Lilo, Gunner, Stitch, and Otto all stopped by a burger place on the way home. They talked about the different experiments that Lilo and Stitch had already caught. A lot of the different ones had interested Otto greatly, considering how useful they'd probably be catching other experiments. Otto was covered with bruises from his fight with Gunner, all over his arms and chest. You couldn't see most of them thanks to his T- shirt covering them, but he knew they were there and they hurt.
"So you got an experiment capable of freezing Stitch solid, yet you don't ask him for help when looking for one?" Otto asked curiously.
"We don't need their help. Right, Stitch?" Lilo said.
"Emba chua." Stitch replied in agreement. He stood up on his hind legs and flexed his arms to emphasize his point.
"Well you've got confidence. I'll give you that." Otto said, smiling. "But you know he wouldn't have beaten Gunner here without my help." He gestured to the reptilian experiment sitting next to him, who nodded in agreement while eating a fry. "So how many have you caught so far?"
"Including Gunner, around six hundred." Lilo said. Otto nodded, taking a bite of his hamburger. "Anyway, now we have to find his one true place." Lilo pet the scaly fighter in front of her before throwing her trash away.
"Got any ideas?" Otto asked. Lilo shrugged her shoulders. "Well, I'm sure cops could use his abilities pretty well when catching somebody." He turned to Gunner, who had been listening intently. "How would you like to catch bad guys?" Gunner smiled and nodded rapidly.
"We'll call Officer Kaihiko when we get home then." Lilo stated. In response, Gunner ate all of his food in one bite. Stitch, trying to control his table manners, had decided to follow his example and poured all his food from the tray straight into his mouth. Lilo had to stop him from eating the tray with it and Otto laughed at the site. When she got the tray out of Stitch's mouth, she set it down and looked back to Otto. "Experiments have big appetites." Otto took the last bite of his burger and threw away his trash. Lilo hadn't even noticed how fast he had eaten, since she was barely halfway done with her food.
"Really?" Otto asked, smirking. "I'll have to keep that in mind."
(Pelekai House)
"Aunt Pleakley, Uncle Jumba, I'm home." Lilo called. "And I brought a new friend over."
"Coming." They heard someone call from down the hall. In a few seconds, Pleakley walked out in his usual orange jumpsuit and matching sarong. He had a black, shoulder-length wig on and a ridiculous amount of make up. "Aloha, Lilo." He turned his attention to Otto, who had looked at the alien in front of him with a raised eyebrow. "Who's your new friend?"
"My name's Henry." Otto answered. "But call me Otto, my nickname." He held out his hand to shake the disguised cyclops's hand, who had returned the gesture gladly. "What's your name?"
"I'm Lilo's Aunt Pleakley." He answered kindly. "A pleasure to make your acquaintance." He went back to sweeping the living room and Jumba walked in wearing a top hat, moustache, and glasses. He wore his Hawaiian shirt under his lab coat and brown jeans.
"What is all this noise being made?" he asked as he walked out. His eyes fixated on Gunner. "Ah, Little Girl, I see you have caught Experiment six-one-four."
"We're calling him Gunner." Lilo said. "And it was him that caught him, really." She pointed to Otto, who had his eyes locked on Jumba, who returned the stare when he noticed him. There was a small tension in the room that everyone felt when the two locked eyes. Lilo noticed the glares they sent each other and decided to cut in. "Do you two know each other?" Her words were enough to snap them both out of their daze.
"No." Otto answered quickly. "I just find that many eyes a little unnerving." Jumba looked closer, thinking he had seen the boy somewhere before.
"Then why is Uncle Jumba staring at you?" Lilo asked. Jumba was about to answer, but Otto cut him off.
"I'm sure it was him mirroring my strange behavior." Otto stated quickly. Lilo was suspicious but decided to drop it, considering she hadn't known him that long. Shrugging it off, she walked to the phone and dialed the police station. While she did that, Otto took a look around the house. He walked around and noticed the elevator up to the dome on top of the building. He assumed it was Lilo's room and moved along, seeing as he was taught to never go into a girl's room without permission. Walking past the elevator, he noticed the bathroom on his left. It was open and he noticed there were claw marks on the tub as if something was fighting to get out. Making a mental note to question that, he walked back the way he came and up the stairs to the room at the end of the hall. Jumba had left it open, so he walked in calmly. He saw Jumba and Pleakley's bunk beds on the left and Jumba's computer on the right. Currently, it had the design of experiment six-two-eight opened. Otto read over the file quickly and pulled out a USB drive from his backpack. He saved a copy of the file and looked through Jumba's computer for a few more files.
"I knew it was you." He heard from the doorway. He looked to the doorway to see Jumba smiling widely. "I take it you haven't told Little Girl yet." Otto continued looking through the computer without looking Jumba in the eye.
"It's not like I'm avoiding telling her." Otto said, typing in a few different commands on Jumba's computer. "It's just not that important right now." He found another file and saved it as well.
"So you will be perfectly okay with me telling her." Jumba said.
"I'd rather you not. There's a few reasons why it might be better that she doesn't know yet."
"I see. However, I had promised not to lie to Little Girl anymore since I created six-two-seven. I must be telling her."
"So I take it she knows about this one then." Otto said, smirking, while showing Jumba the file of 628. He gasped realizing that he was being blackmailed. "Well I guess we'll go see how she reacts to my secret." He got up, grabbing and taking the laptop with him.
"Wait!" Jumba called, stopping Otto in his tracks. "I don't see reason why she has to know either secret." Otto turned to face him, smirking. "Yours won't greatly affect any outcomes and since six-two-eight is still in pod form, she won't be hurting anyone." Otto laughed out loud.
"Agreed." He extended his hand to shake, which Jumba returned quickly. Lilo walked in right then and noticed the scene in front of her.
"Did I miss something?" Lilo asked.
"No." they both said quickly. Lilo eyed the two males carefully. Noticing this, Otto covered with an alibi. "I was just explaining to Jumba how I beat Gunner." He turned to Jumba. "So then I had forced my baton to retract by hitting it right on the tip. Gunner hadn't even realized this, so he didn't fix it and it left an opening in his defense. I had went out of my way to exploit this momentary weakness and knocked him unconscious." Jumba acted like he was impressed by the story, even if he didn't understand what Otto was saying.
"Amazing, isn't it?" Lilo commented. Otto had explained the story to her earlier, and she couldn't help but hang on every detail. "A highly skilled weapons master experiment, who had defeated Stitch, your finest creation, even if it was only luck, was beaten by a mere human. It's an inspiration. The lone underdog hero toppling the mighty beast confronting him, like David and Goliath."
"Well I can't get too full of myself." Otto said. "I only won because I knew my equipment better than he did. Things would've turned out differently if he hadn't picked up my weapon."
"Whatever." Lilo brushed it off, not worrying about it being true. "Anyway, Officer Kaihiko told us to meet him at the police station to show him Gunner." She walked out of the room and Otto followed, disconnecting the USB drive and putting it in his pocket.
Before he left, he whispered to Jumba. "Before you delete the file to eliminate blackmail, I have it saved on my flash drive." And continued to walk out.
"Of course you do, Otto." Jumba replied quietly. Otto rolled his eyes and went to catch up with Lilo.
(Thirty minutes later)
After Otto had blackmailed Jumba, he, Lilo, Stitch, and Gunner left for the police station. When they got there, Kaihiko had had Gunner demonstrate his accuracy by shooting at a bull's-eye. He had expected the experiment to try shooting the target directly in the center. Gunner, however, decided to have some fun with it and made a picture in the paper. He fired a few clips of ammunition directly at the paper. When it came back, it showed a clear outline.
"Oh, a hidden Mickey." Otto commented, seeing the image. The target really did have a perfect outline of the Mickey Mouse symbol made in bullet holes. Officer Kaihiko examined it thoroughly, deciding that it was adequate.
"It'll take me some time to fill out the paperwork, but it seems like he might have a real future in law enforcement." He said. "Although it's not all guns." Gunner nodded, following what Officer Kaihiko was saying. He continued explaining what it means to be a police officer, but Gunner didn't seem to be discouraged at all. No matter what, it sounded like something he would want to do. "Do you understand?"
"Ih." Gunner said in response.
"What?" Kaihiko asked, not sure what Gunner said. Realizing his mistake, Gunner corrected the mistake.
"Yes sir." Gunner said.
"Then here's your one true place." Lilo concluded. "We'll come by in a while to check how it's going." She walked out of the firing range. Even with the earmuffs muffling the gunshots, they still hurt her ears. Otto waved farewell to the two policeman and followed Lilo out.
(Back at the Pelekai House)
"So how long have you been doing this for?" Otto asked. They were sitting on the couch in the living room, watching television and going over a checklist of all the different experiments.
"Almost three years now." Lilo answered. "I've actually caught a few that I haven't found homes for yet. Like Fudgy."
"What are his powers?" Otto asked.
"He's designed to drown people in chocolate." Lilo explained.
"Did you try an ice cream shop?" Otto suggested.
"Yeah, but the shop owner said that using chocolate from an alien blob is probably a health code violation. And it sounds gross to her too."
"I see how that would be a problem." Otto admitted. "Send him to a chocolate factory then."
"But it's against health code." Lilo repeated.
"If you can find the rule that says you can't use a genetic experiment to mass produce chocolate, I'll give you a dollar." Otto said. Lilo laughed, thinking that it wasn't likely that genetic chocolate experiments were taken into account when health codes were written. "And I've got a crazy uncle who runs a chocolate factory in Augusta. I could ask him about it and see what he says." Otto took out his cellphone and sent a text message to his uncle. He spoke as he typed. "Hi, Uncle Joe, I've got a question for you. Could you call me when it's convenient for you?" Otto pushed the send button and his phone gave off a small beep. "Any other experiments that you can't think of a place for?"
"Well there is Hunkahunka." Lilo replied. "Whoever he pecks will fall in love with the first person they see. But it's only fakey love. They become a zombie to the person instead. I had someone pecked for me and they kept asking me if I wanted them to do something. Like he asked me if I wanted him to win and when I said no, he purposely lost."
"Well, that's dull." Otto commented. "That is a hard one. How do they get turned back?"
"Splash them with water." Lilo answered. Otto considered this for a moment.
"Nothing pops to mind immediately." Otto said. "But something's bound to pop into your head eventually." They sat in silence for a short while longer, watching the TV intently. Otto looked at his watch, remembering what time he had to be home. "I've gotta get going. But before I do, I have to ask Jumba something."
"Okay, wanna hang out tomorrow?" Lilo asked. Otto froze, unused to hearing that.
"Sure, I've got nothing planned." He answered. "I'll meet you back here tomorrow morning." And walked down the hall to meet with Jumba. Just as he predicted, he was looking through his computer to find out what files Otto had taken. "I missed one of them before I left earlier. Mind if I get that one too?" Jumba looked up and shrugged, moving his computer over. Otto took out a USB drive from his pocket. The second he did, however, it had exploded instantly.
"Ha! Now copies are being destroyed!" Jumba gloated. He had set up his computer to annihilate any outside storage devices connected. "Now you do not have any blackmail." To his surprise, however, Otto grinned.
"You think I'd fall for that?" Otto asked, chuckling. He pulled another USB drive out of his other pocket. "I have duplicate flash drives." Jumba's smile had disappeared and was replaced with a look of distraught. "Don't mistake me for your ordinary Earthling. You know as well as I do that I'm not ordinary." Otto typed a few commands into the computer and plugged the drive in, this time without it exploding. "Anyway, I just need this design." He showed the file he selected to Jumba, who shrugged.
"Take it. Am I having choice?" he asked. He really didn't care about the file since it wasn't anything important. Jumba
"Not really, I guess." He saved the file to his flash drive and disconnected it. He moved to the door, but stopped. "Trust me, it wouldn't do much good to tell her now. I've told maybe three people total since the last time we met, and it's only killed the entire friendship each time."
"I can see that happening on this planet." Jumba remarked. "But Little Girl is being different."
"I know. I can tell." Otto agreed. "But how do you suddenly tell someone something like that?"
"I am not knowing. But the longer you are waiting, the deeper the lying will get." Jumba cautioned. "The earlier you tell her, the more likely the friendship will stay intact."
"I'll keep that in mind." Otto said, walking again.
"Oh, by the way." Jumba said, stopping him again. "Jumba was being more fond of Otto's former name. Why change it?" Otto sighed.
"I liked it better too. But thanks to the days following that last one, I didn't have a choice, Jumba." Otto left without another word. Jumba smirked as soon as Otto was out of site.
"Ha! Evil Genius's former apprentice thinks he can outsmart Evil Genius." Jumba said to himself. "But Jumba didn't teach him everything." He typed a few keys and a document list opened: the list of files that was on the flash drive. Jumba had set the computer to scan and copy external memory to a separate folder in the computer. It was a backup plan in case frying the first one didn't work. Looking over the programs and files that Otto had copied, Jumba smiled. "So that is what you are planning. No big deal." He shrugged and closed the list.
