Chapter 6: Interrogation Methods -or- Give In?

SPACE -DR. HAMSTERVIEL'S SHIP-

For her first trip into space, Lani had to say she wasn't a fan. If it wasn't for the stars, Lani would have thought the space was just an empty void. Maybe it was the company she was forced to be with, or the handcuffs and hover pad she was held captive in. Still, Dr. Hamsterviel's ship wasn't where she thought she'd end up. Though everything around her gave her some type of idea, the ones that weren't for escaping were just pushed to the back of her mind. Sadly there didn't seem to be a way out, no matter what she thought up.

A bigger concern than her and Jumba's safety was Seam, which she couldn't help but think about. Maybe she'd coded more into her that Hamsterviel could use, she hoped not but Seam was already unpredictable. Had Gantu left her and Jumba alone, she would have worried more.

"I hope you're prepared for punishment," Gantu crossed his arms at them.

"Bring it on," Lani challenged him. "No matter what you do, I wont be intimidated by you or that guinea pig you work for. I'm not scared."

"I am not being afraid of torture, either," Jumba agreed with her. "Excepting maybe a little bit."

"Jumba!" Lani glared at him. "Don't give away anything!"

"Oh, he'll talk," Gantu was sure of it. "I'm certain Dr. Hamsterviel will find his 'little bit'."

Lani didn't doubt that, though she knew Jumba wouldn't give in too easily. Being from the future had its advantages, mostly in the fact that she didn't have to pay too much attention to the situation. Dr. Hamsterviel would enter the room, Jumba and he would go back and forth, Gantu and Dr. Hamsterviel would activate 625 and he would turn out to be a very lazy Stitch with a sandwhich addiction -which was sure to happen the way things were going. It was nothing she hadn't prepared for a thousand times over, so she knew what to expect from that.

The only thing Lani didn't know was the outcome of her own involvement, which could turn out to be a number of things. One thing she didn't expect was a drop of acid to fall right past her, seeping into everything below in the process. She looked up to see red fur in the vent, looks like she had some help. It took only a few seconds to realize who it was, adding the few seconds she took to hope he didn't get caught by her captors. The smallest of her two enemies wanted finally noticed her now, since he tried hard to gain her focus.

"You, you unfocused child with your not paying attention to me!" Dr. Hamsterviel made her turn her sight to him. "What are you doing here?!"

"So you're Dr. Jacques Von Hamsterwheel," Lani smiled to annoy him further.

"Hamsterviel!" the hamster-like alien stomped around. "It is Hamsterviel! You foolish whatever you are!"

"They call her species a 'human'," Gantu explained to his boss. "But this one is rather unusual."

"What are you trying to say, Gantu?" Lani stuck to her plan.

"Dr. Hamsterviel, this is the interesting part," Gantu caused Lani to glare at him. "Not only does she know exactly how to create experiments, she also has powers of her own."

"Really?" Dr. Hamsterviel smiled wickedly to her. "Is this true?"

"Humans don't have powers, especially not me," Lani laughed nervously. "I'm not even all that smart, I didn't know you guys were aliens. Where am I? This is the weirdest car I've ever been in. Not buying it?"

"No," Jumba, Dr. Hamsterviel and Gantu said together.

"Worth a shot," Lani had to shrug it off. "But I'm not helping you no matter what, not even if you activate that pod."

With Dr. Hamsterviel now asking about her powers, an escape plan may be harder to plan out. So she may as well get them out of the room, that way she could get some more help. That and she didn't want him asking her too many questions, one slip and Seam's existance would be in danger. 625 would at least be easier to handle, seeing as the only thing he'd do is lighten the tense mood in the room. Lani counted down in her head how long until 625 was activated, then how long until Dr. Hamsterviel got angry about it.

When the two villains took 625 away, Lani whistled for her aid to appear from hiding. Surprising Jumba stood 627, growling at the door that held the people who trapped his friends. Lani was glad she wasn't going on the recieving end of his rage, instead she focused on the red experiment.

"Kavi, this is the one time I'm happy you're being bad," Lani smiled to him. "Sneaking on to the ship? Genius!"

"Evil," 627 nodded with something that looked like a smile. "Evil?"

"Been meaning to take care of 627's language defect," Jumba mumbled under his breath. "627, please to be helping us escape."

"No, Kavi," Lani shook her head. "Jumba, we can't risk Hamsterviel knowing about him. Or 628 and Seam for that matter."

"Do you not want to be escaping?" Jumba glared at her.

"I do, but not if that walking hairball knows there's more powerful experiments," Lani explained. "Just wait, in thirty three seconds the phone will ring. Kavi, use you telekinesis to give the phone to Jumba and go back in the vents until Dr. Hamsterviel leaves."

"How are you knowing when phone will ring?" Jumba didn't believe her.

That is, he didn't believe her until the phone rang. Lani gestured through her cuffs for 627 to follow her plan, which he didn't object to since Lani managed to know what was going on a bit too well. Much more than she'd ever let them know, save for 628. So as the familiar scene played out, Lani sat back in the hover chair to watch it first hand. Dr. Hamsterviel walks in, he declares a ransome on the other experiments -at least the ones he funded Jumba to make. So it was then that Lani's eyes widened in shock, her involvement was really bad this time around.

Oringinally, there were six hundred and twenty three experiments left in the containment pod when Dr. Hamsterviel called. With Lani around, experiments 221, 621 and 624 were running around. She knew what would happen with 221, she was even certain that Angel would try to save her. 621 on the other hand, she didn't know what became of him. Last she saw of him, Stitch sent him away to the ocean. Who knows where he would have ended up, so she hoped he was found before Dr. Hamsterviel knew anything.

"Find him," Lani's thoughts went out to her o'hana. "Please find him."

"You!" Dr. Hamsterviel brought her attention to him.

"Oh what do you want now, you oversized tuft?" Lani glared at him. "I'm not going to do anything for you, no matter what."

"You...You can't talk to me like that!" Dr. Hamsterviel continued to yell. "I talk to you like that, you ignorant little..."

"Dr. Hamsterviel," Gantu tried to get his boss back on track.

"What?!" Dr. Hamsterviel snapped before remembering why he bothered with her. "Right, ahem. Gantu tells me you have made something, with my experiment formula."

"I don't know what you're talking about," Lani held her head high.

"Really?" Dr. Hamsterviel put on his skin crawling smile. "Does the word 'Seam' ring a bell?"

Lani gasped, the grouchy space fish told him. She didn't see this one coming, she thought it would take him at least until the ransome meeting. Now he knew as much as Gantu about her, so what he wanted from Lani couldn't be good.

"I'll make you a deal," Dr. Hamsterviel mantained his villainous grin. "You show me your abilities, and your precious experiment will not be harmed by my fishy minion here. It's your choice."

A/N: I just can't stop making chapters like these, their too much fun. Here I have Lani deciding whether or not to help the talking gerbil, and in Our Own O'hana I have Lilo deciding to go see Stitch or not. I wonder, what do you readers think they should do? I know where this is going, but its always good to get opinions on my own actions. Besides, a few of these choice chapters give me ideas for tangets -like Our Own O'hana and another one I have planned.

Next Time: The search is one for the two missing experiments, but will they surrender so easy to their hunters?