Aftermath (Nabiki and Ranma are sitting down in the shade, drinking water. They're sitting separately today. Kasumi comes to Ranma) Ranma: Thanks for putting on that record. I don't know what would have happened if you hadn't. Kasumi:*I didn't* Thanks but it was just a coincidence. (Kasumi leaves where Ranma is and sits down next to what at first looks like a stuffed Panda) Kasumi: Uncle Saotome, you can stop pretending. I'm glad you did that, but what I'd like to know is why? Panda: Kasumi: But you were happy with it? Panda: Kasumi: I see. Good news though. They've already decided to get married though when is still up in the air. ---------------------------------------- Khu Lon: Xian Pu: Khu Lon: Xian Pu: (Akane and Ukyou cautiously enter the Nekohanten) Khu Lon: I'm not an idiot. I won't betray you. *Yet anyway* Akane: Ranma has declared his love for Nabiki. The rumours are true and the photos are genuine. Shortly afterwards he asked both Ukyou and I to break off our engagements. For a short while it looked as if it was going to spiral off, but they soon made up. Xian Pu: So vot should ve do? Ukyou: The plan that has always worked in the past is kidnap his fiancee. Khu Lon:*Won't be so easy. This is something I didn't want happening.* Okay. Akane will be with Pu, I with Ukyou. Remember Nabiki is dangerous though not a fighter. Xian Pu: Ve vill attempt a vlanking maneoufer. Vonce ve haf Nabiki in our care -expect Ranma to turn up. He is fery determined vith a strong vill. (They leave apparently not noticing the duck under the table. Soon afterwards the duck flies off to try and warn Ranma.) (In the Tendo Dojo Nabiki sits. She hears the door bell.) Nabiki: Okay who is it? Xian Pu: Ve haf special Ranma pickup. Nabiki: Don't you mean ramen. (Akane's mallet hits Nabiki on the back of head.) Akane: I think she got it right. Let's get out of here, Shampoo. (At the school a fight is going on between Ranma and Ryouga. Admittedly it had been set up before hand. But Meiko and Yukio are both looking miserable. Just before the fight ends a duck drops a water balloon on Ryouga and lands near Ranma quacking incessantly) Ranma: Mousse, I can't understand you like that. Meiko, hot water please. Meiko:(whispering)Why do we have to supply free hot water to him? Ranma: I heard that, Meiko.Now, pour it over the duck. (Meiko does so and a fully clothed boy appears and starts shaking her) Mu Tsu: Ranma: Could you turn round and repeat that slowly in Japanese. (Mu Tsu does so.) Ranma: Dammit, I knew it was too good to last. Can't they understand that I love Nabiki. Mu Tsu: It was an inside job. Ranma: Akane, can't she take a hint?(pauses) Forget I asked. (angry) This is going too far. They kidnap a defenceless girl. How could they? Hardly very endearing. (The Nekohanten. Nabiki is locked in the basement behind bars) Nabiki: If I'm not released the tape will go to the council. Khu-Lon: Nice bluff Nabiki. Bluff it is though. You cannot release the tape, until we release you. Nabiki: Akane, kidnapping your own sister, isn't that a little, well, low? Akane: Well, you should know Nabiki, especially taking photos of Ranma against his will. And selling photos of you and him having sex. Nabiki: I didn't sell those photos. My henchwoman did. Xian Pu: Ve belief vat to be the same difference. Nabiki: I might have sold tapes of Akane and Ranma, but me and Ranma forget it. My henchwomen acted on their own and cost me a fortune. Xian Pu: Akane, Now ve vait for Ranma to turn up. Akane: Certainly, bimbo. Xian Pu: At least I didn't sleep vith husbands enemies, slut. Akane: Humph. (The wall blows up. Ryouga and Mousse grab their loves 'rescuing' them. Once the dust has cleared Ranma standing there angrier than he has ever been.) ----------------------------------------