Aaaaction!

[wildhorse]

Who: Ranma Saotome, some macho chick Akane Tendo, and YOU!
When: 3/27
Where: Genessia City, outside a random archway from the Bay
What: Two lost and confused newcomers and possible harbingers of the Nerima apocalypse arrive.

As was all-too-common in Genessia these days, two people were standing under the arch leading to the Bay. One of them was a red-headed girl with waterlogged shoes, who was looking around with all the open-jawed shock of a tourist fresh off the boat. She glanced down several times at the paperwork in her hand, then at her companion, then at the surrounding buildings. Words seemed to be failing her.

Finally, after what seemed like a long, long few seconds, Ranma spoke. "Wow. So this must be what it's like to be Ryoga."

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[wildhorse]

There was no way that last batch of cookies Akane made didn't involve a trip to the hardware store. Ranma refused to believe it! But how to handle this diplomatically? This was going to take every ounce of social skill she had picked up from her father.

...oh. Crap.

"Akane, do you remember what happened the last time you tried to make dinner? The alleged yakisoba?"

[tomboytendo]

JUST because the cookies were a TINY bit hard (and doubled as a lethal weapon) didn't mean she used something like cement in it! GOD Ranma!

Arms are folding, her posture shifting into the 'I'm going to deck you one' stance. "That's not going to happen again." For one, Happosai's shenanigans aren't here. But uh. That's not to say something worse might not happen.

She may recreate the Blob (Tm).

[wildhorse]

"And the ramen before that? And the sukiyaki?" How did you even mess that up, anyway? "Or the curry rice?"

Ranma folded her arms over her chest. "Look, all I'm sayin' is, the last thing we need is for somebody to get sick around here. Let me worry about the food, alright? I can at least make ramen."

...yeah, Ranma, that wasn't diplomatic. Like at all.

[tomboytendo]

Ever see one of those cartoon timebombs with the numbers slowly dialing down until it hits 0 and then kerboom?

Think of Akane as that time bomb.

Only her fuse was much much shorter. It starts at 10, and then hits 0 the minute Ranma opens his mouth. "I'm NOT going to get people sick you JERK! You haven't even TRIED anything I've made recently!"

He was too busy running away, or getting stuffed at Nekohanten or Ucchans.

beware of short tag

[wildhorse]

"Because I want to live!" Ranma blurted out. As usual, her mouth managed to run ahead of her brain. That...probably wasn't how she wanted to say that.

No YOU beware ... AKANE.

[tomboytendo]

... As usual, Ranma had to say something to make things worse. He could have salvaged the situation with some quick adjusting of his words, but NO. He had to be bluntly honest.

Akane's expression shifted from mildly annoyed and suspicious to glowering, her hands clenching into fists as she drew in a breath.

"You are SUCH an INSENSITIVE JERK!" She tried really hard when she was cooking you know!

[wildhorse]

Completely heedless of the impending doom hanging over her head, Ranma forged ahead. Her hackles were up, and like usual with Akane that meant she was charging headlong into danger.

"I'm just tellin' ya the way things are! Do you even eat your own cooking?"

Maybe this would explain Akane's remarkable toughness.

[tomboytendo]

"Of COURSE I do!" What doesn't kill her only makes her stronger... yeah, that could very well explain it!

"You're just such a brain dead loser you can't even APPRECIATE the work I put into my cooking!"

Wut.

[wildhorse]

"I appreciate it just fine! The results, not so much." Ranma folded her arms over her chest, digging in her mental heels. "Kuno tries pretty hard but that doesn't work out very well for him, either."

Oh yeah. She went there.

[tomboytendo]

Akane glowers at Ranma. She.. did she just... seriously.. "Are you seriously comparing me to KUNO?!"

That is like. THE SUPREME insult!

[wildhorse]

"Some things no amount of tryin' can help." And it galled her to say that, considering who she was, but it was kinda true...how many of her problems had she solved by coming at them from an oblique angle?

[tomboytendo]

"Maybe for a QUITTER, but I'm not about to give up. Just you watch, I'll show you!" You will eat her cookies sooner or later you jerk. And they will be good! SO GOOD YOU'LL DIE EATING THE..wait.

Well if he's going to bring Nerima-ites into this, so can she! "And anyway, Ryoga-kun liked my cooking."

[wildhorse]

Quitter? Quitter?! Oh no she didn't! Ranma folded her arms behind her head faux-casually. "You could feed Ryoga any ol' slop and he'd be perfectly happy with it."

Ranma had decided long ago she wasn't going to out P-Chan, but that didn't mean she couldn't make the occasional joke at Ryoga's expense. And it probably flew right over Akane's head too.

[tomboytendo]

Oh yes she did!

"Don't pick on Ryoga-kun when he's not even here!" Not cool Ranma, at least give the man a chance to defend himself! "And besides, that's not true because Ryoga-kun is more of a gentleman than you!"

Are they getting a wee bit sidetracked with the issue here?

Bad idea it might be, it's still hilarious

[wildhorse]

"You're the one who brought Ryoga up in the first place!" If they were getting sidetracked, Ranma was way too worked up to notice.

Maaaaaybe putting these people in the same house was a bad idea.

MWahaha :D

[tomboytendo]

"SO WHAT?" Akane stomped a foot forward, "Ryoga-kun is at least a friend, you went and compared me to Kuno."

Who ... to be fair... IS kind of a friend, but he's also kind of a great big dorkberry.

[wildhorse]

"I compared you to Kuno because you're both clueless!" Didn't their original argument have something to do with food? Ranma was kind of losing track here. "Salt doesn't go in pudding, Akane. Even I know that!"

[tomboytendo]

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING CLUELESS YOU MANGIRL?"

Yeah there was definitely a point to the conversation that spiraled into an argument that was making less and less sense by the second.

"I KNOW Salt doesn't go into PUdding!" She's just bad at paying attention. THEY'RE BOTH WHITE, OKAY. "And I DON'T need Cooking lessons FROM YOU."

[wildhorse]

"MANGIRL?!"

Insulting Ranma's masculinity was a definite no-no. You could practically hear her teeth grinding as she sucked in a deep breath, then boomed in the kind of voice that could probably be heard the next block over:

"I'M A GUY YOU MACHO TOMBOY!"

[tomboytendo]

Except he isn't! At least not right now. Still, why split hairs right? But in either case, Ranma roaring at her like that only gets her to glare back at him, "Ranma... you.. are such an..." Fume Fume. No, you know what. She reaches out for the nearest piece of furniture, which happens to be a chair, hefts it over her head and swings it down. "IDIOT!"

She pivots on that note, to storm out of apartment with clenched fists. She's going shopping. And then she's going to cook something. And then you will eat it and DIE. No wait. Eat it and like it.