Hey, guys! Welcome to the new chapter of Hilda and Stitch! I hope that you guys will enjoy the chapter...anyway, I don't own anything, except for my OC'S. Also, credit to drakin6345 for the creation of his OC Roland Trenton and Amun.
NOW LET'S GET ON WITH THE STORY!
~{Hilda and Stitch: Season 1-Episode 3: The Troll Rock}~
It was a normal tranquil day in Trollberg as we see Hilda, Stitch, and the gang having a small dinner in their apartment home as Pleakley was regaling them on one of his Galactic Federation Missions where he visited a small planet named Kremoz, where it had the most beautiful skies, jungles, and wildlife that they could ever imagine as Jumba looks bored by the story while Hilda, Alfur, and Joanna, however, looked truly fascinated by what he was saying as they listened on curiously as Stitch was watching a movie in the living room with Twig resting on his lap as the young Experiment was petting him. Unknown to the family, however, trouble was brewing near the Trollberg Giant Walls as we see the large boulder from the last chapter resting on the ground, but once the sun had completely disappeared and was replaced with the moon, big cracks began appearing all over the giant rock as it suddenly sprang into life and opened her pair of glowing white eyes as she growled and stood up from the floor, revealing her full form as it turned out that the boulder wasn't really a boulder at all but instead was actually a real female Troll!
Dusting off the small granite covering all over her body, the Troll looked around confusedly as she seems to be frantically/nervously looking for something but couldn't find it as the Troll whimpered worriedly before remembering what was going on as she grew somber and sighs sadly as the Troll turned her head and her eyes widen at the sight of the Trollberg Wall as she then narrowed her eyes angrily and began making her way over to the wall as the Troll started raining numerous strong punches at the wall, but no matter how hard she tried, the Troll couldn't even make a crack on it as the walls were too sturdy and impenetrable for her to punch through with brute force. Growling in frustration/sadness, the Troll placed her head on the wall as she looks down, and small tears rained down from her eyes as she whimpered, but then her eyes widen in surprise as she noticed a small Vittra Tunnel placed near her and quickly make her way over to it as the Troll looked down at the tunnel with a firm, determined look on her face as she began digging through the tunnel. Expanding it a bit to be big enough for her to fit through as, while it took two nights to dig through the tunnel due to the sun coming up and encountering a group of Vittra, including a screaming and panicking Nigel, the Troll was able to successfully dig her way through into the inside of Trollberg just as it started raining heavily as the Troll punched her fist through the ground before doing the same thing with her other fist as she placed her hands on the ground and was able to pull herself out of the ground as the Troll looks around the city of Trollberg and narrowed her eyes as she growled in fierce determination.
"Oh, this is going to be a lovely night, Hilda," Joanna says to her daughter joyfully while wearing a red fur coat over her usual outfit as we see the young woman, her daughter, Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, Roland, and Amun making their way towards Hilda's school, 'The Edmund Ahlberg Elementary School', to attend a Parent-Teacher Conference as, if it wasn't obvious enough, Joanna was really excited about. "This is going to be our very first Paren-Teacher Conference! Aah, I'm so excited!" Joanna beams as Roland turned over to give her an amused look.
"Yeah, I can see," Roland says teasingly while wearing a dark blue jacket over a white T-shirt, his signature red baseball cap that he was wearing backwards today, black jeans, and black/white sneakers. "Although, I am kind of surprised that you will be excited about this kind of thing. Most parents see this event as something tedious or boring to go through." Roland says, causing Joanna to blush a bit in embarrassment as she laughed nervously.
"Yeah, I know, but I can't help myself. Hilda has been going to school for a while now, and this is our first Parent-Teacher Conference together, so I can't wait to see how well my baby girl is doing in school." Joanna says while bending down to hug Hilda as she smushes her cheek against hers.
"Muuuuuuuuuuuuum, not in front of the others! And besides, we're in public, people will see!" A blushing and embarrassed Hilda whines while glaring at a laughing and chuckling Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, and Roland as Hilda was wearing her school uniform, which consisted of a dirty-yellow colored sweater with a white insignia on the left side of her chest, a white-collard shirt underneath, a red necktie, a dark grey skirt with black leggings, and light gray rainboots.
"Fine, fine, I'll stop," Joannah says while rolling her eyes playfully as she lets go of her daughter...before suddenly leaning down to kiss Hilda on her cheek as the blue-haired girl groans in annoyance and wiped away her kiss with her sleeve as Joanna stood up and giggled at this, only to then noticed that something was standing beside Jumba as she turned over to gave him an irritated frown. "Brother, did you really have to bring that to the Parent-Teacher Conference?" Joanna asked Jumba deadpannedly while pointing at what seems to be a 3-feet-tall, humanoid male-programmed robot with two magnifying-shaped eyes that are completely black like glasses, a bald shiny head with a small antenna planted on the top, a tube-shaped silver nose, robotic straight teeth that lights up every time he talks, two human-like tube-shaped arms with four long-fingered hands and a thumb, a glowing blue orb planted on his chest as it was protected by a reinforced secure glass shield, four extra mechanical limbs planted onto his back, was covered in reinforced and strong silver metal of unknown origin, and tube-shaped human-like legs with square-shaped feet. His name is Helper-X9, Jumba's new Android Assistant.
"Well, Jumba's Little Sister, Jumba did have to bring that to the Paren-Teacher Conference because Jumba wanted to show off the new Android Assistant that Jumba had assembled a few days ago after buying a robot kit from a random company that Jumba had found on Earth's primitive computer website," Jumba explains with a grin while wearing his Earth Disguise, which consists of a black fedora, two pairs of glasses to cover his eyes, a navy blue jean jacket with a green T-shirt underneath, a red/white striped scarf, cream-colored slacks, and no shoes.
"Ugh, fine, just promise me that you won't go overboard and accidentally have the robot thingy destroy the school or something." An exasperated Joannah pleaded as Pleakley popped up while wearing his Earth Disguise, which consists of a deep red wool peacoat with a hot pink T-shirt underneath, a light pink sunhat, magenta pants, and three black high heels shoes. Pleakley was also wearing a long curly afro-shaped blonde wig with a touch of blue eye shadow and red lipstick as the octopus-like alien was holding onto a small magenta purse that Joanna had bought him.
"Don't worry, Joanna, I will keep my husband in line," Pleakley says to Joanna reassuringly, causing the young woman to sigh in relief as she smiled and nodded as the group walked over to Hilda's school and saw a bald-headed, stout man currently standing on top of a ladder and was brushing away the leaves that were covering a small white banner that was hanging near the entrance of the school as it has small stars on it and had the words 'Welcome Parents!' written on it.
The man is a 6-feet-tall, 42-year-old male with large and expressive black eyes, large gray eyebrows, fluffy curly gray hair with two tufts of gray hair placed on each side of his head and has a bold spot, wrinkles on his face, a big nose, a gray bushy mustache with a gray beard, a stout, plump body, Caucasian skin, and his outfit consists of a dark gray opened jacket with a dirty yellow colored sweater underneath, a white-colored shirt underneath, a red tie, black jeans, and dark gray shoes. His name is Augustus Magnusson, the principal of Edmund Ahlberg Elementary School.
"Ha! Welcome to the Parent-Teacher Conference Night! I'm Principal Magnusson!" Agustus greeted the group cheerfully as Joannah and Roland shared confused but amused looks while Hilda and Stitch giggled as Jumba and Pleakley smiled at the man awkwardly as Amun simply blinked at the middle-aged blankly and belch out a small stream of fire from out of his beak.
"Oh, uh, thank you...oh, and, I don't know if this is against the rules, but I was wondering if my daughter, Hilda, and I can bring in the rest of our little family and our nice neighbor. They were pretty excited to come here to see how Hilda is doing in school." Joanna says with a smile with Roland, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley nodding in agreement as Agustus beamed.
"Oh, sure, bring them along! I don't mind! The more, the merrier! Oh, and make sure that you, your daughter, and the rest of your group stay for our grand finale!" Augustus exclaimed before he began mimicking the sound of a drum and, for some weird reason, started beatboxing, as well, as everyone couldn't help but stare at this awkwardly with massive sweatdrops on their heads.
"Hilda, what he doing?" Stitch whispered-asked Hilda curiously while wearing a blue/white striped scarf as the blue-haired little girl shrugged in confusion due to never seeing someone beatbox before.
"Don't know, maybe, he's having a stroke?"
"Hilda!" Joannah and even Roland hissed at her scoldingly with Joanna swatting her arm as Hilda winces and smiles at them sheepishly as she mumbled an apology under her breath just as Augustus finished doing...his thing as he spread out his arms with a big smile on his face.
"A dedication ceremony for our new statue!" Augustus says while pointing at a nearby statue of a mustached, curly-haired individual wearing old fashioned clothes, complete with a cape and a sword, as he had his foot planted on top of the frozen decapitated head of a screaming and terrified Troll, which extremely creeped out and disturbed Hilda, Roland, and Amun greatly while Joanna, Jumba, and Pleakley didn't look that bothered by it as the only one that seemed to really love the statue was Stitch, who giggles in delight by the sight of it as he blew a raspberry at the head of the Troll. "This statue is for our city's great founders and hero, Edmund 'The Troll Slayer' Ahlberg!" Augustus says while turning around to salute the statue with proud teary eyes as Hilda, however, didn't look moved by the story at all and even looked greatly disgusted by what he says as she grimaces, and Roland sees this as he bends down to her eye-level to talk with her.
"What's wrong, little blue?" Roland asked as Hilda gave him a side-eye by the new nickname that he gave her but decided not to say anything as she gave him a troubled look.
"Oh, I don't know, it's just that, I don't think I like to see a statue of a man decapitating a Troll every day. It's very...disturbing." Hilda says while shifting around nervously as Roland smiled warmly and nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, I don't like it either, you know how close I am to the Magical World, so to see this statue of a man killing a Troll doesn't sit right with me, anyway, let's try to forget about this for now and get some of those scones that I heard so much about from Joanna." Roland says while standing up as Hilda beamed and giggled.
"Sure! Come on, Stitch, let's go!" Hilda says to her friend, who perked up at hearing the word 'scones' as he nodded excitedly, and the Human/Alien duo ran inside of the school while giggling/chuckling as they did so as the rest of the adults followed them inside.
"Hey, thanks for cheering up Hilda. She hates it whenever we hear about people killing magical creatures, so thanks for the distraction." Joanna whispers to Roland gratefully as he turned over to wink at her.
"Anytime," Roland says while holding out his arm as Joanna giggled and hooked her arm around his as they walked inside of the building.
"Alright, guys, this is my nature collection: Nittens," Hilda says, proudly showing off her school project, which was a small jar filled with the Nittens that were birthed on Hilda's hair a couple of months ago, as we see the group standing in one of the rooms of the school, where the Parent-Teacher Conference was held as various teachers were talking with several parents while other parents were taking a look at their children's school project as others were merely mingling among themselves.
"Oh, cute," Rolland commented while eating a scone as the rest of the boys were doing the same thing with Stitch even eating from a bowl full of scones that he stole earlier.
"Weird, I could've sworn I picked these out of your hair myself," Joanna says while scratching her head in confusion as she stared at the jar filled with Nittens suspiciously.
"Oh, you did," Hilda says with a smile as Joanna raised an eyebrow at her daughter.
"Didn't I tell you and Stitch to bring them back to their mother?"
"Oh, we did. A while back before we moved into Trollberg, in fact. I needed to have a school project, and, originally, I was going to use Stitch as my class project, but I decided against it due to not wanting people to find out that Stitch is an alien." Hilda whispered the last part to Joanna's ears so that Roland won't hear her. "So, I had Uncle Jumba and Aunt Pleakley drive me and Stitch back to the woods so that I can ask the pet's owner if I could use her Nittens for my school project, and he agreed. He even made me the Nittens Godmother due to them being born on my head and all." Hilda says with a giggle as Joanna rolled her eyes amusedly while giving a confused Jumba, Pleakley, and Roland a look that reads 'I'll explain later'.
"Fine, just bring them back to the woods once you're done with them and make sure to feed and play with them," Joanna says as Hilda nodded with a big smile on her face.
"Sure, I was planning on doing that anyway," Hilda says as Joannah nodded in satisfaction just as the group noticed that they have received some curious stares from several people due to Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley's strange appearances, Amun, and especially Helper-X9 as the bald evil genius beamed and chuckled as he rubbed his hands.
"Well, Jumba thinks that it's time to impress some of these small-minded humans. Let's go, X9."
"Okay, master." Helper X9 says obediently as Jumba smirked and straightened out his jacket as he walked forwards with his Android Assistant following after him as Joanna watched them go worriedly.
"Don't worry, I will keep an eye on them." Pleakley says reassuringly as he followed after his 'husband'.
"I'm sure that everything will be alright with them, Mum," Hilda says, trying to calm down her mother, who whimpered but nodded as a beaming Hilda spread out her hand to gesture at all of the other student projects around them. "Anyway, since no one else has ever even seen Nittens, I'm a shooing to win. Although, David's Rock Collection is very impressive." Hilda says while pointing at David's Rock Collection Project as, judging by the tone of her voice, she wasn't really sounding sarcastic and sincerely thinks that David's project might be better than hers.
"Oh, great job, son." David's Dad says proudly while appearing beside a smiling David with his wife standing beside him as they smiled down at their son. David's Dad is a 6'2-feet-tall, 36-year-old man with black eyes, yellow eyebrows, spiked upwards styled blonde hair, a large blonde beard that extends across his face, a big nose, a sharp chin, a lean slim built, Caucasian skin, and his outfit consisting of a brown jacket with a white shirt underneath that has red sleeves, dark blue pants, and gray shoes. His name is Gabriel. "That box is filled right to the brim with rocks," Gabriel says, and he wasn't lying as David does have an impressive collection of multi-shaped rocks and such, including the rock that he found near the Trollberg Walls as it rested on top of the pile peacefully.
"Oh, sweetie, this is the best work you've ever done yet!" David's Mum says as she hugs her son and kisses his forehead. David's Mum is a 5'6-feet-tall, 35-year-old woman with black eyes, small black eyebrows, long light brown hair that was tied up into a short ponytail, a small nose, a sharp chin, a slim hourglass figure, Caucasian skin, and her outfit consists of a pair of large circular glasses, a red blouse, light blue pants, and white shoes. Her name is Amy.
"Thanks, Mum," David says with a beaming smile while wearing his school uniform, which consisted of a dirty-yellow colored sweater with a white insignia on the left side of his chest, a white-collard shirt underneath, a red necktie, black shorts, light gray socks, and black shoes with white laces. "Oh, hey, Hilda! Hey, Stitch!" David says, after spotting his friends as he waved at them gleefully, and Hilda and Stitch waved back at him cheerfully as Joanna couldn't help but smile at this warmly as she bends down to place her hand on Hilda's shoulder.
"I'm so proud of you, Hilda. I know that you were nervous about going to school, but it seems like you're adapting very well."
"Thanks, Mum, I try," Hilda says bashfully with a little smile on her face as a smiling Stitch went over to rub his head against her sides, causing her to giggle as Hilda pets his hair. "Of course, it helps to have Stitch, Frida, and David around."
"Hilda, Stitch, there you are!"
"And speak of the devil," Hilda says amusedly as she and the others turned around as they saw a smiling Frida running over to them while wearing her school uniform, which consisted of a dirty-yellow colored sweater with a white insignia on the left side of his chest, a white-collard shirt underneath, a red necktie, black trousers, and white shoes.
"When you guys were three minutes late, I was afraid you two weren't coming. Come and see my project."
"He, he, okay!" Hilda beams with Stitch nodding in agreement as an excited Frida grabbed onto her friends' hands and ran off with the adults watching them go with warmth, and in Joanna's case, teary eyes as Roland sees this and was quick to react as he places his hand on her shoulder.
"I will go and grab you a tissue," Roland says as Joanna smiles at him gratefully and nods as Roland walks off with Amun following after him to get more snacks as the young woman turned back to stare at her daughter interacting with her friends tearfully as she smiles contently.
"They grow up so fast, don't they?" A familiar voice says as Joanna nodded with a giggle.
"Heh, yeah, it feels like it was only yesterday where Martin and I were teaching Hilda how to walk, and now look at her? She grew up so fas-Wait a minute." Joanna says with a nostalgic smile before blinking in confusion as she looks down at the source of the voice and gasped in surprise as Joanna saw Alfur hiding in her purse. "Alfur?"
"Yep, and don't worry, now that you can see me, I'll keep you company when Hilda and Stich are off with their friends or when the others are gone. See? All that paperwork was worth it." Alfur says with a teasing, playful smirk as Joanna's eyes dart around and, once she noticed that no one was looking at her, Joanna backed up against Hilda's project table as she places her purse on it and took out her phone so that she can talk to Alfur without looking crazy by pretending to be on a phone conversation with someone.
"What are you doing here?" Joanna asked Alfur, without looking at him, as the small Elf beams.
"Oh, I'm writing a report on Hilda's school. The Elves are very interested in what she and even Stitch do all day."
"They are?" Joanna asked with a curious look as Alfur nodded.
"Oh, yes. Life in the Elf Countries is quite dull now that you two aren't obliviously stomping on our houses every day or fighting against evil aliens all across the woods with Giants helping you out."
"Well, that's good to hear, but I still don't think that you should be here," Joanna says worriedly as Alfur waved his hand around carelessly.
"No one else can see me. It'll be fine. Besides, at least I don't attract as much attention, as Stitch and the others do." Alfur says while pointing at poorly disguised aliens trying to 'mingle' among the humans as Joanna sweatdrops and sighs.
"All right, just keep a low profile," Joanna warns as Alfur nodded with a big smile on his face.
"I could hardly do otherwise," Alfur says with a giggle before pulling out a book and a pen as he hid inside Joanna's purse and the young woman rolled her eyes amusedly as Roland and Amun showed up.
"Here you go," Roland says while holding out a napkin to Joanna as Amun went over to hide under Hilda's table to continue eating the plate full of deserts that he had stolen earlier.
"Oh, thank you." Joanna says while 'hanging up' her phone as she hid it in her pocket and grabs onto the napkin as she wiped away her happy/joy tears.
"Excuse me, everyone! Can I get everyone's attention!" A short white-haired woman says sternly, gaining everyone's attention as she gave them a gentle smile. The woman is a 5-feet-tall, 56-year-old female with blue eyes, long shoulder-length poofy white hair, wrinkles on her face, stumpy nose, a short, slim figure, dark brown skin, and her outfit consists of a pair of small glasses, a dark yellow light yellow collard sweater with a cyan buttoned-up shirt underneath, dark brown slacks, and black high heel shoes. Her name is Enid Hallgrim, Hilda, Frida, and David's teacher at Edmund Ahlberg Elementary School. "We like to begin with a short film about the history of our school," Enid says, causing everyone to groan as she rolled her eyes at this. "Oh, hush, stop complaining. Anyway, Eliza, be a dear and close the binds."
"Yes, Ms. Hallgrim," Eliza says politely while wearing her school uniform, which consisted of a dirty-yellow colored sweater with a white insignia on the left side of her chest, a white-collard shirt underneath, a red necktie, a black knee-length skirt, and black shoes. Anyway, once Eliza turns around to close the binds, Enid turned on the projector that was placed in front of a screen as it turned on and began projecting a short film for the still groaning group of Parents and Students as, unknown to all of them, the weird-looking rock on David's box of rock collections began shaking wildly as small cracks appeared on its body.
"Over three-hundred years ago, Edmund Ahlberg founded a school based on the proven values of structure, discipline, and treating every student exactly the same." The narrator of the short film drawled on as everybody was either watching the movie with great interest like Pleakley, Frida, and David, bored out of their minds like Joanna, Roland, and Hilda, having small conversations with other people like Jumba is doing with Helper-X9 about the possibility of expanding his room/lab, or just sound asleep like Stitch and Amun as the small furry/feathered creatures were currently curled on the floor near Hilda and David's feet. "His vision still guides us to this very day and-,"
Whack!
Everyone was startled awake or shot up in surprise as the projector suddenly tilted over, and crashed landed onto the ground with a loud thud as an alarmed Eliza opened up the binds and Enid ran over to check on the broken projector as David turned his head and gasped as he saw his school project currently sprawled across the floor and quickly ran over to pick up his shattered rock collection as Hilda and Stitch went over to help him out.
"Oh, no, my nature collection!" A dismayed David says with Hilda placing her hand on his shoulder to comfort him in his hour of need as Stitch was busy sweeping away the broken rocks onto David's box.
"What happened here?" Enid asked, wanting to know who destroyed the projector and ruined the short film viewing as Hilda turned to explain.
"Looks like someone threw David's rock collection at the projector." Hilda quickly deduced with Stitch and David nodding in agreement as Enid narrowed her eyes at them, specifically a certain blue-haired girl.
"Someone?" Enid asked suspiciously as Hilda nodded with a confused raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, why are you saying it like that?" Hilda asked as Enid merely crossed her arms and glared sternly in her direction as a confused Hilda looks around and spotted her friend Stitch finishing cleaning up David's rock collection as he handed it over to a grateful David. "Wait, do you think that Stitch did it?! Stitch didn't break the projector...you didn't break the projector, right?" Hilda asked worriedly while bending down to whisper into Stich's ear as he shakes his head.
"Naga, Stitch was sleeping."
"Yeah, he's telling the truth, and I have the evidence right here," David says while grimacing as he lifted up to show his alien saliva-covered foot and shivers in disgust.
"See, Stitch didn't break the projector. He was sleeping." Hilda stated smugly as Enid narrowed her eyes at the young girl.
"I wasn't referring to your dog, Hilda," Enid says as Hilda blinked in confusion...before gasping in realization as she stared at her old teacher in stunned shock.
"Wait, are you saying that I did it?!" Hilda asked with wide eyes as Stitch and David gasped at the accusing as they shared stunned looks.
"Hey, what's going on over here?" Joanna asked as she, Roland, Amun, Jumba, Pleakley, and Helper-X9 walked over to the group as Hilda turned to her mother with a sad look on her face.
"Mum! Ms. Hallgrim thinks that I broke the projector!"
"WHAT!?" Everyone exclaimed in shock as they turned over to the old teacher in disbelief.
"I'm sorry, I don't want to sound rude, but are you out of your mind!? Hilda is like the most polite, nicest little girl that I have ever met! Hilda will never destroy the projector!" Roland stated firmly, having spent enough time with Hilda to know that she's usually a well-behaved kid, as the rest nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, if anything, I expected the little monster here to wreck it," Pleakley says while pointing at Stitch, who growled in annoyance as he lifts his leg and kicks his butt, causing Pleakley to yelp in pain as he cradles his sore butt and glared at Stitch.
"Jumba agrees with Blonde Haired Man and Jumba's Wife. It's scientifically impossible for Little Blue Haired Niece being the culprit for destroying your primitive projection device. Show them the proof, X9," Jumba ordered as Helper-X9 nodded and ran the numbers of the possibilities of Hilda being the culprit of destroying the projector as he beeped red.
"Negative. The possibility of Hilda being the one who destroyed the projector is a 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.1%,"
"See?" Jumba says while gesturing at his Android Assistant as Joanna also stepped up to defend her daughter.
"Besides, Ms. Hallgrim, my daughter absolutely loves rocks and won't dare break them just to stop watching a boring film," Joanna says as Hilda nodded eagerly.
"Yeah, it's true! I love rocks of all shapes and sizes! Like that one! Or that one! Or that one! Or that one!" Hilda says while pointing at numerous rocks in David's box as she then paused at the sight of the weird-looking rock from earlier.
"Look, Hilda's Family, I don't mean to offend you, but Hilda WAS the one who was standing the closest to the rocks AND the projector, so that makes her the prime suspect. Miss Joanna, why don't we continue talking about this privately once I finish cleaning up." Enid says while giving a small glare to the rest of Hilda's family as Joanna blinked but nodded reluctantly as Enid nodded in satisfaction before narrowing her eyes as she saw Hilda staring at David Box of Rocks, specifically the weird-looking rock as she tilted her head at it suspiciously.
"That's an odd-looking rock, and I should know since I have seen a lot of rocks in my time...hmmm, wait a minute, now that I look at it, it DOES look familiar. Almost as if this rock is not really a rock but a-,"
"And I will take this, thank you very much," Enid says sternly while grabbing onto David's Box of Rocks as she glares down at Hilda. "It's best that I put this away for safekeeping, so they don't tempt whoever did this to try again," Enid says while giving Hilda a look as she flinched and looks down sadly as Enid walked away to hide the box inside of her desk and closes the drawer as she locks it for just in case.
"Mum..." Hilda says somberly while looking up at her mother, who got the secret message as she turned over to Rolland.
"Roland, would you mind giving us a few minutes to talk with Hilda," Joanna says as Rolland nods.
"Of course," Roland says as he and Amun turned around to walk off, leaving behind Hilda as she looked up at the others with a somber look on her face.
"I didn't do anything, Mum, I swear!" Hilda says truthfully as Stitch nodded firmly.
"Ih. Hilda no destroy projector. Hilda good." Stitch says, absolutely believing that his friend didn't wreck David's project and the projector, as Hilda gave him a thankful look.
"Yeah, I have to agree with 626. Destroying school property is not exactly Little Blue Haired style. She's too much of a goody-two-shoes do something as evil as that." Jumba says as Hilda smiled.
"Thanks, Jumba...I think?" Hilda says with a confused look on her face, not knowing if it was a compliment or an insult, as Joanna gives her stressed daughter a reassuring look.
"Don't worry, sweetie, I believe you. If you said that you didn't break the projector, then you didn't destroy it."
"Yeah, don't worry, Hilda, we got your back. We know you didn't destroy that projector thing, and I'm sure that we can straighten this whole thing out." Alfur says while popping out of Joanna's hair as Hilda sighs in relief and smiles up at them brightly, happy that her mother believes her as a smiling Pleakley pops up.
"Yeah, don't worry, Hilda. Once 'Aunty Pleakley' finishes her talk with your teacher, all of your problems will go away. Joannah, hold my purse." Pleakley says while handing her purse over to a surprised Joanna as she rolled up her sleeves and puts on a mean, serious face as she began stomping over to Hilda's teacher with Jumba and Helper-X9 following after him stoically as Joanna panics.
"Wait, guys, let me talk with her instead!" Joanna yelled frantically as she chases after the aliens, leaving behind Hilda and the others as Stitch looks up at his still sad friend.
"Hilda, okay?" Stitch asked as Hilda smiles down at him softly and pets his head.
"Yeah, I'm alright, Stitch. It's just that I'm so confused and hurt. Why would Ms. Hallgrim blame me of all people? She loves me. I'm her most favorite and model student." Hilda says matter-of-factly as Stitch shrugs, but then their attention was diverted over to a coughing Frida as she and David give Hilda an uneasy, guilty look.
"Uh, Hilda, there's something we have to tell you," Frida says while grabbing onto Hilda as she and David dragged her over to a private corner of the room with Stitch following after them on all four legs as they all sit down on the floor and Frida took a deep breath as she then turned over to give her blue-haired friend a serious look. "Look, Hilda, here's the thing, Ms. Hallgrim...doesn't really love you at all."
"She doesn't?" Hilda asked in surprise/sadness while looking like a puppy that got kicked in the face and spit on as Frida felt guilty for hurting her friend's feelings but, after keeping her mouth shut for a couple of weeks about it, Frida feels like it was best to rip the bandaid off quickly and tell Hilda the honest truth.
"Yeah, the opposite in fact, she hates you because...well...you're not exactly the best at following the rules."
"What?! I'm great at following the rules!" Hilda says stubbornly as Frida gave her a blank look and pulls out her phone as she began fiddling with something. "What are you doing?"
"Oh, I'm trying to find a clip show of all of the times that you broke the rules in school, I knew that something like this would happen one day, so I came prepared." Frida explains as she had finally found her video and held out her phone to show Hilda, Stitch, and David her clip show as she pressed play.
~[Clip 1]~
"But how could King Olaf Tryggvason have lost the Battle of Svolder when he had the superior fleet?" Hilda asked curiously with a raised eyebrow as we see Frida filming Hilda while they were in the middle of class as an annoyed Enid could be seen writing something on her board.
"Hilda, please raise your hand when you have a question to ask...also, this is Science Class," Enid says deadpannedly as both David and Frida looked embarrassed as the children around them giggled.
~[Clip 1 Over]~
"What? I thought she will be able to answer the question since she's also our History Teacher." Hilda says defensively as Frida stared at her blankly.
"Uh-huh, but that's not the end of it. Here's more," Frida says as she clicked play on the next clip.
~[Clip 2]~
"Hilda, where are you going?" An irritated Enid asked as she was forced to interrupt class due to Hilda suddenly standing up from her chair and began making her way out of class as she stopped and give her old teacher a confused look.
"Uh, I'm going to the bathroom."
"Young lady, in school, when you have to go to the bathroom, you have to raise your hand first and ask for permission before going."
"Oh, okay...can I go to the bathroom, please?" Hilda asked as Enid sighs heavily but nodded as Hilda beams and quickly ran out of class to go to the nearest Girl's Bathroom.
~[Clip 2 Over]~
"Okay, in my defense, I never had to ask my Mum to go to the bathroom when she was homeschooling me, so I didn't know that I had to ask the teacher if I can have permission to pee," Hilda says as Frida sighs and shakes her head as she clicked on another video.
~[Clip 3]~
"Hilda, this is a Troll Drill. Please follow the proper procedure and go under your desk!" Enid stated firmly as the whole class was currently doing some Troll Drills and were hiding under their desks, except for Hilda as she was still sitting on her chair with a half-lid expression as she scoffed.
"Oh, please, trust me, if a REAL Troll were here, this wouldn't help you at all," Hilda says matter-of-factly as Enid narrowed her eyes at her but then gasped as Stitch suddenly barged into the room while pulling a small red wagon forward as it was carrying around a punch of Plasma Guns. "Now, these weapons will DEFINITELY help us! Thanks, Stitch!" Hilda says while leaping out of her chair as she walked over to pet Stitch before grabbing a rather large and intimidating-looking Plasma Gun as she turned over to smirk at her classmates confidently. "Alright, who wants to learn how to shoot first? I will teach you how to blast a Troll while Stitch here will teach you how to fight." Hilda says while gesturing at Stitch, who was suddenly wearing a karate outfit as he bowed at them respectively before taking a battle stance as he leaped up into the air and raised his arm as Stitch lets out a battle cry and swiftly cuts Enid's desk in half with one karate chop, causing her to shriek in fright and faint as the rest of the students looked scared by this.
~[Clip 3 Over]~
"Okay, so maybe Stitch and I went a little overboard on their first day, but we just wanted to help our classmates on how to PROPERLY defend themselves and not just cowering around like idiots."
"Ih." Stitch says while nodding in agreement as Frida facepalmed at her friends' answers.
"Hilda, not everyone is ready to battle like you guys. You really freaked everyone out when you and Stitch had brought in REAL and LETHAL guns to school! Heck, Dereck blew off David's eyebrows!"
"Well, at least they grew back," Hilda says just as David's fake eyebrows fell down as he groans and lowers his hands to pick them up as he puts them back onto his head.
"That's not the-Whatever. Let's move on with the next clip."
"How man clips are there?"
"Enough," Frida stated blankly as she clicked play on the next video.
~[Clip 4]~
"Excuse me, pardon me, sorry," Hilda says while making her way into the School's Cafeteria Kitchen as she shoves past various confused Lunchladies and propped up a chair near a stove as she began cooking something.
"Uh, sweetheart, what are you doing?" One of the Lunchladies says as Hilda turned to smile at her sheepishly.
"Oh, sorry, but I've decided to make my own lunch. Sorry, but your lunch is a little bit...bland and lifeless. You wouldn't mind if I cook in here, do you?" Hilda asked as all of the Lunchladies had tick marks on their foreheads and gritted their teeth in anger but nodded stoically as she beams. "Oh, thank you very much."
~[Clip 4 Over]~
"Hilda..." Frida says scoldingly while giving Hilda a side-eye as she raised an eyebrow at her confusedly.
"What? Their food is terrible, and they allowed me to go in to cook for myself, so what's the big deal?" Hilda asked obliviously as Frida shakes her head with a huge sigh as she placed her hand on her forehead to calm down her nerves.
"Hilda, you can't just go into the Schools's Cafeteria Kitchen to cook for yourself. You're supposed to either bring in a bagged lunch from home or eat what was offered in school."
"Well, I didn't know that," Hilda says defensively as Frida glared at her lightly.
"What do you mean?! It's common knowledge that you can't just-Oh, you know what? Whatver, onto the the next clip." A now annoyed Frida says as Hilda huffs but nodded as Frida clicked onto the next clip.
~[Clip 5]~
"Who cares how much the apples cost? The real question is why one man needs to buy so many apples." Hilda says while standing on top of her teacher's desk, doing a huge presentation on why one man would need so much apple, as the blue-haired girl leans in to give her audience a playful scary look. "Is he feeding some kind of apple monster...like this one!?" Hilda asked as the doors suddenly flew open, and a growling and groaning Stitch walked into the classroom while wearing an apple-shaped costume with some crudely drawn-in monster faces.
"Hilda school has been over for an hour now! Take your dog, and go home already!" Enid yelled in annoyance/frustration as she, Frida, and David were basically forced to listen to Hilda's 'presentation' on why a man would need so many apples for an hour while the rest of the students and faculty went home.
~[Clip 5 Over]~
"I still can't believe no one else was bothered by that apple thing, and I thought the presentation will spice up the topic and make things more exciting!" Hilda says with Stitch nodding in agreement, loving dressing up for her presentation as Frida sighs heavily but took a deep breath to calm herself down as Frida then went over to place her hand on Hilda's knee with a soft, gentle, stern look on her face.
"That's not how school works, Hilda. We answer questions they give us. We don't think up new questions."
"But that's the fun part! Why would they even ask us questions they already know the answers to? It just sounds stupid, and it's huge a waste of our time when we could be using the time to think up questions for ourselves. That way, we can enhance our brain activity and become way more creative and smart by it."
"Yhue, Hilda sueop luv a glont. Gack louce kile hte opopto yunio ot sue. (Yeah, Hilda does have a point. That sounds like the better option to use.)," Stitch commented as Hilda held out her hands towards Stitch with a 'See, I told you' look as Frida's eye twitched, and took another deep breath as she sighs in irritation.
"Okay, you made a good point, Hilda. I will admit that, but that's just the way it works around here, okay?" Frida says exasperatedly as Hilda frowned subtly but nodded as Frida sighs in relief at this before continuing speaking. "I think that Ms. Hallgrim might want to transfer you to the class of students with behavioral difficulties," Frida says the last part quietly as Hilda gasped offendedly by this.
"What!? I don't have behavioral difficulty! Stitch, would you say I'm disruptive in class?"
"Ih."
"See, I-Wait, what!? Why did you say yes?!" Hilda says smugly before her eyes flew open in shock as, due to living with Stitch for so long, she knew that 'Ih' means 'Yes' and turned over to glare at her traitorous friend.
"Videos," Stitch says while pointing his clawed finger at Frida's phone as said person gave Hilda a smug look, and the blue-haired girl pouted as she crossed her arms with a huff.
"Whatever. Stitch's opinion doesn't even count because he's definitely way more disruptive than me," Hilda says with Stitch shrugging in agreement as she turned over to face David, who was just happily sitting around eating from a bag of chips. "David, would you say I'm disruptive in class?"
"No, I wouldn't say that..." David said as Hilda beams and turned over to Frida as she was about to say, 'See? I told you that I wasn't disruptive in class' but stopped as the young boy continued talking. "...in class. What if the Teacher were talking? It might be disruptive," David says matter-of-factly as Hilda facepalmed and shakes her head as she sighs.
"No, no, David, I meant, would you say that I'm disruptive when I'm in class?"
"Oh...yes." David stated bluntly as Hilda's eyes flew open in surprise while Frida crossed her arms with an 'I told you so' look.
"What-Really?!" Hilda asked in shock/disbelief as David nodded.
"Yeah, but I don't mind. That way, Ms. Halligram's too busy to call on me." David stated cheerfully as Hilda gave him a very annoyed, deadpanned, half-lid look as Frida and Stitch couldn't help but chuckle at this as Hilda blushed at this in embarrassment and anger as the blue-haired girl crossed her arms with a cute pout.
"...so, please just follow my lead when Hilda's Teacher appears and let me do the majority of the talking. You can pitch in, of course, but remember, this is a serious matter that might get Hilda potentially expelled from school, even if it isn't her fault, so we need to act like rational adults and deal with this matter as such to not make Hilda's Teacher madder than she already is, and convince her that it really wasn't Hilda's fault that the projector broke." Joanna says to Jumba, Pleakley, and X9 firmly as they nodded with serious, stoic frowns.
"Got it, Jumba promises to behave as best as Jumba can to not have Little Blue Haired Girl expelled from this poor, badly educated school."
"What Jumba is trying to say is that we will be on our best behavior." Pleakley says as Joannah sighs in relief and smiles.
"Thanks, guys. I knew that I could count on you." Joanna says just as Roland appeared as he gave Joanna a concerned look.
"So, how was your talk with Hilda go?" Roland asked as Joanna turned to him with a small smile and shrug.
"Oh, about as well as you expect. Hilda seems rather upset that her teacher will accuse her for something she didn't do, but I assured her that we were going to have a talk with her teacher and sort everything out. Also, I want to say thanks for having Hilda's back on this. You too, Jumba and Pleakley. Hilda seemed pretty upset earlier, but I'm sure that your support cheered her up a little,"
"Anytime, Joanna. Hilda is a great kid." Roland answered sincerely.
"Yeah, we love Hilda." Pleakley says with a beaming smile and clapping his hands together as Jumba smiled warmly.
"Yes, Little Blue Haired Girl is a good kid, and we will always have her back," Jumba says with X9 beeping in agreement as Joanna smiled at this in gratitude/joy, but then her attention was diverted to Alfur as he popped his head out of her air and pointed towards a young African-American couple.
The man is a 5'8-feet-tall, 43-year-old African-American male with black eyes, small black eyebrows, short curly black hair that is turning gray at the temples, a big nose, a sharp chin, a lean slim built, brown skin, and his outfit consisting of a sleeveless mossy-colored sweater with a white-collard long-sleeved shirt underneath, a light blue tie, rolled up black pants, and brown boots. His name is Irwin, Frida's father.
The woman is a 5'8-feet-tall, 35-year-old female with black eyes, small dark brown eyebrows, shoulder-length curly dark brown hair, a small nose, a sharp chin, a slim hourglass figure, brown skin, and her outfit consists of a white collard long-sleeved top with a salmon-pink dress underneath, and black high heel shoes. Her name is Mandy, Frida's mother.
"Oh, look, it's Frida's parents. Perhaps we should say hi." Alfur suggested as Joanna smiled.
"That sounds lovely, but remember be quiet." Joannah whispers as Alfur rolled his eyes playfully but nodded as he hid inside of her hair, and Joanna turned over to the boys. "Hey, guys, look, there are Frida's parents. Why don't we go and say hi?" Joanna says while pointing at Frida's parents as the boys nodded.
"Sure, that sounds cool. Meeting one of Hilda friend's parents." Roland says with a shrug as he placed his hands in his pockets.
"Oh, that sounds perfect! I always wanted to meet Frida's parents." An excited Pleakley says.
"Well, then, let's go and meet Little Black-Haired Girl's parents." Jumba says as Joanna, Roland, and Pleakley nod as the group turned around and made their way towards Frida's parents.
"Hello, you must be Frida's parents, right? Well, I'm Hilda's mother. It's very nice to meet you." Joanna says with a friendly smile while holding out her hand for a handshake as Frida's parents beamed at her, and Mandy raised her arm to shake Joannah's hand.
"Oh, your the mother of the little girl named Hilda that we have heard so much about. Well, it's nice to meet you as well. I'm Mandy, and this is my husband, Irwin." Mandy says, introducing herself and her husband, who raised an eyebrow at Roland, Jumba, Pleakley, and X9 as he placed his hand on his hip.
"So, uh, I suppose this is Hilda's...eccentric family that we heard so much about?" Irwin asked as Joanna nodded with a little smile.
"Yeah, they are. This is my brother Jumba, his wife Pleakley, and this is...uh...one of my brother's robot assistant. He's a scientist that specialles in robotics, biology, etc." Joannah says as Frida's parent's eyes widened in surprise.
"Oh, wow, a scientist? How exciting! Where did you get your Ph.D. in?" Mandy asked Jumba, who sweatdrops as he doesn't know what the hell a Ph.D. is.
"O-Oh, uh, Jumba has received his Ph.D. in...Conneticut?" Jumba said although it sounded like a question as Frida's parents and Roland stared at him confusedly, and Joanna sweatdrop nervously as she laughs awkwardly and elbows Jumba's side.
"Ha, ha, my brother, always the jokester! Anyway, my brother has recieved his Ph.D. in Harvard."
"Harvard? Oh my, what a great accomplishment!" Irwin says while giving Jumba thumbs up with the tall alien doing the same awkwardly as Mandy turned to Pleakley.
"So, what do you do for a living?" Mandy asked curiously, causing Pleakley to flinch as she sweated nervously.
"Oh, well, currently I'm a stay at home mom as I usually babysit Hilda while Joanna is at work and my husband is busy with his science stuff, but I'm aiming to be a professor to one day be able to teach a class full of eager students." Pleakley says as Mandy smiled widely.
"Well, I think that sounds like a lovely dream to have, Pleakley. I always wanted to be a professor, but I decided to change careers and become a doctor while my husband is a lawyer. Anyway, what do you two lovebirds work at? I'm quite curious to see what's the profession that Hilda's parents has." Mandy says to Joanna and Roland, who blushes heavily as they waved their hands around nervously.
"Oh, no, no, I-I'm not Hilda's father." Roland says awkwardly as Joanna nod sheepishly.
"Yeah, he's just our neighbor and a friend of mine that wanted to tag along with us tonight." Joannah answered as Irwin and Mandy blinked at this curiously.
"Oh, I see. If I maybe so bold, where's Hilda Father?" Mandy asked, causing the group, especially Joanna, to flinch as the young woman rubbed her arm nervously.
"Oh, uh, Martin sadly died four years ago..."
"Oh, my! I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to bring up any bad memories." A guilty, sympathetic Mandy says as Joanna teared up a bit but took a deep breath as she gave Frida's parents a reassuring yet sad smile.
"It's okay. Hilda and I had learned to cope and move on from his tragic death. Anyway, let's change the depressing subject. I work as a graphic designer." Joanna answered as Roland, however, kept quiet about where he works, but the group didn't seem to notice that as Frida's parents beamed excitedly.
"So, wait. Hilda's uncle is a brilliant genius scientist, her aunt will become a future professor, and her mother is a graphic designer? Wow, what a smart and proactive family! No wonder Frida keeps praising Hilda's intelligence. If she's anything like you all, I'm sure that Hilda will grow up to be someone successful." Mandy said as Joanna beams and nodded with a smile.
"That's what I'm hoping. Hilda still hasn't decided what she wanted to do in her life, but I'm sure once she grows up, she will make a decision." Joanna says as they nodded.
"Good to know, but the one thing that confuses me on why Hilda would get in so much trouble in school when Frida says that she's so nice and smart?" Irwin asked confusedly, remembering his daughter telling and showing how much trouble Hilda gets with her weird pet as Roland stepped up to explain.
"Oh, that's because Hilda has grown up in the wilderness all of her life and was homeschooled by Joanna, so while she is smart, her social skills still needs work." Roland answered.
"Oh, that makes sense." Mandy commented with a nod as she and Irwin continued talking with Hilda's family.
"I still can't believe that Ms. Hallgrim thinks I'm a problem student," Hilda says while standing near a table filled with sweets as she was currently eating her sorrows away with Frida, Stitch, and David standing/sitting beside her as the blue-haired girl was sneaking some donuts down at Stitch for him to eat them. "Mum was so proud of me for adapting to school too. She will be incredibly disappointed in me when she founds out how bad I'm doing at school." Hilda says with a sad, somber frown as Stitch and the others see this and were quick to comfort her.
"Luve goto, Hilda. Meega yule vat ew nac wiuko olioto tou. (Don't worry, Hilda. I'm sure that we can figure something out.)," Stitch says reassuringly while patting her knee as Hilda smiles down at him gratefully.
"I'm not sure what Stitch said, but I agree. I'm sure we can straighten things out with our teacher... hmm, wait, I may have an idea. I think we can get you out of trouble with Ms. Hallgrim if we find out who is the real culprit for the projector getting smashed. It might even make Ms. Hallgrim happy enough to not tell your Mum about all of the school rules that you broke this past few months!" Frida says excitedly as Hilda beamed.
"Oh, that sounds like a great idea, Frida! Alright, let's begin operation: 'Clear Hilda's name!'," Hilda stated with a determined, fierce look on her face as the group nodded.
"Consider it done, but who do you think broke the projector?" David asked as the kids then turned to look down at Stitch.
"Why are you looking at Stitch?" Stitch asked with his ears tilting down in confusion.
"Well, you're the one who's smarter than a supercomputer. Have any potential suspects to share with us, Stitchy?" Hilda asked as Stitch begins to think.
"Well, it can't be meega because Stitch was sleeping. Hilda won't hurt a rock. David is too nice to destroy, so either the box of rocks fell down on its own or-," Stitch says before getting interrupted by a loud clattering noise inside of Enid's desk drawer as everyone turned to it and Stitch, and eventually Hilda, eyes widen in realization as they turned to each other.
"The rock!" Stitch and Hilda exclaimed in unison as their friends stared at them confusedly.
"The rock? What do you mean by that?" David asked in puzzlement as an alarmed Hilda and Stitch turned to him.
"David, you have a Troll Rock in your collection!"
"A Troll Rock!?" David asked in shock with wide panicking eyes as Frida shushes him and looks around to make sure that no one heard them before grabbing onto her friends' arms as she leads them to hide under the table to talk in private.
"Yes, the one with the nose is actually not a rock, but a Troll." Hilda explains to her clueless friend as he raised an eyebrow confusedly.
"But it's so small...well, it was small. I guess it has grown a bit." David admitted while rubbing his neck nervously as his friends raised an eyebrow at him suspiciously.
"How much it grown?" Stitch asked curiously.
"Oh, it was the size of a pebble, but it grew to the size of a book in a few weeks...now that I think about it, it did grew everytime sunlight shined down at it." David commented offhandedly as Hilda, Frida, and Stich gave him very deadpan looks.
"A-And you didn't find that odd or suspicious at all?" Frida asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Nope." David stated cheerfully as the trio stared at him blankly with massive sweatdrops on their heads.
"Alright then...anyway, the reason the Troll Rock is so small is that he's a baby. Now, where did you find him?"
"How do you know its a boy?" Stitch asked Hilda curiously.
"Oh, I checked to see what gender it had when I was holding it." Hilda answered as Stitch nodded.
"Well, I found the Troll Rock near the wall when we were doing our Sparrow Scout Project, right after the Vittra Zombie Invasion happened." David explains as Frida hums and placed her hand on her chin.
"Hmmm, wait, didn't we find out that Nigel and the rest of their people live near that area underground in a set of tunnels? The baby Troll must've accidentally rolled down in one of their tunnels and appeared in Trollberg!"
"Indeed, and the daylight is what keeps him in rock form. He woke up when the curtains closed and accidentally destroyed the projector." Hilda deduced just as the Troll began squirming around in the desk as Hilda places her arm over it and sushes the baby Troll to be quiet.
"And when he got stuck in a desk." Frida added in as Hilda nodded.
"Right, but once the sun sets, we'll have no way to turn him back into a rock." Hilda says as confused Stitch suddenly spoke up.
"Lio, a livio, meega wuio reioio futi. Het Troll ash viun ponjo giv David oio a erioukito fo losuina wo, riki? Pop ety, fujio kiot ti is aya, get Troll duiopo qoiuyi ot ytr pop scoto, liki a hunito, to gukio fgio ot lokoko David? Sukio pu htwi lat? (Wait, a minute, I just realized something. The Troll has been living with David for a couple of weeks now, right? And yet, every time it gets dark, the Troll never thought to try and escape, make a sound, or even try to attack David? What's up with that?)," Stitch says with a raised eyebrow as Hilda shrugs.
"Eh, it's probably just a big plot hole that the creators made without them knowing. Don't think about it too much." Hilda says while waving her arm around carelessly.
"Oh, no! Guys, look! The sun's setting right now!" David says while pointing ahead as the group gasped worriedly and stood up from the floor as they made their way over to the windows and panicked as they saw the sun setting on the horizon.
"Oh, crabaskets. We better get the baby Troll out of here right away." Hilda says as Frida and David shake their heads.
"Hilda, having a Troll in your possession is a serious crime in Trollberg. It's the whole reason why that huge wall was built around the city in the first place to keep them out! If anyone sees us carrying around a baby Troll, we will be sent to prison for fifty years!" Frida yelled panickedly as Hilda and Stitch gasped at this in shock/disbelief.
"W-What?! B-But we're kids! They won't send kids to prison, r-right?" Hilda asked nervously as Frida and David gave her grim looks and shakes their heads.
"They don't care if we're kids, Hilda. We will be sent to prison without mercy once they see that we have a Troll." Frida stated with the utmost serious tone that she ever used as Hilda felt shivers run down her back fearfully.
"W-What if it was an accident?"
"Then you get a hundred years...they really, really don't want anyone having a Troll Rock, even if it was by accident." David says with a somber smile as Hilda trembled a bit in fear, and Stitch sees this as he was quick to comfort her.
"Don't worry, Hilda. If Hilda and others goes to jail, Stitch will bust them out." Stitch says sincerely as Hilda and the others smiled down at him gratefully/warmly.
"Thanks, Stitch, but I'm not planning to become a fugitive anytime soon. We have to get the Troll Rock out of school asap! After that, Stitch will hotwire my Mum's car, and he will drive us out of the city to bring the baby back to his mother. Even if it is a Troll, no one deserves to be separated from their family." Hilda says earnestly as Frida, David, and even Stitch nod in agreement just as Enid appears with the janitor as they began cleaning up the mess from earlier.
"Oh, no, Ms. Hallgrim's back! How are we even going to get into her desk?" David asked nervously as Hilda places her hand on her chin thoughtfully and beams as she smirks.
"I got an idea."
"You want me to pick a lock and let a baby Troll out of a desk drawer?" Alfur asked confusedly while standing in Hilda's hand while surrounded by her, Stitch, and the others as Hilda had snatched away Alfur from Joannah's hair while she wasn't looking. "You certainly like helping Trolls, don't you?"
"It just tend to come up a lot." Hilda says with a sheepish shrug and a giggle as Alfur nodded before turning to smirk at Stitch slyly.
"And you don't want to open the drawer because your scared that it will hurt you again like last time, huh?" Alfur asks teasingly before yelping in fear as Stitch growls at him while showing off his sharp teeth as the elf raised his hands in surrender with a nervous sweatdrop. "Kidding, kidding, I was just kidding!"
"You know, I'm still not used to you being friends with elves or aliens." Frida commented deadpannedly as Hilda had her and David signs a couple of contracts in order to see Alfur a couple of days after the Vittra Invasion occurred.
"Uh, guys, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but Ms. Hallgrim is heading over to Hilda's family right now!"
"What!?" Hilda asked, shocked by what David said as everyone turned around and saw Enid finishing helping the janitor fix up the mess before spotting Joanna, Roland, Jumba, Pleakley, and Frida's parents speaking with David's family as Enid proceeds to walk over to them. "Oh, no! She's going to tell my Mum that I'm a problem student!"
"Graphic design! Why that is a fascinating field. You must be very talented." Amy says to Joanna with a smile as the girls were having small talk with each other while the men were talking to each other nearby.
"Thanks, but to be honest, it's been a bit of a rough go since moving to Trollberg," Joanna says while rubbing her arm nervously as she was a bit embarrassed to tell the other parents that she's having trouble finding a stable job.
"Oh, don't be embarrassed, luv. It's a tough economy out there, but don't worry, I'm sure that you will find a stable job one day." Mandy says reassuringly as Pleakley nods in agreement.
"Yeah, there's no need to worry about your pretty hair there, Joanna. You're gaining enough money to keep a roof above your head for you, Hilda, and us, so that will give you enough time to find a job." Pleakley says as Joannah smiled widely and nods.
"So, this thing is a robot? And it is your lab assistant?" A curious Gabriel asked Jumba as he smirked and nodded.
"Yes, Jumba had ordered the assembly kit to build this machine myself. It can do anything. Help me organize my tools, help me with my experiments, and cook a mean pie." Jumba says just Helper-X9 beeped as his chest opens up and pulls out three pieces of pie as Roland, Gabriel, and Irwin each took a pie to eat them...and their eyes widen in surprise as they moaned in delight.
"Delicious! I love this little guy! I will kill to have Helper-X9 in my house." Gabriel says as Irwin nods.
"Indeed." Irwin says before perking up as he remembered something and turned to Roland. "Oh, hey, Roland, you haven't told us what your profession is. What is your job?" Irwin asked as Roland flinched and sweated nervously as he looks around awkwardly.
"Oh, uh, you see, I work at-,"
"So, sorry to interrupt, would now be a good time to talk?" Enid asked Joanna, who nodded as Roland sighs in relief.
"Oh, good, a distraction...I mean, uh, I better go with Joanna to support her. Come on, Jumba." Roland says as Jumba nodded, and they made their way over to the group with Amy and Mandy walking away to give them some privacy as Enid looked around and spotted a nervous Hilda as she waved her hand to get her attention.
"Hilda, can you come with us, please?" Enid asked as Hilda smiled nervously and nodded as Hilda began walking across the classroom while turning her head as she mouthed, 'Help me, please!'.
"We need to help Hilda." Stitch says to Frida and David urgently as they nodded in agreement.
"Agreed, we need to distract Ms. Hallgrim for a bit until we can get the Troll out of her desk, but how do we do that?" Frida asked as David raised his hand. "You don't need to raise your hand, David. Just talk." Frida says with a slightly irritated look as a sheepish David lowered his hand and chuckles.
"Oh, sorry. Anyway, why don't we have your parents go over and distract Ms. Hallgrim for a while?" David suggested with Stitch nodding eagerly to his plan as Frida, however, shakes her head.
"That's a good plan, David, but I can't. I've been trying to keep my parents away from her, too. They want to ask for extra work to bring my math score from 99 to a 100." Frida says, causing the boys to groan as Stitch then turns over to David.
"What abot you, David?" Stitch asked as David shook his head.
"No, can't do. My parents already talked with Ms. Hallgrim."
"If I can make a suggestion, why don't one of you pretend to be hurt to draw the adults attention from us?" Alfur asked while popping out of Frida's hair as the trio beams at the idea.
"Great idea, Alfur! Stitch, cut up David's knee a bit so that he pretend that he broke his knee." Frida says as Stitch nods while David seems to be against the idea as he shakes his head.
"What!? Why do I have to cause the distraction?!"
"Because I'm bad at lying, Stitch's skin is too tough to be cut, and no one can see Alfur." Frida answered straightforwardly with Stitch and Alfur nodding as David sighs heavily but nodded as he tentatively raised his leg and Stitch pulled out one of his claws as he carefully made a small cut on David's leg, and it begins bleeding as David winced but continued with the plan as he walked over to the middle of the room and coughed as he drops down into the ground and begins wailing.
"Ow! My Knee! I think I broke my knee! Help! I need a doctor!"
"Oh, no, my baby!" Amy yelled as she and a worried Gabriel ran over to check on their son.
"What's going on here?" Enid asked confusedly, turning away from Joanna and the others as the adults all made their way to a crying David with Hilda turning her head to look at Frida, Stitch, and Alfur, who gave her a wink a thumps up as Hilda smiled and did the same as she turned back to the crowed tending David while the trio made their way behind Ms. Hallgrim's desk.
"Hurry, Alfur, open that drawer before someone gets suspicious." Frida says as she and Stitch approached the large desk as they bend down, and Alfur jumped out of Frida's head as he landed on the drawer.
"Got it. Give me a few minutes to open the drawer." Alfur says as he sticks his hand into the keyhole and begins jiggling it around.
"Huh?" Eliza asked confusedly, hearing voices behind her as she turned around and saw Frida and Hilda's stupid yet scary dog standing behind her teacher's desk as she narrowed her eyes suspiciously. "What are they doing?" Eliza asked herself with a glare as she began making her way towards them, and Hilda sees this as she panics and ran over to stand in front of Eliza as the blue-haired girl smiled at her nervously.
"H-Hey, Eliza, how are you doing? How's the night been treating you?" Hilda asked with a nervous laugh.
"Out of my way, weirdo, I'm busy." Eliza says while shoving a yelping Hilda away as she continued marching over to Frida and the others.
"Alfur, hurry, Eliza is coming!" Frida whispered-yelled as Stitch flattened his ears downwards worriedly.
"Just a few more seconds, and I should be done." Alfur says while sticking out his tongue in concentration as he continued trying to open the drawer.
"But we don't have a few seconds!" Frida whispered-yelled while biting her lip anxiously as Eliza was starting to get closer to the desk, but was thankfully stopped by Hilda as she zooms in front of her with a big fake smile on her face.
"Hey, Eliza, you want to have some coffee?" Hilda asked randomly while holding out a cup of coffee to her as Eliza blinks at her confusedly before glaring at the blue-haired girl as she scoffed and crosses her arms.
"I'm eleven, you idiot. I'm not allowed to drink coffee."
"Oh, really? Well, okay then, I will just slide this cup of coffee under this desk here and really hope that a certain someone, who's name rhyme with Leach, don't drink this coffee." Hilda says while turning her head to wink at Stitch slyly as Stitch beamed and giggled mischievously as Hilda puts the cup of coffee down onto the ground and slides it under her feet as Stitch quickly snatches and proceeds to drink it.
"Ugh, you're such a weirdo, Hilda. Just get out of my face." Eliza ordered with a glare as Hilda smirked and nodded.
"Fine, I will leave you alone." Hilda says while placing her hands behind her back as she closed her eyes and turned around to leave while giggling mischievously under her breath as Hilda had a small flashback on where Stitch decided to have a cup of coffee for himself once he sees Joanna and Jumba drinking one as Stitch took one sip of his drink...immediately went batshit crazy as he proceeds to destroy their apartment. After that, Hilda had given him a strict order to never drink coffee ever again, but the blue-haired girl decided to allow him to have a small drink of coffee due to the situation being an emergency.
"Good." Eliza spats out venomously before walking forwards as she peered over the desk to look at a nervous Frida and a trembling Stitch with a suspicious glare. "What are you two doing here?" Eliza asked as Frida flinches and sweated anxiously as she was about to speak up, but then both girls raised an eyebrow as they noticed that Stitch had finished drinking up his coffee and suddenly went still as he began shaking and his eyes bugged out widely as 626 panted heavily. "Uh, what's wrong with Hilda's stupid dog?" Eliza asked as Stitch slowly turned to her and smiled widely, revealing his sharp teeth as he laughed evilly.
"There you go, sweetie. Its all better now." Mandy says while treating David's wound as she patched him up.
"Oh, thanks, Frida's Mom." David says with an awkward smile as the adults sighed in relief that he was no longer injured, and Enid turned over to Joanna to talk with her.
"Well, now that this mess has been cleared up, how about we talk about your disruptive daugh-,"
"Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! Get this stupid, crazy mutt off of me!"
"Ha, ha, ha, chaboota! Moala! Kudod tiki!"
"What in the world?" Enid asked in shock as she, David, and all of the adults turned around as they gasped in shock/worry at the sight of a laughing, twitching Stitch standing on top of Eliza's head and was pulling on her hair as the little girl shrieked in pain and flailed around as she screams for help.
"Eliza!" A woman shouted worriedly while rushing over to help Eliza as the rest of the adults ran over to do the same. The woman is a 5'8-feet-tall, 32-year-old British woman with crystal blue eyes, long blonde hair that was tied up into a high ponytail, a small nose, cheekbones, a slim hourglass build, and her outfit consists of a white/black polka-dotted fur coat with a red dress underneath, a white/black elegant hand, jewels on her neck, a red scarf, a small red purse, and red high heel shoes. Her name is Marabell Williams.
"Mommy! Get this monster off of me!" Eliza shouted fearfully while a crazy and laughing Stitch continued pulling her hair as Marabell, Joanna, Enid, and Roland ran over to try and help her.
"Stitch! Let go of this little girl this instant!" Joanna ordered as she and the rest of the adults grunted and tried to pull a laughing Stitch off of Eliza's hair, only for him to kick them away as he jumps off of a grunting Eliza's head and landed on the desk as Stitch began eating all of the snacks that were on the table.
"Oh! The weird little dog thing is eating all of the snacks!"
"It's out of control!"
"Somebody stop him!" Many of the parents screamed as they ran over to try and stop Stitch, only to back away as rabid Stitch began throwing food at them.
"626 while Jumba don't mind mindless destruction, Jumba doesn't like it when his experiments creates destruction around him!" Jumba yelled while flinching at the numerous food being thrown at him as X9 sees this and pulls out an umbrella to protect his master as the genius alien smiled down at him gratefully.
"Don't worry! I got him!" Pleakley yelled with a determined look on his face as he rushed forwards and was able to dodge around the several pieces of food being thrown at him as he leaped up to grab him by his waist. "Ha! Got you!" Pleakley says victoriously before his eye widened as a grinning Stitch went on all fours and began running across the tables, dragging Pleakley along as he screamed in fear with multiple dishes and drinks hitting his face as the duo ran past Frida and David's parents, drenching them with food and drinks as they groaned in disgust.
"Hilda! Why in the bloody hell did you give Stitch coffee for!?" An alarmed Frida asked as Hilda ran over to sit behind her at the desk.
"We needed a bigger distraction to gain all of the adults' attention. Besides, its better if I get grounded then getting sent to prison." Hilda says as Frida frowned and opened her mouth...before shutting it up as she sighs.
"Alright, good point. Anyway, Alfur, are you almost done?" Frida asked Alfur, who was still trying to open the drawer, as he nodded with a smile.
"Yeah, I'm done." Alfur says while unlocking the drawer as he opened it up, and the trio peers inside the drawer as they saw the Baby Troll resting inside, and suddenly it sprang into life as a pair of glowing white eyes and a small mouth with a bunch of sharp teeth appeared as he growled and stood up from the drawer, spawning a pair of arms and legs as the Baby Troll roared and leaped up as it tackled a surprised Frida into the floor and dragged the screaming child under the table as an alarmed/worried Hilda was about to help out her friend but then-
"Hey! What's going on back here!" Roland asked sternly, hearing a bunch of weird noises behind the desk as he walked to peer over and saw a nervous Hilda sitting behind her teacher's desk. "Hilda, what are you doing back here? Your dog is going out of control, and instead of helping us, you're back here?!" Roland asked incredulously as Hila smiled up at him awkwardly.
"Uh...well...you see...I...Mr. Trenton look! Amun is getting hurt!" Hilda suddenly yelled while pointing up as a confused Roland looked to where she was pointing and gasped as he saw a squeaking Amun, who was eating some deserts under a table, flying around panickedly with Stitch dangling by his legs as he laughed evilly.
"Stitch! Let go of Amun, right now!" Roland ordered as he ran off to save his precious bird.
"Whew, close call." Hilda says while sighing in relief as Alfur leaped up onto the table and raised an eyebrow at the blue-haired girl.
"You might want to help your friend." Alfur, causing Hilda to squeak in surprise while facepalming herself for forgetting that her friend was in danger and bends down to go under the table as she saw Frida wrestling with the surprisingly strong Baby Troll.
"Hilda, help!" Frida cried out in distress as Hilda quickly ran over to grab onto the Troll and lifted him off of her friend as she glared at him.
"Alright, that's enough, mister! It's time to take you out-Aargh!" Hilda says before grunting in pain as the Baby Troll swung his arm around wildly and smacks her in the face, sending the little girl crashing onto the ground as the Troll turned around and raised his fists as he began punching her. "Ow! Hey! Ow! Stop! That hurts!" Hilda cried out in pain by the Troll's strong punches with tears leaking out of her eyes as, outside, a laughing Stitch was still flying around on Amun before letting go of him just as Roland leaped to try and grab them as he instead grabbed onto Amun and they crashed landed onto the floor as Stitch landed on a table and laughed at the mockingly before suddenly paused in his rampage as his sensitive ears picked up Hilda's cry of pain.
"Whatchoka? (What the?)," Stitch says confusedly as he turns his head to where he heard Hilda yell, and his eyes turned bright green as Stitch turned on his X-Ray and gasped in shock as he saw a Baby Troll beating up a wailing Hilda. "Grrr! Mega nala kweesta ovio bioyio Troll! (Grrr! I want to destroy little baby Troll!)," Stitch yelled, coming down from his coffee high as he had regained his senses and quickly leaped down from the table as he scurried away while dodging all of the adults trying to grab him as Stitch made his way over to the table and walked under it as Stitch glared at the baby troll beating up his friend. "Hey! Let go of my Hilda!" Stitch screamed while growing out his extra appendages as he cracked his knuckles and leaped up to tackle the Baby Troll away as they rolled out of the table.
"Hilda! Are you okay?" Frida asked worriedly as both she and Hilda made their way from under the table.
"Yeah, just bruised a bit." Hilda says while rubbing her bruised face as Frida frowns concernedly and was about to ask if she should take her to the nurse's office but was stopped by Enid, Joanna, Roland, Amun, Jumba, Pleakley, and X9 as they ran up to the kids.
"Hilda, what happened to Stitch? Why did he go out of control-Oh my god! What happened to your face?!" Joanna asked before crying out in shock/worry as the rest of the adults were also surprised by Hilda's bruised face.
"Dear God, dear, what happened to you? Who hit you?" Enid asked concernedly as Hilda bits her lip and looks down nervously.
"Well, you, see-," Hilda says before getting interrupted by a couple of loud noises as everyone turned around and saw a shadowy figure of Stitch and the Baby Troll running under the tables, spooking the other parents as they proceed to run into the cabinets and hid inside them.
"What is going on!?" Enid asked just as all of the cabinets doors flew open as multiple random items began flying out of them due to Stitch and the Baby Troll fighting with each other inside of the cabinets as everyone yelped in surprise and ducked to avoid getting hit by the flying objects as Hilda yelped and hid behind a desk to not get hit by a flying can of paint as it crashed landed in front of a startled Enid, covering her with paint as she glared in annoyance.
"Whoa!" Frida exclaimed as the adults behind her took cover behind a row of chairs while the black-haired girl leaped under a table for safety from the flying objects as Frida was surprised to see David sitting next to her.
"Hey, Frida." David greeted cheerfully.
"Hey, David." Frida greeted back blankly just as Stitch and the Baby Troll stopped flinging random objects into the air as Hilda, after making sure that the coast was clear, ran over to the cabinets to look for them.
"Stitch? Stitch, where are you?" Hilda asked but didn't get an answer as she frowns worriedly and was about to try and search for her friend but stopped as Alfur's voice ran across the room.
"Hilda! Hilda!" Alfur yelled from Enid's desk, scaring the crap out of the parents as they looked around fearfully.
"Who said that?" Gabriel asked as his wife shrieked in fear.
"It's a ghost!" Amy yelled while hugging her husband as Hilda ran over to Enid's desk to grab Alfur and Eliza sees this as she narrowed her eyes and pointed at her.
"She's doing this! Hilda's a Witch! I knew it! She probably spawned her 'dog' from hell to be her demon pet!" Eliza screamed, causing everyone to murmur among themselves as Hilda turned to glare at the blonde-haired British girl.
"Get real, Eliza! I'm not a Witch...well, I always wanted to be one to use magic, but I'm not a Witch!" Hilda yelled as David popped his head out of the table that he was hiding.
"Yeah, and besides, Stitch is not a demon. He's an alien." David stated firmly as the crowd blinks at him confusedly while Hilda, Joanna, Jumba, and Pleakley stared at the little boy with pale, scared, surprised, angry looks at their faces by how casually David blew their secret as a glaring Frida stood up and smacks him on the back of the head.
"David, you know that was just a game that we were playing with Hilda and her dog one time. It's just petrend." Frida lied smoothly as the crowd murmured among themselves, believing Frida's clever lie as Hilda and the others sighed in relief from the close call.
"Hey, wait a minute, you can lie." David whispered to Frida in realization as she turned to him and nodded.
"Yes, I can." Frida answered calmly as David glared at her.
"Then why did you that you couldn't lie earlier when we were planning a distraction?" David asked as Frida smirked slyly.
"Easy, I didn't want Stitch to cut my knee, so I lied and said that I couldn't lie. Pretty good acting, huh?" A giggling Frida says while playfully elbowing David's side as he simply glared at her with a straight face.
"Ah, Hilda! There they are!" Alfur yelled while standing on Hilda's shoulder as he pointed ahead, and the blue-haired girl frantically looks around as she spotted Stitch and the Baby Trolls running under the tables again, but this time a pissed off 626 was flinging the tables upwards with his super strength to catch the elusive Troll as everyone screamed and ran for cover from the falling tables.
"And to think I was planning on not showing up here, ha!" The girl with pigtails from the fourth chapter says with a snort as she loved the utter chaos that was going on...plus, seeing Eliza get hurt was also a bonus.
"Hilda, seriously, tell me what's going on right now, young lady!" Joanna ordered sternly while running over to Hilda with the others following after her as they all glared down at the nervous-looking little girl.
"I-I can explain, it's-There!" Hilda says before gasping as she saw Stitch and the Baby Troll running past her table and accidentally flipped it around as it crashed landed onto the floor with Hilda's project shattering on the floor as, thankfully, all of the Nittens survived the fall and begins walking around as a growling Stitch grabbed onto the Baby Troll and threw it through the door of the classroom as it disappeared from sight and Stitch quickly followed after it as Hilda did the same.
"Hilda, wait! Get back here!" Enid screamed firmly, but Hilda promptly ignored as she ran out of the classroom with Frida and David following after her.
"What is going on with your daughter today?" Roland asked Joanna, who shrugs as Eliza and her mother walked over to them to glare at the young woman.
"So, you're Hilda's mother, huh? What did that little monster of yours do to my poor baby girl? She's so fearful of being around birds, and she was just attacked by your little brat's ugly, monstrous-looking pet!" Marabell says with a scowl as she was about to say something else when suddenly she, Eliza, and the rest of the adults flinched and groans in discomfort as they began scratching themselves.
"Why am I so itchy!?" Enid asked in irritation as Joanna sighs heavily and places her hand on her temples.
"Oh, I knew those Nittens were a bad idea."
"Don't worry, Joanna, we will fetch Hilda and the others and figure out what's going on." Pleakley says as Jumba nods in agreement.
"Yes, but first, Helper-X9? Help recover the Nittens from the humans bodies." Jumba says as X9 perked up and beep.
"Yes, master." X9 says as he quickly rushed forwards to help out the itchy humans while Jumba and Pleakley ran out of the classroom to find Hilda, Stitch, and the others.
"Come on, we have to hurry!" Hilda yelled to her friends as they were running down the hallways of their school as they were trying to keep up with Stitch and the Troll but lost sight of them as they stopped running and looked around for the alien/magical creature as Frida was about to suggest to split up to look for them but stopped as Jumba and Pleakley showed up.
"Little Blue Haired Girl, Little Brown Haired Boy, and Little Black-Haired Girl, do you all mind explaining to us on what the hell is going on!?" An exasperated Jumba asked as the kids turned to them and, after a brief moment of hesitation, Hilda decide to explain to them what's going on as she stepped forwards and latched onto Jumba's legs.
"Jumba, Pleakley, you have to help us! David had accidentally brought a Baby Troll to school, and we're trying to get it out of here and dump it in the woods, but we have lost it and Stitch! Please help us, or else we will be sent to jail!" Hilda cried out panickedly as the aliens stared down at her in shock by what she said before turning to each other as they had a secret conversation, and it ended with them nodding in agreement as Jumba and Pleakley turned back to Hilda.
"Don't worry, Hilda, we got your back. We will help you find the two little monsters." Pleakley says as Hilda beams and hugs them.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you! Now, come on, there's no time to waste!" Hilda says as the group nodded and split up to look for Stitch and the Troll, after Frida had suggested it, as Jumba and Pleakely had wandered off to the Principal's Office to look for the monsters there while the kids stayed behind to inspect the lockers.
"Alright, what do we have here." Frida says while walking over to Eliza's locker as she opens it and looked around for Stitch and the Troll...only to deadpan as Frida saw a bunch of photos of her, Hilda, and Stitch with crossed-out eyes, fake bunny ears, googly eyes, and a bunch of rather vulgar curses on them as Frida shakes her head and rolled her eyes as she closed the locker. "That girl has issues..."
"Hello? Stitch? Evil Troll?" David asked tentatively as he opens one of the lockers and peers inside only to yelp in pain as a bunch of baskets, volley, sports gear, and tennis balls shot out of it as they crashed landed onto the startled boy, and he was shortly buried in a pile of balls as David sighs in irritation. "Who keeps all of their sports equipment in their locker?! I mean, seriously, who does that?!"
"Stitch? Stitch, where are you?" Hilda asked while walking down the hallway as she looks around before gasping as she heard a clattering sound inside of one of the lockers and beamed as Hilda opens the locker...and deadpans as she saw a giggling Alfur resting inside, happy that his prank worked out as the blue-haired little girl rolled her eyes amusedly.
"Not here...not here...not here..." Pleakley says under his breath as he and Jumba were rummaging around in the Principal's Office and opening all of the cabinets as they were looking for Stitch and the Troll. "Did you find anything, Jumba?"
"Nope...well, nothing except this." Jumba says while standing behind the principal's desk as he pulls out a drawer and grabbed onto a photo of the principal wearing a tutu and bunny ears as he showed it to Pleakley.
"...Great, now I need to bleech my eye to get rid of that from my memory." Pleakley says blankly before gasping as he and Jumba saw a growling Stitch chasing after the Troll as they zoomed past the Principal's Office.
"There they go!" Jumba and Pleakley shouted while poking their heads out of the Principal's Office as the kids perked up and turned to them as they saw the adult aliens pointing ahead, and the group quickly began running towards the direction from where Jumba and Pleakley saw Stitch and the Troll ran off to...but stopped as David suddenly took a detour to drink from a nearby water fountain.
"Really?" Hilda asked with a very deadpan look on her face with her arms placed on her hips.
"What? We have been running around for a while. I'm thirsty." David says defensively while finishing drinking from the water fountain as Frida places her hand on her temples and sighs heavily.
"Come on, you loveable silly boy." Frida says with a little smile on her face while reaching out her hand to grab David's arm as the group continued running down the hallway but, after turning a corner, they were surprised to see Augustus standing in front of them as he beamed at them with a big friendly smile on his face.
"Oh, hello, Hilda and crew. I hope you're not leaving yet. You wouldn't want to miss the statue unveiling."
"Ah! Oh, no, of course not. We're just...uh...racing to the Girl's room!" Hilda says with a nervous smile as Augustus noticed David and the disguised aliens in their group and raised a suspicious, stern eyebrow as the boys see this and were quick to fix the situation.
"And also to the Boys Room!"
"And Jumba and Jumba's Wife are escorting them there to make sure they don't get lost." Jumba added in as he and everyone else shared an anxious, awkward laugh.
"Ha, ha, good then, you know what they say about sculptures. The chisel is the lightning that brings life to the clay of the stone." Augustus says wisely, but the group wasn't paying any attention to him whatsoever as they were surprised to see Stich and the Baby Troll appear out of nowhere as they were wrestling with each other on the floor before Stitch was able to raise his stubby legs to kick him away as the Troll flew over and collided against the wall so hard that it cracked behind him. Sliding down into the ground, the Baby Troll groaned and shakes his head before glaring at the young Experiment as he leaped up to attack him, but Stitch reacted quickly as he spotted a nearby fire extinguisher and grabbed onto it as 626 used it to blow the Troll down on another hallway with a bunch of white foam as Stitch chased after him. "You know what? That would go well in my speech. I better go an rehearse."
"Great, break a leg!" Hilda says encouragingly as she and the others hurriedly ran down the hallway to chase after Stitch and the Troll.
"Oh, wait! No running in the-Oof!" Augustus says before grunting as a running Enid accidentally collided against him. "Hallgrim! Don't forget about-,"
"The statue of dedication, I know!" Enid yelled in annoyance while rolling her eyes as she dusts off her outfit before running forwards as Augustus watched her go confusedly...before shrugging as he turned around to wake away while whistling under his breath.
"This way!" Hilda yelled as she and the others turn a corner and beamed as they saw a growling Stitch glaring down at a vent that he had opened. "Stitch! Where's the Troll?" Hilda asked as Stitch turns to her and pointed at the open vent.
"Meega vos heto, pop eh seip the fujuiko pokotik. (I lost him, but he went inside the ventilation system.)," Stitch explains as Hilda, and Jumba groans in frustration/annoyance.
"What? What did he say?" Frida asked as she, David, and Pleakley haven't hung around Stitch long enough to understand what he says yet.
"626 says that the Troll is in the ventilation system. And its too small for any of us to fit through, so we can't chase after it." Jumba says as Hilda begins to think and beams as she perks up.
"I got an idea. Oh, Alfur~," Hilda called out as Alfur pokes his head out of her hair. "Do you mind being a dear and go into the ventilation system to go after the Troll?" Hilda asked hopefully, only to frown as Alfur shakes his head.
"Hilda, you know that I'm very fond of you and Stitch, but I'm afraid that I must decline." Alfur says firmly as Hilda pouted.
"Then what do we do now?" Hilda asked, but then everybody flinched as a loud roar was heard from outside, and everybody ran over to peek out of the window as Hilda, Stitch, and the others were incredibly shocked/scared to see the Troll from the beginning of the chapter standing on top of a small hill, overlooking the school as rain rang out and lighting flashed in the background as the Troll's angry white eyes could be seen from the distance.
"Oh, no." A now fearful Hilda says as Frida's face paled, David bends down to his knees and trembled in fear, Jumba gulped, and Pleakley was flat out just panicking as Stitch, however, narrowed his eyes as he growled.
"What do we do? What do we do? What do we do?" Pleakley asked nervously as Hilda was about to try and comfort her friend but then-
"Do about what?" Enid asked while suddenly appearing in the hallway with Joanna, Roland, and Amun standing beside her as the group flinched, and Hilda quickly stood in front of Stitch as the young experiment quickly retracted his appendages before Hilda's teacher or Roland saw them.
"O-Oh, uh...about Hilda's weird behavior tonight, that's what! Come here, young lady! We need to have a talk." A nervous Pleakley says, trying to act stern as he grabbed onto Hilda by her shoulders.
"Indeed, come along then, and make sure to bring your dog too, Hilda. Don't want him to cause another ruckus." Enid says with a glare as Hilda and Stitch flinched and turned to each other worriedly as they nodded and walked over to the others as with Jumba and Pleakley following after them as Frida and David watched them go with sympathetic eyes.
"Alright, look, I don't mean to offend you all, but I have to say that dealing with Hilda has been rather...difficult this past few days," Enid says as we see sitting behind her desk in her office with Joanna and a nervous Hilda sitting in front of the old teacher as Stitch sat beside Hilda on the floor, and Roland, Jumba, Pleakley, and Amun were standing behind the girls as X9 was still helping to pick Nittens out of the parents and students bodies in the Parent-Teacher Conference. "Now, while she does gets good grades and such and some of her teachers have praised Hilda for her intelligence, her behavior in class is out of control, as evidence by what happened tonight, and, after observing her for these past couple of months and especially tonight, I think that it's obvious that Hilda has proven that she simply cannot fit the mold of a proper student, and she's dragging Frida and David down with her. I'm sorry to say this, but I recommend moving Hilda to a small transitional class that can offer more...personal attention." Enid says, causing Joanna, Alfur, and the rest of the adult's eyes to widen in shock by what she said while Hilda looks down at the floor with a guilty, shameful look on her face as Stitch patted her knee to comfort her.
"Y-You want to put Hilda in a...special class? But she doesn't have any condition to warrant such a cause." Ronald says as he remembered Joanna telling him once that she doesn't have any special type of condition that might explain her behavior.
"That maybe, but as I have said before, Hilda's behavior in class is too disruptive for other students to be able to learn. And I can't help her personally due to being busy with other students, so Hilda has to be moved to the trnsional class to get the help she deserves." Enid says as Hilda frowned and sniffled as she held her head low and closed her eyes.
"I-I'm sorry, Mum. I tried my best, I really did, but I guess I haven't adapted to school as well as you thought." Hilda says while tearing up a bit as Joanna sees this and frowns sympathetically as she felt her Momma Bear Instincts kick in, and Joanna places her hand on Hilda's shoulder reassuringly while making sure to not touch Alfur.
"Nonsense. Hilda, you're staying right where you are."
"What!?" Hilda, Stitch, Alfur, Jumba, Pleakley, Roland, and Enid asked in shock while Amun simply pecked the ground mindlessly as Joanna nodded firmly before turning to a stunned Enid as the young woman gave her a calm yet stern smile.
"Ms. Hallgrim, I don't know what got into Hilda tonight, but the fact that she dragged her friends into this is an excellent sign." Joanna says as Hilda smiled a bit gratefully that her mum was standing up to her, but then a small noise rang out as Hilda, Stitch, and Alfur looked up as they gasped as they saw the Baby Troll's nose sticking out of the vents.
"Oh, really? How so?" Enid asked with an unbelieving raised eyebrow.
"Well, you know that Hilda and I have been living on our own in the woods for quite a while, right? Well, when we first moved here, I was afraid that Hilda won't be able to socialize well with the other kids, but to my surprise, Hilda practically made new friends rather really quickly, and she grew to care and trust them. They have helped her grow and have been teaching her a lot of stuff about Trollberg that I can't personally teach her due to being her mother. If you pull Hilda out of their class, you'll be setting her back."
"Joanna's right. Hilda won't be able to properly grow and gain any social skills if you keep her away from her friends." Roland commented as Jumba and Pleakley nodded, all of them completely oblivious to the fact that Hilda got up from her chair as she and Stitch went over to stand under the shaking vent as they glared up at it.
"Jumba agree with Blonde Haired Man and Jumba's Little Sister. Also, Little Blue Haired Niece is a rather smart girl. She won't be able to realize her full potential if you put her in this transitional class you speak off, and you will be limiting her options in the future."
"Yeah, my husband is right. I know that Hilda may have some behavioral problems, but that's because she has been living in the woods all of her life and doesn't know any better, but I assure you that if you give Hilda another chance, she will learn to be a more proper students." Pleakley says as Joanna nodded while giving a quiet Enid a serious yet calm look on her face as the adults were once again oblivious to the fact that Stitch grew out his other pair of arms and grabbed onto Hilda as he leaped them up into the roof and stuck onto it like a spider as Stitch was using his other pair of arms to hold onto Hilda's waist while said person reached out her arms to grab onto the vent as she began pulling on it.
"So, in conclusion Ms. Hallgrim, while I appreciate that your trying to look out for my daughter and are worried for her, I assure you that Hilda just needs some time to adjust on how to act in school and with her friends standing beside her, I'm sure that Hilda will become a model student one day." Joannah says firmly, having full confidence that her daughter can learn how to act in school in no time, as Enid stared at the group in front of her stoically before smiling softly as she chuckled.
"Well, maybe I've been a bit harsh on Hilda. It's not her fault that she doesn't know how to act in school. I'll tell you what? Perhaps we can give Hilda a little more time to adjust and-What the nuts?!" Enid says calmly before gasping in shock as she saw Hilda and Stitch hanging by the ceiling. "Hilda! You and your dog get down here this instant before you hurt yourself-Aaaah!" Enid says just as Hilda opens the crate as the Baby Troll fell down from it and landed on Enid's head, startling her as the Troll jumped out of his head and landed on her desk as everyone stared down at him in shock.
"Is that a freaking Troll?!" Roland asked, more surprised than scared by this, as Joanna stood up from her chair, and everyone took a couple of steps back as they watched the Baby Troll begin throwing a temper tantrum and started throwing multiple objects around as the adults took cover behind their chairs while Hilda and Stitch, who had retracted his extra pairs of arms, shared determined looks and leaped up as they were able to grab the Baby Troll.
"Got you!" Hilda and Stitch exclaimed, happy to finally capture the surprisingly fast and agile magical monster.
"I-Is that...a Troll!?" Enid asked fearfully as Joanna and the others turned their heads and gasped as they were frozen in fear.
"Yeah, but I'd be more worried about that one!"
"Look!" Pleakley yelled while pointing forwards as Hilda, Stitch, and Enid turned around and screamed as they saw Momma Troll standing in front of the mirror of Enid's office and was currently glaring down at them angrily as she spotted her baby resting in Hilda's arms and grows furious as Momma Troll roared and raised her fists as Joanna and Rolland sees this and quickly rushed over to the stunned trio as Joanna grabbed onto her daughter and Stitch while Roland grabbed onto Enid's hand as the duo dragged them away just as Momma Troll smashed into Ms. Hallgrim's office as she roared at them.
"Aaaaaaah! We're going to die!" Pleakley yelled panickedly while hugging an annoyed Jumba as the evil genius pushes him away.
"No, we're not! Stitch! Guard Dog Mode Activate!" Hilda shouted determinedly while pointing at Momma Troll as Stitch grins evilly, happy to get some revenge on the Troll as he roared and zooms off on four feet as he leaped up and tackle the giant rock monster out of the office as they began fighting in the parking lot.
"My word..." Enid breathes out in shock as she and the others walked over to peer out of the huge wall in the wall watched as Stitch leaped up and delivered a mighty punch to Momma Troll's face as he sent her flying to a streetlight, and it was bent over by her weight as Momma Troll groans and rubs her head before spotting the streetlight as the rock monster grins and grabs onto the streetlight as Momma Troll twirled it around and pointed it at Stitch threateningly.
Not scared by this, Stitch cracked his knuckles before leaping up as Momma Troll narrowed her eyes and swung at the furry blue experiment, only for her eyes to widen in shock/surprise as Stitch used his sharp claws to cut her weapon in half and proceeds to grabbed the broken halves of the streetlight as he then used them to smack Momma Troll away. Letting go of his makeshift weapons, Stitch rolled up into a ball as he zoomed forwards and collided against Momma Troll's stomach as the huge living rock monster groaned in pain, and they flew into the air and burst through five different cars before crashing against the wall of the school as, much to the surprise of everyone, Momma Troll had managed to grab onto Stitch's body and glared down at him as she proceeds to kick him away like a soccer ball.
Flying through the air, Stitch unrolled himself as he landed on the statue of Edmund 'The Troll Slayer' Ahlberg and glared down at Momma Troll, who leaped up from the ground as she reached him and reared back her fist to punch him, but Stitch was able to easily avoid it by jumping away as Momma Troll destroyed the statue instead. Not caring that she destroyed the statue instead of her intended target, in fact, the Troll looked happy to do so for very obvious reasons as Momma Troll briefly smiled gleefully before glaring up at an airborne Stitch as the little experiment landed on the ground and glared at the rock-like monster as Momma Troll glared back and both monsters as they charged at each other and began fighting each other hand to hand with their arms moving around the air in fast speeds as Stitch suddenly bends down and leaped up into the air.
Gasping, Momma Troll could only watch in shock as a smirking Stitch hovered in mid-air before suddenly reaching out his hands as he grabbed onto Momma Troll's hand and lift her up from the air with his super strength as Stitch landed on the floor and grunted as he began slamming Momma Troll onto the ground multiple times, each slam harder than the last as several large cracks began appearing on the parking lot. After a few seconds of slamming the screaming Momma Troll onto the ground, Stitch proceeds to whirl around and tossed her away with an amazing feat of superhuman strength as the large rock monster flew through the air with the speed of a rocket as she burst through ten different cars before crashing against the school's fence as Stitch sees this and his intelligent mind quickly come up with a plan to trap the Troll as he smirked and zoomed off at amazing speeds as he approached the groaning monster and used his sharp claws to cut up the fence behind her before grabbing onto it as Stitch started whirling around the shocked Momma Troll rapidly and stopped as everyone was shocked to see that Stitch had used the fence to tie up the monstrous beast.
"Wow, you're dog is pretty skilled in fighting and is pretty strong for someone his size." Enid says in shock as Hilda looks up to smile at her proudly.
"Yeah, I make him watch a lot of action movies, and feed him well." Hilda explained as Enid nodded before her eyes widen in realization as she gasped.
"There's a Troll in the city! Quick, we have to sound the alarm before the Troll escape from the trap that your dog placed on it...I never thought I say those words out loud." Enid says deadpannedly before walking over to her desk to grab her phone but was stopped by a worried Hilda.
"No! If you sound the alarm and everybody finds out that a Troll is in Trollberg, it will start a crisis. Besides, if everyone finds out that David accidentally brought this little guy here, he will be sent to jail for life!" Hilda says just as she noticed the Baby Troll squirming around in her arms as he wailed sadly and held out his hands to his trapped mother as he made grabbing noises and whimpered as Hilda sees this and grew a sympathetic frown as she patted his head. "Besides, the reason why she came here in the first place was to find her son. I'm sure that if I just give her back her son, she would leave peacefully."
"Hilda-,"
"Mum, please, just trust me on this." Hilda pleaded as Joanna frowns worriedly, but after Roland places his hand on her shoulder and gave her a serious nod with Jumba and Pleakly doing the same thing as Joanna sighs heavily.
"Fine, you can go, but be careful."
"I will." Hilda says while making sure that she had a good grip on the Baby Troll as she began making her way out of the room.
"Are you all insane?! You can't just allow a little eleven year old girl alone out there with the-,"
"Ms. Hallgrim, trust me, Hilda got this. Remember, Hilda grew up all of her life in the woods, surrounded with countless magical creatures. She knows what she's doing," Joanna stated confidently as Enid frowned stoically but nodded as the adults watched as Hilda jumped out of the hole and made her way over to the trapped Troll.
"Stitch, that's enough, you got your revenge, now, let me talk to her." Hilda says seriously as a gloating Stitch turned to Hilda and nodded, feeling his pride comeback after beating up the Troll as Stitch stepped to the side.
"Be careful, Hilda." Stitch warns as Hilda nodded before approaching the Momma Troll, who was able to break out of her metal binds as Hilda looked up at the panting and angry Troll with a serious, stoic look on her face as Momma Troll roared in her face, blowing back her hair as Stitch and the others flinched at this as they were about to intervene, but stopped as Hilda, besides flinching, kept her cool and simply lifted up squirming Baby Troll. Surprised by this, Momma Troll didn't actually expect that her child's kidnapper will give back her baby boy as Momma Troll tentatively raised her hands and carefully grabbed onto her baby as Hilda took a couple of steps back and places her hand in front of her lap.
"There see? We didn't mean to steal your baby. My friend David thought he was an ordinary rock. Sorry if we give you any trouble, and I hope that you will be able to go back to your home, happy to be reunited back with your son." Hilda says with a small, warm smile on her face as Momma Troll snuggles with her baby, who cooed happily as he hugs her and the larger Troll hugs him back as she looks down at the human little girl and her eyes widened in realization as she growled softly. "What's wrong?" Hilda asked with a raised eyebrow as Momma Troll didn't say anything but lifted up her finger to point at her nose as Hilda looks clueless for a few seconds before gasping as she beamed. "No, way! You're the same Troll that I met a couple of months ago before I met Stitch! I helped untie the bell that I accidentally place on your nose!" Hilda exclaimed, surprising the others with what she said, as Momma Troll nodded and lifts up her giant hand to gently pat on Hilda's head, now seeing her as a friend as Hilda smiled and waved at her goodbye as Momma Troll did the same and turned around to leave Trollberg and go back home with her precious son...but not before completely smashing the statue of the 'Troll Killer' as she and her waving son dissapeared from sight.
"Good job, Hilda." Stitch says while walking over to her on all fours as Hilda smiles and pats his head.
"Thanks, Stitch." Hilda says before noticing Enid, Roland, Jumba, and Pleakley staring at her with their jaws dropped as Joanna had a small, proud smile on her face. "Uh, hey,"
"Hilda! That was amazing!"
"Great job and sending that monster back to his home, Little Blue Haired Girl!"
"That was so cool, Hilda!" Roland, Jumba, and Pleakley praised as the group walked over to her, and the blue-haired girl blushes at the compliments that she was getting as she giggled and rubbed her neck sheepishly.
"Oh, it was nothing, guys."
"N-Nothing? Hilda, you were able to not only confront the Troll with no fear, but you were able to send it away without fighting it! How did you know that Troll will leave peacefully if you hand over her baby?" Enid asked incredulously as Joanna shakes her head and chuckled under her breath.
"I'm afraid that's the sort of thing that she excels at the most. Hilda is able to see the good in everybody, no matter how monstrous or scary they look or even how destructive and evil they were," Joanna says while winking at Stitch as he smiles softly and chuckled. "Hilda takes it after her father...and it's one of the reasons why I loved him in the first place," Joanna says the last part under her breath with a blush and a smile as Enid slowly turns over to Hilda, who was waving goodbye at the retreating form of the Trolls as Enid blinks before smiling warmly as she chuckled.
"So, Ms. Hallgrim's letting you stay in our class, and she no longer hates you?" A shocked Frida asked as an hour has passed, and we see Hilda and the others back at the Parent-Student Conference as they were helping with cleaning up the mess that Stitch and the Baby Troll made earlier.
"And she's not telling anyone about the Trolls? How did you swing that?" A disbelieved yet very happy David asked as Hilda and Stitch shared a look and chuckled.
"We've come to...an understanding." Hilda says while turning her head as she saw Enid talking with her mother and Mr. Trenton while Jumba and Pleakley were elsewhere cleaning up the mess and placing all of the sleeping Nittens back into a small box so that the gang can take them back to their home tomorrow as Enid was telling a smiling Joanna and Roland about how amazing Hilda was and spotted said person staring at her as Enid gave her a small warm nod and Hilda nodded back with a smile, silently telling her that she promises to do better and learn how to behave in class as Enid smiles at her thankfully...oh, and Augustus ran in and cried about the statue being destroyed, but nobody cares about it, so they decided to leave the man sob and mourn over the shattered statue.
And done! I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, and I can't wait to write the next one!
Anyway, as always, I will catch you all later.
