The characters of Tenchi Muyo are not mine they belong to Pioneer *The update on this chapter is mostly making it easier to understand, clearing a few things up, and making it a bit longer. Also the fact that I don’t constantly have people trial off, I don’t know what was with me the night I wrote this. Actually I changed the story around a lot, but stuck with the same plot. I also had to fix Washu’s name, because it seems my spell-checker assumed Washu was a poor try at spelling the word Wash, and automatically changed it for me. "Hey! You!" "What? Who the hell is talking to me?" "No time for intros, I'm just telling you that I've chosen you to take the place of my life for a week" "WHAT! Who says you can do that?" "Me, myself, and I. Look whoever you are please do me a favor? Switch lives with me for just ONE week?" "No way Mr. psycho who's talking inside my head! If you want to get away that bad, just take a trip!' "You don't understand. Where ever I go, these girls will track me..." "Did you say girls? Hot ones or like ugly ones?" "Well, I guess that they are hot, but..." "And you want to get away from them? "Well yeah! Once you see how th..." At this point, Tenchi stopped himself. Using the little common sense he had, he decided to keep his mouth shut about the girls and lie. "Actually I’m a rich billionaire who’s gone psycho from the pleasures of having money and I'm saying something I normally would not say," Tenchi continues in his man am I smart voice. "All right I take your offer, but I want to know a few things, like how I hear your voice in my head," the guy, lets call him Mark, said. "Um...," Tenchi once again called on his peanut brain and came up with..."Deals off then" "Well..." Mark was a fairly smart person, and a fairly smart person would think there was some catch, but after shoveling away his 5th beer, his hormones got the best of him. In fact, Mark wasn’t even sure if this was a reality, or just another soon to be sexual dream. Sure, how do we switch?" At that very moment, Mark was wisked away to the land of Tenchi Muyo. IN THE LAND OF TENCHI MUYO Huh? How the hell?! were the first things that popped into Mark's mind. "Now listen," Tenchi's voice spoke in his head. "Your name is Tenchi. I am sending mental images of my family, and uhhh friends." All at once Mark knew Ryoko, Ayeka, Washu, Mihoshi, Sasami, Grandpa, Dad (Noboyuki) and Ryo-oki. (Plus anyone else I left out) "Right now I'm receiving your memories. You are in my body, but you probably still feel the same. I have put the way to go to school in your head. Anywhere else shouldn't be that hard to find. I'll be watching in case you do something outrageous that I normally wouldn't do. The current day is Saturday, so you won’t have to go anywhere really, besides… oh shit! My training! Well, um good luck to you! Now, on to the life of a normal kid, finally." Tenchi finished with a sigh. After the psychic talking with that Tenchi guy, Mark had a chance to look at his surroundings. He was in a room with a bed, a desk and a couple of posters. From Tenchi's memories, he knew it was "his" room. He looked down at his body to see that he was about the same height. His shoes were worn like his clothes, and the style told him he probably lived out in the country. "Great," Mark thought, "Tenchi's a hillbilly. Oh well, where's those hot chicks he was talking about?" Almost as if on cue, Mark was pushed back into "his" bed. Trying to sit up, Mark was pushed back down by a certain sexy female. "Good morning Tenchi," the cyan haired women stated. From memory, Mark placed her as Ryoko. As he looked up at her, his hormones acted immediately. "Damn! When Tenchi said hot, I didn't think he meant this hot! He wants to get away from her? What a loser!" Mark thought. "What are you thinking my love?" Ryoko said as she gave him a sultry look. "I made sure that Ayeka wouldn't bother us this morning." The second part of her sentence never reached Mark's ears, as he continued staring at her. "Tenchi? What's wrong? Why are staring?" She asked suspiciously. "Ohhh, I know what you want," Ryoko finished with a sly smile. Before Mark knew what was happening, Ryoko had bent down and kissed him passionately. The feeling was incredible! Sure, Mark had been kissed before never like this! What kind of feelings did Ryoko have for this Tenchi guy?! Man, that guy must have been pretty insane to want to stay away from this! Responding to what the situation called for, Mark began to kiss back. "mmmm" was Ryoko’s reply, as anyone in the vicinity could feel her happiness of his last move. However before anything else could happen, "Tenchi" vanished. "What? Am I in heaven?" Mark spoke out loud. He had appeared in some short of void of some sort. All he saw was himself floating around in total blackness. As he glanced at his body, he discovered that he was back in his original flesh. Suddenly, before him appeared Tenchi. "What do you think you were doing!!!" Tenchi yelled. "Huh? What are you talking about?" said a very confused Mark. It was not often that he went to some other world, via psychic transportation, and then was brought to a black hole. Not often at all. "You were kissing Ryoko!" screamed back Tenchi. His facial expression was one of madness, mixed with signs of fear and uncertainty. "Yeah, so? I’m in your body, so what’s wrong?" countered a now extremely confused Mark. The young man was trying to think of what was wrong with kissing a good looking woman. "That’s exactly the problem!" Tenchi continued. A now very extremely confused Mark. "Huh?" "Listen, I know your me for a week, but what right does that give you to make my decision!!!" Now Mark was beyond confused and was in a state of... a state that was beyond confused. "O.K., I guess I didn’t make this clear, but Ryoko and me are NOT a couple!" After this sudden revelation, Mark became beyond the state of beyond confusion. All of a sudden, his brain cells thought they understood. "Really?! Wow! Who would have guessed that there was a hotter girl than that!" "Ahhhhhhhhhh!" Tenchi screamed. "There is no girl hotter than that! That’s not what I was trying to say!!" The furious fellow was breathing hard and his face was a unusual shade of red. "Than how come you two are not together? I mean it’s obvious that she has feelings for you. She called me, I mean you, her love," responded Mark now in some state out there because the author doesn’t want to write beyond confusion anymore. (damn, I just did) "Listen to me," Tenchi said a little calmer. "That other girl, Ayeka, she has feelings for me too. And I don’t think she is the only one." "So? She’ll get over you." "It’s not like that! They both want to marry me!! It’s not just some crush!!!" Tenchi exploded losing his cool again. "Ohhhhhh," Mark said,, finally getting were Tenchi was coming from, kinda. "Yeah, so don’t do anything with either of them, all right?" "Why not?" Mark whined, "you just said there was no girl hotter than Ryoko." "Well, I, uhhh... I guess, I uh," Tenchi stopped finally realizing that he was stuck. "Just don’t do anything, O.K.?" "If you like this Ayeka so much, can I make out with her? I don’t know where you live man, but I’m moving there," he said while calling up a mental image of Ayeka. "It’s hottie overload in here! (Night at the Roxbury) Do all the girls look this fine?!" While Mark searched his memory looking at the other women which Tenchi shared his house with, the troubled jurain prince was deep in thought. It was shear luck that he had stumbled upon this machine, shear luck that Washu had even built something like it. Tenchi had been running away from her, and had actually tripped on it. He wasn’t even sure what it did, or how it worked, but he had to try something because Washu had been standing over him like a monstrous tower, ready to get his sperm sample. It looked like a time travel machine of sorts, with weird gadgets that Tenchi didn’t have any clue what they did. However the big red switch had looked promising, so he had pulled it. Tenchi was then transported to this black void that he was in now. He had heard a monotone voice call out the function of the machine, a mind/body transplant device, and then search for the best available candidate who’s mind and body would be least likely to reject the process. Which led him to where he was now, listening to Mark babble on about who extremely sexy his house guests were. "Then there’s Washu who is also soooo damn fine, and Mihoshi, who has one of the biggest racks I’ve ever seen…" "All right already!" yelled Tenchi losing his cool again. This was just much too stressful for the young man. "I get the point you think I live with beautiful women. Could you please just not do anything for a day or so? I’m sure Washu will find out and shut the machine down or something." At least I hope she will, Tenchi thought. Mark sighed disappointedly. "Well, all right." A sliver of hope passed through him. "but it’s kind of late now don’t you think?" he piped with some hope that Tenchi would let him continue. "Don’t worry, I can just put you back at the beginning with Washu’s machine here. Since I am the one who initiated the process, I think I can start it over again. I could probably stop it too, but I don’t know how." "Is that how we’re psychically linked right now?" Mark wondered. "Yeah, but don’t tell Washu, I kind of stole it," Tenchi answered quietly. "Fine, I won’t do anything. So how is my life treating you?" "Um, well not bad I guess, this girl called," Tenchi replied in a shaky voice. "Really?! Cool! What was her name?" asked Mark with total enthusiasm in his voice. "I’m pretty sure it was Jessica, she wanted to know if I, mean you, would join her to a movie," "Awesome! All right I’ve always thought she was a total babe!" Suddenly something dawned on Mark. "Um Tenchi? When she asked you to a movie, did you accept?" If Mark had known Tenchi better, he wouldn’t have even bothered to ask. "Well, you see. I wanted to but, uhhh," "You idiot!!!" Mark screamed. The force of anger had shifted from Tenchi to Mark now. "Do you know how long I’ve wanted to go out with her! That’s it! Put me back in my real life right now!" "Hey! C’mon don’t go back on our deal!" Actually Tenchi wasn’t sure why he had said that, he wanted out of this mess too. "I thought that you where a normal person, and would do anything in my situation that I would! Well normal besides the fact you said you were rich, you fucking liar!" After some thought, Mark was able to understand that he was drunk when the swap had happened, but it didn’t stop his abrupt outrage. "I don’t know how this machine works, but I’m going back to my real life!" "Not if I can help it!" Tenchi countered. As the two boys fought for their lives, literally, a mad scientist far, far away made a startling discovery. "Hey! Where do you get off calling me mad!" Washu yelled. "Whoops! didn’t mean to write that down," the author said quickly finding his mistake. "Lets try it again." As the two boys fought for their lives, literally, a genius scientist that had red hair made a startling discovery. (Washu: better) "A ha! I’ve found out who took my body changing machine! Now to bring the culprits here!" Washu cackled with glee. The mad, I mean genius, scientist walked over to one of her big machine thingys and pressed a button. "You’re the biggest loser I know! Give me back my life!" At that instant, Mark and Tenchi’s argument was interrupted by Washu’s machine. INTO THE CLUCTCHES OF WASHU’S LAB "So, lets take a look at our criminals shall we?" said Washu. "Yeah! Your such a genius Washu!" remarked puppet A. "It was easy for a genius, wasn’t it Washu!" rejoiced puppet B. "Ahh ha ha ha ha!" laughed Washu in her evil laugh. Meanwhile, Mark and Tenchi were just coming into consciousness. When they saw each other, they started fighting. That is until they say they were in their original bodies. "Ohh, sorry Tenchi, I didn’t know you had put me back," Mark apologized. "Actually, I didn’t do it," admitted the spiky haired boy. "So the thieves have awakened!" shouted Washu triumphantly. "Lets take a look, shall we?" Washu walked over to the spot where her "criminals" rested. When she got there she was overtaken by shock. "Tenchi, you took my machine?" she said. Looking up and seeing the owner of the voice, Tenchi replied uneasily, "Um, I just wanted to test it?" It sounded as if he was trying to convince himself. "Why I would have never thought! And who’s this? You had an accomplice?!" Washu said surprised. Glancing more closely at the boy, she began to make a mental note of his features. The boy was tall, with brown eyes. He seemed to stand in a very laid back kind of way, which was greatly enhanced by the way his blond hair was gelled forward. "And a handsome one at that," Washu thought. Out loud she said "So, what’s your game Tenchi? Why did you steal my machine?" "Well, in all honesty, I just wanted to get away from you when you were chasing me. When I went into the machine I decided to just get away for a little while," Tenchi replied as his face flushed. "And you what’s your name?" asked the scientist. "Mark, and you must be Washu," said Mark. Immediately, Washu had materialized her beam sword and had it at Mark’s neck. Totally freaked out by the last action (who wouldn’t be?) Mark fainted. "Washu what was that for?" yelled Tenchi. "He knew my name! He must be another person trying to kidnap me!" Washu countered. "No! He knew your name because of your machine! When we switched places." "You mean... it worked?" Her eyes filled with tears and her face full of pride. Huh? thought Tenchi. "It worked! I truly am the greatest scientific genius!" screamed Washu like she had figured out how to turn Ayeka’s and Ryoko’s cooking into actually edible food. She began to twirl around the lab doing a little victory dance. "Of course you are," said A. "Didn’t doubt you for a second," replied B. "I need to see it in action," stated Washu. She quickly went over to her machine and turned it on. At once, the machine began to make noise, and then, just as suddenly as it had begun, it stopped. "What?! What’s wrong with it?" spoke an obviously frustrated Washu. "Looks like it’s broken," Tenchi said redundantly. "I know it’s broken you idiot!" she screamed. She walked away and began to curse. "Um, Washu?" asked Tenchi, afraid that the red head would explode on him. When he didn’t get a answer, he continued, "That Mark guy, is he stuck here?" At that moment, Washu’s gray world turned slightly whiter. At least that new guy would be staying. It would give her a chance to perform more experiments on different people. Maybe she could get a sample out of this one…"Where will he stay, oh dear me, a poor boy stuck here with me, I mean us. He must be from way out of town, where will he stay? Do you think he could stay here?" Washu finished. She looked at the jurian prince with puppy dog eyes. "Why not?" Tenchi said with a sigh. "We’ve already got enough people, one more wont make a difference." Even more freeloaders. His gaze began to drift to the various experiments, and then to the door of the lab as he heard a noise. "C’mon Mihoshi open the door!" "Yes please hurry I fear that Tenchi is trapped in there. Who knows what Miss Washu is doing to him at this moment!" "Will you both please be quiet, this isn’t as easy as you think it is. Now lets see, how did I do it last time? Did I knock and then push, or push then knock, oh I can’t remember!" The young man returned his stare to Washu. "I think you’re about to get some more visitors." He heard a thud and looked back at the entrance to find out that the guests had arrived. "Mihoshi you idiot!" "Get off me you filthy space pirate!" "I can’t until bubblehead here gets off me!" "Waaaaa! Why are you both yelling at me? I got us in like you asked! Waaaaaa!" (Cue giant sweatdrop on Tenchi) When the three noticed that the object of their affections was staring at them, they immediately stopped arguing and tried to run over to him. Of course this failed as they all tried to get up at once and fell down in succession. (Cue an even larger sweatdrop on Tenchi) Washu stood over her broken machine laughing harder than see had ever laughed before. This earned her glares from Ryoko and Ayeka, which only made her laugh harder. Even Tenchi was trying hard not to laugh, but he didn’t succeed in surpressing a smile. "So what brings you guys in here today?" questioned Washu, who was still chuckling. Ayeka stood up and brushed herself off. "We were curios as to where Lord Tenchi was, and it seems you were trying to get him to subject to another one of your experiments!" "Well, not exactly…" While the girls argued, Tenchi thought long and hard and hoped that he had somehow restarted the machine, in essence, erasing what Mark had done earlier in his body. It seemed that he had, otherwise Ryoko would be bragging to Ayeka or clinging on him. "Ugh," came a voice from the ground. Tenchi turned to see the newest member of the house waking up. "What’s all the noise about?" As soon as he said it, everyone became quiet, interested in who this new person was. Mark was a little freaked out by the sudden silence. "Um, why is everybody so quiet? Hehe?" "Oh, so your awake huh?" spoke the owner of the lab, interrupting the silence. "Ahhhh! It’s the little girl with the laser!" yelled the newly awakened boy as he quickly ducked behind some big floating thingy. "Washu who is this guy?!" "Well, it’s a long story, so you better round up the rest of the gang." "So he came through your machine, Miss Washu," Ayeka asked. "Yep, seems Tenchi over there," Washu stopped to point at everybody’s favorite jurian bachelor. "wanted to get away from all of us for a while," she finished. Everyone had gathered in the family room to hear all about this new person and where Tenchi had been. "Loser," murmured Mark under his breath. He looked around to see if anyone had heard him, and met a pair of angry eyes belonging to Tenchi. He gave him a sheepish smile, and turned back towards the rest of the group, where he met up with another glare that was much harsher. "Where do you get off calling Tenchi a loser?!" shouted Ryoko. Somehow the other segment of people didn’t seem to notice this ensuing controversy. Mark was blown away at this sudden burst of anger. "Um, who me? I didn’t say anything." "Oh really now, well I think you did. Go apologize to him, before I kick your sorry ass!" Now the entire group’s interest was diverted to something other than Washu’s explanation. "I uh…" Mark began to feel nervous and very small as he looked into the amber eyes of Ryoko. Her eyes blazes with anger, and they gave him the feeling to just sink back, and crawl into a hole. Without warning, he became enraged by being pushed around by the opposite sex. A smile crept onto this face. "Well maybe I did call him a loser. You just proved that it fits him perfectly, by defending him. I guess he needs others to stand up for him, cause he can’t do it on his own." This really ticked the demoness off. "Why you piece of shit!" She began to form an energy ball in her right hand. "Wow, that’s cool," said Mark, when he noticed the ball in her hand. "Are you trying to scare me or something?" "Cool?! It’s not cool it’s a weapon!!" screamed the enraged cyan haired woman. "Really? How does it work?" said Mark with curiosity. "I’ll show you how it works you..." "That’s quite enough Little Ryoko, let the boy adjust, he’s probably never seen aliens before," said Washu. "Aliens???" "Fine I guess you’re right." She dispersed the ball and put her hands on her hips. "Of course, a mother is always right!" "Mother???" "Yes, listen to your mother Ryoko," teased Ayeka. "Zip it princess," "Princess???" At this time, Mark’s head overloaded, and he slumped to the floor for a second time that day. "There he goes again. This guy sure gets confused easily, doesn’t he?" "What guy?" said Mihoshi, who had been staring at the t.v. the whole time oblivious to what was going on. "The one on the floor Mihoshi," said Sasami, because she was the only one who had not fallen over in disbelief off Mihoshi’s stupidity. "Oh, wow, when did he get here?" the confused blond asked. If it was possible, the older guests of the Masaki household sank even deeper into the ground. "Well I’m sure Washu can explain it to you Mihoshi. I need to go start dinner." Sasami looked at Tenchi. "Should I set an extra place at the table?" The young man sighed from his spot on the floor. "Yeah you might as well." He picked himself off the floor at sat down on one of the couches in the room. "Washu… do you think we should tell him about ourselves? Or could you… erase his memory or something." Washu smiled sweetly at him. "Now Tenchi, I know a lot has been going on, and I’ve let it slide quite a few times today, but… I’ve you want something, please call me LITTLE Washu!" Nervous laughter escaped Tenchi’s mouth. "Hehe, sorry about that, Little Washu." "No problem." "Holy shit! This food is good!" screamed the newest addition to the house. Needless to say, the other members were not expecting his outburst, and they replied in kind. "Excuse me, Mark? Uhh, I don’t know how to put this, but we don’t swear around this house," Tenchi replied nervously. "You don’t swear!!! Where in America am I?" the bewildered Mark said. "Your not in America, this is Japan." "Japan!!! What am I going to do? I have to be home by 7:00 cause me and my friends are going to see a movie? Wait a minute, how can I understand you? Shouldn’t you all be speaking Japanese? "Why that’s a very good question, Mark," and with that Washu rambled on about another lecture while the family finished eating. "So you see, if you divide the square root of 3845517, and make sure the gamacacer of the supersternsenser is working, it’s really quite simple," she finished. "Riiiiight. So your saying I can speak any language?" "Yes," Washu sighed. "That’s pretty neat, you know? Can everyone else?" a now finally understanding Mark asked. "Why, yes, they can," she said, "Would you like to come into my lab, and I’ll show you all of my wisdom," At that last comment she let a mischievous grin slip, the family special. Not liking that look from a right now twelve year old, Mark responded, "Maybe that wouldn’t be such a good idea..." At that moment, Washu turned into an adult. Mark, clearly not understanding, fainted. (again) "See you all later," the scientist said as she dragged Mark into her lab. "Hmmmmm, that’s a good idea," thought Ryoko. She quickly phased out of her clothes right in front of Tenchi. The young jurian began stutter as his eyes fell on Ryoko’s beautiful body. "I, uh, eek! Um, da, wa…" His nose started bleeding profoundly and soon the loss of blood was too much for his body to take and he followed Mark’s example. "See you all later!" Ryoko waved before disappearing with Tenchi. "Miss Ryoko! Arrrrrrgh, that monster woman! I have to go find her before she seduces poor Tenchi!" Ayeka screamed as she looked around for support. "Come on Mihoshi! You like Tenchi don’t you? Help me search for Ryoko!" "Well, I would, but you see, I haven’t finished my food yet," Mihoshi said. At this point Ayeka was beyond mad, so she just ran out the front door screaming. Back in the Clutches of Washu’s lab... As Washu got ready, Mark woke up. He was back in that strange lab again. He brushed his blond hair back, and got up. "This place sure is huge," he said to no one in particular. In front of him, was a rather large machine that looked all shiny like it had just been finished. It was red with a big black handle on the side. Various designs were scattered on the brown table next to it. Upon further examination, Mark concluded that it had just been finished. His curiosity told him to keep reading and he stumbled at the occurrence of a book of some sort. He opened it and read, "The Genius of Washu." Flipping the pages he found many of Washu’s greatest inventions. Towards the back he discovered a picture of the invention in front of him. It was labeled "Interdimension travel" Underneath was some notes… I have finally completed my greatest experiment! This one will surpass all of the others by far! Ever since my mind became as developed as it is now, I have wondered if there are other dimensions out there, Other people living different lives, in different worlds. With this machine I can at last see whether this is true. It took me a while, but I unearthed some information of my predecessors. It seemed that they were convinced that each person possessed the ability to jump from one dimension to another. It was just a problem of figuring out how to do it. It seemed these early scientists thought that the answer lied in the DNA strand, but they were off. Taking their research a step farther with much more advanced technology, I was able to find the key! As everyone knows, each person is made up of millions of molecules. Modern day scientist are set on exploring what the things break up into, until they find that they can go no further. I used much the same method, only I looked at what made up certain parts of the body, not the entire thing. And through long hours of research, I found that there was a part of the human brain that controlled which dimension you stayed in. To go from one dimension to another was a mental process, not a physical one. It seems that there is a small portion of the front lobe that is infinitely working. It is so small that only my advanced telescopes could see it. Still, the image is tiny under the highest magnification. Even when you sleep and the brain relaxes, using only the energy to provide a dream, this part was still going, much like the human heart, it never stops. I conducted an experiment on a small cat that I saw wandering around one day. I wanted to see what would happen if the part if the brain was shut down permanently. What I found shocked me. It seems that when this brain cell was destroyed, and person rapidly transfers from one dimension to another. My computers have registered seeing the cat 3,500 times in 500 days since the experiment exactly. This means that there is seven dimensions in all, including the one we are currently living in. However for some reason the cat only stays in this dimension for a few seconds before going to the next. (Yeah I know this fake science talk may be boring, but its important for the story) I performed another test on yet another cat, this time trying to stop the brain cell for a period of time which I could control. When I did this the cat did not come back until the cell awakened. I experimented with different amounts of power to use and the more the power, the longer the feline creature stayed. I even found that I could keep the cat in another dimension for as long as I wanted, until I stopped the flow of power from keeping the cell inactive. I checking through my specimens, and I have concluded that every living organism has the special cell, no matter what size. This cell keeps us in this dimension. I wonder if organisms in other dimensions have a modified version of this cell, which is set to keep them in their dimension. Now all I have to do is to gather up the courage to visit the other worlds. As a last resort if any of the members in this house are attacked, and there is no way we can possible survive, we can warp to another dimension. I have planted devices inside their heads which if I give the signal, can apply the charge to their brain cell. They double as universal language translators, so as of now, they do not know about it. I have even implanted one in my head. Because of the fact that they are all identical, we should all be transported to the same dimension. But I’m not sure which one we would go to… (wow am I good at making up sciency junk or what?) Mark took a step back and shook his head, because it was all messed up from the reading. Man was Washu smart! He thought. I can’t believe she could figure something out like that! How could any normal human figure out something like this? A voice in the back of his mind nagged at him, trying to tell him that she wasn’t normal, but Mark dismissed it. He walked over towards the amazing machine. His hand dangled near the large red lever. "I wouldn’t touch that if I were you," came a sexy voice from behind. Surprised, Mark turned around to see Washu, and well, man was she lookin hot! "Wawawa Washu? I thought you were a little girl?" Mark said. "Actually, I’m 20,000 years old." "20,000 years old, how, ahhhhhh!" Mark finished with a scream as his head was attacked by a massive headache. "Ohhh damn, I just made him remember, I knew I shouldn’t have erased his memories of earlier! Now look at all the pain he’s in!" Washu said. Out of control as his memories returned, Mark frantically ran around waving his hands in the air. He ran around screaming, "Aliens! Ahh! This must be some sort of mind torture!" He sprinted past Washu and jumped over a table. He glanced back to see if she was following him, and he felt his foot get caught on something as Mark lost his balance and flew forward. Time seemed to stop. Mark stayed frozen in the air, face filled with worry. Suddenly a light shown over him. A second later the same light appeared over Washu. Her expression was one of fear for the young man, coupled with fear of where his hand was headed. Back in Tenchi’s room, the light engulfed Ryoko. She was standing over Tenchi, with a mischievous smile on her face, but if you looked deep enough, you could see the love that it held for the boy laying on the bed. The mysterious light next highlighted Tenchi, who was still laying unconscious on his own bed. His forehead lit up and the mark of Tsunami formed. In the kitchen Ayeka had come back inside, and her expression was one of worry for Tenchi, mixed with the anger she had for Ryoko taking him. The light also covered her. Her tiara glowed a bright yellow. The next person to be smothered in the light was Mihoshi. Her face was bright and happy as it always seemed to be, and her mouth was full of her third helping of food. Lastly the light came for Sasami. It coated her whole body just like the others. Only Sasami’s face wore a knowing look. Like she knew the something was going to come. The light surrounding those seven people suddenly expanded off them onto everything. The entire house, plus Washu’s lab, became a mystical shade of white for a moment, and then… everything returned to normal. Back in Washu’s lab Mark continued his flight from his trip. As he fell, his right hand bumped the a large handle. "Nnnnnnnnooooooooooo!" yelled Washu. It was at that point that everything went dark. "Uggh, where am I?" wondered Mark. It was at that time that a gun was lowered and pointed at his head... Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) Another turning point A fork stuck in the road Time grabs you by the wrist Directs you where to go So make the best of this test And don't ask why It's not a question But a lesson learned in time It's something unpredicatable But in the end it's right I hope you had the time of your life So take the photographs and still frames in your mind Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time Tattoos of memories And dead skin on trial For what it's worth It was worth all the while I hope you had the time of your life It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right. I hope you had the time of your life. Notes: Hey! I hope you liked what I did to this chapter. I really changed it around a lot more than planned, but I liked how it looks now. Its no longer a joke fic of sorts, and it makes a lot more sense. The fic is also much longer then it first was. If you’re wondering why I called it "Da Beginning" it’s because there are already like 10 "The Beginning" on the site. I figured I’d do something a bit different, make my story stand out a little, like the title. Any ways, I plan on writing this thing for a LONG time, having the characters visit each of these dimensions that Washu wrote about. Since this is my first fic, I plan on writing this until I no longer have an interest in Tenchi Muyo and the other series. I will make other smaller fics, but this is gonna be my main one. It’s not much now, but… Oh yeah who’s that dumbass psycho who copied my fics name? Ohh I bet you think you’re cool now cause you added damn in. You wanna diss my fic? Mst it, don’t copy my title. This fanfic is going to be a helluva lot better than yours. All comments should be sent to bcingu797@yahoo.com