Who's Cuisine Reigns Supreme?

Scene 1

Doomrat admires herself in her reflection in the sewer water.

Gloomrat runs up. "Sister, I have our new target!"

"Who do you think is better looking? Me, or Zoerat?"

A giant sweat drop appears besides Doomrat head. "Shouldn't it be obvious? Even I'm better looking than her and you're much better looking for me."

"Hummmm. You always know what to say."

"And, with the energy from this new target, we'll both be even prettier!"

"Do tell." Doomrat continues to admire herself in the mirror pushing in her cheeks with her fingers.

"The foolish humans spend an tremendous amount of energy on cooking contests."

"I know, I saw the commercial earlier in the show."

Gloomrat turns into stone for a couple seconds. A tumble weed blows by. "I'm not sure we're supposed to mention that."

"Oh well. Continue."

"There is a cooking contest three blocks from our stronghold tomorrow. This will be the ideal time to steal energy and test our weapon."

Doomrat smiles. "I am looking forward to seeing how well our new toy works."

Gloomrat smiles.

Doomrat goes back to pushing in her cheeks. "Squishy, squishy."

Gloomrat bows her head in exasperation.

Scene 2

The Scouts and Rini sit with Rei in the fire ceremony room. Rei looks somber.

"How bad is it Rei?" Ami looks concerned.

"Yeah, you looked way worried on the communicator."

"I am worried, Lita. And, it is bad, Ami."

"Well, how bad is it?"

"Bad enough to uncurl your ribbon, Mina. Our new enemy is going to be coming after us. The fire ceremony shows many of us are going to be directly affected."

"Affected as in killed?"

"Serina, the future is ours to shape, so it is not certain that any of us will die. However, the danger level is very, very high."

"What about the Ferris Chef Regional Challenge competition tomorrow?"

Rei puts on a poker face. "Lita, we cannot allow this prophecy to ruin our lives. Besides, it's only a couple of blocks from Tenchi's apartment and Sasami is also competing. We should all go, just in case the enemy, whoever it is, shows up."

"Right." The rest of the girls say in unison.

Rei then smiles. "Besides, since one of the promoters comes to this shrine on a regular basis, he's allowing Tenchi and myself to be on the panel of 15 judges."

Serina's jaw drops. "Unbelievable."

"But can you and Tenchi be objective? You're used to my cooking and Tenchi is used to Sasami's cooking."

Rei waves her hand in front of her face. "If so, we'll cancel each other out. Besides, there will be thirteen other judges so I'm sure the winner of the contest will be the one who does more than just impress me and Tenchi."

Lita nods her head. "And, the winner is going to be me."

Scene 3

At night, Sasami and Ryo-oki sit on the roof top of Masaki house hold.

"Are going to win tomorrow, Sasami-chan?"

"I don't care about winning. I don't care even about competing."

"Sasami, you're Queen Tsunami's champion. You helped her become Queen. How can you not care about competing?"

"I only want to compete for one goal."

"Queen of Jurai?"

Sasami giggles. "That would be nice, but that would also be a lot of responsibility. I would be happy if I just got to marry Tenchi, even if he never became King of Jurai. Even if he was just a Shrine Master."

"Sasami, don't you think there's a little bit of competition for this job? From girls who are a little bit more mature and ... womanly than you?"

Sasami looks down her shirt, then sighs. "Well, no one in my home room has a shape yet."

"That because you're going into fifth grade."

Sasami gazes up at the stars. "Yeah, but I've heard that girls start getting figures as early as seventh grade. So, just two more years to go and I will be able to compete."

Ryo-oki falls back and gazes at the stars. "To be the ruler of everything up there. To have unimaginable riches and power. And, to think it all comes down to bra size."

Sasami giggles. "And, cooking! The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."

"And, you do have the 'pretty' part down."

Sasami playfully pokes Ryo-oki in the side. "Shhhh. That's a secret"

Scene 4

Ami holds a stop watch. "Really Lita, wouldn't sleep would be better?"

Lita stands in front of a cutting board. She wears an apron and holds two large cutting knives. "One more time."

"Okay. Three, two, one, go!"

Lita uses both knives at once to slice and dice some vegetables. Then Lita pulls her knives back.

"Six point three seconds."

Lita breaths a sigh of relief. "Every second counts in this competition. And, people with flashy presentations get noticed as well."

"Well, I'm just glad that you feel confident now."

"I'm only trying to emulate you Ami. I know how hard you study, and I've seen the results of you winning mock exam after mock exam."

"I'm not really sure that this is the same thing."

"Well, to me it is. I am forever in your debt for helping me drill tonight. I apologize for keeping you up until two in the morning."

"It's okay, Lita. I'm just glad I was able to help you get ready. Besides, you've been teaching me how to fight. But, my mother will be back home in an hour so I had better get back so I won't worry her."

"I'll walk you home. There are lots of perverts in this neighborhood."

Scene 5

Lita and Ami walk down a dark sidewalk.

"Hey, what are two lovely girls like you doing up at this hour?" Two shadowy men appear before Lita and Ami. "There two of us and two of you. Let's have some fun!"

Lita and Ami look at each other and nod. Lita smiles. "If you want some fun, come a little closer."

The two men come close to Ami and Lita. Ami and Lita attack in unison with flurries of kicks, throws. One of the men is knocked down. Lita grabs the other guy in a bear hug trapping his arms.

"Hey, calm down, your breasts feel nice, no need for vio..." The man's pleas silence when Ami gives him a running jumping clothes line and both Lita and Ami slam the man to the sidewalk.

The other man gets on his knees. "Don't kill us. We have wives and family."

Ami and Lita crack their knuckles in a menacing fashion.

Lita points her finger at the man. "Hanging out on a street corner at two thirty in the morning, trying to pick up junior high school girls, when you have families?"

The man bows his head in shame.

"Take your friend and leave. If we find that you are doing this again, we'll not only show you what pain is, we'll also make sure that your families, the newspapers, and your mothers know of your 'hobby'."

The man grabs his unconscious friend and runs away.

Ami looks at Lita. "Did we do the right thing? Using our combat training on those two perverts?"

Lita smiles. "It's okay. We didn't transform, so we only did what two ordinary girls with martial arts backgrounds would have done. I think we protected our secret identities okay."

Ami smiles. "We have enough problems fighting monsters without them knowing who we really are."

Scene 6

Two female janitors push brooms in large ballroom, made up with rows of kitchens. One of the Janitors pushes her cheeks in. "Squishy, squishy."

Commercial Break.

Scene 7

The Ballroom was rocking with the loud cheers of the supporters of the assembled aspiring chefs. Lita and Sasami have kitchen rows next to each other. Tenchi and Rei sit on a platform at the front of the ballroom along with the other judges. There are stands on the sides of the ballroom where the supporters, including the scouts and the Tenchi girls sit.

A flamboyantly dressed man takes the microphone on the platform. "Today we have come to try to achieve the highest level of competition..."

In the back, the two lady janitors watch from the curtains. One of the lady janitors pushes her checks in. "Squishy, squishy."

"Wondering were I hid the guardian?"

"I prefer to be surprised. You always know the right thing to do."

The other Janitor smiles.

"And so today our theme ingredient is carrots!" The flamboyant host pulls a cover off of a large table filled with carrots.

"Meow!"

Ryoko grabs Ryo-oki before she can rush the stage. "Hey don't ruin the competition."

"Do your best Sasami."

"Thanks, Lita. You do your best as well."

The host picks up a hammer to bang the gong behind him. "Let's go!"

The host hits the gong with the hammer but no sound emerges. The Host looks puzzled. The gong then starts emitting a non-gong like sound.

The gong changes into a monster. "Let's get loud!!" The monster emits a loud racket. Everyone starts holding their ears and running around.

Ayeka grabs Ryoko and drags her behind the curtain behind the stands. "You first." Ayeka wills a force field around her and Ryoko.

Ryoko transforms into her battle form. She wills her own force field. "Your turn."

Ayeka changes into her power form. "Let's do this."

Ayeka and Ryoko jump out behind the curtain.

"LOUDDDDDDDDDD."

Ayeka and Ryoko roll their eyes. Ayeka looks disapointed. "No battle boast today."

Ryoko holds up her hand to collect energy. "Energy ball..."

Ayeka holds two fingers. "Holy flame..."

Ayeka and Ryoko attack in unison. "Attack!"

The Guardian explodes in a shower of debris and smoke.

The lady janitors finish making their way to the judges' stand. Tenchi is protecting Rei from falling debris.

"We'll do the judging today." The lady janitors hold up a crystal. The crystal shoots beams at five of the judges. They shrink down to about one inch tall. The janitors gather them in glass jars and vanish back into the smoke.

The smoke clears. The sailor scouts and the Tenchi girls rush over to the judges' stand. They search the stand and the rest of the ballroom to no avail.

Ayeka and Ryoko look at each other in shock. Sasami starts crying and is comforted by Washu and Ryo-oki. Kyonni and Mihoshi continue looking for clues, using advanced sensor instruments.

Lita pulls out her communicator. "I'll see if I can get Rei's communicator to ring."

It rings from a purse lying on the ground about ten feet from where Rei was sitting, possibly kicked by the confused crowd.

Ami, Lita, Serina, and Mina gather around the purse in horror, realizing that the prophecy of the fire ceremony has come true.

End Credits over (Lonely Moon)