It was a usual bright and sunny day in Kauai, Hawaii. The kids were going to school, the adults were heading for work, and the alien experiments continued to appear in various areas of the island. This kind of activity was considered normal by now to most of the people in Kauai, except for a few. One in particular was target practicing with a couple of E.M.P canons on his wrists. This particular person was the most skilled human in Kauai. His name is Mark Nissan.
Despite Mark's skills, he's usually a klutz; he even tripped over a snail once. Although he has believed in extra terrestrial life for the longest time, he still has trouble getting used to the recent massive sightings in Kauai. As Mark finished his target practice, he heard a siren of a fire engine and ran to the roof of the building he was in. Mark saw a pillar of smoke coming from the place he recognized as the Pelekai residence. He recognized it as that family's home because he was a volunteer firefighter who was just at that house about a year ago when a bomb apparently went off. Upon investigating the source of the fire, Mark found what remained of some sort of high-tech weapon that was being jammed by a carrot. It was quite obvious that this weapon was the so-called bomb, because a large majority of it was missing.
The house was obviously re-built by the family because, from what Mark was told, none of the construction workers were involved in the house's new design. Mark heard the sirens as the firefighters passed by his place. Mark ran to the edge of the roof, rolled off it, and landed on top of one of the trucks. The roof was only about 3 feet above a fire truck. The loud bang on the roof of the truck startled the two men inside for a moment but they calmed down almost instantly as they knew that only one person in town was crazy enough to jump onto a moving fire truck in a public area. "Mark." They both told themselves in a deadpan voice. It was quite clear that they didn't appreciate him showing off during a time of crisis. "You guys know me so well." Mark replied in a cocky tone as the truck closed in on a bridge. Mark thought quickly and jumped onto the railing, flipped off of that, landed on the railing on the other side, and Fell onto the Fire truck as it passed under him.
One of the firefighters looked out of their window and shouted, "Knock it off Mark!! You know these trucks aren't easy to fix if you put a dent in them!"
"Oh come on, you know I do it for the people." Mark replied sarcastically as he waved at the onlookers that were on the bridge he just jumped over. "Tree." The driver warned calmly as the firefighter pulled himself back in the truck with an angry look on his face. Mark heard him and turned around just in time to get smacked in the face by a branch, giving him a black eye. Mark back flipped once and grabbed onto the fire truck's ladder. Mark spit out a tooth before shouting, "A little bit louder of a warning next time thank you!"
"Oh come on Mark, you know I do it for your discipline." Both firefighters laughed at this sarcastic comment, while Mark just scowled. It was always like this for him. Mark never meant anybody harm, and he never gave it. Heck, the only thing he ever wanted to do was save people, and Mark always lived thinking of others rather than himself, but people always seemed to dislike him in every way possible. The only ones he met who didn't dislike him were those at the CIA. Mark used to be an agent there at some point, but his skills were far too good even for them, and therefore, he was disavowed. About his original family, well...they died. Mark only had his parents, and they were life-long orphans. Mark remembers how they died very well indeed.
It was rainy and they went for a drive, completely lost traction, swerved into the oncoming lane, and crashed into another vehicle. Ironically, the vehicle that crashed into Mark's Parents' car was the very same vehicle that the Pelekai family was driving when they met their end. As their memory rushed into his mind, Mark reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a photo of a serious looking man with a green beret and a sweet-looking woman with short brown hair. Mark smiled as a good memory of his parents entered his mind. Oh how he missed having a family! His father always got after him for running amuck while his mother reminded him about how important the word "Ohana" meant.
"Ohana means family, and family means that nobody get left behind or forgotten." she would always tell him whenever he got angry at his father. Mark and his father were just about to get on good terms before he died in the car crash. Mark put the picture back in his pocket just as they arrived at the house. Mark rolled off of it and walked up to the lead firefighter there and asked, "Anyone still inside?"
"Just about every resident in the house!" The head firefighter replied. "A Nani Pelekai was in town currently and she left her sister and her dog in the house with her aunt and uncle."
"Hmm...When sis the aunt and uncle move in?"
"Mark, don't be ridiculous, focus on the situation at hand! My goodness, you didn't get the honorary firefighter award over forty times for asking questions that don't concern you!"
"Right, sorry chief. Where are they?"
"Second floor, fire is blocking the path; I told them that we'd send our best guy in."
"Hmm, then it's a good thing I came." Mark said just before he rushed into the house. "So enthusiastic, as always." The head firefighter chuckled to himself as Mark rushed into the raging inferno inside the building.
About two seconds after Mark entered; a blue Koala-like dog ran out and began looking around frantically. Mark looked around shouting the names of the residents, "Lilo!! Mrs. Pleakely! Mr. uh...Jumba! Anybody still alive?" When suddenly he heard noises coming from the second floor. Mark found the stairs and ran up them and opened the door at the end. There were three people in the room, but the smoke blocked Mark's vision to get a good look at them. "Oy, Pleakely, I think six-two-six got somebody."
"Oh thank goodness!! The little monster did save us after all!" Were the first words spoken when Mark entered the room.
"Ok...is there a Lilo in the room?" Mark asked them. "Typical." the high pitched voice of Pleakely said, "I'm right here!" a little girl shouted. The voice appeared to have come from right next to her aunt and Uncle. Mark took off his jacket, rushed up to Lilo and put it around her to keep her from breathing in any more smoke. Mark looked at Jumba and Pleakely and said, "Ok you guys, I've done this over a million times before. Just follow my lead." Mark couldn't see it, but it looked as if they nodded. "Good, and try not to breath in too much smoke." Mark headed over to the stairs when suddenly Jumba interrupted, "Excuse me, but why not just go down elevator in next room?"
"Please Mr. Jumba. I'm a professional, and the stairs are the safest way to get to the bottom floor." Mark turned back around headed to the stairs, except when he turned the stairs had been completely burned down.
Mark turned back around and said, "On second thought. Where's that elevator..."
"It is in next room to right."
"But the elevator needs to be on the second floor for us to get down and it's on the bottom." Lilo complained. Mark looked back at where the stairway used to be. It appeared that if he jumped hard enough, he could get to the elevator area. Mark turned back to Jumba, Pleakely, and Lilo and ordered, "Ok, you guys get into the room, I'll get the elevator up."
"Are you insane!?" Pleakely shrieked, "You'll be burned alive!!"
"Don't bet on it. Mark Nissan never fails."
"What?" Jumba asked. "Just get to the next room and have a little faith." Mark replied. Jumba and Pleakely looked at each other curiously before taking Lilo and heading into the next room. Mark turned back to the non-existing stairway once more and jumped on the wall to his left, and then to the wall on the right of the stairway door. Mark ran along this wall for about 5 steps, and then jumped toward a ceiling beam, swung off that and landed on one of the three support beams, the support beam broke and Mark fell down, but he rolled and stopped just at the elevator and hit the button the instant he stopped, sending it up. Pleakely, who watched the whole thing could only say, "Oh no! He broke the support beam! He broke the support beam!"
Before following Jumba and Lilo in the next room. While they were making their escape, Stitch was still running around trying to get one of the firefighters to come inside, but none of them were paying attention. Stitch was about to get help from outside when suddenly one of the firefighters shouted, "Here they come!" as Mark, Lilo, Jumba, and Pleakely made it out safely. Mark was carrying Lilo while Pleakely and Jumba followed. Stitch saw them and rushed up to Mark, jumping up and down, trying to get to Lilo.
Mark let Lilo down and Stitch hugged her for a brief moment before a nurse pulled her away and put an oxygen mask over her mouth to give her sufficient oxygen. One of the firefighters walked up to Jumba and Pleakely and asked, "You two ok?" Pleakely just said one thing, "He broke...the support beam." Just before the house came crashing down to the ground. Jumba then interfered and answered, "We're fine, we're fine." Pleakely looked at Mark and then recognized him, now that the smoke was gone. "Oh my goodness!! It's Mark Nissan! Fascinating..."
"Eh, what is so special about Mark car person?" Jumba asked Pleakely, Mark was out of earshot and was making sure Lilo was ok. "What's so special? What's so special!? He's the only one who was too good for the CIA, he can come up with flawless plans in seconds, he's highly acrobatic, he graduated through all twelve levels of Earth education in just two days, and he's got a master's degree for just about everything...except construction. Which is probably the only thing he's not too good at."
"HA!! No better than Jumba, I graduated through all 345 levels of Turo system education in just one day and have six hundred and twenty four evil experiments designed to cause destruction and mayhem running around! Mwahahaha!!! But still, is only interesting Earth civilian here I see."
"Fasi--on no…not good, not good, not good!"
"What are you worried about now?"
"Mark is too smart, even with our disguises he'll still see whatever physical appearance we have that separates us from humans."
"Ah! You are worrying too much, he didn't know we were aliens when he was inside house."
"True. And he is the best person on this planet. I mean, a little smoke shouldn't have blocked his vision that badly."
"Exactly!! Now come, let's go meet car person Mark." Jumba said before he and Pleakely walked up to Mark.
Mark looked at Jumba and Pleakely and went completely speechless. He saw right through their disguises. Heck, he was surprised that nobody else seemed to be able too as well. Mark just stared at them in pure shock and terror for a few moments before his eyes rolled back into his head and he fainted. Jumba and Pleakely stopped in their tracks. Pleakely looked at Jumba with a closed-mouthed scowl on his face. "What?" Jumba asked. "I told you he would see through our disguises. I TOLD you!!"
"Oh thank goodness there you are--What did you guys do!?" Nani asked as she arrived at the scene and saw Mark passed out in the hospital van. "He uh...knows we're from space." Pleakely broke the news. "Today of all days. WHY did you have to be saved by a smart person!?"
"Hey, don't blame us, blame six-two-six! He fetched him." Jumba defensibly said. Nani looked at Stitch and scolded him. "Naga Stitch!" The little blue alien shouted in his defense. "Well somebody got him!" Nani exclaimed.
"Well, what do we do with him now that he knows about us?" Pleakely asked. "Maybe he can join us!" Lilo suddenly suggested. Jumba was the only one who started laughing uncontrollably. Upon realizing this, he nervously slowed to a stop. Pleakely then turned to Lilo and said, "That actually sounds like a good idea. I mean, this guy doesn't even have a family of his own."
"How do you know so much about Mark car person?" Jumba asked. "Mark car person?" Lilo asked. "Mark Nissan!" Pleakely corrected. Nani and Lilo screamed excitedly upon hearing his name and then looked at Mark. Hours later, Mark woke up in a hospital, Lilo, Nani, Stitch, Pleakely, and Jumba were at his bedside.
Mark saw Jumba and Pleakely again, but he was over the shock now. It was clear that they weren't going to harm him if they haven't done it yet. "So...you know what they are now?" Nani asked Mark. Mark looked up at Nani, smirked, and replied, "They tell you that? Yeah, I do, but don't worry, I'm not going to tell anybody." They all breathed a sigh of relief at these words. Lilo walked up to Mark and Stitch climbed onto his bed. Lilo requested, "We were wondering if you wanted to join us..."
"Join you in what? Are all of you aliens?" Mark asked. "No, only Jumba, Pleakely, and him." She said as she pointed at Stitch. Mark looked at Stitch who stretched out his hand and said, "H--h--hi." Mark smirked and said, "How cute." Stitch tilted his head cutely and Mark chuckled. "We're hunting experiments." Lilo suddenly said as an answer to his first question.
Mark sat up and asked Lilo, "What kind of experiments?"
"Alien experiments, like Stitch. We find them and take them to the one true place they belong around here."
"It's bound to keep you busy for long time, there's six hundred and twenty three still out there." Jumba said as he joined in. "And it's plenty dangerous." Pleakely said as he joined in. "And unlike the CIA, you won't be too good for us. Those two need all the help they can get." Nani said as she pointed to Lilo and Stitch. "So, will you join us?" Lilo asked. Mark thought about it a while before answering, "I'll have to give it a try though won't I. You guys get one chance to impress me. And only one. If I'm satisfied, I'll join your experiment hunt."
"Got it!" Lilo said excitedly and she and Mark shook hands. Stitch walked up to Mark's knees and gave him a cute stare. Mark saw this and began stroking Stitch's head. Stitch actually purred and nudged against Mark's hand, clearly showing that he liked it. A few hours later, two men were relaxing on the beach near a palm tree. One of them reached into a cooler, pulled out a soda drenched in water and said, "Oh man, the ice is already melting!" But his friend didn't seem to mind and offered to take the soda. He tossed it to him. As his friend opened the can a small, blue, ping-pong like ball with the number five one three on it fell out of the palm tree and landed into the cooler.
A flash of blue light startled to two men as a purple creature with a leaf-like tail suddenly appeared in their cooler and with one swing of his tail, broke their cooler, knocked them back, and caused what could possibly be a 5.0 on the Richter scale. The creature laughed at the destruction and mayhem it caused as people ran around screaming, rocks broke in half, faults were created, and a sunburned man's ice cream fell off his cone. Meanwhile, at a spaceship near a waterfall, a yellow experiment who was surrounded by some of the biggest sandwiches most people have ever seen, was spreading jam on a piece of bread while watching the news. "Geologists are still looking into the unusual quake centered at Lihue beach today that rocked the island this morning." was all that the television said before a deep voice suddenly shouted, "Six-two-five, turn that thing off!" The voice was coming from a tall shark-like alien who was messing with the wiring.
"I'm trying to get this communication relay back online, and you're not helping!" The shark with legs shouted. "Aww, what's the matter? Can't handle plugging in wires by yourself?" The yellow alien sarcastically replied. "At least I'll be ready in case of a sandwich shortage." he continued. "Shortage?" The sharkish alien questioned. At this point the yellow alien did a series of beeping noises that sounded like a news-breaker jingle as if to taunt the sharkish alien's level of intelligence before replying, "News flash from the crab nebula, space whale. There was a quake today. I'm not taking chances, I'm stocking up." Suddenly, a new voice shouted in the room. "Gantu?! You land-locked cetacean, why have you not reported?" A gerbil-like alien shouted at the sharkish alien from a television screen. Gantu just looked away for a moment and muttered, "I hate my life." before turning to the gerbil, Dr. Hamsterviel, and explaining that the communication relay was down.
"I pay you for results and all you do is disappoint! If you do not bring me an experiment soon, I will abuse you physically as well as verbally!" He threatened Gantu. "Understood sir." Was all that Gantu replied with. And then yet another voice was brought into the room, this time, it was a computer. "Experiment five-one-three activated. Primary function: Geological disruption." Gantu walked over to the computer and said, "Ah, a quake-making experiment." His boss simply said, "Excellent, bring it to me at once!" before the screen turned off. Gantu turned around and reached for a utility belt but it appeared that all it held were sandwiches. Gantu growled in frustration, changed his mind about the belt, and continued on leaving.
While at Lilo's newly built house, Jumba, Stitch, Lilo, and Mark were sitting on the living room couch while Pleakely was marching around explaining the quake as if he were a teacher, "I've called you all together for an earthquake readiness meeting. Now, planetary shaking is measured on what's called a 'Richter scale'. Today's quake was a 5.0, completely moderate and perfectly normal. But a good reminder to us all: Be prepared and do not panic, repeat, DO NOT PANIC!" Jumba suddenly interrupted, "I'm thinking you are panicking."
"Indeed." Mark agreed in a board tone.
"Me? Of course not! This planet is composed with a system of geological faults and plates that are in a constant flux which can lead to mass destruction!" Pleakely shouted before the Earth on the television screen suddenly blew up. This freaked Pleakely out and he began running around screaming, "What are we doing? We should all be panicking!" As Pleakely continued freaking out, Stitch jumped up, crawled along the wall to a potted plant, picked it up with his feet, and threw the water on Pleakely who suddenly calmed down and said, "Thanks, a face full of cold bonded hydrogen and oxygen always calms my nerves." At this point Mark interrupted, "Why didn't you just say water?" Pleakely just stared at him for a while before continuing, "Now where was I?"
"You were just telling us to no panic when you started panicking." Lilo answered calmly. "Oh right." Pleakely chuckled nervously before continuing, "I just wanted to make sure you're all prepared. That's why I put together these special earthquake kits. My research shows that these contain the items one needs in case of a quake." Pleakely then began pulling out certain objects and listing them while Mark put them in simple terms, "Dehydrated Protein supplements."
"Dehydrated meals."
"Re-hydration container."
"Water bottle."
"Handheld incadesant illuminator."
"Flashlight."
"Are you finished?"
"Are you?"
"No, with my outside expert experience, I've added a few items of my own: Anti-shaking belly buffer."
"Pillow."
"Stop it!"
The others appeared to be enjoying this, especially Jumba. There was a short pause before Pleakely continued, "Metallic cranial protector."
"Frying pan." At this point, Pleakely looked annoyed, but ignored Mark and continued, "Braided fiber quadruped restraint."
"Rope."
"Modulated frequency receiver."
"Radio."
"Emergency ouch reducer."
"First aid kit."
"And plenty of banded cloth adhesive to keep loose items in place."
"Bandages." Mark finished. Pleakely just glared at Mark and asked, "Are you going to be this difficult all the time?"
"That depends if you're going to keep throwing a bunch of random words together to form sentences that hardly anybody will understand."
There was a knock at the door and a man's voice called for Nani. Lilo rushed up to the door and opened it. "Hey Lilo, your sister home?"
"Yeah, but I don't think she's feeling too well, she said something about having a bit zit."
"Lilo!" Nani shouted as she walked in the room. She approached the door and continued, "No, I'm fine."
"Then what were you popping when--" Nani covered Lilo's mouth but was only slightly effective as Lilo then licked her sister's arm, grossing her out and forcing her to let go. Nani quickly rubbed the saliva off, chuckled nervously and commented, "What a darling."
"Yeah...OH! Mr. Wong wants you down at the rental hut."
"What? I'm not due in today."
"I know, but that quake today was centered near the beach...it did some damage." Nani groaned but Lilo was excited to show Mark what they do and ran up to him. "We're about to go down to Nani's job down at the rental hut, want to come? If we're lucky, we'll run into an experiment."
"Yeah, sure. It's better than being stuck here with nothing to do but watch Pleakely panic over nothing." Pleakely glared at Mark as he finished his sentence. "Ok...then let's go on down to the rental hut!"
"Wait a minute, I never agreed to--" Nani began but was interrupted as Lilo dragged Mark out of the house and Stitch swiftly followed. A while later, they were at the rental hut, and boy...was it a mess. Everything was thrown everywhere.
The only thing that appeared to have not received any damage at all was a shake machine near the front counter. "I need you to put everything back on the shelves. Luckily, the new shake machine wasn't damaged, it's the only thing around here that makes us any money." Mr. Wong said as he began polishing the shake machine. "Mr. Wong, it's my day off." Nani complained. "Not anymore." Mark sarcastically replied. Nani glared at him and Mark explained, "Sorry, I only get like this when I'm bored to tears." Nani turned back to Mr. Wong as he asked, "Hey, you like your job, right?"
"I'm...all about surf shop rentalling."
"Good. I'll be back later to see how you are doing." Mr. Wong said as he left the hut. Lilo began walking around and said, "It looks like the hut threw up." Mark saw the opportunity and replied, "That's putting it mildly."
"Lilo, you, and Stitch clean over on that side, David and I will start over here, and Mark...keep an eye on Stitch." Nani ordered. Stitch began helping by putting up an oxygen tank, but the second he did, it hissed loudly as it let out some air. This shocked the little blue alien for a moment and then made him curious. He touched it again and then it was all a blur after that, but he ended up accidentally breaking the shake machine. "Well...that's not good." Said Mark who was laying on the floor covering his head. He got back up just as Nani noticed the damage. "Oh no! Not the shake machine! Mr. Wong is going to explode!" At this moment Stitch picked up the orange ball and jumped on the counter. Ironically, Mark jumped on the counter as well. Both Mark and Stitch then kicked the shake machine to make its top half connect to its bottom half. Stitch then placed the orange ball on top of it. Then both Mark and Stitch just threw their hands in the air at the same time. "There, good as new!" Mark said just as Stitch said, "Takida!" However, they both knew the reality of it as the orange ball fell off of the machine and their hands dropped to their sides.
"That's it! You three are going home where you won't get me into any more trouble!" Nani shouted as she pushed Lilo, Stitch, and Mark out of the hut. "...Why am I out here?" Mark wondered. Lilo shrugged and then Stitch tried to eat the orange ball. Lilo pulled it away from him just in time and said, "No Stitch! You gotta learn to be more careful, you can't just break things all the time." She gave it back and continued, "If you like something, you gotta take care of it. Otherwise you won't have it anymore." Upon hearing these words, Stitch nudged against the orange ball and purred. Suddenly Gantu's voice was heard over a hill where they were at. They approached it and peered over the hill and got a good look at Gantu who was talking to two humans. "Excuse me Earth forms, have you seen any unusual creatures after today's quake?"
"Just you." One of them said. "Why are you so big?" Said the other. "I'm from the eighth planet in the Kreplot system where--I mean...I'm from Samoa."
"Well, alright. Now we know." Lilo crawled back behind the hill and said, "He must be looking for an experiment!" Mark was completely baffled, turned to Lilo and asked, "Who's the walking shark? Kind of thick-headed for someone from space."
"His name's Gantu, but we all call him dummy head." Lilo explained. "Sounds appropriate." Mark replied. Lilo turned to Stitch and continued, "I wonder if the experiment has anything to do with the new earthquake."
"Hey now, that'd be something. It'd be the first interesting thing that's happened since I gave this whole thing a try." Mark commented. It was clear that they weren't meeting his expectations so far. Back at the house, Jumba was searching his database for the experiment that causes earthquakes while Mark and Lilo watched and Stitch was playing with his orange ball. "Ah yes, that would be experiment five-one-three. Is earthquake maker."
"It just shakes things?" Lilo asked. "Just Shaking?" Jumba questioned as he laughed and then continued, "Little girl is not understanding, five-one-three--" Jumba began, but was interrupted by Mark, who was scanning the computer and reading the devastating effects that five-one-three could cause, however, the text was in extra terrestrial writing, "Is programmed to find the weakest point on the island to cause one huge earthquake. Seriously, it's going to be huge, the Richter scale wouldn't even be able to measure this kind of earthquake. What happened earlier today was just a little taste. This is awesome!"
"No it's not, this is terrible!" Lilo corrected. "Of course it's terrible, the entire island could split in half. But man! I can't wait to see this thing in action!" Jumba, Lilo and Stitch were just staring at Mark. "...What? Nobody's usually ever excited to see these things in action?"
"No...not really." Lilo replied. "Most Likely five-one-three will head for big fault at base of volcano. It is imperative that--" Jumba began but was interrupted by Mark again, "We don't let it go underground right?"
"...Right. You are very intelligent for Earth being." Jumba complimented. "Is there any way to stop it?" Lilo asked. "These Cartridges will help to capture experiment." Jumba answered as he held up some sort of green goo in a plastic packaging. "Is filled with very sticky substance to hold five one three." When Jumba finished his sentence he looked back at Mark. "What?" Mark asked when he saw this. "You did not interrupt Jumba. I was kind of expecting it." Jumba answered. "Well, I just thought that you should have this one." Mark replied. Mark didn't want to share the fact that he had no idea what the purpose for the substance was before Jumba explained. Stitch reached into the bag of cartridges and pulled out the gun for them. He back flipped and tested its aim just before Pleakely came in and shouted, "Hold on! Nobody's going anywhere. Not without their Earthquake kits."
"Yeah, earthquake kits, right." A mesmerized Mark said as he stared at the computer screen and continued examining five-one-three's abilities.
Pleakely just stared at Mark before he slammed a bucket on Jumba's head and continued, "Come on Jumba, time for another Earthquake drill."
"Eh, no more with the drilling." A desperate Jumba whined. Pleakely ran over to the bed and demonstrated as he said, "Now remember, Duck, cover, and scream, AHHH!!" This caught Mark's attention, but it wasn't a good type of attention. Mark looked at Pleakely in a repulsed way as he continued demonstrating the coward's way of handling an earthquake. "Sometime I feel really embarrassed for him." Lilo commented. "Yeah, I'm glad I don't have to do that." Mark agreed before looking at Jumba. "Uh...well, we better go, come on Lilo." Mark nervously continued before leaving the area, Lilo and Stitch trailing behind.
A short while later, they managed to find five-one-three as he crawled out from a bush, seeming pleased with himself as he laughed. "Come on, let's get him sticky!" Lilo eagerly suggested. Mark, Lilo, and Stitch then cut the experiment off as Lilo yelled, "Hold it right there shaky guy!" Stitch pointed the sticky gun at five-one-three, who slammed his tail on the ground, creating yet another earthquake. Lilo and Stitch lost their balance on the shaking ground, but Mark managed to keep his. "Amazing!" Mark said with awe in his voice. Mark pulled out a camera and shouted, "Show me that again, that was so awesome!" Five-one-three did as Mark requested and Mark took pictures of the experiment in action. "Is this really necessary?" Lilo asked Mark as he finished his snapshots of the experiment. "Why yes, yes it is." As they were talking, Gantu suddenly appeared, grabbed Stitch and threw him into a palm tree. Stitched bounced around between two palm trees that were very close together for a while before falling down to the ground and getting bombarded with coconuts. "Is he going to be alright?" A concerned Mark asked Lilo.
"Oh for crying out loud, the trog is indestructible! He'll be fine!" An annoyed Gantu answered before asking Lilo, "Hey, who's the new guy? How come I'm not lucky enough to get a new guy?" As Gantu asked this, five-one-three saw the opportunity to escape into a hole in the volcano. Lilo, Stitch, and Mark quickly followed it and tried to stop it but were too late. "Jumba said not to let him get underground didn't he?"
"Malaqueesta." Stitch complained just as Mark said, "This isn't good." A loud crash was heard and rocks began to slide down the volcano. "We have to go after him!" A determined Lilo suggested. Stitch growled and pointed behind them. Gantu was making his way up the volcano. Stitch and Mark ran up to him. Stitch reached for his sticky gun but it wasn't there. "Oh, did you drop your little blaster?" Gantu asked in a mocking tone before pulling his own out and continuing, "Well I didn't!" Stitch growled. But Mark decided to take action and said, "Not today, dummy head!" Before Jumping on Gantu's Blaster, flipping over his head and biting him on the fin. "OW!! Blitsnak!!!" Gantu shouted as he completely lost focus on everything else except getting Mark off his fin.
Lilo made her way down the volcano, grabbed Stitch's sticky gun and tossed it to him. Mark flipped off of Gantu and pointed one of his EMP cannons at him, Gantu was about to shoot Mark with his blaster when Mark suddenly disabled Gantu's gun with his. "Oh...Blitsnak!" Gantu said again as he looked at his disabled Blaster. Stitch caught his sticky gun and shot Gantu, covering him in the sticky green substance. Gantu struggled with it as Lilo caught up with them. "It's sticky!" Gantu shouted as he tried to break free. Mark saw the opportunity and pushed Gantu down the volcano with one finger. As Gantu rolled down the volcano, he shouted, "I hate sticky!" Stitch put the sticky gun in Lilo's backpack and all three of them headed into the volcano. "Can it be any darker in here?" Lilo asked just before another rock slide blocked their entrance. "Great." Lilo said sarcastically. Stitch closed his eyes while Mark reached into his torso pocket, pulled out a pair of shades, and put them on.
Stitch opened his eyes, which were now glowing green while Mark flicked the right lens frame, activating the night vision specialty of his shades. Stitch and Mark looked around and spotted five-one-three on one of the walls. As the experiment lifted his tail, Mark reluctantly said, "Oh no...That's not good...the batteries on this thing are dying." As he pulled off his shades and looked at them. The experiment completed its attempt to cause yet another quake as it slammed its tail on the wall. Lilo and Stitch fell again, while Mark remained standing. "How do you do that?" Lilo asked. "What, stand? It's easy." Mark answered. Lilo pulled out her flashlight and shined it on the experiment. "There he is!" She shouted. Stitch fired a few rounds of a few rounds of his sticky gun, trailing the experiment, but missing all shots. "And there he goes." Lilo said as he went around a corner. Stitch followed. Five-one-three climbed down from the wall, thinking he was safe when Stitch suddenly attacked him by surprise from above.
After a short struggle, Stitch went flying out of the volcano as the experiment threw him off his head, followed by Lilo who was also thrown out by the experiment. Stitch caught Lilo. Mark, however, climbed out. As he reached the ground, he said to Lilo, "You know, you could have climbed out the whole time if you wanted to." Lilo glared at Mark before turning back to the volcano just as another earthquake blocked their new entrance. "That could have gone better." Lilo commented. "Yeah, I agree. We should have had a truck with a giant drill on the top of it." Mark replied. Lilo and Stitch looked at him as if he had just said the smartest thing in the world since they met him. "What? It's not like I don't think up genius plans every day." Mark said before Stitch remembered his orange ball and checked Lilo's backpack for it. Stitch pulled it out, nudged it a bit, put it back and said, "Ih!" A while later, they were back at Lilo's house and Jumba was working on the truck with a giant drill that Mark suggested.
Jumba slid out from under the truck and complimented Mark on the intelligence of the idea. Lilo, who was inside the truck with Stitch pulled on the lever that activated the drill. "Cool, I feel like a giant dentist. Let's go Stitch...Stitch?" Stitch was too busy playing with his ball to listen. Jumba snatched the ball away and asked, "six-two-six, what are you playing with? Huh, looks like citrus orb." Stitch snatched the ball back as Mark said, "Why do you guys always do that? Why don't you just call it an orange!? I give up." Jumba ignored Mark's question. Lilo explained to Jumba, "He doesn't like people touching his orange ball, he's learning how to take care of things." Suddenly, another quake was emitted, freaking Pleakely out as he ran to the truck screaming, "More shaking! Not good! We need another quake drill! Duck, cover, and AHHH! Duck, cover, and AHH!" Lilo, Stitch, and Mark just stared at him as he ran away from the truck. "Rock 'N Hula!" Lilo said as she put on her seatbelt, "Akuta!" Stitch shouted as he put on his, "Let's do this then!" Mark joined in as he hopped on the roof of the truck.
A confused Lilo looked out and asked, "Aren't you coming inside the truck?"
"No, it's a two passenger only vehicle. I'll be fine up here, I always am." Mark answered. Lilo and Stitch shrugged and Stitch put it into gear and drove off. Back at the volcano, Gantu finally managed to break free from the sticky substance that Stitch covered him in. His blaster was also functioning normally again. "At last!" The big shark said victoriously as he threw it off of him. As he stood up, he felt a heavy weight on his back, reached behind him, and pulled out a large capsule filled with sandwiches. "What in the horse head nebula? Sandwiches?!" Gantu groaned as he opened the capsule, emptied it, and put it back on his back. Suddenly, he felt something in his shirt, pulled it open, reached down there, and pulled out another sandwich. "Six-two-five, I'm gonna--!" Gantu began, but stopped short as he smelled the sandwich and continued, "Toasted bacon and raisin? Just like mum used to make."
Before taking a bite out of it and continued walking toward the volcano. Splat was the next sound hear as Gantu stepped onto the sticky substance he had just thrown off of himself. "Oh blitsnak!" The clumsy alien shouted as he tried to break himself free but was flung away from the volcano by the sticky substance and hit a tree. Lilo, Stitch, and Mark arrived back at the volcano and drove up the steep wall in their new vehicle. The suddenly stopped as Lilo said, "Ok, the earth is a decayed molar and we're the dentists. Let's drill!" Stitch acted on command, drilled straight through the rock, and drove through, leaving a gaping hole in the volcano's wall. Gantu walked back up, apparently exhausted but determined as he panted the whole way. As he saw the hole his rivals left behind, he couldn't help but laugh and say to himself, "This is going to be easy." Inside the Volcano, the trio were looking for five-one-three.
Lilo was shining her flashlight on the ceiling as she looked for the experiment as she said, "He's gotta be around here somewhere." Stitch suddenly pointed forward and shouted "Icha!" Just as Mark pointed forward and shouted, "That way!"
"Follow the cracks and the shaking!" Lilo ordered. "Oh, brilliant plan. How did you ever come up with that one?" Mark replied sarcastically. Lilo gave Mark a hidden glare as he couldn't see it where he was at. Lilo spotted the experiment, pointed to it and shouted, "Up there!" Stitch and Mark looked up where Lilo was shining her flashlight and saw five-one-three slam his tail on the ceiling, causing another cave in. Stitch began driving again for Mark's safety and veered into a tunnel, the experiment followed. Five-one three jumped off of the ceiling and knocked Mark off the roof of the truck as he landed on it. Mark landed on the hood and Stitch hit the brakes.
"Hey!" Mark said before he pointed to the roof of the truck and continued, "He took my seat." Just before the experiment looked through the truck's front window and growled. Five-one-three reached inside Stitch's side of the truck, grabbed his orange ball, and then hopped on top of the drill, which was now turned off. Stitch went after him with the sticky gun, but five-one-three swung his tail to keep Stitch away and knocked the gun out of his hand. He then jumped off of the drill, curled up into a ball, and rolled around a corner very swiftly with the ball in his possession. Stitch jumped after him. Five-one-three rolled through a wall and caused another cave-in, this time, weakening the floor that the truck was on. Mark noticed this as the truck began to tilt and reached inside to save Lilo. Stitch was then trying to make a decision to save Mark and Lilo or go after his precious ball. Mark's reach just wasn't long enough, so he tried climbing even further to Lilo and continued to reach for her, but then the ground gave way and Lilo fell with the truck and Mark.
Mark grabbed the ledge of the ground rock and could only watch as Lilo continued to fall, it pained him that he couldn't reach her in time. Stitch then made his decision to save Lilo and jumped after her, caught the truck and made his way back to the original level of ground he was just on. Mark was impressed with Stitch's strength but more glad that the little blue alien was able to save Lilo. Mark pulled himself up just as Stitch tossed the truck in the air, flipped back onto the surface, caught it again and set it down. "Nice catch!" Lilo commented as Stitch hopped in and buckled his seatbelt. "Indeed, that was impressive." Mark commented before hopping on the roof of the truck again and turning his attention to Lilo as he asked, "Why didn't you tell me he was so strong?"
"Because I knew you would find out sooner or later." Lilo answered. Stitch drove after the experiment, who continued down the tunnel he created and blocked the other end of it by causing another cave-in.
Stitch drilled through the rocks and cornered the experiment, who cowered against a wall as the drill came dangerously near him. The drill shut down before Lilo poked her head out and said to the experiment, "You need a time-out mister!"
"Yeah, what she said." Mark agreed. Stitch left the vehicle and grabbed the orange ball that was in five-one-three's mouth and tried to pull it away from him, saying, "Mine...grrr, mine!" When suddenly, out of nowhere, Gantu grabbed Stitch by the scruff, said, "No, mine." Before throwing Stitch off over the ledge and forcing the experiment in his capsule. Mark went after Stitch while Lilo went up to Gantu and began kicking the back of his leg with very little effect while demanding, "Give him back you big dummy!" Mark looked over the ledge and saw that Stitch had landed on another surface just below it.
"You earth forms are so pathetic." Gantu said to Lilo. Mark stood up, turned to Gantu and said, "I'll show you pathetic!" Before stomping his foot on the ground just as Stitch punched the wall, making it look like Mark was as strong as Stitch, but revealing the truth when Stitch climbed back to the surface behind Mark and trying to free the experiment which fell out of Gantu's grip when Stitch punched the wall. Gantu quickly recovered from his little stumble and pointed his plasma gun at Stitch, who put his hands up as Gantu shouted, "Enough!" Gantu said this so fast, he bit his tongue. Gantu picked up the capsule, throwing Stitch over the ledge again, and shot the controls of the truck and said, "This should keep you off my tail." Gantu then made his escape via grapple hook. Mark looked at Lilo and asked, "Well...now what? The dummy head took Stitch's ball and the experiment."
"We escape and take the experiment back, that's what." Lilo answered just before heading over to the truck, checking out the controls and making the comment, "Looks like when Pleakely tried to light the barbeque." Suddenly, the cavern started to cave in once more, and Stitch moved the truck to a safer location, or so he thought. The ceiling began to collapse, dropping very large rocks toward them. Lilo remembered Pleakely's drill and followed the procedures while Stitch jumped on top of the truck and broke all of the large rocks, with one punch each. "Pleakely's right, it works." Lilo commented when it was over, before looking back at the controls and continued, "This, on the other hand, is toast." Another quake worried Stitch, but Mark kept his cool and arrived just as Stitch reached into the controls, pulled out the right wires and said, "Canjijiba! Zizz zizz!" and accidentally electrocuted himself.
Mark calmly took the wires, plugged them in the correct way and fixed the vehicle instantly. Stitch shook Mark's hand, accidentally shocking him with the static that still remained in him from the recent electrocution and said, "Mahalo!"
"Ow!! Not a problem." Mark replied before hopping on top of the truck as Stitch drove away. At a gas station, a man was just finished with filling his car with fuel when suddenly, Stitch drilled out of the ground and made his way to the surface while Mark held onto the top of the truck. Stitch looked at the man, waved at him and said, "H--h--hi."
"Ugh." The man said in disgust as he saw Stitch before continuing, "These tourists get uglier every year." and drove away as Mark shook his fist in the air and shouted, "He's not ugly!"
Jumba and Pleakely walked out of the gas station after Mark shouted this. Pleakely was holding bags of supplies while Jumba was just reading a newspaper. Jumba stopped when he spotted Mark, Lilo, and Stitch, causing Pleakely to bump into him and fall to the floor, dropping the bags. "Mark, six-two-six and little girl!" Jumba greeted. Mark, Lilo and Stitch left the Truck, and ran up to Jumba and Pleakely. "What are you guys doing here?" Lilo asked them. "Isn't it obvious?" Mark asked before continuing, "They're here because Pleakely dragged Jumba out of the house to pick up more useless quake supplies that would never actually help anybody during an earthquake." All was silent as Mark's long sentence processed through their minds. "Oh, that makes sense." Lilo suddenly replied when she thought about it. Pleakely then argued, "It's not useless." Before holding up a toy windmill and saying, "Aren't these fascinating? Personal wind-powered generator!" Mark was about to make yet another sarcastic remark about it when Jumba suddenly interrupted and asked, "Where is experiment five-one-three?"
"Gantu got him." Lilo regrettably answered. Stitch then began whining and crying about his orange ball that he no longer had. Mark noticed this and stroked Stitch's head in an attempt to make him feel better. Stitch purred and nudged against Marks hand like he did the first time Mark did this, but it didn't make him feel any better about his ball. "And what is wrong with six-two-six?" Jumba asked. "He's sad because five-one-three took his orange ball." Lilo answered. "Is just citrus orb." Jumba explained before continuing, "Why to make with the salt-water eyes?"
"Stitch is learning how to take care of things." Lilo explained again as she continued, "And the ball was his." Mark stopped stroking Stitch's head, but his hand still rested upon it as Stitch said, "Ih."
"Aww, he's just got a case of the grumpies." Pleakely replied before doing some ridiculous baby-talk to Stitch as his toy windmill got closer to him. "Uh Pleakely, I don't think that's a good--" Mark began before Stitch bit off the top of the windmill and spit it out. "Idea." Mark finished as he resumed stroking Stitch's head, encouraging more nudging and purring from him. "Hey! That was a specialized piece of quake radius equipment!" Pleakely scolded. "Somehow, I seriously doubt that." Mark replied sarcastically before another earthquake happened, causing Jumba and Pleakely to fall to the ground. "I thought you were saying five-one-three was captured." Jumba reminded. "Yeah." Lilo agreed in a sad tone. "Then why is Earth still shaking? Is very curious." Jumba pulled out a strange looking PDA while Mark thought about it. "Ohh! Is very bad!" Jumba began but Mark intervened and stole Jumba's moment again as he said, "He must have started a chain reaction of quakes with all of the cave-ins he was causing down there." More shaking was made, harder this time as the ground below them began to crack and even Mark started to lose his balance. "Ok, this is serious. The strongest quake I can handle without losing my balance is a 9.0!" Mark said as the current quake stopped and he regained his balance. "We are going to be bifurcated!" Jumba said suddenly. "Oh goody!" Pleakely said cluelessly.
"No, is bad!" Jumba and Mark corrected Pleakely at the same time. Mark let Jumba continue, "Because if we do not stop cracking, planet will split in two!"
"...And I thought the island splitting in half was bad enough." Mark replied in a worried tone. "What do we do?" Lilo asked. "Pack bags for leaving!" Jumba answered before turning to Pleakely and demanding, "And don't forget my slippers this time!"
"No packing! Saving planet." Lilo replied as Stitch went to go get some wet concrete. "Hmm...a billion-to-one chance but...another crack in ground at exact right angle to first crack might be blocking bifurcation and stopping chain reaction. But how?" Jumba said as a demonstration of the positive effect was played back on his PDA. "Five-one-three!" Mark and Stitch suggested at the same time.
"Another quake...that's it!" Lilo agreed. "It's worth a try." Jumba said before Pleakely managed to hide in the bucket on his head and asked, "You want to make another quake...on purpose? Are you mad!?"
"Do you REALLY want that answered?" Mark asked Pleakely. "No, please don't answer that." Pleakely replied. "We gotta hurry and find Gantu's ship!" Lilo suggested as she and Stitch walked away. "This whole time, I thought you knew where it was." Mark replied as he followed them. Back at Gantu's ship, Gantu was having a rough time with the experiment. "You will get transported to Hamsterviel and you will like it!" Gantu shouted before trapping the experiment in the transportation chamber. "Have an unpleasant trip." Gantu said as he walked over to the controls and attempted to start the transport but another quake caused him to accidentally start the auto-cleaning system, spraying his face with non-acidic sterilization.
"Chubi Chiba!" Stitch shouted just as Mark shouted, "Hold it right there!" Gantu turned around and realized it was his rivals. "You!" He shouted just before Stitch jumped on his face, causing Gantu to lose his balance and fall into a hidden stash of sandwiches. Lilo ran up to the controls while Mark ran up to Stitch and Gantu. Lilo pushed the wrong buttons and accidentally started the molecular transport. "Uh-oh." She said before calling to Stitch for help. Gantu got up and grabbed Stitch, who bit his hand. "Ow, that can't be sanitary!" Gantu said as he dropped the little blue alien. Gantu pointed his blaster at Mark and fired, but Mark caught the plasma substance with his hand, but was careful to keep it on the gloved part. "Oh Blitsnak." Gantu said as he saw this. "Yeah." Mark replied as he tossed the plasma stuff in his hand, "Every thread of clothing I'm wearing is heat resistant and flame proof. I made it for my firefighting days." Mark threw the plasmas tuff at Gantu, knocking him down. As Gantu got back up, he said to Mark, "I've never known the word abomination until now. You're worse than the trog!"
"Why thank you. However, I..." Mark began as he kicked Gantu in the knee with enough force to hurt him, causing Gantu to hold his knee and began bouncing on one foot. "...beg..." Mark continued as he swept under Gantu's foot and tripped him. "To differ." Mark finished as Stitch caught Gantu and threw him into the transportation chamber, freeing five-one-three and sending Gantu to Hamsterviel. Six-two-five walked into the room his hands full of sandwiches and said in disgust, "Oh great, company. I'll go make some more." Before heading back into the kitchen. Another quake reminded Stitch of his cousin. "Relax! I took care of it." Lilo comforted Stitch as she was standing next to a tied up yet smiling five-one-three.
She put the toy windmill right next to him as a finishing touch and said, "Perfect. This kit does come in handy." Lilo picked up the orange ball and handed it to Stitch who took it and nudged it and said, "Da-boochibu!" A while later, Mark, Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakely were all gathered around a fault line. "Maybe we should play safe and abandon globe altogether." Jumba suggested. "Yeah, I'm getting hoarse from all of this dropping and screaming." Pleakely replied. "Then stop dropping and screaming then, and maybe your throat will feel better." Mark replied to Pleakely sarcastically. Pleakely just glared at Mark again as Lilo replied to Jumba, "But it's our planet, he's just gotta fix it! If the world is destroyed there'll be nothing left to care about, not even for him." As she turned to five-one-three, who turned away and shouted, "Shibito!"
"Igata!" Stitch barked at him angrily. More rumbling worried Stitch even more and once again, Stitch found himself making the choice about whether or not to give up his precious ball in order to save the planet. Finally, he came to a decision. "If you do that." He began as he pointed to the fault. "Bebu." He finished as he pointed to the ball. "Ah, six-two-six has offered deal. If five-one-three can prove he can take care of things by fixing crack in planet, Stitch will give him precious citrus ball." Jumba explained. "Stitch's language is very efficient." Pleakely replied before another huge earthquake was caused, making them all lose their balance. Five-one-three thought about it in a very short amount of time before saying, "Ih!"
"He'll do it!" Lilo said triumphantly. "I am warning you, five-one-three can be very sneaky. I am not trusting him." Jumba protested. "His name is Richter." Lilo corrected. "Hey, that's pretty catchy." Mark commented. "Mahalo." Lilo replied before continuing to Jumba, "You've got to have a little faith in people Jumba. Sometimes they'll surprise you."
"Do we really want to qualify this as a person?" Mark sarcastically replied. Everybody except Stitch glared at Mark then. "Right...I'll stop talking now." Mark replied as he saw their glares. Lilo and Stitch put the capsule that Richter was being contained in near the fault line and opened it up. Richter hopped in and did his thing. It was successful, and timed just right as the two cracks collided and ended the Earth's devastation. "HAHA!! Look, five-one-three is saving Earth globe!" Jumba said with triumph.
"But what about Richter?" A worried Lilo questioned. Stitch listened very carefully for any sign of Richter and went over to a collapsed hole in the ground. Stitch laughed excitedly, dug underground, and pushed Richter out. Lilo hugged Richter and said, "Thanks Richter. You rock!" Stitch arrived and pulled out his orange ball and hesitated for a bit, but then smiled and gave it to Richter, who gratefully accepted it. "I totally know the one place you belong!" A happy Lilo said. "As do I." Mark replied. Lilo and Mark both looked at each other and nodded. Back at the rental hut, a very long line was made as a sign the read "Quake Shakes" was planted in front of it. Inside the rental hut, Richter, Lilo, Stitch, and Nani were making milk shakes. Richter was replacing the broken shake Machine that Stitch broke earlier. Mark was watching. When the line was gone, he walked up to Nani and asked, "Hey, earlier, why did you push me out?"
"Because you didn't stop Stitch from breaking the only thing that got us any money." Nani answered simply. "But Nani," Mark began, "I have a master's degree in almost everything. This includes electronics and repair. And since I'm now a part of your Ohana, I could have fixed that machine within minutes and completely free of charge." Nani just stared at him with her mouth open and then fainted at her own cluelessness. "Um...Nani?" A concerned Mark asked his now foster sister as he looked down at her. A while later, back at the house, Mark was walking in when the Family was standing in the living room, right in front of the door. "We've got some things to talk about." An upset Pleakely told Mark. Mark sat down on the couch and looked at them.
"Well, let's start then." He said seriously. "Well, Mark, according to what you told Nani earlier, it appears that you have accepted our offer." Pleakely began. "Okay." Mark replied. "But the way you've been acting today. With all of your sarcasm and rudeness. We don't accept yours." Mark was speechless as his mouth opened slightly. "Now, I know this is bad for you, without having any family and all. But the truth of it is, you're really not famil-"
"Wait." Stitch interrupted. The little blue alien knew how Mark felt right now. He had felt a similar pain about a year ago. "No family...doesn't know how to behave properly." Stitch continued, "Just like Stitch." Everybody widened their eyes at these words and they looked at each other in realization. He was right. In many aspects, Mark really was just like Stitch. "Stitch changed. Mark can change." The alien said in defense to their new member. "He's right." Lilo agreed, "Mark can change for the better if we give him time to."
"Probability is highly unlikely, but it was not my idea to reject Mark car person." Jumba replied. "Mark Nissan!" Everybody corrected. It was clear that they had just changed their minds about kicking Mark to the curb. And for his last minute rescue, Mark stroked Stitch's head again, causing Stitch to nudge and purr even more. "Welcome to the Ohana Mark." Lilo pleasantly greeted as she prepared for a group shot with their new family member, Mark Nissan. After the picture was taken, Mark asked, "So, how many more experiments are out there?"
"Oh, about six hundred and twenty five." Jumba answered, Mark's jaw dropped as he couldn't help but wonder what on earth he just got himself into.