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######## JUUBAN - REI'S SHRINE ############################

Ranma was sleeping down the hall.  Nothing seemed physically wrong with him. After insuring that Ranma and the other girl, who still hadn't awoken after being transported out of the dimensional rift, were safe, the scouts in their regular forms and Washu congregated around the fire.

Although Rei knew that she could probably get some readings from the sacred fire on the matter at hand, getting it in plain Japanese made it much easier to decipher the meaning.

"Miss Washu-"

"No!!  It's Little Washu!"

Amy cleared her throat, "Little Washu, I'm interested in what you said about Ranma gaining skills similar to our own."

"Hey, don't forget us Amy!"  Usagi whined.  "I want to know too!  Does this mean a sailor scout can be a guy?"

"I have no idea exactly a sailor scout is, or if Ranma is even one. If I remember, I left the moon kingdom before you showed up. All I know is he has power readings similar to what you have.  Let me explain. My theory, which I now believe is true, and I'm never wrong, is that every universe has threads of power centered around a persons soul.  As a person gains power and influences the future of their particular world, these power threads congregate around their soul. However, when they move from their universe, most of the power stays with their soul.  Upon arriving in a different universe, these power threads intertwine with the new universe. The history is slightly changed to accommodate the new person.  Finally, to explain the new powers Ranma has - and even me - the new universe gives some of its own power threads to the person's soul.  Not just any power threads, but those that resemble most closely what their tier was in their own universe."

Taking a deep breath, Washu brought her computer screen out.  The screen enlarged to about 6 feet wide. Ami hid the Mercury computer away with it's puny screen. On it was a meter display with various readings beside it - the meaning of which no one but Washu could decipher.

"Here, a visual display may help.  At the top is the ultimate power rating, which is reserved for the gods and dimensional sentiences.  Next is the power champions, which may or may not be good.  Below that are the various strong fighters, thinkers, leaders of the universe.  Finally, are the regular folk that are content to live their lives they way they are.  I believe you scouts are in the power champions category, along with Ranma.  You all play very important rolls in the worlds that have profound effects on the future."

"What about you Little Washu?  You said you also have some new powers."  Minako asked.

"I fit in the third power level - which I'm disappointed at, but can do nothing about.  My new skills are it appears I was an advisor and scientist in the moon kingdom.  In my own universe, I am the most brilliant genious in the universe!  Here, it appears I have picked up this universe's equivalent of that roll."

"You were in the moon kingdom?!" choked Usagi, spewing crumbs over everyone. Rei had brought out some extra rolls since they were having an extra long meeting.

"Not directly. Before I came here, that history didn't exist.  But, when I arrived, the history was altered to accept my power tier bindings.  You wouldn't have noticed it since your memories would have been changed too."

Artemis looked at the ground thinking.  'This woman was right.  I remember someone like her in the moon kingdom.  I don't recall what life was like without her there.  The lead scientific advisor helped create some of the most powerful artifacts in the moon kingdom - including crafting the moon scepter. She was almost immortal, some supposed her age was over 20,000 years - which explained how she could amass so much knowledge.  However, she disappeared before her final creations, the henshin rods, could be assigned to their owners. He then twitched his tail involuntarily.  There were also those experiments she liked to perform on me.  Being tied to those tables and being probed with who knows what.  The probes that used energy were the most uncomfortable. Causing my fur to stand on end, tied to a table - I looked like a fur ball with straps around little stubs that peeked out.'

"Little Washu, you aren't going to do any experimenting that may interfere with our work, are you?" asked the white cat nervously.

A gleam appeared in Washu's eyes.  'Awe yes.  Those experiments were always fun. Tenchi always like to act afraid of being in her lab.  Artemis did too. However, I'm pretty sure they enjoyed being subjected to whatever I threw at them and wanted me to continue.'

"Experiments... don't worry little one.  I'll try to hold back, a little."

Artemis cringed and took a step back.

Luna spoke up to break the awkward silence.  "I observed a symbol on Ranma's head before he passed out.  It was of a yen-yang symbol with a star surrounding it. Now that I've seen it, my memories of it's owner are returning.  If memory serves me right, there was the senshi of the sun had the star symbol, but I don't remember the yen-yang symbol being part of it."

---

Ranma was waking up.  "Oh... my head.  Feels like I took Mallet Airlines twenty times in one minute.  That was a interesting dream to say the least. All that stuff about sailor scouts and... C.c.c ats!"  On the blue blanket he found himself in, there was a white piece of hair - his senses said it could only belong to a c-c-ca - them.  Wide awake and in a battle stance, Ranma scanned the room. Who knows where they where at - lucky they didn't eat a piece of him while he was sleeping.

Outside he heard voices - very familiar ones from his dream.  Oh my.  Almost fainting, Ranma braced himself.  Here, a master of martial arts, the best of the best, and almost fainting.  All off the dreams and memories he was seeing were true - but also they weren't.  In his head were two memories - two lives. Was it something to do with coming through the dimensional warp gate?

Another part of the memories then crossed through his consciousness. "I'm Sailor Sun." Feeling out, he tried to pull out the rod that his memories told him should be there. It wasn't.  One part of his mind was relieved that it may not be true, the other was screaming that something was wrong if the rod wasn't there and must be dealt with.

Walking out of the room, Ranma saw the scouts outside.  With the memories and experiences of the past, he was able to use ki and magic abilities that he hadn't used before during his stay at the Tendos.  Also, his experiences in this life opened up some of the powers of Sailor Sun without transforming. Another power was felt just beyond the scouts - one he didn't recognize.  The emotions coming from the ki source weren't those of a killer, but did have a sort of malicious feel none the less.  'I better not give this individual the idea I'm on to them and try to act normal.'  Correcting himself, 'Well, as normal as I can be being a martial artist with a Jusenkio curse that just walked through a dimensional warp gate and gained a set of memories from a life of a female super being that existed over a thousand years ago.  Awe, the heck with it.'

"Gotcha!"  Ranma charged forward through the brick wall and attacked the person in the shadows.  He also managed to find out there was a pond on the other side of the yard.

########################### ON BOARD THE SHIP "SHOGO IV" ################

"Where we headed?  If you don't mind, let's try to avoid Jurian space."

Ryoko leaned over Komosauro and examined the cockpit.  It wasn't like anything she had ever seen.  Cloaking, temporal weapons, black hole torpedoes, nano morph armor - this thing outclassed any ship she had seen.  And every question she asked Komosauro was replied with it was normal and not out of the unusual.

After about twenty minutes, Tenchi started to stir in the seat next to her.  This guy may have saved them, but she wasn't about to let Tenchi out of sight.  The other two were just bystanders and could stay in the medical bay for all she cared.

Tenchi was clothed still in his regular work cloths, and even had a few dirt spots on his pants from working in the carrot fields.  What surprised Ryoko is he had the sword still on him.  He must have grabbed it after Sasami's stew was launched into the air and landed on its cook.

--- IN THE MEDICAL BAY

"Vegeta!  Calm down! If we are on a ship, we don't want to end up out there!"

Komosauro glanced at Ryoko.  "Sounds like the rest of my guests have woken up."  Nodding toward Tenchi. "You take care of him. I'm going to look after the two in the back."

Pushing the autopilot switch and locking it in with the security pad, Komosauro walked back.

"Hello my name is Komo-urk!"

Vegeta held the man up off the floor and gave him a little squeeze.  Not enough to seriously injure him, but enough to pass him out.  Surprisingly, the man didn't and instead powered up, forcing Vegeta to let go of his hold.  Without powering up himself, he would have been burnt slightly.

"Now hold on there!  I'm going to explain this ONLY once."

"Good.  I don't take kindly to being kidnapped, and won't spare your life if you refuse to explain.  Make it short."

"Now Vegeta, I'm willing to listen. My name's Goku.  You are?"

"Komosauro.  This is the ship Shogo IV.  I rescued you two and two others that are up front.  I currently have the ship on autopilot, so let's go eat and we can discuss what is happening in the universe, and how you fit into it all.  Follow me."  Turning, his cape flew up and nearly snapped Vegeta in the face.  Goku got a slight grin at this, glad Vegeta was getting a taste of his own medicine for once.

Going down the hall, Komosauro peered his head through the cockpit door. "Hey you two-uh, uhm - Ryoko..."  Although he was a warrior of unusual caliber, trained by the best dark martial arts masters - his personal life was lacking somewhat.  He could act all smooth, but actually getting intimate was something else. Seeing Tenchi intertwined, trying to escape from Ryoko's intertwining, turned his face bright red.  Tenchi noticed someone watching and his eyes grew large.

"Ryoko!  Someone's here!  Let me go!"

"Tenchi..." Taking her finger, she ran it in a circle on her victim's stomach, tickling Tenchi at the same time and keeping any escape attempts he was trying totally uncoordinated.

"Despicable.  You aren't telling me these two are the other warriors that were taken with me and Kakarott?"

Ryoko noticed this and went from playtime mode to fight Ayeka mode. She floated up to Vegeta, stopped, put a red glow in her eyes, and phased through the three standing at the cockpit entrance.  Without looking back, she growled, "I suppose you want to back that insult up?"

Everyone but Tenchi were stunned.  Although Komosauro had seen her phasing capabilities before, it was unnerving to see someone with daemonic eyes walk right through you.

Being awake since the ship warped, Ryoko knew the ship a little better than her companion kidnapees.  Leading the pack into the dining area, she was impressed with it's furnishings.  While the rest of the ship was very barren and contained only the essentials needed for a cruiser, the dining area was very comfortable.  A leather couch was on one side, which could seat about four and have room to spare.  It wrapped around the corner, with a large view screen taking up most of the far wall. Fluff brown carpet covered the whole room, except for about a meter in from the door, where people were expected to remove their footware.  Beside the door was the food station, but nothing resembling a refrigerator.  It looked just like an inset counter.

After removing their shoes (and after much persuasion by Goku to Vegeta) they sat down.

"Being kind of new to this universe, you probably don't know how to operate the food generator.  To get your food, just walk up to it, think what you want, and push the button. It uses a neural reader - which is also used in several government locations so be careful what you think when around those buildings.  Fortunately, they are easy to detect since they irradiate a lot of ESP waves."

Walking up to the counter, Komosauro pushed the button and materialized something that looked like stew, but with squid like meat.  Goku was next, anxious to delve into the feast of his dreams.  Rice balls, a monster cooked turkey, and a tower of other food appeared.  The counter couldn't contain it all, resulting in much materializing in midair. Fortunately, Goku caught it all - eating some of it as it appeared above his head.  He set it on the table, and commenced eating everything at an astonishing rate.  Tenchi and Ryoko, being used to some of the dinner free for alls delved into Goku's feast.  Vegeta just leaned against the wall across from the couch, grumbling and staring at the threesome that were enjoying themselves.

Three trips to the regenerator later, the group was full and went started to get serious.

"All right, now that we have taken care of our stomachs, we can discuss the matter at hand.  I am a free knight.  I have trained for about 300 years in the dark arts, and some of the light powers.  I can sense that while you have come from a different dimension, Goku and Vegeta, you have extensive knowledge of the light powers that put my knowledge to shame.  Raw power I may have, but don't have much technique in yielding it - hence I have to enhance the power with my dark powers but for good. Being a free knight, I do as I please, but do so to save others and insure the balance of power in this universe.  Queen Kyah kidnapped you from your respective universes using energy you all generated.  With you trapped, she would have manipulated your mind using the reverse of ESP waves.  Instead of reading, she would write to your mind new memories that put you in her service willingly.  After gathering enough forces, she would attack her former husband's fortress, Emperor Gothax. One of the two betrayed eachother, and he controls approximately a third of the galaxy as a result, but doesn't seem to be evil, nor good.  I'm still trying to figure out his intentions."

Gesturing toward Tenchi, "I know about the powers of everyone else, but you.  I can't detect a single bit of unusual energy from you, nor have you shown an unusual ability.  How did you end up here?"

"Um.. Ryoko got in a little disagreement with Ayeka.  I ended up in the middle of it."

"Hahaha.  Sounds like girl troubles to me.  So Tenchi, you quite the ladies man I take it?  How many have you swept off their feet?"

"Hey!" Ryoko cut in. "Tenchi has eyes only for me.  I'm just trying to convince him we were meant for each other.  The other five free loaders just keep interrupting."

At the word of five, plus Ryoko, all going for Tenchi's heart, Goku, Komosauro, and Vegeta face vaulted, shaking the ship.  Up front, the computer had to make a course correction.

"I'll have to find out what your secret is," Komosauro laughed while giving Tenchi a strong pat on the back - sending Tenchi flying forward and landing at Vegeta's feet.

`I've got to keep an eye on Komosauro.  He's acting just as carefree as Kakorot, strong, but not as naive.  This could make him just as dangerous.` thought Vegeta.

A beeping then chimed in, signaling to the captain of the ship to return to the cockpit.

"Looks like we are approaching our destination.  I have some contacts on the surface of the planet Telleo.  We need to upgrade the ship's capabilities before returning to the station to rescue the others, and try to find a way to return you to your respective dimensions. Oh, and I'll need you to all get jobs to help pay for some of the expenses."  Komosauro had backed off a way before saying this, expecting some sort of reaction - and wasn't disappointed.

Ryoko and Vegeta both flared up sending out a wave energy that sprayed the remaining food all over the place, "What!?"

Goku had a true look of terror on his face, something Vegeta wasn't used to seeing from his arch rival.

Tenchi was the only one to give anything close to a normal reaction, before jumping up and trying to restrain Ryoko.

Komosauro wasn't there, having hightailed it to the cockpit.