Angel: I know, it's very late right now at the time I'm updating this, but I got caught up in a long assignment for homework, so I almost forgot to update today. But we are almost finished with the movie now, got 5 more chapters left to go.

After finding Amelia and Delbert and getting them back to Ben's place, the sun had already started setting. "Uh, pardon the mess, people," Ben called out as Delbert carried Amelia bridal style. She insisted on walking there herself, but both Ari and Delbert wouldn't let her. "You'd think in 100 years I would've dusted a little more often, but, you know, when you're batchin' it...you tend to, uh, let things go," Ben started moving things around as Jim turned to Ari, grabbing her arms and gently pulling her inside.

The robot then noticed Delbert and Amelia. "Aww, isn't that sweet? I find old-fashioned romance so touching, don't you? And I told Jimmy 'you oughta be more like that with Ari'!"

Both of them glanced at each other, blushing with gentle smiles towards each other. Delbert set Amelia down on a rock and Ben held some mugs that looked...highly suspect as to the edibleness of them. "How about drinks for the happy couples?!"

Delbert looked at the drinks as they looked like they were filled with oil and they bubbled. "Oh, uh, ooh. Uh, no," He took off his jacket. "Thank you, we don't drink...and, uh, we're not a couple."

He looked down at Amelia, who smiled up at him fondly, noticeably not denying it. Ari smiled upon seeing this, hands on her hips. She just wanted Amelia to be happy, and that was clearly with Delbert. It was so obvious.

Delbert cleared his throat, deciding to focus his attention elsewhere, and that was the markings he saw on the walls. "Look at these markings. They're identical to the ones on the map. I suspect these are the hieroglyphic remnants of an ancient culture."

Ari reached out and touched one with her hand gently. "Mr. Hawkins, Arianna," Amelia spoke up in a strained voice. "Stop anyone who tries to approach," She gasped in pain, sitting up.

"Yes, yes. Now listen to me," Delbert scolded, his jacket folded into a makeshift pillow. He laid her back onto his jacket. "Stop giving orders for a few milliseconds and lie still." He pushed her down gently.

"Very forceful, Doctor," Amelia flirted with him and Ari snickered, hiding her mouth with her hand. "Go on. Say something else."

Delbert blushed in embarrassment from Ari's reaction, but still smiled at Amelia.

"Hey, look!" Ben shouted from the entrance. "There's some more of your buddies! Hey, fellas! We're over here, fellas!" Unfortunately, that was the rest of the crew looking for them, and they started firing at the robot. Jim and Ari pulled him down, firing back immediately.

"Thanks a lot, Ben!" Ari growled out at him.

"You're welcome!"

"Stop wastin' your fire!" A voice shouted and they all stopped upon hearing him. Ari flinched and they ducked for cover, reloading their guns. "Hello, up there!"

From opposite sides, Ari and Jim glanced over the edge to see a white flag being waved from over a hill. "Jimbo? Ari?" She tensed up at hearing her nickname, gritting her teeth in anger. How dare he call her that after what he did to her and Jim? "If...uh, it's all right with the Captain, I'd like a short word with the two of ya. No tricks, just a little palaver."

Jimi and Ari turned to each other before glancing to Amelia. "Come to bargain for the map, doubtless," She sneered, trying to stand so she could argue back with him. "Pestilential-" She groaned in anger and in pain as she was pushed back.

"Captain," Delbert warned her.

"...That means...that he thinks we still have it," Jim pointed out and Ari gasped before pausing. He turned to her and noticed her look. "...You don't have to go out there if you don't want to, Ari."

"I know..." She sighed in defeat. "But we both know I need to."

He nodded in understanding. She needed closure for her father's death, and talking to Silver was the only way to do that.

They met Silver halfway, Ari standing a few feet behind Jim. Morph flew over to Silver. "Ah, Morphy! I wondered where you lit off to," He reunited with Morph, and Ari would've found it sweet...if he wasn't trying to go after the treasure.

He sat down on a rock and grunted, his robotic leg still in pain. He took off his hat. "Ooh. Oh, this poor old leg's downright snarky, since that game attack we had in the galley." He chuckled and they both glared at him, in their own special ways. Silver sighed, looking at his feet. "...Whatever you heard back there...at least the part concerning you two...I didn't mean a word of it."

Their glares didn't change in the slightest. "If that bloodthirsty lot had thought I'd gone soft...they'd have gutted us all!" He gestured to his stomach.

"Didn't stop you from ordering myself and my father dead...did it?" Ari crossed her arms, not letting up and he winced. "Leave no one alive. Your exact words."

"...No...but Lass, if I had known you were in that house, I would've stopped that no-good Scroop! I didn't...I never thought..." He faltered as he saw her look still, seeing that he wasn't winning this one. Nor did he have a good excuse to come up with to justify his grave mistake. He knew he shouldn't have ordered them dead, but the greed got to him.

Silver leaned in closer to them. "Listen to me," He wrapped his arms around them. "If we play our cards right, we can all walk away from this rich as kings and a queen! And I'd make sure you'd get your dream, Lass, and let bygones be bygones!"

Ari was about to tell him off when she saw Jim rubbing his chin, looking like he was actually considering it. "Yeah?"

Silver chuckled eagerly at this. "You two get me that map...and, uh...even portions of the treasure are yours." Ari just shrugged him off, looking away with a hurt look on her face. Of course Jim would get the treasure...the Benbow Inn was still destroyed, and he wanted to make a name for himself.

Silver held out his hand to Jim, who then let out a sigh, shaking his head. "Boy...you are really something," He mumbled, Ari glancing back at him. "All that talk of greatness, light coming off our sails...what a joke." He joined the girl's side and she looked relieved.

"Now, just see here, you two-"

"I mean, at least you taught us one thing. Stick to it, right?" Jim argued back.

"How's that for a nose-wiping little welp and a stupid, no-good orphan?" Ari retorted and Silver paled a bit, Jim still pacing around him.

"And that's just what we're gonna do," Jim grabbed Ari's hand tightly as he faced Silver bravely. "We're gonna make sure that you never see one drabloon of our treasure! And you think that'll be enough to make up for that you ordered her and her father dead!"

"That treasure is owed me, by thunder!" Silver stood up immediately. "And I didn't want them dead!"

"Well, try to find it without my map, by thunder!" Jim screamed, mocking Silver.

"Dead or alive, whatever. But your greed got to you. You just wanted his life savings, no matter if I was standing here in front of you or not, and yet that still wasn't enough for plan. You had to have this elaborate us and trick the both of us," Ari growled out, pointing at him and he frowned at her. "My father was Oliver Johnson. His life changed the day I was born because he gained me but lost my mother. I live every day knowing that fact." Silver's eyes widened at her. "He fought tooth and nail to support me all on his own, and yet he unfairly died because of you! Scroop may have killed him, but you played a part too."

Silver then growled back at them. "Oh, you still don't know how to pick your fights, do you, boy? Girl?!" The two glared fiercely at him, Jim wrapping an arm protectively around Ari's waist. "Now, make me," He put his hat back on. "Either I get that map by dawn tomorrow, or so help me, I'll use the ship's cannons to blast ya all to kingdom come!"

He and Jim squared up for a brief moment before Silver turned away. "Morph, hop to it." Morph didn't move, however, as he didn't like this side of Silver. "NOW!" Morph screamed and dived into Ari's front pocket, scared for his life. Jim snarled at him, turning Ari away from Silver and hugging her. Ari glanced back at him, a little scared.

"Oh, blast it!" He then limped away, Jim hugging Ari closer. She felt like she was about to cry, Jim kissing her forehead in comfort. He led her away back to the structure and Silver glanced back at them with a sad expression. Not only because of what he promised...but because he left a child without her father...

The sun had set at this point, the two teens watching Delbert help Amelia. "Gentlemen...Arianna...we must stay together and..." She gripped her left arm in pain. "And...ohh."

"And what? What?!" Delbert asked in a panic, removing his glasses. "We must stay together and what?!"

"Delbert!" Ari scolded him from behind.

She looked up at Delbert and saw his eyes. "Doctor...you have...wonderful eyes."

He blinked at the compliment and turned to the two. "She's lost her mind!"

"Well, you gotta help her," Jim urged to him.

"Dang it, Jim. I'm an astronomer, not a doctor!" Delbert snapped at him. "I mean, I am a doctor, but I'm not that kind of doctor. I have a doctorate. It's not the same thing. You can't help people with a doctorate. You just sit there, and you're useless!"

"Delbert! Take a deep breath," Ari stated as she and Jim comforted him.

"It's okay, Doc," Jim assured him and he followed Ari's instructions. "It's all right."

Delbert looked genuinely surprised by mostly Jim's reaction of him trying to comfort him...mostly because they hadn't interacted much during the whole journey, and Jim didn't seem that receptive to him, unlike Ari.

"Yeah, Doc! Jimmy and Ari know exactly how to get out of this," The two glanced at each other, as they didn't even have a plan right now. "I-It's just Jimmy and Ari have this knowledge of things."

"Well, at the very least, I can re-look at Amelia's wound," Ari spoke up, Jim and Delbert glancing up at her in surprise. "I managed to salvage the first-aid kit from the boat, maybe it can help."

They stared at her as she bent down and picked it up. "Delbert, would you mind lifting up her arm—gently?" She glanced over her shoulder and he nodded vigorously.

"Y-Yes, of course," He did so and Ari walked over, bending down to the two. She placed a handkerchief on Amelia's forehead, opening up the kit.

"She's gonna need something to bite down on for the pain," She mused, glancing around for something, anything. Jim tossed her his gun and she put it in Amelia's mouth, the Captain groaning in pain. Ari re-checked the sling, examining it with her eyes.

"Recovery's gonna be smooth, but just make sure that you don't exhaust yourself. You just need lots of rest. You might be a little woozy too from the blast, hence all the...compliments," She glanced up at Delbert, who looked away sheepishly. "So the cloth should help for that to cool down and relax your head."

"Acrobatics, diligent, and now a nurse...you're making an excellent First Mate, Arianna..." Amelia murmured proudly, the girl flinching.

"...My dad said I get it from my mom, along with his repair skills," She smiled weakly. "I'm assuming she was in the medical field and maybe I inherited it from her. I used to patch up my dad all the time, he'd get nasty bruises from his second job at the bar sometimes."

"Thank you, Arianna, for your help," Delbert told her gratefully as Ari wiped down Amelia's forehead. "Though it would've been nice to have the assistance sooner."

"As you can see, I've been otherwise occupied," She stated with a blank look and a raised brow. Amelia had ordered her while still injured, so she didn't have the time to examine her earlier. And she had a heated talk with Silver not too long ago, making her even more distracted. Plus her feelings for Jim still being unspoken, and the thought of that made her pause.

"...Jim, what are we, truthfully?" Ari turned to him curiously while still tending to Amelia and he didn't respond.

"Whatever we want it to be," He said in a strained voice and she lowered her handkerchief, raising a brow at his tone. She glanced to Delbert and he nodded.

"Something's on your mind again, isn't it?" She stood up and walked over, sitting next to him. "You know that whatever it is, you can tell me."

"But what if when I tell you, you'll still leave?" He muttered, looking away. "What's gonna happen with you once when we get the treasure, Ari? Are you just gonna take off again? Like you did all those years ago?"

"No!" She shook her head rapidly. "I'd just stay with you and your mom at the Benbow-"

"What about your dream?" He interrupted her and she paused. "You can't just throw that away again...I wouldn't let you. But I don't want to let you go..." His voice broke a little at the last three words and her eyes saddened, feeling touched that he would do that. She placed her hand on top of his and he looked up at her.

"But...you're part of my dream, Jim. And I've known that for a long time now."

He leapt forward and hugged her gratefully. The girl returned it, smiling. He then ran an aggravated hand through his hair, a bit overwhelmed. Ari patted his back and Ben leaned in towards the two. "Jim, Ari, any thoughts at all?"

The two looked back up towards the ship in the distance. "Without the map, we're dead. If we try to leave, we're dead," He looked towards a light near the ship, as Silver and his crew had made camp there. "If we stay here-"

"We're dead! We're dead, we're dead, we're dead!" Morph mocked, floating in front of them.

"Yes, thank you, Morph," Ari stated and they both sighed. Jim wrapped his arms around the girl from behind and they turned to the outside again. "Now what do we do...?" She murmured sadly in thought since any scenario would just end up the same: Silver would still be after them, and they still wouldn't get the treasure.

"Well, I think that Jimmy and Ari could use a little quiet time. Heh. So I'll just slip out the back door."

That got their attention, since they thought there was only one way in there. "Back door?"

"Oh yeah!" Ben turned a sphere like structure and they rushed over to him. Light came in from somewhere. "I get this delightful breeze through here, which I think is important, because ventilation among friends-"

"Whoa," Jim murmured at the secret hole full of pipes and Ari blinked at it. "What is all this stuff?"

"You mean the miles and miles of machinery that run through the entire course of the inside of this planet?" Ben then just shrugged. "Not a clue."

"Ben! This might be what we need!" Ari exclaimed in excitement.

"Hey, Doc! Doc! I think we found a way out of here!" Jim called out to him and Amelia.

"No, no. Jim, Ari, wait," Delbert held out a hand. "The captain ordered us to stay-"

Jim stood over the hole, holding Ari bridal style. "We'll be back."

"Cannonball!" Ben hollered as the four jumped in.

"Woof," Delbert remarked with a blank look.