Bryan helped pull Jim and B.E.N out of the hole back in B. house. They had been able to get back inside without a hitch. Immediately Jim had the map in hand and bolted to where the captain had been sleeping.

"Doc! Doc, wake up. I got the map." Jim said excitedly and a little breathless.

A shape shifted in the darkness and a hand of long metal fingers took the map.

"Fine work, Jimbo." Silver said. "Fine work indeed."

Only then did Bryan see just how much danger they were in. All the pirates had gotten inside somehow. As soon as the pirates revealed themselves the Heartless appeared. The captain and Dr. Doppler were tied up and gagged. A creature with a face like the cross between a snail and a bulldog had its four tentacle-like arms bound around Rachel like ropes. All of the pirates were armed. Bryan was about to draw his Keyblade but he saw his sister shaking her head. Reluctantly he decided against it. He would have to trust she had a reason for not fighting back.

"Thanks for showin' us the way in, boys." One of the pirates sneered as the lot of them circled Bryan and Jim.

They were both seized. At the moment there was nothing they could do. Captain Silver strode toward them, casually tossing the map in his hand. A triumphant smile at his lips.

"Ye jus' like me, Jimbo, ye hates t' lose." He said.

Jim struggled against his captors, his expression a mix of betrayal and loathing.

"An' I see ye got some new friends too. How fortunate. We'll be needin' all the able backs we c'n get to cart back me treasure."

The other pirates chuckled. Silver laughed at his own joke and started prodding and twisting on the sphere. But whatever was supposed to be happening wasn't. Silver changed the gadgets in his arm several times to open the map but it did nothing.

"What the devil?" He groaned, not understanding why nothing he tried made the map give up its secret. The cyborg looked at Jim who only smiled and shook his head wryly. "Open it!" Silver demanded, pushing the sphere into Jim's hands.

Jim glared back with a mix of hatred and defiance.

"Don't!" Bryan said. "We can get out of this, we ju-."

The pirate holding Bryan shoved him forcefully to where his sister and the others were being held and pushed him hard to his knees. Even through gags or restraints they made it known to Jim he couldn't give the pirates what they wanted.

Silver's arm twisted about to a pistol took the place of his hand. "I'd get busy." He said with a threatening promise.

Jim looked visibly torn. Finding this treasure was important to him. But so was not letting the greedy pirates get their first. Yet that couldn't compare to the safety of his friends.

Bryan struggled against the alien pirate holding him. He and Rachel could take them, he knew they could. If they could fight Nature's End, the Mountainside and Madam Mim, they could take down the pirates and their Heartless minions. One of them could fight the Heartless, the other the pirates. It would be just like with Madam Mim. Bryan wanted to say something to let Jim know he and Rachel could handle it. But he also knew the pirate restraining him would do more than tell him to be quiet with a shove next time. Bryan looked to his sister. She looked scared but that didn't mask her thinking face. Good! She was thinking about how to get out of this too! Now if only they could just communicate somehow. All they needed to do was change the rules. Change the rules then they could get the upper hand.

But that's meddling. A voice in his head reminded him.

No, he countered. That's surviving.

You're key bearers, not gods. You defend the light and those hurt by darkness. You draw enough attention to yourselves and alter the courses of others just by being places as it is. You can't just shuffle the pieces because you don't like the way the game is going. Be cautious but let it play out first.

Great, my conscious talks like my sister. But Bryan knew it was right. He didn't like it, but he knew it was right.

Silver clicked the pistol as a warning. Jim made his decision. Without looking at hit he tapped and twisted the map like a spherical rubix cube and it opened with hundreds of tendrils of bright green light. The light left the orb and formed a holographic image of the planet in front of them.

"O' the powers that be would je' look!" Silver said in awe.

The image of the planet dissolved and became a beam of light that twisted outside the structure and pulsed every few seconds. Silver laughed and ordered them all to be tied up and left there while he and his crew pursued the treasure. But he hadn't even completed the order before the beam dissolved and retreated back into the map. Jim had deactivated it.

"You want the map," He said cooly. "You're takin' me too. And them." He looked to the key bearers.

At first Silver grunted at the defiance. But then he chuckled and shook his head. Bryan wasn't sure what he was looking at. Was that a flicker of respect?

"We'll take 'em all!"