I want to thank wolfwarriorKronos for allowing me to use his two characters in my story: Wolf (629) and Violet (623). If you also want me to use your character(s) in my story, just send a review or message me. Also, I started to explain what certain experiments look like, but I had to stop. I'll put all the experiments I use at the bottom for those who don't know them. Please do read and review this chapter. Also I put some of my poems. Don't bash about my poems, I don't want any hating comments. Without further ado, I hope you all like this.

Morning - Lilo's house...

Both versions of me woke up.

I say to him, "Ahua shalom bye!"

I yawn and say, "Good morning how was your sleep?"

He reply, "Okie-taka. Okay, I guess. How was your sleep?"

I comment, "Pretty much the same."

After we're fully awake, we both look at each other and realized, we were the same height.

I say, "That's not fair!"

I continue, "How did this happen? I mean I haven't transform into Stitch for a long time."

My future still Stitchified self replies, "Cool down, okay. No need to give ourselves a heart-attack."

We both decide to watch some TV, we watch some cartoons. Nani walks into the room and asks me a question; well tries to because she is still in disbelief, "Past Marcus? Non-stitchified Marcus? (She points to me) You guy, there. You're going shopping with me?"

I reply, "I can't. I should really be going home."

Nani comments, "Look at your clothes again."

I look at them, they were huge on me. My shirt now looked like a skirt, my shoes to me were like a pair of clown's feet, and I had to hold onto my pants because they keep falling down my figure.

She states showing assertiveness, "We're going shopping, that's final."

She grabs my hand and takes me to their laundry room, she stops in front of the machine and take out a few clothes.

She speaks, "I know we've some clothes for you, since you're practically Stitch's height."

After a few minutes she found them and says, "Ah ha, here we go."

She grabs them and hands them to me. She demands, "You go to the bathroom and take a shower, then put these clothes on."

I walk and the thought of a nice shower wasn't bad, so I go to the bathroom. I use some of the extra toothbrushes to brush my teeth, I floss then gargle some mouth wash. After that I lock the bathroom door and strip, I head into the shower/bathtub combination. I turn the knobs, warm water comes all over my sore, and unfortunately, very dirty body. The water also helps me ease my mind, it seems because I was in tranquility.

I say in a poetic way,
"To love somebody is to open up your heart.
make the love grow, shine it from the start.
To love someone who loves you, is all the world needs.
To be love by you, your love for me.
I just wish I could say the things from my heart instead of my brain.
I want to love you, but not to hurt you. Because soon I'll be gone from the world we know.
My love will never stop, it will always go. Because to love someone who loves you back, is a gift.
So cherish it, because it may be the last you'll ever see of that person again."

I exit the shower and dry myself with a towel and quickly put on the clothes that Nani gave me. I open the door to find Nani on the door.

I ask with a blush, "Were you just listening to me in the shower?"

She scoffs and denies, "I-I don't you what you're talking about. I was just passing through when you open the door."

I just accepted what she said, "Ok. Whatever. Now let us hurry with the shopping so I can think what my next move is."

I leave the bathroom feeling completely awkward by what just happen. Nani looks to me as I walk away. She thought, 'Wow how amazingly beautiful that poem was. But how sad it is because, he is in love with someone. Though he won't admit it."

I go downstairs and see my other self lying on the floor. I ask him happily, "Hey do you want to go to the store with me?"

He nods his head no and says, "Naga."

I beg and plead, "Please come with me. Iki bah bah!"

He replies harshly, "Naga-takabah!"

I comment as I cross my arms over my chest, "Naga butifa!"

I ask, "Why not? Come on?"

He replies, "I said no. No way. Not in this lifetime."

I comment, "That's not cool, I don't want to go by myself."

He asks, "What about Lilo?"

I reply, "She went to hula lessons and won't be back until later."

He adds, "Then, oh well. Have fun shopping!"

He leaves me in the living room, stun and goes outside through the back door. I thought, 'Wow. I can't believe how much I can loathe myself right now.' Nani comes down and sees me stun. She says, "Marcus. Marcus, are you there? Earth to Marcus. " After that failed attempt, she gets annoyed; so she snaps her fingers at me. I say, "Huh? Huh, what did you say?"

She replies, "Are you ready for shopping?"

I say in a defeated tone, "Yes, just take me shopping already."

She comments, "Good, I need to buy food as well. Because of two extra guests."

She looks to me and I look down. She laughs and says, "I don't mean it in a bad way."

I look to her happily. We both went to her car and she drove us away.

Future self P.O.V.

I'm lost in thought, 'I can't believe that I'm still in my Stitch form. I haven't one bad episode of extreme angry or stress. I should be back to my normal self right now, but why haven't I. Maybe I shouldn't be such a jerk to my past self, I guess it's because I envy him. He has his body, his friends, a girl who loves him and everything is so perfect for him. As for me, I'm nothing. Just a mere ghost, a shadow passing in this time; lost in time, soon my time will be coming to me. Now all I've to do is to wait.'

What I didn't know was that I wasn't alone. Someone was sneaking up behind me, going to surprise me and going to make me stun.

Stitch comes up to me and asks gleefully, "Marcus play with Stitch and cousins?"

I scream because he catches me off guard, "Yikes!"

I just stand there frozen from the sudden and unexpecting surprise.

Since I couldn't move because I was shock and didn't respond to his question fast enough, he licks my face.

I say in an aggravated tone, "Ew. Stitch that's gross, look just leave me alone."

I wipe my face off and turn to walk to the other direction, but Stitch was once again in my path.

He repeats he question, "Itchibawa Marcus. Marcus please play with Stitch and cousins?"

I reply angrily, "I'm not in the mood right now. I've a lot of my mind."

Stitch comments, "That's why play with Stitch and cousins. To help Marcus feel better."

I look at him and he gives me the cutest face, I couldn't say no to him. But I didn't want him to think he broke me down, so I fix my posture and give out a slight laugh. I say with a smile, "Fine, I'll play with you and your cousins."

I add questioningly, "Besides, what game are you playing?"

He replies elatedly, "Marcus salsa."

I complain, "Meega naga salsa. I mean I don't want to follow you, just tell me."

He grins and just leaves into the jungle. I ponder on the thought of either to follow him or not, but I'm curious about the game he is playing with the cousins. So after a few seconds, I follow him.

After a few minutes of running on all fours through the jungle, I come to an amazing open area. I was stupefy by this wonder, the trees were planted just so like a picture. There was a waterfall, the water glistening from the sun's rays. It seem the rays were dancing across the horizon, everything here was perfect.

I say under my breath, "Butifa."

I correct myself, "I mean it's beautiful, marvelous. Stupendous even."

"Batookah! Boojeboo!" adoringly scream from a pink experiment, with two long tendril-like violet-tipped antennae, violet-tipped ears, small eyelashes, white V-shaped symbol, slightly larger chest puffed out and two dark pink back markings; one on the back of her head resembles Stitch and other on her back is an upside-down heart, runs to me and licks my cheek. I was taken aback by this and she looks at me. I see she has a hurt expression on her face, I don't know what happen to me. I didn't even know her and yet I was moving closer to her. Every step closer I take to her, I feel like I had to help her smile. As soon as I face her and her sad eyes were looking at me. I try to comfort her with my company, by giving her a hug. She returns it back to me, as soon as our faces were really close, like on instinct I lick her back on the cheek. I let her go of the hug and she lets me go too. She blushes and turns her face away, as do I. I was trying to rub my tongue to get the taste of fur out of my mouth, which is difficult when a titanic portion of my body is covered in fur, I stop and face her. She turns back to me and stands up on her two feet and smiles at me. So I decide to do the same, as soon as I let go of my hands from the ground and stand.

She swiftly grabs my hand and says, "Meega love boojiboo. Meega tay boojiboo."

She puts her nose against me and rubs it, unconsciously I do the same. I lick her nose, then I kiss her cheek. I didn't know what was happening to me, I never acted like this nor was taught to do this; yet, it was second nature to me. She stops and looks into my eyes, I was looking at her eyes.

I reply absentmindedly, "Meega love butifa boojiboo."

I shake my head, trying to comprehend what I just said. She turns her head sideways to me, confused by what I said. She looks at me and asks, "Youga da boojiboo, Stitch?"

I nod my head no. She asks another question, "Cama'ahar Teh Tebracres?"

I reply, "Naga Stitch. I'm not Stitch. Meega Marcus. I mean I'm Marcus."

She realizes that I was a human-the human, the one her cousins have been talking about. Then she releases my hand from her grasp and says, "Soka. Misa soka Marcus."

I reply with a smirk, "Don't be soka, meega soka. Actually it was morcheeba. I never been lick in this form."

We both lightly laugh.

She says, "Meega Angel."

My eyes just widen with fear and I thought, 'Eegalagoo! Crap! Angel, she isa Stitch boojiboo. Double Crap! If he finds out about this, meega detaka.'

She sees the fear in my eyes and tries to comfort me by licking my cheek, which oddly enough was working. My fears just seem to vanish, becoming transparent with every lick.

She stops and states, "Meega talk boojiboo. Stitch naga mad at ohana. Stitch naga mad at Marcus."

I say weakly, "Kachi nostee."

She replies nicely, "Ih. Meega sure. Naga worry, meega hagata."

I add, "Naga, we both talk to Stitch."

Angel grabs my hand and we search for Stitch. Angel leads the way to find Stitch. We were searching for a few minutes and we haven't found him, I had to sit down because I was so exhausted. Angel stops walking turns around and sees me on the ground. She walks back and goes behind me then she starts grooming me, it was strange. But in a good way, I actually wish she was doing it for a long time; of course, my guilty conscience told me to stop.

I say to Angel, "Angel, aggaba. We talk Stitch."

I take a second and actually realize, my grammar was becoming more and more broken. Angel snaps me out of my thoughts and helps me stand and we continue searching for Stitch.

When we heard, "Boojiboo! Batookah!"

We both turn and see Stitch, he was on top of a palm tree. He jumps off, grabbing a nice florid flower from the tree and gives it to Angel.

I holler, "Batookah Stitch!"

Angel says adoringly while batting her eyelashes at him, "Boojiboo"

I say to Angel really low and panicky, "Oongatish mista! Meega toga."

She whispers into my ear, "Youga naga toga. Meega hagata. "

She helps me calm down and rubs my back up and down. We both face Stitch and I say, "Ashi Salaam?"

Stitch says, "Okie-taka. Gaba ika tasoopa?"

I reply with tears in my eyes, "Meega soka Stitch. Angel thought meega boojiboo. Meega kiss and lick boojiboo."

I add, "Misa soka. Meega understand if youga never want to see meega again."

I start to walk away with my head down. "Marcus," Stitch calls me, "aggaba."

He walks after me and grabs my hand. I ask," Youga talk Marcus still?"

I turn around, he nods his head yes and I ask, "Itchibawa Stitch? Can Stitch forgive Marcus?"

Stitch extends his hand up, and I stiffen my body and look down readying myself for a hit; instead of that, he rubs my back and pats my head. Then he says, "Youga isa okie-taka. Stitch forgives Marcus. Marcus and Stitch achi-baba and ohana. Stitch can't be mad at ohana. Stitch can't be mad at Marcus."

I look up, wipe my tears away and he is smiling at me. I smile back, fill with glee that I give him a hug and he returns the hug back. When we release I was so excited that I accidentally lick him, he laughs and so does Angel. After that I feel really embarrassed, because I just licked him; I just showed I love him. I feel really awkward at that moment, but Stitch licks me back so I wouldn't feel so bad nor awkward. It work and I laugh afterwards.

We all were walking to where the other experiments were.

I ask, "Cousins playing tag?"

She replies, "Naga, cousins play extreme tag."

I look at them and wonder, 'Doesn't seem extreme to meega?'

Then when Slodyhead, a small red, six-legged reptilian dog-like creature with a red-purple-striped horn on his head, brick-red markings on his forehead and back, short red-orange-tipped ears, blue eyes with red-purple spots around them and a hole-like nose that shoots fiery plasma blasts, comes in and does a surprise attack. He shoots a fireball from his nose and pushes Yin into Yang, my jaw just drops; however, they seem to be fine. In fact, they were laughing and having fun.

I ask Stitch, "Meega hurt?"

Stitch replies, "Naga, for fun!"

I state uncertain, "Meega not sure. Meega naga bigulai. Meega not ready."

He walks up to me and grabs my hand and replies, "Kishameta youga naga hurt. Youga look like Stitch. Meega won't get hurt. So youga won't get hurt. Youga toga?"

I nod my head yes and state, "Meega toga. Meega very toga."

Stitch tries to comfort me by saying, "Youga look. (Pointing to some experiments playing) See Marcus won't get hurt."

I comment worriedly, "Gaba meega gets hurt."

After hearing myself for a while I was getting really annoyed of how I sounded, so I try to correct it, "Ga-gaba-ba-ba..Wa-wa-What if me-me-ma-ma-Marcus gets hurt?"

I repeat, "What if I get hurt?"

I thought, 'Man it was bad enough when it came out and could easily correct myself. But this time, it was so difficult. Meega losing the ability to speak English?'

Stitch talks to meega, which took meega out of thought, "Marcus worries too much. Marcus needs fun."

So he runs and drags me with him to the center, all I wanted was to hide. Stitch whistles, everybody stop what they were doing and look at Stitch and me. I hide behind Stitch because I was feeling extremely nervous about this.

All the cousins came closer because they were bewildered by the sight, two Stitch's in one place, impossible. Stitch side steps, points to me and shouts, "This is Marcus. Itchibawa be careful, Marcus is new to this."

He pushes my shoulder and I turn around. All of them were staring at me, I had to think of something to say.

I holler to them all, "Batookah ohana!"

I saw them all and give them a smile to help me calm my nerves.

The experiments all say in unison, "Batookah Marcus!"

They all charge and give me a group hug. I thought, 'Oh God! Being crush, too many hugs. Can't breathe, everything is - is turning black.'

As soon as they were done hugging me, I fall to the floor. For a few seconds they were all watching me, seeing if I need any assistance. I was twitching a little bit, but I woke up and jump back to my feet. After a few gasps of air I say, "Meega good. Ih meega fine!" We all laugh then they all charge at me. I thought, 'Ikata.' Most were licking me and so I return the favor. Actually the experience wasn't bad, it was like I was being accepted into a club and had to do an embarrassing, demeaning, belittling initiation; of course, without the initiation. After many licks, I notice two experiments coming at me. I never seen these experiments, so I decide to ask them their names.

I ask the sliver one first, "Cama'ahar Teh Tebracres?"

He replies, "Meega 629 prefer Wolf. Meega new to ohana."

I ask, "Gaba youga function?"

He answers, "Meega baaheth jihadi 627."

I nod at him, while simultaneously looking at him. He was similar to Stitch, but had silver fur, light silver chin, stomach, and ear tips. He also had a fluff of fur on his visibly built chest that looked similar to a downward pointed arrow. He had black claws, sharp teeth with 2 pairs of canines on his top and bottom jaws. His head was slightly more pointed than Stitch's and a longer muzzle. The stripes that were light blue on Stitch was black on 629. The top of his head had a sectioned faux hawk and had smaller ears than Stitch. He also had a long, furry tail that was tipped white.

I turn and ask the purple her name, "Cama'ahar Teh Tebracres?"

She replies, "Meega 623 prefer Violet. Meega new to ohana too.(A few second and she turns to Wolf and lovingly says) Boojiboo."

They both rub their noses, until I interrupted with another question, "Soka. Gaba youga function?"

She replies, "Meega turn experiments bad with look of eyes. Now meega good."

I look at her intently, she looks like Angel; except she has purple fur, a lighter purple underbelly, black claws, a furry tail almost as long as Wolf's, a dark purple heart on her chest, fur on her head long enough to block out her eyes, and short ears.

Stitch coughs so everyone turns to him. He shouts, "Let us play hide and seek!"

I thought, 'Hide and seek, not so dangerous.'

He hollers while pointing to a tree, "Tree base. Whoever it has to catch everyone within hour, those who don't get caught are not going to be it. The first caught is it. Smish?

So we all understand and next decide who was it, we all did Simon says. Stitch was the first to lose, so he becomes it and goes to said palm tree (a.k.a base) and counts.

He says, "Hakkiah...Huzziuh...Tiznet..."

Some experiments found a good hiding spot, there were many, including myself, looking for a spot to hide.

He continues counting, "Tele Sharov...Allaf...Khalifaud...Kavi..."

Some more experiments found hiding spots, now there were a few left. I thought, 'Geez, meega naga think meega can't find hiding good spot. Thank God he's counting to 30, whatever it is in his language.'

He still counts, "Jerudai...Tel Ashal...Tienet..."

The number of spots were quickly diminishing, I bump into Richter, Cannonball, Fibber, and Sparky. They were the still few that were looking for some hiding spots.

"Tienethakkiah...Tienethuzziuh...Tienettiznet...Tienettele sharov...Tienetallaf...Tienetkhalifaud..." says Stitch.

I'm not having any luck, I just bump into Hunkahunka (Just missing his beak), Spooky (quickly leave him), Clip (just missing her sharp scissor hands), and Amnesio (avoiding any eye contact).

"Tienetkavi...Tienetjerudai...Tienettel ashal...Huznet...Huznethakkiah...Huznethuzziuh...Huznettiznet..." adds Stitch.

Still not finding any good spot, all the ground spots have been taken. So I decide to go deep into the jungle just to find: Finder, Felix, Swirly (avoiding eye contact once again), Tank, and Hammerface. I go deeper into the jungle.

"Huznettle sharov...Huznetallaf...Huznetkhalifaud...Huznetjerudai..." Stitch yells.

I say to myself, "Meega got to climb tree. Meega hide in high tree and jump."

So I climb up on a tree, the few of the highest ones, and look down. I thought, 'Meega must be 20 ft. from ground.' I continue to climb and of course I meet with more experiments: Belle, Melty, and Nosy. I give up and let go of the tree, I should've look before I released myself. Because if I did I would've notice Kixx beneath me. Since I didn't, I hit Kixx on his head. I say, "Ogata!" After that I was rubbing my head.

I look at Kixx (seeing a tear from his eye) and I could see he was angry, because the bump on his head wasn't small. In fact, in was the size of a softball. He runs to me. I thought, 'Aww fuck!' Then, while running, he does his twister fist super-fast. I now thought, 'Double fuck!'

My eyes grew wide and I thought, 'Move! Come Move!' But no matter what, I couldn't move a muscle. I couldn't scream. What was worse was the fact tears were falling down my face, it didn't help when he screams at me. It made more tears run down my face.

He screams, "Meega nala kweesta!"

I thought, 'Meega dead. Meega detaka.'

He hits me with his full force and I was sent flying over the waterfall and land into a small volcano. As soon as I hit the lava. I jump out and say, "Ogata. Hot! Hot! Hot! I'm melting, melting. What a world, what a world. What a cruel fate for me."

I close my eyes waiting to die in the lava pool. Then I realize I wasn't melting. I look at my body, look in front of me, look back at my body again and hit my head and says, "Meega toobaga. Meega naga burn, Stitch naga burn. Meega found good hiding spot."

A few seconds I was raising. I ask, "Huh? Why meega going up?"

I look under me and I see Yang, staring really angry at me. I ask, "Can youga forgive Marcus?"

He nods his head no. I thought, 'Just as I thought so. This is going to hurt.'

I try to get off him so he can be happy and maybe forgive me. If not, then to get as far away as hell from Yang, but my foot was stuck in one of his back volcanoes. I mutter, "Shoota, meega foot stuck."

He didn't like the answer; in fact, it made him angrier at me. The more I try to get it out, the more he got irritated by the motion and the more he got aggravated by my pulling.

He screams, "Meega nala kweesta!"

I thought, 'Wasn't I just in a situation like this, literally a second ago.'

He gets sick of this and just blows lava from his stacks, the pressure between foot and his lava was building. Then... Boom! I was again flying out of the volcano and land in a bush. I walk out, put my two fingers in my mouth and squeeze the little fire on my head. I complain in a whiny tone, "Ogata! That really hurt Marcus!"

Stitch continues to count, "Huznettel ashal...Zitnet!"

When he finish counting he screams, "Ready not Stitch come! Meega done counting! Now meega will find youga!"

I hear this so I look around and climb painfully up a random palm tree, praying no one was here. I say to myself, "Ogata. (Mimicking what Stitch said to me in a mocking tone) Kishameta youga naga hurt. Youga look like Stitch. Meega won't get hurt. So youga won't get hurt."

After that I add, "Patooy!" and spit. I double check making sure none of Stitch's cousins were there. After seeing no one - not even one cousin, I gradually climb up the tree and as soon as I go up top on the leaves I decide to lay. But I think for a minute and decide to stand again. Because if Stitch is near here, it's better to be standing than lying down. When I look around, the sight was so amazing. It looks as if everyone were an insect.

I say in awe, "Butifa. Morcheeba. Misa Butifa."

A few minutes and I hear trees being tumble down, I turn and see someone was trying to clear an area. I look really closely, it was Stitch trying to find people. He picks stuff, like a giant boulder, and throws it like it's a pair of used jockstraps. Reason why I said that, is because they hurt when they're pulled far back and release or better term like a little catapult. Anyway, they were always finding their way to me. I dodge left, right, up, down, almost any and every direction just so I wouldn't give myself away. I look and I see Deforester on the other side. I was lost and thought, 'Gaaaaba?' I turn back and I see Stitch found Richter. I say lightly, "Stitch going to catch him."

Then Richter uses his powers and goes under ground. I was shock at this, but my mind went back to when Slodyhead, Yin and Yang were together playing 'extreme tag' and then by what Stitch said, "Naga, cousins play extreme tag." Then when he said, "Let us play hide and seek." Then I saw Wolf throwing Finder and Violet grabbing onto Felix with her antennae and throwing him on top of Tank.

I thought, 'It's naga hide and seek, it's extreme hide and seek.'

I look around to make sure no one was around my area, I jump from where I was and bolt to the tree. I was doing fine, until Slushy blew his ice breath and made an ice fortress with its own ice moat. I couldn't stop in time. So I step on the ice, as soon as I was going to put my second foot, I fell on my patooki on the ice. I was sliding on my butt on the ice, after that Slushy sees me sliding and decides to have some fun with me. He made three big loop-de-loops (in different sizes) for me, I saw them with terror in my eyes.

I yell, "Meega going to be sick! Misa sick!"

The first one wasn't so bad, the second time was a little better; yet, the third and biggest one I had the most fun.

I yell, "Tukibowaba!"

I was laughing and got launch into the air, I was having so much fun. I put my feet in my mouth and spun around in the air, I was having so much fun. I didn't bother to see who was in front of me. Slugger sees me, as I come more into focus he sees a ball. He sets himself up to strike the ball (me). When I was close enough, he swings his tail into high gear sending me falling high up into the air. I unroll from my ball form, back to normal (stitch form) and say, "Wwwweeee!" I was laughing from the time I reach the endpoint of my ascend, to the starting point of when my descend. When I look down, I could see the ground coming fast. So I went back into ball form, when I hit the ground I was a giant blue pinball; hitting every tree in my sight. Knocking most trees over; however, it also gave away a lot of cousins' hiding spots. When I was finish pin balling, I slowly unroll and was lying flat on the floor. I say, "Ogata. Booganaga. Meega going to feel pain tomorrow! But meega had fun!"

I turn and all I saw were angry glares at my direction. I rub the back of my head awkwardly and say, "Soka. But meega had fun. Like Stitch said. This good, real good."

After saying those words, everyone was looking at each other confuse. By the time they turn back, I was already running back to base.

I scream, "We play extreme hide and seek!"

Then those guys were fighting over who will make it first, though it didn't matter because I was ahead in the lead. Yin shot water from one of her tentacles, it hits me so hard I was rolling. Slushy sees his window of opportunity and blows his icy breath, making it from a simple splash of water to a snowball. I was rolling so much, I was disoriented. Half of me wanted to scream, but the other half wanted to keep my mouth shut so I wouldn't vomit. My giant snowball hits a few trees and it disperses, I was wobbling out because everything was still spinning by my vision. So what I did was grab my head, and my eyes were still going around in circles. I want to close them, but I knew if I did that it would be worse for me. No other choice than to walk, very carefully. I bump into Wolf and say, "Can you three stop spinning? You're giving me a headache."

I thought, 'I can't believe it, maybe I'm not losing my ability to speak English. Thank god, I bet it would be hard to learn Stitch's language from the beginning.'

Wolf replies laughing slightly, "Meega naga spinning. Youga hit head and was in snowball not so long ago."

I comment, "I had fun still, just now I'm a little dizzy."

He questions, "Dizzy?"

I state, "Yes, I'm dizzy."

He offers, "Meega help youga out. Okie-taka?"

I reply unsure by what he meant, "Okay?"

He puts my arm around his shoulder and we walk through the jungle, still playing the game. Stitch screams, "Meega need Wolf and Marcus to win!"

I mumble, "Wow! He capture all of them, I knew he was fast. Not this fast, we've to hide now."

He asks, "Why?"

I reply, "If Stitch captures all of the cousins except you and me; he is going to us Finder's ability to find us."

I thought, 'I can't believe how much I miss talking in complete English sentences.'

Wolf grabs my hand and says, "We go fast, run fast can hide faster."

He throws me up and I scream fearfully, "Are you crazy?"

I land on his back, grabbing around his neck with my arms and he runs really fast through the forest. After we make some distance, we both look around to find a good spot to find. Even though it's nearly impossible, because of Finder's extraordinary sense of finding lost things and things that are hidden. After a few seconds I see the waterfall and notice there was a cave, I poke at Wolf's shoulder. He asks, "Gaba?"

I point to the cave in the waterfall and he looks at. He turns to me with a smile and replies, "Good spot. Good spot to hide."

He still is giving me a piggyback ride because I'm still a little dizzy, when we reach the foot of the waterfall. We climb, well Wolf climbs as for me I'm just a straggler. He moves into the waterfall and continues to climb. A few minutes, we reach the cave and decide to go into it deep. I say to Wolf softly, "I hear footsteps."

Wolf replies, "Ih, meega too. There are three, meega nota them all too well."

I comment, "Stitch, Finder and Felix?"

"Yup!" answers Wolf.

We heard Stitch scream, "Meega going to find youga before time runs out! Show yourselves!"

Wolf softly speaks to me, "He's bluffing, if we hold out for (he calculates the time) six more minutes we win game."

I nod my head yes and I put my ear on the cave wall to hear anything from the outside. It was hard to do that, because the cave was cold, dark, and damp. Then again, if we can stay here in the cave. We can win the game.

Stitch hollers, "Meega two minutes to find you!"

I ask Wolf, "Should we make this cave deeper?"

He asks, "Why make cave deeper?"

I reply, "To hide from Stitch, to win the battle."

Wolf says, "Have youga been eating any coconut cake with coffee before game start?"

I comment, "Nope. Just trying to get my mind off things, but when I drift away in thought. My head goes around and back to what pieces I'm missing to this whole goose chase scheme."

Stitch barks, "Forty-five seconds left. Meega nota Stitch getting closer, meega can smell youga."

I say, "Well that is just a tad bit creepy. (I turn to Wolf) Don't you think?"

Wolf replies, "Nah, isa instinct. Meega use to it."

I comment, "I'm still not use to this body, I don't think I'll ever be."

Stitch yells, "Ten more seconds, then it's game over!"

I say excitingly, "Wow, I never been the last of the people to get caught. This is so much fun."

With that said, Stitch comes in the cave the back way. Both Wolf and I jump out of the cave and head to the ground, when we land we start to run to base. We look back and could see Stitch was slowly gaining on us, we both look at each other. Give a nod and split up, Stitch didn't know who to follow. So he just choose the closest one, which would be me, and chases after me.

He says, "I'm going to get you."

I reply excitingly, "In your dreams!"

I see the tree and I kick into high gear, Stitch was ever so close to me. Most of the cousins say exuberantly, "Time's up!"

I look over my shoulder and see Stitch was an inch away from touching me, I turn and give him a handshake. I say, "Nice game."

Wolf comes out and says, "Woo! Meega had fun."

We go over to Wolf and shake his hand as well.

He ask, "Did you like it?"

I nod my head yes and then he says, "Would youga like play again or relax?"

I state, "Why not we just relax for a little bit."

Everyone agreed with me, so Holio and Deforester get some wood; Yang and Slodyhead start the fire and we all look into the sky. We are seeing the sunset, how beauty it was. I go up to Kixx and Yang and say, "I'm sorry for hurting you both, I never meant to hurt you. I just was playing can you please forgive me?"

I turn to them all and ask, "Can you please forgive?"

They all took a minute but most who can talk and say, "Ih!"

I look into the sky and start to say a poem, "As the sun sets, the air is cold for the night.
Waiting for the timing, to be right.
Until then I will always look up into the sky.
Always looking at the stars, asking why.
But, it helps to know that you see it too.
Someday I will meet you, that'll come true."

All the cousins were looking at me, I feel really nervous because I never did a poem orally before. Then they all clap at me, for my poem.

Stitch says, "Marcus that was butifa. Do youga make it?"

I reply while blushing, "Yes. Yes I did. I'm a novice poet."

Stitch asks, "Can you do another?"

Everyone was looking at me, waiting for my response. I cheerfully say, "Sure."

After a few seconds of trying how to begin a poem, I found the right words.

I start, "The time is slipping, slipping into the past.
We have to make the moment last.
Because when I look into your eyes.
There is a deep love, I now realize.
That you were always there for me.
I never wanted to say, but carefully.
If I don't even see the things I used to see.
Just remember, nothing has change. I'm still me.
So no matter worlds apart.
I'll keep you close in my heart.
Even through the seas of sorrow.
I hope for my dreams for a better tomorrow.
So I can tell you, before I fade away.
Just remember I keep loving you every day.
Even though it kills me to lie.
I would rather you be happy with someone else, then to suffer and cry.
Waiting for me, to come back.
Sand is falling, time is what I lack."

Angel comes up to me and hugs me tightly as she says, "Youga poems butifa."

I blush again and reply, "Takka, Angel. Er. Thanks Angel."

Stitch asks, "What does poem mean?"

I reply, "Honestly I don't know, maybe how it's harder to keep someone's love for someone else a secret. Then you realize you really did love said person and when they're gone, you can't do anything but to move on."

I add, "I'm heading back to Lilo's house. Jhua Tehrqua Ohana."

We all leave, but Stitch comes with me because we were both going to the same direction. But I wait because I knew something, and Stitch knew it too; there was someone following us. We both knew who it was already. Stitch turns and Angel is there saying, "Jhua Tehrqua boojiboo and Marcus." She runs up to both of us and gives us a hug, we return the favor. Then after she hugs, she kisses Stitch and runs back and seems to have disappear into the night. Stitch yells, "Jhua Tehrqua boojiboo!"

We both continue with the way back home, because why I was sore and tired from my day and I was living with Stitch anyway.

Night - Lilo's house...

As Stitch and I walk into the house, right in the living room we see dozens of boxes, some are open and some are close, some are even either nearly open or mostly open, laying around.

I ask him, "What happen in here? A hurricane?"

Stitch replies, "Meega naga nota?"

I then hear footsteps running and I see past me trying to get to the door.

I ask him, "Where did all these boxes come from?"

He stops, turns around and eyes me angrily. He speaks hatefully, "They're donations."

I ask, "For who?"

He answers disappointingly, "For me."

I ask, "Why do you sound so sad?"

His answer, "Go look inside the box. Then come back to me on that."

He goes and sits on the couch, while Stitch and I look at each other. Then we both go to the closest box and open the box to search its contents, what we find stuff that were rather disappointing; yet, a little funny.

He says, "Now you see why I am like this."

He covers his face with his hands as he groans, "I look like I'm eight years old in those clothes."

I ask, "SO your day at the mall was bad?"

Past self Flashback

We're at the market.

Nani says, "Ok. We now have most of the food, now time to buy you some new clothes."

I ask, "Can we please just go home? This is so boring?"

Nani retorts, "Do you have any other clothes that'll fit you?"

I remain quiet. She adds, "Ok. Now come on we need to buy you some clothes."

Next thing we knew we hear some noises. Someone screams, "How cute!" We just keep walking, but I hear something behind us. I turn and right there was an old lady saying as she runs to us, "Oh my god look at this little one."

She stops and asks Nani, "Is he your son?"

Nani replies, "No, one of my sister's friends."

She bends down and starts pinching my cheeks and says, "Look how cute he is. He has some of the nicest, pinch-able cheeks. You are so cute, yes you are. I'm going to eat you up."

I thought, 'Not if I bite your hands off or eat you first.'

Nani sees that I was getting annoyed and asks the lady, "Ah. Do you know where to buy some boy clothes cheaply?"

She releases my cheeks and turns to face Nani. As soon as she did, I was going to bite her. Nani sees this and mouths "No!" I stop and go back to how I was.

She answers cheerily, "I've a ton of old clothes, follow me."

I look to her that said, 'Do we have to?'

He speaks softly, "Yes."

I groan and we leave the market and follow her to her house.

Flashback ends

He replies, "Yes, ladies kept coming up to my saying how cute I look with my face and some did pinch it and some even were giving me baby talk. I just wanted to slap them or bite they're hands clean off, because they were so annoying."

He adds, "What was your day like? Like an adventure?"

I reply by rubbing it in his face, "Yeah, we went to this beautiful open space with a graceful waterfall and played extreme hide and seek, just be careful with some of the cousins though."

He comes up at me and says angrily, "I really hate you, right now. You don't know have much I loathe you."

I reply sarcastically, "Aw, right back with the love brother."

I could tell that just push him off the edge. I go to him and says sorrily, "Sorry. I guess I put my foot into my mouth."

He replies as he exhales, "Not your fault we're like this."

I say gleefully, "Hey it could be worse, she could've bought really girly eight year old clothes. That even make you look younger and have people running over and picking you up, taking pictures and doing even more baby talk."

I was hoping he would laugh, because I was about to join with him. When I look closely at his eyes though, he didn't like what I said. After that, he just walks away fiercely, and goes to the kitchen. I ask Stitch, "I just put my other foot in my mouth didn't I?"

Stitch replies, "Ih."

Past me exclaims madly, "No. You put both feet in your grave!"

I follow him into the kitchen. I state honestly, "I was just trying to help."

He turns to me and says as he crosses his arms over his chest, "Haven't you had enough of 'helping me' because I don't need your type of help."

I look at him and say, "I'm sorry about saying that, it's just I don't want you to think too negative. If you do, you miss out of all the beautiful things in life. The best way to go through the negatives in life; when your sad or angry is to laugh. I just wanted you to see that we can still change this."

I add, "Let us just go to bed, okay."

He replies, "I think you should take a shower, because: 1) you're dirty as hell and 2) (holding his nose) you really have a foul odor emitting from your body."

We both laugh and it turns out (after a swift sniff) he was right, so I did a quick shower and go to the living room with myself and we both sleep the night away.

The experiments used in this chapter:

Angel (Experiment 624) - A pink shapely female experiment with a strong feminine resemblance to Stitch and his primary love interest, with two long tendril-like violet-tipped antennae, violet-tipped ears, small eyelashes, white V-shaped symbol, slightly larger chest puffed out and dark pink Stitch-like back markings (originally upside-down heart-shaped or sometimes gone). Designed to sing a song that turns "good" experiments (i.e. rehabilitated experiments) to "bad" (i.e. evil).

Splodyhead (Experiment 619) - A small red, six-legged reptilian dog-like experiment with a red-purple-striped horn on his head, brick-red markings on his forehead and back, short red-orange-tipped ears, blue eyes with red-purple spots around them and a hole-like nose. Designed to shoot fiery plasma blasts from his nose, as well as being able to see in the dark, and climb on walls and ceilings

Yin (Experiment 501) - A blue octopus/living water hose-like experiment. Designed to condense moisture in air into water and spray water from its tentacles.

Yang (Experiment 502) - A red male weasel/lizard/dragon/horse-like experiment. Designed to shoot lava from the pits along its back.

Wolf (Experiment 629) - Is similar to Stitch, but had silver fur, light silver chin, stomach, and ear tips. He also had a fluff of fur on his visibly built chest that looked similar to a downward pointed arrow. He had black claws, sharp teeth with 2 pairs of canines on his top and bottom jaws. His head was slightly more pointed than Stitch's and a longer muzzle. The stripes that were light blue on Stitch was black on 629. The top of his head had a sectioned fauxhawk (Like Tai Lung from KFP. and had smaller ears than Stitch. He also had a long, furry tail that was tipped white. Design to combat experiment 627.

Violet (Experiment 623) - Has purple fur, a lighter purple underbelly, black claws, a furry tail almost as long as Wolf's, a dark purple heart on her chest, fur on her head long enough to block out her eyes, and short ears. She's an earlier version of experiment 624. Designed to look into victim's eyes and then that person is under control, influence to do bad or turn "good" experiments (i.e. rehabilitated experiments) to "bad" (i.e. evil).

Richter (Experiment 513) - A small purple Ankylosaurus-like creature with a lavender stomach, a bulky body and legs, a huge tail with a triangle shape at the end, a round face with a wide mouth, a round nose, black eyes, short ears, a single horn on his head and tiny spikes down his back. Designed to cause vicious, Earth-shattering earthquakes with one thump of his tail.

Cannonball (Experiment 520) - A pink experiment with a big posterior and short stubby tail. Designed to make big waves (or tsunamis). He can control the waves he emits too.

Fibber (Experiment 032) - A small orange experiment with small body, arms and legs, a large head with dark orange mark on the forehead, little antennae, a little mouth, a round nose, black eyes and four ears. Designed to detect lies.

Sparky (Experiment 221) - A small light yellow Chinese dragon/Monkey/Gecko-like creature with skinny arms, legs, and body, a slightly twisted yet pointed tail, a large head with a wide mouth, a round nose, dark blue eyes and long antennae that can create crippling electric surges. His body can turn into an electrical current, so he can also fly or travel through outlets, power lines, and machines. Designed to cause electrical blackouts.

Hunkahunka (Experiment 323) - A pink/purple hummingbird-like experiment. Designed to peck people, making them artificially fall in love with the first person they see.

Spooky (Experiment 300) - A green blob-like experiment with olive green eyes, a wide mouth and three round, short, stubby spikes on his back. Designed to scare people by morphing/shape shifting into their worst horrifying fears.

Clip (Experiment 177) - A small yellow hairball-like experiment with a pink bow, dark blue eyes, and long scissor-like claws. Designed to eat uburnium (an efficient, cheap, and abundant fuel used in outer space) in order to create a fuel crisis. But due to mistranslation by Jumba, she eats hair.

Amnesio (Experiment 303) - A small blue beetle-like creature with a round body, two thick arms, two thick legs, a purple mark on his stomach, two large wings on his back, a round face with large black eyes, a little mouth, and two antennae. Designed to erase people's memory, by zapping a red laser vision in their eyes.

Finder (Experiment 158) - A red experiment, looking like an aardvark or a shrew, with little arms and legs, no tail, a long snout, black eyes, and large rabbit-like ears. Designed to find anything and honk when he finds it, even spinning his ears like helicopter blades if necessary in order to find what he has been asked to locate.

Felix (Experiment 010) - A green anteater-like experiment with a small body, mouth, arms and legs, a thin tail with a brushy fuzz at the end, a vacuum-like trunk that can fire lasers, dark eyes, short ears, and three dark-tipped spines. Designed to sterilize, disinfect, and clean everything in sight.

Swirly (Experiment 383) - A small turquoise koala-like experiment with a huge head with an expressionless face with a little mouth, little nose, huge black eyes (with white swirling lines when using powers), rabbit-like ears, a single small antenna on the middle of his head and a huge furry slug-like tail. Designed to hypnotize anyone into obeying the next command that person hears.

Tank - (Experiment 586) - A round orange armadillo/bulldog-like experiment with thick legs, sharp teeth, and a short tail. Designed to eat metal, and grows bigger each time he does.

Hammerface/Hammerhead (Experiment 033) - A blue dinosaur-like experiment with short forearms and a thick tail and legs. Designed to drive in nails around Jumba's house with his hammer-shaped head/face.

Belle (Experiment 248) - A small blue experiment with a fork pitch-shaped head with an upside-down arrow-shaped mark on her forehead, a small body, thin arms and a small lion-like tail and that looks like a cross between Holio and Heat. Designed to scare people with a loud high-pitched shriek.

Melty (Experiment 228) - A small red dragon-like experiment with small bat-like wings, a reptilian head with thin pointed ears, black eyes and a thin body. Designed to melt enemy fortresses, weapons, and transportation, among other things, with the bright blue blasts from his mouth.

Nosy (Experiment 199) - A red pig-like experiment with a pink stomach from the chin down, a roundly built body with thick legs, huge arms with three small fingers on each hand, a wide mouth, a very big nose, little black eyes, little rabbit-like ears, black markings on his back and black stripes on the front of his legs. Designed to snoop out enemy secrets but ends up finding out mostly useless gossip.

Kixx (Experiment 601) - A large, purple, muscular, beastly, Tasmanian Devil-like creature with bulky legs and torso, four strong arms with three fingers on each paw, a blue oval spot on each elbow, short ears, hardly any neck, a wide mouth, a round nose, and black eyes. Designed to be a bully with special kickboxing skills.

Deforestator (Experiment 515) - A big purple roughly wombat-like creature about three feet tall with long blade-like claws on his front paws and blade-like neck. Designed to cut down entire forests.

Stitch (Experiment 626) - a blue, koala-like experiment with large rabbit-like ears, a wide mouth, a round nose, black eyes, a small, short, stubby tail, two nose wrinkles, one chin wrinkle, three tuffs of sharp hair on top of his head and on his chest as well as two extra, retractable arms, three retractable spines that run down his back (the first spine is the shortest, then longest, then medium), sharp retractable claws on his front and back paws and two retractable antennae on his head. Designed to be abnormally strong, virtually indestructible, super intelligent and very mischievous. He can think faster than a supercomputer, he is fireproof and bulletproof, can spit acid, can hear in different hearing levels, can see in the dark, can jump really high, can climb up walls and walk on ceilings, can roll into a ball, have super sight and hearing and lift objects 3000 times his own weight (but not an ounce more).

Slushy (Experiment 523) - This small icy blue-colored koala-like creature with no ears, small arms and legs, a thin mouth, a large nose, dark blue eyes and three icicles behind his head. Designed to freeze land with his ice breath, generates ice, and also break apart into bits of ice and return to its original form.

Slugger (Experiment 608) - A small, yellow, pterosaur-like experiment. Designed to deflect projectiles with his tail shaped like a baseball bat.

Holio (Experiment 606) - A small, red, chipmunk-like creature with a large mouth, two thin antennae, and three thin back spines. Designed to create a matter-sucking black hole when he opens his mouth.