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One day Fly and Stella's parents leave them in the care of their aunt and her son (i.e. Fly and Stella's Cousin) Chuck (Charles.) After the aunt falls asleep, Fly sets out on a fishing trip, taking Stella with him and blackmailing Chuck into coming as well (using the last copy of a program of Chuck's Fly accidentally deleted earlier.) They make their way out to a small peninsula where they start fishing. The only thing Fly catches is a can, but it has a small sea-horse inside, which Stella instantly names "Sasha" and becomes extremely attached to, although ultimately has to return to the sea.
However, by now the tide has turned the accessible peninsula into an isolated island, and the small outcropping the children are standing on is about to be swallowed by the sea. However, at the last minute they find a [[secret passage]] leading to a hidden cove inside the island. There they find a bizarre laboratory, within which is the bizarre but friendly Professor McKrill, a Marine Biologist. He explains that he, fearing that the world shall be flooded due to global warming, has been developing a way for humans to survive underwater- Fish Potion. He explains (via song, which he uses to bolster his failing memory) how the Fish Potion is created, and asks the children to film him before he tests it. Before doing so, though, he must make Anti-Fish Potion, a potion that will restore a human who has drunk Fish Potion to their original self (its formula is the same as Fish Potion, with one extra ingredient). While he explains the Anti Fish Potion to Chuck and Fly, Stella drinks the Fish Potion, believing it to be lemonade. As a result she is transformed into a Starfish.
Fly discovers Stella, but doesn't realise it is his sister. When Chuck tells him to put the starfish in water (lest it dry out) Fly elects to throw it out the window (into the sea), as all of the Professor's Fish Tanks seem to be filled with carnivorous fish. As he does so Chuck finds the video camera which had been left on, and realises, too late, that the Starfish is Stella. Immediately, both boys and the Professor set out to find Stella, despite the storm that has started. When it proves futile to search for her in a boat, Fly elects to take the Fish Potion, and find her himself. At this point the Professor explains that there is a time limit on Fish Potion; once you drink it, you have 48 hours to drink the Anti Fish Potion before you become a fish forever. Fly drinks the potion, and jumps into the sea. The storm intensifies and the Professor's boat sinks. Chuck, who can't swim, is driven to drink the Fish Potion himself.
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