Akane's eyes got huge when she saw the pink-dressed girl grab the red mushroom with the white spots... and grew to an enormous size herself!
Peach sternly looked down at the short-haired girl, who almost let her mallet fall down to the floor. "Now, shall we settle this just like any lady would?"
'She... she must be at least as tall as Taro's monster form...' Akane thought, but she wasn't a girl who got that easily intimidated.
She reinforced her grip on the mallet and snarled: "Ranma you coward! Don't hide behind girls and take your punishment like a man!"
Peach sighed. "Don't say I didn't warn you..." she muttered, then pulled a huge tennis racket out from under her dress.
Ranma looked at the huge girl in awe, not only because he could nearly look underneath her dress. "Where do they keep all that stuff?" he murmured. "Maybe she has a similar trick like Akane, when she calls upon that mallet... or she's a mistress of hidden weapons, like Mousse."
He really hoped the latter one wasn't the case, because he could do without another Amazon suitor, thank you very much.
Peach reached down and effortlessly picked the struggling Akane up from the ground.
"Hey! Put me down, you, you... gorilla-girl!"
Peach frowned. "I'll let you know that I don't like it if someone insults me. I'll give you a last chance: Stop with that attitude and leave the poor, defenseless boy alone!"
"Defenseless MY ASS!" Akane yelled.
Peach scowled at her. "Fine!" She pulled back her arm with the racket, threw Akane high up into the air...
"YAAAAAAAHH!" a certain Tendo tomboy tennis ball screamed.
And she hit her with an overhead serve, which sent the still yelling Akane flying away in the distance.
"Nice serve, Your Highness!" Kimiko smiled
Peach smiled and put her racket away. Then the Super Mushroom's effects wore off, and she shrunk down to normal human size. She walked up to Ranma. "You aren't hurt, are you?"
Ranma shook his head. He was still looking in the direction Akane had vanished in. No, but I have the feeling Akane will be mad when she comes home tonight..."
"Oh!" A slight hint of guiltiness appeared on the princess' face. "Was she your sister?"
"No..." Ranma sighed. "Just my fiancee..."
Toad sweatdropped. "But she wanted to hit you with that mallet."
Ranma nodded. "Yeah, she does that all the time."
Peach frowned. "How could she do something like that?"
Ranma shrugged. "Eh, I've gotten used to it." Then he realized something. "Say... did that lady just call you 'princess'?"
Peach sighed. "Yes, that she did!" She frowned at Kimiko. "I thought I told you not to call me that. We are undercover."
Kimiko winced. "Sorry about this, prin... Peach!"
Ranma groaned. "Oh great! Please don't tell me you are here because of me... Did my father engage us without telling me?"
Peach looked at him in confusion. "What? No, I'm just here to accompany Kimiko. And why would your father do such a thing if you're engaged?"
"That's a long story..." Ranma muttered. He could tell the lady wasn't from around.
"Say, you live here in Nerima, is that true?" Kimiko then spoke up.
Ranma hesitated, then nodded. "Well, I've been living here for a few years now, so I guess, yeah, you could say that."
"And do you, by any chance, know a boy named Ryoga Hibiki? He must be around your age..."
Now Ranma grinned. "Ryoga? Of course I know him! Heck, we even were buddies back in school. Well, I don't know if 'buddies' is really the right words... but yeah, I know him pretty good!"
"Really?" Kimiko was overjoyed. "That's great news! And what about a girl called Kodachi? Kodachi Kuno?"
Ranma winced. "Well, I do know her... but if you plan to get near her, you better think twice about that, lady! I mean, pretty everyone in Nerima knows that her whole family is a bunch of loonies. Heck, she has the weird idea that I should be her husband, even though she knows that I'm engaged to Akane... and two other girls," he muttered, but Kimiko didn't hear that last part. "I don't really know how often she has tried to poison me just so she could force me to come home with her..."
"She did?" Kimiko gasped. "Oh no... please say you're not telling the truth..."
"I wish," Ranma sighed. "But she is a pretty persistent girl... and if she doesn't try to poison me, she attacks Akane with her razor hoops or spiked clubs."
"Oh no," Kimiko sobbed and buried her face in her hands. "No, my darling little girl... whatever happened to you? Why are you doing all of these awful things?"
"Maybe... it's because of Kamek's curse," Toad assumed while Peach stroked the distraught woman's hair.
"Eh, it's not a big deal, actually," Ranma said, wondering why those strangers were worrying about Kodachi. "At least she doesn't try to kill me. Ryoga always attacks me with that heavy umbrella he's carrying..."
He decided to keep his mouth shut for now when he heard the woman's sobbing intensify.
"There, there, Kimmy!" Peach said in a soothing voice. "Everything will turn out to be just fine, believe me!"
Ranma was feeling really uncomfortable by now. "Umm... I didn't say anything wrong, did I?"
Peach sighed. "If what you told us is the truth, then it's good that you told us these things about Ryoga and Kodachi. The shock would have been even bigger for her if she found out by herself..."
"But... I don't get it," Ranma scratched his head. "Why are those two so important to her?"
"Because," Kimiko sobbed as she looked at the pig-tailed boy with teary eyes. "Ryoga and Kodachi are my children!"
Nabiki looked up from her magazine when she heard a weird sound. Seconds later, a low-orbit missile named Akane came flying at the Tendo Dojo, landing directly next to Nabiki and created a deep hole in the earth of the backyard.
Nabiki raised an eyebrow. "Now that's weird, normally Kuno is the one that lands in such a manner... Yo, sis, you finally home?"
"Please... help me out of here!" came Akane's muffled voice out of the ground.
Later, Akane was sitting next to her sisters in the living room, still picking crumbs of earth out of her hair.
"So, what did you do to piss off Shampoo like that?" Nabiki asked. "Or was it Kodachi?"
"No," Akane replied. "It was a huge girl with a tennis racket."
Kasumi and Nabiki looked at each other.
"Oh my!" Kasumi said. "Well, these marks in your face do look similar to the strings of a tennis racket..."
"Tennis Martial Arts?" Nabiki wondered. "Now that's a first..."
"But that's not the weird thing, Nabiki!" Akane protested. "Before pulling out that racket, the girl ate a mushroom that made her grow to a huge size, and I mean HUGE! Almost as big as Pantyhose Taro's beast form!"
Nabiki blinked. "That... is big!"
Kasumi tapped her finger against her chin. "Do you suppose those mushrooms are similar to the mushrooms that turned Ranma-kun and Ryoga-kun into small boys?"
"I don't know," Akane shrugged. "But it didn't look like those mushrooms at all." She then noticed something. "Nabiki, why are you home already? I know you still have classes this afternoon."
Nabiki shrugged. "The vice principal announced that all students should leave early today, because of a number of strange events that started right after you and Ranma left."
"What kind of events?"
Nabiki looked at her sister closely. "You REALLY wanna know?"
Akane nodded. "Yes, yes I do!"
Nabiki opened her palm. "2.000 yen!"
Akane grimaced. "Forget it, Nabiki..."
Meanwhile, in one of Furinkan's class rooms...
Ryonami, a girl from Nabiki's clique, was pounding against the painting she was trapped in. "Hey! Lemme out of here!"
The spherical, floating ghost with the crown floated in front of her painting and cackled maliciously. "I don't think so, my pretty... you are the very first one of my new collection! Very soon, I will have captured every single human inside this school... and then I will turn it into my ghostly domicile. Bwahahahahahahah!"
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