Editing Team Aqua

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| name=Team Aqua
| image=[[Image:Aquagrunts.png|200px]]
| caption=Team Aqua grunts
|bgcolor=#222222
|fgcolor=#FFFFFF
| base=Lilycove City (''Sapphire''/''Emerald'')
| prominent=[[#Matt|Matt]], [[#Shelly|Shelly]]
| founder=[[Archie]]
| debut=[[Pokémon: Ruby and Sapphire Versions]]
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'''Team Aqua''' is one of the two potentially criminal organizations featured in the third generation Pokémon games, along with their opposing rivals [[Team Magma]]. Their exact role is different depending on the version, as Team Aqua acts as the primary antagonists in ''Sapphire'', while they and Team Magma share secondary antagonist roles in ''Emerald'', and in ''Ruby'' they have a minor and seemingly benign presence. They are associated with water and the oceans.

=Background=

Team Aqua was formed by [[Archie]] as a group that revered the ocean and believed that expanding the world's oceans was the key to allowing people and Pokémon to thrive. Their ultimate goal was to revive the legendary Pokémon [[Kyogre]] so that it would expand the oceans, although it is unknown how much of this ambition the ''Ruby'' version of this team had.

==Ruby==

Team Aqua is apparently benign in this version and has a helpful but ultimately minor role. They make several appearances working against Team Magma and their attempts to revive [[Groudon]]. They were first seen at Meteor Falls, where they failed in an attempt to prevent Team Magma from stealing the Meteorite. They then tracked Team Magma to Mt. Chimney and battled them there in an attempt to prevent Team Magma from detonating Mt. Chimney with their weapon. Team Aqua wound up distracting all of Team Magma's grunts while Brendan/May defeated Archie and stopped the threat. 

==Sapphire==

Team Aqua had a base hidden within Lilycove City's cove. Their first plan revolved around obtaining the Devon Goods, which contained the blueprints for Captain Stern's Submarine Explorer 1, so that they could use it to access the underwater cover where Kyogre was sleeping. A grunt was sent into the Petalburg Woods to steal the Devon Goods from a Devon researcher, but Brendan/May was able to fight them off. At Rustboro City, a Team Aqua grunt was able to steal the Devon goods from a different researcher only to be caught and beaten within the Rusturf Tunnel by the same trainer. Two grunts showed up at Slateport City and attempted to get information out of Captain Stern about the Devon Goods until Brendan/May fought them off as well.

They also launched a secondary plan based on the local volcano, Mt. Chimney. They manipulated [[Professor Cozmo]] into bringing them to a Meteorite at Meteor Falls and then took it for themselves. They used this Meteorite to power a machine at Mt. Chimney that would drain the lava from Mt. Chimney, which ultimately would aid an expansion of the ocean. Team Magma showed up in an attempt to stop their plan, but Archie was still free to operate the machine until Brendan/May arrived. This trainer was able to defeat Achie, and Team Aqua retreated in defeat. Part of Team Aqua then attacked the Weather Institute to find information on Kyogre and attempted to steal Castform. This group was also defeated by Brendan/May, but they continued to make progress in their attempt to revive Kyogre. They attacked Mt. Pyre, and although the trainer tried to defeat them once again, Archie was ultimately able to steal the Blue Orb. They also hijacked Stern's Sunmarine Explorer 1 from Slateport City upon its completion.

Brendan/May managed to infiltrate the Aqua Hideout, but they reached Archie just as Archie escaped in the submarine. At the Seafloor Cavern, Archie finally revived Kyogre, but he could not control it, and it went on a rampage. Brendan/May ultimately had to subdue the creature by defeating or catching it. In the aftermath of this, Archie reformed, and Team Aqua seemingly disbanded. 

==Emerald==

In this version, Team Aqua was still based by Lilycove City, and the main difference in their plan from ''Sapphire'' was that they did not target Mt. Chimney. Several Team Aqua agents made attempts to steal the Devon Goods as in ''Sapphire'', and they also helped to fight off Team Magma at Mt. Chimney to stop their plan to explode the volcano, as it would threaten to expand the land instead of the ocean. Some Team Aqua members then attacked the Weather Institute to take Castform and were defeated by Brandan/May. Team Aqua attacked Mt. Pyre after Team Magma was there and managed to steal the Red Orb that was needed to revive Kyogre. They then stole the Submarne Explorer 1 from Slateport City and used it to reach the Seafloor Cavern. Although Brendan/May fought their way through various Team Aqua members followed by Archie, the Red Orb was still used to revive Kyogre, who then proceeded to rampage and battled Groudon while ignoring Archie's orders until [[Rayquaza]] broke up the battle.

Archie and Maxie were last seen returning their orbs to Mt. Pyre, both apparently reformed, and Team Aqua was seemingly disbanded afterwards. 

=Members=

Team Aqua consists primarily of grunts who wore blue bandannas and pirate-like attire. They usually used common Pokémon that were tough but ultimately weak like [[Zubat]], [[Poochyena]] and its evolved forms as well as Water-types such as [[Carvanha]] and [[Sharpedo]].

==Matt==

Matt was one of the Team Aqua Admins and considered himself to be a cut above the other grunts. In ''Sapphire'', he stole the Meteorite from Meteor Falls and delivered it to Archie at Mt. Chimney, at which point Brendan/May showed up to defeat him. He later battled the trainer again at Aqua Hideout to stall while Archie escaped in the submarine. In ''Emerald'', he only appeared at Aqua Hideout. In ''Sapphire'', he used two [[Carvanha]] (one of which becomes a [[Sharpedo]] for the second battle) and a [[Mightyena]]. In ''Emerald'', he only had a [[Golbat]] and a Mightyena.

==Shelly==

Shelly was one of the Team Aqua Admins. She led the raid on the Weather Institute until beaten by Brendan/May and later battled the trainer at the Seafloor Cavern to stop them from preventing Kyogre's revival in both ''Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''. In ''Emerald'', she possibly teamed up with an Aqua Grunt in a double battle. After being beaten, she regretted that Brendan/May was not a Team Aqua member and thus could not experience the world that Archie had promised them. In battle, Shelly uses a [[Carvanha]] (in the first battle), a [[Sharpedo]] (in the second battle) and a [[Mightyena]].

=Other Appearances=

==Other Media==

*Team Aqua appeared in several episodes of the Pokémon anime during the Hoenn episodes. First, there were two subsequent episodes where a Team Aqua grunt infilitrated Devon to steal "Creation Fluid", ultimately failing after competing with Jessie and James. Another episode showed a feud between members of Team Aqua led by Shelly and members of Team Magma led by Tabitha. Team Aqua was also shown trying to steal the Weather Institute's Castform in one episode. Their final appearance was in the two-part episode in which Groudon and Kyogre both revived and battled.
*In the ''Pokémon Adventures'' manga, both Teams Aqua and Magma appeared as antagonists in the ''Ruby''/''Sapphire'' arc. Archie secretly was head of Hoenn's media corporation, so he used this position to hide Team Aqua's criminal activities and pin everything on Team Magma. Shelly and Matt were both utilized in this adaptation, as well as a new admin named Amber. Team Aqua crossed paths with Ruby and Sapphire several times, but they were ultimately only successful in stealing the prototype submarine engine as well as the Red Orb. Archie and Maxie had to make an alliance in order to reach the Seafloor Cavern together and awakened both Kyogre and Groudon. Even after Kyogre and Groudon's fight was broken up, the influence of the orbs caused Archie and Maxie to become inhuman and bent on killing everyone around them. In the end, they both wound up trapped in the Cave of Origin while both of the teams seemed to be disbanded. Although Team Aqua as a whole never returned, Archie wound up menacing the world again in the Hoenn arc with an artificial construct of Kyogre that was ultimately foiled by all the Pokédex holders.

=Trivia=

*Team Aqua and Magma are notable in that they are the only groups not to be mentioned or play some role in any generation outside of their own.

=See Also=

*[[Team Rocket]]
*[[Team Magma]]
*[[Team Galactic]]
*[[Team Plasma]]


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