Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction ❯ Wormhole lift ❯ danger's in the air (sing it!) ( Chapter 5 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

five: danger's in the air (sing it!)


Master, what you had forseen has finally happened.......... No, Master, the differences with the alternative futures are few and can be controlled........... For what I collected when sensing the GPO's mind, they are both alive, the Shalooth's paladin too........................the Juraian residents haven't been injured............... I've seen a great fight between the traitor and Hakubi Washu's daughter in the GPO's nightmares.................. Yes Master, you are right, it's time for Masashi to act........................... I shall do as you wish, Master. End of communication.]
figure in the tree got off its knees and took off. It hovered until it was high enough to contemplate the other side of the valley, where lied her enemy. Two orange points flared in the darkness. 'Soon, Broke, I'll have my revenge and...'
small round thing popped out of nowhere, inches from the feminine figure. "What the fu...?" She couldn't end her sentence when the pineapple-like object exploded, liberating a strange mixture that quickly spread around her. All attempt to struggle were vain. She finally found herself completely entangled in the rapidly solidifying pink foam.tried to telepathically contact her master, to not avail. "NO! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! I CAN'T SENSE MASTER!"

"Tssk, tssk, Yuva, do you really think he would come to help you?" A familiar voice came from below.
imprisoned girl glared at the motojet that stopped in front of her and growled. "Tiffany!"

"Hi Yuva, I'm happy to see you survived the Denkarr'h 's vessel destruction too. Soo, I assume this bastard is still alive! I can't believe this! I'm transported by accident through time and space, even dimensions maybe, with no control over my destination and I end up in the same galaxy as this degenerated stinking arhedantan larva. I must be cursed! Or the multiverse is smaller than my last calculations expected it to be..." She shook her head. "Ohh! How disappointing!"smiled again. "By the way, what do you think of my little invention? I designed it especially for you, to block your powers. I haven't had the opportunity to test it during our last encounter. I must admit Washu's ability to teleport things is really useful if not amazing! I must ask her about that..."

"You bitch, release me right now or I'll cut you up into matches!!!"

"What a language! It's almost like Broke, I didn't think she could 've that much bad influence on you. You were paying me far more respect when I was supervisor to both you and Broke... Well, Broke's always been Broke, as rough as a wild beast. You used to be the sweetest child I've ever known, gaining what you wanted with subtility when Broke used strengh. Two faces of the same coin..."

"That was in the past!!! Things have changed a lot, 'I' have changed a lot! You two will pay dearly for your defection!" Her face was contorted with rage.
expression was one of deep sadness. "How long ago did you arrive in this galaxy with Denkarr'h?"
's answer was only a thick silence. The cat woman sighed. "I guess it's not the better place to chat. Follow me..." She chuckled. "You don't have the choice anyway!" She threw alasso around Yuva's trap, bound the other end to her motojet and towed it to the Masaki's house.
was waiting for them in front of the house, a thumb up. She opened a dimensional portal on another part of her lab and followed the motojet in. "Samples, samples, more samples..." She laughed maniacally while rubbing her hands. "I loooove foreigners!"entered the subspace where the Manta Crusader was docked and in repair. Tiffany parked her vehicle in its place, in the vessel's holds and untied the rope.

"Nice ship..." Washu's voice resonated behind her. "What's this material?"

"I'm still studying it, it's some kind of metal and organic polymeric complex, apparently able to absorb a certain amount of the energy and materials it can find in its immediate environnement and use it for maintenance, if it has enough time. It's a bit slow though."

"Your people didn't build it? Then who?"
headed for the crew mess, still dragging the fulminating new guest. "Remember when I told you that Broke was considered dead for several years by the Aldherants, the dominant specie in our galaxy?" Washu nodded, remembering her surprise when the cat-like being had first telepathically contacted her, hurriedly explaining who she was and what was happening outside. "Yes, well, she took advantage of this new found liberty to discover outer worlds. Some of them weren't even colonised yet. She told me that once she crashed on an uninhabited planet. That was what she thought until she was attacked by all kind of robots. Of course, she destroyed them quite easily. With her vessel in burning puzzle, she was stucked there, then she decided to find out where her agressors came from, as it was probably her only chance to leave this planet. If they had advanced technology, as it seemed, maybe she could 'borrow' them a space ship. Soon she discovered a huge city where only robots lived. let herself be captured and met the planet lord. It was some kind of very elaborated alien A.I. named Bherixian. Very elaborated and very mad! It was just planning on conquering the whole galaxy with its armies and send copies of itself on the other planets. It wanted to eradicate every organic being." Tiffany pointed at the Manta Crusader. "Originally it was this A.I.'s ship, which it purposely crashed on this planet, killing its occupants. course, it was highly interested in Broke who is a skillfull mixture of organic and mechanical being, not mentioning her fighting abilities. It tried to take control of her and almost succeded - I still shiver when I think about the danger she'd have become - anyway, at least Broke won the mind battle - She can be incredibly stubborn, you know - not without any consequences though, of Bherixian's personality remained the berserk state you've witnessed today. But during the fight, she learned this ship was on top of Bherixian's tower, ready to fly. Without Bherixian, everything powered down in the city, like a body without brain. Then, she didn't have to fear any other attack from the robots of the city, especially as she had destroyed Bherixian's backups too. However, It didn't stop her to blast the entire city, to test her new ship firepower, she dared to tell me!" Tiffany finished her story in a distressed voice.
was probably one of the rare people in the universe to understand why, a new technology, along with a new sentient specie were found and all that remained was a space ship and its content. She winced in sympathy. She was glad not to be in the same case! of which...
"So, will you tell me a little more about our new friend?" She gestured in the direction of the long red-wine-haired girl encased in the solidified foam.

"Oh yes, forgive me, hanging around with Broke doesn't improve my manners, I guess... Washu, this is Yuva, Yuva, say hello to Washu." After a quick glance to the latter, she added hastily. "... The greatest scientist in the universe..."

"Hel... Hey! don't play with me, you degenerated furball! I only obey to Master Denkarr'h!"

"Yes, yes, whatever..." The said furball turned her attention back to the other scientist. "Would you like a beer, or anything?"
red-head nodded. "That would be perfect."
fished two cans in the fridge and tossed one to the little genius. Funny how some things don't change from one side of the universe to the other. A match would always be a little piece of wood with a sulfuric head, a beercan would always be a beercan...
they tookYuva on tow again as if she was a pet and went to Broke's room where she had been transported earlier to rest. A familiar environment'd probably be better when she awake. On their way, Tiffany gave more details.

"I suppose I shall start from the beginning." In Washu's mind appeared pictures of a far away universe, of completely unknown stars and species, underlined by Tiffany's story... "My galaxy is mainly controlled by Aldherants." She saw something that looked like a giant butterfly larva, about twenty meters long and three meters large. "Because of their mass, they need slaves to take care of their body. Their whole evolution and technology was based on mental powers: telepathy, telekinesis, mind control... My own specie's - the Feulon kin - mental powers are nothing compared to their's. Useless to say that their need of domination led them to many terrible wars. It's only a natural law, survival of the fittest.things reached another level when they accessed to space travel. There was a whole new field of potential slaves. Their invasion was subtle. They first took control of the main governments by taking key places in the various administrations. Strangely, the more evoluted a race was, the less it resisted. That's why my kin was one of the first to fall. The humans were tougher, because more primitive, and VERY numerous, it seems they reproduced like rabbits - they won some battles at the beginning, especially when they discovered the Aldherant lords had to stay in a certain area close to their slaves to maintain their control. But at that time the Aldherants disposed of the most advanced technology and more important, their inventors. Humans were soon overpowered and lots of their worlds had to submit or be destroyed. The Aldherant political system was a feudal one. Denkarr'h was the equivalent of a baron. He was our local lord and the most ambitious and evil creature ever born. Like the other lords he had his private army. Though, as a young one, he wasn't as powerfull as his neighbours. he was surrounded by other lords, he always feared an invasion. His only salvation was to get a better technology. He secretely developped a weapon laboratory." New pictures flooded Washu's mind. "There were a lot of scientists in this lab, most of them war prisoners like me. Broke and Yuva are an exemple of what we studied. Broke was designed to be the perfect warrior and Yuva the perfect infiltrator. They have been genetically enhanced to amplify their mental powers and to accept their future implants..."
they entered Broke's quarters, Washu interrupted the cat-like woman. "Why did he choose a human basis if they were harder to control? Or was it the reason?"
feline scientist checked on the sleeping girl and satisfied, she answered. "You guessed right. He didn't want his toys to be taken by another lord. By the way, they have cyber implants that allowed him complete control over them, although, Broke's have been damaged."sighed and clenched her fists. "I was the head-scientist of the project. I chose the donors and modified them, none of them survived very long after that." A shadow darkened her green eyes. "You know, we were all perfectly aware of what we were doing, we wouldn't have been useful as mere puppets, we just knew that what we would get if we disobeyed was worse than death. Still, what I did in the name of my self-preservation is unforgivable. I -I... Lots of our... patients... died before we obtained these two viable prototypes."
silence in the room was so thick they could have cut it with a knife. Even Yuva had ceased her struggles and insults. The furry girl didn't dare meet Washu's eyes so she just went on with her story. "I also supervised the implant process, we did this when they were around six years old, it was simply impossible before, they wouldn't have survived it. Yet, we almost lost Broke, her addings were... much heavier than Yuva's... they suffered is beyond any description and it didn't stop there. Then came the training. Broke killed her first man at seven, it was a completely harmless guy, it was completely gratuitous. Every time she missed her goal or dared to disobey, she was severely tortured, physically and mentally. I don't know how she remained sane, I wouldn't have! Sometimes I wonder, maybe she isn't." She glanced at Yuva. "... Or maybe, because she wasn't alone..." She sighed again.
"Yuva suffered another kind of training as her powers are determined to bend other people's mind to her will. She learned to kill too, but her way is hidden. She can generate terrible visions in her victim's mind until he or she dies from terror or commits suicide. She has, of course, other abilities, as a spy master..."clinically described Broke's and Yuva's respective lives and skills to a growing incredulous, and nauseous, Washu. When she finished, she swallowed with difficulty and waited for the judgment. "I would understand if you decided to chase me away..."
sipped her can thoughtfully. "I'm not the one to judge you. What I see is that Broke didn't kill you. Yuva and her are the only one that are entitled to do so. That's enough for me." When she emptied her beercan, she crushed it and threw it in the garbage can. Then she got up and streched herself. "Fine, I'm going to check on my little Ryoko. I'll give you something to block Yuva's powers that will allow her to get out of this." She gestured at the pink foam.
nodded. "Washu... Thank you... for everything..."
red-head scientist smiled. "You're welcome, but do me a favor, will you..."

"Anything you want."

"Call me little Washu!"
furry woman face-faulted and Yuva would have too, if she had been able to move. "Err... if what's you want... little Washu..."
a last smile, the greatest scientist of the universe left the room. She was already computing what she had learned. This Denkarr'h was a real threat, she would have to talk to the others and first, to the galaxy police officers...


of chapter five.