Chapter Four: Mihoshi's Folly

"WHAAAAAAT?!" Ayeka yelled. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" She had begun to go as purple as her hair.

"I erm.. Said ..err .. I wanted to watch my cartoons?" Mihoshi repeated hesitantly.

"YOU? Watch cartoons? When Lady Sora is coming out of her coma? That is simply out of the question, Mihoshi!" Ayeka informed. "'White Snowball' is just getting juicy and you want me to change the channel to cartoons? The nerve of it!"

Mihoshi bend her head down in shame.

"Sorry." She said.

Mihoshi was a ditzy Galaxy Police officer who had crash landed on Earth some many months previous. She was a stereotypical ditzy blonde. She always listened and did as she was told, even if she had no idea how. She was always messing things up.

"Ayeka, are you bullying Mihoshi again?" Sasami queried from the kitchen door.

"Why of course not, Sasami, I was simply informing her of my control over the television at this precise moment in time." Ayeka replied to her younger sister.

"Well, I was wondering if you would go get Washu. Dinner is almost done." Then Sasami went back into the kitchen.

"Mihoshi, be a dear and go get Washu for me. Thank you." Ayeka said lazily.

"But I thought Sasami told you to..."

"Yes, but I am a Princess, I do not do servant jobs, now, would you kindly do as I have asked?" Ayeka informed angrily.

Mihoshi sighed. She headed for the door to Washu's lab.

The arched door opened to reveal a deep black void. Mihoshi stepped into it. She immediately appeared on the other side, in a room, if you could call it a room. It was never-ending. There were no walls in sight. Just experiments. At first glimpse, the lab looked like a foyer, with a couple of neatly arranged plants and a large water tank behind a tidy railing. Washu was no where in sight.

"Washu?" Mihoshi called, as her voice echoed around the lab.

A large sound and a sudden flash of red light came from an emergency siren above Mihoshi.

"Warning! Warning!"

"Oh my gosh!" Mihoshi began to get scared.

Another inter-dimensional arched doorway appeared and Washu hurried out of it.

"Stay where you are Mihoshi!" She shouted, "Do not touch anything!" She ran over. "What do you want Mihoshi? I am very busy..."

"Erm... Sasami told Ayeka, who told me who was not asked by Sasami to tell you that dinner is almost ready because Ayeka doesn't want to do servant jobs and she won't let me watch 'space police policemen' because she's watching a soap and..."

"Mihoshi, what's your point?" Washu shouted impatiently as Mihoshi's eyes filled with frustrated tears.

"Erm.. Sasami said that dinner is erm.. Almost done, I think?"

"Right. I'll be up in a minute. Now would you please leave, and don't touch anything on your way out!"

As Mihoshi left, Washu sighed with relief. At least her alarm worked. Now she could stop Mihoshi before she destroys her lab again.

She smiled absently at her own sheer genius.

Her stomach growled with hunger.

"Oh well." She laughed aloud, "I guess that I'll be going up now then!"

She headed out of her lab through the inter-dimensional doorway.