Author's Note: Hello, everyone! Here is an another Finding Nemo fanfic that gave me an idea to write. This is a sequel to the movie and the other movie Finding Dory, sort of; and it also takes place during the events of my very old story A Journey of Friendship. As always, favs and follows are accepted; be sure to R&R! So, thanks and I hope you enjoy it.

It was a beautiful early morning after midnight; the sun shone through the ocean slides.

The Tank Gang were sound asleep in their den, after tiring themselves out after their adventure to find a home after escaping from the Marine Life Institute Aquarium after fish tank since the defeat of their big enemy Darla Sherman, who is the dentist's niece, and most likely a 'fish-killer'.

As Gill tried to rest better, he stirred in his sleep a bit violently, as if he was havinga bad dream, remembering what happened while in the fish tank.

*~(Dream Flashback)~*

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

A fish-killer who made a wicked smile had approached to the fish tank and tapped it with her finger. The Tank Gang were annoyed with the girl's loud tapping on the inside and covering their hearing, since they realized that her name is Darla Sherman, the niece of the dentist.

Deb screamed in fear except for Gill, Gurgle, Bloat and Jacques, who were in fear and annoyance, covering their hearing.

"Aaaah!" Bubbles complained,

"Too loud! Too loud for me!"

Darla continued to tap on the tank, singing to herself,

"Twinkle, twinkle little star…"

"Find a happy place, find a happy place, find a happy place!" Peach cried, clearly trying to distract herself from Darla's oblivious torture, as her arms gradually came loose from the side of the tank.

Moments later, the secretary named Barbara finally called to her, saying that her uncle was ready to see her now.

Dr. Sherman smiled at his niece, getting her to open her mouth to show him her teeth.

"All right," he said,

"Let's see those pearly whites."

Darla pretended to attack her uncle with her mouth,

"Raaa!" she said,

"I'm a piranha. They're in the Amazon."

The dentist smiled at his little niece, clearly finding her childish ways amusing,

"And a piranha's a fish," he told her,

"Just like your present."

Darla giggled and clapped upon hearing that.

"I get a fishy! Fishy, fishy, fishy!" she practically sang.

The Tank Gang watched Dr. Sherman pick up the bag containing Nemo. The dentist then grimaced, as he looked at the bag containing the little clownfish.

Nemo has went belly-up inside the bag.

"Oh no. Poor little guy," Dr. Sherman said sadly.

"He's dead," said Bloat, his voice full of despair.

"Sharkbait!" Gill exclaimed in anguish and disbelief, as if he was about to mourn Nemo.

The dentist shoved the bag behind his back, and gave Darla a nervous little laugh. "Must've left your present in the car, sweetie," he said, giving the nervous little laugh once more.

"Awwwww," was all Darla said in refusal.

"I'll go and get it," the dentist assured her.

But all of a sudden, Nemo opened one eye, grinned cheerfully at the Tank Gang, and winked at them. Gill let out a breath that he didn't know until that moment he had been holding in – the boy was alive, and had merely tricked the dentist into believing that he was dead!

Gill gasped, "He's still alive!" he exclaimed.

"He's not dead!" said Peach, sounding as relieved as Gill felt at that moment.

"What's happening? Why is he playing dead?" asked Bloat.

"He's gonna get flushed down the toilet! He's gonna get outta here!" Gill answered with happiness.

"Yay!" exclaimed Deb.

"He's gonna get flushed!" Bloat said, watching the dentist as he carried the baggie.

"What a smart little guy!" added Gurgle.

But something was going wrong. The dentist had started to go the wrong way – not towards the toilet, but rather to the side of the room, towards a trash can!

"Oh no, not the trash can!" Gill cried.

"Nemo! No!" exclaimed Bubbles.

Suddenly, Nigel the pelican flew quickly to the window with a muffled voice coming from him, which said,

"Hey, hey! I found his dad!"

Nigel was holding a male adult clownfish named Marlin, along with a female regal blue tang named Dory.

"Where's Nemo!?" Marlin asked in fear,

"Where is he?!"

"Dentist! Dentist!" exclaimed Bloat, as all of the Tank Gang pointed furiously over to where Doctor Sherman was still about to throw the baggie containing Sharkbait into the trash.

"He's over there!" Gill exclaimed.

"What's a dentist!?" Marlin panicked inside Nigel's beak,

"What is that!?"

He gasped as he looked into the dentist's surgery, and then, with a look of determination, said,

"Nigel, get in there!"

"I can't go in there!" Nigel protested, still sounding rather muffled due to the fish in his beak.

"Oh yes, you can!" Marlin said with a frown, and yanked Nigel's tongue out of the water.

"Charge!" he yelled, letting out a battle cry.

As Marlin took Nigel's tongue, pulling it, Nigel squawked loudly, which caused Darla to react. In reaction, Darla screamed in fear. As Dr. Sherman stopped with the bag still in his hand, he spotted Nigel next to his niece.

"What the -!?" the dentist asked, and panicked,

"Darla, sweetie! Look out!"

Dr. Sherman chased Nigel around the office. Darla screamed in panic, her legs going up and down in her chair as she pointed towards the brown pelican. For a moment, Gill saw the other humans, patients and parents, who had been waiting patiently to see Dr. Sherman; the boy who read a magazine stared at the dentist's office, noticing that there was an attack in here. He opened his mouth with shock.

Meanwhile in the office, Nigel managed to slam into the dentist, thereby knocking the bag containing Nemo right out of his hand. The bag landed, intact, on the tray of dental tools.

"Hold still!" Dr. Sherman instructed to Darla as he was trying to fight off the struggling pelican,

"Nobody's going to hurt you! Oof!" he added, as he tried to make sure that Nigel was kept away from his niece.

Nigel froze, and let Marlin see Nemo. With a gasp of disbelief, Marlin stared at his son. Nemo has gone belly-up inside the bag.

"Nemo..." Marlin said quietly, thinking that Nemo was dead.

Dory approached next to Marlin, and gasped.

"Oh my goodness," she said quietly.

The moment of stillness was over as soon as it had begun. Dr. Sherman was strangling Nigel with anger.

As Nigel was squawking in fear and pain, Marlin shouted out,

"Nemo!"

A moment later, Nigel, along with his fish companions, was close towards the window, getting kicked out by Dr. Sherman.

It was only at that moment that Nemo stirred. Opening his eyes, and righting himself once more, he looked around in confusion tinged with fear.

"Daddy?" he asked.

"Out with 'ya! And stay out!" the dentist called after the pelican, who flew away, leaving with Marlin and Dory stuck in his mouth. Dr. Sherman finally slammed the window door shut.

Gill was groaning with panic in his sleep, as Peach revealed her face while awake. She noticed Gill having a terrible nightmare, and nudged onto him, saying,

"Gill? Gill, honey, wake up!"

But Gill didn't respond, still shaking violently while sleeping. Peach felt concerned of what to do, but she kept nudging him so that he'll wake up soon.

*~(Dream Flasback Continues)~*

"Daddy?" Nemo asked, as if he was concerned if Marlin was here with Nigel, including Dory, who was them the whole time.

But suddenly, Darla picked up the bag with Nemo, who was already awake, inside. She protested,

"Fishy? Fishy! Wake up! Wake up!"

The Tank Gang felt fear inside while seeing Darla shake the bag hard with Nemo inside, just like the time she did to Chuckles, the past goldfish, who died after going belly-up.

"Oh, no!" Deb cried in disbelief.

Gill reacted, and frowned with an idea to tell his gang.

"Quick! To the top of Mount Wannahockaloogie!" he announced.

"Why are you sleeping?!" Darla protested again as she contiued shaking the bag, almost in attempt to kill Nemo.

"Hurry!" Peach shouted with fear.

As Gill hopped onto the inside of Mount Wannahockaloogie, he instructed,

"Bloat!"

Bloat started to inflate himself slowly, aiming Mount Wannahockaloogie upwards the water; Deb, Bubbles and Gurgle pushed it as well to the same direction.

"Ring of Fire!" Gill shouted angrily and quickly at this time.

Jacques hurriedly ran on the knob at the base of the volcano, in order to build up pressure and release bubbles from its top. As Gill finally faced up, the top of Mount Wannahockaloogie fired Gill out, sending him on top of Darla's head, without Dr. Sherman, who kept facing the window, noticing.

"Fishy!" Darla yelled.

But suddenly, Gill jumped on top of her hair, which caused Darla to scream in fear, letting go of the bag, which broke, releasing Nemo free on the tray of dental tools.

As Dr. Sherman spotted Gill on top of Darla's head, he panicked,

"Wha— crikey! Oh, all animals have gone mad!"

But then, he bumped his head against a dental X-ray machine, and collapsed on to the floor.

Meanwhile, in the waiting room, the boy was still shocked, which caused his mother to react as well to the dentist's office. The two other people did the same. The four were doing this while looking through the fish tank.

They even heard Darla shouting,

"Get it off!"

Back in the fish tank, Deb, Bubbles, Jacques, Gurgle and Bloat, including Peach, who was far from them, with her front body on the glass, saw Darla panicking with their leader Gill jumping on top of her head.

"Smack her in the head!" Gurgle chanted.

"Go, Gill, go!" Bloat said as well.

"FISH IN MY HAIR!" Darla yelled out as she kept screaming, which caused Gill to fall off her head and land on a tray of dental tools where Nemo was at. As Gill jumped and crawled to Nemo's side, gasping for air back in water, he wheezed,

"Sharkbait, I saw your dad, please stay with me, don't go!"

As Nemo didn't respond, still lying dead, Gill was close to tearing up, holding back a sob.

The other Tank Gang members gasped, as if they are gonna mourn Nemo's death.

"Nemo, please wake up! You still got the chance to get to your dad...!" Gill wheezed tearfully.

But suddenly, Nemo weakly strained a bit. He was still alive! Gill felt relieved, while gasping for air back in water due to risking his life like this. The other Tank Gang smiled back cheerfully, as if Gill was gonna send Nemo back in the ocean. Nemo weakly but surely heard Gill's voice, and responded,

"Gill, I think my dad might be out somewhere, but, it's too late..."

"No, it can't be, Nemo. Your chance... to find your dad... is here," Gill wheezed, and held Nemo in his embrace, with tears streaming down his eyes. As Nemo was close to dying, he was struggling to stay awake.

"Gill...? Gill?! What are you doing?! I am not leaving without you!" Nemo cried with concern as he felt less tears from his eyes, as if he didn't want Gill to be gone.

As Gill kept gasping for air, he wheezed to Nemo as he aimed for the spit-drain,

"Sharkbait... Tell your dad, I said hi..."

Then, Gill grunted as he threw Nemo from his directly into the spit-drain and fell forward, but got stabbed on a sharp dental tool, like in the past when Gill got his scars. While Darla tries to catch Nemo, he was getting flushed inside the spit-drain and yelled in fear, until Nemo was gone.

"Go get him..." Gill said finally, and began to lose consciousness, after bleeding from the sharp dental tool.

Suddenly, while dozing off, Gill stopped breathing.

"GILL!" the Tank Gang all shouted mournfully in unison and fear as they saw Dr. Sherman regaining consciousness with a shocked look on his face, seeing Gill.

Then, he took and placed Gill back in the tank until Gill finally lost consciousness and about to die any minute now, which caused the Tank Gang to see him in shock. But when Darla peered through the spit-drain where Nemo was flushed inside back to the ocean, she wailed,

"Fishy!"

Suddenly, the water sprayed all over her face.
Back in the fish tank, As Peach fell from the glass, Jacques picked her up and scuttled to Gill, where Gurgle and Bloat were checking his pulse, with Deb sobbing in Bubble's fins when he was comforting her.

As Gurgle tearfully pouted, holding back a sob and showing apology for being sarcastic about what'll happen during Gill's plans, Bloat turned to Jacques, and finally at Peach. As Peach wanted to hear if Gill was okay, Bloat shook his head sadly. Peach gasped, holding back a sob. Jacques took her to Gill's motionless body. As Peach had tears running down her eyes, she said,

"Gill, I'm right here! Please, wake up!"

Peach gently smoothed Gill's body with one of her starfish arms with passion. While doing that, she was checking his pulse. Jacques sighed, and scuttled over as he placed a hand on Peach's back.

"Je suis désolé, Peach. Try to understand, Gill— he's gone," he said sadly.

Tearing up with disbelief, Peach rested herself on Gill's lifeless body and sobbed heartbreakingly. Jacques kept his hand on her back, watching Gill rest in peace, and he held his head down while closing his eyes in respect.

With less tears, Bubbles faced Deb as he gave her a compassionate hug. Returning it, Deb started crying as she held onto Bubble's body. Soothing Deb in his fins with a kiss on her forehead and face, Bubbles said softly,

"Deb, I'm so sorry."

Gurgle teared up as Bloat did the same; they all paid respects for Gill, including Bubbles, Deb, Jacques and Peach. As the Tank Gang did so to Gill, they all had lost their aging, beloved, and most brave leader now...

*~(End of Dream Flashback)~*

Feeling the movement, Gill shot up with a loud scream. The other Tank Gang members shot up, too, with a yelp, startled by their leader's yelp. Peach was already awake, still concerned about Gill.

"Gill, honey, are you okay?" she asked.

As Gill panted heartbreakingly, he felt tears streaming down his eyes.

"Oh, Peach, this is bad! We tried to save Nemo when Nigel brought his dad and a blue tang fish with him. But when you and the others aimed me on Mount Wannahockaloogie in the fish tank, we noticed Nemo almost died after getting hurt and almost shaken by that fish-killing Darla, whom the dentist gave Nemo to. And with relief, once... I leaded him into the drain to live in the ocean, to find his dad, and..." Gill said, holding back a sob.

"And what, honey?" Peach asked again.

"... I... I killed myself..." Gill whispered, and sobbed silently.

As Peach reacted, she felt tears streaming down her eyes, too. As Peach threw her starfish arms around Gill's body, she cried softly and said,

"Oh, honey! I couldn't believe it, don't tell me that you committed suicide!"

The other Tank Gang members reacted as well, with mournfulness. Deb began sobbing heartbreakingly after hearing what Gill had said.

"Oh, Gill, how could you say that you risked your life like this?!" she wailed.

Bubbles reacted, and with comfort, he goes over to Deb, as if to sooth her in his fins.

"Bubbles, DON'T touch me!" Deb protested angrily as she elbowed Bubbles, who yelped in confusion.

Gurgle, Bloat and Jacques gasped silently. Then, they swam over to Gill with concern and comfort.

"Gill, it's not your fault. We already defeated that fish-killer last year since we escaped from the tank," Gurgle said with comfort, putting his fin on Gill's side.

"Yeah. We'll be right by your side," Bloat chimed in agreement.

"Oui, just a dream," Jacques added.

"No, seriously, gang, I saved Nemo by sending him to the drain, and... I failed myself, just like my mission brief since Nemo's first time, and he was one of us..." Gill said silently,

"... He used to be known as... Sharkbait."

"You called Nemo that, Gill. He used to be our long-lost nephew to us," Bubbles replied with comfort.

"Gill, it'll be okay. Right now we escaped from the aquarium tanks, and we are almost home back to the reef. But... I wish Flo was here," Deb said sadly.

"She'll be fine, Deb," Gill reassured her.

But as he beamed a smile, Gill continued on,

"Gang, I think I'm all better now. Thanks for cheering me up; you're all right, we defeated Darla and saved Nemo."

"You're more than welcome, Gill, honey. No matter how much we love you as a team, and that you love us, too, as our leader," Peach said with confidence after wiping her tears away, and hugged Gill.

Gill blushed, but smiled kindly at Peach, and embraced her back.

"Don't worry, Peach, I will never leave you and my gang alone. I've always gotten your backs," he said.

Then, he nuzzled Peach on the face with a kiss, while she returned the kiss back to Gill.

Deb, Bubbles, Bloat, Gurgle and Jacques felt awed at that moment.

As Gill climbed out of the bed and gave Peach to Jacques to hold, he announced,

"All right, gang! Let's continue our journey to find our home!"

"UGH, seriously, that'll take more hours!" Gurgle sighed.

As Bloat glared at him, Gurgle blushed back with embarrassment. As Bubbles and Deb yawned tiredly, they nodded, saying in unison,

"Uh-huh."

"Oui, I shall resist," Jacques said as he kept holding Peach in his hands, as if she will stay still in there.

"Nice one, Jacques!" Gill marveled, and continued on again,

"Okay then, let's go to the Great Barrier Reef and find Sharkbait!"

Then, the other Tank Gang members cheered, and got themselves situated to continue on their trip home. Hopefully, they would make it quickly amd find their long-lost nephew Nemo, whom they used to call 'Sharkbait'.

Fin