Hi. My name is Pack Ink and welcome to A Shift In Power! This is a more serious and dark chapter. Hope you enjoy.
To LumiChan640: Secrets shall be kept, rumors shall be told. To enter the future, the past you must behold. Leroy and Survive, alike they may be. But the future lies within the past. Read too fast and you may never see.
"..." experiment language
"..." human language
VENGEANCE
~At the beach where Reuben and Gantu landed~
Stitch walked Reuben and Gantu back to their ship. For the past few hours they had been talking about how Leroy escaped, who he escaped with, and what his next move could be. They had gone around the island looking for any witnesses of something strange but only found a trail leading to nowhere. It just didn't add up.
"If Leroy and Survive were seen headed towards Earth almost 3 weeks ago, where were they now? It doesn't take long to get from the UGF to Earth, especially with warp-speed. Heck it only took me 10 minutes and I did it on accident!" said Stitch puzzled. He hadn't stopped thinking of his cousin and what chaos could unfold from his return. If only Lilo wasn't sick, she could help him wrap his mind around things much easier. But Jumba was in his lab working on a "Leroy detection device" (LDD for short) .
"Sorry cous but we don't know," said Reuben finishing his 3 ft long salami sandwich on wheat bread.
"Is now really the time for that Reuben?," asked Jumba. He may be bigger than his partner but never could out eat him. "Stitch, I assure you that we will find Leroy and you'll be the first person we call about it. The search shouldn't take long but be careful, you know how your cousin can get." Gantu turned and went into the ship with Reuben but then Stitch heard a whistling sound, like something being slung or shot. Something like a….
"LOOK OUT!" yelled Stitch running towards the ship but was too late. The rocket had already hit it's target. Stitch was knocked back and now laid on his back with the wind knocked out of him. Everything became blurry and he blacked out momentarily. All he could hear was ringing and Reuben's muffled yelling voice. Then he heard footsteps, but instead of going away from the accident they were coming forward. When Stitch turned his head, what he saw made his eyes widen in disbelief.
"Hello there Stitch. Nice to see you," said Leroy dropping the rocket launcher. The first thing Stitch noticed was that he was wearing black combat pants, a red tank top, black boots, and a black leather jacket with a katana strapped to his back and plasma cannons in each of his extra hands. All of which were clawed. The second thing he noticed was that there was a woman next to Leroy whose name Stitch guessed was Survive. Reuben's description of her fit perfectly; white hair with green edges, a white lion tail ending with a blue tuft of fur, and electric blue eyes that pierced Stitch's soul. She was in a white shirt, blue jacket, grey pants, and black boots. Her weapons of choice were white-blade daggers that resembles a dragon's tooth with dark blue hilts. Each with a scratched out paw on the blades' tips.
"You… asshole…" said Stitch coughing out blood and getting up too quickly. He grabbed his head and groaned in pain, the ringing in his ears hadn't stopped but only proceeded to increase in strength. He looked up and glared at Leroy coldly. "I will kill you!" yelled Stitch, letting anger take over and his spines, second set of arms, and antennae come out and rip through the burnt clothing.
"Bite me" said Leroy grinning widely. He put down the weapons and lunged at his cousin, wasting no time in the process.
Leroy pinned Stitch to the sand and pummeled him repeatedly, sinking claw after claw into his skin and ripping it. But his cousin kicked him off and was back on like white on rice. Landing blow after blow, Stitch did his best to get any advantage he could against his opponent but in the back of his mind, he knew they were equal. Same speed, same strength, same everything.
Away from the battle Survive stood with her laser rifle in hand, aiming at Stitch but not getting a clear shot. Then she heard the footsteps of multiple people and turned around to see all the experiments staring at her and the wreckage behind her. "Hi…. we'll be with you shortly," said Survive throwing up a metallic orb with glowing red lines across it. But when it was 40-50 ft into the air, the lines changed to green and a 300 ft wide dome around her, the fighting cousins, and the wrecked flaming hunk of metal that was Gantu's ship.
While the dome was setting itself up, a 6' 10" clown in a green and white vertical striped jumper with green hair, black eyes, and white face paint walked up to the dome. His body stretched and circled the dome until he leaned close enough for his squeaky red nose to press against the dome, worst mistake of his life. As soon as the rubbery nose came in contact with the plasma forcefield the clown was attacked with 1,500 volts of electricity. The shockwave sent through the clown made him fly through the air and across the beach, making him land in a big pile of sand and dust.
When the dust cleared the experiments saw their fallen cousin, laying motionless in a small crater he had created. The experiments were frozen in fear. Whatever was going on, it wasn't going to he good.
Suddenly, right before the dome was fully built a winged figure dove through a small opening. The situation had gone from bad to much worse.
Inside the dome Stitch and Leroy were panting and each holding a plasma cannon, each aimed directly at the other. When the figure dived and stood between them with wings spread their eyes grew wide with shock. "SHIFT!?" yelled the cousins.
Shift stood straight up and held a gun towards both Stitch and Leroy. They were now in a tri-experimental stand off.
"Shift! What are you doing here and how did Leroy become human?" asked Stitch eyeing his cousin and the cannon in his hand.
"Yea Shift, what are you doing here and why am I human? Tell him why you gave me the new form and helped me with my plan. Tell him everything!" yelled Leroy grinning. He pulled another plasma cannon out from under his jacket and aimed it at Shift, but noticed out the corner of his eye that Stitch had done the same.
Shift said nothing but instead just stared at Stitch and Leroy with pure hatred.
Something in Stitch's head had finally clicked. "Shift…. Buddy? What is he talking about?" said Stitch. When Shift kept the silence going, Stitch knew what he thought was right. Lilo was right, Jumba was right, everyone was right.
"Oh, and don't forget about poor Lilo" said Leroy. He pressed a button on the inside of his jacket and a recorded video feed of Lilo struggling on Survive's ship played. Stitch's eyes widened and his fists clenched, Leroy had gone too far.
Stitch raised a finger to Shift and his eyes welled with tears. One single drop found its way down his cheek. "I'll deal with you later but you…," said Stitch turning his finger towards Leroy, "YOU'RE DEAD!". Immediately after all 3 cousins shot at each other.
The battle of vengeance had finally begun. And nobody would reign victorious.
~20 minutes later~
Lilo ran and ran, not looking back. She was mad, sad, and heartbroken. Shift had betrayed her, used her, and lied to her. Together, those things broke the girl. "Why did i believe him? Why didn't I trust my instincts! Why… why did he betray me?" thought Lilo.
She stopped, sobbing against a leaning palm tree. Then she heard gunfire, yells, and the smell of burnt skin filled the air.
Lilo's eyes widened when she heard Stitch's choked yell and she ran. But this time instead of trying to escape the problem, she was running towards it. Right into the source.
When Lilo arrived at the beach, what she saw was a battlefield. Beaten and bloodied human experiments lay on the ground. Some moving, others not. But worst of all, she saw Shift, Stitch, and Leroy were inside the dome. Shift had both Leroy and Stitch by the neck and his claws were dangerously close to piercing the jugular veins.
"SHIFT NO!" yelled Lilo, not noticing whose name she said. But when Shift turned his head, Lilo had noticed that his eyes, his former light grey eyes were now blood red. Stitch and Leroy's eyes were glowing green like when they were originally hatched but Shift's eyes were much more primal and much more bloodlusted.
Stitch coughed out blood, feeling his strength fade away. "Sh-shift…. Please…." said Stitch. He weakly grabbed Shift's wrist and gave it a squeeze.
Leroy on the other hand ,literally, was grinning and ignored the pain of his wounds. "Shift, let the experiment in you take over. Let the-" said Leroy but was cut off by a deep loud roar from Shift.
"ENOUGH! I WILL BE THE LAST EXPERIMENT" Shift finally said, breaking the silence. Then in the quickest motion possible, Shift broke Stitch and Leroy's neck letting them drop to the floor. Motionless, cold, and lifeless.
The experiments, Survive, and Lilo stared in awe at Shift. He had done something nobody ever could, he had killed an experiment.
The dome fell apart and Survive was the only one moving. She walked to Shift and gently placed her hand on his cheek. "Father…" is all she said.
Shift growled and smacked Survive across the beach. A red hand mark with small claw incisions was made onto Survive's cheek. "I am not your father," said Shift with his head down and eyes staring at the dead bodies of his cousins.
Lilo walked up to Shift without him or anyone else noticing. Her eyes never left him from the second she left the jungle. Her eyes saw Shift as so many things; a liar, a killer, an outright douche. But most of all, in her eyes Shift was an unstable experiment who could see the light. An experiment who had a home.
And she was going to find it, even if it killed her.
So major foreshadowing there. I'm not saying Lilo is gonna die but i'm not saying she isn't. I don't know you'll have to wait and see. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and the story as a whole.
Pack Ink, signing out
