Granny was correct. Zack and his crewmates were on their way.
Zack walked over to the face on the boat. "Thank you for getting us away from the cruise, sir."
"Sir is my father and Madam is my mother," said the face. "Name's Chip."
"Do you have any sibling, Chip?" asked Zack.
"Brother boat's called Cool Dude and Sister boat's called Hot Boat," Chip told him. "Besides, this mission is the least I can do for you and your friends for freeing me from that jar bottle like in On Stranger Tides. You're very clever, so you are."
"Well, I'm not a genius, Captain," said Zack modestly. "I just watched all these movies and TV when I was little and – "
"Captain?" interrupted Chip. "No, a ship cannot be its own captain. But it can choose one. Get everyone here."
"Guys, come here!" cried Zack. "Our good friend Chip wants to have a word with us."
The cartoon characters walked to him and looked at Chip.
"We need a captain and, as I'm a boat who can talk, I feel like I'm the one should pick," said Chip.
"Is it really the ship talking?" asked Babs in a mocking female Irish voice. "Or is it just some Irish dude hiding behind the face and controlling the ship?"
"Does this answer your question?" Chip blew his air – real breathing air – out of his mouth.
"Eww!" moaned Babs, as she struggled to fight his breath. "Get this ship a different type of oil that smells better."
The blowing was as powerful as the high wind. It blew Babs to the mast. She crashed in it.
"Okay, I'm convinced," she said. Then the mast fell down on top of her. "I'm double convinced," she moaned through the fallen sails.
"Well, that's one person who's unfit for the duty of captain," said Buster.
"Well, since you're the one who's carrying the burden of that Orb in your body, you don't need the burdens of being captain as well," Chip told him.
"But I'm not burning," protested Buster.
"Now," said Chip, looking at everyone, "I pick for captain…" He looked from Daffy, Sylvester who turned around so Chip could see Tweety, Plucky, Hamton and Porky to Lola, Melissa, Shirley and Fifi.
"…Mr. Zack O'Marrows!" announced Chip.
"Why me?" asked Zack. "Why do I always pick to lead?"
"Come on, Zack," said Buster. "Can you image Daffy or Plucky in charge of this ship?"
"Hey, don't forget I'm Duck Dodgers!" snapped Daffy in his Duck Dodgers uniform. "I'm the hero of the 24½th Century."
"That's still three centuries away," Buster said.
Plucky turned to Shirley. "I'll do you a deal, Shirl. You brainwash everyone to make appoint me captain of this ship and I'll take you anywhere you want. I'll take you around the whole world!"
"Get realistic, Plucky!" Shirley snapped. "Like, I think you're just doing this for yourself. Haven't you, like, got enough money and power being Daffy Duck's personal assistant? What do you need me for?" And she hovered away.
Zack had been watching them. Then he turned to Hamton. "Hamton?"
"Yes, Captain?" said Hamton.
"What has happened to your friends?" asked Zack. "Both the bunnies and the birds have fallen out with each other."
"Well, it all began when Bugs Bunny left Acme Loo and was replaced by Huey and Louie Finn, taking the names of Ted and Zed Schneebly," said Hamton. "Huey was the Jazz Band teacher and Louie was the Dance teacher. And since that happened, everything and everyone changed, especially with Buster and Babs."
"Yeah, and then Mr. Wearing-No-Pants here stated dating…" Zack and Hamton turned to Babs, who wore Family Guy's Meg Griffin's clothes, hat and glasses. She even put on the face.
Zack couldn't believe it. "Buster dating Meg Griffin from Family Guy?"
"Eh, she was the only exchange girl student left to date," Buster replied. "But she was better than who Miss Who-Has-Her-Ribbons-On-Too-Tight here dated!" They turned around to see Buster wearing Mr. Bean's clothes. He even had Rowan Atkinson's face on his face. He grumbled and mumbled like Bean.
Zack tried to keep a straight face as he turned back to Babs. "You were dating Mr. Bean?"
Babs had dressed in a white dress and had put on a pig nose and ears props. She stood like Miss Piggy did. "Well, better than whom he dated next!" she said in a Miss Piggy-like voice. She walked to Buster. "Hey, what that's up there?"
Buster looked up. Babs cried and tried to strike him like Miss Piggy, but, without looking, Buster got out an anvil and put it where Babs tried to strike him.
Buster had looked and dressed up like ALF the alien. "Nice try, babe!" he said, putting on an ALF voice. "But that's not even half as good as this weirdo you dated next!"
Zack had watched the whole thing. Even though this was serious and upsetting, watching the bunnies couldn't stop him laughing. He didn't stop until he saw the other toons just staring at him.
"Well, I'm just glad they're not dating or befriending Elmyra or Monty," Zack said. "That would've been much worse."
Then he stopped laughing and pulled himself together. "Right, positions. Daffy, you're the janitor and Buster and Plucky will be your assistants. Sylvester, Tweety, you're on guard duty. Melissa, you're helmsduck. Hamton, you're the chef. Babs, Shirley, you girls are in charge of the sails."
Everyone just looked at him like they weren't happy with their jobs.
"What? I'm the captain!" said Zack. "I've got the hardest job of them all. Now get to work."
"What about me… Captain?" asked Lola.
"And moi," Fifi joined in.
What jobs Lola and Fifi got you would have expected them to have the happiest job in the world for attractive females like them, but sadly they were bored. They were standing on the bow of the ship just looking pretty. They were acting as bait to trick enemies so Zack and the rest of the crew can take them by surprise if any came.
If that wasn't bad enough, everyone was having a hard time. Daffy, Plucky and Buster were aching with their mops and buckets, trying to keep everything clean. Babs and Shirley were struggling to keep in charge of the sails. Sylvester and Tweety were fed up being stuck together and seeing nothing out happening to sea.
As for Zack, he was his totally calm and cool mood. On the sunny days, he would do his routine inspection via skateboarding around Chip. On the rainy days, while the crew was wearing waterproof coats, Zack would wear swim shorts, black flippers and a diver's mask.
"This is my idea for preparing to get wet and I don't like walking around in wet clothes," he told them one rainy day.
One day, the day was calm with no wind.
"Like, what happened to 'days off'?" moaned Shirley, as she and Babs finished the sails.
Everyone was still working in the heat, but slowly. Lola and Fifi, still in their posing positions, were baking in the heat and sweating. The cleaners had ran out of water to clean the ship and Hamton couldn't make any food or drink cool.
"What's this, guys?" asked Zack, as he walked on deck. "I know how to keep us cool and move Chip."
Zack went behind Chip's face.
"What's he up to?" asked Chip.
"I don't know, but I thought we were wacky and insane," said Sylvester.
"You're right," said Daffy. "There's something wrong with him."
Then, above Chip'sface, appeared a giant fan above.
"Chip," said Daffy, walking to Chip. "How would you like to change your captain to someone who's… Um… Smart, strong, good-looking…"
"Too late anyway, Daffy," sighed Chip.
"No, it's not!" snapped Daffy.
The fan started.
"Yes, it is," argued Chip.
Then the sky was filled with spinning air and screaming by the toons, as the fan was spinning on the sails.
Chip was like the road runner on the sea now (or what he would call the "Sea Sailor").
"Whoo hoo!" cheered Zack as he walked out. "I fixed it on myself! What do you think?"
All he got was moaning and groaning sounds from the toons hanging over Chip's starboard side.
"Well, what needs to be done needs to be done," said Zack. "Besides, it runs on solar power. The wind comes out when the sun goes down."
He was right. The wind came up when the sun went down. The sails blew and Chip sailed smoothly.
The crew weren't seasick, but they finally had enough of being stuck on the ship.
"C-c-captain Z-z-zack," said Porky. "The crew w-wanna know what's t-t-taking so long."
Zack got out his phone and clicked on maps. "Look, here we are at the bottom of Argentina." Everyone gathered around and saw that they were. Zack pressed WEATHER and on the screen it looked like it was going to be a beautiful bright day. That made them think what could be wrong. He pressed TRAFFIC and saw there were no ships at all.
Get to the point! Babs shouted in her head.
She "got the point" when Zack pressed CGI Fleet and everywhere there was a CGI boat appeared on the world. It looked like their way to the British Isles was blocked off, but taking to the Pacific Ocean way was the only way to go to avoid Jack Epic's fleet, despite it meant taking the long way around.
"Does that make any sense to you?" asked Zack.
The toons nodded understandingly.
"Good! Now let's – "
Then a blue light shot pass Chip.
Zack checked his phone and his map showed no CGI ships.
Then another shot passed. The crew saw in the corner that there were some CGI ships about five miles away sailing towards them.
Zack thought it couldn't be true, but he knew he couldn't take any chances. He looked around and saw some dark dangerous rocks hiding behind fog. He could just see a road between them. "Melissa!" he cried to the helmsduck. "Head for those rocks!"
Everyone went 'WHAT?'
"Trust me!" Zack told them. "Those ships can't catch us through there and I know all the dangers that can happen! Now, let's move!"
Melissa did as she was told. Chip went into the valley of dark and foggy rocks.
No one noticed that those CGI ships further away vanished like ghosts.
About ten miles away, in the real CGI fleet, on their chief ship, Jim and John were sitting in the computer room and laughing their heads off!
"Those mirages were a very good idea!" laughed Jim.
"You see how clever I am now?" said John.
"It maybe have been your idea to use it this," said Jim, "but I invented this whole thing for something I like this before you mentioned it so therefore I'm smarter! And therefore I hardly need to remind me about the next step of the plan."
"You mean the CGI sirens?" John pointed out.
"See?" sighed Jim. "That's my point. I sent them out five minutes!"
While they were arguing, the Major was standing by them. A CGI soldier appeared.
"Permission to ask a really important question, sir," said the soldier.
"Fire away, Private," ordered the Major.
"When are those two ever gonna get along?" was the private's question.