The first thing Ranma did was to check the two unconscious girls for injuries. He knew he had knocked out that 'Amazonlee' chick earlier but the second one had apparently passed out from the mistreatment of his late counterpart, which made his blood boil in anger.
When he looked at her more closely, he immediately realized that she wasn't completely human. The two pairs of batlike wings on her back and her head were proof of that. She was also obviously underage and wearing some kind of skimpy leotard, signs of abuse clear enough even for him to knew what they were. Ranma cursed aloud and would have killed Ranma Sextome again if he wasn't already dead. But even looking like that, Ranma had to admit she was pretty cute.
The Amazonlee was older, looking to be in her early twenties, wearing blue chinese clothes who had seen better days. She would have a nasty bump from his kick but should recover in time. Ranma could admit she was a good martial artist from fighting her but her exhaustion and hopelessness had cut their bout short.
Seeing that wherever he was, night would soon fall, Ranma took all of Sextome's possessions. They were spoils of war and in a sense, they were HIS things as well. Ranma hated to do things like that, feeling he was turning into his old man, but necessity was a harsh mistress. What he got was camping material (a luxury he hadn't had during his training trip of 10 years), food (normal and cans of something called 'pokechow', whatever it was), ten red and white plastic balls (four of them with a blinking red light), a small portable computer, a first aid kit, some useful items (a flashlight, some rope, a compass, a survival knife, etc...), a few changes of clothes (a bit small for his size but all western style to Ranma's chagrin, not practical when you're cursed to turn into a girl with cold water) and a big wad of the local cash.
Fortunately for him, there was a clearing not far from where he was and decided to set up camp there. He could take care of the girls and wait for them to wake up. He had many questions to ask them...
An hour later, he had set up the tent, used the first aid kit to patch the two girls up and tucked them in the sleeping bag. Next came something he didn't relish doing in the slightest but it had to be done.
So Ranma dug a sufficiently big hole, dropped his dead counterpart's body in then covered it up. There would be no marker or epitaph for the bastard who wore his face. Better for him to be completely forgotten.
Ranma lit a fire and started cooking some food. He was hungry and was sure the girls would be too when they woke up. And it gave him something to do while his brain was trying to digest Ranma Sextome's knowledge and memories.
"Pokegirls... Pokewomen... Taming... Sukebe... What kind of twisted world have I stumbled into?"
*****
When Chun Li regained consciousness, she noticed two things, all of them wrong in her experience.
One: Someone had taken care of her injuries. Their master would never do that, prefering to stick them into their pokeballs and wait to find a pokecenter for a spin in the healing machine. The first aid kit was for his use exclusively.
Two: She was in the master's sleeping bag. He never let them inside it, even after a taming, claiming that pokegirls didn't need an item made for humans. They would always sleep on the ground or in their pokeballs.
She got out of the sleeping bag, wincing in pain all the way, trying not to wake Lillith up. The poor girl needed all the rest she could get. Sextome had been particularly cruel to the young succubus lately.
Speaking of the Devil, there he was, cooking food near the tent. Wait a minute... Since when did Ranma Sextome, of all people, cook? It was a shore he usually left for his pokegirls. Something was definitely wrong here... What kind of trick that monster had come up with?
"Finally awake? Well, that's good. I was afraid I struck you too hard" Chun Li winced. As if she could sneak up on her master with the bond between them. Ranma turned to face her, smiling "Come on! I know you must be hungry"
Chun Li was speechless. Ranma Sextome does not smile... EVER. The best you could get out of him was that damned condescending smirk of his. She reached for the bond and gasped in surprise. It felt so identical and different at the same time... Never had she felt these kind of emotions from her master! She could pick up sincere concern for her well-being, something she had never thought possible.
Then she remembered what happened before she was knocked unconscious earlier today "Who... Who are you?"
Ranma winced at the tone the girl was employing, as if she was afraid he would strike her for speaking out loud "Er... I'm Ranma Saotome. Sorry about this..."
*****
It took Ranma and Chun Li most of two hours to clear things up between them. The pokegirl explained to him what pokegirls were, what kind of bastard her former master was (she had glomped him and cried her eyes out in mixed joy/relief when he told her Ranma Sextome was dead) while Ranma had told her that he was an alternate version of her old master.
She also told him about her past. She had been a free amazonlee of the Joketsuzoku preserve until Sextome came and captured her. He escaped pursuit and had patiently broken her into his slave.
As for Lillith, it was a personal whim and experiment of Sextome. Knowing that Succubus are very independent pokegirls, he took one barely out of threshold and proceeded into breaking her into a totally subservient being. Ranma was disgusted even more at his counterpart's actions. The girl couldn't be older than fourteen, for kami's sake!
"We should tell my other harem-sisters that Sextome is dead" proposed Chun Li after an uncomfortable silence "Some of them need special attention"
Ranma didn't catch the blatant innuendo and nodded "Others...? Where? I only found you and Lillith back there"
"That's because they're in their pokeballs, master"
"Oh, those little balls..." said Ranma as he took the ten pokeballs he had taken from Sextome's corpse "And I ain't your master, that bastard's dead. Just call me Ranma"
Chun Li sighed. How to tell him that for reasons she couldn't explain, the bond between tamer and pokegirl she had with Sextome had been transferred to him? And that all of the pokegirls of Sextome's harem needed a good taming, some of them being dangerously close to becoming feral? "As you wish, mas... Ranma" She could do it. Alphas did call their masters by their name all the time. It's just that Ranma Sextome, being a practitionner of the Sextome school of Anything Goes Pokegirl Taming, didn't believe in having an alpha pokegirl.
Ranma looked at the pokeballs, puzzled "How many pokegirls are in there besides you and Lillith?"
"Four others, Ranma. They're in the pokeballs with a blinking red light. There is..."
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