Lilo, Stitch, Angel, and Jumba all stood on the beach with 000/Alpha and 628/Omega, Stitch having unsheathed his extra arms, his antennae and his dorsal spines.
"Okay Six-Two-Six, you shall be fighting Alpha-Zero in simulated combat. SIMULATED being key word, so don't be taking anything he does personally." Jumba told Stitch.
"Ih!" Stitch replied, indicating that he understood what his creator was getting at. Meanwhile, the two female experiments present talked in Tantalog to each other about this, that, and the other. Lilo stood by with a pair of flags, one red and one blue. She would be referee for the battle.
"Okay you two, are ya ready?" Lilo asked Stitch and 000/Alpha. The male experiments gave each other a look that clearly said 'You're goin' down!', and nodded at the little girl. Lilo held the flags above her head, and then, with a call of "BEGIN!", threw her arms down. 000/Alpha and Stitch raced at each other, confidence in their eyes.
(Meanwhile...)
Dr. Jacques Von Hamsterviel and experiment 629/Leroy were being held in maximum security cells on a prison ship, Leroy's clones having been dehydrated into pod form and sent to be buried deep under the ground of a desert planet, never to be seen or heard from again.
'There must be some way out of this verdammte predicament...' Hamsterviel thought, pacing in his cell. Looking through the thin energy field that acted as a separating wall between his and Leroy's cells, he watched as the red experiment listened to music on a... Wait a second.
"Leroy, where did you get that media player?" Hamsterviel asked. Leroy pulled out an earphone and turned to Hamsterviel.
"Gaba, this? Meega stole it from one of the smaller guards when he was in the john. And when meega say in the john, meega really mean IN the john!" Leroy explained, giggling a little. Hamsterviel slowly ran a paw down his face, mentally counting to ten.
"Leroy... I'm only going to ask this once, you preposterously ignorant thing; so listen carefully: Have... you... been... out... of... your... CELL?" Hamsterviel asked through his teeth.
"Ih! Several times, actually!" Leroy replied.
"And HOW did you get out?" Hamsterviel inquired. Leroy simply pointed up. Looking at where Leroy was pointing, Hamsterviel noticed an air vent that was cracked open slightly and out of range of the security cameras. Looking up at the ceiling of his own cell, Hamsterviel could see a similar air vent. Hamsterviel 'Hmm'd a little, formulating a plan...
(Back in Kokaua Town...)
Stitch was hocking acid loogies at 000/Alpha, who was flying around in a brilliant display of aerobatics, dodging every shot as it came.
"Very good, Alpha-Zero! Be keeping Six-Two-Six on his toes!" Jumba encouraged, cackling madly from the sidelines.
"Meega rooting for you, boojiboo!" Angel told Stitch, blowing him a kiss. Nodding, Stitch jumped as high as he could into the air, landing on 000/Alpha's back. Growling, 000/Alpha did a combined barrel-roll/loopty-loop in an effort to throw Stitch off, but Stitch was gripping 000/Alpha's dorsal quills tightly. 000/Alpha snarled, the mood indicator bands on his dorsal quills going unnoticed as they turned black.
(Back with Hamsterviel and Leroy...)
Hamsterviel looked carefully around, making sure that ALL of the guards were on their lunchbreak. He glanced up, checking on the only security camera that faced his cell, the one that turned itself off before turning back on in 3 minute intervals... The ship may have been one of the fleet's finest, but its' budget was atrocious!
'Okay, that camera should be going off in trois, deux, un!' he thought as the red indicator light on the camera went black. Grinning wildly, Hamsterviel unsheathed his short yet sharp claws and started scaling the rear wall of his cell. Reaching the air vent, he gripped one of the bars firmly with his tail and forcefully pushed the large piece of metal open. Climbing into the open air vent, Hamsterviel shoved it closed behind him and made his way across to Leroy's cell.
"Leroy, follow me! And no not-so-funny funny business or double-crosses, okay?" Hamsterviel said. Leroy grinned and leapt up through the air vent, closing it behind him.
"Lead the way, rat." Leroy said. Hamsterviel would have shouted something to the effect of "HAMSTER, YOU IMBECILE! HAMSTER!", but that would've ruined the escape attempt in progress. Quickly and quietly going through the ducts, Hamsterviel and Leroy made their way to the teleporter room. Landing painfully on his rear end, Hamsterviel narrowly dodged being landed on by Leroy.
"Watch it, you clumsy fool! You nearly hit me!" Hamsterviel whispered harshly.
"Sorry." Leroy apologised as Hamsterviel keyed in some co-ordinates on the teleporter's user interface.
(In the guards' cafeteria...)
The guards were all eating, quite messily I might add, when the ship's computer spoke up.
"ALERT: UNAUTHORISED TELEPORT ABOUT TO COMMENCE." the computer announced.
Looking at each other in shock, the guards all unholstered their respective weapons and ran for the teleporter room.
(Back in the teleporter room...)
Hamsterviel had just hotwired the teleporter to initiate the teleportation sequence in fifteen seconds. Making his way onto the teleporter pad, he and Leroy waited for the countdown to end.
"Soon Leroy, very soon nobody, not even the combin-ed forces of the little girl and her precious 'Ohana' will be able to stop us; not after one of my associates has modified you slightly." Hamsterviel said in an eerily soothing tone. Leroy gulped nervously, noticing a feral shine to Hamsterviel's eyes that he'd never seen before, one that told of weeks of unmentionable tortures. Just as the countdown reached zero, the guards stormed in, too late to stop the albino alien and his experimental cohort from escaping as Hamsterviel grinned ferally and waved teasingly at them as he and Leroy faded temporarily from existence.
(Back on the beach, a few hours later...)
000/Alpha had just sent Stitch brutally CRASHING into the sand, the mood indicator bands on his dorsal quills as black as obsidian and somehow GLOWING that color. Shaking the cobwebs from his mind, Stitch looked up just in time to witness 000/Alpha's special ability:
"BI...THERMAL... BLAAASST!" 000/Alpha shouted, forming a colored sphere in his mouth before launching a jet of pure energy at Stitch. All witnessing the spectacle noticed that the attack took the form of a straight beam of electric blue energy surrounded by a continuously coiling helix of neon orange energy. Stitch couldn't avoid the attack, and was hit by both searing heat and burning cold temperatures. 000/Alpha kept up the attack until the mood indicator bands on his dorsal quills turned back to their neutral grey color, blending in with his fur. As the attack died down and the smell of scorched ozone filled the air, Jumba could hear a beeping sound coming from his pocket.
"Please to be stopping for moment, Six-Two-Six and Alpha-Zero!" Jumba requested. Pulling a communicator from his pocket, Jumba held it to his ear and pushed a button.
"Hello, you are having reached super genius Jumba Jookiba. GABA?! Blitznak! Yes, yes; of COURSE I am understanding implications of this!" Jumba shouted into the communicator stressedly. Lilo, Stitch, Angel, 000/Alpha and 628/Omega looked at Jumba with concerned expressions.
"Yes. I am understanding. I will be doing what I can. Good-bye." Jumba sighed with some frustration as he put the communicator back into his pocket.
"What's wrong Jumba?" Lilo asked.
"Ih, gaba wrong?" Stitch asked, ears flopped down in concern. Jumba bit his lip, then sighed and gestured for the group to follow him towards his lab.
"It would be seeming that ex-partner has somehow escaped from imprisonment with Six-Two-Nine in tow." Jumba said, running a hand over his bald head. Lilo groaned.
"Hamsterviel and Leroy ESCAPED?! Goshdarnit, don't those stupidheads ever quit?!" Lilo exclaimed frustratedly.
"It is exceedingly apparent that we do NOT!" a voice shouted. Lilo and the others gasped, turning around to face a hologram of Hamsterviel being projected from a hovering device.
"Hamsterwheel!" Lilo shouted.
"It is HamsterVIEL, you stupid Earth girl! My name is HamsterVIEL!" Hamsterviel shouted, jumping up and down in rage. Lilo smirked.
"I know; I just did that to stir you up." Lilo remarked, grinning smugly. Hamsterviel's eyes narrowed, but then he started grinning as well, a sort of feral grin that made the assembled group feel uneasy.
"So... You like to play practical jokes, do you?" Hamsterviel asked in an unsettlingly soothing tone. "Well... How is this for a hysterically hilarious practical joke? I, Doctor Jacques Von Hamsterviel, have, with the assistance of one of my colleagues, modified both Leroy and a recently acquired experiment Six-Two-Seven, which I stole from your not-so-secret secret hiding place and both of whom are waiting for you at YOUR house, you idiotically stupid Earthling filth! Hamsterviel bragged, laughing like a madman... Well, a mad-ER hamster...man...thing.
Lilo was livid. "Stitch, Angel, Alpha-Zero, Omega-SixTwentyEight, follow me!" she shouted, running off. The four experiments ran after her, while Jumba stared at the holographic representation of his old lab partner.
"So Jumba, were those two new experiments I saw running off with Six-Two-Six, Six-Two-Four and the little girl?" Hamsterviel asked, licking his lips predatorially. Jumba shook his head, frowning.
"Not quite, Hamsterviel. Those were experiments Alpha-Zero and Omega-SixTwentyEight, both of which were never activated until today. And be believing me, they CANNOT be turned evil. They were first to be intentionally programmed to be GOOD!" Jumba told the vaguely rabbit/gerbil/hamster-like alien. Hamsterviel grinned demonically.
"Well then... That will just make things even more interesting. Au revoir." Hamsterviel said before the hologram turned off and the holographic emitter flew away.
(With Lilo and the experiments...)
'If Leroy and Six-Two-Seven have done anything to hurt Nani, Pleakley, David and Belle, I'll make 'em PAY!' Lilo thought angrily to herself as she raced up the driveway towards her house. Arriving just outside the front entrance, Lilo spotted Leroy holding her unconscious family hostage at gunpoint with a police-issue pistol, alongside 627, who talking to Leroy. Wait a second... Talking?
"And then he says: 'Oh, my God... it's got a tail!'" 627 told Leroy, in the middle of retelling the events of an episode of a TV show he saw before being dehydrated. Leroy cackled like a hyena.
"Aw, man! The grosser they get, the funnier it is!" Leroy said, clutching his sides with painful laughter.
"You're tellin' me!" 627 chuckled before spotting Lilo and the others coming their way. "Heads up, cousin. Five weenies comin' up for a roast." 627 told Leroy, unsheathing two extra pairs of arms, four dorsal spines and a pair of antennae. Leroy grinned, turning to face the fivesome while still keeping his gun trained on his hostages.
"Welly-welly-welly-well! Lookit what we got here, Leroy! It's our old rival, Stitch! How ARE you doing, cousin?" 627 mockingly asked, cracking his knuckles.
"Naga earned the right to call meega 'cousin', stupidhead!" Stitch growled. Six-Two-Seven 'Tutted' at Stitch, gesturing to Leroy. Leroy poked the tip of his gun into an unconscious Nani's cheek, making sure to show them all that the gun WAS loaded.
"And by the way, I'm not such a stupidhead anymore." 627 continued. "As you can most definitely hear, my vocabulary has improved quite a lot. And SINCE I'm smarter... From now on, refer to me not as 'Six-Two-Seven', but as 'Yami'." Yami grinned. Lilo frowned.
"As in Japanese for 'Darkness'?" Yami continued, trying to get his point across. "Oh, whatever; you're too young for this sort of s**t, anyhow. Why don't you run along and play with your dolls or something?"
Lilo clenched her fists, her head lowered towards her chest. "I'm not gonna just stand by and watch while you threaten my Ohana." she said in a low voice as what appeared to be small sparks of white electricity arced over her hands. The moment she raised her head to look at them, their jaws dropped in shock. Her eyes had changed from looking like a human's eyes to looking like an experiment's eyes, completely black save for a small sliver of brown towards the bottom.
"Roy-Roy, do you see what I see?" Yami asked Leroy in fear as Lilo started speaking in a different voice, as if many different experiments were all speaking at once.
"Meega naga let you harm my Ohana. Ohana means family; family means nobody gets left behind... or forgotten." Lilo said, quoting her late father. Lilo's new eyes narrowed and she started floating up into the air. "Stitch, Angel; let meega, Alpha-Zero and Omega-SixTwentyEight take care of this." Lilo told her blue friend in her vocal mix-up.
"Ih... sure." Stitch said, gulping nervously.
Raising her hands above her head, an energy orb started forming between them and Lilo gestured with a nod for 000/Alpha and 628/Omega to take care of Leroy. Nodding back, the two new experiments rushed the gun-wielding trog as Lilo threw the orb at him, making him scream like a girl.
Jumba ran up, hoping he wasn't too late to stop a catastrophe. He stopped dead in his tracks, going slack-jawed at what he was seeing.
"Six-Two-Six, Six-Two-Four; how is little girl flying?" Jumba asked, dumbstruck.
Stitch shrugged, chuckling nervously. "Meega have naga idea." he said.
Lilo and Yami faced each other, Yami's eyes darting around in desperation, looking for an easy way out.
"Yami, why fight us? Why not become part of our Ohana?" Lilo asked. Yami went rigid, nervously gesturing to his neck. upon closer inspection, there was what appeared to be a small blue LED indicator light blinking on the back of his neck.
"IS BOMB IMPLANT!" Jumba gasped. "Former partner is BLACKMAILING you into submission?" he asked. Yami made a 'Right on the nose' gesture.
"The only way to de-activate the implant and force it out from under my skin is with the vocal command code, but I wasn't conscious when the implant was put in, so I don't know what the stinkin' code IS!" Yami said, twitching a little.
"Wait, meega confused; you evil, right?" Stitch asked. Yami rolled his eyes.
"The only reasons I acted the way I did when I was first activated is because A: I was a lot dumber, and B: ...I was a HECK of a lot dumber! Right now, the only thing makin' me quote-unquote 'Evil' is the stupid bomb implant!" Yami said.
Jumba pinched the bridge of his nose. "Getting back onto main topic of discussion... Bomb computer, de-activation sequence initiation!" he commanded.
"STATE VOCAL COMMAND CODE." the computerised voice of the implant said. Jumba chuckled and looked to the others.
"If I am knowing old lab partner's mind like I am hoping I am, then vocal command code SHOULD be, and I am quoting:" Jumba began, clearing his throat before starting to sing...
#There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,
*gasp*
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
*gasp*
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered!#
"PROCESSING... COMMAND CODE ACCEPTED." the implant announced.
With the ending of the song, a cylindrical microchip popped out of Yami's skin and dropped to the ground, beeping twice before exploding like a firecracker.
"THAT'S the vocal command code?" Yami asked, scratching his head in confusion as Lilo slowly descended to the ground.
"You would be being surprised how many evil scientists are having used it!" Jumba chuckled.
A loud gunshot suddenly rang out, bringing the others' attention to the fight between 000/Alpha, 628/Omega, and Leroy. Leroy's pistol was still smoking, his eyes glinting ferally. 000/Alpha had a significant wound on his shoulder and he was clutching it in agony while 628/Omega stood in front of him, arms outstretched to protect him from another of Leroy's shots.
"Six-Two-Nine, be stopping this while you are still being capable!" Jumba warned as Stitch and Angel unsheathed their extra limbs, dorsal spines and antennae.
"MEEGA NALA KWEESTA!" Leroy shouted as he aimed his pistol directly at Nani. Lilo's eyes narrowed and she grit her teeth. From out of nowhere, a voice rang out.
"Alooo-HAAAH!"
Suddenly, a huge blast of electricity surged into Leroy, making him scream horribly. When the energy dissipated, Leroy's gun and its' ammo disintegrated into ashes and he dropped to the ground, twitching like crazy. Hamsterviel's holographic communicator came down from the sky as Sparky, Experiment 221, flew onto the scene.
"Leroy, you idiotically stupid experiment; get back here!" Hamsterviel's voice shouted as the communicator emitted a pulse of energy, teleporting Leroy elsewhere before flying off.
Sparky turned to the others. "Everyone okay? Meega zenzed Ohana waz in trouble, zo meega came to zee what waz wrong!" he buzzed. Lilo nodded, her eyes slowly changing back to normal.
"Thanks to you, we're okay. Mahalo Sparky, mahalo plenty." Lilo said, hugging the electrical experiment and kissing his cheek.
"It naga anything TOO terrific..." Sparky said modestly, a slight blush appearing across his face.
(Later...)
"Let me get this straight..." Nani began, putting a hand to her head in confusion. "Lilo, my little sister, somehow started flying, her eyes somehow changed to look like an experiment's eyes, she began talking like an Experiment AND made a ball of electricity appear above her hands? You sure you're not just going lolo?" she asked groggily, still slightly under the effects of the chloroform that Leroy had drugged her with.
"Ih!" Stitch and Angel said, still clearly nervous about the whole thing.
"Uh-huh!" Yami added as he and 628/Omega helped bandage up 000/Alpha's wound.
"Is exactly right." Jumba finished.
Nani rubbed her temples, clearly getting a headache. "If you ALL agree you saw it, then you're NOT going crazy." she said.
Lilo stared at herself in the mirror, looking closely at her own eyes as they slowly switched back and forth between normal and experiment-looking.
"Cool..." she whispered, grinning slightly.
"Aue! How is this possible?" David asked.
"Yeah, Jumba. Did you experiment on Lilo to try and turn her into another one of your little monsters?!" Pleakley added.
Jumba shook his head. "Definitely not! Would never experiment on member of Ohana! Will have to take blood sample and test it to see what has happened to little girl..." he said quietly, cupping his chin. Nani nodded slowly and then gestured for the four-eyed scientist to come closer.
"Fine, but we'll have to hold her down for it. Lilo HATES needles." Nani whispered.
(In an undisclosed location...)
Hamsterviel was looking at Leroy in disgust from his seat in what appeared to be the basement of a house.
"You got beaten by Experiment Two-Two-One?! Two...TWO...ONE?! ZEUM TEUFFUL?! HE IS BENEATH YOU! HE IS FAR LESS POWERFUL THAN YOU! NEXT TIME, BE UNMERCIFULLY RUTHLESS AND ANNIHILATE THEM!" Hamsterviel shouted, jumping up and down in rage.
"OI! KEEP IT DOWN, YOU LOT!" a voice yelled from upstairs. "WE'RE TRYIN' TA WATCH THE FOOTY!"
Hamsterviel rolled his eyes. This place may not have been what he had in mind for a secret lair, but he really had no other choice. After modifying Leroy and Yami, his associate's teleporter had glitched just before transport and sent him and Leroy somewhere else on Earth to where he had intended to go.
"Leroy... When we take over the universe, remind me to wipe the islands of Hawaii and the continent of Australia both spotlessly clean from the face of planet Earth." Hamsterviel growled.
Nodding quietly as he cleaned off his charred fur, Leroy wondered HOW he got himself into this mess.
(Back in Hawaii...)
"Is very interesting..." Jumba commented, looking at a readout of Lilo's current genetic composition. Lilo stood just behind him, glaring daggers at Nani and David, whom had held the little girl down while Jumba took a blood sample.
"Gaba? Gaba, Jumba? Gaba interesting?" Stitch asked.
"Would be seeming that some of little girl's genetic code has been re-written somehow." Jumba said, pointing to a specific part of the double helix displayed on the big computer screen.
"And you're positive YOU didn't do it?" Nani asked, frowning.
"Like I am having said earlier: would never, EVER experiment on Ohana!" Jumba replied while Lilo made her eyes go experiment-looking again to to glare at Nani and give her the creeps.
The experiment pod container suddenly spoke up, displaying a picture of Lilo on its' holo-emitter.
"EXPERIMENT SIX-THREE-ZERO ACTIVATED. PRIMARY FUNCTION: LIVING DATABASE OF PREVIOUS SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY EXPERIMENTS. SECONDARY FUNCTION: METAPHORICAL 'NOAH'S ARK' OF GENETIC SAMPLES. TERTIARY FUNCTION: EXPERIMENTAL PEACEKEEPER."
All eyes turned to Jumba.
"Care to explain THAT?!" Pleakley asked, narrowing his eye.
"Jumba naga have to!" Stitch said. "Jumba NEVER experiment on Lilo! Never!"
Lilo nodded. "Stitch has a point. Jumba would never sink THAT low."
The others all muttered in agreement.
"But then... How DID this happen?" Nani asked. Jumba snapped his fingers, apparently having figured it out.
"This is just wild guess; speculation, really... But perhaps multiple doses of benign radiation from being within stone's throw of multiple experiment activations is what has having altered little girl's DNA!" Jumba said. The others' eyes widened.
"Are you saying that because I was within a few feet of the activation of a lot of experiments that THAT changed me somehow?" Lilo asked. Jumba made a 'Maybe' gesture with his hand.
"Like I am having said before, is only speculation at this point. The best way of proving it would be being to see if little girl has all same powers as experiments she witnessed activation of." Jumba said.
"Well, we already know she's got Two-Two-One's electrokinetic abilities and levitation, so check those off the list." Yami said as he came into the room, munching on a chocolate bar.
Jumba nodded. "Is true. Little girl WAS the one that activated Two-Two-One, thus her earlier display of both electrokinetic ability and levitation is being most excellent proof of having had her DNA altered to partially match his in some manner." Jumba said, bringing up a readout of Sparky's DNA and matching part of it to part of Lilo's readout.
"What other experiments were you around when they were activated?" Nani asked.
Lilo cupped her chin, thinking. "Well..."
(A/N: Come on, you HAD to see that coming! I've always thought that Lilo being THAT close to all those experiment activations should have some sort of side-effect. Next chapter, I'll introduce you to... Well, me!)
DISCLAIMER: I still don't own anything I haven't written myself, but I'm working on it.