The Case of the New Best Friend

**The Case of the New Best Friend** is the sixth episode of Season 2 of Fishtronaut and the fifty-eighth episode of the series.

## Summary

The episode opens Zeek seeing a piece of wood that is used to make a wooden car. After hurting his finger by using a hammer to hit a nail, he explains to Fishtronaut and Marina that he hurt is finger (which is a minor injury) as Fishtronaut tells him that he's overreacting. Suddenly, Neppy arrives towards the trio as he tells Fishtronaut and Marina that the stork taught him to perform magic tricks and then he gives Marina an apple that he received via magic trick. Neppy tries to get rid of the pain on one of Zeek's finger with one of the magic tricks, but it never happened as he continues doing magic tricks towards Fishtronaut and Marina. Fishtronaut and Marina convince Zeek to participate with Neppy, but Zeek refuses to join them and decides to stay with his injured finger. While going for bananas, Zeek grabs one and names it Chiquita, a personified friend. Meanwhile, Neppy finds a large rock under the lake while playing with Fishtronaut and Marina while Zeek brings his personified Chiquita and found a not-so-large rock. Meanwhile, Fishtronaut, Marina, and Neppy play soccer while Zeek continues to be with his personified friend Chiquita. All of a sudden, a P.O.P. arrives towards Fishtronaut, Marina, and Neppy (this time, without Zeek).

**P.O.P. Clues:** a first aid kit box with gardening objects inside and a pit of some sort of fruit

Receiving the clue, Zeek noticed that his red finger started healing itself after the trio received the clue. Inside the clue, Fishtronaut, Marina, and Neppy found some gardening objects with a pit of some sort of fruit inside. Fishtronaut, Marina, and Neppy decide to investigate on the vegetable patch in which the pit never came from any of the vegetables on the vegetable patch. Marina then decides to get a better look at pit, as she describes it as a very dry fruit and resembles a mango pit (the first aid kit box could be linked to a tree needs to be helped by the agents) as the three decide to find a mango tree in danger. Upon investigating the mango trees, Fishtronaut noticed that some of the trees are feeling better while Zeek decides to spend time with his personified friend Chiquita. Fishtronaut then decides to use his ScentSniffer to investigate if the tree is healthy or in danger.

Meanwhile, Fishtronaut does an aerial search and Fishtronaut found a mango tree in danger. Upon seeing it, the roots from one of the mango trees start emerging from the ground, which could probably be caused by the rain. Fishtronaut, Marina, and Neppy must make a plan to straighten up this mango tree before the tree falls and collides with other trees. Marina then makes a plan for Neppy to do: climb to the top of the next tree with a vine, toss the fine to Fishtronaut, then both of them pull on two different sides to straighten up the tree. Fishtronaut and Neppy almost tried to work as a team, but Neppy is afraid of going up a higher part of the mango tree. Zeek accidentally eats the banana inside his personified friend Chiquita and then slips on him, thus falling off a large tree. Zeek then is reunited with Marina and Fishtronaut (Zeek's finger started feeling better before being reunited with Fishtronaut and Marina).

Zeek decided to pull the vine just like Fishtronaut and Neppy were going to pull, but Marina tells him who told Zeek to pull the vine together and thought that his personified banana friend Chiquita told him. Zeek then helps Neppy overcome his fear of higher parts of the tree as the two monkeys and Fishtronaut work together to straighten the tree. Having straightened the tree, another P.O.P. arrives towards the trio and Neppy.

**P.O.P. Rewards:** water skis

Receiving the reward, the trio and Neppy decide to use the water skis with the soapbox car that was at the beginning of the episode.