They do exist

5:39 PM - 1 hour and 43 minutes before complete submersion

Damian was looking around to find the other three, they needed more help to get everything done with all of the chaos going on, he started by running over to the last place they saw Darwin, the private room.

A few grunts got in his way but nothing Gengar couldn't deal with, when he arrived it was more people running around, and over by the door he saw Darwin and his Nidoking looking worse for wear.

Moving over to Darwin, Damian helped him back to his feet, but then Darwin brushed him aside and painfully returned Nidoking to his Pokeball saying, "I'm fine."

"You don't look like it, in fact, you look like you got run over," Damian said, crossing his arms and looking at his workmate.

"It's fine, just a few bruises, you should see the other guy," Darwin said, smirking, "So what are we working with?"

"Currently I'm looking for our Gym leaders, the rest are clearing out the escape boats, as of now we haven't found the one behind it, apparently they just needed us separated, and now the ship is slowly sinking."

"*whistle* Reminds me of an old show I watched, but it ended with a lot of drama and not the good kind, so I never finished it, I can't remember it though, anyway from what I remember those two should be around the west side of the ship."

Damian nodded, "Good a place as any let's move"

Damian walked past and Darwin bit his tongue holding back the urge to grunt in pain from the beating he received.

On the side Janine was holding Surge's arm and pulling him along, Surge however didn't seem fully there.

With the People running around and throwing things everywhere, he saw images of when he was in the war, everything that was being thrown around looked like grenades and bullets flying, a random sandwich hit the floor and it looked like shrapnel

Looking at himself he had a standard Military uniform and he had his Electabuzz next to him shooting bolts. But looking at his arms he held someone who had a bullet wound and was bleeding out.

He was saying Surge's real name but every time he said it it was replaced by a high-pitched screeching or explosion.

"It was a mistake *Boom* you need to get out of here, you have a pretty lady waiting for you back home,*panting**panting* just *panting* please take care of Pikachu for me," he said, handing Surge a Pokeball before his hand fell weakly, still alive but light quickly leaving his eyes.

For him, he was flashing back and forth between reality and his PTSD.

Janine was trying to move to find everyone, but having to drag around a man who was twice her size was not easy.

Looking around she saw two People, Damian, and limping behind was Darwin. They both immediately see the large man and the small girl dragging him around so they move to meet up.

"Hey how are you two," Damian asked, mainly looking at Surge.

"We were fighting two Admins then they ran away when the Explosion happened, since then Surge has been like this," Janine said then looking over at the injured Darwin, "What about him?"

"I'm fine. I also fought an Admin all by myself, and I completely destroyed her, but I just got a few bruises." Darwin said still holding back pain from his injuries.

"Righhhhtttt" Janine said, "But we need to get to Tempest, she probably knows what to do with Surge."

"Yes, we are all meeting up by the boats everyone is trying to get them cleared so we can start evacuating". Damian explained.

Janine nodded, "Let's go but first a little help."

Damian Joined in and Darwin pushed from behind.

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5:35 PM - 1 hour and 39 minutes before complete submersion

Under the ship in the Water Ash was holding onto Wartortle and Magikarp looked around as Poliwhirl was Swimming around near the ocean floor.

He prepared multiple rebreathers for this exact moment, one he got down to the ocean floor he created a link with his three Pokemon.

[Hello, Hello Hello, testing can you hear me.] Ash said to them.

[Boss I can hear you] Wartortle responded back

[I-im here] Magikarp responded back

[Loud and clear] Poliwhirl said

[Perfect so everybody remembers the plan] Ash said to which they all confirmed.

[Alright so get out of here,] Ash let go of Wartortle and Magikarp as they also started Swimming away, meanwhile, Ash was also looking around, if there was even a slight chance that they existed he needed them, they were just too valuable.

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On the top Lorelei, Green, and Gary were working on clearing the boats, and Misty, Brock, and Yellow would try to calm people down enough to get them to the emergency boats.

Or rather they were, since with Lorelei they cleared the grunts quickly so they were trying to organize people to maximize the space they had starting with civilians that couldn't or wouldn't battle.

Lorelei already released Lapras so that she could take people away.

They were about to start letting People go into the water when a blast of water was shot in their direction, it didn't hit anyone but it did destroy one of the spare boats, making everyone look over in the direction.

In the front stood Cliff with a Poliwrath next to him, "Aww dang it, I missed."

"HA, looks like you are getting old, maybe you should retire," next to him was Arlo leaning on the railing.

"Enough of you two, we can argue about Cliff's deteriorating Age later, for now, we have a job to do," Sierra said from the side.

"Yes, we can't let you all leave without a parting gift, what kind of hosts would we be," Proton said walking up slowly from behind, and from behind him stood most of the Grunts that were left.

Lorelei frowned, staring at everyone, "Are you sure you want to do this, you don't really expect to get away with this do you."

"Maybe, maybe not, but then again everything that has happened has been according to plan, you have all been dancing in the palm of my hand," Proton said mockingly.

Everyone was staring at this interaction with gritting teeth, they were all horribly outnumbered and Lorelei couldn't risk Lapras, and they were two gym leaders and Elite 4 members down.

"Well then what is it you hope to accomplish," Lorelei said trying to buy time.

"And why would I tell you that, but then again if I did tell you it wouldn't make a difference," Proton said with his Golbat sitting on his shoulder.

Tempest turned to Lorelei and whispered something under her breath enough for her to hear, "Ms. Lorelei take the civilians off the ship, we buy you more time."

Lorelei didn't want to accept that as an option, but there were a lot of people who couldn't/shouldn't battle. She turned to everyone and then stared at Team Rocket, "Will you all be ok?"

They agreed signaling for her to leave so with a heavy heart she went onto the railing and jumped onto Lapras as all the boats were released.

"Do you really think we would just let you, Golbat, go play with her?"

Golbat jumped off his shoulder, then at a speed that no one could react to was behind them and diving to try and hit Lorelei.

Suddenly out of the shadows, a Gangar popped out and sent a shadow ball point blank in the Bat's face.

A voice came from behind, "Seems like we are late for the party," when they looked it was Damian, though anticlimactic he was pushing big man Surge with Darwin and Janine.

Tempest ran over to her friend and father, "What happened this time," She asked, less concerned, more like she was tired of it.

"I don't know after the explosion he just started acting like this," Janine said, pulling out another Pokeball to prepare for battle.

"Alrighty then, sorry Dad I'm borrowing this," Tempest said, taking the belt with Pokeballs off Surge, then picking one and getting ready as well.

"Ms. Lorelei get them to safety. We will be fine here, we still have 'that'."

"Fine but all of you stay safe, if I find out one of you did something stupid then I'll show how Cold I can be," Lorelei said as Lapras used ice to guide and connect all the boats and started spreading away.

Arlo released his Blastoise and was about to command it to fire until Proton raised his hand signaling him to stop, "There is no need for that, it won't make a difference if they get to land or not, we are far enough away it would take at the very least 5 hours, by then we should be done here."

Then he looked over at the rest of the people, "Besides we can have some fun right here."

All the Rockets started glaring over at everyone, both sides started getting ready since a battle seemed pretty inevitable at this point.

Including the original group, there were 5 other people that seemed like they could battle.

Both sides got ready and released their Pokemon.

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5:29 PM - 1 hour and 33 minutes before complete submersion

Back underwater Ash was excavating through dirt and stones trying to find the thing he was looking for, Wartortle was still by his side, Poliwhirl and Magikarp were out of sight but still around.

He was about to move over to a new area until he heard Poliwhirl talk to him, [Something is happening to me I don't know if this is supposed to happen.]

Ash immediately knew what was going on and started swimming over as fast as he could, when he arrived at Poliwhirl's location he saw not a Poliwhirl but instead a Poliwrath.

[Hey it's me I don't know what happened I was just Swimming around and then I started glowing again, which I didn't know could happen, and now I am bigger.] Poliwrath said making quick hand motions.

Ash immediately went to the ground and started looking around, also telling them, [This is perfect, that means they're here, look around.]

Poliwrath and Wartortle looked at each other and shrugged then separated around the area.

'They do exist, well it would be a shame to leave something so valuable unused, but I will need to hide them from everyone, if people find out about this a war wouldn't be out of the question.' Ash thought.

After some time digging around, he felt a sharp prick as his hand got cut on a jagged rock, he quickly healed it before it got infected, but when he looked at where he got cut he saw them, it wasn't a rock it was a stone.

Or more accurately evolution stones, specifically the eternal evolution stones, regular stones look like crystals with the symbol in the middle, but these are different; they look more like rocks that had the symbol carved into them.

Digging up the area he found all four, the fire, water, thunder, and leaf stones. He quickly shoved them into his pocket space and was about to turn around and signal for them to head back when he heard them say something.

[Boss, Boss I found one.] Wartortle said swimming back.

[I found one too.] Poliwrath said.

Ash looked at them and between the 2 they had an Ice and Moonstone, Ash immediately grabbed them in shock and inspected the stones, and indeed they were real.

'I guess it wasn't impossible for more to exist, but this might mean…' Ash thought before his eyes opened and looked back at his Pokemon.

[Great work, there might be four more of these keep an eye out,]

Both of them saluted and started swimming around again.

Meanwhile, Ash started digging around again when suddenly something hit him, [Hey, where's Magikarp?]