Ranma stared at the man in confusion as he shouted something in English. While Ranma’s S letter gave her a vast amount of common sense, tactical ingenuity on a level she didn’t have before, limited knowledge of magic, and internal advice to point her in the right moral direction, the actually knowledge of Solomon came from a guy thousands of years dead before English was even created. So, while Ranma could hold a pretty good conversation with the first king of Mesopotamia over man’s place in the universe, the so-called infinite well of knowledge that Solomon’s wisdom provided ran a bit dry when it came to advice on how to fight a giant Chinese monster with a guy that had no idea what you were saying.
Well, there was the part of Ranma’s Solomon Wisdom that said just throw a rock at the giant, but she highly doubted the David and Goliath tactic would work in this instance.
Then the creaking of the monster’s arms caught her attention, and she turned around just in time to see there was no way she was going to dodge the creature’s arm without flying so fast it would kill her passenger.
Ranma let out a surprised yell before turning her back to the attack. Maybe if she could absorb enough of the impact, and was ready to put on the breaks, she wouldn’t get the guy who saved her ass twice today killed.
As it turned out, she never got the chance to see if her theory would work. There was another boom that sounded like thunder, that signaled something hitting the creature’s arm hard, and then she was surrounded by a green energy field that pulled her away from the thing. Ranma turned hr head to follow the energy field’s source to find it attached to the fist of a dark skinned man with no hair.
As the field around Green Arrow and the rookie dissipated, he looked up to Green Lantern with a small frown. “Took you guys long enough. What happened? This thing finally kill enough people that the Chinese government figured it couldn’t hide the death toll and let you in to deal with it?”
“No, we just showed up to save your sorry ass,” Lantern explained with a frown.
Ranma rolled her eyes and sighed. What was up with the sudden flood of super powered people in costumes? Was there a convention in town or something? She was also a little agitated at being ignored, which was quite a feat considering she was holding one of the men up at the moment.
It was then that Supergirl decided to fly over and cut in, as it seemed the two men had forgotten all about the rampaging giant robot. “Hey guys, we still have a little problem to deal with here,” she shouted after flying between the two males before they started a contest to decide the dominant one.
Then she turned to see the girl holding Arrow up and blinked. One look at her face, and Kara drew on some knowledge the alien picked up in her spare time. “Uh, konichiwa,” Supergirl said while raising her hand in a ‘hi’ kind of wave. Wait, do Japanese do that?
A little thankful at finally being addressed, Ranma responded in kind; raising her hand and saying a quick hello. Then she quickly reached down to grab the screaming Green Arrow by the wrist of his free hand before he fell out of her reach.
Frowning at the new girl’s slip, Lantern quickly turned to face her, and formed a floating platform to stand on with his ring. “Uh, maybe you better let me handle him.”
As the new girl complied with Lantern’s order, Green arrow looked over to him and frowned. “You guys speak Japanese?”
Green Lantern held up his ring. “The Corps run into about two new alien races a week. Do you really think these things wouldn’t come with a translator function?” he answered in English.
Supergirl shrugged. “Hey, I’m an alien from a super-advanced race. It took me a week to learn English, and school is boring.” Not to mention that America never got the best anime, but she thought the mysterious knowledge for knowledge’s sake explanation was better than ‘I wanted to watch imported cartoons’.
With that done, Kara turned back to the new girl and began the appropriate ‘girl talk’ that occurred when meeting someone new for the first time. “So uh, what’s you’re name?” As far as the alien knew, the stranger wasn’t in the league, and it would be nice to have another person around her age join up.
Although the League was just getting started, there had already been a few incidents that required their attention. The problem was that with her level of experience, Kara didn’t get in on any of the important assignments, but she was far too powerful to waste her energy with the small time stuff in case she was needed for the bigger things that came along.
If she joined the League, the new girl would probably end up in the same boat as Kara, but old saying about misery and company held true for aliens as much as it did for humans. Besides, with two of them, maybe the Martian would see numbers could cover up their inexperience.
“Judging by the symbol, she’s the new Captain Marvel,” Lantern cut in. When both Supergirl and the Marvel girl looked at him to give the man a glare, he just frowned back. “We don’t have time for pleasantries. Atom can’t hold that thing off for much longer on his own and we need a plan.”
In the distance, Lantern saw the creature fall to its knees as Atom flew up behind it and began drawing power from its body. The attack didn’t last long, as the captain became obscured by a bright flash of light, and then seemed to be floating around dazed for a few moments before recovering just in time to dodge an attack by the thing’s gun.
“How strong are you?”
Ranma blinked at the dark man’s question. As a male, she would have started demanding just who the heck this guy that he was by addressing her in that tone, but since she was being advised by the knowledge of a centuries old wise man that told her to just suck it up, Ranma just told him. “Uh, I don’t know, pretty strong I guess.” Not being able to test her powers prior, Ranma had no real idea of her limitations.
“How many tons can you lift?” Lantern demanded.
Ranma’s confusion turned to a deadpan expression. “I’m Japanese, do you really think I know that?”
The Green Lantern mentally kicked himself. “Okay fine, how many kilos? … or whatever.”
“No idea,” Ranma answered with a strait face. When the aggravation started to show on the man’s face, Ranma’s broke out into a frown. “Hey, this is my first time okay! Give me a break, I’m new at this stuff.”
Standing on the sidelines, Green Arrow had been listening in on the conversation. Although he didn’t understand most of the words, he had been able to pick out enough to know what was going on. Pressed for time as everyone was, he simply cut in. “If you’re wondering about her power, she’s got to be on the same level as Superman when it comes to strength and speed, but that’s all I could tell.”
Seeing that his best source for information wasn’t going to be the girl, the Green Lantern turned back to the man standing on the floating platform he constructed. “What about the robot? Anything you can tell me about that?” When John heard all he needed to know, the intergalactic policeman switched on his communicator ear-piece so that Captain Atom could hear. “Okay people, I think I’ve got a game plan.”
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