"High Dive from Heaven"
a fanfic by Jacob "Robertoa" Corley
Chapter 2: Takeover
"Incoming transmission from Dr. Hamsterwheel." announced the teleporter on Gantu's ship.
It was in an early hour of the morning before dawn when the transmission arrived. Gantu sat up and crawled out of bed with his jammies on. "Wha... deliveries at this hour?" He walked to the teleporter and, in the dim light of the morning, could only make out a small figure inside the teleporter tube. While his eyes were adjusting to the darkness, a red laser beam shone in his eye. Before he could switch on the light to see what it was, two silenced shots rang out. The glass of the teleporter tube shattered, and Gantu fell to the floor with a pool of cerulean blood quickly growing around his head. 625's sleep was undisturbed.
It was noontime the next day when Lilo and Stitch commenced their daily experiment hunt. Lilo, who had been riding while Stitch drove the dunebuggy, spotted a bright cyan experiment pod in a tree.
"There's one!" she shouted to Stitch, who stopped the buggy and got out. Stitch quickly climbed the tree and retrieved the pod, labelled "583".
"583... I wonder what this one does?" Lilo said as she analyzed the pod. She began to toss it in her hand just as a gust of wind picked up. Needless to say, she dropped the pod, which went rolling along the hard dirt and fell into a very deep ravine next to the road. "Oops."
Lilo ran to the ledge and leaned over the ravine watching the pod fall towards the stream below. As soon as it fell in the water, it flashed open. Lilo knew that Gantu's computer would soon say "Experiment 583 activated. Primary function:...", but she had no idea what would follow. Lilo sighed, and Stitch sneered at her. "It's not my fault, Stitch! It was... slippery!"
583 had been activated. The small, yellowish creature opened his hazy blue eyes, looked around, and then looked straight up to see Lilo staring down at him. With a bad attitude characteristic of newly activated experiments, 583 cast his hands upwards and shot out a fine beam of radiation which cut easily through the ledge upon which Lilo was lying.
Stitch quickly grabbed Lilo and pulled her away before the large chunk of rock and dirt was broken loose and fell into the ravine. When Lilo looked back down, 583 was running through the ravine to the beach.
Lilo and Stitch hopped back into the buggy and drove down the road to the beach. When they got there, they found 583 running around, looking for someone to attack, but none of the tourists appealed to his evil desires.
"Look mommy!" a little boy building a sandcastle exclaimed as he saw 583.
The child's mother turned to face 583. "Li'l Billy, stay back. What is that thing?"
Li'l Billy thought of the possibilities. "Maybe it's an alien experiment capable of incapacitating fleets of guards by emitting dangerous nuclear radiation and respective particles!... or maybe it's a kitty!" Li'l Billy's mother grabbed him and pulled him away, though 583 never intended to get close to him to begin with.
As soon as Lilo and Stitch spotted him again, 583 was engulfed in a crowd of tourists who, apparently, thought he was some kind of rare Kauaian cat. Within seconds he had disappeared into the crowd.
Lilo sighed. "Come on Stitch. Let's get back to Jumba and see if he has any ideas for catching this one."
Nani was leaving for work just as Lilo and Stitch returned to the house. "Lilo, Mr. Jameson needs me at the Rental Pavilion, but I'll be back in time for supper, okay?"
"Okay, Nani." Lilo knew that meant she wouldn't home until ten o'clock at the earliest. Lilo continued into the house anyway and looked for Jumba.
Jumba searched through his computer until he found the experiment's log. "Ah, yes. Experiment 583, designed to be emitting dangerous particles and radiation causing burning and mutations in guards of highest of security areas, allowing for easy access! Ha, ha... was having very scientific evil geniusing that day."
"Well why was he attacking me? What did I do to him?" Lilo said... other than drop him down a cliff.
"Most likely was bad attitude; is very common in experiments after being released from suspended animation inside pod. Was emitting high frequency gamma beam, along with many anti-matter neutrino, trying to eliminate you."
"Neutrino? Hmm... I'm not sure what it means, but it makes a cool name, doesn't it?"
"Ih." Stitch agreed. With that, Stitch and Lilo got up and walked to the door. "Let's go get 'im, Stitch!"
"Ih."
Jumba got up quickly. "Wait, little girl!! You can not be going after 583 just like that! Coming anywhere near him can be extremely dangerous!"
"... not for Stitch." Lilo said by default. Stitch puffed out his chest proudly.
"I am afraid so, little girl. Even 626 is sensitive to radiation... too close and he could be permanently damaged. 583 will need to be subdued, then dehydrated."
Lilo thought for a moment. "What if we caught him in a net first?"
"No." Jumba said, "Radiation can be easily escaping through net. You would be needing very thick lead box for to be blocking most of the danger... and I don't have one on hand for you."
Lilo was stumped... without some kind of containment device, it seemed impossible to get close enough to Neutrino to capture him.
"Unless..." Jumba said. He thought for a moment. "No; is not possible. Nevermind."
"What? What's not possible?"
Jumba thought back. "Well... when making experiment 627, I remember placing under his skin very dense but flexible shielding; it may perhaps be enough to block radiation, as well, but... I am afraid I cannot take apart 626 to give him the same... and an exterior shield would decrease his efficiency significantly."
Jumba thought hard, remembering when he first assembled 627.
It had been a very rough day. Stitch was completely full of himself, and Jumba knew he needed a reality check. So, Jumba, after some contemplation, decided he would return to the lab. He would create an experiment that would put even the great 6-2-6 to shame.
He made sure to enhance every possible aspect to make 627 absolutely unbeatable: greater strength, more hidden appendages (including a second head), expert escaping abilities, and an absolutely solid foundation of morals. 627 was the first experiment that could absotively, posilutely never be changed to good. This mindset was reflected in the fact that, instead of giving him a small Kweltikan vocabulary like most of the other experiments, Jumba removed his ability to learn to speak and only taught him the single word "evil".
627 was the perfect experiment to break Stitch's morale, but it all went wrong. 627's enhanced perverse sense of humor was his downfall, and he was dehydrated while in a terrible laughing fit. Since that day, his pod had remained locked in Jumba's top drawer, along with all the other experiments too dangerous to ever reactivate.
At that moment, Jumba had an idea. "Little girl, what would you be saying if I were telling you that I have a new partner for you?"
Stitch looked up and gasped. Lilo looked puzzled. "Instead of Stitch? But... I lo... really like Stitch!"
Jumba corrected his unclear suggestion. "No, no. Not to be replacing 626, but to help you both. Would you be agreeing to have some extra help?"
Lilo thought, and Stitch did, too. "I guess it couldn't hurt."
"Yeah," Stitch said. "New friend!"
Jumba was delighted. "Aha!! Good! Very good! I will be having new friend ready in... ah... 60 Earth minutes. Until then you must leave me alone, please." Jumba showed them out and locked the door. Jumba began to speak only to himself. "It is time to do what was once thought impossible, ha, haa!" Jumba opened his top drawer, removed the pod engraved "627" and began work reprogramming.
"Experiment 583 activated. Primary function: nuclear emission." Gantu's computer had finally recieved the message. Angel, sitting at the control panel, gazed at the pod container, at 583's picture, and began to formulate a plan, a plan which could make her greatest dream a reality, a plan that would make Stitch forever hers.
"Hey, Angelface! When'd you get back?" 625 walked into the main control room. Seeing Angel instead of just breakfast made his whole day. Needless to say, he hadn't seen Gantu's body yet. "You busy?" he asked; she knew what he wanted.
Angel didn't bother to turn around. "Very." She continued staring at the image of 583.
625, unaware of what he was getting himself into, took the chair next to Angel. "You want I make you some breakfast?"
Angel was angry that 625 kept interrupting her deep thought. She tried desparately to keep her cool. "N... naga. Uga taba." She spoke in Kweltikan because she did not want him to know of her transformation; the less he knew the better.
He didn't listen; he just moved closer. He thought she wasn't aware that he had the tranquilizer in his hand, ready to take advantage of her at any moment. He thought wrong. As he held the tranquilizer near her arm, she spun around, grabbed it, and injected it into his eye.
625 screamed and fell to the ground; he scrambled to his feet and ran to the bathroom, where he quickly flushed his eyes with water and soon fell unconscious on the floor. Angel didn't seem to care that he was in pain, so long as he stopped bothering her.
In mere minutes, she had formulated her master plan. With Gantu out of the way, there were but a few minor hurdles to clear.