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The One looked out over the fighters and began taking long, slow strides towards them. "So many old faces…" He mused. "Cryos, Zeethra, how goes the search for your parents? Oh, of course, THIS is your search!" He laughed at himself. "Trunks, where is Vegeita? Surly he's not dead already, he's much to stubborn to die." His eyes locked on Narakoo. "Well, well. I didn't expect to see you here. Face it: you stand no chance against me. You probably think that allying yourself with them will assure you victory, but it only guarantees destruction…"
He shrugged before moving on. "So very few new faces in the crowd… I thought you'd find more, you certainly had enough time to. Let's see we have a purple feline, an overgrown insect, that little vixen you left in the elevator, and- could it be? Why I think it is the different Kelbrid. My, my, my… So the prophecy has finally come to pass. Not much to look at though, are we? Little bigger than the average drone, pale and with spikes, is that all? I think your Queen may have jumped the gun, so to speak."
"You shall not speak ill of the Queen!" Pahrac roared.
"Feisty, aren't we? All the better to amuse me in the battle. So who shall begin? You can fight me in any order you want. Or all jump me at once. The end result shall be the same. I shall absorb and assimilate those who show power I can use, and the rest shall be destroyed." The One stopped walking about thirty feet away from them. "Any time you're ready…" He turned away and closed his eyes.
Cryos screamed out and started powering up to his maximum level when Piccolo stopped him. "Cryos, NO! We need a plan first."
"Fine! YOU come up with a plan, I'll attack!" Cryos roared back before launching himself at The One. But when he struck, Cryos's Super-Sayian fist passed right through The One's fading image.
Cryos had just enough to think What? How? Before The One reappeared behind him and struck a blow of his own, kneeing Cryos in the stomach, before slapping him with a backhand that sent him flying.
Cryos came back around, launching a volley of energy bombs, but The One never even flinched. And, when the dust cleared, he had vanished.
Only to suddenly reappear mere inches from Cryos's face. One mighty punch sent Cryos flying, but this time The One followed him, reappearing in his path and knocking him back the other way. This punch actually buried Cryos in the floor of the dome.
When several long moments passed and he still hadn't come back up, The One settled back into his pose, facing away from them with his eyes closed. "Whenever you're ready to be serious…"
"The One is powerful, but not invulnerable." Narakoo said, not taking his eyes off The One. "I think that working together, we stand a good chance of finishing this job off. And I know his weak point, it's-"
Narakoo was cut off suddenly when The One lashed out without warning. One of his already long arms stretched and grew until his hand was even larger than the entire rest of his body.
Fighters scattered as the giant hand slapped down on the floor, but Narakoo and Pahrac weren't quite fast enough, and The One grabbed them.
The gigantic hand lifted them up into the air, but even as it did, The One began to grow.
Pointed teeth sprang from his mouth and horns grew on his head. The thin arms and legs weren't nearly so thin anymore, and his long cape stretched out and became bat wings.
The One took on a bestial appearance as he lifted the two struggling aliens up to his face.
"So, you would tell them my secrets? Well, I know something of you as well. You are a coward! You would rather have them destroy me than to do it yourself."
A strange, inhuman roar suddenly filled the chamber. Everyone looked over at the source of the massive power that that was radiating in the chamber.
It was Zon. The mantis-like alien was powering up to his maximum power level. He has already grown past ten feet, and wasn't anywhere near full size yet.
"I shall deal with you later…" The One threw them down and started after Zon, moving on legs that now looked more like a birds legs than a human's.
Zon was still growing when The One reached him. "So you think that approaching my size means approaching my power as well, do you? I shall have to show you the error of that."
But when The One reached out at Zon, he suddenly froze. His eyes were glowing a dull purple. Zeethra recognized it as Mewtwo's doing, and flew around behind him to see the feline creature on The One's neck, locked in an internal struggle with The One's mind.
"ZON!" She screamed. "Attack NOW!"
He wasn't at full size yet but he lashed out anyway. The blade left a wicked gash across The One's neck, but then there came a psychic scream.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! Mewtwo roared. NO! Get out of my head!
The cat-like creature seemed to melt and with a long, lingering scream, he vanished into The One's body.
The One smiled. "What a fascinating creature. Speed and agility mixed with psychic powers. Usually you only find one or the other in a single creature."
He looked down at Zon who had stopped growing and was merely gazing in fear.
"And as for you," The One lifted one hand that had suddenly morphed into something resembling a bird's leg and snatched Zon from where he stood and lifted him high into the air before smashing him against the wall.
Zon's body splattered like a bug on a windshield.
The One picked up one still-twitching leg from the pile of green goo smeared across the wall and flicked it away. "I hope that wasn't the best you can manage."
Zeethra flew at him from behind, but The One had stolen all of Mewtwo's powers and abilities. He not only knew she was coming but teleported out of the way just before she would have hit him. He reappeared with his hand already clutching her.
"I wonder…" He murmured. "What will happen if I absorb an immortal?"
"NO!" Piccolo shouted. "Trunks, if he gets her he might very well become immortal too!"
"Right." The Sayian half-breed nodded and the two flew off together.
This time the One was so focused on Zeethra that he didn't see them coming. Trunks landed a crushing blow to the one side of The One's head, and Piccolo rebounded off the wall to kick the other side.
The combined force of their blows made The One drop Zeethra, and she managed one good kick to his chin before getting away.
"NOOOO!!!" The One roared. "You will all suffer for that. I will make you beg me to kill you. I'll-"
He was cut off as a supremely powerful beam lanced down from the high ceiling. The three androids, working together were pouring all their energy into the one powerful attack that had The One pinned to the floor.
But even they couldn't keep it up forever. The power that Washu had given them had limits that they were fast approaching.
The One began to stand up, pushing their beam back. They gave it all the energy they had, but it still wasn't enough.
The One heaved the beam of power upward and it exploded. Blasting the androids apart.
Bits and pieces of them rained down. If this fight was won they could be put back together, otherwise, they were effectively dead.
"Now for the rest of you!" The One teleported again and snatched up Trunks and Piccolo. Zeethra swooped behind him but he batted her away with a long tail that had sprouted suddenly.
Trunks and Piccolo screamed, then they were gone.
With tears in her eyes, Zeethra went all-out. Moving too quickly for the huge One to catch her and landing a few good blows before he got her.
The One squeezed Zeethra in his hand and she screamed, but did not vanish like the others. "NO!" The One bellowed. "I cannot absorb an immortal!" His defeated look suddenly became an evil grin. "But wait, I do not have to absorb your body, with Mewtwo's power at my command, your mind is vulnerable."
Zeethra's eyes rolled back into her head and then glazed over. The One dropped her and she fell to the floor, an empty husk of the person she once was.
"Ahhh…" The One gave a satisfied sigh. "Who's next on the menu?"
In response to his question the ground exploded and Cryos flew up into the air.
"Cryos," The One chuckled. "Do you honestly think that you can do anything to me? I defeated you before, and I am vastly more powerful now."
"Perhaps, but now I have a plan." Cryos said with a sly grin on his face.
"Oh? And what would that be?"
"This." Cryos held out his hand and a shimmering ball of energy lay glowing in his palm. He tossed it to The One and it drifted slowly through the air."
The One laughed. "What do you think this will do to me?" He swatted at the tiny ball of light and it exploded into a miniature solar flare powered by Cryos's own energy in place of the sun.
The One stumbled back, disoriented and confused. Suddenly his foot ripped a hole into the floor. Out of the hole scrambled Pahrac and Narakoo, who had just created a second cavern underneath this one.
Narakoo climbed onto The One's face. "Now we shall see who is inferior." He shouted as he planted his hands on The One's massive features.
They both started screaming as Narakoo began siphoning off all of The One's power.
Cryos could see the power burning Narakoo's damaged flesh, but could do nothing about it. It was merely a test of wills now, and anyone trying to interfere would only make it worse.
Narakoo grew larger as The One shrank. Suddenly it was all over, the power blew Narakoo off The One. Cryos tried to catch him, but the alien's flesh was burning hot and Cryos dropped him to the ground.
"Cryos…" The dying Narakoo rasped. "I give you this last gift. Take it with my blessing, just don't… let … him… liveee…." He trailed off as his body disintegrated. Leaving only dust and a ghostly aura of power that flowed into Cryos's body.
Cryos could feel the energy supercharging every atom his body. He looked around the room, gazing at the pile of dust at his feet, the bits of the androids scattered about the floor, and lastly at the smear of green goop that had once been his friend Zon.
Finally he turned back to The One, who was just climbing out of the hole. "This ends now."
