WHAT ELSE BUT FOLLOW THE GIRLS TO CAMP?
You follow behind the two, making sure that their lovely asses are in perfect view. Finally reaching the encampment, Britanny holds her hands to the sides of her mouth. “Hey! Gina! You out here?” She shouts out to the camp.
One of the zippered tents open up, “Yeah, I’m here Britanny!” A very nice blonde human girl replied, the glasses on her face reflecting light for a moment as she turns to face you. “And who’re you?”
Congratulations! Gina Bromides are now accessible!
REALLY? LET’S SEE... WOW! THESE ARE RATHER NICE.
I’m sure they are, but Gina is waiting for an answer.
SAY: THE NAME’S RANMA. PLEASURE TO MEET YOU.
You pause before the woman and smile. Hands going down to your sides, you bow to her. “The name’s Ranma. Pleasure to meet you.”
“Yeah, he’s Ranma Saotome,” Brianna said seriously. “We found him out there tussling with Daishi.” She waves her gun in the general direction behind her.
“Pee Wee’s here!?” Gina shouts in surprise. An angry look came over her face. “Oh, he is SO getting his expedition rights suspended for half a year!” It was obvious that she wasn’t taking well to the little shit being in a place she already put a claim on.
And to make her sister’s attitude continue, the armored Lycanthropoid had to add, “And he kidnapped a gender-bended Ryan.”
Blinking her eyes in rapid succession, Gina slowly tilts her head to her left. “Run that by me again?” She asks curiously, trying to figure that one out.
“He kidnapped a gender-bended Ryan...” Britanny repeats for her sister’s benefit. She then went on to explain, “Because of some magic, he’s a girl. Being unable to pass up such an opportunity, Talon took him for study purposes.”
Gina blinks her eyes once, twice. “Oh hell!” She curses angrily; fire flashes in her blue eyes. “If he does anything to Ryan, I swear to god, he’s getting banned, PERIOD!”
VERY EMOTIONAL GIRL.
You ain’t just whistling dixie!
LOOK TOWARDS GINA AND SAY: SO, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS? I UNDERSTAND YOU’RE ON AN EXPEDITION AND CAN’T LEAVE IT. ARE YOU GOING TO BREAK YOUR TEAM UP INTO TWO?
You raise your head to look at the Gold Digger. Studying her for a moment, you tilt your head to the right and ask, “So, what are you going to do about this? I understand you’re on an expedition and can't leave it. Are you going to break your team up into two?”
Gina nods her head in an affirmative fashion to your question. “Yes, we’ll have to...” she blinks her eyes as she realizes how the pigtailed Asian before her is dressed. “Why are you wearing Ryan’s clothes?”
SAY: UM... I JUST HAPPENED TO FIND THEM IN THE FOREST AND THEY WERE IN BETTER CONDITION THAN MY OWN CLOTHES.
You blink your eyes once, twice, surprised by the question. “Um... I just happened to find them in the forest and they were in better condition than my own clothes.” You answer as honestly as you can.
As she continues to look you over, Gina rubs her chin in thought. “That still sounds fishy,” she says, not buying into your excuse completely. “Why’re you ever out here?’
SAY: MY FIANCÉE GOT PISSED AT ME THIS MORNING SO SHE MALLETED ME FROM THE HOUSE. I FLEW ACROSS THE SKYLINE AND LOUNDED OUT HERE. I LANDED UPONG YOUR GENDER-SWITCHED FRIEND AND I SAW THOSE CLOTHES JUST LYING THERE. SO I FIGURED, WHY NOT?
You sigh in depression as the memories of the day earlier come to you. "My fiancée got pissed at me this morning so she malleted me out of the house. I flew across the skyline and landed out here. I landed upon your gender-switched friend and I saw those guy clothes just lying there. So I figured, why not?"
Crossing her arms beneath her breasts, Gina nods her head slowly. “So why were your clothes in poor condition earlier?”
SAY: HONESTLY? I DIDN’T GET A CHANCE TO DRESS BEFORE I WAS MALLETED. I DIDN’T WANT TO WALK AROUND WITHOUT ANY CLOTHES ON!
Taking a deep breath, you answer, “Honestly? I didn’t get a chance to dress before I was malleted. I didn’t want to walk around without any clothes on!” You practically scream out in exasperation.
Gina raised an eyebrow. “Really? Geeze!” She shook her head. “What sort of girl did you fall for?”
SAY: LIKE I HAD A CHOICE. IT’S AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE!
“Like I had a choice,” you snort in disgust. “It’s an arranged marriage!” Your shoulders slump and you lower your head in defeat.
The blonde-haired archaeologist winces in sympathy for you. “Oh boy,” she sighs out. “Well, okay. We’ll male small-talk later...” she promises you before she turns to her sisters. “Brianna, Britanny! I’m electing you take him and go back to Atlanta to save Ryan. Penny, Ace and I can handle this. Also it might be wise to get Stryyp to help if he’s not too busy.” She advises her family. She knew from experience that despite being a little kid, Talon could be a tricky pain in the ass.
“Yeah, Muffin could come in handy,” Britanny replies as she nods her head in agreement. Although with the look on her face it was possible she was thinking of doing something else with her husband as well, which meant it would be harder for you to get into her panties.
NOT LIKE I CARE.
Liar.
AM NOT!
Liar, liar pants on fire!
MAYBE YOUR HARD-DRIVE SHOULD BE PUT ON FIRE?
...Moving along...
With her sisters seemingly okay with her proposal, Gina nods her head. “Well, let’s get things started. I’ll see about getting you all back home."
Congratulations! Gina has joined your party!
CHECK GINA’S INVENTORY.
Gina is currently carrying:
Explorer’s Clothes (Outfit: Worn)
Wallet (1,000,000 Yen, 10 Major Credit Cards, 1 Driver’s License)
Keys to Gina Mobile
BIG@$$ Brain
Insatiable Curiosity
Stand-out Beauty
Over-active Hormones
Strong Libido
Low-Key Perversion
1 SK-Kinetic Magnum
1 Force-Shield Generator
1 Hyper-Space Generator
5 Bromide of Ryan Talbot
3 Bromide of Kevin “Ace” Koss
1 Bromide of Kahn
1 Bromide of Stryyp'Gia
1 Bromide of Genn
Gina looks at you curiously. “Checking me out, already, huh?” She then smirks at you.
Busted!!
SAY: I WAS?
Oh yeah, real brilliant there...
WELL, DO YOU HAVE A BETTER IDEA?
Well, yes I do.
THEN LET’S HEAR IT!
Sorry! No can do! What do I look like? A Cheat FAQ?
I WISH YOU WERE. I SWEAR, I’VE GOT TO BUY THE STRATEGY GUIDE OR SOMETHING. ANYWAY, SINCE YOU’RE BEING SUCH A WHINY BASTARD, PLEASE CONTINUE.
Gladly.
Gulping nervously you ask, “I was?”
“Mm-hmm,” the spectacled blonde replies as she looks right at you. She then explains, “I can tell when eyes are on me.” She eyes you with a lop-sided grin. “Perhaps you’d like to be seeing much more, eh?”
...Well, look at that. So much for ‘Low-Key Perversion’, huh?
Noticing her sister, the werecheetah is quickly up next to her. “Gina! Down nerd, down!” Britanny chastises as she lightly bops her on the head.
“OW!” The eldest Diggers sister yelps. Bringing a hand up to rub her head, she glares at her baby sister. “Hey! What was that for!?”
“Focus!” Britanny scolds her. “Honestly, you and Brianna need DATES!”
“Hey! She’s got the dates! I don’t!” Brianna yells in annoyance as she retrieves her gear from one of the tents. She was obviously irked that Gina had a source of nookie while she didn’t... even if said source was currently female and in Pee Wee’s clutches.
SAY: WELL... I HOPE I WASN’T DOING ANYTHING WRONG BY CHECKING YOU OUT, GINA. YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.
Ooh, you smooth-talker you...
Smiling nervously, you look at the sensual blonde scientist. “Well... I hope I wasn’t doing anything wrong by checking you out, Gina. You are a beautiful woman.”
Hearing such praise Gina turns to look at you and graces you a dazzling smile. "Oh, it’s no problem at all.” She giggles lightly.
“Don’t encourage her, please!” The large werecheetah grumbles as she slaps herself on the face. Bringing her hand down, she shakes her head before walking up to you. Gently grabbing onto your shoulder with her right hand, she realizes, “Wait! If Ace is staying then who’s taking us back?”
“That’s no problem. Ace will take you guys to an airport where a friend of his will take you the rest of the way.” Gina explains. “What was her name again?” She sighs and shakes her head. “Damn, I forgot,” she grumbles, obviously annoyed with herself. She takes pride in her intelligence but to not have the memory to remember someone’s name? It irks her how she can be flaky in such respects sometimes.
Britanny nods her head, excepting that they would have a professional flying them back. “All right, that’ll do.” She says as she heads to her tent to gather her stuff.
SAY: WHERE IS THIS ‘ACE’ ANYWAY?”
Raising your hand and coughing into a fist to clear your throat, you ask, “Where is this ‘Ace’ anyway?”
“Hold on a second...” Gina replies as she heads back to her tent. You can hear her talking, the sounds muffled, at least until she walks back out, using radio. “-Yeah, get back here with the jeep ASAP. We need to get some of the girls back to the US.”
“Roger that,” You hear comming out of the radio.
SAY: WAS THAT HIM?
You take a couple of steps closer to Gina. “Was that him?” You ask, pointing to the radio she is holding.
“Yes,” the woman said with a smirk. “He’s the best pilot around. If it’s got wings, he can fly it and make it spin,” Gina answers you before she then talks into the radio again. “Yeah, ASAP!”
HMM... SO THIS IS GETTING ME OUT OF JAPAN THEN?
Apparently so.
COOL! NO MORE AKANE!
Not much of a fan of your so-called ‘true fiancée’, are you?
AFTER ALL THE SHIT SHE WOULD PUT ME THROUGH? HELL NO! LET HER SAVE HER OWN ASS FROM NOW ON!
Whatever works, I suppose.
A moment later a jeep pulls up, driven by a tall African-America individual dressed in various items of brown leathers and khaki cargo pants. In the passenger seat was an African-American woman decked in clothing similar to Gina and in the back seat was what appeared to you as a yellow-feathered member of Mount Phoenix in a green leotard.
The dark-skinned woman was the first to get out; passenger door swinging out and he sliding from her seat as her seat-belt unlatched. “Okay Gina,” she started in a firm voice that conveyed a slight level of annoyance. “So what’s the... fuss...” she trails off as she stared at you, looking you up and down with a cursory glance. She then turns back to Gina fully and asks, “Who’s the new guy?”
“Penny, this is Ranma,” she answers as she motions to you with her arm. “And to make a long story short, Ryan’s been captured by Pee Wee and he’s offered to help Bri and Brit go back home to save him...” she winced. “And for the record, Ryan is now stuck with some sort of gender-changing curse.”
Hearing that made the male sitting in the jeep raise an eyebrow. “Hey, Penny girl,” he calls out to his girlfriend. “I thought you said the gender-curse thing wasn’t real?”
The woman looked over her shoulder. “Ace, I’m sure this is unrelated. I mean, the aspects I checked up on gender-bending curses are only supposed to be in China,” Penny explained.
Gina shook her head. “Look, Penny? Could you get Charlotte out of the jeep? I’m going to still need your help on this expedition and Ace will need the seats to take my sisters and Ranma back to the airport.” She looked to him curiously. “Your friend can take them back, right?”
Nodding his head, Ace replied, “Oh sure! I’m sure Alex will appreciate the business. She’s always raring for a chance to fly.”
“All right, all right...” Penny grumbled as she shook her head, not used to or liking being rushed. She walked over towards and stood by you. Checking you over again, she then asks, “So... what brings you out here?”
SAY: BAD LUCK.
Bringing a hand to the back of your head, you chuckle nervously as you honestly reply, “Bad luck.” It was something that had been a common occurrence in your life, especially as of late.
The archaeologist of African-descent raises an eyebrow. “Bad luck, huh? That’s something all of us here know.” She tells you sympathetically but still with a gauging look. She was not giving her trust but not outright distrustful of you yet.
GEEZE! DOESN’T ANYONE TRUST ME?
Well, you did appear when Ryan was kidnapped. And you wearing his clothes nonetheless.
THAT’S NOT MY FAULT!
Him being a woman is, as is the fact you stole the clothing from him.
...THEY DON’T NEED TO KNOW THAT.
Riiiiight. Okay then, smart guy, think of it this way. Did you ever trust anyone outright when they just appeared out of nowhere?
HELL NO! THEY COULD’VE BEEN SOME FIANCÉE MY OLD MAN ARRANGED OR SOME SORT OF MARTIAL ARTS RIVAL THAT DECIDED THEY JUST HAD TO BEAT ME.
So you’re saying it’s all right for you to be distrustful of people that appear right out of nowhere but they can’t?
...I GUESS YOU HAVE A POINT.
Damn right I do. Now, may we proceed?
PLEASE.
“Okay, we got our bags.” Brianna shouts as she tosses hers and Brit’s duffel bags into the back of the jeep. “Ranma, let’s book!”
SAY: OKAY!
“Okay!” You reply, waving a hand as you run over and jump into the front passenger’s seat as the two sisters get the back.
Ace looks over his shoulder. “Buckle up, everyone. We got some distance to cover.” He then looks over to his right. “Penny-girl! Use your cell phone and give the air-port a call. Let them know we’re coming, all right?”
“You bet, Ace,” She replies. The Nubian woman then smiles and leans over to give him a kiss on the cheek. “Hurry back soon.”
Winking at his girl, Ace tells her, “No problem Penny. I’ll be back.” He starts the car and you jerk for a moment, almost falling out of your seat, the motions making you look like a trout on dry land.
HEY!
What? You’re the one that should’ve buckled your seat-belt...
Leaning over to you, the blonde Lycanthropoid smirks. “Don’t ride in cars much, do you?” Brianna asks with that saucy grin of hers.
SAY: NOT REALLY. I MOSTLY WALK AROUND TO GET SOMEWHERE.
As you sit up properly and buckle your seatbelt you reply, “Not really. I mostly walk around to get somewhere.”
Ace nods his head. “Martial Arts-type, huh?” He asked curiously as he drove the rocky road. “What is it with them and wanting to make their way through life with their hands and feet?”
“Hey Ace, my Mom’s like that,” Britanny added, just in case he thought to make a comment that might offend her.
More laid back about such, the blonde Lycanthrpoid spoke up. “But Mom learned to drive,” Brianna adds. “Although I still get a kick about the story of when she was pregnant with Gina and thought trucks and cars were iron golem monsters.”
SAY: GOLEM MONSTERS?
You look back at Brianna over your shoulder. “Golem monsters?” You ask, noticing her badass armor is gone, leaving her in a nice pair of jeans and t-shirt.
“Yeah, Mom... um... er...” she trails off, unsure if she should tell you the story.
Rolling her eyes, the werecheetah snorts. “You might as well tell him, sis. He’s seen enough freaky stuff already.” Britanny stats seriously. “If he hasn’t run of screaming about what freaks we are, he isn’t going to.”
Brianna shrugs. “Okay, but you’re the one that insists.” Her attention going back to you, she explains, “Well, our Mom comes from a ‘swords and sorcery’ kind of place. When she and dad settled here after marrying, she thought trucks and cars were monsters.”
SWORDS AND SORCERY?
Well, yeah. That is Gold Digger. A wonderful blend of high fantasy and sci-fi.
AH, I SEE.
SAY: REALLY? I BET THAT CAN REALLY HELP ONE WHEN IT COMES TO BUILDING UPON THEIR SKILLS IN THEIR CHOSEN.
A genuine look of interest coming to your face, you ask, "Really? I bet that can really help one when it comes to building upon their skills in theIR chosen art.”
“It has its downsides,” the blonde tells you seriously. “But yeah, if you’re into it, you can get a hell of a lot done.”
“There’s as man evil-aligned monsters, lawless nut-jobs and magical assholes as there are good people,” Britanny clarifies for your benefit.
NOD HEAD AND REPLY: COULD BE USEFUL TO TAKE A TREK TO JADE LATER... AFTER WE SAVE RYAN, OF COURSE.”
Nodding your head in understanding, you reply, “Could be useful to take a trek to Jade later... after we save Ryan, of course.” You add as an after-thought so they don’t think you the selfish asshole you truly are.
HEY!
What? You are. Taking off your curse and giving it to Ryan, stealing all his stuff and then leaving him there to be kidnapped. Boy, you better hope they never find out the truth or your survival, (let along your likelihood to score) is going to be nil.
...JUST CONTINUE. SMARTASS.
“We’ll think about it,” Brianna says. While not making any commitment, she’s not denying you either.
Okay, smart-guy. Now what do you want to do?
ME? I ACTUALLY GET A CHOICE FOR ONCE?
You always have a choice. This IS a Text-based RPG.
REALLY? THE WAY YOU KEEP SLAMMING MY CHOICES MAKES ME WONDER.
Well, someone has to have a moral compass. I doubt Genma’s instilled one in you, much less taught you any common sense.
...COMMON-WHAT NOW?
Sigh... all right, all right. Fine. Let’s just...
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