"The Road to Hell..."
   a self-infliction TM! Tale
   (note: this is pretty short and if anyone
   thinks it should be fleshed out, they can 
   tell me)
 
I look over this bleak and blackened world that was once Earth, knowing
I am the cause of this destruction.  How, you wonder, did one woman
cause all this damage?  Believe it or not, it was my misguided act of
love that brought the world to its end.  
 
Let me start at the beginning. I had just finished watching "Tenchi 
Muyo in Love" for the 20th time (at least) and as I was rewinding it, 
I remarked, as I so often do, to myself that Operative A didn't deserve 
to die and that I would love to go back in time to save him.
 
"You would?"
 
I turned in surprise and found, to my surprise and delight, Miss Washuu
standing in my bedroom/living room area of my small two room (not 
counting the bathroom which you couldn't even swing a rat in) apartment.
 
"Yes," I told her without hesitation. "I love him so much."
 
Within moments I found myself in Washuu's little TimeSpinner. I had 
selected the time I would take him, when I would bring him back. It was
dangerous. Kain would be there so I had to act fast.
 
Within seconds I was there and grabbing Naoki just as Kain reached for 
his plasma cannon <Kain would've torn Naoki's arm right off if I hadn't
pulled him back to 1996 with me... his right arm and several other bits 
of him.> Holding onto him, I signalled Washuu that I had achieved my 
objective. Without hesitation, I returned to 1996 with Naoki, who clawed
me and at first refused to accept that I was trying to save his life,
until I showed him the video Washuu preserved for me showing his original 
fate, once he saw that, he went into shock. What had I done?! I had only
wanted to save his life, I never meant for this to happen. As I held onto
him, I felt the world tearing apart around me. Washuu sadly explained
that without Naoki there to distract him any longer, Kain had managed to
get the upper hand before Tenchi could send him into alternate space and
had killed both Achika and Nobuyuki. Tenchi had vanished, Ayeka and Sasami
were eventually enslaved by Kagato, but this only lasted a short while 
before Kain butchered all three of them along with everyone else.
 
I looked down at my beloved Naoki. I knew what would happen to him if I
returned him to 1970 and I didn't want to. I couldn't take him back to that
non-future. It wasn't fair! But I knew in my heart I had no choice. 
 
Naoki lie, sleeping, in my arms, as Washuu returned.
"He must go back and make the sacrifice he was meant to make."  She told me.
I was crying, because I knew she was right, and watched as Washuu placed one
of the devices onto Naoki's forehead that Ryoko and Ayeka had used on Achika.
Naoki wouldn't remember me, would die without knowing there was someone out 
there who loved him. I felt a twinge of sadness about that. 
 
As he faded from my arms, I bent my lips to his muzzle in one final kiss,
then felt a tear trickle down my face as the world changed around me.