Third chapter! Woot! But first I need to answer a few questions.

Absh: Thank you! I plan to update as often as I can, but next Wednesday to Sunday I won't be able to because I'll be at my Grandmother's for a late Christmas. Yep, both of them were sucked into Lilo and Stitch's dimension. Heehee, I'm so evil to my characters. Oh, did you notice I took your advise and made my summary better? (I hope) Thanks again for reading and Merry Christmas to everyone!


When Ari woke up the next morning with the sun blaring in her eyes and crashing waves ringing in her ears, her first thought was, this isn't my bedroom… And indeed it wasn't. She sat up unsteadily and squinted her eyes to get a better look around. After a few minutes of examination (her head hurt so it took longer) she found that she was lying on a sunny beach about five feet from the water. She was alone, had no idea where she was exactly, and she for some reason she had a primal fear of the water. She thought it odd that she was afraid of water, as she was on the varsity swim team back home.

But this is salt water, she thought. Maybe it has a different effect on your brain. Hey, she'd never been around the ocean before so she wouldn't know. She got shakily to her legs, and for a moment she feared she fall back down again. Her legs seemed… off-balance for some reason, as if they were shorter than they should've been. I must've hit my head harder than I thought. But she eventually found her center of balance. It was low-tide, and a few tide pools dotted the shore line, each ranging in size and shape, even the blueness of the water varied in each one.

Ari walked over to the tide pool nearest her to cool off, but had to stop every few steps as her head began to swim if she stood for too long.

"Oh, what's wrong with me?" she said out loud with her head in her hands. "I knew I shouldn't have had those left-over cheese curds before bed. Now I'm hallucinating." She somehow managed to muster the strength to crawl over to the tide pool and splashed water over her face. But as she was bringing the water to her face for the second time, Ari paused and looked at her hands with wide eyes and let the water she was carrying fall back into the pool.

"No…" Ari whispered. "It can't be… I-it's impossible!" But there was no mistaking the paws she was looking at that used to be her hands. Each digit had a long claw that extended from the end and the paws were covered with fur. Ari's heart was pounding by now and she looked into the tide pool, afraid of what her reflection might look like. She was right to be concerned. Looking back at her was a very Stitch-like creature, only light purple and instead of having extra arms and spikes, all she had were antennae with purple-glowing tips.

She stepped back from the tide pool in horror and let out a blood-curling scream.

(At Lilo's house)

"Did you hear something?" Jumba asked with his hand cupped over his ear.

"It's just the radiator," Pleakley answered calmly and resumed cleaning the counter top.

(Back at the Beach)

Ari continued to scream for a good ten seconds, and when she was done she hoped she had woken herself up from this nightmare. But one more look into the pool confirmed that the nightmare was still there and it was real.

"Ok, I like Lilo and Stitch, but this is just creepy!" Ari exclaimed. She felt good enough after her scream to think clearly now. After a good long look into the pool it seemed that she was a pinkish purple color. Her stomach was a lighter purple, as well as the fur around her eyes. Her nose, claws, and toes were a deep royal purple. The skin inside her ears was light pink, and there was a nick on the upper part of both ears. Her eyes were the traditional black. After much twisting and turning she was able to make out a large, dark purple splotch on her back, and after pulling out a few hairs from the back of her head she could say the same there. The tips of her antennae seemed to be fiber-optic, as when she woke up it glowed orange, but now it was a soft lavender color.

"Ok," she said to herself in a matter-of-fact way. "I've been turned into an experiment, I have no idea why, or who did it, and don't know where I am." She paused for a moment. "Well I'd say we're off to a fine start."

(At Lilo's House)

Jumba's computer blinked and turned on. "Experiments 623 and 622 activated. Primary Functions: Unknown"

Jumba, who had been working on fixing one of his plasma guns, walked over to the beeping computer, and scratched his chin.

"Could it be them already?" he asked no one. He opened the door out into the hall. "Little girl! 626! Be coming in here!" he shouted. About five seconds later Lilo and Stitch were standing in front of him with expectant looks on their faces.

"Which one is it this time, Jumba?" Lilo asked eagerly as they entered his room.

"Is being two experiments, little girl. 623 and 622," Jumba answered. He showed them the computer, which was now showing two diagrams of the experiments. One had glowing antennae, and the other had a long tail with a spike at the end of it.

"Well, what do they do, Jumba?" Lilo asked impatiently. She was already getting out a glass tube.

Jumba shifted his extra-large feet nervously. "I, er, am not knowing what abilities are…"

Lilo and Stitch looked at Jumba in surprise. "Gaba?" Stitch asked with an eyebrow raised.

Jumba quickly made up a lie. "When I created them they refused to do anything." He knew it was a bad lie, but Lilo and Stitch bought it.

"Well, it doesn't sound like they're evil," Lilo said happily. "C'mon, Stitch! If we hurry we can go and be back before Nani gets home!" It was obvious she was getting cocky.

Stitch growled. "Gantu."

Lilo frowned. "Oh, yeah." She stood up straighter. "We better get going! He could be halfway there already!" With that they were gone from the room. Jumba heard the front door slam. "Oh, boy…" he whispered anxiously. "What am I to be telling them when little girl finds out?"

Ari walked down the beach awkwardly. Her new short legs worked differently than her old ones and she wasn't quite used to it yet. She heard voices up ahead, indicating she was near a tourist's beach. She walked over to a palm tree tried to climb it. After climbing about five feet she slid back down to the ground. She slapped herself for forgetting she had claws now. Using her razor-sharp claws, she quickly scaled the tree. She wasn't afraid of heights, but she had never climbed a tree this high before and sitting at the top of a palm tree waving in the breeze can make one a little queasy.

Ari sat in the middle of the tree where all the branches came together. About a quarter mile away she could see the beach she had heard before. She could see little kids swimming in the ocean, while the parents tanned on the sand. She even thought she could make out the fat, sunburned tourist with ice cream. But sure enough, two kids accidentally bumped into him, causing his ice cream to fall to the ground.

"Poor guy," Ari said with sympathy. Her eyes were suddenly diverted from the beach scene. She had heard something to her left in the woods. It sounded like thunder, but it occurred steadily, like giant footsteps.

"Uh-oh…" Ari whispered. "I better get out of here." She slid back down the trunk of the tree and made her way towards… towards what? She didn't have anywhere to go, other towards the woods where Gantu was!

"Dang! What do I do now?" Ari stomped on the sand angrily. She suddenly heard a tree snap, and out of the woods came the whale himself. Ari let primal instinct take over and she bolted down the beach, right towards a rock wall that was impossible to scale.

"Come back here, abomination!" Gantu shouted.

Honestly, does he actually expect experiments to do what he says? Ari thought with a slight chuckle. But her pleasure was short-lived. She had reached the wall and skidded to a stop just before she hit it face-first.

She quickly turned around to find that Gantu had stopped too. "Ha! You have nowhere to go! Now be a good little trog and get into the tube." He opened one of the containment tubes.

Ari decided to try he luck with the truth. "Look, you don't understand! I'm not really an experiment. I'm a human and I was turned into an experiment by some weird force last night and I don't wanna go to Hamsterveil!" She had backed herself up against the wall and now she was pushing her back against it.

Gantu seemed to falter for a moment, but then said, "Yeah, right. Now some here or I'll…"

Suddenly someone new was in front of Ari, using its body to shield her. It was an emerald green Stitch-like experiment with a long, thin tail that had an ivory spike at the end of it. "Leave her alone, fish-face," the experiment said angrily.

Ari gasped in surprise. "Jake?!" she exclaimed. Could it be him? It was his voice, after all.

The green experiment seemed to ignore her and went on telling Gantu off. "If you touch her, I swear I will hurt you." His long tail switched dangerously.

Gantu seemed unphased by the experiment's threats. He just laughed and said," Perfect! Another experiment to take to Hamsterveil! If you'll just hop into this tube I won't have to use this against you." He aimed his giant plasma gun at the two and cocked it.

"And if you'll go away I won't have to do… THIS!" the green experiment lashed its tail out and wrapped it around the gun. Then it wretched the gun out of Gantu's grasp with a surprised "Hey!" from Gantu. It threw the gun far away on the beach. Gantu glared at the green experiment for a moment, then started off after his gun.

The experiment grabbed Ari's hand and said," C'mon, over here." He led her away from the wall into the woods while Gantu . Ari didn't know how long they ran for, but while they were running she called out," Are you Jake?"

The experiment seemed to flinch for moment, and then answered," Yeah, it's me." That was all he got in, for a blast of plasma had knocked both of them off their feet. Ari felt the wind get knocked out of her and as she gasped for breath she felt Jake let go of her hand.

A glass tube covered her and she thought This is it. Gantu's got me. But she was surprised to hear a very welcome, familiar voice call out," Aloha, cousin!" She perked her ears up and stood up inside the tube. Stitch was hugging the outside of the tube with a plasma gun in his hand! It was probably the same one used to shoot them with. Ari knew she should be surprised to see him, and angry and shooting them, but strangely she only felt relief sweep over her. But the relief was pushed away by a pang of fear for her rescuer. She looked over to the place where Jake had landed. He was inside his own glass tube, and he wasn't moving. He must've hit his head when he landed.

Ari suddenly noticed Lilo get out of a buggy not far from where she, Jake, and Stitch were. "Great, Stitch! You get 623 and I'll get 622." She walked over to where Jake was laying inside his tube and picked it up with a grunt. At the same time Stitch picked Ari's tube up and she felt herself being carried over to the buggy. Lilo and Stitch put both of their tubes in the back of the buggy and they themselves got in the front. With a rumble of the engine they were off towards Lilo's house.

Ari pressed her paws up against the side of the tube. "Jake?" she whispered. "Jake?" she said a little louder. It was no use. He was unconscious inside his tube, occasionally jolting to the movements of the buggy.


Ari was extremely happy and grateful she wasn't captured by Gantu, but at the same time she was angry at Lilo and Stitch for hurting the thing that had rescued her. With a sigh, she sat down in her tube and watched the beach roll on behind them, wondering what would be in store for them when they got to their destination.