A/N I'm back! And I must say, I am very upset that school starts again Thursday. Hmph.stupid school board people.anyway, I've got the promised chapter here and it's a whopper. Poor Owen.what am I doing to you? Making you very happy in the next few chapters, that's what!

Twyla pulled desperately against Pish's grasp, but it was pointless. 'Why on Turo didn't you give me strength like the others Jumba!' she thought bitterly, using her free arm to cling to the metal side of the plane.

"I can't believe this is happening!" Pish was complaining loudly enough to be heard over the wind. "Why didn't I just let Quek finish him off? He was right, they're all useless." Twyla flattened her ears against her head to block the words coming from her so-called friend. Questions raced through her mind: What had come over him? How long had he been like this? And worst of all.had everything been an act?

Stitch ignored the deafening wind as it whipped around his small body. He used his usually concealed arms to help him skitter across the outside of the ship. 'Please,' he begged to whatever deity would care to listen. "Please let me get there.I didn't come all this way to lose her now." Stitch stopped in mid-step, his ears dropping to his back, and let out a loud hiss of contempt. Tensing himself, he began to follow a voice, muffled by the roar of the engines and the howl of the wind.

Nani tried to hide her tears from Owen (Peka was to busy vomiting to notice anything much). He was doing his best to keep himself together, despite the fact that his mate was growing worse and worse right before his eyes.

"Nani! Nani, what do we do? It's all blood now." Nani buried her face in the toweled bundle she cradled in her arms. "Nani?"

"I don't know what to do, Owen.I just don't know what's wrong. I'm going to call a vet or something."

"B-but." Nani quickly left the room, taking the bundle with her.

Jumba and Istari stared out the window in the cockpit.

"So.do you think she'll be okay?"

"Huh? Oh, Peka.well, I don't know, to tell truth. If I were there, I could possibly help, but Nani can handle it until we manage. What I'm worried about is whether Stitch has saved 593 yet." Istari sighed and gripped the throttle, pulling it back slightly to stay airborne.

"What happened back there?"

"Pish snapped. Not too surprising, though. He's been with Quek for a very long time. I honestly expected Twyla to do something like this."

"Oh.whether they're done out there or not, I'm taking this thing home."

"Open it!" Pish shoved Twyla against the steel siding of the plane.

"There's nothing here!" she protested.

"I don't care! Rip it open!" Twyla obediently dug her claws into the metal, taking as much time as she could in loosening it.

"I can't move it." she pulled weakly at the metal. "I don't know what you think you doing, Pish, but it-"

"Hurry up!" Pish pulled yet another plasma cannon out from somewhere inside his coat and slammed the butt-end of it into the back of Twyla's head. She slumped forward, unconscious, and was blown away by the wind before Pish could catch her.

Just in the nick of time, Stitch appeared in her path and caught her as she flew by him. (A/N bet you're wondering why no one has fallen off yet.heh heh heh.) he glared at Pish, pure contempt in his eyes. Pish, however, just sneered at him.

"Don't know what I'm doing? I thought it was obvious." He began to pry at the steel siding himself. "I'm just doing what Quek had meant to do.what Jumba was too ignorant to consider.I'm simply disposing of you pathetic experiments. In fact, I've already taken care of that one.Peka, was it?" Stitch's claws flew to his ears as he shook his head in disbelief.

Peka." he dropped to his knees sadly, holding Twyla's limp body close to him. "W-what have you done?" Twyla stirred in his arms and opened her eyes blearily.

".Stitch?" he let go of her and turned to Pish.

"I don't care if I should or not.I'm gonna kill you."

Owen stared dismally at the elderly human bending over Peka. He kept making "Mmm-Hmm" sounds like all doctors do. It made Owen want to scream, but instead he wrapped his arms around the two multi-colored fuzzballs in front of him. (A/N remember the toweled bundle?) The newborns snuggled against his chest and caught the aquamarine fur in their tiny claws, unaware of what was going on around them.

The human "Mmm-Hmm"ed once more before turning to Nani. Owen shook his head towards the window, where Lilo was watching everything. She cocked her head and disappeared from view.

"Well, miss.I'd say that she's sick from a poison of some kind, but it's not one that I've ever seen before.causing this kind of a condition and premature birth.I'm not quite sure what to say."

"But can't you help her?" Nani begged, tears welling up in her eyes.

"I'm sorry. It's an unknown substance and there isn't any kind of antidote. She won't make it through tonight."

Nani burst into tears. "What about the." the vet shook his head sadly. "Go away!" Nani shrieked in a sudden burst of anger. The man left somewhat indignantly.

"Nani, what is it? Doesn't he have enough medicine?" Lilo asked her sister as she came back into the house. Nani didn't answer; she just bent over Peka. Owen joined her, crying freely.

"The idiot didn't even check.he could've checked. What if they just discovered it and he just doesn't know? I mean.she." Owen fell silent and climbed onto the couch next to Peka, babies and all. "Nani.Lilo.just leave me here, okay? If she goes.I'll be here. I'm not leaving you for anything in the universe now."

Pish continued to sneer at Stitch and Twyla. "Oh, that's right, you haven't seen her since this morning, have you? It's so easy to poison people these days." He let out an ecstatic laugh. But Stitch didn't find it the least bit amusing. With a strangled yell, he launched himself at Pish, breaking off the loosened piece of steel; he knocked the reptilian scientist into the plane's wiry innards.

A/N I'm so sorry, Owen! I love you! But I promise, very very very very very happy ending! As happy as I can manage! Oh, and so we meet Aron and Garon.kind of anyway. So please stay tuned. Mahalo plenty to all of my reviewers and friends! And of course, thanks to the Great Red Dragon for coming up with the whole "Pish poisoned Peka and tried to do in the other experiments" idea! I had just planned to make him insane, but this is much better. Aloha!