Almost four years had gone by since little Gabby first came home. And through those years, Boba did his best to be a good big brother to her. But all the while, since his father died, he'd tried to find ways he could go off and be a great explorer like he was.

On this day, Boba was flying around on a special craft called a solar sailor. It was like a flying boat that took sunlight into its sail the way an ocean sailboat took wind to its sails.

Boba whooped in excitement as he felt the wind running through his hair.

"Now this is more like it!" Boba shouted as he flew the solar sailor into unauthorized territory.

Unfortunately for him, Boba was spotted by some police droids, and the child steered his sailor, trying to get home before the cops would drag him to his mother... again.

In case you hadn't already guessed, Boba had gotten in trouble more than once. This was the third time it had happened. This year.

"Boba Fett! Stop right there!" one cop shouted.

But Boba kept speeding off, trying to lose the cops, but he just couldn't shake them.

"I gotta admit, they're getting better at catching up." Boba told himself.

Meanwhile, Zam was busy working in the cafe at the Dolp-Inn, taking orders and serving.

Gabby's pony Carousella was a great helper with some of the larger orders.

"Oh, Zam. Can I get some more jogan juice over here?" called a woman from a table.

"I'll be right with you, Mrs. Minnau." Zam called, serving another table. "Carousella, how are we on those biscuits for table nine?"

"Almost ready, Mrs. Zam." Carousella said.

Gabby, on the other hand, had a much simpler job than waiting tables and cooking. Because she was little, Zam mostly had her greeting guests at the door, and occasionally entertaining them by playing the piano and singing songs.

"Welcome to the Dolph-Inn Cafe," Gabby greeted as a couple of Kaminoans entered the door. "Table for two?"

Many customers found the little girl pretty adorable.

It was thanks to the cuteness of the children that the inn was always up and running. Not a lot of businesses could say they had talented younglings entertaining everyone and such adorable greeters welcoming their customers.

At one of the tables sat an old family friend by the name of Dr. Satine Kryze, an astronomer and peace-making woman who was also a regular at the cafe, along with her young nephew Korkie. Ever since Korkie's parents died, Satine raised her nephew as a single mother, so she understood completely the stress Zam experienced. However, Zam probably had it harder, seeing as she had two human children and a young alicorn mare, while Satine had just one.

"How are the lattes, Doctor?" asked Carousella coming by, placing Satine and Korkie's plates on the table.

"Very good, thank you, Carousella." said Satine.

"Enjoy your meals." Carousella said.

"Oh, Zam, my juice." called Mrs. Minnau.

"Coming." Zam said. "Where in the galaxy is Boba? Gabby? Do you have any idea where your brother is?"

"No, Mommy." Gabby shook her head.

"Little one." said another customer. "Would you play one of your songs?"

"Sure."

Gabby walked over to the piano and began playing A Whole New World very beautifully.

"I love this piece." Korkie sighed.

"She's quite a talented little girl, isn't she?" Satine said.

"Boba is equally talented." Zam said. "Especially at disappearing."

Speak of the devil, Gabby was in the middle of her song just as the cops came, bringing Boba in.

"We believe this boy belongs to you, Mrs. Fett." said the human police chief more as a statement than a question.

"Boba Jango Fett!" Zam exclaimed angrily. "Where have you been, young man?!"

Boba winced as his mother yelled at him.

Gabby played a little dun, dun, dun on the low keys of the piano.

"Gabby!" Boba exclaimed.

"Sorry." Gabby said. And she was silent as her adoptive mother lectured Boba.

"Officers, I am so sorry." Zam sighed, already exhausted, having lectured Boba about this before. "I will deal with Boba personally... again. Would you care to sit? Meal's on the house for all your trouble."

"Thank you, Mrs. Fett." said the police, and they took a seat.

Later, as the cafe closed, Satine and Korkie were the last ones left as the kids got to cleaning up the dirty.

"Sometimes I just don't know what to do with that boy." Zam said tiredly as she wiped a table.

"Boba is a good boy, Zam." said Satine. "You're doing your best."

"Ever since his father died, he hasn't been the same."

Boba listened in from the kitchen door, feeling down as he heard his mother's words.

"He's my boy. He has talents, but he often forgets about them. He's a wonderful big brother for Gabby, and he built his first droid when he was only six. And yet now he's been failing at school and skipping out on work more than usual. Sometimes I worry if that behavior is going to rub off on Gabby when she gets older. I'm at the end of my rope just with Boba, and taking care of another family's baby for the last four years... I'm surprised I can even stand every day."

Boba sighed and refused to let any tears fall as he joined his sister and Carousella in the kitchen.

Boba, Gabby, and Carousella, spent the next hour cleaning up today's dirty dishes. Boba washed, Gabby dried, and Carousella put the dishes away. But as they picked up the dishes, Boba most of all began to wonder what his life could be like outside of this old bar. Being something more than a cabin boy.

"Don't you ever get tired of working as a cabin kid, Gabby?" Boba asked.

"Not really." Gabby said. "I like working with Mommy. Me and Carousella make people happy with our music, and that makes me happy."

"We also meet lots of different people every day." Carousella added. "What's not to like?"

"What about actually seeing those places where some of the customers come from?" Boba pointed out. "The falls of Naboo, the snowy mountains on Orto Plutonia, seeing the native tribes of Shili? Just imagine all the great adventures."

"Hmm." Gabby thought. "It would be cool to see some of the places Mommy read to us about."

"And go on amazing adventures like my father used to."

"Didn't Mommy say your adventure was the family and we were a treasure you found when I was a baby?"

"Well, yeah. You are a treasure, sis. But what's the use of being in a galaxy of so many places to see if you're stuck in one spot all the time? I mean, Carousella never even learned how to fly because she's stuck here."

Carousella thought and said, "I'll admit, you got a point there. If only someone would come in with a pegasus just once."

Boba then got to his next chore of mopping the floor, which was also serving as part of his mother's punishment for him going into forbidden territory.

Boba:

I wake up each day and wonder what for

It seems to me there must be something more
Something more than stacks of dishes
And washing this old floor

If I had my pick of wishes
I'd wish me out that door
'Cause I'm hungry for adventure
And I'm fed up with this grind

If I don't get some adventure soon
I'm gonna lose my mind
I want a life that's filled with thrills
That's wild and free

There's gotta be something better
Something better
There's gotta be something better than this for me

Boba continued to mop and looked out the window at the ocean, the place he remembered had been both where he'd lost his father and from where his little sister washed up on the shore.

I look around here and I want to cry
Gabby: Aw, me too

Boba: I feel like the world is passing me by
Carousella: It is!

Boba: And I just can't help but wonder
Am I doomed to wash and dry
And is it a curse I'm under
To do it till I die
Carousella: Well, I hope not
Gabby: Yeah

Boba: When I could be an explorer
Carousella: Sure you could!

Sailing off to distant lands
Gabby: Really cool

Boba: Instead of spending every afternoon
Just getting dish pan hands
My future looks like nowhere that I want to be

All kids: There's gotta be something better
Something better

Boba: There's gotta be something better than this for me

Gabby: Well, now your talkin'!

Gabby danced around happily as she imagined all the great adventures she wanted to go on with her big brother.

If it's fun and wild let's go and find it
The crazier the better is what I say

Carousella: Yeah, that's true
To tell the truth I really wouldn't mind it

Gabby: Mind what?

Carousella:

If we find someplace with ten square meals a day

Kids: Let danger call my name

They pretended to sword fight with scrubbing tools

Carousella: If it does I'm gonna hide

She hid under a table.

Boba: I'll put my courage to the test
Gabby: And I'll be by your side

Carousella: We'll be by your side

Boba: There's gotta be something better than this
Gabby: Something more than this
Boba: I know there's so much out there to see
And I know this life I'm living can't be my destiny

Kids: There's gotta be something better
Something better

Boba: There's gotta be something better than this for me

Gabby: And me!
Carousella: Wait a minute, what about me?

Kids: There's something better than this for you and me

"Alright, kids. Upstairs. Bedtime." Zam said.

That was one order from Mother that Boba didn't hesitate to obey. For now, all he could do for adventure was dreaming.

Outside, however, a huge storm looked to be brewing.

Boba stared out his window, like he did every night since he was little. When his father traveled across Kamino, Boba would sit by that window and watch for his ship on the day he was to come home so he could run into his father's arms the minute he came ashore.

But now, sitting there reminded Boba that his father was never coming back. He knew he should've gotten out of the habit, but something always stopped him from doing it. Part of him seemed to tell him that if he kept looking, an opportunity for adventure would open.

Sadly, opportunities for adventure didn't just magically fall out of the sky.

Or did they?

Boba suddenly heard a noise like an engine sputtering, and he looked up to see a ship falling out of the sky, landing on the port just outside the inn.

Quickly, Boba jumped out his window onto a tree and climbed down and ran toward the ship to rescue whoever was in there.

"Hey! Sir? Are you okay in there?" Boba called, heading for the ship.

Boba knocked on the ship's door when he was close enough, and the door hissed as it opened. And out came an older man, coughing really hard.

"He's coming..." said the man, whose name was Dooku, very weakly. "He's coming for it."

"Hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?" said Boba.

"He's after my chest." said Dooku, picking up the chest. "That fiendish Weequay in red and his band of hooligans. They'll have to pry it from Captain Dooku's cold, dead hands before I-"

The man fell and coughed even worse than before.

Boba quickly, but carefully started to help Dooku up and guide him to the inn.

"Mom is gonna love this." said Boba sarcastically.

Back at the inn, as the rain continued to fall, Satine and her nephew were just getting ready to head out.

"Thanks for listening, Satine." said Zam. "It helps."

Satine put a comforting hand on her friend's shoulder.

"It's going to be okay. You'll see."

Zam took out and old holo-vid album and pulled up some old videos of Boba when he was little, including the day Carousella and Gabby first became part of the family.

"Sometimes," sighed Zam. "I hope I'll open that door, and he'll be like the way he used to be. Smiling, happy little boy bringing home a new pet, begging me to let him keep it. And the one time I said yes was when he brought home a pony and a baby girl."

Inconveniently, as Satine opened the door, Boba was there with something over his shoulder, but it wasn't a loth cat or a puppy or anything like that. Rather, an old man.

Zam gasped. "Boba Jango Fett!"

"Mom, he's injured." Boba interrupted, carefully laying the man down. "Really bad."

"My chest." Dooku exhaled, reaching for the chest.

Boba moved the chest closer and allowed the man to unlock it.

"He'll be coming soon." Dooku took out what looked like a ball-shaped package wrapped in a cloth. "He mustn't get his hands on this. The Weequay in red. Beware... the Weequay in red."

Those were Dooku's last words before he collapsed dead on the floor.

Suddenly, a light shined outside as another ship was coming into range.

Boba did not have a good feeling about this. He took a peek outside and saw many shadow figures approaching the inn.

"Gabby!" Boba gasped, he grabbed his mother's arm and began running upstairs. "We've gotta get out of here!"

That was when blaster fire came through the door.

"I'm with Boba!" Korkie panicked, following the Fetts upstairs, Satine coming too.

Pirates quickly came in and attacked, setting the inn on fire.

Boba quickly grabbed Gabby and carried her away, Carousella running close by.

Satine opened a window and whistled for Sapphire to have the carriage ready to go.

"Children, we'll all have to jump." Satine said.

And they had to go quickly because the pirates were coming upstairs fast!

Korkie, being the oldest kid, held onto Boba and Gabby and jumped first with them onto the carriage, then Zam and Satine jumped together.

Sapphire immediately ran and flew to get everyone away from the flaming inn and to the nearest port off-world.

Everyone made it out safely, and the Fett family was granted shelter at the Kryze mansion on Mandalore.

"I just spoke with the constabulary." said Satine, Zam sitting and warming up with her kids by the fire. "Those braggard pirates have fled without a trace. I'm sorry, Zam. I'm afraid the old Dolp-Inn had burned to the ground."

Zam held Gabby in a blanket as the girl cried, squeezing her plush dolphin, the one thing she managed to save before the inn was destroyed.

Boba looked like he wanted to say something, but didn't.

Instead, Boba unwrapped the package Dooku left with him. Underneath was a metal ball with circle patterns all over it.

"What is that?" Korkie asked.

"I have no idea." Boba said.

Carousella looked up and said, "All that trouble for a ball? What are those pirates, a bunch of overgrown preschoolers?"

"I'm pretty sure this can't be a toy." Boba said, tapping the ball and feeling its weight. "It's made of metal and too heavy to play with, but too light and small to be a bowling ball."

Boba started to mess around with some of the buttons on the ball, and the circles on the ball seemed to fall in. Curious, Boba started to turn various parts of the ball around, and the ball glowed almost like magic.

Everyone was amazed at what happened with the sphere.

The entire room became like a huge map, a holographic display.

"It's a map," Satine concluded. She looked at one planet. "This is us. The Planet Mandalore."

Satine tapped the hologram of Mandalore, and the map started to show a route of various planets across the galaxy.

"That's the Planet Equinaro. The Saleucami system." And then came another planet. One huge planet with two crossing rings surrounding it.

"Is that...?" Gabby gasped.

"Treasure Planet." Boba smiled. "That's Treasure Planet!"

It was just like the story Jango read to Boba. The loot of a thousand worlds.

"Do you know what this means?" Korkie said.

"It means all that treasure is just a boat ride away!" Boba said.

"I always thought it was just a legend." Carousella said. "But imagine what we could do with that treasure."

"It could feed a thousand worlds." Gabby said. "We could end galactic hunger with that treasure."

"Whoever brings it back will be a legendary symbol above all explorers in history!" Satine said.

Boba closed the map at that moment.

"Mom, this is it." Boba said. "It's the answer to all our problems."

"Boba, there is absolutely no way-" Zam said.

"It's just like the stories Dad told us."

"That's all they were. Stories."

"I think the map Boba's holding says otherwise." Carousella said.

"Yeah." said Boba. "And with that treasure, we could rebuild the Dolph-Inn a thousand times over."

Zam wasn't sure what to say about this. "Satine, help me out here. Tell them how ridiculous this idea is."

"It is ridiculous to go out on such a journey on your own, Boba." Satine nodded.

"Finally, we hear some sense."

However, that was when Satine grabbed a bag and said, "That's why I'm going with you."

"Satine!" Zam scolded.

Satine had an entire plan to use her savings to finance the expedition. All they needed was a ship, a great captain and a strong crew.

Korkie wanted to get in on this too. So did Gabby and Carousella. And they all got really excited until Zam became the killjoy.

"Alright, you're all grounded!" Zam exclaimed.

Everyone was silent for a moment. Then Boba spoke up.

"Mom... I know I keep messing things up, and I know I haven't been setting the best example for Gabby lately. That I let you down. But this is my chance to make it up to you. To make it up to Dad. He believed I could be a great explorer someday."

"Zam, a word?" Satine had Zam come in closer to speak more privately. "you said so yourself, you've tried everything. There are much worse scenarios than a few character-building months in space. Perhaps this is just what both of your children need. You said you feared the bad behavior rubbing off on the younger child."

"Are you saying because it's the right thing..." said Zam. "or because you really want to go?"

"I really do want to go," said Satine. "And it is the right thing."

Zam looked at the kids. She sighed and said to her kids, "Boba, Gabby, I don't want to lose you."

"You won't, Mom." said Boba. "We'll both make you proud. I'll keep Gabby safe."

"We'll be on the adventure together." Gabby said, posing like a little superhero.

With that settled, Satine concluded that they would commence plans to leave at once.

"Dear children," said Satine. "Soon, we shall be off to the spaceport."