Luckily, the firetruck arrived with the firefighters as the social worker was looking for Lilo to take her away as it was time and he was not at all pleased at what had become of the house.
"Um, guys, where's Lilo, Darla, and Stitch?" Atticus asked.
Patch decided to go after them. Nani came to try to explain everything to the social worker and he was even yelling at her due to the state of the house and that a child at Lilo's age witnessed and was apart of it, finding her to be a very unfit guardian. Once they both realized Lilo was not there, they called for her. Cherry, Atticus, and Drell decided to follow Patch and find the others.
Urchin was coming up, he had a guitar in his arms and had Darla's gift with him, but he looked around and looked down to see a burnt and tattered bow, knowing that it had to be Darla's. He picked it up and looked at the house and he had tears in his eyes, fearing the worst had happened. "No... Please..." he whispered in deep pain and sadness. He wasn't sure what else to do, he just sniffled and went back the other way into the ocean, crying, thinking that maybe Darla had been killed by the house fire. He then heard someone coming and where he hoped it was Darla.
It wasn't, it was what looked like a giant with a whale head.
Urchin looked in shock. "Who and what are you!?"
"I am Captain Gantu, Earth creature..." the mutant got into his face. "I am looking for Experiment 626, have you seen him?"
"Look, pal, I'm having kind of a bad day..." Urchin said as he wiped some tears he had. "J-Just leave me alone..." he then stormed off to get back home to the ocean as he still cried for Darla. "I didn't even get a chance to tell her..." he whispered painfully.
Darla felt something wrong in her heart, but she just kept going with Lilo to get away from the mayhem. Stitch came over.
Lilo was now very angry with her pet. "You ruined everything."
Urchin stopped as soon as he heard Lilo's voice. Patch jumped out a nearby bush after running for a while.
Stitch looked to Lilo and Darla, he then decided to show why those aliens were after him. He showed his back spikes, antennae, and extra arms.
"You're one of them?" Lilo glared, then shoved her pet again. "Get out of here, Stitch."
"Lilo, you need to understand, Stitch didn't mean to deceive you," Patch said. "Okay, at first, he did, but..."
Before anything else could be said, they were all instantly shot by a net gun.
"Surprise!" Gantu emerged from the bushes and laughed as he captured Stitch with a few others, then carried it in his large hand. "And here I thought you'd be difficult to catch... Oh, silly me..."
Nani began to look for her sister while Atticus, Cherry, and Drell were looking for Patch and Darla.
"Urchin, have you seen Darla?" Atticus asked.
"You mean she's alive?" Urchin asked, hopeful.
"Yeah, but she's seems to have disappeared, along with Patch." Atticus said.
"Come on, we gotta move!" Urchin said, zipping by to save Darla, more worried about her than Lilo, Stitch, or Patch.
"Lilo?" Nani called. "Lilo!"
Gantu came stomping by which made Nani fall to the ground and scream in horror.
That sounded like Nani." Cherry said.
"Nani...?" Drell asked.
"Lilo's older sister," Atticus said. "We must be close."
They all saw Gantu making his way a spacecraft.
"There you go..." Gantu released Stitch, Patch, Lilo, and Darla into a glass pod container. "All buckled up for the trip... And look, I even caught you a little dinner." he then smiled darkly to the earth creatures as he went to the front of the spacecraft to take them all back to Stitch's home planet to be properly disposed of.
Once Atticus and the others saw Stitch, Patch, Darla, and Lilo inside the container, they began to try to save them. Drell snarled, he took out his wand and tried to zap at the container. However, his magic bounced off of it and repelled.
Cherry screamed and was hit by the blast, looking slightly burnt. "Ow..." she muttered out before passing out.
"That was totally an accident!" Drell told Atticus.
"Somehow that thing is impervious to magic." Atticus said.
Cherry crawled slightly and fell on her face again randomly in the background.
"It was worth a try..." Drell sighed as he put his wand back.
The spacecraft started up ready to take off as Stitch was able to squeeze his body through the gaps of the container while Patch simply got himself out by breaking out, making a hole big enough for a puppy. Unfortunately, Darla and Lilo were stuck as Stitch and Patch were unknown to Gantu, blown off. Stitch and Patch held each other as they fell without the girls.
"No..." Nani said out of shock.
"Darla..." Urchin whispered, putting his hands to his eyes.
Stitch and Patch were dizzy from their landing as they tried to stand. As they wandered around, they were suddenly struck by a branch.
"Okay, talk..." Nani demanded, glaring to Stitch. "I know you had something to do with this... Where is Lilo?... Talk! I know you can..."
Stitch grunted, then tried to sort himself out. "Okay... Okay..." he then walked over.
Nani screamed and hit him again. Stitch groaned, feeling in slight pain.
"Where's Lilo?" Nani demanded.
"Okay, Nani, just calm down and we can explain." Patch said.
Nani screamed at Patch since he was a dog and talking to her.
"Yes, I know I'm a dog and I'm talking, it's all thanks to Puppy Power." Patch smiled.
Nani blinked, then shook her head. "Where's Lilo?"
Stitch sighed. "Lilo-"
Before he could explain, he was shot by a plasma ray instantly.
"Now all your washing is up!" Jumba called.
"Leave him alone!" Patch barked before biting Jumba.
"Go away!" Jumba glared at Patch as Stitch was cuffed.
"Hello, Galactic Command?" the one-eyed alien took out a communicator. "Experiment 626 is in custody. We'll wait right here."
Patch continued to fight Jumba and tried to free his friend. Jumba started to use Stitch as a weapon and used him to beat against the Dalmatian puppy. Nani looked over in slight alarm and stunned silence. Cherry's sneeze was heard and she sniffled noisily.
"Will you stop with the sneezing already!?" Drell scolded.
"I can't help it..." Cherry pouted as she sniffled.
Jumba stopped fighting Patch once he saw Nani looking at them. Cherry, Atticus, and Urchin were about to go forward, but Drell stood in front of them and gently pushed them back with his arms.
"Don't interact with her." the one-eyed alien whispered to Jumba, turning his back on the earth female.
Nani came to them. "Where's Lilo?" she asked in a gentle and broken tone.
"Who?" Jumba asked which made the one-eyed alien whack him. "What?!"
"Lilo... My sister..." Nani said, sounding like she was about to lose it.
"Uh... Sorry..." Jumba was still lost. "We do not know anyone by this, uh..."
"LILO!" Nani repeated, having a breakdown with her only living family left. "She's a little girl this big! She has black hair and brown eyes and she hangs around with that thing!" she then pointed sharply at Stitch which made him wince slightly.
"Oh..." Jumba realized then. "We know her..."
"Bring her back." Nani demanded.
"Oh, we can't do that," the one-eyed alien said to her. "Uh-Uh... That would be a misuse of Galactic resources..."
Jumba decided to break this down gently, even if he was loud and crude before. "See... Problem is... We're here just for him." he then added, referring to Stitch.
"So... She's gone?" Nani asked then.
"Along with Darla?" Urchin added in, heartbroken.
"The other little girl?" Jumba asked.
Urchin nodded.
"I'm sorry." Jumba said to confirm that question as true.
"Look at the bright side," the one-eyed alien said with a small shrug. "You won't have to yell at anyone anymore."
That didn't make either Nani or Urchin feel better at all.
"And you won't have to worry about her annoying you anymore." the one-eyed alien then said to Urchin.
Nani and Urchin both fell down to the ground and started to cry since Lilo and Darla were gone forever with no way to bring them back.
Jumba didn't want to be apart of this, he wanted to leave. "Come." he told the one-eyed alien and his creation.
Stitch started to follow behind them to go back home, but he looked at Nani, feeling bad for her since he knew Lilo too.
"O'hana." Stitch and Patch said, once the blue alien and Dalmatian puppy went over to them.
"Huh?" Nani looked up.
"Hey, get away from them!" Jumba scolded his creation as he lifted him right off the ground.
"No!" Urchin stopped him, then took Stitch out of his hold. "What did you say?"
"O'hana means family..." Stitch started. "Family means..."
"Nobody gets left behind." Stitch, Patch, and Nani said together then.
"Or forgotten." Patch concluded.
Jumba and the other alien glanced to each other in confusion of what that was supposed to mean. Patch and Stitch began to tell Jumba something in alien language.
"WHAT?!" Jumba nearly exploded. "After all you put me through, you expect me to help just like that?! JUST LIKE THAT?!"
"Yes..." Stitch and Patch nodded.
"Fine..." Jumba gave in and released Stitch from his cuffs.
"Fine?" the one-eyed alien gaped. "You're doing what they say?"
"Uh, they're very persuasive..." Jumba shrugged.
"Persuasive?!" the one-eyed alien asked. "What exactly are we doing?"
"Rescue." Jumba replied.
"We're going to get Lilo?" Nani asked, hopeful.
"And Darla?" Urchin added in.
"Ih." Stitch nodded his head with a smile.
"Not alone though..." Drell walked over, carrying his wand over his shoulder. "We need to get them back too."
"Who are you...?" Nani glanced at him.
"This is Drell, he's, uh..." Cherry said, unsure what to call him.
"My uncle." Atticus said quickly.
"Uncle?" Cherry and Drell looked to him.
Atticus made a gesture to 'just go with it'.
"Uhh... Right..." Drell said, then looked to the others. "Anyway, you can't do this alone, Darla is Atticus's little sister and we have to save Lulu too."
"Lilo." Nani corrected.
"Whatever..." Drell rolled his eyes. "Let's move, people!"
"Wait, Jumba have way of catching up to them, but we need way of getting to it." Jumba said.
"Need some muscle?" Drell asked.
"Yes, Jumba could use two Earth beings with muscles/strength." Jumba said.
"Know anyone we could ask...?" the one-eyed alien asked.
Drell looked to Atticus, both smirking to each other.
"I hate that look in his eye..." Cherry quietly said, but she was sure she wouldn't get hurt from Drell this time.
"You were referring to yourselves, weren't you?" The one-eyed alien asked.
"Trust me, you want us..." Drell said with a smirk. "I handle everything in my own will..."
"Getting to it then!" Jumba said.
"Tell us where to go." Drell requested.
Jumba began to tell them where they all needed to go and where the one-eyed alien introduced himself as Pleakley.
"Pleakley, huh?" Atticus asked.
"Yes, Agent Wendy Pleakley." the alien nodded.
Drell and Atticus looked to each other, then burst out laughing at his name.
"What!?" Pleakley glared at them. "It means 'brave warrior' on my home planet!"
"Uh-huh, sure." Drell smirked.
After a short while, they all went off to the direction of what Jumba was looking for on motorcycles.
"I never thought winning a radio contest would bring me to something like this..." Cherry said.
"Oh, did you really think you won out of dumb luck?" Drell looked back at her. "I don't think so! I brought you here myself!"
"But... I won a contest..." Cherry said.
"How do you think you won, you unlucky little monkey?" Drell smirked. "It was me the whole time!"
Cherry's jaw dropped.
"So, you did all of the work?" Atticus asked.
"Long story, I'll explain later!" Drell replied.
Urchin took out the hair bow he collected when he thought Darla was dead and hugged it as a tear rolled down his cheek.
"Don't worry, Urchin, we will get Lilo and Darla back." Atticus assured him.
"I hope so..." Urchin whispered, not even hiding his feelings for Darla this time.
Nani, Jumba, Pleakley, and Stitch rode a motorcycle while Drell offered his own way to bring Cherry, Atticus, Patch, and Urchin to where they wanted to go.
Once Drell and Atticus came to the spot, they started to help get a jet ship out of its trap with their combined strength. And where seeing the jet ship caused Stitch to get excited.
"What?" Jumba smiled as he took out the keys. "Did you think we walked here?"
"Hang on, Goldilocks..." Urchin whispered as he looked up to the sky. "We're comin'."
"I didn't think that human males were so strong." Pleakley said.
"Aww, isn't that cute, he thinks I'm a human..." Drell leaned in and whispered to Cherry with a smirk.
Cherry glanced at him with an estranged shrug and glance.