Passion

C/By: Kenjaje

Edited/Revised by: raVen

Chapter 4: Scrambled Eggs

"Shut up…" Murmured 625 as the beeping noise came to his ear. "Shut up…" he repeated, his voice airy as he was still very much asleep. "Shu-wha?" He snorted, quickly waking up. He let out an airy growl as he hopped out of his bed to stop whatever was beeping. "Whoa that's cold!" He screamed, slurring the sentence into one word as he jumped up off the ground and back on his bed.

"Would you be quiet?" Gantu shouted, stirred from his slumber.

"Well a good morning to you too." He replied. "Excuse me, but I think that beeping over there is a bit louder than I am." He said, raising his voice a little.

"Well then, go turn it off."

"I tried, but the floor is cold."

"Gloctad-5 forbid you walk on it to turn the annoyance off." Gantu snorted. "Fine, I'll do it." He threw the covers off him and scratched his sleek-skinned head, but before he could put his foot down on the ground, the beeping abruptly stopped. "Huh?" Gantu said, looking in the direction of the now ceased noise.

"How you two live is beyond me." Came a voice as a fog appeared in the air, taking the form of Zeus. "By the way, you two snore like the inhabitants of Omitok." Gantu growled. "Well, nonetheless I thank you for allowing me to stay. I believe that the beeping was an intergalactic transmission, you'd better answer it, I only put it on delay answering." Gantu rushed toward the console, shouted as the cold hit his feet, stumbled, and landed on the console, with 599 cackling at him. "I forgot to tell you, the island got a bit cooler since earlier this morning. Well, I'm off, I'll keep this area flood-free as promised." Zeus said, disappearing. Although, that didn't necessarily mean the experiment was gone.

"-And when I get my hands on you I'll…oh, you finally picked up." Came Hamsterveil's voice as Gantu pushed the button to receive the feed of the transmission. "Gantu, I wish to speak with you."

"This early?" He yawned.

"No he's just calling now to let you know he's going to annoy you later." Replied 625.

"Be quiet." Hamsterveil snapped.

"Touchy." 625 said, hopping out of the bed with the sheets under his feet. "I'm getting breakfast." He said as he left the room, shuffling toward the kitchen.

"Now then, Gantu, I wish to speak with you about a status report on the AC project." Hamsterveil spoke, the anger at 625 leaving his eyes.

"Status report? What status report?"

"This!" Hamsterveil exclaimed, his hand slamming down on a table that was off-camera.

"I…can't see it, sir." Gantu said.

"Oh. My apologies." Hamsterveil said, and then took up the entire screen as he adjusted the camera, took away the object on the table, and then spoke again. "This!" He slammed his hand on the table, and lifted it slowly. As light surrounded the object that was now revealed, Gantu realized what the rodent was talking about.

"A new model?" He asked curiously.

"Precisely. This one is far greater than the one used on 626. Why, just this one can replace the entire colony that we used on 626, and more."

"But we still don't understand why the prototype and previous model failed." Gantu pointed out.

"I believe we were on the right track with the prototype. It is much easier to build a vessel rather than take control of an already existing being, we just lacked something with the prototype."

"Like what?"

"That," Hamsterveil replied quickly, "I am still trying to figure out. But rest assured, this model will increase the power of an experiment to twenty times what 626 is capable of. As soon as it's perfect, we will dominate the Galactic Federation, and then, the universe!" He declared, going into an evil laughter, but eventually he fell over hacking due to a hairball in his throat. "I will contact you later," he wheezed, "But in the mean time, do not confront 626 and his little friend," he ordered, recovering from chocking, "occupying them with 599 was the perfect plan for now, so continue to stay out of sight."

"Yes sir, Gantu out." He said, pushing the button. He turned around and walked back to the bed. "Staying out of the way is perfectly fine by me." He said, falling over and instantly going back to sleep, completely oblivious to the pair of eyes that lofted against the ceiling, which now disappeared and left the ship.

"Ready…" Lilo chanted, "Set…" Stitch's eye twitched, and Angel took in a deep breath, "Go!" Lilo slammed her hand on the table and immediately two plates of bacon, toast, and egg flew into the air and were gobbled in one bite. "Stitch wins!" She exclaimed, raising his hand as he gulped a half-second before Angel.

"Thank you, thank you." He said, hopping up on the table and bowing.

"Ok glutton, sit down before you break the table with your weight." Angel teased, pushing him off.

"I have to admit, you two are almost a match." Lilo said, sitting down and picking up a fork. "If only I could eat like you two, I wouldn't have to waste so much time…"

"It's ok, we can wait."

"Eh." Stitch said. Lilo smiled, and dug into her egg.

"Besides, you still need to tell me what happened. Did you two get washed far away, or was it only for a little while? And did you see Zeus?"

"Hold on, hold on, one question at a time." Lilo put up her hand up to signal a pause in Angel's speech. "We'll start from the beginning, you help explain too, Stitch."

"Ju bud-ja." He replied.

"Well, you know about the fog, right?" Lilo asked toward Angel.

"Of course, that's when I went to find Slushy to see if he was the cause of it."

"Well we obviously know he wasn't." They all nodded. "Anyway, about that time, Stitch and I—me in his body—were walking back from Hula practice when we got lost. Even his eyes couldn't see very far. The next thing I can remember is losing Stitch, and then bumping into Zeus in the fog." She took another bite of her egg. "I thought he was going eat me or something, you should've seen the look in his eyes…like a ghost's. So, I ran away from him, and bumped into Stitch, and he said he found home."

"Oh," Stitch interrupted, "Stitch didn't really find home," he admitted, "Stitch found wall that looked like home, just was back in town." He finished, snickering to himself.

"Well, that doesn't really matter, you tried." Lilo said, reaching over the table and patting him on the head. "But, after that, we got home, talked to Jumba, and then went back out again. We knew we had to stop Zeus or else he would do something horrible, so we had to act fast…but we still weren't used to each other's bodies yet. We sort of rushed into it, I guess we should've taken the time to practice a little bit."

"Eh." Stitch agreed.

"I had all of Stitch's powers, and could use them, but I didn't know his limits, and I think that's what caused us to fail. Anyway, after the fog lifted and the storm came on, we ran under a huge rock to get away from the wind that was blowing stuff through the air like nothing," she waved her hands in the air to demonstrate the chaos, "so I said to Stitch, 'he must be where the storm is most severe,' and he told me to follow him and grabbed my hand." She paused to inhale deeply. "I don't know if Stitch knew where he was going, or if we were just running around on a wild goose-chase, but eventually, we found him."

"Oh yeah…" Stitch added, his tone implying the disastrous part of the story was coming.

"We sure did, and he kicked our can. I can't even remember what happened, I just remember leaping at him and then…well, maybe you should take it from here Stitch."

"Oketaka." Stitch said, jumping up on the table. "Lilo warns Zeus chitas, then jumped, but Zeus threw Lilo back when Lilo made contact, and lightning flashed, hitting him-"

"I don't remember that." Lilo countered.

"Ju enchujata." He said matter-of-factly.

"I was knocked out when you caught me because I hit my head!"

"Naga, Stitch remembers."

"Ok fine, keep going." Lilo said, waving her hand for him to continue. He told the rest of the story, acting out everything he narrated, slurred his speech, and switched between languages constantly, not to mention he nearly broke everything in the kitchen.

"Dego," he said, quieting down a bit, "Lilo took Stitch's hand to get away, but wave was too fast…" He looked at Lilo, and she looked back. Angel saw a gloomy expression shared upon their faces, as the memory of what happened after the flood swept them away came back, almost fearfully. "Then…Lilo save Stitch." He finished, his voice very calm as he dropped off the table back into his chair.

"Interesting story." Angel said, smiling. "I wish mine was as exciting as that."

"Why?" Lilo asked, her expression and tone back to normal. "What happened to you?"

"…I…I fell in. After the other's suggested to come here, Fibber was swept away from where he was on the hill. I jumped in and rescued him quickly, but then current got more powerful and, well, they tried to save me but I was already too far out. Luckily though, I grabbed onto a tree root somewhere in a clearing, and I thought I recognized the place. Turns out it was close to here, but I can't remember where it was now."

"I'm glad you're safe." Lilo said.

"Eh. Angel safe." Stitch agreed.

"We're all safe for now." She replied to them both. "But hopefully, Zeus will be easy to catch now that you two are back to norma-" A knock at the door interrupted Angel's sentence. Lilo hopped out of her chair and went to the door, Stitch behind her, and Angel a bit farther behind him. Angel scooted back a bit more, so as not to be seen by whoever was at the door as Lilo opened it.

"Cobra Bubbles?" Angel heard Lilo ask with surprise. "What are you doing here?"

"I need to speak with Jumba Jookiba." Replied a deep, stern voice.