Disclaimer: I don't own the 2004 animated film Shark Tale and all rights goes to DreamWorks Animation SKG. Shark Tale has always been one of my favorite animated films to watch ever since childhood and I still enjoy watching the movie so much, and since I love Shark Tale so much, I decided to do a whole twenty four-part miniseries version of the movie that serves as a whole retelling of the movie which is known as When A Little Fish Tells A Great White Lie that has brand new scenes, brand new characters, brand new locations, different dialogue. I hope you enjoy the retelling of the movie Shark Tale and if you do, you can review and favor/follow if you want to :)
When A Little Fish Tells A Great White Lie
Episode 5: One Problem After Another
Chapter 4: What I've Wished For
Later on at the Clamingdale's shopping mall that is located right in the neighborhood of Marilem, Oscar is sitting at one of the benches in the middle of the shopping mall right in front of a nearby food court all by himself just as most of the citizens of Southside Reef are at the mall doing various things there such as shopping, traveling, checking on things, spending time with each other, and fooling around with each other while most of the other citizens are doing, and he is still very depressed upon receiving the surprise for all of the hard work he has done as a tongue scrubber while it's still being the least popular job at the entire Whale Wash ever.
Just as Oscar was in a state of complete depression over being humiliated upon receiving such a humiliating surprise from his own co-workers at the Whale Wash due to being stuck with the very unpopular job of tongue scrubbing while he received some praised for being such a hard-working employee for the unpopular job, Oscar still wishes that he would somehow become a somebody and gain the respect that he yearns for someday by becoming rich and famous which he honestly thinks that the answer of fulfilling his lifelong dream, especially right after the traumatic experience he dealt with when he got cruelly mocked by his classmates for admiring his late father Earl's job at the Whale Wash which caused him to have deep insecurities about being a nobody.
Also, Oscar then depressingly stared at the trophy of himself holding a cleaning brush that is made out of the slime from a sperm whale customer's tongue during his own humiliating surprise from his fellow co-workers from earlier at one of the shopping stores of Clamingdale's, it suddenly remind him of what he has been through during Pisces Elementary School right after his own classmates made fun of him for looking up to his father Earl and his job as a tongue scrubber at the Whale Wash which made him suffer from complete humiliation and made him believe that the only way was becoming a somebody and getting respect from others is having a life of luxury at the Top Of Southside Reef.
Oscar's Flashback
Many years ago at Pisces Elementary School, young Oscar was at one of the hallways of the elementary school at his own locker and he was putting away the things that he has bought for show-and-tell which is one of his father Earl's many employee of the month awards and his own cleaning brush that he used to clean up each of the sperm whale customer's tongues at the tongue scrubbing section at the Whale Wash, and he was still very depressed by how much his own classmates made fun of him for looking up to his father's job and wishing to have a job just like him which they all honestly thought that having a job as a tongue scrubber at the Whale Wash was so stupid, much to his own dismay.
"Honestly, I thought that having a job as a tongue scrubber at the Whale Wash was a very awesome job, especially of how I would sometimes watch Dad do it." replied young Oscar. "But I didn't know that some people who are my classmates thought it was such a lame job. Man, I had the worst show-and-tell ever and it's one of the worst days in my entire life too. Due to having a father with a job which turns out to be unpopular is making me a nobody towards others and being disrespected by others, and if I wanna be a somebody and be respected, then I gotta somehow become rich and famous someday. Also, while I'm a disrespected nobody, I still praise my dad for being such a hard working employee at the Whale Wash as much as my mom does, and I would still watch him do his job as a tongue scrubber there too."
Just as young Oscar put away one of his father Earl's many employee of the month awards and his own cleaning brush in his locker, he is soon confronted by three fish students who are his own classmates at his own classroom at Pisces Elementary School, and they proceed to make fun of him for being stuck with a father who has a job at the Whale Wash as a tongue scrubber and Oscar became deeply infuriated and annoyed by how much they're making fun of him for having a father working at the Whale Wash as a tongue scrubber just as they attempt to get them to leave him alone and stop making fun of him which they refused to do so.
"Hey, Oscar." fish student #1 greeted.
"Hi." fish student #2 greeted.
"Hello," fish student #3 greeted.
"Oh, what's up, guys." young Oscar greeted.
"That was a really amazing show-and-tell that you did in class," said fish student #3.
"Yeah, it was very interesting to show what you had that morning," said fish student #2.
"Absolutely one of the best things to show is from the Whale Wash." said fish student #1.
"Really? You guys think so?" asked young Oscar.
"Nope. It was absolutely the worst show-and-tell that you've done and nobody could believe it at all." replied said fish student #2.
"Oscar, you gotta be serious about what you just did during the whole experience in the classroom which turns out to be garbage." replied said fish student #3.
"You could do better than that as much as anybody could do better, and please, the tongue scrubbing job at the Whale Wash is so lame." replied said fish student #1.
"SERIOUSLY?!" asked Oscar just as he got angry.
"YEAH!" said the three fish students just as they all laughed mockingly at Oscar.
"Look, guys, will you please just go away?!' asked young Oscar angrily.
"Why should we anyway? You're the one who bought a terrible show-and-tell in class which is tongue scrubbing in the first place." said fish student #3.
"Look, I really thought that something from the Whale Wash which is the tongue scrubbing job was so awesome to bring to show-and-tell." said young Oscar.
"Well, it's actually downright awful 'cause having the job of tongue scrubber is the least popular job at the Whale Wash ever." said fish student #1.
"But I've always thought that being a tongue scrubber is really wonderful and it's something I've always dreamed about," said young Oscar.
"You thought wrong 'cause a job at the tongue scrubber is really ridiculous and doesn't mean a thing at all." said fish student #2.
"Will you guys just leave me alone? It isn't my fault I bought my dad's employee of the month award and his cleaning brush for show-and-tell that morning." said young Oscar.
"Actually, it is your fault, Oscar, and we feel very bad for you." said fish student #1.
"You guys feel bad for me? For what?" asked young Oscar.
"You know, of how your own dad is stuck with the lame job of being a tongue scrubber at the Whale Wash." said fish student #2.
"Guys, please stop it! Just stop it!" exclaimed young Oscar in anger and annoyance.
"Why? We're just saying, we're just saying, and what a shame for what you have which is being a tongue scrubber which is a pathetic of at the Whale Wash of all time." said fish student #3.
"You guys are getting on my nerves for my dad being a tongue scrubber, and I've always loved my dad so much. He's so awesome at his job and he's the greatest." said young Oscar.
"Good for you for thinking your dad is the greatest, and there's something we wanna give you." said fish student #2.
"What?" asked young Oscar.
"It's a surprise." said fish student #3.
"Really? Let me see." said young Oscar.
Fish student #1 suddenly gets out a trophy that looks like a sperm whale that is exactly made out of the slime from a sperm whale customer's tongue. "Here you go, homie. You earned it very well."
"Huh? What's this supposed to be?" asked young Oscar.
"It's a trophy." said fish student #2.
"To represent what you're stuck with." said fish student #3.
"Also, it's made out of the slime of a sperm whale." said fish student #1.
"What?! Sperm whale slime?!" young Oscar. He stared at the green slime trophy for a moment and became very disgusted, especially that it has a really bad odor. "Ugh! This is totally disgusting, and I can't believe you gave this to me as a surprise! Eww, eww, eww!"
"Sorry, but that's the way it is!" said fish student #3.
"You should be ashamed of your own dad and his own job!" said fish student #2.
"'Cause he's nothing but a tongue scrubber and that's he'll ever be!" said fish student #1.
Then, the three fish students from young Oscar's own classroom of Pisces Elementary School continued to make fun of him and began chanting "tongue scrubber" for being stuck with having Earl as a father who works at the Whale Wash as a tongue scrubber which is considered to be the least popular job to have, and while he is being made fun of by his own classmates and just received the sperm whale trophy that is made out of the green slime, young Oscar became deeply depressed and humiliated as well as being deeply insecure about being a nobody, and since he considered himself as a nobody due to what he has been through at Pisces Elementary School, he vowed to become rich and famous in order to be a somebody and be respected by others somehow.
End Oscar's Flashback
Oscar quickly stopped remembering the time when he got made fun of by three of his own fish classmates at Pisces Elementary School for bringing one of his late father Earl's employee of the month awards and cleaning brush that he uses for cleaning each of the sperm whale customers' to show-and-tell which they and everybody else in his own classroom has considered the job of being a tongue scrubber at the Whale Wash to be such a lame job since it proven to be the least popular job to have at the Whale Wash ever, and ever since the traumatic experience he dealt with during childhood, he still wishes to become a somebody by becoming rich and famous which he strongly believes that's the answer of fulfilling his lifelong dream.
"Oh, why things in life gotta be so difficult. Even when you're stuck being in something that is so unpopular, huh?" asked Oscar in dismay. "I've always thought that having a job at the Whale Wash was the greatest, but it isn't the greatest to most people, since it has the least popular job in the business which is being a tongue scrubber. I'm just nothing but a tongue scrubber and nothing more just like my father was, and all 'cause of it, it makes me a complete nobody who doesn't get that much respect from others. I really wanna be a somebody so much, and how I'm gonna make it happen someday when I'm able to live at the Top Of Southside Reef where all of the somebodies live."
Oscar continued to stare at the humiliating surprise that he has just received from Sykes, Ernie, Bernie, and many other of his fellow co-workers at the Whale Wash which is the trophy of himself holding a cleaning brush that is completely made out of green slime that came from a sperm whale customer's tongue in complete depression and still wishes to live at the Top Of Southside Reef in order to become a somebody and get the respect that he yearns for, and he soon greeted by his three lifelong best friends Angie, Nelson, and Sabrina quickly found him sitting at the bench at the midst of the shopping mall all by himself and they began comforting him over the humiliating situation that he has been through from earlier.
While Angie, Nelson, and Sabrina began comforting Oscar over what he has been through which is such the humiliating surprise that he has received from earlier at one of the shopping stores at the Clamindale's mall, Oscar continues to express his own deep insecurities about being a nobody right after what he has been through during childhood at Pisces Elementary School and continues to have his lifelong dream of somehow becoming a somebody by living at the Top Of Southside Reef which he believes that serves as home to all of the somebodies, Angie, Nelson, and Sabrina continues to attempt to inform him that he doesn't really have to live a life of luxury to become a somebody and all he has to do is just listen to his own heart instead of his own head.
"Oscar, there you are." said Angie.
"Are you okay, homie?" asked Sabrina.
"Yeah, are you alright?" asked Nelson.
"Of course, I am." replied Oscar.
"Are you sure? It doesn't look like it." replied Angie.
"Look, guys I'm fine. Just fine." said Oscar.
"You can tell us what's going on," said Nelson.
"We'll understand that very well," said Sabrina.
"It might be what just happened with our co-workers at the Whale Wash." said Oscar.
"Actually, you're right. It is what just happened from just before." said Angie.
"Look, Oscar, don't let it get to you at all." said Nelson.
"It isn't such a big deal anyway." said Sabrina.
"I have no plans on doing those things, guys." said Oscar.
"That's good to hear." said Angie.
"But I really need to make it improve somehow," said Oscar.
"Huh?" said Angie.
"I'm gonna become a somebody and live at the Top Of Southside Reef," said Oscar.
"Seriously?" asked Nelson.
"Really?" asked Sabrina.
"Yeah, and it's the only way people are ever gonna show me some respect for once." said Oscar.
"Oscar, just 'cause of what you've been through doesn't mean you have to live a life of luxury one of these days to become a somebody." said Sabrina.
"Yes, it does, and I've been wishing for that kind of thing for my entire life and it's gonna come true someday." said Oscar.
"Look, we all know how much you wanna be a somebody, but you should understand that you don't really have to do those things to make it so," said Nelson.
"Oh, I understand that," said Oscar.
"You do?" asked Angie.
Oscar nodded. "I understand that I need to try harder and harder to achieve my dreams of becoming a somebody and gaining the respect that I yearn for so much. All I need to do is make a brand new plan in order to become rich and famous, and then my dreams will come true at long last."
"Let us guess. Another get-rich-quick scheme." said Angie.
"Yes, and hopefully this latest get-rich-quick scheme won't fail this time and I'm gonna start on it soon." said Oscar.
"Well, maybe you don't have to go through with it, Oscar. You've done so many of them, and maybe you should just do what you're actually good at." said Angie.
"What is it?" asked Oscar.
"Your job at the Whale Wash which you've always had." replied Angie.
"Oh, right. I am good at being a tongue scrubber which I will earn a promotion someday, but I'll never be respected as a tongue scrubber at all." replied Oscar.
"Even though the tongue scrubbing job isn't that much popular as the other jobs at the Whale Wash, it proves to be what you have always enjoyed as much as your dad did," said Angie.
"True, but I still wanna be a somebody and nobody loves a nobody. Honestly, my dad has always been the greatest, but the only way to be a somebody is being rich." said Oscar.
"It still can't be the answer to becoming a somebody and getting respect from others. We know it just can't be." said Angie.
"You should at least appreciate what you already have and you might be living the good life already," said Nelson.
"You should also listen to your heart instead of your head 'cause it's always the best thing to do." said Sabrina.
"And most of all, you're already special in your own way and everybody is special," said Angie.
"Thanks for telling me those things guys, but maybe it must be the answer at all." said Oscar.
"But…But it can't." said Angie just as she tried to explain, but Oscar interrupted her.
"It has to be," said Oscar.
Oscar suddenly became even more depressed by how much he has considered himself as a nobody and being disrespected by others right after the traumatic experience he has dealt with during childhood, and he still wishes to become a somebody and gain the respect that he strongly yearns for which he strongly believes that the answer to make his dream come true is begin living a life of luxury at the Top Of Southside Reef while he still strongly praised his late father Earl's job as a tongue scrubber so much as much as his late mother and Earl's wife Regina does and would enjoy watching him doing his job at the Whale Wash while he would help his mother with things around their former home at the Seashell Plaza since she served as a housewife during his own childhood.
Upon seeing how much Oscar is feeling very depressed by how much he has been through, Angie, Nelson, and Sabrina proceed to comfort him since they've been best friends ever since they used to be young children and were his only best friends at Pisces Elementary School since he got made fun by his own classmates for admiring his late father's job as a tongue scrubber at the Whale Wash, and Oscar quickly enjoyed the comfort Angie, Nelson, and Sabrina gave him just as he quickly embraced them and they all quickly embraced him back which what friends do to each other all the time.
Also, just as they comfort Oscar over his depression of his own insecurities about being a nobody, they all wish that Oscar would just realize that he should at least appreciate what he already has and that he's already special in his own way, and that he doesn't need to keep pulling off his own get-rich-quick schemes in order to make his lifelong dream of becoming a somebody come true.
Just as they continued to comfort Oscar of how much he has considered himself as a nobody due to what he has been through during childhood and wishes he would understand that all he has to do was listen to his heart instead of his head, Angie nearly confessed her love for Oscar when she began expressing that somebody like Lola couldn't be right person to be in a relationship with due to how superficial that she is even that she downright admits it to Oscar when she turns him down for not being so rich that she imagined if, and Angie quickly covered it up in embarrassment while Nelson attempted to confess his own love for Sabrina which he also quickly covered it up in embarrassment as well.
"We're saying it can't be the answer, and speaking all of this, there's no way that Lola is right to be in a relationship with." said Angie.
"Maybe she is right to be in a relationship, guys, and I began to develop feelings for her and really wish to win her heart somehow." said Oscar.
"We know, but she said it to herself, she's downright superficial and she isn't afraid to hide it from anybody else." said Nelson.
"Superficial means shallow and being shallow means you only judge others by what they have and how they look," said Sabrina.
"So, dating somebody like Lola can't be a good idea after all 'cause she's only interested in those who have a lot of money," said Angie.
"I'll earn a lot of money someday and hopefully we'll become a romantic couple for sure, and the ones who have a lot of money are somebodies." said Oscar.
"Lola can't be right for you after all for a relationship, even if you do become rich and famous someday, and it's 'cause of how she is, which is only caring about wealth," said Sabrina.
"If you did have a relationship with Lola if you were wealthy, we bet it wouldn't last that long 'cause she would only care about what you have rather than for who you are." said Nelson.
"Nel and Brina are right, Oscar, and besides, maybe somebody else could prove to be much better than Lola, and that person could be…could be…" said Angie just she nervously stammered.
"Who, Ang? Who could it be for me to be in a relationship with rather than Lola?" asked Oscar in surprise.
"Uh…Um…It…It could be anybody else in the whole Atlantic Ocean, but it couldn't be Lola due to how superficial that she is." replied Angie.
"Maybe there could be a chance that somebody would become romantically involved with me, but I'm nothing but a nobody and nobody loves a nobody." replied Oscar. "There's no way any could love somebody like me all 'cause of being stuck with the job as a tongue scrubber at the Whale Wash which is the least popular job at the business ever, and the only way people would start to become romantically into me is living at the Top Of Southside Reef."
"That can't be the answer, Oscar, and there's actually somebody who is romantically interested in you already, and it's…it's…it's…" said Angie nervously just as she stammered.
"Huh? Who is it?" asked Oscar in surprise.
"Actually…I don't know who it is." said Angie just as she blushed in complete embarrassment.
"But you just…" said Oscar just as he tried to say something, but Angie just interrupted him.
"Nevermind, Oscar. Just nevermind. I actually don't know who it is anyway, but I am sure that you'll be able to find that person who would be in a relationship with you." said Angie.
"Well, alright then. And I hope for the same thing, and it will happen once I become rich and famous one of these days, which could be Lola after I first met her." said Oscar.
"Speaking of romantic relationships, I've always wished that Sabrina would…" said Nelson. He quickly realized what he was saying and became embarrassed. "Ooops!"
"Wait a minute. What did you just say, Nel?" asked Sabrina.
"Um…Uh…Nothing. It was nothing." said Nelson nervously.
"But I heard you say that you would wish that I would do something," said Sabrina. "What is it anyway?"
"Honestly, I don't know, and I didn't know what I was saying at that time," said Nelson.
"Are you sure about that?" asked Sabrina in surprise. Nelson nervously nodded yes. "Alright, if you say so. I wish I would wonder what you are trying to say to me lately, and everytime when it does, you act really strange which I strongly don't understand."
"I don't understand that either, and hopefully, I'll figure out what I'm trying to say to you lately as well." said Nelson.
"Guys, thank you. Thank you very much for supporting me and being there for me." replied Oscar.
"You're welcome, Oscar, and that's what best friends do for each other all the time." said Angie.
"Also, we already know that you would support us and be there for us when we needed it too." said Sabrina.
"Which is what best friends are for since it's the true meaning of friendship." said Nelson.
"I am so lucky to have you guys as my best friends ever since childhood. I really am." said Oscar.
"We're lucky to be your best friends as much as you are." said Angie.
Angie, Nelson, and Sabrina continued to comfort Oscar at one of the benches of the Clamingdale's shopping mall over how he is very insecure about being a nobody due to everything that he has been through already and Oscar strongly still wishes to become a somebody by living at the Top Of Southside Reef which he believed it served as the home to all somebodies, and Angie, Nelson, and Sabrina still wishes that Oscar would just appreciate what he already has and would just be himself rather than trying to live a life of luxury which actually can't be the answer of fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming a somebody and gaining the respect that he yearns for for his entire life.
Also, Angie is relieved that Oscar hasn't learned that she has always been in love with him yet and wishes that she would be able to tell him how she has always felt about him sooner or later as well as getting him to understand that Lola might not be right for a romantic relationship after all due to how shallow that she is as much as Nelson and Sabrina are attempting to get him to see that and even Nelson is also relieved that Sabrna hasn't learned about his own deep romantic feelings for her yet and wishes that he could somehow win Sabrina's heart somehow since he has always been in love with her just like Angie has always been in love with Oscar and that Sabrina has always been the girl of his dreams, and he all he has to do what somehow overcome his own shyness and somehow confess his own love for her.
Meanwhile, at the RMS Titanic that serves as the home of the notorious crime boss Don Edward Lino and his great white shark mafia as well as being in charge of the other mafias of the Five Families of the Atlantic Ocean which consists of the leopard shark mafia, the hammerhead shark mafia, the killer whale mafia, and the swordfish mafia, at the basement of the RMS Titanic, Frankie is giving Lenny on some practicing lessons on how to be a proper shark along with the help of Teresa before they could get started on the main lessons on how to be a cold-blooded killer under their father Don Lino's insistence while Teresa would also start encouraging Lenny to be a killer as well, and honestly, Lenny doesn't really want to go through with learning how to be a killer and would rather be himself while Teresa doesn't want to encourage Lenny to be a killer and always enjoyed him being his own person so much.
During the practicing for Lenny on how to be a killer by Frankie with the help of Teresa under their father Don Edward Lino's orders, Frankie teaches Lenny on how to shoot up some of the citizens of Southside Reef when there's a crime spree going on for the Lino crime family and the other crime families of the Five Families, and they use some guns and some fish dummies to test of what they can actually do, and Frankie demonstrates on how to shoot some of the fish dummies by using the gun to Lenny with Terea's help while their childhood best friends Jeremiah, Fiorenza, Malcolm, and Imogene who are the children of the other crime bosses of the Five Families as well as Luca, Yvette, and some other members of the great white shark mafia, some members of the leopard shark mafia, some members of the hammerhead shark mafia, some members of the killer whale mafia, and some members of the swordfish mafia watches the whole practice lessons in complete amazement.
"Okay, Lenny, are you ready for some of the practicing of how to be a proper shark, and are you ready to help me out with the practicing, Teresa?" asked Frankie.
"Uh…I guess…" replied Lenny nervously.
"Maybe…" replied Teresa nervously.
"Well, you two better be ready for all of this, and Pop is really expecting you to go through with these things no matter what." said Frankie.
"But we don't have to go through with it, Frankie. We just can't." said Teresa.
"That's right, and it can't be all 'cause Pop insisted that that we should." said Lenny.
"Sorry, Lenny and Teresa, but you have to do it and Pop says so." replied Frankie.
"Look, just 'cause Daddy says that we should doesn't mean we have to." said Teresa.
"Actually, you have to do it, and it's for Pop and our whole crime family's sake." said Frankie.
"It's our own decision if we really wanna do it, and he can't force us to do it and our family can't force us into it either." and Lenny.
"But he is in charge of the crime family and he always has been after he succeeded our grandpa Leonardo who has also succeeded our great-grandma Hortense." said Frankie.
"We know that he's in charge of the crime family after his own predecessors grandpa and great-grandma, but he should understand that we don't have to go through with it." said Teresa.
"Look, don't make this difficult, you two." replied Frankie.
"C'mon, Lenny and Teresa," said Fiorenza.
"Just do it already," said Jeremiah.
"It's time for you to practice on your lessons," said Malcolm.
"And it's time for you to help him out as well." said Imogene.
"Your older brother Frankie doesn't have all day," said Luca.
"So, let's get started on what you need to do," said Yvette.
"Lenny, Teresa, let's go, and Pop and everybody else in the whole crime family is expecting you to do this," said Frankie.
"Oh, alright, then," said Lenny.
"We'll do it." said Teresa.
"And you better do it or else. Now let's get this whole thing over with." said Frankie. "Lenny, you're gonna practice on being a shark and after that, you're gonna learn how to be a shark for real in order to make Pop happy while Teresa is gonna help me out. Also, during the practicing before we could get started on how to learn how to be a killer, we're gonna shoot up some fish dummies in order to test out your skills, and Lenny is gonna go first for learning how to be a killer and you're gonna learn how to commit some more crimes besides being theft all the time. Let's get started."
"Right," said Lenny and Teresa nervously. Then, they both nervously looked at each other just as they both gulped.
Suddenly, the practicing for Lenny on how to be a cold-blooded killer under Frankie's tutoring along with Teresa's help begins at the basement of the RMS Titanic, and Frankie also prepares to have Teresa to learn how to commit more crimes for once besides always stealing things from Southside Reef since she's also unwilling to hurt anybody as much as Lenny would and Frankie expects Lenny to shoot up one of the fish dummies with a gun in order for him to learn how to be a killer and expects Teresa to do the same thing to start committing more crimes for once while Don Lino's two henchmen Luca and Yvette as well as the other children of the other crime bosses of the Five Families Fiorenza, Jeremiah, Malcolm, and Imogene, some mobsters of the Lino crime family, the Veltroni crime family, the Feinberg crime family, the Salvatore crime family, and the Hicks crime family watches the whole thing just as they all expect the same thing from Frankie as much as the Lino children's father Don Lino and the rest of the Five Families expect so much.
During the practicing for the lessons for Lenny on how to learn how to be a proper shark with Teresa's help while she will learn how to do more crimes besides theft, Frankie quickly decides to give Lenny some demonstrations on how to be a cold-blooded killer by having some of the great white shark mobsters as well as some of the hammerhead shark mobsters, some of the leopard shark mobsters, some of the killer whale mobsters, and some of the swordfish mobsters along with Luca and Yvette to shoot up some of the fish citizen dummies by using some of the guns which they all agree to do so while Lenny and Teresa are still not sure if they could really go through with shooting up the fish citizens with the guns that the members of the Five Families would usually use together during some crime sprees in Southside Reef.
"Hey, before we could get started on giving Lenny the practice lessons on how to be a proper shark with Teresa's help, there's something we gotta do first." replied Frankie. "Luca, Yvette, I need you and the mobsters of the family as well as the mobsters of the other crime families to shoot up some of the fish dummies with the guns in order to show Lenny on what he needed to do before he could do it along with Teresa who still needs to commit more crimes besides theft. What do you say about that?"
"We say it's such a great idea to do that kind of thing for the practicing, Frankie." said Yvette.
"Of course we'll do it in order to show your younger siblings on what to do," said Luca.
"My mother's hammerheads are pleased to give them some demonstrations," said Fiorenza.
"My father's leopard sharks will be grateful to do it as well." said Jeremiah.
"My father's killer whales are so proud to teach them how the practice will be," said Malcolm.
"And my mother's swordfish are filled with wonder to go through with it too." said Imogene.
"Even my father's great white sharks are amazed to do it. Now let's do it together already, and after that, Lenny is gonna do it as well as Teresa." said Frankie. "Oh, and Fiorenza, Jeremiah, Malcolm, and Imogene, you can do it with me and everybody else if you want to."
"Yes." said Fiorenza.
"Yeah." said Jeremiah.
"Sure." said Malcolm.
"Absolutely." said Imogene.
"Okay, let's do this," said Frankie. "Oh, and Lenny and Teresa, make sure you pay attention to all of this too." Lenny and Teresa nodded their heads nervously.
Frankie, Luca, and Yvette as well as the children of the other crime bosses of Five Families Jeremiah, Fiorenza, Malcolm, and Imogene got some guns from a nearby box while the great white shark mobsters, the hammerhead shark mobsters, the leopard shark mobsters, the killer whale mobsters, and the swordfish mobsters did the same thing, and they all proceed to use the guns to shoot up the many dummies of the fish citizens to give some demonstrations on how to be a cold-blooded killer for Lenny and Teresa just as Lenny and Teresa were still unable to go through with the whole thing of shooting up the fish dummies just like their older brother Frankie, their father Don Lino's two minions Luca and Yvette, and everybody else would in the Five Families.
During the whole demonstration, Frankie uses his gun to manage to shoot up ten of the fish dummies, Luca uses his gun to manage to shoot up eight of the fish dummies, Yvette uses her gun of manage to shoot up six of the fish dummies, each of the great white shark mobsters manage to shoot up four of the fish dummies, Fiorenza and each of the hammerhead shark mobsters manage to shoot up three of the fish dummies, Jeremiah and each of the leopard shark mobsters manage to shoot up five of the fish dummies, Malcolm and each of the killer whale mobsters manage to shoot up seven of the fish dummies, and Imogene and each of the swordfish mobsters manage to shoot up eleven of the fish dummies while Lenny and Teresa both watches the whole thing in complete nervousness since they're unable to go through with the whole demonstration.
Soon, Frankie, Luca, Yvette, and everybody else get finished with shooting up most of the fish dummies which left them in a complete wreck from being taken off by the bullets of each of the guns, and Lenny and Teresa are left in complete shock over the whole thing just as they were still very nervous about it since they're unable to go through with it at all. Once they all got finished with shooting up most of the fish dummies for the demonstration for Lenny on learning how to be a killer and Teresa would commit some more crimes for once, Frankie gives two guns to Lenny and Teresa for them to to shoot up some of the fish dummies that has been shot up yet to begin their practicing on for Lenny to become a killer and for Teresa to commit more crimes, but they're still very reluctant to do so.
"Alright, Lenny and Teresa, did you see what just happened?" asked Frankie.
"Yeah, we sure did." said Lenny.
"Mmm-hmm, we saw the whole thing," said Teresa.
"Great, and now it's your turn to shoot up these dummies to test out your own skills of killing," said Frankie.
"Frankie, do we really have to do this?" asked Teresa.
"Yes, you do, and it's for Pop and for everybody else in our family." asked Frankie.
"We know, but he and our family can't expect us to do that at all," said Lenny.
"Look, we've already had a conversation about this, and you're gonna do it anyway." said Frankie.
"Please, Frankie, is it that important to do it?" asked Lenny.
"Actually, it is important 'cause this is a good opportunity for everybody." said Frankie.
"But it can't be, and it also can't be good for the whole family as well." said Teresa.
"Lenny, Teresa, just give the practicing a shot for once." said Luca.
"Yeah, all you have to do is try it out and you'll see for sure." said Yvette.
"Do it." said Jeremiah.
"Give it a try," said Fiorenza.
"It's not that hard," said Malcolm.
"And it's very easy," said Imogene.
"Just shoot up those dummies with these guns, and when you do, you'll make Pop happy and everybody else in our family happy." said Frankie. "Once you two go through with it, you'll learn how to become a killer, Lenny and you'll learn how to commit more crimes for once, Teresa. Now let's get this over with."
Lenny and Teresa both took the guns from Frankie and they both prepare to shoot up some of the fish citizen dummies that has been shot up yet by Frankie and everybody else when they were giving them some demonstrations on how to shoot them up with the guns, and Frankie, Luca, Yvette, and everybody else expects them to shoot up each of the fish dummies in order to to have Lenny learn how to become a killer and Teresa to learn how to commit more crimes besides theft which will greatly delight everybody in the Five Families that consists of the great white shark mafia, the leopard shark mafia, the hammerhead shark mafia, the killer whale mafia, and the swordfish mafia in the process.
However, just as Lenny and Teresa both prepare to shoot up some of the fish citizen dummies for the sake of their older brother Frankie, their father Don Lino, and everybody else in the Five Families that consists of the Lino crime family, the Veltroni crime family, the Feinberg crime family, the Salvatore crime family, and the Hicks crime family, they both already know that they're unable to do so since they both already know that they would never do anything to hurt anybody and wouldn't commit any crimes just like the rest of the Five Familie always would, and they both drop their guns on the ground which causes Frankie and everybody else to become filled with complete shock.
"Huh?" asked Yvette.
"What the heck?" asked Yvette.
"Lenny, Frankie, what are you doing?" asked Frankie.
"We can't do it." said Lenny.
"We're unable to go through with it." asked Teresa.
"You have got to be kidding!" exclaimed Frankie.
"Oh, we're serious!" exclaimed Teresa.
"It's for real!" exclaimed Lenny.
"Ugh, you two are so unbelievable about doing this! You really are!" exclaimed Frankie.
"Look, we're sorry, but I don't have the heart to kill somebody!" exclaimed Lenny.
"And I guess that stealing is the only crime I could only do!" exclaimed Teresa.
"But you should at least kill something for once, Lenny, and you need to do something else besides stealing things, Teresa!" exclaimed Frankie.
"Will you please just understand! I would rather be just myself instead of what you and everybody else expects to be a killer!" exclaimed Lenny.
"And I would rather support Lenny for who he is, and he's perfect just the way he is!" exclaimed Teresa.
"That's it! I've had it! You better shoot up those fish dummies or else!" exclaimed Frankie.
"No way!" exclaimed Teresa.
"We can't do that!" exclaimed Lenny.
"You better do it or face the consequences from our dad and everybody else in the whole family!" exclaimed Frankie.
"Sorry, but I don't have it in my heart to do such a thing!" exclaimed Lenny.
"And I'm unable to do it either 'cause I would never harm anybody!" exclaimed Teresa.
"But it's the tradition of the Five Families and it always has been, and it's for the best you start following it, Lenny, and for you to commit more crimes, Teresa!" exclaimed Frankie.
"That's not gonna happen!" exclaimed Lenny.
"Just forget about it, Frankie!" exclaimed Teresa.
"Okay, you two! If you don't do it, then I'm gonna inform Pop all about what you did, and wait until what he's gonna say about this!" exclaimed Frankie. "Honestly, Lenny, you should be a shark for once, and you should commit more crimes besides theft, Teresa. Both of you are unbelievable, and honestly, if you really don't wanna be a killer, Lenny, I'm better off being the next Don of the great white shark mafia all by myself along with Teresa who would help me be the next crime boss while you would live your own life, but since Pop has always expected you to be a killer and always expect Teresa to encourage you to be a killer, I would do anything to make him smile, and the only way he's gonna smile if you become a killer for once. Got it, Lenny?"
Upon hearing what his older brother Frankie just inform him and their younger sister Teresa right after he refused to shoot up the fish citizen dummies with his own gun during the practicings on how to be a killer along with Teresa's help and even Teresa refused to shoot them up either, Lenny suddenly became very depressed by how much he was being forced into becoming a cold-blooded killer and wishes that he would just be himself, and he still wishes that his father Don Lino would just accept him for who his rather than for questioning him for who he is and that everybody else would do the same thing.
All because of how Lenny is being so different from the other sharks, it caused his relationship with his family to become very strained, especially to Don Lino who has always insisted that he should be a killer. Also, just as Lenny became very depressed over how much he was being forced to be something that he could never be which is being a killer and would rather be his own person as well as expecting Don Lino and everybody else to just accept him for he is just like anybody else would, Frankie, Luca, Yvette, and everybody else became filled with surprise upon seeing his depression, and even Teresa who have always accepted him for who he is.
End Of Chapter 4: What I've Wished For
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