Under the Sea
*The next day, Sonic was just laying on some seaweed, thinking about Sally & humming to himself*
Mighty:*off-screen* Sonic, could you give me a hand? *he didn't seem to hear his brother* Sonic!
Sonic: Oh! Yes, of course.
*He swam over to a coral reef, which had been partly destroyed by parts from the shipwreck last night*
Shard: Do these Mobians have any idea how much damage their ship wrecks do?
Sonic: I don't think they meant intended to have a ship wreck.
Silver: They are perilous, Sonic. It will take thousands of years for this coral to grow back.
Antoine: And they've killed nearly all of the sea fern.
Ash: They'd kill us too if they had the chance.
Sonic: No. No. They're not all like that.
Shard: Oh. And how would you know? You've never even seen one. You were just a child when Father died and Mother forbade us from going to the surface.
Sonic: I just mean we're not all the same, so why should Mobians be?
Queen Aleena:*off-screen* What about Mobians?
*The boys all turned & saw their Mother.
Sonic: I - I just meant -
Shadow: Look at what their ship wreck did!
*She looked around at the coral reef*
Queen Aleena: They got what they deserve. They're the most dangerous species of all. Spoiling our waters, destroying reefs, having no respect for the balance of the oceans.
*Using her trident, she removed a big part of the ship from the reef & destroyed with a blast
Sonic: They're not the only ones who no respect for balance.
*With that said, he swam away*
Mighty: Sonic? Where are you - What's going on with him?
Shard: Well, he's . . . Just at that age when he doesn't want to hang out with his older brothers anymore. Remember what I was like?
Antoine: I wonder who the lucky mermaid is.
*The boys laughed as the Queen got curious & smiled*
*Later, Knuckles was swimming through a coral reef*
Knuckles: All right. Okay. As long as the Queen never finds out, everything will be alright. She never has to know Sonic saved a Mobian. I just have to find Sonic and get him back home. I just have to be firm with him. Get him to see that this is all just a passing fade and time he'll forget all about her.
*Just then, he saw Sonic laying on a flat rock, picking petals off a flower, one by one*
Sonic: She loves me. *he picked another petal* She loves me not. *he frowned & picked another petal* She loves me! *he did some backflips in the air* Yes! I knew it!
Knuckles: Sonic! Stop talking crazy!
Sonic: I've got to see her again. Tonight. Chip knows where she lives. I'll swim up her her castle. Then I'll splash around to her attention, and then -
Knuckles: Sonic, you have to let go of this obsession with Mobians.
Sonic: I'm not obsessed.
Knuckles: I may be crusty, but I'm not blind. I saw how you were looking at that Mobian girl.
Sonic: What?
Knuckles: Your Mother wants you to stay as far away from them as possible.
Sonic: But why?
Knuckles: You know why.
Sonic: We don't have to be afraid of them. I know that now. Knuckles, if you had just seen it up close. The ship rode on the wind. And they filled the sky with fire.
Knuckles: Okay, okay, listen to me. The Mobian world is a mess. Life under the sea, is better than anything they got going on up there!
*Knuckles singing*
The seaweed is always greener
In somebody else's lake
*Sonic ignored him & looked up at the surface. He swam in front of his face & grabbed his chin*
You dream about going up there
But that is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things surround you
*A school of fish then swam around Sonic, making him spin up*
What more is you looking for
Under the sea
Under the sea
*Sonic sat back on the rock & Knuckles stood on his tail*
Darling, it's better down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devoting
*He then slid off Sonic's tail like a slide*
Full-time to floating
Under the sea
*Knuckles started playing the clam shells with a blue lobster*
*Knuckles & Lobster singing*
Down here, all the fish is happy
*A dolphin did a loop-de-loop*
*Knuckles singing*
As off through the waves they roll
*Knuckles & Lobster singing*
The fish on the land ain't happy
*A sad fat fish floated by in a bubble*
*Knuckles singing*
They sad 'cause they in their bowl
But fish in the bowl is lucky
*Knuckles & Lobster singing*
They in for a worser fate
One day when the boss get hungry . . .
*He popped the bubble & the fish landed on a rock that looked like a plate*
*Fat Fish singing*
Guess who's gonna be on the plate
*Knuckles singing*
Uh-oh!
Under the sea
Under the sea
*A group of tiny seahorse swam around Sonic, making him laugh*
Nobody beat us, fry us, and eat us
In fricassee
We what the land folks loves to cook
Under the sea, we off the hook
*He put tangled up fishing hooky into a clam & closed the shell*
We got no troubles
*The clam spit the hooks out, it making a jingling sound all the way*
Life is the bubbles
Under the sea
*Snails singing*
Under the sea
*Knuckles singing*
Under the sea
*Snails singing*
Under the sea
*Knuckles singing*
Since life is sweet here
We got the beat here
Naturally
*Snails singing*
Naturally-y-y-y
*Knuckles singing*
Even the sturgeon and the ray
They get the urge and start to play.
We got the spirit, you got to hear it
Under the sea
*He played his own set of clam shells*
The newt play the flute
The carp play the harp
The plaice play the bass
And they sounding sharp
The bass play the brass
The chub play the tub
The fluke is the duke of soul
Fluke: Yeah!
*Knuckles singing*
The ray, he can play
The lings on the strings
The trout rocking out
The blackfish, she sings
The smelt and the sprat
They know where it's at
And oh, that blowfish blow
*While everyone was dancing to the music, Tails swam on to the scene. He then swam over to his best friend & whispered in his ear. Sonic smiled at what he heard & the two boys swam away while everyone was busy partying. Knuckles motioned to a octopus dancing with several fish, some fish doing the conga, & a tiny shrimp playing the teeth of a another fat fish*
*Knuckles singing*
Yeah
Under the sea
*Chorus singing*
Under the sea
*Knuckles singing*
Under the sea
*Chorus singing*
Under the sea
*Knuckles singing*
When the sardine begin the beguine
It's music to me
*Chorus singing*
Music is to me
*Knuckles singing*
What do they got
A lot of sand
We got a hot crustacean band
Each little clam here know how to jam here
Under the sea
Each little slug here cutting a rug here
Under the sea
Each little snail here know how to wail here
That's why it's hotter under the water
Yeah, we in luck here down in the muck here
Under the sea
*Knuckles & the fish all motioned to the spot where Sonic was sitting, but he was long gone*
Knuckles: Sonic? *the fish all swam away, leaving him alone* Oh, somebody's got to nail that boy's fins to the floor.
*Meanwhile, up on the surface, Harvey was sitting at a dining room table with a brown male squirrel with auburn hair, blue eyes, & wearing a gold crown, a red cape over a blue uniform, a red belt, grey pants, & blue boots*
King Elias: Don't tell me Sally is still going about this boy who rescued her.
Harvey Who: I'm afraid so.
King Elias: And the shipwreck. Any casualties?
Harvey Who: None, Your Majesty.
King Elias: Well, thank goodness no lives were lost.
Harvey Who: Indeed.
King Elias: This restless nature of hers concerns me. Going on these dangerous sea voyages *just then, Sally came in with a bandage around her head* Oh, Sally. Sit.
Sally: Any sign of that boy yet, Harvey?
King Elias: Have some breakfast, please.
Harvey Who: We looked, Your Highness. There was no boy.
King Elias: You were lucky to have made it ashore before you passed out.
Sally: He was real. He saved my life.
King Elias: Sit down.
Sally: I'm not hungry, Elias.
King Elias: I'm worried about you. You've not been yourself since the ship wreck.
Sally:*to Harvey* Have you checked the neighboring islands?
Harvey Who: Not all of them.
Sally: Then I will.
*She started to leave, but Elias stopped her*
King Elias: No, you will not. You're not leaving this castle until you're feeling better.
Sally: I'll feel better when when I find him!
*She took off her bandage*
King Elias: Do not think you're using this boy as an excuse to run off again. Risking your life on some trade ship for the sheer adventure.
Sally: Sheer adventure? I'm trying to finish what Father started. Reaching out to other cultures so we don't get left behind. Did you know, on this last trip, we traded alkane for twenty cases of quinine. They use it in Europe to treat malaria.
King Elias: And where are those twenty cases now? At the bottom of the sea. How many ship wrecks have there been in our waters this year, Harvey?
Harvey Who: Six, Your Majesty.
King Elias: Did you hear that, Sally?
Sally: If course I did.
King Elias: Shipwrecks. Hurricanes. The Sea Gods are against us. How many times do I have to - *he stood up & went to Sally* They are eroding our land from under us. Stealing it back into the ocean. They would kill us all if they could.
Sally: It's ridiculous.
King Elias: Is it? May I remind you that a deadly shipwreck took our parents from us. *he put his hand to Sally's face* And I now I almost lost you to one the other day. We cannot keep tempting fate like this. It has to stop.
*He say back down at the table*
Sally: What does that mean?
King Elias: It means that your responsibilities are here now. So no more voyages and no more chasing after boys that does exist.
*Sally felt hurt by her brother's words & ran out of the room*
*She ran all the way down to the beach & stared out at the open sea. She could hear Sonic singing with the sound of the waves*
*Sonic singing*
*off-screen*
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
*Sally singing*
All I ever wanted
Was the open sea and sky
Freedom from the life I always knew
Now all I am is haunted
As days and hours roll by
All I ever think about is you
There you are (ah), over me (ah)
Taking me with your song to (ah)
Wild uncharted waters
Miles beyond the sea
I was darkness bound
I had almost drowned
'Til you came around, and you found me
Now I am on the shoreline
But I'm still lost at sea
In these wild uncharted waters
Come find me again
All I do is wonder
Who you are and where you'll be
In my mind, your melody goes on
Stronger than the undertow
The night you rescued me
Silhouetted by the rising dawn
Oh (ah), over you (ah)
I cannot get over you (ah)
In wild uncharted waters
Beyond where man can see
When your eyes outshine the horizon line
And you're finally real, here beside me
I'm right here on the shoreline
I'm right where you left me
And your voice is like
A siren that guides me to
*She started to imagine that she was back on a ship out at sea*
Wild uncharted waters
Alone, just you and me
And I hope you're there in the open air
There's no map or compass to guide me, no
Time may change the shoreline
But time will not change me
If it takes my life
I will finally find you again
In uncharted waters
Come find me again
*She opened her eyes & she was back on the beach. She sighed & went back to the castle*
*Later, back in Atlantica, Knuckles was carried into the throne room by one of the guards, facing the Queen*
Palace Guard: The crab, Your Majesty.
*He dropped Knuckles & left the room*
Queen Aleena: Come over here, Knuckles.
Knuckles:*whispering* I mustn't overreact. I must remain calm. *he made his way to the Queen. but when he tried to speak, his voice came out high & squeaky* Yes! *he cleared his throat* Yes, Your Majesty.
Queen Aleena: Pierre, I'm concerned about Sonic. Have you noticed he's been acting peculiar lately?
Knuckles: Peculiar?
Queen Aleena: You know, moaning about. Daydreaming. Singing to himself. You haven't noticed?
Knuckles: Oh, well . . . I . . .
Queen Aleena: Knuckles.
Knuckles: Hm?
*The Queen motioned for him to come closer with her finger. He swam up to her*
Queen Aleena: I know you've been keeping something from me.
Knuckles: Keeping something?
Queen Aleena: About Soniv.
*Knuckles' legs started to shake, but he quickly covered them & smiled*
Knuckles: Sonic?
*The Queen pointed her trident at him*
Queen Aleena: In love . . .
*Knuckles got really scared & broke down crying*
Knuckles: I TRIED TO STOP HIM, MA'AM! HE WOULDN'T LISTEN! I TOLD HIM TO STAY SWAY FROM MOBIANS! THEY ARE BAD, THEY ARE -
Queen Aleena: Mobians? WHAT ABOUT MOBIANS!?
*Knuckles realized he made a mistake*
Knuckles: Mobians? *he backed away from the Queen* Who said anything about Mobians?
*The Queen grabbed him in a tight fist & pulled him away*