Near the Cabin:
Ayeka looks at her feet, eyes wide open. "Oh my.." she stumbles a bit down the path, eyes skewed from the sunlight spotting through the netted trees. "It was just a daydream." She sits on a rock near a tree, head in hands. "It seemed...." she pauses and looks up at Tenchi watching the desolate path ahead and blinks, "hmmm...maybe it's a premonition!"
---
Washu's Lab:
"What was THAT about??"
"You wanted them to be fooled, right? I knew Yugi was watching. You don't think I know about our enemies?" *cheesy grin* "I'm a GENIUS!"
"whahwhahGENIUSwhahwhah...." Ryoko mutters, "Why Ayeka though!!?"
"If the hologram was of you, they'd be on to us. You are here. Everyone knows you are in the lab with me. That would be way too obvious. Plus, eh..." Washu shrugs, "Ayeka was looking for him anyway. I saw her on the path while watching the screen earlier when you took a slight nap..." She smirks.
"AAAAH?? I was NOT sleeping!!!"
"Hey, I see what I see. Don't worry. I think we'll nail Sakuya soon."
---
The Woods:
Sakuya stumbles along the path feeling a sense of déjà vu. She felt she had done this; been here; seen this all before. She blinks and watches her step near the tree. For some reason it irks her...like she knows what's going to happen.
---
The Cabin:
Ayeka gathers the edges of her kimono and rises from her rock seat to walk towards where Tenchi stands shielding his eyes... hesitating, she calls out, "Tenchiii!"
---
Yugi's Lair:
A big blaster in her shaking hands full of anger, she looks back at the screen where her assistant stands to the side, hands on hips and wiggles closer to the chair.
"Stand back and open both vortex's. I need good aim!"
Yugi takes one last glance at the screen about to grab the massive telescope to get a closer look down below when she gasps, "Aah! What? What is happening?"
---
Washu's Lab:
"I still wonder why you didn't just have Mecha Sakuya destroy Sakuya then and there! Why the detour? Just to get this...this Yugi in more of a rage??"
"No, no.... do you want her to know all of our intentions? We had to make it look like Sakuya was going to survive. It is her shadow. She doesn't really want Sakuya dead. She wants to stop us."
Ryoko seems bothered, "So?? I still don't get ...I don't..." She seems confused, "Wait, Sakuya isn't real anyway?? umm...."
"Look, I didn't know any of this, till I observed the data during your little cat n..." Ryoko interrupts, "I TOLD you I wasn't slee....p..." Washu brushes her hands away and turns back to the screen with Ryoko in mid hand raisings.
"See, we still must go through with destroying her now. I know you wanted this for personal reasons, but... but see this is even more dangerous than I thought!"
"Uhh..." Ryoko is baffled.
"Since Sakuya is Yugi's shadow, if we don't destroy Sakuya properly, you could lose more than Tenchi's love and support. This could destroy all of us since now we know she knows what is happening. She doesn't know why... I don't know... she just knows and she will try to stop us if we don't distract her beforehand..."
"Do you think she's on to this new ploy yet?"
"I ..I can't be sure. I figured it would be enough to keep her in shock for five minutes..."
---
Near the Cabin:
Tenchi turns around and sees Ayeka stumbling over the rocks, with her dress slightly raised to avoid trips. "Oh...is dinner ready?"
Ayeka blushes at thoughts from earlier in her memory bank, "Ah...no lord Tenchi... That's why.. that's why I came here." A slight smile appears as she looks up into his eyes as he mildly glances at her. "Is that so? OH! Wait..." with a sheepish grin, he scratches his head, "the carrots!"
Ayeka's eyes glimmer and her lashes cover them slightly, "Yes...exactly... Umm...there's something else I must ask you too.."
"Oh? What is it lady Ayeka?"
Before she can respond gun shots are heard in the distance.
"It's this again!" Ayeka's eyes pop almost out of her head.
"What ...again?" he looks off into the distance.
---
The Woods:
Mecha Sakuya stands over the real Sakuya sardonically. Eyes blinking she makes the scariest seeming smirk she can muster and grabs out her blaster again, "PRACTICE SHOT's a GOOO!!" blinking a few more times it goes crazy ...
Sakuya shields her eyes and moans, "Tenchi....Tenchiii....aah! Help me! It's happening.... What's wrong... Why do I know what's going to happen? The outcome..."
---
Yugi's Lair:
She stares at the screen once more and blinks. She sees Sakuya alone and brushing the grass from the back of her skirt. No robot in sight.
"Augh! The thing must've disappeared after the signs of LOVE! I can't believe Tenchi would get up the nerve for that snooty one! Sakuya is the friend; the easy going hip one...WTF?!?"
"Uhh..." her assistant turns away from Yugi as she shakes her fist at the screen.
---
Washu's Lab:
Tthere! I fixed the bug in the program. Now Yugi won't see what we see. I think that'll be enough distraction before she gets her telescope out..."
"HAHA! She has a telescope?? Such HIGH technology...." *snicker* Ryoko is in knee-slapping action mode and tosses her glass of saki in the air as if in a toast.
Washu lets out a breath, "HEY! Who cares how unarmored she is. This is a good thing for us. I'll give the signal for Mecha Sakuya. she's stalling cause of the bug in her system. She'll see the blinking red light go off in a sec and get in combat mode.."
"As long as it happens..." Ryoko gets over her joke and looks calmly at the screen.
---
Near the Cabin:
"Ayeka?"
She blinks and looks up at Tenchi's worried expression. "Oh, umm... don't worry... It's nothing." She looks down and shifts her eyes away.
"It's okay...." He puts an arm around her shaking shoulders, "Ya know, it's probably just some hunters. It's good game season." He grins and takes her to the cabin to sit down.
---
The Woods:
Mecha Sakuya hears the beeping in her head and looks straight at Sakuya whose eyes are wide open in shock and mouth hanging open in a mute scream; one arm is behind her as if to run away.
"You...you..." M.S. blinks a few times and grabs her blaster again. "You're not going anywhere... MECHA BLASSSTTEEER!!" She flips her gun around a few times.
"Wh...what?" Sakuya is scared out of her wits ....she can't run though. She's stuck.
---
Yugi's Lair:
She shakes off this premonition and sees a film of light blue over the screen. "AUUUGH!"
"What is it master?"
"This... this was a trick! This is a hologram!!!!!"
Her assistant looks up, "What would you like me to do?"
"Get me my telescope!"
---
The Woods:
Hands shaking slightly, M.S. looks around and does a few more test shots at the trees. Black smoke burning a hole through a few of the trees as they wither in front of her.
Sakuya tries to back up a bit more till she can't see anymore from the rays of the sun burning through her skull. The red aiming light from the blaster aimed at her now.
---
The Cabin:
Ayeka sits on the edge of the bench as Tenchi follows her in. "Are you alright? Would you like me to take you back to the house?"
She looks up and politely says, "No thank you. I'm fine, really. I'm sorry I caused so much commotion. I was thinking of something else entirely..."
"It's okay. Would you like to talk to me about something? You seemed like you had something on your mind earlier."
Ayeka looks up and remembers what she was going to say before the shots rang, "Ah...it's not important." She turns away, hands shifting uneasily in her lap.
Tenchi grabs at her fragile Juraian hand and says, "It's okay.... You can tell me. Please? I'm your friend."
She perks up at the word 'friend' and lets out a small breath, "Um, I ..I had a premonition earlier...before I reached the clearing in the path...."
Tenchi looks at her with curiosity in his eyes.
"Well, you had professed your want to be taken into the Juraian family; to be bound by marriage to ..." hesitating she slightly pulls her hand away.
"Yes?" Tenchi moves in closer, "I'm listening... It's okay..."
"Well, like you'd want to go through with it with Ryoko (eye roll) and Sakuya (growl) around...."
"What is it? I don't get what you're trying to say ..."
She realizes how naive Tenchi can be and almost loses patience, but turns with warm eyes towards him, "I had a premonition that you wanted to marry me, lord Tenchi..."
He gulps and turns away blushing.
---
The Woods:
Mecha Sakuya goes a bit crazy again as she can sense love coming through her machinery again; this time for real.
Sakuya figures this is the moment she should run... She tries to get up... Her hand is stuck.... There is something holding her down.
---
The Cabin:
Ayeka knows she must have said too much. Why did she open up? This wasn't right! She should've just grabbed him right then...marriage talk!! The nerve!
Tenchi turns back towards her, "Umm...erm...we should head back now! I need to get the carrots. I left them..." he points in all these different directions, obviously flustered, "uhh at the field! that's it!"
He inches his way out and then stops reaching his hand out, "lady Ayeka? You coming?"
She shyly gets up slowly, "Uh...yes, I s'pose so. The others might get worried if we are gone too long."
She hides the fact of a slight tear escaping with downcast eyes.
---
The Woods:
Mecha Sakuya detects no more interferences and looks back at her prey. AH the handy hand puller field worked! M.S. beams and takes the safety off her blaster.
Aiming the red light at Sakuya's sunglassed head, she realizes this should be the last time she ever has to do this again.
Aiming the smoking barrel closer, red light blinking again and again....a shot goes off.
Ayeka looks at her feet, eyes wide open. "Oh my.." she stumbles a bit down the path, eyes skewed from the sunlight spotting through the netted trees. "It was just a daydream." She sits on a rock near a tree, head in hands. "It seemed...." she pauses and looks up at Tenchi watching the desolate path ahead and blinks, "hmmm...maybe it's a premonition!"
---
Washu's Lab:
"What was THAT about??"
"You wanted them to be fooled, right? I knew Yugi was watching. You don't think I know about our enemies?" *cheesy grin* "I'm a GENIUS!"
"whahwhahGENIUSwhahwhah...." Ryoko mutters, "Why Ayeka though!!?"
"If the hologram was of you, they'd be on to us. You are here. Everyone knows you are in the lab with me. That would be way too obvious. Plus, eh..." Washu shrugs, "Ayeka was looking for him anyway. I saw her on the path while watching the screen earlier when you took a slight nap..." She smirks.
"AAAAH?? I was NOT sleeping!!!"
"Hey, I see what I see. Don't worry. I think we'll nail Sakuya soon."
---
The Woods:
Sakuya stumbles along the path feeling a sense of déjà vu. She felt she had done this; been here; seen this all before. She blinks and watches her step near the tree. For some reason it irks her...like she knows what's going to happen.
---
The Cabin:
Ayeka gathers the edges of her kimono and rises from her rock seat to walk towards where Tenchi stands shielding his eyes... hesitating, she calls out, "Tenchiii!"
---
Yugi's Lair:
A big blaster in her shaking hands full of anger, she looks back at the screen where her assistant stands to the side, hands on hips and wiggles closer to the chair.
"Stand back and open both vortex's. I need good aim!"
Yugi takes one last glance at the screen about to grab the massive telescope to get a closer look down below when she gasps, "Aah! What? What is happening?"
---
Washu's Lab:
"I still wonder why you didn't just have Mecha Sakuya destroy Sakuya then and there! Why the detour? Just to get this...this Yugi in more of a rage??"
"No, no.... do you want her to know all of our intentions? We had to make it look like Sakuya was going to survive. It is her shadow. She doesn't really want Sakuya dead. She wants to stop us."
Ryoko seems bothered, "So?? I still don't get ...I don't..." She seems confused, "Wait, Sakuya isn't real anyway?? umm...."
"Look, I didn't know any of this, till I observed the data during your little cat n..." Ryoko interrupts, "I TOLD you I wasn't slee....p..." Washu brushes her hands away and turns back to the screen with Ryoko in mid hand raisings.
"See, we still must go through with destroying her now. I know you wanted this for personal reasons, but... but see this is even more dangerous than I thought!"
"Uhh..." Ryoko is baffled.
"Since Sakuya is Yugi's shadow, if we don't destroy Sakuya properly, you could lose more than Tenchi's love and support. This could destroy all of us since now we know she knows what is happening. She doesn't know why... I don't know... she just knows and she will try to stop us if we don't distract her beforehand..."
"Do you think she's on to this new ploy yet?"
"I ..I can't be sure. I figured it would be enough to keep her in shock for five minutes..."
---
Near the Cabin:
Tenchi turns around and sees Ayeka stumbling over the rocks, with her dress slightly raised to avoid trips. "Oh...is dinner ready?"
Ayeka blushes at thoughts from earlier in her memory bank, "Ah...no lord Tenchi... That's why.. that's why I came here." A slight smile appears as she looks up into his eyes as he mildly glances at her. "Is that so? OH! Wait..." with a sheepish grin, he scratches his head, "the carrots!"
Ayeka's eyes glimmer and her lashes cover them slightly, "Yes...exactly... Umm...there's something else I must ask you too.."
"Oh? What is it lady Ayeka?"
Before she can respond gun shots are heard in the distance.
"It's this again!" Ayeka's eyes pop almost out of her head.
"What ...again?" he looks off into the distance.
---
The Woods:
Mecha Sakuya stands over the real Sakuya sardonically. Eyes blinking she makes the scariest seeming smirk she can muster and grabs out her blaster again, "PRACTICE SHOT's a GOOO!!" blinking a few more times it goes crazy ...
Sakuya shields her eyes and moans, "Tenchi....Tenchiii....aah! Help me! It's happening.... What's wrong... Why do I know what's going to happen? The outcome..."
---
Yugi's Lair:
She stares at the screen once more and blinks. She sees Sakuya alone and brushing the grass from the back of her skirt. No robot in sight.
"Augh! The thing must've disappeared after the signs of LOVE! I can't believe Tenchi would get up the nerve for that snooty one! Sakuya is the friend; the easy going hip one...WTF?!?"
"Uhh..." her assistant turns away from Yugi as she shakes her fist at the screen.
---
Washu's Lab:
Tthere! I fixed the bug in the program. Now Yugi won't see what we see. I think that'll be enough distraction before she gets her telescope out..."
"HAHA! She has a telescope?? Such HIGH technology...." *snicker* Ryoko is in knee-slapping action mode and tosses her glass of saki in the air as if in a toast.
Washu lets out a breath, "HEY! Who cares how unarmored she is. This is a good thing for us. I'll give the signal for Mecha Sakuya. she's stalling cause of the bug in her system. She'll see the blinking red light go off in a sec and get in combat mode.."
"As long as it happens..." Ryoko gets over her joke and looks calmly at the screen.
---
Near the Cabin:
"Ayeka?"
She blinks and looks up at Tenchi's worried expression. "Oh, umm... don't worry... It's nothing." She looks down and shifts her eyes away.
"It's okay...." He puts an arm around her shaking shoulders, "Ya know, it's probably just some hunters. It's good game season." He grins and takes her to the cabin to sit down.
---
The Woods:
Mecha Sakuya hears the beeping in her head and looks straight at Sakuya whose eyes are wide open in shock and mouth hanging open in a mute scream; one arm is behind her as if to run away.
"You...you..." M.S. blinks a few times and grabs her blaster again. "You're not going anywhere... MECHA BLASSSTTEEER!!" She flips her gun around a few times.
"Wh...what?" Sakuya is scared out of her wits ....she can't run though. She's stuck.
---
Yugi's Lair:
She shakes off this premonition and sees a film of light blue over the screen. "AUUUGH!"
"What is it master?"
"This... this was a trick! This is a hologram!!!!!"
Her assistant looks up, "What would you like me to do?"
"Get me my telescope!"
---
The Woods:
Hands shaking slightly, M.S. looks around and does a few more test shots at the trees. Black smoke burning a hole through a few of the trees as they wither in front of her.
Sakuya tries to back up a bit more till she can't see anymore from the rays of the sun burning through her skull. The red aiming light from the blaster aimed at her now.
---
The Cabin:
Ayeka sits on the edge of the bench as Tenchi follows her in. "Are you alright? Would you like me to take you back to the house?"
She looks up and politely says, "No thank you. I'm fine, really. I'm sorry I caused so much commotion. I was thinking of something else entirely..."
"It's okay. Would you like to talk to me about something? You seemed like you had something on your mind earlier."
Ayeka looks up and remembers what she was going to say before the shots rang, "Ah...it's not important." She turns away, hands shifting uneasily in her lap.
Tenchi grabs at her fragile Juraian hand and says, "It's okay.... You can tell me. Please? I'm your friend."
She perks up at the word 'friend' and lets out a small breath, "Um, I ..I had a premonition earlier...before I reached the clearing in the path...."
Tenchi looks at her with curiosity in his eyes.
"Well, you had professed your want to be taken into the Juraian family; to be bound by marriage to ..." hesitating she slightly pulls her hand away.
"Yes?" Tenchi moves in closer, "I'm listening... It's okay..."
"Well, like you'd want to go through with it with Ryoko (eye roll) and Sakuya (growl) around...."
"What is it? I don't get what you're trying to say ..."
She realizes how naive Tenchi can be and almost loses patience, but turns with warm eyes towards him, "I had a premonition that you wanted to marry me, lord Tenchi..."
He gulps and turns away blushing.
---
The Woods:
Mecha Sakuya goes a bit crazy again as she can sense love coming through her machinery again; this time for real.
Sakuya figures this is the moment she should run... She tries to get up... Her hand is stuck.... There is something holding her down.
---
The Cabin:
Ayeka knows she must have said too much. Why did she open up? This wasn't right! She should've just grabbed him right then...marriage talk!! The nerve!
Tenchi turns back towards her, "Umm...erm...we should head back now! I need to get the carrots. I left them..." he points in all these different directions, obviously flustered, "uhh at the field! that's it!"
He inches his way out and then stops reaching his hand out, "lady Ayeka? You coming?"
She shyly gets up slowly, "Uh...yes, I s'pose so. The others might get worried if we are gone too long."
She hides the fact of a slight tear escaping with downcast eyes.
---
The Woods:
Mecha Sakuya detects no more interferences and looks back at her prey. AH the handy hand puller field worked! M.S. beams and takes the safety off her blaster.
Aiming the red light at Sakuya's sunglassed head, she realizes this should be the last time she ever has to do this again.
Aiming the smoking barrel closer, red light blinking again and again....a shot goes off.