Akito, Estelle, and Vincent swam around, passing an old ship that was under the sea now.
"Hey, that looks like it's from the 21st century." Estelle noted.
"You got a point there," Akito agreed. "I saw it in one of our history books."
"There's the dolphins!" Vincent pointed.
"Good eye, bro." Estelle said.
The dolphins looked to them and screeched, swimming quickly away from them.
"Wait, we come in peace!" Estelle called to them.
"Quick, after them!" Vincent said.
"Maybe we should split up, you guys take the ones on the right, I'll go this way." Estelle suggested.
Her brothers agreed and they split up, going to find the dolphins. The dolphins chirped as they made their swim away.
"Wait, stop!" Estelle called out.
Estelle ended up alone against the reef and coral, looking around, but didn't see the dolphins in sight. "Where did they go?" she wondered.
Akito and Vincent went to look the other way.
"Now, where are those dolphins?" Vincent asked.
The dolphins came behind the boys and started to change.
Akito and Vincent kept swimming, but Akito stopped once he felt a disturbance. "LOOK OUT!"
Vincent saw the mechanical dolphins and swam down with Akito as the dolphins now looked rather scary.
"Ha! See, I told you!" Akito said out of victory.
"You're right, guess I owe ya." Vincent shrugged.
Suddenly a mechanical dolphin charged at them and made them fall to the ocean floor.
"Lemme handle this one." Akito told his brother before going off to the mechanical dolphins that tried to take them down.
"Be careful, bro." Vincent said out of concern.
Akito grabbed the dolphins by their tail fins and started to spin around with them the best he could. He then threw them far enough to make them flop out of the water for a brief moment.
Estelle still swam and she gasped once she ran into those very dolphins who were now in front of her and looked very menacing and frightening to her. "Oh, dear..." she said out of fear, but then calmed down and started to talk to herself. "Okay, remember, just talk to them."
The dolphins glared to her and started to knock her against the coral, snarling to her. However, they saw she was a mermaid and they had stopped what they were doing. They seemed to bow respectively to her.
"Um... Hello?" Estelle glanced at them.
The dolphins chirped to Estelle which changed into a language she would understand. 'Forgive us, Your Majesty, we thought you were someone else...'
"Your Majesty?" Estelle glanced at them. "What're you talking about?"
'You are from the prophecy,' the other dolphin told her. 'The long-lost mermaid countess with her animal healing powers and communication skills from hundreds of years ago in the past.'
"Well, me and my brothers just want to know why you and the rest of the dolphins and the whales are causing whirlpools and sinking stuff like cruise ships," Estelle said. "And I'm not the only merperson, there's also my twin brother, our older brother, my parents along with my cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents, except for the ones on Mom's side of the family."
'That's quite the story you have there...' one dolphin told her.
"Um, thank you..." Estelle shrugged with a smile. "I didn't think you'd guys would know what I was."
"Are you kidding? Of course we know what you are." The second dolphin said to her.
"Yeah, your tail fin gave it away, we can't wait to show you to Adolpho." The first dolphin said.
"Adolpho?" Estelle wondered. "Who is Adolpho?"
"Our leader." Both dolphins said.
"You wouldn't mind taking me to him, would you?" Estelle asked, wondering if she could use this to her and the other Loonatics' advantage.
"Of course, your highness." The dolphins bowed before leading her to their leader.
Estelle smiled, flattered. 'Wonder who the real mermaid princess is?' she thought to herself before swimming along with the dolphins, trying to keep up appearances until much later.
Akito and Vincent came back to the ship.
"So, have you guys found out anything about the dolphins?" Rev asked.
"Well yes, but then, we kind of lost them." Akito said.
"Hmm... Better check the sonar." Tech took a look, hoping the dolphins didn't get too far away.
"Never mind the dolphins, where's Estelle?" Lexi noticed they were missing someone else.
"Oh, no, they must have kidnapped her!" Vincent exclaimed as he began to panic.
"Calm down, I'm sure she's fine..." Akito tried to calm his brother down.
"Still we should go back and save her." Vincent suggested.
"She's been fishnapped, I mean dolphnapped, I mean, kidnapped by dolphins!" Duck sounded hysterical as always.
"You let Estelle get captured!" Lexi folded her arms at him.
"Now the question is, what're they gonna do with her?" Tech wondered.
The dolphins led Estelle further into their ship hideout.
"Nice choice for your hideout." Estelle told the dolphins.
'Thank you...' the dolphins chirped to her as they continued on.
Estelle looked around, then put her head above the water once they stopped. There came a different dolphin who looked more menacing than the ones Estelle had met.
"Um... Hello..." Estelle greeted. "You must be Adolpho."
"That's what they call me," the dolphin told her, he didn't sound that friendly. "It's payback time."
"Payback time?" Estelle asked. "What are you talking about? Don't humans in this time period treat the planet and animals with respect?"
Adolpho noticed Estelle's tail fin, telling him one thing. "You're a mermaid..." He noticed.
'She is our long-lost mermaid princess savior...' the other dolphins told her.
"Um... Yes, I am." Estelle folded her arms with a firm look on her face, yes, she was lying, but she needed to make the dolphins peaceful animals like she knew them as they were back home.
Adolpho bowed his head out of respect. "It is an honor to meet you." he said.
"Oh, well, thank you," Estelle smiled. "Anyway, why do you want payback on humans?"
"Those ships that dwelled on and messed up on our oceans, not to mention those creepy water park shows..." Adolpho informed her.
"But not all humans are bad and if you don't want to be in the water park, then I'll make sure that you or the rest of the dolphins ever go there and the same goes for the whales," Estelle said. "Because I have a feeling that's why they joined your side and started to create whirlpools."
"You don't understand," Adolpho said to her in slight horror. "My brain's been fried! I've got an evil, nasty temper and I want revenge! You see, humans' pollution caused us a mutating caused results in an unsuspecting way."
"Then allow me to heal you and all of the dolphins that got hurt by the pollution and I promise you that me my brothers my parents and our friends will make sure that no one will ever pollute the ocean ever again and if then there will be lots of cleaning up to do." Estelle promised.
"I'm afraid those land creatures have to learn their lesson, mermaid princess or no mermaid princess..." Adolpho laughed evilly, then mutated the other dolphins to make them more evil now like he was.
"Surely there's something we can do!" Estelle cried.
"Quiet!" Adolpho snapped at her, no longer being gentle or formal with her. "Come on, let's show this princess what we can do, fellas!"
"I don't like the sound of this..." Estelle was getting nervous now. She decided to try to use her healing powers on the dolphins and hopefully it would also get rid of the evil thoughts.
Adolpho ducked down and made Estelle's powers bounce off his armor and hit her back in the face, but it worked on the other dolphins. "You may have some nifty tricks, little one, but you're gonna play by MY rules now!" he laughed wickedly at her and then went to swim off.
The other dolphins came to Estelle that she had healed and offered support for her.
"I know someone who needs a time-out." Estelle said to her new dolphin friends.
'Please forgive him, he's been hurt by humans for so long, he's never experienced any humans showing him any kindness.' The first dolphin told her.
'Yeah, they just think we're animals that like to play.' The second dolphin told her.
"I see... I'll have to work on him, I'm sorry to hear about the trouble you went through though." Estelle soothed them, sounding rather maternal.
'It's okay and you're not our long-lost princess are you?' The second dolphin asked.
Estelle sighed, knowing she couldn't lie to them anymore. "Actually... I'm not... I'm sorry I lied to you, but I wanted to help you..."
The dolphins looked a little unhappy that she had lied to them.
"But I still wanna help you, I promise, I really do!" Estelle tried to have them not be mad at her for lying.
'Do you give your word as both a mermaid and as a human?' The first dolphin asked, wanting to make sure that Estelle was serious about her keeping her promise.
"Yes, I give my word." Estelle promised and even held up her right hand.
'Then, alright, we'll help you stop Adolpho from sinking all of Acmetropolis.' The first dolphin said with a smile.
"Wait, Adolpho is going to what?!" Estelle exclaimed.
"Sink all of Acmetropolis to teach the humans a lesson.' the other dolphin informed.
"But I'm sure that if we tell them I'm sure everyone will listen." Estelle said.
'Oh, no one can be sure...' the first dolphin sighed.
'Humans never understand...' the other dolphin added.
Estelle frowned to them, she knew what she had to do now: She had to help them and save Acmetropolis without selfish needs or desires like most humans.