"Trim that sail!" Barbossa shouted.
"Trim that sail!" Jack repeated. I watched the two battle it out it was quite funny.
"Slack windward brace and sheets!"
"Slack windward brace and sheets!"
"Haul that pallet line!"
"Haul that pallet line!"
"What ARE you doing?"
"What are YOU doing?"
"No, what ARE you doing?"
"What are YOU doing?"
"No, what ARE you doing?" I rolled my eyes, this was getting a little bit annoying.
"What are YOU doing? Captain gives orders on the ship!" Jack said.
"The captain of this ship is giving orders!" Barbossa said, I snorted, and he glared at me.
"My ship, makes me captain" Jack said.
"They be my charts" Barbossa said, tapping on said charts.
"That makes you...chart man!"
"Stow it! The both of you! That's an order! Understand? Sorry. I just thought with the captain issue being in doubt, I'd throw my name in for consideration, sorry" Pintel said.
I followed Jack and Barbossa up the stairs, where Barbossa pulled out his telescope, Jack attempted to do the same but it's too small so he gave up. I took pity on him and gave him mine.
Later on I was standing with Jack when we saw some boats coming towards us. I walked over to the side of the ship where Tia, Will, Elizabeth and Gibbs stood.
Gibbs began loading a gun, when Will stopped him
"They're not a threat to us, am I right?" He asked Tia.
"We are nothing but ghosts to them" She replied.
"Is best just let them be" I said.
Elizabeth spotted her father "It's my father, we've made it back. Father here, look here!" She tried to get his attention.
"Elizabeth, we're not back" Jack said seriously. Elizabeth ignored him and continued trying to get his attention.
"Father!" She shouted.
"Elizabeth, are you dead?" He asked, when he finally noticed her.
"No, no" She said.
"I think I am"
"No, you can't be!" She cried.
"There was this chest, you see. And a heart. At the time it seemed so important" I knew what he was talking about and exchanged looks with Jack.
"Come aboard!"
"I learned that if you stab the heart, yours must take its place. Sail the seas for eternity. The Dutchman must always have a captain. Silly thing to die for"
"Someone cast a line!" Marty attempted to hurry but Elizabeth snatched the rope of him and threw it over to the boat.
"Take the line!" She shouted.
"Elizabeth, I'm so proud of you"
"Father, the line, take the line!" She screamed running towards the stern of the ship.
"She must not leave the ship!" Tia said, and everyone except Jack and me ran to try and stop her.
"Father, come back with us! I won't leave you!" Elizabeth shouted.
"Elizabeth" Will grabbed her.
"I'll give your love to your mother, shall I?" And he floated away.
"Is there a way?" Will asked Tia.
"Him at peace" She said.
The next morning everyone was tired and thirsty. I was sat with Jack looking over the charts.
"Up is down" I said.
"Well that's just maddeningly unhelpful. Why are these things never clear?" Jack said. A miniature Jack's emerged from Jack's beard. And a miniature Becca's emerged from my hair.
"Clear as mud, Jackie. Stab the heart" Mini Jack said.
"Don't stab the heart" Mini Becca said, hopping over to Jack's shoulder.
"Come again?" Jack asked.
"The Dutchman must have a captain" Mini Becca said.
"Well that's more than less than unhelpful" I said.
"Sail the seas forever" Mini Jack said.
"I love the sea" Jack said.
"What about port?" Mini Jack asked.
"I prefer rum. Rum's good" Jack said.
"Making port" I said, shaking my head at Jack's alcoholism.
"Where we can get rum, once every ten years" Mini Becca said.
"What did she say?" Mini Jack asked.
"Once every ten years" I said.
"Ten years years is a long time, mate" Mini Jack said, looking out into the sun.
"But eternity is longer still" Mini Becca said.
"Even longer given the deficit of rum" I said, I couldn't live without my rum.
"And how will you be spending it? Dead? Or not?" Mini Becca said.
"The immortal Captain Sparrow" Mini Jack said.
"Oh, I like that" Jack said.
"Come sunset it won't matter" Mini Becca said.
"Not sunset, sundown...and rise" I turned the boat upside down on the chart[
"UP!" Jack exclaimed.
"Oh, what's that?" We ran over to the side of the boat.
"What's that? I don't know, what IS that? What do you think?" Jack asked.
"Where?" Elizabeth asked.
"There!" I pointed randomly.
"What is it?" She asked.
We ran back and forth on the ship with everyone following us.
"They're rocking the ship" I heard someone say.
Finally the ship tipped.
"Now up is down" Jack said, uncertainly. We were underwater for quite a while and I thought I was about to run out of air when finally there was a green flash and we were upright.
"Blessed sweet westerlies, we're back!" Gibbs exclaimed.
"It's the sunrise" Elizabeth said, thanks for pointing out the obvious. Barbossa pointed his gun at Jack so we both pointed ours at him, but Will pointed his at me, so I pointed one of mine at him, and Elizabeth pointed one at Jack and one at Barbossa, while Gibbs pointed his at Barbossa and Will.
We all laughed and lowered our guns, and then pointed them back up again.
"All right, then. The Brethren Court's a-gatherin' at Shipwreck Cove. And you two are a-goin', and there'll be no arguin' that point." Barbossa said.
"I is arguin' the point. If there's pirates a-gatherin', I'm pointing my ship the other way" Jack said, and I nodded my head in agreement.
"The pirates are gathering to fight Beckett, and you're pirates" Elizabeth said.
"Fight or not, you're not running" Will said.
"If we don't stand together, they'll hunt us down one by one, till there be none left, but you two" Barbossa said.
"I quite like the sound of that" I said.
"Aye, and you'll be fightin' Jones alone. And how does that figure into your plan?" Barbossa asked.
"I'm still working on that. But we're not going back to the locker, mate, count on that" Jack fired his gun at Barbossa but it didn't go off, so we all tried but none of them worked.
"Wet powder" Gibbs said.
We all gathered around Will who was looking at the chart.
"There's a freshwater spring on this island. We can resupply there, and get back to shooting each other later" He said.
"You can lead the shore party, and I'll stay with my ship" Jack said to Barbossa.
"I'll not be leaving my ship in your command" He replied.
"Why don't you both go ashore and leave the ship in my command...temporarily" Will said.
Once on the island we saw the Kraken dead on the shore.
"Still thinking of running? Think you can outrun the world? You know, the problem with being the last of anything, is by and by, there be none left at all" Barbossa said to Jack and me as we were looking at the Kraken.
"Sometimes, things come back, mate. We're living proof, us" I said.
"Aye, but that's a gamble of long odds, ain't it? There's never a guarantee of coming back, but passing on, that's dead certain"
"Summoning the Brethren Court, then, is it?" Jack asked.
"It's our only hope" Barbossa said.
"That's a sad commentary in and of itself" I said.
"The world used to be a bigger place" Barbossa said.
"The world's still the same. There's just less in it" Jack said, we walked into the forest finding a spring with a dead body in it. Barbossa tasted the water and spat it back out.
"Poisoned. Fouled by the body" He said.
"Hey, I know him! He was in Singapore!" Pintel said, after he turned the body over.
"Captain!" Marty shouted.
"Oy, we've got company!" Ragetti said. Tai Huand's men turned their guns on Jack.
"He's the captain" Jack said, pointing to Barbossa.
Once we were on the Pearl we saw Sao Feng. I pushed Jack in front of me, not wanting to be seen by him.
"Sao Feng, you showing up here, 'tis truly a remarkable coincidence" Barbossa said.
"Jack Sparrow, you paid me great insult once" He said.
"That doesn't sound like me" Jack was punched in the nose, and I winced. "Shall we just call it square, then?"
"Release her. She's not part of the bargain" Will said.
"And what bargain be that?" Barbossa asked.
"You heard Capt. Turner. Release her" Sao Feng said.
"Capt. Turner?" I asked, forgetting to hide.
"Ahh. Becca Partridge, I do believe you also paid me insult" I was grabbed from behind "But do not worry, we shall be even soon" He said, and I sneered at him.
"I never liked you"
"The profidious rotter led a mutiny against us" Gibbs said.
"I need the Pearl to free my father. That's the only reason I came on this voyage" Will said.
"Why didn't you tell me you were planning this?" Elizabeth asked, outraged.
"It was my burden to bear"
"He needs the Pearl! Capt. Turner needs the Pearl! And you felt guilty. And you and your Brethren Court! Did no one come to save us just because they missed us?" Jack asked. Marty, Pintel, Ragetti, Cotton, and Jack the monkey slowly raised their hands "I'm standing over there with them" He went to walk but was grabbed by Sao Feng.
"I'm sorry, Jack, but there's an old friend who wants to see you both first" He said.
"I'm not certain we can survive any more visits from old friends" Jack said.
"Here's your chance to find out" We were led into Beckett's office.
"It's curious. Your friends appear to be quite desperate, Jack. Perhaps they no longer believe that a gathering of squabbling pirates is enough to take down the Flying Dutchman. And so despair leads to betrayal. But you and I are no strangers to betrayal, are we, Jack?" Jack and I were snooping around the office. "It isn't here" Beckett said.
"What? What isn't?" I asked.
"The heart of Davy Jones. It's safely aboard the Dutchman, and so unavailable for use as leverage to satisfy your debt to the good Captain" He said.
"By my reckoning, that account has been settled" Jack said.
"By your death? And yet, here you both are" He said.
"Close your eyes and pretend it's all a bad dream. That's how I get by" I said.
"And if Davy Jones were to learn of your survival?" He asked. "Perhaps you would consider an alternate arrangement, one that requires absolutely nothing from you but information"
"Regarding the Brethren Court, no doubt? In exchange for fair compensation, square our debt with Jones, guarantee our freedom?" I said.
"Of course. It's just good business" Beckett said.
"Were we in a divulgatory mood, what then might we divulge?" Jack asked.
"Everything. Where are they meeting? Who are the pirate lords? What is the purpose of the nine pieces of eight?" Beckett asked.
"You can keep Barbossa, the belligerent homunculus and his friend with the wooden eye both, and Turner...especially Turner. The rest go with us aboard the Pearl, and we will lead you to Shipwreck Cove, where we will hand you the pirates and you will NOT hand us to Jones. Bloody fair deal, don't you think?" Jack said.
"And what becomes of Miss Swann?" Beckett asked.
"What interest is she to you?" I asked.
"I've just recalled, I have this wonderful compass which points to whatever I want. So for what do I need you?" Damn him and his thinking ahead.
"It points to what you want most, and that's not the Brethren Court, is it?" Jack asked.
"Then what is?" Beckett asked.
"Us – dead" I replied.
"Although if I kill you, then I can use the compass to find...Shipwreck Cove, was it? Cut out the middleman, as it were" Beckett fanned himself.
"With us killed, you'd arrive at Shipwreck Cove, find its stronghold nigh impregnable, able to withstand blockade for years, and then you'd wish, "Oh, if only there were someone I had not killed inside to assure that the pirates then come outside..."" I said.
"And you can accomplish all this, can you?" Beckett asked.
"You may kill me, but you may never insult me. Who am I?" Beckett didn't answer
"He's Captain Jack Sparrow!" I said, as the ship was blasted by a cannonball. Jack and I grabbed one of Beckett's hand and shook it
"Done!" We ran out of to the deck and found a cannon, I tied a rope around the cannonball and shoved it in the cannon.
"You're mad!" Beckett said, I got on Jack's back.
"Thank goodness for that, because if we weren't, this would probably never work" Jack fired the cannon and we were vaulted over to the Pearl" The crew ran to find us.
"And that was without a single drop of rum" Jack looked at Will "Send this pestilent traitorous cowhearted yeasty codpiece to the brig"
Jack and I stood at the helm, I looked back to see the mast of the Endeavour fall into the sea, and I smirked. Jack wrapped his arms around me and I smiled into his chest. Everything was going to be fine.