To Ri2: Oh, ho, ho, ho. If you only had the first clue just HOW bad an idea this was.
To nukerjsr: I
said this in my last story, I LIVE on reviews, and I would probably
starve to death without them. Keep your reviews coming and make them
as detailed as possible.
BTW, are you the same
nukerjsr from the Lilo and Stitch page at If so, I posted
a message on 'L&S says mahalo' that's very important to me,
and I'd appreciate it if you tried to get the other members to pay
attention to it.
To A. Nonymous:
Like I said in my first fic, everything that I'm going to write I
already have planned out in my head. Writing to me is nothing more
than filling in the minute details of an already mostly thought out
story. As a result, I'm truly sorry to say this, but most
suggestions aside from a few lines or a funny action probably won't
make it into my stories.
Also, you should really
email me personally with questions that don't directly involve the
story your reviewing. My adress is All My Readers
and Reviewers: I said this before, and I'll say it again;
someone might actually guess correctly who that person is and why
he/she is there. I ask you please, hold out on putting your theories
in your reviews, because you'll spoil the surprise.
Also, I must reassert,
this IS NOT the chapter where you find out who was looking out toward
the scene of the accident that killed Lilo's parents.
The apex of the super-cell was passing over Kauai that very night. It stormed so hard you couldn't see ten feet in front of you, except when a flash of lightning illuminated the scenery for only a split second.
A winding road built into its winding cliff face was the center of the storm's pounding. It was so hard to see that one might be amazed that one could make out a bright light emanating from just beneath the cliff face of the churning ocean below.
Beneath that cliff face was a outcropping of flat rock just enough to comfortably hold a van or a small group of people. The light opening up in the side of the cliff looked like a bright window into a place of swirling colors, and a whirlpool of glowing green clouds, brighter than the brightest of floodlights, being sucked into the window.
It the distance through the window, one could make out a small figure heading closer. It was moving too fast to register what it was before it came out into the real world.
The red striped surfboard with the strange engine mounted on the back flew out of the window and crashed into the rocky outcropping, throwing Lilo and Stitch from the impact. The landing summersaulted them across the hard rock three times before they finally stopped.
Lilo found herself lying on her stomach and her hair quickly becoming soaked. She was wearing a nor'easter hat, so that shouldn't be happening. Right? After the sharp pains from the scrapes and bruises of her landing dulled to the point of being tolerable, Lilo opened her eyes to see her head dangling over the edge of the outcropping, staring at her hat drifting in the wind toward the violence of the waters below.
Frantically, Lilo scrambled up to stand, and then fell back onto her butt. She scooted backwards toward the opposite cliff face but found herself wrapped in rubbery yellow arms before she could reach it.
Lilo turned her head to see Stitch in his rain-slicker, and still with his hat. After letting go of Lilo, Stitch took his own hat off and placed it on Lilo's head.
"Gaba Lilo okie-taka?" Stitch asked.
"Yeah." Lilo answered, looking back over the edge of the outcropping, and then back toward Stitch. "I'm fine."
The fur on Stitch's face was thoroughly soaked and water was dripping into his rain-slicker. Under any other conditions Stitch would be squirming and crying in agony at the feeling of being so wet, but this time he managed to put on light smile and a squint for Lilo.
Lilo stood back up and walked over to the edge of the outcropping, and leaned over to look at the ocean. Stitch, seeing this, slowly reached out as if to grab her, even though she was too far away.
Lilo reached into the pocket of her rain-slicker and pulled out what looked to be a credit card. It took a moment for Stitch to realize it was Jumba's digital camera. Lilo held the device close to her face for a few seconds, and then threw it over the outcropping into the ocean.
As Lilo turned around and walked back toward Stitch, he narrowed his eyes and cocked his head in confusion. As Lilo reached Stitch, he spoke up.
"Why Lilo throw away camera?" Stitch asked.
"I'm not taking anyone's picture. I'm gonna stop that guy from killing my parents!"
"But… Jumba says-"
"I don't care what Jumba said!" Lilo screamed at Stitch before he could finish his sentence. She plopped back down onto the ground, her palms on the ground, and began to cry. "I want mom and dad back."
Lilo buried her head in her hands and began to sob away. Stitch tried to approach her, only to be met with a shove as he got too close.
Stitch knew better than to give in to her demands, he's seen first hand what happens when you mess with time, but his emotions got the better of him. He couldn't stand to see Lilo like this.
"Climb onto Stitch's back." He said. "I will save parents."
Lilo lifted her head to look at Stitch. He was relieved to see her smiling at him.
"Thank you Stitch." She whispered, and then walked over to wrap her arms and legs tightly around Stitch's back.
Stitch looked at Lilo with her face pressed against the back of his neck, and then up at the cliff. He placed his hands of the cliff face, and was relieved to find they stuck despite it being so wet, and began to climb.
As Stitch reached to top of the cliff, he swung his right leg over the edge and pulled himself up onto the ground. Walking forward a few steps, he then pried Lilo's hands off of him, and she fell to the ground and quickly got back up again and looked around.
"This is the same ledge that man was on." Lilo whispered just loud enough for Stitch to hear.
Stitch turned his head toward Lilo and then turned it back and looked around to the right. He turned back toward Lilo when he felt her tapping on his shoulder. Lilo was pointing to the left. Stitch turned his head that way to see a large rock jutting up from the ground just a foot away from the road.
"Let's hide behind that rock until he gets here." Lilo said.
"Ih!" Stitch responded, and they both ran and ducked behind the rock so they couldn't be seen from the road.
Stitch blinked his eyes and they were bright red as he opened them. Lilo sat with her back against the rock as Stitch peaked out looking every way hoping to see someone in infrared.
Ten minutes passed. There was nothing but the storm and the lightning.
Fifteen minutes passed, still, there was nothing.
Seventeen minutes. Still nothing.
"I he here yet?" Lilo asked, looking up at Stitch.
Stitch looked down at Lilo with his glowing red eyes. "Naga. No one's here." He said.
Lilo stood up and turned around to look at the road. She couldn't see anything except, off in the distance, a car was pulling around the bend. It was an old beat up looking wooden station wagon.
"He's not here." Lilo whispered to herself in confusion. "And my parents have already showed up."
Just then, a flash of lightning jolted Lilo and Stitch's attention to the opposite side of the road. The sound was defening, and Lilo and Stitch could feel the vibrations in their chests, as the bolt had struck less than a hundred feet from them. The lightning bolt hit a palm tree sticking out of the side of the cliff. The base of the tree was split right open, and with the great creaking one would expect, the tree fell over onto the road.
Lilo couldn't believe what she just saw. Her eyes went wide and her jaw began to quiver. She shook her head hoping that would make what she just saw different, but it was still the same.
"Lightning?" she whispered to herself. "Lightning caused that crash? They were right. No one else was there. I imagined the whole thing."
Lilo looked back toward her parents' car still driving toward the downed palm tree. Stitch was looking back and fourth toward the tree, toward Lilo, and toward the car, whimpering only slightly, his ears back and his mouth just barely open.
"But we can still save them!" Lilo yelled out. "Go save them Stitch!"
Stitch got up and was about to take off down the road when Lilo grabbed hold of his arm. Stitch turned back around to look at her.
"Make sure they don't see you." Lilo said.
"Ih!"
With that, Stitch blinked again, and his eyes returned to their normal black. Lilo let go of his arm, and he shot off down the road so fast that his rain-slicker flew of off him and drifted into the distance.
Inside Lilo's parents' car, one could barely hear Elvis' 'All Shook Up' playing over the sound of the storm outside.
Eric Pelekai leaned toward the windshield intently with both hands gripping the steering wheel tightly.
Keala Pelekai stared intently at a book of roadmaps she was pressing against the dashboard. She turned the book on its side and brought her face in for a closer look.
In the back seat, with her nose in a gameboy was Lilo Pelekai in her red mumu dotted with yellow flowers.
"I can't see anything in this storm.!" Eric finally spoke up.
Eric lifted one hand off the steering wheel to rub a small gold statue of Elvis as the Buddha.
"Please be watchin' ova' us now." Eric said as he took his hand off the Elvis Buddha and back to the steering wheel.
Eric continued, "How far away's Kokaua again?"
Keala looked up from her book toward Eric. "We should be thea' any minute now." She told him. "We might've already passed it without knowing."
"Damn…" Eric whispered to himself.
He then turned his head back toward the little girl in the back seat.
"Hey Lilo? When we get to Nani's I want you to put away that game and spend as much time as ya' can wit'er. We're not gonna' see her for four yea's when she's at college at Honolulu."
Everyone in the car suddenly flung forward as their speed dropped down to half in less than a second. The tires squeeled and the car filled with the smelle of burning oil as Eric reflexively slammed on the gas, pushing against whatever was pushing against the car. Lilo's gameboy flew out of her hands and hit Eric in the back of the head, knocking him out. Eric released his hold on the gas and slumped forwad over the steering wheel.
In a split second reaction, Keala flung her hand under the limp Eric and yanked on the emergency break. Already so slowed from whatever had been pushing on it, the car came to a gentle halt.
Eric Pelekai slowly opened his eyes to his car door open, and Keala standing outside over him fanning him with her book of roadmaps. He looked over to the passenger side to see Lilo leaning toward him, both of her hands on his arm.
The storm had calmed and the downpour had turned into a light sprinkle.
"What… just happened?" Eric asked, barely able to get the words out of his winded lungs.
"Come on." Keala told him, unbuckled him from his seat and helped him out of the car.
Lilo crawled over her seat to the driver's side and then hopped out of the car herself, following her parents.
Keala led Eric to the front of the car and pointed at the bumper.
Eric's lower lip hung open and he pulled back the muscles on the sides of his eyes as he looked at the bumper.
Two paw prints were indented into the chrome three inches deep. Lilo ran to Keala's side and looked at the bumber with them.
"Wow!" Lilo exclaimed. "What could've done that?"
"Not just that." Keala answered, and she pointed back toward the road behind the car.
The concrete had been raised from the road in two tracks coinciding with the center of the car.
"Nothing has that kind'a strength." Eric whispered to himself, shaking his head.
"Whatever it was," Keala continued. "I think we owe that thing."
Lilo and Eric looked at Keala, who was looking in front of the car. They both turned to look in front of the car and found a downed palm tree not ten feet in front of them.
"Do you think it was a guardian angel?" Lilo asked.
"Maybe." Eric answered. "I dunno'."
Back on the ledge overlooking what was once a fatal and gruesome accident scene. Lilo barely peaked her head out from behind the rock that obscured her view from her parents and her previous self. She jumped just barely as she felt a hand on her shoulder.
Lilo turned around to see Stitch standing just behind her, his paws dirty, and many scratches on his ankles.
Lilo lunged forward and hugged Stitch as hard as she could.
"Thank you." She whispered into his ear.
"Come on Lilo. Let's go home."
Stitch got up and turned around. Lilo once again climbed onto his back and wrapped her arms and legs around him. Slowly and methodically, Stitch climbed back down the cliff to the rocky outcropping that held Jumba's time board.
When he reached the bottom, Lilo got off of Stitch and they both stepped onto the board.
Lilo watched as Stitch frantically punched in coordinates on the touch screen terminal, and then turned a knob looking like a key in an ignition switch.
Stitch turned toward Lilo. As he time board began to float in the air, and the whole world started to vanish in a bright light, Lilo gave Stitch one last thing to ponder.
"I wonder how the world will change now that my parents are still alive."