[Warhammer comes out again.]
	WH: Everyone needs a chance to show whom, what, and where they are. 
Some aren't given the chance-keep that in mind in your dealings with 
others.

Teknos Warhammer presents

Machine's Blessing:
Part 4:
Given a Chance

A crossover of Teknoman and Oh My Goddess!
Written by Christian Clark


	Megumi's grasp on Mara nearly failed as the rest of the demon's power 
flooded her person. It was almost too much to bear. 

	That was when she heard the door open and saw her brother there. She 
hoped that he never would have to see this. Now it was too late. She had 
gotten too far to fail now. 

	She wanted Keiichi to be happy, without having to worry about Mara 
messing things up. True; it might as well terminate her life, but for 
her brother, she would go to this ridiculous extreme. 

Also, she wanted to get back at Mara so badly for being possessed. 
Megumi felt like she had been raped-she felt so used. Either way, she 
wanted to get back at Mara in such a way that the demoness wouldn't live 
to brag about it. If Mara wasn't stopped, who knew what else she would 
have done? Megumi was going to make sure she that didn't happen.

	She said her farewell to Keiichi, wondering if she'll ever see him 
again. Yet, she severely doubted it. Because there has been no record of 
half demon/god beings that ever lived to tell the tale. 

	For her last moment in normal space, she thought of the Norn sisters 
and hoped that life would treat them better than it did her. 

	Then, she saw everything like it was normal. Yet she could neither see 
Keiichi, Mara, or anyone else. It was like she was alone in the whole 
world. She could barely make out the distortions of her brother, the 
Norns, and a few other spirits, but that was it. She was alone.

	For the next half century, she wandered about the strange dimension 
that she now lived in. Every color seemed pale, even the sun seemed to 
suffer from this� this distortion. 

	Several years later, she could feel a disturbance. She traveled from 
Japan to America where she felt the source. She didn't expect it to be a 
nine-year-old boy with blond hair, a big heart, and an open mind. It 
turned out that he could see her without any effort on her part to go 
back into the home dimension. 

	She figured that it must have been the same reason that Belldandy came 
to her brother. He must have been a Friend of Nature. 

*************************************************
	
	The next several days that passed were almost torture to Ringo. Even 
though he was commended for beating Lance, it didn't seem that great to 
him. Also, Tina had been watching him like a hawk, which was beginning 
to irritate him to no end. 

	He wanted to go back to his home and see if Megumi was still there, but 
a training exercise brought up by either Salian or Tina and would drain 
him to the point where he couldn't go even if he wanted to. 

	This same routine of trying and failing to find Megumi continued until 
he could stand it no more. 

	Walking to the exit, he heard footsteps. He didn't really need to guess 
who it was, because he already knew. "Tina, would you mind leaving me 
alone! I'm going somewhere to think."

	Surely enough, she came out of the dark and sneered, "Or is it to look 
for your girlfriend maybe?"

	He frowned at her and turned away, not even bothering to listen to her 
continue. "You shouldn't bother Ringo! Women like that don't exist. In 
fact, she's not even human, just let her be!"

	His frown got even deeper as he stomped to the entryway to the outside. 
He ignored any further comments from her as a blue glow went about his 
body. He flew upward and away from the Command Center� and to San 
Francisco.

*************************************************

	Several hours later, the only sign of human life was Ringo, sitting on 
top of a large boulder on the beach. 

	Ringo loved watching the sun fall to the west. When the beach wasn't 
crowded, the clouds accentuated the colors of the sunset, and the sound 
of a gentle breeze or the ocean. It seemed so peaceful, though if you 
saw the ruins of the city, you'd think otherwise. 
	
	Taking a second to see the sun at high noon, he wondered. What exactly 
was it that was making him kill himself about Megumi recently. Even 
though he just met her after so long, it seemed like he knew her for 
years. Then those memories of her when he was nine flooded back. She was 
there for him.

	And then, he realized that she was there more than he first thought. 
When he was fifteen, his best friend was killed in an accident and even 
though nobody could console him, she did. She came to him and gave him a 
shoulder to cry on. And every time that he was able to recover, he would 
forget her again. 

	Another occasion was when he got word of when his whole family was 
killed. He was curled up on his bed, sobbing the sheets until they 
soaked. Then, he felt another person sit on his bed and place a hand on 
his head, stroking the hair soothingly. He looked up to see her gentle 
face, smiling at him. 

He could remember her whispering, "It's all right. I'm here Ringo." With 
that, she picked him up and hugged him gently. Allowing him to let loose 
all his pain. He never could tell how long he cried, but knew that every 
tear he shed was caught by her warm embrace. 

	And like all those other times before, he forgot her. But he could 
never tell how. 

	But there was something else too. Every time he saw her, he wanted to 
know everything about her. Who she really was, what she liked, didn't 
like, and everything in between. He got all the information about her 
from the information search provided by Atusko. 

	It could have been the eyes, her gentle voice, or her attitude of 
compassion for him. He found himself wanting to see her more with every 
visit. It was strange to say the least. He always fancied himself as a 
lady's man and womanizer, yet never could gather the guts to actually 
make good his 'professions'.  

	Now, he couldn't help but feel depressed. Megumi was gone, and now 
there was most likely no way to find her.

	He heard a pair of footsteps to his left and turned to see a man about 
fifty-five years of age walking to his boulder, whistling all the while. 
What made Ringo's eyes widen was that he was decked out in a white 
tuxedo, almost as if he was going to a wedding. 

	"Hey there!" he said to the man. 

	The older man looked up and smiled. "Hey kid! What's up?"

	"We'll� I am." They both snickered. "What are you doing out here?"

	"Well, I came to say good-bye to this place. Even though it was a 
decent crutch, I'm moving on. Can't you tell kid? I'm getting married 
today! How do I look?"

	Ringo smiled and said with a slightest bit of sarcasm, "Hubba hubba," 
blinked, "At your age?"

	The older man frowned, "Don't start with me kid. You're not the first. 
This wonderful woman that I've known for most of my life and I are 
finally taking another chance together. Strange thing love is, don't you 
think?"

	Ringo snorted and looked back to the ocean, "You got that right. Yet, 
it doesn't matter to me anymore."

	The old man blinked with surprise and asked, "Wait, what do you mean it 
doesn't matter anymore? How can it not matter? Is it about a girl?"

	Ringo nodded. "But there's nothing if she's not there. She made it 
real. She made it real and now she's gone."

	The man hopped on the rock beside him, "So find her! Bring her back!" 

	Without caring, he retorted, "Love dies, old man."

	The old man frowned and shook his head, "No. No, no, not by itself. 
*We*, we kill it. Now, if you give up, you'll be sitting on this rock 
thirty years from now, just like I was."

The frown vanished and the old man put on a sympathetic look, "I know 
how you feel kid, I felt the same way once, I did. But I didn't know how 
important love was. Let me tell you something, somehow somewhere there's 
a way to get to her. If she got here, then there's a way to get there. 
Believe me kid. It's up to you." 

	With that, the old man walked away and into the distance. All the 
while, his words were soaking into Ringo's head. Striking the truth on 
more than one occasion. Ringo looked in the direction the man went, but 
found him gone. As if he vanished into thin air. 

	As Ringo hopped off the rock, he began to walk back to the deserted 
town. All the while wondering how to sort out his feelings, in an 
attempt to make any sense. He couldn't even tell if he actually cared 
enough about Megumi to go after her. Confusion seemed to be the only 
state of mind he was in. 

	It all seemed like some confusing romance novel where nobody knows who 
and what they really are. 

	Time passed slowly as the teknos warrior walked among the rubble and 
back to his home. Ignoring the past destruction about him and focusing 
on the inner struggle within. Every several steps, he could hear the old 
man's words ring in his head again. The scary part was that with every 
new mention, the answer to the questions about her became 'yes'.

	An explosion far off caught his attention and broke his concentration. 
Changing into a sphere of blue light, he flew as fast as his power could 
take him to the source. 

*************************************************

	At the Space Knight command center, in Jamison's office, Atsuko's face 
appeared on the screen of his desk. She appeared to be in a near panic.

	"Sir! I just picked up what appears to be a skirmish of some sort! Very 
high energy readings."

With his usual calm he replied. "Can you pinpoint exactly where it is 
and who's there?"

	"The place yes, but the people I cannot get any kind of visuals on."

	"Do we have anyone near there?"

	"From what I can tell, Ringo's the only one there. Assistance is 
recommended for him, sir."
	
	"Very well then, you continue to monitor the battle and see what else 
might be going on."

	"Yes sir!" With that, her image faded out. He turned to the 
communication panel which contained the frequencies for the Space Knight 
Teknos. 

	"Tina. Can you hear me?"

	"Yes sir."

	"There seems to be a disturbance in the old San Francisco area. Ringo's 
already there, but I want you to take another with you and investigate."

	"Understood sir, Scythe out."

	At Tina's position in the remnants of Denver, Colorado, she turned to 
the other two Earthen Teknos, Ranma and Akane Saotome. "I just got word 
from the commander that there's a skirmish on the San Francisco area. 
Akane, you continue the search and Ranma, you're with me."

	Both of them blinked, but didn't question her. Ranma turned to his wife 
and said, "Take care of yourself, ok?" She smiled and nodded.

"You too." There wasn't that many occasions where they were apart, but 
that time was taken to implicitly trust each other. 

	"Alright! Alright! Come on Bo, we need to get going!" Tina growled, 
changing her form and blasting off into the sky, with Ranma close behind 
en route to San Francisco. 

*************************************************	

	Amid the rubble of a destroyed shopping mall, hunters had caught their 
prey. 

	"LET ME GO!" Megumi screamed, trying to free herself from the black and 
red colored cords that held her tight. Her captors, most demons from the 
past and several different religious origins, had found her and placed a 
demon ward on her back to make sure she wouldn't escape. The only one 
that seemed to only be watching, was apparently the leader of them. 

	Also, it seemed that from what Megumi remembered of records in 
Yrrgdrasl, the one in charge seemed to be Lillith, the Mother of Demons. 
Dressed in a simple black and red robe, she watched the proceedings with 
an impassive face as the wind caressed her amethyst colored hair. 

Megumi heard the Mother demoness speak, "You were harder to find that I 
first figured. And just when I was about to give up, you just happen to 
summon a berserker spirit and an earth spirit as well. Quite amazing 
really." She said with an air of elegance and nobility about her. 

	"You let me go and I'll show you something amazing. Me ripping you 
apart!" Megumi snarled. 

	Lillith didn't seemed fazed at all, instead, she pointed her hand to 
the ground below her and from each finger a ray of light appeared. The 
lines all moved about the ground, creating a pentagon and several other 
runes of transport. Taking a final look at Megumi, she whispered loud 
enough for the demon/goddess to hear. 

	"I WILL have my daughter back." 

	With that, the center of the pentagram developed a hole and it expanded 
to engulf them all and transport them to where the runes said. Demon 
Central. 

	Megumi was the first to go in as the demons that held her followed. 
Being last, Lillith was about to step inside the pentagram when she 
heard an odd noise coming from the opposite direction. 

	There in the closing distance; was Teknos Halberd, enraged at seeing 
Megumi abducted by those that didn't even seem human. 

	Knowing the reason why, she simply waved a hand and a wind with the 
strength of the tornado forced him into the ground. She walked up to his 
pinned body, knelt beside him, and took his face gently with her hands; 
seeing the face and man within. 

	"Hmm, so you're the one who she was working with. I must be grateful, 
for without you, I couldn't be able to get my daughter back." Just 
before she left, she caressed the front of his helmet and whispered, not 
even trying to hide the sultry undertone in her voice, "Should we ever 
meet again, I will make sure to repay you in a more 'satisfying' way." 

	If Ringo could, he'd spit in her face. 

Standing up, Lillith entered the tower of black light and returned to 
her home. Just as the last of the hole, the pentagram, and runes 
vanished, the bonds that held him relinquished their hold on him. 

	Crawling to where everything else was, he looked all about, not even 
know what exactly happened. Yet, all that mattered now was, she was 
gone. Gone to the point where he could never find her again. 

	"Hey, Ringo!" cried a familiar voice. He turned to see both Teknos 
Scythe and Bo emerge from the blue haze that they arrived in. 

	"Halberd, we got reports of activity going on. Wanna fill us in?" 
Scythe said with no mind towards pleasantries. 

	Ringo just shrugged his shoulders. "I wish I could. Yet, it seems too 
fantastic, even I don't believe it." 

	Suddenly, a shard of a broken mirror began to glow brightly. And from 
the shard, a tiny woman crawled through and expanded to the size of a 
normal one, all the while saying, "Then, if it is not too much trouble, 
allow me to." 

	Seeing a girl appear from a mirror shard, scared both Halberd and Bo to 
the point where they both jumped back. Scythe, although unmoving, was 
shocked at the sudden appearance of another stranger. 

	The woman was dressed in what appeared to be a blue, white, and gold 
dress. Her ash-yellow tied up in a ponytail starting from the back of 
her head, and marks adorning her forehead and areas just below the 
corners of her eyes. 

	"What occurred here was a transposition of energies, allowing a gate to 
be created to go from one place to another." She said with a pleasant 
air. 

	Bo stammered, "W� wh� wh�who are you?" 

	The woman blinked and then looked surprised, "Oh my, where have my 
manners gone?"" she bowed to them both formally, "I am Belldandy. Norn 
Sister of the Present. Goddess First Class, Unlimited License."

	Ringo blinked, "Wait, that sounds rather similar to what Megumi was."

	Belldandy sighed and answered as she pulled out a canteen and what 
appeared to be a small tv. "Yes, she was. But when she fused with Mara 
all those years ago, her astral and physical patterns were distorted to 
the point where we believed her to have perished. Therefore eliminating 
her as a goddess. Yet, Keii-chan would never let her go just like that 
and continued to search for her, just like the good brother that he 
always was to her."

	She poured the contents of the canteen onto the ground and switched the 
small tv on. From the puddle, a girl no older than fifteen emerged. 
Dressed in a baggy pink-white tunic, the ballon trousers she wore made 
her seem light as a feather from the way the wind moved about her 
person. Her hair was let loose in a stream of dark black, that was 
similarly colored like the circular mark on her forehead and cheeks.

	As the second figure emerged from the small tv, she continued, "Now, 
after all this time, we have gotten so close to getting her back. 
Keii-chan will be overjoyed." She looked to the smaller girl, and said 
to the Teknos warriors, "This is my sister, Skuld. Norn Sister of the 
Future. Goddess Second Class, Probationary Unlimited License."

	"Sister." The girl named Skuld said with a low growl, "You know I don't 
like being referred like that. I am more than capable of introducing 
myself."

	From the small tv, a figure of light emerged and then formed to a what 
appeared to be a woman in her mid twenties. What she wore made Tina hate 
her immediately. Even if it was battle armor, it was totally indecent. 
Unlike the other two, she had a more dark bronze skin tone and lighter 
blue markers on her face and white ash colored hair. 

	Skuld answered immediately instead of Belldandy. "And here we have Urd, 
Norn Sister of the Past, a poor excuse for a Cupid of Love, and Second 
Class Goddess with a Probationary Limited License. 
 
	From the perspectives of the three Teknos, it appeared Urd didn't like 
being insulted about her position. They were about begin fighting when 
another figure emerged, only it was from a lock. 

	He appeared to be in his mid-twenties, dressed in armor that fit over 
his white and blue tunic and pants. Yet, what made him stand out most, 
was his crystal gauntlet on his left wrist. The mark on his forehead was 
a light red, as was the marks on his cheeks. Hanging behind his head was 
a short ponytail that fluttered in the breeze. 

	Stepping past her sisters, Belldandy said as she walked behind him, 
"This is Keiichi Morisato. Guardian Deity, First Class God, Unlimited 
License." She paused a bit and then embraced Keiichi, "And my husband." 
He smiled and took her hand as she hugged him from the back.

	"You!" Ringo said, pointing at Keiichi. He didn't seem surprised at 
Ringo's accusation as he released himself from Belldandy's embrace. 

	"Yes. It was me who came to your residence all those years ago. I was 
searching for my sister, Megumi." He said with an air of confidence and 
yet held some guilt that said he was the reason she ran away. Yet, it 
seemed to vanish as he said with a determined face, "But I'm so close to 
getting her back now. I, just like you, want to know the complete truth. 
So, I am asking you if you would like to join us in sneaking into Demon 
Central, find her, and bring her back. "

	He stepped forward and said incredulously, "Do you need to ask? Of 
course I'm going!" 

	Belldandy turned to Scythe and Bo. "You two need not come, but if you 
want to. You may, but it will not be easy." 

	Bo nodded enthusiastically. "Yeah, there's no one here to fight really, 
so why not?"

	All eyes turned to Scythe as she deliberated. With arms akimbo and mind 
deep in thought, she wondered if she should go or not. She then shrugged 
and said, "I'm going." 

	Her response made Ringo blink, "Well, maybe it's a way of saying 'I'm 
sorry for being a prick' Ringo. I'll help you get your girlfriend back."

	Keiichi turned to Ringo in surprise, "Girlfriend?" He would have 
continued, but Belldandy had the foresight to say that was just how Tina 
viewed things. 

	The next hour was spent clearing away the debris and rubble from the 
immediate area to make a clearing for a specialized Holy Circle Gate . 
That would enable them to sneak past the defenses of Demon Central and 
let them sneak in. 

	Skuld had placed special wards on the Teknos warriors, so that they 
would not be so easily deterred like Ringo was with Lillith. 

	With the last of the markings in place, the Sisters of Fate, stood at 
each an equal corner of the circle. Creating a triangle in the process. 
After five minutes of their chanting, a light appeared from the center 
and the gate activated. 

	When the flash that followed subsided, all seven occupants were gone. 

End of chapter 4

[Warhammer comes out.]
	WH: This has most likely the hardest chapter I ever wrote in this 
story. The reason being I wondered if Ringo's feelings could truly 
justify them being together. I can only hope that I did it right. 

	Next, you can receive extra brownie points for guessing which movie I 
made a reference to in this chapter. It's one of my all time favorites. 
But I will give you a hint, it has a similar premise as Oh My Goddess 
and stars Gene Kelley. 

	Next, the deal with Lillith. I am NOT going to use the Capcom's 
Darkstalkers version of her, I am using an original legend of her. Of 
which religious origin I am not sure of. The Mother of Demons that was 
not pulled from Adam's rib. Or something like that. In other words, I 
ain't using the squeaky voiced, underage, little slut that is the Capcom 
version of Lillith. So there!

	Thank goodness there's a little more backstory on the other OMG fic 
that I never finished. But maybe, I just might finish it someday. If 
that day ever comes that is. 

	Finally, will Ringo, his friends and the Norns get to Demon Central in 
time to save Megumi? What does Lillith have in store for the younger 
Morisato? Will it succeed? Tune in next week, same Tekno time,  same 
Tekno fanfic.

[Warhammer returns to the darkness.]


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