Chapter 4 - Day of the Sting Ray
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2 guards helped carry Riko out to the gates of Atlantica. Then, they abruptly threw him to the sea floor.
"Stay here until King Triton says so." One guard told him.
The guards swam back into Atlantica, while Riko cleaned off the sand.
"Great. This is even worse than that time I went to work as a V.I.L.E. Henchman."
(Cutaway)
"Just great, lady! How the H-E-Double Hockey sticks am I supposed to steal Seoul from South Korea?"
"It's actually pretty easy, henchman." Carmen Sandiego replied " You take a pair of scissors and cut all around it."
Just then, a sleuth busted the door down.
"Ha! I have the Loot, the Warrant, and now I have the Crooks! You're goin' to jail!"
Riko sighed.
"This is the worst day of my life."
(End Cutaway)
Ariel came barrelling out of Atlantica to try and reconcile with Riko on her father's behalf.
"Riko! Please, listen to me!" Ariel begged her friend.
Riko turned to look at Ariel.
"Daddy's just being stubborn! Don't be mad!" Replied Ariel
"Oh, i'm not that mad. Just a bit." Replied Riko
All of the sudden, a dark shadow was cast upon the 2 figures.
"What the..?" Riko looked into the sky.
Ariel took a close look.
"Oh no! It's the Evil manta! And there's a bunch of manta rays following him!"
Back at the throne room, Sebastian saw the rays coming.
"Your majesty! Der be a bunch o' dem mantas a comin' along with dat evil manta!" Sebastian warned the king.
"Evil Manta!" Triton got up from the throne, and looked out. He saw the mantas coming for his people.
"Sebastian, Get as many merfolk as you can into shelter!" Triton ordered
"Yes, your Majesty!" Sebastian replied, taking off.
King Triton swam over to his trident, and prepared to take aim.
"Evil Manta, you dare come to my kingdom, to devastate my people? Trident, Shoot!"
The trident fired a beam upwards at the mantas. But the beam was barely effective.
"What?" Triton gasped
The Evil Manta laughed and swam down for the throne room.
"Triton, did you honestly think that trident would penetrate my new armor?" The Evil Manta laughed.
Back outside of the kingdom, Ariel was stressing what she should do.
"What are we going to do?" asked Ariel
Riko made an off-beat suggestion.
"We could throw the crab at them." Riko joked, much to Ariel's dismay. She gave Riko a cold stare.
"I was kidding! Sheesh." Riko defended himself.
"Well, this is no time for jokes!" Ariel was frustrated.
Riko tried to think, but Ariel had an idea.
"Wait...what if we dropped something on them from the sky?" asked Ariel
"The sky? The skies of Atlantica?" Asked Riko
Peter Griffin then popped up.
"Ahh! He said it, he said it, he said the story title...uh, can't breathe! Need air!" Peter griffin then began swimming for the surface.
"That was unnecessary." Riko commented.
Ariel then began to commence her plan.
"Quick, head for the surface, i'll go and get a rock." Ariel swam off, while Riko went for the surface.
Meanwhile, in the midst of Atlantica, Rays were swooping down and fighting the merfolk, while poor Sebastian was struggling to escort as many of the sea creatures into cover, while Flounder was acting like a scared guppy.
"Guys! Can't we all just get along?" Flounder begged, before getting body slammed into a wall.
"Ouch." Flounder fell over.
Riko was about a quarter of the way to the surface when Ariel caught up. She put a small softball-sized rock in one hand, and Riko's hand in the other and pulled him to the surface. Riko got a look at the rock in Ariel's other hand.
"Oh yeah, Ariel. That rock will totally smash that ray." Said a Sarcastic Riko
"You don't like it?" asked Ariel
"Why'd you pick the smallest rock you could find?" asked Riko
"Cause I liked the Color." Replied Ariel
"Oh great...this is gonna be harder than trying to convince the Jehovah's witnesses to believe in Mr. Skullhead."
(Cutaway)
2 foreign ladies are standing at Riko's nest, holding bibles and pamphlets.
"So we are here today to share a message of hope with you." Said one of the ladies
"A message of Rove and a Personar Rerationship with Yehovah." said the other.
Riko looked less than amused.
"Sorry ladies, I already have a belief...in Mr. Skullhead!" Riko pulled out Mr. Skullhead from his nest.
"Mr. Skurrhead?" Asked the first lady.
"Yep...he's mr. Skullhead. And he even has his own Hymn, and it goes like...
It's the Mr. Skullhead Show
Starring Him, Mr. Skullhead.
Cause it's his show that he has
Mr. Skullhead!
When Riko finished singing, The Witnesses were not amused.
"Those are the raziest ryrics i've ever heard." Said the second lady.
And then, Slappy Squirrel showed up, and hit the ladies with a mallet. Riko was somewhat curious.
"Let me guess...They said bad things about the Mr. Skullhead Lyrics?" asked Riko
"Nah, it's just fun to hit people with mallets." replied Slappy
(End Cutaway)
Eventually, the 2 made their way to the surface. But at the surface, Ariel stopped.
"We need to go above the surface." Said Ariel.
Riko thought that might not have been a great idea.
"Your father wouldn't like that." Riko commented.
"Oh, he's too busy! Let's do it!"
The 2 figures broke the surface. Luckily, there were no humans in sight.
"Can you fly with me in your grip?" Ariel asked.
"Would Howdy Doody get wood at a hardware store?" Asked Riko.
(Cutaway)
"Well, Howwwwwwwwdy-Doody to ya! what kinda wood ya got there, pardner?" Asked Howdy Doody to the worker.
"Well, we have pine, oak, cedar, beech..."
(End Cutaway)
"Who's Howdy Doody and what the heck does getting wood mean?" asked Ariel
"Something I wouldn't talk about on the first date."
"Oh, we're dating now?" Ariel joked.
"No...I didn't mean us...that'd be kinda weird." Riko shuddered
"Oh, yeah...why should mermaids find anyone not a mermaid attractive?" Ariel nervously giggled.
Riko then wrapped his legs around Ariel's waist, and then hoisted her from the water into the sky! He hoisted her higher, eventually, Ariel had an incredible view of the oceans surrounding her.
"This is amazing! No wonder you don't come under the sea!" Said ariel
"Hey, let's just drop some rocks on some rays." Riko began to move around while carrying Ariel with his legs, while flying with his wings.
"Ok, We'll get close to a ray, and i'll drop the rock!" Ariel said how it was going to work.
"Sounds good!" Riko carried Ariel around the spot where Atlantica was being attacked. a few seconds, and Ariel flung her rock into the sea!
Meanwhile, the Evil Manta was busy talking with his assistant.
"Herbert, I want you to take a note for me." the Evil Manta ordered.
"Yes, sir!" The other ray replied in an english accent.
"Ok...When we take over Atlantica..."
While the Ray was busy telling his assistant what to write, The rock that Ariel dropped was headed directly for his head.
"...Tell the rays I said..." And then the rock clobbered him over the head.
"OWWWW!" The Evil Manta fainted at the hit and fell over. However, his assistant kept writing.
"...Tell the rays, I said OW! Got it!" Then Hebert swam off while the Evil Manta got back up from being smarted.
Meanwhile, while Riko waited at the surface, Ariel went to go get a cannonball. This time, that cannonball would really put the screws to the attacking mantas!
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