Blackbeard grinned once he spotted Peter and soon tried to shoot him off of the Neverbird that he was on. The Neverbird was soon spooked from the bullets and then bucked Peter right off of its back, sending him flying in the air, and crashing through one of the Indian tents.
"PETER!" Jack and Jill cried out.
"You brats too?!" Blackbeard glared once he saw the twins and The Toon Force.
"You better believe it!" Thor smirked.
"Yeah!" Lionel added.
Jill gulped before jumping down to join Peter.
"Jill, have you lost your mind?!" Jack exclaimed.
"I have to help him!" Jill called to her twin brother.
"Oh, Jill... What's gotten into you?" Jack sighed and shook his head.
"She's really coming out of her shell," Mo commented. "Metaphorically speaking, of course."
"Is she gonna be okay?" Jack asked Mo.
"I'm sure she'll be fine," Mo replied to him. "Just give her some time to find herself."
Jack blinked before shrugging as Jill went down after Peter and they both landed through the tent together.
"Can I tell you something, Peter?" Blackbeard's voice asked, making Peter and Jill look around for the horrible pirate. "You will never find your mother."
"Yes, I will find her." Peter nodded.
Blackbeard soon used his sword and made a small hole in a fabric startling Peter. "I know what you really really want," he then told him from the other side of the fabric. "You'll never find your mother and you know why? Because I killed her."
Peter looked shocked after hearing that.
"She died at my hand by this very blade," Blackbeard said before looking ready to strike. "As you will too."
Peter gasped as he spun around.
Jill grabbed onto him and fell backwards with him before ripping through the fabric and they both suddenly fell on the floor as Blackbeard came closer, glaring at both of them as he was going to cut them with his sword.
"Two for the price of one... How very promising~" Blackbeard grinned darkly.
Peter and Jill both flinched as Blackbeard towered over them.
"Close your eyes, children, and both of you think of happy thoughts~" Blackbeard smirked as he raised his sword high and was just about to drop it to cut them.
However, someone swooped down from the air and suddenly grabbed the kids, pulling them out of the tent while gliding up in the air and landing on a tree branch where Tigerlily was.
"BAD FORM, SIR!" Blackbeard glared as the tent ripped and fell all around him.
"We have to run. Now." Hook told Tigerlily.
"No, we have to jump." Peter said.
"That's right." Jill nodded.
They soon jumped down together from the tall tree in order to make their escape, using the tent as a parachute. Blackbeard soon saw them floating down from the tree behind his back and began to shoot at them with the other pirates following suit. A hole soon came in the fabric, making them shoot down a lot quicker.
"Oh, no!" Jill gasped.
Peter. Hook, Jill, and Tigerlily cried out before groaning as they hardly hit the floor after their parachute was destroyed, though Tigerlily wasn't badly hurt as she had landed on top of Hook.
"Peter... Jill... Are you hurt?" Tigerlily asked as she came to check on the kids.
"Well, I'm fine too, thanks for asking." Hook groaned as he tried to get up off of the ground.
"Don't speak to me," Tigerlily glared at him. "Because of you, everything, my people have fought to protect will be destroyed."
"Hey..." Hook began.
"Because of you, the Chief is dead." Tigerlily continued.
"Smee was the rat!"
"He was your friend."
"How was I supposed to know?"
"You should've known."
"I'm sorry if I did something wrong!" Hook snapped.
"Jilly? Jilly!" Jack called as he tried to look for his twin sister, scared and worried about her.
"He's with Peter." Tigerlily told him.
"Okay, and where is he?" Jack asked.
"Peter?" Tigerlily called out.
"We better go find them." Patch said as he walked over.
"Come, Dog, you can help too." Tigerlily said, suddenly grabbing Patch.
"Whoa! Hey!" Patch gasped.
"Dogs are excellent trackers," Tigerlily said. "Let's take a look."
Peter and Jill soon ran through the fields, though Peter was mostly running because he felt heartbroken.
"Peter!" Tigerlily called out.
"He's somewhere this way and I think that Jill's with him too." Patch said as he sniffed the ground, heading right for the fields.
Peter and Jill continued to run until they stopped as Peter had tears in his eyes.
"Finally caught up with you two." Patch said as he and Tigerlily came out from the bamboo plants.
Atticus and the others soon came out of the bamboo plants next.
"You lied. You all lied." Peter told Tigerlily.
"Lied about what?" Thor asked.
"I'm sorry." Tigerlily said softly as she knew what Peter was talking about.
"So it's true!" Peter glared with tears in his eyes.
"It's complicated." Tigerlily replied.
"What are you talking about?" Thor asked Peter.
"Like you don't already know," Peter glared tearfully. "Is my mother or alive or isn't she?"
"Ohh... Um..." Thor paused and stammered, not sure how to answer that question as he didn't know.
"...Blackbeard spoke the truth." Tigerlily admitted.
"And you lied to me!" Peter glared.
"Had we told you she was dead, you would have walked away from your destiny." Tigerlily explained.
"Whoever it is you think I am, whatever it is, you expect me to be, I am not, and, I cannot." Peter replied sadly.
"Peter..." Jill frowned, about to go to him.
"Just leave me alone! All of you!" Peter snapped at Tigerlily and The Toon Force before running away into the field again.
"We better go after him." Thor said.
'Even if he doesn't want to accept his destiny it's bound to happen sooner or later.' Atticus thought to himself.
Tigerlily and the Toon Force soon began to start following after Peter.
"Thank you for helping." Tigerlily told the Toon Force.
"Let's just say we have a big outlook for Peter's future." Lionel hinted slyly.
"Sounds good." Tigerlily nodded as they came into the field after Peter had run away in tears.
"Oh, believe me, this'll all be worth it in the end," Lionel nodded. "No tears from you either, Jill."
"Sorry," Jill frowned as she wiped her eyes. "I just wanted to help Peter and for him to be happy. You guys said that he would be happy in Neverland if we helped."
"And he will." Atticus said.
"Well, he's not happy now." Jill said.
"Well, I'm sure that things will cheer up later on." Patch smiled.
Jill frowned and rubbed her arm.
"Come on, Jill; it'll be okay." Jack comforted.
"I don't know..." Jill frowned.
"We can do this, together," Jack smiled to help comfort her. "Charming Twins' powers activate."
"Charming Twins' powers activate." Jill smiled back a bit.
"I guess they came up with a new catchphrase since the last time we saw them." Lionel shrugged at himself.
"It's a work in progress." Jack and Jill told him in unison.
"I couldn't..." Hook soon said as he came to see Tigerlily. "I didn't want to watch you die."
"You should've closed your eyes." Tigerlily retorted before going after Peter and the others.
Hook soon followed after her and where the sun began to look to be setting.
A while later, they were soon going down the river while floating in what looked to be a nest big enough for both of them.
"Blackbeard won't stop searching for Peter; there's only one place on this island he wouldn't look for him." Tigerlily told Hook.
"Mermaid Lagoon?" Hook asked as they got in the nest and he let his hand touch the water. "Sounds pretty... Therefore pirates are afraid of mermaids?" he then added.
"Because of what we will pass through to get there." Tigerlily clarified.
"Yeah?" Hook wondered.
"Crocodiles," Tigerlily then said as Hook removed his hand nervously and she noticed that. "Afraid?"
"No, ma'am..." Hook said, though obviously afraid and tried to hide it.
"Sure you aren't." Cherry smirked as she and the others were shown in a raft, going down the water after them.
"You guys made it?" Hook asked them.
"Yep!" Lionel replied, dressed like a ship's captain like on a cruise and even had a flower necklace around his neck. "Welcome to the S.S. Schwartz! There'll be shuffleboarding, live music, and margaritas at the midnight buffet!"
"This is nice." Thor smiled as he soon relaxed.
"Good thing crocodiles can't get in boats." Patch said.
"Oh? Is that a fact, Spot?" Hook asked before face-palming himself. "Am I arguing with a dog right now?"
"Yep!" Patch rolled his eyes before nodding. "And yes about the crocodile thing. It's scientifically proven that crocodiles are afraid of boats, canoes, or other watercraft."
"Funny... I thought that was alligators." Cherry snarked.
"Shh~" Patch shushed her.
Meanwhile, Blackbeard's crew were searching everywhere for important things to find the group with, especially Peter, but were surrounded by books as Smee wandered around nervously.
"Find the map. Keep looking." Blackbeard commanded his crew as he carried around a lantern.
"Is Smee please free?" Smee asked, coming beside Blackbeard anxiously.
"Pull the place apart!" Blackbeard continued, seeming to ignore Smee at first.
"So, may Smee be free?" Smee then asked the captain.
"No. You are too useful." Blackbeard scoffed.
"But, Smee has promised-" Smee began to speak up again.
"Smee should cease to talk of himself in the third person or Smee will be a non-person." Blackbeard threatened.
"Yes..." Smee nodded to Blackbeard as he looked all around before he saw a map that looked like it was sparkling a little bit, almost like it was hiding something very important and valuable to Blackbeard's search. "I found it. It's a map to The Fairy Kingdom."
Blackbeard came beside him before he called out to his crew. "Ready the ships!" he then commanded them before facing Smee. "We must get there before Peter and his friends."
Meanwhile back with Peter and the others...
Peter, Hook, and Tigerlily were still floating in their nest boat while the Toon Force were still floating in their boat. Peter brought out the piece of paper from his mother's letter before he began to tear it up and dropped the pieces into the water.
Jill saw what Peter did and frowned as she knew Peter was still hurting. 'Oh, Peter...' she then thought to herself softly.
"At least you have a family and home to go to," Peter told Jill as he stared into the water. "I have nothing left."
"Don't say that." Jill frowned.
"I just did," Peter replied firmly. "I'll never have anything."
Jill kept her frown, feeling very hurt and sad for Peter. Suddenly, there were bubbles that popped to the top of the water before something came out.
"CROCODILE!" Jack and Jill cried out as out came a vicious and hungry predator which was, in fact, a crocodile.
"I thought that stupid dog said that crocodiles hated boats!" Hook glared.
"Okay, so I was wrong!" Patch yelped.
"Let's use the torches!" Mo told the others.
"Yeah, aren't they afraid of fire? Or is that tigers?" Thor asked.
"Who cares?! Let's just get rid of this thing!" Lionel called out, flailing his arms.
Everyone soon grabbed a torch, hoping for the best as they looked all around for the crocodile. The crocodile didn't seem to be around... At least not yet. Perhaps it was hiding.
"Did we scare it off?" Peter asked as he looked in the water with the others.
Unfortunately, suddenly, the crocodile came back and leaped right out of the water and right over their heads before splashing back into the water.
"It's just like Free Willy!" Thor gasped.
"Except that was a killer whale," Cherry deadpanned. "Never smile at a crocodile."
"Oh, come on! It can fly?!" Hook complained.
"Keep waving your torches!" Tigerlily told the others.
"You got it!" Jack replied back.
"This croc is going to be quite a nuisance." Thor said.
"It's a croc," Hook scoffed. "They're all the same."
The crocodile snarled while seeming to come right back toward them.
"THERE!" Peter called out once he saw the bubbles in the water.
The crocodile soon hit the nest which made Peter fly out of it and splash into the water along with his torch.
"PETER!" The others cried out, but they couldn't find him.
"NO!" Jill cried out, feeling the most upset over losing Peter.
Jack frowned and hugged his twin sister to help comfort her.
"One of us has to go down there and save him!" Jill told the others.
"While there's that crocodile down there?" Hook asked.
"Well, we have to do something!" Jill replied.
"And what? It's going to be you?" Hook asked. "You're just one girl."
Jill looked at him and she soon jumped into the water suddenly.
"JILL! ARE YOU CRAZY?!" Jack cried out to his twin sister.
"I have to help Peter!" Jill called back. "And if you guys aren't going to help me, then I'm going after him myself!"
"Ooh... I don't trust this..." Jack said nervously as Jill went after Peter as best as she could in the water.
Peter reached his hand out as he gurgled under the water and the crocodile was dragging him down with it. Jill's eyes widened and she swam over, trying to get the crocodile away from Peter so that she could save him.
"I never thought I'd say this, but I kinda wish that Aquaman was here." Cherry commented.
"Wait, can't Jill change into any animal?" Thor asked.
"Yeah, she can." Patch nodded.
"And I can turn into anything from water to vapor and even ice." Jack said.
"So then why doesn't she change into an animal that can swim and help him?" Thor asked.
"Guys? She's already doing it." Cherry said.
"What makes you say that?" Patch asked.
Cherry pointed downward to see that there was a dolphin in the water that wasn't there before.
"Oh..." The others then blinked.
"Oh, Jill, do be careful down there." Jack said nervously.
Jill glared as she punched away the crocodile in the way of a dolphin to keep it away before she came to help out Peter before he could drown. However, as she was down there, there was something, or rather, someone glowing in the water who also came to help. There came two others as they all glowed and surrounded Jill and Peter. The girls in the water soon grabbed the crocodile to keep it away as Jill moved Peter out of the way in her own special way and the crocodile soon swam away in defeat.
"They've been down there a long time," Thor said in concern. "Maybe they met the little mermaid."
"We can only hope." Mo said.
"Well, we're about to find out." Patch replied.
They soon saw Peter gasp for air as he and Jill got up to the surface.
"Peter! What happened?" Hook asked as he took Peter's hand and helped him back up into the nest.
Peter gasped and panted as Jill changed back to normal to help the boy back onto the nest.
"You'll never guess what we saw down there." Jill said to the others before coughing a little.
However, before she could have them guess, the source was wading in the water, close behind them, and glowing under the sea.
"What are... Those?" Hook asked in shock.
"I don't know, but I think you're going to like them." Peter replied.
"You can say that again..." Hook said, entranced by the mermaids in the water.
"Those are mermaids." Atticus said.
"They sure are beautiful." Jack said.
Once they got close to shore, Tigerlily, Jack, Jill, Patch, Peter, Jack and Jill, and The Toon Force got out of their boats. Most of them were still in the water, but they were able to float. Jack and Jill stood close together since their bond was very strong and important.
"Guys, we can stand on this ground below, it's right here." Lionel told the others once his feet touched the ground underwater.
"He's right." Thor said.
The mermaids soon began to swam off once Peter was safe for the time being.
"They sure don't stay around for long." Patch said.
"I guess they're going back home." Lionel shrugged.
They all then looked forward as they saw a fallen down pirate's ship across from them.
"Hmm... Interesting," Thor remarked. "Must be an old rundown ship."
"I'm gonna check it out." Hook decided before he swam/walked towards the ship.
"Be careful." Tigerlily advised.
"Who's more careful than me?" Hook smirked as he continued to swim over to the ship.
"Famous last words." Thor said.
Hook soon swam into the water to find the mermaids.
"Something tells me he might meet up with the mermaids or will encounter the crocodile." Jack said.
"What makes you say that?" Cherry replied sarcastically.
"...Not very social, are you?" Jack asked her.
"Ask a stupid question, get a smartass answer," Cherry shrugged. "That's how my mind works."
"Just don't do it around Bruce... That got you in a lot of trouble when you sassed him last time." Lionel spoke up as Cherry then suddenly shuddered nervously.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you about what happened to your mother," Tigerlily softly said to Peter. "However, Blackbeard didn't tell you the whole truth either."
Peter raised his head from that.
"Let me show you and if your friends want to come see too, they may." Tigerlily then added.
"Yes, please." Patch said.
"After all, we should get the whole story." Jill said.
"Very well." Tigerlily replied.
They soon went back into the water.
"Why are we going back in the water?" Mo asked.
"Follow me." Tigerlily told them as she began to lead the way through the water.
The others soon followed as Peter joined, staying close beside Jack and Jill though.
"The mermaids changed these waters with memory," Tigerlily began to explain. "You can see the past."
"Hmm... I did hear about water having memory..." Lionel commented and nodded.
Tigerlily put her hand on Peter's head. "Deep breath." she then told him.
Peter took a deep breath as Tigerlily put his head under the water while the others began to join him under the water.
To everybody's surprise, they saw a story playing out right in front of them through the water as they took a look, almost like the tree from the native tribe from earlier.
"There's no time," A woman's voice spoke. "Blackbeard's men nearly have us. Go to the Fairy Kingdom, hide, keep our people safe." she then ordered before going to charge for the shroud of darkness that resembled Blackbeard and the battle in The Fairy Kingdom.
"You never should have come back, Mary." Blackbeard's voice said before getting into a sword fight with her.
'Now we're about to find out the whole truth.' Jill thought to herself.
Jack gently took Jill's hand to comfort her. Jill glanced over and lightly squeezed his hand as they watched Blackbeard swordfight with the woman named Mary. Luckily for Mary, it seemed like she was winning so far.
"Yet here you are..." Blackbeard continued speaking to the woman. "Ready for them all to die rather than live with me."
Mary gasped as Blackbeard then became more violent in the fight against the rogue pirate, though he was still just a bit stronger than she was. Eventually, Mary cried out as she seemed to have been suddenly struck by Blackbeard.
"No... Mary! No! NOOOO!" Blackbeard cried out then as Mary seemed to had been killed.
'Wait, why did he cry out no?' Thor thought to himself.
Peter, Jack, Jill, and The Toon Force came up for air after seeing everything.
"My mother was a warrior." Peter said.
"A brave warrior. Her sacrifice still inspires us." Tigerlily nodded.
"...Did you know Peter's mother?" Jill asked as that response made her think.
"She trained me." Tigerlily nodded again.
"Would she had been proud of me?" Peter asked hopefully.
"Yes. Very." Tigerlily warmly reassured.
"But... What if I can't do what she did?" Peter then asked cautiously. "What if I fail to fulfill the prophecy?"
"And what if you fail to try, Peter?" Tigerlily lightly retorted. "What are you then?"
Peter didn't say anything and just stared down at his feet under the water.
"Hey!" Hook called out as he swam back toward them and grinned in excitement. "You gotta see this!"
They soon followed Hook to a pirate ship and where it looked like it was in one piece.
"Sweet." Thor smiled.
"It sure looks sturdy." Lionel said.
"Looks older than Drell." Cherry chuckled a bit.
Hook soon helped them aboard once he got to the ship first out of the water. "Now, the hull's a little banged up. See those teeth marks?" he then instructed before pointed up into the distance. "You see those teeth marks? Those crocs can jump!"
"I bet they can, especially around here." Jill nodded in agreement.
"But once I get her fixed up, she's gonna be in good shape!" Hook then told the others as he stumbled across the deck since the ship was tilted.
"For what?" Tigerlily asked Hook.
"To get us the hell off this island!" Hook replied.
"So you're gonna run like a coward?" Tigerlily asked him.
"Well, I never really thought of it in those exact terms, but in a matter of speaking yes." Hook told her.
"Where will you go?" Tigerlily asked.
"Home. It's, you know, it's where I come from." Hook replied.
"Home's not where you come from, it's how you make it." Tigerlily told him.
"Home is where the heart is." Thor added.
"I couldn't have said it better myself," Lionel agreed. "And I should know about home not being where you come from."
"So help me do that!" Hook retorted, a bit childishly.
The others just gave him a bit of a blank stare.
"Anyone that survived Blackbeard's attack is in the mine by now," Hook then continued as he got the ship ready as best as he could on his own. "And, I have been in there. I am not going back. Not for anything or anyone."
"Well, if you have no reason to stay, then go," Tigerlily retorted. "Go now. Leave us to die."
"Is she guilt-tripping him?" Jack asked Jill.
"I think so." Jill replied.
"I don't want you to die, I want you to come with me." Hook explained to Tigerlily.
"And if I don't?" Tigerlily asked.
"Then that's your decision... Not mine." Hook replied.
Hook soon went over to Peter thinking he and the others would join him.
"Well, kids, looks like the old gang's getting back together," Hook told Peter, Jill, Jack, and The Toon Force before walking up the stairs to the helm. "Let's get this ship in the air."
"Are you all thinking what I'm thinking?" Atticus whispered to the others.
"Yeah..." Thor replied. "I could go for a burger too. It seems like it's been ages since I last had any real food."
"...That wasn't what I was thinking." Atticus sweat-dropped.
"Whoops... Sorry," Thor chuckled nervously. "One-track mind."
Lionel rolled his eyes before he made a couple of burgers appear and Thor took them and stuffed his face instantly.
"As for the rest of us, yeah, we're not leaving Neverland yet," Jack said. "Not while Blackbeard is still around."
"And I'm going to do my best to fight off against Blackbeard." Peter told The Toon Force.
"You're just one kid." Jill reminded Peter.
"He wants me," Peter told her. "You all shouldn't have to suffer just because of me."
"So... You're going right away?" Thor asked.
"First, I'm going to talk things out with Tigerlily before I do anything else." Peter replied.
"Okay, but we're staying in Neverland." Atticus told him.
"That's right." Mo nodded.
"There's no way we're leaving as long as that heartless man or his crew are here." Jill added.
"Oh, don't worry," Lionel smirked. "I'm sure we'll take good care of Blackbeard once the time is right."
"Anything in your book about Blackbeard?" Thor asked Cherry as she looked at her Once Upon a Time book that revolved around "The Journey to Neverland".
"Uh... Just that the Captain Hook in this book used to work under him and imprisoned a human prince who fell in love with a mermaid princess," Cherry shrugged as she flipped through the pages in her book. "They had a swordfight at one point."
"Then maybe that's what we should do to take down that joke of a tyrant pirate." Thor then glared as he squeezed his hands together into strong and brutal fists.
"Sounds like a good idea to me." Patch said.
"After all, how else do you take down a pirate with that kind of outfit?" Atticus asked.
"Besides, he is a rotten pirate." Jack said.