Chapter 2


"Freeze Mister Eggplant!" Yelled Mihoshi as she ran after the huge purple vegetable
that she had been chasing for what seemed like hours. Firing a few shots from her pistols
she dove at it catching it around the knees. Immediately it crumpled to the ground, its arms
flailing wildly. Pulling out her handcuffs she brought its arms up around its back and cuffed
them. "There! You won't be spoiling anymore soups, Mister Eggplant." Immediately a bunch of
men in leotards, business shirts and cop hats came along.

The leader who had red skin came up to her as two of the lower class police officers
lifted up the Eggplant and threw it into a padded wagon. "Good job first class sergeant Mihoshi!
We couldn't have done it with out you!"

Mihoshi saluted him and then walked over to the wagon and slammed the door shut, "It
was nothing commander! All in a days work."

Suddenly Kiyone came running up waving her hands, "Mihoshi! Mihoshi! MIHO---"

"--SHI! Wake up. I forgot to set my watch! Its almost twelve!" yelled Kiyone shaking
Mihoshi's shoulder. Almost immediately Mihoshi sat bolt upright.

"Its almost twelve!" she stood up and started running, "They have lunch at twelve!"

Catching up with Mihoshi Kiyone nodded, "I know we have to hurry! Come on this way!"
Kiyone cut across an empty stretch of grass, within a few moments they were out on the street,
in another five minutes they were already out of the Misato district and onto one of the dirt
paths on the out skirts of town. Part of the reason that they had picked the job at the school
was because of its closeness to the Tenchi household, the edge of town it's only a half hours
walk, only half a mile. The two of them managed to sprint it in under fifteen minutes.

Arriving at the house Kiyone knocked on the door and after a few seconds they heard
Tenchi behind the door and a "One moment!" as the lock was turned. Opening up the door Tenchi
smiled, "Oh Kiyone, Miho..." He frowned. "Are you too OK?" both of them were breathing hard
from the run.

Kiyone leaned against the frame trying to keep from falling over, looking up she shook
her head, "It's OK we just ran up from the Misato area."

"The whole way?" Kiyone and Mihoshi nodded.

Mihoshi sat down on the front step, "Yeah we were fired early today so we'd though we'd
stop by for lunch."

Tenchi looked at Mihoshi for a moment and then at Kiyone, "You two got fired? Again?!"

Kiyone looked over at Mihoshi but was too tired to be angry instead she just looked up
at Tenchi again, "Do you mind if we come in?"

Tenchi suddenly realized he was blocking the doorway, "Oh! Ah.. sure. He walked back
into the house and after the two entered shut the door. Almost immediately the two of them
kicked off their shoes in the hallway and slumped into the big blue couch in the main room.

At the small table at the back of the room Ryoko and Aeyka were fighting over a dinner
roll. "It's mine Ryoko! I saw you steal three of them earlier!"

Ryoko smiled at this, "Look who's speaking Princess. Aren't you just a litttttle selfish
for some one who's supposed to have a royal upbringing."

Immediately Aeyka backed up, but still held her grip on the roll. Blinking for a second
she let out one of her high pitched laughs, "Now Ryoko what type of Princess would I be if I
let you eat this last fattening roll. After all one of the royal family of Jurai should always
keep a look out for the welfare of the those lower then her."

"Oh yay Princess! I'm not the one who you should be worrying about, after all aren't you
the one getting a little pudgy around the waist? Right Tenchi?" Turning around she saw Tenchi
backing up. With the usual accompanying sound she teleported behind him and wrapped her arms
and tail around him. Twiddling a finger across his chest she tried to look innocent, "You know
Tenchi she's had two rolls already and a second helping of soup and that's not very fitting
for the royal princess of Jurai now is it?"

Aeyka's face turned bright red, "Tha..tha..that's not true!" she stood up and looked
angrily at Ryoko.

"Are you calling me a liar Aeyka?" small bolts of electricity lashed out in the air
around Ryoko as she released Tenchi.

Aeyka's shield flared up sending the napkins on the table fluttering across the room.
"That I am Demon!"

"Alright that's it!"

Seeing Ryoko pull back her hands to gather an energy blast Kiyone pulled Mihoshi's arm
as she took for cover, across from them she could see Tenchi doing likewise, "Get down,
Mihoshi!"

"What Kiyone?" said the blonde, turning just as Ryoko's energy blast hit Aeyka's shield.
For a split second everything grew quiet as the air in the room was sucked towards the blast
and then in a flash of red and blue white the room flared up. Caught in the blast, Mihoshi was
thrown off the couch and landed upside down next to the living room's TV.

Peeking over the edge of the couch Kiyone could see the unconscious forms of Aeyka and
Ryoko lying in the middle of a large burnt section of the room. Turning back to Mihoshi she
could see that her partner wasn't much better off.

Just now the door to Washu's lab opened and the red haired scientist popped her head
out. Stepping out into the dining room and over the bodies of Ryoko and Aeyka she picked up
the last remaining roll and sat down. Taking a bite she turned to the kitchen and said, "Great
rolls Sasami." Just then the table collapsed.
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It took Tenchi, Kiyone and Sasami half an hour to get the two rooms back into useable
shape at which time Kiyone's stomach was beginning to rumble do to lack of food. Noticing this
Sasami's frowned, "Oh I'm sorry Kiyone. You came all this way for lunch and we have you cleaning
up the house." Grabbing her hand Sasami sat her down on the couch. "You wait right here, I'm
sure there's something in the fridge left over that I can make for you."

Laying her head back on the couch Kiyone turned to say her thanks, but Sasami had
already gone into the kitchen. Sitting down on the small chair next to the sofa Tenchi let out
a sigh. "I'm sorry Kiyone I guess we haven't been a very good host have we?"

Kiyone smiled at this, "Don't worry Tenchi by now I'm getting use to this."

Tenchi smiled back, "I guess you kind of have to."

"Ouch. Ouch. Ouch." Behind them Mihoshi came down the stairs to the second floor from
washing her face. She had a large bump on her head from hitting the floor after the initial
blast.

Turning around Kiyone glared at her, "Mihoshi! I told you to leave that alone!"

"Sorry Kiyone." Mihoshi looked guiltily at her, but only a few seconds later was already
rubbing it.

Grumbling under her breath Kiyone was just about to tell her to stop again when the GP
alarm went off on her watch. Skimming over the details she looked up, "Sorry Tenchi duty calls.
Come on Mihoshi we've got to get going."

"But I'm hungry Kiyone!" Mihoshi started to cry.

"Now Mihoshi!' Yelled Kiyone grabbing the blonde by the ear . Peeking her head around
the door she waved good-bye as they left. A little while later Tenchi left for the Misato
shrine.

A few minutes after the group left Sasami came out of the kitchen with a pan full of
stuffed rolls. Looking back and forth she sighed and furrowed her brow, "Where'd everybody go?"
On the floor next to her Ryoko let out a loud snore…
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"Yeiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" screamed Mihoshi covering her head as the monster leaped.
Instinctively she lashed out with the left arm of her battle suit.

Immediately the monster went flying.

"Good job Mihoshi!" called out Kiyone as she chambered a round in her galaxy police
handgun. Approaching the monster carefully she slapped a pair of handcuffs on the things wrists.
A large bump was now appearing on its forehead where Mihoshi had punched it.

"Thank you so much young ladies." Said the old woman that had given out the distress
call. "I was just turning on the middle ring of Saturn and I hit this darn thing here." She
pointed at the large hairy beast on the floor. It was starting to drool.

"Your very lucky Mam that we were able to respond so ." Kiyone replied. Suddenly she
realized that Mihoshi was still crouched over and hiding her head.

"I..i….is the monster gone Ki….ki…..Kiyone?" asked the scared blonde girl.

"Yes Mihoshi." Kiyone sighed as she rubbed her forehead.

The old lady just smiled as Mihoshi got up and looked around frightened, apparently
totally oblivious to the blonde police officer. Reaching into her pocket she brought out a small
purse and turned to Kiyone. "Here let me reward you two girls! Now lets see…….."

"That's ok madam we where just doing our job." Kiyone looked away from the old woman for
a little bit as Mihoshi walked up to the unconscious monster. Taking a small pipe the blonde
poked the thing in the back and jumped backwards as the creature twinged.

"Oh but I insist!" said the old lady. Kiyone turned back and grimaced as the lady
started pulling nickels and quarters out of her purse. A few minutes later the Kiyone and
Mihoshi dragged the monster into their ships cryo storage unit while carrying two five pound
bags of nickels and pennies.

"I'm glad that's over, Kiyone!" said Mihoshi slumping down in her seat in the cockpit.

"Definitely." Said Kiyone sitting down next her partner. Checking her watch she could
see that they had been gone for 7 hours due to this distress call. It had taken them a long
time to find the creature in the old ladies ship. "Lets head back and see if Sasami still has
lunch for us."

"Ahhh.. Wouldn't that be more dinner now Kiyone?" said the blonde as they backed up the
space ship from Neptune's orbit.

"That's besides the point Mihoshi." Said Kiyone. She sighed and slipped down her chair
a little. "Besides all I want to do is eat something."

"Me too….." Mihoshi said. At the thought of food her stomach rumbled. For the next few
minutes the spaceship was quiet as it approached Earth's atmosphere and descended. Floating it
over the Masaki household for a moment they exited the spaceship using the transporter. Kiyone
activated the autopilot to submerge it back into the lake a few seconds later.

"Let's go and see if there's and food Mihoshi……..?!?" Kiyone turned to look at her
partner only to find that she had disappeared already. Following the blondes lead she walked
around the side of the house and knocked on the front door. Before she could finish knocking
the door opened and she had to stop herself from accidentally hitting the small figure in the
doorway.

"Kiyone I'm glad that you're here!" said Washu smiling up at her. "Come on in I'm just
about to unveil my latest invention!" As the Red haired scientist turned around and walked into
the house Kiyone followed her not sure if this was such a good idea or not.
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"Well I'm sure you all want to know what I have for you today!" said Washu standing in
the front of the room. Behind her was her rather long and large invention covered by a tarp.

Ryoko yawned from her spot on the couch while she swirled her finger in a bowl of sake.
"Yeah where really ecstatic."

"Honestly Miss. Ryoko!" said Ayeka angrily from the opposite end of the couch..

"Ah hush it princess." Said Ryoko not even bothering to look at her. "Unless it's a
bottle of tea under there I'm betting this is a waste of my time."

"Why I never!" stammered Ayeka.

""Ryoko! Ayeka!" Tenchi yelled at the two before turning to Washu. "Sorry Washu, I'm
sure they didn't mean anything."

"Don't worry about it Tenchi!" said Washu cocking her head sideways and smiling. "After
all this is the big day I get to show you all these!" Pulling a small remote out of her pants
pocket she hit a button. Suddenly the tarp was pulled back and Confetti and balloons were shot
into the air.

Everyone gapped for a second and then fell over. Washu just continued smiling.

Pulling himself back up by using the couch as leverage Tenchi stared at a complete set
of robotic duplicates of them. "What, what is that!"

"Simple Tenchi, I figured that with all the things that seem to happen to us we should
have replacements for us if we need to leave." Walking over to the Washu duplicate she placed
her hand on its shoulder. "These are basically our backups."

Ayeka walked up to her duplicate and looked it up and down. "This doesn't look like me
at all! It's atrocious!"

Ryoko floated up besides her and shook her head. "I agree it is atrocious Princess, but
as for the looks I think she got them to a tee!"

"Why you little!" said Ayeka.

"Why you little!" said the robot Ayeka surprising the real Ayeka enough to make her
fall over. The eyes flickered open as Washu activated the rest of them.

"Ahhhh Washu do you think this is a good idea….." said Tenchi stepping back as the robot
Washu opened its eyes.

"Its fine Tenchi!" said Washu smiling as the rest of the group walked over to meet their
counter parts. "These duplicates are no more dangerous then the originals!"

"I'm hungry." Said the robot Mihoshi suddenly.

Tenchi sighed, "That's what I was afraid of."

"I don't see anything wrong with that Tenchi." Said Ryoko Teleporting behind him and
wrapping her arms around his shoulders. She layed her head on his shoulders and looked up at
his face. "I mean couldn't we use an extra me around the house?"

"Ryoko! Release him this instance1" Said the two Ayeka's simultaneously. Tenchi
grimaced. This was exactly what he was afraid of.

"OR what princesses?" Ryoko said tauntingly hugging Tenchi closer to him.

"Ryoko!" Yelled Tenchi struggling out of her grasp.

"What I was doing anything wrong now was I Tenchi?" Ryoko looked at him giving him the
best innocent girl face she could muster.

Tenchi ignored her and went and sat down on the couch with a sigh. Stretching out his
arm he felt someone sitting next to him. Looking over next to him he saw the Robot Tenchi in
the same position.

"Well hello there." It said smiling at him. Scurrying away the real Tenchi fell over
backwards try to get over the couches hand rest.

Over on the other side of the room Kiyone was having similar reservations as she
watched the Robot Mihoshi and the real Mihoshi stare at each other. The real Mihoshi blinked
and then laughed. "I guess you win!"

"I guess so!" said the robot Mihoshi. The two Kiyones sighed and then looked at each
other. Suddenly the Robot Ryoko came flying over and knocked over the two of them.

"You take that back Ryoko's!" yelled the two Ayeka's.

Getting back up the Robot Ryoko was joined as the real Ryoko teleported besides her.
"Gonna have to make us Princesses."

"Why you ill-mannered demon!" yelled the two Ayeka's charging after the two Ryoko's
their magical force fields flashing. At the last second the two Ryoko's teleported out of the
way.

"Hey you two stop that!" Yelled Washu running over. "Those robots are delicate
instruments and not to played with!"

"Yeah, stop that this instant!" said the Robot Washu following the real one.

The two Tenchi's looked over at the chaos on the other side of the room and worriedly
got up and went to try and calm the two girls down. As they arrived the two Mihoshi's and the
two Kiyone's where just getting up. Un fortunately the fight between the two and Ayeka's decided
to come to a climax just then as well.

As the four powers mixed there was a huge explosion as for the second time today magical
force field and energy bolt hit each other. Moment's later pieces of robot's fell to the ground.

"sigh. Well that was a short lived experiment." Said Washu picking up one the Robot
Washu's now disentached from inside her floating red forcefield. "I guess it's back to the
drawing board."

All around her Mihoshi, Kiyone, Ryoko, Ayeka and Tenchi twitched unconscious. Sasami came
downstairs from her bedroom, "What's all the noise?".
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"Ouchie!"

"Mihoshi I told you to stop touching that!" yelled Kiyone. She rubbed her forehead as
her head pounded from the movement as the two partners walked up to their house.

Throwing their shoes off at the door Mihoshi sunk to the floor, weary, as Kiyone went
to their dimensional closet and pulled out their futon beds. Throwing Mihoshi her blanket Kiyone
slipped under her own and laid down in her bed without even changing her clothes.

Next to her she heard Mihoshi yawn and slip into her own bed. A few minutes later she
felt her partner tap her on her shoulder.

"Kiyone I have a question."

"Yes Mihoshi?" Kiyone continued lying on her side.

"How did I end up in the shower this morning?"

FIN


Author's not: I know that the ending is a little forced ~sigh~ okay ALOT forced but this was
the first fanfiction I had ever started on and I knew if I didn't finish it soon I'd probably never
finish it. (i even finished Gundam Halloween WHILE working on this which gives you some idea as to
why i thought this.)