The third episode begins when Ryoko goes out over the lake in which the spaceships crashed. She says that its finally born. Meanwhile Tenchi is working near the Masaki shrine. In the sky there is something flying about. It flies in strange directions darting out at right angles. Suddenly a heavy breeze kicks up and Tenchi spots a young girl up the road. After talking to her for a while she tells him that her name is Sasami and then she disappears. Tenchi, thinking that she's seen a ghost, runs back to the shrine. When he gets there his grandfather describes the girl that he just met in the forest in great detail. Just then Tenchi's father is coming up the stairs escorting a young girl. She is Sasami and they're talking about how she likes to cook.

That night while they're all enjoying a dinner that Sasami cooked Ryoko says that she's not hungry. She says that she desired pickles and ice cream. Tenchi's father puts two and two together and remembers that that is what his wife ate when she was pregnant with Tenchi. Ryoko rushes off into the bathroom and comes out with an egg. Claiming that she and Tenchi made love and that the egg was theirs. Ayeka objects to this and begins to fight with Ryoko. In the scuffle Ryoko drops the egg and if hatches. Inside is a Rabbit/Catlike creature. Ryoko names the new animal Ryo-Ohki. Mihoshi remembers that Ryoko's ship was also called Ryo-Ohki. But that's all she figures out. Ayeka figures out the rest of the story. The egg is the child of Ryo-Ohki. You see when Ryo-Ohki is about to die she produces an egg. Inside is an exact copy of herself which in time hatches and Ryo-Ohki is reborn. Sort of like the legend of the phoenix.

Sasami makes friends with the "Cabbit" she feeds her its first carrot. The next day while Sasami, Ayeka, and Mihoshi are preparing to return to Sasami's ship to return home, Ryoko offers to take them out of the solar system. She picks up Ryo-Ohki, who is being fed carrots by Sasami, and throws her into the air.

Ryo-Ohki turns into the spaceship Ryo-Ohki and they begin their voyage home. During the return home Ayeka reveals her feelings for Tenchi and she gives Tenchi her final good byes. Just after that Sasami pulls the carrot that Ryo-Ohki was eating just before they left. The ship Ryo-Ohki sees her do it on the view screen and becomes extremely excited. Ryo-Ohki heads straight for Sasami's ship and without thinking crashes into it destroying it. Back on Earth Ryo-Ohki is eating the carrot that she wanted so badly. While Ayeka and Ryoko are fighting over who gets to feed Tenchi sweet potatoes, Sasami is already doing it. They weren't too happy about that.