Meanwhile, Nemo was staring out the window into the ocean as he floated in the tank.
"Hey there, mate." Cody smiled.
Nemo gave a small smile back, but soon sighed as he was thinking about something else, obviously.
"Thinking about your dad?" Cody guessed.
"Mm-hmm..." Nemo admitted.
"Yeah... I miss my dad too." Cody replied, though his situation was a lot different than the young clownfish's.
"Do you see him often?" Nemo asked him.
"No... I can't see him anymore." Cody said softly about his father.
Nemo frowned as he knew what that must have meant.
"You miss your dad, don't you, Sharkbait?" Gil asked the young clownfish.
"Yeah." Nemo said softly.
"Well, you're lucky to have someone out there who's lookin' for you." Gil comforted.
"He's not looking for me," Nemo frowned. "He's scared of the ocean."
"Your dad might surprise you." Cody said.
"Peach, any movement?" Gil asked the starfish.
"He's had at least four cups of coffee, it's gotta be soon." Peach replied.
"Keep on him," Gil told her before looking back to Nemo and Cherry. "My first escape, landed on dental tools. I was aimin' for the toilet."
"The toilet?" Nemo asked.
"Oh, yeah, the toilet and sink both lead to the ocean." Cherry said.
"That's right," Gil nodded to her. "All drains lead to the ocean, kid." he then added to Nemo.
"Wow. How many times have you tried to get out?" Nemo asked.
"Ah, I've lost count," Gil replied. "Fish aren't meant to be in a box, kid. It does things to ya."
The yellow fish was soon by the treasure chest as it popped open and he had a fit again. "Bubbles! Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles-" he then stopped once it closed up.
"I can tell." Cherry said.
"I'll be right back, kiddo." Dr. Sherman told Cody.
"Yes, sir." Cody replied.
Dr. Sherman then went to use the bathroom.
"Potty break! Potty break!" Peach told the others. "He just grabbed the Reader's Digest! We have 4.2 minutes."
"You can do this, Nemo." Cody smiled at the clownfish.
"Okay, you gotta be quick," Gil told Nemo. "Once you get in, you swim down to the bottom of the chamber, and I'll talk you through the rest."
"Okay." Nemo replied, a little hesitantly.
"Go on, it'll be a piece of kelp." Gil told him.
Nemo soon took a deep breath and went above the water, and soon forced himself through and made it to the other side, and the others could see his silhouette.
"You doing okay?" Cherry asked Nemo.
"I think so!" Nemo replied, though his voice was a little muffled.
"Here comes the pebble!" Gil told him before sending it over to the young clownfish. "Now, do you see a small opening?"
"Uh-huh!" Nemo replied.
"Okay, inside it you'll see a rotating fan," Gil instructed. "Very carefully, wedge that pebble into the fan to stop it turning."
"But be careful." Cherry added.
Nemo came towards the fan before yelping as it nearly hit him.
"Careful, Sharkbait." Gil told the young clownfish.
"I can't do it!" Nemo cried.
"Gil, this isn't a good idea." Peach spoke up.
"Peach is right." Cherry said.
"He'll be fine," Gil told them before continuing to coach Nemo. "Try again."
"Okay," Nemo said before going to try again, being extra careful with the pebble, and soon, everything seemed to stop. "I got it! I got it!"
"Whew." Cody sighed.
Peach just sighed as she knew this plan would somehow fail.
"He did it!" Bloat cheered.
"That's great, kid!" Gil smiled. "Now, swim up the tube and out."
Nemo nodded and soon did just that. As soon as the young clownfish swam up to the tube, the propeller seemed to move slightly.
"Why do I have a bad feeling?" Cherry asked herself. "I always do, but this can't be good..."
The pebble soon moved out broke out of the fan which made everything start up again which would be a fatal accident for young Nemo.
"Oh, no!" Nemo yelped as he began to go backwards against his will. "Gil! Gil!"
"Quick, Cody, turn it off!" Cherry panicked.
Cody soon rushed off to do what he could while Nemo panicked along with the others in the fish tank.
"Oh, Nemo!" Cherry frowned for the young clownfish.
Cody soon found out how to turn off the fish tank cleaner. Nemo was then brought back, breathing rapidly.
"Oh, thank goodness," Cherry said. "Nemo, I'm so sorry you had to go through that."
"Gil, don't make him go back in there." Peach told the fish.
"No. We're done." Gil frowned.
Cherry began to comfort Nemo as he was still scared. Nemo appreciated that very much.
"I'm so sorry, Nemo." Cody whispered for the young clownfish.
Cherry sighed as she began to wonder and worry about the others.
Meanwhile, with the others...
"Dude. Dude. Focus, dude," A voice told Marlin. "Dude."
"Marlin, come on, wake up." Mo's voice said.
Marlin let out a small groan, but he soon woke up.
"Oh, he lives!" The turtle beamed. "Hey, dude!"
"Ooooh... What happened?" Marlin asked him.
"Oh, saw the whole thing, dude," The turtle said before explaining. "First you were like, 'whoa'! And then we were all like, 'whoa'! And then you were like, 'whoa'."
Mo soon decided to explain in a different way. "Basically, we saw the jellyfish, you came back to save Dory, and it kinda got to you."
"Awesome." The turtle smiled.
"Ooh... My stomach..." Marlin soon groaned.
"Oh, man," The turtle warned him. "No hurlin' on the shell, dude, okay, just waxed it."
"So Mr. Turtle-" Marlin began.
"Whoa, dude," The turtle said. "Mr. Turtle is my father. Name's Crush."
"Crush? Really? Okay Crush, listen I need to get to the East Australian Current," Marlin then continued. "EAC?"
"Dude, you're hidin' it, dude!" The turtle laughed, showing the other turtles. "Check it out!"
"Yeah, you've gotta see this." Mo smiled at Marlin.
Marlin soon took a look around as other turtles were swimming through the current, and they were almost there to finding Nemo.
"Okay, grab shell, dude!" Crush told Marlin as it was about to turn into like a roller-coaster ride.
"Here we go." Mo smiled.
Marlin soon grabbed onto the shell as they were going for a ride down the current.
"This is better than Disneyland!" Mo laughed as she had a lot of fun with this.
Marlin seemed to have a different opinion.
"Righteous! Righteous! Yeah!" Crush laughed with Mo.
Drell smiled from where he was as the others were having fun riding on the turtles for this adventure as he seemed to join in on the fun. Eventually it stopped as Marlin didn't have as much fun as the others.
"So, what brings you on this fine day to the EAC?" Crush asked the adult male clownfish.
"Well, Dory and I need to get to Sydney-" Marlin began before gasping about his new friend. "Dory! Dory! Is she all right!?"
"Oh. Oh, Little Blue?" Crush replied before gesturing to the blue fish as she lay on another turtle shell as they traveled together. "She is sub-level, dude."
"She's playing hide and seek with the younger sea turtles." Mo told Marlin.
Penny giggled as she hid with the other sea turtles and Patch while Dory was counting with her eyes covered.
"Oh, Dory. I-I-I'm so sorry," Marlin frowned to the blue fish. "This is all my fault, it's my fault..."
"...29, 30! Ready or not, here I come!" Dory beamed as she soon finished counting and went to find the young sea turtles. She soon found all of them along with Penny and Patch.
"Oh, no!" Penny giggled.
"Gotcha!" Dory smirked to Penny and Patch.
"Oh, dang it!" Patch laughed.
"Now, where are the others?" Dory smirked playfully.
"Can't tell ya." Penny giggled between laughs.
Patch simply shrugged.
"Ooh, I'll find 'em." Dory smirked before swimming around.
"I like her." Penny smiled to Patch about Dory.
"Yeah, she's fun." Patch smiled back.
Atticus peeked out with the other sea turtles before laughing with them as Dory soon found them. One sea turtle laughed as he swam by before he soon seemed to go into the current.
"Oh, my goodness!" Marlin panicked for the young sea turtle.
"Calm down, Marlin." Mo said.
"But that kid!" Marlin replied.
"Whoa. Kill the motor, dude," Crush told him. "Let us see what Squirt does flying solo."
The young sea turtle seemed stuck for a while until he finally came out freely.
"Squirt, you did it!" Mo smiled to him. "We knew you could do it!"
"Whoa! Whoa! That was so cool! Hey Dad, did you see that?" Squirt beamed. "Did you see me? Did you see what I did?"
"You so totally rock, Squirt!" Crush smiled to his son. "So give me some fin."
They then slapped fins.'
"Noggin." Crush then said before they hit heads with each other.
"Dude..." The father and son smiled to each other.
"Marlin, this is Crush's son, Squirt." Mo introduced.
"Yep," Crush added. "Jellyman, Offspring. Offspring, Jellyman."
"Jellies?" Squirt asked. "Sweet."
"Totally." Crush nodded to his son.
"Well, apparently, I must've done something you all like, uh, dudes." Marlin replied.
"You rock, dude!" Squirt smiled as he butted heads with Marlin.
"Ow." Marlin winced as that hurt him.
"Curl away, my son," Crush told Squirt before looking back to Marlin. "Aw, it's awesome, Jellyman. Little dudes are just eggs, leave 'em on the beach to hatch, then coo-coo-ca-choo, they find their way back to the big 'ol blue."
"All by themselves?" Marlin asked, a bit surprised.
"Yeah." Crush nodded.
"B-But, dude, how do you know when they're ready?" Marlin asked.
"Well, you never really know, but when they'll know, you'll know, you know?" Crush replied.
That didn't really seem to help at all, but Mo nodded as it was just the life of a sea turtle.
Dory soon laughed as she was chased by Penny and Patch before seeing Marlin. "Hey! Look, everybody!"
"I know that dude," Squirt smiled. "It's the Jellyman."
"Well, go on, jump on him." Dory told the young sea turtles.
The sea turtles soon charged at Marlin. Marlin yelped and he was soon in a dog pile, though in this case, a turtle pile.
"Are you funny?"
"Where's your shell?"
"Are you running away?"
"Did you really cross the jellyfish forest?"
"Did they sting you?"
"One at a time!" Marlin told them.
"Mr. Fish, did you die?" Another turtle kid asked.
"Sorry. I was a little vague on the details." Dory smiled bashfully.
"She really was." Penny said.
"So where are you going?" Squirt asked the adult clownfish.
"Well, you see my son was taken," Marlin frowned. "My son was taken away from me."
The young sea turtles gasped to that.
"No way." Dory said like she didn't know.
"What happened?" Squirt asked.
"No, no, no, kids," Marlin frowned. "I don't wanna talk about it."
"They might as well know." Patch said.
"Well, okay. I live on this reef, a long long way from here." Marlin sighed as he began his long story.
"Oh, boy. This is gonna be good, I can tell." Dory smiled to the young sea turtles.
"And my son, Nemo, see he was mad at me, and maybe he wouldn't have done it if I hadn't been so tough on him, I don't know," Marlin continued, but he didn't know that this story would be spread from creature-to-creature throughout the ocean floor. "Anyway, he swam out in the open water to this boat and when he was out there, these divers appeared and I tried to stop them but the boat was too fast. So we swam out in the ocean to follow them..."
Marlin's story began to spread from the E.A.C. to some seagulls that were in Sydney. A certain pelican took this information as he soon flew off to a certain dentist's office.
Meanwhile at the dentist's office...
Nemo seemed to be hiding away.
"Is he doing okay?" Deb frowned.
"Not really, you guys." Cherry told them as Nemo sulked that day.
"Well, whatever you do, don't mention D-A-R-" Gurgle suggested.
"It's okay, I know who you're talking about." Nemo sighed as he swam by the older fish.
"Nice going." Cherry glared at Gurgle.
Bloat even gave him a hit which made him yelp.
"Gil? Gil!" Nemo called out until he found the fish he was looking for.
"Hey, Sharkbait." Gil replied.
"I'm sorry I couldn't stop the-" Nemo began.
"No, I'm the one who should be sorry. I was so ready to get out, so ready to taste that ocean," Gil cut him off with a sharp sigh. "I was willing to put you in harm's way to get there. Nothing should be worth that. I'm sorry I couldn't get you back to your father, kid."
Cody frowned as he wished he could do something.
"Don't worry, Nemo, if I know Atticus, he's going to help out in someway, even if it's taking him a while." Cherry told the young clownfish about her best friend.
Nigel was soon flying by before whacking against the glass window.
"What the-?!" Dr. Sherman gasped, accidentally yanking his patient's tooth right out of his mouth.
"AUGH!" The patient yelped in pain.
"Well, uh, that's one way to pull a tooth," Dr. Sherman smiled nervously before coming to the window, but saw no one there so far. "Huh, darn kids. Well, good thing I pulled the right one, eh, prime minister?" he then chuckled as he came back to his patient. Once he left, the pelican soon came in.
"Hey! Psst!" The pelican whispered to the fish.
"Oh, Nigel. You just missed an extraction." Peach smiled.
"Ooh! Has he loosened the periodontal ligament yet-Oh, what I'm talkin' about!?" Nigel replied until he returned to focus. "Nemo! Where's Nemo? I gotta speak with him."
"Nemo, you have a visitor." Cherry said.
"What? What is it?" Nemo asked the pelican.
"Your dad's been fighting the entire ocean looking for you." Nigel told him.
"Anyone with him?" Cherry asked.
"Some friends of yours I believe," Nigel replied. "Um... Oh... What was that one boy's name? It's something you don't hear every day."
"Atticus?" Cherry said hopefully.
"Yes! That was it!" Nigel replied. "Also Nemo's dad, that sport fish from the reef."
"Cool!" Cody smiled.
"He's traveled hundreds of miles," Nigel told Nemo. "He's been battling sharks and jellyfish and all sorts of-"
"Sharks?" Nemo replied. "That can't be him."
"Are you sure? What was his name?" Nigel asked. "Some sort of sport fish or something: tuna, uh, trout..."
"Marlin." Cherry told him.
"That's it! Marlin!" Nigel replied. "The little clownfish from the reef."
"It's my dad! He took on a shark!" Nemo then cheered.
"I heard he took on three." Nigel smirked.
"Whoa!" Cody smiled.
"Three?!" Deb, Bloat, and Gurgle added.
"That's gotta be 4800 teeth!" Bloat gasped.
"You see, kid, after you were taken by Diver Dan over there, your dad followed the boat you were on like a maniac." Nigel smiled to Nemo.
"Really?" Nemo smiled back.
"He's swimming and he's swimming and he's giving it all he's got and then three gigantic sharks capture him and he blows them up!" Nigel replied as he told him what he heard from the others. "And then dives thousands of feet and gets chased by a monster with huge teeth! He ties this demon to a rock and what does he get for a reward? He gets to battle an entire jellyfish forest! And now he's riding with a bunch of sea turtles on the East Australian Current and the word is he's headed this way right now, to Sydney!"
"Whoa." Cherry said.
Nemo now seemed to be motivated and soon swam away from the others.
"Oh, what a good daddy!" Deb smiled.
"He was lookin' for you after all, Sharkbait." Gil added only to see that Nemo was now missing which made him panic at first.
"Uh, guys?" Cherry spoke up.
"What is it, Chumlunch?" Gil asked her.
"Nemo's swimming to the filter." Cherry told them.
"What?!" The others panicked.
Cody glanced over at the fish tank every so often while helping out Dr. Sherman. The other fish panicked for Nemo as he kept going in determination who didn't hesitate even for a minute. The other fish tried to stop Nemo because the last time was such a disaster, but he kept going. Suddenly, everything seemed to stop in the fish tank.
"Sharkbait! Are you okay!?" Bloat panicked.
"NO!" Gurgle cried out.
"Can you hear me, Sharkbait!?" Gil panicked with them. "Nemo! Can you hear me!?"
"Yeah, I can hear you." Nemo smiled as he appeared right behind them.
"You did it!" Cherry cheered.
"Sharkbait, you're-covered with germs!" Gurgle smiled as he hugged Nemo at first before freaking out. "Aaaaaaah!"
"That took guts, kid." Gil commented.
Cody smiled to the fish as he stood beside Dr. Sherman while he worked.
"Alright, now all we have to get this tank filthy." Cherry said.
"All right, gang. We have less than 48 hours before Darla gets here," Gil told the others. "This tank'll get plenty dirty in that time, but we have to help it along any way we can. Jacques!"
"Oui!" Jacques replied.
"No cleaning." Gil told him.
"I shall resist." Jacques replied.
"Everybody else, be as gross as possible," Gil told the others. "Think dirty thoughts. We're gonna make this tank so filthy, the dentist'll have to clean it."
Bloat then suddenly let out a rather disgusting belch.
"Perfect." Cherry said.
"Good work." Gil nodded while Nemo giggled.
Cody could just tell that the tank would get filthy enough for the dentist to clean it. The fish tank gang decided to get straight to work.
"I hope this isn't too gross for me," Cherry said to herself as even she had standards before she then let out a sigh. "Oh, Atticus, what's taking you, Marlin, and the others so long?"