Disclaimer: Ok, I don't own Pokemon, or anything connected to Pokemon. So I'm forced to kill pokemon in my story rather than in real life. If you hate pokemon, you'll like this chapter. Those idiots from the show get killed! And so does Pikachu! (And there was much rejoicing) And yes, I know Ash never had an Articuno, and he lost his Charizard, but I wanted to kill them too. And it adds to the story, just read, it makes sense later. (I hope)
Cryos and Zeethra came through the wormhole back into Washu's lab.
"Quick," She said to Cryos, "Let me see your hand."
"Why." He asked as she inspected the side of it with a pair of goggles that looked like they were some kind of magnifying lenses.
"When you hit Moya's docking bay door with your hand, you may have picked up a few, there!" She pulled out a pair of tweezers and picked at his hand.
"A few what?" Zeethra asked suspiciously.
"A few cells from which I may be able to determine how Moya does that starburst thing. I also called you back to give you some more equipment. It's untested, but it should work. And I ran your DNA sequences through my processor and it almost crashed, do you know you should have died when you were babies?"
"Of course," Said Cryos "We're hybrids, part Human, part Sayian, part Ice-Jin. But Human and Ice-Jin DNA aren't compatible, so our parents wished on the Dragonballs to heal us, and the dragon made us immortal."
"Wished on a dragon?" She seemed to ask herself. "Well, why not, I've heard stranger things. Anyway, there's some more things for you on that table."
Cryos picked up a familiar looking piece of equipment. "Is this a Scouter?" He asked. Cryos had only ever seen the one Scouter that Bulma had scavenged from one of the first Sayians to come to Earth looking for Goku. Gohan had also told of seeing many on the planet Namek. Where the Nameks had lived until Frezia had destroyed it.
"What's a Scouter?" Washu asked, then before Cryos could answer, she said, "That's a electromagnetic spectrum scanner. It goes over your eye and lets you see in different spectrums of light. It can also function as an inter-dimensional comm, lets you pick up both FM and AM stations, and transmissions from this." She picked up a small round patch of something that looked like spandex. "This lets you communicate in space. You stick it to your throat and talk like normal, you can even talk to Elfour and Elfive in space now."
"Oh good, we can't get enough of them as it is." Said Zeethra sarcastically.
"I'm glad you feel that way." Said Washu, totally missing out on her tone. "Oh, and one other thing, Zeethra." Washu pulled out a short but thick needle and stabbed her in the arm. The needle sucked up a few drops of purplish blood before Zeethra hit Washu so hard she flew back and dented a large machine.
"Why did you do that?" Screamed Zeethra with Cryos only a second behind.
"Oww… I needed a few of those translator microbes, and I wanted to see if my new alloy or your skin was stronger. Apparently my alloy is. Oh, come on!" She said as she saw their angry faces. "There's no point being mad about it, the cut's already healed. And anyway, I plan on making something really useful out of these. It'll be done in two minutes."
As Washu squeezed the blood onto a slide and began looking at it under a microscope, Zeethra decided to see what kind of thing she would make, and then decide weather or not to kill her.
And sure enough, just under two minutes later, Washu had processed the blood, cultured the translator microbes, slightly altered their DNA, dried them, and placed them into small marble sized pellets with small tabs on them. She even made little wallet sized cases to hold them in. "All done." She announced as she handed one of the boxes to each of them.
"What are they?" Asked Cryos.
"Call them Translator Grenades. You pull the tab, throw it, and five seconds later they explode in a puff of translators. Anything that breathes the dust in gets seeded with them, and then you can understand them. I also increased the library of languages they already have."
"I guess that's useful…" Muttered Zeethra.
"We should get going now." Said Cryos. He created another portal and the two of them went through it. They appeared in orbit above the planet Earth.
"We didn't go very far that time." Said Zeethra.
Cryos was surprised to hear her in space, but then he saw that she was wearing her transmitter patch. He slapped his on as well, but before he could say anything Elfive said, "The exit point of a portal is random, but we did seem to stay very close this time."
"Well, mom and dad aren't here either, but who wants to check out this place before we leave?" Asked Cryos.
"I must admit that I would like to see how similar this planet is to the Earths we know." Said Elfour.
So they descended through the atmosphere and into a forest on a large island. There were a lot of birds and some very large bugs, as well as a large number of rodents and ape-like animals, but not much else. There was a path, so they followed it until they heard voices up ahead of them, then they went off the path into the bushes to watch the people.
As the people came along they were talking in a strange language, and there was a yellow rat-like thing riding on the one kid's head that kept saying "Pika, Pika, Pikachu."
"Let's see if these things work." Said Cryos as he pulled out his box of Translator Grenades. He pulled the tab on one of them and threw it at the group of people.
The pellet exploded on impact and after coffing for a few seconds they started talking again, but now Cryos and Zeethra could understand them. They stepped out of the bushes and Cryos said "Hi, my name's Cryos. Who are you?"
The kid with the yellow rat on his head shouted "Wow! A really rare talking pokemon! And there's two of them! I'm going to catch them. GO ARTICUNO! GO CHARAZARD!" He pulled a pair of red and white balls from his belt and threw them into the air. They split along the seam and each released a glowing blob into the air. The blobs took shape and became creatures. One was a bird with a five foot wingspan, blue feathers and a strange crest on it's head, the other was a orange dragon about six feet tall with big teeth, a long tail, and wings. "Go get those pokemon Charazard, and you too Articuno!"
"What kind of pokemon do you think those are, Ash?" Asked the girl.
Ash just said "I don't know, but I'm catching them, Misty. Even if they turn out to be water types."
"I got the bird, you get the dragon." Zeethra whispered to her brother. Then she jumped into the air and kicked up the speed so fast she seemed to disappear unless you could sense her power. Cryos stood for a moment, then did the same trick.
The two of them reappeared simultaneously in the air above the treetops and looked down on the humorous sight of the three humans, the bird, the dragon, and the yellow rat looked around trying to figure out where they went. But then the kid with the rat looked up and saw them. "Charazard! Articuno! Up there!" The bird and dragon looked up and came after them. Then they did something unexpected. The bird shot a beam of blue light from it's mouth, and the dragon spit flames. Ok, maybe a fire breathing dragon wasn't hard to imagine, but when the bird's beam hit Zeethra's hand and froze it in a block of ice they were surprised. She extended her blades and shattered the ice. Cryos also transformed and they attacked together, slashing viciously at these creatures. In a half-second, both the bird and the dragon were gone for good.
"NOOOOOO!!!!" Shouted the kid. "Go Pikachu! Get them!!" The little yellow rat-like thing leapt from his shoulders and began sparking. Then it shot a lightning bolt up into the air and hit them both. Neither Cryos nor Zeethra were prepared for that sort of attack and were both knocked out of the sky. Cryos lined up a Kamayhamayha wave that was probably just a little more powerful than was necessary to kill the small yellow creature. The beam vaporized the little rodent, the three people, and about a quarter mile of the forest.
"Oops," He muttered. "I didn't intend to destroy all those trees."
"It's ok. It had to be done." Said Elfour. "But now I think you two need to be cleaned up a bit. You're covered with blood from those first two things. Washu could probably wash your armor and-"
"Elfour, what did I say about talking too much." Warned Cryos.
"Um, don't?"
"Exactly." He responded happily. "But you're probably right, we should get Washu to clean us up a bit." This time Zeethra called up a portal so they could get back to Washu's lab, again.
"It's getting really old coming back here every ten minutes." Muttered Cryos. Then they went off to find Washu.
She turned up at a lab table studying brown stuff in a petri dish. "These cells from Moya are incredible." She told them as they walked up behind her. "Now what do you wan- Waaaa!!!" She screamed when she saw the twins covered with blood.
"We got in a little fight." Said Zeethra.
"You should have seen the other guys…" Bragged Cryos.
"After you were done with them there was nothing left to see. They were awful things anyway, a fire-breathing-dragon and a bird that spit ice." Said Elfive.
Washu looked disgusted as she pointed to a cylinder about six feet tall and two feet wide. "Use the emergency rinse shower, please." She begged. "Just go in there with your clothes on, it cleans them too."
Cryos stepped into the pod. The door closed and a mist came out of the ceiling. It swirled around him and then all the accumulated dust, dirt grease, sweat, and blood just flew off him. It stuck to the walls of the pod and then ran down through a little drain in the bottom. The door reopened and he stepped out. Then it was Zeethra's turn. When she was done, Cryos was getting ready to leave again when Zeethra said. "Cryos, we should split up, search more universes."
"Ya, ok." He watched her go through her portal, then he was getting ready to create his own and leave when he saw Washu poking around behind the shower pod thing. She pulled out a jar of reddish stuff and was looking at it. Then she saw him and jumped, almost dropped the jar, then tried to hide it behind her back. "What ya got there?" He asked.
"I thought you left." She accused.
"We decided to split up." He replied. "Cover more ground, so to speak."
"Oh, that's good." She was still hiding the jar behind her back. But Cryos decided to let it go for now. He created a new portal and once again appeared in space. Suddenly everything snapped into place. Washu collecting all those different creatures cells. The jar that came out of the shower pod. Of course that contained the blood from the bird and the dragon.
He quickly created a new portal back into the lab. As he got there Elfour was shouting "Where are you going? Why are we back here again?" But he ignored her and flew back as fast as he could to the cloning vats. As he got there he saw Washu adding things. His and Zeethra's hair, come of the cells from Moya, a tuft of gray fir that looked like it came from the meowing rabbit thing he had seen up in the kitchen, and some of the blood from the bird and the dragon.
"Stop!" He shouted at her, but he was too late. There was a flash of light from the vat. And then Cryos stepped back to gape at the two creatures in the pool.
