There was a sandcastle on the beach, and a boy put a skull-and-crossbones flag on the top.
"Awesome sand castle, Jake!" a girl with brown pigtails, dark brown eyes, and tan skin said. She was wearing a pink bandanna over her head, a pink short sleeve shirt, purple leggings, and red boots.
"Thanks, Izzy," Jake replied. He had spiky black hair with a red bandanna around it, dark green eyes, and fair skin. He wore a white t-shirt with a smart blue vest with a gold hem covering it. He wore lighter blue pants held up by a black belt, and brown boots with golden buckles. He held a wooden sword. "Your seashells really make it shine! And Cubby's coconut makes a great entrance!"
"Aw, coconuts," said Cubby. He was the shortest of the bunch, with bright blue eyes, strawberry-blond hair, and light skin. He wore a light blue bandanna tied in the back over his hair. He had a white shirt with a small blue vest over it. He wore red shorts with an orange patch on one side. He had brown shoes on over blue and white striped socks. "It was nothing."
"Heads up, me hearties!" called a parrot. It flew down from its perch on a pirate's mast sticking out of a tree stump. Jake and the other kids had worried looks on their faces. "The Jolly Roger be heading this way!"
The parrot was green with yellow around the eyes and red and light blue on its tail feathers. It had a yellow beak, and wore a black bandanna around its head.
"Shiver me timbers!" cried Jake, pulling out a telescope and looking through it. A big pirate ship with red and black-striped sails was coming towards them. "It's Captain Hook's ship! What does that sneaky pirate want now?"
Captain Hook, on his ship, was looking through his telescope. He wore a red hat with a white plume and red clothes. He had long black hair, a skinny mustache, and had stubble on his chin. "Mark my words, Mister Smee," he said.
"Marking, sir," said Smee. He was a pudgy man with a big nose, white hair, and a red bandanna tied around his hair. He had dark eyes and light skin. His blue and white striped shirt was too small for him, and he wore blue pants. He had a notebook in hand and a green feather in the other.
"I am absolutely certain that Jake and his pesky pirates have a hideout somewhere on that island," said Captain Hook as Smee wrote it down happily.
"Hideout!" Smee said, finishing his writing. "Check!"
"I, Captain Hook, need a hideout," Captain Hook said.
"Need a hideout," Smee said as he wrote that down. "Check!"
"Mister Smee, we're going to find those pirates' hideout and make it my hideout!" Captain Hook cried.
"Find the pirates' hideout, make it mine," Smee said as he wrote. Then he laughed nervously and said to Captain Hook, "Yours. Check!"
"It looks like Captain Hook's on his way here," Cubby said nervously. "Let's hide!" He jumped behind the sand castle.
"We've gotta do more than that, Cubby," Jake replied. "We've gotta hide our hideout to keep Captain Hook from finding it! Will you help us keep our hideout safe from Captain Hook?"
From behind the sand castle, Cubby nodded.
"Great!" responded Jake. "Remember to keep a lookout for gold doubloons, mateys! Whenever we solve a pirate problem together, they appear! Then we'll collect them and put them in our team treasure chest!"
"Is everybody ready?" asked the parrot.
"I got my sword!" Jake said, swinging it out.
"I got my map!" yelled Cubby, pulling it out of his shirt.
"And I've got my pixie dust!" Izzy said, holding it up. It was in a bag tied on a cord around her neck. "The fairies gave it to me so that we could use it to fly!" she explained to her mates, gold earrings swinging. "But only in emergencies!"
"Yo, ho, let's go close up our hideout!" Jake yelled. He raced off, the parrot following. Izzy and Cubby followed along too, running.
Jake stopped at a tiki statue, throwing his sword to the ground. "This tiki statue helps us open the door to our hideout," he said. "Let's all push the tiki's tongue down. Reach out your arms and push!" He pushed the tongue, and the sound of gears turning was heard. Two palm trees moved aside to reveal a wooden door that was opening. It was covering an entrance to a cave. Jake and his crew entered. The door shut and the palm trees swung back to hide it.
Inside the cave, Jake and his crew ran up the stairs of a pirate ship. "Yo, ho, mateys, away," they sang as Jake grabbed a rope. "There'll be treasure and adventure today," they continued. Jake pulled the rope, and a bunch of barrels hanging from a rope raised. The pirate's mast in the tree stump lowered, and the parrot flew down with it. "Heave, ho, here we go, together as a team, Jake and the Never Land pirates, and me..." they continued singing. Izzy and Cubby pulled a lever, and a piece of the island spun down to cover their hideout.
"Is everything ship shape, mateys?" Jake asked.
"Aye aye, Jake!" Cubby and Izzy replied, saluting. "We closed up the hideout," Izzy added. "And we got four gold doubloons!" Cubby cried, holding them out.
"Let's grab 'em, and go check on Hook!" Jake cried, taking two. "Thanks to all our hard work, Hook will never find our hideout!"
"Keep your weather eye open, Mister Smee," Captain Hook said, stepping on Jake and his crew's sand castle and smashing it. "I want to find out where those scurvy swabs' hideout is!"
"Got both me eyes open, Cap'n," Smee said. "The left one, and the right one!" He laughed.
Smee and Captain Hook looked around a rock.
"Hmm, not here," Captain Hook said.
They pushed apart two leaves. "Not here," Captain Hook said.
Then, Captain Hook dug many holes in the sand. "They're not here," he said. "Blast!" Smee poked his head out of a big hole.
"Where is that hideout?" Captain Hook said with frustration. "Hmm. Maybe those puny pirates enter their hideout through a tree." He leaned on the tiki statue's tongue, and the door to the hideout opened. He didn't notice, though, and he took his hand off. The hideout door closed. "No, that's ridiculous!" he declared. "What if they sneak through a tunnel under the beach?" He leaned on the tongue again and the hideout door opened. Still not noticing, he took his hand off and it shut again. "No, preposterous," he declared. "Where can those guppies be hiding?" He jumped in frustration.
"Whew, it is quite a strange situation, sir," Smee replied. "Quite strange, I must say."
Captain Hook looked down in despair.
Above them, Jake and his crew looked out a window in the hideout. "What silly pirates," said Izzy. "Captain Hook found the door to our hideout, and he doesn't even know it!" She giggled. Cubby giggled with her.
"Hmm," Captain Hook said, down on the ground. "Maybe we can get a better look from the top of that hill. Follow me, Mister Smee!"
Smee popped himself out of the hole. "That's what I'm here for, Cap'n, to follow!" He saluted Captain Hook. They ran off to the hill.
"Phew!" Izzy said. "It's a good thing we closed up all the hatch doors."
"Crackers! No, we didn't!" the parrot cried. There was one window still open on that hill.
"Aw, barnacles!" cried Izzy. "That hatch is still open!"
"What if Captain Hook sees it?" asked Cubby nervously.
"There's only one thing to do! We've gotta distract Captain Hook and close that door!" Jake said. "Yo, ho, let's go to Water Cannon Hill!"
Captain Hook and Smee were climbing Water Cannon Hill.
"Cap'n, might we take a moment or two to take a bit of rest?" asked Smee.
"Never," Captain Hook proclaimed. "I shall not rest until I find those pesky pirates' hideout!"
They continued climbing. They were close to the window now.
Cubby peeked out from the other side of the hill. "Oh no!"
Jake, Izzy, and the parrot peeped out from behind a rock. They were wearing rocks and leaves on their head as a disguise. "Cubby needs help to get ahead of Hook and Smee!" Jake said to Izzy worriedly. "How can we help him?"
Izzy thought. Then she raised her finger. "I've got an idea! Let's make noises like monkeys! I bet that'll distract Hook."
"Good idea, Izzy," Jake said.
"Let's all make monkey noises!" Izzy said. She, Jake, and the parrots began making monkey noises loudly.
"Hey! Is that you screeching?" Captain Hook asked Smee.
Smee replied, "Not I, sir."
Cubby climbed higher than Captain Hook and Smee up the hill.
"Sounds like a barrel full of monkeys if you ask me," Smee noted.
Cubby shut the hatch.
"All right! Monkey noises rule!" Jake cried.
"We distracted Hook, and we got two more gold doubloons!" Izzy said. "Let's grab them and go!" She grabbed the two gold doubloons.
Captain Hook climbed higher. "I feel something odd is going on around here, Mister Smee," he said.
The piece of island that had closed earlier spun upward again. Cubby looked out. "Aw, coconuts!" he cried as he saw the two pirates.
"Cubby!" cried Jake.
He, the parrot, and Izzy began making monkey noises again.
Cubby giggled. "Jake says it's time for Hook to get a little wet."
A cannon was under the raised piece of island. Cubby pulled a lever, and the cannon spun to face Captain Hook and Smee. It began spraying water, and Captain Hook and Smee were washed down the hill into the sea. They fell in and frowned.
Captain Hook panted. "Just a little farther," he said. A hand, then a hook, came up onto the top of the hill that held the tree the mast had poked out of. Captain Hook pulled himself up. "Aha! Do you see this, Mister Smee?" He twanged his mustache. "Methinks the hideout of those scurvy swabs is down this hollow tree!" He began climbing the tree.
"Might I have a look-see, sir?" asked Smee, swinging himself up onto the tree with surprising agility.
"Oh, that looks-" He slipped. "Whoa, whoopsie-doo, aah!" He fell onto Captain Hook, who fell into the tree. Smee bounced back onto the tree branch he'd been on.
"Blast you, Smee..." cried Captain Hook as he slid down a wooden slide inside the hollow tree that Jake and his crew had made.
"Captain Hook! Thar he blows," said the parrot as Hook slid past them. Jake and his crew were standing on a balcony looking out on the slide. "There he goes!"
Captain Hook flew off the slide and landed on a barrel. It began rolling, and he struggled not to fall off. He flew onto the slide again. "By thunder!" he screamed as he shot onto the boat's wheel and turned it. He shot out of the hideout through a waterfall. "Smee!" he cried as he skipped twice on the ocean, then sunk.
"Coming!" Smee said. He threw a life preserver, and it landed around Captain Hook.
"That was close," Jake said, looking out of a hatch.
"Too close," added Cubby.
Izzy giggled. "And Captain Hook doesn't even know that he was in our hideout!"
"I know those pesky pirates are behind all of this tomfoolery," Captain Hook said. "But they will never stop me from finding their hideout, you can be sure of that." They were climbing another hill now.
"I'm behind you every step of the way, Cap'n, I am," Smee said. He was grabbing rocks and branches sticking out of the earth to propel himself forward. He grabbed Hook's foot without noticing. Captain Hook was holding onto a tree, and when Smee grabbed his foot, the tree swung back to reveal a wooden door.
"Will you watch where you-" Captain Hook started. Then he saw the door. "Pray tell, what's this? It looks like a door!" He jumped off the tree and landed on the ground next to the door. "Which I will open," he continued.
"Might I suggest a plunger hook?" asked Smee, whipping out a toilet plunger looking thing. "It's quite the fashion these days, yes it is," he went on. He popped Captain Hook's hook off and replaced it with the plunger.
"Why excellent choice, Mister Smee," said Captain Hook. He stuck it to the door and began pulling.
From inside the door, Izzy looked out a peep-hole. "Yay hey, no way!" she cried. "Captain Hook has found a way inside our hideout! We've gotta stop him!"
"I know how we could keep old feather-hat busy," Cubby said, "but it will only work if I could fly like a fly."
"A fly," Izzy said. "Hmm. What can we use to help Cubby fly?" She looked down at her necklace. "Aye! A pinch of my pixie dust!" She held it up and sprinkled it onto Cubby.
"Ah, coconuts!" said Cubby as the pixie dust landed on him. "That tickles!"
Outside of the door, Captain Hook was pulling on it with his plunger. "Move it, you blasted door," he said, frustrated.
Cubby flew out from behind the hill. "Buzz!" he said. "Buzz, buzz, buzz!" He kept flying around and saying "buzz" to distract Captain Hook.
Captain Hook took his plunger off the door. "Oh, my," he said.
"Hook's moving away from the door!" Jake said from inside.
"Cubby did it!" the parrot said.
"Yay hey!" shouted Jake and Izzy.
"We helped Cubby fly!" Jake said.
"And we got two more gold doubloons!" the parrot noticed. "Let's grab 'em and go!" He swiped at the doubloons with his wing and scooped them up.
"Buzz, buzz buzz!" Cubby said, flying around Captain Hook.
"Oh, little pest!" Captain Hook cried. "I think I'll add you to my bug collection!" He popped off his plunger and replaced it with a flyswatter. He swung at Cubby, but missed, and lost his balance. He tumbled down the hill and fell onto a raft hooked to a zip line. "Smee!" he called as he flung away. He fell onto a shipwreck, breaking a trapdoor and sliding on it down some stairs inside the island. He flew through an underwater tunnel, scaring a puffer fish outside. His raft jumped over Jake and his crew's ship, then went through a tunnel and flung out of a hatch. He dove down back into the ocean. Smee through another lifesaver, and pulled Captain Hook to shore.
"Perhaps we should look for the sea pups' hideout some other day," suggested Smee as he reeled Captain Hook in.
"Never!" cried Captain Hook. "Captain Hook never quits!" He stood up, then sneezed, the force of the sneeze propelling him onto the sand.
"Oh!" Smee said, catching him. "Oh dear, you seem to have caught a cold, sir." He helped Captain Hook up. "It's back to the Jolly Roger for you! And then, you can have a nice bowl of hot chicken noodle soup."
They walked away, and Captain Hook sneezed again.
The Jolly Roger sailed away, and the door to Jake and his crew's hideout opened.
"Ahoy! We did it!" cried Cubby as the crew walked out of their hideout.
"We hid our hideout from Captain Hook!" Izzy cried.
"Now, let's put all our gold doubloons into our team treasure chest!" Jake said.
The parrot flew to a shovel in the sand and pulled it. It was actually a lever, and a treasure chest rose from an X in the sand.
"Way, hey, well done crew, everyone knew just what to do," sang Jake and the crew as they marched around the treasure chest. "Way, hey, with help from you, it's time to count our gold doubloons!" they finished as the treasure chest opened.
"Come on! Count with us!" Jake said to Izzy and Cubby. They threw their doubloons into the chest.
"One, two, three, four," counted Cubby.
"Five, six..." continued Izzy.
"Seven, eight!" Jake finished counting. "Yo ho! For solving pirate problems today, we got eight gold doubloons!"
Jake looked at his crew. "Thanks for helping us hide our hideout, mateys! Way to go!"
ACHOO!
The Jolly Roger's sails rustled.
"There, there," Smee said as he fed Captain Hook some soup. Captain Hook had a green blanket covering his shoulders, a hot water bag on his head, and his feet in a tub of water. "I'm sure you'll be back on your feet in no time!" Smee chuckled. "Colds don't last forever, you know."
Captain Hook sneezed again.
"Thank you for all you've done, Mister Smee," Captain Hook said.
Smee's bowl of soup was on his head, probably from the sneeze. "My pleasure, sir," he said, sucking a noodle up. Then he winked.