Sink or Swim

Season 2, Episode 18
This is the eighteenth episode of Total Pokémon Action. The castmates are sent on a search for the mystic water in a ship. As the water rises to them, they get eliminated from the challenge. A vast majority of one team decides to throw the challenge to take out a common enemy. In an anticlimactic conclusion, they get their way and lose the challenge. Then, they eliminate their target nearly unanimously. A villain is eliminated from the game.
Jellicent tells the castmates that their movie is Titanic and their challenge is to find the mystic water in a ship. When provoked by Ambipom saying it'll be a piece of cake, Jellicent adds that the ship will be sinking and the water will rise. If the water reaches you, you're eliminated from the challenge and will be teleported back. Before the challenge, Persian strikes a deal with Bisharp, Shaymin, Staraptor, and Vanilluxe to help him with a diabolical plan so they don't go home. Cherrim, Drifblim, Houndoom, Luvdisc, and Luxray are discussing how the team plans to throw the challenge. Purugly is noticeably sad near them, but when Luxray asks if they should check on her, everybody else refuses. Ampharos, Floatzel, Porygon-Z, and Snorlax confront Togekiss to team up and make sure she's up to no good since they saw her speaking with Jellicent in private earlier. Also, Shaymin joins up with the group. Chimecho, Gallade, Gastrodon, Gorebyss, Masquerain, and Sudowoodo are in a room hanging out. When Gallade asks Gorebyss why she isn't with her team, she answers that she doesn't like them and that most of the team is throwing the challenge regardless. So, Gastrodon claims it's okay for them to just hang out for the time being. Gothitelle walks in on Arbok, Banette, Carnivine, Castform, Farfetch'd, Leafeon, Parasect, and Unown lounging around and demands that they get back to the challenge. But, Arbok informs her that the team is throwing the challenge to get her out, so she's the one that needs to get to work. This sends Gothitelle frantically looking for the mystic water as she runs past Delcatty, Dewgong, Dragonite, Froslass, Jynx, and Milotic. Girafarig, Lopunny, Ninetales, and Vespiquen are in a storage area of the ship. Ninetales asks Lopunny if she's found anything which Lopunny responds that it's dirty, so she hasn't been looking and Ninetales says they should look somewhere else. Girafarig sees Vespiquen genuinely trying to win the challenge and notices a strong competitor in her. This intrigues Girafarig. Shaymin leads her group to an engine room while searching. Ampharos tells Snorlax to keep the door open so that they don't get locked in. After a few minutes, Snorlax smells chocolate and runs to it, letting the door shut. Vanilluxe then freezes the door and you realize Staraptor used a chocolate bar to distract Snorlax. The group of Absol, Ambipom, Azumarill, Gliscor, Mismagius, and Zoroark figure out that the bottom two floors are flooded, so the mystic water is likely on one of those floors. So, Azumarill goes on a swim and finds the mystic water floating. In the control room, Bisharp increases the water pressure in the ship which he is confused to see a button for. Persian tells him to sit and wait while they lose, but Azumarill wins it for Team Ribombee. Lopunny tells Bisharp to stay away from Persian because Persian has wanted her out for a while. Bisharp gets very defensive by her trying to control who he talks to. As a last ditch effort to save herself, Gothitelle tries to turn Banette, Carnivine, Castform, Farfetch'd, Leafeon, Parasect, and Unown on Arbok. At the elimination ceremony, it comes down to villains Arbok and Gothitelle, but Gothitelle is given the boot. With nobody to see her off, Gothitelle has some words to say about Jellicent and the secret she's hiding.