The Case of the Seed Spreaders

**The Case of the Seed Spreaders** is the thirtieth episode of Season 1 of Fishtronaut and the thirtieth episode of the series.

## Summary

The episode opens with Zeek telling a ghost story to Marina with her cousins Billy and Mac. However, Marina tells Zeek to give her a break, since she believes that ghosts never exist. Billy and Mac are also afraid of this story heard some popping sounds confused to be ghosts, which are actually seeds to fell on top of the tent and Billy and Mac thought the ghosts dropped the seeds on the tent. Meanwhile, Marina talks to Fishtronaut who is sleeping underwater by telling him that something weird has happened at the campsite under the almond tree. Fishtronaut then arrives to the campsite and Marina tells him that someone strange threw the seeds in the campsite and escaped. Zeek and Billy and Mac are afraid of the seeds and thought these seeds would turn them into trees (which does not actually happen). All of a sudden, a P.O.P. arrives towards the gang.

**P.O.P. Clues:** a baby bottle and a butterfly net

Receiving the clues, Fishtronaut thought of trying to speak to the mammals if they like milk, but Marina tells him that there are so many mammals living in the park. He then tells Zeek to know if there are any mammals that like to be upside-down. Zeek thought of an upside-down animal by thinking of a jaguar, an elephant, and a giraffe, but Marina corrects him and thought of a bat, a mammal that sleeps upside-down. The gang decides to find the bats and talk to them, but Billy and Mac are afraid that they can't go with the trio and someone must protect the tent in the campsite. While looking for the bats, Marina points to two big eyes in the tree in which Fishtronaut found out it was Maggie the Owl hiding in the tree. Upon seeing Zeek who is upside-down, the trio was unable to find any bats around the park. The trio decides to look at the seeds carefully and meet Billy and Mac who haven't seen another shower of seeds in the campsite. Neither the twins nor Marina like the stench from the seeds. After collecting some of the seeds, Fishtronaut decides to refill his bubbles at the laboratory before scanning the seeds.

After refilling his bubbles, Fishtronaut decides to scan the seeds inside his Scanner. While scanning, an image of a bat dropping seeds that grow trees appears after the Scanner scanned the seeds. Upon returning to Marina and Zeek at the campsite, Fishtronaut found out that the seeds are from the fruit of several different types of trees and the fruit is eaten by the frugivorous bats (which are animals that feed on fruit) and the seeds are then dropped after eating the fruits. Marina found out that the bats did a shower of seeds at the campsite. Fishtronaut explains that frugivorous bats drop the seeds after eating the fruit and the trees continue to survive with the seeds on the ground. Marina thinks that the seeds are linked to the bats and the bats are linked to the baby bottle. The trio decides to find the bats after Fishtronaut found the cashew seeds that his analysis may be right and the cashew seeds may be coming from the bats.

The trio arrives to the giant cashew tree and decide to talk to the bats hanging upside-down on the tree. One of the bats says that they're staying on the cashew tree before sunrise, which means that the sunlight is bad for the bats and must get back to their caves. Another bat appears to next to the two and tells them that Vlad, one of the bats, is missing from the flock. Fishtronaut decides to ask the bats when was the last time they saw Vlad; one of them says that he was spreading seeds towards the park by the lake and couldn't find him due to their poor vision. Marina thought Vlad was with Zeek when she and Zeek came out of the tent. When Marina gets the net clue, one of the bats says thought someone captured Vlad with a net and when Marina thought of playing with a net, the trio decides to go to the tennis court.

The trio and the two bats found out Vlad is caught in the net at the tennis court. The two bats are worried that they couldn't find Vlad in the park before sunrise. Vlad explains to the two bats that he was trying to do some new picking maneuvers, but didn't see the net and was captured in it. As Marina rescues Vlad from the net during sunrise, the bats decide to return back to their cave. Having finished the mission, the trio decides to return to Billy and Mac, who have understood that the seeds on their tent was dropped by the bats and their seed scent isn't good. All of a sudden, another P.O.P. appears outside the tent.

**P.O.P. Rewards:** a basket of fruit

Receiving the reward, the trio and the twins have fruits for breakfast. Billy thought that no one knows that mangoes fall from trees and the gives the trio a joke by telling them that they fall from trees when there's not a lot for them to climb down while Zeek doesn't understand Billy's riddle.