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Cryos stared in shock at the Kelbrid in front of him.
"It's YOU!? You're the different Kelbrid?" Cryos demanded.
"Yes, it is I. It appears that I am changing to meet the prophecy." The Kelbrid seemed quite pleased with himself.
His use of the word "I" didn't escape Cryos's notice, but he didn't bring it up right now.
"But how?" Cryos wondered out loud.
"It is the prophecy!" The Kelbrid hissed.
"No, it's something else." Cryos looked up from his thoughts and pointed at Zon. "I want you to go back to the clearing by the hive and look for a short guy with tall, white hair. That's Vegeita. I need you to watch him and make sure he doesn't get himself hurt. Can you handle that?"
"It should be no trouble at all, Cryos. But where are you going?"
"I need to go see Washu. I have to check on the androids and now we have a new subject for the medical-scanner." Cryos grabbed the Kelbrid's wrist. "You're coming with me."
"But I cannot go!" He protested. "I am needed to reunite the Kelbrid hives into a fighting force powerful enough to defeat The One!"
"After I find out for sure what's happening to you." Cryos told the snake like alien. "If it's what I think it is, we might have a few problems."
"What do think is going on?" Kentra asked him.
"I don't want to say just yet," He told her, "cause I don't know if it's what's really happening. But if I'm right, well, we'll have to see. Elfour, is the homing beacon still on in Washu's lab?"
"Why is it that you only talk to me when you need something?" The little droid snipped. "I have feelings too you know. If you'd just let me talk sometimes…" She broke down into tears.
"If you'll tell me about the beacon I won't tell you to shut up next time you're annoying!" Cryos yelled over her sobbing.
"Do you mean it?" She asked softly.
"Yes! Just tell me!" Cryos screamed.
"Well, ok. The beacon's still on, but Washu isn't responding to my calls. She must be busy."
"She's going to have to make time then." Cryos opened a portal, and hopped through. Trailing Kentra close behind and dragging a struggling Kelbrid.
The portal dumped them in the usual place in Washu's lab. Washu was nowhere to be seen, but Cryos heard electricity crackling somewhere off in the distance and figured she was there.
He figured right. Washu was wearing some kind of welder's mask to shield her eyes from the lightning bolts streaking down from the ceiling to where Android 18 stood.
The young-looking android had her head thrown back and seemed to be enjoying the process very much.
A sudden voice came from behind them. "Hello, Cryos. It is good to see you again."
Cryos looked back to see Android 16 standing there, as usual, his voice was warm and kind but monotone. "Nice to see you too 16, I need to get Washu to take a look at this." He held up the Kelbrid. "It's mutating, and I need her to find out why."
16 took a close look at the Kelbrid. "Is it intelligent?" He asked.
"To an extent." Cryos answered. "They are ruled by their Queen, but capable of making minor decisions for themselves."
Cryos dragged the still thrashing Kelbrid and held it up in front of Washu's face. She screamed and fell over backwards.
Once she'd calmed down and shut off the lightning machine. She took a closer look at the Kelbrid.
It took Cryos, Kentra and 16 all working together to hold the Kelbrid down on the med-scanner table. Not only was it incredibly strong, (far stronger than it had been when it fought Cryos in the forest) but it was flexible, tying itself into knots trying to break free.
When Washu had gotten enough to finish her scan, Cryos threw the Kelbrid into the vault and hoped that that would be strong enough to hold it.
"Cryos, you need to see this!" Shouted Android 16, pointing at the screen.
Cryos tried to look, but too many people were clustering around it. He had to climb in top of them to see.
It showed the Kelbrid, surrounded by an aura just like Cryos's!
Washu looked at him. "Cryos, do you have any idea how this could have happened?"
"Um, maybe…" He muttered.
"Cryos!" She yelled. "What did you do!?"
"Eh, I saved his live with a drop of my blood." He admitted. "It healed him just like it did for Kentra, but now it looks like it may have had some side effects that she didn't…"
Cryos expected to get yelled at again, but surprisingly, Washu just looked back at the screen. "That's funny." She muttered. "This level of DNA absorption couldn't have happened unless… Cryos!" She looked at him again. "I need to get a sample of the Kelbrid. Blood, skin anything! Just go! And hurry before he mutates any more!"
Cryos raced back to the vault with Kentra close on his heals. He stood close to the door with his hand on the handle. "Kentra, get ready. I don't know if he's going to jump out at us or something. So just be ready for anything."
He threw the door open and jumped into the doorway. Nothing happened.
Kentra looked over his shoulder and gasped. "Oh, crap," She muttered.
"What? What is it?" Cryos asked.
She reached around him and flipped on the light switch. "Oh, crap," He said.
Right in the middle of the room was a tunnel that went straight down before curving off into darkness.
Cryos raced back to where everyone was still standing around the monitor screen. "Well, where is it?" Washu asked.
"Loose somewhere in the lab. At least I hope it's still in the lab. What's under the floor anyway?" Cryos muttered the last part mostly to himself.
"What!? Where did that thing go?" Washu demanded.
"It tunneled out through the floor. I don't know any more than that." He told her.
"Oh no! We've got to find it!" She said. "Somebody needs to go down the hole after it while the rest of us will search up here. If that thing gets out of the lab, well, we're going to have a much harder time catching it."
Everyone looked at Cryos. "Well I'm not going after it! How about we send 16?"
"I'd go," The giant android said. "but I'm afraid my large mass would make it difficult to crawl through a tunnel."
"I know." Cryos said as he opened a portal back to the Kelbrid's world. He whistled into the wormhole and stepped back.
Draco came fluttering out and everyone else stepped back too.
"Draco reporting for- WAA!" His little announcement was cut off when he flew into the side of some large machine.
Cryos just sighed and picked the little lizard up by the scruff of his neck. "Draco, I have an important mission for you."
"Yay!!!!" He squawked happily. "I'm gonna be sick!" He puked all over Cryos's shirt. The shirt promptly burst into flames.
"AHHH!!" Cryos screamed, dropped Draco and pulled of his shirt. "What have you been eating?"
"A little bit of this, a little bit of that. And a whole lot of little red berries! They taste like burning!"
Cryos just shook his and was thankful that blacksheep998 wasn't overly attached to certain anime gimmicks. Otherwise everyone in the room would have fallen over by now.
"Alright Draco, here's what you need to do." He said after he'd stomped the fire out and grabbed Draco again. That Kelbrid got loose in the lab. We need someone to go down his tunnel after him. Will you do it?"
Draco squawked happily again. "I'll be all over him like stink on a monkey!"
"Yeah… Ok then, have fun." Cryos dropped the little lizard down the Kelbrid's hole and closed the vault door, locking them inside. "Ok, best case scenario, they'll kill each other. Solve a bunch of problems at once."
"More likely that Kelbrid's loose in the lab somewhere." Android 17, who had been very quiet until just then, pointed out.
"And if he is, it won't take that featherbrain long to find the hole and be on the loose as well." 18 finished for him.
"Got that right!" Came a sudden, highly annoying, voice from behind her. "The hole's right over there, behind this machine thingie."
Cryos leapt to the top of the gigantic machine and saw the hole coming up there. "Draco, did you see where the Kelbrid went?"
"No, but that tunnel stinks!" He squawked.
"Well then perhaps you can track it by its smell?" Asked 18.
"Err… maybe. What's in it for me?"
Cryos popped out one of his arm blades. "If you find it, I won't remove your stupid little head from your body."
Draco fluttered up to Cryos's shoulder. "You, my friend, drive a very hard bargain. But I'll do it."
Cryos just shook his head. Dealing with Draco for more than a few minutes would give anyone a headache. Too bad he's so useful sometimes… He thought. Or that wouldn't have been an idle threat.
Draco fluttered back down to the floor and started sniffing around. After a moment, he scampered off in the direction of one of the largest storerooms. Everyone else followed him.
As they walked, Washu (who was carrying some kind of weapon that paralyzed whatever it hit) came up next to Cryos and pulled him down close to her face. "I need to talk to you for a second?" She started to pull him off to the side of the group. "In private." She added when Kentra started to follow.
"What is it?" Cryos asked her a little suspiciously.
"It's about Kentra, of has she told you yet. Maybe she doesn't even know herself yet, but she has to suspect it. There'd have to be symptoms by now." Washu seemed to be talking to herself.
"What are you talking about!" Cryos hissed at her. "Is there something wrong with her? Is she sick or something?"
"What?" Washu looked up at him. "Sick? Oh my goodness no. It's something I found on my med scanner. I didn't notice it at first, but when I went back over the records I found something you have to know."
Cryos waited expectantly. When she didn't answer right away, he asked. "Well, what is it!?"
"Well, it's just her condition, it's, well…" Cryos raised one of hes hands and popped the wrist blade out. The razor sharp blade was inches from her nose. She glanced at the group still following Draco and decided that they were far enough away. She leaned in and whispered,
"Kentra is with child…"
