In their cell Marie and Callie noticed that the sounds from outside had stopped, "you hear that?" Callie asked aloud, "no, I don't hear anything," Marie responded, and that's just it, everything fell silent, "the fight over," Marie stated, "did Bruce win?" Callie asked. In the next second their question were answered, a door opened with Cap'n, Sheldon, and Gill being held at gun point, "no, they got uncle," Marie said out loud. The guards guided the three to the platoons' cell, but Marie and Callie noticed that someone was missing, "where's Bruce?" Marie asked sounding concerned, but saw Bruce being dragged by two Sharklings away from them.
When the Squid Sisters saw Bruce they saw that he was beaten and unconscious, "BRUCE! NO!" Marie cried running up to the glass, "NO! GIVE US BACK OUR LITTLE BOY!" Marie cried banging her fist on the glass. Her cried out to the guards trying to get their attention, but they just ignored her, and walked on by disappearing from the cell blocks.
An Empty Room
The door slid open letting in the Sharklings carrying Bruce in, the room was pretty much empty except for the one chair that occupied it, the Sharklings placed Bruce onto the chair locking latches in place on his arms, legs, and even around his neck. After they were done they both left the room, leaving Bruce all alone. He slowly comes too, prying his eyelids open, his body just blazing in pain, especially his hand, "where am I?" Bruce asked aloud. A huge screen then projected itself onto a wall in front of Bruce, "so, after all that effort you put in to save your family, but in the end you lost," the voice stated.
"HEY!" Bruce shouted, "even though you caught me, you said if I found you, you'll tell me where're my parents are. I still found you, so tell me!" Bruce demanded, and for a moment the room was silent. The voice contemplated what he said previously to him, "I did, did I... Alright, I'll tell you. They're dead," the voice bluntly told him and Bruce felt his heart sank. "You see in my years of researching the pass of the human race I have dug up many of their fossils, and cities, such marvelous creation they have created, big and small, the humans by far they are the most intelligent beings that set foot on the earth. That is till the flood came and the human race was extinct, or so we are made to believe," the voice told.
The last part confused Bruce, why would he say that? "what? the humans are gone, they all drowned in the flood," Bruce reminded, "well, you know that they're are Inklings and Octolings that actually worship humans. Seeing them as sort of their gods, but I made an intresting discovery, that there are humans that worshipped sharks," The voice informed of the knowledge he knew. "Long ago on this island I found a door carved out of stone with markings that match with your birthmark, behind those doors I believe that it will lead us to the last sanctuary of the human race because humans also had the same marks tattooed around their ankles as well, and the sharks of the past saved those humans who had it." the voice said dropping the bombshell that the humans might possible still be alive.
Somewhere Else On The Base
Walking out of debriefing the handler that got struck in the face by Bruce's frozen fist was walking down the halls with her Sharkling at her side, she was congratulated for her effort for capturing Bruce, but since she was just a brainwashed Inkling they didn't reward her or her Sharkling with anything. However do to lack of freewill they didn't argue, so they both went back to work without question, but as they walked down the handler's face was starting to ache, "owe! that punch hurt," she cried quietly rubbing the side of her face where she received the blow. As she rubbed it the cracks on her brainwashing goggles grew more large until it was too much for the device to handle, and just shut off without warning.
The Goggles had lost all power over her, and the Inkling now started to process what was around her, and realizing that she's free of the goggles, "wha?... what happened? where am... " She trailed off when she set her sights on her Sharkling that just stood their like a statue, "kneel down," she ordered the Sharkling, and so it did. The Sharkling done what he was told and knelt down, the Inkling undid the helmet removing the device from the Sharkling's head, then just drops it onto the floor.
The Sharkling looked dazed and confused, his vision was fuzzy as it a was long time since he saw bright lights shine onto his own eyes, but when they readjusted the Sharkling was filled with joy when he saw the Inkling that is his handler. The Inkling jumped up, grabbing hold of him in a bear hug because they were now both free from the brainwash devices.
Back In The Room
"What's all this got to do with me!?" Bruce demanded, "I'm getting to that, you see the only person that can open the door is the one who bears the mark around their ankle, the one that can turn into a megalodon. The biggest shark that ever existed because has switch where only the chomping force of that shark can accomplish to get that door open," the voice said, "wait, what's this got to do with everyone else? why bring them into this?" Bruce questioned.
"Oh, that's quiet simple really, you see the gears to get the door open gets a bit "stiff" so I'm gonna need them to get those gears lose," the voice put it and Bruce put one and two together, "you're gonna use them as lube!?" Bruce shouted in shock, "yep, I'm gonna grind them up and use what's left to get those gears working again, so I gonna need much I can get," the voice explained. "You're gonna kill everyone just to get a door open!?" Bruce yelled in anger, "not until you turn big, so get to it," the voice suggested, but Bruce sat there, "I haven't turned to that form since the Octarian Civil War," Bruce noted.
The voice knew he would say that so he turned the screen into much smaller ones showing the inside of the cell blocks, "let me motivate you," the voice said and with a flip of a switch the collars came to life. All the Inklings and Octolings screamed out in pain, "NO, STOP!" Bruce cried out, "the only to end it is if you could turn big, so I better hurry before everyone gets fried," the voice advised. Darting between screens Bruce had no choice, but to change into the megalodon, he tried hard, trying to turn, but the sounds of the Inklings and Octolings made him fear if he failed, that is until he saw one screen. It was the platoons' cell and in it Bruce saw Four laying on the floor crying out in pain with Callie and Three holding Eight because knowing if they let her touch Four she'll get electrocuted too.
Bruce saw Eight crying and his best fried on the verge of death, but something in him finally snapped, and Bruce changed into shark form then grew in size, "YES!" the voice yelled out and flipped the switch. The room shifted and turned, the chair let Bruce go as he quickly out grew it, the floor opened up, and giant clamps came out grabbing Bruce by his fins and neck. Bruce was lifted and pulled through a large tunnel then finally settling him in front of a large, tall, stone door.
In front of him looked like a giant pad, big enough for him to bit down on, the clamps on his fins let go, and now wrapped around his body like a ribcage. He wasn't going anywhere.
Cell Blocks
Alice, Ray, and Marlon were sitting in there cell wandering what they're suppose to do, they remember that it was just another normal morning until a tube crashed into their homes and sucked them right up, "what're they gonna do to us?" Alice asked. She was scared It was long when Evie and Moho was dragged away by the brainwashed Sharklings, Ray and Marlon sat down next to her to help keep her calm, but then the doors to the cells opened.
A handler and her Sharkling stepped into view when the door was widely open, "out now," she ordered them, the three did what they were told and stepped out of the cell, they saw everyone being funneled down back into the room they were dropped in. Alice and the rest saw Pearl and Marina, Tyler, Cooper and Nonbiri, they even saw Evie and Moho now brainwashed, and then they bumped into the Squid Sisters, "Marie! what's happening?" Alice asked her, "I don't know, I don't know what's going on," she answered, "where's Bruce?" Ray asked, "they took him away, we haven't seen him since," Callie replied.
They walked through the door way they saw nothing different in the room, until they heard a something large howler in pain, it came far from the left of the room, but they didn't see anything, that is until they notice a giant shark suspended in the air. Some of the Inkings were scared when they saw the giant shark, but some Octolings couldn't help to feel that they seen this giant shark before, "BRUCE!?" Marie cried seeing him trying to break free of the clamps. However the pain conflicted to him was starting to overcome him, as the clamps seem to electrify him and his broken hand, or now fin, is now just tiring him out, but the prisoners didn't have enough time to contemplate what was happening because the floor on the far end dropped down.
The floor dropping down at the opposite end where they all stood frighten everybody and it terrified them even more when they saw what's down there. Metal teeth of all shape and size, cone shaped, square shaped, curved ones, and they were all spinning around against each other, it was a grinder, The Inklings and Octolings tried to back away from the grinder, but the Sharklings blocked their way out. They tried to slip pass them, but the Sharklings seemed to have some special glove that catches them, they threw them back into the crowd with ease as if they're just dolls to them.
The clamps holding Bruce in place soon gave him a huge shock making him chomp down on the presure pad, next sounds of stone being lifted and turned soon came after and the stone door that laid before Bruce tried to open, "anyone with a collar, say your last goodbyes," the Octoling in charge ordered. Everyone looked around at one another seeing that their friends and families were about to be grounded up, they were hesitant however the Octoling brought out the remote, and no one dared to challenge her, but Eight didn't want to leave Four so she grabs hold of him wrapping her arms around him, and buried her crying head into his chest.
Eight made it inconvenient for their captors as they just want this to go smoothly, Three, Ray, and Callie trier to pry Eight off of Four, but she wouldn't let go, Four tried to convice her to let go as well, but Eight just wouldn't listen. The Octoling was getting annoyed at the nuisance so she ordered one of the Sharklings to separate the two, the large guard trudged forward, and placed his hands between them. Once he had his hands in place the Sharkling easily ripped the two from one another sending them both to the ground. Eight stood back up, angry, she tried to rush back, but the Sharkling just swatted her away, striking her in the face, Eight felt the sharp sting as her cheek turned red and her eyes swelled up with tears.
The gang picked Eight up, but watched helplessly as Four and the rest of the Inklings and Octolings were doomed to be grinded up into grease to loosen the gears of the stone door.
Control Room
In the control room everything was in full swing, "is everything ready?" the voice asked, "yes, sir, ready on your commanded," the Inkling stated, "finally, years of hard work, and it's about to pat off, START THE GRINDER!" The voice ordered. Watching on screen he saw the chosen Inklings and Octolings being forced to head towards the grinder by the Sharklings. Their feets inched closer and closer to the edge, one Inkling dropped his hat and it was quickly torn to shreds by the thousands of metallic teeth.
It was all over for them, they were all about to die, that is... *BOOOOM!*
A large explosion was made right at the entrance of the control room burst wide open by the freed handler and Sharkling, they both stormed the room, the handler firing at the operators, and the Sharkling carrying a club to smash all the panels in the room. The Operators ran for cover running out of the control room, after it was cleared the handler went over to one panel that the Sharkling left unharmed, she tapped on the keyboard as fast as she could, and the next second all the collars, brainwashing goggles and helmet were deactivated, and the floor sealed back up again.
The moment the collars went off everyone started rip them off their necks and threw them to the floor, the Sharklings and half the handlers were now dizzy as they're now getting full control of their bodies again. The removed the goggles and helmets as for the handlers that didn't had brainwashing goggles they started to get nervous and so tried to slip out, but they were stopped by the Inklings and Octolings.
"Wha- what happened?" Evie asked confused to where she was, "what did we do?" Moho asked removing the goggles, "GUYS!" Alice and the rest cried out for joy and tackles the two to the ground, "you're back," Ray noted.
However back in the control room the handler and her Sharkling now tried to free Bruce, but noticed that the door that got blasted was lodged into the panel that controls the clamps and now they going haywire. The clamps were shooting electricity onto Bruce, other clamped down on him harder breaking a few of his ribs causing Bruce to scream in pain, "BRUCE!" everyone cried, but Marie was the loudest, as they witness their friend being tortured by the machine. Inside the control room the handler and the Sharkling tried to stop the clamps from killing Bruce, they went over to a metal box wired to the wall that's labeled "power shutdown" the Sharkling ripped off the cover, he grabbed hold of the lever, and with great effort pulled it down, cutting off the power.
Everyone watched as the clamps were close to killing Bruce, until the power in the room shut off, the clamps stopped crushing and shocking Bruce, and the Sharkling reverted back to normal size in his human form. However the clamps out of nowhere swung out in all directions crashing into the ceilings and walls, Bruce grabbed onto a clamp holding on tight, the clamp smash its way through the wall separating Bruce and everyone else, but crashed into the ceiling.
Everyone gasps seeing Bruce dangling in the air, Bruce was high up in the air holding onto the clamp, "Bruce! hold on!" Callie shouted out to him, "I can't!" Bruce retorted. Bruce was grabbing hold to the clamp with his broken hand, and the weight from his own body was causing great pain, his teeth was clenching trying to fight through the pain, but his strength was fading, and then he let go.
The moment his fingers slipped from the clamp Bruce's mind froze, everything seemed to go slower as he fell stright to the bottom, and Marie's heart sank when she saw Bruce lost his grip. No one made a sound, only the sound of Bruce meeting the floor echoed thoughout the room as the distincted sound of a thud filled the air. What seemed like a few seconds felt like a lifetime as Bruce laid motionless on the ground, Marie shoved and pushed her way through the crowd, tears starting to form up in her eyes, when she made it passed she ran as fast her feet can carry her.
She dropped down to Bruce's side picking him up in her arms, "Bruce!? Bruce wake up!" she cried, but Bruce didn't answer her, he wasn't breathing, his eyes were closed, he felt cold, and his color started to fade, "Bruce wake up!" she repeated, begging for her boy to wake up. Marie's eyes trickled with tears, the drops rolling off her cheeks and dropping off her chin, the rest finally caught up to her, seeing Marie crying into the chest of her little boy, "Bruce, Bruce... Don't go," she wept.
The platoon and the rest of the gang laid their eyes on Bruce as he didn't respond to the Inkling that raised him, they soon started to feel saddness set in, their eyes started to swell up with tears feeling that they lost their friend. Everyone else slowly approached the fallen Sharkling, the Octolings seemed to be a bit more affected by the sight of Bruce's timely passing as they looked to him and the others as their saviors, the rest removed their hats, and all was silent in the room, except for Maire weeping in sorrow.
Beyond
Bruce found himself in the middle of nowhere, it was bright, clouds were everywhere even low to ground with the golden rays of the sun shining through them, "hello..." Bruce called out, "anyone there?" he yelled out again, but no one answered, "Bruce?" a male voice called, it sound so soft, so comforting, and it echoed too. Bruce darted around trying to find the voice that was calling to him, "who's there? who said my name?" Bruce called out wanting the person to show himself, "I did," the voice answered.
Bruce turned his head stopping where he assumes where the voice is coming from, but seeing that he ended up in nowhere with clouds surrounding him, Bruce came to the conclusion, "god?" Bruce asked, "uh... Yeah, sure, you could say that," the voice answered him.
"Am I... Am I dead?" Bruce asked, "no, but you're getting there," god corrected, leaving it silent for a moment, and Bruce started to tear up, "why did all of this have to happen to me?"Bruce asked letting the tears roll of his cheeks. "What did I do to make you hate me?" Bruce demanded, crying, "whoa, whoa, wait a sec, is that what you think of me?" god asked, and Bruce answered with a nod, "Bruce I don't hate you, I never did," god answered, "then why take away my parents then? why do all these things to me?" Bruce question.
"Like, why not just make everything all better, put everyone back home with their families? all safe and sound in their homes? because that's not how it works, Bruce," god told him, "why? why not?" Bruce pushed, "because it's too lazy, because the world wouldn't stand on its own if I did it like that," he answered. "Then I guess I'll just die right here, I don't wanna do this anymore," Bruce admitted, seemingly giving up hope.
"So that's it? you're just gonna let the bad guy win? what happened to tough, brave, and stubborn kid I saw grow up? the one who didn't take it laying down when his friends were kidnapped? the one who went out to free the Octoling race from slavery dispite not sleeping and eatings for hours if not days? who came here to save his family and everyone he knew and loved despite being out matched, but had no fear, and charged in anyaway?"
Bruce listened to what he said and so he lifted his head up, "... Me..." Bruce answered, "I did all those things not because I hate you, Bruce, but because if I didn't... None of this would happen, Marie and Callie finding you, running into Alice and the rest, freeing Eight's people. Yes I put you through pain, like when Evie revealed to be double agent, how much did that hurt?" god ask, "... A lot, like some stabbed a dargger through my chest," he answered, "because that's how much you loved her, even though she did all those things she betrayed her boss to come back to you, and you forgave her. I put you through that pain, through the love, and the choices you made in your life, made you into the man you are today. But deep inside you can't help to feel confused about yourself."
Bruce wiped the tears from his face, "yeah... That's true, I don't know what it's like to be around other Sharklings. I didn't know what I'm suppose to be... Who I am," "you're the hero everyone needs right now, Bruce. Your family needs you. Your friends need you... I need you," "..." "so... Are you ready to go back?" "... Yeah. I'm ready," "oh, before I forget, you might not had a dad growing up, but at least you had a great mom to love you," god told him, and before Bruce could ask what he meant everything around him went dark.
Bruce saw nothing, but darkness, that's when he started to open his eyes slowly, he felt arms wrapped around him, holding him tightly, he heard someone crying, he knew that voice, when he finally saw who was crying Bruce saw that it was Marie, and Bruce realize what he meant. She was holding onto her little boy, feeling sadness starting to take her over her aching heart, that is until, "mom," he said softly.
Marie stopped crying the moment she heard his voice, she looked into her arms seeing Bruce open his eyes, he lifted his back sitting up right on the floor on his own. Marie and everyone around looked on in disbelief seeing that Bruce is alive, "wh- what did you call me?" Marie stuttered not sure if she heard him right, but was answered with a hug. Marie hugged him back, crying for joy, "... I thought I lost you," Marie said, "I'm not going anywhere," Bruce replied, they broke off the hug, and turned to his arm that's broken, excepted it wasn't.
Bruce moved his fingers, making a fist with his hand without a hint of pain, "it doesn't hurt no more... My hand doesn't hurt anymore. My body doesn't hurt anymore," Bruce noted not sounding surprised nor shocked, it was like it never even happened. He looked around himself seeing his closest friends all around him, they were all speechless, but the first to act was Eight who tackled him to the ground, hugging him, and the rest followed. They laughed for joy holding Bruce in tight and loving arms never wanting to let go again, "You're alive!" Marlon cried out, "we're not letting you out of our arms again," Alice added.
They never felt so much joy over take them, it was like they were reborn with newly found hope, while Bruce was being hugged by everyone Moho and Evie kissed him on opposite ends of his cheeks, "you had us going there for a second," Moho noted, "nah, we should know that you're too stubborn to die," Evie added as everyone's sadness was replaced with joy and relief. However their little celebration was cut short when a giant screen came to life, "WHAT!? YOU PILE OF WALKING PUKES!" the voice roared in anger, "YOU RUINED EVERYTHING! DECADES OF WORK AND RESEARCH DOWN THE DRAIN!" he ranted, "up yours, and your work, now why don't you show yourself you coward," Bruce retorted.
"You wanna know who I really am! O.K, I'll show you who I am!" the voice said in anger, then the whole island started shaking and rumbling, and the shadow filter that hid the voice's identity was now fading slowly showing the true identity of the voice and it was... A dolphin? "It is I, Flipper, the Dolphin (*dolphin noises!*)," the voice known as, Flipper, finally introduced himself, throwing everyone for a loop as they stared at the screen slacked jawed, except for Bruce, "I KNEW IT! I told you dolphins were evil!" he chanted that he's right.
"Yes, I'm an evil dolphin," Flipper stated, "it all started with my people thousands of years of ago, before the flood my ancestors lived in a zoo humans had constructed especially for aquatic lifeforms like us. They called it... Sea World. The humans fed us, housed us, kept us healthy, and most importantly they studied all the creatures that were there, making discoveries about us, and they claimed that we were the smartest life forms on this planet, right next to them," Flipper roared in pride, "after the flood, we took it as a sign that they saw us as their successors to inherent this world, and you as our lowers," he finished, the screen goes out, and everything shook more violently.
The ground was trembling, the ceiling lights were waving, and crashing into each other, "what's happening!?" Pearl cried out losing her balance, "he 's activated the self-destruct protocol!" the freed handler in the control room warned over the P.A, "we have to get outta here!" the Sharkling added. Everyone started to panic as the island was beginning to fall apart, "how are we gonna get everyone out of here!?" Callie shouted out over the screaming crowd, "there's two cargo ships at dock, if we run we can make it," said one of the handlers, "then start running!" Bruce roared to the crowd.
The Sharklings and handlers led way as everyone else closely followed, but Flipper wasn't gonna let them leave so easily, even though the handlers and Sharklings were free he sent the robots to slow them down. The machines became more aggressive and violent, when they came across the escapees they speedy their way towards them, but the Sharklings act as the first line of defense to protect everyone behind them. The bots pounced and charged towards the escaping prisoners however the Sharklings will just blocked the, ripping them to shreds with their bare teeth.
Running through corridors as fast as everyone could run, they all eventually made it to the docks and it turned out the two cargo ships weren't boats, but aircrafts instead, "quick everyone board the ships!" Marie shouted. Everyone split into two large groups boarding onto the aircrafts, the platoon and the rest of the group boarded together on one ship, the Sharklings and handlers that new how to operate it took to the controls and started to lift off. The two giant ships soon took to the skies, everyone cheered for joy seeing that they're all going home, but their celebration was cut short, when the island collapsed in on itself.
The towers built on the islands were falling down, explosion went off as the chain of islands tearing itself apart that is until the biggest tower in the center of all the islands then raised itself. The two was red in color and has a cone shaped to it but what stood out was the robotic tentacles waving around, "that's not good," Moho pointed out as the giant flying machine reached out for them. The tentacles wrapped around both of the cargo ships keeping them from flying off, "YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY SO EASILY!" Flipper yelled out over the speaker.
"What aren't we firing back at him?" Callie asked, "it's a cargo ship, there no guns on these things," Evie pointed out as the tentacles shaking the ships, everyone started to panic once again as the giant squid-mech was crushing their only means of escape. As everyone was in a screaming and running, Bruce truned to a glass box that contained a fire axe, he looked over to what he found was a hatch to the roof of the ship, and had an idea. Bruce smashes the glass door of the box to grab the axe, he opened up the hatch, but before he can go Marie stopped him, "Bruce! where are you going!?" Marie called to him, "I'm going jump onto the mech," Bruce told her.
"What!? no, I almost lost you, I'm not letting it happen again," she protested, "if I don't the ships will get crushed and fall into the ocean, I have to go," Bruce told her otherwise. Marie didn't say anything else, she knew he was right, but before he left Bruce told her one more thing, "I always looked up to you. Not just because you're part of the platoon, but because you were the one who tuck me in bed at night, always check under my bed for monsters, you taught me everything I needed to know from right from wrong, to be good person. You're the greatest mom a boy could ever ask for," Bruce told her. He gave a hug, "just come back safe, you hear?" she asked of him, "I'll do my best," Bruce responded, and soon he was climbing out the hatch.
Poking his head out Bruce felt the cool wind blowing into his face and saw the robotic tentacle wrapped around the ship, he steps out of the ship standing right on the top of the roof. He looks over the edge of the ship seeing other giant tentacles waving below, "this is crazy!" Bruce shouted to himself, he took a few steps back, taking in a deep breath, and ran off the edge.
"THIS IS CRAAAAAAAAAAAZY!" screaming from the top of his lung as he dropped through the sky, gripping the axe tightly in his hands Bruce got ready when the metallic tentacle came waving back, and at the right moment Bruce slammed the blade into the tentacle. Slamming down hard onto the tentacle started waving upward, "oh, CRAAAAAP!" Bruce shouted as he held on. The main body of the giant mech opened up like a flower having six of the cone open up to what's just a flat surface, almost like a dance floor, "let's settle this once and for all, shall we," Flipper suggested. The tentacle that Bruce was on swung up fast and stopped catapulted him in the air.
Bruce landed on the floor of the mech hard, but he quickly picked himself up, then little trap doors quickly slided open having multiple robots hop right out, Bruce with an axe in his hands got ready for a fight. The first bot rushed Bruce, but he stepped to the side letting it pass until he hooked the axe around its neck, and swung it back around throwing it towards the ground of machines. Another tried to swing at him however Bruce dodged the metallic fist swinging the back of his hand across the robot's face, the back hand spun the bot around, and Bruce sends the blade of the axe into the back of the machine. He yanks the blade out of the robot and smashes the face of another robot with the bottom of the axe, he then grabs the bot by the neck and throws the bot to another, next he slid his hands at the bottom of the axe's shaft, and spun around as a number of robots circled him.
All the robots' head were soon severed from their shoulders with their bodies falling limp to the ground, "ENOUGH!" shouted Flipper, "if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself," he quoted. At the center of the floor opened up, two giant mechanized hands came up from the hole placing their palms on the edge of the hole lifting the rest of the body out. It was a giant humaniod mech with long slender arms, its legs were short and on its tip toes, and last the body which Flipper sat in controlling the mech with only a roll cage protecting him.
"Nice mech, too bad it's gonna be pile of crap when I rip you out the driver's seat," Bruce stated, like a promise, "big words from a small boy," Flipper retorted and commanded the mech to leap forward. Even with its short legs the mech flew across the air as if it wieghed as less as a feather, Bruce jumps out of the way as the mech slammed back down, but the axe wasn't so lucky as it broke in two, "B-B-Bruce!" someone called leaving Bruce very confused, "Bruce, it's me, Sheldon," and Bruce rembered his ear coms.
"Sheldon, what's the matter?" Bruce asked as he tried to avoid a giant fist trying to smash him, "Bruce, you gotta get the tentacles off, I don't know how long the ships can't take it (A/N: does that sound wrong to you?)," Sheldon told him. Bruce looks over the edge of the mech and saw that the two cargo ships were slowly getting crushed, but he almost failed to notice that Flipper was taking another swing at him. Flipper changed the hand of the mech into a drill, then aimed it towards Bruce which he barely jumps out of the way, letting crash through the floor, and getting stuck after witnessing that Bruce just got an idea.
Bruce jumps onto the stuck arm and runs up it, when he came close to Flipper he leaps onto the roll cage and starts punching Flipper in the face, Bruce then jumps off, and taunts him making Flipper angry. The mech eventually gets its hand free reving the drill faster to intimidate, but Bruce counting on it, "that's it! I don't care if I find the humans, now I just want you dead!" Flipper settled. Bruce lead him away from the center, "get back here!" Flipper shouted, he flips a switch on his controls and two box launchers popped up on the mech's shoulders, "oh, crap!" Bruce yelped seeing the shoulder mounted missile launchers.
The missiles shot out of the boxes gunning right towards Bruce, he zipped and dodged out of the of way as the barrage of explosives nailed the floor, Bruce dashed and ducked, almost getting caught in the blast. However jumping out of the way of one blast another followed him right behind blowing him near the edge, "still can't get me!" Bruce taunted, Flipper clenched his teeth in annoyance, so he rose the drill, and slammed it down to where Bruce wanted it to hit. The drill dug deep into the edge of the floor, loud sounds came from right underneath the two, and the mechanical tentacle that held the first ship had fell off finally setting the ship Bruce's family is in free, "yeah! one more," Bruce cheered.
Everyone with the first ship cheered for joy, "he did it! now Bruce just needs to get the other one free," Marlon spoke out, but as they watched they saw Bruce tried to jump away from the mech, but flipper managed to catch him by the leg. He swung Bruce up and slammed him back down, throwing him to the other side seeing his body skidded across the floor. The platoon on the ship saw that Flipper finally got a shot at Bruce as he slammed him across the floor of the floating platform, "Bruce needs help," Alice shouted, "how? there's nothing on this ship to shoot back," Evie reminded.
As everyone panic for an idea, Ray just got one, "I got an idea!" he roared out to them to listen, "let's shoot the escape pods," Ray offered remembering his time he and Alice were kidnapped, everyone looked at each other thinking it to be crazy, but it's all they got.
Back down on the floating platform Flipper had just picked up Bruce again holding him tight, "now, any last words before I drill a hole in your skull?" Flipper mockingly asked, "forget you!" Bruce retorted. With the other hand the mech changed it into a drill, pointing it towards Bruce's head, Flipper laughed as he was about to end Bruce's life, but out from above them the escape pods from the cargo ship stuck down the platform separating the two. Flipper took steps back to avoid the incoming pods, but Bruce seemed to gather himself to notice that there was something in the first pod for him, so he pops it open to see his classic paintball gun, and to find a note from Marie on it.
"Kick his ass, Bruce!"
Bruce grinned taking his gun in his hands, "thanks mom," he thanked Marie, he makes sure the air tank was on tight, and pulled back the hammer, "let's rock," he quoted, next suddenly Bruce hears music being played loudly, and Bruce looked over to see that the two ships were playing the Squid Sisters' song with Marie and Callie singing through the speakers. Flipper seeing his plan going down the gutter resorted to desperate measures as the floating platform was taking too much damage, "not what I've planned for, but I'm not gonna lose to a dim-wit shark," Flipper swore. The platform shook, throwing Bruce off balance, and the platform split apart, now it was just multiple platforms hovering around each other, in which also freed the second ship.
Flipper jumped across the air towards Bruce, hoping to crush him under his metallic feet, of course Bruce leaped out of the way to the next one that was right below him, but when he looked back up he notice a weak point to the mech. There was a single exhaust vent on lower part of the mech's back, "yes! something to shoot," Bruce cheered, "that won't help you!" Flipper yelled snatching a small hovering platform, and then throws it at Bruce. However Bruce jumped down on the edge of the platform making tip, Bruce holds onto the edge, and when the platform came it struck the opposite edge of Bruce making the whole platform flip around, and launching Bruce high in the air.
Bruce arched right over the mech and just getting the shot he needs to end the fight as he nailed the vent dead center and Bruce landing on another platform, "NNOOOOOO!" Flipper screamed as his mech was now failing. Flipper came to the realization that he lost as the control panel was flashing red warning him of systems failure, so he decided to resort to his escape plan, he slams his flipper onto a large red button, and the cockpit shot flying out.
"You will rue the day! I'll be back next time!" he cursed speeding off and then the platforms soon lost power, now they're falling out of the sky, "deja vu," Bruce uttered before the platform he was on fell. However this time the two ships decided to help Bruce out by firing out inkrails leading striaght to Flipper, "HELL YEAH!" Bruce cheered as he slid down the rails gaining speed to chase after Flipper all the while hearing everyone in both ships singing along with the Squid Sisters. The two cargo ships kept launching rail after rail aidding Bruce to capture Flipper, "no! I won't let you catch me!" Flipper yelled in vein as the second cargo ship sped forward cutting off Flipper.
The dolphin smacks onto the side of the ship as he was unable to stop from his speed and was immediately followed by Bruce as the Shark-boy slams into him breaking what was left, and Bruce was somehow able to land right on top of him. The last of the mech fell to piece falling onto the ocean, but Nruce and Flipper landed on a wing to keep them from falling with Bruce having Flipper break his fall with his back, "You're not going anywhere, except prison," Bruce remarked holding Flipper down.
It was all over, everyone, the Inklings, the Octolings, and Sharklings were all happy, filled with joy as Bruce caught the dolphin responsible for enslaving the Sharkling, and abducting everyone. They cheered and chanting Bruce's name as he saved them all.
One Month Later
Everyone was joyous to return home, as they cleaned up the damage Flipper had caused to their homes, the Sharklings went back wondering the world along with their handlers who they knew had formed deep bonds with, at last everything was back to normal.
However the whole platoon including Alice, Ray, Marlon, Evie, Moho, Pearl and Marina, and even Tyler were all here at a court house because during the clean up Cooper and Nonbiri decided to settle down. They all stood at the steps of the entrance as the judge legally married the two, "and I now prounce you husband and wife, you may kiss the bride," the jude delcared and Cooper kissed his newly wife, Nonbiri. Everyone cheered happily for the two as they now starting a new life together.
At a restaurant everyone now feasts together to celebrate the wedding Cooper and Nonbiri with Bruce congratulating the two, but there was one question burning inside everyone's heads, "hey Bruce, what happen to that Flipper guy?" Cooper asked. Everyone was in agreement they too wanted to know what had come to the evil dolphin because they were on the other ship. Bruce finished his drink, and consider, why not, "Before we got back home I noticed that I slammed into his back so hard that I severed his lower and higher halfs of his spinal cord," he explained, "ouch, I guess he's spending the of his life in a wheel, huh, Bruce," Callie nodded out loud.
Everyone seemed to agree with her seeing that might be the most likely out come, and so they laughed believing that the evil dolphin had it coming, "no, he's dead," Bruce corrected all relaxed, breaking the laughed, and leaving it silent for a moment, " ... O.K," Ray figured.
FIN
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A/N: This was an awesome ride everyone, but sadly it has to come to an end, I am very grateful for your support, and I hope my fic brought you some joy in your life. This fanfic will be my most favorite story I've created