Disclaimer: You know the drill....
A.N.- Sorry, that the last Chapter(s) was so short, and I'm afraid this one is short, too. But the next one is long.....
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Chapter 3
"Ooh! What does this do?" Achika said with curiosity and delight.
"NO! DON'T TOUCH THAT!" Washu screamed.
'KABOOM'!
"Ouch" cried Washu.
"Oops. Sorry. Washu, why are you all scratched up?"
Washu looked up at Achika, then looked down at her self and back up at Achika. She couldn't believe it, here she was, a goddess, and a scratched up one at that, and here was this little girl, only of the age of five, and not a scratch on her!
"Washu, are you okay?"
Before she could answer, Achika was already up looking at something else and pressing buttons and getting into all sorts of messes. Before she could do anymore harm, Washu put a force field around the young child, and it acted like a safety lock.
"I am a genius," Washu shouted in glory.
"Let me out of here!" Achika said, "Now!" she whined.
"Ah ah ah! Not until you promise not to touch anything without my permission and not until you promise to behave!"
"Alright," Achika said, the hint of disappointment on her breath.
"Alright. Now let's get started!"
So, Washu begins testing on Achika.
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"Ryoko, you finally woke up. Did you know it's ten o'clock? Anyway, that doesn't matter. Let's go do something. What do you want to do? Go to the movies? All right, let's go" Tenchi said.
Ryoko looked at him, blinked twice, and stared at him.
"What?" Tenchi said while trying to force a laugh.
"I know that laugh, your hiding something from me aren't you? Is it a surprise, for me? WOW Tenchi, you're the best!"
"Yeah, a surprise, that's it!" Tenchi then mumbled under his breath, "The surprise is that her own mother, at this very moment is poking and pronging at her daughter even as we speak!"
"What was that you said Tenchi?"
"Oh, nothing."
Ryoko looked at him.
Tenchi started to become paranoid. 'Tenchi, she's on to you. You better just tell her, and quick… before anything bad happens. Spill it out, Tenchi spill it out! Something bad could happen.' He felt as if he was spinning around in circles.
"Fine, I'll tell you! Your mother is poking and pronging at your daughter as if she were a science specimen. I'm so sorry!"
"WHAT?!"
"Did I say poking, pronging… um… science specimen, I… I meant - they're making ice cream."
"Ice cream? At ten o'clock in the morning?"
"Ye…e…es! Ice cream at ten o'clock in the morning."
"Washu," Ryoko whispered. Ryoko flew down the hallway and teleported to Washu's lab door.
'BOOM' Washu and Achika looked up and there was Ryoko. "Uh-oh," they said together.
"WASHU, IF YOU LAY ONE FINGER ON MY DAUGHTER, TOUCH ONE HAIR ON HER HEAD; I SWEAR I'LL BLAST YOU TO PIECES!"
"WASHU, WASHU RYOKO'S COMING!" Tenchi shouted as he popped up on a screen.
"Ah, Tenchi, it's a little late for that," Washu pointed at Ryoko.
"Hi Tenchi!" Ryoko said cheerfully while waving.
"Ryoko…um…Ryoko! I was just going to tell Washu that you were coming to grace her with your presence and that I was going to talk to Ayeka. Ha Ha. And…and here's Ayeka. Ayeka say 'HI'!" Tenchi leaned side ways and waved his hand in front of his face.
"See, here's Ayeka and I'm going to go talk to her now. Okay! Here's me going to talk to Ayeka. BYE!" He let go of the button; he started thinking to himself. 'Okay, Genius, that was close. Wait a sec…UH OH!'
Tenchi hit the button that activated the screen and started yelling in a nervous fit. " NO WAIT! I'M NOT GOING TO TALK TO AYEKA! SHE'S NOT HERE! DON'T PUNISH ME!" Tenchi cried. "I'M GOING TO GO…UM…VACCUM! YEAH THAT'S IT! VACCUM! BYE!" he let go of the button.
He decided that that wasn't a good idea either and turned the screen on again" NO I'M NOT GOING TO VACCUM! WHY WOULD I NEED TO VACCUM?! I'M…I'M…I'm just gonna go."
"You do that Tenchi." Ryoko said.
After he left, Washu leaned over to Ryoko and said, " That man just gets stranger and stranger every day."
"No kidding." Ryoko replied. "So, where were we?"
"I think we were at the part where you were just about to… what was it… oh, yeah, 'blast me into millions of pieces if I touched one hair on Achika's head." Washu mocked.
"Oh, yeah. Oh, well, do whatever you want, but if she gets hurt, you're in trouble."
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Computer noises were heard from all over Washu's lab, as always.
Beep-beep-boop-bop.
Ding-ding-ding.
Da-doo-de-da-da.
"Are we done yet?" Achika whined.
"No, you've asked me that so many times all ready that I might just keep you here for a longer time than I really need you!"
"Ah, no, you can't do that! That's not fair!" Achika started to get really mad and looked like she was about ready to blow something- anything- up.
"Whoa there! Just calm down, I was only joking." Washu said before her grandchild could cause any more destruction. "I'll be done in a few minutes."
Twenty minutes later and Washu announced that they were finally finished and that she only needed to print out her data so that she could present it to the Council of Jurai. (The council was so tired of her presentations looking all scientific, because the members were too inferior to understand anything!)
She sent the signals to a foreign object on a shelf on the opposite side of the wall. All of a sudden a bright red light started to flash on her laptop's screen.
'Error 687
Printer can not hold all data supplied.'
"What?! I made an error? This can't be. There must be a default in this computer… or maybe it is the printer? Hmmm…." Washu started to check her settings. "What?! This just can't be!"
