Chapter 4: Kha Araimi Shol O'hana -or- Lost Minds
As the three female experiments walked inside the red ship, they were surprised to see the room completely empty. Which meant that Lani had woken up and walked out, something 628 didn't want the sleep-deprived girl to do. On the upside, catching up to her was going to go much quicker with Seam there, hopefully she had a good tracking sense along with her abilities. Not that they would find out, as Seam's short ears stretched out their farthest length as she listened at the ship's door.
"Gaba isa it, Seam?" Angel asked her.
"Tsal pams pxel sa'nu lu mì hrrap!" Seam's eyes widened.
"I hope you realize we can't understand a word of that," 628 sighed.
"Sa'nu lu mì hrrap!" Seam glared at her. "Sa'nu lu mì hrrap! Sa'nu lu mì hrrap! Kem si nga tslam?!"
"Sorry, Alpha," 628 shook her head. "Still didn't catch that."
Seam was in too much of a hurry to persist further, so she decided to run out and hopes that they'd follow her. They had no choice but to, they were responsible for the technical baby until they found Lani. Seam could hear her getting closer with every step, as well as the struggling of someone else. Arriving at the edge of a clearing, the three of them could see a ship the two older experiments recognized eerily well. Both of them held on to Seam as she attempted to run out there to the ship, trying to come to terms with the owner of the cruiser's presence.
When it looked like Seam was at her limit in waiting, Gantu walked back to the ship which caused her to examine the current threat. The information the three picked up was the sight of the two geniuses, each in a containment pod of their own. So Seam ran off, determined to get help.
"I am telling you, I am not knowing where other experiments are," Jumba insisted to the giant.
"Give it up already, he knows you have them," Lani sighed. "At least he won't catch Seam. It'd be better if she didn't get involved in this."
"Are you two done?" Gantu smiled to them. "If not, we can talk on the trip."
"How about we don't tell you anything?" Lani crossed her arms in a defiant grin.
"I know you both know where those experiments are!" Gantu smashed his fist against the side of the ship.
"Hey!" 628 stepped into the clearing. "Nobody yells at her but me!"
"628!" Jumba and Lani cheered.
"We're saved!" Lani told Jumba.
628 tried to lift Gantu, only for him not to move an inch. 628 couldn't understand it, her powers were working right since the last time she checked. Her confusion gave Gantu enough time to shoot Angel and 628 with a cannon, encasing them in an unbreakable net.
"We're not saved," Lani's smile dropped.
"Like my suit's upgrades, 628?" Gantu gloated. "Standard issue, courtasy of Dr. Hamsterviel. I didn't get to use it when the gravity girl surprised me, but what better time than against someone who actually poses a threat."
"Next time, shark bait," Lani raised her fist at him. "Next time I'll be ready."
"I think I'd rather face your own experiment," Gantu challanged with a laugh. "Dr. Hamsterviel's going to be excited to hear about it."
"If you touch a hair or scale on my daughter, I'll..."
A blue heat bolt interrupted Lani, causing her and Gantu to look to the sorce of the shot. Seam growled at Gantu, with Lilo and Stitch running up behind her. Stitch stayed with Seam to fight Gantu, while Lilo ran over to untie 628 and Angel.
"So this is the little trog you call Seam," Gantu smiled a smile that enraged Lani.
"I swear Gantu!" Lani punched at the glass before turning to Seam. "Seam, go. We'll be fine."
"Kehe!" Seam shook her head. "Sa'nu lu mì hrrap! Oe tìhawnu si sa'nu!"
"Velek, swirä," Gantu surprised Lani with his Na'vi speach. "Nga tsun kem si ke'u tsonta zong Lani ftxey Jumba."
"Rä'ä lu tìng mikyuning tsonta Gantu, hì'i 'aw," Jumba told the experiment in her native tongue.
Seam nodded at Jumba, firing another heat bolt at Gantu. The ex-captain jumped out of the way into the ship, where he ran to the controls to fly out of there. Stitch extended his hidden limbs and grabbed onto the wing of the ship, anchoring Gantu for just those few extra moments Lilo spent freeing Angel and 628. If 628 got ahold of the ship, Gantu would be stuck there. So just before she could catch him, he set the rockets to directly burn Stitch. The freed Gantu crashed into a tree once before heading for space, leaving them in the darkness of the island.
"Jumba! Lani!" Lilo, Stitch, 628 and Angel called after the ship.
"Sa'nu," Seam said with tears beginning to form.
"What are we going to do," Lilo asked them.
The Jumba-created experiments nodded to each other, sure of what they had to do. Stitch ran for Jumba's ship with Lilo following behind him, while Angel and 628 brought Seam to the SBS. Upon entering, Seam went to lay down on a bed where Lani's scent was the strongest. Angel pat her head, also saddened by the loss of her friend. 628 greived in a different way, with urgent movements guiding her to activate the ship for take off. Catching up with Stitch in space, Angel took her cruiser out to aid them in the fight.
Stitch fired at Gantu wrecklessly, most likely from the combination of coconut cake and coffee he ate at breakfast. 628 and Angel were no where near on the same page as each other, proving to rattle up Gantu's ship to toss Jumba and Lani around.
"624, 626 and 628, please to be sharper with the shooting!" Jumba called to them.
"Yeah, Stitch!" Lani held her head and the side of the capsule. "I'm getting dizzy here!"
The experiments behind the wheels seemed a bit more determined, even managing to hit Gantu's ship in crutial spots. A few more hits and it would be out of commision, so Gantu decided to return the fire he received. Dodging each of the electric shots took much more work than 628 imagined they would, each one getting that little bit too close for her comfort once Angel's cruiser returned. As if planned, Gantu managed to hit them ending with 628. The grey experiment started to realize where she was, panicking with Seam behind her to watch.
628 had no problem with space when she was behind he wheel of a spaceship, it made her feel in control. Now that the systems were knocked out, 628 no longer had that surperiority over her fear. Seam and Angel looked worried for her, almost missing Gantu activate his hyperdrive. The force was enough to knock the two ships back to Earth, so Angel took control of the ship to land it safely. With the power down, Seam smashed open the door and ran to Lilo and Stitch.
Seam observed them getting hit by Gantu too, her primary function distracting her from Lani's current danger for only a moment. Thankfully both Lilo and Stitch were alright, so Seam's mind went right back to worrying about her kiddnapped mother.
"It could be worst," Lilo said optimistically. "At least it's raining."
Sure as rain, it began to rain. Angel, Seam and 628 got the raw end of it, having stood outside. The female experiments jumped inside the ship, Angel and Seam shaking their fur clear of water.
"Yuuga were saying?" Angel narrowed her eyes at her.
"Let's just go back to the house," Lilo told them.
Walking into the house soaked, Lilo had to explain to David why she was out. In turn, he told her that Nani had gone out to search for her. Picking up on the fact the Stitch and the other experiments weren't in the room, David directed her upstairs. In Lilo's old room, Stitch opened up a footlocker the experiment believed held Pleakley. Pleakley breathed for air, Lilo seeing something in his hands. He placed it on a desk, Stitch now wanting to open the capsule. When he pressed the touch pad, they all stood in amazement at the sight.
More Experiment pods.
A/N: I didn't want to put Nani's initial freak out over Lilo being gone because it came down to an extremely mean moment no matter what I did with it. Where David would try to rationalize it as Lilo playing with her new friends, Nani would have to ask him what friends. Which would make sense to ask -if you don't count Lani, Jumba, Pleakley or the experiments-, but it was a bit too harsh for Nani to think. So when I rewrote the scene, it changed to her just slapping him for his stupidity but still wondering which friends he's reffering to. My older brother and I got a laugh out of it, but it just had to go.
Next Time: With Jumba and Lani gone, everyone has their own idea of how to get them back.