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MY COMPUTER IS STUPID!! You don't know just HOW long it took to correct a few words in the other chapter! Then it erased what I had written in THIS chapter! GAHHHH!!! The madness!!!

Raine Ishida: This is not Jim's Folly, no, but what does Coming Clean have to do with it?

Vixey Dimera: No, no Jen/Silver slash, it just isn't right…

Ryou-is-mine: I can usually guess all the songs that come on Channel Z, but that's it! I have never even heard of Lady, I don't keep track of artists!

Jackie99: Cool? Wow! Never before have I been called cool!

Warnergirls2000: Yes, I did leave out that bit about the pets, but I wanted this to be told from Jen's POV, and less in the context of having someone who knows everything. There are going to be some parts where we go behind the scenes though…and I did assume that most of the people who are reading this know about the pets. THANK YOU! Reviews make me feel good!

Ari: Really? I thought there was a " Hallelujah" after Deliah, oh well, sigh I'M LEAVING IT!!! MWAHAHAHAHA!!! (sorry, too much caffeine!)

SiriusBlack1007: I LOVE that song too! It's just so…so…um, something I can't remember, INSPIRING!!

Lunachick: Puppy dog eyes! So cute!

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Outside the Doppler residence was a paved street and several lampposts, the house itself was large and grand, a high-powered telescope stuck out of the roof, but the inside was messy and completely disorganized. Sarah sat in a chair with a blanket wrapped around, her feet curled under.

Delbert tried to deliver the news as soothingly as possible, " Those laggard pirates have fled without a trace," he knelt beside her, " I'm sorry Sarah, it appears that the old Ben Bow has burned to the ground."

Sarah's eyes brimmed with tears that did not spill, Jen looked as though she was ready to suck out someone's blood, but turned away to fiddle with the golden sphere.

" Well," Delbert said, trying to change the subject, " Certainly a lot of trouble over that odd little sphere, those markings just baffle me!" Jen pressed down on the small buttons beneath her finger and they surprisingly shrunk down, she began twirling it.

" Even with my superior knowledge, it take me years to…Hey!" Jen had finally solved the puzzle, it clicked and all of the lights went out, the sphere emitted a dome around the three, a map, and even Sarah stood in amazement, " It's a map!"

Delbert cleaned his glasses, " Wait, wait, this is us! The planet Montressor!"

He touched it and all of the information swung into motion, stars swept past, planets and spaceports, " That's the Manalegic cloud!" He leapt aside to avoid another object, " The Coral Galaxy, and that's the Carrion Abyss." The map seemed to shut down as one planet in particularly lit up, " Wait, what's this, what's this? Why it's-"

" Treasure Planet!" Jen finished.

" No!"

" That's Treasure Planet!" Jen said in awe yet again.

" Flint's trove? The loot of a thousand worlds? Do you know what this means?"

Jen held up the map with determination, " It means that all that treasure is just a boat ride away!"

A fierce light grew in Delbert's eyes, " Whoever brought it back would hold a place atop the pantheon of explorers! He'd be able to experience-" The map shut off suddenly and the lights cut on, causing Delbert jumped back, " What just happened?"

Jen looked at the map with a new light, before circling around her mother, "Mom, this is it! It's the answer to all our problems!"

" Jen, there is absolutely no way-"

" Don't you remember? All those stories?"

" That's all they were! Sto-ries!"

" With that treasure, we could rebuild the Ben Bow…a hundred times over!" Jen waved her arms around, trying to make a point.

" Well this is just-oh my! Delbert will you please explain how foolish this is?"

" It's totally preposterous, traversing across the entire galaxy alone," said Delbert, using his "you're a child and so know nothing" voice.

" Now at last, we hear some sense," Sarah said triumphantly, crossing her arms as Jen rolled her eyes and stuck out her tongue.

" That's why I'm going with you!" He said suddenly, changing his entire mood instantly and grabbing his suitcase.

" DELBERT!" cried Sarah exasperated.

" I'll use my savings to commission a ship! Hire a captain and a crew!" He crawled to the top of a stack of books to retrieve his toothbrush.

" You're not serious," Sarah sighed.

As if gaining a hidden talent, Delbert hopped on a rather large book and slid to the base of the book pile, " All my life I've been dreaming for an opportunity like this and here it is screaming," he began doing the whoop-whoop, " Go Delbert, go Delbert!"

" Okay, OKAY! You're both grounded!" Sarah began rubbing her temples in distress.

" Mom, I know I messed things up, and I know…I let you down," Jen's eyes got large and pathetic, rather puppy-dogish, " But this is my chance to make it up to you! I'm gonna set things right."

Sarah stroked her hair.

" Um, Sarah, if I may…" Delbert pulled her away from her daughter into a not so private conversation, " Why not let her go? There are a lot worse things than a few character building months in space," he grasped his chin with a hand thoughtfully.

" Are you saying this because it's the right thing, or because you really want to go?"

" I really really really, really want to go!" He put his hands together and gave a gawky smile, then pulled her chin up, " And it's the right thing."

Sarah turned back to her daughter and wiped a stray hair out of her face affectionately, " Jen, I don't want to lose you!"

Jen took her mother's hand, " Mom, you won't! I'll make you prouder than a mother mantis who has eaten all her young!!"

Seeing that the family had reached a minimal agreement, Delbert intervened, "Well, there we are then, Jen my girl, soon, we'll be off to the spaceport!" He pointed out to the "moon". Jen gave a sigh of evil happiness, finally, her dreams were coming to life.

4 pages, over 1000 words!!! Please review and ask all the questions you want! I can e-mail you if you want, so just say so!

PS: Thank you for the dialogue help! Any suggestions and spelling are greatly welcomed!