Angel, Stitch (whom had been taking English lessons from Yami when he wasn't on a sugar high, but more on that later), and Lilo were watching TV with Leroy and Whirlwind. It was 'Classic Sitcoms' night and the group was watching Sanford & Son. Angel noticed a few fleas crawling on Stitch's head and couldn't resist herself as she started licking Stitch's head to get the little pests off. Stitch was a little bothered by this and tapped his boojiboo on the shoulder.

"Woman, woman! I am not a lollipop!" he said quickly in his recently improved vocabulary, giving Angel an expression of mild disgust. He then began to sing in tune with the Sanford & Son theme on TV.

#Quiet down, now!

It is time to watch the show!

Yes, it's started; don't be lickin' me no mo'!

Matter of fact, couldja get me a handy wi-ipe?#

Angel rolled her eyes and gave Stitch a playful shove/wipe to the face as Lilo, Leroy, and Whirlwind all giggled. They needed this; they really, REALLY needed this sort of thing to keep them from going mental. Whirlwind's little 'prophecy' the other day had scared everyone and Jumba was STILL trying to figure out what it referred to.

Whirlwind turned his attention to Lilo while she laughed and watched Stitch and Angel get into a playful shoving match. She was now legally his aunt, but to him she was more than that... She was a friend.

'She's nice... A lot nicer than those weirdos that USED to look after me.' he thought, watching the raven-haired girl as her eyes involuntarily went into experiment mode again. She rarely noticed when it happened, but every time it did, it seemed like something else about her changed. For example: her Tantalog vocabulary was growing exponentially larger and her experiment-like sight, hearing, and reflexes were vastly improving, as demonstrated when during Nani and David's nighttime wedding reception the power had gone out, and Lilo was the only one apart from the experiments whom could navigate her way around easily enough to find the back-up generator of the building and get it started up.

"Lilo, it's bedtime! Get yourself and Whirlwind into bed, please!" Nani called out from the kitchen as she started pulling clean dishes out of the dishwasher and putting them away.

"Sure thing, Nani!" Lilo called back, Sliding off the couch as her eyes went back to normal. Lilo walked over to Whirlwind.

"You heard her, it's bedtime." Lilo said.

"Okay, okay... Can you sing 'Aloha 'Oe' again? Please?" Whirlwind begged. Lilo smiled and nodded, following Whirlwind up to his bedroom.

Leroy chuckled warmly at the scene. "That's gotta be his favorite song by now, huh?" he asked Stitch and Angel before looking at the clock on the wall. "YIKES! Guys, if you two want to make your dinner reservations at Frenchfry's restaurant on time, you'd better go now." he said, noticing that it was almost 7:00 P.M.

Stitch nodded at the red experiment before leaving with Angel. Once they had left, two muffled beeps rang out from Leroy's mouth and Leroy went stiff as a board, his entire body at full attention with his extra arms, his dorsal spines, and his antennae coming unsheathed. In his zombie-like state, Leroy checked on the rest of the Ohana. Jumba was still in his lab, Pleakley was asleep, Yami was passed out from a sugarcrash in the hammock outside, Belle was having a webcam chat with Sparky, Nani and David were watching a rom-com movie in their room, Lilo was praying next to her bed while Whirlwind was fast asleep in his own, and 000/Alpha and 628/Omega, whom had named themselves Shinjitsu and Yume respectively, were staying in Japan with Lilo's penpal Yuuna on the island of Izayoi, their most recent postcard stuck to the fridge.

Leroy, expression still blank,reached into his mouth. Pushing the tip of one of his canine teeth inwards, Leroy vanished in a faint flash of light.

(The next morning...)

Yami awoke feeling VERY sorry for himself. He'd been so scared out of his mind after the prophecy incident that he'd gone on a MAJOR sugar binge, trying to hype himself up to a point where he would forget all his troubles. Anyway...

Yami awoke to someone shaking his shoulder. Grumbling a few choice words under his breath, Yami's vision slowly focused on the person attempting to wake him up:

"What's up, Whirlybird?" Yami asked groggily, using the one nickname he KNEW Whirlwind hated, just to stir him up a bit for waking the experiment up. Whirlwind frowned, but still offered a can of diet soda he was holding to Yami. Cracking the can open and guzzling the contents like it was some life-saving elixir, Yami tried again.

"What's up? Why're ya wakin' me up like this?" Yami questioned. Whirlwind fidgeted with his hands a fair bit before answering.

"Leroy's gone and nobody knows where he went. Since you're one of his best friends, I figured you might hopefully know where he is." Whirlwind said. Yami quirked an eyebrow, emptying the last few drops of soda onto his tongue.

"If leroy went anywhere, it's news to me. He HAS been a little weird since some Chinese lizard modified both him and me, though." Yami said. Just then, Lilo came out with Stitch, Angel, and Jumba.

"Didja find out anything?" Lilo asked. Whirlwind shook his head.

"This is being most perplexing. Where could Six-Two-Nine have gone?" Jumba wondered, scratching his chin. Yami suddenly started choking on something. Lilo slapped the orange experiment on the back, making him cough up what appeared to be a tooth with wires sticking out of it.

"What's THAT?" Stitch asked. Yami shrugged, handing the tooth to Jumba. Jumba 'Hmm'd a bit, examining it.

"Appears to be some sort of combined radiowave transmitter/teleportation device, but whomever designed it was making sure it would not be being spotted too easily by disguising it as a tooth." Jumba said, noticing that the tip of the tooth was a click-button. "However, it would be appearing device isn't transmitting or teleporting ANYTHING at present point in time." Jumba said, gesturing to a sparking crack in the device's outer casing.

"I must've done that when I bit down on that jawbreaker yesterday during my sugar rush." Yami commented, gesturing to his healing REAL teeth which depending on the tooth were either chipped, cracked, or both. Jumba smirked confidently

"Not to be worrying. With highly advanced equipment in private laboratory, genius Jumba Jookiba should be being able to repair this device within approximately the next Earth half-hour." Jumba said.

(Meanwhile, on the moon...)

A draconic figure enveloped in shadow was watching as the still zombie-like Leroy was being modified by a group of androids.

"Work faster, work faster! At this rate, WHEN he arrives, we'll NEVER appease the master!" it commanded of its' metallic minions. Shaking in fear, the artificial life-forms rushed to do their commander's bidding. The dragon grinned a horrible gem-fanged grin, watching as the frightened androids did as it told them to. A slightly more advanced android nervously walked up to the creature, holding a clipboard in front of itself like a shield.

"What is it, slave? What do you wish to say? Tell me this instant, or be de-atomised today!" the dragon ordered. The android shook like a leaf, stuttering out what it needed to say.

"W-w-well s-sir, I h-have good news and b-bad news. Th-the good news is that the modifications to Six-Two-Nine are almost complete." the android said nervously. The dragon frowned, hissing like a displeased serpent.

"I already know how things are proceeding, I know what has been done; tell me the bad news or else prepare to run!" the dragon shouted.

"Your mission may have been compromised by Six-Two-Seven! His primary modification didn't take!" the android yelped. Dead silence rang out through the area; you could easily hear a pin drop. The dragon suddenly let out an ear-shattering roar and let loose a blast of pure energy from its' mouth, de-atomising the android before it. Snarling acidicly, the dragon turned to its' robotic minions.

"With or without Six-Two-Seven, victory shall be mine. Now, my slaves; prepare for war... Activate Six-Two-Nine." the dragon told the androids in a venomous tone. Quivering with fear, the androids did as they were told. With a low humming sound, Leroy's eyes lit up, the right one projecting a harmless laserbeam. Hissing like a crocodile, the dragon spoke directly to Leroy.

"Your mind is mine to control, and now you shall destroy. For your first taste of battle... Annihilate your 'Ohana', Leroy." the dragon commanded. Saluting, the brainwashed Leroy walked through a freshly opened portal.

(Back in Hawaii, an hour later...)

Jumba was taking much longer than expected to repair the device and Whirlwind was getting REALLY fidgety.

"What's taking him so long?" Whirlwind asked, pacing impatiently. Lilo and the experiments shrugged, all wondering the same thing. Suddenly, a swirling portal opened up just beyond the front driveway and something stepped out of it. The experiments all started growling, their extra appendages unsheathing instantly.

"It's Leroy, he found his way back!" Whirlwind said happily. The experiments continued to growl, while Lilo took a second look at the red experiment that had just stepped out of the portal.

"Oh, shii-TAKE MUSHROOMS..." Lilo nervously corrected herself. Whirlwind quirked an eyebrow and looked again. What he saw made his blood run cold:

"OBJECTIVE LOCATED. EXECUTE ORDER 1: ANNIHILATE PELEKAI/KAWENA FAMILY." Leroy said in a computerised voice, face showing no emotion whatsoever.

"Wh-what IS he?" Whirlwind asked, terror evident in his voice.

Yami was the first one to answer the question.

"I... I think he's evil now."

Without warning, three loud booms/bright flashes occurred behind Leroy, startling the assembled onlookers.

"NOW what?!" Lilo and Whirlwind asked as the stars began to clear from their eyes.

A masculine voice called out to the zombie-like Leroy:

"Oi, stupidhead..."

(A/N: Uh-oh, looks like some rhyming dragon has control of Leroy! Who IS this gem-toothed psycho? And who could the newcomer be? Find out in the next chapter!)

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