Chapter 13
The mountain was huge, Sparky could be anywhere. Lilo and Stitch were looking for a sign of him. In actual fact Stitch had activated his infra red sensor and had his head outside the hovercraft looking over the mountain. While Lilo was thinking over what Nosey had said,
"Nosey said it wasn't his fault. That he was lonely and unhappy. Which means it's my fault for not seeing him. Maybe it wouldn't have happened if I was there with him. But I was too busy with Trilby. It's all my fault,"
"Ih," was all he said, need to work on his bedside manner she thought. Stitch was watching with infra red vision to find Sparky but there were so many animals showing up he couldn't trace him. However as he watched the ground he noticed a large figure. Looked like a huge fish. He was almost at the very peak of the mountain. He was carrying two small things, one in his arms and one on his back.
"Lilo Gantu look." He drove quickly up to the same level as the peak. Gantu was entering a building that looked like it was chair lift station- but had long since shut down.
"What is Gantu doing? I bet it is something evil! drive to that station Stitch."
"Ih," as he approached the station they heard they engaging sound of plasma cannons.
"Hold on!" Stitch shouted, he manoeuvred as innumerable balls of plasma. Fell past the craft. Stitch jerked the wheel, sending it into a spiral. A plasma blast singed an engine, sending it crashing down.
"Hold on!" Stitch grabbed Lilo opening the craft's lid. Leaping from the craft they fell toward the ground. The hovercraft was now battered, pieces fell from its body. Then it collided with a cannon. A loud explosion proceeded the crash. The cannon and the hovercraft- now mostly in pieces- fell down the mountain.
"I hope that doesn't hit anyone, come on Stitch lets go inside."
Throwing open the door Stitch exclaimed:
"Meeta hica!" (Get ready!)
There, standing in front of a large screen stood Gantu complete with blaster. Beside him stood the diminutive Rueben, complete with sandwich. Propped up against the far wall was Trilby looking indifferently at them. Connected to the wall was Jumba's computer. Behind them on the screen, their enemy Dr Hamsterviel stood, tapping at an invisible keyboard.
"Ahhhhh you are too late! Now zat I have zi Experiment material codes. Press zi button Gantu,"
"Right away sir. Now where did I put the remote?"
Stitch had already jumped toward them.
"Nice try, you little blue fur ball." A large plasma shot impacted by Stitch's feet the other plasma cannon had turned to fire at Stitch. He leapt, dived, dodged but the cannon kept firing.
"Ah hear it is," Gantu held up a remote with a single button.
"No!" Lilo shouted throwing a rock. It hit Gantu in the head, he dropped the remote. "Stitch!" Stitch dived for the remote.
"Sorry cus," Rueben grabbed the remote, the cannon fired continuously. each hit melting through the floor or wall it hit. The former chairlift station was small and had an open air plan- the roof was controlled by a lever at the computer. The roof was open at the moment allowing the cannon to shoot freely into the station.
"Lilo get the lever!" Stitch started weaving through more blasts. The floor had become pockmarked sunken holes meant they all had to watch their footing. It seemed the cannon was locked onto Stitch. Lilo leaped over the large depressions, as Stitch cart wheeled through the turmoil. The wall Trilby was leaning up against began to topple, the holes it had sustained from the cannon beginning to take effect.
"Help?" He shouted, and the wall fell dropping him down the mountain unto a small house below. Lilo had reached the lever as Gantu did.
"Oh no you don't," He stood in front of the lever.
"625 press zi button!"
"You could say please once in a while," and he pressed the button. A cacophonic noise reverberated from the station. The noise emanated from a massive disc- like speaker above the station roof. The experiments, Rueben and Stitch dropped to the floor writhing. Gantu became slightly delirious from the force of the sound, his size making him dizzy. Lilo was deafened, but not stunned she lunged for the lever pulling it down as Stitch fell. The roof severed the connection between the cannon and the being. Terminating itself.
Yes my plan has finally come to fruition. The words appeared on the screen. Soon all the experiments will be mine. The experiments cannot live in peace. The destruction only gets pent up. It grows inside them. Like a voice in the back of their head. The next time they are angry that voice takes over forcing them to do all the evil things they couldn't do before. We used experiment 221 as a test. We used the useless experiment 629 to get the genetic codes to produce this sonic wave. The sonic wave shall spread making every experiment angry, the voice shall take over them. They will be angry and destroy and when they are too exhausted to move. We shall collect them. But I'm sure you'll have enough trouble with 626 to be any more trouble to us.
Lilo looked at Stitch writhing on the floor. Gantu had picked up Rueben putting him in another capsule. He ran outside to a ship that was waiting. The screen turned off, the ship flew away and Lilo felt a strong helplessness settle over her. They would catch all the experiments. She hadn't even managed to save Sparky. They had played right into their hands. They had made Sparky angry which set him off. That wouldn't have happened if she had just done her job. She sat down next to Stitch. She lay against him, allowing his fur to embrace her. Without a ship it would take a day to walk back, by then they would have all the experiments. As her hearing returned she noticed that the station was filled with metal, motors, screws, bolts, a computer to provide schematics and advanced alien metal in the dish. She guessed that it was possible to build a hovercraft- if she had the remains of her old one, and a source of power.
She felt tingly, Through the hole in the wall rose a sparking experiment.
"Sparky!" she called but no. The dimensions were wrong. His head was too big and… the ovals. In his hands he carried another sparking experiment. They landed and Sparky- Trilby laid a reformed original Sparky.
"Oh hey, Sparky is out of energy he needs to recharge. I… uh… borrowed some of his powers. He grinned a wide grin. I found my power!"