Disclaimer: I don't own the 2004 animated comedy film Shark Tale, and all rights goes to Dreamworks Animation SKG. Shark Tale is one of my favorite movies, and it still is today. This story is a whole retelling of the movie, and the new characters and the new scenes belong to me. Please enjoy the story and review! You can also follow and/or favorite the story if you like to.
A worm tangled to a fishing hook on a fishing pole is being thrown into the Atlantic Ocean by a young boy who is fishing at the New York Bay. The worm screams in fear as he's being thrown into the ocean, and he splashes into the water.
In the Atlantic Ocean, as the worm is on the hook and now holding his breath, he is terrified that he is about to become bait and he looks around in fear to make sure that there isn't any undersea predator around to eat him.
Unbeknownst to the worm, somebody was swimming around him just as he gulped in fear and was still holding onto his breath. Suddenly, the worm screamed in fear as he saw somebody coming right towards him as he struggled to break free from the hook, but he had a disturbing feeling that somebody was right behind him.
The worm turned around and saw a slender great white shark with green eyes. This shark is Lenny Lino. It seems that Lenny was going to eat the worm, but it quickly turns out that he kindly greets the worm instead because he's a friendly shark rather than being like the other sharks who would usually kill anything.
"Hello, there. My name is Lenny." Lenny greeted, but the worm fainted in fear due to him being a shark. "Oh, little guy, did I scare ya 'cause I'm a great white shark? I'm so sorry. C'mon. Wake up." Lenny held the worm gently in his fins as the worm quickly regained consciousness. "Alright, don't worry, I'll get you outta that hook in a jiffy. Just keep holding your breath, little worm."
"Hey, Lenny!" somebody's voice called out.
"I'm coming, Frankie! Hold on a sec!" Lenny called out.
"Well, make it fast! Move it, come on, let's go! Pop's waiting!" Frankie called out.
Lenny quickly manages to untie the worm from the hook, freeing him at last. "Untie you from the hook, and...gotcha! Okay, little guy, you're free at last, now go. Just go and say hello to freedom."
Lenny smiled at himself when he did the good deed. Just as he began swimming away, he shrieked in fear when he saw another great white shark who is muscular, has a notch in his dorsal fin, covered in scars, and has green eyes. This shark is Frankie Lino, Lenny's older brother.
"Oh, you startled me. And you nearly gave me a heart attack here." said Lenny.
Suddenly, Lenny spots another great white shark who is slender, has light blue eyes, and has a glamorous appearance. This shark is Teresa Lino, Lenny's younger sister.
"Oh, hey, Teresa." Lenny greeted.
"Hey, Lenny." Teresa greeted. "Where have you been this morning? And what are you up to?"
"Yeah, Lenny, what the heck are you doing?" asked Frankie.
"Me? I wasn't doing anything important. Except this." answered Lenny.
"What is it?" asked Teresa.
"Well, Frankie and Teresa, I was just…" explained Lenny as he picked up some undersea flowers from the ground. "...picking you two some flowers."
"You were picking us some flowers? Oh, that's kind of you." said Teresa. "I would like to have some flowers."
"Here you go, Sis." said Lenny as he gave Teresa some flowers.
"Thank you, Lenny." said Teresa.
"You're welcome." said Lenny. He turns to Frankie and kindly offers him some flowers. "Here you go, Frankie. Here are some flowers for…" He is about to give the flowers to Frankie, but he slapped them out of his fins just as Teresa gasped in shock. "Hey! Our mom said that it's not okay to hit each other!"
"That's right. Mom told us that we can't hit each other." said Teresa. "She said it's not nice and it's disrespectful."
Frankie slaps Lenny again. "Mom's not here right now, remember? She's at the hospital because she's sick."
"We know that." replied Teresa. "Mom is sick, and she's at the hospital for disease treatment."
Lenny, Frankie, and Teresa began swimming back to their home as they swam throughout a kelp forest. As they are, Frankie began humming the theme of Jaws, which greatly annoys Lenny and Teresa in the process.
"Frankie, don't. Please don't." said Lenny in annoyance.
"Ugh. Nobody wants to hear the Jaws theme." said Teresa in annoyance. "Will you please cut it out?"
Frankie continues to hum the Jaws theme and eventually finishes it, much to Lenny and Teresa's disapproval.
"Oh, that classic theme gives me the creeps." replied Lenny.
"What do you mean it creeps you out? It's our theme song." said Frankie.
"We know, Frankie. We know it's our theme song." said Teresa. "Every shark knows it's our theme song."
Meanwhile, as the flowers floated down the depths of the ocean after they've been swatted away by Frankie from earlier, there is a vast reef that greatly resembles the New York City borough of Manhattan known as Southside Reef, which nearly looked like a ghost town.
However, on the big screen of Pelagic Square, a sand trout named Katie Current who is one of the local reporters of the Southside Reef news program known as Sea 9 answered some questions about whether the sharks have left the reef or not.
"Are the sharks gone? Are the sharks really gone? Are you sure about it, Thomas?" asked Katie Current. She then smiled at the viewers as the screen briefly went static. "Good morning, Southside Reef. I'm Katie Current, keeping it current. We've just received official confirmation that the sharks are gone. I repeat: the sharks are gone."
Suddenly, upon hearing Katie Current's announcement on the Pelagic Square big screen, the citizens of Southside Reef such as fish and other sea creatures came out of nowhere and began swimming around and began doing their own work at their important jobs. Everybody was hiding because the sharks like Lenny, Frankie, and Teresa can attack and kill anybody.
At a flower and gift shop known as Martha Sturgeon's Flowers, the flounder owner switches the close sign to open at the entrance while the flowers bloomed quickly, and the flounder owner rolls up the roll up door.
At a swim of fame known as Starfish Tours, a large fish with the banner of the logo of Starfish Tours drops off a paparazzi of fish who take photos of the famous celebrities of the reef with their cameras. Also, some starfish who are under the names of each celebrity say their names as the paparazzi take photos of them.
"Tina Turner." said a starfish.
"Rachel Crow." said another starfish.
"Jessica Simpson." said another starfish.
"Rod Stewart." said another starfish.
Another starfish that is under the name Seal is about to say the name of the celebrity, but he is suddenly interrupted when an actual seal lands on him.
Elsewhere in Southside Reef, Katie Current makes another report that is being heard in a television store known as TV Emporium.
"Up next on Sea 9, a mother with 900 children will tell us how she does it all." Katie Current announced just as the news broadcast shows a fish mother being overwhelmed with 900 children. "But first, over to Janice for the traffic report in Midtown Southside Reef." The news then cuts to a fish named Janice who is also a reporter of Sea 9.
"Thank you, Katie." said Janice just as she swam above the traffic of the reef. "Slight congestion here within Interreef 95 of Midtown Southside Reef, there's an overturned mackerel. The local authorities are trying to calm him down." She saw the dolphin police officers trying to calm down the overturned mackerel by causing a traffic jam. "Get out those ShellPhones and call your bosses, 'cause you're gonna be late for work due to the traffic jam."
"What is taking so long?!" exclaimed a taxi fish.
"Don't you shout at me! Your mother is my mother, alright?!" exclaimed another taxi fish.
The taxi fish groaned in annoyance and swam somewhere else. Southside Reef was a very busy place, fish and other sea creatures working and more. One of the fish inhabitants dumps garbage in the mouth of a big fish who eats it.
At the Prawn Shop, the blue shrimp owner sat at the counter just as a clam showed him a white pearl.
"Yep, this pearl is a fake." said the blue shrimp while staring at the fake white pearl.
"Fake? I spent eight years working on that pearl!" snapped the clam.
Inside a sushi bar known as the Sushi Bowl while the lobsters walked on the elevated tracks of the reef, the fish owner was right at the counter waiting for some customers to show up, but nobody came inside. The owner becomes frustrated as he impales a knife on the counter and raises his fins up in frustration.
Everybody in Southside Reef continues to swim around and do their work at their jobs just as Katie Current makes another report on the big screen of Pelagic Square.
"According to the latest scallop poll by the anchorman of Sea 9 Thomas Waves as well as his co-anchor Ruth Koizumi, the fear of sharks keeps rising by the minute everyday." Katie Current announced to the viewers. "Join us for the latest in-depth report this evening. How long must this reef live under siege? Is there no kind of hero among us? Who is capable of stopping this shark menace?"
Later on, at an amazing penthouse, there was a bluestreak cleaner wrasse with blue and yellow striped tail fins, a white belly, a yellow head, green and blue stripes on his body, green fins with blue fingers, and blue eyes. Also, he is wearing a cap with the letter O in front of it, sunglasses, and a golden chain with a letter O-shaped medallion. This fish is Oscar. He turned around and began introducing himself.
"Hello, there. My name is Oscar. You might think you know, but you absolutely have no idea." Oscar greeted as he began showing the things in the penthouse. "Welcome to my luxurious home. The good life, the way the other half lives. Check it out, y'all. I got my 60-inch hi-def flat screen TV with 6 speakers surround. CD player, DVD player, PlayStation hooked up and an 8-track player for the days when you're just feeling a little…" Oscar did some beatboxing "...old school." He then laughed. "'Cause every single superstar Mack Daddy fish like me needs to have the basic necessities."
Suddenly, three fish children called the shorties show up with bottles of spray paint.
"Yeah right, like a lot of money!" said shorty #1 as he laughed along with the other two shorties.
The penthouse quickly turns out to be a billboard advertisement, and Oscar isn't really rich and famous.
"C'mon, shorties, why y'all messing around with my fantasy?" asked Oscar.
"'Cause you're so broke, you're baloney doesn't have no first name." said shorty #1 just as he and the other two shorties laughed.
"Oh, that's funny. Really, really funny." said Oscar.
"Hey, Oscar, over here! I need to talk to ya!" a deranged hermit crab named Crazy Joe called from a nearby dumpster.
"I'll be right there." said Oscar. "You kids do me a small favor and hold onto these for me." He gave his cap, sunglasses, and chain to the three shorties. The chain made shorty #3 briefly floated down due to its weight.
"Oscar, you're the best." said shorty #2.
"Yeah, homie." said shorty #1.
"Whoa!" exclaimed shorty #3 as she floated down due to the chain.
After giving his cap, sunglasses, and chain to the shorties, Oscar swims up to Crazy Joe.
"Yo, Crazy Joe." Oscar greeted.
"Now you live in that great penthouse, is it okay that I could be your financial advisor?" asked Crazy Joe.
"That is just a billboard, Crazy Joe." corrected Oscar.
"You live in a billboard?" asked Crazy Joe.
"No, I don't. I live in the Seashell Plaza." corrected Oscar.
"And they usually just call me crazy all the time." said Crazy Joe. He laughed like crazy as he began floating away on an umbrella with holes that he got from the dumpster, making Oscar feel freaked out.
"Hey, Oscar. Look who came to visit." said shorty #1 as he and the other shorties finished spray painting the billboard.
Oscar screamed in fear as he saw graffiti artwork of him about to be eaten by a great white shark who is bursting through the penthouse floor.
"Gotcha!" said the shorties as they laughed.
"No, no, don't do that!" said Oscar as he removed some of the graffiti off of the billboard.
"Hey, Oscar!" somebody's voice called out.
"Huh?" asked Oscar.
"Huh?" asked the three shorties.
Oscar and the shorties suddenly saw a tuna with bright green scales, dark brown eyes, a dark brown bowl "haircut", turquoise fins, teal tail fins, and thick black circle-shaped glasses who showed up and swam up to Oscar and the shorties. This fish is Nelson, one of Oscar's best friends as well as his roommate.
"Oh, it's my homie Nelson. Hey, Nelson." Oscar greeted.
"Hey, Nelson." the shorties greeted.
"Hey, Oscar. Hey, kids." Nelson greeted. "Oscar, I've been looking all over for you."
"Wait, you have?" asked Oscar.
"Yes. This morning, I found out that you weren't in your bedroom, so I went looking for you." explained Nelson. "And I found you. Now, let's go. We don't wanna be late for…" Nelson suddenly notices the graffiti artwork of Oscar about to be eaten by the great white shark, causing him to scream in terror. "OH, MY GOSH! WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!"
"Nel, calm down. Calm down." said Oscar just as he put his fin on Nelson's shoulder. "It's just graffiti that the shorties made.
Nelson began calming down. "Really? It is?"
"Yeah." said shorty #3.
"We made it." added shorty #1.
"Impressive. Frightening, but impressive." replied Nelson stared at the graffiti artwork with a smile. "Besides, you kids aren't allowed to do this kind of stuff anyway no matter how impressive they are. Graffiti is vandalism and it's against the law."
"That's true." said Oscar. "Shouldn't you three kids be in school like you're supposed to be?"
"Shouldn't you and Nelson be at work like you're supposed to be?" asked shorty #3.
"Right back at me, huh? Smart mouth." said Oscar. "Look, Nelson and I are on our way to work at the Whale Wash, so stay out of trouble, alright? And clean this mess up."
"Oscar and I are now off to go to work at the Whale Wash now." said Nelson. "Bye, kids. Clean that graffiti off of that billboard, and make sure you try not to get into any more trouble."
"See you later." said the shorties as they began cleaning off the graffiti by using their tail-fins.
Oscar smiled at himself just as he and Nelson were on their way to work at the Whale Wash while Crazy Joe kept floating away on the umbrella.
"See ya, Oscar! And see ya too, Nelson!" said Crazy Joe.
Oscar and Nelson continued their way to work, and soon they arrived at Sykes' Whale Wash which was under the ownership of Sykes himself. It was a place for sperm whales to get themselves cleaned up by the employees who worked there.
Various sperm whale customers have arrived at the Whale Wash and they form a large line to the entrance. A crab employee uses signal batons to signal the sperm whale customers to land on the landing devices of the Whale Wash so each of them could be carefully be carried into the place to get started on getting themselves washed up, and one of the sperm whales lands on one of the landing devices while Oscar and Nelson enters the Whale Wash.
Once Oscar and Nelson had arrived at work, they began greeting their fellow co-workers. First, Oscar and Nelson greet the crab employees who have the job to remove the barnacles from the sperm whales' backs by bungee jumping off the Whale Wash carriers and using their claws.
"Yo, guys, What's up, fellas? The Big O has arrived." Oscar greeted as he high-5'd one of the crab employees.
"Hey, guys, what's up?" Nelson greeted as he high-5'd two crab employees.
"Hey, Oscar." a crab employee greeted.
"Hey, Nelson." another crab employee greeted.
After greeting Oscar and Nelson, the crab employees jumped off the carriers and began doing their work by removing the barnacles off a sperm whale customer's back by using their claws.
Next, Oscar and Nelson greet the electric eel employees who have the job to remove the barnacles from under the sperm whales by using their electric tails.
"Hi, Oscar and Nelson." an electric eel employee greeted.
"Hi, Oscar and Nelson." another electric eel employee greeted.
"Hey, what's up?" Oscar greeted.
"Yo, yo fellas." Nelson greeted.
The electric eel employee continues doing their work by removing the barnacles from under one of the sperm whale customers by using their electric tails.
Next, Oscar and Nelson greet some fish employees who have the job of scrubbing the sperm whale customers' backs by using brushes and a large amount of soap suds, and the fish employees waved at them while they are doing their work.
"Yo, reef side." Oscar greeted.
"What's up, fellow co-workers?" Nelson greeted.
Next, Oscar and Nelson greet a fish employee named Johnson who has the job to spray soap suds on the sperm whales by using the controls of the Whale Wash control tower.
"Yo, Johnson." Oscar and Nelson greeted.
"Yo, Oscar and Nelson." Johnson greeted.
"Hey, Johnson, is it lunchtime yet?" asked Oscar.
"You and Nelson just got here." said Johnson.
"Yeah, Oscar. We just came to work." said Nelson.
"That's exactly my point." said Oscar.
Oscar and Nelson swam through some of the bubbles, swam under two automatic brushes, and swam under a fin of a sperm whale customer. Meanwhile, Headphone Guy, who was listening to music from his headphones, was putting an air freshener on the tooth of a sperm whale customer.
"Hey, Headphone Guy." Oscar and Nelson greeted, but they both shook their heads knowing that Headphone Guy didn't hear them.
Next, Oscar and Nelson greet the sea turtle employees who have the job to wax the sperm whale customers by using sponges and do dance moves while they are doing their work.
"Looking good, ladies." said Oscar.
"Hey, girls." Nelson greeted.
"Hey there, Oscar and Nelson." the sea turtle employees greeted.
Oscar and Nelson did some dance moves to praise them for their job to wax the sperm whale customers, and the sea turtle employees also did some dance moves to show their gratitude for Oscar and Nelson.
"Keep up the good work." said Oscar.
"Good luck with your waxing duty, ladies." said Nelson.
Then, Oscar and Nelson stopped right by the punch-in clock so that they could clock in and began doing their work. They both couldn't find their names on the cards until they found their cards on the punch-in section.
"Huh? What? I've already been punched-in for work?" asked Oscar.
"And it looks like that I've already been punched-in too." said Nelson. "Somebody must've covered for us while we've been running late for work? Who could it be?"
Oscar quickly smiled at himself as he figured out who had punched-in for him and Nelson. "Angie."
"Wait. Angie? She did this for us?" asked Nelson.
"Mmm-hmm." said Oscar.
"If Angie punched-in for us, then I bet Sabrina did this for us as well." said Nelson.
"Let's go thank those two for punching-in for us." said Oscar.
"Right. Let's go see them at their office." said Nelson.
Oscar and Nelson then began heading to the receptionist office of the Whale Wash to greet Angie and Sabrina, and also thank them for punching-in for them at the punch-in clock.
At the receptionist office, there is a pretty angelfish with magenta scales, purple "hair" (her fin), an abdomen that is the same color as her head, but her face is a lighter lavender, purple eyes, a bluish violet tail-fin, and light blue fins. This fish is Angie, and she is one of Oscar's best friends and the receptionist of the Whale Wash.
Right beside Angie's side at the receptionist office, there is a very beautiful and stunning sea goldie with orange scales, a medium-sized hot pink streak that goes around her chest and back, hazel eyes, a golden shoulder-length flip "hairstyle" with bangs and a hot pink ombre at the bottom, golden fins with hot pink fingers, and golden tail-fins with medium-sized hot pink tips on each of them. This fish is Sabrina, and she is one of Oscar's best friends and the assistant receptionist of the Whale Wash.
Angie was on the telephone and Sabrina was on the headset with a microphone as they are both sitting on their chairs, but they were speaking to a sperm whale customer together.
"Good morning, kind sir. Can we help you?" asked Angie.
"Is there something we could help you with, sir?" asked Sabrina.
"One good wash and wax, please." said the sperm whale.
"Hot wax?" asked Angie.
"Yes, please." said the sperm whale.
"Kelp scrape? We're having a special on that today, what do you say?" asked Angie.
"And how about some nice bubblegum toothpaste and some nice coral berry mouthwash?" asked Sabrina.
"Why not? It's mating season for the sperm whales and I'm feeling lucky that I'll find a perfect mate." said the sperm whale as he leaves.
"Okay. Good luck finding a mate, kind sir." said Sabrina.
Angie began answering the phone that she answered before. "Sykes' Whale Wash, you get a whale of a wash, and the price is...oh, my gosh." Angie listened just as she was doodling on a piece of paper on a clipboard that says Angie + Oscar inside a heart on it. She secretly has a huge crush on Oscar while she is one of his best friends alongside Nelson and Sabrina.
Just as Angie is speaking to someone on the telephone, Sabrina is waiting to answer somebody on the headset through the microphone as she is chewing and blowing bubblegum. Sabrina suddenly notices Angie is doodling on her secret paper and she smiles as she knows that Angie is in love with Oscar because she has told her all about it.
Then, Sabrina looks at a photo frame of her, Oscar, Angie, and Nelson right in front of a fast food burger restaurant called Fish King and she smiles at it as she kept chewing and blowing her bubblegum, and the photo frame also shows that they have been best friends for a very long time.
"Oh, may I suggest you would like a barnacle peel? It can remove barnacles from your skin, even the hard ones. That's good." said Angie as she answered on the telephone.
Suddenly, Oscar and Nelson arrive at the Whale Wash receptionist office and greet Angie and Sabrina as Oscar has a Kelpy Kreme bag which he got from the Kelpy Kreme donut and coffee shop and Nelson has an IHOS bag which he got from the IHOS pancake restaurant, acronym for International House of Salmon.
"Hey, Ang and Brina." Oscar greeted as he put the Kelpy Kreme bag on the counter.
"Hi, Angie and Sabrina." Nelson greeted as he put the IHOS bag on the counter.
Once Oscar and Nelson showed up, Angie gasped in alarm and quickly hid her secret paper under some other papers as she didn't want Oscar to see it or else she would be really embarrassed, and Sabrina just acted casual and pretended that she didn't even see Angie's secret paper at all.
"OH, MY GOSH! Hi, Oscar and Nelson." Angie greeted.
"Hey, Oscar. Hey, Nel." Sabrina greeted. "What brings you two here?"
"Oh, we just wanna drop by and say thanks for punching-in us in at the punch-in clock." said Nelson. "Thanks, you two."
"Yeah, thank you for covering for us." said Oscar.
"You're welcome. Ang and I couldn't you two be late for work." explained Sabrina. "Or else our boss Mr. Sykes will inflate like he usually does."
"That's correct. Mr. Sykes would inflate if he found out if Oscar and I were late." replied Nelson.
Oscar then grabbed the telephone that Angie was using. "Yo, I'm sorry, loyal customer. Angie needs to get her freak on. Could you please hold for one moment, please? Thanks, doll." He pushed the hold button.
"Oscar!" said Angie.
"Hey! Ang was in the middle of a phone call!" said Sabrina.
"C'mon, Ang, dance off with me, girl! Let me see it!" said Oscar while he was trying to make Angie dance with him.
"Hey, knock it off, will ya? Don't make Ang dance with you." said Nelson.
Oscar still kept trying to make Angie dance with him as he sang to himself. "Tomorrow I will be rich!" He then stopped singing. "C'mon, Ang, dance with me!"
"Oscar! You might get me fired from the job!" said Angie as she sat right back on her chair and signed some paperwork along with Sabrina.
"Yeah, she's right. You'll probably get Ang fired for one of your antics, Oscar." replied Sabrina. "And if she'll get fired from the job, then I'll have to find a new partner for the receptionist office or have to do the receptionist job all by myself."
"Oh, please. Angie fired?" asked Oscar. "That can't possibly happen." He sat on the counter and began playing with a seashell."'Cause then I would absolutely have NO reason to come to work at all." He then let go of the seashell as he allowed it to float in the water, and got up from the counter.
"Oh, you don't really mean that." said Angie sheepishly as she catches the seashell and puts it back on the counter.
"You can't be serious about what you just said." added Nelson.
"Of course, I do. Angie is like my best friend." said Oscar. "Just like Nelson is my best friend as well as my roommate, and just like Sabrina is my best friend. That's 'cause we've known each other for a very long time."
"That's so true. We have been best friends for a very long time." said Sabrina.
Angie gasped and groaned as she picked up a pen and dramatically pretended to stab herself in the heart with the pen while Oscar and Nelson were putting on goggles and Sabrina was still signing some paperwork while she was still chewing and blowing on her bubblegum. Oscar, Nelson, and Sabrina turn back to Angie, and she quickly hides the pen behind her back with a sheepish giggle.
"Listen here, Ang, Nel, and Brina. Tell me what y'all think of this idea." said Oscar. "This idea is totally the best one ever, alright? It's a sure thing, guaranteed cash extravaganza."
Angie, Nelson, and Sabrina stared at Oscar.
"Oh, yeah? Well, what's your idea to get rich this time?" asked Nelson.
"Bottled water and relaxation." answered Oscar.
"Oh, no." said Angie in exasperation.
"You have got to be kidding me." said Sabrina in exasperation.
"All I need is an advance on my paycheck from Mr. Sykes, and guys, I'll be out of this place ASAP." said Oscar. "I mean, I'm like...pschoo!" He then did a little dance.
"Oscar, instead of getting in Mr. Sykes' face with another one of your get-rich-quick schemes as usual, go do something that you're actually good at: your job here at the Whale Wash." said Angie as she placed a cleaning utility belt on Oscar. "Which by some miracle that you still have without the risk of losing it."
"Okay, bye now, guys." said Sabrina. "Good luck on your jobs."
"Good luck on your jobs, too. Bye." said Nelson.
Oscar and Nelson began leaving the receptionist as Oscar grabbed the Kelpy Kreme bag and Nelson grabbed the IHOS bag. Just as they began leaving, they remember that they got the two bags from the two restaurants on their way to the Whale Wash.
"Oh, I almost forgot something." said Oscar. He held out the Kelpy Kreme bag to Angie. "Angie, I got you some breakfast on the way here."
"You didn't." said Angie.
"Yes, I did." said Oscar.
"Kelpy Kreme? The famous donut shop and coffee shop?" asked Angie.
"Your most favorite donut shop and coffee shop in Southside Reef." replied Oscar as he gave the Kelpy Kreme bag to Angie.
"Hey, Sabrina. I got you some breakfast too." said Nelson. He held out the IHOS bag to Sabrina. "Ta-da! It's from the International House of Salmon, or IHOS for short."
"Really?" asked Sabrina. Nelson nodded. "Wow, thanks, Nelson. IHOS is one of my favorite places to have breakfast at."
"I hope you will enjoy it." said Nelson as he gave the IHOS bag to Sabrina.
"Oh, I will. I'm gonna enjoy this." said Sabrina.
"And by the way, Ang, you're still on hold on the phone." said Oscar.
Angie became alarmed and picked up the telephone. "OH, MY GOSH! Thank you very much for holding! I'm extremely busy! You know, busy, busy, busy!" She then motions Oscar and Nelson to leave. "You two, go on now!"
"It's time for you to leave and do your work." said Sabrina.
Oscar and Nelson nodded their heads and they both left the receptionist office to get started on their hard work while Angie continued answering the phone and Sabrina continued to wait to answer somebody on the headset as stopped chewing her bubblegum, spit it out, and tossed it away in a trash can.
"How can I help you, ma'am?" asked Angie as she listened to somebody on the phone. "No, I'm sorry, ma'am. Mr. Sykes isn't here right now. He's at a meeting and he won't be back until later on."
Suddenly, Sabrina receives a phone call on the headset and begins answering somebody through the microphone. "Sykes' Whale Wash, you get a whale of the wash, and the price is, oh, my gosh." She began listening to somebody on the headset. "Oh, we have the finest Seabreeze Soap here. It can remove barnacles and the foulest body odor." Sabrina continues to listen to somebody on the headset. "You wanna talk to Mr. Sykes? Sorry, he's not here at this moment. You can talk to him later when he gets back from a meeting that he said it's really important."
Whenever Sykes was at a meeting, he's at a meeting with the head of Southside Reef. In the sunken RMS Titanic that is located on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, there was a handsome muscular and very strong great white shark with a mole on his cheek and light blue eyes right in front of a fish tank as he opened it. This shark is Don Edward Lino, the crime boss of the great white shark mafia and the father of Lenny, Frankie, and Teresa.
"How are Daddy's little babies doing this morning? Did you miss me last week? Have you been good for Daddy? Huh? Huh?" asked Don Lino as he adored his pet piranhas in the fish tank. "You see, Sykes. It's a cruel world out there." He gets a bit of food from a jar that he's holding in the fish tank for his pet piranhas to eat. "You either take or get taken." Don Lino then watches his pet piranhas fiercely eat their food with a smile. He then closes the fish tank after feeding his pet piranhas.
A pufferfish named Sykes winced when he watched the piranhas eating their food viciously as he tried not to inflate.
"A few words have never been spoken." said Sykes. "Is that it? Are we finished with today's meeting?"
"Now you and I, we've always worked together." explained Don Lino as he put the jar on top of the fish tank. "I mean, we've worked together in my mafia for a very long time."
"Please, Don Lino. It's hardly been like work around here in the Southside Reef criminal underworld." begged Sykes.
"And what you are fully aware of…" Don Lino continued.
"I love that about you since you're the crime boss. I really do." Sykes interrupted.
"Please, let me finish. That I lived my life for my two sons and only daughter." said Don Lino. "The ones that I love so much and really care about." He began heading to his desk. "I've raised them and protected them along with my wife Mildred who is currently being treated for leukemia in the hospital."
"You're the best. Is our boss the greatest, right? Am I right or am I wrong, you guys?" Sykes asked Don Lino's octopus consigliere Luca and Don Lino's barracuda caporegime Yvette who both stared at him as they were sitting on a couch.
"Sykes. It's all been to prepare…" Don Lino continued.
"Right?" asked Sykes.
"...To prepare my three kids…" Don Lino continued.
"Sorry about that." apologized Sykes.
"That's alright. For the day that I retire as the crime boss of the mob and that Frankie, Lenny, and Teresa will run Southside Reef together." explained Don Lino as he sat at his desk. "Well, today is that day." He then sighed when the record player began scratching while Sykes sat in the chair that is in front of his desk. "Luca."
Luca began fixing the record until it began playing a clean version of Sir Mix-A-Lot's song Baby Got Back. Don Lino and Sykes stared at Luca and Yvette stared at Luca as well just as Luca stopped the record.
"Hey, boss. Big butts." said Luca as he chuckled.
"Seriously? Seriously?" asked Yvette in annoyance.
"Oi vey!" said Don Lino in annoyance as he did a facepalm. He continued the conversation with Sykes. "Long story short. From now on, as I'm giving up my position as the leader of the mafia, you will work for Frankie, Teresa, and Lenny who will lead the mafia together. Capiche?"
Sykes bursts out laughing. "Lenny? Lenny?! I understand that Frankie is right for being the leader of the mob and taking control of the reef. Or perhaps the beautiful Teresa, but Lenny? You can't be serious about this."
"I'm dead serious." said Don Lino. "It takes a lot more than muscles or prettiness to take charge of things. Now Lenny, he's intelligent and has the brains. That's something really special."
"Oh yeah, he's special, alright." said Sykes.
"What does that supposed to mean?" asked Don Lino.
"It's nothing. All I'm trying to say is that…" said Sykes as he began to explain, but Don Lino interrupted him.
"Hey. I bring you in here to look you in the eye, and also tell you what's what, and what?" asked Don Lino.
"What?" asked Sykes.
"What ''what"?" asked Don Lino.
"What what" nothing. You said "what" first." said Sykes.
"I didn't say what first. I asked you what." said Don Lino.
"No, you said "And then what?", and I said "what?"" said Sykes.
"No, I said "What what?" Like, what what!" said Don Lino.
Sykes looked confused. "You said "What" first."
"So now you're making fun of me?" asked Don Lino just as he got up.
"No, no, no, no, no. You just misunderstood. I wasn't making fun of you. I swear." replied Sykes, but the conversation got interrupted when Frankie, Lenny, and Teresa entered the office.
"Sorry, we're late, Pop." said Frankie. "Lenny had a little accident when Teresa and I found him this morning. He was born that way." He went behind a bar table.
Lenny laughed sarcastically while sitting on a bar stool chair. "You're such a comic genius about the things you say about me."
"Ha! That's so funny, Frankie." said Teresa as she sat on another bar stool chair right beside Lenny.
Sykes whispered to Don Lino. "Look, all I'm trying to say is that your son Lenny isn't exactly a killer due to the way he is."
"I can assure you that my Lenny is a killer!" said Don Lino. "Ya hear me?! A cold-blooded killer just like the other sharks! Look at him!"
Don Lino and Sykes both notice that Lenny is swinging harmlessly on his bar stool chair while Frankie shakes his head in annoyance and Teresa giggles. Sykes smirked while telling Don Lino that Lenny isn't a killer.
"Well? What do you have to say?" asked Sykes. "Does that give you proof that Lenny isn't a killer like you said he is?"
However, Don Lino became frustrated and glared angrily at Sykes just as he had enough. "Okay, you know what? That's it! That is IT! You are OUT!"
"Wait! What?!" asked Sykes in shock. He suddenly inflates while two pillows from the chair are stuck on his quills, and he speaks in a helium voice every time he inflates himself. "What does that mean?! What do you mean I'm out?!"
"It means you're fired and you're out of the mafia!" said Don Lino as he flicked Sykes and caused the pillows to come off of him, sending him flying into the Titanic Rose Portrait. "And on top of that, you're gonna have to start paying me protection money!"
"I have to start paying you protection money?! For what?!" asked Sykes in fear.
"So I wouldn't have to order the members of the mafia to do something terrible to that little Whale Wash of yours." said Don Lino.