A fan fiction story revolving around the world of "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures" and "Ranma 1/2." No infringement of ownership is meant. It is just for fun.

Ranma walked along the fence casually, keeping an eye out on his new fiancée and the area. Just in case. He stretched his back under the uncomfortable and new uniform he was wearing. Ami, the Tendo housekeeper and cook, had provided them last night. It appeared the Tendo's were doing quite well and could easily afford new school uniforms when needed.

"Do you really have to do that?" Akane asked from below him where she was walking on the sidewalk.

"Everything can be practice," he replied simply. "Uh, oh. Freakazoid at twelve o'clock." Ranma hopped down off the fence. It looked like Tatewaki Kuno was up for another fight. They walked in the gates to stand in front of him.

Kuno looked like he hadn't slept well, his lips turned down in a frown. In a strange turn of events, he was dressed in a school uniform. "You!" he shouted, pointing his bokken at Ranma. "You did this to me!"

Ranma just quirked an eyebrow. "What did I do?"

"Your manipulations are as evident as the sun shines this morning! It was through your actions that I, Tatewaki Kuno, have been banned from all sports here at Furinkan High! And the Board of Directors is even now reviewing their policy for the Junior National Leagues!" Tears were welling up in the corner of his eyes. "The injustice of it!"

Ranma just looked at Akane in confusion. "I don't understand, actually."

"Ah! It's the Ultraman Ruling from the sports directorate. No Ultraman is allowed into competitive sports that are not specifically for Ultramen. It just passed recently," Akane said with a smile. "Of course, here in Japan, there is no Ultraman league yet. I hear in the United States they have started an Ultra Leagues for baseball."

"And how is this my fault, anyhow?" Ranma said with a tone of irritation. "I'm not the one that went to the US and got super powers!"

"I-I know that you must be involved somehow! You must have informed them!" Kuno watched Ranma shake his head in negation. "You tricked me into getting the enhancement!" Another shake of Ranma's head. Suddenly, Kuno seemed to smile as a thought occurred to him. "That's it! You are planning on using your sorcery to travel back in time and convince me to do it!"

Forgetting to shake his head, Ranma suddenly snapped out, "What? Are you nuts?"

"Aha! I must stop you, somehow!" Kuno seemed to be lost in deep thought suddenly.

Ranma looked over at Akane again. "Is he for real?" She just nodded her head.

"But I am forbidden from meting justice upon thee on school grounds! What is a poor, benighted soul such as myself supposed to do?" the older boy raved.

Ranma blinked at that. He had no idea whoever had forbidden Kuno from attacking him, but he wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. With that he just ambled on by the upperclassman. Silently, he thanked whoever had done that for him.

At home, Kasumi suddenly sneezed. Luckily, she was able to control it and not blow her papers outside. "Hmm. Someone must be talking about me."

"So will you do it?" asked the eager young man in kendo robes to Ranma during lunch.

"Um, no. I don't really do Kendo. I don't think I have time to devote to a club like that." The pig-tailed boy shrugged his shoulders.

"But we want to learn how to do all those flashy moves you used!"

"I don't really know any flashy kendo Ki attacks," Ranma pointed out. "I'm mostly into unarmed attacks. I can use weapons, but they really aren't my thing."

"We're doomed then! We have no chance in our division without Kuno!"

"Kuno can't compete, right? But that doesn't mean he can't coach. Get him to whip you guys into shape."

"I don't know. I guess."

Ranma and Akane walked into the house, slipping off their shoes. "We're home!" they called out.

"Ranma! Akane! Come in here, if you don't mind," Kasumi called out.

They walked in and saw a group of people sitting around the table. The older man in the American military uniform looked a bit uncomfortable kneeling down. Soun and Genma sat off to one side. The pretty blonde woman wore a lab coat and had a briefcase.

Ranma stared at her closely. She was giving him the same, strange feeling that Kuno and some of the dojo's new students from US. But he wasn't certain, as he could swear he almost felt something from Kasumi too. But that seemed muted or suppressed somehow.

"Ranma, this is Dr. Newtrich and General Winston. They are very interested in anything you can tell them about what how you become so strong. Our government wishes to know of this also and would appreciate that you cooperate." Kasumi smiled reassuringly. She pulled out a little recorder and turned it on.

"Miss Tendo, are you sure that your sister should be allowed here for such sensitive discussions?" the general said bluntly.

"Akane is Ranma's betrothed. She is also a very mature young woman and will not talk of these things." Kasumi's smile seemed to end the discussion.

"Very well, Ranma. I understand you have some sort of curse?" Lucille Newtrich asked skeptically.

"Yup!"

"Would you demonstrate it?" the blonde asked.

With a shrug, Ranma took a cup of water off the table and poured it over his, now her, head. "Not much to it. Cold water turns me into a girl. A really strong girl, mind you."

The general and the scientist looked dumbfounded at the change. "That is... remarkable," Lucille finally said.

General Winston frowned. "What seem to be your abilities? Can you fly like Superman? Heat vision? X-ray vision? What does hurt you?"

"Er, okay. Um, can't really fly. Just float a bit. Or skim over water if I run really fast. I think I might be close to a breakthrough there, after seeing Rising Sun yesterday. I can see stuff. I could see my pop's rib were broken after an accident. Not much seems to hurt me, other than..." Ranma paused uncertainly. Her hand clenched on her lap, quivering a bit. "Well, a Ki tornado almost killed me."

"A Ki tornado? Could you explain that more?" Lucille asked as she started to scribble on a notepad.

"Just after I got my powers, we ran into a problem with village of really good warriors. I kicked a girl too hard, broke her jaw and knocked her over a few houses. The villagers thought I killed her and this old woman tried to defeat me. She used a technique called the 'Rising Dragon Ascension' attack. We, uh, have a scroll that describes it. It basically uses your foes own ki energy against them. So she basically hit me with my own power. The whole village was wiped out, I guess."

"Yes. Ranma landed miles away almost ten minutes later," Genma interjected.

"Ten minutes? That's a long time in the air! How high did you go?" Lucille asked.

Ranma licked her lips nervously, her hand still clenched. "I could see stars." Her hand started to shake.

"Stars? This attack blasted you into space?" the general asked in disbelief.

The girl nodded weakly. "I could see a blue and white curve beneath me with stars above it, before I lost consciousness. Next thing I remember, my Pop woke me up. He'd rescued me."

"So how did you get cursed?" Lucille asked. She really had to get Ranma into a lab.

"Oh, I fell into a pool."

"You fell into a pool of water?" she asked unbelievingly.

"Indeed! All of the pools turn you into animals or people if you fall into them. The guide there even mentioned several pools. The pool of drowned duck. Or a panda. Or even a saint." Genma smiled at his addition to the conversation.

General Winston suddenly frowned and pulled out a palm pilot. With Ranma's acute vision, she could see him writing in English, 'No pets on any military bases at all.' "Ranma, would you be willing to help us verify if you do have a Ultraman Enhancement?"

"Um, what?" she looked confused.

"Many of the abilities you describe are standard for our program. We could assist you in understanding your abilities. I am a specialist in this field. Probably the world's foremost expert, actually." Lucille Newtrich smiled reassuringly.

"Oh! I bet you did this to yourself, too! That's got to explain the weird feeling I get off of you!" Ranma exclaimed to Lucille. She turned on her father. "Why didn't you mention that! It's been bugging me for the last couple of days!"

"A teacher can only lead after the students understanding has..." Genma started to pontificate just before Ranma lightly (for her, any ways) bopped him on the head.

"Don't give me that line, Old Man! I almost got killed by Kuno because I didn't understand that he was enhanced!" Ranma seemed quite upset.

The two American's seemed quite surprised and shocked by the actions of the young woman. They glanced over at Kasumi who seemed unperturbed by the actions.

"Ha! I only figured it out myself after meeting Dan Barr!" Genma said with vigor. "Though I don't understand exactly why Kasumi would feel similar!"

Akane and Soun looked over at her in shock. "You've been enhanced?" Akane stuttered out.

Kasumi's calm façade nearly broke. "Oh, yes. That's what my cure required. The poison was quite fatal otherwise. I don't have a very high enhancement though," she lied with aplomb. "I'm not really supposed to mention it. Several allies of the United States might want to demand equal treatment."

"Got ya! That explains that." Ranma seemed quite happy at solving the mystery.

Everyone but Kasumi missed the speculative glances from Lucille and the general at the oldest daughter.

"So, what do you say, Ranma? Will you come to my lab?" Lucille asked with a reassuring smile.

"But what about school?" Akane interjected. She was trying not to show an envious glare at Ranma or her sister.

"That is a good point. I suppose we can finagle a high-speed flight to the US late on Friday and get her, sorry, him back on Monday," General George Winston III stated as if it were a done deal. "Only missing one day shouldn't hurt your studies too much."

"Um, okay." Ranma wasn't quite sure what to say.

"Where is Furinkan High!" a brash girl yelled out. She was wearing dusty clothes and a dirty headband.

Around him, several students from said school looked at each other in confusion. Finally, one of the boys points at the sign for the school right near its entrance only feet in front of the girl.

"Finally! Ranma Saotome! I will have my revenge!" The girl charged directly towards the school.

"Wait! Oh, never mind. I guess you didn't want to hear that he's already left for the day," Diasuke said as he shrugged. He turned and walked off.

"Ready?" Akane called out as she took a stance.

When Ranma didn't respond, she just waited a second. The pig-tailed boy was casually standing just a few feet away from her in no apparent combat stance. Finally, Akane charged, her bandaged fists flashing out at the target quickly and fiercely. A target that was as elusive as the wind, it seemed. Akane stepped back, eyes narrowing. How could he dodge all of those punches without moving his feet at all!

"This time for real!" she shouted. She started to do the same punches, but suddenly lashed out a kick at his knees. She blinked in astonishment as he hopped over her head in a blur. She was just starting to turn when she felt him tap the back of her neck.

"Gotcha!" Ranma called out, even as he twisted to avoid the snap kick that tried to hit his stomach. "Whoa! Almost!"

"Come on! Don't just dodge me!" Akane complained.

"Why? It's good practice for both of us, after all!" Ranma replied.

The paper-screen door opened, showing two girls in jeans and stylish t-shirts. "There you are, Akane! Hello, Ranma!" the first girl said. Ranma remembered her name as Sayuri. Akane's other friend was Yuka.

"Hello!" Akane smiled quite naturally, not realizing what an effect she was having on the boy next to her. "What brings you here today? You look like you have some news!"

Yuka nodded. "That's right. Diasuke called and mentioned to me that some strange 'chick' showed up wanting to know where Ranma was. She seemed really mad."

Ranma suddenly paled. "She didn't look Chinese, did she?"

"No, she was Japanese. He mentioned that specifically. But he didn't know where Ranma lived and didn't have your number to call. So he asked me to let you know," Sayuri replied. She suddenly turned on Akane. "So, Akane? When where you going to hang out with us again? You've been neglecting your poor friends for this hunky boy that's living with you!"

Akane started to shake her head vigorously. "It's not like that! We just met!"

"So what is it like then? You're all flushed!" the other girls exclaimed with a squeal.

"I've been exercising!"

"That's a likely story! So when are you getting married?" Yuka then exclaimed.

Ranma and Akane shared a quick glance.

Akane bowed her head so she didn't have to meet anyone's gaze. "Not for a while. We just had our Omai."

The two girls' smiles faltered and then vanished only to reappear even larger than before. "Your engaged?" they squealed excitedly.

"He's a hunk! Definitely a Grade-A stud!" Yuka gushed. "I'm really jealous!"

"Yeah! You have to go steal the newest and cutest boy, didn't you?" Sayuri said with mock severity.

"You guys!" Akane face was beet red now, mirroring Ranma's own flushed face. "Quit picking on me!"

"Sorry, Ranma! But we're canceling your practice to steal your sparring partner! This calls for good old fashioned gossip at the nearest ice cream parlor!"

"Damn you, Ranma! I will have my revenge!" shouted the strange girl very late in the evening. She had been traveling in these woods, looking for the school that she had vaguely heard Ranma talk about one time.

All of the students were walking to school the next morning as usual. As soon as they entered the grounds they all looked quizzically at the tent that was set up in a small copse of trees. Standing in front of it was a young woman with fists clenched tight in anger. Suddenly, her target appeared.

"Ranma Saotome! I've finally found you! Because of you, I've seen hell!" she shouted even as she trotted over to him.

The boy she had yelled at just looked confused. "I'm sorry, but do I know you?"

Akane was trying to hide an ugly streak of jealousy at the other girl. "A girlfriend of yours, Ranma?" she said with clenched teeth.

"Nope. Never seen her in my life!" He scratched his head in confusion while fiddling with his too tight uniform collar. She was giving off that same odd vibe. But that was impossible! Was everyone Ultra Enhanced?

"You took off from our man to man fight!" the girl yelled.

"Isn't she a girl?" Diasuke asked to Hiroshi from just behind Ranma.

"Huh?" Ranma asked, side-tracked from his thoughts.

"When I finally arrived after the third day, you had already left! So I followed you all the way to China!" she declared, holding up one fist.

"You-? Ryoga? You followed me all the way to the cursed pools of Jusenkyo and fell in the pool?" Ranma stuttered.

"I didn't fall in! I was cursed by those old ghouls! They forced me to be their guinea pig! For that indignity alone, I am going to destroy you!" faster than any eye could follow, she grabbed Ranma by the jaw and flung him at the school wall. The wall shattered on the impact of his body.

Girls (and a few boys) screamed in terror. In shock, they watched as Ranma scrambled to his feet. One of his arms didn't seem to work correctly!

"Shit! She is an Ultra!" Ranma frantically thought of what he could do, as he was out-gunned and out powered.

Ryoga smirked as she walked towards Ranma and the shattered wall. Everyone else had backed away. Backed far away. Suddenly, the girl that had been at Ranma's side interposed herself. "Stop this! Why are you doing this?" she yelled even as she held up her fists in preparation for a fight.

"Your boyfriend, huh? Well, I won't hurt you. Much." The girl suddenly zoomed towards her and then struck her breastbone with the palm of her hand, sending Akane flying into Ranma.

"You bastard! She hadn't done anything to deserve that!" Ranma cradled the stunned girl in his one good arm.

"You don't understand, Ranma. I'm going to break you for everything you've done to me! Then I'm going to kill you!"

Suddenly, yet another figure stood in her way. "Halt, beauteous but rustically dressed girl! You shall not hurt Akane Tendo while Tatewaki Kuno yet draws breath!" The boy was wearing his uniform now, but his bokken was at the ready. With a sudden charge, he slashed down at the girl.

"You're no threat-urk!" she was saying when the Bokken came done on her head with shattering force. The ground beneath her caved in, her feet were smashed inches into the concrete. Ryoga shook her head, only a little woozy. "That actually hurt! Who are you? Better yet, what are you?"

"He's got super-strength, just like you!" Ranma called out. He helped his fiancée to her feet, now that she'd recovered.

Ryoga and Kuno sized each other up. "I don't want to hurt you," they both said. Kuno made a gesture indicating that the lady should go first.

"I'm just here to kill Ranma!"

"Oh. That's perfectly fine then. Just don't hurt the beauteous Akane Tendo at all, or you will face my wrath!" Kuno took a step to the side and bowed.

"What a perfect gentleman!" the faux-girl said with a sneer.

"Breaking Point!" Ranma suddenly yelled, even as he jabbed a finger into the ground. It exploded towards his two foes, showering them with gravel and dust.

As the dust cleared, Ryoga realized that Ranma had taken the opportunity to flee over the rooftop. "Come back here!" The Wandering Girl leaped after him. Mighty muscles easily allowing her to catch up in just a few bounds. "You can't get away, Ranma!" She slapped him hard across the face, sending him flying through a window into an apartment.

"Shit!" Ranma said as he rubbed his jaw. It didn't quite feel broken, but that was purely luck. Looking around the living room, he spotted a sink in the connected kitchenette. He ran over into the kitchen while slamming his injured shoulder into a wall then gabbing the faucet with his right arm. He rotated his left shoulder with a grimace of pain.

Ryoga landed lightly, spotting Ranma near the sink. With a smile, she removed a bandanna. Her hands suddenly blurred as she sent the bandanna whirling like some insane, over-sized shurikan, leaving Ranma holding the cut off handle to the hot water tap.

"Crap." Only one thing to do then. He had never pushed himself to move faster in his life as he twisted the cold water tap and sprayed himself. "Guess I have to make this an even fight the other way!" she said as she brushed the water out of her eyes.

"You were cursed, too?" Ryoga said in real surprise. Suddenly, if possible, she seemed even happier. "Good! I hate fighting weaklings!" She charged at Ranma with a super-fast punch, only to miss the suddenly much faster target. "What?"

"Let's take this outside!" Ranma cried out. When Ryoga next punched at her, she pivoted and then pulled the other enhanced girl towards herself even as she pivoted out of the way. Using the momentum, she continued the move to toss Ryoga far into the air with a snap-kick.

Hundreds of meters later, Ryoga impacted the earth in the center of a manicured lawn. "Ranma! How dare you try to lose me!"

A figure blurred over the rooftops in incredible bounds. "Relax, doofus! I was just getting you somewhere we could fight without endangering too many people." A huge smile was across the redhead's face as she prepared to fight.

"So heroic, eh? That isn't how the real world works!" Ryoga suddenly charged forward, even faster than before. But seemingly to no better effect, as Ranma dodged. She was incredibly fast. In moments, the two were mere blurs to the eyes of the few people in the park.

Ranma suddenly went on the offensive, lashing out with a powerful kick that nearly folded Ryoga in half even as she skidded across the ground for over a hundred feet.

"That kick! So powerful! How can you be so much stronger and faster?" the stunned girl said in surprise. "It's taken me almost three months to get as strong as this!"

"I have no idea whatcha talking there, Ryoga. I fell into that pool and got my powers instantly." Ranma still had her fists up and ready.

"Well, so did I. Up to a degree! I was over three times stronger than I was, but I'm now almost twelve times as strong! And I can feel that I've merely started to tap into something amazing!" Ryoga's eyes lit up with a maniacal gleam.

The red haired girl just smirked. She knew that without really forcing herself, that she was much, much stronger than that after the pool of sorrow. "Seems like you got a defective dunking, Ryoga. Too bad, I'm still better than you. And I always will be."

The girl in the road-worn clothes took a deep breath, focusing her spirit into the pit of her stomach. Her balance achieved, she rocketed forward to punch Ranma in the face with resounding force, sending her flying. Her speed and power had increased dramatically

Ranma had noticed her preparation, but hadn't quite been able to achieve her focus before Ryoga's attack landed. She smashed through three trees and uprooted a small shrine. Focused now, she offered a quick prayer to the shrine (.2 seconds) and then ran back to Ryoga. "You shouldn't have done that!" she yelled out. "Now you made me mad!"

Ryoga's blood ran cold. The girl's fist in front of her weren't quite blurs to her acuity, but she could tell instantly that she was faster by a significant margin. As fists started to hammer into her face and stomach, she realized that there was no way that she could deal with this. The power of those punches was immense!

"Chestnuts Roasting Over An Open Fire!" Ranma yelled, even as her fists turned into blurs to Ryoga. After pummeling the girl into unconsciousness, she let her fall to the ground. Picking her up by the front of her shirt, Ranma dragged her to a pond and dunked her head a few times to wake her up.

"Pwffft! Quit that!" Ryoga screamed. She grabbed the offending wrists and tried to twist them, only to fail.

"So are we done here?"

"It will never be over until I kill you!' Ryoga shouted. The crowd off in the distance was shocked.

Ranma pulled back her fist. "So should I kill you now? So you can't kill me?"

The girl blinked. It had never occurred to her that Ranma might react this way. After all, she was the wronged party. "What?"

"You're threatening to kill me! It would be self defense!"

Ryoga flinched as the red-head threw a punch super-fast at his face. A punch that never connected.

"But I'm better than you, Ryoga. I don't go around threatening to kill people because of a bread feud." Ranma dropped her to the ground ceremonially. "Grow up. You've been given immense power. And you are misusing it."

Ryoga just snarled impotently. How dare she! But a tiny shiver of fear had lodged in her heart. Ranma could have killed her easily.

The red-haired ultra girl narrowed her eyes and then took a deep breath to focus herself. Her feet lifted off the ground. She just stared levelly at Ryoga as she started to levitate. In exhalation, she realized that she'd finally figured out the secret of flying. She turned and rocketed off into the distance.

"She can fly like Superman!" a woman yelled out from the onlookers. "Is she a Kryptonian?"

"And is she?" said one guy fearfully as he pointed at the remaining girl.

Ranma swooped and soared. Unfettered from the ground, she just laughed to the air! This beat every other ability that the pool had granted her. Spotting Akane being bothered by Tatewaki again, she swooped in and snagged the surprised girl right out from in front of everyone faster than they could see.

Everyone blinked as Akane seemed to just vanish from in front of them with a wind. Even Tatewaki Kuno seemed uncertain as to what had happened.

"Wow! Akane knows how to disappear like a ninja!" someone shouted.

"Nay! Tis obvious that she has been taken by the treacherous cur, Ranma Saotome! Just another sign of his infernal magics!" Kuno ranted.

"I can fly, Akane! I can really fly!" she yelled joyously to the shocked school girl in her arms.

"Wha-? You can? How? I mean, did you just figure it out? What happened to that girl that was trying to kill you?" Akane asked in surprise.

"Ah, I beat her up and then warned her off. I'm a lot stronger than she is, so it wasn't much of a fight." Ranma pulled up to head towards the nearest cloud.

"Ranma! We've still got school! The bell is going to ring any minute!" she yelled in Ranma's ear, even as she grabbed onto her neck for dear life.

"Right!" And with that, she dove, faster and faster! In a blur, they landed behind the school. "I need hot water somehow! I can't go to school like this!" Ranma looked around frantically. Her x-ray vision finally spotted what she needed. "Come on!" she cried as she ran while dragging Akane behind her.

In the teacher's lounge, the whirlwind known as Ranma appeared and grabbed a warming tea kettle and kept going, right up to the second floor. Akane was being dragged along like a doll by one arm!

With a splash of hot water, Ranma's proper gender was restored. He rotated his shoulder carefully. "Ryoga knocked my should out of its socket. I had to slam it back in, but it hurts like hell."

"We should probably get it looked at. Dr. Tofu is our family chiropractor. He's really good at that sort of thing." Akane smiled at the disheveled appearance. "Though I think you should avoid getting into any more fights. I think Ami will get upset at having to buy replacements every day."

Ranma tugged fitfully at the mud-stained and torn outfit. "Yeah. I'll keep that in mind."

Amazingly, they were the first ones in.

But Ranma and Akane still had to go stand out in the hall for getting involved with fighting on the school grounds.

"This isn't fair," Ranma complained.

Akane just giggled at that. It appeared that life would never be dull with her new fiancé.

"Lane! Kent! In my office, NOW!" Perry White yelled out. He left his door open as he sat back down behind his desk.

Clark closed the door behind Lois, a raised eyebrow. She shrugged back that she didn't know what was going on.

"What's going on, Chief? Another lead on Luthor that you want us to follow up on?" Lois asked.

"Nah! I've got real news that I need you to check into." He threw down a news paper. "According to Lee Chang, our Asian News Specialist, this is a story about a new super heroine in Japan."

"That's a bit off the beaten path for two news reporters from Metroplis, Perry!" Clark exclaimed.

"Just a bit. But you are our two best investigative reporters and the two most familiar with Kryptonians," the editor stated.

"Kryptonians?" Clark shared a worried look with his wife. "Why do you think this is some Kryptonian?"

"She flew."

Luthor pursed his lips as he read his morning papers. The stack of newspapers around the world was being flipped through at super-speeds. He stopped and picked up a cell phone, one of the most expensive brands and models. A Lex Corp subsidiary, of course. "Gretchen, I need to talk to you. In person." He hung up without even letting her respond, looking through the rest of the newspapers until she walked up.

"Damn you, Lex. I was in the middle of a set of negotiations with the Ahrab royals." She looked very upset.

"This is more important."

She blinked at that. "What?"

"The Tokyo Times is reporting that they have a new super-hero. One that can fly." Luthor smirked as that sunk in.

"Someone else is going around giving out ultra enhancements greater than our own .35? That's really bad! That could destroy our entire operation if someone has cracked this before we can." The female scientist inwardly raged. No one could have cracked this before her! This was her dream!

"You're right. That little judge down in Mexico City is all of a sudden going to stop being able to keep us from both being extradited back to the US before my lawyers can clear up those charges. I don't really relish being forced to go to the SLAB prison. I've heard that the government has figured out a way to keep a Kryptonian enhanced human there with little fuss."

"So what are we going to do?" she asked. She did not want to be sent to prison any time soon.

"We're going to Tokyo, of course."