Hey! New chapter! (If people are reading it...)
Fung and Jim returned to the longboat with B.E.N to let Amelia know about the hideout they found, which was the robot's home. As they moved inside, it really was the saddest place Fung had ever set foot into.
"I apologize for the mess, people, you'd think after 11 years I'd dust a little more often..."
"No need to apologize, it's—great, darn it!" Grunted Fung, having stepped into something oily and mushy. If it was—uh, no, he wasn't gonna think about it! Fung just simply wiped his foot on a dry spot, shuddering in disgust.
Delbert brought in Amelia bride carry style, and B.E.N watched, a cooing face on his features. "Aww, isn't that sweet? I just love old fashioned romance, don't you?" The robot held out cups full of oil and some other unnamed liquid. "How about drinks for the happy couple?"
Delbert winced, and Fung couldn't blame him, feeling his insides writhe seeing the drinks after stepping in what was possibly B.E.N's poop.
"Oh, no thank you, we don't drink, and we're not a couple," Delbert said, but Amelia was smiling at him.
Yeah, keep denying it all you want, guy, I can see it, Fung grinned silently to himself, as Delbert distracted himself by looking at the carvings on the ceiling.
Amelia grunted in pain. "Mr. Hawkins, Fung, stop...anybody who tries to approach...oh!" Delbert sat down with her. "Now listen to me, stop giving orders for a few milliseconds, and lie still for me," he murmured.
"Very forceful, Doctor. Go on, say something else," Amelia praised, causing Delbert to smile.
But then Fung saw B.E.N at the entrance. "Hey, look! There's more of your buddies! HEY, FELLAS! WE'RE OVER HERE, FELLAS!"
"Gahh, he's gonna give us away!" Hissed Fung, now knowing the pirates were out there. Laser fire shot at B.E.N, narrowly missing him twice before Jim yanked the bot down.
Jim pulled out his own gun and began firing on the pirates, including Fung.
"Stop wastin' yer fire!" Fung heard Silver shout, and the guns stopped firing.
Silver then approached with a white flag, and Fung didn't like this, trying to persuade Jim that Silver might be tricking them.
"He's come to bargain for the map, doubtless, pestilential...!" Amelia grunted, still in pain. "Captain!" Delbert warned her. Then, things began to click. Perhaps, this could be used to buy them time!
"That means he thinks we still have it!" Jim said, grinning. He went to the entrance. "Well? Come on!" He called to Fung who hesitated for a brief second, not wanting to face Silver, but Morph came over, turning into Jim and making Bambi eyes.
"Okay, okay! Just stop that, Morph, it's creepy!" Grunted Fung reluctantly, giving in. Morph chittered happily and went out with them.
Silver met the duo outside and Morph greeted him enthusiastically. Silver gazed over to the friends, groaning and rubbing his leg.
"Oh, this here let's downright smarty since that game attack we had in the galley, eh?" Both Fung and Jim didn't fall for it, both folding their arms in disapproval and betrayal.
Silver gazed down. "Look, whatever you heard back there, at least the part concerning you two. I didn't mean a word of it."
Fung growled. "Then why are you attacking us?" He snarled.
"Try understanding, Fung. Had that bloodthirsty lot thought I'd gotten soft, they've gutted the three of us. Now, listen, I'd gotta deal with yeh. If we play our cards right, we all can walk away from this, rich as kings!" He whispered. Jim smiled, and Fung's face fell. Did Silver really think he was gonna fall for this?
"If yeh two get me that map, an equal portion of the treasure is yours!" Silver finished, holding out his hand. But Fung just glowered, folding his arms, and Jim's smile disappeared.
"Boy, you are really something," Jim snapped. "All that talk of 'greatness'? 'Light coming off our sails?' What a joke!"
"Now, see here, Jimbo!"
"Well at least you taught us one thing, stick to it, right? Well that's what we're gonna do! We're gonna make sure you don't see one drabloon of our treasure!" Jim snarled.
Silver looked murderous. "That treasure is owed ta me, by tunder!" He bellowed.
"Then try to find it without my map, by tunder!" Screamed Jim back, but with Fung, he was even more mad at Silver than Jim.
"Don't think for one second I'm gonna fall for any more stupid flattery or tricks! I almost thought you could be a second daddy for me, but then you stab me in the back!" Fung screamed, stomping his foot, and he then said the one word that shocked them both.
"I hate you, Long John Silver! Ya got that? I freaking hate you!"
Jim felt a little surprised at what his best friend said, for hate was a pretty strong word. Silver for a brief second looked almost in tears, before it disappeared.
"Oh, you still don't know how ta pick fights, do yeh? Now mark me, either I get that map by dawn tomorrow, or so help me, I use the ship's cannons teh blast ya all to kingdom come!" He yelled. Morph whimpered and floated quickly over to Jim.
"Morph, hop to it. NOW!" Silver shouted, and Morph squealed, concealing himself more. Fung felt his new hatred towards Silver rise like a tidal wave while watching the cyborg leave.
The croc huffed angrily, running back up to the building, where the other three had apparently heard Fung shout out the word Hate, even B.E.N looked scared.
"Fungster?" He asked softly, but the croc ignored him, finding a shadowy corner to rest himself in, tears coming down once more, almost regretting what he had shouted at Silver now.
The rest of the night was pretty restless, especially with Amelia still in pain, she got worse. She panted softly, eyes starting to flutter shut. Fung had managed to come out of his solitude area once some of his steam blew off.
"E-everyone, we got...to...stick together a-and..." she trailed off, Delbert panicking.
"And what? What?! We got to stick together and what?!" She looked up at him again, a dazed smile on her face.
"Doctor, you have...such wonderful eyes!" She breathed, before going unconscious.
"She's lost her mind!" Delbert screamed, and Fung noted the heavy bags under his eyes.
"Well then help her, Doctor guy!" Snapped Fung, still frustrated after earlier with Silver.
"Dang it, guys! I'm an Astronomer, not a doctor! I mean I am a doctor, but I'm not that kind of doctor I have a doctrine but it is not the same thing, you can't help people with a doctrine, you just sit there and your useless!" He sobbed, saying it all in one breath. Fung just shook his head.
"It's okay, doc, it's alright," Jim assured, trying to calm down the dog alien.
"Yeah, doc! Jimmy and Fungster know how to get out of this, they just have these knowledge of things!" B.E.N put in confidently until out of earshot.
"So fellas, any thoughts at all?" He murmured.
The friends gazed outside at where the pirates slept.
"Without the map, we're dead," Fung grumbled in a monotone voice.
"If we try to leave we're dead," Jim said.
"But if we stay here—."
"We're dead! We're dead, we're dead, we're dead!" Squeaked Morph in an attempt to be funny, but it didn't work, as Fung looked over at the little shapeshifter sadly.
"Not the time, buddy," he mumbled, sitting down and hugging his legs, Jim joining him. B.E.N looked a little awkward.
"Er, it looks like Jimmy and Fungster could use some 'quiet time', so I'll just slip out the back door," he muttered, sneaking away. The both of them perked up. "Back door?" They asked at the same time. For B.E.N was pushing a large metal ball, revealing an opening.
"Oh, yeah, I get this delightful breeze through here, which I think is great, because ventilation among friends..."
Fung's mouth was open at all the machinery. "Whoa, robot guy! What is all this?"
"You mean the miles and miles of machinery that run through the entire course of the inside of this planet? Not a clue!" B.E.N answered, resulting into another facepalm from the croc. This robot really was hopeless!
Jim turned to the others. "Doc, I think we found a way out of here!" He called. Jim looked over to Fung. "Please stay here and watch over them!" He said, but Fung shook his head.
"No way, guy! We stick together on this! I want to help!"
Jim then smiled as he gave in.
Delbert stood up. "Whoa, Jim, Fung, wait! The Captain ordered us to—!"
"We'll be back!" Jim said, as he and Fung jumped in, B.E.N right behind. "CANNONBALL!" He shouted gleefully.
After a time of getting through the maze, they quietly peeked through the exit right next to the pirates.
"So what's the plan?" B.E.N shouted loudly. "B.E.N!" Snarled Fung silently, grabbing the bot's head and closing his mouth. But fortunately the pirates didn't hear.
"Okay, here it is, we're gonna fly up to the Legacy, get the map, and disable the laser cannons," Jim laid out. Fung nodded. "Uh Huh, yeah, guy, can totally see us getting in an out without a scratch," he said. Jim raised his brow.
"Bein' sarcastic, guy."
"Oh. We will get through this Fung, just follow my lead," Jim said.
B.E.N also nodded. "This is a good plan! I like that plan. Only question is, how we gonna get there?" He mumbled, voice still muffled.
Jim grinned. "On that!" He said, pointing out a longboat. Fung put on one of his famous smirks. Oh the classic irony, stealing from a pirate...
The group flew the longboat up to the Legacy, and snuck quietly on board. B.E.N unfortunately fell loudly inside, muttering sorry after Fung hissed at him to be quiet.
"Alright, me and Fung will get the map, you—."
"Roger, Jimmy and Fungster! I'll neutralize the laser cannons, sirs!" B.E.N called out cheerfully, saluting, dropping to his knees that where wheels, and rolled away to do so, singing the pirate song.
The two rolled their eyes before going on their search. Back at the launch bay, Jim dug through the rope, and they sighed in relief as the map appeared in its glory.
"Ho, at least now we can sneak ba-." Fung was about to say, then his eyes rounded as the ship's alarm went off. That no good—!
Fung and Jim raced back. "Stupid robot's gonna get us all—!" Jim snapped, before staring in fear at who was waiting for them. Fung's heart thumped wildly with his own fear.
"—killed!"
"Eeep!" Squeaked Fung, eyes nearly popping out of his skull at the sight of his rival. Scroop grinned evilly, flexing his talons.
"Cabin boy and reptile..."
"Run!" Yelled Jim, dragging Fung with him who was frozen with fear, and shook his head, trying to stay focused. The two ran for it, knocking things over trying to stop Scroop, but all the spider did was crawl around it, even on the ceiling, that really spooked Fung out.
The two hid behind a corner, Fung trembling all over, holding his gun tight in his hands. Jim then turned the corner, pointing his gun at Scroop, who looked scared for a millisecond, until the lights turned off.
"B.E.N!" Moaned Fung silently, glancing about fearfully when the emergency lights came.The two friends kept their guns up, unaware of Scroop just above them.
Fung immediately heard a squeal from Morph, and the spider yelling in pain. He turned around, Scroop about to strike Jim.
With quick thinking, he shoved Jim out of the way so he ended up taking the blow. Stars once again winked in front of his eyes and he struggled to clear it, Scroop tackling him.
"You ssstill get in the way, uselesss reptile. But I ssshall sssoon remedy that. This will be the price to pay for interfering!" Scroop snarled, suddenly looking like Satan himself. Fung glared back, though he was panicking inside.
"I say this again: nobody hurts my friends! Especially not Spider Psychos like you, guy!" He yelled defiantly.
Growling, Scroop lunged for Fung, grabbing his throat tightly again. Fung gasped aloud at the cut off of air again, hot pain surging through his veins. If this is what he got, then call it a sacrifice, so Jim and B.E.N could get out...
Scroop chuckled evilly in his ears. "Oh, what chance did you have with that boy, reptile? Did you really think you could be friends and a hero? You are nothing but a weak little bandit that you also fail at, too!"
Fung felt himself growing weaker, almost giving in to Death's embrace, Jim pointing his gun, trying to aim at Scroop, but it was hard not to accidentally shoot Fung amidst the struggling.
But suddenly the gravity turned off (once again B.E.N's doing) causing Scroop to loose his choke hold on Fung and the croc got some strength back enough to kick Scroop through the grate, and the three of them kept floating into the air.
Jim managed to grab onto the pole, but Fung kept floating, and Scroop wasn't done with him yet, as he growled, lunging with his talon, making the croc float up even higher, until instinct told him to grab the flag.
"Phew!" He gasped, before his eyes popped again at the sight of Scroop crawling up towards him.
"Fung! The gun! Grab it!" Jim yelled from below. Fung spotted it, and did his best to, but unfortunately he couldn't quite reach, and it was lost to space.
"Ugh, darn it!" He screamed in panic. Scroop smirked triumphantly, beginning to saw the rope.
"Do say hello to Mr. Arrow, reptile..." sneered Scroop.
Gasping in fear, Fung quickly pulled himself down, grasping the pole. Scroop roared in fury, lunging, and Fung dodged, kicking Scroop into the flag as the rope broke.
"Tell him yourself, and stop calling me reptile, I'm a croc!" Fung screamed, glowering after grasping the pole again, watching as Scroop noticed how high up he was floating, and screamed as he floated away into space, to his death.
After a few minutes, the gravity turned back on, the friends collapsing to the deck of the ship, though Fung winced in pain more than Jim since he got most of the beating.
"You...okay?" Jim panted. Fung nodded, feeling slightly dizzy.
"Pain...should pass..." he mumbled, hand on his head, taking steady breaths. The pipe next to them rattled, and Morph came out, covered in soot.
"Laser cannons disconnected, Captain Jimmy and Fungster, sirs! Gee, that wasn't so tough!" B.E.N called from below, covered in wires.
They helped the bot get out of them and went to return to Delbert and Amelia, remaining silent in the longboat for a while.
"You saved me again, Fung. Thanks," Jim said, grinning. Fung shrugged. "Well, you're welcome again, I guess," he said, feeling kind of heroic after all that. I just hope I don't have to deal with all that again for a while!