Chapter 4; "Wait, WHAT?"

Recap;

Maikee rubbed her temple, in annoyance. "Didn't you guys know you guys can't battle unless it's in the battle gym? Sheesh, rule breakers. And you!" She pointed at Sammy, frowning. "I almost thought you didn't get on the ship."

"Oh, she got on alright," Rosalie spoke this time, crossing her arms. "I helped her get on by distracting the guard and got lost on the ship trying to find her."

Both girls glanced at each other before staring at Sammy, speaking in unison. "You're in a lotta trouble, girly."

Sammy flinched, raising her hands up. "Alright, alright, I'm caught. But, I want some explanations, from the girl over there," She looked at Rosalie, frowning. "Why'd you help me when you knew you would've gotten in trouble with the guards or something?"

Rosalie answered her simply: "Because, you didn't seem like you were sneaking on the boat to, oh, I don't know, steal our Pokémon or something, so," She shrugged her shoulders. "I helped you from the stupid guy who should've checked the registration list before he wouldn't let you on the boat."

Everything went all silent for a few minutes. Eventually, the silence was broken by a pissed off Dougan. ".. Wait, we wouldn't have had to go through all this crap to look for that pipsqueak over there and all this other stuff if that stupid guard CHECKED the dang LIST?"

"To put it simply, yes," Maikee nodded, crossing her arms. Her eyes locked onto her Dragonite. "Good job on finding them so fast."

In reply, her Pokemon smiled, giving a soft roar. It enjoyed the praise.

"Anyways, .." Kenneth broke through the argument, waving his hand. "this also started because she lost her letter, right? Why don't we just find it, show it to the ship's captain and get this all settled before we all get in trouble?"

Rosalie nodded her blonde head, sighing. She turned to the brunette, who had turned the baseball cap back around and was now fixing her hair. "Do you remember the last time you had your letter?"

She paused, thinking for a moment. Sammy put a finger to her mouth, looking up in thought. "Yeah, I do actually. Before I was heading onto the boat, I bumped into Maikee and my stuff flew everywhere. I think I dropped it then."

Now Maikee spoke up again, rubbing her arm. "Aha, yeah. So, it's kind of both of our faults along with the guard.. but, mostly the guard's, yeah..!" Nice save, Maikee Davis, nice save.

"Look, let's just find the letter, alright? This is giving me a headache," Dougan sighed, returning his Umbreon. "It's better than sitting here all day either waiting for it to pop out of nowhere or hit one of us in the face. So, c'mon." With that said, he began heading to the door leading off of the deck and back inside the more enclosed parts of the ship.

That was before the door was slammed open and hitting Dougan in the face. How ironic.

In the doorway, Alexis blinked her curious green eyes. "Um, sorry.. I was looking for the library?.."

Insert facepalm moment. Sammy was snickering though, saying something about 'karma, sucker' and whatnot.

Meanwhile, Dougan groaned. Poor guy was probably rubbing his red face.

Alexis spoke up again, frowning. "Ah, sorry again.. did I interrupt something?"

Maikee shook her head. "Not at all. We were just about to head out to look for something, too. We can show you the library if you'd like. This is my second year coming to UA, so I know the ship inside and out."

The ravenette smiled softly, nodding. "I'd like that, thank-you."

"It's settled then. Let's go!" Rosalie was already headed to the door, stepping over Dougan. Apparently, she'd lead the way!

Sammy, Kenneth and Maikee glanced at each other before following her, also stepping over Dougan. Only Alexis helped him because, well, she did shove the door at him.

"Ah, yeah! Another one down!" Chase was grinning, his fist pumped into the air. Apparently, he had one yet another battle in the Battle Gym. The female trainer across from him nodded.

"You beat me this time, but don't count on it happening again," She returned her Pokémon, probably heading to the Pokémon Center on the ship to rest up them up. Her pinkish-red hair brushed against him slightly as she walked past him.

Chase grinned wider, patting his Archen on the head. "Good job, Raptor. In no time we'll be getting stronger."

Meanwhile, Collin and Adam were both caught up in their battles. Adam was just about done with his, planning on grabbing a bite to eat. It was roughly slowly easing into evening now on the Unova Academy ship.

Collin was currently going up against a tallish boy, but there was something odd about him. He was totally quiet during the battle. It was as if his Pokémon knew what he was thinking and choosing their moves on their own. The even odder part? His clothes. He was wearing a beanie that covered most of his brown hair, sunglasses that covered his eyes and fingerless gloves. His top and jeans were mostly covered by a dusty brown cloak.

You could tell they were both struggling to overpower each other.

"C'mon Edge, Night Slash!" Collin clenched his fists as his Scyther charged at the Weavile in front of it. The Weavile, however, just smirked and moved to the side before knocking Scyther back with a Metal Claw. Scyther staggered back a few feet, but remained on it's feet. What Edge didn't expect, though, was an up close Dark Pulse right after he flew back. That sent him flying into Collin, knocking them both over.

Collin winced, catching his now fainted Scyther. "Edge! Are you okay buddy?" He was more concerned with his Pokémon rather than the trainer that just left the battling area. His Weavile 'tsk'ed before following after it's trainer.

'Jeez, what was that guy's issue?' Shaking his head, he returned Edge, heading to the Pokémon Center. 'He didn't talk at all – just let his Pokémon battle. That's just a little weird..'

He put his hands behind his head and leaned back his head a little, thinking. 'Maybe it's some telepathy thing or something.. or maybe they've just battled way too long and know each other well enough? I don't know,..' He shook his head walking through the center's sliding doors. This time, he spoke aloud.

"Woah, it's busy." His blue eyes blinked as he scanned for any free counter with a Nurse Joy at it. The only one empty was the one on the far right. And the far right he went. It was just a few feet before he walked up to the counter until he was beat to it by none other than Briana. She seemed less peeved than earlier. I guess she cooled off.

Collin raised his eyebrows, tapping her on the shoulder. " 'scuse me miss. You just beat me to healing my Pokémon."

Briana blinked, turning around just as she handed Nurse Joy her Poke balls. "Oh, I did? Sorry. I kinda just saw the empty space and walked to it."

He shrugged. "No worries. I'll just wait 'till you're done. You're surprisingly fast to get here before me, though. I mean I walked in before you, too," Collin gave her a goofy smile. "I'm Collin Greywald, at your service."

Briana stuck out her hand, the other on her hip. She returned the smile. "Briana. You can call me Bria."

The green haired teenager shook her hand, smiling wider. "Nice name, Bri-Bri."

".. Er, yeah, that works too." She sweatdropped. "Oh, wait," She suddenly reached into her pocket, taking out a certain UA letter. "Do you know anyone named Sammy Riverdale by any chance?"

Collin nodded almost immediately. "Yep! .. she's the stow-away!"

".. Well, I know that, but, as in, have you seen her? I need to give her her letter before she gets kicked overboard or something." Briana put it back into her pocket before anyone could see it in her possession.

"No problem. I was actually planning on finding her and questioning her myself," Collin smiled again. "wanna team up and find her?"
Briana held out her hand again. "Deal."

"Jeeeeeeeeez, this is taking forever!" Evelyn sighed as she threw her arms up in exasperation. Her, along with Ty and Melissa were on the ship's entertainment floor. And by entertainment floor I mean the arcade, coordinator mini contests, little shops and such.

Melissa glanced at Evelyn, raising an eyebrow. She brushed her black hair behind her shoulder. "It hasn't been that long Eva-"

"Actually, it's been a few hours," Ty spoke up, looking at his wrist watch. He fixed his glasses again, looking ahead of them. "We've checked almost everywhere, excluding this floor and the library. So why'd we have to choose this floor?" His direction was directed at Mel, mostly.

She shrugged, fixing her purple streaked hair. "In all honesty, I don't know. You let Evelyn lead the way, you tell me."

"I thought she'd choose the libra- uh, oh. She found the Lilligant Boutique.."

Cue facepalms.
Melissa and Ty twitched before following their energetic friend into the very floral and sweet smelling store.

Perfumes and lipstick and such were on display in small glass cases. In an instant, Evelyn was all over the place, hopping from stand to stand. "Oh~ this smells like Gracedia flowers~ and this smells like honey~"

"We'll be stuck in here forever,.." mumbled Ty. "I'm going to wait outside,.." turning on his heel, he walked out of the store before he choked to death.

Mel shook her head, "Suit yourself!" and followed Evelyn around the store.

Looking around wouldn't hurt, would it?

Eventually, our dear Dougan woke up. With a huge migraine. He rubbed his aching head, glancing around. When he came too, it was late evening.

He frowned, flexing his fingers a bit before getting up. The teenager brushed off his white wife beater shirt before opening the 'stupid door that hit him in the face', glancing around. Nobody seemed to be in the dark corridor.

Eh, he was just fine with that.

"Now to find that damn short stack and everyone else.. and when I get my hands on them," he scowled, beginning to walk in the direction to the more lighted areas of the UA ship. "they're so dead.."

All was quiet. Maybe a bit too quiet? Dougan didn't care. He actually enjoyed the silence for a while. He assumed everyone was either at dinner or doing their own thing, so he wasn't really sure where the group of 5 from earlier were. Too bad he was out cold so he couldn't hear that they were headed to the library then to find Sammy's letter.

Speaking of the group of 5 – now four, since Alexis is in the library – they had stopped by Rosalie's room..

"Sammy'll be staying with me for tonight," announced the blonde of the group. "all who object – besides you Sammy - , say 'I'."

Maikee shrugged her shoulders, smiling. "I'm totally fine with it. Kenneth should be too since she can't stay in a guy's room anyways. Right, Kenneth?" Her brown eyes eyed him carefully, since he looked like he was going to object.

"Ah, yeah, I'm cool with it too – I-I'm not some p-pervert or anything, don't worry!" The sapphire-eyed boy grew flushed as he rubbed the back of his neck. He looked at Maikee, then Rosalie and finally Sammy. "You can, um, keep my hat for a few days, yeah.."

Sammy grinned at him, nodding. "Thanks, Kenny! If you don't mind me giving you that nickname, of course."

"No, it's cool.. Ken's cool too. Just saying."

"Alright, then. Thanks for letting me stay with you Rosalie," She turned to her new female companion, smiling sheepishly. "I hope I don't get you into any more trouble. I promise I won't leave the room unless it's important. Hopefully we can work things out when we get to the UA tomorrow, neh?"

Fixing her half ponytail, she gave her a thumbs-up. "You had better stay in the room or I'm tying you up or something. Unless you wanna come with me to explore the ship. I have a few words to say to that knucklehead of a guard."

Maikee all of a sudden spoke up, pointing upwards. "Oh, right, speaking of exploring the ship, we should meet up again around midnight or something,"
"Like a secret ninja mission? Oh, gasp." Sammy liked to put in her own jokes now and then, just being random like that. And that joke made Maikee grin.

"Yeah, something like that. So, let's all meet up on.."

"The ship's main deck?" Suggested Rosalie, who finished fixing her hair. Maikee nodded. "The ship's main deck. Sound cool guys?"
The remaining two nodded as Rosalie took out her room key, inserting it into the lock and twisting it. "See you guys then, then. C'mon Sammy,"

Everyone else – Maikee and Kenneth – either went to their rooms or went to eat dinner *cough, Kenneth, cough*.

Sammy adjusted the baseball cap on her head, following her friend into her room before shutting and locking the door behind her.

The room's interior was similar to everyone else's room, although Rosalie's room had a bigger porthole window than most. I guess it was just one of those rooms on the upper levels, where no one could get water sprayed in their faces or something.

"Make yourself comfortable," Rosalie stretched, taking off her pink skater shoes before sitting on her bed. She stared at Sammy. "You have your luggage with you, right?"

She nodded, hesitating a bit before taking off the hat. Her brown hair was a bit messier than before – probably from running so much. Sammy fixed it shyly. 'She's so much more neater than I am – gah, how embarrassing..' "Can I call you Rose or Rosey, Rosalie? .. sorry, I have a habit of giving my friends nicknames."

"Whoever said we were friends?" Rosalie raised an eyebrow, making Sammy's heart stop before she grinned. "Just kidding. Of course you can, doo-doo head." She reached over, bonking the brunette on the head lightly with a .. mallet? (Where in the heck she took that out from, we may never know..) "You don't need to be so shy about it!"

Sammy rubbed her head, whimpering a bit before shaking her head. "Ha, sorry. I can't help it," She walked over to her suitcase, laying it down and unzipping it. "I brought a sleeping bag, so I'll sleep on the floor. Mind if I shower, Rosey?"

Laying down, she waved her hand, shooing her. "Go, go! My room is your room!"

Sammy hesitated again before picking up her clothes to change into. "Ah, thanks.. I'm sorry for being a burden."

"Don't worry, 'bout it Sammy. That's what friends are for," Rosalie smiled, waving her hand again. "Now, hurry up!"

"Aha, gotcha." And into the bathroom she went.

Rosalie waited to hear the satisfying click of the bathroom door and the water turn on before sitting up. She bent down to slip on her shoes again. 'I'll be back soon. Let her shower, Rosalie. Go explore the ship!' She had been itching the ship all evening, now getting the chance to.

"C'mon, Honchkrow.." she murmured softly, letting her trusted Pokémon out of his ball.

Honchkrow looked up at his trainer, cawing before hopping out the door, with her close behind.

The door shut silently behind her, without a sound.

END CHAPTER 4;

Woo. Rosalie's 'bout to go on her own mini adventure on the ship!.. at night. XD Kenneth's chowin' down, Maikee's probably relaxing!

Collin and Briana are also exploring the ship while Alexis is getting cozy in the library.

Chase is snoring in his room, if you guys were wondering. :3 Adam's gone back to the Battle Gym for the more nightly, heated battles.

Ty, Mel and Evelyn are still in the boutique! Dougan's still trying to find everyone!

You guys are probably wondering 'bout the mysterious guy Collin went up against, right? He's one of my OCs, but will be revealed later. ;D You guys can take a guess at who he might be, though! PM or review if you guys want! ('cause if you guys get it right, I might accidentally spoil the story. Keke.)

Sorry, If the story is going out weirdly. ;_; criticism is well welcomed! I'll improve that way! Such as if I'm too short on some OC scenes and such!

Thanks again guys! (x 3 /lotsoflove/