Story: UY First Impressions

You know, today was the most fun Ran has had in a long, long time. Earth might be primitive, but its people were so, so friendly and nice to a pretty girl like her. Their shops were low-tech, and their fashion was a little weird but there was still something oh so cute about these things called "dresses".


She looked across the store at her twin bro- sister staring longingly at some bikinis (and earning weird looks from other customers). Oh, that girl was a delight too! That way she wanted to be cute and girly while acting so tough and manly, it was adorable and silly. Why had she even come to Earth again, anyway?


"Hey, Ran! This is on sale!" Ryonusuke announced, reaching into the rack and pulling out... a set of tiger-print bikinis. "Uh... I do need swimwear, right? How do you think I'd look in this?"


The temperature in the store underwent a rapid decline. Even though it was a rather warm day outside you could see the breath of customers as they milled about. Ran herself was beaming cutely. Holding back any non cute expressions, so it was just a cute quiver of her lips and a cute twitch of her left eyelid. Staring at the bikini being held up by her manly twin. It wouldn't look cute. It wouldn't look cute at all! Especially not if she donned a green wig, that colour clash would look... Umf... So bad, so naughty, so wicked and cruel and - And!


She opened her mouth to yell a few especially imaginative obscenities about how ugly that design was, that anyone who would normally wear it in public was a complete slut who craved attention, enjoyed tormenting people and very probably tore the tags off of mattresses.


However, she never quite got the chance.


"Yeah, that's the ticket!" a glasses-wearing boy said, slapping Ryunosuke on the back. "Your girlfriend would look really super cute in something like that."


"Hey, I'm a -" Ryunosuke began to protest, but then another boy slipped in behind her to peer at the bikini as well. Ryunosuke, seemingly instinctively aware of how creepy that was, suddenly pulled sharply away. "Anyway, this is for me, not her!"


"Ohhhh, right!" the second boy nodded sagely. "I completely understand. You want something to remember her by, don't you?"


"Even though she graced our planet for but a short while..." the first lamented. "Lum! Why did she have to leave?"


Oh... Good... Lord! A fanclub! Lum had an honest-to-god fanclub on a planet her people tried to conquer! What was it she'd said earlier about Earth people being friendly? Going a little too far with that, huh? What's next, going to invite Snailaxy the Galaxy-Sized Snail to brunch? Set up an appreciation society for the Lords of Misery? Her mouth worked as if to speak of such outrage, but nothing verbal seemed appropriate. Maybe if she broke something? Like their ugly faces.


"But hope is not lost!" the second boy enthused, grabbing Ryunosuke around the shoulders. She reacted like someone had dripped slime down her back. "We've got a plan. A brilliant scheme to bring Lum back to Earth!"


"I dunno what the hell you're talking 'bout!" Ryunosuke protested, shrugging him off, then elbowing the boy harshly in the ribs. "Clear off, creeps!"


Ah... Hold on a second... A plan? To bring Lum back to Earth? That thought penetrated Ran's inarticulate rage, at long last. That's right. Yes, that's right! She was supposed to be getting revenge on Lum, that's why she was here! Her eyes flickered across to her sister. She blinked.


It was so strange. She wanted to spend time with Ryuonuske. Get to know her better. Help her start behaving, dressing and speaking in a more girly way. And yet... And yet, she also wanted to get revenge on Lum. Badly wanted to. An opportunity had just been dropped in her lap, as if by divine providence. She felt... Torn. Continue the shopping trip, or revenge on Lum? She never thought anything could equal her hate for Lum, and yet... And yet...


"Excuse me!" Ran called. "Hello, my name is Ran. Teehee! Nice to meetcha!"


The two boys goggled at her cuteness. Completely under her spell in a matter of seconds. She beamed and flicked back her hair. "Were you boys talking about Lum just now? The alien who invaded Earth?"


They nod. Ryu tilts her head to the side. "That's amazing!" Ran clapped. "You have a plan to bring her back to Earth? Teehee, li'l Ran wants to see that!"


"Pardon us, just a sec!" Ryu suddenly strode forward, grabbing Ran by the arm and pulling her off to the side of the store. "Hey, what's the big idea flirting with those guys all of a sudden?"


"You know, saying things like that is exactly why people think you're a boy," Ran replied. Ryu shrank back a little. Okay, maybe she was a little too harsh there. But still... "Try putting that in a more girly way. I'll help if you want."


"Uh..." Ryonusuke scratched the back of his - of her head. Gosh, there was just something about him - about her that completely confused gender perceptions. Maybe... It was tied into her heritage somehow? Projecting a manly aura that confuses even people who know that he - that she's a girl? "Hold on, gimme a sec. Gotta try to focus and -"


Boom.


Ran's jaw dropped. It was like a switch had been flipped. Whatever doubt there was in her mind that this was a girl just... sort of didn't form at all. It was like femininity was being projected right at her, overloading her senses. "Sis," Ryu began. "Please don't flirt with those creepy boys in front of me. I do not like them at all, at all!" C-Cute! Too cute! The way she was leaning over slightly, batting her eyes... Utterly feminine, without a doubt! "Let's ignore them and maybe they shall leave us alone."


Before Ran could say a word Ryu suddenly topped over and she had to catch her twin. Ran could tell at a glance. Utterly exhausted. It seemed as though he - as though she had.. She had concentrated so hard on trying to seem feminine that it had triggered... Something. An alternative manifestation of her powers? This warranted more experimentation!


What was she thinking going after Lum at a time like this? Ryunosuke was right. Li'l Ran had given into a moment of weakness when she should have been trying to help her sister. Li'l Ran had been thoughtless, insensitive... Just like that hot bitch Lum! Ooh! Alright then!


"Wait here!" Ran announced, setting Ryunosuke down in a nice seat outside the dressing room area, and then quickly hurrying off back into the store. "Ran is getting you the girliest, frilliest dress that she can think of! Teehee, shan't be long!"


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Urgh... The last time Ryu had felt this tired was that one time their supplies were cut off from the storm, there was only one egg roll left, it had to last them another five hours, the television was stuck on the cooking channel, and they'd just discovered the hard way that an ant nest had been built under the store.


Yeah. Busy night. A three-way battle between father, child and swarm of insects. Not a night Ryu liked to think about, but... God, she was just about falling asleep right now. Who knew this being girly schtick could be so exhausting?


"That's quite a girlfriend you've got there," said one of those creeps from before. He was holding one of those tiger-print bikinis as if he planned to buy it. "Even a cute chick like that is a fan of Miss Lum."


"Lum?" Ryu repeated. "That alien girl who tried to conquer the planet through a dumb tag race? Why would you wanna bring her back?"


In response the two boys pulled out pictures of her that they must have taken during the race. Lum's body was in the middle of all of these shots, but more than a couple didn't even have her face in them. Some of them even had her face cut out completely. Instead they were focused much more on her chest, her butt or her legs. Uh huh.


"That's why," the other boy said as if stating a mathematical certainty. "Anyway, we've got a plan to summon her back to Earth if you and your girlfriend want in on it. The more the merrier, am I right?"


"Summon... Back to Earth?" Ryu repeated. Huh... They wanted to summon this chick back to Earth? She looked them over again. A couple of guys like that, wanting to summon a babe like this? Keh! She wasn't so sheltered she had ideal expectations for why they'd wanna do something like that! If only she weren't so tired right now, she'd... Do something more than wipe her mouth and ball her fists. "What sorta plan?"


"Ah, ah! We can't just tell anyone the full details," the first boy replied, wagging his finger. "Just show up to Tomobiki High School, the roof. Everything should be set up tonight, and then..."


"And then Lum will be all ours!"


"... We'll be there," Ryunosuke breathed heavily. Yep. By then her strength would have returned, and she and her sis would have a much better plan to deal with those creeps.


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It had been the perfect trap. There he was, picking up shopping for his parents when all of a sudden a naked female leg stuck itself out of an alley, with a pair of panties dangling precariously from the ankle.


The next he'd known, he was tied up, wrists and ankles bound in the basement of the school. Initially he had been rather hopeful that Shinobu, Benten, Lum, Oyuki or perhaps Sakura had decided to get a little bit kinky. That hope faded when a boy wearing ice-blue robes leaned over him and squinted while staring into Ataru's eyes.


"He is awake!" the boy declared. "Soon enough, we shall summon her through his perverse spirit! The austere Oyuki shall return to us and grace upon this Earth her divine presence once more!"


"All hail Oyuki!" a dozen or so others, boys and girls, chanted.


"It is truly a shame," the boy at the head of this... procession said to Ataru. "That we must dirty ourselves with your filth to bring one so pure and innocent back to us. Yet so it must be."


Pure? Innocent? Ohohohoho, but they were in for a shock! Ataru grinned pretty wildly. Normally he would be yelling at these creeps. Not so much this time. After all, he was pretty certain. By now Shinobu and Benten would be searching for him. His kidnapping wasn't going to last long at all!


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Shinobu was skipping through the street. Oh, sure. Her parents had torn a strip out of her for staying with friends overnight. Sure, she'd had to lie to them and say she was staying at Benten's place rather than spending the night with her... Boyfriend didn't quite sound right. Sex friends. Fellow perverts. Whatever! That wasn't the point.


The point was, she'd never felt so... So free! Wild, happy, content. While the events of yesterday had certainly been hectic it had rather thoroughly confirmed the new direction of her life, plus her great enjoyment of it. For example, she could certainly appreciate the finer aspects of both the male and female form a lot better. That cute couple over there? Both cute, both got checked out.


It was so weird too. Shinobu was a rather ordinary girl. Compared to Lum, Benten, Oyuki and Miss Sakura she was rather plain. Breasts weren't as big, figure wasn't as curvaceous and desirable, face was average verging on pretty. She had no special skills, no talents to make her stand out, nothing unique or interesting.


Yet they wanted her anyway. And that was good enough.


"Pardon me, miss!" yelled a sudden interruption. A girl from her school, rushing up to her out of nowhere. "Shinobu, right? Excuse me, you left something at school the other day!"


"I did?" Shinobu asked, rather confused as to what that might be. She could hardly think of anything like that. The girl reached her and held out a bag. Shinobu leaned over it, frowning a little. "What is it?"


"Yourself," the girl answered, snapping the bag open and causing a sudden burst of... Powder...


"Package captured," the girl said to... Someone. "Soon enough, we shall be able to bring that tough biker chick back to us! She's been hogging Miss Benten for far too long already."

1. Sakura tries to control Chocolate a bit more.
2. Lum and Oyuki finally prepare to return to Earth.
3. Benten notices Ataru and Shinobu are missing.
4. Ran and Ryu continue their shopping.
5. Ryoko toys with the fanclubs from behind the scenes.
6. Something else