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Ant: Two-seventy-seven, two-seventy-eight...

... two-seventy-nine.

Oh, isn't there an app for this?

If there were an app for monitoring endangered species,

trust me, I'd use it.

Apps don't complain.

Mum! Come on! Even you must find this boring.

Good science needs good discipline, Ant.

Hey, what spooked them?

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What is that?

It's gotta be...

a mutated mollusc!

Nektons!

Found you!

Nereus?

[chuckle]

You're not a mutated mollusc.

Er... No. Not the last time I checked.

Now, quickly; we need to go to Venezuela!

Venezuela?

What are we looking at, Nereus?

The most unstable weather system on the planet.

[gasp]

That's the Catatumbo Storm!

Cool!

A weather system is "cool"?

It's an electrical storm that's been going on

for hundreds of years!

Nereus: Actually, thousands.

They call it "The Everlasting Storm"!

See? Even cooler!

Er, right.

The problem is, the storm has started rapidly expanding.

It's tripled in size over the last two weeks.

How is that possible?

No idea.

That's why I need your help.

Well, we were resuming our search for Lemuria...

but a huge lightning storm off the coast of Venezuela

sounds like a bigger priority.

Not to mention TOTALLY AWESOME!

I'll plot a course for Venezuela.

[sigh]

Great.

We're going to a huge, never-ending,

electrical storm in a giant metal tube.

What could possibly go wrong?

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 the Nektons. And we explore... THE DEEP!

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[growl]

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Ant (imitating airline pilot): We're approaching Catatumbo...

... if you could please stow your tray table and uh...

... return to your allocated seat.

Heh heh.

[zapping and thunder]

Wow! Beautiful!

Heh. Told ya.

Nereus: The energy is still building.

The lighing is almost continuous now.

So something is turning up the power here?

We'll soon find out.

This weather balloonill give us a better read on the storm.

[thunder]

Let's dive.

The Aronnax is like a lightning rod up here.

Ant: So, uh, silly question, but...

we're safe down here, right?

Will: Much safer than above.

Lightning tends to dissipate horizoally

when it ts the sea.

So just to clarify, the charge doesn't penetrate

downward anywhere near me ?

Maybe just a bit.

[gasp]

Kaiko: Relax, Nereus.

This is so awesome!

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You're right, Jeffy.

This will get millions of likes.

[beeping]

[groan]

No. Dead battery!

Sweet.

Kaiko: Moving further under the storm now.

Everyone stay alert.

Check it out, Jeffrey.

I can make lightning move slower than the speed of light.

No way!

This lightning... it's backwards!

Look!

That's how lightning always works.

What?

Lightning starts from the sky and goes to the ground,

but that part is negatively charged, so it's invisible.

But I see it.

No. You see the reverse charge, which is positive.

It actually travels up.

But it's so fast we don't see it that way.

That is outrageously amazing.

This is the data from the weather balloon?

Wind speed, temperature, barometric pressure

and lightning strike distribution.

What's wrong?

This storm is becoming incredibly dangerous.

How dangerous?

It could disable electricity grids,

take out power to Venezuela and knock planes out of the sky.

That sounds incredibly dangerous.

Hey! You moved my tablet off the charging mat!

Yes I did. I apologise for having the audacity

to use my own charging mat.

Ten percent charge?

Fontaine, I was using it for research!

Good science requires good discipline!

Then be disciplined and use your own mat.

OK.

How about we put all this energy to good use?

Sure!

[groan]

Good. Because we've just arrived at the centre of the storm.

[thunderclap]

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[rattled grunting]

[jackhammer]

Is this gonna be worth rattling all my teeth for?

[chuckle] This seabed sample will allow us to analyze

weather chges here over the last few centuries.

[power down]

OK, I'm at maximum depth.

Analyzing the core-sample now.

I wonder what was happening around here

a thousand years ago?

Well, they discovered oil here in...

Hey! [grunt] Not again!

Will: OK. Back to the lab.

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What is that?

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[zapping]

They're electric rays.

But I've never seen rays emit visible electricity before.

Fontaine: Plasma arcs?

That shouldn't be possible underwater.

Will: Stay very still.

They're just curious.

Hah! It zapped me!

Our Knights are shielded, but I still felt a little tingle!

And it just recharged my tablet!

They must be emitting a stable positive current.

But that doesn't make any sense.

Thank you,hargers of the sea!

Where are they going in such a hurry?

[zap]

Ant: Wow.

That's not normal.

Will: Kaiko?

You're gonna wan take a look at this.

Awesome!

[zaps]

[Ant cries out]

Uh, you said lightning couldn't get down this far!

It can't!

It's impossible!

There was no negative charge from above,

just a massive positive surge...

from below !

[beeping]

Nektons! You're not safe out there.

OK. Let's just make our way back to the Aronnax slowly, calmly.

[zap]

[alarmed shouts]

OK. Forget slowly!

Out of here! NOW!

[shouts]

Will! Kids!

Whoa! That was too close.

That's it.

I'm coming in for a pickup.

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Let's keep moving!

[zap]

Gah!

Is everyone onboard?

Will: Yes!

Gettg out of here now!

Kaiko: Hold on!

Whoa!

[Kaiko sighs]

Kaiko? Nereus? Are you OK?

Nothing's responding.

The computers, the engines... they're all dead!

I've never been fond of electrical storms.

Even less so now.

[scream]

We need to get away from here.

Come on.

To the engine room.

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The lightning boiled the sulfer dioxide.

We can restore the annodes, but we'll need to recharge.

What's really happening here, Nereus?

Why are you asking me?

Because you always know more than you let on.

This is not one of those times!

[thunderclap]

Aghhh!

Really?

I'm afraid of lightning.

If I knew thee rwas underwater lightning ,

do you think I'd have come here?

Oh, no.

I thought Jeffrey needed extra protection

Really?

It makes total sense, Fontaine.

If you say so.

How are we doing?

We're dead in the water unless we can recharge the battery.

[rumbling]

What is that?

[thunk]

Phosphorescence?

Radiation... ?

It's coming from that rmation on the ocean floor.

And it's moving!

Wait a minute.

Antaeus, turn on the ephemychron.

I'm on it!

We are here.

Which means...

what is this?

[gasp]

Now it makesense.

What is it?

We're right on top of a symbol.

A symbol for...

What? A symbol for what?

... a Monumential!

But that's...

Kaiko: An electric ray the size of ten football fields.

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Do you think this Monumential

is feeding the storm while it sleeps?

I think that's EXACTLY what's happening

Agh!

Brace yourselves!

[frightened shouts]

That's the air ballast!

Leaking everywhere.

Will: We're sinking!

We could go out in a Knight and maybe block the valve.

It's too late.

Ant: But... if we land on that Monumential...

It will awaken.

And then?

Picture an enormous electrical storm moving at will

across the whole world!

Fontaine: That can't be good.

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Kaiko: We're going down.

Will: What are our options?

Kaiko: Without ballast, we sink.

Will: The bow thrusters?

Kaiko: They need power. Without power, we sink.

It sounds like all our options involve a lot of sinking.

I need to find a way to charge the battery.

Will? We could use a backup plan.

Kids? Ready the knights.

We're gonna push.

Kids?Jeffrey? Stay.

Fontaine: Dad, is it even possible to push?

We have to try

Come on. We'll try to make it to that ledge.

Fontaine: Right. Piece of cake.

OK... jets to full... on three.

One, two... three!

[groaning]

Push harder.

If that ray wakes up...

We know! Devastation.

[grunt]

C'mon Fontaine.

Imagine you're pushing me into an open sewer.

Good idea.

[grunt]

We're moving!

Will: Of coue we are.

Keep pushing!

Kaiko: I don't think we're going to make it.

Will: Yes..we..are!

[grunts]

[thud]

[groaning metal]

That's it.

Ha, ha!

We did it!

See kids?

You can accomplish anything if you... you...

Ki: NO!

Spoke too soon.

Ki: Lift!

Will? Are we safe?

The Aronnax isn't stable

If we did... somehow... accidentally wake it,

is there a way to put it to sleep again?

The ancient Lemurians managed to do it six thousand years ago.

They created a device that saved the world.

The Monumentials were placed in a timeless slumber.

Maybe not timeless.

Fontaine: Is this device handy?

Alas no. It's in Lemuria.

Ever notice that with you, ere's always a catch?

Deep down, she likes me.

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[grunts]

Will?

We can do this.

Fontaine: Forever?

We nd power.

Hey!

What if we let the Aronnax fall on the Monumential?

World-wide chaos!

I thought we'd covered that.

That small electric y recharged my tablet.

This ray is a thousand times bigger,

maybe it could Like jump starting a car?

Hmm. That just might be crazy engh to work.

We'deed to reverse our polarity and put the Aronnax'

battery in a parallel circuit with the Monumential

and let the current flow through.

So that means it could work?

It could also blow it up!

[thunderclap]

Fontaine: I don't like those odds.

Me neither, but they're the best we've got.

Nereus? Come with me. You too, Jeffrey.

Will: Keep pushing!

[grunts]

C'mon, harder!

[grunts]

Thinking super-positive!

[shouts]

We can't hold it!

Will: Move

Ant: There'so way we can stop it!

NO!

Kaiko, you need to get out while there's still time.

Kaiko: Just working on something right now.

You don't understand the Aronnax is in free fall.

Fontaine: Look!

Will: Kaiko!

Ant: Nereus!

Whaaaaaa!

Sorry, Will.

Had to re-routsome ciuits before I left.

Mom! You're gonna use the cable

to get a charge from the Monumential?

We're gonna try.

C'mon!

We have to be quick.

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It's going to fire up again.

It's going to miss!

The cable has to touch thorsal mound.

I'm going to try and guide it.

[loud groan]

He's not going to make it alone.

This is going to take all of us together.

C'mon.

Push!

[grunts]

I think it's working, Dad.

[grunts]

Will: That's enough. Everyone back

Hurry!

[zap]

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Jeffrey!

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I gotcha, little buddy.

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[explosion]

Aaaah!

We're... we're fine.ne OK?

Did we do it?

Over there!

Ant: The Aronnax has power!

Fontaine: But it's still falling.

Hang on, Nereus.

Oooohh

This day has been an unending procession of peril!

Oooooo.

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Will: C'mon, Kaiko...

C'mon...

[grunts]

Oh, no.

C'mon, c'mon!

[whimper]

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Woo hoo!

Way to go, Mom!

I can't believe your crazy idea worked!o!

Yeah. My crazy good idea!

was blind, crazy luck, Ant!

Its eyes are open!

It's woken up!

It's okay Ant.

Electric rays don't have eyelids.

Their eyes are always open.

That doesn't mean it's awake.

Mom, have I ever told you how glad I am

that you're marine blogist?

Remember that the next time I get you to count fish.

Isn't the an app for that?

The frequency of lightning has returned to normal.

It looks like the Monumential has been drained

of its excess electricity.

And the relationsh between the Monumential and the storm above

seems to have balanced.

For now.

[slurp]

What do you mean?

Things are stirring.

And not just me

The oceans are changing.

The balance is shifting all over the world.

He's gone all cryptic and mysterious again.

I think if you grow a beard like that, you have to be mysterious.

I'm so growing a mysry beard when I'm older.

This is why we have to locate Lemuria.

We need to find the device that controls the numentials.

Dads right.

And sooner rather than later.

Why? What's bugging you now?

See the symbol that marked the locaon of that Monumential?

Fontaine: Yeah.

Look how many more there are out there.

Every single one.

A Monumential.

Awesome!

Fontaine: Oh, no, here we go again.

Ant: Oh, Fontaine, always the skeptic.

[Fontaine groans]