Disclaimer: I don't own DB/Z/GT, Tenchi Muyo, Farscape, Pokemon, Star Wars, X-Men, or Animorphs. There, I hope that covers everything.
The starburst carried the two living spaceships and their passengers to a tiny, out-of-the-way world with two tiny moons.
"This is the world…" Pahrac muttered. "I know it. There is a cantina here where the information dealer does much of his business."
"Well there are only two towns on this entire stinking dirtball!" Draco boomed from all around them. "I say we blow them up and see if this guy lives!"
"Pest!" Vegeita yelled. "For the last time, even I understand that simple killing cannot solve all problems! If it could our Multiverse would have very few living things in it!"
I agree. Came Mewtwo's psychic voice from across the void of space. This calls for some strategy. I've located a rather extraordinary mind in the southern settlement. I attempted to scan and see if it was the person we were looking for, but it somehow disconnected me.
"And you think that that's who we're looking for?" Cryos asked out loud, knowing full well that Mewtwo read his thoughts and it wouldn't matter if he simply thought it.
At the very least, it is something I've never encountered before. I suggest we investigate. I feel there is a very good chance that this is indeed who we are looking for.
"Well Draco, you heard the cat, lets go."
The two living spacecraft swooped down and landed by the edge of the town. It wasn't much of a town. Just a few little houses and other buildings scattered in rough lines.
The landscape around the town was mostly the sort of wasteland that seemed to be completely inhospitable to any plant without spines, spikes or thorns of some kind.
They landed and everyone climbed out. The instant that Cryos's foot touched the ground he was tackled from behind and knocked down to the ground.
"Oh, ImissedyouImissedyouImissedyouImissedyou I MISSED YOU!" Kentra screamed from atop his back.
"Kentra!?" Cryos asked in disbelief. "What are you doing here? I left you back with the Kelbrid!"
"Yeah, but it's ok, I'm not mad at you! I know you were just mad for me busting your eye and all. But I love you sooooooo much…" She trailed off and gave him another hug. Apparently she was in one of her lovey-dovey moods. It usually gave way to homicidal rage pretty quickly and with little or no warning.
She climbed off his back and he stood up. "Kentra, I didn't leave you behind because I was mad at you. I left you behind because I didn't want to see you get hurt. I don't know what I'm going to do with you now…"
"I say we bring her," Vegeita said with a smirk, "the worst that can happen is she gets killed, then maybe you'd find someone worthy of a Sayian!"
Kentra had launched herself out of Cryos's arms so fast that he couldn't even think about stopping her.
Vegeita had just enough time for a frightened look before she hit him.
Cryos ran and tackled her off him. Normally he wouldn't be so rough. He'd already put her training on hold, too afraid that he would hurt the baby. But the last time she'd attacked the Sayian prince, he spent the rest of the day beating up on the small Kelbrid.
Cryos didn't know who he'd kill here, but he didn't much want to find out.
Dragging a struggling Kentra away, he had to jump backwards when Vegeita took a wild swing at them. He didn't get a second one off though. Trunks and Piccolo grabbed him by the arms and held him back.
"Let me go!" He roared as Kentra quite suddenly broke down into tears. "I am a Sayian prince! You can't do this to me!"
"Vegeita!" Piccolo yelled. "This isn't a fight you can afford to finish right now!"
Vegeita just made a growling sound and stormed off as soon as they'd let him go.
"I have a stupid question!" Someone yelled from behind Cryos, He turned and almost yelled at Draco before he realized that it wasn't the tiny lizard, but one of the humans who called themselves Animorphs.
"You're Marco, right?" He asked the young man.
"Yep, that's me. I was just wondering, how do we know what this informant looks like?"
"That's easy. Mewtwo will tell us. We don't need to know what they look like if we can read his mind."
Actually, Cryos. Mewtwo admitted. I have been unable to sense our information dealer since that first contact I had with him in space. I believe he is shielding himself somehow.
"I know of his appearance, as does this second of Queenhood. We should split up into two teams and search the town." Said Pahrac.
"Ok, I guess that's the best we're going to get." Cryos muttered. "I want Pahrac and Zon with me. Zeethra, Mewtwo and the second of Queenhood are teem two."
"What about us?" Demanded Vegeita. "Don't we get any say in this?!"
"Er…" Cryos tried to think of something that would keep Vegeita busy enough to keep him out of trouble, and more importantly, out of the town. "Oh, how about you watch Draco and Draca?"
Everyone looked over at the pair of tiny lizards. They were standing on a patch of mostly bare ground, pawing at the ground and growling at each other. Then, after a few seconds of that, they charged.
Their tiny little heads collided with a loud CRACK and they fell back clutching their heads and squawking in pain.
"What am I supposed to do with them?" Vegeita asked with obvious contempt in his voice.
Just make sure the don't do anything stupider than that…"
Cryos turned to go, but Kentra grabbed him. "You aren't going to leave me, are you?"
"Kentra, I'm sorry. But you're too big a risk in your condition. But you can watch Vegeita if you want. Make sure he does his job."
She smiled. "You can count on me." And went right to work, staring at the Sayian Prince intently.
"This won't end well…" Cryos muttered. "Let's go before the fireworks go off."
The two teams headed off for town, Cryos went for the bar where the informant had been working. Zeethra set out towards the residential areas, thinking that he had perhaps gone into hiding.
The bar was dark and dreary. Much like every other hiding hole for the dregs of the multiverse. Cryos scanned the crowd, a collection of exotic creatures most of who were too drunk to even notice the new arrivals.
Pahrac glared and growled at them, then pointed into the corner. "That is him…"
Cryos took a look out of the corner of his eye, not wanting to scare the informant away. He was a creature with several long tails much like a Kelbrids in place of legs. He had a scaly body and vertical slit pupiled eyes, hooded with scaly horns.
He was badly mangled as well, with a strange pattern of scars on its body, almost as if it had been burned from the inside out.
The creature sat with his eyes half closed and a cup of thick, greenish liquid in its claw like hand. He too was trying to look like it wasn't watching them, but Cryos could tell that they were the focus of its attention.
Cryos walked over to the creature with utter confidence. He knew how to handle this. Even the most weary information salesman could be swayed by large amounts of money.
He took a small pouch off his belt, it was his winnings from the tournament where he had met Zon and proposed to Kentra.
Picking a small gem (he was no expert, but he was pretty sure it was a Krayt dragon pearl or something similar) he plunked it down on the table and said in a low voice. "I hear you might have some information I require.
The informant's eyes flickered to the pearl. "I may know something…" He said in a rasping voice.
What came next was clear. Sliding another stone (A cousora gem this time) he said. "I need to know all you know about The One.
The hooded eyes narrowed. "The One? Sorry, that's a bit too high profile for me. I'm attached to my body, I don't need him trying to take it again." The cousora gem slid back to Cryos's hand.
"Again?"
"I may have had a run in with The One in the past. Nothing you're interested in, I'm sure."
"Oh, but I am. I am very much." Cryos slid a pair of gems across the table this time. "You see, I plan to KILL The One…"
"Then you are insane. More so if you think I will sell you information that will only make ME The One's next target." He said that, but this time the gems didn't come back.
Cryos was about to push it farther when he saw a flicker in the information salesman's eyes.
He spun just in time to see a big greenish alien covered with blades pounce on Pahrac, but the mutated Kelbrid ripped into it's flesh and burst from the doomed alien's back like something out of a horror movie.
A similar alien attacked Zon, but was decapitated with one smooth swipe from the bug's blade arms.
"I hope you see how powerful we are." Cryos told the informant. "If you're worried that The One will just kill us and come after you then you can just forget it. We aren't going to lose."
"Perhaps," Came the raspy response. "But I need to be sure."
Cryos tried to look back at the alien creature, but he suddenly felt it's claw like hands on his neck, then a icy coldness unlike anything he'd ever felt before.
Ice-Jin's can live in space, but this was a bone chilling cold.
The world swam around him. He saw Zon and a gory Pahrac rushing to his aid as he passed out and collapsed to the floor.
