"Okay, Miss Tendo here got in touch with AEGIS, which is my group. She'll give you a report after spring break, which she's going to spend working with AEGIS if everyone who has to sign off on it does that," said Ranma. "Everyone know what AEGIS is?"
"Alien Exterminating Global Intercept System?" said a boy in the back.
"Something like that, once," admitted Ranma. "Nowadays though, it's Advanced Extranormal Guardian International Service. Or at least that's how they translate it from the Latin. We go out looking for threats to international peace that are from sources other than the normal suspects. Supernatural, extradimensional, alien, whatever - if it ain't something the normal authorities can handle - that's where we come in."
"Supernatural?" asked someone sounding more skeptical.
Ranma made a couple of hand signs. "Ox-tiger-dragon. Bushin no jutsu."
There were suddenly six Ranma in the front of the room.
"WHAT?!" asked several openly staring people.
Five Ranma vanished, leaving one again. "That was actually use of my particular specialty - the Gate Of Time. I'm one of the elite agents, called a Gatekeeper because I can access this stuff. I can warp time and to a lesser extent space. One of my buddies in the program has the Gate Of Space. Unfortunately he keeps turning it on unconsciously and ending up getting lost in odd places. I tend to use ninjitsu techniques as a focus for my Gate abilities."
"So... what will Tendo-san be expected to do if she is approved?" asked the teacher.
"Depends," said Ranma, shrugging. "Most likely she'll get an 'intern' badge and introduced to a lot of the departments. We have people who go through news and reports, looking for things that might indicate where some menace is operating. We have strike teams who go in to deal with things like that bit with the penguin-zombies last year. She could end up down in Nara training in sword techniques and demonslaying one week, running errands in Switzerland and our Operations Bureau the next, and accompanying a strike team to deal with a demonic infestation in Turkisbad after that. It all depends on what's available of course."
CRASH! The door to the classroom came off the sliders. "WHERE IS THE VARLET?! YOU!"
"You mispelled 'buffoon'," pointed out Akane, indicating the kanji on Kuno's forehead.
"He got 'idiot' and 'fool' right," indicated Yuka as she read the cheeks.
"HOW DARE THOU MARK THE NOBLE SCION OF THE HOUSE OF KUNO?!" roared Tatewaki Kuno.
"Guy, I fight monsters from beyond who are thousands of years old and get their jollies sucking the life out of people," replied Ranma. "Ya want me to give ya some respect? Start actin' like it."
"I shall make thee show me respect," promised Kuno, charging forward.
Ranma sighed.
120:1
Ranma cracked his knuckles and started gathering supplies. Well, this was hardly any fun. What a mess.
Hmmm. What if he did THIS?
ZIP!
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"Where'd Kuno go?" asked Akane.
"ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! BLUB! BLUB!" sounded from outside the school.
"I don't remember there being a fountain there," said one of the students closest to a window.
"Hmmm, I guess there's a difference between 'quick drying' and 'quick enough'," noted Ranma.
"You encased Kuno in bricks and mortar, shoved a hose up his... hakama," guessed Akane after studying the fountain for a few moments, "and positioned the water so that he can only breathe if he keeps his mouth shut?"
Ranma shrugged. "It seemed like a good idea at the time."
Akane decided-
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