Wow! New chapter already? I must be on a roll! Well, I should be now that I've entered the main plot of the story!


It was nearly midnight, and everyone was asleep in the Pelekai household. Everyone, that is, except Ari. She lay awake in her sleeping bag, not even blinking. She knew she should sleep, but what Jake had said… She couldn't get it out of her mind. She was afraid if she fell asleep Gantu would come and get her. She had come too close to that when she first arrived and she wouldn't allow that to happen again.

She rolled over to look at Jake. He was sound asleep, and his sleeping bag was rising and falling slowly with the rhythm of his breathing.

He's the one who had the vision, Ari thought. And he's not afraid. So why should I? With that comforting thought in mind, she turned back over so she was facing the ceiling. She was exhausted, and the sleeping bag was so warm and cozy…

She dreamed she was walking down a dark street. The only light was from a single street light about twenty feet down the road. She began walking towards it. She didn't know why, she was just drawn to it. Suddenly the light began to fall on her with a long creaking noise…

She bolted awake, sweat dripping down her fur. Even though she was awake, the dreadful creaking of the light post still went on. Looking up, she could see the source of the noise. The roof was shaking, as if someone was trying to tear it up!

"Oh, no…" she whispered as her heart leaped to her throat. Around everyone was waking up. Lilo, Stitch, Jake and her all looked at the roof as it finally tore away and Gantu's fat noggin appeared in the empty space.

Please don't let him see us, please don't let him see us… Ari thought desperately. Beside her Jake was staring at Gantu, his black eyes wide with fear.

"Give me experiments 622 and 623!" Gantu declared. He had, apparently, not seen them yet.

"Nope!" Lilo replied coolly. "You really think we're going to give them to you?"

Gantu looked around the room until his eyes passed over Ari. "Ah HA! I found you!" He reached an arm inside the room to pick her up. It was a stupid attempt. When his arm got close enough, Ari took her revenge on all the experiments Gantu had managed to keep, including Angel. She bit him on the finger. Hard.

"And that one's for Angel!" she shouted. Gantu withdrew his hand and shook it in the air. After sucking on it for a few seconds he reached into his belt and drew out a plasma gun. He aimed it directly at Ari.

"And this one's for Hamsterviel," he said in a smooth tone before firing the gun.

Ari tried to make a force field before the plasma hit her, but she wasn't fast enough. Just as the glowing blue-green sphere appeared around her the plasma hit her. However, the sphere trapped the plasma inside with Ari so it kept bouncing off the walls and hitting her. Finally she collapsed from the pain, and the sphere disintegrated. The plasma blast hit the floor and disappeared.

"Ari!" Lilo cried. She and Stitch rushed in to defend her, but Gantu had his blaster poised at them. Seeing they had no choice, they stopped in their tracks and watched helplessly at the scene in front of them.

Gantu smiled and put his plasma blaster away. He took out the glass containment tube, picked the unconscious Ari up, and dropped her inside. He secured the lid tightly and without a word disappeared into the darkness.

"Ari…" Stitch said sadly after Gantu had gone. His ears drooped.

"Don't worry, Stitch. You, Jake and I will get her back. We always do, don't we?" She paused suddenly and looked around the room. "Hey! Where's Jake?"

Jake sat inside the closet, hugging his short legs. He had slipped inside the closet when he had seen Gantu in the rooftop and watched the whole thing. He saw Ari being hit countless times with the plasma blast. He saw her collapse and saw Gantu take her away. And he hadn't even tried to stop it.

"I'm such a coward…" he muttered to himself. He felt miserable. Ari was probably going to be sent to Hamsterviel and there was nothing he could do about it.

He felt like a little mouse when he emerged from the closet.

"There you are!" Lilo said happily. "At least Gantu didn't get you too!"

Jake looked at her with a sad expression. "How can you be happy? She's my friend! And Gantu took her away, and now I'll never see her again!" He could feel the tears coming to his eyes. He rubbed them away furiously.

Lilo and Stitch's faces softened considerably. "You like her, don't you?" Lilo asked gently.

Jake was too miserable to lie, so he nodded. "Yeah… I do."

Lilo and Stitch looked at each other for a moment, then back at Jake. Stitch walked up to him and said softly, "We'll get Jake's bushi-bu back."

Jake didn't know what "bushi-bu" meant, but there was something in Stitch's voice that cheered him up a bit. "We will?" he asked. Maybe there was a glimmer of hope.

Stitch nodded. "Leave now."

Jake smiled at him. If Stitch was willing to help get his "bushi-bu" back, maybe he wasn't such a bad guy after all.


Ok, this is a reeeeally short chapter, but it covers a lot of things. I could've added the part where they go to Gantu's ship, but I wanted to leave a cliff hanger for all you peoples out there. MUAHAHAHA!! Evil cliffhangers!