Mutants of the Caribbean
Scene Fifteen: Cajuns Are French
"Ten years of hoarding swag." Remy stated reflectively as he and John carried a large chest they had stolen, down the passages to the main treasure cave.
"And now we'll finally get to spend it." John added with a smile as they dropped the chest. It opened on impact with the ground to reveal that it contained no treasure . . . instead it held many pretty dresses and a couple parasols. Remy slapped himself in the forehead. "Did you say swag or drag?" John asked as he picked up both the parasols and handed one to Remy.
Remy took the parasol with a role of his inverted eyes. "Once we ditch dis curse we will be rich men, mon ami. And yo' can buy a flamethrower like yo' always wanted." Remy pointed out as he twirled the parasol around absentmindedly.
"My lighter is startin' to run out of fuel." John said sadly, he pulled out his Zippo and flicked it on to show just how low the flame was.
"Stop wastin' it." Remy warned John just as Sabertooth walked up to them with a slight growl to let them know he didn't approve of their slacking off. Both the younger mutants smiled up at Sabertooth and hurried back to work.
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"What code does Logan stick to if something goes wrong?" Lance asked Toad in a hushed tone as they rowed silently into the cavern.
Toad looked up at Lance. "The pirate's code. Anyone that falls behind gets left behind, yo?" He explained.
Lance shrugged understandingly. "No heros amongst thieves, I guess." He muttered apathetically.
Toad smiled in spite of Lance's apparent dislike for pirates. "For hatin' pirates so much you've almost become one, yo?" He told Lance receiving a very skeptical look. "You busted me outta jail, commandeered a ship from the X-men, sailed with a mutant crew outta Tortuga. . .and you're completely obsessed with treasure." Toad grinned as he watched Lance gaze out at the treasure that had been scattered throughout the passeges, knowing that it must only be the excess that had spilt over the years from many chest that had been carried through the winding tunnels.
Lance snapped his head up at Toad's last comment. "I'm not obsessed with treasure." Lance growled as he and Toad dragged their rowboat ashore.
"It's not all silver and gold, yo?" Toad explained as he leapt up onto a near by ledge and glanced down casually at his old crew and their captive below.
Below, Magneto was making a speech. "Brothers, our time has come! Salvation is here! Our torment is at an end." He yelled out to his cheering crew.
Lance climbed up onto the ledge next to Toad and followed his gaze. "Kitty . . ." he gasped.
"For ten years we've been tested and tried and each mutant here has proven his worth a hundred times over and then a hundred times again! Our punishment was disproportionate to our crime, but now we have every last piece." Magneto said as he beckoned to a knife that seemed to rise on its own accord and float into Magneto's hand.
"Toad!" Lance cried softly in a panicked tone as Pietro handed the golden coin to his father and Sabertooth began to escort Kitty to where Magneto was waiting.
"Not yet." Toad told Lance with a slight frown, "We have to wait for the right moment."
Lance turned toward Toad angrily. "When's that? I suppose when you'll get the most out of it?" He spat pessimistically as he tried to contain his frustration.
"Have I ever given you a reason not to trust me? Just stay there. . .and try not to do anything stupid." Toad instructed Lance before turning to leave.
"Sorry, Toad, but no ones going to use me." Lance growled as he focused his frustration on knocking loose some rocks from above. Toad barely had time to look back at Lance before one of the stones struck him on the head knocking the Captain unconscious.
"Begun by blood, by blood undone!" Magneto proclaimed dramatically ending his speech. Kitty flinched as Master of Magnetism took her hand and made a small cut letting her blood flow into the chest of coins.
Kitty opened one eye as if she expected her head to be removed from her body at any moment, then she realized he was done with her all ready. "Like, that's it?" She asked.
"Like, waste not." Magneto quipped mockingly.
Everyone waited for a moment as if they expected bright lights and loud theme music to signify the end to their curse. Then suddenly, nothing happened. "Did it work?" Mastermind asked.
"I don't feel no different." John commented.
Remy thought for a moment, then asked, "How do we tell?" Magneto answered his question by pulling out his gun and shooting a very shocked Remy.
"You're not dead." Mastermind pointed out as Remy just stood there kinda stunned.
"No." Remy stated blankly, then he seemed to regain his senses. "Yo' shot me!" He shouted as he pointed an accusing finger at Magneto.
"It didn't work." Havok pouted, "Dude, we're still cursed!" He yelled angrily.
Magneto rounded on Kitty looking her dead in the eyes. "What was your fathers name? Was your father Dominic Alvers?" He demanded, shaking her violently.
"Who?" Was all Kitty managed to choke out, causing Magneto to release his grip.
"Where's his child? The child that sailed from England eight years ago, the child that has Dominic Alvers blood flowing through his veins." He ranted. Kitty just shook her head in fear and confusion. This only served to make Magneto more hostile as he smacked her sending her toppling down to the waters edge.
Sabertooth turned to glare at Remy and John. "You two brought us the wrong person!" He roared threateningly.
"No. Chere had dey medallion, she be dey right age." Remy explained taking a step back from the large feral mutant.
"The Sheila said her name was Alvers, you herd her." John yelled in his own defense. "Stupid blighter." He muttered to himself as he realized the gravity of the current situation.
"You brought us here for nothin'." Havok yelled up at Magneto.
"Shut up, Summers." Magneto commanded silencing the boy.
Mastermind wasn't going to be scared as easily though. "Every decision you've made has led us from bad to worse." He stated knowing he'd receive backup from the rest of the crew.
"Yo' sent Avalanche to dey depths!" Remy yelled angrily.
"You brought us here in the first place." Sabertooth growled menacingly.
Magneto frowned sternly as he used his powers to lift every weapon in the room and point it at his crew. "If any of you cowards dare to challenge me, let him speak!" Sabertooth growled lowly in response Magneto lifted the large mutant by the adamantium infused in his bones and flung him across the room to where some of the boats were kept.
The rest of the crew stayed silent for a while and just stared at their feet, until Magneto felt he had made his point and set the weapons back down. "Slit her throat drain all her blood, just in case." Mastermind mumbled as he retrieved his own weaponry from the ground.
Pietro paused fo a second at Mastermind's comment then he zipped around the room once to assure his suspicions were correct. "She's gone!" He shouted shrilly.
"The medallion! She's taken it!" Magneto exclaimed as the rest of the crew looked on in shock. "Well, after her! You worthless fools." He ordered.
His crew turned almost as one to run to the boats. Then Sabertooth stumbled back into the room. "The oars are gone!"
Remy shoved Sabertooth aside to go investigate. The rest of the crew followed his lead though they weren't quite sure what they were looking for in the tunnels. "Yo' supposed to be dead!" Remy shouted as he spotted Toad just waking up from his little nap.
"I'm not?" Toad asked groggily as he checked his pulse. "Cool, yo? Pestle, piously, paisley, Pauley, parsley, Parla, Parla. . ." He said shaking his head trying to remember the right word.
"Parley?" John asked innocently.
Toad smiled broadly. "Parley! That's it, yo? Parley! Parley!" He cheered.
"Parley?" Remy growled aggressively as he glared at John, then he spat, "Down to dey depths wit whatever idgeot thought up parley."
"That would be the French, yo?" Toad told his old Cajun friend with a slight smirk.
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Now, go read the chapter's title again...
Cast:
Elizabeth Swann ~ Katherine "Kitty" Pryde
Joshamee Gibbs ~ Logan
Will Turner ~ Lance Alvers
Captain Jack Sparrow ~ Todd "Toad" Tolensky
Pintel ~ Remy Lebeau
Ragetti ~ St. John Allerdyce
Twigg ~ Alex Summers
Koehler ~ Jason Wyngarde
Bo'sun ~ Victor Creed
Barbossa ~ Eric Magnus Lensherr
Bootstrap Bill ~ Dominic Alvers
Jack (the monkey) ~ Pietro Maximoff
Next Chapter: Bloody Pirates
Scene Fifteen: Cajuns Are French
"Ten years of hoarding swag." Remy stated reflectively as he and John carried a large chest they had stolen, down the passages to the main treasure cave.
"And now we'll finally get to spend it." John added with a smile as they dropped the chest. It opened on impact with the ground to reveal that it contained no treasure . . . instead it held many pretty dresses and a couple parasols. Remy slapped himself in the forehead. "Did you say swag or drag?" John asked as he picked up both the parasols and handed one to Remy.
Remy took the parasol with a role of his inverted eyes. "Once we ditch dis curse we will be rich men, mon ami. And yo' can buy a flamethrower like yo' always wanted." Remy pointed out as he twirled the parasol around absentmindedly.
"My lighter is startin' to run out of fuel." John said sadly, he pulled out his Zippo and flicked it on to show just how low the flame was.
"Stop wastin' it." Remy warned John just as Sabertooth walked up to them with a slight growl to let them know he didn't approve of their slacking off. Both the younger mutants smiled up at Sabertooth and hurried back to work.
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"What code does Logan stick to if something goes wrong?" Lance asked Toad in a hushed tone as they rowed silently into the cavern.
Toad looked up at Lance. "The pirate's code. Anyone that falls behind gets left behind, yo?" He explained.
Lance shrugged understandingly. "No heros amongst thieves, I guess." He muttered apathetically.
Toad smiled in spite of Lance's apparent dislike for pirates. "For hatin' pirates so much you've almost become one, yo?" He told Lance receiving a very skeptical look. "You busted me outta jail, commandeered a ship from the X-men, sailed with a mutant crew outta Tortuga. . .and you're completely obsessed with treasure." Toad grinned as he watched Lance gaze out at the treasure that had been scattered throughout the passeges, knowing that it must only be the excess that had spilt over the years from many chest that had been carried through the winding tunnels.
Lance snapped his head up at Toad's last comment. "I'm not obsessed with treasure." Lance growled as he and Toad dragged their rowboat ashore.
"It's not all silver and gold, yo?" Toad explained as he leapt up onto a near by ledge and glanced down casually at his old crew and their captive below.
Below, Magneto was making a speech. "Brothers, our time has come! Salvation is here! Our torment is at an end." He yelled out to his cheering crew.
Lance climbed up onto the ledge next to Toad and followed his gaze. "Kitty . . ." he gasped.
"For ten years we've been tested and tried and each mutant here has proven his worth a hundred times over and then a hundred times again! Our punishment was disproportionate to our crime, but now we have every last piece." Magneto said as he beckoned to a knife that seemed to rise on its own accord and float into Magneto's hand.
"Toad!" Lance cried softly in a panicked tone as Pietro handed the golden coin to his father and Sabertooth began to escort Kitty to where Magneto was waiting.
"Not yet." Toad told Lance with a slight frown, "We have to wait for the right moment."
Lance turned toward Toad angrily. "When's that? I suppose when you'll get the most out of it?" He spat pessimistically as he tried to contain his frustration.
"Have I ever given you a reason not to trust me? Just stay there. . .and try not to do anything stupid." Toad instructed Lance before turning to leave.
"Sorry, Toad, but no ones going to use me." Lance growled as he focused his frustration on knocking loose some rocks from above. Toad barely had time to look back at Lance before one of the stones struck him on the head knocking the Captain unconscious.
"Begun by blood, by blood undone!" Magneto proclaimed dramatically ending his speech. Kitty flinched as Master of Magnetism took her hand and made a small cut letting her blood flow into the chest of coins.
Kitty opened one eye as if she expected her head to be removed from her body at any moment, then she realized he was done with her all ready. "Like, that's it?" She asked.
"Like, waste not." Magneto quipped mockingly.
Everyone waited for a moment as if they expected bright lights and loud theme music to signify the end to their curse. Then suddenly, nothing happened. "Did it work?" Mastermind asked.
"I don't feel no different." John commented.
Remy thought for a moment, then asked, "How do we tell?" Magneto answered his question by pulling out his gun and shooting a very shocked Remy.
"You're not dead." Mastermind pointed out as Remy just stood there kinda stunned.
"No." Remy stated blankly, then he seemed to regain his senses. "Yo' shot me!" He shouted as he pointed an accusing finger at Magneto.
"It didn't work." Havok pouted, "Dude, we're still cursed!" He yelled angrily.
Magneto rounded on Kitty looking her dead in the eyes. "What was your fathers name? Was your father Dominic Alvers?" He demanded, shaking her violently.
"Who?" Was all Kitty managed to choke out, causing Magneto to release his grip.
"Where's his child? The child that sailed from England eight years ago, the child that has Dominic Alvers blood flowing through his veins." He ranted. Kitty just shook her head in fear and confusion. This only served to make Magneto more hostile as he smacked her sending her toppling down to the waters edge.
Sabertooth turned to glare at Remy and John. "You two brought us the wrong person!" He roared threateningly.
"No. Chere had dey medallion, she be dey right age." Remy explained taking a step back from the large feral mutant.
"The Sheila said her name was Alvers, you herd her." John yelled in his own defense. "Stupid blighter." He muttered to himself as he realized the gravity of the current situation.
"You brought us here for nothin'." Havok yelled up at Magneto.
"Shut up, Summers." Magneto commanded silencing the boy.
Mastermind wasn't going to be scared as easily though. "Every decision you've made has led us from bad to worse." He stated knowing he'd receive backup from the rest of the crew.
"Yo' sent Avalanche to dey depths!" Remy yelled angrily.
"You brought us here in the first place." Sabertooth growled menacingly.
Magneto frowned sternly as he used his powers to lift every weapon in the room and point it at his crew. "If any of you cowards dare to challenge me, let him speak!" Sabertooth growled lowly in response Magneto lifted the large mutant by the adamantium infused in his bones and flung him across the room to where some of the boats were kept.
The rest of the crew stayed silent for a while and just stared at their feet, until Magneto felt he had made his point and set the weapons back down. "Slit her throat drain all her blood, just in case." Mastermind mumbled as he retrieved his own weaponry from the ground.
Pietro paused fo a second at Mastermind's comment then he zipped around the room once to assure his suspicions were correct. "She's gone!" He shouted shrilly.
"The medallion! She's taken it!" Magneto exclaimed as the rest of the crew looked on in shock. "Well, after her! You worthless fools." He ordered.
His crew turned almost as one to run to the boats. Then Sabertooth stumbled back into the room. "The oars are gone!"
Remy shoved Sabertooth aside to go investigate. The rest of the crew followed his lead though they weren't quite sure what they were looking for in the tunnels. "Yo' supposed to be dead!" Remy shouted as he spotted Toad just waking up from his little nap.
"I'm not?" Toad asked groggily as he checked his pulse. "Cool, yo? Pestle, piously, paisley, Pauley, parsley, Parla, Parla. . ." He said shaking his head trying to remember the right word.
"Parley?" John asked innocently.
Toad smiled broadly. "Parley! That's it, yo? Parley! Parley!" He cheered.
"Parley?" Remy growled aggressively as he glared at John, then he spat, "Down to dey depths wit whatever idgeot thought up parley."
"That would be the French, yo?" Toad told his old Cajun friend with a slight smirk.
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Now, go read the chapter's title again...
Cast:
Elizabeth Swann ~ Katherine "Kitty" Pryde
Joshamee Gibbs ~ Logan
Will Turner ~ Lance Alvers
Captain Jack Sparrow ~ Todd "Toad" Tolensky
Pintel ~ Remy Lebeau
Ragetti ~ St. John Allerdyce
Twigg ~ Alex Summers
Koehler ~ Jason Wyngarde
Bo'sun ~ Victor Creed
Barbossa ~ Eric Magnus Lensherr
Bootstrap Bill ~ Dominic Alvers
Jack (the monkey) ~ Pietro Maximoff
Next Chapter: Bloody Pirates