The small fry who had been knocked unconscious by Link's Divine Plan had already received instructions on the walkie-talkie to go to the deck, but now that they hadn't shown up, it wasn't impossible for someone to come knocking on their door .
He just didn't expect that such a low-probability event would be triggered in the current chaotic situation.
The knocking, which sounded like a death knell, quickly fell silent, followed by the sound of a door card being swiped in the sensor area.
Link instinctively felt something was wrong. This room didn't seem to have two people living in it. He had carefully placed his original room card in the entryway, so why could someone open the door from the outside?
Something was amiss, but he wasn't sure if his common sense still applied to this world.
He cursed his bad luck, picked up his Fennekin, and tiptoed to a blind spot between the door and the entryway, letting it use its superpowers to drag the dead Team Aqua members to his side as well.
A moment later, the door opened.
The person who entered let out a soft "hmm" upon seeing the broken eggshells, incubator, and food scraps on the floor, and then entered the room with two different footsteps, one light and one heavy.
Link was extremely nervous. This was the first time in his life he had directly confronted members of a criminal organization, and any mistake could have dire consequences.
Time ticked by, and the footsteps of the approaching figure drew closer to the room.
Suddenly!
The footsteps grew heavier, and a figure in a brown trench coat rolled into the room!
He then expertly leaped up, turned, and in mid-air, pointed his guns at Link, who had been hiding in his blind spot!
The Team Aqua's illegal possession of firearms was going too far!
"Don't move! Police!"
At the same time, a nearly meter-tall, blue, humanoid toad appeared, arriving just as Link's attention was drawn to the figure and the gun. With a speed so fast it was almost a blur, it extended its venomous fingers towards him.
A square-faced man in a trench coat and a delinquent frog?
In this critical moment, Link's mind raced, recalling a similar pair from his own memory.
"Fen!"
Sensing the threat, the fox demon acted immediately. Unable to find the spherical object specifically mentioned for the humanoid characters, it used its psychic powers to throw the body of the collapsed Team Aqua man member at the charging enemy.
The delinquent frog sneered, using its venomous hand to knock the body away, and continued its charge without pause.
Link wanted to make a move, but the gun pointed at him made it difficult to concentrate.
So he shouted, "Handsome! Give me a song's worth of time to explain myself. My name is Link, and I'm one of the kidnapped passengers.
I just took advantage of the chaos caused by the pirate attack on Team Aqua man executives to escape into the corridor, avoiding many pirates. After ambush, I hid in a room and changed into an extra uniform to avoid being attacked by one of them. If you don't believe me, you can wake up this guy and ask me if I'm his teammate!"
"Wait, delinquent frog."
The square-faced man in the trench coat promptly instructed his partner to stop.
To be honest, he hadn't quite caught the details of the latter half of the man's rapid-fire monologue, but the exceptional memory of an Interpol agent allowed him to recall the face—it was indeed one of the passengers who had been detained for a day.
He was an Interpol agent who had boarded the ship disguised as a gentleman after receiving prior intelligence that pirates were smuggling goods from the kalos region. He had also been with Link when Link was kidnapped and imprisoned in a room not long ago, waiting for an opportunity to act. It wasn't
until the battle between the pirates and the Marines broke out again in an unexpected way that he began to take advantage of the chaos to rescue the...
goods from the kalos region one by one.
The square-faced man in the trench coat, with an upright demeanor, looked at the Fennekin in Link's arms and suddenly felt a headache coming on. How did it hatch?
Seeing this, the Fennekin bared its teeth at him. Its little brain couldn't process anything too complicated; it only felt that anyone who showed hostility towards it and Link must be a bad guy.
"Why did you call me handsome?"
"So... I'll call you handsome?" Link smiled knowingly. He couldn't very well call him a nobody or a beggar in this situation.
"No, that's fine, just call me dashing."
The dashing man spoke seriously, his words carrying a subtle undertone, but he didn't lower his gun. "So, Mr. Link, I have a second question for you. You're not on the passenger list for this ship. Who are you? Why are you here?" "
I don't know. I opened my eyes and found myself kidnapped. I still don't understand what happened."
It was a ridiculous and unconvincing reason; anyone who heard it would feel like they were being brushed off.
But the dashing man had been observing the man's micro-expressions and roughly determined that he wasn't lying, concluding that he had been kidnapped by pirates or was a stowaway.
When people face immense mental pressure, their memories can become confused.
Link looked only fifteen or sixteen years old; it was a pity to have him in such a precarious situation where a slight misstep could result in serious injury or death.
"Change back into your clothes. My colleagues have already evacuated the passengers in the chaos. The way we came is safe. You just need to stay with them and wait for the lifeboats to appear before heading to Twilight Town."
The handsome guy had a mission to complete and couldn't personally escort Link there, so he could only trust the boy's unusual efficiency.
He then looked at the fox in Link's arms, noticing that they were already quite friendly, indicating that Link was trustworthy, so he didn't mention that it was smuggled goods.
Link was overjoyed to receive the handsome guy's help and promptly changed back into his oversized Snorlax pajamas and slippers that he wore at home—the handsome guy couldn't forget someone so conspicuous among a group of tourists.
He then left with the Fennekin following the route given by the handsome guy and quickly found Officer Jenny and her group who were organizing the passenger rescue on the side of the cruise ship.
"There are still passengers?" Officer Jenny, who spotted the young man in the pajamas, hurriedly called out to him, "Come here quickly, I'll take you away!"
Are there really families where everyone is a twin in real life?
Link came to Officer Jenny's side with mixed feelings and saw the other rescued passengers and the lifeboats on the side of the ship.
On the other hand, if he hadn't wandered off, he might have been rescued by now.
If the handsome guy hadn't appeared, he might have remained on the ship, vying for the final round of the game.
But reality isn't a simulator; there aren't so many "what ifs."
Even if Link had to make the choice again…
He looked at the Fennekin, who seemed a little awkward seeing so many strangers for the first time, clinging tightly to him, and couldn't help but smile.
Even if he had to make the choice again, even if the Fennekin would have been rescued by the handsome guy anyway, he would still resolutely embark on his little adventure, witnessing the moment a Pokémon was born.
Moonlight flowed across the water, like a silver carpet welcoming friends from another world.
Not long after, Link, the Fennekin, and the other passengers boarded a lifeboat, and under Officer Jenny's protection, headed to the cruise ship's original next stop—Duskwater Town.
Upon landing, he immediately found Officer Jenny and explained his situation, and that the Fennekin wasn't his Pokémon but rather pirate smuggled goods.
Thus began the story of a refugee from another world and a stowaway from kalos.
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