Epilogue
Within a month of the conclusion of these events, Darien Chiba made a proposal to Serena Tsukino, and a date was set for their wedding -- the events of which have been discussed elsewhere.
Minako's relationship with Aethan DeGales disintegrated further over the next decade, though it was never actually "broken off" until his death in 2034. Her sanity, which had never been too firm in any event, was severely rocked by this and other tragedies, speeding her own disintegration.
Ranma and Akane were not to marry until nearly a year passed. It was, it should be noted, a rather peaceful ceremony -- the only fighting that went on was between the bride and groom. Ukyou sat through the ceremony with a quiet smile on her face, as though she knew something that no one else did. Shampoo was not able to attend, as recouping the expenses involved in moving the Nekohanten restaraunt to its new location forced both her and Mousse to be working almost constantly. Ryouga got lost.
Kyousuke and Madoka were married, with Hiyama Hikaru in attendance as Maid of Honor, almost two months to the day after Madoka revealed her situation to him. Their first child was named for Kyousuke's late father, Takeshi.
The friendship between Raye, Ayeka, and Shampoo, fostered by Urd, continued to grow. All four of them frequently gathered for a floating poker game, until Urd, with her sisters, was summoned back to Heaven in the first few years of the twenty-first century. The three who remained continued to play, however.
Belldandy and Keiichi never married. He disappeared at roughly the same time that Belldandy was made to leave the Earth behind. The Ultimate Force saw to that, though in a way that caused great chaos under heaven.
Patience Masefield -- or Shinobu Masefield, as she preferred to be called -- grew up into an attractive, vibrant young woman who never showed any evidence of possessing superhuman powers, beyond having a caring heart. She eventually married a young man who was, unbeknownst to himself, a descendant of the Czar of all the Russias, and their only daughter achieved a considerable degree of notoriety. Patricia was last seen at her daughter's wedding, in 2014, after which she disappeared from history.
Andrew DelaFontaine initially found employment as part of a conspiracy known as Gehirn, only to be back on the street after that group folded in the wake of the release of a certain movie. He then found work with General Nippon Orbital Manufacturing, a consortium of Japanese high-tech companies which had been formed earlier in the decade. It is believed that it was on his recommendation that the firm sponsored the work of his former student, Katsuhito Stengovitch, by that point known as Katsuhito Stingray. It is not conclusively known whether he had any involvement in Stingray's assassination. He died, among countless others, in the Second Great Kanto Earthquake.
The Tenchi family returned to Okayama, where Ayeka confronted Yoshou, and discovered that her older brother *had* been acting to combat the Alephae on Earth -- and other alien threats. Ayeka and the others were all fascinated to hear of his involvement with the Kishin Active Defense Corps, the predecessor of the Planetary Defense Force. A few months later, the Galaxy Police reassigned Kuramitsu Mihoshi's old partner Makibi Kiyone to work with her again, and the Tenchi family grew. It grew again a year later, when Tenchi's "daughter", the girl Mayuka, came to live with them.
And then ...
Well ...
Establishing Shot: WASHUU's laboratory, where she is busily typing away
at her computer.
MIHOSHI (O.S.)
Anooo ... Washuu-chan?
WASHUU pauses, and lets out a long-suffering sigh before she turns to look
at MIHOSHI.
WASHUU
CALM I'm not going to ask you how
you got in here this time, Mihoshi.
I don't *care* anymore. BEAT
What is it?
MIHOSHI
Well, Kiyone wants to know if you'd
fixed our ship yet.
WASHUU
DISMISSIVE Oh, *that*. Handled it
ages ago. Come in and pick it up
whenever you feel like it.
MIHOSHI
Okay! Thank you, Washuu-chan! We
really appreciate this! BEAT
Whatcha doing now?
WASHUU
SIGH You're not going to leave me
alone until I tell you, are you?
MIHOSHI
I'm just *curious*, Washuu-chan ...
didn't you say that IMITATING
WASHUU `A mind should never cease
to seek and to question all things,
no matter how petty they may seem'?
WASHUU gapes for a moment at the incredibly accurate imitation, and then
quickly regains her composure.
WASHUU
Well, yes ... ahem. It's sort of a
time portal.
MIHOSHI
You mean a *time machine*, like in
that movie with that cute --
WASHUU
No ... but I admire your taste! Mr.
Lloyd *is* quite an attractive
specimen. However, this device that
I'm working on will only allow me to
look back into the past ... I'm
hoping to use it to clear up a few
mysteries ...
MIHOSHI
So how does it work?
WASHUU
The same way any of my terminals
work -- I just summon it up with a
thought, no matter where I am.
MIHOSHI
Wow ... but you can't travel back in
time. That's sad.
WASHUU
Time travel's overrated ... and --
She turns to look at where MIHOSHI is standing -- right beside a rather
large, Kirby-esque device. WASHUU's eyes bug out.
WASHUU
Mihoshi -- DON'T MOVE. Don't touch
anything. Don't *think* about
touching anything.
MIHOSHI freezes. WASHUU lets out a deep sigh of relief, and wipes her
head clean of sweat.
Closeup of a tiny droplet of sweat, dropping from WASHUU's hand towards
the keyboard in front of her, and impacting.
A large flashing light appears on the screen.
COMPUTER VOICE
Warning. Timeportal overdrive has
been activated. Ten seconds to
activate failsafe omega, at which
point overdrive timeportal will
open at current coordinates.
WASHUU
WHAAAAAAT?
She turns to stare at MIHOSHI, who is still frozen -- and standing right
beside a lever marked "Failsafe Omega".
WASHUU
Mihoshi! *Pull* *that* *lever*!
MIHOSHI
But you said not to --
WASHUU
Doitdoitdoit!
MIHOSHI grabs the lever and yanks it down.
COMPUTER VOICE
Failsafe omega activated.
WASHUU lets out a deep sigh.
COMPUTER VOICE
Overdrive timeportal forming at
realspace coordinates --
The rest is covered by WASHUU's furious screaming.
Cut to outside WASHUU's door. KIYONE approaches it, in a mildly bad mood.
KIYONE
... how long can it take to ask her
to come up for dinner?
She knocks on the door, and it flies open, revealing MIHOSHI in a panic.
Behind them, a jet black monolith flickers into being.
MIHOSHI
Waah! Kiyone, hurry, get in here!
KIYONE
What?
She looks over her shoulder at the monolith. She does that for a second,
then turns back to glare at MIHOSHI.
KIYONE
This is because of something *you*
did, isn't it?
MIHOSHI starts crying just as the monolith begins to glow. There is the
sound of rushing wind as it begins to suck in everything around it,
starting with MIHOSHI and KIYONE. The door to WASHUU's lab quickly slams shut.
Cut to an outside view of the house, as it begins to buckle under the
stress of the suction. Faint screams can be heard as TENCHI, RYOUKO, and
AYEKA are all sucked into the monolith.
Cut to the kitchen. SASAMI, holding baby MAYUKA, is struggling against
the suction to try and make it out of the house through the window, but
looses her grip on the sill and starts being pulled in.
Just as SASAMI and MAYUKA are about to be pulled into the monolith, the
door to WASHUU's lab opens and she snatches SASAMI. WASHUU is held back
from being pulled in by a harness that she's wearing. Unfortunately, the
shock of being grabbed causes SASAMI to loosen her grip on MAYUKA. The
baby starts to slip free.
SASAMI
PANICKED Mayuka! Washuu-chan,
help me!
WASHUU starts to reach out for MAYUKA ... and then catches a glimpse of
her confused face. She blinks.
WASHUU
MUTTERED *That's* where I've seen
her before --
MAYUKA slips all the way out of SASAMI's grip, and tumbles into the
monolith. SASAMI panics and tries to go after her, strugging against
WASHUU's grip.
SASAMI
Washuu! Let go of me! Mayuka is --
WASHUU pulls SASAMI all the way back into the laboratory and closes the
door.
Cut to the exterior of the house, just as the quaking stops. A few
seconds later, the van pulls up the driveway, and NOBOYUKI steps out.
NOBOYUKI
I wonder what sort of interesting
things have happened today.
The house collapses in on itself.
Cut to WASHUU's laboratory. She is examining her terminal while SASAMI
sits on the floor and cries.
WASHUU
SIGH OF RELIEF It's stopped ...
only a twenty second cycle, thank
the --
SASAMI
Washuu-chan! What's happened!
WASHUU
Tenchi and the others have been sent
back in time roughly twelve thousand
years, to the height of the Silver
Millenium -- or it's depth, if you
believe the other side's propoganda.
SASAMI
Can you bring them back?
WASHUU
I can --
SASAMI
Then what are you waiting for? Do
it --
WASHUU
-- but I won't. BEAT They have
an important thing to do, back then,
Sasami-chan. They have to stop a
war. They have to protect a ship.
And they have to save a soul.
SASAMI
BEAT; QUIET Whose soul?
WASHUU
Mine.
Cut to a shot of TENCHI, lying face down in a field of grass. He suddenly
looks up and --
Cut to black.
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