Disclaimer: I don't own Lilo and Stitch (well, I've got the trilogy on DVD but you know what I mean), but I do own Kolobos English.
Chapter 1 – Taken
5.07pm, on a weekday. Just like any other night. It had been a long and hardworking day at hula class for Lilo, Stitch and Kolobos (Experiment 001), their adopted father and assistant teacher. After class had finished at 5.00pm sharp, it was about a 7 minute drive back home, where none of them could wait to relax. The only other ones home were Jumba and Pleakley, both of which were upstairs; Pleakley was polishing furniture and Jumba was reading popular Earth novel, "The Da Vinci Code". Nani had left Kolobos an answer machine message saying that she had to work later that night and she would not return until any time between 8.30 and 9.00pm. This left Kolobos to prepare dinner, but the first thing he did was head back out to return a DVD to Blockbuster. He normally hired out one or two films each week, and also went out to the cinema on quite a regular basis. He had rented the film "X-Men 2", to prepare and excite him for "X-Men: The Last Stand". Kolobos had left Lilo and Stitch at home with Jumba and Pleakley, positively saying he'd only be a few minutes. But a few minutes, even just the one minute, can mean anything.
Stitch was desperate for a gloriously hot coffee (it had become an addiction, much like smoking), and while he was downstairs in the kitchen making it, Lilo had changed from her hula costume into her sleeveless orange dress with red leaves (the one she wore in Lilo and Stitch 2). Suddenly there was an immediate power cut. Lilo stood wondering what happened, before she felt a hand reach from her window and grab hold of her shoulder. Soon the power immediately re-appeared, and she felt a second hand grasp a firm grip on her other shoulder, before she found herself whisked out of her window.
"Hey! What…?" a confused and scared Lilo began. But before she could continue or identify her striker, she was injected in the arm by some kind of formula that immediately knocked her out cold. With that, her mysterious striker sped away, carrying Lilo away with them. Stitch returned to the bedroom hyped up on caffeine, although it immediately came to his attention that Lilo was no longer around. At first, Stitch came off confused, but it didn't take him long to spot the window left wide open. There it became clear to him that Lilo had been kidnapped.
Stitch immediately alerted Jumba and Pleakley, who passed the message onto Kolobos. No one hesitated to spread the island in a desperate search for their missing and littlest ohana member. Whilst driving out, Kolobos wondered if he had done the right thing about how to break the news to Nani. He knew she had to be informed, but didn't want her to spend the right of the night worried sick. Kolobos took a risk in hoping that the search party would sweep quickly and dynamically enough in finding and recovering Lilo safely that same night, but in case that couldn't happen, Kolobos knew he had to leave Nani a note for when she got home. The search party split up into three directions. Kolobos and Jumba and Pleakley drove different ways, each with two police cars behind them, while Stitch scrambled the island to find and inform all the "cousins" he could find to assist him in the search.
When Lilo woke up, she found that she had been taken to the darkest cave her kidnapper could possibly find. Although it was pitch black, she could sense the presence of not one, but two kidnappers surrounding her but still had no way of knowing their faces and their identities. Increasingly scared, she couldn't see a thing, but could feel ropes. The two kidnappers were tying Lilo up, one for her body and the other for her legs. Lilo wanted to speak, but at the same time she wanted to sob, and she wanted to squirm herself free from the ropes binding her body. She could sense her kidnappers nearing completion. She could feel one of them tying the final knot of the ropes around her legs, and the other tying the final knot of the ropes around her arms and her body.
Lilo was now completely tied up. She could feel her arms burning where the ropes were tightly rubbing her skin, but even the force of the ropes tied around her dress made her feel like her skin was burning. The hand of one of her kidnappers was over her shoulder once again. Their finger was stroking her gently and repeatedly in a tiny little circle shape, sending Lilo shivering.
"Experience…" the kidnapper's voice whispered in Lilo's ear. The voice sounded very feminine but so sinister it wasn't easy to make out.
"Who are you?" Lilo finally asked, still immensely fearful and almost tearful. "What do you want with me?"
"Experience…" the same voice hissed. The kidnapper then ran their finger down Lilo's right arm, and over the ropes around it until they wrapped their entire hand around Lilo's fingers, closing in on them. "I want… an experience!" they whispered evilly again, before tightly and fiercely squeezing Lilo's fingers, snapping them all in an instant. Lilo let out a loud and startled scream of pain. Tears and sweat started streaming down her face as the kidnapper still clinged onto Lilo's broken fingers, and forced her onto her knees. Just as Lilo was starting to inhale more quietly, her other fingers were suddenly grabbed and instantly crunched in the same way. This caused her to scream again and actually sob a little. The second person walked in front of Lilo, observing through the darkness the look of anguish and pain on her face as she tried to force herself away. Lilo knew she couldn't free herself from the ropes, now she was trying desperately to free herself from her kidnapper's brutal grip, but came to no avail.
Lilo never heard her second kidnapper speak, but the first passed words to their accomplice, uttering to them… "I think, we have ourselves… our experience." Following these now final words, the accomplice powerfully fired his fist at Lilo's stomach, then again directly at her chest. Both times Lilo felt as though she had just had huge, heavy bricks rammed directly into her body. She now found it difficult to keep breathing easily. Pressing their foot down on her chest, Lilo was nudged on her back to the ground. From there, the two were all over her, and the most serious and heaviest pummelling they could both deliver had well and truly commenced.
The original kidnapper had their sadistic mind focused on Lilo's legs. Their attack consisted of ferociously scratching them, shredding the foot of Lilo's dress here and making her legs bleed and bleed more with each strike. Furthermore each punch that went with it kept breaking her legs up more and more. Once both of Lilo's legs and feet were completely broken and bleeding, the attacker went on to try and penetrate her kneecaps. This came much more challenging, but all three knew that once the kneecaps were splintered, Lilo wouldn't be able to walk for months. The accomplice stood on Lilo's right arm, and repeatedly struck their fists at Lilo's left arm, but more at her chest and ribs. Every forceful punch hit Lilo like a spiked mace splintering her body even more with every beat. She couldn't stop crying in severe wretched pain, rapidly inhaling heavily and keeping her eyes tightly closed through all the torture she was undergoing.
Back with the search party, the ohana had scoured Kauai for around half an hour, which for a small island with no large cities at desperate yet acceptable speeds would cover most of it. Kolobos had pulled his car to a standstill, deep in thought. He had just heard from Stitch, who had gathered all the experiments he could find to help, but so far, they had had no luck. The same unfortunate news came to him from Jumba and Pleakley just moments later. Reaching for his phone and dialling a number, Kolobos felt morally bad not informing Nani right away, and so preceded to call her workplace and tell her. Nani answered quickly, obviously not suspecting that something was about to change her day.
"Aloha?"
"Nani, it's Kolobos. Something's happened."
"Is everything all right? You sound so tense."
"Nani, it's Lilo! She's missing! She's been kidnapped!" Kolobos blurted out. His eyes started welling up, his emotions becoming harder to control. Nani was now stunned too, suddenly becoming speechless. "Wha……what?" she eventually stammered quietly.
"About 45 minutes ago, someone sneaked into her room and swiped her," Kolobos continued, getting a little tearful. "I wasn't going to say anything; I didn't want you to worry. I thought we'd find her before you got home but we've had no luck. Jumba and Pleakley haven't found her, I've got Stitch and his cousins looking everywhere; they haven't seen her yet, we've got police looking for her… look, Nani, I'm sorry, I should've told you right from the start."
"It's OK, Kolobos," Nani replied, also tearfully. "It's OK, just, thank you for telling me now. I'm not mad. I just want my sister to be found safe and sound as soon as possible!" Hearing Nani crying over the phone broke Kolobos's heart.
"I've got a thought…" Kolobos said after a pause. "Maybe Lilo's not on the island on flat land. Maybe the kidnappers took her somewhere underground. Jumba's got some equipment I can use so Nani, don't hang by the office anymore. You've obviously that afraid, so just head home. I am on my way, I will meet you at the house. OK?"
"OK, Kolobos," Nani said, still with a lump in her throat. "I love you, Dad." Upon hearing these words, Kolobos paused in a moved state, with a lump in his throat. He was part human, part experiment, and he was the adopted father of Nani and Lilo, but he had never been called "Dad" by either of his daughters before.
"I love you too, sweetie," he said back to Nani, before hanging up and restarting his car up.
"Keep this area watched until I get back," he said to a police officer before turning his car around and driving back south.
Back with the kidnappers, Lilo had been getting savagely beaten for the last 15 minutes. Half of her body was badly broken and blood was streaming all down her legs, arms, front and head. One of the attackers was pinning her down with their knees, and rapidly punching her face into a bloody pulp. The other was kicking her eyes and head. She now had a blinding headache and two numb, black eyes. Finally, her attackers stepped away from her for a moment, leaving her to try and regain some breath. But at what felt like super-speed, the two re-proceeded to hitting her entire body one more time over, before tightening up all her ropes. The two then recognisably scurried off, leaving Lilo in her weakened state. Slowly and steadily, she opened her eyes up and could only faintly see the rocky, dirty area she was trapped in. Still heavily inhaling and gasping for all the breath she could get, she couldn't see any gaps between rocks where light could slightly shine through. After a couple of minutes breathing, Lilo took a risk.
"HEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLP!" she yelled at the top of her voice, hoping someone outside would hear her. "HELP!" she cried again, still nothing. "HELP!" As loud as Lilo could call for help, she couldn't even hear her voice echo inside the cave. "Someone…" she said softly. "Please…… help…"
Now giving up, Lilo began to cry. She could think of nothing else more to do. She had no idea where she was, but following a beating of such brute force and power, Lilo's legs were broken, her arms felt like they had literally been snapped in half, although all her fingers definitely had been snapped in half, her chest and ribs all badly damaged too, her entire body intensely bleeding, her eyes blackened from repeated kicks, her face a horrific pulp. But it wasn't the pain that caused her to sob so much. One thing topped the entire torture filled experience for Lilo: she was still all tied up, body and legs.
So Lilo laid there, crying and crying, wondering if anyone actually would ever find her.
