"You need to calm down, Daniel."
"Shut up, Vulko." I screamed. "You should have been watching her when I'm not here and the last thing I need is King Ryus to scream at me for not looking after his little girl. Or Former Queen Atlanna doing the same about how I failed at protecting Mera."
"Your not helping her by being angy." He told me.
"Hooo, I know. I'm sorry."
"I understand that your upset. But we neeed to have clear heads here."
"Very true." I replied.
Then a message started playing on the main screen of the throne room. 'Hello, Aquaman. I have your queen and if you want her back. You come to the Laurentian Abyss and surrender yourself willingly. You have twenty four hours to comply.' The message ended. Arthur looked at me and I slugged him and he flew across the throne room.
"You son of a bitch."
"I'm just as upset as you are." He said getting up.
"No your not." He tried to walk away.
"I'm going after her."
"No." I hit him with the staff of my trident and knocked him out. "I am." I looked to Vulko. "Sorry my friend. But as the Queens personal Guard. It should be my job to go and get the Queen back."
"I think your taking this personally. But I'm not going to fight you on it. So. All I'll say is good luck my friend."
"Make sure he's okay after I leave." I left and headed to a underwater fighter ship and headed to the spot Manta wanted Arthur to meet him and surrender to him. But what he was going to get was a very angry homicidal man who wasn't happy about the Queen being taken under his watch. And I was going to make sure Manta understood it.

Meanwhile at the Laurentian Abyss...
"Your husband should be on his way by now." Manta gloated as he looked to a tied up Mera.
"You better pray that he's the one coming."
"Why is that?" Manta asked.
"Because if I'm right. And if the person coming to get me and take me back to Atlantis is who I think it is. You are not going to survive the beating he's going to give you."
"Oh I'm sure I will."
"No. You won't." Manta just ignored her.

It took me close to three hours to find his ship. I left the fighter ship a good nautical mile away from Manta's hideaway. I made my way to it. When I reached it. I killed eight lookouts, seven armed shooters.
"Lookout one. See anything?" Manta asked. No reply came. "Lookout one?" Still nothing. Lookout two." He started getting agitated. "Somebody answer me!"
'Sometimes the answer want isn't the one you'll get. And I'm going to tear you apart.' Mera smiled after she heard a response that scared Manta. So in a fit of brilliance he sent one more out into the watter and I slid into the ship and killed the last two guards with the points of my trident. I looked to Manta as I closed the hatch of the diving pool. Manta looked at the two bodies as I ripped my trident from the more muscular of the two. "You. Took my friend." I stabbed the bottom of the trident into the floor. "You took, my Queen." I started walking towards him. I even pulled a knife and cut the restraints off Mera's wrists. I gestured for her to go. She hesitated a bit but did anyway. I kept my eyes on Manta. "You keep coming after Arthur because of some misguided revenge. You and your father chose to be pirates. You 'CHOSE' one of the most dangerous careers in the world. Your grandpa was a coward for leaving the service of his country. Just because he didn't get a pat on the back. So what. S.E.A.L.S. Real Navy SEALS know that they may not come back from a mission. But you don't hear them crying about not getting the recognition they deserve or should have gotten." He was getting angry. "Your just the grandson of a crybaby traiterous coward. Your dad lied. Your dad wasn't a hero, he was just another name of a forgotten family." Manta tackled me against the controls behind me. We fought for a good ten to twenty minutes. Before I could knock him out. He pressed a button on his suit and I heard a beeping noise. So I opened the dive pool and tossed him into it then ripped my trident out of the floor and as the charge went off I had barely made it through the diving pool.

Near the fighter ship...
Mera saw the ship blow up, "Daniel!!!" Then something whizzed by her. Then Vulko appeared beside her.
"Your majesty we need to get you into the ship." She waited until Arthur came back up to her.
"Mera. Get in the ship." He told her. She hesitantly did.
"You take her home. I'll look for Daniel." Vulko said. Arthur went with her as a ship with six soldiers showed up. Vulko led them to where Manta's ship was and they arrested Manta and took him to the ship the six soldiers came in. Vulko searched for barely twenty to thirty minutes before coming across my unconscious body. "You did good kid." He said before dragging me and my trident which I was clutching tightly even unconscious, to the fighter ship I brought to the meeting.

After I was treated and patched up of the few cuts and bruises, I still hadn't woken up. But Mera and Arthur were dealing with something more upsetting. "I'm sorry to say you two. Mera lost the baby. Possibly from the aftershock of the explosion that destroyed Manta's ship. But either away, I'm sorry to be the bearer of that bad news."
"Thank you doctor." Arthur said.
"Hey, doc. How is Daniel doing?" Mera asked.
"Well, he's stable. But he hasn't woken up yet."
Mera started fearing the worst. "Is there a possible time table that he may wake up?" Arthur asked.
"None. Sorry." The doctor walked away and Mera started to cry. Arthur tried to comfort her and held her tight.
"It'll be okay. He's a fighter."
"I hope your right." Mera said between sobs. Days turned to weeks and still no improvement. Mera visited me often. And it became more frequent after a month. Near the end of the second month I shot awake.