And finishing up with the third part:

$The last and final installment of Aurora of Rainbow Fire.  Yep, you
heard me.  Chapter seven is the LAST chapter of AoRF.  No more.  Finito.
This story is done.

Oh? What happened to Tenchi and company?

Kiyone grimaced.  "Yeah, I know you have, too.  Did you
ever get the rootbeer cleaned up?"

"In a manner of speaking, yes."  Robot bobbed his head in
laughter.

Heh

and fish to stare directly at the three of them.

Robot and Kiyone glared back, while Mihoshi ate
obliviously.

Heh

"Everyone loves pie,"

And Jello. Everyone always has room for Jello

Giving up, she helped him push the cart back to the laundry
room, past the people running, giggling, and occasionally
screaming in the halls.  That task finished, they each pressed a
button on the timekeeper box in the laundry room office and
started making their way to the banquet hall.

Their progress was momentarily interrupted by the discovery
of several people having sex in the middle of the hall, but
Amaraba solved that by stepping over them before turning to
assist Ura.  "People sure are frisky today," he commented.

I see they used the 'Special Salt' :)

"We're all going to die in about three hours, yes," Robot
finished.  "Unless we can find someone to pilot the ship!"

Oh  great..

"Really?" Ura asked.  "What did you make?"

"The salmon mousse," Sasami replied.  "We made a lot of
it."

It's always the salmon mousse.

Amaraba abruply started laughing.  "Bad salmon!  Hah!  Man,
am I relieved.  I thought it was drugs in the food, you know?
Could you imagine what would happen if someone replaced all the
salt in the canisters with an unknown drug that looked a lot like
salt, and then people came along and started putting it in the
food?  Man, that would be funny."  His chuckles subsided into
quiet giggles.

Sigh

"Oh, just wait and see the masterpeice that is my plan,"
Amaraba assured him.  He turned to his girlfriend.  "Babe?  Are
you alright?"

Hehe

Ura coughed several times, wiping chunky bits from her
mouth with her fingers before glaring up at him through her hair.
"No, you ASSHOLE!  I am not alright!" she cried, delivering an
underhand blow to his stomach with all her might as she
straightened up.

Yep. He does understand how her mind works. I tell you, you've done a heck
of a job giving these two morons personality.

"Here it is," Ura announced as they reached a particularly
nondescript doorway at one end of the ship.  "The Bridge."

Does it need to be capitalized?

The room was moderate to small in size, with desks on each
side.  Holographic displays still displayed information to anyone
who cared to look, with one large one displaying a wraparound
view of the outside of the ship.  Most startling was a large
cylinder of wood floating in midair, a row of purple jewels set
into its side.

"What's that?" Amaraba asked, pointing to it.

"Ship's Log,"

Ouch. Bad pun. No soup for you.


*TAP* *TAP*  "Umm, is this thing on?*TAP*TAP*UMM, IS THIS

THING ON?TAPTAPUMMISTHISTHINGONISTHISTHINGON-" continued the PA
system, getting faster and louder as the amplified voice fed back
into the microphone in the room, rising in pitch and getting more
painful to listen to until it became an earsplitting screech-

Heh. Great

Alone among the ship's inhabitants, Robot was unaffected by
the harsh screeching of the PA system, and he continued his room
to room search of the ship without pause.  Most of the cabins had
screaming, twitching people in them, which wasn't very much help
at all.  Strangely, only about a half dozen people filled the
corridors.

Seemed like more earlier.

"On the Natural Evolution Preserve, Earth," she explained.
"We were taking a vacation."  Inwardly, she smiled.  The word
'vacation' was certainly much simpler than trying to explain what
had really happened.

Got that right.

"Please, I'd really like to know where Princess Ayeka is!
It would make my career!"

heh.

"You're a reporter," Robot said in surprise.

Kill it.

Sasami's scared and piteous screams reached both Kiyone and
Mihoshi, awakening something visceral and protective.  They both
ran faster, somewhat confused, but still determined to protect
their charge.

Heh. I think the reporter is in for a bad day.

Instinctively, the tabloid reporter caught her wrist, just
as Sungi, paniced

panicked

Mihoshi, on the other hand, tripped and sprawled out
facefirst on the floor, her forehead landing perfectly, and with
great force, between Sungi's legs.  For the first time during his
drug induced high, Sungi found everything funny and began
laughing, even as he curled into a tight ball of misery, knocking
Mihoshi away.

Hehehe.

"Umm, I think so," she said, wiping at a bloody scratch on
her forehead.  "Just bruised, I think."  She stood unsteadily,
shaken by the fall.  The sight of Kiyone pounding the reporter's
face into the floor made her feel better, though.

Methinks he'll back off for fear of his life.

the corner of her mouth as she studied the helpless man, now

facing them.  Then, having picked her target, Ura drew back her
foot and kicked him in the face, getting another yelp of pain and
series of giggles.  "So this is what it's like to kick a man when
he's down..." she murmured.  "Well I like it!"

It is an indulgance few get to do, and it's highly underrated.

They turned to see Sasami wavering unsteadily, one hand
raised to the scratch on her forehead.  A single drop of blood
rolled down the bridge of her nose, but she made no move to wipe
it off.

Uh oh. This is bad.

Robot blinked.  "I could build an exact duplicate of you
using a case of beer, a bottle of vitamins, a couple of rocks,
and a 'My First Methlab' children's chemistry set."

I'm not sure if that helps or not. :)

"Please..." she whispered, getting a few startled looks
from Amaraba and Ura.

Ura even

drop 'even'. This whole thing has been pretty clean with few grammar
mistakes.

"Dying!  Well, we can't have that!"

Nope. Not that kind of story.

Robot quickly popped out the adreniline and put in a vial
of general purpose antidote, usually used to combat food
poisoning.  He wasn't sure what effect it would have on Sasami,
but he gave her a dose of it anyway.  Then he started hooking up
the machines.

It shouldn't hurt.

"TURN!  TURN!  TURN!" shouted Amaraba, hopping up and down
and pointing at the screen while he directed his words to the
semi-comatose princess.

That should help

Robot's thought processes raced.  Despite the injections
he'd given her, Sasami's vital signs continued to drop.  He gave
her five minutes, tops, unless he could think of something.

Then Sasami shuddered, gasped twice, and went limp.  The
machine monitoring vital signs screeched in alarm as her heart
stopped.

Oops.

died in their time.  Master or mistressless for a thousand years
now and left in peace, it sensed the presence of someone worthy
behind the call the distressed ship hurtling into the Ring sent
out.

Tsunami awoke and flew forth to meet its new mistress.

Heh. Nice way to tie it in.

"I am not a hippo!  Repent!  Repent!"

Hehehe

Mihoshi had wandered off into an open cabin nearby, where
she had found a friend who was very, very good at pattycake.  The
person in the mirror thought so, too, and told her so.

Heh

"I'll stick to pleading for my life, thank you," Ura
replied acidly.

Heh

Ura nodded silently.

Suddenly, the beams of rainbow light in the canopy above
them started blinking like mad, creating a furious aurora of
light

An Aurora of Rainbow Fire, perhaps? :)

The title had to figure into it somewhere.

BTW: These have to be some of the best adventure I have seen sans Tenchi and
the two main girls. You really treat this trio well and give them
interesting things to do. I salute you and your Kiyone Award. :)

"Bruised and unaccountable for our actions," supplied
Amaraba helpfully.

Heh

Amaraba and Ura exchanged a long and signifigant glance.
Ura sighed, drew a breath, started crying, and began.

"I'MSOSORRYOFFICERIT'SNOTOURFAULTTHEREWASTHISDRUGRUNNERWHOS
TOLEOURDUFFLEBAGANDTRIEDTOKILLPRINCESSSASAMIWHOBYTHEWAYISONTHATRE
ALLYREALLYBIGSHIPANDEVERYONEELSEONBOARDHEREISSTONEDOFFTHEIRASSAND
WEWEREALLGONNADIE-"

Hehehe. I knew they'd crack. They just aren't made of the right stuff. :)

Sasami's quiet request that everything be kept as low-
profile as possible was instantly obeyed by frigtened

frightened

Amaraba and Ura each received a cash reward, a medal of
service to the empire, and a kiss, delivered personally by a
blushing Sasami, who had remembered being carried in strong arms
to the bridge.  Amaraba blushed bright red as well, and Ura hit
him.

Heh. Good. I kind of wanted the two boobs to get off light. They were too
entertaining to be angry against.

Kiyone and Mihoshi both received a public promotion for
their performance in catching the criminal and keeping the
princess safe from harm, a publicity stunt designed to improve
relations between the Galaxy Police and the Juraian Empire.  One
hour later, the actual details of the event reached the GP
headquarters, and they both received a private call detailing
their new demotion back to Detective first class.

Heh

Amaraba and Ura pooled their reward money and put a down
payment on a stylish new Werthby runabout.  Two months later, it
was repossessed because of failure to pay the notes.

Heh

****************


Ragun: Well, I've certainly had a hell of a lot of fun
writing Aurora of Rainbow Fire.  It's been two years in the
making.  Wish I could have thought of a better title for the
series, though.

It's catchy enough, and ties into the bit with Tsunami and Sasami merging.

Except, I kept coming up with little oneshot ideas I wanted
to do, and they kept turning out so well, I kept doing them and
never got around to really introducing Kagato or the Emperor, or
any real conflict.

But  you set up the conflict with Kaggy's intro, and the character
interactions were entertaining.

Well, FINE.  I declared this story arc to be pointless filler
material anyway.  I hope you stick with me for the next lightly
naughty story arc, Souja, Queen of Space.

I think I can handle that. Now get working on it. Don't make me get out the
whips. :)

Oh, and if you're wondering what happened between Mihoshi
and Robot...

No, but let's find out anyway.

Having been unaware of most of what had happened, Mihoshi
never knew that her bag had been missing.

I'd say that was for the best

It was a long, naughty, purple example of the most
sophisticated technology Earth had to offer.  It reminded him
quite a bit of his own accessories.

Thoughts raced through his circuits.  Mihoshi had
mentioned a previous robotic lover.  Robot had never asked what
happened to him.  Mihoshi was a very strange organic female.

Ohhhh. That is the final, most evil thing you could have done.

Try as she might, she never found him again, either.

Hehehe. Just the right thing to end it on.

Brilliant work which I enjoyed immensely. I'm glad I finally got a chance to
look it over. Very entertaining all the way through from start to finish.
Pacing was great, and there wasn't any extra material that could be snipped.
All of it worked well and had a point. Very nice.

Thanks for sharing.

D.B. Sommer

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