One beautiful morning in the Great Barrier Reef, the sun shone through the ocean slides of the water.
Nemo and Marlin were sound asleep in their sea anemone; Dory was sound asleep in her home as well.
Moaning, Nemo stirred up, and yawned as he woke up. With a giggle, Nemo nudged his father, who woke up with a chuckle.
"Good morning, Nemo," Marlin said.
"Morning, dad! I was wondering if we could see my cousin Trixie and the Tank Gang again!" Nemo responded cheerfully.
"Oh, sure! Good idea, but let's wake Dory up and have breakfast first," Marlin said.
Nemo nodded. Then, the two clownfish swam over to Dory and eventually woke her up. As Dory yawned, she cheerfully said,
"Good morning, Nemo and Marlin! How did you sleep?"
"It went well, how about you?" Marlin replied.
"Mine went the same," Dory added.
Then, the three began to have breakfast.
Meanwhile...
"I've HAD it with you imbeciles!" Gill shouted,
"You screwed up and criticized my morning routine, and even plans from last time! This is even worse than normal! You can't even come up with any ideas just like I did!"
"Now, now, just calm down, honey, before you pop," Peach said calmly.
"Yeah! My twin sister was never seen and hadn't showed up in our team," Deb added.
"Wasn't that Flo you're talking about?" Bubbles questioned.
Deb nodded, but their daughter Trixie asked shyly,
"Who's Flo?"
"Well, she used to be your twin aunt," Deb responded.
Bubbles felt confused at the same time, but Gill cut them off and snapped,
"Shut up! I'm trying to boss you around!"
"Alright, listen here! You, leader, aren't that kind to us! You should've stayed calm to us. It was an accident," Bloat warned Gill.
"I think you're nuts!" Gurgle added.
With a yell of anger, Gill smacked Gurgle, who yelped a bit in pain, but Bloat managed to guard him. Jacques clenched his fists.
"Oui, but no offense, but you're crazy," Jacques agreed.
"Back off, shrimp!" Gill shot back,
"You aren't anything but non-talkative!"
Then, as Gill was about to strike at him as well, Jacques felt gaped, but crossed his arms and said,
"Hmph!"
"Uncle Gill, please! We're trying our best!" Trixie whimpered.
"Oh? Who else thinks that, Trix?" Gill asked sternly as he went close to her.
"Gill, quit it now! Just start acting more nicer and more kind to us!" Deb shot back to their leader, who got even more angrier, and shouted back at Deb.
From the outside of the den, Nemo, Marlin and Dory heard the conversation, and peered through the entrance. They were at gape as they saw Gill yelling at his team.
"Gill, knock it off!" Bubbles said a bit sternly to their leader.
"None of your business, you bubbles-lover!" Gill shouted back, and put up his fin, as jf he was about to smack Bubbles, who shook with fear.
"Please! For the love of your family, stop! You're not being yourself!" Peach cried out.
"Zip it, Peach!" the moorish idol shouted at his starfish assistant.
"As for you, you doing-nothin' little niece Trixie! If I had to put up each of another one of your loudnesses or antics, YOU will wish you've never been born!" he said sternly to his niece.
"Gill!" the Tank Gang members yelled back at Gill.
"But, uncle Gill, I didn't do anything wrong—!" Trixie whimpered tearfully.
"Because of this, you'll NEVER BE ONE OF US!" Gill screamed back harshly, and slapped her directly in the face!
The Tank Gang members gasped in disbelief.
"Now go to your room!" Gill said sternly as he pointed Trixie to her room.
Trixie felt the pain and started crying as she ran to her room, locking it. Bubbles was at gape.
"Gill! What do you mean to her 'go to your room'?! Trixie can't get grounded!" he shot back angrily to Gill, and swam quickly after Trixie and cried out,
"Trixie, sweetheart! Wait!"
Nemo, Marlin and Dory were at gape as they were peering through the entrance.
"Dad! What just happened?" Nemo whispered.
"I don't know! Gill just yelled at your cousin and..." Marlin responded between stammers.
"And what?" Nemo questioned again.
"...Slapped her physically," Marlin answered.
Nemo and Dory gasped at this sentence.
"Well, we have to do something!" Dory added,
"I feel bad for poor Trixie, and the other Tank Gang members."
As Nemo whimpered, feeling concerned about Trixie, Marlin reassured his son. Then, he led him and Dory slowly inside the den.
After they saw Gill swimming off in a bad mood to his den, Nemo, Marlin and Dory noticed that he slammed the door shut, which sounded so loud.
BANG!
Then, they noticed that Deb was concerned about her mate and child. Peach comforts her and said,
"It's okay, Deb. None of this is our fault."
"Hi, guys!" Nemo called.
"Oh, hi, Nemo!" Bloat said.
"Wait, where are Bubbles and Trixie?" Marlin asked with less concern.
"In Trixie's room. Gill was the problem to us. Worse," Gurgle responded.
"He even scared us," Deb whimpered, but was reassured by her other friends.
"What? Why?" Nemo asked.
"Because Gill hurted our niece physically and even grounded her for no reason," Bloat replied.
"No! Tell us it's not true!" Dory gasped.
"We proved it wasn't but that was not right for our leader to do such a thing! Trixie was only 5-and-a-half years old," Gurgle said.
"Oui, but there's gotta be a way out," Jacques added.
"Don't worry, guys! We can help you out, while giving you all condolences from us," Dory said.
"Thank you very much! This means a lot," Peach replied kindly.
"No worries. I'm pretty sure we were able to help out," Marlin added.
"Well, let's help my cousin out!" Nemo added sweetly as he led his family and friends to Trixie's room.
Trixie was crying uncontrollably because she was yelled at and got her face physically slapped by her uncle Gill, but her father Bubbles was knocking on the door.
"Go away!" Trixie wailed.
"Trixie, look! It's me, your father! Please, open up," Bubbles said sadly.
"Dad! Don't you know what happened?! Just leave me alone!" Trixie sobbed again.
Bubbles frowned a bit, and took out his key, and unlocked his daughter's room door open.
As Trixie cried softly while sitting on the bed, Bubbles felt concerned with a sigh as he swam over to her and sat on the bed.
Bubbles took out a bandage from the drawer, and placed it on Trixie's injury where Gill slapped her. After that, he kissed her on the face lovingly with passion.
"Trixie, are you okay, honey?" Bubbles asked.
Holding back a sob, Trixie shyly responded,
"I think so, daddy! Gill was a mean uncle!"
"Oh, I know. Gill was very rough and seems to be the most stern of us all. We all wouldn't have put up for that type of behavior from what our leader had done," Bubbles responded sadly.
As Trixie looked up at her father with tears, not sure, Bubbles put a fin on her forehead and continued,
"Look, you don't have to worry about your uncle anymore, sweetie."
Then, he started comforting and soothing Trixie in his fins.
"There, there, Trixie, my little lady, daddy's here. He's got you," Bubbles lulled her compassionately.
"Really?" Trixie asked.
Bubbles nodded his head as he helped his daughter wipe her tears away.
"Bubbles?" Deb asked as she was with the other Tank Gang members, along with Nemo, Marlin and Dory.
"Yes, Deb? Come on in, you guys," Bubbles said as he kept soothing Trixie in his fins.
"Hey, Bubbles, is Trixie okay?" Nemo questioned with concern.
"Oh, hey, Nemo. She was hurt by Gill because he didn't notice that she was innocent at all," Bubbles responded.
"Aw, poor little kid!" Dory said sadly.
"Is there anything we can do for you?" Marlin asked.
"And it better not be lame," Gurgle chimed in.
"Gurgle, can you stop? Sheesh, it'll be clear if you could stop thinking that our plans are crazy," Bloat insisted to him with a direct glare, and put up his fin, about to slap him.
"Hey, Bubbles, may I?" Peach asked.
Bubbles nodded, and took his fins off of Trixie's body. Jacques held Peach in his hands and scuttled to his worried niece and her father.
"Hey Trixie," Peach said.
"Auntie Peach!" Trixie responded, and held back a sob as she hugged her aunt.
"I'm sorry, sweetheart, I should've told you not to go to Gill. He seems to be having anger issues or something," Peach soothed her niece in her starfish arms.
Jacques placed a hand on Trixie's back with comfort. The others join the embrace. Nemo broke the embrace and asked,
"Wait, guys! Where's Gill?"
"Oh, what's the point? He eventually got back to his room," Gurgle sighed with annoyance.
Bloat glared at him, which caused Gurgle to freeze.
"And we noticed his words which kicked our niece out of our family," Bloat added,
"But this isn't true at all."
Nemo and Dory gasped at that sentence.
"Oh, no! This is bad," Marlin said.
"Well, do you have any plans?" Jacques asked with concern.
"Please, guys, Trixie's feeling down because of Gill," Deb pleaded as she helped Bubbles reassure their daughter.
As Nemo and Dory nodded, Marlin reluctantly agreed.
"Okay, here's what we are gonna do."
Much, much later...
It was becoming evening after a few minutes at noon; the sunset has approached. Marlin planned simple instructions for Nemo, Dory and the Tank Gang to cheer up Trixie while Gill should apologize for his actions.
They snuck quietly into their leader's den, and spotted Gill underneath the covering of the bed, in his beauty sleep. The nightlight by his bedside was turned on.
"Shh. Looks like Gill's taking a nap for the day. And we better wake him up," Marlin whispered, but pointed at his friends,
"But, you've got to be quiet."
Nemo, Dory and the Tank Gang members nodded. Marlin did the same, and led the way underneath Gill's bedside. They can literally hear the sound that Gill was just snoring quietly.
"Ah! Whoever knew Gill just snored like that while sleeping?" Gurgle hissed sarcastically.
"What?!" Bloat shot back softly.
"Shh!" the others shushed, as they peered, catching sights of Gill changing positions sleepily.
Then, they felt relieved at the same time
Nemo came up with an idea, but heard his cousin whimpering in her parents' embrace.
"Don't worry, guys. We can take this under control!" he whispered to everyone.
"Nemo! How do you always look on the bright side?" Gurgle hissed sarcastically.
"Shush, Gurgle! Don't wake Gill up!" Marlin hissed.
Dory and the other Tank Gang members nodded, as if they were about to scowl at Gurgle for this kind of behavior.
"I'm trying to be optimistic!" Gurgle whispered back.
"Gurgle, there's always a bright side," Nemo whispered a little bit sternly.
"Oh, that's just great, plan A is ruined," Marlin whispered and facepalmed himself.
"Nice work, Gurgle! Now there's no way!" Bloat hissed and crossed his fins.
The others scowled at Gurgle, but quietly, since it was almost nighttime.
"Well, time for plan B!" Marlin shot back to the others as he came up with an idea.
As Marlin and the others stepped backwards from Gill's bedside while underneath, he whispered,
"Okay. Now, we are gonna yell quietly, as if to act like roosters, got it?"
The others felt confused, but reluctantly agreed at the same time.
"Come on, yell with me," Marlin hissed quietly.
"Cockle-doodle-doo!" he, Nemo, Dory and the Tank Gang members said quietly in unison.
With his sound going raspy while in a beauty sleep, Gill groaned with drowsiness while blinking his eyes, but closed his tired eyes back and surely fell back to sleep. His snores are continuing.
"Louder!" Marlin announced quietly to the others again.
"COCKLE-DOODLE-DOO!" he, Nemo, Dory and the Tank Gang members said quietly in unison.
The noise can be heard until Gill's eyes snapped open. He yawned and rubbed his eyes tiredly, but spotted his friends being sneaky.
"Hey! What are you doing in my room?!" Gill snarled out.
Nemo, Marlin, Dory and the Tank Gang members screamed, and swam away.
"HEY! GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!" Gill shouted, as if the neighborhood almost woke up.
He chased his friends around the reef, until the Tank Gang members charged and held down their leader. Nemo, Marlin and Dory had Trixie held from Bubbles and Deb, who took care of the situation.
"Gill! Snap out of it!" Peach cried out.
Bloat smacked Gill in the face several times to stop his anger. As he did it, Gurgle, Jacques, Bubbles and Deb helped Peach hold Gill down.
After all of that, Gill panted heavily, and asked,
"What's going on? What just happened?!"
"You got mad at us, Gill," Deb responded.
"And we noticed that your words kicked our daughter out of the group. That was unacceptable," Bubbles added as he soothed his daughter with comfort.
Bloat, Gurgle and Jacques nodded in unison.
"Gill," Nemo said as he swam close to Gill.
"Sharkbait? What're—" Gill stammered, but paused.
"We are here to help you. We felt concerned of what happened this morning," Nemo replied as he puts a fin on Gill's fin from his scarred side on the right.
"I— I don't know what it came over me," Gill said as he teared up,
"I didn't mean it, Sharkbait, I didn't mean it..."
Gill stood very frozen as he felt ashamed of what just happened.
As he spotted his niece going over to him, Trixie showed her uncle a bandage wher her father put. Doing so, Trixie cried softly. In reaction, Gill knew it was his fault, so he embraced his niece back tearfully.
"Hey, kid. No need to worry about my actions anymore. I was so stupid," Gill soothed sadly.
"Uncle Gill, I thought you hated me ever since you grounded me for no reason," Trixie responded sadly while in her uncle's fins.
"No, I'm the one who should hate myself. I lost my temper around you, your parents, and the others. You'll never be grounded; so, I think you'll always be one of us," Gill replied.
Trixie smiled with tears, and felt her uncle Gill kiss her face, forehead and cheek that was slapped earlier.
"Can you forgive me this time, you guys?" Gill requested with small tears.
Trixie nodded as she forgave her uncle right away; Nemo, Marlin, Dory, Bubbles, Deb, Gurgle, Bloat and Jacques did the same.
Mostly, Peach smiled with tears as she hugged him with forgiveness. Gill blushed with confidence as he embraced her back.
"Gill, honey, it's okay. We all know how you feel," Peach said as she kissed Gill on the face.
Gill did the same to her as he chuckled. Marlin, Dory and the other Tank Gang members felt awed.
"You have our condolences, Gill," Nemo said.
As he hugged his friend with compassion, Gill blushed with tears and hugged Nemo back proudly with love and said,
"Thank you very much, Sharkbait! I promise I will never ever blow a fuse or any tantrums like that."
Marlin and Dory smiled at Gill's remark to Nemo. Trixie teared up happily, but not too much since she felt even more better than ever, while her parents Bubbles and Deb comfort her.
The others remaining: Gurgle, Bloat and Jacques felt relieved thay their leader was becoming good-hearted and very kind instead of having sterness, anger, aggressiveness, and even hatred.
The other fish neighbors reacted from far, felt awed, and eventually went back inside their dens to sleep.
Later in the night...
Time progressed since midnight has approached. The Tank Gang thanked Nemo, Marlin and Dory for helping out with Gill and cheering up Trixie. The three nodded and bid the Tank Gang goodnight.
Back in their own neighborhood, Marlin and Nemo bid Dory goodnight, and Dory did the same, then fell asleep in her own home; Marlin tucked Nemo to sleep with him in the sea anemone, and fell right to sleep.
Meanwhile in the other neighborhood, the Tank Gang were getting themselves situated for bed. Gurgle, Bloat and Jacques were asleep next to each other with Bubbles and Deb cuddling Trixie, who wanted to sleep with them since she got scared in the morning, on their beds around their leader's bedside. Gill and Peach were sound asleep, giving each other nudges, cuddles and lovely embraces.
Happily, their family is together ever since after difficulties of comforting each other.
Fin