Disclaimer: I still don't own DBZ, Farscape, Pokemon, or Tenchi Muyo. If any of that changes I'll tell you. (Hey, ya never know. It COULD happen)
"Elfour," Said Cryos slowly, not wanting to take his eyes off the creatures in the vat. "Could you contact Zeethra for me?"
"I'll patch you into her ear piece."
"You do that…" He said absently.
A few seconds later, he heard his sister's voice in his ear. "What is it?" She asked.
"Could you come back to Washu's lab? Something really weird just happened."
"What?"
"Just come and see."
"Fine, one second." There was a click, and she was gone.
He realized that Washu had been talking for some time and he hadn't even heard her. She was saying, "-And by adding Moya's DNA to the mix I gave them starburst capabilities, and this was all possible by using your cells. No other cell could handle all the conflicting genes, but yours can't die, and as a result, the creatures are immortal like you, and-"
Cryos decided not to listen anymore. He was too busy looking at the things. They were lizard-like, but with bird beaks, about a foot long from the tip of their beaks to the end of their tails, they were mostly a light blue color, but had orange across the top of their heads and down their necks and backs. The wings on their backs were covered in feathers and were an interesting mix if blue and orange.
At this point Zeethra showed up. "This had better be something important because- what are those things?" She asked when she saw them.
"Oh, just a little something Washu cooked up using our DNA combined with the DNA of a bunch of other creatures."
"To be fair, I didn't use your DNA," Washu objected. "I took your DNA out of your cells before I added all the other DNA, but they do retain many of your characteristics. For example, I believe they will have the excellent energy control you two possess, they should be able to exist in a vacuum, and they are immortal. They should also have the fire and ice powers of the bird and the dragon you two fought, they should have Ryo-Ohki's ability to change states from small animal to a spacecraft, and they should have Moya's starburst ability. They should be a veritable Swiss-army-knife of a creature." She announced proudly.
She pressed a button and they slowly rose up from the ooze of the vat. "You realize that it is wrong to twist life like this for your own proposes." Zeethra pointed out.
"It's not for my proposes, it's for yours. You're going to need things like these to find your parents. Space is simply so large that you will need their faster-than-light capabilities to get around. Plus their other abilities will come in handy."
"Then you understand why I have to do this." Said Cryos as he ripped into the control panel of the cloning vat, pulled out a big handful of computer pieces, crushed them, and dropped them to the floor.
"I had to make a new one anyway, that one was getting obsolete." Said Washu, hardly noticing the scattered chips and circuits. "The creatures are just fine. They should wake up any moment now. This one is from your cells Cryos." She pointed at the slightly larger one with darker markings. "I call him Drako. And this one grew from your cells Zeethra. She's Draka."
"Can't you ever come up with some original names?" Zeethra asked. "First you made Elfour and Elfive." That invoked protest from the two little droids. "And now you make Drako and Draka?"
"Shh," Washu shushed her. "They're waking up." Cryos stared intently at the little creatures as Washu sprinkled some powder on them. "Translator microbes." She explained quietly.
Drako was the first to open his eyes. They were an off blue color, much like the ice-bird's eyes, and he looked around the lab for a few seconds before he squawked in a voice that sounded like a choking parrot, "What? Who? Where am I?" He had trouble forming words.
"It's alright." Washu assured gently. "I'm Washu. This is Zeethra and this guy here is Cryos." She said, introducing the twins to the tiny lizard. "How do you feel?" She asked him.
But the other one, Draka, answered first. "Hungry," Was her only response.
"Ya, hungry." Drako agreed.
"I thought so." She reached for a bucket of fried chicken, but her hand found only air. "Huh, where did the KFC go?"
"Um, I didn't take it." Said Cryos quickly. His mouth still full of chicken.
"Me neither." Said Zeethra. Hiding the bucket behind her back.
Washu narrowed her gaze at them, but then shrugged and said "Luckily, I always have extra." She pulled out another bucket and gave a few pieces to each of the tiny creatures.
Cryos pulled her over to the side as they were eating. "This is wrong Washu, you can't just create life like that."
"Yes I can, you see I just take a cell and put some extra DNA into it and then I cause it to divide by-" She was cut off abruptly when a bluish-green fireball went zipping past her, struck some large machine and covered a big chunk of it with ice.
"Wow!! Cool!" Shouted Drako from the table where he sat.
"I wanna try!" Screamed Draka. She took a deep breath and then spit out a twenty foot long stream of normal orange fire right at Cryos and Washu. They were able to duck under a table just in time, (Washu was a little slow and got her hair scorched) but now both of the things were switching back and forth between the blue and orange flames and alternately freezing and melting everything around them.
Zeethra rolled from under her table and got over by Cryos. "I'll get them." She looked angry enough to crush them with her bare hands, her hair had been burnt too.
"I've got it." Said Cryos. He watched them for a few moments and then rushed out as fast as he could and in one quick movement pinched shut both of their beaks.
In the sudden silence his voice sounded incredibly loud. "Don't do that."
"Smorremh." Drako mumbled, unable to speak with his beak held shut. "Cam ey hamv ma mothh mack?"
"Alright, but no more fire." He let them go before he turned back to Washu and said "See what I mean?"
"Ya," She admitted "But it's too late now. Lets take them outside and see what they can do."
"Didn't we just see what they could do?!?" Pointed out Zeethra, who was mussing over her scorched hair.
"Well, maybe, but they should be able to do more than just that. In theory they should be able to transform like Ryo-Ohki into a spacecraft."
"I'm having trouble picturing that little rodent turning into a spaceship." Said Cryos.
"It's technologically simple to accomplish." Said Elfive. "By triggering a second set of DNA Ryo-Ohki can cause a cellular mutation that-"
"Elfive, how long could you survive if you were dropped into a star?" Asked Zeethra sweetly.
"I'm not sure, it would depend on both the inten-"
"The sun the Earth orbits." She clarified.
"Maybe two minutes, why would you want to know, oh, I get it. I'll shut up now."
"See that you do."
When they took Drako and Draka outside, Washu tried to get them to transform. But they had trouble until she hit on a solution. Scare them. "I should have seen it earlier." She said." The panic reflex of almost anything is to get big and mean, why should they be any different?"
And the transformation was incredible. One moment they were two little winged lizards with bird beaks, and then they just expanded into a spaceship almost as long as a football field. It was shaped a lot like Moya, but with some very big differences. For one they had landing gear, well, kind of. If you call four huge legs that looked like they had just come off a dinosaur landing gear. They also had a mouth. Of course, it was more of a door. You enter through the mouth, then you go up into the bridge. It wasn't much of one, being as Drako and Draka flew themselves, the "pilot" only spoke with them, and had a small terminal that could work the guns in case of emergency. Leading back from the bridge was a hallway that went to three separate bedrooms, a kitchen, and a cargo hold. The cargo hold was rather useless as whatever was in it was ejected when they returned to the small lizard form.
Cryos interrupted her thinking. "If we're done here we have a job to get back to."
"What? Oh, right." She seemed surprised to see him, she had been so deep in her thoughts that she had completely forgotten that anyone was there. "You can take Drako and Draka with you, I've got enough data here for a bit. And besides, most of their weaponry systems shouldn't be tested near a planet. When you go, use their portal generators, I want to test them."
"Ya know, we're really sick of being your guinea pigs in these little experiments." Said Zeethra.
"Well, what ya gonna do? It happens, but I've got to get back to my lab and process these test results. Cya."
"Something needs to be done about her." Said Cryos, after Washu had gone back inside.
"Yes," Zeethra agreed, "But right now we have a job to do." She picked up Draka, created a wormhole into another universe, and left. Cryos created a portal of his own, and blasted off into a whole new world.
