Once Ranma fully understood his connection to the Borg, which only took 4.23478 seconds thanks to the new cybernetic interfaces Ranma had, he immediately ordered the Cube to retrieve him. Sure Ranma cared about the people in Nerima, but he needed to be back with the Collective. His people needed him and while Ranma could handle everything just fine do to his subspace connections, he knew that it would be better for him to be back on the Cube. After all, he was the Borg's one real weakness. Take him out and the Collective would die.
The Borg immediately understood their king's command and used the Cube's warp engines to carry the Cube from the Oort Cloud to a stationary orbit above Tokyo in a few seconds. As soon as the Cube disengaged its warp drive the Borg transported Ranma onto the Cube. Naturally, Nabiki was shocked to see Ranma vanish in the green wavy lines of the Borg transporter beam and wondered how she could make a buck off of this latest turn in Ranma's life.
Once Ranma's unconscious body was on board, Ranma directed several drones to carry his body to one of the assimilation chambers. It was a little disconcerting for Ranma to watch as his body was dragged to the assimilation chambers using several of his drones' senses to observe it all. However, the subconscious programing Ranma had carried all his life to handle the task of being the royal drone allowed him to handle this.
As soon as Ranma's body was in the assimilation chambers Ranma had the drones remove his clothes. The silk shirt and pants were impractical compared to Borg body armor. While Ranma's body was being striped one of the female drones let her hand rest on Ranma's body slightly longer then was efficient to do so. Ranma never noticed this and thus created a small subroutine in the Collective allowing a greater deal of freedom among the Borg then had existed under his "mother".
The new body armor that Ranma had placed on himself was pretty much the standard Borg armor with one small change. The forcefield on the armor was set to automatically surround him every time cold water came within 1 meter. Back in the Star Trek universe the Borg had never encountered magic and so the Collective couldn't cure Ranma's curse. Since it was illogical to believe that the curse wouldn't activate anymore just because Ranma's cybernetic implants would harm him if he transformed, the Collective was doing everything in its power in insure that Ranma was safe.
Now sporting a stylish new body armor, Ranma proceeded to finish assimilating his body. Usually this would involve removing his hair and turning his skin to a shade of gray. However, Ranma's vanity stopped these changes. He had a special set of nanoprobes made to clean his hair and prevent his hair from growing beyond what looked good with his haircut. His nanoprobes that were supposed to sustain his skin were ordered to not change his skin tone. Finally Ranma had an unassimilated Seven of Nine like eye sensor attached instead of the traditional bulky eye sensor. Once these final changes were completed Ranma shifted his consciousness to his body and opened his eyes. Ranma Saotome no longer really existed anymore, he was now Ranma of the Borg.
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