Heaven and Eternity (OAV III)

By K'thardin

I was working on another story when this one finally overpowered my

consciousness and DEMANDED that I write it first. Oh well I work on many at

a time anyway so it's no big deal. Anyway this one is for my all

time favorite anime series Tenchi Muyo! This one came about in a discussion

a friend and I once had about whether or anymore of these older beings

aquantences would come looking for them (if I gave you specifics it would

ruin the story). Soon we came up with this really big plot line that just

WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE! So now I have to write it down. This is also where

I got my pen name (you'll see in a future episode). Well, I think I've

rambled enough. Enjoy this one. I know I did.

Standard Disclaimer: Shockwave was a pansy. Anyway I don't own Tenchi, and

don't sue because I have no money. I do own a few of these characters, if

you can't guess which ones go watch the OVA's (I'll give you a hint, it's

the one's not in the OVA's) nonbeliever. That's all.

The musical score is standard Tenchi background music unless otherwise

specified.

The Gathering of the Children

"C'mon Megatron. I dare you."

-Optimus Prime

<Opening Theme: Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns and Roses>

The man had come to this galaxy while following the forces of the Yoma

Empire. It was strange enough that they had gone on the move, as they were

staunch isolationists. Stranger still that they had armed themselves to the

teeth before going. Wondering if this would interfere with his business any

the man had seriptiously tagged along.

It was quite amazing seeing a galaxy where there shouldn't be one (there

was no gravitational distortion or any distortions for that matter). Even

more amazing was the fact there seemed to be a field of some sort surrounding

this galaxy. Probably explained the lack of effect it had on any other galaxy,

he thought. He considered this very odd as he followed them into said galaxy.

He followed them until they finally came to the center where a structure

that defied all laws of existence stood. It was vast; as large as some small

moons. It had running water, vegetation and wild life. Keep in mind the

water had no apparent source and was running in a vacuum (there was definitely

no atmosphere, he made certain), tumbling off the edge of the structure into

the vastness of space, and from there who knows.

The trees and other vegetation didn't really cross him as being too out

there (he had seen quite a few plants in space in his lifetime thankyouverymuch)

however coma the dolphin, squirrel, and deer like things that bounded around

the area without the benefit of gravity (though the water should have tipped

him off) really baffled him. It was quite obvious to him something powerful

lived here and was taking great pains to show just how powerful.

So he watched while the Yoma armada closed in on said structure and

proceeded to open fire. As he expected the armada didn't even phase the

structure. Hell, it didn't even look to him like they were even hitting it.

Actually when he thought about it some more it was more like their weapons

just weren't being acknowledged by the reality of the structure. Eventually

they got something's attention as an amorphous creature that was composed of

some red and white colored energy appeared before them. Seeing a new target

the armada poured firepower into it that would have destroyed a medium sized

class M world. It was very bright in that spot for a moment and when they

finally ceased fire; they saw that their efforts were utterly futile.

It seemed as if a hand appeared in the amorphous energy, and pointed at

them; sending out a force wave of immense power. So much for the Yoma armada,

thought the man. Curious about what had transpired he tracked the being as it

disappeared inside of the structure. Shifting his substance into something

less noticeable he passed through the walls of the structure and began

tracking the being. Interesting! The inside of this place is larger than the

outside.

He took the most direct route, passing through walls and such on his way

to where he felt the being go. Strange, he thought, there seems to be very

little in the way of surveillance around here. Then again I doubt most beings

could even think about getting in here, so it's probably not considered

necessary. Though I am not seen unless I want to be seen. God it's scary how

good I am sometimes. He continued for awhile always keeping a part of himself

focused on what he was doing, but for the most part letting his mind wander.

I wonder if they have some good drugs here, he wondered idly. Probably not.

Eventually he came to the area he had sensed the being go.

It was a giant amphitheater. He saw the being on a dais of sorts in the

center; probably for receiving people, but if he is being received who is

receiving him? He received his answer momentarily as a giant head

appeared before the amorphous mass of energy. A giant head; where have I seen

that before, he wondered?

"How did it go, Abel?" the head asked telepathically.

A head and arms seemed to morph out of the mass.

"It was no problem." The mass named Abel replied.

"And the survey of their technologies?"

"Already in progress D3."

A shimmering distortion appeared behind the floating head and resolved

itself into an image of a rather large woman. Cool, a higher level

dimensional lifeform. Don't see too many of those around anymore.

<<Have you discovered how they found us?>> she asked.

The man shook his head and tried not to become too overwhelmed as he

heard the voice on every conceivable plain of existence.

"Yes, like the others, there were legends in their history of a cosmic

upheaval about thirty-thousand years ago." Legends? This needs looking into.

The geeze never told me about an upheaval around that time. "It went on to

say that it was caused by a war started by sisters of an old race, and though

the dark sister was banished for a time; she would come again. Apparently

they correctly assumed you to be that sister, and came to take care of the

problem themselves."

A cosmic menace? This really does bear further investigation. After

all, it's our association's job to take care of these threats to the relm.

Still, I am rather impressed at how fast they got this info. Perhaps I shall

look into Yoma records myself.

<<Very well. D3 have you discovered her whereabouts yet?>> Her?

"No, milady."

<<Keep on it. You know the importance of finding her. Notify me if

either of you find anything.>>

Who are those shadows behind her? They seem familiar somehow.

"Yes, milady Tokimi." the two intoned as the being vanished.

Seeing no further reason they should be there the two beings on the dais

vanished as well. Tokimi, huh? Well, might as well see what information I

can dig out of the geeze (I really don't want to see him) and the archives.

With that in mind he vanished as well.

*

<Insert the cajun type music here; you know the kind that starts playing

when VanDam or Segal walks into a room>

He reappeared in his ship that he had parked outside of this strange

galaxy, (though he really didn't need one, but he always thought it was cool

to have) and immediately went to his ship's interface console.

"Ranger scan Yoma legends concerning a cosmic upheaval around thirty-

thousand years ago. Scan other races legends about that subject as well." he

said while he sat down.

* Can you be any less specific * the ship printed out.

"Just do it. I'll see what has any relevance to me or not."

* You're the boss *

"And don't you forget it." Goddamn smartass ship.

Almost immediately he saw a listing of various upheavals in that time

frame from the histories of the many races on file. He began scanning through

them, finding the ones he wanted he began reading them, absently noting a

familiar weight settle on his shoulder.

A small red and gold head with a serpentine neck craned around into his

field of vision looking at him with what could only be described as a

quizzical expression.

"Yes I found what I was looking for. And more besides."

The small head continued looking at him.

"I'll tell you in a minute. Gotta do some research first." he said and

quickly (about .0005 seconds) read the contents of the files he wanted.

He sat back and thought for a moment after he was done.

"O.K. Drakhenn get this." he said, addressing the small dragonic being

on his shoulder, "Around thirty-thousand years ago, from what I can piece

together, an entire galaxy exploded (a galaxy that matches the exact

perameters of this one I might add) due to the war that had started between a

few sisters that I guess some would call goddesses. Maybe even higher level

dimensional lifeforms, I don't know. It seems that the sisters on the side of

light won, but either died or were banished as they had banished their sister

of darkness. Apparently this dark being was to return sometime in the future

to try to take dominion over all things like she did before. Seems the Yoma

and a few others have been keeping tabs on this lady and decided that when she

did return they would destroy her."

The little dragon opened his mouth and let his tongue roll out.

"No Shit, they got their butts creamed. So I guess this means it's up

to us to take care of this little problem."

The dragon asked him another question.

"No, a direct confrontation wouldn't be beneficial to either side. I

can't directly affect things in her plain of existence, and she would

instantly sense anyone trying to cross over there. In any event such a

crossing would greatly weaken me for a time. Time enough for her to take me

out in any case." he paused for a moment and considered other options, "I

suppose I could try to get her to come here or even lure her to some other

dimension where I would have the advantage. Hmm...how to do that?"

Drakhenn suggested something.

"Yes, that would probably be my best bet. Just keep an eye on her, and

thwart her where I can. Eventually she will have to personally investigate.

Then I got her."

A thought occurred to Drakhenn, which he voiced as a question to his

humanoid companion. He reached up, scratched his white beard and frowned a

little at the question.

"No, I don't think it would be a good idea to involve the others. I get

a really bad feeling about that when I consider it." he said finally answering

the question, "Still, as much as I don't want to, I'm going to get a hold of

the old man, and get some information out of him. He really should have told

me something like this. Ranger..." he called turning his attention back to the

monitor.

* You rang? *

"Can it. See if you can get a hold of the...DEAR GOD, WHAT WAS THAT!"

he yelled, very surprised.

Holy Shit! That was...one of us. Or to be more accurate, one of us

just using his power for the first time. It was too brief to get a precise

lock. I wonder if anyone else got it. He typed a few keys on his console and

brought up a wizened old face on the view screen.

"Yes, I know! I felt it too!" exclaimed the figure on the screen.

"Did you or anyone else get a lock on it?"

"No. Only a general one." he sighed regretfully, "We really could use

another."

"Where was it generally?" he asked.

"It's in that area of space you normally hang around." the figure on

the screen looked at him from above his sunglasses, "I guess this means you

are going to be wanting to take care of it." The man gave the figure on the

screen a what the hell do you think? look.

"Right, keep in touch."

"Yeah sure. Hey wait a minute!" the man said suddenly.

"Uh..yeah?"

"You were around about thirty-thousand years ago weren't you?"

"Yes." the man replied a little puzzled.

"You know anything about a galaxy exploding about that time?" Please say

you know something. I really don't want to talk to the geeze if I can help

it.

"The Vorden galaxy self-destructed about that time. Why do you ask?"

"Oh nothing." he said quickly, "I was just scanning through our records

and wondering why little was mentioned about it."

"Well when it happened we investigated and determined that it was caused

by a freak transwarp anomaly that reacted with the black holes in the center

of that galaxy. Big Boom to say the least. That's about all that we really

could find there." Uh huh, thought the man.

"You found nothing else that might have caused it?" the figure on the

screen was obviously growing suspicious.

"Why? Is something going on?"

"It's probably nothing but my own paranoia." he replied calmly.

The figure shrugged slightly.

"Well let us know if you need help. Keep us informed on the new guy,

huh?"

"You worry too much. Out." the screen went blank.

Well that was thoughrouly uninformative. Now I have this problem, and a new

guy to worry about. Oh well, no one ever said that life was easy, he thought

as he eased back in his chair.

"Ranger plot a course to the Milky Way and get us there ASAP."

* If you want there ASAP, why don't you teleport us? *

"'Cause I'm lazy. Now do it." I have really got to get a new ship.

Drakhenn was trying and failing miserably to keep from laughing.

Unbeknownst to any of the occupents of the ship an old man was standing

out in the vaccuum of space watching the ship. So now it begins, he thought.

I hope that the lady is right about this. If she's not this universe can bend

over and kiss it's ass goodbye. With that the old man vanished.

*

O.K. I've got nearly unlimited patience, but this is screwed up! Why

can't something happen, he asked himself.

The man had been quite literally floating around in space in the Milky

Way galaxy for three months. In that time the power he had sensed being used

before had only been once more; which only allowed him to home in on a more

specific area of the galaxy: somewhere in the Juraian protectorate. This was

strange, because normally the beings that display their type of power did so

on a frequent basis once first used. Not in this case. Watching Tokimi was

just as boring, they never did anything really. Occasionally some screwed up

scientist would arrive and give progress reports on some kind of power

converter that he was building for her. He had followed this...what was his

name? Oh yeah, Clay. Dr. Clay. Anyway he had followed this guy and found

that he was building a converter that turned bio energies into a kind of

cosmic power. Only problem is this converter was so large and powerful it

could probably suck the life out of a world. Seeing this to be a potential

problem in the future, he had thrown a few spanners into the works greatly

decreasing Dr. Clay's progress, frustrating him to no end. It was a mild

entertainment, but even that quickly became boring while he was waiting for

something momentous to happen.

It was at this time that he decided to pay a visit to Tokimi; hoping she

was doing something; anything would be nice, he thought.

Teleporting in he settled himself on a ledge, not letting the gaze of

either D3 or Tokimi reach him. At least they're doing something different, he

thought as he watched them watch some strange looking ship in space.

God, I hope these guys don't think this is entertainment, he thought

shuddering a little. He continued watching the globe they were viewing (pun

intended) for a little while until he finally got his wish: something started

happening.

First there was this galaxy police shuttle that tried to take on the

larger ship. Even though it's pilot was quite skilled, it still fell before

the massive laser fire the larger ship possessed.

Second another ship of even stranger configuration entered the battle

and projected some strange crystalline structure into the hull of the ship

near where the Galaxy police shuttle had crashed. At near the same time it

seemed something teleported into the larger ship itself.

Third the larger ship divided into two parts while a massive surge of

energy started converging on one point; ripping a hole in the fabric of space

itself. Cool, a black hole, he thought. Then he felt it.

The two other beings felt it as well though were not as dramatically

affected by it as their unknown watcher was. In his case he was clutching the

sides of his head as it seemed that a couple of adamantium spikes were being

driven into his head, repeatedly.

"What is this energy?" D3 suddenly asked.

"Is this Washuu's or Tsunami's doing?" Tokimi wondered.

"That sword is capable of material conversion, yet it only has three

blades?" D3 couldn't believe what he was seeing.

The man wasn't even listening to their conversation as he put in place

certain mental shields he had taken down for some reason or another and never

put back up. I have got to teach that kid the meaning of the word SUBTLETY.

Still, I've got you now. I must admit, that is one impressive display of

power for a beginner. Yet it appears you have attracted the attention of the

evil Brady bunch here. Looks like you're going to be helping me on this one.

Though why is it that that feels right, when asking those of us more

experienced seemed wrong? Can't worry about that now. I better track him

down and begin his training before these guys decide to deal with him. This

is getting fun again. Smiling slightly he disappeared.

*

Three weeks later. O.K. I tracked the kid's energy signature to this

star system. Might as well find out if anyone has anything on him.

"Ranger, see if anyone has any information concerning the kid we're

tracking."

* I did that awhile ago. It seems the galaxy police and Juraian

computers have some extensive info on him. *

"Well let's hear it. Summarized of course." he said as he pulled out a

cigarette from nowhere and flicked it with his fingers lighting it.

* Why don't you just speed read it? * I am going kill this thing, he

thought taking a drag off of it.

"'Cause I'm smoking. Now start talking."

"Very well." the ship said and a familiar (to all of us out there in OAV

land) image appeared on the screen, "It seems the guy you are after is named

Tenchi Masaki. He is about 17 years old, black hai..."

"Skip the stats. Just give me the basic gist of it." he said taking

another drag.

"Fine." Ranger replied a little miffed, "Seems this guy is some sort of

Juraian prince. You'll like this one, you remember Yoshou?" How could I

forget, the man thought.

"Yeah, what about him. He disappeared around seven-hundred years ago."

The ship chuckled a little.

"Well he recently resurfaced on this world, and it appears this Tenchi

guy is his grandson." The man barely restrained himself from choking right

then and there.

Goddamit! That kid was always giving me trouble. Oh well, figures

something like this would happen.

"Anything else?"

"Yes, it appears he recently released a couple of space pirates by the

names of Ryouko and Ryo-Ohki, which is actually some sort of sentient

biological war-ship."

"O.K. enough about him give me the descriptions on these two." two

images appeared on the screen, one an image of Ryouko in her battle dress and

another of Ryo-Ohki in battle ship mode.

"Ryouko, recently reformed space pirate, was imprisoned seven-hundred

years ago after Yoshou tracked her down and defeated her for destroying the

imperial...uh do you really want to know this part?" Ranger asked a little

afraid.

"Is it something bad?"

"It's something that concerns an...erm...friend of yours."

"Well," he continued a little perturbed "Get on with it."

"Uh...yeah. Well, it seems this Ryouko destroyed the...imperial palace

on the planet...Jurai." And a chill filled the room.

A small red glow appeared behind the man's sunglasses as he absorbed

this.

"It goes on to say that she was under the control of a Megalomaniac

Scientist known as Kagato." The room took on the temperature of space then.

"Oh, this is good. Seems Tenchi wasted him." the ship sighed in relief.

He was not going to be slagged today.

"Oh, O.K. Keep going." the man said; the red glow disappearing.

"Yes, well since gaining her freedom she has mellowed out a lot. She

has stayed with Tenchi for...how should I put this...personal reasons."

"Oh she likes him a lot then." he said, correctly deducing his ship's

insinuation.

"To put it mildly. It appears she has also paid her monetary debt to

Jurai for the damage she caused their world." That was rather honorable of

her, he thought, "Seems she also has a massive power source in the form of

some kind of gems..." infinity gems? "...of indeterminate composition.

Apparently she was originally created by a Professor Washuu..."

"Washuu! As in Professor Washuu of the Todain Science academy? As in

quite possibly the most brilliant red headed mind in the universe; that

Washuu?" he shouted interrupting his computer.

"Yes, that would be the Washuu I'm talking about." Ranger replied in a

very sarcastic voice, "Would you like the information on her?"

"No, I know about Washuu." Oh do I know about her, "Continue with Ryouko

and Ryo-ohki."

"Not much else to note on Ryouko. As for Ryo-ohki..." the image of

Ryouko was replaced with images of the various forms of Ryo-ohki, "...she is

also a creation of Washuu's, though not genetically related to Washuu, like

Ryouko." Genetically related? I'll look into that one later, "Anyway, she has

various forms as you can see from the pictures displayed. Has at least equal

power to Ryouko. Interesting to note: is also addicted to a form of

vegetation called carrots."

"Hey you getting all this?" the man said suddenly to Drakhenn who was

perched on a chair next to him.

Drakhenn turned from his contemplation of the screen and looked at the

man with his black eyes.

"Just checking. Ranger, anyone else we need to know about down there?"

"Well let's see. Washuu is with him." Maybe I'll just hack him up and

sell him for scrap.

"I gathered that. Anyone else?"

"There is a galaxy police officer Mihoshi that patrols this sector of

space that lives with them. You want the info on her?"

"No, I know who she is as well. How did she get involved with Tenchi?"

"Well it seems..." the ship suddenly stopped, then started laughing

uncontrollably "...it seems...seems she...she...forgot what speed...was a good

speed...for...for entering...a planetary system and lost her ship in

a...a...warp gate...after she managed to eject." Ranger calmed down

momentarily.

The man's mouth was twitching. Yeah, she's been like that ever since

she lost it.

Drakhenn was rolling on the ground.

"Tenchi was the one who kept her from falling to her death. Nothing

else really note worthy on that subject. Now on to the princesses."

Princesses?

"Yes, princesses." The ship said noting the man's questioning expression.

That's it, thought the man. This ship is toast.

It should probably be noted he threatens it about fifty times a day.

However, this ship is light years ahead of everything else (except for perhaps

Washuu's technology), and is very good at it's job; which is probably the

only thing that keeps such a smart ass ship, like himself, functional.

"The Royal Juraian Princesses Ayeka and Sasami."(insert your own

favorite pictures here folks) "Both are heirs to the power of Jurai. They

came into contact with Tenchi shortly after Ryouko was freed from her prison

on the Third planet. Ayeka captured Ryouko and Tenchi trying to locate her

half-brother Yoshou. Somehow they managed to escape, but during the escape

managed to crash Ayeka's ship, Rhyu-oh, thereby marooning Ayeka and Sasami on

the third planet. Also interesting to note: They have recently been

contacted by their parents, but decide to stay on that world of their own free

will." Interesting. Guess I'll find out later.

"Anyone else?" he asked as he finished one cigarette.

"Yoshou and Tenchi's father; a man by the name of Nobiyuki."

"I know about Yoshou. What about this Nobiyuki?"

"Humanoid male. No special powers, or any other noteworthy