Tenchi FanFic
Episode 11
By: Simfreak
Episode 11:
Rescue Attempt
Aeris looks back towards Tenchi's bed. A direct hit "I'm soo sorry" she begins to say, "I had no choice in the madder, I hope you will forgive me" Slowly she walks over to him and picks him up from his bed, drops of blood drip from the wound she had created, "Ken-Ohki!" She calls out and from underneath Tenchi's bed ken-Ohkie emerges with Ryo-Ohki. "Were leaving, the subject has been subdued. He wont be waking up any time soon"
"Meow?"
"I don't care if you want to stay, where leaving"
"Mer meow" she whimpers with a sad face.
"Let go!"
Ken-Ohkie hesitates but then obeys her master's wishes by jumping through the wall onto the roof and jumping up into the air transforming into a space ship. Aeris begins to leave when Ryo-Ohki starts to hiss at her.
"Shhhhh! You're going to wake the others," Aeris says softly.
"Meow!"
"I don't have time for this" and with tenchi she walks through the wall and up to her space ship that promptly took off when she was aboard.
"Meow" Ryo-Ohki ran out of the room and downstairs into the family room where ryoko and the rest of the gang were sound a sleep after the pillow fight just hours earlier. Immediately she pounces on to ryoko, jumping up and down on her, trying to wake her up. But ryoko, being the sound sleeper that she is, just kept on sleeping. So Ryo-Ohki jumps over to Sasami.
"MEAOW!!" she screams out and nudges Sasami's face. Slowly her eyes began to open from the sound sleep she was in.
"Ryo-Ohki, what is it?"
"Mer, meow, meow, meow"
"Huh?"
Frustrated Ryo-Ohki starts jumping up and down on top of Ryoko again.
"Oh you want me to wake up Ryoko?" Sasami crawls over and starts pushing ryoko.
"Moans leave me a lone"
"Ryoko wake up, Ryo-Ohki needs you"
"Yawn Cant it wait?"
"Meow, meow meow!"
"WHAT!" She flies up from her sleep throwing Ryo-Ohki off of her. "TENCHI'S GONE?!"
"Tenchi's gone," asked Sasami.
Ryoko jumps to her feet and sees that Aeris sleeping bag is empty. "Aeris" she says to her self.
"No She wouldn't have, she, she's one of us now, its just not possible" Sasami tried to reason with herself. "No, it's just not possible"
Ryoko flies up through the ceiling and races to Tenchi's door. She pauses out side and sees that the barrier alarms had been destroyed. Slowly she walks into his room and over to his bed. It was empty, she reached down and touches the indent that he head made to the pillow and softly touches it and the blood that was left behind. She brings her hand back up to her face and studies her blood-coated fingers. Then it hits her.
"NO!!" She screamed in pain, collapsing to the ground grabbing and holding the pillow close to her crying into it.
Immediately Sasami, Ryo-Ohki and Washu burst in through the door to Tenchi's room.
"Where's tenchi" Sasami asks afraid to hear the answer.
"She, she, took him!" Ryoko could barley respond as she was too greave stricken to say much more then that. Washu slowly walked over and held her daughter who was in the mitts of a major breakdown.
Mihoshi slowly pokes her head in the door yawning. "What's going on?"
"Aeris Kidnapped tenchi!" Yelled Sasami"
"Well, that's ok isn't it?"
"WHAT?" they all yell.
"Well he can generate the light hawk wings, I don't think there is any need to worry"
"There's just one problem with that," Washu states.
"Oh? What's that?" she asks.
"He has to be conscious in order to use them!"
"Huh?"
Washu points at the blood stain on Tenchi's bed.
"Gasp Oh my, Well then, this is a job for the Galaxy police. Youkanojo, prepare for launch… Youkanojo?" she says again into her watch.
"Eh hem"
"Or right, I crashed it" she says embarrassed.
"Not to worry, I have that new ship I have been preparing for you ready to go" Washu sticks her hand down her blouse and pulls out a key. "Here you go, don't lose it"
"Right! Now where did I put that cube?"
"Grin check your left pocket"
"Oh right, here it is" Mihoshi started to twist and turn it changing into her galaxy police uniform. "Don't worry, I will bring tenchi back safe, I promise"
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (SPLASH!) That Mihoshi, when will she ever learn?"
Ryoko slowly stands up and wipes her eyes. "Well, I guess we'd better get going to, Ryo-Ohki" she says and snaps her fingers at Ryo-Ohki, "Lets go"
The two ships blaze through space next to each other at top speed.
"Hey Washu" Sasami pulls on her coat to get her attention. "Why did ryoko have us go on Mihoshi's ship? Isn't Ryo-Ohki bigger?"
The panel in front of Mihoshi lights up and an image of ryoko appears on it "Well, I guess I will be breaking off now. I will try and catch up with later"
"Ok Ryoko and don't worry about a thing, I will bring back tenchi of you safe and sound"
"Yea, what ever" she says quietly"
"Oh Ryoko" Washu beings to say "Don't forget to say hi to Ayeka for me ok?"
With a frown Ryoko cuts the connection and Ryo-Ohki breaks away towards Jurai.
"Where is Ryoko going" Sasami asks again.
"To get your sister silly"
"Ayeka? I thought she was still on earth"
"Uhhhhhhhhh, I'll explain it when you're older"
"Yea, right, I just think that's the old peoples way of saying I don't know"
Washu grins
It wasn't long before Ryo-Ohki had caught up with Ayeka's ship. It was a third generation ship that was sent to her by the royal fleet commander temporarily while Ryouh was still growing. To Ayeka's dismay, they were much smaller and less luxurious and mostly built for skirmish and small combat. The commander did his best to retro fit the ship to suit that of a royal prince, but the conflicts between Jurai and Seniwa Kingdom had increased and so resources began to grow slim. They were also very slow ships, meandering through space, no hyper drive and even slower then Ayeka's Ryuoh, and so for long distance travel the crew is placed in suspended animation while the long journey is made.
Ryoko activates her COM and tries to hail Ayeka.
"Hey Ayeka, are you in there? Hellllloooooo?" pause "Common, pick up, I know your in there, Ryo-Ohki can smell that god awful perfume you always wear" pause again "oh, common, please pick up, I need your help" pause again "Ok, fine, I'm sorry, there you happy? I'm sorry that I put you through all that I have in your life. I realize that if it weren't for me, you and Yosho would be together. Its my fault, my fault my fault. I'm not happy about it, but I can't change the past either. Now please answer me" longer pause "Now look whose being the bitch, well fine then, if your not going to pick up, I'm coming over"
Ryoko transports over to Ayeka's ship and looks around "What a dump, is this what they are passing off as royal escorts now a days. Gee, these Jurai must really be desperate"
Ryoko continues to walk though the pasture on a trail that leads up to the tree in the center of the ship. With in a few minutes she was at the base of the tree where Azaka and Kamadocki were waiting.
"Hey you two, wake up the princes for me huh?"
"Intruder!"
"Huh?"
"Capture her"
Azaka and Kamadocki take off and start firing their eye beams at her.
"Hey what are you doing!" she screams running away from them as laser beams whiz by her head "Remember me, Ryoko, stop!"
"Ryoko"
"Capture Ryoko"
"Grrrr, I really don't have time for this." Ryoko stops in her tracks and crosses her arms creating a force field that deflects a few the guardians' shots. Then she generates a pair of energy balls in her hands and fires, hitting each one square on. The blasts did no damage to either of them, but they did stop firing "?" was Ryoko's expression as she looked at them.
"Ryoko?"
"What is going on?"
'What do you mean, don't you two know?"
"The last thing we remember was receiving a transmission from the Jurai royal family. After that every thing is a complete blank"
"Well, for one you just tried to kill me" she says smugly "The second, you're on a ship heading for Jurai with princess ice cube over there locked up in suspension"
"We are terribly sorry"
"We had no idea we were so rude"
"Yea, well just don't let it happen again. Now please will you get Ayeka out of suspension please"
"Yes,"
"Right away"
The two fly back over to their stands next to the tree. Their eyes began to glow as the tree opened up letting the frosty air mix with the regular atmosphere. Slowly Ayeka's hear rose and she stepped out of the chamber. The first thing she see is ryoko standing on the level at the bottom of the small stair case looking back at her with a little grin on her face.
"YOU! Azaka, Kamadocki arrest her for invading a royal ship!"
"Heyyyyyyy, aren't you glad to see me?"
"Yea, just about as glad as a criminal seeing the guillotine"
Sigh Ryoko transports up in front of her so that they were face to face
"How dare you approach a member of the royal court in such manner? We are no longer on earth Ryoko and you don't have tenchi protecting you anymore. Azaka Kamadocki" she says again "Why have you not apprehended this criminal yet!"
"We are sorry princess"
"Right away"
"You two stay back" Ayeka looks at her upset "Tenchi is in trouble" Ryoko says solemnly.
At first Ayeka was up set and worried, but then her face crinkled up and she turned away from her "Why should I care"
"Ayeka?"
"I am the first princess of Jurai and no longer have the time to worry about the commoners of earth. Until tenchi accepts his right as second prince of Jurai, he is of no concern to me"
"You can't mean that!" She says angrily "After knowing him for so long how can you possibly say that!" She places her hand on her shoulder "After loving him for so long how can you possibly say that"
Ayeka knocks Ryoko's hand off of her shoulder and turns back towards Ryoko "I have not forgotten every thing that tenchi has done for me and Sasami, but I have to be princess to Jurai before I can be Tenchi's friend. It's not my choice, I'm sorry. Now if you excuse me" she walks past ryoko "I have to be back on my way, father is expecting me"
"YOU BITCH!"
"Huh?"
"I cant believe you that would abandon tenchi in his time of need, his only time of need and you would rather see him dead then upset you father. All because of what? Because tenchi chose me and not you? Is that It Ayeka"
Ayeka turns back towards ryoko and SLAP! Across the face, leaving a red out line of her hand across her cheek. Ryoko looks back at Ayeka holding her cheek with a look of confusion.
"Leave my ship before I have you executed"
"FINE! Though I never expected you to be the one that gives up on her friends"
"I am first princess of Jurai, I have no friends" she says and walks back into the tree.
"Thanks a lot guys" she blurts out at Azaka and Kamadocki.
"No problem"
"Any time"
Ryoko returns to Ryo-Ohki and flies away. From with in the suspension chamber Ayeka is crying and gently speaks out "tenchi" before the chamber begins to fill with clouds of frost.
"There he is! Ken-Ohki!" Mihoshi yells out.
"But what in gods name is that?" asks Washu
Before them a giant tree arose from a small planet. Ken-Ohki had docked with the giant tree that had grown deep into space and was rooted firmly around that planet below. It would be hard for any mortal to describe and yet there it was, plain as day.
"Where are we?" Washu asks Mihoshi.
"I, I don't know, the computer is all haywire"
"Impossible, I designed this ship, let me see"
Washu jumps into the co-pilots seat and starts typing on the keypad. "Impossible" she yells out. "Mihoshi, did we pass through any anomalies in the path after Ken-Ohki?"
"Well let me think, ummmm, well there was this one"
"Tell me!"
"Well, it was this multi colored spiral thingy"
"A vortex?!"
"Maybe, I don't know"
"Let me get this straight" she says calmly "You flew this ship into something that you had no idea what it?"
"Yep"
"WHY!"
"Well, that's where the trail lead and you told me to follow it, so that's what I did"
"What's the madder Washu? Is something wrong?"
"Oh, nothing, were just at the exact center of the universe is all. Right now if that vortex has collapsed, which they have a tendency to do, it would take us approximately ohhh, about 10 TRILLION YEARS TO GET HOME!"
"You mean I wont be home on time to see my favorite TV show?"
"Grin no, you wont be home on time to see your favorite show."
"WAHHHHHHH!!!!! Its not fair, not fair"
"Well, while were here we might as well go inside"
"No fair, not fair"
"Grin Ok I will go inside, Sasami you stay here and look after Mihoshi ok?"
"Ok"
Washu walks down the long hallway. It was made completely out of wood and the walls had been painstakingly carved with murals of ancient legends from cultures that had long been forgotten in the ages of time. She continues walking down the hall, pointing out murals that she had recognized for civilizations that she had studied when she was just a child, more then 20000 years ago. They all had the same meanings, relating to the divine and the creators and the murals were the created way of showing there respect and appreciation for all that they had done. The more primitive murals gave thanks to the gods for food that the animals provided and the air that they could breath. The more advanced cultures were symbolized with technology and the things in life that gave them purpose.
Slowly she emerged into the light, a great forum in the middle of the tree. In the exact center was an opening in the floor and in the ceiling surrounded by railings. It seemed like it went on forever in each direction. Even with Washu's keen eyesight she couldn't see the ending to either. Then, from the corner of her eye something caught her attention.
What seemed to be a thrown room. She walked over to it entering into what seemed like the void of space. It was huge, larger then any stadium or ship that she had ever been in before (and that saying a lot seeing that the science space academy's pro football teams stadium houses 2.4 million students).
Washu followed the red velvet carpet that was below her feet all the while looking at more of the carvings in the wall. As she began to approach the thrown she began to notice that the civilizations became more and more familiar to her. She didn't know why, but even though she didn't know why, some how there was an impression of each one on her. Washu looked forward once again as she approached the thrown. She was shocked; she couldn't understand what this meant. The final mural of them all, petrified she looked on. Carved in the wood at the very bottom were figures that resembled Ryo-Ohki, Ayeka, Yosho and Mihoshi. Their heads were looking up towards the next figures that looked like Tenchi with his three light hawk wings and Ryoko with her 3, in between them was a child that had nothing around him but the words "The Omega Child Ying" (The end/last child good). Across from them were figures that looks like Aeris and Hiroto and between them was also child marked "Omega Child Yang" (The end/last child bad) and they were looking up to three more figures that were a bit larger that looked exactly like Washu, Tsunami and Tokimi each of them with their 10 light hawk wings protruding from their bodies. Above that was just one large figure, a man, wielding 20 light hawk wings from his body, below the carving where the words The Alpha (the beginning). What is all of this supposed to mean? The carvings themselves were eons old, who could have predicted with such accurate detail the abilities of each of the Masaki family?
Washu was interrupted by a figure of Mihoshi appearing next to her facing the wall.
"Hello? Is this thing on? Helllo"
"Over here Mihoshi"
The hologram turns towards Washu "Oh there you are, hehe, I finally got this thing to work"
"Yes, and what did you want?"
"We were wondering what was taking you so long?"
"What do you mean, it's only been a few minutes"
"Try a few days"
"WHAT!"
"We were getting worried about you when you didn't check back, we would have tried to get a hold of you sooner, but we were attacked by Ken-Ohki, lucky for us Ryoko arrived just in time and sacred him away"
"Yea, right scared" she says sarcastically "Is Ryoko there?"
A hologram of Ryoko appears next to Mihoshi's "Yea, I'm here"
"Where's Ayeka?"
"She didn't want to come"
"I see, well, then I guess you all should come in here, it seems to be the right place, that is for sure"
"Yea, what ever" ryoko says upset.
"Ok, I'll be right there!" Mihoshi says energetically.
The two holograms disappear.
"Hmm" Washu thinks to her self "There must be something about this place that time moves differently. I mean this is the exact center of the universe," she says as she jumps back onto the thrown. "And I am its queen, hehehe" she jokes.
Ryoko and Mihoshi approach Washu in their battle suits as she slept soundly in the thrown room chair.
"Wake up you lazy bum" Ryoko blurts out.
Slowly Washu's eyes begin to flutter open, "oh, I must have dozed off"
"Now's not the time to be sleeping, we have to find tenchi!"
"Ok, ok, ok, don't worry. He's around here somewhere. Can you get a fix on him Ryoko?"
Ryoko closes her eyes and concentrates. Harder and harder she forces her self to search for him until the pain became to great and a single tear drips from the corner of her eye as she collapses to the ground "No" she says exhausted "its no use, this place, its just to big"
"That or someone or something is preventing your from finding him"
"What's that supposed to mean Washu"?
Washu points to the mural behind her causing Ryoko to glance up at it and study it.
"What the hell is that?" "And why are me and tenchi on here?" she asks curiously.
"I have no idea, but I'm willing to find out"
From outside Ryo-Ohki (still in space ship form) was still docked to the giant trees trunk when Ken-Ohki appears (also in space ship form). Ryo-Ohki prepared to defend her self, but Ken-Ohki wasn't attacking. With out someone at the controls, he is able to express free will and 'pop' reverted back to his Cabbit form. Seeing this Ryo-Ohki did the same and the two of them jumped off into the giant tree together.
It didn't take long before Washu and the rest of them found themselves in another section of the trees massive branches. From far away they could hear faint voices talking back and forth. They soon arrived at the door to the room and Washu peeked inside and gasped. Aeries was in there along with tenchi who had been strapped to a cross and held in place with energy bands.
"Why are you doing this to me" tenchi yelled.
From the other room Ryoko gasps "tenchi"
"I'm sorry, Aeris said mournfully, I have no choice, really"
"We all have choices, it's just a madder of following the correct ones"
"Don't make this harder then it already is, please."
From the side entrance a shadowy figure appears in dark cloth and approaches tenchi. Using a knife he cuts open his arm just enough so that a few drops of blood drips out into a test tube that he was holding. Tenchi cringes from the stinging sensation that was caused by the wound.
"Why are you doing this to me!" he yells out.
The shadowy figure says nothing.
Ryoko began to shake in anger, bolts of energy sparked from her tightly clinched fist and her teeth grinded together in anger. Ryoko would have exploded and given away their position had Washu not grabbed her ear and pulling her down to her level saying "I know this is hard for you, but you cant just run in there and start blowing things up, we have no idea what we are up against here" Ryoko took a deep breath and frowned. "Besides, she says, look at Aeris wrists" Ryoko looks over to see that the three original gems were no fastened to her wrists and neck.
"But, but how?" she asks.
"She is a space pirate after all, she must have done it while we were all asleep"
"Oh great, now what are we going to do, that's the last thing we need!"
By now the shadowy figure in the other room had filled the test tube with Tenchi's blood and exited the room. Weary from the loss of blood tenchi looks at Aeris "Tell me please, what is going on"
"The beginning to the end, and the end to the beginning. That's all I know"
"I don't understand"
"Neither do I, but that is what the master has told me"
"Who is that guy"?
"He is my master, my creator" pauses "my father"
"Your father? But I thought"
"Her father?" Washu asks herself.
A voice is heard in Aeries head "Aeris" it said, "come here"
"Yes, master" she said aloud. Her eyes turned from the lovely green they normally were into a flaccid red that gave off a slight glow. She obeyed the words and exited the room.
"Now's our chance" Washu says as she and the others quickly dart into the room.
"Washu!" tenchi says aloud.
"Shhhhh! You idiot, do you want them to hear us?"
"Ten-chi" ryoko says lovingly as she tries to wrap her arms around him, but as she does the bands holding him in place zap her shocking her backwards. "Owww!" ryoko dusts the burn marks off and appears right next to tenchi again who is sweating for the stupidity that she just showed "Did you miss me?" she asked as she drew near to him.
"Miss you? It's only been a few hours"
"Tenchi, you've been gone for almost a week now"
"Huh?"
Every one looks at Washu who rolls her eyes "This place exists within a time paradox"
"Huh?" they all say.
"Grin it means that time moves differently in here then in the rest of the universe ok?"
Ryoko starts poking at the bands that were holding tenchi in place, getting little shocks as her finger drew near each time. "That's great she says, but how are we going to get tenchi out of here?"
"Well how about this" Mihoshi says as she stats hitting buttons on a near by control panel.
"No don't touch that!"
It was too late, she had already typed in a few keys. Washu braises her self for something to explode but to her surprise, the light bands around tenchi disappeared and he fell to the ground.
"Yeaaa" Mihoshi yells, "I did it!"
"Good work Mihoshi" Sasami says.
"Yea, thanks Mihoshi" tenchi says as he starts to stand up but as he does ryoko scoops him up in her arms. "Ryoko put me down!"
"Now now tenchi, you cant be walking around in your weakened condition"
"Weakened? What are you talking about weakened? I'm fine, now put me down!"
"Ok, ok, but your not leaving my site"
"Common" Washu says, "Lets get out of here!"
The 5 of them begin to exit the room when the door in front of them closes. They look back to see Aeris standing there. Her eyes were still glowing red; she was obviously not her self.
"Where do you think that you are going?" she asks in a dark voice.
"Aeris!" Ryoko yells.
Aeris expression was cold; the life that once filled it had bled out leaving a soulless creature in front of them. What made it worse was that she had the three original gems tightly fastened to her wrists giving her unbelievable power, the sort of power that you hope your enemies never possess. She looked on them as if they possessed no threat, much like a father scolding his child and a small smirk streaked across her face adding to the cockiness that she showed in front of the universes strongest warrior.
End Part 11