On the other hand, Ranma had just experienced love.
"THIS IS NEAT!" Ranma yelled as he gunned the engine and his "Big Hog" Hovercycle responded by leaping forward at an even more insane amount of speed. From a "mere" one hundred twenty miles per hour, the engine began an acceleration that would have left any number of his Neriman colleagues passing out from the gee forces - especially when he began heading towards the ground in order to pull up just high enough for the exhausts to clear.
Ranma Saotome, speed freak and martial artist, had just discovered the Jabberworks BH-900 hovercycle. 900 was the horsepower, by the way. While it fell far short of 900kph, Ranma driving one for the first time in his life over the grassy steppes wasn't that certain about it. At a little over 200kph, everything nearby was blurring and he was quite frankly having the time of his life.
He had no idea where he could put this after he got home, but he sure as heck wanted one.
"They've spotted us, or at least Saotome and Sir George," said a voice Ranma didn't recognize in his ear. "We have to stop them before they reach the checkpoint. Aim for weapons turrets and their jets, remember they have civvies."
Ranma puzzled over that, slowing his cycle in order to look over the panels and buttons again. They'd said that this was the firing button, hadn't they?
ZORP!
A bright red laser flash as the side of the vehicle was scored.
"I said 'turrets and jets' Saotome!"
"Oops," said Ranma sheepishly.
The jetpack on the back of the armored dragon roared as he accelerated wildly to slam onto the back of the vehicle. Clawed hands began pulling apart sections of alloy to disable the weapons as they tried to reach the annoying lizard on their backside.
Ranma shot down along the ground and saw chips of that weird black material coming off of their jets. He jammed the little buttons and swung it out. This was cool! He could just imagine the next magical prince type kidnapping Akane and him just grabbing his mighty mechanical steed here and shooting the nutzoid!
"Saotome! Sir George! Get out of there, we're using goo missiles."
"Goo missiles?" Ranma asked, gunning the engine again anyway.
The Coalition didn't have them and didn't want them. Given a sample and time they could come up with something similar, but figured (correctly) that if they did start using them then people would start showing up with anti-goo spray.
Besides, most of the military command thought the rumors of these weapons were silly and unfounded.
Missiles carrying two highly compressed liquids began striking the transport. The liquids shot out, briefly becoming aerosolized. When they combined that changed, and they became strands of a minor MDC material that was sticky and decayed after a few hours. Something almost discarded as useless while trying to find a patching material for MDC armor.
Where it hit the transport though, it clogged weapons ports, jammed guns into positions and clogged vents and exhausts. Which was the main use for goo grenades and missiles.
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