Another Like Me....
I do not own Ranma 1/2 and its associated characters. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi. I do not own X-men Evolution or any of it's associated characters. Inspiration for this fic came from 'The Evolution'. A Ranma 1/2 X-men crossover by Dragonlord.
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Chapter 1: Awakening
"Ranma!!!", the scream echoed around the schoolyard. The boy sighed as he heard the yell and watched his uncute tomboy of a fiancée stomp towards him from the cafeteria, a fiery red aura surrounding her. Ranma snorted in contempt, If that fiancée of mine thinks that I'm gonna eat that slop she calls food then she's got another thing comin . He was still irritated about last night. He would never have believed that the Tendo's, let alone his own family could be so...so...prejudiced.
FLASHBACK
It had all started after the family had sat down for dinner. The television had been showing the latest idol singer strutting her stuff on the stage (Happosai had been watching and no-one could be bothered to fight the ol'pervert for the remote). The program was suddenly interrupted by a special international news bulletin. Apparently a group of young mutants had wreaked havoc in downtown New York. The police had been called in but had no luck in containing them until another team of mutants arrived on the scene. The video footage being shown had impressed Ranma greatly. These guys and girls had some serious training. Nothing in his league of course but their powers amply made up for any physical weakness. He had turned to the rest of the occupants of the table just in time to hear their comments.
"Foul creatures aren't they Tendo, I always said they were trouble. The whole lot of them should have been exterminated years ago"
"Quite right Saotome, such abominations of nature should not be allowed to exist."
The two older men continued in their ranting. Abominations…no… they were demons sent from hell in order to sully the pure blood of true men. Monsters, Child-killers, Rapists, Murderers, Terrorists! It was when Genma suggested synchronized rounding up, imprisonment and execution of all possible mutants, active or otherwise, would be the best policy for the U.N. to follow that Ranma decided he'd heard enough!
None seemed to notice the temperature drop in the room until Ranma spoke, and when he did it was in a voice so low, so dangerous, so cold and devoid of emotion that it could have frozen even the blood of Saffron in his fiery veins.
"Did I hear you right Pops? Are you saying cause someone's different we should jus' go out an' slaughter them all in a...a second holocaust."
He stood and sneered at the seated form of his parent.
"And to think that I used to look up to you."
BONK
Ranma fell to the ground clutching his skull, trying to ease the pain of a mallet strike to the head. A furious Akane stood over him.
"Stop defending those perverted freaks Ranma. Daddy's right and so is Uncle Saotome"
"Yes son I think you had better explain yourself, it's not manly to protect such disgusting creatures"
Ranma composed himself despite the glares he was receiving from all those at the table. Pops, Mr Tendo, his Mother, Akane and even Kasumi looked irritated at his outburst. Nabiki was just grinning at him slyly.
Probably thinking of someway to turn this to her advantage> thought Ranma.
Happosai on the other hand was staring Ranma in a thoughtful sort of way.
"Well, I jus' don't think we oughta judge people for the way they were born."
He folded his arms defiantly
"If your gonna try to kill someone for being able to change the weather then why not me, after all I can use the Hiryu Shoten Ha, or the Soul of Ice."
Pointingat his no-good lazy panda of a father he said:
"You can create vacuum blades with your forbidden techniques Pop. You can even turn invisible or drain a person's energy with a series of strikes to the back. Just how is that different from shooting lasers. As for Akane..."
CLONG
Ranma's now passionate speech was rudely interrupted as he fell to the ground unconscious; another blow to the head sending him to La-La-Land.
"Don't you dare bring me into this you half-man jerk"
"Tendo I think I had better have a 'chat' with the boy and make him realize his place"
"Very true Saotome, what an ungrateful son you have. He should have married my daughter a year ago and now I will wait no longer! They SHALL be married! Oh happy day!"
Soun started to bawl with joy.
END FLASHBACK
The sound of approaching doom shocked Ranma back into the present. He had justhopped down from his position in his favorite tree to face the music when something warm and soft pressed against his back.
"Airen eat Shampoo's too, too delicious Ramen yes?"
Ranma groaned.
It can't get any worse can it?>
"Get away from my Ranchan you hussy!"
Of courseit can>
Ranma was getting seriously stressed out as both Shampoo and Ukyo began to pull on him, trying to get him to themselves. Trapped as he was he couldn't even attempt to avoid Akane as she descended upon him like a whirlwind of fury.
"RANMA YOU ARE THE BIGGEST…"
Oh no>
"MOST PERVERTED…"
Here it comes>
"JERK EVER…."
KAMI-SAMA WHY ME????>
"Akane! Wait! I can explain..."
"I HATE YOU!!!"
With that Akane swung her arm and slapped him with all her might.
SMACK
The world froze as memories flooded Ranma's mind. He was five, crying as his mother died. He was there when his father devolved from a strong man into an emotional wreck. He remembered the first day of school, he remembered when his fiancée arrived, the anger he felt. He remembered being glomped by Kuno and how to create a mallet out of thin air. He remembered smashing his fiancée with it and getting a sick, twisted sense of pleasure out of doing so. Wait his mother hadn't died, his father was a fat idiot he had never hit Akane had he? Since when when could he summon a damn shivermallet. This didn't make any sense. It was like he was two people at once!
He was Ranma.
He was Akane.
He …was…
"Who am I", he whispered, a cold fear spreading slowly, encompassing his entire being.
Clutching his head he looked around as Kuno charged him, yelling something about slaying the demon who had dared harm his fierce Tigress. Rage filled him! It was him, that bastard who had set all those perverted boys on him, trying to force him date against his will!The dementedassholewho had groped him on his very first day in a new school!
His Ki aura manifested itself, warping from its customary sapphire to a blazing scarlet. In his tightly clenched, trembling fist the ethereal form of an enormous mallet flicked into being. Heaving it above his head he smashed the insane kendoist into the ground as he roared at the top of his voice:
"KUNO NO BAKAAA!!!!
POW…
THUMP…
CRUNCH…
"I …fight…on…"
Standing triumphantly over the battered form of an unconscious Kuno he realized a terrible silence had fallen over the schoolyard. He turned to see all the students staring at him and at his feet he saw his sister:
….No…. that can't be right> , he thought.
He saw Nabiki clutching at Akane's body as she lay there unconscious. Ranma stood there, touching his hand to his cheek in a daze until Nabiki lashed out and caught him by the arm.
"What did you do to my sister!"
Ranma watched as she too froze and jerked like Akane had done. Once again memories flooded his mind. He saw Nabiki's whole life through her eyes and with it gained her vast stores of knowledge. He was stunned by what he had done. He also knew he was in real trouble, the looks of hatred he was being given and Nabiki's cunning intelligence allowed him to deduce that this new development was almost certainly of mutant origin.
Pain shot through his head. Clutching at it againhe fell to his knees. Agonized screams filled the air and Ranma realized, to his astonishment, that they were coming from him. He was being driven mad! The memories, they wouldn't go away!
He had three sets of memories in his head, and the process of dealing with so much information was causing his mind to shut down. He didn't know whohe was anymore and he didn't care. All he wanted to do was escape.Pained, terrified and confused he fled the schoolyard, a mob of angry students hard at his heels.
In Bayville, New York, the mutant detection device known as Cerebro awoke.
The alarms alerted Professor Charles Xavier, who simply cocked an eyebrow at this interesting development and made his way to the machine, after the incident with the Sentinel the X-men had to do whatever they could to lay low for a while and that would be rather difficult with a new mutant running amok in the cities, further increasing the levels of prejudice.
When he arrived in the Lab however his calm external experience melted away
ARRIVAL OF NEW MUTANT DETECTED
NAME: UNKNOWN
AGE: 17
POWER: UNKNOWN
STATE: NEW YORK
Intriguing> , thought Professor X,
Cerebro should be able to pick up a full profile on anyone in the world, the only way that the data could be incomplete would be if he was never officially born.>
Accessing his power he called to his students
Jean… Scott…gather the team and meet back at the Institute directly after school. We have a new potential student on our hands >>
END OF CHAPTER 1.
(Should I continue this??? - daval18)