FUTURE CHAPTERS INCLUDE SPOILERS TO THE PRICE OF FREEDOM. IF YOU DON'T MIND, THEN READ ON. PLUS, SOOOOO SORRY FOR NOT ADDING MORE! I NEARLY FORGOT ABOUT THIS!

"This world is very odd." Will commented as he looked out the window as they made their way up to the brain. "Stretchy carts without horses? And these clothes, their weapons... It's all so strange."

"So, Jack, you were saying?" Elizabeth looked at Jack. "How did you get the Pearl?"

"Well, love, I was 25 when I was given the Pearl. But back then, she was known as the Wicked Wench." Jack could recall it as if it happened yesterday. He'd just gotten back from a voyage in which the captain died during a fight with a pirate.

"She was an old friend of mine. Didn't even make a mark on the captain. He was so shocked and appalled and couldn't believe that a woman could captain a ship without sleeping with all the shipmates. He just dropped dead from an apoplexy." After, his old friend only took half their rum and let them go. He sold his remaining cargo then he reported back to Beckett - "Yes, Elizabeth, I worked for the East India Trading Company." - in Africa. The day was boiling hot, but a job was a job.

"I was promoted to captain and given the Marlin. But Beckett wanted me to deliver slaves. I told him I couldn't do it. Instead, he gave me the Wench and the usual cargo of rum and spices and what-not. He knew I had me eye on it since arriving in Calabar. I agreed to it and that first journey around the Triangle, I nearly broke the record for fastest trip..."

"Alright, we're here." the Chief said, pulling Jack out of him memory. The crew left the car and followed the Chief and Drix up to the Mayor's office in the brain.

...

Thrax took another sip from the bottle he held in his hands, but nothing went down his throat.

"Ugh, rum's gone." He'd been a bit hesitant to try the drink at first. He knew what alchohol did to germs and viruses, but this kind had been diluted by other ingredients, giving a nicer kind of burn as it went down. He'd drained a whole bottle in the five minutes he sat there, listening to the crew's attempt of figuring out how this Jack guy got a stupid compass.

"Bar'er means trade so he couldn've stolen i'!" Ragetti argued. Pintel wouldn't listen.

"This is Jack we're talkin' about!" Thrax had enough.

"How do we know he didn't just fuck her for it?" The crew paused and looked at each other. A rogue wave splashed up the side of the ship and drenched Thrax.

"We'll take that as a yes." Barbossa said aloud, feeling Calypso was listening in.

"So now what?" Thrax asked, wringing salt water out of his shirt. "He screwed a girl for a compass. How does that get us home?"

"Maybe we find where they... did it?" Pintel asked.

"Or maybe where she got the compass?" Gibbs added.

"For now,we head for Tortuga." Barbossa spoke up. "We need more supplies."

...

"So, these are the ones you told me about over the phone?" Mayor Colonic asked the Chief.

"Yep. We need your say on if they're viruses or not." the Chief answered.

"What's a phone?" Will whispered to Elizabeth. She only shrugged.

"They look human." Colonic gave them a confused look. "How is this possible?"

"That's what I've been trying to figure out." Drix answered. "It shouldn't be possible." Drix and the Mayor and the Chief got into a heated discussion about the possibilities and science of time and space and shrinking and a lot of things the three newcomers have never even heard of. Will turned to Jack.

"What else happened? In your story."

"Ah, yes, the story. Where was I?" Jack asked.

"You just nearly beat the record time for the Triangle." Elizabeth answered.

"Oh, yes... Beckett was very pleased with me time and offered me a new job: to find the lost island of Zerzera. I've been reading about the legend of Zerzera since I was a boy and always wanted to find it - and its treasure. Little did Beckett know, he had its queen right under his nose. She was disguised as an ugly old woman, using her magic weaving skills." He gently touched the spot where his sash would have been, had he not been wearing the stranger's clothes. "She told me she would only help me find the island if I also freed her brother, who had also been sold into slavery. We snuck into New Avalon, took the man, and went to find the island. Along the way, I met up with an old friend... and some old enemies. In the end, I had to take my old "friend" with me to the island. He had something I needed to get the treasure

"When we found the island, I reunited the prince and princess with their mommy dearest and we had a magnificent feast and..." Elizabeth and Will gave him a skeptical look. "What? It happened... Anyway, I couldn't let Beckett know I found the island, or he'd have all them sold away into slavery, so I asked the princess to weave a spell so no one would remember anything about the island.

"Back at Calabar, Beckett had all of us thoroughly interrigated, trying to find out if I was really lying and keeping all the treasure for meself. I was, but I didn't want him to know that. He had another job for me: to take 200 slaves to New Avalon. He knew I didn't like it, but since I wanted him to trust me, I did it... sort of."

"What did you do?" Elizabeth asked.

"I went back to Zerzera and freed them." Jack answered. Beckett didn't like that. He branded me as a pirate and burned the Wench. I tried to save the treasure inside, but the smoke became overwhelming. I didn't make it."

"But-" Will looked confused. "What?" Jack ignored him and continued his story.

"So there I was, face to face with Davy Jones. He did his usual thing, but I asked for me ship and me life back. He agreed I was to have 13 years with me ship, then I had to work for Ol' Tentacleface. He brought the Wench back up from the sea and she was renamed the Black Pearl. The end."

This is not over yet! I finally have more of a plot so expect more!