“Sweetie Bell could you please pass me that plank?” Applebloom asked as the residents of Ponyville prepared for the attack of Lord Zedd’s forces, the ponies within the small town could see fires burning within Canterlot and many feared the worse. Many residents had decided that simply sitting by, wasn’t an option and had started to prepare for the worse, some gathered supplies and some were building defences to brace for the attack. The massive rock snake was also helping but even with its help many within Ponyville were afraid it was late. The CMC however were smiling and cheerful, believing in Twilight and the others rather than dwelling on the real danger, that was until Sweetie Bell had turned towards Canterlot “Sweetie Bell?!”
Sweetie bell turned with tears trickling from her eyes, something that looked like a Pegasus had just crashed into the mountainside “Oh sweet Celestia!” she cried into the ground “Those poor ponies!”
Scootaloo nodded “There’s nothing we can do for them, we have to keep going Sweetie!” she said as she passed the plank to Applebloom “Besides the princesses will totally make that creep regret ever attacking Equestria!”
Suddenly a voice behind them said “Yep!” Big walked up looking concerned towards the CMC, his leg was bandaged but he just kept working through the pain “We all got to just keep working!” he continued on “I’d rather be working hard than hardly working in times like these!”
“That’s totally awesome!” a voice said from behind Big Mac “You got a totally good vibe going, we’re here to help too!” Treehugger said as she pointed to the gathered ponies behind her which included Dr.Hooves, Cheerlie, Mr Cake, Mrs Cake, Lyra and Bon Bon “We’re all in this totally together!”
Dr Hooves nodded “Indeed, it’s terribly unlucky but we must stand together!” he said as he grabbed an interesting looking silver screwdriver from his saddle bag “Allons-y!”
Lyra and Bon Bon both went on to work together, along with Mr and Mrs Cake working next to them. Cheerlie walked up to the CMC and said in a strangely proud tone “I’ve seen you girls grow so much over the last year!” she smiled at Big Mac who blushed “And if it weren’t for you…”
However whatever Cheerlie was going to say was interrupted by Diamond Tierra leading Silver Spoon, Twist, Snips and Snails to help with the building of the defences “Come on every pony we can do it!” Diamond said with a smile to the CMC.
While the ponies were working hard on the town defences, they didn’t notice a small portal open next to Twilight’s castle and a figure jump out of it. The figure was about two feet tall and as it approached the ponies it looked around. However its presence hadn’t gone unnoticed as it jumped into a nearby bush, as Sweetie Bell had spotted it out of the corner of her eye.
“What is it Sweetie Bell?” Applebloom asked as she noticed her friend staring in the direction of the creature “You see something?”
Sweetie Bell shook her head “No it was nothing” she said as she went back to work on her section of the defences but kept looking over at the spot. It was at that moment the ponies noticed their boxes containing their supplies needed had gone from ten boxes to five “Where’d the supplies go?” Sweetie Bell asked
Treehugger shrugged “It’s weird but maybe we need to take a break, dudes” she said as the group nodded and headed for Sugar cube corner, except for the CMC who looked at each other confused.
“Alright so where did the supplies go?” Scootaloo asked as she looked to her fellow CMC “They can’t have just disappeared, Discord isn’t anywhere near Ponyville” she added to that statement “What were you looking at Sweetie Bell?”
Sweetie bell shrugged “I don’t know. All I saw was something blue out of the corner of my eye” she said as she tried to explain what she had seen “It moved so fast, I couldn’t make it out completely but it looked like a racoon!”
“A blue racoon?” Applebloom looked at her friend with a mixture of confusion and flat out annoyance “There is no such thing”
“Yeah. Stitch is more like a blue dog!” Stitch said standing next to Applebloom with crossed arms “Aloha!” he suddenly waved his clawed hand.
The CMC looked at Stitch with a combined look of what the heck “So ya’re the one who stole our boxes of supplies!” Applebloom snapped being the first to get over her confusion “What are you?!”
Stitch laughed and ran off saying “Stitch!” he climbed up Twilight’s castle’s tower and hid near the top.
The CMC ran to the door and knocked on it, Spike came to the door with his claws on a comic and looking a little confused “What are you lot doing here?” he asked looking at the fillies putting his comic down.
“There’s a blue furry thing that just climbed to the top of the tower!” Scootaloo said quickly before pushing past “It stole the supplies for the defensive walls!”
Spike groaned “Be careful I just cleaned the floor!” he however led them up to the tower and as they came out on the highest point he looked around before saying “So what does this blue furry thing look most like”
Sweetie Bell quickly said “It looks like a blue racoon!”
"Stitch does not. Stitch looks like a blue dog!” a voice said above them and the group looked up “Opps!” Stitch said as he jumped down and stopped at the base of the castle before turning sticking his tongue out “Hahaha! Stitch one! Ponies zero!” It was at that moment the giant rock snake appeared behind Stitch and wrapped around the alien experiment.
“That’s it Rock snake! Hold him still!” Spike yelled as he and the CMC headed down but the Rock snake couldn’t hold the strong fur ball. As the Dragon and fillies shot out the front door, they found the rock snake waiting for them but without the blue fur ball “Where is it?”
It was at that moment Granny smith passed by and said “That little thing broke free and ran inside the castle” she kept walking after she revealed what she had seen “Ya’all better get inside and get after it. I'm heading back to Sweet Apple acres”
Spike nodded and said “Come on!” as they ran back inside they spotted Stitch heading into the room with the map “Hey! You stop!”
Stitch however went in and barred the door “Hehe!” he said as he finally stopped running around and stopped looking at the table, realising it had a map but looking at it he couldn’t recognise where he was. He started to cry “Lilo, where are you? Stitch lost I’m lost”
Outside the room Spike heard some of Stitch crying as he was able to get the door open a crack and said “He’s one of the victims of the portal. He’s homesick, that must be why he stole the supplies, he wanted to get his mind off how scared he was and you three must have looked like fun” Spike was guessing before saying louder “Stitch!? Your name is Stitch right?”
Stitch snapped “Go away!” he held his face in his claws before crying out “Lilo, where is Lilo? My Ohana, ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten! Stitch lost!”
Applebloom stepped forward and said “If Ohana means family, please let us help you” she felt sorry for the creature who was clearly upset “I’m scared too, my sister is away trying to save my cousin and I’m scared she might not come back”
Sweetie Bell chipped in with “My sister is too, I want to believe she’ll be alright but I’m so scared” she said as Applebloom put a hoof around her “Please let us help”
Scootaloo nodded “Rainbow is like a sister to me and with her heading to Cloudsdale…I’m scared too”
Spike nodded and said “Twilight is headed for the Crystal Empire and she asked me to stay where she thought I’d be safe but I want her to be safe”
Stitch walked over to the door and unblocked it “Stitch want to go home” he said to the dragon but Spike shook his head however he did put a reassuring claw on Stitch’s shoulder showing they would do all they could “Stitch sorry for stealing”
The CMC however shook their heads and said in unison “Welcome to Ponyville! We’ll be your Ohana, till we can get you home!”
Stitch was then introduced to the rest of Ponyville who accepted him and with his help the defences were being finished much faster. He was popular with Treehugger, who thought he looked far out and even worked with him. Big Mac thought he looked like a blue pig but every pony responded with “Blue Dog” and every pony laughed. The work was finally finished and as every pony headed for home, Stitch, Applebloom, Sweetie Bell, Scootaloo, Treehugger and Spike all gathered. Big Mac blushed as Cheeelie whispered something into his ear and the two headed for Cheelie's home.
“So what say we all get some cakes from sugar cube corner?” Spike asked them and they all nodded “Does that sound good Stitch?”
Stitch nodded but before he could say anything, the ground shook and all turned towards the Everfree forest. It was at that moment a massive being rose from the forest and blocked out the sun. With every step it took, the ground shook and the wooden defences the ponies had built suddenly seemed useless.
Applebloom cried out as the creature crossed from the forest to Sweet Apple Acres “NOOO! Granny Smith is there!” she screamed. All present looked horrified as the giant creature crushed most of the orchard. Another few steps and the homestead would be destroyed.
Big Mac yelled "Nope!" and charged for Sweet Apple Acres but would he make it.