right, sorry about the wait for this chapter, but you won't believe how hard some of this was to write. i had the ideas, it was just getting the right words down. anyway enough with my excuses, read and enjoy...i hope.
The Underdogs
Part 9
Final Preparations
It was now well into the middle of the day, in fact some people would actually say that it was more evening than day. Nani was just finishing up her final task of the day, when a woman walked up to her.
"hi are you Nani Pleakly?" the woman asked. Turning around Nani saw that it was the newest guest, who's name escaped her at this moment in time, though she has heard many strange things about her.
"yes, I'm Nani. How may I help you?" It was strange, because as soon as she said this the woman, who's name was Goslyn Waddlemeyer Nani remembered, looked around to see if anyone was in ear shot before a very sober expression came onto her face.
"Nani I want to talk to you about Lilo. You see, I know about the experiments"
Back at the house, stitch was busy thinking about what he should do. He knew he would be a great asset to this attack force, but he had Lilo now. His life was as close to perfect as he could ever dream it to be. But if he did this, then the prospect of galactic peace would be within sight and it would be thanks to him, and that would make Lilo proud of him. Because of all this pondering he didn't notice the fact that Lilo was looking quite worried. She had over heard what cobra had said to stitch, and she knew that he would be very tempted to go, but she knew that in the end he would stay for her. But was that really what she wanted? What she wanted was for stitch to be happy and she knew that deep down stitch would not be all that happy if he sat back and let this war go on without him.
'He has changed his entire out look on life for me. Would it be fair if I didn't let him do this? If I made him stay with me? What am I saying, I can't make him stay with me. He stays with me because he wants to. Because he wants to make me happy and because he loves me. Stitch is my life and I feel complete whenever he is near me. But the look on his face is just so, confused. He wants to go. I can see it in his eyes. But he wants to stay with me…wait, that's it! If I am to one day officially marry stitch I need to see his life as much as he needs to see mine. I need to experience what his life use to be! I need to see what his chaotic life was in order to further understand him! But that means going to war. No, no talking myself out of this! I have to do this! I have to understand stitch as much as he understands me! Only then can we be a perfect couple!'
Looking up Lilo saw that stitch had his ears down, which made her feel rotten. So turning off her hologram, so that stitch could see the honesty of her words, Lilo asked stitch a simple question,
"stitch are you going to fight in this war?"
"Lilo, why are you asking me this? You know that I would never leave you. That I could never leave you. Your too precious to me to risk my life in something like this war. No I'm not going to fight in it."
"but they could really use you. After all you're the last experiment that isn't tame, and not actually scared of this thing"
"very true Lilo, but I've made up my mind. I'm staying here with you."
"stitch. There's, there's something that you need to know. You know me as well as I know myself. I've told you everything, even things that I haven't told Nani. But I don't know you very well"
"no Lilo, you know me just as good as I know you"
"that's not true, and you know it. I've known you ever since you came to this planet. But before that I know next to nothing about your life."
"well that's because there isn't really that much to say about it"
"I know that. But I would like to know your mind at that time of your life. I would like to know why you did the things you did" slowly taking Lilo's bluish purple coloured claw in his own he started to get what Lilo was going to say.
"Lilo please tell me that you're not thinking about going off to fight in this war"
"no stitch, I'm not thinking about it. I've already made my mind up. I, I'm going to fight in it." Hearing this stitch was shocked.
"but, why? Why do you want to see such horrible things so close?"
"to get to know you better, stitch. To understand everything about you, be it the good, or the bad."
"but seeing the battlefield can change a person to the point of insanity"
"I know that. But I have to do this, if not for you, then for myself. Stitch you may not feel that I need to see this, but I do! I need to see this part of your life! Only then will I feel I truly understand you." Lilo said with a shaky, but determined voice.
"well if that's the way you feel. Let me be the one to guide you through it" stitch said with such feeling, he even had the beginnings of tears in his eyes. Hearing this Lilo's own eyes started to water up before she moved her head to stitch's shoulder where she cried tears of happiness, though some where of worry.
"thank you stitch. Thank you for understanding" she said as she brought her arms around his waist and just sat their beside him, with the orange sky of the sunset behind them, all the while stitch stroked her back reassuringly.
Unknown to the two of them, Pleakly was watching them from the house. He couldn't make out what they where saying, but he could see, and feel, the emotion that they where pouring out to each other. He still wasn't use to the idea of their relationship, but it was times like this when he found it simply adorable. He hated to admit it, but those two where indeed head over heels in love. Turning away from the window, he secretly prayed that this war would not destroy something so beautiful as their love.
It was dinnertime when Nani finally came home from work. Normally she comes hoe from work a good hour before dinner, unless there is something important that needed done at the hotel. So it wasn't all that unusual for her to arrive home this late. But what was unusual was that she had a guest with her.
"Nani, who this person you brought with you?" Pleakly asked from the table when he noticed the woman behind Nani. Lilo was glad that she had decided to have her hologram on at this moment in time.
"well, her name is Goslyn Waddlemeyer, and she's here because she knows about the experiments, and she wanted to talk to you Lilo" Nani said while offering Goslyn a seat, which she gladly accepted.
"but Nani, I've never seen her before."
"well that's because I'm from another dimension. You see where I come from, we protect the world from a group called the "Great Darkness" and we recently set up an alarm system to detect when emotions have gone through the roof within the space of a galaxy. That's the sure tell tale sign of the great darkness being there. Now when I got here I did find evidence of the great darkness, but it was only a scouting squad, which means that they are not here."
"Wow that's cool" Lilo said "but why did you say 'we'? Wait is there another me in your dimension?"
"Why yes. There is a Lilo and stitch in my dimension. And they do help me and my group fight off the great darkness"
"cool" was all that Lilo and stitch said when they heard this.
For the rest of the night, well until Nani told Lilo, stitch, ruby, demo and Blissey to go to bed anyway, it was just one big question and answer session. Goslyn was surprised to find that Lilo and stitch where boyfriend and girlfriend, since where she came from Lilo was, well she played for the other team if you get what I mean, and this really surprised the family, but no one more so than stitch, but Lilo was certainly a close second.
However, the Q and A session was finished when bedtime came around. Lilo was a little annoyed, because their guest was really quite cool. But Nani would have no arguing about the matter, so Lilo had to surrender. Goslyn had to go back to the hotel anyway, so it wasn't really all that big an issue.
The next day Lilo and stitch where up bright and early. It wasn't because of Nani, or hula class, or even a faulty alarm clock. It was because they wanted to get to the recruiting office before anyone who knew them would see what they where up to. So getting out of the house before any other person was up, let alone being able to see them leave, Lilo and stitch took off into town.
However unknown to them, they where spotted. Ruby was looking out of the window of Jumba's space ship when she noticed two experiments leaving the house, one blue and one purple. For a split second she wondered who stitch was running off with, when she remembered Lilo's second face.
Now she was even more curious. Where were they going? And why where they doing it so early? Suspecting more than allowed romance in the making, she decided to follow them. Of course if they where going to be doing that level of romance, she would avert her eyes and give them some privacy, for a short amount of time anyway.
Lilo and stitch made excellent time getting to the recruiting office, and thanks to them being experiments, had no real problem getting into the army. The only real problem they had was when they where asked what numbers they where. Stitch was fine. But the problem came with Lilo. Since she was the second newest experiment made, and one of Jumba's biggest secrets, her number wasn't in the military database that now included Jumba's experiments. Thankfully stitch had anticipated this and with a quick distraction, inputted the data on the M.G.S. series into the system. Of course leaving out the fact that they where once human.
However all this good luck, was bound to run out soon, and it so happened to run out when they left the office. They where talking to each other about how they where going to prepare for the war, when they bumped into someone. Now this person was someone they knew, so that made their bad luck even worse, but it was the fact that they knew that the purple experiment beside stitch was in fact Lilo.
"Lilo what where you doing in the recruitment office? And why don't you have your hologram on?" Victoria asked once she figured out what happened. Victoria had a bag of mangoes in her hands, but they where now scattered over the ground.
"Victoria, uh what are you doing here?" Lilo asked as soon as she realised whom she bumped into and what the question was.
"well, my mum wanted some mangoes and since this is the best time to get them from Mrs Hasigouia (small woman with fruit stand if I've gotten it wrong). But you still haven't answered my question Lilo, what where you doing in the recruiting office?"
"I don't know what you mean Victoria, me and stitch haven't been in the recruiting office at all" it was just then that one of the recruiting officers, a woman wearing full camouflage gear,
"Mr.626, Miss M.G.S.001, you left without your order forms. You must have these when we call you or else you won't be able to get onto the boarding craft" the woman said while handing two pieces of paper to them before going back into the office. This only confirmed to Victoria what she had been dreading,
"you joined the army?! Your going to go off and fight in this up coming war!" Seeing no other way out of this, and the fact that she hated lying to Victoria, Lilo gave in, and the only thing she could do was a simple nod of the head. "But why? Why do you want to do this?"
"well, you know that me and stitch love each other." Victoria only nodded "but in order for us to get married one day I need to know what it was like for him before he came to earth. Before I turned him good, and the only way to do that is to fight in this war. You may think this is really extreme, but love can make you do stupid things"
"but what if you get killed?"
"That won't happen, because I won't let that happen" stitch said with full confidence.
Lilo, who could not look into Victoria's face due to guilt from her original lie, finally built up the courage to look into her face. What she saw was very strange, Victoria had closed her eyes, and her face was full of confusion. But before Lilo and stitch could say anything she opened her eyes and handed her bag of mangoes to Lilo,
"hold these for a second Lilo" Victoria said before turning off her hologram.
"Victoria, what are you doing?!" Lilo said when she saw this.
"I'm not going to sit back and worry myself to death as my two best friends fight in a war. If I'm going to do any worrying it's going to be with my friends!" and before ether Lilo or stitch could say anything, or before Victoria could talk herself out of it, she went into the small white building.
To say that Lilo and stitch where shocked by the sudden outburst of Victoria, and also by the loyalty to her friends, would be like saying that Lilo thought Elvis was ok. They where speechless and so was Victoria the moment she came out of the building carrying a similar piece of paper that stitch and Lilo where holding.
On a building across the street, ruby was silently watching all this happen. Her mouth was wide open and her eyes where threatening to come out of their sockets. She had no idea that this was what Lilo and stitch where planning to do, and the fact that Victoria had now done the same thing.
Regaining her composure, ruby sat her back against the small bit of wall that she was hiding behind.
'why would Lilo and stitch go to war? I know why Victoria went, so she could make sure her friends come out safely. But did they do it? should I tell Nani about it? should I tell anyone about it? No. I shouldn't tell Nani that will only cause a riot to happen. But I am going to have to make sure that Lilo and Victoria will be ok, and in order to do that I'm going to have to join as well. But I need the help of demo and Blissey in order to make sure that they're safe. I just hope they want to do it' ruby thought before she got up and went back to get her friends.
Ruby ran as fast as she could. She wanted to get back and tell her friends before Lilo and stitch figure out that she was spying on them. When she got back to Jumba's ship, she found that demo and Blissey where still fast asleep. Sighing loudly to herself, she decided to for go the gentle approach and kick them instead.
"come on you lazy bones. I need your help with something" ruby said as she kicked them.
Within a kick and a half, both experiments where now up and quite annoyed at ruby. However when they heard what was going on, and what ruby was planning to do, they attitudes where quickly changed. Demo was all for joining the army, and Blissey was just as quick to join up, though his reason was more to look out for his friends than to actually fight. Before anyone could say anything else, all three experiments where out of the ship and racing into town.
Unknown to any of the experiments Patrick heard everything that was said. He heard about how Lilo and stitch joined the army. He heard how Victoria had joined them when she found out what they where doing. And now he heard that Blissey, ruby, and demo where joining up as well.
Even though it was a different Lilo and stitch, he couldn't help the feeling of over protectiveness that he had with the Lilo and stitch that he knew. He didn't like the idea of fighting with another person, let alone fighting in a war that could change the fate of the galaxy. But he also knew that it was far too late to try and change Lilo's mind, so the only thing he could do was join up as well.
He cursed his stubbornness as he got up out of bed and got changed into his clothes.
'why do these things for you Lilo? I mean you're not even the Lilo that I know, I mean she isn't an experiment. And you being an experiment means that you should come out of this without a problem, but there is just, something inside me that is screaming at me to watch you throughout this conflict.' Patrick thought as he slowly walked out of the ship, and headed for the direction of the town.
Walking through the town, the magnitude of just how different this world was from the other world that he knew was astounding. The layout of the town was very similar, but all the shops just seemed to be more…advanced. One example of this was when he passed by an electronics store. The shop in question had TV on display and at that moment in time they where showing a news report about fusion power plant being built just off the coast of Honolulu. Now the fact that a power plant was being built on the sea was strange enough. But the fact it was a fusion power plant was something that Patrick never expected. He was even surprised at the TV that was playing the news report. It was a 42" high definition ready plasma TV, and it was being sold for a fraction of the price that he remembered from the last time he went to an electronics store.
'man, I should come here and get all my electric goods here. I mean if they're selling that beautiful TV for such a small price imagine all the money I could save!'
however his trip eventually came to the recruiting office for the army. 'well at least this is still in the same place' Patrick thought to himself as he gained the courage to enter the building. Taking one final deep breath he grabbed the handle and pushed the door open.
"hello, may I help you?" a woman said as Patrick walked up to the front desk.
"yes I would like to do my duty and fight in this war"
well how do you like it? was it everything that you could have dreamed of, probabily not. but anyway tell me what you think. flamming is acceptable, however please leave an email address for me to flame you back...its only fair. if you don't, well then your just a coward who can't take what he dishes! but i hope we are all mature enough not to flame in the first place
