Mark, Lilo, and Stitch

by max7345

It's been two years since Mark Nissan's parents were in a tragic car accident that took their lives as well as the parents of the Pelekai sisters. By some twist of fate, and a fire, Mark joins the Ohana and assists them in the adventure of a lifetime.

7. Chapter 7: Mark's Style

-1"Who in the world is Pudge?" Mark asked Lilo as she was preparing a sandwich for her fish friend. Lilo groaned and explained to him, "Pudge is a fish, who I bring a sandwich to every Thursday."

"So, THAT'S why you're gone every Thursday. I was wondering about that." Lilo ignored him as she made the sandwich. "So…why are you feeding a fish a sandwich?" Mark asked again. "Pudge controls the weather, and if he doesn't get his sandwich, then the entire island will be doomed to a tsunami." Lilo explained in her fast-paced tone.

Mark just looked at her as he took all of this in. Mark glanced over at Stitch who just shrugged his shoulders and hinted Mark to just go along with it. "Come on!" Lilo said as she finished making the sandwich and began pulling Mark with her to the door. Stitch followed them, grabbing a couple of chairs as they headed toward the beach.

At the beach, Lilo's crush, Keoni, was working on his boat for some sort of event occurring that day. "Hey Keoni." Lilo greeted him as she walked toward the beach. Mark and Stitch followed her. "Hey, Lilo. Thanks for coming out. You bring the stopwatch?" Keoni asked her. She held it up and said, "Yup. You think you're going to qualify for the boat race?"

"Trying to. If I don't practice, I don't have a chance. First prize is a new outrigger. I'll signal you when I'm past the break." Keoni said to her as he pushed his boat in the water and hopped in. Lilo looked at Mark and Stitch and said, "And if I help him win, I bet there'll be a free boat ride included for me. You two set up the chairs, I'm gonna go feed Pudge." And with that, she set off into the ocean. "Sometimes I really wish she didn't tell us what to do all the time. You ever feel that way?" Mark said to Stitch, who dropped the chairs and replied, "Ih."

Stitch set the chairs down and Mark noticed the number of chairs and asked, "Why are there two chairs if there's three of us?" Stitch just shrugged and tried to set up his beach chair. Mark got his chair set up just Fine. Stitch, however, was having a little trouble. As soon as he got his chair set up, it snapped shut. Stitch kept on trying but it kept on snapping itself shut. Stitch then did it extremely quickly and tested it to see if it would stay put this time. It stayed still for the moment. Stitch then sat in the chair when it snapped shut on him again. The momentum knocked him into Mark's chair, which also shut on Stitch due to the pressure.

Furious, Stitch destroyed both beach chairs. He examined the remains and sat down, moping over the frustration. "Oh, it's alright Stitch. We don't need chairs to relax on the beach anyway." Mark told him in an attempt to make Stitch feel better. Stitch looked at him and Mark ended up making a chair out of sand for Stitch. Meanwhile, in the ocean, Lilo was swimming around under the water, looking for Pudge. She handed him the sandwich and he gratefully accepted it and swam away. Lilo was heading back to the surface when she saw a shadow of a giant fin swim over her. When it had passed, she swam up and shouted, "Mark, Stitch! There's something in the water." Stitch, who was relaxing on the sand chair, opened his eyes and saw something around the same time Mark did.

"Aka Taka!" Stitch shouted and pointed to it around the same time Mark pointed to the same thing and said, "Over there!" Lilo looked in the direction they were pointing. A large purple fin was heading for Keoni's boat. "Keoni's out there." Lilo thought aloud before calling out his name. Keoni looked over to Lilo and saw the fin heading straight for him. Keoni jumped out of his boat just as the purple fin tore through the wood of his boat and sliced the entire thing in half. The two pieces drifted apart and sank into the ocean. Lilo and Keoni swam back to shore unharmed.

"What was that thing?" Keoni asked all three of them as he looked back to the ocean. "I don't know, but I think you're gonna need another boat." Lilo answered as the boat finally sank out of view. "Ohh! Bad luck, kid. That's beyond repair." Mark commented as he saw the boat sink out of view. Of course, he knew that it was another experiment of Jumba's. Nothing else could do that to a boat with its fin.

Meanwhile, at the rental hut, Gantu was dressed up as a beach tourist as he approached the area. "Hello. My name is Mr. John Bob Jones Smith, and I am a normal Earth tourist and would like to rent a boat." he said to Nani, who replied, "You're not fooling anyone, Gantu." At that moment, Six-two-five approached Gantu with two ice-cream sandwiches and said, "Told ya, flounder-face, blubber's still blubber no matter how you dress it up." Six-two-five had then offered Gantu one of his ice-cream sandwiches. "Quiet, you!" Gantu barked at Six-two-five before turning to Nani and continuing, "I require the use of a watercraft, now!!" Nani just gave Gantu a sly look and said, "Fine, you want to rent stuff, I'll rent you stuff."

When Nani was finished with Gantu, he was dressed in flippers, a green inner tube, a snorkeling mask, and a life-jacket. He was also carrying a bucket of bait, a surfboard, a cooler, a fishing pole, a net, and an oxygen tank. "Wow! Capitan Clam, what happened? The bait shop explode?" Six-two-five commented on Gantu's appearance. "She said I needed all of this." Gantu replied miserably before heading over to the beach. He took one step before tripping over one of the flippers. Six-two-five closed his eyes in a grimacing way as Gantu fell into a small boat. When Six-two-five opened his eyes, a miserable Gantu commented, "I think I crushed my dignity."

Mark heard Gantu's voice, looked over to him, and said, "You never had any in the first place." Mark laughed at this as he followed Lilo and Stitch back to their house, leaving an angry and humiliated Gantu. Once there, Lilo explained to Jumba and Pleakely what happened at the beach. Mark was listening too. When Lilo was finished, Mark immediately commented, "This gets better every time I hear it." Jumba and Pleakely applauded. "What a wonderful play." Pleakely commented as well. "Yes, perfect recreation of my experiment Six-zero-two." Jumba had also commented. "Experiment?" Pleakely asked in shock. Mark, however, showed no surprise, but more interest in what Jumba had to say.

"Six-zero-two is designed to slice ships in half, sink entire navies, and hold breath for very long time. Number Six-zero-two is very territorial and will remain in bay until all and every ship is sinking." At those last words, Lilo gasped and said, "But what about the boat race?"

"As long as Six-zero-two is in bay, every ship is like bagel." Jumba replied. Mark knew what he meant immediately, but Lilo replied, "What?" Mark and Jumba both answered at the same time, "Slice in half and toast."

Back at the beach, Gantu was driving a boat in the ocean, he held out his blaster as he searched the ocean and asked, "Ok, trog, where are you?" Meanwhile, Six-two-five was at the front end of the boat looking for the experiment as well. A few jet-skiers rode right past them, heading in the opposite direction, and saying, "Get to the shore man! There's something sinking the boats!"

"Hmm, must be getting close." The foolish Gantu muttered as he heard them. "See anything?" Gantu asked Six-two-five, who sarcastically replied, "Nope, only a giant fin headed right for us."

"What!?" Gantu asked in shock. A large purple fin went around the nose of the boat and sliced it in half.

The fin had then sunk beneath the surface of the water. As Gantu and Six-two-five sank, Gantu miserably commented, "I think I just lost my deposit." Meanwhile, Mark, Lilo, and Stitch were preparing to hunt down the experiment as well. "Buggy is being ready for aquatic travel, complete with high torque turbine, and special bonsai stabilizers." Jumba displayed as he admired the new watercraft. Pleakely jumped out from under the seat. He was wearing a sailor's outfit as he said, "That's all well and good, but where's the yard arm, the sails…the poo-" Mark covered Pleakely's mouth at that moment and threatened, "Trust me, you don't want to finish that awkward word near me."

"Blech! Fine! The deck at the stern of a ship." Pleakely said after shoving Mark's hand away from his mouth. Lilo was struggling to get Stitch into the boat, but he was pushing against her in order to get away from the water. "Move your blue alien butt!" Lilo demanded as she finally got him halfway across the beach toward the ocean. "Naga!" Stitch complained. "What is wrong with Six-two-six?" Jumba asked.

"And you call yourself a genius. You don't even know your own experiment. He's afraid of the water because of his high molecular density level." Mark explained to Jumba. Lilo finally got Stitch over to the watercraft as Jumba said, "Ah! Not to worry." Jumba began before pulling out three life jackets and continuing, "Special life-jackets, totally sink proof, dunk proof, and comes in three designer colors."

"Oh please, my jacket already comes with that special quality. Don't expect me to wear one of those." Mark said to Jumba. Jumba, apparently, just about had it with Mark's disobedience and forced one of the life jackets on him. He looked strange wearing a regular jacket and a life jacket at the same time. Lilo and Stitch put theirs on willingly. "Everything is so automatic, you don't even have to--" Jumba began before Stitch pressed one of the buttons and his life jacket inflated to a large size. "Push any buttons." Jumba continued in a pointless voice.

Once Mark, Lilo, and Stitch were all in the boat, they set off in search of the experiment. Jumba was keeping an eye on them at the edge of the shore through his four-eye binoculars. "See anything? How are they doing?" Pleakely asked Jumba eagerly when he couldn't see them anymore. "Mark Car-person, little girl, and Six-two-six are in position, but the waves keep rocking the boat, making it difficult to get a clear view. Back and forth, up and down, back and forth, up and down…" Jumba replied. Pleakely was starting to get seasick just imagining the waves' movements. "I think I'm gonna heave-ho." Pleakely said sickly before he fainted.

Out in the water, Mark reached up to his ear and said into a com-link, "Jumba, we're in position."

"I can see that!" Jumba replied through his own com-link. Mark put on his shades, activated the zoom feature of them, looked toward the shore, and said, "Jumba, why did you bring your binocs when you knew I was going to inform you when we were in position?"

"Because I had to be sure you were in proper position myself. You may be very talented and intelligent, but it doesn't hurt to play on safe side." Jumba replied. Mark just took off the shades and rolled his eyes. "I saw that!" Jumba scolded.

Lilo was holding some sort of radar device as she thought aloud, "Jumba's sonar device should lead us straight to Stitch's cousin." She then turned her attention to Stitch and asked him, "Is the capture cannon ready?"

"Ih!" Stitch replied before pushing a button and bringing out a gun loaded with a net. However, it was pretty useless as Six-zero-two popped up from beside them and cut their ship in half anyway. Stitch shook his fist at his cousin and shouted, "Huffer hok!" Lilo looked at him and replied, "I don't know what you said, but you said it." Mark grabbed them both and began looking around; he couldn't see the shore from where he was at.

"Is impossible! Six-zero-two has sunk my superior water buggy!" Jumba said in astonishment and irritation. "Forget the buggy! Three members of our beloved Ohana are in the water with that beast, we have to save them!" Pleakely shouted as he got up. Gantu had an inflatable life raft this time and was just putting it in the water When Jumba stole it and said, "Can we borrow this? Thank you." without waiting for an answer. "Hey!" Gantu shouted in frustration at them. Jumba was rowing toward Mark, Lilo, and Stitch as he said, "Mark, little girl, and Six-two-six will be fine until we get there. Rocking of boat is nice and relaxing. No?" Pleakely, however, obviously didn't care much for the rocking of a boat as he sickly hung back and said, "I'm seeing colors that were never meant to be."

"This way, Jumba!" Mark called out as he saw him in the life raft. The purple fin rose out of the water again, it had found its new victim. "Ikata!" Stitch shouted as he pointed to the fin. Pleakely spotted it and panicked as he said, "Oh no! This is just like what happened in Lilo's play!" Pleakely then grabbed another paddle and began rowing in the opposite direction, causing the boat to spin in circles.

Eventually, the obviously inevitable happened as the experiment sliced through the boat. "Dumbest…aliens…ever." Mark muttered in an irritated tone as Jumba and Pleakely floated to the surface as they too were wearing life jackets. "What'll we do if it comes back?" Lilo asked Jumba, who confidently replied, "Not to worry, six-zero-two only sinks boats, not people."

"So we'll safely drift back to shore!" Pleakely announced victoriously. Mark and Jumba, however, knew the truth. They were too far out to drift back to the Hawaiian shore. They were being carried out to sea.

Not 4 minutes later, Pleakely was already complaining dramatically, saying, "I don't know how much more of this I can take, no food, no water. Just drifting out to sea for weeks on end."

"We have only been in water 3 minutes 28 seconds." Jumba replied. "That long?" Pleakely asked in amazement. "Wait, what do you mean 'no water'? We're surrounded by miles of it!" Mark replied. Pleakely just gave an irony-realization look. "This is awful." Lilo groaned. "Look at side with more brightness, we are safe." Jumba replied happily. "Jellyfish, stingrays, and varieties of other poisonous fish float near the surface, where we are at, and you think we're safe?" Mark pointed out smartly. Jumba didn't answer, but he did stop smiling.

"What about the boat race? And Keoni! If we don't find Sinker, nobody is safe." Lilo said to Jumba. "Eh, Sinker?" Jumba asked. Mark smacked Jumba upside the head and said to him, "Experiment Six-zero-two, dummy. Honestly, one would think that a genius would be smarter than you are."

"Oy! What is being wrong with you? I like you before today." Jumba said to Mark, but Mark didn't reply.

At that moment, a cruise ship was approaching. The wave caused by the ship's arrival had caused Stitch, who was standing on his life jacket instead of wearing it, to fall into the water. Mark got Stitch and put him back on the life jacket. "An overpriced floating hotel! We're saved!" Pleakely shouted. However, he was wrong again as the ship went right passed them. "Would you quit jinxing it, Pleakely!?" Mark scolded Pleakely as he shook his fist in the air at him. Stitch swam to the cruise ship and Mark quickly followed.

Stitch used his life jacket as a surfboard as the cruise ship made another wave. Mark ditched his life jacket and used his body instead. Stitch used his momentum to launch himself onto a wall of the ship while Mark managed to grab a hold of the deck railing after launching himself toward the ship as well. Stitch began climbing the wall when a passenger opened a porthole that he was climbing on. Stitch extended his hand through it and said, "H--hi." The woman then slammed the porthole shut and screamed. Her husband asked her what was wrong. She replied, "There's a monster outside the window."

"Honey, they're not windows, they're portholes." Her husband calmly corrected.

Stitch made his way up to the deck just before Mark did. Stitch had then made his way to the anchor and lowered it. The others grabbed a hold of it before Stitch pulled it back up. Gantu rented another motor boat and headed out to sea again to hunt down Sinker. Six-two-five was eating a huge sub sandwich when he said, "I don't see why I had to come along, my buns are getting soggy."

"That experiment's here somewhere and I need your help." Gantu reminded him. "So, Captain Curr, the scourge of the seas, the bad boy of boating, can't navigate these waters without--" Six-two-five began sarcastically when Sinker, yet again, sunk his boat. "…A new boat." Six-two-five finished miserably and sarcastically at the same time. Meanwhile, back on the boat, Lilo was looking hopeless as she said, "Six-o-two is out there and nobody can stop it…kind of like when my sister's eating chocolate."

"Yeah, no kidding. I've been the victim of one of her chocolate episodes." Mark replied.

"Since buggy is now kaput, I could construct an evil genius device from parts of ship." Jumba informed them as he took a light bulb off of one of the deck lamps. Pleakely arrived with a map and tour schedule, he was admiring the yoga class and the fact that they had a spa when Jumba yanked them out of his hands and said to him, "Hey, hey, hey! No time for pleasure cruise niceties. Today, you are evil genius assistant."

"Just one game of shuffleboard?" Pleakely asked desperately. Jumba just glared at him, an obvious no. "Stitch and I will go tell the captain that we need to get off this boat, so we can go catch Six-o-two." Lilo announced. "I don't think that'll work, Lilo. But go ahead and try." Mark replied pointlessly. He didn't know why, but he just felt so useless all of a sudden as he leaned against the railing and stared out to the sea sadly.

"Ooh! Cola." Stitch said excitedly as he spotted a drink of soda in a beach chair where a woman was resting. Stitch drank the entire glass, then ate it and pulled out the straw. "Harvey, be a dear and rub some lotion on my shoulders." The woman said. She couldn't see Stitch because a magazine was covering her face.

Stitch spit in his hands and began massaging her shoulders. "Ow! Your nails are sharp." The woman said as she began taking the magazine off her face. "Oh see bakita?" Stitch asked her as she saw him. She freaked out and ran away. "Come on, we gotta go find the captain and warn him that his ship is in danger." Lilo said to Stitch as she dragged him with her toward the captain's office.

After a confusing tour of the ship, Stitch spotted the buffet area as Lilo walked away, not noticing where he was going. Stitch snuck into the room and popped up behind a cake, causing those in line to run away, screaming. Stitch ate the entire thing with one chomp, drank an entire bowel of punch, ate four bananas, ate a plate-sandwich of doughnuts and regular sandwiches, and then finally ate an entire vine of red peppers. The peppers were a little too spicy for Stitch as he soon began looking around frantically for water. He spotted an ice sculpture of a mermaid and devoured half of it, ridding himself of the spicy flavor of the peppers.

Stitch then sat on another cake; this one was topped with chocolate icing and cherries. Stitch looked to the side and suddenly looked from relieved to guilty as he spotted an angry Lilo giving him a scolding look with her arms crossed. She dragged him toward the entrance of the room when she ran into an employee of the ship. "Well, it looks like someone's been a naughty-waughty dog haven't they?" She asked in a quirky voice. Stitch licked some icing off his nose as Lilo gave him another scolding look and said, "Busted."

"I'm Tiffany, the cruise Director. Aren't you just the cutest little girly-whirly? Ooh! I can just eat you up." She said in her quirky voice. It was quite frightening. "Please stop talking like that." Lilo requested of Tiffany. "It's not a good idea for a cute little kiddle bunkin like you to be wandering around unsupervised." Tiffany said. Once again in her quirky voice. "We're on our way to see the captain" Lilo explained. Tiffany laughed weirdly and replied, "That is sooo cute! You want to see the captain. Follow me." And walked away. Lilo and Stitch followed.

"Mark's never around when you need him." Lilo muttered miserably herself as she was now in a children's play area. "I knew she was too perky to be trusted." Lilo said angrily. Meanwhile, Gantu's pursuit of Sinker continued as he rented a pedal boat. "This was all that was left. Everything else is rented out due to that ridiculous water-craft race." Gantu complained. Gantu spotted it again and announced when he did. This time, instead of swimming to the side, the experiment sliced straight through the ship, nose to back. Gantu stood up just in time to avoid getting sliced himself. Gantu's legs spread apart, and he eventually lost his balance and fell into the water again.

Back on the cruise ship, Jumba and Pleakely were getting ready to collect items for Jumba's new invention. "How much stuff does an evil genius invention require?" Pleakely asked Jumba. "Eh, an electronic device, motor of some kind, and souvenirs from gift shop. To send to evil genius family back home." Jumba answered.

Pleakely's first item was a radio. Pleakely popped up behind two old guys playing checkers. A baseball game was on the radio. "Here's the windup and delivers. It's a hit to center field! It's going…going--" The man on the radio said when Pleakely suddenly took it while no one was looking. One of the old men looked in it's direction, gasped, and said, "It's gone." The next item was a beach chair. Pleakely snatched it just as a woman was about to sit down. The third one was a blender. Possibly the easiest one to get. Pleakely approached the man who had it, pointed forward and shouted, "Ice berg, dead ahead!" The man ran away screaming, and Pleakely took the blender and did the same.

Meanwhile, in the kid's play area, they were having nap time. Lilo and Stitch were faking it, however. "Nap time's for babies." Lilo whispered when the coast was clear. She and Stitch got up and went outside. They turned a corner and bumped into Tiffany again. "Oh goody. It's twinkle head." Lilo said sarcastically. "Ooh. Looks like somebody's being a bad little sailor." Tiffany scolded Lilo. "Look, lady. We REALLY need to see the captain." Lilo reminded her slowly. "No, someone needs a timey-time-out in frowny town." Tiffany argued. "Frowny town?" Lilo asked repulsively as if she was an adult being treated like an infant.

As Tiffany was dragging Lilo and Stitch to the time-out area. Stitch was clinging onto whatever he could get his claws on; scratching the wall and tearing at a sheet of cloth that Jumba and Pleakely were hiding under. "Little girl! Six-two-six!" Jumba greeted happily. Tiffany turned around and asked them, "You know these two?" At the same time, Jumba said yes, while Pleakely said no. "Well, which is it?" Tiffany asked them, raising an eyebrow. "Uh…what was question again?" Jumba asked.

Jumba, Pleakely, Lilo, and Stitch were locked in a cell. "Hello, this is your captain, Seems we picked up a few stow-aways so we're going to make a little stop in Kauai to drop them off." The captain reported to the guests over the P.A. system. "No, no, no, that's where Sinker is, he'll sink us all!" Pleakely said in a panicking tone. "We've got to catch him before the race starts! I just hope Keoni hasn't found another boat." Lilo replied.

Meanwhile, back on deck. Mark overheard the P.A. announcement and thought aloud, "Oh great. Well, this is what happens when I don't help out." Mark spotted the map Pleakely had earlier and took a look at it. He found the prison ward and began heading over there. Back in the room, the others were pretty much admitting defeat. "I'm hoping everyone is good at holding breath. Because once in bay, Six-o-two will be sinking boat."

"And don't forget the tricky sharks in the water. They look like dolphins, they're tricky. Oh yeah, they're tricky."

"Even if we do get out, we don't have any way to stop six-o-two. This ship, Keoni, the boat race; it's all gonna sink!"

"Am I hearing what I think I'm hearing?" Mark said as he approached the cell. "Mark!?" The others exclaimed at the same time. "The Ohana's finally giving up? That's so not like you guys. We've caught experiment after experiment. How can you let one fish who's only purpose in life is to sink boats stop you? Come on. We've got an experiment to catch!" Mark said inspirationally. "How are we going to get out?" Lilo asked Mark. "Oh, I think Stitch has an idea." Mark replied slyly as the little blue alien started tearing through the wall.

Once everyone was back on deck, Jumba was prepping Stitch in a scuba diving outfit. "So…Stitch is going to catch the experiment again?" Mark asked Jumba. "Of course, he is only one who is experienced enough to do so." Jumba answered. Mark looked out to the sea for a moment and then suddenly requested, "Let me do it." Everyone just stopped dead in their tracks and looked at Mark in pure shock. "Well, think of it. As long as I've been here I haven't been the one catching the experiments. I mean, sure, I helped out but…I've never actually been the one to catch any of them. Not one. So please, let me do it. Just this once." Mark explained.

Pleakely looked to Jumba and said, "He's got a point. All that skill and being unable to use it."

"Indeed. Alright. What's plan?" Jumba asked. Mark looked to his left and spotted a life boat with a small anchor in it connected to a rope. "Lower me into the water, and I'll take it from there." Mark answered.

Mark was in the boat, and ready for Sinker to arrive. "You being sure about this?" Jumba asked worriedly. "Yeah. Of course. You don't need to worry. I know what to do." Mark answered reassuringly. "Ok." Jumba replied, still in his worried tone as he lowered Mark to the water. Mark picked up the anchor and listened for the sounds of Sinker. Then he heard it, the sound of something coming out of the water behind him. Mark turned around just in time to see Sinker coming right for him. Mark back-flipped just as Sinker was slicing through the boat. Mark put the left side of the anchor around Sinker's fin and held on to the rope.

The right part of the anchor scraped against the side of the ship and eventually broke off, making the anchor a hook. "I'm no pushover." Mark muttered to the experiment as the experiment dragged him along the water, fast enough to cause Mark to water ski without skis. Mark shifted his weight and sank under the water to get a look at Sinker. Although his fin was huge, his body was small, about the size of a small bass. Mark shifted his weight again to get back to the surface for air. "I should've guessed. Cute but threatening, that's Jumba's style." Mark thought aloud as Sinker began heading for a wave that a bunch of people were surfing on.

Mark suddenly got an ingenious look in his eye and said, "Now there's an idea." As Sinker pulled Mark along the wave, he snatched a surfboard from under someone and said, "Can I borrow this? Thank you."

"Hey!" The surfer shouted angrily at Mark, shaking his fist at him before being engulfed by the wave. Mark was riding the wave like he had been doing it his whole life. Once he was past the wave, Mark shifted his weight again to get to the side of Sinker and then jumped in the air and then began swinging in complete circles around the experiment, tying him up.

Meanwhile, back on the boat, the crew was looking for the stow-aways after they realized they had somehow tore a hole through the wall and escaped. Lilo peeked around the corner; she was disguised as a guest on the boat. "Ok, the coast is clear." Lilo whispered as she saw that there wasn't anyone there. Pleakely stepped around the corner as well; he too was wearing a different outfit. Jumba, however, stayed put, hidden from view. "I am not coming out." Jumba refused. "Come on, Jumba. You look cute." Lilo said as she pulled the humiliated alien around the corner. Jumba was wearing orange shorts, a blue and white stripped shirt, and a child's "helicopter" cap and holding a lollipop.

"It is undignified for evil genius to dress like earth child." Jumba complained. "Now let's go find the captain." Pleakely muttered to Lilo, giving an irritated look at Jumba. Stitch remained hidden; people would recognize him if he went walking around. In the captain's room, the captain's monocle popped off of his eye and he bent down to get it, muttering, "Stupid monocle." Jumba lifted Lilo up to see through the window that lead to the captain's room, and couldn't see the captain driving the ship. "Hey, there's no one in there." Lilo pointed out. "Nobody there? You mean no one's driving the boat? We gotta do something!!" Pleakely panicked.

The captain finally found his monocle just as Pleakely burst through the door and pushed the captain out of an open space under the control panel, sending him flying through a life saver and into the water. "Oh, did I do that? Sorry." Pleakely said nervously. The captain floated to the surface and his monocle popped out again. "Oh drat." He muttered in an irritated tone. "You knocked the captain out of the window!" Lilo announced in a scolding and shocked tone. "Yes, but don't panic. My Galactic Federation training included water-based crafts." Pleakely explained before taking hold of the wheel.

Jumba suddenly grabbed the wheel and argued, "I am evil genius, I am one who should be driving giant aqua boat." Jumba and Pleakely were fighting over the wheel. "Keep sharp, Six-two-five. I won't have that blasted experiment sink us again." Gantu said to his partner before the giant shadow of the ship was heading toward his badly repaired boat. "Oh blitsnak!" Gantu shouted as he and Six-two-five jumped off the boat just before the ship ran it over and sliced it in two.

Jumba and Pleakely's fighting over the wheel had eventually caused it to break in half. "Oh, now you've done it." Pleakely blamed Jumba. "Not my fault, yours." Jumba replied, pointing at Pleakely. Meanwhile, Mark was surfing back to the boat with a tied up experiment in his grasp. Mark waited until he was close enough before ditching the surfboard and landing on the deck of the boat. Meanwhile, Lilo went over to Stitch and told him that the boat couldn't stop. Stitch ran over to the anchor, but it wasn't working anymore.

Stitch decided to put Jumba's scuba diving suit to use and dove in the water. Stitch swam over to the motor and grabbed into it. The Motor spun Stitch until his heavy molecular density caused it to slow to a stop. Stitch had then forced it to spin the other way, making the boat slow down. The sudden decrease of speed caused Mark, Jumba, Pleakely, and Lilo to fall forward. "Here comes the crashing. Hold onto your patookies!" Jumba warned. "Wait! I--I think we're slowing." Lilo announced to the others. Mark picked the experiment back up and continued walking over to the Ohana. "Hey guys! Can I catch a fish or what?" Mark said with pride as he showed them that he had caught the experiment himself this time. "Oh my…he--he actually did it." Pleakely said in shock. "Don't sound so surprised, it wasn't that hard." Mark replied.

"Welcome to the ninth annual aloha boat race! We'll begin shortly. Captains, prepare to weigh anchor." A man announced as the boat race was starting. Keoni was sulking on another part of the shore. "Well, so much for finding another boat in time." Keoni was then over cast by a shadow. "Hey Keoni!" Lilo called out. Keoni looked up in surprise as Lilo continued, "I found you another boat." Keoni just looked up in shock; speechless and confused as to how Lilo ended up on a cruise ship.

Gantu and Six-two-five ended up being stranded on an island in the middle of the ocean. "Well, look at the bright side, Mr. Blubber. Even YOU can't sink this." Six-two-five then took a pile of sand and slammed his other and onto it, making it look like a "sand"-wich. Six-two-five laughed at his own joke. In blind rage, Gantu went for Six-two-five, but then the Island flipped upside down and sank. Six-two-five and Gantu floated to the surface, unharmed.

That night, the Ohana found a Place for Sinker in an Asian restaurant. As they enjoyed a meal that Sinker had sliced up for them, they were complimenting Mark on his performance at catching the experiment. "If we knew you were this good, Mark. We'd have let you catch all of the experiments." Lilo commented. "Thanks, Lilo. But that's Stitch's department, really. I only wanted to catch this one so that I wouldn't be completely useless to this Ohana."

The others looked at Mark is surprise and Pleakely asked, "You thought you were no use to us?"

"Yeah. I mean, what've I ever done before today? Making sarcastic and rude comments to everyone. Seriously, this was the only time I ever helped out today. Jumba didn't trust me enough to know that I'd know when we'd be in position. And then the experiment kept getting away from us. There wasn't anything I could do. I just felt completely useless today, until I caught him, that is."

"Naga. Mark not useless." Stitch said to him encouragingly. "Mark put Ohana back on feet." Stitch reminded him. He was right; If Mark didn't remind them that they were only up against another experiment, they would have given up. "Thanks Stitch." Mark said to the little blue alien. When they were ready to leave, Mark picked up the broken anchor with the rope attached to it and put it over his shoulder. "What are you going to do with that?" Lilo asked. "Maybe use it for a grapple hook or something. Not as high-tech as I'd like. But it'll do." Mark answered as he headed back home with his Ohana, feeling just a little more closer to them than he did when the day started.