Sebastian What about Ariel? You just gonna abandon her, leave her to deal wit all dat we tangled her up in? You tink that small, weak, helpless little girl can do anything by herself? [Ariel smashes open door] Ariel?
Come on Sebastian, let's go.
As you can see, I - [raises chair to Triton's level] I'm a self starter, Your Majesty. Here to anticipate your every need! Not like that last guy, what was his name? Sooner we forget about him, the better. In fact! Let's make a vow, never to mention his name again. Here, I'll start! [claps hands over mouth] There! Wasn't that easy?
Sebastian [At the throne room, Sebastian arrives, and his chariot is going crazy] [panting]
WHOA! WHOA! Good morning, Your Highness.
Sebastian Hm? Oh! [chuckles]
Sebastian [clears throat]
Unfortunately, the sprat and the... smelt were still... [shrieks] squabbling. No worries. I told them I'd sic the salmon on them. [chuckles]
Sebastian, what would I do without you?
Sebastian You'd be negotiatin' with the sprat and the smelt, that's what.
[The princesses arrive before their father]
Good morning, girls.
G Girls
Good morning, Father.
Good morning, Your Majesty.
Sebastian [clears throat]
Marina.
Sebastian You're late.
I... uh... [chuckles, groans]
Sebastian Your Majesty.
Well, I presume you've all been attending to your royal duties this week.
Yes, Father. We've been working diligently.
But, we're always done early.
And the coral is in bloom.
[swims to her father]
So I thought maybe we could go for a swim on the reef?
But it only happens once a year. It could be fun.
I was thinking we could just skip the morning walk.
Sebastian [sternly]
Ariel! Your father said "No."
Yes, sir. [swims back to her sisters]
Sebastian [They begin to swim out]
Be on time tomorrow.
Great.
[They swim to go on their walk with their father]
Oh, My name is Ariel. [Sees something] Oh, no! [That was Sebastian as he stopped until her land on Sebastian]
Sebastian Princess Ariel! What is the meaning of this?!
Um... We weren't doing anything.
Sebastian No? Then why were you trying to get away?
SG Swordfish Guards
[both growing]
Um... 'Cause they were chasing us?
SG Swordfish Guard
We heard music, chief.
Sebastian [shrieks]
Music! The princess was making music?!
SG Swordfish Guard
The princess wasn't making music. He was.
Sebastian Music is against the law! Take him to the dungeon!
I can't make it in the slammer!
Sebastian Now!
Wait! This is all a big misunderstanding. Huge. You are gonna laugh when I explain. Which I'm about to do.
Sebastian In this century, please.
Right. You see, I was just cleaning the coral tubes, and my friend here [chuckles] were helping me.
That's right. Best friends helpin' out. Makin' it happen.
But not making music. [He make nervous smile] See?
Sebastian Guards! Escort the princess back to the palace.
Sebastian [to Flounder]
And you!
Sebastian Consider this your first and only warning, mon. [The two guard goes on to escort the princess back to the palace, but not before she glares at them]
Humph! [Sebastian sees that Flounder is still here and he give him the angry look that scares and he swims off]
Sebastian Oh! Intolerable, I tell you. That girl is working on my last!
Sebastian [In the morning, Sebastian crawls up to King Triton in his throne room]
Good morning, Your Highness.
Sebastian [gasps]
Good morning, Your Majesty.
I have a problem. [Sebastian is shocked] It's Ariel.
Sebastian Ariel?! I...
Finally! So you see it, too? Oh, yes. She's rebellious, insubordinate, headstrong. We need to immediately implement a series of checks and balances designed to crush her spirit. What? Too harsh?
Sebastian Absolutely! Your Highness, she is young, going through a phase.
I don't remember having this much trouble with any of her sisters.
I do! They're all a handful. We should shave their heads.
Sebastian [yelps]
Alana wasn't difficult at all.
Sebastian Yes, Your Majesty. But Arista and the blowfish incident, remember?
Oh! It took weeks to clean up the palace.
Sebastian And how about Aquata and that stingray?
Sebastian And the time Attina got her head stick in the conch shell.
Well, perhaps you're right, Sebastian. Still, it seems Marina could use some help. I want you to look after Ariel.
[They bow down as King Triton leaves]
Soft shell.
Sebastian Tardy girl.
Sebastian Fish lips.
Sebastian Fashion disaster!
Sebastian BABYSITTER!
Dismissed.
[Sebastian and Marina Del Rey has to stop fighting and shocked]
[After King Triton and his Royal Guards storm the club] [angrily]
This is how you watch over my daughter?!
Sebastian Sire, I...
Sebastian Sire. [Marina looks at this in pleasure]
Sebastian But, Your Majesty, please!
SG Swordfish guard
Come on. Let's move it. [The guards escort the band, pushes Flounder] Hey.
SG Swordfish guard
Sure you are, kid. [As they take them away]
Marina, you will take over Sebastian's duties immediately.
Attina. Take your sisters home.
Father, you can't do this!
It's already DONE!
[Attina and Aquata drag Ariel out. As the princesses exit the club, King Triton, in far more rage than before, uses his trident to blast the rocks to block the entrance to the club]
[Meanwhile, at the dungeon. Ray-Ray throws the ball against the wall with Flounder, as Sebastian, Cheeks and Shelbow are sad being in the dungeon, as Ink Spot panics]
I got to get out of here. I got to get out. The walls, they're closing in. There's no space! No Air! [grunting] I got it! We'll start a riot! Follow my lead. ATLANTICA! ATLANTICA! Join me, guys. ATLANTICA!
Yeah? [Ray-Ray throws the ball to Ink Spot as he squeezes the ball while breathing]
This ain't living. You know what I'm saying?
S Sheldon
And the acoustics are non-good-ular. Listen. ♪ Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do ♪
Come on, at least we're hanging out. Can I get a "hoo-yah?"
Sebastian Come on, guys. This looks a lot worse than it is. I'll just get an audience with the king and I'll fix it.
Now, no offense, man, but you had ten years to fix it, and this is where we end up?
In jail. [The band gathered around to discuss the plan]
Sebastian Well, I... [And the band are done discussing the plan]
The band has talked it up, see, and we want you to...
Use your claws to pick the lock, man.
And open that door! [They have each other about that being a good plan]
Liquid! [the gang looked at him] Just kidding.
Sebastian No! Bad Plan! If we break out of this jail, there ain't no coming back here, mon! We'll be fugitives! [The pause at that, but they agree on being fugitives]
What's a fugitive? [Ariel arrives and heads to their cell]
Sebastian What about Ariel? You just gonna abandon her, leave her to deal wit all dat we tangled her up in? You tink that small, weak, helpless little girl can do anything by herself? [Ariel smashes the cell door with the rock] Ariel?
[opens the cell door]
Come on Sebastian, let's go.
Sebastian If we run away from Atlantica, it will break your father's heart.
She got to do what she got to do.
I'm sorry. I just can't live here.
Sebastian [closes the cell door]
Listen, I will not be responsible for taking you away from your family.
[opens the cell door again]
I'm leaving! With or without you.
Sebastian [closes the cell door again, but this time he is out of the cell]
NOBODY'S LEAVING! [gasps]
Look, Sebastian, without music, this place just isn't home.
You know she ain't lying.
Ain't no comeback to that!
Sebastian [Tries to think]
Ha! Oh, no, no, no. [gasps, grumbles] Never mind. [screams]
Sebastian Ariel, you're right! Without music, this place just isn't home. I know just where to go!
FREEDOM! [They go through the cell door ramming Sebastian against the wall]
Sebastian Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
Sebastian Flounder, shh! Move it, move it, move it, mon.
Move it, move it, move it.
Sebastian Flounder, please!
Sebastian Shh! This way. Come on.
[scatting loudly]
YEAH! HIT ME!
Hey, small fry, I think you could use some lessons in fugitivity.
Oh, yeah. Right. Got it. [conutining scatting]
You're gonna blow it for all of us.
Blow, good. [continues scatting]
Hey, kid, ixnay on the soundtrack.
Sebastian The slammer!
Music is against the law, you dig?
Come on. We ran away so we could sing. And I'm singing. Sing it with me. [scatting]
You know, the kid's striking a major chord.
Look at him go with his bad little self.
G Gang
[singing]
♪ Sha-na-na, na, na, na, an Na, na, na, na, na, an Shake, shake, shake, Senora Shake your body line ♪
[singing]
♪ Shake your body line ♪
G Gang
[singing]
♪ Shake, shake, shake, Senora Shake it all the time ♪
Sebastian [singing]
♪ Shake it all the time ♪
G Gang
Work, work, work, Senora Work your body line ♪
[singing]
♪ Work your body ♪
G Gang
Work, work, work, Senora Work it all the time ♪
[singing]
♪ Let's break it down Jump-J-J-Jump in the line Rock your body on time ♪
[singing]
♪ J-J-Jump in the line ♪
[singing]
♪ Jump-J-J-Jump in the line - Rock your body on time - ♪
G Gang
[singing]
♪ Jump-J-J-Jump J- J-Jump Jump Whoo! Jump in the line ♪
G Gang
[singing]
♪ Jump in the line Rock your body in time ♪
G Gang
[singing]
♪ Jump in the line Rock your body on time ♪
Where are we going exactly?
Sebastian [To Flounder]
Don't worry, mon.
'Cause I got to go to the bathroom.
Sebastian No.
Sebastian No.
Sebastian No.
Sebastian Yes. This is it.
Sebastian Yes.
Are you sure?
Sebastian Yes.
Sebastian [losing control of his rage and yelling at Ariel]
YES!!!
Oh, man. We can't live here!
Yeah, this place is all "Oom-pa-pa." We need some... [drumbeats]
Sebastian Nonsense. It's perfect. Just listen to them acoustics: [singing] ♪ Do, re, me, fa, so, la, ti, do ♪ [It echoes three times] Solid.
Well, it beats the dungeon.
It'll do for the time being. Excuse me.
[He goes inside his shell and, Ink Spot goes on a boulder and sleeps upside down, and Ray-Ray buries himself in the sand]
Ooh... [Flounder tries to do the same thing that Ray Ray but fail and spits out the sand]
Sebastian, be honest. Are we lost?
Sebastian No, this is fine. There's more to this place than meets the eye.
[The gang went to sleep until...] [Once again, scatting]
E Everyone
[angrily]
KNOCK IT OFF!
[In the morning, Then Ariel wakes up as well and hears something and see something flashing in the distance, Sebastian snoring]
Sebastian.
Sebastian Ten minutes, Mommy.
Sebastian, did you hear that sound?
Sebastian Leave me alone. I'm Sleeping.
But there's something out there. Come on, help us find it.
Sebastian I'm tired. You go check it out.
[Ariel swim out to follow the sound, Sebastian watches her leave as Ariel swim to follow the sound, and she stopped near the kelp forest, She swim through the kelp forest, and she's amazed of what she seeing, A shiny cave is what she's entered, as she look through the walls] [chuckles]
Sebastian [Ariel looks around and sees a reflection of herself and then she sees something, Ariel picks up the box and opens it and King Triton dancing with Queen Athena.]
It was an anniversary present. Your father had the music box made for your mother. Athena was more than his queen, you know. She was his best friend.
[Flashback of her and her sisters young, and Triton dances with Athena. And they play with each other, and young Ariel playing the piano for the first time. And her bandaged hand being kissed by King Triton] [VO]
The family together. Music playing all the time.
Sebastian The palace always echoing with laughter.
Sebastian [The two girls hide and then they tackled their father, and they laugh in joy, and fades to Triton and Athena being on the rock at the surface world. And we fade back to the present.]
When your mother died, the whole kingdom was heartbroken. The heart that never healed was your father's. [Ariel are sad about this]
It's so sad. He's forgotten what it feels like to be happy. I... I have to bring this back to him.
Sebastian If you insist.
This is why we came here, isn't it? [Sebastian smiles and we cut to the gang]
Whoa, whoa, let me get this straight. You led us out here...
To the armpit of nowhere, man.
In the hope that Red might find the music box. And now you wanna go back to the palace...
To return the music box to the king...
On the chance that maybe it'll...
Remind him to remember how to be happy...
And then he'll bring music back?
Sebastian That about sums it up.
Couldn't we just strap it to a dolphin? He'd get it eventually.
[The band gathered around again, to discuss it. And the band are done discussing it and say.]
Listen, the band talked it over, and...
We just can't take that chance.
Sebastian What?!
It's OK. Maybe someday it'll be different. You'll come home and play music all you want.
Sure, Red. Someday. Someday.
Bye. [They swim different as Flounder is distaught by this]
What? No, no, wait. Ray-Ray! Guys! We can't just let them go back alone.
But we took an oath! To jump, jive, wail, groove, rock steady, and at all times lend a helping hand to your fellow music lovers!
The Catfish Club is history. That oath don't mean a thing.
Well, it still means something to me. Hey, Ariel! Wait up! Ariel! [Flounder swims up to Ariel's direction as the band watch him go]
Sebastian [They go through the keep forest, only that it's low on kelp]
I don't remember this much kelp when we came through here last night.
[One the "kelp" moved and touched Ariel]
Kelp, schmelp. I ain't afraid of these overgrown weeds. Hi-yah! Take this! And take that! [yelling in slow-motion]
Sebastian [He tries to bring down the kelp 4 times, but fails. And Flounder then looks up and the kelp were really Marina's eels.]
Guys? That ain't kelp!
[They get scared of the eels and Marina pops up]
SURPRISE!!
Sebastian Marina? What are you wearing?
I thought I'd dress for the occasion.
Sebastian What's the occasion? [She shows a net] [screams] GO, GO, GO, GO!
Sic 'em, boys! [cackling]
[The eels chase them]
[Sebastian facing against Marina]
I've tasted power, Sebastian. And I'm never letting go.
Sebastian Bring it on! [gathers the starfish] Come to daddy.
Sebastian [Marina tries to attack him, but he throws starfish at her, and her face is covered with them]
Oh, my! [chuckling]
[Marina gets angry and whacks him with her tail, Go back to Ariel and Flounder being chased by eels and comes across a dead end. Then Tentacles appear out of nowhere grabs them and pull them up and it turns out to be Ink Spot]
NOW!
[He slingshits Cheeks into the pillars and they fall down and traps the eels inside]
Yeah! Awesome!
Ooh, they hurtin' for certain.
Yup, yup, yup. [chuckles]
Follow me!
[They swim to where Sebastian is facing Marina]
Sebastian [Marina chase Sebastian with sea rocks]
Come on, try and get me.
Get back here! [He goes inside a tube, and Marina reaches in there and tries to grab him, but her finger is snaped by him] Ow!
Sebastian [singing]
♪ Boom, chika, boom chika, boom, boom, boom!
Sebastian [Marina then swim upward and then dives to crush Sebastian, but he gets out of the tube as Marina is caught and stick inside of it]
Tight fit?
You... stinks. [She falls and rolls down the hill and crashes off-screen]
Sebastian I win.
[At the courtroom, the merpeople gathered in] [clears throat]
To my daughters, and to all the citizens I hereby decree that music will once again ring clear from one end of my kingdom to the other!
Therefore, I hereby present Atlantica's first official Court Composer.
Sebastian Thank you, Your Highness. Uh.... Not that we don't trust you, Your Majesty, but...Swifty, Hit it, Sing it, mon.
S Swifty
[clears throat]
Raise your right hand, fin, claw, tentacle, or whatever the case may be. [Triton raises his hand] Very good. Do you promise to jump, jive, wail, groove, rock steady and at all times lend a helping hand to your fellow music lovers?
[hugs her sister]
Thank you, Ariel.
