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Chapter 15: Back to Normal?

Lilo woke up to a chorus of birds outside her window. Glancing over at the clock, she saw that it was only seven thirty. She thought about staying in bed, but knew that she wouldn't get back to sleep. Slipping out of Stitch's arms, she took the lift downstairs, and went to the kitchen. Looking at the calendar hanging there, she realized that today was the day that Nani and David were coming back. She took a quick glance around the house, and decided that things were a little messy, but it wouldn't really matter. Going back to the kitchen, she sat down to figure out what to have when Skipper came in the room.

"Morning Skip." Lilo said.

"Hey Lilo." He said, sitting down across the table.

"So, what are your plans for today?" Lilo asked, grabbing a box of cereal.

"Well, Angel and I decided that, since we're going to be together, to move in to my house today. We've intruded long enough, and it's time we get our own place."

"You guys going to have kids?" Lilo asked. She poured herself a bowl of the cereal, and then passed it over to Skipper so he could have some.

"Yeah, not sure how many though. We're kind of going to figure that out later. We'll drop by a little later maybe. Definitely when Nani and David get back." Angel came down the stairs yawning.

"Hey guys." She said.

"Hey Angel." Lilo replied. "Skip was just telling us about your plans to move to his house."

Angel nodded. "Yep, we're going to leave in a few minutes. We will drop by every now and then. Besides, when you and Stitch decide to start your own ohana, our kids will probably end up playing together."

Skipper glanced around. "I don't think we really brought anything over. Did you Angel?"

Angel chuckled. "I don't believe I have anything to bring over."

Leroy walked in with Victoria. "Hey guys. Jumba said you all need to stay here for a bit. He has some stuff he needs to take care of with us."

"Like what?" Skip asked.

"I can be answering that." Jumba said as he came in. "I is needing to reprogram you. I need to be giving 626 his power for climbing walls back. And I is wanting to use invention on you two, Leroy and little boy."

"What does it do?" Leroy asked.

"It gets rid of evil side." Jumba said. "626, please to be coming to ship. I will be taking care of your programming first." Jumba and Stitch walked off towards the ship. Skipper waited until they were gone, and then headed for the door with Angel.

"Where are you guys going?" Lilo asked.

"We're headed to my house. We talked it over before, and decided that I wasn't going to use it."

"Why not?"

Skipper sighed. "Well, this is something I'm going to beat myself, without the help of a machine."

Lilo nodded. "I know by now that I'm not going to change your mind. I hope you two have a good time together." Skipper and Angel walked out of the house together, and Lilo watched them walk off through the trees.

"Hey Lilo, Victoria and I were wondering if you knew of anywhere we would be able to stay?" Leroy asked.

Lilo thought for a moment. "Well, there is a house a little ways down by the beach. It's been abandoned for years, and it is kind of run down, but I bet with some help you could make it look like new."

"Thanks. Want to go check it out Victoria?"

Victoria nodded. "Let's go."

"You're not staying either?" Lilo asked.

Leroy shook his head. "I'm too much like Stitch. The best I can do, no matter what, is to have it sit in the darkness, whispering every now and then. There's no real way for me to get rid of it, just like there wasn't with Stitch."

Lilo smiled. "I guess you're right. Well, have fun you two. If you need any help getting that stuff together, just let Stitch or I know, and we'll help you out."

Leroy nodded as they headed out the door. "Thanks for everything Lilo. I couldn't have done anything without you." They headed off, and Lilo shut the door behind them. "Well, we're not out of the woods yet. Not until they call and inform us Leroy is… 'dead'." She sat down in the kitchen where Stitch had been, and took a sip of the drink. She jumped as she realized that it wasn't her juice, but Stitch's coffee. After the shock had worn off, she realized how good it actually tasted. She drained the cup, and poured herself another one. She decided to head out to the ship to tell Jumba what was going on. She walked on the ship, and saw Stitch connected to a computer.

"Oh, hello little girl. I will be done with 626 in just a few moments." Jumba said. "Ok 626, I believe that I have fixed you back to normal. Try to climb wall, please." Stitch obliged, and crawled up to the ceiling. "It works!" Jumba said happily. When Stitch got back to the ground, Jumba disconnected him from the computer. "So, what is it that you want, little girl?"

"I came to tell you that Skipper and Leroy… decided not to stick around."

"But they need to!" Jumba protested. "Especially little boy! Without machine, they could go evil again!"

"Skipper decided to beat it himself; just as always. Leroy said that it wouldn't matter, that he was too much like Stitch."

Jumba sighed. "I understand Leroy, and I believe he is right. There is no way to get rid of evil, since it was in original programming. Like Stitch, though, he has found place to belong, and now has an ohana. However, little boy I believe is making a big mistake. I mean, without getting rid of evil, who knows what could happen."

Stitch chuckled. "He always was kind of independent and all that. I don't think he wants accept help. Not that he doesn't need the help, but that he doesn't want to admit he needs it."

"You might be right." Lilo said. "But we aren't going to be able to change his mind."

Jumba sighed again. "Fine, I'll let him be for now. I would like to know where those swords got to though."

"That is a good question." Lilo said. "I never saw him with them."

"He still had them when Angel and I escaped." Stitch said thoughtfully. "But I don't remember seeing them after that."

"Do you think we should go ask him about them?" Lilo asked. "I mean, they are kind of powerful."

Stitch nodded. "Let's go do that right now, before we forget about it again."

"I will be hanging around here." Jumba said. "Take as much time as you want." Lilo and Stitch ran through the trees for a minute, before coming to a house. It was about the size of Lilo's, and the color scheme was identical. The only difference, Lilo assumed, was that there was no alien technology sitting around inside of it. They went around to the front door and knocked. A moment later, Skipper opened it.

"Hey guys, come on in." Skip said. "I didn't expect to get a visit from you guys so soon."

"Well, we needed to talk to you about something." Lilo said. Skipper led them into the kitchen, where he pulled out a slice of coconut cake for each of them.

"So, what can I answer that anyone else cannot?" Skipper asked, sitting down with them.

"What did you do with the swords?" Stitch asked.

Skipper nodded. "Ah yes, the swords. Well, after I got rid of Tiberius, I grabbed his sword and headed down to Australia. I had both the swords with me, and I was trying to figure out what to do with them. I decided that the only thing to do was to get rid of them. I tried to destroy them in a variety of ways, but was completely unsuccessful. So, as I was flying over the ocean, I tied a mountain of rocks to them and dropped them in. According to the sensors, it went at least a couple hundred feet below the surface."

"Which ocean?" Lilo asked. "There are a few of them."

Skipper laughed. "You know I was never good with geography. I have absolutely no clue which ocean it was, exactly. And even if I did, I wouldn't tell anyone. There as safe down there as anywhere else in the galaxies."

Stitch nodded. "He is right. I mean, who would look for the two strongest weapons against experiments on Earth? This is the last place anyone would look. Besides, most alien ships can't even go down that deep in the ocean without being destroyed."

"Ok." Lilo said. "I guess we'll head back then. I'm sure that you and Angel want a bit of privacy."

"Ok." Skipper said. "We'll keep in touch, don't worry." Lilo and Stitch said goodbye, and headed back to their house.

"So, everything's back to normal now." Stitch said. "Nani and David will be home soon, Hamsterviel is gone, Angel and Skipper are back together, Leroy turned good and with Victoria, and we're together again."

Lilo put her arm around him. "Yeah, but just wait. I'm sure David and Nani will have a kid at some point, and that'll throw everything back into chaos. Then Angel and Skip will have kids, and they'll ask us to baby-sit for them."

Stitch glanced at Lilo. "Do you want to have kids?" He asked.

"Someday." Lilo said. They got back to the house, and Jumba was waiting for them.

"Oh good, you are back. Bigger girl just called, and they landed at airport not long ago. They should be back in about two hours or so. They want to make sure house is cleaned up in time."

Lilo looked around. They hadn't really picked up after themselves during the past two weeks, with all the stuff they had had to do. "Ok, well first thing we should do is take care of Nani's room, soon to be Nani and David's. I'm sure that's the first place they'll go."

Stitch grabbed the phone. "I'll call and see if the others can come and help." Lilo wandered off and started cleaning in Nani's room. Thankfully, it had only been used when Leroy had stayed there temporarily, so it only needed a quick dust. When she came out, she saw that Skipper and Angel had come over, and were working in the kitchen. Jumba was busy 'cleaning' his own room, so Lilo decided to help out Stitch, who was picking up all the crap they had left from the movie night.

"At this pace, we should get done just before they get home." Stitch said.

"We need baths too." Lilo pointed, smiling as she heard Stitch moan behind her. As they continued picking up the room, Lilo's mind wandered over the events of the past few days. It eventually stopped on the question Stitch had asked her: Did she want kids? She had never really thought about it. According to Nani, she didn't have to worry about that until she was older. But with 628, she was older now, and that meant that she actually needed to consider the question. She glanced behind her, watching Stitch lift the couch up with one of his hands so he could pick up the trash underneath. Well, if I do, there isn't anyone else I'd rather be with then him. Lilo thought. He's so kind, so cute, so loveable. I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't gotten hit by 628? Wait a minute, 628… Her thought trailed off.

"Jumba!" Lilo called, heading off to his room.

"What is it?" He called, turning to see Lilo in the doorway.

"What ever happened to 628?" Lilo asked.

Jumba shrugged. "Undoubtedly, he was abandoned by Hamsterviel somewhere. Does little boy know?"

"I'll ask him." Lilo said. She went to the kitchen, where Skipper was up to his waist in hot, soapy water. By the looks of it, since the sink was so high up, he had decided to get in the water to make washing the dishes easier.

"Hey Skip, what did Hamsterviel do with 628?"

Skipper shrugged. "I don't know. I overheard him say something about keeping 628 for an emergency, but I never found out anymore then that."

Lilo sighed. "And if Hamsterviel hid him, there isn't much of a chance of us finding him, is there?"

"Nope. I'm sure Hamsterviel hid him well, especially if it was a last resort plan. Where he would have put it though is beyond me." Skipper said. "Sorry I can't help you."

Lilo shrugged. "It's ok. As long as he won't be doing anything again, I guess it's ok if we can't find him." They spent the rest of the time cleaning in silence. Just as they finished cleaning, Jumba stuck his head around the corner.

"Bigger girl says they will be home in fifteen minutes. If you is taking baths, I would take them now."

Lilo nodded. "Ok, Angel and Skipper can go first, that way they can go home if they don't want to stick around. After that, Stitch and I will go." Skipper and Angel jumped into the bathroom, emerging a couple minutes later, looking clean and refreshed. Lilo and Stitch went in, and Lilo closed and locked the door.

"Stitch don't want bath." He said. Lilo sighed; she knew he was going to be like this at some point. He never liked taking baths, ever.

"Stitch, I'll be right there with you." Lilo said. "Besides, would I really try and drown you?" Stitch shook his head slowly, and slowly got into the tub. Lilo could tell he still didn't like it, but that he was past the point of complaining right now. They washed up quickly, jumped out, and dried off. They came out, Lilo still drying bits of her fur off with a towel. They glanced around, and saw that Skipper and Angel had left.

"I didn't expect them to stay." Stitch said. "Would have been a lot of explaining, after all the stuff that's happened since they left." As Lilo looked out the window, she saw a limo pulling up to the house.

"Jumba, they're back!" Lilo called, moving away from the window. She waited by the door until David was almost up the steps, and opened the door for them.

"Hey guys, good to see you again!" Lilo called, giving her new brother-in-law a big hug, almost causing him to drop the luggage he was carrying.

"Careful Lilo. I don't want to drop any of this stuff. But it's good to see you again too." Lilo let go, and let him go into the house. When Nani came up, Lilo gave her a big hug too, yelling "Naninaninaninaninaninani!!!!"

"It's good to see you too Lilo. I see the house is still in one piece." Coming in to the house, she smiled. "I see you gave it a good cleaning, too. Thanks." Lilo followed Nani to her room. She was about to ask Nani about the trip, when Jumba tapped her on the shoulder.

"Gantu is here to see you." He said. Lilo walked to the front of the house, and saw Gantu standing by the stairs.

"Hey Gantu, how's it going?"
"I wanted to thank you for everything." Gantu said. "Letting me help you hunt Hamsterviel and all. I got a call from the Council Woman, and I've been reassigned to a deep space exploration mission. I'll be gone for a while, but I'll keep in touch when I can. I wanted to come and say goodbye." He offered his hand, and Lilo shook it.

"It was nice working with you Gantu. And to think a few years ago, we were trying to beat each other up."

"The best enemies tend to make the best of friends." Gantu said.

"Bye Gantu. If anything comes up, you'll be the first person I call." Lilo said. With one last handshake, Gantu walked off through the trees. Lilo smiled.

"Yeah, everything's back to normal now." Lilo said to herself. She went back into the house, and closed the door behind her.

Secret Facility

Location: Approximately 20 miles under Raaro surface

Aros watched in anticipation as the pod hissed open slowly. He had hopes on both sides, wanting it both to work, and at the same time, not work. Cloning in this fashion was still experimental, and there were no guarantees it would work, or if it would remember who it was originally. However, by the looks of it, it was working. The clone slowly walked out of the pod, and Aros nodded.

"So, are you functioning?" He asked.

The clone nodded slowly. "Just slightly disoriented."

"That will pass soon. Due to your being activated so soon, you are sill not quite fully matured yet. But a few years should fix that."

"Good, then I will have my revenge." The clone laughed maniacally.

Aros shuddered slightly. "So, you remember who you are then?"

The clone nodded. "My name… is Doctor Jacque Van Hamsterviel!"

So, Hamsterviel cloned himself. How will he take his revenge? When will he take his revenge? Where will Stitch and Lilo's relationship go? What about Angel and Skipper's? I'm sure these are all questions, and I bet there are more, on your minds right now. In order to find the answer, you'll have to read the final, repeat FINAL, book in this trilogy, entitled Carbon Copy. With my reduced work schedule, I'll have more time to type this stuff. I may not get the first chapter out for a few weeks, but it will come.