Disclaimer: Don't own any of it, finally back to working on story, don't bother me.
The One glared with supreme confidence. "You may have stolen some of my energy, but I'm still in command here. That little vermin couldn't even take back everything I've absorbed so far today. You stand no chance."
"Then face me in a fair fight." Said Cryos.
"What?" Asked The One.
"You heard me. Match my size and power. Then we can see who's the better fighter, not just who can steal the most power."
The One smiled. "Very well. This just could get interesting."
He shrank down and changed shape until he became a creature halfway between an Ice-Jin and a Kelbrid.
They faced off for a moment before the fighting began.
Cryos struck first with a vicious kick to the face, but The One was quick and was only grazed by the blow.
The One spun and knocked Cryos's feet out from under him, forcing him into a back flip that launched him across the cavernous room.
But when he landed, The One had vanished.
He tried sensing for his energy, but at picked up on something far more frightening.
A small surge of power radiated from across the room and with a loud explosion the elevator door exploded off its hinges. Kentra was back in one of her rages.
The One fired a small beam at her, but she easily dodged it and landed a kick to the side of his head.
Kentra attacked viciously, spinning around The One and dodging his attacks, but she was going on pure rage. Cryos knew that it would last only a few minutes, then the anger would burn itself out and Kentra would be done for.
Cryos launched himself into the battle, but Kentra was attacking with complete disregard for the consequences and Cryos ended up blocking as many hits from her as he was from The One.
Cryos was suddenly launched backwards as Kentra backhanded him. He tumbled through the air until he was stopped by something surprisingly soft. Whatever it was that he hit said "Oof!"
"What the…" He reached out at thin air till he felt something invisible and soft, but with a harder pattern on it.
"Would you stop touching my leg, Cryos!?" Came an annoyed voice and then Washu appeared in front of him. The hard pattern had been her defensive suit with the integrated circuits on it. "I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to get out of this?"
"Nope." Cryos answered. "I was hoping to buy enough time for Kentra to escape, but that doesn't seem like it's gonna happen now."
Washu looked over at the fight. "She seems to be holding her own."
"For now, but as soon as her mood shifts or she makes The One mad it's over." Cryos fell to his knees. "She's going to die and it's my fault…"
"Don't give up yet, Cryos." Washu smiled. "You've still got me, and I'm a genius! Our problem isn't that we don't have enough power, it's that we don't have the time to use it."
"What do you mean?" Cryos asked.
"That technique you told me about once: The Spirit Bomb." Washu explained. "With that, we could pull in enough power to stop The One for good!"
"But that would never work." Cryos told her. "It would take hours to pull in that much energy."
"That's where science comes in." Washu raised her hands and a holographic keyboard appeared. She began typing furiously into it and in a few seconds a portal appeared. It was no standard interdimensional portal, this one was huge. "My new invention." She announced proudly. "The ultra-portal! It opens simultaneously on an infinite number of alternate dimensions."
"So I could get infinite energy for a spirit bomb from this?" Cryos asked.
"Yep, just draw it in as usual. But we'll still need a few minutes, and I don't think Kentra's got much fight left in her."
As she said this, Kentra took a series of blows from The One that split her lip and knocked her clear off her feet.
Cryos moved to save her, but Washu stopped him. "We need you here! Build your bomb, I'll save her."
He glared at her. "If anything happens to her I'm going to hold you responsible." But he started to draw in the needed power to make the spirit bomb.
Washu looked out at the fight. "How AM I going to save her?" She muttered, trying to find an answer.
But as so often happens in anime, the answer found her. A tap on her leg made her look down to see a disembodied arm on the ground. She jumped away before she realized that it belonged to the android 16. The arm moved, making little flapping motions.
"What are you trying to tell me?" Washu asked it. "A bird?"
The hand wobbled side to side: Part way there.
"What is it already!?" Washu yelled as Kentra took another bad hit. "Stop bugging me!"
The hand pointed at her.
"What? A bug, a bird… OF COURSE! Draco and Draca! They'll buy us some time!"
The hand pointed again.
"Draco!" Washu yelled out. "Where are you!?"
"Right here!" Giggled the lizard from his perch on her shoulder.
"How'd you get there?" Washu asked. "Never mind, where's Draca?"
"Right here!" Came from her other shoulder.
"How did you, never mind. Just go help Kentra."
Draco and Draca don't move.
"Go on, she's gonna die if you don't."
They still don't move.
"I'll give you candy."
"ATTACK!" The little lizards shouted in unison.
Draco and Draca swooped in like a pair of fighter jets, and then they landed on The One's nose.
"What the!?" He bellowed before slapping at them. Completely missing the lizards of course, but hitting himself in the face. The One roared and leapt after them, leaving the battered Kentra lying on the ground.
Washu rushed over and grabbed her off the ground using the super-strength provided by her suit, then took the distraction to check if there was anyone left. "Hello?" she called out. "Is anyone still alive out there?"
"Just I." Came a voice that sounded like a deep voice and a child speaking together. "And I found this." Pahrac slithered out of the gaping pit on the floor dragging Zeethras semi-living body behind him.
"Washu did a quick check but could find nothing physically wrong with Cryos's sister. Her heart still beat and she was breathing, but nobody was home. She was an empty shell.
"The One sucked out her soul." Pahrac grumbled. "Mewtwo's powers gave him that. That… monstrosity must be stopped."
"We're working on it." Washu told him. "We just need a few more minutes. Then we should get out of here, it's gonna be one hell of an explosion."
Washu pulled Pahrac, Zeethra and Kentra close and turned them all invisible, then they moved over near the elevator to wait for Cryos to finish his bomb.
Meanwhile Draco and Draca were having the time of their lives. Swooping and diving, they managed to dodge every last one of The One's savage blows by inches, until they messed up.
Draco took a glancing blow that spun him around in the air. He was able to right himself but not before a tiny sliver of copper went flying off him and into the air.
"NO! My penny!" He spotted it near The One's foot. The same foot that Draca was, at that moment, freezing to the ground. Draco pointed at the penny, Draca and The One both looked, but The One saw Draca there and lifted his other foot up into the air, something that Draca completely missed until she had been stomped flat by it.
The One swept his hand down, but instead of grabbing Draca's battered body, he grabbed Draco's penny.
"NOOO!!! GIVE IT BACK!" Draco squawked and dove after it. But now The One was having fun by pulling it away at the last moment before Draco could grab it. "Give me my penny!" He screamed in a voice that made everyone still there grimace.
Cryos looked away from building his spirit bomb for a moment and commented "This won't end well…" before going back to his bomb.
Draco was finding new levels of insanity. He had gotten so angry that he was having a tantrum, squirming about on the floor. The One found this tremendously funny, until he saw the Spirit bomb forming in the air.
"What? A Spirit Bomb? Well, we can't allow that. Sorry lizard, I can't play right now, maybe I'll get back to you." The One turned to attack Cryos, but Draco shouted out.
"NO! I will fight you first, and I will destroy you unless you return the penny!"
The One merely began to laugh.
Draco started to shake until, with a sudden lurch, he froze. His eyes started to glow, soon followed by the rest of his body. He was glowing so brightly that nothing was visible but a white silhouette. The tiny lizard began to grow, expanding and stretching to a phenomenal size. Horns sprouted, claws grew and sharpened, Draco's beak grew jagged and serrated like a curved knife edge tipped with a killing point.
Finally, the transformation was over and the glow faded.
Where there had been a six inch lizard with wings there now stood a distinctly feline creature. It vaguely reminded Cryos of the griffins from ancient legends.
Imagine a twelve foot tall lion with eagle's talons instead of front legs, a serrated beak, and gigantic wings, the only thing that showed his former nature was the tail. It was still a reptile's tail, but it looked like something off a Dragon rather than a lizard. The tail was almost twenty feet long and tipped with spines.
The One backed off just a little. "So, you evolved. Your Pokemon nature has shown through. Mewtwo suspected this could happen someday. But you're still no match for me."
He jerked and staggered back with four deep dashes across his chest. No one had seen Draco move, but the claws on his right talon were bloody.
"You SHALL return what is mine or I will most certainly destroy you. For it is you who is no match for me!"
Cryos's jaw dropped, as did his arms. The energy stopped flowing across the portal. Perhaps we won't need the bomb after all. He thought as The One began powering up for his battle against Draco.
