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Reviewer Thanks
Tracker78: Who doesn't love Zim and Gir? Lol; And don't worry, they can't contain us forever!
StormBringer128: I love giving surprises, and glad you enjoyed the "Hangover" reference; I don't know how roster is spelt either, but according to my spell-check, you got it right… and yes, brace yourself for a Toothless cameo next ^-^; Yep, couldn't exclude Kynley… tho I regret throwing in her mother, rofl jk (I hope she doesn't come across this story, tho O.O)
Scoobycool9: Hey, the kids needed their own starring-moment, right?; Glad you enjoyed the cameo!
Disclaimer: I do not claim anything that would be considered not mine.
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Fangs' POV
I'm a little insulted, but also reprieved.
If you didn't notice in that last chapter, WG forgot to mention that Kasandra and I were also captured… That would probably be because she didn't know that during the scene I had dove into a barrel to hide, and pulled Kasandra in with me. Oh, sure, we could have changed into Fangface and Hunter and tried to help the others, but there was one problem.
We got knocked unconscious.
Turns out some pirates decided to raid the ship for a couple supplies, and turned the barrel over. Our heads bonked together, and everything went black. I guess I should be glad they didn't decide to roll us across the deck, because it would be a pretty pathetic fate to drown in pickle juice. Yech.
I feel insulted because WG failed to mention this… but reprieved because none of our kidnappers knew that they had missed us, and we had a chance to help our friends. (Though I'm going to have a talk with WG about keeping track of how many characters she puts into a story). Yet I shouldn't be saying anything, because as I sat in a barrel, I was thinking of what kind of character I'd like to include…
Ooh, ooh, looks like Kassy's starting to come to. "Ugh, what happened? Where are we, and… why in tarnation do I smell like a pickle?" she asked, her southern drawl showing.
"A bunch of pirates attacked, we hid in a barrel, we got knocked out by accident, and it's because we're sitting in pickles." I replied, and pushed a stopper out of a hole in the barrel so we could get more air in, taking a peep across the deck, seeing a few pirates lounging around. "Ooh, ooh, and it looks like we're on a new pirate ship and… (gulp) it looks like Blackbeard's."
"And I thought we heard the last of the Pirates of the Caribbean cameos. Our friends must be in the brig,"
"How are we gonna get to them?"
"I got an idea. We'll pop out of this barrel, sneak across the deck, free our friends, and take over the ship."
"Kassy, I love you, but that idea is crazy!"
She gave me a look. "Well, what's your plan? Hide in this barrel and wait for someone else to step in and save the day?"
"(grr) Boy, she knows you!" Fangface chuckled inside my head.
Ah, shut up! I thought. "It's a good idea, Kass, but we can't just jump out with pirates on deck," I said, peeking through the hole once more. "We'll wait until those two pirates over there leave, then we'll get out."
"Alright." Kasandra sighed.
Five minutes passed, and the pirates soon walked down to the galley. The one at the helm was at a table looking at a map to check their course, I guess, so we decided to take the chance. "On the count of three. One… Two… Three!"
We tried popping the lid off.
It didn't budge.
"Uh, three!" I said, grunting as we pushed again. "Three…!"
Kasandra groaned. "Don't tell me they stacked something on top of it!" she snapped. "We'll have to change into Fangface and Hunter to get it off."
"Ooh, ooh, but we don't have a picture of the moon, and I can't see the moon through this hole!" I replied.
Kasandra rubbed her chin. "Well, why don't we try transforming the way Kite's mom, Lucy, transforms? Just changing automatically?"
"Okay… but… how do we do that?"
She paused. "I don't know… maybe just let them take control, like how they do when we have dueling personalities, and they'll just transform on their own?"
What do you think, Fangface? Can you do it? I thought.
"(grr) I'll try," Fangface thought in reply.
"Lets try it," I told Kasandra.
I concentrated, picturing turning into Fangface, growing fur, sprouting fangs, howling wildly then attacking Puggsy (secretly, that's the only part of the transformation I liked best). I pictured being him, facing danger, fighting bad guys, doing crazy stunts I wouldn't dare to do… heck, I even thought about eating Puggsy! …Which, suddenly, sounds really wrong once I said it out loud, coming from me and all.
I thought hard about being a werewolf, letting Fangface enter my conscious, a growl coming out of my mouth like it does when he uses me as a ventriloquist dummy. What happened next was unexpected.
Absolutely NOTHING!
"Well, so much for that theory." I sighed.
Kasandra shook her head. "No luck with me, either." she said, then pressed against the lid again. "Lets try one more time. Maybe this thing is just wedged on too tight."
"Okay," I put my hands on it. "One…"
"Two…"
"Three!" We both exclaimed, the lid finally coming off!
…Just as a couple pirates were walking by.
"Uh… so... um… who ordered the pickles?" I asked, weakly.
"Yah!" Kasandra yelled, hitting one pirate on the head with the lid, then struck the other across the face. "Lets go!" she grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the barrel, and we rushed across the deck.
I heard the helmsman shouting, so I knew we'd have more trouble along the way, and I had a feeling we'd need more than a lid to fend off a ship full of pirates, like a gun or a knife or a bat or a sword or-
I paused, remembering something.
Ever since "Family Traits", I had been carrying a sword around with me after training with Jack Sparrow!
"You had a sword this whole time, and you didn't even THINK about using it? (snarl)" Fangface questioned in my head, and whether it was because of his willpower or mine, my hand smacked my forehead.
"Fangs, what is it?" Kasandra asked.
I reached into my hat and pulled out my sword, still in its sheath, untouched for years. I tied it around my waist and pulled the blade out. There was yelling, and a couple pirates were coming after us. "Brace yourself, Kasandra." I said, gripping the handle, having a strange feeling come over me. A feeling of courage, of boldness… of pure insanity. "I'm about to get OOC."
The pirates lunged, and I lunged back, swinging my sword to deflect their attacks, moving on top of a crate to get a better angle when they started making me back up, trying to keep them from coming near Kassy. One pirate made a false move and I ended up knocking his sword out of his hand, ducking the other's blade and making it stick into the wall.
Will Turner would be proud.
Kasandra grabbed the other sword and knocked the disarmed pirate out, while I slammed my elbow into the other's face (which didn't do well for my funny-bone). "Lets find the others," I said, rubbing my arm, and we took off before the other pirates could show up.
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Kite's POV
Ever have one of those moments where you're suddenly confused beyond all reason? I sure did.
One minute, I'm seeing my dad betray us, then I'm seeing him chained up in the brig! "Dad?" I gasped. "What the…? I thought you were…! Huh?"
"Silver! How did you get down here? I-I thought you were…" Jim stammered, just as confused as I was.
"Weren't you just betraying us five minutes ago?" Jessica sneered.
"If you're talking about dat blaggard contraption they built tah take me place an' pull a quick one over yer heads, t'en no I wasn't." the cyborg replied. "I was helping Jim an' Finn load cargo, preparing fer a trip tah yer universe, when some loathsome bluggers knocked me out! T'ey locked me down here, an' I could only watch as they sent dat bucket o' bolts off wit' Lucy,"
"Mom was with the robot?" I repeated, suddenly thinking the worse. I turned to Jim. "Jim, where was my Mom when you took off?"
Jim shrugged. "I don't know. I saw her go into the galley when we spotted you… with the robot…" he replied, suddenly paling. "But… she never came back up."
I felt like vomiting. We had gone down to the galley after they picked us up, me, Kim, William and Analessa… but we didn't see any sign of my mom anywhere. Kitefang, please tell me you remember seeing Mom somewhere… I pleaded.
"I wish I could say I did… but your guess is as good as mine." Kitefang responded, sadly. "To make it worse, I smelled something rancid-yet-sweet coming from the storage closet, which was locked…"
I winced. I remembered how Tracker had written a story about how our gang met the Mystery Inc. gang at an amusement park, and there had been several disappearances… along with the same kind of smell. I slumped down against the wall, and Kim sat next to me, wrapping an arm around me in comfort, but it didn't help much.
Long ago, my mother had to alter my memory to think she was dead, sending me away into this universe so I could escape Marlow, and even grow up to defeat him. Until the day we ended up in the Treasure Planet universe, and I found out she was alive… Now, it feels like I lost her all over again.
"I swear tah God, if dat lousy impersonator did anyt'ing tah yer mum, I'm gonna blast it in-tah a million pieces!" Silver growled, his cyborg eye red.
"We'll have to get past these pirates, first." Samantha said, reaching into her pocket and pulling out a Swiss-army knife, pulling out a small file and started to pick at the lock.
"Don't you think these would work, better?" came a voice, and we saw Kasandra holding up a set of keys.
"Fangs! Kassy! Where'd you come from?" Gin exclaimed.
"Lets just say that the next time I go off to hide, no one should call me a coward," Fangs said, smirking. I noticed he had his sword out.
They unlocked our cage and I changed my bracelet into a sword. "C'mon… I have a score to settle with this pirates," I said, darkly.
"I feel an actiony music number coming up…" Tracker said, smirking as she took out a guitar. "Any requests?"
"You know… we always sing songs by different artists." Jackie said. "Why not try an original one?"
"This should be a humorous action-scene." Vincent commented, and Samantha elbowed him in the ribs.
"Lets go," I said, and the others grabbed some swords by the unconscious guards (courtesy of Fangs and Kassy), and we stormed on deck as Tracker began to play a song… in the genre of an old sea-shanty with a country twist.
Tracker: We've seen it all and took it down
It was our life story
Been through hell and back several times
After a while it got a little gory
Danger waits at every stop
But every time we end up on top…
Hey, hey, hey, this is what we do
A group of pirates came at us down the stairs, but Vincent, Jackie, and Samantha leaped into the air, landing behind them and pulling their hats over their heads, pushing them down the stairs and giving us a clear way up.
"Take it away, Kassy!" Tracker exclaimed.
Kassy: Well life was nothing more
Than a sack full of trouble
Lost some but gained lots more
Though the danger always doubled
Thought there would be a time
Where I'd get a happy ending
But the way life is now
It ends up a new beginning!
We got on deck and then began dueling with pirates. Fangs, Biff, Jim, Gin and I had dealt with pirates before, so it wasn't anything new. Silver had been a pirate, so he knew what was coming. And Kim had trained at an Academy in our time in the Treasure Planet world, so she had a few tricks up her sleeves as well. …And when Fangs and Samantha saw the moon, the pirates might as well have abandoned ship.
Kassy and Tracker: Oh trouble looks for us everywhere
We'd wander into it every day if we dared
Villains try to mess us up, but we don't really care
Hey, hey, hey, this is what we do!
Blackbeard was on deck now, and I glared at him. His sword commanded this entire ship, so I knew I'd have to get it away from him. Quickly, I took out my wand, a plan forming into my mind…
Five seconds later, I was running across the deck, watching as Quartermaster, Blackbeard's zombie minion, was trying to take on my dad… though when you cross a zombie's jaw with a cyborg's uppercut, you'd know it wouldn't be a long battle. Meanwhile, Jessica was assisting Jim in rolling a couple lunging pirates off their backs and over the side of the ship, while Kassy and Tracker continued their song… all the while going Chuck Norris on a couple buccaneers, and I gotta tell you it's not every day you hear a couple pirates screaming like girls and running away crying.
Kassy and Tracker: Danger waits at every stop!
*Whack! Pow! Bonk! Bam!*
They punched and kicked, as if the sound-effects were in-sync with their tune.
Trouble waits for us everywhere!
*Konk! Smack! Crash! Thud!*
We'd wander into it always if we dared
But always end up at the top!
Hey, hey, hey, this is what we do
Hey, hey, hey!
This is what we do!
By the end of the music number, half of Blackbeard's crew had been beaten beyond description… and I was now standing before the pirate as he reached for his sword. "Make one move, and I'll cut you to ribbons," I threatened, poking my knife into his back.
He gave a teasing chuckle, turning and facing me. "I don't think you're man enough to take on the most feared pirate in the seas, boy." he said. "I control my ship, and I managed to control that Kraken that dragged Jack Sparrow down to the sea. If YOU make one move, you'll be joining him in Davy Jones locker,"
"Why don't you join him, instead?"
*Shunk!*
Blackbeard gasped, looking down at his chest, where the end of a sword had pierced through. He looked behind him, seeing Kitefang standing on the railing at the other end. "Impossible…" he gasped before he fell onto the deck, blood spilling around him.
How did I do it? Simple. I split from Kitefang, knowing that I'd have to take Blackbeard off-guard somehow.
Picking up his sword, I looked down at the other pirates, who immediately dropped their weapons now that their captain was dead. I looked at my gang, next. "Now lets go find our friends, get to Scotland, and kick some warlock ass."
"Uh, just one problem, Kite…" Jackie said, looking over the ship. "The jets died out!"
"Blackbeard must not know much about keeping a ship stabilized," Jim said.
"We're fallin' fast!" Silver cried as the ship fell through the air.
I hung on to the sword, forcing the sails to be released and stabbing forward, making them shoot out in hopes of helping us glide a bit. Kitefang held on to the helm, steering and angling the ship a bit…
*Crash!*
We hit land, sliding across a desert, eventually coming to a stop. Thankfully, no one was harmed- got major whiplash, but still unharmed- though the bottom half of the ship was dismantled.
Still…
I stuck the sword forward again, and the sails caught the wind, and we moved across the dunes. "Cool! Kite just invented sand-sailing!" I heard Fangface exclaim.
"We're going to find the nearest city, get supplies all the while repair this ship, and get our friends back," Kitefang said.
"That sums it up," I replied, rolling my eyes.
…Gotta admit, though. This was pretty cool.
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A/N: The song mentioned is called "This Is What We Do", an original song written by the authoress. …Please don't laugh.
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