Princess Lotta, King Amuck, and Prince Neverhasbeenbroke all sat in the coldness of the Iron Vulture's brig. None of them said word, because each feared that talking would only bring pain, and they didn't want to see any more violence. The door to the brig opened and in stepped Hal, carrying a lovely black evening dress.

"The Captain says that you will be having dinner with him, Princess Lotta," he said unlocking her cell, but Lotta turned and said, "Tell your Captain that I'm hungry," but that was lie. In fact Lotta and the others were starving.

Hal smiled and began to walk off. "I guess you will have to dine with the crew in your birthday suit," he smiled, but Lotta quickly shouted that she would have dinner with Karnage. Lotta took the dress and got changed.

In a few minutes, Lotta entered Karnage's bedroom, where a beautiful glass table was set up and a wonderful meal was already waiting for her. There was two chairs at both ends of the table and Lotta quickly sat down, but where was Don Karnage?

"My, you look like a goddess in that dress," Karnage said with complete honesty, before he took his seat at the other end of the table. Lotta didn't say anything. Karnage didn't seem to care. "So I hear that the bothersome, Baloo, and his friend Louie helped you and your father out, by finding... What do you call it? The missing tax money?"

Lotta put down her fork. "Yes, they helped us," she said before going back to her meal.

Smiling with a big toothy grin, Karnage watched as Lotta drank some of the wine that was poured for her. "I made the wine by my very ownself," the Captain boasted. "It was not hard to make because when I want something, I suspect the drinker to listen to me."

Lotta suddenly began to feel a little warm and her body began to tingle. Looking down at the glass she saw that the rim was changing color.

"You drugged me?" she gasped. Karnage nodded. "Yes, because I don't want you going anywhere tonight before I start asking some questions, so please, enjoy the rest of your food."

A few hours later Lotta was back in the brig. She was hunched over a bucket as she emptied her stomach. Her father watched sadly as Prince Neverhasbeenbroke kept her hair pulled back.

King Amuck was afraid to ask Lotta what happened with her and Karnage, but he worked himself up to it. "Lotta, did he hurt you?"

Lotta shook her head. "No father," she said before throwing up again, "he just wanted me to answer some questions."

"Like what?" Prince Neverhasbeenbroke asked handing her a wet wash cloth.

Lotta tried to remember some of the questions, but she couldn't. What ever Karnage gave her, made her forget a few things, and maybe she didn't want to remember the questions.

Before she could answer, Mad Dog walked in and put two trays of food down. One plate had fresh fruit on it and the other with some meat and rise on it.

"The Captain would really hurt me if he found out I was giving you all this," Mad Dog whispered with caution, and then he quickly turned to Lotta and pulled out some pills. He held them out to her and she just stared at him. "There to help your stomach settle down, Princess."

Lotta took them. "Thank you," she said as she gulped down the pills.

Mad Dog smiled. "Your welcome." Then he left.

The next day as the sun rose over Cape Suzette, Baloo awoke to the sound of Molly coming into the bedroom. His young daughter had a smile that brightened the room up as she hopped up in to his lap.

"Daddy, can I not go to school today?" she asked gently, as to not wake her mother up who still seemed to be sleeping, but Rebecca was already awake.

Now Baloo had two choice. The first one was he could say yes and let Molly play hooky, but then he would have Rebecca at his neck, as well as the school board.

The second one was he could say no and have Molly trying to beg her way out of going to school.

When Baloo made up his mind, he patted Molly on the head and said, "Sorry pumpkin. But school is something we all need to do and besides, your mother and I need to spend some time doing adult stuff."

Molly felt a little upset, and maybe even a little mad, but she did know that her father was right. So she quickly hurried off to the bathroom to get cleaned up.

"Well done, Baloo," Rebecca said. "I think your answer was well thought of." Baloo blushed under his fur. "Aww... it was nothing," he lied, and quickly got out of bed and headed for Kit's bedroom.

"Kit! Wake up, wake up, son..."

Baloo had to repeat himself, shaking his son's shoulder. Like his father, Kit had a delay of waking up. Kit groaned in pure annoyance.

"I'm up papa bear."

Baloo rolled his eyes. "I think I know my own son. As soon as I step out, you'll just go back to sleep and you'll be late. One more phone call and your in detention and out goes your basketball privileges and your chance at seeing Star Wars next week," he warned.

At hearing this, Kit jumped from his bed and did all his choirs, then he and Molly headed for school. Now that Baloo and Rebecca was alone, Rebecca thought it best to go and tell her husband something; something she knew he would like.

"Baloo," she said softly, "I'm pregnant."

There it was, but Baloo's reaction was different then what she thought of.

"You're what?" Baloo asked incredulously. He was thankful that the kids had left for school already so he didn't have to keep his voice in check.

"Pregnant," Rebecca answered dully. The little stick still was in her hands, the window clearly showing a plus sign.

"When did you find out?" he asked looking really nervous. Rebecca looked at the window and smiled and took her husband by the hand and led him to the balcony.

"I found out last week. And I took another test last night," she replied, "and it confirms it, and it's your baby, Baloo. You are going to be the father of our third child."

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" he asked.

"I was going to, but work got in the way," she answered with a smile, but then she remembered about Kit and Molly.

"What will we tell the kids?"

"We'll think of it when the time comes. For now let's just be happy."

They kissed tenderly, their fingers entwined. Rebecca felt her love for Baloo in every way, feeling more protected and wanted than ever before. She was happy, truly happy, that she could give her husband a child. Breaking their kiss she led him to their bedroom, closing the door behind them, and then... well, we all knows what happens behind closed doors.

Now as Baloo and Rebecca shared their love with each other, Don Karnage was already making his demands for the ransom of the royals, but then he decided to hold off on letting Princess Lotta go. In fact, he decided not to let her go at all.

"A girl like her will make a good pirate queen," he said with a lustful grin. "She will learn that what I want, I get." Just then Hacksaw walked in, without even knocking. There was deep cut on his cheek and his nose was bleeding.

"What happened to you?" Karnage asked taking notice of his flunkies injuries. Hacksaw spit some blood onto the floor. "Mad Dog did this to me."

Karnage looked surprised. "Why would he do that?" he asked.

"Because he was trying to rape Princess Lotta and I, with Hal and Will tried to stop him."

Down in the brig, Mad Dog was locking Will and Hal in a cell. Both pirates had cuts and bruises, while Mad Dog had a bad stab wound to his left leg, but other then that, he was pretty much clean.

"You will be regretting this, Mad Dog!" Will shouted, but Mad Dog smiled. "No, I-" he never got to finish because a gun shot rang out. Mad Dog fell to the floor as blood began to run down his back. He looked over his shoulder to see Hacksaw standing beside Karnage. The Captain seemed to be burning with anger as he clutched his pistol firmly in his hand.

"Mad Dog! You are going to suffer greatly for this," Karnage growled, but Lotta quickly got between him and Mad Dog. "Out of my way, princess!" the Captain snarled, bearing his teeth at her.

But Lotta stood firm. "Mad Dog didn't do anything, but protect me from your three men," Karnage looked deeply into Lotta's eyes and saw that she was telling the truth. "And I, my father, and Prince Neverhasbeenbroke can vouch for him," she added helping Mad Dog to his feet. Some of his blood stained her dress, but she didn't care. Lotta wanted to help him.

Karnage quickly took Mad Dog in his arms and hurried off to the medical ward of the Iron Vulture. Once inside the medical ward he placed Mad Dog on a operating table and called in Switchblade, the ship's medic.

"Don't worry Mad Dog," he said softly, "I know you will pull through this, and I thank you for doing something useful for once."

"Thanks, Captain," Mad Dog groaned painfully as Switchblade pulled the bullet out of his back. It was strange, but Matthew began to enjoy being Mad Dog again, because his Captain had shown some kindness to him.

But then he heard Hacksaw, Will, and Hal's screams of pain echoing through the halls of the ship. Whatever Karnage was doing to them, it wasn't something good.

He is out of his mind. Matthew said to himself. If Karnage wasn't stopped soon, he would get everyone on board the Iron Vulture killed. So he quickly came up with a plan.

Now as the sun began to set, Karnage was minding his own business, just going over some of his plans that had failed him in the past, but then Dumptruck came barging into his Captain's bedroom, and with him was Gibber. Both men looked rather worried and Karnage took notice of this.

"What is your problem?" Karnage asked, not bothering to look at them again. They didn't say nothing. "Speak up, you morons!" the Captain shouted.

"The royals are gone!" Dumptruck shouted. "GONE?!" Karnage snapped spinning around showing his teeth at his two men. "What do you mean gone?" he growled.

"They escaped their cells and took one of the planes," Gibber said stepping back as he rolled his hat in his hands.

Karnage then lost his temper. Without even thinking he drew his sword and slashed Gibber across the face before he could even move away. "You fools will pay for this, but I will forgive all if you can find them and bring them back."

Just then Switchblade came running in and almost ran into Karnage. "Captain, Mad Dog is gone also!"

Karnage then forced a smile, his teeth grinding making a shiver run up his crew members backs, and then put his sword up. "I knew Mad Dog was a spy," he looked out at the open skies and saw in the far distance Cape Suzette. "He has taken them to Cap Suzette, and that is where we all go tonight."

That night at Higher for Hire, Mad Dog landed his plane at the dock next to the Sea Duck. Lotta quickly jumped out with Prince Neverhasbeenbroke and King Amuck. The three royals then saw Baloo running up to them with Kit.

"I got your message, Mad Dog," he said tying down Mad Dog's plane to the dock.

Matthew smiled. "Good."

Kit ran over to Matthew and hugged him, but didn't know about his bullet wound. Matthew groaned in pain as Kit quickly pulled away from him. "What happened to you, Matthew?" Kit asked.

Matthew shook his head and said, "Karnage shot me."

"Shot you? For what reason?" Baloo asked checking out Matthew's back. He saw the bandage and could tell that wound was brand new.

"Because I tried to protect Lotta from getting raped," Matthew said turning away from Baloo. "Hacksaw lied to the Captain saying that I was the one trying to rape her, and for that-" but Matthew never got to finish, because at that moment, two police cruisers drove up and Detective Thursday ran over to Matthew and slapped some hand cuffs on him.

"Mad Dog, you are under arrest," he exclaimed.

Matthew smiled. "Good."

It was all part of his plan to get Karnage once and for all. And he knew his Captain was to going to come for Lotta and the other royals.