A/N: Oh joy. A boat ride disaster. And racist water pokemon. Well, racist in the sense that they don't like fire pokemon. Not to mention Shee not doing anymore talking. Probably something to do with the fact that it's either daytime or he just woke up from being knocked out all throughout the chapter. In any case, enjoy Chapter Nine: Boat Ride Capture!

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon. Attempts to sue me will result in getting mauled by Erika. Further attempts will result in becoming her new favorite chew toy.

Chapter Nine: Boat Ride Capture

Johnny quickly came to the decision that he didn't like the ocean. At first, he had been highly amused by the water. Then water pokemon started following the boat. This didn't really bother him until they decided to start shooting him with Water Guns and shouting things like "Go back to your volcano!" Johnny was just plain confused by this. He hadn't done anything to them. And those Water Guns really hurt. So he retreated further towards the center of the boat, where he found Erika sunbathing and sleeping. Jack and Jessica obviously thought their pokemon would be fine on their own on the boat, so both pokemon were free to explore. He sighed and lay down next to his friend. Maybe tomorrow the water pokemon would be gone. For now, he just fell asleep.

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Erika groaned as she woke up. She had never been on a ship before, and so she had no idea how it felt to be seasick until now. Stumbling around Johnny, she went to the side of the ship and hurled. As she made her way around the ship, she eventually found herself below deck. It was noisy down here, not just with the usual sounds of trainers and pokemon, but also with the sound of battles going on.

Curious, she began to go watch some of the battles. Many of the battlers were sailors who worked on the ship. More of them were Team Magma members (She could tell from the pokemon they used, as well as the ay the talked). But the overwhelming majority wore black and blue uniforms and used water and dark pokemon, as well as the occasional Zubat or Zubat evolution. She even saw one of them with a Crobat. Just as she began to wonder why it seemed that none of the other passengers were battling and why the sailors were being attacked by both kinds of the other battlers while the other two also battled each other, she found herself sucked into her pokeball.

As she immediately began shouting to the pokeball about how rude it was of Jessica to suddenly put her in the pokeball, she found the Latiats staring at her. "Um…. Hi?" Erika said as she realized they were watching her.

"It would be wise of you to be ready for battle." Latias said.

"Why?" She asked, disturbed by the urgent tone in Latias' voice.

"Team Aqua and Team Magma are both trying to take over the ship. Explanations later, you're about to be in your first double battle." Latios replied as he and Latias both disappeared in a burst of feathers. As Erika started to think about why this would occur, she found herself hurled out into battle, alongside Zubat. Both pokemon attempted to figure out where the hell they were (Zubat also appeared to be struggling to wake up, his incessant screeches sounded very grumpy), and soon found themselves facing a Poochyena and a Poliwag.

"Erika, Tackle on Poochyena followed by Helping Hand on Zubat! Zubat, Leech Life on Poliwag!" Jessica could be heard ordering. Erika leapt towards the Poochyena, which was trying to Tackle her at the same time, and as both pokemon made contact Erika focused her mind and glowed white as white hands suddenly pressed on Shee. Shee was busy biting the Poliwag, which seemed to have found a way to make the spiral on its chest turn without Poliwag rolling or anything.

Erika quickly tried to Tackle the Poochyena again without waiting for the order, but missed when she flinched out of surprise as the Poochyena Howled. This just wasn't her day. As she turned to use Tackle again she found the Poochyena leaping towards her already. She was hit, harder than before, and found herself lying on the floor with a broken rib or two. She started to black out from pain as she saw Shee suddenly fall from the air and hit the floor sleeping, a Water Gun shooting at it.

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Johnny merely awoke when Entei started yelling at him to wake up while he was in his pokeball. The legendary pokemon apparently barely had time to say, "Be ready for battle," before Johnny found himself facing a Krabby. In an instant he was alert and watchful. If he remembered correctly, Krabby versus Growlithe battles usually ended in a fainted Growlithe and a fairly unharmed Krabby. So he decided he would be constantly attempting to stay away from the Krabby when it looked like it might attack.

This strategy, of course, wouldn't end well for Johnny. They were below deck on a crowded ferry. Having a battle at all in this situation was crazy. So when Johnny dodged away from a Bubble (completely ignoring Jack's orders in an effort to stay conscious), he found himself also having to dodge the legs of three sailors, an Aqua member, and two Magma members, not to mention a crazed Crobat in the room. What idiot lets a Crobat battle in a cramped space like this?

After successfully dodging this first Bubble, Johnny ventured in on a short offensive. Dodging a few more objects (people's legs and such), Johnny bit down on the Krabby's claw. Krabby: 0, Johnny's crappy plan: 1. The Krabby couldn't send out Bubbles now as Johnny shook the poor thing like a chew toy. Unfortunately, the Bubble claw and the Vicegrip claw were not one and the same, as Johnny soon found out when the Krabby grabbed onto his neck. He hurled the crab off of himself and roared in pain. Apparently this roar was pretty frightening, because all of a sudden he found Krabby replacing itself with a Poochyena. Many other pokemon in different battles were doing much the same thing.

Confronted with a new enemy, Johnny had no idea what to do for a few seconds. He changed his mind as the Poochyena Tackled him within a few seconds. Deciding he'd rather not be beaten this easily, Johnny took the hit (as if he had a choice) and let loose a fireball to Poochyena's face. The dog was hurled backwards by the fireball, which was followed by a few more fireballs. This of course left you with a Poochyena that had caught fire. And a burning Poochyena doesn't stay conscious very long. So the dog was put back in it's pokeball and the Krabby was sent out again. The Krabby, which now had a cracked claw from Johnny's Bite.

Johnny instantly made an attempt to dodge the Bubble that he knew was coming, but he ran into a very large and fat sailor that he couldn't dodge around. In the midst of the massive chaos, Johnny fell unconscious as the Bubble hit him surprisingly hard.

Krabby: 2, Johnny's crappy plan: 1. End of Match.

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Erika awoke, surprisingly, to the annoying screeches of many, many Zubats. She found herself in a cold, damp cave that smelled like the ocean. There were no humans nearby, but there were bars like a prison cell blocking her and the other inhabitants of her cell from leaving and exploring the rest of the cave. A quick glance revealed that in her cell, there were only two of the bat-like pokemon, both of which were unconscious. The same glance revealed that Johnny was in the cell, along with various other pokemon that could only belong to Team Magma members. They had been taken prisoner.

Now, normally Erika would've gone into Bitch-Mode right there. Being trapped in a cell in a cave that was probably below sea level on some island somewhere pissed her off a lot. But she figured that the idiots who designed the cell hadn't quite made the bars close enough together. An Eevee was a very thin pokemon, and a cell that was probably originally designed to hold humans wouldn't specifically be able to hold an Eevee. So her curiosity got the best of her and she went right up to the bars. It would be a tight fit, but she could get through.

So she squeezed through the bars and carefully made her way into the main section of the cave. Not surprised by the fact that there were many tunnels leading out of the place, she was surprised by the source of light. She had expected one of the tunnels to lead directly out to the outside. Instead, there was a bunch of holes in the ceiling giving off light. "Well that explains where the Zubat went…." She muttered to herself as she walked through the moonlight. Cautiously, she approached each tunnel in an attempt to figure out which way was out. She didn't intend to leave without Johnny or Jessica or Jack, but she could care less about any of the other pokemon, including Shee.

So as she went around the tunnels, sniffing the air in a vain attempt to find the way out, she decided she might as well wake up Johnny and ask him to help. Growlithes had a better sense of smell than Eevees anyway. The problem with this: Shee just woke up. She could tell from the screeches, somehow. And this meant all the other pokemon would be waking up soon. Great, leading a massive breakout from a prison cell that's probably in some Team Aqua base when all you have are pokemon weak against water types, she thought to herself as she snuck back through the bars and made her way through the hordes of pokemon that were now waking up.