We finally got the map back from where we last left it. I kept it in my pocket since Jim gave it to me on our way back to camp. Now Silver won't know it's there. I felt relieved knowing that we got the map back even though Jim and I almost got our butts killed on the ship thanks to that spider freak. I'm glad he's dead. No wonder they call spiders pests. I leaned against the edge of the longboat and tried to breathe normally from how intense that retrieval was. "Doc's going to be glad when he sees that we managed to get the map back." Jim whispers to me. I opened my hazel eyes to see Jim operating the longboat. "Yeah I guess. I guess that the captain wanted us to stay together but we can't take our chances with Silver right now." I respond, pulling my right leg up so I could rest my right arm on it. "Yeah. We can't trust him now." Jim responds, getting me to nod once. The only one we can trust is each other.

I jump out of the spherical back door and dusted myself off. I turned around and leaned in to help Jim up and over. The light from the spherical back door was the only light illuminating the room considering it was so dark in the room. Jim and I make it to where Delbert was. "Hey, doc. Doc, we got the map!" Jim says, as I pulled the map from my jacket pocket. But it wasn't Delbert's hand that grabbed the map from my hand. It was Silver's robotic hand. Oh no... "Fine work you two. Fine work indeed." Silver seeths as he reveals himself in the light. My heart dropped when I see him. The sound of Amelia and Delbert struggling entered my ears, getting me to look behind us. They were both tied up with their mouths gagged being held back by Silver's minions. Oh no...

One by one, Silver's minions came out from the darkness with angry looks. One of them grabbed Jim roughly by arms. "Thanks for showing us the way in!" one of the minions says as they grab my arms. I struggled at the alien's grip on my arms. "Hey, let us go!" I growl as I tried to get my arms out this aliens iron grip. I gritted my teeth so tightly to the point of them breaking from how hard I was struggling. I glared at Silver with a deathly glare when he comes to Jim and I. "You two are like me. You's hate to lose." he says, comparing Jim and I to him. I hate it when we get compared to someone else. I struggle against the alien's grip once more in an attempt to get loose from it. Silver takes the map that he still had in his grasp and does everything he can to get it open. It amused me to see him struggle to get it open. Although I wasn't laughing.

"Open it." he orders, dropping it in Jim's hands. The alien's grip on our arms released us. All I did was cross my arms at Silver. Jim looks at me with a look of nervousness. I nod at him once to let him know to do it. Jim glares back at the cyborg, who had switched his robotic hand to a pistol. Jim's the only one who can work the map. Therefore, he presses the buttons on the map without looking at it and managed to unlock it. The green particles from the map flowed out of it so that it formed into treasure planet. It amazed the crew along with Silver. "Oh, the powers that be, would you look?" Silver said, amazed by this discovery. The hologram of the planet turned into a green line that went outside and Silver went to the door. "Heh heh heh. Tie him and her up. Leave them with the others while we-" he begins before Jim's closes the map. "You want the map from us, cyborg?" I question. "You're taking me and Jamie with you." Jim says coldly. There's no way they're leaving us behind while they do the treasure hunting. No way, no how, no sir. Silver shakes his head at us with a grin. "We'll take them all." he says to the crew. We know our battles really well.

Soon enough, we all got on the long boat. Jim and I sat behind Silver, who was looking ahead of us as we followed the green beeping light. Jim held onto the map as we make our descent there. The more we followed the light, the more my stomach churned within my body. I kept my mouth shut during the ride because I didn't want to cause trouble with Silver. Five minutes past by and we finally stop the longboat. Silver jumps out of it first before Jim and I follow him. I land on my feet swiftly with a grunt. The forest we were in seemed eerie and dark. I turn my head to look behind me to see that one of the members of the crew stayed behind to keep his eyes on Delbert and Amelia while we find the treasure. Jim stayed closed to me just like he's been doing.

From behind me, I could hear Morph whimpering from Jim's pocket. "It's okay Morph. It's okay." he comforts the blob. Ben catches up with us a few seconds later. "Hey, I don't know about you guys but I saw my life passing in front of my eyes. Was I ever dancing with an android named Lupe?!" Ben shouts confused. I turn around for a second to shush the robot. "This isn't over yet Ben." I whisper to him as to not draw attention. Silver stops walking not long after I said that. The beeping from the map increased fastly. "We're getting close lads. I smell treasure awaiting!" Silver shouts, grabbing Jim and I by the hem of our shirts. Needless to say, I struggled at his grasp. He uses his sword hand to cut through the bamboo trees. They were expecting treasure on the other side but they gasped in shock when we see there wasn't anything there but a dead end.

"Where is it?" Silver asks, disappointed that the line stops here. "I see nothing! One great stinking hunk of nothing!" The crew member with the multiple eyes complained. I look back at the map to see it had closed on its own. "What's going on?" Silver asks, turning towards Jim and I with his hands on his hips. Jim struggles to get it open by fidling with it. "It's not opening for me!" Jim exclaims before passing it to me. I tried getting it open as well but it wouldn't work for me either. "It's not working." I say. "We shouldn't have followed this boy and girl!" another crew member shouts as they used their hands to shove me to the ground. The force of the push hurt and I fell to my knees. "Hey! Leave her alone!" Jim shouts at them. I shake my head and correct my vision. But as I cleared it, I could see something in the ground at the base of my hands. It caught my attention real fast. "Jim, look at this." I whisper to him, getting him to look at what I was looking at.

We exchange glances for a moment before Jim reaches down and wipes away the moss covering the implant of the ground to reveal a hole that looked big enough to put the map in. It also had the same markings as it. I look at the map then the hole before placing it in the hole. The second I did that, the markings on both the map and the ground lit up a bright green. It shut everyone up at that moment. Jim and I stand back up to our feet as we watched a transparent sphere that was attached to lines lift off the ground slowly. At the bottom of the cliff, thick lines come up to where the edge of the cliff was & the lines in the ground turn into a giant triangular door. My eyes widened at the size of it as well as my mouth dropping from it. The wind blew my hair and clothes back a little. It was just like Ben described it during his freak out session back there not long ago.

"Oh have mercy." Silver gasped. I couldn't rip my eyes away from the scene in front of me. I know what this place is. "That's The Lagoon Nebula..." I breathe, looking at the small stars as well as the purple and blue colors within the nebula. "But that's... halfway across the galaxy." Silver points out. Shaking my head, I look towards the transparent sphere that had many worlds to choose from on it. "A big door... opening and closing..." Jim murmurs loud enough for me to hear as he switched from world to world. I studied the portal map before pressing one of them. "Kinapis. Heh. Montressor Spaceport." I smile as I see the familiar crescent shaped port in the portal. Seeing it made me want to go home but we would need the ship to do it. "So this is how Flint did it. He used this portal to steal treasure from other universes." I mention, putting two and two together. Flint used this map to find all this treasure to have on his own.

"But where'd he stash it all?!" Silver exclaims, pushing me out of the way so he could operate the portal. One by one, he rushed through the worlds. It sucked considering I didn't get a good look at what the world looked like. "Where's that blasted treasure?" Silver grunted. If he weren't so pacey as well as impaitent he would find it. "Treasure? Treasure!" Ben starts, "It's buried in-" "Buried in the centroid of the mechanism?" Jim wonders rubbing his chin in thought. "What if... this whole planet is the mechanism? Which means it's buried in the center of this planet?" Jim smiles, looking towards me. I nodded at what he said. At that, I see the crew desperately dig through the metallic part of the ground below us. "And how in the blue blazes are we supposed to get there?!" Silver shouts, still looking through the portal. Rolling my eyes, I push the cyborg aside. "If you would stop rushing through it, you would find the right door." I correct him, pushing the button that looked like the planet itself. It revealed giant laser machines on the inside.

I was the first to stick my right arm through the portal and I slinked my way through it. Jim followed behind me shortly after. I looked at the other side of this portal with complete and utter amazement. What laid in front of us... was Flint's Trove... My eyes were glued to the million pieces of treasure that laid astray in front of us. The crew cheered for joy when they saw this and instantly jumped in the treasure like it was swimming pool. "The loot of a thousand worlds..." Silver breathes. "We're going to need a bigger boat!" one of the crew members shouts. Finally, Jim and I can get the treasure we need for the Benbow Inn... "Isn't this amazing Jim?" I gasped, looking at the treasure in amazment. "It sure is..." he agrees with me. As I looked, my eyes caught something that looked very familiar. My eyes didn't decieve me in the least bit. It was Captain Flint's ship. Like the one from that hollogram book that Jim and I read as kids.

"Hey look. Over there." I grab Jim's attention. While Silver wasn't looking, we could sneak off to that ship. Ben was chattering about how this place seemed recognizable to him. "C'mon guys. We're not leaving here empty handed." Jim urgently says. I follow him close behind and slid down a piece of the planet to get to the ship. The closer we got to Flint's ship, the more excited I felt to finally get that treasure. In making it, I was the first to jump up to the ledge, grabbing it with my hands. I hoisted myself over the edge with a grunt. I leant over to help Jim up with my left hand. He uses his feet to help him climb up the side of the small pirate ship. "Do you know what's strange? l can't tell you how frustrating this is, Jimmy and Jamie... 'cause there's something just- It's nagging at the back of my mind. Wha!" Ben exclaims as Jim helps him over. When I turn around, my eyes widen to see... the skeleton of Captain Flint was sitting on his thrown. "Captain Flint?" Jim and I say in sync. Ben raises up to all fours. "In the flesh! Well, s-sort of, except for skin, organs... or anything that-that-that resembles flesh... that's not there." Ben explains. Seeing this captain here, dead on his thrown actually sent shivers down my spine. I don't know about Jim though.

As I looked around the skeletal captain, I could see something in this boney hand. My eyes narrow to better inspect it and I walk over to him. I gripped the boney hand of the captain and pulled off his fingers. Inspecting closer, I pick up the object. "Oh, a mind is a terrible thing to lose!" Ben sobs, his back to us. I studied the piece and the back of Ben's head. It was the remaining piece of Ben. "Hey Ben, I think I found your mind." I grin. I walk over to Ben and hold his head with my free hand. "Whoa, Jamie! Your hands are very... cold." Ben comments as his mind reattaches itself to the back of Ben's head. Ben glitched out for a second before his eyes changed from green to blue. "Hello. You know I was thinking... oh wait! It's all flooding back! Ah, my memory! Right up until Flint pulled my memory circuits so I couldn't tell no body about his booby trap!" Ben happily says. Jim and I were happy that he got his memory back. However, that moment was shortlived because the second Ben uttered the words booby trap, the entire place began to shake. We all looked up at the lasers to see them starting to blow up crazily.

"Speaking of which... Flint wanted to make sure... that nobody could ever steal his treasure... so he rigged this whole planetto blow higher than a Kalepsian kite!" Ben exclaims over the loud crashes above us. Oh well, that's just great! This is all we need right now! Jim and I move to the edge of the pirate ship. My skin drains of all color and my eyes go wide as I witnessed the planet being torn apart by fallen lasers. But we can't stand around here like this. I quickly turn around to the ships engines and ushered Jim to help me get this thing started. "Ben, go back with Delbert and the captain. Leave without us if we don't make it out of here in 5 minutes!" Jim orders to Ben as he gets on his back and underneath the engines so he could hot wire it. I kneel down next to him to help him out. "I'm not leaving my pals behind!" Ben exclaims pulling Jim out from underneath the engine with two wires in his hands. All we did was give him looks of annoyance to let him know to leave. "Unless they look at me like that. Bye Jim and Jamie!" Ben exclaims as he scadadels out of here. I roll my eyes at the robot and continued to help Jim get this thing running.

While getting this ship to move, we didn't pay much attention to what was going on around us. All we concentrated on was getting out of here with this ship filled with gold. "Yes! Finally! Jamie, Morph we're so out of here!" Jim exclaims happily as he took the steering wheel. The ship slowly rose from the ground when we got it started. Because of this, we high fived each other. We got what we needed so we can finally get out of here. "Ah, Jimbo, Jamie." Silver said from behind us, making my stomach churn within me. Jim and I turned to look behind us to see that Silver had hoped over the other side of the pirate ship. "Aren't you two the seventh wonder of the world?" he asks. My instincts kick in and I grab a sword with a tight grip and point it at Silver threateningly. "Don't take another step!" I shout, stepping in front of Jim protectively. I didn't want Silver to come near us. He's already caused enough trouble. He lifts his head up slowly and looks at us angrily. "I like you two, but I've come too far to let you both get in the way of me and my treasure." Silver seethes, walking up to us. My heart was beating extremely fast for me to catch my breath.

Before he could reach us, a sudden eruption struck the pirate ship. Causing me to lose my balance as well as Jim. I end up rolling off the ship and on a piece of metal. I try to find something to grab but it was no use. "Aah!" I shouted as I gripped onto a small ledge. Hanging off this small ledge with boiling hot lava underneath us, I was now terrified for my life. My hands were starting to sweat also, which didn't help. Being this scared, I felt like I was going to vomit right then and there. "Jamie! Jim! Reach for me! Reach!" Silver shouts, reaching towards Jim and I. I look back at him and try to reach for him but my arms weren't long enough. "I can't! Silver!" I shout to him, feeling the ledge sink into the wall, causing me to slip and catch the next ledge. "Jim!" I cry out. "Jamie!" he cries back at me. We're too young to die now! My arms were shaking vigorously as my grip started to give way. Just when I think I'm going to fall to my death, I feel a hand catch me by my wrist. Jim was hanging by holding on to my hand tightly. As I look up, I see it was Silver who had caught us. Oh lord... I thought we were done for.

When Silver pulls us up to the platform, I look up towards Flint's ship. It had floated up in the air before being blasted in half by a laser, making me shield my face from how bright the flash was and to not get pelted to death by pieces of gold. "Let's get out of here!" Jim exclaims, grabbing me by the sleeve to get me to my feet. I didn't waste any time getting to my feet and followed Jim and Silver out of the exploding planet. Flint's Trove is no more...