He chuckled to himself, bemused at his situation being what finally beat her. Her blatant job abuse was responsible for it, after all. The first number he called was the arcade the girls liked to frequent. That turned up exactly none of them, so he dialed the Cherry Hill temple. (By now the reporters were good at glib "emergencies" they used to explain away Senshi related events, but Ranma was equally good at deciphering it. Besides, none of those stories were noted on his media monitors at present.)
Pertaining to his situation itself: Ranma was uncertain if Pluto's crime of rearranging events so he'd gotten crippled also allowed for the Incidents, but he wouldn't be surprised if that had been a unintended result, he finally decided. Ranma's then father Genma had wanted to strengthen his "pathetically weak" son, so Ranma got tossed into a pit of cats and clawed up badly. He even lost a eye.
Later research as to why he was being treated so firmly and badly showed his atypical blue eyes were at so called . A samurai clan or two had apparently bred in some of the Ainu and had a freak tendency for blue eyes or other so called gaijin traits in some members. Unfortunately, this tended to get the "filthy gaijin throwback" (as they called people in Ranma's condition) treated really badly, much as the half white children of soldiers in places like Korea were ostracized or outright abused, crippled, and killed. It was for similar reasons that a blue eyed and miserable distant cousin of Genma's had fled to the States and married years before, mothering two children in the intervening years.
When the Neko fiasco happened, a certain Brea family had been in a horrific accident, assuming it was accidental at all. Given the designs of certain parasitic beings later on, the car crash could well have been engineered by the thing humans would later name Parasite Eve, though Ranma had yet to gain enough proof to voice such a troublesome idea. He knew of the Breas for a simple reason. The Brea mother had fled from and discarded her familial bonds, but she was still genetically a Saotome. Thus, when that maniac doctor Eve was influencing used transplanting to plant the seed for future events, Maya Brea's pre-possession eyes were both given to people in need. Her sister Aya got one, but the other one got shipped to Japan when Genma Saotome's dislike of 'bad breeding' prevented any "properly dark" eyes being used, in one of the last bellowed instructions the fat idiot fired off before disowning Ranma. The state using that opportunity to get and implant Maya's eye was a hidden benefit for Ranma due to his distant relation to be the donor, of course, over and beyond the fact his eyes matched. Maya Brea's mitochondria multiplied and spread throughout Ranma's cellular system, inactive beyond the expected functions at first due to the greater difference and difficulty in Ranma's rather abused body (as opposed to Aya, who was after all Maya's twin).
So Ranma's health ceased its self-destruction, and all was in balance. Even after the Second Incident (which Americans in the know called the New York Incident) Ranma hadn't thought of his transplant, not even after meeting Dr Kunihiko Maeda upon that scruffy's return to Japan and being enlisted to aid the mitochondrial scholar in research on the NMC. It took Shambala to fully rouse Ranma's potential, when the final stages of that madness triggered a mitochondrial shock wave awakening those symbiotic people with some small genetic likeness to Aya Brea. Needless to say, this was mostly in the United States and Western Hemisphere, but Ranma's much greater closeness genetically speaking (to say nothing of hosting Maya's mitochondria) allowed his triggering as well all the way out in Tokyo. He was quite scared at first, but scruffy old Kunihiko helped him get a handle on his not inconsiderable powers. Which was as well. Ranma's Mitochondria were not any more sentient than Aya's, but they had been rendered more responsive beforehand from Saturn's attempts to heal Ranma, thus the events at Shambala kicked his awareness and power up to levels he'd only heard of Eve displaying. Ranma then took pains to conduct research that gave him a excuse to meditate and monitor his own feelings until he was sure Eve had no foothold in his mind or body.
Then Ranma unknowingly accepted the curse of Prince Valiant by learning what he could of his world by way of listening in on the odd group "mind" messages mitochondria fired off, much as Eve had done years ago in New York.
What he learned set his path as squarely as learning the Tao of your personal Art and its meaning to the student. The mitochondria of the Senshi were partly of the girls they now were, but that changed when they did, their Sailor forms mostly contained the Mitochondria of their past lives. Transformation was just that, it seemed, including on the cellular level. His first full perception of Pluto, someone whose living mitochondria had endured and been pruned back in their normally faster-evolving state for thousands of years; you can facefault in a wheelchair, it turned out.
Ranma's simple urge for security and knowledge began his research into the matter, but his sense of duty dictated he take down Pluto should a move be made by the girl he considered Time's Fraud.
He finished he recollections as he listened to the phone ringing at the temple.
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