Chapter 14 Can You Spell HELP!?'

Back on the boat, Tyler and the others were watching Smeargle paint on a sketch pad that they had bought him. Colin and the other rivals walked by them, laughing loudly.

"I can't believe you adopted that lousy Smeargle! He's not even a good artist!" Colin laughed.

Before anyone could say anything, do anything or grab a big glass and swing it around yelling, "Look at me, I'm out of topic!", Smeargle jumped at Colin, painted a blue moustache and beard on his face, wrote Dummy' on his forehead, and jumped back onto his seat.

Colin was too stunned to do anything at first, but then his rage kicked in. "WHY YOU LITTLE...!" He ran towards Smeargle, hands outstretched.

Suddenly, the lights went out and everything was pitch black. Magmar could still be seen, of course.

"All right, who's playing with the lights!?" Magmar shouted.

"GOTCHA! You thought you could paint on my face and get away with it, eh Smeargle?!" Colin shouted.

"LET GO!!" Kitty shouted, then followed a loud WHAP!!

The lights turned back on, and there were Rockets all over the place, all standing on tables. A lot of them were busy trying to get paint off their shoes, as they happened to step on Smeargle's table top paintings. There were about 35 in total.

"Team Rocket!" Max hissed.

"All right, people! Hand over all your Pokémon, and no one gets hurt!!" the leader of the Rockets shouted. She stood in the middle of the room, with five Rocket Grunts around her.

"Come on kid! Give me your Pokémon!" A Rocket Grunt who was pointing at Colin demanded.

"No way! How big of a dummy do you think I am?!" Colin replied.

The Rocket Grunt eyed the word Dummy' painted on Colin's forehead. "Do you really want me to answer that?"

"There's no way you're getting our Pokémon!" Kitty exclaimed.

"All right then!" The Rockets all pulled out six Pokéballs each and let their Pokémon out. The room was suddenly much more crowded with angry-looking Pokémon.

"It looks like the game is over!" The Rocket leader laughed wickedly.

"Actually mistress, it's half-time!" A Rocket who was watching a football game on a TV screen informed her.

"...Oh. Well, no matter! We're in charge here!" The Rocket leader exclaimed.

"No, you aren't!" Magmar shouted. He looked at his friends and cried, "Come on, let's get them!"

"But Magmar," Tyler started, "there are about thirty-five Rockets and each have six Pokémon! Six times thirty-five is about...210 Pokémon!"

"I don't care about your math skills right now, I'm not letting them take me!" Magmar exclaimed.

"I'll take the loud-mouth Magmar!" A Rocket took out a black Pokéball and threw it at Magmar. Magmar sucked in and blew fire at the Pokéball, incinerating it. "HEY!! Do you know how much that Pokéball costs!?" the Rocket screamed.

"25 cents?" Magmar tried.

"...How'd you know?!"

"Just get them!" the Rocket leader ordered her minions.

Tyler, Kate, Kitty and Max let out all their Pokémon and the battles against the Rockets began.

Kitty's team of fire Pokémon were burning any Rocket they saw. Kate's three Pokémon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Espeon, were using their Delta Force attack to hit multiple targets. Max's Pokémon were thrashing the Rockets around, despite the fact that most of them were smaller than the Rockets' Pokémon. Tyler's Pokémon were handling the situation a little differently.

Pinsir defended the coffee maker while throwing coffee at approaching Rockets. Smeargle was slapping Pokémon with his tail and squirting paint in their eyes. Jolteon was chasing a Fearow, zapping it constantly as it tried to get away from her. Nidoking was running away from a little Totodile, who constantly snapped its jaws at Nidoking's long tail. Magmar wasn't doing very well either. About fifteen Rocket Pokémon were all attacking him, and it wasn't exactly a fair fight.

A Machoke threw Magmar against the wall with relative ease. Magmar slammed against the wall and landed on a table. The table's legs broke, causing the table to collapse to the ground with Magmar on it. A Wartortle stepped up and sprayed water at Magmar.

Using his brain (even the one that was supposed to keep his eye from twitching, because that wasn't important right now), Magmar grabbed the nearest object and held it up to block the water. It happened to be a hat, similar to the one Indiana Jones wears.

As Magmar put the soaking wet hat on his head, Magmar also noticed a leather whip near him. He picked it up and jumped up, shouting, "All right, you bunch of Rocket morons! Back off!"

The Machoke who threw him approached him with his arms outstretched. Magmar pulled the whip back and lashed it at Machoke, catching him on the shoulder. The Machoke wailed in pain and backed off.

As Magmar continued to keep the Rocket Pokémon at bay, a thought went through his mind. "Why was there a whip and hat on the table?"

(Unbeknownst to Magmar, an adventurous man named Jim Gull was sitting at...Jim Gull? PHHHHT, HAHAHAHAHA!! Hee hee hee! Anyway, Jim loved to go through jungles, explore dangerous places, and try to find artifacts that he wouldn't keep in the end. He decided to take a boat cruise to get away from all the mosquitoes that pestered him. He left the room to go to the restroom before the Rockets appeared, and when he came back, the Rockets were attacking our heroes' Pokémon, and Magmar had his whip and hat.)

Magmar whipped out at any Pokémon who tried to get near him with his new whip. Suddenly, he heard Kate scream loudly. Two Rockets had grabbed her by the arms and were dragging her away.

"HEY! Come back here with Kate!" Magmar yelled, rushing over to help Kate.

One of the Rocket who was holding Kate saw him coming and shouted, "Scyther! Take care of this pest!"

A wicked-looking Scyther jumped in between Magmar and Kate. It growled at Magmar, then whipped out it's sword-like arms. It slashed them around the air, displaying how great it was. Its claws were moving so fast that you couldn't see them. After a second or two, Scyther stopped swinging his arms around and grinned menacingly at Magmar.

Magmar rolled his eyes and shot a stream of fire at the Scyther. It fainted instantly.

"Uh-oh!" The Rocket who had called the Scyther gulped loudly, let go of Kate and ran as if his Rocket life depended on it. The other Rocket also made a Rocket break for it.

"You okay, Kate?" Magmar asked his friend.

"Yeah, I'm fine!"

Magmar suddenly noticed Colin and the other rivals standing in a corner, watching the battles take place. They seemed to be fascinated about something.

"What are you doing there?" Magmar yelled at them.

"Why aren't you helping us!?" Kate added.

Colin looked at them as if they were crazy. "We're watching the Rockets battle! They're great! They're a lot better than you guys!"

Magmar's face turned redder than usual, as impossible as that may seem. He stormed off to help the others, while Kate continued to argue with them.

"Look, you jerk! If we lose, they get our Pokémon!"

"No, they won't take ours!" Ashley informed her. "They'll have taken everyone else's Pokémon by the end, and they won't be able to carry any more when they get to us! So we're okay!"

Kate was now incredibly ticked off. "You...selfish, immoral jerks!"

"Hey, we're special, unlike you guys. You're just jealous because you're normal!" Ashley laughed at her.

"Is that so?" Kate whispered dangerously. She pulled back her special fist, thrust it forward in a special way and struck Ashley's normal face, causing Ashley to let out a normal-sounding moan and collapse to the ground normally. Kate then walked off to help her friends out, while Tyler's rivals screamed normal obscenities at her that should not be printed normally.

The Rockets were calling back fainted Pokémon after fainted Pokémon, yet our heroes' Pokémon were getting exhausted. Except for Pinsir of course, who drank a coffee every now and then to refresh himself. The Rockets were down to about 115 Pokémon out, yet the ones still out where hanging tough.

Kitty used her psychic powers to fling the Rocket Pokémon around. Max chased the small ones with his Evil Eye badge, scaring them out of their minds. Kate and Tyler could only help out by telling their Pokémon what to do.

Smeargle was busy painting on one of the walls. What he painting looked like a gigantic Gengar. The Gengar had its mouth wide open, making it look very frightening.

"Smeargle, what are you doing?" Tyler called to his artist Pokémon.

Magmar ran over to Smeargle and asked the same question. "What are you doing?"

Smeargle held up a megaphone he had found and pointed at the painting of the Gengar. "Smeargle smear eagle smear smeargle!"

"...OH! I get it! Good plan! Here, give me it!" Magmar exclaimed. Smeargle handed him the megaphone and they both ducked under a table. Magmar cranked the volume as high as it could go and shouted in it, "BUHAAA-HAAAAAA-HAAAAAAAA!! TIME TO DIE, ROCKETS!!!"

The Rockets all turned to see a giant Gengar glaring at them with its mouth wide open. They screamed in absolute fear, a fear that only people who just heard BUHAAA-HAAAAAA-HAAAAAAAA!! TIME TO DIE, ROCKETS!!!' and saw a giant Gengar on the wall with its mouth wide open could have. They all ran for the side of the ship and jumped off, running from the giant Gengar.

"Phew!" Magmar sighed. "That was close."

Suddenly, there was a loud crunching sound. The ship shook violently. "What was that?!" Tyler shouted.

The captain of the ship suddenly ran into the room. "An ICEBERG! We've hit a ICEBERG!!"

"And that big shake, was that it hitting us back?" Tyler asked.

"The ship's doomed! It's going to sink! To the lifeboats, everyone!!" The captain dashed off to the side of the ship and jumped into a life boat.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!" People started running for the ship's side, trying to get to the lifeboats. People were screaming, running, flailing, doing things that humans only get to do when they have no control over themselves.

"Thor, Tina, Luminaire! Where are you?" Kate cried out for her Pokémon. Max, Tyler and Kitty had recalled their Pokémon, except for Eevee, Growlithe and Magmar.

"Kate! Where are you?!" Tyler called out to Kate. He pushed his way through the panicky crowd, trying to find his non-panicking friend.

Author's Note: The next few minutes is just more screaming, pushing, wailing, shoving, shouting, bawling, flailing, crying, and just a bunch of stuff that I don't want to write about, because I'm too lazy and it's my story. If you want to know what it's like, just watch the part in Titanic' that everyone is screaming, howling, and making inappropriate remarks. ...No, I didn't mean the painting scene, I meant the part where the ship is sinking. Anyway, when we get back to the story, I want you to stop thinking about the Titanic and pay attention to the story once again. This will be difficult for the guys who read my story, because their mind is on something much more...interesting. Uh, well, uh...back to my story.

"Kate, where are you?!" Tyler cried out. Kitty and Max were right next to him, along with their Pokémon.

Suddenly, Max's parents ran up to him. "Max, we've got to get off!" his mom told him.

"But we're looking for my friend!" Max protested.

"Don't worry, your friends will find her! You'll meet up with them later!" his dad assured him.

Max couldn't disobey. These were his parents. "I'll meet up with you guys later, okay?" he said to Tyler and Kitty. They nodded, and Max and Eevee ran off with his parents. Kitty and Tyler continued to look for their lost friend in the panicking crowd.

Kate found Jolteon and Espeon pressed against the wall, trying not to get squashed by the millions of trampling feet. "Oh, thank goodness I found you! ...Where's Tina?"

Thor and Luminaire shook their heads. They didn't know where their friend was.

Somewhere else in the giant room, Tyler's rivals were trying to get to the lifeboats too. "Come on, let's hurry!!" Ann squealed.

"Hmmmm, Rose.......," Colin hummed happily, just standing there and staring into space.

"Come on, you guys!" Rachel screamed. She grabbed Sean by his arm and started dragging the stupefied teenager to the ship's side.

Ashley suddenly noticed Tina, who trying to avoid being trampled. An evil thought flashed in Ashley mind, and that flash must have affected her brain somehow, because an evil grin spread across her face. She ran over to Tina, picked up the startled Vaporeon, and ran back to the others.

"Come on! Let's GO!!" she hissed.

Kate saw Ashley pick Tina up, and she was quite sure that Ashley was not trying to help her Pokémon. She quickly called back Thor and Luminaire, and she ran as fast she could towards Ashley. "STOP HER!!"

She ran into Tyler and Kitty as she pushed through the crowd. Kitty saw that she looked worried about something besides the ship and asked her, "What's wrong, Kate?"

"It's Ashley! She's kidnapping Tina!!" Kate screamed.

"WHAT!?" Kitty cried.

"Oh-no! She's probably going to kidnap her and only give her back if we promise not to tell the police that they drive illegally!" Magmar shouted. They pushed through the crowd, trying to find Ashley and Tina.

"There she is!" Tyler shouted, pointing towards Ashley.

Ashley noticed them heading towards her, and she motioned for her friends to follow her. They ran downstairs, trying to lose our heroes. Our heroes followed them, nevertheless.

Tyler's rivals ran down the hallway, only to find a locked door in front of them. They turned around, only to find our angry heroes in front of them. They weren't locked, but they were much more trouble than a door.

Tyler called out his Jolteon, Pinsir, Smeargle and Nidoking, making them much more dangerous than a big, rectangle piece of wood stuck in a position because a small bar of metal kept the piece of wood in place, otherwise known as a locked door.

"All right, you jerks! Let Tina go!" Kate yelled at them.

"Make me!" Ashley shot back.

"Growlithe, show these punks what justice is all about! Inferno!" Kitty ordered her Pokémon.

Growlithe nodded and stepped forward. Her body glowed a bright red, and then she opened her mouth. A spinning stream of fire shot at Tyler's rivals from her mouth. It circled around them tightly, like a whirlpool. Needless to say, it was not very comfortable in the middle.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!" Tyler's rivals screamed like people who were trapped in a volcanic whirlpool, because that's what they were. When the fire cleared, they just stood there smoking. Tina, who had protected herself by blowing cold mist around her, jumped out of Ashley's smoking arms and into Kate's.

"You are going to show me how to do that move afterwards!" Magmar requested, looking at Kitty.

Suddenly, a door in the hallway opened. A Meowth was standing at the doorway, looking angry. Yet this Meowth looked familiar somehow...

"Hey, what's with all the noise?!" He shouted at them. It was Team Rocket's Meowth, which was why he looked familiar. "There's all this shouting, and fire burning, and water gushing, and people screaming like people trapped in a volcanic whirlpool!"

"How'd you get on the ship?!" Kitty asked him.

"We bought tickets at the last second! All we could afford was a stupid third-class ticket, though."

"Hey, Meowth! ...Who...is it?" David's voice shouted from the room. He stopped every other second, as if he was busy with his mouth.

"A bunch of other kids that look like they fell in a volcano, and da kid who has our badge!" Meowth replied.

David and Kris suddenly ran over to the doorway. There was something noticeable about David's appearance. He had Kris's lipstick all over his lips. Magmar was the first to see that. "Oh, man! Another man falls victim to a dumb blond's charm!"

"Excuse me?" Kate asked him.

"You're not dumb."

"Oh. Thank you!"

Suddenly, there was a loud gushing sound above them. "Oh-no! Water!" Meowth cried.

"What is it, Meowth?" Kris asked him, sounding a little tired.

"Dat's a liquid that people drink so that they don't die of dehydration and it's very wet, but that's not important right now," Meowth explained. "I think the ship's sinking!"

"WHAT?!" Ashley screamed. She and her friends ran to the stairs as fast as they could. They shoved Tyler, Kate, Kitty, Magmar and Growlithe out of the way, knocking them down.

"OWW!!" Kate yelped as her head slammed against the wall. "I'm really beginning to hate your rivals, Tyler!"

"Oh, now you are?" Magmar cracked.

Meowth started for the stairs himself. When he got to the bottom of the stairs, he looked up and saw a tremendous amount of water coming down towards him.

"AAAAAH!!" He screamed and ran in the opposite direction. The others saw the enormous amount of water rushing towards them and also ran away from the giant onslaught of H2O.

Magmar burned the locked door in front of them into locked ashes, clearing their once-locked pathway. They ran from the rush of water, trying not to get swept away.

*BEEEEEEEP!* We are stopping the chapter here to irritate you, and make things insanely frustrating.

TO BE CONTINUED...IN THE NEXT CHAPTER, DUH!!