Masaki Family Secrets...
Author: Daferge
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Disclaimer: Tenchi Muyo! is a copyright of AIC/Pioneer Ltd.
All respective characters are property of their original owners. All original characters and ideas are the property of the author...
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Masaki Family Secrets...
Chapter 02... Abduction part 01...
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( Sub-space near Galaxy Police headquarters... )
Due to the work that the Galaxy Police did, as well as it's importance, a restrictive zone had been established around the huge space station(platform)...
In fact, it was almost an artificial world, located in an uninhabited section of space in a centrally located section of the galaxy...
It was several times larger than it's original station and indeed was far from where it had originally been built...
As the inhabited Galaxy had expanded in the past several thousand years, it's Headquarters had been moved to keep it centrally located...
It had been at it's present location only a few hundred years...
Not because inhabited space hadn't expanded, but because modes of transportation had advance to the point of making the need to move unnecessary...
Thus the restricted sphere around it was watched by the most advanced scanners and defended by the most powerful weapons available...
Only the Juraian Empire and the Airaian Kingdom had more powerful weaponry and they both maintained close relations with the GP...
The only place said to have better security would be the Juraian home world, greatly improved since the Space Pirate Ryoko carved a trail of destruction through their defenses 700 years before...
It was said that an ion particle couldn't come near the headquarters without being detected and any one foolish enough to try, would likely end up as ion particle them selves...
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Thus, the Grand Marshal of the GP had decided that this was the best place for the patrol ship, the Yukinojo and it's pilot..
The Yukinojo was an experimental craft that was the most advanced to come off the GP drawing boards in several centuries...
Outfitted with the latest shielding available, it also was armed with new experimental weapons that gave it the firepower of larger capital ships...
Weapons capable of destroying a small planet if it fell into the wrong hands, operated by an artificial intelligence computer that was self aware, in other-words, able to think for it's self...
But that had been a major requirement, for the system to survive working with it's unusual pilot...
Detective First-Class Kuramitsu Mihoshi, was a very unusual person indeed...
Young, attractive, with a sweet and shy personality, she should have been surrounded by lots of friends and a horde of males...
HOWEVER, she also had the worst 'LUCK' of any one within the GP, perhaps within the entire Galaxy...
Things often happened when she was around, people around her had accidents and electrical equipment, burned out or exploded...
Not ALL the time, just enough to catch people's attention...
A number of years before, her only partner had gone MIA and since then no one wanted to partner up with her...
In fact, many people thought the only thing keeping her in the GP was her connection with the Grand marshal, her grandfather...
However, all that seem to change recently...
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While out on patrol, in a quiet backwater section of space, on the very edge of explored space, something had happen...
Unknown to most people ( only the highest officials with TOP - TOP SECRET clearance ) officer Mihoshi had come into contact with a group of people who would greatly effect the Galaxy's future...
They started off by, with her help, removing the Galaxy plague known as Kagato as a threat to galaxy peace...
Unknown to the Galaxy, she had made contact with one Tenchi Masaki, a shy young boy who happen to be, he had recently discovered, a prince of the might Juraian Empire and as such next in line to be Emperor...
Also present were the two missing princesses of that same Empire as well as the most wanted criminal, next to Kagato, the demon space pirate Ryoko...
Throw in a 'Mad scientist', who had been missing for several thousand years, who was know for creating weapons capable of destroying the Galaxy and you had a real security problem...
Oddly, instead of creating trouble ( major trouble ), Mihoshi seem to get alone with the group ( family ) and had been assigned to patrol the sector their planetbwas in, watching, reporting ( directly to the Grand Marshal ) and keeping the rest of the galaxy safe...
An excellent situation for all, until a short time ago...
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But Galaxy event tend to effect every thing, given time , even this unusual group, causing it's breakup and ending with the death of the boy, prince Tenchi...
Upon receiving news of his death, Mihoshi, awaiting reassignment at GP headquarters, went into a daze-like state that only work, aboard the Yukinojo, brought her out of...
Thus, for her protection (and to a degree, the galaxy's ), she had been assignned to patrol the zone around GP headquarters...
It was her AI and protector, Yukinojo who drew her attention to the controls and away from the small picture she had been staring at for the past hour...
A picture, taken before the breakup, of her, smiling, her head resting on the shoulder of a dark haired young male who seem to be a bit nervous...
( THAT was because Washu was having trouble restraining both Ayeka and Ryoko, while she took a picture of Mihoshi and her good friend, Tenchi Masaki... Sasami was trying not to laugh, while Tenchi's father and grandfather weren't even trying... )
It had been a gift to Mihoshi for her help when they had defeated Kagato...
Now it was her most cherished possession, all she had from that wonderful time...
If only it could have continued...
Another tear ran down her cheek...
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( In Sub-space... )
A figure sat in a large command chair, looking at the screen floating in the air before him and the very familiar craft that was on it...
Dressed in a hooded cloak, their face was hidden in it's shadows, an effect that was desired...
They sighed...
Chuckling drew their attention to a female figure, dressed in a tight, black jumpsuit that matched the color of her long black hair...
A smile, hidden by a veil, appeared on Washu's lips as she watched Tenchi's jaw dropped...
Yea, I've still got it...
Coming closer, she reached into the hood and gentled used a finger to lift his jaw...
She considered seeing what reaction she'd get from Tenchi's father, at a later date...
She turned to look at the screen...
" Don't worry... You'll be seeing her in a bit... Have you gotten your accent down?... "
Tenchi sighed, spending hours watching old earth pirate movies had kept him from worrying about things and it had provided Washu with hours of laughter...
It seem that Earth's Water pirates weren't much different than the average Space pirates, they just had a better vocabulary...
" Avast, ye scurvy bilge-rats... Swab the deck... Er, there be no grog for ye... "
Washu managed not to laugh, however, she did manage to give him a thumbs up, a gesture she had picked up...
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On the screen the Yukinojo was approaching a space ship that had appeared in the protected zone, dropping out of sub-space without warning...
A space pirate ship, drifting...
Just as Washu had planned it, as bait...
"Unidentified craft... This is Detective First-Class Kuramitsu Mihoshi... You have entered a GP restricted area... Identify yourself! "...
There was no reply...
They watched as the Yukinojo got closer before Washu made contact and after a while, Mihoshi appeared on the screen, Yukinojo talking in the back ground...
"Mihoshi!... I can not detect the source of this message... Scans show no other crafts within range... I have informed HQ, and backup is on it's way... "
Mihoshi just stared at the screen, where a clocked figure sat in a command chair and a strange female was sitting on the chair's armrest, her hand resting on the clocked figure's shoulder...
For some reason, a sort of calm came over her, for the first time since news of Tenchi and she didn't know why...
So it took her a moment to respond to what he'd just said...
"Hum?..."
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Tenchi almost missed his cue, until Washu tapped his shoulder, hard...
"Err... Be ye de law?"
Mihoshi just stared at her screen as she nodded her head...
Washu couldn't help chuckling, that was the same look Ayeka and Ryoko got when they were alone with Tenchi...
Some thing told her that life around the Masaki house was going to be quite different once this was all over...
She pressed the button on the small pad in her hand and activated the transporter...
On the screen Mihoshi suddenly began to shimmer and then suddenly vanished from the Yukinojo's Bridge...
As the screen closed a high pitched voice filled the air...
"Mihoshi!... MIHOSHI!... MI...HO...SHI!..."
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Mihoshi now found herself standing on the bridge that had been on her screen just a moment before and she reached for her gun, only to find it was gone...
Looking up she discovered that the female figure now held it in her hand and she froze...
It was beginning to look like this was the end of her career, perhaps it was better this way...
As the female started to stand, the other figure took their arm and stopped her...
Rising, the strange figure slowly approached Mihoshi and she closed her eyes, ready for any thing...
What she was not ready for was the soft fingers which stroked her cheek, catching her tears...
And then there was the soft sweet voice, inches from her ear...
" Live, Mihoshi... LIVE!... "
And she felt soft lips plant a kiss on her trembling cheek...
Her eyes shot open, only to slowly glaze over and close again...
A very deep sigh escaped her lips as a very big smile appeared on her face and she fainted...
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Washu stood over the smiling Mihoshi, Tenchi, his hood pushed back, on the other side...
" Got to admit I didn't see that one coming... "
Seeing Tenchi about to say some thing, she continued, holding up her hand, the one with Mihoshi's gun in it...
" Not a word... Not... A... Word... "
Tenchi smiled and didn't say any thing...
Kneeling down, Tenchi managed to carefully pick Mihoshi up...
It seem that all that working in the field and practicing with his grandfather was beginning to pay off...
As he carried her to the room that Washu had fixed for her, Washu smiled...
Tenchi was beginning to get past his shyness...
Recent events were showing him where his heart was and that he'd better start doing some thing before he lost it all, forever...
Her little guinea pig was growing up, he was maturing and she was so proud of him...
Who knew what the next couple of hundred, maybe several thousand years would bring...
She smiled, she had the time...
She began to chuckle...
All the time in the Galaxy...
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To be continued...
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