Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong	

Neon Genesis Evangelion/Ranma 1/2: The Angel the just won't die

Note: This is part 2 to my `Just won't die' series. You don't need to 
read the first part to understand what is going on. However, you can 
find it and several other parts to the series on my webpage ^_^ If 
you don't want to read the other parts: Ranma is much more mature 
and older and but retained his youth because of his curse....which he 
had cured in the first installment. 



     "Great! Just great!" 
  Ranma sighed. He looked around and took in his surroundings. He 
realized he was standing on a cliff that overlooked the outskirts of a 
vastly technologically advanced city.
  "Hm, reminds me of MegaTokyo," he couldn't help but comment.
He really wished his curiosity hadn't gotten the better of him. Why did 
he have to open that damn box?! Why?! He should have left it where it 
belong, in the Amazon village Shampoo used to live in, before she had 
died in the 'Nerima Massacre' along with everyone else.
  He looked down at what remained of the box. "Great! Just great! I'm 
stuck here! How the hell am I gonna get back?!" When he had opened the 
box, he was instantly ripped from his own world and plunged into this 
one. It didn't help that he reappeared several hundred feet up in mid 
air, only to hit the ground with such impact that the box had broken.
  Ranma stretched out his arms. Sure, he was stuck in this world, but he 
would somehow find a way back. 
  "Oh, I could look for the nanban mirror," Ranma realized, his eyes 
lighting up. It didn't really bother him that it was probably near 
impossible trying to find a single mirror. But it didn't matter. He had 
time. It wasn't as if he was ever going to die from natural causes. 
Heck, he was well into his middle ages but he would probably live well 
past the age Happousei had been when he died. Heck, considering his 
health, he could probably live longer than Cologne and Happousei put 
together. He was also as fit as a virile twenty year old, and looking 
like one to boot.
  Ranma scratched the back of his head, "Hm, now how the hell am I gonna 
find it?" It bothered him that here he was, out on some alternate world, 
while Ryoga and Akane remained back on their own world.
  "Well, that won't matter all that much," he said to himself, "When I 
find the mirror, I'll just travel back to the exact time and place as 
when I opened that box. Only a second would have elapsed..."
  All of a sudden, alarms could be heard reverberating throughout the 
town.
  His eyes widened, "Cool!!" 
  He caught sight of these massive buildings slowly lowering into the 
ground. He stood there, watching intently. He raised his gaze upward 
where he saw what looked like the sky opening up, only to see this 
massive beam of light shooting downward through the opening and hitting 
one of the retracking buildings, destroying it. The blast had been so 
powerful that Ranma had to shield his eyes from the brilliance, feeling 
the heat up against his skin.
  Ranma's jaw dropped as he saw this weird looking creature decending 
from the sky, landing somewhere within the city limits, hidden behind 
one og the buldings.
  "Oh man, oh man! No way...t-that can't be what I think it is....c-
could it?" he said, this shock in his voice. "T-this world is being 
invaded by aliens!"
  Curiosity getting the better of him yet again, Ranma lept off the 
cliff, freefalling toward the ground below head first.
  He skillfully somersaulted forward and landed on his feet moments 
before impact, and then ran toward where he believe that alien had 
landed. 
  He wanted to get a closer look. 
  He'd look for the mirror later.

  "Hey, Wonder Girl, do you see it?" Asuka asked, skillfully maneuvering 
her EVA through the city streets. 
  "No," Rei's voice filtered into the cockpit.
  Asuka knew Rei was somewhere by the outskirts of the city. Rei's EVA 
had its high powered rifle with it, and was leaning agains the side of 
the mountain, waiting for a moment to fire. Of course, Rei's attack 
would be useless due to those damn AT fields surrounding the Angels. It 
was Asuka and Shinji's job to break down the AT field to allow Rei a 
clear shot.
  Asuka looked down at her EVA's weapon. A single knife. Sure, the blade 
was probably around twenty feet long, but it was a knife regardless.
  "Hmph, this knife won't do anything. I might as well fight this Angel 
hand to hand. It'll be more effective." Asuka made the comment to 
herself.
  Misato's voice echoed throughout the cockpit, "Asuka, be careful out 
there,"
  "Of course I'm going to be careful," Asuka muttered. "Sheesh, why do 
you keep having to remind me? It's not like I didn't hear the first time 
around. Look, just tell me where the Angel is and I'll kill it"
  "There's two of them," she heard Misato's voice.
  "What?" Shinji said. He was postioned on the other end of the city. He 
and Asuka were supposed to slowly make their way toward where the Angel 
had landed, and now, there was a second Angel?! He didn't recall seeing 
two Angels descend from the sky.
  "Where is it?" Shinji asked.
  "The second Angel is currently heading north, straight toward the 
other Angel," Masato's voice could be heard over all three pilots' 
cockpits. "Be extra cautious. This second Angel...we're getting weird 
power readings from it."
  "Huh? What do you mean?" Asuka asked.
  "It's a very small Angel," came a reply, "yet it's powerlevel is akin 
to the one we just saw land,"
  "Where the hell did this second Angel come from?" Shinji asked. He was 
slowly making his way toward where the Angel had landed. Hundreds of 
questions were running through his mind. His fingers were twitching 
nervously as he handled to controls.
  "I dunno. It's just....appeared outta nowhere. Just be careful,"

  Ranma continued to wander the streets. 
  "God, all these buildings look the same," he muttered. But that didn't 
really matter much to him. He didn't need to really see the alien to 
know where it was. He could merely feel its presence.
  He closed his eyes for a moment.
  "What the?" Ranma's eyes immediately opened. He was getting this weird 
feeling. Aside from sensing that alien, he had sensed three other 
beings, each almost as strong as the alien he had seen.
  Ranma was getting excited and worried at the same time. 
  "Oh man, what am I gonna do?" he said to himself, looking around. He 
needed better vantage point. All these building were in the way. Sure, 
he could destroy them to clear his path, but it was a waste of energy.
He decided to leap up onto one of the roofs. He lept up toward on to the 
buildings and propelled himself off of it, triangle jumping onto a roof.
  "Much better," Ranma said with a smile. He had a clear view from where 
he was perched. His eyes widened as he caught sight of this weird red 
robot leaning against a building. "Whoa,"
  Asuka spotted a human....which happened to be Ranma "W-what the? Why 
is he up on the roof? Is he some kinda idiot? How come he didn't seek 
refuge like everyone else?! Doesn't he know there're Angels running 
loose? He's gonna get himself killed,"
  "What? Someone's on the roof?" Misato's voce "Well, get him outta 
there! Get him to safety!"
  "Why? It's his fault that he's up there in the first place, not mine," 
Asuka spat. She resented the fact that the man on the roof was too 
stupid of follow the simple task of taking refuge. She didn't want to 
play babysitter.
  "Just get him to safety," Misato's voice was stern.
  Asuka swore to herself. She then maneuvered her EVA toward the man, 
and reach and arm out to take hold of him.
  Ranma peered at the extended arm intently. He then looked up, 
remembering he had almost killed the Knight Saber's all due to a 
misunderstanding. Perhaps these giant robots were human driven....like 
some kind of mech.
  "You human?" Ranma asked after a moment.
  "Of course I'm human you idiot!" Asuka's voice echoed. "Get the hell 
onto my hand so I can get you to safety!"
  Ranma, realizing that the robot wasn't the enemy, and realizing the 
human voice, figured it was best to oblige. Afterall, he had no idea 
what that alien-looking was that he saw land. As he was about to hop off 
the rooftop and onto the EVA's outstretched hand, a massive explosiong 
struck the back of Asuka's EVA, causing it to topple forward, right into 
the building Ranma had been on.
  Without even thinking, Ranma reacted on instinct and quickly lept up 
into the air, landing on the EVA's back as it settled down on its 
stomach. As he stood there, he looked up and caught sight of the alien 
he had seen earlier. It looked like a massive spider and was standing 
before him.
  "Whoa," he commented, only to find himself a bit off balance as Asuka 
maneuvered her EVA to get onto its feet. Ranma was forced to lunge off 
the EVA's back and onto the ground below.
  "You son of a bitch!" Asuka shouted as her EVA got to its feet. 
  Unit-02 gripped its progressive knife with both hands as it made a 
suicidal attempt at stabbing the giant spider in its body. 
Unfortunately, Unit-02's attempt was foiled when one of the Angel's legs 
came crashing into its chest, sending it flying bodily backwards into a 
nearby building, causing Ranma to run for cover from the falling debris.
  "You'll pay for that!" Asuka spat as she made Unit-02 get back onto 
its feet. Twice she had been knocked down. Enough was enough.
  From out of nowhere, one of the buildings crumbled and out of it Ranma 
noticed purple looking robot emerging.
  Unit-01 grabbed the Angel from behind, holding two of its legs in 
place.
  "I've got it! I've got!" Shinji shouted into his communicator. He 
couldn't believe he was doing something this reckless, jumping through a 
building just so he could get the Angel quicker.
  Asuka smiled. Now it was her turn.
  "You're gonna pay for knocking me down twice!!!" Asuka said. 
  Unit-02 punched the Angel in what seemed like its face several times, 
continuously barraging it with blows that nearly shook the ground they 
were on. 
  Ranma nearly cheered aloud. It was actually cool to watch a fight 
instead of being in one for a change. As he stood a short distance away, 
definitely close enough to feel the impact of every blow, Ranma's battle 
aura starting to glow. Perhaps it was because he was getting excited.
  Asuka noticed something through her periphrel vision and turned her 
EVA to investigate, her view screen immediately showing an image of 
Ranma and this weird blue light surrounding him.
  "What the hell is tha-" Asuka's words were cut short as she soon found 
her EVA being flown bodily backwards yet again. It didn't take a genius 
to realize that that idiot Shinji couldn't hold onto the Angel long 
enough for Asuka to finish it off. The Angel, after having freed itself, 
struck her with all its might, hitting Unit-02 directly in its chest.
  Shinji battled for his life as he did his best to keep the Angel's 
flailing legs from hitting him. It had gotten free and it seemed to want 
revenge on what Shinji had did. Its attention was turned solely on him, 
standing on only its hind legs, its other legs in striking position.
  "Jeez!!" Shinji said, trying the best to keep the Angel away from him, 
making his EVA slash at it wildly with the progressive knife.
  Ranma looked toward the red robot. It was slowly getting back up onto 
its feet.
  Asuka looked at her damage screen. Several red lights were on. That 
one blow she had taken from the Angel had been devestating. She soon 
realized her EVA's right arm were no longer functioning, and the power 
cable had been torn away when she went flying. She could see the timer 
to power failure rapidly in progress.
  She had to finish this Angel off and quickly before she ran out of 
power. 
  But she needed a plan.
  "What the hell are you waiting for?! Hit it!!!" Ranma cupped his hands 
and shouted. He wished he was as large as that big red robot. If he 
were, he would have finished that spider looking alien a long time ago. 
"Uppercut its belly! Better yet, stab it in the belly!"
  Asuka looked over toward the glowing blue human, "What?!"
  "Use that knife! It's always on its hind legs! Its belly is wide open! 
Forget about keeping the legs away!" Ranma shouted, urging the red robot 
pilot on. Couldn't that pilot see it? It was a perfect place to attack.
  "Shut up!" Asuka shouted, "You're not the one fighting! And get the 
hell outta here if you know what's good for you! You're gonna get 
yourself killed!!!" Asuka couldn't believe that man was still there. He 
should had taken cover already when he had seen the Angel. How stupid 
could that man be? Why the hell was he still there?!
  Asuka turned her attention back onto the Angel, just in time to see 
the Angel bringing two of its legs down right into Unit-01's chest, 
causing the entire EVA to fall down to the ground, onto its back, 
unmoving.
  "Move!!!!" Shinji shouted "Get the hell up!!!! Move!!!!" His EVA 
refused to respond. 
  "Oh shit!" Ranma said, realizing that the pilot of that purple robot 
was in deep trouble if he or she didn't do something and fast. The robot 
was just lying there in the middle of the street, waiting to be skewered 
by that alien's legs.
  Ranma, not even realizing what he was getting himself into, ran toward 
the purple robot, running right underneath the belly of the alien. He 
knew he had to do something. He wanted to at least attempt to rescue the 
pilot before it was too late. As he ran underneath, Ranma took a quick 
moment to look up, only to see the red robot desperately trying to keep 
the alien's legs at bay. If that red robot stepped in the wrong place, 
Ranma would get squished.
  Back at Nerv headquarter, Misato had a worried look on her face. 
"Shinji's in trouble! Unit-01 is no longer responding! Eject him!"
  "I can't!" Maya replied "It's not working!"
  As Ranma reached the Shinji's EVA, he jumped onto its chest and said, 
"Hey, get the hell outta that thing! You're gonna get killed if you stay 
in there!"
  Shinji looked at his view screen and saw a human standing almost 
directly in front of the external camera. What the hell was he doing 
there was what immediately ran through Shinji's mind. Where the hell did 
he come from?!
  "Hey, get outta there!!!" Ranma shouted.
  "I-I can't!" Shinji shouted. It didn't really stay in his mind that 
that man wasn't supposed to be there.
  Ranma, hearing the replied, realized he had to somehow rescue the 
pilot.  He turned around and faced the Angel. After a quick glance, 
"Hell no! I ain't fightin' no alien!" He then turned toward the EVA's 
chest.
  "Where the hell are you?!" Ranma shouted.
  "I-I'm....I'm in spine!" came the reply. It all seemed surreal to 
Shinji. Here he was, in his EVA, which was unable to move, about to die, 
and there was someone standing on his EVA's chest talking to him.
  Ranma ran up the chest and stopped at the head. He then squatted low 
and dug several fingers right into the EVA's steel armor. Once had had a 
firm purchase, he pulled as hard as he could, pulling one of the steel 
plates right off. The individual armor plate weighted around a ton and 
was over a foot in solid metal.
  Ranma gritted his teeth as he tossed the plate to the side, the plate 
falling to the ground below with a deafening thud. When he looked back 
down and caught sight of another plate, Ranma realized it would be a lot 
harder of a task than he had anticipated.
  Realizing that he had no time, Ranma extended a hand forward and said, 
"Mouko Takabisha!"
  A ki-blast shot right from his extended arm and struck the metal 
plate, denting it.
  "All right, you wanna play hard ball, huh? Ranma said. He reached a 
hand forward and concentrated for a change. He glowed blue for a moment 
and then said, "Mouko Takabisha!!!!"
  "What the hell was that?" Misato commented, looking at the screen. 
>From out of nowhere, she huge spike of energy in the energy scans 
surrounding the area.
  A massive ki-blast shot from his hand again, nearly blowing the head 
of Unit-01 right off its shoulders. Ranma was blown backwards several 
yards due to the close proximity of the impact, but he skillfully 
twisted in mid-air and landed on his feet. Once on his feet, he ran back 
up to where he had shot his ki-blast.
  "What the?" Ranma comment as he noticed this pink goo looking 
substance under the armor plating he had just destroyed. He was about to 
reach out and actually touch it if weren't for him hearing a deafening 
crunching noise from behind. 
  He turned around and his eyes widened as he caught sight of the giant 
spider of an alien clamping two of its legs around the red robot in what 
looked like a bear hug. The crunching noise was from Unit-02's armor 
shuddering from the intense pressurese being administered.
  All of a sudden, a massive explosion struck the side of the spider. 
The massive explosion left the alien unscathed. It seemed to actually 
make it angrier.
  Unit-00, perched by a mountain, had fired one of its rounds. And it 
seemed to have no effect because of the AT field still surrounding it. 
It didn't really matter because Rei opened fire, emptying the entire 
magazine clip full of heavy duty explosive shells right into the side of 
the Angel.
  Ranma shielded his face as dozens of explosions ensued, the wind from 
the explosions causing him to actually run away and take cover behind 
the now helpless purple robot. When the explosions stopped, Ranma 
realized there must be another robot somewhere around acting as a 
sniper. But he didn't think about that for long as he looked at the 
alien and noticed it was totally unaffected.
  "What the hell?" he said, "If something that strong can't hurt it, how 
the hell do you beat that thing?"
  For several helpless moments, Ranma watched at the alien slowly crush 
the red robot between its many legs. "What a minute! Perhaps 
conventional weapons don't hurt it! That means I might be able to help!"
  Ranma's aura flared incredibly as he raised a hand toward the back of 
the alien.
  "What the hell is that?!" Misato said as she looked at her control 
screen. From out of nowhere, she saw this massive energy source emerge. 
  Ranma shouted, "Mouko Takabisha!!!" From out of his fingertips came a 
massive ki-blast striking the alien in its back, causing it to rear up 
in what seemed like pain, this earth shattering shriek emerging from 
what seemed like its mouth. It released its hold of the red robot, 
flailing its legs.
  "What the fuck was that?" Ritsuko said, staring at her screen. From 
out of nowhere, this huge surge of energy struck the Angel. "Where the 
hell did that surge of energy come from? What's going on? What the hell 
are all our instruments going ballistic?"
  Ranma smirked "Ah, so you can get hurt,"
  He ran forward and underneath the alien. Once underneath, he shouted, 
"Mouko Takabisha!!!" and let loose yet another massive ki-blast, sending 
it rocketing upward into the belly of the alien. The impact blast as it 
hit its underside caused the alien to rear up on its hind legs, and then 
come crashing down on its back, right on top of the purple robot.
  "Oh shit," Ranma said, as he ran backward, getting narrowly missed by 
a huge flailing leg. He turned his attention toward the red robot and 
shouted "What are you waiting for? Beat that thing up!"
  Asuka stared at her screen with wide eyes. One second she was in the 
worse predicament of her life, and then next, she saw all the scanners 
of her cockpit reading a huge spike of energy, and then she saw the 
Angel rear up and fall backwards onto its back. And then, to make 
matters worse, she could hear a man's voice, telling her what to do.
  She looked down and caught sight of the human. Did he just do that? 
Did he cause that massive spike of energy? She would have to answer 
questions later. First, she had to kill that damn Angel.
  Just as she was about to maneuver her EVA in for the kill, her cockpit 
went pitch black.
  It took several moments before Asuka realized what happened "No!!!! 
I'm outta power!!!!!"
  Ranma looked at the red robot. How come it wasn't moving? Is it in 
some state of shock? He pointed again, "Kill the damn thing!!! It's 
gonna get back-"
  He didn't manage to finish his sentence as a one of the alien's 
massive flailing legs struck Ranma from behind, sending him bodily into 
a small building, the building collapsing down on him.  
  Brushing of that devestating blow, Ranma quickly hopped back onto his 
feet and raced out the opening his body had created. He wasn't going to 
stand idly by while this alien get back onto its feet and then go about 
destroying the city. Sure, it wasn't his city, nor was this his world, 
but he would never let something like this happen anywhere.
  Unon reach the sidewalk, Ranma stopped dead in his tracks to look up 
and see a blue robot, equal in size as the red and purple one, punching 
the alien over and over again. The robot seemed to have come out of 
nowhere and climbed on top of the alien in a mounting position and was 
proceeding to beat it into oblivion.
  Ranma was about to run up and cheer when he saw the aliens legs go 
limp, when all of a sudden, the alien's legs reach up and take hold of 
the blue robot.
  "What the-"
  That was all Ranma managed to say before he saw the alien self 
destruct, sending out a massive wall death in destruction in every 
direction like a nuclear bomb, enveloping everything.
  Even Ranma.

  Ranma awoke all of a sudden and sat upright. A couple of days had 
passed since he had been consumed in the blast. Not knowing where he 
was, he immediately surveyed his surroundings. He realized he was in 
some kind of infirmary and that virtually half his entire body was 
covered in bandages.
  He groaned a bit. It hurt to move. But then again, he's been in worser 
conditions before, like that time when he had jumped in front of Ryoga's 
ShiShi Hokodan those many years ago. Now that had hurt.
  He looked up and noticed the room was void of everything except for 
the bed he was on and a mirror on the wall adjacent to his bed. As he 
looked at the mirror, he noticed faint shadows behind it, leading him to 
believe that it was a one way mirror and that he was being watched.
  Ignoring the voyeuristic group, Ranma got up off the bed and removed 
the bandages one by one. It seems the bandages were restraining his 
movements more than the injuries he had sustained.
  "That's incredible," Misato commented, watching Ranma intently through 
the mirror. "That guy looks like he's unhurt. And look at his wounds, 
they're all healed up. Not even a scar"
  Gendo sat in the middle of the viewing room, his elbow resting on a 
table, his chin resting on his hands.
  Ristuko was up against the glass, staring. Where ever 
this....speciman....had come from, he was magnificent.
  Ranma noticed the door to his right and proceeded toward it, only to 
trip on a couple of bandages he had precariously thrown to the ground. 
Feeling embarrassed, Ranma got back up onto his feet and proceeded 
toward the door. When he tried to turn the knob, he noticed it wouldn't 
budge. He was locked it.
  Although he wasn't clasutrophobic, Ranma didn't like being in closed 
rooms. He turned toward the mirror, and said, "Excuse me, can you please 
let me out?"
  "Shit, he knows we're here!" Ritsuko said, a slight measure of panic 
raising in her voice.
  "Ignore him," Gendo said in a cold voice, "We're here to observe him 
and how he reacts to the situation he's in."
  When Ranma didn't receive a reply, he shrugged his shoulders and said, 
"All right, I said for you to open the door. Now you're gonna hafta pay 
for a new door,"
  He struck the center of the door with a quick open hand, blowing it 
right off its hindges. He stopped for a moment as he remembered doing 
the same thing when he had been captured by Genom and placed in a steel 
reinforced room. 
  "Shit, he's out!" Misato said. She ran toward the phone near the back 
of the room only to be stopped when Gendo said, "No. Don't."
  Stepping out into the hallway, Ranma looked to the left and saw 
another door. That must be the door to that observation room, he 
thought. He walked up to the door and opened it, not even bothering to 
turn the knob, pulling yet another door right off its hindges.
  Misato and Ritsuko gave a yelp in shock as they saw Ranma entered the 
room. They had no idea exactly what he or it was.
  Ranma looked at Ritsuko and then at Misato, his eyes finally coming to 
rest on Gendo.
  "What's the big idea, leaving me locked in there?" Ranma said.
  "W-we wanted observing you," Misato said nervously.
  Ranma seemed a bit confused, "Why the heck would ya wanna observe me? 
Are you some kinda perverts?"
  "W-what?!" Ritsuko said, her eyes widening. "W-we are no such thing. 
W-we just wanted to observe you and what you would do."
  Ranma shrugged his shoulder. He figured that was a good enough 
explanation as them being perverts and wanting to see his naked or 
something. He looked at Gendo, "Are you in charge here?"
  Gendo nodded briefly.
  "Well, where am I?"
  "You're in Nerv Headquarters," came the quick reply. 
  Ranma didn't seem all that impressed by whatever this Nerv was. "All 
right. Can you do me a favor and let me out. I don't wanna be here any 
longer than I wanna be. I wanna go back to my own world,"
  "W-world?" Misato asked, "W-what world? What are you talking about?"
  Ranma shooked his head, "Don't worry about it. It's my problem. Let's 
just say I accidentally screwed up back on my own world and ended up 
materializing here."
  "You mean you're from a different world? Like as in an Angel?" Ritsuko 
asked.
  "Thank you," Ranma said with a smile, "I've been called many things in 
my life, but never an angel,"
  "Not that kinda angel. What are you?" Misato questioned "Where did you 
come from? Heck, what the hell is your name?"
  Ranma sighed, "Well, my name's Ranma. Ranma Saotome. Jeez, I remember 
going through the same interrorgation like this back on my own world. 
Anyway, I'm human. Just like you,"
  "What about your powers? Hey, where are you going?" Misato said 
following behind Ranma.
  Ranma, annoyed with being interrorgated, decided it was best to find 
he was out of this place, whatever it is. He walked down a random 
hallway.
  "Hold up!" Misato said, running right behind, only to trip over her 
own two feet and go lunging right into Ranma's back, bringing him down 
with her. As she looked down at him, she said in a meek voice, "S-
sorry,"
  Ranma got to his feet as Misato did too. He said, "I'm gonna leave 
now. I'd appreciate it if you tell me how to get outta this joint,"
  "Hold up, I still have some more questions," Misato said.
  Ranma sighed, "What?"
  "Where did you get all your powers from?"
  "I practiced it. Everyone can do that. I just happened have practiced 
it until I perfected it, that's all," came the reply, matter-of-factly. 
"I learned it when I went to China during a decades long training trip"
  Misato opened her mouth to ask more questions before Ranma said, 
"C'mon, lemme alone. Quit givin' me the first degree. Third degree, 
whatever the hell you call it. I don't like being interrorgated."
  "Where are you going then?"
  "Home hopefully,"
  
  Ranma looked up. "What the hell are those? They look like upside down 
buildings. Where the hell's the sun?"
  Misato, whom had continued to follow Ranma all the way, said, "You're 
underground."
  "Whoa, that's new. I've never been in an underground city before," 
Ranma commented. "Man, I can't believe the new things I come across 
everyday."
  "What do you mean by that?"
  "C'mon, quit asking so many questions," Ranma said, "They're so 
annoying." He looked down at Misato's name badge, "Look, Misato-chan, 
can you please just, well, lemme alone?"
  "Misato-chan?!"
  "Yeah, that's what I said,"
  "First of all, you should be addressing me as Misato-san," Misato 
corrected, taking a firm stance with Ranma. Even though she had no real 
idea who he was, she was still his elder.
  Ranma shook his head, "Nope. I don't think so. I'm actually a lot 
older than you. You should be calling me Ranma-san,"
   "What?! Older than me? How old are you?"
  "Argh, quit asking so many questions!" Ranma shouted. He wanted to get 
away from this girl. Sure, she was very cute, but she asked to many 
questions. Looking around, Ranma caught sight of a cable line that 
seemed to run down from that mile high ceiling to the building he had 
emerged from.
  He lept up into the air and skillfully landed on it.
  "Holy shit!" Misato said in shock as she saw Ranma leap a dozen or so 
stories high and onto that cable line. 
  Ranma looked down at Misato and said, "Well, it was nice meeting ya. 
Ja ne," He then began to run up that steeply declined cable line, 
running up it as if he was running on solid ground, not once struggling 
to stay balanced.
  "What the hell's going on here?!" Misato said in frustration. "Who the 
hell is that man?"
  
  "He's gone," Misato told Gendo as she entered the room.
  "Go after him, the power he possess could help us greatly in our 
fights against the Angels," Gendo said, not even bothering to look up at 
her.
  "And how the hell do you suppose I bring him in, huh?" Misato asked, 
"Put a gun up to his head? I don't think a gun's gonna scare him if he 
managed to survive that explosion that Angel had caused,"
  "You're a resourceful woman, find a way!"

  Ranma took in a breath full of fresh air as he finally set foot on 
firm ground. He was finally above ground.
  "Wait!" came a voice.
  "Oh no," Ranma muttered to himself. He reluctantly turned around to 
face Misato "You again. What do you want? Why are you following me?"
  "I hafta bring you in," she said, huffing and puffing. She couldn't 
believe her luck in actually finding Ranma. When she had entered the 
control room and found Ranma's location, she jetted out of there, hoping 
she would find him still wandering around in that location. Her guess 
came out correct.
  "Bring me in? For what? Did I do something wrong?" Ranma said with a 
smirk.
  "Well, no, you didn't do anything wrong," Misato found herself saying, 
"But we need your help,"
  Ranma's eyes raised a bit, "Help, like in what kinda help?"
  "We need your....well, power," she said, trying her best to come up 
with the words, "We need to know how you generate so much power,"
  Ranma shook his head, "Hell no. I ain't playing no ginea pig. I went 
through enough experiments when I was young to last me a life time. No 
thank you," He began to walk away again, talking to himself, "Hm, well 
judging from the sun, west should be that way. I guess that's the 
direction I hafta head in order to get to China,"
  Misato pulled tranquilizer gun from her coat pocket, "Don't move,"
  Ranma turned around again, now a bit angry "Now what?" When he saw the 
tiny gun, he started laughing, "You've gotta be kiddin' me. That looks 
like a pea shooter,"
  Misato closed her eyes and pulled the trigger.
  Ranma didn't even flinch as he caught the tranquilizer dart between 
his index and middle finger. "Do you mind? I told you, I ain't gonna 
play no ginea pig. Lemme alone,"
  She pulled the trigger again, only to have that dart swatted away 
skillfully.
  "Misato-chan, first of all, I guarantee that you're not going to hit 
me with those darts. Second, I'm not gonna play ginea pig," he said, 
exasperated 
  "But I have to bring you in," she said.
  "Goddamnit it! I've been in this world for, what, a day, and I'm 
already in a heap of shit!" Ranma shouted, shooting a ki-blast into the 
sky for emphasis, "Lemme alone. I have other things to worry about, like 
in getting back to my own world. I'm not here in your world because I 
want to, y'know. I have friends in my homeworld waiting from me to come 
back,"
  Misato pulled the trigger again but nothing came out. She was out of 
darts.
  Ranma smirked, "Ha. You're outta bullets. Now go away. Shoo,"
  "I ain't leaving!"
  "Misato-san, what's going on?" came a voice, Shinji's voice.
  Misato turned her attention away from Ranma.
  Shinji, Rei, and Asuka were together, staring at Misato and Ranma. 
They had been on their way home from school. They would have done some 
testing, but all the EVA's were currently being repaired after that 
fierce battle.
  "What's going on here?" Asuka asked. She looked at Ranma and her eyes 
immediately dawn recognition, "You!!"
  Ranma pointed toward himself, "Me? What about me?"
  "You're the idiot I saw on that rooftop the other day!" she spat, "If 
it weren't for you, I woulda killed that Angel in no time,"
  "Huh? Wait a minute, you mean you were the one piloting that big red 
robot?" Ranma asked.
  "Of course I was, you idiot! And for your information, it's not a 
robot, it's an EVA," she corrected him.
  Ranma shrugged his shoulders, "Looked like a robot to me. Anyway," he 
ignored Asuka and turned toward Misato, "What do I hafta do to get you 
to leave me-"
  "Hey, don't ignore me like that!" Asuka said, her brows creasing.
  Ranma sighed, "What? What do you want?"
  "You heard what I said," Asuka replied, "Don't ignore me like that,"
  Annoyed that this little red haired girl could be so pretentious, 
Ranma ignored her on purpose and turned back toward Misato, "As I said 
before, I'm not gonna play a ginea-"
  "Hey, I said don't ignore me!"
  Ranma siged. "Forget it."
  He ignored everyone and began walking away.
  "What the hell's his problem?" Asuka asked, jerking a thumb at Ranma 
as he walked away.
  "It's most likely you," Rei said.
  "And what makes you think that, Wonder Girl?" Asuka quickly said. 
  "Ranma! Wait up!" Misato called up, running after Ranma. She would 
have to talk to Asuka later about that mouth of hers. 
  Ranma ignored her and continued to walk away.
  All of a sudden, a loud siren could be heard. Ranma stopped for a 
moment, curious as to what that siren represented. He looked toward the 
side and noticed the building beginning to sink into the ground.
  "Oh shit! Another Angel?! Already?!" Misato said, her voice shaky. She 
quickly ran to a nearby payphone and dialed for Nerv Headquaters.
  Ranma, curiosity getting the better of him, followed Misato for a 
change, hoping to eavesdrop on the conversation.
  "Are you absolutely sure?!" Misato said, a finger plugging her free 
ear so she block out the sirens, "Where is it expected to land? How much 
time do we have?"
  After a few moments, Misato hung up. She turned toward the three 
children nearby, "We've got another incoming Angel!"
  "Already?!" Asuka said, shock in her voice. She didn't even have time 
to fully recover from last battle. She still had bruises from when she 
had been thrown around in that cockpit of hers. "But it's only been a 
couple of days. The EVA's aren't even fully prepared yet!"
  Misato said, "I know. But we have no time left. That Angel's gonna 
land! We have to prepare! Get down to headquarters and suit up! I'll be 
there in a minute!"
  The children all nodded before they ran down the street toward one of 
the Nerv buildings that led them down undreground, leaving behind Ranma 
and Misato.
  "Sounds like something bad's gonna happen," Ranma continued to look at 
Misato curiously. 
  "Yeah, you've got that right," she reponded, "You remember that thing 
you were fighting not too long ago? Well, another one like it is gonna 
land in a short while! And we're not fully prepared to fight it! Our 
EVA...those robots you saw fighting them, they're not fully repaired, 
heck, they're in horrible shape after that explosion."
  Ranma found his conscience getting the better of him, "Um, do you want 
me to help?"
  "Yeah, that's why I wanted to bring you in!" she shot out, "whatever 
those things you threw, they hurt the Angel pretty badly. It seemed to 
break through the AT fields like there was nothing there. If we know how 
you harness that power you have, we would have an advantage over those 
damn Angels!"
  "Um, what will happen if you can't stop those things, 
those....Angels?"
  "What the hell do you think?" she answered, "Mankind will be wiped off 
the face of this earth. Those three...robots we have are our only 
defense against those things. Once they get destroyed, we're helpless,"
  "Man, that's a lot of pressure resting on your shoulders," Ranma 
commented. "Especially on that redhaired girl if she's the pilot,"
  "That group of three kids, they're the pilots! They pilot the EVAs, 
those robots you saw," she said, "They're the ones who go into combat 
against those things,"
  "What?! B-but they're only kids!!"
  "I know, but we have no choice," Misato said, "They're the one those 
EVA's will sychronize with. They can control those EVA's better than 
anyone else. Those EVA's won't respond to just anyone piloting them. 
They only respond to certain people, children that had been born nine 
months after the Second Impact,"
  "Second Impact? Jeez, that sound like something bad,"
  "Look, I can't stay here and explain. I have to get back to 
headquarters and fast. I have to help those children prepare" she said, 
"Now that you know of our predicament, are you coming with me back to 
headquarters?"
  "What for? I'm useless there,"
  "We need as much help as we can get!" Misato pleaded, "How the hell 
can you be so goddamn selfish?! Dontcha get it?! Everyone will die if 
those children fail! If we knew how to harness your...powers....at least 
we stand a much better chance!"
  "Misato, go on and help those children prepare. I'll stay here. I'll 
keep the thing distracted,"
  "What?! Angels are huge! You saw how big that other one was! Angels 
don't come any smaller than that!" she shouted above the sirens, "damn, 
I really have to go! Look, can you make a promise that you will help us 
out after all of this? Please, I'm begging you,"
  Ranma shook his head. "No, I'm not gonna play genea pig. But I can 
help you out in other ways perhaps,"
  Misato reached into her coat pocket and pulled out a tiny card that 
had her address and phone number on it, and the turned around and ran 
down the street, but not before saying, "That's my apartment address. 
After all of this, I'll be there later. Can you please meet me there?"
  "Um, I guess so. I hope I could find it," he said, "But, remember, 
I'll only be there to help, not play ginea pig,"
  "Fine,"

  Ranma sat on the rooftop.
  "Jeez, what the hell am I gettin' myself into? All I wanna do is goto 
China to find that blasted nanban mirror so I can go back home, and here 
I am, sitting on a rooftop, waiting for an alien, what was it called, an 
Angel, to land," he said to himself, "When I was young, I fought ghosts, 
demons, and ogres. When I got older, I fought boomers and superboomers. 
And now, I'm on a different world, fighting aliens from a different 
world also. Jeez, when the hell can I ever get some time to myself?"
  Meanwhile, back at Nerv Headquarters, everyone was preparing for 
battle.
  Shinji, looked at his display screen within Unit-01, "Everything's 
fine. I'm ready for launch." Jeez, there's still so many things that 
haven't been prepared yet, he though to himself. God, how the hell am I 
supposed to fight with one arm?
  Asuka's voice entered the cockpit, "Hey, Shinji, you better not get in 
my way. I plan on ripping this Angel apart. If you see that guy out 
there again, you go and play babysitter,"
  "Speaking of which," Shinji said, "Where did that guy come from? 
Didn't you notice that he was actually helping us out?"
  Misato's voice entered the cockpit, "That's enough. We'll worry about 
that later. Get ready for launch,"
  Maya said, "Synchronization ratio within normal parameters. Activating 
launch sequence."
  "God, I hope this isn't a mistake," Ritsuko commented, "I mean, we're 
sending into battle three damaged EVA's. They had trouble stopping an 
Angel with three fully functioning EVA's and they all got damaged. How 
the hell are they gonna be able to stop this one?"
  "It doesn't matter. We have to send them in anyway," Gendo said 
coldly, "All of humanity depends on them succeeding. They must succeed, 
not my how much they're at a disadvantage," He looked at the screen, 
saying nothing else.
  Misato looked at the screen. The Angel had finally landed near the 
outskirts of Tokyo 3 and was slowly making its way toward the city.
  "Guys, I want you to listen to me carefully," Misato said into the 
mike, "We have someone on our side. He's that man you saw earlier, he's 
currently standing on top of one of the weapons depot buildings. 
Whatever you do, don't let him get killed. Y'hear? He's very very 
important to us." She almost hated saying that. It was as if she was 
treating Ranma as some kind of object, not some human being.

  Ranma looked at the Angel in the far off distance. The Angel was at 
least five miles away.
  "Jeez, what the hell is that?" he said, "That damn thing looks like a 
jellyfish with a big fat eye in the middle. How the hell does it remain 
hovering like that." He noticed the angel was hovering several miles 
high above the ground.
  All of a sudden, the ground began to shake. "Whoa,"
  After the shaking stopped, Ranma noticed three EVA's emerged from 
buildings within the city. He watched as all three quickly ran down the 
street, heading directly toward the incoming Angel.
  "Hm, I guess I better do that same also," Ranma said to himself as he 
lept forward onto another rooftop, continuing to do so as he slowly made 
his way toward the Angel.
  "We have visual on Ranma," Maya said, "H-he's....what? He's jumping 
from rooftop to rooftop, heading straight toward the Angel,"
  Misato and Ritsuko looked at the screen. Their eyes widened. 
  "What the hell is he?" Ritsuko said, "How the hell is he doing that? 
Are you sure thing guy's human? From the way I see it, he's probably an 
Angel that happens to look human.
  "Don't say something like that," Misato retorted.
  "Damn, it's gonna take me forever to get there," Ranma said to 
himself, already breathing heavily. He took a moment to stop for a 
breather. As he took a short break he realized there was an easier way 
to get to where he was headed, take a ride on one of those EVA's. He 
looked around and saw one of the EVA's running through the street 
nearby.
  Without caring if he should or not, Rnama lept off the building and 
down onto the EVA's shoulders. 
  Shinji looked at his screen. Something had just landed on him. What 
the hell was it?
  "Relax, Shinji, that's the guy I mentioned earlier," he heard Misato's 
voice, "He's hitching a ride on Unit-01's left shoulder."
  Ranma looked over toward the head of the EVA he was on. "Jeez, look at 
the teeth on those things,"
  "Hello, you there?" Ranma heard a voice say.
  "Huh? Where are you?" 
  Shinji said, "I'm inside. I'm talking to you through an external 
speaker."
  "Cool," Ranma commented, "Which one are you? I saw three kids,"
  "I'm the young boy," Shinji replied, "My name's Shinji Ikari,"
  "Ranma Saotome. Nice to meetcha,"
  "Are you going to help us out?" Shini asked, still maneuvering Unit-01 
through the winding streets. After a short while, he had to unplug his 
power cord and replug it with a new one from one of the buildings.
  "What the hell's that?" Rnama asked as he saw Shinji changing power 
cords.
  "Um, that's our power supply. If it gets detatched, we will only have 
five minutes of power before total power failure," Shinji answered.
  "Shinji, concentrate on your objective," he heard Misato say, "You 
don't need to tell him everything there is about those EVA's. We still 
don't know who he exactly is. All we know is that he's on our side, but 
there's no need to disclose all our information."
  "Sorry, Misato-san,"
  Ranma's eyes widened as he saw the Angel up close, "There it is," He 
was only a mile or so away. "Look, I'm gonna hop off here. I don't want 
to get blown up again like last time. That kinda hurt, y'know. Anyway, 
I'll try and help out from over here."
  "All right," came Shinji's voice. The EVA knelt down low to the 
ground, allowing for Ranma to leap off much easier and onto one of the 
rooftops. "Take care,"
  Ranma smiled, "For such a young kid, he sure is polite,"
  He looked up at the Angel as Unit-01 ran down the street toward it. He 
looked toward the side and saw the other two EVA not a far ways off, 
also running down the street to intercept the Angel. As he stood there, 
he could feel his heart racing, knowing that the inevitable was going to 
happen, that a major battle was going to break loose in no time, and 
that he had a front row seat.
  "Ranma!"
  "Huh?"
  "Ranma, it's me, Misato," came her voice, "I talking to you through 
the external speakers throughout the entire city,"
  "Cool, what do you want?"
  "Can you use that fireball thing you used earlier on that Angel in 
front of you?" she said. 
  Ranma thought about it for a moment and then said, "All right,"
  "Can you shoot it in ten seconds? I'm gonna tell the others of the 
plan,"
  "All right,"  He raised a hand waited for ten second and then said 
"Mouko Takabisha! Mouko Takabisha!"
  Two ki-blast shot from his hands, both of them rocketing straight 
toward the Angel that happened to be in their path. As the blasts 
whizzed by between the building, the buildings shuddered from the shear 
velocity of the blast as the flew right by them. When both blasts struck 
the Angel, it let out a deafening roar as if it were in pain. For a 
brief moment, a huge wave of red surrounded the Angel before it 
shattered.
  "Holy shit!!! He just destroyed that Angel's AT field!!!" Misato said 
in shock as she noticed this barrier surrounding the Angel disappearing 
all of a sudden.
  Ritsuko looked at the screen. This couldn't be right. If this was 
true, the Angel was now defenseless. The EVA's would be about to destroy 
it in no time, even if they were damaged.
  "What the hell was that?!" Asuka asked, looking at her viewscreen. She 
had been maneuvering her EVA toward the enemy when all of a sudden it 
had been consumed in a ball of energy. She was forced to shield her eyes 
from the intensity of the blast.
  "Attack it!!!! It's defenseless!!!" All three EVA pilots heard 
Misato's voice. "It's AT field is down!!! Grab one of the weapons and 
pick it off from a distance!!"
  Shinji was the first one to respond. He immediately ran up to one of 
the weapons buildings and grabbed a heavy grenade launcher. Using Unit-
01's useful arm, Shinji brought the launcher up and aimed it high into 
the sky toward the Angel and opened fire, several shot missing at first, 
but eventually hitting its mark.
  The Angel was helpless as it was barraged with intense firepower. It 
was soon barraged with even more intense firepower as Unit-00 and Unit-
02 grabbed their weapons and also opened fire. It reared up in pain as 
chunks of its body was blown clear off, green blood splattering 
everywhere.
  After a short while, the Angel fell toward the ground.
  "Watch it, it's gonna self destruct if you get too close," Misato 
warned them.
  With its last ounce of strength left, the Angel self-destructed, 
consuming everything that happened to be nearby just as it crashed into 
the ground.
  Ranma, as he caught sight of the walls of flames coming straight 
toward him. 
  "Oh man, not again!"
  
   Ranma stood outside Misato's apartment. He looked at the card and 
then up at the number on the apartment door. Several hours had passed 
since the destruction of that Angel. He hadn't stayed behind to be 
questioned and probed because of his portrayal in the Angel's 
destruction. Although he had been consumed in the blast when the Angel 
self destructed, he had been far away not to become seriously hurt.
  "Well, I guess this is it," he said and then knocked. After several 
moments, he knocked again.
  The door opened after he knocked a third time to reveal Misato.
  "R-Ranma!" she said, very surprised. "Where the hell have you been? 
I've been worried sick about you! No one found you after that explosion. 
We all thought the worst had happened, that you had been killed in the 
blast,"
  Ranma shook his head, "Nah. As you can tell, I survived. What makes 
you think I wouldn't be able to survive? I survived the last blast, so 
why wouldn't I be able to survive this one, ne? Well, anyway, I'm here 
like I said."
  "Um, please, come in,"
  Ranma entered the apartment. His brows raised a bit as he noticed what 
a mess the place was. There were beer cans, take-out food boxes, and 
miscellaneous things strewn about. It didn't really bother him all that 
much because it reminded him of his own room when he had been young.
  "The place sure is....nice," he commented.
  "Yeah, yeah. I know. It's a mess," she said wryly. "Have a seat. Do 
you want anything to drink? Sake? A beer?"
  "No thank you, I don't drink," he said.
  "You're probably not underage because he had mentioned that you're 
actually older than me so I assume you just don't like alcohol,"
  "Yeah, let's say I'm well over sixty," he answered. "Anyway, I'm here, 
like I said. I'm here to help out, but that's it,"
  "Y-you're o-over s-sixty? Then how come you look so young?"
  Ranma nodded, "Yes, I'm over sixty. I look young because, well, I used 
to be cursed, but that's aside from the point. Anyway, I'm here to help 
out."
  "Cursed?"
  Ranma sighed. "Hold up. Time out. This is starting to sound like 
another interrorgation again. Back onto the subject, I'm here to offer 
some help,"
  "Um, yes, help," Misato said, "Um, your powers, is there any way you 
can show us, Nerv, how to do it?"
  "Well, it's pretty easy. Everyone has the ability to do that," Ranma 
said matter-of-factly, "You know what ki is? It's a form of inner 
energy. Everyone and everything possess it. The act of throwing one of 
those fireballs as you call it, is simply harnessing all that ki into a 
concentrated point and throwing it. That's all."
  "All right, if everyone can do it, how come no one here knows how to 
do it? Also, how do you manage to get something like that so powerful?" 
she asked, "I mean, from what I saw, the energy is incredibly high. It's 
even stronger than those AT fields surrounding those Angels,"
  "AT fields?"
  "That stands for Absolute Terror fields," Misato said, "It's like an 
impenetrable force field that requires obscene amounts of energy to 
break through. And you....you destroyed that thing with a single blast. 
The amount of energy required to break through that field is in the 
terrawatts, which is enough to power half this entire country."
  "Well, perhaps those AT fields can't withstand ki blasts," Ranma said, 
"I mean, ki is a form of internal energy. And all those things you shoot 
are, well, external energies,"
  At that moment, Shinji and Asuka came home.
  "Misato-san, we're home," Shinji called out. 
  Asuka entered the livingroom, "God, what a day! I need a rest! Why the 
hell did we hafta stay behind and-" Her eyes widened as she saw Ranma, 
"You again?!"
  Ranma looked at Asuka, "Hey, I know you. You're that girl I saw 
earlier,"
  "Yeah, and you're that jerk that was stupid enough to be running the 
streets during that Angel attack!" she said, "That was pretty stupid of 
you,"
  Ranma turned toward Misato, "Is she always like this?"
  "Hello, Ranma," Shinji said politely.
  "Oh, hello, Shinji," Ranma responed, nodding in acknowlegement.
  "Y-you know each other?" Asuka asked, looking at Ranma and then at 
Shinji.
  "Um, Asuka, he was the one that destroyed that AT field," Shinji said 
softly.
  Asuka looked at Ranma and then back at Shinji "He what? That can't be! 
How can someone as stupid as him do something like that?"
  Ranma, a bit annoyed with this fiery-haired girl, "Jeez, what's wrong 
with you? Do you have some kinda chip on your shoulder?"
  "What do you mean by that?" Asuka said, looking at Ranma, her eyes 
creasing in contempt.
  "Is it that time of the month or something?"
  "What?!?!?!" Asuka exploded. "How dare you say something like 
that!!!!"
  Misato burst out laughing. Oh god, that was just too funny. 
  Shinji also started laughing, more like snickering.
  "That's not funny!!!" Asuka said aloud toward Misato and Shinji. She 
then turned her attention back on Ranma, who was watching her with a 
bemused expression.
  "What's your name, little girl?" he asked, a smirk.
  "I don't need to tell you!" she said, "And my name's not 'little 
girl'!"
  "All right, if you don't tell me your name, I'll keep referring to you 
as little girl," he then said, still smirking. 
  Asuka looked at Misato, "Why the hell is he here?
  "I came here to ask you out," Ranma said with a smirk, jokingly.
  "What?!" Asuka and Shinji said in unison.
  "Yeah, I think you're cute, little girl, that I came here to ask 
Misato if I could take you out on a date," he said, giving Misato a 
wink. Here he was, teasing a girl he didn't know. On any other day, he 
wouldn't have done that, but he disliked the way she looked at him like 
he was some kind of bug that should be squashed.
  Asuka blushed a bit, only a little bit. Misato burst out laughing.
  Ranma then turned toward Misato, ignoring Asuka, "Anyway, back onto 
the subject, I guess I could help you out. I could simply teach you how 
to do something like throwing a ki-blast,"
  "And what makes you think I wanna go out with a jerk like you?!" Asuka 
tried to put up a defense. She would not lose a verbal argument with 
this man, whoever he was.
  Ranma shrugged his shoulders, "All right. Then forget I asked. Anyway, 
Misato, about-"
  Asuka opened her mouth to say something yet again, "Well, what makes 
you think I would wanna go out with a jerk like you?"
  Ranma, more annoyed with her constantly pestering him, turned toward 
her, and said "Go away,"
  "I live here,"
  "Too bad," Ranma said, "I feel sorry for Misato then,"
  "What?! How d-dare you s-say something like that! You don't even know 
who I am!!!"
  Ranma shrugged his shoulders, and then turned toward Shinji, "Yo, is 
she always like this? Someone oughta spank her,"
  Misato burst out laughing again. Shinji chuckled.
  "Hey, quit laughing!" Asuka said in frustration.
  Changing the subject, Ranma continued to barrage Asuka "I betcha you 
touch yourself,"
  "What?!?!?!?!?" Asuka shouted, blushing beet red. "I-I d-do not!!!!!!"
  Ranma wondered how much longer he would have to continue teasing this 
little girl before she would simply be quiet. All he wanted her to do 
was be quiet. That was it. After a short while, he turned toward Misato, 
"Anyway-"
  "I d-don't do such a thing!!!!" Asuka said.
  "Argh!!!!" Ranma said in frustration. He walked over the Asuka and 
touched her chest.
  "Eeeeek!!!!" Asuka screamed as she saw Ranma's hand pressing up 
against her breasts. "You pervert!!!!!" She stopped screaming when Ranma 
touched one of her pressure points. She fell forward into Ranma's arms 
unconscious. He threw her over his shoulder, "Where's her room?"
  Misato, staring, pointed toward Asuka's bedroom door. Ranma carried 
Asuka into her bedroom and emerged a second later, "I shoulda done that 
a long time ago. She keeps going on and on and on. Jeez,"
  "W-what did you just do?" Misato asked.
  "I pressed one of her pressure points" Ranma replied, "It knocks her 
out for a few hours. Very useful for people who have trouble sleeping," 
He inched his face close to Misato's "And take advantage of cute girls," 
When Misato blushed, he added "Hey, don't get the wrong idea, Misato-
chan. I was just joking around. I'm old enough to be yer father,"
  Shinji, who watched all of this, asked, "Misato's father? B-but you 
look like you're only, what, twenty,"
  Ranma nodded, "Yeah, I may look twenty, but I'm definitely not. I'm 
very old. Actually, I have no real idea exactly how old I am, but I'm 
well into my sixties,"
  "Well, you look very, um, young for a sixty year old," Misato 
commented.
  "Is that some kinda come on, Misato-chan?" Ranma said with a smirk. He 
was in the teasing mood after having teased Asuka so much.
  Misato's brows creased, but she said in a somewhat jokingly matter "I 
don't think I've ever met someone as crass and arrogant as you, Ranma,"
  Ranma smiled a bit, but then took on a serious face, "Now, back to the 
subject about ki-blasts,"
  "Ki-blasts?" Shinji asked, "What's that?"
  "Well, what Misato and I were talking about was my ability to shoot 
projectiles from my hands," he answered, "and from what I'm expecting, 
it seems like I'll be teaching you how to do that,"
  "Y-you're g-going to teach us to do stuff like that?" Shinji said, his 
voice shaky, "I-I don't think I could do something like that,"
  Ranma shook his head, "Don't think that way. Everyone and anyone can 
do it. It's just harnessing all your ki that's a bit tricky. Here, 
follow me, I'll show you,"
  He headed out the front door, Misato and Shinji following him. Once 
outside, Ranma leaned over the balcony, and pointed toward the sky at a 
single white cloud tainting an otherwise perfect night sky.
  "You see the cloud over there, Shinji? Stick out one of your hands, 
palms open, and aim the palm toward it," Ranma said in a rather soft 
voice. He actually felt rather happy to be showing someone something he 
knew. This reminded him of the time he had taught Sylia how to 
manipulate ki.
  Shinji did as Ranma told him, gingerly raising an hand, palm open.
  Ranma plance a hand on his shoulder and almost immediately, an aura 
formed around the two people.
  Misato, shocked at the sudden power that emanated from both Ranma and 
Shinji, took a step backwards, tripping and falling down on her 
backside, yet still staring at the two.
  Shinji was starting to panic. He was feeling this intense feeling of 
energy flowing through his entire body. He said, "W-what's t-this 
feeling I-I'm getting? It feels like I'm gonna explode,"
  "I know. Doesn't that feel cool?" Ranma chuckled a bit, but stopped 
when he realized that Shinji would probably be in this near state of 
hysteria, not knowing what he was supposed to do while this intense 
power built up within him. 
  Ranma immediately said in a soft and soothing voice, "There's no need 
to worry. I'm right here. You're not going to get hurt."
  "I-it feels like I c-can't get hurt," Shinji commented, his hand a bit 
shaky as it was still extended from his body.
  "That's the ki," Ranma said softly, "Basically, it's an intense energy 
surrounding you, like a form of, I guess, armor. Anyway, it's basically 
pure energy and you can manipulate it to suit your needs. Right now, 
you're gonna use it as an ki-blast"
  "W-what d-do you want me t-to do?" Shinji asked meekly. He was getting 
more and more nervous. He could feel the energy gathering within him 
growing exponentially. 
  "Shoot it toward that cloud when you feel like it," 
  "H-how?!"
  Ranma smiled, "Well, it's hard to explain it. Right now, you feel more 
and more power flowing through you, ne? Well, it's building up because 
you're using your will to hold it in. To release all that power, simply 
think of releasing it. Picture a ki-blast shooting from your fingertips, 
and, guess what, it will...."
  Shinji nodded. A second later, a massive ki-blast erupted from 
Shinji's hands, the ball of energy shooting up at its target, ripping 
right through it and continuing upwards toward the dark sky above, 
disappearing as it ascended toward the heavens.
  The kickback of shooting the ki-blast sent Shinji propelling backwards 
where he landed on a shocked Misato.
  "H-holy shit!!!!" Shinji said, his pupils wide, his mouth agape, as he 
looked up at the sky and where the cloud used to be.
  Ranma smiled weakly, "Sorry bout that, I shoulda told ya that throwing 
one of those things gives quick a kickback," He walked over to Shinji 
and picked him up, doing the same for Misato.
  "H-how d-did Shinji do that?!" Misato asked in a shaky voice. "That 
thing was so powerful I felt the heat from it as it shot from his 
hands!"
  Ranma turned toward Misato, "Well, since Shinji doesn't exacly know 
how to summon ki, I simply let my own ki flow right into him. That's why 
I had a hand on his shoulders. Anyway, in order for him to call forth 
ki, without my help, you hafta learn to breath and concentrate properly. 
That's all,"
  "T-that's i-incredible!!" Shinji commented, looking at his hand. He 
couldn't believe so much power had gone through those slender fingertips 
of his.
  Ranma smirked, "And you know what else is funny?"
  "What?"
  "I'm gonna punch ya in the gut," Ranma crouched low and cocked an arm 
back, paused for a short moment for Shinji to realize what Ranma was 
about to do, and then brought his fist forward and struck Shinji right 
in the stomach in a perfectly executed uppercut.
  Shinji's eyes opened wide as he realized a fist was implanted in his 
gut, and that his feet were no longer touching the floor. 
  Ranam smiled and then lowered his arm, allowing Shinji's feet to touch 
the ground. When Shinji looked at Ranma, this dumbfounded look in his 
eyes, Ranma said, "Guess what? I just punched you in the gut hard enough 
to knock the wind outta ya..."
  "W-w-why d-did you just do t-that?"
  Ranma smirked, "Did it hurt?"
  Shinji looked down at his stomach. He noticed his shirt was slightly 
crumpled. He also noticed he was breathing perfectly fine, and that he 
hadn't been winded. He looked up at Ranma, unable to discern what had 
just happened.
  "I just punched you," Ranma said.
  "B-but I-it didn't hurt,"
  Ranma nodded, "Yep, that's because you were expecting it. Ki protects 
you. It just so happened that after you shot off that ki-blast, you 
still had some build up of ki within you. I sensed it."
  "Huh?" was what all Misato could say. 
  Ranma sighed a bit and said, "What I just demonstrated were two ways 
you could use ki. Because of ki, you shot that projectile. And also, 
because of ki, you were protected from that punch I gave ya. That's why 
I told you I was gonna punch you. I made you expect it, thus, 
subconsciously, you manipulated your ki to absorb the blow instead of 
your body."
  "But I felt you hit me....even though it didn't hurt," Shinji said.
  "Of course you felt it. It's just that when my fist actually touch 
your body, the ki absorbed all the impact." Ranma responded, "Think of 
it as some kinda, well, force field. Now, if you weren't expecting that 
blow, you would have been winded. Man, I remember getting hit in the 
back with a missle and I had been totally unexpecting it. Jeez, that 
hurt, but that's aside from the point."
  "Oh man, this is too much," Misato said. Her head was starting to 
hurt. Just a few seconds ago, she saw Shinji....yes, Shinji, throw a ki-
blast powerful enough for her to feel the heat, and then, she saw him 
absorb a blow that would have probably damaged internal organs. "God, 
I'm getting a headache just trying to comprehend what I just saw," 
  Ranma chuckled, and a very sensual chuckle Misato noticed, as he said, 
"I know, it's very....um....frightening at first, but it's always been 
there. It's just that, well, I guess no one really knows how to harness 
all that energy. Wait a minute, I know. You know what Yoga is?"
  Misato and Shinji both nodded.
  "That's a form of ki manipulation," Ranma said, "In yoga, you learn to 
breath and concentrate correctly. The only difference is that you're 
taught to use your ki as a form of self improvement,"
  "I still don't get it. How do you do that?" Shinji said. "H-how long 
will it take to learn something like that?"
  Ranma shrugged his shoulders, "I dunno. It depends on how quickly you 
can pick things up and understand 'em. I guess it would probably take, 
what, decades to learn how to effectively harness ki. Me, I learned 'em 
in a few days cause, well, I had to learn it." He stopped from a moment 
and scratched his head. He remembered once saying this to some other 
people when they, too, had asked the same kind of questions.
  Ranma's stomach grumbled. All of a sudden, he seemed to forget where 
he was or what he was talking about.
  "God, I'm starving," Ranma commented, rubbing his stomach. He began to 
walk off down the walkway, "Well, I'm off,"
  "Huh?" Misato said, realizing Ranma was walking away, "W-where are you 
going?"
  Ranma turned around, "I gotta go get some food, I'm starving,"
  "Um, why not have dinner with us?" she quickly said.
  "Nah. No offense, but I have this sneaky assumption you don't really 
know how to cook," Ranma commented.
  Misato blushed. After a short while, she felt this anger flow through 
her, "W-what makes you think I can't cook, huh?"
  Ranma shrugged his shoulders, this slight mischievious grin on his 
lips as he said, "Well, they why do I see so many take out stuff in yer 
house?"
  Shinji chuckled, unable to control himself. Busted.  
  Misato blushed, "Um, well, I've been busy. I have work, y'know. I'm a 
very busy person," That was the best defense she could come up with 
while on the spot. It sounded plausible.
  "All right, if you say so," Ranma said with a smile.
  There was a brief pause. Misato knew Ranma was a very perceptive 
person, but she had no idea he was that perceptive.
  "Okay, fine. I can't cook. You happy?" she said, annoyed that Ranma's 
assumption was correct.
  "Well, see ya around," he said, continuing down the walkway toward the 
stairs.
  "Hold up, aren't you gonna show us more to this ki stuff?" she asked, 
following closely behind him.
  Ranma stopped and turned to face her, only to realize that Misato 
didn't manage to stop in time as she bumped right into him, bringing her 
down on top of him. She quickly got up, embarrassed beyond belief. Ranma 
had landed on his backside and his arms was propping him up, his legs 
spread, Misato sitting between them. It provided quite a licentious 
scene.
  "S-sorry about that," she got back up, Ranma doing the same.
  "Look if you wanna come along that badly with me, I don't mind." Ranma 
said.
  "W-what makes you think I want to come along?" she replied 
defensively. "Um, I just wanted to know if I, um, we could see you 
again. We would like to learn more about this ki stuff. It would help 
out greatly against those Angels,"
  Ranma's eyes creased a bit. He then shrugged his shoulders, "I'll stop 
by around the same time."
  "Um, where are you going? Where are you going to stay?" Misato asked 
curiously. She almost didn't want him to leave.
  Ranma shrugged his shoulders, "I have no idea where I'm going. Nor 
where I'm staying."
  "Um, how about, um, staying at my place. I mean, I can make room for 
you," she offered.
  "Huh?" Ranma said, this odd look in his eyes. He placed his hands on 
her shoulders, "Why on Earth would you offer me to stay at your place? 
You don't even know me that well. Besides, I don't think that little 
girl would appreciate it."
  "Asuka,"
  "Huh?"
  "Her name is Asuka. Shoryuu Asuka Langley," Misato said.
  "All right. I don't think Asuka would appreciate it. I'm pretty sure 
she hates my guts," he smirked. "She'll probably kill me in my sleep if 
she had the chance," 
  "She's all right once you get to know her," Misato said, "Anyway, as a 
way of saying thanks, you're welcome to stop by whenever you like. Heck, 
there's even food in the fridge, in case you're hungry. I guess I'll see 
you tomorrow, at around the same time?"
  Ranma nodded.
  "All right. I'll see you around. Maybe we might bump into each other," 
she said, smiling warmly before she turned around and headed for her 
apartment.
  Ranma stood there, on the walkway, alone, for several moments. He 
chuckled a bit.
  "Man, Misato sure reminds me of Akane...."


-OneShot
Jeffrey Keith Wong
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The least one can do, and
the 'just won't die' series.
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