New chapter time! I had so much fun writing this chapter. I love inflicting pain on my characters! (Yes yes, I know I'm a horrible person.)

Disclaimer: I do not own Treasure Planet!

Enjoy!

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"Shit!" Neera hissed, "Get to the deck! I have to go find Mike!" Just as they were about to ask her what was going on, she jumped off the boat, onto the catwalk and ran yelling over her shoulder, "Black hole! Now move dammit!"

Her first priority was Mike. Neera ran to their cabin room to find it empty. Heart pumping wildly she dashed for the deck seeing the mayhem. Watching it on screen had nothing with real life. The heat would have been downright unbearable if not for the massive amounts of adrenaline coursing through her body at this moment. Miniscule chunks of asteroid littered the deck scorching the wood as waves of relentless heat blew through the air.

"All hands, fasten your lifelines!" Mr. Arrow hollered through the chaos. Grabbing a line, Neera tried without success to tie the lifeline knot.

"Dammit!" She screamed before feeling someone reach past her and tying it for her. Looking up she saw Jim as he finished her knot. She managed to thank him before running off in search of her brother.

"Mike! Mike! MIKE!" Neera called frantically, panic raising its ugly head within her. "MIKE!" She thought she heard someone call her name. Turning she looked at the captain and Dr. Doppler. Slipping on the deck as another wave hit the ship, Neera scrambled up to the steering platform. Dr. Doppler was talking about some random numbers when she found her voice.

"It's gonna turn into a back hole!" Doppler and Amelia looked at her in shock, "That star! It's gone supernova! Doc! You got the numbers! Read them! And LEAVE THE SAILS DOWN!" Neera called over her shoulder as she jumped down the stairs continuing the search for her brother.

Jim checked and double checked the lifelines before reporting to Amelia.

"All lifelines secured Captain!"

He ran to Silver who was heading to secure the sails. Jim helped pull the rope and secures the sails despite the painful blisters he would feel after the adrenaline wore off. A small meteor whizzed by his head, making his hair sizzle slightly. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Silver begin to fall. It was as if everything were in slow motion, Silver's face widening in shock as he lost his balance. Jim willed his body to move faster and caught Silver's lifeline. Scrambling to pull him up, he secured Silver's ruined lifeline, burned through by a stray meteor.

"Thanks lad!" Silver thanked him before his face widened further into shock. Turning to see what he was looking at, he saw a humongous asteroid heading straight for them. The laser cannons didn't seem to be doing anything to it. As it drew closer, he and Silver clenched their eyes shut, waiting for impact. But it never came. Cracking open his eyes a little only to open them fully in shock. Silver followed. The huge asteroid was being pulled back from them! But instead of feeling relieved, Jim felt a deep sense of horror settling in his gut.

"C'mon lad! We got to get to the deck!" Silver yelled over the raging winds. Jim only managed to nod.

"Captain! I don't believe it! Neera was right! It's evolving into a Black Hole!" Dr. Doppler and Amelia watched as twin streams of fire circled and were swallowed by the black vortex.

"We're being pulled in!" the tentacled crewman struggled with the steering wheel before being thrown to the side by the force. Captain Amelia took immediate action.

"Oh no you don't!" the feline growled, grabbing the wheel and struggling to right it. The ship continued careening out of control, sucked closer to the endless vortex. A huge wave of fire effectively knocked everyone on board off their feet.

"Blast these waves! They're so deucedly erratic!" Amelia called to Doppler.

"No Captain! They're not erratic at all! There'll be one more in precisely 47.2 seconds! Followed by the biggest mega of them all!"

"MIKE!" Neera screamed. She was positively terror stricken now. Tears stung her eyes and threatened to fall and the heat was making breathing hard. She couldn't find her brother anywhere. Horrible scenarios flew in front of her eyes all of them including Mike's lifeline being cut and him falling into the dark abyss that threatened to swallow them all. The very thought felt like a hand gripped her throat and wrenched out her still-beating heart. She felt sick.

"NEERA!" came the cry from the very tip of the ship. Mike had pressed himself in between the boxes there, no lifeline whatsoever. Relief and horror bloomed in her veins as she darted forward clutching Mike's little body close to hers. Parts of his arms were slightly singed, shiny pink and blistering.

"C'mon lets get you inside," Neera whispered in his ear, turning to go back the way she had come. Not daring to run, Neera walked briskly towards the doors to the galley.

"Hold onto your lifelines, Gents! It's gonna be a bumpy ride!" Neera heard Captain Amelia call to all onboard. Panic coursed through her blood again. She'd never make it to the safety of the galley before that wave hit. Breaking into a run, someone bumped harshly into her and she fell against the mast empty-handed. Mike had slipped out her arms when she fell. He was laying a few meters away; terror marked his face as the heat reddened his face considerably. Crawling towards him, she noticed the blackness of the vortex surrounding them. It wouldn't be long before she wouldn't be able to see her hand in front of her face. Standing up, she took a few running steps towards Mike who lay frozen with fear on the deck. Neera knew she didn't have time to make it to the galley with Mike so she wrapped herself around him like a blanket, shoving him under her shirt, shielding him from everything.

Darkness seeped up consuming everything with black. And for a few terrible seconds, nothing happened. There was nothing to see except blackness, nothing to hear but deafening silence. Then a small explosion and a deep grumblings noise that steadily grew louder and louder. Then the solar sails glowed brightly, absorbing the energy from the blast, sending the RLS Legacy flying away from the horrible disaster. The sudden lurch sent Neera tumbling into the railing where she cried out in pain, clutching Mike closer still.

It was only when she heard the cheering for the brave Captain Amelia that Neera knew they were in the clear. Releasing Mike from his human cage, she smiled at him.

"Are you alright Mike?" Neera panted slightly, taking in wonderfully cool breaths of fresh air into her lungs. Black spots threatened her vision but she pushed the feeling away. Mike looked over his body. Despite his minor burns and blisters on his arms, he was not in danger.

Mike nodded, "Yeah I'm ok."

Neera smiled fully and gratefully before she let darkness consume her.