Evening arrived not long after. The three of us had gotten back to the ship and we slowly rised up into the bottom. Man, that ride was so much fun; it was just as fun when Jim and I would ride our Solar Boards through our part of Mentressor. Until they got conviscated. Stupid robo cops. We each got a rope to lift up the mini boat. I was laughing while we pulled on the pulley to raise it up. Jim joined in with me. When we got to the top, the boat leaned downwards. "You having some trouble there?" Jim joked. "Oh get away from me heh heh." Silver chuckled. "Now don't get it caught, heh." I chuckle as I tie off the boat on one end. When we got it done, I jump back into the boat with a grunt and made myself comfortable in it by putting my arms behind my head and my legs crossed.
"Oh Jimbo and Jamie. lf l could maneuver a skiff like that when l was yall's age... they'd be bowing in the streets when l walked by today." Silver sighs, sitting down on the opposite side of Jim and I. Jim keeps his leg propped up in making himself comfortable just like I was. "l don't know. They weren't exactly singing our praises when Jamie and I left home." Jim states, stretching his limbs. That makes me grin and I lean upwards with both legs up. "Heh. There's no doubt in our minds that we're gonna change all that." I say, rubbing my right arm. Silver pulls his robotic leg up. "Oh is that so?" Silver grunts. I fix my pony tail before stretching out again. "Yep. Jim and me are going to get people see us in a whole new light." I say grinning. Jim too agrees with what I say. We want to make something out of ourselves and not get into no more trouble like before.
You know sometimes plans tend to go wrong." Silver mentions. I close my eyes and sigh from relaxation. "Not this time." Jim happily responds. I will make sure that this plan doesn't end up failing. We can't fail mom like dad did. That's not going to happen. "Oh thank you Morph." Silver sighs. I open up my eyes to see that Morph had turned into a wrench to help Silver with the nut in his robotic leg. It makes me wonder how he got those to start with. "So... how... did that happen to you?" I ask sympathetically. Silver takes a look at his robotic hand sadly. "You give up a few things to... chase a dream." he responds forlornly. "Was it worth it?" Jim asks him quietly. Silver brightens up a little before moving to where Jim and I were. That might of been positive to ask. "I'm hoping it is Jimbo. I'm surely am." he answers, slightly putting his hat over his eyes as if he was going to sleep.
All of a sudden, the ship begins to shake vigorously. It made me fall into the boat with a hard hit to the back of my head. "Jamie! You okay?" Jim asks as the groaning of the ship begins for a second as well as stop moving quickly. "Oww. That hurt." I groan holding the back of my head for a minute. Silver had already gone up to see what all the ruckus was about. "C'mon! Up to the dock!" I cry out as I jump out of the boat, pulling Jim out of it with me. The two of us bolt up the stairs and I was instantly blasted in the face by a strong gust of wind. "Super Nova!" Delbert cries out from above us. Adreniline starts to sink in. This isn't good if there's a super nova! "All hands fasten your lifelines!" Mr. Arrow orders. I didn't argue with him and tightened my lifeline around my waist along with Jim. "C'mon! Let's get to Silver!" I order to Jim. He didn't argue with me and he follows me up the mast to where one of the sails were.
Off to our right, I could see how big the explosive of the star was and it made my stomach drop. This is starting to scare me to be honest. Suddenly, the ship heavily rocks to the right by a wave and it ends up knocking Silver off of the mast. "Silver!" Jim and I yell in sync. We grab onto Silver's life line and hoist him up just in the nick of time. "Thanks you two..." he sighs with a smile. What a relief that was there. Amelia had ordered the sails to be re-opened. I thought we did what we were supposed to do but I now see why she ordered that. "Jim! Silver! Look!" I exclaim to them, to which they did. It was a giant black hole! And we were heading right towards it. I didn't notice it until now.
"Captain! The last wave! Here it comes!" Delbert screams to us. "Hold on to your life lines! It's going to be a bumpy ride!" Amelia shouts. I hug the thick mast with all I had and squeezed my eyes shut. Jim held onto my waist with his tightest grip. Silver held on to both of us as we descended into the black hole at top speed, making my stomach drop so hard. I squeezed my eyes shut so tightly from being so scared. Oh lord... I feared the worst...
Suddenly, that wave Delbert was talking about had exploded, getting us to blast back off into space. I open my eyes to see that we had made it out of the black hole. A sigh of relief made me feel better. I turn to Jim to see he had a somewhat scared look on his face. All I could do was hug him tightly. He hugged me back. "Oh lord... I thought we were gonners..." he said to me. "I thought so too..." I sigh. Now that that's out of the way, we can finally get down from here. As we climbed down, I noticed how the crew was very happy to get out of that black hole with a single wave. "Well, l must congratulate you, Mr. Silver. It seems your cabin boy and girl did a bang up job with those lifelines." Amelia praised. I chuckled and socked my brother in the shoulder. We got a soft shock to the shoulder by Silver. Yeah, we did do a great job with those life lines.
"All hands accounted for, Mr. Arrow?" Amelia asked but got no response. "Mr. Arrow?" she asked again. Oh no... it can't be... Mr. Arrow can't be... "I'm afraid... Mr. Arrow has been lost..." Mr. Scroop sadly states, handing Amelia his hat. The look on her face made my heart break in two. I covered my mouth from shock. Mr. Arrow's... dead? "His life line was not secured..." Scroop says. With that, Amelia glared at both Jim and I. "No! We checked them! I'm sure of it!" Jim shouted as the two of us ran to the life line pole. My eyes widened to see that... one life line wasn't there. "Wait... it was secure. I swear." I say quietly, looking up at Amelia. The look on her face was making me feel so much worse than I already was. Not wanting to stay no longer, I ran from the deck and into the cabin's, tears in my eyes. This isn't happening... this is not happening! He couldn't have died because of us...