“Hold on a second, all of us?” Kara asked. Including…” she left the rest unspoken as she just pointed to the redhead.
“Are you immune to radiation?” Green Lantern asked the Asian kid in the Marvel getup in a language she would understand with his usual level of directness.
The girl blinked, obviously a little put off by the older man’s attitude, before she thought for a moment. “Umm…I have no idea. Wait, that thing was radioactive? As in nuclear bomb kind of radioactive? With the hair loss, and sickness, and death?”
“Okay that settles it, your coming with us to get checked out at the watchtower,” Lantern told her before turning his back on the nervous-looking girl.
A few minutes later, Ranma fidgeted with the seatbelt as the jet the foreigners had led her to as the engines started up. Whoever built the thing obviously hadn’t thought of how uncomfortable it would be to a short girl with a huge chest. After trying several times to adjust it, she looked over to the other invulnerable member of the passengers and frowned. “Do I have to wear this thing? I don’t think I’m gonna get hurt if we get in a crash.”
“Well, uh…” Kara stared to explain, then stopped. In all honesty, she had no idea why she was even bothering to wear hers.
“Because I doubt you could pay for the repairs if you flew back and put a hole in the plane when we hit escape velocity,” Green Lantern shouted from the first seat of the cockpit.
Ranma sighed, then gave up on trying to mess with her restraints before she looked out the window to the countryside, or what was left of it at any rate. What with the giant robot trying to kill her, she had forgotten all about her idiot father. Genma had a talent for getting out of trouble, so she knew he wasn’t dead or anything, but it was going to be a pain finding him again when these people finally let her go.
Not that she cared what trouble he got himself into while he was gone of course. Unless, it came back to bite her in the ass. Which it would of course, it always did.
“So are you a new Marvel, or just like the costume, or…some to think of it, why is someone who’s Jap-”
Ranma blinked when the English girl’s voice cut off, and the looked back to see that she had completely stopped mid-sentence. Stopped as it, froze completely with her mouth open in the middle of a word. She didn’t actually need the wisdom of Solomon to figure out someone had frozen time. “Oh, this can’t be good.”
“CHAMPION!”
Ranma grit her teeth as an old man who fit the classic wizard motif to a T, complete with white robes and a thick beard that went down to his waist suddenly appeared in the middle of the isle. Behind him, a hole in the air showed that he had opened a portal rather than teleported. Meaning...
Ranma shook her head to stop the wisdom of Solomon from over analyzing every damn thing she saw. “Oh it’s you…old guy.”
“YOU WILL ADRESS ME PROPERLY! I AM THE WIZARD SHAZAM!”
Ranma winced as lightning flashed through the windows and thunder rumbled in the sky. As the jet was currently in encased in the clouds, the sound was enough to rattle Ranma’s entire body. After her head stopped vibrating, and Ranma pushed the question as to how the old guy did that if time was frozen to the side to frown at the newcomer. “You know what happens when I say that right? AND STOP SHOUTING DAMNIT! I’M RIGHT HERE AND YOUR STUPID THUNDER CRAP IS ALREADY MAKING MY EARS RING!”
“YES WELL-eh-hem,” the wizard replied before clearing his throat. “Yes well, I am here to congratulate you on choosing the correct course of action in choosing to battle that giant robot…thing. Of course in my day there would have been a real monster to you could have tested yourself against.”
Ranma cut in before the wizard could get started on one of those old folk stories that ever went anywhere. “”Yeah well, couldn’t have done it alone, team effort, all thanks to you, oh and these guys too, bla bla bla…can you go now? I kind of want to get treated for radiation poisoning before I start growing extra arms or turn into some kinda Godzilla wannabe.”
“Insolent little-” Shazam cleared his throat again. “Yes, well as you have proven worthy to carry on the title of Captain Marvel, and since I won’t be banishing you to the deepest pits of Hell for trying to abuse your power-”
“Say what?” Ranma mumbled.
“-I just need to take care of the leftovers,” Shazam told him before reaching down, and thumping Ranma between the eyes.
Even though her skin could take damage somewhere in the megaton range with only getting the equivalent of a sunburn, Ranma flinched at the blow and reached up to rub the sore spot. “Ow! What the heck was that for old man?”
“You wouldn‘t understand…not now anyway. I also fixed that whole language barrier problem while I was at it. You should be picking up English in about ten minutes or so thanks to Solomon,” Shazam told her before opening a portal back to the Rock of Eternity. “Oh, and tell that Nelson boy if you see him in that floating tower of theirs I’m still waiting for him to return my Summer cottage’s pottery collection. Archeologists-bah! Little brats who think that just because someone hasn’t been home for a few thousand years, they can just waltz in and take what they want. In my day we called people like that thieves and chopped off their hands! Nowadays they make crappy stories about them with moving pictures. And the fourth one, ugh…crystal skull linked to aliens my ass! Everyone knows the crystal skulls are-”
Ranma just blinked as the old man continued to ramble up until the portal closed behind him. Crazy old geezer.
“-panese running around in a costume affiliated with the Allies?” Kara asked as time restarted. “Hello? Marvel Girl? Miss Marvel…you know, we never did get your name.”
Ranma blinked as she looked back at the cute girl with the S on her chest.
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