The One lashed out at Draco, but the now massive creature that Draco had become moved too quickly to be seen. When The One's hand was about to hit him, he was suddenly gone.

The One lurched forward again, but tripped over the long tail that had wrapped around his legs and fell flat on his face.

Draco leapt onto his back and roared. "Return my penny!"

The One suddenly shrank and became so small that he slipped right out of Draco's claws. He rolled and grew back to full size before blasting at Draco.

As powerful as the former lizard now was, he wasn't able to dodge the beam and was sent careening into the far wall.

Draco's long tail was left hanging out of the deep hole in the wall. No other part of his was visible and he wasn't moving.

"Well," Said The One as he brushed his hands together. "That was more difficult than expected, but I can't argue with the results." He turned to face Cryos. "Now for you…"

Cryos jumped, snapped out of his horrified stare at the incapacitated Draco. Oh no, He thought. The bomb's not done yet! It can't get any worse than this! And started pouring all his power into it along with what he was pulling from the portal.

"That won't work, Cryos." The One told him. "You'd need a lot longer than the time you have left to make that strong enough to harm me!"

"We intend to give him that time!" Came a voice out of nowhere. "It's time to face the wrath of the powerful and mighty WASHU!!!"

"It got worse.…" Cryos muttered.

The One started looking around the wide room, trying to see where the voice had come from.

There was a flicker of light far across the room and a high-powered energy bolt blasted out, knocking The One off his feet.

The One stood up and spun around to see who had dared to blast him, but there was no one there.

Another flicker of light and another beam, but this time The One was prepared and managed to dodge out of the way. He blasted at the spot where the beam had appeared and reduced it to nothing but a smoking crater.

He nodded and smiled in satisfaction, until another blast knocked him into his own blast crater.

How's she doing that? Cryos wondered. "Elfour," Cryos spoke to the little droid for the first time in days. "See if you can get a picture of that flash next time it happens." He waited for her conformation, but none came. "Elfour?" He looked down and saw that the chain that normally held Elfour around his neck had snapped. She was gone. And for once I needed her too, or maybe not… I can see what's going on, I just need to pay VERY close attention.

Cryos focused and when the next flash of light appeared he was ready. He caught a glimpse of Washu firing the energy beam out of her hands. But that's not possible. She doesn't have that kind of power, that beam is really hurting The One! How's she making it?!

Another flash of light and this time Cryos caught a glimpse of Kentra and Zeethra lying unconscious on the ground with wires running from their heads to Washu's arm.

So THAT'S how it's done! Cryos realized. Clever, I'll have to have a talk with her about using my family as batteries, but that can wait.

"Ah…" Sighed The One. "Thank you Cryos! I was wondering how she was doing that. You can thank Mewtwo for giving me the power to read minds. Now that I know how it's accomplished, I can sense it, and you can kiss all the rest of your friend's goodbye."

The One spun around and blasted, the beam struck something invisible and a scream split the room. Washu, Kentra and Zeethra appeared lying on the ground, now all three were unconscious.

"NOOO!!!" Cryos yelled. He glanced up at his bomb, but he knew that there was no way it was big enough to kill The One.

A tiny flicker of movement caught his eye, but he deliberately avoided looking at it as The One would read his thoughts. Instead he glared at The One with pure hatred as the monster grew larger and larger and picked up Kentra in his huge hand.

Cryos realized that his only chance was a distraction. He looked over where he'd seen the movement a moment earlier. "Draco!" He yelled. "If you're going to do something, do it now!"

The One spun in surprise as Draco's long, wispy tail whipped around him and pulled him into the hole where he'd blasted the lizard earlier.

There were a few moments of screaming and roaring, then one long lingering scream along with a tearing sound and Draco came slithering out of the hole carrying The One's right arm in his beak. The hand was still wrapped around Kentra.

Draco set the arm down gently and then dove back into the hole. The growls and roars continued for quite a while before another loud rip and Draco came back out with The One's other arm.

He shook the arm in his beak like a dog with a rope until something tiny and shiny came flying out of the hand.

"The Penny!!" Draco screamed and galloped after it. But when he tried to pick it up in his huge talons, he made a horrifying discovery. "NOO!!! I can't pick it up! My hand is too big!" Draco lifted his talon and slapped himself in the face with it. "I must get smaller!" He hit himself again. "Smaller!" Again. "SMALLER!!!" He roared out loud.

The last smack to his own face knocked him off his feet. As he fell, his body twisted and his head cracked into the hard ground.

A familiar glow surrounded his body and he began to shrink. After a few moments, he had returned to his original form, and was lying unconscious on the floor, just inches from his beloved penny.

"Draco! Wake up!" Cryos yelled at him.

"Just five more minutes…" Came the reply.

"No! You have to get up now!"

"Aww…" Draco moaned and rolled over sluggishly, but when he spotted his penny he revived and jumped up, grabbed the tiny coin and started dancing with joy.

"Draco! You need to transform again!" Cryos yelled at him.

"I have to do what now?"

Cryos saw something moving behind the tiny lizard. "Draco! Watch out!"

The lizard looked up and saw the giant foot coming down at him. He had just enough time to say: "Yaaayyy! I'm gonna DIE!" before he was smashed like a bug.

He wasn't actually dead. With Cryos's cells and the apparent invulnerability to injury shared by many stupid creatures, not much could do more than minor damage. But immortal or not, there was nothing left of him but a grease spot on the floor. He was out of this fight for a while.

The One turned to Cryos. He looked down at the bloody stumps of his arms and held them out away from his sides. He concentrated for a few moments and a new pair of arms erupted from the gore. "Those Nameikian healing powers I picked up from Piccolo sure come in handy. Now to take care of your little girlfriend."

But when The One went to grab her, she was gone. "Where did she-" He started to say, but was cut off when a powerful beam struck him in the back, pinning him to the wall.

Cryos looked up and saw Kentra. Awake again but surprisingly she wasn't still in a rage. She seemed to have found her calm and was fighting with a cool head. Maybe those sparring lessons are really starting to pay off. Cryos thought.

 "Finish the bomb Cryos." She told him. "I'll hold The One off for as long as I can…"