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It was a quiet day in Cape Suzette. Baloo and Rebecca were away for the weekend on a business trip (probably driving each other crazy, but that's neither here nor there), Molly was staying at Higher For Hire with Kit and Wildcat, though whether Wildcat was babysitting Molly and Kit, or Kit was babysitting Molly and Wildcat was debatable. Toys were scattered all around the office, Molly and Wildcat were playing while Kit sat behind Rebecca's desk reading a book for school, glancing up now and then to make sure they weren't tearing apart the office too much.
Molly was running around with a toy plane with a teddy bear sitting on top "Ace pilot Baloo making a special delivery!" She declared "Doobity-doo, doobity-doo, dooby dooby dooby dooby doobity-doo." She imitated Baloo's singing.
"Hey, aren't you forgetting someone?" Asked Kit.
"Oh yeah!" Said Molly grabbing another teddy bear and balancing it on a boomerang "And right behind him is his trusty navigator, and world class cloud surfer, Kit Cloudkicker!"
"That more like it." said Kit.
"Uh-oh here come the pirates!" Said Wildcat, rushing over with a football to stand in for the Iron Vulture, and stuffed dog to play Don Karnage "Hey Baloo it's me, Don Karnage, gimme your cargo or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your plane down!"
Molly giggled "You don't do a very good Don Karnage, Wildcat"
"She's right." Said Kit getting up to join the fun "Let me show how it's done!" he took the Karnage dog and a letter opener from Rebecca's desk and made the dog poke the Baloo teddy bear in the tummy "Greetings and salivations, Baloo-type person" He said in a perfect imitation of Karnage's accent "It is I, the dread pirate Don Karnage! You will be handing your cargo over to my magnifulous self, or I will hang you by your pinkies, yes-no?"
"Wow Kit, you do a really good Karnage!" Said Wildcat.
"Really, really good!" Added Molly.
"I lived with Karnage for a year," Replied Kit "Spend enough time working for someone you learn to mimic them, you should hear Baloo do Miz Cunningham."
"Kit, what was it like being a pirate?" Asked Molly.
"Yeah, what was it like?" Asked Wildcat.
"Hmm, how to describe it?" Replied Kit "Did you ever do something you knew was wrong, and you felt guilty about it, but at the same time it was really exciting and fun?"
"Like when I sneak onto the Sea Duck?" Said Molly.
"Sort of like that I guess." Said Kit "But imagine you didn't have a mom to get mad at you, you never get in trouble, you just keep doing bad things, and every day you feel a little bit worse about about and it becomes a little bit less fun, until one day you wake up and there's no fun anymore, just guilt. That's what it was like being a pirate."
"Oh. But it was fun at first?" Asked Molly.
"Well yeah" Replied Kit "You know when you're a pirate there's only two rules, do what the captain says, and don't make him mad! Other than that you can do whatever you want, no bedtimes, no school, you don't have to take baths, you don't have to eat your vegetables, or anything! Oh, and I was smarter than the rest of the crew combined, that was neat."
"But weren't the other pirates mean to you?" Asked Wildcat.
"Sometimes, but not as much as you'd think." Said Kit "Karnage actually liked me, which was weird, and no one wanted to be caught messing with the captains favorite."
"Kit, tell me a story about when you were a pirate." Said Molly.
"I better not." Kit told her "I've probably said too much already. Your mom wouldn't like me filling your head with ideas about a life of crime being fun."
"Yeah, she might get real mad!" Said Molly "Almost as mad as she'd be if knew about last week, when she let me go on that cargo run with you and Baloo, and you took me for a ride on your air foil, even though she said it was too dangerous!"
"That's blackmail!" exclaimed Kit.
"I know" replied Molly with an adorably devious smile.
"Maybe you should be a pirate! Don't tell your mom I said that!" Kit sighed "Alright I'll tell you some stories."
"Oh boy story time!" Said Wildcat clapping.
"Once upon a time, I was a pirate, and I never had to take orders from a six year old!"
"Well you do now!" Molly told him "So get to it!"
"OK." Said Kit "Lets see, where to begin?
So that's it for the prologue. Not the most interesting part, I know, but the actual stories are better. Anyway, please R&R!