Chapter 10: I will sea you tomorrow!

"What?! Steve won the Rose City contest already?!" Chris exclaimed. "When did this happen?" Chris was talking to the elderly captain of the ship. The captain was a tall man dressed in the traditional white captain's attire. He had gray hair and a large gray mustache. He didn't open his eyes much, but when he did he revealed he had violet eyes. Gold, Daryl, and Musha were hanging out on the hard wood deck. Musha was fishing while Daryl was listening to the RyushoPod application on his pokegear. "Well Chris, the Rose City contest never has that many people. People usually show up for just pokegear applications or repair. When people heard about the contest, no one cared enough. They had about eight contestants and the finals were right after the appeals. The last battle came down to Steve's Furret against a little girl's Sentret." Chris hit himself over the head. "Well at least I can refuge in the fact that he had to beat a little girl to win a ribbon." The captain smiled. "If you guys went back, I'm sure Chris would have won." Chris smiled back. "Thank you captain, so when will we be getting to Sento Forest."
The captain looked at the ocean. "We will be getting to Sento Docks in about two days." We will going to Palm Island first. That way we can restock on supplies and fuel." Gold rolled his eyes when he heard that. "What type of ship doesn't have enough fuel or supplies from setting sail? Oh whatever, how far is this Palm Island place from Aconite Town?" The captain took out a white pokegear. He pressed a button and a holographic map of the entire region of Ryusho projected from the small watch-like device. "It is a small route, if we hurry we can be at Aconite by tomorrow night."
"Wow, how did you get it to project the image like that?" Said Musha in complete awe.
"Well, I got an application at the Palm Island branch of the Pokegear company. It is free if you are a pokemon trainer."
"I have to remember to get one when we get to Palm Island." Musha responded.
"In any case, we will be at Palm island soon. Why not take part in the annual treasure hunt?"
Gold's ears perked up as soon as he heard the word treasure. "Treasure?!…Oh…is it like some cheesy Easter egg hunt? If it is, then I'll pass like a kidney stone."
"No treasure as in real treasure." Said Daryl, who was taking out a guide book. "Apparently Palm Island is known to have buried treasure everywhere on the island. They say there is almost an infinite amount. Every year the Palm Island town hall throws a treasure hunt in which people all over town find treasure. Whoever finds the most treasure at the end of the day not only wins what they keep, but a special item known as the Miracle Seed. It powers up the attacks for grass type pokemon."
"Cool, Shiki could use that. I'm in I guess." Said Gold happily.
"I guess we'll enter as well." Said Daryl.
The Enders continued to look around the ocean and it looked magnificent. "I wonder how long it will take us to get to Palm Island then…" Murmured Chris a bit anxious for his contest. "I guess I'll start training. Go Wes and Rick!" The small red fire bird pokemon appeared next to the blue lizard. "Alright guys, let's start practicing. Rick use fire spin!" Rick nodded and blasted a Spiral stream of fire into the air. "Now use Psychic!" Rick's eyes began to glow an eerie light blue and the flames were surrounded in a weird blue aura. "Now separate it into rings!" Rick nodded and the aura flames separated into five rings then reconnected into rings that resembled the rings at the Olympics. "Great! Still we can throw one more attack in there…"
Daryl took out his pokedex to scan Rick. "Chris, why don't you throw in confuse ray?" Chris thought for a moment. He sat in the deck next to Rick. He then looked at the small pokemon. "Rick, try the appeal again, but this time use confuse ray to try to change the colors of the rings." Rick looked a bit puzzled. Chris made a nervous smile. "You know what that's fine for the day. We will try again later." He picked up Rick and turned around. He suddenly noticed a familiar beautiful blue haired woman wearing an orange sweater and blue jeans. "Miss Lauren! It's me Chris from the contest!" Lauren turned around and smiled. "Why hello Chris and company. Have you met my manager and boyfriend, Jerry?" She pointed to a man of moderate height with brown eyes and brown hair. He had moderately tanned skin. He wore a suite with a white shirt and yellow. His pants were navy blue and he wore brown shoes. His cufflinks were in the shape of pokeballs. "Why hello Chris. Lauren tells me your contest with her was very good. Congratulations being a step closer to the Grand Festival." Chris smiled.
"Why thank you Mr. Jerry. Say I heard you're a great trainer yourself Miss Lauren. After all, you did win the Houen league ."
"Why yes I did. Why not we have a double battle? Me and Jerry against you and your friend." Lauren pointed to Musha who was now drinking from a can of soda.
"Sure, I would love a battle with you Miss Lauren. Musha get over here."
"Why your Musha Gerard!" Said Jerry. "How does it feel being so rich?"
"That sounded really sarcastic and insincere, but for the sake of getting this stupidity over with it's fine." Musha walked over and stood next to Chris. "Sure I'll battle with Chris."
Soon the four trainers took different positions. Each was next to their respective partners. "Alright, let's each use two pokemon each." Lauren took out a pokeball and threw it in the air. Out of the pokeball appeared a purple shell with four spikes, two on the top of the shell and two on the bottom. The shell opened and a large reddish tongue came out. Two white eyes shined. "Wow a Shellder!" exclaimed Chris. "I've always wanted one of those! Though, I didn't know you would use such a weak pokemon Miss Lauren. You being a champion and all…" Chris thought to himself, "Okay, why is Miss Lauren using a Shellder. In her exclusive interview with Benito Suarez, she said that she would never use anything other than her beloved winning team that won her the Houen league. Oh well I will make my judgment later…" Chris looked over at Jerry.
During Chris's contemplation, Gokujou was already out, Shellder became bored, and Jerry had sent out a green mantis creature with two scythes for arms and four back wings. Chris took out his pokedex and scanned each pokemon. He first scanned the Shellder.

Shellder, the Bivalve Pokemon, its shell is harder than diamond. It hides in sand on the sea floor and catches prey with its soft tongue.

Scyther, the Mantis pokemon. It's very proud of its speed. It moves so fast that its opponent does not even know what knocked it down.

"Chris, are you ready, or would you like some more time?" Said Lauren with a seemingly sincere yet unquestionably beautifully smile. "If you could prefer not to battle it's fine."
"No, I'm ready. Come on out Wes!" The blue dragon pokemon with the gray rock headed top appeared ready for battle. "Come on Wes, use your Toxic!" Wes began shaking it's body and belched up a weird purple liquid that hit Shellder. Shellder became very sick.
"Toxic, as you know, is a move that poisons the opposing pokemon. Now until Shellder is either cured, or taken to the pokemon center, he is going to be poisoned."
"Nice job Chris!" Said Musha giving Chris a thumbs up. He then turned to Scyther. "Gokujou, use your flamethrower!" The small fire monkey pokemon blasted a stream of flames at the mantis pokemon. "Scyther is a bug pokemon! If he can't take the heat get him out of the kitchen."
"That was so very lame." Said Chris. "Wes, use your flamethrower on Scyther!" Wes blasted a stream of flames at the bug pokemon as well.
"Quick Shellder Protect!" Shellder, in the very nick of time, jumped in front of Scyther and created a blue and green bubble around itself shielding itself, and Scyther, from the attack.
"Scyther, quick slash!" Scyther nodded and slashed Gokujou. Gokujou flew back into Musha. "Gokujou, get back in there with another Flamethrower!" Gokujou made a malicious grin and blasted a stream of flames at Scyther knocking it out.
Jerry placed Gokujou back in his pokeball. Then he took out a strange purple detonator that had the initials D.o.C on it. He immediately pressed the button and entire floor the deck collapsed. Musha, Gold, Chris, and Daryl all fell down into the bottom of the ship. Lauren and Jerry jumped down.
"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Gold exclaimed in the most hateful manner. "We could have been killed! Do you have any sense of decency?" Lauren and Jerry started to laugh and tore off their clothes revealing themselves to be none other than George and Lopez…though when they took off their clothes they revealed to be wearing nothing under. "Excuse us for one minute." George said as he and Lopez went behind a steel beam to put on some clothes.
"Who in the name of sweet Arceus are these fools?" Asked Chris to Musha.
"They're George and Lopez. They claim to be part of the D.o.C. and have been stalking us. I think they are rapists."
"What ?! That's awful! Why haven't you called the police yet?" Asked Chris frightened.
"You think we would have done that…but you see Gold takes pleasure in using Shiki or Haru to blast them." Said Daryl putting his hand on his head covering his face.
"Well, it's good to have target practice!" Gold retorted. "Would you rather I use you guys?"
"Point taken." Musha said nervously. "Anyway, do you guys want to finish the battle or would you rather Gold simply blast you guys?"
George and Lopez came out in their altered D.o.C uniforms. Lopez angrily told Shellder to attack Chris. She did not realize Wes was out and used a Dragon Claw on the bivalve pokemon. However, the move did not work for the shell was too hard for the physical claw move to take any effect. Wes's hand started to hurt and Chris thought for moment. A second later he grinned and looked at Wes. "Rather than using your dragon claw. Let's use something to bide time. Use your Zen Head Butt!" Wes nodded and lowered his head. Wes began to charge the purple bivalve pokemon. As Wes ran, he head began to glow silver, rather than its usual gray color. Wes knocked into Shellder full force into the shell pokemon. The pokemon was knocked into the a steel beam several feet away from the battle.
"What was the point of that?" Lopez said laughing.
"Well, why not you look at your pokemon and let's see if it's actually okay."
Lopez turned to see that Shellder was knocked out. "How is this even possible!? Shellder's defense could never have been beaten!" Chris smiled. "Well miss… wait I didn't catch your name who are you guys?" George and Lopez grinned. "We are the light at World's End! We are Team D.o.C. George and Lopez! I'm Lopez the fabulous one! I'm George the strong one! We are the light at World's End!" Chris looked puzzled, but then shook his head and shrugged. "Alright Miss Lopez, well toxic finally ended Shellder's commission. See I wanted to get him…" She stopped him. "Shellder, like myself, is a beautiful woman." Chris shrugged his shoulders again. "Alright, I wanted to get HER out of blasting range. I figured she was on her last legs…err…spikes…horns whatever and hopping back to use any attack would be too much of a strain with the poison and the shots she was taking. I thought one good bashing would take her out. Now, Musha since I won the battle, I'm giving you the responsibility of sending these two packing." Musha grinned and nodded vigorously. "Yes sir, Chris! Gokujou, flamethrower!" Gokujou blasted a stream of flames from his mouth at the duo of buffoons as well as Shellder. The stream was so powerful that is blasted the three out of the ship by creating a hole.
"Musha, that would have been great…id you didn't create a giant hole in the ship!" Gold yelled while hitting Musha with his hat. "Why would you do this?!"
"Sorry…I forgot blasting them here would make a hole in the ship."
"What are we going to do?" Asked Daryl.
"Musha, use Gokujou to melt more metal around the hole. Maybe it will descend and cover it up!"
Musha nodded and commanded the red fire monkey to melt the hole shut. Unfortunately, it just made the hole bigger and water started to seep in. "Well at least it's not marinara sauce like with Roger." Gold said while rolling his eyes. "Alright, what should we do?"
"I have another plan." Said Chris speaking up.
"Oh like your first oh so wonderful plan." Said Gold rolling his eyes again. "I don't have the strength for this…"
"Oh we'll do your plan then. Your oh so very nonexistent plan. Yes, that plan will work perfectly Mr. Elm."
"Oh fine, what's your plan?" Gold said focusing on Chris. "Tell us oh wise Mr. Harlown."
"Well first off, leave your sarcasm at the door. Secondly, let's see if the captain has an emergency plan."
"What happened to the captain?" Asked Daryl.
The group turned around to see an unconscious man. "Oh dear." Said Chris. "Well, this would be the time to start panicking." Everyone, but Gold, started to scream. Chris started writing his last rites, while Musha and Daryl prayed to Arceus. "Guys, stop freaking out. This is very simple. All we have to do is get to the top of the ship. Not to mention, Daryl has Gyarados. We can just use him to get all four of us to shore. Palm island can't be that far away." The group all stopped panicking. "Oh right, we forgot about that."
The group climbed to the top of the ship realizing they had forgotten the captain.
"Musha, weren't you suppose to grab the captain?" Asked Gold. "I mean we kind of need him to navigate."
"The captain is suppose to go down with his ship. Besides, we're smart we can get places on our own."
"Right, because when we end up Brazil due to the fact that none of us no how to navigate, I'll remember what you said." Chris said sarcastically. "Seriously, I know I'm the one who told you to blast George and Hopez, but dear Arceus how are we suppose to navigate without the captain?"
"Isn't her name Lopez?" Asked Daryl.
"Did you see the trashy way she dresses? I meant what I said. In any case, Daryl, go get our bags and Musha go get the captain."
The two trainers nodded. Daryl ran to the other side of the sinking ship and grabbed all four bags. Meanwhile Musha climbed down to see the captain almost completely submerged. Musha swam over to the old man and he soon woke up.
"Wha--what's going on?! Why is my ship under water?"
"Yeah about that…" Musha punched the man making him unconscious again. He dragged the man up. Daryl had released his blue serpent pokemon . Gold had gathered the rest of the supplies and they had mounted the serpent and left the boat.
Soon, the Enders watched as the ship they were on had sunk to the bottom of the ocean. "I really hope the captain isn't annoyed that we destroyed his ship…" Said Chris. "I mean we were trying to save ourselves from D.o.C. members." Gold rolled his eyes. "Yeah the D.o.C members who make Lifetime television and Jay Leno look intelligent." Musha seemed offended at the statement. "In regard to Lifetime, yes it is television for bitter single women with about thirty Meowth and Skitty, but really to pick at Leno is just plain mean. I mean he brings out fresh material all the time and…oh whatever…" Musha had conceded the argument to Gold. The captain had suddenly woken up scared and confused. "Where is my ship?! Why are we on this Gyarados kids?! I want answers now." The man yelled. Chris began to explain everything that happened and how Mush had destroyed the ship. "Well I don't care if those D.o.C. jerks came bothering the Boss's shipping company again. I will not stand for this!"
"Wait, what do you mean again?" asked Daryl frightened at the statement.
"Well, the other night when I registered our pass in Carnation, I saw George and Lopez attacking the receptionist. They were asking her for an escape ship. Oh and when the D.o.C. people and Junichi needed an escape route they wanted to use the Ducroix service. That's why tweedle-witch and tweedle -muscles were there."
"Yes, I'm afraid the D.o.C. has been after the shipping company for a couple months now."
"Well navigate us to Palm Island. I'm sure they will help us at the Ducroix over there."
"Oh yeah, they'll just give me another ship."
"You don't have to be sarcastic you know…that's Chris's job." Daryl said. Chris immediately hissed at him.
"No, captains have about fifty ships apiece. We have so many back up ships, in retrospect this doesn't matter. I will just sail the new one back to Carnation with all the people there. Oh and by the way, you will have to take a different ship to Sento Forest. Don't worry Palm Island will provide you with one."
The Enders nodded and looked towards the sunset. They soon came upon Palm Island and said their goodbyes to the captain. Gold thought to himself that the treasure hunt was going to be so much fun. Gold was actually relatively excited about the next day. The others thought of their own issues. In particular, Daryl was worried about the D.o.C., but we will see what will happen next time.