Disclaimer Tenchi Muyo! and its characters are the property of Pioneer and AIC. This story and the character C32411 however, is mine. Please don't sue me, because I'm just writing this for fun. Special thanks go to my proofreader Literary Eagle, without you this fic newer would have happen ;) And not to forget my Grammar corrector Kuuta Kutani thanks to you to. Well its story time Will of things Chapter 1 "Bang! You're dead!" By Tom "TRON" Jensen (tron_dk@hotmail.com) ----------- Chapter 1 "Bang! You're dead!" Ryoko smiled to Tenchi as he came waking over to her and Sasami. The trip to the city was a really good idea, and Ayeka had to stay home, because she wasn't feeling well. She was just about to launch herself at him, when a loud SNAP! made her look at Sasami. She was holding her hands at her side, and Ryoko could see blood running out between her fingers. Ryoko was just able to catch the small princess before she fell to the ground. "Sasami!!" *** Washu was pleased with herself. 'Damm, I'm good,' she thought. It was finally finished: Washu's black hole orb. She had spent the last two weeks creating an orb which could contain a black hole. The house had been quiet since Mihoshi and Yousho had gone to Jurai, and Tenchi's father was abroad on a business trip. So things were blessed with quiet. 'Hmm... Now where to put it... Hmm... Certainly out of reach of Mihoshi.' A small shiver ran down Washu's back. She could hear the familiar voice of Mihoshi, saying, "Oops." The door to her lab got kicked open with a loud bang, and her small crab on the top of the door got totally pulverized. Ryoko stormed in with Sasami, and she was all covered in blood. *** C32411 jumped of the building and into a small alley beside it. Normally, anybody who tried to do such a thing would paint the asphalt with a bright red color. But C32411 wasn't anybody. His cyborg body enabled him to jump and endure more damage than that of a normal living person. And it made him a lot stronger. But instead of landing quietly and elegantly like he used to, he landed like a ton of bricks. He disassembled his plasma rifle and put the pieces into the special pockets of his coat. With that done, he ran down the small alley. The pain in his head was getting worse, and the CCI didn't help the problem with its constant memory error.... memory error.... memory error.... memory error.... 'CCI down,' he thought, and the voice went away. He felt bare without the CCI. His only inputs were smell, sight, and sound. It felt wrong without the IR, UV, and other sensor inputs he had disabled The end of the alley was coming up fast. It ended out in a larger street. He slowed down, so as not to catch anyone's attention. "Brother?" said a voice behind him. He swung around with his blaster in his right hand, and his plasma sword in his left. Nothing. There was nothing there. C32411 could feel a shiver running down his back. "Brother?" The voice came right beside him. He responded with a slash from his plasma sword. It passed right through a small girl who was standing beside him. "Don't you like me anymore?" the small girl asked. C32411 didn't know what to say. Instead, he aimed the blaster at her and pressed the trigger. The shot went right through her, and made a big hole in the wall behind her. "I miss you," the small girl said. C32411 was scared... Why wasn't she dead?? *** Tenchi ran as fast as he could, tears running down his face. "I'm going to get you," he snarled. When he saw Sasami shot, it was as if something clicked in him. He could see the assassin, on a roof down the street. Tenchi noticed by the blond hair that he wasn't Japanese. The weapon the assassin had used left a small smoke trail through the air leading straight back to him. "Ryoko, take her home!" he shouted, and started to run down the street to get the assassin. "Gonna get you," Tenchi snarled... Tenchi rounded a corner into a small alley. At the other end the assassin stood with a gun and a blue sword of some kind, and was staring into a big hole in the wall. Without any doubt in his mind, he got out his own lightsword and charged down the alley. C32411 couldn't think... "Ghost," he stuttered, looking at the small girl in front of him. "Mummy will very mad at you if you don't come home now," the small girl said. Another burst of pain rolled through his head. The only thing that saved C32411 from getting his body spilt into two pieces was his many years in the "process business." He just managed to get his power sword up to block the attack from the black haired male. C32411 was on the retreat. Normally, he would parry with his sword and shoot with his blaster, but the pain in his head stopped him from using anything else aside from the sword. "Gonna get you," the black haired male said. Tenchi hacked with his sword at the assassin, who parried everything that he threw at him. "Gonna get you!" he snarled. C32411 was very pressed. He moved out on the main street where people began to scream and run away. C32411 didn't know what was happening. He had never felt that kind of pain, nor had he ever messed up this bad before. The link was going to be very mad at him, he knew. He blocked another slash from the male. Then the pain began to fade away. Tenchi knew that he was in trouble. The assassin was getting better and better, and instead of being on the defensive, he began to go on the offensive more. But he had shot Sasami, and he was going to pay for that. He let loose a rain of slashes over the assassin. *** Ryoko looked at Sasami. She was drifting in a water chamber, and the water was getting red with blood. "Do something!" she shouted at Washu. "I AM doing something," replied Washu, typing at her holographic keyboard. A bright flash came from the chamber. Ryoko looked at Sasami. The terrible wound had stopped its bleeding. "She'll be all right. The shot damaged a lot of her internal organs, but I can fix those," said Washu, "By the way... Where is Tenchi?" "Tenchi! I forgot about him!" said Ryoko hurriedly as she teleported away. "Maybe I get some work down in peace, now," thought Washu. She started typing on her keyboard again, when the door to her lab burst open for the second time that day. Aeka came storming in with Ryo-ohki right behind her. "Sasami!" Aeka shouted. She stopped and looked at the pile of bloody cloth that was laying beside the water chamber. It was all too much for Aeka, and she fainted. "Great," said Washu, "Another patient." *** Back at the main street, Tenchi was beginning to tire. That damned assassin didn't want to just lay down and die. C32411 smiled. 'Time to finish this.' CCI on, status online.... status check.... ... all systems online. The black haired male in front of him recieved a pair of green brackets when the CCI target system came back online. With a grim smile on his face, he started to look for a weakness in Target 3's defense. Ryoko materialized five hundred meters over the place where Sasami had been shot. 'Now where is Tenchi at?' He was nowhere to be seen. C32411 knew that it was time to finish this. The local police had to be coming any time now, and even if this world was clearly at a primitive stage, the weapons they had could certainly hurt him. He noticed at car turning the corner at the far end of the street. It was speeding his way. He marked it as Target 4 while he blocked a combination of attacks from Target 3. CCI identify target 4 Local police. Auto aim Target 4: Blaster Target 4 locked. He pressed the Max Charge button on his blaster. He knew that the blaster only had 2 shots of power left in it, but that didn't matter. He only needed something to keep the police occupied. Tenchi knew that that he was in trouble when the assassin lifted his gun. But instead of pointing the gun at him, he pointed it down the street. And he never led his eyes away from him. The assassin pressed the trigger while blocking Tenchi's sword. *** Washu looked at her screen. Nothing. Where were Tenchi and Ryoko at? Her small surveillance camera drone hovered one kilometer over the city. She could see where Sasami had been shot, the crowd standing there, and all of the police. But no Tenchi. 'Watch yourself, Tenchi," she thought to herself. *** Ryoko felt the pressure of the explosion before she saw the mushroom shaped fireball. An ice-cold knife struck her heart. "Tenchi!" she cried, and raced with all speed in that direction. Tenchi knew that he was going to die. The police car, the street, the people and every other thing around the car was a blazing inferno. He could hear the cries of the dying. The assassin turned the gun at him, smiled, and said with an evil grin on his face, "Bang. You're dead." Tenchi could hear the sound of the gun recharging. It sounded like the blitz of his father's camera. The sound stopped. the assassin smiled as he began to press the trigger. Tenchi was thrown down the small alley by an explosion. When he finally got his bearings and looked down the alley at the assassin, he could see the assassin. He was being hard pressed by Ryoko. The assassin didn't look good. Blood ran down his face. His clothing was ripped into pieces, and his right eye was gone. 'Why wasn't he dead?' Tenchi thought while he tried to get up. A burning pain in his right leg told him that he wasn't going anywhere. Things were not good for C32411. Not good at all. He was loosing blood, his right eye was gone, and his blaster was a melted piece of metal. The CCI had given him some painkillers, and those were beginning to take effect. It was Target 2, from before, who had shot his blaster, triggering a chain reaction in it. Her face made a angry look at him and said something. Not that it mattered. His hearing was gone, too. Dual sword calc. Dual sword calc on C32411 turned on his other plasma sword. 'Why isn't he dead?' thought Ryoko. She had killed bigger and more heavily armored creatures with the same amount of power. The assassin thrust at her, but she blocked easily. "You don't touch my Tenchi!" she snarled at him. Ryoko was very pleased that she had disarmed the assassin before he had the chance to kill her beloved Tenchi. It wasn't her intent to cause the explosion,that almost blew Tenchi into pieces, but what the hell, it worked. 'This is going to be easy', she thought, and started to slash with wild fury at the assassin. She changed her mind when the assassin drew the other plasma sword. *** Washu could see the combat from her drone hovering above them. Like Ryoko and Tenchi, she was puzzled about why this humanoid wasn't dead because of the blast Ryoko had given his weapon. She started to run a scan of him. 'Interesting,' she thought, when the data started to come in on her screen. *** 'This isn't going well,' Ryoko thought. He was starting to gain the upper hand. Nothing worked. When she teleported behind him, he was ready for her every time. And he pressed on. This was not good. Suddenly, Ryoko ran out of time. She misread the assassin's moves, and got punished with a plasma sword through her right leg. The pain was too much. Ryoko felt the darkness starting to enclose her. She saw the fist come for her face, and it all turned dark. C32411 looked at the unconscious Target 2. He had hit her with all of his strength. Normally that would take down a Juraian Suflon, but she wasn't dead. She wasn't even that damaged. 'Time to get out of here,' he said to himself. He needed transportation. He noticed a two wheeled metal thing standing 40 meters down the street. He targeted it. His onboard computer told him that was what the Earthlings called a "motorcycle." He began to limping towards the "motorcycle" Tenchi used the wall for support while he dragged himself over to Ryoko. She was lying face down. When he finally got to her he checked for a pulse. "Ryoko, wake up!" he said as he shook her, "He's getting away!" C32411 had started the "motorcycle" and loaded the appropriate program that allowed him to drive the thing. He put it in gear and started to accelerate. He was a mile down the road racing through what seemed to be the main part of the city. It was filled with tall glass-covered buildings. C32411 was cut short when an energy blast from Ryoko tore up the road in front of him, sending him flying. He crashed through a glass window into a florist's shop. Lying there in a pile of glass and flowers, C32411 looked up and saw Target 2 descending towards him. He got one of his cloak grenades, armed it, and threw it out onto the street. He found his emergency shield device and waited for Target 2. Ryoko landed in the middle of the street and looked at the fallen assassin. He was lying still. C32411 counted the seconds to detonation. Seven, six, five, four, three, He turned on the shield device. Two, one. And then the world turned white. The blast destroyed everything in a three hundred meter radius and blew out every glass window for three kilometers. When the dust finally settled and the fire died out, the shield device ran out of power. C32411 managed to get back on his feet. He was in the crater left by the explosion. C32411 smiled with what was left of his face. Then he noticed something lying in the center of the crater. He didn't believe his own eyes. It was that female. Well, she was a hard little female, but now he was going to put a end to that pirate once and for all. He turned on his plasma sword and started to limp over to Ryoko. Ryoko opened her eyes, and noticed that she was still alive. 'Well, I'M one lucky demon.' Then she noticed the assassin standing right beside her. C32411 was raising his right sword to finish the female off, when the voice came again. "Don't you like me anymore?" He looked up and saw the little girl again. memory error.... memory error.... memory error.... The pain came like a hammer, and the assassin hesitated. He still managed to get his sword up to stop his head getting split in two pieces by the cyan haired girl. As the darkness moved in on him, he could hear the CCI. massive head dama... Ryoko managed to get up. She took a look at the fallen assassin. He apparently was still breathing. But not for long. She raised her sword to finish him off. "Wait," a voice said. Ryoko turned around, and saw a little drone floating the air. "Don't kill him," the drone said with Washu's voice, "If you kill him we will never know who sent him..."