Chapter 23: Under New Management

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Sao Feng: But I can't help but notice you have failed to answer my question. What is it you seek in Davy Jones' Locker?

Will: Jack Sparrow.

Sao Feng freezes, and the room goes dead still, too.

Will: He's one of the pirate lords.

Park, one of the twins, giggles at the name, but stops smiling when Sao Feng glares at her. Lian hides her own smile, and Sao Feng works to hide his rage.

Sao Feng: The only reason I would want Jack Sparrow returned from the realm of the dead is so I can send him back myself.

Barbossa: Exactly why we preferred his name go unmentioned...should've mentioned the boy instead, as he is needed back as well.

Sao Feng: So you admit you have deceived me.

Barbossa: Jack Sparrow holds one of the Nine Pieces of Eight! He failed to pass it along to a successor before he died. And so we must go and fetch him back.

Sao Feng catches Huang's eye, and directs him toward Steng.

Sao Feng: WEAPONS!

Sao Feng's men and women produce weapons from beneath the water in the tubs. Gibbs and the others exchange a glance as they realise it's gone bad above them.

Barbossa and Elizabeth are suddenly at the center of a ring of weapons pointed at them.

Barbossa: I assure you our intentions are strictly honorable.

He has his hands spread wide, and then, suddenly, swords are pushed up through the floor boards. Barbossa finds himself holding a sword in each hand. Elizabeth has two swords, and she tosses one across the room to Will.

Sao Feng holds the point of the fid to Steng's face.

Sao Feng: Drop your weapons, or I kill your man!

Barbossa frowns, as confused looks from Barbossa to Will to Elizabeth are exchanged.

Barbossa: Kill him. He's not our man.

Will: If he's not with you, and not us...who is he with?

The question is answered as suddenly East India Trading Company Agents storm in, crashing through windows. Instantly, the Pirates turn back-to-back to face this new threat.

Sao Feng spins away from Steng to fight, and Will grabs another sword from below and wades into the battle. Beneath the fighting, Pintel and Ragetti light a fuse to a grenade attached to one of the joists.

An explosion occurs, and the bath house is rocked. Half the floorboards drop down, making a ramp, and Gibbs, Marty, Cotton, Pintel and Ragetti rush in, firing pistols to join the fighting.

As Mercer strides in with a phalanx of soldiers, Lian attacks him with a sword. He fires at her, killing her point blank, Park pulls a steel chopstick out of her hair and sets out for vengeance.

Pirates flee and scatter, as Gibbs and the others flee down ramps, up ladders and swing on ropes. East India Trading Company Agents fired their pistols, and engaged with swords.

Amid the fighting, a stack of crates is knocked over. Pintel pushes Steng out of the way, saving him, Steng grins his thanks, then suddenly slashes at Pintel, who jumps back.

Pintel: Hey! You're a pirate!

Steng slashes, and Pintel falls backwards over a rail. Elizabeth, Barbossa, Cotton and Marty take on an array of East India Trading Company Agents.

Some of those Agents crouch behind the push-cart of Tia Dalma. The canaries fly away from it, through open doors of their cages. The Agents realise something is wrong, and run just as the cart explodes.

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