Okay, here's where the story shifts into gear. Enjoy!
Super Hurricane, Hamsterviel's power, the involvement of the Council, and recruiting Mertle will be explained eventually. As for Melty, he couldn't be used on Tank because he tired himself out turning the ground into quicksand.
Mona, that story sounds interesting. I hope my E-mail helped. Also, I don't have a list of the experiments that died. I sort of chose randomly.
Thank you Katook, though I wonder why you speak in third person.
Anonymous, as always interesting guesses. Everything will be answered soon.
Evil-Genius-565, no the monster is not 627.
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Lilo pointed in the air. "Look, it's a skywriter!"
"Where?" Pleakley looked up, shielding his eye from the sun.
"Up there, leaving that white trail!"
"Oh, now I see!" he said.
Jumba looked at the skywriter with curiosity. "He is being awfully close to the ground."
"What do you think he's trying to spell, Nani?" asked Lilo.
Nani examined the trail. "It looks like a C…no wait, he's continuing the curve, maybe it's a U…" The skywriter completed a circuit, making a big white circle. "Oh, it's an O!"
"What could it possibly be spelling?" Jumba wondered.
"Maybe, 'Outrageous new prices at the Kokaua Shopping Center'?" Pleakley suggested.
That's when the O exploded and turned into a warp gate. "Or maybe it is meaning, 'Oh blitznag, we're doomed!'" said Jumba as hundreds of clones started dropping from the vortex.
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Angel stared up at the warp gate in horror. "Clones…that means Hamsterviel must still be alive!"
Finder sniffed. "Yep. I can smell him nearby."
"Should we go get him?" asked Clip.
Angel hesitated, then shook her head. "No. Stitch will take care of Hamsterviel. We have to help protect everyone else." She pulled out her dagger.
"Great! You two have fun; I'll just find a safe hiding place-" Finder started.
Angel grabbed Finder. "Oh no you don't! You need to keep Clip airborne so the bigger clones and experiments don't accidentally squash her."
"Yeah, I'm only a little hairball after all," Clip pointed out.
Finder sighed. "Fine." His ears spun like a propeller, getting him in the air. Clip hung onto his feet, and they followed Angel into the ensuing fight.
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Kixx growled and smacked a fist into his palm. "It's another invasion! That jerk Hamsterwheel must still be alive! Guess you didn't blow him up hard enough, Stitch…Stitch?" Stitch was gone.
"He ran off when he saw the warp gate opening. Maybe he's looking for a good hiding place. I think I will too." Houdini prepared to blink herself invisible.
Kixx grabbed the rabbit by the scruff of her neck. "Oh no you don't! We need your stealth ability. If those clones can't see us, they can't hit us!"
Houdini whimpered. "Do I have to?"
"Yes!"
Dracula stood up. "We must be swift as the Kamikaze if we are to rid ourselves of these foreign devils. To battle!"
Kixx looked at him, puzzled. "Yeah, what you said." Houdini blinked, and invisibly the three engaged the enemy.
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Stitch rushed through the tide of clones, smashing them out of the way with his fists. There were a lot of them, but they fell like dominoes before him. They had no chance of preventing him from reaching his goal.
Hamsterviel.
Somehow, the demonic gerbil was still alive. Stitch knew that the instant he saw the warp gate open. Some weird sense, like an instinct, told him Hamsterviel was nearby. Stitch intended to find Hamsterviel and finish him off once and for all. It was the only way to stop this invasion before it was too late.
As he got closer to his destination, he noticed that among the 119s, Nosys, Felixes, Tanks, and other clones, were a few new models. One of them looked like a huge version of Hammerface, but with an axe for a nose. It also had an axe at the end of its tail, axes for feet, little axes for claws, and was holding, guess what? An axe. Another one was fully armored; hiding any recognizable features, and was armed with a shield on its left arm and a laser cannon for a right arm. There were also strange one-eyed jellyfish with spiked tentacles coming out of small warp gates opened by Amnesio and Hunkahunka clones, but he ignored those, focusing completely on reaching Hamsterviel.
He finally burst through the ranks of the clones and onto the beach parking lot, where he found his nemesis laughing in his hoverchair. "HAMSTERVIEL!"
Hamsterviel looked at Stitch, amused. "Ah, 626. Right on time."
"What does it take to make you stay dead?" Stitch growled.
The hamster chuckled. "More than you can dish out. Besides, you should by now that true evil can never be destroyed."
"We'll see about that when I'm through with you."
Hamsterviel pursed his lips. "Hmm, perhaps not…how about this? If you surrender and come with me, I'll leave all your family alone."
Stitch shook his head. "Never."
"Oh? Why not?"
"If I go with you, you'll just clone me and come back for everyone else," Stitch pointed out.
Hamsterviel smirked. "That's true. Okay, how about we fight? If you win, I'll take my army and depart. If I win, I get all of the experiments, including you. Sound fair?"
"No, but I'll do it."
"All right." Hamsterviel pressed a few buttons on his armrest, and his ship appeared above the parking lot. A hatch opened on the bottom, and a tractor beam came out, lowering a large vehicle of sorts to the ground. It looked sort of like a crimson robot hawk, with rotors at the ends of its wings, engines instead of tail feathers, a pair of Felix clone-operated machine gun turrets in place of talons, and another machine gun sticking out of its beak.
"What's that?" asked Stitch.
Hamsterviel floated his chair over the hawk. "This is the H-Hawk, first of my new line of combat vehicles. I'm the only one who can operate it, because all of its controls are programmed into my hoverchair." The chair lowered into a socket on top of the hawk's head, locking into place. A dome closed on top of Hamsterviel, making a cockpit. The hawk hovered off the ground and launched a series of electrostatic generators, which landed around the perimeter of the parking lot and formed an electric force field. "Now there's no escape!"
The rotors started spinning, and the hawk began turning in a circle, firing plasma bullets in a wide radius. Stitch grabbed several of them in his indestructible gloves and stuffed them into his mouth. He chewed on the plasma, ignoring the burning sensation on his tongue, and spat it out as a large energy blast, which struck one of the rotors and exploded, taking it out. The hawk's rotary attack slowed as a result. The ship lifted into the air and hovered in place as hatches opened on its wings. Large targeting signals appeared on the ground as several feather-shaped missiles launched, aiming for the targets. Stitch evaded the missiles in ball form and grabbed a nearby car. He tossed it at the hawk. The car exploded, damaging Hamsterviel's vehicle. The hawk wobbled a little, but remained airborne. Hamsterviel flew over the force field and came back around, firing plasma bullets at Stitch. Stitch's bulletproof hide absorbed most of the shots as he ran for a car, picking it up and hurling it at the cockpit. The explosion cracked the dome slightly, causing a slight tinge of worry in Hamsterviel. He fired missiles at several cars, destroying them and ruining their chances of becoming potential ammunition. With that out of the way, the battle continued.
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The Pelekais were running from the battle. "Why are we leaving? Shouldn't we stay and help the others?" asked Lilo.
"We are helping them," said Jumba between breaths. "You remember anti-clone spell we have been working on? It is in the jeep's trunk. If we can finish it quickly, we might be able to stop this madness before it is being too late! Besides, this battlefield is being no place for Nani and Pleakley, seeing as how one is pregnant and the other is useless."
"Hey, I resent that!" said Pleakley. "…Even if it is true!"
"Uh, guys? Is there supposed to be an electric wall around the parking lot?" asked Nani.
They stopped in their tracks, their way blocked by the force field. They saw Hamsterviel and Stitch fighting each other. Hamsterviel was resorting to his rotary attack again. Not wanting to burn his tongue again, Stitch grabbed the nearest car and threw it at Hamsterviel. It struck the second rotor and blew it up, halting Hamsterviel's attack. "Yeah!" he cried.
Jumba moaned. "626, that was our jeep! I was needing it to get rid of the clone army!"
"…Oops."
Hamsterviel laughed and lifted his hawk into the air. A hatch opened on the bottom, and several small eggs fell out. They sprouted legs and started walking towards Stitch. He raised an eyebrow. "Walking eggs?"
"No, walking egg BOMBS!" Digital countdowns appeared on the eggs and they started moving much faster towards Stitch.
"Aw blitznag." He curled into a ball and rolled away from the bombs. They chased him, but eventually their timers ran out and they exploded.
Stitch grabbed one of the few remaining cars and threw it at Hamsterviel. He fired his missiles and machine guns at the same time, ripping the car apart before it could reach him. "Ha!"
"Again, blitznag."
Hamsterviel dropped a few more bombs and fired his machine guns simultaneously. Stitch ran under the hawk, where the doctor could not reach him, forcing Hamsterviel to move to a different vantage point. As he did, Stitch grabbed a couple of the egg bombs and tossed them at the hawk. They exploded, damaging the craft again.
Hamsterviel growled and moved again then fired his machine guns and missiles at once. In his attempt to dodge the missiles, Stitch rolled right into the bullets, knocking him out of ball form and slowing him down long enough to get hit by a missile. As he tried to recover from the blast, he saw an egg bomb was only inches from his face. "Blitznag." The bomb exploded, throwing Stitch across the parking lot.
"STITCH!" cried Lilo.
Hamsterviel grinned and aimed his targeting cursor at Stitch's head. The experiment was too dazed by the explosion to get out of the way. "Good bye, 626." He fired.
Just before the missiles could hit Stitch, a yellow blur dropped from the sky and deflected the attack with his tail. "Strike three, yer out!" he quipped.
"Hey, it's Slugger!" said Pleakley.
Hamsterviel blinked. "Experiment 608? How did you get through my force field?"
"…I flew over it, genius. It's only ten feet tall," explained Slugger.
Hamsterviel smacked his forehead. "Gah, I knew I should have brought a larger force field. Well, never mind! Even with you helping 626, your chances of success are minimal. Your powers are primarily defensive, the most you can do is protect 626 from my fire."
Slugger nodded. "I know, that's why I didn't come alone."
With that, the force field generators exploded, revealing a sparking yellow experiment. "Hey doc, remember me?"
Hamsterviel scowled. "221. We meet again."
Sparky ran over to Stitch and helped him up. "Hey Stitch, you okay?"
Stitch nodded. "I'm better, now that you guys are here."
Sparky grinned. "Great! So let's kick some hamster patookie!" He turned into a bolt of lightning and shot at the Hawk. To his surprise, he bounced off the ship's hull. "Huh?"
"Ha! I remembered how you contributed to my defeat on our first encounter, so I shock-proofed all of my combat vehicles in case we met. You can't touch me!" He fired all his weapons at once, shooting bullets and missiles as egg bombs waddled towards the experiments.
"Shock-proof, huh? Let's see if we can't fix that. Slugger, cover us while Sparky and I take down this bird!" commanded Stitch.
"Right!" Slugger darted all over the place, deflecting bullets and missiles.
"How are we gonna shut that thing down?" asked Sparky.
"I've got a plan. Can you use your electricity to freeze those bomb's countdowns?" asked Stitch.
"Yeah, why…OH! I see." He zapped the bombs. They jerked around a bit before they froze, their countdowns stopped. He and Stitch grabbed armfuls of bombs and lobbed them at Hamsterviel's ship.
The combined explosions blasted off a piece of the hawk's hull. Sparky turned into lightning and shot into the exposed circuits, frying the bird from within. "Oh no!" Hamsterviel quickly opened the cockpit and ejected his hoverchair as explosions burst all over the ship, ending in one big explosion that completely destroyed the H-Hawk.
"Way to go!" yelled Lilo and the others from the sidelines.
Sparky leaped out of the explosion unharmed. He high-fived Stitch, then they both caught Slugger as he swooped down, boosting him into the air. "Yeah, that was tight!'
Stitch and Slugger looked at him in confusion. "No it wasn't."
"Eh, I guess not." Sparky admitted.
Hamsterviel hovered over his vehicle's wreckage, looking oddly pleased. Stitch stepped forward. "Okay Hamsterviel, we won. Now take your clones and get out of here!"
Hamsterviel shrugged. "Okay. I hope you don't mind if I take a few souvenirs, though."
Stitch blinked. "Huh?"
"Observe!" Hamsterviel pointed to the beach. They all turned to see that the battle was over. Hundreds of the jellyfish clones from before were floating over their soldier relatives, each of them holding an unconscious experiment in a containment field between their tentacles. "Do they look familiar, my old colleague?"
Jumba gasped. "Those are clones of X-400! It is being the kidnapping experiment, with the power to paralyze victims with its spike-tipped tentacles and take them away in its organically generated containment field!"
Hamsterviel laughed. "That's right! While your experiments were busy fighting the bulk of my army, my 400 clones snuck up and snatched them from behind! And now per our agreement, I will take my army and depart…WITH YOUR FAMILY! HAHAHAHAHA!" He paused. "Oh yes, I forgot one little detail…" He snapped his fingers.
Mertle suddenly grabbed Lilo from behind and drove a needle into her arm, tranquilizing her. "LILO!" cried Nani and Stitch.
The three experiments started towards the redhead, but Gantu grabbed Nani and held a plasma gun to her head. "Back off, or she dies!" Reluctantly, the trio froze. "Now, hand over your computer!" he said to Jumba.
"Er, what computer? I am not having any computer," Jumba lied.
Gantu scoffed and gestured at Pleakley. "You! Plorginarian! Look through his beach bag and get the computer!" Pleakley looked hesitant. Gantu pushed the gun into Nani's head. "DO IT!"
"Sorry," Pleakley whispered to Jumba. He rifled through Jumba's bag and pulled out the laptop.
Hamsterviel flew over and snatched it from Pleakley's hands. He flipped it open and examined some files. "Excellent! With the experiment DNA data in this computer, I can finish my greatest creation!" He shut the laptop. "Thank you all so much for letting me get away with this. Tata!" A tractor beam came down from the ship overhead and picked up Hamsterviel, Gantu, Nani, Mertle, and Lilo. As they were lifted into the air, the soldiers and experiment captives began leaving through warp gates made by the flying clones as the giant warp gate sealed up.
When they were halfway up the beam, Gantu tossed Nani out. Slugger managed to catch her and lowered her to the ground safely. But Mertle only tightened her grip on Lilo. "Give Lilo back!" Stitch yelled.
Hamsterviel laughed. "I'm afraid I can't do that. She is the key to your ultimate defeat! If you want her back, come and get her!" The villains vanished into the ship as the last of the clones entered the warp gates, causing the portals to close. Hamsterviel's engines ignited, and he started for space.
Stitch whistled. "Come on Stitch Machine!" His cruiser appeared from the sky. Stitch jumped into the driver's seat. He was surprised when Sparky and Slugger jumped in as well. "What are you guys doing here?"
"What, you thought we would let you go off and have all the fun?" asked Sparky.
"Yeah, we want Lilo and our cousins back just as much as you do. We're coming with you!" said Slugger.
Stitch grinned. "Thanks guys." He turned the ignition. "Let's kick hamster patookie!" The cruiser blasted off. They left the atmosphere, following Hamsterviel's ship out into the depths of space.
Watch out Hamsterviel, because Team Stitch is coming for you!…
And the first team is born! Tune in next time for answers and the unveiling of the next two teams! Also, as a bonus, here's Team Stitch's theme song, improvised from Team Sonic's theme in the game.
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Whoo!
All right
Look out, down below!
Stitch is on the go.
Can't stop this party 'til we save the galaxy!
This time, not alone.
We got some friends along.
And as a team we can become even stronger!
Together, we can overcome all the odds.
It's never as hard as it seems.
And everyone can do something special.
The secret is sharing a family!
Yeah!
We can make it if we all stick together.
We won't give up, not ever!
And everything's gonna be all right!
We all bring out the best things in each other.
Together we are stronger
Than anyone else could be on their own.
So much better than alone.
Stitch's in the lead, giving us greater strength.
Slugger keeps us flying high and safe from trouble.
And Sparky by our side makes this a safer ride.
We'll save the day and teach that Hamsterviel a lesson!
Together we can overcome all the odds.
It's never as hard as it seems!
And every one can do something special.
The secret is sharing family!
OOOOOH! YEAH!
We can make it if we all stick together!
We won't split up, not ever!
It's easier with my cousins by my side!
We all bring out the best things in each other.
Together we are stronger
Than anyone else could be on their own!
So much better than alone.
Better than alone!
YEAH!
We can make it if we all stick together!
We won't give up, not ever!
And everything's gonna be all right!
We all bring out the best things in each other.
Together we are stronger
Than anyone else could be on their own!
Can't stop us 'cause together we are strong!
Oh yeah!
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Yeah, I know that was kind of lame, but I felt like doing it. Please review!