Pete Winning and the Pirates Page #4

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- Oh my God, boss.

Don't hit your friend!

- Hmm?

- Ow.

- Oh now, this is just unfair.

Really?

Huh?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, yeah?

Uh...

- Shall we?

- Well it is getting late.

Boss, wake up.

Let's get out of here!

You need to save us!

You sure you got the maps?

Well, if I didn't,

we would be up a creek.

- Um, wasn't there a boat here?

- Aw, my boat!

Well, some other guy's boat.

But.

- Well what now?

- We'll think of something.

Okay.

Get ready to run.

- What?

- Oh, One-Eyed Bill doesn't run.

- Well, run or swim, it's your choice.

There they go, the scum, let's get 'em!

Uh, coming?

- And they call me crazy?

- Oh, so you know Pete?

- I do.

We go back a long time,

Pete, Carmen and myself.

- And One-Eyed Bill?

- Bill.

Only by reputation.

You know, when we catch up

to him it won't be easy.

- Well, we're not exactly cupcakes.

I mean, how dangerous can he be?

He's only got one eye.

- Well, he's the best pirate on the seas,

and he's only got one eye.

- The next time I commandeer a ship,

it better have a water engine.

What the?

I know you.

- I know you, too.

Bet you wish you gave Sloth the food.

Food to Sloth.

- I do, but be that as it may,

I'm gonna need you to put the rock down.

- Got drop on Sloth again.

- Me keep doing that.

- Does it work?

- I don't know.

- Who wants some?

- I guess it does.

Hey, Jane, look what she got me!

I ain't useless no more.

- Bud, you were never useless before.

- Where'd you get it, Skyler?

- I know a guy.

After all, where do you think Pete

got his wrist laser from?

- I thought we were running.

- It's an island.

At some point, we're gonna have to fight.

Um, like now.

- Sure we're okay leavin'

the boat tied up back there?

- Do you hear that?

- Laser fire.

It's to the west of us.

- Who would be crazy enough

to attack the Crimsons?

- You think it's?

Winning!

- You know what's harder than

sneaking onto Crimson Island?

- Tell me.

- Stealing a Crimson boat.

- Uh, guys.

- Lasers down, both a' yas.

- Okay.

Okay.

Get your hands up!

Yeah!

- You okay?

- Don't get goin' all warm

and fuzzy on me, Grace.

- Um, if, if you guys don't mind,

we got, you know.

- Take me to your leader.

- Sloth am leader.

- Well then, take me to the rest of you.

- Eva?

I never thought I'd see your

pretty little face again.

- Remy.

You look...

- Oh, you know, like mutant,

dead fish meat, I know.

Where's Pete?

- I don't know.

- So it's just you and us then?

Well I suppose you better

make yourself cozy,

'cause guess what?

- What?

- I learned somethin' about those maps.

And you ain't gonna like it.

- Oh, wow.

YOu okay?

- Yeah, well that depends

on how you feel about scars.

- Come on, you can have

your honeymoon later.

It's time to save our butts.

- Are we surrounded?

- Yeah, I think we might be fish sticks.

- Are you gonna think of something?

- It's Pete!

- Shh, hold it, big guy.

- Okay, so explain this to me again,

because this is a lot.

- I don't know how else to put it, babe.

Those maps are useless.

The only radiation hotspots

we need to watch out for

are the ones the queen

decides should exist.

- So she's poisoning everyone.

- Well, poisoning makes turning

them ugly sound nicer, sure.

- Now Sloth and the group have been

trying to figure it out on their own,

but it's not like we're

gettin' smarter every day.

We've got even bigger problems now, kid.

- So what's the point of it all?

The maps, the bounty?

- The maps might be useless to us,

but not to the queen.

I mean, though radiation

zones are probably

smaller than we thought,

but if everyone's afraid of mutation.

- They'll pay through the nose.

- And.

- They're the perfect bait

for anyone who challenges

the queen's authority.

- No matter what your strategy,

you gotta take a few pawns off the table.

Hey, where you runnin' off to.

- To the queen's island.

And you're coming with me.

- Oh, no I'm not.

- Remy.

There are times in life where you either

stand up for something important,

or you fall to the wasteland anyway.

Now is one of those times.

- Aw, what the hell.

- You son of a gun!

You three sons of a gun.

- Petey!

- Finch, your hand is--

- Yeah!

It's a bloody laser cannon!

- Pete.

- Who's that?

- Oh, she's just a friend.

She helped us find you all.

- Jane.

- Grace.

- Bill.

- Finch, they call me Finch.

- Hey.

And you are?

- Thank you, miss.

Hello, Your Majesty.

- Majesty?

- You know, I never really

cared for these laser things.

One-Eyed Bill.

- Queen, I presume?

You always were a sea serpent to me.

- Half your sight and half your manners.

I like you.

And Grace.

So that's where you've run off to.

Load Winning, Bill, and my

frustrating little sister

onto the boat.

- Bloody stupid.

The queen.

How could we not have known?

- We have to find Pete before they leave,

and we have to get out of here.

- Well all right then, let's

get those guards in here.

- Shh.

Funny, let's think.

- Listen, those goons ain't

as smart as old Finchey here.

Look, all they did was cut the wire

to detach my musculature

to the firing mechanism.

We just need to make

a bridge or somethin'.

What?

- You said musculature.

Correctly.

Oh help me, help me, please!

Someone get this lug off of me!

Let's go.

- That was great.

I thought it was gonna be

a lot harder than this.

Oh look, a hat.

Finch, come on!

- Are you okay?

- I've been better.

- You wouldn't have let

me come along if you knew.

- This would have been a whole lot easier

if you just left me

drowning on that beach.

- Just because she's

my sister doesn't' mean

that we're the same.

She's a tyrant and this country

has been under her boot long enough.

- I love it.

And I agree.

Well except for the last part.

I think it could stand to be under my boot

for a little bit longer.

You know, sis,

it's clear what you see in him.

Strong,

tough,

rugged.

And I'm sure he's the same way in...

Well, I'll let you know.

- What do you want with me?

- Oh, come now, Pete Winning.

Your value is impossible to measure.

The pirate of the people.

- I'm sorry?

- Oh yes.

Or maybe you've been too busy

running around making

life harder for me, huh?

Everyone knows who you are.

The fools who don't love

me see you as a hero.

So of course,

we have to end that.

- That so?

Tell me.

What have you got in mind?

- Oh Pete.

You haven't changed a bit.

Still want to read the last

page of the novel, don't you?

Well, Pete.

Got to wait and see.

Got to wait and see.

- Bill?

- Oh.

I've got bigger plans for him.

- Think we just need to

do this hard and fast.

Be through before they know what hit them.

- Sounds like a Winning plan.

Pete really rubbed off on you, eh?

- But there's a lot of men.

- That's the way things

are going anyway, isn't it?

I'd rather have a fighting chance.

But if you wanna back down, I understand.

- I did that once.

Not again.

- You know, you're a lot

worse than people say.

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