As the man turned around, everyone except Elizabeth bowed before him. Barbossa quickly saw Elizabeth and motions her to do the same thing, out of respect for the man.
When Elizabeth finally bowed the chinese man spoke up. "Captain Barbossa…." He then lifted his head in subtle pride. "...Welcome to Singapore." When he was spoken to, Barbossa stood up and Elizabeth followed his suit along with the girls.
The man picked up and sniffed a red cloth before turning to one of his twin bodyguards. "More steam,' He said as the young girl pulled a lever to flips a panel to show what they want. A guy underneath the floor yelled something before pulling a lever and steam rose up. Not too far away Ragetti signalled the others that the coast was cleared. As they looked around a very, very, big man walked across the room. His belly bounced every single step. Ragetti saw the man and tried to hightail it out of there but before he got too far, Gibbs grabbed him by the arm and muttered.
"None of that. If things don't go the way we want, we're the only chance they got." He then pushed him back forward.
The large man that had just walked by had grabbed a shovel and shoveled coal before throwing them into the fire.
Meanwhile, above them, the man continued. "I understand that you have a request." He said as he began to walk towards Barbossa and Elizabeth. The girls were watching warily.
"More of a proposal to put to ye," He replied as they were now face to face. "I have a venture on the way, I find myself in need of ship and a crew. Elizabeth tilted her head from behind him.
The man then scratched his head, his long nails gently scraping his bald scalp. The red cloth was now tied to his pinky finger. "It is an odd coincidence," He said in thought.
"Because you happen to have a ship and a crew that you don't need," Piped up Elizabeth as Barbossa looked at her in an annoyed way.
"No," The Singaporean male said in a mock confusement as he now fidgeted with his ear. "Because earlier this day,not far from here a thief broke into my most revered uncle's temple." He said as he moved towards a man holding some charts. "And tried to make off with these," He then grabbed a chart from the man. Barbossa and Elizabeth looked at each other in silent conversation.
Behind the two, Faye and Carmella were barely talking to each other. "This is not good,' Carmella whispered to her sister under her breath.
"I know," Faye muttered in reply.
"The navigational charts," Shao Fang said as he moved closer. "The the ." He holds the chart up to show them before throwing it Tai Huang, his second in command. Elizabeth watched their every movement. He came ever so slightly. "Wouldn't it be amazing, if this venture of yours took you to the worlds beyond this one," He said as he motioned his hand in an airy way.
"It would be a strange incredulity at that," Barbossa said as he tried to talk innocently to the man who was now a few feet away from him. Elizabeth behind him just looked at him in a very straight face with angry looking eyes. She had been looking at him like that since he showed up again.
The man just gave a smug face before backing up and it slowly turned to his left and motioned to the man around the tubs.
The men quickly raised a bar that held Will. He was tied up to it and soaked as he gasped for breath. Both Faye and Carmella looked at Will in worry. Barbossa backed up a bit as Elizabeth tried to keep her shock and worry in check, but was failing.
Shao Fang then walked up to Will as he pointed to his face. "This..is the the thief. Is his face familiar to you?" Elizabeth started to shake her head as Barbossa calmly and slowly shook his head though his eyes lingered to Elizabeth.
He took out a pike from his side and quirked his eyebrow up a bit before saying," Then I guess, he has no further need for it." He then moved to harm him. Elizabeth then broke her silence with a startled yelp.
Her hands going to her mouth as she yelped. "Will." Barbossa looked displeased as he looked forward.
Shao slowly then turned to the small group once more. He puts the pike back into his belt before walking towards them once more. "You come into my city and you betray my hospitality." He came closer and closer until Barbossa spoke up again.
"Shao Fang I assure you that I had no idea that he-" He was cut off as Shao Fang pushed himself forward in an angered motion.
"THAT HE WOULD GET CAUGHT!" He screamed as his face was only inches away from Barbossa . As Shao was screaming, all the men that were around them started to move in close. "You intend to attempt a voyage to Davy Jones locker…." At this point Barbossa raised an arm to hold back Elizabeth from doing anything stupid…..again. "But I can not help but wonder!" Shao said as he raised an arm in anger. He then turns around,"...why."
Barbossa then flips a piece of eight to Shao and he catches it in mid then blows on it before raising it to his ear. As Shao listened to the soft ringing in his ear Barbossa started to speak. "The song has been sung."
Carmella then stepped forward, finally being seen by those around her. "It's true, we were there when it happened." She then gestures her sister as Faye stepped up to follow suit.
"Aye!" Faye exclaimed.
Barbossa then stepped forward as he puts his hands on the girl's shoulders and gently pushes them backwards a little. "The time is upon us. We must convene the Brethren Court. As one of the nine pirate lords you must honor the call." Shao then closes his fist around the piece of eight.
Shao gave a distasteful look as he muttered, "More steam." The thing was pulled and below them Cotton was at that station unable to tell which one to pull. Ragetti was pointing things as the others got into position.
Seeing no steam, Shao got frustrated and yelled at one of the twin bodyguards. "MORE STEAM!" The girl flinched and continued to pull the lever.
It was only then that Cotton figured out the right lever as the big man that was on the ground started to stir. Marty who was sitting on his chest hit him over the head with a shovel and promptly knocked him out once more before getting off of him.
Shao then started to walk around. "There is a price on all of our heads. It is true, and since the only way a pirate can turn a profit is by betraying other pirates." Shao was now looking towards Will.
Underneath them once more, the men were gathering their weapons as Gibbs stated, "Wait for the signal!" They were listening to the conversation above, mostly Barbossa. Ragetti was looking up through a crack and up Elizabeth's shirt.
"What value is the Brethren Court?" Shao was saying to them as he motioned his arm to the group before him. "What can any of us do?"
Elizabeth who was finally fed up with all of Shao's talking barged forward with her face contorted in anger. "You can fight!" Behind her the big bald man was trying to grab her to make her still. He had grabbed her arm and she whipped her head to him. "Get off me!" She then turned her head back to Shao as she pulled her arm away. "You are Shao Fang, the Pirate Lord of Singapore! " She continued talking as Ragetti tried to get Pintel to look up Elizabeth's shirt, but did not know that she had moved and when Pintel looked up, all he saw was fat man blubber. He made a face of disgust as he looked at Ragetti as if he was insane.
"Would you have that era come to an end on your watch?" Elizabeth continued as Barbossa looked in silence. "The most notorious pirates from around the world are uniting against our enemy and yet you sit here cowering in your bath water."
Carmella mutters under her breath. "She's done it now." Faye didn't say anything as Shao just his raised his head in interest.
He then started to approach her, "Elizabeth Swann, there is more to you than meets the eyes of men and eye does not go unwanting." Shao was now circling Elizabeth as he was whispering into her ear. It made her shiver a bit and from a distance away, Will was looking at them in confusion. His brows furrowed.
"But I can not help but notice," He said as he moved away and towards his girls and pointed to Barbossa, "..You have failed to answer my question. What is it you seek in Davy Jones locker?"
"Jack Sparrow," Will suddenly spoke up.
The girls behind Shao started to giggle and put their hands over their mouths to stifle their laughter. Shao looked over to them and they went back to silence.
"He is one of the Pirate Lords," Will continued.
Shao then puts his hand on his head and begins to walk away. "The only reason I would want Jack Sparrow returned from the land of the dead is so I can send him back MYSELF!" He yelled as he kicked a bucket over.
"You will kick Jack over my dead body!" Carmella piped up in anger.
Shao then looked over to the girl and raised a brow. "Why. Why would you do this?"
"Because he is my Godfather, well technically ours.," She said and motioned to Faye behind her who was shaking her head in annoyance.
Shao was very curious. "Who are you two. Why, what is your connection to all of this," He said as he motioned around him.
"My name is Carmella de Mare,"
"And I am Faye de Mare," Faye said as she stepped forward and stood side by side with Carmella, she was a few inches taller than her sister.
The Singapore Pirate Lord recognized the eyes colors of the two girls and his own narrowed in suspicion.
Barbossa then comes forwards and pushes the girls back, trying to divert Shao's attention away from them. He then got close to Shao's face, blocking his view entirely. "Jack Sparrow holds one of the nine pieces of eight." He said and muttered, "He failed to pass it along to a successor before he died." Both the girls gave a sad look at the mention. Shao just continued to look displeased as he made his eyes go to a man off to the side. "And so we must go and get it back."
The man who was to the side, had a very, very runny tattoo. Proving its falseness to the Pirate Lord. His eyebrows twitched in anger. "So…" Shao began, "You have deceived me! WEAPONS!" Then all of his men grabbed weapons.
Gibbs heard the word weapons and he repeated the words to the men. "Weapons!" The men then drew them and got them into position.
Barbossa then looked at Shao Fang pretending to diffuse the situation that they had gotten into . "Shao Fang." He said as his arms were widespread. "I assure you, our intentions are strictly honourable!"
With that being said the men below pushed the weapons up through the cracks and into the eight hands. Two per pirate. They were all in a standstill.
Shao then turned and grabbed the man with the runny tattoo as he put his sword to his neck. "Drop your weapons, or I kill the man!" The man beside him squished his face in fright.
Barbossa then looked over to Will and then back to Shao. "Kill him, he is not our man."
Shao then looked at the man in confusion before Will spoke up. "If he is not with you, and not with us, who's he with?"
The EIC burst in through the doors with guns drawn and the fighting commenced. Barbossa tried to back the girls away from the fighting. Guns were fired and men were dying. More members of EIC burst in through the door behind Shao Fang. Barbossa started firing at men while Will hits the people nearby with the pole attached to his wrists. Elizabeth was fighting sword to sword with many men. Carmella and Faye stood closer to the twin bodyguards. Will got loose from the pole and continued fighting. Elizabeth passed Will a sword as she yelled. "Will!"
The two female bodyguards pushed away from the wall and started to fight back, Faye and Carmella were defending themselves from any foes that come too close. Mercer walks in and points the gun. Will sees it and pushes Elizabeth out of the way and leaving the path open to the twins. Carmella sees Mercer and shouts to Faye. "Faye!" Hearing her sister's call, she used the wind to push the twin girl's out of the path. As the gun went off Carmella raised her hands as the bath water came towards her before rising up and blocking the bullets. It pushed the bullet up through the ceiling.
The body guards saw it from where they were lying with wide eyes. Mercer saw what happened and recognizes that these two young girls are the ones that Beckett wants. Though as he tried to advance on them, they disappeared into the crowd with the twin girls.
Marty lights a bomb from underneath the floor and runs to safety. Shao, Barbossa, Elizabeth, and Will were standing in front of the firing squad. The bombs went off right when the head man yelled fire. Faye, Carmella and the two girls that they soon knew as Mei and Su were watching safely from the side.
Shao yelled something as they ran as they continued to fight. Will escaped with Elizabeth while Shao had grabbed the charts back and was heading outside. The others who were below them were now coming up to join the fight. Gibbs started to fire his pistols, Ragetti followed in suit with his own two pistols. As everyone got out Marty was the last to get out and he fired his large gun which propelled back down the hole. The fighting then broke out into the streets.
Another firing squad came into position and started to fire killing a few people. Behind a wall, Tia's hat appeared. All the animals were set free from her cart as the song slowly started to end. Right as the firing squad was about to shoot again, the bomb exploded killing them.
As Carmella and Faye were being led away with the two Singaporean girls. They saw the firing squad getting blown up. Carmella couldn't help but pipe in. "These guys have no luck at all, do they?"
Faye shook her head," Not at all!" They couldn't stop laughing before being pulled away and out of sight once more. Tia had smiled as she watched how her bomb went off before lowering into obscurity. While the girls were away, Mercer were trying to hunt them down, when he came across Shao and Will.
Shao had pushed Will to the wall and muttered,"I can't help but wonder why East Indian Trading Company finds me the day you show up in Singapore."
As Will had a knife to his neck he raised it a bit as he said, "It is a coincidence however." He huffed out. As he was about to get his neck slashed, he met Shao's blade with his own. Mercer however was raising a gun to them from the shadows.
"If you want to make a deal with Beckett, you need what I offer." Will said to Shao. Mercer was intrigued as he listened.
"You crossed Barbossa, you are willing to cross Jack Sparrow, why should I expect any better?" Shao mutters to him.
"I need the Black Pearl to free my father," Will answers him with a mutter of his own. He then spun his dagger downwards to show him. He then came a little closer. "You need me to get it."
Jack the monkey had grabbed a firework and took it over to Cotton's parrot at the side of the bridge and aimed it at the building that housed the other fireworks. Cotton's parrot said uh oh, before Jack the Monkey lights the firework with a candle. The parrot then squawked: Fire in the Hole! The firework shoot off went between Barbossa and another man as it made it's mark and created a light show. Barbossa stabbed a guy in the process.
Barbossa then turned to Jack. "Thank you Jack!" The monkey then chatters as the parrot repeated Barbossa's words.
As the others had parted ways, Carmella and Faye were being brought to Shao by Mei and Su. When they got there, the twins started to talk to him in their language. Shao then turns to the two girls.
"They want to repay their debt to you two for saving their lives. They will go with you from now on and protect your lives and be your bodyguards. They are Mei and Su," Shao said as he turned to Mei and Su. "Take good care of them." With that two girls bowed in respect before starting to urge the two away.
"Ok, well...nice to meet you?" Carmella said a bit awkwardly as they were being pushed away from Shao, towards their group. Faye nodded in the same response. Mei and Su just gave a small smile and a nod to their new charges.
Will came with Shao's second in command and the charts were in his left hand.
Barbossa looked at Will. "You have the charts?"
"And better yet," Will said as he threw the charts at Barbossa. "A ship and a crew."
"Where's Shao Fang?" Elizabeth asked.
"He'll cover our escape and meet us at Shipwreck Cove," Will answered.
At the moment Faye, Carmella, Mei and Su came into view and was heading towards them.
"Girls! You're safe!" Tia said as she headed over to the girls and hugs them both.
"Who are they?" Barbossa asked as he looked at Mei and Su.
"Our new bodyguards, Mei and Su, saved their lives and now they want to repay their debt by keeping us safe," Faye said quick and bluntly.
"Will," Bill said as he stepped out form the shadows.
Will looked at his father in confusion. Though before he can say anything, Carmella piped in. "We'll explain everything on the boat. Now let's get moving!"
Tai Huang nodded and motioned. "This way," Before they moved Elizabeth gave Will a look before following them.