“Throw the grappling hooks now!!” Captain Broken Horn yelled to his pirates.
Blackrat seeing the grappling hooks thrown and attaching to his ship ordered his pirates to fire another round…the canons fire made the ship Deadcat vibrate as the canon balls hit the galleon Periwinkle amidships, leaving a large jagged hole in the side of the galleon, big enough to let water, and for Blackrat’s pirates to scamper through if they had too.
Broken Horns pirates pulled the ships together with the grappling hooks, and with their cutlasses at the ready they jumped onto the ship Deadcat and started to fight Blackrat’s pirates.
Toby still holding a swab and bucket poked a pirates in the eye with the swab; then put the bucket over the pirates head, and then rolled him along the deck knocking over another of Blackrat’s pirate, then Toby jumped high in the air and kicked a pirate overboard who was running at him and about to make a swipe with his cutlass, “that was easy! I don’t care who I kick over the side of the ship, they’re no friends of mine, the rotten pirates!” Toby said to himself. He then ran fast at Maddog hitting him full in his stomach, knocking the wind out of him, and then kicked him overboard as well. “This is fun I wonder if I can make it three,” Toby grunted, as a cutlass just missed his ear and cut the rope attached to the mainmast. “Wow! That was close,” Toby grunted, and then turned quickly and bit the leg of another pirate, making the pirate hop and slip on the gangway, and then slid along the deck hitting his head on the foremast knocking him out.
Toby then jumped high in the air again and did a double back kick, hitting Wolfie so hard that he fell over the side of the ship, “number three, who’s going to be next? There’s Scarface over there with his back to me, here we go again!!” Toby grunter excitedly, he ran at pirate Scarface and bit him on his hand, making his cutlass fall onto the deck, Toby then kicked it high in the air, it came down sticking into the tail of another slimy rat pirate, pinning him to the deck.
“I don’t know why I feel so brave, yes I do I’m doing it for Tom and Mary, and to save the farm,” Toby then kicked a barrel down the deck, that rolled over two of Blackrat’s pirates and flattened them.
“I wish the others could see me fighting these pirates. They wouldn’t believe it, I do miss them, I must keep fighting,” Toby thought, as he hit Fatrat with a bucket. “I’ll keep fighting, I’ve got nothing to lose, they’re going to kill me anyway,” Toby said to himself, he then kicked one of Blackrat’s pirates in the shins, then pushed him into a barrel of water, too cool off.
Brownrat charged at Toby with his cutlass held high, and ready to cut Toby’s head off, Toby stuck out a hoof, and tripped Brownrat over, then jumped on him flattening him to the deck, then tipped a bucket of dirty soapy deck water over him, making him spit, cough and blow bubbles in the air.
Toby then picked up a loaded pistol from the deck, aimed and fired it at a another pirate, just missing Scarface who was swinging on a rope from the yardarm and about to kill one of Broken Horns pirates with his cutlass, the shot made Scarface loss his grip on the rope, he fell and landed on his head, he staggered to his feet feeling dizzy with his eyes spinning, Toby laughed in his face, and then pushed him over the side of the ship and into the sea.
Toby started to feel invincible with a big grin on his face, he grabbed hold of a rope that was hanging from the sail and swung back and forward a couple of time, and then high in the air hitting two pirates in the head knocked them over the side of the ship.
A pirate from the other side of the ship threw a knife at Toby pinning his waistcoat to the mast, and then another pirate with his cutlass held high ran at Toby and about to make a swipe, Toby pulled the knife out of the mast and threw it at the pirates tail cutting it off, he went running and screaming and jumped into a barrel of rum to stop the bleeding.
Broken Horn, standing on the quarterdeck saw Blackrat thrust his cutlass into the back of one of his pirates. Broken Horn with his adrenaline rising and losing his temper ran at Blackrat knocking him hard onto the Mainmast, Blackrat who had a pistol in his other hand fired at the ships steering wheel, making the wheel spin and the ship turn suddenly, the mainsail then caught the wind and the ship swayed over knocking three of his pirates from off the crows-nest and rigging, one hit the deck the other two fell into the sea.
Toby seeing Dirtyrat about to shoot Captain Broken Horn in the head quickly picked up a club from the side of the ship and threw it at him knocking the pistol from his hand, before he could fire it. “Thank you Mr pig, I owe you a favour,” Broken Horn told Toby. Maddog was climbing back onto the ship with seaweed sticking to his face; Toby then jumped high in the air and kicked Maddog back into the sea, “anytime Sir! You can call me Toby if you like!” Toby then pushed Fatrat towards Broken Horn, who then hit him with the butt of his pistol knocking him out.
Blackrat who was spying from the cabin inside the poop deck could see his pirates being beaten in the battle; he came out of the cabin and shot one of Broken Horn’s pirates in the back.
Blackrat’s pirates who nearly drowned after being thrown overboard scampered up the outside of the ship, jumped onto the deck and surrounded Broken Horn, and then held their pistols to his head.
Blackrat quickly loaded both his pistols and pointed them at Captain Broken Horn’s. ‘Tell yer pirates to put down their weapons!! Or we’ll blow yer head off!’
Broken Horn gave orders to his pirates for them to drop their weapons.
Blackrat’s crew then tied up Broken Horns pirates to the Masts.
Toby seeing Broken Horn and his pirates were being captured quietly hid behind same barrels on the quarterdeck, and stayed there shaking and listening to what was going on.
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