A/N: Well, here's the butt kicking you've all been waiting for. But don't think this is the end, there are still a few more surprises waiting. Thanks for all the review and for putting up with my flights of fancy. Said flights have already resulted in my being work on a new fic, althought it will be a long time in coming, and won't exactly be a sequal. I'll tell you more later. On with the story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Lilo and Stitch.

Thru New Eyes

Chapter Fifteen

Purpose

"628!" Jumba cried as the bonds around him vanished. "You were making it!"

"Siron?" Stitch said in shock. "Is that you?"

The mention of his name caused Lilith to back away slightly. "Siron?"

Siron floated down, his body sparking and crackling with absorbed power. Without even moving his arms, his body discharged a fuchsia beam that collided with the evil experiment. Lilith was thrown into the wall, her body surrounded by a blackened crater. Without taking his eyes off his foe, he said to Chance. "I don't know why you came here, or why your presence caused Victoria and Stitch to be able to break free, but it's apparent that Lilith wants you dead. Get out of here while you can."

Chance nodded his head as he took off back the way he had come, out a hole in the wall. Then, again without turning his attention from Lilith, he addressed Victoria. "Victoria, you and your friends go after him. You care about his well-being, and I ask you get him away from here. Jumba should be able to disable the shields in the meantime, while I take care of this monstrosity."

"What should we do?" Lilo asked.

"You've done enough." Siron replied. "Help Jumba get the shield down."

"But what about you?" Stitch said, still not able to process what had happened to him. This experiment was a far cry from the Siron he knew. That Siron was filled with doubt about himself, about his place. This Siron's voice radiated calm and confidence; he knew what he had to do.

"This is my purpose, Stitch." He replied. "And I'm no longer afraid of it."

Stitch, instead of running as the others had begun to, stood beside him. "I'm not leaving. This might be your purpose, but it's my fight too."

"And I'm staying too." Lilo said as she stood beside Stitch. "Even if you're no longer afraid of fighting her, she's still a mockery of me; one I intended to help rid the world of."

His reply was simple "Suit yourself."

The three braced themselves for what would prove to be a battle none of them would soon forget.

Lilith roared with rage as she pulled herself off the wall. "So Jumba thinks he can make an experiment that can destroy me? I'll show you that no one can defeat me. I am the greatest experiment of all time!"

Her rant was interrupted by another blast. This time she shielded herself with her wings, but the result was the same, and she ended up back against the wall.

"Then why don't you shut up and fight?" Siron said calmly.

Stitch couldn't help but smile. Now the tables were turned, and Lilith was the one taking the beating. "This feels good, doesn't it Lilo?"

"Sure does." Lilo replied as she began to charge her wings. "It's about time she got a taste of her own medicine."

Lilo let go a blast of energy, connecting with the dazed Lilith, embedding her further into the wall. "Now that felt good."

Stitch charged forward, intending to crash into Lilith and start tearing her apart, only to be flung back as Lilith flapped her wings, causing an energy force to send him flying. Lilo threw up her wings, trying to weather the blast, but she was flung backwards as well.

Siron just stood there, not moving an inch, as if the force never touched him at all. He then spoke to Lilo about why her wings gave out.

"I'd advice you not to stand close to me Lilo, my null force works on you as well."

Luckily, Jumba had started his search on the remaining panels in the room, and was better able to explain. "628 creates an energy black hole around himself. Works like wings in overdrive. Can absorb any energy that enters that field and store it, using it to power his attacks"

"And lets just say I had a big meal before I came." Siron said as he stared down his opponent.

Lilith narrowed her eyes. "Energy attacks, huh?" She then let loose a huge Comet Blast on the ceiling, causing it to cave in. "Deal with that, hotshot."

Stitch took a hold of Lilo and pulled her out of the way as the ceiling came down right above Siron. But to everyone's surprise, Siron didn't move. Instead, his body gave off another beam, right over his head, forcing the falling ceiling upwards and vaporizing a huge chunk of it.

"Dealt with." Siron said as the chunks of ceiling fell all around him. "Got any other tricks up your sleeve, or is that the best you have?"

"Why you insolent…" Lilith shouted as she took to the air. "I'll show you what I have up my sleeves!" Her eyes went black and she conjured more of the dark, shadowy tentacles. Let's see you absorb that!

To her surprise, as well as everyone else's, Siron leapt away from the shadow stuff, taking flight as he reached the pinnacle of his jump. The shadow stuff then tried to follow him, but he rammed himself right into Lilith, and both started shooting thru the hole in the ceiling. Siron stopped himself short of the barrier, but Lilith, not able to react in time, slammed right into it, and began to spiral back towards the ground.

Lilo and Stitch looked in awe as they watched Siron's aerial maneuver. Lilo turned to Stitch. "Stitch, do you think he was changed by his programming? I mean, do you think he still loves knowledge like he did?"

Stitch gave her a soft smile. "I don't think he changed as much as we were afraid he would. I mean, look at him. Every move he has made so far was planned out, even his disregard of Lilith's threats."

"Really, what do you mean?" Lilo asked perplexed at her boyfriend's meaning.

"Look at how frustrated and desperate Lilith has become. It psychological warfare, just like she used on us."

"I see. Siron's not afraid of Lilith. In fact, he's acting like she's no threat at all to him."

"And it's driving her crazy." Stitch replied with a wide grin.

Meanwhile, the shadow stuff still followed Siron. Finally, he decided to open fire on it, and it evaporated. "Well, at least I can destroy that stuff." Siron had never seen anything like this living shadow. It defied all attempts by his sensors to analyze it, and although it gave off huge energy readings, he was not about to try and absorb it. Something wasn't right about it, and it gave him the creeps.

Lilith had just pulled herself from the floor as she watched Siron destroy her shadow energy. "So, you're as smart as you look. But I've got news for you, that's the least of my new abilities."

So something has happened, and Lilith has powers that I don't have information on. Siron thought to himself. Then my only recourse is to stop her before she gets a chance to use them. "This is it, demon. I'm going to get rid of you once and for all."

"Oh really?" Lilith said as she began to charge rapidly. "Mind if I take a few with me?"

Lilith began to take everything in, and things began to shut down. First the consoles, then the lights, and even the shield itself. "If I'm going to be destroyed, I'm going to destroy all of you!"

Meanwhile, the others were desperately trying to find a way out. "Are you sure you don't know another way out of here?" Richie said as he held his arm. When he had dodged Lilith's blast, he had landed on his right arm, and had broken it.

"No, the only exit I remember was totaled, by Lilith no less. And the hole made by Stitch is too small for us." Victoria said as they continued down the hall.

"Well we need to find an exit fast. There's no telling how long before those two total this whole place." Jason said as he picked up his pace.

"Yeah, but that red thing looked really cool, don't you think?" Richie replied as he looked in another room.

"I just hope it's kicking the crap out of that witch." Myrtle replied.

Richie turned back to Victoria, only to notice the gash on her arm was bleeding badly. "Victoria, your arm."

"I'll be okay Richie; we need to find a way out of here." Victoria replied.

"No." Richie then took his shirt off a handed it to Jason. "Tie this around Victoria's wound."

"Okay dude." Jason said as he proceeded to do as he was told. Meanwhile Richie winched in pain from his arm.

"Richie. We need to get that arm in a sling." Victoria replied as she reached down for her shirt tail.

"Don't even think about it. We'll use my shirt." Jason said as he took his shirt and made it into a makeshift sling.

"Most boys wouldn't mind a girl doing that." Myrtle said with a smirk.

"I'm not most boys." Jason said as he put Richie's arm in a sling.

"I know." she replied.

Suddenly the wall near them exploded.

"What the heck?" Jason yelled.

Both girls screamed, while Richie nearly fell over.

But to everyone's surprise, Knuckles stepped thru the hole. "All clear sir! We've found the captives."

"Knuckles, you scared the crap outta us. And how did you know where to find us?" Jason asked.

"Good work Alex." Cobra said as he came thru the opening.

"Oh, that's how."

Cobra then turned to look at them and Knuckles. "Get them to safety."

"I guess Jumba got the shield down." Victoria said relief apparent in her voice. But the she turned and noticed that Chance was no where to be found! "Chance! Oh my God, where is he?"

"I don't know, I thought he was right behind us." Jason replied as he turned around. Sure enough, the kid was gone.

"Alex, get these four to safety, I will go look for the small child."

"Yes sir." Knuckles said with a salute. "Come on; let's get out of here before the shield comes back up."

"I'm not leaving without Chance!" Victoria cried as she tried to push past the others. "Lilith already wants to kill him, and he's defenseless."

Cobra put a firm hand on her shoulder. "And what would you do if you found him in danger?"

Victoria stopped in her tracks. "I…I don't know. I'd protect him somehow."

"I will go look for him. You get to safety; I'm sure he'd be upset if you were hurt badly."

"I know, but that monster wants to kill him, and none of us know why."

Cobra looked at her. "Aside from her normal reasons?"

"Yes, she recognized him, and said she should have listened and killed him beforehand." Victoria said as she began to tear up. "And I don't know why. He's just a little boy, what threat is he to her?"

"Don't worry Victoria. I'll promise I'll find him before Lilith does." Cobra then turned and cocked his plasma rifle. "Now get out of here while you still can."

Meanwhile, in a room further down, Chance was monkeying with the bridge controls, when the power started to go out.

"Well, that's one way to take the shield down. I wonder what's going on, did I break the ship?"

He stood silently for a moment as he looked around the now dark room. Then he heard an explosion, and what sounded like a huge storm of electricity. "You're right. That's my cue to get out of here." Suddenly the power snapped back on, and something came up on the screen. Something that looked like system readouts. The little boy had no idea what they said, but the picture of the big gun in the center was easy enough for a two-year old.

"That's bad, isn't it?"

Meanwhile, Lilith was gathering all the power she could, determined to destroy everything and everyone around her. "You…you don't run. Good. You know it's hopeless. I now have enough power to dwarf an atom bomb!"

Stitch ran toward her, in a vain attempt to break her concentration, but was flung backwards by the immense power Lilith had gathered. "Don't bother, none of you has enough power to contain me!" she screamed.

"We'll see about that." Siron said as he flew forward at a high speed. I might not be able to handle this much energy, but I don't have any choice; I can't let her go critical.

He shot forward, and to everyone's surprise, tackled Lilith. He blasted thru her energy barrier like it was nothing, and grappled her. To onlookers, it looked like he was giving her a hug! But the truth was that he was holding her so his null barrier could sap away her power.

"Let me go! Nobody touches me!" Lilith screamed as she tried to force him off. Her eyes went black, but still he held on for dear life.

I can't hold anymore energy; I gotta get rid of it! And get rid of it he did. He fired a humongous beam, straight up. It pierced what was left of the ceiling, and by the time he was done, the night sky had lit up with his display.

Outside, the experiments looked on in awe. "Well, that's a signal if there ever was one." Sparky said. The shield had already just fallen, and the experiments had been debating on weather or not to charge in, or wait for a signal. Needless to say the argument was now a moot point.

"Well, what are you guys waiting for? Snooty has already gone in. Let's get a move on!" Kixx yelled. Although the energy using experiments had tired themselves out charging Siron, the fighting experiments like Kixx and Hammerface were ready for action. They wanted to get a piece of the monster who destroyed Lilo's innocence. The experiments charged the ship, running past Victoria and the others as they came off the ship.

"Whoa, that's a lot of aliens." Jason remarked as one ran past his leg.

"And they all want the same thing." Victoria said. "A piece of that monster."

Suddenly they heard something that sounded like a bat squeaking overhead. Victoria looked up with a smile. "Snooty!"

Snooty dove down and hugged onto his friend. "Yes, yes I'm glad you're okay too."

"Is that a bat?" Myrtle asked.

"Don't ask me Sis, I have no idea." Richie replied. Then they heard a yapping sound.

"Gigi!" Myrtle cried as Gigi leapt up into her arms.

Gigi proceeded to lick her owner in the face. "Gigi, stop it. I'm okay, really."

Jason turned to look back at the ship. "I just hope that Stitch and Lilo are."

Lilith fell to the ground. She had been defeated, but she refused to believe it. Her body was torn and damaged, her precious wings tattered and useless, but she refused to believe that a lowly experiment had defeated her. "You…you bastard. Don't think you've won yet. This isn't over."

"Oh, but I think it is. Look around you." Siron replied.

Lilith lifted her head to see that all around, there were experiments. Hanging off walls, outside looking down on her, hovering in the air. They were everywhere.

"No, it can't end like this." she muttered.

And it won't my dear. We aren't finished with these fools yet. A voice inside her mind told her. Give yourself to me, and we will purge this world of everything you despise.

"I will. Anything to destroy that red experiment. And his namesake."

Precisely.

Suddenly, Lilith's body began to glow with the dark light. She rose off the ground and took her human form. The black fog consumed her form completely, as she let off a painful scream.

"What the heck is going on?" Stitch said as he and many of the experiments had begun to back away.

"She's really a demon!" one of the experiments cried.

"Well, get her before she changes!" another one yelled.

"Are you mad? For all we know that stuff will eat us alive!" came another experiment.

The only experiment to stand his ground was Siron. So this is the truth. He thought to himself as he watched the mist twist and climb. For all that you are, there is something more to you. Something inside you. And that something wants my closest friend dead.

His eyes narrowed as the mist seemed to tighten on Lilith, if she was even still there. "I don't know about the rest of you, but I will not run, no matter what Lilith turns into!"

A voice, deep and steeped in evil, answered him. "Spoken well, little one. You are truly worthy of your namesake." The mist began to fade away, and in its place stood something that caused many of those watching to gasp, shriek, or even faint. A tall tan woman, clad in black shoulderless armor, floated before them. Two bony wings jutted from her back, and her fingers were sharp claws. Two soulless orbs of infinite black looked upon them, as she gave a chilling laugh. "This will be your grave, this planet. Soon it will be nothing but a barren waste, the suffering of its remaining peoples feeding my kind for generations."

She trained her gaze upon Siron. "And you, you foolishly think you can interfere in matters far beyond your comprehension." She threw back her arms as the room filled with wiggling, twisting tendrils of smoke and darkness. "You will protect no one. Both of you shall die at our feet."

End Chapter 15

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