Chapter 2: Ambush at Sea
After a few minutes of arguing right on poor Bubbie's back, the samurai suddenly began to notice how rough the waves on the sea were getting.
"Fine, here, take your map Captain K'nuckles" said Jack as he handed K'nuckles his map.
"Well now that's more like it" laughed K'nuckles as he was handed the map.
"You two better get inside through my blowhole" said Bubbie to both K'nuckles and Jack, "the water is getting a bit rough outside."
The two eventually made their way through the whale's blowhole. Poor Jack had to squeeze himself through it again, and rather disliked having to do this in order to get on the top to see where they were. As he climbed down the blowhole and into the whale's mouth, the samurai sat in the far end of the whale's tongue on the opposite side of Flapjack and K'nuckles, placing his head down on his knees in disbelief of where he had ended up.
"Say Captain" said Flapjack as he noticed that the samurai was depressed, "is he going to be okay, what did he do up there?"
"Flapjack, you wouldn't believe me if I told you so, that this map that fellow over there told me was not a map to Candy Island" replied K'nuckles.
"What?!" cried Flapjack, "How can that be possible, the map is clearly a map to Candy Island."
"I know, that's what I told him" continued K'nuckles.
But while Bubbie was trying to follow the directions for which K'nuckles told her earlier, Peppermint Larry, his Candy Wife, along with his candy-made soldiers in a ship just a few miles behind were watching them.
"Are you sure those two believe the map the samurai is carrying is the location to Candy Island, Candy Wife?" asked Peppermint Larry.
All his wife did was just simply gave a glance toward him.
"Well, don't blame me, you were the one who stated to snoop on any adventurer who may come into the Candy Barrel to see if that adventurer has the map to Candy Island!" shouted Peppermint Larry, "Anyway, the waters here are quite rough, and I don't think it would be proper for the sea near Candy Island to be this destructive."
Larry's Candy Wife, just simply stood there quite stiff, and angry toward him for his incompetence.
"Fine, I'll follow them anyway" said Peppermint Larry as he was at the wheel of the ship.
Peppermint Larry grumbled as he continued to follow the whale in question, yet the keeper of the Candy Barrel wasn't the only one who was watching this. The evil Aku, in his lair was keeping a close eye on the samurai's activities.
"Bahwahaha!" laughed Aku as he glared at Jack's depression on the projection image he had spawned with his magic, "The samurai thinks he can use the fat, big nosed excuse of a captain and his first mate to complete his quest?! This almost makes it less than challenging, if I'm going to summon a few creations of mine to go and destroy the samurai!"
Aku then immediately changed the image of a depressed samurai in a whale's mouth to a scientist who was in some sort of an underground, undersea research facility in the area of where Jack was.
"Lord Aku, I did not expect to see you so soon, how can I be of a service to your needs?" asked the head scientist.
"I need you, my smart friend to summon a few of your robotic sea monsters" replied Aku, "make it quick and fast, the samurai must be off his rocker if he's going to hire some less, than experience captain."
"Will do, Lord Aku" bowed the scientist.
Meanwhile, back in the rough seas, as Bubbie was trying to head toward the supposed location of Candy Island, deep below the ocean floor, the research facility which Aku has contacted was prepared to summon a fearsome robotic beast to take care of the samurai and his new compatriots. A giant squid with red-glowing eyes emerged from a secret door on the sea bottom. The robotic squid then began to make its way up toward where the whale was located. Yet Bubbie didn't know what was coming up from the water, yet she suddenly saw some strange red-glowing lights coming from the depths of the sea.
"Uh, fellows, you have to see this!" cried Bubbie.
"What, what is it?!" cried K'nuckles as he was squeezing through the blowhole and got up on the whale's back.
"Hey, look" said Flapjack as he noticed the red-glowing lights that wee getting bigger, "I wonder if it's a new friend we can make."
"Friend?" asked Jack as he squeezed himself through the blowhole and got out, the samurai immediately recognized there was going to be danger, "No, that is no friend."
"But what do you mean by that, all of the creatures of the sea even the big ones, bigger than Bubbie are friendly toward us" said Flapjack.
"Get back inside the whale's mouth!" ordered Jack as he took out his samurai sword, "It's too dangerous!"
"Ha, danger is my middle name pal!" replied K'nuckles.
"Yeah, adventure!" added Flapjack.
Suddenly, the robotic giant squid lifted itself out of the depths of the deep sea. It's tentacles were quite long, along with the robotic squid also being armed with various missiles loaded in the tentacle sockets.
"Er, on second thought, you handle this!" cried K'nuckles as he ran toward the blowhole, and squeezed himself through it, "Come on Flapjack, the guy in the dress is right, it's too dangerous for you!"
"But I want to learn on how to become a real adventurer" complained Flapjack who was quite sad.
"I said, it's too dangerous for you" said Jack as he grabbed Flapjack and threw him right down the blowhole with ease.
The samurai readied on the whale's back, as the robotic tentacles began to come closer. With one slice of the sword, Jack managed to cut off a small chunk of the robotic squid's tentacle, for which the tentacle fell right into the sea. Back a few miles away, Peppermint Larry was shocked to find what was going on, as the samurai he thought wanted to go to Candy Island was fighting quite a vicious monster.
"T-T-This adventurer which K'nuckles and Flapjack hired seems to be quite tougher than he looks" said Peppermint Larry as he then turned toward his Candy Wife, "what should I do Candy Wife?"
Yet the Candy Wife stood there quite firm again, with silence.
"You're right Candy Wife!" laughed Peppermint Larry as he signaled the candy soldiers to come together, "I should use the taffy we have stored on the ship, to form a Taffy Monster!"
As Peppermint Larry headed down the ship to plot the samurai's downfall, the samurai was having his own troubles with the robotic squid.