Hmmm. Looks like a good point to intervene.
"Hahahahahahaha! Now you'll DIE!"
"I don't think so."
The yoma stopped, the Senshi stopped.
"Tuxedo Kamen-sama!" exclaimed Sailor Moon.
"Nope," said a boy leaping down onto the street. "Name's Ranma Saotome. I'm required by law to tell you - I'm a professional mamluk and yojimbo, A-Class, and if you try and hurt my Mistress - you're gonna get hurt."
"Ranma?" asked Mercury, wondering why that name sounded familiar. "Oh, Rannie?"
"Mercury-chan? You've got an A-CLASS?! Waitaminute, Ranma Saotome?!" Jupiter made a warding gesture. "The one in 'Professional Jannissary' magazine?"
"I read that too," said Venus, not mentioning she liked the pictures of buff and studly male slaves with their oh-so-toned bodies. She looked over the young man and practically drooled. "Mind if I borrow your mamluk for a few hours after the fight, Mercury-chan?!"
"Is there something I should know?" worried Mercury.
"He's 'A-Class' and may make it to 'S-Class' before he graduates high school," said Jupiter, watching the way the boy slowly walked towards the yoma. "He's gotten very high marks at the four dojos he's trained at, has gone through fights at the national levels and was described as 'more a force of nature than a simple bodyguard' by the Overseer Board."
"You seem to know a lot about him," noted Mercury, wondering what Rannie had been up to over the last training period. She'd played with him once, and only seen him occasionally since then as her mother was his sponsor at the schools. Part of the five year contract. Ami's eyes widened. Oh yeah. So that was what this was about. It had slipped her mind, what with all that was going on.
Jupiter didn't mention that she'd often fantasized about having that toned and muscular body serving HER, as that was one reason so many teenage girls kept illicit copies of 'Professional Jannissary' hidden away in their rooms.
"WHO are YOU to threaten a powerful yoma like myself?" asked the yoma. "DIE!"
Ranma sidestepped the black lightning, his half-cloak fluttering briefly in the speed of his movement. "Hmph. You have been given the legal warning, and you remain a threat to my Mistress. As a contracted yojimbo, I am now clear to remove that threat."
"Can you make a recording of this on your Mercury Computer so I can watch this in detail later?" whispered Jupiter, gently nudging her friend.
"What's going on?" asked Sailor Moon, still disappointed that Tuxedo Kamen hadn't shown and there were no thrown roses speeding along or flamenco music playing. If there had been, she'd have expected the music to be something from a Western or maybe 'Bad To The Bone' or something like that. Which just wasn't the right mood as far as she was concerned.
Ranma stopped a few yards from the yoma, sidestepping effortlessly another blast of black lightning. He smiled.
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