"Come on people, we're burning daylight here, in the boat…NOW!" Beth yelled, dragging Maddie over to the boats. Beth and Maddie were both wearing outfits like Elizabeth.

"You are not coming. Nor are you dragging the RESPECTABLE young lady with you," Norrington told her.

"What makes you think I'm not a respectable lady?" Beth said in mock indignation.

"Perhaps it was the fact that as soon as you saw the suitable dress you were to wear you poured a cup of dark tea all over it," Norrington told her.

"And what makes you think that I am a respectable lady?" Maddie asked.

"You chose a lovely dress that covered your ankles, as is appropriate," Norrington said.

"That's only because it's FREEZING!" Maddie said, shivering. "If it wasn't, I'd have chosen to stay in what I was wearing before."

"At any rate, due to Elizabeth's protests, you are both wearing the ensemble she is," Norrington said, ending the discussion. "And NEITHER of you are going in the boats. It is far too dangerous."

"I feel I must object to that, Commodore," Jack said, swaggering over from another point on the deck where he and Elizabeth had been talking.

"You see, I refuse to go into the boats if my personal aid is not with me," Jack said, pointing to Beth. She grinned. Norrington rolled his eyes.

"Very well," he consented. "But the other girl is staying with Elizabeth. That is my final remark. In to the boats, everyone!" He called.

"Yay!" Beth gave a small clap and climbed into one of the boats after Jack. "And Captain Jack, when you find yourself in a really suckish situation, you can trade my soul, savvy?"

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"I don't care for the situation," Norrington ordered. The small group of boats was at the edge of the cave. "Any attempt to storm the caves could turn into an ambush."

"Not if you're the one doing the ambushing, dude," Beth told him. Norrington looked puzzled at her slang. Jack seized the opportunity.

"I go in and convince Barbossa to send his men out in their little boats," Jack proposed.

"You and your men return to the Dauntless and blast the crap out of them," Beth continued.

"What do you have to loose?" Jack finished.

"Nothing I'd lament being rid of," Norrington said. His opinion of Beth had been lowered significantly after discovering that she was a true pirate.

"Now to be completely honest with you, there's still a slight risk to those aboard the Dauntless including the future Mrs. Commodore and her maid…" Jack said thinking quickly.

"Yay! Lock Lizzie up and throw away the key!" Beth cheered. Then she paused. "Just don't lock up, Maddie, pretty please?" Norrington thought for a moment.

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"Sorry, but it's for your own safety," Gillette said as he walked behind four members of the navy who were attempting to drag Lizzie and Maddie into the Captain's quarters.

"I DON'T CARE WHAT THE COMMODORE ORDERED! I HAVE TO TELL HIM THE PIRATES CAN'T BE KILLED!" Lizzie yelled.

"GET OFF OF ME! HOW THE HELL ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE SAFER IN THERE? AND I DON'T WANT TO BE IN THERE FOR THE WHOLE FLIPPING FIGHT!" Maddie yelled at them.

"Oh, don't worry about that Miss Swann," Gillette told her, ignoring Maddie. "A little mermaid flopped up on deck and told him the whole story." Gillette laughed as he closed the door.

"YOU FOUL, LOATHSOME, EVIL, LITTLE, COCKROACHES!!!!!!!!!" Maddie yelled at the back of the door.

"This is Jack Sparrow's doing!" Elizabeth groaned.

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Successful, Jack and Beth were rowing in their own small boat to the cave. Or rather, Jack was rowing and Beth was bouncing up and down from excitement. They entered the cave a few moments later to the sound of chants from the crew of the Black Pearl.

"Excuse me, sorry," Jack said, pushing his way to the front.

"Come on people, move it or loose it," Beth said, following him.

"Begun by blood, by blood…" Barbossa began, then he saw Beth and Jack.

"Jack! Beth!" Will exclaimed in shock.

"It's not possible," Barbossa breathed.

"Not probable," Jack corrected him. Beth laughed. That had always been one of her favorite lines. Bo 'sun laid a firm grip on both Jack and Beth's shoulders.

"Where's Elizabeth?" Will said anxiously.

"She's safe," Jack sighed. "Just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. Maddie's with her following her every order just like she promised, Beth's here helping me, just like she promised, and you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really, except for Elizabeth, Maddie, and Beth, who are, in fact, women."

"Shut up!" Barbossa said in annoyance. "You're next!"

"You don't want to be doing that mate," Jack cautioned him as Barbossa raised his knife to Will's neck.

"No, I really think I do!"

"Your funeral," Jack commented quietly.

"No one else's funeral, that's yooooouuuur funeral!" Beth sang under her breath. Barbossa rolled his eyes.

"Why don't I want to be doing it?" He demanded.

"Because," Jack slapped Bo'sun's hand off of him and began walking up closer to Barbossa. It seemed like a death wish to Beth, but she followed his lead, as usual.

"Because the HMS Dauntless, pride of the royal navy is floating just off shore, waiting for you," Jack said. Barbossa looked slightly unconvinced.

"It's true!" Beth told him. Barbossa began to look worried. The crew members started muttering amongst themselves.

"Just hear us out, mate," Jack said reassuringly. "You row your men out to the Dauntless, they do what they do best…" There was some laughing among the pirates at this part. "And there you are with two ships, the makings of your very own fleet. And of course, you'll take the grandest as your flagship and who's to argue, but what of the Pearl?" Finally, Jack had reached the part of the deal that he would benefit from. "Make me captain of the Pearl…I'll sail under your colors, give you ten percent of me plunder, and you get to introduce yourself as 'Commodore Barbossa', savvy" Jack finished.

"In exchange, I suppose you'll want me to not kill the whelp?" Barbossa assumed.

"Oh, God, PLEASE DON'T KILL HIM!" Beth begged.

"No, no, by all means, kill the whelp," Jack said. Beth glared. "Just…not yet," Jack continued. "Wait…for the opportune moment. For example…after you've killed Norrington's men…" Will's eyes widened when he saw what Jack was doing. At this point, Beth seized the opportune moment and leaned on the edge of the chest with her hands. Using her own slight of hand skills, she picked up one of the coins. Barbossa was too distracted to notice, but Will saw. Jack grabbed a handful of coins. "Every …last..one…" Jack dropped a coin into the chest with each word, and skillfully tucking one into his sleeve.

"You two have been planning this from the beginning!" Will said angrily. "Ever since you learned my name!"

"Yeah!" Jack confessed.

"You bet!" Beth said. "Don't take it personally, we just want a ship! You know I still love you!"

"I want fifty percent of your plunder!" Barbossa interrupted. The crush of a small girl was of no importance to him.

"Fifteen!" Beth countered.

"Forty!"

"Twenty five!" Jack ended the argument. "And I'll buy you a big hat…Commodore!"

"We have an accord!" Barbossa declared, and they shook on it.

"All hands to the boats!" Jack ordered all the men, then he saw Barbossa's look.

"My apologies, you give the orders," Jack apologized.

"Gents, take a walk!" Barbossa grinned. Beth clucked her tongue and shook her head sadly.

"Not to the boats?" Jack said worriedly. Barbossa's grin widened.

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"May we have a moment?" Governor Swann asked the man guarding the Captain's quarters.

"Elizabeth?" The governor asked. "I just want you to know that I think you made a very good decision today."

As soon as he started talking, Maddie picked up a pile of sheets that were lying in the corner. She began tying the ends of them together, indicating Elizabeth to do the same. Elizabeth glanced towards the direction of her father, bit her lip, but began assisting Maddie.

"Couldn't be more proud of you," Governor Swann continued. "But you know, even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision." Maddie took their quickly completed make-shift rope, ran to the window, tied it down, and threw it out the window, pointed to a long boat just next to the ship, and indicated to Elizabeth that they needed to go.

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Back in the cave, Jack was examining different pieces of value that had been collected in the cave.

"I must admit Jack, I though I had you figured," Barbossa confessed. "But it turns out you're a hard man to predict."

"Me, I'm dishonest," Jack said, tossing an artifact out of the way. "And a dishonest man…"

"Or woman!" Beth interrupted.

"You can always trust to be dishonest! Honestly! It's the honest ones you want to watch out for because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly…stupid!" Jack finished with a look at Will. He quickly tossed Will a sword and freed him. Jack began fighting with Barbossa, Beth pulled out her own sword and began fighting with a random pirate she didn't know the name of, and Will began dueling with the undead pirate who had been keeping him captive.

"Whoo! Swashswashbucklebuckle time!" Beth cheered, finally getting her chance to practice the fencing she had learned at summer camp.

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Meanwhile, Maddie and Elizabeth quickly and quietly boarded the Black Pearl. Suddenly, the undead monkey came out of no where.

"Ah! Freaky undead monkey!" Maddie whisper-screamed. Elizabeth gasped but then stared it down. Maddie stuck out her tongue at it, then grabbed it and tossed it overboard.

Maddie charged down the stairs and hid behind a post while the two pirates guarding the ship ran up to see what was happening. Elizabeth did exactly what Maddie did. After they were out of the way, Maddie practically flew down to the bottom deck to where the other members of Jack's crew were held prisoners.

"It's the girls!" Gibbs exclaimed! They quickly unlocked the cells and soon everyone ran up to the main deck, pulled the ropes holding one of the long boats, and knocked the two pirates into the depths with it.

"All of you with me!" Elizabeth ordered, grabbing the rope once again, thinking she was taking charge. "Will is in that cave, and we must save him! Now…heave!" When she realized she was the only one pulling she slowly turned around.

"Right…Lizzie, I'm with you, but it's not happening," Maddie said.

"Please, I need your help, come on!" Elizabeth begged.

"Any port in the storm!" Cotton's parrot squawked.

"Cotton's right, we've got the Pearl," Gibbs said.

"And what about Jack? Y'all are just going to leave him?" Maddie said incredulously. She had never really understood why they refused to help.

"Jack owes us a ship!" Marty explained.

"And there's the code to consider," Gibbs added.

"The code," Elizabeth said in disbelief. "But you're pirates!" She argued. "Hang the code, and hang the rules!"

"For Pete's sake, they're more like guidelines anyway!" Maddie said, frustrated. There was still no response. Maddie groaned and began to help Elizabeth get the boat into the water.

"Bloody pirates!" They both muttered angrily.

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Barbossa and Jack were still squaring off in the cave. Will was fighting the pirate named Jacoby, and Beth was fighting her pirate not far behind. She finally grew impatient and kicked him into the moonlit water, scattering the parts of his skeleton everywhere. She began to chase Will and Jacoby. Finally, Barbossa threw down his sword and kicked Jack to the ground.

"You can't beat me, Jack!" He declared. Jack then thrust his sword into Barbossa's chest. When nothing happened, Barbossa sighed and in turn thrust it into Jack's heart. He gagged for a minute, but then backed into the moonlight, where he turned into a skeleton.

Will swung his sword particularly hard once and missed his opponent, instead spun around and hit Beth from the side in the gut. Will gasped in horror at what he had done. In fury, he took a fancy pot, shoved it over his opponent's head, and pushed him away. The force of the blow caused Beth to fall in the water. She heard a splash.

"I'm wet?" She questioned curiously as she looked around. Then she looked at her torso. "I'm a skeleton and I'm wet!" She yelled excitedly.

"That's interesting," Jack murmured, looking at his skeletal hand. Seeing what had happened to Beth, Will was temporarily in a state of shock. He looked over at Jack and realized he was a skeleton as well.

"Sorry…I couldn't resist, mate!" Jack told Barbossa, flipping his coin in his fingers. Jack pulled out the sword and the two pirates began dueling once again, going in and out of the moonlight. After about ten more minutes of fighting, Will lost his sword after the pirate he was fighting knocked it out of his hands.

"I'm gonna teach you the meaning of pain!" he yelled before delivering the final blow.

"You like pain?" came a girl's voice before he was suddenly knocked over by Elizabeth, who was holding a huge pole.

"Try wearing a corset!" She sneered. Will grabbed the other end of the pole. They looked at each other lovingly for a few moments.

"Uh, guys!" Maddie shrieked, alerting them to the pirates heading straight for them. They both took the pole and began fighting the pirates.

"Maddie!" Beth exclaimed when she saw her friend.

"Beth! Oh my God you're a skeleton!" Maddie said in shock. Beth laughed.

"Yeah! Funny story, really…"

"Duck!" Maddie yelled as a sword came at Beth's head. Maddie frantically looked around and found a huge umbrella to fight with.

"Don't you want a sword?" Beth yelled while the two of them began fighting.

"Are you kidding? I've never fenced in my life, I'd probably chop off my own head or something," Maddie yelled back. The two of them worked together to lure the two pirates over to where Will and Elizabeth were. The couple skewered the three pirates together and blew them up. Will charged to the pile of treasure where the chest was and the three girls ran after him. Jack threw his coin to Will. Maddie looked at Beth.

"But I wanted to keep it as a souvenir…"

"BETH! WE'LL GET YOU ONE IN DISNEYWORLD! JUST GIVE IT TO HIM!"

Beth sighed, rubbed her coin in the blood from a scrape on her forearm she had just gotten on her face from the explosion in the non-moonlit area and threw it to Will. Barbossa pointed his gun at Elizabeth. Soon there was a shot, but it came from Jack's pistol and went in Barbossa.

"For ten years you carry that pistol and now you waste your shot…" Barbossa said.

"He didn't waste it!" Will declared heroically. He dropped the three final coins into the chest. Jack lowered his gun. Barbossa opened up his jacket to show the blood flowing from his wound.

"I He whispered. Then he fell to the ground, dead. He dropped his apple.

"Ooh, green apple! Gimme!" Beth exclaimed, running over.

"Hey, I wanted it!"

"Who's been giving you her green apples for lunch for the whole semester?"

"Who's been throwing away her other green apple after taking only two bites for the whole semester?

"So?"

"You had your chance!"

"We'll split it!"

"Deal!"

Beth took out her dagger and split the apple in half. Elizabeth slowly walked to one end of the cave. Will smiled at the young teenagers eating parts of there apple and exploring the cave further. Jack began examining his treasure. Will slowly approached Elizabeth.

"Has he got a bit of cream cheese in his mustache?" Beth wondered

"Shh, I love this part!" Maddie told Beth excitedly as Will and Elizabeth looked into each others' eyes. Soon there was a crash as Jack threw away an artifact.

"And Jack has to ruin it!" Beth laughed.

"We should return to the Dauntless," Elizabeth said.

"Your fiancée will be wanting to know you're safe," Will said, trying to keep the bitterness out of his voice. Elizabeth looked like she was close to tears. She ran over to the boats and tried to prevent her tears from falling. Maddie, Beth, and Jack all walked over to Will.

"If you were waiting for the opportune moment…" Jack began.

"That was it," All three told him. Jack started swaggering over to the long boat.

"Now I'd be much obliged if you'd drop me off at my ship."

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"Sorry, Jack," Beth told Jack once the five people were in the boat.

"They've done what's right for them. Can't expect more than that…"

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Hello everyone! Hope you had a good holiday! Next chapter is second to last (sob), but the sequel will be coming sometime in February! We're giving ourselves a little break and some time to plan. Plus Emma has to work on her other fanfictions! There were two inside jokes, plus references to…Harry Potter, Oliver!, and the bonus features on the DVD! See if you can spot them! Hot chocolate with dashes of rum in them and marshmallows for those who spot them! Review please! We love y'all!