Title: "Scorp Series Episode 3: No need for Sacrifices" Author: Kyle Peck E-mail: crazy_kyle_hw@yahoo.com Disclaimer: Legal babbles.Tenchi Muyo! belongs to Pioneer. Your wife belongs to Pioneer. Author's notes: This is a regular fic. My third episode I have made. This beginning sounds familiar. The cryogenic capsule containing the 6'6 slightly damaged cyborg continues to play its classical music. Washu looks up from her holocomputer and turns in the general direction of the capsule. "Would you please stop that! I'll finish repairing you as soon as I'm done with this projection cannon, alright!" The music stops and Scorp replies with the speakers of the capsule hooked up to his mind. "Yes, master." Washu sighs in exasperation. "And don't call me master. Yet." A moment of silence passes. "Yes, master." After rolling her eyes she turns back to the cannon. "Ok then, let's test this thing out." The two puppets pop out on her shoulders. "Go, Washu!" "It's gonna work Washu!" Washu presses the start button on the machine. The large hulk of metal hums to life and a few parts of it begin shaking. "Ok then, let's test it on.hmm.this chair would be nice." A metal chair appears out in front of the projection cannon. As Washu continues typing at the control panel the weapon begins to hum louder. "Ok, FIRE!" Washu presses a dark red button on the cannon and the chair is instantly phased into nothingness. "Scorp Series Episode 3: No Need for Sacrifices" Washu jumped up and began celebrating. "Hooray! It works! I, the super genius of the universe, have done it again." The cyborg smiled within. "Congratulations, master Washu." Washu turned on her heels to look at Scorp. "Well, what did you expect. I am the greatest scientist the universe has ever known." Washu was too busy praising herself in front of Scorp to realize the smoke billowing from her machine. Sniffing the air a moment later she takes account the smell of smoke. "What the?" Washu turns just in time to see her machine explode, knocking her back against the cryogenic capsule and unconscious. "Master Washu!" yelled the machine. He tried to move but the extreme cold inside the unit had frozen all of his bodily motor systems. In the middle of the rubble of the machine, small balls of electric light floated into the air. Two of the balls hovered over to where Washu was laid out, unconscious, and the helpless, slightly damaged cyborg was stuck in the cryogenic freezer. The first ball floated real low to Washu, and with a quick motion went into Washu's chest. "No!" Scorp yelled and tried to move but the power of the cold held him in check. A gasping sound could be heard from the scientist and the ball of light emerges once again. After making a shrill sound it began to take form. The cyborg watched helplessly as the light turned dark and then grew to the height of Washu. It formed hair and clothing similar to Washu's and when it is completed the monster opens it's eyes, revealing a bright red glow. After the transforming stopped the real Washu began to stir on the floor. The dark entity version of Washu looks down upon the genius and kicks her in the back. Scorp cries out as he watches his master skid across the lab floor and run into another one of her machines. "No! Stop!" The evil Washu turned her gaze to the machine trapped in the cryogenic container. She nods to the other balls of light and they leave and head out of the lab and into the house. One of the other balls of light stays behind and hovers around the cryogenic capsule. After the evil Washu nods, the ball plunges itself into the glass and starts to dig deeper into the ice. Scorp can only watch as the energy ball gets closer and closer. As the ball reaches the last few centimeters of ice separating it from the cyborg, it stops. Wondered Scorp. Even the evil Washu seemed surprised. The little ball had frozen to death within the cryogenic fluid. The cyborg starts to laugh but the notion is quickly quashed when he sees the evil Washu hold up some cable wire. The dark entity smiles as it clutches its hands around the wires leading to the capsule and with a quick jerk she pulls them from the machine. Scorp's eyes widen. "What? No!" His mind slowly starts to shut down as the life-support systems fail. The last thing he sees is the dark entity turning and walking over to the unconscious Washu. "No. Washu." Suddenly the cyborg's world goes black. *********************************************************************** *************** He seems to wake up. Scorp opens his eyes and looks around. He can barely see anything a few yards ahead of him; the rest of this world is completely black. "Where am I? Is this a dream?" He turns to a bright flash and sees Washu. He falls to his knees. He is surprised that he can even move. He bows his head to Washu. "Master, where are we? What are we doing here?" Washu stared at him. Her face is pale. "Master Washu, what is wrong?" The cyborg looks at the childlike scientist. His blue human eyes begin to tear up. "Master, please answer." The pale figure suddenly seems to rot away to a pile of dust, dark blood pours from every opening. A ghostly wail seems to escape from the lips of the corpse as it deteriorates. Scorp jumps to his feet and takes a few steps backwards. "What? No! It can't be real. It can't!" He stumbles over something on the dark floor, causing him to land on his back. The cyborg looks down towards where the object lay. There was a piece of clothing. The piece didn't seem empty, though, and Scorp moved closer to it for further inspection. As he neared it he saw what looked like a person inside. "Ryoko. Is that you Ryoko?" He reaches out with his hand and turns the body over. His human side near jumped out of its mechanical shell. "Oh my god.no." The face stared at him with empty eye sockets. Worms seethed from gaping holes in the flesh. On further inspection Scorp saw a large blast wound that seemed to have went through her chest. "But this is one of Ryoko's attacks." The machine stood to his feet and when he looked up he saw that he was no longer in the dark world but in the field outside the Masaki home. When he looked around he saw that the vegetable garden had been reduced to a smoking crater. In the middle of which lied the corpses of Sasami and Ryo-ohki. Parts of guardian Kamadake lie scattered around the crater. Apparently he too was destroyed by one of his own attacks. "What.what is going on here?" Scorp turns from the scene and runs back towards the house. On his way he happens to look out to the lake. Ryo- oh's tree has been destroyed and by the lakeside lie the pieces of guardian Azaka along with a corpse nearby. Scorp realized who the other corpse was. The bodies regal clothing still smoked, strands of purple hair were burning, the face twisted into an expression of utter terror. "She was begging for mercy." Scorp burst through the house door. "Anyone here!" He answered his own question when he saw the burnt bodies of Noboyuki and Mihoshi (Is this a bad thing?) lying in the middle of the living room. Scorp thanks his maker, Washu, that he does not have the sense of smell. He walked throughout the house and came to a large section of the wall that had been destroyed. "Hmm. I wonder which Ryoko did this one." He looked out of the hole and saw the shrine. It was ablaze along with most of the surrounding forest. "Scanners show the lifeless bio for Tenchi, Katsuhito, and Kiyone. Wreckage of Yagami also detected. "Those three and Ryoko seemed to put up the greatest fight. Speaking of Ryoko, where is she? I haven't seen her yet." He walks through the hole and begins to head toward the shrine. When he reaches the bottom of the stairs he sees a puddle of blood. It was also splattered across the first few steps. The victim seemed to have then been dragged into the woods indicated by the trail of blood. Scorp follows the trail a few yards into the forest. When he nears the end he sees the familiar cyan hair of Ryoko. She is sitting down against a tree. "Ryoko, it's you." The space pirate looks up at the cyborg. Tears stream down her face. She is clutching her arm around her chest. The cyborg kneeled by her side. "What happened?" "They killed us.killed us all." Her words come out strained and her breath is short. The cyborg takes out the medical supply he holds in a compartment at his side. "I.couldn't save him." The tears on Ryoko's face grew darker. They were replaced by blood. "I.I tried but all." she weakly points to another figure across from them. It is one of the dark entities the same shape and height of Ryoko. "That was all. I could do." "Ryoko, you must calm down, you have been wounded." Scorp starts taking out some gauze from the kit. "I'll have you fixed up in no time. I promise." Ryoko's eyes seemed to soften but then they grow wide with terror as she looks past Scorp. The blood tears stream down her face. Scorp also looks up and sees past Ryoko three pairs of glowing red eyes. He turns and sees another three behind him. "That's.them." Gasps Ryoko. "They." "Stay calm Ryoko. You must." He turns to the pairs of red eyes as four more join the group. He stands in front of Ryoko. "It seems all of them are here except the dark Ryo-ohki." Suddenly a sound of a laser blast is heard and two lasers shoot out through the tree and through Ryoko's head, exiting at the eyes. The now lifeless body falls to the side. Scorp cries out as the lasers go through the back of his legs, knocking him to the ground. He lands looking at the smoking body of Ryoko. "Ryoko, not you too. They're all dead.all of them." He looks up as he watches the pairs of red eyes merge with each other and form a large pair. "What?" Scorp had barely any time before a large beam flashed from its eyes and headed straight towards him. Then, as the world around him got brighter, he remembered a lesson Washu taught him. "Now my son, remember, a dream may seem like a long time, but in the real world it only takes a couple of seconds for one to pass." The laser beam rushed towards his head. ".seconds." *********************************************************************** *************** "Noo!" Scorp punches through the ten layers of cryogenic fluid and his metal fist impacts with the glass, shattering the capsule. The dark entity of Washu turns to look at the source of the noise, stopping a few feet away from the real Washu. The evil Washu only has time to see two brightly glowing white eyes before being picked up off the ground and held in the cyborg's mighty grip. She. No, it, is surprised at his amazing strength. Just seconds ago this was a damaged machine dying in a cryogenic capsule. Now it held her around the waist with one hand and held one side of evil Washu's face with the other. Scorp released a cry of pure hatred and with a sickening pop broke the neck of the struggling entity and tore the head clean off. He let both the body and the head drop to the floor and watches as the red eyes fade out. Scorp's eyes dimmed back down to their normal blue color and he walked over to the real Washu. "Are you alright Washu?" He holds out a black- blood drenched hand to the scientist and she slowly takes it in return. Washu winces as she stands up. "It must have some broken ribs or something." She slightly struggles for breath. "Listen, those balls of light can't take your form after they've already done it or already tried. We can't be copied anymore now because of those reasons." She takes in a deep breath. "You must stop them before they take on the identity of the others. I'll see what I can do from here." Her holocomputer opens up and she types a few keys. "Ok I've turned on your cutting laser. That is the only weapon I had remain and you didn't seem to know about it." "Affirmative." A new flood of information about the weapon reaches Scorp's mind. "I will stop them." Washu waves him off with her open hand. "Then get going!" Scorp runs to the door of the lab. Looking out the small window he sees the evil Noboyuki guarding the door. "I hope I'm not too late." He aims the laser at the top of the door and activates it quickly swiping downward cutting the door, the wall beyond, and the evil Noboyuki in half. He kicks down the door and sees dark blood splattered around the hallway and two neatly cut halves of the dark entity. He walks out into the hall and is greeted by two lasers. One hits him in the leg and the other goes long above his head. The evil Mihoshi and Kiyone are standing in the living room guarding the real Mihoshi and Noboyuki. With another quick reflex Scorp fires the cutting laser and it penetrates the evil Kiyone's head sending dark blood all over the two hostages and the TV set. The dark entity of Mihoshi looked at her fallen partner. "You're next, scumbag." Scorp's eyes turn a bright white. The evil Mihoshi turns and starts to run for the door. She hardly makes it a few feet. The cutting laser claims another victim. Cutting the torso off in a v-shape fashion. "I won't let a single one of you escape." Suddenly an explosion was heard from the shrine. He turns to Mihoshi and Noboyuki. "You two get into Washu's lab. You'll be safe there." The cyborg runs out the door and to the shrine. On his way he stops and sees Ryoko finish off the dark version of her. She then slumps against a nearby tree, leaving a trail of blood along the bark. "Gotya sucker." Ryoko let out a pained smirk. Scorp realizes Noboyuki following him. "Noboyuki, take Ryoko to Washu's lab. Now!" Noboyuki runs to Ryoko and lifts her up with a struggle then turns and slowly heads back to the house. Scorp starts to run up the steps. "Wish I still had my jet pack." The cyborg sees Ayeka, Sasami, Ryo-ohki, Azaka and Kamadake running down the steps. The evil Azaka and Kamadake follow them. Scorp rushes past the groups of his friends and sets out his arms 'clothesline' fashion. The evil guardians are shattered to pieces as they impact with the fists. "They'll be in hell for thirty seconds before they realize what hit them." He mutters to himself. He stops and yells back down the steps. "Get into the house and go to Washu's lab!" "Alright!" Ayeka yells back. At the top of the steps he sees Kiyone, Tenchi, and Katsuhito facing off against the evil Tenchi, Katsuhito, Ayeka, Sasami, and Ryo-ohki. They don't notice the cyborg behind them. "Tenchi." Spoke Katsuhito. "We are outnumbered but we need to try to destroy as many as we can." His glasses shined in the moonlight. Scorp steps between Kiyone and Tenchi then walks into the middle of the two groups. Kiyone looks at the cyborg, confused. "Scorp get out of there, you know you have no weapons!" The machine turns to Kiyone. "You'll be surprised." Just then the evil Ryo-ohki jumps toward the cyborg. "Miyaaa!" It takes less than half a second for Scorp to incinerate the beast with the cutting laser. Everyone, dark entities included, stare at Scorp in disbelief. The machine stands there, his metallic armor reflecting the moon's light, his eyes glowing brightly. "I saw what your kind would do here, the pain and suffering you would cause. I won't let that happen!" The dark entities glare at the cyborg and turn to each other. Scorp wonders what they are doing. "What could they be up to?" He turns to Kiyone, Tenchi, and Katsuhito. "You three better get out of here. The others are in Washu's lab." "Ok." replies Kiyone. "Be careful Scorp." Scorp smiles his half-human smile. "Affirmative." He turns back to watch the evil versions of the others start to form together. "I hope they are gone by the time it happens." He looks over his back to see if everyone is in or heading to the house, but turns back to the entities when they meld completely. The figure is at first a formless blob but then it takes shape. It rears its head, eyes glowing red like fire. Its height rivals that of Scorp's. Massive claws sprout from the demon's hands and feet while long black teeth jut from the monstrosity's mouth. Scorp gets set for battle. The monster finishes and beckons the cyborg to attack. Without hesitation Scorp fires his cutting laser at the beast. The beam hits but, to his surprise, merely bounces off, narrowly hitting Scorp's torso. "Oh-no." The monster bellows and starts to charge at the cyborg. Scorp jumps up and tries to avoid the attack but is caught in mid-air and slammed back down into the stone ground. The cyborg coughs out blood as he hits. The monster holds him to the ground; it's claws closing tightly around the cyborg's body. Scorp fires his cutting laser repeatedly into the demon's face to no avail. "Now what to do.yes that is it." He looks back and sees Kiyone go into the house, shutting the door behind her. "Ok they're safe now. Get ready to die monster." Scorp begins to focus his energy to a special device in his armor. He starts laughing as the armor plates begin to glow brighter, even as the dark monster crushes most of his ribcage. Scorp's eyes go completely blank and before the monster realizes what is happening it is too late. Scorp continues laughing as his entire set of armor explodes in a chaotic fury. The demon is enveloped in the blast and disintegrates before Scorp's eyes. A few seconds after the bright flash of light while Kiyone looks out the window, she sees Scorp's body land at the bottom of the steps. "Oh my god!" She opens the door and they all run out to the cyborg's smoking body. His entire armor had been shredded off from the attack, leaving his circuitry exposed, his left arm was torn off completely and some portions of his head were either blasted away or badly burnt. Washu pushes through the group and kneels at Scorp's side. "Scorp, are you alright?" She asked hopefully. The machine's now blue eyes looked up at Washu. " Considering I'm miss.missing a few limbs.better than.than I'll ever be.Master Washu." Washu smiles. "Please, just call me Washu." The human side of the cyborg's face smiled. "Yes, Washu." *********************************************************************** *************** The classical music is now heard in Washu's lab again. Scorp lies on a lab table surrounded by machinery of all sorts. Washu works on him constantly. "Phew. You were easy to build but don't ever get damaged again like this, it's a pain. Especially with these broken ribs." "Ye.Yes Washu." Washu claps her hands. " Oh I'm a genius. One day, my pet, you and I will take over the universe together." Washu turns to make sure Ryoko didn't hear that. The cyan-haired space pirate was lying down on another table. Her chest was wrapped with gauze, which covered over the stitches across her chest. She was fast asleep. Scorp smiled inwardly at the thought. "Maybe one day, Master Washu." He sighed to himself as he shut down for the long months of repairs and rehabilitation that lay ahead. The End Preview of next series: Next series, Scorp is back in function with a new array of gadgetry. Washu decides that the time is now to start her takeover of the universe. What will happen? Will they be stopped? Will they stop themselves? Find out in the next series.Washu's Universal Takeover. Author's note: I hope my first series has pleased you all. Sorry for my butchering of the English language. Final thought: Any comments/complaints send them to crazy_kyle_hw@yahoo.com. Friends also accepted. P.S.: If you feel like it, go ahead and MST my writings. I enjoy a little humor in my life.