Chapter 3 – Once I Remember
Where am I? I thought. What happened? One minute, I had been talking with Washu, the next I was sitting under this bright light. Was I dead? I didn't think so.
What had Washu and I been talking about? It was important, I remembered. But what was it about?
I hadn't seen Washu except in jail, when we had been cellmates. She was in for building dangerous weapons; I was in for murder and other various crimes, all of which were obviously lies. I had escaped from there, of course, but I heard that Washu had been tried and sentenced to living in a carbon frozen space crystal. That would suck.
Oh well. Who cared about that, someone was coming. I pretended to sleep.
A guy in a doctor's cap and mask was looking at me.
"Well, you should be awake soon. You don't appear to be injured, but it could be something undetectable. Ah, you ARE awake." He said as he noticed my eye twitch. I sat up and looked around.
The room was small, just big enough to hold a chair, a few fancy looking medical instruments, and the bed I was laying in, with a little spot for people to walk. The walls were metal, and windows covered one wall. Not much of a place to escape from. Fortunately, I wasn't strapped down. But where was Ryo-Ohki?
"Now, what happened to you?" The doctor asked me.
"I don't remember."
"Really? Could it be amnesia, then? What's your name?"
"Riika Tusgen." I said, using my alias. A wanted criminal can go parading around the galaxy with her own name, can she?
"Okay…Riika…so can you remember anything else about yourself?"
"Mostly, sir. But not for the last year or so."
"Alright then. So you won't know who the father is, will you?"
"Father, sir?"
"Riika, you're pregnant. We can't tell much about it now, but in a few months…"
"What?!" Me? Pregnant? With who?
"I know that's a startling announcement, and I'll leave you to think about it now." The doctor left the room. I sat in silence for several minutes.
"Meow, meow!" came from under the bed.
"Ryo-Ohki?" I asked. Ryo-Ohki jumped from under the bed, and on to the bed.
"Meow, meow!"
"Whatever. Lets go, now."
Ryo-Ohki turned into a spaceship, and the ceiling started to cave in. I was hit on the head with a chunk of ceiling, and almost blacked out. Blood started to pour out of my head, but I ignored it for now. I was half expecting to see Galaxy Police appear everywhere, but no one came. We were flying in space in no time.
It was several days before we got anywhere, but I didn't do much during that time, except try to remember anything, and rest.
I couldn't recall what had happened to me, only those last few minutes with Washu. Strange, she had acted as if we were old friends, relatives, or something. I also remembered something from earth, having a huge battle with someone…who? That was also strange. I knew that I had some old enemy, but I didn't know her name, or where she was from. It wasn't Nagi…I remembered Nagi.
Oh well, no use worrying about things you can't fix. I worried about my hair. Hair, that can be easily fixed. See, a girl's got to always look pretty, even us space pirates. And I had gotten blood all over my hair. Yuck.
"Ryo-Ohki, where's the closest shower?" Ryo-ohki meowed, and showed me some maps of a galaxy. "Good. Lets hurry."
Can you imagine sitting around with gross, bloody hair for even a few days? My hair would never be the same. Maybe I should curl it, like…? Whose? I didn't remember who that was, either. She was a blonde, and had very curly hair, but she was so annoyingly stupid! Who the hell was I thinking of? Maybe I had seen her in a magazine or something.
Well, I didn't want to look like her anyway. And blonde was not going to work. My hair was dyed hopelessly red. I couldn't help feeling that I looked exactly like Washu, which was not something that I wanted. I would have to cut it, or maybe I could leave it…?
Uck, which was worse? Being bald, or having bloody hair? Either way could be a good disguise, I suppose. Guy, or Washu look alike? Not Washu. I cut my hair.
So now even my own mother wouldn't recognize me. Not that I knew my mother…I had been alone for as long as I knew, as I told you before. I was bald for only a few days before short green hair grew in, and I could go in disguise.
I purchased some black hair dye, and some men's clothes, so I looked completely different. Why was I even disguising myself? Not at all like me!
Anyway, I had a friend of mine make me a fake id to the name of Tenchi Masaki. That name seemed strangely familiar, so I decided to use it.
Tenchi Misaki was a 16 year old Juraian, 5 feet 6 inches tall, about 130 lbs (although I did not enjoy giving out my weight) and was touring the planets for his education. I was already planning his first crime.
Well, seriously, you didn't think it would be my crime, did you? Yeah, the great Ryoko would show up, looking like this? NO.
I was already planning my first crime.