being enveloped by each
          other's  energies  as everything and everybody  behind  them
          were blown away like leaves in the wind. Every second tested
          each other's will and determination. Ryu kept his mind in  a
          state  of  meditation, making his power  unrelenting.  Ranma
          kept  trying to think of winning, but then he began to think
          of Akane......
                Ranma's  energy began to wean and lose  some  of  it's
          ground. But then, suddenly, it blasted forward with all  new
          power, enveloping Ryu's energy and blasting into Ryu, frying
          his clothes, and throwing him back several feet, hitting the
          ground on his head.
                Ranma  collapsed to his knees to catch his breath.  An
          island prince and his servants, a monkey-man, a dog-man, and
          a  bird-man  began  to walk up. Ken and the  two  classmates
          looked  through  the  hole of the building  Ranma  had  been
          thrown through.
               They all gasped when they saw Ryu get up.
                "Still  hungry for more, huh?" said Ranma, "Well,  i'm
          ready!"
               "I can not let Bison harm an innocent." said Ryu.
                Ryu  and  Ranma  charged each other  again.  Ryu  shot
          upwards, shouting "Shri-u-ken!", knocking some birds out  of
          the sky with he air-pressure. Ranma dodged it and waited for
          Ryu  to  return to Earth before going into another array  of
          Chestnut punches, hitting Ryu and causing powerful winds  to
          knock the animal-men behind him to the ground.
          
                "Hey, I thought those energy attacks were supposed  to
          be FINAL attacks." said the curly, brown-haired student.
                "Is  that  what  that's supposed to mean?"  asked  the
          straight black-haired student.
          
                Ranma  and Ryu kicked at each other at the same  time,
          connecting in between each other. Ranma was quicker to react
          and  brought  his other leg up at the same time  as  he  was
          bringing the other back down and kicked Ryu in the face.  In
          the same fluid motion, he turned around and kicked him again
          with the other leg before the other even hit the ground.  He
          continued this maneuver over and over, kicking Ryu with each
          foot while hovering in the ground. He topped off the move by
          elbowing Ryu in the face, stunning him.
                "I  think I just learned the hurricane kick!"  shouted
          Ranma.  Ranma then ran up to Ryu, punched him  in  the  face
          again,  and  then picked Ryu up and threw him.  Ryu  hit  an
          electric pole, smashing it. As the pole fell, it ripped  the
          wire  in  two,  and fell on Ryu. The current of  electricity
          flowed  through Ryu, sending charges through every  part  of
          his body. His skin turned black and blistered and some parts
          of  his skin actually bubbled from the voltage. Ryu hit  the
          ground.
                But before Ranma could get up to him, Ryu was back up.
          Ranma punched. Ryu caught it in his blackened, smoking hand.
          Ranma  kicked. Ryu elbowed it before it connected,  knocking
          off  some burnt skin. Ryu uppercutted Ranma and then brought
          his  head down as he kneed him in the face. He then  shouted
          "Ha-do-ken!" and shot a red fireball point blank into Ranma,
          catching Ranma on fire and blasting him through a wall, into
          the  'Hell's  Withering Death' store. Ranma  rolled  around,
          putting  most  of the fire out quickly as Ryu  followed  him
          inside. Ryu jumped, going into a hurricane kick, hitting Ryu
          with it. Ryu blocked the last kick and threw Ranma's leg up,
          causing  Ranma  to flip. As Ranma hit the ground,  Ryu  jump
          kicked him. Ryu then began summoning what ki energy he could
          possibly  have had still left in him and shouted  "SHIN-KUU-
          TETSU-PEN-KIOKU!" and began swirling around in mid-air  with
          such  force, it began sucking everything from the store into
          the  whirlwind.  Ranma grabbed hold  of  one  of  the  beams
          holding  up the store to keep himself from being sucked  in,
          but  it  broke  and Ranma flew into Ryu, taking  super  kick
          after  super  kick. The glass from the store shattered  from
          the  force  of  the blows and the building  moaned  as  it's
          support  faltered.  A  chandelier hit the  ground  and  some
          electric  wires  from the roof fell, catching  part  of  the
          building  on  fire. Pieces of glass got  caught  up  in  the
          hurricane  and began cutting into both Ryu and Ranma.  Ranma
          swiped  at  Ryu's head with the beam, tearing  off  most  of
          Ryu's  face.  Ryu countered and kicked the beam,  making  it
          crack  like  glass. A large piece of the  window  then  flew
          right  into  Ranma's  chest. Ranma  groaned  from  the  deep
          impact. Ryu stopped kicking and hit the ground before  Ranma
          did  and shouted "Shri-u-ken!", shooting up with an uppercut
          100 times more powerful than the one he gave Sagat all those
          years  ago.  The Dragon Punch hit Ranma harder than  he  had
          ever been hit before, knocking his lungs into each other and
          every  sense  from  his head. Ranma fell back  and  hit  the
          ground  HARD.  A  tremendous  crack  echoed  throughout  the
          building.  The fall had broken his spine of steel  clean  in
          two.
               Ranma's classmates and the animal-men peeked in through
          the  broken  window. Ryu, who's face was barely attached  to
          his  head, who had most of his bones broken, almost  all  of
          skin burnt to a black crisp, and who had fought the longest,
          hardest  battle of his life, was still standing.  He  looked
          down  at  the poor boy who had put every ounce of his  being
          into this fight.
               "Ryu won!" said the curly, brown-haired guy.
                Then  Ranma  opened his eyes. The  spectators  at  the
          window screamed and ran away. Once again, he began to glow a
          deep  red. Ranma's nerves could no longer cause his legs  to
          move but the energy of his fighting spirit alone caused  him
          to  get up and form two fists. Ryu acknowledged him and went
          into  the  deepest meditation he could, glowing  white  from
          summoning ki he couldn't possibly have.
                Ranma's heart had been pierced by the window pane. His
          spine was broken. Blood gushed from his lips, attached to  a
          face  that had black paint on it. The fire had spread behind
          him, nearly surrounding him.
                 A flickering light fixture that was hanging by a wire
          was swinging above Ryu, shining in and out of Ryu's face. An
          electric wire, sparkling orange and bent around like a  hoop
          was  hanging just above Ryu's head. Blood from his  torn  up
          face  was  spilling onto the floor. The only  white  on  his
          burnt skin was from some of the paint that had gotten on his
          arms.
               The two jumped at each other.
               The building exploded and the roof fell down on both of
          them.
                A  few minutes later, parts of the roof began to  move
          and both Ranma and Ryu's heads and arms popped out. Both  of
          them  were totally devoid of any energy whatsoever.  Neither
          could  move  even if tons of roof were not on top  of  them.
          Barely keeping conscious, Ryu put his elbow down in an  arm-
          wrestling  position. Ranma, who could feel  his  life  blood
          seeping  out  of  him, put his elbow down  and  grabbed  it.
          Neither  of  them  could  live for  much  longer,  but  they
          continued to pit against each other's strength.
               "I always knew it would end like this." said Ryu.
               "I regret nothing." replied Ranma.
                They  pushed  and pushed with all their strength.  The
          force  Ryu's arm caused Ranma's skin muscles to  bulge  out,
          ripping  the  skin from his arm, exposing pure  muscle.  The
          capillaries in Ryu's head and neck began to burst  form  the
          pressure Ranma gave him. Both gave and gained way.  Then,  a
          hand pushed forward all the way, triumphant- Ryu's hand.
                It  took less than a second for both of them  to  lose
          consciousness.
          
                                   *****
          
               Ranma slowly began to regain consciousness. He couldn't
          move, but he could tell he was indoors.
               "Ranma, have you been fighting again?" asked a familiar
          voice.
               "Wha?" replied Ranma.
                "Normally,  it's really easy to heal your wounds,  but
          this  time  it was almost a challenge since your  heart  was
          punctured  in  two  places, your  spinal  cord  suffered  an
          unclean break, you had over 23 concussions, and your  entire
          body  was in shock." said Dr. Tofu, walking up within  view,
          "You might even say you're lucky to be alive....."
               "Doctor?" asked Ranma.
                "I  can say the same about your friend Ryu." said  Dr.
          Tofu pointing to a nearby cot with Ryu, his face wrapped  in
          bandages, "It was a bit tough to fix you guys up but....."
               "You mean i'm not dead? You saved me?" asked Ranma.
                "Yeah." replied Dr. Tofu, "If it wasn't for the system
          shock, i'd let you go home now."
               "I'm--- HEALED?!?"
               "Almost."
               "You may be an idiot," thought Ranma, "but you sure are
          good at this healing stuff!"
               "And Ryu?" asked Ranma.
                "I'm fine." said Ryu from behind the bandages. "Ranma,
          i've  never seen such fighting ability in someone so  young.
          You  will  obviously grow into a much more powerful  martial
          artist than I one day."
               "Thanks." remarked Ranma, unsure of what to say.
               "There's someone else that would like to see you." said
          Dr. Tofu, opening the door.
               "Ranma, are you all right?" cried Akane, running in.
               "Akane?" asked Ranma.
               Just then, Dr. Tofu's mother began calling him from the
          other room and Dr. Tofu left.
                "I  saw you.... I thought you were.... oh, Ranma!" she
          said, grabbing hold of Ranma and hugging him and crying.
                Ranma  could  only look on in amazement.  "Akane,"  he
          said, "there's something I have to tell you. Shampoo gave me
          a love potion. That's why she seduced me. If I could take it
          back....."
                "It  doesn't  matter now! Just as long as  you're  all
          right!"  cried  Akane,  "I went after  Kuno  because  I  was
          jealous. I know you hate how i'm uncute and....."
                "You? Uncute?" asked Ranma, "Where did you get an idea
          like that?"
               "Ranma?"
               "Anyway, the entire school used to be in love with you.
          You shouldn't have to take my word for it...."
               "Oh, Ranma." said Akane. The two held each other.
          
                                   *****
          
                The  wedding bells rang as everyone was walking inside
          the church. The ceremony was a western theme. Ranma stood at
          the  front  of  the  chapel, wearing a  tuxedo.  Mousse  had
          already  directed  the guests to their  seats.  Shampoo  was
          sitting  near  the front, holding a flower  basket,  looking
          depressed. Nabiki and Kasumi, handkerchief in hand,  watched
          in anticipation.
                The  music started, and Soun, tears flowing  from  his
          eyes,  lead  the bride down the aisle. They  walked  to  the
          front of the church. Genma the panda stood nearby and joined
          Soun in shooting streams of tears from the eyes.
                After a short speech, the minister looked to the bride
          and  asked, "Do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded
          husband?"
               "I do." said Akane.
                The  minister then turned to the groom and asked, "And
          do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?"
               "I do." said Ryoga.
                "Then  I  now  pronounce you man and wife."  said  the
          minister, "You may kiss the bride."
                 Ryoga   and   Akane  held  each  other   and   kissed
          passionately. The best man, Ranma, turned and looked at Soun
          and Genma and could now tell their tears were from sorrow of
          Akane's choice in marriage, not from happiness.
               Ryoga and Akane walked back down the aisle.
                "Now all I have to do is make sure I never touch  cold
          water  in  front of Akane for the rest of my life!"  thought
          Ryoga.
                They  walked  out  to the front and  Akane  threw  the
          bouquet. Shampoo jumped for it, but was smashed by  a  giant
          spatula.  The bouquet fell into Ukyo's hands. She jumped  up
          and  down in happiness, laughing gettily. Shampoo glared  at
          Ukyo, rubbing her head. Suddenly, she heard a loud noise and
          the sky grew dark. she looked up to see a giant portal open,
          covering the entire horizon. Guests began screaming as their
          souls  began  to  be pulled right out of  their  bodies  and
          sucked into the portal.
               "What in the world?" gasped Ryoga.
               A strange looking man appeared before them.
               "Who the heck are you?" demanded Ranma, running up.
                "My  name is Shang Tsung." said the strange  man,  "My
          master, Shao Khan, has opened a dimensional portal from  the
          Outworld  to  claim  the Earth for his own.  You  have  been
          chosen  to be part of the defenders of the Earth.  The  only
          way  to  stop Earth's takeover is to compete against  beings
          from   many  different  dimensions  in  the  Mortal   Kombat
          tournament. "
                "What?!?"  yelled  Ranma and Ryoga together,  "Another
          one?!?"
                "Behold!  The strongest warriors from across  all  the
          planes of existence!" shouted Shang Tsung.
                "You're  saying we have to fight ALL of them?!?"  said
          Ranma.
               Dimensional portals opened from all around him, pouring
          hundreds  of  strange  people from  many  different  worlds,
          times, and realities out.
                "I am a warrior from the shadow dimension. If you want
          to keep your planet, you must fight me!"
                "I  am a vampire hunter. I must fight you in order  to
          save the future!"
               "I am the Prince of the kingdom of Pulsar. I must fight
          you to save Pulsar."
               "I'm Mink. I have to fight you to save Saucer!"
               "I'm Pink. I have to fight you to save Santa!"
               "I am Gohan. Prepare to die!"
               "I am A-ko! Where is B-ko and C-ko?"
               "I am Hojo. Taste cold steel!"
               "I am Alita! What did you do to Dr. Yono?!?"
                "You  can't kill me.... I have partaken of the mermaid
          flesh."
               "I'm Chipple."
               "I am the leader of 108 Dragons. Fight me!"
               "I'm Makoto, and i'm NOT a girl!!!!!!"
               "I go only by the name of my sword."
               "Give me back Tenchi or suffer the consequences!"
                "If I don't fight you, Windaria will never get back to
          it's former glory!"
               "Inu-Yasha? Where did you go?"
                "I  have become a devil to save the world from devils.
          Now you die!"
               "I am Ken, Fist of the North-"
               "Darling! Darling!"
               "Rosa? Cid? Where did my airship fleet go?"
               "Shinga! Suka! Ray! Akira!"
               "The Mock 5 will beat you!"
               "Nobody escapes The Professional."
               "Oh... Yasuku.... eh? Where am I?"
               "Stop calling us the Dirty Pair!"
               "I am Homor- hiccup! Homo- hic! Hom- hic!"
               "Doji."
               "Sister Angela! I love you!"
               "Sailor Mars! Sailor Jupiter! Where are you?!?"
               "Who the hell are you? I'M the Venus 5 leader!!!"
               "Autobots! Transform and roll out!"
               "Tetsuo! What happened to Neo-Tokyo?"
               "You all lose!"
          
          
