Mutants Overboard

Pairings: Jack Sparrow/Gambit, Jack Sparrow/Will Turner, Wolverine/Gambit

Warning: PotC Movie spoilers! Bad language (well, this IS a Nef fic, lol)

DISCLAIMER: X-Men belongs to Marvel Comics, Pirates of the Caribbean belongs to ... err... whatever film company it was that produced it. This is just fanfiction.

THANK YOU to: TFK for the title, and to Lex, Danny and Katherine for beta-reading!!

A/N: The very first chapter takes place during the last scenes of the movie. I didn’t bother to write it all down to the t, because I’m lazy. :p You want the whole story; go watch the movie. It’s basically just a recap with a different ending. If you want to know more about the currently powerless condition of Gambit, check out the X-Treme X-Men TPB 'Invasion' or the single issues X-Treme X-Men 10 - 19. And last but not least, no matter how hard I try, I can't keep Jack, Will, Remy and Logan totally in characters, so please don't be too hard on me when it comes to that! *sniff*



For pics of Remy, Jack, Logan and Will, go to: http://www.pagebarn.com/people/psylocke83/potc-xmen.html





1.



PORT ROYAL, 1734



Captain Jack Sparrow and the young blacksmith Will Turner found themselves surrounded by the men of the Navy, who aimed their guns and swords at the pair. Governor Swann made his way to them, but stood at a safe distance behind Commodore Norrington, as he spoke up.

"On our return to Port Royal, I granted you clemency and this is how you thank me? By throwing in your lot with him? He’s a pirate!"

"And a good man", said Will, still slightly panting from the fight. Jack lookeoundound at the surrounding men and pointed to himself proudly. "If all I have achieved here is that the hangman will earn two pairs of boots instead of one, so be it. At least my conscience will be clear."

Norrington stepped closer to Will and sneered, "You forget your place, Turner."

Will looked at the Commodore straight in the eyes, ignoring that the older man's sword that slightly pressed into his clothes. "It’s right here", he said. "Between you and Jack."

Elizabeth Swann, the Governor’s daughter, stepped forward and went to stand beside Will. "As is mine."

"Elizabeth!" Governor Swann almost dropped his jaw as he looked at his daughter, then turned to all the men surrounding the three. "Lower your weapons. For goodness sake, put them down!"

The military men did as they were told. Commodore Norrington, who had been surprised to see the bold move of his beloved Elizabeth, opened his mouth to speak, hoping that his words would not stutter to reveal his broken heart. "So this is where your heart really lies, then?"

Elizabeth looked back at him. She felt sorry to see the sadness in her fiancée’s eyes, but it didn’t stop her. She nodded slightly, "It is."

Jack Sparrow looked up at Norrington's face when something blue caught his eyes. A parrot. He frowned before realization sunk in.

"Well!" said he as he started to move away, his body swayed, as if he were drunk. "I’m actually feelin' rather good about this." He stepped forward to the Governor. "I think we've all reached a very special place, I say? Spiritually, ecumenically...grammatically." The Governor rolled his eyes, and Jack continued to approach the Commodore, his finger pointed at the man as if to emphasize his words. "I want ye to know that I was rootin' for you, mate. Know that."

Oh, Norrington would never have any idea how strongly Jack Sparrow had wanted Elizabeth to chose the Commodore instead of Will Turner! Norrington just stared dumbfounded at the pirate as the man made his way farther back before stopping to speak the the beautiful young lady.

"Elizabeth…" She looked at the pirate, slightly curious at what he had to say. "It would never 'ave worked between us, darlin'. I’m sorry."

She raised one of her elegant eyebrows. What had she expected from the pirate, really?

"Will." His heart skipped a beat as the young man looked at him. Jack grimaced a little. So many things to say to the lad. ‘I’ll miss you?’ Nah, too needy to come from the mouth of Captain Jack Sparrow. ‘Want to join the crew’, maybe? "…Nice hat", he said finally before quickly going to the edge of the platform they were on, with nothing, but an ankle-high wall and a long drop down to the ocean and cliffs below, between him and his freedom.

Will smiled at the pirate, glad that the Captain had approved of the hat.

"Men! This is the day that you will always remember as the day that you --"

The air got knocked out of his lungs as he tripped over the small wall, falling head first down to the water.

Will, Elizabeth and the soldiers rushed to the wall to see if Jack had jumped to safety or a horrid death. Will let out a sigh of relief as Jack managed to avoid the sharp cliffs and plunged safely in the high sea. He wasn't sure what he'd do if Jack had...

Captain Sparrow took a deep breath once his head came up above water. He resisted the urge to look up at Will, and instead focused his eyes on the horizon. And there she was... The Black Pearl emerged from the shadows behind the cliffs farther away and awaited for her Captain's return onboard. Jack smiled and started to swim towards his precious ship.

"What's your plan of action?" said one of the officers. When he got no reply, he frowned as he looked at the Commodore. "Sir?"

Commodore Norrington took one last look at the Black Pearl before turning around and starting to walk away.

"Commodore! What about Sparrow?" the man insisted.

"Oh, I think we can afford to give him one day's head start", Norrington smirked as he continued down the road.

Governor Swann mentally sighed as he watched his daughter with the man she loved.

"So... this is the path yoe che chosen, Elizabeth? After all, he is a blacksmith."

"No." Elizabeth put a hand on Will's cheeck, her fingers gently caressed the stubbled skin down to the soft lips that she had always wanted to kiss. "He's a pirate."

She gave Will a sad smile before shoving him over the low wall. Being unprepared for this move, Will's arms flew around, trying to catch hold on something, before he landed with a huge splash in the water.

She knew where his heart really layed, and she loved him too much to see him stay in Port Royal with her instead of doing what was in his blood.

Governor Swann watched with huge eyes as Will came up to the surface to breathe before looking back at Elizabeth. Before he got the chance to ask, she answered.

"His heart is with the ocean and Jack Sparrow. He might not know it now, but he wouldn't have been happy if he'd stayed here, with me."

She watched him swim after Jack Sparrow and turned to leave.



Jack had heard something - or someone? - fall into the water, and felt his blood heat up when he discovered it was Will. He slowed down his pace just enough to let Will catch up with him.

"Couldn't stay away from t'Pearl long enough, eh?" Jack teased as they reached the black-sailed ship. "You want t' come along, lad? I need someone to scrub the deck."

Will didn't bother answering, instead he gave Jack a nonchalant look and took ahold of the rope that had been thrown down at them from the Pearl. Jack grinned at him before grabbing the rope as well.

The crew on the ship put their backs to it and the two men were pulled out of the water and landed hard on the deck by the wheel of the ship. Gibbs walked forward and Jack glared at him.

"Weren't you s'posed to keep to the code?"

"We figured they were more like actual...guidelines", Gibbs said before reaching out a hand to his Captain.

Jack took ahold of Gibbs arm and the other man helped him up on his feet, before doing the same to his new crewmate. Cottons handed Jack his beloved hat, and Jack thanked the mute man as he took it and placed it on his head.

"Captain Sparrow." Jack turned to look at Anamaria, whom was leaning against the wheels. She walked towards him and placed a coat on his wet shoulders. "The Black Pearl is yours."

Jack swaggered up to the wheel, and caressed it softly with his hands, a smile playing on his lips. He then glanced around at his crew with a hard look on his face, giving them orders they were happy to obey. As the crew left to make the ship ready to turn and leave, Jack dreamily looked out over the ocean.

"Now, bring me that horizon", he muttered to himself before starting to hum on the Pirate song that Elizabeth had taught him. "...And really bad eggs." He looked down at the compass and changed the direction of the ship. "Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho!"







NEW YORK CITY, 2003



Remy LeBeau, also known as the X-Man Gambit, ran after two men into a labyrinth of dark alleys. The men in question were mutants, whom had terrorised a family of 'simple' humans together with five of their mutant friends. Gambit's teammates Logan (Wolverine), and Ororo Munroe (Storm), were taking care of the ones that had stayed. The escaping mutants didn't seem to have been as dangerous to the humans as the five others were, so Storm had let Gambit go and take care of the runaways.

Gambit realised that he held a playing card in his right hand, out of old habit. Still running, he glanced down at the card; the Queen of Hearts. He silently cursed the events that had happened during the past year, and the fact that he had somehow lost his mutant power to charge things with kinetic energy and makem exm explode. The playing card, that would once have been a weapon, was now nothing more than a useless plaything. He threw it away and focused on the mutants.

He caught up with one of them in a dead-way alley. The mutant panted and stared at the X-Man walking towards him. An extendable bo-staff appeared in Remy's hands, seemingly out of nowhere. As Gambit got closer he recognised the man, they had fought against each other in a bar in Remy's hometown New Orleans.

The mutant smirked at Gambit.

"I know you ain't got no powers, Cajun. You really think you're gonna defeat me?"

Gambit grinned and swirled his bo-staff in one hand, "Can't blame a man fuh tryin', eh?"

Even if he couldn't take this mutant down, he was sure that Wolverine and Storm would arrive any minute and do the job for him. The man lashed out at Gambit, his fist aiming to break the handsome Cajun's nose, but Remy ducked and delivered a good blow with his fully extended staff to the man's spine.

The man cried out in pain before stopping at a safe distance away from Gambit.

"I always thought you X-Men were here to protect mutants", he growled.

"Correct me if ah'm wrong -- which ah'm sure I ain't -- but mutants dat try t' kill innocent people don' need no protection from de X-Men", said Gambit in his Southern drawl as he once again walked up towards the panting bad guy.

"I just treated them the same way they treated me when I got my powers!" the mutant raged as he threw a bolt of energy sparks towards Gambit.

The Cajun used his agility to jump out of the way of the bolt, which instead found its way to a trash can, blowing it up.

"And will ev'rythin' be alright again when y' hurt someone else?" Gambit dodged another bolt of energy, before going on the offensive with his staff and hard kicks. "Dat child you attacked, he wouldn't have survived if Storm hadn't send a lightnin' at'cha!"

With a final kick, the mutant fell unconscious. Gambit heard Wolverine running towards them, no mistaking that man's steps with somebody else.

"You alright, Gumbo?" said the Canadian as he slowed his pace, his retractable adamantium claws still out, prepared to take on any enemy.

"Oui. De other one got away, though."

"No... he's here", said Wolverine as he sniffed the air and glancing around, trying to find the hidden mutant.

The two X-Men barely got a chance to react before a strange light appeared around Gambit.

Remy could hear Wolverine call out his name before everything went black.