A few days had past and everything seemed to be going fine. That is, until one night. Stitch was fast asleep when a loud pounding noise woke him up. He didn't have time to do anything when the ceiling came off and he saw the face of Gantu! Stitch growled and prepared to attack, but Gantu was too quick for him. He grabbed Stitch and stuffed him in a containment pod. Gantu gently put the ceiling down, then stormed off to his ship.
When he got their, he took Stitch out and strapped him into some kind of restraints attached to the wall. Stitch tried to break free, but to no avail. Gantu walked toward him with what appeared to be a helmet with weird buttons and gadgets on the top of it.
"This is a brainwash helmet," Gantu announced. "Once I turn on the switch and brainwash you, I will control you."
Stitch gulped in fear and tried to find a way out. There was none that he could see. Gantu came closer and stuck the helmet on Stitch. Gantu held out a remote and flipped a switch. Mild pain surged through Stitch's body as Stitch cried out for help.
The next morning, right when Lilo woke up she knew something was wrong. She had immediately found Stitch was missing and bolted into Deli and Angel's room that had been built for them.
"Stitch is gone!" Lilo cried out to them.
"Gabba?" Angel asked sleepily, having just woken up.
"Five more minutes," Deli replied, still half asleep.
Lilo, getting annoyed, ran over to Deli and began shaking him.
"Ah! All right! All right! I'm up!" Deli exclaimed, quickly sitting up.
"We need to find him!" Lilo announced.
"Let's look outside around the house," Angel suggested thoughtfully. "Maybe there are some clues there."
"Good idea," Deli nodded.
Lilo first got dressed then scurried downstairs with Deli and Angel. Nani was up and urged then to eat breakfast first, but they had to refuse. They needed to find Stitch as soon as possible!
When they got outside Deli and Angel started sniffing for Stitch's scent while Lilo just looked around. Angel caught a whiff of something and followed it to the backyard by Lilo and Stitch's room. But there was someone else's scent along with Stitch's. Angel looked up at the roof and instantly knew who took Stitch.
"I found something!" Angel called with all her might.
Lilo and Deli came running as fast as fast as they could to where Angel was. "What is it?" Lilo questioned, both curious and concerned.
"Gantu took Stitch!"
Deli sniffed around the area, then exclaimed, "She's right! I wonder what Gantu wants with him."
"That doesn't matter. We have to go get him back!" Lilo urged everyone.
So the three friends headed off to Gantu's ship. They didn't know what they were going to do, but they had defeated Gantu before, so they figured they could do it again. They arrived rather quickly and were surprised to see Gantu and Stitch standing outside the ship. Gantu had some sort of remote thing and Stitch had totally changed. He looked ferocious with his teeth bared and claws out, and he was growling at them!
"Stitch?" Angel asked softly but cautiously. "Are you ok?"
"He's just fine," Gantu laughed evilly. "But he is now under my control."
Lilo realized what he was saying and shouted, "You brainwashed him!"
"Yes," Gantu said with a chuckle. "Now I will make him destroy you! Or at least hurt you enough so you won't follow me."
Stitch leaped at Angel first. He dug his nails into her back and scrapped her, causing deep wounds. He then started biting and wrestling her. Angel knew she had to fight back, but she couldn't. She just couldn't hurt Stitch.
Deli couldn't just stand and watch, so he pounced on Stitch. Stitch then turned his attacks on Deli and did the same thing he did to Angel. When he was done, he scratched Lilo and roughly pushed her to the ground.
"That's enough," Gantu informed. "Now we're off to destroy the city and capture the experiments."
Lilo, Angel, and Deli could only watch helplessly as who they knew to once be Stitch walked off with their enemy.