No Need For Crossovers
Prologue: No Need For Gills

by: Brandon "GS" Rice

A/N: You know what's weird? Despite the "No Need For" title, this is set in the original Tenchi Muyo! OVA and NOT in "No Need For Tenchi!". Why the title? Cause it makes naming chapters *really* easy. Heh... This would make a great RP, but we've never done a comedic romance RP on the Rapid Board... oh well, fanfic form then! Also, prologues are much shorter than chapters... keep that in mind.

Disclaimer: I do not own Tenchi Muyo© or any characters thereof. Nor do I own any of the characters from OTHER series that will be appearing here. And... I have no money, so sue if you want, I can't pay you. >.>

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It all began when a young boy named Tenchi accidentally released the demon that had been sealed up for seven hundred years, a woman named --

Oh wait, you know that story already, you say?
Is that a fact?
Well, I bet you've never heard this one then.

In that case, it all began on an exceptionally hot day, when Washu wanted to do some genetic splicing . . .

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It was hot.

It was the middle of summer on the island-nation of Japan, and in the Masaki Shrine the sun was shining brightly and the heat was scorching. Everyone was uncomfortable about the blistering heat, but they all did a good job of hiding their discomfort.

"Tenchi!" The eldest Masaki shouted down the hallway to his grandson. In a moment, a dark-haired young man ran down to his Grandfather's room and came inside the door of the room. Tenchi panted from the run and the heat, Tenchi stood up and looked at his grandfather. Tenchi's grandfather was sitting on his bed in the thinnest robe he had.

"Yes, grandpa?"

"Go to the store and get another bag of ice! I'm burning up in here!" Katsuhito complained loudly.

"Okay grandpa." Tenchi nodded.

So, within five minutes, Tenchi was out of the house and on his way up the dirt road, up the hill, which led to the local convent store. Despite the name, on a hot day like this, going uphill to the store was not convent at all. To add to complications, around the time Tenchi reached the halfway mark, he stopped for a minute to tie his shoe. When he stood back up, he shouted in surprised as he noticed a blue haired woman floating in front of him.

"Hiya Tenchi." Ryoko smirked.

"Ryoko! Don't sneak up on me like that." Tenchi scolded.

"Whatcha doing Tenchi?" Ryoko asked with a big grin.

"I have to get to the store and get grandpa some ice." Tenchi replied, explaining his current plight. Not as bad as when Kagato had killed him and he had to be revived by Tsunami, but still an annoying and daunting task.

"Oh." Ryoko paused, sitting cross-legged with a finger on her chin as if she was thinking, floating beside Tenchi. "Well, you know . . . I could teleport us there instantly. Save you a lot of time of walking out in this heat!"

Tenchi stopped and looked at Ryoko. He had never been this thankful to have released a space pirate from a shrine before. "Ryoko! You'd do that?"

"Of course Tenchi! . . . but . . ." Ryoko's face grinned even more.

"But?" Tenchi sighed, his face falling.

"You'd have to do something for me in return, okay Tenchi?" Ryoko batted her eyelashes, which Tenchi knew from experience was never a good thing. He sweatdropped, already on top of his sweat, and reluctantly sighed.

"What do I have to do, Ryoko?" Tenchi asked, fearing the answer.

Another bad sign; Ryoko leaned in and whispered the answer into Tenchi's ear. What she said made Tenchi's face turn red and his eyes bulge.

"RYOKO!"

"What? Don't you think you'd owe me for saving you all this trouble in the heat?" Ryoko grinned showing off every last one of her teeth. Tenchi glared at her, annoyed at her antics as usual and pushed her to the side to continue on his journey to get the ice.

Ryoko reappeared in front of him again leaving no time for Tenchi to stop walking. Tenchi crashed into her and he fell backwards landing on the dirt road. He looked up, even more annoyed than his previous state.

"Ryoko, just go home."

"Tenchi! I can get that ice in two seconds! It won't even cost you any money!" Ryoko pleaded.

"How would it not cost any money? You still have to pay the store." Tenchi replied, still walking up the steep hill.

"Not if you steal it, silly." Ryoko replied, floating up next to him again.

"Blah. You don't get it at all, do you Ryoko? Just leave me alone and let me finish my chores." Tenchi replied, attempting to get away from Ryoko. However, he had annoyed the demon girl and now Ryoko was offended.

"But Tenchi! I'd do them for you, all you have to do for me is --"

"Forget it Ryoko! That would be worse than hiking in this kind of heat!"

"But it would be more fun..." Ryoko muttered, and then an idea hit her. "Hey! Underwater! That'll be cool!"

"Ryoko, I can't breath underwater, besides --" Tenchi was about to remind her he had chores he had to finish for his grandfather, but at that moment, as if out of nowhere, a small redhead with long hair appeared out of the nearby bushes.

"Tenchi!" Washu cried, as if she'd heard the whole thing and was eager to help. "I can give you the ability to breath underwater! Simple DNA Splicing!"

"Would you get lost, Mom?" Ryoko growled at the small woman -- but Washu put her hand on Ryoko's face and pushed her away. Then she leapt up and grabbed the hem of Tenchi's shirt collar and pulled him down to her eye level.

"I can give you gills, Tenchi. You'll be able to survive underwater forever! C'mon, it'll be fun!" Washu attempted to drag Tenchi back to her lab, but the young Masaki boy manages to wriggle free of her grip and jump back.

"Washu! Ryoko! Will you both just go away and let me get my chores done!?" Tenchi shouted.

"Fine Tenchi! Be that way!" Ryoko grabbed Tenchi around the waist and suddenly disappeared -- reappearing back at the Masaki Shrine. Tenchi gasped out loud, seeing that he was back at the beginning.

"RYOKO!" Tenchi shouted, astonished that she had taken him all the way back to his home when he had such a long, horrible hike on such a smolderingly hot day.

"Hmph. You're being mean Tenchi -- but two can play that game. Ta ta!" Ryoko vanished again, and Tenchi sunk to his knees with a sigh. A moment later something heavy hit him in the side of the head and he fell over.

"Tenchi! I sent you for ice twenty minutes ago! GET GOING!" His grandfather yelled at him. Tenchi sighed in defeat and stood up, ready to start up the daunting hill again, cursing the blazing heat from the sun.

However, once again, Tenchi did not make it. This time he went even less distance than previously, though. Washu appeared once again, seemingly out of nowhere, and grabbed Tenchi's arm.

"Huh? Hey! Little Washu!" Tenchi tried to get free, but unlike Ryoko, Washu held on tight as she led Tenchi back into the house and into her laboratory. Before Tenchi knew what was happening, he was strapped to an invisible table which held him upright -- and Washu was standing in front of him with several large knives in one hand, and her other filled with odd scientific equipment.

"Here, relax Tenchi! Adding gills to your lungs is a simple process! But don't move, I don't want to accidentally kill you." Washu warned him. Tenchi sweatdropped and tried to escape even more furiously, but to no avail.

"Tenchi! Don't worry, as soon as this is done you can go underwater all the time. . . . but instead of Ryoko, why don't you test it with ME?" Washu grinned in his face, and Tenchi screamed as he saw the knives coming towards his chest.

Luckily -- or perhaps, not so luckily looking back, Ryo-Oh-Ki ran by at that exact moment, mewing her famous mew that only came when a carrot was in her line of sight. Washu gasped, dropped all of her knives and equipment, and forgot all about Tenchi as she chased Ryo-Oh-Ki.

"No! Shoo! Stay away from that lever!" Washu yelled.

That's when Tenchi spotted something in the corner. It was an odd machine that looked like a doorway inside an arch, but next to it was a small computer. There was a lever on the side of the machine that was orange and looked a lot like a big carrot. Ryo-Oh-Ki was zipping towards it faster than Tenchi had ever seen her run before.

However, just inches from grabbing the lever, Washu grabbed Ryo-Oh-Ki and held her up by the tail.

"No, no, no! Bad Cabbit! Don't touch mommy's cross-dimensional-space-time-disrupter!" Washu scolded.

"Meooow!" Ryo-Oh-Ki replied, but Washu shrugged. Tenchi wasn't sure what the odd machine Ryo-Oh-Ki had been going for was, but he did know how dangerous some of Washu's inventions could be, and he hoped he wouldn't be around if this was one of the dangerous ones.

"Now Tenchi, where were we--" Just as Washu started to walk back to Tenchi, Ryoko vaporized through the wall.

"Alright old lady, where is he?" Ryoko yelled; but as she suddenly appeared it startled Washu, who dropped Ryo-Oh-Ki, who ran for the carrot-shaped lever, jumped up, and bit down on it hard.

There was a low humming noise, followed by a howling electrical spark, and then a brilliant silvery-blue watery substance appeared in the middle of the arch, surrounding the door in the middle.

"Uh oh." Washu gulped.

A moment later with a bright flash of light and a loud sound like a gun going off, the door opened and two people fell out of onto the ground area of Washu's lab. The first was a small boy with blonde hair and a red coat, while the second was much larger and apparently wearing a suit of armor.

"My, My, My, My, My! It works! It appears we have some visitors from another dimension!" Washu grinned happily, forgetting all about Tenchi and Ryoko.

"What? I just see a hunk of junk and some pip-squeak kid." Ryoko crossed her arms and complained.

"WHO DID YOU CALL A BEAN SO TINY HE CAN'T BE EATEN BECAUSE HE IS HIDDEN UNDER THE SALAD OF YOUR PLATE!?" The blonde boy shouted so loudly that Washu, Ryoko and Ryo-Oh-Ki all three fell over.

Tenchi sighed. It was going to be one of those bad days.

----- End of Prologue -----

A/N: If you don't know who the visitors are from another world . . . you should read more manga. :3
Very short as this was just the prologue, and just to set things up -- but no worries, I'll have a *real* chapter one soon enough!

:o

FMA and Tenchi?! Next thing you know you'll be bringing in Titans and Sonic, and then I'll never leave this thread! XD

Very nice, GS. I do, however, wonder exactly how many people here are familiar with Tenchi... it is a very old show after all. x_o

I've heard about it so much to have a basic idea about who's who in Tenchi.
By da way, are Rapidverse Chara's gonna apper in this Fic?

Well, Titans and Sonic may appear eventually...

Chapter List!!!

Chapter One: No Need For Alchemist!
Chapter Two: No Need For Evangelions!
Chapter Three: No Need For Digimon!
Chapter Four: No Need For Metroids!
Chapter Five: No Need For Vash!
Chapter Six: No Need For Emeralds!

I don't have anymore planned after that, but by the time we get to seven I'll have more planned. :3

Don't know Tenchi? :o

Tenchi Muyo! OVA Episode 01

Go to search and write "Tenchi Episode 02" and click on Tenchi Muyo Episode 02.

Make sure you do "Muyo" and not "Tenchi in Tokyo" or you'll wind up seeing a different series!

RYOKOPWNS.

Win.

And thanks for the link (I never knew ANYTHING about Tenchi until I decided to look it up on wikipedia earlier today, and now I can see an episode of it)

Cool GS. I can't wait to see all the characters...Make sme want to go work more on my big crossover now!