Tenchi Muyo - Super R - When Worlds Collide - Part 3

Scene 1

Azaka wiggles fake eyebrows. "Behind this door lies another dimension, a dimension formed by your hidden thoughts and desires."

Kamidaki leans towards the door. "You will enter this world and be faced with some decisions. The decisions you make will determine if you pass or fail."

Ami looks to the other scouts for support.

Luna and Artimus look back her with shame for their history and admiration for Ami's courage.

Ami smiles at Artimus and Luna, then forms a fist in front of her chest. "I will clear your names!"

Ami walks through the door.

Washu looks at her screen. A wide view of what Ami is experiencing pops up on her screen. A title appears: "Oh My Ami".

Scene 2

A younger version of Ami skips along a trail through the woods. The trail goes uphill and she hears odd sounds off the trail.

Ami looks through the bushes and sees a younger version of Tenchi practicing sword play, hopping from stick to stick.

Ami laughs.

Startled, little Tenchi falls on his butt.

"Are you all right?"

"Yes, I do that all the time."

"My name is Ami."

"My name is Tenchi. You must be here for the ceremony."

"I got really bored. I thought it would be more fun to enjoy nature than stay with that crowd."

"I know what you mean. It's quite a noisy bothersome scene."

"And my mother wouldn't let me take any books."

Tenchi looks horrified. Why would you want to read those things?"

"Books?" Ami now looks horrified.

"Ever since my mom died, that's all dad does, read shoujo books. We have a whole room filling up with them now."

"But, I don't read those types of books. I read poetry and literature and reference books."

"Really?"

"Yes, really." Ami expression softens. "I'm sorry to hear that you lost your mother."

Tenchi looks sad and absentmindedly hits the ground with his practice sword.

"When I am sad my mother sings me a song. If I sing you that song will you feel better?"

"My mom used to sing for me..."

"I hope I remember all the words." Ami smiles and embarrassed smile. "Oto no nai mahiru..."

Scene 3

Katsuhito, Tenchi's grandfather, walks up the path. "I'm sure I saw one of the girls walk up this way. I wonder if she found Tenchi's training area?"

Katsuhito looks through the bushes to see Ami and Tenchi sharing an awkward kiss, leaning towards each other on tip toes.

"Tenchi? Your mother would be proud of you!"

Tenchi jumps back and trips over the training sticks and falls on his butt again. "Grandfather!"

"Tenchi, you won't mind if I escort this lovely lady back to the ceremony?"

Ami looks mortified. She bows. "I am horribly sorry for the bother."

Katsuhito puts his arm around her. "Now, now, there's nothing to worry about. But, there is a big party going on and I'm worried that you're going to miss out on all the fun."

Ami nods.

Scene 4

Katsuhito leads Ami to the ceremony area. He turns to her. "I'm afraid that I can't let you remember what you saw. Tenchi is destined for things that you won't be able to understand."

Katsuhito puts his finger on Ami's forehead. Ami goes into a trance. Her Mercury Sailor Symbol briefly flashes.
Katsuhito is shocked. "My goodness! Tenchi sure knows how to attract some unusual friends!"

Katsuhito snaps his fingers. Ami comes out of the trance.

Katsuhito kneels before Ami. "Now Ami, this ceremony only happens once in your life. You'll have plenty of time to study tomorrow, but today is a day for play. Do you think you could do that for me?"

Little Ami smiles. "I'll try."

Ami runs off to join the crowd of girls.

Katsuhito shakes his head. "Who would have thought?"

Ami runs up to one girl who has bright red hair.

The girl, Washu, turns around and points Ami to a black hole that has appeared in the air.

Ami stops, frightened. Washu jumps half way into the hole and pulls Ami into the hole with her.

Scene 5

Ami is back at the Hino Shrine.

Washu intently looks at her control panel and moves her hands around over the controls faster than the eyes can follow.

Washu looks up. "Congratulations! The machines say that you have passed. Washu holds her arms up in a circle.

Mihoshi jumps up and down. "Yea! Ami did it!"

Kyonni gives her a cold look. "Officer Mihoshi, we should be impartial in this matter."

"Oh, okay." Mihoshi looks down, then jumps up again. "But it's so exciting!"

The rest of the scouts congratulate Ami.

Lita grabs Ami by the shoulders. "What was it like?"

Ami gets a puzzled look on her face. "I don't know, I can't remember anything. How long was I gone?"

"Two minutes. The important thing is that you're safe."

Ami smiles at Lita.

Washu taps her console. "Okay, who's next?"

Lita steps forward. "I'll do it. I know that Luna and Artimus are good. They have lead us to many victories over evil. I am not afraid."

Lita steps toward Azaka and Kamidaki. Sasami jumps in front of her.

"Wait! I think we're all missing a bigger issue here!"

Every gasps and looks at Sasami.

"Rini is going to get sick if she eats all those deserts by herself and doesn't have any entries!"

Everyone turns to see Rini pretending that she wasn't just pigging out but has stuff all over her face. Everyone laughs.

Washu shakes her head. "Sure, we should eat the food while it's still hot. It might lower the tension level here!"

Everyone starts eating except for Lita who looks somber.

Sasami brings Lita a plate of mochi. "Lita, of all the girls, I really want you to turn out okay. I can't bear to think that a fellow cook would choose the path of darkness."

Lita smiles. She eats one of the rice cakes. "Sasami, I see that I have a ways to go if I want to compete with you."

Sasami blushes.

Lita stands up. "Washu, can't you monitor these experiments and eat at the same time? Let's get this show on the road!"

Washu brings a large plate of food over to her console. "Okay, Lita. Ready when you are."

Serina pounds her mochi in a sauce bowl. "Go, Lita!"

Lita enters the area between Azaka and Kamidaki.

Washu's screen flashes a title "Outlaw Girl Makoto".

Scene 6

Lita is in the middle of an arena in ancient Japan wearing loose armor. She fights a larger foe. Her foe's blows splinter the ground when Lita dodges. Finally, her foe misses and stumbles to one knee. Lita drops her weapon, runs over to her foe, steps on his lowered leg and knees him to the side of the head.

Lita's foe collapses to the ground, unconscious.

"Jedo! Jedo! Jedo!"

Lita acknowledges the crowd. She is lead over to the royal box. She removes her helmet to reveal that this version of Lita has a very short masculine hair cut and barely looks feminine at all.

The Queen (who looks like Ami) addresses Lita. "Jedo, you have won the tournament. Six months ago our neighbors to the North beat the drums of war, demanding that I be married off to their King. I refused. Instead of a war that would have devastated both kingdoms and left both of us open for invasion, we decided on a tournament to chose my husband, and you have won it, defeating their King in the final."

The crowd cheers.

Lita's opponent is helped over. He removes his helmet. He is a very handsome man. "Queen Ami, Jedo defeated me fairly. I did my best. He is the better man. Queen Ami, it was never my intention to cause a war between our kingdoms. I just wanted you, my true love, to be protected by the best man in all of Japan. Now, I see that the best man is not myself. I give my blessing to your marriage to Jedo. May our kingdoms forever live at peace."

The crowd erupts in cheering.

Ami turns back to Lita. "Jedo, would you like the ceremony now, or would you like it tomorrow, so you may freshen up after your battles?"

Lita smiles and speaks in a masculine voice. "Let us give our peoples one more day of festival."

The crowd erupts.

Scene 7

Lita enters a large tavern, and walks to the back. A cook greats her. "I told you that move would work."

Lita nods, "Thank you, sensei. Your scouting is the best."

The cook gestures to his assistants to take over. The cook and Lita walk through a door that says "Do Not Enter" and walk down a flight of stairs.

They emerge in a large room with roots hanging from the walls and large kegs of beer leaning against the walls. The center of the room is empty.

The cook looks at Lita. "Do you think you can marry Queen Ami?"

Lita falls to her knees and starts sobbing.

The cook starts laughing. "Makoto, five years ago you were a girl who had run away from a distant farm who wanted to become a cook. You remember those days, right?"

Lita nods and smiles a little.

"Your parents thought you were mad and disowned you. A girl who wants to be a professional cook? A job that only men are allowed to do? Can you blame them for thinking you mad?"

Lita shakes her head.

"So I found you brought you into my tavern. I taught you how to hide your femininity. I taught you how to fight, how to cook, how to be a man. So, now, you are recognized as the finest man in the kingdom, a man named Jedo."

The cook gets in Lita's face. "So, why is the great warrior Jedo crying?"

Lita cries a gusher. "Sensei, I don't love Queen Ami, I love ... you."

The cook steps back and sits about five feet from Lita. "Even if you doom this country to war? The Northern King would do that to protect Queen Ami. You know that."

"But, how could I live a lie?"

The cook raises an eyebrow. "You're doing a good job so far."

"I am not living a lie. I live as a cook and warrior. It is not important what gender I live as so long as I am true to what I am. But I cannot live with out you."

"So, the fact that Ami is a woman has nothing to do with it? It's not that I'm a man and she's a woman?"

"Well," Lita blushes and touches her index fingers together, "I was hoping to bear children, and I would not be able to give Queen Ami an heir."

"Makoto, you know Queen Ami is a remarkable woman with an extraordinary mind. Don't you think that to bring peace to her kingdom that she wouldn't find some way to get around those obstacles?"

"I ..." Lita looks downwards, shamed.

"Makoto, look at me. Look at me closely. Why do you think that I was able to teach you so well on how to be a male? Didn't you ever wonder that?"

Lita looks up mystified.

The cook relaxes her face, revealing that she looks like Mina. She speaks with a feminine voice, winks and puts one index finger up. "Lita, I swear that sometimes you can look right at something and not see it."

Lita looks like she sees a ghost.

Scene 8

Lita and Queen Ami walk in the royal chamber. Ami dismisses the servants.

"You wanted to speak to me before our wedding, Jedo?"

Lita bows deeply before Queen Ami. "I am sorry to have to inform you of this your Royal Highness, but I am a woman."

Queen Ami giggles.

Lita starts sweating.

"Makoto, I know that. I was adopted by our former king and queen. I come from the same town as your sensei. I knew your sensei before she became an outlaw girl."

Lita's eyes bug out.

"And, he'll make a great addition to the royal cooking staff. That way the two of you can stay close together."

Lita starts crying while smiling.

"Jedo, when you follow your heart, things have a way of working out."

Lita stands up and holds Queen Ami's hand. "I will be proud to be the husband of a ruler as wise as you."

Ami smiles and passionately kisses Lita on the lips. Lita's eyes bug out but Ami raises an index finger. "Come, come, we have to be able to do this in public."

Lita nods.

Ami pulls Lita towards a door. "Let me show you something about the former King and Queen, my adoptive parents."

Ami opens the door. There is a giant painting of the former King and Queen, still too far away to be clearly seen. Lita walks through the door. The painting comes into focus (the King and Queen are dead ringers for Haruka and Michiru, the human forms of Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune).

Scene 9

Lita doesn't see the painting because she is back in the Hino Shrine.

Washu looks carefully at the console. She then pulls out a calculator and plays with it. Then, she tosses a coin. Finally she makes a circle with her arms over her head. "Lita passes."

The scouts mob Lita. Sasami leans over to Washu. "What was that all about?"

Washu whispers in Sasami's ear. "Just building suspense."

Sasami laughs.

Ami and Mina give Lita a hug yelling "You did it!"

Lita looks confused and her heart beat becomes as loud as a drum.

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