Bucky O'Hare P.O.V.
Harley had introduced me more about his world on the planet Earth. He showed me a map of a country called The United States of America which I found out had an astounding fifty states. I learned about such U.S. States as: California, which according to Harley is the most popular state in America that had cities such as "Los Angeles" and "San Francisco". I also learned about a spectacular place called New York City. This New York City had five distinct burroughs in it along with several bridges. Harley showed me a picture of an island that had a statue of a green skinned woman wearing a crazy crown holding a torch called The Statue of Liberty. I was amazed at how large New York City was. Me and my crew would like to visit this New York City place some day.
Me and my crew were on the frigate The Iron Vulture, a space pirate ship that are the headquarters of the Corsair Canards, a group of four armed space pirate ducks that like to rob and pillage people. The Corsair Canards were notorious outlaws. I wanted the United Animal Federation to make an alliance with the Corsair Canards to aid in the fight against the Toad Empire. The United Animal Federation wants the Corsair Canards to sign a treaty in exchange for a pardon against their piracy ways, thereby allowing them to roam the Aniverse freely and not be wanted for their crimes.
Me and my crew were currently in disguise. This was set up as a trap to lure in Captain Lanelle and her pirate crew to us. I wss disguised as a female hare with a blonde wig and dress. When I first showed off my disguise to Harley and Emily, they started laughing at the sight of it. They were laughing hysterically. I admit the decision to disguise myself as a female was kind of funny. Jenny disguised herself as a veiled Aldebaran noblewoman, Dead-Eye was dressed up as an eldery man with a turban, beard and cane, Bruiser was disguised as a chair, we just threw a tarp over him to make the illusion that there was a chair, Harley disguised himself as somebody by the name of Charlie Chaplin and Emily was disguised as a girl named Barbie, which I found out was a girl's toy doll.
We waited for the Corsair Canards to arrive on the ship. The Corsair Canards soon arrived. There were three of them: two male, one female. The female four armed duck's name was Lanelle. Lanelle is a captain of her own group of pirates, which consisted of Redjack and another pirate duck. They owned a ship called The Iron Vulture. My friend Dead-Eye used to be with the Corsair Canards before he gave up the pirate's life to join my crew on the Righteous Indignation as our gunner.
A large circular hole was suddenly cut in the wall of the lounge area where we were at on the ship we were on: The Stellar Swan. Captain Lanelle and her pirate crew had arrived on the ship. It was time for our crew to enact our plan.
"Oh, please don't hurt us!" I said in a typical old lady-ish voice. Captain Lanelle paced toward me.
"Who do you think we are?! Toadies?! We're the Corsair Canards! We never hurt anyone who tried to hurt us first." Lanelle said to me.
"So relieve yourselves of all your valuables and money and we won't be having any trouble." one of the pirates said to us. Dead-Eye, who was dressed up as an old Arabian male. He was pretending to be deaf so that he could pretend he couldn't hear what the pirates were saying, even though he could hear what they were saying pretty well. I saw Harley in disguise as Charlie Chaplin walking behind one of the pirates and then go around them.
"Hey you there!" one of the pirates said to the disguised Harley. "You got anything valuables on you?" Harley remained silent. He was wearing a bowler hat with a stubble moustache on his face over a black pinstripe suit and pants. "Answer me!" Blackbeak said. I decided now would be the perfect opportunity for us to reveal ourselves to Captain Lanelle and her pirate crew. I took of my wig and wrap off of my body, revealing myself to the pirates.
"Sorry! You'll have to settle for this!" I said as I pointed my maser pistol at Lanelle's pistol, disarming her in the process. Deadeye then took off his disguise and subdued Blackbeak. The piano opened up to reveal Emily in her usual clothes. Harley tore off his Charlie Chaplin disguise. Jenny had pirates surrounding her. She rose graciously from her chair, which turned out to be Bruiser in disguise. Bruiser grabbed the two pirates by their ankles, hauled them up and shook them. They dropped all of thier weapons. Jenny used her head veil to quickly disarm a couple of guns from two pirates. Once the pirates were all disarmed, I took off the last part of my disguise while focusing my maser pistol on the Corsair Canards.
"Deadeye! Of all the traitorous, black-hearted, backstabbing scurvy tricks! Go on, arrest us, you'll never see a Corsair Canard beg for mercy." Lanelle said.
"You've got a tongue like a whip, lassie! I ain't no traitor to my 'n O'Hare has a message for ya." Deadeye said to Lanelle.
"This was the quickest way of finding you guys. We need you guys to stop robbing mammal spaceships and help us fight the toad menace." I said to Lanelle and her crew of pirates.
"Stop robbing? Never! We're pirates!" Lanelle said.
"Then go on being pirates, but only against the Toads!" I said.
"Toads ain't worth robbing." Lanelle said.
"Yeah, get serious matey. What's in it for us?" Blackbeak asked.
"It's about honor and pride. It's about the fact that you'd be helping the Aniverse by vanquishing the toads. One of these days, a fleet of toad soliders are going to do bad things to you guys. They're not gonna give a shit about what they'll do to you guys. Then in the aftermath, you guys will be thinking to yourselves: Man, maybe it wasn't such a good idea not to try and reach out for help defeating the toads when we should have.' You're gonna end up regretting not helping us fight the toads." Harley said to the pirate duck crew.
"Aye, and what else?" Lanelle asked.
"You help us fight the toads and I think I can convince the United Animal Coalition to forgive all pirates everywhere of thier past crimes. You'll be free to roam the galaxy." I offered the pirate crew. Lanelle seemed to think my plan over with her crew.
"Hmm. I dunno?" Lanelle said.
"Or we could just turn you guys over to the authorities right now!" Jenny said to the pirate crew.
"Give them a chance to think Bucky's offer over, Jenny." Harley said to Jenny.
"You keep out of this, Harley!" Jenny said to Harley. "The last thing we need is for the Corsair Canards to turn their back on helping us fighr rhe toads."
The Corsair Canards agreed to help us fight the toads. We went to the United Animals Coalition building in Genus. The usual chair members were there. There was Leonid Grebb (I'm not kidding, that's his actual name} a jackal and the chairman Eugenio Harman, a walrus at the council. They talking with each other. Me and Lanelle stood alone in front of the table.
"This is an outrage!" Grebb said.
"Grebb, please be so kind as to let Captain O'Hare have his say..." Harman said to Grebb.
"And you, Harman. Why'd you let this, this creature come bedore the council with her weapons? Are you all mad?!" Grebb said.
Lanelle went foward. "Ye flea bitten." she started to say before I cut her off.
"As I was saying, the Corsair Canards would be an invaluable allies against the ever-growing Toad menace." I said to the council.
"How dare you offer to forgive these criminals for anything, O'Hare!" Grebb yelled at me.
"Bucky O'Hare saved Genus. If Bucky thinks this treaty is a good idea then I say we vote yes!" Harman said. The council members talked amongst themselves for a moment.
"No-one can trust a bunch of lying pirates. I demand that we cancel the treaty the minute they return to their thieving ways!" Grebb proclaimed.
"Well... I suppose that's reasonable. Any objection?" Harman asked the council members. The council members were silent. "Then it's settled. Once Captain Lanelle approves of the treaty..."
"Oh but it is not me who'll be approving ghe treaty. All of the clans of the Corsair Canairds will have to meet together and vote." Lanelle said.
"I hereby declare a temporary truce until this matter is resolved." Harman said.
"You'll regret this! All of you! The pirates will never be able to live up to the truce, let alone a treaty!" Grebb argued. With the decision settled, me and my crew went back to the Righteous Indignation to head toward the planet Kanopis 3 to settle the treaty between the Corsair Canairds and the Toads.
Regular P.O.V.
ZZ Top blared through the headphones of Harley Keener's Sony Walkman as he entered the pirate hangout on the planet Rigel 7. It was a bar full or other Corsair Canairds. The pirate ducks were doing a variety of things in the bar, ranging from darts to juggling acts. Harley looked around in awe at the pirate bar. He approached the counter. He noticed a mug of a green drink with foam bubbles on it. Harley wondered what that drink was.
"Arr, Harley me boy. Come and share a mug of Old Swampgrass with me." Deadeye said to Harley.
"What's Swampgrass?" Harley asked Deadeye. A buffalo slid two mugs of Swampgrass toward Harley and Deadeye. Deadeye grabbed two glasses and handed one of the glasses to Harley.
"Bottom's Up!" the four armed pirate duck said before chugging down the glass of Swampgrass. Harley wasn't sure if he should drink the mug of Swampgrass. He'd never even heard of a drink called Swampgrass before. Harley decided to give drinking a mug of Swampgrass a shot. Maybe he'd like like it. Harley paused his music and picked up the mug of Swampgrass. He brought the cup to his mouth. He took a sip of it. He immediately spat the liquid out. It was the worst tasting thing Harley had ever tasted in his life. The taste was indescribable to Harley. It tasted so horrible that it made Harley wish he could scrape his tongue off.
"This drink tastes like ass! Holy shit! What the hell is this?" Harley said. Emily laughed at her brother's statement about how Swampgrass tasted.
"I'm going to go get myself a can of Diet Coke from my house to wash down the taste of ass I just ingested!" Harley said. He then exited the bar and proceeded to head back toward the Righteous indignation to activate the switch that opened the doorway to his house to get a can of Diet Coke from his refrigerator to wash down the horrid taste of Swampgrass he just drank. He found the Righteous Indignation and entered the main hatch. He then activated the photon accelerator on the ship to make his bedroom door appear.
He entered the door to his bedroom. Harley went downstairs to the kitchen. He opened the refrigerator door and grabbed a cold can of Diet Coke out of the fridge. He closed the refrigerator door, exited the kitchen, headed back upstairs to his bedroom, through the door of his closet, walked through the engineering bay of the Righteous Indignation, back through the streets of Rigel 7 toward the bar, back to where Bucky O'Hare and his crew was. He opened the can of Diet Coke and immediately drank it down. The refreshing cold taste of Diet Coke immediately washed away the taste of Swampgrass he drank.
Deadeye then gave Harley a tour of the bar. Several Corsair Canairds were participating in a wide range of activities like darts, juggling, sword fighting etc. Harley was amazed by this.
"You pirates sure do like playing games." Harley said in wonderment.
"They're more than just games, Harley. It be how we train our young ones to be skilled with our hands and eyes, to keep our reflexes sharp when we're in battle." Deadeye explained to the human boy. A small blue duckling wearing a diaper suddenly walked up toward Harley.
"You sure are a big ugly baboon... what kind of skills you got." the small duckling asked Harley.
"First of all, I'm what you call a human being. Second of all, I don't got that much skills. I can sing and dance." Harley said to the little duckling. He took his ZZ Top cassette tape out of his Walkman and dug through his bag to search for his Ween cassette tape of The Mollusk album. He took the cassette tape out of the case, put the tape into his Walkman and pushed play. He put his headphones over his ears. The opening notes of the song "The Blarney Stone" by Ween started to play. Harley started to lip-synch the lyrics to the song. He soon then began dancing all over the bar, impressing the group of pirate ducks. While Harley was showing off his dance moves, a duckling stepped on the foot activator of the knife throwing machine. The knife thrower shot a large butcher knife at the duckling. Harley immediately saw this happen.
Suddenly, everything seemed to go in slow-motion. Harley sprinted toward the duckling. He lurched forward. The knife collided with the back of Harley's neck as he jumped forward to push the baby duckling out of the trajectory of the airborne knife. Harley and the duckling went skidding to the ground. The knife stuck it self horizontally against the back of Harley's neck. The human boy tried to get up off the ground. Everyone in the bar was shocked. Harley then felt something poke against the back of his neck. He reached his neck and pulled the knife out from behind his neck. Blood squirted out of the back of his neck in an aterial spray. Harley felt extremely dizzy. He still had his headphones and his Walkman on him. He staggered the bar. The knife dropped from Harley's hand to the floor. Harley tried to walk forward while blood continued to squirt from the back of his neck. Everyone was in shock. Harley stumbled toward Bucky. He fell onto his knees. His vision started to dwindle rapidly before he fell face first at Bucky's feet. No one knew what to do with the bleeding injured human boy. Blood covered Harley's clothes. Emily went over to his brother's barely alive body.
"Does anyone know where the nearest hospital is?" Emily asked everyone in the bar, hoping that someone would be able to bring her brother to the nearest hospital.
"There's a hospital not too far from here. I can take him there." one of the Corsair Canairds said. Emily used napkins to stop the bleeding. Emily hoped to god that there would be a hospital in the vicinity that would take care of Harley. Bucky debated whether or not to postpone the treaty berween the Corsair Canairds and the Toads indefinitely until Harley was better again. Harley was carried away by several Corsair Canairds to be brought to a nearby hospital.