DB Sommer wrote:
And kicking off C+C again:
I'm only _mostly_ dead. The car, on the other hand, is _completely_
dead. I'm sure the quality of this is lacking, so any C&C is appreciated.
And at last, you get to hear some from me. I know you want it. :)
Who told you? :p
ground to float level with Ranma. "I am royalty, Ranma. What is this
about for you? Last, it was a cure for the lock on your curse."
Heh. He neglects to mention that Herb was the one that did that to him
Funny, that.
Indeed, no sooner had Ranma been launched backwards by Herb's kick,
had he changed forms again, the male body taking the impact and cracking
the stone behind him. He coughed weakly, pulling himself from the rock
fragments about him. "Yeah, I did," he said, grinning cockily. "I
haven't seen you do anything new yet," he taunted.
Which is bad. You never want to tip your hand before the other guy.
Unless it's a feint.
Strength that most humans envied even while fearing it
It's only feared if someone else has it. :)
Very true. I'm getting a flashback to playing Civilization, and Ghandi
advising: We should develop NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
That STILL cracks me up.
Buddha's Palm Strike into Ranma's sternum, eliciting a sharp crack as
Ranma was thrown to the rocks below.
Hmm. So he's already able to counter teleportation. Cute.
Or he made a lucky guess.
Washuu leapt up, Yosho only barely managing to restrain her as she
shouted, "No! That's too much-- Far too much! Yosho, you idiot, I have
to stop him!"
Yosho: Yeah, right. I'll try my best to stop him from several miles away,
since I don't want to get hit in the blast.
Ah, Yosho could take Kagato on, I don't think he'd be too worried,
one-on-one vs. Herb.
They better learn quick since it's a desperate time and they can't be
choosy.
One would hope.
Then too, the council attempted to ignore Karau and his views on
every issue, much to Tenchi's annoyance. He had finally pointed out that
unless a majority could be achieved -- and without Karau, it could not
-- that the Emperor would have the final say in every vote brought to
the Council. Mollified, somewhat, the councilmen then resorted to trying
to coerce the young Laruma.
Ah, politics are back to normal. :)
Or as close as they get, here. I'm getting a strange sense of deja vu....
Finally breaking the tired silence, Ayeka murmured, "That pattern of
leaves there looks rather like Yosho, don't you think?"
The leaves look like her brother?
Well, it's a rorshack (sp?) thing....
"Marry me," Ayeka offered, jumping on the bed to kneel at his side.
Heh. A bit aggressive of her. Ryouko usually the one with lines like that.
Yep.
"But I already promised to do that!" Tenchi protested.
True. I had forgotten.
Heh....
Ayeka pouted dramatically, before her expression gave way to a grin,
and she shook her head. "Silly," she told him. "I was merely teasing
you. This isn't a problem, honestly; I'd been living with you for months
before we returned here. The rumor already persists that....
Ayeka: You're gay and won't have sex with me.
Tenchi: Am not!
Ayeka: Then have sex with me and prove it.
HAH!
Misaki: Don't give me that. I can tell you're sleeping in bed with a man and
not putting out for him. For shame that any daughter of mine would remain
chaste. Why, when I was your age, I was parting my legs for every handsome
man I met. People will think you're a lesbian if you don't start sleeping
around.
Ouch!
Blinking, Tenchi motioned towards the bathing room, managing, "Um, I
don't want to be rude, but I, ah, would like some privacy...."
"That's nice," Ryouko said, clinging to him more tightly.
Heh. Typical
Got a laugh out of Mr. Sommer! Woot!
"When I try to launch my coup" he didn't add.
Of course.
Oh yes, we shouldn't ever forget pirates, theives, and scoundrels.
From the Tenchi 101 questions, though. Wouldn't be proper to leave that
out, now would it? ;)
She allowed herself a small smile at the memory. "For all of his
failings, however, the man bore a noble spirit, and believed that there
were rights, and there were wrongs. He believed that his piracy was
acceptable, because in his own words, 'I only attack people who've got
something to spare'."
Sort of like the old conversation:
First man: I never kill anyone that doesn't deserve it.
Second man: And who decides who deserves it?
First Man: I do.
Second Man: That's convienent.
He was a pirate. She was easily convinced. Go figure. :/
Relaxing slightly, Ayeka suggested, "After this time, I really think
you should wait until your own tree matures, Tenchi-sama."
Heh. Unlikely as hell. That would be too easy.
For the most part, Tenchi _has_ had it easy.
The leader of the second wave of Galaxy Police transports raised an
eyebrow at the coincidence, and flipped on the communications panel.
"Come in, task force one
I think names like that are capitalized. Should probably be 'Task Force One.
Will revise.
"This is Makibi Kiyone, leader of the secondary wave of GP
transports, and detective first class."
Someone snagged from from floating in space, eh?
Now don't start that again....
"Uh...." Kiyone shook her head, pushing away the questions that had
formed in the back of her mind. "Detective Mihoshi, do you have
instructions on where we need to begin retrieval?"
They don't know each other?
Not in this fic.
Heh. Kintaro is the ultimate in his ability to instinctively learn anything.
Scary, in some ways. That program he wrote in... what, a week? Eeeee....
"Hey, you forgot... to turn off the communications link," Kiyone
mumbled, as Mihoshi vanished. She shook her head, and broke the link
>from her end. "I guess I should just be happy that I'm not her partner,"
Nah. You'd love the unconditional friendship she'd offere.
Oh, certainly.
Makes sense.
Uh.... Me? Make sense? I think I just caused an error in local causality.
She rubbed at her eyes, blinking as the screen before her resolved
into a targeting reticule, clearly labeled, 'Jurian forces.' The default
fire action was 'off', and Ami made no move to change that, merely
wondering how badly the relations between the Amatera and the other
Juraians must have been strained.
Heh. That could have been bad
Yeah, but if they WERE on, then Yosho and Ryouko would have landed on
Earth in itty-bitty smoldering chunks at the beginning of the OAVS, and
solved a lot of problems.... Or created more, depending.
"Not usually. It could be, if we were in a combat situation,
Which means the odds are good they will end up in such. :)
Or something.
"Frayed fusion pathing," Kohito managed, his face coming into view,
creased with concentration. "Me and Fehdo-oh are working together." A
message popped onto the screen, informing Ami that the link between the
four was secured, even as bright meteorites -- escape pods, actually --
began to descend through the sky to the south. "Can't hold it off for
long. Weapons locked into over-charge cycle. This was sabotage. I
Ah ha. More trouble
Always. Can't ever have something go right -- just wouldn't be proper.
"Dunno," the man said, shaking his head. "We gotta destroy my ship,
and soon. I got my Light Haw
Hawk
Fixed.
And then Ami pressed the final command in, and the mutual
destruction of two infinite spheres of non-space echoed, a
twenty-kilometer sphere of reality simply ceasing to exist.
How unfortunate. Tenchi's going to be real displeased when he figures out
who did it.
Quite likely.
The small communicator on his wrist would alert the fleet to his
location, and he would be retrieved shortly. It was simply a matter of
setting things into motion before that happened. "Too much
interference," he declared, scowling. "This hackneyed plan has failed in
nearly every possible way _yet_."
Ah, suspected as much
Yeah, I don't score high points on the 'subtlety' scale, so I got for
tons and tons of gratuitious violence and unbelievably thick layers of
angst, topped with whipped cream and a generous layer of self-loathing.
Sometimes it even works!
Slowly, hesitantly, the reaver approached, black glittering eyes
fixed firmly on Jakugo. He nodded again, and crouched to the ground,
setting the crystal in a small hollow of rock. "A gift from your
mistress, beast," he said, backing away. "Now get the hell out of here
before someone shows up to rescue me."
Oh, he's even badder than I though if he's aligned with Tokimi
Or the like, yes. But then, Clay wasn't a bad sort, and he was aligned
with her.
Tenchi stared at the screen for a long moment. The fire that had
consumed Kohito's ship echoed a fear of flame through him from the
Throne, but the chilling blackness that had eaten the flame, and
everything else near it was even more frightening, before it vanished.
Awkward. I think '...else near it before it vanished, was even more
frightening."
Whoops. You are correct.
The viewscreen zoomed in on a plummeting craft as it tumbled through
the atmosphere, Ryo-oh-ki's spines cracked and worn, not able to take
the force of reentry well. "Well," Tenchi muttered, "at least she made
it. Can we get someone there to help her out?"
Ouch. We know she'll be all right, though.
More likely than not, at least.
Washuu glanced up, allowing Tenchi to see something of the room
behind her. Stark stone walls, with torches providing illumination,
while a bed was visible at one corner of the screen, apparently
occupied, though Tenchi couldn't tell by who. "Ran-oh-ki," Washuu
explained, turning her attention back to the screen. "He seems to try
and tell everything that falls into orbit where he is, now."
Heh.
Hey, Ran-oh-ki is the catalyst for the Mihoshi/Oe situation!
Tsunami, and smiling slightly, Washuu completed, "And he's not woken up
not awakened (would be better, I think)
Will revise.
"I don't think I've seen her to be that lively in some time," Funaho
returned. "Washuu-chan, do you mind if I discuss something with you on a
private channel later?"
Heh. Once a spy, always a spy. :)
Yup.
"This sure are
Things sure are
Yep.
"And I still don't know if you even care about me," she sobbed
quietly, bending down to place a kiss against his forehead, while he
slumbered. "I wish you would give me some sort of sign, some answer...
oh, Ranma. This is why I stopped being grown up!"
Heh. It's pretty obvious she is grown up and only acts childish. The act
always gives way when it needs to
Yeah....
"Actually," Washuu answered thoughtfully, "she used to destroy stars."
I thought it was just planets.
That's true, but Herb lives in a palace made of stone. Washuu doesn't
think it would be worth the trouble to explain exactly what a planet is,
so makes it simple. :/
Washuu frowned, narrowing her eyes slightly, as a beam of light
swept out, teleporting Ryouko and someone else to the space just before
the stairs. Ryouko drifted there, bearing the newcomer in her arms,
though he was unconscious at the moment. A Juraian starship captain,
>from the looks of things. A wounded one, at that.
Oh, looks like she managed to snare him after all.
He lucked out.
[End, Process of Elimination, chapter 12 part A]
Will try to get to the next part soon. Still keeping the tension up, which
is good. And the reaver count remains the same for half a chapter,
remarkably enough. :)
Oh, it happens from time to time....
D.B. Sommer
Hey, thanks for the C&C!