Fanfic / Tekka Dread

The thing about male/female relationships

Tekkadread is a crossover between Ranma ½ and Van Dread with some Tekkaman Blade by Hung Nguyen. (A.K.A. Animeaddiction)

The 1st Stage story is completed, and the 2nd Stage Tekkadread: The 2nd Stage, is near completion.

A collection of both stages, Tekkadread Remastered can be read here. Contains grammatical corrections, revised dialogue, and extra scenes not seen in the original.

The story of Ranma 1/2 diverges from Jusenkyo, where instead of plunging into Spring of Drowned Girl, Ranma falls into a non-imprinted spring that contained a dormant Tekkapod that crashed there years before by the Radam. The Tekkapod grabbed Ranma and began the slow process of converting him into Tekkaman under the control of the Radam, taking five centuries. Because of this, the events of Ranma 1/2 became irrevocably altered without his presence: Ranma and Genma never arrived to the Tendo Dojo; Genma never arrived due to being killed by the Chinese Amazons and turned into a panda skin rug; Akane gets defeated badly by Kuno, Kodachi, and the Dojo Destroyer to name a few; Picolet Chardin takes Kasumi away to be married off; Akane is kidnapped by Prince Kirin and never returned (and executed by the people of Nekonron for accidentally killing their ruler with her bad cooking). And that was only the prologue.

The real story begins five centuries later when Ranma is released from the Tekkapod with the powers of a Tekkaman, but no Radam warlords. Awakened to a now barren Earth and suffering amnesia due to the pod, Ranma, now Slade, leaves for space to find his place in the universe. Slade eventually arrives to the all male planet of Tarak during his trek across planets, where he gets involved with the story of Vandread.Slade is made part of the crew of the Nirvana as male and female must put aside their differences to fight against a mysterious enemy, the Harvesters. Things are also made interesting as Slade is the only person on board with any knowledge of the supposed "ancient" relationships between man and woman.

Things have taken a turn for the worst as revelations are revealed, and an even more sinister evil is awakened. The fight for survival of the human race begins...

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This fanfic provides examples of:

• Adaptation Name Change: To thank Slade for helping her give birth to her daughter (and saving their lives shortly after), Ezra allows him to name her. He chooses the name Nodoka.
• A Day in the Limelight: In one chapter, Paiway gets heavily drilled by Duero to raise her medical skill since it was lacking, but fails. However, everything Duero had tried to teach her was ultimately tested when she was forced to operate on him and Barnette to save their lives.
• A Lady on Each Arm:
  • Slade with Dita and Jura when they were stranded on the desert planet trap by Saber. When sleeping out in the cold desert night, the two girls naturally snuggled up to the nearest source of heat, which was Slade himself, much to his nervousness. He didn't get much sleep as a result.
  • At Heaven's Haven, Duero with Parfet and Barnette, much to the shock of the Mejele refugees there.
• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Any of the Tekkaman weapons are capable of slicing through the strongest ship hulls like butter.
• Accidental Pervert: Slade sometimes finds himself in compromising positions with some of the girls, who being raised on an all-female planet, do not understand his reactions. Examples include when Slade accidentally groped Dita's breasts on their first meeting and when he accidentally smooshed his face into Jura's breasts.
• Accidental Pun: Touching down on Anpathos, Magno, Buzam, and Slade were horrified and disgusted when they discover the inhabitants were going to willingly offer themselves to their "god" (the Harvesters) to be harvested of their spinal cords. Slade mentally wondered why the hell these people would willingly give themselves up as sacrificial lambs and why they don't have any backbone to resist. He winces at the unintended pun.
• Action Girl: The female pirates of the Nirvana, but at the front are the Dread pilots Dita, Jura, Meia, and Barnette. Even moreso after the first three evolve into Tekkamen themselves, allowing them to kick even more ass than before.
• Almost Kiss: Meia tries to confess her feelings to Slade, where they unknowingly close the gap between them, but then they get interrupted by Dita calling out to her "Mr. Alien", much to their annoyance. When Slade finally manages to come to Dita's room like he promised he would, she unknowingly closes the distance between their faces, which Slade catches. He quickly pulls away to control himself.
• Amazon Brigade: The Nirvana consists of an army of female space pirates.
• Assumed Win: Rabat makes the mistake of thinking he could beat up Slade since he was bigger. He was wrong.
• Awkward Kiss: In the 2nd Stage once the Nirvana crew arrived on Tarak, Jura kisses Slade right in front of the Tarak men, who thought she was sucking out his innards. Slade separates from her, then quickly drags Jura away from the area due to the sheer awkwardness of how they were being viewed.
• Ax-Crazy: Tekkaman Saber is in front of the line, especially when it concerns Slade.

• Balanced Harem: Slade interacts with Dita, Jura, and Meia throughout the story, each getting equal focus.

• Battle Couple:
  • Slade with the three Dread girls. Played even straighter once they become Tekkaman Sapphire, Tekkaman Ruby, and Tekkaman Diamond.
  • Duero as Tekkaman Razor and Barnette when they fuse to become Tekkadread Gunner.
• Battle Harem: Slade with Dita, Jura, and Meia, at first with their Dreads, and later as Tekkamen themselves.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind: Dita, Jura, and Meia dive into Slade's mindscape in an attempt to restore his memories. They meet his single consciousness where they then encounter a young Neko-Ken driven Ranma.

• Berserk Button: Slade nearly beats Rabat to death after accidentally shooting and injuring Dita during their fight.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: Or rather, better to die than be converted. Once the Radam's plans to capture specimens and convert them into Tekkamen, the Tarak armed forces issue an order that they won't allow themselves to be taken prisoner, even if it means firing upon their own allied ships or self-destructing.
• Big Bad: The Earth. At least in the 1st Stage. They eventually get taken over by Lord Darkon.
• Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: Barnette spikes the steak Jura wants to serve Slade with hot sauce and spices. It backfires horribly when he not only catches wind of it, but endures it, prompting her to angrily take a bite and get a taste of it herself. She then runs off screaming for water.
• Body Horror: Rabat after he gets "harvested" of his organs. He barely has anything left of his own body the last time Slade encountered him.
• Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • Tekkaman Phantom/Ghaleon fears this as it will happen if he exceeds being in his Tekkaman form for over half an hour.
  • The Radam captures Duero and Barnette, brainwashing them and turning them into a Tekkadread pair against the Nirvana crew. They later get rescued.
• Break the Haughty: Barnette has always been prideful about herself and about how women are superior to men in all ways. After being stranded on the desert planet and nearly eaten by an alien sand worm, she gets a serious wake up call.
• Bridal Carry: Slade carried a gravely injured Jura to the sick bay after the first fight with the Nirvana clone.

• Bullying a Dragon: Rabat should've known better than to pick a fight with Slade, which ended very badly for the trader.

• Cain and Abel: Slade is the Abel to Saber's Cain, though their half-brothers.

• Cannot Spit It Out: Jura was scared and intrigued at her own growing feelings for Slade, since at first she was only attracted to him for the sake of fame, but grew to be something even deeper. She tries to voice out her feelings to Slade at Magno's advice, just before they go out to fight against the enemy, but pulls back on it.
• Cat Fight: Between Tekkaman Rapier and Jura/Tekkaman Ruby.

• Chekhov's Gun: The lights that formed unnoticed on Dita, Jura, and Meia's heads, in the shape of Tekkacrystals.
• Chick Magnet: Slade attracts the attentions of Dita, Jura, Meia, as well as the descendants of Ukyo and Shampoo. Coming from a ship full of women who were brought up to hate men, that is an accomplishment.
• Christmas Episode: The Christmas chapter.
• Clingy Jealous Girl:
  • Dita, Jura, and eventually Meia become this towards Slade.
  • Parfet and Barnette towards Duero.
• Combining Mecha: The fusion of Slade's Tekkaman armor with the Dreads to form the Tekkadread. Doubles as Transforming Mecha aseach Tekkadread gets a secondary form when combined with Pegas.
• Covered in Kisses: Jura to Slade at the end of the 1st Stage, much to some of the girls' annoyance. Jura, Dita, and Meia to Slade/Ranma on his birthday.
• Covert Pervert: Slade is burdened with the knowledge of relationships between men and women. Further into the story, Slade would relapse into moments where he started really noticing the fairer sex, how the sitting positions in each Tekkadread would be misinterpreted, how he notices how sexy Dita, Jura, and Meia are, what sex with them would feel like... Slade would mentally scream to himself to get a hold of his urges. Not only that, Slade felt having a relationship had to be meaningful, but he could easily see that with any of the three Dread pilots.

• Cry into Chest: Jura cries into Slade's chest after getting treated from her wounds from the attack by the clone Nirvana, because the injuries she sustained made her infertile, which she considers a Fate Worse than Death . After she, Dita, and Meia evolve into Tekkamen, this gets remedied.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Several.
  • Slade when in Tekkaman form when fighting against the Harvesters.
  • Anytime the Tekkadreads are formed.
  • Meia talked down on Slade, saying he's nothing without his Tekkacrystal and tries to prove it in a fight. He easily parried her attack and instantly floors her.
  • Rabat seriously underestimated Slade in the hangar fight, and had his ass kicked around by the de-transformed Tekkaman. It got even more violent when Rabat accidentally shot Dita in an attempt to kill Slade. Slade was not happy.
  • Tekkaman Saber owned Slade in the first encounter The second time, though, the tables have turned.
  • Tekkaman Saber single-handedly destroyed a good portion of the Tarak armed forces with absolute abandon.
• Deadly Dodging: Dita during her first time as Tekkaman Sapphire, she was such a newbie to her powers she wound up flying erratically. Fortunately, her haphazard flying not only kept her from getting hit by enemy fire, it also caused the Harvester ships to accidentally shoot each other down in their attempts to shoot Dita.
• Deal with the Devil: Saber to Darkon, when he wanted the power of the penultimate Tekkaman form.
• Death Trap: Tekkaman Saber does this to Slade, Dita, Jura, Duero, and Barnette, trapping them on a desert planet.
• Deflector Shields: Vandread Jura, Vandread Jura X, Tekkaman Ruby, and Tekkaman Blaze, with Attack Reflector in the mix.
• Determinator: Slade whenever faced against crazy odds, especially against other Tekkamen.
• Double Weapon: The Tekkalance of Slade and Saber.
• Dying Declaration of Love: Dita when an unconscious Slade was slowly dying on the emergency gurney for the second time.
  Dita: "I... love... you... Slade..."
• Empowered Badass Normal: Slade was already a badass before when in human form, and even more so in his Tekkaman form.

• Eye Scream: Jura as Tekkaman Ruby managed to use Tekkaman Rapier's own sword to stab her through the right side of her face. Since then, Rapier vows to kill Jura when given the opportunity.
• Face Fault: Slade after explaining about S-E-X between men and women as the natural way of procreation, then Duero casually asks if Slade could demonstrate this by having Dita volunteer. Does it again seconds later when Duero asks obliviously that maybe Jura or Meia could volunteer as well.
• Family Honor: Even five centuries into the future, the issues of family honor concerning Ranma Saotome still stands. This was one of the reasons why Slade thinks regaining his past was a mistake.

• Fantastic Racism: The Tarak men and Mejele women harbor this towards each other in the beginning, but the ones in the Nirvana manage to get past this since they had other things to worry about at the time.
• Fate Worse than Death:
  • Jura gets grievously injured in a fight against the clone Nirvana and was put into the infirmary. Duero then gives the bad news that her ovaries took the most damage, rendering her infertile. The news hit Jura hard and wished she had died in the battle instead. Fortunately Jura becomes fertile again when she, Dita, and Meia get turned into Tekkamen.
  • Rabat gets "harvested" of his organs by the Harvesters due to failing to provide them more info about planets with potential organ material. He's reduced to a limbless torso constantly connected to a life support system. He even begs Slade to just kill him once seeing him again.
• Fiery Redhead: Dita counts as this at times. Xian Pu is basically Shampoo, but with red hair.
• Fire-Forged Friends: On the desert planet trap when Duero and Barnette get separated from Slade, Dita, and Jura following the fight against Saber. Barnette wasn't happy about being stuck with a Tarak man, but several life-threatening events where she was saved by Duero made her realize he's more than what she believed him to be.
• Foreshadowing: Dita once told Slade how she wished she could have Tekkaman powers like him. Two chapters later, she, Jura, and Meia get exactly that.
• Freudian Slip: While using Tekkadread Jura to encase a planet in a force field, Jura tries to come on to Slade in order to have a baby with him, much to his nervousness. As he tried to fend her off, he couldn't help but notice her voluptuous breasts, making it more awkward.
  Slade: "N-n-no, I think you're very beautiful, and... ah, it's not like it hasn't crossed my mind before, er... but I chest, er I mean I just can't... er, uh, ah, I think that it would be breast (ack) BEST if you think about this some more!"
• Fusion Dance:
  • When Slade combines his Tekkaman armor with any of the three main Dreads to create the Tekkadreads.
  • After evolution, when Slade fuses his own Tekkaman armor with the Tekkaman armor of Dita, Jura, and Meia.
• Fusion Fic: Hibiki is replaced by Ranma with the powers of a Tekkaman.
• Generation Xerox: Ukyo XVII is the spitting image of the original Ukyo Kuonji. Xian Pu looks exactly like Shampoo, only that she has red hair instead of purple.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: When Slade, Dita, and Jura are stranded on a desert planet by Saber, Jura becomes hysterical that they're all going to die since they not only have few provisions as well as the local wildlife, Saber was still out there stalking them. In her fear and despair, she runs off but is quickly caught by Slade who tries to calm her down. When it became apparent Jura wasn't stopping her flailing, Slade gives her a Forceful Kiss to make her stop.
• Ghost in the Machine: When Dita, Jura, and Meia go into Slade's mindscape, they encounter a slew of Slades, each representing a different side of his personality.
• The Glasses Come Off: Parfet does this in an attempt to charm Duero. Unfortunately, she's Blind Without 'Em.
• Group Hug: Slade gets this from Dita, Jura, and Meia after reviving from being killed by Saber the first time.
• Hated by All: Rabat, once his dealings with the Harvesters were made known to every colonized planet not yet overrun. He soon became public enemy number one among the galaxy.
• Heel Realization: Rabat after get gets “harvested”, seeing and experiencing exactly what he subjected all the innocent worlds of humans he sold out to the Harvesters.
• Henshin Hero: Slade of course. Also Phantom. Dita, Jura, and Meia also get in on this after being converted into Tekkamen themselves, then later Duero.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • Slade after witnessing the Harvesters utterly destroying the Melanos Fleet, before flying into an Unstoppable Rage to kill as many of them as possible despite the overwhelming odds.
  • Dita, Jura, and Meia nearly go catatonic after Slade dies a second time due to the Radam's interference of a delicate operation that could've saved him. They soon go into an Unstoppable Rage and transform into Tekkamen to take down as many of their forces as possible.

• I Cannot Self-Terminate: Rabat after getting harvested had been reduced to a limbless mutilated torso hooked onto a life support system pod. He even insists Slade to kill him as a way of atonement. Though he was greatly tempted to do so, Slade doesn't follow through and leaves.
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: Duero when asked by Parfet if he can fix the engine bypass of the Nirvana. He simply tells her that he's a doctor, not an engineer. She argues that that's not an excuse because as far as she's concerned, anything that moves is considered living.
  • When Slade, Dita, and an in-labor Ezra were trapped in the elevator, Duero tells them through the speakers that they have no choice but to deliver the baby right there, much to Slade's shock. He mentally states that he's a martial artist and a cosmic warrior, not a midwife.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Subverted with Parfet when she saw Duero and Barnette having sex. She sadly leaves and accepts she has lost. However, Barnette calls her back and informs her of the “arrangement” they made. She then shoves Parfet into the room with Duero and encourages them to do the deed as well before excusing herself, much to Parfet’s embarrassment. Still, Parfet takes up the offer and makes love with Duero.
• Identical Granddaughter: Ukyo XVII and Xian Pu are the spitting images of Ukyo Kuonji and Shampoo, the girls who could have been Ranma's fiances if he didn't get engulfed in the Tekkapod.
• Identity Amnesia: Slade after awakening from the Tekkapod in a now dried up Jusenkyo five centuries later. Way late in the story does he regain his past memories as Ranma Saotome.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Barnette, being a gun otaku, naturally has this. Duero is also this, but with syringes and scalpels. Duero's Prime, or father, Tensen, is this even moreso.
• Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: How Pyoro came to be after the Paksis explosion.
• Instant Expert: Defied after Dita, Jura, and Meia were transformed into Tekkamen after they and Slade almost got killed by Tekkaman Lance, Axe, and Rapier. Even though the battle became more equal, the former Dread pilots still had no idea how their new powers worked and were forced to go through a trial by fire, putting them at a serious disadvantage. They barely managed to win through beginners' luck.
• Ironic Hell: Because of Rabat's crimes with his dealings with the Harvesters and basically selling out the human race, Slade gave him the cryptic promise that he will send Rabat to hell the next time they meet. He was good on his word and had his crimes exposed to every populated planet in reach, causing Rabat to be isolated in space and unable to dock at any planet. He then gets harvested by his employers for failing to give them more information on other planets, getting subjected to the same pain he caused to all those other planets the Harvesters had picked dry. What goes around comes around indeed.
• Invisibility: The specialty of Tekkaman Phantom.
• Jerkass Realization:
  • Meia was initially hostile towards Slade, saying she doesn’t need help from anyone in battle, especially from him. She refused to take Slade’s advice to fuse into a Tekkadread, which almost cost her her life. The event made Meia realize that her pride almost got not only herself but the rest of her allies potentially killed.
  • Barnette after the mutiny incident, which almost cost the Nirvana crew their lives.
  • Again with Barnette later on during the desert planet trap with Duero.
  • Ukyo XVII after realizing Slade is actually the same person who supposedly cheated her ancestor, the original Ukyo Kuonji. Despite everyting Slade had done for the Nirvana, Ukyo XVII demanded blood, but thankfully the situation was mediated by Gascogne, and with Slade's input on the matter, put together the real story behind the incident with the okonomiyaki cart. Ukyo XVII soon realized that everything she had been taught to hate about the Saotome line and men in general had all been for naught, and she had been hating Slade for no real reason.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Unlike in canon, Rabat suffers immensely for everything he's done.
• Ki Manipulation: Slade, one of his only remembered parts of his past when he was Ranma Saotome.
• Killed Off for Real:
  • Rabat's simian partner, Utan, gets killed by the Harvesters via getting tossed out into the vacuum of space.
  • Tekkaman Lance gets vaporized by Tekkaman Blaze. His spot is then replaced by Tekkaman Dagger.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: After Dita, Jura, and Meia become Tekkamen, Misty made the hard decision of giving up on pursuing Slade as she saw she had little chance of getting together with him. Misty opted to leave the Nirvana and stay on the psychics' planet. Soon, she gets attracted to Ghaleon upon first meeting.
• Last Kiss: Between Duero and Barnette of all people when they were trapped on the desert world surrounded by huge worm monsters. Thankfully, they were rescued.
• Leotard of Power: Barnette's usual attire.
• Locked on a Planet: Tekkaman Saber trapped Slade, Dita, Jura, Duero, and Barnette on a desert planet by activating a forcefield around it, cutting off all connection with the Nirvana. To make it worse, Slade was unable to transform to fight evenly with the murderous Tekkaman. They managed to get away from him temporarily, but they were not only stranded on the planet, but separated as well. With the sand storms, the local alien life forms, dwindling supplies, not to mention the stalking Tekkaman Saber, it didn't look so good.
• Love Triangle:
  • A love square between Ranma/Slade, and the three Dread pilots, Dita, Jura, and Meia.
  • One between Parfet/Duero/Barnette.
• Make Way for the New Villains: The Earth had been the Big Bad for most of the story. However, halfway through the 2nd Stage, it's revealed that the Earth's Paksis Pragma had been plotting against the Earth leaders in which it body-jacks the Earth's supreme leader, giving birth to Darkon of the Radam. Darkon then proceeded to massacre the rest of the Earth leaders and give rise to the Radam once more.
• Manly Tears:
  • Slade carries a wounded Jura to the infirmary after the disastrous fight against the Nirvana clone. He could only shed tears as he begs Duero to save her.
  • After finding out that Magno is his mother, Nodoka, and tears into her for abandoning him, Magno tries to reconnect with him but would be given the cold shoulder. Slade unknowingly sheds a tear after his last cold dismissal of Magno, internally believing he may have gone too far.
• Marry Them All: Due to the flaws of severe genetic drift from Tarak and Mejele's methods of procreation, Magno proposes to Slade that he should marry Dita, Jura, and Meia, or at least bed them to ensure children, much to his embarrassment.
• Marshmallow Hell: Slade accidentally smooshed his face into Jura's breasts at one point.
• Meaningful Name: The Tekkamen. Phantom due to his Invisibility powers. Saber, Lance, Axe, and Rapier due to their weapon types (Dagger being an exception as his main weapon is a bow). Sapphire, Ruby, and Diamond due to the colors of their armors made from their former Dreads.
• Mecha-Mooks: The cube fighters, seed ships, space urchins, then later the Radam Spidercrabs.
• Militaries Are Useless: The military forces of Mejele and Tarak were absolutely decimated by the Radam and its Tekkamen.
• Missing Mom: Slade mentions having a mother before after finally regaining his memories, only knowing the name is Nodoka. It's later revealed Nodoka is alive, and is the former identity of Vivian Magno.
• My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: Basically every battle between Slade and Saber is this. Saber became obsessive with trying to kill Slade to prove he is the ultimate Tekkaman, not caring what he has to do to gain the power needed too kill him.
• Naked Apron: Dita in an attempt to seduce Slade. It works and soon they started making love.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Jura's dress.
• Neck Lift: Slade to Rabat after the former curb stomped the latter.
• Nerd Glasses: Parfet wears a thick pair of specs. She's also Blind Without 'Em.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Paiway had basically caused the mutiny on the Nirvana due to her jealousy of Dita spending time with Slade instead of her and a misunderstanding blown completely out of proportion.
• No One Could Survive That!: Slade, Dita, Jura, Diero, and Barnette barely managed to escape from an exploding planet, a trap set by Tekkaman Saber. Jura was confident that Saber got killed in his own trap, but Slade simply comments that if he managed to survive it, Saber could as well.
• No-Sell: In the hangar fight, Rabat cheats by causing a flash to temporarily blind Slade so he could get a cheap shot in. All Rabat got for his trouble was a broken hand after punching Slade in the face.
• Nose Bleed: Slade, due to being on a ship full of attractive women, as well as being the only man knowledgable about the relationships between men and women.
• Official Kiss: Slade and Jura after the latter had performed a tea ceremony for the former. Later between Slade and Dita when the latter decided to be bold and assure the former that if he has no home to go to, he could always call her heart his home (and Slade was in a Post-Kiss Catatonia).
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Saber is obsessed with trying to kill Slade to the point that after learning from Darkon that Slade will die from overuse of Blastor Mode, he demands from the Radam Warlord to grant him the power of evolution so that he can kill Slade himself. He absolutely refuses to accept Slade dying from some cosmic twist of fate and not by his own hand.
• Power at a Price: Slade tells Dita that she wouldn't want to get Tekkaman powers as he felt that his becoming a Tekkaman had robbed him of his past. Ghaleon Viperson as Tekkaman Phantom can only use his powers for thirty minutes before his mind gets overtaken by the Radam parasite in him. Slade using Blastor mode puts a heavy strain on him which almost resulted in his death.
• Power Crystal: The Tekkacrystals of the Tekkamen, which are used to trigger the transformations.
• Pregnant Badass: Before the final battle against Darkon and the Radam, Jura finds out she's pregnant with Slade's child.
• Public Bathhouse Scene: In the bathing area of the Nirvana, Slade just wanted a quiet soak. Dita, Jura, Meia, Ukyo XVII, Xian Pu, and Misty try to sneak in, but their arguing alerted the Tekkaman, causing him to hide on the ceiling. Unfortunately, they stick around to do their business, and gravity takes over. Hilarity ensues.
• Really 700 Years Old: Due to his being kept in stasis in the Tekkapod at the beginning of the story, Ranma/Slade is over 500 years old despite looking to be in his late teens to early twenties. Vivian Magno is even older as she is actually Nodoka Saotome after going into cryo sleep to start her life over after learning of the deaths of her son and husband.
• Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: When the Nirvana crew pick up a distress call from Rabat, they initially want to just leave him to his fate due to his past crimes of selling out the human race. However, as much as Slade hates to do it, it's only the humane thing to do to help him out. Turned out he was just bait by the Radam.
• Relationship Upgrade:
  • Slade's interactions with Dita, Jura, and Meia as the story progresses.
  • After Saber's trap on the desert planet, one occurred between Duero and Barnette.
• The Reveal: Several.
  • Slade realized to his horror why several planets have gotten gutted by the Harvesters, which was because of Rabat. Needless to say, Slade was angry about this.
  • When Slade regains his memories as Ranma Saotome, Magno drops the bomb that she's actually his mother. It wasn't a heartfelt reunion, though.
  • Slade also discovers to his horror that Saber is actually his half-brother.
• Romantic False Lead: Misty thought she would hook up with Slade. She soon realizes that she never stood a chance since Slade's relationships with Dita, Jura, and Meia started blossoming to something more and thus stood down.
• She Cleans Up Nicely:
  • Parfet wears a dress to catch Duero's attention due to her fear she may lose him to Barnette.
  • Meia wears a dress to attract Slade.
  • Jura, although already a bombshell in her Stripperific dress, poured out her beauty in a kimono.
• Shoulder Cannon: "VOLTEKKER!!!"
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Tekkaman Lance, Axe, and Rapier in their first fight managed to take down Slade as well as completely immobilize the Dreads of Dita, Jura, and Meia. The three Tekkamen decide to offer Slade a chance to abandon his current allies and join with them, the "winning side", or die alongside the Nirvana and it's crew. Without hesitation, Slade tells them to go fuck themselves.
• "Shut Up" Kiss: Slade gives this to Jura in two different occasions. The first doubles as a First Kiss as being the first Mejele woman to lock lips with a man, and for Slade to anyone. The second doubles as a Kiss of Distraction in order to calm Jura down.
• Smug Snake: Rabat is a conniving arrogant trader with a high impression of himself. Slade manages to beat the smugness out of him.
• So Last Season: Slade and the Nirvana crew fought against the Harvesters in the 1st Stage story. In the 2nd Stage story, the Harvesters get killed off by Darkon and the Radam, thus becoming the new Big Bad. With the arrival of not only Tekkaman Saber, there was also Tekkamen Lance, Axe, and Rapier. Solution? Dita, Jura, and Meia become Tekkamen themselves.

• Strapped to an Operating Table: Barnette after she and Duero get kidnapped by the Radam to be converted to be used as brainwashed soldiers for their cause.

• Super-Empowering: Slade inadvertently to Dita, Jura, and Meia, from his numerous combing with them into the Tekkadreads, which later triggered their ability to become Tekkamen.
• Super-Speed: Tekkadread Meia is a craft specializing in speed and its transformed state, Tekkadread Meia X. This also extends to Meia as Tekkaman Diamond an her fusion with Tekkaman Slade as Tekkaman Flash.
• Super-Strength:
  • Slade, even in his human form, is freakishly strong. Rabat found that out the hard way.
  • Dita, Jura, Meia, and Duero also acquire this after gaining the powers of a Tekkaman, but they need to learn better control of it when interacting with other people. Also Barnette who had been augmented even though she doesn't become a Tekkaman herself.
• Synchronization: Bart and the Nirvana. Duero and Barnette after getting captured and brainwashed by the Radam.
• Take a Third Option: Saber as a Tekkaman taunts Slade's inability to transform due to the dampener trap he activated on the desert planet, but the tables turn once Slade managed to stab a hole into him with Saber's own Tekkalance. Now Slade taunts Saber that if he doesn't want to die due to his own dampening field, he can either revert and put himself in the same situation as Slade, or turn off the dampening field. Saber instead quickly flies off the planet temporarily to recover, then return to finish the job.
• Takes One to Kill One: Once Tekkaman Saber came into the picture, it was made pretty apparent that the dreads and vanguards had no chance against him. Only Tekkaman Slade was able to best him and vice versa.

• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Jura of all people gives this to Barnette, calling out the reason why she hates Slade so much was because she was jealous of him, and used the mutiny as a way to get back at him over something so petty. Jura even states that at that point, she was ashamed to even be associated with Barnette for her attitude. Barnette also later gets called out by Gascogne on her treatment of Slade despite everything he's done for all of them when he didn't have to.
  • After Slade regained his memories as Ranma Saotome, he chews out Magno (once it's revealed she's Nodoka Saotome) for abandoning him to Genma. Slade angrily disowns Magno as his mother and states he'll leave her forever once the threat of the Radam has been dealt with.
• The Starscream: Tekkaman Saber planned to get rid of the Harvester leaders but was unable to due to a failsafe installed into him to prevent any thoughts of betrayal. It became a moot point when Lord Darkon emerged and took out the Harvesters himself. In fact, the Earth's Paksis core itself was this to the Harvesters, silently biding their time to give rise to Darkon in the first place.
• Team Mom: Magno sees herself as a mother to the crew of the Nirvana.
• Tears of Joy:
  • Dita, Jura, and Meia when reuniting with Slade after reviving from death, twice.
  • Barnette towards Duero after the desert planet incident.
• Tempting Fate: Magno teases Slade by encouraging him to bed Dita, Jura, Meia, or hell, all of them at once, in order to create children without damaged DNA. He sarcastically asks if she thinks she’s his mother or something, to which Magno responds she'd be the luckiest woman in space if she had a son like Slade. It later turned out to be true.
• Thanks for the Mammary: How Slade first met Dita. He winds up grabbing and squishing her breasts when waking up from the Paksis explosion. Unlike Hibiki in canon, Slade immediately realized exactly what he was squeezing and quickly pushed away.

• The Promise: Slade promised to visit Dita in her room one day. Later on, he did, and nearly lead to something...
• The Rival: Tekkaman Saber to Slade/Tekkaman Slade.
  • Tekkaman Lance (and later Tekkaman Dagger) to Dita/Tekkaman Sapphire.
  • Tekkaman Rapier to Jura/Tekkaman Ruby.
  • Tekkaman Axe to Meia/Tekkaman Diamond.
• The Smurfette Principle: Tekkaman Rapier is the only female of the Radam Tekkamen.
• Theme Naming: The Radam Tekkamen are named after melee weapons (Saber, Lance, Axe, Rapier, and Dagger). Dita, Jura, and Meia are also given Tekkaman names by Slade at Dita's request, and had them named after jewels (Sapphire, Ruby, and Diamond).

• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: A typical tactic by Slade as he throws his Tekkalance at his enemies, which he can quickly retrieve with an energy cable. Same with Saber. Dita as Tekkaman Sapphire gets frustrated in her first battle when she was unable to score any hits with her bow weapon (though she unknowingly shot other enemies purely by accident). She throws her bow in annoyance, which in turn becomes a Battle Boomerang that sliced down more enemies before Dita quickly caught it on the return trip in shock.
• Time Bomb: Was set in two planets in order to kill Slade and his friends.
• Too Dumb to Live: The higher brass of the Tarak armed forces were blinded by dreams of grandeur, believing they could take down Tekkaman Saber (and Tekkaman Slade just because he refused to go against the women once the Radam threat was over), then study his remains to figure out the Tekkaman Power System, then use it to wipe out the Mejele women later. They were DEAD WRONG.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Slade once he acquires Tekkaman Blastor Mode.
  • Dita, Jura, and Meia once they acquire the ability to transform into Tekkamen. Duero, too.

• Two Beings, One Body: Tekkaman Slade when merged with: Dita/Tekkaman Sapphire (Tekkaman Burst), Jura/Tekkaman Ruby (Tekkaman Blaze), and Meia/Tekkaman Diamond (Tekkaman Flash).
• Unaffected by Spice: Invoked by Slade in Chapter 6. Slade notes that his steak is spiked with extremely hot sauce, so he focuses his ki on his tongue to endure it. He calls it "a little bland", and Barnette (who spiked it) grabs a bite... setting her mouth on fire and running off to get water.
• Under the Mistletoe: Slade give Dita a kiss on the head in the Christmas chapter before pointing out the mistletoe they were standing under.
• The Unfavorite: Saber AKA Kenji Tensuke, the second son of Nodoka Tensuke, now known as Vivian Magno. He felt he was nothing more than a Replacement Goldfish for Nodoka after she had lost Ranma/Slade, which fueled his anger and hatred for the both of them.
• Unstoppable Rage: Slade beat the crap out of Rabat when he accidentally shot Dita during their fight in the hangar.
• Victory-Guided Amnesia: When Slade died for a second time, then revived, pulling off a Big Damn Heroes moment. However, his revival came with the price of losing all memory of who he is and what had happened. Everyone tried their hardest to help Slade Remember who he is, but fail. He does get better, though.
• Was Too Hard On Her:
  • Slade had been building up a lot of stress after he regained his memories as Ranma Saotome and finding out Magno is actually his mother. Dita coming along and reflexively addressing him as Mr. Alien again grated on his last nerve in which he angrily shouts out that that’s not his name and berates her for continuing to do so. He immediately regrets his outburst after seeing Dita tear up then runs off crying when he tried to apologize.
  • Slade also acts cold and dismissively towards Magno after finding out the truth she is, or was, Nodoka Saotome, his mother. He resists any attempt from her to try and reconnect with her wayward offspring, stating he has no mother. After some time, Slade realizes that he had been unfair to the old captain.

• Wham Line:
  • After Jura gets injured during the fight against the clone Nirvana. Thankfully gets better later.
    Duero: I'm sorry to say but... Jura will never be able to bear children.
  • Magno is shocked when Slade remembers.
    Slade: I remember now. My name is... Ranma Saotome...
  • When Slade remembers his past as Ranma Saotome.
    Magno: Ranma, I know it's been 563 years, but that is still no excuse to talk back to your mother!
  • Saber sneaks into Tarak and attempts to kill Magno until Slade interferes.
    Slade: DON'T YOU DARE HURT MY MOTHER!!!
    Saber: Don't you mean OUR mother!?
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Tarak and Mejele inhabitants understand love to a degree on their planets. What they don't understand is love between the sexes as they have been raised to fear/hate the other. Since Slade came about, Dita, Jura, and Meia undergo this the more they interact with Slade, which greatly confuses them. Slade, even though he understands love between men and women, he's not exactly experienced in it himself, making it more awkward.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Harvester Leaders planned to do this to Tekkaman Saber and vice versa. This became a moot point after Darkon awakens and violently kills off the Harvester leaders and their followers. Saber winds up working under him, but unlike with his former employers, Saber fears Darkon and knew working under him would be for his own better interests.
• You're Not My Father: It is revealed that Vivian Magno is actually Nodoka Saotome. Once Slade recovered his lost memory as Ranma Saotome, Magno reveals this fact to him. However, Slade gets angry at her for basically abandoning him to Genma, supposedly not caring about what happened to him as she never tried to find him, and now of all times she wants to catch up and be the mother she failed to be back then. Slade tells Magno she's not his mother, just his captain, and once everything is said and done, he'll leave the Nirvana for good. Later on, he relents on this stance and forgives her, though.

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