Chapter 25

There was a scream from Lilo's house. Goofy, Donald, and Nina ran with all their strength to the house. They stopped short and saw laser fire blasting through the walls in the house.

"What's happening?" Goofy asked. Suddenly, they were surrounded by soldier heartless and Wave Thrashers.

"A heartless invasion!" Nina yelled. The three charged forward and attacked the soldiers. The Wave Thrashers were still hard to beat. They deflected every spell and attack.

"Lightning!" Donald yelled. The lightning fell upon the Thrashers. They dropped their boards and wandered helplessly. It was then that the gang was able to beat them. A hidden Thrasher raised its board to strike down Donald when a laser blasted through it's head. Jumba stood behind it. His laser rifle was ready to fire again.

"Where is 626?" he asked

"I thought he was inside?" Goofy asked

"He ran out!" Pleakley said, running up behind Jumba with Nani and David. "We thought he came out here to you. But then the heartless attacked!"

"Where's Lilo?" Donald asked

"She ran after 626." Jumba said

"Where would they go?" Nina asked. Nani gasped and ran ahead. She stopped and waved after everyone else.

"I know where!" she yelled. David, Donald, and Goofy ran after her.

"Is the machine ready yet?" Nina asked

"Well..." Jumba said, nervous.

"Make it work!" Nina yelled running after the far away group. As she ran, digging heartless came up out of the ground. They were weak. All Nina did to defeat them was jump from one to another, squishing them in an odd hopscotch of death. As she reached the group, they were gathered around a small tree. There were trees that led up to a small platform. It was a little tree-house.

"Is Lilo or Stitch up there?" Nina asked. Donald and Goofy shook their heads.

"Nani's up there." David said

"What are all of you doing here?" Lilo asked, tears in her eyes, a small scratch on her cheek.

"Lilo!" Donald said. Everyone ran to her and all gave one huge hug.

"Where's Stitch?" she asked. "Is he up there?"

"We thought he was with you." Jumba said. She climbed up to the small platform. Out of curiosity, Nina followed her. Nani showed Lilo a picture of Stitch, his blue badness in the center, but the entire drawing having a large red X on it.

"No." she said. "This is all my fault. I have to find him." There was a loud humming in the distance. Everyone looked in the direction the humming came. Over the trees rose Jumba's ship.

"Oh no." Donald said. Everyone ran after it as it flew away.

"We have to help him!" Nina said

"We'll take my car." Nani said. Everyone changed direction in unison and ran back to the house. It was amazing that everyone was able to fit into Nani's little car. Pleakley's pocket rang and he pulled a small red device out of it.

"Hello? Mother?" Pleakley said. He then began a conversation with his mother.

"We need to get a message up to Stitch somehow." Goofy said. "He doesn't mean any of the bad things he did."

"We'd need some communication device..." Jumba's voice trailed off as he looked at Pleakley. He took away his phone.

"Hey!" Pleakley said outraged.

"Yes..." Jumba said talking on the phone," yes... Pleakley will call you back." he then punched in the codes to his ship and soon Stitch was on the small screen. Jumba quickly passed the phone to Nina.

"Stitch! Don't go! We can help stop the badness!" she said, passing the phone to Donald.

"You need to get that ship landed this instant, Mister!" he said before passing the phone to Lilo.

"Please Stitch," she said, almost crying, "come back."

"Stitch can never come back." Stitch said. The connection was terminated. Lilo looked out the window at Stitch's ship. She watched as it flew low and crashed into a nearby mountain.

"Stitch!" she yelled. Everyone looked out the window and saw the smoke.

"Oh no." Nina said

"Whoa!" Nani yelled, stomping on the brake. The road was broken. Everyone got out of the car and looked at the crash site.

"We have to get over there. Stitch needs help." Lilo said. Hookbats appeared around them. The trio summoned their weapons and killed them all easily, but then more appeared. Nani went to her cars trunk and opened it up. There inside was the hovercar.

"It was the only place I could hide it where you wouldn't find it." Nani said

"Go ahead." Nina said, hanging onto a Hookbat for dear life. "We'll catch up!"

"But how?" Goofy asked. Nina looked to where Stitch's ship crashed, then at the hookbats. When she steered her hookbat into the ground, Nina reached into her pocket and pulled out her Valor drive.

"Hey Goofy!" Nina said, running over to him. "Give me strength!" The two grabbed each other's wrists and a white and red light engulfed them. Nina put her keyblades away and grabbed Donald before tossing him onto her back.

"Whaaaa?!?" he yelled. Nina jumped onto a hookbat.

"Just hang on!" She yelled, jumping from hookbat to hookbat. While she jumped, Donald deflected whatever attacks came from behind. They started reaching Stitch's crash-site. When they were three hoookbats away, the valor form wore off, sending the three to the ground. They weren't too high up anymore

"Gawrsh." Goofy said as he recovered from the valor form.

"Come on!" Nina yelled running to the site. Lilo stood next to a glowing machine. Stitch was inside it. He wasn't moving.