"Whoa," said Ranma. "Someone taught a weasel to break dance?"
"Now it's the hokey-pokey," said Asuka. "How cute!"
The "weasel" stopped and glared at them briefly before going off into another set of moves.
Rei looked off thoughtfully into the distance. "What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about?"
"Hey, it beats red goo," said Asuka softly to the albino.
"Hah?" asked Ranma.
"Uhm," Asuka thought briefly. "Yeah. Maybe some animal training-fu kinda thing? See any challengers around here?"
Ranma snapped his fingers and started looking around. Made perfect sense to him.
"SQUEAK!" declared the 'weasel' as it glared at Asuka.
"Pervert," complained Akane.
"I didn't do nothing!" protested Hiroshi, snatching his hand back.
"AH HAH!" declared Yuka and Sayuri, using their bookbags to pound on the pervert as that had looked VERY suspicious.
"Better you than me," said Daisuke, trying to look innocent.
Nabiki tried again, moving back and forth and trying to mime pouring hot water over her head. Why didn't anyone understand her?
"I never could understand mime," said Rei. "If this is indeed some form of challenge letter, it is very inefficient. One cannot tell to whom the challenge actually is."
Ranma looked almost insulted. "Hey. It would have to be me wouldn't it?"
Rei turned an unblinking gaze to him. "We still don't know why those giant robots appeared, it may be related to that - though it seems unlikely. I am partly a supernatural being, while Asuka is from Germany. The Germans and the French have a long history of mutual antagonism."
"Just because it's doing mime routines doesn't make it French," pointed out Asuka. "And I'm only half-German and the whole schnibble thing is just rumor."
Daisuke whistled and tried to look innocent.
"SQUEAK!" squeaked the ignored weasel.
"If the weasel was a challenge letter, what's the challenger?" asked Ranma. "A giant rat?"
"Winged monkey?" asked Rei.
"That's just plain silly," offered Asuka.
"Actually what would you call that?" asked Rei, pointing.
Asuka glanced in that direction. "I'd call that... well, I'll be a monkey's..."
The 'weasel' squeaked a bit more softly, ducked up Ranma's pants leg, and hid.
"Pervert," said Akane, eyeing the way the bulge stopped below Ranma's belt. Whether she was referring to the animal or Ranma was unclear.
"Are they Shriners?" asked Asuka as she noted them wearing vests and those funny little hats. "What are they looking for? Flying bananas?"
The winged monkeys flew back and forth overhead as if looking for something.
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