Disclaimer: Well as you guessed we don't own any of the characters used in this story they are owned by AIC and Pioneer and if it wasn't for them we wouldn't be able to write this fanfic. We do own two characters, Kyoko and Ryo plus the race known as the Scryia as well. They are our own; well please don't sue us as we are broke; with that said lets get this story rolling yet again

Empires at War

Chapter 2 the pirates revealed!!!

The Tenchi gang come running around the corner to see Sasami running in terror into the house and two men doing battle with a large number of lizard creatures that definitely were not from earth. When Tenchi saw what was happening he shouted.

"Ayeka, Mihoshi and Kiyone help those two and Ryoko teleport me and Washu into the house." Ryoko grabs a hold of Tenchi and Washu while the others moved to assist the strangers.

Meanwhile inside the house Sasami is starting to panic wondering what she should do when she hears Tenchi shouting from upstairs. Ryoko had teleported them into Tenchi's room. After hearing his voice she runs upstairs to see Ryoko, Tenchi and Washu coming out of Tenchi's room. She then shouts in a panic

"Tenchi, Ryoko and Washu am I glad to see you, I was really scared that one of those lizards might get me." She runs right up the stairs and into Tenchi's arms. Tenchi looks down at Sasami knowing she is scared and he smiles

"It's okay Sasami we here now and none of those lizards will get you." Replies Tenchi calmly trying to reassure Sasami that nothing will happen to her.

Ryoko then adds "Don't worry Sasami I'll crush any lizard that tries to get you." Ryoko gives Sasami a reassuring smile and Washu walks over and rests her hand on Sasami's shoulder.

"Sasami come with me to the lab we'll be safe there and we can watch the battle from there and cheer Tenchi on from there in safety." Washu smiles and Sasami looks up at her and replies.

"Okay Washu I'll come with you. We should be safe in your lab." Answered Sasami with a concerned look on her face. She then looked over at Ryoko and Tenchi and said with a concerned tone in her voice. "Good luck and please be careful out there."

Tenchi walks over and holds on to Ryoko's arm. They both give Sasami a reassuring smile and they disappear. Washu takes Sasami down the stairs and into the lab were Sasami sits down in a chair and Washu brings up a screen showing Tenchi and the others out side.

"See now we can see how they are doing." Washu smiles and sits down beside Sasami putting her arm around her they begin to watch the vid screen.

As Tenchi and Ryoko appeared outside they noticed that most of the lizard like creatures had been slain, but there were more ships over head, dropping more troops onto the battlefield.

"Ryoko where are the others? I can't see them" Asked Tenchi as he looked around for the others but couldn't see all he could see however where explosions and weapons fire. Just as Ryoko was about to answer, Tenchi noticed Kiyone and Mihoshi fighting along side one of the strangers with Mihoshi chatting away as she shoots.

"We are the galaxy police this is a protected planet you're making Kiyone very angry." Mihoshi fires her blaster pistol again just Kiyone starts yelling at her.

"Mihoshi shut up and keep shooting we need to give the guy in the black armour cover fire." Yells Kiyone as she blasts the head clean off one of the reptiles and watches as the blood goes everywhere.

"Come on Tenchi we need to help them." Yells Ryoko, but before they could reach them four other reptiles attacked them. "You want some trouble well come on." Shouts Ryoko as she energizes her sword and cuts the stomach open of one of the lizard creatures while breaking the neck of another, Tenchi on the other hand defeats the other two by cutting both of their heads off and watches as the blood drips all over him.

"God this is gross can we stop?" Moans Tenchi as he looks at the blood stains all over him. "I am not used to this." He gets poked by Ryoko and he turns to look at her again.

"Well it's going to be over soon look." Ryoko points to the stranger with Kiyone and Mihoshi as he takes aim with a large gun he aims it at the approaching ships and fires. One of the ships blows up and the pieces get scattered around the area. Ryoko and Tenchi take out a few more of the invaders and they then look over to the other stranger who seems to be enjoying the battle a little too much.

"It is time for you to die." Laughs the stranger viciously as he rams his sword through a lizard's throat and out the back of his head. The lizard's body twitches as it hangs there on the end of the sword with blood dripping onto the ground. The black armoured stranger then pulls the sword free from the wound with blood spraying out all over him.

"Man that is gross! He is enjoying this too much." Yelled Tenchi as he sent one of the lizards crashing into the end of Ryoko's of energy blade.

"If he gets the job done we shouldn't complain Tenchi. Just keep fighting." Ryoko lifts her hands and small evil grin begins to show on her face. She let's out another energy blast which, sends six more enemies crashing into the dirt.

The other stranger is meanwhile busy, taking aim at the last ship which is busy taking evasive actions to throw of his aim with the big cannon now resting on his shoulders. But the man was more then capable of tracking the ships movement but just as he fired the cannon two giant shapes jumped out of the ship and landed on the ground causing a large hole were their big clawed feet had struck the ground. As they got up from a crouched position, they unfolded their giant wings and stood in an upright position to reveal giant muscle bound lizard bodies with large dragon like heads and long thick tails. One of the dragons was larger and meaner looking than the other one was and had a claw growing out of his tail. Both stretch and scan the battlefield with their cold eyes as bits and pieces of the destroyed ship are falling around them making large holes in they ground where they hit.

"Whoa those guys are big." Yelled Ryo as he looked towards Kiyone and Mihoshi.

"Your not kidding we should back off a bit and get us some distance away from them." Replies Kiyone as she looked back at him.

"Your right on that." Ryo nods in agreement and he signals Kiyone and Mihoshi to back off and retreat. Ryo, Mihoshi and Kiyone began to retreat but they continued to fire on the enemy while Mihoshi kept screaming.

"THEY ARE DRAGONS I AM SO SCARED SOMEONE HELP ME." She continues to scream as the three of them continue to retreat trying to put as much distance between them and their big foes as possible.

"Well I am going to try something so stay back." Ryo runs forward as he energizes his own home made sword and charges at both of the dragons, although he is fast they are faster, both dragons dodge his charge and they both grab him by each arm and throw him into Mihoshi and Kiyone knocking the three of them all out.

One of the dragons walks over to Ryo his large footsteps make the earth shake every time he steps forward; it then picks Ryo up and whispers into his ear in a cold heartless tone.

"Well done mammal I commend you for your bravery but now it's time I end your pitiful life." He throws him into the wall and starts to bury his big fist into Ryo's chest blow after bone shattering blow.

"AHHHHHH." Ryo screams in pain as the fist keeps slamming him in the chest putting cracks in his armour. The fist continues to slam into his chest. The armour piece breaks revealing Ryo's now badly bruised chest.

"HA warm blood you are lasting longer than I expected but why aren't your friends helping you?" Laughs the dragon as its fist continues to pound into Ryo's chest the pain flowing through his body right now is monstrous.

"You guys we got to help him." Yells Tenchi as he watches the beating that is taken place in front of him. "If we don't he will die we can't let that happen." Tenchi is about to charge into battle but Ryoko puts out her arm to stop him.

"I have fought many things Tenchi." Ryoko spoke with a scared tone in her voice. "But we can't fight that on our own." She sighs as she looks away from the dragon that is currently beating on Ryo.

"Yes mammal you can't fight us." Laughs the other dragon as grabs Ryo's face snarling at him while his friend continues to beat on him.

"We will crush you!" Roars the dragon as Ryo's body seems motionless everyone watches in horror as Ryo begins to cough up blood due to force of the dragon's blows.

"OK THAT DOES IT!" Yells the other man in the black armour with a cold tone in his voice getting up from taken out more of the enemy lizard like units. "I have had enough of this!" Suddenly he teleports right behind the dragon that is attacking Ryo. Grabbing it by the neck and throwing it to the ground. "NOW fight me instead you piece of reptilian filth!! And leave him alone!" Kyoko stands above the dragon while the dragon looks up at him from the ground snarling as it crawls back and gets back to its feet rubbing its scaly chin. Kyoko turns to look at his friend who with the last of his strength is muttering something.

"No... Kyoko please don't, he is too strong you can't beat him get back get away run." Ryo lifts his hand in a desperate plea to make his friend see reason but he can't stay awake anymore and his hand drops to the ground he is now out cold.

"Now you lot and me right here right now. No one gets away with hurting my friend and I mean no one. The cold heartless eyes narrow as he focuses on his enemy ready to attack.

Tenchi and Ryoko and the lizards they were fighting stand still frozen in fear and in amazement as the stranger in the black armour decides to fight the dragon's one on one.

"What do you think you are doing you idiot!!" Yells Ryoko nearly growling at him she has gotten softer since she had been free all those years ago. "You can't fight that on your own you're not strong enough you will be killed!" Yells Ryoko again as she watches him standing there his two opponents not that far from where he is standing.

"That is in your opinion." Replied the stranger in the black armour in a cold heartless tone while keeping an eye on the dragons. "Get him into the house now." Yells the stranger as both dragons charge and slam him into a wall. The dragons watch as his armour sends cracks through the wall and watch as he drops to his knees. The smaller one of the two walks over and picks him up by the throat. He pulls him in close and turns to his bigger friend.

"We fight this guy one on one he has a strong fighting spirit I'll handle him first and if I fail you can take over." The dragon spoke in a loud thunderous tone as it threw the stranger back to the ground.

"Ok I am next then." Replies the other dragon as he sits down to watch. Ryoko then teleports and grabs everyone who was injured in the battle and takes them to the house, Tenchi slowly back tracks to the house as the other lizards begin to stock him they are about to pounce when they are told to stop.

"We will kill them after you are no longer needed." The dragon gets up and opens his mouth, all of a sudden a burst of flame flies out of his mouth carefully killing every lizard like creature there he left Tenchi standing.

"You will get your turn so go into your home and wait for your death." The dragon turns back around and stares at his friend now ignoring Tenchi.

Tenchi quickly runs back into the house not bothering with his shoes. He runs across the living room and leaps over the furniture. He quickly flings open the door to Washu's lab he runs in almost out of breath and he sees them strapping the pirate down onto a life support machine.

"Well Washu how is he is he going to be ok?" Asked Tenchi as he rested his hands on his knees taking in deep breaths as quickly as possible.

"He is alive but barely those creatures really beat it out of him I hope he pulls through." Replies Washu as she looks down at the pirate with a sad look on her face.

"Well I am more worried about the other guy, he is fighting them two on his own I don't think he knows what he is in for." Sighs Ryoko as her mind wanders to the stranger outside who could be losing for all she knows.

"I am with Ryoko he just killed the rest of those troops without even a second thought they are monsters killing there own kind its horrible.

"Well let's take a look and see how he is fairing." Suggested Washu. Washu then brings up her little computer and inputs something into it, and the big screen that she and Sasami where watching appears in front of them showing the battle going on outside. "It looks like it has started and it seems like the stranger has the advantage right now." Washu points to the screen and everyone turns to watch it. It shows the stranger looking down on the dragon like fighter. Who had fallen from a punch to the face. They continue to watch to see what will happen. They can hear the stranger yelling as they watch he isn't happy but then again his friend was hurt he has every reason to be angry.

"Now you freak what do you want me to turn you into huh? How about a handbag? Boots perhaps or may something worse?!" Screams the stranger as he picks the dragon up off the ground using one arm and throwing him up against the wall. "This is for Ryo you creep." The pirate begins to bury his own fist into the dragon's stomach and now the dragon is the one beginning to cough up blood just like Ryo was a short while ago. "SO HOW DOES IT FEEL YOU PIECE OF CRAP?!!" Yells the stranger as he continues to pound the life out of the dragon like creature.

"Well mammal you're good no one has hurt me this much before. But then again we don't use armour as we don't need it!" As the dragon roared out those words he had thrown the stranger and sent him crashing through the wall of Tenchi's house. Tenchi and the others watched in amazement as the screen moved to the stranger as the stranger gets back up and attacks the dragon again throwing the dragon yet again to the ground then picking it up.

"NOW IT'S TIME I END YOUR MISREABLE EXCUSE FOR A LIFE!" The stranger who now is holding the dragon by the throat begins to crush the dragon's windpipe this dragon is obviously weaker than he looks. As the dragon continues coughing up blood everyone in the lab hears a mighty CRACK over the vid screen. The dragon's neck snaps like a twig and falls to the ground, but the stranger isn't done yet, and in pure anger he sticks his two own hands into the dragon's mouth and begins to pull them apart as the blood begins to drip everywhere the stranger looks over to the other dragon who is waiting patiently the strangers roars in a cold heartless tone. "YOUR NEXT YOU FREAK!!" The dragon who is now dead from blood lose then gets its upper jaw including its head ripped clean in two, the stranger then drops the dragons body including what is left of the head and begins to walk towards the other dragon with blood dripping from his hands; while growling a low animalistic growl as if he has gone over the edge and lost all sense of reason. The last dragon stands up from his sitting position and takes a combat stance to prepare for the battle that awaits it.

Meanwhile in Washu's lab everyone except Sasami is watching the vid screen with a shocked look on their faces. They watch as this other pirate is just as ruthless and cold hearted as the dragons.

"How is the stranger doing Washu?" Asked Sasami from the other side of the room were she is taking care of the badly injured pirate resting a cold cloth on his head and keeping a close eye on him.

"He's doing fine Sasami." Answered Ayeka quickly before anyone could blurt anything out. She then turned to Mihoshi and whispers to her.

"You will not mention any of this to her and if you do I will kill you." Ayeka knows that someone would tell Sasami exactly how bloody the battle is and Ayeka does not want her to find out. Then Ryoko speaks out loud without meaning too.

"And I though I was a killer; he is just brutal as me." Ayeka turns sharply looking at Ryoko with a finger over her lips.

"Be quiet do you want Sasami to know about this." Ayeka gives Ryoko one of those nasty looking looks, Ryoko quickly shuts up and looks away. But thankfully Sasami hadn't heard the last statement made by Ryoko. Meanwhile Tenchi, Washu and Kiyone are just standing there watching in shock at how brutal the stranger is in dealing with the remaining dragon not knowing either to be happy or disgusted.

"I hope that guy remains on our side. What happens if he turns on us next?" Asked Ayeka as she continues to watch the screen.

"Well if it happens we will have to deal with him I guess, but let's hope it doesn't come to that." Ryoko continues to watch the screen as the stranger now begins to walk around in circles his cold heartless looking eyes are transfixed on his enemy.

Back outside the stranger is circling the second larger dragon with a look in his eye saying that his enemy will not be leaving here alive. The dragon whom for now is just standing there calmly staring into the strangers cold black eyes as if he was just a bug to be stood on and squashed.

"Are you ready to die Lizard?" Asked the stranger with a snarl as he continued to circle him eyes still transfixed on his foe.

"Don't get cocky worm, you may have defeated Sa'Puk but you will have a harder time beating me for I am a veteran guard of the 6th Legion, the one you have defeat was only a raw recruit of the 7th legion here to prove that he was worthy of joining the 6th legion." Answered the dragon talking in a proud and lawful tone. Trying to make this fight of his justified.

"I don't give a crap which legion you are from I am still going to kick your ass back to whatever pit you were spawned in!!" Shouts the stranger as he attacks the dragon lashing out with a punch that connects to the left side of the dragons face and sends him crashing through the other wall of the house sending pieces of rubble every where. The dragon quickly gets to its feet again and rubs its jaw.

"Ah you got me good that time warm blood I now see you are a worthy opponent, but I am going to CRUSH YOU LIKE THE BUG YOU ARE!!" The dragon charges at the stranger throwing him through a tree. The stranger crashes through the tree and hits the ground hard. The dragon quickly gets on top of him and starts to beat on him with his hammer like claws.

"AHHHH." The stranger starts to scream in pain as the dragon's fist begin to smash into his ribs the dragon continues to punch him hitting all the injured body parts jus to inflict more pain.

"HAHAHA mammal, are you going to surrender or are you going to keep resisting me? I am going to be the last thing you ever see." Roars the dragon as the dragon kicks him along the ground and into another tree.

"Your the last thing I am going ever see don't make me laugh." The stranger struggles to stand but he manages to stagger to his feet using the fallen tree as support. "I AM GOING TO BE THE LAST THING YOU EVER SEE YOU REPITLAIN PIECE OF SHIT!!" The stranger rushes into attack again throwing punches left, right and centre. The dragon begins to stumble backwards as it tries to recover from the punches being dished out, but as the stranger was starting to win the dragon quickly threw one punch hitting the pirate in the face which sent him crashing to the ground. The pirate hits the ground hard again and this time he did not look like he was getting back up.

On the Vid screen in Washu's lab everyone was looking very worried as they now see the dragon was hiding his true strength; they looked over at the stranger on the screen and noticed his body had stopped moving.

"Is he dead?" Asked Ayeka as she watched on in shock hoping the fallen stranger will get up again.

"I don't know Ayeka but if he is I think we will be next." Replied Tenchi as he looked away from the screen hoping that he and his friends aren't next.

"Guys look the dragon is lifting him up now he's done for if he isn't dead already." Points out Ryoko as she makes everyone turn around and tells them to look at the screen. They continue to watch the vid screen in horror as the dragon starts to throw the stranger around like a rag doll. The pirate's body bounces off the ground and lands again face down in the dirt.

"Ha you aren't awake are you warm blood?" The dragon stares at him with his predator like eyes as he lifts the pirate with in a few inches of his teeth filled mouth.

"...umm yeah I am still awake you creep why? Did you miss me?" Stutters the stranger.

"Don't be smart mammal take one last look at this face as it is going to be the last one you see before you die." The dragon growls in laughter. The stench of death can be felt as the dragon's breath can be felt and smelt on the strangers face.

"Well your breath stinks and how can you kill me when you can't see me?" Laughs the stranger as stares at him with his eyes barely opened.

"What do you mean?" Replied the dragon. Little did the dragon know that the stranger and a ball of energy in his hand which he charged when he woke up.

"I mean you are now blind!" The stranger threw his energy blast at the dragon's eyes, blinding him. The dragon drops the stranger and roars in pain as it lifts its claws over its eyes.

"AAAAAAAAH my eyes you piece of crap I swear once I get you, your dead you little worm." Bellowed the mighty dragon as he roared in pain still holding its eyes in pain.

"Well now if I had that scream to nurse me to sleep at night I'll never have a sleepless night again." Laughs the stranger as he clutches his wounds as he staggers to his feet. The dragon then took a deep breath and started to bellow out fire, trying to hit the stranger but because he has no sight he is firing it blindly. The stranger looks around as the fire misses him; he stands there only side stepping every few seconds to dodge a stray blast of fire. The stranger gets a sudden burst of energy which he uses to leap at the dragon.

"Ha you couldn't hit crap." Said the stranger as he started to smack the dragon in the face with his fists. "Now you reptilian filth I think it's time you took a dirt nap."

"NO WAY NOT YET." The dragon swings his large reptilian tail and the sharp blade which is at the tip of the tail goes clean through the strangers armour and through his stomach. The stranger looks down at the wound and screams.

"ARGH!!!" He screams in pain as the dragon moves the blade about while it is still embedded in the pirate's stomach.

"Ah warm blood not so happy now are you, now you are going to burn." As the dragon opened his mouth the stranger threw and energy lance which struck the back of the dragon's throat. "Argh..." The dragon stumbles back giving the stranger enough time to energize his sword and cut off the dragon's tail. "AAAAAAAAHHHHH." The dragon recoils in pain as his tail gets cut off. The stranger then pulls out the bladed tail that was stuck in his stomach.

"Argh, about time I got that thing out. Not a lot of energy left got to beat it soon." He holds the tail in his hand and stumbles closer to the dragon. "Now you piece of crap your going down definitely now." He takes the blade from the dragon's tail and drives into the dragon's skull watching the blood and brains gush out. "NOW DIE!!" The stranger then energizes both of his swords and using up the more of his power he slits the dragon's throat. The pirate watches as the dragon stumbles backwards the bladed tail embedded in his skull and the blood flowing from its neck as the dragon chokes on his own blood. The stranger, who is still struggling to stand up due to the injuries and the lack of energy, walks over and picks the dragons body, He walks over to the other body and picks it up also; he then starts to take both of the dragon's bodies closer to the house to prove that they have been defeated and that there is now nothing to worry about.

Tenchi and the others see him coming to the house with two bodies being pulled behind him. The blood dripping off his black armour as he continues to walk closer to the house as the Tenchi group barring Sasami run out to meet him.

"There, they are beat is everyone ok?" He drops the bodies on the ground and looks at them all through his slightly open eyes his battle helmet only showing their heat signatures he doesn't know what they look like nor does he care right now.

"We are ok thank you kind sir." Replies Ayeka. She looks at him with a smile on her face but all of a sudden the stranger collapses on the ground.

"Washu we need another life support machine." Yells Tenchi. He quickly runs into the lab and tells Washu about the stranger collapsing outside an expression of desperation is written across Tenchi Masaki's face this definitely is not a good day, and could things possibly get any weirder he hopes not

"Good thing I have another one of those machines. Tenchi quickly get him in here so I can check out hi injuries. Tenchi nods and runs back outside the house again. Tenchi helps the others to lift the stranger and they get him into the lab Washu straps him down into the machine and she turns it one.

"Well Washu well he pull through?" Asked Tenchi as he stared down at the battered pirate's body.

"It's too early to say Tenchi all we can do is hope he does pull through for all we know; if it wasn't for him and his friend we could all be dead." Washu continues to observe his condition while Tenchi turns to the others.

"Well we have to hope they both recover it looks like the party is off until they get better." Sighs an upset Sasami as she puts a cloth on the other pirates head and gets up to look at the others.

"If it wasn't for them we won't be able to have the party." Replies Kiyone as she looks at both of the pirates resting there on the life support machines she turns away and sighs.

"Well umm... we didn't mean to spoil it on you." Everyone turns round in shock when they hear an unfamiliar voice they now see the smaller stranger is now sitting up.

"YOUR OK, YOU'RE OK!!" Yells Sasami as she rushes back to his side to support the pirate as he struggles to get his bearings.

"Yes I am awake little girl thank you for watching me." Replies Ryo as he pats the little girl on the head.

"You knew I was there." Asked Sasami a little confused not understanding how he knew that she was there.

"Yes you where talking to me telling me that my friend was battling outside on his own, so how is he?" Asked Ryo as he turned around looking for his friend but he couldn't find him.

"Well look for yourself." Replies Ryoko. The pirate turns round again and this time he sees his friend lying on the machine beside him the beeping noises show that the machine is keeping him alive

"So what is your name mister?" Asked Sasami with a smile on her face as she looked up at him with her big pink eyes.

"Well little girl my name is Ryo and the big pirate over there in that machine is known as the destroyer if your lucky he might tell you his real name." Answered Ryo as he smiled and hopped of the life support machine resting both his own feet firmly on the floor.

"Well Ryo my name is Sasami and this is my sister Ayeka." Ayeka takes a bow and Ryo nods in her general direction.

"This is Mihoshi and Kiyone." Sasami points to them and then turns to Ryo slightly giggling.

"Hey." Replied Kiyone and Mihoshi as they stepped forward and bowed before stepping back. Ryo waves back at them to signal that he acknowledged the reply.

"And this is Ryoko." Smiled Sasami as she pointed to Ryoko.

"Hey." Replied Ryoko as she looked at him in a Ryoko typical manner. Ryo nods in Ryoko's direction and Ryoko nods back

"This is Tenchi." She points at Tenchi who is standing there rather nervous.

"Hello." Replied Tenchi as he bowed Ryo was trying not to giggle as he nodded in his direction he wonders why Tenchi is so nervous.

"And last but not least this is Washu it is her machine that is keeping you two alive." Said Sasami as she pointed to Washu who was sitting beside the other pirate's life support machine constantly keep an eye on him.

"Well thank you we are very grateful." Replied Ryo with a smile on his face as he thanked Washu for all she has done and took a small bow in everyone's general direction thanking each of them in turn.

"It was nothing I am the greatest scientific genius in the universe." Washu laughs and Ryo lets out a small chuckle he turns around again to see Ayeka with her hand in the air she wanted to get his attention

"I don't mean to be nosy but what where you up to that made them attack you?" Asked Ayeka very curious to know why the pirates where attacked so brutally.

"We were heading to a secret location to meet a Juria tree ship as we had learned there is a chance the Juria Empire is going to come under attack form those guys we were fighting. But we were found out, the tree ship was destroyed and we where shot down over this planet, we got one message sent to the planet Juria before we crashed I hope we aren't to late." Answered Ryo; he then looks round at his friend lying on the life support machine. "Geesh he took a beating is he going to pull through?" Asked Ryo looking at his friend who looks as good as dead.

"It's hard to say unless we get that impressive piece of armour removed then we will know how he is. We have noticed he can regenerate small wounds but he needs medical help with that stomach wound." Answered Washu as she looked at the armour getting annoyed at the fact she can't remove it.

"Could you hand me that control device please?" Asked Ryo as he pointed to a control device sitting on the table near by. Washu walked over and picked up the remote and handed it to Ryo who started to type in a code on the keypad. "There you should be able to remove the armour now." Smiled Ryo as he looked at Washu after putting remote away.

"Thanks." Answered Washu as she walked over to the stranger and started to take the armour off piece by piece but she found that only the chest and leg armour would come off, the rest had appeared to be locked in place.

"Hey Ryo the rest of the armour won't come off." Shouted Washu over to Ryo as she tried to remove the armour but to no avail.

When Ryo saw and heard this he started to check the remote to find out what was wrong, when he found out what was wrong he exclaimed

"Ahh here's the problem; the control circuitry in the suit has been partially damaged. It is stopping the unlock code from being transmitted to the other parts of the armour, but don't worry the internal repair systems are taking care of it and the systems should have it repaired enough to be removed in a day or two, but if your really need to take the rest off there is a emergency release code but I don't advise using that unless it's absolutely necessary." Added Ryo as he looked at Washu as she continued to examine his pirate friend.

"Why not Ryo?" Asked Sasami with a confused look on her face.

"Its not a good idea to use that code because it gets the armour off by activating small low yield explosives in key joints in the suit and if we do that we could do more harm than good in his current condition, but the stupid bugger is always asking me to use that code to take the suit off because its more flashy than the normal method of taking it off." Answered Ryo with a sigh as he remembers a few times where his pirate friend has asked for the code to be used to take off his armour.

"Well with the chest armour off I can get at his stomach wound now, so we won't need you to use it." Answered Washu as she took a look at the fallen pirates stomach wound

"That's good, well if that's all I'll be taking my armour of now." After looking around Ryo started to type the unlock code on the wrist control for his suit and started to take the different parts off starting with the legs and working his way up. As the chest armour came off they saw that Ryo had a build and physique similar to Tenchi's except more muscular and a bit broader in the shoulders. When he took the helmet off long Teal coloured hair similar to Kiyone's flowed down his back in a similar style to Yosho's, Ryo shook his head lightly to let it spread down over his back then he lifted his head up so that they could see that he has a smooth handsome face with light green eyes which seem to radiate a feeling of kindness and warmth and a kind smile that added to the feeling of warmth and kindness. "Well I think I'll catch some sleep now if you don't mind so good night." Ryo rests his head and he slowly dozes off in to a short sleep.

While Ryo was asleep Washu turned on her computer and started to do a search on Ryo. "Now let's see what we can get on our little friend, ah here we go." Washu looks at the screen reads the following from the screen which she took from the Galaxy Police files.

GP RECORDS ON PIRATE 89/35. (Danger rating Ultra class criminal A2)

Ryo the pirate, originally a loyal knight on the planet Juria, also word has it he is the only other knight to be able to fight on the same level as Yosho a universally famous prince from the planet Juria. Also we do know that he served two emperors, who died under mysterious circumstances shortly after being crowned emperor. Then he served the current emperor of Juria but was banished for assisting in the escape of an unknown space pirate and after wandering for a few years he became a pirate. It is believed that he joined up with the pirate that he helped to escape but this is undetermined. Ryo is noted as a skilled mechanic and engineer as well as a skilled warrior and infiltrator, there are also rumours that he is a skilled hacker but there are no signs to prove as to whether or not this is true. Ryo's greatest crime is the infiltration of the GP Headquarters and the theft of their newest most powerful Battleship the Vapoureon. That's all the info currently on file.

"Interesting I have to show this info to the others." Laughs Washu as she turns to look at the other pirate still lying on the bed. "Well it is good to see that the other guys wound is now nearly healed, well better get this to them." Washu then walks out of her lab and walks into the living room, where everyone is waiting to hear on what she has to say. "Well I got some info on one of our friends in there." Washu tells them. "Well as you know his name is Ryo, but what you don't know is that he was once a knight on Juria, he got banished for helping an unknown space pirate escape. He also served two other emperors who died under mysterious circumstances just before Ayeka and Sasami's father came to power, but his biggest crime was the theft of the GP experimental battleship the Vapoureon.

"WHAT!! He stole the Vapoureon." Yells Kiyone. Her anger can be read right across her face. "That's why I never got it that was going to be my ship." She continues to yell as she walks up and down pacing herself.

"A Knight of Juria that isn't possible." Ayeka slips into deep thought trying to remember if Ryo was a Jurian Knight.

"Well I am impressed." Laughs Ryoko as she watches Kiyone stomp up and down the room she is very angry.

"So what about the other guy in the black armour?" Asked Tenchi as he looked at Washu.

"I haven't searched for info on him yet, but Ryo told me he had the name the destroyer given to him for use of his unnatural strength in battle."

"Sounds like me and him will get on just fine." Laughs Ryoko. She recognises the nick name from somewhere long ago but she can't place.

"Will the other one be ready for the party?" Asks Sasami with a small smile on her face.

"Well the stomach wound will be healed, but it's up to him if he shows up our not as he does not seem the party type." Laughs Washu as she looks back to the lab and back to Sasami again

"Oh that is too bad." Replies Sasami looking a bit disappointed.

"Well it's about 3pm right now so I'll let you know about 5pm ok." Smiles Washu trying to make Sasami feel better.

"Ok well I am going to get the party food together as it is the day we all got together and that Tenchi cam into all our lives." Answered Sasami as she smiled back and darted off skipping and jumping with Ryo-oh-ki running after her.

While Sasami gets the rest of the group to go and prepare for the party Washu begins to look up information on the pirate known only as the destroyer.

"Whoa he is impressive this is some record he has." Grins Washu, she reads the following information of the screen.

GP RECORDS ON PIRATE 72/89. (Danger rating Ultra class criminal A1)

This pirate has earned the name the destroyer for his sheer brute force. Nothing is really known about this pirate, but what is known only as a legend no one has truly ever seen him but what is known is that he is feared by nearly all known pirates and even the galaxy police and the Jurian army fear him, the destroyer isn't as widely spoken off as other space pirates like Ryoko and Kagato due to the fact that he is never seen but it is said that he can match them in strength and might even surpass them. His biggest crime was the destruction of the Galaxy Police outpost near the edge of the planet Juria. The only other case of this type is when Kain destroyed the Galaxy Police Headquarters. As well as the deaths of over 1000 officer's on the station he also destroyed 13 patrol ships, 4 battle ships and a command ship, without using a ship of his own. It is said he flew into the bridges of each ship killed all of the bridge crew and activated the ships self destruct and was gone by the time reinforcements arrived. And one rumour has it saying his powers can match that of the light hawk wings which is the awesome power wielded only by Jurian tree ships the ships are considered the most powerful in the universe. But due to lack of evidence this cannot be confirmed. Also there are no known survivors as all who have fought this pirate or have seen him have died.

"I better go talk to Yosho about this pirate before I tell the others." Washu thinks to herself. Washu then goes out to find the rest of the group preparing for the party, so she then sneaks up to the shrine to talk to Yosho. Once she arrives she knocks on the door and waits on Yosho to respond.

"Yes who is it?" Asked Yosho as he sat there calmly in his room.

"It's me little Washu, I have some info on the stranger who was badly injured earlier today in a battle." Replies Washu as she opens the door and enters the room closing the door behind her.

"I take it from you coming to me that you need to discuss whether or not to tell the others about our other visitor." Suggested Yosho as he turned to Washu with a small smile on his face knowing exactly why Washu has came here to talk to him.

"Yes I don't know whether or not to tell the others about his past it's very bloody." Answered Washu, she then proceed to inform Yosho about Kyoko's past as a pirate.

"Hmm sounds like he's quite the warrior and they all know he is a pirate, but how vicious he is, that is something else. Was their any other info on him?" Asked Yosho as he continued to sit in front of Washu calm as per usual.

"No, that was all I was able to get about his past... but I am going to try later to see if I can find any more info from other sources." Replied Washu taking the info back from Yosho again

"Well I suggest that for now you keep this from the others and let them make their own opinion about him, So that he is not being judged because of his past but if you get anymore info on him please inform me." Suggested Yosho as he took a sip from his tea cup and put it back down on the table again.

"Ok Yosho I'll go back to my lab and see how he is doing." Replies Washu as she gets up and puts her hand on the door.

"Ok let me know his condition, once he's awake." Asks Yosho as he watches Washu go out the door, she turns around and nods before quickly going back to the house. She enters the front door and she carefully makes her way into the living room. She looks around to see that no one is in the living room so Washu relaxes and walks back to her lab

Washu opens the door and enters her lab to find the pirate with the stomach wound sitting up on his life support machine.

"Ahh my stomach is still sore damn them Scryia I'll kill them all." Growls the pirate as he looks at his surroundings taking them in through his helmet in the style of heat signatures. He hasn't looked at these people properly with his own eyes since this all began all he has looked at where what they looked like from the heat given off by their bodies.

"Good to see you are awake." Laughs Washu as she notices him sitting up on the life support machines bed. The pirate then gets up noticing that his leg and chest armour pieces had been removed he raises his head to look a Washu whose back is turned.

"Why was some of my armour removed, how come you didn't remove all of it?" Asks the pirate wondering why his helmet and arm pieces are still there.

"Well there was a malfunction in the suits circuitry, only the arms and head armour pieces still worked but because of the malfunction I couldn't remove them, also I only needed to get rid of the chest armour as I was concerned about your stomach wound. But now you have seemed to have recovered from it." Replied Washu still with her back towards the pirate.

"Yes well don't keep me in suspense turn around and let me see who you are." Snarls the pirate getting annoyed because his quest isn't showing her face. He turns off the heat signature device in the helmet to look at this person with his own eyes.

"Ok as you wish." After she had said that she had turned round and looked directly into the pirate's cold looking eyes. "Well hello my name is Washu nice to meet you." Smiled Washu with a grin on her face still staring at the pirate.

"Ah the greatest scientific genius in the universe is here surprise, surprise." Laughs the pirate now knowing who is standing in front the pirate feels relieved.

"How do you know me pirate?" Asks Washu now very curious to see how a space pirate other than Ryoko who knows her.

"Stand back a bit and I'll show you who I am." He laughs he slides himself of the machine and he stands on the floor looking at Washu.

"But you can't, Ryo said your armour won't come off." Replied Washu sort of confused.

"Don't worry I can remove it." The pirate then hits something on the back of the neck armour plate, and the arm armour falls off. "Now you are going to see someone you haven't seen in along time." Replies the pirate as he grabs the helmet with both his hands he then removes the heartless looking battle helmet.

When Washu looked up at him she seen a face she hasn't seen in such along time, the man shook his head lightly and his blood red hair swayed in the air, his hair was exactly like Ryoko's just a different colour. He was a few inches bigger than Ryo and was bigger built but instead of cruel cold hearted eyes which he had when he wore the mask. He had warm sky blue eyes that Washu never could have forgotten.

"KYOKO!!! IS THAT YOU?" Yells Washu with a very happy smile on her face very surprised to see him again.

"Yep the one and only." Washu then runs over and gives him a hug. Not knowing what to do Kyoko pauses he hasn't felt another person's warm skin for so long. Kyoko smiles and puts his own arms around her and hugs her back.

"I thought you died when the Souja shot you down." Cries Washu tears almost coming to her face.

"He shot me down yes, but I wasn't going to leave you there I had to do something. But I couldn't do anything you made that ship to perfect, though it would take more than the Souja's main weapon to stop me." Smiles Kyoko looking down at Washu as she looks back up at him.

"I am brilliant though, of course the ship was perfect and I was surprised you managed to survive the attack." Laughs Washu still in shock that her long term friend has come back again.

"Well I am alive now and that's all that matters." Answered Kyoko with a laugh of his own.

"Hey Kyoko, Sasami wants to know if your going to come to the party that we are having later tonight?" Asked Washu when they both stopped laughing and regained some composure.

"Sasami? Is that the little girl who tried to help us when we crashed?" Asked Kyoko Wondering who Sasami is.

"Yep that's her and she would be really upset if you don't come to the party, but then again so will I." Answered Washu with a sly look on her face.

"We have a lot of catching up to do and this party will be a great way to do it." Added Washu as she smiled at him.

"Well ok I'll come but could you fix my armour for me before then?" Answered Kyoko looking back at Washu.

"Eh, why do want me to repair it why not wait till after the party to fix it?" Asked a confused Washu wondering why he wants the armour repaired so quickly.

"I want to take it off at the party it will be a much more flashy way of revealing myself to the others in the house." Answered Kyoko with a grin on his face.

Washu giggles. "You're the same old Kyoko alright. Glad to have you back." She hugs him again. Kyoko looks at her as if he had a question for her when she looks up at him giving him a look to say "go right ahead and ask."

"Is Ryo going to the party later as well?" Asked Kyoko wondering if his pirate buddy was also attending.

"Don't know haven't been able to ask him because he's been taking a catnap since we got the armour off you." Answered Washu with a grin.

"He'll go just to keep an eye on me well I'll rest now so come get me when the party is ready." Laughs Kyoko as he lies down on the bed again looking up at the ceiling. "Ok it will be fun, you won't forget it." Laughs Washu as she leaves still happily smiling.

"I am sure I won't I'll see you soon." Kyoko closes his eyes and goes to sleep as Washu closes the door behind her leaving him to sleep.

Well that's it for chapter 2 hope you come back again for the next one. Comments are more that welcome.