This is the first episode in the Tenchi Muyo TV series. Tenchi is walking down the stairs remembering the "Carnival That Would Never End." It all began that day...

A battle rages between two space ships of very different make. Eventually the damage they have caused to each other forces them to crash land on a nearby planet, Earth. Tenchi sees these two things impact on the surface. When he goes to the rubble he finds a young girl. Smelling alcohol on her breath he gives her some water and she wakes up. He takes her back to his house. When he gets there she tells him that her name is Ryoko and she's being chased by a dangerous space pirate. They meet the space pirate who corners them on a cliff. The space pirate is some sort of mech(A mechanical battle suit). After escaping from the clumsy space pirate they return to Tenchi's house. Tenchi's father Noboyuki and his grandfather Katsuhito feel sorry for the poor lost girl.

That night back at Tenchi's house there's a knock at the door. Its the space pirate. It chases them upstairs, out the window, and up the hill to the Masaki shrine on top of it where Tenchi's grandfather lives. He helps Tenchi and Ryoko by slicing the space pirate in half with a wooden sword. After the mech blows up there is a blonde girl there claiming to be a police officer. After showing them her ID and Ryoko, the wanted space pirate's wanted poster, Galaxy Police Officer Mihoshi fires on Ryoko. But her laser blasts are deflected around her. Given no other option they run away. Down the hill, into Tenchi's house, up the stairs, and out the same window. Their landing is not as soft as when with Ryoko though. Mihoshi has done the clichéd twisting of the ankle. Tenchi turns to fight Ryoko. He picks up a hoe and holds it like a sword. Ryoko, respecting his braveness, and the fact that they're not running away anymore says that she was just kidding.