Ranma SI

A Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon Crossover

Chapter 1



Ranma roamed the streets, following the directions of the various people as
he headed towards the train station.

*Well,* Ranma thought as he dodged around someone else and kept walking. *I
guess when I get back that Akane will probably somehow blame it on me and
kill me, Pops and Mr. Tendo will get on me for running away from the
engagement, and Kuno, Mousse and Ryoga will probably just happen to show up
and attempt to beat the crap out of me for defiling Akane.* Ranma's shoulder
sagged at that. *Sometimes I wonder if its all worth it. I mean, is getting
beaten up, harassed, and not having any privacy at all worth a couple of
meals, a roof, a bunch of rivals, and three fiancees? But then again, I
guess I've got no choice. With all the 'family honor' and crap, I can't do
anything about it.*

Ranma looked up to find himself under a sign that read, [Juuban public
railway transportation center] and nearby were posted times of departure and
fares. Ranma looked over the fares, then checked his pockets. *Perfect. Just
enough for a single pass.* Ranma thought as he walked in, then got in line
for a ticket.

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Meanwhile, at the gates of time, Setsuna was... confused. After trying to
look at his past, she had not been able to see anything clear, like looking
into a foggy night. It was almost as if he had just appeared out of nowhere,
or nowhen.

"But that can't be right." She said as she looked back to the image of Ranma
patiently standing in line, whistling to himself. "Everyone has to have some
kind of a past that I can at least get a glimpse of, no matter how
insignificant it may be." She mused, arms crossed, a little annoyed
(although her perfectly calm face didn't show it,) at how this mere young
man was coming up blank.

After a moment of curiosity, she checked the future, and was not surprised
to see Crystal Tokyo, looking just like it had the last time, and the time
before that, and the time before that. She closed the link to the future.
ÒSo, the boy is not a threat at the moment she mused, not surprised. She
stopped and thought. ÒBut that does not mean that he will not become a
threat in the future.Ó After a moment of thinking, she made up her mind.
ÒWell, at the moment he has done nothing wrong, so I guess the thing I
should do at the moment is just watch. I'll make sure he does not do
anything suspicious." She said, gripping her garnet rod a bit tighter.

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Ranma finally stepped up to the ticket lady, smiling politely as he did so.
"Excuse me, I just need one ticket to the Nerima district. The earliest one,
if you can, please." Ranma said, putting his money on the counter.

The woman looked at him with a puzzled expression, typed in a couple of
words into her computer, and then looked back up at Ranma. "I'm sorry sir, I
don't even believe there is a district named Nerima."

Ranma looked at her, confused. "What do you mean, there isn't a Nerima? Of
course there is! I live there!" Ranma practically yelled, causing people
around to murmur.

"Look, sir." The woman said, annoyed. "There is a complete map of Tokyo over
there. If you see anything that says Nerima at all, come tell me and I will
pay your ticket there myself. Now, please move along." She finished as the
next person shoved past Ranma, telling the ticket lady his destination.

Ranma walked to the map, grumbling, and began searching, determined to show
her up. But after an entire hour of searching the map up and down, he found
nothing, and left the train station felling a angry, a bit depressed, and
confused. Why was there no Nerima here? Where was the district where the he
lived? Ranma shook his head, now more confused than ever.

Ranma walked around the city some more, and soon found himself back in the
park where he had first appeared. Ranma was going to sit down to think
things through, he heard a scream from down the street than made him run
down to see what was the matter.

Ranma turned the corner, secretly hoping it to be Happosai, or Taro, or
Happosai and Taro, but there was no such luck. As a matter of fact, all that
was there was what looked like a woman in a horrible costume who looked like
it was terrorizing people in the streets. The thing was about five and a
half feet tall, had an outfit which looked like it was made of foliage, and
was terrorizing the people in the streets by shooting pinecones out of its
outstretched arms. The thing looked right up at him and smiled a wicked
smile, its' fangs glinting in anticipation. "Ah, a new victim for me! What
fun this day has been! Looks like I'll have to dispose of this one!" It
said, holding up a pinecone in its hand as it finished.

The reaction was not what it was expecting. Ranma burst out laughing.

"HA HA HA HA HA!!! Do you realize how stupid you look? And I almost believed
that you were serious for a second!" He exclaimed, now crying tears of
laughter at the absurdity of the outfit and how stupid the whole thing was.

The yoma looked puzzled, and then got mad. "You dare mock me? Why you
little..." It started, rearing back the pinecone with intention to throw.

It began to advance, but was cut off by a speech made by a girl in a short
skirt and wings coming out of the back of the outfit, flanked by four other
girls in different colored short skirts. "Stop! How dare you use nature's
beauty as a weapon for your own evil deeds! I can't forgive you! Agent of
love and justice, pretty Sailor Senshi..." It was now that she made some
hand motions in the air, "...Sailor Moon! In the name of the moon, I'll
punish you!" She finished, going into her customary pose, with her arms
crossed while pointing. (You all know what I mean.)

Likewise, the reaction they received from Ranma was not what they were
expecting. After the entire speech and a moment of silence, Ranma burst back
into laughter.

"HA HA HA HA HA!!! That was great! What's happening, a new Anime store
opening?" He exclaimed, continuing to laugh, clutching his stomach.

Suddenly, Ranma abruptly stopped laughing and froze. *Wait a second here.
Green light hitting me, there's no Nerima, there's some stupid looking yoma
terrorizing the people, and there's a bunch of girls in short skirts
spouting stupid speeches come to save the day... Oh no!* His mind went back
to the sign at the train station, or more specifically the word 'Juuban' on
the sign. * It can't be! It can't be!*

Both the Senshi and the yoma were now officially confused with the young man
standing before them. For one, not many people stayed around when an evil
yoma was rampaging through the city making a nuciance of itself, and for
another, one minute he was laughing at them all, and then the next he was
muttering, "It can't be! It can't be!" In a barely audible whisper.

Sailor Moon stepped forward about to tell the young man to run away, when
the yoma spoke up, looking more furious than ever. "That's it, kid, no one
ignores me like this and gets away with it! Die!!!" It screamed, claws
suddenly extending out of its hands, and leaping up in the air, claws
leveled towards Ranma.

Ranma's mind was now looking at the bad sides of this. "But... but... that
means that I'll never get home again! I'll never see Pops, or Uuchan, or
Akane, or Mom, or Ryoga, or Shampoo, or even the Old Ghoul or Gramps ever
again! And the worst part of all this is...* Ranma's eyes widened as
everything hit him harder than he had ever been hit before, ÒI'm stuck in
this girly Anime for the rest of my life!!!Ó

Ranma was not normally one to get depressed. But unfortunately, all of the
realizations of this would turn nearly any man to the point of insanity. And
even though Ranma's chi was normally fed off of confidence, he had been
trained to focus his chi on any feeling, and now Ranma was doing just that.
Ranma now let out all the frustrations, all of the depression, all of the
confusion, and all of the anger out into one mother of a blast. Having heard
Ryoga say it plenty of times in their battles, Ranma thought that he
wouldn't care if he borrowed the name now. "SHI SHI HOKODEN!!!!!"

The yoma should have stopped when Ranma was glowing a dark green, but Yoma
were not exactly known for their high amount of intelligence, and so the
yoma had pressed on, getting caught in the blast and getting incinerated at
the same time. Had the nearby building had the intelligence or the power to
do so, it probably would have moved out of the way as a column of chi
slammed into the top corner of it, taking the whole top corner of the thing
off as well.

The blast was not as great as Ryoga's best, of course, but it was enough to
make all of the Senshi's eyes widen with suprise as it erupted upward.

Ranma breathed in and out a few times, and then took a look around. The
first thing he noticed was that he was standing in the middle small crater,
the second was that where the yoma stood was now a pile of ashes, and the
third was that the Senshi were now all staring at him with wide eyes. *Oh
well,* Ranma thought, having cooled down, releasing all of him anger and
frustration like that, *at least I didn't cause any property damage.*

The portion of the building chose to crash down at that moment, smoking
slightly.

*Never mind. Okay, don't panic, you've just gotta get out of here before
they come to question you, that's all.*

Sailor Moon chose that moment to hop to the ground to question him.

*Panic.* Ranma then jumped back, took up a battle stance, then said the
following words sounding totally confident. "And now for the Saotome final
technique!" Sailor Moon cringed back a little, fearing some supreme attack
that would wipe her out. "Run away!"

Ranma then took off, and was soon out of sight.

All of the Senshi blinked a few times before Sailor Moon spoke up. "Ummm...
I guess that means that we won?"

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Setsuna was, for once, at a loss for words.

She had not imagined that this boy could be this strong. And where did that
power come from? One moment he was perfectly ok, and the next he had blown
up the yoma and part of a nearby building.

Her first thought was that he would have to be stopped, but he really hadn't
done anything wrong, and she didn't want to give herself away at the moment.
But he had said one thing. The name 'Saotome' had come up during his final
words.

Time for some investigation.

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At the Cherry Hill Temple on the other side of town, five girls were also
talking about the boy that they had met.

"What I don't understand is where he came from." Ami said to the others.

"Who cares where he came from," Minako said, a small smile on her face as
she remembered, "He was really cute."

"Maybe he was, but I just don't trust him." Luna said as she hopped onto the
table, Artemis hopping up behind her.

"What do you mean, Luna?" Rei asked, leaning forward slightly. "You don't
think he's evil, do you?"

"Now, I didn't say that, but just a few hours ago Aretemis and I felt a
large amount of power just come out of nowhere, and just a moment ago we
felt a large surge of the same kind of power! We're just warning you, don't
assume that he's a good guy just because he looks handsome!"

"Oh, Luna, don't worry. We've handled a bunch of powerful people before. We
just defeated Nehelenia, didn't we?" Usagi said, helping herself to some
more rice balls.

ÒDonÕt you think youÕve had enough?Ó Rei asked, annoyed at the amount she
had eaten. ÒThe rest of us want some too, you know!Ó ÒHey, Mako-chan brought
enough! Stop being so bossy, for once.Ó ÒBossy? Why you little pigÉÓ As the
other three sweatdropped, the customary Rei/Usagi fight escalating, Artemis
left with one final comment. "You didn't defeat her, you talked her out of
not destroying you. Just remember that." Artemis replied, hopping off the
table and walking off.

"Anyway, just think about that, and don't just trust him just like that."
Luna said as she walked off as well.

All was quiet, save for the namecalling that was going on, until Makoto
spoke up. "So... think I could get him to go out with me?"

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The next day, after sleeping on a park bench and having dry instant ramen
for dinner, Ranma was now sitting down on top of a small building, thinking
things out.

"OK," Ranma began slowly, "right now I'm stuck in the Sailor Moon world, and
I've got nowhere to go." Ranma frowned. "And now, for the first time ever I
wish I had actually paid attention to that stupid show."

Ranma then fished in his pockets and pulled out all the money he had. "All
right." He said after counting out all the money. "This should be enough to
buy at least three, maybe four meals. But what am I gonna do while I'm
here?" I probably couldn't get a job without someone looking up my personal
records." A thought crossed Ranma's mind, that he could just steal all the
money he needed, after all, he had done it on the road, why not here? But he
quickly brushed the idea away. *I was forced to by my old man back then, and
I swore that I was never gonna stoop so low as to be like Genma, ever.* He
thought, his features hardening, and then went back to his out loud
thoughts. "So I'm stuck here with nowhere to go, noway to make money, and
there's a bunch of girls who would probably try to kick my ass, and I can't
hurt them, they're girls. What to do... what to do... let me see, I could go
out and try to find a place to train, I could try to find a way back..."
Ranma was cut off by another scream down below. When he looked down there
was another yoma, this one looking like it was made of garbage, terrorizing
the people.

Ranma sat there for a moment, watching it, and then he suddenly had an idea.
"Wait a second. If I'm gonna have to be stuck here, who's to say that I've
just gotta sit here and watch?" A smile slowly spread on his lips as the
idea grew. "And I am always complaining about the show being girly..."

Ranma made up his mind.

He jumped down in front of the yoma.

The yoma seemed suprised at the man that had jumped so casually from six
stories, then smiled wickedly. "So, I've got another plaything! Heh heh heh.
Prepare to be dead, kid!" It charged forward, shoulder in front of it as if
to ram him.

Ranma only smiled back, and sidestepped the charge from the rampaging yoma,
sticking out his foot as he did so, causing it to stumble and fall, smashing
into the pavement as it did so.

"Was that all?" Ranma asked, amused.

The yoma got back up, mad, yet confused. Weren't humans supposed to run away
in terror, not fight back on their own? It shook away those thoughts, and
turned back to Ranma. "Lucky shot, kid, but you won't be that lucky again!
It charged again.

"Amaguriken!" About four hundred fists slammed into the yoma's chest,
knocking the wind out of it, but other than that, no apparent damage. *Darn!
It's made of garbage, so that takes away the force of the blows!*

The yoma then struck back, punching with an arm made of garbage, but Ranma
had fought such people as Cologne, Taro, Herb, and Happosai, and compared to
them, this was nothing. Ranma then did a leg sweep, knocking it flat on its
back. The yoma, now madder than ever, got up and faced him. "All right then,
if you can dodge one blow so easily..." It stuck out it's chest, and it
expanded, swelling like a balloon, and it smiled wickedly again. "Then let's
see you dodge this!"

It then exploded, sending tons of flying trash in his direction.

Ranma was about to just block all of them, but then saw a glint of metal,
and jumped up, watching the pieces of sharp metal fly by, hidden in the huge
amount of trash. *So, they do have some intelligence* He thought, realizing
that if he dodged, like he was going to, that those metal bits would have
stung quite a bit.

The yoma looked angry, its best attack being seen through like that. It's
face curled into a sneer. "Just die!!! It leapt again, forcing him back,
until an idea popped into his head *Hey, it worked on the old freak, why not
now?* Ranma kept letting it force him back, as he gave off a nice, icy-cold
aura.

The yoma, of course, thought that it now had him on the run, didn't even
realize that this was a trap until it saw that Ranma was now smiling. It
then attempted to run, but by then it was far too late. Ranma threw up his
right arm, crying out "Hiryu Shoten Ha!" as he did so.

The yoma didn't even have time to scream as it was ripped apart, literally,
in the tornado. Bits and pieces of garbage were everywhere, and Ranma smiled
in satisfaction. "That was almost a bit too easy. I don't see what's so hard
about them."

Ranma turned around, and began to walk away, proud of himself, until he felt
a hand, a human hand, clasp his shoulder. Ranma had a feeling that this was
not good.

Ranma would later find himself right.

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Author's notes: Another week, another chapter. But more seriously, I've had
a couple of questions from a prereader of mine that I would like to address.

Q: Where did the yoma come from?

A: If you watch the series, at times yoma come out of nowhere, they just
seem to appear.

Q: What's the deal? Ranma don't know Ryoga's chi move.

A: Actually, yes and no. Ranma does know how to focus his chi, and
confidence, what his chi moves are normally fed off of, comes the most
natural to him, but theoretically Ranma could use many emotions to feed the
move, its just that they would be weaker because he experiences them less.

Well, that's all for now! I'll try to have chapter 2 out soon for those of
you who actually like this story. As always, C&C is always greeted with open
arms (flames must suffer the wrath of the mighty armadillo!
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