Marlin cried out for Nemo as he was unable to get him back and he was soon swimming into a blue fish.
"That's gotta hurt." Mo winced.
Atticus glared wherever Evil Manta went and soon went down to check on Marlin as he was lost.
"Wow, a blue tang fish!" Cherry beamed at the sight of the blue fish.
"Oh... Sorry!" The blue tang said to Marlin. "I didn't see you there!"
The blue tang fish soon swam down to see if Marlin was okay.
"He's gone... He's gone..." Marlin sounded miserable. "He's gone... No, no. They took him away. I have to find the boat."
"A boat?" The blue tang fish gasped. "Hey, I've seen a boat!"
"You have?" Marlin asked.
"Uh-huh, it passed by not too long ago." The blue tang fish replied.
"Was it a white boat?" Cherry asked.
"Hi, I'm Dory." The fish then introduced herself and held out a fin.
"Which way did it go?!" Atticus asked her.
"I-It went, um, this way and it went this way!" The blue tang fish replied before swimming off. "Follow me!"
"Thank you! Thank you!" Marlin followed her. "Thank you so much!"
"Yes, thank you!" Penny smiled.
"Oh, no, I hope that isn't Jenny and Charlie's Dory..." Drell mumbled to himself about the blue tang fish.
"No problem!" Dory smiled.
They soon swam after Dory as she helped them. Dory smiled, she then seemed to be disturbed by the ones behind her and seemed to be trying to avoid them.
"Yeah, that's Jenny and Charlie's Dory." Drell sighed.
"Who and who?" Penny asked.
Drell hummed innocently like he was pretending he didn't hear her.
"What is up with this girl?" Mo wondered as they tried to keep up with Dory who seemed to be swimming all around now.
"I have no idea." Atticus said.
Dory soon turned to the others in annoyance. "Will you quit it?"
"Quit what?" Penny asked.
"I'm trying to swim here," Dory glared. "What, ocean ain't big enough for you?"
"Do you even remember why we're following you?" Cherry asked.
"Yeah, you were showing us which way the boat went." Atticus added.
"A boat? Hey, I've seen a boat!" Dory smiled. "It passed by not too long ago. It went this way, and it went this way. Follow me!" She then started to swim away.
"What? But you already were!" Cherry told her.
"I was?" Dory asked. "Oh, dear..."
"If that's a practical joke, it's not funny!" Marlin glared at the blue tang fish. "And I know funny, I'm a clown fish!"
"No, it's not," Dory sighed sadly. "I know it's not. I'm so sorry. See, I suffer from short-term memory loss."
"That's terrible." Mo frowned.
"Short-term memory loss?" Marlin scoffed before swimming off. "I don't believe this."
"No, it's true. I forget things almost instantly. It runs in my family…" Dory replied before pausing to think about it. "Or at least I think it does, hmm… Where are they?" she then turned to the others with a smile as she had already forgotten all about them. "Can I help you?"
"Now what?" Penny asked.
"Something's wrong with you, really." Marlin dismissed Dory.
"We better keep going." Mo said.
Dory watched them go.
"We better leave before anything else happens," Cherry glared back at the others as she swam forward until she bumped into someone. "Hey, watch where I'm go-...Ing..." her eyes then widened fearfully.
A great white shark grinned viciously to her. "Hello."
"Oh, my..." Cherry gulped.
"Well, hi!" Dory beamed to the shark.
"Name's Bruce." The shark held out his fin with a grin.
Atticus soon went up to the shark to give him a firm handshake. Cherry hid behind Atticus, shivering like the coward she was.
"Nice grip ya got there, merboy." Bruce grinned to Atticus. He soon felt that the grip got tighter.
Atticus narrowed his eyes slightly.
"It's all right, I understand," Bruce replied. "Why trust a shark, right? So, what's a school a bites like you doing out so late, eh?"
"Nothing," Marlin whimpered. "We're not doing anything. We're not even out."
"Great!" Bruce grinned. "Then how'd you morsels like to come to a little get-together I'm havin'?"
"Um, I'm not so sure we can make it." Penny said.
"Is it a party?" Dory asked in excitement.
"Yeah, yeah, that's right, a party!" Bruce grinned.
"That sounds like fun." Dory smiled to the others.
"I'm not so sure." Mo said.
"Oh, come on, I insist." Bruce encouraged.
Cherry was swimming backward as he took the others over to come with him only for her to be included from Drell.
"Drell, beat that shark up!" Cherry begged as he took her hand against her will.
"Don't worry, he doesn't eat fish or merpeople/mer-creatures." Drell said.
"What?" Cherry asked flatly.
"He and his friends have been trying to recover lately." Drell replied as he dragged her against her will.
"Seriously?" Cherry asked.
"Hey, look, balloons!" Dory beamed to the sights of anchored down spiked metal balls. "It is a party!"
"Actually, those are bombs." Atticus said.
"Bombs?!" Penny's eyes widened.
"Yep, looks like bombs." Patch said.
Bruce soon led the others to meet his fellow sharks named Anchor and Chum.
"Oh, just great..." Mo groaned.
Cherry tried to get out of Drell's hold as he seemed to be squeezing her hand.
"Don't worry, they won't eat you." Drell told her sincerely.
"They're sharks!" Cherry glared.
"They'll be fine as long as none of them sense any loose blood." Drell told her.
"What?" Cherry asked.
"Just get over here, ya pipsqueak." Drell scoffed.
"No way." Cherry shook her head.
"Oh..." Drell cooed. "Would you rather be in an aquarium in the dentist's office?"
"Yes, at least there I won't have to worry about sharks." Cherry said.
Drell smirked to Cherry which made her nervous. "See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya!" he then laughed as he teleported her to a fish tank in a dentist's office and turned her into a plain old goldfish.
"At least I'm safe," Cherry said. She then looked around. "Now, uh, where am I?"
A shrimp came up right behind her. "Bonjour."
This startled her a bit.
"Where'd you come from?" Cherry asked the shrimp.
"I could ask you zhe same zhing." The shrimp replied in his thick French accent.
A plastic treasure chest seemed to open and it showed bubbles which made a yellow fish zip over.
"Who was that?!" Cherry yelped.
A starfish poked her face off of the glass. "He likes bubbles, you must be the new one from the ocean."
"Oh, I hope not," a purple fish shivered nervously. "She could be covered in germs!"
"She can't be from the ocean, she's just a plain old goldfish." A puffer fish smiled.
"New one?" Cherry asked. "Is there a young clown fish?"
"We haven't met a clown fish, but we heard the dentist say that he was bringing us over a new friend." The puffer fish replied.
"More like fishnapped." Cherry glared as she had a feeling this dentist was the same person that scuba dived.
Soon enough, the dentist came back and placed Nemo inside the tank.
"I KNEW IT!" Cherry called out. "Come down here so I can fish slap you!" To her dismay, he didn't.
Back with the others in the ocean...
"It's about time, mate." Anchor said to Bruce.
"We've already gone through all the snacks and I'm still starvin'!" Chum added.
Penny whimpered as they were surrounded by even more sharks as Drell caught up with them.
"Back off!" Atticus glared at the sharks.
"Whoa, whoa, take it easy, buddy, we're not doing anything." Chum defended.
"Right, then," Bruce said to his fellow sharks. "The meeting has officially come to order. Let us all say the pledge…"
"'I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine'," The sharks recited together with their fins in the air. "'If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food'."
"Wait, what?" The group asked.
Drell smirked as he knew all about this in advance.
"Except stinkin' dolphins." Anchor muttered.
"Dolphins! Yeah, they think they're so cute!" Chum scoffed before doing a mocking imitation of a dolphin. "'Hey, look at me. I'm a flippin' little dolphin! Let me flip for 'ya! Ain't I a somethin'?!"
Dory smiled as she seemed to enjoy being apart of this. Penny soon calmed down once she saw they were friendly.
"Right, then," Bruce said to his friends. "Today's meeting is step 5, 'Bring a Fish Friend'. Now do you all have your friends?"
"Got mine." Anchor replied as he showed a deathly frightened green fish.
"Hi, there!" Dory greeted the fish.
"How 'bout you, Chum?" Bruce asked the other shark.
"Oh, um, I seemed to have misplaced my, uh, friend." Chum smiled nervously before showing a skeleton between his teeth.
"You accidentally ate your friend?" Drell asked him.
"Oh, like you haven't done that?" Atticus teased Drell since how he was.
Drell rolled his eyes to that. Marlin was of course utterly terrified at the sight. He soon moved so Chum might take Atticus as his next 'friend'.
"That's all right, Chum," Bruce soothed his friend. "I had a feeling this would be a difficult step, you can help yourself to one of my friends."
"Oh, thanks, mate," Chum clutched Atticus. "A little chum for Chum, eh?"
"Yeah." Atticus nodded.
"I'll start the testimonies," Bruce started. "Hello, my name is Bruce."
"Hello, Bruce." Everyone else replied in unison.
"It has been three weeks since my last fish," Bruce said before raising his fin. "On my honor, or may I be chopped up and made into soup."
"Nice." Drell said.
"You're an inspiration to all of us." Chum applauded.
"Amen." Anchor added.
"Who's next?" Bruce asked.
"Ooh! Pick me! Pick me!" Dory piped up.
"She isn't too bright." Drell whispered to himself.
"Yes, the little Sheila down the front." Bruce smiled to Dory.
"Whoo-hoo!" Dory cheered as she took her turn. "Hi, I'm Dory."
"Hello, Dory." Everyone said in unison.
"And, uh, well… I don't think I've ever eaten a fish." Dory then said with a small smile.
There was awkward silence for a moment until the sharks then applauded her.
"I'm so glad I got that off my chest." Dory sighed in relief.
"Oh, brother." Drell grumbled under his breath.
"All right, anyone else?" Bruce asked before looking to Marlin. "Hello, how 'bout you, mate? What's your problem?"
"Me? I don't have a problem." Marlin replied.
"Uh-huh." Drell said, unimpressed.
"Denial!" The sharks agreed before shoving Marlin over.
"Just start with your name." Bruce encouraged.
Marlin came in front unwillingly to the podium which appeared to be a broken down sink. "Okay. Uh, hello. My name is Marlin. I'm a clown fish-"
"A clown fish, really?!" Chum beamed.
"Oh, boy, here we go." Drell groaned.
The sharks encouraged Marlin to tell a joke since he was a clown fish.
Marlin tried his joke from earlier, but soon looked up to a rock to see a scuba mask which distracted him. "Nemo..." he then whispered before swimming up to it.
"Wait, did he just say Nemo?" Penny asked.
"Nemo!" Chum laughed as he thought that was the punchline before he looked confused. "I don't get it."
"For a clown fish, he's not that funny." Bruce replied.
"No, no, no, no, he's my son," Marlin replied as he swam up to the mask that separated him from his only son. "He was taken by these divers."
"Oh, you poor fish." Dory frowned.
"Humans," Chum scoffed. "Think they own everything."
"Probably American." Anchor replied.
"Now there is a father looking for his little boy." Bruce mourned.
Marlin soon got a look at the back of the scuba diving mask. "Ugh! What do these markings mean?" he asked in frustration as he couldn't read the writing as the sharks cried in sympathy for him for losing his son.
"Well then, we gotta find a fish who can read this," Dory said before smiling brightly. "Hey, look, sharks!"
"Dory, I don't think you should do that." Drell said.
Marlin tried to take the mask away from Dory, but soon it roughly hit her in the face which actually made Drell cringe.
"Oww!" Dory groaned as she held her face with her fins.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Marlin frowned. "Are you okay?"
"You really clocked me there," Dory frowned before removing her fins as a stream of blood came out from her face and seemed to go into Bruce's nostrils. "Am I bleeding?"
"Oh, no... Atticus, you better get ready." Drell said.
"Ready for what?" Atticus asked.
"Surely you know what happens when a shark can sense blood." Drell replied.
"Oh, right..." Atticus said as he got ready to handle Bruce.
"Oohh, that's good." Bruce grinned once he sniffed the blue tang fish's blood.
"INTERVENTION!" Anchor and Chum gasped.
Atticus soon swan towards Bruce. Chum and Anchor held Bruce down as he was getting hungry for fish again.
"Stay down!" Atticus glared at Bruce.
"Come on, let's go!" Mo urged the others to swim away.
"And make it fast!" Drell added.
Atticus glared to Bruce as Anchor and Chum helped restrain him reminding him that fish were friends and not food.
"Look, here's something. 'Es-cap-e'!" Dory looked to a sign and read it aloud before laughing. "I wonder what that means, oh, that's funny, it's spelled just like the word 'escape'."
"Quick, out through the escape!" Drell told them.
The group quickly made their way towards the escape hatch, just as Bruce was close to opening the door after multiple head-butts.
"Here's Brucey!" Bruce grinned.
"Wait a minute," Marlin looked to Dory. "You can read?!"
"I can read?" Dory asked before remembering. "That's right, I can read!"
"Quick, read the mask!" Penny told her.
Suddenly, Bruce burst through the roof of the submarine clutching the mask along his teeth.
"STOP IT!" Atticus scolded the shark. "You like fish as friends now, remember?!"
"His sense of blood is blinding him." Mo said.
"Ugh..." Atticus groaned. "Listen to me, Bruce! I am the nephew of King Triton and Queen Athena!"
"I don't care!" Bruce snarled as he was eager to eat the others.
"Quick, into the torpedo launcher!" Drell told Marlin and Dory.
Marlin was hesitant, but Dory already swam ahead.
"What about us?" Penny asked.
Drell helped them out.
"Hey, where's Cherry?" Mo noticed they were missing someone.
"Maybe Bruce ate her." Drell ignored.
"Drell, where is Cherry?" Patch asked.
"I think she ran into a jellyfish." Drell lied.
"Drell!" The others scolded.
Soon enough, the torpedo launched into Bruce's mouth and Marlin and Dory grabbed the mask. Bruce then shook the torpedo out of his mouth and it was going toward one of the mines.
"Oh, no..." Mo gulped.
"Bruce?" Anchor muttered.
"What?" Bruce sniffed until he took a look and was in shock. "SWIM AWAY! SWIM AWAY!"
The torpedo soon hit the mines and there was an explosion all throughout the ocean.
"Everyone, back in the ship!" Drell yelped.
Everyone soon went for cover as there were explosions all around. Atticus coughed as he wasn't harmed, but soon shook off the explosions and narrowed his eyes as he looked for Bruce, but he seemed to had disappeared with Anchor and Chum. Mo soon sped up to Atticus and hugged him as she felt worried about him.
"I'm fine." Atticus said.
"Penny, are you all right?" Mo asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Penny came out of hiding with Patch.
"Whew." Mo sighed.
"Okay, Drell, where's Cherry?" Atticus demanded as he gave a stare in the warlock's eyes.
Drell sighed and looked away. "She's in a dentist's office right now."
"And why is she there?" Mo asked.
Drell smiled nervously as it looked like he had a lot of explaining to do.