Disclaimer: I don't own the 2004 animated film Shark Tale and all rights goes to DreamWorks Animation SKG. Shark Tale has been one of my favorite movies since my childhood, and it still is today. I've enjoyed that movie many times since I was a kid, and I still enjoy it today. Since I love the movie so much, I decided to do a whole retelling of the movie that is called When A Little Fish Tells A Great White Lie with new characters, new scenes, and different dialogue, and my OC belongs to me. Oh, and by the way, please enjoy the retelling of the movie and please review. Also, you can follow and/or favor the retelling if you want to. Please enjoy and share your thoughts and opinions of the retelling of the movie :)
When A Little Fish Tells A Great White Lie
Chapter 1: Meet Oscar and Lenny
In the Atlantic Ocean, a worm tangled on a fishing hook was completely terrified that it was about to be bait just as he held his breath, and he slowly turned himself around and suddenly saw a shark swimming right towards him, causing him to become even more terrified than before. The shark came closer to him and was seemingly about to eat him just as he opened his mouth, however, the shark didn't eat him at all and instead warmly greeted him with a smile. He is a great white shark, and his name is Lenny Lino.
"Hi. My name is Lenny." Lenny greeted.
The worm stared at Lenny for a moment and he quickly fainted due to him being a shark.
"Oh, little buddy, did I scare ya 'cause I'm a great white shark? I'm so sorry about that." said Lenny. "I won't eat ya, I promise. Wake up. Wake up."
He held the worm gently in his fins, and the worm quickly regained consciousness just as he became completely relieved and stopped feeling very terrified.
"Don't worry, I'm gonna get you out of that hook in a jiffy." said Lenny. "He began helping the worm to be untangled from the hook. "You keep holding your breath, little wormy."
"Yo, Lenny! Let's go! C'mon!" somebody's voice called out.
"Uh…I'm coming, Frankie. Just hold on a minute!" Lenny called out just as he continued with helping the worm to get untangled from the hook.
"Well, make it fast. Move it. C'mon. Pop's waiting." Frankie called out.
"Here we go…and…gotcha." said Lenny just as he managed to get the worm untangled from the hook.
The worm kept smiling at Lenny just because he is now very grateful that he helped him out. Then, he began climbing up the fishing line as fast as he could and began heading back to the surface. Lenny watched the worm climb up the fishing line just as he began leaving.
"Okay, little buddy, you're free now. Just go and enjoy your freedom." said Lenny. Suddenly, just as Lenny continued leaving, another great white shark swam up to him, causing him to scream in fear. "You almost gave me a heart attack!" Another great white shark swam up to him and it was his younger sister Teresa Lino.
"There you are. Daddy has been wondering where you went this morning." said Teresa. "Where have you been anyway?"
"Yeah, Lenny, what the heck are you doing?" asked Frankie.
"Well…I wasn't doing anything important. I was just…um…" said Lenny. He picked up some flowers from the ground. "Picking flowers for my big brother and my little sister."
"Really? That's so kind of you." Lenny gives her some of the flowers. "Thank you." Frankie swatted the flowers from Lenny's fins, much to her annoyance. "Frankie! Cut it out!"
"Hey! Mom said it's not okay to hit and it's not nice to do that!" said Lenny. Frankie responded by punching Lenny in the shoulder. "Ow!" He began rubbing his shoulder in pain.
"Our mom's not here right now," said Frankie. "She's at the hospital because she has leukemia, remember? Now let's go home, and we don't wanna keep Pop waiting all morning. C'mon."
The three siblings begin swimming back to their home together. Just as they are, Frankie begins humming the theme of Jaws, much to the disapproval of Lenny and Teresa.
"Don't! Don't!" said Lenny.
Frankie continued to hum the Jaws theme and quickly finished while Lenny and Teresa were very annoyed by it.
"Oh, that song gives me the creeps," said Lenny.
"What do you mean by that? It's our theme song." said Frankie.
"We already know that. Every shark knows that." said Teresa.
They continue to head back to their home together just as they swam throughout a kelp forest. Meanwhile, at a vast reef that is known as Southside Reef, it is completely empty and everybody is hiding at their homes in complete fear because they usually get terrorized by the great white shark mafia. At one of the banks of the reef called the Splash Savings Bank, a group of five great white shark mobsters robs all the money and leave the reef with the stolen money. After they have left, a sand trout news reporter of the Sea 9 news named Katie Current appeared on the screen of a huge jumbotron that is located in the center of one of the locations of the reef known as Pelagic Square.
"Are they gone? Have they left? You're sure about that, Thomas? You're sure?" asked Katie Current. She then turned to the viewers and smiled. "Good morning, Southside Reef. I'm Katie Current, keeping it current! One of the reporters of Sea 9, the local news of the Big Sea Cucumber. The anchorman Thomas and his co-anchor Rachael have just officially informed that the threat level is back down to green. The sharks are gone. I repeat, the sharks are gone!"
After the confirmation on the news, everybody began swimming around the reef, going to various places, and doing their daily routines. Some of the citizens opened up many local businesses, began doing their own important jobs, took some tours around the reef, and did what they usually do at their own homes and spend time with each other on the streets. Elsewhere at the reef, Katie Current makes some more reports on Sea 9 which is seen on various TV screens from an electronics store called the TV Emporium.
"Up next, a fish who is the mother of 800 children tells us how she does it all and how she's able to take care of all of them." Katie Current announced to the viewers just as the news showed the fish mother being overwhelmed by her 800 children. Then, the news switches to another fish reporter of Sea 9 Janice. "But first, over to Janice for the traffic report and to Chuck for the latest shark attack report at one of the reef's banks."
"Thank you very much, Katie Current." said Janice. She swam above the traffic and saw a mackerel who had been overturned and was crying while the dolphin police were trying to calm him down. "Slight congestion here at InterReef 95, there's an overturned mackerel. The local authorities are trying to calm him down after he had his accident within the traffic which is causing a traffic jam. Get out your ShellPhones and call your bosses 'cause you'll be late. Now to you, Chuck."
Then, the news switches to another fish reporter of Sea 9 named Chuck who is right in front of the Splash Savings Bank that has been robbed by the five mobsters from earlier, and he is having an interview with the electric eel owner of the bank who is very depressed that all of the money from his bank has been stolen by them.
"Thanks, Janice," said Chuck. "I'm at one of the banks of this reef which is the Splash Savings Bank where the sharks have robbed this morning, and it was the third bank robbery in this reef by the sharks this week. According to the owner of the bank, the sharks have stolen 30000 clams, and that was all the money the bank had." He then turns to the electric eel owner. "So, sir, how did you really feel about that?"
"Oh, I felt so awful." said the electric eel owner. He began crying over the 30000 clams from his bank that had been stolen by the great white shark mobsters from earlier, and Chuck began to feel bad for him and began to comfort him.
"Don't worry, everything's gonna be alright, sir." said Chuck. He then turned back to the viewers. "Banks have been losing money this week due to the sharks robbing them, and more money will be printed out and will be at the banks that were robbed by the sharks soon."
Back at the traffic jam, while everybody who were present at the road were waiting for the situation to be over soon so they could continue with traveling on the road, one of the taxi fish became very frustrated about the situation and became very impatient.
"What is taking so long?! I have somewhere to be right now!" snapped the taxi fish.
"Don't be so impatient, okay? You're just gonna have to wait until the traffic jam is over like everybody else on this road!" said the other taxi fish. "And don't you yell at me! My mother is your mother, alright?"
The taxi fish groaned in frustration and swam somewhere else. The taxi fish kept swimming around until he stopped at another road where there were some more fish waiting for the swimming street light to change from Don't Swim to Swim, and the swimming street light quickly changed from Don't Swim to Swim, and the taxi fish continued to travel throughout the road.
A fish dumps garbage in the mouth of a garbage fish who eats it and disposes of it, and swims somewhere else to eat some more garbage and dispose of it. At the Prawn Shop, a clam gives his white pearl to a blue shrimp owner who checks on it.
"Yep. This pearl is a counterfeit." said the blue shrimp owner.
"Counterfeit?! I spent eight years making that!" exclaimed the clam.
While the lobster trains begin walking down the elevated train tracks of the reef, the fish owner of a restaurant called Sushi Bowl is waiting for some customers to show up so he could sell some sushi to them, but nobody shows up at all and he impales a knife on the counter and raises his fins up in on the jumbotron, Katie Current makes another report about the sharks always being a threat to Southside Reef, and how the fear of sharks quickly escalate day after day and something needs to be done about the situation.
"According to the latest Scallop Poll by Thomas and Rachael, the fear of sharks is at an all time high. It has been increasing everyday." Katie Current announced to the viewers. "Also, most of the citizens of the reef had no choice but to work for the sharks out of fear and they would make deals with them so they wouldn't become their next main course. Tonight at 11, join Sea 9 for an in-depth report. How long must this reef live in fear and be under siege? Will your kids be safe from this kind of situation? Is there no hero around to help us? Who is capable of stopping this shark menace?"
Later on, at another part of the reef, a bluestreak cleaner wrasse named Oscar who is wearing a cap, a chain, and sunglasses turned himself around and began introducing himself while enjoying living a lifestyle of luxury at an amazing penthouse.
"Hey, guys. My name is Oscar." Oscar greeted. "You might think you know, but you guys absolutely have no idea." He began showing the things at the penthouse. "Welcome to my crib. My luxurious home. The good life, the way the other half lives. Check it out. I got my 60 inch high def flat-screen TV with 6-speaker surround. CD, DVD, PlayStation hookup and an 8-track player for days when you're feeling just a little…" He began beatboxing " …old school." He laughs. "'Cause even a superstar Mack daddy fish like me has to have the basic necessities."
Suddenly, six fish children who are holding spray paint cans named Khalil, LaToya, DeShawn, Nicole, Tyrone, and Jordan, also known as the Shorties swam up to Oscar, and it's quickly revealed that the amazing penthouse Oscar lives at is actually a billboard that advertises "If You Were Living A Luxurious Life…You Would Be Home By Now!", and Oscar isn't really living a luxurious lifestyle.
"Yeah, like a lot of money," said Khalil. He then laughs.
"C'mon, Khalil, LaToya, DeShawn, Nicole, Tyrone, and Jordan," said Oscar. "Why y'all messing with my fantasy?"
"'Cause you're so broke, your lifestyle has no first name." said LaToya.
"Yeah, that's really, really funny." said Oscar. "Well, one of these days, I'm gonna be living a life of luxury."
"Hey, Oscar! Oscar! Over here! I gotta talk to ya!" a hermit crab named Crazy Joe called out from a nearby dumpster.
"Hold on a minute. I'll be right there." Oscar called out. "Shorties, please do me a favor and three of you hold onto these for me."
"Oscar, you're the best." said DeShawn.
Oscar gives his cap to Khalil, gives his sunglasses to DeShawn, and gives his chain to LaToya which accidentally causes her to float down due to its weight while Tyrone, Jordan, and Nicole laugh along with Khalil and DeShawn. After giving his cap, sunglasses, and chain to three of the six Shorties, he swims up to Crazy Joe at the dumpster and warmly greets him while the Shorties begin spraying on the billboard with their spray paint cans as well as vandalizing it.
"Yo, Crazy Joe. What's up?" Oscar greeted.
"Well, I began thinking about something that is very important," said Crazy Joe. "Since now that you live in that great penthouse, is it okay if I can be your financial advisor?"
"It's just a billboard," said Oscar.
"You live on a billboard?" asked Crazy Joe. "And everybody else calls me that I'm a crazy crustacean! He then gets an umbrella from the dumpster that is filled with holes and floats away while laughing insanely, and Oscar watches Crazy Joe float away on the umbrella with a freaked out expression.
"Hey, Oscar! Look who came to visit!" said Tyrone just as he and the other Shorties have finished spray painting the billboard as well as vandalizing it.
Oscar yelps in fear when he sees the Shorties have spray painted and vandalized the billboard and made graffiti artwork of himself being eaten alive by a great white shark who is bursting through the penthouse floor.
"Gotcha!" said the six Shorties just as they laughed.
"No, y'all." said Oscar just as he wiped some of the graffiti off of the billboard. "Don't do that!"
"Hey, Oscar!" somebody's voice called out. A tuna named Nelson who is one of Oscar's best friends and his roommate suddenly appears and swims up to Oscar and the Shorties. " Oscar, there you are. It's time to go to work 'cause we're running late and we can't be…" He suddenly sees the graffiti artwork of Oscar getting eaten by a great white shark, causing him to scream in fear. "OH, MY GOSH! WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!"
"Nel, relax, calm down. It's just artwork that the Shorties made." said Oscar.
"Yeah, doo. We made it." said Jordan.
Nelson began calming himself down. "Well…this artwork is impressive. It is frightening, but impressive. Good work, kids. Also, you kids shouldn't spray paint on places such as the billboard, and it's vandalism."
"Besides, should you kids be at school like you're supposed to be?" asked Oscar.
"Shouldn't you and Nelson be at work like you're supposed to be?" asked Nicole.
"Ooh, right back at me, huh? Little smartmouth." said Oscar. "Look, Nelson and I are on our way to our jobs now. Y'all stay out of trouble, alright? And clean that graffiti off of the billboard. Bye, Shorties."
"See ya, Oscar and Nelson." said the Shorties just as they began cleaning up the graffiti by using their tail-fins.
Oscar and Nelson waved bye to the Shorties, and they began to swim to their jobs and they were running late to their work. Just as they are, Crazy Joe is still floating away on the umbrella.
"See ya, Oscar. And see ya, Nelson." said Crazy Joe.
Soon, Oscar and Nelson arrive at the Whale Wash which is a place where sperm whales get themselves cleaned up and have their personal hygiene by the many employees. A large assembly of customers arrived and a crab employee used batons to signal the customers to land on a large automatic sled that carried them to the inside. The two best friends both went inside as well, and they greeted many of their co-workers.
They greet the crab employees who have the job to remove the barnacles off of the customers' backs, the electric eel employees who have the job to remove the barnacles from under the customers, the fish employees who have the job of scrubbing the customers' backs, a fish employee named Johnson who works at the control tower, and the blower machine systems, another fish employee named Phoebe who has the job to unclog the customers' blowholes, the sea otter employees who have the job of spraying the customers with foam, the flounder employees who have the job of scrubbing detergent on the customers, and the sea turtle employees who have the job to wax the customers.
Both of them have finished greeting their co-workers, and they soon arrive at the punch-in section so they can clock in their cards and start doing their jobs. They couldn't find their cards anywhere until they quickly found out that their cards had already been punched in by somebody.
"Huh? We're already punched in?" asked Oscar. He quickly realized who punched him and Nelson in just as he smiled at his card. "Angie."
"Well, then Sabrina must've punched in for us too." said Nelson just as he smiled at his card.
At the receptionist office, there was a marine angelfish named Angie who is the receptionist of the Whale Wash and was answering to somebody on the telephone, and she is one of Oscar's best friends. Also, there is a sea goldie named Sabrina who is the assistant receptionist of the Whale Wash and was also answering to somebody on the headset, and she is one of Oscar's best friends and Angie's roommate. They worked together making some phone calls, but they were both focused on a customer.
"Good morning, kind sir. Can we help you?" asked Angie.
"One wash and lube, please." said the sperm whale customer.
"Need some hot wax?" asked Sabrina.
"Of course, please," said the sperm whale customer.
"Cleantastic Kelp Soap? We're having a special on it this morning. What do you say?" said Angie.
"Why not? I'll use those." said the sperm whale customer.
"Great! That will be thirty clams and ninety-nine scallops." said Sabrina.
"Here you go, ladies." said the sperm whale customer.
The customer gives the two best friends the thirty clams and the ninety-nine scallops with his large fin, and Sabrina gets the money from him and puts it in the cash register. After paying both of them so he could start getting cleaned up with the things that he needed, the sperm whale customer smiled at them.
"Thanks, sir," said Angie.
"Oh, and by the way, it's mating season for the sperm whales." said the sperm whale customer.
"And I'm feeling lucky!" He then leaves to get himself cleaned up.
"Alright. See ya, and good luck." said Sabrina.
After the customer had left and had paid the right amount of money to get cleaned up by the employees, the two best friends began making some phone calls. Angie answered on the telephone and Sabrina answered on the headset.
"Sykes' Whale Wash." answered Angie. "You get a whale of a wash, and the price is…" she sighed lovingly and began to have a lovestruck expression. "...oh, my gosh." Just as she was making a phone call, she was doodling on a paper that says Angie+Oscar inside a big heart on a clipboard, meaning that she has always been deeply in love with Oscar. "Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Oh, may I suggest the best conditioner we got here? It could help you get rid of barnacles in no time at all."
"Sykes' Whale Wash. You get a whale of a wash, and the price is, oh, my gosh." answered Sabrina. "Oh, we have the finest detergent here, ma'am. It's high quality, and it can help you with taking care of the foulest body odor. Our detergent can really help you with getting you all cleaned up, m'am. And you should really try it out, it's amazing." She continued listening to the sperm whale customer on the headset. "Alright, ma'am. Alright."
Sabrina continued doing her hard work, and she suddenly noticed Angie doodling her love for Oscar and she smiled at her secret paper just as she is completely aware that she has always been in love with Oscar since she has always told her all about it. Then, she smiles at a photo frame from the counter that shows her, Oscar, Angie, and Nelson being right in front of a meatless burger restaurant called Fish King when they used to be young children, meaning that they have been best friends for a very long time. Suddenly, Oscar and Nelson suddenly arrive at the receptionist office with the Kelpy Kreme bag and the IHOS bag, and they both warmly greet them and begin showing their gratitude for helping them out with clocking them in so they won't be late for work.
"Hey, Ang and Brina." Oscar greeted just as he put the Kelpy Kreme bag on the counter while Nelson put the IHOS bag on the counter.
Once Oscar and Nelson had arrived at the receptionist office, Angie became alarmed and quickly hid her secret paper under some other papers before Oscar could see it. She thought that if Oscar did see her secret paper, she would be very embarrassed, and Sabrina pretended that she didn't even see Angie's secret paper and acted casually.
"OH, MY GOSH! Hi, Oscar and Nelson." Angie greeted.
"We've decided to drop by to thank you two for punching us in and covering us," said Nelson. "Thanks for helping us out."
"Well, that's what we do for each other 'cause we always help each other out when needed." said Sabrina.
Oscar then grabbed the telephone from Angie. "Yo, I'm sorry, kind sir. Angie needs to get her freak on. Please hold on for one moment. Thank you, dog." He pressed the hold button. He then grabs the headset off of Sabrina's head and puts it on. "Hey, I'm sorry, ma'am. Sabrina will get back to your conversation with her in a moment. Hold on your phone for a moment, please. Thank you, doll." He takes off the headset and puts it on the counter.
"Hey, what are you doing?" asked Nelson in surprise.
"C'mon, Ang! Dance with me, mama!" said Oscar. He grabbed Angie's fin and tried to make her dance with him while began singing. "I'll eventually make a million! Tomorrow I will be rich! C'mon, Ang!"
"Oscar! You're gonna get me fired!" said Angie just as she smiled and sat back down on her wheelchair.
"And Ang gets fired, then I'll have to find another partner for the receptionist office," said Sabrina. "I can't do all of the phone calls and paperwork all by myself."
"Please, Angie getting fired?" said Oscar just as he scoffed. "That can't happen." He then sat on the counter and began playing with a seashell. "Then I wouldn't have absolutely no reason to come to work."
"Oh, you honestly don't mean what you just said." said Angie sheepishly just as Oscar let go of the seashell.
"Of course, I do," said Oscar. "That's 'cause you're my best friend just like Nel and Brina are my best friends."
Angie gasped. Then, when Oscar, Nelson, and Sabrina are not looking, and Oscar puts on his goggles, Nelson puts on his goggles, and Sabrina continues doing some paperwork, she picks up her pen and dramatically pretends to stab herself in the heart with it. When Oscar, Nelson, and Sabrina turn back to her, she quickly hides her pen behind her back with a sheepish giggle.
"Hey, guys, listen to this. I have an idea. Tell me what you think about this." said Oscar. "This is like the best idea ever! It's a sure-thing-guarantee-cash extravaganza."
"Oh, yeah? And what is your idea to get rich this time?" asked Nelson.
"Bottled water and relaxation." answered Oscar.
"Oh, no." said Angie in exasperation.
"You have got to be kidding!" said Sabrina in exasperation.
"This latest idea can't fail me this time," said Oscar. "Look, all I need is an advance on my paycheck from the boss, and guys, I'll be out of this place in no time at all. I'll be like…pschoo!" He then did a little dance.
"Oscar, instead of getting into Mr. Sykes' face with another one of your get-rich-quick schemes just like you usually do, go do something you're actually good at." said Angie just as she gets out a cleaning utility belt. "Your own job right here at the Whale Wash." She puts the cleaning utility belt around Oscar. "Which by some miracle and some luck, you still have."
Sabrina gets out another cleaning utility belt. "Good luck on your jobs, you two." She puts the other cleaning utility on Nelson. "We both wish you good luck on your jobs, and we'll see you two later."
"And we both wish you two good luck on your jobs too." said Nelson.
Oscar grabbed the Kelpy Kreme bag from the counter and Nelson grabbed the IHOS bag from the counter, and they both began leaving the receptionist office together while Angie and Sabrina prepared to continue to work together to make phone calls and do paperwork. Just as they are, they suddenly remembered that Oscar bought the Kelpy Kreme bag for Angie and Nelson bought the IHOS bag for Sabrina, and they both gave them to them.
"Oh, I almost forgot," said Oscar. "Angie, I bought you some breakfast." He held out the Kelpy Kreme bag to Angie.
"You didn't! Kelpy Kreme? The popular donut and coffee shop?" asked Angie just as she smiled.
"Mmm-hmm, and it's your favorite." said Oscar just as he gave the Kelpy Kreme bag to Angie.
"Hey, Sabrina, I bought you some breakfast too, and it's from the International House of Salmon. IHOS for short." said Nelson just as he held out the IHOS bag to Sabrina.
"Thank you very much, Nelson and I really love their pancakes so much." said Sabrina.
"Oh, and Ang and Sabrina, you two are still on hold." said Oscar.
"Oh, my gosh!" said Angie in alarm just as she got back on the phone and Sabrina put the headset back on in alarm. "Thank you for holding, kind sir! Sorry about that! Sorry for the delay of the phone call." apologized Angie. "We're busy, busy, busy, sir! Go!"
"It's time for you two to go now, and we'll see you two later! " said Sabrina. "Sorry for the hold up, ma'am!"
Oscar and Nelson both nod their heads, and then they leave the receptionist office so they could get started on their jobs at the Whale Wash while Angie and Sabrina continue to work together on their own jobs. Just as they are, Angie and Sabrina went back to making the phone calls and doing the paperwork.
"How can I help you, kind sir? More suggestions about the conditioner we have at this business?" asked Angie. She continued to listen to the customer on the other line. "Oh, you wanna talk to Mr. Sykes about the conditioner? Sorry, he's not here right now. He's at a meeting and he won't be back until later on today."
"So, about the detergent, it's really high quality. Any more questions?" asked Sabrina. She continued to listen to the other customer on the other line. "You would like to ask Mr. Sykes more about the finest detergent we have here? He isn't here right now. He went to a meeting and he said it's very important. He'll be back later."
Whenever Sykes went to a meeting, he would have a meeting with the one who runs the reef. At the wastelands of the Atlantic Ocean, there is the sunken wreck of the RMS Titanic which serves as the home of the great white shark mafia. Lenny, Frankie, and Teresa have already returned there and they are swimming throughout the hallways just as they are heading to the office. While they do so, they begin bonding with each other by telling each other very funny jokes which make them laugh so hard, and then Frankie tells a joke about how Lenny being born was an accident while he punches Lenny on the shoulder again which exasperates him and Teresa so much since he can be obnoxious sometimes and would ridicule him.
Also, they already know that even though he can annoy them so much, they love him very much while he loves them very much just as they continue to bond with each other. Frankie gives Lenny and Teresa noogies on their heads, Lenny gives Frankie and Teresa nuzzles on their shoulders, and Teresa gives Lenny and Frankie kisses on their cheeks. The three siblings warmly embrace each other, and they continue to head to Don Lino's office together. Just as they are, Frankie ridicules Lenny again and punches him on the shoulder again, much to his and Teresa's annoyance while they love him so much and he loves them so much.
In the office, there is a great white shark who is right in front of a fish tank and opens it, and his name is Don Edward Lino, the crime boss of the great white shark mafia and Lenny, Frankie, and Teresa's father. He was adoring his pets in the fish tank who are piranhas just as he tapped on the glass.
"How are my little babies doing this morning?" asked Don Lino. "Did you miss me? Have you been doing good for me while I was taking care of some things that were very important? Huh? Huh? You see, Sykes? It's a fish-eat-fish world." He gets a tablet from a jar that he's holding and drops it into the fish tank for the piranhas to eat. "You either take or you get taken. It's a matter of life or death out there when you face danger sometimes."
The piranhas began eating their food viciously while Don Lino watched them with a smile. After feeding his pet piranhas, Don Lino closes the fish tank. A pufferfish named Sykes who is the owner of the Whale Wash and one of Don Lino's henchmen watched the piranhas eat their food viciously in fear just as he tried not to inflate himself, and he quickly calmed himself down.
"Truer words have never been spoken." said Sykes. "So, is that it? Is the meeting over? Are we finished?"
"Now, you and me." said Don Lino just as he put the jar on top of the fish tank. "We've been working together for a long, long, long time ever since you've decided to work for me just like any other fish would decide to work for me, and it's usually out of fear."
"Please, Don Lino." said Sykes just as he grinned weakly. "It's hardly been like work in the criminal underworld. And I enjoy being part of your mafia as well since I've decided to work for you so I wouldn't end up on the sharks' menu. I really do. Oh, and I remember that I did attend your and Mildred's lovely wedding,"
"Just let me finish," said Don Lino. "As you know, I've lived my life for my two sons Lenny and Frankie, and my only daughter Teresa along with my beautiful wife Mildred who is currently at the hospital being treated for leukemia." He began swimming to his desk. "Mildred and I worked together to raise our three kids, protect them, care for them, and teach them."
"You're the best. You're absolutely the best." said Sykes. He then turned to an octopus named Luca who is Don Lino consigliere and a barracuda named Yvete who is Don Lino's caporegime. "Am I right or am I wrong, you guys? Give me an answer."
"Sykes, it's all been to prepare…" Don Lino continued.
"Right?" asked Sykes.
"...to prepare my sons and daughter…" Don Lino continued.
"I'm sorry." apologized Sykes just as he sat down on a chair that is right in front of the desk.
"That's alright. For the day I retire as the crime boss of the great white shark mafia, and they take over my business and run Southside Reef together." Don Lino continued just as he sat at his desk. "Well, today is that day." Suddenly, Don Lino got frustrated and groaned in annoyance when the record on the record player got stuck and began scratching. "Luca. Fix the record player."
Luca fixes the record player, but he accidentally played the song Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-A-Lot, causing Yvette gasp in shock, and Don Lino and Sykes both stared at him in shock as well. Luca fixes the record player again, and Baby Got Back stopped playing on the record player.
"Hey, boss, big butts. That was Baby Got Back, and it was by the rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot. It's one of my favorite songs ever." said Luca just as he chuckled.
"Seriously? Seriously?!" asked Yvette in annoyance.
"Oy vey!" said Don Lino in annoyance just as he did a facepalm. He continued his conversation with Sykes. "Long story short, I'll be retiring, and Frankie, Lenny, and Teresa are gonna take over. From now on, you work for them. Capiche?"
Sykes bursts out laughing. "Lenny? I mean, I completely understand it should be Frankie. Or perhaps Teresa. But Lenny? You can't be serious about this!"
"I'm dead serious." said Don Lino. "It takes a lot more than muscle or prettiness to take charge of things. Now Lenny, he has the brains. That's something very special."
"Oh, yeah, Lenny's special, alright." said Sykes.
"What does that supposed to mean, huh?" asked Don Lino.
"Nothing!" said Sykes. "I'm just trying to say that Lenny is…" Don Lino suddenly interrupts him.
"Hey, Sykes!" said Don Lino."I allow you to come in here, have a meeting with you and look you in the eye to tell you what's what and what?"
"What?" asked Sykes.
"What what?" asked Don Lino.
"What what nothing. You said "what" first." said Sykes.
"I didn't say "what" first, I asked you "what"." said Don Lino.
"No, you said "And then what" and I said "what"." said Sykes.
"No. No. I said what what, as in what what!" said Don Lino.
Sykes became confused. "But you said "what" first."
"So, now you're making fun of me about this?!" asked Don Lino just as he got up.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! You misunderstood!" said Sykes. The meeting was interrupted when Lenny, Frankie, and Teresa entered the office.
"Sorry, we're late and kept you waiting this morning. We got some good news to tell ya." said Frankie just as he went behind a bar table while Lenny and Teresa sat on two bar stool chairs. "Lenny had an accident. He was born."
Lenny laughed sarcastically. "You're a comic genius for the things that you say about me."
"Ha! Good one, Frankie. What a really funny joke about Lenny." said Teresa sarcastically.
"Look, what I'm trying to say is that your kid isn't actually a killer." whispered Sykes.
"Well, I can assure you that my Lenny is a killer!" said Don Lino. "Ya hear me! A cold-blooded killer! Just take one good look at him!"
Don Lino and Sykes both notice Lenny swinging harmlessly on his bar stool chair which makes a loud squeaky noise while Frankie shakes his head in annoyance and Teresa quietly giggled. Sykes smirked by telling Don Lino that he was absolutely right that Lenny isn't a killer at all.
Don Lino became frustrated just as he glared at Sykes. "Okay, you know what?! That's it! That's IT! You are OUT!"
"What?!" asked Sykes in fear. Suddenly, he inflates himself while some pillows from the chair that he was sitting in gets stuck in his quills. He spoke in a helium voice. "What do you mean that I'm out?!"
"It means that you are fired!" said Don Lino. He flicked Sykes, which caused the pillows to get unstuck from his quills and sent him crashing into the Titanic Rose Portrait. "And on top of that, you're gonna have to start paying me protection money from now on!"
"For what?!" asked Sykes in fear.
"So, nothing terrible to that little Whale Wash of yours," said Don Lino.
Later on that day, it is now the afternoon, and Don Lino is now in the living room and he is counting up some of the money that has been stolen by the five members of his mafia. He congratulates them for successfully robbing the bank, and he also begins to question Lenny for not being an aggressive shark since he is so compassionate which they confirmed it to be true. He couldn't believe that his youngest son hasn't done anything to kill anybody since he's so different, and he decides to have a conversation all about it.
End Of Chapter 1: Meet Oscar and Lenny
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