He struggled of course. He was subdued just as easily.
There were some who had some pity for the boy. Not because of the boy himself, but for the sake of his grandfather and for those who had known of his father.
His father had died during a race using vehicles which were fairly dangerous, but it was later proven that his racer had been sabotaged by one of the other racers. His mother had been a Tomboy pokegirl. As sometimes happened, having the perceived shame of a pokegirl mother had resulted in the boy becoming more hostile towards pokegirls in general. Especially as the mother herself had not been around to counter such prejudice.
None of those had mattered though, and Gary had briefly woken to find himself in a tube and the changes begun. Naturally, he'd struggled but the tube was constructed to be able to hold a struggling Amachamp and electrical discharges had taken the fight out of him quickly.
He'd drifted in and out of sleep as the changes begun. Aware of what was happening but experiencing it all through a pleasant and aroused haze without more than the most momentary pain. Then the sleep began as the changes accelerated once he'd become a she.
"You heard me," said Nabiki. "These Buzzbreast are nearly mindless aren't they?"
"Feral ones are," admitted Nurse Joy. "They also tend to have that Hive mentality..."
"I'd rather be something less mindless if I'm going to change," said Nabiki. "You also said that Megami are hard to find."
"Well, yes, we do know where some are, but they're notoriously difficult to track," said Nurse Joy. "They use Teleport. Another difficulty is that their abilities tend to be very individualized. We'd need to find one that could heal you by turning you back to human or alter you back to your pre-human condition."
"Well, that's... excuse me?" asked Nabiki.
"You identified yourself as Nabiki Tendo, right?" asked the Nurse Joy, moving to a console and tapping out a quick command. "When I did a search for your medical records, I came up with this. How did you purify your DNA anyway? I've gotten dozens of requests for details on that."
Nabiki stared at the figure slowly rotating on the screen. It was recognizably HER, wearing a cute pullover top and shorts and a pair of boots. It was also NOT her as she'd never had a pair of cat ears or a TAIL.
"Do you still have access to any of your special attacks like 'Payday'?" asked Nurse Joy, curious herself. If the process could be duplicated, she could become HUMAN. No more having to be Tamed, no more spending rest cycles in a pokeball, to have the full rights of full human no matter where she went. The idea that these people were from another universe was considered again, though it was just so far-fetched. Wasn't dimensional travel supposed to be impossible for humans? On the other hand, a pokegirl turning human seemed pretty darn unlikely too.
"I - what?" asked Nabiki. She'd seen the possibility earlier when Ranma had turned out to have a record of being here. It was another to actually SEE herself.
The image continued to rotate there and Nabiki touched the screen just to verify. The picture enlarged at that point and began showing cut-away views to display more information about her ears.
"Kitten ears are errogenous zones with about half the sensitivity of those of elves," helpfully said the computer. "The average hearing range is about 45 to 64000 Hertz with an especial sensitivity to loud noises. Individual range may vary."
"Errogenous ears?" asked Nabiki.
The Anything Goes style was not one that utilized kata to a great extent. Yes, they were there in some form or fashion in any martial art from European Sabre Style to Shaolin Kung Fu. Practicing motions so that they could be called up from motor memory in an instant.
Ranma frowned as he went through a set that looked almost like dance moves.
Little bits were off. He felt his chi burn as strong as ever, his strength and speed seemed about the same, but there were tiny little differences in performance that he kept stumbling across. On a hunch he tried concentrating the Soul Of Ice's cold into one fist and was rewarded by seeing a fitful white mist seem to gather there.
Ranma let it go after it had built a little more. Things worked a little different here. Not that he hadn't guessed that already.
He heard clapping a moment later and realized that he'd been so focussed on his internal pathways that he hadn't noticed someone come in to watch him.
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