The next morning they woke to the sound of shouts from the beach. Upon running down there, they saw that another ship had moored off the shore and that a small rowboat was heading towards the beach. Everyone else had already clustered on the beach, and Jack and Candy went to join them.

"Hello," said the first sailor as he stepped onto the shore. "Who are you?"

"I'm Captain Jack Sparrow, this is my fellow teacher Will, this is the girl who came along for the sake of it Elizabeth, this is my girlfriend Candy-"

"Whaaaaaaa?" gagged Deb, choking on her lip-gloss.

"Uh oh, I smell a lawsuit," said the Commodore.

"Yay, go Bambi!" cheered Amber.

"This is our resident passion-killer, Frankie-"

"Why does she have a black eye?" asked a sailor.

"And this is Stephanie. She's our president, judge, police commissioner, and coastguard captain."

"You forget, I'm now foreign minister," said Stephanie, stepping forward and shaking the hand of the ship's captain. "Hello, I'm president, judge, police commissioner, coastguard captain and foreign minister. Welcome to my country. This is my personal assistant Brianna."

"What?" gasped Brianna indignantly.

"We'll talk," said Stephanie.

"No we won't! I'm writing to my union!"

"I call union chief!" yelled Stephanie.

"What? You can't do that!" yelled Brianna.

"Why?" shouted Stephanie.

"Because...we already have a union chief!" said Brianna.

"Oh yeah? Who?" said Stephanie sceptically.

"Erm...err...well...Jack! Jack is union chief!"

"Wha?" choked Jack, spitting out a mouthful of rum.

"Yay! Let's hear it for Bambi! Hip hip – hooray! Hip hip – hooray!" cheered Amber.

"Just SHUT UP!" yelled Seona.

"You'd better not be talking to me," said Stephanie warningly.

"Oh really? Who or what else would I be talking to?" said Seona sarcastically.

"Oh, I don't know, what about my ar-"began Stephanie.

"Whoa there," said Vaughn. "Peace, peace."

"Fine," said Stephanie sulkily. "But she was at least talking THROUGH HER AR-"

"Whoa! Keep a lid on it! We want to keep this clean," said Will. "We don't want a repeat of the 'Kindergarten Incident."

"Oh, yeah, that was a blast, wasn't it?" reminisced Jack. "And what about the time we told those nuns to-"

"You couldn't give us a lift to the mainland, could you?" asked Will quickly.

"No," said the captain, giving him a strange look.

"Why?" asked Rue.

"Because you're bonkers. See you." They hurriedly piled back into the boat and rowed back to their ship.

"How can Jack be union captain?" exploded Stephanie.

"I'm not..." began Jack, but he was cut off by Brianna.

"I'll give you rum..." she hissed.

"Yeah, I'm union head!" he said enthusiastically.

"And I'm his deputy!" said Brianna.

"What? Oh yeah, she's my deputy," said Jack.

"And we're rebelling against your regime!" concluded Brianna.

"We're what?" said Jack.

"Rebelling against her regime. Remember?" said Brianna threateningly.

"Erm, yeah."

"Good. So we're taking over. You can have the other half of the island for your dictatorship, and we'll have this half for the Republic. Fair?"

"No!" said Stephanie. "The other half's a bog!"

"It's a swamp, actually. Now move!" Brianna pulled out her sword. "Whoever's with me, stay here. Whoever's with her, get into that swamp. Now git!"

Several hours later, everyone on the Republic side was enjoying roast kookaburra from the jungle and singing songs round the fire they had set up on the beach.

"Hey, do you think we should let Stephanie have some?" said Will. "She's all on her own over there."

"When she's willing to give up her power, she'll come over," said Seona.

"How you doing over there, Stephanie?" called Ebony, heaving another tree trunk onto the fire.

Stephanie was standing waist deep in brackish swamp-water and shivering.

"I'm doing just fine, actua-AHHHH!" She screamed as a frog leapt out of the water and narrowly missed her nose.

"You don't look it. Why don't you come over?" suggested Rue.

"No, thanks. I'm popular here."

"How'd you figure that out?" said Jack.

"By holding a vote. Who here likes me?" She raised her hand. "OK, 1. Who here doesn't like me?" She looked around expectedly. There was no sign of any conflicting vote, mainly because Stephanie was the sole inhabitant of her dictatorship. "See? A unanimous vote in my favour. Nya- ha-ha-ha-ha!"

"Fine," said Brittany. "Come over whenever you're ready."

"Hmmmmph!" said Stephanie.