Chapter 1: Saving the Experiments
Stitch lay on his bed and looked up at the stars. It was Friday night. Stitch thought about the experiments that Gantu still had in his ship that Hamsterviel did not want. It was time to get them back! He rolled off of his bed and walked over to Lilo's bed where she slept peacefully. He shook the girl gently.
Lilo yawned and rubbed her eyes as she asked groggily, "Stitch, what is it?"
"Get cousins from Gantu!" Stitch replied with enthusiasm.
"What? This early? It's 1:30! In the morning!"
"Ih!" Stitch answered. "Iki Baba."
"Ok, ok, I'm coming," Lilo said sleepily as she pulled herself out of bed.
Lilo got dressed in one of her usual red muumuus, slowly waking herself up with the process. The pair then snuck quiety out of the house so no one else would wake. They decided to pushed the buggy a few yards from the house before starting it. This would give them less of a chance to be discovered by any of the others.
Hopping into the buggy, they sped off to Gantu's ship. The buggy was parked several yards away so that the ship's duo would not be alerted. The experiment catcher exited the vehical and crept quietly towards the ship. With as much patients and care as he could muster, Stitch broke in and looked around. He signaled Lilo that all was clear and she walked in cautiously behind him.
Tuning up his ears, Stitch heard Gantu saying, "625, go check on the experiments."
"But it's 1:45 AM!" the pudgy experiment protested. He sounded like he had just been awakened.
"Go!" ordered Gantu.
"Fine!" 625 half yawned and half retorted
Hearing 652's footsteps approaching them, Stitch quickly hid with Lilo. 625 walked around the corner, unknowingly persued by Stitch with Lilo close behind. The sleepy sandwitch-maker pushed some buttons on a keypad on a wall, causing it to shoot upward into the ceiling. Stitch saw past his still grumbling cousin to the experiments in container pods. There were Fibber, Hunka Hunka, Angel, Nosey, and Felix (Oscar). At the next second, Stitch jumped 625.
"Aah-!" 625 tried to screamed, suddenly awake.
Stitch put one of his clawed paws around 625's mouth and held him pinned to the ground.
"Shh!" Stitch hushed him. "Goobaja."
"Go? Go where?" whispered the confused 625 when Stitch slowly released him.
"With us," Stitch explained softly, worried that Gantu would discover them at any second.
"Why?" 625 asked, still not understanding.
"So we can name you and find your own true place," cut in Lilo, also talking quietly.
"Like where?" 625 questioned, just having noticed the girl.
"Like a sandwich shop or restaurant," answered Lilo after a moment. "And we can call you Deli."
"Ih!" Stitch agreed.
"Isn't that better than working for Gantu?" Lilo prodded.
"I guess," shrugged 625, his sleepiness catching back up with him. As long as he could get some sleep he would be happy.
Stitch nodded and moved toward the containers the experiments were in. Swiftly and quietly, he opened them. He then instructed them to follow him, not forgetting to tell them to keep any noise to a minimum. They all nodded rather excitedly and hurriedly followed him out of the ship. Lilo and 625, or Deli, brought up the rear.
"We'll find all of you guys' one true place tomorrow," explained Lilo with a stiffled yawn. "Tonight you can sleep with us. It's still really late."
"If ya' wanna get technical 'bout it," cut in Deli, needing to get in his two cents even when he was practically asleep on his feet, "it's very, very early."
The experiments nodded and followed Lilo and Stitch back to the buggy. It was a tight fit, but everyone managed to find a spot. Felix and Fibber made themselves comfortable, crawling into the spare experiment case attached to the back of the buggy. Nosey and Deli curled up in the back, Hunka Hunka arranging himself on the sleeping Deli's head. Angel sat in the front with Lilo and Stitch.
Everyone- minus Deli, of course- kept looking back at the ship, expecting Gantu to come out at any moment and come after them. All those still awake- again, everybody but Deli- remained restless until they had safely reached their destination.
Lilo and Stitch, feeling quite accomplished, led the others into their house. They all went in Lilo and Stitch's room to lay down for the night. It would probably take Gantu a while to find that they had disappeared, and even then he did not know about the break-in. It would most likely take him a bit to link the peices.
An hour later, Stitch felt someone tap him on his shoulder. He forced open his eyes and saw Angel standing over him.
"Follow me," Angel said in a whisper.
"Okataka," Stitch answered, still half asleep and not fully comprehensive.
Angel led Stitch to Nani's room, where all the experiments were sleeping on Nani's bed. Because of the limited comfortable sleeping areas in the tower that Lilo and Stitch shared, they had gone in search of somewhere to else to settle. The first thing they had found was Nani's bed, which just happened to be able to fit all of them. Angel and Stitch joined them and fell asleep as well. Sleep was not fully peaceful, however, as dreams of what would happen when Gantu finally came after them haunted their subconcious thoughts.
A/N I hoped you all liked that chapter. The name, Deli, for 625 was originally thought of by Frostbite-obsessive idiot. I'll update when I have at least three reviews.