On a calm night in the planet Montressor a small blue wide eyed child is staying up in a trance to the legend of the great Captain Flint and his treasure until a woman barges into the child's room

"Grace James Hawkins" She scolds and the child puts an angel face on " I thought you were asleep

an hour ago!"

"MOM, I was just getting to the best part" she cries and hands out her book to her mother " please?"

"Can those eyes get any bigger? Scootch over" She lays next to Grace.

They open the book and keep listening to the story with the most interest.

"Mom how do you think he did it?" Grace asks jumping on top of the bed and her mother catches her

"I don't know, but I think it's time for this little spacer to go to sleep"

"Do you think somebody'll ever find Treasure Planet?" Grace asks as she is being tucked into bed

"Sweetheart I think it's a legend"

"I think it's real"

"You win it's real" She encourages her child. "Nighty night sweetheart"

"Nighty nighty mom!"

"I love you"

"Love you too" she yawns and falls asleep

12 years later (Grace's P.O.V)

This is the life, solar surfing, the wind in my rather very small slightly shaved hair.

Flying between the clouds and then just straight up turn off everything to almost fall then turning it back again just before I hit the ground. I let out a freedom yell. I wish life could be always like this.

Restricted area, this should be fun. I smash the sign and go through the pipes that are hanging around.

A wheel now that's a challenge. I have a very small window of time so I won't get smashed. I turn off the sail on my solar surfer, bend down slowly and I did I went through it! I scream in the air for victory and laugh with so much happiness until the sirens go off

"Oh great" I complain, shit another arrest. Mom is gonna love this one.

The cops escort me to the Benbow Inn where me and mom live and she runs her business. All I've been doing is getting into trouble lately.

The cops bash into the inn and call my mother

"Mrs Hawkins?" One says. "Your son James has gotten into trouble again"

"Grace!" Mom gasps dropping the plates

"Oh that's right you're a girl I forgot" The other cop says

"No sweat" I respond. I really do look like a boy despise my slim figure. I do prefer to be mistaken for a boy in least no one looks weird when I do "unlady like things".

"Ok. Thanks for the lift, guys"I say as I take one of restricting hands of the cop off my shoulder

"Not so fast" He says as he grabs my shoulder again. "We apprehended your son- I mean daughter- operating a solar vehicle in a restricted area. Moving violation 9-0-4 Section 15 paragraph,um..."

"Six?" I intervene, I've gotten arrested for this so many times I basically memorized the violation

"Thank you" the cop responds

"Don't mention it."

"Grace" Mom scolds

"As you are aware, ma'am this constitutes a violation of his probation."

"Yes, yes. No I understand, Um, but could we just" There she goes again trying to save me again I appreciate it deeply but when will she understand I'm a lost cause.

"Um. ahem. pardon me" Good now Doppler is going to intervene "Officers, if I might uh, interject here. I am the noted astrophysicist Dr. Delbert Doppler" You go "Dr" get that self promotion

"Are you the girl's father?" One of the cops asks, gosh dammit I really do hope not I have had enough men disappointing me in my past and I don't need a second father doing that. Boyfriends betraying me was enough.

"Oh! Good Heavens, no!" Mom freaks out at the insinuation " Eww, he's just an old friend of the family"

"Back off sir!" The cops warn

"Delbert I'll take it from here" Mom says

"Sarah don't ever let me do that again" Delbert pleads

"Due to repeated violations we have impounded his vehicle, any more offenses and she will be send to juvenile hall" Gosh really me? I'm so honored, as if I already didn't knew I was a screw up

"Thank you officers. It won't happen again" mom promises. I can try but I know I'll never be able to do it. I'm a fucking mistake and I know I'll be arrested.

The cops call me a loser over and over again, I glare at them, I may be a screw up but I ain't a loser

They leave, the whole inn stops staring at us, mind your own business won't you?

"Grace, I've had it, do you want to go to Juvenile Hall? Is that it?" It's not like I want I just might as well embrace my destiny.

I pick up the tray and start helping around collecting the dirty dishes "Grace?" mom calls me, she's the only one who still calls me that, most people treat me by my middle name James or for short Jim.

I know it's a boy name but it suits me, no one get's scared with a Grace, when people think I'm a boy I get treated more equally they challenge me to "boy stuff".

People know I'm a girl but somehow over time they started to think of me as one of the guys, I'm not complaining, but this made my ex-boyfriends treat me awfully and cheat on me and they just argued this: "Don't you think like a guy? Then you know that I can be tied down to one"

"Grace look at me" She demands " It's been hard enough keeping this place asloat by myself without you going..."

"Mom, it's no big deal. There was nobody around." I interrupt her "Those cops just won't get off my..." mom puts her hands on her hips and I stop mid sentence and look down feeling bad, I know it's hard for her but it's just, I don't know I can't do nothing right!"Forget it" I say and go back to cleaning tables and mom goes back to work.

She doesn't want me to throw away my future but then again what future could I possibly have?

After work I climb to the roof it seems like it's going to start to rain the clouds are dark and you can already hear the thunder starting.

I listen to Doppler and mom talk about me, he calls me a felon but quickly corrects it to fellow, I know what he means, he calls me Jim, like everybody else. I don't know when it happen when I changed from Grace to Jim, I was always a tomboy and enjoyed my hair short but I still liked being a girl

I mean I like when they treat me like a person rather than a gender, I hate when all I am to someone is a girl or a boy like that's something important.

Mom blames my acting out on dad leaving, maybe that's when I started using my middle name, Grace was that bastard's daughter, but Jim wasn't his son. I still want to cut all connections from him

after all these years. Would it have been different though? Would I be better if he had stayed or would I still be a screw up?

Mom praises me, but also points out all my mistakes as she should, she shouldn't elude herself.

Suddenly I hear something I look at the sky and there's a ship falling. I run to it to check if the person riding it is okay " Hey mister?" I call " Are you okay in there?" I knock on the window

A hand slaps the glass I step back startled, the window opens and a alien like salamander falls with a chest next to him.

He grabs me by the shirt and says "He's coming! Can you hear him?"

"You've hit your head there pretty hard, didn't ya?"

"He's after mi chest, that flendish cyborg and his band of cutthroats" He says as he grabs his chest "But they'll have to pry it from old Billy Bones' cold dead fingers afore I argh" He falls and I help him get inside the inn by putting his arm over my shoulders while walking

"Good lad" He responds to my kind gesture

Mom's gonna love this...

Doppler opens the door and mom gasps "Grace James Hawkins!"

"Mom, he's hurt... really bad!" I beg

"Me chest, lad" Billy Bones asks and I bring it closer to him "He'll be comin' soon, can't let them find this." He takes off a sphere like object

"Who's coming?" I ask and he grabs me by my shirt again

"The cyborg!" he whispers into my ear " Beware the cyborg!" and like that he falls back releasing the grip he had on me. He's dead and he left the sphere in my hand.

We start seeing lights of a ship through the window, those must be the "cutthoats" Bones said earlier. They land in front of the inn. I check through the window and see scary figures that are ready to attack us "Quick we got to go!" I say

I grab my mom's hand and run upstairs the Dr just stays there until the door gets busted and he starts to run upstairs. The inn starts to get on fire! Dammit what the fuck do they want?!

Doppler opens the window and calls his snail alien transporter. He helps my mom to stand on the window so they can jump I just stare at the door and hope they don't find us before we can escape.

We're running out of time and so I just push them off the window and jump with them. We ride away as fast as we can. The Benbow Inn is in flames mom looks back with sorrow in her eyes.

Great I screwed up again. I take the wrapping off the sphere thingy to revel a gold ball, whatever can this be?