Let's Get Down to Business to Defeat the Villains

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Donald, not having anything to do at the moment, had decided to stop by and see how Mulan was doing. From what he had heard, she had been trained to fight by a skilled officer of the Chinese Imperial Army, so he had seen no reason to refuse her request to start her own training program. So, the General of the Army of Good strode into view, ostrich plume waving above his head, and staff over his shoulder.

"Carry on, carry, on. Keep on with your...wah!" he paused in shock as his brain registered what he was seeing. Mulan was just finishing getting sick in the tall grass, Jim was holding Stitch, who had a gob of something disgusting grasped in his hand, and the lion Tojo was standing nearby. A table, apparently set for lunch, was set up as well. It certainly didn't look like anything he had been expecting.

"What goes on here?"

[Mulan]

"Ah-hey-hey-hey!!" Mulan said quickly, rushing over to Donald and trying to stand tall so he couldn't see too much of their current progress ."Oh, hey, Donald, we're just taking a break from all the training we have done, um-yes. I just had a bit of food poisoning and-oh look at the time we're...uh...half an hour into the session." She bit her lip and turned around, clapping her hands. She would have to wing it once again ."Okay everyone, lunch is over. let's move on to...climbing. Yes-climbing!!" she shouted to the group, trying to hide how nervous she was. After all, Donald intrusted her to provide training to them, and here she was getting sick while a blue alien offered another alien a ball of yuck. But now she was determined to make a good impression, so she pointed towards a gigantic tree and led them all towards it. The tree looked almost unclimbable without going up the thick branches that surrounded it, but it looked like anyone could get up if they just jumped from branch to branch. Although today the wind was moving them a bit, so it would take some time. Mulan grabbed two wrist bands with three bells on each of them and held them. "Alright, first one to get to the top without the bells ringing wins. This is to teach you the importance of stealth in a deadly situation!!" she announced.

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Jim nodded his head in response to Stitch's apology. Before he could turn to walk both himself and the blue furball back to the crowd however, Stitch decided he was going to 'kiss and make up' in a very odd fashion. The little alien had pulled the half consumed sushi from his throat and offered it to Mulan.

"Ew." Jim stretched his arm out, holding Stitch farther away from him. He turned his gaze toward Mulan as she disappeared in the tall grass for a moment before returning, from the sounds and her wiping her mouth it was obvious that she had emptied her stomach. He honestly didn't blame her, he was right next to the disgusting offering and the small nearly made him want to hide in the grass.

Then Stitch offered it to him. "No, no, thanks anyway." He turned his head away from the smell and hoped that Stitch would quickly discard of his 'gift'.

He looked up as a new voice called to them, Jim rose a brow as a duck walked toward them. There must be more 'aliens' in the army then he first thought. Mulan seemed to distract them and as she done so Jim returned to the group with Stitch still grasped in his hand. "Just try to keep yourself out of trouble, okay?" He asked the blue-furred creature as he set him down on the ground.

The woman seemed to be quickly trying to cover up what had happened as she lead them toward a large tree and instructed them to climb it without letting some small bells ring. It seemed fair enough, this would be a real test of someone's determination.

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Tojo watched the scene play out in front of him with interest, however he chose not to interfere. When the blue thing, Stitch as he learned it was called, offered both Mulan and Jim a part of the sushi he had eaten, he lowered his ears and turned his eyes away. He'd never seen anything like that before.

Thankfully the event didn't carry on for much longer as Donald walked onto the scene. Tojo had been about to explain what was going on himself when Mulan quickly jumped in front of the General making up excuses as she went along. Tojo didn't question her actions, after all she was supposed to be training them, not dealing with freakish blue things that pulled half digested food out of their gut.

Mulan appeared to be a quick thinker as she dismissed them from 'lunch' and lead them toward a large tree. Tojo's ears once again lowered as he stared up toward the tall branches. He wasn't sure of this, cubs could get up trees almost as easily as a leopard could but a grown lion would have much less luck. He could climb it at least to the first few branches but then his weight would become his enemy.

Turning blue eyes toward his friend, the big cat decided to voice his fears. "Mulan, I'm of no doubt that this is a very good training exercise, however I'm not sure that all of us can preform it. I am not a leopard, I was not built to climb trees. I do hope you understand my concerns with this."

[Stitch]

Stitch, unperturbed and secretly glad he was allowed to keep the half-digested piece of sushi, popped the soggy snack back in his mouth and found himself back on the ground. The young man had released him. "Just try to keep yourself out of trouble, okay?"

Stitch flicked his ears up to show he was aging attention. Then the blue-furred little guy turned his big black gaze on the tree Mulan was pointing out. So, get up to the top without the bells ringing? The alien mutation's supercomputer-brain worked quickly. This was just like the time Lilo had made him go through a maze of furniture without destroying it, or worse, try to walk across a sheet of paper without ripping it. He had never been good at patience

Seeing a set of bells set aside for him and ignoring Tojo and the Duck's questions, 626 was ready to show off. His quirky brain had already devised a solution for this little equation. Scuttling through the tall grass to one of the bell strings, the Experiment promptly stuffed the entire thing into his mouth and swallowed it whole. Nw that the metal ringing things were in his stomach, they didn't make a sound as he backflipped and scrabbled up the tree quite easily. "Ta-DAAA!" He shouted and bowed from the highest branch.

[Mulan]

Mulan face-palmed when she had said to climb the tree without making the bells ring. Stitch had just swallowed the bells and climbed up the tree. Since those were the only bells there, and her running out of training excesses to do, she was very quickly failing to be a good leader. For one, this exercise had failed, and two, she hadn't thought of how Tojo could have done this. There was still an hour of the first session to go, and they had learned almost nothing. Mulan lifted her hands to cover her eyes. "Okay...well, we have a lot of work to do."

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Donald's eyes narrowed in suspicion when Mulan tried to block his line of sight. It was obvious things weren't going well, even with most of his vision obscured. "Huh," he muttered, rubbing the lower half of his beak. But he stayed quiet otherwise, as Mulan quickly recovered, presenting a climbing challenge to her trainees. He watched as it quickly got out of hand, with the lion citing his inability to climb up the tree without risking breaking a branch and falling, and the little blue fur-ball simply eating the piece of training equipment required for the tree-climbing exercise before climbing to the top of the tree.

"Well, don't give up now! Take charge. Think of something else. Running! Sneaking! Pick something," he said, giving Mulan a small push forward. Yes, he was putting some extra pressure on her, but he was still willing to give her a chance. He knew she was smart. So, for now, he'd leave her in her position.

[Mulan]

"Right..." Mulan muttered, scratching her chin and tapping her foot on the ground. Finally, she looked up, clicking her fingers before she grabbed Stitch and tied him to a tree, took some celetape, and taped almost all of his head. "Okay, I know it's crazy, but trust me. I'll be right back," she said, backing away before she broke into a run, going out of sight for some time. It took her almost seven minutes before she came back, holding the bowls of noodles that were left back on the table. But this time they had see through foil on the tops and had straps on them. Mulan set them down and then started to strap them onto everyone's head while keeping an eye on Stitch, hoping he was restrained. Once everyone had one on, she clapped her hands and stood back. "Okay, so, I'm winging it now, but this will test your stamina. So, you all run and separate, and I hope Stitch will chase after you. Anyways, if he gets the bowl on your head, then you lose. Last one who has his or her bowl of noodles eaten wins," she said, putting her hand on the ropes that bound Stitch. "You may wanna get a head start in running."

[Stitch]

At first, Stitch was utterly surprised and dejected at being tied to the tree. What had he done wrong now? He'd completed the challenge, right? First, and with more Stitch-flare than anyone else. Despite his supercomputer brain, it didn't occur to the quirky alien that eating the bells had ruined the chance of the others getting to participate.

Unhappy, the little blue monstrosity was debating breaking his ropes—after all, he could easily do this with one claw, possessing super-strength and all—when his ears flew up at the sound of Mulan's new idea. "Oooh!"

He swiped his large, long, salivating tongue across his wide mouth, over the rows of round sharkish teeth. Those noodles were tantalizingly pungent in his big nose. True, the sushi would have been better, but this was definitely 626's favorite training exersise of the day. Mulan bent and reached for his ropes. "You might wanna get a head start on running."

Stitch flexed his four chubby arms and narrowed his black eyes into slits, letting out a wicked chuckle. "Yeah, ih! Uhh-huh-huh-ha, here Stitch comes!"

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Raine sat on the side-lines watching the training go about. It wasn't that he did not want to train the spotted pup just had no clue where to start. All the other soldiers were currently either training or doing something at the moment. "Noodles?" Raine cocks his head as his eyes fallow Mulan to where she was headed. "What type of training is this?"