Thus is an alternate universe of the Ranma timeline as well as the dbz one. I decided to write this because I am getting frustrated with my other fics the wording just seems wrong to me I have rewrote chapter 7 of reconstructing oneself three times and I just deleted it again, I am twenty percent done with making a difference. Prince of Avalon is about done but I am not satisfied with it either. Redefining honor has only a thousand words so far. I guess I just keep fic hopping, eventually I will get one done, if anyone has any preferences to the priority that I work on them let me know and I will take it into consideration. As always reviews are most welcome and I really do not mind flames either, some of the things that people write are just too entertaining. I do not own DBZ or Ranma ½, they belong to whomever owns them. Oh warning non-fiancée match up, I figure if you are going to make a cross over why us one of the same characters when you can use someone else, although I will be creating a character for this one.

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Nodoka Himura was a young woman, only sixteen years old, currently she had transversed the countryside for the past few days trying to prolong her fate. Before she was born her father had arranged a marriage for her to one Genma Saotome. The reason why she was gallivanting in the country was to gather her thoughts on the issue. She had met the man, whom was six years her senior and found him lacking in many things. He was rude, crude, ill mannered, sexist beyond belief and balding. She could look past several issues but sexism and balding were very difficult to get past. Her father had told her that it was her duty to marry Genma because their family honor was at stake; her response was to run off into her room and lock her door. She waited until the middle of the night before she carefully crept out of the house carrying a small bag with her.

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Bardock was having a bad day, his space pod was malfunctioning and his former team had been massacred by orders from Frieeza. He was injured and on his way back home to warn his king about Frieeza's betrayal. Unfortunately, his navigational systems went on the fritz and he found himself going towards a class m planet. Growling in annoyance he switched over to manual controls so his pod would not be too damaged by entering the planets atmosphere.

------------------------------------------ With Nodoka ----

Nodoka sat silently in front of a small campfire starring up at the stars, wishing for divine intervention. As her gaze swept across the heavens, she took notice of what looked to be a falling star. After making a silent wish, she started to prepare herself some dinner.

A few minutes later, she looked up into the sky once more and was shocked; the falling star that she saw earlier was growing n size and looking as if it was going to fall right on top of her. Fearful for her life she started to run away hoping that she was fast enough.

CRASHHH.

Upon impact the shooting star caused Nodoka to be flung forward into a tree, the sweet bliss of unconscious came to her before she had time to realize it.

Bardock was cursing up a storm; he had lost control of his pod while entering the planets atmosphere. The damage done to his craft was going to take four more days to repair. Popping the hatch he stepped out of his space pop and turned on the self-repair mechanisms.

After sealing, his pod back up Bardock turned to survey his surroundings. His craft had made a large crater in the middle of the woods. A few hundred feet away he could see a small fire burning. Shrugging he made his way over there only to stop short, just beyond the fire he could see a crumpled mass of what looked to be a body.

Normally Bardock would not be concerned about casualties, but lately he had been having doubts. The recent massacre of his team had confirmed his doubts; he now worried about the survival of his race. His newfound worries were telling him to help the person in front of him. Giving into his conscience Bardock made his way over to the fallen form, after turning the person over he was shocked to see what would be an extremely attractive female if her face were not broken and bleeding. He was about to give the woman up for dead when his scanner picked up active power levels from the redhead. He quickly picked her up and made his way over to his pod. After canceling out his previous commands he popped the hatch and gently placed the woman inside

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Nodoka woke with a groan and took stock of her situation. She was lying down on a blanket and seemed to be all in one piece with the exception of a killer headache.

"Easy now, you are recovering from a rather nasty fall, you were almost dead when I found you."

Nodoka grimaced at the loud noise and moaned out, "What happened?"

"When my ship crashed you were apparently flung into a tree and hurt pretty badly. I healed your injuries, you have been sleeping for the past few day's."

As her equilibrium steadied itself, Nodoka opened her eyes and looked at her savoir. What she saw appeared to be the epitome of manliness; the man was around six feet, muscular but not overly so with spiky black hair. Blushing she asked, "Might I enquire the name of my savoir?"

Bardock was stunned he was expecting the woman to yell at him, ignoring his confusion he replied, "My names Bardock."

Nodoka would of swooned if she had not already been on the ground composing herself she said, "Well Bardock I thank you for helping me."

----------------------- Two day's later ----------

Nodoka hummed to herself as she prepared dinner, it was a difficult task considering her companion could eat a literal horse. As she tended to the fire her thoughts turned to the past few day's. at first Bardock was uncomfortable around her and rarely said anything. That lasted for the first day and a half, using her womanly charms (crocodile tears) she was able to get him to open up some. What she found out shocked and amazed her, the man was an alien, apparently from a race called sayians. Their race consisted of nothing but warriors. Recently a powerful being called Frieeza had ordered his execution, fearing for his fellow sayians he was trying to reach his home planet to warn his king.

Being the impressionable young woman that she was her heart was fluttering every time she looked at the man as he did his exorcizes.

------------------ four day's later -----------------

Nodoka was upset, bardock's ship was going to be ready in a few hours and he would be on his way shortly afterwards. Her mind made up she went over and kissed him.

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Nodoka watched as bardock's space pod launched into the skies. Wearing nothing but a sad smile, she started to gather her clothes to return to her home.

--------------------- Nine months later -----------

Nodoka screamed as the final contraction hit. Panting from exhaustion, she closed her eyes.

"Mrs. Saotome we have a problem."

Instantly Nodoka's eyes shot open and she screeched, "What's wrong with my baby?"

The doctor, whom was fresh out of med school and lacked any sense of tact said, "It appears that your son has a tail."

Nodoka slumped at that news she had been hoping that her son would not have a tail like his father. Grabbing the doctor by his collar she said, "You must remove it."

------------------- Five years later ----------------

Nodoka was in a quandary, her husband wanted to take her son on a training journey. She wanted her son to be strong like his father; she knew that Genma was one of the few martial artists around that would be able to train her Ranma. Her problem with that was, Genma was irresponsible and somewhat lacking in honor. How could she hope to keep him in line? After a half hour of pacing an idea struck Nodoka, if she had her husband sign an agreement then that would surely keep him inline and stop him from doing something stupid.

----------------- One month later ----------

Genma sat in front of a pit and sighed, it was the fourth time he had tried to teach his son the nekoken. So far he would toss Ranma in the pit come, back a half hour later to find his son had snapped his bonds and was feeding the cats. He needed an idea otherwise; his son would never become a great martial artist. It was a shame so far Ranma had shown promise unlike any other person he had ever seen. The boy was a prodigy so far everything he had thrown at the boy had only made him stronger. With a silent prayer, Genma hoped that the new chains he acquired earlier would be able to allow his son to learn the dreaded Nekoken.

----------------- Two weeks later --------------

Genma would of cried to the heavens with joy, f his jaw was not broken that is. It seems that not only had his son partially learned the nekoken but upon exiting the pit, Ranma had mistaken him for a menacing stranger. Genma took it as a mixed blessing, on one part, his son did learn the nekoken, and on the other hand, now his son is terrified of cats. With a whimper Genma chose to leave this debacle alone, it seemed detrimental to his health.

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During the next ten years Genma often had to improve his training techniques, he often had to make them tougher and more dangerous because his son seemed to get stronger with challenges that are more difficult.

For Ranma little changed, he trained traveling from dojo to dojo stopping at any training grounds that his father could find. With his uncanny ability to learn moves combined with his natural endurance Ranma found himself with spare time quite often, as a result the masters of the various dojo's and shrines started to tutor him expanding on Ranma's knowledge and world view. This resulted in toning down Ranma's opinion of girls; instead of believing that all women were weak, he now just believed that all women were weaker than he was. This did not make him arrogant it actually made him more careful and observant to his surroundings.

By the age of ten, there were few people that could match Ranma in strength, speed and power. He constantly dominated his father during their spars. Genma not wanting to be dominated by his son sought out specific masters who were know to use moxibustion and ki techniques to weaken their opponents.

Eventually Genma found a master that knew of a technique that would weaken Ranma and limit the amount of ki that he could use. The master had warned Genma that the technique would not stop Ranma from getting stronger, it would just place limits on him. That meant that, as Ranma grew stronger a portion of his strength would become hidden and eventually when the technique wore off it would leave Ranma potentially twice as strong as he would normally.

Genma thought that that was brilliant, he would regain his rightful place as the strongest Saotome and at the same time, the moxibustion technique would eventually make Ranma extremely powerful. Then all of Genma's dreams would be realized, he would be able to milk his son for the life of luxury that he deserved.

Ranma found that his life became more difficult, his father instead of toning down the training to match Ranma's new lowered levels decided to up them to the next level.

------------------- Phoenix Mountain ----------------------

Ranma tried to block the blows from the phoenix king but was constantly losing ground. Thinking quickly he jumped back and sent off a ki blast so he could stall until he was able to come up with a plan.

Saffron seeing that he had the puny landling on the ropes decided to add insult to injury. He called out, "Pathetic landling, no one can withstand the true might of the phoenix god." He then launched two large fireballs in an attempt to destroy the mortal's friends before he crushes him.

Ranma growled in anger, leaping forward he placed himself in front of the two fireballs to block them. Screaming out in pain Ranma was flung back and driven down into the ground.

Saffron laughed manically at the mortal. His laughter died as he noticed a smoky figure climbing out of the crater.

Ranma was in pain, completely new levels of pain to be exact. To make matters worse he knew that Akane had only moments left before she would die. Every second felt like an eternity to Ranma, so far every thing he tried to do failed. He had attempted to use a new revision of the hiru shoten ha but even with saffron's own power staves it was not enough. Ranma knew he had more power he could feel it deep within his own soul. The power was somehow being blocked. As he staggered forward, he failed to notice saffron launching a massive fireball making all the previous ones pale in comparison. The blast hit Ranma dead on and flung back down into the now deepened crater.

Ranma lay in the crater for what seemed an eternity. He thought to himself, "This can't be the end can it? I know I am stronger than this, I can feel the strength flowing though my veins. Why can't I use it? I need to be stronger otherwise every one will die."

As Ranma slowly recovered, Saffron gloated in the skies above. Getting impatient, he descended to the ground, stopping a few feet away from where Genma, Ryouga and the husk that was Akane were, he started to form another large blast.

Ranma struggled to his feet and started to climb out of the crater. As he pulled himself over the edge, he saw the phoenix king prepare to fire off another blast.

"Puny landlings, you are nothing but a minor inconvenience to me; I feel that the time has come to end this charade." With that, said Saffron launched his blast intent of evaporating those that stood before him.

Ryouga and Genma paled as they felt the power of the attack directed at them, deciding that there was nothing that they could do to escape they just closed their eye's and awaited deaths sweet embrace.

Ranma was shaking in rage, how dare anyone threaten to harm his friends, sure they did not always get along but when the chips were down he felt that he could count on them, even if they did not always show it. Enraged Ranma rushed forward and put himself in-between the blast and his friends/family.

Saffron cackled with glee, all the annoying landlings were dead and he soon would be at full strength. Turning he made his way over to the dragon tap to finish his ascension.

The smoke cleared to reveal a much burnt, bruised and bloody pig-tailed martial artist with his clothes in tatters and a defiant smirk. He called out, "Hey big bird, I didn't hear a bell ring."

Saffron turned and could only muster, "What?"

Ranma shifted into a menacing stance. Well it would have been menacing if his right arm was not hanging loosely and his left leg seemed to be straining under pressure. Seeing the confusion on his opponents face he clarified, "I mean get your big fat yellow ass over here so we can finish this or are you chicken? Yeah that's it; you are Saffron king of the chicken's. bak, balwk balk." With his little speech, finished Ranma continued to make chicken noises and used his good arm to demonstrate a wing flapping…

Saffron was enraged this mortal refused to die. Unable to contain his rage he rushed forward intent on ripping the pig-tailed martial artist limb from limb to ensure his death.

Ranma saw the charge and just spun in place delivering a vicious elbow to saffron's face that sent the king skidding along the ground. Ranma kept his smirk and said, "Not this time, it's my turn now."

Off on the sidelines Ryouga watched as Ranma seemed to float across the ground, only stopping to rain down earthshatering blows with his good arm. He was cut out of his stupor by Ranma shouting at him to get Akane over to the spring.

Ranma after seeing that Ryouga was placing Akane into the water to restore her form once again turned his attention to the birdman. Lifting the now barely conscious king off the ground Ranma asked, "So Harvey (as in Harvey bird man attorney at law), live and let live or are you going to make this even more personal?"

Saffron growled at the audacity of this human but knew he was out matched. Dropping his eye's in defeat he softly said, "I yield, take your friends and be gone from this place."

Ranma dropped Saffron and turned to check on his friends.

The minute saffron saw the mortal turn he grinned and let off another fireball with the intent of catching the fool unaware.

Ranma turned just in time and backhanded the blast into the distance. Shaking his head he said, "It's a shame, but you leave me no choice." Ranma wordlessly let loose a constant beam of ki that totally oblivorated the phoenix king. As the dust settled, Ranma crumpled into unconsciousness leaving speechless spectators and one large golden egg on the battlefield.

I think that this place is a good piont to stop at. Bardock (might be mis-spelled let me know) is not that bad of a guy and he recently had an opportunity to re-evaluate his life. And I was going to make a brief summary of the changes that happened at the dojo in this timeline but I figure that I can do this with flashbacks, if you disagree let me know. Anyway thanks for reading.