No one could blame him.
“What do you think Ran-na-na-na-na-ma!?”
Lash had built... SOMETHING.
This might not sound scary, but when it comes to Lash chances are it did one of two thinks. Blow stuff up or just plain blow up. And the resulting explosions were never small.
“Umm, Lash... what is it?”
The cute little mad genius smiled sweetly, which only caused his fear to rise. “Well, it’s a little thing I call...”
Before she could finish the intercom sounded, sending Nell’s voice into the Engine Room.
**Bridge to Ranma, please report to the bridge**
“Well-that-sounds-like-Nell-might-be-important-time-for-me-to-go-talk-to-ya-later!”
With that warp speed sentence he ran from the room, dust trailing behind him.
“... My Lash Dish Washer...”
After a moment the device exploded, sending smoke up to the ceiling. Lash turned to it smiling widely. “The dishes are done!”
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While many speculated that Ranma had formed a female crew solely as a harem, the truth was simply that he hadn’t even kissed a single one of his crewmates, let alone had sex with them. He had entertained fantasies of each of them (Save Lash who was too young and had questionable sanity) and let his eyes roam up and down their bodies. Still he didn’t try and seduce them, lest what professionalism this small crew had be torn away. That and he respected them far too much.
The lift opened as he reached the bridge, and he took a moment to look over it. The Helmsmen position for the pilot was closest to the viewer, and seven feet behind that the Captain’s Chair, beside which was the seat for the Second Officer. Barring neither Ranma nor Nell was on the bridge whoever was manning the bridge sat in their preferred seat. Behind the Captain’s Chair was the Weapon’s Station that controlled the ships weapons, shields and communication systems. Behind that facing away from the screen was the main computer systems and engineering controls. Helm, Com and Weapons systems could also be controlled from the Captain’s Chair or the Second Officer’s Seat.
Currently as the lift opened and let Ranma onto the bridge. The bridge was being manned by Nell alone, who was at the Weapon’s Station, her back to him. After letting his eyes roam for a moment he walked up to her.
“What’s the situation Nell?”
The blonde bombshell turned towards him, hands clasped behind her back, the way she always stood as she addressed him. Her jumpsuit stretched against her chest, but Ranma still kept eye-contact, save a slight glance. “We got an odd communication Ranma, from Jurai. Your... home planet.”
Ranma knew his surprise showed on his face. “Why are they calling us? They know that Tree Ship was Ryouga’s, and he was attacking us. Last I checked Jurai could care less about us.”
Indeed, despite the Juraian’s holier-then-thou attitude they had never bothered with them, mainly because the Fortune Hunters had never done any acts against them. As for Ranma’s defection to piracy, the Juraian’s Empire would rather cover the fact that the notorious Ranma Saotome was once Juraian than stop him. Ryouga, a knight who controlled the tree ship that attacked the Pandora was even losing favor, since his attacks could lead to people connecting Ranma to Jurai. Ranma even decided to help them in this, if to separate himself from Jurai, Nell was the only one to know, being his closest confidant.
“They sent us a message. You might want to have a look.” She handed him a data-pad and he taken it and looked at it.
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