A Little Pinch of Evil
Disclaimer: I do not own anything from Disney's movie, Lilo and Stitch. I'm just a fan- no copyright infringement intended.
Chapter Ten: Pizza and Ice Cream and Evil?
It had been a different kind of morning. The Ohana had gone through a big change with the addition of its newest member, and a celebration was in order. The house was newly cleaned and spotless for the time being, thanks to the quick hands of Aunt Pleakly. A new bed had also been set in Lilo and Stitch's room thanks to Nani, and a nice banner hung from the ceiling of the living room thanks to the artistic creativity of both Lilo and Stitch.
" What is meaning, Wellcom?" asked Loba as the Ohana entered the house and Jumba placed the small girl down on the ground with more care than he had even given to the creation of his evil genius experiments. The small Kweltikwanian girl looked up at the banner and tried to pronounce the misspelled welcome the best she could.
" It means Welcome to the Ohana." Said Lilo as she wrapped her arm around her shoulder in warm embrace, as Loba still stood there awkwardly and motionless.
" You are welcoming me to the lufa sponge?" asked Loba as she squint all four of her blue eyes in confusion.
" Hugh?" said Stitch as he flung his hands up in the air in confusion as well. Jumba just simply began to laugh from what he had jut heard.
" In Language of Kweltikwan Ohana is also word for lufa sponge." Said Jumba with a slight belly laugh as he knelt down to his little girl and patted her on the head gently. " No, no little one, on planet of Earth Ohana is meaning family, which is also meaning of no one getting left behind and so forth." Jumba said with a slight hand flip as he dug back into his recollection of earth terminology.
" Ohh… " said Loba as she knodded her head ever so slowly still in a manner of slight confusion.
" Speaking of Ohana." Said Pleakly. "Aren't you going to introduce her to the rest of us? Asked Pleakly as he stood before the small girl, still wearing his glimmering pink gown and blonde wig. " Aunt Pleakly, charmed I'm sure." He said as he raised a hand before Loba in exuberance and admiration.
" You are not lady." Said Loba as she starred up crossly at the one-eyed alien with her arms folded.
" I…uhh…This is a runway gown!" said Pleakly muttering his words with hope of making some sense, but with no luck as he stared down at his shoes and took off his wig.
" Told you the outfit was too much." Said Lilo as Stitch dropped on the floor in a gigantic belly laugh again.
" Hi, I'm Nani." Said Nani in order to divert the attention from Pleakly's fashion disaster. " This is my sister Lilo." She continued as she bent down to Loba's level and shook her hand. " I'm sure that your gonna love it here in Hawaii."
Loba just smiled as she listened to the normal words of Nani. She then looked back up at her father and gave a slight smile. She couldn't understand it, but as weird as the situation was, for the first time in her life she felt a sense of security as she stood beside, Jumba's plump purple leg. They hadn't known each other for even twenty minutes, but something just felt, very right.
The evil genius just looked back down at her and smiled as he rubbed his oversized, purple, swollen looking hand on her tiny little shoulder.
" Loba, before I am forgetting, this is experiment 626. Also known as Stitch. He is one of my creations."
" Hiiii!" said Stitch, opening his mouth wide, as he found his own way to pronounce the English language. He quickly crawled over to the new member of the Ohana and gave her a great big hug.
" Hello" said Loba in a quiet meek voice as she feel to the cong-fu grip of her new fluffy blue family member. It was a bit of an awkward hug. She hadn't been expecting it and was locked by Stitch's fuzzy blue arms with a look of pleasant surprise upon her face.
" Make yourself at home." Said Nani " I'll get working on that pizza and ice cream" she said as she began to make her way into the kitchen
"yay!!" shouted Lilo as both she and Stitch jumped into the air for excitement.
" What is Pizza and Ice cream?" asked Loba, still recovering from her hug as she brushed off her rags.
" You've never had Pizza and ice cream before?" asked Lilo. " Oh we have so much to show you," said the young Hawaiian as she grabbed Loba's hand with an attempt to take her under her wing.
" Lilo!" shouted Nani from the kitchen. " You can show Loba around later. I think she wants to spend some time with Jumba, don't you think so?" continued Nani in a parental tone that she had acquired over the years of being he sister's care giver.
" Fine" said Lilo, dropping Loba's hand in annoyance. " Me and Stitch will show you around later Loba." Said the young girl with a smile as she walked off with her blue friend.
For a minute Loba stood in the middle of the floor, clueless as she looked around until she saw Jumba again. She had felt like she was out in the open water of the ocean until she saw him again. She gravitated herself towards him again like he was a lifesaver, and grabbed on to his leg.
" Come with me little one." Said Jumba looking down at her with a smile. " I am to be showing you my lab." He continued as he picked her up and put her on the top of his shoulders. Loba wrapped her arms around his round head as father and daughter walked out the door to the red ship where Jumba's lab was.
As the two walked out the door through the trees, back into the peaceful Hawaiian day, the nervous feeling in Jumba's stomach began to subside.
" So…" said Loba " You are doctor?" she asked still with a very timid voice as she rested herself atop his meaty purple shoulders.
" Yes, is true." Said Jumba, grabbing on to her legs to make sure she did not slip from atop his shoulders.
" You are doctor like Dr. Velstrom?" asked the young girl
" Well umm… not being exactly like Dr. Velstrom." Said Jumba as he began to place the small girl on the ground and opened to weed covered door to his lab. The two entered and Loba's eyes opened as wide as dinner plates. The small girl could only marvel at the sight of the room covered in supercomputers, and genetic experimentation odds and ends scattered about the place. " Jumba is a bit more …eh…evil genius type of doctor." Said Jumba as he scratched his head to search for the proper words.
" Where are you being my whole life?" asked Loba as she quivered at the sight of Jumba's lab. " Look at all these buttons and weapons and computers!" said the young girl as she ran up to a large computer screen and pressed the on button. " No more using forks and spoons for me." Loba had a gigantic smile that spread throughout her entire face. Her timid gestures had seemed to disappear with the sight of her evil genius father's lab.
" Hehe, so you are liking lab of evil genius father?" asked Jumba with a slight chuckle in his voice as Loba nodded her head faster than a bobble head doll. " Evil genius has question for evil daughter protégée then… you are making home-made plasma gun to blast care givers earlier by yourself."
" Yeah, I am making mostly out of forks and spoons from kitchen." Said the girl as if it was nothing as she continued to tinker with Jumba's supercomputer. All Jumba could do was smile as a small tear dripped from one of his four eyes.
" Oh, Jumba is being so proud." He exclaimed as he pat her on the head. Loba stopped her tinkering and turned around.
" You are really being proud of me?" she asked as a pleased look of disbelief arose over her face. " I am usually getting in trouble when I am making those kinds of things."
" Pst Peons, all of them who are getting you in trouble." Said Jumba with a swoosh of his hand, and an erratic angry tone as he recalled his brief stint in jail. He then placed his hand on her shoulder and looked his daughter directly in the eye." Look, evil genius is feeling guilty for not being in little daughter's life." Said Jumba. " But Evil genius father is very proud of Loba. You are everything evil genius could ever want in daughter. How would you like being Father's official evil lab partner?"
" Really?" asked Loba as tears of excitement swelled up behind her eyes.
" Of course." Said Jumba with a hint of evil laughter.