The man from the future kept his neutron pulse rifle's sight trained on Leroy's chest, his aim never once wavering as he spoke angrily to the brainwashed experiment.
"Don't make me repeat myself, trog. Leave or you'll regret ever coming here!" the time traveller shouted as he stepped out of the capsule he'd arrived in.
"ERROR: NEW SUBJECT CLAIMS TO BE WHIRLWIND STRIKER. THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE, AS WHIRLWIND STRIKER IS A CHILD." Leroy said, his new cybernetic brain apparently unable to comprehend the concept of time travel.
"Naga, stupidhead. I'm Whirlwind KAWENA, the FUTURE version of Whirlwind Striker. Now, run back to Baoshi Long before I REALLY get mad!" Whirlwind Kawena yelled, firing a warning shot just in front of Leroy's feet. Stumbling back, Leroy started shooting his plasma guns at Whirlwind Kawena, who leapt high into the air and started swinging his right arm around.
"MACH...FORCE... TWISTER!" Whirlwind Kawena shouted, thrusting his fist forward and creating a wind funnel that swept Leroy up like a candy wrapper in an updraft. Landing hard on the ground and losing his plasma guns, Leroy pushed the tip of one of his teeth inward. With a flash of light, the red experiment was gone. After landing nimbly on his feet and re-transforming his neutron rifle into his left forearm and hand, Whirlwind Kawena walked over to his past self and Ohana.
"Are you guys okay?" he asked. All but Whirlwind Striker nodded awkwardly, the boy taking a close look at his future self.
"You're... ME?" Whirlwind Striker asked. Whirlwind Kawena crouched down to look his younger self in the eyes.
"As I told the trog, I'm the future version of you. Or rather, I WILL be, should this timeline continue the same way it did for me." Whirlwind Kawena said, his shoulders sagging. Lilo and Stitch walked up to Whirlwind Kawena next, still unsure about the situation.
"How do we know you are who you say you are?" Lilo asked. Stitch nodded.
"Yeah, how can we trust you?" he added. Whirlwind Kawena smiled sadly, pulling a photo from his pocket.
"Because Ohana means family; family means nobody gets left behind... Or forgotten. You taught me that, Auntie Lilo." Whirlwind Kawena said, showing the photo to the group. The others gasped, recognising the photo of David and Nani on their wedding day, cutting their beautiful wedding cake together. But this version of the photo looked old, as if exposed to the elements for several years.
"I used to keep it folded up in my shirt pocket, if I remember correctly." Whirlwind Kawena said. Whirlwind Striker's eyes widened as he pulled an identical, yet newer version of the same photo from his shirt pocket, unfolding it and holding it up next to Whirlwind Kawena's. Yami and Angel both looked dumbstruck, their jaws dropping like stones to the ground.
"Little girl, Six-Two-Six, Six-Two-Four, Six-Two-Seven, little boy; I am having fini... Who is THIS?!"
Everyone but Whirlwind Kawena jumped at the sound of Jumba's voice, the main group having completely forgotten that the Kweltikwanian had been nearby the entire time.
'Man, past Nani and David're NEVER gonna believe this!' Whirlwind Kawena thought as his past self and Ohana tried to explain to Jumba what had happened while he was absent.
(Meanwhile, on the moon...)
"My master won't be pleased when he finally arrives, the cost of this blunder could be our very lives..." the gem-toothed dragon known as Baoshi Long mumbled to himself, pacing back and forth after Leroy teleported in. Turning to face the red-furred experiment, Baoshi Long hissed in a displeased manner.
"Why did you not fight, why did you retreat? Before you stood an opponent you could EASILY defeat!" the dragon shouted.
"NEGATIVE. NEW SUBJECT, DESIGNATION: WHIRLWIND KAWENA, POSSESSED SUPERIOR WEAPONRY AND ABILITIES IN THE FORM OF A BIO-INTEGRATED NEUTRON PULSE RIFLE AND APPARENT AEROKINETIC POWERS. TO BE OF EQUAL STRENGTH, NANOWEAPON TECHNOLOGY MUST BE BIO-INTEGRATED INTO THIS UNIT'S SYSTEMS." Leroy contradicted. Baoshi Long paused to consider his brainwashed slave's advice.
"If that is true, then we must make haste. Slaves, get to work! We've not a moment to waste!" the dragon commanded of his minions. He then turned back to Leroy.
"This upgrade of yours won't do very much. That is, unless, I add a... PERSONAL touch." Baoshi Long said, grabbing a syringe from a nearby table. Piercing a vein in his left arm, the gem-toothed dragon slowly drew a glowing, rainbow-colored blood from his body.
"Incorporate this sample into the upgrade. His nanoweapons will be the strongest ever to be made..." Baoshi Long told one android, handing it the full syringe.
(Back in Kokaua Town...)
"Chroniton scanner confirms it; this photograph is being time displaced by many Earth years. But due to how primitive scanner is being, is impossible to tell just how far forward photo is from." Jumba said, scanning Whirlwind Kawena's copy of the wedding photo with one of his many machines. Nani and David's eyes bugged out.
"Aue!" David exclaimed.
"So he's..." Nani said, not believing what she was hearing.
"Ih, I'm this kid... Just a bit older." Whirlwind Kawena said, putting the aged photo back in his pocket. Pleakley scratched his head.
"But then, why'd you come back into the past? Won't you cause some sort of time paradox?" the cyclops asked, concern evident in his voice. Whirlwind Kawena shook his head.
"Not according to the blueprints for the ChronoCapsule, I won't. It works on the principal that time is a lot more adaptable than most people think, like a combined butterfly/ripple effect. I'm going to alter the timeline on purpose." Whirlwind Kawena said. Whirlwind Striker got a worried look on his face.
"Uh... Excuse me, future me? I'm curious. Why DO you want to change time?" the boy asked. The boy's future self sighed.
"Trust me, if the events of this timeline are allowed to continue the same way they did for me... All but me and three friends that you'll come to meet soon will die, and the Earth will go through pure havoc because of a being that is basically evil incarnate. Those three friends I mentioned most likely died while fighting that monster, all to give the ChronoCapsule time to transport me here." Whirlwind Kawena explained, a tear dripping from his face. The entire Ohana gasped, realising that the time traveller was referring to the being his younger self's prophecy spoke of.
"Do you know the name of this... This thing?" Lilo asked. Whirlwind Kawena bit his lip and shook his head.
"I tried to find out, but the only document that ever held that info was sabotaged. All I know is that it predates time itself. It existed long before time began, and unless we stop it, it'll continue to exist for eternity after time ends." Whirlwind Kawena said.
"Jeez... Well, what about that 'Baoshi Long' guy you told Leroy to run to?" Yami asked. Whirlwind Kawena stuck his tongue out as if to say 'Bleaugh!'
"THAT slimy little salamander... He was the only surviving T-Rex after the K-T Event. After an ecounter with 'It', though, he was transformed into a Gem Dragon, a creature that draws powers from the elemental properties of gemstones, even going as far as having gemstones for teeth and having gemdust in his blood... And for some bizarre reason, he speaks entirely in rhyme." Whirlwind Kawena explained. "Look, we may not have much time. We need to start training so that we can be ready for when that thing-o DOES get here."
Whirlwind Kawena rushed out the door, his left forearm transforming. The others followed behind him, wondering what he was up to.
(An hour later...)
"Okay, younger me; I want you to try to imitate my Machforce Twister that I used against the trog earlier. Make sure to aim directly at the training dummy." Whirlwind Kawena told Whirlwind Striker. Gulping nervously, Whirlwind Striker began concentrating. Swinging his left arm around like a baseball player, Whirlwind Striker made ten forward rotations of his arm before thrusting his fist out in front of him.
"MACHFORCE TWISTER!"
Whirlwind Striker's wind funnel was substantially less powerful than his future self's, not quite blowing it away, but still reducing the scarecrow-like training dummy that his future self had spent the better part of an hour constructing to a total wreck. The others all had amazed expressions.
"Wow! Hey, can I go after you two are done? I haven't had any sort of combat training with my experiment powers yet." Lilo asked. Whirlwind Kawena looked at Nani, silently asking for permission to train her sister. After a slight hesitation, Nani nodded.
"Hoo-kay, sure. But for both of your ease, let's work on something more basic than an attack. For example... Flying?" Whirlwind Kawena said as he began glowing. He was suddenly engulfed in a column of light, as the future man began transforming...
(Meanwhile, deep space, just outside Earth's solar system.)
Some sort of creature veiled in a shadowy aura was drifting slowly through the vacuum of space in a fetal position. Suddenly, the creature's eyes gained a demonic red glow and the creature uncurled and sped off, travelling at high speeds towards Earth's moon...
(A/N: More foreshadowing of my main villain yet to come? Perhaps... Perhaps not. All I'm going to tell you is that next chapter, we'll start meeting the younger versions of some recently seen characters.)
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