Pietro was taken to the fort's jail and thrown unceremoniously into a cell. The Pirates in the cell next to him were trying to get the keys to their cell door.
"Come here, boy. Want a nice juicy bone? Come here, come on!" Viper, Gauntlet, and Trask called to a scraggily dog that was holding the cell keys. The dog didn't pay attention to their calls, and just sat there.
"Thatdogisnevergoingtomove," Quicksilver sighed, while laughing on the inside at their stupidity.
"Excuse me, but I have not resigned myself to the gallows!" Omega yelled at the mutant pirate.
The speed demon continued to laugh and leaned against the wall of his cell to take a nap. The idiots, they will never understand what it's like being a true pirate.
Back at Admiral Logan Depp's house Rogue was getting into bed. "There you go, Miss," Jubilee said as she put a hot pan underneath the Goth's covers. "You sure had a rough day!"
"Ah figured Scott would propose, but Ah'm surprised he didn't wait for Jean to get back," Rogue said, putting down the book she was reading, Beuwolf.
"I meant the pirate, it gives me shivers just thinking about it!" the Asian maid said.
"Yeah, Ah suppose it was terrifyin'," she replied sarcastically.
"But the commodore proposed. Now there's a smart match, Miss," Jubilee thought out loud. "If I'm not being to bold," the young maid added as an after thought
"You're not being bold at all. He's what every woman should dream of marryin'," Rogue sighed. Every woman except me.
"But... Remy LeBeau is quite the man. That'd be another smart match." She giggled.
"Jubilee! That is too bold," the other girl yelled at her maid. The two giggled, before allowing each other to go to bed.
Logan and Scott walked along the wall of the fort together. "Has my daughter given you an answer yet, bub?"
"No, she has not," Scott said. Not that I care either. I mean sure she's hot, but still... She's not Jean.
"Well, she has had a very trying day." Wolverine comforted him, not that he needed it. He looked out at the dark clouds over the ocean. "Ghastly weather, don't you think?"
"Very bleak," the commodore agreed. There was an odd sound that came from a dark object in the harbor. He turned out towards the sea, seeing a small flash of light.
"What's that?" the admiral growled.
Scott pushed him to the ground just in time to avoid being hit by the cannonball. "Cannons!" He cried. "Return fire!"
From his prison cell, Pietro stood up in excitement when he heard the cannon fire. "I know those guns!" He smiled as he looked out his barred window at the harbor. He looked like he was laughing, as he starred out into the night. "It's the Pearl..." he purred affectionatly.
"The Black Pearl, huh?" Viper asked. "I've heard stories. She's been preying in ships and settlements for ten years now. Never leaves any survivors."
Quicksilver laughed, "No survivors? Then, how do you suppose all those stories start?"
Back at Logan's mansion Rogue was reading, feeling the cold wind as it blew around the house. She looked up at the candle that she had as a source of light. The flame was blown this way and that, until finally it went out.
It was then that Rogue heard a knock at the door. She ran through the hall that led to the stairs. As she looked down she saw Hank, the butler, going to answer the door. "No, don't answer the door!" she screamed. But her yelling was in vain.
As soon as the butler opened the door a bullet shot through his head and he fell to the floor. Rogue yelped in surprise and two of the pirates that were now running in noticed her at the top of the stairs.
"'ello, mate. Up there!" the voice of St. John "Pyro" Allerdyce called.
"Duh, ok." Fred "Blob" Dukes replied stupidly when he saw who the pyromaniac was talking to.
Rogue ran down the hall to her room and ran into Jubilee. "Miss Depp, they've come to kidnap you!" she all but yelled.
"What?" the Goth replied somewhat confused.
"You're the Admiral's daughter!"
Rogue gasped and grabbed Jubilee's shoulders. "They haven't seen you yet. Hide and the first chance you get, run to the fort." The maid nodded and ran off.
Rogue ran the other way and found Fred standing in her doorway. She screamed and ran. As she passed her bed she grabbed her hot pan and waited for him to run by.
"Gotcha!" Fred yelled as he ran by and grabbed Miss Depp's arm. When he did she pulled the lever and dumped hot coals onto his face. "Er...that's hot!" He paused, frowning. "OW!"
Rogue screamed in frustration, having his yelling gone off right next to her ear, as ran into the dinning room. She grabbed candelabra to bar the door and tried to get a decorative sword off of the wall. Much to her disappointment she found that sword wouldn't come off of the shield it was mounted to, so she ran and hid in a closet.
Fred and John knocked the door open and started looking around the room for Kitty. "Come out." Remy called. "We know you're here, Shelia."
"Yeah... what he said." Fred repeated as he laughed.
"Come out. We promise we don't want to hurt ya."
"We don't?" Fred muttered. John just starred at him, like he was insane. "Oh..." The fat mutant nodded knowingly.
"We will find ya, Shelia. They gold calls to us." Pyro continued to search the room as he spoke, Where are ya?
Rogue looked down at the gold medallion around her neck. Ah knew Ah should've gotten rid of it.
"Gold calls..." Blob repeated the other pirate's words once again.
John looked down at the rug in front of the closet door that was folded over. He walked toward the closet and looked through the crack. "'ello, Shelia." He said, as he pulled the closet door open.
"Parley!" Rogue gasped out when the door fully opened.
"What?" John asked.
"Ah invoke the right of Parley. Accordin' to the code of the Mutant Pirate Brotherhood, set down by the Pirates En Sabah Nuhr and Nathaniel Essex, ya have to take meh to see your Captain."
"We know the code," the tortugan growled.
"Then ya know ya can't hurt meh until the Parley is complete."
"Squash the code!" Blob yelled in rebellion.
"She wants to go to the captian," the pyromaniac challenged the other man. Rogue shivered as she was led away by Fred and John.
Out on the streets Remy was trying to help fight the pirates that had stormed the port. One pirate cornered him against the window of a shop. He held his sword against kinetic mutant's neck. "Say goodbye, laddie!" Legion, the pirate, yelled.
Just then a cannon shot through the top of the shop and knocked the sign loose. The sign fell and knocked Legion out. Gambit side-stepped as the sign began to carry through, and crash into the window that lay behind him. "Au revoir."
As John led Rogue through the streets she stopped. "Com'on!" he yelled.
"REMY!" she called out as she noticed him fighting in the street. He looked up and saw her being led away by the pirates. "Rogue!"
Boom Boom walked up and knocked and unconscious. "Outta my way, scum!"
A/N: Yes we are still alive. Sorry it took so long to get it up. We had a technical difficulty... coughMarie got groundedcough And we had a case of writers block. And Marie's been typing up one of our other stories, which we won't post until the first three chapters are typed.
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