Rayman Legends Adventures in Lilo and Stitch/Script

Joanie was on her road to the Greenwood house with something in her pockets.
Jesse came to get Patch, Darla and himself a late breakfast. "I had this bizarre dream......"
"Me as well," Patch said.
"I can't be stronger than mine," Jesse chuckled.
"You wanna bet," Patch asked.
Darla came into the kitchen, rubbing her eyes with a small yawn.
"Hello, sister, you won't believe the dream I had," Jesse said to his adopted sister.
"What just happened," Darla asked as she took a seat while he made breakfast for them.
"It was like in a sci-fi movie," Jesse said, "there was this trial for this mad scientist alien who did something he called Experiment 626 and he was arrested for...illegal...something..."
"No question, that's the same fact that I saw in my dream," Patch said.
"Really," Jesse asked.
"I dreamed of flying through the air..." Darla grinned as she waved her tiny hands like wings.
"What an incredible dream," Riley grinned.
Joanie knocked on the door.
"I'll get it, darling," Riley warned Jesse since he was cooking breakfast.
"Of course, Mum," Jesse nodded as he cooked while thinking about his and Patch's dream.
Riley opened the door. "Joanie, what a surprise."
"Excuse me for being early, Mrs. Greenwood, but I was hoping to ask Jesse and Darla something, and perhaps even Patch," Joanie replied.
"Well, we're about to have breakfast right now, but you can come in if you want," Riley said.
"I'll do this faster," Joanie promised as she stepped inside the house for a moment.
Riley let her in, but came back into the kitchen.
Jesse, Darla and Patch greeted Joanie and she greeted back, but it was time for the topic of why she was there.
"You guys always wanna go to Hawaii," Joanie prompted.
"You know that," Jesse, Darla and Patch grinned.
"Well..." Joanie smirked, but took out plane tickets.
"What," Jesse, Darla and Patch asked.
"I was bored listening to the radio and there was a contest to win free tickets to Hawaii for the thirteenth caller," Joanie said, "I thought to myself 'what the hell?'."
"Do we need a chaperone," Darla asked.
"Motocross," Joanie asked.
"Yes, an adult to look after us while we travel," Darla said.
"Oh, a chaperone...." Joanie said, "yes, we do."
"Mum, do you wanna do it," Jesse asked.
"Well, perhaps..." Riley grinned halfway to China, "I could use a vacation...plus, sometimes it's hard to keep the house up on my onw while your dad's out of town on reluctant business...well, alright!"
"Great," Jesse grinned.
"Sounds good, I know it's sudden, but I figured you guys need a vacation," Joanie said.
"We really could," Jesse said.
"I've never been to Hawaii before..." Darla sounded emotional, "oh, I hope I can take a hula lesson."
"Sounds like a good idea," Riley approved.
"I wonder if we can watch," Patch grinned.
Darla grinned bashfully as she daydreamed about becoming a hula dancer.
"Have you ever danced outside of the movies," Jesse asked.
"I wanted to take ballet lessons, but LB wouldn't let me..." Darla pouted.
"He never let you go out and make a lot of friends, did he," Patch asked, "I think I get why you were kind of a spoiled brat in Hollywood."
"Yes, all because of LB Mammoth," Jesse said.
"Oh, you poor fact..." Riley hugged Darla.
"I wish you could come to the orphanage instead..." Darla grinned up to her new sister.
"Me as well, darling, me as well," Riley smiled.
After breakfast, Jesse and Patch came back to his room, pondering the dream they had while also being emotional for Hawaii.
'I wonder what that dream was,' Jesse said.
"Did you watch a sci-fi movie before you went to bed last night," Patch asked Jesse.
"No, I didn't," Jesse shook his head, "did I?"
"Not that I remember......" Patch pouted, "that fact in the jar yet freaked me out..."
"Me as well..." Jesse said, "what did he even say?"
"I have no idea, but it wasn't a dog," Patch shuddered.
"Well, no matter it said to have been a bad word," Jesse said.
"I just remember this lady who seemed to be in charge of everything didn't like it at all," Patch said.
"No, she doesn't..." Jesse said, "oh, well, it was just a dream....."
"Yes," Patch nodded.
Jesse grinned to him as he lay back on his bed. "I wonder what Hawaii will be like..."
"Probably like on TV," Patch guessed, "only better."
"Yes, you're probably right," Jesse grinned.
Patch grinned back as they daydreamed about a vacation in Hawaii. And where it was with surfing and where Jesse also daydreamed of being in a body-builder's contest.
Once again, the bright circle rose to a barren, dead landscape. As it rose over the horizon, the herds began to stir. Ms. Swimmer yawned, everything seemed in she saw that two of her children were missing. She gasped. "Ducky! Spike," she said, standing up.
Her cries made some of the others awaken. Petrie's mum was among the first to stir, but she was far from the last. More adults awakened as Ms. Swimmer began walking around, searching for her missing children. Ms. Flyer looked into her nest and counted heads, only to screech until she realized Petrie was not there. She pushed her children aside and tore the makeshift nest apart. "Petrie? Petrie," she cried.
"Littlefoot! Littlefoot," Littlefoot's grandparents were both calling out as they also looked around in all directions.
Mr. Threehorn prowled around for a few moments before letting out a loud, anguished shriek. "CEEEERRRRAAAAA!!"
This yell was so loud that it echoed across the silent, dead plains. "Patch? Patch...PATCH," Jesse called.
"With what," Patch awakened.
"Why are you kissing that wall," Jesse asked.
"Um...well...because I like this wall among the others..." Patch said with a sheepish grin, but kissed the wall again.
Jesse laughed. "Foolish puppy...." he laid back on his bed and began to daydream.
Patch just remembered something, but decided to go. "I'll be right back."
Jesse nodded to him, but continued to daydream about their upcoming vacation.
Patch went to the window and did a fast call to someone, but went out the doggy door to a meeting place he always met a certain someone to just speak or maybe exchange something with that somebody. He waited as he sat at the spot by himself, hoping a dog-catcher wouldn't take him away while he was waiting.
Colette emerged from the bushes. "What's new?"
"I'm going to Hawaii with Joanie, Jesse, Darla and Riley," Patch warned her.
"Oh, this is going to be fun," Colette grinned, "I hear it was sun, surf and boat!"
"I hope so," Patch grinned.
"Well, have fun," Colette grinned.
"I'll get you something," Patch promised.
"You don't need it," Colette grinned softly.
"I will," Patch existed.
"Well, alright, only if you want to," Colette said.
Patch grinned and nuzzled against the female cocker spaniel.
The grown-ups followed the footprints to the Big Water. The waves had washed some off, but traces of these were yet visible. Grandpa Longneck looked out over the big water and sighed, "oh, poor Littlefoot."
"This is all your fault, Longneck," Mr. Threehorn snapped, walking over to Grandpa Longneck, "my daughter is gone and I blame that boy of yours!"
"Littlefoot? Why," Grandpa Longneck asked, looking distraught.
"Well...because...uh, um...because I have to blame somebody, don't I," Mr. Threehorn responded.
"We mustn't lose hope," Grandma Longneck said, "the moving waters feel cool to the feet after such a long journey, the children must've stayed in the shallow water and walked on, looking for something to eat."
"Grandma is right," Grandpa Longneck said, "we must keep looking."
He turned and started walking along the beach, the others following. Large waves smashed to shore and far away, a distant green island was visible, but there was no fashion to get there. Then the adults moved on and kept going.
Jesse's eyes widened as he awakened from his daydream, but saw Darla leaning against the door-frame with a smirk on her face and her free hand on her hip. "Uh...well...I...I was just practicing kissing..." he explained hesitantly.
"Uh-huh, sure," Darla smirked.
Jesse stuck his tongue out at her. Darla did the same and rolled her eyes. Then the two laughed and hugged each other.
"Then you've almost packed your bags," Jesse asked.
"Riley Anderson helped me," Darla grinned, "I'm so emotional!"
"Same here," Jesse grinned.
"Too bad Randolph Johnson can't join us..." Darla pouted.
"It's alright, Dimples, I'm sure we'll all go together somewhere..." Jesse soothed.
"Yeah...yet, it's alright to have a family vacation..." Darla grinned at that. "Oh! I better call Amber," she walked away to her room briefly, but took out her phone as she went to her room and dialed the number and warned her best friend all about the trip.
"I wonder how Dad is doing right now with his newfound strength," Jesse said while looking out the window.
Randolph was in a hotel of where he was staying out of town on the phone with a new colleague. "Where can we meet?"
"We may have to meet for dinner tomorrow," the colleague replied over the phone, "I have business tomorrow after lunch for my part time job, I'm also a social worker. I've seen this client for a while."
"Social worker," Randolph asked, "then you check families to see if they're happy and healthy?"
"Exactly," the colleague replied. "I'll have to rent a car as well, I hate to see anything go wrong in this case, but I'll see you as soon as I'm done."
"Awesome," Randolph said while lifting up some weights.
"I cause apologize for the inconvenience," the colleague replied.
"You're fine, thanks for calling," Randolph stated maturely.
"No problem, by the way, I have a feeling that you might be a dog stack by a few morons," the colleague said.
"Excuse me," Randolph asked, slightly overwhelmed.
Then he saw that there were a couple of goons coming at him.
"Oh, thanks for the warning. I'll speak to you later, I have company," Randolph said before hanging up, "listen, guys, you don't bother with me."
"You don't want to play with us..." one goon poked his finger against Randolph's chest.
"Look, I don't know why you're here, but you better get out of here before you get hurt," Randolph warned.
"One, we're here because we're here to murder you and two...DOG-PILE," the first goon shouts before all of the goons dog-pile on top of Randolph.
Randolph yelped, trying to run off of that, but the goons piled on top of him. "Big mistake..." he grumbled. "One...two...THREE," he stood up, carrying them all over his back and frowned, "I warned you."
"What is that," the first goon frowned.
"Let's go outside, I'd hate to pay for an expensive room..." Randolph smirked, but he set the goons down and lifted them with a magic blast from his hands and threw them out the window, but came after them.
The goons shrieked and looked very confused and afraid of Randolph. Randolph smirked and came over to them, folding his arms.
"You're not human," the first goon said.
"Really," Randolph deadpanned, "what was your first clue?"
"B-B-B-But, we were only warned that you were human, how did you get magic and that kind of strength," the second goon asked, afraid.
"Mohican magic by genetics, strength by my caring son," Randolph grinned smugly, "at your service."
"Whoops," the goons said, afraid.
Randolph smirked smugly. "I didn't mean to hurt you, but I feel like you left me no choice~..."
This caused them to gulp before he lifted them all up.
"Going my road," Randolph smirked.
"How is that possible," the first goon, who was probably the leader, demanded.
Randolph didn't respond them, but just simply soccer kicked them out of the country and back to where they came from. "Phew," he wiped his forehead. "That's my practice for the day..." he grinned as he came back to the room he was staying in and looked at the family photo he had, looking directly Jesse's shot, "and I couldn't have done it without you."
Nala and Simba stopped under a ledge of rock.
"Nala, you find my mother and alert the lionesses. I'm going after Scar," Simba said.
Nala nodded and went to do her job. Simba sneaked over closer to the main part of Pride Rock, but he watched as Scar growled in frustration before shouting out an enraged "SARABI!!"
This yell was so loud that it echoed across the throne room. Simba gasped and watched his mother walk up to Pride Rock, passing all the growling, snarling and barking hyenas. She reached the top and asked, much to her displeasure. "Yes, Scar?"
"Where's your hunting festival? They're not doing their job," Scar asked as he frowned at her with frustration.
"Scar, there's no food. The herds have moved on. It's over, there's nothing left. We have only one choice. We must leave Pride Rock," Sarabi responded.
"We're not going anywhere," Scar exclaimed.
"Then you are sentencing us to death," Sarabi retorted. Scar merely snapped back while turning his back on her. "Then so be it! I am the king. And I make the rules!"
"If you were half the king Mufasa was..." Sarabi began to exclaim, but Scar snapped and slapped her, sending her to the ground while shouting, "I AM TEN TIMES THE KING MUFASA WAS!!"
Simba's eyes widened as soon as Scar completed that sentence, he eventually realized it wasn't his fault after all. It was none other than Scar. Simba felt a huge surge of power and suddenly changed target, who jumped up and pinned Scar hard to the ground.
"ENOUGH," Simba demanded, causing everyone else to gasp in shock.
Darla awakened suddenly. "Uh, yes, my bag's under my bed now," she grinned shyly to her new mother.
"You alright, darling," Riley asked, "you look like you're in another world..."
"More like Heaven...." Darla mumbled hesitantly since she had daydreamed about Peter.
"Let me guess, you were daydreaming, weren't you," Riley smirked.
"Uhh...yes..." Darla mumbled.
"About the boys," Riley asked.
Darla gaped at her. "How did you know?!"
"Rae did the same at your age," Riley chuckled, "is that a boy you go to school with? Did you know him in Hollywood?"
Darla rubbed her arm. "Actually, it's Josh."
"Awww," Riley grinned.
"I've been thinking about him a lot lately..." Darla said, "even though he's bothering me..."
"He's bothering you," Riley asked.
"He keeps calling me 'Goldilocks'..." Darla pouted, "he keeps annoying me and messing with my head..."
Riley grinned. "That's how a young boy shows he loves you."
"Ohh," Darla said, now understanding, but not really, "what?"
"I know that sounds strange, but it's true..." Riley said, "you know, since we'll be near an ocean, you just might be able to see him if you bring your shell from my sister, Athena."
"You do think..." Darla sounded almost hopeful.
"I never know unless you try..." Riley shrugged, "since you'll be near the ocean, you might think he's coming on vacation with us and he might be able to transform into a human so you can spend time together."
"Sounds perfect," Darla grinned.
"You never know unless you try," Riley grinned back.
"That's true," Darla grinned, "well, Mum, do you think there will be body-building contests in Hawaii? Knowing Jesse, he'll want to participate."
"I'm sure they have, but honestly, I don't know," Riley said, "I have an old friend in Hawaii, her name's Layla and she really liked that Jose Pelekai boy she warned me about...perhaps she could warn us if we saw her."
"Yay," Darla cheered.
Riley chuckled, but hugged Darla. "You realize you called me 'Sis', alright," she then asked, "you always called me Riley Anderson before."
"Oh, I'm sorry, do you mind," Darla asked, a little worried.
"No, not at all, darling," Riley grinned.
Then Darla grinned.
"It just means I'm doing a grand job of raising you up," Riley said.
Darla hugged Riley again, loving the feeling of a real sister's endless warmth and love.
After a short while, everyone was ready for the trip.
"Too bad Rae can't come," Jesse said.
"Where is she again," Patch asked.
"She said she wanted to meet someone from her school, but she sends hugs and kisses," Jesse said.
"Who's that friend of hers again," Patch asked.
"I think his name's Charlie......" Jesse guessed.
"Wait, isn't that her boyfriend," Patch asked.
"Oh, yes..." Jesse slowly grinned with a chuckle, "I really like this one so far, Rae's never had a real boyfriend before and they've been dating for a while now."
"Cool," Patch grinned.
"Think about it, by tomorrow, we'll all be in Hawaii," Riley grinned fondly.
Jesse, Patch and Darla grinned to that. Then the Greenwood family went to sleep, dreaming of their upcoming vacation, hearing the frustrated orange lion shout her name.
The next morning, they met at the airport with Joanie and were all set, they got into the plane and they were on their road. Riley sat with Darla while Jesse sat with Joanie.
And as for Patch, well...
"I can't believe they had to put me in with the luggage," Patch moaned.
"I'm sorry, buddy, but it's a dog policy," a voice said.
Patch looked around for the source of the voice.
"Over here," the voice said.
There was a familiar scruffy dog with a flea. "Well, well, well...long time no see."
"Puggsy," Patch grinned at the dog, "Frankie!"
"What are you doing here," Frankie asked.
"I could ask you the same question," Patch replied.
"Just traveling as usual," Pugsley replied with a small grin, "I heard about you in the papers with that cat and mouse, boy, I bet the orphan girl was glad to hear about her old man, right?"
"Oh, you won't believe it....." Patch grinned, remembering that, "you should've been there."
"I wish we were," Frankie said.
"Yes, me as well," Patch said, "my family and I are going to Hawaii."
"Have fun in Hawaii, buddy," Frankie grinned to the Dalmatian puppy, "warn Tom and Jerry we said hi if you see each other again!"
"It can be done," Patch promised the mutt dog and French flea.
While they got acquainted, Patch was getting some sleep.
"Good night, Jesse..." Joanie warned her best friend as she was almost getting ready to sleep, but not as faster as she weakly and slowly chewed on her gum.
Jesse mumbled a good night greeting as he drifted away to sleep. Joanie stared out the window, but hid a strange glance. She could have sworn that she saw a spaceship entering the Earth's atmosphere. She just shrugged it off as her wild imagination and let her mind wander as they took off. Everyone got their beauty sleep.
"Pineapple Princess~" Riley sang in her sleep, "he calls me Pineapple Princess all day, as he plays his ukulele on hill above the baby, Pineapple Princess, I love you, you're the sweetest girl I've ever seen, some day we're gonna marry and you'll be my Pineapple Queen~"
"Oh, you mean these muscles, Gertie," Jesse said in his sleep, "yes, I've been working out a lot."
"Oh, Josh, I promise you, someday we'll be together forever..." Darla cooed in her sleep.
"These people are going to make me sick..." Joanie mumbled.
The mumbling was interrupted as Jesse had a vision at what was gonna go ahead in Hawaii in the future. The vision was blurry at first, but Jesse could see a young girl around Darla's age with black hair swimming through the ocean and she seemed to be giving a peanut butter sandwich to a fish.
"Giving a fish a sandwich," Jesse asked.
'Jesse...it sounds like you're having a mysterious affair...' a female voice said.
"Wow, yes," Jesse replied, but looked around, "who said that?"
'You don't remember,' the female voice rhetorically asked.
Jesse swam up to the surface until he saw a tail fin in the water and came up to see a familiar mermaid sitting on the rocks. "Aunt Athena!"
Athena hugged her nephew. "I've missed you so much.....how's your mother?"
"She's doing grand, we're on our road to Hawaii," Jesse grinned.
"I hope you have a lot of fun," Athena grinned back to him, "I can already warn that your sister Darla is going to make a new friend that she has much more than she seems and that she will find out one day."
"What do you mean what's the use," Jesse asked.
"Well, she doesn't know, but she'll have grand powers until she grows up," Athena explained, "she descended from the goddess of the volcano known as Pele."
"Wow," Jesse grinned.
"The poor girl deserves so much better," Athena said.
"Why," Jesse asked, "what's wrong?"
"She's perceived without mercy and excluded in her class," Athena explained, "everyone says she's too different and strange...especially their friend who moved she moved here from New York City who thinks that is all that."
"Can the children join the hula class," Jesse asked, having a feeling he might need to make sure the bully leader wouldn't cause damage for anyone.
"It's mainly for girls and you're a bit older, no offense, darling, but I'm sure the Kumu would like a helping hand," Athena said.
Jesse raised a brow. "Kumu?"
"Oh, my apologies, that's Hawaiian for teacher," Athena replied, "the teacher's name is Moses Puloki."
"Moses Puloki, I have it," Jesse said, remembering the name.
"Trust me, this isn't going to be your normal Hawaiian vacation," Athena warned her nephew.
"Nothing is normal anymore, Aunt Athena...." Jesse said, "visiting Cousin Wendy warned me that normal girls get weird sometimes."
"And where she's right," Athena said.
"Oh...yes..." Jesse remembered his vacation in Gravity Falls.
"You're a very special boy," Athena grinned, "that's why you have many of these adventures."
"Yes, I know about the legend," Jesse said.
"You make me so proud....." Athena grinned, "and thank you for making Ariel happy until she fell in love with Prince Eric, even if Triton didn't take it well..."
"Did you like humans as well, Aunt Athena," Jesse asked.
"I liked some of them, but your mother was more interested in humans," Athena responded, "that was how she met your father and she wanted to live on land...although it had a price, she couldn't go back under the sea that much until we work facts out and you visit Atlantica for the summer."
"I guess Ariel had the love of humans and her stuff from Mum," Jesse said.
"Looks like fun," Athena chuckled, "oh, I miss your mother so much."
"She misses you as well......" Jesse said softly.
"I'll make sure to come in a dream of yours in the future," Athena promised.
"I'm sure that will make her really happy," Jesse grinned.
"Oh, I must warn you...." Athena said, "your sister's new friend is adopting a pet...and it's...out of this world...."
"What do you mean what's the point," Jesse asked.
"It's...it's..." Athena replied.
"Extra-terrestrial," Joanie said.
Jesse awakened from his vision and looked over. "What?"
"That's the movie they're showing," Joanie said as she had her eyes forward, "Alien. Do you want to see?"
"Uh, no thanks," Jesse said.
"As you wish," Joanie replied stoically.
Jesse sighed as she had interrupted his vision, but tried to think about what his aunt said as they flew in the air.
At last, they landed and they were given a free penthouse suite at the Birds of Paradise Hotel.
"It looks beautiful," Riley looked out the front deck window as she could see the beach from where she was.
"We have our own kitchen," Patch beamed, "this place is like a detached home!"
"Yes, facts are going my fashion..." Joanie smirked as it was her responsibility of them being here right now.
"Yes, I can't wait to go see the dance floor and join him," Darla grinned.
"Then we'll let you go," Jesse said, "c'mon, Patch!"
Patch came to their sides.
"I think I'll hang out on the beach, you guys are having fun," Riley said.
"C'mon, Dimples," Joanie warned the blonde girl.
"You've had it," Darla grinned.
With that said, the children and puppy left. Riley tried to call Randolph, but he didn't respond his cell, where she left a message that they were in Hawaii now and to call back as soon as possible, but she went to lounge on the beach. The oceans looked very much alive today and she put her feet into the water, feeling tempted to go for a dip and swim like the youthful mermaid she once was with her sister Athena.
Joanie found a tourist map and followed it to the local hula school with Jesse, Darla and Patch, Darla being the most emotional to go.
"Yes, I can't wait to get there," Darla grinned.
"I think you're happy," Patch encouraged.
Sure enough, they made it to the building and knocked on the door.
There came a large man with his hair in a low braid and a blue skirt-like fashion with black sandals. "Hello, can I help you," he greeted.
"I'm sorry, but my sister wants to join your dance class," Jesse said to the man who he highly assumed was Moses, "if it wasn't too much damage."
"Of course, there's no problem," Moses said.
"You're sure," Darla asked in delight.
"Really," Moses grinned, "maybe he wants to come in to see the girls until your parents fill out her application?"
"Yes, my mum's on the beach," Jesse said, "and my dad's out of town for business...then I'll work anyhow."
"It's a good idea, come in, make sure your dog doesn't hurt you, yes," Moses replied.
"Yes, sir," Jesse and Darla replied.
Darla was very emotional, she poked her head in to see the girls around her age who seemed to be sitting in a circle together. One girl had curly and puffy carrot orange hair with big blue round glasses, a short-sleeved olive green shirt, blue shorts and blue sandals. Another girl had blonde hair in pigtails in a pink tank top, blue shorts and purple sandals.
Another girl had curly dark hair in a blue headband, a blue short-sleeved shirt, lighter blue shorts and dark blue sandals. And the final girl had short brown hair in a green shirt, darker green shorts and brown sandals. Patch encouraged Darla to go and be social with them as they so far seemed harmless enough.
"Sometimes, some of these girls might hurt each other," Jesse asked him.
"Yes. There's another...." Moses said, "but she's not here....she's going to be late......I know she is....yet...more so on Friday....."
"Really, why," Jesse asked.
"She never taught me before..." Moses shrugged.
"Yes, I think I'll probably know she is," Jesse said.
Moses gave the boy an odd look, but shrugged. "If you say this...." he took out a paper and pen, "please fill this out for your sister."
"Thank you," Jesse took it as Joanie stood next to him.
"Um...hi..." Darla came up to the four girls who were in their casual clothes until class would start.
Then the four girls looked at her.
"Didn't I see you on the movie," the girl with curly and puffy carrot orange hair with big blue round glasses, a short-sleeved olive green short, blue shorts and blue sandals asked.
"Yeah, perhaps..." Darla suggested.
"What's your name," the blonde pig-tailed girl asked.
"Darla Dimple, but you can call Darla," Darla replied calmly.
"Wait, Darla," the curly dark-haired girl asked, "weren't you Darla Dimple before?"
"Um...yes...yes..." Darla replied.
"Then why are you here," the short brown-haired girl asked.
"I'm relaxing with my family..." Darla said.
"Really," the orange-haired girl looked around with a starstruck grin, "where are they? Who are they? Do they want a new movie star?"
"Sure, I-" Darla tried to explain that she wasn't a celebrity anymore.
"I'm sorry, girls, but Darla isn't a star, but she's the youngest girl in the Greenwood family," Patch grinned.
"Did that Dalmatian just speak," the blonde girl asked.
"Yes, perhaps," Darla shrugged, unsure whether to be honest or not.
"No," the orange-haired girl folded her arms in disappointment, "because a star is bound to be a new friend forever."
"I'm sorry..." Darla said, "perhaps we can be friends......"
"Yes. I think that's good, since you're not that strange....." the orange-haired girl said, "I'm Myrtle."
"I'm Elena," the other blonde girl said.
"Yuki," the short-haired girl added.
"And I'm Teresa," the curly-haired girl concluded.
"Nice to meet you all," Darla grinned.
Jesse looked over with a grin once he saw Darla had made some now friends on her first day. Moses kept looking around for another girl, but she had not come. They yet had time until the music men and older girl dancers would come through.
"Here you are," Joanie took the application for Jesse, handing it to Moses.
"Yes, thank you," Moses grinned, taking it right off.
"Are we missing someone," Darla asked her new friends.
The other girls seemed hesitant to respond that question.
"Yes, nothing special...." Myrtle said.
"Would you like to stay on your sister's day," Moses asked Jesse.
"I can, to make sure he's in best shape," Jesse agreed.
"Yes," Joanie added.
"Well, it's almost time to start," Moses said, but walked over to the five little girls, "yes, go get your clothes on. We have a big night coming up. Darla, we have an old dress in the back that you can use as much as you like."
"Thank you, sir," Darla curtsied before going to get the old dress they had.
"Joanie, I think you should go and see how long the last student will be," Jesse whispered to his best friend before handing her a description of the little girl and where she would be.
"Um...please..." Joanie shrugged, but left the hula school.
Then Yuki, Teresa, Myrtle, Elena and Darla went backstage to get dressed into their skirts and anything else they might need. As they did that, a couple of adult men and a few young adult came in, wearing their clothes for the prelude rehearsal.
"Yes, what are the girls training for," Jesse asked.
"The first live show of the children is coming," Moses informed Jesse, "we're going to play a dance with a song called 'He Mele No Lilo'."
"What does that mean," Jesse asked.
"It's a song for Lilo," Moses explained, "it's a very best song."
"It seems like I can't wait to hear the music," Jesse grinned.
"You can see while she's your sister's first class," Moses grinned back, "just keep that dog under guard, alright?"
"You've had it," Jesse said, "right, Patch?"
Patch was about to say something, but then made up barking noises where he wouldn't freak out the hula instructor.
"Very good...excuse me for a moment..." Moses walked away as the others came for the recital.
Joanie wandered around the beach, looking around for the girl she was sent to look for and where she saw a girl with the exact same description Jesse gave her and saw that she was out in the water. The waves were big, but not dangerously big. The girl emerged from the water as it dripped over her long black hair.
"Yes, darling," Joanie waved to the little girl.
"Hello..." the girl greeted as she wrung her ebony hair to let the salty water drips loose, "are you a tourist?"
"Umm..." Joanie pondered.
"Wait a second, just hang on..." the girl said, but found a camera and backed up, holding it up to take Joanie's picture.
"What are you doing here," Joanie flinched, she did not like getting her picture taken.
"I want to get what I see," the little girl said.
"Uhh...yes..." Joanie said, but put her hands on her hips and gave a small smirk.
The little girl flashed her camera. "Yes, thank you, farewell," she ran away, catching a bag on the road.
"Wait," Joanie chased after her, "where are you going?"
"I'm late for the dance class," the little girl warned her.
Joanie ran with her. "Oh, boy, this isn't good...."
The little girl kept trying to slide on her hula skirt and bands while she ran as she was yet dripping from the ocean water.
Jesse and Patch sat in the audience as the older girls danced to the music provided by the men with the song in the background. Darla stood backstage with the other little girls as they waited for their cue. Darla seemed to already love the song while it was playing. The others seemed only slightly hesitant. Moses looked to them and signaled for them to come onstage now. Then Yuki, Teresa, Elena, Myrtle and Darla walked out on the stage, Darla paid close attention to their moves where she would know what to do.
"I'm sure whoever's late is on their road now," Jesse assured him before whispering to himself, "I hope."
Joanie ran with the little girl and she went to the stage door in the back. "You're soaking wet, hang on!"
The little girl ignored her and came right in as the others had already gone ahead without her. Moses paced as the late little girl decided to jump in with the crowd as he wasn't noticing and started to dance with the others like nothing had happened before. Soon the song ended and the dancers recited an ancient Hawaiian proverb, but suddenly, the others began to slip and fall on the stage.
"Oh, my..." Jesse winced.
"Stop...stop..." Moses came up onstage. "Lilo..." he looked to the black-haired girl, revealing her name to Jesse, Joanie, Darla and Patch, "why are you all wet?"
"It's Sandwich Day," Lilo replied like it was obvious.
Moses gave her an odd look.
Lilo took a deep breath. "Every Thursday, I take Pudge the fish a peanut butter sandwich."
"Pudge is a fish...." Moses glanced at her strangely.
"And today we were out of peanut butter," Lilo continued. "Then I asked my sister what to give him and she said a tuna sandwich! I can't give Pudge tuna," she whispered, "do you know what tuna is?"
"Um, fish," Darla said, obviously.
"IT'S FISH," Lilo shrieked at the top of her lungs, "if I gave Pudge tuna, I'd be an abomination! I'm late because I had to go to the store, and buy peanut butter, because all we have is......is...STINKY TUNA!!"
"Lilo..." Moses bent down to her height, "why is this so reluctant?"
"Pudge controls the weather," Lilo replied silently.
"How can a fish control the weather," Darla asked.
"She's just crazy," Myrtle muttered nastily.
Lilo frowned at her, but tackled her down and started to punch her, which made the other girls shriek and run off.
"Please! Wait," Moses tried to console his students, "everyone calm down! Girls..."
Myrtle ran behind the teacher with Yuki, Teresa and Elena. Darla seemed to now go over with Lilo, not caring what the means girls, her so-called new friends, thought.
"Lilo..." Moses started.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Lilo got instantly afraid and hesitant, "I won't do this again!"
"Perhaps we should call your sister..." Moses suggested.
"No, I'll be fine," Lilo pleaded, "I want to dance....I practiced...I just want to dance.....I practiced..."
Moses had a small grin.
"Ew, she bit me..." Myrtle stared at her arm.
"Eww..." the other girls grimaced.
"You alright," Darla asked Lilo.
"I think so..." Lilo whispered.
"I don't blame you...." Darla whispered back.
Then Moses left for a moment.
"Darla," Myrtle stormed over as Yuki, Elena and Teresa followed like her own personal posse, "WHAT are you doing here?"
"Be nice to Lilo and don't call her names," Darla warned her.
"Why," Myrtle frowned, "she's weird!"
"Ye-ee-ee-es..." Yuki, Teresa and Elena agreed.
"You must go out with us, Darla," Myrtle encouraged, "we're normal and legal, we were going to my house after class and throw dolls."
"Well, I'm sorry, Myrtle, but I don't play with anyone who's mean to people, even if they can be weird," Darla said before looking to Lilo, "no offense."
"No outlets," Lilo shrugged.
Myrtle frowned firmly to that. "Well, I think you just lost some real new friends..."
"Ye-ee-ee-es," Yuki, Teresa and Elena said what they did again and together.
"Is that all the three of you say after she's finished speaking," Darla asked.
Then Yuki, Teresa and Elena looked to each other, not saying anything then.
"Do you want to be my friend," Lilo asked, a little surprised.
"Of course," Darla grinned, "never be disgraceful of being your true self, no matter what....I certainly wasn't."
"Wow, thanks," Lilo grinned.
Darla grinned back, she now made a friend, who felt more true than the other girls.
"You owe me..." Joanie said to Jesse since she had to track down this girl in particular.
The rehearsals started again, and after a little while, the girls had their casual clothes back on and Lilo wore a red mumu with white flowers and black sandals. She had to sit outside and then the other girls took out their dolls and ran out once class was over. Darla walked up to Lilo and sat next to her.
"She's really evolved since her family adopted her," Joanie said to Jesse.
"Yes...I'm really proud of her......" Jesse agreed.
"Me as well," Patch grinned as Darla stayed with Lilo as the other girls left.
"Nice, you have a speaking dog," Lilo grinned as soon as she heard the Dalmatian speak.
"Whoops..." Patch cupped his muzzle with his paw.
"Patch is a very special dog," Darla said.
"Wow..." Lilo grinned, "I wish I had a pet."
Then Moses came out and looked down to them all, but mostly to Lilo. "I called your sister," he informed her. "She said to wait for her here on the porch. We'll try again on Sunday," he went back indoors since classes were over for the day.
"Why are your parents not catching you," Darla asked.
Lilo silently glanced to her, not responding that question, but saw the other girls and really wanted to speak with them once she saw they had their dolls out. Then she made her road over. Darla shrugged, but decided to perhaps do the same.
"Does that look infected to you," Myrtle asked, looking at her arm again.
"Yes..." Teresa winced.
Then suddenly, the girls turned to see Lilo with Darla coming behind.
"You two better not be furious," Myrtle frowned.
"If you have rabies, then the dogcatcher is going to have to cut your–" Yuki was about to advise.
"Are you going to play with dolls," Lilo asked.
The girls glanced at her and hid their dolls behind their backs.
"You don't have a doll," Myrtle scoffed.
"Do you," Darla asked Lilo.
Lilo reached into her bag and took out a different kind of doll. It was sickly green and had a large head with button eyes, stitched mouth and a ribbon tied around the yarn hair. "This is Scrump."
The other girls recoiled in instant horror and alarm.
"I made her," Lilo explained. "But her head is too big, where I pretend a bug laid in her ears, and she's upset because she only has a few more days to..." she looked to see Myrtle and the others abandoned her, but Darla stayed right past her side like a true friend.
"I think your doll is really cool and cute," Darla grinned.
"Y-You do," Lilo asked as she looked like she was about to throw her doll in the ground.
"She's special to you and I think it's a special name..." Darla said, "'Scrump'."
Lilo had a small grin, but looked to the school as no one came for her yet. "I'm just going home.....I don't think I can wait for Nani..."
"I'm sure she's on her road," Darla warned her.
"I don't know..." Lilo muttered, but walked off, carrying her doll without even saying a farewell.
Darla wanted to stop her, but wasn't sure if she should or not.
"Darla, that was very cool what you did for Lilo," Patch warned the blonde girl.
"It was the least I could do, besides, she looks like she could use a friend," Darla said.
"Good girl," Patch grinned.
Darla grinned back, hugging the Dalmatian puppy.
"We should meet Mum at the hotel," Jesse said, "I hope she's alright."
"I didn't see your mother at the beach earlier, despite her warning us that she would be there..." Joanie said.
"She must be in the ocean," Jesse said.
"I hope she gets in soon, I hear it's going to rain tonight," Joanie said as she took out her room key.
"I'm sure she will," Patch said.
Then Joanie, Jesse, Darla and Patch walked away.
"Well, did you like the hula class," Jesse asked his younger sister.
"It would've been more fun if it weren't for these murderous joys..." Darla replied as she watched her feet since she was walking up a small walkway above the path.
"Yes, I think these bad girls ruined it a little bit," Jesse said.
"Yes," Darla pouted.
"Well, remember, if you face bullies, they almost always walk off," Jesse advised, "Daddy taught me that."
"I'll take your word for it," Darla grinned.
"Great," Patch grinned.
They were now passing the beach as a large man in sunburn was about to have his ice cream, but it fell on the sand before he could have a taste of it. A wave smashed past, but not in a dangerous fashion, Riley had a tail fin for a brief moment, but her lower half glowed and her legs returned.
"That was a grand dive," Riley grinned.
"Hey, Sis," Jesse and Darla grinned back.
"Oh, hi, children," Riley grinned, "did you have fun?"
"Yes, well, other than three of the girls in hula class being mean to Lilo," Darla warned her.
"Oh...I'm sorry to hear that......" Riley said, "who's Lilo?"
"My new friend," Darla replied, "the other girls thought she was weird, but I liked her."
"Well, I'm glad to hear you've made a friend here," Riley grinned at her youngest adopted daughter.
"I'm happy as well," Darla gave her a hug.
"And how was swimming, Sis," Jesse asked.
"Just wonderful...." Riley said as they decided to walk back to the hotel, "I saw the strangest fact, this fish had a peanut butter sandwich in its mouth."
"That must have been Pudge, the fish Lilo fed," Darla said.
"I think that's what he said his name was..." Riley said, "hard kind of understanding him since he had peanut butter in his mouth."
"And she said that Pudge controls the weather," Darla said.
"That's what he did alright......" Riley said.
"A fish controlling the weather," Joanie asked.
"That's what the others were saying at the bottom of the sea," Riley said, "since this Lilo gives Pudge something he likes about the human world, he decides to reward her."
"Now then, he's going to make it rain," Patch asked.
"I hear it's going to rain later tonight, but it's going to be light rain, not like a storm or anything," Riley grinned.
"Whew," Jesse sighed out of relief.
"It's alright, Jesse," Riley grinned soothingly, "just a light shower, it might get heavy overnight, but there shouldn't be any too loud thunderclaps."
"I like the sound of that," Patch said.
"Well, then, let's go back to the bedroom," Jesse replied.
"Yes," Riley said as she saw the hotel come into view, "I hope it's alright, but I'm going to order room service, it's been tiring coming here and we've all had a day off with our vacation."
"Understood, Sis," Jesse said.
"Yes, that's fine with me," Joanie added.
"I'm going out some more," Patch said.
"Just don't forget your tags," Riley reminded them.
"That's right," Patch nodded. Then he went away on his own.
Jesse, Joanie, Darla and Riley waved, but went to the Birds of Paradise hotel.
They came into their room and ordered room service, which would be free for them since Joanie won the contest that gave them that special room.
Darla decided to practice some hula dancing since she was a student now. "Practice makes perfect," she grinned to herself.
"That's right, darling," Riley grinned, "I wonder where Patch is going."
"Probably just exploring," Jesse said.
Riley ordered room service. Joanie stared out as there were storm clouds moving in, making it instantly dark even though it was only just the early afternoon.
Patch went around the tropical islands. Then he suddenly saw something smash down from the heavens.
"What on Earth is this," Patch's eyes widened.
Then something was coming closer and closer. Patch ran away before he could get struck by whatever was falling in the sudden cool crisp night. And where luckily, it missed him.
"Phew, that was close," Patch sighed. Then he looked, wiping his head with his paw. "What was that anyhow?"
A green glow seemed to fill the air, but smoke came out from behind rocks. There came a tiny creature who then emerged from the rocks and laughed manically.
Patch frowned, but growled, storming over. "I'm not afraid of you, come out and fight like a dog!"
But to his surprise, it didn't look like a dog at all, the creature actually looked like the alien in his dream.
"Experiment 626," Patch remembered from his super freaky share dream with Jesse.
The creature jumped out, showing it had four arms, blue fur, spikes on its back with antennae and appeared to have a red uniform on. He snarled and spoke to Patch, using an alien language that could not possibly be understood by Earth life.
"I'm sorry, I can't understand what you're saying," Patch said before his Equestrian medallion/Pound Puppy tag glowed, giving him the ability to understand what the alien would say.
Experiment 626 kept snarling and speaking, but after a moment, his words became clear and could be deciphered for the Dalmatian puppy. "Take me to your leader or be destroyed, vermin!"
"Alright, first of all, no! Second, why the hell are you here," Patch asked.
"Leader! Now," Experiment 626 took out plasma guns in his hands.
"Woah," Patch jumped back.
"Warn me where I am, you infidel...." Experiment 626 narrowed his eyes.
"You're in Hawaii, a country on Planet Earth," Patch warned him.
"Ee-Arth," Experiment 626 asked, "Hawaii...what galaxy is this?"
Suddenly, a raindrop fell one fashion.
"What was that," Experiment 626 shot the road one fashion.
Another drop fell the other fashion.
"What was this," Experiment 626 shot the other fashion.
Then another drop fell on the extra-terrestrial's head.
"WHAT IS THIS SORCERY," Experiment 626 pointed his gun up and then shot into the heavens, which then made raindrops fall like a small shower as predicted earlier by the weather, "oh, I think I pissed it off."
"No, no, no, no, that's just rain, moisture from the clouds in the heavens," Patch warned him.
"What is that 'rain' you speak of," Experiment 626 snarled.
Then a frog croaked next to them.
"And who are you," Experiment 626 pointed his weapons to the innocent amphibian, trying to make it speak with him like the puppy did, "any proxy? Surrender now or FIGHT! FIGHT!! FIGHT!!!"
There was a horn blare heard.
"RUN," Patch yelped as he saw a large truck coming.
"Surrender," Experiment 626 held up his guns, but got hit by the truck and was getting mangled by the large tires, but didn't seem to be dead or murdered in any matter.
"Are you alright," Patch asked out of worry.
The alien moaned, looking a little beat up, but seemed to somehow yet be alive.
"He must be indestructible..." Patch said to himself as he came to see the illegal genetic mutation.
The drivers stopped their truck and were about to come out to see what they hit. Patch came over to the knocked out alien and kept him company; even if he threatened the teenage dog, the alien yet needed someone to be with in this strange new place. Three men came out to see what they hit as it lightly rained.
"What did we hit," one man asked.
Patch began to get the alien out from under the truck. The three men came over, shining a flashlight in that direction.
Patch looked down to the alien as its uniform was torn off from the rough and bouncing tires, but it was yet breathing and alive. "Good, you didn't die..." he was glad, not sure if he could've handled it if the creature ended up dead.
"We'd better call someone," the second man said.
The alien's arms twitched slightly. The three men decided to call the pet shelter and let them handle the alien.
"Oh, what have I done," Patch mumbled to himself as the humans seemed to had mistaken this alien creature for a domesticated animal kept as a pet.
"Allow the men to take him to the shelter, he was meant to be here," a female voice warned him.
"What," Patch looked around, but hid for cover before he could be taken away despite already having a home, "who said that?"
"Fear not, little one, I think you already know me," the female voice grinned before appearing as a pink dog from Heaven above.
Patch looked up with glowing eyes. "Annabelle, is that it?"
"Indeed not, now you have to stay close to him and where you know what that means," Annabelle said.
"I have to take him to the shelter, right," Patch asked.
"Yes, but don't worry...." Annabelle soothed in her obvious angelic tone of voice, "I promise you can yet live with Jesse and the Greenwoods...I knew from the moment you were born that you were it would suit him perfectly."
"He misses them as well, my child..." Annabelle replied, "especially your old Puppy School teacher, Itchiford."
"I hope to see him again, well, actually, I hope to see each other again," Patch said.
"Maybe one day, Patch..." Annabelle grinned, "now go...go and help your special and unique friend."
"You've had it," Patch grinned before going away to join his alien friend in the pet shelter.
Back at the hotel, Jesse was getting concerned, not because of the rain, but because of Patch.
"He's been gone for a while now..." Jesse said once he completed brushing his teeth and was now getting set for bed.
"I'm sure he's alright, darling..." Riley soothed as she tucked Darla in for the night.
"I know, but he should've been back by now," Jesse said.
"It's alright..." Riley cooed, "Patch is a smart dog.....he'll find his road back before it's too late..."
"I hope you're right, Sis..." Jesse yawned as he bundled down into the bed.
Riley grinned as her son went to sleep. She turned out the light and went to sleep in her separate room in the suite, gently shutting the door behind her.
"Please be alright, Patch," Jesse said before going to sleep totally.
Joanie lightly snored in her sleep.
The next day, Jesse was shocked to see Patch was yet not back from his walk.
"Hula Class today," Riley asked her adoptive daughter.
"Not that I know of," Darla replied.
Jesse shook Joanie awake.
Joanie frowned up at him. "That better be good....."
"Patch didn't come back last night, I think he's in danger," Jesse said.
"Jesse, it's Patch, thanks to you, he's not a normal pup......" Joanie mumbled.
"I know, but I'm his owner and I have the right to concern about him," Jesse said.
"I guess I never understood that concern as I've never really had a pet myself..." Joanie said as she yet had only one eye open.
"There's a luau tonight," Riley said, "would you children go?"
"We'd love to, Sis, but I really need to get out there and find Patch," Jesse said.
"I should go with him....." Darla suggested, "Patch is family."
"Joanie, are you going as well," Riley asked.
"I may not be part of this family, but I've known Jesse longer than any of you..." Joanie said, even if she yet had that look on her face as she was comfortable in the bed, but was going to go along as well if she needed to.
"Well, certainly, don't speak to strangers," Riley said.
"We won't," Jesse and Darla promised.
"Alright..." Joanie said, getting out of bed, "let's find a puppy."
After getting dressed and a fast breakfast, they moved out.
There was a human boy with dark brown hair with dark brown eyes in a white shirt, blue shorts and black sandals. "Hey, Curly Q."
Darla glanced up at this boy, then did a double take seeing how much he looked like a special somebody she knew. "Uh, I'm too busy to speak right now...enjoy your tour with the family."
"Aw, but don't you miss me, Goldilocks," the boy came behind her with a smirk and wrapped his arms around her shoulders.
"Wait...Josh," Darla asked.
Josh smirked with a cocky look in his eyes.
"Oh, alright," Darla smirked, putting her hands on her hips, "what are you doing on dry land?"
"Riley warned me you were visiting Hawaii," Josh folded his arms with a smirk back to her, "I thought I'd drop past and check on you."
"Are you sure it's not because you missed me as well," Darla smirked.
Josh's eyes widened. "What? Who?"
Darla put her hand to her mouth with a small laugh.
"Ah, don't flatter yourself....." Josh scoffed, "well, where are we going?"
"Patch is missing...." Darla said, "Jesse is concerned....."
"I'm sure he's fine," Josh said.
"Oh, there's a special bond between a boy and his dog..." Darla said.
"I think..." Josh shrugged, "I'll help you though if you want."
Darla smiled at that.
"Dimples," Joanie called, but came over behind the blonde girl, "oh, there you are."
"Hey, Joanie, look who's come to the mainland," Darla grinned.
Joanie looked. "Uhh..."
"Josh," the slender boy said his name, narrowing his eyes at her.
"Oh, yes..." Joanie folded her arms, "Dimple's boyfriend."
"We're just friends, Joanie..." Darla said through her teeth.
"If you say so...." Joanie rolled her eyes with a smirk.
"Uh, girls, I think I found Patch," Jesse called out.
Joanie and Darla looked over.
"That was swift..." Josh said, but shrugged, "then again, Ariel said he's a detective."
Then they rushed over to Jesse to find out what he was going on about. And where they saw that he saw Patch inside the pet shelter.
"Why haven't they put him in a cage yet," Josh asked.
"He beats me," Darla shrugged.
"Patch," Jesse whispered pitifully, "TAKE ITTTTTTTT!!"
Patch was picked up by a lady at the front desk and brought to the back.
"Wait, that's my puppy," Jesse pouted, but rushed into the animal shelter.
"Don't worry, boy..." the woman warned Patch as she carefully carried him in her arms, "I'm sure you'll be adopted in no time at all, boys and girls only eat of your hands...or in your case, the paws..."
Patch nodded before looking for his alien friend.
"We'll put you here with some new friends, right," the lady grinned, placing Patch into one of the placements. Then she petted him on the head gently, but walked away.
"Experiment 626," Patch looked around, but looked down, "ah, there you are..."
"Ugh..." the blue creature mumbled, "my head..."
"Oh, thank heaven you're safe," Patch sighed.
"What just happened...." the alien mumbled, but saw the other canines.
They all huddled up in a corner, shivering and whining in fear of their 'new friend'.
"You there," Experiment 626 frowned at them, trying to use his guns, but saw he didn't have them. "Where are my..." he turned to Patch. "Cover me! You're my new general," he frowned at the other dogs, "you are all under my arrest, I claim this planet in the name of Turo!"
"Alright, one, you're not armed and two, what's Planet Turo," Patch asked.
"Planet Turo is my home world," Experiment 626 warned the Earth puppy. "I escaped after the captivity of my creator Dr. Jumba Jookiba."
"By chance, is he fat and has four eyes," Patch asked.
"Yes," Experiment 626 nodded. "I'm sure he could in this world..." he lifted his ear until he heard something. "Cover me," he dashed away.
Patch, though had a dog and had special hearing, did not hear what this alien did and was very curious.
"Wait, that Dalmatian I just put in the back with the other dogs is your pet," the lady behind the desk asked Jesse.
"Yes, ma'am," Jesse replied, "I'm very sorry, he must've got lost by force."
"You should've kept him on a leash," the lady warned, slightly strict, but not being mean in any fashion.
"Yes, ma'am," Atticus understood, "I assure you, it won't happen again."
"Well, I'm sure it won't be like that, but anyhow...." the lady said before seeing two more people come inside as well. "Oh, I'm sorry...let me get your puppy, I'll be right back...." she said before doing that, but looked over to the next two people, "I'll be right with you folks, I just need to fix something very faster."
"Take your time," an older female voice said.
Darla turned her head, but her eyes lit up once she saw someone she recognized. "Lilo!"
"Darla, what are you doing here," Lilo asked.
"I could ask you the same fact..." Darla said as she stood next to Peter, "Patch is lost, let's take him home now."
"Nani's taking me to find a new friend," Lilo explained why she was at the animal shelter.
"Nani," Darla looked up, but saw a young adult woman who looked a lot like a grown-up version of Lilo stand next to her new friend.
"Oh, hello," the stranger waved to her.
"Hi, then you're Nani," Darla grinned.
"Yes," Nani grinned, "I'm Lilo's sister."
The lady brought Patch back to Jesse. Jesse laughed a little as Patch licked his face with a grin.
"Jesse, we have to stay here a little while longer until you meet my new friend," Patch whispered to his owner before hearing something crawling on the ceiling, thanks to his dog hearing.
"Alright..." Jesse whispered back to him, turning away where it wouldn't look weird for him to speak with his dog this fashion.
Patch glanced up as he could see Experiment 626 crawling on the ceiling.
"We're looking for someone who can defend themselves," Nani warned the lady behind her desk, "something that won't die...something...sturdy...you know?"
Peter whispered something into Lilo's ear.
"Like a lobster," Lilo chimed in.
"Why a lobster," Joanie asked.
Peter chuckled.
"Lilo, you lolo," Nani bent down to her younger sister and put her hands on her shoulders, "do we have a lobster door? No, we have a doggy door, we're doing a dog!"
"Csendes," Patch warned Jesse as the front door opened up, but no one appeared to be there and he looked up to see his alien friend on the ceiling as he was on his road back into the kennel.
"We need your name and address at the bottom of the form--" the lady started to explain until she, Lilo, Nani, Joanie, Josh and Darla looked to the door, but saw no one there.
"That was strange," Darla said.
"The camel's back this fashion," the lady allowed Lilo to come in the back to adopt the newest member of her family.
"Go," Nani encouraged Lilo, "go and choose someone."
Lilo looked hesitant to go alone, but looked over to Darla. "Can anyone come with me?"
"I'll go with you," Darla smiled.
"Me and Patch as well," Jesse said.
"I'll sit here and look at the wall..." Joanie mumbled with a shrug.
Lilo glanced at Joanie. "She's an interesting case...I'll have to work on her..."
"I tried to figure her out," Jesse said.
The ones going were now in the kennel, but it appeared to be empty.
"Hullo-o-o-o," Lilo called, "hello?! Are there any 'animals' in here?"
The dogs that were in the kennel were hiding from the alien.
Lilo and the others kept trying to find a pet, but couldn't find any.
Patch turned to his blue friend and nudged his head forward. "If you're with Lilo, whoever's looking for you should leave you alone..." he whispered a suggestion.
"But...I look so different from your kind..." the alien replied, "how am I going to blend in with this culture?"
"Well, for one fact, you might want to try hiding your extra features," Patch said.
"Huh..." Experiment 626 said, looking to him and saw an adoption promotional poster of a child hugging a pet dog, giving him an idea, "stay here a moment..."
Patch nodded, deciding to stay put for him.
"Huh..." 626 focused on Patch, but stood up on his legs, making his extra arms bulge into his body, his back spikes pushed into his back and his antennas sunk into his head, "well, how am I?"
"You look like a unique, never before seen, new breed dog," Patch grinned.
"Better be a compliment..." 626 narrowed his eyes, "help me whoever's looking for a mate."
"Right this fashion," Patch turned to lead the road.
Lilo kept looking with Darla until suddenly, Patch came back to Jesse and 626 rushed over to Lilo, waving his stumped tiny round tail with a small grin to look like a true pet creature of this planet.
Lilo hesitantly turned to 626 and slowly waved. "Hi..."
"Oh...uhh..." 626 stood up on his legs, holding out one of his hands and forced a grin, which showed his yellow tiny fangs, which looked like they couldn't bite much. "Hiiiii...." he said, and that time, not only Patch could understand him and he gave Lilo a tight hug.
"Wow," Lilo felt amazed.
This caused Patch to face-paw, remembering he forgot to warn his alien friend that dogs couldn't speak to humans or any animals could speak to humans just not to freak them out. At least Lilo took it well. Darla and Jesse glanced to each other, curious and slightly confused. Lilo decided to take 626 back to the main room to show the lady and her sister.
"Okay, that creature isn't a dog, what is this," Jesse whispered to Patch.
"What do you mean," Patch asked innocently.
"Patch, you and I both know it's not a dog," Jesse said.
"He's undercover," Patch replied.
"Well...what is he," Jesse asked, "a dingo?"
"He's an alien," Patch explained, "that dream we had was a sign, he comes from the Planet Turo and escaped after his creator's arrest."
"Then let me guess, we'll have to make sure he's behaving well, right," Jesse asked.
"He's laying down," Patch said, "I promise, I'll do everything for you."
"Huh...well, alright..." Jesse gave in.
"Oh, yes, uh-huh," the animal shelter lady warned Nani as Lilo was coming out with Experiment 626 in disguise. "All of our dogs are adoptable..." she looked to see the blue creature, which made her recoil in horror, "EXCEPT THAT ONE!!"
"This could be a problem." Patch whispered.
Nani held her sister back as the lady held Experiment 626 back. "What is that fact?"
"A dog, I think," the lady replied, "but he was dead this morning!"
"I was dead this morning," Nani asked, confused and alarmed.
"Well, we thought he was dead, he was hit by a truck," the lady explained the best that she could.
"I like him," Lilo grinned up to Nani, but held out her arms, "come here, boy!"
Then Experiment 626 tried to walk out of the lady's hold over to Lilo.
"I think he likes you as well," Jesse said.
"He's certainly, uh, special..." Darla grinned, unsure what to say.
"Specially deserted," Josh whispered.
Then Darla nudged him to silence him, but turned back with a reassuring grin. Josh winced, holding his arm and lightly frowning down to Darla.
"Wouldn't you like a different dog," Nani asked her sister.
"We have better dogs, darling..." the lady said as she held 626 up in her arms.
"No better than him, he can speak," Lilo beamed, "say hello!"
Then 626 tried to say hello to her again. Patch began to make signs, warning the alien not to speak.
"Dogs can't speak, darling," the lady warned Lilo, which made the creature stare at her.
"He did..." Lilo existed.
Jesse and Darla didn't say anything, unsure whether to or not, but just kept silent.
"Does it must be this dog," Nani asked, wearily.
Then the alien stuck out its tongue and started to lick one nostril and ate it, smacking his lips.
"Yes, he's good, I can warn you," Lilo accepted.
Patch sighed out of relief, relieved that his alien friend didn't reveal he could actually speak.
The animal shelter lady was filling out an adoption paper as the alien stared out the window, looking for something...or rather, someone. "You'll have to give him a name for him," she informed the little Hawaiian girl.
"His name is..." Lilo replied, thinking about it a moment, but stated the name once she found the perfect one for her new pet, "Stitch."
"Now, that's not a real name," the lady frowned at Lilo, almost like she thought it was a dumb name to give an animal.
Nani, Jesse and Darla began to give her the sign not to say that to the little girl.
"In... Iceland..." the lady then said and forced a grin, "but here's a nice name! Stitch, that is..."
Lilo grinned and turned back to her new pet as he stood on top of a chair to look out.
"Then let me guess, he's out there, right," Patch whispered to his alien friend.
This caused for the alien now named Stitch to nod. Patch came up on the chair next to him to look with him to help.
"And there's a two-dollar fee," the lady warned Nani.
Then Nani handed two dollars.
"I wanna buy him," Lilo warned her sister, "can I borrow two dollars?"
Nani took the dollars back and handed them to Lilo. Then Lilo pushed them against Nani. Nani took the dollars then and handed them to the lady again.
"He's all yours," the lady warned Lilo after stamping the paper.
"He's out there somewhere," Stitch warned his first Earth friend.
"I'll help you," Patch promised.
"You can be my first general," Stitch approved.
"Um, alright, sir," Patch said, unwilling to frustrate his friend.
"How good is his hearing," an unfamiliar voice to Patch whispered.
Then Stitch instantly turned, which made Patch wonder if he heard something. Patch gently pushed the door open and had Stitch come out with him. There was a glowing red dot on Stitch's belly, which made Stitch look up and droop his ears. Patch looked where Stitch was looking. They both looked to see what Patch and Jesse had seen in their dream.
"Why don't you run," the fat alien with four eyes frowned to the tiny blue alien.
"Bark," Patch warned Stitch, "bark!"
Then Stitch got on all fours and barked the best he could.
"Hang on," Lilo ran over to hug him, "we're coming!"
"What's going on out here," Jesse asked, coming out as well.
"Guys..." Joanie walked out.
Suddenly, a laser blast was shot, which just missed her.
"What the hell," Joanie yelped.
"What was that," Jesse asked.
"Stitch's creator," Patch whispered to his owner.
"Ah," Jesse nodded.
"THIS IS ALSO LOW FOR YOU," a voice yelled.
Lilo looked around to find the source, but was unable to.
"Yoo-hoo," Stitch mooned his creator from high up above.
"Perhaps that's not a wise fact to do," Patch whispered to Stitch.
"They shouldn't attack as long as they're with this Earth creature," Stitch whispered back, referring to Lilo.
Jumba and the noodly alien were coming down.
Stitch snarled. "No! Stay back! I have protection," he tried barking like Patch suggested.
"What is this, Stitch," Lilo frowned.
"Oh, I'm sure he's just emotional," Jesse grinned hesitantly.
The lady came out with Nani, but squirted Stitch with a spray bottle for disobedient animals. "Bad dog, barking at nothing!"
Stitch shuddered from the water and had a very negative reaction.
"Keep calm, it's just water," Patch whispered to him.
"Uh, congratulations on your new pet, Lilo," Darla warned her new friend.
"Thanks," Lilo thanked with a grin, "I wonder if Myrtle and the other girls would like him."
"Huh..." Darla merely hummed.
"I yet think she'd be better off with a lobster," Josh shrugged with his hands in his shorts pockets.
"Well, suck it up, she has a dog," Joanie warned him. Then she took a closer look at Stitch, noticing he didn't look like any dog she had ever seen. "...I think..."
"I don't want a dog..." Josh huffed.
"Oh, and let's say you and I grew up and got married," Darla glanced at him with her hands on her hips, "if a girl wanted a pet, what would you give them?"
Josh paused to think about it, but smirked once he had an idea. "A turtle."
"What if our daughter wants something different," Darla asked.
"Then a dog..." Josh shrugged, "perhaps a dog and a turtle."
"That's ridiculous..." Joanie said, "who would want a dog and a turtle?"
"Apparently all the Goldilocks children and I have..." Josh shrugged with a smirk.
"Yes, that will ever happen," Darla said.
"Yes...they'd probably be a brat like you..." Josh teased.
Darla stuck her tongue out at him, frowning her sapphire eyes. Josh stuck his tongue out back, though crossed his brown eyes. Jesse sighed and shook his head at the two.
"Those two are so made for each other," Patch whispered.
"Uh-huh..." Joanie nodded once.
"Well, um...Lilo, why don't we go take Stitch for his first walk around town," Darla asked.
"Oh, now that you warn me, I have to go to work," Nani said, but looked to Jesse since he was the oldest, "um, I know that's sudden, but would you mind watching Lilo and Stitch for me? I work at the luau, if the time comes tonight, you can bring them back and take them home with me until I get off my shift."
"There's no need to say another word," Jesse smiled.
"Thank you very much, you have no idea how much this means to me," Nani grinned in relief, "I'll can give her lunch, but until 6:00 tonight, I'll be at work."
They walked closer into town and Nani was giving Lilo instructions on how to behave while she would be gone. Stitch looked at the TVs for sale on display and seemed to love what was going on about a monster invading innocent people and stomped around like a monster and even snarled in his own personal amusement. Patch seemed to sigh while shaking his head, knowing that Stitch would be a lot of work.
"Alright, I guess I should go," Nani warned her younger sister before blowing a raspberry against her cheek.
Lilo chuckled, but pointed to her pet to include him on this. "What about Stitch?"
Nani shuddered in disgust and went away to work. "Thank you very much, Jesse," she called out as she was on her road to work.
"See you tonight at luau," Jesse called back to her.
"You can trust me," Nani replied as she took her leave.
"Lilo, why can't your parents look at you," Darla asked.
"Well...you see..." Lilo was about to explain, but she looked over a little and got distracted once she saw three familiar girls on their bikes and she gasped in delight. "My friends," she ran over.
The three girls saw Lilo and tried to bike off of her, but they were trapped.
"What have you done," Myrtle sneered.
"I'm sorry I bit you and hit you in the face and pulled your hair," Lilo apologized.
"Excuse not accepted," Myrtle huffed. "Now get out of my road before I run over you with what has been your friend," she added, referring to Darla until she said 'has been friend'.
Then Stitch came over, which made Myrtle, Yuki and Teresa recoil in horror again.
"I've had a new dog," Lilo grinned and introduced, "his name is Stitch."
"This is the ugliest fact I've ever seen," Myrtle spat.
"Ye-ee-ee-es," Yuki and Teresa agreed.
"Seriously," Darla asked, "do you girls never say anything other than yes after she spoke?"
Yuki and Teresa looked to each other in silence, but turned back, and said nothing else. Stitch sniffed Myrtle and frowned to her.
"No, take it away from me," Myrtle flinched, trying to get away from the dog, "I'll get a disease!"
"Oops, Stitch, we have company," Patch whispered to his alien friend once he saw the two other aliens in their disguises.
Stitch looked and noticed as Myrtle was ticked off. Then he took Lilo with him and rode off on Myrtle's bike.
Myrtle whined and cried like a baby. "Someone do something!"
Patch grinned even what Stitch did was a little rough and decided to taunt and make fun of the two disguised aliens.
"Oh, well, he's loose," the one-eyed alien disguised as a woman moaned.
"His destructive programming is coming into force," the fat alien with four eyes replied, "he will be irresistibly drawn to big cities, where he'll back up servers, turn street signs and steal everyone's left shoe."
Patch continued to taunt and made fun of the two aliens.
"And that creature makes fun of us, it seems..." the one-eyed alien said.
"What is this," the four-eyed alien asked.
"It's a...umm...I'm forgetting...." the one-eyed alien muttered.
"Some Earth experts," the four-eyed alien scoffed.
Then Patch decided to go and deal some pain to the creator for trying to capture his new friend, even if it would surprise anyone around him.
"Shoo! Shoo! Go away, you dirty creature," Jumba demanded.
"Don't harm it," the one-eyed alien warned, "it could be food for the endangered mosquito species!"
Patch began to lift up the four-eyed alien and began to make him hit the ground a couple of times before spinning him around, sending him flying to a tree. The one-eyed alien blinked twice, but shrieked and ran off before Patch could come anywhere near him.
"That'll teach them," Patch snorted. Then he came back over to Jesse, Darla, Joanie and Peter.
"Uh, how long are you human for," Darla asked.
"Three days," Josh replied, "Riley spoke to Triton and made a deal for me where it won't end like that with Ursula."
"Well, that's kind of a relief," Darla said.
"You're warning me," Jesse said.
"Yes, there I can hang out with Goldilocks a little," Josh smirked, putting the blonde girl into a headlock.
"Wait," Darla yelped, "you can't hurt me, I'm a girl!"
"Yes, yes," Josh moaned.
Darla got free and straightened out her neck, but saw that Myrtle left with Yuki and Teresa. Then she sighed. "Typically...somehow I feel like there's more to Yuki, Teresa and Elena than just agreeing and copying Myrtle all the time."
"Same here," Josh said.
A little while later, Lilo took her pet and new friends to the beach. Lilo was trying to teach Stitch how to fetch, she threw a stick and waited for him to chase it and bring it back to her. Stitch glanced at her, but scanned the beach for the alien bounty hunters who were after him and didn't see a point in retrieving the stick. Patch began to whisper to his alien friend on why he needed to retrieve the stick.
Stitch glanced at him, but then winced as Lilo squirted water at him for misbehaving. Lilo frowned, continuing to squirt the water until he would do what she wanted him to do. Then Stitch caught the bottle and threw it and frowned to her. Lilo frowned back, but went after it, which satisfied Stitch. Patch gave his friend a disappointed look.
"That's what she wanted," Stitch defended.
"Not exactly...." Patch face-pawed again.
"This fact with dog stuff is harder than it looks," Stitch moaned.
"You'll get used to it....." Patch sighed, "my brothers Lucky and Rolly and sister Cadpig are friends with a chicken who wants to be a dog."
"What's a chicken," Stitch asked.
"Uh, it's this bird that you can eat..." Patch explained the best he could, "um...it sounds unusual....."
"I have a lot to learn about this planet," Stitch said.
"Yes, sir, you do..." Patch sighed.
A volleyball rolled over to Stitch.
"Hey, over here, little buddy," a man in beach shorts and dreadlocks walked over for his ball.
Stitch caught the ball and threw it right at the man's face, making him fall in the sand in annoyance and slight pain. The alien just laughed at his misery.
"Stitch, don't do this, that's nasty," Patch warned him.
"That's funny," Stitch existed.
"Why am I here again," Joanie muttered as she sat underneath an umbrella.
"Because you won that contest," Jesse said.
"Yes, sir..." Joanie curved her face slightly.
Josh kept tugging on Darla's hair with a smirk.
"Stop this," Darla frowned.
"No," Josh smirked as he continued.
"Ugh..." Darla moaned, but remembered something Riley warned her about boys teasing girls out of premature love, "uh, Josh...do you have a girlfriend or something like that in Atlantica?"
"What? No, I don't," Josh said.
"Interesting...." Darla said.
"There was Andrea Framm around, but I wasn't so mad at her..." Josh said with a shrug, "she seemed to like me though."
"Like you or like you or like you as a friend," Darla asked.
"It was hard to say, honestly..." Josh shrugged.
"Well, what did she warn you about," Darla asked.
Josh turned back. "Actually, she was deaf."
"Deaf," Darla asked.
"She couldn't hear or speak on her own," Josh explained, "she spoke sign language. She had this companion octopus that spoke to her everywhere we would all hang out...I think she liked me liked me, but I've just never felt the same fashion, I've always felt that my special person was out there and I had to find her on my own."
"Awww," Darla grinned.
"Wait, I've had a heart, Goldilocks," Josh smirked with his hand on his hip and a thumb pointing up to him.
"I guess you do...." Darla rolled her eyes, "I have one as well."
"I was just alone before I met Ariel..." Josh sighed as he looked out to the ocean, "I lost my parents if I was really young and I was just trying to find a life for myself while trying to survive..."
"In a fashion, I know what you mean," Darla said, "even though I had someone to receive me, he just treated me more like an employee than his own daughter...he just...shut me out."
"Wow, that sounds rude," Josh said.
"Warn me anyhow....." Darla said, "I was just a little girl, four years old...I lost my parents and my sister ended up in a coma after the incident...I don't even know where I came from...the next fact I knew was surrounded by lights, camera and action, with thousands of people adoring me, but all I ever wanted was someone past my side."
"If I lived on land, I would have stayed side by side," Josh said.
"If I lived under the sea, I would've stood past your side," Darla said.
Then the two grinned to each other and not in a joking or teasing fashion, they were true serene and sincere grins. Jesse waved his right hand in front of them both, having no affect.
"You alright," Joanie asked as Lilo and Stitch wandered around the beach, but Patch followed close to them where he could keep an eye for Stitch.
"I think I lost them," Jesse said as he couldn't get Darla or Josh's attention.
"Ew...child love..." Joanie shuddered.
"It's young love," Jesse said.
"Yet childlike love....." Joanie stuck her tongue out, "aren't these two technically cousins now?"
"Well, they first met before I suggested that Uncle Triton adopt Josh," Jesse explained, "yes, they probably fell in love before that even though they were family now...besides, they're both orphans....though not so much longer....."
"They're an interesting couple..." Joanie shrugged.
"Yes, sir, they are," Jesse said.
"Meh..." Joanie shrugged, "as long as they don't sing, I'm happy..."
"You're not crazy," Josh warned her.
"Oh, heavens, this is it..." Joanie moaned.
"All my life has been a series of doors~," Darla started to sing, "and then suddenly, I bump into you~"
"Well, here we are," Jesse moaned.
"I was thinking the same fact," Josh said to Darla before he started to sing, "because like, I've been searching my entire life to find the perfect place, and perhaps it's the adrenaline speaking or vacation vibes~..."
Darla chuckled to that. "But to you~..."
"But with you~..." Josh echoed, "I found my place~"
"I see your face~" Darla sang.
"And it's nothing like I've ever known before~" Darla and Josh sang together, "love is an open door!"
Jesse brought out earplugs. Joanie took them and looked relaxed just as Darla and Josh spread their own little love feast together. Darla and Josh ran away together, having their own little moment together, seeming to forget all about what was going on before or without them, but not even minding or caring.
"Why sing," Jesse asked.
Joanie shrugged. Darla and Josh were now lying in the sand together, side-by-side.
"Alright, can I say something crazy," Josh asked.
Darla chuckled and nodded eagerly.
"Do you want to be my special someone," Josh got on his knees next to her.
"Can I say something even crazier," Darla did the same opposite side of him, "YES!!"
Jesse and Joanie unplugged their ears once the song was done. Darla and Josh were lost in their own little world yet, but they had stopped their little duet.
After a little while, Nani met the others for lunch.
Stitch was about to touch the container to get food for himself.
Nani restrained him and waved her finger at him since dogs weren't allowed people food. "Ah, ah..."
"What," Stitch blinked, but growled, willing to hurt Nani for denying him food.
Patch stopped his friend from hurting her, along with showing the two disguised aliens. Jumba and his companion chuckled, waving over. Stitch moaned and forced himself to hug Lilo since she seemed to be his only fashion of them not attacking him. Lilo bit into her sandwich and grinned down at her pet. Patch frowned at the disguised aliens, not liking them for trying to capture Stitch. The others had their lunch, but soon, Nani had to go back to work and they would all see her later tonight.
"Have you ever had Shave Ice," Lilo asked as they decided to walk around town.
"No," Jesse said.
"Then we'll get you some," Lilo grinned as she took out money from Nani.
They came into town and donned sunglasses, Lilo ordered enough Shave Ice for everybody, even Stitch. The man handed them their cones as Lilo carried two for her and Stitch as he was looking at postcards. Stitch stared at his, sniffing it while rolling the treat against his tongue, not sure how to properly eat it.
"It's a fashion to do it," Patch said, "and if a dog sniffs another dog's ass, it's a fashion to get to know you a little."
"Huh," Stitch glanced at him, but suddenly felt another dog come up behind him and sniff him. "WAIT," he growled.
"Stitch, he just wants---" Patch tried to explain.
Stitch hit his Shave Ice on top of the dog and threw postcards at him. "This is not for you, get out of here!"
"Stitch, he was just sniffing at your ass to get to know you better," Patch reminded him.
"He touched my---" Lilo said, but saw something. "SPACESHIP," he ran over to what was a space adventure ride and not a real ship, he climbed into it and tried to make it go, "c'mon! Let me out of this nightmare!"
"I'm sorry, guys, I think Stitch wants a ride," Lilo said as she took out her last quarter.
"Um, Stitch, this isn't a spaceship," Patch tried to warn his alien friend.
"Yes, that is," Stitch growled, "it just won't move! MOVE!!"
Lilo inserted the coin, but joined him. Then the ride started up and slowly rocked them back and forth. Lilo chuckled, having a lot of fun.
"Ugh..." Stitch moaned in defeat, "this planet's trying to murder me..."
"It's called a ride, this is for young children," Patch warned him.
"Guhh..." Stitch moaned.
"If you're ready to give up, just let us know, right," Jumba called as he sat with his companion with a teasing chuckle, but they kept their distance since Patch was there.
"Whee," Lilo beamed as she had a lot of fun on the ride.
"Hopefully he can survive the rest of his life here," Patch whispered.
Darla and Josh were sharing one Shave Ice together, becoming sickening sweethearts.
"I really hope they don't end up like Big Mac and Cheerilee with that love gift," Joanie said to Jesse.
"I strongly doubt it," Jesse said.
"Let's just hope so...." Joanie shuddered, "oh, that was so disgusting......Shmoopy Doopy...."
"I know how you feel, what were the girls thinking? You can't force love," Jesse said.
"They're children..." Joanie shrugged.
"Best point," Jesse said.
Soon, the ride ended and Lilo and Stitch joined the others. It looked like it was getting dark faster.
"Lilo, is it time for the luau now," Darla asked once she noticed that.
"Yes, come with me," Lilo warned them.
"Bring the road," Jesse smiled.
"Have you had a fun space adventure, Stitch," Lilo asked her pet along the road.
"Eh..." Stitch stuck his tongue out.
"Don't worry, you'll love the luau," Lilo said as they walked, "it's the best fact ever!"
"Let's hope so," Stitch said in alien language.
Riley was already at the luau and was sitting at one table, but turned her head with a grin to them. "Hi, guys!"
Darla ran over to her adoptive sister and hugged her legs.
Riley hugged her back. "I think you all had a nice day."
"Yes, we sure have," Darla grinned, "and did I ever warn you that you're the best sister ever?"
"Oh, Darla..." Riley chuckled and cooed to that, "thank you, that means a lot to me that you say."
"Believe me, that's true," Darla beamed up to her.
Riley grinned, but looked to Jesse. "I think she had a lot of fun today."
"Yes, especially with her surprise guest," Jesse said.
Riley chuckled. "Let's settle down then."
"Uh, these fire-dancers, won't they hurt anyhow," Darla asked.
"Don't worry, Darla, it's all for fun," Riley soothed, "I promise, no one will catch fire."
"Whew, thank heavens," Darla sighed.
Patch continued to be with Stitch where he wouldn't mess up. Lilo had her own private table with Stitch next to her.
"What's 'poi'," Josh asked as he stared at his menu.
"Poi is a Hawaiian word for the primary Polynesian staple food made from the underground plant stem or corn of the taro plant. It is a traditional part of Native Hawaiian cuisine. Poi is produced by mashing the cooked corn until it is a very viscous fluid," Jesse warned him, "I've done my research on the food they have here."
Josh wasn't sure what to think. "I think I'm going to try..."
The waitress filled that out as his order.
"Let's hope it's tasty," Darla grinned.
Nani was about to take another order before one of the employees whispered something into her ear. "Huh," she looked to the employee in question.
"The fire dancer who was supposed to dance until David hurt his leg," the employee whispered.
"Oh, dear..." Nani frowned, "we can't cancel the show...especially because it's tourist season."
"I'm sorry, Nani, but I don't know what else we can do..." the employee frowned, "unless you can find a replacement."
Nani started to think before an idea burst into her head.
"Find me if anything happens..." the employee sighed and walked away.
"I wonder..." Nani mumbled to herself before going away to find the replacement she had in mind for tonight's dinner and show.
Josh was given a bowl of poi, which was brownish/purplish substance. "Bah..." he wrinkled his nose, "more like something you throw at a food fight..."
"Just try it," Jesse said before seeing Nani coming over to them.
Josh poked the pudding like substance. "Ugh...it's like rotten algae......"
"Um, excuse me, Jesse," Nani walked over, "I hate to disturb you and barge in on your vacation, but do you think you could do me another favor?"
"Of course, what is this," Jesse asked.
"Well, we normally have two fire dancers, but I'm afraid one of them can't come tonight," Nani said, "would you fill in?"
Jesse's eyes widened. "Fire-bending....me?"
"This should be interesting..." Joanie glanced up.
"Of course," Jesse said, "I've researched them."
Josh started to throw his poi, not liking it and felt his inner prankster being unleashed.
"Oh, thank you very much, I owe you for this," Nani grinned, but noticed Josh was throwing poi, "wait, stop that!"
"Please forgive him, he's a bit of a joker," Darla said.
"I just don't want to clean it..." Nani warned.
"Uh, where am I going," Jesse asked Nani.
"Go to that podium and back," Nani pointed, "David should be there by now."
"Thank you," Jesse grinned before going to the back of the stage.
There was in fact a young adult man with wavy black hair who was backstage, getting himself ready, he looked around Nani's age.
"Um, excuse me," Jesse greeted, "are you David?"
"Yes," the young man turned his head until his name was called, but was surprised to see a young boy, "um...can I help you, boy?"
"I'm replacing the fire dancer you're supposed to be with," Jesse warned him.
"Keoni can't make it," David sighed, "what a pity....well, I hope you can handle this."
"I'm sure it'll be alright," Jesse grinned.
"Great," David said before giving him his fire dancer outfit.
Jesse nodded, but took it to get changed. "This is going to be a grand night in our vacation."
"I hope you enjoy your stay on the islands, and if you go home, we hope you visit again soon," David advised like a friendly older brother type.
"I'm sure me and my family will," Jesse grinned before getting changed.
"You surf sometimes," David asked, "the waves are really a sunset choice."
"Well, no, I've never surfed," Jesse said.
"You should give it a try," David advised.
"Huh...perhaps I'll..." Jesse shrugged, but got adjusted, "alright, is that it?"
David looked to see him in uniform. "It's perfect...now, just do your best to follow my lead, I'm sure you'll do well if you've done your research."
"I've done my research, but I'll follow your lead," Jesse said.
"You should do it right for your first time," David said, "hopefully, the stage doesn't catch fire this time."
"This time," Jesse winced slightly.
"Hurry up," David warned him, not responding that question, "it's time."
"Uhh...alright..." Jesse agreed, but hesitantly.
And where they were greeted with an applause.
"Alright...don't be hesitant.....just remember what you read..." Jesse coached himself as it was now pitch dark outside.
David handed him the torches and took his own, taking a deep breath. "YEAAHHHH," he called before he started to move with the flames as the audience watched them with their meal.
Jesse began to move his torch around like what he read online. David did his best based on rehearsal and memory as the people from and away from Hawaii watched them. Joanie seemed to actually participate with the audience as she watched the flames, seeming entranced by it for some reason.
Jesse seemed to be doing such a great job on stage with David. David did special moves with Jesse during the dance and took his bottle of water, squirting it in his mouth, but held it in his cheeks as he stood straight up with the torches, but breathed against the flame and made it bigger. This caused for everyone to applaud for them.
"Um, David, is the top of the stage fireproof," Jesse asked.
"Uhh..." David said hesitantly as he started to bow for the crowd.
However, the roof dropped down, having caught on fire.
"Not again," David yelped, but tried to murder the fire by stomping on it.
"Why do I feel like I knew this was going to happen," Jesse sighed.
"Faster, help me put it out," David warned him while trying to put out the fire.
Jesse did his best to try to help as the audience watched in alarm and surprise.
"Is that part of the show," Darla asked.
"I think not..." Riley said in a soothing tone.
Darla hugged her, but was glad neither Jesse or David got hurt from the flames. Stitch found it funny, however, and even clapped.
"Stitch, that's not funny," Patch said.
"Uh-huh..." Stitch argued.
Lilo opened a book after using a red crayon to show what looked like a picture of Stitch, but colored in red. "This is you... This is your bad level," she warned her pet, "it's unusually high for someone your size...we need to fix that."
"You can say that again," Patch whispered.
"Ay-yi-yi, Lilo," Nani came over, frowning to her younger sister, "your dog can't sit at the table!"
Patch swiftly came to Joanie's feet where he wouldn't get in danger.
"Stitch's in danger, he needs dessert," Lilo said to her sister.
"Oh, you didn't even eat your sweet potato," Nani frowned as she picked up her sister's plate, "I thought you liked them."
"Dessert," Lilo emphasized, pointing with her crayon.
Nani sighed, already seeing this was going nowhere. She collected their plates and went into the kitchen. David and Jesse walked past, covered in ash a little.
"That was an interesting experience..." Jesse mumbled.
"Yes, I'm sorry about that," David grinned sheepishly.
"Hey, Sis," Jesse greeted.
"Hey, Jesse," Riley handed him a towel.
"Thank you..." Jesse took it and looked over to Joanie as she had a silly grin on her face, "alright...just put an end to it."
Cherry silently laughed before started to and cracked up a little louder at the look of him.
"I'm so glad I could do you a favor," Jesse moaned.
Joanie kept laughing and even fell out of her chair. Jesse threw his towel in her face with a smirk. Joanie frowned, but stopped laughing, but she wrapped up the towel and started to fling it against him for revenge. Jesse simply caught it before it could hit his face. Joanie bit her lip slightly. Jesse smirked darkly, but threw the towel with her in the air and splashed them both into the ocean water.
"I hate that he can get away with that," Joanie moaned.
Jesse smirked, but put his shirt back on for now as their food was ready. Joanie came out of the water and shook herself dry, but patted her ear, which made water spew out the other side with a starfish included and she trudged back over to the luau area.
"Don't you think that was a bit much, Jesse," Riley asked.
"I'm sorry, Joanie...." Jesse said with a smirk.
"It's alright..." Joanie frowned down at him, but mumbled, "I'd expect that from Alec and not from you..."
"What do you mean, Joanie," Patch asked.
"Oh, nothing..." Joanie looked away innocently. Then she sat down to have dinner with the family she was visiting.
David came past Lilo, which got her attention and she introduced him to Stitch. He was shocked at what he saw and was confused if Stitch was a dog. "Are you sure it's a dog?"
"Uh-huh," Lilo nodded, "he was a collie before he got run over."
Then Nani came past and brought them both cake slices.
"Yum," Lilo beamed.
Stitch gobbled up both slices, however.
"Stitch," Patch hissed silently, "that was very rude!"
Stitch blinked, but spit up the cake slices back up on the plates, but put them together and even took out a cherry to put on top and slid them both over in an attempt to apologize to Lilo.
"Eww," Lilo grimaced.
"That's one fashion of apologizing," Patch said.
"How about that, Nani," David greeted the waitress older sister of Lilo.
Nani glanced at him and took a long look at him. "Did you catch fire again?"
"How often does that happen," Darla asked.
"Uh...I'd rather not speak about it..." David said uneasily, "besides, it was just the stage.....Jesse did a grand job on his first try...listen, Nani, I was wondering.....if you don't do this-----"
"David, I warned you, I can't, I..." Nani replied softly, but looked to her sister and new pet, then back to David softly, "I've had a lot to deal with right now."
"And I think I know what she means," Patch whispered.
Jesse put his finger to his mouth to Patch.
"I know," David replied, "I thought you might need some time to--"
Nani winced. "You smell like a lawnmower..."
Josh got bored, where he threw poi again with a smirk. David started to sniff himself, thinking perhaps that turned Nani away from him.
"Look, I have to go," Nani warned David, "the boy at table three's throwing poi again..."
"Josh, please stop throwing poi," Darla said.
"Perhaps another time, alright," Nani said to David before walking away.
Josh laughed as he threw the poi and made a mess.
"Josh, stop this," Riley scolded her foster nephew.
"Oh, come on, I'm bored," Josh moaned.
"That's no excuse..." Riley said, "what do you think Triton would do if he were here now to see what you're doing?"
Josh shrugged. "Probably 'stranded' me."
"Exactly," Darla said.
Josh stuck out his tongue. "He's not here..."
"Ugh..." Darla rolled her eyes.
"You look like you could use a slumber festival..." Lilo whispered to Darla.
"You have no idea how much I want one," Darla whispered back.
"How about tonight," Lilo offered.
"Really," Darla asked.
"If you want and can....." Lilo said, "it'd be my first as well."
"Oh, Sis, can I please go to Lilo's, please," Darla begged.
"What's going on," Riley asked.
"Can I sleep with Lilo tonight," Darla asked again, "please?"
"Well, I think it would be a grand experience," Riley grinned.
"Well," Darla asked, quite literally on the edge of her seat.
"Did Lilo invite you," Riley prompted.
"Uh-huh," Darla nodded eagerly.
"Well...I'm fine," Riley said.
Then Dara cheered and jumped over to warn Lilo the best news.
"She really deserves to have the sleepover experience," Riley grinned.
"Yes, a lots of little girls do that," Jesse agreed with his sister.
"Oh, I've always enjoyed mine......" Riley said.
"How was this," Jesse asked.
"Well, Annie Greenwood had this neighbor who was separated from her husband and once a week, her daughter would visit," Riley explained, "after I was adopted in the family, they agreed that I had to get to know her daughter since I was a growing girl and my only friend at that time my cowgirl Jessie and we became fast friends and she taught me everything that I knew about being a happy and healthy young girl on land instead of under the sea."
"Cool," Jesse grinned.
"Slumber festivities are just the best fact about being a little girl..." Riley sighed.
"This sure sounds like that," Patch said.
Stitch was getting bored, but he started to sniff something, which struck his fancy and he sniffed all around on the ground for it, but eventually found it. It appeared to he a chicken drumstick and he was about to eat it, but the alien bounty hunters came back for him, trying to secure him and take him off, but Stitch fought and growled at his toy-makers.
"Oh, you can't be serious," Patch moaned before going over to the four-eyed disguised alien and biting him on the leg.
The four-eyed alien yelped, which alarmed the one-eyed alien and made him drop the prison cuffs. Then Stitch started to gnaw on the one-eyed alien's head like it were a chew toy. Nani was about to take an order, but gasped once she saw that and ran over as Stitch kept chewing on the other alien's head.
"Get out! Shoo! SHOO," Nani tried to restrain Stitch, even punching him and splashing a pitcher of guava juice on him.
Stitch snarled and tightened his bite, squeezing the one-eyed alien's head. Nani caught Stitch by his legs and fell down on the ground with him and the one-eyed alien coughed and sputtered.
"That's what you get until you try to get hold of my friend," Patch frowned at the four-eyed alien furiously.
"You don't understand....." Jumba warned the puppy, "we have to do this!"
"NANI," a sharp male voice called.
Nani looked up hesitantly to see a man in charge of the luau, who was also her boss.
"Is that your dog," the man frowned.
"Uh..." Nani stammered hesitantly.
"All is well," the one-eyed alien grinned and chuckled hesitantly, trying to pass away as a human woman, "please, go ahead, I'm fine."
"Please tell me that a female stranger is with a nasty cough," Patch whispered.
"Ooh, your head is so swollen..." Nani winced.
"Actually, she's just ugly," Jumba deadpanned.
"I don't agree anymore," Patch whispered.
The one-eyed alien chuckled sheepishly. "Darling...he's joking...ugly? Please, look at me!"
The man looked very firm and scolding to Nani. "This isn't going to work."
"Uh, but, but..." Nani feared her career was terminated.
The man folded his arms strictly to her.
"Yes," Nani frowned furiously, "well, who wants to work at this foolish fake luau any matter? C'mon, Lilo..."
"Good, Stitch, it'll cost you a lot of damage. Access your job," Patch growled silently.
"Eh..." Stitch shrugged away, not finding anything bad about that.
Patch sighed.
"Um, Nani," Darla tugged on Nani's skirt before she went to go change.
"What is this," Nani moaned, feeling miserable right now.
"Lilo invited me over for the night," Darla said with a grin.
"Oh, um...that's grand, you had your mum's approval," Nani asked.
"Yes, ma'am," Darla said.
"Well, let me change first, I'll be with you in a moment," Nani said, going to get dressed in her regular clothes and out of her work clothes.
Darla and Lilo grinned to each other, very emotional to have a sleepover together. Patch went up to Darla willing to come along, but then he would make sure his alien friend wouldn't make a mess.
"Um, perhaps my dog can come as well," Darla added, putting her arms around Patch, "Stitch and Patch can band.....Lilo and I could bond...whaddya say?"
"Whatever, I just have to go now......" Nani moaned as she went away.
"Great," Darla grinned, mostly because she was going to have her first real sleepover.
"If you need me, here's the hotel number, call me and I'll be right over," Riley handed one of the cards from the hotel over to Darla since the girl never had really had a sleepover before and knew little children tended to feel homesick before the night would even be over on their first night away from home.
"Thanks, Sis," Darla grinned.
"Of course, darling," Nani grinned.
Darla grinned back as she went over to where Lilo and Stitch were as Patch did the same.
"I think I'm going back to the ocean..." Josh shrugged, not really sure what to do since Darla would be sleeping over at someone else's house.
"You want to stay at the hotel with us," Jesse asked Josh.
Josh shrugged. "I don't know what else to do."
"Stay with us, you'll be human for a few days, you better get used to it," Riley said.
"Very good..." Josh said.
"Great," Jesse grinned.
"Yes, I think...." Josh shrugged, "behave yourself, Goldilocks."
"You act the fashion you are, Brown Eyes," Darla frowned back at Josh.
"These two are so in love," Riley chuckled.
Darla and Josh rolled their eyes at that, but secretly grinned to each other. Once Nani was changed, she left with Lilo, Darla, Stitch and Patch. Then Jesse, Joanie, Riley and Josh went back to their hotel.
"Nani, did you lose your job because of me and Stitch," Lilo asked her older sister as they arrived at her house.
"No," Nani replied, turning back to her little sister, "the manager is a vampire and he wanted me to join the undead army."
Lilo stared down. "I knew it..." she whispered.
Nani opened the front door and turned on the light to welcome them all home.
"This is a grand home," Lilo warned Stitch, "you'll love it very much."
Stitch sniffed the room and lowly hissed.
"You see," Lilo took that as a sign of approval.
"Uh...Lilo," Nani called hesitantly.
"This is a new experience for him," Patch whispered.
"Comfortable," Lilo handed a pillow to Stitch.
Stitch caught the pillow and started to tear at it.
"Wait," Lilo took it and put it back.
Then Stitch came into the kitchen, he saw the blender and tried to play with it, but it made the juice inside of it splash him.
"Wait, what's wrong," Nani caught Stitch and turned off the blender.
"Stitch, try to control yourself," Patch growled.
"Watch out for the little angel," Lilo warned her sister.
"It's not an angel, Lilo. I don't even think it's a dog," Nani retorted, "who knows where this came from?"
"He's just grumpy because of his bedtime," Lilo said.
"He's creepy, Lilo," Nani reminded, "I won't sleep while he's relaxing in the house!"
Stitch frowned at Darla and scanned at her like she were a possible threat.
"You're always relaxed in the house and I can sleep well," Lilo argued.
"Um, hello, boy, like, um, dog," Darla said, trying to pet Stitch.
Stitch glanced at her. Darla winced, but petted him gently on the head, fearing for dear life. Stitch blinked, but seemed to like that and grinned at her with his ears drooping slightly. This caused for Darla and Patch to grin, happy to know that Stitch liked to be a pet.
"Lilo, look at him," Nani caught the alien away from Darla.
"Wait," Darla pouted.
"He's obviously mutated from something else," Nani warned her sister, "we have to bring him back!"
"He was an orphan, then we adopted him," Lilo suddenly shouts, "how about Ohana?!"
Patch began to pull on her pant leg, trying to stop her from taking Stitch away.
"He wasn't here for that long," Nani defended, attempting to buy the puppies as Patch was being difficult, "Darla, take control of your dogs before I bring him back as well!"
"I'm not there," Lilo stomped her foot, "Dad said that Ohana means family!"
Nani opened the door, only slightly. Patch, Stitch and Darla looked curious at what Lilo said. This caused Nani to close the door after Lilo mentioned Ohana meant family.
"Ohana means family...family means----" Lilo was about to continue.
"No one is left behind," Nani said, completing for her.
"Or," Lilo prompted.
"Or forgotten," Nani sighed, "I know, I know...I hate it until you use Ohana against me."
Lilo stuck her tongue out. Nani did the same, incidentally dropping Stitch from her hands. This caused for Patch to let go of her pant leg.
"If you stroke him, he likes it and he's really calm," Darla grinned.
Stitch nuzzled against Darla with a small grin.
"Don't worry, you can sleep next to me," Lilo warned her pet, leading her and Darla upstairs to her bedroom.
"Lilo, go find my old pajamas and let Darla rent a night," Nani said as she exhaustedly fell into a chair.
"Alright," Lilo grinned.
"Now you have it," Patch grinned at Stitch.
"I hope Nani's old pajamas are alright..." Lilo said as she put Darla into a short-sleeved shirt with a double zero on it with matching shorts.
"This is fine," Darla grinned, very emotional about her first sleepover.
"Really," Lilo replied, "well, alright then."
Then Darla, Lilo, Stitch and Patch came to Lilo's room. Stitch knocked the door open, but sniffed around the floor.
"See how curious the puppy is," Lilo grinned, but showed Stitch around. "This is my room, and this is your bed," she gestured to the wooden box with a blanket in it, but took out Scrump and a bottle filled with brown liquid. "This is your dolly and bottle...you see, doesn't spill..." she shook the bottle.
Stitch took it and gave it a try and it didn't spill, but tasted it.
"What is this," Darla pointed to the liquid, "chocolate milk?"
"I filled it with coffee," Lilo stated.
"Yes, are you convinced that it's wise," Darla asked.
"He likes it," Lilo gestured. "Good puppy..." she lifted his blanket up, "c'mon, go to bed."
Stitch looked up at Lilo's bed, finding it better, but shoved Lilo down and climbed up into her bed.
"Wait, that's mine," Lilo frowned. Then she stood up in front of him as he drank from the bottle. "Down under!"
Stitch threw the pillow at her, but saw something underneath it and reached to touch it. "What's this?"
"Stitch, don't touch this," Patch warned him, "that's Lilo's!"
"Did your dog just speak," Lilo asked Darla in shock.
"Stop this," Patch whispered.
"Um...if he did, would you faint and think it was a dream," Darla asked.
"I knew dogs could speak....." Lilo grinned, "Stitch spoke to me in the kennel, where I knew he was that person."
"Yes, sir, dogs can speak and other animals can speak, but speaking to all the humans we see doesn't make it out of control, but then no one faints or take animals that can speak to scientists. Find out how they're speaking," Patch warned her.
"Um...very interesting......well, your secret's safe with me......" Lilo grinned.
"Well, that worked better than expected..." Darla was surprised that Lilo didn't shriek or pass out from the shock.
Stitch was going wild, chewing on Scrump's head and tore a paper on Lilo's painting easel from her blue period. Darla was about to pet Stitch again, but Lilo put a flower lei around his neck instead. And where that calmed him down really fast.
"There..." Lilo said, coming to her pet's side, "you know, you destroy everything you touch...why not try something for a change?"
"Huh..." Stitch looked thoughtful, he took off the flower lei and started to make a model city.
Darla sat on Lilo's bed next to her, seeing it was big enough for two people to sleep in and might be a better option than sleeping on the floor. Patch began to help Stitch with it who didn't mind the help.
Stitch grinned and they continued to work. "Ah," he grinned once they were done.
"Wow, San Francisco," Lilo said.
Patch brought a lamp over and took off the shade, knowing where this was going.
Then Stitch got himself ready and roared like Godzilla and even smashed against the city he built, feeling very refreshed. He even picked up a toy car. "Eek! Save me," he imitated a frightened voice and chewed on the car as he wrecked what he built.
"There's no more caffeine for you..." Lilo shook her head at Stitch.
"I agree," Patch and Darla said.
Patch decided to act like the brave giant Dalmatian of the model city and play fight with Stitch. Stitch glanced at Patch and was just as strong as him. Darla was curious at what was under Lilo's pillow, but since she was really touchy about it, she decided not to bring it up. Lilo could somehow sense her new friend was curious about the picture. Darla turned back with a grin, but waved weakly. Lilo sighed, knowing that her friend had the right to know.
"Uh, Lilo, are you alright," Darla asked as their pets were distracted.
Lilo came over and showed Darla a picture of her at a younger age with a couple and someone else who looked like Nani as a teenager.
"Oh, this is a nice family photo," Darla took it with a grin, "where are your parents anyhow? Are they out of town for work or something?"
Lilo shook her head. "They're up in Heaven now."
"Heave-" Darla asked, but realized what Lilo said, "heaven?"
Lilo nodded as a tear slipped out of her right eye.
"Oh...uhh...Lilo, I'm very sorry....." Darla said softly, "I know how you feel....."
"Uh-huh..." Darla frowned softly, "I lost my parents since I was four. Her sister was in the car with her parents, but she fell into a coma and no one else was found, where my nanny was there. I took him to adoption..."
"Oh, my..." Lilo frowned.
Darla frowned, but looked to Lilo with her own tears. Lilo turned back. Then the two hugged each other as tears leaked down the sides of their faces. Darla and Lilo did have one fact in common. After Stitch tore down his city, he appeared very bored.
"You want to get a drink from the fridge," Patch asked.
"Yes..." Stitch agreed.
Then Patch and Stitch left Lilo's bedroom and wandered downstairs. Darla yawned as she broke out of the hug with Lilo.
"We should sleep a little," Darla said.
"Uh-huh..." Lilo agreed, "is it alright to share a bed with me?"
"I think I should do this......" Darla sleepily grinned.
Then the two pulled back the cover and tucked themselves in as they had a very long day. While these two went to sleep, Nani was on the phone with David, speaking about Stitch.
"I think it might be a koala," Nani said as she looked through a dog breed guidebook. "The evil koala......I can't even caress it...it keeps staring at me like eating me," she gasped as she looked at the fridge.
Stitch had the fridge door open. He slanted his eyes at her, but took a can of soda and gave it to Patch, but took the other, put it in his mouth and shut the door with his back foot. Patch simply waved at Nani before the both of them went back upstairs.
"Egad," David said on the other line, though the phone was dropped on the floor, "Nani? Hello? Are you there?"
Nani was just in stunned silence over what she just saw.
Stitch drank both soda cans and burped before crushing them both.
"Thank you for the soda any matter..." Patch said as he felt very sleepy.
"What are you doing here," Stitch asked.
"I fall asleep a little..." Patch curled up, "get up as late as you like, I'm tired of dogs."
"Oh, alright," Stitch said with a frown before looking around for something to do.
Patch yawned and fell right asleep.
Littlefoot was back on Saurus Rock on the same tooth that fell off. This time, only he was on it and it fell off again. Littlefoot shrieked as he fell down with the tooth just as Saurus Rock crumbled into pieces and buried him.
The Witch was even more infuriated, growling at Dorothy.
"Oohhhh!!!! Which is more than you want! Curse you and your dog! You've been more danger to me than you're worth, one road or another------but soon it's over now!"
The Witch walked back to the table and caught her ornate hourglass. Flipping it upside down, the red sand started falling.
"Do you see this? How long you must be alive! And it's not long, my beautiful! It's not long!"
As Dorothy watched silently, the Witch placed the hourglass back on the table and caught the girl inside.
"I can't wait forever to get these shoes," she growled.
The Witch ran out of the chambers, closing the doors shut. The sound of the door locking was the last fact Dorothy heard as she watched the sand of the hourglass fall.
Dorothy ran toward the door and tried to open it. Indeed so, the door was locked and wouldn't budge. She searched for another door, but found it locked as well.
Suddenly, Dorothy collapsed near the crystal ball and started sobbing uncontrollably.
"I'm frightened," she whispered, weeping, "I'm frightened, Auntie Em---I'm frightened!"
For a few moments, Dorothy just sat there as she wept.
"Dorothy? Dorothy!"
She heard a voice ring out through the chambers, a rather familiar voice. She turned over to the crystal ball, as an image of Auntie Em appeared. She looked as though she was looking frantically for someone.
"Where are you? It's me--Auntie Em. We're trying to find you. Where are you?"
Dorothy wept even harder, clutching the sides of the crystal ball and calling out towards one of the few relatives she had left.
"I-I'm here in Oz, Auntie Em," Dorothy wept, "I'm locked up in the Witch's castle...and I'm trying to get to your house, Auntie Em!"
But just as fast as it appeared, the image of Auntie Em's face vanished.
"Oh, Auntie Em, don't go away," Dorothy begged, "I'm frightened! Come back! Come back!"
But now, instead of an image of her aunt, a haunting image of the Wicked Witch herself appeared in its place.
"Auntie Em---Auntie Em---come back," the Witch mocked, "I'll give you Auntie Em, my beautiful!"
The evil woman cackled louder, as her image slowly disappeared off the crystal. Dorothy could only sob, frightened out of her wits. With each second, the sands were getting smaller and smaller. Time was not on her side.
Stitch was looking around Lilo's stuff, but didn't cause too much destruction and found a series of books, but found one that really made him curious.
"You alright, Stitch," Patch asked.
"What is this," Stitch showed him what he found.
"It's a book," Patch noticed, "it's probably Lilo's, perhaps you should ask her about it."
Stitch hummed, but shook Lilo awake, crawling up to her bed.
"What," Lilo asked, awakening.
"What's this book about," Stitch opened it.
Darla awakened as well since Stitch was now between them with the book.
"It's an Ugly Duckling," Lilo explained with a yawn, "look, he's mournful because he's alone and no one wants him...but on this page, his family hears him weeping and they find him. And the Ugly Duckling was happy because I know where the ducks belong."
"Perhaps that's what you need, and what you call your hometown," Patch grinned to Stitch.
"Huh..." Stitch looked thoughtful for a moment, but crawled down from Lilo's head.
Then Lilo found a record and held it in the air. "You want to hear the King's story," she offered to her pet, "you look like an Elvis fan."
"Elvis," Darla asked.
Lilo gaped at her new friend. "I've never heard of the King of Rock and Roll, but don't warn me!"
"No, I'm sorry, I've never heard of Elvis," Darla apologized to her friend.
"I need to go out more......" Lilo said as she dropped from her bed and went to get her record player, "this is one of my mother's favorites."
"Your mum must have really loved Elvis's song," Darla said.
"Mum and father overall," Lilo grinned, "my father also played ukulele."
"Cool," Darla smiled.
Lilo got down from her bed and brought a record player and put the record disc on it. Darla felt more awake now and decided to kneel next to Lilo. Stitch looked curious as he was in his bed and turned his head to the record player. Lilo played "Suspicious Minds" on the record player, but luckily, it wasn't loud enough to awaken Nani. Stitch decided to place one of his claws on top of the record.
Lilo and Darla got concerned that might scratch it and make the record useless, but luckily, it didn't. It only made the music stop. Stitch lightly purred and grinned, but opened his mouth a brief moment, which made the song come out from Stitch's mouth like magic. This surprised the girls and Patch. Patch decided to close Stitch's mouth and then open it again. Every time Stitch's mouth opened, the song played and until it would close, the song would stop.
"We must warn Nani," Lilo suggested.
"Yes," Darla nodded.
"But later," Patch said once he saw what time it was.
"Oh, yes, let's show this to Nani in the morning," Darla agreed.
"This is very cool," Lilo was emotional.
After a little bit longer, Lilo, Darla and Patch went back to sleep.
After sleeping for a while, it was eventually morning and the girls, Patch and Stitch decided now was a best time to show Nani, Stitch's new skill. Nani was fast asleep.
"Nani...Nani," Lilo called to her older sister.
"Uh...yes..." Nani awakened, groggily looking over to the small girls in her bedroom.
"Look," Darla and Lilo said. Darla was wearing/borrowing Lilo's green dress with white flowers on it while Lilo wore her yellow dress with green leaves on it.
Darla turned on the record player and placed Stitch's claw in the place of the needle. Lilo signaled for Nani to wait a moment, but opened Stitch's mouth to play one of Elvis's songs to Nani. This surprised Nani very much, especially with how a dog couldn't be able to do that. Patch moved Stitch's mouth up and down. Nani stared very long, unsure at what to do or to say to that. Then there was a sharp knocking at the door, which made Nani rush out of bed to respond it.
"Who could that be," Darla asked.
Patch and Stitch decided to follow Nani to find out who was at the door. Nani let out a terrified gasp until she opened the door to see a bald man in a suit with sunglasses.
"Heard you lost the job....." the man warned her.
"Well, uh...actually, I quit that job...." Nani seemed to be making up an excuse, "because, you know, the hours are just not conductive to the challenges of raising a child..."
Stitch growled at this man, not liking him for some reason and threw a book at his face, which knocked his sunglasses clear off his face. Patch looked at the man as well, not finding or sensing anything bad about this man, but did sense that he didn't like him either and started to growl at him.
"WAIT," the man frowned down.
"I am very sorry about that," Nani picked up Stitch in total fear and alarm.
"What is that fact," the man demanded.
"That's my puppy," Lilo piped up with a grin.
"Really," the man asked before seeing Patch keep Lilo and Darla away from him.
"Uh, this one's mine, sir," Darla said, referring to the Dalmatian puppy.
The man was about to reach down and pet Patch, but the Dalmatian puppy just backed up further from him, not trusting him.
"Huh..." he turned back to Nani, "thus far, you have been adrift in the sheltered harbor of my patience, but I cannot ignore you being jobless. Do I make myself clear?"
"Perfectly," Nani replied.
"And the next time I see this dog," the man gestured to Stitch, "I expect him to be a model citizen...capisce?"
"Uh...yes," Lilo agreed, wondering what that word was supposed to mean.
"That means 'understood'," Patch whispered to Lilo.
"Oh," Lilo whispered back.
"New job," the man said to Nani. "Model citizen....." he said to Lilo, putting his glasses back on, but one part of the glass broke off and hit the ground. "Farewell..." he walked away to leave the sisters to their business.
"Alright, who the heck was that guy," Darla asked.
"He's the social worker," Lilo said.
"Social worker," Darla asked.
"He's one of the people who come over to make sure I'm happy and stuff like that..." Lilo shrugged, not completely understanding herself, "until he was here last time, I got Nani in danger and he warned me to call him the next time I'd be left home alone."
"C'mon, Lilo, we have work to do....." Nani walked inside of the house.
"Then I better get back to my family, but I think Patch wants to stay with Stitch to make sure he behaves," Darla said.
"What a noble dog," Lilo grinned.
"Oh, uh..." Darla realized she yet had on Lilo's dress.
"Keep it," Lilo said.
"Wow, really, Lilo," Darla grinned, "thanks."
"No problem," Lilo grinned, "consider it as my gift to you."
Darla hugged Lilo, but decided to go see Joanie, Jesse and Riley back at the hotel. "Make sure he doesn't hurt anyone," she whispered to the Dalmatian puppy before leaving.
"You've had it," Patch whispered back.
Darla petted him on the head, but walked away.
"She seems nice," Nani said.
"She's my friend," Lilo grinned proudly.
"She sure is," Nani said.
Then the older Pelekai sister left to get ready for the day and collected the paper that had a wanted ad for an old woman named Mrs. Hasagawa.
"I'm gonna try to help make Stitch into a best model citizen," Lilo warned Patch.
"I'll help as well," Patch nodded to her.
Lilo took out a glossy photograph with a grin. "And I know just the perfect man for the job."
"Let's hope this works," Patch said.
"I'm almost positive it will," Lilo grinned hopefully.
"Hopefully," Patch grinned back.
Darla came back to the hotel room, greeting her family.
"Did you have fun," Riley asked.
"I sure did," Darla grinned.
"Oh, I'm so happy for you, darling..." Riley said, "perhaps Lilo could visit us sometime back home."
"Yes, perhaps..." Darla said, walking away, but went to Jesse as he played cards with Joanie. "Patch is gonna keep an eye on Lilo and Stitch today to make sure he behaves," she whispered to her big brother.
"Let me guess, social worker problems," Jesse asked, sounding like a detective.
"How did you know," Darla asked.
"I have my fashions...." Jesse said. "Excuse me a sec....." he turned over to Joanie and laid out four aces, "heh..."
Joanie smirked and showed she had five aces.
"How is this that you always win," Jesse asked.
"Because I feel lucky......" Joanie smirked, rubbing her pointer finger and thumb together.
Jesse gave her a glance. "Are you using your medallion?"
Joanie paused, but narrowed her eyes. "No?"
"You are a cheater," Darla frowned.
"Hi, Dimples," Joanie greeted offhandedly.
"Give us your medallion until the card game is over," Jesse said.
"Nope..." Joanie clicked her teeth.
"Don't make me make you....." Jesse threatened.
"You would never hurt me......" Joanie slanted her eyes.
Jesse lifted her up by her shirt collar.
"You wouldn't hurt me....." Joanie warned her best friend.
Jesse sighed. "I'll frighten you..."
Joanie laughed at that. She continued to laugh until she saw the same frown in his eyes that looked similar to Alec's frown. "What?"
"I'll ask him to come here......" Jesse smirked, getting over to her.
"You bluff..." Joanie bit her lip.
"Oh, Alec, Joanie's having a relaxing day," Jesse called out.
Joanie shrieked and ran away, dropping the cards on the road, but she was blocked by the one she feared the most.
"Alec, you look well..." she backed off hesitantly as he walked toward her, "what are you doing here?"
"I was on vacation until I was called..." Alec replied as he took out an expensive-looking cup and drank the juice through the straw next to the umbrella.
Joanie, at last, stumbled and fell on her backside, unable to go backwards any further without looking behind her.
"Well, what have you been up to, my little play fact," Alec asked.
"Just hanging out, you know how that is....." Joanie shrugged.
Darla curiously looked to Alec.
"Oh, hello, Darla," Alec greeted.
"Uh...hello..." Darla grinned softly and waved gently.
Alec waved back, but noticed something missing. "Where's Patch?"
"Uh, long story..." Jesse said softly to himself, though tried to hide his emotional concern for Patch like he did the night before, "don't worry though...."
"Alright, love you," Joanie said to Alec.
"Joanie, is there a reason why I was called here," Alec asked.
"No..." Joanie looked away.
"We were playing cards," Jesse started.
Joanie nudged him to shut him up.
"And she used her medallion to cheat," Jesse had to finish.
Then Joanie shook him violently.
"Joanie, stop shaking him or else I'll shake you," Alec threatened.
Joanie suddenly stopped, her cheeks changing color only slightly.
"This is going to be a long day for Joanie..." Darla said to seemingly no one.
"Now, Joanie, give them your medallion until the game is over," Alec said.
"Yes, sir..." Joanie said faster, giving up her medallion.
Then Alec smirked and took her hands, squeezing them once, but letting go. "How do you feel?"
"Afraid..." Joanie said as she looked weaker.
"Nice," Alec said.
Jesse shuffled the deck of cards. "Feeling lucky?"
"Not really..." Joanie turned back.
"Yes, well, we're about to see at how you do without your medallion," Jesse said.
"Alec's in the room....." Joanie said, "my chances of winning are like a snowball's chance in–"
"Alec, no giving Joanie bad luck or farewell, just let her do it herself," Jesse warned him.
"She doesn't need my help to fail miserably..." Alec smirked cockily.
"ALEC..." Jesse growled.
"Well, fine..." Alec looked away with an innocent grin.
"Good," Jesse said, "now get out."
"And don't think of lying to my face again..." Alec narrowed his eyes down to a hesitant Joanie, "strike one..."
"Dare I ask what just happens after three strikes," Joanie asked.
"Sure, just ask the last guy....." Alec said.
"Alright, what just happened to the last guy," Joanie asked.
Alec reached into his pocket and took out a skull.
"You murdered him," Joanie asked out of shock.
"Perhaps..." Alec smirked, "take your seat, Pumpkin Head."
Joanie lowly growled for the insult, but took her seat to play against Jesse.
Meanwhile, Lilo, Stitch, Nani and Patch were traveling to find Nani a new job and to make Stitch into a model citizen.
"Mrs. Hasagawa," Nani came up to an old woman who was watering her fruits, "I'm here to respond to your newspaper advertisements."
"Elvis Presley was a model citizen," Lilo instructed Stitch about her music idol, "I followed his list of traits for you to practice. The first is dancing."
"It's perfect, there's no fashion Stitch can't dance well," Patch grinned.
Lilo gave her grass skirt to Stitch to borrow.
"Darling, I can't speak now," the old woman warned Nani, "I'm waiting for someone to respond to my ad."
"That's why I'm here," Nani spoke a little louder.
"Put your hands on your ass," Lilo presented. "Now follow my instructions," she did that, moving forward slightly.
Stitch copied, finding it interesting. "Ooh..."
"Go ahead. It's interesting," Patch grinned.
Then Lilo put her arms up with a grin and Stitch copied and they started to be fully in sync.
"Ah, this is my wanted ad," Mrs. Hasagawa noticed.
"I KNOW MY PLACE," Nani replied.
Lilo and Stitch started to spin together, however, Stitch went a little too far and incidentally smashed into Mrs. Hasagawa, a watermelon ended up on the old woman's head with Stitch's head bursting out.
"Why is everything so dark," Mrs. Hasagawa yelled.
"Well, the first attempt failed," Patch whispered.
Then Nani took the small group to Kiki's Coffee Shop.
"I'm all about coffee," Anita warned the head waitress.
"Let's move on step two," Lilo instructed.
"Yes, and I'm playing the guitar," Patch included.
"You're right," Lilo said as she took out her guitar and gave it to Stitch. "Here...hold it like this....put your finger here....." she strummed to make music, "did you see this? Try that now!"
"This would be easy for him," Patch grinned.
Stitch tried it and seemed to be doing well so far.
"I wish I could, Nani. But I just hired a teddy bear, and the tourist season is over..." the waitress tried to say, but the music got too loud.
Stitch kept playing and played a little too louder, which made the windows break and even the coffee pot.
"Alright, that was so good," Patch said.
Lilo face-palmed.
"Concierge service is my life," Anita came to the front lobby of the Birds of Paradise hotel, "I just love to respond phones..."
"This is the face of romance," Lilo instructed as she had Stitch in a white shirt and red design and gave him a rose to carry as they came to a couch with an old lady sitting on it and looking at the paper, "I think she can use love."
Stitch sat next to the woman and took her hand, which made her shocked slightly.
"Oh, I can warn you already that this won't end well," Patch sighed, face-pawing.
"Oh, we may have something....." the concierge warned Nani as he looked through papers.
Nani had a very hopeful grin.
"Alright, now kiss her," Lilo warned her pet.
Stitch kissed the woman, which made her shriek in terror.
"Hey, I warned you this wouldn't be best," Patch warned Lilo.
Nani ran out, taking Lilo's hand so hard that Lilo's feet didn't touch the ground.
"I'm sure Elvis must have had bad luck as well," Lilo warned Stitch as he and Patch ran to catch up with them.
Eventually, they came to the beach.
"Is all I can do to save people," Nani spoke to the golden-haired lifeguard as she caught a break.
The lifeguard paused for a moment, but grinned to her. "Actually, I think we have an opening."
"Really," Nani grinned.
"You did better this time, Lilo," Patch said.
"Alright, this is it," Lilo said as she had Lilo dressed exactly like Elvis, full of a wig, "it's time to bring it all together."
Stitch walked out on the beach as Nani was emotional that she might eventually have a new job ready for her for the social worker and well-being of Lilo.
"Nothing works," Patch muffled before handing Lilo a plug.
"Oh, that's so good," Nani warned the lifeguard, "you don't know how severe you need this fact!"
Stitch walked out as people were lounging around, but looked over to the blue creature in the Elvis costume.
"It's all you," Lilo called as she took the plug. "Murder it," she plugged in the stereo.
Stitch looked to the crowd and played the guitar, rocking to the beat like how Elvis would if he were here today.
"It's yet good," Patch grinned.
The people looked over to Stitch as he played the song a lot better than at the coffee shop.
"Yes," Patch cheered, "whoo! Go, Stitch!"
Luckily for him, the people were also distracted by the jamming alien to notice that Patch spoke. Stitch had a lot of fun as he played music. A young woman even came to take his picture. Then Stitch gave a saucy smirk, which made the woman lament like a fan girl and faint.
"It seems to work," Patch grinned.
Indeed, it did so. The people flashed their cameras at Stitch. Though Stitch did not like that and was having a bit of a meltdown.
"Don't force him," Lilo warned the people, but they didn't listen.
"Perhaps it worked a little bit," Patch frowned.
Stitch started to tear off his Elvis costume and almost attacked the crowd. The people shrieked and started to run for dear lives.
"Hey, turn it off," a man squirted Stitch with his super soaker.
Stitch frowned, but attacked that, making the man run away with the others. The swarming people were so much that it made the refreshment stand fall and the lifeguard saw Lilo and Stitch, blaming Nani for her chance at this job and stormed away.
"Version #3, we're out," Patch sighed.
The social worker saw that, he didn't approach the Pelekai sisters, but he bore a very grave and strict face.
David came from the waves, despite what just happened, he appeared to be cheerful, apparently he missed what just happened. "Hey, Lilo! How is this, Nani," he looked down to see the two sisters in despair, Nani didn't find a new job and Lilo had failed to make her pet into a model citizen.
"We're having a bad day," Lilo said softly.
"Hey, David, what's going on," Jesse tried to ask what was going on until he saw Lilo and Nani looking rather down.
Darla and Josh had come as well, collecting seashells together.
"Huh..." David looked down to the sisters, but bent down to them with a hopeful grin, "hey, I may not be a doctor, but I know there is no better treatment than a few boards and a few waves of choices. What do you think?"
This made Lilo and Nani grin instantly.
"I think that's a good idea," Nani said.
"Hey, Darla," Lilo called once she saw her new friend, "have you ever surfed before?"
"Surfing...i-i-in the water...." Darla sounded hesitant at first.
"Yes, it's not that difficult," Lilo grinned.
"I was going to teach Jesse how to surf," David grinned.
"We can get a swimsuit first," Nani said.
"Yes," Lilo agreed.
"We'll be waiting for you. I brought Darla's new swimsuit with me in case Darla wants to go into the water," Jesse warned the sisters.
"I did it," Darla asked.
"Surprise," Jesse smirked, taking out a two-piece red bathing suit with white hearts all around it.
Darla took it. "Where'd you get this?"
"If you and Josh went to the gift shop together, Mum and I decided to give you a new swimsuit," Jesse said, "do I like you?"
"I like you," Darla said, but realized something as Josh looked curious, "uh...Jesse? Can we get into the water? What if we...uh...you know...become mermaids and surprise them?"
"Then we have to explain to them what just happened," Jesse said.
"Alright..." Darla bit her lip.
After a little while, Darla was in her new swimsuit, Josh took his shirt off and ditched his sandals, wearing only his shorts, and at last, Nani and Lilo came back in their own swimsuits where the surfing could begin. They saw Jesse had his swim trunks on, ready to surf.
"Don't be afraid...." Lilo warned Darla and Stitch, "it'll be alright."
"I swim a lot during the summer, but...heh...not like this..." Darla grinned hesitantly, since she had been brought into Jesse's family and was now a mermaid like them, she was a little hesitant about exposing it to her new friend.
"Don't worry, Darla, nothing bad will happen," Josh said.
Darla glanced at him. "Thank you, Josh."
Josh grinned to her and ruffled up her hair. "Goldilocks..."
"Brown Eyes..." Darla stuck her tongue out.
"You two like each other so much if you know what I mean," Lilo winked.
Darla and Josh gaped to Lilo, turning bright red suddenly. Lilo chuckled to them.
"Then are you ready to surf," Jesse asked.
"Yes," the others cheered.
Stitch came over as well, willing to surf as well, even if he didn't know exactly what that was.
"Then we do it," Lilo beamed.
With that said, they were all going on surfboards.
"Where's Joanie," Darla asked her brother.
"Under an umbrella reader," Jesse warned her.
Darla looked over. "Hi, Joanie!"
Joanie waved her hand as she read one of her novels in the shade.
"Alright, let's get started," David said.
"Good," Josh nodded as he was going to join in, this would surely be an experience for him more than the others.
Everybody got on their respective surfboards and made it out into the water to experience the waves in a different light.
"This is so emotional," Jesse grinned.
Darla and Josh sat closer together at the end as they gently balanced on the board among the ocean blue waves.
"Then what have we done first," Jesse asked.
"Just follow my trail," David warned Jesse, being a professional and all, "if you're standing, try to keep a best balance and not think about falling."
"Alright, that sounds easy enough," Jesse said.
"With enough practice, you could do tricks like me," David grinned.
"Fat runners, anyhow, let's get started," Jesse grinned.
"You have to move with the waves..." David advised.
"Right," Jesse nodded.
Stitch poked his hand in the water, but winced for some reason like it had hurt him.
"Stitch doesn't seem to like water," Patch whispered as he went along with them.
"I wonder why...." Josh mumbled softly.
Patch simply shrugged, not sure himself. Despite Stitch's apparent and strange fear, the surfing seemed to go well so far. Jesse was hesitant at first, but he kept steady and remembered David's lessons and tips on surfing where he wouldn't have a bad wipe-out. Patch seemed to be able to balance the weight on the surfboard.
"This isn't that hard....." he warned himself with a grin.
Nani gently tossed Lilo over to David. David chuckled in response, but tickled Lilo as he decided to take her for a wave while Nani was with Stitch. And where to Lilo, it was like a ride. So far, Jesse, Darla and Josh stayed in their human forms as they waded in the water with the boards. Stitch saw Patch surfing with ease, but he clapped and got emotional, willing to try it, but Nani stared at the odd sight of Patch's surfing and Stitch's emotion, which weirded her out. Then Stitch took that as a sign to be like a dog again and sat silently next to her.
"Nani, I think Stitch is emotional because he saw Patch surf and wants to try himself," Darla said.
"Alright..." Nani replied, not sure how to properly respond to that.
"Animals can feel emotional and can be nice at surfing," Darla grinned.
"We'll see..." Nani said.
After a little while, the others decided to take a break from surfing as it was getting close to sunset. David and Nani played around with Lilo and even buried her in the sand to make a castle. Stitch watched this and tried to make one of his own, but it ended up being just a huge lump of sand. Then David put a flag on the castle and Stitch tried to put a leaf on top of his, but he felt it wasn't any best. Patch frowned, seeing that Stitch could use some help, where he used the magic from his Equestrian medallion/Pound Puppy tag and lifted Stitch's head and caused for a sandcastle to be built, but not big enough to crush him. Stitch oohed at the castle and grinned to it.
"Grand castle, Stitch," Lilo beamed from her spot.
Nani and David looked to the sandcastle and were very shocked and amazed by it. Stitch was surprised and unsure what to say, but as he saw Patch silence him silently with a wink, this warned him that his friend did this for him. Patch and Stitch grinned to each other.
Josh was looking at the shells onshore, looking for a specific one.
"Whatcha doing here," Jesse asked.
"Uhh...nothing..." Josh said, though it was obviously a lie since his cheeks were red.
"Are you trying to find something special to give to Darla," Jesse asked.
Josh bit his lip. "Is that so obvious?"
Jesse smirked and folded his arms.
"Alright, fine, I like that lad...." Josh said, not meaning "brat" in a bad fashion until he called Darla that, "are you sure she's not a mermaid by blood?"
"Positive," Jesse said, "why do you ask?"
Then Josh grinned softly. "She sings like an angel."
"She used to be a star in Hollywood," Jesse said.
"How could she be a star," Josh asked, "she's a living being."
"No, no, I mean, she used to be famous," Jesse explained, "people loved her and adored her."
"Oh..." Josh rubbed his arm, "at least, I love her singing.....it's like nothing I've ever heard before...I even think she sings better than Ariel."
"No way," Jesse said.
"Well, I think she does...." Josh admitted.
"Well...do you like her like her," Jesse asked.
"Yes..." Josh stared at the sand with a sheepish grin, "I want to give her a beautiful shell up here...I hear people like to collect beautiful shells on land."
"Some do," Jesse said.
"I want her to get it......" Josh dabbed his knuckled together hesitantly.
"C'mon, I'll help you," Jesse offered.
"Thank you..." Josh grinned.
"No problem," Jesse grinned back.
Then Josh walked with Jesse to find a pretty shell to give to Darla.
"I'm not moving from this place..." Joanie said as she kept reading, "nothing can hurt me from there..."
"Uh, Joanie," Darla came up to the older girl.
Joanie rolled her eyes with a low moan. "This must be better, Dimples..."
"Uh...how do I get a boy like me," Darla asked.
"Why," Joanie asked, "is there a boy you like?"
"Yes..." Darla bit her lip, "he's a little bit older."
"Eight...nine..." Joanie guesstimated.
"Something like that...." Darla shrugged.
"I don't know much about boys and dating..." Joanie glanced down at the girl.
"Oh, uh...alright, but perhaps I should ask Nani for some advice," Darla said.
"You do that..." Joanie said as she read her book.
"What are you reading," Darla asked.
"How to get rid of a wizard who can murder you with the flick of a finger," Joanie said.
Darla gawked, but smirked a little. "That's a joke, isn't this, Joanie?"
"Uhh...sure..." Joanie chuckled uneasily.
Darla simply shrugged and went over to Nani.
"Don't let me down now....." Joanie whispered as she read the book.
"Uhh...Nani..." Darla came to her new friend's older sister.
Nani looked down. "Something wrong?"
"Uhh...no...I just..." Darla shrugged, "uh...I think I like a boy and I'm not sure what to do."
"And let me guess, you need some advice on how to get him to know that you like him, right," Eilonwy grinned.
"Uh...yes..." Darla shuffled her foot in the sand slightly with her fingers twiddled together unsurely.
"Well, I think I could give you some advice," Nani chuckled.
Darla grinned, feeling hopeful. "I've never felt this fashion about anyone before."
"That's what love is...." Nani said.
"I've never felt such love before," Darla grinned.
"Maybe you should make plans to stay alone with him..." Nani suggested, "go somewhere, it could just be the two of you...like our hammock in the backyard."
"That sounds best," Darla grinned.
"Did Josh know how to surf," Nani asked.
"Oh, uhh...I'm not sure..." Darla replied.
"Huh..." Nani tried to think of fashions Darla and Josh could be alone together.
Stitch began to drag a surfboard over to Lilo as his fashion of warning her he wanted to surf as well.
Lilo turned back to her pet and grinned once she knew exactly what he was thinking. Then she went to her big sister. "Stitch wants to surf with me...can we go?"
"Huh, oh, sure, Lilo," Nani said.
"Watch out if me and Jesse and Patch join you," Darla asked.
"Not at all, take your table," Nani said.
Jesse did so, joining them with Patch and Darla.
"I feel weird..." Darla said.
"You have to ride," Jesse asked David.
"I'm holding this out," David said with a grin, "you're having fun."
"Alright," Jesse grinned.
"No worries," David grinned back.
Then Jesse went with Nani, Stitch, Patch and Darla to try out the ocean waves.
Josh found a smooth and shiny pink shell with a white streak and saw the shell was shiny enough to see one's reflection like a mirror. Then he took out a string and tied the shell around it to wear like a necklace, but he grinned at the results. "This is perfect for Darla," he grinned.
"Whatcha got there," David asked him.
Josh flipped out a moment, but kept his cool once he saw it was just David. "Oh...it's a gift for one of my friends..."
"Would this friend happen to be a girl," David smirked.
Josh turned bright red. "Sort of..."
"I knew this," David smirked.
Then Josh stared at the sand.
David ruffled up his brown hair. "Does she know?"
"I want to show her....." Josh said, "that's why I found this shell......"
"Ah, young love," David smirked.
"It's a strange feeling.....but I like it...." Josh said.
Jesse surfed with Patch and Darla while Nani surfed with Lilo and Stitch.
"There they go..." Josh whispered.
"I hope Stitch enjoys surfing," Patch grinned.
"Alright, guys, let me show you what I have," Jesse smirked proudly as he started to stand.
Stitch was having fun so far, but as the boards are going down through the water, it frightened him a little and he clung onto Nani's leg for protection at first. Nani glanced down at him, but grinned a little as she surfed with ease. Jesse surfed the same fashion. It was a lot of fun for the six of them as they had tons of fun so far.
Stitch started to stand on the board, liking it an entire lot better now. "Cowabunga!"
Patch simply howled out of joy, but then saw something or someone about to catch Stitch. It was a grand surf until someone emerged from the ocean wave behind them and came between the boards. Everybody yelled out as they suddenly fell off their boards and ended up splashing into the water. David looked out, deeply worried for what he just saw. Patch, the one who saw what had emerged from the wave, dove right underwater to find the four-eyed alien.
Nani burst her head out as she waded in the water. "Lilo," she called out worriedly.
Lilo luckily came up to her sister. "What just happened?"
"Oh...some lolo must've stopped us in a barrel..." Nani muttered metaphorically.
Lilo looked around. "Where's Stitch and the others?"
"Over here," Jesse and Darla warned them from their right said.
"But I can't find Stitch or Patch," Darla said.
Suddenly, Stitch emerged from the water in hysteria, but tried to catch hold of Lilo.
"Get rid of her," Nani frowned.
Then Stitch caught hold of Lilo and both were dragged underwater. Patch came up to the surface to his owner.
"Hurry, Jesse, kiss me on the forehead, faster," Patch warned him.
"Alright," Jesse said before kissing his Dalmatian puppy on the forehead.
Then Patch changed into a mer-pup.
"Well...that just happened...." Darla said.
Patch's tail fin was red and where he could now swim underwater as he dove underwater to help Stitch and Lilo.
"You alright there, Joanie," Jesse looked over.
"I got wet..." Joanie frowned.
Stitch didn't mean to drag Lilo down, he was only holding her for protection.
"What just happened," David came over.
"Stitch pulled her down," Nani replied.
David took a deep breath and went underwater to save Lilo. Patch continued to swim underwater until he found the culprit at why Stitch dragged Lilo down. David and Nani came down and saved Lilo, incidentally kicking Stitch down. Patch frowned at Jumba and his companion as he freed Stitch, whacking the cuffs out of the road before they could catch him inside of them.
Then Stitch bit down on the oxygen tank, incidentally breathing in a lot of water, which was not good for an air-breathing creature, even from outer space. Jumba and his companion began to fly away and skipping off on the water. Patch saw that Stitch needed to get air fast, where he began to swim him up to the surface.
Nani shivered as she came out of the water with Lilo in her arms. "Lilo? Lilo, look at me...look at me, darling. Are you hurt?"
"No..." Lilo replied softly.
Patch began to bring Stitch up to the sand, slowly returning back into a Dalmatian puppy.
"He's unconscious...." David noticed.
Patch came over to a safe spot and set Stitch down gently on the sand and put his paws over the creature's chest. Stitch coughed, sputtered and then sat up after he had water out. Then he snarled rather viciously, which made Nani catch Lilo and pull her back, concerned that he might hurt them.
"Stitch, take it easy, you're safe now," Patch calmed down his alien friend before noticing the social worker and which was not a best sign.
Stitch did calm down, luckily not hurting anyone, whether by incident or on purpose.
Nani noticed the social worker, but handed her little sister to her friend. "David, take Lilo..." she walked over to the social worker, rather hesitantly and mournfully, feeling this was going to end badly, "we were...i-it's just that..."
"I know you're trying, Nani," the social worker stopped her right there, "but you have to think about what's best for Lilo..."
Patch didn't mean to eavesdrop, but he put his ear up to listen closer to their conversation.
"Even if it removes you from the picture," the social worker continued, "I'll be back to Nani tomorrow. I'm very sorry."
This caused for Patch to become shocked, did this mean he was going to take Lilo away from her only family? Nani looked very crushed and brokenhearted.
David came over with Lilo and the little girl was brought into Nani's arms to go back home without another word. Stitch looked very curious and disheartened, he could warn it was not nice due to how doomed everybody else looked disgraceful.
"You know, I really believed they had a chance..." David said, "then you came along."
Stitch felt wounded from that statement.
"Stitch, the man was a social worker, tomorrow, he'll come across Lilo's house and take her away," Patch warned him.
"N-No..." Stitch's ears drooped.
"I'm afraid of this....." Patch said softly.
Stitch batted his eyes and tears came to them. "M-M-My fault..."
"Stitch, I never think I've seen you weep before," Patch said.
Stitch looked very emotional and unhappy. Patch frowned, but he decided to give his new friend a hug. Stitch hugged back as he could only blame himself for Lilo being forced to leave the only home she'd ever known.
After a while, they both went back to Lilo's house. Jesse decided to go back with Joanie, Darla and Josh back to the hotel room.
"Is it alright if I go to say a farewell to Lilo," Darla asked.
"Of course..." Jesse replied, "you can stay as long as you can."
"Thank you..." Darla said in relief, very mournful, she made a new friend and now she was going to be gone just like that.
Stitch, Patch and Darla went to the backyard of Lilo's house.
"You as well," Patch asked.
"I don't think I have a chance tomorrow..." Darla said.
"Good idea," Patch said.
Darla sighed, hating that this had to happen. Stitch looked over to see a mother duck, which made him think of the story Lilo taught him. The mother duck quacked for her children and waddled away with them. After seeing them, it made Stitch think, did he have a family? The sisters were sitting on the hammock together with orchid flowers in their hair.
"Lilo, darling..." Nani tried to explain to her younger sister about what just happened with the social worker on the beach, "we have to...uhh..."
"Don't worry," Lilo said softly, "you're nice...and someone will give you a job...I'd give..."
Nani came closer to Lilo and held her securely in her arms as they had their flowers in their hands. "Come here..." she said before she started to sing a special song in the softest and sweetest voice she could. This touched Darla's, Patch's and even Stitch's hearts. As Nani sang, the wind gently blew and it took their flowers with it. At last, it got late enough and it was time for Lilo to go to bed.
Stitch was given permission to look under Lilo's pillow and found the photograph of the family that used to live in Kaui.
"That's what we used to live in Kaui..." Lilo explained softly, "it was pouring rain and they went for a ride...what just happened to you?"
Stitch looked to her, very unsure and even clutched the pillow.
"Uh, I don't know if Stitch remembers owning a family," Patch said.
"I hear him weep at night......" Lilo said to that, but looked to her pet, "do you dream of them?"
Stitch was yet in mournful silence.
Darla looked very much brokenhearted right now, Lilo's words were making her think of her own parents.
"I know that's why you're breaking facts...and you're pushing me....." Lilo continued, "our family's small now......and we don't have a lot of toys...but if you want, you can be a part of it...you could be our baby and raise you for good...ohana means family...family means no one is left behind, but if you want to leave, you can...I remember you, however...I remember everyone who leaves."
"Stitch, if you want to stay here, it would make Lilo really happy," Patch said, "but if you want to leave, the window is open."
Stitch knew Lilo would be happy if he stayed, but he was blamed for something that happened on the beach and he knew it was his fault, where he decided to leave and he took the Ugly Duckling book with him.
"I better make sure he stays safe," Patch said.
"Good boy..." Darla said softly.
Patch nodded to her, but went to follow Stitch. Lilo was mournful that Stitch left, but was happy that he wouldn't be alone.
"You're gonna be fine, Lilo," Darla asked her new friend.
Lilo turned back. "I'm glad Lilo isn't alone."
Then Darla and Lilo hugged each other as they started to weep because after tomorrow, they would never see each other again.
While they went to sleep, Patch stayed in the jungle with Stitch.
"L...L...Lost..." Stitch read to the page of the book that he saw that spoke to him the most, "I'm lost..."
"Stitch, you just spoke English," Patch grinned.
"English," Stitch asked.
"It's the language people......well...everyone on Earth speaks......" Patch explained the best he could.
Stitch had a small grin, but it would not last long, he was pretty mournful.
"What if we slept a little," Patch suggested, "it's been a long day."
Stitch nodded in agreement.
"Well, I know a fashion that's a lot nicer than it looks," Patch advised.
Then Stitch watched him get comfortable and he lay down behind the actual puppy, finding some consolation, even if it wasn't like the dog bed Lilo made and fell asleep next to Patch.
"Good night, Stitch," Patch said.
"Night..." Stitch replied.
Patch began to have a vision at what would happen the next day, which would be the day of his death. It made him shiver and tremble, fearing the future as it would lead to his demise, much to his depression and concern. A giant alien with a murderous whale's head was about to shoot Stitch inside his spacecraft until Patch got in the road, but then his blue alien friend wouldn't get hurt or murdered. The blast beat Patch and by the time it hit, the puppy awakened, breathing heavily. Stitch was fast asleep next to Patch.
Patch sighed and bowed his head.
"I hope this is worth it......" he whispered to himself about 'taking the bullet' for Stitch.
Stitch yawned a bit before saying in his sleep something that touched Patch's heart. "Friend Patch is Stitch's deception."
Patch heard that and grinned with a tear in his eye. "Friend Stitch is Patch's disgrace..." he said in return. He licked the blue alien's face cheek before going to sleep.
It was a peaceful night, at least, except for Patch's dream vision. Annabelle was really sorry up in Heaven that it had to be this fashion, but she promised that it would all be worth it. And where it really would.
Alec came to Joanie and Jesse's bed as it was rather early in the morning for some people, especially on vacation. "I hope you all enjoyed Hawaii, because you'll be coming again in the near future..."
"You're yet here," Joanie moaned.
"Yes, now, listen up..." Alec sat between the two in their bed, "you guys may not know this, Athena probably warned you, Jesse, but Lilo is the descendant of Pele, the heavenly volcano...I want you to keep an eye on her in future times since Darla has become close with her and look for signs of her powers as my Oracle has taught me of her future."
"We sure will," Jesse said.
"How will we know until she's ready," Joanie asked.
"Wherever the time will be..." Alec said, "this experiment she calls Stitch is not the only one of him either..."
"What," Joanie and Jesse asked.
"Well, think about it...." Alec looked to them, "Stitch is Experiment 626, there have to be 625 others, right?"
"Of course, but then Stitch must be the last of the experiments," Jesse said.
"You think so..." Alec asked, "you never know....there may be more, but to my knowledge there's only 626, Stitch being the youngest.....nobody knows where these other experiments are, but for right now, we're safe, but you guys better get used to live in Hawaii, I'm gonna have you guys visit here more in the future."
"You've had it," Jesse grinned.
"Around where," Joanie asked.
"Wherever I say, but in May, there's a festival for Lilo's hula class to participate in," Alec explained, "I'm sure Lilo will be a shoe in...her mother won the competition until she was Lilo's age...she was beautiful as an orchid and graceful like a wave..."
"Wow, Alec, that was beautiful," Joanie said.
"The judges said it, not me," Alec said, murdering the moment.
"Oh," Joanie said.
"Should we be back here for that," Jesse asked.
"Indeed..." Alec instructed, "Joanie, I know you hate the beach, but get used to it."
Joanie sighed. "Yes, Alec..."
"Could Gertie and Patch come with us," Jesse asked, "Darla as well....she's Lilo's friend after all."
"Of course...yes..." Alec said.
"Thanks, Alec," Jesse grinned as he hugged him.
Alec looked very touched in the hug, but gently patted Jesse's back. "You're welcome, Jesse..." he whispered, slightly emotionally.
Then Jesse suddenly felt something bad was going to happen.
Alec let go and stood up from their bed. Joanie and Jesse slightly rolled into each other, due to him leaving kind of a sunken spot in the bed, due to his weight and height.
"Well...I should go..." Alec said softly, "you alright, Jesse?"
"Something's wrong..." Jesse said.
Alec turned back. "I'm sorry," he said like he knew already.
"No, no, it's not because of you, it's Patch, him and Stitch are in danger," Jesse said.
"I know..." Alec shut his eyes and covered them.
"I have to go," Jesse jumped to his feet and turned back, "Alec...what's wrong?"
"Never mind...just go help them...." Alec urged as his voice cracked slightly.
"You sure," Jesse asked.
"Just please go..." Alec sighed.
Jesse looked to him, but left as faster as he could to save Stitch and Patch from whatever was giving him a bad feeling.
"Alec..." Joanie came up behind the warlock.
"Now now, Joanie..." Alec sounded too miserable to make her miserable.
"What's wrong," Joanie asked.
"What makes you think something's wrong," Alec asked.
"You're weeping..." Joanie said.
Alec sighed, but bent down to her height, putting his hands on her shoulders. "I didn't wanna warn Jesse this, but...something horrible is going to happen..."
"What's the worst that can happen," Joanie asked.
Alec frowned deeply. "Patch is going to die today."
"What," Joanie's voice grew shallow.
"It's true," Alec frowned.
"W-Why didn't you warn Jesse," Joanie asked.
"Because it's something you don't warn someone..." Alec said, "dogs are a man's best friend......how do you think Jesse would feel to hear that his best friend will die soon?"
Joanie glanced to him.
"It's different between boys and their dogs..." Alec said, but sighed, "if I was around his age, I had this hamster familiar....yes, a hamster...we went everywhere together...I practiced my spells on him...I'd ride with him on my broomstick...we were best friends....but then...he ate one of my mother's posies...he fell asleep and never awakened."
"He died," Joanie asked.
"No, literally, he fell asleep and he never awakened, he never has since then and never will, he might as well be dead......" Alec explained.
"What did he eat last," Joanie asked.
"The posies..." Alec said, "you've seen the Wizard of Oz, haven't you?"
"Lots of times," Joanie said, fondly remembering these simple days.
"Well, witch's posies can be fatal to animals and non magical creatures," Alec explained, "since my familiar ate them, he went to sleep and never awakened. My mother turned me into a pig and made me sleep in a pen with my dad and she warned me to stop whining."
"Oh...how old were you," Joanie cooed.
"35..." Alec sighed.
Joanie offered a hanky since she could see him yet weeping.
"Thank you," Alec said, accepting the handkerchief.
Joanie looked long to Alec. Alec sniffled and blew his nose noisily and handed it back to her. Joanie grimaced as it was dripped in his snot mucus.
While that went on, Stitch and Patch were yet in the jungle. The two friends were asleep and the sun was starting to rise, it was around dawn.
"Morning, Stitch," Patch grinned before hearing something or someone coming.
Stitch blinked a few times, but awakened and looked curiously to Patch as they had the open book in front of them. Then he heard someone coming and looked over to see it was Jumba, which made him back up slightly.
"Don't run..." Jumba said, sounding gentle at first for once, "don't make me shoot you.....you were expensive....."
Stitch stood close to Patch, not even trying to run off or call for help.
"Yes, yes, that's it...come silently..." Jumba cooed.
"Mm...waiting..." Stitch uttered out.
"That's right, me and Stitch are waiting," Patch said.
"For what," Jumba asked, stepping forward, stepping onto the book and looked down.
"Family..." Stitch warned his creator.
"Ah..." Jumba noted, but frowned to his experiment, "you don't have one....I made you..."
"Oh..." Stitch pouted, "p-perhaps I could...."
"You were built to destroy," Jumba frowned, "you can never belong.......now come silently and we will take you apart."
Stitch didn't like the sound of that at all and started to run off. Patch ran away with him, but then his friend wouldn't have to face this alone.
"No, no, no, no, don't run," Jumba called. "Don't run," he repeated in frustration and went after his creation and the Earth creature native to this planet.
"Where are you going," Patch asked his new friend.
"Lilo," Stitch warned him, "I concerned..."
Patch grinned, happy that his alien friend was starting to care about the Earth girl. They both ran away into the direction of Lilo's house while avoiding Jumba to be taken away forever.
Darla had incidentally fallen asleep while at Lilo's house, where she came with Lilo side-by-side while Nani was glumly sitting in the kitchen table.
"Lilo..." Nani said softly. "I didn't hear you get up..." she looked to her younger sister and saw she looked a lot more miserable than last night, "baby, what's wrong?"
"Stitch left..." Lilo replied silently.
"He did," Nani asked, actually mournful herself that the little blue alien left.
"It's good he's gone...." Lilo replied dryly and brokenhearted, "he didn't wanna be here anyway....we don't need him..."
Darla knew that her friend didn't mean that, Nani decided to try and talk with her younger sister. She just walked away and stared out the window as her new friend was going to be taken away very soon. Nani was giving Lilo some personal and sisterly advice the very best that she could in this emotional state. The three of them heard a knocking at the door and where Darla and Nani decided to hold onto Lilo. Nani opened the door and saw a very familiar face to her, though was relieved to see it wasn't the social worker.
"Nani," David called.
"Nani," David nodded, "I think I found you a job."
"You what," Nani's eyes widened.
"Old Man Kuhkini's store," David explained, "but we have to hurry!"
This was the biggest news Nani had heard all day, but had to do something first before leaving.
"Oh, um, alright, Lilo," Nani turned to her younger sister. "Baby, this is really reluctant. I need you to stay here with Darla for a few moments. I'm going to be right back. Lock the door and don't respond it for anyone, alright? Facts are eventually turning around," she ran out the door to join David for this new job opportunity, "aw, David, I owe you one."
"That's alright," David grinned to her, "you can just date me and we'll call it even."
Nani was actually going to consider that.
Jesse ran right to Lilo's house, following his heart and where he saw Patch and Stitch running inside the house as well.
"Patch...thank heavens..." Jesse called between gasps.
"No time to speak, we must run," Patch warned his owner.
"Why's that," Jesse asked before his pet brought him inside.
"Trust me, alright," Patch sounded hysterical.
Jesse looked shocked and urgent as they came inside the Pelekai house.
Darla and Lilo came into one room and saw the blue alien creature and Dalmatian puppy come into the house. "Patch/Stitch, what is this?"
Patch and Stitch silenced the little girls and tried to tiptoe off with them, but...
"HA," Jumba came in with an evil grin, "hiding behind your little friend won't work anymore...didn't I warn you? We've had fired this morning! New rules!"
"Let me guess, this is reason why you both were running, right," Jesse asked his Dalmatian puppy.
"You have that right..." Patch said while frowning to the four-eyed alien.
Joanie and Alec slowly slid up from behind a closed window.
"Huh...and people called us four-eyes growing up..." Joanie commented.
"YOU perhaps, if someone called ME four-eyes, my mother would eat them," Alec scoffed.
Jumba aimed his plasma gun to shoot at Stitch and shot. Stitch caught the plasma ball like it was a baseball, but it was really hot and he threw it at Lilo's record player, which played "Hound Dog".
"What have we done," Patch asked.
Stitch began to think until he eventually had an idea. He gestured for the others to follow him while Jumba was down and distracted. Patch, Atticus, Lilo, and Darla followed Stitch.
"Ooh, I love this song," Jumba laughed as he stood up, looking for his victims.
Stitch began to act like a doctor with Patch, Lilo, and Darla as his nurses. Scrump was the patient. Stitch asked them for what he wanted and needed for his plan and they gave them. Lilo showed no hesitantion for Scrump to be used like this.
"Check," Stitch picked up the doll once it was ready.
Darla took Scrump and gently wheeled the doll out on a roller-blade. And which stopped right in front of the four-eyed alien, who was curious of what Scrump was. He tried to reach out and touch the doll, but it suddenly exploded, knocking him down and bouncing Scrump on his fat belly. Patch retrieved Scrump and brought her right back to her rightful owner. Lilo took her doll and hugged it instantly as she went off with Darla.
"What have we done," Darla asked.
"Hide," Lilo suggested.
Alec smirked at the chaos from Jumba and Stitch.
"Alec, use your magic to stop this," Joanie begged.
"No way," Alec grinned before he saw Patch joining in to help his alien friend, "is that pup insane?!"
"He's Jesse's dog now..." Joanie sunk slightly.
Stitch crawled on the ceiling as Jumba threw plates at him.
"C'mon, what's the big deal," Jumba frowned up, "I'll put you back together again. I'll make you taller and not so fluffy!"
"I LIKE FLUFFY," Stitch retorted as he dodged every plate with ease.
"Yes! Then leave him alone," Patch barked from behind the four-eyed alien to alarm or frighten him.
"Where did you come from," Jumba jumped back.
Patch smirked.
"Alec...please..." Joanie urged.
"Shut up," Alec put his arm around her and put his hand over her mouth with an eager smirk, "I wanna watch this!"
Joanie muffled and wiggled. Once Joanie saw Jesse, she had to warn him what she knew, even if Alec would punish her.
"Now, you leave my friend alone," Patch barked.
Jumba growled at Patch. Stitch said something in his alien language that was very unflattering.
"Ooh, burn~" Patch smirked.
"Wait, leave my mother out of this," Jumba frowned.
Suddenly, the ceiling came down with Stitch and they both crashed down.
"Oh, dear, Stitch," Patch gasped.
Stitch appeared to be unharmed. Patch did a double take and grinned. Alec laughed.
"Jesse," Joanie got free and started to run off from Alec's side.
"Yes, Joanie," Jesse asked.
Alec saw what Joanie was doing and tried to stop her.
"You have to listen....." Joanie shivered, "Patch is--"
Alec snapped his fingers, which zipped Joanie's lips shut.
Joanie muffled, unable to speak, but took the zipper and unzipped it. "Patch is--"
Then Alex came over to Joanie's side and covered her mouth with his hand again. "Ah, hello, Jesse, lovely day with alien invasions, huh?"
Jesse simply frowned at him, knowing that the strong warlock was trying to keep Joanie from warning the strong boy something, where he simply lifted the strong warlock off the ground and freeing the perky goth.
Joanie shivered and gasped in relief. "Patch...is..."
Alec pinched Joanie's neck. Joanie's eyes lolled back into her skull and she fell forward, flat on the ground.
"Whoops..." Alec grinned hesitantly with a shrug.
"Alec," Jesse frowned, tightening his grip on the warlock.
"Heh...my fingers slipped...." Alec grinned hesitantly, but looked hesitant, "oh, my..."
Jesse glanced back as Lilo's house was suffering from more and more damage as the little girls, puppy and alien tried to escape.
"If we make it to-----" Lilo started up a plan as she opened the backdoor.
"You're alive," the one-eyed alien grinned to Lilo.
Lilo leaned on the door, shutting it instantly. "THEY'RE ALL OVER THE PLACE!!"
"I agree," Darla said.
"Running off," Jumba looked to the victims as he took out his homemade weapon. "Let me stop you," he threw it to them.
The four dodged it and it hit the door as the one-eyed alien rushed over.
"You always get in the road," Jumba scolded.
"Where are the girls," the one-eyed alien asked, "what have you done to the girls?"
"Hello, Cobra Bubbles," Lilo used the telephone, "aliens are attacking my house."
"Facts just got worse," Patch gasped as soon as he saw that Lilo just incidentally called the social worker, thinking he would help them with the aliens.
"No, no, no, no aliens," the one-eyed alien rushed over.
"Blue punch buggy," Stitch lifted a blue car and hit Jumba with it before throwing it right at his creator, "no punch back!"
"They want my dog," Lilo continued on the phone.
"There's no need to alert the authorities," the one-eyed alien warned her before taking the phone from her, "everything's under control..."
"Yeah, everything's fully under control, no need for taking Lilo away," Darla included.
"Lilo, who was that," the social worker replied, hearing other voices.
Then there was a loud buzzing heard with Stitch's cackle.
"Oh, good, my dog found the chainsaw," Lilo said before hanging up despite being warned not to.
Jesse had rushed to make sure Darla and Patch were alright.
Joanie clawed at the ground as Alec held back her legs. "Aaugh, I have to warn, he's my best friend!"
"If you warn him, it will break his heart," Alec warned her.
"I have to warn him....." Joanie begged as she kept clawing at the ground.
"No," Alec started to walk backward with her, making her fingernails drag across the ground.
"Pleeeease, I'll do anything," Joanie pleaded.
Alec found this tempting, but he yet wasn't going to let her warn Jesse.
"Alec, for the love of butter," Joanie begged.
"Oh, I love to hear you beg for mercy..." Alec smirked, "mournfully, I cannot fulfill your wishes...now c'mon, we have to move!"
"JESSE," Joanie cried out in despair as she was dragged away.
Jumba shoved a carrot into his gun before Stitch could use it against him and it was about to explode, making the two start to throw it back and forth to each other.
"Guys, just throw it out the window," Patch warned them.
"We're leaving the dogs," Lilo asked as the one-eyed alien ran with her and Darla over his noodly shoulders.
"Trust me, this is not going to end well," the one-eyed alien replied as he ran with them.
At last, it ended until Jumba caught it, thinking he won the game.
Alec let go of Joanie. "Unless you wanna be blasted to bits, I suggest you accelerate."
"What," Joanie asked.
"RUN, WUSSY GIRL," Alec urged, "RUUUUN!!!"
Joanie blinked, but ran with him. Jesse was about to run to get Patch, but Alec picked him up, taking him with them.
"Move, move, move, MOVE," Alec called as he ran.
Jesse ran with Alec. "I thought you were back at the hotel?!"
"No time to explain," Alec said as he ran, carrying Patch over his head.
Suddenly, the house exploded and caught on fire. And where it caused for Jesse to stop in his tracks and for the one-eyed alien to incidentally let go of Darla and Lilo.
"Alec..." Joanie shivered, "you saved my life...."
Alec hugged her and Jesse suddenly.
"Alec..." Joanie was surprised by his generosity again to her.
"Shut up and call the fire department..." Alec whispered, though he had a tear roll down his cheek and looked grateful that they were both alive and safe.
Joanie did just that. Alec saw that Darla was concerned about Patch as well, along with a pleading look about something that was going to happen. Alec looked very emotional for the others, he even took off his glasses and put his hand to his eyes as he looked very broken. Joanie called the fire department and had them come over to Lilo's house as Jumba and the other alien got away just as the social worker was coming.
"Faster, Lilo, we have to hide," Darla warned her friend.
Lilo looked to Darla. Darla took her hand and pulled her back to avoid the social worker as a firetruck was on the road.
Alec hugged Jesse. "I'm glad you're alright....."
"Thank you, sir," Jesse nodded.
"You too, Joanie," Alec said.
Joanie looked shocked that Alec was glad she was yet alive and not hurt in any fashion.
"Patch," Alec called for the Dalmatian puppy, "here, boy!"
Patch came out from behind one of the trees, dizzy. "I'm right here."
"Oh, thank heavens..." Alec knelt next to the puppy.
Joanie fanned herself from the large fire. "Phew! Hawaiian heat and a house fire are not what I imagined on this vacation."
Luckily, the firetruck arrived with the firefighters as the social worker was looking for Lilo to take her away as it was time and he was not at all pleased at what had become of the house.
"Um, guys, where's Lilo, Darla and Stitch," Jesse asked.
Patch decided to go after them. Nani came to try to explain everything to the social worker and he was even yelling at her due to the state of the house and that a child at Lilo's age witnessed and was apart of it, finding her to be a very unfit guardian. Once they both realized Lilo was not there, they called for her. Joanie, Jesse and Alec decided to follow Patch and find the others.
Josh was coming up, he had a guitar in his arms and had Darla's gift with him, but he looked around and looked down to see a burnt and tattered bow, knowing that it had to be Darla's. He picked it up and looked at the house and he had tears in his eyes, fearing the worst had happened. "No...please..." he whispered in deep pain and despair. He wasn't sure what else to do, he just sniffled and went back the other road into the ocean, weeping, thinking that maybe Darla had been murdered by the house fire. Then he heard someone coming and where he hoped it was Darla.
It wasn't, it was what looked like a giant with a whale head.
Josh looked in shock. "Who and what are you?"
"I am Captain Gantu, Earth creature..." the mutant got into his face, "I am looking for Experiment 626, have you seen him?"
"Look, pal, I'm having kind of a bad day..." Josh said as he wiped some tears he had. "J-just leave me alone..." he stormed away to get back home to the ocean as he yet wept for Darla. "I didn't even get a chance to warn her..." he whispered painfully.
Darla felt something wrong in her heart, but she just kept going with Lilo to get away from the mayhem. Stitch came over.
Lilo was now very frustrated with her pet. "You ruined everything."
Josh stopped as soon as he heard Lilo's voice. Patch jumped out from a nearby bush after running for a while.
Stitch looked to Lilo and Darla, but he decided to show why these aliens were after him. He showed his back spikes, antennae, and extra arms.
"You're one of them," Lilo frowned, but shoved her pet again, "get out of here, Stitch."
"Lilo, you need to understand, Stitch didn't mean to deceive you," Patch said, "alright, at first, he did, but..."
Before anything else could be said, they were all instantly shot by a net gun.
"Surprise," Gantu emerged from the bushes and laughed as he captured Stitch with a few others, but carried it in his large hand, "and here I thought you'd be difficult to catch...oh, silly me..."
Nani began to look for her sister while Jesse, Joanie and Alec were looking for Patch and Darla.
"Josh, have you seen Darla," Jesse asked.
"You mean she's alive," Josh asked, hopeful.
"Yeah, but she's seems to have disappeared, along with Patch," Jesse said.
"Come on, we have to move," Josh said, zipping past to save Darla, more concerned about her than Lilo, Stitch or Patch.
"Lilo," Nani called, "Lilo!"
Gantu came stomping side-by-side, which made Nani fall to the ground and shriek in horror.
"That sounded like Nani," Joanie said.
"Nani..." Alec asked.
"Lilo's older sister," Jesse said, "we must be close."
They all saw Gantu making his road to a spacecraft.
"There you go..." Gantu released Stitch, Patch, Lilo and Darla into a glass pod container. "All buckled up for the trip...and look, I even caught you a little dinner," he grinned darkly to the earth creatures as he went to the front of the spacecraft to take them all back to Stitch's home planet to be properly disposed of.
Once Jesse and the others saw Stitch, Patch, Darla and Lilo inside the container, they began to try to save them. Alec snarled, he took out his wand and tried to zap at the container. However, his magic bounced off of it and repelled.
Joanie shrieked and was hit by the blast, looking slightly burnt. "Ow..." she muttered out before passing out in exhaustion.
"That was totally an incident," Alec warned Jesse.
"Somehow that fact is impervious to magic," Jesse said.
Joanie crawled slightly and fell on her face again randomly in the background.
"It was worth a try....." Alec sighed as he put his wand back.
The spacecraft started up ready to take off as Stitch was able to squeeze his body through the gaps of the container while Patch simply got himself out by breaking out, making a hole big enough for a puppy. Unfortunately, Darla and Lilo were stuck as Stitch and Patch were unknown to Gantu, blown away. Stitch and Patch held each other as they fell without the girls.
"No...." Nani said, out of shock.
"Darla..." Josh whispered, putting his hands to his eyes.
Stitch and Patch were dizzy from their landing as they tried to stand. As they wandered around, they were suddenly struck by a branch.
"Alright, speak..." Nani demanded, frowning to Stitch, "I know you had something to do with this...where is Lilo....speak! I know you can...."
Stitch groaned, but tried to sort himself out. "OK...that's it..." he walked over.
Nani shrieked and hit him again. Stitch moaned, feeling in slight pain.
"Where's Lilo," Nani demanded.
"Alright, Nani, just calm down and we can explain," Patch said.
Nani shrieked at Patch since he was a dog and speaking to her.
"Yes, I know I'm a dog and I'm speaking, it's all thanks to Puppy Power," Patch grinned.
Nani blinked, but shook her head. "Where's Lilo?"
Stitch sighed. "Lilo--"
But before he could explain, he was shot by a plasma ray instantly.
"Now all your washing is up," Jumba called.
"Leave him alone," Patch barked before biting Jumba.
"Go away," Jumba frowned at Patch as Stitch was cuffed.
"Hello, Galactic Command," the one-eyed alien took out a communicator, "Experiment 626 is in custody. We'll wait right here."
Patch continued to fight Jumba and tried to free his friend. Jumba started to use Stitch as a weapon and used him to beat against the Dalmatian puppy. Nani looked over in slight alarm and stunned silence. Joanie's sneeze was heard and she sniffled noisily.
"Will you stop with the sneezing already," Alec scolded.
"I can't help it...." Joanie pouted as she sniffled.
Jumba stopped fighting Patch once he saw Nani looking at them. Joanie, Jesse and Josh were about to go forward, but Alec stood in front of them and gently pushed them back with his arms.
"Don't interact with her," the one-eyed alien whispered to Jumba, turning his back on the earth female.
Nani came to them. "Where's Lilo," she asked in a gentle and broken tone.
"Who," Jumba asked, which made the one-eyed alien whack him, "what?!"
"Lilo...my sister..." Nani said, sounding like she was about to lose it.
"Uh...I'm sorry..." Jumba was yet lost, "we do not know anyone by this, uh..."
"LILO," Nani repeated, having a breakdown with her only living family left. "She's a little girl this big! She has black hair and brown eyes and she hangs around with that thing," she pointed sharply at Stitch, which made him wince slightly.
"Oh..." Jumba realized, "we know her..."
"Bring her back," Nani demanded.
"Oh, we can't do that," the one-eyed alien said to her, "uh-uh...that would be a misuse of Galactic resources..."
Jumba decided to break this down gently, even if he was loud and crude before. "You see...problem is...we're here just for him," he added, referring to Stitch.
"Well...she's gone," Nani asked.
"Along with Darla," Josh added in, brokenhearted.
"The other little girl," Jumba asked.
Josh nodded.
"I'm sorry," Jumba said to confirm that question as true.
"Look at the bright side," the one-eyed alien said with a small shrug, "you won't have to yell at anyone anymore."
That didn't make either Nani or Josh feel better at all.
"And you won't have to concern about her annoying you anymore," the one-eyed alien said to Josh.
Nani and Josh both fell down to the ground and started to weep since Lilo and Darla were gone forever with no fashion to bring them back.
Jumba didn't want to be apart of this, he wanted to leave. "Come," he warned the one-eyed alien and his creation.
Stitch started to follow behind them to go back home, but he looked at Nani, feeling bad for her since he knew Lilo as well.
"Ohana," Stitch and Patch said, once the blue alien and Dalmatian puppy went over to them.
"What," Nani looked up.
"Wait, get away from them," Jumba scolded his creation as he lifted him right off the ground.
"No," Josh stopped him, but took Stitch out of his hold, "what did you say?"
"Ohana means family..." Stitch started, "family means...."
"Nobody gets left behind," Stitch, Patch and Nani said together.
"Or forgotten," Patch concluded.
Jumba and the other alien glanced to each other in confusion at what that was supposed to mean. Patch and Stitch began to warn Jumba something in alien language.
"WHAT," Jumba almost exploded, "after all, you put me through, you expect me to help just like that?! JUST LIKE THAT?!"
"Yes..." Stitch and Patch nodded.
"Well, fine..." Jumba gave in and released Stitch from his cuffs.
"Fine," the one-eyed alien gaped, "you're doing what they say?"
"Uh, they're very persuasive......" Jumba shrugged.
"Persuasive," the one-eyed alien asked, "what exactly are we doing?"
"Rescue," Jumba replied.
"We're going to get Lilo," Nani asked, hopeful.
"And Darla," Josh added in.
"Ih," Stitch nodded his head with a grin.
"Not alone though...." Alec walked over, carrying his wand over his shoulder, "we need to get them back as well."
"Who are you..." Nani glanced at him.
"This is Alec, he's, uh...." Joanie said, unsure what to call him.
"My uncle," Jesse said faster.
"Uncle," Joanie and Alec looked to him.
Jesse made a gesture to 'just go with it'.
"Uhh...right..." Alec said, but looked to the others, "anyhow, you can't do this alone, Darla is Jesse's little sister and we have to save Lulu as well."
"Lilo," Nani corrected.
"Whatever..." Alec rolled his eyes, "let's move, people!"
"Wait, Jumba have fashions of catching up to them, but we need fashion of getting to it," Jumba said.
"Need some muscle," Alec asked.
"Yes, Jumba could use two Earth beings with muscles or strength," Jumba said.
"Know anyone we could ask..." the one-eyed alien asked.
Alec looked to Jesse, both smirking to each other.
"I hate that look in his eye..." Joanie silently said, but she was sure she wouldn't get hurt from Alec this time.
"You were referring to yourselves, weren't you," the one-eyed alien asked.
"Trust me, you want us..." Alec said with a smirk, "I handle everything in my own will..."
"Getting to it then," Jumba said.
"Warn us where to go," Alec requested.
Jumba began to warn them where they all needed to go and where the one-eyed alien introduced himself as Pleakley.
"Pleakley, right," Jesse asked.
"Yes, Agent Wendy Pleakley," the alien nodded.
Alec and Jesse looked to each other, but burst out laughing at his name.
"What," Pleakley frowned at them, "it means 'brave warrior' on my home planet!"
"Uh-huh, sure," Alec smirked.
After a short while, they all went away to the direction at what Jumba was looking for on motorcycles.
"I never thought winning a radio contest would bring me to something like this..." Joanie said.
"Oh, did you really think you won out of dumb luck," Alec turned back to her, "I don't think so! I brought you here myself!"
"But...I won a contest....." Joanie said.
"How do you think you won, you unlucky little monkey," Alec smirked, "it was me the entire time!"
Joanie's jaw dropped.
"Well, you did all of the work," Jesse asked.
"Long story, I'll explain later," Alec replied.
Josh took out the hair bow he collected until he thought Darla was dead and hugged it as a tear rolled down his cheek.
"Don't worry, Josh, we will get Lilo and Darla back," Jesse assured him.
"I hope so..." Josh whispered, not even hiding his feelings for Darla this time.
Nani, Jumba, Pleakley and Stitch rode a motorcycle while Alec offered his own fashion to bring Joanie, Jesse, Patch and Josh to where they wanted to go.
Once Alec and Jesse came to the spot, they started to help get a jet ship out of its trap with their combined strength. And where seeing the jet ship caused Stitch to get emotional.
"What," Jumba grinned as he took out the keys, "did you think we walked here?"
"Hang on, Goldilocks..." Josh whispered as he looked up to the heavens, "we're coming."
"I didn't think that human males were so strong," Pleakley said.
"Aww, isn't that cute, he thinks I'm a human......" Alec leaned in and whispered to Joanie with a smirk.
Joanie glanced at him with an estranged shrug and glance.
Lilo and Darla sat together in misery as Gantu was flying away with them. Lilo took out the picture of her with Nani and their parents, but hugged it as she was very emotional and depressed right now. Darla was the same as she thought she would never see each other or Josh ever again.
"Connect me to the Grand Councilwoman," Gantu requested.
'Gantu, what's going on,' a female voice replied.
"I thought you'd like to know the little abomination is--" Gantu was about to say until he heard a horn next to him and turned his head to see Jumba and Pleakley's ship, "is..."
"Hey there, Ugly," Patch waved from inside the ship.
'Yes, Captain,' the Grand Councilwoman demanded since she was being stalled.
Stitch and Patch made fun of Gantu as they steered around, throwing him away slightly.
"I'll call you back." Gantu nearly growled.
"Oohhhh....." Joanie moaned and looked like she was going to be sick.
Jesse gave her a brown bag for her to barf in. Joanie caught it and heaved noisily into it. Then Jesse swiftly tied her hair into a ponytail where she wouldn't get it messy. Patch and Stitch went right over to the door.
"Alright, it's showtime," Jumba called once Patch and Stitch were into position.
"Let's get them back, Stitch," Patch warned him.
"Right," Stitch firmly nodded once.
The door was open and then the two were flying into Gantu's ship as he steered with Lilo and Darla held hostage. Alec kept a close eye on Patch. Patch held onto Stitch where he wouldn't fall off.
Joanie looked very dizzy and miserable. "Pull over, I'm begging you...." she whined before her mouth cupped again and she heaved into her paper bag once more.
Jumba and Pleakley's ship almost crashed against Gantu's as Stitch and Patch busted in together.
Then the two crawled against the glass and came to the back. Stitch started to claw against the glass to let Darla and Lilo out, but attempted with that.
"Come on, break, break," Patch moaned.
"Little savages," Gantu snarled. "Get off my ship," he pushed a button.
This made the back burners scorch Stitch and Patch with the flames and knock them off the back of the ship.
"STITCH/PATCH," Lilo and Darla yelled.
This caused for Jesse to become shocked.
"Alright, I think I'm better....." Joanie wobbly walked over as the others leaned to watch the two fall from the heavens, "what's going on?"
Alec caught her by her throat and shoved her to look out the window.
"Oh..." Joanie winced and moaned as she saw what they saw in front of them.
Patch and Stitch both had rough landings until they reached the road. There appeared to be their 'froggy friend' from earlier as he was on the road behind them and croaked.
"Stitch and his spotted friend are unconscious," Jumba looked through super binoculars out the window.
"What have we done now," Josh asked.
"We stay close," Jumba replied uneasily, "hope for miracle......that's all we can do."
"Alright," Jesse said, beginning to hope for a miracle.
Stitch and Patch moaned, but stood up together after the frog helped them up.
"Ugh...my head..." Patch rubbed his head with his paw.
Gantu was returning and he shot a blast toward the two. Patch heard the blast and knew that this was the moment he was going to die. He could see his life flashing before his eyes.
He saw the dark and stormy night he came into life and Anita's maid was counting the puppies that had been born from his mother Perdita. Pongo and Roger had been in the other room.
He could see himself watching Thunderbolt on TV with his brothers and sisters like every night. He saw himself being taken by Horace and Jasper and one time until Amber came to visit with Darla, Rae and saw himself meet Jesse for the first time. He saw himself adjusting to the Greenwood house and all the changes being brought to him since Jesse adopted him. He saw himself meeting Colette for the first time and falling head over paws in love with her. He saw everything he went through ever since he had been adopted into the Greenwood family and where he was going to miss his owner and his family.
"Farewell, everybody...." he whispered as he was too stunned to even move or properly react, "I'll miss you."
The blast hit him, causing the Dalmatian puppy to howl out in pain.
"Patch," Stitch cried.
Gantu growled, he may had hit Patch, but he was aiming for Stitch, which made him furious.
"Stitch," Lilo called out.
"PATCH," Darla and Atticus cried out in grief.
The ship flew above.
"Don't leave us, alright," Lilo leaned against the glass as Stitch was down there with Patch, who didn't seem to be moving or breathing.
"Alright..." Stitch agreed, feeling a little emotional, not sure if he even could or not, "hold on..."
Then there was a loud horn honk heard to show a giant gasoline truck.
"Alright," Stitch said, serious and determined.
The driver of the truck seemed to have had a relaxing time driving, but then felt something stop his truck. He went to check out what it was as Stitch had stopped the truck, but he picked up Patch's body and put it in a safe spot where there would be no further damage on the poor puppy and he rushed to get to work.
Then Stitch hijacked the truck and drove it through what was known as Volcano National Park as a couple of tourists were about to take a picture. And where the truck he was driving was filled with a tank of gasoline. He purposely landed through a small pool of lava after a high jump from the truck. Stitch grinned as this was going according to his instant plan due to being faster in thinking than a supercomputer.
Gantu's ship was tracking down Stitch and was now making its road over to the Volcano National Park to ambush the genetic illegal mutation. The driver started to shoot again, trying to murder Stitch for sure this time, but he kept missing so far.
"Stitch," the girls cried out in despair.
"Huh," Stitch turned his head, as if he could hear his name being called all the road from there.
"Abomination," Gantu snarled as he tried to corner the blue alien.
Stitch folded his arms as he lay back on the gas back end of the truck. "Foolish-Head," he made a hole in the tank, which made the gas spew out into the lava and the truck exploded and made Stitch fly high up in the air to make it up to Gantu's ship to save the girls. And where he shot right through Gantu's windshield.
Gantu flinched since the glass shattered.
"Aloha," Stitch smirked.
"You're vile," Gantu tried to crush Stitch with his large fist, but the experiment kept avoiding with ease. "You're foul! You're flawed," he took one last stomping fist.
Stitch lifted it up, however. "Also cute and FLUFFY," he threw Gantu right out of his own ship, making the whalish alien fall onto Jumba and Pleakley's ship.
"Now all he has to do is save the girls," Alec said.
Jesse was in stunned silence, staring at the floor.
"Alec, are Lilo and Darla going to be alright," Joanie asked.
"Yes, they're going to be alright," Alec said.
"Are you absolutely sure," Joanie asked.
"Joanie, just trust me, alright," Alec whispered pitifully, a bit in pain for Jesse.
Joanie cupped her mouth and kept silent. Then they both heard an explosion.
"What was that," Joanie panicked.
"Csendes..." Alec put his hand over her mouth and his eyes darted back and forth.
"LILO," Nani cried out in grief.
They all looked out the window to see Stitch had caught the the ship while the girls were holding on to him while he was also holding on to Gantu.
"Good dog," Lilo grinned to her pet.
David was on his board in the water, relaxing, but then a wave from the ship came over him and he was underwater.
Riley burst her head out with him. "You okay there?"
"Um...I'm fine..." David looked to her, "say, you came here at a good time, you must love the ocean."
"You have no idea....." Riley smirked.
"Hey, David, can you give us a lift to shore," Lilo called out.
"Uh....sure," David called as he looked to all of them, overwhelmed, surprised and just plain amazed, "sure! But I'll have to make two trips."
"I'll help," Riley offered.
"Thanks," David grinned.
"Darla, you're alright," Josh rushed over to the blonde girl, but hugged her instantly, "I was so concerned about you..."
"So concerned," Darla smirked teasingly.
"Get over yourself, Goldilocks," Josh smirked back.
Darla chuckled in response.
David and Riley helped the others to shore as promised and this entire mess was cleared up.
"Well, you're from outer space, right," David asked Stitch, "I heard the surfing's choice."
However, before anything else could be said or done, there were alien guards who resembled dinosaurs who were taking Stitch and the Grand Councilwoman was also there.
"Let him go," Darla frowned.
"Hold on," Cobra told her, making a mysterious/surprise appearance with Randolph.
"Dad," Jesse and Darla whispered.
"Grand Councilwoman, let me explain," Gantu came up to the alien woman, who was in charge of everything.
"SILENCE," the councilwoman hissed, "I am retiring you, Captain Gantu."
"As in you're firing him," Darla asked.
"Yes," the Grand Councilwoman replied.
"Actually..." Pleakley spoke up, "credit for the capture goes to--"
"Goes to me..." the Grand Councilwoman cut him off sharply, "you'll be lucky if you end up on a Fluff Trog farm after we sort this fact out."
Jumba and Pleakley backed up together hesitantly and silently.
"I think I should...." Jumba said while trying to get away.
"You," the Grand Councilwoman called to him, "you're the cause of all this! If it wasn't for your Experiment 626, none of this---"
"Stitch," the alien creation corrected.
The alien woman turned to him. "What?"
"My name Stitch," Stitch explained, liking that name better than 'Experiment 626'.
"Stitch, then," the Grand Councilwoman returned to her motivation. "If it wasn't for Stitch......" she stopped herself, surprised that the experiment now named as Stitch had spoke.
"Does Stitch have to go in the ship," Stitch asked.
"Yes..." the Grand Councilwoman replied with slight patience.
"Can Stitch say a farewell," Stitch asked.
The Grand Councilwoman glanced at him. "Yes..."
"Thank you," Stitch replied, walking over to the Pelekai sisters.
Lilo and Nani hugged the blue alien once he came over to them.
"Who are you..." the Grand Councilwoman stared at the two.
Stitch looked over to the woman, deciding to explain. "This is my family......I found it all on my own...it's little and broken......but yet good..."
Nani gently put her arm around Lilo.
"Yes..." Stitch nodded. "Yet good..." he grinned one last time to his family and went to get on the ship to be taken away forever.
"Does Stitch really have to go," Darla frowned.
"Our laws are absolute," the Grand Councilwoman replied, "I cannot change what the council has decided."
"Lilo," Randolph looked down to his adoptive daughter's newest friend, "didn't you buy your.....erm...'pet' at the shelter?"
That made Lilo think of something and she rushed right over to the alien woman. "But wait!"
This caught the Councilwoman's attention as she looked down at the Hawaiian girl.
"Three days ago, I bought Stitch at the shelter," Lilo said as she took out a pink paper that was in her dress pocket, "I paid two dollars for him. See this stamp? I own him...if you take him, you're stealing."
The Grand Councilwoman took the paper and seemed to grin once she was done.
"Aliens are all about rules," Randolph and Cobra said together.
"You both look familiar." The Grand Councilwoman said.
"CIA, Roswell, 1973," Cobra gave his input.
"Ah, yes, you had hair then...." the Grand Councilwoman said to him, but looked to Randolph.
'Can't wait for Dad's response,' Jesse thought to himself.
"I've been around the block a few times..." Randolph replied, "I've known Mr. Bubbles since Roswell from my time in the Men in Black."
"Ah, yes, you were a new recruit back then," the Grand Councilwoman said.
"I'm a little wise beyond my years..." Randolph said with a small modest grin.
"Take note of this," the Grand Councilwoman ordered as she came to Stitch and removed his cuffs, placing him between Lilo and Nani, "this creature has been sentenced to life and exile. A sentence that shall be henceforth served out here on Earth. And as caretaker of the alien life-form, Stitch, this family is now under the official protection of the United Galactic Federation."
This caused for Lilo and Nani to hug Stitch, happy to have him back.
"We'll be checking in now and then," the Grand Councilwoman warned them.
"I was afraid you were going to say that," Cobra replied, "this won't be easy to explain back at headquarters."
"I know what you mean....." the Grand Councilwoman nodded, but was on her road back as Jumba and Pleakley weakly waved and grinned to her. She waved back to them, but whispered to the guard next to her. "Don't let these two get on my ship."
Then it was time for the aliens, minus Stitch, to take their leave.
The moment they left, Nani looked to the social worker, confused. "CIA?"
"Former," Cobra replied, "saved the planet once. Convinced the alien race that mosquitoes were an endangered species."
"My sister would be impressed..." Joanie shrugged to that.
Jesse sighed mournfully. "Patch...Stitch...where did you put him?"
Stitch began to lead them all to where he put his Earth canine friend. Jesse covered his eyes, but Josh took his hand to help him there.
Then Stitch gestured for them to come where he had hidden Patch. "Here."
Jesse slowly uncovered his eyes as he looked to see his best dog friend and what had become of him. And where he saw Patch on the ground, singed and dead. Darla, Josh, Randolph and Riley bowed their heads. Randolph and Riley gently put their hands on Jesse's shoulders as this was a hard time for him.
"It'll be alright, Jesse..." Joanie slowly walked over.
"What have you done," Jesse frowned at her firmly with tears in his eyes, "you never understand what I'm going through with him and now he's gone!"
"Jesse..." Joanie whispered, feeling slightly hurt.
This was the first time that Jesse had ever had tears in his eyes and where Joanie had to warn him that she knew along with Alec.
"Uhh...Jesse..." Joanie spoke up with a hesitant chuckle, "I have something to warn you..."
"Don't you dare," Alec frowned down at Joanie.
"I'm sorry, but he has to know," Joanie looked back, "do whatever you want with me, but he has to know!"
"Joanie, I swear by all that is holy..." Alec gritted through his teeth, shaking his fists.
"Jesse, I knew this was going to happen..." Joanie admitted, "Alec warned me."
This caused for dark crystals to form, looking rather dangerous.
"I should go..." Joanie smirked hesitantly with a sheepish chuckle, "you're going through a rough time..."
"You knew all along and you NEVER EVEN WARNED ME," Jesse growled at her.
"Blame Alec, he wouldn't let me," Joanie actually looked afraid of her best friend.
"YOU DIDN'T LET HER WARN ME THIS WOULD HAPPEN," Jesse frowned at the strong warlock, causing more dark crystals to form.
"Jesse, darling, please settle down...." Riley tried to relax her son.
Jesse began to try to do just that as more and more dark crystals appeared.
"What have we done," Joanie asked Alec, but looked around for him, "Alec?!"
Alec shrieked and ran off, catching his broomstick. "I'm outta here!"
Joanie ran after him. "I knew he wasn't gonna like this!"
Jesse continued to try and calm down and where he did calm down as his father hugged him tightly in a warm embrace.
"Csendes..." Randolph whispered as he hugged his son, "it's alright..."
As Jesse hugged his father back, his rage began to disappear and all of the dark crystals started to disappear.
"Jesse, I'm so sorry...." Randolph said.
"We all are..." Riley said softly.
Alec slowly walked over and put his hands behind his back.
"Why didn't you let Joanie warn me," Jesse asked.
"I didn't wanna break your heart..." Alec said softly, "I know how it feels to lose someone precious, even if it was an animal...you two were best friends.....you did a lot of stuff together that you never did with anyone else and now you feel cold and dark without him."
"Actually, yes, how'd you know I'd feel like this," Jesse asked.
Alec sighed softly. "I used to have a hamster..." he explained, "we were like you and Patch......then one day, he came into my mother's posy garden and he ate one...it put him to sleep and he never awakened..."
"I'm very sorry to hear about that," Jesse frowned.
Alec sighed, but took off his glasses. "I'm really sorry, Jesse...and you know the rules of magic...we can't murder anyone...we can't make others fall in love...we can't bring back the dead......I'll do anything you want me to, but I'm afraid there's nothing I can really do...just know that he's in a much better place and know that he's in Heaven, all dogs go to heaven, because unlike people, dogs are naturally best-natured and loyal."
"Yes, they are," Jesse nodded.
"I'm sorry that there's nothing I can do..." Alec said.
"Thank you for warning me..." Jesse bowed his head, "I'm sorry for yelling at you and Joanie."
"It's all right, I understand," Alec promised.
To everyone's surprise, Patch's body disappeared.
"Did that just happen," Joanie asked.
"Why, I believe it did....." Alec said, "his time has come...."
"How can you be so normal about this," Darla freaked out at him.
"He's become a Guardian Angel," Alec said.
"There's no such fact," Joanie said.
Alec glanced at her and put his glasses back on, leaning over her. "I'm an all powerful warlock, you've been in a world with singing and speaking ponies, your best friend is part merman and Native American, you can speak to all sorts of different animals, and you've met Fairy Godmothers, including a Fairy Godfather, and you don't believe in angels?!"
Joanie smirked hesitantly. "Um, yes?"
Alec face-palmed her.
"Well, this is a good fact....." Josh walked over, "right?"
"Of course," Alec said, "the Whippet Angel depicted in dog culture existing into a higher plain has said to reward very noble and special dogs for their best deeds in life by making them Guardian Angels and giving them chances to visit Earth to help these in need, for canine kind."
"Well, this was a nice vacation, but we should head home and------" Joanie started to walk away.
"That's why you guys are going to San Francisco now," Alec pulled her back, "I'll explain until the time is right."
"Can our parents come," Darla asked.
"Who said YOU were going," Alec glanced down at Darla.
"Please, Alec," Randolph begged, "you know I'm Indian......besides...Jesse needs his family now."
"Well...alright, since I like you guys like family anyhow..." Alec gave in.
"Thanks, Alec," Jesse grinned.
"Sure," Alec grinned back.
"Nobody ever asks about my opinion..." Joanie glanced back.
"You don't have to come....." Alec warned her, "just know that your best friend is in pain after the loss of his one and only pet."
"Patch isn't his one and only pet," Joanie frowned, "he's had other pets.....I think..."
"No, I have never had any other pets," Jesse warned his best friend.
"Oh..." Joanie said, "well, what about---"
Jesse shook his head. "Jaq and Gus don't count."
"I-I-I'm sorry..." Joanie's voice broke, "I had no idea how special Patch was to you..."
"It's alright, I guess I really should have warned you that I've never had a before I adopted Patch," Jesse said.
"Jesse, I'm sorry..." Joanie said, "I really wanted to warn you...remember if we let Anne-Marie get adopted? He's in a better place with Charlie now..."
Jesse turned his head. "Could I be alone a moment?"
"Of course, darling," Riley understood better than the others, especially until it came to losing someone she was very close to, it might not had been a pet, but she related a lot better to her son's grief.
Everyone left Jesse alone so he could mourn the loss of his one and only pet.
"Goldilocks, I know your brother is mournful, but I was hoping I could do something for you," Josh said as they walked out onto the beach.
Darla sighed. "If you want..."
"Please, sit down..." Josh warned her.
Darla sat down on her knees as he sat down and brought out the shell necklace he made for her.
"This is for you...."
"Oh, Josh, it's beautiful," Darla grinned.
"I thought you'd like it....." Josh returned the grin.
Darla took it and wore it right off. Then Josh took out the guitar with a smooth grin.
"What's a guitar," Darla asked.
"What do you think," Josh asked back as he put the guitar in place with his hands in position.
Darla blushed. "Do you have a song for me?"
"Yes, I think you'll like it as much as I do so..." Josh said softly. "This song is dedicated to you by me by that King of Rock and Roll that Lilo had warned us about," he began to strum the strings to make a rock and roll beat and started to sing Elvis' "Burning Love" to proclaim his true feelings for the blonde girl he had occasionally teased, but deep down, harbored affections for her.
And where each word would touch Darla's heart. It was really a lovely moment between the two.
"Just a hunk a hunk of burning..." Josh completed the song, "loooooOOOOVE!!!!"
Darla grinned and clapped at the song.
"Well, you liked this---" Josh was about to ask until Darla suddenly kissed him, which made his entire face turn bright red with his eyes widening, "that?"
"I love it," Darla grinned.
"Wow, I guess the power of music is stronger than I thought," Josh grinned.
"You live in the Atlantic," Darla reminded him, "people just love music......"
"Athena certainly did..." Josh said.
Darla looked. "Have you ever met her?"
"I just heard about her......" Josh shrugged, "I saw her here and there, but I never had to meet her...I heard she risked her life to save Jesse if people invaded."
"She certainly did," Darla warned him.
"How'd you see it," Josh asked.
"Time travel..." Darla said. "Somehow, Mum has that ability..." she said, calling Riley just 'mum' know due to knowing her a while and becoming more and more official to the Greenwood family than the one she had before.
"You're lucky to be taken by such kind people..." Josh grinned, "before I met Ariel, it was just me and no one else."
"Well, now you have a beloved family," Darla grinned.
"But I wouldn't mind a brother..." Josh said with a shrug.
"At least Uncle Triton eventually has a son..." Darla said.
"Yes, that's true..." Josh said, feeling pleased to make that possible, "um...Darla...do you write it? If you don't, it doesn't matter....."
"Yes, Josh, I like you," Darla grinned.
Josh grinned bashfully.
Darla leaned over to him, crawling slightly. "How long have you been feeling this fashion?"
"Does it matter," Josh smirked hesitantly.
"Yes," Darla said.
"I heard you sing...." Josh admitted.
"Sing," Darla leaned back on her knees.
"Well...yes," Josh sat up, "we merpeople just love all kinds of music...do you have a lovely voice...how old are you again?"
"Seven," Darla said.
"You sound more like an adult until you sing," Josh grinned to her, "no wonder you lived in Hollywood."
"Aww," Darla grinned, "thanks, Josh."
Josh grinned back. Then the two got very close together as they watched the sunset together, making this moment even more perfect and special between the two of them.
"I never want this moment to end," Josh said.
"Neither do I...." Darla grinned.
However, there was suddenly a flash of light and both looked down as Josh's legs disappeared and it was replaced with his blue tail fin.
"Oh, c'mon," Josh moaned, "three days couldn't have passed!"
"I'm afraid it has," Darla frowned.
Josh sighed as he absentmindedly took Darla's hand.
"It doesn't matter....." Darla soothed, "I'll see you again soon. I promise."
"Alright," Josh frowned, "well, I guess I'd better go back to the ocean."
Darla gave him a hug. "Thank you for being my friend......more than anything else......"
Josh hugged her back. "See you on the West Side, Curly Q."
Darla chuckled, but let go, and gave him another kiss. Josh grinned bashfully, but waved to her, and jumped into the ocean to get back home.
After a short while, Darla went back to her family while Lilo's house was being rebuilt. Jumba and Pleakley actually offered to help since it was their fault. The Grand Councilwoman had left them behind and they had nowhere else to go or say, where they decided to adopt themselves into Lilo's broken family. Jesse sighed as he sat in the hotel lobby couch as Randolph and Riley were checking out of the hotel.
"It's alright, little one..." Alec said as he walked side-by-side, carrying a mango in his hand and bit into it, sitting next to him which made Jesse slide up, but only slightly, "but think about it.....since you believe in Angels, Heaven and Paradise, it is possible to see Patch until he goes down to his mission in San Francisco, where I am sending you there for him to be redeemed. I heard from the vines that someone was itching to steal Gabriel's horn."
"What," Jesse gasped, "but if they do so, then no other dog can go to Heaven."
"Don't worry, my native friend...." Alec said as he bit into the mango again, rather messily which made his hair drip due to it being all over the place, "I know this is going to have a happy ending...you'll see it in San Francisco."
"If this is a dog mission, why do anything," Joanie asked.
"Well, there's a young mortal boy who is interested in magic that's his fortune," Alec explained, "he has family problems...his mother is going to have a baby, where he left home."
"But why would he want to burst it just because his mother is having a baby," Darla asked.
"Is he really his mum? Or is he like his stepmother? And he feels that his parents won't have enough love for him and the new baby," Jesse asked, using his detective skills.
"I just he was his mother," Alec replied, "it feels that as his new mother will have a baby and replace his biological mother already and this new baby will replace him, where he lives on the streets with his dog's friend."
"Huh...deja vu..." Jesse said as that made him think of how until he first met Gertie.
"Yes, that is, but unlike Angel, this boy's dog goes out to eat or feed her man," Alec said.
"Execution," Jesse and Darla asked.
Alec chuckled. "I guess it's time to the best old San Francisco."
Joanie walked over. "Guess I'll go as well?"
"If you do this for me, I promise to reward you with gratitude," Alec said.
"What is this," Joanie asked.
"What have you done," Alec smirked.
Joanie paused to think about it, but settled on a response. "I want you to be good to me for two weeks."
"Very well," Alec moaned.
Joanie smirked. "I'll enjoy this...."
Riley came over to her family. "Well, we're ready to leave.....Alec, how soon do you plan to take us to San Francisco?"
"Yes, it would be wise to let us know," Randolph said, carrying all the luggage.
"I'll let you all home and rest for now, but if I say so, you should all be ready, whether or not," Alec said.
"Yes, Alec," the Greenwood family replied.
"I'm sorry for your loss, but know that it'll get better..." Alec stood up and threw off his trash. "I'll see you everywhere later," he took his leave and would come back for them until the time would be right as they said their farewells to Hawaii, but would come again to visit real soon, allowing Darla and Lilo to become pen pals.
Then the family and Joanie returned home, it was very late at night and everyone slept in their clothes, but of course, Jesse prayed for Patch before he went to bed. And where Patch was going straight up to Heaven as the Heaven's Gates opened up for his arrival.
Executive ProducersDENNIS DeSHAZERSHERYL STAMPS LEACH
Senior ProducerJIM ROWLEY
ProducersJEFF GITTLEMARTHA DATEMA LIPSCOMB
DirectorBRUCE DECK
WriterMARK S. BERNTHAL
Production DesignerJESS NELSON
Musical DirectorBOB SINGLETON
Lyricists/ComposersSTEPHEN BATES BALTESLORY LAZARUS
Performance DirectorPENNY WILSON
Educational SpecialistsMARY ANN DUDKO, Ph.D.MARGIE LARSEN, M.Ed.
Cast:Voice of Barney... BOB WESTBarney's Body Costume... DAVID JOYNERVoice of Baby Bop... JULIE JOHNSONBaby Bop's Body Costume... JULIE JOHNSONVoice of B.J. ... PATTY WIRTZB.J.'s Body Costume... JEFF BROOKS
Cast:Shawn... JOHN DAVID BENNETT, IITosha... HOPE CERVANTESStella the Storyteller... PHYLLIS CICEROJason... KURT DYKHUIZENKathy... LAUREN KING
Cast:Juan... MICHAEL KROSTCarlos... COREY LOPEZMin... PIA MANALOJosh... KEVIN ZEGERSJulie... SUSANNAH WETZEL
Cast:Dance Troupe...LAO-CAMBODIANART PRESERVATION GROUPROSEMARY FAY CHANTHIDA LOEUNGLENG NGANG CRYSTAL KAO PEREZ
Associate DirectorERIC NORBERG
Stage ManagerTERRIE DAVIS MANNING
Lighting DesignerSTEVEN BRILL
EditorMcKEE SMITH
Audio DirectorDAVID M. BOOTHE
Art DirectorELIZABETH SAGAN VELTEN
Wardrobe Supervisor/DesignerLISA O. ALBERTSON
Technical Operations SupervisorRANDY BREEDLOVE
Video EngineerBINK WILLIAMS
Camera OperatorsLARRY ALLEN OZ COLEMANTOM COX BRUCE HARMON
Production AudioRONALD G. BALENTINE
Boom OperatorsJAMES JOHNSONDAVID SMITH
Lighting DirectorCASEY COOK
Key GripBUZ CANNON
Lighting Board OperatorTODD DAVIS
Grip/ElectricJAMES EDWARDS
Construction SupervisorCHARLES BAILEY
Art/Craft CoordinatorAMY ATHERTON
Craft Shop SupervisorRAY HENRY
Set DresserAGGIE DAVIS-BROOKS
DraftspersonCHRISTOPHER McCRAY
Craft/Prop ArtistMARK BROGAN
Props/Special EffectsDAVID COBB
CarpentersTY M. BURNSDANNY SMITH
Scenic PainterE. (BILL) SLETTE
Swing CrewCARMELO GOMEZ
Costume Shop ManagerGEORGIA FORD WAGENHURST
Costume TechnicianD.J. SEGLER
Costume SewingNATALIE SERGI-SAARISUSIE THENNES
Make-Up DesignerJEANIE L. D'IORIO
Hair StylistDEBRA HERTEL HAEFLING
Costume/Wardrobe AssistantsBRIAN N. BLEVINSJANET BUSH
Field ProducerSANDY JANTZEN
Post VideotapeDUDLEY ASAFF
Dialogue EditorDENICE CROWELL
Post Production AudioCRAIG CHASTAIN
Production Office ManagerSUE SHINN
Script SupervisorCATHERINE REYNOLDS
Production CoordinatorsJULIE HUTCHINGSKELLY MAHER
Production AccountantDEBBIE COTTLE
Production SecretaryAUSTIN GRAY
Asst. to Performance DirectorDAVID VOSS
Production AssistantJOEL ZOCH
Barney Music DepartmentJILL HANCE CHARLES KINGJONATHAN SMITH ETHEL WADSWORTH
For Singleton Productions, Inc.KEITH DAVENPORT LARRY HARONMIKE PIETSZCH
Educational Research StaffPATSY J. ROBLES GOODWIN, M.Ed.KIMBERLY THORNTON, M.Ed.JOY STARR
Children's TeacherSANDRA GILPIN
Children's SupervisorMARY EVANS
Barney and the Backyard Gang™ and Barney & Friends®were originally developed by Sheryl Leach,Kathy Parker and Dennis DeShazer.
Vocal Performances Enhanced with Help fromSingleton Productions, Inc.
"I Love You" • Lyrics by Lee Bernstein (BMI)
Special Thanks to Capers for Kids
Original Barney, Baby Bop and B.J.Costumes byIRENE COREY DESIGNASSOCIATES
Produced byTHE LYONS GROUP ANDCONNECTICUT PUBLIC TELEVISION
For Connecticut Public TelevisionExecutives in ChargeLARRY RIFIKINSHARON BLAIR
Executive in ChargeRICHARD C. LEACH
BARNEY & FRIENDS • Any Fashion You Slice ItCopyright 2002 • Lyons Partnership, L.P.