Kiyone received Washu's message about what had transpired while they were away. "So," she said, thinking back to the Pluto incident, "that's why we got this false message and found nothing. It was all a hoax and now Kagato has Wa-Oka. This isn't good."
"Yes it seems like he had planned this all along" Washu noted, cupping her own chin, "Kiyone, power up your ship and try to meet us at the Soujah."
"Do you know where it is?"
"Uhm...no, but I will as soon as we launch in the next half hour. He may be waiting for us somewhere near the earth, Mars or the asteroid belt. I have a hunch that he's waiting a bit ways from the earth, seeing how is plans were foiled by Tsunami and the gang. Just keep your sensors beeping and please, and try to make sure Mihoshi knows what's happening. Last time she nearly got herself killed trying to get Dr. Clay." She snickered to herself. Somehow Mihoshi seemed to survive the impossible (given her intelligence) and Washu couldn't figure it out. Still, they would need all the help they could get to try and stop Kagato once and for all. Kiyone saluted her, "Understood Washu. I'll be waiting for your signal and aid you in whatever manner I can, though it may be a while."
"What do you mean"
"Uhm...*egg drop*....Mihoshi threw the engine rotation system off trying to figure out which button was the coffee button. *sigh* Repairs won't take that long, but as soon as we have the coordinates, we will be there as soon as possible. Kiyone out." The screen went white with static as Kiyone ended the transmission.
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Wa-Oka's eyes opened to the dim darkness in some type of facility. Her head was throbbing like crazy and she barely remembered what happened before. Taking a few seconds to let her eyes adjust to the lighting, she found that the facility she was being held in was somewhat morbid in appearance. Fear enveloped as she looked into the face of her captor. "Well well, miss Wa-Oka Habuki" Kagato said with intrigue, "....one of the greater scientific minds to finish some of the good 'Professor's' works. Or should I say Wa-Oka Masume, the heir to the Masume throne? Who would have thought that the 'professor' would have a daughter such as the likes of you?"
"Who the hell are you?" she asked, struggling against her restraints. Kagato laughed at her attempt to free herself. The restraints around her ankles and forearm became tighter with every movement until finally, no longer able to take the stress it was causing, she stopped and glared at the dark figure. "Oh, please, do try to escape against the restraints. I must say, you are not as strong as your 'little sister', but you are far more valuable and your abilities make you note worthy for studying...at a later date."
"Who ARE you? What the hell are you talking about?"
"Oh, please to forgive my manners. I am Kagato; one of your 'mother's' understudies...well, ex-studies. But that shouldn't be your concern for the moment." She looked at his expression and wondered what life would have in stored for her. Slowly from the depths of the darkness came another figure, one who looked more of a lab assistant than an actual dictator, such as Kagato. Kagato smirked at her as he followed her eyes. "I'd like you to meet my lab assistant, Naoko. He will be looking after you during your stay, hehe." He turned away from Wa-Oka and headed towards the teleport pad near Naoko. "Oh, Naoko. Make sure Miss Wa-Oka here is in an appropriate position to 'greet' our other guest which will be arriving soon."
Kagato disappeared, leaving Wa-Oka at the mercy of Naoko. He walked to her and began examining her. "I'm sorry, professor, but I have to put you under his control. Hope you like long naps cause that's what going to happen." He said, taking a device from the table behind her restraining chair. "Don't worry, this won't hurt...much, hehe" Her screams of pain echoed through the Soujah, but they might as well have been silent since the twisted Kagato enjoyed the shrieks so.
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Washu turned to Ryoko, Ayeka and Tenchi, who was placing his battle suit on. "We will leave shortly, there is something I have to get."
"Don't tell me another experiment", Ryoko said, watching her very closely. Washu didn't respond to her comment this time. She simply sighed to herself and walked to another part of her lab. They watched her and wonder what the heck she was doing. For fifteen minutes they waited for Washu, wondering if she was okay. Finally she returned with a device in her hand. "Okay ladies and Tenchi, are we ready to take off?"
"Uhm, sure little Washu" Tenchi said, looking at the device in her hand, "what's that in your hand?"
"Oh, just a little something for the road. After all, what's a journey like this good for if the greatest scientific genius in the universe can't take along an invention."
"What does it do Miss Washu?"
"Call me Little Washu..."
"Oh, Little Washu....what does it do?"
"I'm glad you asked.", she said, smiling to them. The screen which was used to contact Kiyone now began to display. "Uhm, Little Washu...I really don't think we have time for an explanation. Remember, Kagato and Wa-Oka." Washu's eyes widened a bit then went back to their normal form. "Okay, but remember I tried to tell you.", she said. Grabbing Ryo-Ohki by the neck, she walked to a portal to her lab and signaled for the other to follow. Soon they were outside once again near the Jurian tree. Ki-Ohki followed closely behind them and began her mantic pleads to Washu. "What's that? You wanna go as well?"
"Miyaao!" she responded. Ryo-Ohki chatted back with her for a few minutes, then nodded to Washu and Miyaoed at her. "You don't want to fly there. You want us to go in Ki-Ohki instead?" Washu looked between Ryo-Ohki and Ki-Ohki. "Oh, whatever, let's just go!" Ryoko yelled. Washu placed Ryo-Ohki on the ground and threw Ki-Ohki in the air. Soon she transformed into a ship slightly larger than Ryo-Ohki. The hull shifted forms slightly then finally settled in a form which was similar to Ryo-Ohki in appearance. The ship's color seemed to blend in with the surroundings. "Hmm, interesting. Well all ab-"
"WAAAAIIT!!!" came a shout from behind them. It was Sasami rushing towards them. "WAAIIT AYEKA, MISS WASHU, PLEASE WAIT!"
"Sasami!" Ayeka said, "Sasami what is it?"
"Please, let me go with you. Please?"
"Sasami, it's too dangerous. You'll be safer here with Yosh-"
"No Ayeka. I must go with you as well."
"I am too" said Tenchi's father.
"Wha?" Tenchi asked unsure as to what their motives were. "Tenchi..." Yosho said, placing his hand upon Tenchi's shoulder, "this planet is a beautiful place. When I first came here, I found a sense of peace and serenity. I know for myself that I wouldn't feel content by just sitting back and doing nothing to try and stop Kagato. I think everyone else here feels the same as I do, so please allow us to accompany you." Tenchi nodded to them. "Alright. But please watch after Sasami."
"Thank you, Tenchi." Yosho said. "Alright! Everyone who's going board now or wait for the next intergalactic ship to arrive." Everyone nodded and walked to the teleport sight of Ki-Ohki.
Soon they were coasting through space like a comet. Washu began typing commands upon the console of Ki-Ohki. "Okay girl, now let's see if you can locate a rat for us." she said, smiling a bit. Soon Ki-Ohki's sensors began to beep the location of something huge near the outer rim of the asteroid belt. Tapping a button upon the console, she transmitted some information to Kiyone's ship. "Hmm, that should suffice for the moment" she mumbled to herself, "I hope they come through."
Within fifteen minutes, the crew of Ki-Ohki found what they sought, the massive and terrorizing Soujah. It was much larger and different from Washu's original plans. "Hmm, looks like Kagato did some redecorating with Soujah." Washu said, taking evasive maneuvers. Ki-Ohki began to take a few hits as Washu tried to handle the configurations of Ki-Ohki. "Washu! We're getting hit! Do something!"
"Just keep your shirt on Tenchi. Or maybe not, but just keep it down while I make the necessary calculations." After a few minutes of screams and hits, she got passed the canons of Soujah. "See, I told you I had everything under control. Now the fun begins heheheh"
(finish sometime later)
The inside of Soujah was cold to touch and feeling. It was evil on every feesable level and let an eerie feeling linger in the air. The decorations of Kagato that sat upon the wall made Ryoko sick to her stomach. "That sadistic bastard" she mumbled. The defense druids were trying their best to keep them at bay, but they failed in their attempt to do so. They found themselves in a dark room with little illumination. "Where are we?" Tenchi asked, looking at what looks like something out of a sci-fi horror film. Washu tapped a few buttons on her hololaptop. "It seems that we're in the upper starboard part of the Soujah. From the techinical readouts, the Soujah consists of two parts instead of three as in the original plans. It seems that this path will ead to the main room, but there are several subsections of Soujah as well."
"Meaning Washu?"
"Meaning that it may be more suprises awaiting us while we go to the main room. I suggest we stick together, that way we have a better chance of dealing with whatever may come out way."
"Alright then" Ryoko huffed, "let's hurry up and get moving. I wanna pay that Bastard bakc for EVERYTHING he's done." She bolted off first down towards the path. "Well, as she said, let's get going." The three followed her, trying to keep up with her. Ayeka, in spite of all her training, lagged behind the most in trying to keep up with the group. The floor, for some reason, felt as if it were sinking in or something to that nature. "TENCHI!" She yelled, holding her hands out to him. She fell onto the floor as it began to devour her being. They turned to her cried to see her being slowly devoured by the floor. "AYEKA!" Tenchi yelled, running to reach her before the floor completely encompassed her.
The floor began to devour her at a faster rate than before to where her hand and most of her body were within the floor's grasp. All that was left were her eyes which gazed upon Tenchi trying to rescue her from this...floor. She tried desperately to call to him, to cry out his name, but all that she was able to do was muffle a sound unheard by the ears present. Try as he may, his attempts were futile as she was now completely consumed by the floor.
"NO!!!" he cried. Ryoko howl angrily and blasted at the floor, trying to pry it open, to rescue Ayeka from the hand of that...that madman. "Your attempts are futile you know" Washu commented calmly to them. Ryoko balled up her fists and stood eye to eye with her mother. "What do you mean!? First that madman takes Wa-Oka and now Ayeka and all you can say is that our attempt is futile!?!?!"
"That's exactly what I'm saying"
"Then What the HELL are we supposed to do?!?! Wait while that insane psychopath takes us all one by one!?!?!"
Washu turned from Ryoko and began to make her way down the path. "The only way to rescue the captives from their prison is to over throw the wardon, so to speak. If we defeat Kagato, then they will be freed. Now let's hurry before anything else happens." Washu sighed heavily in a silent lamented note of worry. Kagato was indeed every bit of the insane psychopath as Ryoko hated him to be and this is what worried her the most. What had he done to Wa-Oka and what were his plans for Ayeka? Thoughts of horrid things ran through her mind, sending chills down her spine. Tenchi could see Washu's expression change suddenly, her face wrinched in fear. He placed his hand upon her shoulder and gave her a gentle smile. "It's okay, Washu. We'll get her back. I promise"
"Hurry up and move it people!" Ryoko brawled. Washu smiled at Tenchi, but still behind her smile her worries still silently plagued her. The three continued down the path to the central room. Even if she didn't how it, Ryoko was just as worried about Ayeka and Wa-Oka as any of the others. Why did Wa-Oka have to go in place of her? Why couldn't she just let Kagato have her instead? She cursed herself evertime she thought about it, cursing the fact that she did nothing to stop Wa-Oka and now there was no telling what Kagato had done to her. Her greatest fear was he had turned her into something much worse than a mere puppet for his twisted games. Her mind began to wander back to the days when she was under Kagato's control. The things he would do to her, the sick experiments, she detested him with all her being. When he sent her on a rampage to destroy Jurai's royal family, she went without a will of her own. When Yosho finally fought her on earth and imprisoned her in that cave, she remembered feeling a sense of relief from her prison, as if set free from long years of pain and tormoil, but soon that space of relief was filled with loneliness. It was Tenchi who gave her some relief from her loneliness when he would visit her when he was little. All the times he would come by and smile at her, the times he would cry himself to sleep in the cave...to her that was a relief from her prison. When she was freed, she relished every moment of true freedom, and when Kagato was defeated, life was finally at peace for her. But now, that changed with his return and to make matters worse, he now held Wa-Oka and Ayeka in his possession. "Why Wa-Oka" was all she could say in her mind as she continued at the point towards the central room.
Through numerous traps and attack bots, the group managed to defeat and out manuever the relentlesss attacks of Kagato. Soon, they arrived at the central room. The dim lighting of the room gave an all to errie and horrid feeling as they slowly walked into the room. "KAGATO!!" Ryoko howled. In response she was greeted with a sick and twisted laughter, one which sent anger surging through Ryoko's, as well as Washu's, veins. The laughter soon took shape and form before them as Kagato's throne lit the room a bit more.
He sat with his face seated carefully on his fists. The twisted smile which he wore was that which sent memories of horror and pain through Ryoko's mind. Tenchi's eyes became like that of a hundred inferno's as he stood with this sword in hand. "Alright, Kagato" Tenchi said, "Where's Wa-Oka and Ayeka?" Kagato laughed in absolute humor as he looked into Tenchi's eyes. Did he truly think that he would be able to stop his plan? Did that boy truly believe that he stood a chance against him in battle? The thought made him laugh even more as the room lit up even more, revealing by his throne a captive Ayeka. "AYEKA!" He screamed. Ryoko could...no she wouldn't allow this to happen again. She dashed towards him with her energy saber blazing in her hand. "Ryoko, no STOP!" Washu warned, but her words fell on deaf ears as she came closer and closer to his throne. He smiled at her, not even making an attempt to get up from his throne and defend himself. As she swung at him, her saber was met by another saber. The force of the other impacting light saber threw her back a few feet. Ryoko, Washu and Tenchi's eyes widened as they looked upon the figure standing before Kagato.
"My dear Professor, little Ryoko and you, boy,...let me introduce you to my assistant. She's far more superior to you, Ryoko, in skill and power, which is surprising seeing how she wasn't created as you were. Hahah, please say hello to my new...project, Wa-Oka."
"Yes it seems like he had planned this all along" Washu noted, cupping her own chin, "Kiyone, power up your ship and try to meet us at the Soujah."
"Do you know where it is?"
"Uhm...no, but I will as soon as we launch in the next half hour. He may be waiting for us somewhere near the earth, Mars or the asteroid belt. I have a hunch that he's waiting a bit ways from the earth, seeing how is plans were foiled by Tsunami and the gang. Just keep your sensors beeping and please, and try to make sure Mihoshi knows what's happening. Last time she nearly got herself killed trying to get Dr. Clay." She snickered to herself. Somehow Mihoshi seemed to survive the impossible (given her intelligence) and Washu couldn't figure it out. Still, they would need all the help they could get to try and stop Kagato once and for all. Kiyone saluted her, "Understood Washu. I'll be waiting for your signal and aid you in whatever manner I can, though it may be a while."
"What do you mean"
"Uhm...*egg drop*....Mihoshi threw the engine rotation system off trying to figure out which button was the coffee button. *sigh* Repairs won't take that long, but as soon as we have the coordinates, we will be there as soon as possible. Kiyone out." The screen went white with static as Kiyone ended the transmission.
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Wa-Oka's eyes opened to the dim darkness in some type of facility. Her head was throbbing like crazy and she barely remembered what happened before. Taking a few seconds to let her eyes adjust to the lighting, she found that the facility she was being held in was somewhat morbid in appearance. Fear enveloped as she looked into the face of her captor. "Well well, miss Wa-Oka Habuki" Kagato said with intrigue, "....one of the greater scientific minds to finish some of the good 'Professor's' works. Or should I say Wa-Oka Masume, the heir to the Masume throne? Who would have thought that the 'professor' would have a daughter such as the likes of you?"
"Who the hell are you?" she asked, struggling against her restraints. Kagato laughed at her attempt to free herself. The restraints around her ankles and forearm became tighter with every movement until finally, no longer able to take the stress it was causing, she stopped and glared at the dark figure. "Oh, please, do try to escape against the restraints. I must say, you are not as strong as your 'little sister', but you are far more valuable and your abilities make you note worthy for studying...at a later date."
"Who ARE you? What the hell are you talking about?"
"Oh, please to forgive my manners. I am Kagato; one of your 'mother's' understudies...well, ex-studies. But that shouldn't be your concern for the moment." She looked at his expression and wondered what life would have in stored for her. Slowly from the depths of the darkness came another figure, one who looked more of a lab assistant than an actual dictator, such as Kagato. Kagato smirked at her as he followed her eyes. "I'd like you to meet my lab assistant, Naoko. He will be looking after you during your stay, hehe." He turned away from Wa-Oka and headed towards the teleport pad near Naoko. "Oh, Naoko. Make sure Miss Wa-Oka here is in an appropriate position to 'greet' our other guest which will be arriving soon."
Kagato disappeared, leaving Wa-Oka at the mercy of Naoko. He walked to her and began examining her. "I'm sorry, professor, but I have to put you under his control. Hope you like long naps cause that's what going to happen." He said, taking a device from the table behind her restraining chair. "Don't worry, this won't hurt...much, hehe" Her screams of pain echoed through the Soujah, but they might as well have been silent since the twisted Kagato enjoyed the shrieks so.
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Washu turned to Ryoko, Ayeka and Tenchi, who was placing his battle suit on. "We will leave shortly, there is something I have to get."
"Don't tell me another experiment", Ryoko said, watching her very closely. Washu didn't respond to her comment this time. She simply sighed to herself and walked to another part of her lab. They watched her and wonder what the heck she was doing. For fifteen minutes they waited for Washu, wondering if she was okay. Finally she returned with a device in her hand. "Okay ladies and Tenchi, are we ready to take off?"
"Uhm, sure little Washu" Tenchi said, looking at the device in her hand, "what's that in your hand?"
"Oh, just a little something for the road. After all, what's a journey like this good for if the greatest scientific genius in the universe can't take along an invention."
"What does it do Miss Washu?"
"Call me Little Washu..."
"Oh, Little Washu....what does it do?"
"I'm glad you asked.", she said, smiling to them. The screen which was used to contact Kiyone now began to display. "Uhm, Little Washu...I really don't think we have time for an explanation. Remember, Kagato and Wa-Oka." Washu's eyes widened a bit then went back to their normal form. "Okay, but remember I tried to tell you.", she said. Grabbing Ryo-Ohki by the neck, she walked to a portal to her lab and signaled for the other to follow. Soon they were outside once again near the Jurian tree. Ki-Ohki followed closely behind them and began her mantic pleads to Washu. "What's that? You wanna go as well?"
"Miyaao!" she responded. Ryo-Ohki chatted back with her for a few minutes, then nodded to Washu and Miyaoed at her. "You don't want to fly there. You want us to go in Ki-Ohki instead?" Washu looked between Ryo-Ohki and Ki-Ohki. "Oh, whatever, let's just go!" Ryoko yelled. Washu placed Ryo-Ohki on the ground and threw Ki-Ohki in the air. Soon she transformed into a ship slightly larger than Ryo-Ohki. The hull shifted forms slightly then finally settled in a form which was similar to Ryo-Ohki in appearance. The ship's color seemed to blend in with the surroundings. "Hmm, interesting. Well all ab-"
"WAAAAIIT!!!" came a shout from behind them. It was Sasami rushing towards them. "WAAIIT AYEKA, MISS WASHU, PLEASE WAIT!"
"Sasami!" Ayeka said, "Sasami what is it?"
"Please, let me go with you. Please?"
"Sasami, it's too dangerous. You'll be safer here with Yosh-"
"No Ayeka. I must go with you as well."
"I am too" said Tenchi's father.
"Wha?" Tenchi asked unsure as to what their motives were. "Tenchi..." Yosho said, placing his hand upon Tenchi's shoulder, "this planet is a beautiful place. When I first came here, I found a sense of peace and serenity. I know for myself that I wouldn't feel content by just sitting back and doing nothing to try and stop Kagato. I think everyone else here feels the same as I do, so please allow us to accompany you." Tenchi nodded to them. "Alright. But please watch after Sasami."
"Thank you, Tenchi." Yosho said. "Alright! Everyone who's going board now or wait for the next intergalactic ship to arrive." Everyone nodded and walked to the teleport sight of Ki-Ohki.
Soon they were coasting through space like a comet. Washu began typing commands upon the console of Ki-Ohki. "Okay girl, now let's see if you can locate a rat for us." she said, smiling a bit. Soon Ki-Ohki's sensors began to beep the location of something huge near the outer rim of the asteroid belt. Tapping a button upon the console, she transmitted some information to Kiyone's ship. "Hmm, that should suffice for the moment" she mumbled to herself, "I hope they come through."
Within fifteen minutes, the crew of Ki-Ohki found what they sought, the massive and terrorizing Soujah. It was much larger and different from Washu's original plans. "Hmm, looks like Kagato did some redecorating with Soujah." Washu said, taking evasive maneuvers. Ki-Ohki began to take a few hits as Washu tried to handle the configurations of Ki-Ohki. "Washu! We're getting hit! Do something!"
"Just keep your shirt on Tenchi. Or maybe not, but just keep it down while I make the necessary calculations." After a few minutes of screams and hits, she got passed the canons of Soujah. "See, I told you I had everything under control. Now the fun begins heheheh"
(finish sometime later)
The inside of Soujah was cold to touch and feeling. It was evil on every feesable level and let an eerie feeling linger in the air. The decorations of Kagato that sat upon the wall made Ryoko sick to her stomach. "That sadistic bastard" she mumbled. The defense druids were trying their best to keep them at bay, but they failed in their attempt to do so. They found themselves in a dark room with little illumination. "Where are we?" Tenchi asked, looking at what looks like something out of a sci-fi horror film. Washu tapped a few buttons on her hololaptop. "It seems that we're in the upper starboard part of the Soujah. From the techinical readouts, the Soujah consists of two parts instead of three as in the original plans. It seems that this path will ead to the main room, but there are several subsections of Soujah as well."
"Meaning Washu?"
"Meaning that it may be more suprises awaiting us while we go to the main room. I suggest we stick together, that way we have a better chance of dealing with whatever may come out way."
"Alright then" Ryoko huffed, "let's hurry up and get moving. I wanna pay that Bastard bakc for EVERYTHING he's done." She bolted off first down towards the path. "Well, as she said, let's get going." The three followed her, trying to keep up with her. Ayeka, in spite of all her training, lagged behind the most in trying to keep up with the group. The floor, for some reason, felt as if it were sinking in or something to that nature. "TENCHI!" She yelled, holding her hands out to him. She fell onto the floor as it began to devour her being. They turned to her cried to see her being slowly devoured by the floor. "AYEKA!" Tenchi yelled, running to reach her before the floor completely encompassed her.
The floor began to devour her at a faster rate than before to where her hand and most of her body were within the floor's grasp. All that was left were her eyes which gazed upon Tenchi trying to rescue her from this...floor. She tried desperately to call to him, to cry out his name, but all that she was able to do was muffle a sound unheard by the ears present. Try as he may, his attempts were futile as she was now completely consumed by the floor.
"NO!!!" he cried. Ryoko howl angrily and blasted at the floor, trying to pry it open, to rescue Ayeka from the hand of that...that madman. "Your attempts are futile you know" Washu commented calmly to them. Ryoko balled up her fists and stood eye to eye with her mother. "What do you mean!? First that madman takes Wa-Oka and now Ayeka and all you can say is that our attempt is futile!?!?!"
"That's exactly what I'm saying"
"Then What the HELL are we supposed to do?!?! Wait while that insane psychopath takes us all one by one!?!?!"
Washu turned from Ryoko and began to make her way down the path. "The only way to rescue the captives from their prison is to over throw the wardon, so to speak. If we defeat Kagato, then they will be freed. Now let's hurry before anything else happens." Washu sighed heavily in a silent lamented note of worry. Kagato was indeed every bit of the insane psychopath as Ryoko hated him to be and this is what worried her the most. What had he done to Wa-Oka and what were his plans for Ayeka? Thoughts of horrid things ran through her mind, sending chills down her spine. Tenchi could see Washu's expression change suddenly, her face wrinched in fear. He placed his hand upon her shoulder and gave her a gentle smile. "It's okay, Washu. We'll get her back. I promise"
"Hurry up and move it people!" Ryoko brawled. Washu smiled at Tenchi, but still behind her smile her worries still silently plagued her. The three continued down the path to the central room. Even if she didn't how it, Ryoko was just as worried about Ayeka and Wa-Oka as any of the others. Why did Wa-Oka have to go in place of her? Why couldn't she just let Kagato have her instead? She cursed herself evertime she thought about it, cursing the fact that she did nothing to stop Wa-Oka and now there was no telling what Kagato had done to her. Her greatest fear was he had turned her into something much worse than a mere puppet for his twisted games. Her mind began to wander back to the days when she was under Kagato's control. The things he would do to her, the sick experiments, she detested him with all her being. When he sent her on a rampage to destroy Jurai's royal family, she went without a will of her own. When Yosho finally fought her on earth and imprisoned her in that cave, she remembered feeling a sense of relief from her prison, as if set free from long years of pain and tormoil, but soon that space of relief was filled with loneliness. It was Tenchi who gave her some relief from her loneliness when he would visit her when he was little. All the times he would come by and smile at her, the times he would cry himself to sleep in the cave...to her that was a relief from her prison. When she was freed, she relished every moment of true freedom, and when Kagato was defeated, life was finally at peace for her. But now, that changed with his return and to make matters worse, he now held Wa-Oka and Ayeka in his possession. "Why Wa-Oka" was all she could say in her mind as she continued at the point towards the central room.
Through numerous traps and attack bots, the group managed to defeat and out manuever the relentlesss attacks of Kagato. Soon, they arrived at the central room. The dim lighting of the room gave an all to errie and horrid feeling as they slowly walked into the room. "KAGATO!!" Ryoko howled. In response she was greeted with a sick and twisted laughter, one which sent anger surging through Ryoko's, as well as Washu's, veins. The laughter soon took shape and form before them as Kagato's throne lit the room a bit more.
He sat with his face seated carefully on his fists. The twisted smile which he wore was that which sent memories of horror and pain through Ryoko's mind. Tenchi's eyes became like that of a hundred inferno's as he stood with this sword in hand. "Alright, Kagato" Tenchi said, "Where's Wa-Oka and Ayeka?" Kagato laughed in absolute humor as he looked into Tenchi's eyes. Did he truly think that he would be able to stop his plan? Did that boy truly believe that he stood a chance against him in battle? The thought made him laugh even more as the room lit up even more, revealing by his throne a captive Ayeka. "AYEKA!" He screamed. Ryoko could...no she wouldn't allow this to happen again. She dashed towards him with her energy saber blazing in her hand. "Ryoko, no STOP!" Washu warned, but her words fell on deaf ears as she came closer and closer to his throne. He smiled at her, not even making an attempt to get up from his throne and defend himself. As she swung at him, her saber was met by another saber. The force of the other impacting light saber threw her back a few feet. Ryoko, Washu and Tenchi's eyes widened as they looked upon the figure standing before Kagato.
"My dear Professor, little Ryoko and you, boy,...let me introduce you to my assistant. She's far more superior to you, Ryoko, in skill and power, which is surprising seeing how she wasn't created as you were. Hahah, please say hello to my new...project, Wa-Oka."