Sonic

*Just Moments Earlier*

"Could the situation get any worse?" asked Emeral as she walked into their yard.

Joe looked up to see a bright light quickly approaching them, "Maybe you shouldn't have said that," he said as the light slammed into the ground filling the entire area with it's energy.

Joe and Emeral braced themselves as the energy passed them, being blocked by a light blue energy shield. When the shockwave passed Emeral looked at Joe, "It was a good idea to use the shards as a protection from MM's curses," she said.

*Flashback*

Emeral and Joe waved goodbye as they left Akane at the front of the Tendo Dojo. Akane waved back and went into her house to give Ranma the Passion Fruit that she received to heal Ranma.

"Ranma," called Akane as she entered his room, "I have something here that will make you feel better."

Ranma's face turned pale at the thought, "That's ok Akane, I'm fine," he said trying to keep himself away from her Cooking.

Akane glared at Ranma, "It's Fruit you idiot, so stop acting like that," she said throwing the fruit at Ranma, which smashed into his eye. Ranma removed the fruit from his eyes just as Akane gave an "ump" and walked away.

Ranma eyed the fruit for a moment, then decided Akane was only trying to make him feel better, "What the hell," he said eating the fruit. When he finished he looked around, "That was pretty good," he said, "Maybe I should apologize to Akane when I see her again." As he said this, Ranma felt his strength return, and remarkably the puncture marks on his skin vanishing, "What kind of fruit did she give me anyways," he thought being a bit surprised.

*At Emeral's house*

Emeral and Joe sat at the kitchen table drinking some Prometheus nectar that Emeral had made, while Emily and Jeremy where out of the house, probably up to no good.

"How many more shards do you think are left," said Joe finishing his drink.

"Hard to say, but judging from the shapes of the shards we found, I say about 15 or 16 more shards are left to find," replied Emeral.

The two began to think of a quicker way to locate the shards when the karma of the town changed to that of fear and panic.

"Damn, now what?" asked Joe as they ran out of the house to the main shopping street.

When they got there, they found a Scion force terrorizing the town, firing Arc Cannons, Gauss Guns, and seekers.

"What the Devil," said Emeral was an Arc Cannon slammed into a girl, changing her into a Sabre.

"How in the world did MM learn about bio-metal?" asked Joe.

About now a few Sentry's had noticed Joe and Emeral and began to position themselves in such away that stray shots would most likely hit them. They began to open fire at the ISDF Force that also positioned themselves near the two, which grabbed Joe's attention. Wasting no Time, Joe picked up Emeral and teleported them out of danger from the assault and on top of the High School's clock.

"That was close," said Joe placing Emeral down.

Emeral looked around, "The situation has gotten more...Complicated," she said.

About this time, Emeral noticed Happosai who was fighting a bulldog assault tank. As the two watched as a mortar, followed by a Plasma shot, nailed him. Emeral noticed the shots were causing curses, and that each additional curse doubled in strength. As the two began to think of what this meant, they picked a massive blast of anger from Ryoga, which quickly disappeared. Thinking Ryoga had somehow done a 'self-destruct', the two ran over to where they last sensed Ryoga, to find a residual dimension disturbance.

"Could Ryoga have phased out of this dimension?" asked Joe.

"Very possible," said Emeral looking around for a dimension hole, but not finding one.

After pondering for a while, Joe and Emeral picked up a signal coming from some scavengers near by. Deciding they better take a look, the two cautiously moved to the site of the scavengers when they heard incoming AT-staber's coming right from behind.

Shocked to the fact that they didn't sense any tanks near by, the two turned around quickly and dodged all but one shot. Seeing that they weren't going to be able to dodge the last two shots, they placed their hands out erecting a quantum barrier to block the shot. The two AT-stabs smashed into both Emeral's and Joe's barrier, which proved to do no damage to them. As the tanks stood there for a moment as if they were stunned at the shield, Joe and Emeral took the initiative to escape to another area of town.

"What should we do know?" asked Joe, "We can't just attack these forces, seeing how some of them might actually be people."

"I agree," said Emeral, "I'm sure I feel a centralized power source somewhere in town, but I can't localize it, let alone identify it."

Joe sighed, "Every time we start finding more shards, MM has to pull off something li....." said Joe as his voice trailed off.

Emeral looked at Joe in concern, as Joe placed his hand on his throat, finding he could no longer speak. But it didn't take him long to notice a large nasty pimple pop up on Emeral's face, which he stared at in concern.

Emeral blinked blankly, "Why you staring at me like that?" she asked.

Joe placed his hand out, as blue energy came out and materialized into a small mirror, which he put up in front of Emeral, "This," he said telepathically.

Emeral stared at the mirror for a moment as she attempted to change her appearance, but finding it stuck on her face she gave a scream, "My Quantum Perfection!" she cried placing her hand on the pimple, "This is just totally unacceptable, I have to find a way to cure this at once"

Joe fell backwards onto the ground, then getting back up, "Hey! We have more important things to worry about right now," he said telepathically.

Emeral placed her index finger on her upper lip, "Oops, you're right. Sorry about that." she said.

Just then a battle between the Scions and EDF came around the corner, which got Joe and Emeral's attention.

"We better find a quiet spot," said Emeral as the two teleported out of sight.

*A Bit Latter*

"It would appear that these cursed weapons of MM can go through our defenses and curse us," said Emeral sitting on a tree branch.

Joe nodded, "This is indeed bad, we can't fight back nor protect ourselves with shields," he said looking up at Emeral, but being shocked to see the Pimple had disappeared. Joe immeditly tried to talk, but found he couldn't talk, which made no sense to why Emeral's curse would go away yet his wouldn't.

Emeral who was reading Joe's thoughts placed her hand on her cheek, "You're right, it is odd that my curse would suddenly go away," she said, "We both have equal defensive and immune power, the only thing that really differs from us is the shards I'm carrying."

Joe's eyes widen, "That's it, the shards are countering MM's curse!" he yelled telepathically.

Emeral thought about it, "You know, you're right, and if we manipulate the remaining harmonic energy inside the shards, we might be able to create a defensive shields against MM's attack force." she said taking out 4 shards and handing them to Joe, not realizing one of them was the fake one. "Judging by how MM's curses double in strength, I say each shard will protect us from one shot. If we take 4 shots, the shield will fail, and we will be susceptible to the curses again."

Joe nodded as he placed the shards into the skin of his wrist, "Lets just hope we don't need the shields and be fine on dodging."

*Back in Real-Time*

"Looks like the three forces are retreating for the night," said Joe telepathically to Emeral as Jeremy and Emily came in.

Emeral eyed Jeremy who had a tail, just as Joe saw an egg pop out of Emily. "You're father allowed you two to be cursed?" asked Emeral.

"Well DUH," said Emily a bit mad, as she stormed into her room.

Joe looked at Jeremy who shook his head indicating he wanted to be alone for a while, as he went into his room. Emeral looked at Joe with an worried expression, then looked in the direction of the Tendo's.

"Lets see how Akane and Ranma are doing," she said getting up.

Joe smiled, "You're worried about those two," he said following her.

*At The Tendo's*

Akane was up sitting at the table, a bit weak, but happy to be with next to Ranma, which made Ranma a bit confused. Kasumi had turned in early, totally confused to why she had forgotten how to cook, while Nabiki had prepared dinner. Soun was busy calculating his current financial affairs while Genma took the opportunity to cheat on their game. Just as Nabiki placed down the rice on the table, a knock came from the door.

"I'll go get it," said Nabiki running to the door, and letting Emeral and Joe in. "Akane, it's Emeral-chan and Neutron-kun."

Akane smiled, "Please come on it," she called being a bit too weak to get up to great them.

Emeral and Joe came in and gave the traditional Japanese welcome as they sat down and began to talk about the odd day. Emeral talked with each of the members of the family, except for Kasumi who was fast asleep, finding out about each of their curses. She also explained that Joe was unable to speak thanks to the curses.

It was about this time Emeral noticed Akane sight had been 'modified' since she was looking at everyone a bit differently, especially Ranma, "Akane, is your eye sight ok?" she asked.

Akane blushed, "Well I can't see anything but people, animals, the attacking forces, my mallet and a strange sphere of blue and dark energy." she said.

By this time, Emeral had a good idea of what Akane could and could not see, including the factor of clothing, as Akane always blushed when looking at Ranma. She then turned her attention to this sphere Akane mentioned, "A Sphere?" she asked.

Akane nodded, "I see a sphere of energy near the center of town, in the air," she said.

Joe looked at Emeral, "That must be the central power source," replied Joe telepathically.

"Well we better eat before the food gets cold," said Nabiki as she placed a serving of Rice in front of Akane.

Akane just stared, "I can't see the food," she said.

"Would you like me to help you," asked Emeral.

"No, that's ok, I would rather have Ranma help me," she said leaning on Ranma's side which freaked him out.

"Why me? Wouldn't it be better if Emeral or Nabiki helped you?" he asked.

Akane gave a puppy beg look to Ranma, "Please Ranma, would you do this, for me?" she asked

Everyone sorta stared at this, as Akane never acted lovingly to Ranma, at least not in public or in front of the other family members. Ranma blushed, and then nodded as he picked up the bowl and began to feed Akane.

*A little later...*

"Thanks for the food," said Akane trying to get up, "I think I'll take a bath now" she said feeling her way around to the hall.

"Akane, you'll hurt yourself if you try to take a bath," said Emeral, "I'll come with you," she said just as she realized what Akane was thinking.

"That's ok Emeral," said Akane turning to Ranma, "Ranma, will you please help me?"

Ranma completely freaked at this and turned around with his face beat red, "WHAT? WHAT DID YOU SAY?" he yelled seeing Akane giving a gentle smile.

The rest of the family just stared, as Nabiki dropped her chopsticks in shock, and Genma dropped the board piece he was using to cheat.

Akane just stared back, looking at Ranma, "I'm your fiancé after all," she said with kind eyes, "So please help me."

Ranma being embarrassed as he was, got up and helped Akane to the washroom where he wanted to talk, "What is with you?" asked Ranma a bit worried.

Akane began to undress which was freaking Ranma more and more, "Nothing is wrong silly," she said smiling, "I've just decided to stop hiding my true feelings from you and myself."

Akane finished undressing and began to feel around for the door to the bath. Ranma walked over and opened the door and went to the sink, "Well, If I'm going to help you," he said blushing, "I better take a female form" splashing cold water on himself then walking back to Akane and helping her to the seat in front of the shower head.

Akane sat down with her cheeks a bit blushed as Ranma, with his cheeks blushed as well, took out the shampoo and began to wash her hair. When he was finished, he sprayed down Akane and aided her into the tub where she began to stare at him with sparking eyes. Ranma looked back into her eyes with compassion and love, and slowly the two started to come together for kiss, despite Ranma being in his female form.

Just moments before 'the kiss', a small sound was heard from the window, which grabbed Akane's attention. She turned around to instantly see Genma and Soun who appeared to be holding something. It didn't take her long to figure out they were recording their kiss with a high tech digital camcorder with advance zooming on the nearby fence. Akane screamed as she covered herself as Ranma jumped out the window screaming at their fathers.

Emeral and Joe were sitting on the back porch, "Those idiots," said Emeral, "They want those two together, yet they do things that delays that from happening."

Joe nodded in reply as he pointed his index finger at the digital camera, releasing a quick small electrical discharge, which erased the memory of the camera. Emeral then walked up, "Ranma, you better not leave Akane alone," she said cracking her knuckles, "Just leave these perverts to me."

Ranma looked at Emeral for a moment, then nodded and returned to the bath as Emeral smiled at Soun and Genma who were wondering what Emeral was about to do. Emeral just smiled and quickly disappeared from their sight. Soun and Genma looked around wondering where the heck Emeral went, not realizing she only took a soft step around them and was now attacking the two with a 'Blue Dragon Upper Cut' which launched them into the sky, and into the pond.

Emeral just smacked her hands up and down, "That will teach you to mess with love," she said walking away from the spiral eyed Soun and Genma-Panda.

"Don't you think you over did it a bit?" asked Joe telepathically.

Emeral giggled, "Maybe, but I just couldn't stand those two delaying Ranma and Akane from relaying their true feelings to each other."

Back in the bath, Ranma started to help Akane get dress, as they were now to embarrassed to try and kiss each other again. Having her pajamas on, Akane held onto Ranma-chan's arm, as she helped her upstairs and into her bed.

"Ranma," said Akane as he began to leave.

"What is it?" responded Ranma.

"Thank you, what you did means allot to me," she said smiling.

Ranma blushed, then walked away before he embarrassed himself any further.

*Wednesday Morning, just before sunrise*

Nabiki had gotten up early to go cook breakfast, which still confused her to how she could cook. As she passed Ranma and Genma's room, she noticed the door was open slightly, and decided to take a look. When she looked inside, she was shocked to find Akane cuddled by Ranma who was still asleep. Somehow that night, Akane had managed to get out of her room, and find her way into Ranma's room.

Nabiki took a closer looked and noticed a few bumps on her head, "That idiot," she said going to get the camera, but decided breakfast was more important. However, before she left, she took another look at Ranma, "He seems so handsome there, too bad I'm not his fiancé," she said walking off.

Soon after Nabiki left, Soun walked by and spotted the same thing and grinned. He quickly got the camera and took a few snap shots, "This will make a perfect persuasion for Ranma sometime," he said chuckling to himself on how rich he could get.

*Meanwhile*

Jeremy was up and about the kitchen when Emeral and Joe walked in, "Good Morning," said Emeral, since Joe still couldn't talk.

"Good morning you two," said Jeremy walking to the fridge, "Do we have any eggs?" he asked.

"If there isn't any in the fridge, then I guess we don't' have any," replied Emeral.

"Well in that case," said Jeremy walking to Emily's room.

Joe and Emeral titled their heads to what he was doing, and suddenly heard a bit of an argument followed by Emily chasing Jeremy, who now had some eggs, with her mallet.

"Come back her BROTHER!" yelled Emily swinging her mallet but destroying the wall instead.

"Chill sis," said Jeremy, "In thanks for these Grade A brown Chicken Eggs, I'll make you a chocolate Cheese Cake," he said smiling.

Emily stared at him, trying to stay mad, but couldn't resist the thought of Jeremy's chocolate cheesecake. Jeremy smiled at Emily cooling down, and proceeded to fry the eggs.

Joe just stared at the two before looking back at Emeral, "Very Complicated Sister/Brother Complex," he said telepathically.

Emeral nodded as she took a sip of her Prune Juice, "Indeed," she replied in telepathy.

*After sun rise*

The three bases became fully active at the first sign of the sun, and instantly began building attack forces and sending the previous ones from yesterday out to battle. Within a few minutes, a scion drone team and an headon Zeus team had engaged in battle on the street with the Tendo Residence and Emeral's house.

The battle was going fairly well, since each force dodged the other allowing their shots to hit the near by houses and yards, with high probability of cursing people. As a stray shot slammed into the pond of the Tendo's back yard where Kasumi was sitting at, the fish in the bond grew exponentially in size and began to fly around like the air was water.

Ranma, being a bit scared of finding Akane with him in bed, had just helped Akane downstairs when they noticed the battle going on. Ranma was just about to jump out and try to knock the force away, when Rose and Sonic showed up, both in their alternate forms (White/Blue Hair), but no visor was on their face, "Wait Ranma, we have a better plan," cried Rose looking at Ranma. For reasons unknown to her, she felt attracted for a moment and blushed, but quickly shook it off, "As I was saying..." she continued.

After a few minutes of explanation, Rose had explained to Ranma and Akane that their was a centralized power source, and that Akane was able to see it. Having said that, they decided to go off to destroy the power source, and save the town. To bad it was easier said then done...

Dodging chain rounds here, and Rave Guns there, Ranma, Akane, Rose and Sonic navigated towards the building in the center of town. Just as they were at the home stretch, two Rocket Tanks had locked on an Advance Shadower Missile, which were homing in on the group. Not having much time, Rose and Sonic blocked the two missiles with their shields, which lowered their defencive abilities.

"Damn, I was hopping we didn't have to do that," said Rose looking at her wrists where the shards were.

"What's wrong," asked Ranma a bit curious to their expressing.

"The weapons that these tanks fire can curse us," answered Rose, "We found a way to shield ourselves from it, but with each hit, our shield weakens."

Sonic looked at the rocket tanks than signaled the group to quickly take cover so the shadower missiles couldn't lock on to them again. Fleeing to another street, Ranma stopped cold when he saw his mother walking down the street. Without saying a word, Ra nma quickly punched a nearby hose nossle and changed into female form, which also changed his clothes into a green skirt, a white short sleeve shirt, green sandals, and a white ribbon in her hair.

Nodoka didn't notice Ranma right away as she was busy keeping an eye out for attacking tanks, but soon saw Ranma-chan up ahead. "Ranma!" she called running up happy to see her.

A big chill blast down his spine at the words "Ranma", which also freaked Akane out, "She knows who you are," said Akane.

"Ranma, I've been looking all over for you my daughter," she said catching her breath.

Ranma was just about to collapse from fear when he realized his mother called him 'Daughter'. Akane, Rose and Sonic also noticed this, and were considering if this had something to do with a curse.

"What are you doing out here in a time like this anyways. You should be home in bridal training, after all, that's why I'm here, to oversee your training in the housewife duties." she said.

Ranma-chan's face turned pal as her eyes rolled back and she fainted onto the ground. Akane just stared at what Aunt Nodoko had just said.

"Yep, she's cursed," said Rose placing her hands in front of Nadoko's face, knocking her out into a nice sleep, then teleporting her to the Tendo's House.

After waking Ranma-chan up, the gang finally made it to the building, to find 3 keyholes in the door. Rose began to feel around the holes, and then nodded to Sonic who powered up a Quantum Strike attack, which didn't even scratch the paint of the building.

"Looks like we can't blast our way in," said Rose looking back at the keyholes. "If I didn't know better, I say each race might have a base in this town which holds a key."

"But where are the bases," asked Sonic telepathically, "I can't sense any nearby."

Rose looked around, "Well all the units did retreat at night fall, maybe we should follow them tonight," replied Rose.

Akane looked at the two, "Why are you talking to yourself Rose?" she asked.

Rose looked up, "Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention Sonic and I are telepathically linked," she said, "But I think we better get back to the dojo and discuss how to proceed."

Ranma and Akane agreed, and followed Rose and Sonic as they began their way back home not realizing that they were about to run into trouble. MM had been watching from his mirror, and was impressed with Rose's ingenuity in protecting them from his curses. So he picked up his remote, and accessed the AI Plan for the three races, adding a new plan to attack Sonic's gang. After submitting the plans, he sat back waiting for the fireworks to begin.

Back at the ISDF base, the constructor went to work building an additional two bomber bays, while the factory spit out several Sabre's as the Recycler made some scouts. The Scion base constructed several Lancers and Sentry's to aid in the assault with the ISDF. As for the Hedeans, they built a fleet of Locus and added some 'cherries' to the cake by sending some Kazmi Torpedoes as well.

As the gang walked down the market street when Akane noticed three rather large air ship moving towards them. Rose noticed Akane's thoughts and knew they were in trouble.

"Take cover!" she yelled pushing Akane and Ranma to the side, just as the three drop ships flew over head, dropping all three attack forces onto the ground who wasted no time in opening fire. Sonic pulled out his key, which instantly transformed into his sword, and began knocking back shots. Unlike Tommy's sword, Sonic's was designed to repel any type of harmful attack or curse. Rose wasted no time in deploying her key into her wand, and trying to neutralize the engines of the attacking force with sealing magic blasts from her wand, since some of the force could actually be people, but her attempts were proving not very effective.

After a few moments, the attack forces had gotten smarter, and began to synchronize their shots which made it harder for Sonic to knock them back, while Rose found her attack becoming totally useless. Finally she made a mistake and tried to push back some of the attack force with wind magic. Ranma saw this and tried to warn her, but it was too late, as the wind passed through the units not affecting them, and leaving her wide open to an Arc Cannon.

Rose flew back from the blast, as her shield weakened even further and slammed into the building, unconscious. Sonic took a look back at Rose, and began enraged at the attack force. Sonic took a larger grip at his sword and placed it infront of him. MM noticed that a g-force like energy was begging to form at the base of the blade where it meet the handle. Suddenly the energy shot up the blade, enlarging it to twice it size, and giving in a small curve shape.

The attack force weren't impressed by this power, and began to open fire again just as the Bombers came into site ready to drop their "Cherry Bombs" on Sonic. Sonic gave a howl as he pulled his blade back and began to swing, "Sonic Blade!" he cried telepathically which even Akane and Ranma were even able to hear. As the blade swung through the air, a G-Force spherical shockwave emitted from the blade and blasted at the attack force, knocking all their weapons out into the sky and sending all of them on a one way trip into space. Just as the last scout however began to lift off, it fired a cold fusion laser, which made it past Sonic's Attack, blasted him and destroying his shield.

Back to the American Scientists...

"Good God, Now what!" cried Frank, "What the hell is this!"

The scientists looked at the screen from the Hubble Telescope showing a massive attack force blasting into space and puncturing subspace forming a wormhole.

"Don't look at me," said Joe, "I didn't do anything this time."

On an M-class Planet 65,000 light years away from earth...

The wormhole opened spraying the attack force on the planet, which was being observed by a Research team from a near by planet investigating the possibility of colonizing there.

"Damn, someone beat us to it," said the alien.

"Shit, there goes my raise," replied another.

The research team were just starting to turn around, when one of the Kazmi torpedoes had hit an asteroid sending it off course and exploding into the research ship. Instantly the entire Alien race found themselves looking like Elvis, and were even singing and dancing like him.

Back on Earth...

Sonic fell to the ground catching his breath when he began to hear applause from above one of the buildings. He looked only to find 10 Figures that looked like MM applauding and holding signs, saying "Perfect 10", except for one that said "9.5". Sonic sorta smiled, figuring he actually earned some respect from the old goat, only to see them turn their signs around that formed, "Now, can you do that again in 2 hours?"

Sonic looked in horror for a moment, before his eyes rolled back, and he fell onto the ground, while 9 of the MM's disappeared, and the real one standing there laughing before vanishing.

"Was That MM?" asked Akane, who didn't see the signs but saw the old men in their cloaks, as she looked at Rose and Sonic who were both knocked out.

"I say he fits the description," said Ranma, "Especially with the message he relayed with those signs. And if there are that many of him, I say we are in deep water."

"Signs? What Signs?" asked Akane with a confused look.