First of all, to business. Lilo and Stitch is the copyright property of Disney and the Timesplitters are the property of Eidos Interactive.
Thank you to Delta Operator and Fshlvr who reviewed.
Slight plot change: I have decided to have the splitters operate in the background and help Dr Johnson without his knowledge.
Delta Operator: Thanks for the names. Please stop pointing your gun at my head.
Fshlvr: Thank you for your input. I will add Ricks file to my profile as soon as I have time.
Chapter 3: The plot thickens
High Earth orbit
U.S.S Interger control room
2789AD
Dr Johnson walked into his study. Everything was going to plan. He sat down at his desk and opened his e-mail. 'Ah, there it is.' He thought, spotting a message from his colleague onboard the Honolulu. Opening the message, he smiled as he viewed the blueprints for the virus and the vaccine experiment. "You did a good job, Dr Nova" said Dr Johnson as he prepared an e-mail reply that was loaded with one of the many computer viruses his R&D department made for him "shame my employers want no witnesses." He pressed send just as another device on his desk began to beep. He swivelled round, answered it…and regretted it immediately. "Oh, no. Not you again" He said as the face of a white hamster wearing a cape appeared. "Dr Hamsterviel, What do you want?" "I want to know where the experiment weapons you have been promising me is." Said the thing known as Hamsterviel. "That idiot, Gantu lost another experiment yesterday." Johnson committed hamster genocide in his imagination and answered "My staff can only work so fast. I have just received the virus schematics so they should be ready soon." "Good, but what if they bite me?" said Hamsterviel. 'Then they deserve medals.' Thought Dr Johnson answering "My staff has designed an experiment that can cure the virus. We will send that as well."
Hamsterviel looked thoughtful for a moment then said "Fine, send them as soon as they are ready or I will come to insult you physically as well as verbally." Dr Johnson snapped at this and screamed "I'd like to see you try, you little white rat." And cut the connection. His other employer was better then this and Dr Johnson only got e-mails from him. The last one had been weird, warning that an illegal time jumper was going to try to sabotage the operation. He thought about the equipment that this 'Lord Splliten' had sent him. The temporal comm had been weird enough but the timeship in the docking bay was weirder. His techs had gone over it with a fine tooth comb but had found nothing that they recognised.
Just then, his comm burst into life, saying "Warning. Time portal detected in New Honolulu." 'So, there is a saboteur. He'll make a fine test subject for the virus before we send it.' Johnson thought as a picture of the saboteur came up on screen. He posted the picture to his contacts at the NHPD and logged off. There was work to do.
New Honolulu
Abandoned hotel
12:15pm 2789AD
The locals called it 'The Haunted Hilton' and many urban legends talked of the disappearances and the shadowy figures that roamed its deserted rooms. The Pan Pacific 'employment' team were busy adding to this legend by cornering a Link-like experiment in the old lobby. "Come quietly…or else." Said one of the men, pointing a 'viper' SMG at the shaking creature. The experiment, who's name was Lucas began to notice a blue glow appearing behind the four-strong team. The soldiers noticed it as well and raised their guns in the direction of three silhouettes that were materialising at the centre of the glow. All this was too much for Lucas and he passed out. When he came to, he found four unconscious Pan Pacific soldiers lying face down in the dirt. He thanked whoever had rescued him under his breath and ran home as fast as he could.
Next Morning…
"I can't believe you attacked them." Said Rick to Matt as the three of them strolled out of the B&B where they had spent the night. Matt didn't answer, he had experienced the worst night of his life. His uplink had activated a fraction too slow and since he was not fireproof unlike his new companions, he had ended up slightly charred. Then, some punks with assault rifles had tried to capture them as soon as they had rematerialised so Matt had been forced to send them to 'sleepy land' as he called it. Luckily, one of them had got his wallet on him so Matt stolen the credits in it. Matt was determined to find out what this 'EXP-Virus' was and stop it before someone got killed…or worse. "Who was the picture of?" asked Akira. "What picture?" said Matt, while half in thought about what to do next. "The picture you were looking at last night. You started crying." Answered Akira "Was it your ohana?" Matt stopped for a moment, causing the two experiments to bump into his legs. He turned to look at Akira. "It was…nothing." He lied. "It doesn't concern you, or anyone come to that." He changed the subject. "Look, remember what I told you last night, about Dr Nova's logs." Rick and Akira both nodded. "Well, this Pan Pacific Company is still active and according to my uplink, we've arrived the day after the incident on board the U.S.S Honolulu. We need to make sure this virus isn't produced on earth and to do that we need to get into the labs somehow." Matt then looked crestfallen "I just don't know how we are going to do that."
"Hey, Matt. Some cops over there are watching us." whispered Rick, pointing out two patrolmen who were alternating their stare between Matt and what looked like a personal organizer in their hand. As Matt, Akira and Rick watched they seemed to reach a decision and began to cross the street towards them. "Good morning, sir" started the first cop "My name is Corporal Riley and this is Corporal Hart. We would like to ask you a few questions if you would care to step this way." The corporal gestured to what must have been their patrol car. "What have we done?" asked Akira. This obviously made the two corporals mad as the next thing Riley said was "Shut up, Experiment." Pronouncing the word 'Experiment' the way other people would pronounce 'Cockroach' or 'Scumbag'. Matt immediately took a disliking to the two policemen but didn't show it; instead he said "We haven't done anything. There is no need to arrest…oh." The 'oh' was because Corporal Hart had produced his pistol and was aiming it at Matt. "Just come quietly and no one has to get hurt." Said Corporal Hart gesturing with his gun to the patrol car "Try anything and your little friends might get hu…urk!" He was abruptly silenced as Matt kneed him in the stomach. As Matt, Akira and Rick ran into the crowd on the street, Corporal Riley found out he couldn't follow because Akira had tied his shoelaces together.
Ten minutes later…
Matt peered out of the alley that they were hiding in. "No sign of Tweedle dumb and Tweedle dumber. Let's go." Matt reached into his pocket and pulled out the last of the credits that he had got from the soldiers last night. "Anyone hungry?" Both Akira and Rick nodded furiously. On unspoken agreement they went to a pizza hut and ordered a large farmhouse pizza. Matt had a coke while Akira insisted that she and Rick have orange juice to drink. "Why just orange?" Matt asked. Akira just said "You don't want to know. Trust me." Later, while Akira was in the restroom, Matt decided to share his coke with Rick because Rick had finished his orange juice. "Don't tell Akira." Said Matt as Rick gulped down his portion of coke. "Err, are you ok?" Asked Matt as Ricks left eye began to twitch. "I dunno." Answered Rick. "I feel a little…"
Corporal Riley and Corporal Hart were in deep trouble. "I can't believe you let them get away." Said Riley to his partner. "Now Dr Johnson's probably going to use us for test subjects, instead." Corporal Hart just sighed. "We'll never find them now." Continued Riley "It's not like they're going to fly into our laps…AHHH!" Both cops screamed as Matt came flying out of the window of a pizza hut and landed on the bonnet of their squad car. Matt raised his head long enough to say "Caffeine bad for experiments. Matt sleep now." And with that he dropped unconscious. Riley and Hart got out and looked over at the half-destroyed restaurant where Akira was attempting to restrain a hyperactive Rick as the other customers ran for the exits. "You were saying" said Corporal Hart as they pulled out their stun guns and shot Akira and Rick. "Shut up!" said Riley as he got out his communicator "Doctor Johnson? We have the people you wanted in custody. They'll be with you in the hour."
Matt's dream
Matt's POV
I was in the control area of some kind of spacecraft. As I took in my surroundings I noticed that I wasn't alone. I could see myself, Akira and Rick at various control consoles as well as several other experiments that I did not recognise. My other self stood up and told one of the unknown experiments to activate the comms. Apparently the experiment my other self addressed was called Stitch. A face appeared on the plasma screen on the front of the room (imagine the bridge of the U.S.S Defiant from Star Trek: DS9, only with joysticks on the captains chairs arms) and I nearly burst out laughing. It was some kind of Gerbil. The other me began to shout angrily to the face on the screen. "Hamsterviel! Give us back Lilo, you smeghead." The experiment known as 'Stitch' also spoke, saying "Ih. Give back Lilo, Stupidhead." At this the other unknown experiments began to speak up. I didn't understand a word that they said though. This didn't seem to bother the thing known as Hamsterviel one bit. Instead, he said "You are not in the position to be doing the bargaining. You are in the position to be dying." At this his face disappeared and an explosion rocked the ship. "That double-crossing…activate the weapons." My other self said as more explosions caused the control area to shake even more. One of the control panels exploded violently, throwing a pink female experiment to the floor. Stitch ran to her shouting "Bushi-Bu!" Obviously distressed. Another explosion caught Rick knocking him to the ground as well. By now the control area was in tatters, with cables and support beam hanging down and shorted out console spitting sparks or burning. "Warning! Core containment field failure! Anti-matter core breach in Five minutes!" sounded what must have been the computer. "Everyone" my other self shouted, bleeding from a cut above his left eye, "Get to the transporter. We have to abandon ship!" As more explosions rocked the remains of the bridge. "Caution! Unauthorised teleportation lock detected!" sounded the computer. The next second a red clone of the pink experiment on the floor disappeared in a flash of light. "Kala." My other self shouted as a fireball engulfed the area from which I was watching…
Unknown location
Matt's POV
I woke up with a start. That dream had been too real for my liking. I took stock of my surroundings. I seemed to be in some kind of holding cell of some kind. I thought back to what I could remember. I remembered Rick turning into a caffeine fuelled apocalypse which ate the pizza as well as the plate it was on and most of the table. I had attempted to stun him but that had just made things worse and he'd thrown me through the window. I spun round when I heard a moan behind me. It was Rick. "What happened?" he moaned "I feel like I've had half a gallon of lager." I was about to answer him when I noticed the absence of something important. "My uplink. It's gone." I screamed in genuine horror. The uplink was my only ticket home. Without it, I was stranded in this dimension with no way to get home. "Screw your uplink thing, where's Akira?" said Rick. "I'm over here" said a voice from the cell next door. "I told you not to give Rick cola." I walked up to the door of the cell. "Where are we?" I muttered out loud. "You are my guests." Said a voice from a speaker in one of the corners of the room. "But how rude of me. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Doctor Ricardo Johnson, head of Pan Pacific industries bio-weapons division." A memory in my head woke up. "You're the nutcase who killed the crew of the U.S.S Honolulu." I said without thinking. I struck one of the unseen doctor's nerves. "How did you know that?" he shouted, and then he settled down and continued "Lord Splliten was right. You could be trouble. Your uplink device has quite interesting circuitry. Tell me how you made it and I won't use you for a guinea pig for the next batch of E.X.P-Virus." At those words I stopped talking, this crazyman had began making the virus. "Fine." Said Dr Johnson "I will give you until tomorrow to decide. Good day. Oh and even if you escape, we're on a Starship and I am the only one with access to the shuttle launch codes." And with that he switched off the speaker.
Normal POV
Matt, Rick and Akira sat gloomily in their cells, awaiting whatever it was that Dr Johnson had in store for them. "So much for saving the world." Moaned Matt. He had been in a negative mood ever since Dr Johnson had told him that his uplink was dismantled. "Hey, cheer up." Said Rick as they sat together on the only bed in the cell. "It's not your fault."
"Hey, who's that?" Matt said. There were footsteps going up to Akira's cell. Rick and Matt heard the cell door open then they heard Akira scream in fright. "AKIRA!" yelled Rick and he mindlessly ran at their cell door and went clean through it. Matt looked at the door wide-eyed at what he just witnessed. "No way!" Matt mouthed. He floated back to reality at the sounds of a struggle in Akira's cell. He listened until the sounds stopped then shook his head sadly, he'd liked Rick. Matt looked up as the door to his cell opened and prepared to see a battered Rick tossed back in. Instead he saw Rick and Akira standing in the doorway, grinning like Cheshire cats. Matt started grinning as well and said "Lets go kick Dr Johnson's arse."
Dr Johnson's private lab
Level 12: U.S.S Interger
"Dr Johnson, sir?" Said the tremoring voice of the head of security. "What is it? This had better be important." Said Dr Johnson, silently fuming with anger at the interruption. "The new test subjects have escaped. They were last seen heading for your location." Said the unlucky security officer on the other end of the intercom. "You will double the guard on level 12. Shoot them on sight. Do you understand me?" Commanded Dr Johnson "The transport pods are almost ready for their time jump to 2005. Nothing must go wrong." The officer on the intercom sighed with relief openly. "Yes sir. I will see to it personally." Dr Johnson terminated the connection and turned his attention to the red experiment pod on his worktop. The numbers 777 were visible on it. "You are going to make me very rich." He whispered to the dehydrated experiment. He had altered the programming slightly as Dr Hamsterviel had requested. The first non-experiment lifeform this creature saw would be its unshakable master. He was a genius. He began to bring up a different program marked 'Targeting orders'. Four images appeared on the screen, his four E.X.P-Class experiments. He had used the cloning templates of the four most powerful experiments that ever lived: 624, 625, 626 and 627. They would be indistinguishable from the real thing. That Lilo would never suspect anything until it was far too late. Dr Johnson half-heard the door to his lab open but paid it no attention. It was probably a cleaning bot. He was about to send 777's pod to the launch area to be loaded in its transport pod when a hand snatched it from him and a pulse pistol was pressed to his head. "Ah. The traveller, I presume. I trust the guards are still breathing." He said calmly his back still to Matt. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't blow your head off." Said Matt through gritted teeth. "Well, I am the only one who knows the pod destruct codes." Said Dr Johnson coolly. The pistol was withdrawn and he was pushed out of his seat. Matt sat in his place and said "Tell me the codes or Rick will break your evil little neck." He gestured to an orange experiment that resembled 626. "A victim of the virus, no doubt." Rick and Akira both snarled at him "Fine. The code is 349AW45." Matt entered the code and pressed enter. A rumble could be heard and Matt, Akira and Rick rushed to the view window, only to watch with dismay as four black pods flew into the distance. Matt spun round with his pistol drawn shouting "You're dead. You little weaselling excuse for a human." But Dr Johnson had already fled and several guards with Plasma autorifles burst in and began firing at them. Matt, Akira and Rick dived behind Johnson's worktop and got a shower as a stray blast hit Dr Johnson's water jug. "Hey, what happening?" yelled Matt above the sound of plasma fire as the pod in his hand began to glow. It swelled up into a red energy orb and burst with a blinding flash of light. In its place was the red experiment that Matt had seen in his dream. It looked up at him and said one word: "Master?" Matt was taken aback. Usually he was called either Matt or 'Stop him!" but never 'Master'. "What are we going to do?" yelled Rick above the din that the guard's autorifles were making. "I don't know. We've got to deal with those guards first." Answered Matt. 777 looked thoughtful then extended two extra arms that were under its first pair and climbed over the top of the worktop. "She didn't last long." Shouted Akira. Matt noticed that the shooting seemed to have stopped. He peered over the top of their makeshift cover and saw the stunned bodies of the guards with Experiment 777 standing among them. "I have removed them, Master." She said, smiling pleasantly. "Wow." Was the only thing that Matt could say. Akira stepped up to 777 and asked "Is there a fast ship onboard that we could use?" "Of course." 777 answered and ran out into the corridor shouting "Follow me, Master." Matt just shrugged and He, Rick and Akira ran after 777.
U.S.S Interger docking bay
Matt, Akira, Rick and the newly activated experiment 777 ran into the docking area and stopped. Matt's face burst into a grin as he spotted the ship sitting in the launch tube. "Oh, yes!" he shouted, punching the air for joy. What was sitting before them was a timeship. He'd recognise one anywhere, maybe he could still get home when all this was over. They ran through the open hatch into the interior of the ship. When they reached the control room he stopped. This was the room from his dream. He sat down in the pilots chair and watched as his friends sat in the exact same places that he had seen them sit in the dream. "Let's go get that virus." Matt said as he felt the engines power up and the ship accelerate out of the Docking bay into space.
U.S.S Interger Bridge
Dr Johnson burst into onto the control deck, obviously furious. His joke of a security had not only, let this 'Traveller' person escape along with his accomplices, they had let him steal and activate X-777 and make off with the timeship that Lord Splliten had sent. Even now they were accelerating after the transport pods with the presumed intent of blowing them to atoms. "After them!" he screamed at an unlucky crewman "They must be stopped before they destroy those pods." Another crew member interrupted "Sir, I am reading two E.S.C (Earth Space Command) vessels on an intercept course with the timeship. Should we continue the pursuit?" Dr Johnson began to feel happier. Finally, a piece of good luck. "No, let the E.S.C take care of them for us." He said "Keep me informed."
Earth orbit
On board the timeship…
Matt looked at the picture on the viewscreen, there were the transport pods, containing the virus experiments. All they had to do was get in weapon range before the pods activated their time drives and Dr Johnson's plans were kaput. "Warning! Time drive signatures detected! Estimated time to activation: 1 minute" chimed the computer. "Alert! Incoming weapon fire." The bridge shook as whoever was firing scored a direct hit. "What the smeg?" Matt shouted as he fell of his seat "Who's shooting at us?" Akira looked at the console she was at for a second then answered "Its two ships from the earth defence fleet. They must think we're space pirates." Matt thought about what to do. Even splitter timeships were no match for 28th century defence cruisers in open combat. Another explosion caused an unmanned computer station to erupt in a shower of sparks. "Alert! Primary engines disabled." Said the computer calmly. The comms spluttered into life "This is Captain Hawk of the Earth defence cruiser, North Star. Your ship is disabled. Prepare to be boarded." Matt flopped down in the pilot seat and watched as the pods disappeared in flashes of blue light. 777 came up to Matt and said "What's wrong, Master?" Matt looked down at the red experiment and answered "We had to stop those pods that just time jumped but now we are about to get arrested, and you don't have to call me 'Master'." 777 walked over to the co-pilot controls and began to fiddle with the circuits underneath the console. There was a flash and the computer announced "Temporal signature locked! Charging time drive! Stand by!" Matt looked shocked, said "Nice work, 777." And fainted from shock.
Bridge of U.S.S North Star
"Captain. The pirate vessel is charging its hyperdrive." Said one of the crew. Captain Hawk stood up and ordered the comms opened "What are you doing? Stop your engines before you kill us all." There was a moment of silence, and then a voice came on the speakers. "I'm sorry but Matt seems to have fainted. Can I take a message?" Everyone on the bridge just looked gobsmacked. "Close the comms. Lock on to the ship with stun torpedoes and fire at will." Ordered Captain Hawk.
Bridge of the timeship
Everyone sat down in their seats and waited. Even Matt (who was still fainted) had been propped up in his seat and strapped in. The bridge began to shake as the two defence cruisers unleashed wave after wave of stun torpedoes. "Time drive charged." Announced the computer "Activating in 5…4…3…2…1…Engaging!"
Bridge of U.S.S North Star
Captain Hawk watched as the tiny ship disappeared in a flash of blue light. "That was no ordinary hyperdrive. Find out where they are going and inform the local defence fleet." He ordered. "Err. Sir?" said the sensor officer. "The ships engine signature isn't there. It's just disappeared." Captain Hawk just looked thoughtful "I wonder…"
Kauai Island
Date 12/06/2006
Unknown location
"Commander." Shouted a splitter grunt as he ran to the command centre that had been set up in the cave network. "Message from the Splitter lord for you. Sir." The commander turned to his computer and activated the comm. The face of the Splitter lord appeared. "Commander, My spy in the 28th century has informed me that Dr Johnson has sent the virus experiments to Dr Hamsterviel. Make sure his minion, Gantu finds them." The commander saluted "It shall be done." He said. "Good. There is one more thing though." Said the splitter lord "It turns out that the traveller is in pursuit of the virus experiments. Kill him. Get this right, we do not want a repeat of the U.S.S Honolulu, Commander Darleas." Darleas saluted again "I will see to his death personally."
END OF PROLOGUE
There we go! The prologue is finished.
I now have a new name for Lilo624. If you can't wait until the next instalment of the saga, her new name is posted in my profile. Thank you to everyone who sent me suggestions for names.
To author, Celebi: Any similarities between your experiment 623 aka Demon and my experiment 777 are completely accidental. X-777 is an original experiment that I came up with.
Everyone, please read & review. The more reviews, the better
There will be a delay before I post the next instalment while I come up with ideas. Also I have college work to do.
To all authors: THIS IS NOT A CROSSOVER!
I am still seeking help in drawing my experiments. Please contact me at my e-mail if you can help.