But lately, thinkgs had been going rather... differently than she had expected. There had been problems from the beginning, what with Genma having engaged him multiple times, his having defeated Shampoo, and that loon Kodachi's wishes. Fighting between the four of them had become the status quo for a while.
Until Ranma had disappeared for a while, that was. One day he had up and vanished while trying to do something that his father and Mister Tendo had gotten hired to do. What that was wasn't something that had been particularly clear, but apparently, it had resulted in Ranma having vanished from the face of the Earth.
Since the witnesses had seen him disappear, she couldn't doubt that, but no one had known where he had gone. She, the Amazons, the Tendos, and even the Kunos had looked for him to no avail.
But a month and a half later, he had shown up again with nine girls in tow. He'd changed over that time, but she knew that she could deal with that. Unfortunately, she hadn't gotten very far in her attempts to reaquaint herself with the new Ranma.
Sighing over her ill luck to that point, she wiped the counter for the soon to be arriving customers. The lunch rush would be coming up soon, and she wanted to be ready in the physical sense, if not emotionally.
And it sounded if she had her first customer. "Hello and welcome to..," began the chef, trailing off as she got a good look at her first 'customer'. Though, she doubted that this particular woman was going about for an okonomiyaki in that sort of outfit. (Even if this would be the ward to do so in.)
"How nice it zis to finally meet you, my dear..," said the woman in the outfit that looked to be a cross between a showgirl's and a chef's.
"Umm... I don't think that we've met before."
"Ah, but we haven't. Zis is our first meeting."
"Okay... So what are you here for?" the okonomiyaki chef asked, heating up her grill.
"Pardon, I am Oolala, and I am here to show you ze wonder that is French cooking!"
Thinking about a certain Frenchman who'd showed up and her experiences with the Crepe King, she shook her head. "Sorry, but I'm not interested in that sort of stuff."
"You do not want ze french cuisine?"
"No, not really. I've sort of had enough of that stuff for a while. But I can make you an okonomiyaki, if you want."
"How dare you?!"
"Huh?"
"How could you even think to replace ze wonder zat is French cuisine with such pedestrian fare!"
"Hey!"
"Ukyo-sama's cooking is not at all bad!" put in Konatsu.
"Thanks... I think."
"Oh, poor child," Oolala said sadly, "You have no idea how wrong you have been."
"Oh really?"
"Yes, but do not worry. I zall show you the error of your ways!"
"How do you think that you're going to manage that?"
"Like zis! Come out my pets!"
"Glorp!" went the pastry monster.
"Sclorp!" said the crepe monster.
"Chee chee chee!" 'chee'd' the rolling pin creature.
"You have to be kidding me..," commented Ukyo.
"I don't think that they're going to take no for an answer," observed Konatsu.
"Zat is right!" declared Oolala, "My pet zall help me bring you to realize what you have done wrong, and then you zall rush to join me in my mission!"
The okonomiyaki chef raised an eyebrow. "No thanks."
"Zere is not choice in zis! Get zem!"
The pastry monster grunted and shot out a stream of filling at Ukyo. she slid back, and it hit the grill with a hissing noise. Then she dived underneath a rush by the crepe monster, which she swatted with her big spatula. Not waiting for another strike, she leapt over the counter, tossing several spatulas at Oolala at the same time.
Most of them missed, but one put a shallow cut into Oolala's cheek. "Ah! Zat has marred my beauty!" screeched the general and she turned to the rolling pin monster. "Go, get her!"
"Chee," it said and ran at Ukyo, but Konatsu tossed a few shuriken in its path and it stumbled. The crossdresser took the opportunity to dive out of the way, and the monster slammed head first into the wall...
...breaking the gas line in the process.
"Oh damn," pronounced Ukyo, before she and Konatsu dashed past the shocked general.
"Hey! Where are you going?! We have not... Oh no."
As Oolala made a mad run from the building, the gas hissed out of the pipe, filling the air inside the resturant. The monsters followed their leader, and nearly made it out unscathed.
Which was when the line blew. *Ka-BOOM!*
The creatures flew unwillingly across the street, and Oolala walked over to them, with her hand to her mouth and her eyes wide. "Oh no! Zis is terrible! Look at you! All burned along ze edges!"
From their collective pile, the monsters groaned in pain.
"Ah, I must zee what I can do, but I do not expect much. Zis has been much the debacle."
The general and her minions left, seeking to fix their wounds, and rework their strategies.
That left Ukyo to be able to come out and sit on the curb, watching the Ucchan's burn. She held her head in her hands and moaned. "My business, gone!"
"Don't worry Ukyo-sama," offered Konatsu, "You do have monster insurance, remember?"
"Konatsu..."
"Yes?"
"Stop trying to cheer me up."
"Sure..."
Watching the crowds gather to see what was going on and hearing the sound of sirens coming, Ukyo sighed. This was not one of her good days at all. In fact, it royally sucked. Yet, it didn't look to be getting any better.
All she could think to do was to sit there for the moment and lament her loss.
While she did just that,:
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