Hey everyone here is a new chapter of favorite couple. Happy 4th of July. Enjoy.

Chapter 9

Deal, Set, and Map

Later that evening, Jim and Ariel told the Captain and doctor that they found a perfect spot to hide. When the teens first entered inside, it was a mess who knew that a robot could live like this. B.E.N. had to apologize and said, "Uh, pardon the mess, people." Ariel wanted to have a private talk with the cabin boy and said, "You know if I didn't know better, I say you were jealous back there." As she made a mischievous smile. Jim scoffed and said, "What jealous of B.E.N.? Come on." The red head then said, "Ok be in denial…Jimmy." As she was walking away, the cabin boy grabbed her arm and pulled her close. "You know you're gonna get a punishment for saying that." Said Jim with a smirk on his face. Ariel smiled mischievously and said, "What will my punishment be?" The cabin boy leaned in and said, "This." He captured the red head's lips and Ariel rested her hands on his chest, while returning the kiss. The pink blob rolled his eyes and transformed into a hand, he then pushed the teens apart. Ariel laughed, hugged Jim, and said, "Aw, Morph's jealous now." The red head petted the pink blob and Morph couldn't stay jealous, so he gave her a lick on the cheek. B.E.N. continued on while he was cleaning and said, "You'd think in a hundred years... I would've dusted a little more often but, you know, when you're batchin' it you tend to, uh, let things go." He then saw Delbert carrying Amelia like she was a bride, cradling in his arms. "Aw, isn't that sweet?" The robot went to the table to find something for them to drink. "I find old-fashioned romance so touching, don't you?" He found the drinks and offered them. "How about drinks for the happy couple?"

Delbert didn't want to risk it and said, "Oh, uh, ooh. Uh, no. Thank you, we don't drink and, uh, we're not a couple." The captain looked up at Dr. Doppler with a smile. Delbert used his coat to make a pillow for the feline to rest her head on, cleared his throat, and said, "Look at these markings. They're identical to the ones on the map. I suspect these are the hieroglyphic remnants of an ancient culture." Ariel looked on the walls and ceiling of the cave and the doctor was right. It did look similar but she doubts the doctor could translate it. "Mr. Hawkins and Ms. Ariel stop anyone who tries to approach." Ordered Amelia, she then grabbed her side and groaned in pain. Delbert was going to put a stop to this and said, "Yes, yes. Now listen to me stop giving orders for a few milliseconds and lie still." The feline thought, 'Now I'm getting ordered around?' She chuckled and said, "Very forceful, Doctor. Go on. Say something else." Delbert thought with a smile, 'She can attractive when she smiles.' The thought was interrupted when the robot yelled, "Hey, look! There's some more of your buddies!" The robot waved his arms and yelled, "Hey, fellas! We're over here, fellas!" B.E.N. was waving to the pirates that were following the group. They begin to fire at the robot and B.E.N. dodged every shot. Ariel pulled the robot down and thought, 'So much for a hiding spot.' Jim begins to fire at the pirates and dodging their fire. The red head decided to join in and fire at the pirates who killed her mother.

A certain cyborg yelled, "Stop wastin' your fire!" The pirate crew stopped their firing. Jim and Ariel reload their pistols and heard the cyborg pirate yell, "Hello, up there!" Jim took a look and found a white flag waving in the air. "Jimbo?" Silver got up using his robotic arm as a support and said, "If it's all right with the captain, I'd like a short word with ya." Ariel didn't want the cabin boy to go talk to the cyborg pirate. "No tricks, just a little palaver." Jim saw the look on Ariel's face and looked at the captain. "Come to bargain for the map, doubtless. Pestilential..." But as she tried to get up, she was still in pain. "Captain." Said Delbert in a warning tone. Jim thought, 'This gives us an advantage.' He then smirked and said, "That means...that he thinks we still have it." Jim went out of the cave to talk to the cyborg pirate, the red head told Morph to go with him, and the pink blob gave Ariel a lick on the cheek and went with Jim. Silver saw his pet and said, "Ah, Morphy! I wondered where you was off to." The pirate sat down because Silver was having a hard time with his robotic leg, he rubbed it and said, "Oh, this poor old leg's downright snarky since that game attack we had in the galley." He chuckled and saw the face Jim was making a face. He sighed and said, "Whatever you heard back there at least the part concerning you and the lass. I didn't mean a word of it." Jim's face started to soften a little. "Had that bloodthirsty lot thought I'd gone soft they'd have gutted us both."

Jim thought, 'Maybe he's telling the truth.' His face started to soften even more. Silver pulled the cabin boy closer and said, "Listen to me. If we play our cards right we can both walk away from this rich as kings." Jim thought, 'Maybe…' He then put a hand to his chin and said, "Yeah?" Silver thought, 'I have him now.' He chuckled and said, "You get me that map and, uh an even portion of the treasure is yours." The cyborg held out his hand and chuckled. Jim smiled and then his face darkened. "Boy. You are really something. All that talk of greatness, light coming off my sails… what a joke." Silver meant those words back on the RLS Legacy and said, "Now, just see here, Jimbo" The cabin boy interrupted the pirate and said, "I mean, at least you taught me one thing. Stick to it, right? Well, that's just what I'm gonna do." Silver didn't know where he was going with this and Jim explained to the pirate. "I'm gonna make sure that you never see one drabloon of my treasure!" Silver got angry, his robotic eye glowed red, and yelled, "That treasure is owed me, by thunder!" the cabin boy had a comeback and yelled, "Well, try to find it without my map, by thunder!"

Silver knew that Jim didn't learn his lesson with Scroop on the RLS Legacy and said, "Oh, you still don't know how to pick your fights, do you, boy?" Jim made a scowl and the pirate said, "Now, mark me. Either I get that map by dawn tomorrow or so help me, I'll use the ship's cannons to blast ya all to kingdom come!" Before Silver head back, he told his pet, "Morph, hop to it." The pink blob was staying on Jim's side. "Now!" Morph got scared and hid on the side of Jim's right shoulder. "Oh, blast it!" he muttered as he left. Jim took one last look at the cyborg and head back up to the cave. Silver looked over his shoulder and thought, 'I did mean those things, I said about ya.' He then continued to walk towards his campsite.

It was night; the group was having a hard time to come up with a plan. The Captain said, "Gentlemen and Lady, we must stay together and... and...ohh." She then rolled her eyes and went to a coma. Delbert wanted to hear what she had to say. "And what? What? We must stay together and what?" He took off his glasses. Amelia then said, "Doctor, you have wonderful eyes." Dr. Doppler knew that the feline was hallucinating and said, "She's lost her mind!" Ariel then said, "Well, you gotta help her." The doctor had to explain to the red head. "Dang it, Ariel. I'm an astronomer, not a doctor." He then began to have a meltdown of his own. "I mean, I am a doctor, but I'm not that kind of doctor. I have a doctorate. It's not the same thing. You can't help people with a doctorate. You just sit there, and you're useless." Delbert breathed in and out. Jim patted on the doctor's back and said, "It's OK, Doc. It's all right." He went to the entrance of the cave along with the pink blob.

B.E.N. then said, "Yeah, Doc! Jimmy knows exactly how to get out of this. It's just Jimmy has this knowledge of things." The robot then walked towards the cabin boy and whispered, "Jim, any thoughts at all?" The cabin boy looked at all his options and said, "Without the map, we're dead. If we try to leave, we're dead. If we stay here" Morph finished his sentence and repeated the two words, "We're dead! We're dead! We're dead!" Jim sighed deeply and had his head hanging down. Ariel went toward him and rested her head on his left shoulder. The cabin boy lifted his head and he put his hand on her shoulder, and then pulled her close as he massages her arm. B.E.N. saw this and said to the pink blob, "Well, I think that Jimmy and Ariel could use a little quiet time. Heh. So I'll just slip out the back door." Jim heard the last two words what the robot said. "Back door?" The robot move a boulder that had a hole in it and said, "Oh, yeah. I get this delightful breeze through here, which I think is important because ventilation among friends" Ariel and Jim looked inside the boulder, and the red head interrupted the robot and asked, "Whoa. What is all this stuff?" B.E.N. then rambled not knowing what he said, "You mean the miles and miles of machinery that run through the entire course of the inside of this planet? Not a clue." Jim told the doctor, "Hey, Doc! Doc! I think we found a way out of here!" Delbert had a bad feeling and said, "No, no. Jim, wait. The captain ordered us to stay" Jim interrupted Dr. Doppler and said, "We'll be back." He jumped through the hole, Morph followed him, Ariel jumped through the hole as well, and B.E.N. jumped and yelled, "Cannonball!" Delbert said sarcastically, "Woof."

When Jim, Ariel, and Morph reached the campsite, all of the pirates were sound asleep. The robot then popped up loudly and asked, "So, what's the plan?" The red head grabbed the robot's mouth, shut it, and whispered, "Shh. B.E.N., quiet." The teens looked at the cyborg and he just rolled to the other side, still asleep. Jim then whispered the plan, "OK, here it is. We sneak back to the Legacy, disable the laser cannons, and bring back the map." B.E.N. muffled, "That's a good plan. I like that plan. The only thing is, I'm wondering, how do we get there?" Ariel looked at the longboat and whispered, "On that." They got on the longboat and headed towards the ship. When they reached the Legacy, Jim and the rest looked around to see if anyone was guarding the ship. Jim, Ariel, and Morph got on the ship quietly but for B.E.N. he tripped and yelled. "B.E.N., shh." Whispered the cabin boy. "Sorry, sorry. Sorry." The group got below deck and the cabin boy whispered, "OK, we'll get the map. You wait here." The robot missed heard the cabin boy and said, "Roger, Jimmy. I'll neutralize laser cannons, sir!" Jim then said in protest, "B.E.N.! B.E.N.!" But it was too late, the robot left and was humming to himself. Jim sighed and went to go where the map was. The red head and pink blob followed the cabin boy.

The robot reached the control box and said, "Disable a few laser cannons. What is the big deal? All we gotta do is find that one little wire." When he opened the control box, he saw then just more than one little wire, it was thousands of wires. He gasped and said, "Oh, mama." This was going to be like finding a needle in a haystack. Jim, Ariel, and Morph reached to the longboat's hall, the cabin boy looked through the cylinder of rope and thought, 'Please be here.' He then saw the golden sphere, sighed, and said, "Yes." The group heard the alarms going off and thought, 'B.E.N.' The robot knew he made a mistake and said, "Bad, B.E.N. Bad. OK, fixing." He then put the wire where it belongs. Jim, Ariel, and Morph were all heading to the deck to see no one heard it. Jim said, "That stupid robot's gonna get us all" The group stopped in their tracks and saw an overgrown bug. "...killed." Scroop saw the teens and an evil smile was on his face. "Cabin boy and the girl." Both of the teens started running for their lives, the red head pushed some barrels to slow down the bug. But to no avail, Scroop was part spider and crawled on the ceiling. Morph turned into a cream pie and hit the overgrown bug. This stopped Scroop for a moment and he grabbed the pink blob off his face and threw him into the pipes. Jim and Ariel went to the side to power up their pistols. When they were ready, both of them aimed at the overgrown bug. Then the lights went out and both of the teens thought the same thing, 'B.E.N.'

The robot switched he eyes to be flashlights and said, "Whoops, OK. Don't panic. Breathing in, breathing out." When the lights came back on, Jim and Ariel found that Scroop disappeared, this made them nervous. Both of the teens were on alert, but little did they know that the overgrown bug was above them. Morph escaped through the pipes and saw Scroop; he then turned into a hand and poked his eyes. The overgrown bug yelped in pain and gave away his hiding spot. Both of the teens looked up and Scroop shoved them to the floor. The red head's pistol was smashed but Jim's pistol was thrown to the side. The overgrown bug pinned the teens down as the cabin boy tried to reach for his weapon. "This has gotta be cannons." He pulled the artificial gravity plug, floated and said, "Maybe not." Jim and Ariel kicked the overgrown bug and he floated upward. The teens tried to grab on to something and they managed to grab hold of the jolly rodger. Jim and Ariel saw Scroop climbing up the crow's nest, while chuckling. Ariel saw Jim's pistol and yelled, "Jim, grab the pistol." The cabin boy tried to reach and said, "Come on, come on, come on." He barely touched it and it went to the sky. "No!" Yelled Jim. The overgrown bug snickered and said, "Oh, yes." Scroop used his pincher claw to cut the rope. "Do say hello to Mr. Arrow. Oh, girl I was the one who gutted your mother, like a fish." Ariel had an idea, she pulled herself down and Jim knew where she was going with this, so he followed her. The overgrown bug growled and went towards the teens. Ariel jumped over Scroop, and Jim did the same as he yelled, "Tell him yourself!"

Scroop got caught in the flag and watched the teens holding on the pole. He screamed in horror and went floating to the top until he was seen no more. B.E.N. yelled, "Back you go, you naughty plug!" As he put it in, the artificial gravity was back on line and the teens fell. Jim looked at the red head and asked, "You OK Ariel?" Ariel looked at the cabin boy and said, "I'm fine. Just had a rush of fear." They heard rattling of the pipe and Morph came out and was covered in soot. The pink blob coughed and both of the teens asked, "Morph?" The pink blob chirped happily. B.E.N. yelled from on deck, "Laser cannons disconnected, Captain Jimmy, sir! Gee, that wasn't so tough." Jim took the map out of his pocket and thought, 'Time to get Doc and the Captain.' Finally, the treasure was his at last…or so he thought.

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