Well i have been talking about sub stories for a "differant kind of side effect" and now here it is. This takes place just after chapter three but before chapter four. one minor note for readerpal: thank you for the E-mail, because if it was not for you this story would still be in the works (your E-mail gave me a determination to finish this chapter). anyway enough talking...or would that be writing...anyway as i was saying. onto the story!
A different kind of side effect story
A Tiny Adventure
Deep in a forest on the island that held more alien life than any other place in the world, the sun shone so brightly and happily that even the loneliest and darkest of hearts could not help but smile. The birds where happily chirping without a care in the world, in the trees that where growing happily and peacefully over a small river that separated the forest into two. As the current continued on its quest to reach the sea it has to cross a small cliff that was formed millions of years ago when the island itself was being created. On the rock face of this cliff where the water falls down to the floor below it, grew a single lone tree just above the bottom of the water fall. Hidden away within the branches and leaves of this tree lay a small nest, and within that nest their was one single white egg. The egg was quite a bit smaller than a normal bird's egg and it seemed to shine when the sun managed to break threw the protection of the leaves and touch it. However the strangest thing about this egg was that it did not belong to any bird from the island…or on the world for that matter. It had weird markings on one side that seemed to make out numbers, three numbers to be exact; the markings on the side seemed to make out the numbers 4, 1 and 5. This egg lay happily in its pen…that is until the spray of the water fall gathered enough moisture on one leaf in particular; this caused a single drop of water to form and then land on this special and unusual egg. If someone was observing this egg they would have been shocked to find that the egg seemed to react with the drop of water that had landed on it. As soon as the water landed on the egg, the egg exploded into a glowing ball of energy before a bright flash of light removed all evidence of an egg. In the eggs place stood a small creature. The creature stood on two feet and had a slender body, its head was long and also quite slender but it seemed to widen out at the top before coming to a very curved point. It also had a tail that had a triangle in the end of it, something that you would expect a demon to have. But this thing could not be a demon since it was not summoned and did not look threatening in the least. Maybe because the creature was a calming light blue colour with a white stomach and a white circle surrounding each of its black eyes at the base of its quite long head and had drooping ears at a parallel height with the eyes on its head that prevented him from looking dangerous. It might also be that the creature seemed to be about 10 inches tall from top of the head down to its foot that prevented him from looking threatening. The creature looked around at its surroundings admiring the view before it jumped out of the tree that it was in and landed in the water below, after swimming out of the river and shook some of the water off, it started to wander around the forest. After walking in a random direction for a while this creature came about the biggest tree in the forest. Not wanting to go around this giant tree, the creatures' eyes changed colour from pure black to pure white and then the creature touched this monster sized tree with its hand. Then within a blink of an eye the giant tree that towered over everything just seemed to vanish into thin air. The creature giggled to itself before running further in the direction that it wanted to go.
In the same forest but far off in the other direction of the creature, lay a grounded space craft. It was black and had three engines, two of which looked like basic jet engines but looks can always be deceiving if someone was to remember that creature moments ago. At the front of this ship, their lay an entrance. The entrance was big enough to allow a twenty foot tall person access to the inside of the ship very easily. When you are actually inside the ship, it seems to be so much bigger than it looks on the outside. All the corridors and rooms are taller than twenty feet, again to allow someone of that size to wonder around the ship with no problems. As you go up an elevator to get access to the lounge area of the ship, you begin to hear a beeping sound, like a digital alarm clock only quieter and not as harsh. This strange beeping noise was coming from something that could not possibly be an alarm clock. It had a big dome over a small body that was quite square in shape. The dome was coloured a basic blue colour and the body was a similar colour except it had a green patch in the middle if it.
As this weird alarm clock beeped, a small rumble was felt and grumbling was coming from one of the doors that led into this room.
"Hmm why do I haft to do all the work around here"
a 20 foot whale like creature said as he walked into the room. He went up to this strange alarm clock and pressed the middle of the green panel in the middle of its blue body. Then all of a sudden the beeping sound stopped. In its place the dome on top of this alarm clock became covered in green lines and a picture of the creature that came out of that strange egg was standing in amongst the lines. Then all of a sudden the alarm clock started talking
"Experiment 415 activated. Primary function capturing main personnel or item of the enemy force and bring it back intact"
With this news the 20 foot tall alien seemed to smile a little. But the smile was short lived because seconds later the main monitor of the room turned on and the face of a gerbil appeared.
"Gantu. What are you doing you pathetic fish faced fool? Have you not heard the containment computer telling you that another one of my valuable experiments has been activated?"
"I did hear it sir" Gantu replied
"Well then get going and capture it"
Hamsterville said before turning off the communication link. With the communication link off Gantu let out a big sigh and then moved over to where he kept his containment capsules and blasters. As he done this 265 came into the room carrying a giant submarine sandwich that was as big as he was tall.
"so G man I take it that there is another experiment on the loose and the phone call moments ago was from Hamster-wheel"
625 when he finally moved the sandwich out of his face and noticed Gantu collecting the items that he always has with him when on experimenting catching, or not catching in the case of nearly every single experiment that has been activated. Gantu said nothing as he finished getting everything that he needed and headed to the exit of his ship.
Over at the household that we all know and love, someone who lived their was trying to teach another how to control her new strength. However it was not going all that well and another person of the household was not happy about it,
"Stitch how much longer will her training be, this is becoming very expensive thanks to Lilo always breaking cups or cutlery that she is holding"
Nani asked when she saw that yet another cup was broken in Lilo's hand thanks to her strength. Lilo was use to her things breaking in her hand by now, but she was also beginning to wonder when it would end. This was the seventeenth mug that she had broken and when add to her list of things that she had broken, it would make: seventeen mugs, twelve glasses, fourteen spoons, twenty seven knives and twenty seven forks. Fortunately the cutlery was just bent out of shape and was easy to bend back into position. However the mugs and glasses where another matter. Jumba kept insisting that it was possible for him to mend the cups, but when Nani agreed to allow him to fix them he got too distracted when he saw what Lilo had done to the cups that he went straight to his computer and started investigating her abilities further, and because of this the cups where never fixed, so Nani had to resort to buying new ones.
It has been several days since Lilo had woken up and she was still not use to her new body or her surroundings for that matter. Her surroundings had not changed really…its just that everything is so much more fragile than she was use too, also everything around her was in so much more detail that at first she was getting migraines because of it, however a human body is quick to adapt and thanks to her old bodies upgrades it was no longer than a day before they subsided and she was able too see everything without a problem. Recently she had asked Stitch to help her get more use with her new body, and it was clear to the both of them that she really needed it, because just as she finished asking him she walked over to her record player wanting to listen to some of her Elvis records. As she got a good grip on her hound dog it just shattered into several big chunks that scattered themselves on the floor. Fortunately for Lilo and her record, Jumba had experience of fixing the record, thanks to the phantasmo incident, and it was as good as new in a matter of moments. Stitch could not give Lilo a definite answer to Lilo then and now he could not give a definite answer to Nani, possibly a more accurate answer but not a definite one.
"umm I think it should not take terrible much longer now. Lilo under-stands how strong she is, however her…umm, her…s-sub-con-shis (subconscious) is still adapting to her new strength. Right now it all depends on how fast it can learn"
"I suppose that's the best you can do right now Stitch. And I am also happy to see that your English is coming along nicely. You got stuck on subconscious, I think, but you stuck at it without resorting back to your alien language. Doing that is the only way for you to learn how to speak properly"
Nani said before she patted Stitch on the head then went over and hugged Lilo however Lilo did not hug back. The last time Lilo hugged her sister Jumba had to put Nani into one of his medical inventions because two of her ribs where quite badly bruised, but thanks to Jumba's science the bones where as good as new within several hours. Ever since that incident Lilo has tried as hard as she could to learn her own strength, and she was beginning to get the hang of it. A good bit more time of training later and a good meal in their stomachs, Lilo and Stitch went to bed. Stitch went straight to sleep without a worry, but it took Lilo quite a bit more time to get to sleep. She was still thinking over the worst possible moment with her new strength over and over again in her head. She kept thinking that she would loose her sister in something as harmless and as innocent as a simple hug between herself and her sister,
"no I won't let that happen. I will get my new strength under control no matter what it takes…or how long it takes. Wait that brings up a thought. If I remember correctly, when Skip sent me and Stitch forward in time. I kept getting older as we did the ten year jumps, while Stitch stayed the same, so that must mean that Stitch dose not age. So if Stitch did not age, that means that I should not age at all…wait then I will out live Nani. Its sounds perfectly logical since I am younger than her, but with me never aging then the majority of my life will be without her. What a disturbing thought I hope that if it is true I can get Jumba to help me out there"
Lilo said to herself. This sort of talking with herself continued for a while before she eventually fell asleep. Unknown to Lilo Stitch had been awake the entire time and heard everything that she said, when Stitch heard all of this he made a silent promise to both himself and Lilo that he would get Lilo's strength under control, and then to see about her worries of her long life and Nani's short life with the help of Jumba, before falling asleep himself.
The next morning was uneventful. Nani went to work the same time that Lilo and Stitch got down from their bedroom. Pleakly got both Lilo and Stitch a bole of cereal before he went off to start cleaning the house. When Lilo and Stitch started on their breakfast Jumba went off to his bedroom to work on something that no one understood, the only thing that they did know was that it was about Lilo and her abilities. During her breakfast Lilo just kept thinking about what she had just thought of last night concerning herself and Nani, that if she is really like Stitch and he dose not age, then she would not age. And that would mean that the majority, if not all of her life would be without Nani. Then she thought of Jumba and Pleakly and wondered if they had long lives or if they would die at the same age of an average human. All of these thought made her quickly loose her appetite and start playing with her breakfast. Amazingly, Stitch managed to see what was going on with Lilo, over the food that was lane on the table in front of him.
"Lilo what is wrong. You have not been touching your food and you seem to always be in deep thought with a con…con-cern…ed (concerned) look on your face"
Stitch said as he looked at Lilo with a concerned look on his face. Lilo looked up from her bole and stared right back at Stitch wondering if she should tell him about her worries or not. Maybe it was Stitch's worried face, or maybe it was the fact that she needed to tell someone, maybe it was something else entirely. But the fact remains that she told everything that was bothering her to Stitch. She told him about how worried she was that she would hurt someone she cared about, she told him that she was scared of out living nearly all of her ohanna. She even told him that she was feeling uncomfortable about keeping the secret about herself from Victoria. As Lilo talked Stitch just listened with a caring face on, he could see that Lilo was beginning to feel better about the things now, but some of them where quite well thought out. He himself never gave the skip event much thought but looking at it now he could fee that he indeed did not age. That got him to thinking about life without his ohanna, without Lilo. To say the least it made him a bit nervous, but those thoughts quickly left his head when he remembered that Lilo is now an experiment and she too would probably live as long as he will. With that out of his trail of thoughts he quickly changed to the matter that Lilo was worried about…out living all of her family and friends by a very long time.
"Lilo when that hurdle comes, I'm sure Jumba will fix something up to increase Nani's life, if she wants it, and Jumba will live a good few decades longer than any human in your history quite happily, as well as Pleakly. So there is nothing to worry about for a long time still"
Stitch said in his original language so that no one would understand what he was talking about except himself, Lilo, his experiment cousins, and Jumba. Except it was only Lilo and himself at the table, so no one else would have been able to understand them. After hearing Stitch's comment to what was bothering her, Lilo felt quite a bit better, looking at what Stitch said, that she still had a quite a long time until she should begin to worry about the things that she has been worrying about. With that out of her system Lilo smiled at Stitch before she started to throw her breakfast all the way down her throat joined nanoseconds later by Stitch.
Back over at Gantu's ship, Gantu has just entered his ship after spending all night trying to catch this newly activated experiment. As soon as he walked into the kitchen he saw 625 awake and busy making himself a grilled cheese sandwich,
"625 can you please be quiet today. I was up all night trying to catch this experiment so I am going to bed now"
"ok G man. But why where you up all night trying to catch this experiment? You have only done that once before and that was because Hamsterville gave you a direct order to do so"
"I did it because it might make Hamsterville happy to get the experiment within twenty four hours of its activation. However after careful thinking during my experiment hunting, I realised that it would be impossible for me to make that fur ball happy. So I gave up and came back here to get some sleep. Now if you will excuse me" and with that Gantu went off to his bedroom to catch up on some well deserved sleep. When he finished making his sandwich 625 went into the lounge part of the ship and was about to turn on the TV when he remembered that he would keep it quiet for Gantu…at least until 625 knew that he was fully asleep. So while he waited for Gantu to fully knock himself out, he wondered over to the experiment computer,
"hmm lets take a look at this new experiment. Maybe I can figure something out to help fish face"
625 said to himself as he turned on the computer and then put up the file of 415. The computer said the exact same thing that it said to Gantu, however 625 went further into the files of this experiment and came up with the full scale of how 415 captures its objectives.
"well then I guess it was a good thing that Gantu did not find this experiment or else he would not be here right now"
625 said to himself. He turned the computer back to standby and then noticed the time,
"ah Gantu will be fast asleep now and just in time too. My show on how to make the perfect ham sandwich is starting on the sandwich channel. I really should go on that show sometime and show them what they are doing wrong to their sandwiches."
625 said as he wondered back to the TV and started
Well that was chapter one of a tiny adventure. what do you think of it? PLEASE tell me along with ideas that you might like to see in any of my stories (you can also e-mail me them). So until the next time farewell
wee minor note: ware-wolf got hit on the head by me for saying "well its about time that you put a new story on melon head" though i think she was right