The Ones with No Names
The story of Lilo and the ones that didn't need names.
Stitch knocked on the door of the Surf Shack hurriedly, waking up Cannonball and calling Nani to the door. "Cannonball! Lilo's in trouble! Let's go!"
"Lilo?" Cannonball gasped; Lilo had to be one of his best non-experiment friends yet! He scrambled out the door, letting Angel lead him to the dune buggy.
Nani stomped her foot in front of Stitch's nose. "Okay, what's going on, where's Lilo?" She looked up to see the pink-furred Angel sitting in the driver's seat, along with experiments like Yin, Slushy, Finder, and now Cannonball. "What is that thing doing in the car? Isn't that the evil experiment Lilo hates?"
Stitch "uh"ed and looked at his feet while Angel groaned miserably and slammed her face into the dashboard. "Uh, not the right time, Nani! Bye!"
Despite being screamed at by Nani, Stitch jumped into the car, pushed Angel out of the driver's seat, and took off.
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"DOLPHINS!" Lilo jumped off of 527 and into the water, paddling after the dolphins. "Come on, let's go play!"
#Are dolphins cool?# asked the horse beast.
The sea serpent, 549, nodded. #Dolphins friend!#
#Thus I trust the experiment with a twenty-word vocabulary,# snuffed 527. He dived in and swam after Lilo, pushing the slow-swimming human with his head. Lilo tagged the closest of five dolphins, with bumped 549 with his snout and swam away.
"It's tag!" Lilo cheered. She pointed to the rogue dolphin. "Tag him back!"
The sea serpent dove under the water and set her tail in torpedo mode, twisting and spinning it, propelling herself forward. She tagged the dolphin that had bopped her and turned around quickly, only to have the dolphin tag her back. She began to sink in apparent defeat until 527 picked her up by the nape of the neck, pulling her above water and onto his back.
#You can hitch a ride on me. Dolphins are no good above water.# He smiled softly.
549, unable to smile with her lips, smiled instead with the gleam in her eyes. #Thank you.#
Lilo suddenly snatched onto her tail and scrambled up her back. "The head dolphin's it, and he's after me! Help, guys, help!"
527 whinnied and dunked underwater, relying on 549 to push him. Lilo clung to 527's mane and dodged the beak of the "it" dolphin. She desperately wanted to laugh, or scream, or make some noise to show she saw having fun, but her lungs were practically empty. She signaled to go up, and a quick moving 549 caught her in her wind vane tail and threw her up into the air. Lilo flew above the waves, finally getting to shriek out of fun like she wanted to! As she came back down, 527 shot out of the water, caught her in his mouth, and began to run. 549 followed close behind, breaching alongside the dolphins. Lilo clapped and cheered the spectacle on.
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Slushy surveyed his frozen dune-buggy runway which reached out a mile into the ocean. The ice was smooth as a roller rink's floor, as Stitch had made him make sure it was. Slushy gave him the thumbs up. "Ataka!"
"Ataka!" Stitch placed his paw on the gas pedal. "Ready, Yin?!"
"Bloobedebloo!" Yin filled up her inner water tank with ocean water.
"Finder?"
"IH!" Finder sniffed the air desperately. He pointed outward and honked.
Stitch then rammed the gas. "GO GO GO!"
Yin shot the back of the dune buggy, shooting it onto the ice runway. As they gained speed, Angel pressed a button and deployed a set of rocket wings from the side of the buggy. By the time they had reached the end of the runway, they were completely airborne!
"Tooki ko waba!" Stitch rammed his fist into the air. "For Lilo!"
"For Lilo!" Angel mimicked.
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Lilo and 549 both stretched themselves out on a sandbar while 527 grazed on seaweed. Lilo wrapped one arm around 549 and hugged her. "Thanks for being my friend today. I needed one after a week of being ignored. And now I've got two!"
527 joined Lilo on her opposite side while 549 ducked back into the ocean for a quick, re-hydrating dip. "It's stuff like this that makes me wanna stay with you guys forever! But, I already went through that stage with Bonnie and Clyde."
527 and 549 stepped up from their spots and joined Lilo on the beach, snuggling up against her. Lilo continued with her often long and drawn out explanations. "I know that even though other ohanas look pretty cool, after a while you have to go back to your own." She stood up. "So I've gotta go back to Nani and Jumba and Pleakly and..." She hissed in anger. "Stitch and Aaeeengeellll (she pulled the word as nastily as she could)." She settled herself back on the wet part of the sandbar, letting the waves pull out the sand from underneath her. "It's tough being me."
#That's sure what it sounds like,# said 527.
#Friend not happy.# 549 sighed sadly. #I like friend.#
#We've got to do something to help her out,# 527 cooed. #You know, she did introduce us two.#
#I like you!# blurted 549.
527 felt himself blush. #Uh, yeah... Thanks...#
#Help friend!# 549 pushed Lilo into a sitting position. #But how?#
"Aki taba!"
A red hot plasma blast fired near 527's back end. He whinnied in terror and kicked into the air, nearly smashing Lilo with his front toes. Stitch leapt onto the sandbar, all four arms extended. "Gimme back my Lilo!"
"NO!" Lilo clutched 549's ears in her fists. "Gimme out of here!"
549 snarled and dove into the water, dragging Lilo after her. Stitch gasped and went to jump back into the dune buggy, only to have 527's foot come into contact with his flat head. "OOF!"
Stitch looked up and saw 527 rearing up for another stomp; a bright pink stripe whizzed past his head, grabbed the horse beast, and threw him into the water. He smiled warmly. "Thanks, Angel."
"Welcome," cooed the tentacled, pink version of Stitch.
"But it's still got Lilo!" he growled. "Come on!" He grabbed Angel's hand and jumped all the way back into the buggy where Cannonball and Finder were waiting for them. "Finder, where is she?"
Finder pointed towards shore and honked.
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Lilo's head bobbed above the water, 527 and 549 quickly following. "I don't wanna go back! You gotta keep me away from them!"
527 whinnied in agreement. His ears rotated backwards and quivered nervously.
"He's still after us?" Lilo looked to the skies; the dune buggy! And Angel was watching her from the dashboard! "NO! ANYTHING BUT HER!"
527 responded by clasping Lilo in his mouth and running in one direction while 549 went another way. Unfortunately, the near-sighted experiments didn't notice that 527 had Lilo, and instead went after 549.
"Targeting!" Stitch locked the dune buggy's computer onto the swimming snake in the ocean. "Ready, Cannonball?"
"Nana-cho!" Cannonball fired the net, catching 549 in the tangles.
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#HELP!#
#549?!# 527 slammed on the breaks and scanned the ocean for his sea serpent friend. It was no use; they had run too far away, she was nowhere in sight. They had only a loud series of splashes to tell them where she was.
"She's in trouble!" Lilo whimpered while hanging by her shorts from 527's mouth. "How are we gonna help her?!"
527 was suddenly overcome with a weird feeling, a feeling that translated into a message: Forget the human and save 549! His original programming began to kick in as his eyes changed to an evil red. Lilo began to shiver as his eyes focused on her.
"Uh... Are you okay...?"
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"AAAAAAA!"
Stitch's ears shot straight up. "That's Lilo's scream!"
"Forget it! Get Lilo!" Angel turned the buggy around and rocketed in another direction, leaving 549 wrapped in the net and dragging behind the flying machine.
They caught up with the red-eyed creature soon enough to find him tossing Lilo about like a rag doll. He spotted them out of the corner of his eye and dove under the water, dragging Lilo down with him.
"AAAH!" Stitch pulled the dune buggy to a stop. "Cannonball!"
"Nana-cho!" Cannonball leapt from the dune buggy and cannonballed into the ocean. A giant wave pushed out of the ocean, and with it, up came 527 and Lilo! Stitch flew in close and tried to snatch Lilo from the water, only to see her be pulled away by 549.
"Wah!" Stitch turned around; the net had been cut open. "What happened to the net?"
527's head shot out of the water and sprayed a mouthful of water into Stitch's face. He snarled and shot a plasma blast at the horse-creature; 527 quickly went underwater again.
549 swam away quickly, Lilo keeping a tight hold on her ears. Lilo coughed some water out of her throat and yelled to 549, "Hey, my arms are getting tired! We need to stop before I fall off!"
549 nodded, but didn't slow down. She kept rocketing forward, into the endless expanse of the ocea-
Sploosh! "Nana-cho!"
Lilo screamed. "CANNONBALL! DUCK!"
549 rammed into the wave-making experiment full force, Lilo rocketing off of her head. The Polynesian one slammed into the water, the thought "Did I hit a rock?" floating through her head before she felt herself sinking. She paddled upwards until her head broke water; 549 swam below her and helped her float.
Lilo began to rubberneck; no sign of land, Stitch, the horse monster, or anything. "Where's our friend?"
There was a weak whinny in the distance; the dune buggy roared into view from out of the sky; Cannonball was sitting on the hood, and 527 was stuffed into a containment orb in the back seat.
"Oh no!" Lilo shouted. "They've got our buddy!"
549 began to tense up underneath Lilo's fingers... Not a good sign. Before she knew what was going on, Lilo was rocketing upwards! She closed her eyes just before 549 crashed into the bottom of the dune buggy, flinging them both into the depths...
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Nani pointed out into the gray hours of the early morning. "There! There she is!"
Pleakly placed Jumba's quadranoculars over his eye; he couldn't see anything. "I can't see! The binoculars are broken!"
"Gimme dat!" Jumba took back his quadranoculars, spying what looked like a pink piece of driftwood on the ocean. "I am seeingk little pink dot!"
"That's my little pink dot!" Nani ran out knee deep into the waves, wanting to save her sister but not willing to get her only clean shorts wet. "Lilo!"
She felt smoothing cold and rubbery brush against her leg; she would have panicked if she hadn't known it was a dolphin. The silvery streak of blubber nibbled her calf and nudged her forward as the little pink dot that was Lilo was pushed towards her by... Another pink dot.
"You! You can swim?!"Nani kicked herself mentally for letting her mind wander. She scooped up Lilo and her rescuer, Angel. "Oh who cares?! Give her here, give her here!" She hugged her sister tightly while Angel roosted on her shoulder. "Is she okay? Is she awake?" Nani cradled Lilo's head and shifted her face towards hers. The little girl's eyes were closed, but she was breathing. Nani turned her attention to Angel. "Come on, we gotta get her to Jumba."
"Ih." Angel jumped into the water and butterfly stroked her way to shore while Nani ran ahead. The dune buggy roared past the older sister and landed on the cool sands, Stitch jumping out of the "car" before it had even come to a complete stop.
"LILO!" Pleakly nudged the unconscious Earth girl with his index finger. "Is she okay? Is she okay? She will be okay, right?" He screamed his trademark scream and began running around like a crazy person.
"Calm down, Pleakly!" Jumba pulled out a gas mask, the same one he had used to give Lilo back her voice when she had been gassed by Bolee. "Beingk panicky like wet Earth chicken vill not be helpingk us. Big girl, give me little girl."
Nani placed Lilo in Jumba's squishy arm. He placed the mask over Lilo's nose and mouth and sprayed a blue gas into her lungs. Her eyelids fluttered open and began to mumble. Stitch began to grunt like he always did whenever he wanted something; Nani picked Stitch up and lifted him to where he could see Lilo. "Lilo?"
"Tummy hurts..." Lilo's skin gained a green tint in a matter of seconds.
"Little girl has probably ingested salt water." Jumba slung the lump of a girl over his shoulder. "Ve should for to be gettingk her back home before she throws up. Pleakly, start the dune buggy."
Pleakly wailed in shock and tripped over his own feet. Nani slapped her forehead. "I'll start the car."
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"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THEM!?" Lilo was appalled at the sight of 549 being comically squished into the Insta-Dehydrator 5000 by Jumba and Stitch while 527 stood tied to a tree, whinnying his heart out. Lilo yanked the slippery experiment out of her friend's fists and immediately dropped her back into her own personal salt-water baby pool.
"They are dangerous," Jumba explained. The audience behind him (Stitch, Angel, and Pleakly) nodded in agreement. "Since they were, in fact, never in tune with their original programmingk, they cannot be being reprogrammed. So, only sensible decision is to be dehydratingk dem."
"YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" Lilo screeched at the top of her lungs. "We only had permission to do that with 627!"
"Well, what are we supposed to do with them?" scoffed Pleakly. "Throw them back into the ocean? They nearly drowned you!"
Lilo was caught off-guard by that response; the reason for that was obvious (at least to her)! "That's because they were protecting each other! You were badgering whatever experiment you thought had me! You can't blame them for something that they did because they..."
The fury began to escape from her face as what she was saying dawned on her.
"Love each other..."
As her form began to sadly shrink before the four aliens, Stitch looked at Angel, hoping she knew what was going on. She shrugged, not knowing just how the human psyche worked. After all, that was Fury's/Megaera's job.
Pleakly was the first to voice his concerns. "Lilo?"
"Do what you want with them, I'm going to bed." Lilo sighed and began walking back to the house, ignoring 549's pleading stares.
"But it's 2 o' clock! P.M.!" Pleakly glance to his friend, Jumba Jookiba. "Even for me, that's weird."
"I am thinkingk little girl is havingk... Eh...." Jumba moved his hands around to help himself think. "You know, 'e'-word moment where you realize somethingk really quick in one big event-"
"Epiphany!" Angel cheered.
"That is it!" Jumba clapped his congratulations. "Little girl is havingk epiphany! I applaud 624's smartness!"
Angel bowed.
"But an epiphany of what?" Pleakly asked again.
"Dat..." Jumba baritoned. "Ve are goingk to find out. 626! 624!"
"Yah?" answered the two close "cousins".
"I am havingk feeling you are at heart of matter." Jumba waved his hand. "Come on, ve are goingk to have little talk with little girl. Pleakly" (he pointed to the walking water sack) "You stay here with 527 and 549, makingk sure that they do not make run for it."
And with that, Jumba and his two experiments left, leaving Pleakly alone with the horse beast and the sea serpent. The one-eyed one shook as the blank eyes of the two elemental abominations stared at him with their emotionless eyes.
"Um..."
They each cocked their heads to show that they were listening.
Pleakly gulped. "Hello?"
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"Ever since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell..."
"Uh oh..." Stitch climbed back down the elevator tube (Lilo had locked it, so the elevator was stuck in "up" position.). "Elvis records. Heartbreak Hotel."
Angel didn't realize the severity of the said statement, but Jumba did. His eyes got a little wider in fear. "Uh oh. I am afraid she is not havingk epiphany. She is havingk depression fit." His eyes got wider again, this time in thought. "Wait a minute. Let me listen for a second."
He placed his ear against the metal wall and listened to the lyrics of the song.
"Room for broken hearted lovers, eh?" he knocked on the elevator wall. "Lilo! Is Uncle Jumba, wantingk to speak to you!"
"Go away!" came the weak voice.
"Ah, dis is bad." Jumba lamented. "Little girl always wanting to be talkingk to me when she can't be talkingk to you, 626."
Stitch moaned in sorrow and looked to his feet, Angel hugging him softly to comfort him. It was at the touch of her paw that he had his own epiphany. "Ah! Thanks, Angel!" He kissed her cheek and ran into the bottom of the elevator shaft. "Lilo!"
Lilo screamed back. "GO AWAY!"
"Unh! Meega taka" he made sure to accentuate "apologize!"
The elevator would have crushed Stitch if Angel had not pulled him away. Lilo stood on the platform, fists angrily clenched and her eyebrows furrowed but her eyes curious. "Apologize for what?"
"Into elevator, quickly!" Jumba shoved his way into the shaft along with Stitch and Angel, causing Lilo to make several bad sardine analogies on the way up.
They literally popped into Lilo's room, Angel nearly falling on the rotating record player. Lilo sat down angrily on her bed and crossed her arms. "Now, why does Stitch wanna apologize?"
Stitch began grunting, waving all four arms, and rapidly speaking a wave of Turian which Jumba had to translate. "626 is sayingk 'I am sorry that I ignored you while 624 was here. I didn't realize that you were feeling left behind. I promise to never do it again.'"
Lilo, despite Stitch's heartfelt display, still scowled. "I don't believe that. It's easy to say the promise, but Stitch always gets all goofy whenever Angel's around! How did I know he'll keep his word? Nani made the exact same promise when she started dating David, and-"
"WAIT!" Jumba threw his hands outward to stop her from speaking. "Waiwaiwaiwaiwaiwaiwaiwaiwait! You are saying Big girl made same promise when courting surfer boy?"
Lilo nodded, countering with an "mm-hmm".
"Did she keep promise?"
"NO!" Lilo began screaming to no one in particular as memories of madness began to resurface. "She just kept seeing him and forgetting all our plans that we were supposed to do together, like seeing 'Count Were-Zombie Franken-Mummy meets Timmy the Elvis Impersonator' and going surfing together and-"
"A-HA!" roared Jumba, scaring all three of the 3-foot tall life forms in the room and forcing them all onto Lilo's bed. "I get it now! Little girl is sufferingk from DCS!"
Stitch, who had one set of arms around Lilo and the other around Angel, perked his ears. "Gaba?"
"Divorced Child's Syndrome!" Jumba explained. He preached to his audience of three. "Tink of it dis way."
He pointed to Stitch's forehead. "626 is beingk Lilo's... father, so you say."
Lilo was confused already. "But Stitch isn't-"
"And Lilo is daughter, hypothetically," interrupted Dr. Jookiba, pointing to Lilo and poking her nose. "Now, father and daughter get along fine until along come evil stepparent..."
He picked Angel up by the scruff of the neck. "624, Angel."
He placed Angel down by Stitch, them shoved them and Lilo apart while narrating. "Now, as father and step-mother start to be spendingk more time together, daughter feels left out and cheated out of father's attention and love. Unless rectified, daughter will feel resentment toward father and stepmother, ruining relationships among all three permanently." He laughed his evil genius laugh. "You like? Psychology vas beingk my minor in evil genius college."
Stitch, Angel, and Lilo all stared in wonder for a minute before shaking themselves into consciousness.
"YOU GOT IT!" Lilo pointed to Jumba to emphasize. "You hit the nail right on the head!"
"But- Lilo..." Stitch held the girl's hand tightly. "Ohana means..."
"Nobody gets left behind, I know!" Lilo sighed. "I knew that... But... I still didn't feel right."
Stitch pulled Lilo into his arms and rocked her back and forth while Angel watched. "Is's okay... Is's okay, I'm sorry..."
Jumba felt his top eyes tearing up, so he rubbed them to hide the watery display. "Lilo, how did you rectify situation with David?"
"I.. I didn't...." Lilo sniffed, but wouldn't take her face out of Stitch's fur. "David came up to me and said 'Hey Lilo, I know you feel left out. I wanna be your friend too.' And then we went surfing."
Angel nodded. "Ah... Ih." She tapped Stitch's shoulder and whispered something into his ear. Out from her sides came two more arms... And half of a heart-shaped rock.
Lilo gasped in amazement, finally pushing herself away from Stitch. "You kept it?!"
"Ih." Angel crawled closer to the girl while Stitch joined her. She began talking in broken English, "Hey, Lilo... know you feel... left out. Want be your friend." She and Stitch took the rock and held it out to her. "Sorry?"
Lilo reached into her pocket and pulled out the other half. "Sorry."
Jumba reached down and closed his fist around the two pieces; when he let go, the rock was whole, and all three hands were locked into in one big ohana-handshake.
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"So then I said, 'HEY!'" Pleakly struck an odd pose. "'That's my en- eezar.'"
527 threw back his head and "laughed", making the kind of noise that a zebra made when it brayed. 549 giggled through her nose, lacking the vocal chords able to make a sound.
"Oh, Lilo, Jumba, little monsters, you're back!" Pleakly threw his arms around 527 and 549, who were standing relatively close to one-another. "You know, these two experiments aren't that bad. They actually listen to my old summer camp stories!"
Lilo smiled. "They're good listeners, I know that." Lilo gave 527's muzzle a soft rub. "I know just what to do with you."
"What's that?" asked Jumba.
Lilo undid 527's collar. "Nothing."
"Huh?" Stitch scrambled to Lilo's side. "But-but- One true place! Enga taka!"
"They don't need a one true place, Stitch." Lilo signaled for 527 to kneel down; when he did, Lilo scooped up most of 549 and put her on his back. "What they need is a one true person. And their own true people-" She clapped in triumph. "Are each other!"
527 stood up, 549 digging her claws into his side. Lilo gave 527 a slap on the leg. "Go on into the ocean, guys! If you don't bother anybody, they won't bother you!"
527 galloped away while the others watched in wide-eyed amazement.
"But... But the naming!" Pleakly wailed. "And the one true place!"
"They earned their own freedom," Lilo stated. "They didn't deserve to be tied down to some little place on the island with a dumb name. They're too pretty."
She nodded to herself in satisfaction. "They shall forever be the ones with no names."
Jumba nodded in show his agreement. "A fittingk end for two of my most... Eh... Unique experiments. Come on, I'm tinkingk Mythbusters is on again."
Angel took the liberty of picking Lilo up and, grabbing Stitch's hand along the way, carried her into the house.
DONE! Notes, notes, time for notes...
Okay, FIRST OF ALL, I have only read a few Stitch/Angel romances (because I can't stomach most of them; they're disgustingly sappy and unrealistic), and I've already seen a trend: Lilo is thrown to the side and she's made to look like she's okay with it! SHE WOULD NOT BE OKAY WITH IT! Most of you readers probably have divorced parents or worse, you know that when some other adult encroaches on the parental territory, it's not a matter of "Locked door. Probably nothing. Let's go do something else". WRONG! There's all sorts of soap-opera worthy emotions that are so wrong and confusing that Sesame Street couldn't even do an episode explaining it! IT'S TRUE! It's like I said, evil stepparent and child simply do not click together right away! It takes a while! I know because my parents have been divorced since I was TWO, for crying out loud! (breathing heavy) Okay... Okay... I'm okay... I'm a divorcee kid! Most kids are nowadays! We need be acknowledged! (still gasping) Gimme a minute.... Whew.
Okay, the heart-shaped rock? Stolen straight from The Simpsons, okay? Anybody see that episode? Yes? No? Ih? Naga? Feh. Forget it.
Cannonball got a sort-of big part because he's my favorite experiment. I mean, look at his! He's an alien-a-fide pink Winnie the Pooh! He is! He looks almost just like Winnie the Pooh! I wanna Cannonball plushie!
You can now see a picture of 527 and 549 (uncolored) on my homepage on my bio! If you can't get to my bio, I am CharonTheSabercat on Fanart Central. I've also drawn a picture of Fury, and I'm working on one of Bella and Bolee. GO SEE! AND REVIEW WHILE YOU'RE A IT! LOOK AND REVIEW!
The story of Lilo and the ones that didn't need names.
Stitch knocked on the door of the Surf Shack hurriedly, waking up Cannonball and calling Nani to the door. "Cannonball! Lilo's in trouble! Let's go!"
"Lilo?" Cannonball gasped; Lilo had to be one of his best non-experiment friends yet! He scrambled out the door, letting Angel lead him to the dune buggy.
Nani stomped her foot in front of Stitch's nose. "Okay, what's going on, where's Lilo?" She looked up to see the pink-furred Angel sitting in the driver's seat, along with experiments like Yin, Slushy, Finder, and now Cannonball. "What is that thing doing in the car? Isn't that the evil experiment Lilo hates?"
Stitch "uh"ed and looked at his feet while Angel groaned miserably and slammed her face into the dashboard. "Uh, not the right time, Nani! Bye!"
Despite being screamed at by Nani, Stitch jumped into the car, pushed Angel out of the driver's seat, and took off.
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"DOLPHINS!" Lilo jumped off of 527 and into the water, paddling after the dolphins. "Come on, let's go play!"
#Are dolphins cool?# asked the horse beast.
The sea serpent, 549, nodded. #Dolphins friend!#
#Thus I trust the experiment with a twenty-word vocabulary,# snuffed 527. He dived in and swam after Lilo, pushing the slow-swimming human with his head. Lilo tagged the closest of five dolphins, with bumped 549 with his snout and swam away.
"It's tag!" Lilo cheered. She pointed to the rogue dolphin. "Tag him back!"
The sea serpent dove under the water and set her tail in torpedo mode, twisting and spinning it, propelling herself forward. She tagged the dolphin that had bopped her and turned around quickly, only to have the dolphin tag her back. She began to sink in apparent defeat until 527 picked her up by the nape of the neck, pulling her above water and onto his back.
#You can hitch a ride on me. Dolphins are no good above water.# He smiled softly.
549, unable to smile with her lips, smiled instead with the gleam in her eyes. #Thank you.#
Lilo suddenly snatched onto her tail and scrambled up her back. "The head dolphin's it, and he's after me! Help, guys, help!"
527 whinnied and dunked underwater, relying on 549 to push him. Lilo clung to 527's mane and dodged the beak of the "it" dolphin. She desperately wanted to laugh, or scream, or make some noise to show she saw having fun, but her lungs were practically empty. She signaled to go up, and a quick moving 549 caught her in her wind vane tail and threw her up into the air. Lilo flew above the waves, finally getting to shriek out of fun like she wanted to! As she came back down, 527 shot out of the water, caught her in his mouth, and began to run. 549 followed close behind, breaching alongside the dolphins. Lilo clapped and cheered the spectacle on.
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Slushy surveyed his frozen dune-buggy runway which reached out a mile into the ocean. The ice was smooth as a roller rink's floor, as Stitch had made him make sure it was. Slushy gave him the thumbs up. "Ataka!"
"Ataka!" Stitch placed his paw on the gas pedal. "Ready, Yin?!"
"Bloobedebloo!" Yin filled up her inner water tank with ocean water.
"Finder?"
"IH!" Finder sniffed the air desperately. He pointed outward and honked.
Stitch then rammed the gas. "GO GO GO!"
Yin shot the back of the dune buggy, shooting it onto the ice runway. As they gained speed, Angel pressed a button and deployed a set of rocket wings from the side of the buggy. By the time they had reached the end of the runway, they were completely airborne!
"Tooki ko waba!" Stitch rammed his fist into the air. "For Lilo!"
"For Lilo!" Angel mimicked.
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Lilo and 549 both stretched themselves out on a sandbar while 527 grazed on seaweed. Lilo wrapped one arm around 549 and hugged her. "Thanks for being my friend today. I needed one after a week of being ignored. And now I've got two!"
527 joined Lilo on her opposite side while 549 ducked back into the ocean for a quick, re-hydrating dip. "It's stuff like this that makes me wanna stay with you guys forever! But, I already went through that stage with Bonnie and Clyde."
527 and 549 stepped up from their spots and joined Lilo on the beach, snuggling up against her. Lilo continued with her often long and drawn out explanations. "I know that even though other ohanas look pretty cool, after a while you have to go back to your own." She stood up. "So I've gotta go back to Nani and Jumba and Pleakly and..." She hissed in anger. "Stitch and Aaeeengeellll (she pulled the word as nastily as she could)." She settled herself back on the wet part of the sandbar, letting the waves pull out the sand from underneath her. "It's tough being me."
#That's sure what it sounds like,# said 527.
#Friend not happy.# 549 sighed sadly. #I like friend.#
#We've got to do something to help her out,# 527 cooed. #You know, she did introduce us two.#
#I like you!# blurted 549.
527 felt himself blush. #Uh, yeah... Thanks...#
#Help friend!# 549 pushed Lilo into a sitting position. #But how?#
"Aki taba!"
A red hot plasma blast fired near 527's back end. He whinnied in terror and kicked into the air, nearly smashing Lilo with his front toes. Stitch leapt onto the sandbar, all four arms extended. "Gimme back my Lilo!"
"NO!" Lilo clutched 549's ears in her fists. "Gimme out of here!"
549 snarled and dove into the water, dragging Lilo after her. Stitch gasped and went to jump back into the dune buggy, only to have 527's foot come into contact with his flat head. "OOF!"
Stitch looked up and saw 527 rearing up for another stomp; a bright pink stripe whizzed past his head, grabbed the horse beast, and threw him into the water. He smiled warmly. "Thanks, Angel."
"Welcome," cooed the tentacled, pink version of Stitch.
"But it's still got Lilo!" he growled. "Come on!" He grabbed Angel's hand and jumped all the way back into the buggy where Cannonball and Finder were waiting for them. "Finder, where is she?"
Finder pointed towards shore and honked.
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Lilo's head bobbed above the water, 527 and 549 quickly following. "I don't wanna go back! You gotta keep me away from them!"
527 whinnied in agreement. His ears rotated backwards and quivered nervously.
"He's still after us?" Lilo looked to the skies; the dune buggy! And Angel was watching her from the dashboard! "NO! ANYTHING BUT HER!"
527 responded by clasping Lilo in his mouth and running in one direction while 549 went another way. Unfortunately, the near-sighted experiments didn't notice that 527 had Lilo, and instead went after 549.
"Targeting!" Stitch locked the dune buggy's computer onto the swimming snake in the ocean. "Ready, Cannonball?"
"Nana-cho!" Cannonball fired the net, catching 549 in the tangles.
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#HELP!#
#549?!# 527 slammed on the breaks and scanned the ocean for his sea serpent friend. It was no use; they had run too far away, she was nowhere in sight. They had only a loud series of splashes to tell them where she was.
"She's in trouble!" Lilo whimpered while hanging by her shorts from 527's mouth. "How are we gonna help her?!"
527 was suddenly overcome with a weird feeling, a feeling that translated into a message: Forget the human and save 549! His original programming began to kick in as his eyes changed to an evil red. Lilo began to shiver as his eyes focused on her.
"Uh... Are you okay...?"
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"AAAAAAA!"
Stitch's ears shot straight up. "That's Lilo's scream!"
"Forget it! Get Lilo!" Angel turned the buggy around and rocketed in another direction, leaving 549 wrapped in the net and dragging behind the flying machine.
They caught up with the red-eyed creature soon enough to find him tossing Lilo about like a rag doll. He spotted them out of the corner of his eye and dove under the water, dragging Lilo down with him.
"AAAH!" Stitch pulled the dune buggy to a stop. "Cannonball!"
"Nana-cho!" Cannonball leapt from the dune buggy and cannonballed into the ocean. A giant wave pushed out of the ocean, and with it, up came 527 and Lilo! Stitch flew in close and tried to snatch Lilo from the water, only to see her be pulled away by 549.
"Wah!" Stitch turned around; the net had been cut open. "What happened to the net?"
527's head shot out of the water and sprayed a mouthful of water into Stitch's face. He snarled and shot a plasma blast at the horse-creature; 527 quickly went underwater again.
549 swam away quickly, Lilo keeping a tight hold on her ears. Lilo coughed some water out of her throat and yelled to 549, "Hey, my arms are getting tired! We need to stop before I fall off!"
549 nodded, but didn't slow down. She kept rocketing forward, into the endless expanse of the ocea-
Sploosh! "Nana-cho!"
Lilo screamed. "CANNONBALL! DUCK!"
549 rammed into the wave-making experiment full force, Lilo rocketing off of her head. The Polynesian one slammed into the water, the thought "Did I hit a rock?" floating through her head before she felt herself sinking. She paddled upwards until her head broke water; 549 swam below her and helped her float.
Lilo began to rubberneck; no sign of land, Stitch, the horse monster, or anything. "Where's our friend?"
There was a weak whinny in the distance; the dune buggy roared into view from out of the sky; Cannonball was sitting on the hood, and 527 was stuffed into a containment orb in the back seat.
"Oh no!" Lilo shouted. "They've got our buddy!"
549 began to tense up underneath Lilo's fingers... Not a good sign. Before she knew what was going on, Lilo was rocketing upwards! She closed her eyes just before 549 crashed into the bottom of the dune buggy, flinging them both into the depths...
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Nani pointed out into the gray hours of the early morning. "There! There she is!"
Pleakly placed Jumba's quadranoculars over his eye; he couldn't see anything. "I can't see! The binoculars are broken!"
"Gimme dat!" Jumba took back his quadranoculars, spying what looked like a pink piece of driftwood on the ocean. "I am seeingk little pink dot!"
"That's my little pink dot!" Nani ran out knee deep into the waves, wanting to save her sister but not willing to get her only clean shorts wet. "Lilo!"
She felt smoothing cold and rubbery brush against her leg; she would have panicked if she hadn't known it was a dolphin. The silvery streak of blubber nibbled her calf and nudged her forward as the little pink dot that was Lilo was pushed towards her by... Another pink dot.
"You! You can swim?!"Nani kicked herself mentally for letting her mind wander. She scooped up Lilo and her rescuer, Angel. "Oh who cares?! Give her here, give her here!" She hugged her sister tightly while Angel roosted on her shoulder. "Is she okay? Is she awake?" Nani cradled Lilo's head and shifted her face towards hers. The little girl's eyes were closed, but she was breathing. Nani turned her attention to Angel. "Come on, we gotta get her to Jumba."
"Ih." Angel jumped into the water and butterfly stroked her way to shore while Nani ran ahead. The dune buggy roared past the older sister and landed on the cool sands, Stitch jumping out of the "car" before it had even come to a complete stop.
"LILO!" Pleakly nudged the unconscious Earth girl with his index finger. "Is she okay? Is she okay? She will be okay, right?" He screamed his trademark scream and began running around like a crazy person.
"Calm down, Pleakly!" Jumba pulled out a gas mask, the same one he had used to give Lilo back her voice when she had been gassed by Bolee. "Beingk panicky like wet Earth chicken vill not be helpingk us. Big girl, give me little girl."
Nani placed Lilo in Jumba's squishy arm. He placed the mask over Lilo's nose and mouth and sprayed a blue gas into her lungs. Her eyelids fluttered open and began to mumble. Stitch began to grunt like he always did whenever he wanted something; Nani picked Stitch up and lifted him to where he could see Lilo. "Lilo?"
"Tummy hurts..." Lilo's skin gained a green tint in a matter of seconds.
"Little girl has probably ingested salt water." Jumba slung the lump of a girl over his shoulder. "Ve should for to be gettingk her back home before she throws up. Pleakly, start the dune buggy."
Pleakly wailed in shock and tripped over his own feet. Nani slapped her forehead. "I'll start the car."
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"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THEM!?" Lilo was appalled at the sight of 549 being comically squished into the Insta-Dehydrator 5000 by Jumba and Stitch while 527 stood tied to a tree, whinnying his heart out. Lilo yanked the slippery experiment out of her friend's fists and immediately dropped her back into her own personal salt-water baby pool.
"They are dangerous," Jumba explained. The audience behind him (Stitch, Angel, and Pleakly) nodded in agreement. "Since they were, in fact, never in tune with their original programmingk, they cannot be being reprogrammed. So, only sensible decision is to be dehydratingk dem."
"YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" Lilo screeched at the top of her lungs. "We only had permission to do that with 627!"
"Well, what are we supposed to do with them?" scoffed Pleakly. "Throw them back into the ocean? They nearly drowned you!"
Lilo was caught off-guard by that response; the reason for that was obvious (at least to her)! "That's because they were protecting each other! You were badgering whatever experiment you thought had me! You can't blame them for something that they did because they..."
The fury began to escape from her face as what she was saying dawned on her.
"Love each other..."
As her form began to sadly shrink before the four aliens, Stitch looked at Angel, hoping she knew what was going on. She shrugged, not knowing just how the human psyche worked. After all, that was Fury's/Megaera's job.
Pleakly was the first to voice his concerns. "Lilo?"
"Do what you want with them, I'm going to bed." Lilo sighed and began walking back to the house, ignoring 549's pleading stares.
"But it's 2 o' clock! P.M.!" Pleakly glance to his friend, Jumba Jookiba. "Even for me, that's weird."
"I am thinkingk little girl is havingk... Eh...." Jumba moved his hands around to help himself think. "You know, 'e'-word moment where you realize somethingk really quick in one big event-"
"Epiphany!" Angel cheered.
"That is it!" Jumba clapped his congratulations. "Little girl is havingk epiphany! I applaud 624's smartness!"
Angel bowed.
"But an epiphany of what?" Pleakly asked again.
"Dat..." Jumba baritoned. "Ve are goingk to find out. 626! 624!"
"Yah?" answered the two close "cousins".
"I am havingk feeling you are at heart of matter." Jumba waved his hand. "Come on, ve are goingk to have little talk with little girl. Pleakly" (he pointed to the walking water sack) "You stay here with 527 and 549, makingk sure that they do not make run for it."
And with that, Jumba and his two experiments left, leaving Pleakly alone with the horse beast and the sea serpent. The one-eyed one shook as the blank eyes of the two elemental abominations stared at him with their emotionless eyes.
"Um..."
They each cocked their heads to show that they were listening.
Pleakly gulped. "Hello?"
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"Ever since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell..."
"Uh oh..." Stitch climbed back down the elevator tube (Lilo had locked it, so the elevator was stuck in "up" position.). "Elvis records. Heartbreak Hotel."
Angel didn't realize the severity of the said statement, but Jumba did. His eyes got a little wider in fear. "Uh oh. I am afraid she is not havingk epiphany. She is havingk depression fit." His eyes got wider again, this time in thought. "Wait a minute. Let me listen for a second."
He placed his ear against the metal wall and listened to the lyrics of the song.
"Room for broken hearted lovers, eh?" he knocked on the elevator wall. "Lilo! Is Uncle Jumba, wantingk to speak to you!"
"Go away!" came the weak voice.
"Ah, dis is bad." Jumba lamented. "Little girl always wanting to be talkingk to me when she can't be talkingk to you, 626."
Stitch moaned in sorrow and looked to his feet, Angel hugging him softly to comfort him. It was at the touch of her paw that he had his own epiphany. "Ah! Thanks, Angel!" He kissed her cheek and ran into the bottom of the elevator shaft. "Lilo!"
Lilo screamed back. "GO AWAY!"
"Unh! Meega taka" he made sure to accentuate "apologize!"
The elevator would have crushed Stitch if Angel had not pulled him away. Lilo stood on the platform, fists angrily clenched and her eyebrows furrowed but her eyes curious. "Apologize for what?"
"Into elevator, quickly!" Jumba shoved his way into the shaft along with Stitch and Angel, causing Lilo to make several bad sardine analogies on the way up.
They literally popped into Lilo's room, Angel nearly falling on the rotating record player. Lilo sat down angrily on her bed and crossed her arms. "Now, why does Stitch wanna apologize?"
Stitch began grunting, waving all four arms, and rapidly speaking a wave of Turian which Jumba had to translate. "626 is sayingk 'I am sorry that I ignored you while 624 was here. I didn't realize that you were feeling left behind. I promise to never do it again.'"
Lilo, despite Stitch's heartfelt display, still scowled. "I don't believe that. It's easy to say the promise, but Stitch always gets all goofy whenever Angel's around! How did I know he'll keep his word? Nani made the exact same promise when she started dating David, and-"
"WAIT!" Jumba threw his hands outward to stop her from speaking. "Waiwaiwaiwaiwaiwaiwaiwaiwait! You are saying Big girl made same promise when courting surfer boy?"
Lilo nodded, countering with an "mm-hmm".
"Did she keep promise?"
"NO!" Lilo began screaming to no one in particular as memories of madness began to resurface. "She just kept seeing him and forgetting all our plans that we were supposed to do together, like seeing 'Count Were-Zombie Franken-Mummy meets Timmy the Elvis Impersonator' and going surfing together and-"
"A-HA!" roared Jumba, scaring all three of the 3-foot tall life forms in the room and forcing them all onto Lilo's bed. "I get it now! Little girl is sufferingk from DCS!"
Stitch, who had one set of arms around Lilo and the other around Angel, perked his ears. "Gaba?"
"Divorced Child's Syndrome!" Jumba explained. He preached to his audience of three. "Tink of it dis way."
He pointed to Stitch's forehead. "626 is beingk Lilo's... father, so you say."
Lilo was confused already. "But Stitch isn't-"
"And Lilo is daughter, hypothetically," interrupted Dr. Jookiba, pointing to Lilo and poking her nose. "Now, father and daughter get along fine until along come evil stepparent..."
He picked Angel up by the scruff of the neck. "624, Angel."
He placed Angel down by Stitch, them shoved them and Lilo apart while narrating. "Now, as father and step-mother start to be spendingk more time together, daughter feels left out and cheated out of father's attention and love. Unless rectified, daughter will feel resentment toward father and stepmother, ruining relationships among all three permanently." He laughed his evil genius laugh. "You like? Psychology vas beingk my minor in evil genius college."
Stitch, Angel, and Lilo all stared in wonder for a minute before shaking themselves into consciousness.
"YOU GOT IT!" Lilo pointed to Jumba to emphasize. "You hit the nail right on the head!"
"But- Lilo..." Stitch held the girl's hand tightly. "Ohana means..."
"Nobody gets left behind, I know!" Lilo sighed. "I knew that... But... I still didn't feel right."
Stitch pulled Lilo into his arms and rocked her back and forth while Angel watched. "Is's okay... Is's okay, I'm sorry..."
Jumba felt his top eyes tearing up, so he rubbed them to hide the watery display. "Lilo, how did you rectify situation with David?"
"I.. I didn't...." Lilo sniffed, but wouldn't take her face out of Stitch's fur. "David came up to me and said 'Hey Lilo, I know you feel left out. I wanna be your friend too.' And then we went surfing."
Angel nodded. "Ah... Ih." She tapped Stitch's shoulder and whispered something into his ear. Out from her sides came two more arms... And half of a heart-shaped rock.
Lilo gasped in amazement, finally pushing herself away from Stitch. "You kept it?!"
"Ih." Angel crawled closer to the girl while Stitch joined her. She began talking in broken English, "Hey, Lilo... know you feel... left out. Want be your friend." She and Stitch took the rock and held it out to her. "Sorry?"
Lilo reached into her pocket and pulled out the other half. "Sorry."
Jumba reached down and closed his fist around the two pieces; when he let go, the rock was whole, and all three hands were locked into in one big ohana-handshake.
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"So then I said, 'HEY!'" Pleakly struck an odd pose. "'That's my en- eezar.'"
527 threw back his head and "laughed", making the kind of noise that a zebra made when it brayed. 549 giggled through her nose, lacking the vocal chords able to make a sound.
"Oh, Lilo, Jumba, little monsters, you're back!" Pleakly threw his arms around 527 and 549, who were standing relatively close to one-another. "You know, these two experiments aren't that bad. They actually listen to my old summer camp stories!"
Lilo smiled. "They're good listeners, I know that." Lilo gave 527's muzzle a soft rub. "I know just what to do with you."
"What's that?" asked Jumba.
Lilo undid 527's collar. "Nothing."
"Huh?" Stitch scrambled to Lilo's side. "But-but- One true place! Enga taka!"
"They don't need a one true place, Stitch." Lilo signaled for 527 to kneel down; when he did, Lilo scooped up most of 549 and put her on his back. "What they need is a one true person. And their own true people-" She clapped in triumph. "Are each other!"
527 stood up, 549 digging her claws into his side. Lilo gave 527 a slap on the leg. "Go on into the ocean, guys! If you don't bother anybody, they won't bother you!"
527 galloped away while the others watched in wide-eyed amazement.
"But... But the naming!" Pleakly wailed. "And the one true place!"
"They earned their own freedom," Lilo stated. "They didn't deserve to be tied down to some little place on the island with a dumb name. They're too pretty."
She nodded to herself in satisfaction. "They shall forever be the ones with no names."
Jumba nodded in show his agreement. "A fittingk end for two of my most... Eh... Unique experiments. Come on, I'm tinkingk Mythbusters is on again."
Angel took the liberty of picking Lilo up and, grabbing Stitch's hand along the way, carried her into the house.
DONE! Notes, notes, time for notes...
Okay, FIRST OF ALL, I have only read a few Stitch/Angel romances (because I can't stomach most of them; they're disgustingly sappy and unrealistic), and I've already seen a trend: Lilo is thrown to the side and she's made to look like she's okay with it! SHE WOULD NOT BE OKAY WITH IT! Most of you readers probably have divorced parents or worse, you know that when some other adult encroaches on the parental territory, it's not a matter of "Locked door. Probably nothing. Let's go do something else". WRONG! There's all sorts of soap-opera worthy emotions that are so wrong and confusing that Sesame Street couldn't even do an episode explaining it! IT'S TRUE! It's like I said, evil stepparent and child simply do not click together right away! It takes a while! I know because my parents have been divorced since I was TWO, for crying out loud! (breathing heavy) Okay... Okay... I'm okay... I'm a divorcee kid! Most kids are nowadays! We need be acknowledged! (still gasping) Gimme a minute.... Whew.
Okay, the heart-shaped rock? Stolen straight from The Simpsons, okay? Anybody see that episode? Yes? No? Ih? Naga? Feh. Forget it.
Cannonball got a sort-of big part because he's my favorite experiment. I mean, look at his! He's an alien-a-fide pink Winnie the Pooh! He is! He looks almost just like Winnie the Pooh! I wanna Cannonball plushie!
You can now see a picture of 527 and 549 (uncolored) on my homepage on my bio! If you can't get to my bio, I am CharonTheSabercat on Fanart Central. I've also drawn a picture of Fury, and I'm working on one of Bella and Bolee. GO SEE! AND REVIEW WHILE YOU'RE A IT! LOOK AND REVIEW!