He was entirely too wound up to get any sleep tonight, and he had a practical reason for it as well.
He had slowed down. When he had run and leapt he hadn't gotten quite as much speed as he'd thought he would. When he had dug his fingers into the wood of that train car, it had been really difficult. When he had stuffed that fat agent into the trash can, the can had split along the sides.
Things were different here. A cut he'd gotten on the side of his hand had taken a whole HOUR to heal. His chi felt "off" and if he was going to fight, he'd have to know how badly BEFORE he got into some life or death situation.
No Fierce Tiger Ball. He suspected he couldn't pull a Sky Dragon Ascension either. He still had Mousse's Hidden Weapons technique, and if anything it was even better than he remembered it.
Ranma stopped a kata as he narrowed it down. It all came down to chi. The way chi operated was different. More at the lower end of things than at the higher, but it was one of those things where the divergence shifted the whole path. Projecting chi just didn't seem to work, at least not in the same way. That meant something, but what?
Asuka flopped down on her chair, took a deep swig of coffee, and scanned the e-mail from NERV Japan. Hmmmm. Transport task later this month during her reassignment. OK. And there was... what the hell?!
SPLURSHHHHHHHHHHH!
Asuka stared at the message partially concealed by spit-up coffee. They wanted her to do what?!
Misato sat back in the tub, considering. She might go so far as to say pondering.
Overall, the whole thing was ludicrous. Except too many details jibed with what she knew. She knew Asuka, not very well but well enough. She could see Asuka acting that way in those situations.
She could see herself acting in similar manner in those situations depicting her. Much as she'd like to deny it. Much as she'd prefer to say how different she'd actually be in those situations. If she didn't know in advance, COULD she have done such and so? It was likely.
Ranma Ikari. Fourteen going on, what, seventeen? Not the brooding introvert she'd expected, but a martial artist capable of doing things that seemed superhuman.
Yet he didn't defy physics. When he leapt up on one occasion during that chase with the Angel, she'd seen the pavement he'd leapt FROM. He'd crushed the pavement. Equal and opposite reaction.
Same with the fight with the Angel in the Eva unit. He'd torn up the streets making tight corners and dodging. There was also a mailbox that had been flattened pretty darn thoroughly when a foot bigger than most cars came down on it.
What did it all mean?
She'd have to listen to the 'commentaries' track next. Try to ferret out more meanings.
That would have to wait for another night though. That was just too much to take in over one night.
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