The fighting was still going on as their conversation ended. Barbossa climbed onto the table and shot off a round into the air to quiet them down. "It was the first court that imprisoned Calypso, We should be the ones to set her free." He said as a few men were dragging another off the table. "In her gratitude, she will see fit see give us boons." He said as he briefly glanced at Tia for confirmation and she nodded slightly in return.

"Who's Boons, your Boons?" Jack asked as he looked up at Barbossa who just glared at him. Faye and Carmella tried to hide a chuckle but got some glares from other people and they stopped.

"Utter deceptive twaddle speak says I," Jack continued.

"If you have a better alternative, please share," Barbossa said mockingly and in a dramatic way.

"Cuttlefish," Jack said simply. Barbossa just did a double take before looking at him and the girls couldn't hide a smile as they heard that. "Ay," He said as he motioned the men around him to part as he continued to move around the table. "Let us not, dear friends, forget our dear friends the Cuttlefish," He said as he looked at a Chinese man. "Flipping little sausages." Pintel and Ragetti just looked at him as if he was insane. "Pen them up together and they will devour each other without a single thought."

The men around him just shook their heads. "Human nature or fish nature," Jack said before placing his hands on the Chinese Lord's shoulder as her guards put their hands on their weapons. "So yes, we could hold up here, well provisioned and about half of us would be dead in about a month."

"For what we saw before, I agree with him," Carmella said before quieting back down again and letting her uncle talk.

Jack then took off his hands before talking to the guard once again, "Which seems quite grim anyway you slice it." He then held up a finger, "Or...uh," He said as he moved again but was stared down by a much taller fella. "As my, colleague so naively suggested, we can release Calypso," He said as he continued to meander around the table. "And to rely solely on her power, I doubt that would work." He said to a rather portly and small fellow. "Can we, in fact, pretend she's a woman scorned, with fury hell hath now, we can not." He then turned to look in the general direction of Tia, "No offense meant."

Tia gave a very small shrug, to not make people suspicious. "So we are left with one option," Jack said as he finally came to the other side of the table. "Yes we will free Calypso, but I agree with and I cannot believe the words are coming out of my mouth…."He hesitates before saying, "Captain Swann….we must fight."

Barbossa agreed with the plan but wondered why Jack was going with the plan so he said, " You've always ran away from a fight. "

"Have not, " Jack said.

"Have so!"

"Have not!"

"Have so!"

"We get it already! So we have an idea on what we're doing but what is the actual plan!" Faye said.

Jack just pushes his niece's opinion to the side for a moment as he tried to finish his argument with Barbossa.

"Don't even think about it Jack," Carmella said as she and Faye finally came up to that side of the table. Su and Mei followed behind. "I know you like to argue with Barbossa but now is not the time."

"We have more important things to do," Faye said after.

"Fine," Jack huffed. "I have only ever embraced that oldest and noblest of pirate traditions. I submit that here now, this is what we all must do. We must fight…...to run away." After their uncle's speech, the looked at him highly amused.

"Aye!" Gibbs said in agreement with his hand in a fist. Then the other pirates expressed their agreements with a loud and uproarious aye.

Barbossa then said, "As per the code, an act of war and this be that, can only be declared by the Pirate King."

"You made that up!" Jack accused him.

"Did I now?" Barbossa said before declaring, "I call upon Captain Teague. Keeper of the Code."

Jack's face and whole demeanor seemed to fall. "Are you ok Uncle Jack?" Carmella asked and he only gave a short shake of his head.

"Sri Sumbhajee, proclaims this all to be funny. Hang the code-" the guy who was translating for the Indian lord got shot and fell backward dead.

Carmella and Faye were staring at the whole scene. "Well...that just happened," Carmella said and Faye sighed.

Everybody except for Jack turned and looked at who shot him. The tall man in all-out garb and who looked a lot like Jack came down from his perch and towards the table as he blown his gun smoke away. "The Code is the law," The room went quiet as they all sat down, except for Jack, Barbossa, Gibbs, Swann, and the girls. The man then went to jack, "You're in my way boy." Jack then moved away as he grabbed the girls and brought them to his side and away from the man. After they moved, his hands were still on their shoulders.

Captain Teague motioned men to come forward with a giant book. Pintel and Ragetti watched with their mouths open. "The code, "Pintel said in awe.

"As set forth by Morgan and Bartholomew," Ragetti said. As the men turned the book around so Teague could read it. Captain Teague then whistled for a dog and it came scampering up with keys in its mouth. He stood on his hind legs and gave the keys to his master.

Ragetti then pointed to the dog as the two looked on in confusion, "how did he-"

Teague then looked at the two, "Sea Turtles mate,"

Carmella then leaned over and whispered, "What is with this family and sea turtles?"

Teague then looked over at the two and the girls and wondered the connection between them and Jack, but he stayed quiet. The dog then barked before leaving and Teague opened the lock to the bok. He slowly opened it and looked through the pages until he found the right paragraph. "Barbossa is right," Barbossa then acknowledged and quietly thanked him with a bow.

Jack then leaned over and looked at the book, the girls caught a sneak peak as well as they were still in his arms. He then mumbles what he was reading and then said, "Fancy that."

"There has not been a king since the first court," Said the French Lord. "That's not likely to change."

"Not likely," Teague said as he walked away from the table.

"Why not?" Asked Swann.

Gibbs then leaned over and said, "You see, the Pirate King is elected by popular vote."

"And each pirate only ever votes for himself," Barbossa explains. While Teague picks up his guitar and sat down in the backroom and began to play.

"I call for a vote!" Jack said.

Then the whole place started to uproar again as Teague played. Captain Ammand then stood up and said, "I vote for Ammand! The Corsair."

The French lord stood up and proclaimed, "Capitaine Chevalle! The Pirate Frenchman,"

"Sri Sumbhajee votes for Sri Sumbhajee," Said the man on the left of the Indian man who's guard had recently passed.

"Mistress Ching," Said the lady.

"Gentleman Jocard," Said another.

"Elizabeth Swann,"

"Barbossa,"

"Vallenueva!"

"Elizabeth Swann," Said Jack and everyone in the room turned to look at him.

"What?" Elizabeth said in shock as Barbossa just stared at him in surprise.

"Curious isn't it?" Jack asked with a small smirk.

Then the whole room went into chaos. All the lords were wondering why Jack didn't vote for them.

"Am I to understand that you all won't be keeping to the code then?" He asked.

Teague stopped as one string broke and he looked up and glared at the table. Once everyone saw the glare they all quieted down and sat back down, except for Mistress Ching. "Very well, what say you Captain Swann, King of the Brethren Court."

"Prepare every vessel that floats, at dawn we're at war," She said simply as Jack gave a nod.

Sri Sumbhajee finally stands up for himself, "And so we shall go to war." Jack looked over in a shocked look at the shrill voice of the bearded man.

"What the bloody hell…" Carmella mutters to herself as Faye gently shoved her elbow at her to quiet her.

Everyone started to cheer as Barbossa gave a nod to Ragetti and Pintel to hide the pieces of eight. Jack then turned around with the girls as everyone started to file out of the room. The only ones left in the room was Jack, Carmella, Faye, and Teague. Jack looked at his father and gave a small shrug, "What? You seen it all, done it all. You survived that's the trick, isn't it? To survive?"

"It's not just about living forever Jackie," Teague said as he puts down his guitar and stands up. "The trick is living with yourself forever."

"How's mom?" He asked

Teague lifts up a shrunken head.

Jack looks at the head and said, 'She looks great,"

Teague then puts down his wife's shrunken head and turned to the girls beside Jack. "So who are these, Jackie?" He asked.

"I am Faye," The oldest said as she nodded her head to him in respect.

"I'm Carmella," said the youngest.

"They are my Godchildren, making them your God Grandchildren," Jack said simply.

"Who's their parents?" He asked.

"Davy Jones and Calypso," Jack explained.

Faye quickly added, "By blood adoption," She said that once she saw the look on Teague's face.

"The things you get into Jackie," Teague said as he shook his head.

"Jackie? Maybe I should start calling you Uncle Jackie," Carmella gave a smirk.

Teague just gave a small smirk before turning away and saying, "I think I'm going to like these two." He then started to walk away, as Jack just shook his head before taking the girls back to their mother.