Meanwhile in the Pacific Ocean...

The others were in mermaid/merman form and were now under the water.

"Wow, I'm a mermaid!" Penny smiled at her indigo tail fin. "This is like a dream come true!"

"Uh, yeah, it's a dream..." Atticus made up. He soon heard her yelp in pain as she pinched herself.

Penny glanced suspiciously to her big cousin.

"You better tell her the truth." Patch whispered.

"You think I'll be allowed to?" Atticus whispered back. "She is a mortal."

"That's true, but she's your family now." Patch reminded.

"And she's now a mermaid." Mo added.

"All right..." Atticus sighed in defeat. "Uh, Penny, there's a lot you need to learn about our family since you're a member now."

"And that is?" Penny asked.

"Well, Penny, this is one part," Atticus replied. "On Mom's side of the family, we're mermaids and mermen."

"Amazing." Penny smiled.

"There's a lot to learn..." Atticus smiled back.

"I wanna see the fish up close!" Penny giggled as she swam around the ocean.

"Penny, slow down!" Atticus called out.

Penny giggled as she explored. Atticus sighed and soon swam after his little cousin and the others followed before Penny would get hurt, or worse.

"This is awesome!" Penny smiled.

Atticus smiled himself as his younger cousin was happy. This seemed to be a happy sight as well for the many sea creatures as it felt like nothing could possibly ruin the moment. Penny soon saw a humanoid manta ray.

"Whoa, Penny!" Atticus held her back.

"What's that?" Penny asked.

"That's Evil Manta, get back here." Atticus took her to safety.

"Why?" Penny asked.

"He's bad news," Cherry told the former orphan as Evil Manta came behind her without her noticing. "He's one of the vilest and nastiest creatures of the sea, Atticus told me all about him and he's a big sea jerk and is the biggest bully you'll ever meet and he's right behind me, isn't he?" she then asked weakly after Atticus made 'shut up' gestures.

"Whoa." Penny said before seeing the sting ray.

Cherry soon zipped behind Atticus.

"Ah, well, if it isn't little Atticus..." Evil Manta roughly patted the boy on the head.

"What're you up to, Manta?" Atticus glared.

"Oh, nothing," Evil Manta smirked. "Just going for a stroll."

"Manta...?!" Atticus narrowed his eyes. "I know you're up to something, you're called Evil Manta for a reason! Are you trying to bail Marina out of jail?"

"No, not yet, but you should know that I might be hungry for clown fish." Evil Manta smirked.

Atticus's eyes widened before he glared. "You wouldn't dare!"

"Perhaps over there..." Evil Manta smirked in the direction of a sea anemone where a clown fish couple was with their hundreds and hundreds of eggs.

"Don't you dare!" Atticus glared.

Evil Manta grinned. Atticus growled as he then began to wrestle against Evil Manta, but it seemed to be a diversion as a barracuda came after the clown fish family.

"Oh, no!" Patch gasped.

Atticus growled as he wrestled against Evil Manta. Penny covered her eyes as the barracuda smacked the male clown fish into his home before he took his mate and all of their eggs. Well, almost all of them. She had saved one of the eggs and hid it from the barracuda.

"Penny!" Patch yelped.

Penny kept quiet and hidden as she held the egg, she quietly cooed though as it had a slight crack in it, but she felt a heartbeat which meant that the guppy was still alive.

'Thank goodness.' Penny thought to herself.

The barracuda soon swam off after thinking it had wiped out the whole clown fish family.

"Way to go, buddy." Evil Manta smirked to the barracuda as they seemed to have a handshake with each other, showing that they were working together.

"Why, you!" Atticus glared.

Evil Manta laughed as he swam away with the barracuda.


"Penny?" Mo came to her boyfriend's little cousin. "Penny, are you okay?"

"I'm fine... I think this little guy's fine too..." Penny replied as she cradled the egg.

"You saved one of the eggs." Mo smiled.

Cherry reached for the sea anemone to tell the male clown fish that it was safe to come out now only to wince as it seemed to sting her. "OW!"

"You okay, Cherry?" Atticus asked.

"That plant just stung me!" Cherry pouted as she put her finger in her mouth.

Atticus came to the sea anemone. "Hey, uh, you can come out now, buddy!" he called out to the lone clown fish inside.

The clown fish soon woke up with a fright.

"Hey, it's okay, little guy..." Atticus soothed. "It's gonna be okay..."

"Where's Coral?" The clown fish asked about his mate.

"I'm afraid she's dead." Atticus frowned.

"No problem, Mr. Clown Fish," Penny replied. "So sorry for your losses."

"We are all sorry." Atticus said.

"Thank you all for trying," The male clown fish replied as he cradled his remaining egg. "There, there, there. It's okay, daddy's here. Daddy's got you. I promise, I will never let anything happen to you… Nemo."

"Nemo...Sounds like a perfect name." Patch smiled.

"Coral said she liked that name." The clown fish smiled back.

"What do they call you, sir?" Cherry asked.

"I'm Marlin." the male clown fish replied softly as he held his lone egg.

"It's nice to meet you, Marlin." Atticus said.

"Likewise," Marlin replied. "I've heard of mercreatures, but I can't say I've seen one up close."

"Guess this is your first time meeting some." Mo smiled.

"I guess so..." Marlin sighed as he held his egg. "Sorry, I'm going through a lot of emotions right now, maybe we can talk later."

"That's okay," Atticus nodded to the male clown fish. "My mother was the same way when we lost my Aunt Athena."

"Your aunt was Queen Athena?" Marlin asked.

"Yes, she was..." Atticus said before sighing softly. "I miss her a lot... Sometimes when I need to relax, I hear her lullaby in my head..."

"I don't know much about this sea life, but I guess Athena was a cool aunt..." Cherry shrugged.

The group soon introduced themselves to Marlin. Marlin smiled back, after a little while, he decided to go home for the night and promised to take good care of his future child so they wouldn't end up like Coral who he would name Nemo in her honor and memory.


It was of course not time to go home yet, the times had passed for everyone and soon enough, Nemo had grown into a growing young fish and was now awaiting an exciting day in his life.

"First day of school! First day of school!" Nemo beamed as he tried to wake up his father. "Wake up, wake up! C'mon, first day of school!"

"I don't wanna go to school!" Marlin whined in his sleep. "Five more minutes!"

"Not you, Dad, me!" Nemo told Marlin in excitement.

"Okay... Huh?" Marlin groggily replied.

"Get up, get up!" Nemo swam around in excitement. "It's time for school! It's time for school! It's time for school! It's time for school! Oh, boy! Oh, boy!" He soon tripped outside.

"NEMO!" Marlin panicked and swam outside for his only son.

"First day of school!" Nemo muffled as he was stuck in some coral.

"Nemo, don't move! Don't move! You'll never get out of there yourself. I'll do it," Marlin helped his son and soon popped him out of the coral and looked in deep concern which soon annoyed Nemo. "All right, where's the break? You feel a break?"

"No." Nemo said.

The others soon came out to help take Nemo to school as they promised Marlin once he was old enough.

"Sometimes you can't tell 'cause fluid is rushing to the area," Marlin continued. "Now, any rushing fluids?"

"No." Nemo replied.

"Are you woozy?" Marlin turned his son over.

"No." Nemo rolled his eyes.

"How many stripes do I have?" Marlin then asked.

"I'm fine." Nemo groaned.

"Answer the stripes question!" Marlin urged his son.

"Three." Nemo rolled his eyes.

"No! See, something's wrong with you," Marlin replied before counting himself. "I have one, two, three-That's all I have? Oh, you're okay. How's the lucky fin?"

"Lucky." Nemo replied as he showed his damaged fin since birth.

"Let's see." Marlin said.

Though Nemo struggled to reach his father, nonetheless they succeeded in a simple high-five to each other.


The others then came out.

"Morning, Nemo, hi, Marlin," Atticus smiled. "Ready to go to school?"

"You bet!" Nemo beamed.

"Are you sure you wanna go to school this year?" Marlin coaxed to Nemo. "'Cuz no problem if you don't. You can wait five or six years."

"Come on, Dad, it's time for school!" Nemo told his father.

"Yes, Marlin, and we promised to help take him there." Cherry reminded the male clown fish.

"Ah, ah, ah," Marlin reminded Nemo. "Forgot to brush."

"Oh..." Nemo moaned.

"Do you want this anemone to sting you?" Marlin asked his son.

Nemo looked back and smiled. "Yes!"

"Brush." Marlin told his son.

Nemo groaned and soon brushed before his father began to tickle him as they were going to school.

"I'm a little scared about this school thing, Atticus." Penny whimpered to her big cousin.

"Don't worry, school isn't scary." Atticus assured her.

"Eh, wait until you're our age." Cherry added.

Atticus glared and nudged her slightly.

"Ow!" Cherry glared back.

"You'll have fun." Mo said.

Marlin took Nemo's fin as they were on their way to school as he reminded Nemo some rules they went over.

"Dad, maybe while I'm at school, I'll see a shark!" Nemo beamed.

"I highly doubt that." Marlin replied.

"Have you ever met a shark?" Nemo asked.

"No, and I don't plan to." Marlin shook his head.

"How about you guys?" Nemo asked the others.

"Nope." Atticus shook his head.

"I saw the movie Shark Tale a few times..." Cherry shrugged.

"Maybe someday." Mo smiled encouragingly.

"How old are sea turtles?" Nemo asked.

"Sea turtles?" Marlin replied in confusion. "I don't know."

"I have no idea." Penny said.

"Sandy Plankton from next door, he said that sea turtles, said that they live to be about a hundred years old!" Nemo replied.

"Wow." Penny smiled.

"Well, you know what, if I ever meet a sea turtle, I'll ask him. After I'm done talking to the shark, okay?" Marlin replied before suddenly stopping Nemo. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold on, hold on, wait to cross."

There were fish swimming all around like a traffic jam until they then suddenly stopped and it was safe to cross.

"Wow..." Penny was amazed by the pretty colors as Atticus held her hand.

"Hold my fin," Marlin told Nemo. "Hold my fin."

"Dad, you're not gonna freak out like you did at the petting zoo, are you?" Nemo asked.

"Hey, that snail was about to charge." Marlin defended.

"The snail wasn't even fast." Mo said.

Marlin was busily trying to find where Nemo's class. As overprotective as usual, Marlin kept very close to his son to make absolutely certain he wouldn't wander off into any trouble. "Hmm... I wonder where we're supposed to go?" he wondered.

"I don't know." Mo said.

Penny was so amazed by the all types of sea creatures and she was excited that she got to be apart of this.


"Excuse me, is this where we meet his teacher?" Marlin came up to seahorse, octopus, and butterfly fish as they were laughing with each other.

"Please tell us." Cherry begged.

"Well, look who's out of the anemone." The seahorse smirked to Marlin.

"Yes," Marlin replied. "Shocking, I know."

"Marty, right?" The seahorse asked.

"Marlin." The adult male clown fish corrected.

"Bob." The seahorse gave his name.

"Ted." The octopus added.

"Bill." The butterfly fish concluded.

"Anyway, yes, the teacher should be here in a moment or two." The octopus said before the butterfly fish began to laugh to Marlin for some reason.

"Is something funny?" Mo asked.

"Yeah, he's a clown fish, right?" Bill asked about Marlin in excitement. "You're funny, right? Hey, tell us a joke!"

Bob and Ted seemed to agree with this as they wanted to hear a joke too.

"I highly disagree." Cherry said.

"She's right, that's a common misconception," Marlin agreed. "Clown fish are no funnier than any other fish."

"Aw, come on, Clowny." Bill urged.

"Yeah, do something funny." Ted added.

"Yeah!" Bob agreed.

"Oh, this is going to get awkward." Cherry sighed.

"All right, I know one joke," Marlin gave in as he then began to tell a joke. "Um, there's a mollusk, see? And he walks up to a sea, well, he doesn't walk up, he swims up… Well, actually the mollusk isn't moving. He's in one place and then the sea cucumber, well they- I mixed up. There was a mollusk and a sea cucumber. None of them were walking, so forget that I-"

"See?" Cherry asked.

"Sheldon! Get out of Mr. Johansen's yard, now!" Bob suddenly shouted at a young seahorse who was with a young butterfly fish and a young octopus.

Everyone looks behind to see that three children who were messing around with an Eagle Ray fish.

"That seems a bit mean." Penny said.

"Dad, Dad, can we play too?" Nemo asked. "Can we?"

"I would feel better if you go play over on the sponge beds." Marlin replied.

"You mean the ones for guppies?" Patch asked, unimpressed.

"That's where I would play." Marlin sheepishly smiled.

"I bet you would." Cherry deadpanned.

The girl octopus came beside Nemo and noticed a deformity. "What's wrong with his fin?"

"He looks funny!" The young butterfly fish laughed.

"Hey!" Penny glared.

"Be nice," Bob scolded his son despite that the butterfly fish was laughing. "It's his first time at school."

"What are you?" The girl octopus asked Penny.

"I'm a mermaid." Penny smiled.

"Cool." The girl octopus smiled back.

"He was born with it," Marlin told the others about Nemo's deformed fin. "We call it his lucky fin."

"Daaaad..." Nemo groaned.

"See this tentacle?" The girl octopus showed one tentacle with a smile to help make Nemo feel better about himself. "It's actually shorter than all my other tentacles, but you can't really tell. Especially when I twirl them like this."

"I'm H2O intolerant." The young seahorse said before sneezing himself backwards.

"I'M OBNOXIOUS!" The young butterfly fish concluded, getting in Nemo's face.

"We can already tell." Cherry groaned.

"Oooh, Let's name the zones, The zones, the zones, Let's name the zones of the open sea!~" A sting ray sang as he swam over them.

"MR. RAY!" The kids grew excited.

"Come on, guys!" The young seahorse told Nemo and Penny.

"Alright!" Penny smiled.

"Whoa, you better stay with me." Marlin held Nemo back.

Penny firmly pouted as she didn't like Marlin being so overprotective like this.


As Mr. Ray concludes his song and prepares to land, all of the children gathered in a spot where they were all covered by their own school teacher. Mr. Ray had a feeling of where the kids were hiding and yet decided to play along just for their amusement. "Huh, I wonder where my class has gone?" he then smiled as he pretended to look around.

'He sure is funny.' Penny thought to herself.

"Dad, you can go now." Marlin rushed his father.

"Well, hello," Mr. Ray noticed Nemo and the others. "Who are you?"

"I'm Penny." Penny greeted.

"Well, Nemo and Penny, all new explorers must answer a science question." Mr. Ray told his new students.

"Okay." Nemo and Penny replied.

"You live in what kind of home?" Mr. Ray asked them.

That was an awkward situation for Penny. It seemed worse for Nemo.

"An anemo-none," Nemo struggled to pronounce the name of his home that his father taught him. "A nemenem-menome-nememen-nenemone-"

"What is it called again?" Penny asked.

"Anemone." Atticus whispered to her.

"That's a tricky word." Penny replied.

"I know." Atticus said.

"Okay, okay, don't hurt yourself." Mr. Ray said to Penny and Nemo.

Penny soon hugged Atticus as it looked like it was time to go to school. Atticus hugged her back.

"I haven't seen a mermaid in a very long time, welcome aboard, Penny." Mr. Ray smiled to the former orphaned girl.

Penny smiled back as she came to go with the others on the field trip. "Where are we going, sir?" she then asked.

"Off to the reef!" Mr. Ray informed.

"Cool." Vincent said.

Penny giggled as she rode with the others to the reef and her pigtails flew through the currents.

"Bye, Nemo!" Marlin called out.

"Bye, Dad!" Nemo called back.

"Bye Atticus!" Penny called out.

"Have a great time, Penny!" Atticus called back to his little cousin.

"I will!" Penny smiled.


"Hey, you're pretty well for a first timer." Bob said to Marlin.

"Well, you can't hold onto them forever, can you?" Marlin replied.

"Yep." Atticus nodded.

"Yeah, I had a tough time when my oldest went out at the drop off." Bill added.

"Oh, that could be bad." Mo said.

"They just gotta grow up-The drop off?!" Marlin suddenly panicked. "They're going to the drop off?!"

"What's the big deal?" Cherry shrugged. "It's just a drop off."

"Wh-What are you, insane?!" Marlin swam up to her in alarm. "Why don't we fry 'em up now and serve them with chips!?"

"What's so bad about the drop off?" Cherry asked.

"Hey, Marty, calm down!" Bob told the adult male clown fish.

"Don't tell me to be calm, Pony Boy!" Marlin replied before swimming off to go after his son.

"Wow, he must be really worried." Mo said.

"Pony Boy?" Bob scoffed.

"You know for a clown fish, he isn't really that funny." Bill said.

"Pity." Ted added.