He didn't recognize it, but even now he still didn't recognize everything in the waters. He knew it was big, he knew it was ugly, and he knew it wasn't anything good - probably another Vortex-spawn, or something similar.

Ecco hung back a moment, considering it. It was huge, so it might put up a bit of a fight, but it couldn't be any worse than the Queen had been. He charged.

With a strange whumpf, the creature - and here Ecco chirped in surprise - dissolved into globs of greenish goop that, impossibly, neither sunk nor floated.

How odd.

He jumped into the air and caught sight of one of those strange land-creatures. It gaped at him. Twice, maybe, or maybe there were two of them? Whatever. With his lungs full again, Ecco dived back under the waves and swam off.