Well, here we are... ready to fire off the first chapter to "Tenchi Muyo!
Bug Bash".  I'm currenly working on fixing the 'bugs' in the prologue and
should have it shipped out in a day or two.

Enjoy!
AlberCrombie
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			Tenchi Muyo! Bug Bash

		by AlberCrombie (gopher@venus.net)

				Chapter 1

	Ever wondered what it would be like to be a cabbit?  Being cute and
addorable, eating carrots all day, hanging out with Tenchi and crew,
occationally transforming into a space ship and playing with morons like
Kagato and Dr. Clay...
	*sigh* What a life.
	Well, just that moment in her life, Ryo-oh-ki was wishing she could
have been doing *ANY* of that.  Instead, she was hiding under the sun-room's
sofa trying to cover her fluffy ears to block out the noise.

	Ryoko had a new CD on the stereo...
	Worse, it was a rather loud CD...
	Worse yet, Washu had connected a 'special' amp to the reciever...

	In other words...it was *VERY* loud.

	[To steal a quote from _Spinal Tap_ : "This one goes to eleven."]

			*	*	*

	*THUMPATHUMPATHUMPABOOMBOOMSCREEEEEEEEEETHUMPATHUMPA* 

	Ryoko nimbly danced about; sometimes on the ground, sometimes
levitating.  While it was true she had been imprisoned on earth for 700
years, somehow, through it all she had completely missed out on the evoution
of popular music.  So to atone for the error, she now constantly brought
home new music (where she got the CDs or the money for them, no one really
wanted to ask) which immediately got popped into the stereo in the sun-room
at the back of the house.
	She was enjoying herself emmensly with her latest aquisition, "Frogs
On Acid - The Quiet Years".  But she was the only one; a very ugly looking
Tenchi stood at the top of the steps gazing down through half closed
eyelids.
	"Ryoko, I'm trying to sleep!!!!"  He got no reply other than Ryoko's
continued gyrations.  "Geez, of all the times that Grandpa wanted to do an
all night training session, why did it have to be last night... RYOKO!!!!!!"
Realizing that shouting over the din was like trying to get Ryo-oh-ki to not
eat the carrot patch, it just couldn't be done, he settled for the direct
approach.
	Tenchi plodded down the steps towards the twirling demon wondering
if it was possible to lock her back up in the cave where he found her.  As
he hit the last step he noticed something out of the corner of his eye; it
was small and by the base of the stereo.  He could swear it was white with
multiple legs, but he never got the chance to check - a Tenchi-sized black
hole appeared and swallowed him whole.
	Just before the world went completely black, he heard a loud
explosion and Ryoko's scream.

			*	*	*
	The blackness receeded from Tenchi as quick as it came, but instead
of standing on the steps in the Masaki house, he was now below the house, or
rather - 'next to the house' in another dimension.  Tenchi was standing in
Washu's lab.
	"Well, come on, we gotta go see what 'Little Miss Destruction' has
got herself into this time."
	Tenchi blinked away the remaining sleep from his eyes. "Wha? 
Washu!?  What's going on?" He jogged to catch up the crab haired genious who
was heading for the lab's exit.
	Simple, I sucked you into the lab before the stereo exploded."  She
opened a round-topped door and stepped into the dimensional matrix beyond.
The matrix emptied into the neighboring dimension, which just happened to be
the Masaki sun-room.  Tenchi followed and gasped when he reached the 'real
world'.  The sun-room was a mess; worse it was missing an outside wall.
	Washu just glanced about and took in all the desctrution as calmly as
someone looking for a can of soup at the grocery story.  "I figured as
much."  She found something interesting where the stereo used to be and
poked through the few non-disintigrated pieces.
	The young Juraian prince quickly scanned through the debris.  The
outer wall was completely removed.  Bit of it remained scattered on the
deck, but most of it was now either floating or sinking in the lake.  The
rest of the room wasn't any better; the sofa overturned, windows and picture
frames shattered, assorted furniture in various states of broke.  The one
thing he didn't see was the dancer.
	"RYOKO!!!"  Tenchi ran through the missing wall and onto the deck
overlooking Masaki Lake.  "RYOKO?!?!"
	"I wouldn't worry about her, Tenchi, she's a big girl."  Washu
called from the debris laden room.
	He briefly looked over the lake, then walked back to Washu.  She was
right, an explosion like that wouldn't seriously hurt Ryoko, but Tenchi was
still worried, "But what happened?  And how did you know that this would
happen?"
	"Well, I expected something like this sooner or later after Mihoshi
told us of her encounter on her police cruiser.  And I just happened to be
checking the various monitors about the house and grounds when I saw one of
Mihoshi's bugs next to the stereo, so I knew something was going to happen. 
You're lucky, I noticed you coming down the steps and had just enough time
to suck you into the safety of the lab through one of my blackholes before
the stereo went on maximum overdrive.  You're pretty lucky!" She dropped the
piece of junk she was holding and scooted up to Tenchi, "actually, after we
get all this mess cleaned up, if you want to 'get lucky' again...." She
learned her head on Tenchi's chest.
	"WASHU!" Tenchi fired back, holding the red-head at a distance
trying not to think about what she was offering. "What about Ryoko!?!"
	"Oh, she can wait her turn until we're done...." She noticed his
glare at her. "OH!  You mean where is she?  She's over there in the bushes. 
I spotted her when I stepped out from the lab."

	Tenchi ran over to the corner of the house and did indeed find a
very out to lunch Ryoko lying in the midsts of the bushes.  She was mumbling
something about the music being a bit too loud.
	"Ryoko, are you alright?"
	"Wahh...turrn the music don a notch, would ya, I can'd hear ya."
With that, her eyes rolled back in her head and she completely passed out. 
Tenchi carefully picked her up and carried her back in to the house.  Washu
turned the sofa upright so he could place Ryoko on it.  She then started to
examine her daughter.
	"Nah, didn't think so, no broken bones.  She's just K.O.'d.  She'll
be up in a few minutes."  
	This was good news to Tenchi, he knew that a small explosion like
that wouldn't damage the space vixen, but he didn't still didn't like to see
her hurt.  He started to glance about the room again, when he saw a bit of
brown fluff move under some rubble.
	"RYO-OH-KI!!!"
	"MeerrrrrrrooooooooOOOOWWWWW!!"  
	Tenchi may not have been too worried about permanent damage to
Ryoko, but damage to his favorite cabbit, was a different matter.  Cabbits
may have been made from crystal matter, but they were still fragile.  He
quickly scooped up the cabbit and called Washu over.
	"Oh, dear, this looks serious.  Tenchi, carry Ryo-oh-ki into the lab. 
I'll have to look after her there."  
	Ryo-oh-ki looked up at Tenchi with tear filled eyes and let out a
small whimper.  "Don't worry, Ryo-oh-ki, Washu'll fix you up." Tenchi was
headed for the lab door when the front door chimes rang.
	"I'll get it," Washu said, "You just take Ryo-oh-ki down to the
medical level, I'll be there in a minute.  This is could be the folks I've
been expecting."  She headed for the front door.
	"Uh, sure."  With cabbit in hand, Tenchi disappeared into the
blackness of Washu's lab.

			*	*	*
	Washu opened the front door and before her stood a small, slender
black haired girl wearing flowing red and white clothes, with what appeared
to be a croquet mallet slung on her back.
	"Yes?"
	"Ohayo gozaimasu!  I'm looking for a...", she glanced at a ripped
computer printout, "....Ms. Washu?"
	"That's me, call me Washu-chan!  Are you the exterminator?"
	"Yup!  That's me!" She grinned like she was going to explode.  "I'm
Skuld, System debugger First Class!  Yoroshiku!" Skuld bowed.
	"Well, you're here sooner than I thought, but not a minute too late! 
We've already been 'bugged' and I think there's more on the way."
	Skuld frowned, "That's not good.  Acutally, we were on vacation, and
I just happened to check my e-mail on the road.  It turns out that we
weren't too far from here, so I took the case."  
	Washu looked up when Skuld said 'we' and noticed two motorbikes with
sidecars and three other people setting off to the side of the drive way. 
There was one male looking at the engine of a small bike and sidecar.  He
appeared to be about Tenchi's height, maybe a bit smaller.  Next to him was
a long blonde haired girl; Washu thought she saw a family resemblence to
Skuld.  Finally, leaning next to what appeared to be some American oversized
motorcycle was a bored platnum blonde female who reminded Washu of Ryoko,
only with more meat on her bones and more shapely curves.
	The blonde girl walked over and introduced her self, "I'm Beldandy,
it's very nice to meet you."  She too bowed before Washu. "Have you had much
trouble with the bugs?"
	"Well, let's see...", putting a finger to her chin and glancing at
the sky, "not unless you count a falling space ship, an exploding stereo,
and," a thought registered in Washu's brain, "...an injured cabbit!  Excuse
me, I have to go take care of somebody who just got hurt.  In the back room,
you'll find the latest damage.  Ignore Ryoko, she was knocked out from the
explosion, she'll be fine.  Kitchen's off to the right, help yourself.  I'll
be back in a few minutes." With that, she turned and ran for the lab door
and disappeared.
	Beldandy and Skuld just stood there looking at the open doorway.
	"Spaceships?" said Skuld.
	"Stereos?" replied Beldandy.
	They looked at each other, "cabbits???"

	Beldandy went back and collected her companions at the motorbikes,
while Skuld bounced into the house unslinging her bug bopper.

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