Thunder: I think this chapter might be my favorite. It's fun. :)

Chapter 16

"Gentlemen..." Chel said, struggling to talk, "we must stay together and... and... ohh." She started leaning back, losing consciousness.

"And what? What?! We must stay together and what?!" Sunny said starting to panic, leaning forward with every sentence.

"Bridges, you have wonderful eyes." She said. Sunny was shocked at first, but then came up with an odd solution.

"She's lost her mind!" he yelled.

"Well, you gotta help her!" Danny yelled

"Dang it, Danny, I'm a musician, not a doctor." Sunny said, waving his hands. "I mean, I am a doctor, but l'm not that kind of doctor. l 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!" Sunny sat on the floor, looking like a kid who lost his little red fire engine.

"It's okay, Sunny." Danny said, patting Sunny's back. "It's all right." Danny then walked away to look out the door, making it Thunder's turn to raise Sunny's spirits.

"Yeah, Sunny! Danny boy knows exactly how to get out of this. It's just," she started edging away from him to get up next to Danny, "he has this knowledge of things." When she was away from Sunny, she whispered over to Danny. "Dan, any thoughts at all?" Danny looked up at where the legacy was.

"Without the map, we're dead." He said, looking over at the camping pirates. "If we try to leave, we're dead." he turned in towards the house. "If we stay here--"

"We're dead! We're dead! We're dead! We're dead!" Stitch said. Danny smiled down at him and rubbed his blue head before turning to look back at the pirates. Thunder wasn't exactly sure about the situation, so she decided to do the thing she usually does when this type of thing happens: leave.

"Well, I think that Danny boy could use a little quiet time. Heh. So I'll just slip out the back door." she announced, going over to a half orb looking thing in the ground.

"Back door?" Danny asked, turning and running up to Thunder as she opened the 'door', Stitch following.

"Oh, yeah. I get this delightful breeze through here..." she said, pushing it all the way open to reveal pipes and wires and platforms in a never ending hole, "which I think is important, because ventilation among friends--"

"Whoa." Danny said, looking down the hole while interrupting, but Thunder didn't mind. "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?" she asked. "Not a clue."

"Hey, Sunny! Sunny! I think I found a way out of here!" Danny said, climbing up to the top of the opening.

"No, no. Danny, wait. The captain ordered us to stay--" Sunny said

"I'll be back." Danny said, before jumping into the hole.

"Cannonball!" Thunder said, before jumping into the hole like a cannonball.

"Dawg." Sunny said

Danny slowly pushed open another door that was right next to the pirates' camp. They were all asleep, so silence was the key for his plan to work.

"So what's the plan?" Thunder yelled as she came up next to Danny and threw open the door.

"Shh! Thunder, quiet." Danny quickly covered Thunder's mouth, looking over to the pirates. He saw Chase turn over, but that was all. He looked back to the long eared girl.

"Okay, here it is." Danny whispered, Thunder nodding her head. "We sneak back to the Legacy, disable the laser cannons, and bring back the map."

"That's a good plan." Thunder said, though her voice was muffled by Danny's hands. "I like that plan. The only thing is, I'm wondering... How do we get there?"

"On that." Danny pointed to the pirates' long boat.

"Ooh." Stitch said

Sneaking up to the ship was the easy part. With hardly a sound, they sailed up to the Legacy in their stolen boat. The three peeked over the ship's edge before climbing over the edge. Well, Danny climbed, Stitch crawled, and Thunder, unfortunately, fell.

"Aah!" she yelled as she crashed to the deck.

"Thunder, shh!" Danny whispered harshly.

"Sorry. Sorry. Sorry" She said, sinking further into herself. The three slowly snuck to the stairs that led to where the long boats were kept. They stopped before heading into the hallway, Danny in the lead.

"Okay, I'll get the map. You wait here." Danny was interrupted when Thunder stepped forward and saluted.

"Roger, Danny boy. I'll neutralize laser cannons, sir!" With a salute that almost smacked Stitch off a wall, she took a right and wandered away from the group.

"Thunder! Thunder!" Danny whispered loudly, but Thunder was singing and ignoring him as she continued on.

"We are wild, we are free we are more than you see..." She hummed the rest of the way until she reached a room with a large panel on the wall. "Disable a few laser cannons. What is the big deal? All we gotta do is find that one little wire..." She opened up the panel and gasped when she saw the multitude of wires of all kinds plugged in. To find the right wire is to find a needle in a haystack.

"Ah crud." she said

Carefully, Danny wandered into the longboat's room. He racked his memory to figure out where the map might have been. He then saw a coil of rope. That was where Stitch hid when he couldn't make up his mind. Stitch ran over to where the coil was and held out the map as one would hold a trophy. Danny sighed as he held it, a smile crossing his features.

"Yes." he said. Suddenly an alarm blared above him. Panicking, he looked above him knowing only one person would cause the alarm...

"Bad Thunder. Bad." Thunder said to herself. She held one wire, while covering one of her ears with her other hand. "Okay, fixing." She plugged that wire back in its spot, wondering what damage she may have caused...

Danny ran from the room, map in hand with Stitch on his heels.

"That stupid girl's gonna get us all... killed." he said, but then stopped when he reached the stairs. Their, at the top of them, his metal body reflecting brightly in the dim light, was Ratchet.

"Cabin boy." he growled, his claw hands shining.

"Aah!" Stitch yelled. Danny quickly spun around and ran away from the robot, knocking over crates and barrels to stop the robot. But then Ratchet jumped over them and grabbed a bunch of wires and swung over the rest. He would've reached Danny sooner, but Stitch jumped up and clung to Ratchet's face.

"You've got to be kidding." he said. Growling, he pulled Stitch and threw him into an air tube that promptly sucked him in. Danny took Stitch's momentary distraction to hide bhind a pile of crates, powering up his pistol. With a deep breath he moved out from behind the pile and aimed his pistol at Ratchet's chest. A shocked expression crossed his face when suddenly... there was a blackout. Danny grumbled in the dark.

"Thunder..."

"Whoops." she said in the darkness. "Okay, don't panic. Breathing in, breathing out." She plugged the lights wire back in...

The ship creaked as the lights came back on and Danny was aiming his pistol at nothing. Ratchet seemed to have disappeared. Danny slowly backed up from his position, unaware of Ratchet standing right behind him. Ratchet had his claws ready to strike when suddenly, Stitch was thrown out of a tube right into Ratchet's face.

"Aki taba!" Stitch yelled before being thrown back into the tube and whisked away to who knows where. But Stitch's yell made Danny turn around and see Ratchet. The evil robot quickly backhanded Danny, making him drop his pistol and be thrown to the ground. He tried reaching for the pistol while pushing Ratchet's claws away.

"This is it, cabin boy." Ratchet said, smiling maliciously.

"Thunder! Pull a wire!" Danny groaned

"This has gotta be cannons." Thunder said, pulling out a wire. There was a low rumble that suddenly stopped. Then Thunder started floating in the air, then she realized she shut off the artificial gravity.

"Maybe not."

Ratchet and Danny started floating in the air, crashing through a wooden grate. Ratchet grabbed a rope and remained solid while Danny kept floating up, reaching for his floating pistol. With a grunt, Ratchet swiped at Danny, making him spin around in the air and lose sight of his pistol for a moment. When he had his bearing's he reached out and grabbed the nearest thing, which happened to be a corner of the jolly roger. He looked down to see Ratchet climbing up the mast, smiling his wicked smile. Danny looked up and saw his pistol once again. If he could reach it...

"Come on, come on, come on." he said as he reached. With one small tap from his outstretched fingers, his pistol tumbled away from him into space.

"No!" he yelled

"Oh, yes." Ratchet slowly started cutting away at the rope with his claws. "Do say hello to Commander Zhiao." Moving quickly Danny climbed down the flag and held onto the mast. His move surprised Ratchet, but the robot quickly jumped at Danny.

"Tell him yourself!"Danny yelled as he jumped at Ratchet, making him crash into the flag. Ripping through the flag, Ratchet looked down to see Danny holding onto the mast while he is now doomed to float in the abyss.

"Aah!" Ratchet yelled as he floated out of sight. Danny heaved a small breath of relief. It would've been bigger, but at the moment...

"Thunder..." Danny groaned

"Back you go, you naughty plug!" Thunder yelled ash she attempted to swim to the panel to plug the wire back in. when she succeded, all solid ground glowed purple for a moment and everything floating fell down.

"Oh!" Thunder said in surprise when she fell.

"Unh!" Danny grunted as he fell to the crows nest. Gasping, he propped himself up. There was a rattling sound as a tube shook next to him and soon, out came a soot covered Stitch. the experiment coughed a few times and with every cough lost more soot.

"Stitch?" Danny said, looking at the blue fluff ball.

"Ih." Stitch said, looking back at Danny.

"Laser cannons disconnected Captain Danny, sir!" Danny looked down at the deck to see Thunder covered in wires, most of which were still sparking. "Gee, that wasn't so tough." Danny sighed, and shook his head before looking down at the map. He kept it in his pocket for the majority of his fight with Ratchet. Danny was glad he had the map, but still had a feeling that this battle over the map and the treasure wasn't over just yet.

Thunder: We got the map! We got the map! Review please!