High above the earth, floating above the impossibly tall Karin tower, is Kami’s lookout. The surface looks like a resort with the well-kept gardens and palm trees. The palace towards the back looks similar to the Taj Majal. Two figures stand peering over the edge. The first is a green man with antenna dressed in white robes. The other is a sambo looking genie. The green man turns to the djinn. “Mr. Popo, Awaken Goku and Uub. They are needed immediately.”
The genie nods his head. “Yes, Kami, At once. Where is the destination?”
“Juuban, and tell them there isn’t a moment to lose.”
“Yes, Kami.” The black djinn bows and quickly runs toward the palace to awaken the earth’s protectors.
In the freshly ventilated Ramen shop, Rei felt the hair on the back of her neck stand on end. She felt an enormous source of evil energy. “Uhh…Usagi? We need to go.”
The blonde turned toward the raven-haired Senshi. “Why?”
“I just think it’s time we…uhh…get some BUSINESS done.” She knew Usagi would be slow on the uptake, but she couldn’t speak plainly with Bra and Pan present.
“What sort of business?”
Rei gritted her teeth. “We need to go!”
“Why?” Usagi just stared with a blank expression on her face.
Minako decided to intervene. “We have to get to the ice cream shop before it closes.”
“Oh goody!” Usagi turned to sprint out of the restaurant, but fell flat on her face. Minako and Rei helped her up.
At the same time that Rei had had her premonition; Pan had felt something different. Pan twitched again as another disturbance occurred. “We need to go to. Come on, Bra!” She grabbed Bra by the arm and hauled her out of the Ramen shop. “It was nice to see you all again.”
Rei nodded her head. “Likewise.” That’s convenient. Now we can tell Usagi in words she can understand. The Sailor Senshi are needed. After Pan and Bra left, she turned to Usagi. “There’s another youma, and it’s huge!”
Usagi put a fist to her mouth with a pouting expression on her face. “You mean we aren’t going for ice cream?”
“Can it, meatball head! We’ve got to change and get going!”
Usagi nodded and the Senshi rushed out of the restaurant and transformed into their sailor garb.
At the same time, Pan was hauling Bra around to a dark alleyway. She let go and Bra turned around to her. “What was that all about?”
Pan looked at her with a serious look on her face. “Try to find Ranma.”
Bra closed her eyes. She reached out with her senses trying to find Ranma’s Ki. “I can’t find him!”
“Exactly. That’s the first thing I felt in there. The second thing I felt was Akane’s Ki fading at a rapid rate. You haven’t developed your Ki senses enough to tell that.”
“Or I don’t care about that violent obstacle. Her gone could only be a good thing.”
“Come on, Bra! You can’t be serious. They were almost married! They love each other.”
“They have a funny way of showing it. Besides, no ring, no thing.”
Pan shook her head and pressed the red button on her watch, transforming into The Great Saiya-Man. “Just go get Uncle Goten. Whatever took out Ranma and Akane has to be trouble. We may need his help.”
Bra mockingly saluted Pan. “Sir, yes Sir. Operation: Save my future boyfriend is underway.” She turned on heel and dashed out of the alleyway.
Pan just shook her head again and took to the skies, heading in the direction where she had last felt Akane.
At the scene, the sailor Senshi had already arrived at the scene to find Kunzite and Ramadan waiting for them. Sailor Moon made her usual cheesy speech and Kunzite laughed at her. “You’ll never be able to defeat this youma, Sailor Moon. I will have the Silver Crystal and your head to present to Queen Beryl.”
Sailor Moon just stood, arms akimbo. “In the name of the moon, we will punish you.” She pulled out the Moon Wand. She started to twirl it. “Moon Healing…”
Ramadan shot forward and punched Moon before she could finish. The smaller girl went flying in one direction and the Moon Wand flew in another. “Sailor Moon!” The other Senshi called after their leader.
Mars turned to the monster. “Fire Soul!”
Ramadan just smiled and then leapt out of the way of the fire blast, landing right behind the raven-haired Senshi of fire. He backhanded her and sent her flying.
“Supreme Thunder!” Jupiter unleashed her attack on the youma. The youma sent a Ki blast in return. The two blasts collided, but Ramadan’s blast kept on going and impacted on Sailor Jupiter knocking her to the ground.
Mercury and Venus had rushed to their princess’ side after she had been knocked away. They had finally awakened her when they saw their comrades go down in a matter of seconds. Mercury brought down her visor and analyzed the youma. “He has the same amount of magical energy that the youma in the past have had, but he’s faster and stronger than any I have ever seen before.”
Minako’s face had a grim expression on it. “That’s encouraging. We need to regroup and come up with a plan.”
Mercury nodded her head and helped Sailor Moon to her feet. Moon looked around. “Where’s the Moon Wand?”
“Looking for this?” Kunzite held up the Moon Rod. “I think this will be a nice trophy to give to my queen. Once I give her this, she won’t have any reason to keep Endymion around.”
“I don’t think that belongs to you.” A blast struck Kunzite and he flew back a few feet. The Moon Rod flew from his hands and was caught by The Great Saiya-Man. “I think it’s time that you took your pet and your sorry butt home.”
“Great Saiya-Man. I still owe you for destroying my last plan. Ramadan! Dispatch this obstacle!”
Pan didn’t even see the beast move before it slammed into her side, sending her through a nearby building. Amazingly, she managed to keep a hold of the Moon Wand, which she quickly hid in her costume. She stood back up and felt a pain in her side. She looked and saw that she was bleeding! He had managed to hurt her! She looked as he started to stalk her. She realized that those crystal blades all over her were not just for show. “All right, no more mister nice crime fighter.” Rubble went flying everywhere as she transformed into a Super Saiya-Jin. “Round two!” She charged at the youma, but it disappeared with blinding speed before she could reach it. It appeared behind her and hit her in the back with a hammer blow, sending her through another building. Pan shook her head to clear it. We have to stop this before we destroy this section of the city! Pan charged in again, but the youma just stood in place and chopped at her in the head, shattering her helmet. She staggered back a couple of steps head reeling.
Ramadan tilted his head back and roared. “Ramadan!” He lifted his hand for the killing blow, when a Crescent Beam suddenly struck him in the side. He turned to see Sailor Venus.
“Let’s see how tough you are!” She lifted her fingers to start another blast.
In a blink of an eye, Venus was laid out by an elbow to her stomach. The crystal on the youma’s joint penetrated her skin and buried into her entrails. Ramadan picked her up by the top her head.
Kunzite just smiled at his creation. “That’s it! Crush her head, first her and then the rest of the Sailor Senshi.
Ramadan began to crush the smaller girl’s head. She started to scream in pain. Just then the creature’s elbow bent as if struck, and Sailor Venus disappeared from his grasp. Above him, floating in midair with Venus in his arms was a man dressed in gi pants, but only a sash across his chest for a shirt. He was a brown skinned man with a Mohawk of black hair.
“Uub, give her a senzu and take care of the others. I’ll get this youma out of the city where we can handle it better.”
Kunzite turned to see a man with a wild mane of black hair wearing a blue gi with orange pants. He stood there with a confidence and bearing that made even a dark lord have second thoughts. “Who are you?”
Goku smiled his lopsided cocky grin. “My name is Goku, and I’m taking your pet elsewhere to deal with him.”
“Ramadan! Kill that one!” Kunzite pointed toward Goku.
The youma turned and ran straight toward the Saiya-Jin. He drew back a punch, but doubled over with an elbow in his stomach. Goku stood back up straight. He put one hand on the youma, and with the other he put two fingers to his head, and they both disappeared.
Everyone just stared as the two vanished into thin air. Pan had come back to her senses just as Goku had shown up. “Grandpa will take care of that one, now only one left.” She turned on the dark lord of the negaverse.
“Maybe later, Saiya-Woman.” He teleported away.
Across the way, Uub put Venus on the ground and force-fed her a senzu bean. She immediately came around, feeling better than she ever had in her life. She opened her eyes to see Uub leaning over her. “Are you okay?” He asked.
Not bad. His hair is a little weird, but he is built like a dream! Venus thought. “I’m fine, who are you.”
Uub looked at her. Weird outfit, but not bad otherwise. “My name is Uub. Goku and I defend the earth from major threats that surface.” The two of them just stared at each other for a little bit.
“A-Hem!” Pan coughed. Everyone turned to the blonde-haired, green-eyed hero. “There are others around here that need to be attended to!”
Uub and Venus blushed. Uub got up and gave the Senshi and Pan beans. After the Senshi were up and around again, they all looked at Pan. Her hair was sticking straight up in the air.
“So that’s why you wear a helmet.” Moon commented.
“Not really.” Pan mumbled. She reached into her costume and handed Moon her Wand. “You might want this.”
Uub straightened up as he remembered something. “That’s right! We need Sailor Moon to rescue the boy!”
“What boy?” Mars asked.
“Ranma. He was transformed into that monster.”
Everyone else’s eyes grew to about three times their normal size and their jaws dropped to the floor. Pan remembered something else. Akane! She reached out with her senses and found Akane’s weak Ki signature. “There’s someone else hurt!” She bolted over to broken store face where Akane was still flat on her face. “Uub! Give me another bean!”
Uub upended his leather pouch, nothing fell out. “We’re out. I gave the last one to you.”
Pan swore under her breath. “We have to take her to Dende right away. Otherwise, she’ll die!”
Uub nodded his head. “You’ll have to take her. I have to take Sailor Moon to Goku so she can heal Ranma.”
Pan carefully rolled Akane over and scooped her up. “Right. I’ll join up with you after I take care of Akane.”
“Right.” Pan flew off toward Kami’s Lookout. Uub walked over to Sailor Moon. “Uhmm…” He scratched his head nervously. “I need to carry you to Goku and Ranma.”
“Okay, just no funny stuff.” She smiled mischievously.
Uub laughed nervously and picked her up in his arms. He started into the air.
“Hey wait!” Venus called out.
Uub turned. “Yes?”
“What’s your phone number?”
The Senshi still on the ground facefaulted.
Meanwhile Pan was intercepted by a Super Saiya-Jin Goten. “What happened? Where’s the fight?”
Pan took a deep breath and explained what had happened. She finished with, “So we need to get Akane up to Dende to be healed, and then we can help grandpa. What took you so long anyway?”
Goten pulled on the orange Ki that he was wearing. “I had to pull this out of mothballs. I couldn’t just show up in my sensei gi, someone may have recognized me.”
Pan shook her head and continued her flight with Goten following.
At that same time, Goku and Ramadan stared at each other in the middle of a desert plain. “Ranma!” Goku called. “Pull yourself back. Fight it!”
Ramadan responded by howling his name and charging at Goku. Goku just barely dodged the assault. “You’re a lot faster in this form, and you’ve already defeated one Super Saiya-Jin. Let’s see how you handle another.” Goku balled up his fists and transformed into his Super Saiya-Jin form. He threw a punch at the youma, but the youma seemed to disappear with the speed that he dodged. Ramadan appeared behind him and tried to drive one of his elbow blades into Goku’s back. Goku dodged in the same manner. They traded hits and misses like that for a while, until finally Goku took to the air and powered up a Ki blast. Ramadan followed him into the air and continued trading blows. Goku landed a punch into Ramadan’s midsection. Ramadan responded by punching Goku in the face.
Goku fell back and dropped into a mid-air stance preparing for the next round. Something dropped onto his sleeve. He looked down and saw his own blood staining his gi. He felt the place where Ramadan had punched him. He felt four cuts in his skin. Amazing! Those crystals managed to break my skin. He is definitely going to be a challenge. It’s a good thing he isn’t using any skill other than blind rage fighting, otherwise he could be a problem. Goku smiled at the prospect of a good fight. He tried to remember that last time he had had this much possibility for fun.
Ramadan charged in to start round two. He rained down punches and kicks on Goku, but none of them landed as Goku deftly dodged all of the blows. Goku lifted his hand blasted the youma in the face with a Ki bolt, knocking him back. Goku charged in and started raining down his own shower of punches. The youma still managed to dodge all of them.
Goku pulled back and collected his thoughts. He may not be skilled, but he’s still fast. Time to take it up a notch.
Elsewhere, Akane opened her eyes to see a green face staring back. “Ahhhh!” She scrambled backward in an awkward crab walk. She bumped into something and looked up at it. It was a fat black man in a turban. “Where am I?”
Mr. Popo helped her to her feet. “You are on Kami’s lookout. Your friends brought you here to heal you. You were hurt badly.”
Everything came back to Akane in a flash. She stood up and grabbed Popo by the lapels of his vest. “Ranma! What happened to him! We have to help him!”
“Ranma will be just fine.” Dende grinned. “Goku and Uub are handling it now.”
“I have to find him!” Akane was starting to cry.
“Don’t worry. We’ll bring him back.”
“What happened to him?”
“He was transformed into a youma by Kunzite, a dark lord of the negaverse. He has no recollection of who he is, and he is more powerful than he has ever been before.”
“What’s a ‘youma’, and where is the ‘negaverse’.”
Dende took a deep breath. “Youma are demons created by the negaverse to do their bidding. They can be either created out of thin air or transformed from humans. The latest trend has been the latter. The negaverse is another universe where evil reigns. They are trying to conquer this one.”
“Why hasn’t Goku handled it yet?”
“Because it’s up to the Sailor Senshi. They have to do it so that they can be strong enough for their future.”
“How do you know all of this?”
Dende smiled and extended his hand. “My name is Dende. I’m the Kami of the Earth.”
Akane fainted.
Pan and Goten walked into the room. Pan saw Akane out on the floor. “I thought she was awake.”
Dende laughed. “She was until I told her my name.”
“You added the title, didn’t you?”
“Yup.”
Pan shook her head. Kami does have a sense of humor. “Well, let’s wake her up.” Just then she and Goten froze. “What was that?” She asked.
Goten turned his head east. “Dad’s gone Super Saiya-Jin two! It’s serious now! We have to get there!”
Akane had been startled awake by outpouring of power. “I’m going too!”
Pan turned to her. “No way! Ranma almost killed you. He may finish the job this time!”
Akane put her hand to her mouth. “Ranma wouldn’t hurt me. Would he?”
“News flash, Akane! He already did!” Pan sighed. “If he was himself, he wouldn’t, but right now he is not. He’s just a creature of pure rage and power. We’ll bring him back. Let’s go, Uncle Goten.”
Goten nodded and the two left Akane with Popo and Dende. Akane turned to Dende. “I have to go! Ranma needs me!”
“Wait two minutes and then you may follow them. Just be careful.”
“I will. Are you really the Kami? I mean, ‘THE Kami’?”
“Yup.”
“Then why couldn’t you stop this from happening?”
“Because it must.”
Akane eyed him suspiciously. “What does that mean?”
“Everything happens for a reason. You’ll see it soon enough.”
“Okay.” Akane started to pace around.
Dende just stood there with an ‘all-knowing’ smile on his face as he counted the seconds. Finally time expired. “Go Akane, and be careful.”
“Yes.” Akane tore out the door and took off in the direction that Goten and Pan had gone.
After she left the room, the smile left Dende’s face. “I hope you’re right about this. I’d hate to see something happen to either one of those kids. You don’t know how hard I’ve been working to get them together.”
A feminine voice came from behind him. “Don’t worry, Kami-Sama. I’ve seen it all and this must happen. Otherwise they’d have no chance of getting together.”
“I’ve trusted your judgment before, I have no choice but to do so again.”
“You are a wise Kami. You will surpass your predecessor someday.”
“Would you quit doing that? You know how much I hate knowing about my own future.”
“That wasn’t a glimpse of the future. That was pure conjecture and observation.”
Dende shook his head and laughed. “Has anyone ever told you that you can be intolerable sometimes?”
The voice laughed with him. “Several times, and I’ll hear it a lot more in the future.”
“Prophecy or conjecture?”
“Both. I must leave now. I need to check on a few things.”
“When will I see you again?”
“In the future.”
Dende could feel the teasing smile coming from behind him. He shook his head and smiled himself. “You truly are a pain, Setsuna.”
“I try.”
Back at the battlefield, Goku had finished his transformation into Super Saiya-Jin Two. “Let’s try this again.” With speed almost doubling what he had before he began to rain blows down on the youma. The youma blocked what he could, but took as many hits as he blocked. Goku was raining down punishment and keeping an eye out for Uub. He should be here with the Moon Princess anytime now.
The youma covered its face with its arms. More crystals sprouted from his forearms. They interweaved with themselves to form a protective shield. Goku tried to punch and kick his way through it, but he couldn’t. Goku backed off and dropped his hands to his side. “Kamehameha!” He launched the blast the shield. The blast impacted the shield and knocked the youma out of the sky, sending him into a mountain.
Inside the mountain the youma stood up and looked around him. He was in a cavern. “Ramadan?”
A sigh was heard to his side. He turned to see a woman with a tail standing there. “They make a perfectly good warrior, but don’t give him the brains to use his powers to the fullest. No wonder they can’t defeat a few little girls.” She motioned for the youma to come closer to her. “Come here and I will give you the power to defeat Goku and avenge my family.” The youma approached, and the woman put a hand on his head. “Your mind will be restored to Saotome Ranma, and all your skills will be restored, but I, Shiver, shall unlock the evil in your heart. You will have no conscience and no tenderness. You will also be completely loyal to me and my goals.” She placed her hand on the beast’s head. A faint glow went out from her hand and engulfed the youma’s head. “Rise, Ranma, and do my bidding.”
The youma stood up straight and had Ranma’s trademark cocky grin on its face. His eyes were red with fire that burned within him. “Yes, my queen. The Saiya-Jin will be destroyed as you order.”
Shiver started to laugh an evil maniacal laugh and faded from sight. The youma turned and peered out the hole that he had made upon impact. “All the Saiya-Jin will be destroyed for what they did to my queen’s husband and son.”