The mid-day sun shone brightly over the oceans of Skull Island, a haven for all Pirate kind, and a ship was sailing towards an Armada fortress before weighing anchor and sending a long boat to the fort. Four people occupied this long boat, two of which were siblings Jack and Autumn Fallon. They were in the midst of a disagreement. Autumn was 15, just a year younger than her brother with short dark hair dyed white at the ends, and had the same stormy gray eyes as her older brother Jack, who was 16 with curly black hair and green eyes They both wore standard cabin boy/girl outfits, for that's what they were in their pirate crew.
"Jack, I'm telling you for the last time, this doesn't look safe." Autumn cautioned her brother as the two of them sat in the rowing long boat towards a small, remote Armada fortress. James rolled his eyes and ignored his sister's warning.
"The Resistance needs these weapons, sis. We can't let them down." He replied finally. Autumn groaned in frustration. The small fortress loomed in the distance, growing larger as the two siblings and their other two crew members approached. Their captain, a man named Jay Oliver, who was in his 30's, pulled out a spy glass. He saw armada troops crawling the deck of the station. The troops had been created back during the Polarian war. Marleybone, Valencia, Monquista and all the great naval powers had been at a terrible war with Polaris, a rigid and frozen ice-land, which threatened to tear the spiral apart. The Spiral, as it was known, held all the different worlds together. How did this work? Some say it was because of Bartleby, the great tree in the world of Wizard City. Jack paid this no mind as Captain Oliver scoured the deck of the station.
"Blast. Armada troops." He cursed. Jack took out his father's spyglass and scoped out the scene. "Jack, any way to get through?" Captain Oliver asked the young cabin boy. James took his time to survey the area and pointed to a small hatch behind the station.
"There." He pointed out. "That access hatch will lead us straight to the hold where the weapons are kept." He told the captain. Captain Oliver spotted the hatch and patted James on the back.
"Attaboy, lad." He smiled. "Alright Mr. Evans, take us to that hatch." He called to a young man roughly in his 20's with dark brown hair, blue eyes, and natural tanned skin. He nodded.
"Aye, aye, captain!" He replied as he rowed the longboat towards the back of the Armada fort. Jack stepped out, scoping the scene, followed by Autumn, Jordan, and Captain Oliver. Jack help a hand up to stop the four of them as he listened intently. He closed his eyes and heard the faint ticking of a clockwork soldier pacing near the hatch.
"Guard." He said, finally after a minute. "We've got two options, take him out and alert all guards on this station we're here, or we can sneak past him and reach the hatch. It's going to have to be timed perfectly though, so follow my lead." He explained. Autumn, Oliver, and Jordan nodded. James tapped a finger on a box to time the guard's pace. After three seconds went by, the guard turned around and started walking back the other way. Autumn was surprised. However this wasn't the first time her brother had been imprisoned by Armada and broken free. The pair soon made it towards the access hatch, and just as James had predicted, there were the weapons for the Resistance. Jack gave his sister a sly smile. "See? What'd I tell ya, huh?" He asked. Autumn rolled her eyes. She hated it when her brother proved her wrong.
"Oh, shut up." She joked, giving her brother a slight punch in the shoulder. "Good job, bro." She gave him a small smile. grabbing a crate of weapons. Jack smiled back, but his smile soon turned into a frown of confusion as they left the hold with their crates. "What is it?" Autumn asked, noticing her brother's facial expression. Jack help up a finger to silence her, listening closely. Autumn began to listen as well, before she gasped slightly. "No ticking." She said. Jack shook his head in reply. Captain Oliver and Jordan noticed too just as they had finished loading the last crate of weapons onto the longboat.
"Where are all the guards?" Jordan asked, looking around before spotting something big looming in the distance on board an Armada ship that had just docked at the station. Jack thought it was for a routine supply run, until he made out its shape. It looked like a massive clockwork, wielding what seemed to be a giant cannon with a giant sword strapped to its back. Jordan heard a click from the cannon and knew the trooper's intent was to fire. "DOWN!" He yelled. Jack and Autumn dropped to the floor as he did. Sure enough, a massive 'BOOM' was heard from the cannon, launching a cannonball the size of a person's head. The cannonball zoomed past over the pair, just missing its intended target. Captain Oliver crawled over to Jack and Autumn, keeping his head down. He looked up, and saw that at least six more massive clockworks had appeared, all firing their massive cannons. The cannons made a massive booming noise each time they were fired, as if being fired from the ship itself.
"We need to get out of here, now!" He told the siblings, who nodded in unison as they made a break for the longboat. However, just as they had reached it, another cannon went off, this time from the ship, blasting the longboat into splinters, along with the crates of weapons. Autumn covered her face as it did, and when she looked up, she saw one of the massive clockworks looming over her. She gulped as it unsheathed its massive sword, easily as big as her, and struck downwards. She crouched, dodging the blow, causing the sword to become stuck in the wooden plank flooring. She grinned, which faded when she saw the massive troop pull out its cannon and aim at her. The cannon went off, causing Autumn to jump in the air just to dodge it. She landed gracefully back on her feet, having just enough time to see the trooper pull out its sword from the floor and hit her with the butt of the blade, knocking her out.
"Autumn!" Jack cried out as he watched his sister being picked up by the troop that had knocked her out. Another loomed over Jack, doing the same as its fellow soldier. However, it missed and Jack shot back with his pistol. He thought the shot had made contact until the trooper straightened up and pulled out his cannon, firing back. Jack yelped as the cannon went off, creating a giant hole in the station's hull. Then, Jack unsheathed his rapier and struck the trooper's abdomen section, lodging his sword deep in the trooper's stomach, causing the troop to bleed out oil and fall, Jack's pistol still in his hand. Jack would've called that a victory if not for a loud screeching sound from above him. He glanced up and gulped.
At least three clockworks, feminine in origin, swooped down and landed, surrounding the young cabin boy. He pulled his father's rapier out of the stomach of the fallen dragoon, using the move his grandfather had taught him to strike down all but one of the female troops. On the deck of the station, a new clockwork had arrived and was looming over Captain Oliver. Oliver chuckled faintly.
"Deacon. How nice of you to drop by." He spat. Deacon stared at him, cold and unmoving.
"Now now, haven't we been naughty, Jay Oliver." Deacon tsked. He heard the sound of two of his battle angels dying and straightened up. "Take care of him, I have another matter to attend to." He told the rifleman next to him, who nodded and took Jay to his ship with his crew. Captain Oliver gasped as the armada troopers stood in front of the crew, waiting for orders just as Jack was just finishing up his fight.
Just as Jack turned to the last angel, it pulled out a very sharp blade and slashed upwards, causing Jack to cry out as he felt a sharp pain in his left eye. Blood flowed from the wound closing his eye shut. The angel's blade had cut his eye. Just as he picked himself back up, he was now staring at the barrel of a pistol, which let out a burst of electricity to knock him out. Deacon made a small hint of distaste when he loomed over Jack.
"Kane will not like that we captured two meager children." He said. "No matter, we can question them instead. Dragoons, destroy the ship and what's left of the crew." He ordered. A dragoon nodded and motioned his comrades to follow him to Captain Oliver's ship. They nodded and followed the dragoon. The last thing Jack remembered before passing out was watching the ship being attacked and the sounds of the dragoon cannons going off, along with the dying sounds of his crew members being executed before the ship finally went up in flames, taking Captain Oliver and his crew with it...
