Hi, This little bit takes place between chapters 7 and 8. It should also have a mild lime warning, I guess. Disclaimer time: Rumiko Takahashi, Shogagukan, Kitty and Viz Communications own Ranma 1/2. Hideaki Anno, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Gainax and ADV Films own Neon Genesis Evangelion. I'd like to thank my pre-readers, Dave Menard, James Merritt, Scott Farrow and Thomas Hackwood, for their help with this. Corwin (ely7@inter.net.il or corwin@virtuallyjeannie.com) http://www.virtuallyjeannie.com/ranma.html (What's the point in having a domain if you don't use it? ^_^) * Previous chapters can also be found at: http://members.xoom.com/phu_lam/index.htm http://home.earthlink.net/~tannim/rfics.html http://ranmaxovers.tripod.com A Couple of Angels Chapter 7b "Are you feeling better?" Rei asked Ranma, as the latter woke up. "I guess. Nothing like sleeping for a day after depleting your ki reserves," Ranma replied, shrugging. "Ki reserves?" Rei asked, blinking. "Yep. You know..." The Angel alarm sounding in Nerv cut Ranma's explanation short. Rei and Ranma quickly ran towards the dressing room, meeting Asuka halfway. "Looks like we get to beat the crap out of another Angel," Asuka said, slapping her friends on their backs. Rei only smirked in response. It wasn't a nice smirk. -------------------------------------------------- The EVAs were launched directly into the GeoFront, as the Eighth Angel has already penetrated all of its protective layers by the time the pilots were ready. "Hold, abomination! For I am the Pretty Plug-Suited Pilot, Fourth Child..." "...Second Child of the Sun..." "...First Child of the Moon..." "And in the name of Nerv, we will punish you!" the trio finished together, posing heroically. While most of Nerv's employees actually thought that to be one of the silliest things they've ever seen, they had enough common sense not to laugh at mentally unbalanced children piloting gigantic mecha and just cheered for them instead. "And I," a new arrival shouted, appearing behind the dynamic trio, "am Doormat Kamen! The sworn protector of Cute Chicks everywhere!" As the girls in the Evangelions looked slightly ill as their teammate's stupidity, the Angel had an entirely different reaction. With a shout of "Hubba Hubba!" Happosai jumped towards the purple Evangelion with his arms outstretched. Shinji shrieked not unlike his school's Principal during that time one red-head decided to get fresh with his microphone, and desperately erected an AT field around his Unit. The perverted little Angel passed through the AT field as if it weren't even there, and started groping EVA 01's chest in various places, exclaiming, "That's the stuff!" every once in a while. The pilot of Unit 01 grimaced inside his entry plug, and wished for the umpteenth time Dr. Akagi had disconnected the neural connection between him and the EVA. Never before in his life had he ever felt so... violated. Sighing, Ranma opened a channel to her fellow pilots. "Looks like we get to save him once again..." "Holy perverts, Wonder Girl. You're right!" Asuka agreed, ready for action. Rei added, "It's time for... Girl Power!" Lifting their progressive knives to the Heavens, the pilots shouted in perfect synchrony, "EVA Girl Power, Make Up!" Tacky lights flashed all over the GeoFront, mesmerizing everyone except for the Angel that kept fondling Unit 01. From the light show emerged three EVAs, that while looking exactly the same as before their transformation were definitely much more powerful than previously. "All together now, just like I told you!" Ranma shouted over the com. "Fireball!" Three huge fireballs emerged from the EVAs, heading directly for the Angel. Happosai did a quick run over Unit 01's chest and bounded away at the last moment. At that moment the girls understood the fatal flaw in their attack. Namely, the unprepared purple Evangelion standing dumbly in the path of the blasts. Paling, Shinji tried gathering as much power as he could into his EVA's AT field, when he noticed a slight draft. Looking down through the EVA's eyes, he was shocked to find out that the Evangelion's breastplate was gone. Unfortunately, it was a bad moment for him to be shocked and lose his concentration over the AT field he was trying to erect against the incoming blasts... After a flashy explosion worthy of a couple of N2 mines, the three remaining pilots were speechless, until Ranma exclaimed, "Oh my God! We killed Shinji!" "You bastards!" Misato shouted over the com, nearing tears. 'Now I'll have to cook by myself! And... and the cleaning duties...' The purple-haired Major promptly fainted, caught by Kaji just before she could hit the floor. Kaji stole a quick feel as his reward, making Makoto insanely jealous. Unperturbed by these events, Rei continued to stare into one direction, muttering something about 'pretty colors' occasionally. "Gals! Pull yourself together! You still have an Angel to fry!" Ritsuko yelled, bringing everyone down to Earth. "But... but what about that perverted, spineless, idiotic, no-good Shinji?!" Asuka exclaimed, pointing towards the still smoking piece of rubble that was once Evangelion Unit 01. "He was a wimp. And I always liked Rei better, myself," Commander Ikari spoke, getting everyone's attention. "Proceed with your mission, Pretty Pilots!" Everyone in the control room once again cheered as the remaining trio of EVAs saluted and ran off in hot pursuit of the Eighth Angel, that was hopping all over the GeoFront with Unit 01's breastplate over his back, shouting, "What a haul!" in glee. -------------------------------------------------- "Girls, we have to stop it from reaching Terminal Dogma, or all hope is lost!" Ranma announced to her teammates over the com system. "You don't mean... the Third Impact?!" Asuka gasped. "Precisely, oh Fiery One. And if that pervert has his way and creates Third Impact, that'd be the end of all humanity," Ranma replied emotionally. "What are we waiting for, then?" Asuka shouted, running after Happosai with her progressive knife. "Wait, Asuka, this could be a tra..." Ranma tried to warn her friend, but she didn't even finish the sentence as a huge tentacle shot out and grabbed EVA 02's left leg, causing it to fall on its belly unceremoniously. Back in the command center, Ritsuko fretted over her terminal, that started showing a second Blue Pattern. Happosai coughed into his fist, gaining everyone's attention. "I promised Pantyhose..." The monster let out a series of angry grunts and growls, interrupting the pervert. "Ahem. I promised PANTYHOSE that I'd change his name if he took care of you. Have fun playing with him, my darling Ranma-chan!" Having said that, the shrunken old Angel bounded further into the GeoFront, headed towards Terminal Dogma. Ranma immediately tried to follow him, only to be intercepted by a tentacle that grabbed her EVAs chest. Shrieking in surprise, the red-head started hacking at the offending appendage with her EVAs progressive knife, reducing the aforementioned tentacle into fine paste. "Rei, Asuka, let's attack it together! Everyone grab a group of tentacles and start chopping them down!" "Tentacles..." "Not now, Rei." -------------------------------------------------- "Man, that was one tough tentacled monster!" Asuka commented, wiping the sweat off her brow. That she was immersed in LCL and couldn't really have any sweat on her brow to wipe never occurred to the red-head. "Hey, that was nothing! Miko Mido... now there's a girl that deals with really tentacled monsters," Ranma said, smirking. "Miko Mido? I don't think I've heard about her," Asuka replied, scrunching her nose. "She is from a hentai anime," Rei answered, as her EVA passed the other two, going towards Terminal Dogma. Ranma thought about it, and then opened a channel to the control room. "Hey, Rit-chan... Did you put something... funny... in Rei's LCL?" "Funny? What do you mean, Ranko?" Dr. Akagi replied, genuinely confused. "Well, you know... extra oxygen, hallucinogenics, switch it for LSD... that kind of stuff." "Umm... no." "Are you sure?" Ranma asked, squinting her eyes. "Pretty sure," Ritsuko answered, nodding. She hazarded a glance at Maya, who nodded as well. "Oh, ok. Forget about it, then." Shrugging, Ranma made her EVA run towards Terminal Dogma, Asuka following her closely behind. -------------------------------------------------- "Oh my God!" "Gott in Himmel!" Turning to look at each other, Ranma and Asuka saw only confusion on each other's faces. "Why is there a giant, naked Rei on a cross here?" they both shouted at the same time, once the initial shock wore off. Unfortunately, Lilith wasn't alone. The small, perverted Angel was floating in front of her, exactly between her breasts. "No! We have to stop him!" Rei, who was still in Unit 00 shouted to her teammates. "Rei! How come you're both here and there?" Ranma asked in confusion. "Yeah! And why are you naked there? I know not a lot of people come here, but still..." Asuka pitched in. "That's not me!" Rei answered angrily. Looking over the giant Rei's body very thoroughly, Ranma said, smirking, "Could've fooled me." "Hmph!" "Oh, come on, Rei! Don't be like that!" The blue-haired girl pointedly turned away from the monitor showing Ranma's face. Her EVA turned away from Units 02 and 03 as well. In the meanwhile, Happosai used the pilots' disarray to latch on to Lilith's left breast and nuzzle it. Warning lights started flashing all over the GeoFront immediately, getting all the pilots' attention immediately. "What's happening?" Asuka cried out, as the whole construct shook. "Oh, no! We're too late!" Rei exclaimed in shock. "The little pervert started Third Impact!" Lilith's right hand came off the cross, and slapped Happosai, who was caught unaware. Since Lilith was enormous, and Happosai quite tiny, it smashed him like a fly. Freeing the rest of her body from the cross, Lilith glared at the spot in LCL where Happosai's remains have fallen, and then at Ranma in her EVA. Using both her hands to cover her nakedness, she initiated a shockwave, that spread throughout the entire world at enormous speed, and disappeared. -------------------------------------------------- "Wha... what happened?" Ranma asked, gaping. "Third Impact," Rei answered matter-of-factly. "But... but I thought it was the end of the world or something..." "Or something," Rei answered, smirking. "Lilith..." "You mean that giant Rei?" "It was Lilith!!!" Rei shouted, before getting a hold of herself. "Anyway, she turned everyone in the world into women." "So?" Rei stared at Ranma through the com. "Oh. You mean, it really is the end of humanity, 'cause there's no one left to... to..." "Yep," Rei answered, nodding. Ranma noticed that Asuka had yet to say anything about the whole End-Of- The-World thing, and turned to look for her. Gazing sadly at what remained of Unit 02, Ranma shook her head. 'It must've hurt to be crushed by that giant cross...' "So, Rei... what now?" "Well, the world as we know it ends with the current generation. And we're also out of a job." "Since you put it that way..." Ranma threw her hands up in the air. "Wanna have hot, lesbian sex with me?" Rei shrugged, and accepted. Ordering their EVAs to eject the entry plugs, both pilots quickly exited the EVAs and jumped down into the sea of LCL. "I don't understand why that Angel wanted to cause Third Impact," Rei said, as she was getting out of her plug suite. "Ah, the old pervert probably wanted to have a whole world full of pretty ladies," Ranma answered nonchalantly, tearing away her own plug suit. 'Not that I'll ever need it...' "So, where do you wanna do it?" Ranma asked, her eyes roaming all over Rei's naked body. "Inside an EVA, on that cross, in the control room... on Commander Ikari's desk?" "Been there, done that," Rei replied in a bored tone of voice. Suddenly, her eyes lit up. "How about a hot, greasy, slippery sapphic relationship in the LCL? I'll let you ride my joystick! You'll love it!" Shrugging, Ranma said, "Sure!" and grabbed Rei in a deep kiss, rubbing her back passionately. Ranma almost lost herself in all the new sensations her body was registering, when she noticed that Rei was calling her name... -------------------------------------------------- "Yeah?" Ranma asked weakly, blinking a few times. When the image in front of her cleared, Ranma found herself staring directly into Rei's face. Noticing their proximity, Ranma blushed furiously, and asked the other girl shakily, "What happened?" "You were making strange sounds and calling my name. I decided to wake you up." Ranma groaned internally, and wanted to smack herself. Of course Rei wouldn't want to have hot, lesbian sex with her! Realizing what she was thinking about, Ranma blushed even stronger than previously. "You seem flushed. Are you alright? Should I call Dr. Akagi?" Rei asked, stepping away from Ranma's bed. "NO!" Ranma cried out in panic, before seeing that she was startling Rei and calming down. Taking a few deep breaths, she put the meditation techniques she knew to good use, and informed Rei that there was no need to call anyone. Rei nodded, and sat back in her chair by Ranma's bed. A few minutes later, Ranma's curiosity got the better of her. "Rei... I do feel funny... is that because of the LCL?" "Dr. Akagi said that they had to give you a lot of drugs to stabilize your condition. Some of them might have had side effects." "Side effects? Like making me hallucinate and stuff?" "Did you hallucinate?" Rei asked, looking at the red-head. "Umm..." Ranma desperately thought for an excuse. 'If I say yes, then she'll ask me about the dreams! What to do, what to do...' Fortunately for the red-head, she didn't have to lie to Rei. The blue- haired girl's phone rang, and she answered it, saying 'yes' a few times before terminating the call. Standing up, she turned to look at Ranma and said, "I have to go. Major Katsuragi wishes to discuss something with me." As Rei walked out of the door, Ranma let out a sigh and slumped back into the hospital bed. Left alone, she contemplated out loud, "Rei wouldn't want to have hot lesbian sex with me... would she?" Outside the door to Ranma's room, Shinji, who'd come to wish her well, passed out with a massive nosebleed. -------------------------------------------------- End of Chapter 7b. --