Ok, ok, I finally got up the next part, I've been soooo busy and stuff, I've hardly had time for writing fanfics so yeah... I hope you all will enjoy this Chapter, I want to put some kind of twist in it, oh well, I guess you'll see soon enough. *shrugs*

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Blue sat, tied to his chair and feeling sorry for himself, "Man... why does this stuff always have to happen to me?" he complained to himself again. His voice was somewhat muffled seeing as how he had a sweaty sailors bandana tied around his mouth.

After about 20 more minutes of struggling in the pitch black room, Crystal and Blue had finally got the bandana's tied around their mouths off. "So," said Crystal, almost quivery, "how exactly are we supposed to get out of here?"

"I'd expect using our Pokemon maybe?" Blue asked, almost in a kind of "DUH!" tone of voice. He reached around on his Pokebelt for his Pokeball's, and sure enough, there were sic, or so he counted. "Yeah, they didn't take them Crystal, so I'll send Nidirino out to cut the ropes with his horn."

All of a sudden the two of them felt another rumble, and tumble, and the boat swayed from side to side a few more times, then it stopped. "Whew..." said Blue, I'm gonna get seasick without even seeing the sea!"

Blue fiddled around with one his Pokeballs in the dark, and then opened it, "War!" he heard. Blue sighed, "Wrong one, oh well, Wartortle, cut these ropes with your claws please?" he asked.

The only response he got back was, "War!" Then he felt his ropes fall to the ground, then all of a sudden the room lit up a bit, he saw Crystal standing in front of him leaning on a Ponyta.

"Hey, where'd ya get that, is it your Ponyta?" he asked, he had studied Pokemon ever since he was able to read, maybe even before, he knew nearly every Pokemon, their classification number, type, most moves, and anything else you could think of.

"Good call Blue, it is mine," she said smirking, "So hop on, we're gonna go on a little ride."

"Sure," Blue said, "Return Wartortle!" he called. Then Blue hopped up on the Ponyta. It stooed their for a second, then Crystal jumped on, it looked towards the door, then jumped up straight at it. It took the Ponyta a few tries, but eventually the door fell out, and out ran Ponyta. A few sailors looked at them, but as soon as they did they got trampled. Ponyta shot up the stairs and around a corner, when all of a sudden the ship rocked again. This time enough yo completely knock everyone off balance, inclusding Blue, Crystal, and the Ponyta. The all fell over and slammed up against the wall. There was a large clash, and bang, then all of a sudden there were more sways, this time even more powerful. Blue's vision was blurry, but he saw some of the sailors rip off their shirts and pants, revealing a du cap with a skull and crossbones, and white and red striped t-shirt, and navy pants, the only thing Blue could think of before the water came washing down the hall was "Team Aqua".

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Blue tried to open his eyes, but there was too much of a sting from salt water. He blinked a few times, and finally he could see now, his vision was extremely blurry, but he could see, which he figured was good enough. Blue did notice something very odd though, he was in a genereous sized raft, floating in water, which he expected to be the ocean. he groaned and saw someone look over at him, it was another Team Aqua member. He'd read about them evrywhere, also Team Magma, but he didn't see any of them.

"Keep quiet kid, we hate loud people," said the woman looking over at him.

"Uggh..." groaned Blue, he had hardly any strength left, but he managed to look behind him, and luckily see Crystal, the bad thing was that she looked very unconcious. He sighed and closed his eyes, drifting off into deep slumber.

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Blue opened his eyes once again, this time he was sitting in a very soft and comfertable chair. He looked around and saw about seven other people, only one was concious, and it wasn't Crystal, although she was there. He also noticed many camera's, he had sharp eyes.

"So," started the other person who was awake, "This is Team Aqua's hideout."

"It is?" asked Blue, wondering how he knew.

"Of course, they brought eight of some of the best trainers in the land here, using the cruise as an excuse to get to us."

"Woah," said Blue, as if he got a huge reality check.

"Yeah..." tralied off the guy, he was a guy, and had brown, somewhat spiky hair. He was pretty tall, definitely six inches taller than Blue. And he was sort of stocky.

"So, how do you know all of this stuff?" asked Blue.

"Because I've been sitting around here for a few days, they told me when I arrived.

"Oh..." said Blue, "So I guess that means all of us are Pokemon trainers?"

"Yes, we all are, I've looked," He said getting up, he pulled out four Pokeballs, two in each hand. "They said to release our Pokemon to take a rest when you wake up." The guy tossed his Pokeballs into the air, and out came a Beedrill, Sandshrew, Mankey, and an Ariados.

"Wow, nice Pokemon," complimented Blue.

"Yeah, been in the business for about five months now..." he trailed off, thinking.

"Hmh, I've been on my trip for about three and a half months."

"Guess that means I got more exp. than you do then, eh?" chuckled the guy. "By the way, the name's Gold."

"Well," said Blue, extending his hand, "Nice ta' meet ya Gold," he said smiling.

"The pleasure's mine," smiled Gold shaking hands with Blue, "But now that we have the formal greeting out of the way let's go ahead and have a trial battle."

"Why?" asked Blue curiosly.

"Well, naturally, because we're havin' a tournament as soon as everyone regains concisnous."

"WHAT!?" shoued Blue, "How come ya never told me before?!"

"I, uh, didn't know it was that big of a deal..." said Gold.

"Well, anyways, a trial match sounds great!" he said smirking.

"Then let's go to the battle field!" said Gold, "Follow me!"

Gold stared walking towards a bright light, then Blue followed. Before long the two boys were standing in front of a huge 40 foot door. Gold snapped his fingers and the doors started to open. After the the doors opened, Blue and Gold walked out, then Gold walked around and stood at the opposite side.

"This is the battle arena," he announced.

"Good for me," said Blue, "You go first."

"No problem,"said Gold smirking, "let's each limit ourselves to three different Pokemon, eh?"

"Ok."

"Then let's get started, go, Beedrill!" he shouted thowing a Pokeball, and out came the huge bee Pokemon. It buzzed around and was ready for action.

"In that case, I'll chose... Wartortle!" Blue called, as Wartortle came out of his Pokeball.

"War!" it said, also ready to battle.

"Ok, then, let's get started!" said Blue.

"Beedrill, start to focus energy!" shouted Gold. Beedrill rose high in the battlefield and started to focus, as it's eyes grew a dark red color.

"Get defensive!" shouted Blue to Wartortle, "Use your withdraw attack!"

"War," was the reply, and Wartortle poked hit's arms, legs, and head back into it shell.

"Beedrill, use Fury Attack now!" called out Gold.

Beedrill suddenly sped down at the Wartortle in a shell, and when it was right above it, started smashing at the shell with it's arms. It smacked over and over, until enevtully Wartortle came out of his shell. Beedrill was too tired from repeatedly attacking, so it hovered back up, in front of Wartortle.

"Ok, now Wartortle, try and squirt it down with water gun, then use bite if you can get it down far enough!" commanded Blue.

Wartortle shot as stream of concentrated water at Beedrill hitting it square in the face, and knocking it to the ground. It tried to get up but wasn't fast enough, Wartortle clamped down hard on Beedrill and wouldn't let go.

"Beedrill, shake it off!" called Gold.

"Zzzzzz!!" buzzed Beedrill, shaking wildly, trying to knock Wartortle off, but all it did was make Wartortle clamp down harder, and eventully, making Beedrill knock out. Wartortle let go and jumped back, landing in front of Blue.

"Ready for round two?" asked Blue, smirking.

"Oh, but you haven't seen anything yet!" laughed Gold, returning Beedrill to it's rightful Pokeball. Then he pulled out another Pokeball. "Can you guess who this is?" he asked.

"How 'bout a Mankey?" asked Blue trying hard.

"Buzz!" said Gold, "Wrong!"

Gold threw a Pokeball into the battle arena, and out came an Ariados. It chopped it's jaws and then stood there.

"Hah, this shouldn't be any problem for Wartortle," said Blue, getting a little too over-confident.

"Ariados, use constrict, then night shade manuever!" called out Gold, "Just like what we practiced earlier."

"Ariados started shooting a web-like string at Wartortle, and eventully had it trapped. Then it started making it more tight.

"Hang in there Wartortle!" called Blue.

"Now!" shouted Gold.

Suddenly Ariados let go of the string and started to concentrate on Wartortle, it glared staright at it, then dark waves started emitting off of Ariados, and smacking Wartortle. But Wartorle was too caught up in the web to do much of anything, so after a few night shades to take it out. Blue quickly recalled Wartortle and sent out Larvitar.

"Ok Larvitar, now that we know their strategy, let's use our own!" called Blue, use your screech and sandstorm technique!"

Very quickly did Larvitar let out a bloodcurdling screech, making Ariados stop right in it's tracks, then it started kicking up sand, it kept kicking, and kicking, until eventully it had made a tornado and pushed it off into Ariados' direction. The huge sand tornado was headed straight for the poor bug Pokemon and sucked it right up, then as soon as it sucked it up it spit it out the top and straight into a wall.

"Aw, man, now I only have one Pokemon left, I choose you Mankey!" called Gold throwing a Pokeball, which happened to reveal a Mankey.

"Ok Larvitar, try leer and bite this time!" he called.

"Mankey, try and duck down with a low kick!"

Larvitar glared straight at Mankey, frightening it a bit, then ran at it with it's jaws wide open, but Mankey slid down below it and right into it's feet, making Larvitar trip and fall.

"Augh! Now it's your turn!" shouted Blue, recalling Larvitar, and sending out Nidorino. "Nidorino, use a headbutt with your poison sting attack, ok!?"

"Nido!" was the reply, then Nidorino shot off, running full speed at Mankey, it tried to dodge, but got smacked in the face, it was sent flying, then smacked into Gold himself.

"Ack! Ow, watch it..." he moaned to himself.

"I win!" shouted Blue.

"Guess ya do," says Gold, recalling Mankey.

"Hah, hah," laughed Blue, also recalling his Pokemon.

All of a sudden some walked out of the doors behind them, Blue turned around in time to see a Team Aqua member, and the rest of the trainers. The Team Aqua guy motioned for them to sit down, as eight small chairs rose from the ground. All sat, and the Team Aqua guy stood at a pedastool in front of all of them.

"Ok, we have gotten all eight of you here, for one purpose, and one purpose. We are going to hold a friendly little Pokemon tournament, and don't bother checking to see if each other is a trainer, we already know everything we need to know about you. We used the S.S. Marine as a scapegoat."

A few of the trainers gave him dirty looks, but he went right on and continued.

"So, as I've said, we have you all here for one reason, the tournament. It will start in two hours from now, and the winner will get a chance to join us, and a free prize. Everyone else will get a little something, then we'll send you back on your journey's, sound good? Ok, then, I'll see you all in a couple of hours..." suddenly the man looked as though he was being lowered into the ground, along with the pedastool, and before anyone could say a word, he was gone.

'Guess I'm in, well, guess I have to be in...' thought Blue to himself loooking at all of the other frightened Pokemon trainers.

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Ok, that's about it, I'll start working on the next chapter, but may not be ready for a while... see ya! ^_^