Disclaimer: Ok, this is going to be the last Star Wars chapter. Cause I'm really getting sick of it and I want to go somewhere else. So remember, I don't own Star Wars, DB/Z/GT, Tenchi Muyo, Farcscape, or Pokemon. I'm just using them without anyone's permission for my own personal enjoyment.
Cryos was worried. Zon's power level was unbelievable. Unlike anything he's seen in years. He wasn't worried for himself so much as everyone in the audience. This fight could get, messy.
All the while, Zon's power kept rising. And now, as it grew to incredible proportions, Zon's body was growing too. He had already cleared ten feet, and showed no signs of slowing.
Cryos just let him grow. It wouldn't be right to attack someone while they were powering up.
The whole process took less than a minute, and when it was done, Zon stood almost twenty feet tall!
"What do you think of my power now?" Asked Zon in a voice that seemed to shake the planet to its core.
"I have to say I'm impressed. I don't meet many people with that much power."
"You don't meet any!"
"No, I know people who are even stronger than you." Cryos grinned slyly.
"Who!?"
"Me."
Zon stared at him for a few seconds, then broke into laughter. "You! You? You don't have nearly enough power to beat me! You have a lot more than you're showing, but not nearly this much!!"
"Well, we'll see." Cryos powered up as much as he could without going Super-Sayian. He didn't want to risk lives by using too much power.
Zon began the attack. Slashing brutally with blows that could have sliced Cryos in half. If they had hit him.
Cryos's speed was enough to keep out of the way for now, but he couldn't win on defense alone. He had to attack.
Using his sheer speed to slip past Zon's whirling blades, he landed a blow that cracked the big bug's shell.
Zon roared in pain and frustration before twisting his pincher arm to strike back.
It almost sent Cryos clear out of the ring, but he was able to stop himself in time. He turned just in time to see Zon grab him with one of his big blade arms.
Cryos couldn't move! His arms were pinned to his sides, and Zon's other big arm was moving in for his head. But Cryos ducked under it.
With just one option left, Cryos used the last trick he had.
He went Super.
Zon recoiled from the sudden burst of bright green light. "This is your true power?!" He roared in shock.
"No, this is." Cryos answered before powering up to his max.
Even at his max power, it took everything Cryos had to free himself. Pushing against the gigantic bladed arm that held him, he tried to force it open. But the bear-trap jaws of Zon's arm would not give.
Zon slashed again, and this time Cryos couldn't move enough. His long, glowing green, Super-Sayian hair rained down on the ring. Where it lay, faintly glowing for a few moments before it faded back to black.
Cryos pushed harder and harder, until suddenly, Zon's bladed arm snapped in half! He was free!
The giant bug gave another scream of rage as Cryos escaped.
"NO! It's not possible! You can't beat me!" He lifted his last blade arm into the air to smash Cryos into the ground. But instead of running this time, Cryos slapped his hands together and caught the blade tip! The point stopped less than an inch from his face.
Moving fast, Cryos shifted his grip on the blade and hung on for dear life. Ignoring the deep cuts in his fingers and his own purple blood running down his arms, he twisted Zon's arm in a way it was never intended to bend. The arm snapped off like a twig.
"IT CAN'T BE!" The 'disarmed' Zon shouted.
But Cryos didn't care what could be. He just knew what was, and right now, he was landing a flying kick to Zon's chin. Then a Kamayhamayha Wave to the mantis's chest left him teetering on the very edge of the ring.
Cryos pulled back to punch him again, but stopped. Moving slowly, he flew into Zon's face and gave him a one-fingered push.
Zon toppled from the ring. He stayed awake just long enough to say, "You win…" Then he collapsed. Before his head even hit the ground, he was shrinking. In a few seconds, he was back to his original size.
Cryos gave a sigh of relief.
There was total silence in the arena for about five seconds, and then the crowd broke into spontaneous applause.
Kentra came soaring down from a dark corner of the arena and flew into Cryos's arms.
"You WON!" She screamed over the crowd. "For a minute I was so scared, and I looked away for just a second, and you'd won." She looked at his hands. "Oh! You're bleeding!"
"I'll be fine." He told her. "Look, they're already almost healed." Sure enough, the vicious cuts were now nothing but dried blood and memories. "My hair though…" Cryos trailed off and patted his head. His once long hair was now a rather lopsided mess. "I'll have to get some laser cutters from Washu to fix it."
Kentra giggled at the disaster his hair had become. Then remembered something. Se reached into the pocket of her flight suit and pulled out the ring. "I kept this safe for you."
Cryos took it back, and looked at it for a few seconds, thinking, before he snapped the chain off. "Actually Kentra, I want you to keep it. And… and I want to know. Wi-will you marry me." His voice cracked as he said it.
Kentra seemed speechless too. She took several deep breaths before saying, "Yes, I will." Cryos's knees felt weak as he slipped the ring onto her finger.
The awards ceremony was delayed a bit while the battle-ring was cleared out. During this time Cryos and Kentra, a-hem, escaped from our narrator and temporarily disappeared.
When they showed up again about twenty minutes later Kentra'a hair was so tangled it looked even worse than Cryos's.
The ceremony was short and sweet. And Cryos accepted a small bag of gemstones as his reward for winning.
As they prepared to leave, Cryos heard a weak and scratchy voice calling him. It was Zon.
Cryos fell back into his fighting stance before he saw the Zon was in no condition to fight. His shell was cracked in more places than Cryos could count. He was breathing hard. And the three arms that Cryos had broken off during the fight were stubs, just starting to regrow.
So Cryos was just a little weary of him, not worried.
"I know now," Zon said when he reached them. "That you do not serve him. I wish to tell you something before you go. My story. And why I couldn't trust you before."
"Alright." Cryos was a little anxious to hear where this phenomenal fighter had come from.
"My story begins some twelve years ago. I was created by a mad scientist, a Dr Zibizan, on a tiny desert moon. He had intended to create an army of creatures like me and conquer this galaxy, but I showed his the error of his ways. I destroyed his lab, then the moon he was living on. But before I killed him, he told me that I was not the first. There were others, who had been created and sent away on missions before he had even thought me up." Zon paused, his wounds obviously hurting him. "I ran into one of his earlier creations over a year ago, a creature named Cre'nak. I was able to destroy him, but I was seriously hurt. And Cre'nak was supposed to be among the weaker of Zibizan's creations. So after that, I kept a low profile."
"Winning a big fighting tournament doesn't seem like a good way to keep out of the spotlight." Pointed out Kentra.
"Yes, I agree. But I needed the money. You see, Zibizan had a way to keep control over us. All of the creatures he created require a supplement to stay alive. I was able to scavenge enough from his lab to keep me going this long, but it is almost gone. I found a place where I can buy more, but I would require currency to get it."
"I know where you can get some." Said Cryos.
"How? You don't even know what it is I need!"
"No, but I know someone who can figure it out. A scientist named Washu. She's a genius, she made Draco and-" Cryos stopped and a frightened look crossed his face. "Where's Draco?"
There was a sudden explosion nearby. Someone ran by with his clothes on fire screaming something Cryos couldn't understand. "There he is." Said Kentra pointing at the mushroom cloud. "I'll get him."
After Kentra left, Zon came up close to Cryos. "Tell me," He said. "about this scientist of yours."
"She's a complete pain in the tail who lost my parents into the Multiverse and left me to look for them for the last thirty years, but I'm not kidding when I say she's a genus. She can build anything. If I ask her to, she can make you as much of this supplement as you need."
"Where can I find this Washu?" Zon asked in his ever-weakening voice.
"Just stick with us. I need to go see her now anyway. I need new clothes, some more translator microbes and a haircut."
"Should I call Washu and tell her we're coming?" Piped up Elfour suddenly.
"What is THAT?" Shouted Zon. He tried to back up and almost tripped over his own feet.
"It's just Elfour. Washu made her too. And Elfour, the answer to that question is the same as it always is: Call Washu and tell her to set up the system so we can come right back to her lab. I don't want to starburst halfway across the Universe again. You remember what an unpleasant experience that was."
"Calling now…" Elfour stated before she fell silent again.
Kentra came flying back over the crowd then with Draco in her arms. They were both splattered with a brown substance.
"CHOCOLATE!!" Draco screamed. "THEY HAVE CHOCOLATE!! AND IT'S GOOD!"
"Kentra, do you know how Draco could have possibly set off a 'chocolate explosion'?" Cryos asked her. Draco was apparently going into some sort of sugar shock and was just lying in her arms twitching.
"I didn't ask." She said. Licking the sticky chocolate off her fingers.
"Ya know, now that I think about it, I don't want to know anyway."
Zon was taking this all in with an odd look on his face. "Is it always this strange around you?"
Cryos thought the question over. "No." He finally answered. "It's usually worse. Elfour, do we have a response from Washu yet?"
"No, she's not currently in the lab."
"Great." Cryos muttered. "Zon? Do you know why Boba Fett was in this tournament?"
"Of course." The mantis answered. "He was hired by Borgon the Hutt to get those gemstones. I wouldn't worry too much, though. For all his fearsomeness, Fett's only human. He can't hurt one of us."
"I hope so."
It was quiet again as they waited for Washu. When Zon spoke up, his voice was so weak, Cryos could barely hear him. "Cryos, tell me about yourself. Where do you come from? What are you doing here? Other than beating me up, that is."
So Cryos told him his whole story. Going way back to when his grandfather, the legendary Goku, landed on Earth. And even before that, to the time when the Ice-Jins and the Sayians first encountered eachother. And the young Sayian Prince fell in love with an Ice-Jin girl.
He had gotten up to explaining where Draco had come from when Elfour interrupted. "Washu's back. She's setting up the Wormhole Redirector now."
"Finally." Muttered Cryos as he typed the code into his Gauntlet. He was about to create the portal when a blaster bolt streaked past Kentra. She dropped to the ground. It was Boba Fett!
"Stop there." Fett told him. "Or she dies."
Cryos rushed to Kentra's side. The bolt had just hit her leg and shattered the bone. "Draco!" He grabbed the little lizard off the ground and held him up. "Draco, do you see that man there? The one with the helmet on? Well he's got more chocolate. And if you go and push every button on that keypad on his arm, he'll give you some."
Draco already had about three times his weight in sugar coursing through his tiny body, but that had never stopped him before, and it wouldn't now either.
"GIVE ME CHOCOLATE!!!!!!" He screeched as he launched himself at Boba Fett. "WHICH BUTTON GIVES THE CHOCOLATE? IS IT THIS ONE? THIS ONE? THIS ONE? THISONETHISONETHISONETHISONETHISONE?!?!?!?"
Cryos watched as Draco went spastic pressing buttons on Fett's keypad. "Wow." He said softly as the arsenal Boba Fett carried on his back started to explode, one piece at a time. "Draco's had a lot of sugar…"
He looked back at Kentra, she was hanging onto his arm and tryong to sut up. A trickle of green blood ran from her leg, and the bone was definitely broken, but she'd be ok.
One of Fett's missiles fired into the air and exploded. (MAYBE IT'S THIS ONE!) And Cryos took this as a signal that it was time to leave.
He pressed the last button in the sequence on the wormhole gennerator and the blue wormhole appeared in the air. He shoved Kentra through. Zon tried to reach it as well, but was so weak that he tripped over his own four feet. Cryos picked him up and threw him bodily through the portal.
Then Cryos grabbed Draco off Fett's arm and leapt through the wormhole.
"NO! I WANT CHOCOLATE!" Came Draco's last cry before the portal slooped shut behind them.
