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cHaOs Energy Times Infinity
Chapter 16 - Wanderings
Crossover Bid For Power/Ranma/Sailor Moon/Slayers/
Project A-Ko/DBZ/Tenchi
by Afroplex - jwessels@cse.unl.edu
http://ranko.homelinux.net

Disclaimer - This crossover story is not for profit. All characters
within are property of their respective owners. Please don't sue me,
you won't get anything out of it since I'm but a poor college student.

OUTSIDE THE TELLEO SYSTEM
================================================================ ======

The ship Jusenkyos Curse came out of warp on the fringe of the former
system that was home to billions, and the former financial world of
Telleo.

Opening up the scanners to full, Shilo gasped at the results. Akane
and Ryoga peered over his shoulder, but couldn't understand the
readings.

"What's wrong Shilo?" Akane asked.

Falling back into his chair with a deep, trembling sigh, Shilo kept
his eyes on the readout. "Its horrible. The entire system is gone.
Billions were sucked into a black hole - their lives, homes, entire
planets and the dual stars simply ripped into that." He then pointed
out the cockpit window.

Ryoga squinted out and peered into the blackness. "I don't see
anything."

Akane gave the lost boy a small tap on the head, "That's why they call
it a black hole."

Ryoga was confused, science wasn't his forte. "Um, what's a black
hole?"

Shilo wasn't surprised with the question, and broke in before Akane
could increase the force of her 'taps'. "A black hole is just what it
sounds like. In space sucks everything into it, even light, and
nothing can escape its grasp. In the process of being sucked into it,
things are stretched and torn into their smallest components. Quite
painful actually."

Ryoga paled, and looked back out the window. Looking more closely, he
saw the black batch where no stars could be seen.

"But now that we are here, I'll set the computer on some more detailed
scans. Perhaps we will find more information on how this happened."
Shilo punched a few buttons and stood up, stretching his arms. "Now,
lets do some training in the back. We still need to harness the full
power of Akane's new ki abilities, and perhaps work a little on you
Ryoga."

Akane and Ryoga nodded their agreement and lead the way to the back
training room. On the trip here, they did do some sparring, but not
much in the way of new technique training was done.

Ryoga was especially eager to start, grinning like a kid on Christmas
morning. Thoughts of standing over a beaten and bruised Ranma ran
through his head. Slowly, a chuckle came out and soon progressed to a
full fledged laughing uproar in the middle of the training room.

Akane and Shilo teardropped.

"Ok, you both know how to do some basic ki blasts right?"

Both nodded.

"I'm the master of some of the darker arts of ki mastery, with my only
other student Komosauro knowing them. You two will be the second and
third. The dark arts aren't as bad as it sounds, its just not as
flashy or offensive." Shilo noticed Ryoga's shoulder's slump at that.
"But it gives you more fine control over your ki, and sometimes even
your opponent - like freezing their body temporarily, or healing
wounds during a battle."

"First things first... basics of controlling your ki internally. Can
you levitate or fly yet?" Both shook their heads negative.

Shilo wasn't expecting that answer, "Amatuers, great.... best we get
started...."

--------------------

Six hours later. Ryoga wobbled in the air, and was having difficulty
just staying three inches above the floor. Akane, with a well spring
of her new energy, was bouncing all over the place and cheered.

Shilo shook his head, Akane was doing so well, why wasn't Ryoga able
to do it? He had the energy. "Ryoga?"

"Yes?"

"You have me baffled, you seem to be fluctuating in energy levels.
Sometimes you have enormous amounts, other times you have almost none.
What's wrong?"

Relaxing, Ryoga touched down. "I think it has to do with the way I
harness my ki. But I can't figure out a way around it."

Shilo raised an eyebrow, "Hmm?"

Clenching his fists, Ryoga continued, "Its all Ranma's fault. Ever
since we met in junior high, we were always rivals. I've always been
through hell because of him. Now, thanks to what he has done to me,
I can harness my ki through depression. Problem is, when I start
to succeed getting off the ground, I no longer have that feeling."

Shilo now understood, "And so you fall. Depression isn't healthy
anyhow. Looks I'm going to have to play shrink for a while then to
find a new source of power for you."

"What!? I don't need a shrink!" Ryoga fell over.

Akane was barely paying attention to what was going on, and noticed
Ryoga get up. "What's up?"

"Nothing much, you are going to help me try to get Ryoga out of his
depression fueled state. Feel like playing assistant?"

Akane nodded, "Sure!"

"The training session is over for the day, we'll do this later.".
Now, Shilo was curious as to what six hours of full powered sensor
scans would turn up. Leaning over the computer read outs, Shilo rubbed
his chin, "Interesting...."

Three probes from the Atlantean Empire entered the area while they
were scanning, but then disappeared as soon as their cloaking devices
activated. "Looks like this is hotter than I thought it would be."

Moving down the other list of results, most too minor to be of
importance... various asteroids were pulled into the black hole, some
debree from ships.... fluxuating gravity readings...

"What? That's not right... the black hole should be getting stronger
but its growing weaker. Something is not adding up here." Thinking
more, "I'm no scientist, but this just isn't right. And I think our
Atlantean friends know something."

Punching a few buttons into the weapons systems, "This will get their
attention, I don't feel like facing them on thier home turf if they
are responsible for this disaster."

In deep space, three small explosions could be seen.

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VENTILATION SYSTEM - COLONY 941A
=================================

Pyrate was not having one of his better days. He was crawling through
a cramped ventilation system, carrying an unconscious redhead. Behind
him, some sort of amazon that got caught up in the same mess. Then,
to top it off, some lunatic with powers to bend the rules of physics
has sicked every law and military unit in the galaxy on them. Oh, and
lets not forget he also has information that may save the same folks
that are after him in a weeks time.

"I hate my life."

"Shampoo don't think so. Great grandmother say things only get better
when you reach bottom."

"That's a laugh." Pyrate ducked out from under the overhang to larger
shaft, and stood up with Ako slung over his shoulder. "Things are only
getting worse from here."

Rubbing his chin, Pyrate looked down both directions of the
ventalation shaft. "Hmmm... I thought I was sure the ship yard would
be straight ahead."

Shampoo stepped forward... and kept going... through the light
metal lining and into the large with the ships. Pyrate blinked once,
"Ok, guess that's one way to deal with it."

Unfortunately, on the other side were three frigates of troops
unloading, one hundred security droids floating in the air, and
numerous other security guards locking down the other ships in the
hanger. Shampoo's entrance didn't do much to keep their entrance from
being noticed.

"Uh... Shampoo?"

"Yes?"

"Run."

Missiles promptly impacted where they just stood. They quickly ran
back into the shaft. It happened at this time one of the larger
pieces of machinary, a cross between a tank and personel carrier, was
being unloaded. The driver saw the commotion, and drove forward full
power, taking out several other troops. "RUN! RUN MY PR3Y! F34R MY
1337N355! MUUAHAHAHAHA!"

The captain above in the frigate, annoyed with the lieutenent, fired
one torpedo down the hatch of the vehicle. He and his second
in command gave each other high fives. "Scratch one more of those
annoying 1337. Troops, after those three that just went down the
shaft!"

Missiles exploded around them, tearing up the ventilation shaft and
anything else that was adjacent to it. Turning for a second, Pyrate
flexed his fist. Liquid flames blasted out through his pores,
directed at the ground to melt a puddle of metal. The lead tank fell
into the puddle and sank halfway in, while its
occupants escaped before the ammunition exploded.

Ako stirred on Pyrate's shoulder, and started struggling. "Hey! Put
me down whoever you are!"

"Shutup! I'm trying to save your butt so just hang on," Pyrate
snapped, just before Ako's elbow slammed into the back of his head.
"Hey! Fine, some thanks I get. You trying to knock me out or
something?!"

"Ya! Now put me down!"

Pyrate moved his head to the side as Ako's fist flew past his ear.
Shampoo by now was far ahead, so Pyrate decided to get rid of his
unwelcome cargo. "Fine. Don't want to ride? Then fly! Shampoo,
catch!" Shampoo instinctively blocked with a sweep toward the
incoming Ako, giving rise to "Instant Ako served Neriman Amazon style".

Ako made a perfect body impression in the steel wall of the shaft,
with a shocked expression on her face. Flipping back down, she
glared at Pyrate, her face changing to one of confusion, then hearts
radiated out in all directions. "He looks just like Kei!"

Pyrate took a step back, and looked behind him. Automatic assault
droid shadows could be seen coming around the far corner. To the
front was Ako taking steps forward, with Shampoo nodding in approval
of Ako's response.

"Ako was beaten by strong male. Now by Amazon law Pyrate is Ako's
airen."

This sealed it, and Pyrate ran screaming toward the droids, with Ako
and Shampoo in hot persuit. The three, with Pyrate at the front,
plowed over the small army of metal in no time, and kept on running
through the colony....

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==== SPACE - OUTSIDE COLONY 941A =================================

Outside the space colony, military ships were warping in all around
the system sealing any way out. Cruisers, destroyers and battle
fortresses armed long range cannons. Carriars deployed every
fighter and probe on hand to intercept. On the surface of the
rotating disc of the colony, guns swiveled looking for any target
that was not authorized to be in their range.

Diginux frowned at the display, "This is not sporting of them. I
wanted at least a little party for my three companions in crime.
Now, lets see about opening up a hole with my fleet."

On que, three hundred silver slivers streaked in between the large
capital ships and opened fire. Those that were still in the middle
of preparations had their shields down and were ripped to shreads
almost immediately. The smaller destroyers, although having full
power to shields, were next. Death came quickly as generators
exploded within from the sudden straighn on the shields and from
the outside chaos energy powered weaponry.

----------------------------- Back on the colony.... ----------

Pyrate noticed a sudden retreat of military personel back to the
hanger, "Something is up. This may be our only chance to get out
of here if they are planning something."

With Ako and Shampoo still on his tail, he made his way back
toward the hanger. Soldiers rushed past him, not even bothering
to try to deal with him. Their transports were quickly being
loaded with desparate soldiers. Then, Pyrate's jaw dropped when
he looked at the largest transport... under its front landing
gear was the remains of his ship. "THOSE SOBs! YOU GOT MY BEAUTIFUL
SHIP!"

His temper flared, literally as he melted through the crates in
front of him as he ran at the large ship. One swipe of his leg,
and the landing gear on his wrecked ship was kicked out. Ako,
upset that someone upset Pyrate, grabbed one of the back landing
gears and lifted the large ship up.

"NO ONE DOES THAT TO MY PYRATE!"

Pyrate teardropped, while Shampoo ran for cover. Ako spun in
an circle, twirling the hundred meter long craft in the air. Other
ships were taken up in the whirlwind til she tossed it out the
shielded air lock.

In the end, the entire bay was clear except for some scraps of metal,
and three wanted criminals.

"Ako, you do realize that was our ride out of here, right?"

"Oops?"

------------------------------ Outside... -----------------------

Diginux was pleased with the progress. Already a forth of the
fleet was destroyed, with the rest driven on the far side of
the system. After giving the mental command to half of his ships,
he left through a portal.

If he had stayed just five seconds longer, he wouldn't have been
too pleased. A small squadron of specially customized fighters
warped in, with large amounts of energy washing through their
circuits.

"Ready group? This is our first battle toward the source of those
ships and finding your friends. Nabiki, you have command, I'm
going in solo to support you and mix it up a little."

Kuno and Gourry transformed into their battlemech modes as
Nabiki's mental commands ordered the mech's computer systems into
actions. Energy swords flared, Kuno's a dark blue and Gourry's a
bright white. Their minds merged with the electronic systems,
making their bodies the bodies of their ships.

"Come Gourry, let's deal justice to these scoundrals!"

"Right!"

Their first target was caught in an x strike from two directions,
cutting the automatic fighter into four equal sized slices.

"Look behind you!" a female voice blared in his head. Gourry
glanced over his metal shoulder, raising his hand to block the
deadly blast coming in. A tingle of pain was felt in the appendage,
but not mind numbing. After the light faded, the debree of the attacker
was tumbling in the dead of space, with Mihoshi's craft in the middle.
His unit's arm was part of that debree, having left a molten stub.
Gourry always wondered what it felt like to miss an arm.

Lina's voice thundered in everyone's head, "GOURRY!"

Nabiki before that point was formulating a plan till that point,
when Lina extended the limits of what the modified battletech
fighters could do. Raw energy was poored from the surrounding area,
mana lines being forced to conform to Lina's will.

"DIGGER VOLT!"

Raw electricity arced out, fueled continueously. The enemy
were destroyed, but a handful had their electrical systems shorted.
None were left to fight.

Panting, Lina glared at the scene before her. Crossing her arms,
she turned her craft. "Gourry Gabrev, be more careful or I'll have
to teach you a thing or two."

Nabiki's voice came in over the radio. "We've been spotted, and a
few ships escaped. We need to follow them, it will probably
lead to their home base."

Kuno proclaimed, "ONWARD! We shall defeat our enemies!"

"DIGGER VOLT!"

"Thanks Lina... he was starting to annoy me..."