There were a bunch of orangish fish along the water known as Magikarp, including a giant one that was actually a robot ship.
"What the heck?" Akito said as he now swam up to it and began to knock on his proving it was made out of metal.
The knock seemed to make three voices cry out. This startled Akito and decided that maybe he should just go on his way and up to the surface and see if he could hitch a ride on a boat. And where he swam up to find a boat along with some Pokemon and people on the boat.
"Do you guys see anything?" one boy with spiked black hair in a vest with a red and white hat asked.
"I think we're okay..." the girl with spiky orange hair said as she held a Pokemon called a Togepi in her arms like she always has.
"Pika..." a yellow Pokemon known as a Pikachu wandered, then saw Akito and looked startled a bit. "PIKA PIIIII!" he sounded alarmed from stranger danger.
"What, a stranger, where?!" The girl with long black hair exclaimed and then began to look around.
Pikachu clung to the girl like a surrogate mother.
"There, there, it's okay, Pikachu..." the girl tried to calm the Pokemon.
The boy with the hat came over and looked for the 'stranger'. "Anyone out there?" he asked, a little protectively in case this stranger was a threat.
"Down here." Akito said as he was now right next to the boat's side.
The people and the Pokemon looked down to see Akito.
"PIIIIIKAAAAAA!" Pikachu spazzed out, nearly electrocuting his trainer.
"PIKACHU, CALM DOWN!" the boy tried to settle the electric based Pokemon. "Sorry... He gets weird around new people..." he said to Akito apologetically.
"It's okay, but is he a Pikachu?" Akito asked, knowing all about Pokemon, especially since he watched every episode before and after reading and watching mystery movies and novels.
"Oh, yes, my first and best Pokemon," the boy smiled. "By the way, my name's Ash Ketchum."
The red-haired girl came over, holding her Togepi. "Oh, my... Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm okay, but, um, mind helping me get into your boat?" Akito asked, extending his hand out to them.
"Sure, come here." the stronger tan boy held out his hand to Akito, trying not to get pulled into the ocean himself.
The girl with black hair also helped Akito out of the ocean and onto the boat they were surprised at what they saw. The red-haired girl went to get a towel, then noticed the tail fin before it disappeared and became legs. In the distance, there was an older teenage girl with wavy black hair with a ponytail and ocean blue eyes. She swam away from the boat, quickly going off like she was about to warn someone about something. No one else ever saw her.
"Whew, thanks," Akito said. "By the way, my name is Akito Fudo."
"Hi, Akito." Ash smiled.
"I'm Misty," the red-haired girl smiled. "I'm so glad you're not hurt."
"Yeah, that'd be messy, the name's Tracey." the tan boy added.
"Emi, come meet our guest!" Ash called to the black-haired girl who seemed to resemble the woman Akito met earlier by accident.
"Coming, bro," The black-haired girl said as she made her way over to them. "Hello, I'm Emi and it's so nice to meet you..."
Everything became silent as Emi and Akito's eyes met and felt like they were the only two there.
"This is my sister, Emi," Ash said, then noticed that Akito didn't respond in anyway. "Uhh... Akito?"
"He looks like Brock when he sees Nurse Joy." Misty smirked a little.
"Can he help it if Nurse Joy just looks so beautiful!" Tracey retorted.
Misty rolled her crystal blue eyes slightly. "You okay?"
"Yeah... Fine..." Akito rubbed his bandanna covered head, but then noticed it wasn't there. "WHERE'S MY BANDANNA!? Mom gave me that on my first birthday!"
"Calm down, it's just a bandanna." Tracey told him.
"It's not just a bandanna!" Akito seemed to be freaking out.
"Hey, it's gonna be okay... We'll help you... And maybe find your family too... They must be worried." Ash smiled apologetically.
"Yeah, they must be, I got separated from them by a storm and I also have to find my twin sister and cousin." Akito said.
They then noticed a bandanna floating in the water.
Meanwhile, the older teenage girl came away from the ocean, then dried her feet and her hair a little.
"Melody, there you are!" Eric rushed to his daughter.
"Hey, Dad..." Melody looked to him. "I saw this other merboy, but I haven't seen him before."
"Are you sure?" Eric looked curious.
"Yeah..." Melody nodded. "Do you think Mom might know him?"
"We'll have to ask, she's waiting for you in the dining room anyway." Eric took his daughter inside their home by the ocean.
"Okay, I'm coming." Melody said.
The crimson-haired now land woman and current queen, Ariel was at the dinner table, wearing her formal purple dress as Chef Louise stood by, waiting to serve the royal family.
"Mom... I have to ask you something I saw from my swim," Melody said to her mother. "It's very important."
"Okay, we'll talk about it once we're alone." Ariel smiled as Louise served them before returning to the kitchen.
"But, Mom, it's very, very important." Melody said.
"We're going to eat now, honey, it can wait..." Ariel told her daughter.
Melody sighed, then gave in as she ate the best food anyone her age could be given. She couldn't hold it in any longer. "Mom, I have to tell you RIGHT NOW!"
Ariel sighed. "Okay, Melody... Chef Louise, could we have some privacy."
"Of course, madame..." the chef tipped his toque to her, then went into the kitchen.
Eric looked with a smile to his daughter. "So, what's so important that couldn't wait?"
Melody bit her lip as she tapped her fingers around the napkin she was holding. "I saw a merboy that I had never seen before..." she whispered. "But... He seemed so human... He wore a shirt and a bandanna..."
Ariel and Eric looked puzzled, they never heard anyone under the sea that seemed like that.
"I'm serious, I saw him, I don't know, but he had a red tail fin..." Melody tried to back up her story, she felt like she wasn't believed.
"Very strange, I've never heard or met any merboy like the one you saw before." Ariel said.
"You don't think maybe Ursula or Morgana are back...?" Melody looked a little worried.
"I really doubt it, honey, they're both long gone now." Eric tried to calm his daughter.
"What about Evil Manta or Marina Del Rey?" Melody hadn't met Marina, but had heard a story of her once as a bedtime story before she knew that the stories she was told about the ocean were true. "Maybe they're in disguise trying to plague the ocean."
"I'll ask Daddy if he's seen anything odd, but I doubt that's the case." Ariel tried to soothe her daughter's worries. She was curious herself of who this strange new merboy was.
They all then went back to eating.
Meanwhile, back with the group, Ash's Lapras grabbed the bandanna and brought it over to them.
"Thanks, Lapras." Ash smiled, then got the bandanna back and dried it out, giving it to Akito.
Akito smiled and tied the bandanna back on his head where it belonged. "That's better."
"Pika!" Pikachu smiled, he seemed to have grown fond of the new boy now.
"Hey there, boy," Akito said, bending down to the Pokemon, then petting it. "Man, this is amazing, I didn't know that Pokemon were real."
Pikachu purred from the petting.
"Oh, yes, they are," Misty smiled. "They do sound a little odd to some people, I admit, but they're great companions and fun to train with... If only I could train Togepi though."
"Pikachu was Ash's first Pokemon." Emi smiled as she remembered that day.
"Also Professor Oak's idea." Ash added in with a chuckle.
"Professor Oak?" Akito said. "Well, anyways, where I'm from, we don't have any Pokemon, Pokeballs, or Pokedexes, we don't even have evolution stones."
"Your world sounds boring, little fella." Tracey chuckled a little, giving him a shove from Misty and Emi.
"Sorry about that," Emi said to Akito. "I just can't imagine a world without Pokemon."
"Me neither, maybe Pokemon are real and they just haven't showed themselves to the rest of the world, scared of how everyone will want to treat them." Akito said from his detective skills.
"Maybe that's it, we don't really know, but everyone we know at least has one." Emi shrugged.
"Do you also know Team Rocket?" Ash asked their new friend.
"Team Rocket? Hmm... No." Akito answered, truthfully.
"Team Rocket's the worst." Misty looked angry.
"Prepare for trouble and make it double." Ash mocked the dangerous duo with their talking Pokemon companion.
"Team Rocket is almost always after our Pikachu," Emi explained to Akito. "Jessie and James... They also have a Meowth that can talk. Their Boss wants Pikachu, but not just any for some reason... We always defeat them though and they go 'blasting off again', but they won't quit until they get what they come for."
"There are others though, but we mostly see those two, like there's Cassidy and Hutch." Misty added, getting the green-haired Team Rocket member's name wrong like always.
"They sound like their whole organization is evil while some of them are just plain annoying." Akito said.
"Oh, you have no idea." Emi said.
"Especially their Meowth..." Ash rolled his eyes.