Disclaimer: This is a DISclaimer, I'm not claiming to own any of the characters that I borrowed.

Cryos awoke slowly, bits and pieces of memory coming back a little at a time.

He remembered going into the village, finding the information salesman, the two big green aliens that Zon and Pahrac had killed, and…

His eyes snapped open as he remembered the snake-like informant grabbing his neck and the strange coldness that accompanied his touch.

The first thing he saw was the face of the information salesman taking up his whole field of view. He recoiled from the nightmare face and tried to blast the thing, but somehow couldn't seem to raise the energy.

"So it IS true." The thing said. "You and your friends have the power to defeat The One. And that would make this the Kelbrid of prophecy, the different Kelbrid. I was beginning to fear that it was but a myth…"

Cryos looked back and saw Zon and Pahrac lying motionless on the floor. He didn't know what kind of creature could take down three of the most powerful beings in this Universe, but he was starting to get worried.

"What are you!" He yelled at the snake like alien.

"I am the original master of the universe!" He was ranting. "The prototype of The One himself! But those fools didn't feel I was powerful enough, and created that fool who took my name, and my power."

Pahrac was starting to climb to his feet, well his tail anyway. "What are you talking about?!" He demanded. "You are not The One!"

"No, but I could have been!" The informant started crawling around using his multiple snake tails like an octopus uses its tentacles. Not slithering, but not exactly walking either. "I was created to be the most powerful being in the Universe, but when new methods of gene splicing were discovered, I became a 'prototype'. I would have been content to rule at The One's side, maybe even as his most trusted and powerful servant, but he spurned me!"

"What did he do?" Cryos asked, trying to make his weak limbs support his weight. "And what did you do to us?"

"That is only temporary, a side effect of the energy transfer. But do not worry, that is only temporary as well, due to The One's treachery…"

"Energy transfer?" Asked Zon, who had just woken up and was trying without much success to untangle his arms and legs.

"It was necessary to use energy to copy and transfer your thoughts without distortion or loss. But it was not without a price for me as well, The One gave me a gene drug that caused much damage to my systems. Most of the creatures I'd absorbed were lost, only a few were retained. I lost much of my power, I can no longer keep what I take from others, and even trying burns me so…"

He held out his arms and Cryos saw even more scars than before, many of them fresh.

"As for your unasked questions, about The One, I will help you. I know of The One and his fortress. The Once Great, but Fallen, Narakoo is at your service."

He bowed low, and Cryos was about to ask him some more questions when there was an explosion from outside the small cantina. Narakoo waved his hand at the door and several of the green bladed aliens started towards it.

But as they tried to go out, some sort of shockwave blew them back through the doorway and Mewtwo came floating right on it's heals. With a wave of his hands, all the tall green aliens passed out.

So you're the psychic I detected from orbit. He thought at Narakoo.

"And you are the amateur who tried to scan me. I saw you in Cryos's memories, I have nothing to fear from you."

"Then what about me?" Zeethra asked as she came through the door. "Are you afraid of me?"

Narakoo was tensing to spring on her as well, but then Cryos spoke out. "Don't! He's going to help us!"

Cryos wasn't sure if he was talking to Narakoo or his sister, but they both stopped and looked at him. Then they gave each other a look and seemed to relax just a hair.

Narakoo slithered over to Pahrac and hissed. "I suggest that you call all the Kelbrid you can. We are going to need every one, even with your powerful friends here."

"I have them waiting." The mutated Kelbrid answered. "All we need is a location for them to go to."

"I'll take care of that, I can use Draco's navigational systems to pinpoint it."

"How do you know about Draco?" Cryos asked.

"I read your thoughts, remember?"

"Oh yeah… Well let's see what we can do then."

Cryos still couldn't fly, but Mewtwo had the answer. He teleported the whole group back to the place where they landed.

Neither Kentra nor Vegeita were anywhere to be seen and Cryos hoped they weren't fighting again.

Piccolo was sparring with Trunks, but it was a low power match. Neither of them wanted to risk a serious injury right before a major battle.

The Animorphs on the other hand were birds at the moment. As Cryos watched, they flew down to the ground and started returning to human form.

Pahrac slithered over to a small shrubbery on the ground and made a quick snatch and grab into it, coming out with both Draco and Draka in one hand.

Not bad… Cryos thought as Pahrac ordered them to go into their spaceship forms.

Luckily, neither of them argued for once and shifted shape very quickly.

Once inside the ships, Narakoo quickly brought up a holographic star chart and picked out the system where The One had set up his base. Pahrac went over to the Second of Queenhood that they'd brought along and said "Tell the Queen where The One is hiding. Tell her to send every drone there is in every hive everywhere." She slithered over to look out one of the viewports as Draco rose up into the blackness of space. "I have a feelings that we're going to need every one we can get…"