Magneto smirked, this boy was challenging him to a fight to protect his loved one, how noble, it didn't matter though, he would lose easily enough. He wasn't a mutant, and had probably never fought against mutants before, so there was no need to worry. Although it was surprising to see him dodge so easily.
Mystique watched in horror as her son took on one of the world's most dangerous mutants, even if she got involved, the two of them couldn't stand up to Magneto. Still, she had heard about some of his adventures and hoped that he didn't exaggerate in any of them. It probably wouldn't matter anyways, martial artists were not mutants.
Ranma was getting aggravated at his lack of success at getting close to the caped figure floating there, he had seen Herb do something similar, but not nearly as long. Ranma decided to wait until those support beams that were being tossed around got closer to try something, he had seen Ryoga do it, and he knew he could do it as well. As soon as the beams got into range, Ranma tore his shirt sleeve off and focused some Ki into the cloth and turned the ordinary silk shirt into a blade capable of cutting through anything, combining the Iron Cloth technique and the Kijin Raishu Dan, he swung his impromptu sword and sliced up the beams before jumping out of the way. "Hah! It'll take more than a fancy trick to take me down."
"I must say I'm impressed boy, most mutants would have a hard time keeping up with you. But now it ends." And with that Magneto lifted everything metallic in the room; nuts, bolts, tools, pieces of the metal girders and even the Saotome Sword and flung them at Ranma at even greater speeds.
"No Ranma! Leave him alone Magneto, I'll do what you want, just don't hurt him!" Mystique begged him from where she was.
"He has to learn the folly of taking on the Master of Magnitism."
Ranma was getting tired from dodging at such high speeds, he even had to use the Amaguriken to block many of the nuts and bolts. This was getting him nowhere fast and if he didn't do something right now, his mom and himself would be knee deep in sh*t. He thought of a Ki blast, but disguarded the idea, it would just blow up the intant it hit something, and Magneto would probably put something in the way to block it, so he had one other idea. Ducking a beam that would have clonked him in the head, and jumping up and back to avoid several nuts and bolts, Ranma started to gather Ki for the attack. As soon as he landed, he jumped forward and landed only a few feet away from Magneto. All the metal was coming at him from all sides, but Ranma decided to end it right there. "Sai Dai Ryu Kijin Raishu Dan!" Swinging his arms backwards, like a cresant moon, the First Rate Demon God Assault Bomb sliced through everything to get to Magneto. At that moment, however, the all the metal hit Ranma from the sides and the back, knocking him out temporarily.
Magneto smirked as he saw that the boy was out, though, he had to admit he put up a good fight. The smirk vanished as soon as a pain hit his left arm and right leg. Grimacing in pain Magneto looked down to see that both arm and leg had deep slices into them. If he didn't get it fixed soon, they'd be useless. 'How in the world did he hurt me? Wait, when he pulled his arms back, yes that had to be it.' Looking at Mystique, he sneered. "I'll come back for your son as well as you later Mystique." And with that, he floated out a window and away. The metal that was floating around crashed to the ground.
Mystique watched as Magneto flew away. She couldn't have helped her son at all in that fight. While she was trained to fight and could shape-shift into anything, including mutants, she couldn't gain their powers. She quickly ran over to him and checked to see if he was allright, as soon as she touched him he moaned and started to get up. "Ranma." She asked tenatively, she knew that he'd hate her for not helping him, or at the very least, not telling him about who she was.
"Hi momma, did I win?" She nodded her head, still scared that he'd hate her like her other children. She was surprised when he hugged her, she reacted and gave him one back immediately, but was still shocked. "Why didn't you tell me? I hated hiding my secrets from you, why couldn't you tell me?"
"Because I wasn't sure how'd you react to me being a mutant. I know Genma hates mutants, and I wasn't sure how you felt. That and I didn't want you to get involved in my world." She sighed, "You probably hate me now, just like all my other children."
Ranma didn't respond, just hugged her tighter for a few minutes. "Momma, I don't really care that you're a mutant. You're one of the few that's supported me unconditionally. I don't care what you've done in life, you've loved me unconditionally, and that's all that matters to me. Besides, that jerk forced you into doing what he wanted and I know what that's like."
Mystique had tears falling from her eyes, she loved all her children, but now, someone finally loved her back.
Wonder how Kurt and Rouge will take to finding out about a new sibling?
Uh oh, looks like Sinister, Appocolipse, and Anti-mutant groups want him for themselves.
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(Posted Tue, 06 May 2003 03:02)
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