It had started to snow. Nabatty was flying through the snowflakes while searching through the buildings of the neighborhood with her radar powers and yelling: "Yoohoo! Ranko! Come out, come out, wherever you are..."
The people of Nerima, upon seeing her, would stare for a few minutes, then shake their head and continue on with their daily work. It's Nerima. They have seen stranger things...
Apane (now a little taller than your average teddy-bear) was swinging from lamppost to lamppost. "Dammit..." she muttered. "Where can that baka-girl be?"
Ukymel and Shamchan, being the 'ground troops', were joining forces with the Senshi, looking in all side streets and asking pedestrians if they had seen anything particularly weird.
The residents shook their head. Nope, the didn't... at least not weirder than usual, or weirder than a group of fuku-clad superhero girls running around with half-animal-girls...
Shamchan, who was walking with Usagi and Rei, lost her patience. "Dammit, how longer is this taking? Shamchan wanna go home and sleep... her webbed feet are cold from snow."
"Now there, calm down," Rei tried to compose her. "We don't want the pavement to be littered with giant duck eggs, do we?"
Usagi giggled. "You should try eating one of her eggs, Rei-chan... maybe acting like a duck will help you with your temper."
Instantly, Rei glared fiercely at her leader. "AND JUST WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY TEMPER?"
"There, see?" Usagi sighed. "There you go again. Well, at least I managed to get rid of your little pig-tail... Or else your 'flames of anger' would have turned your butt into a rump steak..."
Rei fumed.
Suddenly, Shamchan's head turned around sharply.
"What's up?" Rei asked alarmed.
"Not sure..." the duck-girl replied. "I sense someone coming... And somehow, Shamchan is getting feeling of resentment..."
"I get that often when working with Usagi." Rei smirked.
"Rei, you're meeeaaaan."
Suddenly, with fluttering feathers, Shamchan leapt away. "Wait here."
"Hey! Come back here! Oh great, what's better than a hyperactive duck-girl?"
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Mousse was on a delivery for the Nekohanten, wearing his glasses for once. He was troubled.
This morning, he had tried to ask his beautiful Shampoo for a date. After Cologne told him she was flattered, she suggested asking her great-granddaughter instead.
And after he compared her to a wrinkled monkey, he got a bop on the head.
Well, after putting on his glasses and asking Shampoo instead, the lavender-haired Amazon told him something like 'that's gonna be the day I'll manage to get rid of my curse and get a curse of girl-holding-duck instead'...
Of course there was no spring like that, but who was Mousse to know that? After asking her if he should get her a sample of that spring water, she booted him out of the window.
"Quack?"
Mousse stopped. That sounded... familiar.
He looked up and dropped his delivery boxes in surprise. "Oh, Shampoo... you made your promise come true and changed your Jusenkyo curse into one that would make us an even closer couple."
"Who are you?" the duck-girl asked him. "Shamchan know you?"
The nearly blind boy didn't listen. He spread his arms and ran towards his love. "Shampoo, I love you... URK!"
He was heading towards the right goal for once, but that didn't stop the real Shampoo from suddenly appearing out of nowhere, soaring through the air and hitting the Chinese boy in his stomach, which knocked him over.
"Ow... Shampoo's head hurts..." the Amazon grumbled while standing up. "Furry ribbon-girl really needs to take some medicine against that cold..."
Then, she took a closer look at the duck-girl standing close by.
"Who you?" they asked at the same time.
"I'm Shamchan," the duck-girl replied in the same time as her double said: "I'm Shampoo."
Shamchan grinned. "Oh, you are my original. Shamchan is pleased to meet you, but have to find Ranko now."
"What?" Shampoo asked. "Ranma?" She scowled. Was this... one of her rivals, in disguise? She didn't know what the Shampoo-Mousse costume was all about, but she wouldn't let spatula girl or violent girl or whoever this was let lay her hands on her Airen.
"You not leaving that fast," Shampoo growled while pulling out her bonboris.
"GWAH!" Shamchan quacked as she dodged a swipe of the weapons. "Don't scare me like this, or else... uh-oh, here it comes... q-q-q-quaaaaaaack!"
And while she was crouching down on the floor, Shampoo ran towards her to strike...
...and was hit right in the face with an egg that splattered all over her face.
Shampoo couldn't help but gulp a bit of the slimy substance down her throat...
"DEEP SUBMERGE!" Sailor Neptune shouted, as her water-based attack came flying and hit both Shampoo and Mousse, throwing them away from the duck-girl.
"Shamchan, are you all right?" she asked. "I couldn't see much, only that someone was going to attack you from behind... where are they?"
Shamchan looked around. "Don't know. Must have run away. Oh well, have to continue searching for Ranko anyway..."
In one corner of the street, a lavender-furred cat and a duck with glasses were crouching on the floor, in-between several delivery boxes and were flapping around their wings or front legs, respectively.
"Quack quack!" Mousse exclaimed nervously.
"Quack quack!" Neko-Shampoo replied while angrily glaring back at him.
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