A/N: Hey everyone, glad to see you're enjoying this fic. I've had time to write a couple chapters and the third one (it's in two parts) will be up possibly sometime tonight and tomorrow! I hope you all enjoy this one, it's filled with incomprehensible fluff!

Next chapter: It's the annual father/daughter picnic and May is planning on going with her father...that is, if he can make it.

"Pancakes for breakfast!" Archie chimed from the kitchen as he slapped several utensils together to alert the rest of the rousing team. Maxie threw his hands to his ears and May just eyed the smoking stove with eager blue eyes as ingredients were put out on the counters and aromas rose from the silver pans.

"What will we have this morning?" Archie mused as he tossed out different colored stencils onto the table in front of May, and the girl leaned forward to examine them extensively. At last she pointed to a fat green one. "Wailmer pancakes!"

"Wailmer pancakes?"

"Wailmer pancakes!"

"Wailmer pancakes!"

Maxie simply rolled his eyes behind a cup of tea and tried to ignore the childish display. Archie wasn't mature to begin with, but for some reason he seemed to act even more like an excited little kid when he was with either of the children—especially May. "It alludes me how the two of you find a pancake with a face to be so fascinating."

Archie tossed a gooey batter into one of the pans and then shoved the concoction over to a blindsided Shelly (despite the fact he did this nearly every morning). "Alright, get cooking!"

"Me?!"

"You don't want the pancakes to look like Maxie's camerupt got to them, do you? That's what would happen if I cooked! Besides, cooking is women's work!" He turned back to the breakfast table and missed the way Shelly pulled down her eyelid at his back in retribution.

"You're so charismatic, Archie," Maxie remarked with a snort. "It's no wonder how no woman ever wanted you."

"Nope, just skinny nerds apparently!" Maxie shot him a look that could kill, but May only giggled, especially as Archie heaped their pancakes with practically an entire jug of maple syrup. Maxie made a face of disgust.

"Don't you two realize what you're doing to your cholesterol? How can you eat something positively dripping with calories? You need nutrition!"

"You're right," Archie agreed seriously, nodding his head slowly in contemplation. "It's missing something... More maple syrup!" He cheered as he drenched their breakfast in even more.

"Ugh..."

"You know what these pancakes make me think of?" Archie mused as he stared up at the golden, crisp eyes of the wailmer pancakes sitting in front of him. He took a large bite out of them. "Wailmer watching!" Maxie twitched and froze rigid, but no one noticed. "It's the perfect time for it, the middle of summer!"

Maxie's face became even pastier than usual. He looked like he could pass out. Once that sparkle for adventure came into Archie and May's eyes there was no going back. "May I remind the both of you that the team has plenty of wailmer already that you can watch! We certainly don't need to be out on dangerous waters to see them!"

"Yeah, but it isn't the same as seeing the big guys out in the wild! Besides, it's a great day and I'm sure the little scamps could use some adventure!" He ruffled May's hair affectionately. "It'll get us out of the base!"

"You mean we are going out into the...sea?" the smaller man asked meekly. He felt like he had shrunken two sizes into his chair.

"Yeah, nerd boy, the sea! You know, water?" He knocked his head. "H20 in nerd speak?" Maxie swatted him away, but any attempt to open his mouth was thwarted by Archie and May's eager babbling about the sights they'd see, so he dejectedly lowered his head in defeat.

"Ahoy knave! Preparations complete, Captain Matt?" The leader of Team Aqua asked as he hefted a picnic basket full of food into the side of the ship.

"Hahaha! Captain! What a good one, bro! No one could replace you as the captain! But we're ready to set sail! All we've gotta do now is wait for the little munchkins! What a trip this'll be!"

The bridge dropped to the dock and everyone watched as Maxie dragged his body into the ship, face as white and sweaty as if he was heading to his own execution.

"Geez, nerd boy, you look like someone told you to jump into a volcano!"

"That would be preferable to this..."

"Ah look, it's the scamps!" Archie exclaimed, his face stretching into a wide grin as he watched one, two, three children run up to the dock.

"Archie!" Brendan exclaimed, waving to the entire team. They exuberantly waved back in greeting. "Hey, sorry we're late! We picked up a friend—hope it's okay if he tags along!"

A green haired youngster, looking to be a couple years behind May and Brendan piped up shyly from behind his friends. "If it's okay, I'd like to join you all today. I really want to see wild wailmer and spend some time with my friends! I mean, if it's alright."

"We didn't authorize extra guests," Maxie snipped, but Archie shoved him back and smiled warmly at Wally. "We've wanted to meet you, Wally! Come aboard!"

The boy climbed the wooden steps into the boat and gazed about in awe. Wally hadn't been around the region too much on his own, but thanks to May's adventuring he had a taste of a few new areas. The girl had practically visited every land by now. "This is amazing! I'm so excited to be able to see this all! Thank you for letting me come aboard!" It was then that Wally's eyes drifted up to the joint blue and red flag of the boat and he paled. "Wait, you're Team Magma and Team Aqua?" he squeaked in fear. "You mean the evil people that tried to take over the world?"

Both Archie and Maxie winced. "Ouch..."

"Can't say the scamp doesn't have a point..."

"Wally's never been on a boat before," Brendan said to change the subject as they pulled up the bridge. "He's never been wailmer watching either. I hope we get a chance to see all kinds of pokemon today!"

"Well saddle up and prepare for liftoff!"

"Archie, that's for spaceships..."

"Castaway then! We set sail now!"

Maxie sighed and adjusted his glasses, gazing down at the waves with trepidation. "Very well, Courtney, set the coordinates for just off of Dewford. Meanwhile, I have some nausea medication to take..."

"Aye-aye, Captain Maxie!" Courtney exclaimed cheerfully and drew out the map. "When I was a little girl I used to love to watch wailmers. It's just something that all kids have to do at some point. We did it with my mom and my brothers."

Wally's shoulders fell for the tenth of a second before he pulled them back up again. "My family didn't leave the house too much. They're very protective of me and I haven't been able to do much until now. It's never been fair, but I know they mean well."

May clicked her tongue. "Archie and Maxie have no limits when it comes to adventuring! We do anything and everything!"

"Yes," Maxie agreed with a gripe. "Although I wish we'd take less sea expeditions and more land ones. There's plenty of volcanoes still left to explore." Archie fixed him with a deadpan stare.

"So taking the little scamps to a volcano with lava is perfectly A-okay but taking them on a boat that's going maybe 20 miles an hour is too dangerous?"

"...Yes."

"Boy I wonder if I can catch a good water pokemon!" Brendan exclaimed excitedly, flipping through his pokedex for the possibilities. "There's gotta be all sorts where we're going!"

"Aye, there is," Archie told him. "But the wailmers are probably going to be splashing around and scaring everything away. I can take you fishing another day!"

"Do you think we can have a chance to ride them?" Wally asked eagerly and the children nodded in agreement.

"Absolutely not!" Maxie finally exploded, glaring each dumbfounded child down. "Do you realize what a dangerous stunt that would be? We'll be in the sea, and you'll be riding a wild animal! Why, their behavior is positively unpredictable! And if you don't have the proper safety equipment you can drown!" No one, as usual, was listening to Maxie. They were staring intently into the distance, where the sun touched the water and made it sparkle.

"I see splashes!" Brendan exclaimed and the children rose from the seats eagerly. Sure enough there were large forms poking in and out of the water, their sounds echoing across the waves. The children nearly broke the railings rattling them in excitement. "Hey, there they are!"

"Officially in Dewford waters!" Matt called from the stern. "And goes without saying, but the wailmers are right dead ahead! Oh I'm just loving this!"

"Oh they're so beautiful!" May squealed.

Maxie scoffed lightly. "We have several back at the base. I'm sure if you wanted you could ride those."

"Hey, we should let our pokemon in on this!" The three children pulled several pokeballs out of their pockets and threw the capsules into the air. Almost everyone else on ship followed suit. Maxie simply arched up against the sail and slipped on psyduck water wings. Archie roared.

"Bwahahaha! Are you serious, Maxie? They sell those for kids!"

"You can never be too careful!"

The boat came to a halt as Shelly dropped the anchor (taking care to make sure none of the wailmers were swimming in range before doing so). "Alright!" she announced, chuckling as she dropped the map and put away her pokedex. "I guess we don't need the pokemon scanner right now."

"This is the best," Wally breathed out and May and Brendan beamed, sharing his excitement. "Oh I never could have pictured I'd be so close to a hoard of wailmers. Look!" He pointed over to where a large mass was rising from the water and crooning. "A wailord!"

May took a running leap and catapulted herself off the side of the railing, falling quickly to the wailord below and landing on its back.

"MAY!" Maxie yelled, his calm demeanour shattered as his glasses nearly fell off his face. "Get back here right now young lady!" As if to make a point of how little his orders meant, the following children jumped off the side as well. "Children!" Maxie exclaimed furiously. "I am giving you all to the count of three-! One, two-"

"LOOK OUT BELOW!" Archie yelled as he leaped off next and Maxie instantly knew he'd be better off yelling at a brick wall. The leader of Team Aqua tumbled across the waillord's back, up to the children and pokemon. "Now this is the kind of ride you don't get to have every day!"

May's swampert and Brendan's grovyle roared happily, walking the large whale's back and hopping from wailmer to wailmer like living stepping stones.

"This is such an amazing experience," Wally gasped, eyes flashing in wonderment as they took in the sights below: ocean ripples on the sea floor and schools of luvdiscs and corsola. "I never thought I'd be able to interact with water pokemon so closely!"

"Oh we do this sort of stuff every day!" Archie exclaimed and grabbed a playful hold of May and Brendan's arms, yanking them into the water with a splash that scared away a school of chinchou. "Hey little scamps, look below," he said, directing their heads down to the ocean floor. Something shiny flashed and illuminated. A pearl.

"Bet you could sell that for big bucks," Brendan chuckled and they watched their pokemon eye the pearl and hastily try to swim towards it. It closed instantly as an angry cleampearl wrestled with them. Archie laughed and shook his head. "Under the water things aren't always as they seem. Remember that scamps! Like, a tentacruel could grip your foot any moment now!" May shrieked as the man grabbed her ankle and swatted his arm.

"You four!" Maxie shouted from the railing of the ship. "What are you doing? You are all going to get carried away by a waillord and you won't ever find your way home!"

"Oh Leader Maxie, have a sense of fun," Courtney giggled quietly, eyeing the water with curiosity and apprehension. Team Magma were so used to land expeditions that water almost seemed alien to them. Maxie despised water and it practically never existed in the old base. It was a wonder how he survived or...bathed. "Why don't you join them?"

"I refuse," Maxie snapped and slowly backed up to put more distance between him and the foreboding sea. "I'm quite fine in the ship-safe, and dry. If Archie wants to risk his life out in the sea where you don't know what's going to pop out and attack you he can be my guest, but we are responsible for those children!"

"Archie wouldn't ever let anything hurt the kids," Shelly said, clicking her tongue at the man. "Have more faith in your partner." She stared as the water suddenly bubbled at the surface and every wailmer splashing freely in the waves immediately disappeared. The ocean became deadly still other than that one rumble. Maxie gripped the edge of the rails in horror and Shelly prepared a pokeball. "Archie!" she yelled. "Get back to the boat, hurry!"

The small group stared in growing horror as the sea continued to bubble up until suddenly, with a large torrent of water and a deafening crash, something emerged to the surface and roared. The four couldn't believe their eyes as they met the piercing yellow orbs of the large beast before them.

"It's Kyogre!" May gasped and Archie seemed to be debating whether or not to try to swim away with the kids or push them behind him. "Holy Arceus!" The large sea creature bellowed towards them and suddenly dipped under the water. Before anyone could move a muscle they were suddenly hoisted up into the air with a splash. The force of the motion sent everyone tumbling onto their backsides, but all fear was diminished when the legendary god gave something that almost sounded like a chortle.

"I think it's playing with us!" Brendan exclaimed and smiled at May. "It's trying to thank you, May! It's trying to thank you for saving it before!" The monster gave a cry of confirmation and May smiled, patting the wet and slick head of the beast.

"Arceus, is this really happening?" Maxie was just staring, his widening eyes causing his glasses to slip to his nose. "What a...remarkable sight." He shook his head in disbelief and recoiled rapidly as the fish elevated itself so it was at level with the boat.

"Hey Nerd Boy, you've gotta come! This here is a chance of a life time!"

The scientific man practically clung to a beam like a cat. "There isn't a chance of that, you oaf!" Kyogre dove over the boat and Archie swiped up the spindly man before he had a chance to even react. Maxie shrieked and nearly climbed onto the man's head like a terrified cat. "No! Bring me back to the boat!" He shivered but slightly relaxed when Maxie's arms wrapped around him.

"Hey Maxie, open your eyes! You don't want to miss this!" Barely, Maxie did so. What greeted his sight was the orange orb in the sky setting beyond the ocean waves. Even he slowly found his eyes opening wide in wonderment and slowly crawled to the top of Kyogre's head. "...Extraordinary." He shook his head. "Truly beautiful..." Everyone smiled at each other and Kyogre crooned. The rest of Team Aqua and Magma took this time to leap onto the great beast's back.

"So what do you think?" Archie smirked. "Do you enjoy this?" He squeezed him close to his side. Maxie pushed his glasses up against his nose and crossed his arms, eyes softening to the sunset. "...Maybe," he finally said. "Once in a while, I suppose."