The Sun rose over the horizen as a man stepped to the edge of a cliff, watching it rise with impatience. "Come on dammit! Rise already! Today is the day and I don't want to wait!" He said in a gruff voice. He wore and long red cape with a hood over his face. The hood had the symbol 'M' on it. "Maxie, what's the rush? We got all day! Besides, I'm not that excited anyway.." Said Maxie's assistant, Rodren. Maxie turned around and grabbed him by the collar of his red shirt and held him up to his face. "You better be excited! This is the day we defeat Team Aqua and prove them wrong! Groudon still exists, and that he didn't lose against Kyogre! Besides, one of our grunts say they saw a baby Groudon in a forest with a Beautifly! I don't know if he was telling the truth or not, but I believe him! We're gonna defeat Archie and prove him wrong!" Maxie dropped him on his bottom and walked away. "..." Maxie turned around and looked at him. "What did you say???" "Nothing sir!" "Good! Go get the others ready, we'll start heading for Slateport!" Rodren got up and dusted himself off and ran to get the others ready, even if he didn't want to...

A man stood stood on a beach watching the ocean and all its beauty. "Today is the day. The day we defeat Team Magma and all of their worthlessness!" He said. Wearing what seems to be a blue pirates outfit, Archie, the leader of Team Aqua stood there talking to himself as his assistant and Admin walked up to him. "Are you ok sir?" April said. "I'm just fine April, just thinking about today is all" Archie told her as he looked at her. April had no idea that her leader had a crush on her, which would've freaked her out if she knew, so he kept it in with all his might. "Go tell the others to get ready, we will set off in a couple of hours and head to Slateport." She nodded and ran off. 'Man she is beautiful!' Archie thought and turned around to head back to HQ.

Around two o' clock the same day, Team Aqua arrived in Slateport and spread around to get ready. Team Magma arrived an hour later and did the same. Archie stepped up to Maxie. "Ready Maxie old boy?" "Ready for what? To get your asses kicked?" Archie just sneered and punched him in the face. He fell backwards and landed on his butt. He growled and got up and did the same to Archie. Residents and tourists around stopped and stared for a couple of seconds, then ran away screaming. "That's it! Enough is enough!" Archie tackled Maxie to the ground and started beating him up. Maxie kicked him off and sent him an uppercut to the jaw. Blood starting coming from his mouth as Archie recovered from the blow and high kicked Maxie in the stomache. He fell to his knees holding his stomache in pain. "Is that all you got? Bring it!!" Archie screamed at him. He went for another kick, but Maxie grabbed his ankle in time and tossed him into a building wall. "No! I'm just beginning! You just got lucky that time!" Archie got up and growled and punched him on the side of his face. Maxie stumbled to the left, but held his ground. His nose started bleeding from the punch. He lowered his head, removed his cape, and called out to the other grunts. They came out from behind buildings and their other hiding places. Archie did the same and his grunts came out as well. "ATTACK!!!" Both of them said at the same time and both teams rushed to try and kill the other one. Both Archie and Maxie ran at each other and started tearing at each other. This was no ordinary battle, it didn't use Pokemon. They wanted to kill each other in this one. Which they almost did... In the end, Team Magma won and Team Aqua retreated back to their base in shame.

"I knew we'd win! Great job team, let's get back to HQ and rest and heal. I know this isn't the end. They will keep coming until they prove us wrong, that Groudon isn't alive. But I know he is!" At this, Maxie got a determined look on his face and walked away from the battle arena which was covered in blood. 'I know this isn't the end!' Was Maxie's last thought as they left Slateport.