A/N: As with Lilo & Stitch's Star Trek, I've done another chapter for this one as well, which I will upload in two days.
Lilo
& Stitch Go To Japan
Chapter
8: Shinjuku Station
Stitch
stared out the window.
They
were travelling through the Shinjuku District of Tokyo, an
area that had so much geek stuff as to make even Jumba look in awe.
Stitch
glanced at Jumba. He was chatting enthusiastically with a Japanese
person from Osaka, west of Tokyo, about magnetic hard drives vs.
optical hard drives vs. flash-based hard drives. Nani was keeping a
careful eye on Stitch and Jumba, while Pleakley was attempting to
read the bus-route map. Lilo was sitting beside Stitch reading a
Japanese TV Guide (well, at least, looking at it.) 419 and 426
were nowhere to be seen.
"Shinjuku
Junction!" one of the guys in the front of the bus yelled.
"That's
our stop," muttered Pleakley to Nani as he stood up. Stitch
followed suite.
Jumba,
getting the idea, broke off the conversation with a "It was nice to
be meeting you," and clumsily got up as the bus shhhushed to a
halt.
Pleakley
looked around.
"Er,
Jumba," he whispered as they got off the bus, "where's your two
experiments?"
Jumba
stepped on to the ground. The bus shook uneasily, as if it were
sensitive about Jumba's weight.
"Er…
I am not knowing…"
At
that moment, Lilo's case knocked.
"Lft…
mhe… oht!"
Lilo
opened the case to find 419 wrapped in one of her dresses.
"Well,
we have to go incognito, don't we?"
Lilo
sighed.
"Fine…"
After
extracting 426 from Jumba's brief, Pleakley lead the way to
Shinjuku Station.
"With
over 2 million passengers travelling through its gates per day," he
read from the guide book, "Shinjuku Station is the most
busiest station in the world! Isn't that fascinating?"
419's
jaw dropped.
The
station was about as wide as the entire CBD of Kokaua Town. Two
brightly-lit neon signs, one proclaiming "Lumine 1", the other
displaying the stylised logo of Japan Rail, adorned the space above
about five giant doors. In front of that was a 5-laned 'main'
street cramped with cars taking part in the daily traffic jam.
Interwoven with the cars were hundreds of people streaming in and out
of the station, some chatting on cellphones, some slurping shaved ice
and chocolate sundaes.
Only
problem was, they had to actually cross that road first.
Pleakley
tried simply walking, which resulted in him getting pushed over by a
wave of people. Nani tried excusing her way through, which had almost
no effect because most of the people a) did not understand English
and b) didn't really care anyway. Stitch grabbed Lilo and jumped
along the slow-moving mass of cars to the other end. 426 tried some
karate thing that he said he saw on Romeo!. 419 tried singing
Achy Breaky Heart, in her opinion one of the most annoying
songs ever, expecting everyone to kneel over gasping, blocking their
ears, only to discover that the Japanese… didn't actually care.
Jumba
simply waded through the mass, parting the crowd as Hagrid would in
Diagon Alley. Pleakley, Nani and the two 400-series experiments
followed behind as Jumba 'please to be excusing'-ed himself
through the crowd and to the other side where Lilo and Stitch were
waiting.
"What
took you so long?" Lilo asked in mock anxiety.
"Eh,
have you seen the traffic?" replied 419.
