As soon as Mihoshi and her lamp disappeared the reality altering effects of the wish caught up with Ranma and Nabiki. In this new reality the wish never happened. Instead Ranma and Nabiki had been meeting to talk about settling a debt Ranma had with her. Just as the two started to talk Ranma collapsed onto the floor. Nabiki naturally just frowned and wondered what wonderboy was trying to pull. Since Nabiki wanted to get her money out of Ranma she sat down and started mentally adding fees for delaying her business.
What Nabiki didn't know was the fact that Ranma's connection with the Collective had just finished maturing. On a subconscious level Ranma had been connected with the Collective for all of his life. It was because of this connection that Ranma had been able to do so well in school even though Genma had allowed Ranma to have such little time in regular school. He had simply downloaded everything that he needed to past his tests. Now that Ranma had matured enough to take over his role as the Borg King, the Collective initialed full contact with him.
While Ranma's body fell into a state of catatonia as his nanoprobes started to enhance his physical abilities, his mind was meeting the Collective. This meeting is impossible for unassimmilated people to truly comprehend. The closest comparison to what Ranma was undergoing would be a music conductor being confronted with a choir of thousands all singing different songs and different tunes. When Ranma encountered this choir of minds he started to direct them.
One fact that would surprise many Federation exobiologists, the Borg are not exactly the ruthless conquering cybernetic zombies that Picard described in his report. At their heart, the Borg are perfectionists. As a race the Borg seek to become the perfect race. It is the individual royal drone that determines how the Borg seek perfection. In was only with the "Borg Queen" the Federation is familiar with taking power in the 16th century that the Borg became galactic conquerors.
Even though Ranma had never been truly connected to the Collective, he did share in the Borg's desire for perfection. Of course, Ranma's desire for perfection was mostly directed to martial arts. When Ranma linked to the Collective his desire to be the best and his desire to perfect the martial arts greatly affected how the Borg in this dimension would act.
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