Meanwhile...
"I'm not picking up anything on sonar!" Rev called once he saw the monitors, unable to track down Estelle.
"Quiet down, Rev," Ace looked at another screen. "And take a look at this. Those whales are back and they're forming a whirlpool on that island!"
"Oh, no, that's not just any island ace." Akito said out of worry.
"Now they're after Acmetropolis city!" Tech called from another screen.
Ace looked to Akito, wondering what he meant by that.
"They're going to sink Acmetropolis!" Akito cried out of worry for the lives of everyone in Acmetropolis.
"We have to get out of here before that whirlpool gets any bigger." Atticus advised.
Alarms blared and the whirlpool was now coming for them and shaking them already.
"TOO LATE!" Mo screeched.
"We have to stop those whales!" Akito called out.
Tech tried to take back control of the boat, but the currents were too strong. "This baby needs more power!"
"Then how 'bout this?" Duck snarled as his eyes glowed and he flew out of the sinking whirlpool and decided to put his new power into good use. "Aqua Eggs!" He called as he went back into the water with his glowing hands and used one hand to push the boat out from under the water and used the other hand to help carry himself out. Once they were secured, he teleported back into the boat.
The others groaned as the splashing water drenched them due to Duck's care.
"That was close," Duck teleported back to them. "Lexi, I'm gonna find Estelle pronto while you other guys better stop those whales!"
"I'm going with you." Akito said.
"I need to go too, Estelle's like a little sister to me." Lexi added.
Atticus and Mo smiled at that, Estelle could use an older female influence other than her mother. Tech went back to controls so they could find a way to stop those whales.
"Back into the ocean we go," Akito said. "Let's go and find Estelle and hope that she's all right."
"I'm sure she'll be fine, but I'm ready to kick any tail if they've hurt her." Lexi looked very serious and protective of Estelle.
"Then let's quit talking and start diving in to find her." Duck said impatiently.
Lexi and Duck donned their scuba gear and went down.
Mo stopped her younger son before letting him move on. "Please... Be careful."
"I will, Mom." Akito said before he dived in.
Mo sniffled and hugged Atticus, who then cuddled her in return to soothe her. Felicity took out a trinket and wore it around her neck. She then took off her boots and joined Akito, Lexi, and Duck, and surprisingly enough, she had even earned her own golden tail fin, despite not being a mermaid herself nor having merpeople blood in her.
"Huh? How in the?" Vincent asked out of confusion. "Are those boots enchanted or something?"
"Flick helped Ariel's daughter," Cherry explained. "As a reward, King Triton blessed her with her own mermaid abilities."
"Ohh, well that explains where she got those boots and how she's able to turn into a mermaid." Vincent said.
"The boots are just part of her outfit, the trinket gives the powrs." Cherry explained.
"Oh." Vincent now saw why his cousin took off her boots.
"You should've met Melody." Cherry said to Atticus and Mo.
"I was called away and decided to take the family with me." Atticus replied apologetically.
"It's true." Mo said.
"Ariel really missed you," Cherry said to Atticus. "I didn't know you guys were related."
"Yeah, my mom is her mother's sister." Atticus explained.
"Hm..." Cherry hummed a little.
Slam yelled, he jumped out of the boat and did a tornado spin to stop the whales and the whirlpool from taking Acmetropolis down with it.
"Looks like Slam might need someone to team up with him." Vincent said.
"Maybe I should go." Atticus volunteered himself.
"No, Dad, you stay here, I'll go with Slam." Vincent told his father.
"You sure?" Atticus wanted to make sure, he believed in Vincent like he believed in all of his children though.
"Yes, Dad, I'm sure." Vincent said.
"Okay, try not to get sucked in." Atticus patted him on the head.
Vincent nodded and went off as Rev also went into the water.
"Oh, dear..." Mo held herself. "Cherry, how can you stay so calm?" she looked to the gothic woman. "Our children are risking their lives out there!"
"I went eight years without even seeing my own daughter," Cherry said to Mo. "Eight years just wondering... Is she going to be okay, what's she doing on her birthday, if she's being properly educated... If I can go through that, you can go through with Akito, Estelle, and Vincent doing this."
"She's got a good point." Atticus said.
"How did you survive?" Mo asked.
"It was really complicated..." Cherry said softly. "As punishment, my father decided to force me to be his servant to make up for it. However, one night, I finally had enough and I managed to run away without leaving a trace and I had faked my death."
"And how did you do that?" Ace asked her.
Cherry took out small pills she kept in her pocket. "I studied Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, I asked a friend to slip these into my drink so it would appear I was poisoned. After I was knocked out for a couple of days, I was given a funeral in my bedroom. After my door was locked and I woke up in time, I just ran away and took all that I could and I ran to where Forte had been banished: Back to Belle and Adam."
"Wow." Ace said.
"It wasn't easy," Cherry continued. "Magenta also released her dogs that night..." She then rolled up her sleeve to show bite marks on her arm that were not from Maestro Forte.
"Yikes, how did you survive from her dogs' bites?" Ace asked both concerned and confused.
"I don't wish to remember..." Cherry rolled her sleeve back up.
"It's okay, you don't have to tell us if you don't want to." Mo said.
Rev laughed as he, Akito, Vincent, and Slam were going to stop the whirlpools.
Adolpho came out to watch the show and had an evil laugh. "Bye-Bye, Birdy!" he called to Rev, then used brain blasts to control the whales still under the water.
"We better watch out for whatever the whales try." Akito said.
"Think you can beat them?" Vincent asked.
"Yeah, but I don't want to hurt them too much." Akito said.
"Yeah, animal cruelty." Vincent nodded in understanding.
"Let's kick some fin!" Rev called out.
A whale swam up and hit Rev with its fin, knocking him off course. Another whale swam up as well and swallowed up the superpowered roadrunner. Slam snarled at that.
"I'll get him, you guys stop the whirlpool!" Akito called, going after the whale that ate Rev alive.
"You got it, bro!" Vincent called back. "Okay, Slam, let's go stop that whirlpool."
Slam and Vincent went to stop the whirlpool while Akito would take on the whales. Akito jumped up and bodyslammed against the whale. The whale then brought him deep under water and leaped through the air itself and kept trying to knock him off its back.
"Give up, big guy, you won't be able to knock me off." Akito said.
The whale kept leaping in and out of the water. A crab had clung onto Akito's face during this.
"Sebastian?" Akito said out of confusion.
The crab looked to him and was not Sebastian.
Akito glared at this crab and tried to pull it off his face. This knocked Akito off balance and now he was flying through the air and landed in another whale's mouth and was now eaten as well.
"Oh, great, thanks a lot, Crab!" Akito shouted.