Note/Disclaimer: Barbosa lives! ??? Well, he does, okay. Don't own. Went stupid. Thought I should write a story about my favorite movie next to Lord of the Rings.

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Captain Barbosa walked along the deck of his ship, examining his mates. Each man was bent over the other's back, pulling hard on the laces of some contraption.

"Uh, Captain?" the first mate asked. "Why do we havta wear these?"

Barbosa stopped and stared at the man's real and wooden eyes. "No pain, no gain. How do you think we'll be able to beat Jack Sparrow again if we're not cursed?"

From the crow's nest, Jack the monkey let out a cry and swung onto his master's shoulder. The monkey had the same laced contraption around his chest.

"But, sir!" complained another mate.

"Don't be such babies! Even Jack will wear one," Barbosa said, indicating the monkey.

His crew stared at him as if he were drunk on rum. "That's true, sir, but. . . but WOMEN wear these!" shouted the first mate with a note of apology in his voice.

"There is nothing unmanly about wearing a corset!" barked Barbosa.

Another man rolled his eyes. "The captain's lost it," he mumbled.

Barbosa stood in front of his crew to make a speech. "Now," he said, "we've experienced pain- true pain, men, not that bloody curse- we can finally defeat Jack. . ." He was cut off mid-sentence and fell backwards.

"Musta cut off 'is circulation wid that corset," one of the mates said sadly.

"And all 'cause that governor's daughter said true pain was a corset," sighed the first mate.