#leave my silly alien dog and lilo alone :(

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Let’s Rescue Stitch!

Writing commission for @thewitchxthemercxthequeenbee . Stitch gets lost in the world of monsters and college roommates Boo and Lilo get ready to save him. Liked this fic? Leave me a ko-fi!

“What a cute goldfish.”

   Boo looked up from the box she was unpacking. Her new roommate smiled at Mike as he swam around in the bowl. Boo stood up and walked over to the girl who would be living with her for the next four years. It was scary to think about. Boo didn’t know anything about this girl. Today was their first meeting. Thinking, Boo decided it to at least try and start a conversation. After all, they would see each other a lot why not try to be nice?

   “His name is Mike Wazowski,” Boo said.

   There was a slight pause.

   “What a cute name.”

   That had been a bit of a surprise.

   “Wait, really?”

   “Yeah,” The girl looked at Boo. “You named him so why do you sound surprised?”

   “Well, a lot of people think it’s weird that I named my fish Mike Wazowski.”

   “I named my dog Stitch.”

   Oh right. Boo had almost forgotten about the ‘dog’ her roommate had brought. It didn’t really look like a normal dog. For starters, it was blue. The dog’s nails were extremely long, it had large rounded eyes and smelled awful. But despite all of this, Boo thought it was cute. Stitch let Boo pet her and he seemed to enjoy the attention.

   “I like it,” Boo shrugged. “I’m Mary by the way but everyone calls me Boo.”

   “I’m Lilo.”

It was weird how the two of them got along instantly. They were both odd girls with similar interests. While Lilo had a strange obsession with Elvis, she also shared Boo’s fascination with monsters. All her life, Boo had loved monsters. She wasn’t sure why. She just found them extremely interesting. When other girls were playing with Barbie dolls, she was begging her parents to let her buy a Frankenstein action figure. They would spend hours watching really bad B-movie films, laughing at the effects and pointing out the flaws of the film.  Stitch was usually present too, lying next to them.  Sometimes, Boo swore the dog was talking to Lilo.  Lilo talked to her dog like a lot of other people but there were times Boo swore she thought Stitch would talk back.  Boo didn’t say anything about it.

Boo found it nice to have a friend like Lilo. All her life, Boo had felt a bit odd. She wasn’t sure why. It had been hard for her to make friends but with Lilo it was different. They two of them clicked instantly. Boo didn’t have to be scared of being judged. No matter what she said, Lilo would listen and never did she laugh at Boo. For a while, things were going smoothly.

   Until one night.

   The two girls were in their dorm room. Lilo was working on a paper for her biology class and Boo was studying for her Latin final. The room was quiet until they heard a very loud thump come from their closet.

   Sitting up, Boo looked at the closet door. Another loud thump was heard. Lilo glanced over at Boo but said nothing. Before either one of them could get up to move towards the door, it began to creak open. Slowly and carefully, Boo got up from her bed. Glancing around the room, she looked for some type of weapon.  But before she could do anything, Stitch leaped towards the door. It opened but whatever was in the closet didn’t get out because Stitch tackled it.

   “Stitch!” Lilo jumped up.

   The two bodies fell back into the door. For a brief second, the two women heard scuffling behind the door but then it went silent. Lilo threw opened the door.

   There was nothing there.

   “Stitch!” Lilo cried as she looked into the closet. “Where is he? He was just here!”

   Boo didn’t say anything for a second. What could she say?  Instead, she just stared at the empty closet. This seemed familiar. Silently, she thought about back to when she younger. When she was little. A toddler.

   “Lilo,” Boo said. “I might know where he has gone.”

   Boo told Lilo the whole story. It was the first time someone had actually listened to the story and not thought she was crazy. When she had been little, she remembered entering her closet and ending up in another world full of monsters. Some were colorful, somewhere funny and some were downright terrifying. All her life, Boo had tried to convince other people that the world of monsters was real. But people laughed at her, telling her she was being silly or that she had lost her mind. Boo had stopped telling the story but that didn’t stop her from thinking it had been a real experience. She remembered everything so vividly.

   And now, Stitch had vanished trying to protect Lilo and Boo from whatever was in the closet.

   “I think that whatever was trying to come out of the closet is coming from that monster land I visited as a child,” Boo sounded resolute. “It sounds crazy, I know but I think that we have to go in and save Stitch. No one else will believe us if we try to tell them.”

   Lilo agreed. The idea was completely insane but they had no other options. Lilo wouldn’t leave Stitch to die and Boo wasn’t going to let Lilo go alone. It took them at least three days to properly plan. First, they gathered weapons. Neither of them wanted to use guns. Boo had never used one and guns made Lilo nervous. So they decided the best route was to go with bats, brass knuckles, and tasers. Boo didn’t want to hurt anyone but Lilo explained that they needed to be prepared just in case.

   After the had decided which weapons they needed, they had to think of a decent excuse so people didn’t ask about their absence. They pondered about it until Lilo came up with the perfect idea. They would tell their teachers and friends that they were going out of town for a movie monsters convention. It was plausible and no one would question it. All they had to do was now figure a plan for when they entered the closet.

   If Boo was correct, the closet led to a strange world filled with monsters. They had no idea what type of monsters they would run into. Would they be friendly or would they want to eat the two humans? They honestly didn’t have a clue but they wanted to be prepared. Lilo was ready to go in fighting but Boo brought up an important point.

   “If we run into monsters that are innocent, we don’t want to hurt them,” Boo said. “I mean it would be unfair wouldn’t it?”

   “True,” Lilo mused. “I didn’t think of that.”

   “We do still have to be careful but I think we shouldn’t just attack willy nilly.”

   The day finally came.

The two of them were nervous but Boo thought Lilo was a wreck compared to her.

   Lilo had explained to Boo that when she was little, she was a weird kid. Granted, she was still weird but when she was a girl, people didn’t understand her. She didn’t have many friends and even people who she considered friends treated her like an oddball. Then Stitch came.  Lilo revealed the truth about Stitch; he was an alien. He had landed on the island of Kauai while trying to escape from jail.  Someone mistook him for a dog and sent him to the local shelter.

   That was where Lilo had found him.

   Lilo had adopted Stitch. It had been a rocky start but before long, the two oddities had become best friends. No, not friends.

   They were family.

   “I can’t lose him,” Lilo said she adjusted the straps on her backpack. “Stitch isn’t just a pet. He’s my family.”

   “I understand Lilo,” Boo slipped a pair of brass knuckles into her pocket. “We’re going to get him back, I promise.”

   The day finally arrived and two girls were ready as they would ever be. They had locked the door to their dorm room just so no one would follow them into the closet.  Standing in front the closet, they were silent.

   “I’m scared,” Boo admitted.

   “Wow really? I’m scared too.” Lilo chuckled.

   “Hold hands?”

   Boo offered up her hands. Smiling, Lilo took hers.

   “We can do this,” Boo said.

   Lilo nodded. She kicked opened the door. Instantly, they saw a world filled with monsters. All different colors, shapes, and sizes. Inhaling deeply, the two of them entered this random world.  They would find Stitch. Even if they had to tear down the whole place, they were going to find where Stitch was.

   “You ready?” Boo asked.

   “Hell yeah.”

   And with that, the two girls entered the strange land of monsters to find Lilo’s dog.