Drell came to Cherry and Atticus's bed as it was rather early in the morning for some people, especially on vacation. "I hope you all enjoyed Hawaii, because you'll be coming again in the near future..."
"You're still here?" Cherry groaned.
"Yes, now, listen up..." Drell sat between the two in their bed. "You guys may not know this, Athena probably told you, Atticus, but Lilo is the descendant of Pele, the volcano goddess... I want you to keep an eye on her in future times since Darla has become close with her and look for signs of her powers as my Oracle has taught me of her future."
"We sure will." Atticus said.
"How will we know when she's ready?" Cherry asked.
"Whenever the time will be..." Drell said. "This experiment she calls Stitch is not the only one of him either..."
"What?" Cherry and Atticus asked.
"Well, think about it..." Drell looked to them. "Stitch is Experiment 626, there have to be 625 others, right?"
"Of course, so then Stitch must be the last of the experiments." Atticus said.
"You think so...?" Drell asked. "You never know... There may be more, but to my knowledge there's only 626, Stitch being the youngest... Nobody knows where these other experiments are, but for right now, we're safe, but you guys better get used to Hawaii, I'm gonna have you guys visit here more in the future."
"You got it." Atticus smiled.
"Around when?" Cherry asked.
"Whenever I say, but in May, there's a festival for Lilo's hula class to participate in," Drell explained. "I'm sure Lilo will be a shoe in... Her mother won the competition when she was Lilo's age... She was beautiful as an orchid and graceful like a wave..."
"Wow, Drell, that was beautiful." Cherry said.
"The judges said it, not me." Drell said then, killing the moment.
"Oh." Cherry said.
"Should we be back here for that?" Atticus asked.
"Indeed..." Drell instructed. "Cherry, I know you hate the beach, but get used to it."
Cherry sighed. "Yes, Drell..."
"Could Mo and Patch come with us?" Atticus asked. "Darla too... She's Lilo's friend after all."
"Of course... yes..." Drell said.
"Thanks, Drell." Atticus smiled as he hugged him.
Drell looked very touched in the hug, then gently patted Atticus's back. "You're welcome, Atticus..." he whispered, slightly emotionally.
Atticus then suddenly felt something bad was going to happen.
Drell let go and stood up from their bed. Cherry and Atticus slightly rolled into each other due to him leaving kind of a sunken spot in the bed due to his weight and height.
"Well... I should go..." Drell said softly. "You okay, Atticus?"
"Something's wrong..." Atticus said.
Drell looked back. "I'm sorry." he said like he knew already.
"No, no, it's not because of you, it's Patch, him and Stitch are in danger." Atticus said.
"I know..." Drell shut his eyes and covered them.
"I gotta go!" Atticus hopped to his feet and looked back. "Drell... What's wrong?"
"Never mind... Just go help them..." Drell urged as his voice cracked slightly.
"You sure?" Atticus asked.
"Just please go..." Drell sighed.
Atticus looked to him, but left as quickly as he could to save Stitch and Patch from whatever was giving him a bad feeling.
"Drell...?" Cherry came up behind the warlock.
"Now now, Cherry..." Drell sounded too miserable to make her miserable.
"What's wrong?" Cherry asked.
"What makes you think something's wrong?" Drell asked.
"You're crying..." Cherry said.
Drell sighed, then bent down to her height, putting his hands on her shoulders. "I didn't wanna tell Atticus this, but... Something terrible is going to happen..."
"What's the worst that can happen?" Cherry asked.
Drell frowned deeply. "Patch is going to die today."
"What?" Cherry's voice grew shallow.
"It's true " Drell frowned.
"W-Why didn't you tell Atticus?" Cherry asked.
"Because it's something you don't tell someone..." Drell said. "Dogs are a man's best friend... How do you think Atticus would feel to hear that his best friend will die soon?"
Cherry glanced to him.
"It's different between boys and their dogs..." Drell said, then sighed. "When I was around his age, I had this hamster familiar... Yes, a hamster... We went everywhere together... I practiced my spells on him... I'd ride with him on my broomstick... We were best friends... But then... He ate one of my mother's posies... He fell asleep and never woke up."
"He died?" Cherry asked.
"No, literally, he fell asleep and he never woke up, he never has since then and never will, he might as well be dead..." Drell explained.
"What did he eat last?" Cherry asked.
"The posies..." Drell said. "You've seen the Wizard of Oz, haven't you?"
"Lots of times." Cherry said, fondly remembering those simple days.
"Well, witch's posies can be fatal to animals and non magical creatures," Drell explained. "Since my familiar ate them, he went to sleep and never woke up. My mother turned me into a pig and made me sleep in a pen with my dad and she told me 'stop whining'."
"Oh... How old were you?" Cherry cooed.
"35..." Drell sighed.
Cherry offered a hanky since she could see him still crying.
"Thank you." Drell said, accepting the handkerchief.
Cherry looked long to Drell. Drell sniffled and blew his nose noisily and handed it back to her. Cherry grimaced as it was dripped in his snot mucus.
While that went on, Stitch and Patch were still in the jungle. The two friends were asleep and the sun was halfway coming up, it was around dawn.
"Morning, Stitch." Patch smiled before hearing something or someone coming.
Stitch blinked a few times, then woke up and looked curiously to Patch as they had the open book in front of them. He then heard someone coming and looked over to see it was Jumba which made him back up slightly.
"Don't run..." Jumba said, sounding gentle at first for once. "Don't make me shoot you... You were expensive..."
Stitch stood close to Patch, not even trying to run away or call for help.
"Yes, yes, that's it... Come quietly..." Jumba cooed.
"Mm... Waiting..." Stitch uttered out.
"That's right, me and Stitch are waiting." Patch said.
"For what?" Jumba asked, stepping forward, stepping onto the book and looked down.
"Family..." Stitch told his creator.
"Ah..." Jumba noted, then glared to his experiment. "You don't have one... I made you..."
"Oh..." Stitch pouted. "M-Maybe I could..."
"You were built to destroy," Jumba glared. "You can never belong... Now come quietly and we will take you apart."
Stitch didn't like the sound of that at all and started to run away. Patch ran off with him, so then his friend wouldn't have to face this alone.
"No, no, no, no, don't run!" Jumba called. "Don't run!" he then repeated in frustration and went after his creation and the Earth creature native to this planet.
"Where are you going?" Patch asked his new friend.
"Lilo!" Stitch told him. "I worried..."
Patch smiled, happy that his alien friend was starting to care about the Earth girl. They both ran off into the direction of Lilo's house while avoiding Jumba to be taken away forever.
Darla had accidentally fallen asleep while at Lilo's house, so she came with Lilo by her side while Nani was glumly sitting in the kitchen table.
"Lilo..." Nani said softly. "I didn't hear you get up..." she then looked to her younger sister and saw she looked a lot more miserable than last night. "Baby, what's wrong?"
"Stitch left..." Lilo replied quietly.
"He did?" Nani asked actually sad herself that the little blue alien left.
"It's good he's gone..." Lilo replied dryly and heartbroken. "He didn't wanna be here anyway... We don't need him..."
Darla knew that her friend didn't mean that, Nani decided to try and talk with her younger sister. She just walked off and stared out the window as her new friend was going to be taken away very soon. Nani was giving Lilo some personal and sisterly advice the very best that she could in this emotional state. The three of them heard a knocking at the door and where Darla and Nani decided to hold onto Lilo. Nani opened the door and saw a very familiar face to her, though was relieved to see it wasn't the social worker.
"Nani!" David called.
"Nani," David nodded. "I think I found you a job."
"You what?!" Nani's eyes widened.
"Old Man Kuhkini's store," David explained. "But we got to hurry!"
This was the greatest news Nani had heard all day, but had to do something first before leaving.
"Oh, um, okay, Lilo?" Nani turned to her younger sister. "Baby, this is really important. I need you to stay here with Darla for a few minutes. I'm going to be right back. Lock the door and don't answer it for anyone, okay? Things are finally turning around!" she then ran out the door to join David for this new job opportunity. "Aw, David, I owe you one."
"That's okay," David smiled to her. "You can just date me and we'll call it even."
Nani was actually going to consider that.
Atticus ran right to Lilo's house, following his heart and where he saw Patch and Stitch running inside the house as well.
"Patch... Thank goodness..." Atticus called between pants.
"No time to talk, we gotta run!" Patch told his owner.
"Why's that?" Atticus asked before his pet brought him inside.
"Trust me, okay?!" Patch sounded hysterical.
Atticus looked worried and urgent as they came inside the Pelekai house.
Darla and Lilo came into one room and saw the blue alien creature and Dalmatian puppy come into the house. "Patch/Stitch, what is it?"
Patch and Stitch shushed the little girls and tried to tiptoe off with them, but...
"HA!" Jumba came in with an evil smile. "Hiding behind your little friend won't work anymore... Didn't I tell you? We got fired this morning! New rules!"
"Let me guess, this is reason why you both were running, right?" Atticus asked his Dalmatian puppy.
"You got that right..." Patch said while glaring to the four-eyed alien.
Cherry and Drell slowly slid up from behind a closed window.
"Huh... And people called us four-eyes growing up..." Cherry commented.
"YOU maybe, if someone called ME four-eyes, my mother would eat them." Drell scoffed.
Jumba aimed his plasma gun to shoot at Stitch and shot. Stitch caught the plasma ball like it was a baseball, but it was really hot and he threw it at Lilo's record player which played 'Hound Dog'.
"What do we do?" Patch asked.
Stitch began to think until he finally got an idea. He gestured for the others to follow him while Jumba was down and distracted. Patch, Atticus, Lilo, and Darla followed Stitch.
"Ooh, I love this song!" Jumba laughed as he stood up, looking for his victims.
Stitch began to act like a doctor with Patch, Lilo, and Darla as his nurses. Scrump was the patient. Stitch asked them for what he wanted and needed for his plan and they gave them. Lilo showed no hesitance for Scrump to be used like this.
"Check." Stitch picked up the doll once it was ready.
Darla took Scrump and gently wheeled the doll out on a roller-blade. And which stopped right in front of the four-eyed alien who was curious of what Scrump was. He tried to reach out and touch the doll, but it suddenly exploded, knocking him down and bouncing Scrump on his fat belly. Patch retrieved Scrump and brought her right back to her rightful owner. Lilo took her doll and hugged it instantly as she went off with Darla.
"What should we do?" Darla asked.
"Hide!" Lilo suggested.
Drell grinned at the chaos from Jumba and Stitch.
"Drell, use your magic to stop this!" Cherry begged.
"No way!" Drell smiled before he saw Patch joining in to help his alien friend." Is that pup insane?!"
"He's Atticus's dog now..." Cherry sunk slightly.
Stitch crawled on the ceiling as Jumba threw plates at him.
"Come on, what's the big deal," Jumba glared up. "I'll put you back together again. I'll make you taller and not so fluffy!"
"I LIKE FLUFFY!" Stitch retorted as he dodged every plate with ease.
"Yeah! So leave him alone!" Patch barked from behind the four -eyed alien to startle/scare him.
"Where did you come from!?" Jumba jumped back.
Patch grinned.
"Drell... Please..." Cherry urged.
"Shut up!" Drell put his arm around her and put his hand over her mouth with an eager grin. "I wanna watch this!"
Cherry muffled and wiggled. Once Cherry saw Atticus, she had to tell him what she knew, even if Drell would punish her.
"Now, you leave my friend alone!" Patch barked.
Jumba growled at Patch. Stitch said something in his alien language that was very unflattering.
"Ooh, burn~" Patch smirked.
"Hey, leave my mother out of this!" Jumba glared.
Suddenly, the ceiling came down with Stitch and they both crashed down.
"Oh, no, Stitch!" Patch gasped.
Stitch appeared to be unharmed. Patch did a double take and smiled. Drell laughed.
"Atticus!" Cherry got free and started to run away from Drell's side.
"Yeah, Cherry?" Atticus asked.
Drell saw what Cherry was doing and tried to stop her.
"You have to listen..." Cherry panted. "Patch is-"
Drell snapped his fingers which zipped Cherry's lips shut.
Cherry muffled, unable to speak, then took the zipper and unzipped it. "Patch is-"
Drell then came over to Cherry's side and covered her mouth with his hand again. "Ah, hello, Atticus, lovely day with alien invasions, huh?"
Atticus simply glared at him, knowing that the strong warlock was trying to keep Cherry from telling the strong boy something, so he simply lifted the strong warlock off the ground and freeing the perky goth.
Cherry panted and gasped in relief. "Patch... Is..."
Drell pinched Cherry's neck. Cherry's eyes lolled back into her skull and she fell forward, flat on the ground.
"Whoops..." Drell smiled nervously with a shrug.
"Drell!" Atticus glared, tightening his grip on the warlock.
"Heh... My fingers slipped..." Drell smiled nervously, then looked nervous. "Oh, my..."
Atticus glanced back as Lilo's house was suffering from more and more damage as the little girls, puppy, and alien tried to escape.
"If we make it to-" Lilo started up a plan as she opened the backdoor.
"You're alive!" the one-eyed alien smiled to Lilo.
Lilo leaned on the door, shutting it instantly. "THEY'RE ALL OVER THE PLACE!"
"I agree." Darla said.
"Running away?" Jumba looked to the victims as he took out his homemade weapon. "Let me stop you!" he then threw it to them.
The four dodged it and it hit the door as the one-eyed alien rushed over.
"You always get in the way!" Jumba scolded.
"Where are the girls?" the one-eyed alien asked. "What have you done to the girls?"
"Hello, Cobra Bubbles?" Lilo used the telephone. "Aliens are attacking my house."
"Things just got worse!" Patch gasped as soon as he saw that Lilo just accidentally called the social worker, thinking he would help them with the aliens.
"No, no, no, no aliens!" the one-eyed alien rushed over.
"Blue punch buggy!" Stitch lifted a blue car and hit Jumba with it before throwing it right at his creator. "No punch back!"
"They want my dog!" Lilo continued on the phone.
"There's no need to alert the authorities," the one-eyed alien told her before taking the phone from her. "Everything's under control..."
"Yeah, everything's completely under control, no need for taking Lilo away!" Darla included.
'Lilo, who was that?' the social worker replied, hearing other voices.
There was then a loud buzzing heard with Stitch's cackle.
"Oh, good, my dog found the chainsaw." Lilo said before hanging up despite being told not to.
Atticus had rushed to make sure Darla and Patch were okay.
Cherry clawed at the ground as Drell held back her legs. "Aaaugh, I have to tell, he's my best friend!"
"If you tell him, it will break his heart!" Drell told her.
"I have to tell him..." Cherry begged as she kept clawing at the ground.
"No!" Drell started to walk backward with her, making her fingernails drag across the ground.
"Pleeeease, I'll do anything!" Cherry pleaded.
Drell found this tempting, but he still wasn't going to let her tell Atticus.
"Drell, for the love of butter!" Cherry begged.
"Oh, I love to hear you beg for mercy,..." Drell smirked. "Sadly, I cannot fulfill your wishes... Now come on, we have to move!"
"ATTICUS!" Cherry cried as she was dragged off.
Jumba shoved a carrot into his gun before Stitch could use it against him and it was about to explode, making the two start to throw it back and forth to each other.
"Guys, just throw it out the window!" Patch told them.
"We're leaving the dogs?" Lilo asked as the one-eyed alien ran with her and Darla over his noodly shoulders.
"Trust me, this is not going to end well!" the one-eyed alien replied as he ran with them.
Eventually, it ended when Jumba caught it, thinking he won the game.
Drell let go of Cherry. "Unless you wanna be blasted to bits, I suggest you accelerate."
"Huh?" Cherry asked.
"RUN, WUSSY GIRL!" Drell urged. "RUUUUN!"
Cherry blinked, then ran with him. Atticus was about to run to get Patch, but Drell picked him up, taking him with them.
"Move, move, move, MOVE!" Drell called as he ran.
Atticus ran with Drell. "I thought you were back at the hotel?!"
"No time to explain!" Drell said as he ran, carrying Patch over his head.
Suddenly, the house exploded and caught on fire. And where it caused for Atticus to stop in his tracks and for the one-eyed alien to accidentally let go of Darla and Lilo.
"Drell..." Cherry panted. "You saved my life..."
Drell hugged her and Atticus suddenly.
"Drell..." Cherry was surprised by his generosity again to her.
"Shut up and call the fire department..." Drell whispered, though he had a tear roll down his cheek and looked grateful that they were both alive and safe.
Cherry did just that. Drell saw that Darla was worried about Patch as well, along with worried about something that was going to happen. Drell looked very emotional for the others, he even took off his glasses and put his hand to his eyes as he looked very broken. Cherry called the fire department and had them come over to Lilo's house as Jumba and the other alien got away just as the social worker was coming.
"Quick, Lilio, we have to hide." Darla told her friend.
Lilo looked to Darla. Darla took her hand and pulled her back to avoid the social worker as a firetruck was on the way.
Drell hugged Atticus. "I'm glad you're okay..."
"Thank you, sir." Atticus nodded.
"You too, Cherry." Drell then said.
Cherry looked shocked that Drell was glad she was still alive and not hurt in any way.
"Patch?" Drell called for the Dalmatian puppy. "Here, boy!"
Patch came out from behind one of the trees dizzy. "I'm right here."
"Oh, thank goodness..." Drell knelt next to the puppy.
Cherry fanned herself from the large fire. "Phew! Hawaiian heat and a house fire are not what I imagined on this vacation."