No one could accuse Benji of being the sharpest tool in the box however he was not THAT stupid, so when confronted by several hundred pounds of incredable speed and invunerable muscle coming straight at him following two dagger sized teeth (that looked far too sharp in his opinion) his brain came up with a plan at speeds that would rival any super computer you would wish to name. The Plan was perfect in its simplicity drawing on both experience and age old genetic memory, in short a master work of the mind. The Plan was: RUN LIKED FUCK!!!
However the plan had one snag which was Ranma, who was quick before, now made lightening look like it was dragging its heels. It was, therefore, before The Plan could be acted upon that Benji found the aforementioned fangs one inch in front his staring eyes before he took off flying backwards due to the fist which had impacted just under his ribcage knocking the wind out of him. Landing backside first some twenty meters from his start position Benji skidded another five before coming to a stop against a tree causing an empty birds nest to fall out of the upper branches and land on his head like a hat, the final humiliation in acordence with universal law.
While the counterpart of the probably late Mr. Peechbody sat against the tree getting his breath and senses back while wondering were this rather uncomfortable hat had came from Ranma was staring at his fist in a mix of wonder tinged with fear. The wonder was caused by the sheer strength he had just exhibited, his opponent was strong and tough Ranma had seen that, felt it too when his fist impacted his face with enough force that he was sure had he been human at the time his jaw would have been broken in several places at the least. The Ki blast he had recieved was also really strong feeling like Ryoga's Perfect Shi Shi Hokodan but concentrated to only about a foot across, this was the reason he had started his attack with a strong punch to the gut intending to take advantage of the few seconds of breathlessness to continue with a left cross to the chin placing the head at such an angle that the spinning elbow follow-through would connect with the back of his opponents head knocking him out or dazing him enough for Ranma to finish the fight by jumping into the air to perform a perfect three hundred and sixty overhead axe kick. Here is were the fear came in; he was so strong all it had taken was the initial distraction punch, with his new strength he would need to be very carefull not to kill any opponents he faced by accident and also where was he going to get a decent challenge now. He was broken out of his thoughts when the lamp post hit him.
Benji laughted as the huge werecat was knocked into the ground by his swing while he congratulated himself for taking advantage of the oppitunity he had been presented with. Earlier as he had been getting his breath back and shaking his head to clear the ringing from his ears he had seen the beast who had sent him flying just standing there looking at his fist for some reason. With the vicious monster who had hurt Mr. Peechbody not paying attention to him Benji saw his chance for revenge and quickly searched for a weapon and found it in the form of a nearby lamp post, ripping it up he got into position and then it was batter up with a werecat ball. Hefting the post back for another swing at his fallen enemy Benji prepared to shout 'Revenge for Mr. Peechbody!' and pound this cruel monster straight to Hell.
"Revenge for Mr. Peechbod - AAAAAHHHHHH!" It's amazing what a hundred punches to your ribcage can do for your speech, especially when done so fast that it feels like they all hit a once.
Ranma was in pain and now he knew this idiot could take a pounding from his new form he was happy to pass the feeling around. The blow from the lamp post had hurt as he had not been prepared to take it as he had the blow to the jaw, that would teach him to get comtemplative in the middle of a fight, but that had faded to nothing within a few seconds however he had discovered the draw back to fangs that being that the chances of them getting hit increased with their size. A small rock buried under the top-soil and grass was the cause of his current bad mood it had been under his head as he had been knocked down and had caught one of his fangs and scraped along it with the feel of a dentists drill and Ranma hadn't had a sedative. Now still suffering from the headache it had caused he was happily pounding on the cause, that being the now big bruise called Benji.
Benji had tried to defend at first but it had proven useless and shortly after realising that his arms had been dislocated as he had been flipped back and forth like a flapjack in various judo and akkido throws intersperced with kicks and punches for good measure. He was in fact surprised to find he was still standing, having landed on his feet after a rather nasty throw where Ranma had used his nose as the place to grip, however when he tried to run or at least stagger painfully away he found that his legs refused to move.
After several well placed kicks to lock the muscles of his now beaten (in more ways than one) attacker Ranma employed a nose throw to flip him on to his feet before walking over and picking the dog pancake from a Benji shaped whole, he had forgotten the dog when he had tossed the muscle head one time and felt sorry for squishing the poor mutt twice in one day even if it hadn't been able to feel it the second time around. With Mr. Peechbody, as te guy had called him, hanging from one hand by his tail he crossed to the dead dogs unmoving owner [1].
Benji looked through his left eye at the Murderer of Mr. Peechbody, his right eye being swollen shut from a knee to the face near the beginning of the beating, and looked into the werebeasts blue eyes before looking to the remains in its hand.
Ranma saw the look towards the dog and deciding it would be best to return it to it's owner reached up and placed the dogs tail in between the slightly broken teeth of the guy's mouth Ranma then locked the jaw so he wouldn't accidently drop it.
"Look I'm sorry 'bout your dog but it was 'n accident. I did fall through a jet engine ya know so ya can't blame me for tha' landin'" Walking around behind to face the guy's back he continued, "Now I gotta go and fin' someone important so..." Taking a quick run up Ranma lashed out with a powerful kick at the unmoving backside before him.
As Benji flew over Atlanta he decided to ignore the pain of his body and the tickely feeling of fur in his mouth and to just admire the veiw below.
Landing never crossed his mind until he did.
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