YuYu Hakusho Beyond!

Episode 20 Split and Merge

Yoko's  spirit: We are, but the situation is dire. I venture to guess that our  difference of opinion on the matter enabled us to split apart, but that  leaves us considerably vulnerable.

[Kuwabara falls to the ground.]

Yoko's spirit: I will work on freeing the detectives. You must keep the sun from hitting the energy storage.

[Yusuke and Kuwabara stand up. Yusuke gives a thumbs up.]

Yusuke: Right.

Kuwabara: We're on it.

[Yusuke  and Kuwabara head towards quick as they are able. Yoko's spirit goes to  the cube of plants in the corner. The cage starts falling apart, branch  by branch.]

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[Kurama pushes and pulls through the plants of the puzzle. Hiei arrives behind him. Kurama continues to work.]

Kurama: Hiei! You're well. I'm glad. We are almost to the edge of this giant puzzle.

Hiei: Good. I will make them pay.

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[Yusuke and Kuwabara run through the pathway.]

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[Yoko's spirit continues on breaking through the cage. Ryone slips out and curls up on the floor.]

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[Plants are thin enough to see a corridor beyond them. Kurama swipes some away.]

Kurama: Almost there.

[Kurama retracts the remaining branches. Hiei dashes off ahead. Kurama widens the exit then continues.]

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[In  a room, many cloaked figures stand in a circle around a giant orb. They  each have a hand outstretched, emitting energy to it. Green, porcelain  Chinese dragons wriggle around the orb as if they were alive. Two of the  cloaked figures are sliding a big metal door to the side, allowing  sunlight to creep in. Hiei appears and slashes through the figures.  Later, Kurama appears and pulls out his rose whip. Yusuke and Kuwabara  also enter and start punching the cloaked figures that are still  standing. The sunlight is almost touching the orb. Kuwabara knocks out  one of the figures at the metal door and begins pushing it closed.  Yusuke takes out the figure on the other end of the door. Kuwabara  finishes pushing the door shut. All the cloaked figures have been  defeated. Kaisei and Fubuki run in, Fubuki carrying Ryone. Yoko's spirit  follows. Kurama looks at Yoko's spirit, which approaches him. With a  glow, Yoko's spirit reunites with Kurama. Kuwabara looks down at the  fallen cloaked figures.]

Kuwabara: They're all Kuramas!

Yusuke: This is slightly disturbing.

Kurama:  It would seem as though a science experiment of cloning went awry when  the creations turned on the creator. Or at least Rose rebelled. These  other copies did not seem to have as much life or spirit in them as she  does.

Yusuke: That still doesn't explain how whoever got a girl  clone out of you. [wink] Is there something you're not telling us?  [scratches head] I mean as far as my understanding goes, clones are  exact copies, and if there is a girl, then there has to be some sort of  difference so if she really is different from you, being a girl, then  she's not a clone.

Kuwabara: Geeze, Urameshi, if you had gone to  high school, then you would now that the only difference is in the  Y-chromosome. The freak-demon scientist probably just extracted the Y  out of a Kurama DNA sample and doubled his X.

[Clapping can be heard. Everyone turns to see Rose emerging from the passageway.]

Rose: Brilliant deduction.