Authors Note: Well, the last episode was also pretty short. You better sue
me...
But this episode is normal-length, and SS.Pearl sinks to the bottom.
Will Jason and Carrie manage to escape the ship? Or will they end up dead
on the bottom of the sea....
And yes, I know that this episode have a lot in comment with the Pokémon TV-
Series-episodes about St.Anne....
But a Pokémon fanfic isn't complete without a sinking passenger-ship...
And I would like to give huge thanks to The Insane Vulpix, who by the way
will change her name to Hell Flame Vulpix very soon.. When my computer was
down, she offered to review my story over e-mail... Thank you!
Enjoy!
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Jason woke up in a world where everything was upside down...
He was lying on the ceiling, and all the furniture were nailed on the floor. So the floor was the ceiling, and the ceiling was the floor.... (I'll stop explaining that, since you know what I mean...)
Teddyursa was lying next to him, and he slowly got on his feets.
Carrie stood by the circle-shaped window, and gazed out in the water.
"Where are we?" Jason asked, as he picked up Teddyursa in his arms.
"On the bottom of the sea" Carrie replied with a sad voice. "The ship has sunk, and it also turned upside-down during the process, so we kind of, stand on the ceiling right now..."
"Well, I've noticed that. Well, anyway, we must work our way up, since the water will reach those areas last of all."
They walked for almost half an hour. They had to climb on the most unusual ways to get to the next rooms, and when they reached the machine-room, they were both exhausted.
"We are as high as we can get" Jason said and sat down on the floor. Teddyursa sat in his lap.
Suddenly, he started to laugh.
"Carrie" he said, smiling. "Have you thought about, that we sit here in a dress and a suit..."
Carrie also started to laugh, but she soon stopped.
"How are we going to get out of here?" she asked, with sadness in her voice. "It's at least 200 metres to surface, and we can never swim that far. We would drown before we even got halfway up. All we can do is sit here, and wait..."
"Wait on what?" Jason asked. "For the water to come and kill us, huh?"
He couldn't stand anymore. The last two weeks had been really rough. He calmed himself.
"There must be a way out of here" he said. "But we gotta find it fast, because the water will reach us within an hour."
Carrie buried her face in her hands.
"We're going to die!" she sniffled.
"No, we're not" Jason softly said to calm her down.
"Yes we are!" she said, punching her fists into the wall." We might as well commit suicide by shooting ourselfs with a revolver!"
Suddenly, Jason got an idea.
He looked in his backpack for the broschure about SS.Pearl, and when he'd found it, he carefully looked through the text several times to make sure that he was right.
"Carrie..." he said, pointing at the broschure. "You're a genius!"
"W-What?"
"We'll shoot us out of here! This is an old war-ship, isn't it?"
Carrie nodded, not sure what Jason was planning.
"We'll shoot us out from the torpedo-room! By using the mecanism, we can fire ourselfs out like a human torpedo!"
"The plan might work" Carrie said. "But this ship has been renovated. What if they renovated the torpedo-room to?"
"You're right..." Jason replied, staring into the wall. "But it's the only chance we've got. The torpedo-room is in the other end of the ship. We should be able to reach it before the water fills it."
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The water reached Jasons waist as he with heavy steps made his way towards the torpedo-room.
Carrie walked after him, and her whole body was shaking like a leaf in the wind.
"H-How far?" she asked.
"We should be there anytime now, Carrie" Jason said. "Just keep walking"
Jason climbed onto a large box, and he was just about to jump into the next room, when he spotted a black wire in the water.
"Oh god...." he said, and raised an eyebrow. "The wire electrifies the water, Carrie. We'll become roasted chicken if we go down there. And it's twenty metres to the next door, so we cant jump."
"That means we're stuck here..."
Jason sat down, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't find a solution to the problem.
"Think, think Jason...." he repeated to himself over and over again.
After five more minutes, Jason suddenly shouted right out, making Carrie jump high in the air.
"Bulbasaur!" he said. "It's vine whips can be our bridge to the other side!"
Carrie threw a sceptical look on Jason.
"I don't think it's a good idea, Jason" she started, but Jason silenced her with a hand-gesture.
"It's our only chance."
"Okay, Jason. But if I fall down in the water, you can be damn sure that you are the one who's gonna pay for my funeral."
"Carrie..." Jason said. "We're at the bottom of the sea. There won't be no funeral!"
"Okay, okay" Carrie said, letting out a sigh. "Well, I guess we'll have to try."
Jason nodded.
"Bulbasaur, I choose you!"
Bulbasaur materialized in front of them.
"Use your vine whips to grab the edge on the opposite side" Jason commanded, pointing towards the other side of the room.
Bulbasaur did as it was told, and Jason took a deep breath.
"You're first, Teddyursa" he said to his loyal friend. "Hold on tight to the vine whips. If you lose your grip, there will be no more honey for you..."
Teddyursa gave Jason a scared look, and Jason smiled when he realised that Teddyursa would miss the honey the most...
"Go on now, Teddyursa. And hold on tight."
Teddyursa crawled out on the vine whips, and Jason started to pray. The vine whips seemed stabilized, but if his bad luck would continue, Bulbasaur would lose its grip any moment now...
But Teddyursa safely reached the other side, and Jason let out a sigh of relief as he wiped the sweat off his forehead.
"It's your turn, Carrie"
Carrie nodded. She crawled out on the vine whips, and carefully she moved centimeter by centimeter towards the other side.
"Hold on, Bulbasaur!" Jason said. "Hold on!"
Carrie finally managed to reach the other side, where she took up Teddyursa in her arms.
Jason took a deep breath and looked down on the electrified water.
"Well, at least you'll have plenty of food if I fall down" he said, trying to cheer Carrie up.
But she didn't laugh at all.
"Can you handle it Bulbasaur?" Jason asked his Pokémon, who nodded back. "Okay, here we go..."
He crawled over the water, grabbing the vine whips with both his hands as he pulled himself forward.
He had almost reached the middle of the room when Bulbasaur lost its grip.
Jason gave up a screech as he fell down towards his death in the electrified water.
But something happened, and Carrie couldn't utter a single word.
Jason was levitating over the water, as if he had a piece of glass under his body, keeping him from touching the water.
"What's happening?" he asked, confused.
"The electricity...." Carrie mumbled. "It has created an invisible power field which rejects all materia. You're floating on a electric power field!"
"W-What?"
"Hurry, before the effect fades!" Carrie shouted.
Jason safely reached the other side, and he recalled Bulbasaur in its Pokéball.
"Oh my god..." Carrie whispered. "The chance of the creation of a power- field like that, is one in a million... "
She hugged him and gave him a kiss on his cheek.
"I thought you would die, Jason!"
They sat there for almost ten minutes, catching their breath, before they headed into the torpedo-room.
"Well, the luck is on our side right now" Carrie said. "This room hasn't been renovated as the others."
"Teddyursa, go back inside your Pokéball" Jason said, but Teddyursa shook its head.
"Aw, we don't have time to argue, Teddyursa. In twenty minutes, this ship will be an aquarium and if you don't cooperate, there will be two dead persons and a dead little bear in it too. Go back into the Pokéball, and I'll get you some honey later, OK?"
Teddyursa went into the Pokéball, and Jason clipsed it onto his belt.
"Carrie, I want you to crawl into the torpedo-hatch. I'll press the mecanism, and then we'll have ten seconds before we'll get launched towards the surface."
Carrie did as she was told, but just before Jason was about to press the red button, she asked how he knew all that.
"Well, I've seen a few action-movies" he said, smiling and pressed the red button.
He closed the hatch, and he started to count down the seconds.
"Here we go, Carrie. Don't lose me in the water!"
And suddenly, they were launched towards the surface as a human torpedo consisting of two twelve year old children.
Towards the freedom.
But something happened on the way.
Suddenly, Jason felt a strong tentacle grabbing his foot, and he lost his grip of Carrie as he was dragged back towards the bottom of the deep, dark sea...
Jason woke up in a world where everything was upside down...
He was lying on the ceiling, and all the furniture were nailed on the floor. So the floor was the ceiling, and the ceiling was the floor.... (I'll stop explaining that, since you know what I mean...)
Teddyursa was lying next to him, and he slowly got on his feets.
Carrie stood by the circle-shaped window, and gazed out in the water.
"Where are we?" Jason asked, as he picked up Teddyursa in his arms.
"On the bottom of the sea" Carrie replied with a sad voice. "The ship has sunk, and it also turned upside-down during the process, so we kind of, stand on the ceiling right now..."
"Well, I've noticed that. Well, anyway, we must work our way up, since the water will reach those areas last of all."
They walked for almost half an hour. They had to climb on the most unusual ways to get to the next rooms, and when they reached the machine-room, they were both exhausted.
"We are as high as we can get" Jason said and sat down on the floor. Teddyursa sat in his lap.
Suddenly, he started to laugh.
"Carrie" he said, smiling. "Have you thought about, that we sit here in a dress and a suit..."
Carrie also started to laugh, but she soon stopped.
"How are we going to get out of here?" she asked, with sadness in her voice. "It's at least 200 metres to surface, and we can never swim that far. We would drown before we even got halfway up. All we can do is sit here, and wait..."
"Wait on what?" Jason asked. "For the water to come and kill us, huh?"
He couldn't stand anymore. The last two weeks had been really rough. He calmed himself.
"There must be a way out of here" he said. "But we gotta find it fast, because the water will reach us within an hour."
Carrie buried her face in her hands.
"We're going to die!" she sniffled.
"No, we're not" Jason softly said to calm her down.
"Yes we are!" she said, punching her fists into the wall." We might as well commit suicide by shooting ourselfs with a revolver!"
Suddenly, Jason got an idea.
He looked in his backpack for the broschure about SS.Pearl, and when he'd found it, he carefully looked through the text several times to make sure that he was right.
"Carrie..." he said, pointing at the broschure. "You're a genius!"
"W-What?"
"We'll shoot us out of here! This is an old war-ship, isn't it?"
Carrie nodded, not sure what Jason was planning.
"We'll shoot us out from the torpedo-room! By using the mecanism, we can fire ourselfs out like a human torpedo!"
"The plan might work" Carrie said. "But this ship has been renovated. What if they renovated the torpedo-room to?"
"You're right..." Jason replied, staring into the wall. "But it's the only chance we've got. The torpedo-room is in the other end of the ship. We should be able to reach it before the water fills it."
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The water reached Jasons waist as he with heavy steps made his way towards the torpedo-room.
Carrie walked after him, and her whole body was shaking like a leaf in the wind.
"H-How far?" she asked.
"We should be there anytime now, Carrie" Jason said. "Just keep walking"
Jason climbed onto a large box, and he was just about to jump into the next room, when he spotted a black wire in the water.
"Oh god...." he said, and raised an eyebrow. "The wire electrifies the water, Carrie. We'll become roasted chicken if we go down there. And it's twenty metres to the next door, so we cant jump."
"That means we're stuck here..."
Jason sat down, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't find a solution to the problem.
"Think, think Jason...." he repeated to himself over and over again.
After five more minutes, Jason suddenly shouted right out, making Carrie jump high in the air.
"Bulbasaur!" he said. "It's vine whips can be our bridge to the other side!"
Carrie threw a sceptical look on Jason.
"I don't think it's a good idea, Jason" she started, but Jason silenced her with a hand-gesture.
"It's our only chance."
"Okay, Jason. But if I fall down in the water, you can be damn sure that you are the one who's gonna pay for my funeral."
"Carrie..." Jason said. "We're at the bottom of the sea. There won't be no funeral!"
"Okay, okay" Carrie said, letting out a sigh. "Well, I guess we'll have to try."
Jason nodded.
"Bulbasaur, I choose you!"
Bulbasaur materialized in front of them.
"Use your vine whips to grab the edge on the opposite side" Jason commanded, pointing towards the other side of the room.
Bulbasaur did as it was told, and Jason took a deep breath.
"You're first, Teddyursa" he said to his loyal friend. "Hold on tight to the vine whips. If you lose your grip, there will be no more honey for you..."
Teddyursa gave Jason a scared look, and Jason smiled when he realised that Teddyursa would miss the honey the most...
"Go on now, Teddyursa. And hold on tight."
Teddyursa crawled out on the vine whips, and Jason started to pray. The vine whips seemed stabilized, but if his bad luck would continue, Bulbasaur would lose its grip any moment now...
But Teddyursa safely reached the other side, and Jason let out a sigh of relief as he wiped the sweat off his forehead.
"It's your turn, Carrie"
Carrie nodded. She crawled out on the vine whips, and carefully she moved centimeter by centimeter towards the other side.
"Hold on, Bulbasaur!" Jason said. "Hold on!"
Carrie finally managed to reach the other side, where she took up Teddyursa in her arms.
Jason took a deep breath and looked down on the electrified water.
"Well, at least you'll have plenty of food if I fall down" he said, trying to cheer Carrie up.
But she didn't laugh at all.
"Can you handle it Bulbasaur?" Jason asked his Pokémon, who nodded back. "Okay, here we go..."
He crawled over the water, grabbing the vine whips with both his hands as he pulled himself forward.
He had almost reached the middle of the room when Bulbasaur lost its grip.
Jason gave up a screech as he fell down towards his death in the electrified water.
But something happened, and Carrie couldn't utter a single word.
Jason was levitating over the water, as if he had a piece of glass under his body, keeping him from touching the water.
"What's happening?" he asked, confused.
"The electricity...." Carrie mumbled. "It has created an invisible power field which rejects all materia. You're floating on a electric power field!"
"W-What?"
"Hurry, before the effect fades!" Carrie shouted.
Jason safely reached the other side, and he recalled Bulbasaur in its Pokéball.
"Oh my god..." Carrie whispered. "The chance of the creation of a power- field like that, is one in a million... "
She hugged him and gave him a kiss on his cheek.
"I thought you would die, Jason!"
They sat there for almost ten minutes, catching their breath, before they headed into the torpedo-room.
"Well, the luck is on our side right now" Carrie said. "This room hasn't been renovated as the others."
"Teddyursa, go back inside your Pokéball" Jason said, but Teddyursa shook its head.
"Aw, we don't have time to argue, Teddyursa. In twenty minutes, this ship will be an aquarium and if you don't cooperate, there will be two dead persons and a dead little bear in it too. Go back into the Pokéball, and I'll get you some honey later, OK?"
Teddyursa went into the Pokéball, and Jason clipsed it onto his belt.
"Carrie, I want you to crawl into the torpedo-hatch. I'll press the mecanism, and then we'll have ten seconds before we'll get launched towards the surface."
Carrie did as she was told, but just before Jason was about to press the red button, she asked how he knew all that.
"Well, I've seen a few action-movies" he said, smiling and pressed the red button.
He closed the hatch, and he started to count down the seconds.
"Here we go, Carrie. Don't lose me in the water!"
And suddenly, they were launched towards the surface as a human torpedo consisting of two twelve year old children.
Towards the freedom.
But something happened on the way.
Suddenly, Jason felt a strong tentacle grabbing his foot, and he lost his grip of Carrie as he was dragged back towards the bottom of the deep, dark sea...