This was something I'd like to try. Something that nobody dared. Throwing HER in the middle of NWC... Poor Nerima. And poor Saffron.

by lord Martiya

Prologue: Hello, Bro!

"Fool! Don't you know that the Gekkaja and the Kinjakan mirror each other?" Saffron boasted.

Ranma was in trouble. He had traveled to China to save Jusenkyo, and any hope to heal his curse, only to find himself locked in a battle for Akane's life against a foe that could be injured only by the Gekkaja, a weapon that Saffron could easily counter with the Kinjakan. It was hopeless... No! He couldn't surrender! He had to win! He had to... Understand where the Ride of the Valkyries was coming from?

Then, survival instincts honed in years of tort-er, training and the recent battles in Nerima kicked in, and Ranma let the tornado created by his Hiryu Shotenha taking him away from Saffron. Just in time to see the Phoenix King being crashed by SOMETHING that had penetrated the mountain.

"Is that a spaceship?" he exclaimed after landing near Ryoga.

"It looks like a Roman merchantman..." Ryoga confirmed.

"The Roman Empire fell in 476 CE." Mousse stated.

"Only the Western half, and even that is debatable. And there still are some descendants ruling their version of the Roman Republic on Venus."

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! KNEEL BEFORE THE EMPRESS OF DRAWINGS!" a voice declared. It was a 14-15 looking bespectacled girl (and a fairly attractive one to boot) in military-like clothes, surrounded by four other girls that could only be described as a female junior high version of Indiana Jones, a Yamato Nadesico in making, a samurai girl with a BIG sword and a very young valkirye sipping from a juice box. "SAFFRON OF THE BIRD PEOPLE! SURRENDER OR DIE! SAFFRON! SHOW YOURSELF, YOU COWARD!"

"I think we knocked him out." the valkirye deadpanned pointing at Saffron. Who was knocked out and abandoned on the bow of the ship.

The mad girl looked pissed, then walked at Saffron and started kicking him while complaining on his anticlimathic demise ruining her well-planned dramatic entrance. After that, the girl LEVITATED down and reached the boys. And Ranma started sweating: he had seen her in a photo. But it COULDN'T be her. She was too much crazy.

"Sorry, can you tell me who is Saotome Ranma?" she asked.

Ryoga and Mousse immediatly pointed at him.

"Hello, Bro! Long time we don't see! I think last time was just before the old man took you on the training trip..."

It was her.

"Haruna? YOU are the Haruna Mom told me about?" Ranma exclaimed.

"The one and only, returning from rehabilitating my homeroom teacher's mother on her homeworld!" she replied.

The presents looked at her, puzzled (the conscious ones, at least: most of them had run away, and both the Bird People who hadn't run and the Jusenkyo guide had fainted due the appearance of the spaceship or the shock of seeing Saffron defeated so easy).

Ranma had now decided to crown his mother as queen of euphemisms, as she had described Haruna as ' just a little spirited'. Clearly there was something in his family genes, from BOTH branches.

Ryoga, was shit scared. A girl apparently mad and in control of a spaceship, possibly an armed one? No good at all!

Akane was trying to understand how the sweet, intelligent and a bit spirited girl described by Auntie Nodoka was apparently mad. It had to be Ranma's fault as always, somehow.

Mousse, just though that the girl was weird even for Nerima.

Shampoo was trying to determinate how to ingratiate her into kicking Akane away from Ranma (she had the ability, after all). Also, she was wondering where did they meet, because she was sure to know her somehow.

Kiima was a bit too dead for puzzling: when she got distracted by Haruna's arrive, Shampoo hit her with a chui in the back of her head.

"Hey, where did you found a doll looking like your girlfriend?" Haruna asked pointing at the drained Akane.

Five seconds later, Akane was back at normal, and Haruna offered to take them back in Japan.

"Wait, I still need to do something." Ranma replied.

"Heal the curse? Sorry, it's pouring and the waters are mixed." Haruna explained.

"!"

"Don't worry." the valkirye said before sipping her tomato milk juice. "In a couple weeks the curses will be back at normal."

"Hey, how did you got the spaceship?" Ryoga asked.

"Drawing pays well." Haruna declared. "Well, let's g-"

"HOLD ON!"

Saffron had just recovered. And he looked PISSED.

BANG!

Then, Saffron dropped dead with a single hole in the head. And a dark skinned woman started disassembling a PSG1 rifle, making Ranma and Ryoga start sweating. She looked familiar.

"Thanks, Tatsumiya, I owe you one!" Haruna saluted.

"Just make sure everybody knows WHO had killed the immortal." she replied.

"I'll remember. Shevac killed the immortal Saffron."

"SHEVAC? THAT SHEVAC?" Ranma and Ryoga cried.

"I have the classmate discount."

And that told Ranma why their mother described her as 'a little spirited': for being Mana classmate she WAS just a little spirited.

"And people complains about the Nerima Wrecking Crew..." Mousse sintetized. "What? That's how they call us!"

Author Note

Well, who else could make such an entrance? I mean, Evangeline and Chao are drama lovers enough for that, but only Haruna has an actual spaceship. She says she bought it on Mundus Magicus and paid it with money earned with her drawings, and I won't try and discover if she's being honest. And thinking about the drama lovers, Chao could even go and make an anticlimathic villain out of Saffron, if she decide so: after all she already did of a demon god by having Chachamaru destroying it with a single shot of a ridicolous-looking orbital weapon...

And about Ryoga's data on the Roman Empire, HE'S DAMN RIGHT. The common accepted date for the Fall of the Roman Empire is the overthrowing of Romulus Augustus in 476, but, as he was an usurper, it could be debated that the Western Roman Empire only fell in 480 with the death of the last legitimate Emperor. Also, the Eastern Roman Empire survived in its entirety until 1204, after that it was divided in six different successor states. In 1261 the Empire of Nicaea took back Constantinople and most of the territories at 1204 and reformed the Eastern Roman Empire, but it too fell to the Turks in 1453, with the Empire of Trebizond, the last successor state, falling in 1461. In the meantime a THIRD legitimate Roman Empire had been founded as the Holy Roman Empire (and I say legitimate meaning that its emperor was formally elected as the Western and Eastern ones were and that the Eastern Emperors had proclaimed the Holy Roman Emperors as successors of the Western ones). How he learnt that, well, he picked up a lot of strange knowledge during his travels, I think he found that out while wandering in Rome or Instambul believing to be in China, or wandered in that state and read a tourist guide. The only thing Ryoga got wrong was the location of the reborn Roman Republic: as you know, Mundus Magicus, and Megalomesembria with it, is on MARS, not Venus. But that's Ryoga, after all.

Shevac is instead an homage to the wonderful fanfic Coming Home to Roost, by Shade. In that fanfic Mana had been nicknamed 'Shevac' after the last words of a Russian captain who, after finding out she was there to kill him and his men, cried "Shit, she's here! Evac-" before being killed.