Meanwhile back in the ocean...
Dory continued to ramble on about what she remembered.
"This is getting so annoying." Drell groaned.
There was suddenly a school of moonfish.
"Hey, I bet these guys could help us." Atticus suggested.
"Yeah." Patch nodded.
Marlin tried to talk with the moonfish, but they appeared to keep swimming away.
"Hey, you gray fish!" Penny called out. "Get back here!"
Drell soon magicked up a staff and came in front of the fish and stomped the ocean floor. "You... Shall not... PASS!"
The fish then swam over him, ignoring him.
"Dang it," Drell groaned. "That worked in Middle Earth."
"Why didn't they stop?" Mo asked.
Marlin soon grew annoyed with Dory and came toward her and decided to talk with her alone while the others tried to stop the moonfish with little to no luck.
"You mean, you don't... Like me?" Dory soon sounded like she was going to cry after Marlin asked her to go away and never see him again as he felt she was no help during this adventure to finding his son.
"Oh, great." Drell groaned.
Penny frowned as she felt sad for Dory.
"Oh, don't cry, I like you..." Marlin tried.
"Hey, you!" A sharp male voice called and the two turned to the school of fish. "Lady, is this guy bothering you?"
"Um, I don't remember," Dory replied before looking to the others. "Was he?"
"Uh, no. No, he wasn't." Drell lied.
"Say, do you guys know how to get to the-" Marlin was about to ask.
"Look, pal, wee're talkin' to the lady, not you," The leader scolded before looking to Dory. "Hey, hey, you like impressions?"
"Mm-hmm..." Dory nodded slowly.
"Okay, just like rehearsal, gentlemen," The leader said before he and his school shifted into a swordfish. "Take a guess."
"Seriously?" Drell groaned.
"Oh, oh, I've seen one of those." Dory tried to think.
"I'm a fish with a nose like a 'sword'." The leader hinted, being patient with Dory's slowness.
"Wait, wait, um…" Dory paused.
"It's a swordfish." Marlin told her.
"Marlin, no helping." Mo said.
"Where's the butter?" The leader then asked as he and his school turned into a lobster.
"Oh, oh, oh!" Dory replied. "It's on the tip of my tongue!"
"Lobster!" Marlin coughed.
"Cheater!" Penny glared.
"What?" Marlin asked, acting like he didn't do anything.
"Lots of legs, lives in the ocean." The leader then said before he and the others turned into an octopus.
"Clam!" Dory guessed.
"Close enough." Mo said.
Their final transformation is that of an old-fashioned sailboat, with several Moonfish mimicking cannon fire and one jumping off a plank. "Oh, it's a whale of a tale, I'll tell you lad, a whale of a tale...~"
"Will somebody please give me directions?!" Marlin grunted in annoyance.
"Will somebody please give me directions?" The leader mimicked Marlin as the Moonfish transformed into the clown fish frowning.
Penny giggled as she thought the fish were funny.
"I'm serious!" Marlin glared in irritation.
"Blah-blah-blah! Me-me-blah! Blah-blah-blah-blah-me-me-me!" The leader taunted Marlin again.
"Thank you." Marlin groaned.
"They are just trying to help Dory feel better." Drell said.
"It's not like I did anything." Marlin huffed before angrily swimming off.
"He's being impatient." Drell said.
"Oh, dear, hey, hey, come back!" Dory swam after Marlin. "Hey, what's the matter?"
"What's the matter?" Marlin glared at her. "While they're doing their silly little impressions, I am miles from home, with a fish that can't even remember her own name!"
"Boy, I bet that's frustrating." Dory replied.
"Oh, it is." Patch said.
"Yeah," Marlin replied. "Meanwhile, my son is out there-"
"Your son Chico?" Dory asked.
"Nemo." Marlin corrected.
"Right, got it." Dory then nodded.
"But it doesn't matter, 'cuz no fish in this entire ocean is gonna help me." Marlin then sulked.
"Well, we're helping you." Penny said.
"Wait right here," Dory said before going to the school of fish. "Hey, guys."
"What, is he bothering you again?" The leader asked.
"No, no, he's a good guy," Dory replied. "Go easy on him he's lost his son, Fabio."
"Nemo." Mo coughed.
"Any of you heard of P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney?" Atticus asked the school of fish.
"Sydney? Oh, sure," The leader said before they became an Australian opera house. "Ted here's got relatives in Sydney. Don't you, Ted?"
"Sure do!" One other fish replied.
"Oh, thank you." Mo smiled.
"Hey, they know Sydney!" Dory called out to Marlin.
Marlin then gasped and swam right back.
"Do you know how to get there?" Atticus asked the fish.
"What you wanna do is follow the EAC, that's the East Australian Current," The leader explained while the others mimicked certain words to help them out. "Big current, can't miss it. It's in that direction. And then you gotta follow that for about, I don't know. What do you guys think? About three leagues? And that little baby's gonna put you right past Sydney."
"Wahoo!" Patch smiled.
"We're coming, Nemo and Cherry." Penny beamed.
"Thank you, guys!" Mo smiled.
"Oh, you guys," Dory smiled to the school of fish before swimming off with Patch. "You really nailed him. Bye."
"Oh, hey, you two, one more thing." The leader stopped them for a moment.
"Yes?" Dory and Patch replied.
"When you get to this trench, swim through it, not over it." The leader instructed.
"Why?" Patch asked.
"Trust me, better safe than sorry," The leader replied. "You ever meet a jellyfish before?"
"No." Patch shook his head.
"I'm sure you wouldn't like it, little buddy," The leader replied. "Can I trust you to remember that."
"I will!" Patch saluted before swimming off. "Thanks again, Moonfish!"
"Yeah, thanks!" Dory smiled.
They were going over until they came up to the trench mentioned before.
"Nice trench!" Dory commented.
"Let's keep going." Mo said.
"No, no. Bad trench! Bad trench!" Marlin said before swimming up. "Come on, we're gonna swim over this thing."
"Whoa, whoa, partner, little red flag going up," Dory replied. "Somethin's telling me we should swim 'through' it, 'not' over it."
"That's because there are jellyfish up there." Patch reminded her.
"Now that, I don't remember, but that's probably why." Dory agreed with Patch.
"Do you see this thing?!" Penny whimpered. "It looks scary!"
"Then close your eyes." Mo said.
"It'll be all right, Penny," Atticus soothed his adoptive cousin. "I know Madame Medusa scarred you for life, but you never have to worry about her ever again."
They soon went together while Penny tried to stay brave as she remembered getting Devil's Eye Diamond, but managed to calm herself down once Atticus comforted her since they were family now.
"You guys can't be serious about going down there!" Marlin panicked to them.
"Dory said we go this way, so we go this way, Marlin." Atticus told the clownfish.
"That's right." Mo nodded.
"Yeah, okay, that makes sense," Marlin muttered before gasping suddenly. "Look! Something shiny!"
"Where?!" Dory asked, turning the other way.
"Oh, it just swam over the trench, come on, we'll follow it!" Marlin said before swimming that way with Dory following him.
"Marlin!" Mo scolded.
"Come on, you guys!" Marlin told them.
"Oh, man, I was afraid this would happen..." Atticus sighed as he held Penny's hand.
Marlin and Dory soon went over the trench which seemed to be clear so far, but it would not last long.
"We better hurry before the jellyfish come." Penny said.
Atticus sighed as he went to go after Marlin and Dory. "Marlin, listen to us, this is a bad idea!"
"Yeah, but look at that," Marlin replied, showing them something. "There's the current! We should be there in no time!"
"Hey, little guy~" Dory cooed at something tiny and squishy.
"Uh-oh..." Mo gulped as she saw the tiny and squishy thing was a baby jellyfish.
"And you guys wanted to go through the trench." Marlin scoffed.
"I shall call him 'Squishy', and he shall be mine, and he shall be my Squishy," Dory smiled to the baby jellyfish. "Come here,
Squishy. Come here, little Squishy-ow!" she then yelped as she got stung.
"Dory! That's a jellyfish!" Marlin panicked.
"Bad Squishy! Bad Squishy!" Dory pouted angrily.
"Get away from us, go on, shoo!" Mo told the baby jellyfish.
Marlin then whacked it away while Dory sniffled to her fin.
"Oh, Dory..." Mo frowned as she checked out the blue fish's fin.
"Heeey, how come it didn't sting you?" Dory pouted to Marlin.
"It did. It's just that... Hold still," Marlin told her as he helped. "I live in this anemone, and I-I-I'm used to these kind of stings. Come here."
"Now just hold still." Atticus told Dory.
Dory sniffled as she held out her fin to Atticus.
Atticus took a look. "Well, you're lucky, it doesn't look that bad, but when someone says we swim through a trench, we do," he then said before glaring at the male clown fish. "RIGHT, MARLIN?!"
"How was I supposed to know there would be a jellyfish up here?" Marlin defended.
Atticus narrowed his eyes in aggravation.
"Let's be thankful this time it was just a little one." Marlin told them.
Suddenly, they were surrounded by a bunch of jellyfish.
"Like the ones surrounding us?!" Penny panicked.
Atticus and Mo held onto Penny as they began to panic from the jellyfish.
"Wait... Where'd Drell go?" Mo asked before glaring. "That jerk deserted us!"
"Drell!" Atticus shouted.
"He left us!" Penny shivered. "I feel more ascared of these jellies!"
"This is bad, guys." Marlin groaned as he could only blame himself.
"Hey, watch this!" Dory called out as she bounced on top of one of the jellyfish. "Boing! Boing!"
"Dory!" Patch panicked.
The others tried to swim to her only for her to swim away.
"You can't catch me~" Dory sang as she bounced along.
"Dory! Don't bounce on the tops! They will-" Marlin warned until he suddenly had an idea. "Not sting you. The tops don't sting you, that's it!"
"Of course!" Mo smiled.
"Ooh! Two in a row, beat that." Dory laughed.
"Dory! All right, listen to me," Marlin told the blue fish. "I have an idea, a game."
"A game?"
"A game."
"A game?"
"Yes." Marlin nodded, trying to stay patient with her.
"Aah! I love games!" Dory beamed, waving her fin. "Pick me!"
"All right, here's the game," Marlin told her. "Um, whoever can hop the fastest out of these jellyfish, wins."
"Okay!" Dory smiled out of excitement.
"But you have to listen to the rules." Mo said.
"Okay!" Dory smiled.
"You can't touch the tentacles, only the tops." Marlin told her.
"Something about tentacles, got it. On your mark, get set, go!" Dory smiled before dashing off instantly.
"You can't touch the tentacles!" Patch told her as they went after her.
"I'm beginning to wonder who the grown-up is around here." Penny said.
"Heh... No kidding." Atticus said to his adoptive cousin as she seemed more mature than Dory.
They soon bounced along the jellyfish to make it out of the way as it seemed to get more and more intense, especially for Marlin and Dory.
"I hope the way out will be safe." Penny said.
"Just stay close, Penny, I'll keep you safe." Atticus comforted.
"Okay." Penny told him.
They soon went to join Marlin and Dory to get out of the jellyfish parade without getting stung, and it seemed to work. The two adult fish then began to get competitive. Eventually, they all made it out of the jellyfish swarm. Well, almost everyone.
"The clownfish is the winner! Woo-hoo! We did it!" Marlin cheered.
"Wait, one of us is missing." Penny frowned.
Everyone looked around and soon saw who was missing.
"Dory...?" Marlin called before frowning. "Oh, no..." he then swam back into the jellyfish swarm to find his new friend.
"Oh, dear..." Penny frowned.
"Should we go in after him?" Mo asked.
"I dunno if that's a good idea." Atticus replied.
"Hey, guys, hope you didn't miss me too much." Drell's voice said behind them.
"Where have you been?!" Atticus glared.
"Getting you guys some help to take you across the EAC." Drell replied.
"That's great." Mo smiled.
"Uh, were are the fish?" Drell asked.
The others pointed into the jellyfish swarm.
"I should've known Marlin would be too arrogant to listen to Dory." Drell sighed sharply.
"Oh, he sure was." Atticus sighed back.
"All right," Drell said before turning his head. "This is gonna be rougher than I thought, but you're clear!"
"Sure thing, dude!" A voice replied.
"Who said that?" Penny asked.
"Help is on the way," Drell told her. "Hope you guys don't mind turtles."
"Turtles?" The others asked before they soon saw turtles coming over to help Marlin and Dory and the others on their quest to find Nemo and Cherry.
"Sea turtles." Mo smiled.
"They're gonna take us to the EAC." Drell told them.
"You could've told us that!" Atticus complained. "We thought you ditched us!"
"Would I do that?" Drell replied innocently.
"Yes." Atticus, Mo, and Patch said simply.
Drell narrowed his eyes. "Get on those turtle shells before I make you all soup."
Eventually, they were all taken for a ride on the turtles while Marlin and Dory both seemed to be knocked out.
