Tenchi FanFic
Episode 12
By: Simfreak
Episode 12
Time Paradox
"Where do you think you're going?" Aeris asks, "Your not going to leave me hear all alone are you?"
"Aeris, what's with your eyes?" Tenchi asks.
"Tenchi, stay back. She's no longer herself" ryoko cried out.
Aeries raised her hand ready to fire at a moments notice. Seeing this tenchi takes another step forward.
"Aeris?"
"Tenchi, if you come with me now then the others can leave this room alive"
"Don't listen to her tenchi, she's under some one else's control there's no telling what she is capable of!"
Tenchi looks back at Aeris "you promise?" and Aeris nods her head.
"Tenchi no!" Ryoko cried out.
Tenchi looks back at her "I will be alright, what is important now is that all of you get home safely"
"But Tenchi" Ryoko starts to say with tears forming in her eyes. Tenchi walks over to her and places his arms around her and gives her a tight, loving embrace.
"Please" he says, "all that madders is your safety, please don't make this harder then it has to be. Besides, I will catch up with you, I promise"
"Promise"
"Yea" Tenchi turns back towards Aeris "Ok, now let them go"
True to her word, with one snap of her finger the door behind them opens and one by one they exit the room except for ryoko.
"Go" tenchi says again looking at ryoko.
With tears welling in her eyes ryoko replies "I love you tenchi"
Tenchi looks in to her eyes as they shimmered in the light "sighI love you to, now GO!"
Slowly ryoko backs out of the room and the door closes in front of her. The only ones in the room now were Aeris and Tenchi.
"What's all this about Aeris! Why are you doing this!"?
"It is fate Tenchi, this same battle has played out the same way for eons upon eons and it always ends the same way"
"What? But I don't understand?"
"You will, the past will become the present and the future the past"
"Stop talking in riddles! ("Where's Washu when you need her?") He asks himself.
"Come with me tenchi, the time is nearing"
The door behind Aeris opens and she signals Tenchi to walk through it. There was blinding light when tenchi walked through, but surprising the other room was but a black void in all directions.
"This place seems familiar some how"
Aeris laughs "Oh really?" and claps her hands illuminating the room, revealing a scientific lab that even Washu would be jealous of.
"Never mind" he says to him self.
Together they walk past countless machines and cages containing life forms that tenchi had never scene in his life. Eventually they made their way to the back where inside of a giant tube was a figure of a man.
"Who, who is that?" he asks.
"The beginning to the end and the end to the beginning"
"Grin why do I even bother?"
From the side of the room the shadowy figure appears and slowly makes his way in front of tenchi. At his sight Aeris immediately drops to one knee and forced tenchi to do the same. He looks up that the figure trying to make out his appearance, but cant, the shadow created by his dark hood masked his face too well.
"Who are you?" he asks "And why are you doing this"
"I?" The figure began to say. "I am the beginning to the end and the end to the beginning"
"Grin why does every one keep saying that?"
With one quick move the figure whipped his cloak off and stood before tenchi in all his glory.
"HIROTO!? BUT HOW!"
"Heh, please, you disgrace me when you speak that name I am Seth son of Hiroto"
"Huh?"
"The insignificant being that you call Hiroto, was my father and Aeris here, my mother"
"What?"
"And that man in the tank over there tenchi, is your son"
"WHAT! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! I didn't, I mean I've never!" tenchi begins to turn all red.
"HAHAHAHA! Oh believe me young prince it is very possible. This place exists within a time paradox, what ever is, has already been".
"I don't get it"
"Grin It means that your future is in actuality, the past here and your past has yet to be written."
"So this is the future?"
Seth looked down on tenchi "in a manor of speaking, except here, time reverses its self, moving backwards in time. This has all happened before, and will continue to happen until the end of time"
"This is insane, how do you expect me to believe anything that you are saying!"
Seth takes a few steps back and takes a deep breath "I knew you were going to say that" and with a flash of light Seth transformed into a knight of the goddess, his armor glowed black from the light hawk wings that surrounded him. The energy that was being given off from his body was greater then tenchi could bear and burned his skin like he was near a raging bon fire.
"Do you see now?" he asked. With a nod to Aeris, she stood up and quickly disappeared from sight.
"Where did she go?"
"To meet fate, and your friends"
"But she said that they would live! She promised"
"I said that they could leave the room, I never said that they would leave the paradox"
"How could you?" tenchi drops his head in same, "Ryoko, please, be careful" he says to himself quietly.
"Hurry up ryoko!" Washu calls out to her "your lagging behind"
Ryoko stops and looks at them "I'm not going" she says.
"What!" they all exclaim
"My place is here with tenchi, I wont leave him no madder what"
Washu sighs, "Are you sure?"
"Yes"
"I'm gonna miss you ryoko" Sasami cries out and runs over to hug ryoko.
"Aww, common, I'm not stayin here or nothing, I'm just going to make sure that tenchi makes it home safe is all"
"Ohhhh ryoko" Mihoshi stats to cry and runs over to give ryoko a hug too, but trips and falls on her way.
"Common Sasami, lets go, I'm sure it will be fine" Washu turns around and her hair sticks up and a sweat bead drips from the back of her head from shock "Uhhh, ryoko dear?"
"Yea"
"Where's Ryo-Ohki?"
"She should be right there"
"Well, she's not"
Ryoko runs over and looks out the window "where the hell did she go? Oh well, just take Mihoshi's shuttle" Washu points out the other window.
"What I don't see anything, well except for that piece of space debris"
"Remember how time moves differently in here?"
"Yea" ryoko pauses to let that information sink in "You mean to tell me that's Mihoshi's shuttle?!"
"Afraid so"
Mihoshi runs over to the window and stats whining at the site of her ship.
"Well I guess that were stuck here too" Washu says "You two, stat looking for Ryo-Ohki"
"Ok" says Mihoshi, "common Sasami"
"Ok"
Both Sasami and Mihoshi walk off into the giant tree in search of Ryo-Ohki.
"I don't want you getting in my way"
"Your way of what?"
"Of saving tenchi"
"Grin I can help too you know"
"Yeah right, what can a little pip squeak like you do?"
"PIPSQUEAK!" Washu clinches her fist and sparks start shooting from it "I'LL SHOW YOU PIPSQUEAK!" and activates a light sword in her hand holding it to Ryoko's neck.
Nervously ryoko gulps and says, "ok, ok, I believe you, I believe you, put that thing away."
Washu takes a deep breath and lets it fade back into her hand. "Now can we get going"?
"Going, going where?" a voice asked from behind.
"To save tenchi of course…. Huh?"
They look behind them to see Aeris standing there. Light sword in hand.
"Aeris" ryoko said again and activates her light sword as well.
"Why are you doing this!" Tenchi screams out.
"Soon the time paradoxes will collide and a entrance to the original dimension will reveal its self, from there I will take my place a king of the Choushin and rule the dynoverse"
"But, but how?"
"You doubt my powers? I am the most power being in the dynoverse, but have no way of getting to the original dimension with out the aid of one of the three original Choushin"
"Tokimi?"
"In a weakened state thanks to you and is now hiding somewhere in the dynoverse, with all of the possibilities that exist, she can be just about anywhere"
"Tsunami?"
"Has bonded her self with you, you are the only one able to use her powers in such fashion"
"Then who is left?"
Seth looks back at the Hourglass on the table that was slowly dropping sand to the bottom "She should be here any minute now"
The battle between Washu, ryoko and Aeris had commenced. Utilizing the three gems to their fullest ability allowed in her state, Aeris is easily able to dodge and counter both of them at the same time. Washu is not accustomed to fighting, that is after all, one of the reasons that she created ryoko, but she was able to hold her own, releasing energy blasts when ryoko and Aeris where engaged in hand to hand combat and able to deflect the energy pulses that Aeris sent her way.
"Take this!" ryoko screamed as she lunged at Aeris with her light sword, but Aeris is easily able to dodge the lunge and elbows ryoko in the back as she flies past, throwing her down to the ground and into the concrete shattering the ground around her. Slowly getting up she wipes the blood coming from the corner of her mouth and looks back up at Aeris who was hovering above her.
"Had enough?"
"Never!" Ryoko again took off and engaged Aeris in hand to hand sword combat. They moved so fast that even Washu had a difficult time keeping track of their movements. In one lucky hit, ryoko was able to knock Aeris back off guard allowing Washu to blast her from the ground. Aeris was only mildly affected by this attack and she swooped down and knocked Washu back into the wall.
Telepathically Washu spoke to ryoko "She's too strong, we need to get out of here"
"Never" ryoko replies to her.
Aeris looked at Ryoko and smiled "You should do what your mother tells you, if you want to live of course"
"GRRRRRRR, DIE!" Ryoko screams as she quickly turns towards her and released of powerful energy blast, but as the blast got there, Aeris disappeared "Where did she?, Ahhhhhhhhhh!" she screams as she looks down to see the energy sword impaled through her stomach, "no," she whispers out quietly and grabs the wound falling to her knees and collapsing to the ground. "Ten-chi" she whispers out as she loses consciousness.
"RYOKO!" Washu cried out running over to her and cradling ryoko in her arms. She was weak, but not dead, yet. "Aeris" she says as she looks up at her "I know that he is controlling you, you have to fight him" Aeris looked down shocked at Washu blinking in disbelief. "Look what you have done already"
"She, she….." as pure thoughts start to enter her head the gems on her wrists began to spark and bolts of energy wrapped around her body causing indiscernible pain. "The pain!" she cries out. Slowly the shocks wore off and her eyes glow darker then before. "No" she says "I have to do what my master commands, and, right now he commands that I kill you" Aeris raised her hand and was ready to fire down at both Washu and the dieing ryoko when Boom! A powerful blast hits her from behind knocking her to the ground.
"Ayeka!" Washu says in surprise.
"Azaka, Kamadocki" she says, as they appear "Place her into custody"
"Yes mam"
"Right away"
"And this time, do it right!" she replied.
Azaka and Kamadocki fly over as Aeris was getting back up and create a force field around her. Immediately Aeris tries to blast at the force field only to have the blast back fire in her face.
Ayeka walks over to Washu who was holding her hand tightly on Ryoko's wound to prevent her from bleeding to death.
"Is she?" asked Ayeka
"Not yet, but soon"
"Well, don't just stand there, isn't there anything that you can do?"
"Jus one, come here" Washu places Ayeka's hand over Ryoko's wound "Keep it tight"
"Ok"
Washu stands up, her hand full of blood and walks over to Aeris, "See this!" she says as she holds up her hand with blood dripping from it "If you don't help us she WILL die"
"I am doing only as my master commands"
"You are a free if you want to be. Fight him, Ryoko fought Kagato and won with help, so can you"
Aeris eyes slowly began to change color, but before they could, once again sparks flew from the gems on her wrists causing her pain and forcing her back into the darkness.
"I see, he has a tight hold on you. Azaka, Kamadocki render her unconscious"
"Yes mam"
With a frightened look on her face Aeris began to be electrocuted by Azaka and Kamadocki from with in the force field. With in seconds she was completely out.
"Now drop the force field"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes I can be very dangerous"
"Yes I am sure," Washu says.
Abiding by Washu's wishes they dropped the force field and Washu moves in close. She plucked the gems from her wrists and neck and placed them on her own. As she did a blinding light emulated from the gems and from within her mind she began to speak to them "I am sorry for my past, greed and power made me a plague upon this universe. But now I stand before you father, forgive me, I have found love in my daughter Ryoko and cannon bear to lose her now, or ever. Please grant me the power to save her. Please" Tears begin to well from Washu's eyes as gems began to burrow their was into her skin. In a quick flash of light she transformed into her adult self and veils of light hawk wings spread from her neck to create a translucent cape behind her and with one final burst of blinding light, the metamorphous was complete. After so many millennia Washu had reclaimed her right as a goddess of the Choushin.
Slowly Ryoko's eyes fluttered open and squinted at the bight light emanating from Washu "mommy?" she asked.
Ayeka looked down at ryoko "shhh, don't speak" she said and then looked back up at Washu "Washu is a goddess?" she asked herself in amazement.
Washu slowly strides over to Ayeka and knelt down to the ground smiling. She removed Ayeka's hand from Ryoko's wound and placed hers on top of it. A bright light emanated from the palm of her hand and Ryoko screamed out in pain. It was soon over, the light disappeared and Washu took her hand off of her stomach to reveal that the wound was completely healed, the only traces that were left was the torn cloth of her battle suit that the light sword had singed away.
Ryoko slowly stood up and looked at her self in disbelief then looks over at Washu "Well, I suppose you want me to thank you now"
"Giggles calling me mommy was enough"
"What! You heard that! Oh man," she says disappointed.
Washu quickly wrapped her arms around ryoko head in a tight hug "Don't you ever worry your mommy like then again little Ryoko, you got it!"
Ayeka standing to the side starts to giggle
"Hey what are you laughing at?!" Washu exclaims.
"Oh nothing, just an all to familiar scene is all"
Washu lets go of ryoko allowing her to speak "What are you doing here anyways? I thought you were on your way back to Jurai"
"Well, I couldn't very well let you have all of the fun, after all tenchi is a blood relative and prince of Jurai."
Washu looks at the two of them and smiles "Are we ready to go?"
"Go where?"
"Save tenchi of course!"
"But what about her?" Ayeka asks as she points down to Aeris who was still passed out on the ground.
Washu snaps her finger and in a flash of light she starts to regain consciousness.
"What did you do that for!"?
Slowly Aeris stands up and looks at them, her bright greens eyes were back. "What happened?" she asked as she grabbed her head in pain.
"You don't remember?"
"Remember? I don't remember anything, who are you people, who am I?"
Ayeka and Ryoko look at each other puzzled and then back to Washu who begins to speak "I removed all of her memories, now there is no way for Seth to control her ever again"
"Seth, who is Seth?" Ayeka asks.
"Apparently her master, though her memory doesn't contain more information then that, who ever he is kept his identity a big secret. Oh and Ayeka, there is no need to be ashamed, your young and will get over it. Hehehehe"
"WHAT! You mean to tell me that?"
"Yep"
"Oh no." she says quietly.
"Don't worry, I'll keep your secret, hehehe"
"What secret, I wanna know! Tell me!" ryoko cries out "Especially if it's embarrassing!"
Washu looks over at ryoko, "You want embarrassing?" she asks as she whips out a tape cassette "how about this!"
"Gulp is that"
"Uh, huh"
"You mean you carry it where ever you go!"
"There's no need to be embarrassed I think its sweet and innocent."
"Ok, ok, I wont ask! Just put that thing away or burn it or something!"
"Yes, lets save tenchi, then we can watch the tape" Ayeka says slyly
"I agree, let go!" Washu yells.
In a flash of light, Ayeka, Mihoshi, Sasami, Aeris, Ryo-Ohki and ken-Ohkie all appear behind tenchi who was still kneeling before Seth.
"Ahhh, there you are Washu, I have been waiting for you" Seth exclaims.
"Let tenchi go!"
"Oh, he is free to go" Seth turns his attentions to Washu "you are the one that I am interested in"
Slowly Seth starts to walk over to Washu looking her in the eyes the entire time.
"Me?" She asks innocently, "What can anyone want with cute little ole me?"
Ayeka leans over to ryoko and whispers "but she isn't little anymore"
Washu quickly turns around towards Ayeka and shouts "force of habit ok!" and turns back towards Seth. "So what could you possible want form me"? She asks fluttering her eyes.
"In less then three minutes the time paradox of this sanctuary will collide and for a single moment in time and space a rip will open in the dynoverse allowing anyone in the presence of one of the Choushin to be transported to the original dimension where I will rule"
"Oh you think so?" She says as she eyes the man inside the tank behind him.
"I know so, it has already happened before, it will happen again"
"If it has happened before, then why are you trapped here?"
Seth thinks to himself for second "I, I don't know. None the less, my time has come!" Seth activates the sword of the Choushin knights and holds it to Washu's neck. "And I can assure you, my power is equal matched with your own. The DNA within me contains genetics from all of the Choushin and was refined down to the perfect form that you see before you. So don't try anything funny"
The sword in his hand glistened back as waves of power emulated from the powerful blade. Seeing Washu in danger (and not fully comprehending what has happened to Washu) Tenchi focuses his power and activates his light hawk sword and steps in front of Washu.
"Silly boy" Seth laughs to himself "you are no match for me, your are but a pawn played in the galactic game of chess.
"But even a pawn can defeat a knight in chess"
Tenchi throws his sword at Seth missing him by inches.
"HAHAHA" Seth laughs "Nice try kid, but now you are going to die"
Tenchi shakes his head no "I don't think so" and points behind him. The sword had sliced into the tank that the other man was in and started to crack open.
"NO!" Seth yells as light started to stream from the cracks in the glass "This cant be!"
The glass to the tank exploded out showering down on everyone who blocked the debris with their arms. When they looked back up the man was standing there with glowing gold armor created with light hawk wings and a sword to match.
"KATSUHITO!" Seth yells out.
"Grandpa?" tenchi asks quietly.
"No tenchi, long story, just sit back and watch" Washu whispers in his ear.
"SETH!" Katsuhito exclaims.
The two of them drew their swords in the manor of the Jurai court and began dueling. A frenzy of attacks and defenses pursued as the two fought, giving it everything they had. Tenchi watched as some of the moves that the gold knight did seemed almost identical to the moves that him and Yosho had been practicing all of these years. The black knights moves had similarities but were not as clean and unfamiliar, relying on strength alone to attack his enemy. The group began to back up because when the blades collided, the shockwaves given off was more then any mortal could with stand. Azaka and Kamadocki had to shield Mihoshi, Ayeka, Sasami and the two cabbits from its harmful effect.
Fire began to erupt from Seth's eyes as is furry started to consume him forcing his body to the next level of power. Their adrenaline rushed at each blow. They knew the out come of the battle would change life in all of existence forever.
"I will not lose to you, I have scene this play out to many time"
"You your judgment has been clouded Seth, you have only whiteness what you want to"
Their blades collide once again, harder then before.
"That maybe so, but I know your weakness" Seth knocked Katsuhito's sword away and decked him with his other hand, knocking him to the ground. Immediately Seth started to run towards tenchi with his sword facing him.
"DIE PRINCE!" He screamed as he neared.
Tenchi looked on in fear knowing that he couldn't move from the shock of his life being placed in such peril, but before Seth sword could even draw close enough to touch tenchi, Katsuhito stood up and hurled his sword at Seth. It flew end over end through the air finally planting its self into his back.
"NOOOOOOOO!" he screamed as the light from the sword began to spread through the back of his armor causing it to start cracking apart. Seth fell to his knees in front of tenchi dropping his sword to his side as the light consumed his body "But, but how? He asked and eventually flashed out of existence.
With that, the final grain of sand fell to the bottom of the hourglass. The whole tree began to shake as the paradoxes collided forcing time and space to co-exist. In a flash all that surrounded them vanished into oblivion and they were transported to an empty black void.
"What is this place" ryoko asked allowed.
"The original dimension" Washu answered.
Ayeka looked around "not much to look at"
"Believe me" tenchi began to say, "There is a lot more then this"
Katsuhito walked over to tenchi and wrapped his arms around him in an embrace "Thank you father for all that you have done for me" Tenchi blinks in disbelief. As he lets go and walks over to Ryoko and hugs her "thank you mother" he lets go and she too blinks in disbelief
"Wait a minute! You mean to tell me!" Ayeka screams. But she is silenced as Katsuhito walks over and hugs Ayeka "And thank you aunty Ayeka, with out you and your change of heart, none of this would be possible" Ayeka blushes when he embarrasses her as well.
Katsuhito lets go and takes a step back and looks over at Washu. "It's your choice" he says, "But I know you already have the answer"
Washu looks over at him and smiles "Well, I cant very well let you grow up with out a grandma to spoil you now can I hehehe!"
"Hahaha, and for that I am thankful!" In a flash of light Washu is converted back to little Washu as the gems fly up into the void and disappear"
Katsuhito looks down on to Sasami "I'm sorry that I will never get to know you, but know that you do grow up to be a very beautiful women" Sasami begins to blush as Ayeka frowns at her. Then he leans in closer and whispers into her ear "and my wife" Sasami's eyes bulge out and claps her hands over her mouth from shock.
Next he moves over to Mihoshi "Mihoshi"
"Yes strange man" she asks with little tears in her eyes.
"Please remember, the diaper cover goes on first"
"Ok" she says then looks at him puzzled.
"Well, I am sorry to have to cut our time together so short, but I must be going. One day I will visit you, I promise, good bye"
Every one starts to wave at him good by "Good bye" they all say as he disappears into nothingness.
Tenchi looks back at Washu "What was all of that about!"
"Grin you'll find out, I promise"
"He just left us here!" Ayeka shouts, "How are we supposed to get home?!"
Everyone looks at each other trying to see if any one had an idea. "Sorry" an echoing voice said and with a flash of light they all were transported back into the Masaki living room where Yosho and Nobuyuki where sitting at the table playing chess.
"There you are, I've been worried sick about you" Nobuyuki says as he looks over as they were still looking at each other confused. "By the way where were you"?
Washu looks over at him, "oh no where, just a time paradox in the center of the universe is all"
"Huh"
"Grin Just play your game of chess"
"Checkmate!" Yosho cries out "HAHAHA!"
"HUH!" Nobuyuki looks down at the board shocked.
"Well, I'm going to start dinner" Sasami says as she takes off towards the kitchen.
"I have to go file my report now, Uhhhh, Washu?" Mihoshi starts to ask.
"Let me guess, you need a ship" Washu replies.
"Oh would you please, I would be ever so grateful."
"Follow me, I kept the program on file incase knowing that some how you would manage to destroy it" and the two of them walk into the lab, the door shutting behind them.
"Well" Ayeka begins to say "I guess I better go unpack, looks like your going to need my help after all" she says as she walks up the stairs.
All that are left are tenchi and Ryoko. Tenchi looks over at ryoko nervously as she starts smiling at him seductively.
"You know tenchi" she starts to say.
"Save it, I'm going to take a bath" and starts walking towards the door with ryoko frowning at him. As he opens the door he looks back at her "Aren't you coming?" he asks. Ryoko looks at him shocked and then smiles as she walks up next to him and hooks her arm around his as they walk off in to the sunset towards the Onsen.
The End.
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