Chapter 11: For The O'hana -or- To The Rescue

"Wait, don't shoot!" Lilo shouted to the Grand Councilwoman's ship. "He has Stitch's cousins!"

"Ih, naga ah-qae jihad!" Stitch and Angel waved for them to stop.

"I'm sorry, but Dr. Hamsterwheel needs to be punished for his crimes," the Grand Councilwoman spoke from her ship's speaker.

"Its Hamsterviel, you absurd Grand Councilwoman with your large pointy collar!" Dr. Hamsterviel screamed to the head of the UGF.

"If you want to live, shut up," 628 glared at the small scientist.

"You can't shoot him with the pod container, it'll be too dangerous if you do!" Lani warned her. "Please, reconsider this!"

It was quite a sight, one that the two rogue experiments had a clear view of from a nearby powerline. As much as the Grand Councilwoman wanted to get rid of the hamster-like doctor, the extended Pelekai family wouldn't let that happen. Not while he had the pod container, which the yellow and green furred experiments both knew held the other experiments. The o'hana wouldn't let them suffer with Dr. Hamsterviel, even 221 was beginning to doubt running away.

Chopsuey staying as solid as stone with his choice, personally he could care less what happened to the other experiments. He wouldn't get anything out of helping them, so why should he care if they get blown into a pile of ash. The two voiced their opinions on it, neither giving in on making another choice. Chopsuey felt pity for 221 wanting to risk his life in such a foolish way as helping others, where 221 felt pity for Chopsuey wanting to run away. It seemed all they did was run, even far back when things began.

"We have no choice, 221," Chopsuey told him. "There's never been an experiment who would risk their life for another, that's just stupid."

221 was the one once again overpowered by the two guards, this time in a net that they shot at him. Instead of protecting 626, the tables were turned. With the new experiment's strength initiating, he picked up 221's trap and tore it away with his sub-set of arms. 626 stood in front of 221 and growled at the officers, who only took it as a challenge. They aimed their blasters at him, only to have 221 zip into the weapons. Once off, 626 proceeded to punch them in a sloppy mess of "combat".

As unstructured as it was, it gave 221 enough to work with as he joined in beating the foes. A combanation of the two was enough to send the guards running for a safe spot, though not enough to stop their commander from giving up the pursuit. 221 got himself and 626 out of there as fast as his streak would carry them, which wasn't fast enough to stop Jumba's blue ship from taking off. Making the sacrifice of his own safety, 221 threw 626 in just as the bay doors shut themselves.

The soldiers were making their way to him, so he could only zap himself into the vents to hide it out in the metallic corridors. He could retaliate, though it would due him little good against their suits. He was a sitting duck, waiting for the time he was captured to arrive. What 221 was unaware of is what happened inside the Small Blue Spacecraft. 626 stared at the door 221 gave up for him, curiosity getting the better of him to wonder why.

He needed to help him, this experiment proved to be very useful. Looking around, 626 saw what looked like an attack pod for the ship. He ran to it and shut the door, ignoring the knocks and shouts for him to leave the small room. It was easy to find the key in the overhead sun blocker, even easier to pilot the small cruiser back the the lab. 626 fiddled with the buttons as he tried to make sense of the functions, finding one that was especially helpful for his personal mission.

One button allowed him to view 221's heat signarure -along with the officers'- on and orange, ovular checkerboard. Another button allowed him to fire off a few shots into space, which caused him to grin as he aimed for the side of GDI.

"Meega nala kweesta?" 626 read the button to fire, liking the sound of the phrase. "Meega nala kweesta!"

As 626 fired, all of the air was sucked out of the building. The guards tried to grab anything they could to save themselves, though they ended up floating in space to await their fates. As for 221, -once he realized it was a rescue- he zapped himself into the passanger seat of 626's cruiser. 626 reapeated the new words to him, causing the electric experiment to laugh at the naughtiness. 221 even joined him in repeating those words in song, awaiting their own path when they returned to Jumba.

221 blinked away the memory, looking back at Chopsuey. He was wrong, 221 and Stitch were the first to stand up for each other. Now the experiment he watched grow was doing it again, for the cousins long forgotten.

"Couzinz," 221 made up his mind.

Sparky zapped away from Chopsuey, surging himself into the Councilwoman's ship's system to cut off their power. It was time to stop running and stand up, for Stitch if not for the experiments. With everyone was busy paying attention to the ship, Chopsuey decided to make his way for the SBS. At the same time, Dr. Hamsterviel took the distraction as his chance to take away his experiments. Though, it went less noticed once the thought of having Jumba and Lani back set in.

"Our little broken family is back together," Pleakley noted his happiness.

"I have family?" Jumba never thought of them that way.

"Of course you do, we're all o'hana," Lani reminded them.

"And you've got family too, we're getting those experiments back," Lilo turned to the experiments. "Come on!"

"Yeah/Ih/Let's go!" Stitch, Angel and 628 agreed with her.

Lani faultered in remembering that it wan't over quite yet, falling behind as the four of them -along with Sparky- jumped into Dr. Hamsterviel's ship as it took off. It would have been alright if they were on their own, maybe faster with 628 and Angel there to help. However, there was a small factor Lani forgot to pay attention to for a moment. 627's grip on Seam slipped when she bit him, allowing her to slip onto the hamster alien's ship with 627 forced into stopping her. Nani, Agent Bubbles and Lani called for the villain's ship to turn around, only to watch it head for the stars.

A/N: Beside for Lani's parts and Stitch's back story for this timeline, there isn't a whole lot of morphing that needed to be done here. This is still what leads up to what I have planned for the series, but this is almost calm in terms of events -I've noticed.

Important: I am going on a long vacation this summer, a road trip across the mainland states. So as a downside I won't be able to post for a while, since I have no idea when I'll be getting internet again. I'll write this message for Our Own O'hana too, but this is just to let you all know that from this point forward, you shouldn't expect my updates like they have been. So much for my consistancy this story, but I can promise that this story will be over before the summer. The series will just have to wait a bit after school starts, is all.

Next Time: With Lani held up, it's up to our smaller heroes to free the experiments.