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"Well... GREAT."
Captain Toboz had been marooned. Once Pirate Queen Jane had deemed they no longer needed him, she'd dropped him, his alternate universe counterpart, and Montoya the Cleeselet right back on Ahi Island again. Without a ship. And with everyone running off towards that light in the sky, Captain Toboz was about as morose as he'd ever been. "Quite a roit smart rescue
yew lot were..." he scowled. "We've got no ship, no crew, an' no RUM!"
David sighed. "I SAID I'm sorry! Look, my robot arm breaks down these days if I don't run maintenance on it every so often, and I don't really have the parts to fully fix it since none of the crazy worlds I've been in lately seem to have Mad Scientists in them at all... it's kinda strange, actually."
Captain Toboz stood up off the rock he was on. "Well, we ain't outta this yet! We've got an edge onnem, if'n we can get a boat. I know what that light was, an' it don't lead to the Bluelight Hoard PROPER..."
David looked at him. "Where does it lead?"
Captain Toboz stood up. "Well... that light was'a failsafe... a last ditch effort to point in the roit direction iff'n someone somehow lost the Monkey-Eagle talisman. It points ya ta a sunken treasure chest with gold an'na map inn it. A Map t'the Bluelight Hoard... but I know wot the map says already! It tells ya 'ow ta get to the legendary "Island wit' all those Monkeys onnit! That's where the Bluelight Hoard is hidden, an' that's where we're heading once we get OFFA this rock!"
David blinked. "...
Monkey Is-"
Captain Toboz rushed forward and clamped a hand over his mouth. "Nay! We dinna wanna get sued, yew fool! It's just "That Island wit' all those Monkeys Onnit!" Not tha' other one!" He grinned. "Actually, tho... fer a lost treasure, the BLuelight Hoard's really makin' it easy fer people t'find it... what hidden artifact 'as a failsafe? Thot's kinda strange."
They suddenly realized that they were surrounded by Natives of Ahi Island who had snuck up on them while they had been feeling sorry for themselves.
The Man in the Lemon Mask walked forward. "Did yoooooou say yoooooou neeeded a ship, Mon?"
Captain Toboz, a bit unnerved, nodded. "Err...yes?"
The Man in the Lemon Mask smiled. "We've goooooooot a ship. We coooooooooould sell yoooooou that oooooone!" His smile turned into an evil smirk. "But first yooooooou've gooooooooot toooooo pay your bill foooooor yoooooooou and all yoooooour friends..."
Captain Toboz and David exchanged glances. "...do you take checks?"