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( )= Mental thoughts
" "= Verbal dialogue
Chapter 7: The Trouble with Anomalies!
Washu's Lab
Washu was conducting an experiment on dimensional anomalies
and trying to
improve her sensor readings since the night she saw the
Souja.
She only told Tenchi so as not to alarm the others.
Her daughters have slowly forgiven her for the way she
got them to talk and she is feeling better about herself.
Just then, an alarm started sounding. She then typed
on her holo-keypad to check on this alarm.
What she saw startled even her.
"It can't be! I've got to get everybody out there and
be ready!"
Washu then telepathically called her daughters Ryoko,
and Nagi, as she ran out
of the lab with a med. kit.
("Ryoko, you and Tenchi, Ayeka, go get everyone up.")
"Washu's sent an alert on our mind link."
said Ryoko to her future husband and sister in-law.
Nagi, likewise was sleeping on the couch, and flew out
to the backyard with her mother called.
As all in the house were awakened by the sisters,
a thunderous noise emanated from above the Masaki home.
A horizontal tear in space and time formed over their
backyard.
"Wow, That looks so pretty, is that where cheetos come
from?" asked Mihoshi
Kyione answered, "You idiot, you've seen these anomalies
before!"
Washu interrupted; "Not this type, this is an unusual
one!"
"Gee, thanks Little Washu, I knew it looked different,
though I'm still hungry! said Mihoshi.
"Sorry Mihoshi, I jumped to conclusions." apologized
Kiyone!
Sasami the added, "Don't worry, Mihoshi, I'll get you
a snack when we're done."
They fell from the sky
Just then, 2 figures came through the rift at such a high
speed that they struck the ground with such force
That they sunk about 6 inches as they impacted the ground.
Then, a flow of bright white
energy flowed into each person from the opening. This went on for almost a minute, keeping everyone away.
Then with the same thunderous noise, the rift closed
in on itself and disappeared.
Tenchi, Ryoko, Nagi and the 2 G.P. officers slowly approached
the 2 forms with
weapons and powers at the ready.
Sasami holding a sleepy Mayuka stayed with Nobuyuki,
on the patio.
"OOHH!" one of the figures said as they all stopped.
Tenchi, Ryoko and Nagi powered up, while Ayeka brought
up her
defensive shield of logs around the rest of the family.
Suddenly Nagi said! "NO, NO ...IT CAN'T BE!?!"
(Ryoko and Washu Could feel the anguish in her thoughts
and feelings through their link!)
"It's Hiro! But you died in my arms?! (pause) How can you be alive?" Was all Nagi could say.
For the 2nd time in 3 weeks Nagi was thrown into a confused
state,
She fell to her knees, and started crying as she was
touching Hiro's chest.
Most of his clothes were burned off, and though he was
alive, he was barely breathing.
Katsurina was worse off, Tenchi, Kiyone and Mihoshi carried
her to Washu's lab.
Tenchi ("Ryoko, the little girl, ... she seems to look
like your sister!")
Ryoko shook her head in agreement!
Realization
Hiro was moving slowly putting his elbows under him, shaking
hs head as he slowly focused on the
scene around him as smoke rose from his burnt clothes.
Nagi saw an older more mature Hiro than the one she remembered.
"Where am I?" asked a weak Hiro
He turned around and focused on the person next to him
weeping.
As vision cleared he saw a familiar face.
Hiro: "MY GOD?! (with a smile on his face)
He then slowly wrapped an arm around Nagi and started
to cry too.
They stayed there crying in each other's arms.
Hiro then said; "Am I dreaming, is that you my love? He
brought her face to look into her eyes.
"You look ... so young!" Nagi, could only give a happy,
but confused look to him.
"But How can you be here, how can I be here?" With tears
in his eyes, Hiro then said,
"Is this the afterlife?"
Washu answered; "No, but it is another universe, (pause) not your own!"
Hiro: "Oh, and here I thought I was dead!" (in a Deadpan
manner)
with that said, he weakened and collapsed again!
Nagi: picked him up and held him in her arms. She was
crying, tears
streaming!
Nagi was Crying), "Hiro, please wake up, PLEASE," she
said loudly.
Ryoko and I felt the emotions from her and went to comfort
her.
I could feel for her too, but I had to focus on keeping
these 2 alive.
Recovery
Nagi was feeling conflicting emotions as Washu worked
on the man she knew as
her dead love Hiro.
She also questions about the young girl who fell
with him from the rift.
She was at Hiro's side feeling both joy and trepidation,
("How did he come back, Is he the Hiro she knew?).
Then she looked at the child, ("My God, she does look
like me!") saying to herself.
Ryoko Looked up at that thought to see the confused look
on her sister's face.
("We'll find out what happened soon! You know Mom doesn't
like mysteries!")
Nagi nodded at the silent message from her sister.
changing subjects Nagi then thought
("Ryoko, I don't hate you anymore, you know that right?")
Ryoko, in her characteristic tone replied;
("Hey what are sister's for You love them you hate them,
but they will always be
there for each other when the time comes!")
Ryoko then put a hand on Nagi's shoulder with a caring
look,
and then she went back to helping their mother with the
2 patients.
Reaction
It was a sunday morning, so most of the house was sleeping in the living room
waiting for news of the strangers who fell from the sky!
Suddenly the door to Washu's door flew open and Ryoko
called out for all to
follow her into the lab
(Kiyone clasped Mihoshi's hands not only for support,
but to make sure she didn't touch anything
in Washu's lab!)
Hiro started to wake up. He found himself on a floating
bed with various
wires and machines connected to him. He sat up asking
for his daughter.
"She's right next to you" answered Nagi
He then saw who was talking and nearly fainted again!
"Nagi my love, is that you?" asked a confused Hiro!
He reached out his hands to hug her, Nagi also did the
same,
and for several moments both were in happy,
happier than either of them had been for a long time.
Then Washu spoke: "Well you two seem to know each other!"
Then Hiro realize what Was said earlier that day. He spoke
"Nagi, It can't be you!"
he said, I saw you die 1 week ago in the commuter train
accident."
Nagi then reacting to what Hiro said, added;
" Hiro, ... I saw you die when Ryoko destroyed Spralex
VI over 700 years ago!
She looked very perplexed!
"Spralex VI, I have never heard of that place! I haven't
even been out
of Japan my whole life. so where is this Spralex VI?
Is that north of Tokyo?" asked a now thoroughly confused
Hiro.
Nagi: (in just as a confused voice replied)
"It's 20 light years away from The Planet Jurai!"
Hiro was slowly comprehending the value of Nagi's last comment!
"You aren't MY Nagi, are you? Hiro with a sad and confused look.
"And you aren't My Hiro, are you? Nagi had the same look.
Both Shook their heads No. The looked away from each other
dejectedly .
(Ryoko, and the others felt her anguish on the mind link,
they tried to comfort her)
After a few moments Washu spoke:
"Well, I can tell you both that even though you aren't
each others mates,
you do seem to have the same feelings, or what you would
call a soul or
spirit, as well as an exact match down to your DNA signatures.
The only thing that is different is that Hiro and his
daughter
have a different dimensional phase shift."
Nagi and Hiro looked at Washu with a questioning look.
Washu sighed and said: "For all intents and purposes you
are the same person,
you only had different experiences, that's all!"
Nagi: (Could he still be interested in me?) she thought
Hiro thought; (Could she be my love, even here?)
They looked at each other with a look of hope.
Reality
Washu's statement slowly sunk in, To Nagi it meant that
even if this Hiro
wasn't hers, he still had the same spirit as his counterpart.
She also saw
that both her and Hiro were married, and her counterpart
had a child with
him. Hiro was thinking similar thoughts.
Hiro then asked Nagi: "I would suggest that we all get
some sleep and later today we need to talk!
Do you agree?" asked Hiro?
Nagi answered: "Well, I would like to know you. You look,
and sound so much like him, (Pause)
OK, I'll meet you after dinner, in the patio." So plans
were made to meet then.
As things settled down Wash wanted some questions answered.
"Well, you know my daughter in your dimension, do Ya?"
Hiro looked at the diminutive scientist. Yes she was a
younger version of his mother in law.
She thought of this as he answered her.
"I was married to Nagi for 15 years, and Kat, gesturing
to the young girl in the next bed, is our only daughter.
Nagi looked with utter disbelief at the prone girl.
"This is a daughter I didn't have, but I did in another
dimension.
I didn't even think about this." thought Nagi.
This quickly upset her gesturing to the young girl in
the next bed.
She excused herself out of the lab, Washu then sent the
rest of the family away
and asked Ryoko to tend to her sister while she continued
questioning Hiro.
Lunchtime Discussion
As All heard the stunning story later at lunch. Hiro told
of his wife dying
only a week before. his Nagi dying.
Then appearance of the rift, and
the subsequent elimination of his whole dimension.
Mihoshi then asked why there was all this light flowing
into him when he
landed?
"I don't know about that. I only know some voice telling
me and
Kat to go through the rift, or we would die, and then
feeling like a huge balloon filling up with too much
air!
The pain was excruciating, and after that they passed
out,
next thing he knew, they were on the ground.
After listening to this, Washu pulled out her keypad from
sub-space, clearly
disturbing Hiro who was not used to this, while all the
others,
used to this, looked on with no reaction to it at all.
"Well," said Washu "Through my scans, I can confirm that
you are indeed from another dimension.
I can also confirm that you, and your daughter do have
an astronomical amount of energy stored inside you,
from that dimension!"
With that last statement, Hiro started to laugh! "You
mean (between chuckles)
I am a human storage battery for some cosmic energy?"
Washu answered "Hey you really are with it, Yes that
is exactly what you
are! You and Kat posses the positive energy from your
destroyed dimension.
Hiro was confused, "But why only the positive energy?
Where did the negative energy go?"
Washu answered, "Good question! I should have an answer soon!"
After realizing what Washu confirmed, there was a pause
from Hiro,
and he then asked about his daughter Katsurina!
"Is she ok?"
Washu Answered: "Well , she has a few cuts and bruises,
but she will be ok! "Though I, nor my machines, are the
reason she is getting better!
"What do you mean?" Asked Hiro.
Washu then asked; "Have you heard of the word redundancy?"
"Yes, when there's a backup or self repairing system
built into a
product or mechanism!"
Washu: Katsurina, and you both seemed to have developed that in your physiology!
Kiyone asked: "You mean their bodies can self repair themselves?
Like your daughters?"
"You got it on the nose, so to speak!" Answered Washu!
(Hey I Like this guy,
hope I can get Nagi to bag him!)
An Alarm sounded next to Washu' Lab entrance.
Washu, Tenchi, and Hiro were discussing the past day's
events in the living room.
Washu spoke to Hiro, "Well, I see you daughter is stirring,
I'll let you back into my lab and you can be next to
her as she wakes up!"
"Thanks, Washu!" Hiro then made his way to her lab.
Washu held his arm and said: "I would be ever so grateful if you would call me Little Washu!"
"OK, (Hiro had a confused look again) Thanks, Little Washu!"
Awakening
Kat slowly opened her eyes hoping that nightmare she was
living through would end.
She focused on the first face she saw, it was her smiling
father, with a
tear of relief in his eye.
They hugged and slowly he explained to her where, what
and how they were in the Masaki home.
While this was going on, Sasami came in to tell everybody
breakfast was ready.
"But Daddy, we are Masaki's aren't we?" asked Kat
This brought about a stunned look from all there!
Kiyone changed clothes to her GP uniform for morning Patrol.
"You mean your name is Hiro Masaki!?"
"Yes! This is Okoyama, Japan right?" asked Hiro
Sasami then said happily "Then we are all related, even
though your from another dimension,
you're still a Masaki!"
As Washu tended to Kat and Hiro and later decided to tell
them about the Souja and Kendo.
The rest exchanged information about each
others families and within an hour all was getting back
to normal, as normal as this
house can get!
Sleeping Arrangements
Kat would sleep with Ayeka and Sasami, Hiro With Tenchi,
which did not please
Ayeka, or Ryoko who had been sleeping only with Tenchi
since his proposal, but they understood.
[And before any Hentai'a=s say anything, their sleeping
ONLY!]
(At least until an additional room is built.)
"Thanks Tenchi, I really didn't want to impose on you all." said Hiro
"That's no problem, as Sasami said your family!"
( Tenchi was just glad to have another male who he could
talk to! )
Kat was given the tour of the family's home by Sasami.
Kat marveled at the slight differences between this home
and her own.
Tenchi took Hiro to meet his grandfather at the shrine.
At the Onsen
When Sasami was taking Kat to the Onsen, they found Ryoko trying to comfort a upset Nagi!
MOMMY,MOMMY,MOMMY!!
Came the call from Kat as she dove in clothes, and all hugging Nagi fiercely,
knocking Ryoko to the pool all with a thud and a splash!!
Nagi was completely stunned and at first tried to get
away.
But when she wheeled around to face Kat, the girl was now crying hysterically,
she let out a sigh and hugged her back, both now in the
water of the Onsen.
Ryoko recovered and almost lashed out at Kat, until she
saw crying in nagi's arms!
She glanced at her sister who made eye contact, and gave
her a consoling look!
Ryoko had felt the power Kat had when she threw her out
of the way.
(That kid's got some power. I'll need to tell Mom ASAP!)
she then took in the special sight of a daughter reclaiming
her mother,
while that woman was comforting a child not her own,
... yet of her.
Surprise
As Hiro and Tenchi came up to the shrine, Yosho (as he
does many times)
jumped out to challenge Tenchi.
In an instant Yosho was flying about 15 meters up the
stairs to the shrine,
as a result of an split second decision of Hiro's shoving
Yosho with power he didn't know he had.
As he was startled he put his hands out in front of him,
then a ball of energy formed and fired at Yousho,
who wheeled up and over as the ball passed inches from
his head.
Tenchi froze for a moment them ran to his Grandfather askin him, "Grandpa are you all right?"
Hiro apologized profusely "Oh I'm so sorry!"
Yosho replied; "I'm OK Tenchi, I see we have a powerful
new visitor!"
Tench then said; "Yes, Grandfather, This is Hiro Masaki,
he's from another dimension.
He is from the Masaki Clan there." With that statement,
Yosho knelt down and started praying,
perplexing Hiro and Tenchi.
Hiro turned to Tenchi. "Does he do this with all your visitors?"
Tenchi replied. "No, He usually invites them to to our
the shrine and have some tea!!
Tenchi then raised his voice as to alert Yosho, at that
moment,
Yosho got up and said,
"You being here my clansman, means that the Masaki prophesy
is being fulfilled!"
Tenchi asked sarcastically.: "Don't tell me Grandpa,
this is one of those family legends that you didn't tell us about
earlier?
Grandpa just smiled and slowly shook this head yes.
With that both Tenchi and Hiro looked at each other
and grabbed the back of their heads in confusion!
On the Souja:
Behind the Moon A tall dark figure asked a question of
his ship's computer;
"Has all the dark matter from dimension 4436 been gathered?"
asked Lord Kendo
computer voice replied.
"Yes, It is now being transferred to the injection module
by your previous order!"
"Very well, begin the transfer process as soon as I have
connected myself to the module, understood?
computer voice: "Yes sir Lord Kendo!"
Lord Kendo then smirked: "Now very soon Washu you and
yours will suffer for what you've done to me and my
father!!" A Maniacal laugh filled the huge ship as the
tall dark man headed for the lab and his destiny!
Now enjoy and see what happens In the next Chapter
#8, "Learning to Love Again"