Disclaimer: Well...Remy took the part where I saw I don't own anything...so I'll leave you to try to figure what the disclaimer is.

A/N: Kitty and Wanda will not be playing Scarlett and Giselle anymore. Instead, they'll be played by the two girls usually seen with Taryn...We'll call the Amy and Cam...Just two random names.

"I WILL NOT GET ACUPUNCTURE! Why don't you try waking up?"(1) Ellen hears Remy scream. She sighs and walks over to Rogue, who is rolling with laughter.

"Umm...did you tell him to get acupuncture?" she asks.

"No...Piotr...told him...to stop smoking. Then Tabitha...tells him to...get acupuncture," she explains between gasps.

"Oh..." Ellen looks strangely at Remy, who is running in circles away from Tabitha. "Tabitha! Quit freaking Remy out! We need him for the next scene. Kurt, please do the honors."

Kurt bowed and teleported over to Tabitha. He grabbed her arm and 'ported her somewhere else.

Remy walks over to Ellen, panting, "That girl is crazy... When I get my hands on her..."

Ray walks behind Ellen and says cheerfully, "Mornin El-"

"GOOD LORD!" Ellen screams and dives behind Remy. "Don't do that! You scared the hell outta me!"

Ray grins sheepishly and apologizes, "Really sorry. Didn't mean to scare you..."

She sighs and walks out from behind Gambit and grabs Ray's arm. "It's okay. Lets get started."

A fog looms in the harbor and then the scene switches to the jail, where Toad, Evan, Mastermind, and Jamie's Clone stand at the bars whistling to Rahne–in her wolf form–holding a large ring of keys.

"Can you smell it?" Toad says, holding a big bone with meat still hanging from it in places.

"Come here," pleads Evan.

"It's marrowbone," Mastermind says with a look of contempt for having to play a measly prisoner in a lousy play.

"Come here, girl," Jamie's Clone (JC) says.

"Want a nice juicy bone?" Todd asks.

"Come here," Evan pleads again.

Rahne is looking at them as if they are stupid.

"Come here, girl," Mastermind says.

"Come on," JC pleads.

They keep calling her, but Rahne just sits there looking at them as if they're idiots.

Remy, sitting against the wall in the next cell, says rather irritated, "You can keep doing that forever. The dog is never gonna move."

"Oh, excuse us," Todd says, "if we haven't resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet, yo."

Remy looks at him, then smirks and turns his head.

The scene changes to Jean shoveling coals from a fireplace into an old fashioned bed warmer. It's a metal circle with a lid and a long pole.

Jean takes it and places it at the foot of Amara's bed. "There you go, miss." She says. "It was a difficult day for you, I'm sure."

Amara has been reading in the bed, she mumbles and then answers, "I suspected Commodore Allerdyce would propose, but," she says, taking her eyes off the book, "I must admit, I wasn't entirely prepared for it."

Jean fluffs the covers, making sure Amara is tucked in. She looks at her oddly. "I meant you being threatened by that pirate. . . Sounds terrifying."

"Oh," Amara says. "Yes, it was terrifying."

"But," Jean says rather bored, "the Commodore proposed! Fancy that! Now, that's a smart match, miss. If it's not too bold to say."

Amara answers dryly, "It is a smart match."

Sam shakes his head and whispers to Piotr, "The script is awful strange, don't ya think?" Piotr nods his head and continues to watch.

"He's a fine man," she mutters. "He's what any woman should dream of marrying."

Jean catches the disgusted and slightly sad look in Amara eyes and says, "Well, that Sam Guthrie, he's a fine man too. That didn't sound right.."

"AHEM.." Ellen and Ray glare daggers at her off screen. Partly because they hate her, and partly because she just insulted their friend.

Amara looks up at her half in wonder and half in anger, "That is too bold."

Jean turns away, "Well, begging your pardon, miss. It was not my place." She leaves the room and shuts the door behind her.

Amara, looking briefly across the stage to where Sam is standing for his scene, pulls out the necklace and holds it tightly. An ill wind blows through the room, thanks to Storm. She watches as the lamp fire dies, causing John to frown sadly. Then, Amara looks towards the window.

The scene changes to Sam standing, hammering metal against an anvil. He hears a strange sound and stops, looking towards the window. He opens the window and looks out. A strange fog fills the streets and a dog runs up the lane.

In the bay, a ship looms silently near the town.

The scene changes to the fort where Pyro and Logan are walking around. "Has my daughter given you an answer yet?" Wolverine asks.

"No, she hasn't," John replies.

"Well, she has had a very trying day," Logan says gruffly, trying to reassure him. Changing the subject, he states, "Ghastly weather, don't you think?"

"Bleak, very bleak," Pyro says.

Pyro stops walking and stares out to sea.

They hear a distant boom. Wolverine asks, "What's that?"

"Cannon fire, mates!" Pyro shouts and pushes Logan down. Just in time, as a cannon ball sweeps just past them. "Return fire!" Pyro orders.

Inside Remy's cell, he sits up. "I know those guns."

John's voice, off stage, shouts, "Men to arms!"

Remy and the other prisoners stare out their windows. Through them they can see a ship with black sails shooting up at the fort and cannons raining fire on the ship. "It's the Pearl."

"The Black Pearl?" Toad asks, "I've heard stories, yo. She's been preying on ships and settlements for near ten years. Never leaves any survivors."

"No survivors?" Remy asks, "Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?"

Toad and the others look very confused.

The ship continues to fire cannons from both sides. Extras on the dock rush around frantically. In the town, people run screaming in fright, as cannon balls blast through chimneys and other parts of various buildings.

A small RLR baby stands screaming for his mother, "Mama! Mama!" The chaos rushes around him and a cannon ball hits a large scaffold and it falls directly towards his head. Just in time, Dani rushes to him and grabs the RLR baby. The scaffold crashes to the ground.

Pirates ride to the shores in life boats and jump out shouting along the way. "Coming through!" someone shouts. The camera closes in on Pietro and Lance. Lance is trimming his wooden eye. He pops it in his eye socket.

"Ew! How'd he do that?" Jubilee and half the girls ask.

"Forge's Image Inducer. More complex than Professor Xavier's, and it can do more," Ellen responds.

Lance looks at Pietro and they head into the town with huge grins. Extras are thrown around the stage by Jean's telekinesis, but supposedly from the cannon fire. The camera closes in on Alex, who is holding a bomb in each hand and grinning.

Alex tosses the bombs into a couple windows and seeing Tabitha, starts chasing her. Tabitha fake screams and runs. "Being chased by a hot guy with bombs ain't really that bad.."

In the blacksmith shop, Sam grabs a hatchet and a sword. He rushes out just as Tabby and Alex run by. He hurls the hatchet at Alex. Due to his good aim, it lands in the middle of Alex's back and he falls to the ground screaming, "Ahh!"

"Sorry, Alex," Sam continues to run into the fray, he grabs the hatchet as he runs by Alex's limp body. Sam fights Kurt as other pirate extras battle civilian extras. The pirates are clearly winning.

A cannon ball rips through the fort and destroys a gallows. Soldier extras rush frantically and jump out of the way as more cannon balls fly into the fort. They are however fighting cannon fire with more cannon fire.

"Sight the muzzle flash!" Pyro calls out.

"Aim for the flashes!" Scott calls.

"I need a full strike, fore and aft!" Pyro calls. "Mr. Fury, more cartridges!" Logan walks over near the cannons. Too close for John's liking. "Governor, barricade yourself in my office!"

Logan stands there as another cannon ball sails past and flinches.

"That's an order!" John says angrily.

The scene changes to Xavier's mansion, where the cannon fire brings Amara rushing out on her balcony, wearing a robe over her nightgown. There she sees the town on fire and several pirates crashing through the gates. She stares in horror and then runs back inside and they start banging on the door.

Arcade is heading for the door while she runs down the stairs.

"Don't!" she shouts, but alas, it is too late for Arcade has already opened the door.

"Hello, chum," Pietro says pleasantly before he takes his gun and shoots Arcade.

Amara screams and covers her mouth as Arcade falls to the floor, dead. Well, he's not really dead. The pirates rush in, Pie(I'm just gonna start calling him Pie) and Lance first, and they head off with torches around the house. They both look up at the stairs.

Lance notices Amara and points his torch towards her. "Up there! Up there!"

Amara takes off running back up the stairs. She runs into her room and locks the door. She turns around to run again and bumps straight into Jean. They both scream.

"Miss Howlett!" Jean states, "They've come to kidnap you!"

"What?" Amara asks.

"You're the governor's daughter."

Pie's voice is heard, "In here!" He is banging against Amara's dressing room door.

Realization dawns on Amara's face. The girls glance at the door and then Amara pushes Jean towards a hiding place. "Listen, they haven't seen you. Hide, and the first chance you get, run to the fort." Amara runs off in the opposite direction as the door burst open and Pie and Lance enter the room.

Amara runs into her bedroom room and the two pirates take after her. As Pie comes to the doorway, Bang! He is hit in the head with the old-fashioned bed warmer. His eyes roll back into his head.

Jean screeches and takes the opportunity to run out of the room.

Amara goes to hit Lance with it, but he grabs the handle. "Gotcha!" He says

She struggles to get it out of his grasp and he switches to holding it with his hand and he says, "Gotcha, haven't I? Boo! Boo!"

Amara smirks at him and pulls the trigger. Hot coals rain down on his head. She pretends to freak out as he really freaks out. "No! No! No! No! It's hot! You burned me!"

Pie looks on as Amara runs out and Pyro is laughing off stage. Pietro glares at Pyro and then shoves Lance. "Come on!" He takes off after Amara.

Jean is just reaching the front door. She screams as she sees Arcade lying on the floor surrounded by fake blood. She runs out and heads to the fort.

Amara runs down the stairs, followed by Pie. Lance jumps from the balcony and lands directly in front of her, causing her to scream. She looks from one to the other. She seems trapped.

An extra pirate walks in holding a bunch of treasure. They all look at him. Just then, a cannon ball flies through the house and knocks the pirate back through the door he just came through.

Amara sees her opportunity and runs through to the dining room, slamming the doors behind her. The chandelier crashes behind her, slowing Pie and Lance's progress. She takes a candlestick and locks the door with it. Then she rushes to the fireplace, where two mounted swords are hanging above the mantle. She grabs the sword and tries to take it out of the mount. They are permanently mounted and the whole thing comes off the wall. She shakes it, but it won't come out, "No!"

The banging on the door becomes louder. She looks over, fear radiating from her face. The door crashes open and Pie and Lance burst in to find an empty room.

Lance heads straight for the open window, but Pie holds him back. "We know you're here, poppet...Poppet? Who uses these words?"

Ray replies, "It's a British team of endearment that is used to address a dear person, especially a child."

"Smart, aren't we?" Ellen smiles sweetly.

"Poppet," Lance echoes.

"Come out and we promise we won't hurt you," Pie lies.

"Eh?" Lance asks, rather confused. Pie looks at him as if he's an idiot, and Lance finally realizes Pie was lying.

"We will find you, poppet."

The camera focuses on Amara's face. She is hiding in a china closet. A thin ray of light lies across her face.

"You've got something of ours and it calls to us," Pie claims as he and Todd walk silently around the room. He notices a corner of the rug in front of the china closet has been upturned. "The gold calls to us."

"Gold," Lance echoes nervously.

Amara fingers the necklace and watches it glitter in the light. When, suddenly, the light disappears. She looks up to see Pie's eye staring in at her. "Hello, poppet."

She gasps as he opens the doors. She immediately shouts out, "Parley," as Pie's gun stares her in the face.

"What?" he says, relaxing the gun a little.

"Parley. I invoke the right of parley. According to the Code of the Brethren set down by the pirates Scalface and Lucid, you have to take me to your captain," she says.

"I know the Code," Pie says, angry that she would think he didn't. He still has his gun in her face.

"If an adversary demands parley, you can do them no harm until the parley is complete," she insists.

"To blazes with the Code," Lance says, taking out his sword.

"She wants to be taken to the captain," Pie yells. "And she'll go without a fuss. We must honor the Code."

Back in the town, two pirates crash a barrel through a window. Other pirates are setting things on fire.

Sam is still fighting Kurt. Kurt is fighting with a huge grapple. He ends up hooking Sam around the neck and pulling him in. "Say goodbye."

Just in time, a cannon ball hits the window above them, knocking a sign down. It collapses and Sam is able to duck out in time. Kurt isn't so lucky. "Goodbye," Sam says. He heads back out into the main street, just in time to see the group of pirates from the mansion dragging Amara along.

"Sam!" she calls.

"Come on," Pie hollers at her.

"Amara," he says, fixing to chase after them.

That's when Alex steps into his line of view. Sam looks at Alex confused. Alex looks meaningfully down. Sam follows his gaze and sees a lit bomb. He backs up as the fuse winds to it's end. Nothing happens. Alex's smirk disappears.

But two pirates, one of which is Duncan, come by, carrying a chest full of treasure. "Out of my way, scum," Duncan says. He then takes a candlestick and hits Sam over the head, knocking him unconscious. Alex runs off laughing.

Back at the prison, Remy is watching all this happen. His eyes grow large and he ducks as a cannon ball crashes into the prison wall.

He looks up to see the cannon ball made a huge hole, right in the next cell. As the four prisoners climb through, Toad stops. "My sympathies, friend. You've no manner of luck at all, yo."

He climbs through and Remy rests his head against the stone as they climb the rocks down below. He rushes back and grabs the marrow bone through the bars. He sticks it through and starts whistling.

Rahne had hidden under a bench during the cannon fire.

"Come on, Doggy," he calls. "It's just you and me now." Rahne comes halfway out from under the bench. "It's you and Remy, now. Come on." Rahne comes completely out from under the bench and stands up. "Come on. That's a girl. Good girl. Come get the bone." Rahne starts walking towards him. "That's a good girl. Come on. A bit closer. A bit closer." Rahne has almost reached the cell now. "That's it. That's it, doggy. Come on, you filthy, slimy, mangy cur," he states in a sing-song voice.

A door closes and catches Rahne's attention.

"Don't do that," Remy whines.

Rahne gets scared and runs off.

"No, no!" Remy calls. "I didn't mean it! I didn't!"

The sound of fighting is loud and a random extra soldier falls head over heels down the stairs and two pirates, Warren and Caliban, barge into the prison.

"This isn't the armory," Warren states.

Caliban catches sight of Remy and sheaths his sword. "Well, well, well. Look what we have here, Angel. Captain Remy LeBeau," Caliban spits.

"Last time I saw you, you were all alone on a godforsaken island, shrinking into the distance," Warren says. "His fortunes aren't improved much."

"Worry about your own fortunes, gentlemen," Remy remarks. "The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers."

Caliban growls and sticks his arm thing through the bars. It looks like his arm has turned into a skeletal arm that grasps Remy's neck, thanks to Forge's Image Inducer.

"So there is a curse," Remy says. "That's interesting."

"You know nothing of hell," Caliban growls. He jerks Remy's neck and pulls away, the image inducer making it look like his arm turned back to normal. Caliban and Warren leave the room.

Remy stares at the marrowbone, "That's very interesting."

The scene changes. The moon is blocked by a rolling cloud, due to everyone's favorite weather witch. The Black Pearl continues to fire on the fort and the town. Two life boats return to the ship. One of which carries Amara, Pie, and Lance. Amara stares in awe at the huge vessel and then back down at her feet.

Aboard the ship, Magneto watches as the pirates scurry around, sorting the loot. More pirates climb onto the ship from the lifeboats. Pie and Lance help Amara up. She can see Erik standing tall and imposing at the top of the stairs. An RLR monkey chatters and jumps onto his shoulder.

Pie drags Amara along towards the stairs until he is stopped by Sabretooth.

"I didn't know we was taking on captives," he growls at Pie.

Pie looks up at him and says nervously, "She's invoked the right of parley with Captain Lensherr."

"I'm here to..." but she is cut off by Sabretooth's slap across her face. At this point, Sam clenches his fists and mutters, "I outta cannonball him into a metal wall..."

"Sam...Please calm down...It was in the script," Ray pleads.

"You'll speak when you're spoken too." Victor orders her.

Magneto grabs Victor's raised hand. "And you'll not lay a hand on those under the protection of parley."

Glaring at Magneto, Victor replies, "Aye, sir," and snatches his hand back down.

"My apologies, miss," Magneto says to Amara.

Amara states, "Captain Lensherr, I'm here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal."

"There were a lot of long words in there, miss. We're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?"

"I want to melt you..." Amara mutters.

"Amara!" Ray and Ellen plead.

"Stop doing that!" Pietro screams. Ellen and Ray give him weird looks.

Amara continues, "I want you to leave and never come back."

The pirate crew start laughing. Magneto doesn't. Instead, he states, "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request." When Amara stares confusedly at him, he says, "Means no."

"Very well," Amara says and taking the medallion, heads to the edge of the boat. The pirates all take a step forward in fear. Amara holds the necklace over the water. "I'll drop it."

No emotion shows on Magneto's face as he says, "My holds are bursting with swag. That bit of shine matters to us?" he looks over at his crew. "Why?"

Amara looks confused. "It's what you've been searching for. I recognize this ship. I saw it eight years ago on the crossing from Bayville."

"Did you, now," Magneto says with a nod of his head.

"Fine," she says with determination. "Well, I suppose if it is worthless, then there's no point in me keeping it." And she lets the necklace drop.

The pirates all step forward in fear and Magneto cries, "No!"

Amara stops the necklace at the last moment. She opens her jaw with the look that says 'Oh, I was right.'

Magneto laughs nervously and steps slowly towards her. She brings the necklace close to her once again.

"You have a name, missy?"

Amara says, "Amara. . . Guthrie. Ya know, Sam, that has a sounds has a nice ring to it."

Sam blushes and smiles.

"I'm a maid in the governor's household."

Magneto's eyes grow large as he turns back to face his crew. "Miss Guthrie."

Murmurs erupt amongst the crew. Pie looks at Lance and says, "Bootstrap."

Magneto turns back towards her, "And how does a maid own a trinket such as that? Family heirloom, perhaps?"

"I didn't steal it, if that's what you mean," Amara grumbles.

"Very well," Magneto agrees. "You hand it over and we'll put your town to our rudder and never return."

She drops it into his hand without hesitation. He hands it to the RLR monkey who, chattering and slightly sparking jumps onto a rope.

Amara starts to get nervous, "Our bargain?"

He turns around and nods to Victor and then walks off.

"Still the guns and stow them," Sabretooth calls out. He keeps on ordering the crew the get the boat ready.

Amara runs after Erik, "Wait! You have to take me to shore! According to the Code of the Order of the Brethren. . ."

Erik stops and swerves around to face her, "First, your return to shore was not a part of our negotiations nor our agreement. So I must do nothing. And second, you must be a pirate for the Pirate's Code to apply, and you're not. And thirdly, the Code's more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Guthrie." He turns back around and heads up the stairs.

Pietro and Lance each grab her by the arm and start pulling her off screen.

"And cut!" Ray calls.

"Thank goodness! My head hurts..." Sam rubs the back of his head.

"I found the Lemon Drops!" Ellen and Ray turn to Jamie, who is dancing around holding a bag of Lemon Drops.

"Where's you get those, laddie?" Rahne asks.

"Remy gave 'em to me," was the answer from Jamie.

"Well don't get too sugar high, Jamie," Ellen ruffled Jamie's hair. "See you guys tomorow!"

(1) Quote from Bill Engvall. What is it with me and Blue Collar Comedy Tour quotes?

That took longer that expected. The next chapter will reveal Pietro's fear of ANYTHING synchronized, hehe. I keep typing Scott instead of Pyro or John, so sorry about that. Hope ya like it!