...Hm, well, this is a fanfiction series I am currently writing, and a lot of the chapters are already written. However, I am only posting the first chapter right now. I will post the others if you like it. ...
The Other Experiments
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A loud, piercing beep, followed by another beep, then another... woke Kasey up with a start. She looked around, her medium-sized, purple ears twitching at the sound. At the top of her ears, near the tips but not quite, were splotches of lavender. Her stomach was also lavender, but the rest of her fur was purple. Well, except for at the tips of the three long, furry hairs that came out of the side of her head... the tips of them, yes, also lavender. The inside of her ears were pink, and her eyes, medium-sized, were brown but had that pupiless shine to them. Her nose was medium-sized and lavender, and her mouth was long, and usually had a mischievous smirk to show for itself.
...But not today. She lifted her lavender-clawed paw to her mouth in surprise, her eyes wide. That beeping was the ship's alarm! She was just about to get out of her bottom bunk bed, when Susan, another experiment, stepped into the room. Susan and Kasey were always arguing, and Susan shared the bunk beds with Kasey. She had the top bunk, as you should know.
"Kasey! You lazy sleepyhead! Get out of there now. There's something wrong with the ship. We have to abandon it before it crashes!" Susan, with her dark, practically black fur, small ears that always seemed to be tucked at the sides of her head, and the one wave of dark hair that flowed neatly out of her forehead and to the left side of her head, looked beautiful practically all of the time. Her eyes were also brown, shiny, and pupiless, but they were bigger than Kasey's. Her neat little nose was brown, and her perfectly-sized thin lips always seemed to be pressed together in concentration. Her fur was completely dark, yes, even her stomach. She put her clawless paws on her hips and stared at Kasey, annoyed. "Come ON!"
Kasey jumped off the bed, grumbling something to herself. Even in a situation like this, she wasn't a morning person (or, rather, experiment ^^). She was always in a bad mood this early. She hated the hours that she spent in her snuggly covers to be cut short. But, nonetheless, she followed Susan out of their room.
The beeping was even louder in the main room of the ship, which made Kasey cover her ears. "It is so noisy in here! Where's Jade?!"
"I'm right here." A panicked voice came from the chair at the ship's controls. The chair swiveled around, and there, sitting in it, was Dr. Jade Starkey. She was the creator of Experiment Susan and Experiment Kasey. She was also like a mother to them. She was a genetics experiments scientist, but she was new to the occupation. Susan and Kasey were her only experiments, although the two had the right to believe that she had more in the making. Susan was Jade's first creation, therefore she was older than Kasey, which was just another reason for Kasey to be jealous of her, although Susan delighted in that fact. Another thing was, Jade liked to name her experiments, rather than call them by numbers. She had a sort of fond attachment to them;she saw them as her daughters. Jade was also fond of humans. In fact, they were heading to Earth that very minute, although obviously the ship was having problems.
"What is it, Jade?" Kasey could see the worry on her creator's face. Something was not right.
"There's a problem... I am afraid, there is no time to abandon ship. We will surely be killed if we try." Dr. Jade swallowed, trying not to alarm her creations. She, Dr. Jade, was a strange little alien. She was skinny and green, and wore scientists' clothing, and she was short. Not much taller than her experiments, to be exact. Her head was covered in lighter green, curly hair. She also wore wire-rimmed glasses in front of her blue eyes. She had no ears, but she did have a small little nose.
"Well, we have to do something!" Susan exclaimed.
"There's no time... we'll just have to sit back and hope we survive through this." Dr. Jade told them. Kasey was afraid she'd say that. Even though Kasey probably didn't look it because of her calm outlook, she WAS scared. But she didn't want to show it. But she did join the others in their screams when the ship started to go faster and faster. Then, suddenly, to their shock, a huge space rock crashed through the glass on the ship and collided with Dr. Jade, falling right on top of her! Susan instantly ran to her side, and Kasey ran up behind her.
"Jade! Are you all right?" Susan asked.
"Su-san..." Jade whispered, then looked up at Kasey. "Ka-sey... listen, my beloved experiments... I... I'm dying, I can feel it;I trust you two to care for yourselves. Find a nice home on Earth, the both of you... and let my memory dwell in your souls forever."
"No, Jade! You shall not die. You'll be there with us on Earth. We'll all live together." Susan insisted.
"I know that's how we planned it, but..." Jade sighed.
"It can still be like that... besides, if you did die, we would die with you..." Susan's voice was teary. She swallowed to keep from crying.
"No. You will both live. Find lives, find love... I know, that much..." Jade's voice trailed off.
"Jade? Jade?! JADE!?" Susan screamed, but no answer came. Then Susan began to cry, cry unlike Kasey had never seen her cry before. Her tears were uncontrollable and seemed nonstop...
As for Kasey's own tears, they did not come. She was sort of mixed up in her emotions. Never in her short life had she ever experienced death before. She knew it existed, but... she never witnessed it... felt it linger so near, creep in, and take a loved one... now that that had happened, she didn't know what to think, what to feel, what to say... her emotions were blank and empty, yet they hurt her, pained her soul...
The rest of what happened was a blank. After she saw Susan grieving over Dr. Jade, the next thing that Kasey remembered is that everything got blurred... all she remembered after that was blackness... deep blackness...
When she came back into consciousness, she spit out a mouthful of water before opening her eyes. She felt wet and damp, and when her sight came back into focus, she saw why.
She was in water! Obviously. She heard a roaring sound, looked up, and spotted a waterfall. She groaned, and scampered out of the water, collapsing onto the ground. She coughed, sputtered, and sat up. And there, in front of her, was a gigantic spaceship. Well... maybe gigantic was exaggerating just a little bit, but Kasey knew it was too big to be their ship. So... was someone else crashed here? She sighed. Like it mattered in the least, anyway. All Kasey wanted to do now was find Susan... then maybe they could work out what to do. She stood up, shaking the water from her fur.
"Susan?" She called out, looking around. "Susan? Are you here? If you are, then don't play games with me! Huh?! Where are you!"
No answer came to the bewildered Kasey. Huh. And she would've thought Susan'd be here, too... unless... unless they had went off in different directions! Aw, great, Kasey thought. Just what she needed. Now she had to handle herself on her own. Susan might be a pain, Kasey thought, but she did know how to get things done. As for her... she had no idea what to do.
Then, a loud noise broke the silence... a loud, stomping noise. It shook the ground so that it made Kasey fall back down... which she wasn't too thankful for.
The stomps stopped from behind her, and Kasey turned around. There, standing before her, was a gigantic, shark-like alien. He had blasters at the ready and looked delighted when he saw Kasey. "An experiment... that other one got away, but you won't!" He aimed his blaster at Kasey, grinning.
Kasey stared at him, and seemed to roll her eyes. Then she curled up in a little ball, and pretended to sleep. The shark guy didn't like this. He did not like the fact that Kasey was ignoring him, and that she wasn't intimidated, or didn't fight back, but just laid there. He groaned, but pulled out a ham sandwich, and wiggled it in front of Kasey. "Come on, little experiment... the lunch meat is goo-oood..."
Kasey groaned. "Oh, please! You're embarassing yourself. That's the oldest trick in the book."
"So, you speak English fluently..." He flinched, as if remembering another experiment that could do the same. "Well, if you come with me, I'll give you the ham."
"All right already, sheesh. It's not like I have anything better to do..." Kasey grumbled, and took the ham sandwich. She WAS hungry, and ate it quickly. As soon as she was finished, she got shot with the blaster, which held her captive in a sack-like thing.
"That's right! No abomination can outwit Gantu!" Gantu smirked.
Kasey could feel his smirk, even though she could not see it. "Yeah, sure, whatever, Shark Face. I hope you know that as soon as I get out of here, I'm going to harpoon you."
Gantu hit the "sack" a little, making it swing gently back and forth in his other hand. "Don't do that! You're starting to remind me of someone..."
"Who? Your common sense? ...No, wait. You don't seem like you have that." Now Gantu could feel Kasey's smirking.
"I mean it! Quiet!" Gantu hit the "sack" again.
"Hey! You're going to make me throw up." Kasey complained.
"Not my fault." Gantu then walked into his ship, his prize in hand.
When Gantu told Dr. Hamsterviel that he caught an experiment, Dr. Hamsterviel wanted to waste no time. "Well, what are you waiting for, you useless hunk of blubber?!" Dr. Hamsterviel yelled. Kasey snickered at this comment. "Stop your idiotic grinning, and send me the experiment at once!"
"As you wish, Dr. Hamsterviel." Gantu sighed, and opened up the "sack", depositing Kasey out of it. She violently shook her head, but didn't have time to relax. Gantu picked her up by the nape of her neck and dropped her on a teleporter. Then, with some buttons being pressed, Kasey felt herself being transported some place else...
And the first thing she saw was Dr. Hamsterviel's face. "Ahhhhh!!" She screamed.
Dr. Hamsterviel looked her over. "Hmmm... you aren't an experiment I specifically remember or recall hearing about. What's your number?"
"My number?..." Kasey seemed confused. "I'm just called Kasey. That's what my creator calls---called me."
"Dr. Jumba Jookiba had a pet name for you?!" Dr. Hamsterviel seemed surprised.
"Dr. Who? Oh, no, you must be mistaken. My creator is... or at least, was... Dr. Jade Starkey." Kasey corrected.
"Hmmm... Starkey, Starkey..." Dr. Hamsterviel seemed to be thinking it over. "Oh, yeah! Now I remember her. She was a ridiculous piece of freak work. She always mumbled how she'd create experiments on her own..."
"And she did!" Kasey exclaimed, somewhat angry at Dr. Hamsterviel for how he had put it.
"So she did..." Dr. Hamsterviel put his hands together. "So, tell me, cutie, what CAN you do?" He said that in an offensive way, as if he only expected Kasey could be cute and nothing more.
And she did not like that. "Don't call me a cutie! And if you want to know what I can do, then let me out."
"Okay..." Dr. Hamsterviel looked suspicious, but he let Kasey out anyway. She toppled onto the floor, then stood up straight. "Behold." Then her form began to change, began to morph... until a tall human girl with brown hair and brown eyes stood in her place. "I can turn into a human." Then she reverted back to her original form and laid back, as if it were no big deal.
"Hmmm... a human, eh?" Dr. Hamsterviel thought this over. "Yes, that could prove useful! You could make the humans think you're one of them, but all the while waiting to put my ingenious plot into action... I just have to think of my ingenious plot..."
Kasey sighed. "What makes you think I'm going to do that? It sounds like a lot of work." Kasey yawned, still a little sore at being woken up early. She laid against the cold floor and closed her eyes.
"How dare you! You WILL go through with this plot, and you WILL like it!" Dr. Hamsterviel exclaimed.
"In your dreams, Sandman. Besides, you can't even THINK of a plot." Kasey snorted.
"That's it! I'm sick and tired of you, you useless pack of fur! I'm sending you back to Gantu. Maybe you can help him catch the other experiments. And I think you'll get along with the other experiment that's helping him already." Dr. Hamsterviel tried lifting Kasey, who was bigger than he was. He dropped her back on the teleporter, and went over to the controls.
"What other experiment?" Kasey asked curiously.
"Oh, don't worry. You'll meet him soon enough." Dr. Hamsterviel worked the controls, and Kasey was teleported again before she could ask any more. The next thing she saw was the inside of Gantu's ship again. She put her paws on the glass, looking around. But no one was there, yet. She sighed. Well, at least this gave her plenty of time to think. Like, where was Susan right now? Well, wherever she was, she probably had all the males under her spell, Kasey thought. That was Susan's ability. Any male fell in love with her, that is, except for males that were already in love. And Kasey had the ability to turn into a human. Which wasn't as glamorous, but Dr. Jade was so fond of humans, that's probably why she given her that ability.
Kasey sighed again, and laid back against the glass. There was one more thing she found herself thinking of. Who was the other experiment working with Gantu? Kasey knew that it couldn't be Susan, for Dr. Hamsterviel had called the experiment a "him". Kasey was a little nervous... she had never met a male experiment before. Actually, she had not known any other experiment except for Susan. And Susan probably would have no problem with a male experiment. She'd have him wedged right between her paws. But not Kasey. Somehow, she didn't think being able to turn into a human was even half as charming. She closed her eyes, and began to slip into sleep...
"So, I see Fish Face has brought home another experiment..." A low voice made Kasey snap out of her pre-sleep and accidentally slam herself against the glass. She grumbled silently to herself at the fact that she was always being disturbed every time she tried to get her sleep. She relaxed herself and opened her eyes. Outside of the glass, in front of it, stood a goldish-yellow, chubby creature holding a sandwich.
"Whoa, watch it there. You don't have to be so jumpy." The creature took a bite out of his sandwich.
"I am not jumpy!" Kasey insisted. It was true, she was usually calm. But she hadn't been in a good mood lately.
"You could've fooled me." The creature circled her glass chamber, looking her over. Kasey frowned, not really comfortable when anyone did that.
"Are you the experiment that helps that sharky guy... what's his name? Gumbi?" Kasey heard herself blurt out.
"Gumbi?" The creature had a laugh over that one. "Gantu. But what you called him suits him better."
"So... are you an experiment?" Kasey asked again.
"What do I look like, the butler? Yes, I'm experiment number 625. How about yourself?" 625 asked.
"...Well, I don't have an experiment number. My creator was Dr. Jade Starkey, and she gave her experiments names rather than numbering them. My name is Kasey." Kasey answered.
"Well, that's... interesting." Replied 625, but Kasey could tell he was trying to hold back a laugh, although it was a failed attempt. Kasey frowned. She rather liked her name.
"Hey... what?! Dr. Hamsterviel sent back the experiment?!" Gantu came in the room, noticing Kasey still in the teleporter.
"Yes. He said something about... me helping you catch the other experiments, or something." Kasey sighed. "Will somebody let me out of here?!"
"Great, just what I need. Another lackey. And you don't seem to be any more useful than the one I already have." Gantu complained.
"Hey, watch who you call a lackey!" Complained 625.
"Just let me out of here, you giant kipper! It's smothering in here!" Kasey yelped from behind the glass.
"Between 625 and Dr. Hamsterviel, I get more than my fair share of insults. I don't need you around to add to them." Gantu said bluntly.
"No, you will let me out now, or else every time I see you I will annoy you nonstop... so lemme out!" Kasey cried. "Lemme out, Blubber Beast! Lemme out lemme out lemme out!"
"Aw, why don'tcha let the thing out already?" 625 took another bite of his sandwich.
Kasey scowled at being called a "thing", but said nothing more. Finally, grumbling, Gantu lifted the glass up, grabbed Kasey, and dropped her in front of 625. And that was the first time they saw each other face to face without the glass in the way. They stared silently at each other for what was maybe a solid minute, and Kasey felt herself smiling nervously. But the silence was broken.
"You're a girl?" 625 blurted out.
Kasey felt her face grow hot. "Of course I'm a girl! I would've thought that obvious." She growled under her breath.
"Hey, hey! No need to make a big deal out of it." The two stared at each other more, in an awkward silence.
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the island, Susan was just recovering from the ship crash. She got up, holding her head.
"Ohhh. Man... what happened?" She groaned. She got up, wobbling while she walked. She looked around, and saw a house right in front of her. She looked confused. "Where am I? I don't see the ship anywhere..." She looked around. "And where's Kasey? Where's anyone, for that matter? I don't see anyone!"
Right when she said that, she heard the sound of a vehicle speeding towards the house. She pricked up her ears, listening as she heard it draw closer. Then she saw it come into view. A low, red vehicle sped up to the house, and she barely managed to jump out of it's way. She coughed as dirt got in her face, but peered over the side of the house, watching to see what would happen next.
A black-haired, brown-eyed, tanned Hawaiian girl got out of the vehicle. She looked to Susan to be about seven years of age.
"C'mon, Stitch," She was saying, "we can find out more about the experiment on the computer."
Experiment? What experiment? Susan thought. The only other experiment she knew of was Kasey. Did the little girl perhaps know where she was? And who was Stitch?
Her question was answered not long after as a blue-furred creature jumped out of the vehicle. Susan thought he looked somewhat like a koala. But still, he was pretty abnormal-looking... then it hit her. She could sense it. This "Stitch," as the little girl so lovingly called him, was an experiment. Another experiment? And a male one at that? Well, she did not expect to find that on Earth. But she was curious about him. And as she got a closer look, her heart gave a little flutter. Her mouth suddenly felt dry. And she usually felt comfortable around the opposite gender! She wasn't like Kasey, who usually felt awkward around males. Oh, if only she could meet him... she wanted to get closer... closer...
But she didn't realize that that's exactly what she was doing! She did not realize that she walked right out into the open. And that the girl and the experiment noticed her!
"It's an experiment, Stitch!" The girl exclaimed. "Another one! I wonder if this one will be any easier to capture?"
"Capture? You want to capture me?!" Susan exclaimed. Then what she had suspected earlier came into her mind. "Do you have Kasey in captivity?!"
"Kasey?" The girl asked, scrunching up her nose. "Who is... Kasey?"
"Another experiment. Me and her crashed on Earth, along with our creator, Dr. Jade Starkey, but she didn't survive..." Susan explained, her voice trailing off.
The girl looked sympathetic. "Oh, I'm sorry. I know how that feels..." Then she looked up, her expression changing back to it's happy-go-lucky self. "So! Another experiment, huh? And you just came here? And your creator is..." She paused, trying to remember.
"Dr. Jade Starkey." Susan reminded her.
"Dr. Jade Starkey..." The girl repeated. "Cool! There's even more experiments out there than I thought! Jumba's aren't the only ones..."
Now it was Susan's turn to scrunch up her nose. "Right." Then she looked to Stitch, feeling that fluttering feeling once more. "And what's your name?"
"Stitch." Stitch replied simply.
Of course, Susan had already known Stitch's name, for she heard the girl call him that... but she just had to have an excuse to speak to him. And when she heard his voice, her heart gave a little leap. "Hi, Stitch. I'm Susan. You have a cute voice."
The girl looked slightly annoyed that she had been forgotten. "I'm Lilo."
"Oh, that's... nice." Susan looked back to Stitch, but he didn't seem to be paying much attention to her. That's strange, Susan thought. When she was created, she was designed to capture the heart of any male. Yet, her charms did not seem to be working on Stitch. And there could only be one reason for that. He was already in love. When a male was already in love, Susan's genetic charms became irrelevant.
...And she wasn't sure if she quite liked that. When she had complained to Dr. Jade about it, calling it a "bug" or a "malfunction" in her genetics, Dr. Jade had simply told her that it made her important because if a male could resist her charms, it confirmed true love in the True Love Test, her being the test. But then again, she wasn't quite sure she liked that, either.
"You want to come inside?" Lilo asked, knocking Susan out of her reminiscing.
"Oh, uh, sure." Susan replied. Like there was anywhere else better she could go.
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Late at night, back in Gantu's ship, Kasey was staring out of one of the ship's windows, up at the stars. She sighed. Well, she thought, Hello new life. She figured she'd be staying there a while, and she did not have anywhere else to live, and it was better than sleeping out on the ground. She laid on her back, snuggling in the blankets she had been given. And she didn't have a very comfortable bed, either. She was sleeping on the floor of the storage room of the ship, to be exact. She just had blankets thrown on her and a pillow under her head to make out her "bed".
She swallowed, clicking her claws together. She strangely felt herself missing Susan. Even if she was a pain, Kasey had to admit to herself that she liked having her around. And now that she was no longer in her comfortable bunk bed, with Susan sleeping above her, she had no one to talk to. No one to annoy. No one to tease or laugh with. She frowned.
Letting a sigh once more escape her, she allowed her mind to wander. She found herself missing Jade Starkey, too. And she knew for sure that she'd never see her again. She looked back out at the stars, to keep from the tears that threatened to show theirselves. As she looked up at an especially bright one, she wondered, would she ever see Susan again? Where was she, and what was she thinking at that very moment? After those thoughts, the stars blurred into complete blackness as sleep consumed her.
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Coincidentally, at the same moment Kasey had been looking out at the stars, so was Susan. Except she was in the cozy home of the Pelekais, instead of in a cold place like Gantu's ship. She had been assigned to the same room as Lilo and Stitch, sleeping in a crate box not unlike the one Stitch had slept in when he was first taken into Lilo's home. But she could see out the window. She smiled, taking in the breathtaking sight of the glittering stars bordering the lovely Hawaiian island. The scene that seemed to make it's viewers want to daydream, to reminisce, to think of things before unthinkable.
..And one of those things was, what had happened to Kasey? Was she all right? Where was she sleeping tonight, while she would be sleeping in this comfortable family home? It didn't seem fair that she could be lodged somewhere cold and damp or uncomfortable while she enjoyed the comforts of a warm house. Kasey was annoying, yes, the most annoying creature she had met, but she didn't deserve that. Well, she figured, staring at the stars wasn't going to make them answer her. So she closed her eyes, and although she was reluctant at first, let herself drift into a world of unconscious dreams.
THE END
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To be continued
...All right... if I get good reviews, I'll post the other chapters. Not all at once, though, a few at a time. So... review? And please be nice! If you didn't like the story, you don't have to review.
The Other Experiments
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A loud, piercing beep, followed by another beep, then another... woke Kasey up with a start. She looked around, her medium-sized, purple ears twitching at the sound. At the top of her ears, near the tips but not quite, were splotches of lavender. Her stomach was also lavender, but the rest of her fur was purple. Well, except for at the tips of the three long, furry hairs that came out of the side of her head... the tips of them, yes, also lavender. The inside of her ears were pink, and her eyes, medium-sized, were brown but had that pupiless shine to them. Her nose was medium-sized and lavender, and her mouth was long, and usually had a mischievous smirk to show for itself.
...But not today. She lifted her lavender-clawed paw to her mouth in surprise, her eyes wide. That beeping was the ship's alarm! She was just about to get out of her bottom bunk bed, when Susan, another experiment, stepped into the room. Susan and Kasey were always arguing, and Susan shared the bunk beds with Kasey. She had the top bunk, as you should know.
"Kasey! You lazy sleepyhead! Get out of there now. There's something wrong with the ship. We have to abandon it before it crashes!" Susan, with her dark, practically black fur, small ears that always seemed to be tucked at the sides of her head, and the one wave of dark hair that flowed neatly out of her forehead and to the left side of her head, looked beautiful practically all of the time. Her eyes were also brown, shiny, and pupiless, but they were bigger than Kasey's. Her neat little nose was brown, and her perfectly-sized thin lips always seemed to be pressed together in concentration. Her fur was completely dark, yes, even her stomach. She put her clawless paws on her hips and stared at Kasey, annoyed. "Come ON!"
Kasey jumped off the bed, grumbling something to herself. Even in a situation like this, she wasn't a morning person (or, rather, experiment ^^). She was always in a bad mood this early. She hated the hours that she spent in her snuggly covers to be cut short. But, nonetheless, she followed Susan out of their room.
The beeping was even louder in the main room of the ship, which made Kasey cover her ears. "It is so noisy in here! Where's Jade?!"
"I'm right here." A panicked voice came from the chair at the ship's controls. The chair swiveled around, and there, sitting in it, was Dr. Jade Starkey. She was the creator of Experiment Susan and Experiment Kasey. She was also like a mother to them. She was a genetics experiments scientist, but she was new to the occupation. Susan and Kasey were her only experiments, although the two had the right to believe that she had more in the making. Susan was Jade's first creation, therefore she was older than Kasey, which was just another reason for Kasey to be jealous of her, although Susan delighted in that fact. Another thing was, Jade liked to name her experiments, rather than call them by numbers. She had a sort of fond attachment to them;she saw them as her daughters. Jade was also fond of humans. In fact, they were heading to Earth that very minute, although obviously the ship was having problems.
"What is it, Jade?" Kasey could see the worry on her creator's face. Something was not right.
"There's a problem... I am afraid, there is no time to abandon ship. We will surely be killed if we try." Dr. Jade swallowed, trying not to alarm her creations. She, Dr. Jade, was a strange little alien. She was skinny and green, and wore scientists' clothing, and she was short. Not much taller than her experiments, to be exact. Her head was covered in lighter green, curly hair. She also wore wire-rimmed glasses in front of her blue eyes. She had no ears, but she did have a small little nose.
"Well, we have to do something!" Susan exclaimed.
"There's no time... we'll just have to sit back and hope we survive through this." Dr. Jade told them. Kasey was afraid she'd say that. Even though Kasey probably didn't look it because of her calm outlook, she WAS scared. But she didn't want to show it. But she did join the others in their screams when the ship started to go faster and faster. Then, suddenly, to their shock, a huge space rock crashed through the glass on the ship and collided with Dr. Jade, falling right on top of her! Susan instantly ran to her side, and Kasey ran up behind her.
"Jade! Are you all right?" Susan asked.
"Su-san..." Jade whispered, then looked up at Kasey. "Ka-sey... listen, my beloved experiments... I... I'm dying, I can feel it;I trust you two to care for yourselves. Find a nice home on Earth, the both of you... and let my memory dwell in your souls forever."
"No, Jade! You shall not die. You'll be there with us on Earth. We'll all live together." Susan insisted.
"I know that's how we planned it, but..." Jade sighed.
"It can still be like that... besides, if you did die, we would die with you..." Susan's voice was teary. She swallowed to keep from crying.
"No. You will both live. Find lives, find love... I know, that much..." Jade's voice trailed off.
"Jade? Jade?! JADE!?" Susan screamed, but no answer came. Then Susan began to cry, cry unlike Kasey had never seen her cry before. Her tears were uncontrollable and seemed nonstop...
As for Kasey's own tears, they did not come. She was sort of mixed up in her emotions. Never in her short life had she ever experienced death before. She knew it existed, but... she never witnessed it... felt it linger so near, creep in, and take a loved one... now that that had happened, she didn't know what to think, what to feel, what to say... her emotions were blank and empty, yet they hurt her, pained her soul...
The rest of what happened was a blank. After she saw Susan grieving over Dr. Jade, the next thing that Kasey remembered is that everything got blurred... all she remembered after that was blackness... deep blackness...
When she came back into consciousness, she spit out a mouthful of water before opening her eyes. She felt wet and damp, and when her sight came back into focus, she saw why.
She was in water! Obviously. She heard a roaring sound, looked up, and spotted a waterfall. She groaned, and scampered out of the water, collapsing onto the ground. She coughed, sputtered, and sat up. And there, in front of her, was a gigantic spaceship. Well... maybe gigantic was exaggerating just a little bit, but Kasey knew it was too big to be their ship. So... was someone else crashed here? She sighed. Like it mattered in the least, anyway. All Kasey wanted to do now was find Susan... then maybe they could work out what to do. She stood up, shaking the water from her fur.
"Susan?" She called out, looking around. "Susan? Are you here? If you are, then don't play games with me! Huh?! Where are you!"
No answer came to the bewildered Kasey. Huh. And she would've thought Susan'd be here, too... unless... unless they had went off in different directions! Aw, great, Kasey thought. Just what she needed. Now she had to handle herself on her own. Susan might be a pain, Kasey thought, but she did know how to get things done. As for her... she had no idea what to do.
Then, a loud noise broke the silence... a loud, stomping noise. It shook the ground so that it made Kasey fall back down... which she wasn't too thankful for.
The stomps stopped from behind her, and Kasey turned around. There, standing before her, was a gigantic, shark-like alien. He had blasters at the ready and looked delighted when he saw Kasey. "An experiment... that other one got away, but you won't!" He aimed his blaster at Kasey, grinning.
Kasey stared at him, and seemed to roll her eyes. Then she curled up in a little ball, and pretended to sleep. The shark guy didn't like this. He did not like the fact that Kasey was ignoring him, and that she wasn't intimidated, or didn't fight back, but just laid there. He groaned, but pulled out a ham sandwich, and wiggled it in front of Kasey. "Come on, little experiment... the lunch meat is goo-oood..."
Kasey groaned. "Oh, please! You're embarassing yourself. That's the oldest trick in the book."
"So, you speak English fluently..." He flinched, as if remembering another experiment that could do the same. "Well, if you come with me, I'll give you the ham."
"All right already, sheesh. It's not like I have anything better to do..." Kasey grumbled, and took the ham sandwich. She WAS hungry, and ate it quickly. As soon as she was finished, she got shot with the blaster, which held her captive in a sack-like thing.
"That's right! No abomination can outwit Gantu!" Gantu smirked.
Kasey could feel his smirk, even though she could not see it. "Yeah, sure, whatever, Shark Face. I hope you know that as soon as I get out of here, I'm going to harpoon you."
Gantu hit the "sack" a little, making it swing gently back and forth in his other hand. "Don't do that! You're starting to remind me of someone..."
"Who? Your common sense? ...No, wait. You don't seem like you have that." Now Gantu could feel Kasey's smirking.
"I mean it! Quiet!" Gantu hit the "sack" again.
"Hey! You're going to make me throw up." Kasey complained.
"Not my fault." Gantu then walked into his ship, his prize in hand.
When Gantu told Dr. Hamsterviel that he caught an experiment, Dr. Hamsterviel wanted to waste no time. "Well, what are you waiting for, you useless hunk of blubber?!" Dr. Hamsterviel yelled. Kasey snickered at this comment. "Stop your idiotic grinning, and send me the experiment at once!"
"As you wish, Dr. Hamsterviel." Gantu sighed, and opened up the "sack", depositing Kasey out of it. She violently shook her head, but didn't have time to relax. Gantu picked her up by the nape of her neck and dropped her on a teleporter. Then, with some buttons being pressed, Kasey felt herself being transported some place else...
And the first thing she saw was Dr. Hamsterviel's face. "Ahhhhh!!" She screamed.
Dr. Hamsterviel looked her over. "Hmmm... you aren't an experiment I specifically remember or recall hearing about. What's your number?"
"My number?..." Kasey seemed confused. "I'm just called Kasey. That's what my creator calls---called me."
"Dr. Jumba Jookiba had a pet name for you?!" Dr. Hamsterviel seemed surprised.
"Dr. Who? Oh, no, you must be mistaken. My creator is... or at least, was... Dr. Jade Starkey." Kasey corrected.
"Hmmm... Starkey, Starkey..." Dr. Hamsterviel seemed to be thinking it over. "Oh, yeah! Now I remember her. She was a ridiculous piece of freak work. She always mumbled how she'd create experiments on her own..."
"And she did!" Kasey exclaimed, somewhat angry at Dr. Hamsterviel for how he had put it.
"So she did..." Dr. Hamsterviel put his hands together. "So, tell me, cutie, what CAN you do?" He said that in an offensive way, as if he only expected Kasey could be cute and nothing more.
And she did not like that. "Don't call me a cutie! And if you want to know what I can do, then let me out."
"Okay..." Dr. Hamsterviel looked suspicious, but he let Kasey out anyway. She toppled onto the floor, then stood up straight. "Behold." Then her form began to change, began to morph... until a tall human girl with brown hair and brown eyes stood in her place. "I can turn into a human." Then she reverted back to her original form and laid back, as if it were no big deal.
"Hmmm... a human, eh?" Dr. Hamsterviel thought this over. "Yes, that could prove useful! You could make the humans think you're one of them, but all the while waiting to put my ingenious plot into action... I just have to think of my ingenious plot..."
Kasey sighed. "What makes you think I'm going to do that? It sounds like a lot of work." Kasey yawned, still a little sore at being woken up early. She laid against the cold floor and closed her eyes.
"How dare you! You WILL go through with this plot, and you WILL like it!" Dr. Hamsterviel exclaimed.
"In your dreams, Sandman. Besides, you can't even THINK of a plot." Kasey snorted.
"That's it! I'm sick and tired of you, you useless pack of fur! I'm sending you back to Gantu. Maybe you can help him catch the other experiments. And I think you'll get along with the other experiment that's helping him already." Dr. Hamsterviel tried lifting Kasey, who was bigger than he was. He dropped her back on the teleporter, and went over to the controls.
"What other experiment?" Kasey asked curiously.
"Oh, don't worry. You'll meet him soon enough." Dr. Hamsterviel worked the controls, and Kasey was teleported again before she could ask any more. The next thing she saw was the inside of Gantu's ship again. She put her paws on the glass, looking around. But no one was there, yet. She sighed. Well, at least this gave her plenty of time to think. Like, where was Susan right now? Well, wherever she was, she probably had all the males under her spell, Kasey thought. That was Susan's ability. Any male fell in love with her, that is, except for males that were already in love. And Kasey had the ability to turn into a human. Which wasn't as glamorous, but Dr. Jade was so fond of humans, that's probably why she given her that ability.
Kasey sighed again, and laid back against the glass. There was one more thing she found herself thinking of. Who was the other experiment working with Gantu? Kasey knew that it couldn't be Susan, for Dr. Hamsterviel had called the experiment a "him". Kasey was a little nervous... she had never met a male experiment before. Actually, she had not known any other experiment except for Susan. And Susan probably would have no problem with a male experiment. She'd have him wedged right between her paws. But not Kasey. Somehow, she didn't think being able to turn into a human was even half as charming. She closed her eyes, and began to slip into sleep...
"So, I see Fish Face has brought home another experiment..." A low voice made Kasey snap out of her pre-sleep and accidentally slam herself against the glass. She grumbled silently to herself at the fact that she was always being disturbed every time she tried to get her sleep. She relaxed herself and opened her eyes. Outside of the glass, in front of it, stood a goldish-yellow, chubby creature holding a sandwich.
"Whoa, watch it there. You don't have to be so jumpy." The creature took a bite out of his sandwich.
"I am not jumpy!" Kasey insisted. It was true, she was usually calm. But she hadn't been in a good mood lately.
"You could've fooled me." The creature circled her glass chamber, looking her over. Kasey frowned, not really comfortable when anyone did that.
"Are you the experiment that helps that sharky guy... what's his name? Gumbi?" Kasey heard herself blurt out.
"Gumbi?" The creature had a laugh over that one. "Gantu. But what you called him suits him better."
"So... are you an experiment?" Kasey asked again.
"What do I look like, the butler? Yes, I'm experiment number 625. How about yourself?" 625 asked.
"...Well, I don't have an experiment number. My creator was Dr. Jade Starkey, and she gave her experiments names rather than numbering them. My name is Kasey." Kasey answered.
"Well, that's... interesting." Replied 625, but Kasey could tell he was trying to hold back a laugh, although it was a failed attempt. Kasey frowned. She rather liked her name.
"Hey... what?! Dr. Hamsterviel sent back the experiment?!" Gantu came in the room, noticing Kasey still in the teleporter.
"Yes. He said something about... me helping you catch the other experiments, or something." Kasey sighed. "Will somebody let me out of here?!"
"Great, just what I need. Another lackey. And you don't seem to be any more useful than the one I already have." Gantu complained.
"Hey, watch who you call a lackey!" Complained 625.
"Just let me out of here, you giant kipper! It's smothering in here!" Kasey yelped from behind the glass.
"Between 625 and Dr. Hamsterviel, I get more than my fair share of insults. I don't need you around to add to them." Gantu said bluntly.
"No, you will let me out now, or else every time I see you I will annoy you nonstop... so lemme out!" Kasey cried. "Lemme out, Blubber Beast! Lemme out lemme out lemme out!"
"Aw, why don'tcha let the thing out already?" 625 took another bite of his sandwich.
Kasey scowled at being called a "thing", but said nothing more. Finally, grumbling, Gantu lifted the glass up, grabbed Kasey, and dropped her in front of 625. And that was the first time they saw each other face to face without the glass in the way. They stared silently at each other for what was maybe a solid minute, and Kasey felt herself smiling nervously. But the silence was broken.
"You're a girl?" 625 blurted out.
Kasey felt her face grow hot. "Of course I'm a girl! I would've thought that obvious." She growled under her breath.
"Hey, hey! No need to make a big deal out of it." The two stared at each other more, in an awkward silence.
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the island, Susan was just recovering from the ship crash. She got up, holding her head.
"Ohhh. Man... what happened?" She groaned. She got up, wobbling while she walked. She looked around, and saw a house right in front of her. She looked confused. "Where am I? I don't see the ship anywhere..." She looked around. "And where's Kasey? Where's anyone, for that matter? I don't see anyone!"
Right when she said that, she heard the sound of a vehicle speeding towards the house. She pricked up her ears, listening as she heard it draw closer. Then she saw it come into view. A low, red vehicle sped up to the house, and she barely managed to jump out of it's way. She coughed as dirt got in her face, but peered over the side of the house, watching to see what would happen next.
A black-haired, brown-eyed, tanned Hawaiian girl got out of the vehicle. She looked to Susan to be about seven years of age.
"C'mon, Stitch," She was saying, "we can find out more about the experiment on the computer."
Experiment? What experiment? Susan thought. The only other experiment she knew of was Kasey. Did the little girl perhaps know where she was? And who was Stitch?
Her question was answered not long after as a blue-furred creature jumped out of the vehicle. Susan thought he looked somewhat like a koala. But still, he was pretty abnormal-looking... then it hit her. She could sense it. This "Stitch," as the little girl so lovingly called him, was an experiment. Another experiment? And a male one at that? Well, she did not expect to find that on Earth. But she was curious about him. And as she got a closer look, her heart gave a little flutter. Her mouth suddenly felt dry. And she usually felt comfortable around the opposite gender! She wasn't like Kasey, who usually felt awkward around males. Oh, if only she could meet him... she wanted to get closer... closer...
But she didn't realize that that's exactly what she was doing! She did not realize that she walked right out into the open. And that the girl and the experiment noticed her!
"It's an experiment, Stitch!" The girl exclaimed. "Another one! I wonder if this one will be any easier to capture?"
"Capture? You want to capture me?!" Susan exclaimed. Then what she had suspected earlier came into her mind. "Do you have Kasey in captivity?!"
"Kasey?" The girl asked, scrunching up her nose. "Who is... Kasey?"
"Another experiment. Me and her crashed on Earth, along with our creator, Dr. Jade Starkey, but she didn't survive..." Susan explained, her voice trailing off.
The girl looked sympathetic. "Oh, I'm sorry. I know how that feels..." Then she looked up, her expression changing back to it's happy-go-lucky self. "So! Another experiment, huh? And you just came here? And your creator is..." She paused, trying to remember.
"Dr. Jade Starkey." Susan reminded her.
"Dr. Jade Starkey..." The girl repeated. "Cool! There's even more experiments out there than I thought! Jumba's aren't the only ones..."
Now it was Susan's turn to scrunch up her nose. "Right." Then she looked to Stitch, feeling that fluttering feeling once more. "And what's your name?"
"Stitch." Stitch replied simply.
Of course, Susan had already known Stitch's name, for she heard the girl call him that... but she just had to have an excuse to speak to him. And when she heard his voice, her heart gave a little leap. "Hi, Stitch. I'm Susan. You have a cute voice."
The girl looked slightly annoyed that she had been forgotten. "I'm Lilo."
"Oh, that's... nice." Susan looked back to Stitch, but he didn't seem to be paying much attention to her. That's strange, Susan thought. When she was created, she was designed to capture the heart of any male. Yet, her charms did not seem to be working on Stitch. And there could only be one reason for that. He was already in love. When a male was already in love, Susan's genetic charms became irrelevant.
...And she wasn't sure if she quite liked that. When she had complained to Dr. Jade about it, calling it a "bug" or a "malfunction" in her genetics, Dr. Jade had simply told her that it made her important because if a male could resist her charms, it confirmed true love in the True Love Test, her being the test. But then again, she wasn't quite sure she liked that, either.
"You want to come inside?" Lilo asked, knocking Susan out of her reminiscing.
"Oh, uh, sure." Susan replied. Like there was anywhere else better she could go.
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Late at night, back in Gantu's ship, Kasey was staring out of one of the ship's windows, up at the stars. She sighed. Well, she thought, Hello new life. She figured she'd be staying there a while, and she did not have anywhere else to live, and it was better than sleeping out on the ground. She laid on her back, snuggling in the blankets she had been given. And she didn't have a very comfortable bed, either. She was sleeping on the floor of the storage room of the ship, to be exact. She just had blankets thrown on her and a pillow under her head to make out her "bed".
She swallowed, clicking her claws together. She strangely felt herself missing Susan. Even if she was a pain, Kasey had to admit to herself that she liked having her around. And now that she was no longer in her comfortable bunk bed, with Susan sleeping above her, she had no one to talk to. No one to annoy. No one to tease or laugh with. She frowned.
Letting a sigh once more escape her, she allowed her mind to wander. She found herself missing Jade Starkey, too. And she knew for sure that she'd never see her again. She looked back out at the stars, to keep from the tears that threatened to show theirselves. As she looked up at an especially bright one, she wondered, would she ever see Susan again? Where was she, and what was she thinking at that very moment? After those thoughts, the stars blurred into complete blackness as sleep consumed her.
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Coincidentally, at the same moment Kasey had been looking out at the stars, so was Susan. Except she was in the cozy home of the Pelekais, instead of in a cold place like Gantu's ship. She had been assigned to the same room as Lilo and Stitch, sleeping in a crate box not unlike the one Stitch had slept in when he was first taken into Lilo's home. But she could see out the window. She smiled, taking in the breathtaking sight of the glittering stars bordering the lovely Hawaiian island. The scene that seemed to make it's viewers want to daydream, to reminisce, to think of things before unthinkable.
..And one of those things was, what had happened to Kasey? Was she all right? Where was she sleeping tonight, while she would be sleeping in this comfortable family home? It didn't seem fair that she could be lodged somewhere cold and damp or uncomfortable while she enjoyed the comforts of a warm house. Kasey was annoying, yes, the most annoying creature she had met, but she didn't deserve that. Well, she figured, staring at the stars wasn't going to make them answer her. So she closed her eyes, and although she was reluctant at first, let herself drift into a world of unconscious dreams.
THE END
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To be continued
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