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Ash, Brock, Tommy and Pikachu are still looking for their friends as a blue flipper-like hand reaches out from the water to grab Pikachu. Pikachu notices and attacks the hand with electricity, alerting Ash, Brock and Tommy. The assailant burst from the water, revealing itself to be a {{p|Swampert}}. Ash looks it up on the PokéDex and Tommy gasps as he thinks the Swampert as well as his missing Marshtomp might be one in the same. The angry Swampert flees with them in pursuit as Swampert tries to lose them by diving into the water but they follow it anyway. When they surface, they notice, open a door and enter to find themselves between Swampert and their friends along with Team Rocket. Brock tells Mudkip to cut the threads with Water Gun but is thwarted by Swampert using {{m|Mud Shot}}. Ash sends out Corphish to battle Swampert. Corphish employs Crabhammer but Swampert easily dodges and uses {{m|Iron Tail}}, much to the surprise of Tommy. Ash recalls Corphish and is about to have Pikachu battle but Tommy stops them, saying he's sure that Swampert evolved from his Marshtomp, reasoning that he raised it since it was a little baby. Tommy approaches Swampert and tries to say hello but Swampert just uses Mud Shot at him, but Tommy isn't harmed or afraid. Then, Tommy openly realizes that Swampert feels that way because when he abandoned it as a Marshtomp, it has grown to hate humans and it is fighting so hard because it doesn't want them to break into its home. Swampert's threatening growls seem to support this theory. Tommy then tell Swampert to remember the day the ship ran aground and in the panic, they were separated. Tommy had thought Swampert, as a Marshtomp back then, had been safe in its Poké Ball and had left but that he never meant to abandon it. Swampert doesn't seem to believe him, but Tommy tells it to try and remember how they were always together when Tommy was a little kid and Swampert was a baby Mudkip. Swampert has a flashback of when they were training around that time, shooting {{m|Water Gun}} at empty soda cans, and evolved into a Marsthomp, they were so happy at that time. Then Tommy brings up the Iron Tail that Swampert had used and all the hard work they did to perfect it. Another flashback shows Marshtomp trying to use Iron Tail on a rock. The attempt fails but Tommy encourages it to try again and this time it's successful as Marshtomp pulverizes the rock. Happy about their success, they hugged.