Meanwhile...
"Girls, I have very exciting news," Moses said to his students. "This week, is our May Day cele-"
"Sorry we're late!" Lilo ran into the school with Stitch, Patch, and Darla. "By the way, Darla's back in town!"
"Yeah and just in time for May Day celebration!" Darla smiled.
"But first, you have to see this, I got my Oole Oole Technique down." Lilo stood on stage and took out a maraca.
"Uh, Lilo...?" Moses tried to stop her.
Lilo took out the maraca and tried out her routine while Stitch had a camera and started to take pictures with it.
"Lilo, we're not doing that today." Moses told her.
"We're not doing that today!" Myrtle repeated in a rather obnoxiously mean way.
"Patch, hold me back; I'm about to teach Myrtle a lesson." Darla glared.
Patch did his best to hold Darla back. Stitch even took a picture of Myrtle, mocked her and then ripped up the photograph in disgust.
"Kumu has an important announcement." Elena smiled to Lilo.
"Well, at least one of them isn't copying Myrtle." Darla whispered.
"Darla, you really came at a good time," Moses smiled to the visiting girl. "In three days is our town's May Day celebration. And here's the best part; There will be a hula competition, each of you will create an original hula. And the one who best expresses the aloha spirit will lead our halau as the winning dance."
"Awesome!" Darla smiled.
"Ooh! You, you, you!" Stitch pointed to Lilo to burst her enthusiasm.
"Are there any questions?" Moses asked.
"Kumu, I have one..." Myrtle raised her hand. "Will people who are late to class and not originally from here be allowed to participate?"
"Myrtle, I think in the spirit of aloha, we should be tolerant of others," Moses glared slightly to her. "Especially to our new friends even if they don't live in Hawaii like the rest of us."
Darla smirked to that.
"Well, there's no harm in asking..." Myrtle shrugged then.
"I want you to use class time today to begin working on your ideas." Moses then told the girls.
Patch was happy for Darla and Lilo.
The little girls sat down together to discuss their ideas.
"Wow, the May Day celebration is the big time." Myrtle said.
"Yeah, the whole town will be there to watch." Teresa smiled.
"Maybe I'll get a contract!" Myrtle sounded hopeful.
"This is going to be fun!" Elena beamed.
"It sure will." Darla smiled.
"We can do any idea we want," Lilo smiled. "Even make our own costumes!"
This excited the girls even more.
"It'll be a lot of work." Yuki commented.
"My mom knows how to make great costumes." Elena smiled.
"My mom can sew really good." Yuki smiled.
"My mom knows a lot about hula," Teresa chimed in. "She can really help me with it."
'Maybe the mention of the word 'Mom' won't get to them.' Patch thought to himself, referring to Darla and Lilo. He was wrong, it really hit Lilo the hardest.
"I guess Lilo's on her own," Myrtle whispered to the others. "She doesn't have a mom."
"Don't say that!" Darla hissed.
"Well, it's true..." Myrtle replied.
"Not everyone has a mom." Teresa said.
Lilo looked very sad, so Darla decided to help comfort her. Moses saw this and decided to have a word with Lilo. Patch decided to come along so he could hear what was going to happen.
"Lilo?" Moses spoke up which made the girl look up slightly. "May I speak with you?"
Lilo hoisted herself off the stage and came to her teacher.
"What's that?" Darla asked as the man was getting out a book.
"This is a book of past winners," Moses said as he opened to a page of a first prize winner of a young girl around their age named 'Layla ʻŌpūnui'. "Lilo, do you know who this is?"
'That kind of looks like Lilo.' Patch thought to himself.
"It's your mother..." Moses then said as Lilo didn't answer him right away.
"My mom...?" Lilo gasped with a small smile.
"Aye, she won the competition when she was your age," Moses explained. "She was as beautiful as an orchid and as graceful as a wave..." he then took the photograph out and held it out to the girl. "Here, to inspire you."
"I just know that will help her, sir." Darla smiled.
Moses gently smiled back. Stitch came up to Lilo's side.
"That's my mom," Lilo told Stitch, showing him the photograph. "She won the competition when she was my age."
Patch smiled as he was happy for Lilo.
Darla smiled softly and sadly. "I wonder what my mother did when she was my age...?" she then mumbled to herself, thinking about her biological mother, not Emily.
Patch only simply shrugged. Darla had small tears in her eyes. Patch pouted to her, then leaned closer. Darla then sniffled and hugged Patch as she squeezed her eyes shut as she thought about her natural family.
It was now after class and the girls were now leaving for the day.
"So, do you wanna come over?" Lilo invited Darla since they were best friends and all.
"I'd love to, can I bring Atticus and Patch?" Darla smiled.
"If they'd like to come." Lilo agreed as she held the picture of her mother when she was younger.
"Hey, Lilo," Myrtle smirked as she came over to the two. "Maybe your dog can take a picture of me when I win the competition."
Patch snarled to the red-haired girl, disliking her strongly since she was a bully girl.
"How do you know you're gonna win?" Darla put her hands on her hips to the girl.
"I think it's pretty well known that I'm the best dancer in the seven-year-old division." Myrtle replied boastfully.
"Yeah, right." Darla scoffed.
"Maybe I can win..." Lilo tried to sound confident.
"Hello?!" Myrtle scoffed. "You're a stinky dancer, and anything that you come up with is gonna be stinky."
Lilo growled and wanted to beat up Myrtle, but Stitch held her back since he knew she would get into trouble if she did.
"You'll never be like your mom," Myrtle continued which made Lilo gasp, feeling very hurt. "Never!"
Lilo glared firmly then.
"Okay." Stitch then let Lilo go as he took out his camera.
"Oh, this is going to be entertaining." Darla smiled.
"That's it!" Lilo glared.
"Smile!" Stitch took out his camera as he took pictures of Lilo attacking and beating up Myrtle.
And where neither Darla or Patch were joining in to stop Lilo, but did include themselves with Stitch in one of the pictures. The fun had to stop soon as Moses came to break up the fight and report this straight to Nani.
"Lilo's a pretty good fighter." Patch had to admit.
"She sure is." Darla nodded.
Moses then walked home with Lilo.
"Wanna come to Lilo's?" Darla asked Atticus.
"I'd love to." Atticus smiled.
Darla smiled back.
"We're going to Lilo's," Atticus told Cherry and Mo. "Do you wanna come?"
Cherry shrugged. "It'll give me something to do."
"I'd love to come." Mo smiled.
"I agree." Atticus smiled back.
"I'm just surprised no one's freaked out about seeing me," Patch mumbled to himself. "I mean, last time we were here, I sacrificed myself to save Stitch."
"I told them all about how you came back." Drell said.
"Oh, you did?" Patch replied.
"Yeah, no worries," Drell smiled. "I'm impressed of how noble you've become since Atticus adopted you, Pongo and Perdita would be proud."
"I know they are." Patch smiled.
Soon, they were all at the Pelekai house and Moses was showing the pictures that Stitch had taken to Lilo's older sister.
"As you can see, there was a little disagreement," Moses replied. "Again..."
"Ay-yi-yi..." Nani groaned slightly.
"Next time, flush the evidence." Lilo whispered to Stitch.
Stitch then mimicked the sound of a toilet flush in response.
"Nice mimicry." Patch smiled.
Stitch smiled back to his Earth friend.
"Why don't you come inside, Moses?" Nani invited as she opened the door which then showed a mess. "Uh... Excuse the mess."
"Oh, my..." Moses flinched at the mess.
"We have a full house," Nani smiled shyly. "Make yourself at home, Moses, I just made some lemonade."
"Wow, this house looks like it was in a war zone." Mo said.
"Not helping..." Nani said through her teeth nervously as she came into the kitchen.
Pleakley was slurping down the lemonade and got the pitcher stuck on his head due to being surprised of the people suddenly coming in. "Oh, hey, Nani, we're out of lemonade." he then smiled sheepishly to the older girl.
"Pleakley, I just made that!" Nani groaned in frustration.
"Pleakley, didn't you even think about how Nani would react?" Atticus asked.
"Well, at least it can't get any worse from here..." Cherry moaned.
"Nani!" Jumba came into the room, but he tracked mud with him that was stuck to his feet. "You have to come out to the lab and see my new invention!"
"I just mopped in here!" Nani groaned.
"It will greatly improve your primitive Earthly life." Jumbaa continued.
"This is just getting better and better." Mo groaned.
"Oh, very delightful..." Atticus added in deadpan.
Jumba and Pleakley then went into their own conversation.
"Guys, I don't have time for this!" Nani said to the two aliens who now lived with her. "We have guests!"
The two soon stopped arguing. They then wanted to meet the guests.
"Let's not," Nani replied nervously to that suggestion. "Lilo's in enough trouble." she then left the room to meet the local hula school teacher.
"Trouble?" Jumba and Pleakley looked to each other and decided that they had to help.
"You just had to mention 'trouble'." Cherry sighed.
"We should do something to help." Pleakley told Jumba.
"Agreed." Jumba nodded.
"Would you like me to stop them from helping?" Atticus asked Nani.
"I better see Moses," Nani rushed out back to the living room to see the others. "Well, we're all out if lemonade."
"But that doesn't mean we can't have a pleasant conversation." Mo said.
"Um... Sure..." Nani sounded nervous. "Anyway, I know my sister is very sorry and didn't mean it."
"Very sorry." Lilo said.
"See?" Nani smiled.
"But I did mean it." Lilo then said.
"Lilo!" Nani said weakly.
"Next time, Myrtle Edmonds is going down!" Lilo grew determined. "She's going way down!"
Stitch then held Lilo's arm up and mimicked a crowd cheering.
"Lilo, I don't think that's helping your situation." Darla said.
"Uh, yeah, no more pro-wrestling for you..." Nani chuckled nervously.
"Where is she?" Pleakley called as he came into the room and was disguised as a woman in a blue dress, heels, a purse, a floppy white hat and a curly auburn wig. "Where is she?!"
"Wow." Stitch blinked to the noodle alien's disguise.
Moses muttered something in Hawaiian.
"There's our precious little angel who must be the victim of a terrible misunderstanding." Pleakley came to Lilo and comforted her.
Darla started to whisper to Pleakley of what happened.
"Oh, no, no, no..." Nani sounded very unfortunate at the turn of events.
"Where is she?" Jumba came into his disguise which was in a tank top, shorts, a belt, and glasses with a mustache.
"Jumba, what are you doing?" Atticus was nervous for Nani's sake.
"Don't worry, the cavalry has arrived," Jumba whispered before rushing over to Lilo with a wide smile. "There she is!"
"Jumba, please don't try to help." Patch begged.
Seeing Patch was quite a surprise for Jumba and Pleakley.
"Um, who are you two?" Moses asked the two aliens.
Jumba and Pleakley were surprised to see Patch, but they had to keep up appearances for Lilo's hula instructor.
"I don't believe we've met," Pleakley replied. "This is Uncle Jumba and I'm Auntie Pleakley. Enchanté."
"On second thought, Moses, perhaps we should tlak outside." Nani suggested quickly.
"It's not polite to interrupt your auntie~" Pleakley replied.
"How are you still living?" Jumba whispered to Patch.
"I was given a second chance to live on Earth." Patch smiled.
Jumba wasn't sure what else to say to that.
"It's a long story..." Patch replied. "I'll tell you later."
"Knock, knock." a voice called.
"David!" Nani gasped.
"How is... Everybody...?" David greeted, then looked in surprise to Jumba and Pleakley's disguises.
"You don't want to know." Atticus sighed.
"You remember my Auntie Pleakley and Uncle Jumba, right?" Nani smiled nervously to her boyfriend.
"Uh..." David blinked.
"Say something." Nani whispered.
"Um... Nice hat." David smiled nervously to Pleakley.
This caused for Atticus and the other to go face-palmed.
"Why, thank you, David," Pleakley gushed. "See? Uncle Jumba said it made me look top-heavy."
"Aunt Pleakley wanted the truth..." Jumba shrugged.
As the 'couple' had an argument, David tried to ask Nani out on a date, but she didn't seem to take up that offer this time. Moses then decided he should probably leave.
"I agree." Mo said.
"Nice to be meeting you!" Jumba called.
"Au revoir, Monsieur Moses!" Pleakley added.
"Bye-Bye," Jumba chuckled and nudged Pleakley. "Boy, were we good here."
"I'm not talking to you!" Pleakely turned around and folded his arms to Jumba.
Patch rolled his eyes to the aliens.
"You two were unbelievable." Atticus said.
"Tell me about it," Patch scoffed. "And I thought Thunderbolt's disguise through the streets of London was ridiculous."
"I think his beats theirs by a mile." Atticus said.
Patch snorted slightly.
"Sorry about the relatives, Moses." Nani laughed uneasily.
"Yeah, sorry, well, thanks for coming," Lilo said quickly as she stood next to Darla and shut the door after them and locked the door. "See you at the competition," She soon felt someone tap on her shoulder. "Hm?" she looked over then.'
Darla crossed her arms.
"Lilo?" Moses's voice came from behind the door.
Lilo sighed, then unlocked the door and opened it again.
"I know you want to be in the competition, but your behavior today makes me think you're just not ready." Moses said gently to the orphaned girl.
"No, she is ready." Darla said.
"It's just... Myrtle pushed my buttons," Lilo added in. "I'll be good, I mean it."
"I hope so, because if there's any more trouble, you won't be allowed in the competition." Moses warned.
"I promise," Lilo replied. "There won't be any trouble. I promise, promise. I triple promise."
"Okay, then." Moses smiled back.
"Thank you, Moses," Lilo beamed in excitement. "You don't have to worry. I have seen the error of my ways. I will be good from now on and be the best hula dancer ever. You'll see. I can do it!"