User blog comment:Captain Josh Samsorrow/Plot Ideas for Pirates 5/@comment-1771352-20110522033636

What about Jack searching for Atlantis? The beginning could open on Jack, Gibbs, Marty, Cotton, Pintel Raggeti, Mullroy, and Murtogg hiking through the jungle and infiltrating a Spanish fort where there is a witchdoctor who can return the Pearl to its normal size. After taking him captive, he turns the Pearl back to its normal size, but they meet a Spanish warship coming out to chase them. As they only have eight men, Jack comes up with a crazy scheme that somehow destroys the warship. After it is destroyed, they find a letter to the dead captain containing the whereabouts of the Spanish Treasure fleet which, this year, is supposedly containing artifacts from a lost civilization, so, because he loves gold so much, Jack naturally wants to capture the fleet. In order to do so, he'll need a crew, so where better to find a crew than Tortuga?

Jack sails to Tortuga where he picks up an entirely new crew (maybe they can incorporate Annamaria in there somewhere) and after a couple bottles of rum at the faithful bride as well as a couple slaps from Tortuga's two favorite prostitutes, Jack sets off aboard the Pearl. Along the way, Jack encounters Bartholomew Roberts who tries to convince Jack to join his order of pirates, but after Jack refuses, he and his mixed crew of humans, zombies, skeletons, and ghouls fire upon Jack's ship, forcing him to escape to a small island where he makes repairs.

Little does Jack know, the island is inhabited by vicious pirates who take Jack and his crew hostage. The crew is commanded by none other than Teague, who calls off the attack and exclaims to Jack that he himself is stranded after his ship was sunk by Bartholomew Roberts. Teague then gives Jack some background on Black Bart. After repairing his ship, Jack and Teague and their mixed crews (all aboard the Pearl) set sail to capture the Treasure Fleet. By the time they arrive, nothing is left as Bartholomew already got to it first with the artifacts as well. By this time, the Spanish warfleet arrives to investigate, they accuse Jack Sparrow of the Treasure Fleet's destruction, and they take them hostage.

They take them to the port of Villa de Cinco, and they take Jack to the leader/governor of the colony, who happens to be none other than Angelica who is now in the service of Spain (as well as the only female representative for the Spanish crown in the Caribbean). She employs Jack in the service of Spain as a supplement to the noose, and after he infiltrates Bartholomew Roberts' haven, he manages to steal an artifact before making a narrow escape. Angelica finds out that the artifacts are indeed Atlantean and she claims that her father had been to Atlantis before where he found the Sword of Triton.

Angelica brings her Spanish soldiers aboard the Pearl along with Jack, Teague, and their pirate crews and they set out to find Atlantis, but are followed by none other than Bartholomew Roberts. Along the way, they spot a mysterious ship on the horizon which they engage with. The ship appears to be none other than the Queen Anne's Revenge captained by Hector Barbossa. After an uneasy truce with him, Barbossa and Jack decide to team up to find Atlantis. After coming across a British fleet commanded by Commodore Groves and Admiral Gillete, the two ships are forced to flee, but they run into Black Bart who reveals that Barbossa had been working for him and he now knows the true location of Atlantis. He kidnaps Angelica as well as a good portion of the pirates and the Spaniards, leaving only Jack, Gibbs, and Teague on the Pearl after he blows off its masts.

They get picked up by the British fleet who take them to London, and Jack manages to negotiate that he lead an expiditition to Atlantis, and King George is intrigues by the idea. The Black PEarl is repaired, given white sails, and a union jack on top of all that and is given command to Groves while Jack is forced to serve as first mate. Jack manages to convince most of the crew to mutiny, which they do, successfully forcing the British overboard and into the longboats which are set adrift. Jack raises a pirate flag over the Pearl and they escape to Shipwreck Cove, where Teague is dropped off so he can gather a fleet to reinforce Jack at Atlantis.

Jack sets sail to Atlantis, and when he arrives he already sees Black Bart preparing to send his men ashore, but the locals attempt to resist. While Bartholomew is ashore, Jack sneaks aboard his ship and saves Angleica and his old crew and they return to the Pearl, but are stopped by Barbossa. As it turns out, Barbossa is actually a double agent, working on behalf of Teague as he reveals. Barbossa returns to the QAR and Jack to the Pearl where they attempt to leave Atlantis, but are stopped by Black Bart's fleet. They are taken ashore where he figures that Barbossa is a spy, and has them all thrown into the Atlantean catacombs where no one has escaped. Black Bart then kills the King of Atlantis and claims the title for himself. After facing many dangers in the labyrynth, Jack decides to give up and wait, which is when they hear cannon fire. A Spanish force has managed to infiltrate the city and engage Black Bart's pirates. A blast from one of the cannons allows Jack to escape up to the surface with his surviving crew and join in the battle. Soon, the English Navy arrives and begin to fight both the pirates and the Spanish initiating a three way battle. Jack, Barbossa, and their crews escape to their respected ships and begin engaging the vessels belonging to the English, the Spanish, and Black Bart. Meanwhile, Black Bart unleashes the power of Atlantis which begins to strike down all of his enemies, and Spanish and British ships begin falling apart due to the enchantment. Believing that all hope is lost, Teague's promised Armada arrives to reinforce Jack and Barbossa.

Jack decides to go ashore and kill Bartholomew Roberts, and after killing men from all sides, Jack makes it to the palace and engages him in a duel. Meanwhile, Angelica is in command of the Pearl while Barbossa is in command of QAR and they board the British flagship belonging to Groves, who duels Barbossa but escapes on a sloop that he orders to take him to England. Gillete is convinced to join the pirates though, which he does. The British General on land continues fighting his Spanish opponents while Jack fights Black Bart, who accidentally kills himself by using the power on his enemy and backfires. The temple comes crashing down and Jack barely escapes to the Pearl. The QAR and the Pearl engage Black Bart's ship now in command of his Zombie first mate. They sink it to the bottom of the sea and escape from Atlantean waters and the remnants of Bart's fleet scatter.

Away from danger, the Pearl, the QAR, and the pirate Armada commanded by Teague escape. The Spanish and the British are still at Atlantis fighting one another, and Teague says that they will keep fighting for the power of Atlantis until there are none left. Teague sails away to Shipwreck Cove and Jack asks Barbossa what he was planning on doing next. He says that he was considering joining the French as a privateer up in Canada (a reference to The French and Indian War) and he sails away aboard the QAR. Together, Jack, Angelica, and the crew of the Black Pearl sail away into the sunset, looking for further adventures.