Disclaimer: Davy Jones sailed away with the part that says Marvel own the characters from X-Men: Evolution, and any other Marvel characters. The part that says I own Raven, Rachel, Serena and Lightning is floating on a piece of driftwood.


A/N:

This story is dedicated to everyone who ever asked me if I planned on doing the sequels! Which is way too many to mention here!


And now without further ado, Raven and Lightning present. . .

Mutants of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

Scene 6: Rum and Dice

Raven and Lightning walk in, holding hands and smiling at each other.

The cast looks up startled. "Where have you been?" Kitty demands, stamping her foot. "Do you realize how long it's been?"

Raven rolls her eyes. Not much time has passed for her or her boyfriend, but time traveling does have its advantages. "We thought we'd be nice and let everyone heal."

Pietro stands up quickly, "Andweallappreciatethat, butcanwegetthisoverwith?"

Raven shrugs. She likes having the cast beg her to work for a change. "Lights! Camera! Action!"

Logan and Pyro are walking across a shipyard towards the Pearl. Rogue follows a few paces behind, and behind her walks Scott. "Captain Allerdyce!" calls Rogue.

Logan and Johnny barely look back and keep walking, "Come to join me crew, lad? Welcome aboard."

"Ah'm here ta find the man Ah love," Rogue states.

That stops them. Logan turns, but Johnny stands very still as he says, "I'm deeply flattered, son, but my first and only love is the sea." He signals for Logan to get rid of Rogue.

Scott suddenly runs to the dock's rail and throws up. He'd eaten a bowl of Kitty's special Surprise Soup before filming, and he is regretting it now.

Rogue looks annoyed, "Meanin' Remy LeBeau, Captain Allerdyce." Remy grins offstage. "Oh, get your lousy swamp rat head out av the clouds, Remy LeBeau! It's in the script!"

Raven whimpers. Lightning consoles her by patting her back softly, "It's okay. This is perfectly normal. It happens every time." That's when Raven starts hitting herself over the head with her clipboard.

Pyro decides to make Raven's day by turning around quickly and whispering, "Anna." He then turns immediately to Logan and says, "Hide the rum." Logan looks down at the bottle of tea curiously before turning to head on his way. Johnny turns to Rogue and says, "You know these clothes do not flatter you at all. It should be a dress or nothing."

Remy grins and says, "Remy completely agree, mon ami."

Rogue gives him her death glare, and Wanda kindly turns to him and smacks him over the back of the head.

Pyro tries not to laugh as he points back at the ship. "I happen to have no dress in my cabin."

"Johnny," Rogue growls. She takes a breath to calm herself and then goes on. "Ah know Remy came ta find y'all. Where is he?"

Shaking unsteadily, he sighs. "Darling, I am truly unhappy to have to tell you this, but. . ." He walks closer to her. "Through an unfortunate and entirely unforeseeable series of circumstances that had nothing whatsoever to do with me, poor Remy has been press-ganged into Apocalypse's crew."

"Apocalypse?" she asks.

Johnny nods as Scott vomits again loudly. Scott hisses, "Oh, please." He tries to stand up and finds it is almost possible. "The captain of the Flying Dutchman?"

Johnny says truthfully, "You look bloody awful. What are doing here?"

"You hired me," Scott scowls. "I can't help it if your standards are lax."

"You smell funny," Johnny taunts back.

"Johnny!" Rogue demands. "All Ah want is ta find Remy."

"Th' question is what are ya goin' do when you find him?" Remy has a huge grin on his face.

"Gambit!" Raven cries out.

"Oh, sorry, Petite D'Ange. Remy forget he was in a room full of people."

Raven grins, "It's alright, Gambit. Just try not to swim in the gutters during my play, n'est pas?"

"Sure thang, Cherie," he says with a smile.

Rogue rolls her eyes, "He should probably thank you. . . I was going to smack him."

Raven rolls her eyes back, "Back to the play, people!"

Johnny breathes, "I can't do that." He stops to consider something. "Are you certain? Is that what you really want most?"

"Av course," Rogue declares.

"Because I would think you'd want to find a way to save Remy most." He places his arm around her and starts leading her onto his ship.

Rogue stops and steps away, "And y'all'd have a way av doin' that?"

"Well. . ." Pyro whines, "There is a chest."

"Oh, dear," Scott interrupts.

"A chest of unknown size and origin," Pyro pretends Scott didn't say anything.

"What contains the still-beating heart of Apocalypse," Lance says suddenly appearing as if from nowhere, carrying one end of a huge crate. Toad is naturally on the other end of the crate, making a sign with his hand of a beating heart and thumping noises to go along.

"And whoever possesses that chest," Johnny continues, "possesses the leverage to command Apocalypse to do whatever it is he or she wants, including saving brave Remy from his grim fate."

Scott walks up, looking about as lovely as Kitty's soup. "You don't actually believe him, do you?"

Rogue pauses for a moment. "How would we find it?"

"With this," he states, holding up the compass that doesn't point north. He opens it as he says, "My compass… is unique." He shuts it.

"'Unique' here having the meaning of 'broken'," Scott argues.

"True enough," Pyro agrees, "this compass does not point north."

Scott runs to throw up again.

"Where does it point?" Rogue asks, ignoring the disgusting sound coming from Scott's general area.

"It points to the thing you want most in this world," Johnny tells her.

Rogue smiles and shakes her head, "Oh, Johnny." Her eyes well up because Pietro has just pinched her sharply. "Are you telling the truth?"

"Every word, love," Johnny insists. "And what you want most in this world is to find the chest of Apocalypse, is it not?" He places the compass in her hands.

"Ta save Remy!"

"By finding the chest of Apocalypse." He opens the compass and backs away.

The compass, one of Forge's inventions, spins around and around and finally comes to a stop. Johnny peeks over the top. "Mr. Howlett?"

"Cap'n," calls Logan.

"We have our heading," Johnny says merrily.

"Finally," complains the long-suffering Wolverine. "Cast off those lines. Weigh anchor and crowd that canvas!"

"Miss Xavier," Johnny formally invites her to enter the Black Pearl.

Logan continues to bark out orders and Rogue walks on board. Scott starts to follow but is stopped by Lance, who hands him a goat. "Welcome to the crew, former commodore."

The scene changes to Pietro's office, where a random extra is painting a boat onto a map very carefully. Pietro pulls a sword out of its sheath and says, "There'ssomethingtoknowing theexactshapeoftheworld and one'splaceinit. Don't you agree?"

Charles is sitting in handcuffs, guarded by Warren and a random soldier extra. "I assure you, these are not necessary."

"Ihadyoubroughtherebecause Ithoughtyou'dbeinterested inthewhereabouts ofyourdaughter," Pietro says as he plays with the sword.

"You have news of her," Charles asks.

"Most recently seen on the island of Tortuga," Trask says. He is peering through a large, stationary spyglass. "And then left in the company of a known pirate, St. John Allerdyce, and other fugitives from justice."

"'Justice'? Hardly," Xavier disagrees.

"Including thepreviousowner ofthissword, Ibelieve," Pietro says, sheathing the same sword that was used in the last play at Scott's "commodore ceremony." "Ourshipsareinpursuit. Justicewillbedispensed bycannonadeandcutlass,"

"Okay, okay, I cannot take this anymore!" Evan whines. "Seriously, it is hard enough to understand Pietro without him using old-fashioned words no one uses anymore!"

Lightning's eyes grow very large. He blinks. "Evan. . . you should probably run."

Evan's face is blank for a second, just until he sees Raven's angry, glowing eyes. Then, he starts running.

Raven turns back to the stage and says, "Pietro, once again. . . slower."

Pietro rolls his eyes, "Ourships arein pursuit. Justicewill bedispensed bycannonade andcutlass, andall mannerof remorselesspieces ofmetal. Ipersonally findit distastefulto evencontemplate thehorror facingall thoseon board." Here he looks over his shoulder at Professor Xavier.

After fiddling with his chains, Charles looks up at him, "what do you want from me?"

"Yourauthority asgovernor, yourinfluence inLondon, andyour loyaltyto theEast IndiaTrading Company," responds Quicksilver.

"To you, you mean," Xavier says hopelessly.

Pietro walks carefully to the wooden wheelchair and asks, "shallI removethese shackles?"

"Do what you can for my daughter."

Boliver Trask comes over and removes the handcuffs.

Pietro tells him, "Soyou see, Trask, everyman hasa pricehe willwillingly accept. Evenfor whathe hopednever tosell."

Dice hit the table in a new scene, aboard the Flying Dutchman. Three men, Evan, David Haller, and Facade (1), set cups over them. Legion looks at Facade and says, "I wager… ten years."

"I'll match ten years," Evan says.

"Agreed," Facade smirks.

Remy is watching the game intently. He loves gambling of any sort. Jean-Luc walks up behind him, "Wonderin' how it's played?"

"Remy understand," he says.

"Liar," calls out Legion.

"It's a game of deception, But your bet includes all of t'e dice, not just your own."

The men check the dice, and Legion was wrong. Evan points his finger at Legion and laughs.

"What are t'ey wagering?" Remy wants to know.

"Oh, de only t'ing we have. Years of service," Jean-Luc informs him.

"So any crew member can be challenged?"

"Oui. Anyone," Jean-Luc responds without thinking what Remy is planning.

Remy has a plan however and remarks, "Remy challenge Apocalypse."

The entire crew of the Dutchmen stop what they are doing and stare at him. The ominous feeling starts to overtake the crew and the barnacles and other sea creature close up as footsteps are heard coming closer. Facade starts laughing. Apocalypse climbs down the steps and says, "I accept, mate."

Lightning starts giggling.

"What now?" Raven groans.

"It's just odd how he just uses the word I to talk about himself in this dimension," he starts laughing.

"Ahh. . . you're missing the 'I, God of Egypt, Master of All Mutants, accept your daring and misguided proposal, insignificant gnat of a mortal!'?" she says, smirking.

"Yup," Lightning laughs.

"I like this Nur better," Raven grins. "He's less annoying."

"He really is," Lightning agrees.

"Can we get on with the play now?" Raven asks.

Lightning nods and notices Apocalypse does not look amused. Lightning gulps.

Remy sits down in front of a crate. The Juggernaut and Gauntlet set a tabletop on top of the crate. Someone sets a set of dice and a cup in front of Remy. Apocalypse sets forth to join the game, and Remy stands to meet him. "The stakes?"

"Remy's soul. An eternity of servitude," Remy explains.

"You'd make a good Death," Nur says with a grin (2).

Raven's eyes start glowing, "Of all the people on this set to screw up the script!"

"Forgive me," Nur simply states. "I was only noticing how powerful your father is."

"Isn't he?" she sighs.

Lightning rolls his eyes, "Ravie. . . the play?"

"Oh, yeah! Back to the play, people!" she yells.

"Non!" Jean-Luc cries out.

"Against?" Apocalypse asks.

Remy takes out the cloth Johnny gave him and drops it on the table. "Remy wants t'is."

Apocalypse picks up the cloth and unfolds it. He suddenly seems angry, and an angry Apocalypse is a seriously scary thing. He throws the cloth on the table. "How do you know of the key?"

"T'at's not part of t'e game, is it?" Remy responds. He sits down again. "You can still walk away."

Apocalypse sits ominously down, only because he doesn't know how to sit any other way. He pulls the key out using Forge's weird tentacle thingys that are part of his makeup. Remy's eyes grow big, and he puts the key away again. The two men shake their cups and turn them face down on the table. A third cup hits the table as well. "What's this?" Apocalypse asks Jean-Luc.

"I'm in. Matchin' his wager."

"Non! Don't do t'is," Remy pleads.

"De die is cast," Jean-Luc replies in a rather final way. "I bid t'ree twos." Remy tries to look sadly away, but fails miserably. "C'est your bid, Captain."

Apocalypse laughs, which frightens over half of the cast and crew. "Four fours."

Remy thinks over his response and declares, "Four fives."

"Six t'rees," Jean-Luc says.

Nur looks at his dice. There are four fives under his cup. He states, "Seven fives."

Remy looks under his cup. There are three fives. Jean-Luc looks under his. There are no fives. Remy bids, "Eight fives."

Apocalypse laughs, "Welcome to the crew, lad."

"Twelve fives," Jean-Luc says before Nur can officially call Remy a liar. "Twelve fives. Call me a liar, or up de bid."

"And be called a liar myself for my trouble?" He grabs Jean-Luc's cup and lifts it away. "Bootstrap John, you're a liar and you will spend an eternity on this ship." He stands up. "Master Turner, feel free to go ashore… the very next time we make port!" He laughs very evilly and his crew joins in. Duncan Matthews, who happens to be on deck, starts to cry. Apocalypse and the crew turn and walk off, still laughing.

Remy turns to Jean-Luc, "Bioque (3), why did you do t'at?"

"I couldn't let y' lose," Jean-Luc says in despair.

Remy shakes his head, "It was never about winnin' or losin'."

"The key. Y' just wanted to know where it was."

While Facade snores, Jean-Luc and Remy sneak up deck. Jean-Luc goes to Cain and says, "Captain says I'm to relieve y'." Cain does not look to happy about it, and stands in front of the wheel. "Captain's orders," growls Jean-Luc.

Meanwhile, Remy silently sneaks into the Captain's quarters and replaces the key with the drawing of the key. This is easy for him to do, being a master thief and all. At one point, a tentacle falls on the piano, nearly waking Apocalypse, but instead, the strange heart-shaped locket plays a lullaby and he pretends to go into a deep sleep again.

Back up on deck, Remy places the key on a necklace around his neck and Jean-Luc prepares a lifeboat. He hands Remy a dagger, "Here. Take t'is, too. Now get y'rself to land and stay t'ere. It was always in my blood to die at sea. But it was not a fate I ever wanted for y'."

Remy looks over the dagger and tries to pretend Jean-Luc was a good father. The thought nearly has him laughing again, but he catches himself and says the line, "It's not a fate you had to choose for yourself, either."

"Oui. I could say I did what I had to, when I left y' to go pirating. But it would taste a lie to say it wasn't what I wanted."

"How do you taste a lie?" Bobby asks.

Raven promptly slams his head into the floor with her telekinesis. "It's something like that," she growls.

Wisely, Jean-Luc decides to continue his lines, "Y' owe me not'in', Rems."

"Remy wish t'at were true," he spits out under his breath.

Jean-Luc rolls his eyes, "now go."

"T'ey'll know you helped me," Remy says.

Jean-Luc laughs. "What more can dey do to me?"

Dramatically, Remy holds the knife up. "Remy take t'is wit' a promise. He'll find a way to sever Apocalypse's hold on ya, and not rest 'til t'is blade pierces his heart."

"Yeah, good luck with that," Mesmero laughs.

Lightning electrocutes him.

"Thank you, Lawr," Raven says with a smile.

"Anything for you, my dear," he grins.

"Back to the play," Raven states, still smiling at Lightning.

"Remy will not abandon you. He promise."

The scene changes to the Black Pearl, whose sails have been patched with fabric of all colors which rob the ship of its menacing appearance. Among the crew scrubbing the deck is Scott, who looks less sick.

Logan is talking with Rogue and Pyro, "Maximoff?"

"Yes, they're signed," Rogue answers. Scott listens closely as she goes on. "Lord Pietro Maximoff of the East India Trading Company."

"Bluergh!" Pyro says at the mention of "Lord Pietro."

Logan growls, "Remy was working for Maximoff and he never said a word. Maximoff wants the compass. Only one reason for that."

"Of course," Johnny says solemnly. . . well, as solemnly as he possibly can anyway. "He wants the chest."

"Yeah, he did say somethin' 'bout a chest," Rogue agrees.

"If the company controls the chest, they controls the sea," Logan growls.

"A truly discomforting notion, love," Johnny states.

"And bad." Logan in all up in Rogue's face while he says this last remark. Needless to say, Rogue is rather uncomfortable. "Bad for every mother's son what calls himself a pirate. I think there's a bit more speed to be coaxed from these sails." He runs off yelling, "Brace the foreyard!"

Rogue is left relatively alone with Johnny. I say relatively alone because Scott and the others who are scrubbing the deck are still within hearing distance. She starts to walk off, but Johnny stops her. "Might I enquire as to how you came by these?" He walks towards her as he asks; she backs away.

"Persuasion."

"Friendly?"

"Decidedly not," Rogue insists.

"Remy strikes a deal for these and upholds it with honor, yet you were the one standing here with the prize – full pardon. 'Commission as a privateer on behalf of England and the East India Trading Company.' As if I could be bought with so low a price. Now throw in some spiked Pepsi and Pixi Stix and we'd have a bargain." Pyro grins with a nod to his squirrel army guard.

Lightning says calmly, "Raven dear, Pyro is essential to the play."

"I'd only hurt him a little bit," she complains.

"A little bit for you and a little bit for Pyro are two very different things, my love."

She sighs, "but. . . my play."

He grins at her, "I'll buy you some ice cream later."

"Deal," she nods, "Bobby, deal with Pyro's interruption, si tu plait."

Bobby, in fear for his life, blasts Pyro with his powers.

"Ahh! That's cold, mate!" Johnny whines.

"Next time," Raven says.

"Stick to the script!" Raven and Lightning yell.

Scott covers his ears and rocks himself, chanting quickly, "It's okay. Professor X will save me."

Raven rolls her eyes, "Back to the play, everyone!"

Rogue runs after Johnny, who is placing the letters in his pocket. "Johnny, the letters, give 'em back."

"No. Persuade me."

"Y'all do know Remy taught me how ta handle a sword?"

"As I said," he says turning towards her, ignoring both angry glares from Wanda and red hot furious glares from Gambit, "persuade me."

Disgusted with his "advances," Rogue walks off. She walks to the edge of the ship and leans upon the railing.

Scott walks up and leans on the railing next to her.

"Just when Ah wanted ta be alone," Rogue mumbles under her breath.

"It's a curious thing," Scott starts. "There was a time I would have given anything for you to look like that while thinking about me." He holds up a copy of the script at Jean, who is looking as jealous as Wanda and Remy.

Rogue declares, "Ah don't know what y'all mean."

"Oh, I think you do."

Pietro laughs.

"What now?" Raven groans.

"Scooterdinckwasthinking. . ." he rolls around on the floor.

"Ha ha, very funny," Scott growls. He lifts his glasses and almost hits Pietro. Pietro obviously moved out of the way.

"That's enough!" Lightning shouts.

"Back to the play!" Raven is hovering over her seat, and her eyes and clipboard are glowing. Both Scott and Pietro gulp and nod quickly. She sits down and decharges the clipboard.

"Oh, don't be absurd. Ah trust him, that's all."

Scott snorts and starts to walk off. He thinks better off it and turns around. "So you never wondered how your latest fiancé ended up on the Flying Dutchman in the first place?" He shakes his head and walks off.

Rogue rolls her eyes and picks up the compass. When it stops she looks up toward where it points. It is pointing, thanks to Forge, at Johnny. About to cry, she shuts the compass.

The scene changes to a new ship. Hank is talking to Remy, who is covered by a blanket and drinking warm tea. "Strange thing to come upon a longboat in so far out in open water."

"Just put as many leagues behind us as you can. As fast as you can." Remy is rocking back and forth as if he is both cold and frightened.

"And what are we running from," Beast asks.

Gambit doesn't wish to answer, so he avoids the question by becoming distracted by a dress in the corner. On closer look, he recognizes it as the dress Rogue wore in Scene One. "T'at dress. Where did you get it?"

"Wardrobe," Beast says, then thinks better of it and continues with, "I mean, it was found aboard the ship. The crew thought it was a spirit bringing some omen of ill-fate."

"T'at's foolish," Remy says, holding the dress.

"Oh, yes. Exceedingly foolish," Ray says.

Beast mutters, "Just like this play." At which point he goes flying into the wall.

"Raven!"

"Lawr, be glad I didn't through him through the wall."

Beast gets up, rather sorely and goes back to his place, "I am exceedingly sorry."

"You'd better be," growls Raven.

Rob decides Raven is mad enough and says his lines. "It brought good fortune. The spirit told us, 'Pull in at Tortuga,' and we made a nice bit of profit there."

Remy looks frustrated.

"Off the books, of course," Beast chimes in.

"Remy imagine some of the crew may have jumped ship t'ere."

"Why do you ask?"

At that moment, a random sailor extra bursts down the stairs and cries out, "Captain! A ship's been spotted!"

"Colors?"

"She isn't flying any."

"Pirates," Beast says.

"Or worse," Remy proposes.

On the Dutchmen, Apocalypse clutches the drawing of a key. He looks out of the ship ahead, and then turns swiftly around. He grabs Jean-Luc's throat. "You will watch this." He lets go.

Several of the crewmen are turning a large. . . thingy. Mesmero has his whip back. He is striking them as they go around. He is taking entirely too much pleasure in his part.

There is quiet on the set as Apocalypse speaks, "Let no joyful voice be heard! Let no man look up at the sky with hope. And let this day be cursed by we who ready to wake the kraken." A large cylinder-like thing lifts up and then falls, making a loud banging noise.

"NO!" Jean-Luc screams as the vibrations race through the water.

"And cut!"

Remy is glaring at Pyro. The squirrels take up defensive positions. "Remy don't t'ink he likes t'e way t'is plot is headed, cher," he says to Raven.

She shrugs, "Don't blame me. I didn't write it."

"Mais, t'is is going to end right, no?"

"It ends the way it ends," Raven says nonchalantly.

Rogue laughs, "A little jealous, Rems?"

"Oh, so now you're teasing, Remy? When did our relationship get turned upside down?"

"Relationship? Who says we're in one?" Rogue argues for the sake of arguing.

"You did last night!"

"Last night a bunch of whores wouldn't leave y'all alone!"

"One whore! And she was ugly!"

"And twice Logan's age!" Rogue spits back.

"Oh come on! She couldn't have been t'at old!"

Raven is grinning at them. Lightning comes up behind her and puts his arm around her waist. "Ice cream," he whispers in her ear. She nods and they are gone.

Now's a good time for us to leave as well.


To be continued. . .


A/N: (1) Facade is a Morlock.

(2) In the comics, there was a period of time where Remy was Death, one of Apocalypse's horsemen. I am not sure how he got out of that one, because I don't read the comics, but if anyone knows, please inform me!

(3) Fool

Hey, sorry about the long wait. Life happens. I am going to college now, and my 4-yr-old niece has be diagnosed with cancer. I hate leaving everyone hanging like this, but I just have a really busy life. Not to mention, the Pirates trilogy is a LOT longer than a regular Disney movie and to fit each one into 10 chapters makes for VERY LONG chapters. . . they are difficult to write. Just too let everyone know, during my niece's surgery, they removed the tumor, and apparently, they got all the cancer! So, YAY!

Okay, I am thoroughly confused. Does anyone know if fanfiction does not count misspelled words in its word count? I uploaded a 4,135 word document and it says 3,594. . . Somehow I have lost nearly 600 words, and yet, I have gone over it and everything is still here. . . Let me know!

Next up, the kraken comes after Remy and they find the chest!