The Return of Kagato
Author's note: This story takes place three months after the end of the OAV. If you are only familiar with one of the TV series, then see, or read summaries for the OAV before reading this story.
It started as a normal day at the Masaki household. Mihoshi had left to go back to Galaxy Police Headquarters a few days after Azusa and the other Jurian nobility left. She still sent weekly reports to her friends on Earth, and this is the point that is causing problems. Mihoshi's report was three days late, and everyone has getting worried, well, almost everyone…
"Come on, aren't you getting sick of her babbling already? Come on Tenchi, I'm the only one you need. We could leave right now, what do you say?" Tenchi politely ignored the comment and tried to explain his view of the problem when a voice calmly interjected.
"Come on and eat, it's getting cold!" Sasami, of course. She was so excited to have people actually eating the food that she prepared, she wanted it to be at it's best when they ate it. Everyone happily obliged.
"Great!"
"Delicious!"
"Sasami you've outdone yourself." Sasami was surprised to hear the appreciation. Ever since Asusa left, there had been a sense of foreboding over the house.
After dinner and cleanup, Tenchi restarted with his plan. "Mihoshi could be in trouble. She wouldn't just stop sending her reports without telling us why. Something must have happened at headquarter that's keeping her from sending something."
"Pardon me, Lord Tenchi, but I have stopped receiving the news from jurai as well." Ayeka said worriedly. "My father may not be pleased with my decision, but he would never intentionally cut me off. I fear that something has happened and that we may be in danger."
"Go on then, Princess. Take Ryu-oh back to Jurai to see what's wrong we'll all be fine when you get back, right Tenchi?"(It'll give me a chance to be alone with Tenchi without that annoying princess in the way) Ryoko said as she clung onto his shoulders.
Yosho surprised everyone by agreeing with Ryoko.
"There may have been trouble on Jurai. We should stay here and give it some time before we do anything we might regret." Even though he was just as worried about Funaho and the rest of the royal family as Ayeka was, he still wanted to make sure there was a problem before going to face the people he had left behind so many years ago. Besides, he was not welcome on Jurai as long as Azusa was king… He snapped back to reality in time to hear Washu finish saying.
"…that way we'll know if anything happened." Without knowing what was going on, they all stood in Washu's lab waiting for her to unveil the invention that she had told them about. She stood there typing, and an interdimentional rift appeared. Washu continued typing and what looked like a normal door came out. Then she stood up, "Tada!! It's my latest invention. It is the same way that I got Mihoshi's ship, but instead of taking something out of another dimension, we go in here, and come out an interdimentional rift at the other end." Everyone blinked. Then Tenchi finally voiced what was on everyone's minds.
"Do you really think it's safe? We could just take Ryo-Oki and Ryu-oh."
At this Washu started yelling, "Of course it's safe. It was made by me, Washu the greatest genius scientist in the universe. There can't be anything wrong with it."
Washu continued under her breath "Of course, it's never been tested on humans before…" but no one heard her.
After another half an hour, everyone was ready to go. They all stepped through the door, which expanded for them all to fit. Washu closed the door.
******Meanwhile somewhere in space******
"So do we have a deal, Lady Tokimi?"
"Yes, you may have full control of Ryoko, but you return Tsunami and Washu to me."
"And what of the boy who defeated my shadow?"
"You may have him as well, but only after I have had a "talk" with him."
"Very good. That shadow, while not being close to my strength, should have been able to
defeat all of them. I want to know how that boy managed to defeat him alone."
"Washu is working on that already. How do you expect to succeed where the scientist who created that small Soja, Ryo-Oki, and Ryoko is failing?"
"Simple. Washu cares about her subject. I don't. I will do whatever it takes to learn his secret."
"You saw what happened when you're shadow hurt the boy the first time. What makes you so sure that you can fully control Ryoko this time? And what makes you so sure that you can defeat the boy?"
"That is why I sought your help. Even with the true Soja's gems, Ryoko may try to resist my control. She has learned from our past encounters. The boy, while he may have been able to defeat my shadow, will not pose a threat to me at full power, and with your added power, I will be invincible."
The air was filled with two evil voices laughing.
I am mainly posting this to get input to make it better. I need all of the comments, criticisms, questions, and general advice that you can give. No, this has no bearing on any other stories, because I have not read any Tenchi fanfiction. Tomu-kun