So…Here we learn a bit more about the Captain's Past

"You've got to be taught

Before it's too late

Before you are six

Or seven

Or eight

To hate all the people

Your relatives hate

You've got to

Be carefully taught"

You've Got to be Carefully Taught: South Pacific

When Don and Belladonna reentered the Outpost , they came to find the Lobby empty and the place dead silent until they heard a few faint snores.

"Everyone's sleeping." Belladonna said "Hmmm…" She stroked her chin "Ichabod and some others ate oatmeal for lunch…Oatmeal is known to have soporific effects particularly if eaten with sliced banana and walnuts."

"I'll keep that in mind next time I have insomnia." Don said thinking about the times as a Teen he would stay up for days to work on something…He knew those days were behind him now, not only because he had had a wife and daughter to take care of, but as someone seen as a pillar of the Mutant Animal Community.

He noticed Belladonna yawning, he kissed her cheek and said "You get some sleep Bell-Bell…I'll stay here and do some research."

"Research?" Belladonna yawned

"On Neanderthals." Don said "I mean," He chuckled "I know a lot about paleontology but I realize in the Earth five thousand years ahead of ours some discoveries might have been made that we haven't yet."

Belladonna smiled and curled up on the floor her own enormous tail tuft as a pillow while she slept.

Don grabbed a stool and sat down at one of the computers. He winced as he felt his exposed rear touching the stool cushion ever since he learned about the mutated salmonella bacteria he and his brothers and most likely Splinter since rodents also carry salmonella bacteria carried in their intestines the result of growing up in the sewers that was hazardous even to Mutant Animals that also carry salmonella but don't have this super-nasty super strain that developed every time the Turtles fell ill and recovered in the sewers, I mean when they were real tiny Mikey once ate a rusty nail! It was a miracle he survived!

Don felt he was doing something incredibly unhygienic he worried about anyone else even touching this stool even though he knew they didn't shed the salmonella constantly and he knew the Cubs were mature enough that they didn't lick every random surface, but still he fretted…

Meanwhile in his cave Captain Gorton found his old diary in the trunk where he kept several other things.

He began searching though the old waterproof pages (Even though the character is underwater, why do I imagine him, licking his thumb, before turning the page? It's such a common gesture in media particularly in animation that's we sort of automatically imagine that's what characters do when they're reading)

Before we continue on, you should know some specific things about The Captain's Species…In these Polar Waters the Pacific Halibut is regarded as something of a 'King' in the Polar Marine Ecosystem they are Apex Predators with the only creatures that Prey on them are Orcas, Seals and the Salmon Sharks. So in the Polar Waters the Halibut is seen as a noble and even regal species among the fishes, their unusual asymmetrical bodies are acknowledged as part of their unique hunting strategy.

So finally The Captain reached a page from when he was tend years old, his left eye had moved to his right side many years ago so he had been in his flounder shape for a long time and he was regarded as something as 'Big Beast-Man on Campus' in the Aqua-Slave Farm he grew up in, when he was ten years old the Human who trained the Aquatic Slaves told the Older Children it was time for their first trip to the surface to learn how they would work for humans…And he led them to a Freighter at the docks.

And that's when it happened

June 4th

Today was horrible! We were taken to the surface for the first time to learn how we work for humans, and when the human children saw me they laughed at me! I heard them say "Look at that weird face!" and 'Isn't it ugly!' I had always been told by all my school mates I was the handsomest fry on the farm! While it was one thing the humans laughed at me, some Land Humanimal Children who were accompanying the human children laughed too! And I mean they were really laughing! Not like pretending to laugh because that's what they're masters were doing the Land Humanimals agreed with the humans my face was ugly!

When I got home I told my folks all about it…And they became very solemn.

"Son." Mom said "It's time you learn about the Land People, and how different they are from the Water Peoples."

"We're too different." Dad said "They just don't understand us, they can never understand us…We go through experiences they can't even comprehend…Many years ago I knew a Cuckoo Rass who had recently transformed into a male because the male in her school had left and the Land Humanimals were horrified to see her 'seemingly spontaneous' transformation into a male, and that her transformation was complete she no longer liked dolls and pretty dresses but fighting and sports!"

"Yes," Mom said "And I knew a male sea horse, who kept getting expressions of disgust and horror from the Land People whenever he mentioned he was pregnant!"

"We live so much better lives than those Land People…" Dad said "…We feel emotions they can never feel…Our emotions are so much richer and deeper than those Air Breathers always running about on dry land."

So just marathon watched the Franklin cartoon on Qubo (Because currently Franklin is what they show on Friday nights on Qubo and I'm amazed how much it still entertains me as an adult but there is still a bit of cutesy cloyingness that leaves a Diabetes taste in my mouth