"I didn't knock any of the guards out." Tobias said, confused. "I thought you did."
Jack looked confused as well. Suddenly there was an explosion outside, and both Jack and Tobias walked to the window. The stage was in pieces. Captain Harvey was on the ground, not moving, obviously dead. The guests shrieked and shouted as soldiers in red coats came in. They both recognized the uniform. The East India Trading Company…
"Right," Jack said, stepping back from the window after seeing the East Indian Trading Company men invade the courtyard, "Best be off then… oy!"
Tobias had yanked the chest out of Captain Jack's hand and ran out of the room right into an invading group of soldiers. The soldiers spotted him and Jack, kneeling in formation. "Fire!" their commander called, leaving Tobias little choice. He ran and smashed through the window, falling two stories and landing in the garden bed, which broke his fall. Jack jumped out of the doorway and back into the treasure room, opening the window quickly and stepping out. Grabbing one of the lanterns which had been set up as decorations on a rope leading to the ground, he quickly rode one down like a flying fox just as the soldiers leaned out the window after him, firing at him and missed him by inches.
Now on the ground running towards the Dancing Peacock, Tobias could see the stage now had run into total chaos. Guests were running everywhere, most of his crew had been killed, and the duke who owned the mansion was yelling at the soldiers to stop, and now ran up towards the house noticing soldiers were looking out of his secret treasury room window.
Tobias had assumed the surviving crew had escaped to the Dancing Peacock. The ship was surprisingly fast since it didn't have any cannons, and Tobias hoped he could make it back to the ship to escape before the crew set sail. As he moved towards the gates that had been blasted open by the East Indian Trading Company, he took refuge next to the stage and looked at the nearby body of Captain Harvey. Poor man. He had only known him a week or two. He closed his eyelids, then pulled out the key that had been hanging around his neck for years, using it to unlock the chest. He took a quick look at the item inside; it was of the utmost value. It had been in the possession of a pirate lord before his father and the East Indian Trading Company had claimed it as spoils; ever since the day Tobias had lost it the day he had been branded, it had been in the possession of pirates, pirate lords, commanding officers, governors, natives, prisoners, civilians, even a whore or two. Tobias had been tracking it all these years, and now after all his hard work he finally had it.
"Oy! You there!" a soldier called, spotting him.
Tobias looked back and made a run for it. As he reached the gates, where he could clearly see the Dancing Peacock down on the docks, he saw another large naval ship had pulled up next to it as it left the dock. It was flying the insignia of the East India Trading Company, and was already firing upon it. The ship was defenseless, and in a mass slaughter of cannon fire, the ship blasted the Dancing Peacock to pieces, sinking it beneath the ocean waves.
"No where to run now, rat." The soldier said. "Hands above your head, where I can see them."
Tobias did as he was told, putting the treasure chest next to him. He was still in a state of shock. His crew, even though he had not known them long, were all killed. Noble men and women pirates, who never killed and rarely hurt anyone. All of them… dead.
"What's this?" the soldier said, spotting the P mark on Tobias's wrist. "You're a pirate, aren't you? You're coming with…" Suddenly there was a smashing sound on the back of the soldier's head, then he fell over, unconscious. Stepping out behind him came Captain Jack Sparrow, grinning.
"What are you doing!?" Tobias asked, wondering why Jack had saved him.
"Waiting for the opptune moment, mate." Jack said, reaching down to pick up the chest. He stepped back and pulled out his pistol at Tobias. "Nuh uh, don't even think about it, mate. I need this to get back me ship. Now, we're even. Tu-tu lu." Then Jack walked quickly away out the gate, following a path that led in a different direction away from the docks. Tobias hesitantly followed him, making sure to avoid as Jack did the patrols of soldiers cleaning up the mess around the mansion.
As Tobias followed Captain Jack, he trailed him down an unbeaten path until the captain revealed how he had gotten there; a small boat was tied up on a beach a short way away from the docks, hidden from view. He was about to reveal himself, when Jack noticed him peeking out from behind the bushes at the top of the beach and threw a bone at him, striking him square on the head. "Owww! Hey! Who throws a bone? I mean, honestly…"
Jack pulled out his pistol. "The type of man who's been out at sea and exhausted his food supply, leaving him to feed on a seagull, to throw the bones of said seagull at the annoying pirate following him like a lost puppy. There's only room for one, mate, and you ain't takin' me ship. Already had that done three times me already, all with the same ship recently. Saavy?"
"Yeah, as you've already mentioned previously." Tobias said, looking surprisingly confident at the captain. "Impressive ship, captain. There looks like room for two, maybe three there, mate. And you're gonna let me ride in that boat with you."
"Nice try, mate." Sparrow grinned. "But if you haven't noticed, I'm the one here with the chest, and the gun. "And you ain't got nothing but yer sword."
"Are you sure?" Tobias said. "Might want to check that chest again, mate."
Jack looked confused, but curious. He kept his pistol on Tobias, and pulled the chest open. The chest was empty.
"Looking for this?" Tobias asked, pulling out from his shirt the object they had both been looking for – a map written on wooden reeds strewn together with silk. Tobias had a flashback to when he opened the chest.
"Oy! You there!" a soldier called, spotting him.
With the map in his hand he had just retrieved from the chest, Tobias tucked it into his shirt before he turned around putting the chest down. Tobias looked back and made a run for it.
Jack looked at the map in Tobias's hand. "Bloody hell, stop stealin' me loot! Give it back to me!" he ordered, pointing his pistol at Tobias.
"Hey, careful. You wouldn't want anything to happen to this map, right Jack? Out of all the treasures in that room you could have taken for yourself, you chose the one I've been hunting after all these years."
"Oh yes… that's the only one…" Jack said innocently, hiding his hand that had a few new rings on.
"Point is, shame if there would be anything to happen to it…" Tobias pointed out, starting to brake off a part of the map.
"You know what? I don't really care." Jack said, still watching Tobias brake off a part of the map.
"Okay. Guess you won't mind then if I throw it back in the ocean. Again." Tobias said, rolling up the map and preparing to throw it.
"Yer wouldn't dare. You're after it too mate." Jack said.
"I've been after this map for years."
"I'd shoot yer."
"Before I can pitch it into the ocean? I've got a good backhand like you, Jack. Try me."
"It's Captain."
"What?"
"It's Captain Jack Sparrow, mate."
"Do ya want the map, or not?" Tobias said.
Captain Jack hesitated. Then he lowered his gun. "Okay, okay mate. What do yer want?" Jack sighed.
"You said you needed this to get a ship back?" Tobias said curiously. "How did you loose it, was there a mutiny?"
"That's for me to know and you to bugger off." Jack said. "But go on."
"Let's make a deal. I'll help you get your ship back, if you give me safe passage. I'll provide the map if you provide the ship."
Jack extended a hand, and Tobias shook it. "Alright, deal mate. But you're rowin'. I'm still a captain, even on his tiny vessel."
"Fine, whatever. Let's just get out of here." Tobias said, taking the oars and paddling him and Jack out to sea. "Where are we headed?"
"The next port, Port Royal." Jack said. "That's where the my ship is. The Black Pearl…"