Chapter 12: Set Them Free -or- Gone With A Price
"What do we do now?" Pleakley looked to the geniuses for an answer.
"We hope they can pull off another miracle," Agent Bubbles was the one who answered. "Its all we can do."
"Maybe, but things have gone a bit too off course for that," Lani spoke a little too loud that time. "I'm going after them."
"Sneaky girl, am not thinking is best choice," Jumba warned her. "Is impossible to even reach ship."
"I can take the SBS, it should get me there fast enough," Lani turned to see Chopsuey entering the ship. "Hey, 62...Chopsuey! You're going to help too?"
"No, why would I?" Chopsuey laughed at the comment. "I'm using this ship to go home."
"What about the Lilo?" Nani glared at the mohawked experiment. "She stood up for you, she let you go."
"Her mistake, not mine," Chopsuey chuckled again. "I'm just looking out for number one, which is me. 621, Chopsuey the Unstoppable!"
Chopsuey ran into the SBS and flew away, more so of a coward than Jumba described 625. Lani called out for him to return, getting angrier the more she tried. At the point when he left completely, Lani was finding it hard to keep a lid on her rage. She had a chance to go after him, however she was still concerned for her friend's safety. She shook her head at the SBS before putting her helmet back on. Her sights were set on Dr. Hamsterviel's ship, nothing and no one was going to stop her from reaching it.
"I wouldn't have a problem if something wasn't wrong with Seam," Lani confied in them. "If I can calm her down, consider that a miracle."
"Is no telling what could happen if you go," Jumba attempted to stop her again.
"No telling what could happen if I don't," Lani smirked beneath her mask. "I'll be back."
Shifting her own gravitational field, Lani went up in the same dirrection as the evil doctor's shuttle. Out of the rear-view mirror, Chopsuey could see her accend to space faster than any Earth rocket.
"Again with this, they still keep trying?" Chopsuey spoke to himself, trying to make sense of things. "Why do they care what happens to the other experiments so much? If they get loose and cause trouble, I'd say let 'em. Its the only thing successful they'd do."
As he clutched the steering wheel, his mind was brought back to what occured at Nicholas' house. He shook his head to repress the thought, ruturning back to his task before the memory forced itself back into his mind. He fought it as best he could, only finding it useless as the memory burrowed its way to his main thought. Chopsuey still couldn't believe how Nicholas stood up for him, even more that Seam protected Nicholas. Looking back at Lani one last time, he slammed the top half of his body on the wheel.
"I must be out of my mind," Chopsuey grumbled to himself.
SPACE -DR. HAMSTERVIEL'S SHIP-
"You stupid trogs, you're out of your minds!" Gantu yelled trying to chase Stitch.
"Meega nala kweesta," Stitch blew a raspberry at him.
Dr. Hamsterviel was furious watching the sight, Gantu being made a fool of by a little girl and her experiments. Just as he was about to unleash the experiments too, again standing in his way of controlling the universe. The four do-gooders were tossing the pod container amongst themselves, keeping it away from Gantu despite the close calls. Stitch was mostly in possesion of the metal sphere, he had something planned for his cousins that couldn't wait. Gantu catching up with him forced him to give it up to his friends, who were happy to keep Gantu busy.
"I see how it would appear that way," 628 used her power to pass it to Angel. "But trust me, we know what we're doing."
"Ih, yuuga naga take matyrs," Angel moved the container between her antennae. "Dinko te fabba."
"I am not fat," Gantu followed the pod container to Lilo. "Hand them over."
"You want it?" Lilo taunted him. "Catch."
Lilo faked throwing it capsule, which Gantu fell for as he sharply turned around. Looking back, he saw she had passed it to Stitch again. Having had all he could take, Gantu took out his net blaster to stop their games. Stitch managed to catch the net and used it as a whip, a rather useful one considering he knocked away the blaster. Gantu was going to storm up to him, only to be stopped by the sound out the alarms. They were warning him the window was open, which was caused by Lilo while he wasn't looking.
Lilo signalled to the experiments to give her the pod container, which they were glad to do. 628 kept her power focused on the girl, making sure she didn't get sucked into the void of space. Stitch passed over the container to Angel, who threw it up to Lilo's position.
"Be free, cousins!" Lilo threw her arms back.
Using all her power, she flung the capsule out the window. Gantu was surprising fast for someone his size, since he was quick to grab it before it went too far out. This caused the smaller creatures in the room to sigh in disapointment, save for Dr. Hamsterviel who cheered.
"Now what do we do?" Lilo asked her friends.
Despite Gantu's current success, Stitch had a wide and mischievous grin on his face. He snapped his fingers just like he'd done with the chained footlocker, letting them in on what he was up to. They looked out another window, watching all the experiment pods fall out of the container. Dr. Hamsterviel's smile fell into a scowl, his clapping hands balling into fists. Once again his henchman had failed a simple task, leaving him without his army of dangerous experiments.
"Impossible!" Dr. Hamsterviel's stomped like a child. "No, no, no!"
"We did it, we did it," Lilo, Stitch and Angel cheered.
"Oh no, what have you done," 628 earned a confused look from all of them. "This is bad, so very bad. Do you have any idea what you've just done, 626?"
"We save cousins, isa butifa," Stitch laughed at the accomplishment.
"Oh sure, you'd see it that way," 628 shook her head with a sigh. "You've just released six hundred and twenty three of the most dangerous creatures in the galaxy!"
"Khalifaud hundred huznet-huzziuh," Angel corrected her.
"Whatever!" 628 pulled her antenna. "If those pods get wet, they'll activate! And from what I've seen, Kauai is one of the wettest spots on Earth!"
Dr. Hamsterviel's mood changed as he though that over, six hundred twenty two experiments running loose and causing mayhem. It was like a test run, to make sure the experiments were evil enough to help him seize the Galactic Council. With an evil chuckle he ordered Gantu to detain them, he could deal with them before he checked on his property. A modified version of his plan was already forming, with everything he needed right in front of him. Those who opposed him, the experiments, even the Grand Councilwoman. Now, Dr. Hamsterviel had won.
It was easier for Gantu to catch them this time, 628 had brought them down enough for them not to struggle. With Dr. Hamsterviel's command in mind, Gantu placed them into cells just their size. He sneered before making his exit, although something made him look back once before he departed. At the pit of his stomache, he felt something he hadn't felt in a while for any living creature. Not since his brother's recent actions or a long time before then, though only when remembering the words Lani had told him.
Gantu felt guilt, small as it was it was there. As much as he might have wanted to, he had a job to do. Getting rid of them would put him, at least that's what he thought. So he continued on his way -shaking his head clear of his emotion-, while Lilo and the experiments settled into theirs.
"That didn't exactly work out," Lilo knew where they went wrong.
"Really, I never would have guessed," 628 sighed in slight anger at herself.
"But at least we saved all the cousins," Lilo looked to a positive.
"Yeah/Ih," Stitch and Angel nodded their heads.
"I suppose that's a worthy consolation," 628 only shrugged.
"Maybe Jumba and Pleakley and Nani and David will find them a nice home," Lilo hoped for the best.
"Isa possible," Angel slightly doubted it in her mind.
"Don't be scared, guys," Lilo told them. "I'll figure out a way to rescue you
"Graazi/Of course you will," Angel and 628 encouraged her.
"Nobody gets left behind," Lilo shed a small tear.
"Or forgotten," Stitch spoke up.
628 rolled her eyes at the thought, not being left behind or forgotten. It was ironic in the fact that Stitch said it, since he'd done a lot of it in the past. The experiments were proof of that, she was proof of that. As good a thought as it was, she hoped -for Lani's sake- that they were forgotten.
"You'd be better off without us," 628 dropped her head in failure. "Sorry, Strange."
A/N: Originally the ending of the chapter was going to be a bit more sarcastic on G-Net's part, but I needed this to mirror the scene in the movie so I switched it up to her being only a little bit of a snark. With summer halfway done, I say I'd be finished before school.
Next Time: With things going in favor of Dr. Hamsterviel, things begin to look bad for Lilo, Stitch, Angel and 628 -even with their rescue party arriving.