Curse of the Cruise Ship
Chapter Three
Commandeer
Eternal Silver Flame's Author's Note: I'm trying to include all the deleted scenes. I've been having to switch back and forth between DVDs. It rather annoying. Why can't they just put the deleted scenes on the same disk as the movie? I mean, really!
wendystwin is feeling rather sick today, so I'm not going to ask her to write an Author's Note. You'll hear from her next chapter. Feel better, my bestest buddy!
Also, thanks to our two reviewers!
Fiyero-Fae 4ever: We really got you hooked? Wow. You've made me the happiest girl in the world! LOL!
POTC4Ever: You reviewed within half an hour after I posted the story. That's never happened to me before. Maybe more Pirates fans are looking for this type of story than Harry Potter fans are. Or maybe it's the summary. Or the title.
The next morning, Wendy was watching Jack try to pick the lock with the bone (Melody had fallen asleep), when the door to the prison opened. Jack laid down on the floor and pretended to be doing nothing. It was Will.
"You. Sparrow."
Jack looked up. "Aye?" Wendy woke her sister.
"You are familiar with that ship, the Black Pearl." Will sounded out of breath, as if he had run all the way there.
He put his head back down. "I've 'eard of it."
"Where does it make berth?"
"Where does it make berth?" repeated Jack incredulously, looking up again. "Have you not heard the stories?" Will gave no reaction, and Jack put his head down again. "Captain Barbossa and his crew of miscreants sail from the dreaded Isla de Muerta. It's an island that cannot be found, except by those who already know where it is."
"The ship's real enough," said Will. "Therefore its anchorage must be a real place. Where is it?"
"Why ask me?"
"Because you're a pirate."
"And you want to turn pirate yourself, is that it?"
"Never!" said Will fiercely. He then backed away from the cage and said reluctantly, "They took Miss Swann."
Jack sat up on his elbows, interested. "Oh, so it is that you've found a girl! I see. Well, if you're intending to brave all, hasten to her rescue, and so win fair lady's heart, you'll have to do it alone, mate. I see no profit in it for me."
"I can get you out of here," offered Will.
"How's that? The key's run off."
"Will you let us out too?" asked Melody suddenly. "Please, we don't belong in here! We're not part of Captain Sparrow's crew."
Will looked at Jack. "It's true mate. Don't even have a crew at the moment."
"We'll help you find that girl," said Wendy. "We don't know much about sailing, but we'll do what we can."
After thinking for a moment, Will said, "I suppose any extra help would be beneficial." The girls looked relieved.
"So how are you going to get us out of here?" asked Jack.
"I helped build these cells. These are half-pin barrel hinges." Will picked up the wooden bench. "With the right leverage and the proper application of strength," he positioned the bench on the door, "the door will lift free."
Jack looked curious. "What's your name?"
"Will Turner."
Jack sat up all the way. "That would be short for William, I imagine. Good, strong name. No doubt named for your father, eh?"
"Yes."
"Uh-huh," said Jack, thinking. "Well, Mr. Turner," He stood up. "I've changed me mind. If you spring me from this cell, I swear on pain of death that I will take you to the Black Pearl and your bonny lass." He held out his hand. "Do we have an accord?"
Will hesitated for a moment, and then shook his hand. "Agreed."
"Agreed," said Jack. "Get us out."
Will kicked the bench into the door and pushed the bench down, lifting the door off its hinges. He tossed it aside. "Hurry, someone will have heard that."
Jack and the girls hurried out of the cell, and Jack said, "Not without my effects." Jack got his things from the rack.
"Why bother with that?" asked Will. "You could have escaped if you'd killed me before, but you weren't willing to use it."
"Are you advising me that was a mistake?" Jack raised the pistol and pulled back the hammer, aiming it at Will. "When you've only got one shot, it's best to wait for the opportune moment. That wasn't it. Nor is this." Jack lowered the pistol again. Will looked a bit confused. "Now, follow me."
"So," said Will to the girls as they followed Jack toward the docks, "who are you two, if you're not part of Jack crew? I've never seen you around Port Royal."
Melody looked at Wendy. "Well, Wendy, I guess we're not from around here." Wendy giggled.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Well," said Wendy, "we woke up yesterday in the alley behind that blacksmith shop. We can't remember anything from before that, except our names."
"I'm sorry."
"That's all right," said Melody. "No need to mourn what you can't remember, aye?"
They splashed through some water and stopped under a bridge.
"We're going to steal the ship?" Will asked, looking first at the Interceptor, then followed Jack's line of vision to what was probably the Dauntless. "That ship?"
"Commandeer," corrected Jack. "We're going to commandeer that ship." He pointed at the Interceptor. "Nautical term. One question about your business, boy," he said to Will, and turned to look at him. "Or there's no use going. This girl. How far are you willing to go to save her?"
"I'd die for her."
Jack looked at the girls. "We have no memories," said Melody, "so why not?"
"Oh, good," said Jack cheerfully. He turned back to the bay. "No worries, then."
"This is either madness or brilliance."
They were underwater, with a canoe held over their heads for air. Jack was in front, then Wendy and Melody, and then Will.
"It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide."
"You know," said Wendy, "this water is actually much warmer than I would have expected."
There was a crunch. Everyone looked down. Will had stepped on a crate and had gotten his foot stuck. The girls both giggled. Unable to get his foot free, Will continued walking.
Once they reached the Dauntless, they used the rope and barrel from the crate Will had gotten his foot stuck in to climb up the Dauntless's stern. They headed for where the crew was gathered.
"Everyone stay calm!" announced Jack, waving his pistol around a bit as he headed down the stairs. "We are taking over the ship!"
"Aye!" said Will, pointing his sword at them. "Avast!"
The Dauntless's crew laughed, and Melody and Wendy tried to keep from laughing as well. Jack gave Will a look and he lowered his sword a bit, clearly not understanding what he'd done wrong.
"This ship cannot be crewed by two men and a couple of women," said a guy in blue. "You'll never make it out of the bay."
"Son," said Jack, taking a step toward the man and aimed his pistol at his face, "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow." He pulled back the hammer. "Savvy?"
In minutes, the men had been forced into a boat and were heading for the Interceptor, and Jack, Will, and the girls were pretending to get the ship ready. Jack had just finished messing with the rudder chain when Will hurried up to him.
"Here they come."
Jack looked out at the approaching Interceptor and smirked.
Soon, the Interceptor had reached the Dauntless, and the Navy began boarding the ship. As Commodore Norrington began shouting out orders to his men, Jack, Will, Melody, and Wendy all swung one by one from the Dauntless to the Interceptor, and then began sailing out of the bay.
"Sailors, back to the Interceptor," they heard Norrington shout when they realized he'd been tricked. "Now!"
Melody and Wendy watched in great amusement as one man tried to swing back but missed the ship and did a funny flip into the water.
Jack swept his hat from his head. "Thank you, Commodore, for getting us ready to make way!" The girls waved merrily to Norrington. "We'd have had a hard time of it by ourselves!"
Norrington's men began firing their guns at them, and Will and the girls ducked. Because The Dauntless's rudder chain had been disabled, she was unable to follow us out into the open Caribbean.
"That was a good idea, telling them we lost our memory," Melody told her sister. They were sitting in the crows nest, which was high enough so that Jack and Will, who were down on deck, could not hear their conversation.
Wendy shrugged. "It just came to me. It is better than trying to tell them we're from 2006."
"That would just be crazy."
"Yup."
They stared out at the water. "This is amazing, you know?" said Melody.
"What, you mean being in the movie?"
"Well, that too. But I mean being in this time period. There's no motors out on the water, so it's quiet."
"I know," said Wendy. "And once the sun goes down, we'll be able to see all the stars. No light pollution, you know."
"Yeah." Melody suddenly had a very excited look in her eye. "Oh my gosh, guess where we're going!"
Wendy laughed. "Tortuga?"
"Aye! Tortuga!"