Sometime after leaving the "Last Hope" bar and wondering around downtown Tokyo Ranma encountered another drunk. And after some slurred words were exchanged the two chose to become best friends and got to telling each other their life stories(well...parts of it anyways). After a couple more drinks (what the hell was a girly drink anyways?) Ranma story came out. Ichiro, the other drunk, really and truly sympathised with Ranma, he did and told him as much.
But then a thought struck Ichiro and he helped his new best friend up and out of the bar. Where most people would have offered their pity for Ranma's problems (especially that curse but when your drunk everythings strange) and tried to give some sage advice Ichiro could actually help Ranma, though not in a way the martial artist would ever expect. It should come as no surprise that Ichiro had bad luck with wemon as well, it was nothing to do with looks however though part of his problem might be his current dead-end carreer at the company he worked at. (Atleast thats the impression he got from his girlfriend before she walked out)
Cryonics Unlimited.
The security guard wasn't a problem cause he was drunk to. And the merry band made their way to the prep area where the unconscious Ranma was loaded into a primed cryo-pod and after a quick shot (was it clean? Bah, who cares) of chemicals to make sure the kids body/organs/blood made it through the freezing process and future unfreezing all was ready. A' course this little dose of chemicals would have some side-effects like.....and......and.....well he was too drunk to remember any of it but it was impressive stuff none the less.
Ichiro smiled at a job well done as the cryo-pod was loaded into a cooling rack. When he came in tommorrow suffering from a bastard of a hangover he wouldn't be able to remember tonight, or Ranma, or his own terrible singing (but alas the memory of those who had heard him singing would live on).
However security files from the security cameras/computers that night would make it to the higher ups. For some hours they would argue heatedly over what to do. Though the answer would seem obvious to us all wouldn't it? Just unfreeze Ranma and send him on his way.
But Cryonics Unlimited was a new company and like any company they had to make a reputation themselves through time and effort. If Ranma were unfrozen then he might sue them for freezing him against his wishes, or if he didn't and his family found out then they might raise a stink that would forever tarnish the company's name. Then public outcry would force the company to unfreeze (a process they hadn't fully worked out yet for large numbers of people) all 600 people, and while a few people could stand coming out for a bit to say that they had agreed to the procedure there were hundreds of other terminally ill people who might be unable to survive for more then a couple minutes/hours let alone the unfreezing process itself.
Eventually the board members of Cryonics Unlimited voted to keep Ranma frozen for the time being though those who disagreed added that his personal effects and perhaps a basic survival package should be added to his pod (this last for none of them knew how long Ranma would be frozen).
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Time passed. A day later the fathers finally discovered that all of Ranma personal effects were missing, Genma started ranting about his worthless son while Soun started the tendo shower works. The part that most cought the Tendo sisters attention were the various photographs still in the room, none of them had been touched.
Looking around the room Akane herself saw a flash of yellow, investigating she found the 'scarf' she made Ranma for christmas. With her back turned neither Nabiki or Kasumi could see the emotions playing across Akane's face before she turned to leave the room. Akane had a feeling that Ranma wasn't coming back anytime soon, if ever. She needed to call Shampoo and Ukyou, they'd need a new plan, some other way (or person) to shield their relationship.
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Hours became days, days became weeks, weeks became months....
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