Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction / Crossover With Non-anime Series Fan Fiction ❯ Justice League of Japan ❯ Chapter Four ( Chapter 4 )

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Justice League of Japan

Chapter Four

Ranma was taking a bath with Shampoo which was of the hot variety so he could change back to his male body, just as he got back to the normal state of his abnormal life. He was also adapting to the absence of all modesty for the amazon warrior as she sat in the bath and even made hints of giving Ranma a good scrubbing while he sat in the steaming water. His modesty being more develop, he gently declined the offer from the bouncy girl. As he soaked he was reviewing the problems of the day with the Tendo agreement.

'At least Mrs. Tendo allowed me or one of the girls ta get out of it if I want, which is a good thing. Still with the engagement with Shampoo and now with Tendos it looks like my married life has already being arranged. It can't get any more complex at the moment, can it?' thought the alien fighter, as certain women around the country sneezed including one dressed as a crow.

Before Ranma could move to the next issue he was thinking of, that being of keeping his hero activity undercover, the youngest Tendo sister had walked right into the bathroom with himself and Shampoo staring at her nudity. Six eyes took in the sight of three teens of mixed sexes and all eyes were blinking with rapid speed as they were paused in their actions from shock. Then quietly and carefully the human girl slipped out of the room with only the slightest action to cover herself up. Silence followed...

This was before an ear bleeding scream came in the tone of the voice of Akane, which seemed to echo across the compound. Ranma frowned at this turn of events before speaking, "I guess that bathtime is over Shampoo. It's time to wash off and towel down before getting dressed for stepping in the stuff which has hit the fan."

"Shampoo..., I don't know what stuff is but I can guess what it is. A warrior faces such matters with determination and honour. So now we must get out into the mess." said the Amazon as she used the water to rinse off the soap used. Ranma followed suit as he got ready for the drama.

Moments later...

Ranma had just entered the room as he hear conversation the Tendos were having, the fact he had superhuman hearing did help the matter a little bit. He then answered them, "I'm Ranma Saotome, sorry about this. I should have mentioned it ahead of time I was suffering under the effects of a curse from the Springs of Circe which forces me to change sex with a trigger. The trigger being the temperture of the water with cold water transforming me into my curse female form and the warm or hot water transforms me into my original male form. My father has a similar curse with the form of a female being replaced with a panda bear."

The three Tendos took a moment to adapt with the news he was hearing about. It was an unbelievable situation they were looking at and they were not ready to accept it as the parents came into the room, a male and female Tendo plus an overweight headcovered man. The voice to come out first was the female elder Tendo, "I know it's hard to accept but I have seen Genma Saotome's transformation and I am sure he and Ranma would be willing to give a demonstration. So let's sit down and listen to the explaination of the Saotome, so lets go to the dinning room."

It was just a few seconds to get from one set of rooms to the other and to bring out the dinning table. Genma began his tale with what was the partial truth of the events which had occurred with their lives. The training trip taken since Ranma was a young child to the years of trying to perfect the combat skills of the younger male Saotome. Followed by the idea of taking a trip to a series of remote islands, including the dreaded Isle of Circe which contained her cursed springs. Springs born of the magic to change forms to what ever her whim and fancy decided on at the time. It was then they headed to the island which contained Shampoo's people and then they took place in a tournment.

Shampoo was watching the old man explain things and she began to place her own imput, "Old man Saotome has not told the complete truth of matter. According to Am... my people's laws any male which defeats a female warrior in battle is engaged to the man who defeated her. Shampoo has come along to decide if engagement will work, yet Old man Saotome no tell me that he was coming here for another engagement till we not too far from this home."

"SAOTOME! What is she talking about?!" asked Soun as he glared at his old friend, a vein thrubbing in his forehead.

"I tried to leave her Soun, old friend. She just has a talent for sticking around even with some subtle hints about leaving." said the heavy man as he tried to clam his old friend down.

"Like tying her up in chains and loading her up on a slow boat to Canada? Good thing Shampoo knows how to get out of chains and how to swim in salt water. Pops, just face the fact Shampoo's too smart for you, " said Ranma as he took on the tone of slight disgust he had for his elder before speaking to the Tendos, "Shampoo only cares about being married by her laws, which might including having multiple spouses from what she tells me. Myself, I'm just going to try and figure out what it is I am going to do with this... situation. Lucky I don't have any other finacees out there."

Genma took on a shifty look and was beginning to look over his shoulders for something, as girls in different parts of Japan sneeze including a certain billionaire. Meanwhile, Soun seemed to be giving Genma a death glare at the situation which was duplicated by his youngest at both male Saotomes. Mother Tendo was looking for a way to bring everything back to a calming situation. She began, "Maybe we should test Ranma and Genma's curse for a little bit to see how it works."

She had brought out a warm teapot and a cool pitcher, both filled up with water. She poured a little cold water on Ranma and Genma and they turned into a female and a panda bear. With the teapot, she turned them back into men. Then came the cold water again with hot water following as well. She did this a number of times before Ranma spoke up to complain, "I'm not a flower garden, Mrs. Tendo. Could ya please stop with the watering?"

She stopped instantly with the last bit of warm water and said, "Sorry Ranma, it's just so hypnotic to watch the two of you shift from one form into another so quickly. Please forgive my mistake."

"It's alright, I'm just still getting use to having a female body when I was born a man. So what can the three of us do for your family?" asked the young dark haired boy as he tried to make things as easy as possible.

"You can choose which one of my daughters you would like as your wife. My daughters Kasumi who is nineteen, Nabiki who is seventeen and my youngest Akane who is sixteen. Choose one and she will be your wife!" said Soun, without thinking about things like how close his daughters were to him... or his now visibly upset wife.

"SOUN !!!" called out the female Tendo as a vein popped in her head.

"He wants Nabiki, yes Nabiki's just perfect for him," said Akane she seemed to be passing the buck to the middle sister.

This was followed by Kasumi saying, "They both haven't been in area for a long period of time, so they could get use to the landscape together. So why not at least try it for now, ne?"

Nabiki was blinking quickly as she turned to her sister. Ranma could hear her clearly whisper, "Traitors. Somebody's going to be paying for this."

The middle daughter turned to the young Saotome and said, "I guess that we can try out this arrangement for a little while before I decide to accept it... or dump it upon my sisters. Right, Kasumi and Akane? Cause if Ranma and me don't get along it will be up to the two of you to continue the Tendo-Saotome arrangement."

"None of you have to go throught the engagement if you don't want to. However, it would be rude to place you back on the street again. So please feel welcome to use the guestroom, Ranma and Genma. I am going to have to ask Shampoo to room with one of my girls since it would be improper to have a young lady sleeping in the same room as two unrelated men. So which one of my kindhearted daughters will be giving up some of their room to Shampoo, Kasumi and Akane?" spoke the mother Tendo.

Ranma was guessing this was a payback for shoving off the engagement to Nabiki and it was quickly picked up by the eldest daughter, "I can share some space with Shampoo, so she can feel welcome in our home."

"Alright, we had better all get ready for tomorrow. It's school for my daughters and likely registration for Ranma and Shampoo. So we had better rest up." continued the Tendo mother as the facts of the day were explained.

The next day... One day from NOW!

Ranma had gathered the supplies he would need for the school they would be going to Furinken High School and dressed in some of the clothes he had gained in China after being cursed. This was due to one main reason, 'Pops might have been smart enough to gather the supplies and enroll me in the school, but he didn't have the bright idea of getting a school uniform. Even with the troubles of refitting it so it had give for when I change shape. There was also the scramble to get supplies for Shampoo. Well, let's face the fact I'm going to have to adapt to this.'

Akane had already made the move to avoid Shampoo and him by getting to the school ahead of time, leaving the two newcommers with Nabiki. The middle Tendo daughter with her strange green ring was keeping a close eye on them as they walked the distance to the school. Ranma was practicing his martial arts by walking on the narrow footpath of the fence railing. He was looking down to Shampoo and Nabiki, both in the school uniform of a green and white dress. Shampoo had been using a spare uniform which had been given by Kasumi and mended by Ranma's little used skills of super-sewing.

Ranma was trying to judge the middle Tendo daughter on multiple levels, like mental and physical. Physically she was a moderately well toned woman with some muscle building on her body. No excess body fat from the scans with his X-ray vision, great bone structure with great health. From experience, he could tell the girl was highly intelligent from the little contact he had with her. But what kept him interested in was the strange ring of green metal on her finger. The alien martial artist had developed a sensitivity to things which were green ever since the strange rocks incident.

Ranma shivered a little as he remember discovering the rocks and feeling bad for the first time in his life, feeling pain for the first time in his life. Who knew what would have happened if his father hadn't been watching, or getting a guess that it was some form of radiation. Using some scrape lead piping, the old man was able to cover the stones with the metal. This allowed Ranma to gain his strength back and get better. It only took a little more time after this incident to convince Genma not to try to develop an immunity by exposure to the stones. They buried the rocks and tried to keep them safe from the younger Saotome. Yet those green rocks made him warey of strange green objects like the ring.

"So Nabiki, where did you get the ring from? I've never seen anything like it." asked Ranma as he tried to gain more information from the direct route.

"Oh this? It's just a gift from a family friend who passed away. I wear it memory of him and his aid of my family. I think it's a unique piece from his family he wanted to pass on to another generation, given how far from home he was. So Saotome do you have anything to say about yourself?" asked the woman as she kept her eyes on Ranma.

"Nothing much to tell, just a wandering martial artist with an idiot father. Trying my best to learn all the martial arts I can and merge them into a usable, cohesive form of combat. Just trying to live by the martial artist's code of protecting the weak and innocent as long as I have the power to do this. During my travels I met Shampoo and discovered a similar urge to protect the innocent and we have been working together since then." spoke the young man as he had returned to the ground. It was a few minutes in silence before they arrived at the gates of the high school. Ranma scanned the school with X-ray vision to get a sense of the floor plan for future memorizing.

"So I take it this is were we're parting, ne Nabiki? You go to your class and the two of us go to get tested for which classroom we're going into. See you later, Nabiki." said Ranma as he moved to the building followed by a silent yet smiling Shampoo. Ranma knew that Shampoo was trying to avoid speaking too much in case she looked like a fool with her words.

In the classroom, some time later...

The Teacher was standing at the head of the class behind her desk, as three students stood in a line beside the desk facing the class. One was a dark haired boy with some chinese like clothes, followed by a purple haired girl in the female school uniform and the last was obviously a female in the uniform of a male. The last student was pulling off an attractive look of a tomboy with the hint if properly made up and dress would become a knockout lady.

The teacher looked at the note which had been sent up from the office, "Okay class, let's give a big welcome to our three new students. Ranma Saotome, Shampoo Himemiya and Ukyo Kuonji."

The teacher wait a moment for the clapping to stop before she asked, "Okay, students let's get into class. Ranma you can take that empty seat near the back behind Akane, Shampoo you can take the seat to his right and Ukyo can take the seat behind him."

Ukyo was taking her impressions on the boy who had altered her life, trying to calculate the chances of being in the same high school class as him after all of this time. Her thoughts were growing, 'I would love a chance to try my hand at kicking an invulnerable alien's ass for all of the troubles he has given me, things just have a way of derailing plans. My worry is the alien signatures which have landed around Tokyo at the moment, all I have found are the remains of shattered spaceships. Spaceships which look like they were created for an one-way trip, which may or may not lead to trouble. If I run into trouble I would rather have a superhuman with all of the powers of a kryptonian on my side fighting against any alien invasion.'

'There's also the woman who came into the class room just now, who seems to know Saotome-kun. Something about her is making my senses say non-human or superhuman as well. I might have a few questions which have to be answered about this woman with the unusual hair colour. The only other clue about her is the fact she has the moves of a fighter... or a warrior as well as seems to be holding back a lot of power. Much like Saotome-kun seem to be doing as well, which makes me wonder if she has compairable strength, speed or both.' thought the woman in the men's uniform.

'I might try to recruit their help after taking a closer look at the remains of the spacecraft, hoping the creatures who used them are not planning an attack any time soon. I know there is between five and ten of them, but I know little more then this about them. I need more information.'

In the same school...

Nabiki was keeping her mouth closed to keep the moron which was Tatewaki Kuno from learning the situation now taking place in the Tendo home. In her mind, it was simple, 'Keep Kuno in the dark for a little while as the family build up some kind of story for him to believe instead of what ever nonsense he is likely to come up with. Without out me or Ranma from saying the word about our living status, because Akane is not even going to speak about sharing a house with a boy, it shouldn't be a problem for a while. Even Kuno can't spy on all of us all of the time in the day... or at least not as long as I got this ring to foil those chances for spying.'

She kept her eye on the billionaire with then mental problems. He was dressed in samurai clothing the shade of bright purple to prove his noblity and right to rule, due to the rarity of purple dyes in the past. His head was covered by a black hair wig since the incident with his sister's concotions which had left him totally bald. Everyone knew it was a wig, but the man's swordmanship was so great few were going to raise the issue.

'Hopefully I can keep Kuno under my thumb for the rest of the day while Ranma and Shampoo adapt to the rest of the school.' thought the girl with the cosmic ring as she continued with her educational work.

Elsewhere...

Six points around the special districts of tokyo, the site of the original Edo period city before it was expanded during the great war. Six points in and around the different districts were standing the different elemental creatures. Ice and fire, water and earth, lightning and metal. All different elemental powers forming the bodies of six powerful warriors, who had the power to control those elemental forces. Yet more frightning was the fact each one of these warriors could transform a normal human being into a similar elemental being, creating an army of doppelgangers to fight against the other warriors for total control of the city and the planet.

The only reason they had not yet mounted a first attack was the fact the contest had not begun, the stars had not aligned for the set time period. Yet each of them was getting what they thought was an advantage over the others by exploring a little around the starting places, the spot where they're spaceship landed and exploded. They would return to the same place at the time of the beginning of the contest so the march of the Appellaxian would begin.

It would be a short period of time now before the mission would begin, for the test of whatever was worthy of being their leader for the next reign on the throne. To see which of their elemental powers would dominate while all others festered in the grave. The winner would return with an army of their kind while the loser's troops would also be converted to the superior element and join that army. Who cared if any of the lifeforms of this world would die? They were not as important as their kind's noble existance.

The time was counting down to when they battle would begin and how glorious would it be!