Pete Winning and the Pirates Page #2

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Stay.

Tell the queen you let me get away.

- Well--

- Or you can shoot me

like you're supposed to.

- Dammit.

Are you sure that water pump is workin'?

- Now's our chance.

Let's get that map.

- When do we get this over with?

- Hey, what's the rush?

If that's Pete Winning,

we're gonna have to do a Carmen.

We want this to go as

easy as a coal hitch.

- Quit your complainin'.

I've heard rumor that she's got

one of the queen's maps.

- Aye, but you can't believe

everything you hear, Captain.

- Perhaps.

But I can believe how

many of these we've got.

- Fuel's getting low.

- Yeah.

I'm beginning to forget

what shore looks like.

I'm getting hungry.

- Thank you.

- Why don't you take a rest?

- You really should talk to the queen

about one of her engines.

Look, there's an island

upwind where we can refuel.

- Get down!

- Finch, into the cabin!

I'm movin'!

- I'm tired of people

taking potshots at my boat.

Jesus.

Come on.

Oh, you're kidding.

- Huh.

- This is quite the amusing scenario.

- It's usually customary to ask for

permission to come aboard.

- We all like the bounty from the queen,

and the respect of the Crimsons.

Everybody knows Carmen

has one of the maps.

- You know where they are?

- What's it to you?

Everybody knows who has the maps,

it's a matter of finding where.

Where is Carmen, by the way?

- Who has the map of the east?

- Well, that would be One-Eyed Bill,

in three days tops.

- This wannabe-Crimson is still alive.

- You'll let me go?

- 'Course we will.

But don't think you'll be

keeping any of your lasers.

- One-Eyed Bill has the other map.

He was last seen headin'

straight for the queen's palace.

Three days.

And if you get movin', you

could probably intercept them.

He's just one man, clever as all hell,

but just one man.

- One man?

I can respect that.

But a man who doesn't need a

crew is a man I'd worry about.

- Anything else you'll be wanting?

- Well sure, we'll take your fuel.

- Ha!

I could smell that exhaust

from a kilometer away.

We don't use that stuff.

Our engines run on water.

- Run on water?

- Got it.

- What am I?

An ugly?

We don't touch that oil garbage.

It's what got us into this

mess in the first place!

Captain!

How do I get that bilge pump workin'?

- You don't.

We're out of fuel.

What now, Captain?

- Hoist the sail, we'll have

to tack our way to shore.

- You mean the sail I

was using as my shield?

- That looks like a fishnet now.

- Yeah, that sail.

- Isn't this the part where you say

you'll think of something?

- How's your backstroke?

- Uh, Pete.

- We're gonna need a bigger boat.

- Don't worry, it's just one shark.

- Uh, boss, boss!

- There's another one over here too, guys.

- Well, this is not ideal.

What?

Who the?

- The name's Grace, and you are?

You better tell me your name,

or I'll just write Drenched

Sea Rat on your tombstone.

- Well I suppose you could call me.

So where are we, exactly?

- You're in the town of Ilie.

A haven for the roughnecks

and the vagabonds.

And since you look more like a character

from Oliver Twist than a

daring rider of the waves,

I figure it suited us.

I'd let that dry off if I were you.

You know, before you blow your arm off.

Where are the others?

- You're the only refugee I

found on this godforsaken beach.

- Crew.

I--

- Don't.

We don't have the luxury

to feel sorry for ourselves

here, Mr. Winning.

You have to look out for yourself.

- Why'd you save my life?

- Don't get all warm and

fuzzy on me now, Pete.

Luck is all that brought us together.

I didn't want it.

It clashes.

- There are--

- Civilization, good sir.

I need a drink, and you need a towel.

- Snap out of it.

I need help tying this off.

He's gonna be all right.

- Saved me.

- That's what we do, dear.

We're a crew.

Now it's your turn to help.

- Now what?

- We wait.

- For?

- I'm not a doctor.

We need to find a way to boil some water.

He needs to re-hydrate.

- Any chance you can boil

me a steak with that?

Oh there, there, lass.

You're not gettin' rid of me that easy.

- I'll have a nice glass of red wine,

and my friend over here

will have a claw-decks rum.

- So what are we doing here?

- We're looking for One-Eyed Bill.

And someone in here is

bound to know who he is.

So we ask.

Remember the water?

- Yeah, it's dry enough.

Where are the maps?

- Maps?

- I think he means the maps.

Really, mate?

You lost your boat.

You lost your crew.

And now you've lost

your all-important maps.

What next, huh?

Your manhood?

Your marbles?

- Outside, now.

- That fish was a big'un, you know?

And sure he took me hand, but I took

a bunch of the beast's teeth.

I think I'm gonna make a

bracelet out of it or something,

I don't know what.

But I'll tell you, it was a rush.

- I can't thank you enough.

- Ah, it was nothing, darlin'.

Like I said, I'm just

glad I was there for you.

But those sharks, I tell you.

Overrated.

They should have sent

five or six after me.

That might have been a fair fight.

Hey wait a minute, where the Charmer?

And the Captain?

- We don't know.

- It's all right, Evie.

His name's Winning, not Bait.

We'll find him.

Over there!

- We've got a bigger problem than that.

But I think that's where you two come in.

- Start talkin', dearie.

- Where are the maps?

- I told you, I don't have them.

- What about you?

I was knocked out for quite a while.

- You're outta sorts.

Is this the way it was

when you lost Carmen?

- We got her, mates, we got her.

- But she ain't got no coin.

- Is that so?

- Tie her up.

- We'll take it from here.

- What's that now?

- That wasn't part of the plan, was it?

- No, stumpy, it wasn't.

- Down, Pete, we don't have the luxury

to carry grudges out here.

- Carmen did all the

heavy lifting, didn't she?

Must be nice to get to live off her sweat.

I may not be perfect,

mate, but I am who I am.

And you're Pete Winning.

But what does that even mean?

Did that your crew could

have meant something, mate.

But you'd rather wallow.

Makes me think we should

call you Pete Losing.

- You might wanna stop it.

What is that you're even after?

Hmm?

- One-Eyed Bill.

- Oh, a couple a sailors

searchin' the land.

They seek far and wide

for this great pirate man,

One-Eyed Bill, they seek, never to pray,

but it looks like their quarry

has the advantage this day.

Heh.

You come be searchin' for

One-Eyed Bill, I take it?

Looks like you found him.

Best be puttin' your laser on deck.

- So what now?

- I'll think of something.

- Hmm.

- Hmm, well that's what I like to hear.

Petey Winning.

- It's Pete.

- Oh, I think Petey'll do for now.

Don't you, Petey?

So you lost your coveted maps.

Looks like we're gonna

have to go and find them.

- We can trust you?

- We?

- Yeah.

- Right.

How do we know we can trust you?

- Seems like you're out of options, Petey.

That Stubin character you found

yourself in fisticuffs with,

he is slippery as an eel.

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