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NOTES: I came up with this idea on my own, but discovered that it had been done
before. So, I decided to do it "My Way" (sings it like Senatra would). I hope
you like this interesting little twist to Tenchi Muyo. Instead of making it a
independent story I though about adding it as a episode to this series. So here
it is. Enjoy!
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TENCHI UNIVERSE II
EPISODE 5: NO NEED FOR...THE BOYS?
By Michael "The-Zorch" Haney
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The last thing Tenchi remembered seeing was the look of terror on Ryoko's
face as he t-shirt ripped and the portal took him. There was a brief feeling of
acceleration combined with a strange sensation that was almost like pain only he
was unable to feel his body or every see. Tenchi awoke laying his back and he
felt pain all through his entire body. He tried to sit up but it just hurt too
much. He opened his eyes and found himself outside somewhere surrounded by a
massive of thick fog.
Over time the pain started to fade some and Tenchi was able to climb to
his feet. He looked around trying to get his bearings but there weren't any
recognizable landmarks around. He couldn't hear the roaring of the surf that he
should have been hearing on the beach, and he was shocked to find that he was
laying on grass rather than a sandy beach.
"Where am I?" he asked himself out loud.
He didn't know how long he stumbled through the thick fog, but Tenchi was
determined to keep going. He had to find the girls and he would not give up
until he found them. The last thing he remembered was Minagi tackling him to
avoid an energy blast and Ryoko grabbing him as he was pulled into some black
portal.
"Black portal! Oh, god." Tenchi shouted out loud as he realized his
situation. There was not telling what corner of the universe he was in.
Soon Tenchi starting seeing a shape in the fog that looked familiar to
him, the closer he got the more he could recognize it. It was a tombstone, but
not just any tombstone. It was his mother's tombstone, or it looked like it at
least. Tenchi hurried as fast as his aching legs would carry him and he came
close enough to reach the inscription. Carved in the stone in Kanji calligraphy
characters was the name Noboyuki Masaki.
"What the? This isn't right where am I?" Tenchi asked out loud. He
backed away from the stone and slipped on something hard and wet on the ground.
A stone. He fell backwards and struck his head knocking him out and shrouding
him in blissful darkness.
Voices, Tenchi could hear voices in the darkness. He slipped in and out
of consciousness briefly and only understood a portion of what the voices were
saying. Tenchi could not tell where he was; he had no perception of feeling,
only the darkness and a feeling of floating in emptiness.
"Who is he?"
"I don't know, but he's suffering from severe radiation exposure."
"How could that have happened out here?"
"My instruments detected a powerful localized disturbance of the time-
space continuum. There is no evidence yet but that could be the cause."
"He looks like he's been through a fight too."
"He's drifting in and out of consciousness. When he is back on his feet
maybe he can tell us where he's from."
"That's if he's friendly."
"Really, now. Don't you ever trust anyone?"
"Nope, and its kept me alive so far."
"Brace yourselves everyone. I found this on him."
There are gasps from the voices. Tenchi couldn't tell if they were male
or female voices. All he could see was the darkness, and he could perceive
little else and he could only understand part was what was said.
"How is this possible?"
"What I can tell you is it's the real McCoy. What that means I can't be
certain yet?"
"Is he from Jurai?"
"I'm testing his DNA now, so I should have an answer to that soon."
"Lunch of ready!"
"Oh, good, I'm starved."
"You are always hungry for someone who does so little around here."
"What was that?"
"Save your fighting for later you two."
Slowly the voices faded away and only silence was left in the darkness.
Tenchi sat bolt upright and looked around at his surroundings. His vision
was blurred so he was only able to make out vague shapes. Strange sounds filled
his ears, machinery of some kind, and yet it was familiar somehow. Tenchi
realized for the first time that he was on a raised platform. No, a bed some
type in the middle of this strange place. He swung his legs over the side and
started to slide to the flood.
"I wouldn't try that. You're very weak and you'll fall." Said a voice
from somewhere in the room. Tenchi turned his head and tried to focus on who
spoke. A figure began to into focus in his blurred vision. The figure was
short, and upon its head was a shock of reddish hair. At first Tenchi felt joy,
but then he realized the voice he heard wasn't female.
"Where am I?" Tenchi croaked out, surprised that he could barely speak.
"My lab. We found you outside; you were suffering from severe
chronometric particle radiation poisoning. That's why your visions is blurred."
Said the red headed figure.
"Radiation?" Tenchi asked. Suddenly the memory of what happened to him
back to him like a flood. He remembered the fight with Gannondorf and the look
on Ryoko's face when she failed to...to save him from being drawn into something
pulling at him. He could remember little else after that.
"So, what's your name?" the red headed figure asked.
"Uh, Tenchi, Tenchi Masaki." Tenchi told him.
"Tenchi Masaki huh." The figure said sounding a little surprised at the
name. "Well, my name is Waso, nice to meet you Tenchi." The figure came closer
and to Tenchi surprise it was a young man about the age of twelve wearing an
outfit remarkably similar to Washu's only it was cut in a style that a man would
wear rather than a woman.
"Your vision will return to normal soon, and once your able to stand on
your feet we'll go meet the others." Waso told him.
"Thank you." Tenchi replied. He was confused and a little frightened.
Where was he? This person looked remarkably like Washu but it was a boy rather
than a young girl. What sort of place was this? Where were the girls?
Not even an hour passed before Tenchi's vision began to return to him
fully, and he was now able to walked about Waso's lab without stumbling. The
young man showed Tenchi to a door that look remarkably similar to Washu's door.
After passing through Tenchi stifled a gasp of shock. He was back home, or it
looked like home but different. The decorations his father put up around the
house and the place has a more famine look. Draperies hung from the windows, a
shelf with small ceramic figures sat against one wall where there was nothing
before, and the small shrine in homage to his mother was not there on the
bookcase either.
The smell of food cooking in the kitchen permeated the living room. That
was one thing that was familiar in this strange place. To Tenchi it was as if
he'd stepped into that old American TV show, the Twilight Zone it was called.
"Well, look who's up and about." Came a voice from across the room.
Tenchi turned towards who spoke and stopped in his tracks. Sitting at the
dinning table sat a man wearing a strange outfit made of leather; his hair was
cyan and done in spikes. He was a very handsome man, Tenchi realized despite
his rugged appearance. Seated not far from him was a man wearing elegant robes
with hair done up in a fashion similar to that of the legendary warrior Yosho,
his grandfather's true identify when he was younger.
"Really, don't be rude to our visitor. Welcome stranger I trust you're
feeling better." The other man said.
"Yes, thank you I'm starting to feel a lot better." Tenchi replied and
scratched the back of his head as he usually did. This made the man with the
cyan spike hair look at him strangely for a moment.
The man in the elegant robes stood up from the table and approached
Tenchi. "Forgive me for my rudeness. I am Akin, First Prince of Jurai. You
have already met Waso, and that ruffian over there is Ryuken."
Akin extended his hand and Tenchi shook it heartily. "My name is Tenchi,
Tenchi Masaki."
Akin looked at him for a moment with a strange expression on his face and
then looked to Waso. "I see." He said. Waso shrugged outside of Tenchi's line
of vision.
A sound from the stairs caught Tenchi's attention just then and he could
hear the sound of a woman humming. A feminine figure wearing an elegant silk
kimono literally glided down the stairs and swept into the living room with
practiced grace. Her hair was black and flowed down her back in a single
ponytail. Her face was older and some of her hair was starting to gray in
places but she still had that timeless beauty that Tenchi remembered. The only
time he'd seen that face was in photographs and then she was younger. Tenchi
struggled with all his might to show any reaction to alarm those around him.
The beautiful woman standing before him was his mother.
"I see our visitor is wake. And my, my he is very handsome." The woman
who looked like Tenchi's mother said with a smile.
Tenchi blushed bright red, not so much from her compliment, but the fact
that the person saying it looked like his mom. "He's blushing, how cute. So,
what's your name young man?"
"Uh, Tenchi, Tenchi Masaki." Replied Tenchi.
"Tenchi, that means Heaven and Earth doesn't it?" the woman asked.
"Yeah, I guess so." Tenchi replied and scratched the back of his head.
Was this doppelganger of his mother trying to come on to him?
"Masaki? I've never met someone who shared our family name before. You
must be very popular with the ladies where you come from." The woman said
girlishly. "Well, my name is Achika and you're welcome to stay here as long a
you want."
Tenchi winced at the name and hoped nobody noticed. Waso however, always
watching this strange vision caught onto Tenchi's reactions to Achika right
away. All this did was puzzle him even more about his young man.
"Breakfast is ready." Said the voice of a young boy. Tenchi turned and
looked into the freckled face of a young lad with sky blue hair and wearing
robes similar to Akin's.
"This is my younger brother Samias. He fancies himself something of a
chef, and he is actually very good." Akin said.
"Smells really good Samias." Waso said.
"Thanks, could you help me set the table mother?" Samias said to Achika.
"Certainly." Achika replied. Tenchi joined the others at the table and waited
for Samias and Achika to finished bringing breakfast to the table. An extra
place was set for him. Tenchi noticed that there was one place left open for
someone.
"I wonder if that daughter of mine is up yet?" Achika said. She went to
the stairs and shouted, "Tenko, break fast!"
"Coming!" replied a voice that was soft and reminded Tenchi of Sasami's
voice.
A young girl wearing a girl's high school uniform came running down the
stairs. Achika stopped her and adjusted a few buttons the front of her blouse.
"Now, be polite today we have a visitor." Achika told her.
"Mother." Tenko replied rolling her eyes. She walked with Achika to the
dinning table and sat at the place that had been left open. Not too
surprisingly it was right between Akin and Ryuken.
"You are looking very charming this morning Lady Tenko." Akin told her.
"Thanks." Tenko replied with a blush.
"Tenko, would you like me to walk you to school today." Ryuken said with a
sly grin.
"Absolutely not, you will not go anywhere with Lady Tenko alone Ryuken!
You can't be trusted." Akin shouted. Ryuken stood up and clenched his fists.
"Are you implying that I'd do something to her?" he asked with a voice dripping
with venom.
"There is no telling what perversities are going through your diseased
mind." Akin replied.
Spark of energy flashed from Ryuken's clenched fists. "Why you pompous,
arrogant son of a..." Tenko spoke up quickly in a stern voice, "Boys, please we
have a guest today."
Ryuken sighed and sat back down to his meal. Akin would not even look in
his direction.
"Forgive my friends here, they really are nice guys when you get to know
them." Tenko said to Tenchi. "I hope you're doing well. When I found you the
other day I thought you were dead at first."
"I look that bad?" Tenchi asked scratching the bad of his head.
"You looked like death warmed over, kid." Ryuken told him.
Tenko sat her elbows on the table and rested his chin in her hands in a
girlish manner. "So, what's your name and where are you from?"
"Tenchi Masaki, and something tells me I'm very far away from home."
Tenchi replied. Tenchi noticed that the attention Tenko was showing him did not
seem to make Akin or Ryuken happy in the least. Where is Rod Sterling when you
need him, Tenchi thought to himself.
Tenchi decided to explore around to see what he can see and maybe find
some cues as to where he might be. All the familiar landmarks from his home
back on Earth were here. Far up the mountainside he could see his grandfather's
shrine and he decided to go and see what he find out there.
Waso went back into his lab and noticed one of his computer consoles was
blinking. He walked up to it and saw that the DNA analysis on Tenchi was done.
He opened the file on screen and looked it over. The results were a total
surprise.
"Jurai power?" he said reading the data.
Immediately a indicator icon appeared on the screen. It indicated a
cross-reference with a file in his database. Waso called it up and started
laughing in spite of himself. The picture that appeared along with the data was
Tenko's. A side-by-side comparison chart of their DNA appeared on the screen.
"This is very interesting indeed."
Tenchi wandered the land around the shrine for hours before getting up the
nerve to actually approach the building. When he did a familiar figure appeared
in the doorway. It was his grandfather Katsuhito; also know as Yosho the former
Emperor of Jurai and the Legendary Warrior. The elderly priest approached
Tenchi showing no expression of emotion. He looked at Tenchi as if he were
looking into his very soul.
"You are the one my granddaughter found in the woods the other day." He
said.
"Yes, my name is Tenchi, Tenchi Masaki." Tenchi replied.
Katsuhito did not seem to react to this at all, or at least he didn't show
any evidence that he did.
I can feel it; it is within him yet it makes no sense. He has Juraian
blood, the old priest thought to himself. I must test him.
Katsuhito pulled a bokken from his priest's robes and held it out towards
Tenchi. "Do you know what this is?" he asked.
"A bokken. It's a wooden sword used for training." Tenchi replied.
"Do you know how to use it?" Katsuhito asked him.
"I've had training." Tenchi said.
The old priest drew a second bokken from his robes and took a fighting
stance. "Then let us see what you can do!" he yelled and launched an attack.
Tenchi was expecting this the moment he saw his grandfather, or this man who
looked like his grandfather draw out the bokken. He dodged the first attack and
went into defense mode blocking every blow the old priest leveled at him.
Katsuhito was impressed, and it took a great deal to impress him. He
recognized many of his own signature sword moves in Tenchi's style, and his
parrying techniques were all Juraian through and through. He's defending and
not attacking. I must make him attack so I can see his style. Katsuhito
deliberately made a mistake in one of his moves opening himself up to attack,
and sure enough Tenchi look to the bait and suddenly went on the attack. The
style Tenchi was using Katsuhito recognized immediately as his own. It was the
same technique that he taught to Tenko. Just like Tenko, Tenchi was not yet as
skilled in sword fighting and Katsuhito immediately disarmed him. The fight
over the two bowed in respect.
"You are good, as good as my granddaughter, but you still have much to
learn." Katsuhito told him.
"Maybe I can spar with her later on, if that is alright with you Yosho."
Tenchi said.
"That would be interesting." The old priest replied.
Tenchi handed the bokken back and turned to go. "I'm going to go walked
around some more, get some fresh air."
"I will see you at lunch perhaps." Katsuhito called to him.
"Alright." Tenchi said as he disappeared down the stairs to lead back to
the house by the lake.
Katsuhito started back towards the shrine and suddenly stopped in his
tracks. He turned back and looked towards where Tenchi had gone. "How did he
know my name was Yosho?"
The tombstone looked the same. A prayer offering in a bowl with a fresh
flower lay at the base of the stone. On the stone was inscribed the same thing
he remembered reading, Noboyuki Masaki. This place was so twisted, his mother
was alive, the girls were all boys, and there was a girl name Tenko who was his
age living here and nobody knew him. Tenchi wondered if he was just dreaming or
what he in a coma due to injuries received when fighting Gannondorf?
Tenchi's keen senses alerted him to footsteps behind him. They were
light, almost imperceptible, and they had the grace of a woman's walk. He
turned and found himself face to face with the beautiful young Tenko. Looking
at her close up she resembled his mother when she was this age.
"My father died when I was very young. We buried him here so we could be
close to him." She said.
"How, how did he die?" Tenchi asked.
"I was just a child then, I remember very little. All I remember was my
father always stayed in bed most of the time." She replied.
"I lost my mother when I was young, and she was pretty much the same way."
Tenchi told her with a hint of sadness in his tone.
"I'm sorry." Replied Tenko. She looked into Tenchi's face and could see
the hurt in his eyes. She struggled with an urge to hug him.
"Its alright, it was a long time ago for me too." Tenchi told her
scratching the back of his head.
"You said you were a long way from him, what province do you live in?"
Tenko asked."
"Well, it's a lot like this place actually." Tenchi tells her trying to
skirt around part of the question. He looked down and noticed the time on his
watch. "You're home early. I thought school let out around five o'clock."
"We were let out early. We had a special outdoor presentation today and
they decided to let us all go home early." She replied.
Together they walked down the long stairway back to the house. Achika and
the others were outside waiting for them.
"You missed lunch Tenchi." Said Samias.
"Sorry, I guess I lost track of time." Tenchi replied. Ryuken just
snorted and looked at him funny. Tenchi noticed that he'd been looking at him
the whole time he and Tenko walked up to the house.
"Well, dinner will be done in about an hour." Samias told him and started
back into the house. Tenko followed the young prince. "I'll help, if that's
ok?" "Sure." Samias replied with a smile.
"There are a few things I found out, but we'll discuss them over dinner
later." Waso said.
"Alright." Tenchi replied. Everyone went back into the house except for
Ryuken. He glided up to Tenchi until his face was right up to his.
"Where have you been all day?" he asked.
"Around." Tenchi replied.
"Where were you with Tenko?" the space pirate asked.
"I was up at the tombstone of her father and she found me there." Tenchi
told him.
Ryuken grabbed Tenchi by the front of his shirt and flew high into the
air. "You listen to me now and you listen to me good, boy! Tenko is mine and
anybody who gets in my way will live to regret it!"
"Nothing happened, we were just talking!" Tenchi shouted back.
"You keep your distance, or else!" Ryuken warned him.
A voice from below grabbed Ryuken's attention. "Ryuken, you let that boy
down this instant!" yelled Achika.
The two floated back down to the ground and Ryuken teleported away without
even looking at Achika. The older woman walked up to Tenchi and fixed the front
of his shirt. "Please don't be angry with him. He's the suspicious type and is
very protective of my darling Tenko." She told him.
"Well, I don't think he had any intentions of hurting me. He just wanted
to scare me." Tenchi replied.
"He can be a bit frightening at times, but he's also pretty cute." Said
Achika. She had a strange gleam in her eye. Tenchi almost felt like passing
out. That same gleam was in his father's eye when he spoke of one of the girls.
Could it be this Achika was just like dad back home?
"Say, I ran a nice hot bath for you. Why don't you go and get freshened
up before dinner." She told him softly. Her tone was almost seductive.
"Uh, oh, uh, thank you." Tenchi replied trying to hide his reaction. The
person standing very closed to him looked like his mother, sounded like his
mother, but acted more like his dad. He also noticed the way she was absently
playing with his small ponytail. She seemed to pick on this almost immediately
and a sad expression crossed her face.
"There I go again, I hope I haven't offended you." She said.
"Well, it is flattering actually." Tenchi said trying not to hurt her
feelings.
"I've been without a husband or a male companion for a long time.
Sometimes I forget myself and I do things like this. Please forgive me." She
added.
Tenchi turned to her and smiled. "I guess living in a house of young
bachelor's isn't easy, huh?" he asked. Maybe this will finally give him some
insights into his dad's own behavior.
"You have no idea." She told him and the two went into the house together.
Everyone sat at the dinner table to a feast. The family complimented
Samias on another culinary masterpiece and Katsuhito said a prayer over the
food. As dinner began Waso cleared his throat and said, "I have a few things to
announce." They all looked at him and saw that he was looking at Tenchi.
"This might be hard for you believe Tenchi, but I'm going to be straight
and to the point. You are not from this universe." Waso told him.
"What!" the others all gasped in shock, even Ryuken.
"Analysis of Tenchi's DNA found that it is exactly identical to Tenko's in
every way. There are none of the cellular degradation earmarks of cloning, and
the radiation poisoning he had suggested he was exposed to an unstable special
breach. In fact, moments before Tenko found him my instruments did detect a
time-space disturbance near the shrine.
"You mean he is Tenko, only from another universe?" Ryuken asked.
"Maybe he can tell us." Waso replied and look at Tenchi.
Tenchi swallowed his bite of food and took a deep breath. "I knew all who
you all were when I first saw you, only your names I didn't know." He told them.
"That much I discerned from your reaction to the others and Achika." Waso
said.
"So, you know us from your universe, but our names are different?" Akin
asked.
"It's a little more than that." Tenchi said.
"I have a feeling I know where he's going with this. Go on Tenchi." Waso
said.
Tenchi looked at all the young men and the young boy and wasn't sure how
they would take this news. He sighed and said, "Your names aren't the only
things different about you in my universe. Where I come from you are, you are
all girls."
The room was in total silence. Ryuken almost had a look of horror on his
face. He finally spoke up. "Did I hear him say that right?"
"Tell us about them." Tenko said.
"I'll start with Ryoko." Tenchi said. He looked at Ryuken and the space
pirate's eyes went wide. "She's a space pirate, the most notorious of them all,
and very dangerous when angry. I know a different side to her, a softer side."
He turned to Prince Akin. "Then there is Princess Aeka, polite and
proper. She is beautiful and has a strong will." Tenchi looked at Samias.
"Princess Sasami is Aeka's little sister and she is the cutest little thing you
could lay your eyes one. She is also a master in the kitchen and does nearly
all the chores in the house." Samias looked up his older brother in surprise
and the older prince just shrugged.
Tenchi turned to Waso and the scientific genius raised one eyebrow in a
Spock Maneuver. "Washu is smart, very smart, but sometimes her inventions
backfire like Mecha Washu, or her Dimensional Tuner." The others chuckled when
Tenchi brought those things up.
"Hey, they would have worked if Mitoshi and Ryuken hadn't messed with
them!" Waso shouted.
"Mitoshi?" Tenchi said in surprise.
"Yeah, Mitoshi and Kiyatto. They're our friends in the Galaxy Police."
Samias told him.
"Where I come they're Mihoshi and Kiyone." Tenchi replied. "But, we don't
see Kiyone anymore."
"Why not?" Ryuken asked.
"She died on duty in pursuit of a band of space pirates." Tenchi replied.
Everyone was silent after that. Waso could see emotional pain in Tenchi's
face. It went deeper than just being separated from friends or the sadness of
someone's death.
"Were you involved with any one of them?" Waso asked.
Tenchi scratched the back of his head not sure how to answer that
question. He decided to be open and honest about it. "Actually I sort of
involved with all of them really."
"Huh?" they all said at once in total surprise.
Tenchi started his story beginning with how he first met Ryoko and Mihoshi
on the faithful day they fell to Earth. He told of the encounter with Princess
Aeka, the releasing of Washu from her imprisonment, the exciting encounter with
Kiyone, and all the adventures they had. He told of the day Nagi came to Earth
and kidnapped him, the incident with the Dimensional Tuner, and the battle with
Kagato in Jurai. Katsuhito paid very close attention to this part of the story.
Finally, Tenchi ended the tale with the events that occurred after he returned
home. Looks of understanding came over everyone's faces when Tenchi hold them
how he felt when he was back on Earth, and then the joy he had when the girls
came back into his life along with the realization of his true feelings.
"That's so romantic." Achika swooned.
"So you're engaged to all of them?" Waso asked.
"Yes." Tenchi replied.
"That doesn't explain how he got here." Akin said.
Tenchi explained the trip to go see Mihoshi in the GP hospital, the
encounter with Minagi, and the battle with Gannondorf on Hotari. He told them
the very last moment he could remember of what happened.
"I hope they were able to get away from that guy. He was really powerful,
more powerful than Kagato ever was." Tenchi said.
"If your Washu is any kind of genius like me then she may be looking into
ways to locate you." Waso said. Male versions of A and B popped up on his
shoulders chanting, "Yeah, Waso's a genius!" "You're da man Waso!"
"That is so true." Waso said with a Cheshire cat smile.
Tenchi scratched the back of his head. "Yep, you two are exactly the
same." Everyone broke out in laughter at that, even Ryuken.
Dinner was nearly over when Katsuhito spoke. "You never said anything
about me or Achika." He said.
"Well, grandfather, you are exactly the same as you are back home." Tenchi
said. He turned to Achika and this time he didn't let his emotions hide. A
tear fell down his face. Tenko looked at Tenchi and back at her mother then
realized something. Tenchi had been at the tombstone, and she recalled that he
said that he lost his mother when he was very little.
"Oh my god." Tenko said and she covered her mouth with her hand to keep
from crying herself.
"What? What is it?" Achika asked the two of them.
"Mother, he lost his mother when he was the same age I was when father
died." She told her in a voice cracking from stifled sobs.
Achika gasped and looked at Tenchi. She moved from her place and
immediately went to Tenchi's side quickly wrapping her arms around him. Tenchi
couldn't hold back the emotion of the moment anymore and tears streamed down his
face.
"No wonder he reacted the way he did to her when he first saw her." Waso
said softly.
"You poor boy, and here I was acting like that. I'm so sorry." Achika
said.
"I already said it was alright. I'm just happy that I had this chance to
meet you." Tenchi told her after she cleared his tears away.
"Is your father still alive?" Tenko asked.
"Yes, he's an architect for a major engineering firm. Its how we're able
to afford keeping up a household of so many people." Tenchi told her.
"Noboyuki always had a talent for drawing diagrams." Achika said.
"He designed and built this house." Replied Tenchi.
"Yes, he did." Achika said.
Later that night Mitoshi and Kiyatto came by for a visit and met Tenchi.
At first Kiyatto did believe it that Tenchi was from another universe until Waso
showed him a complex mathematical computation showing that interdimensional
travel was not only possible but also quite common.
"So, he's from a universe where we're all girls and we're his girlfriends,
right?" Kiyatto asked Waso after hearing the full story.
"That sums it up pretty much." The genius said.
"You know I really give up. Ok, I believe you. With all the stuff that
happens around this place I'm not surprise in the least by this." Kiyatto
replied.
"Say, what do I look like as a girl?" Mitoshi asked. He was a young man
with tanned skin and long blonde hair.
"You know, I've got photos in my wallet." Tenchi said and fished out his
wallet and pulled out the photos he kept there. Everyone gathered around to
look. One of the photos was a group picture of Tenchi with everyone else
together. Katsuhito in the picture was the same, and Achika and Tenko
concentrated on Noboyuki while the rest looked at the girls.
"Wow! Sasami is cute." Samias said.
Ryuken pointed to a picture of Ryoko wearing a two-piece swimsuit and
making a very suggestive pose. "Is that the one that's supposed to me my
counterpart?" he asked.
"Yeah, that's Ryoko." Tenchi told him.
"She's a babe." Samias said in awe. Ryuken just growled at him.
"Samias!" Akin scolded him.
Akin picked up the picture of Princess Aeka posed wearing her kimono with
Sasami at her side. "She looks graceful and dignified. Clearly her royal
breeding shows in these photographs." He said.
Waso looked at the picture of his counterpart. "She is very pretty. You
sure she's as smart as you say?" he asks Tenchi.
"Trust me, she's everything you are. In intelligence that is." Tenchi
replied.
Mitoshi and Kiyatto looked at the pictures of Mihoshi and Kiyone for a
while. "Yeah, that figures. Mitoshi's counterpart looks like your typical
blonde bimbo." He said. "Now, my counterpart is actually pretty hot. I could
go for a woman like that."
"If you come here looking for Tenchi you won't see her." Waso told him.
"Why not?" Kiyatto asked.
"She's dead." Waso replied.
Kiyatto looked at Tenchi. "How did it happen?" he asked him.
"She went the way she would have wanted it to go, in the line of duty.
She was after a band of space pirates when it happened." Tenchi told him.
"Did she have a strong sense of Duty and Honor?" Kiyatto asked.
"Yes, she loved her work in the Galaxy Police. She was happiest in space
than anywhere else." Tenchi replied.
"If I go someday, that's how I want to go. In a blaze of glory." Kiyatto
said. That brought the room to silence for moment. Time came for the two GP
officers to return to their apartment. Achika offered them to stay the night
since was so late.
"Well, thank you we're having trouble paying our rent again---ouch!"
Mitoshi started saying but Kiyatto slugged him in the back of the head.
"You have a big mouth you know that Mitoshi!" Kiyatto shouted. He turned
to Achika and smiled. "Hehe, we graciously accept your invitation Mrs. Masaki."
"Oh good. Make yourselves at home boys." She said coyly.
Tenko leaned towards Tenchi and asked softly, "So, is your dad as bad as
my mom?" Tenchi nodded. Tenko sighed and shook her head.
Tenchi found it hard to sleep. It wasn't that the futon in Akin and
Samias's room was uncomfortable; he just couldn't seem to get to sleep. He
rolled around trying to force himself to sleep but it would not come. Images of
the girls rolled through his mind and he wondered if he'd ever see them again.
Under the covers he gripped the hilt of the Tenchiken, the magical sword given
to him by his grandfather and returned to him by Waso, and thought about what
the girls were doing. Part of him was afraid of what may have happened to them
after he left. He departed in the heat of a battle with the powerful Gannondorf
and there was no way to tell what happened afterwards. Did they make it out of
there alive? He didn't want to dwell on the possibilities in that thread of
thought. Something deep inside of him told him they were all fine. He climbed
out of bed slowly making sure not to wake the others and slipped out into the
hallway. Slowly, Tenchi made his way downstairs and into the living room.
He stood looking out the patio windows at the light of the moon shimmering
off the lake. He nearly jumped out of his skin when a hand touched his
shoulder. Tenchi turned around quickly and was started to find Tenko standing
there. She was wearing a flowing white night gown and her hair was done up in a
bun.
"I'm sorry. Couldn't sleep?" she asked.
"No." Tenchi replied softly.
"Me neither." Tenko said. She quickly took him hand and guided Tenchi
outside onto the patio. The warm summer night breeze made her white gown
flutter.
"Tenchi, how did you tell them?" Tenko asked. She walked over the patio
and out towards the pier. "How did you tell the girls you loved them?"
"When they came back one by one I told them." Tenchi replied.
Tenko turned around and look at Tenchi. Tenchi could not help but notice
how beautiful she was, she was his counterpart in this universe and she was as
beautiful as the girls back home.
"What gave you the courage to tell them?" she asked.
"The fear that if I didn't I might loose them again, and forever this
time. That was part of it." He told her.
"What was the other part?" she asked.
"The hopes that they would all see past their differences, especially
Ryoko and Aeka, and come to accept my feelings for them." Said Tenchi.
Tenko turned around, the breeze tugged at her nightgown making it form
close to her body. Tenchi averted his eyes but not in time to notice that she
was beautiful and not just in the face either.
"You love them don't you?" he asked her. "Akin, Ryuken, Samias, Mitoshi,
and Kiyatto."
The young woman's shoulders quivered and a soft sobbing drifted to
Tenchi's ears in the wind. He walked up to her and turned her around to face
him. Tenko's face was streaked with tears. He held her in his arms for a while
letting her cry into his chest. The sobs subsided and she looked up into his
face.
"You have to tell them. Not for you but for them. Its tearing them apart
inside not knowing, and its hurting you must as much." He told her. "Don't wait
until something like what happened to me happens to you."
Tenko stepped away from him for a moment and looked out over the water.
"I don't know if I can." She said.
"If you truly love them you will find the courage inside of you to tell
them." Tenchi told her.
The young girl turned around quickly, threw her arms around his neck and
kissed Tenchi full on the lips. Instead of resisting her he drew her close
feeling her small round breasts press against his chest. When they parted the
tears on her face was gone.
"Don't say anything to Ryuken about this, if he knew what I just did he'd
probably try to lobotomize you." She said.
"Why did you do that actually?" Tenchi asked. The experience of kissing
himself, a female version of himself, was strange and pleasant all at the same
time.
"I wanted to experience what the girls did. They're really lucky to have
guy like Tenchi." She told him.
"Those guys in there are lucky to have a girl like you." Tenchi said back
to her.
Tenchi woke the next morning to the smell of breakfast wafting up from
downstairs. He climbed out of his futon and went to the stairs. A very strange
sight greeted him. Tenko and all the guys where seated on the floor of the
living room all talking to each other. They were all sitting around her in a
close semi circle. He walked passed and went into the kitchen where he was
Achika making breakfast. It was then Tenchi noticed tears streaming down the
woman's face.
"Mother, is everything alright?" he asked her.
She turned around and whipped the tears away with the hem of her apron.
"Its my little girl. She's so grown up. I'm so happy for her." She said.
"What happened?" Tenchi asked.
"Something wonderful." Was all Achika would say before turning back to her
work at the stove. He turned to leave for the bathroom when Ryuken materialized
in his path.
"I saw you with her last night." He said.
"Listen, its not what you think..."Tenchi started to say.
Ryuken did something that Tenchi was expecting at all. The man reached
out and hugged him, hugged him like a brother, and then stepped back. "Thank
you." He said before teleporting away.
A week passed by at the other world Masaki house. Tenchi watched a
transformation of the house that mirror the one he left behind. Unlike back
home Tenko decided by marry them boys as soon as possible. Tenchi was honored
to stand in the place of Tenko's father at the shrine. Tenko was beautiful in a
white dress with the young men all wearing black two-piece suits. Katsuhito
performed a ceremony that was both Shinto and Juraian. Achika cried the entire
time and Tenchi stood beside her holding her hand through it all.
That same day many family and friends who attended the weeding enjoyed a
fully catered dinner. The weather outside was perfect, mostly due to Waso's
weather control system, and some luck. The sun was setting and the light of the
moon was shimmering off the surface of the lake like it did that faithful night.
The pier was transformed into a dance floor. Tenko wore a strapless blue
evening gown dancing slowly with Ryuken in her arms. A slow song from America
played over the sound system, against supplied by Waso.
In the distance, unnoticed by the others, swept in a thick gray fog. The
song ended and Tenko and Ryuken kissed tenderly. Achika was to taken with the
moment that she hugged Tenchi. He didn't mind it at all and returned her
embrace.
That was the last dance of the couples and now everyone was heading for
the dance floor. Waso walked towards Tenchi and Achika and noticed the fog for
the first time.
"That wasn't on my sensors." He said. He conjured up his translucent
computer and checked his instruments and weather control system.
"Uh, Tenchi. I think you'd better see this." He said. Tenchi walked
around and looked at the screen. Streams of incomprehensible bits of data flow
across the screen that showed a map of the local area around the lake. A small
red dot was blinking near the shrine on top of the mountain.
"What is it?" he asked.
"A dimensional breach is forming." Waso said and looked at Tenchi with a
smile.
Everyone was told what was happening near the shrine and they all walked
up the stairs and stopped just in front of the ancient building. Slowly a
bright portal of white light began to form in front of them. Tenchi stood in
front of them with Tenko and her new husbands standing next to her. Ryo-Ohki, a
boy in this universe, was sitting on Samias's head with a little tuxedo bow
around his neck.
Five figures appeared from the portal. The light obscured their faces but
their silhouettes told everyone that they were all women. The portal closed
behind them once again shrouding the shrine in darkness. The reception
partygoers walked around lighting torches stuck into the ground around the
shrine to give them some light. The five figures that appeared from the portal
started walking forward slowly at first, then one of them yelled out Tenchi's
name and they all rushed forward into the light of the torches.
"Tenchi!" the girls cried as they reached him and nearly tackled him to
the ground. They were all talking at once, some kissing him and others just
holding onto his with all their might.
Tenko and the boys walked up to them and Ryoko looked up at them. She
tapped on Aeka's shoulder and she looked up with wide eyes.
"Oh my." She said looking to them together.
"Girls, meet Tenko, Ryuken, Waso, Samias, Akin, Mitoshi, and Kiyatto."
Tenchi said introducing his friends.
Washu walked up to Waso and looked him over before looking at the rest of
them. "Alternate universe counterparts." She said without much surprise.
The rest of the night the boys spent some time getting to know the girls,
learning about their life with Tenchi back in their universe. They learned
about Tenchi's stay with them and what he did to make their marriage to Tenko
possible. They all thanked Tenko and Achika for watching over Tenchi while he
was with them.
"I really owe him a great deal." Tenko said.
"We have yet to drag Tenchi to the nearest shrine or chapel." Ryoko said.
Katsuhito strolled up to them and cleared his throat. "Why not have it
here, now." He said. For the first time in a long time Tenchi saw a smile
actually cross his grandfather's face.
For the second time that night the Masaki family and friends were greeted
to an emotional wedding. A suit and dresses for Tenchi and the girls was
hastily put together with the aid of Waso and his replication machines. The
girls all stood next to Tenchi as they each exchanged vows with Tenchi and
kissed. "Awwwwww!" the wedding guests all said when Tenchi kissed Sasami after
exchanging vows with her.
The next day Tenchi woke suddenly from a dream that meeting the girls and
marrying them was all just a dream, but when he looked around him he sighed with
relief. The girls were all sleeping peacefully around him in nightgowns they
borrowed from Tenko. The living room had been turned into a large bedroom for
them with several bed pallets laid out together so they could all sleep in once
place.
Tenchi did see that Sasami was missing and then he noticed the smell of
food from the kitchen. He didn't have to guess where she was. Slowly he
stepped over the sleeping girls and walked into the kitchen where sure enough
Sasami and Achika were working.
"Morning Tenchi." Sasami said sweetly.
"Having Sasami around reminds me of the days when Tenko was still a little
girl." Achika told him.
Tenchi walked over to his youngest wife and kissed her softly on the cheek. "She brings a little bit of sunshine into my life everyday." He said and Sasami blushed furiously. Slowly the rest started to filter down from upstairs and Tenchi helped the girls clean up the living room and put the padding away.
Tenko and her husbands tried the meal prepared for them by Sasami and were surprised at how good it was. "Wow, Sasami this is really good." Tenko said cheerfully. "It really is good, I couldn't have done better." Samias added.
Thank you, it's the least I could do for all you've done for us." Said Sasami.
When midday came everyone gathered at the Masaki Shrine one last time. Waso and Washu were both working at their consoles side by side for several minutes. The rest just chatted with one another, saying their goodbyes and farewells. Tenko walked up to Tenchi and wrapper her arms around him hugging him tightly.
"You're responsible for all the happiness I have in my life now. I hope your life is just as happy too." She tells him.
"Thank you, and good luck Tenko." He replies.
Washu turns to the gathered group. "Ok, Waso and I working together have setup a quick portal back home to the house in our dimension." She told them.
"That's great." Said Sasami cheerfully.
"I'll monitor this destabilizing of the Megaverse Washu told me about and relay anything I find to her." Said Waso.
"So, what about Gannondorf?" Ryoko asked.
Washu turned from her computer and said, "I have a possible lock on what universe he is in. We can jump from my lab to that location when we get back home."
"Good. I'm give that guy a piece of my mind." Said Mihoshi.
"I had something more painful in mind." Replied Ryoko.
A portal opened a few seconds later between Washu and Waso. The two families some final hugs before Tenchi and the girls left. As the portal closed and Tenchi and the girls were out of sight Tenko sighed.
"I wish we could have had time to go to his universe. I miss father so very much." Ryuken squeezed her hand softly and smiled at her. "Someday, my Tenko." He told her.
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TO BE CONTINUED!!!
Stay Tune for Episode 6: No Need for Goddesses
The Gang jumps to the universe Gannondorf is in and find he's been up to no good. Tenchi and the Girls find themselves teaming up with a certain college student and three honest to goodness Goddesses to put a stop to Gannondorf's wicked schemes.
Pioneer. All Rights Reserved. This work of fiction was written for
entertainment purposes only and not for profit.
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NOTES: I came up with this idea on my own, but discovered that it had been done
before. So, I decided to do it "My Way" (sings it like Senatra would). I hope
you like this interesting little twist to Tenchi Muyo. Instead of making it a
independent story I though about adding it as a episode to this series. So here
it is. Enjoy!
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TENCHI UNIVERSE II
EPISODE 5: NO NEED FOR...THE BOYS?
By Michael "The-Zorch" Haney
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The last thing Tenchi remembered seeing was the look of terror on Ryoko's
face as he t-shirt ripped and the portal took him. There was a brief feeling of
acceleration combined with a strange sensation that was almost like pain only he
was unable to feel his body or every see. Tenchi awoke laying his back and he
felt pain all through his entire body. He tried to sit up but it just hurt too
much. He opened his eyes and found himself outside somewhere surrounded by a
massive of thick fog.
Over time the pain started to fade some and Tenchi was able to climb to
his feet. He looked around trying to get his bearings but there weren't any
recognizable landmarks around. He couldn't hear the roaring of the surf that he
should have been hearing on the beach, and he was shocked to find that he was
laying on grass rather than a sandy beach.
"Where am I?" he asked himself out loud.
He didn't know how long he stumbled through the thick fog, but Tenchi was
determined to keep going. He had to find the girls and he would not give up
until he found them. The last thing he remembered was Minagi tackling him to
avoid an energy blast and Ryoko grabbing him as he was pulled into some black
portal.
"Black portal! Oh, god." Tenchi shouted out loud as he realized his
situation. There was not telling what corner of the universe he was in.
Soon Tenchi starting seeing a shape in the fog that looked familiar to
him, the closer he got the more he could recognize it. It was a tombstone, but
not just any tombstone. It was his mother's tombstone, or it looked like it at
least. Tenchi hurried as fast as his aching legs would carry him and he came
close enough to reach the inscription. Carved in the stone in Kanji calligraphy
characters was the name Noboyuki Masaki.
"What the? This isn't right where am I?" Tenchi asked out loud. He
backed away from the stone and slipped on something hard and wet on the ground.
A stone. He fell backwards and struck his head knocking him out and shrouding
him in blissful darkness.
Voices, Tenchi could hear voices in the darkness. He slipped in and out
of consciousness briefly and only understood a portion of what the voices were
saying. Tenchi could not tell where he was; he had no perception of feeling,
only the darkness and a feeling of floating in emptiness.
"Who is he?"
"I don't know, but he's suffering from severe radiation exposure."
"How could that have happened out here?"
"My instruments detected a powerful localized disturbance of the time-
space continuum. There is no evidence yet but that could be the cause."
"He looks like he's been through a fight too."
"He's drifting in and out of consciousness. When he is back on his feet
maybe he can tell us where he's from."
"That's if he's friendly."
"Really, now. Don't you ever trust anyone?"
"Nope, and its kept me alive so far."
"Brace yourselves everyone. I found this on him."
There are gasps from the voices. Tenchi couldn't tell if they were male
or female voices. All he could see was the darkness, and he could perceive
little else and he could only understand part was what was said.
"How is this possible?"
"What I can tell you is it's the real McCoy. What that means I can't be
certain yet?"
"Is he from Jurai?"
"I'm testing his DNA now, so I should have an answer to that soon."
"Lunch of ready!"
"Oh, good, I'm starved."
"You are always hungry for someone who does so little around here."
"What was that?"
"Save your fighting for later you two."
Slowly the voices faded away and only silence was left in the darkness.
Tenchi sat bolt upright and looked around at his surroundings. His vision
was blurred so he was only able to make out vague shapes. Strange sounds filled
his ears, machinery of some kind, and yet it was familiar somehow. Tenchi
realized for the first time that he was on a raised platform. No, a bed some
type in the middle of this strange place. He swung his legs over the side and
started to slide to the flood.
"I wouldn't try that. You're very weak and you'll fall." Said a voice
from somewhere in the room. Tenchi turned his head and tried to focus on who
spoke. A figure began to into focus in his blurred vision. The figure was
short, and upon its head was a shock of reddish hair. At first Tenchi felt joy,
but then he realized the voice he heard wasn't female.
"Where am I?" Tenchi croaked out, surprised that he could barely speak.
"My lab. We found you outside; you were suffering from severe
chronometric particle radiation poisoning. That's why your visions is blurred."
Said the red headed figure.
"Radiation?" Tenchi asked. Suddenly the memory of what happened to him
back to him like a flood. He remembered the fight with Gannondorf and the look
on Ryoko's face when she failed to...to save him from being drawn into something
pulling at him. He could remember little else after that.
"So, what's your name?" the red headed figure asked.
"Uh, Tenchi, Tenchi Masaki." Tenchi told him.
"Tenchi Masaki huh." The figure said sounding a little surprised at the
name. "Well, my name is Waso, nice to meet you Tenchi." The figure came closer
and to Tenchi surprise it was a young man about the age of twelve wearing an
outfit remarkably similar to Washu's only it was cut in a style that a man would
wear rather than a woman.
"Your vision will return to normal soon, and once your able to stand on
your feet we'll go meet the others." Waso told him.
"Thank you." Tenchi replied. He was confused and a little frightened.
Where was he? This person looked remarkably like Washu but it was a boy rather
than a young girl. What sort of place was this? Where were the girls?
Not even an hour passed before Tenchi's vision began to return to him
fully, and he was now able to walked about Waso's lab without stumbling. The
young man showed Tenchi to a door that look remarkably similar to Washu's door.
After passing through Tenchi stifled a gasp of shock. He was back home, or it
looked like home but different. The decorations his father put up around the
house and the place has a more famine look. Draperies hung from the windows, a
shelf with small ceramic figures sat against one wall where there was nothing
before, and the small shrine in homage to his mother was not there on the
bookcase either.
The smell of food cooking in the kitchen permeated the living room. That
was one thing that was familiar in this strange place. To Tenchi it was as if
he'd stepped into that old American TV show, the Twilight Zone it was called.
"Well, look who's up and about." Came a voice from across the room.
Tenchi turned towards who spoke and stopped in his tracks. Sitting at the
dinning table sat a man wearing a strange outfit made of leather; his hair was
cyan and done in spikes. He was a very handsome man, Tenchi realized despite
his rugged appearance. Seated not far from him was a man wearing elegant robes
with hair done up in a fashion similar to that of the legendary warrior Yosho,
his grandfather's true identify when he was younger.
"Really, don't be rude to our visitor. Welcome stranger I trust you're
feeling better." The other man said.
"Yes, thank you I'm starting to feel a lot better." Tenchi replied and
scratched the back of his head as he usually did. This made the man with the
cyan spike hair look at him strangely for a moment.
The man in the elegant robes stood up from the table and approached
Tenchi. "Forgive me for my rudeness. I am Akin, First Prince of Jurai. You
have already met Waso, and that ruffian over there is Ryuken."
Akin extended his hand and Tenchi shook it heartily. "My name is Tenchi,
Tenchi Masaki."
Akin looked at him for a moment with a strange expression on his face and
then looked to Waso. "I see." He said. Waso shrugged outside of Tenchi's line
of vision.
A sound from the stairs caught Tenchi's attention just then and he could
hear the sound of a woman humming. A feminine figure wearing an elegant silk
kimono literally glided down the stairs and swept into the living room with
practiced grace. Her hair was black and flowed down her back in a single
ponytail. Her face was older and some of her hair was starting to gray in
places but she still had that timeless beauty that Tenchi remembered. The only
time he'd seen that face was in photographs and then she was younger. Tenchi
struggled with all his might to show any reaction to alarm those around him.
The beautiful woman standing before him was his mother.
"I see our visitor is wake. And my, my he is very handsome." The woman
who looked like Tenchi's mother said with a smile.
Tenchi blushed bright red, not so much from her compliment, but the fact
that the person saying it looked like his mom. "He's blushing, how cute. So,
what's your name young man?"
"Uh, Tenchi, Tenchi Masaki." Replied Tenchi.
"Tenchi, that means Heaven and Earth doesn't it?" the woman asked.
"Yeah, I guess so." Tenchi replied and scratched the back of his head.
Was this doppelganger of his mother trying to come on to him?
"Masaki? I've never met someone who shared our family name before. You
must be very popular with the ladies where you come from." The woman said
girlishly. "Well, my name is Achika and you're welcome to stay here as long a
you want."
Tenchi winced at the name and hoped nobody noticed. Waso however, always
watching this strange vision caught onto Tenchi's reactions to Achika right
away. All this did was puzzle him even more about his young man.
"Breakfast is ready." Said the voice of a young boy. Tenchi turned and
looked into the freckled face of a young lad with sky blue hair and wearing
robes similar to Akin's.
"This is my younger brother Samias. He fancies himself something of a
chef, and he is actually very good." Akin said.
"Smells really good Samias." Waso said.
"Thanks, could you help me set the table mother?" Samias said to Achika.
"Certainly." Achika replied. Tenchi joined the others at the table and waited
for Samias and Achika to finished bringing breakfast to the table. An extra
place was set for him. Tenchi noticed that there was one place left open for
someone.
"I wonder if that daughter of mine is up yet?" Achika said. She went to
the stairs and shouted, "Tenko, break fast!"
"Coming!" replied a voice that was soft and reminded Tenchi of Sasami's
voice.
A young girl wearing a girl's high school uniform came running down the
stairs. Achika stopped her and adjusted a few buttons the front of her blouse.
"Now, be polite today we have a visitor." Achika told her.
"Mother." Tenko replied rolling her eyes. She walked with Achika to the
dinning table and sat at the place that had been left open. Not too
surprisingly it was right between Akin and Ryuken.
"You are looking very charming this morning Lady Tenko." Akin told her.
"Thanks." Tenko replied with a blush.
"Tenko, would you like me to walk you to school today." Ryuken said with a
sly grin.
"Absolutely not, you will not go anywhere with Lady Tenko alone Ryuken!
You can't be trusted." Akin shouted. Ryuken stood up and clenched his fists.
"Are you implying that I'd do something to her?" he asked with a voice dripping
with venom.
"There is no telling what perversities are going through your diseased
mind." Akin replied.
Spark of energy flashed from Ryuken's clenched fists. "Why you pompous,
arrogant son of a..." Tenko spoke up quickly in a stern voice, "Boys, please we
have a guest today."
Ryuken sighed and sat back down to his meal. Akin would not even look in
his direction.
"Forgive my friends here, they really are nice guys when you get to know
them." Tenko said to Tenchi. "I hope you're doing well. When I found you the
other day I thought you were dead at first."
"I look that bad?" Tenchi asked scratching the bad of his head.
"You looked like death warmed over, kid." Ryuken told him.
Tenko sat her elbows on the table and rested his chin in her hands in a
girlish manner. "So, what's your name and where are you from?"
"Tenchi Masaki, and something tells me I'm very far away from home."
Tenchi replied. Tenchi noticed that the attention Tenko was showing him did not
seem to make Akin or Ryuken happy in the least. Where is Rod Sterling when you
need him, Tenchi thought to himself.
Tenchi decided to explore around to see what he can see and maybe find
some cues as to where he might be. All the familiar landmarks from his home
back on Earth were here. Far up the mountainside he could see his grandfather's
shrine and he decided to go and see what he find out there.
Waso went back into his lab and noticed one of his computer consoles was
blinking. He walked up to it and saw that the DNA analysis on Tenchi was done.
He opened the file on screen and looked it over. The results were a total
surprise.
"Jurai power?" he said reading the data.
Immediately a indicator icon appeared on the screen. It indicated a
cross-reference with a file in his database. Waso called it up and started
laughing in spite of himself. The picture that appeared along with the data was
Tenko's. A side-by-side comparison chart of their DNA appeared on the screen.
"This is very interesting indeed."
Tenchi wandered the land around the shrine for hours before getting up the
nerve to actually approach the building. When he did a familiar figure appeared
in the doorway. It was his grandfather Katsuhito; also know as Yosho the former
Emperor of Jurai and the Legendary Warrior. The elderly priest approached
Tenchi showing no expression of emotion. He looked at Tenchi as if he were
looking into his very soul.
"You are the one my granddaughter found in the woods the other day." He
said.
"Yes, my name is Tenchi, Tenchi Masaki." Tenchi replied.
Katsuhito did not seem to react to this at all, or at least he didn't show
any evidence that he did.
I can feel it; it is within him yet it makes no sense. He has Juraian
blood, the old priest thought to himself. I must test him.
Katsuhito pulled a bokken from his priest's robes and held it out towards
Tenchi. "Do you know what this is?" he asked.
"A bokken. It's a wooden sword used for training." Tenchi replied.
"Do you know how to use it?" Katsuhito asked him.
"I've had training." Tenchi said.
The old priest drew a second bokken from his robes and took a fighting
stance. "Then let us see what you can do!" he yelled and launched an attack.
Tenchi was expecting this the moment he saw his grandfather, or this man who
looked like his grandfather draw out the bokken. He dodged the first attack and
went into defense mode blocking every blow the old priest leveled at him.
Katsuhito was impressed, and it took a great deal to impress him. He
recognized many of his own signature sword moves in Tenchi's style, and his
parrying techniques were all Juraian through and through. He's defending and
not attacking. I must make him attack so I can see his style. Katsuhito
deliberately made a mistake in one of his moves opening himself up to attack,
and sure enough Tenchi look to the bait and suddenly went on the attack. The
style Tenchi was using Katsuhito recognized immediately as his own. It was the
same technique that he taught to Tenko. Just like Tenko, Tenchi was not yet as
skilled in sword fighting and Katsuhito immediately disarmed him. The fight
over the two bowed in respect.
"You are good, as good as my granddaughter, but you still have much to
learn." Katsuhito told him.
"Maybe I can spar with her later on, if that is alright with you Yosho."
Tenchi said.
"That would be interesting." The old priest replied.
Tenchi handed the bokken back and turned to go. "I'm going to go walked
around some more, get some fresh air."
"I will see you at lunch perhaps." Katsuhito called to him.
"Alright." Tenchi said as he disappeared down the stairs to lead back to
the house by the lake.
Katsuhito started back towards the shrine and suddenly stopped in his
tracks. He turned back and looked towards where Tenchi had gone. "How did he
know my name was Yosho?"
The tombstone looked the same. A prayer offering in a bowl with a fresh
flower lay at the base of the stone. On the stone was inscribed the same thing
he remembered reading, Noboyuki Masaki. This place was so twisted, his mother
was alive, the girls were all boys, and there was a girl name Tenko who was his
age living here and nobody knew him. Tenchi wondered if he was just dreaming or
what he in a coma due to injuries received when fighting Gannondorf?
Tenchi's keen senses alerted him to footsteps behind him. They were
light, almost imperceptible, and they had the grace of a woman's walk. He
turned and found himself face to face with the beautiful young Tenko. Looking
at her close up she resembled his mother when she was this age.
"My father died when I was very young. We buried him here so we could be
close to him." She said.
"How, how did he die?" Tenchi asked.
"I was just a child then, I remember very little. All I remember was my
father always stayed in bed most of the time." She replied.
"I lost my mother when I was young, and she was pretty much the same way."
Tenchi told her with a hint of sadness in his tone.
"I'm sorry." Replied Tenko. She looked into Tenchi's face and could see
the hurt in his eyes. She struggled with an urge to hug him.
"Its alright, it was a long time ago for me too." Tenchi told her
scratching the back of his head.
"You said you were a long way from him, what province do you live in?"
Tenko asked."
"Well, it's a lot like this place actually." Tenchi tells her trying to
skirt around part of the question. He looked down and noticed the time on his
watch. "You're home early. I thought school let out around five o'clock."
"We were let out early. We had a special outdoor presentation today and
they decided to let us all go home early." She replied.
Together they walked down the long stairway back to the house. Achika and
the others were outside waiting for them.
"You missed lunch Tenchi." Said Samias.
"Sorry, I guess I lost track of time." Tenchi replied. Ryuken just
snorted and looked at him funny. Tenchi noticed that he'd been looking at him
the whole time he and Tenko walked up to the house.
"Well, dinner will be done in about an hour." Samias told him and started
back into the house. Tenko followed the young prince. "I'll help, if that's
ok?" "Sure." Samias replied with a smile.
"There are a few things I found out, but we'll discuss them over dinner
later." Waso said.
"Alright." Tenchi replied. Everyone went back into the house except for
Ryuken. He glided up to Tenchi until his face was right up to his.
"Where have you been all day?" he asked.
"Around." Tenchi replied.
"Where were you with Tenko?" the space pirate asked.
"I was up at the tombstone of her father and she found me there." Tenchi
told him.
Ryuken grabbed Tenchi by the front of his shirt and flew high into the
air. "You listen to me now and you listen to me good, boy! Tenko is mine and
anybody who gets in my way will live to regret it!"
"Nothing happened, we were just talking!" Tenchi shouted back.
"You keep your distance, or else!" Ryuken warned him.
A voice from below grabbed Ryuken's attention. "Ryuken, you let that boy
down this instant!" yelled Achika.
The two floated back down to the ground and Ryuken teleported away without
even looking at Achika. The older woman walked up to Tenchi and fixed the front
of his shirt. "Please don't be angry with him. He's the suspicious type and is
very protective of my darling Tenko." She told him.
"Well, I don't think he had any intentions of hurting me. He just wanted
to scare me." Tenchi replied.
"He can be a bit frightening at times, but he's also pretty cute." Said
Achika. She had a strange gleam in her eye. Tenchi almost felt like passing
out. That same gleam was in his father's eye when he spoke of one of the girls.
Could it be this Achika was just like dad back home?
"Say, I ran a nice hot bath for you. Why don't you go and get freshened
up before dinner." She told him softly. Her tone was almost seductive.
"Uh, oh, uh, thank you." Tenchi replied trying to hide his reaction. The
person standing very closed to him looked like his mother, sounded like his
mother, but acted more like his dad. He also noticed the way she was absently
playing with his small ponytail. She seemed to pick on this almost immediately
and a sad expression crossed her face.
"There I go again, I hope I haven't offended you." She said.
"Well, it is flattering actually." Tenchi said trying not to hurt her
feelings.
"I've been without a husband or a male companion for a long time.
Sometimes I forget myself and I do things like this. Please forgive me." She
added.
Tenchi turned to her and smiled. "I guess living in a house of young
bachelor's isn't easy, huh?" he asked. Maybe this will finally give him some
insights into his dad's own behavior.
"You have no idea." She told him and the two went into the house together.
Everyone sat at the dinner table to a feast. The family complimented
Samias on another culinary masterpiece and Katsuhito said a prayer over the
food. As dinner began Waso cleared his throat and said, "I have a few things to
announce." They all looked at him and saw that he was looking at Tenchi.
"This might be hard for you believe Tenchi, but I'm going to be straight
and to the point. You are not from this universe." Waso told him.
"What!" the others all gasped in shock, even Ryuken.
"Analysis of Tenchi's DNA found that it is exactly identical to Tenko's in
every way. There are none of the cellular degradation earmarks of cloning, and
the radiation poisoning he had suggested he was exposed to an unstable special
breach. In fact, moments before Tenko found him my instruments did detect a
time-space disturbance near the shrine.
"You mean he is Tenko, only from another universe?" Ryuken asked.
"Maybe he can tell us." Waso replied and look at Tenchi.
Tenchi swallowed his bite of food and took a deep breath. "I knew all who
you all were when I first saw you, only your names I didn't know." He told them.
"That much I discerned from your reaction to the others and Achika." Waso
said.
"So, you know us from your universe, but our names are different?" Akin
asked.
"It's a little more than that." Tenchi said.
"I have a feeling I know where he's going with this. Go on Tenchi." Waso
said.
Tenchi looked at all the young men and the young boy and wasn't sure how
they would take this news. He sighed and said, "Your names aren't the only
things different about you in my universe. Where I come from you are, you are
all girls."
The room was in total silence. Ryuken almost had a look of horror on his
face. He finally spoke up. "Did I hear him say that right?"
"Tell us about them." Tenko said.
"I'll start with Ryoko." Tenchi said. He looked at Ryuken and the space
pirate's eyes went wide. "She's a space pirate, the most notorious of them all,
and very dangerous when angry. I know a different side to her, a softer side."
He turned to Prince Akin. "Then there is Princess Aeka, polite and
proper. She is beautiful and has a strong will." Tenchi looked at Samias.
"Princess Sasami is Aeka's little sister and she is the cutest little thing you
could lay your eyes one. She is also a master in the kitchen and does nearly
all the chores in the house." Samias looked up his older brother in surprise
and the older prince just shrugged.
Tenchi turned to Waso and the scientific genius raised one eyebrow in a
Spock Maneuver. "Washu is smart, very smart, but sometimes her inventions
backfire like Mecha Washu, or her Dimensional Tuner." The others chuckled when
Tenchi brought those things up.
"Hey, they would have worked if Mitoshi and Ryuken hadn't messed with
them!" Waso shouted.
"Mitoshi?" Tenchi said in surprise.
"Yeah, Mitoshi and Kiyatto. They're our friends in the Galaxy Police."
Samias told him.
"Where I come they're Mihoshi and Kiyone." Tenchi replied. "But, we don't
see Kiyone anymore."
"Why not?" Ryuken asked.
"She died on duty in pursuit of a band of space pirates." Tenchi replied.
Everyone was silent after that. Waso could see emotional pain in Tenchi's
face. It went deeper than just being separated from friends or the sadness of
someone's death.
"Were you involved with any one of them?" Waso asked.
Tenchi scratched the back of his head not sure how to answer that
question. He decided to be open and honest about it. "Actually I sort of
involved with all of them really."
"Huh?" they all said at once in total surprise.
Tenchi started his story beginning with how he first met Ryoko and Mihoshi
on the faithful day they fell to Earth. He told of the encounter with Princess
Aeka, the releasing of Washu from her imprisonment, the exciting encounter with
Kiyone, and all the adventures they had. He told of the day Nagi came to Earth
and kidnapped him, the incident with the Dimensional Tuner, and the battle with
Kagato in Jurai. Katsuhito paid very close attention to this part of the story.
Finally, Tenchi ended the tale with the events that occurred after he returned
home. Looks of understanding came over everyone's faces when Tenchi hold them
how he felt when he was back on Earth, and then the joy he had when the girls
came back into his life along with the realization of his true feelings.
"That's so romantic." Achika swooned.
"So you're engaged to all of them?" Waso asked.
"Yes." Tenchi replied.
"That doesn't explain how he got here." Akin said.
Tenchi explained the trip to go see Mihoshi in the GP hospital, the
encounter with Minagi, and the battle with Gannondorf on Hotari. He told them
the very last moment he could remember of what happened.
"I hope they were able to get away from that guy. He was really powerful,
more powerful than Kagato ever was." Tenchi said.
"If your Washu is any kind of genius like me then she may be looking into
ways to locate you." Waso said. Male versions of A and B popped up on his
shoulders chanting, "Yeah, Waso's a genius!" "You're da man Waso!"
"That is so true." Waso said with a Cheshire cat smile.
Tenchi scratched the back of his head. "Yep, you two are exactly the
same." Everyone broke out in laughter at that, even Ryuken.
Dinner was nearly over when Katsuhito spoke. "You never said anything
about me or Achika." He said.
"Well, grandfather, you are exactly the same as you are back home." Tenchi
said. He turned to Achika and this time he didn't let his emotions hide. A
tear fell down his face. Tenko looked at Tenchi and back at her mother then
realized something. Tenchi had been at the tombstone, and she recalled that he
said that he lost his mother when he was very little.
"Oh my god." Tenko said and she covered her mouth with her hand to keep
from crying herself.
"What? What is it?" Achika asked the two of them.
"Mother, he lost his mother when he was the same age I was when father
died." She told her in a voice cracking from stifled sobs.
Achika gasped and looked at Tenchi. She moved from her place and
immediately went to Tenchi's side quickly wrapping her arms around him. Tenchi
couldn't hold back the emotion of the moment anymore and tears streamed down his
face.
"No wonder he reacted the way he did to her when he first saw her." Waso
said softly.
"You poor boy, and here I was acting like that. I'm so sorry." Achika
said.
"I already said it was alright. I'm just happy that I had this chance to
meet you." Tenchi told her after she cleared his tears away.
"Is your father still alive?" Tenko asked.
"Yes, he's an architect for a major engineering firm. Its how we're able
to afford keeping up a household of so many people." Tenchi told her.
"Noboyuki always had a talent for drawing diagrams." Achika said.
"He designed and built this house." Replied Tenchi.
"Yes, he did." Achika said.
Later that night Mitoshi and Kiyatto came by for a visit and met Tenchi.
At first Kiyatto did believe it that Tenchi was from another universe until Waso
showed him a complex mathematical computation showing that interdimensional
travel was not only possible but also quite common.
"So, he's from a universe where we're all girls and we're his girlfriends,
right?" Kiyatto asked Waso after hearing the full story.
"That sums it up pretty much." The genius said.
"You know I really give up. Ok, I believe you. With all the stuff that
happens around this place I'm not surprise in the least by this." Kiyatto
replied.
"Say, what do I look like as a girl?" Mitoshi asked. He was a young man
with tanned skin and long blonde hair.
"You know, I've got photos in my wallet." Tenchi said and fished out his
wallet and pulled out the photos he kept there. Everyone gathered around to
look. One of the photos was a group picture of Tenchi with everyone else
together. Katsuhito in the picture was the same, and Achika and Tenko
concentrated on Noboyuki while the rest looked at the girls.
"Wow! Sasami is cute." Samias said.
Ryuken pointed to a picture of Ryoko wearing a two-piece swimsuit and
making a very suggestive pose. "Is that the one that's supposed to me my
counterpart?" he asked.
"Yeah, that's Ryoko." Tenchi told him.
"She's a babe." Samias said in awe. Ryuken just growled at him.
"Samias!" Akin scolded him.
Akin picked up the picture of Princess Aeka posed wearing her kimono with
Sasami at her side. "She looks graceful and dignified. Clearly her royal
breeding shows in these photographs." He said.
Waso looked at the picture of his counterpart. "She is very pretty. You
sure she's as smart as you say?" he asks Tenchi.
"Trust me, she's everything you are. In intelligence that is." Tenchi
replied.
Mitoshi and Kiyatto looked at the pictures of Mihoshi and Kiyone for a
while. "Yeah, that figures. Mitoshi's counterpart looks like your typical
blonde bimbo." He said. "Now, my counterpart is actually pretty hot. I could
go for a woman like that."
"If you come here looking for Tenchi you won't see her." Waso told him.
"Why not?" Kiyatto asked.
"She's dead." Waso replied.
Kiyatto looked at Tenchi. "How did it happen?" he asked him.
"She went the way she would have wanted it to go, in the line of duty.
She was after a band of space pirates when it happened." Tenchi told him.
"Did she have a strong sense of Duty and Honor?" Kiyatto asked.
"Yes, she loved her work in the Galaxy Police. She was happiest in space
than anywhere else." Tenchi replied.
"If I go someday, that's how I want to go. In a blaze of glory." Kiyatto
said. That brought the room to silence for moment. Time came for the two GP
officers to return to their apartment. Achika offered them to stay the night
since was so late.
"Well, thank you we're having trouble paying our rent again---ouch!"
Mitoshi started saying but Kiyatto slugged him in the back of the head.
"You have a big mouth you know that Mitoshi!" Kiyatto shouted. He turned
to Achika and smiled. "Hehe, we graciously accept your invitation Mrs. Masaki."
"Oh good. Make yourselves at home boys." She said coyly.
Tenko leaned towards Tenchi and asked softly, "So, is your dad as bad as
my mom?" Tenchi nodded. Tenko sighed and shook her head.
Tenchi found it hard to sleep. It wasn't that the futon in Akin and
Samias's room was uncomfortable; he just couldn't seem to get to sleep. He
rolled around trying to force himself to sleep but it would not come. Images of
the girls rolled through his mind and he wondered if he'd ever see them again.
Under the covers he gripped the hilt of the Tenchiken, the magical sword given
to him by his grandfather and returned to him by Waso, and thought about what
the girls were doing. Part of him was afraid of what may have happened to them
after he left. He departed in the heat of a battle with the powerful Gannondorf
and there was no way to tell what happened afterwards. Did they make it out of
there alive? He didn't want to dwell on the possibilities in that thread of
thought. Something deep inside of him told him they were all fine. He climbed
out of bed slowly making sure not to wake the others and slipped out into the
hallway. Slowly, Tenchi made his way downstairs and into the living room.
He stood looking out the patio windows at the light of the moon shimmering
off the lake. He nearly jumped out of his skin when a hand touched his
shoulder. Tenchi turned around quickly and was started to find Tenko standing
there. She was wearing a flowing white night gown and her hair was done up in a
bun.
"I'm sorry. Couldn't sleep?" she asked.
"No." Tenchi replied softly.
"Me neither." Tenko said. She quickly took him hand and guided Tenchi
outside onto the patio. The warm summer night breeze made her white gown
flutter.
"Tenchi, how did you tell them?" Tenko asked. She walked over the patio
and out towards the pier. "How did you tell the girls you loved them?"
"When they came back one by one I told them." Tenchi replied.
Tenko turned around and look at Tenchi. Tenchi could not help but notice
how beautiful she was, she was his counterpart in this universe and she was as
beautiful as the girls back home.
"What gave you the courage to tell them?" she asked.
"The fear that if I didn't I might loose them again, and forever this
time. That was part of it." He told her.
"What was the other part?" she asked.
"The hopes that they would all see past their differences, especially
Ryoko and Aeka, and come to accept my feelings for them." Said Tenchi.
Tenko turned around, the breeze tugged at her nightgown making it form
close to her body. Tenchi averted his eyes but not in time to notice that she
was beautiful and not just in the face either.
"You love them don't you?" he asked her. "Akin, Ryuken, Samias, Mitoshi,
and Kiyatto."
The young woman's shoulders quivered and a soft sobbing drifted to
Tenchi's ears in the wind. He walked up to her and turned her around to face
him. Tenko's face was streaked with tears. He held her in his arms for a while
letting her cry into his chest. The sobs subsided and she looked up into his
face.
"You have to tell them. Not for you but for them. Its tearing them apart
inside not knowing, and its hurting you must as much." He told her. "Don't wait
until something like what happened to me happens to you."
Tenko stepped away from him for a moment and looked out over the water.
"I don't know if I can." She said.
"If you truly love them you will find the courage inside of you to tell
them." Tenchi told her.
The young girl turned around quickly, threw her arms around his neck and
kissed Tenchi full on the lips. Instead of resisting her he drew her close
feeling her small round breasts press against his chest. When they parted the
tears on her face was gone.
"Don't say anything to Ryuken about this, if he knew what I just did he'd
probably try to lobotomize you." She said.
"Why did you do that actually?" Tenchi asked. The experience of kissing
himself, a female version of himself, was strange and pleasant all at the same
time.
"I wanted to experience what the girls did. They're really lucky to have
guy like Tenchi." She told him.
"Those guys in there are lucky to have a girl like you." Tenchi said back
to her.
Tenchi woke the next morning to the smell of breakfast wafting up from
downstairs. He climbed out of his futon and went to the stairs. A very strange
sight greeted him. Tenko and all the guys where seated on the floor of the
living room all talking to each other. They were all sitting around her in a
close semi circle. He walked passed and went into the kitchen where he was
Achika making breakfast. It was then Tenchi noticed tears streaming down the
woman's face.
"Mother, is everything alright?" he asked her.
She turned around and whipped the tears away with the hem of her apron.
"Its my little girl. She's so grown up. I'm so happy for her." She said.
"What happened?" Tenchi asked.
"Something wonderful." Was all Achika would say before turning back to her
work at the stove. He turned to leave for the bathroom when Ryuken materialized
in his path.
"I saw you with her last night." He said.
"Listen, its not what you think..."Tenchi started to say.
Ryuken did something that Tenchi was expecting at all. The man reached
out and hugged him, hugged him like a brother, and then stepped back. "Thank
you." He said before teleporting away.
A week passed by at the other world Masaki house. Tenchi watched a
transformation of the house that mirror the one he left behind. Unlike back
home Tenko decided by marry them boys as soon as possible. Tenchi was honored
to stand in the place of Tenko's father at the shrine. Tenko was beautiful in a
white dress with the young men all wearing black two-piece suits. Katsuhito
performed a ceremony that was both Shinto and Juraian. Achika cried the entire
time and Tenchi stood beside her holding her hand through it all.
That same day many family and friends who attended the weeding enjoyed a
fully catered dinner. The weather outside was perfect, mostly due to Waso's
weather control system, and some luck. The sun was setting and the light of the
moon was shimmering off the surface of the lake like it did that faithful night.
The pier was transformed into a dance floor. Tenko wore a strapless blue
evening gown dancing slowly with Ryuken in her arms. A slow song from America
played over the sound system, against supplied by Waso.
In the distance, unnoticed by the others, swept in a thick gray fog. The
song ended and Tenko and Ryuken kissed tenderly. Achika was to taken with the
moment that she hugged Tenchi. He didn't mind it at all and returned her
embrace.
That was the last dance of the couples and now everyone was heading for
the dance floor. Waso walked towards Tenchi and Achika and noticed the fog for
the first time.
"That wasn't on my sensors." He said. He conjured up his translucent
computer and checked his instruments and weather control system.
"Uh, Tenchi. I think you'd better see this." He said. Tenchi walked
around and looked at the screen. Streams of incomprehensible bits of data flow
across the screen that showed a map of the local area around the lake. A small
red dot was blinking near the shrine on top of the mountain.
"What is it?" he asked.
"A dimensional breach is forming." Waso said and looked at Tenchi with a
smile.
Everyone was told what was happening near the shrine and they all walked
up the stairs and stopped just in front of the ancient building. Slowly a
bright portal of white light began to form in front of them. Tenchi stood in
front of them with Tenko and her new husbands standing next to her. Ryo-Ohki, a
boy in this universe, was sitting on Samias's head with a little tuxedo bow
around his neck.
Five figures appeared from the portal. The light obscured their faces but
their silhouettes told everyone that they were all women. The portal closed
behind them once again shrouding the shrine in darkness. The reception
partygoers walked around lighting torches stuck into the ground around the
shrine to give them some light. The five figures that appeared from the portal
started walking forward slowly at first, then one of them yelled out Tenchi's
name and they all rushed forward into the light of the torches.
"Tenchi!" the girls cried as they reached him and nearly tackled him to
the ground. They were all talking at once, some kissing him and others just
holding onto his with all their might.
Tenko and the boys walked up to them and Ryoko looked up at them. She
tapped on Aeka's shoulder and she looked up with wide eyes.
"Oh my." She said looking to them together.
"Girls, meet Tenko, Ryuken, Waso, Samias, Akin, Mitoshi, and Kiyatto."
Tenchi said introducing his friends.
Washu walked up to Waso and looked him over before looking at the rest of
them. "Alternate universe counterparts." She said without much surprise.
The rest of the night the boys spent some time getting to know the girls,
learning about their life with Tenchi back in their universe. They learned
about Tenchi's stay with them and what he did to make their marriage to Tenko
possible. They all thanked Tenko and Achika for watching over Tenchi while he
was with them.
"I really owe him a great deal." Tenko said.
"We have yet to drag Tenchi to the nearest shrine or chapel." Ryoko said.
Katsuhito strolled up to them and cleared his throat. "Why not have it
here, now." He said. For the first time in a long time Tenchi saw a smile
actually cross his grandfather's face.
For the second time that night the Masaki family and friends were greeted
to an emotional wedding. A suit and dresses for Tenchi and the girls was
hastily put together with the aid of Waso and his replication machines. The
girls all stood next to Tenchi as they each exchanged vows with Tenchi and
kissed. "Awwwwww!" the wedding guests all said when Tenchi kissed Sasami after
exchanging vows with her.
The next day Tenchi woke suddenly from a dream that meeting the girls and
marrying them was all just a dream, but when he looked around him he sighed with
relief. The girls were all sleeping peacefully around him in nightgowns they
borrowed from Tenko. The living room had been turned into a large bedroom for
them with several bed pallets laid out together so they could all sleep in once
place.
Tenchi did see that Sasami was missing and then he noticed the smell of
food from the kitchen. He didn't have to guess where she was. Slowly he
stepped over the sleeping girls and walked into the kitchen where sure enough
Sasami and Achika were working.
"Morning Tenchi." Sasami said sweetly.
"Having Sasami around reminds me of the days when Tenko was still a little
girl." Achika told him.
Tenchi walked over to his youngest wife and kissed her softly on the cheek. "She brings a little bit of sunshine into my life everyday." He said and Sasami blushed furiously. Slowly the rest started to filter down from upstairs and Tenchi helped the girls clean up the living room and put the padding away.
Tenko and her husbands tried the meal prepared for them by Sasami and were surprised at how good it was. "Wow, Sasami this is really good." Tenko said cheerfully. "It really is good, I couldn't have done better." Samias added.
Thank you, it's the least I could do for all you've done for us." Said Sasami.
When midday came everyone gathered at the Masaki Shrine one last time. Waso and Washu were both working at their consoles side by side for several minutes. The rest just chatted with one another, saying their goodbyes and farewells. Tenko walked up to Tenchi and wrapper her arms around him hugging him tightly.
"You're responsible for all the happiness I have in my life now. I hope your life is just as happy too." She tells him.
"Thank you, and good luck Tenko." He replies.
Washu turns to the gathered group. "Ok, Waso and I working together have setup a quick portal back home to the house in our dimension." She told them.
"That's great." Said Sasami cheerfully.
"I'll monitor this destabilizing of the Megaverse Washu told me about and relay anything I find to her." Said Waso.
"So, what about Gannondorf?" Ryoko asked.
Washu turned from her computer and said, "I have a possible lock on what universe he is in. We can jump from my lab to that location when we get back home."
"Good. I'm give that guy a piece of my mind." Said Mihoshi.
"I had something more painful in mind." Replied Ryoko.
A portal opened a few seconds later between Washu and Waso. The two families some final hugs before Tenchi and the girls left. As the portal closed and Tenchi and the girls were out of sight Tenko sighed.
"I wish we could have had time to go to his universe. I miss father so very much." Ryuken squeezed her hand softly and smiled at her. "Someday, my Tenko." He told her.
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TO BE CONTINUED!!!
Stay Tune for Episode 6: No Need for Goddesses
The Gang jumps to the universe Gannondorf is in and find he's been up to no good. Tenchi and the Girls find themselves teaming up with a certain college student and three honest to goodness Goddesses to put a stop to Gannondorf's wicked schemes.