Liked the first and second chapter? I hope you’ll like this one! Oh ya, this is where all the dramatic stuff will come in, ok? Enjoy!
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Future Shocked Chapter three: The Battle
There was a scream in the distance.
Everyone rushed to the sound. It came from Washu, in her lab. Everyone rushed to her. She froze in position as she pointed to her console with a screen on it. “K-K-K-Kagato!” Washu screamed. She was frozen all the way to the other side of the lab; her eyes were wide with fear. “KAGATO!!” Eclipse yelled as her eyes shone nothing but pure hatred for the man that was smiling so evilly. “Oh, why hello Eclipse, are you here to witness the death of your parents?” Kagato laughed cruelly. Eclipse rushed to the console. She gritted her teeth with anger.
“Grrr… Kagato, when I get there, I swear I’ll--”
“Now, Eclipse, that isn’t the way to treat the person who has the only doorway that leads to save your parents now is it?”
“Grrr…”
“Now, Eclipse, do you want to save your parents or not? I will let you have one day to decide what you want to do.”
“Wait, I want to see my parents first!”
“Very well, I’ll let you see your father.”
Kagato pushed up the future Tenchi. He had blood running down his mouth, a large cut was on his forehead, and he was all torn up. He was bruised in many places. Hands tied behind his back, his clothes were ripped and singed, he looked like he took quite a beating. It seemed like he beat her father for the information of where she was, but I guess that Kagato figured it out himself. “Dad! Eclipse yelled.
“Eclipse!”
“Dad! Where’s Mother?”
“Kagato still has her tied up.”
“Dad, I promise I’ll be there soon!”
“Eclipse, do you still have Tenchi ken?” the Future Tenchi whispered. Eclipse nodded slightly. He smiled back. “Alright, that’s enough ‘family bonding,’ I’ll meet you tomorrow Eclipse,” Kagato said as he shoved her father out of the way. The screen shut off. By now, Eclipse was furious, she would have attacked the console if Tenchi and Ryoko hadn’t held her back.
Bedtime
Eclipse had to be wrestled to stay in bed. Ryoko wearily floated to Tenchi’s room. Tenchi was tossing and turning in his sheets, bad dream, really bad dream. Ryoko sat by his bed and lovingly pushed his bangs out of his face and planted a light kiss on his forehead. He relaxed more, and smiled. Ryoko floated up above him and fell asleep.
Tenchi’s Dream
Tenchi was walking into the darkness; he didn’t know where he was, everything was all black, it was so dark, it was like walking into a darkened hell. Suddenly, he found himself at a beach scene. The sun was setting over the ocean, causing the sky to turn gold. The waves lapped up against the sand, leaving shells and starfish behind. The sand that warmly touched his feet was pure white, white as snow. The first thing that caught Tenchi’s eye was a shadow silhouette of Ryoko. She turned to him and smiled warmly at him. Tenchi reached out to touch her shoulder, but when he did, she turned to dust and the wind blew her ashes away. “RYOKO!” He yelled. He soon was engulfed in darkness again. The scene turned to Tenchi with the Light Hawk Wings; a large blast of energy was coming toward him. He watched in horror as the bright yellow beam was launching toward him. Kagato laughed cruelly. He heard someone in the distance yell, “MOM!” As the beam was about to destroy him, someone pushed him out of the way. It was Ryoko. “RYOKO!! No! No Ryoko! You shouldn’t have sacrificed yourself for me Ryoko!” Tenchi yelled as he cradled the fallen Ryoko in his arms, he stared at his fallen angel, all torn and bloody, a large cut on her cheek, another at her side, her large wound seemed like it would never stop. As a crystal tear slipped from Ryoko’s eye, so did a tear from Tenchi. Tenchi held her up to look into her eyes; he leaned closer and closer to her, lips barely in contact. “T-T-Tenchi…I-I…l-love…you…” Ryoko whispered as she fell into a never-ending sleep. Tenchi woke up immediately. He gasped for air as he looked around. “It was all a dream,” Tenchi whispered. He spotted Ryoko floating above him, sleeping. Tenchi got up and opened the door, but as he did that, Ryoko woke up and yawned. “Yawn, where are you going Tenchi?” Ryoko asked as she floated down and sat on his bed. “I’m just going to get a glass of water,” he replied. “Yawn, ok, I’ll just-just…” Ryoko said as she fell asleep on Tenchi’s bed. Suddenly there was a roar and a bang. Ryoko suddenly jolted up. “I think it came from Washu’s lab! Hurry! Let’s go!” Tenchi said. She and Tenchi ran to the lab.
Washu’s Lab
They found Washu tied up and had a piece of tape across her mouth. “Mmmphh!! Mmmphh!!” Washu tried to yell. They pulled off the tape off her as gently as they could. RIP! “Ow! Hey! Eclipse! She tied me up and went to the console from which Kagato appeared!” She said. Everyone heard a bang! Bang! “Stupid console! You’ve made my life so rotten! Stupid Kagato! Stupid Kagato! Where’s a club I can use?!” She roared. She ripped off a metal bar that was sticking out. She gave out a battle cry and raced towards the console. She was stopped in time by Ryoko. Soon, everyone rushed in to see what was all the commotion. “What? What happened?” Mihoshi asked. “She tried to destroy my console, a very complicated console that took me years to make!” Washu screamed. “Grrr… Kagato! I’ve made my decision!” Eclipse pounded on the keyboard. An image of Kagato appeared on the screen. “How wise of you Eclipse, I’m glad you finally came around to attempt to save your parents, the portal will open up shortly,” Kagato said. “Attempt? Attempt?” Eclipse asked angrily. As Eclipse was cursing her head off, a portal opened up and a Kagato came up and grabbed Eclipse, put his right hand over her mouth, snickered, and went back into a portal, and that’s it, nothing else to say. “Eclipse! How could Kagato be there and pulled Eclipse back into the portal at the same time?!” Tenchi yelled. The console screen suddenly blinked “THIS IS A RECORDING.” The message was interrupted when the screen turned static and Eclipse popped up on there. “Guys! Don’t come here! This is my business! If anything happens to you, it could effect the future! STAY AWAY!” Eclipse said. “Wait, where’s Kagato?” Ryoko asked. “I knocked him out, I got to get going now--” Eclipse was knocked down by a Kagato with a black eye. The screen turned static again.
A bit After the Incident
“How can we get her back Washu?” Ryoko asked. “I don’t really know, give me time to think,” Washu said. She paused for a moment. “I got it! But it’s going to be a very rough trip!” Washu said, “I just need to do some adjustments to open up the portal!” After a bit of tapping on her hologram keyboard, Washu finally gave an “Aha!” “What Washu?” Ryoko asked. “I can open the portal, only thing is, only two of you can go, but you have to be strong enough!” “How are we going to tell who’s going to be strong enough Washu?” Kiyone asked. “Well, I all I have to do is to tell the computer to analyze the portal and scan your DNA! Computer! Analyze the portal and scan the group please! And make it snappy!” Washu yelled. “Analyzing,” The computer said. Soon came out a long list of information. Washu made a quick run though it. “Tenchi and Ryoko, it seems that you can withstand it, either that, or my computer is wrong and both of you will be destroyed the moment you step in to there,” Washu commented. “Ugh! Damn you Washu!” Ryoko yelled. “Stop that Ryoko, we need to rescue Eclipse, whether she likes it or not,” Tenchi said sternly. Ryoko nodded as she transformed into battle mode. Tenchi also transformed and had the Light Hawk Wings. “Ok, let me just type in some calculations,” Washu said. A similar portal opened up; Tenchi and Ryoko slowly walked towards it. “Guys, wish us luck,” Tenchi said as he secretly took Ryoko’s hand into his. They slowly entered the portal.
After they entered the portal
They slowly entered the portal and appeared in what looked like a large ship. It looked more technical, more advanced. They slowly walked around the room that was before them. “Where are the doors? There are no doors here!” Ryoko said. Suddenly, the wall opened up and a cut and bruised Eclipse ran out of it. She had a large cut near her eye. Her battle suit was just like Ryoko’s except black and blue she had the Light Hawk Wings on her back. The rim of the skirt was singed and cut, so were the sleeves. A bit of blood leaked from the right sleeve. She skid to a stop and looked at Tenchi and Ryoko at amazement. “What are you two doing here?” Eclipse whispered with worry. “We’re here to get you back!” Ryoko said. “It’s not safe here! You shouldn’t be here! If one of you dies, the future could be entirely changed! Go back now!” Eclipse said. “Washu programmed the portal not to open unless you are safe,” Ryoko replied. “Damn you Washu! Dammit! Dammit!” Eclipse said. “ECLIPSE!” A loud voice rang out of the hallway. Kagato charged out of the door, with a blacked sword in his hand. He had a few more cuts and bruises than Eclipse. “Kagato!” Eclipse yelled as she drew Eclipse-ken from her side. “Kagato!” Ryoko yelled hoarsely. She made her energy sword in a second flat. “Ah, hello Ryoko, my former slave,” Kagato snickered. Ryoko squinted her eyes in anger. Tenchi’s rage also burned up inside him. As she was about to kill Kagato, Eclipse stopped her. “Ryoko, this is my fight, don’t interfere!” She yelled at her. Eclipse stepped out about three feet away from Tenchi and Ryoko. It seemed that Eclipse and Kagato were both counting to three at the same time, because they both gave a battle cry and charged at eachother at the same time. “You can’t win Eclipse, you never will, your effort is useless!” Kagato laughed evilly. “I’ll win and I’ll destroy you!” Eclipse yelled back. Kagato gave a grunt and threw Eclipse back. The force threw her back, and gave her another cut on her left arm. “Oh, I’m sorry Eclipse, I made that to hurt even more!” Kagato said as he fired a blast at her. Luckily, Eclipse dodged the attack. Ryoko charged a large energy ball and fired it at Kagato; the blast was so huge that it contained all the anger that Ryoko has held back for years after she was released from that cave. “KAGATO!!!” Ryoko yelled as she fired the blast at Kagato. All that Kagato did was just put his hand in front of it and it disappeared. “This is pathetic! I’m just going to eliminate one of your future parents!” Kagato yelled. “What?” Eclipse asked cluelessly, but it was too late. Kagato laughed cruelly as he fired a bright yellow beam towards Tenchi.
Tenchi’s POV
Tenchi heard Kagato’s evil laughter. Kagato threw a bright yellow beam towards him. This felt familiar, the dream! He heard someone yell “MOM!” As the beam grew closer and closer to the target, someone pushed him out of the way. As in his dream, it was Ryoko. Eclipse caught Kagato off guard, and phased behind him. She aimed for his heart, but as she let the sword down, he jumped up. She only wounded him in his stomach. Unconsciousness enveloped him. “Damn you Eclipse, damn you!” is what he said before he fell. “Ryoko! No! No Ryoko, you shouldn’t have jumped in the way! I should have been the one to die! No! Ryoko!” Tenchi yelled. He rested her head in his arms. He looked at her; she had taken the blast hard. She was torn up, blood ran down her arms, and a large wound at her side. Bruises and cuts marred her face. Here she was, his one and only, an angel fallen from the heavens above to him, and she was about to slip away from him, forever. The stars have given him a princess, but he had chosen a pirate. He brought her closer to him. “No Ryoko, don’t leave!” Tenchi said. “Tenchi, I’ll never leave…never…” Ryoko whispered. A crystalline tear slipped from Tenchi’s eye, it was as silver as the moon. And a tear as gold as the sun, fell from Ryoko’s eye at the same moment. “T-T-Tenchi…I-I…l-love…you…” Ryoko smiled as she was lost away. “No! R-Ryoko!” Tenchi yelled. His vision was blurred from all the tears in his eyes, he had lost her. The cyan haired angel that he called Ryoko, was gone.
Eclipse fell to the ground. She was fading. “Mom!” She yelled. She slowly got up to her feet. She started to get up; it looked like she was phasing in and out. The fading was painful, every move she made, made the pain more immense. She could barely stand up. She scampered towards Tenchi and Ryoko. “Mother,” she said as she collapsed to her knees. “Mother?” Tenchi asked. “I don’t get it, she could have withstood it!” Eclipse cried. “What do you mean Eclipse? And why do you call her ‘Mother’?” Tenchi asked. “I mean, that Ryoko should have been able to withstand that! She should be practically invincible with her gems-ugh!” Eclipse said as she clutched her head in pain. The fading grew stronger. “I call Ryoko ‘Mother’ because she is my mother. In the future, er, here,” Eclipse said, she still clutched her head in pain. Tenchi stared at her wide-eyed, and flinched alittle. Eclipse wearily took Ryoko’s wrists and looked at them. “Here’s the problem…ugh, ow…She doesn’t have both of her gems, where are they?” Eclipse said as she clenched her teeth in pain. She remembered back when she and Sasami spied on Tenchi and Ryoko that day.
Flashback
As Eclipse and Sasami were running below Tenchi and Ryoko, Eclipse saw something red gleam from Ryoko’s wrists, and reappeared onto Tenchi’s. She did not mention anything to Sasami’s. But she wondered why Ryoko would do that.
End of Flashback
“Tenchi, can you show me your left hand?” Eclipse asked as she still strained not to show any pain. Too bad it didn’t work. “Eclipse--” Tenchi started to say. “I said show me your left hand dammit!” Eclipse yelled. Tenchi flinched, but he showed her his left hand. He still had Ryoko’s head in his arms. Eclipse pulled Tenchi’s left sleeve back, sure enough; there was Ryoko’s gem. “So that’s why you could make it here,” Eclipse asked. “What do you mean Eclipse?” Tenchi asked. “You couldn’t have made it here unless you had a space pirate’s power! But, I can tell you how to get her back… AHH!” Eclipse said as she held her throat and coughed up a large amount of blood. “Eclipse! You have to hold on! Tell me!” Tenchi yelled. “Ok Tenchi -cough-hold your hand over Ryoko, -cough-and concentrate in your mind that you want Ryoko back again! ACK!” Eclipse yelled as she coughed up more and more blood. The scream she gave was before she blacked out and fainted. “Eclipse! Don’t die, if you die, that means that Ryoko will die too…” Tenchi said. He stared at Eclipse, fading more and more. She was sprawled along the floor; blood was leaking from her mouth. He turned back to Ryoko. “Ryoko…” Tenchi said as he held Ryoko closer. He kissed Ryoko gently, tears streamed from his eyes, each one as silver and as sparking the moon and stars. He laced his fingers in Ryoko’s. Images flashed through his mind: When Ryoko first landed on Earth, when Ryoko risked her life to help Tenchi save Ayeka, despite the large wound at her side. Ryoko’s death as blood ran down her arm in Ryo-ohki. Ryoko jumping into his arms as he caught her, and other memories. And a last one, he saw himself as a little kid in the snow, the night his mother died. He also a transparent Ryoko crying along with him, “I’m sorry! I wish I could be there for you!” Ryoko cried. Still in a kiss, his final silvery tear ran down his face, it mixed with the single golden tear still on Ryoko’s cheek. A blast of white, pure light engulfed the whole room, it was enough to knock anyone evil blind, whilst the good would be healed. He finally broke the kiss. He looked at Ryoko, hoping that she would be alive and smiling at him. He looked at her longingly. He saw her eye twitch, “Ryoko!” Tenchi said. He stared at her happily. Eclipse stirred, she sat up, “Ugh, I feel like I was hit by a truck,” Eclipse said as she rubbed her head. She coughed up the last bit of remaining blood. “Ryoko, wake up, please wake up!” Tenchi said to her. “T-Tenchi? AHH!” Ryoko yelled as she still clutched her side, it bled like a red river. She shook in pain; she was also very weak from the blood loss. She slowly got up in such pain. “Ryoko, don’t get up, you need to rest,” Tenchi said with worry. “No, we have to get going!” Ryoko said. She tried to get up, only to find her effort useless; she collapsed to the floor in pain. “Ryoko!” Tenchi yelled. He took her and picked her up in his arms. “No, Tenchi, it’s ok! I can handle it!” She wearily got down from Tenchi’s arms and tried to stand up. As she was about to collapse in pain again, Tenchi held her up and gave her some support. “Come on guys, we have to get out of here before he wakes up,” Eclipse said tiresomely as she pointed to the still unconscious Kagato. As Eclipse started to hasten the pace, Ryoko still limped whilst she was supported up by Tenchi. Tenchi just couldn’t bear seeing Ryoko in such pain, he swung Ryoko into his arms and started to run faster. Ryoko, Tenchi and Eclipse started to search the room where Ryoko’s parents are held captive.
Kagato’s Dungeon
Eclipse’s parents were chained up against the wall. Chains were put around their waists and the wrists of their hands, but they had enough room to sit down and put their arms in front of them. Eclipse’s mother was unconscious from all the beating she took from Kagato. He said it was payback for what happened to him. She lay unconscious, in her husband’s lap. Oh sure, with normal chains, she could just easily break through them, so could her husband, but these were chains that could absorb any power that would try to be used to break the prisoner free. The dim stars shone through the window, illuminating the small room. A beam was put across the window, so even if they did get free, an option was definitely not the window. Its formula for restraining the prisoners was the same. The beam across the window shadowed the face of Eclipse’s mother. Gashes and cuts marred her face and body, a cut from her forehead bled greatly. Her husband gently stroked her cyan hair. He too had wounds from trying to save his wife from pain, but he ended up with wounds too. ’Eclipse, please come here soon,’ Eclipse’s father thought. At that moment, Eclipse burst through the two doors. “Eclipse!” Her father cried out in joy. “Dad!” Eclipse yelled. She ran to him and swung her arms around her father. Tenchi and Ryoko walked through the door. Ryoko had gained enough energy (thanks to Tenchi) to walk. She limped next to Tenchi, still clutching her wound. “Mom! Please wake up!” Eclipse said as she shook her mother. Her face was still subsided in the shadows. Tenchi walked to his future self, while Ryoko walked to Eclipse. She was shocked at the person she was shaking. It was her own future self. “Mother! Wake up! Please!” Eclipse cried. Tenchi backed away and held Tenchi-ken above his head. “Watch out,” He warned. With a hard swing, he tried to cut the chain, but do his dismay; it didn’t even leave a dent. “Dad! What happened to her?” Eclipse asked. “Kagato beat her,” he replied grimly. “Grrr…Kagato…I’ll knock him so bad his head will spin all the way to the edge of the universe!” She said. She grabbed her mother’s chains and tried to pull them apart. But it was no use. “Here, let me help,” Ryoko said as she tried to pull them apart too. She had the same luck Eclipse had. “Isn’t there anything that could break these chains apart?” Tenchi asked. “Why yes, there is,” a voice said. Eclipse turned around, Kagato. “So, Eclipse, you actually managed to find your parent’s didn’t you?” Kagato laughed. He was as bloody and cut as he ever was. Blood was running down his arm. “My dear Eclipse, what I have here is the key to free your parents, if you want to set them free, you will have to fight me!” He yelled.