Act 1: Enter Michiru and Beryl

We now make our way to a sunken shipwreck, where a certain mermaid and her Pokémon friend are swimming through.

Finneon: (from a distance) Michiru, wait for me...

Michiru: (waving him over) Finneon, hurry up!

Finneon: (catching up) You know I can't swim that fast.

Michiru: (pointing to a sunken ship) There it is. Isn't it fantastic?

Finneon: Yeah... sure... it - it's great. Now let's get outta here.

Finneon begins to swim away, and Michiru yanks his fins towards her.

Michiru: You're not getting cold fins now, are you?

Michiru swims towards the ship. Finneon follows after her.

Finneon: Who, me? No way. It's just, it, err... it looks - damp in there. Yeah. And I think I may be coming down with something. Yeah, I got this cough.

Finneon coughs unconvincingly.

Michiru: All right. I'm going inside. You can just stay here and - watch for Sharpedo's.

Michiru swims inside through a porthole.

Finneon: O.K. Yeah - you go. I'll stay and - (suddenly realizing what she's said) what? Sharpedo's! Michiru!

He tries to squeeze through the porthole but gets stuck.

Finneon: Michiru... I can't... I mean- Michiru help!

Michiru: (laughs) Oh, Finneon.

Finneon: (whispering) Michiru, do you really think there might be Sharpedo's around here?

Michiru comes back to help him.

Michiru: Finneon, don't be such a guppy.

A huge Sharpedo passes behind them as Finneon squeezes in.

Finneon: I'm not a guppy. (Sarcastically) This is great - I mean, I really love this. Excitement, adventure, danger lurking around every corn-

Finneon sees a skull and screams. He crashes into a pillar, causing wooden beams to fall down.

Finneon: Michiru!

He swims frantically away, knocking over Michiru.

Michiru: Oh, are you okay?

Finneon shakes intensely.

Finneon: Yeah sure, no problem, I'm okay...

Michiru: Shhh...

[Michiru swims to an upper level of the ship. Resting atop a heap is a silver fork.] Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! (picking up a fork) Have you ever seen anything so wonderful in your entire life?

Finneon: Wow, cool! But, err, what is it?

Michiru: I don't know. But I bet Pelipper will.

Michiru puts the fork in her bag. The Sharpedo swims by outside.

Finneon: What was that? Did you hear something?

Michiru: (distracted by a pipe) Hmm, I wonder what this one is?

Finneon: Michiru...

Michiru: Finneon, will you relax? Nothing is going to happen.

The Sharpedo appears in front of the porthole, behind Finneon, jaws wide open. He chomps down on the glass.

Finneon: Ahh! Run! Run! We're gonna die!

The Sharpedo bangs his head on the ceiling of the ship. He chases Michiru and Finneon, and they swim for an upper deck. Finneon screams as the Sharpedo breaks through the floor, chomping towards them. Michiru's bag gets caught on a plank and she goes back for it.

Finneon swims towards a porthole and gets stuck again.

Finneon: Oh no!

Michiru pushes him through and wriggles out behind him. Finneon screams as the Sharpedo bursts through the wall and chases them around the ships' mast.
Finneon bumps into a crossbeam. The Sharpedo lunges towards Finneon but misses as Finneon sinks towards the bottom with a dazed look. Michiru spots him and swims down to get him, dropping her bag.
The Sharpedo races towards them, but his head gets stuck in the ring of an anchor. Michiru picks up her bag, which has landed near her

Finneon: You big bully.

Finneon blows a raspberry. The Sharpedo snaps at him and Finneon swims with Michiru towards the surface.

Michiru: (laughing) Finneon, you really are a guppy.

Finneon: I am not.

We now make our way to the surface, on a tiny island, Pelipper the seagull Pokémon hums a song and looks through his telescope.

Pelipper: (singing) Fourteen hundred and ninety-two, dah-de-dum dee-do-do, rum-dim-dim, dee-do-dee-do

Pelipper sticks his telescope on his head.

Michiru: Pelipper!

Pelipper: (looking through the telescope the wrong way, making Michiru appear farther away, shouting) Whoa! Mermaid off the port bow! Michiru, how you doin' kid?

Pelipper lowers the telescope to reveal Michiru at wing's length.

Pelipper: Whoa, what a swim!

Michiru: Pelipper- look what we found.

Michiru pulls up her bag and hands it to Pelipper.

Finneon: Yeah - we were in this sunken ship - it was really creepy.

Pelipper: Human stuff, huh? Hey, lemme see.

Pelipper drops an anchor. It catches on his foot and knocks him off his perch. Rummaging through Michiru's bag, he takes out the fork.

Pelipper: Oh! Oh! Look at this. Wow - this is special - this is very, very unusual.

Michiru: What? What is it?

Pelipper: It's a dinglehopper! Humans use these little babies... to straighten their hair out.

Pelipper twirls the fork around his feathers on top of his head.

Pelipper: See - just a little twirl here an' a yank there and - voiolay!

Pelipper's feathers go up in a poof.

Pelipper: You got an aesthetically pleasing configuration of hair that humans go nuts over.

Pelipper hands the fork back to Michiru.

Michiru: A dinglehopper!

Finneon: (in reference to the pipe) What about that one?

Pelipper: (picking up the pipe) Ah - this I haven't seen in years. This is wonderful! A banded, bulbous - snarfblatt.

Michiru & Finneon: (turning to each other) Ohhh.

Pelipper: Now, the snarfblatt dates back to prehistoric times, when humans used to sit around and stare at each other all day. Got very boring. [comes face to face with Michiru] So, they invented the snarfblatt to make fine music. Allow me.

Pelipper blows into the pipe. Seaweed pops out the other end.

Pelipper: (coughing) It's stuck!

Michiru: (mortified) Music? Oh, the concert! Oh my gosh, my father's gonna kill me!

Finneon: The concert was today?

Pelipper: (still contemplating pipe) Maybe you could make a little planter out of it or somethin'.

Michiru: (snatching the pipe hurriedly) Uh, I'm sorry, I've gotta go. Thank you Pelipper.

Michiru waves.

Pelipper: Anytime sweetie, anytime.

Pelipper waves back as the camera zooms away.

As Michiru and Finneon swim down, the two Eel Pokémon, Huntail and Shiny Huntail slither out from under a rock ledge. The reflection of Michiru and Finneon swimming in the bright yellow eyes of the pair merge, forming a projection on Beryl's magical bubble. Back in her lair, Beryl watches her.

Beryl: Yes, hurry home, princess. We wouldn't want to miss old daddy's celebration, now, would we? Ha! Celebration indeed. Bah! In my day, we had fantastical feasts when I lived in the palace.

Beryl picks up a scared little Anorith and eats him.

Beryl: And now, look at me - wasted away to practically nothing - banished and exiled and practically starving, while he and his flimsy fish-folk celebrate.

Beryl extends her tentacles and floats down to the bottom of her lair.

Beryl: Well, I'll give 'em something to celebrate soon enough. Huntail! Shiny Huntail!

The camera cuts to the two eel Pokémon, who can magically hear Beryl.

Beryl: I want you to keep an extra close watch on this pretty little daughter of his. She may be the key to Poseiden's undoing...

The scene darkens, leaving only Beryl's white eyes before completely going black.

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