Once again I have to give the disclaimer that Tenchi Muyo and all of its characters are property of AIC and Pioneer and that any DBZ items mentioned here are Funimations property and ONCE AGAIN, I do not own any legends I may mention and if you haven't noticed yet, I have changed the saiyan legend a bit to fit my stories and I'm sorry if it offends anyone. (You know, the pain of writing these disclaimers is almost as bad as reading a bad lemon fic, almost, not quite. "At The Carrot Patch", [shudder]) I've had to wait several weeks to think of a story idea for this one you are about to read, actually, I don't know whether or not I can think of the next one without jumping to a different one but I'll try to write it to the best of my ability (that's not much, I know). Oh, and I'm sorry about the formatting on this, I'm using my grandpa's computer, and it's kind of old. I'd use my computer, but the internet sevice is a P.O.S. So I'm going to leave the extra spacing in between the paragraphs and quotes, sorry. ******************** Darkness has covered the night's sky, not a single star is shining through the thick cloud banks. The Masaki household is also dark with everyone sound asleep in their beds (with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads [SMACK], sorry...I don't know where the hell that came from). The only ones not in their beds are Ryoko and Ayeka, Ryoko having too much to drink, and Ayeka falling to the peer pressure Ryoko had put on her several hours ago, drinking slightly more than Ryoko. Sasami silently sleeps as a colorful dreams runs through her head. ********************* Everyone is at the beach, Broka and Tenchi are setting up a volleyball net while Washu is walking from the van carrying a volleyball. Sasami is sitting on a towel watching them as is Mihoshi. Tenchi finishes tieing up the last knot before yelling, "It's all set up." Ayeka quickly calls from behind him, "Tenchi's on my team," and grabs his arm and drags him to a side of the net. Broka doesn't seem to care as he takes his foot and starts making the lines for the court. Ryoko looks a little disgusted at Ayeka's comment before saying, "All right, if you got Tenchi, I've got him," and points to Broka who is finishing marking the lines. He looks up with a confused look before shrugging and walking to the side opposite of Tenchi and Ayeka. "Hmmm...I'll take Mihoshi then," with that Mihoshi jumps up from her towel and runs over to to Ayeka's side. Ryoko looks a little distressed but notices something and smiles, "Fine, I'll take Washu," a ball flies from nowhere and Ryoko catches it. Everyone looks over to see a fully-grown Washu with a small red bikini top and bottom. Everyone goes bug-eyed. "I'll sit this one out," Sasami calls from her towel. Washu takes her place near the front of the net near Broka as Ryoko steps outside the ring and says, "Since you picked first, I'll start the game," she throws the ball high into the air and spikes the ball with great force. The ball travels at a high speed as Ayeka can only stare at it while the ball smacks off her head and she falls to the ground, completely dazed. The ball slowly floats to the other side of the net. "I got this one," Broka yells before leaping into the air and floating a foot away from the ball. He raises his arm and hits the ball. All Tenchi and Mihoshi see is a blur in front of them before a explosion of sand covers their side of the court. The sand and dust clear as those two stare off into space with sand covering every part of their body. A small hump of sand starts to move as Ayeka pops through it and starts to cough. "Hey now! That's *cough* cheating!" "Well...you're the one who didn't pick us," Washu says with a smile. All three of them look as Mihoshi and Tenchi start to brush the sand off of themselves, Mihoshi needing to loosen some parts of her two-piece to reach the sand covering her unmentionables. Tenchi catches a small glimpse of this and quickly turns away. Washu, Ryoko, and Broka start to laugh before a dark shadow is cast over them. Everything goes silent. Everyone turns around to see a figure floating in air. Ryoko's mouth is moving, however nothing of what she's saying can be heard. The dark figure's mouth also moves but nothing can be heard. He gives a smirk and his body shakes with his from chuckling. Broka's face goes completely white. He goes super-saiyan. and charges at the figure but his attack is dodged as the figure punches him in the back and Broka falls to the ground. He struggles to get up but is in too much pain. He manages to get to his feet but notices a large Ki blast heading straight for him. The Ki hits the ground and explodes on impact, swallowing Broka in the blast. As the light and sand clear, there is nothing there but the hole of the explosion. Although the girls and Tenchi look on in astonishment, they try to hold back their tears. Electricity shoots through Ryoko as she forms an energy sword and charges at the stranger. The man flies away from Ryoko and as she nears enough for a swing...he stops and catches her in mid-swing. He has his hand on her stomach before a light forms around his hand, and Ryoko falls backwards from the energy blast created by him. Ryoko slightly moves to get up but the man appears right above her with a green energy sword of his own in his hand and he slices at the fallen warrior. Sand has covered Ryoko's twitching hand before it freezes and falls to the ground with a small trickle of blood heading towards it. Tenchi tears up before letting out a yell, which although it couldn't be heard, clearly was "Ryoko!" He reaches into the bag and pulls Tenchi-ken. He activates the sword and starts running towards the man, tears streaming from his eyes. The dark figure isn't moved by the tears and hits Tenchi with the palm of his hand. Tenchi bounces off the ground before stopping hard against a rocky wall. Blood drips from his forehead and he slowly opens his eyes to see a teary-eyed Sasami running towards him. He raises his hand in an attempt to stop her but is too late as a Ki blast lands several feet behind her, knocking Sasami to the ground. Tears of pain run down her cheek as they soak into small streams of blood. She lifts her head up to see Mihoshi and Ayeka crying over a limp Tenchi, right before a large foot blocks her view. The man forms a sword in his hand again and stands over the two grieving women, they never turn around to see him raise his hand and swing the sword at them. They fall in a heap at Tenchi's feet. The man notices that Sasami is still alive and slowly walks over to her. Sasami tries to scream, but nothing comes out, she continues to try and yell but it almost seems that a barrier around her dream has left her unable to talk. She curls closer into a ball, she just had to break this wall. ********************* Broka is in the bathroom pouring water into a cup. He turns the COLD one way, and the HOT the other way. "This will teach them to drink all the sake without me," he thinks to himself, pouring some more warm water into another cup. He turns off the faucet and proceeds to head downstairs. He stops in front of Sasami's door and Mihoshi's door when he hears a voice from behind him. "Just where do you think you're going," said the aggitated male voice. Broka turned stone gray and looks at Tenchi starring at him. "I...was...justgettingadrink...that's all." "Your room is that way," Tenchi points down the corridor. Broka thinks for a minute, "Where am I? Who are you," Tenchi becomes very irritated now. "Stop giving me that amnesia crap! You were going to put Ryoko's and Ayeka's hand in water while they were asleep, weren't you." "Uh...no I wasn't." Tenchi takes one of the glasses away from Broka, "This is warm water, you were going to stick their hands in it!" "Like I said, no I wasn't! I...just like drinking warm water, that's all," he chugs the glass in his hand. He gives a fake smile to hold back the urge to spit it out. Tenchi points back to Broka's room. Broka drops his head and slowly makes his way to his room. As he steps in between Sasami's door and Mihoshi's door, a deafening scream erupts from Sasami's room. Tenchi flies back and creates a indent of his body in the wall, while Broka leaps back totally smashing Mihoshi's door and stumbling over the sleeping blonde. Tenchi regains his composure and runs into her room. He looks around and finds that she is not in her bed, but cowering in the corner and shivering. She notices Tenchi and immediately leaps on him and attaches herself to Tenchi's neck. Tenchi becomes shocked at this as she starts to bawl into Tenchi's shoulder. Broka appears from behind Tenchi and does Mihoshi. They put a hand on the crying Sasami before Mihoshi asks, "What's the matter, did you have a scary dream?" Sasami nods her head. At that time, Ayeka and Ryoko show up to also explore the scream and cries. "Well, well, well. I'm surprised you could even wake up with all that sake," Broka sarcastically comments. "Would you get off of that," Tenchi yells, he focuses his attention on Sasami, "now Sasami, what was your dream about?" Sasami manages to get out a sentence inbetween her gasps of air, "There...was this...man...and he..." she starts to cry louder then ever into Tenchi's shoulder. Although she never finished the sentence, everyone knew what happened. "Well don't you worry Sasami. It was just a dream, and that would never happen to us in real," Mihoshi assuringly states. Sasami looks at her in surprise as her cries turn into sniffles. "That's right," Ayeka adds in, "we would never let anyone kill anyone of us," Sasami starts to look a little relieved. "I don't mean to change the subject, but what did this guy look like," Broka comes in. "Well...he was big...and muscular...he had a large black cloak...but his face was covered with a shadow, I couldn't describe it to you." "Why did you need to know," Ryoko asks. "Oh...there was this big, bad-ass dude that had a little problem with us a long time ago. But he's dead, thank God." "What was his name?" "Who," Broka said with a large smile. Tenchi looks aggitated, "Don't worry about it Ryoko. Now Sasami, don't think about it too much, or you'll never go back to sleep," too late, Sasami had already passed out in Tenchi's arm. He sighs and sets her on her bed and tucks her in. "Boy, that scared the living B'Jesus out of me," Broka says. "Yes, the poor dear is always having these horrible dreams. I don't know what they mean,"" Ayeka says, she notices something about Tenchi, "Uh...Tenchi. Why do you have water all over your head?" "What? This? I had a glass of water in my hand when Sasami screamed, I must've spilled it on me." "Why would you have a glass of water in your hand if you could just drink it in the bathroom?" Tenchi attempts to say something but Broka cuts him off, putting his hand over Tenchi's mouth, "Silly princess...he...uh...he was just bringing a drink to his room in case he got thirsty again," he nervously laughs. Tenchi stares at him through the cornor of his eye. Ayeka is about to talk when Ryoko makes a signal. "Don't worry about it...I don't even want to know," she says. Everyone starts heading to their rooms. Down in Washu's lab, a little light starts to blink, and a beeping noise spreads throughout the lab. Washu, in her nighties, slowly makes her way over to the beeping noise. Her transparent computer pops up and she starts to type furiously. "Well, well. What do we have here," she makes a few more punches at her computer and her face starts to go pale, "NO...not again!" On her screen, a large ship starts streaking to Earth. "That does it...I'm building a nuclear arsenal on that satallite," her eyes start to droop, "first...(yawn)...I need some rest." *********************** K, I doubt anyone is reading this, much less liking this so about this time, any MST's, hatemail, mailbombs, bad criticism on any review website (K'thardin for short, if he's still doing reviews). However, for those that HAVE sent great e-mails to be...THOSE ARE EVEN MORE ACCEPTABLE ^_^! NEXT EPISODE: Is Broka leaving the Masaki household?