Jackie fights Phantom and tries to replace the crystals, but he and Phantom and one of the crystals are drawn into the flooding water.
Ash, May, and Manaphy go back into the Temple to save it while the rest are drawn into the submarine and have to leave. They decide to put the crystals back into the crown, but one of them is of course missing. Realizing that he screwed up the Temple, Phantom decides to simply run away, and both he and Jackie escape. Although Lizbeth wants to take the submarine back into the Temple and help Ash and May, it’s pushed away by the current. Even though since the temple is flooding, they should be pulled toward it and not away from it, but hey, at least the show is aware of the concept of currents, and that’s honestly a little more than I expected from it.
While running through the Temple, Ash and May find the final crystal, and also find a discarded lifepod from Phantom's submarine, so Ash sticks May, Pikachu, and Manaphy in it (even though the last can breathe underwater) and goes back to place the last crystal. Ash runs through the temple, doing things that Faith from Mirror’s Edge would be hard pressed to equal, and almost succeeds, but finally runs out of breathe and falls unconscious. Meanwhile, May prays for Ash, so Manaphy uses its powers to transmit her prayers to him (which it can apparently do), and this somehow gives him the strength to keep going. He places the final crystal, and the Sea Temple is now fine.
Thousands of pokemon, including Kyogre, come to the Temple because why not. Phantom takes one last stab at the whole “villain” thing, capturing Manaphy using-- his arm. Hey, quick question, Manaphy: why don’t you switch Phantom and May’s bodies? That way, May is the huge guy wearing a suit that gives you superhuman strength and Phantom is a ten year-old girl.
May is helpless to stop Phantom, but fortunately, Ash-- goes Super Saiyan, flies after him in a golden shroud, and the grandfather explains that Ash wore the Crown, so he's the King of the Sea.
Apparently being the King of the Sea gives you flight. I honestly did not know that.
Despite all of his new power, Ash still can't stop Phantom (Jesus Hell), so finally Kyogre just does it. Ash takes Manaphy back, but Phantom's submarine and crew finally show up, so all of the water pokemon destroy the submarine. By the way, there’s no shot where we see the pirates inside of it being okay, so I choose to believe they all died.
Everyone now has flight powers for some reason, and they celebrate by swimming with the water pokemon. Yes, they can fly, so they swim. If you could fly for a few minutes, would you spend those minutes swimming? If you're a character in Pokemon, the answer is yes. We now learn that the Sea Crown isn't the crystals, it's the shrouds of light surrounding the humans. Whatever.
Manaphy says goodbye, the Sea Temple disappears (better not put a tracking device on it or something, it would sure suck if you could find it again), and May decides she'll be alright, even though leaving Manaphy hurts for now. She’ll be so alright, in fact, that she’ll never mention any of this ever again.
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Started: July 6, 2005