Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction ❯ Project I: Zero Ranma ❯ Ranma's Past,, Part 1 ( Chapter 7 )

-Previously on Project: Zero Ranma-

"Stay down," he said, and stood up and turned around, and Sasami's face suddenly was bathed with specks of blood.

Ranma felt a prick in his chest, and saw Uranus, who had her sword deep in his chest. His eyes traveled from the sword to the wielder of it. She showed no emotion in her face, yet her eyes showed satisfaction.

The Inner Senshi were shocked to see Uranus stab Zero, and the other end of the sword is sticking out of his back.

Uranus removed her sword, and Ranma's eyes began to close. He fell down on his knees and stood there kneeling a moment, his hand still clutched the gold orb. He fell forward.

Suddenly, in a blink of an eye, two other beams came down towards Ranma. One was red and one was blue.

"Ranma!" the red figured shouted as he knelt down towards the fallen figure.

"Zero, is he okay?" asked the blue armored figure.

"I... don't know, X," the red figure replied.

It was the two friends of Ranma... from the future.

-Omega X Presents-

-Project: Zero Ranma-

-Chapter 7: Ranma's Past, Part 1-

"Damn it! I knew he was in trouble, but we were too late!" X exclaimed as he saw her fallen friend.

Zero looked calm as he tapped a button which was hidden secretly at Ranma's helmet, and it opened. He turned Ranma around and Zero took the helmet off, the Inner Senshi gasped they saw the face of their hero.

"RANMA?" shouted Mercury. Jupiter and Venus just stood there frozen as they gasped as the face of their classmate, unable to speak. Mars and Moon just turned white.

Zero just took his arm and put it in Ranma's head. "Wait, he is still alive... but barely..."

Sasami and Ukyou came towards Ranma. "Cousin Ranma!" Sasami said.

Zero looked up to the two girls. "Do you know him?"

"He is my cousin..." "He is my brother..."

Zero just nodded. "He needs help. He's gonna die if we leave him alone," Zero said.

"Which is what he is going to do," Pluto said as he emerged in front of the two Maverick Hunters. "He is a threat to the formation of our perfect nation, and he needs to die."

X just stared hard at Pluto, and then to other two Outer Senshi joining her side. One of them had a sword, and it had blood. "You... you did this to him?" X asked as he began to glow golden.

"Yes, because he needs to die," Pluto said calmly. "Now, get out of the way so we can finish the job."

X didn't listen as he let out his left hand disappeared and the outlet of his Ultimate Plasma Mega Buster came out and he shot it to the three. Pluto and the other two Senshi just jumped up and dodged the attack. "Zero, set the co-ordinates. We're getting out of here!"

Zero didn't need to reply as his lower right arm opened a bit to reveal something which almost looked identical with the Mercury computer and began to type.

"Oh no you..." Uranus didn't finish as X just jumped in the air, and his armor from his back opened like wings, and he glowed yellow.

"NOVA STRIKE!!!" X shouted as he sped towards Uranus.

Uranus just ducked and rolled as X just passed by her. Neptune hurried to the busy Zero to stop him, but Zero was ready for her. "Raijingeki!!!" Zero said, as he turned around to face her and stabbed her with an electric blade. Neptune screamed as the pain tore through her body was not like anything she felt before.

"NEPTUNE!" Pluto exclaimed, and aimed her staff at Zero. "DEAD SCRE..."

And she was cut off when X flew and rammed her from behind. "Hurry Zero!!!" X shouted as he he approached him.

"DONE!" Zero said. "Let's get out of here!"

Zero, Ranma, X, Sasami and Ukyou, in a white light, were compressed into a beam and disappeared in the sky...

=Somewhere in a roof of a abandoned building=

Dr. Light looked out in the sky as his eyes feasted on the sight of Old Tokyo. (Ahh... Heaven is something humans can never see because they can't see. I bet in this time, they hope to create A.I., yet when they reach it, like me, they'll want the old world they had...)

An energy buildup behind him made him stop his thoughts. Turning around, he saw Zero, X, two girls and...

"RANMA!" Dr. Light exclaimed in shock. "Oh my goodness... Is he alright?"

"His heart stopped beating, but I'm still getting a brainwave pattern," Zero said. "He needs to be helped, now..."

Dr. Light looked devastated. "But... Zero, we can't repair him. This timeline has no technology to even produce a bio-metallic cell..."

"But... we can send him to the future right?" X asked desperately.

Zero sighed and frowned deeply. "He won't survive the trip... He barely survived when he first came to us..." Zero replied, remembering Ranma as a young kid with one arm and leg gone, and bleeding heavily when he sent Ranma to the future with him. It is the reason why Dr. Light did a full body cybernation, and not just replace the arm and leg.

X punched the floor. "NO! There is no hope?"

Sasami, who was quiet with Ukyou, spoke up. "We should... get cousin Ranma to Washu... she can help..."

Dr. Light perked up. "Wa-Washu?" he asked. "She's here?"

Zero and X looked up. "Who's Washu?"

Dr. Light took a while to answer. "She taught me most of the things I know, and she also helped me get my body..." [Dr. Light was dead already when Zero became a Maverick Hunter, only his brain was alive.]

=Masaki Shrine=

Katsuhito looked at her daughter. "You didn't tell him?"

Nodoka shook her head. "How am I supposed to say that he is an alien?" Nodoka asked her father.

"He doesn't know his heritage?" Katsuhito asked back. "He would, no, should know sooner or later..."

"I can't say it to him... I just can't," Nodoka replied.

Outside, the sound of bickering and fighting was clear for the two adults. Nodoka sighed.

"Tenchi is so manly, having two girls fighting over him..."

"There are other ways to be manly..." Katsuhito replied kindly.

Suddenly, a shout erupted from outside. Katsuhito stood up and raced outside followed by Nodoka. He stopped a few steps from the grounds and so did Nodoka.

"Oh, Kami-sama... RANMA!!!" Nodoka shouted...

=Later, at Washu's laboratory=

Washu watched in awe as Dr. Light operate her machine with almost equal efficiency.

"How do you know how to operate this machine?" she asked.

"I already said, Washu," Dr. Light replied, turning to her. "You taught me all this."

Washu smiled. "So, you are my future student?"

Dr. Light smiled as well. "Yes... And you're choice of age at that time was more... uhm, mature than what you are using now..." and he blushed a bit.

Washu returned the smile, and turned her attention to Ranma. "How is he?"

Dr. Light frowned. "This machine you have will heal him, but the damage done to the mind..." And Dr. Light shook his head. "We need to reboot his brain, show his memories to him... The memories he can always access always pass in without difficulty, but others... it will be forced to him..."

Washu looked at the frown of Dr. Light. "Why? What happened to him before?"

"I'll explain with everyone later... I'm sorry Ranma..." he added quietly as he pushed a button.

=Masaki Shrine=

Dr. Light appeared from the closet and Washu was followed him.

"Zero, did you explain who we are?" Dr. Light asked.

"Yes... although I think Ranma's mother wants to hear in more details."

Dr. Light just nodded. "Okay. Let's begin..."

Zero started. "It all began when I saw Ranma being mauled by lions..."

=Ranma's Mind=

-The life of Ranma as a child was easily digested. Others, were...-

"NO FAHTER!!!" Ranma shouted as he felt the ions tear his body apart. He felt pain, smelled death and the last thing he saw before everything went black was a large paw coming down to him...

-Life of Ranma in the future with Zero. Training easily digested, but then, it came...-

"Colonel, please stop this!!!" Ranma said as he faced Iris' brother, the only person he didn't wish to face.

"I will not... For the glory of the Repliforce!" the Colonel said, as he dashed towards him. Ranma jumped up in the air to avoid the slash, and slashed downwards. They parried with their swords, blocking and slashing.

"It's too bad Ranma, you were the last person I wanted to fight!"

"Me too... Let's stop this nonsense!" Ranma replied.

"I'll NEVER surrender!" Colonel said as he slashed downwards. It hit directly Ranma at the shoulder. Ranma retaliated by slashing upwards vertically, and the Colonel back stepped. They stood facing each other.

"Nice one..." the Colonel said as he checked his hand, which had a scratch. "But you have to do better than that!"

Ranma didn't reply as he dashed forward to perform a Shippuuga and missed as the Colonel jumped away from the dash attack. Slashing downwards, the Colonel aimed directly at Ranma's head, which missed as Ranma countered with his own upward slash, Ryuenjin. Both swords met and clashed in the air. That's when Ranma's advantage came as he used his Anything Goes Style and Kuuenbu skills to gain air superiority.

The Colonel was taken back as he got hit in his chest and his left leg. He groaned as he tried to fight back, by slashing wildly at Ranma. It worked as the sword hit Ranma directly in his right arm, but countered it by doing a spinning slash which hit directly in the Colonel's head. Both landed at the same time to the ground, and both dashed at the same time towards each other.

SLASH!

In a blink of an eye, Ranma stood there with the Colonel's sword an inch away from his face. The Colonel, on the other hand, looked at the sword which penetrated his armor. It seems that Ranma used his Raijingeki which extended his blade with electrical energy which gave Ranma the advantage in length.

The Colonel came down to one knee when as the blade's energy disappeared. "You... you're too late..."

"What?" Ranma said.

"The Repliforce... left already..." he replied. "Ranma... take care of Iris, and my sword, for me..." and he glowed white, and the build up of energy was all Ranma needed to find out what would happen next.

"COLONEL! NO!!!"

And in a blinding light, Iris' brother blew up, leaving his sword behind...

=Masaki household=

"He... he killed Iris' brother?" Nodoka asked incredulously.

"He had no choice," Zero replied. "We were at war... But the big blow came to him when he saw who was waiting for him in the Final Weapon which the Repliforce escaped to space with..."

=Ranma's mind=

"I-Iris? What are you doing here?" Ranma asked as he saw her.

"You fought with my brother..." she just said.

"Y...yes..." Ranma replied.

"Then it's over..." Iris said, as the purple orb glowed more intensely in her hand. "Good bye, Ranma..."

"No, wait!!!" But he was too late, as Iris threw her orb right in the air, which transformed her, giving her a thick armor. "Iris..." he said as the orb transformed to a diamond and fused within the armor.

Ranma attacked the armor, but it had no effect. It did penetrate, but the scraps of metal which flew of the armor transformed to a flying drone mines that approached him, and the armor seemed to heal itself.

Iris aimed her hand to Ranma and his eyes went wide as a blaster appeared from her hand, which was almost like X's, except that it fired a purple beam of powerful energy. Ranma's shoulder armor almost came of hen it was contacted with the beam, and only Ranma's dodging skills saved his life.

Iris took aim and fired again, but this time, Ranma was ready. He took up in the air, behind Iris and did his powerful Shippuuga at her back. She flew towards the wall. Ranma's eye widened as the diamond which transformed her body was floating above the armor.

(To take out Iris, I need to take out that diamond...) he thought.

Iris recovered quickly as she turned around and aimed at Ranma, and fired. Ranma jumped up to the air and slashed the diamond with all his might, as his energy blade seemed to force its way in the diamond. It took a while, but the diamond cracked and the energy inside it began to escape, and it blew up.

Everything seemed dark to Ranma as he landed to the floor, and saw Iris, lying down, apparently not getting up.

"IRIS!" Ranma said as he ran towards her. He kneeled down to her and held her hand. "Iris, are you okay...?"

"Ranma... you still beat me..."

"It doesn't matter now... please don't talk..." Ranma pleaded.

"I... I feel weak... I put too much energy in that tool that `he' gave me..." Iris said.

"You'll be alright... You'll see..."

"Ranma... I have a favor..." Iris said, and opened her palm. It was a gold orb. "Keep it with you... It is everything that stood for us in those times... Everything that was meant for us... Please, always remember me..."

Ranma recognized the orb. He himself gave that orb to Iris before. "I will, but please..."

But Iris just smiled weakly as she mouthed `I love you...' and closed her eyes. Ranma couldn't do anything as he held her in his arms, tears now flowing freely in his eyes. He clutched the orb in his palm and hugged her.

"I swear... I'll never forget..." Ranma said quietly.

=Masaki household=

"And that's how we found him..." X said. "Standing near her as he clutched the orb in his hand."

Everyone at this point had their head down.

"So... that's why his eyes were so sad..." Ukyou said.

"Yes... he was never the same after that. Anyway," Zero continued. "All three of us came towards the throne room, where the general stood. He was a big man, and his armor was amazingly impenetrable. The only weak point he had was his head..."

"What happened?" asked Katsuhito.

X shrugged. "Ranma dashed in the air, dodging the General's flying arms and projectiles, and was able to stab him in the base of his neck which stopped him for a while..."

=Ranma's mind=

Ranma jumped towards the General, rolling to the right as the General's right arm came at him at full speed, jumped again in the air to dodge the left arm. He landed at the top of the arm, and with less than a second, he jumped out towards the General.

The General fired two orbs from his limbs which his arms were supposed to be attached, and Ranma dodged them as he came to the General's head and slashed downwards.

"AAAGGGHHH!" it said as the blade connected with the soft party of the neck armor. "It's... not over!"

Ranma just stood there, his blade still at the General's neck. "It's over..."

"NEVER!"

But something shook the place, it was not normal.

"What the hell..." Ranma said as he felt it.

"What's going on?" asked X as he also shook from the floor movements.

"General! What's happening?" asked Zero to the big robot.

"Someone's taken control of the weapon!" the General said.

"Who?" asked X.

"I don't know, but you still have time..." the General said. "Go to the core, and deactivate it! It's the only way to stop this!"

Ranma, Zero and X dashed towards the door which the General pointed. There, they didn't know that someone or something is waiting for them...

To Be Continued...

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NEXT: Continuation form Ranma's past. Who will be his final enemy?

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