Just because they didn't require sex to the extent where they were in heat 24/7 didn't mean they would just abandon a guy they had an emotional tie to.
So many years later:
Light flared and the various girls posed triumphantly.
"We'reee baaaaack," proclaimed Usagi.
Ami began scanning. "Ranma is thataway!"
"I sense," said Michiru, going into a partial trance, "hostility directed at him. Hatred. A need to commit violence!"
Minako cleared her throat and posed, cape billowing dramatically behind her.
"If Ranma's in trouble, we can't be slow!
So hip-hip-hip and away we go!"
"I know girls who are better built, to boot," said Ranma.
WHAM! went the table slamming Ranma into the ground.
"Now that he had coming," opined Genma.
A Japanese flute played a brief mournful sound on the breeze, accompanied by a plunk of a samisen. Cherry blossom leaves began drifting through the backyard as someone slapped two wooden blocks together in a familiar pattern.
A girl with long black hair dropped down into the yard, wearing modified samurai armor.
"To strike our lord from behind,
reveals your evil heart,
to strike such perfidy down,
must indeed be my part."
Akane threw the table, thinking this was enough like Kuno to be flattened.
Rei looked up and caught the table in the face. WHAM!
"She got Rei!" "The bastard!"
"Uhm," said Akane, realizing that wasn't Kuno and a lot of girls with tails or wings or things were in the backyard.
"For striking our dear master whom we haven't seen in years, and interrupting our happy reunion," proclaimed one of these new arrivals, "you cannot be forgiven. In the name of good pokegirls everywhere. We'll punish you!"
"Uhhhh, right," said Akane.
"See here, what's all this about?" Soun demanded as one of the girls went to Ranma's side and began to glow as she touched his head.
"Well," began another of the girls, "we are:"
(quick set of punches and kicks, pose) "Makoto, the kempo Dryad!"
(somersault, spin, sentai pose) "Minako, the acrobatic Kitten!"
(wings out, brief hover, shy salute) "Hotaru... the Angel of mercy."
(shakes head to have her hair cascade, elegant pose) "Michiru, the artistic Siren"
(tail lash, feline kung fu manuevers, pose) "Haruka, the guardian Cheetaun!"
(bo staff spin, thrust, back to pose) "Setsuna, the Princess"
(breathe cone of flame into the air, sentai pose) "Rei, the fiery Firebrand!"
(raise hand while continuing to use computer) "Ami. Nerdette."
(stand up from healing Ranma, twirl, fall over, raise hand) "Usagi. Megami."
"We are the Sailor Pets! YO!" cheered the group.
"Those are real wings?" Nabiki asked as she began noting all the extra body parts present on the new arrivals.
"You have unfairly attacked our Master just as we were going to meet him again after years of absence," declared Rei, rubbing the bridge of her nose and hoping it wouldn't bruise.
"He had it coming," declared Akane.
"Then you've got this coming," said Rei. "Fire Spin!"
"EEK!" said Akane, running as some girl in red samurai armor began chasing her and throwing jets of fire at the seat of Akane's gi. "OUCH! HEY! YOW!"
Nabiki watched as one after another of the Sailor Pets began chasing Akane. Through the house, out of the house, around the dojo, around the fish pond, into the dojo.
"Fire jet!" FWOOM! "Eeek!"
"Vine whip!" Snap! "HEY!"
"Fury Swipe!" Slash! "AAAA!"
"Boot rear!" KICK! "YOWTCH!"
"Taser!" ZAP! "EEEEE!"
"Mana Bolt!" ZOT! "YOWIE!"
Out of the dojo, around the house, onto the roof, along the perimeter fence.
Soun stared. "Akane's getting a lot better at the Art."
"Nothing like a little motivation," agreed Genma. "I remember when they used to play with Ranma like this all the time. You'll notice despite their superior speed, they're not overtaking her. They'll just exhaust her like this."
"So what's the story here, Saotome?" demanded Soun.
"About nine years ago, I found some scrolls for summoning demons and was going to sacrifice Ranma to make him a better martial artist," said Genma. "So I tied the boy down and began the ritual, however something went wrong and I got these instead."
WHIP! "EEP!"
Nabiki and Kasumi stared at a man who apparently still didn't get the idea of having one's cake and eating it simultaneously.
FWOOSH! "OUCH!"
"I see, go on," said Soun.
"Ah-taaa!" "YIKE!"
"They bonded with him for a month, after which the spell ran out. When they vanished the boy was heartbroken that his friends had disappeared. Naturally, I seized on the opportunity to further motivate and train Ranma - telling him how evil the female gender was - full of tricks and completely untrustworthy. That being kind and nice to anyone merely indicates how weak you are and leaves you open for girls to hurt you. That way he would blame these pets and rededicate himself to the Art. It worked too." Genma declared proudly. "Most of the time, particularly when he was young, I was his only company. Of course he believed his old dad."
"I see, very clever," agreed Soun.
Nabiki and Kasumi stared at their father.
Zap! "Yowtch!"
"Ah," said Genma, "the sacrifices that have to be made for the sake of the Art."
"So true," agreed Soun.
Slash! "EEK!"
"Well, better the boy suffer for the Art than me," said Genma.
"So true," repeated Soun.
Akane ran by, her gi mostly shredded or burned away. "AAAAAA!"
"Brings back memories, eh Saotome?"
"Quite true, Tendo," agreed Genma.
"Yoga wedgie!" "EEEEEP!"
After Akane had collapsed into an exhausted heap, the pokegirls made tea and began having a lovely discussion with the Tendos. Makoto was complimented on her cooking skills, Ami fixed the TV so that it was now getting cable, and various girls were taking turns cuddling with Ranma and trying to convince him that his father was a big fat liar.
What the Tendos (with the exception of the napping Akane) were told was a basic history of the pokegirls world, a definition of pokegirls, and that they had formed a bond with Ranma. Ranma was their Master, with whom they would eventually go out and right wrongs and fight for love and justice and the right to cuddle!
When the Tendo arrangement was brought up, that brought a few shrugs. So they'd have to share - hardly a new concept.
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