"Gina?" Her sister Brittany asked in wonder, "What's up with this?"
Brianna was next. "Yah, he looks like a pokegirl, but he's obviously a guy."
"I shall explain," the genie lifted a finger, interrupting and hijacking this conversation, saving Gina, who obviously had no idea what was going on. The genie folded his hands into a formal storyteller stance. "I am a slave to a magical artifact that predates Sukebe by several centuries. To each owner, I grant three wishes. Many years from now, this pokegirl Gina found my lamp and made her wishes. I am come here into the far past to grant them."
"Okaay, what were the wishes?" Gina was not the only one to blink in surprise.
"That I shall answer as I grant them, in the order they were made," the genie respectfully replied, bowing his head, shaved bald except for a single long lock of blue hair hanging down past his shoulders.
"The first wish made by my mistress was 'that she could have stayed with Ranma forever'."
"But I already promised that!!" The girls' trainer blurted out.
"Yes, but you could not fulfill it," the genie replied, undisturbed. "Out of your next hundred battles, you won only three, losing the other ninety-seven and all of your current pokegirls. During the process, you went completely berserk with anger, broke many rules and laws and became a hunted madman who was eventually exterminated by combined teams of tamers, acting with powerful Pokegirls. In the end, you lost your life to the claws of one of your present Harem, as you were unable to bring yourself to fight her at your full power, in spite of her being compelled by her new master."
All of the blood drained out of Ranma's face. His harem looked faint.
The genie's face was calm and unreadable, yet his voice spoke with some disdain. "You are a mindless fuck-toy, Saotome. You have done nothing to defend yourself, or those who depend upon you. Those skills you devoted your life to learning are useless here. You cannot defend your pokegirls with your own fists or feet in those fights where you might lose them, and you know nothing of how to direct them to use their own abilities to defend themselves properly. The times they have tried to teach you the rules by which you might use them in battle properly you have fallen asleep. Only your mind could save them, using knowledge to defend them, but that is the one thing you are absolutely unable to do."
"Wha... what happened to us?" Brianna fumbled out the words in shock. Ranma was still too startled by that horrible thought to blink, as were most, if not all, the rest of his girls.
The genie lowered his head and closed his eyes. "My mistress explained that to me. She had escaped and gone nearly feral after years of mistreatment at the hands of cruel masters. Her sister Brianna had died by a Poison attack under a master who did not carry antidotes, while her remaining sister Brittany was killed by her own owner, who used her guts to make strings for a musical instrument. Having nothing else, Gina sought me, and after years she found me, hoping to set her life right again. It was her first wish to be restored to a happy time under the only loving master she had ever known, and to be allowed to have a chance to stay with him forever."
"An how are you going to do that?" Brianna asked.
The genie gave a slight nod. "To defend you, your master must have..."
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