Believe

By: Experiment 6462

Chapter 1: Reactivation

A/N: Here it is. Here is the sequel to The Dance. Unlike my previous story, I will not be doing this one totally from Stitch's POV… I just hope that everybody who reads this enjoys it as much as the previous story. This begins about 2 weeks following Angel's death. Also, bold italicized words are Stitch's words translated to English.

Gantu growled as he rubbed his sore arm, awaiting a call from Dr. Hämsterviel.

'That blasted trog… I'll make him pay. Injured my arm, took 625, and stopped Hämsterviel's plan from succeeding. At least that traitorous 624 is no longer alive,' he thought, chuckling at that last part.

"Gantu!" Hämsterviel cried, bringing him out of his thoughts.

"Yes Dr. Hämsterviel?" he asked.

"What is with all the laughing?"

"Oh, uh… Nothing sir, just remembering something…"

"Well quit with the remembering and start with the listening! Now, 626 and the little girl have been thorns in my side for far too long… I have a plan to get rid of Experiment 626 once and for all. Now is the best time to put this plan into action, while he is still grieving over 624's death. But for this to work, I need you to get Experiment 627 back."

"627? But he's worthless! All the trog and little girl have to do is get him to laugh, and he's beaten!"

"Do you think I am not aware of this fact? And did I say that 627 was even going to fight against 626?"

"If 627 is not going to fight 626, then why do you need him?"

"Do not question my plan! Just get Experiment 627 now!"

"Yes sir," Gantu sighed.

Unseen to either of them, a chameleon was inside the ship, listening to every word…

Stitch sighed as he lay on the couch, watching the sun starting to set. 625 was sitting on the couch as well, eating a sandwich and watching TV.

It had been two weeks, but the agonizing experience felt like it had happened only yesterday. Angel had died, shortly after she had admitted her love for him had been pure, and he had failed to prevent it. Worse, he had gone off on his family, and probably made them feel bad.

He had apologized the other day, and had been forgiven, but he still felt bad for what he had done. Plus he had been moping around quite a bit, and Gantu had captured a couple of experiments as a result.

'Stupidhead… I will get my cousins back from him…' Stitch thought, sighing.

Then he perked his ears up, and heard some heavy footsteps coming towards the house.

'He had best not be coming this way…' he thought, growling.

The footsteps came closer and closer, then started going away quickly.

"Huh?" Stitch wondered, going outside.

He saw Gantu running away from the house. But as Stitch looked closer, he noticed a pod in one of Gantu's hands.

"Not again…" Stitch cried, plopping down on the ground.

"Aaaagh! Who has been messing with my ship!" he heard Jumba cry.

'The ship? Oh no… please don't tell me Gantu stole a pod from the ship…' Stitch thought worriedly, running towards Jumba's voice.

"Jumba?" Stitch asked, as he entered the ship.

The ship was indeed quite messed up. All sorts of things were scattered on the floor, including some experiment pods.

'Why didn't he take them all? Why did he take just one experiment pod?' Stitch wondered.

"626! What happened to my ship?" Jumba asked.

"I'm just guessing, but I saw Gantu running away from here… I think he had an experiment pod, but I don't know…"

"You are thinking big dummy has stolen pod from my ship?"

"Ih."

"This is not being good… I am not knowing which pod he took, and I will not be knowing until ship is cleaned up."

"I can help you out, Jumba!"

"The offer is appreciated… but no, 626. There are many evil genius secrets on this ship that even you do not need to be seeing. Why don't you go get little girl and see if you two can figure out which pod big dummy took?"

"No need to get Lilo involved in this little matter. It'll go much quicker if I do this by myself."

Stitch ran out of the ship, down the same path he had seen Gantu take. The darkness was coming quickly, as the light was fading.

Meanwhile, Gantu had already returned to the ship, and, with Dr. Hämsterviel watching, was about to re-activate Experiment 627.

"Now drop the pod in!" the hamster-like creature ordered.

"Yes sir!"

Gantu released the pod, and it fell into a glass of water. It started glowing, then flashed brightly. Once again, 627 was active, and was ready to be…

"Evil!" he cried, laughing.

"Now 627! Listen to me!" Dr. Hämsterviel cried.

627 looked at the monitor, then at Gantu.

"Listen to him," Gantu muttered.

"627, you remember 626, right?"

"Evil evil!" 627 yelled, nodding.

"Good. I have a plan to destroy him, and I need your help."

627's ears perked up at this.

"I see that you are interested. Now here is what is going to happen…"

The chameleon was still in the ship, still unnoticed by any of them…

Stitch was coming closer to the ship, ready to knock Gantu around again if he needed to. However, he was unaware that he was being watched by two different sets of eyes. He heard a soft rustle in the bushes behind him. But before he could get completely turned around to try and attack whatever it was or defend himself, he received a powerful blow right to the face that knocked him to the ground.

He faintly heard a cry of "Evil!" but was so dizzy he couldn't bear to get up. There was no need for him to even try, though. He felt someone or something pick him up off the ground and carrying him somewhere, right before he passed out…

"Oh no… this is being very bad!" Jumba cried out.

Lilo had come looking for Stitch at that moment, and heard Jumba's cry.

"What's the matter Jumba? Where's Stitch?"

"Little girl… 626 went after Gantu, after the big dummy took one of my evil genius experiment pods from my ship… And he wasn't taking any old early pod, no… He was taking pod of Experiment 627…"

"Gantu got 627's pod!"

"Yes… Hämsterviel knows of 627's weakness to silliness, so he may be devising way to either remove weakness, or a different way to use 627's abilities… 626 may be in grave danger this time…"

"What are we waiting for? We can't let Stitch get hurt!"

"Problem is being, little girl, it's even less safe to try and stop them without 626 being here to help. But, 626 is also being very smart. If he is thinking hard enough, he can be devising way to take down 627."

"I hope you're right Jumba…"

(And that's the end of Chapter 1. This is probably not as good as I was hoping it would be at first, but it will get better from here. Feel free to review with suggestions.)