The Beginning of the End

By: Kioko the pirate

Chapter 5: Nani's Hard Decision

As Kioko, stitch and Lilo zoom through vortex space on their way to the desert planet where Angel was, back on earth it was almost 1:00am. Nani came down from the kid's bedroom after reading them a few bedtime stories; she walked into the living room where Jumba and Pleakly were watching T.V.

She looks around the room and does not see her sister or Stitch. "Where's Lilo?" yells Nani in a panicky voice.

"Not so little girl left with 6-2-6 and Kioko a few hours ago." Said Jumba as he took a sip of his soda.

"She did what? Ooh, she is in so much trouble when she gets back!" growls Nani.

"You shouldn't be too surprised Nani, Lilo does this sort of stuff all the time." Said Pleakly.

Nani sighed. "I know, but I'm just worried about her. What if she gets hurt, you saw what that one guy did to Kioko."

"Not to be worrying, she is having both 6-2-6 and Kioko to watch after her. They will not let anything happen to younger sibling." Said Jumba as he turns to face Nani.

"Yeah, you know how protective Stitch is of Lilo." Added Pleakly.

"Yeah but…" started Nani

"But nothing, older girl needs to relax. They will all come home safely, do not to be worrying." Said Jumba as he turns back to his show.

Nani sighs and walks into the kitchen. "I can't help but worry, my little sister is always off with dangerous aliens doing dangerous things." Nani walks over and leans against the wall. "I wish there was something that I could do about it." Nani rests her head against the wall and looks over at the phone on the wall. "Maybe there is something I can do." Said Nani as an idea begins to form in her mind.

She walked over and picked up the phone, she quickly dialed the number. The phone began to ring and a moment later it was picked up.

"Hello?" came a young sounding female voice.

"Hello, this is Nani Pelekai; I need to talk to Cobra Bubbles Please."

"I'm sorry he's asleep right now."

"Then wake him!" growled Nani.

"Ye… Yes ma'am."

There was a pause and about a minute or two later the silence was broken by the strong, calm voice of Cobra. "What is it Nani, you know it's almost 1:00 in the morning."

"Listen sorry to wake you but… I need you to come over right away. We need to discuss something." Said Nani quietly.

"I'll be over as soon as possible."

With that Nani hung up the phone and sat down at the kitchen table. She rested her head on her arms and sighed, a few minutes later there was a knock at the door.

"I'll get it!" yells Nani as she rushes over to the front door.

She opens it to find Cobra Bubbles standing there; he was wearing his usual black suit and sunglasses.

"Thanks for coming over so late at night." Said Nani.

Cobra steps inside. "Yes, well what is it that you need to discuss with me?" asked Cobra.

Nani looks over at Jumba and Pleakly and then back towards Cobra. "Let's discuss it in the kitchen."

Cobra nods and the two of them walk into the kitchen; they sit down on different sides of the table so that they are facing each other. "Now, what is this urgent matter?" asks bubbles.

Nani gave a big sigh. "It's about Lilo."

"What about Lilo."

"She's gone off with Kioko and Stitch to save Angel."

"And let me guess, you're worried about her safety?"

"Yeah, you see the people who took Angel are very dangerous. I'm worried that she might get hurt or even worse. Then to top it off she's alone with two of the most dangerous Aliens out there."

"So why did you call me?" asked Cobra as he raised an eyebrow.

"I've put up with her going and doing dangerous things with these aliens, but this is the last straw. I don't like her being around these aliens and I want to know if ther is anything we can do?"

Bubbles sighed. "Nani I'm not sure what ther is we can do?"

"What do you mean you're not sure?"

"Well, years ago we might have had more options but Lilo is almost 18. Almost a legal adult and I'm afraid that my supervision over her and her welfare is drawing to a close."

"I don't care; she's still my little sister and I don't want her getting hurt!" said Nani angrily.

"You do know that any effort to keep her from doing these dangerous acts would most likely fail." Said Cobra as he placed his elbows on the table.

Nani sighed and held her forehead; she knew that he was right. Even if they were to shackle Lilo to her bed, she would find some way to escape. But she had to do something, she wasn't about to let her only sister get hurt or killed because of these aliens.

"We just have to do something though." Said Nani as she looked up at Cobra.

"Like I said, our options are very limited in this matter. Besides having the aliens around has not always proven to be a bad thing. Like when the asteroid was heading for Earth, if it hadn't been for the aliens we all would have perished." Said Cobra as he removed his sunglasses.

"But because of the aliens, Lilo was placed in a dangerous position. Their ship might have crashed into the asteroid." Argued Nani.

"What about the experiments, if it hadn't been for the aliens they would have surely destroyed the world." Said Cobra.

"But if it hadn't been for the aliens, the experiments would never have been here in the first place." Growled Nani.

Cobra sat there with a thoughtful look on his face for a moment. "Well it would appear that the aliens have been both the problem causers and the problem solvers."

"Yes, now what are some of the options that we do have?" asked Nani with a sigh.

"Well the only thing that I can think of at the moment is to have the aliens move into a house of their own. That way you and Lilo could have the house to your selves again and Lilo would not be able to access as many dangerous situations." Said Cobra with his eyes closed.

"That wouldn't work; Lilo would just end up spending all her time over there so it would be pointless. Plus we have this bigger house now and it would be too much of a hassle to keep clean with only two people living in it."

"Well that's the only thing that I can think of." Said Cobra as he opened his eyes.

"Are you sure that there is nothing else we can do, I just want me and my sisters lives to back to normal."

"Are you sure that getting ride of the aliens would be a good idea? It's because of the aliens and more specifically Stitch, that you and your sister's relationship with each other improved."

Nani gave a sigh and turned sideways in her chair. "That's true; Stitch did bring our ohana together, even if he was a pain in the butt."

"So does this mean that you will forget about making them leave?" asked Cobra.

Nani gave yet another drawn out sigh and turned back towards Cobra. "No." said Nani straight out.

"But…"

"No, no but, granted the aliens have done good around here but they have caused more trouble then anything else." Nani got up and walked to the other side of the room and folded her arms across her chest. "They still must go."

"You understand that this will make Lilo very unhappy and most likely angry at you." Said Cobra

Nani sighed. "Yes, I know that, but it's for her own good."

"I understand." Said Bubbles calmly.

Nani turns back towards Cobra and walks towards him. "Are you sure that there is nothing that we can do?" asked Nani as she sat down again.

Cobras at there with a thoughtful look on his face, after about 15 minutes an idea finally popped into his head. "I might be able to talk the Galactic Federation into moving Stitch somewhere else to serve out his exile; we could also send Jumba and the rest ther as well."

"You mean somewhere off of this planet?"

"Yes."

Nani looked away as she thought about her decision, she knew that it would hurt her sister but she would rather have Lilo upset then have her dead. "When can you get a hold of them?" asked Nani as she looked back at Cobra.

"I have a communications uplink in my car, I will call them now." Said Cobra as he stood up and headed for the front door.

As Cobra was heading to his car, Nani leaned back in her chair and held her forehead. 'It's for Lilo's safety that I'm doing this, she must understand that. I just hope that she can eventually forgive me; I hope that all of them can forgive me. Besides like Cobra said, Lilo's almost 18 and she is going to want out move out soon and when she does that she will be leaving them behind. So it doesn't matter, because this was inevitable.' Thought Nani as tears began to well up in her eyes.

As she sat there waiting for Cobra to return she listened to the clock on the wall. She became almost hypnotized by it; every click of the hands seemed to be making the pain worse. As if the clock were scolding her, she new that this would hurt but not as much. It seemed like a century had passed when Cobra finally came back into the kitchen. Nani snapped out of her trance and looked up at him.

"Well, what did they say?" asked Nani.

"They have agreed to move Stitch and the other aliens to a new planet."

"That's good." Said Nani with a far off look in her eye.

"There's just a few last things." Said Cobra.

"What is it?"

"The aliens have until the end of the coming Holiday season before they have to leave."

"Well, that does seem fair." Said Nani.

"And then there's the… um… paper work." Bubbles dropped a pile of papers a foot tall on the table.

Nani's jaw dropped. "You must be kidding me." Moaned Nani as Cobra dropped a pen in front of her.

Cobra walked over and kneeled down next to her. "Your absolutely sure you want to do this? There will be consequences."

"Cobra, I don't want my sister getting hurt and I'm prepared to accept the consequences." Nani picked up the first sheet of paper and sat it down in front of her. 'Lilo, please forgive me.' Thought Nani as she began to fill out the paper.

Hey, that's the end of this chapter, and for once I kept it under 10 pages. There will be more action in the next chapter, anyway please review. Later.