Young Shellington Sea Otter (OtterMAN Of Autism) (COMPLETED)

Chapter 31: Next Part Of Life...

2021 PRESENT DAY

Shellington is now 41 years old. He discovered the Vegimals and went on 143 missions. He has found over 118 sea creatures and has crashed the GUP-D three times and the GUP-E once. He is proud to be an Octonaut and feels that he has achieved his life goal. 

He now wears contacts instead of his old circular glasses. He wears a lab coat with a pencil and pen in the left pocket, and on top of the coat is his special waterproof bag that contains his magnifying glass, notebook, book, and extra pens. Underneath the coat, he wears a blue-green sweater, and a white button-down shirt with a red tie that is under the sweater. He wears dark blue work pants and the iconic Octonaut baby blue boots. His hair is still shaggy but he keeps it clean, and he wears the Octonauts' sailors hat.

Despite his success, Shellington is unsure about his future. As a marine biologist, he wonders what he should do next. He and the rest of the crew were helping the Vegimals with their seaweed farm, which was destroyed by the volcano Vegatoa. After laughing at the captain's old training video of him doing Octo-Aerobics, Barrot planted the last seaweed on the farm.

"Thanks, Tweak," Captain Barnacles smiled. "Good work Octonauts! We were able to save all of the creatures from the sea volcano and the chinstrap penguins from their volcano island. How about we head back to the Octopod and clean up before nightfall?" 

They all nodded in agreement as they swam toward the Octopod. Tweak and Logan hugged each other tightly, relieved that Logan's wife and the crew were safe. Selena was also happy to be out of danger. Jojo, Peso's son, gave his father a big hug, showing his concern for his father's safety. 

"Papi, are you okay? Was the volcano too hot? Did the Z GUPS burn?" Jojo asked worriedly. 

Peso hugged and kissed Jojo, assuring him that they were all okay. "No, we're all okay, and I'm happy to see my family again," he said.

This reminded everyone that they needed to inform their spouses. All the children went to their rooms to call their families. Shellington went to the lab, got his Octo-tablet out, and called Sophie. It rang a few times, and then she answered.

"Hi, darling," Shellington said. "You wouldn't believe what happened today."

"What is it?" Sophie said.

Shellington took a deep breath and smiled a little. He wasn't mad, he was just tired due to the long day and mission.

"Well... the morning started with my alarm going off and my Murphy bed just flung me off. I did some work, the Captain called us to the HQ, and Dashi accidentally turned on one of the old training videos of Barnacles playing the accordion," the Marine Biologist looked around, but the captain was nowhere to be found. He then looked at the tablet.

"Don't tell Barnacles this, but I have to admit it - he's not good at it. I want to tell him, but I can't. I don't want to hurt his feelings, even though he doesn't mind, but still."

They both giggled as they heard the door shut, footsteps, and a backpack dropping down onto the floor. 

"I'm home!"

"Junior, come see your father," Sophie said.

The thirteen-year-old pup came in and saw his dad from the Octopod. Junior had just come back from a study group with Mark Rough Collie, Kevin's son, and Shaun Jack, Eddie's son. Ever since he turned thirteen, he had his unique fashion. He had an earring on his left ear that had a silver cross dangling down. He was wearing light blue jeans with patches on them, and the bottom of the jeans was rolled up. He was wearing a lime green button-down shirt, and he still had that cowlick or that extra fluff on his chest, so he was always going to show that off by unbuttoning ONLY three of the buttons. He also had a belt that one part was hanging out. He was also wearing a dark green jacket with red at the end of the sleeves, collar, and bottom of the jacket. On the right, there was a yellow smiley face, and on the left sleeve, there was a star. Around his waist, he had a long gray jacket wrapped around, and finally, he was wearing lime green socks that had stripes going up and down and green loafers.