Tenchi Muyo: Darkened World
Chapter 6: The Second Relic and the way home.
In the last chapter, Tenchi and his friends had accidentally picked a fight with the race known as the Ork's, however lucky for them they had ran into the Eldar, who had sent in some of its elite soldiers to take out key Ork figures, structures and so on before hand, Ryoko attacks the farseer, only to be struck by the Farseer's special unit commander, who then collapses only for Tenchi and gang to find out it is Ryoko's brother who had been lured here by the same forces that lured Tenchi and the gang here.
It has been nearly twenty four hours, since the Eldar and the Ork's first began to fight, however, everyone is sound asleep except Kyoko, who has finally woken up and Tenchi who decided to be the one to keep guard as he wasn't feeling tired anyway.
"Not a nice place to be is it." Smiled Kyoko, as Tenchi jumped out of his wits, covering his mouth quickly, before he could scream so he didn't wake any of his friends. Tenchi ignores Kyoko's question as he is more concerned about how Kyoko is feeling.
"You're awake! I must tell the others they will be really happy I'll go wake them." Tenchi goes to wake up Ryoko and the others but, Kyoko firmly shakes his head as he glances behind him at everyone resting peacefully.
"No don't wake them Tenchi, let them rest." Smiled Kyoko as he glanced back at everyone while they slept on, Kyoko then turns his attention back to Tenchi again, who still asking questions.
"So are you ok, I mean you had your memories and personality blocked off, you sure Washu shouldn't have a look at you?" Asked Tenchi quite concerned just in case, the blockage may have some side effects.
"No I don't want my mother…I mean Washu examining me, I'll be ok however you see this?" Kyoko lifts the item and shows the old Ork relic to Tenchi. "This thing will help get us home." Tenchi then focuses his attention on the small old looking piece of stone, but can't seem to see anything great about it.
"How will that get us home?" Asked Tenchi as Kyoko handed it to him, Kyoko chuckles as Tenchi holds the stone relic mere inches away from his face, Kyoko smiles as Tenchi's dark eyes look as if they are trying to pierce the stone relic with his gaze.
"Well it is part of a key, to some old alien device for dimensional travel we have one key, and one of the alien races has the other piece and are searching for it." Tenchi throws him back the relic quickly and Kyoko catches it without much effort, Kyoko glances at Tenchi again and laughs out loudly, resting his hand against his head trying to contain the laughter.
"So let me guess here, you are telling me that we have to take it from this other alien race?" Asked Tenchi as Kyoko nodded, Tenchi lies down flat on his back and raising one of his hands over his face, before letting out a sigh. "I can't wait to we go home this place is driving me crazy." Tenchi sits up again, looking around the desolate landscape when he yawns out loudly.
"You can go rest Tenchi, I will keep guard for a while I don't think I could sleep for a while anyway." Replied Kyoko, as he tosses Tenchi a blanket, Tenchi glances up at Kyoko as he lies down and replies happily.
"Thanks, speak to you in a few hours my friend." Tenchi closes his eyes and drifts off to sleep, While Kyoko continues to watch his friends and family as they sleep his thoughts dwell to getting this final key and getting home with Tenchi and the others. Kyoko stands up stretching out his arms as he looks at his wrist at a shiny silver band.
"Phew it is still there; the way home is going to be tough, sneaking past the Tau command post then entering those damn catacombs. They will need all the rest they can get; it will be a nasty battle." Kyoko then taps the silver band and small portal to another world opens behind him as a metal shell surrounds him, the shell then seals itself as Kyoko now stands in his black and red armour. "Well good to see that it still works even in this dimension." Kyoko clenches his now armour covered fist, and stands looking off into the distance while watching over his friends sleeping.
Though not to far away the Tau empire and there Kroot and Vespid allies have moved into the catacombs and have engaged the mechanical and ancient race that is known as the Necrons, to try and claim the ancient device in the name of the greater good. However the more of these unliving machines they crush under their immense fire power, the ancient machines continue to attack.
"The Nercon menace, sir they are driving us back, what shall we do our fire warriors can't keep this up commander?" Asked one of the Tau fire warrior squad leaders as he stood to attention as war rages on around him, as a devil fish troop carrier drives past. The hatch lowers as more fire warriors leave the devil fish, while the two commanders continue to talk.
"Get six of our XV88 Broadside suits and deploy them near the entrance; I want their twin linked rail guns aimed into that hole as quickly as possible." The Tau commander turns around as the sun begins to rise up from the horizon behind him. The commander's white and black armoured battle suit gleams in the sun, as the three optical units on its head focus in and out on the battle as it rages on in front of them.
"We need to push them back!" The commander glances around as two Tau hammerhead gun ships hover past as they too join in as all their weapons open fire in to the large dark hole, as Necron gauss weapons fire streak past them,
"For the greater good, we do you need the fire castes finest?!" The Commander turns around, as a squad of XV8 Crisis battle suits land behind him, the commander gives a slight bow to welcome the fire castes finest troops. "Sorry we are late there was resistance." Replied the leader of the squad as he glances over to the entrance to the catacombs as he watches another Tau warrior falls to a blast from a gauss weapon, fired by a Necron warrior.
"Support our fire warriors on foot, the Necron evil continues to drive us back away from the machine they are defending, we have one key so before we search out the other one, we must claim this for the greater good." The leading XV8 suit nods both commanders step back, as the three battle suits use there jet packs to move them closer to the battle as the Tau commander then joins in the fight himself.
However Tenchi and the gang have awoken, and had their heart felt reunion with Kyoko which resulted in Ryoko beating him up for having her worried, everyone is now aboard Ryo-oh-ki as they travel at a slower pace towards the Tau outpost, the reason for travelling at this speed is so that Washu can assess the enemies numbers and determine the best course of action.
"Well it would appear the best course of action is to go through the front door, have Ryo-oh-ki's scanners are picking up weapons fire between two races, though I can't tell who they are." Added Washu as she up the image for everyone to see, everyone focus on the picture obviously with no clue as to who or what the alien races are. Kyoko then takes a look and replies.
"The aliens in the orange with all the hit tech weapons are the Tau, the other two races that are aiding them are the Kroot and Vespid, and the beings shooting those green beams of energy are called the Necrons." Replied Kyoko as he scratched his head looking down at Washu. Ryoko then turns around and informs the group that the will there in five minutes.
"Is there any other way in, we can't fight through all that." Added Washu as she continued to view the screen, Ryoko then informs the group again about how long it will be before they arrive.
"Guys two minutes left, what will we do when we land?" Asked Ryoko as the space between them and the battle shortens, Kyoko looks up and replies quickly and calmly.
"Well I guess we get them to help us in." Kyoko then hits a button and his armour retracts, before hitting another button and a white and black armoured suit similar to the commander of the Tau army, surrounds him in its protective metal.
"I don't think they will be that stupid Kyoko, one you take off your helmet to show them who you are, they are going to know." Added Tenchi thinking that he had brought up a good point, how Tenchi was quickly shocked Kyoko quickly takes off the helmet.
"Umm Kyoko what the heck is wrong with your face." Everyone looks at him funny, as due the band which Kyoko and Washu made years ago can also copy DNA turning the wearer into any other race of organic being that he chooses.
"My face oh don't worry I am a Tau now in the flesh, lets land we shall proceed the short distance on foot." Adds Kyoko as his sister burst out laughing, everyone glances at her and she replies still laughing at her younger brother.
"I am sorry, but you sound like a woman, if they all sound like that, I bet, no one takes them seriously." Ryoko continues to laugh when her brother replies with a smirk.
"I am a female Tau, I had to do a mission for the Eldar a while back and used this disguise to get detailed information on them, they haven't caught on yet, you guys are going to need fire warrior uniforms." Replied Kyoko as he looked around not being to see any bodies to take the gear from.
"How about we sneak around on Ryo-oh-ki, Kyoko can approach the commander and can try and take the second key from him, take our key with you, just in case." Added Washu, as she glanced at her son before looking up at the others again.
"It sounds good but you must be careful, who knows what can happen, as you will be on your own." Added Ayeka as Kyoko nodded, and replied calmly.
"Yeah it is ok don't worry about it, you guys just get behind them and maybe get Ryo-oh-ki to blast another way in, it shouldn't be hard with all this fighting going on. But I'll guess I will go to the commander on my own and see what happens." Kyoko takes a deep breath and turns to Ryoko and nods as Ryo-oh-ki stops, beaming Kyoko down nearby before, flying away leaving him to be on his own, as they make their way around the actual battle and land in the distance, as Ryoko stays aboard Ryo-oh-ki and scans the area, using Ryo-oh-ki's scanners Ryoko maps the interior of the catacombs before marking out where the device is, then uses the link she has with Washu to inform her that she is done. Washu then orders her to fire on the area marked on Ryoko's map.
"Ok Ryo-oh-ki, you heard Washu, open fire!" Ryo-oh-ki meows as the energy in her weapon begins to gather, a few seconds later the weapon fires blasting a large hole in the ground. "Good enough Ryo-oh-ki lets get back to Washu." Ryo-oh-ki meows again flies back to a ledge not to far away and lands again as the rest of them run over to join her.
"It is done but very dark down there, I scanned for life signs and metal objects but I only detected the device and that's it." Replied Ryoko as Washu glances at her rubbing her chin before answering.
"Ok we are going in, Ryoko Tenchi you guys go down first; let us just hope Kyoko gets what we need." Replies Washu as Kyoko walks along towards the Tau commander, his hands on the weapons triggers just in case it results to force, though as he continues to get nearer a devilfish transport stops behind him and a fire warrior jumps out resting his rifle against his shoulders.
"Commander, Shadowrun what are you doing out here on your own and where is your men?" Asked the Tau soldier as Kyoko quickly turned around surprised that they remembered who his alias was, Kyoko then takes a deep breath and turns around to face him.
"My troops all died in the name of the greater good and their ideal got us the key your commander seeks." Replied Kyoko as he held the old piece of stone in his hand. The Tau soldier has a look at it and waves over at the devilfish.
"Let's go ma'am the commander needs our help, the Necrons have begun their attack, he has tried to quell them, one of their star gods appeared and then we have fought wave after wave." The soldier jumps back onto the transport and Kyoko follows climbing aboard and sits down amongst the Tau as the transport moves off again.
Though back with Washu and the rest of the gang, they have all made it safely to the ground after Ryoko teleported them there, though the hole Ryo-oh-ki made was pretty big enough for her to fit through in her ship form, the area around them is still surrounded in darkness.
"We must be in really deep, if the light from outside can't reach down here." Added Washu as she opens up her computer console, inputs some data and a black rift appears with Washu pulling out a black top hat. "Ok guys reach in and take out a flash light." Washu reaches into her hat and pulls out a flash light as does everyone else. "Ok now onward!" Washu marches forward with Tenchi and Ryoko in front of her as they shine their flash lights all around them.
"Look a set of stairs you guys." Adds Tenchi as he shines his torch at what appears to be a set of stone stairs, Tenchi walks over to the stairs and climbs them as his friends follow him, roughly thirty seconds later they reach the top of the stairs which leads them onto a high ledge, Tenchi shines the his flash light over the edge before gasping and bumping into a piece of ancient technology. The machine switches itself on and the immediate area begins to glow in an eerie green colour as the area powers up.
"Ok guys this could be trouble." Ryoko points over the ledge, everyone joins her and looks over at the now lit area to see thousands of inactive Necron warriors are standing in a line waiting to be activated and join the battle. "Ryo-oh-ki, let's go you can transform in here, we will destroy the inactive soldiers and move out destroying as we go until we reach the entrance." Ryo-oh-ki transforms again in to her space ship form and points her weapon towards the large inactive columns of machines and fires, while Washu runs over to a large gate style machine and hooks her computer up to it. Loud explosions can be heard through the catacombs as one by one, Ryoko destroys the inactive shells of Necron warriors as Tenchi watches on.
"Ryoko doesn't do things by half does she?" Sighs Tenchi as he watches Ryoko continue to blow stuff up.
"No but that's Ryoko for you, pure destructive qualities that is all she has, Kyoko is definitely a better more civilised person." Added Ayeka as she stood beside Tenchi watching Ryo-oh-ki and Ryoko disappear into the vastness of the catacombs.
"Ok you guys I got everything set up… watch out Tenchi, Ayeka!" Screams out Washu as a machine suddenly tries to strike Ayeka only for its weapon to bounce of her shield, both Tenchi and Ayeka turn around at the machine as it transforms into a being known as the Nightbringer by the other alien races, how to Tenchi and the people of earth the Nightbringer looks like death himself.
"Ayeka go join Washu, Sasami and Mihoshi please I'll keep this thing busy until Ryoko comes back with Kyoko." Tenchi powers up his weapon and slashes at the Nightbringer. The sword cuts clean through him, however the Nightbringer isn't affected by him at all and slashes at Tenchi, with its powerful scythe, Washu and the others can only hold on and hope Tenchi holds the Nightbringer off long enough for the others to come and aid him.
However outside Kyoko's Tau alter ego Commander Shadowrun has told the current Tau Commander about what he has got. Tau Commander Fargone however gives Kyoko/Shadowrun the key and tells him/her to destroy it However Kyoko doesn't understand what he means.
"In the name of the greater good I order you to destroy the machine, I will hold the line here take three squads of my best fire warriors and destroy it." The Tau commander then opens fire on a Necron warrior before ordering Shadowrun/Kyoko to go. "Take these and use them on the machine, it maybe a transport to other dimensions we can let the Necron menace or anyone for that fact use it to abuse such methods now go." After giving Shadowrun/Kyoko the bombs Kyoko turns and flees just as Ryoko and Ryo-oh-ki fires a blast from underground causing another large hole to appear again which Ryo-oh-ki uses to fly high up into the sky firing on the Necrons and being careful to a void hitting any Tau targets, Ryoko spots Kyoko and flies above him before beaming him up.
"I see that you got the two keys bro." Smiled Ryoko as Kyoko sat down disengaging his Shadowrun alter ego, Kyoko nods before showing Ryoko both keys.
"That I did now let us get the hell out of here." Replied Kyoko a he still held onto the two bombs Fargone had given him.
Ryo-oh-ki enters the same whole again and flies back to the others at top speed, when they get there however they see Tenchi battle a giant grim reaper style being.
"Ryoko get Ryo-oh-ki to fire at the edge, the creature should fall Ill get Tenchi!" Ryoko nods and Kyoko gets beamed down beside Washu and throws her the keys and the bombs. "Ok Washu get us home and set them bombs by the console, set it for two minutes." Washu nods and inserts the keys causing the big massive gate to open up. Ryo-oh-ki then opens fire, as Kyoko flies towards Tenchi grabbing him and getting him out of harms way. The blast hits the ridge causing the Nightbringer to lose its concentration and power, the result is that it changes back into the Necron lord and falls to its death, its metal shell slamming off the jagged cliff as it falls only to be buried by the falling rock from the blast.
"Well its looks like its time to go home you guys, lets' go and leave this darkened world to its own fate." Everyone smiles and enters the portal as the bombs count down to a large explosion, now they can go back to Tenchi's house and rest up and forget about their time there.
Well that's it story finished, I am sorry that the ending is rushed but I could seem to think on how to make the fic last longer so I decided to finish it quick sorry if any of you are disappointed. Farewell for now.