"At Narita? Get serious," said a passerby in reply.
Ranma shrugged and lifted his carry-on. Time to find his luggage, and hopefully it wasn't halfway to India this time.
He let his memories go over what he knew about his role here. He'd been a sort of scavenger, always looking for something he could grab from a villain and adapt to his own use. Sometimes he had had to network, going to specialists in the field. Remove this anti-tamper device, disable that self-destruct, remove this curse - that sort of thing.
So he had a few odds and ends in his utility belt. Some of it he was fonder of than the other bits and pieces.
He was a man, a normal human being, among supermen. Frankly, any advantage or levelling of the playing field he could get his hands on was a good thing.
Okay, he was a martial artist who'd trained all his life and had mastered more styles and forms than a lot of people had ever even heard of. He was stronger and faster than a lot of people would expect.
He was also a high school student returning to his homeland.
It all depended on your point of view, really.
The problem, in Ranma's view, was that in terms of raw power - he was very much lacking against certain opponents. He'd once fought a girl and lost rather badly. Repeatedly. Wonder Girl had smacked him around like a pachinko ball a few times just to demonstrate a few points. He'd also gotten pretty thoroughly pounded by his share of powerful villains.
His utility belt had a lot of little gadgets and gizmos, much like Batman had. However, Torajin was an oriental-based hero. If possible he used things to reflect that "flavor" of gadgetry.
Not that he thought any of them would be of any use if he had to go against General Zod again. THAT had been a smackdown of truly epic proportions and about as unequal a fight as could be found. Sinestro was another perfect example of going up against someone who had way too much of an advantage in the raw power department.
His style was "Anything Goes", after all.
It would be difficult to set things up in his new life, but apparently his father was waiting for him in:
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