Orange league RPG: Dive school 101.

Wooper is extreamly hurt, but gets up as Ino calles out, " Use ancientpower!"

Swablu gets extremely hurt.

"Swablu, use Roost,"

Swablu recovers all of her lost HP.

While the trainers were distraced by the Pokemon battle, James and the fat man managed to escape. The fat man was eager to get back to the ship, but James couldn't imagine facing his father after being so shamefully defeated. So, he lagged behind the fat man as he waddled to the ship.

"Hurry up!" he called back, "The Captain is going to want to see you..." His face was covered in a sinister grin.

Marvin had his ship docked at the islands, waiting for the two other pirates to return. Well, ONE of them anyway. As James and the fat man tried to board the ship, Marvin's Crawdaunt snuck up behind James and prepared to to wack him with a claw...

Luckily, James had forgotten to put Hydra back into its Pokéball and it was able to shove James out of the way before the Crawdaunt could strike him. James, unaware of the situation, angrily got up and brushed himself off.

"What'd you do that for?!" he said. Then, he saw the Crawdaunt as it was about to attack Hydra. "It can't be..." He realized that the Crawdaunt belonged to the Captain and he froze.

The Crawdaunt charged James again as Marvin laughed from the deck of the ship.

James didn't know what to do. He couldn't take on the Captain, so he concluded that his best chance was to run. He picked up Hydra and darted back the way they came, trying not to look back at the Captain or his Pokémon.

Marvin looked at James as he ran. "No goody two-shoes boy is going to be a pirate on this ship"

James looked back, it didn't look as though the Crawdaunt was following them anymore. He released Hydra and sat down on a nearby rock.

"Wow," he said, barely realizing what just happened. He imagined how disappointed and ashamed his father must be. "Those other trainers," he said, "They have something that the Captain wanted. Maybe they can help us."

Meanwhile, Mary was digging through a trunk in her office. She pulled out a picture.

On the picture, four young trainers and a Crocanaw were standing shoulder-to-shoulder. They were smiling broadly. Mary held the picture close. "If I could only go back.", she thought.

James solemnly took off the blue bandana and shoved it into his pockets. If he was going to reason with them, they had to know what he was on their side now. He and Hydra went back to the spot where the battle took place. There, he saw the two younger looking trainers still battling.

Michael sees Mary look at a picture.

"What's up?"

((It's way to far into the RPG to change Mary's name...WHY DID I NAME HER MARY!!!))

((Anyway...))

Mary shoves the picture back into the trunk and says, "Oh, nothing. It's fine."

James and Hydra arrived at the somewhat large buiding with "Gym" written in large letters on the front. He looked around. It seemed that all of the trainers had gone back inside.

"Well," he said to his Staryu, "Here we go." Before he walked in, he paused and joked, "Let's hope they've already forgotten about our battle."

Mary heres a knock on the door and goes to answer it.

As the door opened, James realized that he didn't have a back up plan. What if they didn't believe him? He didn't have time to think about it.

"Hello," he said, "You'll probably remember us from earlier..."

"What do you want with us!?"

James noticed her elevated tone and started to panic, "Uh, well. The Captain, the leader of Team Merr, knew you had something, some sort of map, and we'd like to help you keep it from him." He looked at Hydra nervously, "I know that won't be the last time he'll be here looking for it."

Mary sighed. "Fine. But I need to know I can trust you"

James let out a sigh of relief.

"Sure. Whatever it'll take."

"Battle me."

James was taken off guard by the proposal. He once again looked nervously at his Staryu.

"Y-yeah," he stammered, "Sure. If it will prove that we're on your side, why not?" He smiled nervously. She'd already beaten him once, how hard could it be to do it a second time?

She nodded and ran into the gym. Mary pulled a Dive Ball off of a rack of Pokeballs a motioned for James to come to the stadium.

James and his Staryu made their way to the stadium. He was still a bit nervous, but he felt more comfortable around the water-themed gym. He saw Mary grab a Dive Ball off of a rack, and nodded to Hydra.

Mary ran to one side of the stadium. "Go, Marill!"