Here is the new chapter! I am going to take a small, interesting, angsty twist.

Disclaimer: I do not own Lilo and Stitch the series, or any of its colorful, stupid, bitchy characters. I do own 612, 610, 614, 377, 542, and Armory.

Chapter 10: Road to Recovery

Inside the house, five experiments looked over and breathed down the neck of a certain 600-series experiment. He was bruised, beaten, stabbed, shot, and was now being pumped full of morphine. Jumba looked over in worry. No experiment had ever been attacked so horribly. Not even his best experiment, 626.

The purple experiment, 610 held on to the palm of the unconscious 612, hoping he could get back up. Stitch was concerned. An unknown force had brutal mauled his cousin, but atleast he could save himself. His face and ears flopped down. If he knew, he could do something. Angel looked in concern...when Stitch was not happy, Angel usually wasn't. She patted Stitch consolingly.

"Stitch? Is something wrong?" A voice said. Everyone looked at the door. It was Lilo. Jumba got up and pushed Lilo out of the room.

"Uh, Little Girl, 626 and 624 are looking over new experiment. No need for you to get involve." The evil genius lied. Jumba felt Lilo shouldn't see a near dead experiment.

"Oh...Bushi bu, please wake up!" 610 said caressing 612's limp hand. "Please? For me?"

"610." Bonnie said. "We have to hope for the best. Hell, I am not sure if he could make it.

Something snapped in the purple cat's brain. She made an angry scowl at the thief. She grabbed Bonnie by the throat and slammed her on the wall.

"Never say that! 612 was able to escape from an asteroid and he'll make it through this!"

"Okay, okay. Calm down." The purple experiment released her grip. Bonnie held her throat and coughed. "Jeez..."

"Can you blame her, 349? She obviously cares for him." Clyde said. 610 was too sad to blush in embarrassment.

612 suddenly twitched. The experiments and their evil genius creator had their attention on the experiment. He twitched again. His primary function sparked inside him and blades poked out of his skin. Unable to control the spasms, the blades caused his skin to bleed. He was sweating and breathing heavy from the weapons popping out. Unfortunately, the blades chopped all the tubes connecting to him.

The spasms stopped. The movement stopped. The life support made a long 'beep'. Jumba gapped in horror. He reconnected the tubes to 612 but no avail. The system still made a flatline.

The experiments jaws simultaneously dropped. Stitch, Angel, Bonnie, and Clyde turned their heads away. 610 teared up, her pupils enlarging for the sight she had saw. She sprinted out of the door and house. The purple experiment starting crying loudly, thinking that the inevitable had happened. The sad cat walked through the island. Her bushi bu was dead...or was he?

Inside the house...

Bonnie and Clyde looked depressed at 612's body. They were ohana to the experiment and he was ohana to him. The thieves also began to tear up and loudly snort

"He...he...looks so peaceful." the green experiment squeaked.

"Yeah." Clyde agreed. "Makes you wonder." he thought. The experiment took his robotic arm and touched 612's knee

A miracle then happened, as the black experiments leg shot up and hit Clyde in the face.

"Ow! What the hell?" The thief thought out loud.

"He is reacting! He must be being alive." His creator said happily. The experiments smiled as the machine started to give short beeps.

A few hours later...

"Oh..." The black experiment moaned. He rubbed his head and raised it up. His eyes were blurry and hazed from all the drugs in his system. He rubbed his body from the massive stitching around him. A sharp pain impaled his head from a massive headache from the battle. "What happened? All I remember is getting shot."

"Ah, 612. You are awake. You were giving us quite a scare a few minutes ago."

"How?"

"You were having spasms and cut off life support. Was miracle you recovered."

"Damn...well, I am ok now. Where am I?"

"Little girl's house."

"And who is this 'little girl'?"

"I never took the time to know, but I can assure you me, 626, and 624 live here."

"Ah. I saw 624 and 626 bundled together here a few days ago. Anyway, what am I doing here?"

"You nearly died from unknown circumstances. 626 and 624 have been looking over you, yet I am wondering what 349 and 350 are doing here. 610 although is most worried. She ran outside and we didn't see her."

"Oh, man. I better go find my bushi bu." 612 walked slowly out of Jumba's room. He thought to himself, why did 610 leave? When he opened the door, four worried experiments sat with their faces at the ground. They looked at the door, seeing 612. Their faces were overwhelmed with joy and they ran the their injured cousin.

"Cousin!" Shouted Stitch as he hugged him tightly.

"626...thank you for yor gratitude."

"Takka."

"Where's 624?"

"Angel?"

"Why are you calling 624 Angel?

"Lilo gave her that name."

"Is Lilo this 'little girl' Jumba was talking about?"

"Ih."

"Let me meet her."

"Okay." Stitch said. 626 showed 612 the direction to his and Lilo's...and Angel's room. A small, circular elevator was waiting in the center of the hall. The two experiments went into a dome room. A certain small Hawaiian girl was laying on her bed. She turned her head at the experiments.

"Aloha, cousin." Lilo greeted.

"Why is everyone calling me that?" wondered 612. "Uh...hey. Are you the one called Lilo?"

"Yep. Which experiment are you?"

"612."

"Let me look that up." Lilo walked over to her desk and pulled up a chair. She flipped open a round, blue laptop and began typing away. A schematic of 612's number and looks appeared on the screen. "Experiment 612, designed to create and disactivate weapons." She looked over at the black experiment. "Can you make some weapons?"

"Of course." 612 pulled a plasma gun from his mouth and fired it into the roof, making a hole. He then shot out some electrostatic bolts from his fingers at the gun. The weapon clicked, and would not fire any rounds.

"Cool..." Lilo said in amazement. "Your like an energy-stealing vampire! I'm gonna call you, Arsenal." The newly dubbed Arsenal and Stitch blinked.

"Arsenal...interesting."

"Anything wrong with that?"

"No..." 612 said. "Just that Arsenal is the Turian word for 'murder'." he mumbled under his breath. "Anyway, my bushi bu seemed to have run off. Can you help me find her?"

"Sure! C'mon Stitch!"

"Ih!" Said the blue fuzzball. The group ran outside of the house for 612's girlfriend

With 610...

The purple experiment was sitting by a waterfall. She sat on one of the many yellow rocks pointing out of the small pond. Her reflection in the pool was just like her mind, shaken and melancholy. Speaking of which, she was quivering in pain, tears hit and moved the pool. Her crying then erupted into loud balling.

Someone heard that...She didn't notice that a large manta-like onyx ship was behind her. A face was looking outside of a window, it was in a dark, mustard yellow and second light tint of yellow. He mouth was drooping and moving up and down cause he was chewing on a sandwich.

"Wow..." 625 thought. "She's quite the looker. Why is she crying though? I'll go find out." He smirked. "Maybe I can throw on the old 625 charm and make a good first impression."

625 took another bite of his sandwich for confidence. He puffed up his chest and breathed slowly. Doors began to slowly open automatically. The experiment walked over to the female.

"Hi."

610 looked over at the experiment. "Hey..."

"You ok?"

"No..."

"What's wrong?"

"My boyfriend...just...died." 610 teared.

"Ouch, sorry." 625 began to think. "Poor girl. But now she is single. Maybe she can be with me!"

"Would you like a sandwich?"

"Sure..." 625 went back to the ship.

With LS and Arsenal...

"Oh, we looked everywhere, where could my bushi bu be!" pleaded 612.

"Not sure...let's think." Lilo suggested. The group sat on a bench and started to think. Where would this experiment go? Would someone want it? Could she have gone to place she had known about. Stitch then blinked and made an evil look.

"Gantu..." 626 coldly said.

"Gantu is on Earth? I knew the Councilwoman needed me, but what is he doing here?"

"How do you know about Gantu?"

"Long story...now take me to Gantu!"

Stitch jumped of the bench and ran in a direction. "Maka maka! Sasa!"

Outside of the ship, the group was by a waterfall surrounded by many palm trees. This seemed familiar to Lilo and Stitch but not Arsenal. 612 looked at the side of the ship and looked in both directions. He blinked for a second seeing a purple blur.

"Um...626, you go around the back, I'll check the front."

"Okeytaka!" Stitch agreed. And the duo creped along the back.

Arsenal moved in closer, thinking he saw 610, he may be reunited with his bushi bu. He moved in closer and closer...hoping for the best. He then made a double take. Did he just see what he think he saw? 610 with another mate? Especially someone like 625?

"Here ya go." 625 said handing 610 a sandwich.

"Thanks..." 610 start munching on the sandwich, loudly and fast. This was kind of a syndrome gained from Jumba, whenever an experiment got angry or depressed it would stuff things in it's mouth. The purple cat tried to forget about her sorrow.

"She likes me...now's a good time to make a move on her." thought 625. He moved in close to 610, face to face. He puckered his lips and moved in, but he was stopped by two furry fingers.

"I think we should get to know each other first before that." 610 chuckled. 612's jaw dropped. "Thanks for being supportive to me 625." She said. She wrapped her arms around 625 feeling safe. 625 hugged back

Arsenal couldn't believe it. He had gone through so many physical episodes, but none as traumatizing as this. Tears fell from his eyes, as he lost something he can only get once. Why? Why has 610 abandoned 612 so quickly without even caring for him. 612 walked slowly back, he fur starting to be deluged from his tears.

"Why..." 612 said slowly to himself. "Why?" He sounded more hysterical. "WHY DID THIS HAPPEN TO ME!" 612 ran, crying to his creator's house.

Stitch's ears twitched. He could hear his broken cousin weeping and running away. 626 walked away from the ship while still dragging Lilo.

"Is there a problem?"

"Cousin...ran away."

Lilo gasped. What would he be doing? Especially with his bushi bu away. Lilo looked at the beach and saw a certain red-headed kid. She also saw a window and looked inside. There was no experiment inside the transporter. The girl smiled and had an idea.

"Stitch, go help Arsenal and find out his problem. I have something to do."

Stitch made an interesting face at Lilo. She must have been thinking of something with unusually long grin. He decided to go along.

"Okeytaka." Stitch said as running away.

Lilo ran back to the beach. At the moment though, W's ears perked up as well. She heard the loud screech of a sad experiment. The experiment gasped realizing who it was.

"625...I think I heard something, do you mind helping me find it?"

"Sure..." The purple cat smiled. "Just let me get some sandwiches." She then frowned and waited as the pudgy experiment walked to the kitchen.

612 continued running...that is all he could think about. He jumped up to the door and slammed it open and shut. His loud bawling drew everyone's attention to him. The experiment stopped and opened a random closet in the household. He finished by obviously locking the door. Jumba, Pleakley, and Experiments 624, 349, and 350 walked to the door.

"Blackie? Is there something wrong?" Bonnie asked.

"Go away! You have no idea how I feel! Just leave...leave me be." 612 screamed.

"C'mon. Talk to me 612. Your our friend." Clyde asked.

"I don't care for that now! All I cared and lost for has been dashed away from me! Maybe I should of let been killed at the hands of those guards!"

"Guards?" Pondered Jumba.

"612 got attack by some armored guards today. That's why were here." 349 said.

"And why blood is all over the house." Clyde threw in. Jumba continued thinking.

"Just leave me alone...I'm tired of yelling and screaming. I need to drown my sorrow." Arsenal said.

The housemates nodded and decided to leave Arsenal alone. They all sat in the main room of the house, trying to figure out the problems. Why were guards attacking 612? And why was 612 so upset? This was all they could think about...

Yet, it is hard to think when tears are being echoed through the house.

Hope you enjoyed it. If any characters are OOC or need better explanation please tell. I try to sharpen my skills as much as possible. Please Review.