Ted: I kinda meant that to be symbolic of what was left of the old Chaos, the tiny part of him that was still good. Sorry for the confusion!

Tying up Loose Ends.

Stitch walked steadily to the wall of experiments. He looked up, staring into each one of their faces. The Black Virus crawled on their flesh, and Stitch watched it with disgust. Stitch calmed himself, easing his thoughts. He focused his energy, drawing it together. Slowly, he began to levitate into the air, his boots left the ground, and he began floating upwards. Stitch closed his eyes as he was lifted aloft like a feather. He stopped halfway up the wall, even with one row of experiments. From behind him, the binary wings began to shimmer, they began to pulse with life. Stitch opened his eyes, and pointed to the tubes containing the contaminated experiments. One by one, beautiful shimmering feathers separated themselves from the wings, and floated towards the tubes. Hundreds of feathers, all of them floating towards the suspended experiments.

Upon reaching the experiments, the feathers glowed fiercely, and entered the experiments body. All of the experiments received feathers, and in one case, Clip's case, two feathers floated to the tube. In all of the tubes, the beings began to glow. A brilliant white light that illuminated the entire room. Inside the tubes, the growth that had once covered their bodies, melted away. Dead pieces of the sickness seemed to evaporate into nothingness, and one by one, the experiments began to open their eyes. There were many reactions, some of them at once resorted to using their power to escape, yet they all had the look that a great weight had been removed from their bodies.

Stitch, now floated slowly to the ground, was now wingless. The luminous white wings were now gone, their purpose was fulfilled. As Stitch floated to the ground, his fur began to dull in its color. The gold faded to blue, and his eyes ceased to blaze, and they settled back to the calming black they had been before the transformation. Stitch reached the floor at the time that the transformation effects had worn off, and he shuddered. The world seemed colder now, it seemed duller. Stitch looked up, and saw the experiments struggling to break free of the tubes. Stitch looked around, and noticed there was a key pad on the bottom row of experiment tubes. Stitch walked over to it, and noticed it was in letters, a key word was required. Stitch didn't even need to think about it, he found each letter, and entered the word, 'Atonement' into the key pad.

A loud noise was heard, a whirring, and below each row of pods, a platform emerged from the wall, each with stairs leading to one of the floors. Stitch watched this, and checked the name of the storage device, it read, 'Cryogenic Center for Fugitives'. Stitch understood, this was where the Dark Hand would hold their important captives, such as captains and generals. Stitch watched as the experiments freed themselves, and made their way for the floors. He made note that Sparky and Clip immediately found each other, and saw that Angel and 625 were blissfully hugging. Stitch smiled, and focused his vision on the small room overlooking the battle room, and saw that Lilo was watching him, tears in her eyes and a smile on her face.

Stitch was about to make his way towards Lilo, when he heard a weak voice, asking, "Where...am I?"

Stitch recognized the voice, and turned around to see Mertle Edmonds emerging from one of the bottom tubes. She walked out slowly, her red hair dangling wildly about her, and she had an uneasy step. She moved slowly out, and looked around, a dazed look in her eyes. From the other side of the room, a cry could be heard, a cry of happiness. And Stitch turned to see Serenity bound from the room, and sprint towards Mertle. Mertle caught sight of her, and kneeled, her arms open for the small creature. Serenity bounded into Mertle's open arms, and began to softly cry. Mertle patted Serenity's head soothingly, and spoke in a low soft voice, saying, "It's alright Serenity...it's alright..."

Stitch watched this, his own eyes watering up. Finally Stitch turned, and ran as fast as he could for the room which held his family, and more importantly, his Lilo. Stitch reached the far wall, and leapt with all his might, straight to the room. He landed right in front of Lilo, and leaned down close to her face, and smiling arrogantly, said, "Worried?"

Lilo, looked at him with a look of mixed emotions, and punched him soundly in the arm. Stitch recoiled, and looked at her, the same 'Devil may care' smile on his face. Lilo smiled, and walked close to him. Stitch enveloped her in his arms and she spoke, "Don't even joke about that, you know for a fact I was worried...and the next time you decide to fight a lord of all evil, warn me, kay?"

Stitch said nothing, he merely leaned down, and kissed her passionately. It was all he wanted to do, all that mattered now. When they kissed, the world seemed to fade, all was hazy around them, and nothing mattered any more. The kiss ended, and through half dreamy eyes, they gazed at one another, and Stitch pulled her close, and held her tightly. Lilo buried herself in his shoulder, tears trickled from her eyes as she held on to him as if for dear life. Stitch released her, and held her slightly away, and looked into her eyes saying, "I will never let anything like that happen to you again...understand?"

Lilo wiped away a tear running down her cheek, and nodded. Stitch smiled, and looked around at the family, and voiced his thoughts, saying, "Now, how do we get you down from here?"

Before anyone spoke, Stitch had an epiphany, he turned, and shouted, "ELASTICO!"

It took mere minutes, but with the combined effort of Elastico and Stitch, they got the family down to the main hall floor. Stitch looked to the middle of the floor, to find a throng of experiments gathered around the area where Chaos had fallen. Stitch grasped Lilo's hand, and they walked to the area. Many experiments were gathered around the area, and in the middle, right by the sword, was Serenity, kneeling over her brother's ashes, with Mertle right behind her, a look of concern was in Mertle's eyes. Stitch pushed his way to the center, and knelt down by Serenity. Serenity didn't look his way, she stayed with her eyes rooted to where Chaos had fallen.

Stitch thought, he was trying to think of something that would calm her, finally, he said, "At the end of the battle, after the Black Virus was purged, your brother was set free."

Serenity looked at him, and Stitch gazed back at her, and said, "The feather. Did you see it?"

Serenity smiled slightly, and said, with a tear rolling down her cheek, "Yes...maybe you're right...my brother...is at peace now...finally...at peace..."

Serenity looked longingly at Chaos's remains, and looked at the sword. When Serenity began to reach for the pommel to remove it, Stitch caught her hand, saying, "No...leave that. The Omega Sword will serve as a headstone, for the tomb of Chaos...it's all we can do...and it's only right..."

Serenity drew back her hand, and looked at Stitch, smiling. Stitch smiled right back, and stood. He looked around the room, looked at the many faces. They all seemed tired, as if awakening from a deep slumber. Stitch looked at Lilo, who stood beside him, who would stand beside him...forever. Stitch gazed around the room, and said the words, that everyone had so longed to hear.

"Come on...let's go home..."

A/N: Not quite finished, stay tuned for the epilogue!