Tenchi Muyo! : Episode 2- No Need for Cats!
Patrick was rushing home very quickly as it was starting to get dark and he never did like being alone in a dark street before. He suddenly had the strangest feeling he was being watched; looking around he saw nothing out of the ordinary. "Huh starting to lose my nerves, Tenchi would have a riot seeing me like this" Patrick said still running towards the house. A police car suddenly drove around a corner and out next to him. "Oh great now what?" Patrick said debating on running for it or staying put. Being already out of breath he simply stood there as the windshield rolled down to reveal.... an officer with the freaky hair. "Oh what do you want?" Patrick asked hoping not to get arrested. "I'm not here to arrest you I just want to talk okay?" he said in that calm, annoying police voice. "Please don't talk in the I'll be the nice cop unless you do something wrong in which I'll put you though hell and ruin you're life voice, if you want to know something just ask!" Patrick said nearly keeling over from air loss. The officer began to speak in a normal voice after that "Okay fair enough, my name is Detective Bright and I'm trying to bring down a long time thief and vandal that just moved to this city. We think she attack the school." Patrick didn't know if he should be impressed or not so he just nodded "Okay so what is the name of this criminal?" Bright looked back and forth before saying "Shadow Lady" A soft breeze blew by and in the distance they heard a howl before...."Rover! You dumb dog I told you not to go out on the balcony again...howling waking up the neighbors what's with you?!" Patrick looked bewildered before stating, "That was quite strange, anyway if she's such big news why haven't I heard of her before?" Blake looked ashamed for a second before responding, "Well it's supposed to be confidential but I asked you because you might know something, I mean blowing up the school that's just way above what she's been doing." Patrick looked down quickly at the Detectives choice of clothes "Um Detective if I may ask why are you wearing a Brittany Spears T-shirt underneath you're work clothes?" Somewhere in the distance they heard a faint sound of someone falling over but paid it no heed. " It was the only thing left and I really tried to conceal it too..." "If I wasn't scared before I am now." Patrick said rubbing the back of his head. "You haven't seen me on casual day, anyway if you don't know anything I'll just be on my way." "Nope haven't seen anything suspicious except the school burning and you're fashion sense." Patrick said with a grin. "Ha ha ha very funny oh well here's my number if you do see anything... bye" He said giving Patrick a card and rolling up the window and driving off. "Nice guy, oh man I'm really late better run back!"
(Now most of the story is from Patrick's point of view but every now or then I'll deviate and show something really important anyway on with the story! (Before falling off chair causing a chain reaction that will destroy the world unless I find out how to cure the common cold is....ow hey that was a weird dream NOW back to the story!)
Deep in the shadows overlooking the street two figures watched Patrick run down the street. "So you gave him it?" a distinctly femine voice said. "Yup slipped it right in his pocket didn't even notice" a small boy voice chimed in. "If he didn't notice than he won't notice it until it goes into the wash"..."Um I'll follow him and....uh.... make sure he sees it at least" the boy replied nervously. "Just don't force him like you did me okay?" the female asked "Yeah, sure, fine". "What makes him so special though?" the female asked thinking. "Don't know just thought I sensed something in him, well I'm off". Then a strange looking bat flew off towards Patrick
(15 minutes later) Patrick had just gotten to his house. It was a modest house whish didn't look to out of the ordinary. His father, Nobuyuki, had designed the whole thing being an architect. Patrick went in sneaking by his dad and up stairs before he heard something from Tenchi's room "Stupid cop slowed me down." Patrick said before walking in. "Tenchi is everything okay…well never thought you had it in you." Patrick said as he saw Ryoko pinning Tenchi down on the bed. "I just want the sword!" Ryoko said grabbing the object. TSZAP!"AH! OUCH! Oh yeah forgot no touchy." Ryoko said dropping the sword and rubbing her hand. Suddenly...everyone looked up as they heard a distant hum that seemed to be getting louder. "Damn it's her Tenchi give me the gems before she kills all of us!! "Ryoko yelled holding her hands out. "Well I don't know if I...." Patrick who had been lost in the conversation made one point clear. "You know Tenchi it's either this or death." "He's right Tenchi now just pray to have the gems returned to me okay?" Tenchi nodded as he closed his eyes and concentrated. One gem glowed one the hilt before disappearing and reappearing on Ryoko's wrist. "HEY only one!!" she said gesturing at her wrist. "Yup only one" Tenchi said firmly. "Oh well that's okay just give me a second" she then crossed her arms in front of her and took on a look of concentration. Suddenly a booming voice from outside was heard "WE KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE RYOKO NOW JUST COME OUT HERE AND GIVE YOURESELF UP!" CRASH the window suddenly broke as a small bat fluttered in and buried itself in Patrick's coat. "Hey what the...what was that!? "Patrick said trying to get the pest out. He didn't really get a chance before...MEOW!!! The voice came from outside and that was when two things happened.... one: "AH HAH RYO-OKI SHOWING YOURESELF EH? HMM WAIT WHERE ARE YOU RYOKO YOU'RE NOT ON RYO-OKI, IS THIS THING ON.……WELL THEN WHY DOESN'NT SHE ANSWER?!." Two: "Okay we're ready Tenchi, Patrick prepare to beam up!" Ryoko said coming out of her trance. A white light filled the room before. WHAM! "Ow, Patrick why do you always have to land on me? "Tenchi said from underneath Patrick." It's instinct you know how cats land on their feet, well I just land on you!" Patrick said smugly before getting up and looking around. They had entered a large chamber that had very little in the way of furniture. The main color theme was black or gray though and though although the 3-story side windows did provide an excellent view. There was a raised pedestal in the middle with many black crystals floating around it. Each one pulsed with a red light every now and then, which almost seemed to have a pattern; Ryoko seemed to be piloting the ship by standing there. The most unsettling thing by far was the whole place seemed to be.... Alive somehow. "Ryo-Oki lets get outta here!" Royko shouted pointing in what seemed to be a random direction. "MEOW!!" the voice seemed to reverberate thru the whole ship and not to mention was quite loud. The ship suddenly lurched forward very quickly and I noticed then that the ship's movements weren't in a line instead it weaved from side to side like a drunk while moving in a direction. Which was all and well when we were being fired at but...hum hum hum the ship was suddenly surrounded by small logs which seemed to stop us from moving. "Ah damnit I can't move Tenchi, Patrick run!" "Ah where do I run?" Patrick asked before "AHHH" "Wait stop I got nothing to do with..."Patrick turned around to see Ryoko and Tenchi being sucked into two logs with weird symbols on their front. "Uh-Oh" Patrick said bewildered. "You can say that again," said a sharp voice from inside his coat. "What the...ah!" Patrick's investigation was stopped short when one of the logs started moving towards him. "Ah! Gotta run!" Unfortunately Patrick tripped on a small object on the floor, which actually looked like his house only shrunk. His thoughts were stopped short when the log engulfed him and everything went black.....
(Sometime later)"Hey kid wake up, come on wake up!" A sharp voice said in Patrick's ear." Uh, ah, oh, w..where...am I?" Patrick said getting up and looking around. The place he was in looked like a huge bio-dome with almost every plant in the world in it but instead of the sky it was the blackness of space he looked up into. "From what I can see we're in some kind of prison," the voice said. "Yeah looks like it" Patrick muttered looking at the "prison" which had only what seemed to be tree roots, hanging from the top on what seemed to be a lowered portion of the ceiling, blocking they're exit. That's when Patrick looked around to see whom he had been captured with. And to his surprise he only saw a little bat with arms. The more he looked at the bat though the more unbatlike it seemed. It had large comical-looking eyes with a red rim around the top and appeared to be wearing shoes of some kind the rest of it was black. "Um hi" Patrick said incredously. "Hi yourself now lets get out of here." The bat said flapping up to his shoulder. "How do I do that you suppose?" looking at the thick roots surrounding them. "Like this" he said putting one claw into Patrick's pocket and flipping out a small round case. Opening it, inside was a black bandana which looked very similar to hid own. "Hey that's wait I still have it, then what's that?" Patrick said looking at the bandana. "That is you're way to fame and fortune, I was planning to switch places with you're other bandana but this is okay too." The bat said handing the bandana to Patrick." By the way my name's Demonta, now be a good little boy and put the bandana on."Why what does it do?"Demonta looked a little ticked at the question "I can't go answering every question now put it on I say!" Demonta then yanked it away and threw it on my head it fit nicely before hhhhhhuuuuummmmm TSZAP! Everything once more went dark....
(15 minutes later)"Dang should've know he'd pass out, now I gotta wait until he wakes up and then...""uh....wh...Whoa that was weird" Patrick said slowly sitting up "Great you're awake now if I'm correct the first transformation usually starts with a massive burst of energy so...." "Wait hold on, what?" Patrick said holding his hand up to silence the jabbering bat."Oh um, hmm, why don't we start by waving you're fingers in you're face" Demonta said imitating the motion with a hand. "Oh fine what is this some sort of game you AH! WHAT THE HELL! HOW DID THIS!....AH!...EEE!...ah!....eee!...ah....eee....er that's just not right. What was wrong with his hands was that somehow they had grown long sharp claws. After that shock Patrick also noticed that he somehow was more muscular than before. Not by much but just enough to be noticeable. "Okay just need to calm down and then kill little bat guy" Patrick said with his eye twitching. "Ah...um wait I can explain you see the bandana is actually a power source that when put on completely replaces the original form of the wearer and endows them with all the powers and abilities of the form stored in it." Demonta looked a little worn out after his long explanation. "Okay...um is there any other changes I should know about before we get out?" Patrick said poking his claws. "Um yeah you do first your eyes have been improved to act somewhat as a infrared scanner and you can hear alot better but there was only one way to pull that little feat off...." Demonta trailed off into meaningless babble. Patrick hesitantly reached up and grabbed his "ear" "um what did you do?" Patrick said in the calmest voice he could get. "Um well when the bandana was created they thought that cats had really good hearing so they sort of borrowed the design of their ears and of course made them larger. Patrick felt along his ear, it started in the same place but extended about 4 inches back and like the rest of his hair, was black. "This is weird, okay now how do we get out again?" Patrick asked poking his ear to make sure it was really attached. "Huh, let's see maybe if somebody had really long sharp claws we could get out *cough* *cough*." "Hmm...um...wait! I know!" Patrick said holding his hands up. "Okay now back to what I said before the magic that makes this is going to test you're bodies energy limit by feeding you a massive quantity of energy in a short time so be ready to move." Demonta said taking flight. "How will it feel?" Patrick said looking anxious. "Well say you had thirty cups of cafienated coffee and then twenty large bowls of heavily sugared Capt. Crunch and it'd be about the same. Of course you won't be capable of conscious though for a minute or two but you should get used to it after awhile." Demonta began test the roots to see how strong they were. "You should just revert into a cat-like attitude set for awhile just as long as you keep a goal in mind you should be able to keep some control of yourself." "Okay now how do I know when...." suddenly Patrick stood stock straight his eyes seemed to bulge and the hair on his ears puff up. "Oh great here we go...."Demonta said just before avoiding 130 pounds of flesh, hair, and claws. Patrick could think of only two goals. 1. Find Tenchi and 2. Get out of here
Fortunately the second was clearer. ZOOM the resilient roots stood all of two seconds before being ripped to shreds by a hyperactive Patrick, who was only seen now at a distance still running in random directions shedding anything that didn't move right away. "Weee now it's time to follow him" Demonta said flapping as fast as he could towards a rapidly departing cloud of dust.
It was 15 minutes later that Patrick slowed down and finally stopped catching his breath. "That was....really...strange...that's it I'm taking this thing off" Patrick then yanked off the bandana and was surprised when he didn't change back. "You *huff* need to *puff* put the bandana *wheeze* inside out to change back now" Demonta said coming up behide him. "Wait then that means IT'S PERMENANT!!!" Patrick said looking at Demonta much like a tiger looks at dinner. "NO!, no you can just put the bandana on inside out to change to you're original form but other than that yes it's permenant."Demonta said after catching his breath. Patrick took the advice and put the bandana on inside out and with a flash he was back to normal."Yeah!! Now let's find Tenchi and go!" Patrick said before he heard some loud explosions. Looking to his right he saw Tenchi and Ryoko facing off against the two logs, one regal looking woman in a kimono with long purple hair and purple-red eyes, and a little girl who also wore a kimono but strangely enough had blue hair done in two pigtails and what seemed to be pink eyes. "Well that was hard" Patrick said before running all out towards the spot. "You tell me now! Where is Yosho!" the regal looking lady asked. "Yosho? Um… I think he died a long time ago…" Tenchi said carefully. "WHAT!? No… he… can't be dead he… just can't…" the woman fell to her knees sobbing. "Get ready to move!" Ryoko yelled suddenly as… "MEOW!" Patrick immediately recognized the call and ran even faster. Demonta had simply hidden himself in Patrick's jacket. WHAM! The whole ship shook at the sound and then a large black crystal shot out from the floor."Hey guys wait up!" Patrick yelled finally getting to them." What took you so long, see I told you he could get out Tenchi." Ryoko said smugly."THAT'S IT! Not only are you all mocking me and my brother but I will not tolerate you walking into my bedroom!" The regal looking woman yelled pointing at Tenchi."Tenchi you went into her bedroom, tsk, tsk just when you think you know a person." Patrick said wagging a finger at Tenchi. "Ah… it's not what you think Patrick" "Tenchi you went… into another woman's bedroom? Grrrrr" Ryoko looked at Tenchi menacingly. "But nevermind that lets go!" Ryoko grabbed Tenchi and me pulling us through the crystal to...WHAM! "Sorry Tenchi I really didn't mean it that time" Patrick said getting up again. It was then that Tenchi and me noticed that Ryo-Oki was going down and taking the other ship with it. Now being able to see it the enemy ship it looked like it was made of wood and had a "living" feel to it. "Ah we're going down!" Patrick and Tenchi yelled while Ryoko simply laughed. They all plunged though the atmosphere and then the other ship's outer hull blew sending both ships tumbling out of control right into....a just completed bridge.
(One day later) "Well that was sure an adventure I guess we're lucky that we could get the house out of Ryo-Oki in time." Patrick said sitting at the table sipping tea." Right thank god you got out or you would be dead or drowned." Tenchi said next to him." Just remember I risked life and limb for you Tenchi" Ryoko said from across the table." Actually our ship the Ryo-Oh absorbed most of the impact," the pink-eyed girl said from next to Ryoko. "What was you're name again?" Patrick asked. "Sasami Second Princess of the Jurai Royal Family." "And you're sister is Ayeka the First Princess?" Patrick asked. "Yes she's my sister." "What a screwy night huh?" Demonta said eating out of a bowl. "And you're here because you turned Patrick into a cat-guy using that bandana and he needs you to change him back?" Tenchi asked looking at the bat. "That's the story." Demonta replied. "And you two can stay here as long as you want." Nobuyuki said from the head of the table. "Thank you sir", "We're very grateful." The two logs replied. "Where is Ayeka?" Tenchi asked Sasami after he finished breakfast. "Out trying to fix Ryo-Oh, which should be sinking deeper into the lake right... about... now." Sasami said just before... "AAHHHHH NOOOOOOOO I CAN'T BE STUCK HERE I JUST CAN'T NOOOOOOOOOO. "Looks like our life is getting exciting right Tenchi?" Patrick said cheerfully." This isn't good" Tenchi said holding his head in his hands.
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