D.F. Roeder wrote:
Me, again.
Weee! Lots of intensive C+C. This is what I live for.
I snipped most of the grammer comments, since I think I used all of them
anyway.
I won't repeat ELL's rant. :)
I got it the first time, thanks anyway. ^_^
And under the
circumstances, being upside down with a big hole in your forward bridge
was
preferable to hanging upside down in pitch darkness.
Fresh air, with the scent of jasmine and a hint of willow, blew in a
gust
>from the hole.
Do they have those where they are? Interesting... :)
Or something similar enough to make the comparison.
carrots. He
was starting to hate carrots. Working in the fields was hard on his
back,
and he had never been wild about the vegetables in the first place.
Anymore
now it had seemed that was all he did was hoe and till, and till hoe
and-
? maybe: ...all he did was hoe and till, and till and hoe, an-
*SIGH* Yes. Don't know how I messed that one up.
[You're getting off track there, boy. Bring it back in.]
Right. He hadn't dwelled that long on the carrots in the flashback
anyhow.
There had been bad guys too. Dr. Clay. Kagato. That odd couple of guys
that
had wanted to lock him up on a spaceship and send him really crappy
movies.
What were their names again? Dr. Forest and Francis? Frunk? Frenk?
*FACE-FAULT!* Jeez, man. Don't scare me like that! :) (Reader hides his
Crow plushie under the computer desk.)
Heh. Had to thrown in the lovable TV's Frank somewhere in there.
How different things would have gone in the OVA series if it had been Dr.
Forester instead of Kagato who had imprisoned Washuu and gained possesion
of Ryouko. ^_^
That time he had looked through his father's collection of films and
stumbled upon the 'special' one that had starred his mother, father,
copious amounts of whip cream, and leather? That had been a seriously
traumatizing incident. Parents weren't supposed to do THAT sort of
thing,
or at least their children weren't supposed to see it.
Heh.
Deep psychological trauma could explain so many things about Tenchi's
behavior towards women.
It was about finally making a choice concerning one of the gir-
Nope didn't remember it no sir completely lost from the memory forever
and
wasn't ever going to come back in any way shape or form so it would be
best
just to drop the subject completely and never consider it again since
he
was never going to actually think about it and that was that about
that.
GRRR!
It's Tenchi. Deal with it. ^_^
Through what higher process remained, Yukinojo managed to say. "If I go
to
sleep, will I dream of electric sheep?"
Hmmm, Phillip Dick or Thomas Disch? (I got the reference to "Blade
Runner", but I'm a little rusty on the author of the story upon which it
is based.)
Not sure either. I just remembered the title and had someone confirm it was
from Blade Runner.
That's two semi-obscure references you got.
"What do we do now?" he asked.
Mihoshi considered that. "Well, one of our professors at the Galaxy
Police
Survival Training Course, Dr. Lector,
GAH! Thomas Harris, now!
And three for three. I think that was all I put in this one.
said that when you're stranded on a
planet, always preserve dead bodies in case you're starving and need to
eat
later. He said don't worry about the flavor either, since most races'
flesh
tastes like chicken anyway."
Gack!
David Johnston has since corrected me on this. (Thanks, Dave ^_^)
And we always wondered what happened to the OAV Mitsuki.
Who?
As they made their way down the darkened passageway, the yellow beam
dancing across the floor as the light bounced in Mihoshi's hand, Tenchi
wondered what she was up to now. Sometimes it seemed she knew what she
was
doing, but other times, like the cannibalism issue, made him wonder
exactly
why he was following her lead. The truth was that sometimes being
around
her was more stressful than finding himself caught between Ryouko and
Aeka
when it was 'that time of the month' for both of them.
*************
Aeka: "Royalty do NOT menstruate; we offer our lifeblood in symbolic
recognition of Tsunami's gifts and the Water of Life!"
Ryouko: "Here's a tampon. Don't want that 'Water of Life' soakin' into
the futon, ne?"
Aeka: "...!"
Hehehehehehe. You have a wicked little sense of humor too, I see.
The tone of his lie made Mihoshi look at him curiously. "Are you
hearing
voices? Sometimes that happens if you've taken a bump to the head, and
you've got a really big one right on the top there. Maybe you've got a
concussion. Let me check." She moved closer, taking a good look at his
eyes. "Ohh. Your pupils are all dilated. They say that's a sign of a
concussion."
"They're dilated because you're shining a bright light directly in my
eyes," Tenchi pointed out as he shielded his eyes from the glare.
DOH!
Hey. It's Mihoshi. She has to do things like this at least some of the
time.
"Thanks for the offer. I'll be sure to let you know," Tenchi said,
promising that even if he heard the Lizard King himself begin
whispering in
his ear and explained how to taste the color yellow, he wasn't going to
say
a word. Taking heavy medication recommended by Mihoshi was a bad idea,
even
under the best of times. And the idea of being nothing more than a
walking
droolbucket appealed to him even less.
Reminds me of an old SNL episode.
Which one and which cast? The orginal 'Not Ready For Prime Time Players',
or some other set?
of it coming up to Tenchi's waist and reminding him of pictures he had
seen
of the African Savanna. Wind made waves across the ocean of tall grass,
flowing from one direction and continuing unabated until the ripples
were
out of sight. Tenchi doubted there was any place on Earth, untouched by
man, that could have 1appeared
Stray numeral. Don't you hate it when that happens? :)
_< Yes.
"Sure. Go into that red tool box and pull out a pair of runxeterrs."
"Ah, okay." Tenchi began looking through the box Mihoshi had indicated.
He
wasn't sure what a pair of ruxeterrs looked like, but he was a man, and
if
it was a tool he could identify it. It was a basic instinct with men.
*laughter* I wonder if Norm Abram has a ruxeterr? Probably. He's got
everything else.
Probably.
Locating the pair of ruxeterrs proved to be a more difficult task than
he
had anticipated. There were some tools in the box that he was easily
able
to identify: Pliers. Ratchet set. Duct tape (that was a universal
constant,
according to Washuu),
And Red Green.
Heh. I think I saw that episode.
"A Oxerat 200 Hoverbike," Mihoshi explained. "Generally we use them for
short range reconnaissance work. They move very quietly and can seat tw
o."
She patted the long seat a few times, indicating where the passenger
would
sit behind the pilot. "It even has an antigrav sled that can be hooked
up
to the back when you need to carry extra mass. They're really quite
useful.
Most patrol ships have at least one with them nowadays."
Could haul something like, say, an Adamantium container?
My, you are the suspicious sort, aren't you?
but
which one was it? She randomly chose the one in the middle. She was
rewarded with the bike lifting several meters off the ground.
"Now for a little speed," she said to Tenchi from over her shoulder as
she
gave a quick twist to the speed dial.
Twin screams of terror rang through the air as the hovercyle went from
zero
to two hundred kilometers per hour in less than two seconds.
:)
Again, it's Mihoshi.
Funuyaki and Ariana were scouting the area surrounding the ship.
Autolycus
had been assigned to try to scrounge some food from the debris, and
Malgaunt and Stargrave randomly shifted
sifted(?)
*SIGH* Yes.
already
impressive list of deeds when she reached final judgment, but already
she
found her soul wanting more. It wasn't just her skills she wanted to
show
off; it was competition she desired. All Katasans knew that tests of
skills
against the forces of nature, like Hell's Gate, were ultimately
victories
only for one's personal spirit. One could not defeat the forces of
nature;
one could only survive them.
Oh, no... and Fera was already wishing for a rematch with Mihoshi... and
Mihoshi has a hoverbike, too. *Reader smacks his palm into his face.*
I see I am transparent in my plot. ^_^
[snip]
Tenchi heard and tightened his grip.
As Tenchi tightened his grip, Mihoshi moaned and briefly forgot what
she
had planned on doing. Actually, she was pretty damn happy with the way
things had suddenly turned out, and their high speed didn't seem to
matter
so much any longer.
Mihoshi is a lech. Who knew?
I was a little leary about this. She doesn't demonstrate that much of a sex
drive, but I'm not sure exactly how she would react to Tenchi unexpectently
doing this while they're flying out of control. Hopefully it's not too much
a stretch to keep this from being enjoyed.
Tenchi buried his face in her back trying to keep the wind out of his
eyes,
and also to keep from looking down as the land had seemed to be getting
progressively closer to the bottom of their hoverbike, and they had not
been that high to begin with. "Nothing's happening!" he shouted.
"I wouldn't say that," Mihoshi said as the pleasant feelings continued
to
override her higher functions.
"What was that?!" Tenchi shouted over the roar of the wind.
"Hold tighter!" Mihoshi answered loudly enough to be heard this time.
Make that a very healthy woman with incongruously normal drives -
probably the only thing about Mihoshi that's normal. :)
Probably.
Reluctantly, Tenchi followed. He made certain to grasp only her stomach
this time, although he did adjust his grip a bit high so that his arms
were
wrapped around right under the lower curve of Mihoshi's breasts. That
would
show the voice in his head. If Mihoshi minded, she gave no indication
of it
as she turned the hoverbike back on and took off once again, under
better
control this time.
In more ways than one, I'll warrant.
Heh.
identical
to that of the sphere, and a single red oval near the top. A simple
object,
at least from the outside.
But then, sometimes the greatest things came in the simplest of
packages.
Just whatever you do, don't let Mihoshi touch it! :)
Yeah. Right. You can just feel the 'I wonder what this button does,'
coming up, can't you?
Man, you're really taking Tenchi to task over his lack of, ah, sexual
aggressiveness. :)
Nah. It's his libido, given voice from the bump he took from his head. It
just wants to get some satisfaction to those primal urges it has. ^_^
Another fine installment.
Thank you. And thanks again from the extensive C+C you gave.
D.B. Sommer