The sun was blazing hot. Everyone on the ship was too hot to do anything. Even as the sun was setting it was exhausting how hot it was. Marie sat next to Jack as he fiddled with the map trying to figure out the riddle.
"Why is all but the rum gone?" Pintel asked.
"Rum's gone too." Gibbs replied
If we cannot escape these doldrums by nightfall, I fear we will sail trackless seas, doomed to roam the reach between worlds...forever." Tia said nervously.
"With no water, forever looks to be arriving a mite too soon." Gibbs answered.
Marie fiddled with one of Jack's beads as he spun the sections of the map. She looked over when he stopped spinning. They both read together: Up is down.
"Well that's maddeningly unhelpful. Why are these things never clear?"
Marie shrugged and looked at the map confusedly. Up is down…? She looked over at Jack and opened her mouth to speak but shut it when she saw a familiar look on his face. He was figuring it out. He spun the middle section of the map and suddenly jumped up saying,
"Oh, what's that?" he ran to the side of the boat. Marie followed and Jack continued, "What's that? I don't know, what IS that? What do you think?"
"What?" Marie asked,
"That." He said quickly.
"Where?" Elizabeth asked.
"There." He replied quickly.
Marie stopped and looked for a moment. She saw the crew was following Jack, so many that the ship was starting to rock. She opened her mouth to warn him but then realized, that's what he wanted. She thought for a moment and went to the map. She looked at it for a moment and said,
"That's it!"
"He's rockin' the ship!" Pintel said in awe.
"We're rockin' the ship!" Gibbs said understanding.
"Aye, he's onto it." Barbossa agreed coming to look at the map as well.
Marie went back to running and ran beside Jack. She saw now all the crew was running, even Barbossa. She felt the tipping of the ship and got the timing down.
"Time it with the swell." Barbossa said.
They ran on the other side and held on while it tipped. Everyone wondering how much more this it would take. The Pearl began to turn upside down slowly and their feet suddenly had no support, they clung to the side desperately and Jack said,
"Now up is down."
They looked below as the water was getting closer and closer. Everyone sucked in a huge breathe. Marie shut her eyes as they sunk into the water. They all waited. Marie looked at Jack nervously when at first nothing happened. They began to look around suddenly wondering if what they had just done had been a good idea. Just as they couldn't hold their breathe any longer, the sun set and the boat was set right side up.
Marie was on her knees and coughed a bit. Jack was next to her,
"You alright?"
"Ya, that was good thinking Jack."
He smiled at this. They looked over as Gibbs said,
"Blessed sweet westerlies, we're back!"
"It's the sunrise." Elizabeth said.
They stood on their feet and looked at the sunrise. Suddenly Barbossa pulled out his pistol to point it at Jack. At this, Elizabeth, Will, Gibbs, and Marie all pointed pistols at Barbossa. Jack pulled out his pistols and pointed them at Will and Elizabeth,
The looked at each other in the moment. It was tense. To lighten the mood Barbossa began to chuckle. Sonn everyone laughed nervously and lowered their pistols. Suddenly everyone pointed there pistols again,
"All right, then. "Barbossa said, "The Brethren Court's a-gatherin' at Shipwreck Cove. And Jack, you and I are a-goin', and there'll be no arguin' that point."
"I is arguin' the point. If there's pirates a-gatherin', I'm pointing my ship the other way." Jack replied.
"The pirates are gathering to fight Beckett, and you're a pirate. "Elizabeth said pointing both her pistols at Jack.
"Fight or not, you're not running, Jack." Will said in agreement.
"If we don't stand together, they'll hunt us down one by one, till there be none left, but you."
"I quite like the sound of that. Captain Jack Sparrow, the last pirate."
"Aye, and you'll be fightin' Jones alone. And how does that figure into your plan?"
Marie looked at Jack and said,
"He's got a point."
"I'm still working on that." Jack replied, "But I'll not be going back to the locker, mate, count on that."
As he said this he fired his pistol but nothing happened. Soon everyone but Marie fired there pistols to no avail,
"Wet powder." Gibbs said.
"I can't believe you were all going to shoot each other…"Marie said rolling her eyes.
They gathered around Will and the chart to make a plan. Will said to them,
"There's a freshwater spring on this island. We can resupply there, and get back to shooting each other later."
"You can lead the shore party, and I'll stay with my ship." Jack said.
"I'll not be leaving my ship in your command." Barbossa said in reply.
"Why don't you both go ashore and leave the ship in my command...temporarily." Will suggested.
They rowed to the island. Marie held Jack's hand feeling a twinge of nervousness. Jack looked at her in understanding, he felt it too. They came to the island and were surprised to find the kraken, lying dead on the beach.
Jack looked at it sadly. Marie saw the weight of death was on his mind, understandably. Jack put a arm around Marie and said quietly,
"Horrible beasty."
"It's alright, Jack." She said not wanting him to feel awkward about being afraid. She put her head on his shoulder and heard someone approach they looked and saw it was Barbossa. He came to them and said,
"Still thinking of running, Jack? Think you can outrun the world? You know, the problem with being the last of anything, is by and by, there be none left at all."
"Sometimes, things come back, mate. We're living proof, you and me." Jack said.
"Aye, but that's a gamble of long odds, ain't it? There's never a guarantee of coming back, but passing on, that's dead certain." Barbossa said persuadingly.
"Summoning the Brethren Court, then, is it?" Jack asked sadly.
"It's our only hope, lad." Barbossa said kindly.
"That's a sad commentary in and of itself." Jack replied.
"The world used to be a bigger place." Barbossa put in sympathetically.
"The world's still the same. There's just less in it." Jack said walking away.
They walked across the island until they came to the spring and saw a body in it. Barbossa tasted some but immediately spit it out saying,
"Poisoned. Fouled by the body."
"Hey, I know him!" Pintel said turning the body over, "He was in Singapore!"
"Captain!" Marty shouted. They looked to the shore and saw Ragetti yelling,
"Oy, we've got company!"
They looked to the water and saw it was Sao Feng's ship. Suddenly the crew from Sao Feng turned and pointed there guns at Jack. Jack looked at them all nervously and said pointing at Barbossa,
"He's the Captain."