Chapter 20: Jump the Shark:
Pearl's POV:
Slippery, Squid, and I were swimming around, but then my Father called.
"Jump the Shark is coming on," says my Father.
We were on our way, but then I saw another human thing. It was a metal thing, and it was coming from the surface. I just had to see what it is.
. . .
We swam towards it, but we found it on the set of Jump the Shark, hosted by Swordfish. "Let's meet our next contestant," says Swordfish. And the light shines on me.
"Me? Really?"
"Come on up," says Swordfish. I swam on to the stage. "What's your name?"
"I'm Pearl and I can't believe this. Slippery, Squid, look!"
"Alright," says Squid.
Slippery was frozen.
"I wanna say hi to my whole family." I then did so and as you know, I have a big family. Then Swordfish swam away for some reason.
Swordfish's POV:
I got my shellphone. "Get me the boss," I said. Bai Tza then answered.
"What is it," asks Bai Tza whose using a handheld mirror to talk to me, "I'm in a family meeting. Po Kong captured some melon girl and is planning on making her her bride which of course will take like a year for Po Kong to realize that she'll need a spell to make that melon girl agree."
"It's your number one guy," I said.
"Who," asks Bai Tza.
"You know, Swordfish. The host of Jump the Shark? The game where the shark eats you if you win? My newest contestant is that Lemurian Princess you tried to kill."
"Really," asks Bai Tza.
"You bet'cha," I said, "and I am going to make sure she wins so she can get eaten."
"That's why you're my number one guy," says Bai Tza, "oh and Number One Guy... I hate to be disappointed."
"Right." She then hung up on me.
Pearl's POV:
Swordfish then came back. "Okay," says Swordfish, "first question, do you recognize this song?"
The music played, but I couldn't recognize it. "UUUUUUUUUhhhhhhhhh... Fart of your Squirrel?"
King Pacific's POV:
"What," asks Porcus.
Pearl's POV:
"No," I said.
"Hmm, then I better use my help line," I said, "Slippery is one of the smartest people I know." The light shines on him and he's frozen again. "Oh right, he has stage fright. Squid?"
"No clue," says Squid.
"I guess I lose," I said.
"Wait," says Swordfish, "since your help line is frozen in terror, you should get another chance. Shouldn't she, Folkes? What was the first song you sang," he whispered that to me.
"I can do it," I whispered to him.
Swordfish then whispers something to the band. "Okay, name this tune."
"But you just asked me the first song I sang," I said.
"Which song," asks Swordfish.
"I can do it?"
"Correct! And now, on to the..."
"Trivia Round," I said.
"Isn't she great, Folkes? Now, the Loch Ness Monster lives in what lake?"
Oddly enough, the answer was in there. "The Loch Ness?"
"Correct! Now, it's time to Jump the Shark!" He then took me to the shark. "If you manage to jump over the shark, you win. It's basically impossible to not jump."
"And then I'll get what's coming to me," I said.
"Couldn't have said it better myself," says Swordfish.
"Hahld eet," says some guy in a scuba diver suit.
"Do you mind," asks Swordfish.
"I'm sahrry, but we hahve to hahve sahme kind of museecahl numbair een ziss chahptair. Mr. Krahbs?"
Mr. Krabs: Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-chingaree
Money, oh money, how I love thee
Cha-ching, cha-chong, cha-changaroo
From pennies to dollars, any amount'll do
Cha-ching, cha-ching, it's no contest
There's only one thing that I love the best
From every sight I've ever seen
To the sweetest sound I've heard
I'd gladly give up everything for all the money that I've earned
Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-chingaree
There's nothing on Earth like the feeling of greed
There's nothing on Earth like the feeling of greed!
"Please don't do that again," says Swordfish, "now, Pearl, jump that #$% Shark!"
Just as I was about to, the shark attacks Swordfish. I guess it didn't appreciate that line.
"Does this mean I lost," I asked.
"That's... actually a good thing," says Swordfish, "when the Shark tries to eat me, it means you get to... swallow a sword while juggling piranhas, over an active volcano!"
"Hey," says a blobfish, "she lost! What's the big deal?"
"This show is rigged," says an angler fish.
"You, shut up," says Swordfish.
Everyone complains. I was not going to except this. A rigged show? I then grabbed Slippery and Squid. "Let's go while we still have our dignity."
"Oh no, you..." That metal thing we came to find then hits Swordfish.
"The metal thing I came to find," I said.
. . .
We arrived back at the Palace when Porcus came out. "It's Part of your World!"
Swordfish's POV:
I was then taken back to Atlantis.
"I know this is a little bit awkward," says an Octo-Man, "but... could I get your autograph?"
"Not the time," I said.
. . .
I was in Bai Tza's throne room. "Oh, you're way over there." I was walking and I noticed the interesting paintings that scare me. "How..."
"So, Swordfish," says Bai Tza, "you know Inky?"
"Hi," says Inky.
"Yeah, I know Inky," I said.
"He's a big fan of your show," says Bai Tza, "never misses an episode."
I gulped. "Is... is that a fact?"
"He was just telling me that tonight, you had your first lost... ever."
"I can explain..."
"SILENCE!" The throne then turns around and Bai Tza wasn't even in it. I was confused, but then I realized she was behind me.
"You had her right in the palms of your fins!" She then started spinning me around. "I am very, very disappointed!"
"Just give a second chance to your number one!"
"You are no longer my number one and you will not be hosting your little game show anymore!"
"But... but then who will?"
Inky's POV:
I am now the host of Jump the Shark.
In the next chapter, Pearl awakens a fish monster. The metal thing is an anchor.