well here we are with another update for you all, this continues from right after chapter 6, as in the same day. hope you like this chapter.

The Underdogs

Part 7

The Call of Duty

Later the same day, after cobra had shown Jumba where he managed to get the information on "white wolf", Jumba was hard at work trying to gain access to the force field controls on the suit of armour he had to play with.

"This thing is certainly advanced, but there has never been a system I couldn't hack into. Now if I can just translate this from English to turo I will be able to work much faster. Now if I do. AH HA got it, now I can be working much more efficiently." Jumba said to himself from his super computer. At this moment in time was had his computer connected to the suit of armour trying to get it off. He already was in the main systems of the armour, but due to his limited knowledge of the English language, he was working much slower than he liked. However if Jumba was looking at his monitoring equipment, he would have noticed that the life signs where beginning to flux indicating that the person inside the armour was waking up.

Pleakly was in his bedroom tiding up the bed that the three new experiments where on. Even though he was agenst them staying at the house, they all appeared to be quite nice, especially that one called Blissey. However his thoughts where suddenly interrupted, because the man that was resting on his bed was beginning to stir. Slowly the person lying on the bed opened his eyes; only too see the face Pleakly right in front of him,

"AAAAAH! That's something you don't want to wake up to!" the man said as he pushed Pleakly away from him,

"Are you ok?" Pleakly asked from a position more comfortable to the man.

"Apart from a headache and a dry throat I'm all right. Do you think you could get me a glass of water Pleakly." Pleakly turned and was about to comply with the request, when he realised what the man had said,

"Wait, how did you know my names Pleakly?"

"What are you talking about? I'm the one with the possibility of concussion. It's me Patrick. Patrick Jensen. You know I use to baby sit Lilo and Stitch. You know, I came from a dimension where this is all a cartoon." Unfortanitly for Patrick, when he mentioned the dimension thing Pleakly fainted right on top of him. Groaning loudly to himself, Patrick got up from the bed he was on and placed Pleakly where he was just lying. Patrick was still a little light headed and his legs still felt a little bit like jelly, but he managed to walk from Jumba and Pleakly's room, down the stairs, with a little help from the banister, and into the kitchen. It was here that he noticed something different. He couldn't put his finger on it, but he was sure that there was something different. Maybe it was the layout of the room, or possibly the colouring of the wall. He realised that he had not been back to see Lilo and stitch in a little bit of time, so he just assumed that they did some remodelling. Going over to the sink he collected a tall glass and got himself some water before he sat down at the table and slowly drained the glass.

Over in Jumba's lab at the exact same time that Pleakly fainted something else strange happened. Lilo had just come into the lab looking for Jumba, but he wasn't there. Stitch was out with the newly arrived experiments, and Lilo wanted to see what Jumba had found out about the other arrivals. Like, what was that strange metal cylinder that that the man had with him, or if Jumba had been successful at removing the armour from the other person. Upon entering the lab Lilo saw that Jumba had indeed been successful at removing the armour. There on the bed where herself, stitch and Victoria had left the suit of armour, was a person. It was indeed a male and he looked to be about 20 years old. He had black dreadlocks for hair and had a sort of Jamaican appearance. He was wearing a black short-sleeved t-shirt and a pair of black boxers. His suit of armour was on a chair just next to him, all except his helmet. That was beside Jumba's super computer. It was wired up and appeared to be downloading all the information on its memory; well that's what was being said on the screen. For some reason Lilo felt the urge to turn on her hologram. She didn't know where this urge came from, and to be honest she didn't really care that much. So she activated it, changing her appearance from purple fur to tanned skin. Within moments of her doing so she heard groaning coming from the man. Looking over she saw the mans arms slowly move up to his head.

"urgh, where am I?"

"your in my uncle Jumba's ship"

"ah little girl, how long have I been out?"

"well, I'd say a couple of days. You must have hit your head or gotten absolutely drained from your trip."

"well it was an old Forerunner"

"huh? What's a Forerunner? I was talking about your inter dimensional trip. So far you've taken the least amount of time to wake up"

"wait, what are you talking about? 'Inter dimensional trip'? What the hell is that?"

"well so far there have been 5 of you people coming out of the sky. Three experiments and two humans, you included."

It was obvious that the man wanted to ask some more questions, but it was at that time that Jumba decided to come back into the lab,

"little girl what are you…oh I see your guest has woken up"

"yeah, just a second ago. So far he's just like the others, very confused aren't you, hey what are you doing?" Lilo asked the now sitting up man. He was tapping his sides franticly obviously trying to find something,

"my suit where is it! WHAT HAVE YOU SONE TO MY SUIT!"

"be calming down, your suit is right on chair. Its all there except helmet, that's at computer. I was downloading files from it so that I can be helping you get better." At this time the man had got to his armour and was just pulling out a small machinegun from an internal holster. It was at that time that Jumba realised the expression on the man's face. It was not one of confusion. It was one of anger. Before he knew what had happened, the man started to fire at him. all this happened so quickly that the man thought for sure that the alien was dead. But when he stopped firing he saw that not a single bullet hit the alien. What he also saw was that the little girl was now in front of the alien, holding out her hands, she looked quite upset.

"why did you do that! Why did you try and hurt my uncle Jumba! He went out of his way to get you out of your armour to check if you where ok and you show your thanks by trying to kill him!" tears where starting to build up around her eyes.

"wha, uncle Jumba! But he's an alien! No dought working with the covenant!"

"what are you talking about! Didn't you pay attention to a single word I said! You are in another dimension! The covenant doesn't exist here! Whatever hatred you have for aliens dose not apply here! Since you must be from a universe of constant war I am willing to give you a second chance, but if I see you raise anything in anger to any of my friends or family so help me I'll teach you a lesion you won't forget!" he didn't know what it was, but there was something in this girls voice that told him that she would indeed go through with her threat. So slowly he lowered his gun before finally putting it back into its holster. Seeing a smile brought onto this girls face actually made him feel better,

"umm what was it, Jumba. I'm sorry about trying to kill you. The little girl is right, I've been in constant war with aliens all my life, so what I did was like a reflex."

"do not be mentioning it. it was not the first time a gun has been pointed at me, and it probably won't be the last"

"But tell me, how did you block every single bullet that I fired at you?"

"That was me. I put up a force field that prevented you from hitting him."

"Wow you managed to do that. So what, you have some sort of physic power or something?"

"Well, something like that." Lilo said a bit nervously, not wanting to tell this man anything that she might regret.

"So what's your name? My name is Tyrone Johnson"

"Aloha Tyrone, my name is Lilo" she said with a smile and a wave

After the incident in the space ship, Lilo took Tyrone to the house so that he could get a drink or something to eat. Upon entering the kitchen she was surprised to see the final person that had fallen from the sky sitting at the table reading the paper with a glass of water beside him.

"oh I see you up as well. How are you feeling? Are you all right"

"yeah I'm alright Lilo. But who's your big friend there?"

"his name is Tyrone Johnson and my name is…wait how did you know my name is Lilo?"

"oh not you too. Its me Patrick. Patrick Jensen. You know I use to baby sit you and stitch. I…" Patrick was about to mention him being from a universe where this was all a cartoon, but he thought against it remembering what happened to Pleakly.

"Sorry but I have no idea who you are. I guess you came from a universe where there is another me. Hey do you know three experiments called Blissey, ruby and Demo?"

"Umm, no I can't say that I do" came Patrick's reply.

"Wow then that means there is at least three different me's somewhere out there. Wow that's umm kind of cool"

"Believe me there are more than you could imagine" Patrick said quietly to himself thinking that she could not hear him

"Wow, how many are there? Come on tell me!"

"What? You heard me. But how?" Patrick said very confused

"Well there is a reason for that, but I'm not sure if I should tell you"

"oh is that so? Well if you don't tell me that, I won't tell you how many of you there are"

"Oh come on. Please tell me. Please"

"Not until you tell me how you heard me"

"Oh all right. The reason I could hear you is because I'm an experiment now"

"You're a what!" he said placing the paper quite firmly onto the table. Tyrone had just gotten himself a glass of orange juice when he heard that. Fortunately he had no idea what an experiment was and so thought nothing of it at the time

"an experiment" Lilo said looking at the ground bashfully.

"An experiment! But how did that happen?" the shock was obvious on his face

"What are you to talking about?" Tyrone asked as he walked over to the table where Lilo and this Patrick where talking. It was at that time that Lilo told the two of them what happened to her all those years ago.

"Wow Lilo that's a bit of a sad story. So can you show me what you look like now? I mean without the hologram." Patrick said now with sympathy in his voice, even Tyrone felt sympathy for this little girl. But Tyrone's feelings where just about to turn into conflict, because it was then that Lilo turned off her hologram and revealed her experiment form. His head was beginning to hurt because of his emotions. One part of him wanted to grab one of the knife's from the counter and plunge it into this creatures head. But another part, and to be truthful a bigger part, wanted to embrace this girl in his arms because of what happened to her. In the end he decided to do what the other person in the room was doing, and that was to just stare at this girl in disbelief.

With the breaking of a new day, new challenges arose for the house. With the new arrivals in the house, as well as the family that had been living there for over 4 years, things where getting crowded meaning that Jumba had no choice but to set up his space ship as Jumba and Pleakly's bed and not breakfast. This irritated him because he wanted to work on some things that could only be done in his lab, but he knew that there was nothing that could be done about it. 'Besides, was beginning to spend too much time in lab anyway' he thinks to himself each time he feels like working on something that requires his lab.

Right now however, it was Pleakly that was annoyed at having the house so full of people. With the extra guests the house became impossible to clean, every time he got something cleaned there seemed to be something waiting in the shadows for him to leave so it could dirty it all up. Of course this was nonsense, but you know how often Pleakly gets hyped up about things like this. At one point he called himself a painter working on the golden gate bridge, because as soon as he finished cleaning the house he had to go back to the beginning and start all over again. Patrick and Tyrone tried to help with the house chores but everything they did, Pleakly would find something that he didn't like about it even thought there was nothing wrong with it. So they just gave up and decided to help with other things, like the shopping or gardening. Even though Pleakly was stressed he noticed that the person called Patrick seemed to be accepting his situation a lot better than the rest, like he had been in this sort of situation before. 'I guess he has had some experience with dimension travel' Pleakly thought as he watched Patrick pull out some weeds from a flowerbed of his.

"Finally! I've managed to clean up the house and its still clean. Now I can relax an…"Pleakly's rant was cut off by the sound of the doorbell going off. Feeling a bit better than what he did earlier, Pleakly went over to the door and answered it, after putting on his female earth disguise. Opening the door Pleakly was surprised to see cobra bubbles standing there,

"Oh cobra, what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to collect the grand council woman. It's time for aliens to be revealed to the world"

Pleakly just nodded his head before he quietly took cobra to Jumba's ship where the grand councilwoman was staying.

Arriving at the ship cobra found the grand council woman busy typing away on Jumba's computer. She had her guard in the same room, but they where just pottering about. Some were playing cards with each other, while others where just playing solitaire. They where still wearing their armour, but without their helmets.

"maim, it is time. The government is ready for you to make your appearance" cobra said after clearing his throat loudly. This caused all the guards to look up at him as well as the grand council woman.

"sigh very well then. Lets get this over with. Though I must say that I'm impressed at how quickly they've got their act together"

"I guess there taking your threat of world destruction very seriously."

"It is how it should be taken, because that future is a guarantee unless we stop Hamsterville, and soon. Well then lead on" cobra gave her a single nod before he took her to the limousine that was waiting to take her to the airport, and from there straight to the UN headquarters. Her guards, after collecting their helmets, followed every step of the way. When they all left, Pleakly just sighed,

"well this is probably going to be the most peaceful day that we will have for a VERY long time now. Well at least Nani will be happier now that all of those people have left" he said to himself, wanting to end on a happier note, before heading to his garden to enjoy his last day of his peaceful earth life.

Arriving back in the kitchen Pleakly saw Nani at the table removing some groceries from some brown paper bags. He also saw Tyrone come in from the hall carrying another 4 bags the rest of the rest of the shopping.

"I saw cobra take the grand council woman and her guards away. I saw them all leave in a limo. You know sometimes I wonder how on earth they manage to get those things up our drive. Anyway thanks Tyrone for helping me with the grocery shopping. Do you think you could help me put it all away as well?"

"Not at all. You've been kind enough to let me stay here in your house. The least I can do is help out in whatever way I can." Tyrone said as he placed the final bag onto the table, he then started to put the items that belonged in the fridge away. They where about the only items the only items he could put away since he didn't know where anything else went.

Over on the other side of the island at a logging company, Lilo, who had her hologram on at the time, was talking to the Forman about Gantu.

"Well his size and strength can be intimidating at times, but apart from that he is a really good worker. He follows orders well enough but he is a bit hesitant when I ask him to work with that creature you gave us a few years back. I think his last job totally destroyed his self-confidence though. I mean it shows when people thank him, or when he dose anything good or bad. I can remember the first time I said good job to him. He asked me to repeat it about a dozen times" the Forman, who looked like an exact copy of an olden day logger who used axes (red and black squared shirt, thick brown beard with matching hair and a little over weight).

"Well that's good to hear. So he's been acting fine then. No sign of anger or criminal activity?"

"Nope, he's been acting like a perfect citizen. If you ask me though, I personally can't see how Gantu could possibly do anything to wind up in prison. I'm also surprised to hear that you're his parole officer."

"I'm not really. Its just that cobra bubbles can be very busy and since he knows that I'm very trust worthy, so when he can't get anyone else to do it he asked me to check up on him. I want to be in the police when I'm older" Lilo said keeping her innocent little girl act going.

Deep in the forest stitch was talking to the deforestator about Gantu (note: these conversation between the stitch and the deforestator are in their native tongue).

"Gantu seems to have changed dramatically. He doesn't act at all like he use too. I mean he's helpful and actually enjoys his work, I think. He's a little hesitant when working with me, but I guess he is still not use to being around experiments yet. But I can bet you anything that he will get over it. I mean everyone working here likes me, and they are telling Gantu that I'm friendly and I think he I beginning to trust them. But its still early days, everything can change in time. I mean just look at you for an example."

"So he is not doing anything bad or suspicious?"

"Nope, he seems to be working just like everyone else. If he was doing anything suspicious I would have ether seen it, or heard about it. I mean the workers here tell me everything, and to be honest most of the stuff I would rather not hear" the deforestator said with confidence in his voice.

Back over with Lilo. The Foreman had just shown her where Gantu was working. He was picking up tree trunks and placing them on an articulated lorry, so that they could go off and get processed into floorboards or other things made of hardwood. For some time the two of them had just stood there watching Gantu pick up log after log, he was working slightly faster than the person operating the crane from another articulated lorry nearby.

"He has improved our production rate dramatically, and cut costs quite a bit as well. I am really grateful that you suggested us to cobra bubbles" the Forman said breaking the silence. Lilo was about to reply when a large, low whistle sounded signalling that it was lunchtime to all the workers. Hearing the whistle Gantu dropped the log that he had just picked up and turned to go and get his lunch. As he turned he saw the Forman standing beside a little girl wearing sea green shorts and a blue t-shirt.

"Afternoon sir. Afternoon Lilo" Gantu said as he walked up to the two of them.

"Gantu, how many times do I have to tell you that I don't like being called 'sir'. Its far too formal for what we do, and it makes me sound like my old man. Just call me Jack. You know, my name"

"Will do si…I mean Jack. So what are you doing here Lilo?"

"I'm here to check up on you. Just to make sure your behaving"

"oh you don't have to worry about a thing. I am behaving and I have to say this job is countless times better than my last. I am actually enjoying it here. Everyone is just so nice and friendly."

"Well that's good to hear" Lilo said with a big smile.

"Well you better get going to lunch, or you might not get anything to eat" the Forman said with a smile. Gantu just nodded before walking off to the main building.

For the rest of the day Lilo and stitch played with Victoria and the new experiments. The experiments where surprised to see that Victoria was also an experiment but they quickly got use to it, finally accepting that they where indeed in a different universe. At this moment in time the weather was preventing them from going outside, in other words it was raining pretty heavily outside, so they where all at Lilo's house watching a documentary about Elvis. The show was about halfway through when it was suddenly cut off and in its place was a special news report from the UN. Irritation was evident on Lilo's face when this happened, and she really didn't want to watch the news, so she changed the channel hoping to find something else to watch. It was here that she realised that the news report was very important, because the next channel that she turned too also had the news report on. Still not wanting to watch it she tried all the channels she could, only to discover that the news report was on every channel she went to. With it being on so many different Lilo decided to see what was so important that it had to be shown on every single channel out there.

"That's right ladies and gentlemen. The government has just released word that aliens do exist. We now take you live to the United Nations headquarters where an alien will actually speak to the world"

Hearing this Lilo knew instantly what was going to happen, and she suspected that everyone in the household would know as well. Still she wanted the rest of her family, and guests to see this epic event. So while some boring news reporter talked about something Lilo didn't care about, she quickly went off and got everyone from the house and space ship, this included Nani who had the day off. Within a few minuets the TV was surrounded by 1 experiment, 3 if you included Lilo and Victoria, two aliens, and 5 dimension travellers, 3 of which where also experiments.

For some time an American politician went into length about stuff that most people where not interested in, most of which where reasons as to why the government had kept the knowledge of aliens a secret. Just as Lilo was about to get very board the politician finally got the part that everyone in the world was waiting for.

"for decades people have been arguing about life on other planets, and for an equal amount of time that argument has had evidence for both sides, all of it coming and going. But now we can confirm that aliens do indeed exist. Now an alien has come to us in search of help, and as a noble race we will answer her call. She will tell you what is happening and what will happen to us if we do not act. Now it is with my great pleasure to introduce the grand councilwoman of the galactic federation" he finished while gesturing off screen with his right hand. Slowly the camera moves in the direction that was indicated by the hand, until a double door came into view. As soon as the camera stopped moving the doors opened up to reveal cobra bubbles walking in, being followed by the grand councilwoman, who was equipped with her collar. She had to bend down a little to get her collar through the door, but her expression on her face was one of determination. The gasps that where heard coming from the TV where mind boggling, even the camera shook a when she came through the door, probably due to the shock of the camera guy. Slowly she walked up to the podium where the politician once stood, and started to speak.

"Greetings citizens of earth. As you already know I am known as the grand councilwoman, and that is all you need to know at this time. For we have a much bigger crisis on our hands. The galactic federation is in dire need of your help. A criminal mastermind known as Dr. jack von Hamsterville has managed to over through me and has take over the empire. Unfortunately once his power rush ends, which trusting him wont be all that long, he will spread out and take over the entire galaxy and beyond. That means that he will come here and ether enslave or, more likely, destroy your entire race" This caused the entire room to fill with chatter, most of it was complaints while others where just confused. "yes, yes I know this is all very sudden. But let me assure you, what I am saying is a very possible future unless you act now! Now, you may think that this situation is useless, but I have good information telling me that your armies are certainly trained well enough for this fight and all that you require is the technology to get to the galactic federation. This is something that I am willing to give you all. I have a top scientist already working on the means to give all your ships the speed and power they require to reach the federation, as well as defensive weaponry for them. The estimation from him is two years for all of this technology to be installed onto your ships. I hope you all will stand up for the defence of the human race. You are already much more advanced than most races your age and in doing this act you will ensure that humanity has a future in both this universe, and in the galactic federation. The federation will compensate everything that you will loose in this war. As I said earlier I hope you will take up this fight, I know from the history of your people that you are a warrior race that can show compassion as well as have an understanding of technology. Your race is a unique race and I can see great potential in it if you can only achieve world peace. Something that I think this war will bring to you. After all a saying that comes from your people is a perfect example in this time, 'something good always emerges from something bad'. Your history is filled with examples of this and I hope it will happen again."

The grand councilwoman then bowed to everybody before taking her leave out of the same door that she emerge from, cobra following her out of the room and closing the door behind them. The camera turned back to the reporter, but no one in the household listened to him. In fact they turned off the TV. Everyone was quiet, no one spoke but everyone had the same thing on his or her mind,

'The world will never be the same after this.'

The first person to get up was Jumba, who knew that he had a lot of work to do and wanted to get started on engine plans. Next was Tyrone, who knew his military training would most defiantly come in handy in this upcoming war. Finally the rest of the group started to move. Nani to get the dinner ready, Pleakly to help Nani in the kitchen, and the rest to go outside and enjoy one of the last normal days they will have in a long time. It was useful that it had stopped raining sometime during the news report and the sun had come out in full force, because it looked like nothing would stop these people from going outside, they had a lot on their minds to think about.

hope you liked this chapter. please tell me in a review. but now for something that you ether know about (you keep an eye out on my profile) or you don't. there will be another marathon coming up. i have about half of it written up...on paper, so it might take me a little bit of time to finish it. unlike my last marathon, this will be for only one story and its a new one. more info on it soon so keep looking