"This is better than my favorite soap opera!"
Score: 6.5/10
The heroes are floating on some pieces of wood in the middle of the ocean, hoping a ship will come by. By sheer luck, a Team Magma submarine surfaces right beneath them and takes them to a Team Magma ship. Team Magma's leader, Maxie, tells one of his goons, Tabetha (who is a man, I don't know) to lock them in the submarine.
Maxie then takes the heroes to his office to talk to them even though he just ordered them locked away. He tells them
1. That Team Magma's goal is to use Groudon to create more land and Team Aqua's goal is to use Kyogre to create more ocean
2. That Team Magma has Kyogre and Team Aqua has Groudon
3. That Team Magma has the blue orb that controls Groudon and Team Aqua has the red orb that controls Kyogre (by the way, don't expect an explanation as to who created these orbs that can control superpowerful ancient pokemon)
4. That the Teams are going to Monsoon Island to exchange the pokemon.
I understand that it's a standard thing for cartoon villains to announce their plans to the heroes, but this entire sequence makes no sense at all. He has literally no motivation to tell them any of this, he doesn't even know they want to foil his plans, and the first thing he did upon showing up was tell one of his goons to lock the heroes away because they didn't have time for them.
Meanwhile, a Team Aqua officer, Shelly, sneaks onto the ship and frees Kyogre, which launches itself into the ocean and causes the ship to start sinking. In the confusion, Pikachu grabs the blue orb, which disappears into its stomach and causes, well, it's easier to upload a picture to Photobucket than to explain.
The tattoos keep glowing and disappearing, and Pikachu freaks out and falls unconscious.
Cut to Shelly and Archie, the leader of Team Aqua. Archie, who by the way has a terrible voice actor, uses the red orb over the ocean to command Kyogre to attack Team Magma's ship even though it was already sinking, so I guess he's just kind of a dick.
Cut to the heroes. Everyone except Ash jumps overboard, but Ash is attacked by Tabetha. Rather than defend himself with Grovyle or something, Ash just lets Tabetha's Mightyena kick his ass and lets himself and Pikachu be taken prisoner in a helicopter heading to Monsoon Island. Why go to Monsoon Island to exchange the pokemon when you've already lost your bargaining chip? Because shut up.
We then learn that Lance is here, disguised as a Team Magma grunt, and his mission is to stop both organizations. May, Max, and Brock are rescued from drowning by Lance's Gyarados, which Brock recognizes as Lance's.
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Started: July 6, 2005