Washu was working in her lab like normal. Sasami was cooking in the kitchen and the others were outside. "Careful, careful…" said Washu to herself. BOOM! Yet another explosion from the lab. Washu sighed when she ended up outside. "One drop too many." She stood up, brushing dust and black smoke off of herself. Sasami calmly left the house, which was quickly filling with smoke. No one else paid any attention. This was nothing out of the ordinary for this odd group of people. The explosions and strange noises from the laboratory grew to be as expected as the fights between Ayeka and Ryoko since Washu arrived and set up her sub-space lab.
"Washu," Ryoko had come down from a tree and landed in front of Washu, "must you continuously blow up Tenchi's house?"
Washu just smiled at her kawaiily. "Aww, Ryoko, you know no real damage was done."
Ryoko shook her head and was turning to leave when Washu couldn't resist adding "Ryoko, dear, won't you please call me 'Mom'?" Ryoko turned angrily to her 20,000+-year-old mother who looked like a child right now. "NO!" Ryoko sank into the ground and Washu tsked shaking her head. "Children have no respect for their parents these days, Sasami. I hope you listen better to your mom and dad." Sasami looked surprised to see she was being spoken to again. She thought she had been forgotten about. When she thought about the question and how much she had disobeyed her parents lately, she looked down at the ground. "No matter, child. The smoke should be cleared by now. Let's go inside." Sasami followed Washu back in, proceeding to chatter about her day.
Tenchi while he was in the garden. It was as if she had come out of nowhere. No bus came to the temple this time of evening. "Good afternoon. My name is Umi. Have you seen my mommy?" the little girl questioned Tenchi. Tenchi gave her a blank look then bent down to her level and smiled. "I don't know, Miss Umi. Who is your mother?" Ryoko, being herself, came up out of the ground. "Tenchi! There you are. Guess you didn't notice that Washu did it again?" Umi's face grew bright. "Mommy! And Grandma is here too?" Ryoko looked at her. "Mommy? Grandma? Who are you?" Noticing the annoyed look of Ryoko's face, Tenchi turned his attention back t Umi. "I bet Washu can figure this out. Why don't we go back to the house and ask her?" Umi didn't even wait for her mother to agree before she was running to the house screaming "Grandma! Grandma!" Tenchi sighed and picked up a basket of veggies he had been retrieving from the garden and headed back towards the house. "Washu isn't going to like being called Grandma." Ryoko stated with a smirk as she sank back into the ground.
Sasami was in the kitchen making dinner when she heard "Grandma! Grandma!" who's voice was accompanied by an unrecognizable body heading straight into the lab. "I'm not going to ask…" she mumbled before turning back to her cooking. She tossed a few slices of carrots to Ryo-Ohki who meowed happily just before gulping them done.
Washu had just finished cleaning up when a little girl yelling "Grandma" tackled her! Washu blinked. "Grandma? Who are you calling Grandma?" Umi got off of Washu and giggled. "Sorry, Grandma. You don't know me yet. My name is Umi and I am your granddaughter here from the future." Washu sighed and stood up. "You people need to stop coming back from the future. I really don't have time to help you all and THEN send you back to the right time." Her eyes grew wide. She finally saw it. "Did you say you were MY granddaughter? Great Tsunami! Ryoko had offspring! RYOKO!" she went racing out of the lab, Umi following right behind.
She heard Ryoko yelling outside and the noises of a fight. "Umi, stay here with Sasami." Umi smiled obediently which almost freaked Washu out. "Yes, Grandma." Washu rolled her eyes and went running outside to see Ryoko and Tenchi fighting a stranger and Scar standing there as if he had just had a turn with him.
Scar had only been here a couple of months. He was a good friend of theirs and was head over heals with Ryoko.
Washu got close enough to hear the guy say 'Kagato'. Both she and Ryoko grew angrier at that name. Ryoko rushed at the boy, her energy sword in hand, and Washu's holo-computer appeared. She started typing away and speaking to herself. "If this is really Kagato, we'll get him…" She was shocked when she found the results of the scan.
"Ryoko!" Washu yelled at her. "Wait! Don't kill him!"
"Why not?!" came a frustrated reply.
"Because that is not Kagato. Kagato is inside that person!"
The enemy looked down at them and said in a voice Washu knew all too well, "Very good, Washu. I was wondering how long it would take you to figure it out." His evil laughs sent chills down her spine. "I've been waiting for this moment a long time, Washu. Now everyone will know who the real genius is! I had to use this pathetic boy to get to earth and gain power, but I now do not need him anymore." There were gasps from all around including from Ayeka and Nagi who had just come running from different directions in the forest. Kagato's form split from the stranger's who fell to the ground. Kagato then shot after Ryoko unexpectedly. Nagi was quick to stop him. "That's my bounty you're trying to kill!" When Ryoko regained her composure, Nagi dove after the boy. She dropped him off next to Washu and went back to help Ryoko.
"Scar! Over here! Help me get him into my lab!" Washu's computer disappeared. She wasn't worried about Ryoko. She knew she would defeat Kagato. At least she was pretty sure she could…