New Scene(Previously_On_Trigamon) {
>> QST.show_appropriate();
Narrator: Last time, our allies had their strangest adventure yet. Magical mushroom girls. And yes, they’re just as {Kawaii} as you’d imagine, maybe even more so.
}
New Scene()
Ash and company are walking along a forest trail, which quickly merges into a larger trail.
Narrator: Groggy from a lack of sleep due to magicalized mushroom mayhem, Ash and company…
As they walk, a loud roar echoes through the forest.
May: What was that?!
Brock: I don’t know.
Ash and company follow the trail for about ten seconds (real time) before exiting the forest onto a dirt road. Up ahead a man in a fedora stands with a Poochyena. Seeing Ash and company, the Poochyena turns towards them and roars, wagging it’s tail, causing everyone to stop in their tracks while the Poochyena continues to wag it’s tail.
Ash: How can such a small pokémon make that much noise?
Max: Ask your pokédex. You have one for a reason you know.
These comments get the attention of the gentleman who looks up at Ash and company.
Gentleman: I’m sorry.
The gentleman tugs on his Poochyena’s leash, making it sit down.
Brock: Don’t worry sir, it’s alright.
The gentleman sighs.
Gentleman: I need your help. All she does is roar. No one dares come near me.
May: And what do you need help with?
Gentleman: Just if you travelers could please take this Tactical Machine away…
May: It wouldn’t be good though if our pokémon started roaring like that either…
Cutscene(@May’s Imagination) {
May is in a contest and calls on Beautifly.
May: Beautifly, use silver wind!
Instead of using silver wind, Beautifly roars, startling the judges and causing the audience to scramble for the door.
}
Gentleman: Please–
Benjy: Sure.
The gentleman hands Benjy a disk and a case, which Benjy put together and then Benjy puts them into his backpack.
Max: What should we do with it?
Gentleman: I don’t care. Just please take it far far away.
Benjy: Um… Okay.
May: Uh-oh…
Cutscene(@May’s Imagination) {
Benjy is in a contest and calls on Celebi, then has Celebi use some move, but Celebi roars instead, causing the same effect as Beautifly’s roar in May’s previous daydream.
}
May snaps back to reality as Coal taps her and points ahead, signaling that they’re moving on. May quickly takes off after the rest of the group, running along the path and then onto a wooden bridge about ten meters ahead (which highly resembles the bridge on Route 114 in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire).
Refresh Scene()
Ash and company are walking across the low bridge, with Coal leading the group. QST.camera starts at a side view, and then rotates to a top-down view as several Barboach swim under the bridge. May stops and takes out her pokédex:
May’s Pokédex: Barboach's sensitive whiskers serve as a radar system. This Pokémon hides in mud, leaving only its two whiskers exposed while it waits for prey to come along. It’s body is covered with a slimy film. If a foe grabs it, this Pokémon just slips out of the enemy's grip. It grows weak if the slimy coating dries up.
May: Woah…
Coal: Can we not dawdle? I’d like to get to Lavaridge before that comet appears.
May looks up.
Max: Why’s that?
Coal: Don’t want to deal with the crazies.
Brock: Come on, it can’t be that bad.
Coal: Benjy caught you up to speed with our little magical mushroom girl incident last night, right?
Brock: Uh… Yeah…
From up ahead of them, Benjy looks back.
Coal: This is going to be worse.
Brock: I just don’t know if it’s possible to get to Lavaridge in only a single day.
Coal: That’s how much time we have, huh.
Ash calls back to Coal from up ahead:
Ash: What’s going to happen?
Coal: There’s no way of knowing. That’s the trouble.
Ash: So it could be okay?
Coal: It all depends on how much alcohol is consumed.
QST.camera now shifts to the front of the group where Benjy and Ash are walking. Pikachu is on Ash’s left shoulder and Celebi is riding on Benjy’s right shoulder, as they walk along the bridge. Benjy has a long thin stick of bamboo that he’s using as a walking stick, placing it into the shallow water.
Ash: Benjy, what do you think is going to happen?
Benjy: Not a clue.
Ash and Benjy take a few more steps, walking in parallel.
Benjy: Remember, I’m new to this planet.
Pikachu: Pika pika.
Celebi: Bi.
Benjy and Ash now walk off the bridge onto the other side of the river, with the others behind them, and turn around to wait for the others.
Ash: Hey guys, what’s the plan?
Brock: Coal is going to try to find a quiet route.
Coal is walking next to, and one pace behind Brock, looking at Max’s pokénav.
???: Excuse me!
Ash and Benjy both turn towards a young man in blue robes with a brooch in the shape of a four-pointed star. This young man approaches them.
??? → Young Man: Have you children considered the words of Saradomin today?
QST.camera synchronizes with Benjy’s field of vision as he surveys the young man from head to toe, before going back to how it was previously.
Benjy: Um… Sorry. We’re not interested.
Young Man: Then perhaps–
Benjy: We’re not interested.
The young man stops talking as Max, Brock, and Coal catch up with Benjy and Ash, followed shortly by May.
Young Man: Then what about…
The young man stops talking as Ash and company, now reunited across the stream, walk away from him.
Max: Coal, do you mean we’re going to see more of those guys?
Coal now hands Max’s pokénav back to him.
Coal: I can’t make heads or tails of this thing.
Max: Really?
Coal: I’m not good with technology.
Max: No kidding…
Ash and company continue walking into the meadow while the evangelical saradominist crosses their path behind them, walking over towards a pair of girls having a picnic in the distance (roughly an eighth of a mile). As the man walks, Ash and company continue into the field of tall grass.
Coal: Watch your step guys.
Benjy: Why’s that?
Brock: You don’t want to step on any wild pokémon.
The Millennium Gameboy Advance glows gently.
Yami Benjy: I think I’d see them.
Max: Heh, famous last words.
May: Yeah, they hide in the grass so that you can’t see them.
Yami Benjy: But that leaves them liable to be stepped on.
May and Max giggle as they walk through the grass.
Ash: Well. I guess, but aren’t they also hiding from predators and stuff?
Coal clears his throat.
Coal: Look. Everyone steps on a wild pokémon from time to time. But do you know what else likes to hide in the tall grass?
Ash: Other than pokémon?
Coal: Keep going.
Max: Duel spirits?
Ash: Wild Trigamon?
Coal: Technically yes, but that’s not what I’m so worried about.
May: People?
Coal: Keep going…
Ash, May, Max, and Yami Benjy stare at Coal curiously.
Brock: You mean like orphans?
Coal: We encountered magical mushroom girls last night. Where do you think they go during the day?
Ash: I’ve never thought about that…
Coal: I’ll give you a hint, they aren’t off at some tea party somewhere.
Max: So you’re saying that…
Coal: I’ve stepped on one before, and it wasn’t pretty.
May cringes, and Skitty lets itself out of it’s ball and into the grass. May quickly starts to search the grass for it, finding Skitty after five seconds (real time) and simultaneously discovering a growing puddle underneath it.
Skitty: Ñan!
May: Sorry Skitty, I didn’t realize–
Skitty: Ñan!
Just as May is about to let go of the grass nearby Skitty, Skitty finishes urinating and picks up it’s head.
Skitty: Ñah?
At the same time, a low whistling, like a bomb dropping, can be heard. Pikachu and Celebi also seem to focus on the sound.
Max: What’s that?
Coal: Don’t know.
Ash and company all look upwards to see something blue-gray falling rapidly towards the ground. QST.camera also focuses on this object as it falls, zooming in until the shape of a Bagon is clearly distinguishable. QST.camera zooms out again as the Bagon continues to fall until it suddenly crashes into the high end of a fallen tree, lying against a large boulder, just as the Saradominist evangelical steps over the same tree. Immediately when Bagon crashes into the trunk, the tree acts like a teeter-totter, where the end that the Bagon collided with is forced down, forcing the other end, under the Saradominist evangelical, abruptly upwards. Mid stride, the evangelical is struck squarely in the crotch and thrown into the air about six feet above where the end of the tree now is.
Narrator: And of course there’s no way this could go wrong…
The evangelical now falls right back down onto the tree’s end, landing on his crotch again and breaking the end of the tree in the process, where he proceeds to crash into the ground. QST.camera now shifts back to Ash and company who are all (save for Coal) covering their eyes.
May: Ouch…
Brock: My (bleep) hurts just thinking about it.
Benjy says nothing, but shivers slightly.
Coal: And that’s another reason to watch where you’re going.
Ash: I think we all got it. What is that thing anyway.
Ash pulls out his pokédex and points it at Bagon.
Ash’s Pokédex: Bagon harbors a never-ending dream of one day soaring high among the clouds. In doomed efforts to fly, this Pokémon hurls itself off cliffs. As a result of its dives, its head has grown as hard as adamantite. This has the added benefit of preventing Bagon from taking brain damage when it slams its hard head against huge rocks in frustration.
As Ash and company watch, Bagon jumps to it’s feet, and runs around in circles furiously.
Ash: Looks like it’s got a headache.
Brock: I might have something for that, actually.
Max: You mean a cure for being stupid?
Brock checks his backpack, then starts to walk over to where Bagon is running around in frustration.
Bagon: Bagon Bagon Bagon Bagon!
Brock: Hey there…
Bagon runs around twice more before it notices Brock and comes to a stop.
Brock: I have something for your head.
Brock reaches into his backpack, and as he pulls something out, Bagon headbutts Brock’s leg, knocking him over.
Bagon: Bagon Bagon Bagon!
Bagon approaches Brock, obviously frustrated, getting ready to headbutt him again.
Ash: Taillow, quick attack!
With a burst of speed, Taillow rockets into Bagon, knocking it off Brock and about ten feet away, where it lands on it’s feet.
Bagon: Bagon!
Ash: Wing attack!
Taillow zips towards Bagon, and QST.camera suddenly zooms in on a trainer with purple hair and dark sunglasses watching from the cliffside. In her hand, she holds a single mind rune. Watching Bagon (whom can be seen in her glasses) she touches her temple area with her free hand.
Trainer.telepathy: Dodge right.
QST.camera zips back as Bagon leaps out of the way of Taillow’s attack.
Trainer.telepathy.voiceover: Now headbutt.
Bagon suddenly leaps right at Taillow. Ash calls out for Taillow to dodge. Due to the timing, Taillow is only partially successful, taking moderate damage from the blow. Bagon also appears to take a tiny bit of recoil.
Trainer.telepathy.voiceover: Headbutt one more time. Aim high.
Bagon turns around and shoots at Taillow again, and again Ash tells Taillow to dodge. But this time Taillow flies right into Bagon’s path, taking heavy damage from the hit and being knocked backwards. QST.camera now switches to the cliff, where the purple-haired trainer jumps down to a lower ledge, pulling a yellow and white Poké-ball like device from her belt, and tossing it in her hand. At the same time, the lines on the mind rune seem to start to fade.
Trainer: This ought to do it.
Without warning, this trainer throws the yellow and white ball at Taillow, missing. QST.camera now shifts to where Ash and company are standing. Ash, May, and Yami Benjy see this and all start to run over to where Taillow is.
Coal: Watch your step!
QST.camera now shifts up to where the purple-haired trainer jumps down another ledge, lobbing another ball at Taillow as Benjy, Ash, and May run over towards it. This ball strikes Taillow, and Taillow appears to turn into a stream of off-white light, just as if it had been a wild pokémon.
Ash: Pikachu!
Pikachu sparks on Ash’s shoulder, but before Pikachu can attack, Taillow breaks free of the light, flying out of the ball into Ash’s arms as the ball falls harmlessly to the ground.
May: What was that?
Ash: A ball that can catch other trainer’s pokémon…
Ash surveys the canyon, quickly spotting the purple haired trainer rushing towards them.
Trainer: Hands off my Bagon!
QST.camera split-screens showing the expressions of Ash, May, and Yami Benjy (in the order presented, left to right on the screen).
Ash: You were the one trying to catch Taillow!
Bagon rushes over to the purple-haired trainer.
Yami Benjy: And you’re pokémon attacked us.
Yami Benjy starts to reach for a poké ball on his belt. The purple-haired trainer starts to say something, but suddenly stops. QST.camera turns around to show Coal walking towards them. The purple-haired trainer now sees Coal, then takes a step backwards nervously.
Coal: We appear to have a mix up. We didn’t try to catch Bagon, just offer it something for it’s headache.
Trainer: Oh… Hmm…
Cutscene() {
QST.camera synchronizes with the purple-haired trainer’s vision as she analyses Ash, May, Yami Benjy, and Coal through her glasses, which act as a screen of sorts, displaying several charts via green lights.
}
Trainer: Bagon’s head is pretty darn hard. It can shatter boulders if it wants too.
May: Sure looked like it had a headache…
Ash, May, Yami Benjy, and the purple-haired trainer turn as Max and Brock come over. Ash also recalls Taillow at this time.
Trainer: Lets not get sidetracked. You launched an attack on Bagon. Then what was that about?
Ash: To stop if from hurting Brock, obviously…
Max: And what about you? Those have got to be illegal poké balls!
Coal: She’s carrying light balls, which are technically legal, despite their ability to capture other trainer’s pokémon. Although using them to do so falls into somewhat of a legal gray area.
Max: And why is that?
Coal: They’re designed to be able to capture Trigamon as well, and the result is something that’s next to useless.
Trainer: Fair enough.
With this, the trainer takes off her dark sunglasses. Brock instantly appears to fall in love and hearts appear over his eyes.
Brock: And what’s your name my fair lady?
Trainer → Michelle: Um… Michelle.
Ash now starts to introduce himself, but Brock cuts him off, saying that he (Brock) is the only one Michelle needs to concern herself with. Brock then starts to say something, but he is suddenly zapped with a bolt of electricity and falls down unconscious.
Coal: Sorry about that…
Michelle seems a bit scared and relieved at the same time.
Michelle: Shouldn’t you be more concerned with–
Coal: I was apologizing to him.
Coal gestures down at Brock
Brock: …Ow.
Ash, May, Max, and Benjy now introduce themselves in the order listed. Ash says that he’s aiming for the league and May explains that she’s aiming for the grand festival. Max just introduces himself though.
Michelle: You seem young, what are you after?
Max: Um… I’m actually not old enough to have a pokémon yet…
Michelle: I see. How old are you?
Max suddenly looks embarrassed.
May: He’s seven.
Max: Almost eight!
Michelle: Well if you get the chance to find a pokémon that wants you, don’t pass up the opportunity, no matter how old you are.
Max seems to ponder this, and Michelle turns to Benjy.
Michelle: Didn’t mean to neglect you–
The Millennium Gameboy Advance glows gently.
Benjy: It’s okay. I’m just on my way home. Nothing too exciting.
Michelle nods.
Benjy: What are you doing?
Michelle: I’m just trying to help Bagon evolve.
May: Then where did it go?
Michelle: Zark!
Michelle looks around rapidly.
Michelle: Oh (bleep)!
Michelle quickly puts her shades on, and begins scanning the cliff. Ash offers to help Michelle search too, with Taillow, but before they can intervene, Michelle points out Bagon’s location on the cliff.
Max: It’s all the way up there?!
Michelle: Quickly!
Michelle takes off running across the meadow, with Ash and company following her. Bagon now has climbed up as far as it can go, and looks down, at Ash and company below.
May: Don’t jump!
Michelle stares upwards at Bagon through her goggles.
Michelle: It’s alright. Bagon has an ability called rock head. It–
Bagon now leaps from the cliff. Surprised that it’s unable to fly, it plummets downwards towards the group. Brock starts running towards where he thinks Bagon will land.
Brock: I got it!
Michelle: You’ll break your arm!
Before Brock or Michelle can react, Bagon crashes into a nearby rock, destroying it in a huge cloud of dust and debris, throwing shrapnel everywhere. Ash and company wince and try to shield themselves from the debris. As the dust clears, Bagon appears to have a mild headache, but looks like it wants to go again anyways. Bagon starts to move towards the mountain, but Michelle picks it up.
Michelle: I think that’s enough for today.
Bagon struggles in Michelle’s arms, but Michelle taps it and points to some Altaria flying high in the sky. Bagon looks up to watch these, wide-eyed.
Max: Does it really want to fly that badly?
Michelle: I think so. They say all Bagon share the same dream; and from what I’ve seen it seems to be true. He doesn’t seem to know that he’s incapable of flight.
Ash and company stare up in the sky at the Altaria also, and QST.camera rotates upwards to get a better view of them.
Ash: Not a bad dream…
Max: Well it’s not going to happen. Bagon’s just not aerodynamic.
May: Well you aren’t aerodynamic either!
Max: And you’re point being?
May: You flew! Remember?
Max makes a motion with his fingers, signifying that he thinks May is crazy, however Michelle is intrigued.
May: We all did!
Max: I think you’re a few screws short of a picnic.
Michelle: You say you flew?
May nods.
May: We all did, when the blimp burst!
Max: You can’t be serious.
Michelle: Tell me more about this.
May: Well, Benjy blew up the blimp and then we were falling and then we suddenly started flying.
Benjy casts May a disapproving glance
Coal: Lets not visit that again.
Michelle: Why not? My Bagon would love to!
Michelle looks at Coal with a pleading glance. Coal shakes his head nervously, and throws Brock a pleading glance.
Brock: It’s not exactly something that can be replicated. It would make more sense to just evolve it. Once it becomes a Salamence, he’ll be able to fly all he wants.
Michelle: That requires a power level of fifty though. So it’s going to take quite a while… That is unless one of you wants to help.
Ash: If you’re asking for a match, I’m ready!
New Scene()
Team Rocket are in their balloon overhead, staring down at everyone with their binoculars.
James: So that thing wants to fly? Is that the story?
Jessie: It’s pathetic, but at the same time heartwarming, don’t you think, James?
James: I don’t know, seems useless.
Meowth: To us yes. But that Bagon creature also has a really hard head, which the boss can make use of.
Jessie: Explain. (confused)
Meowth: It goes like this.
Cutscene(Rocket_Boss_Fantasy) {
Giovanni is sitting in a room at a table across from someone who looks like a burglar.
Meowth.narration: Let’s imagine that the boss has lent someone money who won’t pay it back. No matter how much he threatens, this guy just won’t pay back the money he owes!
Giovanni yells at the burglar, who just grins.
James.voiceover: But wouldn’t he just use his baseball bat, like he always does?
Meowth.narration: Exactly, but…
Giovanni pulls out a baseball bat from under the table, and threatens the burglar with it, but the burglar just grins. Suddenly two rocket grunts rush out of a door behind the burglar and pull him and his chair backwards. Giovanni approaches the burglar who is being held down, and attempts to smash the burglar’s kneecap with the baseball bat, but much to his surprise, the wooden bat breaks instead of the man’s kneecap.
Meowth.narration: Let’s say this man has kneecaps from Infernus! No matter what the boss tries, they just won’t break!
Giovanni is seen using a metal bat, a golf club, a computer monitor, and a boat anchor, but nothing works.
Meowth.narration: Then suddenly he remembers!
A lightbulb appears over Giovanni’s head.
Meowth.narration: He has Bagon!
The picture of the lightbulb disappears and replaced by a thought bubble with a picture of Bagon. Realizing this, Giovanni whistles for it (putting two of his fingers in his mouth to do so).
Meowth.narration: The next thing he knows, Bagon comes flying in at over nine thousand miles per hour. With before the debtor can react, Bagon’s head collides with his kneecap, shattering it into smithereens.
Bagon crashes through the roof, colliding with the burglar’s left kneecap and breaking it. The burglar now falls off his chair, and as Bagon floats behind Giovanni, the burglar hands over the money he owes.
Meowth.narration: And you know what he’s going to say?
Meowth::Giovanni’s_Voice.voiceover: For helping maintain the dignity of Team Rocket, Meowth and his friends deserve a raise and a promotion!
}
James: I thought you were going to say that he could use Bagon’s head to smash open coconuts.
#Pokémon_Reference::Let_Bagons_Be_Bagons
Meowth: That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Jessie: Really, Meowth?
Meowth: Well, one of them.
New Scene()
Ash and Michelle are on opposite sides of a rocky battlefield drawn on the ground with chalk. The meadow is shown to be behind them. Coal finishes drawing the battlefield, and then takes the referee’s position.
Coal: This will be a n-on-n training battle, are there any objections if I put a one-hour time limit on it?
Hearing no objections from Ash or Michelle, Coal starts his stopwatch.
Coal: Go.
Michelle calls on Bagon and Ash calls on Corphish.
Max: Why Corphish? It has a type disadvantage.
Benjy: Only offensively.
Ash: Crabhammer!
Yami Benjy: Or he just doesn’t care.
With it’s claw raised, Corphish rushes towards Bagon. At the same time, Michelle puts her shades on and pulls a mind rune from her pocket. As Corphish rushes towards Bagon, Bagon suddenly zig-zags at Corphish far faster than expected, and before Corphish can react, crashes into it, doing moderate damage. Following this, Bagon charges straight at Corphish, ready to collide with it.
Ash: Dodge it!
Corphish leaps aside to dodge the attack, but Bagon changes directions again, immediately after missing. Ash calls out for Corphish to block Bagon, and it does; Corphish’s claw collides with Bagon’s head, doing minor damage to both.
May: What’s going on?!
Benjy: If I’d have to guess…
Max: Benjy, your eyes are glowing!
Coal: She’s instructing it with magical telepathy.
With this, Max sneezes.
Max: I’m allergic to bull(bleep)!
May: Don’t swear!
Max: Allergic is not a swear word!
Back on the battlefield, Corphish and Bagon push each other apart, leaving Corphish exhausted and Bagon looking pretty tired too. Bagon turns and runs back to Michelle, who pulls a hyper potion out of her backpack. Ash recalls Corphish.
Ash: Ready Pikachu?
Pikachu: Pika!
Pikachu leaps from Ash’s shoulder onto the battlefield. As soon as Bagon is done with the hyper potion, it charges at Pikachu.
Ash: Going at it head on was a mistake. But if she wants a game of speed…
Bagon rockets towards Pikachu.
Ash: Agility!
Pikachu leaps aside from Bagon’s attack, darting away, but Bagon turns and charges again.
Ash: Dodge it, and once you get far enough, use thundershock!
Ash: Pikachu won’t have enough time to use the full thunderbolt, but just a shock should be doable.
As instructed, when Bagon comes charging Pikachu leaps out of the way and zaps Bagon doing minor damage. However Bagon is fast, and comes charging again.
Ash: Agility!
Pikachu leaps in the air, and suddenly Bagon leaps straight at it, taking Ash by surprise. Ash quickly calls for Pikachu to use thunder as Bagon zooms towards it. Pikachu does as Bagon gets within a few feet, and the result is a powerful explosion, with Bagon and Pikachu being knocked backwards away from each other. Pikachu does a backwards somersault, landing on all four on the side of the battlefield opposite Coal, while Bagon lands hard on it’s buttocks between Coal and Michelle.
Michelle doesn’t move, but scans Bagon with her goggles, nervously. At the same time, she replaces her mind rune with another one from her pocket.
Michelle: Bagon, keep a close eye on it.
Ash: Pikachu, thunderbolt!
Pikachu sparks, and then shoots an electric charge at Bagon. Bagon dodges, running on a trajectory that appears to be a circle around Pikachu, then suddenly breaks this trajectory, making a b-line for Pikachu.
Ash: Agility and then thundershock!
Pikachu leaps out of the way, but suddenly Bagon stops moving. QST.camera switches to Michelle as she presses the mind rune tightly.
Michelle: Bagon, what’s wrong?
Pikachu stops running as well, and both pokémon look up at something that is floating across the sky.
Michelle: Bagon, you’re supposed to be focusing on the battle…
Suddenly, a megaphone screeches very loudly, causing Michelle to clutch her head and May, Max, and Benjy to cover their ears. Coal stares at the flying object curiously.
Meowth.megaphone: You’re pokémon has the right idea.
Michelle: Who the (bleep) are you?
Meowth.megaphone: Who the (bleep) do you think we are?!
#Gurren_Lagann_Reference
Jessie: Prepare for trouble!
James: And make it double!
Jessie: To protect the world from devastation.
James: To unite all peoples within our nation.
Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
James: To extend our reach to the stars above!
The Millennium Gameboy Advance shines brilliantly.
Yami Benjy: Not you guys again.
James: Hey! Don’t interrupt the motto!
Jessie: Now we have to start all over!
Yami Benjy: Then do it while you’re blasting off!
Yami Benjy pulls out Pixielite’s great ball.
May: Wait, you don’t know who they are even!
Yami Benjy: It’s Team Rocket.
Brock: Are you sure?
May: But they haven’t…
Yami Benjy: One hundred and twenty-five percent. Pixielite, discharge!
Pixielite flies from it’s ball, making an arc up past Team Rocket’s balloon, and shooting electricity at it, but this electricity doesn’t do anything to the balloon. QST.camera split-screens on Ash and company for one second (real time) to show their looks of confusion, then exits the split-screen.
Yami Benjy: What the–
James: Hehe. We got tired of you destroying our balloons time and time again.
Meowth So we decided to go with a bloon.
Jessie: So prepare for trouble!
James: And make it double!
Yami Benjy: Aerial ace!
Pixielite zips around and tries to slash the bloon, but Team Rocket just laughs.
Jessie: To protect the world from devastation.
James: To unite all peoples within our nation.
Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
James: To extend our reach to the stars above!
Meowth: It’s time!
Jessie: Jessie!
James: James!
Jessie and James stare down over the edge of the basket.
Jessie: Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!
James: Surrender now or prepare to fight!
Meowth: Meowth, that’s right!
James: Now lets bag ourselves a Bagon and get bag* on it! *(bag >> back)
Michelle: Wait–
Suddenly, Meowth bursts out of the basket under the bloon with a jetpack on his back.
Ash: Pikachu, thunder!
Before Pikachu can launch an attack, Meowth grabs Bagon, and then starts to fly back towards the bloon. Pikachu uses thunderbolt, but the bloon is in the way by now, and blocks the electric attack. Cursing unintelligibly under his breath, Ash calls on Treecko to use bullet seed, but Meowth with the jetpack is much too fast.
Meowth: And we’re off!
With this, Team Rocket’s bloon starts to move far faster than should be possible.
Brock: After it!
Jessie: I love it when our plans work.
Ash and company on the ground begin chasing after Team Rocket’s bloon. Yami Benjy send Pixielite after Meowth and Bagon, and they zip around. Pixielite is able to cut Meowth and Bagon off, but Meowth uses Bagon’s head as a battering ram, dealing heavy damage to Pixielite, and forcing Pixielite to retreat from the battle to Yami Benjy’s arm weakly.
Brock: My turn! Forretress, explosion!
Brock lets out Forretress who goes spinning towards the bloon, exploding upon impact. Despite this, the bloon seems to have taken no damage, leaving Brock to recall Forretress, confused.
Coal: Looks like it’s a bumblebee. Immune to both electricity and explosions…
QST.camera zooms out, showing that Team Rocket’s bloon is not actually shaped like a Meowth, just painted like one. Treecko leaps through the canyon after it, but Meowth is always careful to keep the bloon between himself and Treecko, much to the latter’s frustration.
James: And now, it’s time to go.
James taps the bloon, but it fails to budge.
James: I said it’s time to go…
Jessie and James look around nervously, but can’t find why the bloon isn’t moving.
James: What’s going on? I don’t understand why–
Jessie: Wait, James, see that?
James: See what?
Jessie: That?
James: Hold on.
James quickly puts on his binoculars, and stares through them at where Jessie is pointing. QST.camera synchronizes with James’s vision as he looks through the binoculars. Flying between Yami Benjy and their bloon is Yami Benjy’s Celebi.
James: I see it don’t believe it.
Jessie: Is it?
James: It looks like one of those twerps caught the legendary pokémon Celebi!
Immediately after James finishes the above line, QST.camera desynchronizes with James’s vision, and Celebi shakes the bloon and the basket underneath with it’s psychic power, causing both Jessie and James to drop their binoculars to the ground.
James: This is madness!
QST.camera now switches to Meowth, who is flying away with Bagon on the rocket.
Meowth: Heh-heh. While you do the time, I’ll do the–huh?
Bagon looks slightly sad to be away from Michelle, but at the same time happy to be flying. As Meowth looks back, he sees Pixielite approaching rapidly.
Meowth: Hey! I thought we beat you! I’m just going to–
Meowth starts to turn the rocket around to use Bagon again as a battering ram, but Pixielite is too fast, and lands on Meowth’s back, delivering him a large electric shock before grabbing Meowth’s backside with a tractor beam. Meowth tries to slash at Pixielite, however it just zaps him again, then in releasing Meowth and grabbing the rocket, flies in a giant u-shape, turning both Meowth and Bagon around and sending them back towards Team Rocket’s bloon.
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As Celebi shakes their bloon, Jessie and James call on Seviper and Cacnea to fight Celebi.
Jessie: Seviper, poison sting!
Seviper: Seviper!
Seviper opens it’s mouth and fires poison stings at Celebi.
Yami Benjy: I need backup!
Ash: Treecko, bullet seed!
Treecko leaps to Ash’s side, and then fires bullet seeds back towards Seviper. These cancel out the poison stings, then suddenly explode. At this time, James has Cacnea use pin missile on Celebi.
May: Torchic, ember.
Torchic pops out of it’s ball and fires embers at Cacnea. This cancels pin missile, save for a single missile that strikes Celebi for moderate damage, and two that miss Celebi altogether. A few seconds later this collision of attacks also explodes, and James mutters something under his breath.
Meowth: Hey! INCOMING!
Jessie: What? Meowth?
James: Where are you?!
Meowth: I’ve lost control of my rocket!!!
Suddenly, Meowth and Bagon come shooting through Team Rocket’s bloon, putting a rather large hole in it, which Pixielite follows them through a split-second afterwards. Meowth and Bagon go shooting across the canyon, and QST.camera follows them as they zoom around wildly, crashing into and destroying rock after rock after rock, and finally part of the cliff with Bagon’s head.
Bagon: Bagon! Bagon!
Meowth: You’re enjoying this?!
Bagon: Bagon! Bagon!
James: Meowth, I’m taking manual control over your rocket!
Jessie: That’s right, James, bring him in!
James pulls out some controllers and starts to guide the rocket back towards the bloon, just as Celebi lets go, and deals some massive damage to both Seviper and Cacnea. The bloon starts to float a bit, then starts to fall.
James: I’m going to clear you twerps out of the way!
Meowth screams as James starts to move the controls, which suddenly explode in his hands. The result sends Meowth and Bagon into a nose dive, and both of them make a loop then shoot straight downwards into a tree, crashing though the leaves and smacking into the top of the trunk, which doesn’t stop them, and gets torn to splinters in the process.
In the split-second that the rocket is destroying the tree something pierces it, and the rocket explodes in a massive fireball, shooting Meowth and Bagon into the sky.
Meowth: THIS IS BLOODY MURDER!
Bagon: Bagon! Bagon!
QST.camera now shifts to Michelle as she watches Bagon through her visor. A slight tear roles down her cheek.
Brock: Michelle! Remember it’s rock head?…
Michelle: Bagon’s never fallen from this high before!
QST.camera goes into split-screen on Ash and company, Michelle, and Team Rocket for one second (real time). Now Bagon and Meowth reach the top of the loop that they were thrown in.
Jessie: Well I guess we’ll just have to get another one.
James: What about Meowth?
Jessie: What do you think I’m talking about?
Bagon and Meowth are now about five hundred feet off of the ground, both falling rapidly.
Yami Benjy: Pixielite! Celebi!
Ash: Taillow!
All three creatures seem to tired to fly (or in Celebi’s case, use it’s psychic power); although all try to do so.
Michelle: Bagon…!
Michelle cuts herself off with tears now running down her cheeks as Coal watches amusedly.
Max: Coal, use Pelipper!
Coal: Not necessary.
Ash: What are you talking about? You can–
Coal: There’s a trick to flying you see.
Coal’s comment doesn’t do much to stop Michelle’s tears.
Max: Are you referring to multi-evolution? Also known as evolving twice in rapid succession?!
Coal: No. You have to throw yourself at the ground.
Ash: Well it looks like Bagon’s doing that!
QST.camera now shifts to a top down view of Bagon.
Coal: And miss.
QST.camera shifts back to Coal who’s arm suddenly pulses with an immense burst of light, obscuring view of both Bagon and Meowth. Before the light can fade, something rushes by Michelle’s head, and then past Ash and May. Michelle gasps as Bagon goes zipping through the air, finally flying around happily.
Jessie: What the…
James: It’s actually flying?
QST.camera shifts to Michelle who quickly removes her visor.
Michelle: How is that possible?!
May: What does your visor say?
Michelle: I took it off because it stopped working. I-I don’t understand!
Bagon: Bagon! Bagon! Bagon! Bagon!
Meowth: I’m going to catch you!
Everyone looks up as Meowth suddenly comes flying towards everyone, claws outstretched.
James: Meowth can fly?!
Jessie: What kind of warped anime logic is this?!
Narrator: I believe this glitch in the law of gravity was first discovered in <title>The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</title>
Meowth: It’s not over yet!
Michelle: Bagon, headbutt!
Bagon lowers it’s head as Meowth extends his claws. Before Meowth can strike, Bagon crashes into Meowth, who goes hurling towards a cliffside, and lands on his feet, parallel with the ground. Meowth now pushes off the cliff and extends his other claw.
Meowth: How do you like this!
Michelle: Bagon, re–
Bagon: Bagon! Bagon!
Before Michelle can recall Bagon, Bagon interjects with the above line, making a 360º loop in the air and charging straight for Meowth.
Bagon: Bagon! Bagon!
Meowth: No one makes fools out of Team Rocket!
Bagon and Meowth now are now flying directly at each other.
Bagon: Bagon! Bagon!
Suddenly, as Meowth prepares to strike Bagon, Bagon glows with white light in mid-air, causing Meowth to flinch.
Bagon ⇒ Shelgon: Shelgon!
Shelgon plows into Meowth, knocking him out of the air and sending him flying at Team Rocket. Meowth can’t stop himself, and crashes into where they have fallen when their bloon broke, landing face-first on the ground.
Meowth: Ow, my Meowth…
Jessie: You know, that’s starting to get old…
Meowth pops his head up and suddenly slashes Jessie with his claws.
Meowth: It never gets old!
Michelle: Hey!
Meowth: Hey is for Horseas!
James: Um, I think this is important.
Meowth turns around to see Michelle walking towards them, Shelgon flying at her side. All three start to shiver.
Michelle: Taking other people’s Pokémon is a crime, which thereby makes you criminals.
James: It took you that long to realize that?
Michelle: I’ll have you know I don’t tolerate criminals, whether they work with the law or against it.
This comment appears to confuse everybody, save for Coal, who just smiles. Michelle now takes out a light ball. And the corner of QST.camera snaps onto Ash, doing a two-way split-screen just long enough for the following two lines to be said:
Ash: Is she going to catch Meowth?!
May: No way!
Michelle pushes the button on the ball.
Michelle: Saphirium!
Suddenly, in a bolt of light, a strange creature which appears to be made of blue sphere’s held together by rods appears before Michelle. Ash takes out his Pokédex and scans it.
Ash’s Pokédex: Information on this creature is only available in premium mode. This pokédex is currently in standard mode. An upgrade to premium mode can be obtained free with a subscription to Professor Oak’s pokémon services.
Ash: Not again…
Michelle: Saphirium, I need you to neutralize–
Michelle cuts herself off as Team Rocket and the ground beneath them start to levitate.
Meowth: I-I can’t move
James: Me neither!
Jessie is to stunned to speak.
Michelle: Starlight crusher.
A strange disk of energy appears around Saphirium, inscribed with alien symbols.
Ash: W-what are you going to do?
Michelle: Teach them a lesson.
Michelle is calm as she speaks. Suddenly, the circle around Saphirium vanishes, and then the ground underneath Team Rocket explodes, sending them flying into the sky. Before Team Rocket can say anything, they disappear in a twinkle of light over the horizon.
Michelle: That’s for nearly killing my baby.
Saphirium says nothing, but suddenly appears to recall itself.
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Team Rocket is shooting through the sky.
Jessie: What, the zark, was that?
James: I don’t know, but I think we should be grateful that it only sent us blasting off!
Meowth: Aaaargh!
Jessie: What’s wrong?
Meowth: I just realized…
James: Realized what?
Meowth: We’re blasting off again!
QST.camera now stops following Team Rocket as they approach the top of their trajectory, and start falling, quickly growing smaller and smaller until they disappear in a twinkle of light.
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Ash and company are standing in a small meadow amongst the rocks with Michelle. Shelgon is no longer flying, and is eating some pokémon food.
Max: That Saphirium-thing was a Trigamon?!
Michelle: That’s why I have light balls in the first place.
Michelle looks up at the sky.
Michelle: I used to be a Trigamon trainer only. I just got my pokémon license six months ago.
Michelle looks back down at Ash and company.
Max: How long ago did you get your Trigamon license?
Michelle: Well, there really aren’t any such things, but I started with a Kittquatic about eight years ago.
Ash: What’s a Kittquatic?
Michelle: It’s a Trigamon that they give you as a starter. I was eight-and-a-half at the time.
Michelle sits down on a rock.
Max: Do you know where I could get one?
Michelle: I was afraid you would ask that. I would not recommend training one.
May: Why’s that?
Michelle: Well, until they evolve, excuse me, with Trigamon its called a metamorphosis. Until they metamorphose fully, they’re kind of dangerous. One day when I was traveling, it turned on me. I’m not sure what caused it.
This comment leaves, Ash, May, and Max stunned.
May: It turned on you?
Brock: What caused it to–
Michelle: I don’t know. And I doubt I ever will. Saphirium, or it was a Saphrite at the time, helped me fight it off. But by that time, I had lost a lot of blood. Both my legs had to be amputated from right below the knees down.
Michelle taps her high boots, which go up to to her knees almost.
Michelle: These are entirely mechanical. As for what caused Kittquatic to turn, the people in the hospital thought it might have been brought on by the arid environment I was in.
Coal: Training Trigamon is much more dangerous than training pokémon.
Michelle: If you start with a Kittquatic, stay near the ocean until it metamorphoses fully, into Mariniko.
May: Max?
May looks down to see that Max is taking notes on a small notebook.
Max: Got it.
Michelle also sees Max taking notes and smiles.
Michelle: That’s why I told you to start with a pokémon. They’re easier to train, whether it’s official or not. After a few years on the road I learned that if you beat a gym leader and aren’t a trainer, while they may not give you a badge, it’s completely legal to take it by force.
Max nods as he scribbles this down.
Brock: I need to look that up…
May: A Trigamon trainer… So that’s why she has light balls.
Michelle: Anything else?
Brock: You know, I think we’re good.
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Ash and company walk down the hill from Michelle and Shelgon. Max calls out a thank you as Michelle and Shelgon wave.
Michelle: Take care!
…///To Be Continued///…
©September 22, 2015 by Benjamin Strauss