[Gets in Ryoko's Face]

     "LOOK *Girl*... "

     [Casts a fierce look across the room]

     "... if I told you that Kagato sent this little bundle of fun, would you still want it? 
She could destroy us all, don't you get it?  Take her back to the damn pod and send her off!  
DO NOT MAKE ME REPEAT IT, or..."

     A dark sphear covers the the masaki household and a portal appears in front of Ai and Ryoko 
Kagato elevates down "Your correct Washu except one minor detail, shes a past Failiure." Kagato 
Laughs "But what is intreasting i still have mind control over her." Kagato looks over to 
Tenchi "Suprised to see me!!" Kagato grins A green aura surrounds Ai, then she elevates into 
the air "I'm Taking Ai if you don't mind." Seeing Ryoko hugging Ai kagato extends his arm and 
sends Ryoko an electric shock, then Ryoko falls to the ground. then Ai and Kagato Have 
dissapeared.

     Mayuka stood up from her seat on the tree stump. She could have sworn something had 
happened. *Then again, its proabably just me.* Sighing, she turned and walked slowly back to 
the tenchi residence.

     Ryoko screamed, reaching out for Ai as the world began to go dark... "You bastard..." She 
said angryly, before she passed out.

     Sikaru blinks. "..w...what just happend?" She see's that the girl that was holding the 
child collapsed. She rushed over to her. Kneelin down beside Ryoko she pulled the necklace off 
her neck and hung it over her. It glowed a extremly bright blue and Sikaru bits her lower lip.
o0 sure hope this works 0o  waits to see if her powers worked on ryoko.

     [Folds her arms]

     "Suits everyone for the best.  For once, just let him have whatever he wants and let him 
be on his way... I don't think we need yet another epic battle through space and time after 
all..."

     Mayuka entered the house, hearing the end of Washu's sentence. "fight who and through what 
time?" Mayuka blinked, trying to figure just what happened.  "OH!! Wheres that lil gurl?" she 
asked, puzzled.

     Looking up from where she sat Yuzuha caught the glimpse of Mayuka as she re-enter the 
Masaki's house. She then got up and walked over to the house opening, the door she stepped 
inside. The room hushed again at her entrance, then she spoke. "Washu I'm sorry if I was out of 
line, it's just that.." She then noticed the girl was gone. "Hey where did the little girl go?"

     [With a raised eyebrow]

     "Well... seeing as how she's not *here* anymore, I guess she must have gone *away*."

     Ryoko looked to Washu with cold eyes. "Well, aren't we going to do something?" She asked 
a bit weakly, just waking. "No matter what she is... Shes just a little girl!" She remembered 
being Ai-Chans age... And in Kagato's control, tears began to fill her golden eyes quickly. 
"Whats the matter with everyone? Couldn't you see she was scared?" Couldn't you see.... She was 
like me.. Ryoko thought.

     Wiping tears from his eyes, Kirin sobbed out his agreement. "I'm with ya. 'Les go save the 
kid!"

     Jin made a fist and a dark red glow was emited from his hand. "Well, I'm certainly not 
going to let that child stay in the hands of that person!"

     Tenchi nodded. "We can't just leave her Washu...."

     Mayuka looked around confused, then the idea clicked. "RIGHT!!" she agreed triumphantly. 
"errr, what about this i'm agreeing about?" Sweatdrops and anime-style crashes sounded the house. 
"MAYUKA!!" everyone said esperatedly. "well..OH YEAH!!" Mayuka bounced slightly, all the 
occurances coming together. "LETS GO!!!" Mayuka yelled, raising her fist up high. " uh..where 
exactly do we look first?"

     Sikura stands up and nods. " I agree..the girl didn't even seem to know her own name let 
alone that she was an experiment. We aren't just going to leave her with that mad man..." Places 
the neckalce around her neck again.

     Ryoko stood before anyone could disagree. "Alright then..!" She woobled a little, be 
regained herself. Her healing system slowly kicked in to replair the damage. "WE must hurry.. 
I don't want that bastard to hurt anyone else!" There was hurt in pain in her eyes as she 
called Ryo-ohki with her earring.

     "Meow?"  Ryo-Ohki woke up with a start, upon hearing her Ryoko's call.. There was a great 
deal of sadness transmitted through the link as well, and the sudden force of it sent her 
reeling back.   "Meeeeoooowww" ((so much pain)) Ryo-Ohki jumped down from the windowsill, and 
ran down the stairs in a flash.  She stopped in front of Ryoko, looking up at her mistress 
intently with golden feline eyes.

     Ryoko looked down to the cabbit, telling her simply "Ryo-Ohki, we must hurry." She looked 
to the others then, and smiled that bad girl grin. "If you wanna ride, come with me out side. 
"And then she walked out, Ryo-Ohki following. "Ryo-Ohki, please hurry and change so we may 
leave!"

     Mayuka still wondered HOW they were going to find that little girl. Shrugging, she linked 
herself with everyone, running outside-everyone hanging on, semi-flying. "Ryoko!!! Wait up for 
the rest of US!!!"

     Ryo-Ohki nods, and bounds foward.  She runs away from the group, then stops and jumps 
really high, way over their heads..  
"MEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeOOOOOWOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!" She cries out, starting to change 
into her spaceship form...

     Mayuka looked up, boggle-eyed. "I..i...i di..didn't know Ryo could..do THAT." Mayuka 
blinked, the sun glaring in her eyes. "Ok..a quesiton, how do we get up THERE?"

     "Nnnmmmeow!!" Ryo-Ohki's transformation finishes, and she hovers above the group in full 
spaceship form.  Rings of light appear around everyone who was down there, and they're all 
beamed onboard the spaceship Ryo-Ohki.

     Ryoko takes the controls, and follows kagato. "Alright everyone, take your seats!" 
Somefloating chairs appear, and she takes off at full speed. "Ryo-Ohki, as fast as you can!"

     Blinks. "Wow this is too cool!" Sits down and looks around wide eyed. Shakes her head and 
starts thinking about the little girl. "I hope she's ok..." Gets kinda gidy and plays with the 
end on her blond hair.

     Mayuka fidgets in the chair, looking around her-eyes wide at the gadgets here and there. 
Curious, she pressed a button. The ship shook, sending Mayuka screaming in histerics. Calming 
down, she looked solemly around her again." Are we there yet?"

     Sitting placedly in his chair, Kirin blinks for several minutes. "Never thought I'd end up 
flying around in a kabbit..."

     He puts a hand on his chin. "If you think about it... that's nasty... flying around inside 
a kabbit is the last thing I needed after all this wierd stuff..."

     He stands up, bolts off somewhere to be queasy and everyone else sweatdrops.

     Jin blinks and Sasami puts her hands on her hips, "Wierd? What's he talking about?"

     Tenchi drops his head. "Ugh... its gonna be one of those days..."

     Mayuka shrugged. "I can take care of myself. AND Jin can protect me!!" Mayuka once again 
latched her arm to Jin's, who was sweatdropping provously.

     Jin blushed slightly as Mayuka latched onto his arm. "Uh.... Yeah...." He smiled nervously 
and looked to the others, still blushing.

     Mayuka looked at Jin, confused. She shrugged an idea from her mind, and looked out the 
window that 'appeared' out of nowhere. The scenery was wonderful, and Mayuka was soon lost in 
the view..

     Sikura eyes Jin and Mayuka, then smiles, seeing Jin's emmbarasment. Seeing the oportunity 
she opens her big mouth yet again. "Jin's BLUSHING!"  Winks at him just to make sure he took it 
as a joke. 

     [Washu's godlike cuteness flashes in front of Ryoko in a video monitor.]

     "Ryoko... I've decided to help you after all..."

     [Plainly exaggerating her concern]

     "To think that I was so cruel... anyway... I can't really say that I condone your actions, 
but who am I to say anyway?  I'm just your mother and creator after all... eh.  I *could* tell 
you where to find her, but you just need to ask... in FACT..."

     [Enlarges the video monitor, just to point at everyone]

     "You ALL need to ask me!"

     Ryoko almost fell over. "Washu! Why didn't you tell me before?!" She exclaimed, putting her 
face also in the screen. "Well, where is she? Can you tell me so we can save her?" Then came 
the most important.. To her curiosity anyway. "Why'd you deside to help?"

     Mayuka cocked her head also, wondering too. "Yeah, y? You just didn't happen to stick me 
into a wormhole for no reason, ne?"

     Face shifts from interest to disgust.]

     "Hey!  I wouldn't *have* to help anybody if certain people would stop rushing off into 
outerspace like a mad bull, would I?  I'm not saying a thing unless..."

     Ryoko blinked. "Unless?"

     Jin looked up at the video monitor. "Unless.... We all ask you like you asked us to do 
just a few moments ago?"

     Mayuka looked back and forth, totally clueless like Mihoshi and feeling slightly hungry. 
"Er..yeah" Mayuka fitted in so she could at least look 'in' the conversation.

     [Look of slight frustration...]

     "Yes Jin... I'm glad *somebody* is paying attention up there!  But you're new to the kid's 
club, so you don't know a little something about me..."

     [Flash camera angle #1]

     Ryoko fell over, face faulting and sweatdropping.

     Mayuka sweatdropped and looked at Jin, wondering if perhaps Washu 'lost' it. "Um, little 
washu, er..can you help us now?" Mayuka said sweetly.

     Jin looked up at the monitor and nodded. "Yes, can you help us...uh....Little Washu?"

     [Washu's grin starts to crack at the corners...]

     Jin looked around. "Come on now, ask!"

     Tenchi blinked, then looked up at Washu. "Can you help us, Little Washu?"

     Mayuka smiled sweetly at Washu. "Pretty-plz with cherry on top?"

     [A small amount of sweat begins forming over Washu's eyebrows.]

     To tell you this information would not only endanger my life, but yours as well; and I 
don't mean from Kagato, either.  Back in the day there was some government deal on Jurai, much 
like on Earth, in the United States, like the Manhatten Project.  Me, Kagato, and a couple 
others who were soon after terminated, helped piece together a weapon that would be able to 
bring about destruction of small glaxies.  So as to discredit myself and to also protect myself, 
I leaked some of the information to the Science Academy.
     
     They later told me that the story would go,"Evidence pointed to it, they investigated the 
matter and the results turned out to be positive, and nobody would ever pay the most brilliant 
genus in the universe any mind if she became nothing more than another mad scientist.".

     The plan ultimately worked, however, it was from Jurai that we got unlimited funding, so we 
tinkered with a few other side projects... like Ryoko, and the Cabbit Excercise... even cloning, 
as is the case with Minagi and Ryoko... including simulated offspring.

     You see Ryoko, you and Minagi are just about exact clones of each other, so you two have 
identical DNA.  Kagato holds control over Minagi, so no doubt it was he who used her to make 
that punk girl.  If that's the case, this is a fairly recent development, and I would say he is 
still getting money from Jurai's government... my best bet is that they are on their way there 
right now.

     Ryoko, Tenchi... everyone... please just come home and let them go. It is not worth the 
trouble.

     Mayuka glared at little Washu--her gaze seemingly to downsize the holograph 
( i dunno if its one or not ^.^ i can't 'member!). "Washu, you know full well we can't. And 
you've spilled the..er..beans. SO, mieswell go on a rescue mission and get it over with, right? 
I mean, if we don't, it'll come back to us later on and in much more serious case other than a 
little child and a cosmatic..man?" Mayuka soon lost herself in the conversation, losing her 
place in the dialouge she had created-feeling slightly lost. She looked around her, face 
requesting help.

     Ryoko's eyes darkened to her 'mother'. "Washu, we WON'T back down, is that understood? 
You can either help us, or you won't. Either way is up to you. But you WON'T stop me from 
resucing that helpless child! I won't let another go through what i have!" Faint tears stung 
her golden eyes as she stared into the small scientists green ones. "I know inside a cold 
heart that small child is crying.." Her voice lowered. "My link to her, as well as my.. 
instincts tell me these things.. Washu, she needs me.."