The Eel Ordeal Octonauts

Octonauts, to your stations!

Barnacles! Kwazii! Peso!

-Explore!

-Rescue!

-Protect!

Octonauts!

Everyone, keep a lookout.

Captain, it looks like they're heading our way.

We should be able to see them any minute now.

Dashi, sound the Octo alert.

SIREN WAILS

Octonauts, to the HQ!

Octonauts, the eels are on the move. They should be here any minute.

This only happens once a year, so we don't want to miss it.

Ah! There they are!

Eels!

Ooh!

Lots and lots of them.

Let me get a picture.

Yarr! They're in a big hurry to get somewhere! But where?

They're on their way from the ocean up the river to the lake.

It's dangerous. No-one knows how they do it.

Octonauts, our mission is to follow these eels and find out.

-Shellington.

-Thank you, Captain.

Every year, a group of young eels

travels from the ocean where they were born

up the river to this lake, where they live.

That looks easy enough.

Ah, but there's all kinds of dangers on the way, Kwazii.

Rocks, rough, bumpy water, sudden twists in the river.

I'd like to try that trip meself!

And that's why you'll be driving the GUP-A with me on this mission.

Aye, aye, Captain!

Kwazii, Peso, Shellington, to the launch bay!

Come on, mateys! Those slippery eels have a head start,

-and we've got to catch up.

-Open the Octo hatch, Tweak.

You got it, Cap.

We've already made it into the river.

We should catch up with the eels in no time.

I hope things don't get too bumpy, for us or for them.

Yarr! Where be those eels?

Ah, there they are. Let's go.

No-one's ever followed the eels moving up the river

this closely before.

We're going upstream, and the water keeps pushing us back.

-Kwazii, I'm going to need your help.

-Aye, aye, Captain.

Yow!

Steer with me. One, two, three!

BOTH: Aaah!

-Thanks, Kwazii.

-Now let's catch up with those slippery little fellas.

The eels are swimming fast!

Aye. But we can go as fast as they can.

We're gaining on them, Captain.

Wow. Getting past these rocks is no problem for these eels. Amazing!

Anywhere they can go, we can go too.

Yow!

Woo-hoo!

-Ha! Turn left!

-No, right!

ALL: Whoa! Aah!

CRASH

THEY GASP

Dashi to Barnacles. Are you all right?

-We're all right, Dashi.

-We're just going for a little spin.

ALL: Whoa! Aah!

CRASH

Oh, no. I hope they're not hurt.

'Barnacles to the Octopod. We're all OK, but the GUP-A has, erm, well...'

crashed.

But how will you keep going?

-There's no reason we can't swim after 'em, Captain.

-Good idea!

Let's go. Barnacles out.

Now, where be those eels?

There they are.

They really are good climbers.

Let's find out what's on the other side of those rocks.

Jumping jellyfish!

The eels are getting out of the water and moving on land!

Let's investigate.

Look at them wriggle right over the mud and dirt!

That's fascinating!

Eels can breathe air for a short time,

so they can leave the water and go over land if they have to.

Nothing stops them on their way up the river! Nothing! Ooh!

-STRANGER: Help!

-Eh?

Help!

Did somebody say something?

-Help!

-Where are you?

Down 'ere!

Hello there. Are you stuck?

Yes. And I really need to get out.

Hmm.

Can you grab on to this, matey?

Yes. Go on, pull me up, and please hurry.

Did you fall into that hole, little eel?

Yes. Yes, I did. If there's a hole in the ground,

I'll be the one eel who falls into it.

So, thanks very much for getting me out,

but I really have to be on me way.

Ow! Ouch! Ooh, me tail hurts! I can't move!

PESO: Don't worry.

Don't worry?! Me friends are getting farther away,

and now me tail's hurt. I can't even wiggle.

-I'll never catch up to me friends like this.

-We can help you.

-Really?

-Of course. We are the Octonauts.

PESO: What seems to be the trouble?

It's me tail. It hurts so much I can't move.

PESO: Ah. You need a bandage.

That was fast! It feels better already!

Thanks. - You're welcome.

And now, I've really got to get going.

PESO: You need to rest for a while.

Ooh, I can't rest! Must keep moving!

Got to catch up to me friends!

Captain, he's not strong enough to make a long swim up the river.

I'm afraid he won't make it on his own.

We'll make sure he's not left behind.

Ooh! I may need a little help getting back in the water.

We'll give you more than a little help.

Aye! We'll take you all the way to the lake!

Oh, thanks!

It won't be easy, but we'll swim up the river just like the eels,

and make sure our friend gets to the lake safely.

-Aye, aye!

-Ready!

-Let's go!

Oh, and one more thing. We'll need the smallest lifebelt we've got!

Octonauts, let's do this.

Ah!

That water's too rough to swim over, and those rocks are too high.

This will take some teamwork.

-Think you can get this to the top, Kwazii?

-No problem, Captain.

Aah!

Yep! Ah!

Yep! Ah!

Got it! Grab a hold!

Ah! Let's go.

A cave!

We're going through.

Ooh!

We're really, really close now.

All we have to do is swim through that.

WATER RUSHES BY

Yow!

We have to swim through that?

But we're almost there, I promise.

The lake is just on the other side.

I really have to get there!

We're going in. Follow me.

Urgh! Ah!

Aah!

Whoa!

Aah!

Aah! Ah!

THEY ALL STRUGGLE

Oh, we made it! We made it!

-Everyone OK?

-PESO: Just fine.

The lake is so calm and beautiful.

Aye. And full of squirmy eels!

-Where were you?

-We lost you.

-We were worried.

These are my friends. Oh, thanks for getting me here.

Well, you young eels certainly work hard to get where you're going.

I admire your determination.

It's what we do.

And when we're old enough, we'll head back down the river to the ocean

and have baby eels of our own.

And when those babies are old enough,

they'll make their journey up the river.

Aye! And we'll get to have this adventure all over again,

crashing the GUP, going through tunnels,

swimming through rapids and over rocks! Right, Peso?

Hmm. If you say so.

THEY ALL LAUGH

Oh, dear!

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