Chapter 10-Lilo Adopts Stitch

626 groaned and held his head as he woke. His jumpsuit was repaired, and he was lying on some floor. As he sat up, he moaned, "Ow." It was his first English word, even if he didn't know it.

626 made some funny noises, then looked around. He was in a room with other teenagers, but they were all huddled in a corner, terrified of 626. 626 growled as he tried to pull out his guns, but he didn't have them. He just made the gun shape with his fingers. He realized they were gone, and looked for them. They were gone, gone.

"Eh, inja, kowatanaba," 626 tried to tell the other kids, but they couldn't understand, and just kept shaking in the corner. "Oonga, kowashta," he said, advancing on them. They pulled further away.

"I'm looking for something that can defend itself," came a voice from outside. 626 whirled around to see it, but he was in a room, and could hear through the wall. Jazz and Sam were where 626 was! And that happened to be an orphanage. "Something that won't die; something... sturdy, you know?" Jazz told the lady behind the counter.

"Like a lobster!" Sam piped up.

"Sam, you lolo (Which probably meant "Crazy,"). Do we have a lobster door? No. We have a regular door. We are getting you a friend," (Ugg, that didn't come out very well)

As Jazz was saying this, 626 had crawled out of his room and on the ceiling and out of the orphanage. As he closed the door behind him, a red light shone on him. He looked down and quickly dodged the plasma blast that came after it. He ran over a tree and behind a rock, the whole while dodging plasma blasts. He stopped, panting. He heard Vlad, "Haha. So nice to see your pretty face again!"

"Vlad?" 626 asked, in English, but with an accent.

Back in the orphanage, the lady at the counter was talking with Jazz. "I'll need your name and address at the bottom of the form—" She was interrupted by the door opening and closing. Jazz, Sam, and the lady behind the counter turned around and looked. 626 had snuck by, though, unseen, back into his room. "The rooms are back this way," the lady went on, opening a door, and motioning Sam through it.

"Go. Pick someone out," Jazz told Sam, nudging her through the door. Sam went through.

"Hello?" Sam asked as she entered the long row of rooms; they were all empty. "Hello-o?"

626 was banging his head against the brock wall of his room, trying to get out. The brick had started to move, but he heard Sam, and got an idea.

"Are there any kids in here?" Sam asked, looking around. She didn't know that there were tons of kids, but they were all being silent, and had climbed on top of their walls to avoid contact with 626. Sam went through a fence that had obviously just been bent out of shape. 626 followed behind her, silently.

626 sniffed at her, then looked around. He turned and saw a poster of some kids. He decided he needed to look like that to have Sam get anywhere near him. "Hello-o!" Sam was calling into all the rooms. No responses.

626 thought a moment before looking at himself. He concentrated, and a blue ring appeared around his waist. It split into two, and one traveled up his body, the other traveled down his body, transforming him. Now instead of wearing a black and white jumpsuit, he wore a white T-shirt with a red circle in the middle, blue jeans, and white sneakers. His hair and eyes also changed. Instead of having white hair, it changed to jet black. His electrifying green eyes changed to a calm, soothing ocean blue.

626 walked out to where Sam could see him, and stood there. Sam turned around. "Hi," she said to him nervously, and waved gently.

"Oh. H-hi," 626 said, extending his arm and made like he was grabbing something. It could pass as a wave if you looked at it closely.

626 ran up to Sam and embraced her. "Wow!" She cried. She took his hand and walked out with him. The lady was talking to Jazz.

"... Oh, yes, mhm. All of our kids are adoptable," she was saying, then looked over at Sam and 626. "EXCEPT THAT ONE!" She cried, and ran to grab 626. Jazz grabbed Sam and they pulled them apart.

"What IS that thing?" Jazz cried, staring horrified at 626. (IDK why, 'cuz he looks normal, like a human, I'm just going with the script I was given)

"A kid, I think," the lady said. "But it was dead this morning,"

"It was DEAD this morning?" Jazz asked, disgusted. She pulled Sam further away.

"We thought it was dead; it was hit by a TRUCK!"

"I like him!" Sam cried. "Come here, boy!" And 626 dragged the lady behind him as he pulled himself over to Sam. 626 crawled on top of Jazz, and Jazz tried to climb up on a chair, but slipped and fell into a sitting position, still holding Sam.

"Wouldn't you like a DIFFERENT kid?" Jazz asked hopefully. She held her arm out, and kept 626 from coming any nearer. The lady was still grabbing 626's shirt, trying to hold him back.

"We have better kids, dear," the lady said.

"Not better than HIM! He can talk!" Sam exclaimed. "Say 'hello'," Sam told 626.

"H-he—" 626 started.

"Kids can't talk, dear," the lady interrupted, not knowing that not only CAN kids talk, 626 was TRYING TO. (And this came out awkwardly, too)

"HE did," Sam tried to explain.

"Does it have to be THIS kid?" Jazz asked, hoping that Sam would say no.

626 stuck his tongue up his nose, then ate whatever green thing he had dug up. "Yes, he's good. I can tell," Sam affirmed.

"You'll have to think of a name for him," the lady said as she came to that question on the adoption papers.

"His name is... Danny," Sam said, without thinking too hard. At hearing his new name, 626, or Danny, turned around and looked at Sam; he had been looking out the window for Vlad.

The lady behind the counter turned to Sam. "Oh, now that's not a real name—" she started, but Jazz didn't want Sam to feel depressed. She shook her head violently, and mumbled a defiance to the lady. The lady picked up on it and continued, "—in Iceland," Jazz nodded slightly, to show that was okay to say. "But here, it's a good name!" The lady finished. Jazz looked over her shoulder and smiled at Sam, who smiled back. "Danny it is," the lady confirmed. "And there's a $2 adoption fee," the lady said as Jazz put her hand in her pocket and pulled out two green pieces of paper. She handed them to the lady.

"I wanna buy him!" Sam cried, running up to Jazz. Sam pulled Jazz close and whispered, "Can I borrow $2?" Jazz looked at the lady, took the money, handed it to Sam, who held it for a second before tapping Jazz with it, who took it from her and handed it to the lady again.

The lady stamped the adoption paper with a special stamp. "He's all yours," the lady told Sam, who took the paper and hugged it tightly.

Meanwhile, outside the orphanage, Vlad and Holographic Maddie were sitting on a hill, watching Danny through heat-sensing binoculars. As Vlad watched Danny walk around and look around, he muttered, "You're all MINE,"

"Well, what's he doing?" Maddie asked.

"SHH!" Vlad shushed. "Be quiet," he whispered. "He's listening for us,"

It was true; Danny was turning his head and tilting his head to every sound he heard. Maddie waited a long time before asking gently, "How good is his hearing?" At that, Danny's head whipped around and looked straight at Vlad's binoculars, even though Vlad was looking through the building. To shut Maddie up, Vlad grabbed her neck and held it tightly. She made gurgling noises. Vlad had a gun pointed right at the door, watching Danny. Danny opened the door, and Vlad's binoculars went into regular color versus heat-sensing. Vlad turned on the light beam that showed where the plasma blast would hit if he shot it. Danny saw a little red dot of light on his chest and looked up, fear showing on his face.

"Why don't you run?" Vlad asked gently, raising the gun to eye-level. His finger rested on the trigger, slowly pulling in. Danny sat and (IDK what to put; Stitch barked, but what does Danny do? Does he call? If he does, what does he say? Whatever, you can fill it in yourself). Sam came running out.

"I'm coming! I'm coming!" She called and ran to hug Danny. She was blocking the light from shining on Danny, which meant if Vlad shot, he would hit Sam.

Just as the plasma blast started to shoot out of the gun, Maddie yelled "STOP!" And pushed the gun up just in time. "I have decided this situation to be far too hazardous!" Maddie yelled, standing between Vlad and the orphanage. Vlad pushed her away with a sweep of his hand.

"Don't worry; I won't hit her," he said, leveling the gun with his eye again.

"NO!" Maddie yelled again, plugging the hole of the gun with her finger. "That girl is a part of the mosquito food chain!" Maddie said, pulling out her ViewFinder and handing it to Vlad. "Here, educate yourself!" Vlad looked in it.

"Using that little girl as a shield. THIS IS LOW, EVEN FOR YOU!" Vlad screamed angrily at Danny, shaking his fist. Danny turned around and did a headstand, looking at Vlad and said,

"Woo, hoo!" And shook his small butt at Vlad. Sam looked at him skeptically.

"BAH!" Vlad yelled, and threw the gun aside, bringing Maddie with it; her finger was still in the opening. "I'll tear him apart with all both my cannons!" (I can't understand the last word he said, sorry) He yelled, running down the hill to kill Danny right then and there.

"Have you lost your mind?" Maddie yelled as he ran after him. Danny was (Barking) at them, and Sam turned to him,

"What is it, Danny?"

Danny continued (Barking) as the lady behind the counter and Jazz came out to see what Danny was making such a fuss about. Luckily, Maddie pulled Vlad into a nearby bush, saying, "WE. CANNOT. BE SEEN!"

The lady turned to where Danny was looking, but saw nothing. She squirted him with water. "Bad boy, (Barking) at nothing," Danny rubbed his head on the floor; he didn't like the water squirt.

"You can't shoot, and you can't be seen," Maddie told Vlad, who was safely in a bush. "Look at you! You look like a monster. We have to blend in," Vlad looked down at himself, but said nothing.