A/N: If these chapters seem too long, remember that I'm trying to cram a 2 and a half hour movie into a six or seven chapter fanfiction, and bear with me. I do not own Tenchi or Indiana Jones.
Ch. 4 Do you have Strudel in your ears!
"Ouch, she didn't have to hit me after she'd knocked me out! It's like she really hates me or something!" Indiana put an icepack on the whining Mihoshi's head. "There, you big crybaby." "I am NOT a crybaby, it just really hurt." (Kiyone: "Even in this, you're hopeless!" Ryoko: "I can believe she got hit pretty hard…") Indiana laughed. They were both sitting in Indiana's room, which looked like it had been ransacked. Indiana walked over to her suitcase and reached into the pocket of her bomber jacket, pulling out the rubbing she'd made and sat down next to Mihoshi. "Hmmm, the marker says that we should head for Jerhtara…but it doesn't say where to head from there." "If we had a map like your mother's we wouldn't have a problem." "What?" Mihoshi picked up the little battered notebook and flipped to a hand drawn map. "Like this, see?" Indiana resisted the urge to walk over to the wall was and bang her head against it, or better yet, bang Mihoshi's head into the wall. Sighing in defeat, she said, "Well, why don't you go ahead of me and Tenchi? Go to Jerhtara and look for a map." She tore the map out of the notebook and handed it to her, "Take this one so you know what a good map looks like." "Okay! I'll go pack now!" Indiana watched her leave and then went over and pulled a bottle of scotch out from her suitcase. She poured a glass and thought, Here's to the "Accidental Genius". No one will suspect that Mihoshi's carrying the map. A knock on the door interrupted her thoughts, "Come in." It turned out to be a harried looking Tenchi. "Indiana, my room's been ransacked! Um…what's with the booze?" Indiana looked at him, "Do you really need to ask that? Anyways, they were probably looking for my mother's notebook." She took another swig and held up the notebook. Tenchi's eyes widened, "You have it?" "Yeah, my mother sent it through the mail…she said to burn it, but her entire life's work is in these pages. I couldn't just burn that." Tenchi smiled, "You're actually sentimental! I would have never guessed." Indiana grinned and said, "Don't let it get out though, it might ruin my reputation as a cynical pessimist." Tenchi laughed, "You really are drunk aren't you?" "Not really, but welcome to Venice my friend."
The next evening was a rainy one along the German-Austrian border, a small rental BMW pulled up on the path to the foreboding castle Rosenberg. Tenchi leaned over to Indiana and said, "Well, we're here. How do we get in and find your mother." Indiana looked at him and said, "You ever take any acting classes?" The butler at Rosenberg had the bored, stiff butler face for one simple reason: he WAS bored. No one came to the castle since the Kawazis had purchased it to use as a base. However, tonight was different. He opened the door to see two seemingly inebriated persons. One, a woman with long purple hair said, "What took you so long? We were getting soaked to the bone out there!" The butler was a little taken aback, but retained his composure, "Can I help you?" "Yes, you can inform the master here that Lord Misaki has come to take a look at the tapestries!" "Tapestries?" "Do you have strudel in your ears! Yes, the bloody tapestries!" (Ryoko, Mihoshi nad Sasami burst out laughing at the "strudel in your ears" comment and even Tencih had to laugh.) "Well, there aren't any tapestries in this castle I think you have the wrong-" He was cut off by a fist to the face. Indiana grabbed her fedora off of Tenchi's head, "Well, that didn't exactly go as planned. Stay here, I'm going to go look for my mother." "What should I do?" "Find a secure spot, and hope they don't have anything bigger that handguns." Tenchi sighed as Indiana took off, "That wasn't very reassuring." (A/N: 'Star Wars' reference!)
Indiana worked her way down the corridor until she saw a door with the nameplate 'Misaki Jurai, Prisoner' on it. Looking out the window, Indiana saw that there was a tower right across from the room. Working her way through the castle without being seen was tricky, but Indiana somehow managed to do it. Once outside she looped her whip over a cable and slid down through the window in her mother's room. As she was recovering a shadow smacked her across the back of the head with a vase. Indiana fell forward holding her head, and the figure that stepped forward turned out to be Misaki Jurai, "Damn Kawazi scum! I'll teach you to treat me like…Ayeka?" "Hi mom." She was rewarded for her response with a rib-crushing Bear hug. "Ouch, Mom! You're breaking my ribs!" "Nonsense! I haven't broken any of your ribs in years!" "And I'd like to keep it that way. What did you whack me with?" "Ming vase. It's fake though, you can tell by the engraving on the bottom." "Tell that to my head. Let's get out of here and then we can look for the master key." "Then you found it? The shield of Sir Kamidake?" "Yeah, it's said Jerhtara." "I wish I could have been there…" "No you don't, mom. There were cabbits." Misaki paled visibly, "Cabbits?" (Sasami: "What is everyone's problem with cabbits?") "Dr. Jurai?" Both women looked up and said "yes?" to the Kawazi standing in the doorway. "Do you have zee book?" "Ha! My daughter would never have brought it with her!" "Um…" "You didn't." "Yeah I did, but how was I supposed to know?" "Well, now what are we supposed to do?" "Heello?" The only response he got was a bullet in the head courtesy of Indiana's revolver. She walked into the doorframe to check for any other Kawazis. Misaki was staring at the dead body, "You shot him!" "He was going to shoot us, mom." "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU SHOT HIM!" "Now I remember why I left home…" "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!" "Not the time for this, mom. There are more coming!"
Indiana grabbed Misaki's forearm and dragged her out of her room and in the direction of the entrance. When they hit the banquet hall they were met with the sight of Tenchi being held captive by a cyan-haired woman with a revolver at his head. Indiana brought her revolver up to dead center on the woman's head. The woman laughed, " Shoot and your friend here dies. Now put the gun down." "Indiana!" Misaki snorted, "I never liked him much anyways, go ahead." "Indiana do as she says, she'll kill me!" "Don't listen to him, he's one of them. She won't shoot." The woman cocked the gun, "you don't care if he dies?" "Indiana, please!" "Don't listen to him." "Say goodbye!" "WAIT!" Everyone stared as Indiana tossed her gun in the middle of the floor. The woman let go of Tenchi and he walked over to Indiana. "I'm sorry, but you should have listened to your mother." He reached into her inside pocket and took the notebook. He looked up to see Indiana staring steadily at him, "I don't think I'll regret my decision Tenchi. I really don't." Tenchi walked back over and handed it to the woman, slightly unnerved by her reaction.
About twenty minutes later Indiana and Misaki were tied up on two back-to-back chairs tied together. Tenchi and the other woman had left the room after tying them up. Indiana turned her head slightly, "How did you know he was a Kawazi?" "Well, he's not really. His grandfather, Kasuhito, was captured by the Kawazis and Tenchi was blackmailed to work for them." "And you know this how?" "He talks in his sleep." "WHA-! Mother!" "It's not like that. He fell asleep in the office one day and I overheard his sleeptalking. Geez, Ayeka." "I'm so going to need therapy after all of this." "I told you it wasn't like that! And why did you toss your gun down? Tenchi's too valuable for them to kill off, so you didn't need to do that." A new, slightly nasally voice answered the question, "Because she didn't take my advice." Both women turned their heads to the right, to see Washu, wearing a red armband with a crab and standing between her two thugs. "Dr. Habuki!" "Ahem!" Both women sighed, "Little Washu." "See? That wasn't so hard! And didn't I tell you to trust no one?" (Ryoko: "Geez, you don't chang do you?" Washu: "I try not to.") "…Maybe. That's beside the point however. I knew you'd sell off your soul, but not your entire planet!" "Yes, I know, I'm a horrible person, and I've doomed the planet, blah, blah, blah." The woman and Tenchi returned. The woman handed Washu the notebook, "Here you go, mom." "Mom!" "Oh, yes, this is my daughter, Ryoko Habuki. Hm…wait a minute. Where is the map?" Indiana innocently looked around, "What map?" "The map to the valley of the crescent moon! Where is it?" Ryoko nudged Tenchi I with the muzzle of her gun, "You wouldn't happen to know would you?" Tenchi sighed and said, "She probably gave it to Dr. Kuramitsu." Indiana laughed, "You'll never find her. She speaks five different languages and can blend into any crowd." (Ryoko: "Yeah, right.")
Meanwhile the target of conversation sneezed while trying to make it through the crowded marketplace of Jerhtara, "Hello? Does anyone speak English? Maybe Japanese?" "Mihoshi!" Mihoshi looked over to see a man with black hair, a mustache and glasses, wearing a white business suit and a fez waving at her, "Nobuyuki! What are you doing here?" (Noboyuki: "Why the HELL am I wearing a fez!") "Looking for you of course! I'm honoring the phone call I got from Indy. Now come on."
Indiana was working at the ropes of her bonds, with no visible evidence of loosening. Tenchi, Ryoko and Washu had left earlier, leaving Indiana and Misaki tied up in the banquet hall. "Stupid ropes, I hate you." "There's no point in talking to inanimate object, dear." "Yeah, I suppose so…hey, Mom, try reaching for the lighter in my left pocket." "Ayeka, that's a horrible habit!" "I don't smoke mom, I drink and curse, but don't smoke. I have it for situations like this. We need to get out of here and help Mihoshi or she'll get caught for sure." "But what about all that language stuff and the ability to blend into any crowd?" "Mihoshi couldn't blend her way out of a paper bag, it was a bluff. Now get that lighter okay?" Misaki reached for Indiana's left pocket and, after several tries, pulled out a lighter. She tried flicking it on, but the moment she actually got a light, Indiana jerked at the rope knocking it out of her hands and lit the rug on fire, "Ayeka, hon?" "Yeah?" "I think we've got a problem." Indiana turned around to see a blaze building, "Oh, crap. Mom we need to move the chairs over to the fireplace. It's stone so we should be fine." "Okay, how are we going to do that?" "Jerk your chair to the left." "My left or your left?" "Mine." "Why your left?" "Because I said so, now come on; unless you want to be barbeque mom. 1, 2…3!" The two began jerking the chairs over to the large fireplace on the left side of the room. They got it, but bumped up against one of the pokers, this caused the fireplace to turn into a Kawazi operations room. Luckily it kept spinning back into the banquet hall, which had worked into a blazing inferno. The two tried to move further into the fireplace, bumping the poker again. It spun around again, but this time it stopped in the plain view of forty Kawzis. One lady turned around and saw the Jurais tied to the chair. Misaki waved, the woman waved back and then started yelling for security. The Jurai quickly hit the poker, rotating it out of the room. The guards ran in and activated the switch only to find themselves in a flaming room with two chairs and some cut rope.
The Jurai's had cut their bonds with one of the poker and had stood on the alcove, waiting for the guards to turn it. Once almost the entire way around, Indiana rammed a bust of Shakespeare into the crack, blocking the guard's way out. They ran out to the dock and Misaki made for the small motorboat moored there. Indiana grabbed her arm and motioned to the large crate next to the dock. The guards ran out and began firing on the small motorboat, which had stared out into the river. Indiana and Misaki burst out of the crate in a motorcycle with a sidecar (Indiana driving, Misaki in the side car) in the opposite direction. Indiana stopped the motorcycle at a fork in the road and said, "We'd best get out of here before we get a plane to Jordan." "No, we have to go to Gersh." "Are you crazy! That's the main Kawazi stronghold! What do you need to got there for?" "I need my journal. There are trials that lead to the Master Key and the clues by which one can overcome them are in there." "Don't you remember them? I mean, you did write them down, mom." "That's why I wrote them down! Now, let's go to Gersh." Indiana stared at her mom with an incredulous look on her face, "Tsunami…" Misaki slapped Indiana before she could finish the statement and said, "That's Blasphemy." Indiana stared at her mother, then sighed and turned towards Gersh.
(Phew) THAT was a long chapter. Comments are welcomed and appreciated.