It had been a couple of days since the battle at Lilo's house, and Hamsterviel was starting to mellow out a bit. This mellowing out was helped along by the presence of the only other current occupant of the house that Hamsterviel and Leroy were hiding in. In the days since the battle, Hamsterviel had simply had enough of the rude and obnoxious adults of the house and... Well, I won't reveal that just yet.
Anyway...
"Your fur's so fluffy..." a young boy remarked, petting Leroy as Hamsterviel ignored the boy. Leroy's eyes rolled into the back of his head in enjoyment of the petting. Hamsterviel and Leroy were sitting in their makeshift lair, Hamsterviel writing a letter to someone.
"Whatcha doin'?" the boy asked as he stopped petting Leroy and came up behind Hamsterviel.
Hamsterviel quirked an eyebrow. "I am writing a letter to one of my 'friends', to terminate their contract with me." Hamsterviel said. "How could you not guess that I was writing a letter, though? I would think it would be obvious to any... Are you even paying attention?"
The boy turned back to Hamsterviel; he'd been distracted by a moth in the room.
"Sorry. People say I'm easily distracted." the boy replied. Hamsterviel nodded slowly; the boy certainly did seem easily distracted.
"What is your name?" Hamsterviel asked.
The boy stared at Hamsterviel's cape, frowning a little.
"Your cape's red... Good color, but purple would be better." the boy said.
Hamsterviel took a deep breath, trying to be patient with the child.
"Please pay attention when I'm speaking to you. What is your NAME?" Hamsterviel tried again. The boy did his best to look Hamsterviel in the eyes, then spoke.
"I'm Whirlwind Striker." the boy said.
(In Hawaii, one day later...)
Everyone was at the beach. Jumba was comparing the genetic maps of the experiments Lilo had listed off over the past days with her own double helix on his laptop. Meanwhile, Lilo was testing out her powers.
"Hey Nani, watch this!" Lilo said, changing her eyes to experiment mode. focusing, Lilo slowly rose off the ground, hovering in place.
"Lilo, you be careful!" Nani warned. Lilo nodded, just hovering and floating around slowly, moving around like an ice skater.
"Is remarkable..." Jumba told Pleakley, who was trying on his newest wig.
"What is?" Pleakley asked.
"According to genius Jumba's research, little girl's DNA has been altered to such a degree that, given right circumstances, she could actually TRANSFORM into experiment, perhaps permanently." Jumba whispered, gesturing for Pleakley to keep this little tidbit of information on a need-to-know basis. Pleakley, being unable to wink, simply blinked hard, indicating that he understood.
"Still... What circumstances could cause Lilo to change in that way?" Pleakley whispered. Jumba shrugged.
"Is impossible to say. Nobody would be knowing for sure." Jumba said.
(In Australia, a few minutes later...)
"Where are you going?" Hamsterviel asked. He had just caught Leroy trying to turn on the portal generator.
"Kokaua Town." Leroy said, crossing his arms. "Why?"
Hamsterviel sighed, knowing where this was going.
"Just... Don't do anything idiotically stupid, okay?" he advised. Leroy nodded, seeing genuine concern on the rodent's face.
"Doctor Hamsterviel, can I go with Leroy, please?" Whirlwind asked. Hamsterviel and Leroy gave each other a worried look.
"Are you sure you want to go, kid? Hawaii's pretty flippin' hot; even hotter than the merry ol' land of Aus, from what I can tell." Leroy said. Whirlwind started doing his best impersonation of the world-famous Kim Possible 'PuppyDog Pout' to Hamsterviel and Leroy, making them groan in defeat.
"Mein Gott... How could one say 'nein' to such a face? Take him, Leroy; but make sure he stays safe. Be absolutely certain that you keep your eyes on him. We don't want him wandering off." Hamsterviel said. Leroy nodded, giving Whirlwind a piggy-back ride into the path of the now activated portal generator. Once the twosome were gone, Hamsterviel sighed and got started on some documents written in Tantalog...
(Back at the beach, a few seconds later...)
Lilo and the others were all enjoying some ice cream when a portal opened nearby. Turning to face the portal, the group saw Leroy with a six-year-old child piggy-back riding on his shoulders walking out of the portal as it closed.
"Is that Leroy?" Lilo asked.
"Ih..." Stitch said, frowning.
"Why does that little monster have a human child on his shoulders?" Pleakley asked in concern.
"I am not knowing, but we would do well to be finding out." Jumba replied.
As Leroy and the child walked up, the group witnessed something rather out of character from the red experiment: Kindness.
"What ice cream do you want, Whirlwind?" Leroy asked as he let Whirlwind down off his shoulders.
"Vanilla with rainbow sprinkles, please." the boy said. Leroy nodded, unsheathing one of his extra arms, which was holding some loose change.
'I KNEW checking the old payphones on the street for forgotten change would pay off!' Leroy thought as he payed the vendor.
Whirlwind then looked directly at Lilo and the others.
"Leroy, that blue guy kinda looks like you. D'ya know him?" Whirlwind asked as Leroy handed him his ice cream. Turning to face the 'Ohana', Leroy sweatdropped.
"I... know him, alright." Leroy said, chuckling nervously as Lilo and Stitch walked up to him.
"Aloha, 'cousin'." Stitch said, cracking his knuckles. Lilo put a hand on Stitch's shoulder, trying to calm him down.
"Easy, Stitch. What are you doing here, Leroy?" Lilo asked. Jumba walked up at this point.
"Indeed Six-Two-Nine, what ARE you doing here with this child?" Jumba asked.
"Whirlwind's with me. Hamsterviel and I are looking after him while his family's... Not around." Leroy said, looking nervously at the ground.
Lilo's eyes widened. "Are you saying that you KILLED this kid's family?!" she whispered, watching as the little boy licked at his now rainbow-streaked ice cream.
Leroy shook his head rapidly. "Naga, naga; nothing like that! The police just took the people that WERE lookin' after 'im to jail after Hammy made an anonymous call to the police regarding certain odd smells. Turns out the kid's 'family' was a bunch of dealers who found him on the street. Hammy and I were given temporary custody of the kid until they can find his REAL family." he explained. Whirlwind suddenly spoke up at this point.
"Your hair's really pretty; it looks like the night sky, kinda. Your eyes look nice, too. They're like Leroy's, in a way." Whirlwind said, pointing at Lilo.
That made Lilo blush only now realising that she'd left her eyes in experiment mode. Leroy giggled a little.
"Uh... Taga, meega guess." Lilo said, scratching her head.
Leroy put a hand on Whirlwind's shoulder, still giggling. Hamsterviel's holo-communicator flew down at this point, activating in front of Leroy.
"What's up, Doc? Always wanted to say that!" Leroy giggled. Hamsterviel groaned.
"Yes, yes; very funny. Leroy, it would seem that the young Whirlwind Striker has no living family at all and in fact does not register in any database on Earth. Every federal government on Earth appears to want to take him in for questioning about his origins." Hamsterviel said, running a paw down his face. Leroy's jaw dropped, then the red experiment snarled.
"They can't do that to him! He'll end up getting-" Leroy began protesting. Hamsterviel interrupted him before he got too graphic.
"I'm sorry, Leroy. It would seem we have no control over this." Hamsterviel said. Lilo walked up to the hologram, making Hamsterviel aware of her presence.
"Hamsterviel, we may not exactly be friends, but I can tell you're actually trying to do the right thing for once, so I'm willing to help. Tell whomever it is you're in contact with that you personally know Cobra Bubbles, and that HE can talk to Whirlwind. We'll do the rest." Lilo instructed. Hamsterviel slowly nodded, almost reluctantly, then the communicator turned off and flew away.
(A few days later...)
Whirlwind and Leroy (The red experiment had decided to stay with the child) were watching a DVD while Lilo, Nani and David spoke to Cobra Bubbles.
"Hamsterviel's turned himself in. He says he just wants to do his time and find his place in the universe; that his desire to escape was the result of psychological abuse on the part of the guards stationed on the Adamantium-Class prison ship he was held aboard. As for his previous crimes... From what he's told us, he had a VERY traumatic childhood that just caught up with him in early adulthood. On the topic of making Whirlwind Striker a part of your family, Lilo; for the adoption to look official and go by unnoticed, your sister and her fiancee would have to get married sooner than they initially planned." Cobra said, lowering his sunglasses. Nani and David looked at each other, then out at Whirlwind, then gave Cobra a semi-confident look.
"If that's what it'll take to give this kid a safe home away from questioning, I guess we're okay with it." Nani said. Cobra looked at Nani.
"There's one other thing... The only type of adoption that won't look suspicious is parental. Basically Nani, you and Mister Kawena here would legally become Whirlwind Striker's parents." Cobra explained. Nani sweatdropped.
"P-p-parents?" she asked nervously. David took her hand in his, looking her in the eyes.
"Don't worry, Nani. If you're strong enough to deal with Jumba, Pleakley, your sister, and the Experiments on a day-to-day basis, you're more than capable of looking after a boy like Whirlwind." David said. Nani took a deep breath, then looked at David.
"I hate it when you're right." she said with a smirk.
Looking at Cobra, Nani nodded. "David and I will get married in a week. It'll be a small ceremony, but we'll make it work." Nani said. Cobra nodded.
"Okay, then. Now, until the paperwork goes through, Whirlwind Striker will need to be-" Cobra was interrupted by a terrified shout from the living room. Running in, the quartet saw Whirlwind floating on his back about two meters above the ground, a fiery aura surrounding him.
"What's going on?!" Lilo asked Leroy. Leroy whimpered, shaking uncontrollably.
"We were talking about his lack of memory about his origins when he suddenly went stiff and started glowing and floating like this!" Leroy said, quaking in fear. Whirlwind's body suddenly went vertical, his eyes opening to reveal a white, almost blinding light.
"Within his shadow shall come to pass an eternal age of war.
He is the banished, he is the demonic... He is one whom was once adored.
With a wish of innocence and mind of purity, the light will come again.
With this wish, this simple thought, the darkness shall be slain." Whirlwind spoke in verse, his voice distorted. The boy then slowly descended, the aura around his body and bright light in his eyes fading away as he passed out. With a look of concern, Leroy rushed to Whirlwind's side and tried to wake him up.
"Whirlwind, are you okay? Please say something!" Leroy said. Eyes fluttering open, the boy started shaking uncontrollably, crying into Leroy's chest.
(A/N: Gotcha! I totally fooled you all into believing that Hamsterviel and Leroy were gonna be the villains in this fic, didn't I? Well think again, guys and gals! Also, just so you know, I'm basing my self-insert character (Whirlwind Striker) on my RL self. Also, I hope things aren't progressing too fast. I'm one of those guys that writes on a spur of the moment; whatever comes to mind, I'll immediately write.)
DISCLAIMER: If I had a dollar for every franchise/character I DON'T own... I'd be very, very rich.