Chapter 11
We've climbed our way back up to Ben's back door. Jim pulled me upwards and I helped Donald and Goofy out. Ben was still struggling below us. Jim took out the sphere from his pocket and called out "Hey doc, wake up." He ran to where the doc was sleeping, "I got the map!"
"Fine work, Jimbo," a treacherous voice sounded. "Fine work indeed."
Before we knew it, Mr. Silver's band of pirates surrounded us once again. Jim noticed that the doc and the captain were held captive. Morph popped out of Jim's pocket and bit onto a pirate's tentacle, but it was swiped away again, so it hovered back to Jim and hid in his pocket, shivering nervously. We both tried to make a break for it, but we were outnumbered again. We had our hands locked to our back and Mr. Silver eyed on Jim specifically.
"Ya just like me, Jimbo," his hand tossing the map around carelessly, "Ya hates to lose…" He then tried to activate the map, switching his cyborg arm into multiple tweezers, then to a clamp, then letting a frustrated sigh and looking at Jim, who shook his head, handed the ball back to him, "Open it."
Jim looked at the pirate reluctantly. He then changed his cyborg arm into a gun and started pointing at the captain, the doc, and my companions and I. "I'd get busy…" The captain shook her head but the doc nodded his, but upon realizing that the captain was shaking her head he also shook his. The pirate loaded his gun and eyed Jim carefully.
Jim then pressed a few buttons on the map, and then turned the segments to activate it. The map then projected out a hologram of Treasure Planet as the crew gasped in awe. "All the powers that could be, would you look?" Mr. Silver looked at the projection with astonishment. The hologram then diffracted into a single line that leads the way into Flint's trove, yellow glowing pulses shot out through the green projected line. "Tie him up, and leave him with the others-what?" Jim deactivated the map and the projection shot back into the sphere.
"You want the map? You're taking me too." said Jim.
Mr. Silver grunted and cursed under his breath, and then making his decision, "We'll take them all."
We got on board the longboat and followed the beacon that lead to the treasure. Jim sat on the front of the boat with Mr. Silver, while the other pirates held the rest of us behind. Once we've reached a denser forest, Jim, Ben, Mr. Silver and his pirates all stepped off the boat. "Hang on," Jim said. "Bring Sora and his team along."
"And why should I?" Mr. Silver questioned sternly.
"Do you want the treasure or not?" Jim questioned back.
Mr. Silver grunted, then ordered his pirates to release my companion and my ropes. We then hopped down. Morph chirped in Jim's pocket.
"It's ok, Morph," Jim comforted the blob, "It's ok."
"Jimmy" the robot began "I don't know about you, but I'm starting to see my life pass in front of my eyes. At least, I think it's my life. Was I dancing with another android named LUPE?"
Jim hushed the robot, "It's not over yet." He eyed Mr. Silver who has walked forward.
The pulses of the yellow began beating intensely. "We're getting close lads!" Mr. Silver said as he switched his cyborg hand into a machete, "I smell treasure awaitin'!" The pirates all gave a cheer and Mr. Silver grabbed Jim by the shirt and began slicing the tall weeds away. Once they were sliced away, it only revealed a cliff overlooking a giant valley.
"What?"
"Where is it?"
"I see nothing! One big stinkin' hunk o' nothing!"
The green line shot back into the sphere.
"What's going on, Jimbo?" Mr. Silver asked ferociously.
Jim tried to get it to open again, but it refused to budge. "I don't know, I can't get it open!"
"We should've never followed this boy!" a pirate growled angrily and kicked Jim down.
"I suggest you get that gizmo going again." another pirate retorted.
I approached Jim and squat next to him, but I noticed that he was sweeping off moss that covered a spherical depression on the cliff. He figured that it should be placed into the hole, and he did so. The markings on the sphere glowed and the lines on the cliff began to glow too. Green lines projected itself out of the cliff again, and it formed a spherical map of the galaxy. From the valley, five lines came racing up towards the end of the cliff. They then fused into one and shot upwards, then splitting into a triangular shape to reveal a portal.
"Lord, have mercy" Mr. Silver cried out.
"The Lagoon Nebula?" said Jim, flabbergasted.
"But that's halfway across the galaxy!" Mr. Silver stroked his chin.
"A big door," Jim recalled what Ben said, he then pressed another location on the map, and the portal switched into that location that Jim pressed, "Of course," he then pressed a few other locations, pointing out a few others, "Kinapus," then seeing a familiar location, "Montressor spaceport," he pressed on the moon shaped spaceport and the door revealed Montressor spaceport.
"So that's how Flint did it," Jim gave a conclusion, answering his echoing question since childhood – How did Flint do his raid and then vanish without a trace? "He used this portal to roam this universe stealing treasure."
"But where'd he stash it all?" Mr. Silver pushed Jim away as he pressed different planets and satellites. "Where's that blasted treasure!"
"Treasure," Ben scratched his head trying to remember, "it's buried in the…" he struggled to remember as he stretched the wires on the back of his head.
I then finished the sentence, "buried in the centroid of the mechanism." I snapped my fingers as I figured it out, "Jim, it's at the center of the planet!" After hearing what I said the pirates began to go wild, digging into the cliff.
"And how in blue blazes are we supposed to get there?" Mr. Silver shouted as he continued to press more buttons.
"The portal!" I said excitedly.
"Yeah, just open the right door." Jim then pressed the planet in the shape of Treasure Planet, and the portal revealed an odd-looking brass shaped place, giant open pipes looming over the area.
"Open sesame," Goofy chuckled at the thought of how the situation resembled a classic tale.
Jim stuck his hand through the portal, its gap that Jim made glowed green, then he entered the place fully, followed by Mr. Silver who took Jim's shoulder and stood ahead of him, and then Ben, my team, followed by Mr. Silver's pirates. Little did we know that alarm was set off quietly. The pirates took a look around in awe, and then cheered at the sight of drabloons, precious gems, and gold, piles of them.
"The loot of a thousand worlds…"Mr. Silver commented.
"We're going to need a bigger boat!" One of the pirates cried out. All of them bathed in the sea of treasure.
Meanwhile Ben held onto his head, "This all seems, very familiar…"
The keychain in my pocket began to rattle, and the keyblade summoned itself, dragging me onto an old ship. Jim and my travel pals ran after me.
Mr. Silver knelt on the bed of gold, "A lifetime I've searched, and at long last, I can touch it!"
I was forced up to the deck of the crashed boat, and the rest who followed me climbed on top of it, while Ben still kept on mumbling about how frustrating it was for him to feel the familiarity but not know what it is. My keyblade then stopped pulling me, as it pointed to a dead body, seated on a golden chair.
"Captain Flint?" Jim was dumbfounded
"In the flesh!" Ben gasped, "Sort of, except…for skin or organs or anything that, that- resembles flesh, that's not there…"
His bony corpse held something on his left hand, but I hesitated. Jim approached it though, examining the figure, and then taking notice of what Flint was holding.
Ben kept on rambling about something horrible Flint didn't want anyone to know about. "Oh a mind is a terrible thing to lose!" He sobbed.
Jim released the bones that held a piece of a metallic chip, similar in shape of the empty socket that Ben had. "Ben, I think I just found your mind! Hold still!" He held the robot by the back and then the missing piece snapped into the robot's head. "Whoa," Ben called out as his lights began to flash and then turning blue, "Hello. You know Jimmy I was just thinking…Hey! It's all coming back! All my memories!" The robot danced with joy, "Right to the point where Flint pulled out my Memory Circuit so that no one could know about his booby trap!"
As soon as the android said that, the floor began to rumble, I looked behind me to notice that from Flint's skeleton became a huge heartless creature. "Speaking of which…" Ben chimed in, "Flint didn't want anyone to steal his treasure…" The heartless form of Flint roared loudly and began smashing the pipes above him, trying to destroy everything that is on the planet. He used one of the pipes to shoot laser beams towards the core of the planet, shattering it and causing big gaps to open. Some pirates weren't so lucky as they fell into the gaping hole, trying to save their lives but was overcome by greed as the weight of the treasure dragged them down.
My team was in battle stance, ready to take on the giant heartless creature. Jim ordered the robot to help out the captain and the doc that was left behind, he then began to go underneath to hotwire the old ship, also telling the robot to leave without Jim. The robot was being reluctant "I am NOT leaving my buddy Jimmy!" He dragged to boy from underneath the deck, but Jim gave the most irritated look that he could pull off to the robot while holding onto two wires. To which the robot then gulped "Unless he looks at me like that…Bye Jim!" he ran off to do as he was told. Meanwhile I was jumping up trying to aim for the chest of the heartless, it seems that Mr. Flint's heartless has a weak spot on the chest because he stumbled backwards a few times when I hit him there. Jim was busy still figuring out how to power the ship so I had to protect him from any attacks or laser beams headed his direction. Donald casted Reflega on Jim a few times, and Goofy and I did a Limit break once, throwing our weapons like boomerangs before Goofy finished it off spinning around the area like crazy. It also seemed that Heartless Flint also could summon Spacer Rogues and Giant Scoundrels, making it all the more difficult to defeat the giant heartless in form of Flint. I was injured a few times and had to consume elixirs, and ether as well to give my magic a boost. I casted Magnega as swards of Rapid thrusters were summoned and they were all sucked into the core of the magnet's spell, finishing them all off.
More pirates began to flee the area, but I didn't see Mr. Silver go after them, but then from my aerial view as I fought I saw the cyborg eyeing our ship, grinning as he thought an evil thought.