Tenchi Muyo! What in the world is going on? (Good Sample) "Tenchi Muyo" and all its characters are owned by Pioneer LDC, AIC, and its contributors. All rights reserved. I reserve all rights to the story and plot though. *grins* Tenchi Masaki was just waking up to the sound of heavy rain outside, and as he rubbed his eyes, sat up, and opened his window blind he realized that it was really dark out today. Black clouds blotted out the sun, and Tenchi yawned. "Oh man. I hope I don't have to do any work outside today in that kind of weather." He looked around his room, noticing that Ryoko wasn't anywhere in it, and shrugged, deciding to go get ready for the day. Tenchi opened the door to his room to see that Ryoko was asleep on the floor right next to his door, leaning against the wall with her head hanging forward. He sighed. She had listened to him when he said he didn't want her in his room all night, but now she was taking to sleeping NEAR his room, to protect him or something. Tenchi kneeled down next to the sleeping Ryoko, gently picked her up and carefully carried her into his room, setting her on his bed. Ryoko moaned softly, turning over onto her side. He heard a soft thunderclap. "Don't want you to get all stiff or anything." He said softly. He pulled the bed sheet over her, then stopped and watched her sleep, a smile on his face. He shook his head lightly and went back to the morning routine. Mihoshi was tiredly trying to pilot her ship back to Tenchi's house, exhausted from that extremely long ship-chase she'd had to do. She had gotten a call from Yukinojo that a stolen ship was in the area, and had gone up in her ship to arrest the suspect. It took her three hours to finally catch and arrest that crazy driver, and she'd gone clear across two whole sectors! She had caught him though, receiving more praise for catching another wanted criminal and being offered another position in central command. She'd refused, wanting to stay in the area she was in, near Earth. Her superiors had accepted this answer reluctantly, and now she was on her way back, but at least she had just passed Earth's moon. Mihoshi yawned as Yukinojo told her there was a strange energy pocket forming directly in their path. "What do you mean? Is it like that last time?" she questioned. "I'm afraid not Mihoshi. If we where to collide with this one, this ship would be badly damaged, but due to its sudden formation we can not totally avoid it!" Mihoshi gasped and shouted, "We're being pulled towards this one too! Oh no!!" She immediately grabbed the controls and pulled them back, pressing buttons with her other hand, but it was no use. Her ship trembled as the energy pocket fought to keep hold of them, then her ship jerked forward and began to spiral towards it. Mihoshi screamed and held onto the control chair, closing her eyes at the sudden flood of bright light. Cheerfully humming a tune she had known since she was little (in spite of the dreary weather), Sasami set the last dish on the table, then set a small plate of mixed vegetables down on the floor near the table for Ryo-ohki. "Breakfast is ready!" she shouted, just as Tenchi entered the room. "Great! I'm really hungry!" he said, then looking around. "But where is Ayeka and Mihoshi? And Washu?" Sasami sighed, answering "Ayeka should be down soon, but Washu is still in her lab working on that magnetic bomb. Mihoshi has been gone since last night... I hope nothing happened to her." Tenchi noticed the worried look that was on Sasami's face, and smiled at her. "Don't worry! Mihoshi's a Galaxy Police officer, after all! I'm sure she's just busy catching criminals!" Sasami nodded, grinning a bit as Ryo-ohki rushed into the room. "You're probably right Tenchi. Hey! Ryo-ohki! You can't eat until everyone's here!" Sasami exclaimed as she snatched Ryo-ohki away from the vegetables just as the cabbit was going to chow on the carrot pieces. "I'll go get...Washu. Hopefully she doesn't want to experiment on me again!" Tenchi told her as he entered the scientist's domain, feeling a little nervous. When Tenchi entered the door to the lab though, instead of finding himself in the normal entrance where Washu usually was, he found himself tumbling down into empty space. He let out a surprised shout just as he hit hard on some kind of large circular object, which knocked the wind out of him. After recovering enough to move, Tenchi looked up to see the doorway he fell out of about twenty feet above him. It closed and vanished. "Oh great. Wonder where I am now?" he said, standing up cautiously on the pile of machinery he was on. Tenchi looked around to find that there was nothing but huge mountains of things all around him: busted machinery, large metallic domes twice as big as his house (thrown about in various directions), huge multi-colored crystals, destroyed ships, and all sorts of things he couldn't even recognize. While he stared at the 'scenery' he didn't notice the small blue orb now floating behind him. Snapping out of his awe, he suddenly remembered something. "I've got to figure out how to get out of here!" He looked down at his feet to see if he could find anything useful, but nothing stood out. Just as he decided to try to build up some kind of pile to the doorway, he heard a couple of voices. "Well what do we have here, A?" "Looks like a visitor to me, B!" Tenchi turned around to see that the voices belonged to a pair of little chibi-robots (or something) that beared a resemblance to Washu. (One had an A on its belt and the other had a B) He grinned a little at the sight, and noticed that when they talked they flapped their arms up and down. "Lets give him our super- great intro, A!" one said. "The GREATEST intro, B!" From out of nowhere spotlights appeared on them and they began to do some kind of spinning dance. A large sweat bead appeared on Tenchi's face. Washu, now sitting at the table waiting patiently for Ayeka and Ryoko, looked over at Sasami (who had Ryo-ohki on her head) as she came back from the kitchen with a drink. "Oh there you are Washu! Tenchi got you out here pretty quick this time! Is he still in the lab?" Washu gave Sasami a curious look. "What are you talking about? He didn't come in my lab." She said. Sasami raised an eyebrow, replying "But I just saw him go in there a few minutes ago! You didn't see him?" Washu shook her head. "I was right at the entrance Sasami. No one came in." Sasami got a worried look on her face again. "What happened to Tenchi then?" Washu thought for a moment, then turned to face the door to her lab, bringing up her computer screen and hitting a few keys. Nothing visibly happened to the door, but Washu got up and opened it to reveal the storage room that was there before her lab. There was nothing in it. "Nope. That isn't it." Washu sighed and restored her lab. Sasami frowned and started to say "But-" when Washu held up a hand. "I believe you Sasami, but I can't see where Tenchi would be. He would have to either end up in my lab or in the storage room. Unless..." Before Washu could finish, Ryoko appeared at the table and smiled at them. "Good morning!" she stated, but then she noticed that Washu and Sasami where looking a little concerned about something. "What's going on?" Ryoko asked. "Tenchi went into that door but didn't come into Washu's lab!" Sasami stated, looking panicked. "What? What's that mean?" Ryoko asked, turning to Washu, who sighed and looked at the computer screen. "Earlier today I noticed some dimensional fluctuations around this area, but they where minor, and I stopped monitoring them about an hour ago. They could be occurring more frequently with greater magnitude right now, and since I wasn't able to determine the factor that caused them, I really don't know how long this will last." Sasami and Washu just blinked. "What's a dimensional fluc... tuation?" questioned Sasami. "That means that some really weird things are going to be happening around here for a while. So be prepared for anything." Ryoko and Sasami nodded, still not quite sure of what this was about. Noboyuki then enter the room and greeted them, getting ready to eat some breakfast. Ryoko closed her eyes and smiled at him, then heard cloth ripping or something, then she heard a thud. "Huh?" she said, looking around. Sasami and Washu where staring at her in amazement, but Noboyuki was passed out on the floor, his nose bleeding (and twitching every few seconds or so, too). Ryoko then looked at herself and found that her clothes where gone! Standing up and clenching her fists, she flew up into the air vanished. "Told ya! It's getting weirder already! Her clothes just burst into cloth confetti!" Washu stated with a slight smile. Sasami's face turned a deep red color. "Uh-oh....I hope that doesn't happen to me. Especially around Tenchi! I better get some tape!" With that Sasami rushed off to find some duct tape, and Washu burst into laughter. She could tell the young princess that tape wouldn't stop her clothing from doing what Ryoko's had, but what would be the fun in that? She wanted to see how much tape Sasami was going to use. After Washu had gotten control over herself, she went over to revive Noboyuki. A few minutes later a scream could be heard throughout the house, and Ayeka rushed downstairs with a furious look on her face. "Washu! Sasami! Come and help me stop Ryoko! That villain is ransacking my room!!" Washu looked at her for a second, then said "Ok!" and followed Ayeka up to her room. Washu could guess what had happened, but she still wanted to see this. Ayeka led her into her room and pointed towards Ryoko, who had thrown nearly all of the princess's clothing on the floor into a huge heap, and also who was now wearing one of Ayeka's kimonos! "Oh man!! This is a little tight on my chest!" Ryoko stated, pulling it up a little to loosen it. "How dare you! You're going to stretch all my beautiful outfits out and ruin them! What do you think you're doing?!" Ayeka shouted at the similarly dressed Ryoko. "Ayeka, don't get too upset. All of Ryoko's clothing was destroyed. Just like I had expected." Washu said casually. "You see, we're having some kind of dimensional fluctuations here. Those basically change certain factors of the reality that we know, and can be somewhat... bizarre for that lack of a better word. So now Ryoko has NO clothing. It's all confetti." Ayeka stared at Washu, then turned to Ryoko, who said "Noboyuki passed out the second he saw me! I'm never going to be in the same room with him again!" Ayeka smiled a little at this, then heard her sister come in. "I'm all ready! Now let's go find Tenchi!" Sasami said with a smile, now wearing a shiny silver dress. "Sasami?...where did you get that outfit? It's simply..." Ayeka started. Washu grinned and stepped towards Sasami, taking a closer look at the dress. Looking at the sleeve, you could see a bit of blue cloth underneath the silver. Washu stepped back and began laughing, while Ayeka and Ryoko got confused expressions on their faces. Laughing even harder now, Washu managed to burst out "It's...it's ...made of...tape!!" and continued laughing so hard she had to lean up against the wall. "Huhhh??" (Ayeka and Ryoko) "Wellll...I didn't want my clothes to fly off like Ryoko's, so I put this tape all over this dress! I hope it works!!" There was a minute of silence, and Ryoko and Ayeka both burst out laughing like Washu. "Hey! Tenchi wouldn't laugh at me!!" Sasami said angrily, getting no response from any of them as they continued. "Hmph!!" Sasami crossed her arms and left the room, slamming the door behind her to lessen the sound. (Note: Tsunami's probably laughing at this too.) Tenchi was still trying to figure out a way to get out of wherever he was, except now those weird chibi-Washu dolls where following him. "Come on A! Let's help out our Visitor!" "You got it B! He needs our help!" Tenchi sighed. It wasn't so bad that they followed him but how they talked! And they hardly stopped! "Hey you two, can you tell me if there's a way to get out of here? I don't really even know how I got here, you see, cause I was just trying to get into Washu's lab and..." Before he could finish the little robots got an angry (or the angriest they could) expression and shouted "WASHU?!? No way! We wont help a friend of Washu!" one said. "That's right! No help for you! You can forget it!" the other said. With the they quickly hopped down the steep hill or junk they where on and ran off. "Oh great. Now what?" Tenchi said. The camera pans out to show him standing on the top of a huge 'moutain' with no way to get down and no way to get up to the door he fell out of. More to come! Author note: This is a part of a longer story that I'm working on, which I will submit later. This is just so you know that I'm not dead or anything, and so my writing gets read (even if it's a small part). The rest will come soon, but im planning this to be a long story, so there will be a lot more.