The ending was rushed as I wanted to get it out the door, so hack it well,
if ya want.  Chapter 3 gets started next week.

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			Tenchi Muyo! Bug Bash
		by AlberCrombie (gopher@venus.net)

			Chapter Two

	Skuld's head peaked around the corner and surveyed the destruction;
nobody in the room but a passed out blue-haired female on the remains of a
couch.  Suddenly, the goddess bounced around the corner.  She stood in the
middle of the remains of the Masaki sun-room with mallet in hand, bug
hunting glasses on, a wicked smaile on her young face, and murder in her
heart.  It was party time.
	"Alright bugs!"   Skuld raised her mallet over her head as in
defiance, "Your fuzzy butts are mine!" She dropped into a hunters crouch and
began to scower the room, looking for anything that needed a good bopping.
	Meanwhile, in the hallway, Urd, Belldandy, and Keiichi just stood
frozen watching their youngest companion.  Slowly, Belldandy turned towards
Urd with a sour look on her face.
	"Hey," Urd threw up her hands in defence, "Ok.  So like, maybe the
allnight Schwartzenegger (sp?) film fest was a little too much for her.  My
mistake, alright!  I won't do it again!"
	Belldandy just hung her head and sighed while Skuld continue to
search for those that she must mallet.

	A few minutes later, Skuld stood up and ripped off her goggles. 
"Nuts!  No bugs, but this is certainly their handy work."  To emphasize the
point, she kicked a bit of what used to be wall.  "I'll get you, you little
chaos bringers!"  
	Belldandy and Keiichi looked at the girl on the couch; out cold, but
no visible damage.  Belldandy took one of the girl's hand and closed her
eyes.  A thin glow encompassed both of them, then slowly faded away. 
Belldandy looked at Keiichi, "She's fine, she just seems to have been caught
in the blast and had the wind knocked out of her."
	"That's good.  I guess." Keiichi replied.  "I wonder where our host
is?"  He looked at the round-topped door under the steps.
	"I got the impression that she wouldn't have left unless it was an
emergency... and she did say something about taking care of someone else."
	The kitchen door swung open and Urd stepped out with a rice cracker
in her mouth and carrying a tray of food and a drinks.
	"URD!  What are you doing?!" Keiichi exclaimed.
	She swallowed the cracker in one gulp so she could answer, "What? 
The girl said we could help our selves!  So, I did.  Here." She handed two
glasses off to Belldandy and Keiichi.
	"Um, thanks."  Keiichi didn't know what else to say.  The ride had
been long, he was thirsty, and the girl did say they could help themselves. 
Oh, well, down the hatch, he thought.
	"Ten...chi....."
	Everybody stopped and looked at the girl. "Huh?"  Urd mumbled past a
half eaten sandwich.
	Belldandy sat on the edge of the couch, and looked closer at the
sleeping Ryoko, "It's our other hostess.  She must be appears to be waking
up."
	Ryoko's eyes fluttered just a bit and she tried to move her hands. 
"Ten..chi...dar...ling..."
	"Who?  What?" Urd asked.
	"She must be dreaming about someone named Tenchi."  Belldandy
figured.  
	Keiichi leanded over the back of the couch and lightly tapped her
face.  "Hello?  Anybody home in there?  Hello?" Tap, tap, tap.  Ryoko
responded by opening her eyes for him.  
	"Hello!" He smiled at her.
	Ryoko contemplated the face above her for a second, then quick as
lightning reached up and glomped on to the body connected to the face, 
pulling her and her prize back onto the couch.  "Mmm...Tenchi...darling."
	"Yaaaaaa!!!!"  he screamed as he was pulled off his feet, Urd was
sent tumbling backwards throwing sandwich bits everywhere, and Belldandy was
dumped from her corner of the couch.
	"Woah!  She's alive!"
	"Good, Skuld, your eyes are working fine."  Urd chastized, as she
stood up.
	"Keiichi!!!"  Belldandy started to pull on the girl's arms trying to
get her boyfriend loose.  It didn't seem to be working.
	"URK!  Bell....dandy...help!"
	"Tenchi.....darling....let's kiss...."  Ryoko forced Keiichi into a
liplock that he wouldn't forget for a long time.  Everyone's eyes
(including Keiichi's) got about three times larger than normal.
	"EEK!!!  KEIICHI!!!"  Belldandy squeeked!
	"Hey, you two timer!"
	"URD!"
	"Well, wadda want?  He doesn't seem to be stopping her!"
	"He can't, her grip is so strong!"  Belldandy fired back.
	Keiichi kept squirming, trying to get loose, but he wasn't having
much luck, as Ryoko was enjoying her so long sought after kiss with
'Tenchi'.


			*	*	*

	Washu looked up at the unhappy cabbit now perched on top of Tenchi's
head.  Ryo-oh-ki had a bandaged ear and a splint tied on her back left leg. 
She looked back to Washu with tears in her eyes.  She didn't like to be
wrapped up with first aid.
	"Oh, don't be that way.  You're lucky, that explosion could have
done worse than just bang you up."
	"Merrow?"
	"Really, Ryo-oh-ki.  While Washu fixed you up, I watched the monitor
tape of the explosion.  It wasn't pretty.  You were lucky."
	"Miiaa."  The cabbit wore an expression of 'oh, I think I get it
now.' She looked at the splint on her leg and then smiled at Washu. 
"Miyaa!"
	"You're welcome, Ryo-oh-ki.  Good, now that we've got that out of
the way, let's go see how our exterminators are doing." Washu opened the lab
door and stepped thru the dimensional matrix with Tenchi and Ryo-oh-ki.
	The three stepped from the doorway and immediately froze in their
tracks; it was their turn to do the big eye thing.  Before them was a pair
of legs kicking in the air over the back of the couch while the three
'exterminators' pulled on what ever was holding the owner of the legs to the
couch.  
	Skuld was trying to pry whatever it was from Keiichi with her mallet
handle. "I don't think she's gonna let go, sis." 
	"Keiichi!"  The blonde one cried and pulled harder.  A small 'Halp!'
and 'mmm...Tenchi....' came from the unseen side of the couch.
	Washu buried her head in her hands in disbelief.  "Oh, boy, crazy
girl is at it again."  She ran over to the couch leaving a bug-eyed Tenchi
and cabbit at the open lab portal.

	Belldandy saw Washu first.  "Oh, ma'am, your friend attacked my
Keiichi and won't let go.  She also keeps calling him 'Tenchi'.  Please
Help!" She pulled again and again, but to no avail.
	"Ryoko!  Let go, you space turnip!"  Washu called into her
daughter's ear.  "...Tenchi..." was all Ryoko said, as she reaffirmed her
hug on Keiichi.  "...darling..."
	Washu looked at Keiichi, he was weakly mouthing 'help' at her and
looking pathetic. "Tenchi, get over her and help!"
	That snapped Tenchi out of his daze,  "Right, Washu.  What is she
doing to him?"
	"Hugging him, what else?" Washu replied.
	Urd piped in as if on cue, "Well, there was the liplock she had
on him a few minutes ago, right Belldandy?"
	"URD!"  
	"WHAT?!"  Washu cried in disbelief, "Ryoko, you nut!  Let him go,
that's not Tenchi!"
	"...Tenchi....darling...."  
	"Geez!  Tenchi, got your sword on you?"
	"Um, yeah!"  He pulled it from the back of his pajamas.  He had
learned that sleeping with Tenchi, the Master Key, occationally came in
handy.  Especially if some lunatic villan came calling at 2 in the AM.
	"Shock her with it."  
	"What?!  I can't do that to Ryoko, Washu!"
	"Look, she's in a wierd daze, a quick zap from that sword will bring
her out of it."
	"Um...."  Tenchi looked down at Keiichi who was pleading with what
little energy he had left, then to the girl called Belldandy, who was also
pleading.  "Alright."  He took the sword hilt and quickly jabbed it at her
ribs.  A crackle of light and energy flashed about the two bodies on the
couch.  Ryoko let out a quick 'Aaah!' while Keiichi let out a small 'yeek!'. 
Her hands flew away from Keiichi and he was quickly dragged from her by Urd
and Skuld.
	"Keiichi!"  Belldandy cried, and helped him set down on the floor.
	"Urk,"  was all he could say in reply.  Urd noticed that he was just
a slight bit crispy from the shock.
	Ryoko, however, just relaxed after the shock and slowly opened her
eyes.  "mmmm....what a dream....Tennnnchhhiiii...." She rolled over and
arched her back stretching like a cat, a tail came out of nowhere and
whipped about in the air.  Then she noticed Washu, "Oh I just had the
greatest dream.  I thought I finally had Tenchi all to myself.  I can almost
still taste him." She hugged herself and giggled.  "It was electric!"
	"I'll bet," Washu scolded.  "Well, you should be able to taste
somebody after all that, but it's not Tenchi." 
	"Huh?"
	"You had Keiichi in a kiss that almost smothered him!"  Skuld piped
in, reshouldering her mallet.  Ryoko looked at the girl with confusion.
	"Who are..."
	"That's right, daughter dear, you had one of our exterminators in a
liplock and wouldn't let go.  I had to have Tenchi zap you with the sword to
get you to wake up!"
	Ryoko, confused, looked over to Tenchi who was still holding the
Master Key.  He had a guilty look on his face.  "S-Sorry, Ryoko, but it was
the only way to get you to stop."
	"Myiaa!"  Ryo-oh-ki agreed.
	"You hugged me so tight, I thought I was gonna die!"
	Ryoko turned to unknown voice and found a charred Keiichi crawling
around the end of the couch, followed by Belldandy.
	"Even I have to admit, it was a hell of kiss!"  Urd added.  Ryoko
just sat there moving her head between the four newcomers, Tenchi, and
Washu.  She was completely lost.
	"Alright, what the hell is going on?  What are you people talking
about, and who are you!" She aimed the final statement towards Keiichi and
company.  Then she noticed the state of the room, her jaw hit the floor. 
"...and what did you do to the house?!!"
	"Um, Ryoko..." Tenchi started.  He didn't get to finish, Washu
wouldn't let him.
	"They didn't have anything to do with it.  It was the bugs' fault. 
It made the stereo blow up and it took you with it.  These people are here
to find, and get rid of the bugs."
	"Bugs?  Washu, you're telling me a cockroach did this?!"  She waved
her arm about the room to stress the point.
	"Not real bugs.  She means 'bugs' as in system malfunctions on
computers."  Skuld explained.
	"What!?"  Ryoko did not understand.

	Just then, the front door opened and more people could be heard in
the house.
	"Hello?"  A pleasant voice called.
	"Tenchi?"  Came a younger voice.
	"In here, Ayeka, Sasami!"  he called.
	Mihoshi's bubbling voice filled the air.  "Tee, hee, oh good!  Look who we
found!"  The three girls stepped around the corner, with Mihoshi cuddling a
bug in her arms.  Everyone in the sun-room started to scream.  
	Ayeka started first.  "AAAHHHH, Tenchi what happened?  Ryoko!  What did you do this time,
you hooligan!"  
	"Eek, Ryo-oh-ki your hurt!"  Sasami exclaimed, noticing the banages
on her cabbit.
	"A BUG!  SKULD, GET IT!"  Keiichi yelled, but she was way ahead of
him.  She was already moving, unslinging her mallet, and winding up to
strike.
	"Oh, MY!  Aaaahh!"  Mihoshi cried, seeing Skuld's intent.  Skuld
lept towards Mihoshi, "Drop the bug, I'll smack it!" Mihoshi, of course,
entered into her normal mode of survival - panic.  "WAAHHH!!!!! Get away
from meeee!!!" She turned and ran, bug in hand, towards the front door.
	"Where are you going?  I gotta squish that bug!"  Skuld ran after
Mihoshi.
	Belldandy, with a worried look, called after her little sister,
"Skuld, becareful!"  Keiichi grabbed her hand, "Don't worry Belldandy, I'll
look after her,"  and he followed after Skuld.
	"Oh, geez!  Mihoshi!  Sasami, here, take Ryo-oh-ki."  Tenchi
carefully handed the cabbit off to the girl and took after the girls.  Washu
followed him.
	"Where are you going, Washu?"  Ryoko asked.
	"When Mihoshi's involved, things have a tendency to get abnormal!"
	Ryoko frowned and mumbled, "you can say that again."   
	Ayeka, still dizzy, from everyone running past her looked to
Belldandy, "Can you tell me, just what is going on?"
	"I think I can explain some of it...." She began.

				*	*	*

	The menagerie ran out the front door and into the yard with Mihoshi
leading the way, closely followed by Skuld.  Tenchi, Keiichi, and Washu
brought up the rear.
	"WAAHHHH!!!!!"
	"Come back here, I gotta squish that bug!!!  Why are you running?"
	Mihoshi didn't understand what was going on, all she knew was that
somebody wanted to hit her with a mallet, so running looked to be the best
option.  She hated not knowing what was going on.
	"Mihoshi!  Stop running!"  Since leaving the sun-room, Tenchi had
received a very brief intro to bugs from Keiichi - stomp them out of
exsistance or things can go 'boom'.  He really didn't want anything bad to
happen to her.
	"Becareful, you two, don't get too close!"  Washu yelled.
	Skuld was gaining on Mihoshi, this did not make her happy.  She was
even less happy when she tripped on a rock and dropped her furry friend. 
"AAHHH!!!!"  She covered her head and prepared to be malletted.
	What she didn't know, was that she had lost not only the bug, but
the control cube that she kept in her hair.  After flying a few feet, the
cube landed in the dirt and the bug landed on it.  The bug just sat and
wiggled its nose like nothing had happened.
	Skuld saw the opening and pounced.  Literally!
	"YAAAAAHH!!!  Screaming Skuld Squish!!!"
	Keiichi decided, as he and Tenchi lept over the prone Mihoshi, that
he was going to take that game system of Skuld's and bury it somewhere. 
	They boys landed less than a meter away from Skuld just as she
struck the bug on the control cube.  She flattened not only the bug, but the
cube as well.  Suddenly, an explosion and glaring white light errupted from
ground zero, engulfing Skuld, Tenchi, and Keiichi.
	Washu skidded to a halt and hid her eyes from the explosion. 
"TENCHI!!!!"
	As Washu peered through the settling dust, she could make out the
robed, mallet weilding form of Skuld standing at ground zero, coughing on
all the dust.  Then she spotted a second silouete(sp?) lying on the ground,
it was Tenchi...or maybe it was Keiichi.  Who was it, she wasn't sure
because the dust was so thick.
	Then it hit her, the dust may be thick, but she could make out the
shapes of two of the victims.  But where was the third?  And Who was it?
	 
			End Chapter 2
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