Meanwhile...

"Oh, let's name the species, The species, the species, Let's name the species, That live in the sea~" Mr. Ray sang as he took the kids all around the ocean floor.

"Ooh." Penny smiled.

"Wow..." Nemo marveled at the sights.

Everyone could see a vast majority of coral, all of different shapes and size, standing before them like a colorful jungle. A great assortment of fish passed by these reefs, some above the coral and others below. So much abundant in these parts, there was hardly any time to name all the species.

Soon enough, they arrived at their destination.

"Okay, the drop off," Mr. Ray told his students as he landed to let them off. "All right, everyone, feel free to explore, but stay close."

"Yes, sir." Penny said.

"Stromalitic cyanobacteria!" Mr. Ray suddenly gasped before showing the others a speck before certain others seemed to wander off as he began to educate them. "Gather."

"Ooh." Penny smiled.

"Come on, let's go." The butterfly fish kid told the seahorse and octopus.

The three of them soon left. Nemo and Penny then found themselves following after their new friends.

"Hey, guys, wait up!" Nemo called out.

"Yeah, wait up!" Penny added.

They were too breath-taken with how big the Drop-Off truly was and nothing but miles upon miles of big, blue water stretching endlessly from way ahead.

"Cool." The butterfly fish said.

The octopus came closer until he then scared her and laughed as she seemed to gush out a black liquid from her tentacles.

"Aw, you guys made me ink!" The octopus pouted.

"So, what's going on over here?" Penny asked the others.

"It's that thing," The octopus girl pointed out. "What is it?"

"I know what that is," The butterfly fish spoke up. "Sandy Plankton saw one. He called, he said it was called a… A butt."

"Whoa..." Nemo was amazed.

"Wow, that's a pretty big butt." The octopus agreed.

"That's not a butt, that's a boat," Penny said. "But why is there a boat out here in the ocean?"

"Boat..." The others then repeated the right word.

"Oh, look at me," The seahorse taunted with a smirk. "I'm gonna go touch the boat." he then sneezed which made him swim backward slightly.

"Maybe we shouldn't be here." Penny said.

The others went closer and the only ones left were Nemo and Penny.

"Come on, guys," The butterfly fish called out to them. "How far can you go?"

"Listen, I think we should go back to the class." Penny said.

"Besides, my dad says it's not safe." Nemo added.

"NEMO, NO!" Suddenly, a voice yelled out.

Penny and Nemo turned to see that it was Marlin.

"Marlin?" Penny asked. "What are you doing here?"

"You were about to swim into open water!" Marlin scolded.

"No, I wasn't going out-" Nemo tried to explain.

"Marlin, he wasn't going to swim out into open water and neither was I." Penny said.

"Sir, they weren't gonna go." The octopus added.

"Yeah, they were too scared." The butterfly fish nodded.

"No, we're not!" Nemo glared slightly.

"This does not concern you, kids and you're lucky I don't tell you parents you were out there," Marlin told Nemo's friends before looking directly to his son. "You know you can't swim well."

"I can swim fine, okay, Dad?" Nemo glared.

Penny grew concerned about where this was going.

"No, it's not okay," Marlin scolded Nemo. "You shouldn't be anywhere near here... Oh, I was right," he then took his son's fin. "You'll start school in a year or two."

"No, Dad!" Nemo pulled away. "Just 'cuz you're scared of the ocean-"

"Clearly, you're not ready and you're not coming back until you are," Marlin interrupted. "You think you can do these things, but you just can't, Nemo!"

Nemo narrowed his eyes as he was very angry with his father right now. "I hate you."

Penny knew that had to hurt.

"There's-" Mr. Ray started to sing, but then stopped. "Nothing to see! Uh, gather over there," he then told his students before going over to Marlin. "Excuse me, is there anything I can do? I am a scientist, sir. Is there any problem?"

"I'm sorry, we didn't mean to interrupt things," Marlin said. "He isn't a good swimmer and it's a little too soon for him to be out here unsupervised."

"Marlin, stop, you're embarrassing him." Cherry scolded.

Penny grew concerned about the boat and had to be sure if there was anyone there. Nemo was swimming out to the boat.

"I'm sorry, but this is none of your business." Marlin said to Cherry as she butted in like she did.

"He's not a guppy anymore." Cherry said.

"And you have no right to boss around my little cousin like you did." Atticus added.

"By the way, where is she?" Patch asked.

"OH, MY GOSH!" A chicken fish suddenly yelled out. "NEMO AND PENNY ARE SWIMMING OUT TO SEA!"'

"Wait, what?!" Atticus panicked.

"Nemo!" Marlin gasped.

"Penny, no!" Atticus added.

Nemo and Penny were swimming up close to the boat. Penny went up to the top of the boat. There appeared to be one man who was waiting on the boat as he hummed to himself.

"Uh-oh..." Penny whispered to herself before going back underwater.

Marlin kept telling Nemo not to touch the boat, but soon, Nemo did just that which seemed to summon a scuba diver.

"Oh, no..." Penny gulped before grabbing Nemo and swimming him away from the scuba diver.

"Huh?" Nemo blinked.

The scuba diver reached out for Nemo, wanting to collect him which scared the other fish. Unfortunately for the scuba diver, he was unsuccessful.

"PENNY!" Atticus yelped for his little cousin.

The scuba diver soon put Nemo in a plastic bag.

"DAAADDDYYY!" Nemo cried out.

"NEMO!" Marlin yelped.

"Let him go!" Penny glared as she hit the scuba diver so many times until he would let go of Nemo. Her hits didn't seem to do anything as the scuba diver began to take Nemo away.

Atticus swam up to try to help as the scuba diver soon swam away with the young clown fish.

"Let him go!" Penny glared as she did something she never did before, she punched the scuba diver in the face.

"Penny!" Atticus gasped at his little cousin.

The scuba diver did grunt from the punch in the face as he took Nemo away from the ocean. Penny soon grabbed on the plastic bag and soon started to pull Nemo away from the scuba diver. Another scuba diver soon came with an underwater camera and flashed it. Penny groaned as the light blinded her and she dropped the bag and the other scuba diver then took a hold of Nemo.

"Hey!" Penny glared.

Atticus soon punched the scuba diver to stop him.

"You okay, Penny?" Mo soothed the little girl.

"Yeah, that light just burned..." Penny twitched slightly.

"The flash from the camera can be a bit blinding." Mo said.

"Tell me about it." Cherry agreed as she hated school picture day for that very reason.

Atticus held Nemo protectively with a glare to the scuba divers.

"Yay! Atticus saved Nemo!" Penny cheered.

"Okay, mission over, let's go home, Drell." Cherry said.

"He's not here." Mo said.

"Well, it must be time to go home," Cherry replied. "This wasn't much of an adventure, I gotta say."

"Which for you must be a relief." Patch said.

"Yep, all right, Drell, take us home." Cherry replied.

Evil Manta seemed to swim by and take Nemo away without them noticing.

"Come on, Drell, take us home!" Cherry called out.

"Nemo must be taken away, it can teach Marlin how to let go of his son better." Drell's voice said.

Everyone looked around before seeing Drell as a merman as he thought they could use his help.

"And looks like Nemo did get taken away." Drell said.

"What?!" Atticus asked while fighting with Evil Manta.

"Silly merboy." Evil Manta smirked as he was being pinned down by Atticus. He soon slammed his tail down to cause a crack to appear on the ground.

The others yelped slightly from the rumbling and the crack. Mr. Ray kept his students close and safe away from the evil manta ray. Evil Manta soon stung Atticus with his tail.

Atticus hissed in slight pain before glaring. "You monster!"

"Good luck with finding Nemo." Evil Manta smirked before swimming off.

"Why, you!" Atticus glared.

Evil Manta laughed darkly as he swam off.