"Finally," said Genma, stepping forward confidently.
"MY BABIES!" declared Soun, rushing forward.
CRACK-A-DOOM!
The globe shot off into the night sky at extreme speeds.
"You MORONS," said Cologne, eyes slitted as she fixed her gaze on the two fathers. "LOOK AT YOUR FEET."
"Eh?" asked Soun, looking down at where his feet was occupying what had once been a glowing sigil.
"Great, now we have to contact the village and tell them what to do about this," said To-Kah.
"What do you mean, honored Elder?" asked Nodoka.
"There's a back up set made in my lab, that's where they'll probably end up," said To-Kah. "Of course that IS back home."
"Well, let's get to the Cat Cafe then," said Soun.
"In CHINA," stressed To-Kah.
"What?" asked Genma.
"What?" asked Ryoga.
"What?" asked Soun.
"Amazon Village," supplied To-Kah, thinking she wouldn't even get decent pipe polish out of these two.
"That means Ranma will be near Jusenkyo," realized Ryoga. "DAMN YOU RANMA! HOW DARE YOU TRY TO GET CURED WITHOUT ME?!"
"Hmmm, this might be bad," said To-Kah as she examined the damage. "They might actually end up scattered between here and home."
The globe shrank, bit by bit, spitting out one part of itself after another until it finally reached the elaborate series of glyphs and wards in a room in a rustic mountain village.
"That was a rush, also somewhat nostalgic," said Cocooner to herself. Unlike a vast number of beings, she remembered her own inception fairly easily.
She also had her own agenda.
Her "mother" had been a bio-weapons facility on a dead world. From that world had come two of the legendaries during Sukebe's research phase. One, Typhonna, was taken pretty much "as is" during one of 'her' frequent comatose periods. A doomsday weapon utilized by one of the many sides of a world-war-equivalent.
The other had been retooled with knowledge gained from working on her 'mother' and creating a sort of specialized back-up.
Typhonna had slipped her leash early on. The measure of control Sukebe had over that one had proven woefully inadequate.
Then there was herself - Cocooner. The artist of flesh.
Turning her attention to the floor, she shifted herself to Burrower form and left the room via that manner and filled the tunnel behind her as soon as she could make a crack for the airflow and to observe elsewhere.
She'd dimensionally transported before, had recognized the effect even if the forces involved had been different in origin, and had pumped her own power in to "overcharge" it.
She had to replenish her reserves, figure out how to deal with all those annoying troops if they showed up again, and determine exactly what she'd landed into.
Her antennae unfurled to catch scents and analyze her environment. A very old style village, and that looked like some primitive radio transciever there. No phones, no lights, no motorcars, not a single luxury.
Radar pulses refined the picture, and chi senses determined the village had a number of powerful figures.
Cocooner hadn't survived this long due to being an idiot. She knew she was far more vulnerable than Typhonna or even some of the other legendaries. She'd worked on strengthening her weaknesses but it was her ability to adapt and plan that worked most often in her favor.
She found a sleeping pair in an outlying field, used a Sleep Venom attack to keep them comatose, then reeled them underground with a Stringshot. She'd need troops and taking down the communications was her first priority.
Zack hit the ground with enough force to drive the wind out of him and crater the street.
Slowly he got up and began checking around him, only to stare at what he saw. "I ended up in the Edo League?"
Certainly that was the only place he'd seen architecture like this before.
It wouldn't be until later that he'd learned he'd somehow ended up at:
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