Rescuing Peeko
Episode 18: Part 3

"I just...don't get it." Aria frowns.

"Maybe we should just head to the new port." Ash suggested.

"If we go now we might make it to the afternoon fairy." Brock said, agreeing with him.

A siren was caught in their ears as someone parked their motorcycle.

"Careful kids, this is a dangerous area." Officer Jenny said. "Wait, you're the children from yesterday."

"Wait, why did you say that it's dangerous here?" Ash asked. "Cause of the man from yesterday?"

"That's correct. The member of Team Aqua who broke into the Devon Corporation has escaped into this general area. Based on current information I contain, several of his colleagues are working to join up with them as we speak."

"You mean the whole rest of that gang, Team Aqua coming here?" May asked.

"From where and how soon?" Max asked.

Officer Jenny frowns, "That I don't know."

"Jenny, please! I know this my not be much, but I will do anything I can to help you with your man hunt." Brock proclaimed.

Jenny laughs at his response. "Haha, but you shouldn't do anything dangerous. I set up checkpoints all around Rustboro City. So he won't be escaping easily."

"Right!" The group exclaims.

"PIKA!" Pikachu says, raising his paw in the air.

Jenny then drives away, leaving a trail of dust behind her motorcycle.

"Bye Jenny! Good luck!" Brock said blushing.

"That Officer Jenny sure has a tough job." May pointed out.

"Yeah, it seems she's always going around looking for bad guys." Ash said.

"But, don't you think Team Aqua knows about those checkpoints that she set up?" Aria thought aloud.

Everyone glanced at her as she lightly shrugs.

"I mean, if there are a few people working for Team Aqua, they must have informed the one that we were fighting yesterday. If that's true, their going to want to meet up somewhere, but just where?"

"If they were hiding here, then they would be trying to stay out of sight of people." May pointed out.

"WRONG!" Brock shouted.

His outburst startled everyone as he continued to speak, "Now if Team Aqua is coming back for that guy, they'll need some sort of transportation, do you hear me?"

"Yeah, but having a vehicle is going to make them stick out like a sore thumb." Max pointed out as the two began to think. Then they all turn their attention to the sea.

"They'll need a boat!" They exclaimed.

"And the only boat that's around her is Mr. Briney's! Right?" Max asked.

Aria gasped. "That's right!" She said.

"This is not good!" Brock pointed out.

"So that's why, they want to use Mr. Briney's boat to meet up with Team Aqua!" Ash said.

"That means, Mr. Briney was just trying to protect us when trying not to know Aria and I." May said with widen eyes.

"We've got to hurry and fast!" Aria said as they rushed back to his house.

Ash began to pound on the door with his fist.

"Mr. Briney!" He called.

"I hope we're not to late." May said worriedly.

"Hey look, there's the dock!" Max pointed out.

"Stay away kids!" A voice shouted. "Team Aqua is here!"

A pokemon then turns the corner as the others come to a stop. It was a Crawdaunt, and it seemed to be carrying a cage with a pokemon inside.

"Peeko!" Aria exclaimed. "Its got him!"

"That's the Crawdaunt from yesterday!" Max pointed out.

Aria reached for a poke ball, but stops when she heard a laugh. She glanced up to find the Team Aqua grunt right before them.

"Not you again." He said. "You're really becoming an annoyance to me."

Everyone gasped in surprise. "It is you!" Brock exclaimed.

"Crawdaunt go!" The grunt commanded.

Aria now takes out a poke ball as Ash told Pikachu to fight as well. Aria calls out Electrike and the two pokemon charge towards Crawdaunt. But some sort of bags landed in front of them, causing dust to fly everywhere once it breaks. The group could remember the motto instantly as the smoke began to clear and revealed a familiar balloon.

"Team Rocket! What are you doing here?" Aria demanded.

"Always the same question, we're here for Pikachu, but we're taking Wingull too." Jessie said.

Then their eyes gaze at the Team Aqua grunt.

"Oh, so it's you again."

"Alright, so yesterday was a bust." James said.

"But, this time we're going to grab every pokemon possible." Meowth added.

"Really? Well I have my doubts." The Team Aqua grunt said.

"Oh yeah, we'll doubt this!" Meowth holds up remote as he pressed the buttom.

A vacuum comes out from the bottom of the balloon and started to suck in the pokemon. Pikachu and Electrike were both struggling to stay away from it, until they were pulled in. Aria and Ash tried to save them, but they were already sucked right in. Cradaunt managed to get its claw stuck in the ground to stay in place, but the handle broke on Peeko's cage and got him too.

"Lotad go!" Brock calls out his pokemon. "Use Water Gun!"

Team Rocket tenses, but laughed when Lotad only made a fountain of water. But then the real power came as it hit Team Rocket's balloon. It also hit the remote Meowth had in his hand and made it malfunction, cause the doors to open and drop, Pikachu, Electrike, and Peeko.

Both Pikachu and Electrike landed in the water and Peeko landed on the deck, but it didn't break the cage that it was trapped in.

"Peeko! I'm coming!" Mr. Briney rushed towards the terrified pokemon, but Crawdaunt beat him to it.

Ash and Aria quickly pull Pikachu and Electrike out of the water as they turn their attention back to Team Aqua.

"Crawdaunt, use Bubble Beam to blow the balloon away!" He demanded as Crawdaunt launched the attack right at Team Rocket, causing them to get blasted away.

The Team Aqua grunt grins in response as he began to head for Mr. Briney's boat. Mr. Briney tried to stop him, but he already got away with it. They took Peeko with them too!

"We have to save Peeko!" Aria exclaimed.

"But how are we going to do that with no boat?" Max asked.

"We've got to figure out a way!" Ash said.

"Alright, looks like I'm left with no other choice." They heard Mr. Briney say as they watched him enter his garage, but glancing at the others from over his shoulder. "Okay kids, come with me."

They obeyed, following him inside as he flipped a lever. The lights flickered on and the water began to turn into a whirlpool. Then it splits in have and separated as it revealed a hidden boat. It rises out as the water returned to normal. Everyone was in awe, amazed at what just happened. Aria gasped quietly as she realized the boat looked exactly like Peeko!

"Say hello to my high speed boat! The SSSWingull!" Mr. Briney announced.

"Okay, that's a ship!" Brock pointed out.

"It's a Wingull!" Ash added.

"We'll show Team Aqua a thing or two!" Mr. Briney said as the climbed onto the ship and started forth. "After retiring from the sea captain's life, my days became boring. One after another. And the trail of the seven seas drifted into the dark past and into a sad and lonely life. And then one day, my dear Peeko suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Watching that Wingull as it lived freely, flying through the skies. I felt the unmistakable power of my youth welling up inside of me again. Then, I knew that the time would come when I would travel the oceans once more, this time with my Peeko. That's why I built this boat."

In the next minutes, they finally caught up to the Team Aqua grunt and saw that he was heading for Triangle Rock.

"We need to slow him down!" Aria said as her and Electrike began to leave.

"Aria wait!" May tried to reason, but Aria was already on the roof of the ship.

"Electrike, use Spark!" Aria told her pokemon.

"Water Pulse!"

Before Electrike could even attack, a big wave a water passed over them as both Aria and Electrike grip tightly onto the boat. Once it cleared, they realized how far the Team Aqua Grunt has gotten.

"He's almost at Triangle Rock!" Aria exclaimed as she realized Ash and Pikachu was up there with her.

"We'll have to destroy the rock!" He said. Aria nodded.

"Right!"

"Pikachu, use Thunder!"

"And Electrike, use Spark once more!"

They launched their attacks right at the rock, but it only destroyed most of it, leaving on a base left of it sticking out of the water.

"There's still a lot left!" May exclaimed.

"Alright kids, hold on!" Mr. Briney told them as he increased the speed on the ship.

He took a quick turn before he was right next to the rock and the ship inches away from hitting them. Mr. Briney tips the ship slightly, and the boat went flying over both Ash and Aria as they watched it fly over the rock as well. It crashed right into the water as Aria's eyes widen.

"Peeko!"

She quickly dived into the water before Ash could stop her. She quickly swims towards Peeko, lifting the cage out of the water to save the pokemon.

"Peeko, are you okay?" She asked.

"Wing- Wingull!" It responded happily. Aria smiled.

"That's great to hear." Then she gasped once she noticed something emerge from the water, a large blue submarine. Aria watched as the same grunt from before go right inside of the submarine as Aria sighed. "Team Aqua... just who are those guys really?" She mumbled to herself.