***This Fanfic is written without the permission of both Pioneer and
AIC but I'm not selling it so please do not sue me. Actually what you can
do Pioneer and AIC is reopen sales of Tenchi in the UK (you know how
much it costs to get the stuff from America!!!!!!!) PLEASE!!!! Anyway
this fanfic was thought up and written in a day after seeing all of the
Fics which Ryoko wins the heart of Tenchi which I can understand. Anyway
feeling a little sorry for Aieka I decided to add something into her
life, hence this came out of my head to give Aieka some happiness for
once. What really did it for me was the short fan fic which Aieka
reflected on what happened and what might've been and in the end she runs away
to find herself...so sad :( So I wrote this. Any pats on the back,
flames, or helpful suggestions or basically just to tell me that you saw it
please send ya e-mails to Puddah@ntlworld.com. Thanks and above all
ENJOY!***
No Need for Watching! Part 1.....
"Forign Exchange!" Ryoko asked "isn't that an exchange of slaves or
something?"
"No no" laughed Tenchi as he read the phamphlet from his school (or
disaster area, still recovering from Ryoko and Tenchi's big night out).
"Then what is it Tenchi?" Sassami asked.
"People my age from other countries come to stay for the summer, help
out and learn about our culture, big jump from a couple of hundred years
ago eh?" Tenchi Explained.
"So who exactly will we be entertaining for the Summer?" Aieka asked.
Tenchi paused for a second and looked at the sheet that came with it
"Gary Thatchell from Great Britain"
Tenchi took the time to look around the room to see where everyone was
seeing he had his face buried in the leaflet since he had got in. Ryoko
was looking down from the ceiling, Sassami was looking over from the
table with Ryo-ohki and Aieka was standing by her sister. Washu was
working on something, father was away in Tokyo working and Grandad...well he
didn't know what Grandad was doing. Tenchi turned to exit. Mihoshi was
somewhere else in the solar system, reading love comics or something.
"He'll be comming in two days time, I've gotta do some chores, seeya
later" said Tenchi as he walked out.
A bit of scilence for a second.
"Wow" Sassami said "A new person from the other side of the Planet
staying".
"Question is how will he react to us?" mused Ryoko, tail poking through
the ceiling every once in a while.
"You'd probably scare him away, either that or insult him with your
manners (or lack of them)" laughed Aieka.
"Oh yeah you'd bore stiff with your attitude!" glared down Royoko.
"Oh yeah" glared back Aieka.
"Yeah little girl!" bit Ryoko.
"Why you" shouted Aieka and not for the first time a test of stregnth
ensued, this time, Aieka pushing up and Ryoko pushing down. Sassami just
sat as usual reading and stroking Ryo-ohki.
"Well I'll give him a nice welcome" she thought.
************
"Foreign Exchange!" exclaimed Washu in her lab "Never had one of those
in ages".
"Yeah well, hes comming tommorow" Tenchi said "Brekfast is ready
y'know".
"Tommorow!!" shriked Washu jumping up into the air "sorry Tenchi but
I've got a alot of work to finnish before tommorow so leave me in peace
please, just leave the information sheet on the desk"
Tenchi shrugged "Sure thing little Washu" and walked back through the
door.
When Tenchi left, Washu clicked her fingers and a small robot holding
the sheet appeared next to her holding the sheet up so she could read
it.
She raised an eyebrow "Strange" she thought "his face, so famililar".
She looked up and said "Computer"
"Yes Washu" a chimed response came.
"Little Washu goddamit!" she shouted.
The computer stopped and computed for a while then said "Yes little
Washu"
"Check all records both using both Earth and Galactic records for the
name Gary Thatchell"
"Computing Wa-" cut off.
"ah ah" smiled Washu.
"Little Washu" grumbled the computer.
There was a wait for a few seconds then a panel appeared in front of
her showing the results.
"No know galactic records of said subject, according to Earth records
he is 18, lives in Hammersmith London, Great Britain, has a high level
of Secondary and pre university education, currently taking a year out
before University to see his planet. Unemployed, White, Anglo Saxon,
Brown hair, brown eyes, average weight and build and no known long term
medical problems."
Washu blinked "What? there must be more"
"Negative Little Washu" chimed the computer.
"Check every record in the universe for said subject"
Again the there was a pause.
"Search complete Little Washu"
"Any results?" Washu asked.
"Negative little Washu"
Washu thought for a second "Hmm, I'll have to find out about him the
hard way.".
***********
Yosho was in the courtyard of the shrine, looking out at the
countryside as the sun set. "He comes tommorow" he said calmly.
"Yes but how will he take Ryoko and Aieka's antics?" Asked Tenchi.
"Watch and learn Grandson" Smiled Yosho "watch and learn"
The next day was bright and full of excitement, everyone was by the
gates waiting for the new arrival. Sadly though the day turned to night.
"Should'nt he be here by now?" asked Ryoko agitated.
"He should be, I got a call from him in the taxi via his Mobile phone
said he'd be here in 20 minutes" Tenchi said.
"Maybe we shou.." started Sassami before pointing to a lone figure
walking up the road "thats him!".
Everyone stared down the road as Gary walked up, carrying only a
rucksack. Finnaly he got to the gates, wiped the sweat away from his forehead
and said "I apologise for my late arrival, the taxi driver dropped me
off a mile or so down the road, claiming some deamon or something lives
up here"
Gary was dressed in Western clothes, nice pair of jeans, baggy shirt
and white trainers, he had short hair, brown of course, untidy but that
seems to be the fashion in Europe at the moment. He was quite slim and
was slightly taller than Tenchi.
Everyone glared at Ryoko "what?" she asked.
"Anyway, I'm Gary Thatchell and I'll be you exchange student for the
summer" he smiled.
"Great glad you got here in one peice" Tenchi said as he lead Gary
round "I'm Tenchi, next to me is Yosho, my Grandfather"
Gary shook his hand "You're the master of the family shrine?" he asked.
"indeed I am" replied Yosho.
"This is Sassami with Ryo-ohki"
"Oh my god!" grinned Gary "You're both so cute!" he said as he ruffled
ryo-ohki and Sassami's hair playfully.
"ha ha thank you sir" blushed Sassami.
"This is Ryoko"
"Nice to meet you" he put a hand out to shake.
"same here" smiled Ryoko as she shaked.
Gary cringed in pain for a second then rubbed his had when they
finnished shaking "Strong grip" he laughed nervously.
"This is Aieka"
"Pleasure to meet you" said Gary
"We are very pleased to have you here Mr. Thatchell" Aieka bowed
slightly, getting a glare from Ryoko.
"And finnally this is Washu"
"nice to meet you" smiled Gary as he looked down then he blinked and
looked again.
"You can call me Little Washu" smiled Washu happily.
"Erm quite" replied Gary.
"Well now you've seen everyone, lets get you inside and get you sorted
out. Follow me" said Tenchi as he walked through the gate.
As Gary walked through the gate though, what he thought were two
harmless wooded pillars suddenly said hello to him. Thinking for a second
then rubbing his head as he walked on, he hoped that was the jet-lag
talking to him.
When Tenchi took Gary away to explain what they'll be doing in the
months to come, Ryoko and Aieka talked privatly for a second.
"What were you doing crushing his hand like that" fumed Aieka.
"What do you mean?" said Ryoko.
"I mean he wants to hold on to his right hand without you crushing it
like paper thank you very much" said Aieka, arms folded and eyes closed.
"Yeah like you did any better" said Ryoko "'we are very pleased to have
you here Mr. Thatchell' give me a break".
"Well..well I did much better than you!" said Aieka.
The pair stared off each other.
"Ladies?" said Gary.
The pair jumped not really expecting Gary. Then they turned round and
smiled sheepishly at Gary.
"If you could point me to your toilet" smiled Gary.
"Ah yes Mr. Thatchell.."
"Please, its Gary"
Ryoko pushed Aieka aside "What my friend here was trying to say was
that the toilet is down the corridor"
Gary raised his eyebrows "Right, thanks then"
As Gary turned away, the two got back to their staring match.
As it was getting late, Gary went to bed right after dinner due to Jet
lag of a very very long flight.
The next day however, promised physical and spiritral fulfilment by
working hard harvesting carrots and doing the various chores.
The door opened to Gary's room and a tired Gary stepped out and headed
to the bathroom, Ryoko raced past.
"Race ya to the bathroom!" she shouted as she ran. Getting to the
Bathroom she opened the door to find Gary brushing his teeth.
"wha-what!" said a suprised Ryoko "but you were back there"
"I was?" mumbled Gary as his mouth was full of toothpaste.
Ryoko looked at Gary, then behind, then at Gary again "Yeah you were
back there!"
Gary shrugged and got back to brushing his teeth.
"Brekfast is ready!" shouted up Sassami
Everyone milled in and sat down. Everyone except Washu.
"Wow!" said Gary as he finnished his bowl "how do you make it so good
Sassami?"
"Well its all down to practice, if you can be bothered to learn then
you can cook as well as you want to be" beamed Sassami.
"Unlike her sister" grumbled Ryoko.
"Don't start you insolent little..." Seethed Aieka.
"Looking forward to see the shrine?" smiled Tenchi trying to take
Gary's attention away from the feuding women.
"Yeah its a good way to learn about your culture, by the way how many
carrots do we have to get again?"
"Oh about 700 or so" casually remarked.
"700! all for that little thing down there" Gary said as he raised an
eyebrow.
A burp was heard below the table that told that Ryo-ohki was here.
Everyone nodded and smiled
"How does he stay in shape" Gary Said.
Meanwhile Washu was watching Gary from a remote camera. "who are you"
she said to herself as she looked at the virtual screen "I must find
out".
**********
Later in the day, while Gary and Tenchi were out Carrot picking, Washu
went to see Ryoko.
"Oh Daughter, oh little daughter of mine!" chimed Washu as she looked
around the sitting room.
"What What!" said Ryoko, lying down in mid air.
"Now thats no way to talk to your dear little mother" smiled Washu "I
need you to do me a favour." She threw up a special syringe.
"Whats this for?" asked Ryoko.
"Its for our visitor, tonight, when hes alseep, sneak into his room and
take a blood sample of him and give it to me asap right?"
"Wrong! No way am I doing that, what if he wakes up and sees me?"
"He won't now do what I say or you won't get any help from me on
anything!"
"Oh all right, all right I'll do it now leave me alone dammit" said
Ryoko, desperate to be alone for a awhile.
"This place is big, how many people come here every year" Said Gary as
he swept the square outside the Shrine.
"Very few, its untouched, its not even on any of the maps" said Tenchi
"What do you think of the girls".
"You're lucky! locked away in the middle of nowhere with all those
girls" laughed Gary.
"They act so strangly though, once I got a note from Aieka telling me
to meet me after school yet I don't go to school nowadays!"
"Nor does she?" said Gary.
"Then Ryoko keeps trying it on with me but shes just annoying, shes
cute though"
The pair laugh.
"Which one do you like most out of the pair?" asked Gary.
"huh?"
"As in if they both fell at your feet begging you to marry one of them,
who would you choose"
"To be honest I haven't a clue" grinned Tenchi "Which one do you like?"
"Aieka, its nice to have some politness going into my ears for once,
you can't belive how rude some people in London are."
"I could understand that" nodded Tenchi.
*********
The night was still, suprisingly cool considering it was early July.
Ryoko's head (or half of it) appeared through the floorboards of Gary's
room.
"Right" she thought to herself "lets get-" she stopped and looked at
the empty bed "huh? where is he?" out of the window small blue flashes
bathed the room. She peered out through the wall and saw that Gary was
somehow teleporting towards the house, bit by bit. Seeing that he was
comming closer she decided to make herself scarce. In a silent flash he
appeared, covered in black. he stripped off, taking care of a thin,
chain-mail like glove and putting in down in his rucksack.
"There, at least I know its working" he said to himself as he got into
bed "try out the other functions later".
Ryoko waited till he dozed off and quickly took a sample from his toe.
She then dived down to Washu's door and rushed in.
"I got it! And he was doing some strange things too" said Ryoko.
"What things?" said Washu.
"Teleportation"
"huh? quickly give me the sample, I need to match the DNA from it!"
Washu grabbed the syringe and a special machine appeared, she dumped
the blood inside and turned it on.
"Computer give me results ASAP"
"Yes little Washu" chimed the computer. Ryoko just watched.
"Results ready"
A screen appeared.
"Gary Thatchell is really Gary Thatch!" said Washu.
"who is?" Ryoko asked.
"a Watcher" she said grinning like a Cheshire cat "a dimensional
watcher!"
"Oh my god! A watcher?"
Washu nodded.
"really a watcher?"
Washu nodded.
"wow a watcher!"
Washu smiled.
"WHATS A WATCHER!!!" shouted Ryoko blowing Washu over.
"Watchers are people from a different diamension, they watch us and
record events for themselves, they very rarely get involved in affairs
fearing that they could accidently change events. They are very highly
trained and they are all young, never above the age of 25." Washu smiled.
"Why are you so happy then?" Ryoko asked.
"I met one about 1000 years ago even though they are really quite
recent. Though we didn't fall in love (I was still rebuilding after what
happened 20,000) we were very good freinds, I only got his first name."
"Which was Gary"
"Well yeah his cover name Gazan, but he was nice enough then anyway.
But..wait.." She looked down his file "This record ends about a year ago
it says nothing else or where hes been or anything, something must've
gone wrong" She turned back to Ryoko "you can do what you want, confront
him if you want, but don't kill or seriously hurt him, he's vital to
something very important. And don't let on that you were there earlier
tonight!"
"Don't you worry, all I'm interested is sleep and nothing else.
Goodnight" She smiled as she went back through the portal to the house.
When she got back she heard faint laughter, Sassami's Laughter. She
shrugged and dumped herself on the Coutch that was her bed once more.
Aieka however also heard the laughter, turning to see Sassami not in her
bed she got up, dumped a robe on and wandered to see what the laughter
was about. It was comming from Gary's room. Peering through the door she
saw the light on and Sassami sitting cross legged in front of Gary who
was in a sleeping bag and had a t-shirt on.
"'Come away, Hawkins,' he would say; 'come and have a yarn with John.
Nobody more welcome than yourself, my son. Sit you down and hear the
news. Here's Cap'n Flint - I calls my parrot Cap'n Flint, after the famous
buccaneer - here's Cap'n Flint predicting success to our v'yage. Wasn't
you cap'n?'" read Gary from a small blue leather book.
"Why is he speaking like that" she said to herself silently as Sassami
sat there spellbound by the Ancient Epic being read to her.
Gary continued "And the parrot would say" he got up and flapped his
arms in a bird like way "'Peices 'o' eight!, Peices 'o' eight!, Peices 'o'
eight!' till you wondered that it was not out of breath or till John
threw a hankerchief over the cage" Sassami laughed at this.
"what are peices 'o' Eight Gary?" giggled Sassami.
"It was slang for gold coins, Spanish Dubloons they used to call it.
How do you rekon it felt to be sailing on the Spanish Main, with nothing
to trouble you, with action and adventure almost certain in you
voyage?"
"I don't know, I would've liked it" Smiled Sassami.
Gary Ruffled Sassami's hair "You're a good kid, you're sister must be
proud of you, you think you can sleep peacefully now?"
Aieka smiled at this blushing a bit.
"Yes Gary, thanks for reading to me" chimed Sassami.
"Don't worry, I'll bookmark where we are right now and you can come
whenever I'm free to continue the story, good night"
"Good night Gary"
Aieka froze for a second then ran back into her room and dived into her
bed.
"Ah shes sleeping, I wish I could read to you if I could read English"
smiled Sassami.
Aieka smiled warmly to herself "thank you Gary" she thouht to herself.
**************
The next morning signalled the morning of the great Carrot picking race
that Gary and Tenchi made up yesterday. They picked a field that was
spilling over with carrots Gary standing on one end of the field, Tenchi
on the other.
"Ready!" Smiled Gary.
"When you are" nodded Tenchi.
Gary turned to Ryo-ohki, eyes as wide as Oceans who jumped in the air
to signify the start. The pair ran as fast as they could while picking
up as many carrots they could, Tenchi was in front just and was starting
to pull away, Gary looked and put on some extra speed, sadly this
single mindness didn't do well for the object detection and avoidance part
of the brain as he tripped on a large stone and went head over heels.
"Ha!" laughed Tenchi, looking behind "I win and you get to- OFF!" said
Tenchi as he slammed into Ryoko (or her bust to be more precise) and
bouced back a couple of feet.
"Hi Tenchi" chimed Ryoko "Why are you in such a hurry?".
"I was winning a race" Grumped Tenchi as Gary ran past laughing his way
to victory
"You get the hard Chores!" he grinned "Oh hi Ryoko"
"Hi Gary, had a nice sleep?" she asked.
"I did but I had to comfort Sassami after she had a bad dream, read her
part of one of my books"
"Oh so thats why she was-ouch!" Ryoko rubbed her head after a child's
hand apeared out of a black hole and slapped her on the head.
Gary blinked and looked to Tenchi who was laughing nervously.
"I'm gonna spend my hour of free time having a read up by the Shrine"
he waved as he ran back to the house "seeya all later".
***************
Gary ran up the stairs on the hill with his book of the week,
'Kidnapped!' running off the stairs onto a track he found a part where he could
look out over the valley, layed against a tree and started to read. He
had got so far though the first chapeter when he felt the wind being
disturbed then a whisling sound, looking behind him he saw a manacal
Ryoko leaping down and just about to slice him in half with her energy
sword. Jumped out of his skin, he dived out of the way, Ryoko creating a
trench that any water company workman would be proud of.
"What are you doing!" shouted Gary as he got up "You nearly ruined my
book!"
"I know who you are Gary" eyed Ryoko.
Gary steped back a bit in suprise "what?"
"I know who you are by-ow ow ow ouch! stop okay!" said Ryoko as two
hands came out of nowhere as slapped her on the head.
By the time Ryoko had recovered from Washu's head wacking, Gary had
pressed a button on his trousers which had made his main glove appear on
his left hand. With that he moved his hand round and another, smaller
black glove appeared on his right hand. Then another set of hand motions
made a blue circle appear. The circle then went stick shaped as he
grasped it in his right hand.
"ooo he wants to fight back eh!" laughed Ryoko
"Look theres no need for this" said Gary seriously.
"Really? heres for cheating yesterday!" She leapt forward smaking her
sword aggresivly against Gary's. Gary matched every move that Ryoko
swung, though not with ease, it was clear that these two were very evenly
matched.
They put swords together in a test of stregnth, Gary went to the
offensive, hacking and smacking his sword on above, sides and below. Again
one player giving its all the other matching..just.
After the two separated, Ryoko stepped back and disapeered. Gary looked
around him then behind him to see Ryoko gliding as fast as she could
towards him, her aim, to torpedo his mid section. He swooped his left
hand glove and sweeped it sideways in front of him quickly. A faint blue
shield came up seperating him from her. Didn't stop the force of the
impact throwing him back 10 or 20 meters though. On the floor and trying
to get up, he was pushed back down by the foot of Ryoko, her sword at
his neck.
"Oh poor Gary" giggled Ryoko "and they said you were highly trained."
"I am" he said through gritted teeth, moving his fingers as he saw a
big rock behind her dissapear.
"Oh well, guess it was all for nothing, have a nice..wha-" She looked
behind to see a rock appear out of a blue portal right at her. Using
this distraction he used his legs to force her to the ground. Jumping on
her , legs on her arms, pinning her to the ground he balanced his sword
on the center of her hand and aimed it at her forehead.
"Now you either promise you won't cause any more trouble or I'll sit
like this for the rest of my hour and read my book okay?" he said as his
book re-appears in his left hand. He looked up the path. There
watching and probabbly watched the whole thing was Yosho and Tenchi.
"A hahahaha!" laughed Gary nervously as he got up, Ryoko now really
pissed off, looked to see what Gary was looking at then she started
laughing nervously.
Yosho said nothing while Tenchi was out of boots supprised!
**************
It was later that night.
"A what?" said Aieka.
"A Watcher, I go through different dimentions recording major events
and basically looking at whats happening at that moment of time. Right
now I'm at present day with my dimension".
"Wow that must be cool" said Sassami excited.
"Yeah it was till I resigned last year" he said with a sigh.
"Resigned why?" asked Washu.
"After I left your part of the world Washu I was assigned a new
partner, his name I can't remember, we went to monitor a planet which was
under serious cultural upheaval. While we were there, they were invaded by
an unkown force, we hadn't see any of these ships before, millions of
them. We were called by my boss to pull out, my parter though refused
to leave and I went"
"What happened to him?" asked Ryoko.
"His head rolled through the portal at our hq back home, his body was
never found" Gary said "his body never found and it shook me up so much
that I put resignation and asked to spend a couple of years in this
diamension.
"So here you are" said Washu.
"If you don't mind I need to take a walk, its a bit damaging on your
ego when you're cover's been blown for the first time in 1000 trips"
smiled Gary weakly.
He made gesgures with his hands and a portal appeared which he walked
through.
Later wondering where Gary was, Aieka went outside looking for him, she
looked at the house and saw him on top of the roof.
"Gary!" shouted Aieka. He looked down.
"Hey what you doing out here?"
"Looking for you of course" she smiled "may I have permission to join
you".
"Of course Ms. Aieka wait a second" he opened a portal down below "walk
through it". She did and appeared on the roof, a flat part. Gary was
laying down looking at the stars. Next to him was a book.
"Are you okay?" asked Aieka "I was worried about you."
"I was as well, I was angry with myself, for putting myself with you
people."
"Why is it us?"
"No its because how much I know about you" smiled Gary.
Aieka gasped for a second "what?"
"No not those kind of things, unofficial Watcher rule no1 never, ever
get sexual gratification from your subjects." Gary laughed.
"Then what then?"
Gary sat up "I've seen you grow up Aieka, I've seen Washu and when she
made Ryoko. I saw Ryoko attack and Sassami nearly killed with her pets,
I saw how Yosho defeated Ryoko and imprison her, I saw your sadness
when he never came back." He smiled "You looked so cute, so innocent when
you were Sassami's age and size.".
Aieka Blushed at this. Gary continued "Sassami reminds me of you, so
small and fragile. Can ask a personal question". She nodded.
"Do you love Tenchi so much that you'd ignore another man's love for
you?" he asked.
"I..I..I don't know" she stammered "I have feelings for him but I feel
I'm fighting a loosing battle with Ryoko for him, he goes for a more
outgoing style that she offers rather than my reserved style." a tear
formed.
"Oh Aieka don't think like that, love should never be fatal to one's
mind or body" he wiped the tear off her face.
"I saw you reading to Sassami last night" she sniffled "Will you read
to me?".
Gary smiled softly at this "Of course, I've got one here that'll cheer
you up. Its called Pride and Predjudice a famous British novel written
hundreds of years ago. He waved his arms around to summon something
"I'll get a pillow for..damn" he sighed as his body disapeared leaving his
head. Aieka laughed at this. Looking down he waved his arms again and
his body was restored and pilliow fell on his head. He handed it to
Aieka. She sat down and he opened the book and began.
"Chapter 1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man
in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Soon though the two were both asleep on the roof, her hand on top of
the book.
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AIC but I'm not selling it so please do not sue me. Actually what you can
do Pioneer and AIC is reopen sales of Tenchi in the UK (you know how
much it costs to get the stuff from America!!!!!!!) PLEASE!!!! Anyway
this fanfic was thought up and written in a day after seeing all of the
Fics which Ryoko wins the heart of Tenchi which I can understand. Anyway
feeling a little sorry for Aieka I decided to add something into her
life, hence this came out of my head to give Aieka some happiness for
once. What really did it for me was the short fan fic which Aieka
reflected on what happened and what might've been and in the end she runs away
to find herself...so sad :( So I wrote this. Any pats on the back,
flames, or helpful suggestions or basically just to tell me that you saw it
please send ya e-mails to Puddah@ntlworld.com. Thanks and above all
ENJOY!***
No Need for Watching! Part 1.....
"Forign Exchange!" Ryoko asked "isn't that an exchange of slaves or
something?"
"No no" laughed Tenchi as he read the phamphlet from his school (or
disaster area, still recovering from Ryoko and Tenchi's big night out).
"Then what is it Tenchi?" Sassami asked.
"People my age from other countries come to stay for the summer, help
out and learn about our culture, big jump from a couple of hundred years
ago eh?" Tenchi Explained.
"So who exactly will we be entertaining for the Summer?" Aieka asked.
Tenchi paused for a second and looked at the sheet that came with it
"Gary Thatchell from Great Britain"
Tenchi took the time to look around the room to see where everyone was
seeing he had his face buried in the leaflet since he had got in. Ryoko
was looking down from the ceiling, Sassami was looking over from the
table with Ryo-ohki and Aieka was standing by her sister. Washu was
working on something, father was away in Tokyo working and Grandad...well he
didn't know what Grandad was doing. Tenchi turned to exit. Mihoshi was
somewhere else in the solar system, reading love comics or something.
"He'll be comming in two days time, I've gotta do some chores, seeya
later" said Tenchi as he walked out.
A bit of scilence for a second.
"Wow" Sassami said "A new person from the other side of the Planet
staying".
"Question is how will he react to us?" mused Ryoko, tail poking through
the ceiling every once in a while.
"You'd probably scare him away, either that or insult him with your
manners (or lack of them)" laughed Aieka.
"Oh yeah you'd bore stiff with your attitude!" glared down Royoko.
"Oh yeah" glared back Aieka.
"Yeah little girl!" bit Ryoko.
"Why you" shouted Aieka and not for the first time a test of stregnth
ensued, this time, Aieka pushing up and Ryoko pushing down. Sassami just
sat as usual reading and stroking Ryo-ohki.
"Well I'll give him a nice welcome" she thought.
************
"Foreign Exchange!" exclaimed Washu in her lab "Never had one of those
in ages".
"Yeah well, hes comming tommorow" Tenchi said "Brekfast is ready
y'know".
"Tommorow!!" shriked Washu jumping up into the air "sorry Tenchi but
I've got a alot of work to finnish before tommorow so leave me in peace
please, just leave the information sheet on the desk"
Tenchi shrugged "Sure thing little Washu" and walked back through the
door.
When Tenchi left, Washu clicked her fingers and a small robot holding
the sheet appeared next to her holding the sheet up so she could read
it.
She raised an eyebrow "Strange" she thought "his face, so famililar".
She looked up and said "Computer"
"Yes Washu" a chimed response came.
"Little Washu goddamit!" she shouted.
The computer stopped and computed for a while then said "Yes little
Washu"
"Check all records both using both Earth and Galactic records for the
name Gary Thatchell"
"Computing Wa-" cut off.
"ah ah" smiled Washu.
"Little Washu" grumbled the computer.
There was a wait for a few seconds then a panel appeared in front of
her showing the results.
"No know galactic records of said subject, according to Earth records
he is 18, lives in Hammersmith London, Great Britain, has a high level
of Secondary and pre university education, currently taking a year out
before University to see his planet. Unemployed, White, Anglo Saxon,
Brown hair, brown eyes, average weight and build and no known long term
medical problems."
Washu blinked "What? there must be more"
"Negative Little Washu" chimed the computer.
"Check every record in the universe for said subject"
Again the there was a pause.
"Search complete Little Washu"
"Any results?" Washu asked.
"Negative little Washu"
Washu thought for a second "Hmm, I'll have to find out about him the
hard way.".
***********
Yosho was in the courtyard of the shrine, looking out at the
countryside as the sun set. "He comes tommorow" he said calmly.
"Yes but how will he take Ryoko and Aieka's antics?" Asked Tenchi.
"Watch and learn Grandson" Smiled Yosho "watch and learn"
The next day was bright and full of excitement, everyone was by the
gates waiting for the new arrival. Sadly though the day turned to night.
"Should'nt he be here by now?" asked Ryoko agitated.
"He should be, I got a call from him in the taxi via his Mobile phone
said he'd be here in 20 minutes" Tenchi said.
"Maybe we shou.." started Sassami before pointing to a lone figure
walking up the road "thats him!".
Everyone stared down the road as Gary walked up, carrying only a
rucksack. Finnaly he got to the gates, wiped the sweat away from his forehead
and said "I apologise for my late arrival, the taxi driver dropped me
off a mile or so down the road, claiming some deamon or something lives
up here"
Gary was dressed in Western clothes, nice pair of jeans, baggy shirt
and white trainers, he had short hair, brown of course, untidy but that
seems to be the fashion in Europe at the moment. He was quite slim and
was slightly taller than Tenchi.
Everyone glared at Ryoko "what?" she asked.
"Anyway, I'm Gary Thatchell and I'll be you exchange student for the
summer" he smiled.
"Great glad you got here in one peice" Tenchi said as he lead Gary
round "I'm Tenchi, next to me is Yosho, my Grandfather"
Gary shook his hand "You're the master of the family shrine?" he asked.
"indeed I am" replied Yosho.
"This is Sassami with Ryo-ohki"
"Oh my god!" grinned Gary "You're both so cute!" he said as he ruffled
ryo-ohki and Sassami's hair playfully.
"ha ha thank you sir" blushed Sassami.
"This is Ryoko"
"Nice to meet you" he put a hand out to shake.
"same here" smiled Ryoko as she shaked.
Gary cringed in pain for a second then rubbed his had when they
finnished shaking "Strong grip" he laughed nervously.
"This is Aieka"
"Pleasure to meet you" said Gary
"We are very pleased to have you here Mr. Thatchell" Aieka bowed
slightly, getting a glare from Ryoko.
"And finnally this is Washu"
"nice to meet you" smiled Gary as he looked down then he blinked and
looked again.
"You can call me Little Washu" smiled Washu happily.
"Erm quite" replied Gary.
"Well now you've seen everyone, lets get you inside and get you sorted
out. Follow me" said Tenchi as he walked through the gate.
As Gary walked through the gate though, what he thought were two
harmless wooded pillars suddenly said hello to him. Thinking for a second
then rubbing his head as he walked on, he hoped that was the jet-lag
talking to him.
When Tenchi took Gary away to explain what they'll be doing in the
months to come, Ryoko and Aieka talked privatly for a second.
"What were you doing crushing his hand like that" fumed Aieka.
"What do you mean?" said Ryoko.
"I mean he wants to hold on to his right hand without you crushing it
like paper thank you very much" said Aieka, arms folded and eyes closed.
"Yeah like you did any better" said Ryoko "'we are very pleased to have
you here Mr. Thatchell' give me a break".
"Well..well I did much better than you!" said Aieka.
The pair stared off each other.
"Ladies?" said Gary.
The pair jumped not really expecting Gary. Then they turned round and
smiled sheepishly at Gary.
"If you could point me to your toilet" smiled Gary.
"Ah yes Mr. Thatchell.."
"Please, its Gary"
Ryoko pushed Aieka aside "What my friend here was trying to say was
that the toilet is down the corridor"
Gary raised his eyebrows "Right, thanks then"
As Gary turned away, the two got back to their staring match.
As it was getting late, Gary went to bed right after dinner due to Jet
lag of a very very long flight.
The next day however, promised physical and spiritral fulfilment by
working hard harvesting carrots and doing the various chores.
The door opened to Gary's room and a tired Gary stepped out and headed
to the bathroom, Ryoko raced past.
"Race ya to the bathroom!" she shouted as she ran. Getting to the
Bathroom she opened the door to find Gary brushing his teeth.
"wha-what!" said a suprised Ryoko "but you were back there"
"I was?" mumbled Gary as his mouth was full of toothpaste.
Ryoko looked at Gary, then behind, then at Gary again "Yeah you were
back there!"
Gary shrugged and got back to brushing his teeth.
"Brekfast is ready!" shouted up Sassami
Everyone milled in and sat down. Everyone except Washu.
"Wow!" said Gary as he finnished his bowl "how do you make it so good
Sassami?"
"Well its all down to practice, if you can be bothered to learn then
you can cook as well as you want to be" beamed Sassami.
"Unlike her sister" grumbled Ryoko.
"Don't start you insolent little..." Seethed Aieka.
"Looking forward to see the shrine?" smiled Tenchi trying to take
Gary's attention away from the feuding women.
"Yeah its a good way to learn about your culture, by the way how many
carrots do we have to get again?"
"Oh about 700 or so" casually remarked.
"700! all for that little thing down there" Gary said as he raised an
eyebrow.
A burp was heard below the table that told that Ryo-ohki was here.
Everyone nodded and smiled
"How does he stay in shape" Gary Said.
Meanwhile Washu was watching Gary from a remote camera. "who are you"
she said to herself as she looked at the virtual screen "I must find
out".
**********
Later in the day, while Gary and Tenchi were out Carrot picking, Washu
went to see Ryoko.
"Oh Daughter, oh little daughter of mine!" chimed Washu as she looked
around the sitting room.
"What What!" said Ryoko, lying down in mid air.
"Now thats no way to talk to your dear little mother" smiled Washu "I
need you to do me a favour." She threw up a special syringe.
"Whats this for?" asked Ryoko.
"Its for our visitor, tonight, when hes alseep, sneak into his room and
take a blood sample of him and give it to me asap right?"
"Wrong! No way am I doing that, what if he wakes up and sees me?"
"He won't now do what I say or you won't get any help from me on
anything!"
"Oh all right, all right I'll do it now leave me alone dammit" said
Ryoko, desperate to be alone for a awhile.
"This place is big, how many people come here every year" Said Gary as
he swept the square outside the Shrine.
"Very few, its untouched, its not even on any of the maps" said Tenchi
"What do you think of the girls".
"You're lucky! locked away in the middle of nowhere with all those
girls" laughed Gary.
"They act so strangly though, once I got a note from Aieka telling me
to meet me after school yet I don't go to school nowadays!"
"Nor does she?" said Gary.
"Then Ryoko keeps trying it on with me but shes just annoying, shes
cute though"
The pair laugh.
"Which one do you like most out of the pair?" asked Gary.
"huh?"
"As in if they both fell at your feet begging you to marry one of them,
who would you choose"
"To be honest I haven't a clue" grinned Tenchi "Which one do you like?"
"Aieka, its nice to have some politness going into my ears for once,
you can't belive how rude some people in London are."
"I could understand that" nodded Tenchi.
*********
The night was still, suprisingly cool considering it was early July.
Ryoko's head (or half of it) appeared through the floorboards of Gary's
room.
"Right" she thought to herself "lets get-" she stopped and looked at
the empty bed "huh? where is he?" out of the window small blue flashes
bathed the room. She peered out through the wall and saw that Gary was
somehow teleporting towards the house, bit by bit. Seeing that he was
comming closer she decided to make herself scarce. In a silent flash he
appeared, covered in black. he stripped off, taking care of a thin,
chain-mail like glove and putting in down in his rucksack.
"There, at least I know its working" he said to himself as he got into
bed "try out the other functions later".
Ryoko waited till he dozed off and quickly took a sample from his toe.
She then dived down to Washu's door and rushed in.
"I got it! And he was doing some strange things too" said Ryoko.
"What things?" said Washu.
"Teleportation"
"huh? quickly give me the sample, I need to match the DNA from it!"
Washu grabbed the syringe and a special machine appeared, she dumped
the blood inside and turned it on.
"Computer give me results ASAP"
"Yes little Washu" chimed the computer. Ryoko just watched.
"Results ready"
A screen appeared.
"Gary Thatchell is really Gary Thatch!" said Washu.
"who is?" Ryoko asked.
"a Watcher" she said grinning like a Cheshire cat "a dimensional
watcher!"
"Oh my god! A watcher?"
Washu nodded.
"really a watcher?"
Washu nodded.
"wow a watcher!"
Washu smiled.
"WHATS A WATCHER!!!" shouted Ryoko blowing Washu over.
"Watchers are people from a different diamension, they watch us and
record events for themselves, they very rarely get involved in affairs
fearing that they could accidently change events. They are very highly
trained and they are all young, never above the age of 25." Washu smiled.
"Why are you so happy then?" Ryoko asked.
"I met one about 1000 years ago even though they are really quite
recent. Though we didn't fall in love (I was still rebuilding after what
happened 20,000) we were very good freinds, I only got his first name."
"Which was Gary"
"Well yeah his cover name Gazan, but he was nice enough then anyway.
But..wait.." She looked down his file "This record ends about a year ago
it says nothing else or where hes been or anything, something must've
gone wrong" She turned back to Ryoko "you can do what you want, confront
him if you want, but don't kill or seriously hurt him, he's vital to
something very important. And don't let on that you were there earlier
tonight!"
"Don't you worry, all I'm interested is sleep and nothing else.
Goodnight" She smiled as she went back through the portal to the house.
When she got back she heard faint laughter, Sassami's Laughter. She
shrugged and dumped herself on the Coutch that was her bed once more.
Aieka however also heard the laughter, turning to see Sassami not in her
bed she got up, dumped a robe on and wandered to see what the laughter
was about. It was comming from Gary's room. Peering through the door she
saw the light on and Sassami sitting cross legged in front of Gary who
was in a sleeping bag and had a t-shirt on.
"'Come away, Hawkins,' he would say; 'come and have a yarn with John.
Nobody more welcome than yourself, my son. Sit you down and hear the
news. Here's Cap'n Flint - I calls my parrot Cap'n Flint, after the famous
buccaneer - here's Cap'n Flint predicting success to our v'yage. Wasn't
you cap'n?'" read Gary from a small blue leather book.
"Why is he speaking like that" she said to herself silently as Sassami
sat there spellbound by the Ancient Epic being read to her.
Gary continued "And the parrot would say" he got up and flapped his
arms in a bird like way "'Peices 'o' eight!, Peices 'o' eight!, Peices 'o'
eight!' till you wondered that it was not out of breath or till John
threw a hankerchief over the cage" Sassami laughed at this.
"what are peices 'o' Eight Gary?" giggled Sassami.
"It was slang for gold coins, Spanish Dubloons they used to call it.
How do you rekon it felt to be sailing on the Spanish Main, with nothing
to trouble you, with action and adventure almost certain in you
voyage?"
"I don't know, I would've liked it" Smiled Sassami.
Gary Ruffled Sassami's hair "You're a good kid, you're sister must be
proud of you, you think you can sleep peacefully now?"
Aieka smiled at this blushing a bit.
"Yes Gary, thanks for reading to me" chimed Sassami.
"Don't worry, I'll bookmark where we are right now and you can come
whenever I'm free to continue the story, good night"
"Good night Gary"
Aieka froze for a second then ran back into her room and dived into her
bed.
"Ah shes sleeping, I wish I could read to you if I could read English"
smiled Sassami.
Aieka smiled warmly to herself "thank you Gary" she thouht to herself.
**************
The next morning signalled the morning of the great Carrot picking race
that Gary and Tenchi made up yesterday. They picked a field that was
spilling over with carrots Gary standing on one end of the field, Tenchi
on the other.
"Ready!" Smiled Gary.
"When you are" nodded Tenchi.
Gary turned to Ryo-ohki, eyes as wide as Oceans who jumped in the air
to signify the start. The pair ran as fast as they could while picking
up as many carrots they could, Tenchi was in front just and was starting
to pull away, Gary looked and put on some extra speed, sadly this
single mindness didn't do well for the object detection and avoidance part
of the brain as he tripped on a large stone and went head over heels.
"Ha!" laughed Tenchi, looking behind "I win and you get to- OFF!" said
Tenchi as he slammed into Ryoko (or her bust to be more precise) and
bouced back a couple of feet.
"Hi Tenchi" chimed Ryoko "Why are you in such a hurry?".
"I was winning a race" Grumped Tenchi as Gary ran past laughing his way
to victory
"You get the hard Chores!" he grinned "Oh hi Ryoko"
"Hi Gary, had a nice sleep?" she asked.
"I did but I had to comfort Sassami after she had a bad dream, read her
part of one of my books"
"Oh so thats why she was-ouch!" Ryoko rubbed her head after a child's
hand apeared out of a black hole and slapped her on the head.
Gary blinked and looked to Tenchi who was laughing nervously.
"I'm gonna spend my hour of free time having a read up by the Shrine"
he waved as he ran back to the house "seeya all later".
***************
Gary ran up the stairs on the hill with his book of the week,
'Kidnapped!' running off the stairs onto a track he found a part where he could
look out over the valley, layed against a tree and started to read. He
had got so far though the first chapeter when he felt the wind being
disturbed then a whisling sound, looking behind him he saw a manacal
Ryoko leaping down and just about to slice him in half with her energy
sword. Jumped out of his skin, he dived out of the way, Ryoko creating a
trench that any water company workman would be proud of.
"What are you doing!" shouted Gary as he got up "You nearly ruined my
book!"
"I know who you are Gary" eyed Ryoko.
Gary steped back a bit in suprise "what?"
"I know who you are by-ow ow ow ouch! stop okay!" said Ryoko as two
hands came out of nowhere as slapped her on the head.
By the time Ryoko had recovered from Washu's head wacking, Gary had
pressed a button on his trousers which had made his main glove appear on
his left hand. With that he moved his hand round and another, smaller
black glove appeared on his right hand. Then another set of hand motions
made a blue circle appear. The circle then went stick shaped as he
grasped it in his right hand.
"ooo he wants to fight back eh!" laughed Ryoko
"Look theres no need for this" said Gary seriously.
"Really? heres for cheating yesterday!" She leapt forward smaking her
sword aggresivly against Gary's. Gary matched every move that Ryoko
swung, though not with ease, it was clear that these two were very evenly
matched.
They put swords together in a test of stregnth, Gary went to the
offensive, hacking and smacking his sword on above, sides and below. Again
one player giving its all the other matching..just.
After the two separated, Ryoko stepped back and disapeered. Gary looked
around him then behind him to see Ryoko gliding as fast as she could
towards him, her aim, to torpedo his mid section. He swooped his left
hand glove and sweeped it sideways in front of him quickly. A faint blue
shield came up seperating him from her. Didn't stop the force of the
impact throwing him back 10 or 20 meters though. On the floor and trying
to get up, he was pushed back down by the foot of Ryoko, her sword at
his neck.
"Oh poor Gary" giggled Ryoko "and they said you were highly trained."
"I am" he said through gritted teeth, moving his fingers as he saw a
big rock behind her dissapear.
"Oh well, guess it was all for nothing, have a nice..wha-" She looked
behind to see a rock appear out of a blue portal right at her. Using
this distraction he used his legs to force her to the ground. Jumping on
her , legs on her arms, pinning her to the ground he balanced his sword
on the center of her hand and aimed it at her forehead.
"Now you either promise you won't cause any more trouble or I'll sit
like this for the rest of my hour and read my book okay?" he said as his
book re-appears in his left hand. He looked up the path. There
watching and probabbly watched the whole thing was Yosho and Tenchi.
"A hahahaha!" laughed Gary nervously as he got up, Ryoko now really
pissed off, looked to see what Gary was looking at then she started
laughing nervously.
Yosho said nothing while Tenchi was out of boots supprised!
**************
It was later that night.
"A what?" said Aieka.
"A Watcher, I go through different dimentions recording major events
and basically looking at whats happening at that moment of time. Right
now I'm at present day with my dimension".
"Wow that must be cool" said Sassami excited.
"Yeah it was till I resigned last year" he said with a sigh.
"Resigned why?" asked Washu.
"After I left your part of the world Washu I was assigned a new
partner, his name I can't remember, we went to monitor a planet which was
under serious cultural upheaval. While we were there, they were invaded by
an unkown force, we hadn't see any of these ships before, millions of
them. We were called by my boss to pull out, my parter though refused
to leave and I went"
"What happened to him?" asked Ryoko.
"His head rolled through the portal at our hq back home, his body was
never found" Gary said "his body never found and it shook me up so much
that I put resignation and asked to spend a couple of years in this
diamension.
"So here you are" said Washu.
"If you don't mind I need to take a walk, its a bit damaging on your
ego when you're cover's been blown for the first time in 1000 trips"
smiled Gary weakly.
He made gesgures with his hands and a portal appeared which he walked
through.
Later wondering where Gary was, Aieka went outside looking for him, she
looked at the house and saw him on top of the roof.
"Gary!" shouted Aieka. He looked down.
"Hey what you doing out here?"
"Looking for you of course" she smiled "may I have permission to join
you".
"Of course Ms. Aieka wait a second" he opened a portal down below "walk
through it". She did and appeared on the roof, a flat part. Gary was
laying down looking at the stars. Next to him was a book.
"Are you okay?" asked Aieka "I was worried about you."
"I was as well, I was angry with myself, for putting myself with you
people."
"Why is it us?"
"No its because how much I know about you" smiled Gary.
Aieka gasped for a second "what?"
"No not those kind of things, unofficial Watcher rule no1 never, ever
get sexual gratification from your subjects." Gary laughed.
"Then what then?"
Gary sat up "I've seen you grow up Aieka, I've seen Washu and when she
made Ryoko. I saw Ryoko attack and Sassami nearly killed with her pets,
I saw how Yosho defeated Ryoko and imprison her, I saw your sadness
when he never came back." He smiled "You looked so cute, so innocent when
you were Sassami's age and size.".
Aieka Blushed at this. Gary continued "Sassami reminds me of you, so
small and fragile. Can ask a personal question". She nodded.
"Do you love Tenchi so much that you'd ignore another man's love for
you?" he asked.
"I..I..I don't know" she stammered "I have feelings for him but I feel
I'm fighting a loosing battle with Ryoko for him, he goes for a more
outgoing style that she offers rather than my reserved style." a tear
formed.
"Oh Aieka don't think like that, love should never be fatal to one's
mind or body" he wiped the tear off her face.
"I saw you reading to Sassami last night" she sniffled "Will you read
to me?".
Gary smiled softly at this "Of course, I've got one here that'll cheer
you up. Its called Pride and Predjudice a famous British novel written
hundreds of years ago. He waved his arms around to summon something
"I'll get a pillow for..damn" he sighed as his body disapeared leaving his
head. Aieka laughed at this. Looking down he waved his arms again and
his body was restored and pilliow fell on his head. He handed it to
Aieka. She sat down and he opened the book and began.
"Chapter 1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man
in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Soon though the two were both asleep on the roof, her hand on top of
the book.
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