[Episode 201199] [Episode 201199]As the spilled glass of water fell upon Ranma, the usual effects occurred, specifically the normal male Ranma being replaced by a petite busty red-headed girl in the exact same clothes, currently overly large for her frame.
There were some surprises however. For Nodoka in particularly, the sudden change was incredibly shocking. As a fairly strict scientist, something so blatantly impossible was incomprehensible, even compared to the improbability of her son being replaced with a dimensional analogue. Despite her profound disbelief, the red-head that looked quite similar to a younger version of her failed to vanish or even waver out of reality.
For Ranma it was an entirely different surprise. The sudden shift to familiar female form was entirely expected, what was surprising though was that she wasn't actually wet. The water had seemingly impacted against her, but in reality had hit something intangible close to her skin and flowed down her front to pool just above her lap. Her ever helpful overlay provided information about some sort of EM field surrounding her body and acting like a protective force-field. Of course, that dimly brought to mind a bit of curiosity about how she had changed forms despite the water not actually touching her.
Her attention snapped upwards as Doctor Nodoka suddenly fled the room. The reminder that she was in some sort of twisted mad science world brought to mind images of just what sort of thing they might do to an unfortunate sex-shifting martial artist. Frowning in indecision, the red-head raised her right hand up to stare at the globe of water, brought up from her lap and contained by the invisible force-field.
A grin graced her lips as she realized this wasn't in the predicted abilities of the nanomech upgrade.
Excitedly opening the door to the break room where Ranma was taking his meal in a 'secure' location away from prying eyes, Nodoka dealt with her shock by excitedly chattering away. "You'll see, the glass of water spilled on him and he changed!"
Eyebrow quirked up, a clearly male Ranma took a slow sip of his glass of water.
Needless to say, the outlandish accusation of shape shifting failed as there was no evidence of spilled water, much less some strange female. As far as Genma was concerned, the only strange woman to be found was currently his wife. "Perhaps you've been working too much lately. Stress and what not. Perhaps you should take some time off and make sure this other Ranma doesn't cause us trouble?"
Nodoka paused to stare at her husband as the implications made themselves known to her. Determined to prove her point, she moved to grab the glass of water only to have Ranma hop up and away from his table out of her reach. Feeling vindicated that the shape-shifter was dodging, she instead grabbed the teapot, splashing the boy with an arc of hot tea.
This of course only served to irritate the young man greatly as he was now soaked with cooling tea. "What the hell?"
As much as Genma wanted to somehow blame this barbarian version of Ranma, there was little he could do without pulling a weasel from his pockets. "Perhaps he was playing a trick on you? Some sort of optical illusion?"
Ranma of course had a degree in playing dumb, particularly with regards to the current setting. "An optional allusion?"
This of course had the desired reaction of causing Genma to realize the current Ranma likely couldn't spell subterfuge with a spellcheck built into his head, much less perform it. They were lucky the boy could feed himself and understand human speech. Sighing, he pulled his wife from the room before she could make a fool out of herself.
As Nodoka was reluctantly hushed from the room, Ranma was allowed to see two of the more bizarre inhabitants of his current world. Simply put, a pair of Kodachi twins framed the doorway, and any world that had extra of her had to be strange. Oddly enough they weren't of normal appearance either, but rather shapelier, more fit, and bustier versions of her. As if that weren't strange enough, their skin was powder white, with a faint dusting of pink at their cheeks. The only other color to their flesh was the rose-pink eyeliner and lipstick the twins wore. Likewise their outfits were identical white and pink latex versions of a fetish nurse's mini-dress with thigh-high latex ballet-heeled boots.
Framing the doorway, they were almost perfect mirror images, down to which leg was presented first and which side their ponytail was on. The only difference between them was that the one with her ponytail on the left side of her head featured a group of white roses in her hair, while her mirror twin featured a rose-pink set of roses in her hair. The theme continued as they spoke up as a pair as well, smoothly alternating between which one was actually speaking. "Master looks manly enough. May we take care of him now? Yes, Master needs his check up. Such should have been done immediately."
Of course, that was yet another thing to hurry Genma's exit. He'd never understood why his son acquired such a creepy pair of gynoids as his personal servants. Worse, the silly dolls didn't seem to be the least concerned with their Master actually being an ignorant dimensional analogue. So, instead of answering them, Genma hastened to escort Nodoka away.
The two doctors finally leaving the room, the twin Kodachi dolls sauntered into the room to frame either side of the small table as the door closed behind them. "The diagnostics test is ready. Shall we escort you to your room now? Or is there something you would desire of us Master?" The last one to speak suggestively raised her mini skirt, to reveal that she wore no panties, and that the smooth mound there was also tinted a light pink.
Ranma's reaction to the invitation was to back up against the counter behind him. The reaction of nervously backing away might have confused the dolls, but Ranma was likewise confused by the strong arousal and sudden erection that was suddenly plaguing him. He'd certainly dealt with a lot of sexy girls in his life, and a number of embarrassing situations, but just like earlier with Nabiki, things seemed to be different with how his body reacted. Just the glimpse the overly forward Kodachi had given him had him instantly harder than he felt comfortable with, the sudden swelling seemingly intent on ripping his boxers to get free.
The twin Kodachi dolls spared each other a brief glance as they conferred over wireless about how to handle his abnormal reaction to a relatively standard offer. Reaching a consensus, the two dolls strode forward, the flasher kneeling at his feet while the other stood ready at her side. The kneeling doll gently rubbed his trapped his erection, softly speaking up as she stared up at him. "I did not wish to make you uncomfortable. My apologies Master."
The standing doll nodded respectfully in agreement and picked up the conversation. "Indeed. We were informed of the dimensional anomaly. As such we are prepared to operate under the amnesia contingency with the assumption that you are indeed from another world. Do you approve?"
Ranma was initially confused by her words while still being made very nervous by the kneeling Kodachi, but as they calmly waited for his reply, he gradually managed to calm down. It also helped greatly that his overlay was helping him learn the definition of each word in turn as he tried to understand just what she had said. "You're willing to just accept me like that?"
The standing doll merely cocked her head slightly to the side in a gesture of curiosity. "Of course. Are you able to prove you aren't our Master Ranma merely suffering post-operation stress or some other potentially temporary memory disorder?"
It took Ranma a moment to figure out the meaning of that sentence. "Uh, fair enough I guess." Not concerned with puzzling out her somewhat technical wording, Ranma was able to raise an issue of his own by glancing briefly at the kneeling Kodachi doll. "Can she stop that?"
Although he had addressed the standing one, it was kneeling one that replied while looking up at him in honest curiosity. "Do you not wish me to ease your discomfort Master?"
Ranma brightened up at that prospect, imagining some sort of injection on this science crazy world that would ease everything up. It wasn't an entirely outlandish assumption as the two were dressed in little nurse outfits. "You can do that?"
The kneeling Kodachi had an entirely different idea in mind, and assumed from her rather blatant display that her Master was of the same mind. That was why she was happy delving into his pants to personally deal with the issue in an enjoyable way. "It would be my pleasure."
Ranma was of course duly surprised by how quickly she got into his pants. "What the hell?"
The standing Kodachi looked up from admiring the twin's oral performance to catch her Master's eye. "Perhaps you're unsettled by the sexual enhancements?"
Tension rising among other feelings Ranma wasn't ready to deal with, his reply was a bit shouted, "What?"
Concerned by his strong reaction, she hastened to answer quickly in the hope of alleviating his concerns. "One of the more experimental enhancements were a number of sexual enhancements to allow Master Ranma to deal with Happi-Boomers by sexually satisfying them. Only a biological human male can do such, yet he must have super-human endurance to survive the encounter."
Once again using his overlay to look up things to understand her, including some general information on the Happi-Boomers, Ranma actually relaxed a bit as the process allowed him to think about something instead of worrying. In the end he had to admit that Happousai was just as perverted in this world considering the design of his gynoids. Making sexy girl robots was one thing, but making the 'disarming' sequence something like that was definitely perverted. Worse, he'd apparently be expected to do that with enemy dolls if that was his guess, which explained partially why there was so little concern for the native Ranma having fighting ability. "...you're... ooh, kidding, right?"
Having shaken her husband off, Nodoka had returned unsure about what to do, so in her indecision she settled for listening from the door.
"Of course not Master."
The other Ranma sounded a bit stressed, but also more thoughtful than she would have expected of him. "You're not going to treat me bad because of what happened?"
"Why should we? Amnesia and memory tampering is more probable than dimensional transposal. Even accepting that you are from a different world, as far as the rest of our world is concerned, you are our Master, Ranma Saotome. It would be difficult to convince many otherwise."
"Ah, guess ya gotta point. Still though, I find it kinda odd."
"How so Master?"
"Well, I don't think it was something here that did it. My world has that kinda stuff, and someone might have tried ta send me away, but I think I woulda noticed something. Besides, popping in here right when the nanomech thing happens is kinda odd."
"Ah. If your dimensional transposal was due to a third party, the switch at the time of the procedure could have been by design. Earlier and it would have been aborted safely, later would have been too late. The timing would be an additional incredibly improbable coincidence. The question would then be why?"
"Well, I'm guessing I'm here for a reason. Maybe handle Happousai like I usually have to. Who knows, maybe the nanomech thing would have killed the Ranma from here because he's not as tough as me."
"You believe you are tougher?"
"Yeah, I figure he's smarter than me like I'm tougher than him. Hell, I'm probably gonna completely fuck up the results for this test thing they're worried about."
"How so?"
"Well, the thing in my head says he was only supposed to lift a quarter of a ton to pass the strength enhancement test. Where I come from, that would rank him as a weakling. Me, I've gotten into a fight with Ryouga where we were smacking each other around with steel I-beams from a construction site. The fucking asshole even hit me with a cement truck! I fixed his goat though, got a grand-slam home run and knocked his piggy ass outta the park!"
"When you say 'hit with a cement truck', how do you mean?"
"The bastard just threw it at me! Hit me right in the face, and the thing was filled with cement ta boot! I'm fucking tired of people trying to bury me with that shit, plus he ruined a perfectly good shirt of mine. He's lucky I gave him that love-tap and ended the fight instead of really tearing into him!"
"Ah. Well, we shall make sure to take good care of your clothing Master."
"Oh, uh, not mad at you. Either of ya. You're kinda nice actually."
"It is our pleasure to serve you."
The conversation died off there with only the labored breathing of the boy carrying from the room. Unaware of what was occurring inside, Nodoka merely assumed he'd winded himself with his ranting. The red-head mostly forgotten, two points were now vying for attention in Nodoka's mind. First was the idea that the switch was suspicious and might have been by some greater design. The other more immediately troubling idea was that this alternate Ranma could indeed have a different physiology that might skew the results of the test. It was entirely reasonable that he had been a genetically engineered super-soldier or other such project on his own world.
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