BOOM

Team Lorelei ran back downstairs to meet up with Tempest again, meanwhile, everyone on Team Tempest was making sure any civilians were safe, although they had not made their way to the lifeboats yet, since 1. Team Rocket was blocking them, and 2. there weren't enough ships for everyone.

Some other trainers like Otoshi, Samurai, A.J., and Jeanette joined in to help the battle but most of the other trainers didn't do anything.

As Lorelei got back down to meet up with Tempest's group and before she could say anything she asked, "Do you know where Darwin or Damian are?"

"No, I haven't seen Darwin since the awards and Damian is still with Ash downstairs, why?" Tempest asked.

"They weren't up there and any form of communication was destroyed, they did all that to distract and separate us."

"What, but why would they do that? There's no point what would they gain from it," Brock asked from the side.

"Time, they have been preparing something and if we were all together they wouldn't have been able to do it, but I don't know what for."

"Then we need to regroup, we need to find Darwin and someone needs to go to the lower deck to find Ash and Damian."

"Alright then as long as we go fast nothing will go-" As soon as those words left Yellow's mouth

*BOOM*

There was a loud explosion sound and the ship began shaking, looking at the source of the explosion they saw it came from the lower Deck from the engine room, exactly where Ash and Damian were.

They all just stared in silence.

—

At the same time as the battle continued with Surge and Janine vs Arlo and Cliff, they were both starting to get bruised up and their Pokemon were down, they were about to release their next Pokemon when they stopped and heard something on their earpiece.

As soon as that happened they smiled and looked at their opponents, "Well I guess this is the end. I gathered some valuable information, so next time You won't be so lucky." Arlo said smiling.

"I guess we need to finish this later," Cliff grunted.

"Hey this isn't over, there won't be a next time you are going down now!" Surge yelled at the two.

"Sorry but that's not your choice, we did what we needed to and the real fun begins in 3,2,1," Arlo said, and as soon as he said that.

*BOOM*

The same explosion ran out, both Surge and Janine looked towards it and when Janine looked back at Arlo and Cliff they were already gone.

Janine turned towards Surge, "We need to move everyone off this Ship now," but there was no response, when Janine looked up at Surge he had the most blank expression of horror, he was having Vietnam flashbacks.

—

In the Engine room a few seconds before, Damian kicked the door down that was unprotected, he planned on getting everything done and then going back Up to Ash to help him with the 4 v 1, looking at the room he saw something on the Engine.

Looking at it it was a single jammer, it would prevent any calls in or out, and it even would mess with the navigation system, Damian didn't know how to disarm it nor did he have the time to safely destroy it, so he called up Gengar and had him take it into his shadow to be disposed of later.

It was almost too easy but Damian didn't care, he pulled out one of his spell tags and created some drawings in the air before slamming the Tag into the ground and his eyes got some black mist as he searched the entire room for anything else, and he found it.

Moving over to the image in question he looked at it it was connected to the turbine engine, it seemed like any other engine but looking at it closer it wasn't connected to anything, no metal pipes, no steam coming out of it, it wasn't even hot, but then the second part of his tag jumped in, future sight, specifically 2 seconds into the future, and he saw it.

Damian realized what it was, a Bomb, he quickly pulled out another tag and wrapped it around his hand.

*BOOM* The room also exploded.

—

A few minutes earlier when Ash was left alone to fight alone he sent out Nidorino and Bulbasaur in the front and Clefairy on his shoulders.

Clefairy was ordered to set something up as Nidorino stared down the five Pokemon with a smile on his face and Bulbasaur looked at his tag team partner.

[Oh fun another battle junkie(╬▔皿▔)], Bulbasaur said sarcastically.

Nidorino: (•̀ω•́)✧

Cassidy scoffed, "You really want to do this the hard way, fine then it's your funeral,"

"By the end, you'll be begging for mercy, Meowth," Meowth said with his claws extending.

—

Offshore back on the mainland Looker was currently sitting in a coffee shop thinking about life, it had already been three years since he got the new girl killed, he should have known better he shouldn't have shown pity.

Nanu decided to retire back in Alola, the same place it happened but Looker stayed in the field, he wanted to find a way to redeem himself. He was currently here because of the requests of the Kanto association to try and track down Team Rocket, but as of now nothing.

Looker sighed and drank his coffee, when his phone started ringing, Looker picked it up not expecting anything, "Looker here."

From the other side, he heard it was Anabel, a new recruit to the International Police, ironically they found her after they escaped the wormholes, she lost most of her memories she only remembered her name and that she was either from Hoenn or Kanto.

She joined about a year ago and was currently stationed in the Kanto branch as a receptionist for the time being, Looker always wanted to do more for such a young girl, when they found her she was about 11-12 years old, now she is around 14, though her memories have been returning to her slowly.

As Looker was thinking about the past he was snapped out of his thoughts by a, "Looker!"

Looker nearly dropped his phone, "Yes what is it,"

"Did you not pay attention to what I just said, *Sigh* fine I'll say it again, we have word from 'The Gentleman' that Team Rocket has taken control of the S.S. Anne, all available officers are to report to Vermilion City."

"Right, I'm on my way, how many more officers are being mobilized," Looker said, putting some money on the table and running out, then running back in to leave a tip and running out again.

"As of now about half of the Forces in Kanto have confirmed they will move, the rest are undecided or have not been contacted yet"

Looker released his Noctowl and hoped, "Right then what about you then you aren't going to go against orders again."

"Yeah, yeah, DAD. I already got scolded by the superiors after last time, so I'm stuck here." Anabel sighed since she was bored.

"Good, don't worry you'll be back on the field in no time just be patient," Looker said as he took off into the sky.

–

Back with Ash Nidorino and Bulbasaur were holding their own against the five, meanwhile, Clefairy was almost ready. And since Nidorino and Bulbasaur were poison types they couldn't get poisoned by Koffing or Ekans.

At the moment Nidorino set up a Stealth Rock, and as they were laughing at him for using a useless move, Bulbasaur grabbed Koffing and Ekans with his vines and then dragged them through the rocks.

Butch frowned and yelled out, "Mankey use Brick Break on that frog."

Mankey jumped forward with its hand glowing red aiming to hit Bulbasaur as he was also fending off Ekans, so he couldn't dodge the strike from his back then Ekans wrapped him.

"Nidorino Confusion on Ekans, Bulbasaur Energy Ball."

Nidorino released a beam of shapes that hit the snake looking its grasp on Bulbasaur, who then shot a point-blank Energy Ball directly at Ekans.

"It's not that easy, Koffing now!"

From behind Koffing released black gas in the air obscuring their view, then from the side, a Flamethrower shot out enveloping the two, though Nidorino blocked most of it to protect his Grass-type partner.

Then another Rattata appeared to deliver a bite at Nidorino, but luckily that one activated the Poison Point.

"Alright then if that's how you want to play, Bulbasaur go up, Nidorino Ice beam on the ground,"

Bulbasaur shot out some vines that grabbed onto the ceiling as Nidorino shot a blue beam that started freezing the ground restricting their movements, Koffing was about to shoot more fire when Bulbasaur dropped down on it forcing him to fall to the ground.

Ash was about to make another command until behind him, "You didn't think we would Play fair, Meowth, taste my Shadow Claw!" 

Meowth appeared from behind and charged his claws to hit Ash, Ash just grabbed him out of the air and slammed him into a metal Pipe, then threw him at Rattata.

Meanwhile, Koffing forced Bulbasaur off and Rattata bit into him, with Nidorino Mankey was hitting him with a combo of punches as from behind Ekans bit down him.

"Are you sure you want to continue, I'll admit you put up a good fight but now the tables have turned," Jessie said smugly.

"Nah, to be fair I was just buying time," Ash said, stretching his arm.

"Buying time for what?" James asked.

"For her," Ash said, painting at Clefairy who had two glowing batons, and threw them at Bulbasaur and Nidorino.

You see Clefairy has been setting up spamming Cosmic powers and Calm minds, creating two batons with the stat boosts, and using Wish twice, Bulbasaur and Nidorino were back up better than ever.

"So what do you think, a few boosts and a bit of healing will save you," Cassidy said as she commanded Rattata to run forward.

"Nidorino Venoshock."

Nidorino created spikes of poison in the air that shot at the rat, shooting it back and launching it into a wall.

"Koffing Flamethrower"

"Mankey Low Kick"

Koffing shot fire as Mankey ran forward both aiming at Bulbasaur, Bulbasaur stood strong and took it with the boosts to his defenses they didn't do much.

"Vine Whip and get that health back."

Bulbasaur shot his vines to grab Koffing and Mankey, he threw Koffing at Ekans and Meowth. Meanwhile, he used his vines to use Mega Drain and heal up, then threw the monkey's unconscious body back onto the pile.

"Let's finish this Ice Beam."

Nidorino shot one final beam of ice and all of their Pokemon were in a pile so they all got hit, knocking down the rest and Freezing Meowth.

"We lost, this time for real," Cassidy said, returning her Pokemon and Butch did the same.

"James don't you have another Pokemon, use it," Jessie said, shaking James's collar.

"It's useless right now, and don't have another Pokemon, why don't you send it out." James grabbed Jessie's hands and pulled her off of him.

"Are you crazy I'm not hurting her," Jessie responded.

As they were going to keep arguing they all heard something from their Earpiece, they were confused since none of them knew what was going to happen but they knew better than to disobey orders.

They Picked up the frozen Pokemon and looked back at Ash, "You won this time but you won't get lucky next time!" and then they ran away. 

Ash sighed as his Pokemon were celebrating, he returned Nidorino and Bulbasaur to rest but Clefairy jumped on his shoulders, he didn't care so he started running downstairs trying to see if he could find Damian.

Looking around he saw where the Engine was but as he started moving he saw something, in a split second he saw a light approaching him, and on instinct, he put his hands together to put up a barrier then.

*BOOM*