SuperTed and Spotty are on the holiday with Spotty's family. But Blotch makes a new friend from the sea and sails off to help her. Our two heroes find them prisoners on Texas Pete's boat and become prisoners themselves. He traps them and leaves them on his sinking boat, as he makes his way to…
"Coral Reef Kingdom!" cried Tex. "There she is!"
His submarine was approaching the underwater Coral Reef Kingdom. Behind the rocks and the corals stood a giant castle made out of rocks.
"Wow!" exclaimed Skeleton. "It's so beautiful!"
"Is this all ours, Tex?" asked Bulk.
"It will be when we deliver the wriggling worm back to her parents," replied Tex.
Nicole still had ropes wrapped around her arms. Her muffling speech behind the tape on her lips did not help her either.
"And no one can or is going to stop us now," went on Tex. "Especially that puny teddy bear!"
The fishing trawler was still sinking. Spotty, Blotch and Barbara had their heads just above the highly risen water, but the water was still rising and SuperTed still hadn't regained consciousness.
Spotty dived down and brought his best friend to the surface. "Come on, SuperTed!" he cried. "Wake up! Wake – "
Then everyone was completely underwater.
Spotty waved some cosmic dust on SuperTed. The teddy bear woke up and realized the situation they were in. He whispered his magic word and ripped his brown fur off. With his scarlet suit and yellow rocket boots, SuperTed swam forward and used his strength to move a couple of bars aside.
Meanwhile, Blotch tapped Spotty on the shoulder and pointed to Barbara, who was drowning. He swam over to her and got out a big jar full of orange liquid. He poured the liquid into Barbara's mouth.
SuperTed managed to squeeze the bars away and make a hole big enough for everyone to swim out. Everyone swam out and up to the surface.
"Is everyone all right?" SuperTed asked.
"Yes, I'm fine, SuperTed," replied Blotch.
"Me, too," said Spotty.
"Where's Barbara?" asked SuperTed.
Then something jumped over them and dived back in the water. Then Barbara brought her head up to the surface.
SuperTed approached her. "Barbara, are you – "
He put his head under the water and saw no legs but a giant fish tail.
"A mermaid!" exclaimed the teddy bear.
Barbara lifted her tail up and was amazed by it. "Well, what do you know about that?"
SuperTed was puzzled. "But how?"
"It was me, SuperTed," replied Spotty. "When I took you to Mother Nature, she gave me a little potion as backup in case my cosmic dust doesn't work. And Barbara was drowning so I had to use it."
"Well, now everyone can breathe underwater," said SuperTed, "let's go and save the Coral Reef."
And they all dived under.
Tex's submarine parked outside the castle and out came Tex, Bulk and Skeleton in diving suits and diving helmets.
"Okay, grab the mermaid princess and let's go and take over the kingdom!" ordered Tex.
Bulk and Skeleton picked up Nicole and the evil gang started to walk over to the castle.
They approached the giant white double-shell door.
"Bulk, get the door," ordered Tex.
"Anything you say, Tex," said Bulk. He went over to the door, but he couldn't find any door knobs. "Door knobs, where are you?" he asked. He put his hands between the shells and pushed them aside, still looking for the door knobs.
Tex and Skeleton, carrying Barbara, passed him.
"Come on, Bulk!" snapped Tex.
"Oh, all right." Bulk got up and joined his friends, not realizing the shell doors were shutting behind him.
Tex and his gang walked through the wooden corridor.
"How much further to the throne room, Tex?" asked Skeleton. "We've been walking for hours and – "
"Clam it!" snapped Tex. "Just a few more steps and we'll be there."
"Uh, Tex?" called Bulk.
"What?"
"I can see mermaids flying around in this room," replied Bulk, peeking through the keyhole of the door he standing next to. "And I think there's two who have golden crowns on their heads."
"Move out of the way!" ordered Tex, pushing Bulk away.
It was the dancing room Tex and Bulk was looking through. It had fish playing music instruments and merfolk were dancing.
The doors barged opened. The music stopped playing and everyone started playing.
"How dares disturb the Coral Reef ball?" demanded the King.
Tex and his minions walked in. The evil cowboy drew out his guns and aimed them at Nicole.
"Now, give me your crown and your kingdom or your daughter becomes a bunch of worms on for hooks!" Tex grinned evilly.
The King sighed deeply as he looked at his Queen and his merpeople. Then he swam over to Tex and began to take his crown off.
SuperTed and his friends hadn't been swimming for long until they finally reached the castle.
"Well, there it is, guys," said the teddy bear, pointing to it. "We just need to get inside and stop Tex. Come on."
They carried on swimming.
"What's it like being a mermaid?" Blotch asked Barbara.
"It's great, Blotch!" the mermaid replied happily. "I've never been so happy in my life!"
They approached the shell gates of the palace. SuperTed used all his strength to open them, but he was not strong enough.
"Go on, SuperTed," said Spotty. "Open them."
"I can't," panted SuperTed. "They're too heavy."
Then something large wrapped around his legs. He looked down to see a large grey tentacle holding them. Spotty, Blotch and Barbara were also wrapped around in tentacles. Then they were all pulled down.
SuperTed regained consciousness to find himself and his friends in chains. He looked around to see they were in some sort of stadium made out of rocks from the Coral Reef and sea creatures of all kinds were watching them.
"Spotty! Wake up!" SuperTed cried to his best friend.
Spotty woke up. "Where are we? We're not in some sort of aquarium, are we?"
"No, this is still the Coral Reef Kingdom," said SuperTed. "And this is an underwater stadium."
Then the audience cheered. The prisoners looked ahead to see an ugly looking mermaid with grey hair and warts on her face sitting in the throne box.
"Ladies and mer-gents," she said. "I am the Sea Witch of the Coral Reef and, as my first act of being your new queen, I shall offer you entertainment of a lifetime. A match!"
"A match!" cried Spotty. "That sounds exciting!"
"This match won't be football, Spotty," SuperTed told him.
"What will it be, then?"
"These prisoners against my beautiful creations." The Sea Witch clapped her hands three times.
The big gates opened and the prisoners were terrified at what they were facing.
"Look, SuperTed, a giant octopus!" cried Spotty.
"That's not an octopus, Spotty!" cried Barbara. "That's a kraken!"
"There's a shark, too!" cried Blotch. "And a funny fish with a bright yo-yo hanging from its head."
"It's an anglerfish, Blotch!" cried Barbara. "And that yo-yo is an esca."
"Well, he does look angry," said Spotty.
"Let the games begin!" ordered the sea witch.
The grey kraken, the vicious anglerfish and the terrifying shark charged for the prisoners.
"Come on, SuperTed!" cried Spotty. "Get us out of here!"
"I can't!" sighed SuperTed, as he wriggled through his chains. "These chains are too strong!"
"What about your rocket boots?" asked Blotch.
"They don't work underwater," said the teddy bear.
"Well, try, SuperTed!" insisted Spotty.
"All right." SuperTed moved his feet to the chain ball. He tried his very hardest to release the fire from his rocket boots, but not even smoke came out of them.
The sea monsters were getting closer and closer.
Spotty, Blotch and Barbara were screaming.
"Hurry, SuperTed!" screamed Spotty.
Superted gave his rocket boots a really big blast and this time out came firepower that was powerful enough to break all the chains off.
The monsters opened their mouths, but they missed their snacks.
The shark was chasing Spotty, but, as it opened its mouth, a piece of rope was dragged into its mouth. As it closed its mouth, Blotch and Barbara quickly wrapped the rope around it. The shark couldn't open it again.
Then the anglerfish charged for the three heroes, but its esca on top of its head was dragged down by SuperTed. The teddy bear also managed to grab the tentacles from the kraken, tie them with the scary fish together and throw them to the shark. Then everyone saw the anglerfish spark up.
"That anglerfish," said SuperTed. "It sparkled!"
"Well, it can produce light, SuperTed," said Spotty.
"No, Spotty," said SuperTed. "I don't even think that's even a real anglerfish."
They swam over to the anglerfish. SuperTed looked all over it and saw a little hatch under its belly. He opened it and out came Bulk still in his diving suit.
"Hello, Bulk," said SuperTed.
"Oh, hello," smiled Bulk.
Then Tex appeared out of the kraken machine and Skeleton out of the shark machine.
SuperTed swam to them and grabbed them by the shoulders. "So this is where you've been hiding, Tex?"
"This ain't our fault," protested Tex. Then he explained the story of how the king was about to give him the new crown when the Sea Witch appeared out of nowhere and enslaved him and his gang as well as the royal family. Then she forced Tex and his gang to be in the machines to attack SuperTed and his friends.
"Where is my family?" demanded Barbara.
"We don't know," replied Skeleton.
Then a loud thump caused everyone to turn around to face the Sea Witch charging towards them. She had a trident in her hand and fired orange lighting power at the heroes, but it missed all of them, but Barbara fell down a big hole under the seats.
The Sea Witch hit SuperTed with the trident. The knocked-down teddy bear tried to get up, but he couldn't.
The Sea Witch also hit Spotty and Blotch. She laughed evilly as she was about to lower the trident into the three heroes, but she fell over something. It was Skeleton's skull still in his diver's helmet. The trident fell out of her hands and it landed in Tex's hand. He fired the trident at the Sea Witch and she was turned into a shrimp.
Then Tex laughed evilly. "Now the evil Sea Witch is defeated, you will all bow to me as your new king."
The sea creatures didn't move an inch.
"I said, 'Bow to me!'" shouted Tex.
Then they all bowed.
"That's better!" shouted a smug Tex.
Then the trident was snatched out of his hands.
"What?" Tex turned around to see the real King of the Coral Reef and his entire family facing him in the face. The King fired the trident and zapped Tex, Bulk and Skeleton out of the stadium and out of the Coral Sea, landing onto a giant rock in the middle of the sea.
The sea creatures cheered.
SuperTed, Spotty and Blotch got up and watched the King and his family hug Barbara.
"Well, all's well that ends well, eh, SuperTed?" smiled Spotty.
"Yes, Spotty," smiled SuperTed. "Now the Coral Reef is saved, let's get back to your family."
SuperTed, Spotty and Blotch started to make their way back home when the royal family swam in front of them.
"Where do you think you're going?" asked the King.
SuperTed and his friends lowered themselves on the ground and bowed to them.
"The new princess has something to say," went on the King.
Princess Barbara, who was wearing a small princess crown made out of pearls, approached the three heroes.
"I just want to say thank you very much to every one of you for returning me to my family and where I belong," she said. "Especially you, Blotch."
"You're welcome, Your Highness," said Blotch.
"Please call me Barbara," said Barbara.
Then they were each reward by the King giving them golden shells with a seaweed necklace.
"Thank you, Your Majesty," said SuperTed, as he and his friends got up. "We must leave now. Good luck and be safe." Then he and his friends left.
As everyone else started to leave, Barbara swam to Nicole and hugged her.
"I also want to thank you for coming to find me," said Barbara. "I know you're a great sister already."
Back on the spotted yacht, SuperTed, Spotty and Blotch told the Spot family about their great adventure.
"Wow!" cried Cousin Patch. "That sounds totally heroic."
"Reminds me of the time I found a bunch of stray spotty cats and dogs on an asteroids," said Admiral Particle.
"Well, now that everyone's back," said Uncle Bolt, "can we continue with our holiday?"
"Yes, there's so much to see on Planet Earth," said Spotty's father.
With Armiral Particle at the helm, SuperTed and the spotty people continued their holiday around the planet Earth.
THE END