Chapter 2

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Jumba: Aargh! Primitive Earth science.

Tails: Jumba... what was your old lab like?

Jumba: Ah ha ha ha! Galaxy Defense Industries. State-of-art genetic accelerator. Endless uburnium energy supply. Everything little boy Jumba ever dreamed of having in evil genius laboratory! Hah... Um, but popcorn power is good too.

Tails: I see.

Lilo: 😔

Pleakley: Welcome, students, to Earthiana 101. Quiet, class. Quiet! Plooka, spit out that gum! Lenlu, stop playing with your antenna.

Cream: Pleakley.

Pleakley: Aah! Oh, Cream! Don't pay any attention to me. I wasn't pretending to be a professor of Earth Studies, just like I dreamed of since before I could walk on three legs. Not at all! I was just, uh, uh... brushing my tongues!

Amy: He was.

Lilo: 😔

Stitch: BRB.

Sonic: I feel you, buddy.

Lilo: Scrump, have I ever told you the story of the Lonely Rooster? Once there was a rooster named Pancake. He was lonely. So he went to the beach to make friends. He made friends with a shell named Paula and an empty can of soda named Jimmy and a piece of a broken surfboard named Steve. They were good friends and had fun playing together. But then one day a big wave splashed over the whole beach and washed Paula and Jimmy and Steve away. Pancake was sad that his friends were gone. But Pancake was never lonely again, because he could always remember them. The end.

Shadow: Lilo, are you OK?

Lilo: Yeah. Scrump and I are getting used to the way things used to be.

Nani: So, you're letting them go.

Lilo: They'll say they want to stay, but it's just because they don't want me to be sad. They'll be OK without me, right?

Nani: Oh, Lilo. You're showing so much aloha spirit letting them go. And the aloha you give will always come back to you. It's like a circle. Aloha means hello, but it also means goodbye.

Shadow: It's hard to say goodbye.

Lilo: I know, Shadow.

The next day

Pleakley: Goodbye, laundry! Goodbye, dirty dishes! Goodbye, dust bunnies. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!

Lilo: Nani says that letting you go shows aloha spirit, and that the aloha you give will always come back to you.

Jumba: Eh, interesting theory but scientifically impossible. I'm estimating 23% aloha is lost in giving process.

Pleakley: You know, aloha is one of those Earth concepts I never did understand.

Jumba: Come, Pleakley. Oof! What is in here, bricks?

Pleakley: Concrete, adobe, terra cotta... You name the brick, it's in there. My students are sure to find them fascinating.

Sometime later

Lilo: Jumba, you belong back in your real evil genius laboratory. But if you're ever missing Kauai, you can play this. It's my favorite Elvis record.

Tails: I'll go with Jumba to make his inventions at least 30% less evil.

Lilo: Pleakley, you belong at Galactic Alliance Community College teaching Earth stuff to aliens. That's why I'm giving you this rock. Here it's just a dumb old paperweight, but out there it'll be a dumb old paperweight from another planet.

Pleakley: I'll keep it with me always.

Shadow: Me and Knuckles will go with Pleakley.

Knuckles: Going to GACC could be fun.

Lilo: And, Stitch, you belong...

Stitch hugged Lilo.

Lilo: I'll miss you too. But you belong out in space, catching bad guys with the Big Red Battleship. This is a very special necklace. I kept it hidden in a sock for three years. It's Ku Tiki, the god of strength. Promise to never take it off?

Stitch: Promise.

Sonic: Guess I'll be his copilot.

Amy: Sonic. Me, Cream, and Cheese will stay here with Lilo.

Sonic: OK.

Lilo: You're number 626. Name: Stitch.

Lilo took a picture of Stitch.

Sonic: Well, guess this is goodbye.

Lilo: Aloha.

Stitch: Aloha.

Prison Asteroid K-37: Xenon Sector

Scourge: You sure this was a good idea?

Dark Oak: We're sure, Scourge.

Gantu: Don't worry, Dr. Hamsterviel, your escape will soon be complete.

Dr Hamsterviel: What do you mean "complete"? You haven't even broken me out of my cell! And who are those two?

Dark Oak: I am Dark Oak, leader of the Metarex.

Scourge: You may think I'm Sonic, but people refer me as the Anti Sonic or Evil Sonic. I'm Scourge. Scourge the Hedgehog!

Gantu: Wait, if Dr Hamsterviel is in there, then who is this?

Scourge: That's the warden's gerbil, Gantu.

Inmates: Ha ha ha ha ha!

Scourge: Hmm. He looks just like Hamster Wheel.

Dr Hamsterviel: It's Hamsterviel. And I'm a hamster.

Scourge: Whatever.

PA: Security command, release portal 7.

Dark Oak grabbed Dr Hamsterviel.

Dr Hamsterviel: Run! Run! And put down that gerbil!

Scourge put the gerbil in Dr Hamsterviel's cell.

Dark Oak: Let's get out of here.

Gantu: We brought you a little surprise.

Dr Hamsterviel: What is it?

Scourge: An Earth souvenir. It's called an aloha lei. It symbolizes...

Dr Hamsterviel: Excellent! I'm starving!

Dr Hamsterviel was eating the aloha lei.

Gantu: Wait! Wait! You're not supposed to...

Dr Hamsterviel: *Burp*

Gantu: 😔 Never mind.

Dark Oak: Now that we have Dr Hamsterviel, Sonic's defeat will soon come!

To be continued...

Next time we'll see how Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, Sonic and Co will think about their gifts. See ya later folks!

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