228. Team Aqua

"Wait, Mr. Briney, you have your own boat?" May looked at the old looking man in front of her with her eyes widened in surprise.

After Ash and the others returned, May had a good chat with the old man named Briney. She also imitated Ash's ability to get close to someone else's Pokémon's first and became familiar with the Mr. Briney's most valued companion, a Wingull named Peeko.

After understanding the predicament of May and his party, Mr. Briney nodded and gave her an affirmative answer, "Yeah, don't look at me like this. I used to be a great sailor back in the days of my prime. Dewford Island is not even that far away from here. I can sail my boat there and Take you lads there, hahaha!"

"Awesome!" May couldn't help but cheer up.

She came out with her momentum before, but of course she was not sure whether she could even find a boat at all. Luckily she had found a boat that could be used and met such a nice person that could take them there.

Peeko also flapped his wings and cheered with Misty.

"You see, even my little Peeko agrees with it!" Hutch laughed loudly as he looked at his little companion. It seems that he really liked Mays way. "And I'm probably the only one who still has a boat available in this place after everyone left and all." He said with a bit of sadness.

"Is that what it looked like before?"

Mr. Briney looked at the New Harbor on the other side of the coastline behind him, "Everyone has moved to the New Harbor to make a living... But you can rest assured, I used to be a very good Captain, so just follow me!"

All in all, this old man seems very reliable and kind from the outside.

After the agreement, May turned around to find Ash and the others, while Mr. Briney continued fishing and waited for them to come back to him.

"Just wait, Peeko, I will bring a lot of delicious Pokémon food for you."

When May returned to find Ash and the others, Brock's jelly filled donuts had just been finished.

"Everyone, I found a boat for us." She took the rice ball from Brock and took a bite, "It's so delicious. Thanks Brock, I don't know what I would do without you here with us."

Although the three of them already knew about it, they still looked surprised and praised May. Even Max joined in to praise May.

May was also very happy to hear all that praise towards here, not counting that it was her fault to begin with that they missed their original boat.

She was holding Brock's special Water-type Pokémon food in her hand for her new friend, Preko, "Peeko must be very happy to eat this."

Now May began to love Pokémon from the bottom of her heart.

However, when a group arrived at the pier again, they found that Mr. Briney, who promised that he was going to be fishing here, was not there.

With just thinking that he went home to eat something, they arrived at the door of Mr. Brineys house and knocked on the door.

The door opened.

Mr. Briney opened the door and came out, looking very anxious, but he said, "Who are you kids?"

[Notice! It is apparent that this guy does not yet have the Maractus Disease.]

Ash frowned, a light blue light flashed on his body, and suddenly pulled May who was about to explain, "I'm sorry, sir, my Pikachu just ran in this direction just now."

Mr. Briney was also a little confused. You are telling lies with your eyes open. Isn't your Pikachu sitting quietly on your shoulders?

"Pika pi!"

Pikachu and Ash had the same mind, jumped up, and slipped into the home of Mr. Briney.

"Oh, Pikachu, you can't run around in someone's house! Why are you being so rude today?!" Ash's performance was really exaggerated but it was working. He pretended to be anxious and pushed away the old man who was blocking the door. He followed Pikachu in and returned the favor. Closed the door.

Mr. Briney was pushed away by Ash and blocked outside the door. Just as he was about to say something, Brock and Max grabbed him and hid behind the door so that they could not be seen from the window.

"Grandpa, you don't have to worry anymore. As long as Big Bro is here, nothing will be a problem." Max now has the same unconditional blind trust in Ash that Molly once had.

May, who is most familiar with Mr. Briney, also assured, "Don't worry, Ash will be fine there."

At Mr. Brineys house, Asg saw an old acquaintance there, the Team Aqua member who jumped off the building back at the Devon Corporation Headquarters.

"Looks like we are just meant to meet again, aren't we?!" Ash smiled so sweetly that it alsomt made the Team Aqua grunt scared. Yesterday, he asked Officer Jenny to launch a search line across the whole city. Not even a Rattata could escape Officer Jenny's eye at this time.

The Team Aqua member had nowhere to escape, so he had no choice but to flee to this remote area, and he just happened to unfortunately meet Ash and his team.

"Looks like I have another bonus to get." Ash chuckled. As a official member of the G-Men, he can get bonuses for catching people from any of the villain organization's.

Ash and Lance exchanged their knowledge and information before many times, and now Lance was sent over to the Hoenn Region to investigate these two large criminal organizations.

Ash believes that the opportunity for them to join forces again will come soon.

"Huh, kid, you look very weird!" The Team Aqua member still didn't know who was in front of him and said in a snarky way.

"I think I look normal, and handsome." Ash shook his head, "I guess you came here to grab a boat. You wanted to meet up with someone but looks like your ride isn't going to come pick you up. Are they?"

"So what if you guessed it all? Don't you care about whether this Pokémon's lives or dies?" Inside of the cage was Mr. Brineys Peeko, he was trapped in a cage by him and the Crawdaunt next to him clamped it in with his big claws.

However, Ash just grinned, Pikachu's figure disappeared in an instant, a silver light flashed by, and Crawdaunt was pushed back several meters by Iron Tail, almost losing his ability to fight in an instant.

A pink light flashed in Ash's eyes, and Peeko's cage rose into the air and was thrown out of the window to someone else.

"My dear Peeko!" Mr. Briney exclaimed when he saw his beloved Peeko being sent out. He opened the cage and let him out in an instant. Peeko jumped up and down in his arms, obviously not injured but just very scared.

"You!" Seeing this scene, the Team Aqua member was dumbfounded.

What was this?

Psychic?

However, what made him pale with horror was the enlarging fist in front of his eyes.

Boom!

Ash personally engaged in hand-to-hand combat and beat up the bad guy like it was nothing. This has really become more and more common after he came to the Hoenn Region.

Regular Trainers are not allowed to do anything to the other Trainer by themselves, otherwise their Trainer's qualifications will be revoked in serious cases, but Ash is a Pokémon Investigator with many high rights. It is his duty to do something to the bad people's. Even if Lance knows about his antics, he will only praise Ash for being so brave and doing his job so well.

This is the second time Ash has punched him in the matter of two days. The swelling from yesterday's punch has not even subsided yet, so it is very symmetrical now after getting hit in the other cheek.

"Wow, it looks much better this way. I must have some kind of talent for this. We should pay attention to the beauty of symmetry for everyone, OCD or not, right buddy?"

"Pika pika pi!"

As if Pikachu didn't think it was lively enough, he used one of his low powered Thunder Shock again on the Team Aqua member who was on the ground.

At this moment, the police siren rang, and Mr. Briney immediately rushed forward, "Officer Jenny, go and help that boy, he is fighting with a gangster from some organization called Team Aqua!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the room opened lightly, and the Team Aqua grunt was thrown out with lots of bruises and a swollen face, scorched on the outside and tender on the inside. Perfect.

Officer Jenny quickly got out of the car when she saw Ash and saluted to him, "Sir Ash, thank you for your assistance again!"

"There really isn't any need for the thanks, it's my job after all. Also, Officer Jenny, this idiot was planning to seize the boat and go of to sea. There must be support from other members of Team Aqua at sea close to here. Since they won't be seen on the water surface, they must be waiting on the seabed with a submarine. You send some people to investigate, but make sure that they don't act rashly. The enemy's combat strength is still unknown!"

"Yes sir!"