Chains of the Past

A Ranma ½ Tenchi Muyo Crossover

Chapter Thirdteen

A/N: And now, lights, camera, action!

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Kaumi served everyone tea while everyone was relaxing in the living room of the house. Once everyone had a cup, she sat down. "Masaki-san, why is it you can not tell Ranma who he is?"

Yosho took a sip of his tea. "As I said before, I am not allowed to."

"But you are the crown prince of the largest empire in the galaxy. Surely you could"

Yosho raised a hand to stop her. "This goes beyond things like empires, my dear. That is all I will say."

"If that's the case, it seems Saotome has gotten in over his head again," Mousse stated. "Per usual."

"Over his head again doing what?"

Mousse turned slowly to see Cologne standing on her staff right next to him. She was looking at him intently, causing him to shake in fear.

Kasumi smiled. "Elder Cologne. What a surprise. How are you doing? Would you like some tea?"

Cologne smiled. "I'm doing well and yes please." She turned towards Mousse, who was looking pale. "Now Mousse, I do believe I sent you out to find Shampoo, am I correct?" Mousse nodded. "And I also said that failure… was not an option, correct?" Mousse nodded. "Now I tracked Shampoo here hoping to find her safely detained and ready to be taken back to the village, but instead I find you sitting here enjoying tea with her nowhere to be found. Why isn't she detained Mousse?"

Mousse smiled nervously. "Would you believe that a big part of the reason has to do with aliens?"

Cologne gave him a hooded stare.

WHAM!

Cologne turned towards the rest of the group. "Now since Mr. Part-timer is unavailable, could someone please tell me if anyone has seen Shampoo?"

Yosho glanced down towards Mousse who was… resting. He also had a giant lump on his head. "I believe we can give you some information."

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Nabiki observed Kagato who was staring into the monitors. Nabiki turned towards Ryoko. "Are you alright?"

Ryoko nodded. "I'm fine. I'm more worried about you, honey."

"I'm not some weak little thing. I'll manage."

Ryoko smirked. "I'm sure you will. You're going to need that attitude later."

Nabiki raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean by that?"

Ryoko looked towards where Kagato was sitting. "It's not something I like to talk about since it reminds me of when I was controlled by him, but you need to know. I remembered this when he was explaining to you about his interests in Ranma. All three of those guys he's studied, he also studied their pasts as well. All of them had unknown origins and had a lot happen to them while living."

"Like what?" Nabiki asked curiously.

"It varies, but it's more like what you told us about Ranma's life, but more. It seems whoever has that energy signature is affected by some sort of… how do I put this… chaos factor. Where it come from he has no clue, but that's one of the things he wants to find out."

Nabiki nodded. "You know, now that you said that, it makes a lot of sense. Though now that we're on the subject, can I ask you something? Why did Kagato think Katsuhito-san was shielding Ranma?"

Ryoko chuckled. "Oh, that. He has this thing about people holding out on him. He believes everyone is hiding something from him. I tell you what, every genius I've ever seen has some sort of mental instability. It's crazy."

"Aren't you worried about him hearing you saying that?" Nabiki asked while pointing her head towards Kagato.

Ryoko chuckled even more. "That's another thing about him. As soon as he starts one of his researches or experiments, nothing gets him out except for the alarms on his screen. I could blow up this whole ship and unless the alarm rings, he wouldn't even notice." Ryoko growled. "If it wasn't for the fact that he had me under his control every waking moment, I would of done just that!"

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Ayeka looked towards the giant ship they were approaching. "There it is. The Soja."

Ranma whistled. "It's huge." His stomach growled.

Ayeka gave him a hooded stare. "Not as big as your stomach." Tenchi started to laugh.

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Kagato's alarms started to ring on his console. He looked at the approaching Ryo-ohki on his screen. "Ah, yes, here they come, the fools."

Nabiki glared at Kagato. "You won't get away with this. Ranma will make you pay."

Kagato glanced over to Nabiki. "Oh, and how is that? You want to hear something? Those three fools who fought me before had at least three times as much power as your boyfriend. I highly doubt he could do anything, and neither can that boy Tenchi."

"You harm Tenchi and I will kill you!" Ryoko yelled

Kagato laughed. "Oh my, that was entertaining. The very thought of you or any of them being able to hurt me is ludicrous. Just a dream. Now be a good little killing machine and be quiet."

Ryoko started to struggle in her prison. "I am not your machine! I am a human being!"

Kagato went back to his monitor. "I see your having a concept problem here. You think you're something you're not. We can fix that later. There are more important matters to deal with."

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The four rescuers looked on as the Soja opened its weapon bays. "The Soja is about to attack! Avoid it."

"I would like to," Mihoshi replied, who was sitting in the pilot's seat. "but I really don't know what I'm doing."

Soja's beam weapons fired in a wide array. Ryo-ohki used her internal programming to try to avoid the shots, but she still got hit.

"Ryo-ohki, attack!" Ayeka yelled. When Ryo-ohki didn't, she realized her mistake. "Oh, I cannot operate someone else's ship."

Ranma looked towards Ayeka. "What about your ship? Can't you attack from yours? We need to take out his weapons."

Ayeka noded. "Yes, but the only system there is on it is the Light Hawk system, but we can use it."

Another shot hit the ship, causing it to shake. Ranma nodded. "I see. I'll go and try"

Ayeka grabbed Ranma's arm. "You can't. Only Tenchi and I can operate it, since we're royalty. I'll go and operate it."

Tenchi placed a hand on Ayeka's shoulder. "No, I'll go. You stay here."

"But Lord Tenchi, the core is very vulnerable when using the Light Hawk wings as a weapon. It's dangerous."

"Which is why I should go." Tenchi went to the teleporter. "You'll have to guide me when I'm there. Ranma, try to dodge those shots."

Ranma nodded. "I'll try." Tenchi disappeared through the teleporter. Ranma turned towards Ayeka. "Ayeka, what do you know about Kagato?"

Ayeka looked confused. "Why are you asking me that?"

"He controlled Ryoko, which means he had access to Ryo-ohki as well." Ranma looked towards the monitor showing the Soja. "He probably knows how she'll react before we do. We need to try to at least throw some guess work into his thinking."

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Kagato smiled. "Very good thinking boy. You're quite smart."

Nabiki was worried. "He has that type of access. How?"

Ryoko gave Nabiki a hooded glare. "He had control over me for millennia, Nabiki. Ryo-ohki has always been at my side. You do the math."

Kagato's smile turned into a frown when the video connection to Ryo-ohki's bridge wavered then disappeared. "Now how did he manage to do that?"

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Ranma and Ayeka were busy trying to keep on their feet since the ship started to wobble. After falling on his butt, he turned around and saw Mihoshi with a bottle of alcohol (where she got it he had no clue). "Mihoshi, what are you doing?"

Mihoshi smiled drunkenly. "Well there isn't much else to do here."

Ayeka ran up to her. "You better stop that right now!"

"No!" Ayeka and Mihoshi turned towards Ranma. "Keep giving her some sake."

Ayeka looked confused. "But why?"

Ranma smiled. "This is what we've been waiting for. It's hard to predict the movements of a drunken ship, so Kagato's going to have a hard time hitting us."

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And indeed he was. Kagato's been aiming at the Juraian ship core, but Ryo-ohki's strange movements has him confused. "Could it be because of the sword?" An alarm went off on his panel. "So I see the boy made it to the Light Hawk system. This is going to be interesting."

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Ayeka felt the build up of a familiar power. "He made it." She concentrated her will to her tree via her headpiece. A monitor appeared in front of her showing Tenchi. "Tenchi."

Tenchi was holding his sword out in front of him, which was glowing. "I've gained access into the system. Tell me what to do."

"First you must unfold the Light Hawk Wings."

"Light Hawk Wings? What are those?"

"The defense shielding for the craft. They can be used as an offensive weapon, but it wasn't meant to be used like that, so we will be vulnerable. We will only have one shot to do this before you'll be totally defenseless."

Tenchi nodded. "I understand. Let's do this!"

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"I have you now!" Kagato fired another volley at the ship, but three beams of light blocked it. "There they are." Three white translucent shields surrounded the ship, blocking every shot that went near them. "The Light Hawk Wings. Impressive indeed, but I have a suitable strategy." The gems surrounding him began to glow.

Nabiki and Ryoko began to worry. "This isn't good," Nabiki muttered.

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Tenchi concentrated on holding the shields. When a break from the firing appeared, he began to switch the shields from defensive mode to offensive. The wings expanded into a full circle like an umbrella.

The Soja began arcing from all the power it was building up. Ayeka grew nervous. "Tenchi, please hurry."

Tenchi used his will to pull the trigger. An orb of orange light formed in front of the ship. After building power for a couple of seconds, it shot towards the Soja.

The Soja fired a giant green orb towards the orange orb. The two energy orbs crashed into each other. After a brief battle, the orange orb disappeared, and the green orb continued on its route. It hit the Juraian ship core dead on. Pieces of the core scattered about.

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Ryoko watched it all happen. While Kagato was laughing to celebrate his victory, Ryoko let out a loud yell. Breaking her cell she immediately teleported out to where the core was. Nabiki began to tear up. "Tenchi…"

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A yell ripped through the house. Kasumi ran towards the source of the noise to see Sasami running out of the house. "Sasami!" She followed the little girl out into the woods.

A/N: Not much to say about this one. Next chapter begins the final battle.