Constellations : Journey to Treasure Planet | Book 1 |

𝟙𝟟- ✯𝔹.𝔼.ℕ ✯

Jim and I walked through the fungi filled forest hand in hand as Morph traveled along side us. We suddenly heard a noise behind us, causing Morph to gasp as we turned around. Jim shushed Morph as he pulled out the gun letting go of my hand as he whispered"Stay behind me"

Jim powered up the gun as he slowly walked towards the fungi bushes, I stayed behind as Morph floated close behind him. Suddenly Jim was tackled by a robot causing both Jim and the robot to yell.

I started laughing as Jim fell to the ground with the robot on top of him.

"This is fantastic!"

The robot started holding Jim's mouth open as he started looking inside it. "Carbon-based life forms come to rescue me at last!" He let go of Jim as I helped him up, the robot put his hands on his chest as he continued "I just wanna hug you and squeeze you"

The robot then grabbed Jim and started hugging him "and hold you close to me" Jim got out of his grasp while saying "Alright. Okay. Would you just let go of me?"

The robot hugged him again but quickly let go "oh, Sorry, sorry, sorry."

"It's just I've been marooned for so long."

He put an arm around Jim as I responded with "Well that explains a lot" the robot continued "Solitude's fun. Don't get me wrong. For heaven sakes, after a hundred years, YOU GO A LITTLE NUTS!" I fell back from surprise as Jim chuckled at my reaction, Morph flew over to me as the robot chuckled.

Jim helped me up as the robot backed up "I'm sorry. Am I... I am uh...my name is, Uh..."

Jim held a firm grip on my hand as morph turned into a mini version of the robot on Jim's shoulder with a bird coming out of his head like a cuckoo clock. I giggled as Jim smiled over at morph tapping him on the head with his free hand.

"Ben! Of course, I'm Ben Bio Electronic Navigator." He then spun the compass on his chest causing it to pop off "oops" he put it back on.

"And you are?"

Jim let go of my hand and tried to reach down to grab his gun "Jim" but his hand was grabbed by B.E.N who shook it violently.

"Oh, What a pleasure to meet you, Jimmy."

"It's Jim"

Jim glared at the robot in front of him as he picked up the gun. "And who might you be?" I shrugged and responded with"(Y/n)" as I stuck out my hand to shake. "Well how do you do (name that sounds like yours)? You and Jimmy here make a great couple" he grabbed my hand shaking it violently "it's (Y/n), and thanks I guess"

"Anyway..."

B.E.N leaned on Jim as He pushed B.E.N off "Look, we're kind of in a hurry okay?" Jim put the gun away as he grabbed my hand walking off past B.E.N dragging me with him. "We gotta find a place to hide, and there's pirates chasing us."

B.E.N suddenly ran in front of us as Morph floated behind us "Pirates! Don't get me started on pirates!" Me and Jim just kept walking ahead of him until..."I don't like them. I remember Captain Flint."

We both stopped and quickly turned around "This guy had such a temper" I started walking towards him as Jim followed "Wait, Wait, Wait. You knew Captain Flint?"

"I think he suffered from mood swings, personally. I'm not a therapist, and anyway, but I... you let me know when I'm rambling."

"But that means, wait but then you gotta know about the treasure?"

"Treasure?"

I jumped in "yeah, Flints trove? The loot of a thousand worlds?" Morph turned into a chest filled with gold for emphasis.

B.E.N held his head "It's, well...it's all a little...little...little fuzzy. Wait. I... I r-r-r-remember. I do, I....treasure! Lots of treasure buried in the centroid....centroid...centroid of the mechanism and there was this big door, opening and closing, and opening and closing, and Captain flint wanted to make sure nobody could ever get to his treasure, so I helped him-"

B.E.N started to glitch out as sparks flew from the back of his head, I leaned over and whispered to Jim "I think I broke him..."

"Aaah! Data inaccessible! Reboot! Reboot! Reboot! Reboot!" He continued to say reboot until Jim slapped him across the face having already called his name five times" ahh! And you are?"

"Wait, Wait, Wait! What about the treasure?"

"I wanna say Larry, and behind you I'm guessing is (random name that isn't yours)"

"The centroid of the mechanism, or...."

"I'm sorry. My memory isn't what it used to be. I-I-I-I-I've lost my mind" B.E.N laughed a bit and continued "I've lost my mind. You haven't found it, have you?" He asked while patting Jim down "my missing piece? My primary memory circuit?" He turned around and pointed to the back of his head where wires are sticking out.

"Look Ben, we really need to find a place to hide, okay? So we're just gonna be, you know, moving on"

Jim grabbed my hand as I gave a sympathetic look over to B.E.N before being dragged off by Jim.

"Oh, Uh...so, well, then. I guess this is good-bye, huh? I-I-I-I'm sorry that I'm so dysfunctional."

Jim stopped and looked behind him a bit before looking over to me, I looked back at B.E.N "so Uh, go ahead and.... I do understand. I do. Bye-bye." Jim sighed and turned around as the three of us exchanged glances, Morph whined in sadness. Jim sighed "Look, if you're gonna come along, you're gonna have to stop talking."

B.E.N shot up from the ground in excitement "Huzzah!" He laughed as he ran over to the two of us "Oh, this is fantastic!" B.E.N jumped into Jim's arms causing me to laugh as he sent a glare over to me "Me and my best buddies out lookin' for a...." Jim glared at the robot in his arms as B.E.N cleared his voice and whispered "Being quiet"

Jim shook his head as B.E.N let go of his face "You have to stop touching me." B.E.N hopped off Jim while saying "Touching and talking. That's my two big no-nos."

"Okay. Now, I think we should...." before Jim could go anywhere B.E.N grabbed a hold of Jim's arm "Say, listen before we go out on our big search, would you mind if we made a quick pit stop at my place?"

B.E.N walked over to bamboo like fungi, pulling them aside to reveal a building like structure with a giant hole in the middle. B.E.N chuckled while saying "kind of urgent"

Me and Jim looked at each other, then back at B.E.N as I sent him a smile and responded with "Ben, I think you just solved our problem."