Ryoga Hibiki slowly unfolded from where he'd landed, but he was considerably larger and more muscular than Ranma remembered him. Nor did he originally look like he was made out of iron.
"RANMA! At last I have found you!"
"Yo, Ryoga. How's it going? New look for you?" asked Ranma.
"Because of you, Ranma," said Ryoga, bringing his fists together with a clanging noise.
"What? You've seen Hell?" asked Ranma.
"NO! Well, yes," said Ryoga. "Because you weren't at the site of our duel I went looking for you! I ended up in a strange lab!"
"How is that MY fault?" asked Ranma.
"There were four others there, we were bombarded with strange radiation from another universe, and NOW LOOK AT ME!" said Ryoga.
"You're kinda an 'ironman' now?" asked Ranma. "So your suffering has made you stronger? Kinda like a martial artist?"
"Yes, I mean NO!" said Ryoga. "Now I am Armored Fist, one of the Fantastical Five!"
"Sounds like a British rock band from the '50s or '60s," opined Ranma.
"ENOUGH OF YOUR TALK! PREPARE TO DIE!" said Ryoga as he charged forward.
Ranma easily dodged the attack. Ryoga was stronger than ever, and it looked like he'd be very hard to hurt, but his speed was worse.
Then Ranma dodged a vaccuum blast and it was obvious Ryoga hadn't come alone.
"Stand still, varlet, and let the Mighty Swordsman hit thee!" declared a familiar figure.
"Tatewaki Kuno?" asked Ranma, recognizing him even if previously the kendoist hadn't been made of wood.
"My fame proceeds me, as well it should," said Kuno. "Though now my name doth also be Oakheart!"
Ranma leapt over another punch from Ryoga, kicked Kuno in the head, dodged left to avoid a fireburst from Gosunkugi?!
"Just call me Matchstick Boy," said Gosunkugi. "Now everyone will notice murphg!"
Ranma noticed that the aura of flames died out when contact had been made. Likewise Kuno's face was sporting a diminishing patch of wood where he'd hit it. That meant-
"These are magical powerups," realized Ranma.
"So?" asked Ryoga.
Raven sighed again. She did that a lot. Considered a 'doom n gloom' girl by most at the school, they tended to avoid the fourteen year old slender girl. Not only was she gaijin, she tended to fall outside the usual 'cute' type.
She floated up to the top of the house, which was considered her territory mainly. None of her sisters was likely to come up here after all.
Her powers were magical in nature, part of her heritage, and were primarily magical effects that emulated traditional psychic powers. Telekinesis, levitation, empathy, and so on.
Which meant that the coming of Spellbreaker, oh yes - she could tell what he was, was going to mean disruption of her normal routine and schedule. Precog wasn't one of her strengths but she understood that hardly anyone was good at that particularly tricky field. She still got flashes and glimpses of what were possibilities, and she could see all sorts of havoc coming this way. Worse, from her perspective, was that SHE was most likely going to have the engagement shoved onto her.
Nabiki was considering supervillainry, or at least being a thief. Her ability to teleport between shadows through a dimension of shadowstuff meant she could get into bank vaults among other things.
Kasumi had Doctor Tofu, not that she realized it. All the other sisters did. Kasumi also had a hang up about age and maturity.
Akane hated boys. Raven didn't think that Akane was lesbian, per se, but that was a possible future. The idea that Akane would gracefully accept an engagement was about as likely as Nabiki getting her to model for a 'loli-goth' photo-op.
A plume of dust in the distance indicated the location of Ranma Saotome and the fight she'd foreseen.
Which meant that she'd also likely foreseen correctly that the whole "super community" thing was going to hit the fan soon. Especially now that Tatewaki Kuno had used his resources to get ahold of a sorcerous experimenter and empower a group of individuals. Ryoga Hibiki, Armored Fist, able to transform his body into something like iron. Tatewaki Kuno, Oakheart, able to transform into wood. Hikaru Gosunkugi, Matchstick Boy, able to generate flames. Midorigame, who'd shrunk to the size of a dog and was now able to generate blasts of water. If anyone had actually gained out of the deal, it was probably Midorigame who was now considerably smaller and cuter and smarter. Finally there was Kodachi Kuno, self-styled Dark Mistress Of The Mystic Arts, now with some actual magic instead of sleight-of-hand. Kodachi had element-based powers as the other members of the group, in her case the element of:
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