Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Future-Ranma ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Disclaimer:I do not own Ranma ½ nor intend to profit from use of its characters.   Prologue How They Were Remembered

Horrific she thought.

How could her own government, her own people, be stupid enough to do this? Okay, so this was the same government that gave Bush a second term, but that was three hundred years ago. Hadn’t mankind evolved at all!

Still, the man beside her thought she, as a reporter was here to do a simple puff piece to promote the nations growing military power. She had to keep her objections to herself and play the part. How else was it possible to case the joint. Soon the time would come to stop these people.

The man beside her just couldn’t stop talking. He was so proud of the hundreds abominations in gestation tanks before them.

"My dear, surely your familiar with Ki also called battle aura. The idea that all living beings possess an energy unique to them, yet connected to the energy of all others. Various peoples have philosophized about these forces for centuries but it was only after these four came along that it was treated as a serious science."

"Amazing sir", the woman replied. "Please tell me more about these four."

"As legend would have it they where martial artists. Two of them competed fiercely for the love of a woman and grew more powerful each time they fought. The other two were woman who were repeatedly rejected by one of the boys and trained obsessively to be worthy of him."

The man continued. "It is well known that people with powerful battle auras age more gracefully than others, though the reason isn’t fully understood; but these four seemed incapable of maturing in any way. Some say they were cursed and though their power kept growing they couldn’t mature until the romantic conflict was resolved. Alas the boys killed one another in their final battle, a tragic end. As for the girls, they fought over the boy and one was defeated and killed, some say the other survived, though she must be dead by now."

The tragic end was far more tragic then the old man let on. Akane Tendo knew this better than anyone. It was her ancestor that Ranma and Ryoga fought over and the final battle was what destroyed Japan, China, and 2/3’s of Europe. There were plenty of horror stories about Shampoo and Ukyo as well.

You see Akane had grown up hearing bedtime stories taken right from her great great Grandmothers Diary. She knew how the first Akane watched them fight over her, how she had a love hate relationship with both of them, how they grew more jealous by the day, she even new the ridiculous story of how the final battle came about. According the diary, the first Akane went to the store to buy milk and each boy accused the other for her disappearance, beginning the legendary apocalypse. Now the Nabiki conglomerate, under government contract, was recreating these monsters. Worse they were creating an army of these monsters.

"Sir" she asked, "How do you know you can control them.

"Simple my dear. Recombinant genetic material was injected into them at the third trimester of accelerated growth, and the bonding of this material is tested in the fifth. The recombinant material uses dolphin, dog, and synthetic Nan based DNA to breed obedience directly into them on a microbiological level. It reduces their power slightly but that is the price we pay for absolute control. We created prototypes of each before mass production and they have shown absolute loyalty"

The reduced power made sense; people with strong free will usually have greater levels of battle aura.

An obvious question came to Akanes mind. "What happens if the recombinant material is rejected by the host."

"That only happens 0.006% of the time but we destroy the replicant ma’am. Obviously we can’t have an unaltered copy loose, it would be devastating." The man stopped walking and pointed to a gestation tank in front of us. "Here is a replicant that rejected bonding, it will be disposed of this afternoon."

Akane stepped forward, the creature moved and she immediately jumped back.

"Relax my dear. At this stage it has only very basic cognitive abilities. All it knows is it is comfortable in its little fish-tank here."

Calling her an it made Akane uncomfortable even if this was one of the legendary four horsemen.

The thing in the tank opened its eyes. It took one look at Akane and began glowing with a yellow flame. Various monitors that showed the creatures progress of development began racing forward. The yellow flame turned blue and the monitors data raced even faster.

A computerized voice dictated its progress.

SUBJECT #666 HAS REACHED 6TH TRIMESTER.

SUBJECT #666 HAS REACHED 7TH TRIMESTER.

SUBJECT #666 HAS REACHED 8TH TRIMESTER.

SUBJECT #666 HAS REACHED 9TH TRIMESTER.

The man pushed Akane aside and began to frantically type into the gestation tanks user interface. Safety protocols activated, nutrient bathes were drained, and arsenic was pumped into the tanks and nano technology once assisting growth now attacked every cell. Yet this creature resisted all this and willed its own body into completion. Soon it took a human shape and eventually formed into a pretty red haired girl.

A girl Akane thought. This must be Shampoo or Ukyo, thankfully the least dangerous of the four.

The red haired girl looked around at the tank she was in. She then flicked her baby finger at the 6-inch glass and it shattered around her.

The girl approached Akane and looked deep into her eyes. She seemed so fragile and even human as she looked at her, then she spoke, "A-A-A-AKANE YOU UNCUTE TOMBOY, what did you get me into this time."

Soon a battalion of techno ninjas, and neo samurais rushed into the facility.

What the heck was going on the red haired girl thought, in front of her was a whole army of robot Sunosukes with guns for hands and human looking Kuno type guys with Light Sabers.

"Don’t worry Akane," the red haired girl yelled. "I’ll get you out of this, or my name isn’t Ranma Saotome."