Mutants of the Caribbean

Scene Seven: Like Parley

As the battle continued to rage outside all the prison inmates could do was watch through the barred windows of their cells. Suddenly a stray cannonball came hurtling directly towards the jail, and all the prisoners quickly ducked as it hit making a gaping hole in the cell that contained every prisoner except Toad.

"My sympathies, comrade. You have no luck at all," Omega Red offered to Toad before escaping with the others.

Toad sighed settling back down in his cell. Then he picked up a large bone and decided to try and tempt the mutt with the keys. "Come on, doggy. It's just you an' me now. It's just you and ol' Todd, come on!" he urged the dog as it crept slowly from its hiding place. "Come on, good boy."

Right before Toad's very eye's the dog transformed into a young girl, who giggled and scampered off with the keys. "Whoa, now that is just freaky. No, no, no, no, no, I didn't mean it. I didn't..." Toad shouted after her realizing that she'd taken the cell door keys with her.

Before Toad could find a way to convince Rahne to bring back the keys, a couple of pirates broke down the jailhouse door.



"This isn't the armory," Havok muttered out loud as he followed Mastermind in.

"Well, well, well, look what we have here Havok - Captain Toad Tolensky." Mastermind laughed.

"Dude, last time I saw you, you were totally stranded on some island. Looks like his fortunes haven't improved much, huh bro?" Havok pointed out as Toad just shook his head.

"I'd be more worried about your own fortunes, yo. The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers," Toad reminded his old shipmates. Mastermind reached in between the bars grabbed Toad around the neck. In the moonlight his arm appeared to be nothing but bone. "So there is a curse," Toad choked. "That's interesting."

"You know nothing of hell," Mastermind growled as he released Toad's throat.

"Very interesting," Toad muttered to himself, as the pirates left to continue their search for the armory.

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"Fresh meat?" Sabretooth asked as Remy and Pyro led Kitty aboard the Black Pearl.

"Chere invoked the right of parley," Remy began explaining before Kitty cut in.

"I'm here to, like, -" Kitty gasped as Sabretooth slapped her across the face.

"Never say that word again," Sabretooth growled as he raised his clawed hand to strike her again. Kitty lay cringing expecting the hit, but much to her surprise Sabretooth was suddenly sent flying across the deck by an unseen force.

"Never lay a hand on those under the protection of parley," Magneto proclaimed as he strode menacingly towards Kitty.

"Aye, Sir," Sabretooth grumbled from the otherside of the deck.

"My apologies, Miss..." Magneto said wanting to know her name.

Kitty promptly stood up and said: "Captain Magneto, I'm, like, here to, like, demand your, like, stopping this, like, attack on, like, Port Royal."

Magneto couldn't understand due to all the 'likes' Kitty inserted into her speech. "Pardon me, but what is it you want, exactly?" he asked.

"I want you to, like, leave and never come back," Kitty simplified.

"I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request." Magneto told her. Kitty looked confused. "It means, like, 'no'," he quipped.

Kitty frowned deeply and walked over to the edge of the ship. She pulled the pirate medallion off her neck and held it above the dark waters that surrounded the Black Pearl. "I'll drop it," she threatened.

Several of the pirates became nervous, but Magneto remained calm and aloof. "What does one piece of gold matter to us?" he asked seemingly unconcerned.

"It's what you've been searching for. I recognized the ship from, like, eight years ago on the crossing from England," Kitty stated haughtily.

"Did you now?" Magneto scoffed, showing only mild interest.



"Fine, like, I suppose if it's, like, worthless then there's no point in me keeping it!" Kitty exclaimed angrily as she prepared to throw the medallion down to the depths. The crew gasped, but to their and Kitty's amazement a slender pirate with white hair had snatched the medallion out of her hand. Kitty gasped as Pietro sped over to Magneto and dropped the medallion in his hand.

"Do you have a name, Missy?" Magneto tried again while examining the medallion.

Kitty thought for a moment then responded. "...Alvers, Katherine Alvers. I'm a maid at the Professor's estate."

"Miss Alvers...?" Magneto muttered as a smile crept over his dark features.

"Avalanche," Remy whispered to Pyro. Pyro brightened as it became clear to him about whom they were talking about.

"How did a maid like you come across a trinket like this? Family heirloom, perhaps?" Magneto asked continuing on with his interrogation.

"I didn't, like, steal it if that's what you mean," Kitty growled angrily at the thought that of being accused by some bloody pirates.

"Very well, we'll leave this port and never darken it's shores again," Magneto proclaimed, handing the medallion back to Pietro for safe keeping. The younger mutant sped off to hide the medallion before Kitty could even blink.

"Promise?" Kitty asked becoming more unsure of her situation by the moment.

Magneto turned away from her and began giving orders to the crew. "Still and stow the guns, signal the men, set the flags and make good to clear port."

"Wait!" Kitty cried, "You have to, like, take me to shore. According to the code of the Brother— "

Magneto turned around abruptly and cut her off. "Your return to shore was not a part of our negotiations nor our agreement so I must do nothing. Secondly, you have to be a part of the Brotherhood of Mutants, or the Acolytes, and you're not!"

Before Kitty could protest further Remy and Pyro took her by the arms and dragged her away from Magneto. "Welcome to dey Black Pearl, Chere," Remy said with a sinister grin as they led her below deck.

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Cast:

Captain Jack Sparrow ~ Todd Tolensky

Prisoner 2 ~ Arkady "Omega Red" Rossovich

Guard Dog ~ Rahne Sinclair

Twigg ~ Alex "Havok" Summers

Koehler ~ Jason "Mastermind" Wyngarde

Elizabeth Swann ~ Katherine "Kitty" Pryde

Pintel ~ Remy Lebeau

Ragetti ~ St. John Allerdyce

Bo'sun ~ Victor "Sabretooth" Creed

Barbossa ~ Eric Magnus Lensherr

Jack (the monkey) ~ Pietro Maximoff

Bootstrap Bill ~ Dominic Alvers

Next Chapter: Random Acts Of Heroics

Teaser: Kitty needs help from Lance. Lance needs help from Toad. Toad needs out of the cell.

Reviewers Only Test: The last test we gave the prize to two people cause they obviously didn't copy each others reply. New test: Which X-men was recruited into the Brotherhood in 'Second Time Round'?

Review Responses:

Yes, it's true we made him the monkey and I laughed about it too! Most of Pietro's stuff is gonna be shown through actions, but he does have a couple lines and he get a scene all to himself.

Keep on reviewin' and if you get bored between chapters go read some of our other junkers. If you like this one you'll probably get a kick out of 'Manipulating Evolution' by Half'n'Half. Just click on Anti-XYo at the top and check it out.