The thought that one of their victims fighting back was laughable. Successfully was unthinkable.
Which was one reason that they were having the level of problems they currently were.
SOMETHING faded into the background, then came out with punches that shattered helmets and crushed armor.
"How the heck do you use these things?" asked that something as one of the staff-weapons was hefted.
"I don't know," said Hotaru as she followed the trail of destruction.
BOOM! went something somewhere else in the facility.
"Got an idea," said Ranma as he faded completely back into view. "How about you wear one of these outfits? They might think you're one of these Ghouled people."
"I don't know," said Hotaru, viewing the bronze and leather outfit and weighing the possibility.
A Jaffa came running up, aimed his staff, and then started looking for the target that had been standing there just a second ago.
"Ya blinked," said Ranma, jamming the staff into the person's back.
FSHHHT! VUM!
"Oh, that's how ya do it. Nice of the guy ta show me how. Here," said Ranma, handing the weapon off. "Ya can use this instead of that weapon you had when you were in that cheerleader outfit."
Hotaru looked it over, wanting an owner's manual and not seeing one.
"Ah, a sack," said Ranma, finding a container. "Here we go."
"You're looting the place?" asked Hotaru.
"Something Pops taught me," admitted Ranma. "'If you can steal from an enemy, do so. You enrich yourself and deprive your enemy of those resources at the same time.' I think he lifted it from Sun Tzu but I'm not sure. Them people your Dad worked for seemed fairly P.O.ed and maybe I can bribe 'em off with some of this junk."
Hotaru hmmmed in a noncomittal way.
Genma winced at the bright lights. The General, among others, wanted to see him use chi. This was hardly what he'd expected to happen when they'd been sent for.
Still, he could do this much. He raised his presence with his chi, seeming to grow larger until he filled the room.
"Whoa," said McNeill.
"He hasn't changed, all readings are the same," complained Carter. "It's just that he looks bigger."
Genma shrugged and released it. "Is advanced technique."
"What about breaking bricks?" asked Carter.
"Is kid stuff," answered Genma, scowling. "Watch, yes?"
Genma disassembled the three bricks which had been laid out so that the two were endwise and supporting the third. Instead he just simply stacked one atop the other and then struck. The top brick remained undamaged. The middle brick shattered. "Is no challenge break brick. Brick no fight back."
General Hammond was looking very thoughtful as he watched the portly man. "So you and your son know 'techniques' like this?"
"Is simple. Advanced technique is school secret. Only pass on to heir, tradition is," tried Genma. "Show you, simple stuff am."
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