(Since I have the time and nothing is going at the time of this post, I'm going to type out Terra's 'AÂ Whale of a Story' right now, and say it happens after our characters have introduced and returned our Zorua)
"....Ah! Almost forgot. You wanted to hear story about Wailord, yes? *Gets confirmation, and nods himself* Okay. It is not very long or epic, but hope it is interesting. *Closes eyes, his mind going back in time* Hm.....was in Lilycove, after long time time in the wilds. Low on medicine and Pokeballs, so needed to restock on both....."
A Whale of a StoryÂ
Didn't have lots of Poke either, so couldn't do that. Hadn't fought many trainers then, or found any treasure to sell. Was almost broke. Tried to find temp job. Work for awhile to save up cash, and take break from living in my home's wilds.
 *Shakes head*Â
Nobody wanted to give me work, though. Was too......under-qualified and stupid for lots of jobs. Others didn't like or feared me. Not busy time of year too, so not lot of jobs in first place. Spent few days exploring city looking for work, and failing. About gave up and head to Foretree. People there didn't mind me as much, and lots of hard labor jobs there.
On last day I tried to search for work, got lucky. Went over to harbor, and found their was a big fishing boat, heading out to Route 129. Needed tough, strong Trainers to man ship, catch fish, and defeat dangerous wild Pokemon. Fit all requirements they had, so I got job after proving myself by lifting up my blood brother for them.
Took a few days to get to Route 129. Caught lots of Tentacool, Tentacruel, Carvanha, and fought of pod of Sharpedo with Melly - an Electrike at that time. Ended up overloading ship from being too eager and cost whole day fixing it, but better that than having torn up ship underwater, and everyone in sharks belly. Thought I saw some long blue eels with big green teeth, but they disappeared before I could get good look.
Spend about a week.....trawling Route's waters. Half of people used rods to catch their fish, others had Water Pokemon Surf or Dive for them and bring them back to ship. I used the big titanium and tungsten nets on ship with Genie - A Vibrava - to cast them out far, pull bunch of fish in with my blood brother, and have Melly zap them all. Not hard, but it was good work and practice.
Until I end up catching a Wailord. Then it was very hard work.
Happened early in morning. Was one of first ones up, and got early start on day's fishing. Had Genie scout out good throw to cast net, and found good patch of water with lots of fish. So we put net out there, and waited for boat to drift and catch them.
That did not happen. Only few minutes after casting net, the Wailord broke surface of water, mouth wide open to gobble up fish there.Â
It was big, bright blue, and beautiful. Made ship I was on look small. Looked......grand and without flaw.
Until its face got caught in the net. Then it looked like bottom of a tennis shoe. That was not good a good look on it. Appeared very uncomfortable.
Wailord agreed with me.Â
Wildly.
Started thrashing around, bellowing, and sending up great big Water Spouts. Made big waves that nearly capsized ship. Scared away all the fish too.
Crew started to panic. Badly. Those with Water Pokemon that knew Surf or Dive abandoned ship, and fled to Pacifidlog or Mossdeep quickly. Rest did best to keep ship floating. Some trainers with me tried to knock it out. Couldn't. Wailord too tough and bulky, and it kept healing itself with Aqua Ring. Only made it act more wildly. Started making [i]big Whirlpools, tried to Bounce us off, and blast at boat with Hydro Pumps.[/i]
Finally, it looked like it had enough. Started to take deep breaths, and submerge in water.
 It was going to Dive. If it did that, would drag whole ship down with it. And everyone on it.Â
That was not good. Not good at all. Something had to be done to stop that.Â
So I did.
I had an idea. Stopped trying to Fight it, and rushed over to wear net was connect to boat. Got Shiranui and Genie to try tear and melt its connection to boat. It worked, but Wailord had tangled itself up in it by then. Ship would not be pulled down, but it might still get hit by Wailord Diving back up.
Then I had another idea. Decided to jump off ship, swim to Wailord, free them from net myself, and calm them down.Â
It was not a good plan. But it was the only one I got. Was.....do or die? Yes....do or die.
So I did it.Â
......And it worked.Â
Wailord had tired itself when I acted out plan, so it was just floating in the water regaining its Strength when I swam over to it. Was able to get its attention, and told them to stay still and be calm while I got them out of net. They did, so I was able to free them after.......an hour of work. Had to be careful not to hurt them more and cause them to panic again, and had to take a break to rest myself, but I got them free without much problem. Did not expect that, but was grateful for it.
After that, I apologized to it for the accident, and promised it would not happened again. It forgave me, but only after I spent a few hours of giving its face a massage with Shiranui. Was pretty friendly after that. Called them Big Blue, and they seemed to like nickname.
I wished it well and good bye, and we both left each other. Went back to ship, and everyone was staring at me. Confused and made me worry, so I asked what was wrong. Then they started to laugh and cheer, and threw a big party. Made me guest of honor, and got big bonus for taking care of Big Blue.Â
*Shrugs* Don't know why. Was responsible for mess in first place, and only fixed it.Tried to refuse money and praise, but they insisted, so I accepted. We then headed straight back to Lilycove. Got off boat, and vowed to never fish on open seas again with nets again, to honor promise to Big Blue. Was able to purchase a lot of supplies, and headed back out into the wild.
"*Opens eyes* ......And that is all. Not too big of story, as I said, but big thing happened in it. *Gives Nathan a curious look* Did you enjoy it?"
Well?