Chapter 4: Gravity of the Situation -or- O'hana Means Gaba?

SPACE -SBS-

621 and Ramthar knew that it was time to do something they were originally going to wait until they got to Ee-arth to do. But with their numbers getting lower by the stars, they didn't have any other options. 627 stood confused as he watched Ramthar grab a glass of water and 621 grab something out of the cabinet above the co-pilot seat. They agreed they wouldn't do this again, but they needed a little more help to catch the most dangerous creature in the galaxy. 621 dropped a blue experiment pod into the water.

A pod labeled 628.

A yellow sphere appeared above the glass and faded to reaveal a hunched over creature. The experiment had a white hair-like antenna that flowed until the experiment's shoulders, one ear that looks like a ponytail with white on the inside and a white 626-like nose. The rest of the experiment was as grey as a storm cloud, excluding the blackened experiment-eyes. The experiment had a 221-antenna-like tail and an 624-like figure. The experiment breathed heavily, stopping 621 and Ramthar from getting closer to her.

"Meega-o-itume," 628 growled -her voice confirming the experiment was a girl.

Standing up slowly, she stretched to regain feeling in her limbs. Dehydration -no matter how long- always made the experiments feel sick about it, they just had different reactions. 628 smiled to herself, seeing them slightly scared of her -even though the team numbers were lower- with the exception of 627. 628 had the advantage of knowing about Jumba's experiments, much like 626 -and now 624 thanks to the Council. But that didn't stop her from messing with them, which caused her dehydration the first time around.

"Ohufi Khalifaud-Huznet-Hakkiah, Khalifaud-Huznet-Kavi, Ramthar," 628 greeted. "Jaba ramid nye hassin. Gaba isa Jumba, Khalifaud-Huznet-Khalifaud and Khalifaud-Huznet-Tele sharov?"

Ramthar and 621 were confused with 628's behavior, they expected her to be angrier with them and seek revenge -and at least speak proper english like she used to. Instead she spoke Tantalog and seemed calm about her unspeakable "sleep".

"Ashi salaam toobagas?" 628 still didn't get a response. "Gaba? Gaba ika tasoopa? Yuuga naga batookah meega? Imhaater!"

"YES 628," the SBS system responded.

"Kha araimi shol?" 628 demanded an answer.

"JUMBA JOOKIBA, 624 AND 626 ARE ABSENT THE SMALL BLUE SPACECRAFT," the computer helped 628 understand a little more. "BOTH JUMBA JOOKIBA AND 626 WERE LAST LOCATED ON THE PLANET EARTH. 626'S TRACKING DEVICE IS CURRENTLY OFFLINE."

"And Khalifaud-Huznet-Tele sharov?" 628 wonder what became of her.

"624 IS ON PERSUIT FOR EARTH," the computer stated the fact.

"That traiter," Ramthar finally spoke in front of 628.

"Oketaka," 628 sat in the pilot seat. "Taka inhaater."

"How come your not speaking English 628," 621 had to ask.

"Soka," 628 appologized. "Meega might take a moment for my comprehension of the English language to reengage, I have been inactive for quite some time now."

628 got used to her old, proper voice while she also examined the SBS' controls. The low fuel supply had her worried, mostly of space. Space was her biggest fear and since they were no where near a planet with fuel, it might become a problem soon. The only problem Ramthar could see was 628 starting to take control over the ship. 621 would back him up in this being a problem, the only reason they needed her was to make 626 easier to capture -if things didn't go as planned.

"628!" Ramthar crossed his arms. "What is the meaning of..."

"Let me stop you right there," 628 stood in the chair. "You called me here. Why?"

"You can make 626 easier to get close to," 621 explained. "We have a little issue with the Galactic Federation."

"You're going to hand him over?" 628 had hoped to hear those words -but it sounded too good to be true.

Ramthar and 621 looked to each other, knowing they should keep quiet about their plan for 626. 628 wasn't amused by their sudden silence, so she activated her power to get her point across. Her palms started glowing blue and so did 621 and Ramthar. With a wave of her wrist, Ramthar and 621 smashed against the walls until 628 released her seemingly psychic hold on them. What they remembered from the last time was that 628 was a gravity warper, 627 taking ammusement in the pain she caused -then and now.

"Have you both forgotten my powers of persuasion?" 628 taunted them.

"You mean the weight problem?" 621 caused more laughter for 627 before he was smashed to the floor again.

"Oh 621," 628 shook her head. "I pity you all, honestly. You're a brilliant one, never quite measuring up to the mighty 626 though. Ramthar, still have that temper of yours I see. And 627..." she noticed the experiment rolling on the floor in laughter. "What more needs to be said? I am running this ship now, so it'd be wise to remain loyal for my presence. Or would you rather drift in space for an eternity?"

"We could throw you out there, you know," Ramthar attempted to get up.

"Don't flatter yourself," 628 scoffed. "Now what's our plan for 626?"

KAUAI, HAWAII

"This is you," Lilo held up a drawing of Stitch colored red. "This is your badness level. It's unusually high for someone your size. We have to fix that."

Lilo's first day with her new "dog" had brought out a much happier Lilo, one Nani hadn't seen in a while. Lilo herself felt happier just to have someone there for her besides her sister. What she didn't know was that the feeling was less than mutual for 626, Lilo was just the only source of protection he had against Jumba and -through 626's knowledge- his new minion. They had followed him all day in a disguise to look like humans -courtesy of the girl who tried to give him a collar.

In fact -thinking back-, she'd been following him too. Evertime she was around, she carried a small notebook -which was a welcome change to having guns pointed at him. She worried him in a creepy way, not in a threatening way. If it wasn't Jumba's plasma gun keeping him from following his program, it was this somewhat allie. To make matters worse, he was trapped on the island thanks to his molecular density keeping him from swimming away without sinking like a rock.

Following Lilo around all day was very confusing for him, she seemed to know everyone on the island. Even those who weren't so friendly to her, like Mertle and the other hula school dancers. In small ways, 626 proved his badness to Lilo -who made it a point to fix the problem. 626 would have been a loss cause if Hawaii didn't amaze him slightly. So Lilo introduced him to her island home and tried to make him behave, but the experiment clapping at the now burning stage at Nani's job wasn't helping matters.

"Lilo!" Nani walked up to them. "Your dog can't sit at the table."

"Stitch is troubled," which meant she was troubled. "He needs desserts." Which meant Lilo wanted desserts.

"You didn't even eat your sweet potato," Nani sighed. "I thought you liked them."

"Desserts!" Lilo demanded.

626 could eat just about anything, as Lilo will soon find out. Right now she was still excited to have him around, and she wanted to make sure the world knew it. So when David Kawena walked past, she had to flag him down.

"David!" Lilo called the family friend over. "I got a new dog!"

"You sure it's a dog?" David had the same doubt as everyone else.

"Uh-huh" Lilo was convinced beyond all reasonable doubt. "He used to be a collie before he got ran over."

"Really?" David looked to 626 before looking at Lilo. "Who told you that?"

"That'd be me," the nameless girl snuck up behind David -startling him into a jump. "Here's your dessert, Lilo."

"Yum," Lilo smiled.

Her dessert was a coconut cake with strawberry frosting and a cherry on top. Lilo was happy to have it, or she would've been if 626 hadn't ate it in one bite. A yell from Lilo and a wave of the finger from the girl made him pull the cake out of his mouth. No doubt Lilo wasn't going to eat it now. The frosting was now glazed in experiment saliva that thankfully wasn't acid, the cake itself was split in half. 626 put the cake together to make it almost as good as new, of course minus the drool.

"Wasn't there a cherry on it," David asked.

626 opened his mouth and pulled out the cherry, blew on it, whiped it on his fur and placed it on top of the cake. He pushed the plate over to Lilo in one of the first acts of niceness he'd ever done, but the cake still came from his mouth.

"Eww!" Lilo, David and the girl agreed.

The girl caught sight of Jumba and the other alien sitting at a table in their disguises. The girl walked over to them and startled them like she had David. The smaller alien -reffered to as Pleakley- glared at her while Jumba laughed a little.

"Sneaky Earth Girl," Jumba smiled. "I had feeling we'd be meeting you here."

"I get around," the girl shrugged. "So what's you're plan on capturing 626 now? Bait him with a snack?"

"As matter of fact," Jumba pulled out a green piece of chicken with purple pokadots on it.

"Pleakley?" the girl had an idea. "Can I borrow a piece of thread from your dress?"

"What are you up..." Pleakey was cut off by the girl pulling a string off.

Pleakley spun around before she sat him in a chair, the spin turning his face greener than usual. The girl tied the thread to the bone of the space chicken leg and the other end of the string went around Jumba's hand.

"Primitive Earth girl is more genius than one-eyed noodle," Jumba threw the makeshift fishing line over to 626.

With her work here done, the girl snuck over to the boss of the luau. Jumba had 626 in his hold, which meant that in a few more seconds Pleakley was going to be bitten. So the girl tapped on the manager's shoulder.

"Yes Ms. Alaula," the manager smiled to her.

"Mr. Ahimele, there's an issue over there with that dog," the girl pointed over to Pleakley -who now had his head inside 626's mouth.

Mr. Ahimele ran past her to go help the customer with the "dog". The girl smiled to herself seeing her work was done, until Jumba shot a plasma ball no one saw but her and 626. The plasma ball hit a beam above Lilo, setting it on fire and breaking the support. With no one paying attention -not even Lilo since 626 was in trouble on the other side of the room-, the girl moved Lilo from a potential accident and exhaled when the flaming beam fell onto nothing. Setting the saved six year old down, Lilo ran over to 626.

"Geeze," the girl thought. "That was close. If she's out of the picture, things might really get bad back home."

She noticed Nani walk away with Lilo and 626, she had something for Lilo but it could wait until the next time she saw them. It was an important something that plagued her for not giving up earlier, but her inner voice yelling at her was silenced when she caught sight of something in the sky. Unlike the green fireball that crashed to Earth for 626's arrival, this one was a white light -almost like a star- that gently landed in the forest. So while the girl snuck off into the forest to meet the guest, Lilo and Nani took 626 to their house.

"This is a great home," Lilo told 626. "You'll like it a lot."

626 got used to his current residence -at least until his team would rescue him- in the most curiously destructive way he could. Lilo tried to show him the nice things, but all it got her was hit with a pillow by the experiment. Nani voiced her objections to Lilo, who only argued back as 626 rolled into the kitchen. Grabbing the uncapped blender and turning it on, he got a face full of strawberry smoothie until Nani pulled the plug. She then picked him up to take him out of the house, much to the anger of Lilo.

"Dad said O'hana means family," Lilo told her sister firmly.

These were the only words that registered to 626. These were the words that seemed to sink into Nani, making her stop dragging the experiment out. Both of them calmed down significantly, but Lilo still had more to say.

"O'hana means family," Lilo reminded Nani. "Family means..."

"Nobody gets left behind," Nani joined her.

"Or?" Lilo wanted to hear the rest of their family saying.

"Or forgotten," Nani finished. "I hate it when you use O'hana against me."

626 gave this a second of thought, why the word "O'hana" meant so much to them. 626 didn't have an O'hana, only his crew. Jumba, 621, 624 and 627 would kind of count -Jumba being the creator and them being his other creations-, but he'd hardly call them a family. If family was what Lilo had just described, they'd be there to get him off the island. Instead, Jumba was trying to get him and the others were far away in space. 626's supercomputer brain stopped thinking about it as he wiggled out of Nani's grip.

"Don't worry, you can sleep right next to me," Lilo lead 626 to her room.

SPACE -SBS-

628 sat in the pilot seat, making sure that they reached 626 without running out of fuel. They'd be at Earth in a few days time so she did some quick research on the planet, or as much as she could since Earth wasn't in the UGF. 628 was sure 626 was causing mayhem no matter where he went, so she had to be quick in stopping him. The rest of the SBS crew layed in their bunks asleep, all except for Ramthar. He took a seat in the co-pilot seat, 628 not even noticing his presence until he cleared his throat.

"Yes Ramthar?" 628 continued to read her book.

"How are you feeling?" Ramthar didn't know how to talk to someone he betrayed -and in this case later needed.

"Well," 628 put the book down and turned to him. "Was there a reason you haven't retired yet for the evening?"

"Yes," Ramthar chose his words carefully. "Well, I've been thinking..."

"Finally," 628 rolled her eyes.

"Given recent events, I've begun questioning 626," Ramthar grit his teeth and made a fist at 628's taunting.

"Really?" 628 spoke in hindsight. "Recent events. It wasn't the fact that he leads you all to your dooms for his own sake on multiple occations. Or his complete irrationality to conflict. Or..." 628 paused her rant and looked at Ramthar with a grin. "Is this mutiny I'm hearing from you ex-General Ramthar?"

"It is not," Ramthar stated. "I merely said I started to question his methods."

"Madness has no method, Ramthar," 628 told him. "Madness only leads to disaster, which you would have avoided had you all listened to me. But a query if I may, why am I really here?"

One thing everyone should know about Ramthar is that he didn't take to failure, neglagence or treachory -unless it was necessary. 626 proved his necessary removal to not only the United Galactic Federation, but to Ramthar. Time and time again he acted out, just as time and time again the SBS crew suffered from it. Ramthar was at his wits end with 626's shenanigans, but he was still loyal to his leader -making his choices a cross between his personality and his morality.

"In case 626 has been brainwashed into -dare I say- doing good, we may need you to turn him into..."

"A pod?" 628 caught on. "Does 626 even have a pod form?"

"I wish we didn't have to find out," Ramthar told her. "But in case it comes down to that, I think it would be in everyone's best intrest if you take over as leader. I mean, you already have a good sense of how we should spend our time."

"I...suppose I could give it some thought," 628 seemed unsure of what to do -for once. "However you are all still the most horrid criminals to ever live in this galaxy. Your offer will be taken into account as some form of change, but you still have much to do before I will even consider leading you bunch. Off with you now. Rest up for our journey, I have some things to go over."

"As you were 628," Ramthar left 628 to resume reading.

As he left, 628 had considered leading them. She could always use an extra hand getting rid of the outlaws of the galaxy, but they still had a lot of bad history with the SBS crew -624 and 626 especially, though 624 was more accidental. She hadn't known that 624 would change to help 626, a misdeed but good in a small way. 628 then smiled, realizing that she had made Ramthar question the very being he followed into multiple battles. Ramthar simply went to his bunk, satisfied with the way their conversation went.

"And so the seed of doubt is planted," Ramthar and 628 grinned from their respective distances.

KAUAI, HAWAII

The girl pushed through the forest, sure that her guest was somewhere in the vicinity. The giant leaves snapped back into place everytime she pushed them away, smacking her to the ground every time. One time had been enough for her to tumble into a clearing. But this was good, this clearing was where 624 landed her battle cruiser. She stood in front of the ship, smiling widely as the door opened. 624 -rather than menacingly laughing like 626 did when he first landed- yawned and stretched, making her look relatively harmless.

"Ahem," the girl got the experiment's attention. "624?"

"Ih," the pink expeiment walked up to her. "Who yuuga?"

"I'm a friend of..."

"Meega smish injibay," 624 interrupted. "Cama'ahar teh tebracres?"

"My name is Lani Alaula," the girl introduced herself. "At least here it is."

"Gaba?" 624 titled her head.

"Its not important right now," the girl -Lani- waved her hands. "What is important at the moment are a few things. One, do you have the book?"

"Ih," 624 handed her the manual.

"Perfect!" Lani flipped through the pages. "626 is gonna need this down the road."

624 looked around to see what the girl meant. There was no road, or 626 for that matter. With what she said, Lani didn't see the problem until 624 narrowed her eyes at her and growled. Realizing 624 didn't understand, she explained.

"No," Lani smiled weakly. "Its an expression. 'Down the road' is just another way of saying later on. Later this book is going to be useful. Before I forget, the second thing is those notes you got from Gantu."

"How yuuga smish?" 624 gave her the paper.

"Trust me, I'd be easier if you didn't know," Lani told her. "I actually need this for a soon-to-be friend of mine. And the third thing is your ship."

"Gaba ika tasoopa?" 624 stared at it.

"You can't just leave it here," Lani explained. "Somebody could come around and find it. Then what?"

624 thought about it, that would be bad. She ran back to the ship and turned it back on, shining the light on Lani. Lani didn't flinch, blink or even narrow her eyes. She was used to light in more ways than anyone would know here. 624 looked around the battle cruiser for something she could use. She was about to put a sheet over the ship as a simple cover, but then she saw a blue button near the steering wheel. She pushed it and the ship didn't change on the inside. She shrugged it off as a random button Jumba forgot about.

"Oh, and you might want to leave your spacesuit in there!" Lani called to her. "Trust me!"

"Oketaka!" 624 agreed.

"Also, if you have a bucket of paint you should bring it out!" Lani added.

624 would probably never stop being confused by this girl, but her ideas usually lead to a success. She had yet to put in much work but the plans spoke for themselves. Hanging the purple suit in a storage compartment, 624 searched the ship and found a bucket of purple paint. She wondered how it got there, before she remembered needing it to paint her battle cruiser. Walking out of the ship, 624 received two surpises. The first was seeing her ship had been turned into a blue beetle-car and the next was the paint covering her fur.

"Sorry," Lani earned a growl from 624. "We can't let Jumba know you're here."

"Jumba isa here?" 624 looked around.

"Not in this clearing," Lani ran into the leaves. "Come on, I'll take you to him."

624 wasn't ready to face him, but she followed after Lani to make sure she didn't get into trouble with him. They found Jumba and Pleakly, keeping their distance from the two aliens. 624 described everything that happened with them and 626. 626 almost tearing an important picture of Lilo's to him building -and destroying- a model San Francisco, and Jumba explaining 626 to Pleakley's near-end with misquitos. 624 had only been on Earth for close to an hour, already she knew she was in for a wild ride with this girl.

A/N: My OC's last name -Alaula in case you missed it- means "dawn" or "light of daybreak" and her first name -Lani, again if you missed it- means "sky" -both in Hawaiian. And Nani's ex-boss' name is a mix of Ahi -fire- and Mele -song- since he works at a luau.

Important: This is only going to show up when there's something that needs to be said or asked. These "Importants" are for the future of this story. Firstly, if you have any questions at I'll gladly answer them all in the intermission chapter I have coming. The second thing is I'm wondering where you might think I'm going with all of this story for the extra characters. And last off, what do you think of my OCs -628 and Lani Alaula?

Disclaimer: Mr. Sanders and the Disney corperations own the key aspects of this, I can only take credit for creating Lani and 628.

Next Time: Lilo teaches 626 how to be a model citizen, making more work for 624 and Lani to do.