Pokémon Wars: Back in Action

Ch. 2: Boat Wars

Almost 7-and-a-half months later…

Tonight the men are doing a little night cruising on a cabin cruiser boat that belonged to Marty. The green-haired brother of Misty's just laid back as the boat moved on.

Then he heard his brother-in-law, Ash Ketchum, say to him, "That's a very lively one, isn't it?"

Marty looked at what he was talking about, Meowth just caught a Sharpedo while doing some night fishing. He scolded the talking scratch cat Pokémon, "If that Sharpedo damages my boat, I'm taking it out on you, Meowth." Meowth defended, "I didn't mean to catch him! Okay?" James (who placed on a small ponytail just 4 months ago) asks his little friend, "Why would you want to keep it for?"

Brock agreed with James, "Why would you wanna keep a Sharpedo anyway, you're a Pokémon too as it is." Meowth replied, "Are you kidding? His old teeth would look great on a necklace." Gary said, "They've got to stop snapping first; Sharpedo are known to have really powerful biting power." Marty suggested, "Maybe chewing on Meowth would wear him out." Ash asked, "Do you really think sharks eat their own kind?"

At that, everyone laughs at the joke! Meowth says between laughs, "You nearly got me in stitches!"

As things cooled down again, Meowth asked Marty, "Where're my bags?" Marty said, "Starboard side aft last time I remembered." Meowth asked Marty as if he was a schoolteacher, "Don't you know your starboard side from your port side?" Marty said, "Port's left, starboard's right." Meowth said, "Just making sure your memory's good."

Ash said, "Meowth, Sharpedo." Meowth looked behind him to find his tail close to the Sharpedo's mouth! James sighed, "Damn the Sharpedo." Nick called to the Sharpedo, jokingly; "He's right in front of you, Sharpedo!" then quickly chanted the 'Jaws' theme, before laughing some more.

Gary said, "Some of us already have some Sharpedo, why don't we throw him overboard?" Marty replied, "I'd throw more of Team Toxic overboard, if there was any of them left." Ash said, "I'd more than likely throw them both overboard. But since that's against my nature now, I can't do that." Drew relaxes, "There's nobody else out now, except for us, and it's the middle of night, we'd probably get away with it."

Ash went on, looking out to sea. Brock said as he relaxed, "The war is over, the world is rebuilding itself, we're grown up, we're married, we're having children, we're living the life––" Then he realized, "Ash, have you ever thought of what to do when your children are born?" Ash sighed, "I'm trying to figure that out."

While trying to find his bags on the boat, Meowth asked Marty, "Okay, you said 'aft,' right?" Marty spelled it out, "A-F-T. Aft." Meowth said, "That's a fucking word?" Marty loses it (for a while), "In the back of the cabin on the right side, Meowth."

Meowth shouted at the green-haired Pokémon surfer / Cerulean Gym Leader, "Well, why didn't you say that in the first place, MARTY? I love these people. Put them around boats, water, and all of the sudden everything becomes so nautical. 'Astern. Avast you landlubbers. Man the bilge pumps.' Pump your fucking ass all the way to the moon, you asshole!"

Ash laid back and looked on. Marty lain back next to his brother-in-law, "Geez, how do you feel, Ash?" Ash replies, "No matter how much I feel that the war is over, I still feel that I'm going to end in some sort of trouble." Marty guesses, "Maybe you're descended from a ranger." Ash asks, "What do you mean?" Marty answers, "You can feel danger before it happens and can avoid it."

Ash looks down back at the deck and asks Marty, "Do we want Meowth to lose a paw?" Marty replies, "Yeah, I want Meowth to lose––" Realizing what Ash said, Marty looked down and found Meowth poking his paw into the Sharpedo's mouth! "MEOWTH! WAIT! NO!" Meowth pulled his paw out and loudly replied, "What?" "SHAR!" Meowth looked at the screaming Sharpedo, then it relaxed with relief, "Sharpedo." Meowth looked at the Sharpedo tooth he just pulled out, "Oh."

Marty asks, "What did you think you were doing, Meowth? Losing your paw on purpose?" Meowth shouted, "I WASN'T TRYING TO LOSE A PAW, I WAS PLAYING DENTIST WITH JAWS HERE!" James sighed, "Well, Jigglypuff wouldn't want a three-legged husband now would she? Just because of trying to collect at least one tooth?" Meowth sighed, "This big guy was having a toothache anyway."

Nick picked up the gear Meowth was using, "This is some pretty piece of hardware, do you have a permit or a diploma for this, Meowth?" Meowth said, "Jessie, James, and I are servants of Ash now, of course we do, 'Mr. Leader-of-the-Amazons-and-Samurai'." James gets up to stretch, "We can get into ugly situations, but we love our job. And we can pull off such wonderful skills with our occupations."

Brock sighed, "When we were younger, I have thought of you guys as an ugly situation." Nick joked, "Well, permit or no permit and diploma or no diploma, you're not allowed to have this without either, you're too silly for this sort of job." He placed the gear back into the kit next to Meowth.

Three gunshots rang out through the air! Ash jumped to his feet, looked far behind Marty's boat, and found a huge ship heading their way, "OH SHIT, MOVE THE BOAT, MARTY!" Marty looked and made his boat move out of the way as fast as possible, luckily it wasn't hit!

Ash shouted to his comrades, "Cover me, guys!" By instinct, knowing that the bigger ship's radar would detect Marty's boat, Ash somehow foresaw the searchlights on the boat flashing towards them! Marty growled, "I sense something very bad too, brother! James, or whoever's more experienced in driving this kind of boat, drive; I'm going to help my brother-in-law!"

Gunfire was directed at Marty's boat! James cries, "Let's make like the shepherd and get the flock outta here!"

Meowth pulls out a giant laser cannon, "Hey, assholes! Eat this!" BOOM! A blast of blue energy shot through the searchlights and hit a few barrels on the ship, making them leak and burn! Ash calls to his team, "BURNING GASOLINE; HEADS UP!" Meowth looked up as one of the barrels wear launched up into the air like a rocket due to the fuel inside it burning! "Wow, look at that." Marty watches as the barrel falls into the water beside his boat, he says to Meowth, "You caused that you know. Now try to protect my boat, or else I am gonna take it out on you, Meowth!" Meowth saluted, "Yes, sir!"

While trying to knock some of the villains' heads together (pardon the battle speech), Ash had his mouth full with a blue-and-white metallic pistol he pulled out of nowhere, he tried to say something to the other men on his side but the words were muffled.

Richie shouts out, "Ash, you crazy son of a bitch!" Tracey asks, "What did Ash say, Richie?" Richie says, "Pull him up! He's going to fight on their boat!" James said, "Sure thing, boss!" He pulled the cable hard that Ash was holding onto and up and onto the ship's deck he went!

Ash took the gun out of his mouth and shouted, "I said pass me Pikachu and then do that!" James looked at Pikachu, who was at the helm of Marty's boat, and squeaked out like a mouse, "Sorry!" Meowth resets his laser cannon and places Pikachu in it, "Setting cannon from kill to launch. Fire!" BOOM! Pikachu went flying into Ash's arms safely! Ash calls to Meowth, "Meowth, you crazy son of a–– (suddenly with a grin) BITCH!" Meowth grins back, "YEAH!" and laughs out manically!

Brock cries out, "I'm too old for this shit!" but sends out Ludicolo and Swampert into the water anyway, "Ludicolo, use Dynamic Punch to punch some holes in the bottom of that ship to sink it! Swampert, use Rollout to redirect that ship to the shore!"

Both of his water Pokémon complied; Ludicolo danced in the water while throwing glowing fists which are punching holes into the enemies' ship while Swampert is using Rollout on top of the water as if it was on land, pushing the ship, redirecting it towards the shore! Brock's plan worked!

Sharpedo got back into the water by flopping around enough and attacked with a Fury Cutter attack, cutting the ship down to its skeletal structure! Meowth said to Marty, "You've gotta love that Sharpedo!"

Koropokkia jumped out of her Poké ball on Marty's belt and used Psychic to move containers and innocent passengers out of the holes of the ship! Marty asks, "Is that what the first gunfire was about?"

Back on the ship, after kicking ass of more and much of the villainous crew, Ash was getting his butt kicked by the last one, and vice versa. But pretty soon, after his victory, the coward ran away scared.

Back on Marty's boat, "Damn! The assholes nearly killed my brother-in-law! Good thing he's alive still."

Then Marty groans out, "Since Ash became involved with my family; his Pikachu fried Misty-Chan's bicycle, our family gym was attacked, she fell in love with him but never told him fully or directly for years, their love life attacked, her heart broke when they splat up from their friendly groups, a real world war broke out, our butts got kicked, my old mental scars reopened, my birthplace reconstructed by means of watery destruction, all of the Pokémon of the universe died and got resurrected, and now my boat became a sea battle vehicle! Oh man, what's left?" Meowth shrugs, "I think that's just about it."

As few minutes later… the coastguard and the police arrived, the innocent-looking people are in fact and truly innocent humans and Pokémon. They were becoming taken away so they can be signed up legally and be freed.

Gary asks Officer Jenny, "What's going on?" Officer Jenny explains, "For many months now, we've been receiving calls of people and Pokémon getting kidnapped and placed into a specialized custody, looking for information on a legendary item that's not supposed to be real." Brock asks the cute officer's first eldest daughter, "What about these people? Why do they stink?" Pre-Officer Jenny sighs, "Well, they've all spent a month in a room with only one toilet, lots of rice, little fish to eat, whoever is doing this sells them off like property."

James asked, "Sells them? Property?" Pre-Officer Jenny nodded, "Like slaves and other life forms that have no reason to live at all, including poached animals. It's really sad."

A cop nearby says, "This could cost us a fortune." Ash asks that very cop, "Whatever happened to 'bring me your tired, your poor, your wretched masses yearning to be free'?" The cop said, "Now it reads 'No vacancies'." Brock groans, "Guess you don't believe in freedom and rights." Gary helps a slave child up and adds his two cents "At least these are nobody's slaves now."

As Marty goes to help the children amongst the slaves and the poached Pokémon, Ash lays his hand on his brother-in-law's shoulder, "Marty… I'm sorry about using your boat like that." Marty sighs, "It's alright, at least it didn't get severely damaged."

James and Meowth told the tale from his point of view to the TV reporters, right now; Meowth says to the reporters, "And all of the sudden we see this flaming barrel come down; Marty didn't notice until the very last moment it barely missed us and his boat, he commanded me to shoot any flaming barrel flying through the air coming towards his boat because it could be very vulnerable the young girl: the boat I mean."

James spoke next, "All of the sudden this big damn Sharpedo–– Wait! I can say that, can I?" The reporter answered, "You can say it, Mr. Morgan, sir. But we can't air it." James fixed it, "Okay, this big darn Sharpedo comes along––"

To the next chapter…