Thunder: I lied. This is the one before I come in.
Danny: Just start the chapter already!
Thunder: Alright! Fine!
Chapter 13
Danny climbed out of the barrel, still stunned. He leaned on a table taking the the information, his hand brushing against Chase's spyglass. He knew they were all pirates. He had to tell the captain! He was about to run up to the deck and go tell Chel, but he ran into someone unexpected: Chase.
"Daniel." Chase said, as surprised as Danny was. He put on a big grin and walked down to the galley where Danny was, backing away slowly.
"Playing games, are we?" he asked, in a cheerful tone.
"Yeah. Yeah, we're playing games." Danny said, backing up into a table.
"I see. Well, I'm really not one for games, honestly." he brought his arms up behind his back, turning them into dragon arms. "I always hated to lose." They shined with dark heylin magic, ready to destroy who ever was unfortunate enough to anger the warrior.
"Hmm," Danny said, picking up a knife that laid behind him on the table, "me too!" In one quick motion, Danny plunged the knife into Chase's leg, and rushed out of the galley. Chase screamed in pain and holding his bleeding leg, stumbled up to the top deck and scanned it for Danny. Then he saw him running into the captain's cabin with Stitch not too far behind, slamming the door shut afterwards.
"Darn it!" Chase said. He pulled himself up to the top deck, put his two fingers in his mouth, and let out a long whistle. Everybody turned to him.
"Change in plans everyone!" Chase yelled, going full dragon, "We! Move! NOW!" Chase threw his clawed fist in the air. The crew cheered and began running to where the weapons were being stowed.
"Stike our colors, Mojo!" Chase said
"With pleasure captain Chase." Mojo said, pulling down the ships flag. Skulker punched through the door to the armory,and pulled out all the weapons, earning a loud cheer from the crowd of pirates. Chase stood, looking very victorious, as the six eyed jolly roger was being raised behind him.
"Huh..." Jewel said, watching this. "That's kinda familiar."
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"Pirates, on my ship? I'll see they're all hanged! Or maybe sent to Xibalba!" Chel said, pulling a laser rifle and a laser pistol out of a cabinet. "Bridges, can you use it?" She tossed the pistol to Sunny who fumbled with it before holding it the right way.
"Um... I uh read about..." he said, accidentally shooting a globe. "Uh no. Not ever." Chel growled at him, while taking out the map. Stitch climbed up on the cabin an looked at it, his eyes growing bigger than usual.
"Ooh." he said
"Mr. Phantom." Chel said. "Defend this with your life!" She tossed it to Danny, but Stitch jumped up and grabbed it in his mouth.
"Stitch! Give me that!" Danny shouted grabbing the map out of Stitch's mouth. "Ew, alien drool."
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Outside the cabin, The pirates were slowly blasting their way through the locks.
"Ugh, you're wasting daylight!" Chase said. He used only one punch and knocked the door down. The cabin was empty, save for one hole in the floor. Seething, Chase grabbed Jewel and through her down the hole.
"Stop them!" he yelled. There was a large crash.
"Thunder treated me better in my Big Adventure!" Jewel yelled
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"I wasn't made for long distance running in small places!" Sunny said as he dodged running into barrels and crates. They all quickly ran into the hull where the longboats were.
"Hey you!" Jewel yelled, running after them, many big and large alien pirates following her. Chel quickly slammed the metal door. A loud clang followed, and suddenly and Jewel shaped imprint was made on the door.
"Why?!" Everyone heard her moan. Chel used her rifle to meld the locks on the door so no one could get in.
"To the longboats, quickly!" She said. Danny, Stitch and Sunny jumped into on while Chel pulled down a lever. A door then opened beneath, and quickly shut. Another mysterious door opened, reveal a soaking wet Chel, a large gator hanging onto her sash.
"Why do we even have that lever down here?!" Chel yelled, smacking the gator. It whimpered and scampered back to where it came from. She trudged up to the levers and pulled the right one before running and jumping into the longboat. Stitch then grabbed the map and placed it in his mouth, jumping off the boat.
"Stitch! No!" Danny yelled, jumping out of the boat to chase the experiment. The doors exploded and the pirates started firing at the longboat.
"Eat laser you evil pirates!!" Chel yelled firing at them. A group of pirates consisting of Skulker, Mojo Jojo, and Eon were coming at the boat. Sunny looked at his pistol and without looking, fired at a large air canister, which landed and crashed through the walkway. Thus causing it to break and send Eon, Mojo, and Skulker to their dooms.
"Did you actually aim at that?" Chel asked, surprised.
"You know, actually I did." Sunny said, surprised at himself. Chel pushed him down and began shooting at the rest of the pirates. Chase pulled up the lever with a wicked grin, causing the hull door to slowly close.
"Aw Shoot! He didn't even use the other lever!" Chel yelled in outrage. She looked around for a way to get out of there and saw the cables that held the longboat.
"Bridges, shoot the cables over there on my signal. I'll take the ones above us." Chel said, hunkering down. All the while, Danny was chasing Stitch who still had the map in his mouth.
"Stitch! Get back here!" Danny yelled. Stitch was about to slowly walk over to Danny when Chase came up on his other side.
"Stitch! Come on boy! Come here!" Chase said
"Stitch. Stitch!" Danny said, opening his arms wide for the blue ball of fluff. "Bring it here, come on!"
"Come to daddy Stitch!
"Stitch. Stitch! STICH!"
"Come on Stitch!"
"Pressure!" Stitch said, holding his head and jumping into a large coil of ropes. Chase, with his leg still bleeding, dragged himself over to the coil .He was about to reach in and get it, but Danny got there first. Danny looked down at him, the map in his had and then dashed over to their boat. Chase conjured a large black ball, he had Danny in his sights, and... He couldn't do it.
"NOW!" Chel yelled as Danny jumped in. He landed in the boat as it fell out of the hull. Chel pulled on a rope and the solar sail opened.
"Parameters met. Hydraulics engaged. Now let's get out of here!" Chel said, taking control.
"That's it..." Zim said, on the laser cannon. "Come into range you little meat sacks!" The cannon started charging up, but Chase tried pushing it out of range.
"Don't! We'll lose the map!" he yelled. But he was too late. The cannon fired sending a laser ball right at them.
"Captain!" Sunny yelled. "Laser ball at twelve o'clock!" Chel tried to steer away from it, but the ball blasted the main controls. Chel held her sides as it exploded behind her. The started falling with Chel sterring them, crashing through weird bulbous plants and soon skidded and rolling to a stop on solid ground. They lifted the boat and got their land legs back.
"Whoa." Danny said
"That was rougher than the stuff I handle with Lil' D." Sunny said
"Heh heh." Chel said coming out from under the boat, her hair messed up a bit. "Not one of my best landings." Smoothing out her hair, she suddenly grabbed her sides and collapsed.
"Captain!" Sunny said, coming over to help Chel up.
"It's alright. I'm good." Chel said, standing and falling into Sunny's arms. "It's slight bruising. A bowl of wine and I'll be alright." She stood tall, looking the way she did when the journey began. "Mr. Phantom." She looked at Sunny.
"Uh, over here." Danny said. Chel looked at Sunny, squinting her eyes, then looked at Danny, her hand held out.
"The map please." she said. Danny pulled out the map from his pocket and was able to see it was... blue.
"Uh..." the trio said looking at it. It unraveled to reveal Stitch. He gave Danny a big lick and climbed down him to sit in front of him, a smile plastered on the experiment's face.
"Stitch?! Stitch, where's the map?!" Danny yelled. Stitch climbed one of the trees and pointed at the ship.
"Aki taba!" he said
"Are you kidding me?! It's back on the SHIP?!" Danny yelled louder. He started chasing Stitch around their landing area while Chel looked back at the ship.
"Stifle that blue fluff ball and get low." she said, interrupting Danny strangling Stitch. "We've got company." They all looked at the ship to see a longboat sailing down.
"We need a more defensive position. Mr. Phantom," Chel said, pulling out a pistol and handing it to Danny, "scout ahead." Danny took it and got up.
"Agh!" Chel said, falling forward before Sunny caught her.
"Whoa girl." he said, "Come on. Let's have a good look at your back." Danny kept walking onward regardless of what was happening behind him, and unknowing of what he'll meet ahead of him.
Thunder: I was watching The Emperor's New Groove, which inspired that line you see. :) Review!