Title: "Scorp Series Episode 2: No Need for Insanity" Author: Kyle Peck E-mail: crazy_kyle_hw@yahoo.com Disclaimer: Legal babbles.Tenchi Muyo! belongs to Pioneer. Your pants belong to Pioneer. Author's notes: This is a regular fic. My second episode I have made. The whole gang minus Mihoshi and Kiyone are sitting at the table surrounding another one of Sasami's eloquent meals. Scorp stands in the living room, staring out at the lake. Sasami leans over to Washu. "Hey, Washu, doesn't he eat anything?" Washu turns to look at Sasami. "Sometimes, but he usually just runs off his power cell." Sasami looks through the doorway at the cyborg and smiles. "Well then does he cook?" Washu facefaults. "Scorp Series Episode 2: No Need for Insanity" After the meal, Sasami and Ayeka clean the dishes. Tenchi starts to go back to his room to try to finish repairing his project, Ryoko following him all the way. "Come on Tenchi, let's go play outside. You can do your silly project another time." Yosho begins to return to the shrine and Noboyuki goes into the living room to watch TV. "Hey, uh, Scorp is it? Do you watch any television?" The cyborg still stares blankly at the lake. "Ok then, uh, is there anything you do beside stand like a statue? Hehhehheh." The machine reaches with a large right hand and opens the sliding door leading outside, small sparks and a wisp of smoke billow from the machine's large head. Noboyuki looks surprised. "Eh? What's he doing?" Ryo-ohki is outside resting on a rock when Scorp walks by, heading towards the lake. "Miya?" asked Ryo-ohki. Oblivious to the small cabbit, Scorp continues moving towards the lake where Ryo-oh's tree had grown to the height of about three feet. Each step closer seems to cause more smoke to sway from the top of his head. A few more sparks go off and he stops a few yards from the edge of the lake. "No, this is dangerous. Why haven't they noticed this before?" Something made a light popping noise in Scorp's ear and the machine opened the jumpjets across its back, soaring more than thirty feet into the air above the lake. "I must stop this." He levels both his hands and his large scorpion tail down at the lake. "They must be destroyed before they cause any harm to master!" Ryo-ohki miyad in concern and started bounding towards the house. "Miya, Miya!" Noboyuki looked up from his TV and looked outside at the figure hovering high above the lake. "What the?" More smoke billowed from the cyborg's head and he laughed a maniacal laugh that rivaled that of Washu's "End it, NOW!" At this moment all of his weapons fired down towards the lake. Two ruby beams from his arms and a large blue beam from his tail slid toward the lake, merging as they went. When the beams hit the water a large flash of light spread across the mountainside. Ryo-ohki is picked up by the blast and is thrown down on her face, knocking her unconscious. "Miya." The water of the lake seems to create a gigantic bubble and explodes in a quaking fury, spraying water high into the air. The cyborg looks down upon the waves and chuckles. "Mission accomplished." But to his horror, when the waves settled he realized that his attack didn't even knock a leaf off Ryo-oh's tree much less destroy the gamma disturbance resonating from the two drowned ships. "No." Suddenly the gamma rays get to Scorp's internal system filling him with radio broadcast and secure access transmissions. "Bzzt.currently the gangs in Tokyo have caused heavy police and civilian casualties.zzt.right now all efforts to stop the stolen military tank have been futile and the loss of two police officers.zap.an explosion rocked the Tokyo Tower today, officials say twenty were killed and thirty-five were injured." The new relay of information was maddening for the machine. "No. make.it.stop!" Everyone from the house was looking up at him from the front porch. Washu cried out. "Oh-no! What's wrong with him! He seems to be losing sensory control!" She pulls out her holocomputer and starts typing at some keys. "Oh my, it says there is an overdose of gamma radiation in his mind. It seems to have blown out the shield I put in place so he would not get an overload of radio transmissions and broadcasts!" Tenchi ran up beside Washu. "What does that mean, Washu?" Washu quickly typed some more keys on the holocomputer and a self- destruct button popped up. "It means if we don't stop him now, he's going to go haywire!" As she is about to push the red and yellow button, her holocomputer smokes and explodes, covering the group in smoke and ash. Washu turned to the group. "This is bad, very, very bad." The cyborg makes a clasp at his head and releases a scream of pure insanity. "Noooooo!" Scorp targets all three of his weapons at the gate and a few seconds later it is reduced to glowing slag. After the glow settles he turns and heads towards the nearest city, Tokyo. Washu quickly ran into the house yelling back over her shoulder. "I need to get the spare remote. It will shut him down but we have to get within twenty feet of him. One of you contact Kiyone and Mihoshi, we might need their help in this." Washu runs into her lab and grabs the small controller. "What a mess, something must still be activated on Ryo-oh and the original Ryo-ohki that is creating those radiation waves." She looks at the control. "That tail was meant to be used as a shield. How'd he get it to work as a weapon?" Tenchi had reached the communicator that Mihoshi left behind at the house since their last visit. "Come in, Kiyone, can you hear me?" Washu emerges from her lab with the control as Kiyone answers. "What is it Tenchi? What's the problem?" Washu grabs the communicator from Tenchi's hand. "Listen, Kiyone, you and Mihoshi have to go about a kilometer south of Tokyo. Scorp, the cyborg we told you about, has gone berserk and is heading that way. You must try to hold him off long enough for us to arrive there. If he makes it to Tokyo or if any of the humans see him then there could be trouble, you understand?" Kiyone's answer came hesitantly. "Right, we'll try our best as Galaxy Police officers." Mihoshi's protest can be heard through the mike but is cut off quickly. "Wha." "Ok Tenchi, lets get the others and Ryo-ohki and hurry up. We don't have much time." Ayeka looked up from where she was with the unconscious cabbit. "That might be a little bit of a problem, Ryo-ohki has been knocked out." Washu sighed and took out a bucket of cold water from behind her back. "No problem." She splashed the water onto Ryo-ohki and the startled, cold, and wet cabbit came-to. Washu snickered. "Ok, let's go." *********************************************************************** *************** Kiyone and Mihoshi were standing in the middle of a field about one kilometer from Tokyo. Mihoshi was behind Kiyone crying buckets. All Kiyone was doing was watching her communicator; beads of sweat forming at her brow. "Washu said the cyborg would come this way." Suddenly a large explosion was heard and a nearby farmhouse was reduced to rubble. "There!" shouted Kiyone as she pointed to a black dot in the sky. "Mihoshi, quick! Fire at it with your blaster." Mihoshi, still in tears, began shooting along with Kiyone, who was rushing towards the mechanical nightmare. Scorp was about to head on his way when the blaster fire hit his left shoulder, sending small chunks of armor chipping towards the ground. "How dare they interfere. I must destroy them! Destroy them ALL!" At this he raised one of his arm lasers towards Kiyone, while bringing up the shield contained in his tail. Before his shield becomes full, she hits him again in the right leg with the blaster, spinning the machine a bit to the right, causing him to fire a few inches off his target of Kiyone. The force from the blast sent Kiyone stumbling, landing on her face in a pile of rocks. Mihoshi yelled out from far away. "Kiyone! Get up Kiyone! Please!" Kiyone struggled to get up, a large gash was cut across her forehead and it was bleeding heavily. Scorp lowered himself to just a few yards over Kiyone. "Now you die for your insolence, Galaxy Police Officer Kiyone!" Aiming his duo lasers directly at her body Kiyone could do nothing but gasp. As the light from the coils within his weapons began to glow, Kiyone's life seemed to flash before her very eyes. Light flashed from the cyborg's lasers then everything went black. "Kiyone! No!" Mihoshi yelled as she dived for her partner rolling themselves just out of the laser's blast, but then getting knocked around by the force of the attack. "FOOL!" yelled the machine. "You only have succeeded in delaying the inevitable! Now you will die a slow and agonizing death!" The cyborg dropped his shield and prepared to toast the two with the large laser particle cannon mounted in his tail. "And now.now it all ends!" As the beam from his tail charged up, a large red beam from behind him caught him in the back, blasting him far off and slamming him into the ground. Large shards of armor lay where the laser had dragged the cyborg. Spaceship Ryo-ohki appeared over the horizon. "Miya!" "Yay!" shouted Mihoshi, sitting up with almost all her strength. "We're saved, Kiyone!" *********************************************************************** *************** Later, everyone was sitting around the table in the Masaki house. Tenchi was one of the first to speak. "You had a very close call there Kiyone. I hate to admit it, but if it weren't for Mihoshi you would be a pothole in that field right now." Kiyone blushed, hardly noticeable against the large bandages covering the stitches in her forehead. "Yeah well." Mihoshi interrupted her. "That's right, cause we two are the best partners in the galaxy, partners forever is what I always say." Kiyone sighed and said to herself. Tenchi then turned to Washu. "Hey, Little Washu, What happened to Ky.err.Scorp?" Washu looked up from her tea. "Well, I first had to strip him of his weapons, shield included. It was easy because he was in pretty bad shape from Ryo-ohki's attack so he had already lost the tail and his left laser." Tenchi still seemed curious. "Well, where is he now?" Washu frowned slightly. "I decided he wasn't ready for this world yet, so I put him under cryogenic hibernation. I did, of course replace the transmission shield. And the radiation emanating from Ryo-oh and the original Ryo-ohki has been shut off. " Everyone released a sigh of relief. *********************************************************************** *************** Deep in Washu's lab a blue cryogenic tank with the torn up 6'6 cyborg sat in a wired corner of the dimension. Scorp thought to himself. Sad classical music can be heard playing from the capsule, ringing out throughout the lab. The End Preview of next episode: Next time, another one of Washu's inventions in progress breaks down, creating dark entities of Washu and the rest of the gang. Who will be able to stop these evil monsters? Find out in "Scorp Series Episode 3: No Need for Sacrifices". Author's note: I hope my first series will please you all. Sorry for my butchering of the English language. Final thought: Any comments/complaints send them to crazy_kyle_hw@yahoo.com. Cars also accepted.