A/N: Hello everyone! Welcome back! This was a bit of a doozy of a chapter, but once I had a concept for it it actually came together really quickly! I won't ramble on too much, but I'll go ahead an plug the discord again, and tell you all to comment and review! (discord (dot) gg /R4532jk5gq)
On the edge of civilized space, amidst the physics defying roar of space-ship engines, sat what would best be described as a biker bar. Rusted, cobbled together smuggling ships parked in front of an establishment that was as neon covered and cigarette smelling as any sketchy truckstop on a highway on Earth would be. A diminutive creature, with large ears and tail twice the length of his body, dressed in a brown cloak hobbled to the bar inside the establishment, speaking up to the Yugopotamian bartender across the wooden countertop. "I am in need of an… asset retrieval specialist." Came the voice from under the hood, a nasally high pitched sound at odds with the atmosphere of the bar.
The Yugopotamian glanced at the creature before him, his tentacles dexterously cleaning a glass as his brain bubbled in the glass jar atop his head. "Seems like there's something missing from this conversation." Came the strangely accented voice of the octopus-like alien. Beneath his hood, the rodent like alien rolled his beady eyes, but produced a small stack of credits, sliding them over the table. "Head into the back. Pay him well enough and he might not turn you into a bathmat." The Yugopotamian pointed behind himself, to a cordoned off backroom.
"I thank you for your service." The rodent squeaked, hopping off the stool and waddling to the back. The smell of smoke and alcohol filled the air as he stepped into the backroom, covering up another notable stench… metal and blood.
Sitting cross legged and leaning back into the plush booth was a massive figure, green in skin, with burgundy tattoos crossing his body. Red eyes looked out to the rodent, as a smirk crossed his face. He shifted slightly as he looked at the rodent, his leather jacket, which the rodent recognized as being from an apex predator from Yolkus, was covered in spikes that gave the impression that the man was dangerous. The burgundy tattoos around his eyes made it look as though he was wearing a mask, and his broad chest and tree trunk arms spoke of power.
"You come highly recommended." The rodent said, making eye contact with the man. "Lorwardians are already known to be great warriors, and you have managed to make quite the namey-name for yourself." He added, his bizarre speech pattern coming through for the first time. It was distinctive, relatively unique in the galaxy, and not common even among his species.
"Not that many things alive that can stand up against the main man." The Lorwardian spoke, his eyes bearing into the rodent's soul. "What brings you to grovel at the boots of the main man Warhed?" He asked, said boot clonking onto the table in front of him.
Beneath his hood, the rodent's ears twitched. "I am in need of someone to retrieve a piece of property of mine. I have been told you specialize in retrieval of… high risk targets." The rodent's tail swished back and forth as he spoke, a small amount of nervousness creeping in. He wasn't one to be intimidated usually, but the reputation of the Lorwardian was enough to give even him pause.
Warhed glared at the rodent. "The main man doesn't take jobs until he knows the client… or the target." The implication was clear.
The rodent pulled down his hood, his long ears standing up as his red eyes locked onto Warhed's. The shifting of the cloak unveiled a large H that acted as a clasp, hidden before, but now proudly displayed. "I am Dr. Jacques von Hamsterviel, and I require you to capture Experiment 626."
Danny and Kim were thankful for the robust autopiloting system on the Specter Speeder, since it meant that as long as they were cognizant of their surroundings, they didn't really need to pay attention to the specifics of flying the craft. That left them free to do other things in the cockpit. Namely at this time, looking through the pictures they'd taken during their few days in New York as they sent them to the group chat. Danny wrapped his arm around Kim as they glanced over the image of them, Jake, Rose, and Haley, who was Jake's little sister, standing in front of the harbor with the Statue of Liberty behind them. It was a mostly quintessential New York tourist picture, but sharing it with their new friends, people who understood the hero life, was pretty special. Laughter erupted as Clover responded to a picture of Jake and Rose with a heartbroken emoji. "Poor boy-crazy Clover. She's really hoping to find a hero boyfriend of her own." Kim said, chuckling as she put her Kimmunicator away.
"I suppose I can't blame her too much. When you do the stuff we do it's nice to have someone who gets it. I know it'd certainly be a lot harder if I was still dating you all and you weren't a part of the Hero life." Danny said, leaning back in the seat as he kept his gaze out the front windscreen. They were using a path that didn't overlap with most commercial airlines, and flying at an altitude that wasn't common for them either, but a little extra care to avoid a possible collision never hurt. Danny's ghost reflexes did also make him faster on the draw than any normal human pilot could ever be.
"I guess you're right. I'd hate to imagine having a boyfriend who'd get mad that I couldn't make a movie night because I was busy fighting Drakken." Kim said with an eyeroll. She laughed internally at herself. She'd mooned over Josh Mankey who was definitely someone who wouldn't handle the Hero business very well. She'd lucked out with Danny. "Instead the first thing you ask when I get a call is if I want you to tag along." She smiled at him.
"Honestly, I do wish I could do more missions with you." Danny said, kissing the top of her head. "I just always feel weird leaving Amity Park. I trust Mom and Dad and Valerie to handle pretty much anything up to the Box Ghost, and even he's usually just pacified by giving him some boxes nowadays. I just always worry that like, Skulker or the Lunch Lady is going to pop out of the portal and be too much for them."
"You think they'd struggle with the Lunch Lady?" Kim asked with a raised eyebrow. Lunch Lady wasn't a regular escapee, although she DID still come through from time to time. Danny always seemed to handle her pretty easily.
"If she got enough food." Danny clarified. "Everyone varies in how dangerous they are, Spectra'd be a nightmare after a national tragedy that filled everyone with misery, Walker's already a problem, but he'd probably get stronger if there was some kind of 'Rule breaking' festival or something like that. I just worry that there'll be some small thing I forget, or some new ghost I haven't met before that happens to come by the second I leave and they just overpower everyone."
"Well… if that DOES happen, it's not like we don't have Johnny and Ember. They've both said they're willing to step in if things get TOO bad." Kim pointed out.
Danny sighed. "I know, but it's not great for them to do so. For one, the human world is our concern, not theirs quite as much. For another actively fighting against a ghost makes more problems for them on the other side. They got a bit of a pass with Fright Knight, because him taking over is bad news for everyone on both sides. Maybe enough of them don't like Walker that they could get away with him too. But if Johnny decides to step in while I'm fighting Skulker or something? That's a grudge. Friend of my enemy doesn't necessarily mean enemy in the ghost zone, but working against him, even once is sometimes enough to cause a lot of issues. It's why Technus is adamant about never directly fighting anyone, even though he could probably take on most of the ghosts I fight on his own."
"I guess." Kim said, leaning back in her chair with a contemplative look on her face. Politics in the ghost zone seemed strange, but she supposed politics when everyone is immortal looks weird. "Let's move past that then. Excited for Hawaii?"
"Yeah. Some time on the beach sounds nice, and I'll admit I'm pretty stoked about the idea of seeing you in a swimsuit." Danny said, shooting Kim a wink at that, although he couldn't help the blush that came to his face with it.
Kim flushed as well. "Come on! My dad would kill you if he heard you say that." She said, although she wasn't bothered by the statement at all. She'd had Star, Sammy, Alex, and Clover help her pick out one she wanted Danny to see her in after all. She'd helped Star and Sammy find their own equally enticing options, for when they next got the chance to show off.
"I know, but he's not here, and Clover accidentally spilled the beans about your shopping trip." Danny said with a chuckle. "She was trying to tell me about some shirt she saw she thought I'd like, but you know Clover, every shopping trip story goes through her entire time at the mall." Kim nodded at that. Clover was a dear friend now, one Kim was beyond glad to have, but she was not known for her conciseness when it came to talking about shopping. "Regardless, I'm sure you'll look great in it. Here's hoping I don't have to get a stick to beat the other guys away. I WILL if I have to, but I'd rather not."
Kim chuckled and gave him a playful shove. Danny came back after pretending like he was going to fall. "So, what are your thoughts on Lilo and Stitch? I know you dug into their files more than I did. I talked to Jake about it while you and Rose went on that shopping trip." Danny asked. He and Jake had actually spent a good deal of time together while they were in New York. The pair had got on like a house on fire, and Danny had wished he lived closer. They probably could be about as close as he and Tucker are if he was.
"Concerning thoughts about Stitch being a genetic experiment gone awry aside… Lilo's 10." Kim said, as she pulled out the dossier and looked over it again. "She's the tweebs age, Haley's age. I don't like putting a kid in like this."
Danny nodded. He didn't have little siblings, but he knew how protective Kim was of her brothers, a sentiment Jake echoed during their conversations. Haley had developed her dragon powers only a couple months after Jake did, despite being several years younger, but Jake still didn't feel comfortable letting her fully take over dragon duties even when he needed the time off. She'd been partnering with either her teacher or their grandfather whenever she needed to step up while he was busy with exams or a skate competition. Jake wasn't comfortable letting Haley handle even the relatively tame world of magical creature protection, much less the wider world of supervillains they were dragging them into. "I'll admit I'm not the biggest fan of it either, but don't forget we're still technically kids too." Danny said, and Kim nodded. They were fifteen, at the cusp of adulthood but still with a ways to go, it was sometimes hard to remember that when they occasionally found themselves tossing supervillain henchmen around. "I think Global Justice is more interested in Stitch, and Lilo's mostly around as a handler. Stitch reads like a Kaiju, but is the size of a koala. I think they're more interested in that than the hawaiian girl who holds his leash."
"Isn't that kind of a problem though? Being like hey, you should join our team, but only because we want your dog." Kim asked.
"Maybe? Circumstances being what they are, I think it might be understandable. The file does say that Lilo actually comes highly recommended for her ability to de-escalate situations. Apparently she's managed to contain over 600 of these alien experiment things through a combination of her natural charisma and Stitch's occasional muscle. We probably don't want her on the front lines, but it wouldn't surprise me if they would want her on speed dial for negotiations WITH aliens. She's probably got more experience with that than anyone on the planet." Danny said, pointing out a few passages in Lilo's file.
"It is wild to think that there are just aliens living on the planet though, right?" Kim asked, looking towards him.
"Not that weird I don't think, but my barometer is skewed because I fight ghosts on a daily basis. Ghosts are already real, magic is already real, what's aliens at this point?" Danny said with a shrug. Kim supposed she couldn't fault that logic. They'd met a family of dragons a few days ago, and she was dating a boy who was a ghost.
"Anyway, I'm definitely going to let Global Justice know that I am not letting Lilo in any combat zone if she joins." Kim said, her tone totally resolute.
"I'm with you there. I'm sure Sammy, Alex, Clover, Jake, and Ron will be too." Danny said with a smile, leaning down and kissing her. "You're hot when you care."
Kim flushed as red as her hair as she pushed him back, Danny laughing all the way.
The Bird of Paradise hotel was pretty easy to spot, being the tallest building on the entire island, and Kim and Danny parked the Specter Speeder in one of the parking lots. Walking up to the front desk, Kim speaks up. "Hi, we have a reservation under Fenton?" Kim had a bit of a dopey smile on her face with that. It was almost like she had Danny's last name and this was a honeymoon. They were here for 'business of course, but she'd allow herself her fantasy for a little bit.
"Daniel Fenton?" The receptionist asked and Danny nodded, pulling out his ID and credit card.
"Yes ma'am." Danny said, as the woman scanned the ID. It was 'fake' in so far as it said he was 18, but it was granted to him by Global Justice specifically for circumstances like this. Fifteen year old Danny Fenton couldn't check into a hotel, but as an 18 year old he could. Danny thankfully had filled out and gotten a bit taller in his months of ghost fighting, so while he was maybe a tad short for an 18 year old, he'd pass.
"You're on the second floor, room 213." The receptionist said, handing over a set of room keys. "Enjoy your stay at the Bird of Paradise."
"Thanks. While we're here, we were hoping to see a friend of ours who works here, she actually recommended you all to us. Nani Pelekai? Is she on shift today?" Kim asked, telling a little half-lie. They WERE here at this hotel over any other on the island because Nani worked here, and hopefully by the end of this they would be friends. They just weren't yet.
"Oh yeah, she's out at the surfboard rental hut, she's the manager there." The receptionist said, her smile widening a tiny bit. Seems she wasn't as initially thrilled with another set of tourists, but if they were here to see a local? They weren't QUITE as bad.
"Thanks!" Kim said as she slipped the room keys into the pockets of the shorts she was wearing, before turning to look to Danny. "So, put our stuff in the room or go see Nani first?"
"Room first, just to get it over with. We'll be here for a few days regardless, not like Nani's shift is going to end before we drop it off, it's like… 2 PM." Danny said, and Kim nodded. They were actually given a suite, which was quite nice, and Kim was very excited to spend a little vacation time here. For the sake of Kim's father, who they were already lying to just a little bit by Danny being here, Kim elected to sleep in a separate room from Danny. She would have like the opportunity to cuddle up to him at night, and suspected that it would happen on the couch anyway when they'd try watching a movie and pass out, as happened regularly anyway, but this way they could at least say they had separate rooms. Danny snapped a picture of Kim tossing her suitcase on the bed, sending it to the group chat to let them know they arrived.
"Warn me next time!" Kim said, tossing a pillow at Danny's head. He let it phase through him and stuck out his tongue at her. "You're lucky I love you."
"Love you too, Kim." Danny said as he came up and hugged her for a second, planting a quick kiss on her lips. "Want to go see Nani? We'll have the big meeting and then hopefully enough daylight to check out the beach."
"Yeah, let's get this over with. I know if she's anything like me, she's not going to be thrilled about us asking for her sister to be put in harms way." Kim said, as she readied herself for the upcoming conversation.
The surf rental hut wasn't hard to find, and the woman behind the counter was definitely Nani. Aside from the name tag that said her name was such, she looked exactly like the picture they had on file, and also looked exactly like an older Lilo. "Aloha! Welcome to the surf shack. Looking for a rental? Or to book some lessons or an excursion?" Nani asked, a customer service voice going in full force.
"Hi, actually we're looking for Nani Pelekai, is that you?" Kim asked, trying to be polite and non-threatening. Two strangers coming up and asking for you by name is concerning, but hopefully the fact that the two strangers are pretty obviously teenagers should hopefully make it less scary.
"I am. I'm sorry, do I know you? I meet a lot of people here so I'm sorry if I've forgotten." Nani said, keeping her customer service voice up.
"No, we actually wanted to talk to you about your sister Lilo." Kim said, taking a moment to take a breath. "We're from an organization who has some interest in her and Stitch. We're aware of the whole… alien situation, and wanted to discuss some stuff related to it. Don't want to get more into detail here out in the open."
Nani looked like she was a deer in the headlights for a moment, before Danny stepped in. "It's not bad, we promise, and you can tell us to leave and pound sand once we've talked about it. We're from an organization called Global Justice, we just want to talk. You name the place, and any time over the next few days."
That seemed to calm Nani down a bit, although not much. "Look, we… if I'm going to talk to any organization about this stuff, I have a family friend who needs to be present. How about you meet me at my house this evening, maybe about 7. I need to make a call."
"Whatever you need to feel comfortable." Danny assured. "We'll see you then. Do you mind if we leave you a contact number in case you need to change the time?" Danny said, Nani shook her head and handed him a pad and pen, and Danny wrote down his cell phone number. "Give us a call if something changes. We look forward to seeing you and Lilo tonight."
Nani nodded, still a bit too shaken up to speak as Danny and Kim waved and moved off to the hotel. As soon as they were out of earshot, Nani rushed to a phone and called the only family friend she had who could deal with this kind of thing.
The Pelekai family home was a quaint little structure on the edge of the forest and the coast atop a hill. The green walls with white trim covered by red roofs was almost postcard worthy, although the strange flying-saucer like structure that sat atop the larger of the two sections. "Do you think that came before or after the aliens?" Danny asked as they walked up the drive. He'd flown the pair there from the hotel, since both were too young to drive, and they weren't in any rush to try and fly the Specter Speeder, it tended to give off the wrong impression.
"I'm guessing after, although I guess we'd have to ask them to be sure. You as nervous about this as I am?" Kim asked, as she glanced up at the house again. She was normally pretty gung-ho about anything, anything is possible for a Possible after all, but the thought of coming to a family, that by their records had already experienced great tragedy, and asking them to allow their youngest to fight supervillains? It was a tall ask.
"Oh, probably more so, but it'll be alright. We know we're here for the right reasons, and we want what's best for Lilo too. If they decide they aren't cool with Lilo joining? That's fine. We ask if they're willing to just be on call to answer alien questions and leave it at that. It'll work out." Danny said, shooting Kim a reassuring smile. Kim might be the cheerleader, but Danny was good at lifting spirits too. Based on the smile she shot back, Danny figured he'd done a pretty good job.
Knocking at the door, a large African-American man answered, dressed in a black suit with dark sunglasses that were almost impenetrably tinted. He had no hair, and looked every bit as intimidating as they imagined he was supposed to be in this instant. "You are the ones from Global Justice?" His deep voice asked, as they were certain he looked over them with intense suspicion.
"We are. I take it you're the family friend Nani was talking about?" Danny asked, putting on a friendly voice. Academically he knew that this man was probably just a normal human, and therefore not REALLY capable of hurting him if he didn't let him. It didn't stop him from being TERRIFYING though.
"I am. How about you step inside and meet the whole family." The man said, stepping back and holding the door. Danny and Kim stepped inside, where they saw the entirety of the recorded Pelekai family, plus one other sat on the couch. Lilo was sandwiched between Nani and the large alien man they knew to be Jumba Jookiba, with Stitch sitting in front of her, obviously on edge and ready to jump into action at a moment's notice. Next to Jumba sat another alien, thin with a single eye, who they had records of being named Pleakley. Next to Nani sat a handsome hawaiian man they hadn't seen in any family photos. Either he was a newcomer to the family, or just hadn't been in any of the specific photos they had. The large man who let them in wasn't in any of them either, so it's possible he was a friend of some description Global Justice hadn't tagged as important. Kim kind of wished they had.
"Hello, everyone. It's nice to get the chance to meet you all." Danny said, trying to start out on the right foot. He considered himself to be FAR worse at this than Kim was, but Kim was having difficulties putting her own 'protective older sister' instincts in the cage to take the lead her. Danny didn't blame her, but he did know that they weren't planning on letting Lilo get hurt. It was just a matter of convincing the family of that. "I think I can open with some introductions, and then I'll lay our cards on the table so to speak." Danny smiled as reassuringly as he could. "My name is Danny Fenton, and this is Kim Possible. We're a part of a superhero team created by Global Justice. We've come to ask if Lilo and Stitch would be interested in joining the team."
Everyone's eyes widened a bit at that, well… Pleakley's eye widened only having one. Lilo's were the most surprised though, although she didn't speak up, instead fumbling with a large headed so-ugly-its-cute doll that looked handmade.
"We've heard a good deal about what you've done. Rehabilitating some alien experiments, stopping an alien invasion and galactic takeover, it's real impressive stuff." Danny added, buttering them up a bit, but being genuine about it. "We're hoping you'd be willing to talk with us about your experiences with that, as well as have a conversation with us about joining the team and what that means. Would you all be so kind as to introduce yourselves? We have files with names, but I'd rather hear them from you all."
"Cobra Bubbles." The large man said, taking his seat at the edge of the sofa, facing them and being physically closer to them than anyone else in the room.
"Nani Pelekai, although you know that already." Nani said, with some mixture of anxiety, fear, and maybe even a touch of annoyance in her voice.
"Lilo Pelekai." Lilo said, her voice perhaps a little smaller than was normal for her usual boisterous self.
"Jumba Jookiba." Jumba said, his tone flatter than those who knew him expected.
"Wendy Pleakley" Pleakley said, his tone actually very bright and happy. He looked excited for some reason. Danny raised an eyebrow at the name Wendy, but made nothing of it. He was honestly glad the aliens in the room had names human mouths could say.
"Uh… hi. I'm David, David Kawena." David said, he looked lost. The way he held Nani's hand made it seem like he was here for moral support. The ring on the hand she was holding made it pretty obvious why he was the support.
"Pleasure to meet you all." Danny said, nodding at all of them and flashing a bright smile. Kim did the same.
Following a moment of pause, Cobra's deep voice cut through the silence like a guillotine. "So, how pray tell, did you come across the information about Lilo and Stitch here?" He asked, looking at them over his glasses. His eyes were somehow more intimidating than the glasses.
"Global Justice provides us with the records, although I'll admit I don't know where they get them. I'd assume some kind of information sharing between agencies, but I don't know for sure. We're mostly their team for when a supervillain is building a death ray and needs to be stopped." Kim said, before adding. "Global Justice is a worldwide peacekeeping organization founded in the late '60s by a Dr. Benton Quest, after he'd traveled the world with his family pretty much doing what we do now."
Cobra leaned forward steepling his fingers. "I'm familiar with the organization. My father, Cobra Bubbles Sr. was among the early members, and I trained with them myself in the '90s. Special Projects division."
"Huh, wonder why Betty didn't talk to us about that?" Danny wondered aloud.
"Betty Director?" Cobra asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Dr. Director now, but yeah. Still find it really weird that her last name is director." Danny said, shaking his head.
"We did at the time too. You've given me enough here to at least let you speak. I'll confirm this through my own channels, but not just anyone would know about Betty." Cobra said, before nodding to Nani. "If they're not the real deal, I'll know by tomorrow morning, but the odds they'd know what they do and not be are slim. You know I wouldn't let you take a risk if I didn't have a good feeling about it. Ms. Possible there has a public track record, and is exactly the kind of asset Betty would recruit. Everything I know says they're on the up and up. I think we can listen, if nothing else."
Nani nodded to Cobra, breathing out a sigh. "If Cobra says you're worth listening to, I'll believe him. So, what does your team do?"
"Well, when we work as a team specifically, it's usually for large-world scale threats that supervillains are putting on that maybe each one of us wouldn't be able to handle on our own, or with our normal support crews." Kim said, trying to piece out how to properly describe how they function. "Danny and I both have our own little support crews, if you've ever heard of me, you've probably heard of my friend Ron too, he calls himself my sidekick, I think of him more as a partner, but we work together on this stuff. I also have my tech guy Wade who designs and builds the equipment I use, and handles all the tech stuff. Danny has his own crew who does a lot of the same, but focused on his specific ghost stuff."
"Ghosts?" Lilo spoke up, confused. "Ghosts are real?"
"Yep." Danny said, transforming, floating and turning invisible for a second, then intangible and putting his hand through the wall and back out. "I got ghost powers a little under a year ago, and started using them to fight ghosts in my hometown because they kept attacking. My family and friends help out with that, either by developing equipment, keeping me on schedule so the Hero stuff doesn't overshadow my normal life, or just emotional support. There's also the occasional time they have to fight ghosts themselves, they're keeping the city in one piece while I'm gone."
"Cool!" Lilo said, her eyes sparkling as Danny transformed.
"Yeah, my ghost hero name is Phantom. That's a secret, information about Phantom is that he is a separate person who my family just helps with equipment because they were already the pre-eminent ghost hunters. Since we're asking you to be a part of the team though, we do want to make sure that you're getting all the information we can give you about it before hand. There are a few things that are secret, but we do promise it's nothing bad, and it's something you'll learn pretty much as soon as you join the team." Danny said, as Kim nodded. "We can even tell you what the THING is, but just like, not the specific details. We have three team members, good friends of ours, that work for an organization called WOOHP. They're espionage agents, but they help us fight supervillains, and they're good friends of ours. We just can't tell you their names unless you're on the team, because that's privileged information."
Cobra had been slightly on edge with the secrecy, but accepted the explanation well enough. He'd done enough ops like this to recognize that there were times that such information was privileged. He nodded to Nani.
"Back to the topic of the team, being on it isn't any obligation that would take you away from your normal duties. If you're keeping the aliens in line here as your normal duties, that's still what your main mission is, it's just if we come up on something that we'd need help with, we'd ask that you'd pick up the phone when we call. That could be just for information, like if we meet an alien species and need help identifying it or whatever, since that'd be in your wheelhouse, or if there's some super powered guy causing havoc that just Danny and Jake can't handle on their own." Kim said, nodding over to Danny as she mentioned him.
"Jake?" Lilo asked, he head tilting.
"Yep, we actually just recruited your friend Jake Long for the team." Danny said, pulling out his phone and showing the picture of him and Kim with Jake, Rose, and Haley in front of the Statue of Liberty. "He mentioned you were his 'homegirl'." Danny said with a chuckle.
"So you know about his stuff too?" Lilo asked, and Danny nodded.
"Actually had to fight a couple of his bad guys while we were in New York recruiting him." Danny said, as he put his phone away. "We worked pretty well together. I'm excited to see what we can do in the future."
"Before recruiting Jake, the first thing we did as a formal team together was stop a supervillain from taking over the world using a video game. Does the game 'Mind Hackers' ring any bells for you guys?" Kim asked.
Nani nodded. "Yeah, Lilo and Stitch got so pulled into that game we couldn't get them out. The Pleakley tried it and ended up the same way. Eventually we had one of the experiments mess with the game and they came out of it, but they were unresponsive for a few hours."
"Yeah, we'd had several friends do the same thing. We actually stopped it as our first mission together. Saved the developer the supervillain kidnapped, and destroyed the game server before he started sending out commands to take over the world." Kim said, looking a little proud of herself for that. "While the circumstances weren't great, that experience actually properly introduced us to some of our best friends now. We hope that by working with us, not only can we work together to save the world, but also provide people who understand the struggles of what this kind of Hero work can cause. I get to talk to one of the WOOHP agents about the difficulties of trying to get homework done on a helicopter in the Alps, there's not that many other people who I get to talk about that with."
Nani glanced at the two teens, obviously weighing them out a bit more. "I can appreciate what you've done if that's true… but Lilo is ten. She's a little girl. You talk about how you know that she and Stitch did all that stuff before… but you don't know what it was like here on the ground when it was happening. You didn't know how terrifying it was coming home to an alien having kidnapped my little sister because of a dog we found at the pound." Nani sighs, placing her head in her hands for a moment before looking up at them. "Look, I'm sure it's obvious I'm too young to be Lilo's mom. While that's maybe biologically possible, it's not the case. I'm her older sister, we lost our parents about five years ago and I suddenly had to drop what I was planning on doing with my life to raise her. Cobra here came into our lives because he was the CPS officer who was responsible for making sure I was capable of taking care of Lilo. I was a nineteen year old who had barely finished high school, and only really had prospects to be a professional surfer, but that wasn't a life that could support Lilo. I gave it up for her, and I'd do it a thousand times over. Now you come here and ask me to let her… go fight supervillains?"
Danny and Kim let that sink in for a second, before Kim spoke up. "I can't fully understand what you went through, but I do know what it is to be an older sister. I have two brothers Lilo's age who want nothing more than to be doing what I'm doing. They might even have the chops for it since they're supergeniuses, but I haven't let them get anywhere near this stuff. I want them to have normal lives too. I don't want them to be fighting supervillains, I don't want Lilo to be doing it either."
"Then what are you asking? Just for Stitch? Why was Lilo ever in the conversation?" Nani asked pointedly. "What are you afraid of that needs him?"
Danny speaks up. "At the moment, there is nothing on the radar that we don't think we can handle. Each of us on our own has done the whole saving the world thing a few times over, and as a team maybe even a half-dozen more. We also understand that we don't know everything that can happen. A year ago there was no threat of a ghost invasion to the world, and in that year we've had no fewer than 120 ghosts attack my city, a handful of which being capable of taking over the entire world given the chance. Three years ago Supervillains had been thought of as a thing of the past, but then they started popping up again, with Kim, alongside some other more covert agents taking care of them. We could be on the peak of the danger of supervillains, or it could keep rising, and we just don't know what it looks like. Ideally, we'll never have to call. Ideally every bit of communication we have with you is just a check-in, or maybe a question because an alien ended up somewhere else and we need you to translate or pick him up. The basic boring stuff. But on the off chance that something DOES come up? That there's a bad guy who is too dangerous for even Jake and I, the ones with superpowers to take on? We'd like to be able to call on Stitch to help with that. Lilo's file also shows that she's been exceptional as an alien diplomat. Maybe she'd need to remotely talk to someone. That's all we're thinking about asking. Having it our way, Lilo never has to leave a transport ship to do her job, and only needs to BE on the ship because she wants to be or a connection to here is hard to make for whatever reason."
Nani sighs, and David places his hand on her shoulder, pulling her in for a half-hug and letting her rest her head on his shoulder. "Look, you know I don't know much about all of this. But I committed to helping you and Lilo. We'll get through this, as an Ohana, okay?"
The tender moment was interrupted by a sudden crack as the wooden door gave way beneath the metal soled boots of Warhed, his gaze scanning the room as Danny and Kim immediately shot into action, Danny shifting into Phantom in an instant. As Warhed's gaze locked on Stitch though, he smirked, reaching onto his belt and grabbing a cube that he chucked at the blue alien. It engulfed him, trapping him in some kind of energy cage that floated back towards Warhed. Stitch raged and thrashed at the energy field that surrounded him, but was ineffective against the cage he found himself in. "Package secure. Nothing for the main man." Warhed said into his wrist communicator.
"We'll see about that!" Danny said as he leapt forward to grab Stitch away. Warhead backhanded him, knocking him into a nearby wall where a picture frame fell and shattered against the floor.
"You'll pay for that!" Kim said as she tried to perform a flying kick towards the brute, but she was knocked out of the air just as easily.
"Chumps and bastiches the lot of you." Warhed said, as he stepped back through the door, slamming his boots together as rockets appeared, shooting him into the sky.
"Stitch! No!" Lilo called out, rushing out the door.
"Kim, tracker! Now!" Danny called out, as Kim pulled a tracking device from the Kimmunicator with practiced ease as Danny grabbed it, turning intangible and rocketing through the roof, he pushed his speed to the limits to try and catch up to the alien threat. Thankfully, Danny was faster than Warhed's rockets by a substantial margin. Grasping the tracker between two knuckles, he slammed his fist into the alien's back, attaching the tracker, and delivering a solid blow in the process.
"Ah! Bastich!" Warhed said, turning around and locking eyes with Danny. "Not sure what you are, but I ain't having no blasted interloper gettin' between me and my payday." With that Warhead reeled back and slammed his fist into Danny's sternum, the electrical gauntlet on his hand sparking and delivering a shock throughout Danny's whole body.
In that instant, all Danny could feel was PAIN. It felt like the incident that gave him his powers all over again, a complete and total shock that filled every nerve in his body with a burning pain that almost knocked him out. Warhed flew away as Danny started falling to Earth, unable to focus on keeping himself in the air. A second later and Danny managed to catch himself from hitting the ground, although he'd lost visual on the alien attacker.
Danny floated down defeated to the Pelekai house. "Didn't manage to stop him. Did get the tracker on though." Danny said, struggling to regain his composure. "I don't know what was up with those gauntlets, but they fried me."
"That was a Lorwardian." Pleakley said, somewhat shaken. "One of the few known races the Galactic Federation refuses to deal with, since they just try to conquer everything they can get their hands on."
"His gloves were likely Lorwardian tech designed to deal with Ectarians. They are a species that have similar abilities to yours, perhaps evolving from the same ecological niche. Experiment 375 uses much of their DNA in his construction." Jumba said, rubbing his chin lightly. "I believe that was Warhed. Bounty Hunter, outside the law. Thrown off Lorwardia for not bending the knee to their king."
"Great, so he's got anti-ghost weapons, and is a known criminal. Well, won't be the first we've dealt with." Danny said, shaking himself. "Kim, tracker working?"
"Yep, locked onto his signal. Looks like he's heading to a ship in low orbit. Wade says his trackers will work as far as the Moon reliably, and he still gets pings from the one he sent to Jupiter, so if we can get a ship we can still give chase." Kim said, looking down at the Kimmunicator. "Please tell me you all have a space ship that we can use to chase him?"
"We do, but if that guy has those gauntlets to mess with Danny's powers, and tossed you both aside so easily, you're going to need some help. We'll need to grab some cousins." Lilo said, determined.
"Cousins?" Danny asked, raising an eyebrow.
"It is name she has given for the experiments. Hawaiian tradition I believe." Jumba said, looking at Lilo. "Which ones are you thinking of?"
"Sparky and Reuben." Lilo said definitively. "If those shock gauntlets are so dangerous for Danny, Sparky's the best bet to deal with them, and Reuben's got a ship fast enough to catch up, since we can't really pull your ship up Jumba since you added that extra lab section."
"I did not expect to be needing to." Jumba grumbled, but relented. "Choices are understandable."
"So… where do we find those guys?" Kim asked, eyes glancing over at Danny as he continued his recovery. She'd seen him take electrical attacks before, Skulker used a few, and Technus had them as a part of his bread and butter fighting style when the pair would spar, but she'd NEVER seen them do this much damage to Danny.
"Sparky's at the lighthouse, and Reuben's in the forest. Come on, we'll take the X-buggy." Lilo said, gesturing for them to follow.
"I think I might be faster." Danny said, seemingly having recovered. "Grab on and tell me where to go." Danny grabbed Lilo and Kim's hands, before shooting off towards the lighthouse. Nani watched on in concern, but knew she couldn't say anything right now. Nothing in the world would get between Lilo trying to save Stitch, and she knew better to try. Here's hoping these two heroes were actually up to the task.
Cobra put his hand on her shoulder. "They jumped into help without a second thought. I've seen people pulling cons… they aren't. I'll make sure to get in touch with the people they're saying they work for… but I think we already know they're the real deal."
Nani could only nod.
Flying into the top of the Lighthouse, Sparky zapped himself out of the large bulb, tilting his head to Lilo as he looked over at her. "Stitch?" He rasped, his alien tongue still struggling with English.
"A bad guy took him. He's got these shock gloves that really hurt my friend here who is trying to help me save him. Would you help too?" Lilo asked, reaching her hand out to Sparky.
The yellow-alien slammed his fists together, nodding and taking Lilo's hand. "Save cousin." It said. "How go?"
"Reuben, hopefully." Lilo said. "Fly alongside us, you know where to go right?" Sparky nodded and the quartet flew off into the woods. As they approach from the air, Danny can't help but notice the large yellow and black ship that was presumably their ride into space.
"So… why is there a random alien ship here?" Danny asked as they touched down nearby.
"Well, it used to belong to a guy named Gantu. He was like a space police officer who was after Stitch, but then he got fired for endangering others trying to capture him. After that he worked for Dr. Hamsterviel, who was Jumba's old partner, to capture all of the experiments that ended up here. Hamsterviel wanted to use them to take over the galaxy, but he failed. Gantu eventually helped us stop Hamsterviel after he forced Jumba to make him a super experiment that was even more dangerous than Stitch. After that, he got hired back on as a police officer and works for the Galactic Federation as a bodyguard. Reuben used to be his partner under Hamsterviel, although he didn't really do anything. Now Reuben lives here and makes sandwiches." Lilo explained as they came to a small shack with the name 'Reuben's' emblazoned on it in bold letters. Stepping in caused a little bell to ring, and Danny and Kim took in the sight of the chaotic kitchen.
A yellow-orange creature with similar features to Stitch stacked deli meats and other sandwich fillings on slices of bread, before quickly wrapping and packaging them, writing their contents on the foam containers as they stacked up with speed. Behind him, a strange lizard-like alien with what seemed to be an organic chef's hat and spatula tail manned a grill and fryer. "Ah! Lilo! Welcome, need a snack? What you have Sparky here for? And these newcomers?" The yellow one asked. Danny narrowed his eyes lightly at the voice. He sounded like his Dad and Technus. Strange.
"Stitch has been kidnapped." Lilo said with urgency. "We have a tracker on the guy who got him, but we need to get to space, and we could use your help fighting him. He's really strong."
Reuben paused for a second, processing that, before sighing. "Guess I'd be a bad cousin if I just let him get kidnapped. Frenchfry! You're in charge while I'm gone!" The experiment said, hanging up his apron and leading everyone to the ship. "Climb on in, we'll be taking off in thirty seconds." Reuben said, before he grew two extra arms and began scurrying over the ship, presumably doing pre-flight checks.
Loading into the ship, Danny, Kim, Sparky and Lilo sat down and buckled up, as Reuben came in, pressed a button to close the hatch, and turned the key that started the ship, a loud whirring pouring into the cabin as it quickly shot up and out of the atmosphere.
Danny was thrilled. He'd hoped he'd get the chance to be on an alien spaceship at some point in his life ever since he learned that friendly aliens existed, and now he was! Once Stitch was safe he was going to milk this for every bit of the experience he could.
"Alright, we're out of atmosphere now, let me see the tracking signal so we can follow it." Reuben said, as he grabbed the Kimmunicator from Kim and patched it into his console. "Ooh boy. Lorwardian ship then. Nasty business. Good news is, we're faster, by a good bit. 3 minutes until we're in boarding distance."
"Wait, the information we have on these experiments is that they were all build for pretty specific purposes. Sparky over there is some kind of living battery or electricity eater, which makes sense, but… don't you make sandwiches? How are you the spaceship pilot?" Danny asked, a little confused.
"Ha! I wish I was just a sandwich maker. Nah, I'm the prototype for Stitch. All the destructive power and durability, alongside the intellect, just… none of the destructive drive Stitch does." Reuben said, laughing. "What's our plan for boarding here? A lot of the weapons on this got decommissioned after we took it out of the fleet, so I don't really have the ability to disable his engines."
Danny thought for a second. "Do you have space suits that would fit us?" He asked.
Reuben nodded, reaching into a console and pulling out some suits. "Galactic Federation standard issue one-size-fits-all emergency space suits. Mandatory on any GF registered ship." Everyone put them on, Danny noticing the black and red color scheme that he thought looked rather flattering on Kim, especially since it clung to her body like a second skin. It reminded him of the catsuits Sam, Alex, and Clover wore. He shook his head trying to clear the hormonal thoughts out. He had a friend to save first, he could drool over his girlfriend later.
"I don't know how these space ships work, are there like energy shields? Would it stop an Ectarian from phasing through?" Danny asked. If Ectarians had abilities like ghosts, he had to assume anything that was designed to deal with them would deal with him as well.
"Energy shields yes, but they haven't really figured out a way to make a shield to block Ectarians. Don't know why you're asking though, you didn't bring any." Reuben said as he adjusted bits of his own suit.
"Because it seems like Ectarians and I have a lot of overlap in our biology." Danny said as he transformed again. "Reuben, can you make the ship automatically keep pace with his?"
"Yeah, it already is." Reuben said.
"Then everybody grab on and I'll take us over. Helmets on." Danny said, as everyone clapped their helmets closed, and he grabbed onto everyone phasing them through the hull into space. They floated for a moment as Danny pushed them to the other ship, before phasing into the hull of the other ship and lightly landing inside.
In the large central cockpit, which was decorated not unlike an Earth Man Cave, but with an alien filter, Warhed could be seen conversing with some diminutive white mouse alien. "Good, good." Hamsterviel said, his nasally voice coming in very clearly through the ship's speakers. Danny wondered if Tucker would find being in the spaceship, or the quality of the sound system more interesting, but threw that thought aside. "You have done well, Mr. Warhed. Perhaps there will be more work for you once I take over the galaxy."
"Always appreciate a happy customer." Warhed grumbled, disinterested in the conversation, but still giving it some level of professional courtesy.
Danny leaned down and whispered in Lilo's ear. "Stab in the dark, but is that your Hamsterviel guy you were talking about before?" When Lilo nodded, he continued. "Why is he called that when he looks more like a rabbit?"
"I always thought he was more like a gerbil." Lilo said truthfully. "Stitch is over there." She added, pointing towards the large energy cage that dominated the back corner of the room. The green energy fields flashing with electric arcs as Stitch beat himself against it without success.
"You and Kim go try and get him out. Let me, Sparky and Reuben handle big, green and angry over there." Danny said, with Lilo and Kim nodding as he did so.
"Ah, do we have to?" Reuben complained. When Lilo gave him a slightly aggravated look he relented, growing his extra arms. "Alright, alright. Fighting time."
Danny shoots forward clocking Warhed in the back of the head with a surprise attack as Reuben and Sparky closed the distance as well, corralling the Lorwardian away from Stitch's cage.
"Ah, you Bastich!" Warhed screamed, as he wheeled around and looked at Danny, his pupil-less red eyes glaring with hatred. "I don't know HOW you got here, but just know the main man don't take kindly to intruders." He readied his shock gauntlets again. "This seemed pretty effective last time, let's see what happens when I turn up the juice." A loud electrical whine emanated from the gauntlets as he powered them up even further, reeling back for a punch to Danny. "Say goodnight Bastich!"
"Mine!" Sparky screamed as he flew himself into the gauntlets. The yellow alien disappeared into the electrical component entirely, before loud pops could be heard as capacitors overloaded. Sparky popped out, burped in the Lorwardian's face, before smiling wide and saying "Tasty!"
"You little Trog!" Warhed said, pulling a knife from his boot, and slashing at Sparky. The electric experiment zapped himself out of the way, and Danny caught the blade on an ecto-barrier he formed, holding Warhed in place for a moment while Reuben lunged, his immense strength knocking Warhed off his feet.
Danny thought for a moment as he felt out his power around the barrier he formed. He'd not experimented with this power too much, and wondered. Shrinking the barrier to a line roughly an inch wide, he turned it into a circle and extended the length to be roughly 6 ft. long. Holding it in his hands, he had effectively created an ectoplasmic energy bo staff. With a dopey grin at his "new" power, he jumped into the fray, smacking Warhed with it as he and Reuben kept offensive pressure on the brute, Sparky stepping in to shock him every once in a while. Warhed was left with no means to press his own offense, but Danny had to give it to him, the man could take a beating.
While Danny and the experiments kept Warhed distracted, Kim and Lilo rushed the control console for the energy cage, trying to disable it. Kim managed to turn it on, but was met by characters unlike anything she'd ever seen on Earth. "Great, of course it's in an alien language, why wouldn't it be?" She grumbled a bit to herself. "Don't really want to poke around in here in case there's an 'execute prisoner' function in there." After Lilo's eyes widened, Kim recognized she probably shouldn't have said it like that. She was really far to used to disconnecting herself from the danger of the situations she found herself in, since worrying too much about it was actively a distraction more often than not. Danny and Sammy had found their disconnect in deconstructing bad guy superweapons, making fun of their designs or poor wiring in parts, flexing their engineering knowledge. Kim had gotten used to poking fun at her situations in ways that made Ron scream and 'freak out', because Ron's freak outs WERE his release from the stress. Ron was in control of himself the entire time he was having one of his fits, able to turn it off when need be, but the ACT of freaking out was how he dealt with the stress. They balanced each other out that way. Lilo hadn't had the opportunity to develop that.
"Let me take a look. Stitch has been teaching me some of it." Lilo said, looking at the control panel. It was a little too tall for her, and Kim had to lift her up to look at it. "No, this isn't High Galactic. I can't read it." She said after a moment. "Those characters say 'Chrisanthemum', but that's not a word outside of our planet."
"Great. Any other ideas?" Kim asked. She glanced around for a power cable, but didn't see anything immediately obvious. Leave it to the space ruffian to care about cable management.
"If Sparky wasn't busy fighting he could maybe short out the system… but depending on if this is fail-safe or fail-deadly that could fry Stitch." Lilo muttered to herself. Kim was impressed at her thought process, something like that was the kind of thinking that had taken her months of fighting supervillains to get into. From what they'd read, Lilo hadn't had fights like theres, instead being more of an alien rehabilitator than a crime-fighter. "Grr… If I had brought my Z-Switch this would have been easy."
"What would a game console help?" Kim asked, trying to follow her process. "Stitch modify it to be a supercomputer or something?"
"No, there's a cousin who lives in it, his name is Glitch, he controls software and stuff. He likes playing the bad guys in our games to make the games more challenging." Lilo mentioned as she racked her brain a bit.
"Wait! That might be it! Phantom, did Technus come with us today?" Kim asked, calling over to Danny as she watched her boyfriend deliver a solid punch to the Lorwardian.
Technus emerged from Danny's pocket, having jumped out of his phone. "I did indeed Ms. Possible. How may I be of assistance?" Technus asked as he flew over, glancing over as Danny ducked under a wide swing from Warhed. As the fight got more desperate for Warhed, he was gaining ground. While Danny and Reuben for all purposes seemed to be stronger than him, they just didn't have the fighting experience he did, nor the raw teamwork necessary to pull it off.
"Think you can try and take over this alien tech? We can't read it to disable it." Kim said, showing Technus the console.
"Ooh! This'll be a challenge." Technus said as he flew into the console, his face showing on the screen as he started going through it. "Oh, they use a quantum system, interesting. Shame there's no encryption at all here though." Technus said as he took complete control of the ship. "Massive security holes, must not have hackers where he is from. If Tucker or Wade could read this they'd have this torn open in a few seconds."
"He talks a lot, doesn't he?" Lilo asked as she watched him.
"He does, but he means well." Kim said, smiling as she heard the low hum of the energy field powering down.
"I may talk a lot, but I also get results!" Technus said, as his face appeared on the big monitor that Hamsterviel was on. "Total ship control. This baby isn't going anywhere."
"And that means you have nowhere to run, Warhed." Danny said with a smirk. "Stitch, you hoping to get some licks in? He DID kidnap you after all."
"MEEGA NALA KWEESTA!" Stitch roared as he lunged at the Lorwardian, all four arms out and slamming his fists into the face of the large green alien.
Danny, Reuben, and Sparky stepped back as they watched Stitch at work. "He's awful vicious for a little guy." Danny noted, as Stitch ravaged the brute. "What was that he screamed out anyway?"
"Something I'm not comfortable repeating in front of the kid. Fair to say if we had a mother she'd be trying to wash his mouth out with soap." Reuben said, with Sparky nodding.
"Stitch tried to explain what it meant once, but got somewhere around explaining the anatomy of some alien before Jumba stopped him." Lilo said as she came to stand next to Danny, Kim beside her. She looked up to Hamsterviel on the screen. "And you Hamsterviel, I don't know how you got out of prison, but I'll be sure to let the Grand Councilwoman know that you busted out again. She might even send Gantu after you again, and you KNOW he's not going to be lenient."
"Oh? Like I should be scared of that oversized blubber butt? He was an incompetent minion when he was one. I replaced him for a reason." Hamsterviel said, a look of smug superiority on his face.
"It's a good thing he'll have some help then. I wonder how many of Stitch's cousins would sign up for a chance to bring you in again? You did kidnap all of them once, and Hammerhead DOES hold a grudge." Lilo idly wondered, and that seemed to give Hamsterviel some pause.
"You haven't heard the last of me, little girl! I will have my experiments back, and I will rule the galaxy!" Hamsterviel said, as he ended the connection.
"Bit of a blowhard, isn't he?" Danny asked, looking over to Lilo.
She nodded, shaking her head. "Yeah, thankfully HE hasn't ever really been dangerous, just the people who he could get to work for him. Hopefully if Gantu starts chasing him, it'll mean less people are willing to work for him." She said, before looking over to Stitch. "Stitch, just knock him out already, he's had enough."
Stitch looked over, snarling, before his face softened. He gave an exaggerated roll of his eyes before delivering a hammerblow onto the Lorwardian's head, knocking him out. "Lilo no fun." Stitch grumbled, before rolling off of the Lorwardian as he collapsed onto the floor, coming to hug Lilo. "Thanks."
"Make sure you thank Danny and Kim too. They really took charge on coming to save you." Lilo said, and Stitch turned around, his ears perking up as he looked at them.
"Thank you for saving me." Stitch said, his throat seemingly having issues constructing the words.
"No problem little man." Danny said, sticking out his fist. Stitch gave him a fist bump. "Now, don't suppose you know how we could contain this guy?"
"The ship's manifest mentioned restrainer cuffs located in the top drawer over there." Technus said from his place inside the computer. "I also took the liberty of triangulating the location of this Dr. Hamsterviel. Matching it with some records on the ship, I have a list of planets the pair have interacted on. Perhaps this will be of use to your Galactic Federation?"
"Way to go Technus." Kim said, looking as Reuben grabbed the cuffs from the drawer and slapped them onto Warhed.
"That'll certainly give Gantu a heads up on hunting him down." Lilo said with a broad smile to Technus. "Thanks!"
"You are welcome, small child." Technus said, a large grin plastering itself on the monitor.
Back on Earth, Sparky returned to his lighthouse, and Reuben agreed to keep Warhed in a holding cell until the Galactic Federation came to pick him, and the location of Hamsterviel up. As Danny, Kim, Lilo, and Stitch made their way back into the Pelekai house, Nani crushed Lilo and Stitch into a fierce hug. "Oh, I'm so glad you two are alright. I know it's pretty much impossible to separate you two for long, but I get so worried." Nani said, half-sobbing into Lilo's hair.
"We're alright Nani. We saved Stitch, and even found where Hamsterviel is hiding!" Lilo said, a broad smile on her face.
"Wasn't he in prison?" Nani asked, a little confused. She loved her sister dearly, but following all the alien stuff was still a bit odd for her. Even four years in it was still a process.
"Apparently he got out. He wasn't on the ship, but he did hire that Warhed guy." Lilo said. "Danny's friend found him. He's like Glitch, but a ghost!"
"Regardless, I'm sure Nani here is most concerned that you're safe, Lilo." Kim said, ruffling the little girl's hair a bit. "We kept her away from the fighting. She and I were on getting Stitch out of his cage while Danny and the Cousins fought off Warhed. Kept her as safe as we could."
Nani pulled back, looking at Lilo's face.The two sisters were known for their ability to communicate without words, and this was no exception. A few moments of silence passed as Nani and Lilo held their silent discussion, before Nani sighed. "There's no talking you out of this, is there?"
"If we can help them, we should." Lilo said. "They helped us, even when they didn't have to. They didn't even think twice about it. They said they'd only ask if it was end of the world, or alien stuff. If the world is ending, that's our problem too, and if it's alien stuff, Stitch needs to be involved anyway."
Nani sighed, standing up from her kneeling position. "She's not allowed in fight zones, and should only be leaving Hawaii if there is completely no other way for her to be of assistance. If she comes back with even a scratch, I'll… I don't know, but I'll do something!"
Kim smiled, raising her hand up. "I get it, trust me. We'll keep her out of the fighting parts. We'll send over a communicator for her, we have a secure line we use for this stuff." Kim kneeled down, looking between Lilo and Stitch. "Glad to have you two on the team."
Stitch's ears went up, his eyes going wide. He scurried off into a bedroom, before coming out with a sheet tied around his neck, sticking his arms out and running like he was flying. "Stitch is a superhero!" He said, causing a chuckle to spread throughout the room.
With that, the team, as it stood now, was complete. Danny smiled as he watched Kim and Nani talk over a few more specifics of what the team was like. He hoped there never came a day where he'd need to call on them, but it felt good to know that, should they ever need it, a three foot tall Kaiju was there.