Ya-ta-da! I'm back (Fangs and Puggsy haven't caught me yet!) Now, let's see if our protagonists survived, shall we?

Disclaimer: Because life is full of precluded possibilities, I do not own Fangface or Treasure Planet. Fangface is owned by Ruby-Spears and Treasure Planet is owned by Disney… the two companies who are luckier than they think.

Everything went by in a blur. One minute, he was down in the hull, opening the hatch so his friends could make a clean getaway, and then (after getting punched by his best friend) he watched them all crash onto the planet in a flaming longboat. What have I done? Puggsy thought as he stared over the edge, unaware that Silver was scrambling the rest of the crew to prepare the other longboat and search-and-capture any survivors. They're alright… This is a Disney movie, for crying out loud! he reminded himself.

He followed the crew members down to the hull, but Silver stopped him. "Not so fast, lad. I need ya tah keep an eye on deh ship." the cyborg ordered him.

"Aw, c'mon! The one time we find a lead on the treasure and mutinize someone, and I have to guardify the ship?" Puggsy scoffed.

Silver gave him a glare. "Jus' do what you're told, Pugs. I can't have ya screwin' up like ya did LAST time," With that, he climbed into the longboat and flew down to the planet, leaving the teenager stunned.

Even HE thinks I screwed up… he thought, miserably. …Ah, what did you expect, Puggsy? He's the captain of a bunch of PIRATES, remember? All he cares about is finding Flint's trove, and he'll murdify anyone who gets in his way.

…Even your best friend. A voice said in the back of his head, and he scowled at the thought.

Who am I kidding? Fangs doesn't like me anymore… his punch proved THAT much…

…But he wouldn't have punched you if you didn't say such bad things about him. No doubt he was in the barrel- why wouldn't he punch you? You deserved it.

Shaking his head from the rivaling thoughts, he walked back up the steps…

…only to see that Scroop had stayed behind. "Runt," The spider-hybrid snarled, holding up one of his sharp claws, a non-verbal statement that gave Puggsy the hunch that the alien meant business.

But he just sneered at him. Not in a cocky way, like usual, but to show how much he despised the creature and didn't want anything to do with him. "Outta my way, Scroop. I'm not in the mood for your games." Puggsy said, trying to step past Scroop.

In response, the arachnid-alien kicked him in the chest and sent him flying down the stairs. He hit his head on the step, and went unconscious. When he came to, he was in the hull and tied up, and he looked down and saw that the hatch was open and night was falling. Suddenly, he felt an eerie presence behind him, and Scroop hissed to him, "If you ssso much assss flinch, I'll throw you down the hatch and you'll join your friendssss in the afterlife." With that, the spider-hybrid scurried away, giving him a dark glare. That ought to keep him from ssscrewing thingsss up again. he thought. He wanted to say it to his face, but decided not to. He'd give the teen more grief later, and use his energy to fight those meddling werewolves.

Puggsy struggled with his bonds, but couldn't get free. I HATE that Spider-Freak… I loathe that Spider-Freak… I abhor that stupid, rotten, connivaving SPIDER-FREAK! He thought. He gave up trying to get free, letting out a sigh. First I lose my friends again, and now I let that creep capturate me without putting up a fight! …Silver was right… I am a screw-up… He slouched down… and felt something in his pocket. "Morph?" he whispered, hopefully. When the sphere in his pocket didn't move or even chatter, he knew it was the real map. Maybe I'm not a screw-up after all.

He sat back and waited, knowing that any minute now his friends would arrive to get back the map… and hopefully him.

Fangs' life flashed before his eyes as the longboat crashed through the trees- and the experience was probably more frightening than he thought, because Fangface's life flashed before his eyes, too. "(grr) Hey, remember that time we broke Uncle Arnie's pinball machine?" Fangface asked him, mentally.

Fangface, this is no time for reminiscing! …And, FYI, I didn't break the machine, YOU did- and I was the one who had to pay for it! He thought in reply.

They crashed on the ground, and everything went dark… until they climbed out from under the damaged longboat. "Oh- oh my goodness! That was more fun than I'd ever want to have again," Delbert gasped.

"Ditto, Doc," Fangs said, a bit dizzy from the landing. "Ooh, ooh, next time lets take the train…"

"Heh heh, not one of my gossamer landings…" Amelia said, then gripped her ribcage and groaned in pain.

"Captain, are you okay- OW!" Biff started to say, then gripped his ankle and fell to the ground, rubbing it. He rolled up his pant leg and saw that his ankle was swollen- possibly broken, even.

"Oh, man!" Kite said, kneeling by Biff and examining his ankle, hissing in shock at the sight of the red, swollen area. "Man, you and Amelia really busted yourselves…"

"Balderdash! I merely have a slight bruising," Amelia snapped, standing up straight and facing away from Fangs. "A cup of tea, and I'll be right as rain. Sherman…"

"Um… over here, Cap." Fangs said.

Amelia turned, squinting at him. "Ah. …The map, if you please,"

Fangs dug into his pocket and pulled out the map… which hovered in the air and transformed into a giggling Morph. "Gosh DARN it, Morph!" He clawed at the air, trying to catch Morph. "(grr) Why I oughtta-"

"Morph! Where's the map?" Kim demanded, catching the protoplasm with both her hands.

Morph snickered and turned into a mini-Puggsy, and a mini-map flying into his pocket. "You've GOT to be kidding me! It's still with Puggsy?" Kite snapped.

They heard a low hum of an engine, and saw a longboat fly overhead. "Stifle that blob and get low. We've got company." Amelia said, then groaned again with pain and staggered onto the ground, but that didn't keep her from keeping authority. "We need a more suitable position." She handed Fangs a laser-pistol. "Sherman, you and Kite scout ahead."

"Aye, Capt-" Fangs began to say, but Kite held him back.

"Uh, no can do, Fangs. There is no WAY I'm going to let YOU carry a laser-pistol." Kite said.

Fangs sneered at him. "Oh, c'mon, Kite! You darn well know that I am very capable of handling a-"

*ZAP!*

Fangs had accidentally pulled the trigger, shooting a smoldering hole in the middle of a tree. Kite sternly held out his hand, motioning Fangs to hand over the pistol, and his friend scowled but reluctantly handed it over. "C'mon, lets go," Kite said, and they began walking through the jungled planet, with Morph following them.

Amelia groaned in pain again. "Easy, easy, lie still. Now, let's have a look at that." Delbert said, examining Amelia's wound.

Kim sat by Biff, holding his hand. "You going to be okay?" she asked him.

Biff nodded. "Yeah… I may just have twisted it." He said with a shrug. "I'm sure it will be fine by the time Kite and Fangs get back."

Kite and Fangs walked through the jungle in silence, with only their thoughts (and werewolf halves) being their only communication. "…I mean, you were all- POW!- and Pugs just flew back! (grr) Ooh! Ooh! And don't get me STARTED on the look on his face! (snort) He looked at you all, 'Geez, did that just happen?', and- oh man! (grr) Then there's the part where you stabbed Silver in the leg-" Fangface rambled on.

Fangface? Fangs thought.

"Yeah?"

Shut up.

"(snarl) Well excuse ME for trying to compliment the ONE TIME you put on the BOLD act!"

Fangs cringed from the headache Fangface gave him, but he ignored it, becoming use to the pain… especially since it was nothing compared to the pain he was still feeling. His stomach ached, his head was dizzy (not because of Fangface, mind you), and his arm hurt- then again, that last part was because of the crash…

All those things he said- were just lies. Kite thought sadly. And Puggsy- I can't believe he would just say that about us…

"(grr) I can't believe he said 'hell' in a DISNEY movie!" Kitefang replied, trying to liven things up, but it didn't work. "Kite… you gotta remember, they only said those things because the other pirates would kill them-"

It's not WHAT they said, Kitefang! …It's the way they said it. As if Silver cared more about the treasure than life itself… and that Puggsy was finally getting something off his chest, if you know what I mean…

"(snarl) Darn right, I know! I'm GLAD Fangs punched him! (grr) Why, the next time I see that pipsqueak, I'm gonna-"

"Shh," Fangs whispered, looking around nervously. "Did you hear that?"

"No, what?" Kite asked, studying their surroundings. They had climbed down into a ditch-like area, which seemed vaguely familiar…

"It s-sounded like someone was f-following us…"

Kite rolled his eyes. "You're just being paranoid."

*Rustle, rustle* Something moved in a patch of tube-like bushes. "There! It came from over there!"

"There! There!" Morph repeated, turning into an arrow and pointing to where Fangs was pointing.

Kite searched his pockets, but realized he didn't have his picture of the moon with him. Cursing himself, he took out the laser pistol, and together he and Fangs crept over to the bushes (Fangs following close to Kite, chewing nervously at his fingernails) and they both peered into a tube-

"AAAH!"

-and were greeted by two, wild green eyes.

"AUGH!" The two boys screamed as a robot jumped at them. Kite dove out of the way, leaving Fangs to be the one the robot clung onto. Getting a better look at the robot, they noticed it was BEN, the robot with the missing memory piece.

"Oh, this is fantastic!" BEN exclaimed, crawling off of Fangs. "Carbon-based life-forms sent to rescue me at last!" Fangs stood up, only to be squeezed by the ecstatic android. "Oh, I just want to hug you and squeeze you and hold you close!"

"Uh, I'm n-not into intimacy!" Fangs stammered, giving Kite a 'help-me-out-here!' look.

"Um, could you please let go of my friend Mr. …What's your name?" Kite asked.

BEN let go of Fangs. "Oh, sorry. I'm, uh…" he started to say, but the memory-lapses had begun. "My name is… uh…"

Morph turned into a mini-BEN with a cuckoo-bird popping out of his head. Kite patted the top of his head shut, and the blob returned into his original form, grinning once he saw that he got a snicker out of Fangs. "Hey, he does the same impersonation with you," Kite joked, and Fangs sneered at him.

"BEN!"

"Yipe!" Fangs gasped, leaping into Kite's arms in surprise from the robot's sudden outburst.

"That's it, BEN! Bio-Electronic Navigator!" He turned to Kite, who was pushing a startled Fangs away from him in irritation. "And you are…?"

"I'm Kite," Kite replied bluntly.

"F-Fangs." Fangs stammered.

"Ah, what a pleasure to meet you, Kit and Fangsy!" He shook both their hands at the same time.

"It's Kite," Kite corrected.

"And just call me 'Fangs'." Fangs said.

"Anyway…" BEN leaned against Kite's shoulder, but he pushed him away.

"Look, we'd love to stay and chit-chat- I'm sure that's one thing you and Fangs would have in common- but there's these pirates…" Kite began to explain (getting a glare from Fangs at the 'chit-chat' remark).

BEN ran in front of them. "Ooh! PIRATES! Don't get me started on PIRATES! I don't like them…"

"Another thing we have in common," Fangs said, sneering at Kite, who stuck his tongue out at him.

"I remember Captain Flint- this guy, had SUCH a temper!"

Kite and Fangs looked at BEN, then at each other grinning. It was about time the robot got to the useful information. "You knew Captain Flint?" Kite asked BEN.

"…I think he suffered from 'mood swings', but I'm not a therapist in anyway, but- you let me know when I'm rambling!"

"Ooh! Ooh! So, you know about the treasure, right?" Fangs asked, eagerly.

BEN looked at him, skeptically. "T-Treasure?"

"Yeah, yeah! Flint's trove, the loot of a thousand worlds, full of gold and jewels that he flew all around the galaxy stealing from other ships and disappearing in thin air without a trace and-" Kite clapped a hand over Fangs' mouth before HE started rambling.

"I don't know… I-it's kind of f-fuzzy… Wait. I… I r-r-remember. I do, it's just- TREASURE! Lots of treasure! Buried in the centroid-centroid-centroid of the mechanism!" Kite and Fangs backed away, both a bit frightened of BEN's outbursts. "A-And there was this big door- opening and closing, and opening closing…And Captain Flint wanted to make sure nobody found out where he hid it, so he- AH! Memory inaccessible! And- REBOOT! REBOOT! REBOOT!"

"Kite, he's starting to scare me right now…" Fangs stammered, ducking behind his friend.

"BEN! Snap out of it!" Kite yelled, slapping the robot. It hurt his hand, hitting something made of metal, but he ignored the pain.

"…And you are?" BEN asked, clueless.

"The treasure… You said something about the treasure!"

"I'm going to say… Larry, and Joe."

"This guy's more clueless than YOU are, Fangs."

"Yeah, more clueless than me! …Huh?" Fangs said.

Kite turned back to BEN. "You said something about a big door, and the centroid of the mechanism. What did you mean by that?"

"I'm sorry, but I've lost my mind. Ha ha, I've 'lost my mind'." BEN said, then checked Kite's pockets, and looked inside Fangs' cap, pulling out an extra shirt, car keys, beach ball, tire, and stuffed bunny. "You wouldn't have found it, have you?"

"No…" Fangs said, snatching his hat back and putting his stuff back in it.

BEN pointed to the back of his head. "It's my missing piece- my central memory circuit."

"Look, BEN, we'll help you find your memory later, but right now we've got to find a place to hide." Kite said, walking off.

"Yeah… Sorry." Fangs said, putting his cap back on. "We value our lives, and don't want those pirates to find us and…" He paused, seeing the sad look on BEN's face.

"Oh… okay then." BEN said, sadly. "I'm sorry I'm so… dysfunctional." He fell on his knees, looking sadder every second. "You can go. I understand… I do."

"Aw, let him come!" Fangface whined in Fang's mind.

"Yeah, he has that hideout, remember?" Kitefang said, reminding Kite.

Yeah, yeah, I remember. Kite thought, then sighed. "Alright, you can come with us but you can't talk-" he began to say.

"HUZZAH!" BEN exclaimed, leaping into the air, then running over and throwing his arms around both Kite and Fangs. "Me and my two best buddies are gonna-" he saw the glare on Kite's face, and 'zipped his lips'. "'No talking', got it."

"And, um… could you not touch us, please? You're making me feel awkward." Fangs said, pulling away from BEN.

"Right. Touching and talking. Two big no-no's…"

"Okay, now that that's settled, do you know a good place we could hide?" Kite asked.

"Sure! …But, uh, before I show you, can we stop at my place real quick?" BEN pulled aside some bamboo leaves, revealing his cavern, all the while crossing his legs. "It's kind of urgent."

"BEN… Whatever hiding spot you had in mind- not that you quite have one- this place beats it by a long-shot!" Fangs said.

"I'll go get the others," Kite said, walking off. "I'll meet you at BEN's place."

"Um… Okay. C'mon, Morph," He followed BEN down the hill and through the jungle, Morph floating by his shoulder. "So… You used to work for Flint, huh?"

"I did? …Oh, yeah! I remember Captain Flint! He had quite a temper," BEN replied.

"What was it like being part of his crew?"

"Well, I gotta tell you, it wasn't easy. He was always shouting orders, always maiming people, always stealing… I think he had a bad social life in High School, but I'm not a therapist in any way…."

"Were there any other robots on his ship?"

"Were there? …Hmm, I don't know… Oh! One time we stopped at this port, and we all went to a bar, and I met this beautiful android named Lupe, and when the music came on we started dancing…"

"Cool. What else happened?"

Morph groaned, burying himself into Fangs' pocket, knowing that their conversation was going to be a long one…

Kim and Biff waited in boredom. Delbert had found part of the longboat's damaged sail and used the fabric to bandage Amelia's arm, noting that it was broken and causing the pain to spread across her upper body and that she should stay still for a few minutes. He then bandaged Biff's ankle, muttering something under his breath. "…I can't believe I let this happen to my own nephew…" Biff was able to catch.

Kim sat down next to Amelia. "So… a 'slight bruising' huh?" she joked.

Amelia shot her a look. "Don't start, Kimberly. It's only a slight sprain, I'll be back on my feet in no time." she huffed, then noticed a bruise on Kim's wrist. "My dear, wherever did you get that mark?"

Kim looked at her wrist, sighing. "Scroop must have given to me when he grabbed my wrist… before I unleashed my karate moves on him."

Amelia smiled. "Well, I'm glad you taught that brute a lesson on your own."

Kim shook her head. "Not exactly. Puggsy stopped him, remember? He kept him from doing something terrible to me… He saved my life." And he's on the pirate's side and Fangs punched him for it… she thought sadly.

Delbert noticed the expression on Kim's face, and arched an eyebrow. "If I didn't know better, Kimberly, I'd think you developed some sort of, ah, attraction to that boy." he said. Kim and Amelia both shot him a death-glare. "Erm, it's a good thing I know better." He turned back to Biff. "As for you, mister, I want you to keep off that ankle until we can get proper treatment for it."

"Yes, Doc," Biff said, nodding in agreement.

Delbert turned back to Kim. "Kim, could you pry off some branches off that tree over there, so I can make Biff a crutch?"

"Of course," Kim said, walking over to the branches and prying a couple off. As she tugged at them, she couldn't help but wonder: had she actually developed an attraction to Puggsy? Stop think that already! she scolded herself. He's already got Brielle, and you've got Kite- nothing's going to change that, EVER!

She handed Delbert the branches, and- using some rope that had managed to survive the crash as well- constructed a sturdy crutch for Biff. Just then, Kite had arrived back, out of breath from running through the jungle. "We've found a hide-out." he said.

"Where's Fangs?" Biff asked.

"He's with BEN."

"BEN?" Amelia asked.

"A robotic inhabitant of this planet- c'mon, lets go."

Amelia tried to stand, but the strain was too much and she dropped down on the ground again. "Amelia, do you need one of us to carry you?" Kim asked.

"Of course not!" Amelia snapped, struggling to get up, using the longboat for support. "I can manage myself- ugh!" she began to drop again, but Delbert caught her around the waist, and draped her arm around him.

"Allow me to assist you Captain. Please." Delbert said. Amelia muttered something under her breath, glaring at him, but allowed him to support her.

Kim walked alongside Biff, who limped along in the back as the small group followed Kite. "So… do you like Puggsy? I mean, like like him?" Biff asked Kim, in a whisper.

Kim shot him a deadly glare, but when she saw that his eyes weren't joking- that they were serious and wanted to know- she sighed, and whispered, "I can't believe I'm saying this… but yes. I think I do."

A/N: Hey, guys! Well, it's me- FF2- again. Wherever Girl had settled things with Fangs and Puggsy during this chapter …but sadly, at the end, aroused Kim's anger, and now-

*BAM! POW! WHACK!*

Random guys (from background): Cat fight! Woo!

…Um, well you get it. I'm here to inform you (once again) that there's a dramatic scene coming up, and to please review, but don't flame or else we'll call Scroop and have him tie YOU up, if not worse.

*CRASH! KA-BOOM!*

(Sigh)…