"Oohhh..." Shantae said as she slowly regained consciousness. She was laying on her side in a dark room with little to no idea of her current location. "Where am I?" she asked herself. She tried to move her arms and legs but she couldn't. Looking down she found out why: her arms were tied behind her back with a set of ropes not to far from her belly and her legs were tied together. She tried to struggle but she was still a little woozy. A dozen questions then flashed through her head: "What's going on here?", "Who did this?", "How did I get here?" And is if on cue a door in front of her opened an she got an answer.

Though her eyes were still adjusting to the bright light she could make out what appeared to be a tall women with a really curvy body and what appeared to be a hat on her head.

"I see you finally woke up..." she said with a smooth yet sultry voice. It was then that Shantae recognized her captor.

"Risky..." she said with some rage

"Well," Risky said as she approached her captive and held her chin like a flower "It's very reassuring to know that the 'Knock-Out' potion didn't give you amnesia..."

"'Knock-Out' potion..." she whispered.

It all came back to her: she had come to what remained of the Pirate Master's Grave after she defeated him for good to say goodbye to Risky. She wanted to save thanks for helping her regain her powers, which is ironic considering Risky was why she lost her powers, and asked the pirate if this meant she was now a good guy. Risky said no and was then about to leave when she said that Shantae bore a very strong resemblance to the half-genie's mother (only shorter and more annoying).

"It's a shame that our sailing days had to end with his death," Shantate said. She really liked sailing from island to island and she helped Risky in preventing the Pirate Master from taking over Sequin Land with his dark magic (which actually turned out to be Shantae's light magic).

"Who said it was over?" Risky asked her with a devilish grin. Then, out of the blue, Risky sprayed her with this weird-looking mist. She tried to fan it away, but it was already serving it's purpose as Shantae then lost consciousness (which basically brings us to here).

"You did this to me!" Shantae growled to Risky

"Guilty as charged," she calmly replied still retaining that sly smile

"What's the big idea? I thought you were leaving Sequin Land?"

"I did...or more accurately WE did,"

"WHAT?!"

"Right after you went down, I had my Tinkerbats tie you up, as you've probably already noticed, and carry you onboard and placed you here in the brig right before we set sail. By now, we're probably miles away from that old grave,"

This was the last straw. "What's the big idea?!" Shantae demanded "Why did you kidnap me?"

"Honestly," Risky replied still clutching Shantae's chin "did you think I would just let you leave my ship after all we went through?"

"YES!" Shantae yelled "What makes you think I would remain part of your crew?" Risky then grinned even more. "This can't be good," Shantae thought

"Well," Risky said "If you insist...MEN!" And with that a few members of her legion of Tinkerbats filled right into the room awaiting their mistress's orders "Carry our 'guest' up to the deck and bring out the 'you-know-what'!"

The Tinkerbats silently nodded "Yes ma'am!" and gathered around Shantae as they lifted her. All the young half-genie could do was gulp. This DEFINITELY couldn't be good.