Chapter two. Kinda longer...

I own nothing but Sapphire, Joey, and the bad guys. Disney is... Disney's. :)

Sapphire and Joey hit water. Ocean water, to be exact, Sapphire thought, spitting out the salty liquid.

Girl and dog scrambled out of the waist-deep water and onto the golden sand. "This ain't New York," Sapphire panted, hands resting on her knees. It definitely wasn't. Where the water ended was soft, warm sand. After about 7 feet of sand, it eased off to dirt which housed palm trees, their fronds waving gently in the soft breeze. The shallow water was littered with rocks. This stretch of beach was empty, but farther down were colorful blankets and towels with sunburned tourists resting on them. "Where are we?"

Joey gave himself a shake, spraying water. "Don't you know Disney when you see it?"

Sapphire promptly fell over, mouth hanging open. "D-did you j-just…"

"Talk?" He interrupted. "Yeah. What of it? This is Disney. Weird things happen."

I've seen movies where animals talk, but to experience it firsthand? WAAAAAY different! "How do you know we're in Disney?"

"That." He pointed with his muzzle to a round pink thing sitting on one of the rocks.

Sapphire squinted. "Is that… Cannonball?"

"Who?"

"Experiment 520. Cannonball." It hit her like a ton of bricks. "We must be in the Lilo and Stitch universe!" Joey sat down, obviously not sharing her enthusiasm.

"Cool. How do we get back home?"

Sapphire ruffled his head fur. "Chill, dude. Let's enjoy Disney before we go back."

He got up again and ran around in a circle. "There. I've enjoyed it. Let's go."

Sapphire rolled her eyes and took her backpack off. Surprisingly, the water hadn't soaked through the thin fabric. Nothing inside had gotten wet.

She pulled out her scrapbook and flipped to a golden page. Swirly letters were scrawled across the top reading, "Reuben." The page was covered in drawings of the fat experiment. "While we're here, I'll collect things for my scrapbook."

"Like what?"

"Well, for Reuben, it would probably be fur. If that's ok with him."

Joey scratched behind an ear. "How're you gonna find him? Hawaii is huge." He paused. "Well, big."

She rubbed the back of her head. "I didn't know you were such a downer. We already know Reuben's on Kauai, and we know that's where we are. If we find Stitch, he'll probably take us to Reuben."

"How~"

"Oh, quit it. I've watched the movie enough times to know where Lilo and Stitch live.

She and Joey walked across the beach to the dense forest, heading toward town. Joey suddenly raised his nose and sniffed.

"Genetic mutation alert."

Sapphire stopped dead in her tracks. "Where?"

"Right there," Joey replied as experiment 626 appeared right in front of them. Sapphire gave an excited tremble.

"Stitch! Stop!"

The blue mutation skid to a halt at his name. He turned on them, growled, then lunged.

"Naga! Meega achi-baba!"

Stitch froze.

"Oh, that felt soooo good to say!" Sapphire squealed like a fangirl. Stitch fired off rapid Tantalog at her. Sapphire knelt to his eye level, as to not appear threatening.

"Stitch, I only speak a bit. Naga understand."

"How you know meega?"

"Long story. We're looking for 625. Can you show us where he is?"

Stitch eyed them warily. "Why?"

Hoo boy. How do I explain that he's actually in a movie and I'm totally and completely Reuben's biggest fan? Thinking up a lie, she said, "I wanna say hello. I know him."

Stitch raised an eyebrow.

"Please?" Sapphire pleaded the alien. "You can be right there with us so we don't kidnap him or anything. Deal?"

He finally nodded. "Ih." Stitch tensed. Then, he started hacking.

Worry crept into Sapphire's green eyes. "What's wrong, Stitch?"

His body shuddered, then a tiny, white, ping-pong ball like object came out his mouth. But it didn't hit the ground. Instead, it just floated there, for a second, then flew into Sapphire's mouth. She felt it slide down her throat. She stared at Stitch in panic. "what was THAT?"

He shrugged. "Naga idea."

Accepting that is was probably unimportant, Sapphire and Joey followed Stitch through the forest, apparently heading towards the clearing where the ship was settled. It was lying in a pool of water provided by the waterfall tumbling down a slick cliff. Wild vegetation was scattered around, growing beautiful and big because of a never-ending supply of water and lack of gardeners.

Sapphire prepared to move out from behind the bushed she, Joey and Stitch were hiding behind, but the experiment held her back. "Wait."

She didn't question him, just sat down again. What does he want me to wait for?

A loud thumping and the whirring of the hatch answered her question. Gantu, the large, fish-faced alien, stomped out of the ship. He had his belt and capture containers with him. He was obviously going experiment hunting. He didn't even think of looking in their direction. He just thudded away, muttering something.

"Now." Stitch bolted towards the ship, Sapphire and Joey following. He rolled up the hatch (yes, rolled. He'd tucked himself into a ball) and entered the ship, moving like a ninja.

Sapphire came up behind him, completely relaxed. "Where's 625?"

Stitch pulled on her shirt and led her to the kitchen.

Typical.

A small, golden alien sat on a stool, making (of course) sandwiches. He heard them come in, whipped around, and his eyes grew wide with fear.

"Who're you?"

Sapphire almost went ballistic!

"Oh, my goodness, I can't BELIEVE I'm actually talking to 625!" She ran up to him, giving him a huge hug around the shoulders. "Hi! You're cute! Can I have something from you? Like, some fur?" without waiting for an answer, Sapphire tossed off her backpack and drew out her pocketknife. She extracted the small pair of scissors and cut off a chunk of Reuben's fur on his arm. She quickly put the fur in the plastic casing of the Reuben page in her scrapbook. When she looked up again, the fur on Reuben's arm had grown back.

"Whoa! That's cool!" Sapphire leaned down and kissed Reuben on his head. "Thanks, 625!" She slung her backpack back on. "Bye!"

Gesturing to Joey to follow her, she raced out of the ship, not giving explanation to either experiment.

There was awkward silence between the two cousins left. Reuben broke it. "That was weird."

"Ih." Stitch agreed.

Sapphire pulled the goggles over her eyes. "Where to next?"

"How about home?" Joey scratched himself.

"Stop that." Sapphire scolded, but there was no annoyance in her voice. Just pure excitement. She scrolled through the movies and selected Jungle Book. "Come here, Joey." Sapphire held on to the scruff of his neck and pressed the circular button. In a flash, they were gone.

On the other side of the island, two figures cloaked in black appeared out of nowhere. The blue goggled on the tall man's head stood out from the sea of darkness.

"Are you sure she came here?" The shorter one asked.

"Absolutely," the tall man insisted, straightening. He was proud that he knew so much about the device. "The goggles have a history selection. With mine, I can tell exactly where she's gone."

"But only after she's left, right?"

The tall man wilted. "Yes. I'm afraid so."

"So how'll we find her?"

The tall man opened his gloved fist. A small square object lay in his palm.

"Oooooh." The short man mused. "A tracking chip!"

"Precisely." The fingers closed around the chip again. "When we meet up with her, which we will, I'll put the chip on her."

"But she could be anywhere! There's no WAY we'll meet up with her anytime soon!"

The tall man's lips pulled into a thin smile. "She came here. There must be something she cares for here. We'll find it."

Chapter three will probably be up soon (if I can work on it).

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