INTERLUDE

"Umm… could you please let me go?"

"No, I don't fink we will." Said a greasy old pirate.

Squee gulped. He was currently tied up on a pirate ship in the middle of the ocean. There were smelly, slimy, dirty pirates crawling all over everything, and Shmee was nowhere to be found. It was scary.

"Umm… if you don't let me go, I think the scary neighbor man will kill you." Squee decided to warn his captors.

"Well isn't tha' nice." Said the pirate in the big hat, in a way that suggested it wasn't very nice at all.

"I really mean it, he does all kinds of horrible things to people he doesn't like." Squee shuddered; just thinking about it was awful. "And he can come out of nowhere."

"Well ain't that a coincidence. We 'appen to be in tha middle of nowheres." Said the pirate in the big hat. Squee was beginning to think he was the captain, because all the other pirates stopped to listen when he talked.

"And I don't see any homicidal maniacs waiting to kill us."

"That's 'cause he's right behind you." Squee said in a petrified whisper, and ducked as Johnny proceeded to splatter pirate guts all over everything.