Fishin' by Davy Ocean

Author:Davy Ocean
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

Rick wriggles out of the hug and fins me away. “Get off me, mallet head!”

But I’m too excited to be annoyed by his latest insult. I have a plan. “Listen to me, Rick, I think I know how we can get out of here.”

“Yeah, right.”

“When everyone is telling you you’re wrong, remember, you might be right.”

Yes, Imaginary Mike! Yes!

“Rick, when you were being hauled into here in the net, what did you see?”

“My backside. I was bent in half. I think I sprained my swim bladder.”

“You have to notice everything. Great detectives don’t get to be great just looking at their backsides.”

I wish I could show Rick the things I noticed as I was being lifted in by the crane, but Rick doesn’t have hammer-vision replay. If Rick was a hammerhead like me, I could have at least Blueshark-Toothed the replay to him, but Rick’s a reef shark. I’m going to have to show him what the hammer-vision showed me. For real.

“Rick,” I say. “Come with me!”

I drag Rick up by the fin until we head for the surface.

“Faster!” I shout, encouraging him to kick his tail harder. “Imagine you’re going for the sickest triple gill of all time.”

“Why?”

“Just do it!”

We both kick harder and harder. Rick lets go of my fin, shooting waveward, and I’m only a split-second behind.

Fwoooooooooooooooooooooooosh!!!!!

We break surface! As we shoot up into air, I point to the pool beyond ours, where I saw the dolphins doing their junky tricks. “What can you see?”

“The ocean, too far away!”

We’re still rising, but we’ll reach the top of our jump in a moment and start to fall back, “No! Nearer! Look!”

As we start to fall back, I point and Rick looks, “The next pool over, it dips right down into the ocean!” he says.

“Yes!” I shout as the wave tops of our pool start to get closer. “If we can get into that pool, I bet we have a good chance of jumping over that wall, and escaping.”

Plashhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! (That’s Rick.)

Plooooooooooooooooooooooooshhh!!! (That’s me.)

And we’re back in our pool.

“Are you sure?”

I nod my hammer. “Yes! I know I can jump it, and you’ve always been able to jump higher than me. I reckon we have a great chance!”

Rick frowns. “Hmm. If it’s that easy how come the dolphins haven’t gotten over the wall and swam away?”

“Dolphins love doing tricks. You’ve seen them at Shark Point always showing off. Maybe if they get a chance to do tricks all day they take it. They probably love leggy air-breathers too. They’re crazy like that.”

“Yeah, right,” Rick snorts. “They love being kept prisoner here. They love the leggy air-breathers staring at them all the time.”

“Well, that’s what happens in theme parks like Sea-Planet I guess. Anyway, the dolphins aren’t our problem. We are our problem.”

“You are my problem, you mean.”

“All right, what’s your plan, then?” I ask him huffily.

“I don’t have one.”

I feel like screaming at Rick.

“Cool it, kid. Great detectives never take out their frustrations on seavillians. No one can detect the stuff we do.

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