Quote:Next up, Zeke goes to Nerima for school... Sure, throw the Avatar of a God of Chaos into the same spaces as the Nerima Wrecking Crew! You might as well open a magnetic bottle of anti-matter. The building barely lasted ten minutes.Won't really work. Furinkan High has an unlimited repair and redecoration budget and effectively regenerates itself over night. What I mean is think of Principle Kuno. PK has waged a terror campaign against the school boared and they will give him anything he wants to keep him away from them. This is canon. To this end anything they can do to the school without leaving a blast crate that is dozen of feet deep will be fixed over night... even then within a week wouldn't be out of reality for the crater. For instance... in his in intro episode, Ryoga runs through the school past Ranma and does bother to use the stairs... he runs through (literally) the school. I may be miss remembering it a bit, but Ryoga was chest deep in the structure of the school without slowing down. I know he is that tough as he does run through a guard rail and a forest in a striaght line... literally. the guard rail is basically 'U'ed in both direction and trees fall over as the explode their trunks as he goes straight through them unhindered for speed. The damage in the school is repaired before school gets in the next day.
Juuban didn't fare much better because the NWC had to start taking classes there as well. Some of the teachers are still receiving psychiatric therapy long afterwards.
You can have them break the school... have to deal with the princple and then leave... ASAP. Ranma is kind of stuck there. PK regularly resets the look of the school... look at his office. What he does to the school for insanity devised events. He also has enough control of the town that he set up an insane event and held the schools tests hostage in a hot air balloon... they could get it back he would destroy them and they all get zeros on a major test. The balloon got loose and the tests rained down over the area... were mysteriously gather up ended up in the hands of the evening news. Who read off the grades on air, live. When they get to Ranma's score, the anchor woman stops dead and asks if its legal to read this on the air... I'm pretty sure that Ranma didn't get so much a grade as an insane speach with a Hawain accents, that would be in the stage notes
In other words, Furinkan is a regenerating, assault class, zombie mech used as an oni box for PK... its not there to educate so much as to contain PK from the rest of the world. Expesially the school board... that twice over. It is a sacrifice for the Greater Good. *a cluster of shadowed people in hooded robes echo, 'the Greater Good' reverently* In his own way, PK wants to give these kids a real education... he is just insane. Blowing up the school will just make him follow Zeke's class and add Zeke and who ever else was involve remotely as on his main target list.
In other words, break it, then have them told school is still on the next day... curious on if the classes are going held in the rubble or something... see the school fully repaired with no sign of how. Then see PK and have him do am assembly speach... Tropical fruit based event occur involving the entire school Then Zeke and Co tranfer out imediately. Ranma is basically stuck as he has ended up as an odd combination distractionary jester/prison guard/miko hybrid. I wouldn't put it past Genma and Soun to have had Ranma contracted out to the school board to keep PK distracted. Genma is bizarrely and abruptly dead set on Ranma attending that particular school. Genma tends to pick schools as training apparently... and it is canon that the Tendo dojo does contract out for monster monster/ghost hunting, which it is well respected for. So unless you want PK following them around taking over their schools by force and administrating them... NWC can't attend. I would put it past Ranma to graduate the school ("the more time he is there the better", says the school board)... Only for Ranma to find out he is on perminent contract as the school's new Vice Principle.
PK would be too much of a distraction story wise long term. I had reasons for saying Ranma randomly shows up. Also, without him constantly there it gives more reason for a guy time vacation to America. You can get way with a bit of recap in that chapter and Negi and Co. are off father hunting for the summer. Other wise things will go curb stomp on the DMC. The Death Busters can ramp things up themselves at least.
Yoko Readman in a library full of traps and books soaking in a lake? This seems like cruel and unusual punishment for her... literally drive her insane... berserker insane. Seems like a bad idea. Either her or the canon library have to go.
Quote:... Whoah. (o_oWell., for the record it goes like this. Zeke has soloed a cardian before and Alan knows this. So he'll send at minimum 2 for Zeke and one for Lum, as a diraction by screams if nothing else. He'll also stick around... he wants to see blood and death here. Lum will flash fry one and if Zeke has enough stuff to call a tornado, he'll have the gauntlet somewhere out of sight, but easily accessable. Lum always has her lightning after all and he only promised not to use it. So even if the guantlet isn't there he'll have supplies out of paranoia reasons. Once Lum drops one, at least temporarly, Alan will send at least two after her.. Lum won't kill the cardian to start off with. Lum may have some lawful evil tendacies, but off a humaniod life form on live TV? That would just be stupid. Mr. Invader is a sociable, politcal creature and I can't see him not teaching her about justifiable force levels. Zeke with have learned Rei paralysing ward by then... its her combat useful miko move of choice so it will be among the first things they talk about magic wise. He'll use one to at least slow down a Cardian, he won't have practiced enough at this point to be near as good at that more as she is yet... which means Alan will need at least one more to take down Zeke or Alan'll have to enter the fray early. By that point he'll be straining power reserves so he'll take a minute to summon the last one, he does want to leaves this battle alive and get the job done.I didn't realize your expectations for the Tag Contest were that high. Seven in one blow, eh? Who do you think Zeke is, a tailor?
Remember that they'll have a transport cabable of picking the tag participants up quicky after they finish this 'battle'. So Alan, having done research enough to last a few days, figures he has 10-15-20 minutes on the extreme outside to finish this before back up arrive... Mr. Invader will not like a dead daughter after all.... so likely less time. Hense the swarm for a bum rush attack. The Cardians are expendable here... so Cardian attacks on the way there will let Alan charge them up. Alan has to do hit fast and hard. So he'll need 5-7 Cardians and himself to pull this off realistically. Cardians don't have the brains or raw power for large scale bombardment and he'll want more than he thinks he need. I didn't think of the tailor thing consciously myself... but sevenish would allow a good margin of error and be enough to swarm then in time even when he has to bail. That Neji's class happen to have read that story recently is a coincidence. Maybe the broadcast reminded Neji of the story and it would allow him to get railroaded into watching it as a class movie.
I don't see any flaws in this reasoning, and it will take a lot for Zeke to decide he can't last long enough for back up to arrive. I mean tornadoes are extreme blatant. The world governments are actively keeping a public veil on the magic thing. Come to think of it... I'm betting Zeke didn't end up as the tag participant in Chao's time line, Raven is powerful enough to alter the time line from such a future... I'm sure she'll also be surprised when she manages to get back to the future and things have changed inexplicable, in spite of getting stopped.
Edit: *morphs into Jackie Chan's uncle for a second*
One more Thing! Make sure if Zeke does have the gauntlet he tags Lum's horns with the one its not on... wouldn't want to risk the fate of the world on a minor technicality.