Ryouga, Checkers, and Ranko sweatdropped at the sight of the pigtailed tamer kissing the paved road leading into Viridick City. “Hey, it wasn’t that bad…” he mumbled.
Ranma looked up from where was planting kisses on the ground. “Oh yeah it was.” Ranma bounced to his feet, spitting out gravel. “All right, now where?”
“Um…” Ryouga thought for a few moments. “Well, I already got the Viridick Gym Badge, but since you need one, I guess we’ll go there,” he said, pointing.
The fanged boy wondered why his buddy was staring at him with lidded eyes until his Alpha forcibly turned him until he was pointing less southeasterly and more towards the north. “Eh, right.”
~ ~ ~
Elsewhere…
The man in the suit leaned over his subordinate, who was busily typing into a laptop computer. “Find any leads, yet?” he asked.
The other shook his head. “Not yet, sir. They’re doing a good job of staying under the radar, for once.”
He snarled as he straightened, and began pacing the hotel room. “Good timing for them, then!” he snarled.
The long-haired woman that was sitting on the couch stood up and placed a hand on his shoulder. “Don’t worry, sir. We have our best people in Indigo on the case, and I assure you, there’s nothing that will keep us from finding her kidnappers.”
The woman winced as the door slammed, and a bubbly voice shouted, “No luck, Mistress! I looked through all of the ramen shops, and I couldn’t find any pork ramen!”
The officer rubbed her temple as the man arched an eyebrow at her. “No one except her…” she amended.
The pokegirl immediately looked distraught as she bounced over to where her agitated owner was gritting her teeth. “Aww… but it’s not my fault that they didn’t have the ramen…” she whined.
“I told you to get information from our sources, not get lunch!” she snarled, wondering if she had ran out of aspirin yet. Bad enough that she got this ditz as a pokegirl, but now she was making a fool of her in front of this influential man! Now she was never going to get that promotion…
“Ma’am!” the one typing at the computer called out. “We have confirmation!” She and the well dressed man perked up.
“Where?” she asked, leaning over the man, not caring if her ample bosom was pressing into the back of his head.
He grinned stupidly, then shook it off and pointed at the screen. “There, outside of the Viridick Gym. Sources spotted the kidnappers with a cage. Looks like this is some sort of transaction point.”
The officer nodded. “Good. Get some special units moving, but don’t have them move in just yet. Let’s see if we can ID the kidnappers and whoever they’re planning to sell the girl to.” After issuing orders, she turned to the other man. “Sir, I’d like you to… where did he go?” she asked, seeing that they were now alone in the room.
~ ~ ~
“…” Ranma said, glaring at his best buddy.
“…” Checkers said, daring Ranma to try to beat up her Master… though he probably did deserve it.
“…” Ranko said, wondering if she should be anywhere nearby when her master blew up.
“…” Ryouga said, figuring that with Checkers there, he might be able to get a head start.
“… Aw, forget it. At least we’re here,” Ranma remarked, deflating much to the relief of the others. They were sure that the last two hours would have broken the new Tamer! “So, what’s this Leader like?” he asked the more experienced Tamer as they walked to the entrance of the gym.
“I’m not sure, really,” Ryouga replied. “Remember, Professor Stroaks gave me the Earth’s NERV Badge.” At Ranma’s nod, he continued, “Anyways, from what I heard of Gendo, he’s supposed to be some manipulative bastard. So keep an eye out, cause he’ll have some tricks up his sleeve.”
The quartet stopped at the double doors leading inside the gym, and look at the sign taped on the window. “… So, is that one of his tricks?” Ranko asked, referring to the sign that said that the gym was no longer running due to the fact that Gendo had been arrested.
“If he wanted to avoid fights, I’d say so,” Ranma deadpanned, crossing his arms. “Great. Now what?” he asked crossly to no one in particular. Silence reigned, while they tried to figure out what to do next.
Then, Checker’s ear twitched, and she looked off to the side, eyes narrowing. “What is it?” Ryouga asked, reaching for his balls. The Growltit didn’t answer, opting to instead slowly walk to the edge of the building, with the smaller Tigress in pursuit. The two Tamers looked at each other, and shrugged, before joining to the two Alphas.
“What’s,” Ranma began, before the two animal hybrids shushed him. He blinked, then asked in a lower tone, “What’s going on?”
“Three people, around the corner,” Checkers whispered. She sniffed the air, then continued, “One male, two female. Talking about… testing?”
“There’s a fourth smell, Miss Checkers,” the younger PokeKit added. The Growltit used her nose, then nodded.
“Furry, and…” she paused, glancing at Ranko. “… And a Kit.”
Ranma raised an eyebrow. "How can ya tell?"
"Kits smell different than fully developed PokeGirls. Pheremones are different, you see," she explained quickly.
Ryouga blinked, then asked, “Is it…?”
“I think so Master. A kidnapping,” she growled, cracking her knuckles. Ranma’s eyes narrowed.
“All right then, let’s take care of them,” he growled, taking out the pokeball that contained Hotaru.
~ ~ ~
“Gonna test on yooooouuuu… take ya apart and put ya back together…!” the bald pokegirl, clad in a tight green bodysuit, taunted, smiling wickedly at the sniffling Kit in the cage.
The other pokegirl, a stacked brunette wearing a maid outfit, snorted at her antics. “Huh, at least we all know that you’re tough enough to pick on little girls. Why don’t ya take her lunch money while you’re at it, Zelda?”
The taunting woman brow twitched when she stood up, glaring at the other. “Listen up, rookie, until you prove that you’re more than eye candy,” she snarled, poking her in the chest, “you have no right to tell me what I can and can’t do.” The other glared back, and raised a fist.
“Why you…”
“Link. Zelda. Silence.” Both of the girls gulped, and looked over to their master, a muscled ninja standing in a stoic manner next to a cargo truck. “Cease your arguing, and load the cage onto the truck. Who knows if we have… company…” he trailed off, looking over to the side, then cursed. “Damn, too late!”
“Checkers! Fire Blast!” a young voice called out, and a blast of fire forced the kidnapping Tamer to dodge to the left.
“Ranko! Hotaru!” Ranma said. “Be careful, those girls look tough. Just help out Ryouga’s girls!”
Ryouga smirked, revealing one of his fangs. “Don’t worry, I got some artillery coming,” he said confidently, tossing a ball. “Lum! Go!” he called out as the ball opened, revealing a green haired Oni, dressed only in a tiger striped bikini.
Ranma nodded, watching Ryouga’s girls launch fire and lightning at the now charging girls, who were confronted by the two cat type girls.
The bald pokegirl laughed. “Kittens? They send kittens at…” she taunted, before getting a furry foot to the jaw by the Tigress. After the shocking strike, she growled. “That’s it, you punk!” she screamed, before dodging a bolt of lightning.
Satisfied that his kittens were handling themselves nicely, Ranko using her size and agility to avoid being flattened by the bald chick, Hotaru getting cover from the strong Growltit as she tried to take on the fighter in the maid outfit, Ranma snuck around to the small cage. Kneeling down, he took a look at the heavy lock. “Don’t worry, I’ll have ya out in a jiffy,” he told the confused pokekit confidently.
Little did he know that this was actually…
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