Chapter 15

On Jumba's hijacked ship, Reuben was driving while the other twenty experiments went reminded each other about details of the plan. Every experiment had at least one partner to stay with in order to protect each other. Reuben, Sparky and 228 (Melty) were going to stay with Lilo to find Stitch. Other experiments such as 120 (Snafu), and 223 (Glitch) were going to foil any plans on the battleship. Experiment 422 and 360 (Drowsy) had the job of locating the general and putting him to sleep so he would not be a problem. There was a few more groups with specific jobs and two of them were going to stay behind and keep the ship ready to leave. They all agreed to prioritize protecting Stitch, Lilo and each other, but to cause minimum harm to the soldiers.

When Reuben was steering the ship he accidentally turned too sharply and several experiments fell off their feet. "Are you sure you know how to fly this thing?" Lilo asked him.

"Sure I'm getting the hang of it. It's just rocket science," said Reuben.

Experiment 625 reached over to press a button which caused a loud warning siren to blare. Everyone covered their ears before he hit the button again to shut it off. "Sorry," said Rueben sounding embarrassed.

"We'll be arriving in two minutes 30 seconds," Rueben later announced.

Everyone got ready and another experiment took control of the ship since Reuben was leaving. When they were seeing distance from the battleship, they were shocked that it instantly began to shoot at them. They thought that the drop-off would happen too quickly for the soldiers board to react.

"Engaging surface shields," said the experiment at the controls.

"That should keep the ship safe, but how are we going to get on board?" 422 asked.

"Leave that to me," said 523 (Slushy).

Once they were hovering above the battleship, guns and turrets still fired but did not cause any damage. A door in the floor opened up in the spaceship and 523 (Slushy) slid out on a trail of ice he blew in front of him. He quickly created a wall of ice around the drop zone to protect the area from gunfire and any men. They continued to shoot and the bullets began to chip away at the ice.

"Hurry!" 523 yelled.

Without hesitation the rescue team leaped down while Sparky carried Lilo down. 523 kept reinforcing the ice wall but they knew he could not do that for long. Experiment 228 (Melty) shot blue fire blasts at the floor and burned a hole large enough for them all to climb into. The only experiment that stayed behind was 540 (Phoon) because her job was to stay with 523 and help protect him. Whenever a hole was blasted through the ice, 540 would blow typhoon force winds in that direction to keep them from attacking.

Below deck the general was in the lab room watching the scientists trying to find Stitch's weakness. They were running out of ideas so they decided to watch him for the time being to notice anything from his behavior.

Stitch climbed to the ceiling to search again for any way to escape. He spotted a small-metal dial hanging from the ceiling and he grabbed it and ripped it off. Stitch did not know this but it was part of the fire-safety sprinkler system and breaking it caused him to be blasted in the face with water. Stitch yelled out in shock and fell to the floor. He then did everything he could to dry himself off.

"Of course! Why did we not think of it before! Experiment 626 has a weakness to water!" one of the scientists exclaimed.

"Then flood the prison now and drown him!" the general ordered.

The scientist pressed some buttons and pipes opened up and began to pour water into the confined room. Stitch frantically grabbed onto the wall to avoid the rising water. His reaction told them it was working and all they had to do was wait for the room to fill up all the way with water. As they watched someone came into the room and got the general's attention.

"Sir the captain wanted me to tell you we are currently 300 miles away from the Hawaiian Islands," said the soldier.

"Excellent tell the weapons crew to initiate Protocol Luau," said the general.

The man did not know what that was but he followed orders and called the weapons level. "Sir the Protocol was commenced and will launch in twenty minutes," the soldier told him after making his call.

Just then another person ran into the room and quickly said, "Sir a group of experiments have flown here in a spaceship and have boarded!"