While everyone is dining at a beef bowl restaurant two smalltime hoodlums named Imarube and Yura steal Yagami to start their career as unstoppable criminals. Ryoko, Tenchi, Kiyone, Washu, and Mihoshi head off in Ryo-Ohki to catch them. Ayeka and Sasami are stuck with the bill but they don't have any money and have to wash dishes. Meanwhile back on Yagami Tenchi's father and grandfather are completely unaware of what is going on. A GP detector picks up Yagami which they believe Ayeka and the others are in and begin pursuit. They watch the news and find out why the police are after them. Everyone is watching the same program on Ryo-Ohki and use it to find where Yagami is. The police are still chasing Yagami and while trying to find a way to get away they accidentally fire on the GP ships. The police return begin to return fire and the gangster wannabees begin to panic. Their pathetic cries for help are heard on Ryo-Ohki. In order to catch them Ryoko chooses to use Operation Speed Up Ryo-Ohki. This works by feeding Ryo-Ohki a red hot chili pepper.

At the speed that Ryo-Ohki achieves after eating a chili pepper they quickly catch up to Yagami which is on a collision course with a star about to go super-nova. They board the ship and go to the cockpit where the hoodlums are unconscious. Washu comes up with a equation to escape the police using the gravity of the supernova. As for the criminals... they were ejected into space. Then they remember they forgot Ayeka and Sasami.