As the Iron Man looked around, he asked himself 'Where has my ear gone?' He looked at the sea. It looked as if it was hiding something. He strode into the water and went DEEPER and DEEPER into the under-sea world. Suddenly a shoal of colourful fish swam swiftly by. Two eels, a child and its mother, were gliding through a dense jungle of seaweed. One rock was so slippery he almost fell off it. Then he saw a shiny thing. He stamped over to it and picked it up. It was a shell. It wasn't his ear so he put it down. Now he saw something! He was overjoyed so he ran over to it but it was a stone. He was just about to cry but he didn't, no he didn't. He looked again. He couldn't find it so he was disappointed. He turned around and stomped off again to the upper world.

Deeper, deeper, deeper, the iron Man walked into the sea. He looked around but he could not see his ear. Where had it gone? Suddenly he saw something shiny buried underneath the sand. He picked it up happily. But was it his ear? No, it was a crab! Picking it up, it nipped the Iron Man's finger. Did it hurt? Of course not. He is the Iron Man remember! He could just hear the seagulls above him. The Iron Man swam up from under the sea. He started to look for his ear on dry land.

The Iron Man took a step into the sea to start his search for his missing ear. He waded into the sea, a big wave came and knocked him flat on his back. The Iron Man stood up gasping for air because he had swallowed a big mouthful of seawater. He carried on wading, deeper, deeper, deeper into the sea. He could feel seaweed tangling around his legs and sand tickling his toes. Then he felt something sharp cut his feet like a knife. He looked down and realised he was standing on a carpet of coral. The Iron Man decided to start swimming so that he could get away from the danger of the razor sharp coral. He swam through a rainbow of fish and continued his search for his ear.

He looked for his ear but it wasn't there. He looked again. Still he couldn't find it. His eyes turned red. Then he looked in the dark blue sea. He stepped in with his gigantic foot. Splash! Water spread everywhere. Then the Iron Man crashed down like thunder hitting the sea. BANG! He was in the sea. Fish darted like bullets into safe places. Crabs tried to nip him but did it hurt? Nobody knows. He walked along the sea. The seaweed strangled his legs but he didn't fall. Instead of falling he snapped the seaweed in half. He stepped onto a shiny object. He picked it up but it wasn't his ear. It was a fossil. He got fed-up with the sea so he decided that he would go back.

Where had it gone? Where was his ear? The Iron Man waded further further further into the sea. Then all at once he was gone, gone under the sea and, at first, nothing but blackness. Out of the gloom swam fish. So! The sea was alive! First the Iron Man was a little scared but wait! Something was gleaming in the seaweed. The Iron Man moved the seaweed like a dog moving a lump of sugar but alas, it was only a fish's eye. He gave up. He waded back further further further back on dry land.

AS the Iron Man looked around him, he saw that he had stepped into a multi-coloured underwater world. He took a step forward and he went deeper, deeper down into another place of coral beds and colourful shoals of fish. As he took another step, his foot crashed down, crabs scuttled into their shells and fish darted past like silver bullets being fired. The Iron Man's eyes glittered blue, red, green and yellow. He thought he had seen it, his missing ear. He had seen a gleam coming from inside an underwater cave. His feet crashed down more as he slowly plodded towards the cave. Nearly there. He saw that what he had thought was his ear was really a whale's eye. To the Iron Man the whale was only rather a large fish. It swam away from him frightened at the sight of a creature so much larger than himself. The Iron Man stood still and looked around him. Sea anemones waved in the water's current like flowers in a summer's breeze. Eels slithered like snakes between jagged rocks. Bubbles rose to the surface like tiny balloons as they floated past his eyes. The Iron Man moved on. He reached a place where masses of seaweed grew. The Iron Man fought his way through the endless seaweed. The seaweed fought back. It wrapped its ribbons around the Iron Man but the Iron Man was too strong to be caught. He decided to search on dry land.