It was later the next night when Jim was in the crow's nest and Danica decided to join him. Surprisingly. She was definitely starting to warm up to the boy ever since he had saved her life during the black hole adventure.

"So, uh, how do you know the captain?" Jim asked her.

"Silver decided I needed a break from the "Killer Crew", although I think he was just trying to give them a break from me, and allowed me to go on a voyage with a different crew. Amelia was the captain, and she took a shine to me. I wouldn't call us friends, but we did form a certain relationship," Danica explained.

"How long have you known Silver?"

"Almost nine years."

"How did you guys get here?"

"You ask a lot of questions," Danica laughed.

"I'm just curious."

"Trust me, that's a sob story that you don't wanna hear."

After a pause, Jim said to her, "I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours."

Danica sighed. "My mother died giving birth to me. And my father blamed me for it. It didn't take much to see that he hated me. A few weeks after I turned nine years old, he took me to meet Silver, whom he'd met a few months prior. And he left me there. I never saw him again. Silver became my guardian, and we traveled everywhere together. But you've seen this crew. They didn't like me either. Silver protected me from them for a while, but he couldn't be everywhere at once. So I had to learn how to defend myself. I taught myself how to fight. If there's one thing you need to know in a fight, it's learn the opponent's weakness. So I had to lose a couple fights in order to learn the weakness, but once I learn it, I win every fight after that. That's why all the crew members are now so scared of me. Because they know I can beat them in a fight every time. Silver and I have worked together for the better part of the last nine years. I look up to him. He's kinda like the father I never got."

Jim looked at her, suddenly realizing why she had been so cold to him when they first met. She didn't like men, and for a good reason. "My dad wasn't so great either. All I can remember is how…indifferent he acted towards me and my mom. And then when I was young, I woke up and he had taken off, never to return. It's been hard on the both of us, but Doppler has certainly helped out a lot."

"So we both have jerk dads. Are all men like that?"

"No. I'm not like that."

Danica looked at him. "What's your mom's name?"

"Sarah."

"Do you think she'd…like me?"

Jim laughed. "I think she'd love you. What was your mom's name?"

"Felicia. I didn't know her at all, but I have a feeling she would've liked you too."

In that moment, Danica has a sudden urge to tell him everything. The plan, what Silver was up to, why they were really on this ship, and most importantly, what Scroop did to Arrow. Unfortunately, she also had a duty to Silver, which meant that her tongue was tied.

The pair sat up in the crow's nest in silence, but it wasn't awkward. If anything, both of them needed to recover from sharing their entire history with someone they previously totally disliked.

Silver woke Danica up early. "Get the rest of the crew," he said firmly. "We gotta talk."

Danica groaned and rubbed her sleepy eyes. "Alright, alright! Come on, everyone!" she yelled out to the sleeping members in their hammocks. "Silver's calling a meeting! It's important! Get your lazy butts out of bed!"

Her words were met with lots of grumbles, but none of them dared disobey her. Within seconds, they were all gathered up in the galley.

"What we're sayin' is we're sick of all this waitin'!" one alien said to Silver.

"There's only three of them left!" another really fat one said. "We are wanting to move!"

"We don't move till we got the treasure in hand!" Silver yelled.

"I say we kill 'em all now," Scroop hissed deeply.

Silver roughly grabbed his head with his robotic hand. "I say what's to say!" he roared. "Disobey my orders again like that stunt ya pulled with Mr. Arrow, and so help me, you'll be joinin' him!" He slammed Scroop into a nearby barrel of purps.

"Enough from the bug freak," Danica said. "Look, Silver, maybe…maybe we don't have to do this. I mean, Doppler, Amelia…Jim…they're all good people. Maybe we can find the treasure without having to overthrow them."

"What did ya just say, lass?" Silver growled.

"I just think that maybe we should rethink this whole plan."

"I know what's going on. It's that boy. You've gone soft for him."

Danica crossed her arms over her chest. "I could say the same for you."

Silver frowned at her. "Now you listen here, lass. All of ya! I care about one thing, and one thing only! Flint's trove!"

Danica looked at him and could feel her eyes misting over. She furiously blinked back the tears. After building up such a reputation, she could not afford to lose it now. But that had hit closer to home than she expected.

Silver's face softened for a moment. "Danica, that's not what I meant."

"No, I think that's exactly what you meant," she said sharply. "Gosh, I'm so stupid! All these years I thought that someone actually cared about me. But all of it was just a big, fat lie! As long as that treasure is out there, you'll never care for anything else." Tears were threatening to spill out of her eyes, and she knew she had to get out fast before she had to start at Square One again. "You know what? Do whatever you want. I'm out."

She threw up her hands in defeat and went up the stairs to the deck. Once there, she made sure no one was around and sank down to the ground as tears ran down her cheeks. Her whole world has just come crashing down around her for the second time in her life.

"Planet ho!" the lookout alien screamed from the crow's nest. "Ah! There it is!"

Danica quickly wiped her eyes as the crew members swarmed out of the galley. She looked over and saw the planet that she and Silver had always dreamed of seeing together. But after the events that had just transpired, she was not nearly as excited about finding the planet as she wished.

Suddenly, she heard Silver scream from down in the galley and watched Jim scurry out. That meant that he had been down there the whole time, and he must've heard everything. He knew about Silver's betrayal and how she had helped. Knowing she had to make up for everything, she ran over to him and took his hand. "Come with me!" she yelled.

The fierce glare he gave her told her that he definitely overheard everything that had happened in the galley.

"Look, we don't have time for this, okay? Just come on!"

They both ran up to the captain's quarters and locked the door. Danica could hear Silver yell, "We move now!"

"What's going on, you two?" Amelia demanded.

"Silver's overtaking the ship! They're all pirates!" Danica said urgently. "And…I was helping them…"

"Pirates on my ship? I'll see they all hang. As for you, Miss Danica, I'll deal with you later." She grabbed a gun and threw it to Doppler. "Doctor, familiar with these?"

"Oh, I've seen…uh….Well, I've read—" He was cut off as the gun fired and burned a hole in her wall. "Uh, no. No. No, I'm not."

Amelia sighed. The door began to be torched open and they all knew it was just a matter of time before they broke in. "Mr. Hawkins, defend this with your life!"

She attempted to toss the sphere to him, but Morph grabbed it before he could catch it. "Morph, give me that!" He wrenched the sphere from his mouth and clung onto it tightly.

Amelia took her gun and fired a hole into the floor. One by one, they all got through and began running in the passage under the ship in order to get to the skiffs and escape. Jim, Doppler, and Danica hopped into one of the longboats and Amelia pulled the release lever to open the floor. She then hopped into the longboat with that poise she was so gifted with.

Just when it seemed like they were in the clear, Morph grabbed the sphere from Jim's pocket and flew off with it.

"Morph!" Jim yelled. "No!" He hopped back onto the landing.

"Jim!" Danica screamed. Before Amelia could stop her, she followed him onto the landing. "Morph!" she called as the door broke down. The two of them ran all over the landing in an attempt to get the sphere back from his mouth.

"Morphy, come here," Silver said to his pet.

"Morph, bring it here," Jim said sweetly.

"Come on, boy, don't you want to give that to your best friend, Danica?"

Morph looked back and forth and then just went into a pile of rope. Before Silver got to it, Jim got there first and grabbed it from the rope. Then he and Danica ran back to the longboat Doppler and Amelia were in. They both made a jump for it as the longboat crashed down in to the opening before the door could fully close. Danica made it in, but Jim held on to the side for dear life.

"Jim!" she and Doppler screamed as they both pulled him back into the longboat. Amelia released the sail and they began to fly away.

A laser ball flew from the cannon on the ship and crashed into them, knocking off the bad end of the longboat. Amelia cried out in pain, and the whole thing went crashing down onto the ground.

They all managed to get out of the boat and rubbed their sore muscles from the ungraceful crash. Danica's usual braids had come undone and her hair was loose around her shoulders for the first time in years.

"Not one of my gossamer landings," Amelia laughed. Suddenly, she held her side and sank onto the ground.

"Captain!" Doppler exclaimed.

"Oh, don't fuss!" she said as all three helped her up. "Slight bruising, that's all. Cup of tea, and I'll be right as rain." She ran her fingers through her hair. "Mr. Hawkins, the map if you please."

Jim took the sphere out of his pocket and held it up. Suddenly, it began to float and they all watched in horror as the sphere turned pink and Morph appeared in a fit of giggles.

"Morph, where's the map?" Jim screamed.

Morph turned into the rope and ball, signaling that Jim had grabbed the wrong sphere.

"Are you serious?! It's back on the ship?!"

"Stifle that blob, and get low," Amelia said. "We've got company."

They looked up and saw another longboat about to land, evidently looking for them.

"We need a more defensible position." She handed Jim a gun. "Mr. Hawkins, scout ahead. Take Miss Danica with you. And keep her close." Amelia eyed Danica scornfully. "I'll not have any more betrayals."