"I guess someone's trying to make us comfortable!"
"Yeah, but for what?!" Ranma slips on his shirt, then tucks it into his trousers before joining Onna-Ataru on the slab where she had woken.
Silence falls for a moment as they consider what to say, then Ranma gazes on the well-endowed, brown-haired girl version of Tomobiki's most infamous resident. "So..." he begins, making her look his way. "Um..."
"What is it?"
"Well, I was thinkin'..." he scratches the side of his head. "I mean, I guess you don't wanna call yourself 'Ataru' and all that. And 'Atako' doesn't seem to be much of a hit with you, either. So..."
"You want to give me a name, right?" she smiles, then reaches over to gently grasp his hand, giving him a firm squeeze. "Thank you, Ranma-kun. That's really sweet of you," she leans up to kiss his cheek, eliciting a blush from the martial artist. "Still, I think we'd best find out where exactly we are in this place, plus find out WHY we're here. I wish..." her voice trails off for a moment, then she grins. "Door!"
Both turn as a panel in the wall behind them opens, revealling a door leading to another room, also brightly lit and containing...
"ATARU?!?!" Ranma gapes.
"RANMA?!?!" Ataru cries out.
The couples quickly converge at the doorway. "Damn, we WERE split into two!!" Onna-Ataru whistles on seeing her male self now standing beside Ranma's female self. "How the hairy hell did this happen?!"
"Search me!" Onna-Ranma shakes her head. "I never even thought of something like THIS happening to me, much less Ataru here!!"
Ranma stares at her. "Can you still change?!"
"Me?! Oh, no!" Onna-Ranma shakes her head again. "And before you ask, I'm a girl mentally. I assume it's the same for her."
She indicates Onna-Ataru. "Hai, it's true," Ataru's female self nods, then gazes at her "brother." "Are you okay?!"
"Hai. Still stunned by what happened at Mendou's cherry tree."
"Ditto with me and what happened at the dojo," Ranma sighs, then gazes on Onna-Ranma. "How about you? You feeling anything about what happened to Akane and everyone else or...?" his voice trails off.
"Not really," Onna-Ranma shakes her head. "And if your asking me that, I guess you feel the same way about what happened in Tomobiki," she gazes on Onna-Ataru. "The big question we should be asking is..."
"We have many questions to ask, Ranma-chan," Ataru warns.
The redhead stares at him, then sighs. "I guess the first thing we should do now is figure out names for me and your new sister here," she gazes on Onna-Ataru. "After all, 'Ataru' and 'Ranma' are boys' names."
"I take it 'Ranko's' out, right?" Onna-Ataru muses.
Hearing that, the redhead shudders. "Damn straight!" she snarls.
"Because of Mom?" Ranma wonders.
"No shit, Sherlock!"
"Well, what can we call you then..." Ataru's voice trails into a hum, then he snaps his fingers. "Hey, I know! Maybe we..."
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