Hidden Machines
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon.
HM Override: Sea Level
"Dawn's underwater exploration is underway! Wailord, Wailord, Wailord, Wailord, Wailord, and Wailord, use Dive!"
The six Float Whale Pokémon quickly submerged themselves under the surface of the waters of eastern Sinnoh, Dawn on the back of one of them. An air bubble formed around each of the Wailord, before it combined into a huge, oxygen-filled sphere of air that encompassed all the Pokémon.
"Wailord 1 and 2, to the left! Wailord 3 and 4, go forward! Wailord 5, wait until needed! Wailord 6, we'll go over there!"
She was riding Wailord 6.
The air bubble split apart as the Wailord went their separate ways. Dawn happily continued to explore the never-before seen world of ocean's depths without any idea as to what was going on above surface.
Lucas, meanwhile, was assailed by numerous calls from Sunyshore City. He ran around the lab frantically to address the problems of the people, realizing that most of them were reporting the same thing.
"I don't know why, but the sea levels have risen! They're swamping even over Munchlax Rock!"
"My house was drowned! I was too!"
"Volkner's Gym was destroyed again by the torrential water!"
"I just realized that I'm in neck-deep water..."
Lucas finally had enough and yanked the phones out of their electrical sockets, cutting off any more communication.
"The only way this could have happened would be because of a massive water displacement," said Professor Rowan, who Lucas had consulted. "Someone must have put something huge into the water."
Lucas left Professor Rowan to his work and ran back to the charts of water levels he had on his desk. After hours of calculations, he identified the amount of displaced water.
"About 2388 liters of water have been displaced," he said, panicking at the huge amount. He began to divide randomly and suddenly found that 2388 was perfectly divisible by 6 to yield a result of 398 kilograms, the weight of a Wailord. And if there were six Wailord, the total weight would be 2388 kilograms and the total water displaced would be 2388 liters of water.
"Who the heck is messing with the ocean?" he growled. He paused for a moment. "Well that was a stupid question."
Extra:
The phones were plugged back into the sockets, and calls streamed forward again.
"It's fine, the water's back to normal."
"I was brought back to life through reanimation, so I'm not drowned anymore! In fact, my house isn't either!"
"We can see Munchlax Rock again!"
"Volkner is redesigning his destroyed Gym – again! We'll go bankrupt at this rate!"
Lucas tore the phones out of the sockets and threw them across the room into the water-filled sink.