Reunited at last
By: Kioko the pirate
Chapter 2: The rescue
Lilo was racing towards Kioko's house and was now more then halfway there. The wind was blowing through her long black hair, her eyes were focused on the road ahead but her mind was thinking about how Kioko would get Angel back. She did not know exactly were Angel was but Kioko could probably sense her. She gave a laugh as she thought of Gantu's and Hamsterviel's faces when Kioko shows up to get Angel. He could be very intimidating even to Gantu.
"I also can't wait to see the look on Stitch's face when he find's that Angel is back. I love the way he look's when he's happy, it's so adorable."
She turned off the main road and onto the side road that lead to Kioko's home. The road was similar to her driveway, long and winding with thick foliage on either side.
"There's just one thing bothering me though… is Angel even alive anymore. Who knows what Hamsterviel might have done to punish her." This thought made her feel worried. If she was dead would she need to tell Stitch. " No, no stop thinking about that. She is alive and her and Stitch will be together." Lilo pushes the thought out of her mind as she arrives at Kioko's house.
The house sat on a cliff over looking the ocean. It was mostly made of wood and both the siding and the roof were a brownish color. As Lilo pulled up she saw Kioko's midnight black Lotus Elise and in his garage was his motorcycle. Both of which he had modified with alien technology. She brought the car to a stop and hopped out, she was nearly bursting with anticipation as she walked up to the front door. She was about to knock on the door when it suddenly opened.
She was surprised by this and jumped backwards a little. "Hey, Kioko."
"Hey' Lilo what's up?"
He was a tall boy and was very well built. He had long black hair that was pulled back into two overlapping spikes, a couple strands of hair feel over his face accenting his narrow piercing and yet warm eyes. Which were also black, he had two black stripes on his left cheek showing that he was a formidable pirate. He wore black pants and black t-shirt, he wore black and red boots that came up to his knees. He also wore a black and red trench coat that really made him look like a pirate. Finally he wore a red belt that served no purpose except to look cool.
"Nothing much but I have a big favor to ask you." said Lilo trying to look casual.
"Ok well come on in."
Kioko stepped aside and Lilo entered, she walked over and stepped down into the sunken living room and sat down on the couch. Kioko walked over and sat down in a chair diagonal from where she sat.
"So what is it you want me to do?" asked Kioko breaking a moment of silence
"Well I was wondering if you could go and rescue someone for me?"
A small smile began to appear at the corner of Kioko's mouth. "and who is it that needs rescued?"
"Do you remember Angel?" asked Lilo in a nervous voice. She didn't remember Kioko ever meeting her.
The smile on his face grew a little larger. "Yeah I do."
"Well I was wondering if you could go and rescue her from Hamsterviel."
Kioko leapt up with a big smile on his face. "Ha-ha I was wondering when you guess would want to get her back!" said Kioko as he walked over to a cabinet and began to search through it.
Lilo stood up as well. "So does that mean you'll do it?"
"Of course I'll do it, you've saved all the other experiments so why would you leave one behind." Said Kioko as he continued to search through the drawers.
"That's great but there's one problem. I don't know were she is."
"That is not a problem because I know exactly were she is!"
"You do! What can you sense her?" asked Lilo her hands clasped together
"No I don't sense her because I don't know her energy signature, but I will know where she is using this!" Kioko pulled out a small round device that looked like a pocket watch. But it had a radar like screen on it.
"What is that?" asked Lilo as she stared at the device.
"It's a tracking device."
"But I thought Jumba disabled all the tracker's in the experiments."
"He deactivated his trackers but I still have mine operational." Kioko walked over to the counter and pressed a button. A small stand popped up. "You see Lilo, a couple of week's before Angel showed up Jumba had asked me to bring him some taranian tracking devices. For some experiment he was doing. But a few weeks later I was on my way to your house with the trackers when I heard Gantu coming." Kioko places the device on the stand. "I jumped into the bushes and when I looked I saw that he was carrying Angel on his back. I looked towards were he came from expecting to see you guys in hot pursuit but I only saw 625 running along. I figured you guy's must have been held up so I followed Gantu onto his ship. He threw Angel into the teleporter and I knew you guys would be too late, so I took one of the trackers and threw it at Angel. I got her on the shoulder, and then I snuck out of there." A small keyboard flipped up and he began to type stuff in.
"I see but wouldn't Hamsterviel have noticed the tracking device at sometime?" asked Lilo as she watched him work.
"No because the actual tracking device is a liquid. It enters the blood stream and as long as the person is alive you can track them."
"Cool but one more thing. If you were there why did you not rescue Angel then?" asked Lilo giving Kioko a weird look.
He stopped what he was doing and slapped himself in the face. "God Dam it Lilo why did you have to point that out! Yelled Kioko.
Lilo just laughed. "You better watch that pirate mouth of yours. You know Nani doesn't like it when you curse around me."
"Hey, this is my house and your sister isn't here so I don't have to."
Kioko looks back at the keyboard and hits one more button. Suddenly a large star map is projected through out the room. It showed billions of stars, Lilo noticed that one was red and had Koriganian text next to it.
"Well there she is." Said Kioko pointing to the red star.
"Then she's alive!" yelled Lilo with excitement.
"Yes it would appear so and to make it even easier for me she's on the same planet that one of my pirate buddies had a hideout on. So I know exactly how to get there."
Kioko had a slightly evil looking grin on his face as he reed the alien text next to the star. He then looked over at Lilo.
"I'll get going right away. I suggest you go back home, I'll call you when I get back."
"How long will it take you?" asked Lilo as they both walk towards the door.
"Not very long at all. At the most I should be back with in a few hours but it's likely that I'll be back before then." Said Kioko as he leaned up against the door way a fiendish grin on his face.
Lilo walks over to her car and gets in. "Thank you so much for this Kioko I really appreciate it."
"No problem Lilo what are friends for?"
Kioko waits until Lilo is out of sight before he goes back in. He walk's over to his meditation room. Which looked like a mix between a dojo and a rock garden. He walked over and sat on a small mat in the middle of a giant Kietu symbol. (A religious symbol from his home world.) He places his hands together with his index and middle finger sticking up. He then takes a deep breath.
'Ok just concentrate on that planet' Kioko thinks to himself over and over.
He sees the planet in his mind as clearly as day. 'There you are'.
Suddenly there was a small flash of light that filled the room with light but only for less then a second. In Kioko's mind he could see the planet getting closer until he seemed to land on it. He then opened his eyes and there he was on the planet he had seen in his mind. It was a cold planet and snow was falling ice was every where. In front of him was an opening to a long corridor. He walked in looking from side to side to try and spot any traps. After about a minute or so of walking he stopped and pulled out the small tracking device.
"Ok now Angel were are you?" said Kioko as he looked at the screen.
On the screen though was a message that said 'malfunction temp -50 cannot operate'.
Kioko growled and tightened his grip on the device. "Argh that's what you get for bringing a device made in a desert to an ice planet. But I mean come on it gets a little nippy and it fails geeze. Well I guess I have to find another way to locate her."
He continues to walk down the long cold corridor for another 15 minutes before he stops to think about where he's going.
"Lets see now there's got to be something around here that can help me now were I am." Kioko looks around and sees a keyboard on the wall. It was up high enough for Gantu. "Well it looks like I'm in the right place after all." He floats up to the keyboard and starts to type in data like the number 624 or her primary function. Finely he finds her she was being carried to Hamsterviel. "Bingo time to go and get that poor creature back."
Kioko then spy's a vent up on the ceiling. He fly's up to it and rips it out of the ceiling and climbs in. It was like a maze as he worked his way towards Angel's location. He came to another opening in the ceiling which was right over the room Hamsterviel, Gantu and Angel were in. Gantu was holding her by the ears but she didn't seem to pay any attention to it. She seemed like she was not even aware she was there. Kioko then heard Gantu speak up.
"Sir what should we do with experiment 624? She has not given in to any of our methods." Said Gantu in a casual tone.
"You idiot who is so very stupid, isn't it obvious what we should do with that worthless piece of genetic trash. She will not join me again so we must do what is needed." Said Hamsterviel in his naisly little voice.
"And that is?" asked Gantu
"Just throw her into the nearest black hole!"
What no one realized was that even though Angel had an expressionless face she still heard every word.
'Well that's it for me.' Angel thought to herself. 'I'm going to die without having any true happiness. But do I even deserve any happiness? After what I did to Stitch, I deserve to die. I don't deserve his love, all I deserve is death. I just wish I could be in his arms just once more. But that won't ever happen, they have forgotten me and I don't blame them.' She gave an unnoticeable sigh.
Kioko who was still in the vent had heard enough. He growled at the thought of Gantu throwing Angel into a black hole. But then a calm smile went across his face, now was the time to act. He placed his legs on the sides of the vent to lift himself up. He pointed his palm at the vent a small orb of yellow energy formed at his palm. He released the energy; it pierced through the metal grate like a hot knife through butter it then hit the ground below creating a descent sized explosion.
The blast took everyone by surprise, Hamsterviel leapt back into his chair and Gantu backed up against the wall.
"Who is there? Identify yourself!" Yelled Gantu
The smoke cleared and when Gantu saw who was standing there he gave a terrified gasp.
Kioko chuckled evilly. "Now Gantu you should not need to ask that question."
"Then I'll ask this. Why are you here?"
"I'm here to take Angel from you." Said Kioko in a very demanding voice.
Angel heard this and discreetly raised her head to look at who said this. At that moment he did not look familiar but suddenly she remembered back to when she was on earth with Stitch.
FLASH BACK
Stitch had been showing Angel all over the island. The beaches, restaurants and allsorts of other things. They came out of the forest paw in paw when Stitch saw a familiar house ahead of them.
"Oh! Angel there's someone I want you to meet" said Stitch happily.
Angel saw that he was pointing to a tall black haired very muscular boy who was working on a car. For some reason though she suddenly got very nervous.
"Stitch do we have too?"
"Of course he's a friend of ours"
Stitch grabbed her by the arm and practically dragged her over to the boy.
"Hey Kioko there's someone I want you to meet." Yelled Stitch.
The boy looked over at them. "Oh hey Stitch" He then saw Angel who was trying to hide behind Stitch. "Well who do we have here?" asked Kioko in a very happy tone.
"This is my buchi buu. Her name is Angel."
The boy knelt down in front of the two; Stitch stepped aside so that Kioko could get a better look at her.
"Well she's a cute one." Said the boy as he gave a light scratch under angel's chin.
"Angel this is Kioko he's a family friend. He may not look it but he's an alien just like us." Said Stitch with a big smile on his face.
Angel was slightly confused by this; he looked very human to her.
"Well come on Angel we have to get going. See you later Kioko." Yelled Stitch as he and Angel walked off.
"See you Stitch and a pleasure meeting you Angel."
END FLASH BACK
'That's who it is! It's Kioko; he's a friend of Stitch's and he's come to save me!' thought angel. A small smile appeared on her face for a moment.
"You foolish fool you cannot have her! Gantu stop standing there and blast him!" yelled Hamsterviel.
"Yes sir." Said Gantu.
He reached behind his back and pulled out a blaster twice the size of his regular one. He pointed it right at Kioko. Who just stood there.
"That's not your usual gun." Said Kioko as he raised an eyebrow.
"I upgraded." Said Gantu in a sinister voice.
He pulled the trigger and a large blast of purple plasma came shooting out. It hit Kioko directly in he chest, there was a rather large explosion. Angel's eyes went wide, she just watched her savior get roasted. A cocky smile went across Gantu's face, then the smoke cleared and Gantu gasped. As did everyone else, the smoke cleared and Kioko was still standing in the same exact spot. Without a scratch or a burn on him.
Kioko chuckled evilly. "Gantu you of all people should know that conventional weapons cant stop me." Said Kioko
Kioko then raised two fingers, at the tip of them a small orb of energy formed. He then made a sweeping motion in front of him. The orb of energy disappeared and a moment later Gantu's blaster fell to pieces. Gantu gasped again and dropped the handle of the gun.
"Now like I said I'll be taking Angel." Said Kioko in an almost cocky tone.
"You'll take her over my dead body!" yelled Gantu. He then slapped his hand over his mouth but it was too late.
A big toothy, satanic grin went across Kioko's face. He looked up at Gantu almost laughing.
"So be it." Said Kioko evilly.
In a flash Kioko leaps forward, sprinting towards Gantu. He stops right in front of him. He leaps up and the crack of breaking bone could be heard as Kioko's foot went smashing into Gantu's jaw. The impact sent Gantu flying backwards, flinging Angel up into the air. Kioko lands and sees this he then leaps into the air catching Angel in his arms and landing back onto the ground.
He stands up cradling Angel in his arms like an infant. Her muscles were still tensed up, she was still expecting the impact with the metal floor. After a moment she relaxed and opened her eyes to find herself in Kioko's arms. She looked up at him, he was looking down at her with such caring and warm eyes. In that moment she realized she was safe, she sat up and wrapped her arms tightly around Kioko's strong neck. She buried her nose in his hair and purred in content. Kioko just smiled and put his hand on her back and gently stroked her. She felt a comforting warmth flow over her, she felt so safe in his arms. She had not felt this safe in years.
"Come on let's go home." Whisper's Kioko into Angel's ear.
Kioko then starts to walk back over towards the vent he dropped from. Now caring Angel in his arms.
"This is unacceptable. You are getting in the way of me disposing of useless trash you to bit pirate!" yelled Hamsterviel as he angrily hopped up and down in his chair.
Kioko stops were he was and begins to laugh. "Getting ride of useless trash, is that what you think you were doing?" asks Kioko who is still facing straight ahead.
"Yes that worthless experiment won't listen to me so it must be eliminated."
"Of course she doesn't listen to you. Who would listen to a pathetic little rodent like you. You think your so bad and evil, but trust me you don't know true evil. Let me put it this way, you were arrested for illegal genetic creation. While I was never arrested and yet I destroyed 13 planets and wiped out entire civilizations. Now who do you think was more evil? But also what your doing does not sound like taking out the trash it sounds like murder."
Kioko once again starts to walk away. He was about to fly up to the vent when Hamsterviel spoke.
"It does not matter if you take her. We will just take her again." Hamsterviel had a cocky grin on his face.
Once again Kioko stops but his time looks back over his shoulder. "You know your right, you will come and try and get her." Kioko turns to face Hamsterviel. "I guess then we just have to remedy that now wont we. Right Angel?"
Angel nods in agreement. Kioko then raises his hand and points his palm down a long corridor that was near by. An orb of yellow energy the size of a basketball forms in front of his palm. Hamsterviel's face becomes terror stricken.
"What are you doing?" asks Hamsterviel
"I'm getting ride of useless garbage." Says Kioko in a very cold voice.
The orb of energy shoots down the corridor illuminating it like a lamp.
"Have a nice afterlife." Says Kioko as he leaps up into the air. There was quick flash of light and him and Angel disappeared into thin air.
Suddenly another flash of light came from the corridor that Kioko fired the blast down. Hamsterviel stood there staring at the corridor, then a giant fire ball came blasting out of the corridor. It spreads through the room engulfing Hamsterviel and Gantu and reducing them to protoplasm in an explosion 500 times greater then the Hiroshima bomb.
At that same moment Kioko's house was filled with a quick flash of light. They appeared in Kioko's kitchen, the sun was setting the mission had taken Kioko longer then he thought. Kioko walks into his eating area and sets Angel down on the floor.
"Well we are here. I have to go and make a call to Lilo to come and pick you up." Kioko walks down a near by hallway and turns into a room. "There's some Swedish fish on the table if you're hungry."
Angel looks up at the table, she pulls out the chair and hops up. She looks on the table and in the center was a bowl of red fish. She hops up onto the table and sits down in front of the bowl. She picks up one fish and looks at it from every angle, finally she bits it in have. It fills her mouth with a wonderful taste, she then begins to shove handfuls of fish in her mouth. Swallowing in big gulps as she tries's to fill her starving belly.
Meanwhile Kioko picks up the phone that was on his desk, he dials in the number for Lilo's house. He placed the phone to his ear, the ring tone lasted for only a few seconds before Pleakly's loud annoying voice picked up.
"Hello. Who is calling?"
"Hey Pleakly, this is Kioko. Can I talk to Lilo."
"Oh sure Kioko just one moment." Pleakly yelled at the top of his lungs. "LILO TELEPHONE!"
Kioko yanked the phone away from his ear. Now ther was a ringing in his ear.
'If only I could get away with killing him' thought Kioko as he rubbed his ear.
He put the phone back to his ear, he could hear Lilo running through the house.
She came running up to the phone out of breath.
"He.. Hello."
"Hey Lilo it's me Guess what."
"You got her back didn't you."
"Yep she's here and she's safe you can come and pick her up."
"That's wonderful Kioko. Is she ok though?"
"What do you mean ok?"
"She's not hurt or any thing is she."
"What no she's in perfect shape, which is surprising."
"Good are you sure Hamsterviel wont come after her though?"
"Don't worry about him, he won't be bothering any one anymore."
"Wonderful I'll be right over. Thank you Kioko. Bye." Lilo then hung up the phone.
Kioko hangs up the phone and smiles, he knew by lilo's reaction that Angel will be loved and cared for. He turns around and walks back out to the eating area, he finds angel licking the inside of the Swedish fish bowl.
"You ate that entire bowl!" yelled Kioko.
"Um yeah sorry about that but I was really hungry. These were delishes but they didn't taste like fish."
"That's because their not, their candy."
"Ohhhh, their sooo good. (Burp!) Excuse me." Said Angel blushing
"That's ok come on lets go have a seat while we wait for Lilo."
Kioko and Angel walk over to his living room. Kioko sits on the couch and Angel sat on the chair next to him. Angel looked around at the houses décor it was rather interesting, he decorated his home with art and furniture from his home planet. They both sat there for awhile not saying much but Angel had a lot going through her mind.
'This is so exciting I'll be back with stitch soon and I'll finally be happy. But what about Lilo will she adjust to me and Stitch being together. She didn't really like me when we last saw each other. I don't know what will happen and that has me worried.' She shifted her position in the chair she started to feel weird having Kioko sitting next to her. She started to worry about if she said anything out loud that might change his perception of her.
Angel continued to think about the future and then about what she had gone through back with Hamsterviel. She felt a familiar feeling creeping up her body, a feeling of great cold a feeling of hopelessness. She looked down at her paw and saw something very familiar something that scared her.
Kioko was sitting there looking out the window when his eyes shot open and his pupils shrank. He sensed something, something very familiar to him he instantly knew were it was coming from and that scared him even more. But he had to make sure. He could be wrong after all. He slowly looked over at Angel out of the corner of his eye and he saw exactly what he feared. Surrounding Angel was a dark aura.
Kioko quickly looked away, he could not believe what he saw. 'How could Hamsterviel do that to her. She does not deserve that fate.' Thought Kioko to himself.
He had to say something he did not want her feeling alone with this burden. He knew what could happen to her if he did not help her.
"That scar." Said Kioko in a low voice.
Angel snapped out of her trance like stare and looked around her body looking for a scratch or something.
"I don't mean a physical scar I mean that aura."
Angel's ears drooped. "I didn't know you could see it."
"Hamsterviel kept you in the darkness didn't he."
"Yes he did and I'm worried about what might happen."
"What do you mean?" asked Kioko as he looked over at her.
"I'm worried about what Stitch might think."
"You don't have to worry about him seeing that scar. Only someone who has been scared by darkness can see that aura." Said Kioko folding his arms across his chest.
"You can see it though and that means that…"
"That I have been scared myself"
"How do you handle it?"
"I have trained myself to handle this burden. I know what this scar can make you do and I have trained myself to control it."
"What can this scar make you do?" asks Angel finding some relief in meeting someone who knows what she's going through.
"The darkness can make you do very evil things."
"What happens if I give in to the darkness?"
"Angel if you give in to the darkness, if you do anything to hurt this family then I'm afraid that I will have too destroy you."
Angel looked up at him, she could not believe that he just said that.
"Then what can I do to keep the darkness away. I don't want to deal with it and I don't want to be destroyed."
"Angel the scar is controlled by your emotions. When you're happy and cheerful the scar is not noticeable but when you're sad or upset it grows and you feel it. I won't lie to you Angel, there will be days when you can't seem to get rid of it. You'll feel antisocial, depressed and you'll want to be alone. The best thing to do is find some place quite and secluded, that way you won't risk hurting anyone. While you're alone concentrate as hard as you can on positive things, things that make you happy. If you do that the scar should be brought under control."
"What if that does not work? What if I can't bring it under control?"
"Then you can come to me. I can help you bring it under control, if you can't handle it your self then I suggest you come here around sunset. I will help you. But try to handle it your self first. You won't beat it if I constantly help you out."
Angel smiled a little, she now had someone to help her with this curse of hers. She could now try and live normally with Stitch and his family. Angel looks over at Kioko who was still sitting there with his arms crossed and his eyes closed in deep thought. He looked so wise and yet so troubled, right that moment it was hard to believe that he was once the most feared of all being's. She hopped out of her chair and walked over to Kioko she sat next to him and leaned against him. He opened his eyes and looked down at her.
"Thank you so much Kioko, I'll never forget this." Whispered Angel as she rubs her head against his strong arm.
He just smiled and stroked her brow gently. Suddenly there was a knock at the door, it startled Angel but Kioko already knew who it was.
"That would be Lilo." Said Kioko as he gets up and goes over to the door.
He opens it and sure enough Lilo was standing there; hands clasped together with excitement.
"Well were is she?" asks Lilo excitedly
"She's right over here."
Lilo walks in and sees Angel sitting on the couch. Angel gets up with an uncertain smile on her face.
"Hello Angel long time no see. I'm glad to see your ok." Said Lilo nervously.
"Hello Lilo, you've really changed!" said Angel as she looked at Lilo. She was not the little girl she was when they last saw each other.
"Well things usually do change after almost 6 years."
"Well glad to see you two are already getting along." Said Kioko to break the awkward silence that was building.
"Well thank you so much for getting her back Kioko." Lilo then looks down at Angel. "Well I guess we should get you home to Stitch and your new family huh?"
"Family?" asked Angel
"Of course your family now and you're not going anywhere." Said Lilo with a smile on her face.
Angel just smiled, she had a family now people who cared about her. Lilo and Angel walk out the door towards Lilo's green jeep. Lilo opens the door for Angel and lifts her into the jeep. Angel was surprised by this action. Lilo shuts the door and heads to the drivers side, she stops and looks at Kioko.
"Hey you want to come over for dinner, I think the man who saved Angel should be there for her first dinner with us."
Kioko laughed "Yeah I guess I'll be there, what time?"
"Around 6 ok?"
"Alright see you then."
Lilo started the car and drove off as Kioko waved. "I hope Angel can surpass that scar, she won't be completely happy until then." Said Kioko to himself. He turned around and went back in.
That is the end of chapter 2 Please review.
To: ReaderPal, I wasn't originally going to give Lilo a boyfriend but that's only because I have no idea for one. If you can give me an idea for a name then I might be able to work one in. Also I planned to put that story were Lilo and Kioko get turned into experiments onto the site but it's part of a series and I have to go in chronological order so you'll just have to wait. But if you want a summary of the story then send me an email, but be warned I might give away too much info. And thanks for the review.