Pokémon Shipwreck

**Pokémon Shipwreck** (Japanese: *Pokémon Adrift*) is the 26th episode of season 1 of Pokémon Legends.

## Pokémon Adrift

### Writer

CheerfulSteekipGaryBones

GlorysiaMelodyYT

Foodyeater

### Director

CheerfulSteekipGaryBones

GlorysiaMelodyYT

Foodyeater

## Summary/Synopsis

*Our heroes are revealed in the middle of a trap concocted by Team Rocket. Luckily the Pokémon Trainers are able to pool their Pokémon resources and successfully battle Team Rocket and their evil crew. In the midst of the confusion on board, however, a tumultuous storm wreaks havoc on the cruise forcing everyone except Nanette and her friends as well as Team Rocket to evacuate the sinking ship. Luckily, Marie was able to retrieve an abandoned Poké Ball before the ship went down, but now our heroes are forced to team up with their long-standing enemies in order to survive their life or death predicament.*

## Plot

At the end of the previous episode, the St. Anne overturned and sank into the sea, taking the heroes and Team Rocket with it. The next morning, a police ship pulls up at the location, and Officer Jenny gives a short speech, revealing that they are all presumed dead. She tosses a bouquet of white flowers into the sea of debris as a memorial. Jenny and the other officers salute the presumed victims, and one plays the trumpet as the flowers sink underwater. Meanwhile, Gigi and Jessica call to Nanette, urging her to wake up. When she does, Misty points to the porthole and a blind and weakened Nanette looks out, noticing fish swimming. She realizes that the ship has sunk, and it is then revealed that the ship is upside-down and perched atop a seamount, positioned at the mouth of a trench.

Meanwhile, Jessie and James wake up from being knocked out as well. They run out into the hall and notice everything upside down. Meowth informs them that the ship capsized and sank. James panics as Jessie brings out Ekans. She orders it to use Acid to open a hole in the floor. Meowth tries to stop her, but is too late. The attack opens a hole and water begins to pour in as the ship rumbles. Jessie and James try to block the jet of water, but fail, as the water fills the hall and washes Team Rocket away. Elsewhere on the ship, Nanette and her friends head out into the stairwell, the water level prevents them from going to the deck. Misty notes that the ship will take time to fill with water, but time is still critical. Nanette wants to dive down to the deck, but Brock says that it could be dangerous. Nanette realizes he is right, as she has a vision of running into a locked hatch and drowning. Misty sends out her Goldeen to scout the hall and Nijiko and Fubuki send Dragonet and Pumpkin Bread as well while Jessica is sent by Nanette. They swim down and find a dead end, but run into the members of Team Rocket, who are again unconscious.

Meanwhile at the outside of the ship, Jim started to become impatient as Jackie tells Jim the GDI rescue teams may delay about 1-2 hours, decided to save them by himself.

As Nanette and her friends wait for Goldeen, the Popplio and the two Ninja Dragonets, James's head pops out of the surface, scaring them. Goldeen then comes into view as it pushes Team Rocket, who are blue in the face from nearly drowning, up onto the deck. Jessie and James regain consciousness and stand up, ready to battle. They send out Ekans and Koffing as Nanette and Brock send out Gigi, Jeseica, and Geodude. Before any of them can launch an attack, the ship begins to tip, sending everyone sliding. Nanette orders the Pokémon to go to the other side, but they cause the ship to tilt the other way. After sliding back and forth, Misty orders everyone to recall their Pokémon and forget the battle in order to survive. They do so (Momoka and Nijiko complain that they normally don't, but will this time and reluctantly recall their Pokémon except for Rotom and Dragonet, Citronelle and Casty who can both fly, and Dragonet's babies who have no ball, while Pumpkin Bread stays out as well since she hates being in her ball) and the ship regains balance. Misty finally manages to convince everyone to work together, temporarily. With the truce, Misty reveals that she knows the ship blueprints, because she once built a model of it, and that they should go up to the bottom of the ship and cut through the hull to escape. They approach a staircase, and Brock sends out Onix to allow everyone to climb up. Later, Ellie started to worry that they'll never find a way out and hoping Jim still alive and save them, her radar detected an sensor that getting closer to the ship at very high speed which makes Catherine recognized that fast-moving sensor was Jim.

The ship's lights begin to fail as the group approaches a darkened portion of the hall. Nanette activites the Étolie Élémen to light the way. They enter the next room and find it impossible to cross over to the engine room hatch due to the large gap and the raging fire below them. Chase has Ashton shock him to get him to think. He then tells Green to send out Saur to use Vine Whip to create a bridge to the opposite hatch. Everyone begins to slowly cross the vines, but while James is too scared to cross, begging Jessie and Meowth to go on and leave him behind, Nanette suddenly falls off the vines, leaving Marina risking her life to save her, and as a result, unlock the Miraclix power. Jessie slaps James and helps him regain his composure, but the heroes are already across. Jessie orders Saur to send back the vines.

Eventually, everyone makes it safely to the engine room, though Team Rocket is virtually exhausted. Red brings out Char to use Flamethrower to cut an opening through the hull. Misty instructs everyone to either strap onto a Water-type Pokémon or power up, but Team Rocket doesn't have one. The hull opens and water pours in. Red recalls Char, who is running from the water. Everyone activates the Eau Élémen and get a boost of swimming power and Dragonet turns into a Popplio to encase her Trainer in a sturdy bubble from her nose so she can still breathe. While the heroes swim into the waterfall and escape to the surface, Team Rocket is still stranded. James suddenly starts snickering, as he reveals the golden Poké Ball holding his Magikarp, which has proved useful after all. Team Rocket straps onto Magikarp and attempt to escape, but they find that Magikarp can't swim. The water picks up and washes the ship into the trench, leaving Team Rocket's fate unknown.

The heroes climb onto a makeshift platform, noticing that Team Rocket hasn't yet made it to the surface. Nanette looks out to sea and is unable to spot any land. Brock brings up the story of Noah, sending out a bird to search for land and Nanette does the same thing by sending Pidge out to scout. Pidge locates Team Rocket on the surface, still attached to the splashing Magikarp, and brings them back to the raft. Nanette and her friends presume that they have passed on and attempt to push them back into the sea as a traditional burial. However, Jessie and James wake up just in time to prevent their accidental drowning.

The two groups have no choice but to stay on the platform for the night. They wake up the next day and all are starving. Everyone but Nanette and Cheren immediately thinks of the Magikarp as their first source of food. Meowth attempts to bite it but ends up breaking his fangs, as Magikarp is, according to Misty, only scales and bones. At this point, James is so frustrated with his Pokémon that he kicks it into the ocean. The Magikarp begins to glow as it evolves into a Gyarados. Nanette checks her Rotom Phone as James attempts to reclaim his role as the Pokémon's master, but is too scared of it. Misty sends out Goldeen, Staryu and Starmie. Brock thinks she will battle it, but she only plans to run away, with the Water Pokémon pulling the raft as everyone else attempts to row. Gyarados begins to pursue them, but suddenly stops. They think it is tired, but Misty remembers Sailor stories about Gyarados's Dragon Rage attack. The waves pick up as more Gyarados appear. They swim in a circle, forming a powerful water cyclone. The Gyarados advance towards the raft. Brock urges everyone to flee again, but Misty says that nobody has ever survived the attack before. The heroes and Team Rocket try to stay together, but become separated by the water spout's strong vortex.

## Major Events

* Nanette speaks in the Ancient Unovan language for the first time.
* Jessie's Ekans is revealed to know Acid.
* Marina and Jim unlock the Miraclix power.
* Misty gets her Élémen item, an ÉléChanMirror.
	+ This reveals that out of the characters in the fanon version, the only past generation members to get the item are Misty and her sisters.
* James's Magikarp is revealed to know Splash.
* The heroes and Team Rocket escape from the sunken St. Anne.
* James's Magikarp evolves into Gyarados, learns Dragon Rage, and leaves him.
* Momoka adopts the Luvdisc she found in the previous episode.

## Trivia

* The narrator makes a reference to the *Titanic*, a luxury liner that sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912.
* The plot of this episode is very similar to the 1972 disaster film *The Poseidon Adventure*.
* Real fish are seen once again in this episode.
* This is the first time that the heroes and Team Rocket have to work together.
* In the engine room scene, James refers to Jessie as *Jessica*, making Nanette's Popplio upset.
* Team Rocket does not recite their motto in this episode.
* Though Misty never returned her Pokémon to their Poké Balls when the Gyarados attacked the raft, they were not lost.
* It is unknown how the police knew that Jessie and James went down with the ship, and even more so that they knew them by name. Team Rocket wasn't even supposed to be on board, and their presence wasn't known until shortly before the sinking. The same happens with Ash, Brock, and Misty, as there was never a rollcall.
* This episode was the first episode to hint at Misty's fear of Gyarados, which was eventually confirmed in *Cerulean Blues*, as she immediately strategized running away from the Gyarados, and in the Japanese version was shocked at Magikarp evolving into Gyarados.
* Until the scene where Marina's Miraclix is unlocked, Nanette has her eyes blinded. It is unknown why she had no help in guidence, however.
* This is one of the very few times Nijiko and Momoka ever recall any of their Pokémon into their Poké Balls, as they both normally have their entire party just follow them around, though they didn't recall Rotom or Dragonet (who both hate being in a Poké Ball), Dragonet's babies (who have no Poké Balls), or Citronelle and Casty (who can float and didn't add any weight).
	+ When the heroes escape, Dragonet transforms into a Popplio (specifically Jessica) and uses her sturdy nose bubbles to surround her Trainer and push her up in so she can still breathe.

### Errors

* During the scene where the Pokémon are running back and forth to give the ship more balance, Brock yells for Geodude to come back, part of Ekans can be seen to the left of Brock, even though Ekans just went to the other side.
* In the English dub, during the scene where Meowth tries to shake Pikachu's hand and gets shocked, Meowth and Misty's Japanese voices are heard.
* When James shows Jessie and Meowth the gold-plated Poké Ball containing the Magikarp he bought in the last episode, the Ball doesn't have scratch marks anymore (Meowth had scratched the front of the ball out of anger at James in the previous episode).
* While stranded on the raft, Misty complains that if she knew that she was going to be stranded, she would have stuffed her face on the ship. However, in the previous episode (on the ship), she can be seen eating heavily.
* When the heroes get hit by Gyarados' Dragon Rage, Team Rocket yells 「やなかんじ！」 *"Yana Kanji!"* "Bad Feeling!" in their Japanese voices, which is the Japanese equivalent of "Team Rocket is blasting off again!".

### Dub Edits

* The scene of Jessica imagining herself suffocating due to being unable to surface is removed.
* The Titanic reference was in the dub only.
* The scene where Misty tells them to retrieve their Pokémon is slightly different between the two versions. The original version had Misty threatening Team Rocket that if they don't return their Pokémon, she'll throw them into the water. In the dub, she states "What's more important? A Pokémon battle or your life?"
* The part where Jessie and James mention they're being "good dressers" was actually a "they'll never forget each other" in the original version.
	+ Jessie also mentions that if James doesn't come with them, he'll *definitely* die down there in the Japanese version.
	+ Also, Misty states she doesn't want to die in the original version.
* When the heroes mention their condolences when they are about to put the seemingly-drowned Team Rocket into the sea as a funeral, they also mentioned the fact that they regretted the way Team Rocket died in the original version.
* Originally, the scene where Gyarados evolved had Misty saying that she heard about Magikarp evolving into Gyarados.
* Nanette breaks the 4th wall in the 4Kids dub when she asks Jim why he said something in Japanese.

### Easter Eggs

* Brock makes a reference to Noah and his Ark.
* *PML-26* was the name of the ship on which the memorial service was held. The initials appear to stand for *Pocket Monsters Legends* and the number corresponds with the episode number. A similar Easter egg appears in *Misty Meets Her Match*.
* One of the GDI rescue teams' ships has the USA flag on it, noticeably the GDSS Old Joseph, a Excalibur-Class battleship-aircraft carrier hybrid.