S.S. Aqua

Fast Ship S.S. Aqua (Japanese: こうそくせんアクアごう High-Speed Vessel Aqua-gō), commonly referred to as simply the S.S. Aqua (Japanese: アクアごう Aqua-gō) or Fast Ship (Japanese: こうそくせん High-Speed Vessel), is a ferry service that runs between Johto and Kanto.
It is one of the methods of transportation between Johto and Kanto in the Generation II and games, alongside the Magnet Train, walking, and ing or ing. It travels between Olivine City and Vermilion City. A can only travel on this ship after defeating the Johto League.
==Terminology==
===Fast Ship S.S. Aqua===
Fast Ship S.S. Aqua (Japanese: こうそくせんアクアごう High-Speed Vessel Aqua)
* Mentioned in the game dialogue. Some examples: "Welcome to <sc>Fast Ship S.S.Aqua</sc>.", "<sc>Fast Ship S.S. Aqua</sc> is en route to <sc>Vermilion City</sc>.", "<sc>Fast Ship S.S. Aqua</sc> has arrived in <sc>Vermilion City</sc>."
===S.S. Aqua===
S.S. Aqua (Japanese: アクアごう Aqua)
* Mentioned in the game dialogue. Some examples: "How do you like <sc>S.S. Aqua</sc>'s ride?", "<sc>S.S. Aqua</sc> uses jets to skim over the waves!"
* Mentioned in the S.S. Ticket item description from , as well as .
===Fast Ship===
Fast Ship (Japanese: こうそくせん High-Speed Vessel)
* Mentioned in the game dialogue. Some examples: "The <sc>Fast Ship</sc> will sail next Friday.", "The <sc>Fast Ship</sc> is a great place to meet and battle trainers.", "A voyage is best for getting over a broken heart. But a <sc>Fast Ship</sc> trip is too short for grieving."
* The Fast Ship Pier is located in Olivine City, as said on a sign at the city.
* In , the name "Fast Ship" is used by the Poké Seer when talking about a Pokémon that was originally met on the ship (this is only legitimately possible if an hatches on the ship).
* In , the player may not select S.S. Aqua on the Pokégear map because of the . However, the feature to select the ship is found in the game data, in which case it would be named "Fast Ship" on the map.
==Voyages==
When the player first rides the ship to Vermilion City, a man will bump into them as they board and explain that he lost his granddaughter. When the player first enters the lower deck, a crewman will deny them access to the rest of the ship, asking them to locate a co-worker who is slacking off on the floor above. The crewman is a Sailor in a previously empty room (in Generation IV, the Sailor is found sleeping in a cabin before the player is asked to find him), and once he is defeated in a Pokémon battle, the crewman below will let the player pass. After traversing through the lower deck, the player will find the man's granddaughter trying to get the captain to play with her. The player takes her back to her grandfather, at which point the S.S. Aqua will arrive in Vermilion City and the player can disembark.
After the initial trip to Kanto (which can happen on any day of the week), the S.S. Aqua can be sailed from Kanto to Johto every Sunday and Wednesday and from Johto to Kanto each Monday and Friday. Trips after the initial one will end when the player sleeps in the bed in their cabin, which heals their party.
 S.S. Aqua Schedule
Port 	Days
Olivine 	Monday and Friday
Vermilion	Wednesday and Sunday
Trainers can also be encountered and battled on the ship each voyage. In , if the player defeats one or more Trainers on the ship and then boards it again for the same voyage (even on the same day), the Trainers can be battled and defeated again, and the player can keep re-boarding and re-battling the Trainers an unlimited number of times. However, in the Generation IV remakes, once an individual Trainer is defeated, that Trainer can never be battled again, regardless of when or how often the player re-boards the S.S. Aqua.
===S.S. Aqua on the map===
The S.S. Aqua appears as a fixed location on the Pokégear map, at the sea between Johto and Kanto. This is not always an accurate representation of the player's location on the map, given that it still appears at sea even after the announcement that the ship has docked either in Olivine City or Vermilion City.
In , there is some unused game data that would allow the player to select the S.S. Aqua in the Pokégear map. However, this is not allowed due to an oversight in those games. The map erroneously displays New Bark Town by default as the player's current place when in fact they are aboard the S.S. Aqua.
In the map from Pokémon Stadium 2, the S.S. Aqua is seen near Olivine City.
==Items==
===Captain===
In , after the player has obtained all 16 Badges, they can receive gifts from the captain of the S.S. Aqua. Whenever the captain is spoken to in his cabin for the first time on a given day, he will give away one of the Plates. After he has given away all 16 Plates, he will begin to give out Nuggets instead.
==Trainers==
===Generation II===
====First voyage====
====Olivine City to Vermilion City====
====Vermilion City to Olivine City====
===Generation IV===
====First voyage====
====Olivine City to Vermilion City====
====Vermilion City to Olivine City====
==Layout==
Version	1F 	1F Rooms	B1F 	Captain's Cabin
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
  	 	  	 	 
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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The S.S. Aqua first appeared in Off Course with Corsola, where Lt. Surge unintentionally brought to the ship from Union Cave through a secret underwater tunnel. Soon after, the ship landed in Olivine City, which Crystal, having been in Union Cave to get to the western side of Johto, was pleased to reach. It was also revealed that Lt. Surge tended to use the ship for personal purposes.
In Sandslash Surprise, Lt. Surge used the S.S. Aqua to sail to the Whirl Islands, where and had wound up after getting defeated by the Masked Man at Lake of Rage. Soon after arriving, the ship was lifted into the air by 's powers. After Lugia disappeared, the ship was safely brought back down.
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The S.S. Aqua briefly reappeared in Epilogue as one of the ships transporting masses of people, including the Day-Care Couple, Wilton, Kurt, Maizie, Professor Elm, Joey, DJ Mary, and Hiro, to visit the .
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The ship made a brief cameo appearance in All About Arceus III as one of the locations where Silver and his discovered a Plate, receiving one from the ship's captain.
==Trivia==
* Like the S.S. Anne and the S.S. Tidal, the S.S. Aqua has one non-player character on-board who mentions being seasick.
* In , there is a girl in the Olivine Port building who claims that the player has been in Kanto before regardless of if it being their first time there or not.
* Travelling to either Kanto or Johto in the S.S. Aqua and then ing in the Generation II games causes the player to be taken to either the or Pokémon Center as opposed to the last Pokémon Center they used in either region, while losing a sends the player to their cabin. The oddity does not occur when they use the Magnet Train, in which teleporting works as expected. This was fixed in .
* In :
** the captain of the ship implies that the S.S. Aqua travels to Sinnoh, as he mentions finding Plates there. However, the ship does not appear in any of the games that take place there.
** even after the player has obtained all 16 Plates and the Captain hands out Nuggets instead, he still refers to them as "mysterious things" he found from Sinnoh, as if he was still handing out Plates.
** it is possible to face Georgia and Jeremy in a 6-on-8 Double Battle.
==In other languages==
S.S. Aqua	
Fast Ship
==Related articles==
Category:Gold, Silver and Crystal locations
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