Chapter 5: Try It This Way -or- The Lost Ones

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.

What a sight it was, as the rainbow of colored dots swirled around a yellow beam of light. Lilo wondered aloud how many there where, since Jumba never mentioned this before. Not knowing about the 625 pod's escape with Gantu -but knowing that 621, Stitch, Angel, 627 and 628 were activate-, Pleakley guessed that meant the container must have held the six hundred twenty-two. Even with that, Lilo wanted to know more. Mostly why Jumba would bring them to Earth, since there was basically no reason for it that she knew of.

"From what I've seen from the grey little monster, I'd say these pods are dehydrated for transfer," Pleakley tried to close the capsule. "If any of these pods get rehydrated, they'd turn into the other six hundred plus experiments. Each with its own unique and highly destructive capability! But I'm just guessing."

"You're smarter than you look," 628 'complimented' him. "621 told me a few stories of times a few of the other experiments were activate. They were not too happy to go, since they had to be shoved into a convertable dehydration chamber my creator invented."

"Maybe with more experiments, I bet we can rescue Jumba," Lilo was set with a plan forming in her head. "We could activate one and go back into space..."

"Meega naga think injibay isa el kiyotay," Angel shook her head as Pleakley went to put away the container.

"Why not?" Lilo asked her. "If we find the right one, it could fix the ships."

"I doubt they would," 628 sidded with Angel. "If they were to come back, they may not be so helpful. Being in a pod for a while can take its toll on anger management."

"Ih," Angel nodded with 628's reasoning. "Experiments nala, naga butifa."

"And they're highly unstable," Pleakley added when he chained up the foot locker. "They could create mass mayhem and planet-wide panic. So you must never -I repeat-, never open that container. Got it?"

"Got it," Lilo smiled innocently at him.

"Smish," Stitch bared his teeth in a smile.

Pleakley went to look at the ones who didn't say they understood, though it was unnessesary since Angel and 628 agreed with him. Seam sat back to observe the situation, feeling a need to worry about the experiment pods. As evil as they may be, she felt that there was a danger about them. From others harming them or by the reverse situation, Seam's programming was working to figure out who to protect. So she settled on guarding the pods, if they didn't get out then nothing could go wrong.

With that plan busted, Lilo asked Nani to do something once she explained the problem. Nani didn't think using plasma blasters would work this time, so she decided to call in back up to get Jumba back. Unfortunately for them, Cobra Bubbles was asleep.

"As for me, I'm going to make a few calls myself using my trusty Intergalactic Periwinkle Pages," Pleakley used the housephone from the other end. "There's only so many phones in the galaxy."

"And yet the book is as big as a cake," 628 crossed her arms. "There is no way this is going to work."

"Hello, Planet Aaaaaaaa?" Pleakley greeted the planet's leader. "Is Jumba there?"

"Do you know what time it is?!"

"Past midnight, but you don't have to be rude about it," Pleakley didn't understand what he'd done wrong.

With Nani and Pleakley busy, Lilo and Stitch went in the opposite direction as 628 and Angel to think of another idea. The girl and her best friend already knew what needed to be done, which is why they crossed their fingers when they promised to Pleakley. Seam was the only thing that stood in their way, which is why Lilo had to distract him. The only thing she could think of was using her laser pointer, though the got an interesting reaction when she accidently turned on the flashlight part of the tool. Seam's eyes went wide as she fell to the floor, fully petrified.

The weren't expecting that to happen, though it did give them a chance to get to the pod container. Stitch unlocked the whole chest, while Lilo got the bathtub ready for the experiment they chose. Stitch was closed to dumping in the whole capsule, had Lilo not stopped him. All they needed was one, preferably one who had electric powers to fix the Jumba's ship. Turning on the touch pad, Stitch went through a short list. He knew just the one to activate, one he was sure could help.

"EXPERIMENT 221," the pod container spoke. "PRIMARY FUNCTION, ELECRTICAL POWER SURGE."

"Ziz-ziz," Stitch grinned at the pod.

Many months ago, a swirl moved inside a fusion chamber in Galaxy Defense Industries. Once the experiment formed, he moved from a ball to reveal a tiny experiment. Looking up innocently, the new experiment saw many eyes on him.

"There it is," the large alien's evil laugh died down. "That's not so easy on my throat."

"You should take it easy, Jumba," a small, green, mohawked alien told him. "But I do admit this is exciting."

"He isa cute, and fluffy," a pink alien remarked about the blue being in the chamber.

"Where did I go wrong?!" Jumba screamed for his 'failure'.

What he had wanted was to create an unstoppable being of chaos and complete disorder, instead he had created a small fluffy baby. He was beyond furious at his failed attempt, failing himself for not giving his newest creation enough time for his programming to set in. The blue creature leaped at his creator, clawing at the glass to destroy the boundary. As the other aliens' calmed down over the shock, Jumba sighed with a slight chuckle.

"Oh, what a releaf," Jumba smiled. "621, check his readings."

"Right away," the green experiment typed away on the supercomputer.

"624, check on 234 and 316," Jumba ordered her.

"Ih, Jumba," the pink experiment walked away from the chamber.

"221, charge fusion chamber,"

"Ih," a yellow experiment came into view.

Beside the pink one -624, Jumba called her-, this experiment peaked the blue fluff-ball's interest. From the two he had seen, this one seemed to be the only one to do something amazing. The antennae on his head sparked electricity between them, which the yellow experiment used for the machine to power up. Jumba stepped to the other side of the chamber, turning the new creation's attention to him. The experiment wanted out of the chamber, not knowing what it was doing to him.

"Your name is 626, isn't that nice?" Jumba talked to the being like a child -which he technically was. "I know you want to be getting out and wreak some havoc, 626. But your molecules need to be charged, is most important part. But I have surprise for you, close your eyes."

The new experiment -626- did as his creator told him, however he felt a need to see what Jumba had in mind for a surprise. 221 noticed his action, laughing to himself at how naughty 626 was already being.

"Ah, no peaking," Jumba caught him. "He cheats already."

Forced to play by Jumba's rules, 626 had to close his eyes for Jumba to continue. Another thing that made 221 laugh, which took 626's attention back to the yellow experiment. With Jumba back, 626 marveled at his gift. It was a red space suit with a yellow triangle in the center. He wanted to try it on immidiately, but the chamber stopped him from getting far. He stopped trying when 624 came back into the room in a panic, with her a red, female weasle-like experiment with big ears with on antenna inside each and a speaker in her tail.

"624 and 234, what is problem?" Jumba asked recieving a knock at the door.

"Open up, Intergalactic Police!" a guard called to the evil genius.

Jumba, 221, 621 and 624 tried to get rid of everything, while this weasle experiment and 626 stood back in wonder. The doors bursted open, bringing in four officers holding blasters to the criminals.

"Dr. Jumba Jookiba, you're under arrest for illegal genetic experimentation," one of the soldiers told him.

"You idiots, you'll ruin everything!" Jumba yelled at them.

Already red lights were flashing, due to 626's molecules not charging with 221 held up. The electric experiment saw a curious look fall on 626, who didn't know how much trouble they were in.

"WARNING, ELCETROMAGNETIC BONDING INCOMPLETE," the computuer told them all.

"His molecules aren't fully charged!" Jumba yelled as two guard charged at him. "There is no telling what will happen."

The guards wouldn't listen, all except for one. This guard turned on the others, blasting them away from the scientist and the experiments. 621 and 624 ripped 626's fusion chamber right off the machine, not seeing one of the officers swing his covered tail at them. Falling over, the chamber rolled on the floor with 626 inside. Another solider jumped up to blast the experiment, until 221 jumped in front of 626's chamber and zapped the enemy.

Turning his attention to 626, 221 realized being in the chamber would do no good. So he smashed the container with his head, freeing 626 from the prison. 626 wasn't sure what was happening, though he did know to stay close to this experiment.

Stitch smiled at the memory of the yellow experiment, reminding him of a time when they got along. He pushed away the other memories, hoping 221 wouldn't be too upset he was dehydrated. Stitch dropped the pod into the tub, alowing a yellow sphere to shine above the water. With a flash, the yellow streak of living lightning laughed. The room grew dark, only the yellow experiment was able to bring in a blue light by his body's streak. Taking the house's power supply, he zipped away to find another power sorce to drain.

"Ziz-ziz lost," Stitch banged his head on the windowsill. "Jumba lost. Lani lost."

"You have a lot of lost issues," Lilo pointed out. "But if we can find 221, we can save Jumba. I'll get a flashlight."

"Hmm, el kiyotay!" Stitch laughed happily.

At least one of the experiments was happy, or a more genuine from of the emotion. 628 was getting angrier by the second, in Angel's perspective that is. The gravity experiment did all she could to repair the SBS, only finding it near impossible to do.

"Try as I might, I don't think the SBS is going to run anytime soon," 628 sighed in defeat.

"Gaba yuuga need it for, Jerudai?" Angel asked her.

"I figured if we had enough power, we could combine our supply with our creator's ship," 628 explained the options. "At the very least, our break-away cruisers would have been nice to use. Unfortunately we need a power source to charge up the systems."

Before Angel could make a suggestion, something bright came into their view. With their enhanced sight, they were only able to identify a streak of lightning heading towards them. With their advanced hearing, they were able to pick up laughter that was only recognized by Angel.

"Craba snaba!" Angel gasped. "Jerudai, isa Huzziuh Huzziuh Hakkiah."

"221?!" 628 was surprised at his arrival -to say the least. "It can't be, he was dehydrated!"

628's hands glowed as she stood with Angel, both ready for a sure fight with the experiment charging at them. Landing in front of them, 221's antennae flung a spark at them. They jumped out of the way, 628 stepping in to show him what she had to offer. Though -for the first time in 628's life-, her powers didn't hold up. 221 was confused for only a second, using the female experiments' surprise to his advantage. He didn't have a quarrel with them, what he wanted was inside the SBS.

221 trashed the place, stopping only when he found Stitch and Angel's suits -inside a yellow triangle and a white diamond respectively. He was going to take the engery, which could have been indiscribable with the upgrades Lani made. Though they didn't understand what he wanted with them, they wouldn't let him take the shapes. Angel threw him back outside with her own antennae and 628 kicked him away from the pads. 221 was ready to attack, had he not heard Lilo and Stitch running towards him. He flew away from the two, who watched their friends go after him.

"He went this way," Lilo called to Stitch.

"Maka maka!" Stitch ran ahead of her to the forest.

"They let 221 loose, didn't they?" 628 turned to Angel.

"Ih," Angel nodded.

"Well this cannot be good," 628 pinched her temple.

A/N: In bold was a look at Stitch's background in my timeline, which will continue on through my stories in bits. I still have to explain Lani, remember? Beside 621, Angel, 627 and G-Net, Stitch only has a past with four other experiments. Sparky, Morpholomew, Trainer and Shush. So there will be points where Stitch uses what he remembers from them to his advantage, but the rest of the experiments are fair game for him to try and figure out on his own.

Next Time: While things slowly fall apart in Kauai, it only gets worse in space.