NOTICE! I do not own anything in this fanfiction, save for two characters.
Hogarth, Jumba, and GIR all dashed out through the door that lead to the core of Treasure Island. Once they did, Hogarth looked over at Jumba, impressed. "Jumba, you gave up!?"
Jumba started wiping tears from his four eyes. "Just a lifelong obsession, Hogarth," Jumba answered, "I'll get over it!"
GIR smiled broadly and gave his master a great hug.
"ALOHA, FELLAS!"
This was heard along with...rockets? Hogarth, Jumba, and GIR looked up, and to their surprise, there was the JPH Wonderlust floating above their heads with the use of rockets! Stimpy was waving to them, smiling as always.
His smile disappeared when he gave them this announcement. "Hurry! We've only got a few minutes until the island blows up!"
Hogarth and Jumba looked at each other wide-eyed.
Chopper was at the ship's wheel, and he'd gone into Heavy Point to operate. Of course, seeing as the island was blowing up, he was understandably frightened, and it's hard to concentrate when you're frightened.
Midna was leaning against a mast behind him, her wounds bandaged. "Alright, you're doing fine, Chopper. Just ease her over gently-- GENTLY!"
But since Chopper was so nervous, he accidentally bumped the ship into a nearby cliff. This, of course, rocked the boat. Nevertheless, Hogarth, Jumba, and GIR managed to climb aboard just fine.
Below deck were all the pirates that escaped the core. They were all bound with ropes and struggling to escape. Among these pirates was Salacious, Bowser, Koopa Kid, Hammer Bro, and Wapol. Wapol was bound with Sea Stone rope, so his powers were useless, and Bowser and Koopa Kid were gagged with pieces of special fire-proof cloth.
"Wreck my stuff, will ya?"
The pirates glanced in the direction of the voice. It was Ren...and Ren was livid.
"Trash me and Stimpy's hiding place, huh?" he asked, trembling with rage, "And to top it off, you muzzled me! MUZZLED me!" A psychotic grin crept onto his face, and he started speaking in a slow, eerie tone. "I've gotta great temptation to gouge your eyes out... Yeah... I think I will...and then...I'm gonna...t-t-t-TEAR your limbs outta the sockets!" He suddenly went into a fit of maniacal laughter mixed with growls and sobs.
Needless to say, all the pirates were rather disturbed by this.
"...No," Ren said finally, "I'll let the judge take care of you. He knows what to do... Don't you go anywhere!" he then said, wagging his finger at the pirates, then he pointed at the floor. "You stay right here... Right on this spot! I'll be back!" He then dashed up the stairs, leaving the pirates alone again.
"We were better off on the exploding island!" Hammer Bro exclaimed.
"Get us out of here, fat cat!" Midna ordered Stimpy.
The Cornish Rex cat saluted sternly, then pulled on a lever that sent the Wonderlust rocketing forward. Now the island was falling apart, huge chunks of it seperating from each other and explosions bursting out of the cracks.
Jumba was very pleased with Midna. "Captain, you dropped from the heavens just in--"
"Save your words for the judge, Jookiba!" Midna snapped. She hadn't forgotten about Jumba's...transgressions.
Jumba chuckled nervously, glancing at GIR. Hogarth seemed just as uneasy.
All of a sudden, a large piece of debris flew out and snapped off the top sail of the ship! A piece of mast fell onto a mechanical part of the ship and broke it. The rockets started to falter.
Ren had already gotten up on deck by this time. He looked at the readings on the "dash board" of the ship. "Missile tail demobilized, Captain! Thrusters at only 30% of capacity."
"30 percent?" Chopper echoed.
Midna's eyes widened. "We'll never clear the island's explosion in time."
Hogarth ran over to the side of the ship and saw that the gate was still open. Then he turned around and looked at the machinery that was broken by the fallen mast. The gears in his head started turning again...
"...We gotta turn around," Hogarth said before jumping down to the main deck.
"What!?" Midna exclaimed.
"There's a portal back there!" the boy explained, "It can get us outta here!"
"Uh, Hogarth?" Chopper asked, "Didn't that portal open onto a raging inferno!?"
"Yes," Hogarth answered, pulling up a thick, triangular sheet of metal, "but I'm gonna change that. I'm gonna open a different door!"
Jumba looked over at the portal, and then realized that the small hologram that opened it was still there and functional...
"But how!?" Chopper stuttered, "How is Hogarth gonna--"
"Listen to the boy!" Jumba yelled up to Chopper and Midna as he walked down to the main deck.
"One minute, twenty-nine seconds 'till island's destruction!" Ren called.
Hogarth was having a bit of trouble. Apparently, he was trying to build something.
"What is it you need, Hogarth?" Jumba asked.
"Just...some way to...attach this!" Hogarth replied. He was trying to attach a still semi-active rocket to the triangular metal sheet.
"All right," Jumba said, pulling out a welder, "Stand back-- Stand back, now!" In a matter of seconds, the job was done. "There you go."
Jumba caught on to what Hogarth had in mind: he just made a makeshift Rocketboard! The two (and GIR) hefted the thing onto the edge of the ship.
Hogarth jumped onto it. "OK. Now, no matter what happens," he instructed his old alien friend, "keep the ship heading straight for that portal."
"Fifty-eight seconds!" Ren called.
Hogarth and Jumba glanced at each other one last time, before Hogarth stomped down on a switch attached to the rocket and he went flying away.
Jumba turned to Chopper and Midna. "Well, you heard him! Get this flying pile of lumber and scrap metal turned around!"
Midna raised an eyebrow before telling the reindeer doctor, "Chopper, head us back to the portal."
"...Aye, captain," Chopper answered, turning the wheel and the ship.
Hogarth was doing well. He was weaving in and out of the explosions. If the rocket died down, he'd step on the switch to get it going again.
The ship wasn't quite so manueverable.
"Go to the right! The right!" Midna yelled.
Chopper snapped a bit. "I know, I know! Will you just let me DRIVE!?"
"Twenty-five seconds!" Ren shouted. He and Stimpy were getting increasingly worried.
Suddenly, the makeshift Rocketboard died again. But when Hogarth stepped on the switch, it didn't go!
"No! NO! NO!" he shouted as he started to plummet towards the explosions below.
Jumba was watching, and now he was frightened. "Come on, boy..." he murmured through gritted teeth.
"SEVENTEEN SECONDS!" Ren screamed.
GIR covered his eyes. He didn't want to see his friend die!
Suddenly, Hogarth got another bright idea. He turned his Rocketboard around and ground the rocket against a nearby rock wall.
BOOM! It shot upwards! Hogarth saw the ship pass by him above, and sped out of the chasm as fast as he could.
Chopper gritted his teeth and prepared for the worst, and Ren counted down. "Seven...
"Six...
"Five...
"Four...
"Three...
"TWO..."
Hogarth passed the ship, and pressed an island on the hologram...
Out at sea, it was calm and quiet. A distance away, the Japanese Seaport could be seen.
Suddenly, a green, holographic triangle appeared, and through it came the JPH Wonderlust, a huge explosion, and Hogarth on his makeshift Rocketboard!
They were saved!
As the portal closed, Hogarth and everyone on the ship could be heard cheering! The rockets on the Wonderlust now sped them through the water, and Hogarth was riding through the air wildly on his Rocketboard!
"WA-HOW! YEAH!" he cheered.
"You did it, Hogarth!" Jumba called, giving his young human friend a high-five as the boy flew over the ship, "You've done it, boy! Ha ha ha!"
GIR was whooping and yelling and fireworks were literally flying out of his head! Even the bound pirates below deck were cheering.
Jumba looked through the grate at them. "Didn't I say Hogarth was a great human!?"
Chopper and Midna even hugged, they were so happy to be alive!
Hogarth jumped off of the Rocketboard (letting it fall into the sea) and onto the ship. GIR ran up and hugged him tightly.
Chopper and Midna ran over to the boy. Chopper had gone back into Brain Point, and jumped up and hugged him, tears flowing from his eyes.
Midna smiled. "Not subtle," she said, regarding Hogarth's plan, "but really effective! I'd be proud to recommend you to international academy. They could use someone like you."
Jumba stood a distance away, smiling proudly at Hogarth. GIR ran over to him, also smiling.
"Just wait'll your family hears about this!" Chopper exclaimed. Then he had a thought. "Oh, but we might downplay the life-threatening parts."
Hogarth chuckled, nodding in agreement. Chopper then jumped off to rejoin Midna. The two of them had become very good friends.
Speaking of good friends, Ren and Stimpy then walked over to Hogarth. Ren seemed a bit awkward, probably trying to seem like a stoic.
"Hogarth," Stimpy said, bobbing up and down ecstatically, "that was...UNFORGETTABLE! I-I know you don't like touching, but get ready for a hug, man, 'cause I gotta hug you!" He then pounced on Hogarth and squeezed, giggling like a nut.
Hogarth glanced over at Ren, looked at Stimpy, then grabbed the chihuahua and hugged them both, much to their surprise!
"You-- You hugged Stimpy back, and me!?" It was impossible to hide the shock on Ren's face. Then that expression melted into a smiling, teary-eyed one. He sniffed. "I promised myself I wouldn't cry..."
"I didn't," Stimpy said, then started bawling loudly and comically, burying his head into Hogarth's shirt. "Does anyone have a tissue...?"
The boy smiled, then glanced over at where Jumba was standing.
I say was, because now he had disappeared. To where?
The Jetboat hangar.
Author's note: Yes, I know that last part seemed pretty sappy, but I'm trying to keep the characters true to form while still going along with what happens in the movie.