The Case of the Disappearing Friends

**The Case of the Disappearing Friends** is the eighth episode of Season 1 of Fishtronaut and the eighth episode in the series.

## Summary

The episode opens with Zeek talking to a bunch of caterpillars telling them if they want to eat more leaves. He tells them to start eating the leaves, but end up tickling him and couldn't finish all the leaves. Meanwhile, Fishtronaut is playing "Follow the Leader" with a bunch of tadpoles as they repeat what Fishtronaut says and they all pass through Happy Plumb. Meanwhile, after resting and awoken by two squirrels, Zeek is surprised that the caterpillars aren't there. Meanwhile, Fishtronaut meets Marina by telling her about his new friends with big eyes and long tails and goes back underwater to see what took them so long. Fishtronaut couldn't find them after checking underwater and Zeek couldn't find the caterpillars after taking a nap. Fishtronaut tells him that he and Zeek were playing "Follow the Leader" and realized no one was following him and the friends are vanishing. All of a sudden, a P.O.P. arrives towards the gang.

**P.O.P Clues:** Fishtronaut's family photo and a pair of baby slippers

Fishtronaut and Marina are impressed with the clues that remind them of their childhoods. The agents have noticed that they have changed so much as they were babies, as stated by the clues. Fishtronaut thought that some of his friends may have grown up and still haven't disappeared. Meanwhile at Monkey Island, Zeek asks his friends that he's looking for the caterpillars in which Zeek was playing with them that have disappeared. However, the monkeys run away, because are afraid of hairy creatures that won't stop eating. Meanwhile at Elephant's Corner, Fishtronaut is talking to the elephants, because he tells them about the tadpoles that played with him earlier. This causes the elephants to feel nervous about big-eyed creatures that follow them. Thus, the elephants are afraid of big-eyed creatures that follow them. Fishtronaut is worried that the case is tricky to solve; however, before he can continue, Fishtronaut returns to the lab to reactivate his bubbles while Marina and Zeek tell them that they will keep looking and they also tell him to meet them at Sloth Forest.

After refilling his bubbles, Fishtronaut meets Happy Plumb who is resting quietly at the lake by asking that he and Zeek were meeting new friends at the lake and the friends disappeared and don't know what happened to the friends. Happy Plumb asks him that he saw Fishtronaut playing with the tadpoles earlier. Happy Plumb asks him "Friends that were in the water are now on land and friends that are now on land are now up in the sky". Before Fishtronaut could ask Happy Plumb, he fell asleep. The gang returns to the spot where Zeek last played with the caterpillars. Behind Zeek was a tree full of cocoons and Fishtronaut uses his trustworthy Whats-it Gizmo to tell what's inside the cocoon. Inside the cocoon was a butterfly that came out. More butterflies start coming out of their cocoons and Zeek starts playing with the butterflies and they start tickling him. While playing with the butterflies, they found Fishtronaut's friends: the frogs who used to follow him earlier. He tells the frogs to play follow the leader and Marina asked him that Fishtronaut's friends looked like frogs, but Fishtronaut explains that the friends that he played earlier have no tails but have legs. Marina explains to him that tadpoles evolve into frogs, which is the process of metamorphosis.

**P.O.P. Rewards:** photos of what the butterflies and frogs looked like as babies

The agents show the photos of what the butterflies and frogs looked like when they were babies. All of a sudden, a baby goldfish appears in the lake. Marina wonders if the baby goldfish would grow up to be a S.E.A. agent like Fishtronaut and the baby fish dances like what Fishtronaut, Marina, and Zeek did when they danced with the P.O.P..