Shift of Hearts, the first Dragon Ball Z / Tenchi Muyo! crossover posted here in about a year.

And the seventh in three years, I forgot to mention that.

By P. Dizzle tha Prime Legend Champion

Disclaimer Stuff: This story is an original concept, I own none of the characters except the Madri Scholar, no money is being made off of this, I'm tired of putting that on all my stories, etc.

Rating: T, as is everything else I've done, just for safety purposes.

NOTE: I like to consider all animes/etc. as realms of one big universe. In my "realm naming system", the realm of Tenchi Muyo! is the No Need realm, and all series are combined together. I'll even go on to create a reason behind Tenchi's immediate family is not in the Jurai royal lineage as of Tenchi In Tokyo. And obviously, the realm of the Dragon Ball/Z/GT/etc. sagas is the Dragon Ball realm. This is so that the crossover effect can be explained… somewhat. Oh, and if anyone notices any mess-ups in the TM storyline (because it hasn't shown up in such a long time, which the only reason I'm even giving a recap), or in my little continuation of Tenchi In Tokyo, please tell me.

P.S. Chapter's been edited from what you saw the first three days of this story, because its former style had the potential to produce devastating confusion.

Chapter 1: The Scholar's Prophecy.

It was the last day of the school year at Orange Star High School, about a year or so since the end of the evil Kid Buu. Peace had reigned over the universe since then. They had the "benevolent cross" Majin Buu's Babidi memories erased from the rest of the earth about six months ago, and things were going great. Gohan and Videl stayed together, and eventually became the Saiyaman & Saiyagirl superhero tag team in West City, with the approval (which was practically fought for due to the ridiculous Saiyaman costume layout) of their family and friends. Everything was actually more orderly than before, except for the occasional crook a week, which called for the equally occasional secret identity switch. But things were actually better now for them since Hercule got his brain out from underneath his arrogant backside a little more. A few minutes ago, Gohan and Videl had already promised to meet with Erasa and Sharpner for what would be the last time until they ran into each other again or the next school year started. Unfortunately, they ran into an unexpected visitor while making their exit from the campus to meet their friends.

"Hey, you two!" a voice suddenly called to the couple, stopping them in their traps. The two looked back, and saw that the person calling them was a very weird looking man. The stranger was dressed in what seemed to be a druid/priest like costume, with a large black bucket-like hat on his head and a red and orange druid robe. They saw his face and presumed that he must be in his upper twenties or something. The two looked to each other momentarily, before turning back to that guy with weirded out looks on their faces. They were both asking themselves what someone would be doing here looking like some kind of priest.

"Excuse me, but… could you tell us who you are?" Gohan asked while shuddering a little bit in his mind.

"Gladly. You're the ones I came to inform anyway," the stranger began. "After all, you two are probably the most sensible ones of your entire gang, and thus the most suitable ones to introduce your big, happy Z family to a little secret."

"A little secret? Why would we want to know one of your secrets?" Videl asked, a frown starting to develop on the tough gal's face.

"Don't consider it one of my secrets. It actually is one of your own, that you all have yet to discover," the person explained, going on to give the confused couple a warning immediately afterwards. "Before I tell you anything about the exact secret itself, you need to learn the basics. And the basics are as follows: your science classes may claim they're studies of the universe, but you are not studying the entire universe. You are merely within one dimension, one realm of the universe. And there are so many others you have no idea about. However, you might soon be encountered with visitors from one of them, which is my reason for coming here. I want to teach you all the vital information about your new friends."

"Okay, what are you talking about? There are no such things as alternate realms," Videl stated. In their science classes, nothing was ever said about any alternate realm theories. In fact, someone actually mentioned that in a daydream and got mocked for the rest of the period. So what was up with this guy.

"That's what you think. If there weren't, then I wouldn't be here," the guy revealed, to the surprise of the two couples. "Now, each of these realms contains several characters whose lives are very similar to yours, but at the same time very different. This realm is known as the Dragon Ball realm, the name obviously coming from the Dragon Balls that are here. The realm that is about to visit you, due to the certain visitors' ridiculous, inexplicable and unnecessary art of revolving around a specific one Tenchi Masaki, has been dubbed the No Need realm."

"Are you kidding me?" Videl asked, as she was starting to think this was ridiculous.

"The No Need realm? Couldn't you come up with a better name than that?" Gohan followed suit, stunned at the degrading name the other realm had been given.

"Actually, no. Because I don't come up with those names. They practically attach to each realm the minute it is discovered. But come on! Do you want me to bother myself with those details instead of telling you who they are?" the Madri Scholar explained in building frustration.

"No, but… wait a minute. Who are you?" Gohan asked, his expression suddenly turning serious.

"You're concerned I'm one of the villains you've met in your life trying to feed you gobbledygook? Well, since you need a name, just call me… the Madri Scholar, all-seeing eye in the universe." he finally revealed. Gohan became a little calmer after that, but was not quite sure about this guy. "And I don't think you need to bother introducing yourselves to me. Now, before I get to telling you how exactly the No Need realm has anything to do with you, let us first focus on the history of the people of those realm. First of all, the No Need realm features a young man named Tenchi Masaki, as well as six young alien females, two of which have fallen in love with him. Unfortunately for the effects, he has not fallen in love with any of them. Washu Hakubi is one of the three godlike Chousin sisters of that realm's existence, as well as a brilliant lady who can often be considered "the woman beyond eccentric", though her official nickname is "the Greatest Scientist in the Universe"."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Videl shot, which along with a hand stuck in his face, stopped the Madri Scholar in his tracks. "Stop rushing this into our heads. Let us get this. Now, we're going to have to pop in and ask questions so that we can get this stuff. And I thought I was done doing that since about ten minutes ago. School's out now! What's the deal?"

"Shut up!" the Madri Scholar exclaimed, finally stopping her complaints. "Washu has been looked down upon by fellow scientists for building weapons of mass destruction, among other things. She has a daughter named Ryoko, who she basically created herself, and whose power is held in three gems designed by Washu. Unfortunately, Ryoko and Washu were taken by a humanoid villain of extreme cunning named Kagato, who froze Washu in stasis and forced Ryoko and Ryo-Ohki, Ryoko's pet cabbit, also created by Washu, into a life of crime. While Washu and Ryoko do not look very different in age, you can still tell in a way that she is her mother. Because of the severity of the crimes, the Galaxy Police, whose name speaks for itself, has classified Ryoko a Class A Criminal, and has pursued her for a long time. Unfortunately, the officers often on their case, Kiyone Mabiki and Mihoshi Kuramitzu, have failed to catch her because Mihoshi is more of a bumbling airhead than anything else. Meanwhile, Yosho, the crowned prince of planet Jurai, was the one whose chase finally succeeded in the capture of Ryoko, after Kagato sent her to attack Jurai.

"Ryoko being captured and sealed by Yosho in a cave near the shrine, Yosho choosing to live there as if an ordinary human, Kiyone and Mihoshi's reassignment to earth, and basically what you could call a simultaneous series of crash landings, are among the circumstances whose result was all six alien women - including Yosho's sisters, Princess Ayeka and Princess Sasami - landing at the place of the Masaki household: 17-year-old high school student Tenchi, his father Nobuyuki, and his grandfather Katsuhito, who was actually Yosho running under a different identity. As the chases continued, Tenchi and his family finally had to let the five alien women into their home, leading to even stranger circumstances. Washu was not involved in this chase business, because she was frozen until Mihoshi accidentally freed her in the confrontation with the first of the Kagatos. Periodically, Kiyone and Mihoshi would continue on as GP officers, though they never tried much at all to arrest Ryoko. Sasami became the cute little cook of the house, whose only weakness in that regard was coffee. Other than that, her cooking rivals the rest of the world. Sasami, while nine years old in appearance, was also much wiser than she looked. Ryoko and Ayeka were the two that fell madly in love with Tenchi, and their rivalry continued with that fact to intensify it. Each one's attempts to garner Tenchi's attention in her own way - Ryoko via uncouth seduction, Ayeka much more courteously and somewhat pompously - failed miserably, as they often intercepted each other, and Tenchi was weirded out by the whole thing. This would often lead to many fights which caused chaos around the shrine."

Videl and Gohan both looked quite lost, but Videl did grasp the main details and managed to get the Madri Scholar to stop by sticking her hand in his face and telling him to hold it one sec. She then turned to Gohan and explained the gist of it.

"Some alien women all landed by fate into the area of a seventeen-year-old kid's home and shrine, and they're now living at his house. Two of them are in love with him and can't help but fight all over the place about it. Is that clear enough for you, Gohan?"

"Actually… yeah, that helps," Gohan said, after it started to become clear. Actually, the weirdness of this guy caused him to lose focus, which is why he didn't do the same thing Videl did with this information.

"Good. Now you can continue. Oh, and Gohan? Try not to digest every piece of this. Just the important, main-idea stuff," Videl advised her boyfriend. (wait, can we call them that right now?)

"Actually, thank you Videl. I needed that little break. And I needed him to stop looking lost," the Madri Scholar said, stopping to acknowledge Videl before moving on. "Even more powerful battles than that were the ones against two villainous characters both named Kagato. First was the battle with the cunning humanoid Kagato, who I mentioned as the one that kidnapped Ryoko and the still-frozen Washu in the past. Once he was able to sense that Ryoko was back, he came down to take her back and kidnap Ayeka, Sasami, and Yosho. He saw Tenchi's sword, which he knew to have incredible power, and only took Ryoko, whose slave link to him caused her to return to his side. Confrontation on battleships would ensue between Kagato and the gang, but they failed to win the day, and Tenchi was defeated, and half of his body destroyed. Fueled by her love for Tenchi and anger at his apparent destruction, Ryoko finally broke from Kagato's psychic bond, bringing forth the rematch. Upon his body's revival, Tenchi and Kagato had a much tougher battle. Tenchi was able to unlock a legendary power called the Lighthawk Wings, following which he defeated Kagato. Once back from the battle, Washu set up her mega-laboratory entrance at a closet door in the house.

"Several… minor situations followed. Ayeka and Sasami's father Ayuza, the Emperor of Jurai, fully disapproved of their wanting to stay with Tenchi, and underestimated their abilities, leading to his chosen suitor being embarrassed beyond his silly pretty-boy appearance. Mistaken attempts by Washu's Chousin sister Tokimi to bring Washu to her and to monitor the Masaki household resulted in Ryoko's emotions having a deeper release, as well as almost caused the destruction of the No Need realm."

"Okay, that I can fully get. So they faced some bad guys, just like we did," Gohan said. Though he wouldn't say that the nature of this part is exactly why he got it. "They are very alike, and very different, from us."

"Good, you're getting it. Now can I tell you about the second Kagato?" the Madri Scholar asked.

"Go ahead. Nothing's stopping you," Videl said in a resigned tone.

"The second Kagato, which turned out to be a Jurian swordsman and Yosho's ambitious former friend who was sometimes referred to as a brother, appeared later and, posing as Yosho, had Ayeka and Sasami arrested for treason in Jurai. The rest of the gang went to Jurai to clear their names as a result. Battle ensued once Katsuhito revealed his identity to Kagato, following which Kagato kidnapped Ayeka. Tenchi went to the place where Kagato wanted to battle him, but was quickly proven inferior. Kagato then decided to kill Ayeka, then end the fight at his leisure, following which an irate Tenchi unlocked the power of his sword and finally defeated him. Other than the Kagatos, Tenchi and co. did fight several others, which had to do with Ayuza and Tokimi, both of whom I mentioned just before the second Kagato, and a rival of Ryoko's named Nagi, who also had a pet cabbit that turned into a spaceship,"

"Turned into a spaceship? I never heard that!" Gohan said in deep surprise.

"I would say it's because you got lost, but I admit I did miss that part," the Madri Scholar admitted. Apparently, he's wise enough to admit the error of his ways. (the following fact is my explanation for the "no Masaki Jurai" thing) "It turns out, Yosho, Tenchi, and Nobuyuki are not recognized as part of the Jurai bloodline anymore. Ayuza wanted to erase them all, but when the second Kagato took power, he erased only the three Masaki men from the lineage records. The fact that they were ever in it was completely forgotten."

"Can you get to the point?" Videl quickly shouted, believing that this small piece of guts was starting to get pointless.

"Are you helping at all? I don't think so!" he shouted back, before both of them calmed down and he continued his chronicling of the Masaki clan. "The next battle seems to have the most influence on today. It seems a girl named Yugi, whose name specifically means "secluded playful child", came back from a deep seclusion with dark intentions, landing on earth, and causing chaos there within Tenchi and co. She was first locked up because her loneliness and imagination powers led her to create her own friends, which almost destroyed Jurai. Thanks to her henchmen, and her shadow-reflection creation Sakuya Kumashiro, she was able to break up the clan into their separate lives once more. Sakuya's name is the one I mention because when Tenchi went to college to get away from it all, he finally found love, in the form of Sakuya. She was roughly similar to Ayeka in looks, but a much more calm and relaxed girl, and a great relief to him compared to the madwomen. Their connection not only helped to sever the ties that bound Tenchi to the girls, but also to de-sever the ties as well. As they all discovered Sakuya's origin, and the henchmen started to become nuisances, things started getting back together, and although Yugi tried covering Sakuya and Tenchi up in a cherry blossom illusion, Sakuya made an un-pressured, conscious decision to let Tenchi go, because his people and planet needed him. She showed what could then be considered more maturity in those seemingly final slivers of time than Ayeka, Ryoko, and Mihoshi combined to show in their entire lives. Consider the fact that Ryoko and Ayeka were two of the four that were millennia older than their seventeen-year-old appearance, and you know that's something."

"Millennia older?" Gohan yelped in surprise yet again. Videl and the Madri Scholar looked at him, noting that it was starting to get a little annoying.

"You're not going to believe it when you see it, so forget I said that, especially if you're going to be surprised at every piece of information," the Madri Scholar added. "Sasami had made friends with her before seeing her dark side. The end is self explanatory. Yugi was proven weak. Cried about not wanting to be in the dark. Sealed in what was once Ryoko's cave, until she gained better control of her powers. That ended up happening… six months ago. Which was also about eight months after she sealed up in the first place. What's more, not only is she living well in the shrine, she's much more reserved about creating her little "friends" than she was before, and she often plays around with Sasami instead. She's also made her first recreation by bringing back Sakuya, Tenchi's first love, allowing him to finally be happy. Washu is still the Greatest Scientist in the Universe by her own rights, Mihoshi is still the airhead standing between Kiyone and a promotion, despite the fact that they have both moved up since the Masaki family extension. Ryoko and Ayeka seem to be reacting very differently to Tenchi and Sakuya's sudden reunion. In fact, their reactions are as different from what I expected of them as they are from each other. I always thought Ryoko would be the dark and jealous one, while a royal princess like Ayeka would be resigned to things not going her way for once. But I guess that's why I should have expected the opposite."

"Wait, but you're saying Yugi's not making terror toys anymore. Right?" Videl asked. Just in case they'd end up having to cross paths somehow, she didn't want to have to deal with recurring monster problems because of some lonely kid's rampant imagination, either as Saiyaman and Saiyagirl or as themselves in the Z Fighter family.

"Well, I can't shape shift, if that counts for anything," the Madri Scholar replied. The only way that could be clear is if he was using that as a version of "no", so they took it as such.

"Good. I don't want to see any destruction," Gohan said. He knew what Videl was thinking, and she was thinking the same thing.

"Destruction would have ensued in your heart eight years ago. If you'd seen Sasami even right after your fight with Cell, you would have liked her. I believe nowadays that effect is reserved for Trunks," the Madri Scholar said, though that statement was just for Gohan's intrigue.

"Wait, that's a joke, right?" asked a weirded out Gohan.

"Actually, no," the Madri Scholar explained matter-of-factly. "Now, to the point of how this has anything to do with you. I've set off a chain of events which by now has resulted in the cabbit Ryo-Ohki being used as a spaceship… and actually chasing nothing. At a moment's notice, the blonde airhead Mihoshi is going to wake up and take the controls, going "ooh what does this button do" and typing down, with no clue, the exact instructions for a dimension jump."

"You do know the odds of that are… 99.9 impossible to say the least, right?" Videl asked, questioning the Scholar's confidence.

"The most unexpected or impossible things have already happened to you, and there are countless examples of 99.9 chances being proven incorrect. So why are you talking like it can't happen again?" the Madri Scholar asked, answering her question with a question of a retort. "Anyway, they're going to see a kind of portal, which looks like a flat, giant One-Star Dragon Ball. They're going to waste so much time that once they dimension-jump from that realm to this realm, the realms will be intertwined somewhat."

"What? But isn't that going to clash with-"

"With anything important? Fortunately, no. None of the key distinct things separating our realm from theirs are in the same place, and so they will not clash. Furthermore, it will make Jurai a new addition to the short list of planets that have not been invaded or destroyed in this realm at the hands of Frieza. And I don't think he deserves to be the most historic figure of all time," the Madri Scholar explained, interrupting Gohan's question because he already knew what would be asked before it was asked. "But back to the odds point, Videl; you are right. The odds are near impossible. However, I have determined that I struck at the exact right moment for the events to happen, if they must. In any case, if I'm right, you should see them soon in the here and now. This realm, this time."

"Speaking of that, could you explain exactly why you want to bring the two realms together?" Gohan asked. As he and Videl looked at each other, they realized that this was probably the telling question as to whether they could trust this guy.

"No reason in particular except I love the idea of crossing realms, particularly these two," the Madri Scholar explained. "Anyway, as wise as I am, I could be wrong about their imminent sighting tomorrow, so I might have just wasted your time and cost you your last chance to hang out with your friends. But, I wouldn't know unless I came to you with this."

Gohan and Videl then looked at one another wondering about this guy one moment more. Except this time, it was a frustrated wonder of how they could have forgotten about Erasa and Sharpner by talking with this goon, when even he didn't even know if what he was saying even meant anything. There was actually a chance that he was doing nothing but wasting their time, and even he recognized that!

"Yeah, thanks a lot. We're going now," Gohan said, in his new disappointed tone, as he began to walk away, finally back on his way off the Orange Star campus.

"Yeah, we have friends to go see," Videl added in full backing of her boyfriend, now officially ticked off at the Madri Scholar. Right as she began walking behind Gohan, Erasa and Sharpner just pulled up in a sweet red convertible.

"I knew you were gonna find something to do to wait for us, but talking to some priest-looking weirdo?" Sharpner asked, making

"Oh, don't worry about that guy. He just came to tell us a crazy story about some friends of his he expects us to see in the morning," Videl said, a smirk coming on her face as Gohan opened the back door, allowing the two of them to enter. She always loved these stupid banter sessions with Sharpner. I guess that's part of why we're still friends despite me basically throwing him in the water. "Anyway, let's go! I don't have all that much time before my dad comes crawling in to stop everything, and I'd rather spend these next five hours having fun. Wouldn't you?"

"Agreed. Not that my dad would be so strict. On the other hand, my mom's a killer. I wouldn't hear the end of it if we stayed too late," Gohan added. If it weren't for Hercule's pompousness and Chi-chi's overly strict nature, they'd be able to join the rest of their grade at Sharpner's house for his end-of-the-year party.

"I should have guessed. But, let's make the most of this time we've got," Sharpner suggested as he started the car up, before giving his own try at parent/child relations advice. "You know, you guys are lucky in some ways, and completely lost in other ways, because your parents care so darn much."

As Gohan and Videl looked at him with confused expressions on their faces, Sharpner finally started driving, and they left the high school for what would be the last time in a while.

In the meantime, Vegeta was just finished training (again!) inside the Saiyan spaceship set outside at Capsule Corp. This time, however, it was not about becoming stronger than Goku. Rather, Vegeta's main worry here was about weakening like Gohan did the last time, when seven years passed between now and the rise of Buu. Goku had been far too soft on his own son, but Vegeta had no intention on be so soft on himself… or on his own Super Saiyan prodigy. Little nine-year-old Trunks was still resting up inside the capsule, having been worked to his limits. Vegeta, however, still had little more than enough energy to live the day. Vegeta flew up to the window of his and Bulma's room, and he went in a few split seconds from the exact same time as Bulma walked into the door.

"So, Vegeta. Couldn't resist training, huh?" Bulma asked, the expectation for this to happen clearly exuding from her voice.

"Actually, no," Vegeta honestly answered. "I don't want to grow weak like Gohan did over seven years of not caring about his training. And I certainly hope that that slacker's attitude doesn't catch on to my son."

"Fighting strength. Figures. Sometimes I think that's all you think about," Bulma said, though compared to all the other times she would say this, this time it was just going through the motion of saying it. After all, it used to be true in a way. A year and a half ago, Vegeta did pretty much turn his back on her and everybody just to become strong enough to beat Goku. Bad side to that is the universe was in imminent danger. Good side to that is Hercule knows that he's not the most powerful being in the world now, Gohan's got a new girlfriend, and here's to Majin Buu.

"Think it all you want. You know more than anyone there's something else… or should I say, someone," Vegeta said in solemn peace, referring to her.

"I knew it," Bulma said, softly beaming in the happy emotion before toughening up just one small bit. "But come on. You really need to give it a break, at least for five minutes."

"That's more than fine. I'm done for today. I'm not trying to become stronger than Kakarot anymore, I just don't want to become weak and ineffective for when and if trouble comes. I might just be worrying about nothing, I know. But for a true warrior, uncertainty is the only thing that is certain,"

"You know the old arrogant Vegeta that used to irritate me all the time?" Bulma asked. She was glad to cure him of that, so he could be what she knew today. "The only part of that left is that "true warrior" talk that for some reason always comes out of your mouth. But how about we go over to Mount Paoz later today?"

The sound of the name "Mount Paoz" immediately irked Vegeta's curiosity, for he knew that this was where Goku and Gohan, the two allies he knew that were ever capable of being stronger than him, lived. Combine being able to bother them as usual, along with the friendship his son shared with little Goten, as well as Bulma and Chi-chi, and Vegeta really had no reason to say no. "I wouldn't miss an opportunity to meet an old friend. And I also want to bother Gohan about whether or not he's being soft again."

Meanwhile, at the No Need realm, the Masaki clan was traveling through space using Ryo-Ohki as a spaceship. Something had attacked the house a while back, sending Ryoko into the idea of a rash decision of having Ryo-Ohki turn into her spaceship form, then calling everyone to come in, including Yugi and Sakuya. After a while, it seemed like they were searching for an enemy where there was none… until the group looked upon the sight of a ship very similar to Ryo-Ohki.

"So Nagi's back, is she? Let me at her!" Ryoko exclaimed, chomping at the bit to get at her old rival. She immediately recognized the lighter-looking version of Ryo-Ohki as being Ken-Ohki, Nagi's own version of the cat/rabbit/spaceship.

"Calm down, Ryoko. Your only success would be to irritate Lord Tenchi," Ayeka cut in, being the typical pompous princess. And speaking of which, why is it again that we are to tolerate the two irritant douche bags that stole Lord Tenchi from me and almost tore us apart."

"Because Yugi has repented from her offenses and finally gained control of herself, and because Sakuya, as many people would probably agree, is much better for Tenchi than any of us," Washu quickly pointed out. It was strange with Washu. If you looked at her, she had a twelve year old appearance, but it was not that difficult to see somewhere behind it that she was at the same time probably 32 or 42. But being one of the 20-something-centuries-old Chousin goddesses, as well as the universal scientist of intergalactic proportions, is something that you wouldn't know unless you knew her like all of these people did. Then again, each of them did have secrets.

"What? Do you not understand that I am the only one fit to be with Lord Tenchi?" Ayeka yelled, with anger flowing in her voice directed towards the childlike mother figure.

"Yeah, in your own sea of pompous circumstance," Ryoko muttered, though barely loud enough for Ayeka to hear. That was enough to get Ayeka's face beet red, and the purple-haired Jurian princess saw this as an exact reason to try to strangle Ryoko. She took Ryoko about the neck, with a tight grip that left Ryoko temporarily breathless.

"What do you mean, pompous circumstance? I speak the truth! Lord Tenchi should only be occupying himself with me! Not Kid Sakuya sitting next to him, and certainly not you!" was Ayeka's screaming comment along with the fact.

At the sound of those words, Tenchi turned to her with an innocent smile and feint laugh, while Sakuya put her head down in shame, not at herself, but in comical shame at Ayeka, for still not being able to get over the facts. Kiyone doubled over from the incredulous claim, and Washu smacked her own forehead. Even Nobuyuki and Yosho were hearing this, though they made no reactions despite Nobuyuki's attention to Tenchi's happiness and Yosho's wisdom. In fact, it was because of those qualities that they picked no bone with Ayeka about her comments. Yugi, meanwhile, was just staying back and chuckling to herself in the idea. However, a different reaction would be harbored by both Sasami and Ryoko. As Sasami told Ayeka that she was embarrassing herself, Ryoko turned the tide of the stranglehold and threw Ayeka to the ground hard. Mihoshi, who was sleeping on the ground, heard the thud and woke up. Kiyone had to carry her into the ship about a couple of hours back, but now she was full of life and immediately restless. She jumped up to the controls of the Ryo-Ohki ship, asking what do these buttons do (just as the Madri Scholar had predicted) and just randomly typed down anything, blindly ignoring the shouts of disapproval coming from her friends. Eventually, her reckless typing wound up opening what seemed to be a kind of portal. It was large enough to take in almost all of both ships; orange, and with one red star in the middle. The circumstance was great. The sight was so bright it was like another sun, except it did not generate heat to burn people. It just made you want to bask in its glory.

"Okay, Ryoko? What are you up to with this thing?" Nagi's voice reflected from Ken-Ohki's loudspeakers.

"Me? I didn't do that! It was stupid Mihoshi with her stupid typing!" Ryoko shot back via Ryo-Ohki's loudspeakers.

"Hey, why are you calling me stupid?" Mihoshi asked, pointing to herself in confusion.

"Well, you did just type down exactly how to do this thing, and you don't even remember that you typed it, let alone how you did it," Ryoko replied, not using the speakers; she was only talking to Mihoshi. Meanwhile, Ayeka got up to add her two cents in.

"And isn't Ryo-Ohki supposed to be your ship, Ryoko? How do you not know how to do this?"

"Hey, I don't know all the instructions to Ryo-Ohki, just the ones that are important for my space pirating and fighting. I guess I have Kagato to blame for that," Ryoko answered plainly.

"Yeah, don't remind us of either one, especially that cobra Kagato you're talking about. I seriously don't like that guy," Tenchi said, recalling the battles they had with each Kagato. Not many fond memories came out of that.

"Sorry, Tench," Ryoko apologized, though not as melodramatic as she probably would have done back in the past.

Right at that moment, something else happened. Something that was even more breathtaking and all-stopping than the large portal/reflection thingy that Mihoshi released from Ryo-Ohki was the sudden and simultaneous scene of what seemed to be the warping of time and space. This immediately stirred Yugi, who was leaning back against a wall just now. As she opened her eyes, she could clearly see exactly what was going on.

"Mihoshi, do you have any idea what you've done?" Yugi asked her sternly, as the ditzy blonde of the Galaxy Police Force turned to her at the sound of her name.

"No, but I do know that something weird's happening around us while I'm looking at that beautiful reflection outside,"

"That "something weird" happens to be that portal warping time and space all around us! The entire universe could collide together if we don't do something about it!"

"Well, what exactly are we supposed to do?" Ryoko asked, counterproductive as usual.

"So, let me get this straight. You guys typed in something to open this thing, and you have no idea what it is?" was the comment they stopped to hear from Nagi, who was once again using the loudspeakers of her ship.

"Well, that's not the only air-headed thing Mihoshi's done and had no idea about it," Kiyone stated, her voice booming and blaring through space from Ryo-Ohki's loudspeakers.

"You've gotta be kidding me! There's only one guess I can take about what to do from here. We have to enter it and see what it holds inside, or else it could be too late by the time you guys know how to close this thing up! And I don't think this is a black hole. If it was, it would have been sucking us in!" Nagi suggested. Ryoko was wishing that Ken-Ohki would be motivated by his apparent love for Ryo-Ohki to destroy the loudspeakers within him and tell Nagi to shut up, though for once the annoying bounty hunter did come up with a good idea.

Without any warning to the people inside either ship, both Ryo-Ohki and Ken-Ohki tried to go side-by-side and enter together. Although their owners were rivals, the two were in love; a feeling that Nagi, the annoying bounty hunter girl whose only escaped target ever was Ryoko, had spent ample time out in space trying to cure Ken-Ohki of. However, as she could see, and as Ryoko just guessed internally, she was unsuccessful, as her ship was crashing into Ryoko's while trying to enter the portal alongside it. Eventually, while driving Nagi and all the people inside Ryo-Ohki dizzy, the two made it across the portal. They ended up getting out at the exact same place, the ships going out of control as they went towards Earth. The solar system seemed to be slightly fuller, Yosho barely noticed. But that became a moot point, as the ships separated and were about to crash land right back to Earth. However, while Ryo-Ohki was headed towards land, Ken-Ohki was going towards water.

END OF CHAPTER, PREVIEW OF THE NEXT

-Goku: "Hey, everyone! Goku here! In the next chapter, Chi-Chi, Goten and I make our first appearance in this story, and things are bound to get really crazy when we're met by several unexpected visitors! What? Gohan, you knew about these people and you didn't tell anyone?"

-Gohan: "Actually, yes and no. Anyway, don't want to spoil too much information for the readers. So coming up next on Shift of Hearts, the first Dragon Ball Z / Tenchi Muyo! crossover posted here in about a year, it's Chapter 2: Strangers From a World Somewhat Afar. See ya then! Oh, by the way, I get a feeling that Madri Scholar guy's story was probably as much for some of the readers as it was for me for some reason."

-Madri Scholar: "Should that matter?"

-Gohan: "Ah, I guess not."