Twelve - The Great Escape
Back underwater, the lead crab was guarding his prisoners as he counted to six and marched around the cage. Stella sat sadly on the swing of the old cage, while Chuck and Fly watched the Crab yawn before continuing with her marching and counting.
Fly then called out to the Crab, "Hey you! Come here and let me out, or… I'll use my magic powers, and turn you into a frog!"
The Crab just stopped where he was, yawned, and then fell asleep.
"Wake up!" yelled Fly, "Gimme the key now! Or I'll…" Poor Fly just stopped, knowing how hopeless it was to try and get free now.
Stella soon heard a noise from above, and then looked up towards the top of the prison. She gasped when she saw Sasha the seahorse swimming down to try and help her friends!
The little girl-turned starfish jumped off the swing and swam over to her seahorse friend, smiling, "Sasha!" Then Stella embraced Sasha with a little hug. Stella looked down towards her brother-turned fish and called, "Fly, Sasha can help us!"
Fly didn't look at his sister, and slumped as he mumbled sadly, "Sasha's not here, Stella."
Stella didn't listen as she told the seahorse, "Sasha, get the key!"
Sasha grinned and went down to retrieve the key from the sleeping Crab. "Sasha," Fly mumbled before he noticed the seahorse and his expression turned to joy, "Sasha!"
Meanwhile, a set of doors opened, revealing Joe, who had Cassie tied to a thin rope he was holding onto. The girl-turned Moorish Idol growled and struggled to free herself as Joe stretched himself and smiled at the sunlight coming down from the surface, "Ah, what a morning! The sun rising on my empire!"
"Let me free!" Cassie snarled.
Just then, the Shark came up behind the two fish and cried out, "Yeah! Breakfast!"
"Over my dead body!" Cassie growled at him, "You will NEVER eat my brother or my cousins!"
"Exactly!" said the Shark with a smirk, "Over YOUR dead body – I'll have you later for lunch!"
He then looked at her with hungry eyes, but then Joe slapped him on the nose and ordered, "Be still! Besides, I thought we made an agreement – the Moorish Idol is mine!" He turned to Cassie with a lustful smirk and said, "Never mind him. You'll soon learn to appreciate… me."
Cassie just glared at Joe.
Back in the prison room, Fly, Chuck, and Stella watched with worry as Sasha struggled to stay quiet and try to get the key away from the Crab, who was still asleep. The little seahorse soon swiped the key, but the effect made the Crab's claw hit the ground and make a loud, echoing noise! The crustacean opened his eyes and growled when he saw Sasha carrying the key in her mouth. The poor seahorse swam away towards the cage, and the Crab followed her!
"Sasha!" said Fly, "Throw me the key!"
After swimming around the cage, Sasha tossed the key over to Fly, who caught it in his fins. Then the children-turned sea creatures backed away to see an angry Crab prying two of the bars open with his claws in order to confront them. With quick thinking, Fly tossed the key away, above the Crab, and way back a few feet away from the cage.
As the Crab ran over and caught the key, he turned as he heard a familiar male voice call out, "Hey, Crab!" Fly was on top of the cage, and he flung a large hook towards the Crab. It wasn't long before that hook knocked the crustacean away by several inches. "All right!" Fly grinned.
"Let's go get my sister!" Chuck added before the four friends all swam up towards an opening above.
Just as the kids-turned creatures and their seahorse thought they were free, they bumped right into the Shark, who had Joe and Cassie resting upon his nose. "Breakfast!" the Shark said with a hungry face.
"Oh, no you don't!" Cassie said as she tried swimming away.
Joe pulled her back as he asked the other children-turned fish, "Going somewhere?"
Just then, there came the voice of a familiar crab. The lead Crab, who had his eyes closed from impact of the hook, climbed up from the hole and asked, "Who turned out the lights? Where is everybody?"
"We're up here!" Fly teased as he swam up to Joe and Cassie.
"Charge!" the Crab cried out (with his eyes still shut) as he jumped onto the Shark and grabbed Joe, making Cassie get free. "I got you!" the Crab cried as Joe begged him to let go.
Cassie made her way to Chuck, Stella, and Sasha. "I'm so glad you guys are okay!" she beamed as Chuck undid the rope from around her body.
"Uh, I'm not so sure we're okay anymore," Chuck said nervously as he saw something.
Joe was still in the Crab's clutches, and was trying to get free. "Put me down, you idiot!" he ordered the Crab, "It's me!"
While the Crab and Joe were distracted, Fly made his move to get his friends to swim away. But soon Joe looked over to see his runaway prisoners and exclaimed as he kept fighting the Crab, "Shark! The prisoners are escaping!"
The Shark growled and then proceeded to swim after the runaways.
In the meantime, the kids-turned sea creatures were struggling to move some chains away from a porthole so that they could escape. They all made it out in the nick of time, as the Shark was about to eat them, only to get his head caught in the porthole!