Post by Die Lobsterguy on Aug 11, 2014 12:50:56 GMT -4
As the episode opens up, we find Ash and the twerps in a very odd setting considering the episode just began, with Ash in a standoff against Team Rocket, who managed to abscond with Pikachu!
“Catching Pikachu is meant to be.” Jessie says slyly.
“Inkay, help them agree!” says James, who seems to think he’s Dr. Seuss.
James’ Inkay and Ash’s Froakie begin to face off, but Clemont doesn’t want to deal with this Pokemon bullshit when he could be doing some science bullshit instead. From out of his backpack, Clemont pulls a… thing!
Aww, his umbrella got turned inside-out.
Man that thing’s pulling some optical illusion bullshit on me. Whatever it is Serena and Bonnie are trying to keep the fuck away from it.
James orders Inkay to use Psybeam but Clemont’s like “haha fuck you I ain’t doin’” and sucks up Inkay’s Psybeam into the weird contraption.
Ash and James are completely amazed by this display and Clemont declares that it’s called his “Mechanical Absorber of Any Pokemon’s Move!”, his glasses fogging over from the raw sexual energy he’s exuding. James decides on a change of strategy and orders Inkay to use Tackle instead, but ends up spinning around and flying out of the machine like a hamster in a clay spinner (please don’t do a Google search of that). Clemont proudly states it also works against physical attacks, but leaves it up to the viewer to decipher that it manipulates the enemy into not trying to hit anywhere that ISN’T that machine. Ash can’t help but exclaim that science is amazing.
Jessie decides to intervene after Froakie hits Inkay with Bubble, ordering her Pumpkaboo to use Shadow Ball, which gets sucked up by Clemont’s machine. Jessie then orders it to use Dark Pulse which, once again, is sucked up by the machine.
Once again, you can try like, hitting around it, or something.
Too late for that though because Froakie then hits Pumpkaboo with a Water Pulse, which knocks into the container that Team Rocket was holding Pikachu in, which breaks open and sets him free. Ash then commands Pikachu to use Thunderbolt, which sends Team Rocket blasting off into the sky.
Oh wait fuck there’s still 20 minutes okay
After Team Rocket is out of sight, the twerps continue to sing the praises of Clemont’s newest invention, as Clemont tightly grips the shaft of it, gazing with pride at its performance and ability…
What sort of message are you trying to send here, Clemont
Guess you got a little TOO excited there eh, Clemont? Don’t worry pal, it happens to the best of us. On the bright side when you try to sell the machine to some company you can add “gives you a sick ‘fro” to the list of features.
Meanwhile Team Rocket lays on the ground somewhere off in the distance, groaning in pain and complaining about how Clemont is OP as fuck. Jessie then decides they should try to steal it. James asks how they’re going to carry that out, but Jessie proudly says to just rely on her acting skills. Ash and his friends better get ready to deal with…
I wish you could have seen my face when I realized I wasn’t even past the title card yet. I couldn’t see it, but I could feel it. Felt like disdain.
After the title card, the scene changes to a boy in a city park, playing with his Pancham, when Ash arrives on the scene and introduces himself to the kid.
This scene is really weird because Ash’s voice sounds really strained and nasally here. I guess his voice actor must have had a cold the day of recording? Also they made Pikachu float in this shot for no apparent reason, and he continues doing it later on. This is some oddly poor quality from both the dubbers and the animators, really poor.
And then Serena and Bonnie show up too, and THEIR voices are completely off, too! And for some reason Bonnie’s voice actor is doing the voice for Dedenne, too, with no difference between voices. Just what is going on here!?
The kid acknowledges that Pikachu can float so I guess it wasn’t an animation error all along, and Ash mentions it’s from lots of special training. Feels like a cop out for this to happen just now after all this time AND offscreen, but whatever. Also Pikachu’s voice is all fucked up, too, for some reason.
Ash asks to have a battle with the kid, but the kid refuses, saying he doesn’t want his Pancham to be hurt, but Ash insists on it, telling him how cool battles are, and then has Pikachu attack him without waiting for an answer with Psybeam (again, they write it off as “special training”, I don’t get this bullshit), and the boy’s Pancham quickly goes down after that. Serena sighs at how boring it is to fight such a weak Pancham, and they leave right as the boy threatens to call the cops.
So then Ash, Serena and Bonnie go fucking around at the local eateries, stuffing their faces and then skipping out on the check, and making sure everyone knows who they are before running off. This episode’s taking quite some turns.
Eat it you slut.
Then there’s a rough cut that shows the twerps just entering town, and kid who they picked on and a hot dog stand owner they didn’t pay some to confront them, as they act completely unaware of all this dickish behavior these people are describing to them, but they get off scott free because they seem different from before (the kid even mentions Ash’s Pikachu isn’t floating anymore, which is the only difference I see). Is this some amnesia bullshit? If it’s amnesia bullshit then I’m quitting this episode.
The twerps then stop off at the Pokemon Center to heal their Pokemon when they get called to the Ceter’s entrance over the intercom. They walk out the entrance of the Pokemon Center to find waiting for them… an angry mob!
Well, I think a “mob” would be bigger. This is more like an angry group. Also they fucked over that restaurant owner to the left there but who are these other two assholes?
The restaurant owner angrily shouts at them to pay the money they owe, but Ash insists there’s a misunderstanding here. Officer Jenny asks the guy if he’s sure the twerps were the ones who screwed him over, but now he’s not so sure. “I dunno, they’re all dressed the same.” He says. To be fair that’s the only way I can differentiate anime characters, too. Officer Jenny then tries to make sense out of all this, with a familiar tone in her voice. It’s the same tone of utter annoyance and apathy I have whenever I also have to do my job.
“You’re Ash from Pallet Town, correct?”
“Right.”
“And you’re Pikachu, right?”
“Pikachu!”
Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME
“EXCUSE ME DOG YOU ARE DOG, CORRECT?”
“WOOF WOOF!”
“CASE CLOSED LET’S GO”
“And you’re Serena from Vaniville Town.”
“Yes I am!”
“You? You must be Bonnie from Lumiose City! And I’ll bet Dedenne must be in your bag.”
“Nene!”
After that horrible, insulting display to the entire field of law enforcement Officer Jenny says she wants them to come with her, as they might be involved in some sort of trouble. If you watch closely you see she gives a suspicious glare towards Pikachu. It’s clear she has a lot of questions for him.
“What about me?” Clemont asks, wanting to be suspected as a participator in several misdemeanors, but Ash tells him to just wait for them at the Pokemon Center, clearly very enthused about being suspected as a participator in several misdemeanors.
Meanwhile, off to the left…
Team Rocket watches on as the twerps get carted off by Officer Jenny, saying phase one of their plan is complete (what “phase one”? Did they drug to twerps to make them act like jerks and have funny voices? WHAT IS GOING ON?) Jessie then says it’s time for part 2 to get underway.
Meanwhile at the police station, Officer Jenny has just informed the twerps that there are doubles of themselves running around town (which is weird, since I’m pretty sure up to this point we didn’t see any or hear a word about any doubles). Officer Jenny then hands them a photo they lifted off a security camera, in crystal-clear quality. The crazy-ass inventions that Clemont makes are more believable than a security camera that films in such high quality.
Well, that’s clearly them. Lock ‘em up, Jenny.
Jenny says they have no idea who is doing this or why, but they’re “currently investigating” (read: I’m gonna pretend to work on it so my boss won’t hassle me about it on my three-hour lunch break). Jenny then lets them go with a warning of “be careful”. How many dicks did she need to suck at the police academy to pass? Holy shit.
Bonnie tells Clemont over the phone (which despite having a hologram projector still looks like an old-timey phone) that there are doubles tarnishing the good names of the twerps, and they’ll tell him more once they get back.
Awwww.
Back at the Pokemon Center, Clemont gets approached by two members ofTeam Rocket The Kalos Institute of Technology, and ask for his help on building a new invention, stating that such a genius with such unique and innovative ideas is crucial to their success and Clemont’s all “Awww shucks”
Clemont leaves them a note in some wacky made-uppy language that he’s leaving with the research dudes to do a thing.
Apparently the Kalos Institute of Technology was established in my dad’s apartment after his third divorce with his second wife.
Hey you know what I just thought? How come Bug-type Pokemon can’t learn a move called “Sneak into your house during the three seconds you open the door and then fly around you the whole day and totally piss you off”? Just something that came to me.
The Kalos Institute of Paper Masks Over Your Face Is A Good Disguise explain to Clemont they were commissioned to build a Heliolisk (coulda sworn it was Heliosk) robot, but a cruel Electric-type Pokemon keeps sabotaging their work. “That’s not very nice!” Clemont says. So the researchers ask him to build an Electric-type defense mechanism for them.
Goddamn I wish they’d stop putting things in the XY series that would have made the XY games more fun to play.
Clemont gets right to work on the mechanism for the robotic Pokemon while the researchers duck behind a bookshelf.
Oh man turns out Team Rocket was Team Rocket whoda thunk. Giovanni asks them for an update on their progress in the Kalos region, and they explain they’ve caught exactly two Pokemon, which Giovanni is pleased to hear. Normally I’d say only two Pokemon between the two of them 29 episodes in would be shit but I guess anytime Giovanni calls them up and James doesn’t have his dick caught in a pencil sharpener and Jessie and Meowth got glued together is good news to him. Plus they still both have more Pokemon than Serena does.
Obviously an upside-down Pikachu
zuh
That commercial break was more than enough time for Clemont to finish the Heliolisk robot, and christens the new machine The “Electricity Has No Effect On Me-itron”!
Clemont then helps them to finish an abandoned machine designed to transport a Pokemon roughly one and a half miles away. With a little number crunching and a transition later, the machine works optimally and then Clemont leaves without getting paid.
I’m gonna apologize here for not getting this up by Sunday night because at this rate it ain’t gonna happen.
Clemont meets with the twerps back at the Pokemon Center where they just tell him what they said on the phone before and they decide to get to the bottom of this fiasco. Meanwhile in a field Team Rocket buries something under a tree (a choice, but very difficult spot to hide a body).
The next day we see the twerps acting like dicks again what is going on
Then it cuts to the twerps asking the same dude they just screwed over where they went (am I watching a rough copy of the final product here or something?) but the guy tells them which way they went and they run off in that direction.
They must have run pretty fucking far considering they’re in a field now when they were just in a city, but suddenly-
A standoff!
Oh man I can’t tell who’s who, but one side starts to shit-talk the other side’s style, and the other side claims that the first side is just a bunch of fakes, and then…
Oh
My
GOOOOOOOOOOOOODDD
“Prepare for trouble, without our disguises!”
“And make it double, with no surprises!”
“To protect the world from devastation!”
“To unite all people within our nation!”
“To denounce the evils of truth and love!”
“To extend our reach to the stars above!”
“Jessie!”
“And James!”
“Team Rocket rips you off at the speed of light!”
“Surrender now, or prepare for a fraudulent fight!”
Team Rocket sounds like a couple of DeviantArt users.
“Meowth, dats right!”
“WOOOOOBBUFFET!”
Serena wants to know why Team Rocket was pretending to be them, and they respond with a very familiar phrase. “Team Rocket’s future is now, thanks to science!” Jessie proclaims.
“Team Rocketronic gear, on!” says James.
Out of the ground emerges the Heliolisk robot Clemont had worked on the day before, and Clemont gets a Dr. Frankenstein level of regret when he realizes what he’s wrought.
“So THEY were the scientists that asked you to go help them out with their robot!” Serena says. Normally I’d be against such expository dialogue but this episode has just been so heady and avant-garde in its delivery that a bit of explanation here is helpful.
Pikachu tries to hit it with electric attacks, which have no effect on the robot Heliolisk (I’d like to say this is right after Team Rocket says that electric attacks will have no effect on the robot Heliolisk). The Heliolisk then grabs Pikachu with its tail and throws it into a capsule that Jessie is holding, and runs to the transport machine Clemont worked on earlier that emerges from the ground.
You know, maybe crime isn’t the way for Team Rocket to go. If they can transport and lay a mile and a half of pipe in a single night, maybe they should become contractors instead.
The Heliolisk robot then begins to give off static discharge and smoke billows from its mouth, and then falls backwards into Team Rocket and explodes. Team Rocket then blasts off, but they seem to be… happy?
This was their plan all along! Now they’re on a direct course to wherever Pikachu is! Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiii-
Clemont takes this opportunity to redeem himself. Using Serena’s guidebook, Clemont pinpoints the radius of where Team Rocket might have transported Pikachu, then uses his Bunnelby to find out which way the pipe was headed, and they run off in that direction.
Ash and the twerps manage to get to Team Rocket before they even took off (making you wonder what the fuck they were doing while the twerps ran a mile and a half to get to them) and Clemont is infuriated at their use of science for evil. A battle ensues between Team Rocket’s Inkay and Pumpkaboo and Clemont’s new Mechanical Absorber of Any Pokemon’s Move model 2! Once again Team Rocket seems to forget they can try attacking AROUND the machine and all their attacks get absorbed. Pikachu attacks them with an Electro Ball as Team Rockey scrambles inside their balloon for safety, but get sent blasting off agaaaaiiiin.
Clemont laments (haha rhyme) how it’s all his fault that Team Rocket captured Pikachu, even though in the end he saved the day. Not long afterwards, his machine explodes again, leaving him with another SICK ‘FRO.
“Catching Pikachu is meant to be.” Jessie says slyly.
“Inkay, help them agree!” says James, who seems to think he’s Dr. Seuss.
James’ Inkay and Ash’s Froakie begin to face off, but Clemont doesn’t want to deal with this Pokemon bullshit when he could be doing some science bullshit instead. From out of his backpack, Clemont pulls a… thing!
Aww, his umbrella got turned inside-out.
Man that thing’s pulling some optical illusion bullshit on me. Whatever it is Serena and Bonnie are trying to keep the fuck away from it.
James orders Inkay to use Psybeam but Clemont’s like “haha fuck you I ain’t doin’” and sucks up Inkay’s Psybeam into the weird contraption.
Ash and James are completely amazed by this display and Clemont declares that it’s called his “Mechanical Absorber of Any Pokemon’s Move!”, his glasses fogging over from the raw sexual energy he’s exuding. James decides on a change of strategy and orders Inkay to use Tackle instead, but ends up spinning around and flying out of the machine like a hamster in a clay spinner (please don’t do a Google search of that). Clemont proudly states it also works against physical attacks, but leaves it up to the viewer to decipher that it manipulates the enemy into not trying to hit anywhere that ISN’T that machine. Ash can’t help but exclaim that science is amazing.
Jessie decides to intervene after Froakie hits Inkay with Bubble, ordering her Pumpkaboo to use Shadow Ball, which gets sucked up by Clemont’s machine. Jessie then orders it to use Dark Pulse which, once again, is sucked up by the machine.
Once again, you can try like, hitting around it, or something.
Too late for that though because Froakie then hits Pumpkaboo with a Water Pulse, which knocks into the container that Team Rocket was holding Pikachu in, which breaks open and sets him free. Ash then commands Pikachu to use Thunderbolt, which sends Team Rocket blasting off into the sky.
Oh wait fuck there’s still 20 minutes okay
After Team Rocket is out of sight, the twerps continue to sing the praises of Clemont’s newest invention, as Clemont tightly grips the shaft of it, gazing with pride at its performance and ability…
What sort of message are you trying to send here, Clemont
Guess you got a little TOO excited there eh, Clemont? Don’t worry pal, it happens to the best of us. On the bright side when you try to sell the machine to some company you can add “gives you a sick ‘fro” to the list of features.
Meanwhile Team Rocket lays on the ground somewhere off in the distance, groaning in pain and complaining about how Clemont is OP as fuck. Jessie then decides they should try to steal it. James asks how they’re going to carry that out, but Jessie proudly says to just rely on her acting skills. Ash and his friends better get ready to deal with…
I wish you could have seen my face when I realized I wasn’t even past the title card yet. I couldn’t see it, but I could feel it. Felt like disdain.
After the title card, the scene changes to a boy in a city park, playing with his Pancham, when Ash arrives on the scene and introduces himself to the kid.
This scene is really weird because Ash’s voice sounds really strained and nasally here. I guess his voice actor must have had a cold the day of recording? Also they made Pikachu float in this shot for no apparent reason, and he continues doing it later on. This is some oddly poor quality from both the dubbers and the animators, really poor.
And then Serena and Bonnie show up too, and THEIR voices are completely off, too! And for some reason Bonnie’s voice actor is doing the voice for Dedenne, too, with no difference between voices. Just what is going on here!?
The kid acknowledges that Pikachu can float so I guess it wasn’t an animation error all along, and Ash mentions it’s from lots of special training. Feels like a cop out for this to happen just now after all this time AND offscreen, but whatever. Also Pikachu’s voice is all fucked up, too, for some reason.
Ash asks to have a battle with the kid, but the kid refuses, saying he doesn’t want his Pancham to be hurt, but Ash insists on it, telling him how cool battles are, and then has Pikachu attack him without waiting for an answer with Psybeam (again, they write it off as “special training”, I don’t get this bullshit), and the boy’s Pancham quickly goes down after that. Serena sighs at how boring it is to fight such a weak Pancham, and they leave right as the boy threatens to call the cops.
So then Ash, Serena and Bonnie go fucking around at the local eateries, stuffing their faces and then skipping out on the check, and making sure everyone knows who they are before running off. This episode’s taking quite some turns.
Eat it you slut.
Then there’s a rough cut that shows the twerps just entering town, and kid who they picked on and a hot dog stand owner they didn’t pay some to confront them, as they act completely unaware of all this dickish behavior these people are describing to them, but they get off scott free because they seem different from before (the kid even mentions Ash’s Pikachu isn’t floating anymore, which is the only difference I see). Is this some amnesia bullshit? If it’s amnesia bullshit then I’m quitting this episode.
The twerps then stop off at the Pokemon Center to heal their Pokemon when they get called to the Ceter’s entrance over the intercom. They walk out the entrance of the Pokemon Center to find waiting for them… an angry mob!
Well, I think a “mob” would be bigger. This is more like an angry group. Also they fucked over that restaurant owner to the left there but who are these other two assholes?
The restaurant owner angrily shouts at them to pay the money they owe, but Ash insists there’s a misunderstanding here. Officer Jenny asks the guy if he’s sure the twerps were the ones who screwed him over, but now he’s not so sure. “I dunno, they’re all dressed the same.” He says. To be fair that’s the only way I can differentiate anime characters, too. Officer Jenny then tries to make sense out of all this, with a familiar tone in her voice. It’s the same tone of utter annoyance and apathy I have whenever I also have to do my job.
“You’re Ash from Pallet Town, correct?”
“Right.”
“And you’re Pikachu, right?”
“Pikachu!”
Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME
“EXCUSE ME DOG YOU ARE DOG, CORRECT?”
“WOOF WOOF!”
“CASE CLOSED LET’S GO”
“And you’re Serena from Vaniville Town.”
“Yes I am!”
“You? You must be Bonnie from Lumiose City! And I’ll bet Dedenne must be in your bag.”
“Nene!”
After that horrible, insulting display to the entire field of law enforcement Officer Jenny says she wants them to come with her, as they might be involved in some sort of trouble. If you watch closely you see she gives a suspicious glare towards Pikachu. It’s clear she has a lot of questions for him.
“What about me?” Clemont asks, wanting to be suspected as a participator in several misdemeanors, but Ash tells him to just wait for them at the Pokemon Center, clearly very enthused about being suspected as a participator in several misdemeanors.
Meanwhile, off to the left…
Team Rocket watches on as the twerps get carted off by Officer Jenny, saying phase one of their plan is complete (what “phase one”? Did they drug to twerps to make them act like jerks and have funny voices? WHAT IS GOING ON?) Jessie then says it’s time for part 2 to get underway.
Meanwhile at the police station, Officer Jenny has just informed the twerps that there are doubles of themselves running around town (which is weird, since I’m pretty sure up to this point we didn’t see any or hear a word about any doubles). Officer Jenny then hands them a photo they lifted off a security camera, in crystal-clear quality. The crazy-ass inventions that Clemont makes are more believable than a security camera that films in such high quality.
Well, that’s clearly them. Lock ‘em up, Jenny.
Jenny says they have no idea who is doing this or why, but they’re “currently investigating” (read: I’m gonna pretend to work on it so my boss won’t hassle me about it on my three-hour lunch break). Jenny then lets them go with a warning of “be careful”. How many dicks did she need to suck at the police academy to pass? Holy shit.
Bonnie tells Clemont over the phone (which despite having a hologram projector still looks like an old-timey phone) that there are doubles tarnishing the good names of the twerps, and they’ll tell him more once they get back.
Awwww.
Back at the Pokemon Center, Clemont gets approached by two members of
Clemont leaves them a note in some wacky made-uppy language that he’s leaving with the research dudes to do a thing.
Apparently the Kalos Institute of Technology was established in my dad’s apartment after his third divorce with his second wife.
Hey you know what I just thought? How come Bug-type Pokemon can’t learn a move called “Sneak into your house during the three seconds you open the door and then fly around you the whole day and totally piss you off”? Just something that came to me.
The Kalos Institute of Paper Masks Over Your Face Is A Good Disguise explain to Clemont they were commissioned to build a Heliolisk (coulda sworn it was Heliosk) robot, but a cruel Electric-type Pokemon keeps sabotaging their work. “That’s not very nice!” Clemont says. So the researchers ask him to build an Electric-type defense mechanism for them.
Goddamn I wish they’d stop putting things in the XY series that would have made the XY games more fun to play.
Clemont gets right to work on the mechanism for the robotic Pokemon while the researchers duck behind a bookshelf.
Oh man turns out Team Rocket was Team Rocket whoda thunk. Giovanni asks them for an update on their progress in the Kalos region, and they explain they’ve caught exactly two Pokemon, which Giovanni is pleased to hear. Normally I’d say only two Pokemon between the two of them 29 episodes in would be shit but I guess anytime Giovanni calls them up and James doesn’t have his dick caught in a pencil sharpener and Jessie and Meowth got glued together is good news to him. Plus they still both have more Pokemon than Serena does.
Obviously an upside-down Pikachu
zuh
That commercial break was more than enough time for Clemont to finish the Heliolisk robot, and christens the new machine The “Electricity Has No Effect On Me-itron”!
Clemont then helps them to finish an abandoned machine designed to transport a Pokemon roughly one and a half miles away. With a little number crunching and a transition later, the machine works optimally and then Clemont leaves without getting paid.
I’m gonna apologize here for not getting this up by Sunday night because at this rate it ain’t gonna happen.
Clemont meets with the twerps back at the Pokemon Center where they just tell him what they said on the phone before and they decide to get to the bottom of this fiasco. Meanwhile in a field Team Rocket buries something under a tree (a choice, but very difficult spot to hide a body).
The next day we see the twerps acting like dicks again what is going on
Then it cuts to the twerps asking the same dude they just screwed over where they went (am I watching a rough copy of the final product here or something?) but the guy tells them which way they went and they run off in that direction.
They must have run pretty fucking far considering they’re in a field now when they were just in a city, but suddenly-
A standoff!
Oh man I can’t tell who’s who, but one side starts to shit-talk the other side’s style, and the other side claims that the first side is just a bunch of fakes, and then…
Oh
My
GOOOOOOOOOOOOODDD
“Prepare for trouble, without our disguises!”
“And make it double, with no surprises!”
“To protect the world from devastation!”
“To unite all people within our nation!”
“To denounce the evils of truth and love!”
“To extend our reach to the stars above!”
“Jessie!”
“And James!”
“Team Rocket rips you off at the speed of light!”
“Surrender now, or prepare for a fraudulent fight!”
Team Rocket sounds like a couple of DeviantArt users.
“Meowth, dats right!”
“WOOOOOBBUFFET!”
Serena wants to know why Team Rocket was pretending to be them, and they respond with a very familiar phrase. “Team Rocket’s future is now, thanks to science!” Jessie proclaims.
“Team Rocketronic gear, on!” says James.
Out of the ground emerges the Heliolisk robot Clemont had worked on the day before, and Clemont gets a Dr. Frankenstein level of regret when he realizes what he’s wrought.
“So THEY were the scientists that asked you to go help them out with their robot!” Serena says. Normally I’d be against such expository dialogue but this episode has just been so heady and avant-garde in its delivery that a bit of explanation here is helpful.
Pikachu tries to hit it with electric attacks, which have no effect on the robot Heliolisk (I’d like to say this is right after Team Rocket says that electric attacks will have no effect on the robot Heliolisk). The Heliolisk then grabs Pikachu with its tail and throws it into a capsule that Jessie is holding, and runs to the transport machine Clemont worked on earlier that emerges from the ground.
You know, maybe crime isn’t the way for Team Rocket to go. If they can transport and lay a mile and a half of pipe in a single night, maybe they should become contractors instead.
The Heliolisk robot then begins to give off static discharge and smoke billows from its mouth, and then falls backwards into Team Rocket and explodes. Team Rocket then blasts off, but they seem to be… happy?
This was their plan all along! Now they’re on a direct course to wherever Pikachu is! Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiii-
Clemont takes this opportunity to redeem himself. Using Serena’s guidebook, Clemont pinpoints the radius of where Team Rocket might have transported Pikachu, then uses his Bunnelby to find out which way the pipe was headed, and they run off in that direction.
Ash and the twerps manage to get to Team Rocket before they even took off (making you wonder what the fuck they were doing while the twerps ran a mile and a half to get to them) and Clemont is infuriated at their use of science for evil. A battle ensues between Team Rocket’s Inkay and Pumpkaboo and Clemont’s new Mechanical Absorber of Any Pokemon’s Move model 2! Once again Team Rocket seems to forget they can try attacking AROUND the machine and all their attacks get absorbed. Pikachu attacks them with an Electro Ball as Team Rockey scrambles inside their balloon for safety, but get sent blasting off agaaaaiiiin.
Clemont laments (haha rhyme) how it’s all his fault that Team Rocket captured Pikachu, even though in the end he saved the day. Not long afterwards, his machine explodes again, leaving him with another SICK ‘FRO.
