Disclaimer: I don't own Treasure Planet, but I do own Asher

Asher was eating with the rest of the guests while Scroop had snuck off to inact

his plan. Surprisingly enough Asher wasn't stuffing his face the way he normally did, but

instead was very neat. He didn't know how he seemed to know which fork was the right

one, or what strange things they considered as manners, it just came like a force of habit.

Then again how did babies know to breath in first and then out?

Scroop snuck around, knowing that being caught back here could be very bad for

him. Of course, it'd be even worse for whoever caught him. He snarled. Finally Scroop

found what he was looking for. The vent. All he had to do was shine a light through it so

Asher would know to get out and could help carry the money and jewels back to the ship.

Then Scroop would slip a very special explosive inside the vent and close it. As soon as

The flame reached the powder inside the bag it would create a gas that would have to

travel to the only open vent, the one in the same room as all those wealthy guests.

He was just about to light the fuse when,

"Hold it right there!" a guard shouted, spotting him

Scroop rushed him and the guard took a shot, but Scroop had knocked his arm out of the

way and snapped his neck. Unfortuneatly that gunshot managed to set off the alarms.

One of the guests kept staring at Asher with a cold look which was very

unsettling. Asher was about to ask him if something was wrong when a gunshot

and the buzzing of alarms sent the whole room into a panic.

"Something tells me we're not going to be invited back." Asher mumbled, and

Something grabbed the back of his shirt.

"Come on!" Scroop ran past and practically threw Asher out of the chair.

They rushed down the hall until Asher suddenly let out a yelp. He'd been shot in the arm

and the culprit was the guy who had been staring at him at diner.

"I won't miss this time!" At first Scroop assumed the guy had been trying to shoot

him, but Asher just barely managed to dodge another shot. It was almost as if the guy

didn't even see Scroop.

"You really think I'm going to let you get away after what you did!" So that was

it. He and Asher must've met before.

"You know me? From where? What'd I do?" Asher asked, wishing he knew at

least something about his own life.

"It's your own fault you forgot, and I'm going to make sure you never

remember!" he shouted, firing another shot.

Scroop wrapped a claw around his neck. "You're really getting annoying." He snarled

"Fool. Don't you understand how dangerous he is?" The guy asked, speaking in a

voice that only Scroop could hear

"Asher? Dangerous? That's ridiculous!" How could anyone mistake that hyper

over honest kid as a threat?

"Oh really?" He smirked "Has anything unusual ever happened around him?"

Scroop recalled the first time they met. When Asher had fallen off the ship only to end up

high above in the mast, and that wasn't exactly the only time something like that

happened. One time Scroop had just stuffed him into the brig and found himself in

Asher's place and Asher in his. Plus no matter how physically hurt Asher got he seemed

resistant to bruising, and the few times he did get bruised or cut it healed up faster than

anything natural.

"Have you ever fought the kid before? Or at least seen him fight?" The guy

continued

Scroop could recall his fight with Asher alright. The kid's reflexes had been amazing to

put it lightly. Another odd thing was why Asher seemed to blank out during their fight as

well as the fight with the pirates.

"I can handle him." Scroop replied defiantly, and the person in his claw looked as

if he was about to burst into an utter giggle fit.

"He's really got you fooled, hasn't he? Once that kid gets his memory back you'll

be dead." He warned

"How could you know what Asher's like?" the kid was pretty tough, but killing

someone didn't sound remotely close to something he was capable of.

"Because I helped create him."

The look of shock on Scroop's face was unmistakeable.

"I found a way out!" Asher shouted and Scroop dropped the guy to go find him.

"So what did he say? I got distracted when I saw all those guards coming down

the hall." Asher asked when they had finally reached the ship and were preparing to

launch.

"He lied. He didn't really know you." Scroop told him

"I see." Asher looked down at his feet as the ship sailed into space. The look of

disappointment on his face.

However, he was soon broken out of it by something headed their way. A giant meteor

shower. So that was why none of the planet's navy vessles had followed them. Scroop

took the helm to evade them, only to end up in the path of a humongous lava burning

rock that was impossible to avoid. This was it. It got closer, closer, then Asher jumped on

the rail of the ship. The fire of the meteor reflected in his eyes, which lost all their

cheerfulness and seemed to be replaced with a cold anger. Asher held out his palms and

there was a powerful, blinding flash of light and all the meteors were gone. Scroop

couldn't help but think of what he'd just been told. "He's really got you fooled. When he

gets his memory back you'll be dead."