"Rose," Silver bellowed as the crew worked hard. I was in the rigging, helping another crew member tie down sails properly. It was a learning experience for me; when in a hurry the sails were tied one way, later they were adjusted with proper knots and such. After yesterday's excitement, they needed tending to for sure. Several would have to be mended, and a smaller mast needed repairing because it had split. "Git down 'ere Rose," Silver bellowed again. I looked at my two-headed partner, gave a quick nod, and hurried down a rope.

"Yes sir?" I said quickly, fixing my baggy pants around my clunky boots.

"We're going out on a longboat. Let's go," he said. I watched him limp ahead of me. I quickly scanned the riggings for Jim; he was high up taking some sails down with other workers. "Stop daydreaming girl and git movin'," Silver shouted at me. With a start, I followed him below deck.

"If you don't, uhm, mind me asking, why are we going out today?" I asked. In just two quick steps I had caught up with his hasty, irregular steps.

"Yer gonna have a quick leaning experience," he informed me. I rolled my eyes. We came to the longboat and started to prepare it for going out. Jim had already gone out with Silver on one; he liked the trip, but claimed it wasn't as fun as a solar-surfer. And Silver kept a close eye on him (I assume it would be the mechanical eye; he can probably see better with that one). That is when it hit me. He wanted to watch me.

"How far are we going?" I asked to keep conversation going. He heaved a deep sigh as we untied ropes and did quick maintenance on it. Some parts of the Legacy had been damaged in the black hole incident, but nothing was serious.

"We're followin' the ship. Go up to the galley and fetch me glass for me. We'll leave when ye git back," Silver informed me, tightening a rope. I quickly ran through the ship. Reaching the deck and daylight, I scanned for Jim; he was still working hard. There was no way to get his attention. I sighed, found Silver's glass, and ran back under the deck to the awaiting boat. On the way, on a whim, I grabbed my solar-surfer to bring with us.

"Here," I said and tossed it to the cyborg; he caught it easily. I laid the solar-surfer into the boat while Silver placed the glass inside a pocket. After a quick lesson on how to man the solarboat, I dropped into the boat. I began getting ready to lower the longboat when someone stepped out of the shadows.

"Hey Rosie, it's been a while," my father said; I cringed slightly at the sight of him. I stared at him, watching his every move as he sat in the longboat as well. A quick glance at Silver didn't reveal any emotion from him, but suddenly I felt ten times the apprehension I had moments before.

"Where have you been hiding?" I asked my… father. I hated to think this man was related to me. When he spoke and as he came closer, I could smell liquor on his breath.

"Silver's been putting me up down 'ere; meals twice a day, proper sleeping arrangements. And you know why?" he asked. I shook my head, trying to avoid his piercing eyes. "So we can dispose of you before the mutiny." We finished lowering out of the Legacy and I took to directing the longboat after the ship. Although I was keeping myself together on the outside, I was obviously going insane and I was beginning to feel sick.

Okay there's gonna be a mutiny. Jim and I were right. That just means that when I don't show up tonight, Jim will know what's going on. So I'm gonna die. Well… crap. What the hell am I supposed to think? Or do? Sit here and wait or fight back? Obviously fight back, but how? I glanced around the longboat. Silver was sitting directly in front of me and my father was behind him. It was a tight squeeze obviously.

"Veer off from the starboard side of the ship," Silver instructed. I followed his instructions. My mind was racing. I couldn't describe the emotions I felt really; fear and anger, all sorts of things.

"Do you know how we will get away with murdering you girl?" My father asked as he inspected the galaxy around us. The ship was disappearing quickly. "The same way I got rid of the bitch. That damn mother of yours, she was always caused more trouble than she was worth. Took her out one day in our little boat and dropped her into space; she hasn't been heard from since. No one suspected a thing. No one missed the little ugly whore. And the same goes for you." I kept my gaze towards the sky, avoiding the two men despite the fact I could feel their stares burrowing holes through my skull.

"Jim," I said simply.

"What?" my father said, spitting at his feet. Silver was still silent, watching me closely. I finally met my father's gaze.

"Jim will miss me," I said. My father began laughing at me and my simple stare turned into a menacing glare towards him. He laughed so hard, the boat began to rock and I held on in fear of falling overboard.

"Stupid bitch," he managed to gasp. Then he lunged at me and I slammed into the side on the boat. My side exploded in pain and I was sent into fighting mode, but it was too late. He had the upper hand and there was no way I could move.

"Get off!" I screamed shrilly. My voice was lost in space instantly and wouldn't carry. I slid to the floor as my father began to strangle me, his weight crushing me. I fought with him, kicking and trying to hit him somehow, to break his grasp around my neck. Silver moved to steady the boat and steer us back towards the ship. He still said nothing.

"No one will miss you. Yer buddy Silver here has it all planned out," my vision was growing spotted. "I go back into hiding, and he has a story planned out about an accident with a flock of Swindlewinder-Garglushes. You fell out as he tried to steady the longboat, and you were instantly lost. There was noting he could in order to save you without endangering his own life as well." I was losing this battle; my father outweighed me and had an element of surprise over me. I couldn't believe I was about to die. Tears came to my eyes.

"Stop," I gasped out weakly, only making him smile.

"Bye Rose, and remember, we got you," he said evilly as I slowly lost consciousness. I felt my body leave the hardwood floor of the longboat and flip over the side. I felt air rushing around me as I tumbled into nothingness. I heard my father laugh menacingly as the boat headed further and further away…

(Switch to Jim's Point of View)

It was growing dark and the longboat hadn't returned yet. Rose and Silver had gone out what seemed like forever ago and they had veered off the path of the ship. I didn't like this one bit, but I was forced to do all of the tasks Silver and Rose might have done on top of my own, so I had no time to complain. And besides, Treasure Planet was in sight now and if I left to look for them, I could miss landing, a once in a lifetime experience.

Knowing Rose was a once in a lifetime experience…

There are two longboats still in the hold, so I could go out looking, but the chances of finding them would be slim. They could be anywhere and it would be a bad idea to get lost on my own. With a sigh, I continue scouring the multitude of pots, pans, plates, and other dirtied utensils from this evening's meal.

Suddenly, as I was cleaning a pot I almost disappeared into while trying to clean the bottom, heavy footsteps and shouts could be heard from above me. I heard Silver's name shouted and I hurried up there.

Amidst the shouting, I heard, "Where's Rose?!"

"…We were suddenly in the middle of a humongous swarm of raving Swindlewinder-Garglushes, and it's mating season y'know," Silver was saying to the crowd around him. I stared as I listened to him. Where is Rose? "Well, the longboat couldn't handle the bumping and Rose fell from the boat. I tried to catch her, but she was gone before I could do anything," Silver said with great remorse. My jaw dropped and my stomach twisted into a million knots when I realized he was speaking the truth. Rose was gone… forever… dead somewhere, or maybe floating in space still, dying; knowing she will die slowly and painfully eventually. A glance up at Silver showed him rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "And, uhm, by the way boys… we move now!"

He gave a shrill whistle and suddenly everyone was fighting on the deck. I saw Doppler trying to feebly fight off two or three men, but he failed instantly. Someone took a swing at me from the side, but I ducked and missed it. The fight didn't last long. Amelia, Doppler, and I were tied up and thrown into Amelia's cabin. We were being kept there until the men could find the map; they knew about it, but didn't know where it was being hidden thankfully. It appears they had rebelled too soon. And it was then that I knew, once the fighting and mutiny began, that Rose had not just died. That had been the plan, the cue for the mutiny to begin; she didn't have a chance against the cyborg.

"This looks like the end of the line boys," Amelia said remorsefully. Was that remorse from Rose's death or the loss of her ship? I stared out the window at Treasure Planet, angry and sad at the same time. My best friend, my only true friend, was gone. Amelia sighed and looked defeated; all of her honor and confidence had been stripped away. But had she lost the only person she actually cared about? The only person that cared about her…

"I feel so hopeless," Doppler said, jabbering nonsensically. "I only there was something I could do, but I am only a simple, weak man." Suddenly he gasped, and when I looked, he was holding up both of his hands, the rope only tied around one. "A weak man with abnormally thin wrists," he said with a small laugh.

"Untie us good man, don't just sit there gawking at nothing. We'll escape!" Amelia said almost laughing manically, that crazy laugh was actually quite frightening. "We can get my ship back from the bloody mutineers and-"

"Or we could steal a longboat and just land on Treasure Planet without them noticing," I interjected. Captain Amelia smiled and laughed as she stood and stretched. The doctor moved quickly to work on my own rope handcuffs.

"Brilliant idea Jim, we'll sneak out and they won't suspect a thing!" she said. As I stood, she took the map from its hiding place in some floorboards. "Guard this with your life," she said handing it to me almost giddily. She was insane now. The mutiny had caused her to lose the last shred of her reason she had since Arrow's "mysterious" death.

"Aye Captain," I said, slipping it into a pocket. It was heavy, just like the burden it had become. This was the reason Rose was dead.

"Here doctor, know how to use one of these?" she said throwing him a gun. It whirred to life and fired a giant hole in the ground; he held it in shock.

"Uhm, no," he said and she sighed, hurrying now as the men began to unlock the door. I was tossed a gun while moving a desk in front of the door, buying us time while Amelia widened Doppler's hole in the ship.

"You lead us through there Jim, while I make sure they can't follow us," Amelia instructed. "This will lead to the longboat area where we can get out hopefully." I dropped in, followed by the doctor and captain who quickly followed. As we ran, Silver bellowed something angrily and someone was thrown down here after us.

"Get them you incompetent scum," Silver yelled. I could hear people above us as we appeared in the longboat hold. Silver was already there somehow along with a couple of his burly men, all of them were armed. I fired the gun without thinking and let Amelia and Doppler into the boat. Doppler fired at men in the midst of the chaos. Amelia and I began to lower the boat while Doppler scared the men off, not with well-aimed shots, but with his crazy, chaotic blasting. Amelia had a few shots in that hit some men. At least five were killed.

"You little squid," Morph suddenly chirped before grabbing the map from my pocket.

"Morph" I yelled and lunged for him, barely missing the pink blob. I cursed under my breath and looked up to see Silver staring; he had caught the movement and glint of the map.

"Oh Morphy," he began calling. I glared at him and tried to catch Morph as he zipped around the various boxes. As I jumped one, a man appeared from behind the crates. Hitting him over the head once with the butt of my gun, I kept chasing Morph. The little blob dove into a pile of rope. Glancing up at Silver, we had slight eye contact for less than a second before lunging for the rope. I reached it first and pulled the map out, then ran for the longboat as it dropped out of the hold.

"Jim, do you have the map?" Amelia asked quickly and apprehensively. I held it up and showed it to her before hiding it in my back pocket again. Amelia began to steer us towards Treasure Planet just as a crack louder than thunder filled the air. Turning quickly, I saw the cannonball hurtling towards us and everything went into slow motion. Amelia tried to steer out of the way, but we were hit just barely on the rudder. But a hit is a hit, and we were suddenly crashed through trees and finally landed in a disastrous heap upon the hard ground.

For quite some time, no one moved or made a sound. It was dark by the time I had regained consciousness. I didn't even remember passing out. I felt like jell-o with nerve endings in great distress at that moment. Lifting a piece of the shattered longboat from on top of me, I stood slowly, my body aching. It was growing dark now. At some point during that period of unconsciousness, I realized why I recognized the man that had jumped out of the boxes at me… it was Rose's father. Suddenly, this whole scenario began to make even more sense.

"Oh Jim," Doppler said in shock. "Are you okay?!" He was tending to Amelia who was passed out but leaning against a tree. Her left arm was in a sling, cradled against her chest which was wrapped as well.

"Just fine doc," I said rubbing my stiff neck. The map felt heavy in my pocket. I realized he had forgotten about me after landing but had taken care of the Captain almost immediately.

"Go find somewhere for shelter," he told me. "Uhm, Captain Amelia ordered it before she passed out; I'm not ordering you, just passing along the, uhm, message," he added meekly. I sighed and began to walk through the brush. It was impossible to see very far ahead, so I knew it would be hard to find anywhere safe. Hopefully Silver and his crew hadn't landed here yet, but I wouldn't doubt that they had.

"Hello!" a robot yelled jumping into my line of vision. I fell back startled, firing the gun once but missing it by inches. "Finally, carbon-based life forms have come to rescue me at last," he quickly said pulling me to my feet easily and shaking my hand. I stared with my mouth just hanging open. "I just want to hug you and squeeze you and never let go! Let me just… hold you close!" I tried to shrug the robot away but it was impossible; it had a vice-like grip around me.

"Let me go," I gasped, pushing… him… it… away from me.

"Sorry, sorry," it said, apologizing a million times and dancing around crazily. I rolled my eyes and thought of how lucky we were to be stranded with a psycho robot on Treasure Planet. "It's just I've been marooned on this planet for so long. Don't get me wrong, the solitude is just fine, but, well, after a hundred years… ya' go little nuts!" I stared at him as the robot continued to rant and rave at extremely high decibels. "Oh, I am so sorry! I should introduce myself! I am… uhm… I am… I would be… I am, uhm," suddenly Morph cut him off, appearing in my pocket… right where the map had been. I groaned and rolled my eyes. Morph quickly spun into a cuckoo bird and began to mock the crazed robot. I quickly hit him, causing the blob to burst into billions of little bubbles that reassembled themselves instantly. "I am B.E.N. Of course, I am B.E.N., BioElectronic Navigator." He sighed and wiped his metallic brow of imaginary robot sweat.

"Wow," I muttered.

"And you are?" the robot, B.E.N., asked.

"Jim," I said with a sigh. "Listen, I've gotta be going. I'm kinda in a hurry right now."

"Oh what a pleasure to meet you Jimmy!" the robot said as he shook my hand yet again.

"It's just Jim-"

"We can be best buddies and every-"

"Listen, I've gotta go. I've got these pirate guys chasing after me and my friends ad we need a place to hide out for a while-"

"Oh," B.E.N. said with another outburst. "Do not get me started on pirates! I can't stand them! I can remember Captain Flint! This guy he had such a temper-"

"Whoa, wait, you knew Captain Flint?!" I sputtered out in shock.

"I think he suffered from mood swings, personally. But don't quote my on that, I'm not a therapist!" You need one though… "But, you just let me know when I start to ramble."

"You're rambling. So, do you, uhm, know about Flint's treasure?" I asked striving for casual.

"Treasure…" B.E.N. muttered looking as deep in thought as a psychotic robot can.

"Yeah, Flint's Trove, the loot of a thousand world's, what this planet is named-"

"It's all a little- little fuzzy. W-wait I do re-remember! I r-remember treasure! Lots of it- lots of treasure! B-b-b-b-buried- buried in the centroid- centroid- centroid of the mechanism! And a big door, huge- huge door; opening and c-closing. Opening and closing. And Captain Flint, he wanted to m-make sure that no one could eve-ever- ever reach it. Get to his treasure! So I helped-" something about the robot changed. He had been in a trance, and suddenly, his eyes began to flash and his mechanic body began to spasm and freak out. "Da-data inaccessible reboot! Reboot! Reboot!"

"B.E.N.," I said, stepping out from behind a bush I hadn't realized I'd hidden behind. The robot had stopped whatever and was staring at me yet again. Morph poked it's head out from behind m shoulder and made big eyes at the rusted robot.

"And you are?" he asked. I sighed and rolled my eyes in frustration. This was getting way beyond ridiculous.

"What about the treasure?" I asked. He simply stared.

"I really wanna say… Larry," he stated.

"What about the centroid of the mechanism?" I basically growled at him. Ridiculous was about ten stops ago, before I had ever thought I leaving home. Ridiculous was when Rose went out with Silver and I hadn't followed… hadn't been able to save her.

"I'm sorry my memory isn't what it used to be. I've lost my mind!" the robot yelled and began to laugh manically. "I've lost my mind! Say, you didn't happen to find it, did you?"

"Nope, haven't seen it; I doubt anyone ever will though," I was beyond frustration.

"Well, my missing piece; my primary memory circuit," he said, starting to search me. I squirmed away.

"Primary, this is just perfect!" I muttered and began to walk through the trees with Morph buzzing around my head, leaving the stupid robot behind me. Hopefully it'd get lost. "I've gotta find a place to hide," I yelled over my shoulder to it, not wanting him to follow. There was a crash and sudden footsteps behind me as he hurried to catch up. "I've gotta be going." We reached a clearing and I turned to glare at him.

"Oh," it said disheartened, "so, this is goodbye then? I'm so-sorry I'm so… dysfunctional. Go ahead, leave me." And then… he began to whine and wheel away. I stared at Morph, fighting with my better judgment and suddenly awakened conscious. It was a great time for it to show itself, just when I didn't need it and could care less about anything besides finding a shelter.

"Look, uhm, if you're going to coming along… you have to stop talking so much," I said in defeat. In the second it took me to say that, B.E.N. had wheeled around and attached himself to me and was laughing manically.

"Oh joy, huzzah! I knew you'd say that, this is fantastic! My best buddy and I are looking-" he saw me glaring. "Oh right," he said, lowering his voice to a whisper, "we're being quiet.

"And, stop touching me," I said as I turned to walk.

"Right… okay then, no touching and talking; no touching Jim, no talking loudly, got it!" the robot yelled. "Say you think we can maybe stop at my place before our big search ensues? I need to make a bit of a quick pit stop. It is kinda urgent," he laughed shakily before parting some bushes and miraculously revealing his… home. I gaped at him and could only glare.

"B.E.N., I think you just solved my problems!"

"Oh, you had to go as well?" he asked innocently after a moment. I stared at him and sighed, wondering how I was the lucky one to find a psycho robot with a missing memory circuit.

"Let's go get my friends; we'll go to your place right after that. I turned and headed back towards where the Captain and Doppler had been waiting with the ruined ship. Morph buzzed happily around the robot's head and I sighed when I realized that although we were on Treasure Planet, we had no map.

And even worse: Rose was gone…


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