After we enter Jon's place, I grab my holophone and hoping Jumba will answer it.
I call Jumba, but once again Stitch answers it.
Stitch says cheerily, "Hi Marcus, Jon."
Stitch asks as he looks at me, "Why Marcus' face has blue on it?"
I ignore the question and say, "You remember Jon, right?"
Jon says, "Yo, what's up!"
Stitch replies, "Meega good, actually morcheeba. Takka Achi-baba."
Jon says, "Yeah, back to you to."
He asks me lowly, "What did he say?"
I reply softly, "I'm good, I'm very nice. Thanks friend."
I say to Stitch, "Stitch this is my Luis Achi-baba."
Everyone looks at me. I thought, 'Not again, not again with the same scenario. Why does it sound so natural though, the word I think of but sometimes Stitch's version slips my tongue. I got to get a hold on myself.'
I cough and say, "I mean my friend Luis."
Stitch says, "Luis is going be big and strong like Jon, right?"
I say, "Yes that's right?"
Stitch then says, "He's going to be stronger than you, when you're older than him."
Luis says to Jon, "He is funny, I want to meet him. Also, I like how he made Marcus realize that fact too."
Jon says to Luis, "I bet he realizes that long when we started working out together, but probably never wanted to accept it."
Then he shouts, "LIKE HOW HE'S 38 yrs. old!"
Luis and Jon laugh as I look at them with daggers and shout, "Quit the laughter and I'm the same age as you Jon!"
I turn, but I can hear them laugh under their breaths. I say sternly, "I can hear your laughs under your breaths. Do I've do unleash a can of butt kicking onto you two?"
They stop and I turn to Stitch as I ask hopefully, "Is Jumba back yet?"
Stitch says, "Nope, Jumba stuck in meteor shower."
I ask, "When we he be able to be back?"
Stitch answers, "In five days."
I say, "Five day! Five days, I need to speak to him now. Is there a way of me contacting him?"
Stitch comments, "Nope, unless youga want go space and look for Jumba."
I reply, "Eegalagoo, great what I needed. Morcheeba."
Everyone looks at me. I thought, 'I spoke in Stitch's language again, this time really loud.'
Stitch speaks to me in his language, and no matter how hard I try to speak English. I end up speaking in his tongue, it's second nature to me. What's worse is this time I know I'm speaking in his tongue. After we were done, I turn to Luis and Jon. Both looking at me like I'm crazy.
I say to them, "I knew this was a bad idea. I'm leaving."
I turn to Stitch, "Soka. I mean, sorry about this."
Jon grabs my wrist and ask, "Where are you going? This is probably the only chance you can say what's happening to you to someone who is close to Jumba, and you're leaving? Why would you do that?"
I say, "I already know the answer. Also I did, I said it all in Stitch's language."
I ask Stitch, "Right I told you everything?"
He nods his head and say, "Ih."
"See, told you," I say.
Jon knows something is wrong and asks, "What's the problem?"
Stitch answers, "Marcus is Stitch."
"What?" Jon asks not getting it.
"I'm turning into him, or better said a copy of him," I rephrase it.
Luis says, "That can't be, is it."
I nod my head and say, "Ih."
Then I correct myself, "I mean, yes."
Jon ask, "Isn't there anything that can stop it?"
I answer, "No, Stitch heard it from Jumba. If the super human serum goes into a person that was infected with Stitch or any of his cousins' blood sample through blood to blood contact, then the serum turns into an accelerant mutation serum. I'm going to be a monster, and to leave everything and everyone I care about."
I sat down in a corner and burst into tears, accepting this is the end of my life. Knowing that the longer I stay here, the higher the chances I might of hurting people.
I say, "I've to run away, but this time I can never come back. I've to live in Stitch's world, because that'll be the only place where I'll feel accepted."
Jon shouts, "Stop being such a drama queen! I mean Jumba can think of something to stop this, right?"
I say quietly, "It'll be too late by the time he comes back."
Luis asks, "How do you know that?"
"I calculate the time it took for the other changes, divided that by the time of the initiation injection multiply that by the amount of the sample and the amount on the injection," I answer.
Jon asks, "What about Stitch? He's super smart, can't he think of something to help you?"
I answer, "He isn't lab smart, no offense Stitch."
Stitch replies, "Ih."
Luis asks, "If you know when you'll become fully 'Stitch-ify', when is it?"
I answer, "In a few days, means that'll my plans are crushed."
Jon asks, "Why is that?"
I turn to him hoping what he would realize and when he does, his eyes grow wide as saucer plates.
He asks, "You're not going to graduation?"
I say, "It's going to be hard to give a diploma to an alien."
I laugh, trying to make myself feel better. It didn't work, it made me feel worse than before.
I stand up, finding myself shorter than Jon again. My shirt and my pants became baggy. We all laugh at this sight.
I ask Jon, "Do you happen to have any clothes that'll fit me, since my cloths will make me trip?"
We all laugh once again.
Stitch asks, "Marcus can come to Stitch's world, if Stitch can use the machine correctly?"
I answer, "Just please if you do, do one thing, put a mattress or something. I don't want to hit another tree again or anything else."
Stitch comments, "Will do, Stitch will call when he's ready to activate the machine."
Stitch leaves, we all just look around for a few seconds. Stitch comes back and say, "It's ready, youga all can come."
Luis says, "What! We all can go?"
Stitch say, "Ih."
Jon says, "Alright who is the first to go. I say the one with the problem."
Luis adds, "I second that choice."
I state, "Thanks, I'll be sure to remember this later. If I'm going everybody else is coming."
The hole once started to engulf our feet.
Jon says loudly, "What the fuck is this?"
I say flatly, "It's Jumba's W.T.G or Wormhole Teleporter Generator. Believe me, you'll be fine. Nothing will be misplace or disappear. It's harmless."
I was the first to be engulf, follow by Luis and finally Jon.
Luis and Jon were mesmerize by the awe struck sight, I was in awe by them.
Luis asks, "How do we know when we're close to the exit?"
I reply, "When we approach a bright light, we'll accelerate. We'll go really, really fast. Super Sonic speed so swiftly. We'll be so fast, it'll be faster than the fastest..."
Jon yells, "We get it, when we see the light we'll be going really fast!"
As soon as we saw the light, we started to accelerate towards it. I was the first one to be spat out of the hole. I land hard on the ground, face first.
I say in agony, "Ow! My face! What's with the face? Why me in the face?"
I looked around for a second, rejoicing the view. Then I thought for a moment, 'Wait if I was dropped here, then that means...' My eyes widen at the realization, 'I've to move before I feel real pain.'
As soon as I stand up, Luis falls on top of me.
I scream in agony, "OW! This is the worse than the time you jumped off your bed and landed on my back!"
Luis replies, "I'm sorry, but I don't have control of where I land."
I ask, "Can you get off my back really fast?"
Luis requests, "Why?"
I answer, "Well if you and I are here and we landed on this spot, who else is going to land here?"
He says, "Jon! Where is he?"
I comment, "He was the last to be pull by the hole, so he'll be the last to arrive. Now, can you please get off of me so I don't get crush by you and Jon."
Before Luis could leave, Jon falls on top of us.
I holler in pain, "OOOOWWWW! I feel like how a crushed bug feels like...Hurt and pain...Everywhere."
Luis says in pain as well, "Shut up titters! I'm in pain too."
Jon comments, "How about both of you ladies shut up and quit acting like pussies."
I retort, "Easy for you to say, you didn't have two guys fall on the same exact spot, on the same person, at the same speed, both having similar body builds and both almost the same height. Now can both of you please get off me, I think you're crushing my vital organs and breaking my bones."
Jon says, "Quit acting so dramatic, what are you a girl?"
I reply, "No, just a guy in pain."
Jon gets off Luis and helps him up. Both of them help me up.
Jon and Luis look around the cartoon world and couldn't believe how everything was. How their hands were so drawn. How everything look so different from our world.
Stitch runs to us and say, "H... h... hi. Achi-baba!"
I reply, "Achi-baba Takka!"
We both hug each other and laugh. As we continue with our conversation, Jon and Luis seem to get more and more lost. As soon as we finish I turn to them and could see their faces.
I ask, "Sorry guys, how do you think of this place?"
Luis says, "I never felt so like a cartoon, so I guess this is how a cartoon looks inside a TV."
I speak lowly, "I know, but don't say it out loud. People here believe they're real, they don't think they're in a TV."
Jon says, "It's like one of those Twilight Zone or Goosebumps's episodes, where you learn something important at the end."
We all laugh at this, even though it's true; it's also corny.
I turn to Stitch and ask, "Where's everybody?"
Stitch comments, "Lilo is in school, Nani is working and Pleakly is cleaning the spaceship."
"So what do you want to do?" Jon asks.
"I really don't know?" I reply.
"How about swimming?" Luis asks.
We all agree to that idea and started to walk. As soon as we were walking I ask, "Does anyone know where the closest beach is anyway?"
We all nod our heads in no, except for Stitch.
Jon asks, "Stitch can you take us to the closet beach?"
Stitch replies,"Ok, anything for friend. Achi-baba!"
So we all head to the beach, with Stitch's help.
The beach...
I complain, "For a close beach, we sure have to do a lot of walking!"
Luis replies, "Shut up and enjoy titters."
Jon adds on, "Yeah Captain Titties McGee!"
We all laugh and run to the ocean, as the water seem to get closer and closer. The more I dread of choosing to go to the beach and I didn't know why I was feeling this. I feel like half of me wanted to go into the water and the other half wanted to stay on land. I didn't understand why I was so conflicted. Luis and Jon still run to the beach, but I stop.
Jon notices and says, "Marcus come on the water is great!"
I reply, "Actually, I'm going to stay on the beach if you don't mind."
Luis says, "Nothing bad is going to happen to you in the water. If anything does happen you have me, Jon, and Stitch here. We'll help you as much as we can."
This made me feel a little bit better, but I still couldn't shake the feeling of something bad was going to happen. Luis and Jon both come out of the water and walk to my position.
Luis says, "You're going to the water and you're going to like it."
Jon adds on, "Come on now snap out of it."
But I was in thought, because I know I was missing something. I just didn't know what it was, what is worse is that it was eating me on the inside.
As they drag me closer to the ocean, I was still in a stupor. I couldn't figure out why I was feeling so bad. As soon as I got into the water, I was just about to figure it out. But my train of thought left when Jon snap his fingers in front of my face.
"Huh, what did you say?" I ask.
Jon repeats the question, that I must've miss several times, "Are you ok?"
I nod my head yes, and dunk Jon in the water. I was running on the shallow part as Jon and Luis were chasing me, we were having so much fun. I decide to go into the deeper parts of the water, as I put my body in the swimming position. I start to sink, I was thinking, 'I guess I slip, no matter I'm a descent swimmer.'
So I dive into the deeper water, looking at all the creatures. I look up and saw Jon and Luis looking down on me, but I feel myself sinking further. When I look up, I realize I was sinking. I try to swim up, but no use. I seem to be heading down to the ocean floor, what was worse in this situation was that I was running out of air. If I didn't reach the surface somehow, someway. There might be a chance that I'll never be able to reach the surface again. I kick my feet and use my arms to try to swim up, but still nothing. Except, it made me more tired and drain. There was only one thought in my mind, 'Help.' As I open my mouth and sank; I was heading deeper into the ocean and everything was fading to black, Jon sees this and swims after me. He grabs my hand and pulls me in, he looks at me and then puts my arm around him. He swims up with me on him, as he swam to the surface he notices that my pulse was getting weaker. So he decides to swim even faster, finally we got to the surface. Jon pulls me up from the ocean and swims to the nearest sand bank. After he lands, he picks me up and puts me on his shoulder and runs to the beach. Luis comes out from the ocean and sees what was happening and swims as fast as he could to help. Jon puts me down on the sidewalk, he hears Luis running.
Luis asks worriedly, "What happen?"
Jon says confused about the situation, "I don't know, Marcus couldn't get up for air and was so tired he open his mouth and was heading into the ocean floor. He lost consciousness."
Luis asks again, "What do we do you?"
Jon answers, "I'm an ex-EMT. I know what to do."
Luis asks again, "What do you have to do?"
Jon answers, "CPR or Mouth to mouth resuscitation (MMR), now neither one sounds exciting for me. But I've to do it to save him."
So he does both to help me. He sets me up for CPR follow by MMR, he does this several times. Finally after a few seconds, to Jon it felt like an eternity, I spat out water and regain consciousness. I was coughing a lot of water.
After a few coughs I ask, "What happen to me?"
Luis says, "Jon saved your life, he did CPR and Mouth to mouth resuscitation on you so you can breathe."
I went to Jon and say, "Thanks, for doing that you really saved me. I'm in your debt now."
Jon comments, "I was just being a friend, now come on we can still have fun."
I ask, "But what happen to me?"
Jon says, "You dive really deep and couldn't get back up for air, you were sinking farther and farther. When you try to swim up you got tired and open your mouth under water and lost consciousness, then you were sinking to the ocean floor. I saw you and dive down to help you, I had trouble taking you out of the water. But after all that, it's good to know you're ok."
I reply, "Thanks, I really don't deserve to have a friend like you. You're the best."
We both shook each other's hand and pull each other in for a hug. Luis was laughing so we sneaked behind him and made him join the hug. We all laugh and had fun.
Stitch ran to me asking, "Is Marcus okie-taka?"
I answer, "I'm fine, it's just what I don't understand is how I wasn't able to swim upward?"
Stitch says, "Stitch can't swim, since Marcus is like Stitch. I guess Marcus can't swim."
Luis comments, "That's ridiculous!"
I reply, "No, that must be it. Because I know I can swim, but Stitch's body structure for being so dense makes it hard to swim. Since my body is going through the mutation, I guess I can never swim again."
I added playfully, "Unless I wear floaties."
We all laugh at this and still had a great time on the beach.
