He WAS prone to bull ahead even when he had reason to suspect that his current course of action had a relatively small chance of success.
"So, you're the pilot," said Toji, sizing up the new kid and NOT grabbing his shirt and making demands. "My sister got hurt in that little fight yesterday. She was in a shelter that was damaged."
Ranma winced. Some little girl got hurt in that? "Sorry about that. You might want to check with..." hmmm. who to stick with this. Oh - that would work. "Ritsuko Akagi."
"Huh? I thought you were the pilot." Toji turned confused briefly. He also noticed that the crowd nearby was edging closer now that immediate violence seemed to have gotten tabled.
"Yeah I was," said Ranma. "She's the one who decided I had to go pilot that Eva-thingie when I hadn't even seen one before yesterday, and didn't even put in a freaking weapons system!"
"No weapons?!" exclaimed Kensuke Aida. "What kind of giant robot doesn't have any weapons?!"
There were murmurs among the crowd too. They were Japanese after all, and a giant robot without weapons just wasn't right.
"They tell me they're getting me something called a 'prog-knife', but if you ask me that's nearly as lame as no weapons!" complained Ranma. Saotome NEW special technique - Blame The Gal Who Stuck Her Hand Up Your Butt Yesterday. "Pfeh. Oh. And I get trained to use some kinda guns when they get the bugs out. What kinda secret underground organization goes about giving you knives and guns AFTER you've started fighting?!"
"Secret underground organization?" asked Kensuke.
"You should see the place," grumped Ranma. "A bit more high tech, but it could'a fit right into an old anime as the villain base. Ain't got no... what's the word?"
"Class?" asked Toji, sucked in despite himself.
"Dramatic impact?" asked Hikari, giving up pretense of not listening.
"Artistic merit?" asked Kensuke.
"YEAH, That's it!" said Ranma, not indicating who he was agreeing with.
Rei frowned ever so slightly as she considered part of the reason for Ranma's balking at following NERV directives might be resulting from first impressions of design.
"So how come you don't know how to use a computer?" asked one of the girls, not understanding how anyone couldn't use a computer. Or cellphone. Or SDAT.
"I been real focussed on martial arts training," said Ranma, lashing out with a casual punch that took a divot out of a brick wall. "Now I've got this NERV stuff. Not gotta lotta time for any of the other stuff. Which is why Rei offering to help is gonna be so... helpful."
Rei blushed slightly as everyone turned their attention towards her. This was simply due to embarassment at being the focus of attention, but it was freely interpreted by many of those watching.
"Rei, are you sure you should be doing all that while you're injured?" asked Hikari.
"There is unlikely to be any strain on my injuries as a result of tutoring Ikari," said Rei.
"I can't believe you did that to poor Keitaro Urashima. I'll never be able to look at 'Love Hina' the same way again."
Clap clap clap "Better him than me," intoned Tenchi. "Much better him than me."
"I don't know about that," said Washu. "You might get Ayeka and Ryoko to stop fighting."
Ayeka turned green. "Eeeep. That is. No. I really don't think so."
Ryoko was paler than usual. "Much as I hate to agree with the princess, that's a bit much."
Ranma followed Rei, frowning slightly at all the noise from the pumps and nearby construction. Even if the city was supposedly new - this area looked like a dump. Somehow the episodes he'd seen had glossed over all the trash like the cigarette butts piled up around the stairwells in the apartment complex.
What he didn't realize was that:
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