Chapter 1
The engine revved, the modified engine easily breaching speeds never originally intended for the fragile engine. In the driver's seat Stitch the little blue mutant, experiment drove one handed. The other three were doing some sort of charades, or dancing it was hard to tell at the speed they were going. Lilo on the other front seat was strapped to her chair by the sheer G-force. They were finally coming back from the two weeks spent at watching the national hula competition in Honolulu the first big journey they had been on alone. Since they had caught every experiment Nani, Lilo's older sister, had surmised that driving to a Hula competition was only half as dangerous as chasing down certified cataclysmic creations, turning them from bad to good and finding a place where they were truly happy.
"WE HAVE TO CHECK ON THE EXPERIMENTS WHEN WE GET BACK" shrieked Lilo battling the huge G-force, and losing.
"Pfff, they fine… probably Ohana strong, coconut cake, yeeaahh" apparently stitch's vast arsenal of mutations included immunity to large G-force, this didn't stop the drool from whipping all over the leather seats.
"STOP DROOLING, NANI WILL KILL ME IF I GET THE SEATS WET"
Stitch kept drooling.
As time went by the scenery changed from the jungly dirt roads to more familiar jungly dirt roads. Without breaking Stitch made a sharp turn.
"shortcut!" he said through a mouth full of drool.
The jeep turned down a narrow mountain path. The path followed the cliffs down all the way to Kauai. The cliff was a huge fall, Lilo looked over the edge.
"BE CAREFUL STITCH"
At that moment Stitch decided to break hard.
"OW, Stitch that hurt." nursing her arm." why did you stop?"
Stitch jumped out of the jeep, onto all fours and sniffed.
"What do you smell?"
"Uh… Gantu?" Sniffing the trail.
"Gantu isn't on earth anymore Stitch,"
"No Gantu!" looking into the trees,
"Stitch, I said…"
"No GANTU!" pointed Stitch at the hulking grey form through the trees.
"GANTU!" called Lilo,
"Oh Blitzsnack," said the amphibian henchman. He started to run down a narrow path between the trees, noticeably pocketing a round object.
"Cousin?" questioned Stitch,
"After him Stitch!"
Lilo and Stitch followed in close pursuit Stitch hopping from tree to tree, letting his destructive instincts take over.
"Come on, you finally miss ONE experiment then you, come across me BY ACCIDENT, you're supposed to be in Honolulu!" Grabbing his plasma blaster, he turned and fired rounds into the trees. All the shots hit trees melting the trunks. The tree tops, finding they no longer had a trunk, started falling, depositing coconuts and mangos and bananas all over the ground.
"ahhh" Stitch smiled plans forming in his head,
"Lilo, idea!" whispered Stitch, popping out from a bush,
"What are you thinking, Stitch?" Lilo replied
Stitch pointed to the fruit salad on the ground,
"Gotcha," Lilo smiled.
"Where are you trog?" Gantu was still, listening for any sign of Stitch, he squared his plasma blaster into the shadows in the trees.
"I know you're there somewhere,"
Suddenly out of the trees, an orange flash, and then he couldn't see. He smelt mango, then banana, then kiwi.
"You think you can beat me with fruit!" He shouted, flailing his arms, he began wildly shooting into the darkness- blind he hit nothing but foliage.
He tried to step back, but he stood on something round and hard, losing balance he tried to stabilize himself, but stepped on another round hard object, and another then something hit him square in the chest. He fell, landing on lots of hard, round things. Wiping his eyes he realised he was moving, but how? It took him five seconds to realise coconuts were hard and round- and five more to realise he was rolling down a hill on them; and he wasn't stopping.
"I still have the experiment, trog!" then he collided head first into a coconut tree,
"Oh Blitzsnack," and a few more coconuts to the head knocked him out cold.
"Nice idea Stitch, and I don't think we have done that one before," Lilo ruffled his hair,
"Betta me dwah?" he asked,
"No, add it to the list,"
Walking up to Gantu large unconscious body Stitch heard a rustle in the trees; he stopped. A coconut rolled out from the brush. Stitch dived into his pocket retrieving the round sphere.
"Cousin?" Stitch held it out to Lilo,
"I thought we had every experiment,"
"Ih" he confirmed,
"Look Stitch, no number,"
"Yeah, no number, no cousin?" His ears drooped disappointed,
"Well it looks like a pod… and feels like a pod… He did say it was an experiment, but Gantu IS a big dummy… I guess we won't know until we put it in water,"
"Ih, I want to meet new cousin!" he looked renewed,
"Come on lets go back to the jeep, we need to talk to Jumba,"
Lilo started walking back through the trees to the jeep, Stitch took one more look at the unconscious Gantu easily filling the roads small width.
"Why you really back?" he said, and followed Lilo through the melting trees and squashed fruit.
Gantu rubbed his head.
"This better not swell up, man you never get used to this kind of thing," He muttered,
"Wow, I am amazed, you know this is an all time low for you fish-brain," Experiment 625, Rueben jumped out of the trees, phone in one hand, and the mutilated remains of an egg salad sandwich in the other,
"Did they even THROW a punch, beaten by fruit and coconuts, well done, you know I lost half of my sandwich making sure I got it all on camera," He cowered in mock fear, " oh please not the mangoes, anything but the mangoes. It was pure comedy that was, they almost noticed me because I was laughing so hard,"
"You better have got that on camera because we can't do it again," He whined still rubbing the swollen patches,
"yeah I got a nice close up of your face there, covered in mango juice, have you ever thought about joining the circus?"
"Come on lets go… Do you have another egg salad sandwich?"