Opening up the escape pod, Ranma was greeted by a strange sight that only he could possibly find dangerous.
For the pod contained a girl, and a fairly pretty girl at that. This girl also just so happened to be completely and utterly nude.
For a brief moment, Ranma had a thought about a face hugger jumping out of a pod at him, and it had utterly nothing to do with the previous case of 'space herpes' on board the ship.
As the young woman laid there in apparent sleep and didn't suddenly jump out to hug him, Ranma took note of further details. For one, she had short black hair and rather sizable breasts, the latter feature being what had reminded him briefly of Shampoo and her method of greeting.
There were three other obvious things about the girl. One was a large book seated on her stomach with her hands holding it in place. On top of that book was a crystal cube that seemed to be glowing with an inner circuitry. The third item was the hilt of a sword that was oddly placed between her legs like a gear shifter, though from his angle Ranma could tell it was sticking out of the machinery below her buttocks instead of out of the girl.
It was at that point that Ranma was surprised when the cube projected forth a translucent image of a somewhat familiar looking woman. "Ah hello there young man. After having a vision, I decided to send out this probe to the son I never had."
Despite the different style of dress and even hairstyle, Ranma recognized a number of features about the woman. "Mom?"
"No. I am a version of the woman that is your mother that exists in another reality. I cannot have children, but when I became aware of this possibility, I wanted to pass on what I could all the same, even if it might be a bit selfish of me."
Ranma somewhat understood all of that, but it seemed rather overly complex. "Can't I just call you Mom anyways?"
Stifling a giggle in the sleeve of her robes, the translucent Nodoka composed herself before responding with a smile. "Of course dear. My dear friend Washu-chan helped me prepare the training equipment in the pod. To activate it, all you need to do is remove the sword. The rest should be automated."
It took Ranma a moment to process all of that, but it made a certain degree of sense that this other mother might practice some form of sword style and wish to pass it on to him. So, not seeing any sense in hesitating with General Grimm, several armed security officers and even some standard crew watching, Ranma reached down and grasped the sword hilt.
After a brief pause the hilt simply case loose from the machinery, allowing Ranma to pull it out, with an artificial female voice started up from the pod at the same moment. "Signature Accepted."
Staring at the hilt in his hand, Ranma's curiosity about how to get it to fire up and create the blade was cut short as the pod continued making announcements. "Safety Interlock Disengaged. Commencing Countdown."
Seeing everyone tense up for some reason, Ranma took a few guesses about the situation. "Eh, you guys might wanna back up. I don't think it'll hurt anyone but it might get weird."
Hearing that, everyone except the stony General Grimm took a few steps back.
"Maiden System Activation in Progress."
When the pod finally chimed, the only sign of action was the girl slowly blinking awake. Once her eyes were open, she sat up within her pod, allowing her breasts to slide down and droop naturally. Then she spoke in a voice that was both clear and gentle. "Are you Ranma-sama?"
Ranma thought it was a simple enough question, but the honorific sama gave him a slight pause of concern. "Okay, you got me."
Smiling and making a contented noise, the curvy young gynoid politely handed the large book and the holo-cube atop it to the large stony guy standing beside her pod.
Then she sprang out from the pod without any preamble, wrapping arms and legs around her target and burying Ranma's face in between her breasts. It was a testament to Ranma's experience and skill that he both remained standing and coherent despite being moderately stunned. "Uhm, it's nice ta meet you too. You wouldn't happen to be here to join the seraglio would you?"
Noticing that her target's voice was a bit muffled by her cleavage, the black haired girl pulled back slightly so that she could look Ranma in the face. "If Goshujin-sama wishes, of course. I am Steel Angel Saki, designed to be your partner in training."
Pausing a moment, Saki seemed to consider something before unwrapping her legs from around his waist and moving to stand on her own. "Please excuse me if I was a bit forward Goshujin-sama."
A bit at ease that she was both polite and backing down on the sexual aggression, the young Emperor relaxed a bit. "That's okay, nice to meet you Saki."
Nodding pleasantly, the steel angel put on and activated a bracelet, a wave of energy from it creating first her lingerie, then her white with blue trim dress. Once properly uniformed, the psuedo maid moved to retrieve her manual and holo-cube from General Grimm, politely but briefly thanking him before turning back to her Master. "I await your command Goshujin-sama."
Pausing to consider the situation, Ranma realized he needed to get back to his capitol for a number of reasons.
Militarily speaking, there wasn't a whole lot to do here except sit on the bridge and give the rare order in between stretches of trying to get a clue about what was going on. Back at his capitol however he could get the Klingons dealt with and perhaps create some new military units especially for dealing with the problems on Glacia.
There were also some things he wanted to discuss with his mother, particularly after getting this pod with the message from some other version of his mother.
More pressing however was wanting to discuss things with General what's her name, the one in the tight black leather and latex outfit. The same woman that made Kodachi, Shampoo and Nabiki combined look like drab unsexy tomboys. The same woman that he'd told to go all the way with and get creative in forming and training his Seraglio. The same woman his mother was apparently spending all of her time helping.
He now had some fairly firm suspicions that the Seraglio girls were more like nice fiancees rather than soldiers and bodyguards. He also knew the team of that woman and his mother were still training new sets of girls.
If this Saki girl was any indication of what his mother thought was a proper Seraglio girl, and he had a feeling both Nodokas were thinking alike, then he might have a problem after the first dozen or few.
He did hear that overly-sexy woman mention cloning chambers didn't he?
Luckily, he had a feeling the Klingons wouldn't mind giving him a lift so his battleship could remain in a supporting position at Glacia.
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