Wait, don't ignore me yet! It's not a true spamfic,
I don't think...
Anyway, this is my latest twisted idea, but it's not
a funny one. Lemme know whatcha think!
The Fall of Juraii
by Valandar the Red
"Now," muttered Wasshu, the self-proclaimed Greatest
Scientific Genius In The Universe, "if I can just get the
tri-phase unilateral tachyon capacitor to properly react
with the variable frequency bradyon charge..."
A hand reached out, and a switch was thrown. Since
Masaaki Tenchi had become Emperor of Juraii, she had
abandoned the juvenile form that amused her so much.
Instead, she spent most of her incarnated time in a form
closer in appearance to her spiritual form. As one of the
three goddesses of Juraii, she was extremely beautiful,
with spiky pink hair, and a tight lab coat that only
accentuated certain physical properties she passed on to
her "daughter", Ryoko. Small spectacles perched on the
end of her nose, as she watched flashing lights and
spinning gauges tell her about the state of her most
recent experiment.
"Excellent!" she exclaimed. "Now, to shut it off
before the tachyon capacitor reaches its maximum
containment and ruptures..."
Before she could reach the off switch, a crackling
Bolt of energy lanced through the air, slamming into her
avatar. The force threw her more than thirty feet away,
and mortally wounded her current physical form. Looking
up, anger rising as she prepared to assume her full godly
powers, she snarled, then began to ask a question.
Unfortunately, that was when Time, itself, tore
itself apart in her laboratory, snuffing the goddess's
existence before she ever came into awareness.
**********
"How much time before this... time wave... reaches
Juraii, itself?"
Emperor Tenchi had aged well, in the two hundred
years since he had ascended to the throne. To be exact,
he didn't seem to really age at all, just grow. His hair
was still kept short, but the pigtail he wore was now
long enough to reach his waist. He now stood a hair over
six feet, and weighed about one hundred and eighty five
pounds of lean muscle. His two wives, Ayeka and Ryoko,
often spent hours watching him for no other reason than
they loved him just as much now as they did when he
believed himself nothing more than a simple human boy.
Fortunately for the palace staff, they had grown to be
dear friends, and only got into fights once a week.
The events of the last eleven hours, however, had
succeeded where two centuries had failed. Crows' feet
marched their way across the corners of his eyes, and he
caught himself checking in a mirror for gray hairs. The
disruption of Wasshu's experiment had resulted in a
temporal shockwave, ripping apart the very nature of time
as it washed across the entire Empire. On a few worlds,
the lucky ones, time ran backwards for a while, until it
settled at some random point in its history. Most,
however, were not so fortunate. On many worlds, time
became "stuck", constantly repeating the effects of the
last few days, or hours, before rewinding and starting
all over again. Most, however, were simply torn apart by
the conflicting temporal energies unleashed by an
assassin's bolt of power.
"About three hours," came the response from his
aide. "And in another fourteen hours, the wave will reach
the Sol system."
"My daughter?" he asked. "She has made it to the
Terran Lunar outpost, right?"
"Don't worry, Ten-chan," purred Ryoko. "She'll be
safe." Reaching out with both arms, she drew her husband
and co-wife into a fierce hug. "She gets her skill and
good looks from your side of the family, and she gets the
pig-headed stubbornness and foul temper from yours,
Ayeka-chan!"
"Look here, you porcupine-quilled weasel! Our
Saynami is as sweet as cream!" retorted her friend and
rival, using a cliche that was old in Juraii when Yosho
first left.
"Exactly - and she left the dregs of the milk for
mommy!" crowed the ex-pirate, grinning like a maniac at
her two spouses. Ayeka humph'ed softly, and turned away,
and Tenchi only sighed.
"Sol Three," muttered the Emperor. "Our outposts -
if there was only some way to shield them as they get hit
by the time wave."
Keeping hold of the two most important people in her
life that remained among the living, the spiky-haired
adventuress began to mutter to herself. "Don't worry,
Ten-chan, Aye-chan... I'm sure someone will help the
outposts there." Looking up to the sky, she added,
silently, 'Sasami - help her!'
A button was pushed, and a message was sent. Just
under three hours later, Juraii was no more.
**********
"And, so, we send our love. May Tsunami protect you,
Empress of Juraii."
Saynami read and reread that last line until she
could bear it no longer. The word Empress was one she had
expected to hear, but not for many Juraiian years yet.
And her Empire would last no more than a few minutes
more. "Goddammit, why?" she screamed to the uncaring
stars.
Emperor Tenchi had forbidden any contact with Earth
until his homeworld was ready, but had ordered outposts
built on each of the other worlds in the Sol system, as
well as on Earth's moon. It was here that the last
remaining citizens of the Empire waited for whatever dire
fate would be their end. Unbeknownst to gentle Saynami,
the last remaining goddess of Juraii watched, and
prepared to do what she could.
To the sight of Tsunami, the approaching temporal
wave seemed like a growing cancer, soon to consume all
she knew. Even a goddess had her limits, and if the
temporal wave affected her before she became aware, as it
had both Tokimi and Wasshu, then she would be as
powerless to stop it as her people had been. Drawing on
all of her power, she settled down around the last
remnants of her people like a cloak of soft silk.
The temporal wave collided with Tsunami, tearing at
the very supernatural nature of her being. In agony, she
drew herself tighter around her children, and screamed
her determination to the stars. The pain was infinite,
and lasted for eternity, but was over less than a second
later. And Tsunami was no more.
**********
The people of the lunar outpost looked around at
each other, hardly believing their eyes. They were not
stuck in a time loop, nor was time regressed. As far as
they could tell, they were safe. Starting slow at first,
a ragged cheer arose. Commlink messages confirmed the
similar survival of the outposts on the other worlds, and
all seemed right in the world, to them.
Empress Saynami sighed. There was a realm left for
her, after all. She turned to the nearest officer, and
asked, "The Earth - how is it?"
The officer glanced over his sensors, and shook his
head. "I'm sorry, your majesty. It was regressed in time
approximately three thousand years," he said.
"I... I understand," she replied. 'Hm," she
pondered, 'not much of an empire left. Barely a kingdom.'
An idea occurred to her, and she motioned the officer
back over. "Open a comms channel to all the planetary
bases," she ordered. He rushed to comply.
When he signaled her that the channel was open, she
took a deep breath, and began to speak. "People of
Juraii, this is Saynami, your Empress." She stopped
briefly, and bit back a tear. "Our goddess, Tsunami, has
saved us from the force that destroyed the rest of our
people. We are fortunate, but we must never forget the
billions of citizens that either perished, or are forever
trapped between moments."
Silence.
"Below this lunar outpost, a world of over six
billion people has been regressed three millennia. People
who were thriving less than an hour ago now have never
been born, and that world must bear the scars of lessons
learned a second time.
"I swear, they shall not suffer alone. When they
look to the sky, the people of Earth shall not see a
cold, lifeless rock, but a shining hope, and strong ally.
"You are now the totality of Juraii, the last of the
Empire. However, We are not large enough to be an empire,
so I now declare us a Kingdom, even as I change my name
to that which I wish for the people of Earth.
"I am now Queen Serenity, of the Moon Kingdom. And,
together, people of the Solar System, we shall guide the
people of Earth into an age of silver, and purity."
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- Valandar the Red of the Empty Tankard
Captain of the Guard of the Barony of the Far Woods
Empire of the Iron Mountains
and Ruler of the Spammish Main
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