The Dark Orca The Deep

Ha-ha-ha!

Ha-ha-ha-ha!

Tell the museum we've found it.

Captain, there's something under us. It's huge!

It can't be.

Lifeboat, now.

-What is it?

-They don't exist! They can't.

Oh, no.

-Captain, what was that?

-Something impossible.

A myth - the Dark Orca.

My family are explorers. We have been for generations.

While others look up to the stars, we know there are an infinite

number of things that shine in the darkness below.

There are things lurking in the seas that long ago vanished into myth.

My family are explorers and we explore the deep.

The stolen salvage vessel was searching for a Dutch trader

-sunk in the 17th century.

-Mm-hmm.

It was carrying a fortune in guilders

when it was pulled into the sea by giant grappling hooks.

-That sounds great.

-Huh?

The salvage vessel was last seen orbiting the Earth being

towed by Martians singing Jingle Bells.

-Yup, I'll get to it tomorrow.

-Will.

-What?

-Look, I know finding the scroll was important.

-Important?

This could be the key to Los Lemuria, Keiko.

This is what my parents were searching for.

Important doesn't quite cover it.

-I brought you another coffee, Dad.

-Thanks, Fontaine.

Just put it over there.

You mean with all the other coffees you haven't drunk?

-Still no match!

-What are you trying to match?

This looks like an ancient map

but it doesn't match any modern topography.

-What do these symbols mean?

-I'm not sure.

A location maybe but they're in a lost language.

No-one alive today can read them.

-There's one person who might be able to.

-Dolos.

-Dolos?

As in mysterious keeper of information Dolos?

-Yes.

-I finally get to see the floating black market!

-I'll get Jeffrey.

-It's a floating market, Ant, as in above water.

Your fish doesn't do above water.

He does now.

Ta-dah!

-Ant, you invented this?

-That's fantastic.

Thanks, I call it the Jorange.

-Why?

-Because I wanted to invent two things at once,

so I invented a fish backpack

and the first word to rhyme with orange.

No, why would you want to carry a fish everywhere?

It's not about what I want, Fontaine, it's about Jeffrey.

It's not fair that he's excluded just

-because we do things out of water.

-He's a fish.

And that means a little thing like oxygen should stop him

from being with us?

Yup, that's exactly what that means.

So this is a swap.

I get your turn driving the jet boat next time, right?

No, this counts as your turn.

It's not my fault you can't drive and wear your fish pack.

Backpack development log, remember to adapt

so that I can drive jet boat.

Fontaine's development log,

remember to make fun of Ant for having a backpack development log.

Now, remember, you two, we need to keep a low profile,

this floating market is...

..full of thieves and pirates, trust no-one.

-Can we trust this Dolos person?

-No.

I've only scanned the symbols for him to translate.

I don't want Dolos getting any hint that the scroll exists.

17th-century Dutch treasure only discovered a few days ago.

Get your guilders here. Absolutely priceless artefacts...for a price.

Argh!

-Huh?

-You lowlifes!

My grandmother's worth twice that much, even with a wooden leg.

-Oh, what do we have here?

-This? This is the Jorange.

Ant, low profile.

Interesting.

-I'll take it and the fish. How much do you want?

-It's a prototype.

It isn't for sale yet. Also, the fish is very special.

Ooh, how special?

I'd say Jeffrey is the most important fish in the world.

The most important fish in the world? Give it to me!

-Hey!

-You don't want to do that.

-Really? And who are you?

My name is William Neckton.

The Neckton family?

You've been known to make things difficult for us, erm,

legitimate businessmen like myself.

-Walk away.

-Happy to, happy to.

Find out what they're doing here, now.

This Dolos guy creeps me out.

Hmm. Oh, children,

all those happy years of sleepless nights and dirty diapers.

-Such a blessing.

-Let's keep this short.

We're only here so you can translate some symbols.

Anything for old college friends.

You went to college with my parents?

And you taught it to speak. The blessings are endless.

Do you mean that sincerely? You're kind of hard to read.

-You have a really strange face.

-It speaks once more, I double my fee.

Hmm.

No, I only recognise two of these.

Maybe 10,000 years old.

Mesopotamian or...no...

this is something else.

Where did you get these, William?

You're getting paid and that's all you're getting.

-I think this one means entrance or, no, gateway.

-And the other?

This literally means wet fire.

Lava, that means lava!

So obvious.

So he doubled the fee. Take it out of my pocket money.

You don't get that much pocket money.

-Our captain would like a word.

-Oh, I thought we already had a word.

This time...

We brought friends.

What's the strategy here, Dad? Bargain? Bluff?

-Outthink them?

-We run.

What are you doing?

Keep going, hide, we'll draw them away.

We're not going to leave you.

-Yes, you are, Fontaine.

-Don't look back.

Ant, if anyone follows you, feel free to do all the inventive things

-you usually wouldn't be allowed to do.

-Done.

Dolos.

Captain Hammerhead,

my favourite pirate.

What did the Necktons want?

I couldn't possibly betray the confidence

of my old college friends.

Ah, what would you like to know?

Over there!

What is that?

It's a diversion.

Backpack development log, Jeffrey makes an excellent diversion.

Ant, come on.

A gateway and lava?

I thought you'd be more useful than this, Dolos.

You don't want to join the list of people who have disappointed me.

There's more. The Necktons were holding something back.

I'm guessing this gateway leads to an ancient treasure.

See, now you're being useful.

What sort of treasure?

Something of enormous value, I'm sure.

However, the only clue to the location is the volcanic activity.

You'd have to follow the Necktons to learn more.

I won't have to follow them, I should have them already.

-I think we lost them.

-Nope.

-Where are you going?

-I have an idea.

We need to find Mom and Da...ad.

-Stop the boat.

-Ant, kill the engines.

The captain is waiting for you.

I don't want to have to do this the hard way.

-Then...

-We'll make it easy for you.

-We're leaving.

-No!

I'll take the treasure.

And I'll take that fancy sub of theirs for my fleet.

We're underway. It would be good to know where we're underway to.

Do you know how many volcanic sites there are in the world?

Would you like another coffee you won't drink?

And if this gateway is near volcanic activity,

it could be buried by now.

-Didn't Dolos say those symbols were 10,000 years old?

-Yes.

Well, wasn't there ice age around then? The sea level would have...

Have been much lower than today.

A match! The location in this scroll is now

underwater near the Aleutian Islands.

-And they're volcanic. Ant, you're a genius.

-Did you hear that, Fontaine?

Fontaine's development log, find way to deflate Ant's expanding head.

-I can have us there by morning.

-That long?

We could get there faster but the teleporter's on the fritz.

Rover, this is Aeronax.

We don't need thermal imaging,

there's volcanic activity everywhere.

Sending GPS coordinates for the gateway.

Or, at least, where I'm hoping some sort of gateway will be.

They went without me?

Mom and Dad were never taking you out there with that much heat

and, besides, you were too busy playing with your fish backpack.

It's called the Jorange and it's not playing.

Let's find this gateway and get out of here.

According to the GPS, we should be close. Look. What's that?

Incredible. This gateway must be ten metres high.

An archway that impressive has to lead somewhere cool.

Taking us in to find out.

-It's empty.

-Will.

-Kids, are you seeing this?

-Yeah.

Ant?

I think he's speechless.

Oh, oh, I'll get a photo so you can see what Ant looks like

when he's not talking. It may never happen again.

Huh? Hmm.

-What's wrong?

-I don't know.

I thought I saw...something on the external cameras.

What sort of something? There's nothing on the radar. Or sonar.

Kids, is everything OK?

Fontaine's seeing things that aren't there.

I'm not a doctor but it sounds like she might need a whole new head.

There's something under us, something huge!

They're going to pin us down.

Aeronax secure. Enter the vessel.

Rover, Rover, this is Aeronax, we're under attack.

We're coming.

-Whoever they are, they're coming.

-Shut the moon pool.

No, wait, we have to cut ourselves free.

Jeffrey, stay.

Backpack development log,

find way to carry Jorange in White Knight.

OK, Fontaine, I'm out. Close the moon pool.

Good luck, Ant.

Get that boy.

Activate laser.

Ant, starboard side, you've got company.

Huh? That's not company. Company brings cake.

I'll try and slow them down.

Discharging bilge tanks, have a nice day.

Oh!

That's a nasty bit of business.

That's the last one.

Ant, Ant, come in, do you read?

Stop right there. No-one messes with my son.

Mom, Dad, the White Knight systems are down. Ant's got no power.

He's got no air. Ant, Ant, do you read me?

I take it back. You can see just fine.

If you're happy with the head you have, you may as well keep it.

SHE SIGHS

Open the moon pool, Fontaine, we're coming in. Huh?

The Dark Orca. We should have known.

Try to catch us now.

No, they're getting away! Fire another grappling hook.

It's our last one, Captain.

Oh, I'm sorry, are you saving it for a special occasion?

-Primary propeller is down.

-We can't outrun them with only one prop.

We have to.

We can't let them get their hands on the scroll.

The volcano, it's going to blow. We have to stop.

Hello, Necktons, this is the Dark Orca.

You can't go forward and you can't come back. Surrender your vessel.

I repeat, surrender your vessel and all its content now.

Fontaine, how hot is the water around the volcano?

-You can't be serious.

-No, he's right.

The Dark Orca would never follow us through an eruption. Fontaine?

1,200 degrees Celsius and rising.

The Aeronax is titanium alloy,

she can take it but only if we go now before it gets much hotter.

We've only got one prop.

Even with half the power, your mother can still outpilot anyone.

-You're the captain, Captain.

-Buckle up.

Backpack development log, add a seatbelt for the Jorange.

-1,300 degrees.

-It's OK. Titanium doesn't melt under 1,600.

Yeah, but I do.

The Aeronax is moving again, Captain.

-It's heading straight for the volcano.

-What?

Don't let them get away.

You mean follow them into the eruption?

You're the captain, Captain.

What's the temperature?

-The gauges don't work, Captain.

-What?

-He said the gauges don't...

I heard him the first time! Let's go after them.

Hold on.

The upper hull is almost melting. We're taking in a lot of water.

Keep going!

-We're nearing maximum hull temperature.

-Almost there.

Seismic activity peaking.

Hang on, everyone.

Whoa!

Argh!

Pull out.

You turned us away just in time, Captain,

there's no way they survived.

-Yeah!

-Ha-ha-ha!

The Dark Orca, they're turning back.

-Ha! Way to go, Mom.

-All right!

-Yeah!

-We did it!

Er, Captain, I think they made it.

What?

-I didn't know the Aeronax could roll over.

-Me neither.

But the top of the hull has the strongest insulation.

I had to put it between us and the eruption.

Just as well you had the Jorange or Jeffrey would have spilled

all over the floor.

So, you admit that it's the greatest invention to ever be invented?

Fontaine's development log, admit nothing.

Aside from some old graffiti,

there's nothing in this gateway at all, Captain.

Of course there isn't!

Whatever treasure was in there, the Necktons took it.

I want it, I want that sub and I want revenge.

No-one humiliates Captain Hammerhead.

I've searched through the entire scroll and I didn't find

anything that looks like this symbol from the gateway.

Er, want your coffee on the table so it can go cold again, Dad?

-No, I'll have it now, thanks.

-Hmm.

Oh, no. Now YOU'RE getting obsessed, Ant.

We're explorers,

we have to be obsessed with things or we'd just stay on the couch.

-The symbol isn't in the scroll.

-That's what I said.

-Did you look out of the scroll?

-What?

Help me turn it over.

Dad!

-That's it, it's the same symbol.

-This is just the first.

I think we're going to find more of these symbols hidden in the deep.

The start of a whole new path.