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( ) Mental thoughts
" " Verbal dialogue
Chapter #4: Confrontation!
Nagi was waiting patiently at the lakes' edge, behind some bushes, waiting for the opportunity to catch Ryoko off guard. As she waited, she still had that nagging feeling of knowing someone knew she was there.
She had checked the area around her several times through the night, with the same result. Nobody but Nagi was there.
She then spotted several people coming out of the house to the patio area, and saw over a ten minute time span an apparent conversation between the three there, which included Ryoko.
"Now they are not speaking, but I'm still hearing them. How odd?!?"
Finally, I see them jump up and hug. "Tenchi just proposed to Ryoko and Ayeka?!"
Nagi thinks some more to herself. "Oh yeah, he's Jurian, so they can marry more than one wife."
The she thinks; "Wow, those three really love each other." Then a puzzled look creeps into her face. "Wait wait a minute, how did I know that?" This confuses her, but she quickly recovers "Oh well,that doesn't matter now. It's time to nab the witch!"
Her plan was simple, she would lure Ryoko to her side of the lake,
separating her from the rest of the gang long enough to use Ken-Oki,
who was hidden in the forest and teleport her to a holding cell as he transformed.
They would be off the planet before the others had time to react.
But what poor Nagi didn't know was that all of them already knew her plan! How? Just leave it to the Greatest Scientist in the Universe, Washu!
Earlier, as Nagi lay in wait, Washu was eavesdropping on Tenchi and the girls, as well as listening to Nagi's thoughts. 'How you might say how I can hear them, read on and you'll find out!' Then Tenchi and the girls got up to officially inform the others of their arrangement.
Most of the girls were somewhat disappointed, though they carried that disappointment inside and professed their congratulations to them.
At that moment, Washu informed them of Nagi, her plan, and where she was. When asked about how she knew all this, Washu gave a complicated answer that thoroughly confused everyone.
Washu then said that she had a sensory device that picked unusual brain patterns and to put it in simplest terms, she had a brain-thought recorder
AN: As you'll see later, that was a bold-faced lie! ;-)
So, when Nagi saw Ryoko flying towards her, she was ready to pounce on her pray. Then to her shock, Ryoko stopped above the middle of the lake, and looked straight at her!
She then heard two more people beamed behind ,and around her. They turned out to be Tenchi, and Ayeka. She then saw Ryo-Oki in her ship form, above the lake, cutting her off her final escape route as her teleportation power failed her. She knew she was surrounded, but she wanted the bounty. No, she wanted Ryoko. So, she surprised everyone by flying up to Ryoko and facing her above the lake in the still air above the lake.
"Seems you've changed a little since we last met" Said a now surprised Ryoko
"Well, I needed an edge and since I got these new powers, someone's put a new bounty on you head. I thought, why not try them out on you!" Nagi said in a challenging tone!
"Well, Let's see what you've got Nagi!" she replied in a menacing tone, and she powered up!
("YOU TWO WILL NOT FIGHT!!")
That telepathic message came blaring into Nagi's and Ryoko's skulls ... at the same time! "What in Tsunami's name was that?" Nagi yelled!
Gee, Mom why did you have to put the volume up on me too?' Said Ryoko telepathically.
Sorry Little Ryoko, I'll be more careful next time.' answered Washu telepathically!
I just want Nagi to know that she has no chance in the world against
The Greatest Scientist in the Universe, Washu,' she hesitated , then went on ".... who also happens to be her mother!"
Nagi yelled; "WHATTT! What are you saying?!?! How can you be my mother?"
But, deep inside her mind Nagi knew Washu wasn't lying.)
Yes I am not lying, I even have proof!' Replied Washu verbally.
NO, I was an orphan, raised at a Jurian Government Orphanage
,and Military Academy. No, you're lying to distract me from taking Ryoko's head!" Nagi said, not really believing what she was hearing.
"Well, my dear, I found the records, from one of my former students that say otherwise." Washu said confidently. Washu was now standing on the edge of the lake, within twenty feet as her daughters were floating overhead ,typing on her holo-pad.
"This can't be!? How could I be you daughter, you've said it yourself that Ryoko was unique, and the only one you conceived?" Nagi yelled in anguished and hurt tone!
"As I was saying, one of my former students stole DNA that belonged
to Ryoko as she was developing. He then had them frozen for 500 years, when he developed them adding his own DNA. He then sold that item, which eventually became you, Nagi, to the military, under the code name Nagi-chan! Then, they placed you in that orphan's military school to observe your development. I had no knowledge that you even existed. Washu sighed, then continued. " By then you had already been with the Jurian military for 2000 years Then after that you joined the Galaxy Police and served with them for 2300 years, you then quit, began your bounty hunting, and you started your feud with Ryoko.
Am I accurate with my information so far?"
A distraught looking Nagi said "Yes, yes, but where were you these last 700 years? Why did you not try to find me? If you're really my mother?"
Washu looked down at her feet then spoke; "I had by then, been on Kagato's ship, the Sou'ja for 5000 years ... as his prisoner. He had put me in a stasis crystal and I only sensed Ryoko there as she was forced to do Kagato's bidding. Even If I knew of your existence then, I would not have been able to do anything about it!" She tried to explain to her confused and angry daughter.
The realization started to slowly sink into Nagi's mind. Washu's explanation had torn through the curtain of confusion .
"Then I was fighting my sister all those times?"
Washu smiled seeing the tough emotional exterior of Nagi cracking.
"Yes my love, and why did you think that in the back of your mind you didn't go all out when you fought Ryoko?"
"No, I know I did, I wanted to kill her with all my heart!" But deep inside She knew what Washu said, ... was right!
"Then, why did you always come out at a stalemate in all the fights you had with Ryoko? And, except for that time on Venus where she had a little help. " Ayeka, smirked at that comment, Ryoko winked at her while facing away from Nagi, towards Ayeka and Tenchi. But, her smirk left as they saw Nagi's reaction.
Nagi then had an anguished look of confusion. She covered her face with her hands in despair.
Washu then started to explain mentally, that this student who created her was actually the headmaster at the Orphanage. Do you remember Mr. Kataro?" She nodded numbly as Washu continued. He was the one who kept his scientific eye on her the whole time.
Nagi was slowly coming apart inside, her whole life, her whole self, and the person she knew was actually a lab experiment for the Jurai military elite, then she was sent to infiltrate the Galaxy Police. Finally, she quit both due to an incident involving Ryoko.
As Nagi looked around her, she saw Tenchi and Ayeka still there behind her in defensive mode, in front of her was Ryoko.
Soon anger boiled up inside of her, she struck at Ryoko, with all her powers, and it was a fantastic whirl of speed and power as Ryoko dodged all that Nagi was sending her way.
"Remember Little Ryoko, she's angry, but you cannot fight her, keep dodging!" said a now worried Washu
"Well Mom, that's just what I'm doing, but we'd better convince her before I have to do something!" Replied Ryoko.
Throughout the battle both Ryoko and Washu were trying to reach her mentally, Finally, regrettably, Washu told her Ryoko to maneuver Nagi toward some trees on the shore of the lake closest to their house.
Washu teleported Ayeka, and Tenchi in between those trees. When Nagi got there an electrified net that was powered up by Tenchi, and Ayeka's Jurai powers fell over Nagi, and shocked her unconscious.
She fell on the ground with a sickening thud. Ryoko was first to reach Nagi. Washu was there in an instant, checking her second daughter for any lasting effects. Then she opened a sub-space portal to her lab, Ryoko picked up Nagi and all the family followed as a now adult Washu led the way.
With that revelation, what comes next?
Well we'll see in Chapter 5. A New Family Member
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