No need for origin stories! Tenchi Muyo Super R Episode Nine

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Scene 1

Ayeka and Ryoko regain consciousness at about the same time. They are in Lita's apartment. Serina and Ami put wet towels on their heads.

Ryoko sits up with a start. "Tenchi," she whimpers.

Lita sits down next Ryoko. "According to Miss Washu, Tenchi and Rei are still alive, but their location is somehow being cloaked."

Ayeka tentatively sits up. "How long were we out?"

Ami helps steady Ayeka. "You two passed out from anxiety about three hours ago."

"But, Miss Ami, what happened?"

Lita clears her throat. "The details at this point are sketchy, but I will do my best to fill in the picture..."

The picture wobbles.

Scene 2

The outer edges of the picture are obscured by a frame.

The scouts surround Rei's hand bag, horrified.

Sasami runs up. "Please help, my sister and Miss Ryoko have fainted."

Lita and Ami run over to help Ryoko and Ayeka who sit back to back with "x's" for eyes.

Serina runs over to Kyonni and Mihoshi. "Any luck?"

Kyonni looks angry. "Tons of raw material, but it matches nothing we've ever seen."

Mina spots Washu behind a curtain. Washu has materialized a full console and is pushing buttons at a furious speed.

"Serina, it's you."

"Um, it's Mina."

"Oh yeah, that's right. My spy's in the sky have a fix on two people who ran with a purpose out of the building one minute ago. Shall we chase them?"

Mina nods. "Venus star power, make up!"

Washu pulls out a small hovering craft. "Hold on to the arms!"

Washu and Mina jump on the craft. It shoots out of the door at an alarming speed, with Washu and Mina holding on for dear life.

"How do you steer this thing?"

"I don't, it's getting it's directions from the spies and it's local sensors. Can't be helped if we want to catch these creeps."

Washu and Mina speed along the street, their bodies so blown back by the speed that their bodies are horizontal.

A arrow appears on the control panel for the hovercraft. "There they are, right ahead."

The craft slows to a stop and Mina and Washu continue on foot.

The two janitors rush down a subway entrance. They move very quickly. One of the janitors holds a suitcase.

Mina shouts in frustration. "They're scurrying like rats!"

One of the janitors turns the corner, but the other one inexplicably pulls up and admires it's reflection in the mirror and pushes it's checks in. "Squishy, squishy."

"Venus love-me chain!" Sailor Venus traps the janitor with her lariat of hearts.

"Fractal chaotic causality!" A beam of energy shoots from Washu's finger and hits the janitor in the head. The janitor explodes, then the pieces turn into cheese, then vanish.

Mina and Washu turn the corner, but the other Janitor and the suitcase are gone.

"You check in with your friends. I'm going to gather data."

Mina talks to the other scouts on her communicator. "... so, Washu thinks the trail is cold. I just had a ride on a hovercraft that thought it was a rocket, so I'm not doing so hot."

Lita appears on her communicator. "Go home and get some rest, we have some heavy duty regrouping to do."

"Okay." Mina turns off her communicator and turns around only to be sprayed in the face by an aerosol can held by Washu.

Washu pulls out her star dimensional door and adjusts it for the two of them. She puts it on the wall and walks through it, dragging Mina with her. Washu closes the dimensional door and the wall goes back to normal.

Scene 3

"So, Mina is probably on her way home now."

Ayeka and Ryoko nod.

Serina smiles. "Ayeka and Ryoko, you two must love Tenchi very much."

Ayeka and Ryoko blush and push their index fingers together.

"How did you two become Team Tenchi?"

Ryoko grabs Serina's hand. "I would love to tell you that story."

Ayeka looks cross. "I'm sure she would."

"I was once a space pirate. I know it sounds like a dishonorable profession, but I was really a pirate in name only. When I would board those freighter ships, all alone and lonely in the vastness of space, I was treated like a visiting idol, rather than someone who was there to rob them."

Ayeka rolls her eyes. "Oh, brother."

Ryoko waves her hand. "Did anyone press charges."

"They were too intimidated."

"Any ways, I would do Kareoke with the crew and pose for pictures, and they would shower me with gifts. All in all, I was more like a traveling entertainment show than a pirate. I was given the name 'Ryoko' by the hard working freighter operators because I reminded them of the demon space pirate Ryoko of Jurai."

Ayeka giggles. "She even had to steal her name from the royal family of Jurai."

"One day, I picked up a crew member, Professor Washu."

Serina gasps. "Washu was once a pirate?"

"Well, she was my mechanic and helped me entertain my fans. We were a happy team, until one day we kind of sort of overstepped our bounds."

Ayeka turns up her nose. "Committed an offense against the Jurai royal family."

"There were these ugly eyesores in space, these billboards that was displaying a message that was depressing many of the people that Washu-sensei and myself were working so hard to entertain. So, we kind of sort of messed with the billboards a little bit, to bring a smile to the face of the freighter operators."

Ayeka looks cross. "Those billboards were put up by me. At the time I was under consideration to become interim Queen of Jurai. The billboards where to help keep my name and face out there so that the judges would look at me with favor. It had a very positive message, 'The house of Jurai is everlasting.'"

Ryoko rolls her eyes. "That didn't seem to make many of the working class people who I entertained very happy so Washu and I changed the message."

Ayeka grinds her teeth. "Miss Washu hacked into the billboard's computer grid and reprogrammed the billboards to say that the house of Jurai is never lasting, and they drew a mustache on my face. Needless to say I was not the first pick. I vowed revenge on the people who sabotaged my candidacy.

Ryoko nods. "And, she wasn't kidding around. She used her royal privilege to boss around two Galaxy Police detectives, Mihoshi and Kyonni and used them to come after me. They chased us through the galaxy until Washu and I finally crash landed here on earth."

"We had them dead to rights, but somehow, just before we could capture them, they claimed religious sanctuary at the Masaki Shrine. My sister Sasami and I tried to reason with the Shrine Master but when we did we discovered that the Shrine Master was the long lost heir to the Jurai throne, my half brother, living as a human. It was quite a shock."

Ryoko's eye's become hearts. "The Shrine Master's grandson, Tenchi, was so nice to Washu and I that I fell in love with him long before I found out that he could claim the throne of Jurai when he turns 30."

Ayeka rolls her eyes. "Katsohito, the Shrine Master, allowed all of us to stay to protect Tenchi. It wasn't easy, and there were many personality conflicts that had to be worked out, but somehow we all wound up on the same page."

Ryoko nods. "There were many terrible battles that Team Tenchi had to fight to protect him. In those battles we learned to depend on each other to fight for a common goal."

Serina cries. "That's such a touching story. But, Miss Ayeka, is there any chance that you could still become interim Queen of Jurai?"

Ayeka casts her head down. "No, somehow, against all odds and expectations, my total ditz of a third cousin Tsunami found a Queen's Champion who was able to balance the scales of Gemini."

Sasami, in the kitchen, cringes.

Serina looks puzzled. "Queen's Champion?"

Ayeka nods. "A mighty warrior who uses Jurai magic to fight evil and bring love to the warrior's home world. I don't know who it was, but I would like to wring his neck!" Ayeka's eyes start glowing.

Ryoko rolls her eyes. "Here we go again."

"This was a travesty. The house of Jurai is now a laughing stock. The champion should have thrown the contest for the sake of the Jurai kingdom." Ayeka starts crying.

Ryoko comforts Ayeka. "Come now, when Tenchi turns 30, you'll have a chance to become Queen of Jurai, if Tenchi picks you as a bride."

Ayeka composes herself. "That's true."

"That's a real big if while I around, though. Ryoko sticks her tongue out."

Ayeka sticks her tongue out at Ryoko. "I know, but don't count me out either."

Ryoko turns up her nose. "As if!"

Ayeka turns up her nose. "As if!"

Ami sighs. "Where have I seen this before?"

Lita sighs in agreement.

Sasami giggles.

Ryoko and Ayeka turn to Sasami in the kitchen. "What's so funny?"

Sasami winks. "When Tenchi turns 30, I will be 21."

Ryoko and Ayeka stretch their necks all the way into the kitchen to get in Sasami's face. "So?"

Sasami stands her ground. She puts an index finger to her cheek. "So, that means that I will be an eligible bachelorette, and Tenchi already likes my cooking, and I'm cute. So, don't rule me out either."

Ayeka and Ryoko snap their necks back to the other room. They roll their eyes and sigh.

Scene 4

Rei and Tenchi wake up. They are naked, but shot to not reveal any naughty bits. They are in a giant glass jar. Actually a regular sized glass jar, but it seems gigantic to Rei and Tenchi because they have been shrunk down to an inch.

"Rei?"

"Tenchi?"

Both Rei and Tenchi avert their gazes. They crawl towards each other and sit back to back.

"Miss Rei, where are we?"

"No idea, but I'm sensing the presence of the Negaverse."

"Can you transform?"

"No, I don't have my transformation pen. That would certainly help if I could. This is creepy."

"I know."

"Not that I look bad without clothes, but I much prefer to maintain an air of mystery..." Rei looks down. "Oh, forget about it."

"Okay."

"Tenchi, do you have any cool powers?"

Tenchi puts his hand to his head, embarrassed. "I can transform into a more powerful form, but something is blocking my power."

"Does this form have clothes?"

"Yeah, they kind of look cool, I guess."

Rei sighs.

Gloomrat walks by, larger than the glass jar. She looks at Rei and Tenchi. "Some bad news for you. You foolish humans managed to kill my beloved sister. I'm going to drain every last ounce of your energy and make you two die slowly."

Gloomrat walks away.

"A giant talking rat?"

Rei looks up. "Tenchi, this is an ordinary fruit jar. I can even see an expiration date."

Tenchi gasps.

"I think we've been shrunk, Tenchi."

Scene 5

Mina is suspended in mid air by two clamps that look a little bit like pool flotation devices. She is naked other than the clamps which cover her naughty bits.

Washu appears, back lit, so her features are obscured by shadow. She laughs a demonic laugh.

End Credits over (Up Walk the Galaxy)