Mihoshi carefully looked around. No Aeka. No Ryouko. Just
Mayuka on the floor, picking up and trying to put into her mouth
a large purple gem somebody must have dropped. Another gem, cyan
in color, sat nearby on the floor.
Mweheheh.
Tenchi descended the stairs into view just as one dissenting voice
rose up. "OHOHOHOHOHO!" chortled the tall, chesty woman in the
cape. "THIS is how you punish her, you fools!"
Guess whooo-ooooo...
Nagi pointed a hand at Washuu and shot a beam directly at the
unprotected genius. Horrified, Tenchi watched as Washuu's body
blackened and started to fall.
"STOP!" Tenchi heard a voice which was, and was not, Washuu's,
come from that hidden direction he was only beginning to be able
to sense. He blinked again as he realized that nobody else was
moving. Indeed, except for himself, time seemed frozen.
Interesting...
"REWIND!" Tenchi's jaw dropped as time rewound itself to just
before Nagi's beam touched Washuu's flesh.
"STOP!" Washuu then moved out of the way of the beam and
muttered to herself about carelessness. Snapping her fingers,
another plushie doll appeared, which she positioned where she'd
just been standing.
*stare* That... explains a few things.
"Oh, Tenchi-dono. Still conscious?" Washuu strolled over and
kissed Tenchi on the cheek. "Good, good. You're coming along.
You'll make a good husband for us yet." With an amused glint in
her eye, one hand gave Tenchi a quick squeeze lower down, then
she turned back to the still tableau, putting one arm around
Tenchi.
LOL.
Outside on the veranda, Shiria, Pikko, and Teruzi conferred while
Menori played. With a sudden "poof", Byuutii appeared in the air
above Menori and backwinged to land on her shoulder, wrapping her
tail around Menori's neck. Menori put her sitar down so she
could stroke Byuutii's head. The golden reptile's eyes whirled in
appreciation.
*blinkblink*
Small golden lizard. Flys using wings. Swirly eyes. Name pronounced Beauty.
Associates with a musician.
*snicker* Niiiiiice.
"Neither Byuutii nor the others actually saw anyone, but... doors
opened and closed on their own. Raaki smelled a male human in the
shrine office which he couldn't see. Unfortunately, my pets are a
little vague on the sequence of events."
Rocky? And those critters wouldn't be very good a the whole 'time'
concept...
Near Saturn, Yukinojo woke up and pondered these new sensor
readings. "Too diffuse to get a directional reading, but there
is a match in the Class A Cosmic Supernatural Threat database.
I'd better report this... TRY to report this... to Mihoshi-dono.
Oh, I DO wish Mihoshi would remember to re-enter Kiyone's phone
number one of these days."
Heh.
- - - - - - - - - -
"And in the last phase just before orgasm, Kiyone responds best to
manual stimuli applied directly to this surface here," Washuu
lectured, tapping the appropriate spot with her pointer for
emphasis, "and oral stimuli applied here."
Suspended a few feet away, Tenchi nodded before he could catch
himself. "I notic..." He shut up.
*blinkblink*
Teruzi's eyes suddenly popped open. "He's not old at all! It's
just an illusion! Funaho's had complete life support all this
time! Youshou really looks like this." At Teruzi's command,
narrow beams of light emitted by Funaho's leaves formed a
life-size hologram in front of the three girls.
The three ladies licked their lips. "WOW!"
ROFLE.
Standing in mid-air high above the house, Yugi contemplated means
of destruction. Suddenly she started, then looked up into the
sky. "Oh? Well, aren't YOU interesting? Congealing in this
solar system? Too slowly?
Yugi smiled. "I'll be glad to help."
A Shin-Tenchi reference? Huh.
I thought her name was Yuki.
"They will detect him anywhere within a fifty meter radius, and
then, when hurled, immobilize him completely. It's a foolproof
plan!" cackled Pikko. "Maybe I'll call them 'Pikko-Balls'".
*groan*
The oldest, Satoru, pointed a lightsaber at Tenchi. "EVIL
SEDUCER! We challenge you! Anyone who wants to date our sister
Hikaru must defeat all three of us! And even then, you must start
out being pen-pals!"
*snicker* They is sooooooo dead.
"Our family have been the hereditary swordsmasters of Jurai for
thousands of years! Our great-grandfather taught your grandfather
everything he knows!" Tenchi's assailant crowed as he advanced.
Tenchi found he was hard pressed just to defend himself.
It's probably a good thing that Tenchi's so wishy-washy.
"Prince Youshou!" Four female voice caroled as they hurled their
Pikko-Balls. "WE CHOOSE YOU!"
Who's four? Menolly?
Satoru knocked the Tenchi-ken from Tenchi's hands just as a large
black bubble dropped from the sky. It popped, revealing a
ten-story-tall large yellow monster. Its snarling face was framed
with two colored patches on its cheeks. It strode forward on its
short stubby legs, snarling at Tenchi, Hikaru's brothers, and the
mob of ladies. Its gaze fixed on the paralyzed Prince Youshou.
In a high, squeaky voice, it spoke.
*stare* You sad, sad man.
Several dozen female eyes turned to glare at Washuu. She had the
grace to at least look apologetic. "Sorry, not guilty. This
time."
LOL.
Hikaru's oldest brother watched the battle silently, then turned
to his younger brothers. "We challenged HIM?" They shrugged
helplessly back. "Let's just go." The three beamed away.
Mweheheheheh.
Hikaru herself, however, was enchanted by the monster, fists
beneath chin and eyes wide open. "It's so CUTE!" Shaking their
heads, Fuu and Umi started to drag Hikaru away.
*smirk*
"Oh, no, Mayuka, that's very naughty of you. You mustn't do
that," exclaimed Mihoshi.
LOL.
Washuu began making comments in a loud voice about how very
often things like this happened in the Masaki household. The
few fiancees in a position to hear her looked quite upset.
Well, that's a few more gone.
"What are you talking about, Washuu?"
"You're pregnant."
Tenchi: (faint)
Hikaru, Fuu, Umi, and Hikaru's brothers were created by CLAMP;
Rei and Asuka are owned by Gainax.
Menolly and her 'associates' created and owned by Anne McCaffery.
Be well.
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Nathan Baxter, Grand High Emperor of the Lobsters.
Author, Bubblegum^5, El Hazard: The Continuing World
(Now, if you've heard of both of these, THEN I'll be
impressed.)
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The skunk rolled down and ruptured its larynx.
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