Been awhile, but I finally managed to get this up. Thank you for those who still continue to read and review. I can't ask for more than good constructive criticism.
I would especially like to thank Tortured Artist for being a great support for my Lilo & Stitch fan fiction. Can't ask for a better reviewer. And also, yes. I was the person whom you shared the similar experiment number for 528. Thanks for the thumbs up.
This chapter is where E000's diabolical program is finally revealed!
Lilo & Stitch © Walt Disney Studio
Storyline, New characters (E000, 528) © ReflectiveSoul
With the capture and reprogramming of experiment 528, Lilo and Stitch have another fruitful day… well… while cleaning all the mess Whirly made anyway. Unfortunately for them, Jumba will soon be the bearer of bad news as electronic messaging could very well spell insight on the impending doom that would soon follow…
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NANI & LILO'S HOUSE
"AYE YAY YAY YAY!"
Jumba was in a state of panic. The flashing message that appeared on his computer screen shaved off a couple of years from his life. He began frantically searching through the downloaded files he had received from his lab back on Queltakwam.
"Those fools! They're tampering with my experiments again! First 626, and now my lab! I am only hoping they did nothing to disturb…"
And with a message that popped up, Jumba's voice trailed off as his eyes stared at the screen.
PRESERVATION PROGRAM LEVEL 1 ACTIVE.
EXPERIMENT MALFUNCTION.
1: ELECTRICAL SHORTAGE
2: CONTAINMENT BREECH
EMERGENCY EXIT ACTIVATED.
"… no… NOOO! My greatest fear has come to pass…" Jumba turned away from his computer and looked out the window. His eyes were blank as he stared off into space. And at the most inopportune time, Pleakly reared his head to see what Jumba was doing.
"Jumba! There you are. I've been looking all over for y…" Suddenly, Pleakly noticed that Jumba was quieter than usual. "Jumba…? Are you…"
"… experiment……… 00... 0..."
"What…? What was that?"
"… … has been…… unleashed…"
BEACH SIDE SHORE
"Stitch! Whirly! Stop goofing around, we have to get all these branches out of the sand!"
All the comments made by Lilo simply fell on deaf ears. Stitch and Whirly were having too much fun playing around in the sand to hear her nagging remarks. Whirly was creating a miniature dust devil while Stitch was throwing sand into the wind to create a little sand storm.
"Aha haha ha ha… Cameta tash! Vsh Vsh!"
Whirly happily complied and sent the gusts of wind into the shallow surf. The small tornado began to vacuum the water and soon formed a water spout. With all the sand thrown in by Stitch, the water spout meshed the water and sand together to make a tornado of mud.
"VSHH VSHH!"
The swirling winds of muck began to spin faster and faster and soon began to splatter its contents in every direction.
"AHHH! Stitch! Whirly! You guys are going to make a bigger mess!"
Lilo dodged right and left as she tried to avoid all the projectiles of mud. Stitch and Whirly were having a good time and collapsing on the ground from laughter. At long last no matter how she tried, Lilo could not avoid the mud any longer. As she dodged a blob, she slipped on a puddle previously created behind her and slipped. With a loud splut she became covered in mud. Recovering from the shock of falling, Lilo raised herself up as one more blot of mud struck her face. The muck slowly slid of her face to reveal a mask of annoyance. She slowly stood up and began walking towards the unsuspecting pair. With a mischievous grin, Lilo pulled from her pocket a spray bottle.
"Oh, Stitch…" Lilo called out in a calm, and slightly devilish tone. Stitch slowly came back to reality as his laughter subsided. As he opened his eyes, Stitch spots Lilo approaching him with a spray bottle in hand.
"L-Lilo…?" he says with an unnerving voice and a nervous smile. "Stitch just having fun…"
"Oh… is that all Stitch…"
"L-Lilo? Lilo know only use when Stitch bad. Stitch not bad."
"Oh… I know Stitch…"
"L-Lilo? L-Lilo…?" Lilo slowly raised the bottle and aimed its deadly spray nozzle at its target.
"L-Lilo? NO… NO… NOOOOOO!" Lilo unleashed the contents of the bottle onto Stitch.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Stitch fainted as soon as Lilo pulled the trigger. A splash of water hit him as he fell onto the surf. Lilo chuckled at her friend's dramatic end. In truth, the bottle Lilo had only contained water. In a previous experiment, Jumba created a liquid that paralyzed Stitch. The liquid was accidentally sprayed on him from a bottle and paralyzed him for only an hour. Stitch hated being penned in one place for too long. So in turn, Stitch always overreacted when Lilo pulls out a spray bottle simply because Jumba allowed Lilo to use it when he became naughty.
"That gets him every time," Lilo said with a smile. "Common on Whirly, I think I'll bring you home… at least until I can think of your one true place. Can you help carry Stitch?"
Whirly nodded as he created small gusts of wind that sustained Stitch in air. Whirly created his wind barrier and plopped Stitch right above him. Whirly soon followed Lilo as they traveled back to her home.
"Jumba? Jumba? Snap out of it! What's wrong?"
"… Pleakly… I'm afraid we don't have much time…"
"What? What in the galaxies are you talking about?"
"… experiment 000... is coming…"
"Experiment 000? Is that another one of your experiments?"
"…… no… he is much worse…"
Pleakly was silenced into submission. Pleakly had known Jumba for awhile now and this response from the evil genius was very unusual for him.
"Jumba…? Is it really that bad?"
"I'm afraid so, Pleakly… E000 is…"
SLAM!
"You know Stitch, you should learn to behave. Otherwise I wouldn't have been forced to resort to drastic measures."
"Hmph!"
"Oh come on Stitch, don't be mad." As Lilo and Stitch were engaging in trivial matters along with Whirly standing watch, Jumba jumped from his seat as he heard the door slam.
"AAHHH! He is here! We have to get out of here!"
"Jumba! Relax. That's only Lilo and Stitch."
"HUH, OH..," Jumba heavily breathed from his excited state. "Quickly Pleakly! We must hurry and get ready to leave!" Jumba quickly ran out through the door to their hidden spaceship.
"Jumba! Wait!" Pleakly called after him, "What does experiment 000 do?"
Jumba ran into the living room, encountering Lilo and Stitch still bickering along with experiment 528.
"Little girl, 626! Stop with arguing! We must hurry if wanting to save earth and galaxy." Just as suddenly as he appeared, Jumba ran through the door toward the ship.
"I wonder what's up with Jumba?" Pleakly walked out and met the puzzled trio.
"Pleakly, what's wrong with Jumba? And what's with the saving our home and the galaxy? Is something wrong?"
"I'm not sure. Jumba said that experiment 000 is coming here and he panicked ever since both of you came home."
"Experiment 000? I didn't see any experiment by that number in Jumba's experiment files. Could it be a new experiment?"
"I don't know. All I know is that Jumba is acting stranger than usual. We better ask him about what's going on." With all in agreement, the party quickly hurried to the hidden spaceship next to their home. As they approached the ship, Jumba suddenly came out and quickly rushed passed them back into the house.
"Come on," Lilo shouted, "we have to corner Jumba to get any answers from him now!" They quickly rushed inside and caught Jumba rummaging through his closet.
"Jumba? What's going on?" Lilo shouted. "Why are you panicking so much? What is this new experiment about?"
"Little girl, we don't have time for questioning! We must get back to my home planet, Queltakwam!"
"What! What are you talking about! Why do we have to go there!"
"There is no time little girl! Explaining will be later!" Lilo was getting worried, but frustrated at Jumba's panicked state. With the possible event of doom, she needed more information. And as a "little girl", patience was not one virtue she had.
"Oh no you won't! Stitch… sick'em!"
Stitch performed a jumping front flip and landed on Jumba's back as he was about to exit the door.
"Ahh! 626! Get off me!"
"Oh no you don't Jumba. Tell us what's going on first and then we will let you go." As much as Jumba tried getting Stitch off his back, the fierce little experiment would not relent. With a pent up sigh, Jumba eased down to meet the demands of the earth girl.
"All right, all right. I'll tell you…" With a heavy sigh and a grim look of defeat, Jumba revealed the nature of experiment 000.
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JJUMBA'S SECRET LABOROTORY
"Yes! This new experiment will prove better than the previous one. Jumba, you are pure genius."
Jumba tinkered around with the new concept that consumed his mind as he was finding a way to formulate it into physical form. Ever since his secret communiqué from Dr. Hamsterviel, Jumba was giddy with joy to develop all these destructive life forms.
Like all geniuses, Jumba always had many ideas and theories in his head. Unfortunately for him, many of these ideas took a turn for evil purposes. His work with GDI developed his already exceptional skills in new technological development. His behavior was always seen as enthusiastic and very innovative with the perception around his colleagues.
However, his practices soon bordered on the edge of ethical questionability. Fairly soon, his superiors and even his colleagues questioned his motives. Jumba had tried to suppress his evil desires, but soon they appeared in all his new inventions. With these slip ups into the project designs, his superiors began to closely monitor his activities. The encroachment of his brilliant, yet destructive ideas soon warped Jumba into a secretive, evil genius.
The gossip that spread about Jumba's changing trends reached the ears of Dr. Hamsterviel. With the commission from his new client, Jumba happily complied not only to his request, but also to his own inhibitions.
ZZZ..ZZZZZZZT
"MWAHAHAHA…! YES! Experiment 258 is now completed! Only 378 more to go!"
All the noise and reactions caused a creature to stir from its containment. The noise had continued longer than usual, and inadvertently agitated the creature within.
SHAKE RUMBLE RUMBLE SHAKE… HISSSSS!
After Jumba had completed 258, he heard the noise that was emanating from the chamber behind him. With a cautious glance, Jumba went towards the containment unit and peaked inside through the unbreakable glass polymer.
RAARRRGH!
Jumba jumped back in surprise as he saw a flash of red eyes.
"Bwahaha!" Jumba beamed with pride. "Yes, yes. I know you are getting anxious. Sorry to wake you from your sleep, but I do have a deadline to meet. Don't worry my precious creation. You will have all the time to wreak havoc… experiment 000..."
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"… you see…when I was creating experiments for Dr. Hamsterviel, I had a thought. The 626 experiments would cause great destruction yes, but would cause minimal damage if their powers were dispersed in 626 different bodies. So… I created experiment 000. I had created him around when completing 100 series. I figured that since 100 were already made, might as well make the others. Instead of combining all the powers of all the experiments like I had thought… I would create one to absorb them all… experiment 000..."
Lilo, Stitch, and Pleakly gasped as this unveiling news struck them to the deepest recesses of their fears.
"Y-you… made an experiment that can combine all 626 experiments?" Lilo uttered quietly."
"……… …" Jumba only nodded slightly. "… the program I placed in experiment 000 is to search and absorb for all the experiments. It will capture all experiments and focus its destructive powers to destroy the galaxy. That is why I am worried… . I received notification of my lab having been breached from the inside…"
The gang simply stared wide-eyed as Pleakly broke the silence. "You mean…"
"Yes…," Jumba nodded solemnly. "Experiment 000 is no doubt trying to finding a way to get here… to earth."
BOOM!
Everyone captivated by the horrifying tale from Jumba was suddenly shocked back into reality as they heard a tremendous crash.
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The entrance into the earth's atmosphere was very difficult for the spaceship. Since E000 stole the prototype, it wasn't completely finished for deep space travel. The ship had already sustained a lot of strain from the increased hyper speed, but the gravitational pull from the earth finally made the ship burst into flames. It became a fireball. The brightness from the burning reactions was even comparable to the mid afternoon sun.
Even for such a hazardous predicament, E000 simply rolled into a ball to reduce the impact when the ship would leave a blemish on the earth's surface. E000 was an amorphous blob of premier genetic engineering and had no solid parts in any of his body.
The explosion alone would have seriously damaged Stitch himself (or at least caused him to become unconscious for awhile). But finally with the arrival of its destination, experiment 000 moved from the debris and began his hunt for his creator… Jumba.
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"What was that!" everyone shouted at once. With the worst possible scenario, Jumba had to assume that experiment 000 finally was here.
"Quickly everyone! Experiment 000 is here! We have to prepare to leave for Queltakwam NOW!"
Without any further encouragement, the team frantically worked to depart from their beloved home.
I hope everyone enjoyed this new development in the sequel. I had lots of fun writing this only after going through a cluster of tests. Sad as it is, I still have a minefield to get through for another two weeks. Oh well. I hope to get to posting the next chapter very soon.