"Aren't you glad that we are going to land soon Saotome," her father asked.
Genma nodded happily. "Soon, we'll be on land and we can get to work."
"You seem to be looking forward to it."
"I sure am. After all, this will be the perfect situation to take advantage of. Your daughter and my son, alone and on a tropical island. We'll have plenty of time to make them see reaso... oof!"
"You can keep on seeing that!" Akane snapped, snorting as she continued to grind the elder Saotome's face into the plane's floor.
"Akane! How can you do that to my friend?!" Soun demanded.
"We're already going to deal with this pervert who's torturing and brainwashing girls because of his son."
Ranma gave a short snort. "It's not like I asked for this."
"You are the reason we're going."
"Oh really?"
"Who's been having the nightmares and is connected to a bunch of girls who I'm sure are going to see you as their rescuer if this works out?"
"Ah... oh..."
"Still, you should show him some respect," the Tendo patriarch complained.
"We don't have time for his goofing around! We're going to have to handle enough as it is!"
"Maybe you should let Pop go..." the pigtailed boy suggested.
"Why? Are you trying to defend him?"
"Nah. I was just thinkin' that ya might risk shovin' his face through the plane, and it might be a bad thing if ya do."
"Oh," she said, and let the elder Saotome go, turning her nose up at the portly form.
The man in question just slumped there and wondered what he'd done to deserve a daughter-in-law who was so violent towards him.
"Hmm," Kasumi murmured as she looked at the papers surrounding her sister. "What are you doing?"
"Research," Nabiki replied simply.
"You are? Is this part of helping them?"
"Sure is. I need to be able to put together all I can for the next time they call. This way I can find out everything that I can that can be useful."
The elder girl pursed her lips. "This is a lot of paper. It does look like more than enough..."
"Hardly. This is only as much as I can get from this area, and in this amount of time."
"Really?"
"Yeah. About the only way that I could get more is if I was there to investigate."
"Then why didn't you go? You didn't have to be on the front line..."
"Ah, but even if I stayed in a hotel room, they'd have to worry about protecting me. At least being here allows me, and you, to be far enough away to be relatively safe, and lets them not have to worry about us while they go and do their thing."
"I see. But what if those not nice people come here?"
"Then things are really bad, and I'm pretty sure that we won't have 'distance' as such a useful defense."
"Okay, now that we're on the landing strip, we can split into two pairs, in sort of like a 'buddy system'," Genma declared, "I will go with Tendo, of course. And Ranma, you go with Akane. She will need someone to take care of her..."
The girl whapped him upside the head with her backpack. "I can take care of myself, thank you very much!"
"Ow..."
"Are you alright, old friend?" Soun asked, kneeling to poke his prone friend in the injured spot.
"If this is what we've got ta work with, we're in big trouble..." Ranma sighed, while:
(Posted Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:44)
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