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Null.exe

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Lilo gaped in horror at the two figures writhing on the ground in front of Bloodbath. "Stitch!" she cried.

"I'll take care of Jumba," Pleakley told her. "Go help the little monster!"

Lilo nodded and ran toward Stitch, but a red blur shot past Bloodbath and obstructed her path. "Where are you going, Lilo?" Leroy asked. "I think I've paid back Stitch at least in part, but you had a big hand too in condemning me."

"Leroy," Lilo said calmly, "I'm sorry for what happened, but-"

"IT'S TOO LATE FOR APOLOGIES!" Leroy screamed. "This is for sweet revenge!" He drove a fist into Lilo's gut, and she felt the wind knocked out of her. He pushed his fist farther up, and launched Lilo almost to the ceiling. As she reached the apex of her flight, Leroy tensed his legs and jumped up after her. "This is for the year I spent in prison!" He slammed two fists into her chest, crushing her into the ceiling. Leroy immediately fell to the ground, while Lilo stayed embedded for a moment. He ran to a wall and jumped to a point about halfway up just as Lilo began to fall. He bounced to the ceiling at the point where Lilo had been smashed, and jumped straight down, chasing her. "This is for not even TRYING to turn me good or make me part of your ohana!" He drove an elbow into Lilo's back, causing her to cry out as they smashed to the ground together and cratered the floor. A foul odor washed up from the splintered wood paneling around them; Leroy's blows must've busted a sewer line.

"Lilo!" Victoria cried out, but she went quiet when one of the Leroy clones snarled at her.

"THIS is for all the worldly pleasures I was robbed of!" Leroy screamed, picking up Lilo's limp form and giving a devastating kick to her. She flew back across the room. "And this is for all the nights I spent screaming myself to sleep!" He pulled out one of his special blasters and fired a thin, red shot. It caught up to Lilo in midair and landed directly in the center of her torso, leaving a circular burn through her shirt into her skin. Leroy ran toward Lilo as she struck the far wall, and quickly scaled it as she bounced off. "This is for robbing me of my freedom, happiness, and sanity!"He drove two backhands into her, sending her tumbling back across the room.

Something's wrong, Bloodbath thought with a frown as he coldly watched the fight. Leroy's not even using Null.exe. How's he moving like that without my gifts? Unless he's this far beyond his natural limit…

Lilo was struggling to maintain consciousness as she hurtled through the air. Leroy's assault was completely unrelenting; she didn't have any time to regain control of her limbs between each attack, let alone defend herself. To make things worse, she felt a familiar heat and ache spreading through her body. She began to resist, but then she recalled Absolute's words…

"Don't fight it… you'll only weaken yourself. By embracing yourself, and letting it flow through you, you'll gain all the power you need to defend your loved ones."

"THIS IS FOR ME!" Leroy's scream brought Lilo back to reality. While she had been distracted, he had jumped to the ceiling and rebounded back towards her, and now he was directly above her in midair. She saw his tear-filled eyes flash red, and felt heat radiate from his fist as he pulled it back. The sound of Leroy's fist striking Lilo's face resounded thru the room, and Lilo's body crashed to the floor before finally rolling to a stop. Leroy stuck the landing, and turned to her, drawing all four of his blasters now. "And this is for all the other 'me's out there! Leroy clones… OPEN FIRE!" Each Leroy clone present drew his own blaster from his holster and mimicked the original Leroy by firing shot after shot into Lilo's prone form. The shots created a cloud of smoke that blanketed the whole room.

"Hold!" Leroy ordered, and the blasts stopped. The smoke blanketed a third of the room.

"Lilo?" Pleakley squeaked out. "Are you alright?"

"I doubt it," Leroy snarled in reply. "Even I probably couldn't survive that onslaught. And if she did… well, I'd just keep beating her until the problem was solved." He blinked his eyes red with infrared vision. "Damn, the blasters created too much heat. I can't see if she's still in one piece."

Suddenly, one of the Leroy clone's weapon lifted into the air, and sailed across the room, landing in the smoke cloud. Then another blaster was pulled from its user's paw and into the cloud. One after another this happened, until none of the clones were left with blasters. Leroy quickly holstered all of his, hoping that this kept it from happening to him. Apparently, it did. "The power I need… to help my friends…" Lilo's voice rang out. "I think I understand now." A pair of glowing blue eyes flared up from the dissipating smoke cloud, a silhouette slowly taking shape around them.

"So it won't be so easy…" Leroy dusted off his clothes with one pair of hands, and cracked his knuckles on the other pair. "Fine. I'm not nearly done getting revenge yet."

End of Chapter

Keep in mind I just snuck you a preview from late in the story. It'll be up to you to find out how I got there from where this story leaves off. I won't be starting the fic for a while, but I've got a Lilo and Stitch oneshot I'll be posting at some point to keep you all from forgetting about me.