Chapter 01:When it all goes to BLEEP

Outside of the Terra Solar System a small ship sat in wait. It wasn't much to look at, just a cylindrical hull with a pair of what could almost be considered forward swept wings set in the aft third of the ship. It didn't even have a dorsal or ventral sail to complement the wings.

It did seem to have one major aspect to it though that might gain a second or third notice. That it was either completely new… or that it could sustain a hit very well. The ship appeared not to be marred by ANYTHING.

However the ship had no apparent shield generators, nor was it of any of the organic based ships such as the Juraian Empire used. Just plain old burnished bronze colored metal. Though this metal seemed to shift slightly and the eye couldn't quite make out the true edges of the craft.

While it sat there a small lone meteor drifted close, the small ship turned towards the meteor and almost disappeared from view as it shot forward in a hyper accelerated motion without any visible use of thrusters or other means of propulsion. The speed alone spoke of an incredible inertial dampening system.

What was left of the meteor? Nothing but a few smaller chunks from its impact with the small winged vessel.

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Just entering one of the back water systems inside GXP patrolled space a large wooden vessel dropped out of hyperspace. The craft was of obvious Juraian make, with the sweeping wooden overlays and the oval core living areas. However this craft didn't seem like most of the Juraian space ships that the majority of the Galaxy was used to seeing. Instead of a slim profile and many areas for weapons nodes. This craft was much longer and broader. More disk in shape than many of its brethren.

Inside the craft everything seemed to be going according to whatever plan they were following. There were many passengers just lounging around the forested inner areas. And the crew, though dressed like GXP officers and midshipmen, were just walking around if off duty and manning duty stations if otherwise. No one appeared to be suspecting anything.

So when a small bronze craft with forward swept wings appeared in the Juraian crafts high ecliptic the crew may be forgiven for not manning battle stations immediately. But though they may be forgiven, that did not mean that they survived unscathed.

The small craft neared the much larger wooden vessel and on the first pass racked the sides of the Juraian luxury liner with concentrated plasma blasts vaporizing some of the port quarters wooden structure. Inside the Juraian ship damage klaxons started to blare and the passengers panicked while the GXP officers ran to man their stations. In the control area next to the space tree a tall regal woman with aqua marine hair in a bun spun to look at a Juraian noble who held a Juraian Key.

"Launch us back into Hyperspace Lundsie! Quickly."

The Juraian noble looked pale as she took in damage report screens that were popping up around her. The ship shook again as the small fighter craft harassing them made another pass.

"Lundsie! Hurry." The woman demanded again.

Lundsie however just turned to her with a face drained of color. "We can't Admiral. The first pass damaged Serateho's FTL capability."

"Then scan the system for a life bearing planet. I'm taking out the Fernandis to fend off that ship." The Admiral said and turned to storm off towards the back of the wooden craft.

"Admiral! Wait!" Lundsie yelled after her. "Admiral Kamiki! Seto! Damn." The distraught Juraian turned back to her screens. "Serateho, scan the Terra system for the nearest life bearing planet. And launch the distress beacon." She turned to another screen that had the face of a red skinned GXP Ensign. "Katsurugi! Get the passengers into their bunkers in case we have a hull breach." Turning to another screen where a brown haired man's face could be seen. "Sceert get our back up drives functional. Serateho can't move under his own power right now."

Lundsie kept barking out orders to the GXP officers that in the absence of Seto Kamiki she now commanded. "Be save Admiral. If anything happened to you the Emperor will have my hide."

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Inside a small much more technological based craft Seto and a few other GXP officers were limping back to the Serateho. Seto herself had a sling on, and the armrest of the command chair she sat in appeared to have exploded or been damaged by something. One of the crew had a bandage around his head and was sitting near a dead screen. The rest of the bridge appeared to be heavily damaged as well. However they were alive.

The outside of the craft on the other hand looked like it shouldn't be space worthy, let alone capable of movement. Once upon a time the hull would have been a brilliant sapphire blue, now only small sections weren't marred by some form of scorching. Of the six thruster arrays that propelled the craft, only one worked, two more were still attached but sputtering. The last three had been shattered by something and took a good portion of the aft part of that section of the ship with them.

They were also leaving a trail of oxygen and water behind them. A sure sign of a ship bleeding to death in the depths of space. But they were still alive. And also coming up on the blue white disk of a planet that they hoped would be able to bear them until rescue could arrive. But then they saw something that chilled their very blood.

"By Tsunami!" Seto whispered through a bloody lip.

The Fernandis had managed to drive off the unknown assailant, but maybe it hadn't been enough. As now Seto and her crew could see the Serateho was trailing even more vital atmosphere behind it. Making it appear to be a small wooden comet coming into the outer atmosphere of the planet.

"Dock us, emergency protocol Ensign. We have to aid them!" Seto commanded her helmsman.

As the Fernandis flew in towards the damaged Juraian luxury liner Seto watched as the first of what she feared many bodies flew out of one of the rents in the hull.

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Detective Second Class Mihoshi and Detective third class Kiyone were sitting with their friends Tenchi, Ayeka, Ryoko, and the rest watching an entertaining drama in Tenchi's house one sunny afternoon.

It had been awhile since everyone's last adventure, and Mihoshi had even managed not to destroy anything since they had gotten back. All told it was a good day in Kiyone's book.

Too bad it was interrupted by the incessant beeping on her wrist comm.

"Ah man. What now." The emerald haired woman complained and reached to tap her comm to answer her ships computer.

Before Kiyone could complete the action however, Washu came barreling out of her lab out of breath. "Everyone! There's an Emergency! A Juraian ship is in orbit, and they have a hull breach!" The diminutive red haired genius said slightly out of breath.

"Shit!" Was about the collective consensus around the room.

Ryoko took one look around the room then said. "I'll meet you guys Space Side!" And vanished as she teleported away.

While some of them were panicking, Kiyone was speaking quietly into her communicator. "Calm down everyone. Mihoshi's and my cruiser will be here in a moment. Then we can go topside and start rescueing people."

Washu chose that moment to pull out a small box that resembled a closed lap top computer. "We'll need this." She said.

"What is it." Tenchi asked while Ayeka summoned her Juraian battle robes.

"It's an upgrade to the GXP tractor beam system. This'll allow us to create a temporary bubble of air around any of the crew that have been sucked into space before they can die." Washu exclaimed, much of her normal mad scientist air put to the side while they dealt with this catastrophe.

"The Yokinosho is here." Kiyone said looking out one of the windows.

Mihoshi giggled and pulled an object that looked at first to be a cotton ball or a rabbits tail and tapped it once. The fluff turned into what could only be a solid state cube of jello that she then manipulated like a Rubik's cube as the pink cube was turned and manipulated by the ditzy dirty blonde detective. "Got it!" She exclaimed as a space suit materialized on her. Though the helmet was on backwards. "AAAHHHH!" Could be heard from within the suit as Kiyone rolled her eyes and pulled the helmet off and put it back on correctly.

"Honestly Mihoshi, how do you do it?" She asked as she used her own control device and disappeared in a teleportation beam onto the Yokinosho.

The rest of the gang made quick work getting onto the red space cruiser through their own various means.

Mihoshi bumbled her way up to the control deck where Kiyone was already there in her own space suit. Tenchi and Ayeka walked up to the area both in Juraian battle armor while Washu was in the engine room hooking up her device to the Galaxy Police Space Cruiser.

"All Set" Washu said through a communicator to the bridge as they ascended into the upper stratosphere.

Once there the gang saw that it was a mess for almost 5 miles behind the falling Juraian ship. They could see everything from cargo to frozen atmosphere and liquids trailing like some macabre comet trail.

"There's one!" Ayeka hollered out when she spotted a red skinned woman in a GXP cadet's uniform.

"Tracking… Lock." Kiyone said in a detached professional tone. "Beam Engaged." At the last words from Kiyone a semi-translucent beam shot out of the underside of the Yokinosho and struck the red skinned woman in the center and covered her in a cocoon of blue and green energy. Then she was slowly brought into the ship as they made their way deeper into the debris field picking up what survivors they could.

Things went on like that for an indeterminate amount of time, and the Yukinosho's hold was now full of survivors of the failing ship. According to their sensors the ship's Tree of Jurai was dying, and all the life support systems were failing as the ship drew closer to the planet.

"We're at full capacity now." Washu commed from the engine room. "The ship can not hold any more people before we have a life support failure as well." The comm fell silent for a few moments. "I don't have any of the command crew here Tenchi, we may have to try to bring the dying ship by tractor to save the rest."

Tenchi heard that last part then looked at Kiyone as Mihoshi seemed to be rather absorbed in a magazine at the moment. "Can the Yokinosho handle that strain?"

"No. But I won't abandon that many people to their deaths." Kiyone said with sweat on her brow. So far they had managed to recover about 50 people, but their ship was an interdiction cruiser and though meant for long term voyages it was only outfitted for up to 5 people before becoming completely cramped.

Ryoko suddenly ported beside Tenchi and fell over onto him. "Ca..n't t..laport…a.y mo.r..e" The exhausted ex-pirate said as she fell asleep on Tenchi's shoulder. Ayeka had the good grace to not mention anything about proprietaries that the cyan haired girl was taking.

Kiyone looked back over at Ryoko who was fast asleep now on Tenchi's shoulder as she weaved through the wreckage tagging spaced people with the tractor to at least give them a few more minutes of life just in case. "I didn't know she could teleport more than herself over that distance." She said in amazement as it was obvious that Ryoko had been teleporting people from the debris field to the shrine.

"Neither did I." Ayeka said quietly as Tenchi was gently laying the girl down on the deck plates while making sure she was comfortable.

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Inside the damaged Serateho Seto set about trying to make planet fall in the damaged ship. She couldn't wear space armor or even a proper suit with her injured arm, but she did have a rebreather over her face. A few of her bridge staff stood neaby operating their holographic keypads and trying to maintain control over the damaged ship.

The captain of the ship had collapsed just a little bit ago from the strain of interfacing with the dying space tree. Now the command crew were using a fallback method of control with manual interfaces. Primitive, but effective in this circumstances. Seto was sure that she may be able to save some of the people, but not all. The ambush had damaged the ship to much, the life essence had drained to far. Much like a terminal patient with a gun shot wound who had lost to much blood, the space tree had lost to much life essence. So even if they were able to patch the hull, the ship was dead anyway from the loss of it's vital energies.

So now all that was left we steering the ship with it's remaining complement of crew and passengers down to the back woods planet and hope to contact the local detachment of the GXP prior to being found by the local populace. Especially as Seto was sure that this planet had not made contact with other races beyond their own as of yet.

"Admiral!" one of the aids said as he turned around to face her. "Extreme levels of life energy detected from the planet!" He said, either hope or panic obvious in his tone.

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Meanwhile in the Tree Palace of the floating island of Togenkyo a battle of another sort had just taken place. Prince Toma had just been defeated, defeat of a sort that is, and Ranma was falling down the center of the great tree on the island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Everything should have been great for him. He had just rescued his fiancée, defeated a great illusionist, upheld his families honor, and below was the spring water that would remove his curse. He could almost taste it, the end of what he felt was the core of his problems.

The only major problem to all of that was the fact that Akane was falling with him. And if he didn't do something she would end up falling into the water as well and also turn into a guy. Ranma was many things, but Yaoi (1) was not one of them. So he powered up one of his more powerful Ki blasts feeling the confidence within himself well up out of his soul and prepared the blast. The Blue/gold ball of energy quickly formed in his cupped hands at his side.

Akane noticed what he was doing and turned to him in midair. "NO DON'T!" she called out. "IT'S YOUR ONLY CHANCE!"

"I AIN'T ABOUT TO LET YOU BECOME NO GUY 'KANE!" He hollered back as he released the solid manifestation of his confidence. "MOUKU TAKIBISHA!" He called out.

Below the beam punctured through to the bottom of the pool and blew a hole through the floor of the pool. However the water seemed to be flowing out too slowly, so slowly that to Ranma it appeared as if they'd still get drenched. "Hold onto the Wall Akane!" Ranma called out to his fiancée and shoved her to the wall of the giant tunnel in the tree.

Akane did as she was told and watched as Ranma gathered up more of his Ki and shot it out at one of the walls opposite himself. Then he turned slightly and shot another one out before the recoil from the first would cause him to hit the wall himself. He kept doing so and ended up in a near spiral as he fell. Akane watched as his momentum halted as well about 30 meters below her. She found a side tunnel and darted into it but peeked out as she was fascinated by the man that she often belittled even though she still had feelings for him.

She saw the pigtailed martial artist moving in a circle a meter or two from the walls, his spiral not quite halted in it's formation, but now there were almost solid lines of Ki spreading out from his hands and feet forming almost a shell around him. As she watched the ovoid forming around him took on a slightly more solid hue even though she could still see through it. She could also see below it and saw almost a prism of light shooting through the still draining pool of water. As they came near the ovoid that Ranma was forming the light would refract into the shell and strengthen it further. Then slowly at first the bubble holding her fiancée started to rise towards her. After a moment it was gaining in momentum and she ended up having to duck back into the tunnel as the ovoid shot past her. She turned and looked back to look up after it and witnessed as he shot out the top of the tree, somehow the pig tailed youth ended up as the projectile of a life force powered Space Cannon and Akane got to watch as his ovoid shell shot out the top of the tree and into the heavens.

Outside of the tree on the grounds below the palace Toma and the rest of the Nerima Wrecking Crew© watched as a energy shell shot out of the top of the tree into the heavens.

"Son in Law's in that." Cologne stated simply as she guarded her vision against the sunlight while watching the shell disappear into the distance.

Everyone else was completely silent as they watched the disappearing pig tailed martial artist. A moment later Akane came running out of the palace herself yelling something.

"Calm yourself child." Cologne said calmly.

"Ranma… Did you see…" She said slower though still out of breath.

Happosai stood calmly for once. "Yes we did young Akane. We saw."

Ryoga and Mousse both stood quietly not daring to believe what they just saw.

Kuno watched mouth agape. "Perhaps I have misjudged thee valiant warrior." The older scion of the house of Kuno proclaimed. "To shoot to the heavens in a holy light. Only one of the seraphim may travel as such." Tatewaki Kuno lowered his gaze after losing sight of Ranma. Then he turned to go to where the wreck of his ship was, a heavy weight seemingly upon his shoulders.

Ukyo, Kodachi, and Shampoo watched Ranma shoot to the heavens, and though they were often times at war with each other to try to vie for the pig tailed martial artists attentions they all felt saddened at seeing his departure. Then they turned on Akane and in unison they growled.

Happosai stepped in between them after hearing the guttural vocalization of their anguish turned upon a scapegoat and decided a good glomping was in order. "Hotcha!" He called out as he landed in the bosom of Kodachi.

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Inside the energy matrix that Ranma had created he was weighing his options. He could not see where he was at right now, and had no notion of how high he had gone. But he did know for a fact that somehow he had innadvertantly gone into at least lower Earth orbit if not high Earth orbit. He also knew that a fall from this height would probably kill him. Luckily his cocoon had somehow absorbed some of the energy of the Tree of Life that was Togenkyo Island, and that seemed to be enough to maintain the energy vortex and shield that kept him alive at the moment.

"What can I do?" He questioned himself once again as he spun around and caught sight of the horizon. "Yep, Higher Earth Orbit I'm guessing." He thought as he watched the land retreat before him. "I wonder what space will be like?" Ranma fluctuated his Ki slightly in his right arc, enough to change the spin of the ovoid slightly so that he could see the stars before his energy gave out. "Wha…?" He exclaimed out loud as he saw a vessel close to him. He didn't make out to much detail other than the fact that he had but a moment or two before he would impact with the side of the…. "Wood?" vessel?

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Inside the Serateho's bridge Admiral Seto watched the failing view screen as the blue gold ovoid shot up from the planets surface on a ballistic arc that seemed would impact with her ship. "BRACE FOR IMPACT!" She yelled out as she fell back to the ground before the energy attack would hit. "Perhaps this is where we will die after all. Who knew that a back woods planet like this would have space cannons capable of striking a Juraian ship."

Everyone was diving for the last vestiges of safety that they could possibly find on the failing ship for the energy shell could only shatter the remains of their ship into small debris that would fall to the planet below and burn up in it's atmosphere.

However the impact never happened. "What happened?" Seto asked as she stood back up only to see the view screen solidify into it's proper fully powered form. Systems regaining function Seto heard from the Ships Juraian Tree. Sure she had misheard she called out as the captain was still unconscious. "Serateho, status."

Life force reserves recharging, foreign life pool link established. Systems stabilizing. Life support back online, star drive back online, Force shields back online. Starting Regeneration of outer and inner hull. Retrieving life forms, retrieving energetic host of foreign life pool. Serateho's telepathic voice was relayed through the systems interface.

Seto just stood there. "Praise Tsunami." She said out loud, voicing everyone's inner thoughts.

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In the Yukinosho just moments earlier.

"TENCHI! Life energy reading on Earth!" Washu yelled out from the engine compartment. "High Energy event approaching, brace yourself. It'll strike the Juraian ship, but the backlash could destroy us." The self proclaimed 'smartest person in the universe' stated.

They watched as a blue gold ovoid shot up from the earth on a slight curve and struck the Seraheto. However instead of a titanic explosion that should have happened, the force bullet washed over and then was absorbed into the hull. They watched as a person rebounded off of the wooden hull of the space ship and started to drift back down towards the planet.

Shortly after the energy washed over the other ship the air and water stopped leaking out. And the Seraheto's own tractor beams went into action as it pulled the debris and people back into itself. The wood was also starting to reform as it was pulled into place. After moments a view screen came up and a platinum haired woman with slightly feral features and a arm in a sling stood there, a small amount of blood dripping down from a blow to her forehead. "Thank you for your assistance Yukinosho, however it seems that Tsunami has granted us a miracle today. Can we dock so that you can transfer what personal and cargo you managed to keep from falling into the atmosphere?" The woman said in a kind though weary voice.

"Yes Admiral!" Kiyone said as she had come to attention unbeknownst to the rest of the people on the bridge.

"Ah, a GXP officer. Thank you again. We'll see you momentarily." She said before the screen died.

"Admiral?" Tenchi asked and Ayeka and Kiyone both turned towars him.

"Yes, Admiral Seto Kamiki. Head of the Galaxy Police." Kiyone said.

Ayeka spoke up after that. "And my grandmother."

"Just great. More royalty." Ryoko said from her place leaning into Tenchi's lap.

"Yep, more royalty little miss space pirate." Ayeka said with a slight grin. "Just imagine what she'll do to you if she finds you like this."

"Enough of that." Kiyone said as she hit a final combination of buttons on the control board activating a cloak to hide the ship now that the main danger was past.

Mihoshi looked up from her magazine. "What happened?" She asked to everyone's groan.

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Unknown to the people on the ship a manned space satellite from almost over the horizon was in an uproar. The craft was an international science platform run by several countries and they were recording things that all of them thought would never happen outside of science fiction.

On one monitor was a playback of some of the things that the stations camera's had captured. It showed a damaged but still moving ship coming closer to the earth from a vector that had to be from beyond Mars. That in itself would have the science community in an uproar for many decades. However the thing that had them even further panicked was the fact that this ship was discovered after reviewing the data to be made out of wood. Then they started to watch it and found out that it had to be damaged in either battle or something else as they watched a portion blow outwards and debris start to drift into it's tail.

Things might have stayed on the "First Contact" Scenario's and otherwise until another section of high powered camera's made the cosmonauts aware that there was another ship closing on the first. However this one was made out of some form of metal or ceramic alloy and was a gleaming red. It was also roughly a stiletto shape and had several ports that the crew of the international space station could only think were weapons ports. That started an argument between the Russian, German, Austrian, and American's as they all accused the other's of developing such a ship and keeping it hidden. That is till a Chinese astrologist pointed out to the rest that the ship had risen from somewhere in Japan. After that everyone turned to the two Japanese Space officers that were serving with them. The two Orientals just raised their hands in defense. One of them stating that they didn't know anything.

While all of this was going on no one noticed the Canadian cosmonaut typing away at one of the far consoles, a data upload screen was visible on his display and every time one of the camera's finished their upload to the stations computers it would be added to his upload cue.

End Chapter

(1)Yaoi…. The male/male relationship. Similar in many aspects (the same actually) to being Gay.

Author's Notes:Yay another Story Started.

First off… this story happens in the GXP universe, however it doesn't happen in the actual GXP Cannon Anime. Only some of the characters from GXP will be here. The others will be adaptations from other Anime and books in a GXP environment.

Second though I am in the process outlining this one I'm still very open to the way it can go. So I am opening two area's to reviewer/email suggestions:

1 – Relationships. Who will end up with whom. One rule. Please no Ranma/Akane requests, or Ranma/some dude requests. There are 5 main female characters of Ranma's age that will appear with some regularity later on, next couple of chapters will start into them. Also I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the NWC for the long term of this story, but I'm not hatemongering them or otherwise. They're just not planned for main characters yet.

2 – Missions and such. Since this is GXP there will be assignments and missions that Ranma will go on later. I will be drawing many from different forms of anime and otherwise once that part of the story is ready to post. However I will accept any suggestions for these and give kudos' to the reviewer/person who suggests it. However I need a full scenario request. Not a "Ranma goes and saves so and so" scenario.

Thanks again for reading…

Enlu Tarsonis.