Adventures at Sea

Ash and his friends were still in Vermilion City, but were visiting Vermilion Harbor. They were staring at the books. Misty suddenly noticed something.

"I recognize that ship." She said, pointing to a big white ship.

"That's the S.S. Anne, the largest ship in Kanto. I have a small model of that."

"Wow." Ash said. "it would be nice to be able to travel on that."

"The thing is though." Brock said. "We don't have the money for it." Ash and Misty sighed knowing Brock was right.

Just then two ladies, with flowers around their neck, appeared.

"You three are Pokemon trainers correct?" The woman with blonde hair asked.

"Yes we are." Ash said.

"Then here you go." The brown haired woman said, handing Ash three pieces of paper. "These are tickets for the S.S. Anne." Ash, Misty and Brock were surprised.

"Wait you're giving these to us for free?" Brock asked.

"That's correct." The blonde haired woman said. "S.S. Anne is holding a party for Pokemon trainers. So Pokemon trainers get these tickets free." Misty felt like leaping for joy.

"Let's board the S.S. Anne." She squealed. Ash and Brock couldn't say no to this, so they all boarded the ship.

But this was really a trap. The two ladies were really Jessie and James in disguise. They took off their disguises.

"Who ever thought that would be so easy?" Jessie said.

"And who ever thought I would make a pretty woman?" James joked.

"Quiet you three." Meowth said. "The boss wants to talk to us." A screen came up.

The boss of Team Rocket was a middle aged man, known as Giovanni. His desire was to capture hundreds of powerful Pokemon and use their power to make the whole world his own, and to have both humans and pokemon under his control.

"Is everything ready?" Giovanni asked.

"Yes sir!" Jessie said. "We have hundreds of Pokemon trainers aboard the S.S. Anne."

"Excellent." Giovanni said. "My men have gone aboard and when the time is right, we will get all of those trainers Pokemon." The screen went off.

"Time to get to work." Meowth said. Jessie and James agreed.

Ash, Brock and Misty were amazed when they entered the main room of the ship. There were pokemon trainers everywhere and there were dozens of booths with food, accessories, clothes and games.

"What shall we do?" Ash asked.

"Let's split up." Misty said. "That way we can have a good time in our own way." Ash and Brock decided that was a good idea.

"Let's meet up back here in an hour." Brock said. They all went their separate ways.

Ash and Pikachu took a good look round. They passed by a stall that held souvenirs. Ash brought a stuffed Pikachu, which made his real Pikachu delighted. Pikachu hugged the stuffed Pikachu immediately. Next Ash saw a stall; it was a lottery stall. There were four prizes to be won. The fourth prize was just a consolation prize; pokemon key rings for anyone to win. The third prize was a big Pokemon medicine kit. The second prize was a blue Pokemon egg in an incubator. The first prize was a bag of mystery. Ash ended up winning the bag of mystery, inside was four evolutionary stones; a Thunder Stone, a Water Stone, a Fire Stone and a Moon Stone.

*'These will come in handy.'* Ash thought.

Then Ash saw something that made him really cross. A man was selling a Magikarp. Ash hated people that sold Pokemon to make money. He told a security guard what he had seen. The security guard called some of his men and had the Magikarp salesman arrested.

"Thank you for telling us about him." The security guard said. "Officer Jenny warned us about him some time ago. She has been after him for years. Now he will be in jail."

After the Magikarp salesman got taken away, Ash walked over to the Magikarp in the tank.

"Hey Magikarp." He said putting his hands of the glass. "I have a friend, who would like to have you for a friend. Want me to take you to her?" Magikarp looked at Ash in curiosity, then nodded yes. Ash found a Poke Ball on top of the tank and returned Magikarp with it.

After that Ash met up with Misty and Brock and they exchanged with what they did.

"I bought myself a cook book with new recipes and a book about Pokemon medicine."

"Apart from girly stuff." Misty said. "I bought this Slowbro doll." She held a Slowbro doll in her arms. "I hope to obtain a Slowbro in the future." Ash showed his Pikachu doll and his four evolution stones.

"Wow." Misty said, in amazement.

"I take it you're going to use those on three of your Eevees, right?" Brock asked.

"I am." Ash said.

"What about the Moon Stone?" Misty asked.

"I don't know about that one." Ash said. "I'll just save it until I do obtain a Pokemon that evolves using a Moon Stone."

Then Ash revealed a Poke Ball to Misty. He told her and Brock about the Magikarp salesman.

"No way." Misty said. "Selling pokemon is so low."

"I agree." Brock added. "Guys like him should be in jail."

"Since you're a water Pokemon trainer Misty." Ash said. "I thought that you should take Magikarp. Besides this may help you overcome your fear of Gyarados." Misty hesitated, but knew that Ash was right and trying to help her, so she accepted Magikarp.

They were just about to get something to eat, when black smoke appeared in the room.

"What's going on?" Ash asked. Team Rocket appeared and said their motto.

"What do you want?" Misty demanded.

"We want your Pokemon." Jessie smirked and clicked her fingers. Most of the passengers on board revealed themselves as Team Rocket agents, and they all had some vacuum machines.

"Suck up the pokemon!" James shouted. The Team Rocket agents turned on the machines.

Ash got cross.

"Don't think you are getting away with this!" Ash shouted. "Everyone release your Pokemon and fight back!" He released his Pikachu, Fearow, Eevee, Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle. Misty released her Staryu, Starmie, Poliwag twins, and Seel. Brock sent out Geodude, Growlithe, Weepinbell, Zubat and Sandslash. (His Onix would have been too heavy for the boat). The other trainers sent out their Pokemon to fight too.

There was a massive battle going on the ship. All the water Pokemon joined together. So did the fire types, the grass types, the rock types, the ground types, the flying types, the normal types and the bug types. Then at last the electric types sent all the Team Rocket members away with their thunderbolt attacks. The trainers had won.

But then there was trouble; a strong storm was happening outside and big waves rocked the ship.

"I don't like the look of that storm." Misty said, looking out of the window. The other trainers were scared too. They turned to the captain.

"Everyone." The captain said. "Don't panic. Panicking will only lead to more trouble for you. There are lots of life boats on deck. They will get us to safety." Ash, Misty and Brock and all the trainers ran to the life boats.

But everyone was running in a panic. Ash, Misty and Brock ended up knocked out, when some of the trainers ran into them. While they were unconscious, the trainers watched the S.S. Anne sink from big waves, while on the life boats. No one knew that three people were still on board.

Misty woke up first, after being unconscious for a while. She then woke up Ash and Brock.

"Ugh what happened?" Ash asked.

"Well S.S. Anne sank." Misty replied. "And we got left behind."

"I remember." Brock said. "We both got knocked out by the other pokemon trainers."

"You mean we are still on the ship?" Ash asked. "And we are the bottom of the ocean?" He quickly had a look out of a window and saw water Pokemon swimming outside.

"Oh man, what are we going to do?"

"One thing to do is not panic." Misty said. "Remember I said that I have a model of the S.S. Anne. Well I learnt and I remember the structure of the ship." Ash and Brock were relieved of this.

With Misty in the lead, the group tried to find a way out, even if S.S. Anne was at the bottom of the sea. The ship had been turned upside down, so they were walking on the ceiling, not the floor. They reached a flight of stairs, but water was leaking into the ship.

"When we sent Team Rocket away from the ship." Brock said. "it must have made a big hole."

"Now what should we do?" Ash questioned. "We can't breathe underwater."

"Leave that to me." Misty said, pulling out her Poke Ball, "Let's go Seel." Seel popped out of his Poke Ball. "Seel go and see if there is a way for us to get out of this boat."

Seel swam everywhere in the under deck and checked every nook and cranny for a way out, but he couldn't find anything. Seel was about to go back to his trainer to tell her the bad news, when he saw something. He found an egg in an incubator. Seel picked it up and took it with him.

"Seel has been gone for some time." Misty said. They had been waiting for Seel for information.

"I wonder if he has found anything." Ash said. Just then Seel popped out of the water.

"There you are Seel." Misty said. She saw the egg on Seel's back.

"What's that?"

Ash saw the egg.

"I recognize that egg." He said. "This egg was on the lottery stand. It must have gotten left behind in the confusion." He took the incubator from Seel, took out the egg and inspected it. "Nothing looks wrong and water didn't get into the incubator either." Brock took a good look too.

"Yeah, nothing is wrong with it." He said. "But as soon as we get out of here, we take the egg to a Pokemon center." Ash put the egg in his backpack for safe keeping.

"Thing is though." He said. "How do we get out of here?"

Just then Misty thought of something.

"I have an idea." She said. "Since those stairs going downwards lead to the upper deck. What we need to do is head upwards to the boiler room. But going up the stairs will be tricky."

"Leave that to me." Brock said, taking out a Poke Ball. "Let's go Onix." His Rock Snake Pokemon popped out. "Onix we need you to make stairs for us." Onix stretched his body all the way up to the doorway on the top of the stairs. Then Ash, Misty and Brock ran up Onix's body to the doorway. Brock returned Onix and they went through the door.

Through the door was a hallway, but it was dark and there were no lights on. Ash took out his Charmander.

"Charmander we need you to light the way for us." He said. Thanks to Charmander's tail, they got through the hallway. Then they got to the boiler room, but it was on fire.

"It must have got on fire when the ship sank." Misty said. "It's too dangerous to walk from here to the other side. But we need to cross here." Then Ash had an idea; "My Fearow can fly us to the other side". Misty and Brock thought that was a good idea. So Ash released Fearow and one by one Fearow took the group to the other side of the boiler room. Ash thanked Fearow and returned him.

"We are now at the hull of the ship." Misty said. "We can get out from here."

Just then the gang felt the boat rocking.

"We need to get off the ship fast." Misty said. "Ash get Charmander to make a hole in the ship. We can get out that way. And we also need our water Pokemon to help us." Misty released her Starmie and Seel and Ash released his Squirtle. Misty grabbed Seel, Ash grabbed Squirtle and Bock grabbed Starmie. Then Ash called out his Charmander to use flamethrower to make a hole. As soon as Charmander made a big enough hole, Ash quickly returned it. Then with the water Pokemon's help, the gang managed to get out of the boat, into the sea and the water Pokemon helped them to the surface.

After escaping that sunken ship Ash, Brock, Misty and Pikachu were resting on a raft.

"Goodness me." Ash said. "I thought we were done for then."

"Yeah." Misty said. "I hope we never have to go through that again."

"Right now we need to find land." Brock said. "Ash release Fearow. It can find land for us from up in the air." Ash did so and Fearow was soon searching for land.

Just then Ash felt all fuzzy and warm. Misty noticed this.

"Hey Ash, are you okay?" She asked worriedly. Ash was about to say he was okay, but he suddenly fainted on the raft.

"Pika-Pi." Pikachu said worriedly. Brock put his hand on Ash's forehead. "Oh no, he is running a fever" he said "we need to get him to a hospital, and Fearow has just left". Misty released all of her water pokemon and tied ropes to them. "Everyone Ash is getting sick," she said "we need to find land quick". Misty's pokemon all pulled the raft together. Brock went to find Ash's Squirtle to help out, but he released Eevee instead. When Eevee saw Ash panting heavily she was worried for her trainer. She nuzzled his cheek to help him feel better. "Eevee sure likes Ash a lot" said Brock. Misty agreed.

While the water pokemon was pulling the raft as fast as they could, Magikarp couldn't keep his eyes off Ash. It could see that Ash was in a lot of pain and needed help. It remembered how kind Ash was to it and that he helped it find an owner. 'We need to move quickly than this,' Magikarp thought 'otherwise the boy will never make it'. The Magikarp thought with all its might to go faster, when it suddenly started to glow. Misty and Brock saw this. "I think your Magikarp's evolving Misty" said Brock. And he was right; Magikarp turned into Gyarados.

Gyarados roared and picked up the raft and pokemon on its back and started to swim as fast as it could. "What is Gyarados doing?" asked Misty. "Magikarp must have known that Ash is in trouble," said Brock "so it must have evolved into Gyarados to help". Misty was amazed. She had thought that all Gyarados was ferocious and mean, but her one wasn't. 'It seems that not all Gyarados are bad' she thought and didn't feel scared at all. Just then they all saw Fearow ahead of them. Fearow flew over to them and squaked at them. "Fearow must have found land" said Brock. "Fearow please lead us to shore," said Misty "your trainer needs to get to a hospital". Fearow looked at Ash, with worry in its eyes and led them to shore at once.

At that time, in a place called Porta Vista, the captain of S.S. Anne and an Officer Jenny were staring out at sea, on the harbour. Apparently all the survivors of S.S. Anne made it to Porta Vista for safety. The captain and Officer Jenny were worried about Ash, Misty and Brock. "Since there is no sign of them," said Officer Jenny "I fear that they are dead". "I will take responsibility for telling the sad news to their families," said the captain "after all I was the captain of S.S. Anne".

They were just about to arrange for a memorial for Ash, Brock and Misty, when the captain saw something. "Hey look at that" he said. He and Officer Jenny saw a Fearow and Gyarados coming their way. "Do you think they're wild?" asked the captain. "I don't know" said Officer Jenny. She was just about to grab a pokeball, when they heard a voice. "Somebody help please!" shouted Misty. Fearow and Gyarados landed on shore. Officer Jenny and the captain saw the group. "Is everyone okay?" asked Officer Jenny, relieved that they were alive. "Our friend here has come down with a terrible fever" said Brock, pointing to Ash. Officer Jenny looked at Ash. "I'll call for an ambulance at once" she said.

Soon an ambulance was taking Ash, Misty and Brock to the hospital. Misty and Brock returned Gyarados and Fearow to their pokeballs. Eevee wanted to stay out of her pokeball. She wanted to stay with Ash. Even though it was Ash that needed medical treatment, Misty and Brock got a check-up too. Officer Jenny insisted that they did, because of their experience in a sunken ship.

It took two whole days, but with medicine and plenty of sleep, Ash was feeling better in no time. Misty, Brock, Pikachu and Eevee were relieved. Misty and Brock told him what had happened. "Wow, so your Magikarp evolved Misty?" asked Ash. "Yes and get this," said Misty "after that I don't scared of Gyarados anymore". Ash was glad for his friend. He turned to Pikachu and Eevee; Brock had told Ash that they had been with him the whole time he was asleep. Ash picked up Pikachu and Eevee and gave them a hug. "Thank you for being with me you two" he said. "Pikachu" smile Pikachu. "Eevee" smile Eevee.

Suddenly Eevee started to glow and evolved. In Eevee's place was a fox-like cat, with a red gem on its forehead. "Espeon" it said.

Ash took out his pokedex in wonder: Espeon, the sun pokemon. An evolved form of Eevee. Espeon are able to read air currents allowing it to predict the future as well as its opponents' next moves.

"I heard of Espeon," said Ash "Eevee can evolve into Espeon during the daytime. And Eevee can also evolve into an Umbreon, but only at night-time"

He showed Umbreon on his pokedex: Umbreon, the moonlight pokemon. An evolved form of Eevee. The rings of Umbreon's body glow faintly when exposed to the moon's aura, and it gains a mysterious power.

"Wow," said Misty "and I always thought that Eevee only evolve into Vaporeon, Jolteon and Flareon". "What amazes me," said Brock "is that you don't need stones for these two". Ash rubbed his Espeon's head and Espeon enjoyed the attention given by her trainer.

After Ash fully recovered he was finally out of hospital. "I would say that you three are lucky," said Officer Jenny "we all thought that you three had died when the S.S. Anne sank, but you survived". The doctor insisted that Ash, Misty and Brock took a little holiday, before continuing. Just to perk themselves up from what they went through. Ash, Misty and Brock both thought that was a good idea, so they had a nice day on the beach of Porta Vista, feeling happy and better.