The video was running on one of those shows that collected such random oddities. Nabiki at least assumed as much. She certainly hoped a news program wouldn't be using such slang-filled, unprofessional lines.
Azusa wasn't watching, or at least not closely. She was hanging back just outside the room and sort of peeking, while not looking too thrilled about it.
"And here we see the so-called Lady in White travel through the air like a wobbly mastodon," the voice coming from the video said.
Or making jokes like that. Totally of taste when dealing with a video where the zombies many formerly living people were being torn apart by a pair of teenagers.
It had nothing to do with the fact that Nabiki was nothing even close to a woobly mastodon.
Of course, Nabiki could only get the sounds. Her visual information was limited, like that coming from her late-lamented computer, to a sheet of opaque grey with a touch of orange and pink left over from the heat used to shape the glass. She was trying not to reveal just how much trouble she had with the TV screen...but there was at least one difficulty with that.
"Hey, I kinda remember that," Ranma said chuckling. "Didn't look like you were walkin' through mud or some stuff?"
"It's right there on the screen, Ranma," Kasumi said blinking.
"Huh?" Ranma asked, momentarily confused. "Oh right, on the TV."
Each comment by her Master sent a twitch through Nabiki.
"Pay attention, Master," Nabiki said lecturingly.
"But...how?" Ranma asked bluntly.
Nabiki smacked her hand into her face, she thought they were past this at least.
"Oh, you're not talking about the TV," Ranma noted finally, drawing a silent heaven-seeking plea for patience from the other non-human in the room.
"Boy!" Genma snapped. "What are you doing using that sword?"
Then the knock came on the door, drawing Kasumi away from the horrid video to answer the door.
"How...Nabiki?" Akane gasped as Nabiki destroyed one of the vampires by basically "healing" it.
"Umm...holy water?" Nabiki tried, finding herself floundering a bit once put on the spot.
"Ranma, Nabiki," Kasumi called out. "You have a visitor."
"I see you've seen the video," the man said.
Ranma started to talk and Nabiki cut in before he could.
"Yes, we have," Nabiki said snapping. "All hope of normal life...bye bye. Even now, some violent female psychopath that believes herself married to Ranma or whatever is sharpening her sword to come to kill me."
******
Shampoo sneezed and almost let her sword slip on the sharpening stone. She had to be more careful about that, especially if there were monsters that she was going to have to deal with.
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