Disclaimer: I do NOT own Lilo and Stitch or their characters. I only own story, plot, and three experiments: Drea, Slyther, and Master
"How far away is it?" Complained Drea who lagged behind her Master and partner, along with the girls.
"Not that far!" Responded Teresa. "There it is!"
Master, Drea, and Slyther stepped up to see an old blue house staring back at them. The only neat feature they saw was the dome, but that was about it. Even their current house was much better than this. Master didn't even thank the girls, but instead, asked them for Stitch and bring him to them. The girls were still slightly terrified, but did as they were told. They each ran off to the Pelekai house, stopping in front of the door.
The three experiments stayed hidden, shrouded by the darkness of the leaves from the bush. They waiting anxiously as the blond-haired girl reached up to ring the doorbell. They waited patiently, each holding their breaths as the door opened and there stood a tall, slim alien with a bubble like head. The girls' lips moved then the alien went away. The girls stood for about a minute until someone else came out the door. The girls and the figure darted down the steps. From where the experiments were, it appeared the figures were getting closer. Finally, they stepped into the light of the sun and they saw it was Stitch.
The girls halted their steps, apparently waiting for the three experiments. Stitch stood by Yuki's side with an expression of puzzlement. He then noticed the leaves shaking before a figure stepped out. He looked exactly like Stitch except for silver fur and dangerous green eyes. The next was a violet dragon with red eyes in the color of a fresh rose, but deadly. He saw the words on their chests and raised an eyebrow, Pre 699 and Pre 700 sounded very familiar.
When Stitch finally figured out where he heard the Pre experiments, another one emitted from the bush. Stitch's eyes resembled that to horror. His mouth dropped open slightly in astonishment and fear. This experiment looked exactly like him, but with hideous black fur and hatred filled eyes. On his chest, in bold red print, read the words Pre 701, Master. The experiment he saw in his dream, the one who killed Nani and his Lilo.
"Pre 701, Master." Stitch replied in a dark voice.
"Experiment 626, Stitch." Master responded with a nod. "It's good to finally meet you. May I present to you, Slyther and Drea. The girls I'm sure you already know."
"Yeah, I know them, but what are you doing with them?" He asked dangerously, and then he turned to the girls. "Did he hurt any of you?"
"He killed Myrtle and her mom." Yuki replied in a whisper.
"You did what!" Stitch cried, enraged as he snapped back to the black experiment. He hated Myrtle with every fiber of his being and there were times when he imagined somebody wringing that brat's neck, but he disliked murder even more. Especially if it was by his kind.
"I think you heard them right." Master responded calmly. "I enjoyed drinking in those girls' screams. Sure did bring me lots of pleasure."
"You're sick." Stitch spat revoltingly then turned back to Yuki, Teresa and Elena. "Did he hurt any of you?"
"N-No." Teresa stuttered.
Stitch turned to look at the experiment. "You're lucky you didn't. Otherwise, I would have killed you. Now what are you doing here?"
"You've been a disappointment." Master said as he glanced at Stitch. He didn't glare at him, but he still had hatred etched into his eyes." How dare you betray us?"
"Betray you?" Stitch asked astonishingly." I found a family. An ohana."
"Ohana." Mocked Master. "Forget about 'ohana', what about us!"
"What about you?" Stitch asked.
Master glared." I hear that you are the infamous experiment 626. The blue furred monster that lived to destroy. However, you betrayed us by crashing into this worthless watery planet on this filthy island and finding yourself a dense family!"
Stitch glared too, anger flooded through his blood. "How dare you call my planet, my home, and most of all, my family like that!"
Master snickered while Slyther and Drea smirked. The midnight black figure of Stitch had a deep tone in his voice as he spoke, almost hazardously. "You are a traitor 626. A now worthless experiment to bad. You disgust Slyther, Drea, and me. You can however, become worthy again. Even if you are such a foul disgrace, your sins can still be washed clean."
Stitch raised his eyebrow in suspicion." I am not going to turn my back on my family."
Master once again snickered while his other two comrades smirked again." Not your family Stitch. You see, we believe that the girl of yours, Lilo Pelekai, was the one who turned you around. It's all her fault that you've become nothing but a mistake, a failure! Lilo has made you this way by her goodie love and faith in her so-called ohana that affected you in a horrifying way. That girl is the enemy."
Stitch could feel his blood boil with rage, his eyes narrowed fiendishly. A low growl escaped his lips, a growl of warning. He was getting defensive now that Master spoke of her." You keep Lilo out of this! You have no idea what it was like for me to go through life with police throwing in desperate attempts to catch you. Without her, I'd be lying on my deathbed waiting for my head to be chopped off!"
"You could've escaped." Chaos reasoned gently." Not even some soft straps or foolish guards could hold you down."
"Maybe I could've escaped, but if I never knew Lilo, I'd miss out on so many things. I wouldn't realize how nice it is to have a family. I would've missed out on learning how beautiful love-
"Love!" Chaos interrupted and his two lackeys shouted with laughter." Love Stitch? Please, what has that girl done to you? Love. I can't believe you. Now I'm very disappointed in you, which is why you need to become worthy again."
"I don't want to be worthy." Stitch spoke bravely and clearly. "At least, not in your eyes. I won't become some heartless fiend who likes to go around killing people for my sick pleasure."
Master snapped his head back up so fast, everybody was confused as to why it didn't break. He glared at Stitch with such ferocity that it was a good thing looks can't literally kill. He stepped towards him. "This all because of that girl you are so infatuated with, am I right? Lilo has made you this way thanks to her undying love and faith in her stupid ohana. Well then, that does it! I will not have any of my own species go around making fools of themselves and making us experiments look bad. I have had it! That girl will die because of this."
Before Master could get another word out, Stitch charged at him and wrapped his hand around the experiment's throat. Stitch started strangling the experiment, but he couldn't hold on long enough. One of Master's hands flew to Stitch's hand clutching his throat. He squeezed it tightly, power coursing through his veins and to his hand. His mark burned with intense anger and Stitch felt it. The power burned through his hand, as if frying it. He bit his lip as not to cry out in pain until the power shot up his arm and up to his shoulder, inflicting a crucial ache in his arm and shoulder. He immediately let go of Master's neck and staggered backwards.
Master stood up and strode slowly over to the blue experiment. He narrowed his gaze, trying to look menacing, which always worked. Stitch felt his heart pounding in his chest from fear as the experiment latched his hands on Stitch's shoulders. All the while, Yuki, Elena, and Teresa watched with amazement and fear at how calm Stitch seemed to be.
"Tell you what 626, I'm going to give you a conundrum." Conundrum? Stitch asked to himself in his thoughts. That's what he said in my dream, that he had a conundrum for me. He killed Lilo because I made the wrong choice. "I'm going to give you 21 Earth days for you decide. Don't dawdle for when I say 21 days, I do mean 21 days. Nothing less and definitely nothing more. Lilo is the girl that you want to impress, that you want to hold dear to you for the rest of eternity and never let her go. However, that's not going to happen for you." Stitch glared at him. What does he mean? I can be with Lilo if I want to. He's not the grand councilman. He can't tell me what to do. "In 21 days, I presume Lilo Pelekai will be as of late."
Stitch turned to him, anger blazing in his ebony eyes. "What are you talking about?"
"In 21 days, you will have Lilo dead by your hands." Master replied then quickly added. "If you don't have Lilo dead, then I will kill her myself. There's your conundrum Stitch. Will Lilo die by your hands, or mine?"
So that was the conundrum. I was to kill Lilo or he will. According to my dream, Master killed her because I didn't do it. Is that going to happen in real life? "You can't kill Lilo. I'll be with her all day and I'll never let her out of my sight. You can't get to her."
Slyther, for the first time, spoke up. "Just try us 626. If you think we're only bluffing and if you do believe we will never get our hands on Lilo, then just try us."
Stitch glared at him. "Why are you doing this? If I wanted to stay on Earth, I can even the grand councilwoman said I could. Why are you doing this?"
"I told you, I will not have one foolish experiment making all of us look shameful. That girl is the cause of all this and she will die. By your hands or mine, she will die." Master responded in a dark voice. "Choose Stitch. She can have a quick and painless death, or I could show her what true pain is really all about. Come girls."
Before Yuki, Teresa, or Elena could step forward, Stitch blocked them with his arm. "I don't think so. I do not trust you with these girls. They're staying with me."
"Fine. Those three are nothing but silly little brats anyway. Come you two." Master demanded to his lackeys and they followed with sinister looks directed at Stitch's way.
Stitch turned to them. "You girls can come with me. I'm sorry to hear about Myrtle, but I promise I will keep you three safe. Come with me to the house and you can have something to eat or drink if you like."
With that, Stitch turned to head back to the house with the three girls hot on his heels. They climbed up the steps and Stitch held the door open for them to come. When they did, the first place they went to was the kitchen. Stitch allowed them to get drinks and whipped up some food for them. The girls devoured it hungrily just before thanking the blue alien for the food. Stitch nodded to accept the thanks until the front door opened.
"Thank you Keoni for the nice evening." Came Lilo's voice at the entrance.
"Anytime anywhere Lilo." Keoni's voice sent anger bubbling in his being. Stitch came out from the kitchen to see Keoni bending down to give Lilo a kiss on the cheek.
He gritted his teeth. "Keoni, you can go home now." He replied while crossing his arms.
Keoni looked at Stitch then shrugged. "I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Sorry lover boy, but Lilo here has some issues to be taken care of here." Stitch growled before stepping forward to take Lilo by the arm. He used his spare hand to slam the door in front of Keoni and dragged Lilo by the wrist to the kitchen.
"Stitch, what is the matter with you?" She chided. "If Keoni is going to ask me out then I have no problems with that. I can take care of myself you know. I am not your-" She stopped in mid sentence at the sight of Yuki, Teresa, and Elena. " What are you guys doing here?"
"I fear they are in danger." Stitch responded. "They're staying here with us."
"Did you already tell their parents? You can't keep them here unless we have their parents' permissions." Lilo replied. "I'll talk you about this later. If you think they're in danger, then I'm not going to question you. Teresa, Yuki, Elena! Call your parents and let them know you're going to be with us for a while. Tell them we're working on a project for hula class and it's going to take some time to get it done. If they ask why you're not doing it with Myrtle, then just tell them she got eaten by a vampire."
"Lilo.." Stitch trailed. "Myrtle's dead."
She gasped then turned her head. "Dead? How do you know if she's dead."
"They told me." Stitch replied, pointing a finger to the three girls.
"How can she be dead? Myrtle was fine yesterday and now.." Lilo gasped again. "She was murdered!"
Stitch quickly covered her mouth. "Shush! I don't want Jumba or Pleakley to know of this just yet. As a matter of fact, don't tell anybody about this."
"Okay, I won't, but can you at least tell me who murdered Myrtle?" Lilo asked with an incline of her head.
Stitch sighed. "I don't want to tell you now Lilo. I'm fearing for your life as well. Just please, do as I say. I don't want to lose you.." He stared directly in her eyes, letting her know he was dead serious. "Promise you'll listen to me?"
She nodded. "I promise."
He smirked. "Good girl."
She swatted him playfully.
During the day, Yuki, Teresa and Elena stayed at the Pelekai house. They called their parents who agreed in letting them stay. They were astonished that it was at Lilo's house since their daughters hated the girl, but then thought they might actually develop a friendship and smiled at the thought.
Lilo had kept her promise in not telling anybody about what was happening and she listened to Stitch. Pleakley and Nani were convinced that Yuki, Elena and Teresa were only here for a project that would take very much time. They also told them that it was a surprise and that they should never mention it. This got Pleakley and Nani suspicious, but concurred to it anyway. Stitch and the girls with the exception of Lilo, decided to tell Jumba about what happened.
At night, Stitch made sure everybody was asleep. He crept up to Lilo's bed, just to make sure she was asleep. He found out she was, but her blanket barely even covered her. It went over her legs, but it hung loose off her hip. He noticed her shivering and brought the covers to her chin. He watched as she breathed in the air then let it back out. He reached forward to kiss her temple before turning to the three pallets occupying the floor. He knelt down and woke up Teresa, reminding her they had a visit with Jumba. She turned to wake the other two girls, then silently, they left using the lift and walking out the door.
Jumba was waiting for them eagerly at the desk. When the four came in, he pointed to the floor as if it was his gesture to sit down. They did, in front of him. Stitch however, went to sit next to his creator while the girls just sat in front.
"Alright 626." Jumba started. "Please to be explaining nightmare you had."
Stitch relieved the nightmare in his own words. He explained how he came home to find the house in a mess and to see Nani and Lilo killed. He then explained the experiment, the one who they called Master Pre 701. Of course, he left out the parts where it seemed like he and Lilo were lovers.
When Stitch finished his story, Jumba asked the girls to tell him what happened. Teresa, who felt like the leader now that Myrtle was no longer, told of what happened in her point of view. Stitch clutched his fists at his side, now respecting and sympathizing for the girls. He hated Myrtle yes, but hated murder even more.
"I'm going to be telling you something 626 and other little girls." Jumba replied. "You see, when I was a little boy, Jumba's father was true Evil Genius. He created many experiments to turn whole galaxy upside down. He created plethora of scientific tinkering that it got little boy Jumba amazed. I started creating experiments myself, but one never turned good. They were obsolete failures and were useless to evil. That's when Jumba's father helped me and created the three experiments called Pre 699, Pre 700, and Pre 701 who are now referred to as Drea, Slyther and Master."
"These three experiments were the only survivors I had. They turned out to be very evil genius. My father wanted to make more experiments, but his experiment backfired, causing the ship to perish in fire. Father tried to help me escape, but he couldn't. Little Boy Jumba was forced to watch Father die in the smoke in the light of the flames. My three experiments were inside there too, so Jumba had thought they perished as well. Thus, Little Boy Jumba had to go off without a family. That's how I became sinisterly Evil Genius, to make my father proud and that life with no love sent me to insanity. That is how I learned to create you 626 and your cousins."
"So that's why they want Lilo dead." Stitch whispered to himself. "We experiments were known to be powerful and undefeatable. With Lilo, she is a threat to their status. She's the reason why we're good now. If we lose Lilo, we lose everything keeping us sane. The loss of our sanity just might be enough to send us to our original destructive programming."
"The nightmare you had 626 may have been your warning in foreshadowing what was to come next." Jumba replied. "Jumba strongly advises you 626 to make sure Little Girl stays out of danger. If those experiments get a hold of her, it could mean her death. As for the other little girls, keep them with you at all times. Their lives may be endangered too."
"Yes Jumba." Stitch replied with a nod of his head. "Can we go back to bed now?"
"Yes, you are being free to go." Jumba replied as he beckoned them out the door. "You four have a good sleep now."
Stitch and the girls didn't respond. They didn't say 'they will' because they knew that would be a lie. Stitch was fearing for Lilo's safety and now he had to watch over Myrtle's little slaves to make sure they keep out of danger. Yuki, Teresa and Elena were scared for their lives as well. They also were crest-fallen at the death of their red-haired leader.
That night, they didn't get a good sleep. Stitch stayed awake the whole night watching over the girls to make sure nobody came to hurt them and nightmares haunted the girls asleep on the floor.
Note- I hope Jumba's explanation about how he created Drea, Slyther, and Master made sense. I didn't want to do it where an old schoolmate created them because I already did it in my last story.
As for the book the experiments refrences from, I wasn't sure how I was going to have them know where Stitch is and who he's with. I was hoping nobody would ask that, but apparently, someone has. I'll just have to make it up as I go along. So, bear with me.
Another thing, I always thought conundrum meant like a tough choice. That's the definition I learned at school. Boy do I misuse words a lot. Sorry for being so stupid, but I really thought conundrum meant a tough choice. My teachers lied to me!