Hiya, everyone!

This is the official sequel to Revenge of the Invader. Unfortunately, it won't take place in Hawaii or Detroit home of Dib and Gaz. Instead I've decided to hold it in the infamous city of Gotham. You can see a plot unraveling here already, can't you? The team goes to the big city, meets Batman as well as the Joker and Harley Quinn. Some stuff happens, there'll be a penguin mentioned, and plenty of insane danger.

I forgot to give credit to the Band Perry for their song "If I Die Young," which I used for Lilo when she danced in front of all her ohana.

I do not own Lilo and Stitch, Invader Zim, or Batman the Animated Series… (but that would be really cool if I did).

I think I neglected Stitch a little in my last fan fiction, so I'll try to mention him a bit more in this one.

Even though Myrtle is somewhat nicer to Lilo in Maran Zelde's story, "Policy of Truth" I've changed her back to the old self from the movies and TV show in this one. Just 'cause I don't think she would ever really accept Lilo or Stitch for whom they are… and 'cause she an ugly freaking brat!

Chapter 1 Fact, Fiction and Affection

"Girls, I have a special announcement to make." Moses said to his hula class. The girls immediately stopped talking and looked up at him. They were well use to announcements from their instructor but from the excitement in his tone, today seemed especially intriguing. "This year Wayne Enterprises is hosting the annual company party with a Hawaiian theme. And here's the best part, they have issued a demand for traditional hula dancers to perform in the opening show of the evening. So they have contacted us to dance for them in Gotham city next month."

Excited gasps and squeals of delight filled the room. Everyone knew that Wayne Enterprises was one of the largest companies in the world and to be invited to perform for them in Gotham was nothing short of spectacular.

Moses continued. "They have heard about our fine hula team in Kauai and the many awards we've won in the past," he gestured to the wall embellished with colorful ribbons and pictures of their team along with trophies and medals in gold, silver and bronze. "With the reputation we have been keeping up for the past seven years, they have invited us on an all expense paid trip to perform."

If there was excitement before, it was nothing compared to what exploded in the room after his statement. The girls screamed and giggled with pure animation. This was truly beyond anything that they had dreamed of. Even Lilo was welcomed to share in the giddiness for a few moments when she normally would've been excluded from the rest. Stitch ooed and clapped in gusto for the luck they'd been granted.

They took that class time to decide on opinions for the hula they would present. Ideas were thrown around but nothing could be decided in the end.

Dib was waiting outside of the halua after practice and he greeted Lilo and Stitch with enthusiasm. He was dressed in kaki shorts with a lot of pockets. He hadn't worn the black coat of his for over a month now. He'd finally given it up when he realized the weather wasn't getting any colder and he'd nearly been the victim of three heat strokes. Lilo told Dib about the great news and his reaction turned out to be something of a surprise.

"You're going to Gotham city?" He repeated in a single excited breath. "No way! I've always wanted to go there."

"Really?"

"Oh yeah!" He nodded enthusiastically. "It's the home of Batman."

"Who?" Stitch asked, walking in between them on all four legs.

"Batman!" Dib repeated excitedly. When he saw the blank looks their faces, he sputtered exasperatedly. "You guys have never heard of Batman?"

"Well no. Who is he?"

"Who is Batman? Only most known vampire in the world."

Lilo gasped. "He is? And he's in Gotham?"

"The rumor is that he's a good vampire, I guess. He only goes after criminals and villains apparently. But he's never ever seen during the day. And come on, a guy dressed up as a bat with supernatural speed and strength?"

"Wow! A real vampire."

"Maybe we see him?" Stitch added hopefully.

"That would be so cool! I've never met a real vampire before. Maybe he'll give us an autograph?" Lilo grasped her hands and squealed. She had a feeling this trip would be a wonderful experience for both of them.

"Boy I'd give anything to come with you guys." The look on Dib's face looked so forlorn, Lilo felt she just had to cheer him up somehow. She was about to tell him a funny joke to lift his spirits, when she had a sudden inspiration.

"Hey, I've got an idea. Why don't you ask Moses if you could be our manager?"

"What?"

"Yeah. I mean it's a big trip for us, and Moses could definitely use the help. Why don't you ask him? Then you could go on the trip with us and you might see Batman."

"Are you sure?" He wasn't at all certain about the idea of being a manager to a bunch of girls.

"Come on." Stitch said nudging him a little. "It fun!"

Dib rubbed his neck uncertainly. "I dunno. He might not let me."

"Just ask him." She prompted, placing a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "The whole trick is to get on his good side. Be polite, pay attention, don't say anything about paranormal studies, and most importantly, act like hula is the first and foremost thing you care about. Moses really loves it when mainlanders share a deep interest in Hawaiian traditions."

"Well… okay." Dib said at last. "I'll try it."

"Great. The trip will be even more exciting if all three of us are able to go. And who knows you might actually like being our manager."

So the following day, Dib went to the halau early and asked Moses for the position of managing the hula team. After waiting no less than fifteen minutes, Lilo and stitch saw Dib walk slowly out the door. From the gloomy look on his face, they automatically expected the worst.

"Oh no… did he say no?" Lilo asked hesitantly.

Dib looked at her for a moment, a sad puppy-dog look in his eyes. Lilo and Stitch moved to pat him sympathetically on the back. Then his face split into a mischievous smile and he beamed at them. "He said yes!" Dib cried unexpectedly.

Lilo couldn't believe the boy would lead them on like that, yet instead of being upset for his trick, she cheered and clapped with Stitch. "Yay! This is going to be great! We're going to have so much fun!"

Now the only obstacle was convincing her sister to let her go. She begged and pleaded to Nani for three hours after hula practice that day to let Lilo go to Gotham city with her team. The woman had been hesitant about it. She'd heard rumors floating around in papers, magazines, and the news channels about the dangers that city seemed to emanate. The rumors of a grown man in a bat suit had traveled as far as their home island, though none of them seemed to be very reliable. The whole fact that her sister would be gone for a whole week didn't sit well with her either.

Nani also hadn't liked the idea that Lilo, Stitch, and now Dib would all be traveling there together. The trio went everywhere together these days, and had even turned out to be the cause of several mischievous acts. Some even involving a pack of werewolves on the full moon and some deviled eggs. Lilo had repeated over and over again that she had nothing to do with those accusations, though Nani had a feeling that the girl wasn't being fully honest with her.

Lilo promised numerous times that she would be on her best behavior and would stick close to Stitch and Dib and her team the entire trip. She'd crossed her heart and hoped to die twice already and added cherries, whipped cream, and mummy chow to her "pleases" before the woman finally gave in.

"Alright. If you promise to behave, I'll sign the permission slip and you can go." She held her hand out for a shake. "Do we have a deal?"

Lilo shook, completely thrilled by her decision. "Deal! And I will be so good from here till the trip. I'll clean my room, wash the dishes, and stay out of trouble for the entire month. You won't even have to tell me twice."

Nani rolled her eyes but smiled slightly. The woman would more than likely have to tell her three times before the girl did what she was told. Yet by the end of the month, her sister had surprised the woman by remaining true to her words. The dishes were done every night, her room stayed dutifully spotless, and Lilo, along with both Stitch and Dib, had remained faithfully out of trouble. As it turned out, the team was so preoccupied with making their hula flawless, that they'd barely been doing anything else.

Dib proved himself to be a worthy manager, with help from Stitch of course. Everyday he went over his usual routines such as retrieving the girls water when they stopped to take a break, mending hula skirts that had been torn, setting up the paperwork for their trip, scheduling their plane tickets, and making errands.

In time, the other girls began to like Dib as their manager. The presence of a boy seemed to have surprising affects that not even Lilo could have predicted. While Lilo spoke with Stitch and Dib, the rest of the team would gather together whispering low and giggling occasionally. Sometimes one would point over to where the trio was standing and the girls would nod or snicker in response.

"Don't pay attention to them," Lilo said when they'd attracted Dib's curious eye. "They're probably talking about how weird we are."

In reality though, she probably couldn't be more far from the truth. Sometimes the girls teased Dib in flirty, playful ways such as accidentally dropping their water and then asking him, almost too sweetly, to get them another one. Sometimes they would pretend to trip on their costume and fall into him like some actress in the old black and white films. When they did this, he always caught them. These odd little acts earned them confused frowns from both Lilo and Stitch that mostly seemed to say, "What on earth is wrong with you?"

Even Myrtle insisted on tormenting the poor boy, though none could be rivaled when it came to Elena. The little girl with the blond pigtails was persistent to catch his attention and it became quite obvious in their little group, that the girl had a maddening crush on him. She'd do everything to get him to look at her: drop books as she was walking by, bump into him (always on accident), finish her water sooner than the others so he'd need to give her a refill, twist her ankle and lean on his shoulder for support, and the always winning, bend and snap.

It might have been obvious to everyone else what she felt for the confused boy, but the trio didn't understand what made the girl so clumsy when she walked by. Dib was starting to feel like a pack mule to these weirdo girls. The only thing that made it all worthwhile was the fact that he got to spend time with Stitch and especially Lilo.

Dib never let on to their affections. In fact he was probably brain-dead to their strenuous hinting. He didn't even know there was something wrong with them besides the fact that they were really, really clumsy.

To be completely honest, the work of a manager was drop-dead boring. If Stitch wasn't there to help him, he might have quite after awhile. As it turned out, he ended up having quite an unusual amount of down time, so he took that opportunity to learn more about the vampire they were aiming to see.

"None of the reading material I've acquired is very reliable." He admitted to the girl and alien dog one afternoon on the beach. Lilo was in her bathing suit with a peanut butter sandwich in hand.

She turned to the boy before she dove in. "Well what have you found out about him?"

"Well lots of things. A lot of it is under wraps but the Swollen Eyeballs were able to fill me in on some things." He answered looking over the piles of notes he'd taken. He read over a few major information. "Batman is know to have cunning speed and agility. He can fly through the air without being detected. Batman drives a highly advanced vehicle that police agents name as the Bat Mobile. He is often seen working with two other aliases. A woman by the title "Batgirl" and a teenaged boy known as "Robin." Their greatest adversary would most likely be recognized as a woman known as Harley Quinn and her some times sidekick the Joker, a most wanted criminal, diagnosed with extreme personality and psychosis.

"Harley Quinn, also know as Dr. Harleen Quinzel, was once a psychiatrist working at Arkhem Asylum located on Arkhem island, a few miles outside of Gotham City. She met the Joker in the asylum a bit after Batman apprehended him for the fifth time and brought him there. Harleen was his personal doctor. After several months of treating him, she developed an innate attachment to her patient. When the Joker escaped from penitentiary several months after his conviction, he was captured, almost immediately, by Batman, who returned him once again to the nuthouse. Quinzell took the Joker's apprehension personally, and set out to free him at once, using an impressive assortment of gas and explosives. To this day they work side by side in detailed and elaborate criminal activities. Quinzell, now know as Harley Quinn, sports a red and back outfit similar to the old character harlequin. She is wanted in thirteen states for burglary, treason, trespassing, destruction of private and public property, and murder. She is diagnosed with radical personality and has a total disregard for human life. She is found on the top most wanted listings in the country to this day."

"Wow!" Stitch said after a pause.

"Wow!" Lilo repeated. "She sounds dangerous not to mention really scary. I hope we don't run into her."

"No kidding." Dib said turning to some more notes about the hero Batman. "To be honest I think we'll be lucky to even see one of Batman's sidekicks before we see him."

Lilo was more optimistic. "Maybe there will be a bank robbery and we'll see him just as he zooms in for the rescue? Even if we don't, the trip will still be fun."

Dib sighed. "Yeah I guess."

Lilo gave him an encouraging smile before, diving in the salty ocean to feed Pudge his sandwich.

Dib watched her disappear, waiting with Stitch for the moment when she would emerge again. He hated to think he'd wasted a whole month being the manager for a bunch of girls just to find out he wouldn't see the most famous vampire in the world… well famous besides Dracula. He didn't count that new vampire, Edward whatzit, as being that famous. Especially since he couldn't actually count as a true vampire anyways. Vampires don't sparkle and they don't fall in love with humans and they most certainly don't have rock-hard skin.

Why couldn't people just stick with the facts these days?

So that's the first chapter to the not-so-long-awaited sequel. It took me hardly three weeks to finish my first story and I got this posted in less than four days from when I put in the last chapter of my story.

I mentioned a bit about Twilight in this chapter and even though I'm kinda in the process of making my own fanfic for the saga, I must admit I absolutely HATE that series, or at least the movies. Just because they managed to totally screw with real vampires. They really don't sparkle I hope you know. The actors are so stiff and unpleasant it's like they all have rakes shoved up their a***s.

I sort of had a deleted scene for this part of the story. It takes place after Moses tells the girls that their going to Gotham and they all sit around in a circle and name off some ideas. I decided not to put it in because, looking it over, I realized it didn't really fit in with what I was trying to do.

Lilo and Myrtle's argument

"So here's what I've decided," Moses announced. "We will do an opening dance together, then each of you will do a separate one, which you've made yourself that explains a native Hawaiian Legend. You may take class time toady to discuss any thoughts that you have."

The girls gathered in a circle to throw their ideas around.

"Wow! Gotham is huge! Wayne Enterprises—huge!" Myrtle stated sitting in the center of her usual posse.

"The chance to perform in front of important business officials is huge!" Lilo added clapping her hands happily.

"We have to be really good!" Teresa said and the girls nodded in agreement. "Not just good, but better than what our best is."

"Definitely."

"And our ideas have to be nothing short of spectacular." Myrtle said, and for some reason they all took that moment to glare at Lilo.

She stared back blankly, unsure what they were trying to say with those nasty frowns. "What?"

"We can't have our biggest breakthrough ruined by you." Myrtle sneered, pointing a nasty finger at the native Hawaiian. "Or your weirdo dog creature thing."

Lilo hated being excluded as the only different one of the group. Why were they always so closed with her insight and her great ideas?

"It's because they're all just a bunch of clones." Nani had told her once before. "They don't want to come up with anything original or impractical, they just want to do the same thing every time. You should never change yourself to be like something you can find within a dozen." One out of a million, that's what Nani had called Lilo. One out of a million, whereas all theses girls were each one of a million. Easy enough to find again and again, just like stars. When Lilo had said that stars were pretty though, Nani argued that you could look up at the night sky and find the exact same sort of star over and over again. Lilo, she said however, was a supernova, colossal and glittering with colorful dust, always changing and shifting. She would never be the same no mater where you looked. She was her own unique self.

That had cheered Lilo in ways that she hadn't expected. These girls were stars, and they could go on being the same old speck in the distance while Lilo was a supernova, colossal and glittering with colorful dust.

"Stitch is not a weirdo dog creature thing." She sneered back to Myrtle, her hands on her hips. She learned to stand up for herself and her friends along time ago. "And I'm as much apart of this hula team as anyone else. I helped get us all those awards over there too, and my ideas count just as much as yours do, Myrtle."

When she was little she would've died to be accepted by them at last. To have human friends her own age with similar interests, had been her dream. Yet over the years she'd learned that she finally didn't need a single ounce of these girls to be happy. She'd thought about being apart of their group, dreamed about being accepted as one of them actually. Until one day Lilo looked at the lot of them, and decided she wanted nothing to do with the clones ever again. She studied their behavior time and time again. They didn't offer to do anything unless there was something in it for them and they never wanted to do something new. All it took was for Lilo to step back a little and see just what kind of people they truly were… and she wanted nothing to do with them.

Lilo didn't need them and that was enough. She had Stitch, six hundred twenty-six cousins, a big sister, an evil alien scientist for an uncle, a three-legged aunt/uncle, and now she had Dib, her next-door neighbor and closest friend apart from Stitch.

The girls were taken aback a bit by the blow-up, when Lilo was typically a very tolerant girl, even when they insulted her. It looked like she'd finally had enough though. Myrtle didn't seem to notice and hauled back into her aversion of the different one. "Yeah well if you weren't we'd get a lot more done."

"Oh please, Myrtle, do explain how you would be able to do better without me."

Myrtle sputtered, groping in her memory of what it was again that made Lilo so terrible at hula. "Your balance is completely clumsy and it really throws the rest of us off."

"That's ridiculous!" Lilo cried indignantly. She wasn't going to let Myrtle get away with openly insulting her like that. There was no reason to be humble about her dancing in this argument. "My balance is perfect and you know it!"

"Is not. You jerk and stumble around all the time. And your ideas are just plain stupid!"

"My ideas are unique because no one else would ever think about them."

"That's why they're stupid. Because no one is suppose to do them."

"You call "a Day in the Life of Myrtle Edmonds" a movie box seller? Who the horseshoe gives a mouse butt what you do everyday? You're a brat!"

Lilo was right of course but the instructor didn't seem to think so. He took both Lilo and Myrtle out from the halua to have a few words on how important it was to treat their teammates with respect.

"If you girls don't start getting along," he told them together, "I'm afraid you won't be coming along with the team to Gotham."

"What? But Moses you can't do that!" Myrtle cried indignantly. "My whole life I've waited for an opportunity like this, and you'll crush my dream now if you say I can't go."

"I'm sorry, Myrtle, but for the next month you'd better start showing each other the courtesy that's long overdue, or my decision will be final the next time. Understand?"

"Yes, sir." Lilo promised gloomily. She was finally standing up for herself and Moses was making her swallow her words once again. "I'll be good."