Out of the sky flew a Murkrow. It landed on the edge of the boat next to Jack. I watched from below the deck, where the Murkrow, named Sal couldn't see me. Suddenly the Murkrow flew off and Jack scampered over to me, "alright, Sal said that all the Pokémon are being held on a massive boat just southwest of here."

"Well, how are we going to get out there," I asked.

Leon smiled, "I think I know a guy."

Out of the ocean rose a familiar face that brought a grin to my face. "Well, well, well," Mag said, "It's good to see you again kid." Jack groaned. "You've got to be kidding. This guy? Really?" Mag smiled down at Jack, "Nice to see you too." I rolled my eyes.

"Mag, do you know where the really big ship just southwest of here is?"

"Yes, I've seen it, what about it?"

"We need to get onboard. Can you get us there?"

"Is a seasick Haunter green?"

"I—I don't know. Is it?"

"Hope you never find out. It's not pretty."

"So can you get us onboard or not," Jack said frustrated.

"Yes, I can."

"Then, let's go!"

Mag swam a little closer to the shore and turned around, "Alright, Get on!"

I looked around, there wasn't enough room for all of us. Jack seemed to read my mind and he pulled a pokéball off my belt, "This is how." I looked seriously at him, "You don't have to do that, you can stay here. This is my problem and I'll solve it."

Jack just looked up into my eyes and clicked the button on the ball. A red became shot out and he was pulled into the pokéball, and the ball fell to the ground. I picked up the ball and clicked it onto my belt. The others followed suit and then I had a belt with four filled pokéballs. I hopped onto Mags back, as he began swimming through the water.

After about twenty minutes we finally began to approach a huge boat just as the sun had finished setting and the moon rose over the sky.

"Alright," Mag said. "Hold your breath."

I breathed in deeply as I began to do dive. We swam until we approached the boat and surfaced beside it. Looking up I couldn't see any rope or ladders hanging off the side. "How am I gonna get onboard," I said quietly. Mag thought for a moment then said, "Get in my mouth."

"What!?"

"Just do it!"

Skeptically I climbed up and into Mags mouth. This is by far the weirdest thing ever, I thought. I sat halfway lodged in Mags mouth when suddenly I was shot up ten feet into the air and onto the boat. Water gun, I thought. I landed on top of a small red shipping container and the air was knocked from my lungs. I gasped desperately for air when I heard a voice say, "What was that?" Another voice responded, but it was something I couldn't hear and I scrambled off of the container and behind another.

I twisted and pulled the handle and surprisingly the container opened creakingly. I cringed as the hinges squeaked and I slipped inside. I pulled a pokéball off my belt and opened it. With the usual whooshing sound a beam of red light shot out and standing there was Leon, his tail now illuminating the container's interior. Around me, I was able to see multiple boxes and crates labeled with a string of numbers and then the names of the items. I pulled open a crate and found it was full of small red square devices with a camera mounted on the back. A Pokédex. I took one, sliding it into my wet pocket and hoping it was waterproof. Leon pulled open another crate and found it was full of small square devices that when turned on showed a map. "These are the islands," Leon said. "How'd they get these?"

"Satellites probably."

I took one of the maps and went back over to the door of the container I opened it as quietly as possible and slipped out while putting Leon back into his pokéball to get rid of the light putting off by his tail flame. I looked around and didn't see anyone so I slowly started making my way to the stern. I narrowly avoided patrolling members of Team Rocket and found a hatch near the bridge. I twisted open the handle and climbed down a ladder leading downwards.

I remembered playing Pokémon games and always the Pokémon on Team Rockets ship were kept in the bowels of the ship. I climbed down into what looked to be a very sterile floor likely used for living and experimentation. I shook my head and started walking down one of the white hospital-like hallways.

I can to a corner and turned left, I walked along until I came to a door through which I heard a quiet humming noise. I turned the knob and opened the door.

The room I was greeted in was some sort of laboratory filled with a dim, eerie green light. The lab was filled with strange equipment, tools, and x-ray scans hung on a board on the wall. The light was put off by a glowing screen mounted on the wall showing the anatomy of an unknown Pokémon, a table similar to an operating table sat in the middle of the room and I felt my stomach flip when I saw blotchy rust-like stains on the cold metal.

Then I heard murmuring. I looked at the far wall on the edge of the light. I could barely see the light. I could barely see the light reflecting on metal. A small lamp was set on a table near the wall, so I clicked it on and was horrified to see that the wall was made of stack, after stack of Pokémon locked in cages. The Pokémon almost all whimpered and cowered as I stepped closer.

"Don't worry," I said. "I'm here to save you." The Pokémon still seemed terrified, but now hopeful. They all wore locked collars attached around their necks and some of the larger Pokémon had chains around their legs.

I pulled on the handles of the cages, but they were all locked. I frantically searched through drawers and on shelves in the lab for the key. "He has it," a voice said suddenly. I looked over at one of the larger cages. A Gardevoir, no the Gardevoir. It was the very same Gardevoir I'd seen at the Legends Fair. "Who," I asked. I then heard a throat clear behind me. I turned and standing in the doorway was a man in a sharp suit, a man that was recognizable to any Pokémon fan. Giovanni, and in his hand he held up a small key on a black chord. "You know," he said. "I'm impressed, not only that you got aboard, but also that you were able to get this far without the aid of Pokémon."

"Your… Giovanni?"

"Oh, you've heard of me? Interesting. But, what interests me the most is how you came to be on that island. How did you get there and how long have you been there?"

"I- I was shipwrecked. It's only been a few days."

"Unfortunate. I feel as though your not telling me everything. So, Felix, what are you hiding?"

My heart sank, "How-"

"—Did I know your name? Well…"

As he said that a Pokémon walked out from behind him. A Wartortle. "This is my new friend Brin, and he has been such a help. As for how I knew your name…"

He tossed a small object towards me and I caught it. It was a square piece of plastic with writing and a picture on the front. My picture. It was my fishing license.

"I found that on a boat that crashed on the island. It seems that you weren't lying, but that card states you're a citizen of the United States, which I've never heard of. So then… where are you from?" As he said those words he stepped closer, by about two feet and he was now five feet away from me.

"I'm— not from around here."

"That much is obvious. But, where?"

"A very different world."

"Literally or figuratively? I'll assume literally, and by that case, I'll ask… show me."

"No. I know what kind of a man you are, there are always men who seek power at the expense of others."

"And here I thought we could be friends. Well fine then," he slipped the key into his pocket. "Too bad. Take him."

The Wartortle opened its mouth and shot out a beam of bubbles, and I dove out of the way. I pulled a pokéball off my belt and threw it. "Come on out Jack!" I smiled I'd always wanted to say that. Jack came out and instantly jumped back, Brin!?" I looked down at him, "You know the Wartortle?"

"Unfortunately."

Jack sparked and shot a lightning bolt at Brin, who dodged out of the way and shot another bubble beam at Jack. Giovanni just stood smiling as another Pokémon came out from behind him slinky. His Persian. I pulled another pokéball off my belt and threw it. It shot out the red light which revealed a Riolu.

"Riolu use double kick!"

Giovanni still kept his grin attached to his face. "Persian use scratch." Riolu jumped and kicked at Persian only for it to dodge behind him and scratch him across the back. I gasped. "Riolu are you ok?!" Riolu nodded at me and I narrowed my eyes. "Alright Riolu, watch the claws and use power-up punch!"

Then I turned to Jack, "Jack, use Thunderbolt!" Jack jumped up in the air and shot another thunderbolt at Brin, the thunderbolt hit Brin along the shell scorching a line across it.

Brin, now enraged shot a beam of water out of his mouth at Jack, who was barely hit and was knocked back. I pulled another pokéball off my belt and looked down at it.

"Get the cages open and get those Pokémon out of here!"

Out of the ball came Leon who nodded at me and turned to the cages, then he started melting the locks on the cages into metal slag. Giovanni stopped smiling and immediately said, "Persian stop them."

I motioned to Riolu, "Use double kick!" The Persian ran at Leon only to get kicked in the side twice by Riolu and hit the wall.

Leon kept melting cages. And out of one on the cages came a charging Rhyhorn. The Rhyhorn bellowed and charged at Giovanni.

Giovanni yelled out, "Persian!" Unfortunately for Giovanni, his Persian was laying on the floor next to the wall, leading him to desperately run away from the Rhyhorn, only to fail and be rammed by it.

He flew through air and hit the wall groaning. The Rhyhorn didn't stop and instead charged through the door and down the hall. I ran over to Giovanni, bent down, and pulled the key out of his pocket, as I drew my hand back with the key his hand shot out and grabbed my wrist.

"This… isn't over..." I looked down on him and he finally slumped down unconscious, his hand falling to the floor.

I ran over to the cage and handed Leon the key. Meanwhile Riolu has started to fight Brin with Jack. Once Brin caught notice of Giovanni's unconscious body, he turned and ran, as Jack and Riolu started to chase.

I decided to call them off by shouting to them, "Stop! He's not worth it! Help us get these cages open!" Jack hesitated then turned and ran over with Riolu.

We opened the cages and several of the Pokémon inside helped us pull open more cages, while other just ran out the door. As I turned to watch them go I noticed Giovanni was gone, but his Persian was still slumped by the wall. In the hall I heard yelling and as I looked out I saw Team Rocket grunts wielding shock batons and tranquilizer guns, but they were being quickly overrun by the charging Pokémon.

We freed the last of the Pokémon and I returned Riolu, Jack, and Leon back to their pokéballs, as I ran down the hall, towards the fighting Pokémon and grunts.

I ran up pulled out a pokéball, "Go Oscar!" The red light shot out and Oscar was their standing beside me.

"Clear the way!" I shouted.

The Pokémon parted and then there, was just a empty path straight to the line of Team Rocket grunts.

"Oscar, use water gun!"

The grunts started to turn when a jet of water slammed into the line, and proceeded to knock down a group of grunts, as the Pokémon surged forward with new strength and finally, the line broke of grunts that were now all knocked down or running.

I made it to the deck of the ship and back to the side where Mag had been.

"Over here!" I called back to the Pokémon.

Mag surfaced and several of the Pokémon on the boat jumped off and hung onto Mag, then several mor Lapras surfaced and began helping the Pokémon escape. "I brought some help." Mag smirked.

Suddenly, a loud boom shook the ship and fire bloomed near the bridge, I pulled my pokéball belt off and handed it to Oscar, "Get them out of here!"

"Where are you going?"

"I've got to find a way to stop them from ever coming back here."

I ran towards the ships bridge and opened the door to the building then ran to the very top of it. Sitting at the controls of the ship was Giovanni. I walked over to him.

"I can't let you come back here."

He just stared at me. His left eye was swollen shut and his designer suit was now torn and his right sleeves was missing up to the elbow. He turned in the chair and pressed a key on one of the consoles mounted on the controls.

"Now it's done! This Island has been deleted from our records completely…Go!"

I stared for a moment before he turned around with tears in his eyes. "You… snapped Persians neck when it hit the wall." I watched a tear run down his face, "I'm... sorry." I said as guilt began to wash all over me.

"JUST GO! It's over now..." He said as another tear was revealed.

As I ran back down the stairs I could hear him begin to sob. Several grunts ran up the stairs after I reached the bottom, likely to get their boss. I ran out of the bridge building as another explosion shook the ship, this time however, the explosion originated near the crane meant for loading containers, which then proceeded to fall sideways into the ocean.

It sank until it apparently became lodged on something and only the last five feet of its base stuck up out of the ocean like a broken and jagged tooth. The fire on the ship was spreading and I no longer saw any Pokémon or grunts, but I also noticed the missing lifeboats and a helicopter took off from the top of the bridge and flew away.

I made my way back to the side of the boat near where Mag was and I jumped overboard just as another explosion shook the boat behind me. I landed in the water and swam up to the surface gasping, around me I saw nothing but the burning ship in the water, until a very familiar Lapras swam up with a familiar Totodile on his back, "Need a ride?"