In his new hybrid form, Ranma now towered over all the people present at the Nekohanten. Standing at nearly nine feet tall, he had also gained several pounds of musculature all over. His lithe and athletic form had changed to buff and lean. Jet black fur covered his body and two tusk-looking teeth stuck out of his mouth. This didn't made him look ugly in the slightest. The various girls looking at him all privately thought that it was a change for the better and that the person who had coined the 'animal magnetism' saying was right.
On the other hand, Ranma's mind was a chaotic mess. Between his core personality, the Neko Ken, Iceron's programming and the lycanthropic change, it was a wonder he was not simply catatonic or having a psychotic episode. While he was trying to make sense of all these conflicting thoughts and feelings, his enhanced senses picked up something interesting. The box was carrying a certain recognizable smell...
Wererats...
Suddenly, the realization made something click in his mind. Iceron's programming came up to the fore. The mage had wanted his weremilodons to act as an elite guard for himself, ready to crush any sign of rebellion among his lycanthrope servants (even and especially the other werecats). But there was another directive he had put in his last creation, a directive shared by all races of werecats at the beginning.
Werecats had been bred to hunt and kill wererats. Their ultimate goal was the complete genocide of Iceron's first traitorous children.
Unminding of the others' reactions at his transformation, Ranma picked up the box and sniffed, memorizing the scent of his future preys. He threw it negligently and was preparing to leave but he was interrupted.
"Airen !" *GLOMP* Shampoo mentally noted that she couldn't hold him completely in the amazon glomp anymore, he was just too large ! She promised herself to plan on a revised version soon and went on to cop a feel from her husband.
"Shampoo ! Leave Ran-chan alone !" Not to be undone by the chinese bimbo, the okonomiyaki chef launched her counterattack *GLOMP* Instant Ranma sandwich.
"RANMA, YOU PERVERT !!!" Not only was he flirting with Shampoo and Ukyo but he was flashing everyone ! She bet he got a kick of Nabiki taking naked pictures of him. This was the last straw ! She picked up a table, dropping a startled P-Chan in the process, and prepared to pound her unfaithful fiancee.
The two girls got out of the danger zone just in time. Ranma, however, didn't move or try to put any defense. He just smirked as he activated the last gift of Iceron to his ultimate warrior.
Everything went into slow motion. As the table was going to impact, there was a sudden metallic clicking and whiring sound. Plates of armor materialized around his face, on his shoulders, forearms, groin and legs. Other plates unfolded from these first parts, forming a half-plate armor, reminiscent of the ones worn by the soldiers of certain alien parasites/egyptian gods. The table struck a mere microsecond after the full activation of the armor, shattering into pieces and leaving Ranma unharmed.
Akane dumbly looked at the piece of wood in her hands then at the hulking armored figure with a sabertooth tiger stylized helmet. She wasn't alone in this as the others stared in shock. Then...
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