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Dedication-FarCryFromDead, a friend I met at camp! She really rules.
Jada breathed, fingering the flintlock, sitting at the entrance of the cave completely still. She looked out over Treasure Planet and listened carefully for Jim surfacing behind her. The clangs and bangs got closer and closer. She smiled. Soon...she thought relieved. Soon my masquerade will end. Air whooshed upwards as the dome was opened and Jim clambered out, helping B.E.N. along the way.
He looked about and saw Jada's shadow against the night sky. "Jada!" he cried happily, if a little hoarsely.
"Shhh." she cautioned. Her head nodded towards black lumps leaning against rocks. "The Doctor and Amelia are sleeping." she said quietly. Jim made his way past them and sat next to her at the opening. She smiled and looked at him. "Did you get it?" she asked, keeping her voice hushed.
"Yeah." he said taking it out of a pocket and tossing it up in a show-offy fashion. "I got the map."
"Uh, Jimmy?" called B.E.N. from the back of the formation. Jim turned to see pirates holding B.E.N. as tight as their over-bound muscles could, to see the Doctor and Amelia trussed up like turkeys, to see Jada holding the fully loaded flintlock at his temple.
"Fine work, Jimbo. Fine work indeed." said Sliver, stepping from the shadows. Jim's immediate reaction was to run. Jada wished that he wouldn't. It was tiring, the way victims tried to forestall the envietable. He was eventually caught between two of the bigger pirates, and Jada walked up to him.
"Hand over the map Jim." she said, her face deadpan and her voice dead.
"Never." he spat, glaring at her with all the hate that he normally reserved for brussel sprouts. Jada stared at him coldly, then reached out and ripped the golden globe from his hands. She turned and handed it to Silver with a small bow.
"You're just like me, Jimbo," said Silver, accepting the globe in his good hand. "Ya hates t'loose." Jim stared at him, hate leaking out of almost every pore.
"Open it, Captain!" shouted one of the hands, jumping up and down excitedly. Silver grinned, and started pushing buttons. Nothing happened. Before he got out of control and threw it in his frustration, Jada snatched it out of his hands and thrust it at Jim.
"Open it." she commanded, her voice like ice. Jim glared at her, hardly daring to believe that this girl was the one that he had fallen head over heels for. He refused to take the map, staring at her in disbelief. "Are you going to open it?" she demanded, thrusting it into his released hands. He continued to glare at her.
"I'd get busy." snarled Silver, bringing out his pistol. Jim looked at him, emotion flaring up in his eyes. Silver pointed it at the Doctor and Amelia. Amelia shook her head violently, boldly forbidding him to open it. Jim looked at the floor. Coldly, Jada added her own gun to the mix. Jim looked at her.
"You're really enjoying this, aren't you?" he asked, his voice almost as deadpan as hers, save for the raw anger at the edges.
"As much as I enjoy Dr. Doppler's jokes." she said, her violet eyes completely devoid of emotion. Jim hesitated even more. Jada swung her gun around and pointed it to her own temple. "Now, Jimbo." she snarled, tightening the pressure on the trigger.
With a few deft motions, and a few clicks of the buttons, a twist of the sphere and small pixels of a deep jade color emerged and spread about the room, and the glimmering holograms gathered together in the center of the room, high above the heads of the crew and Silver. They banded together and formed a depiction of Treasure Planet itself. Jada looked up, her gun hanging useless at her side. Silver murmured wondrously as he watched the holographic planet take shape. Then, the moment the depiction was completed, it exploded inwards upon itself, starting at the top and moving south. The pixels that had originally shaped the image of the planet ran from the interior of B.E.N's cave, joining a thick cord of emerald light that led outside, bent sharply, and pointed east.
Silver raced after the beam of light to the door of the cave, fasinated, and followed the rest of its travel with his eyes. Jada followed and saw that it extended a long way, disappearing into the trees. She looked up at Silver and saw that he stood there gazing at it. It was a while before he turned, the green light shimmering in his eyes, and commanded in his cold and authoritive tones, "Tie 'im up," He gestured at Mr. Hawkins, "an' leave 'im with the others until we-"
But Silver's order never reached completion, for, just as quickly as it had come, the emerald light, the beam leading from the door, and the pixels all vanished. Jada whipped about so fast that she managed to see Jim's hand tightening around the map, clicking the eighteen pieces back together and closing it.
"You want the map?" Jim said with remarkable determination, "You're taking me, too." He looked directly into Silver's eyes, as if daring him to disagree. Silver stared at him. A million emotions played across his face, and Jada watched him. The silence was overwhelming. Silver soon smiled, only a little, and chuckled, then laughed and he raised his head, spread his arms and spoke to his crew, conclusively, after a small pause.
"We'll take 'em all!" Jada smiled for the first time that night.
Jada's eyes searched the sky for the returning longboat. Captain Silver had sent out a craft to bring back pick-axes, electro-shovels, and good old-fashioned dynamite. Captain Amelia and the Doctor were standing up, guarded by two of the bigger pirates who were none too bright. Jada had never liked them at all.
Jim suddenly started talking in low undertones to Captain Silver. He seemed to want something else in exchange for the map. Jada rolled her eyes. What else could he possibly want?
"Jada!" said Silver, motioning her over. She jumped off her rock and headed over. "Remove the Doctor and the Cap'n's gags."
Her eyebrows shot up into her hairline, but she didn't question him. She marched over and ripped off Dr. Doppler's gag.
"Ow!" he complained, stretching his jaw and shaking his ears. Jada gave him a loathsome look, and moved on to Amelia. She took that gag off and Amelia instantly started cursing her out.
"You ungrateful swine! Why did you turn on us, you kiljon?! You're betrayal is worse than that of Silver's! If I ever get out of here-!"
"I'm sure you'll see me hung with your own two hands." said Jada, staring directly into her eyes. Amelia's silence told her that she had guessed it right. Jada snorted amusedly, then walked back to Jim. She was his unoffical guard. Silver was his offical one, but she always stuck to Silver. It had been that way ever since she had awakened alive on his ship, blasting away from her doomed planet. She had stuck by him, and now she was to be rewarded for it. A share of the greatest treasure in the galaxy!
Jim glared at her as she slidled up next to him. She glared right back at him. He looked at her purple hair just at level with his eyesight and he felt his heart bleed a bit more for her. He thought about all that happened in the night. He sank down to his knees and when she looked at him, he thought he saw a little bit of concern, that was instantly concealed by irratation.
"If you're going to sit down, sit down properly!" she snapped, pushing him so he landed on his bottom. He looked up at her with resentment, but she was no longer looking at him. She had a new outfit and it matched her hair and eyes. He looked at the way that the sunlight hit her hair and set it aflame. He thought about the betrayal that morning. She looked so different. So...dead. Her eyes held no emotion and her voice was monotone.
Worse, she seemed to enjoy it, letting ghosts of smiles flit across her face. "You're enjoying this, aren't you?"
"About as much as I enjoy Dr. Doppler's jokes." His heart sank a little lower, but he suddenly remembered a conversation that he had partaken of with Jada, many months ago...
"-Only to discover it was an hilocrus galatigus!" Dr. Doppler finished his joke with a broad smile and spread arms. Even though he obviously "got" it, nobody else did. A ship was definately no place for schalor jokes. The crew looked at him with glassy stares, until one of the them bursts into fake laughter, and the rest join in half-heartedly.
Jada shook her head while stirring the pudding, and Jim smirked. "That Doctor sure can tell a joke." he said sarcastically, as the Doctor headed upstairs to the Captain's quaters.
"Yes, I enjoy them so much." said Jada, equally as sarcastic. The crew looked at them like they were insane, before moving on to rowdy pub songs. They looked at each other and laughed...
Jim practically exploded with joy. She wasn't enjoying it!! She was acting or something, but she was still on their side! Now, all he had to do was-
The longboat suddenly came to a slow stop and the pirates aboard shouted and the pirates on the ground cheered. Silver grabbed Jim and hauled him aboard, Jada clambering in as well.
"Off we go, lads! That infamous treausre awaits us!"