Post by LUNI_TUNZ on Jul 30, 2015 0:03:33 GMT -4
870 - 871: Shicchi tai no Tatakai! Numerugon tai Furājesu!! - Kecchaku! Numerugon Niji no Kanata e!!
864 - 865: Defending the Homeland! - Beyond the Rainbow!
As the twerps must they've stopped somewhere to eat. Clemont has apparently come up with a new recipe in that time when he was away involving berry juice and mushrooms, and Ash brazenly declares it the best food he's ever had.
Meanwhile the Pokémon themselves are all enjoying a nice meal as Chespin eats all it's food because hes a fucking slob and tries to steal from Pancham. Yes, we've seen this all before of course Pancham still isn't going for it, and knocks Chespin away and into Dedenne's food knocking it o the ground. Apparently Dedenne's too sophisticated to eat food off the floor like an animal and instead cries like a little baby.
I hope the other Pokémon tell Chespin constantly how they all got along fine without him pulling this bullshit over and over.
Dedenne shocks Chespin for his crimes, and Clemont comes over and admonishes his greedy Pokémon yet again.
Playing peacemaker Goodra offers Chespin and Dedenne some of it's food and all is right - all though, not really because Chespin already ate, and knocked over Dedenne's bowl, so if anything, only Dedenne should actually get any of Goodra's food. This ironically becomes a great analogue to what happens later.
While they're all making nice because they're all friends again (as opposed to Clemont putting his foot down and disciplining his Pokémon or whatever) and man and a weird eyed Bellsprout drive by, with Bellsprout urgently babbling it's name at the man. The an takes note, and somehow immediately knows it's referring to the Goodra that it never saw before in it's life.
Perhaps they deem Dragon-types to be dangerous and are just...
No, that's not it.
Anyway, they seemed to have watched the twerps long enough that they finished eating and have packed up as Bellsprout runs down to Goodra. They both somehow recognize Goodra from the time that it was a Goomy, even though they look nothing alike.
Ash wants to know why this creepy old man, who watched them from afar is and why he's rubbing up on his Goodra. The man asks them who they are, even though he came up on them. Fortunately they are all to happy to give their names to some stranger they've never seen before.
The man introduces himself as Kenan - a man with a plot, to make it to the top, but he's always in the middle because he's aways getting caught - ugh, ahem. He also points out that he's caretaker of a nearby wetland that Goodra used to live in, and Bonnie has to brilliant idea to go back to whence Goodra came.
Goodra doesn't seem to happy about it though, until Bellsprout "Bellsprouts" and convinces him.
They get back, and it looks like a regular Wetlands, I guess. The twerps realize that they have absolutely no clue as to why Goomy was on that Swanna when they met it, and not the Wetlands, and Kenan tells them the sordid tale, but not before mentioning the Spring with water that has amazing healing effects on Pokémon.
Sounds like someone could sell that and make an assload by overcharging for it. Get on that shit, Voss!
Anyway, as Kenan continues, he brings up that thing we keep seeing in Goodra's memories. Outside Pokémon initiated a goddamn military invasion lead by a flowery Pokmon known as a Florges. The invasion included ground troops of Seviper and Ariados, and Air Troops of Yanmega and Beedrill dropping Pinsir like goddamn bombs from the sky.
This is probably one of the most violent actions that has been shown in the anime especially initiated exclusively by Pokémon, with no human interference what-so-ever. And all lead by a single militaristic leader.
The invading Pokémon all attack at once blowing up huge swathes of the wetlands, while I guess Kenan decided he didn't want to actually help his poor outmanned Pokémon or nothing. Some caretaker he is.
Goomy watches as it's friends all die... or at least get blown up and circled in fire, helpless to do anything.
Florges especially comes to blow Goomy's shit the fuck up, which sent it flying away on Swanna's back.
The twerps can't believe it, what happened to the other Pokémon? Well, Kenan informs them that "happily" they still live there... in secret... forced into seclusion for fear of retaliation.
Yeah, what a "happy" existence, maybe some time down the line they'll be allowed to protests for small swathes of their native land back.
Anyway, Goodra is none too happy at this news and calls out as Kenan notices that the water is a little bit lower like, maybe two inches, this is an American Dub after all, so we're going with Imperial measurements, here.
Meanwhile, Goodra's calling out get's the attention of a Wooper, probably the same Wooper we saw back in the flashback, thus revealing the native Pokmon's location. It's a spot carved into some sort of small plateau.
This also however catches the attention of the occupying troops, at least a Pinsir and a Yanmega.
Goodra is still pretty depressed until Wooper comes out and greets it. Again, it can somehow tell this is the same Goomy it was friends with, and the other Native Pokémon all come out of hiding to greet Goodra.
Meanwhile, in the middle of another plateau (possibly the obverse of the same Plateau) we see Florges sitting in the water as the Pinsir tells her what it heard.
Goodra is having fun re-acquainting with it's friends, who it hasn't seen for awhile, and Ash suggest showing them how strong it's gotten. He's obviously proposing a Pokémon battle, because Ash's brain only has two settings, "Battle" and "BATTLE RIGHT NOW".
Goodra blasts Dragon Pulse into the air as a demonstration, until a Swanna flies by screeching in it's rather horrible voice warning about... something.
They run off and the twerps immediately hear an explosion, what could that be? Kenan says it's coming from "their home" which is a pretty shitty way of looking at it, as the entire Wetlands was at one point "their home".
The twerps head off the help but Kenan stops them, he tells them that this is a quarrel between Wild Pokémon, and that they shouldn't get involved. Again, he's completely underselling the actual events at play here, these Pokémon got their asses kicked into hiding by a militarized force of invading Pokémon.
Clemont translates Kenana's request as "Pokémon should solve their own problems", which flies in both the logic of the show itself, and Ash's baser instincts, but Ash still wants to cheer for Goodra, and Kenan thinks cheering would be fine.
Wow, what an asshole, yes clearly cheering is all the Native Pokémon need to get through this. I guess Kenan didn't cheer hard enough last time. Meanwhile Team Rocket watch from afar as they use a machine to suck in the water, possibly to sell it at an insanely inflated price, stepping on FIJI's toes, as Bellsprout bables it's own name and Kenan agrees.
The siege has re-begun as Florges now corners the weakened Natives in their tiny corner of a home.
Aggressively attacking non-confrontational Pokémon trapped in the one spot you've forced them into puts Florges pretty high on the Villain scale for this series.
She commands her final attack on the defenseless and weak Pokémon and... and...
Goodra flies by in the knick of time to save their asses.
Florges invites the fight and sends her ground team to attack and the Natives tired of getting pushed around like tiny babies shoot back with Water Gun (I assume) and manage to hit the Pinsir, Florges then sends in her entire air troops in and Pikachu leaps down to assist, but Ash reminds him of that thing that Kenan said about not getting involved, even though the show would be much much shorter if Ash were to "not get involved" in other Pokémon's conflicts.
The natives hold their own fr a second and the twerps celebrate the fact that it looks like an even fight, forgetting that the natives got forced into their reservation not by accident of course.
Well, Florges decides that the time for bullshitting is over and enters the battle herself because you never send an army to do a Woman's job, and drops into the pool in front of Goodra like a certified badass. The best villains always have great entrances. Florges also somehow recognizes that Goodra is the same Goomy she punked before.
Goodra is having bad times remembering her, and Ash encourages Goodra that he can do this. Ash, you're getting involved!
He continues his pep talk, and gets Goodra prepped for battle.
Florges starts off with Petal Blizzard, and Serena gets involved and tells Goodra to be careful, as Goodra blasts back with Dragon Pulse, negating the petals.
Florges then initiates Grassy Terrain... even though they're already on a grassy terrain. Whatever, Florges then launches the fastest fucking Solar Beam in the history of the anime as Goodra knocks it out of the air with another Dragon Pulse, but you don't lead a military seige by playing fair, as she blasts another beam channeled through some flowers near-by at the weakened Pokémon around Goodra, somehow.
She then shoots another blast at them... through the flowers again, somehow and Goodra steps in to take the full brunt of the attack on it's back. Flroges is done playing stupid kiddy baby games, and blasts Goodra with some Moon blast or something (I guess, I don't know). it looks pretty cool, but the coolness is immediately sapped away by her immediately re-using the move with the exact same animation.
Ash continues to get involved by talking Goodra through the fight, and telling him to "wrap it up", at which point Goodra summons power from deep within and uses Ice Beam, Ash still heavily involved give him to go ahead to use it and... knocks out Florges. Goodra won the battle for it's land, but the victory is short lived as two Pokémon attack from some unseen location knock Goodra out, and Florges' team beat a tactical retreat.
The twerps take Goodra to heal at Kenan's bachelor pad, and Kenan brazenly declares that Florges isn't going to try that for awhile, and thus a truce has obviously een struck.
Kenan is not exactly the most logical mind of his generation.
Clemont however wonders if there's any Pokémon in the area able to learn Psybeam and Shadowball. Which seems like a weird question, because those are pretty common moves.
Back at the plateau Florges is healing her wounds in the water, looking like a goddamn boss as the only thing she's missing is a cat to menacingly pet... speaking of cats, Team Rocket talk over her asking that if she lost what would happen to "that little one", and tell her that's why they aided her escape. Meowth proffers a deal, they know all about Goodra, so they can join forces to defeat Goodra as the camera pans over to a tiny Pokémon who shares Florges' look sitting comatose in a tiny pool of water.
Back at Kenan's Ash sits over Goodra and his Pokémon and determines that Goomy wanted to get stronger to help his village setting up something for next episode perhaps? Anyway, Clemont and Kenan check over the video footage, and for some reason they refuse to show us what they see, even though we already know who did it, but as Clemont determines "it's them", someone busts Kenan's windows in and I'm going to take a wild guess and say the Ariados then steal Dedenne, Pikachu and the wild Wooper.
Well, things have certainly taken a turn for the worse, especially with Team Rocket doing their best evil maniacal cackling to end the episode. What'll happen to poor Dedenne, Pikachu and Wooper? Will the the tiny Pokémon that so many have been hurt for pull through, will Florges be redeemed, even though she's in a pretty irredeemable place right now after leading multiple assaults against non-willing combatants? Find out next week as the journey is...
...
You know what? Nevermind that shit, let's find out now as we go...
Goodra against everyone's better judgement gets out of bed, Ash sends Frogadier and Fletchinder out to help, but Frogadier gets stopped by Stone Edge, and Fletchinder eats a load of shit and gets knocked out of the sky.
Poor, poor Fletchinder.
Serena wonders why they'd do such a thing, because apparently she hasn't been paying attention, they're being lead by an evil militaristic Florges who cares not for the safety and welfare of others.
Goodra goes to challenge the remaining troops, but they all blast it and beat another tactical retreat.
Clemont reveals what he saw, and announces that Team Rocket are a part of this. Ash says he should've known, though I don't really know why he should since all out militarized warfare is distinctly not Team Rocket's style.
Ash then asks if Goodra knows where Florges' secret base is, and I don't know why he does know, but he apparently does know.
Back at Florges' not so secret base, her "Dear Floette" according to Jesse seems to not be getting better, despite being in the healing water.
A distinct twisting of the narrative begins as Meowth tells Florges that none of this would have happened if it wasn't for Goodra and the twerps.
Jesse tells Florges that Goodra wants to chase her and her troops out of the area to keep the wetlands for itself, which I mean, let's not forget who invaded who, here.
The Twerpokémon protest, but Meowth insists to her that they're lying pieces of shit, as they assure Florges that they're on her side, not that she realy needs help or anything.
Back at Kenan's Lonely Loft he's determined that the water is losing it's healing property.
The Twerps run into a few troops positioned outside and try to appeal to them that they're not here to start a fight, and that Team Rocket are the bad guys, which doesn't make sense, because they didn't like them before Team Rocket showed up, either.
Clemont and Serena then get involved and send their Pokémon out to fight in a wild Pokémon feud. They serve as a distraction because I guess the other troops' shift ws over and they manage to make it to Florges' Apparently Very Well Known Base.
They crawl around until Florges shows up with two Seviper, and Ash bets that Team Rocket put them up to this, and this is really starting to fall apart. Flroges point out the water and Ash guesses that this means she thinks they're responsible for the water-level.
Ash pleads that they're not responsible for the Water-level before scanning Floette with his Pokédex. It's basically looks exactly the same as Flabébé.
Suddenly, EARTHQUAKE! and the water is completely gone. Where'd the water go?
"Prepare for trouble, it's running dry!"
"And make it double, because we know why!"
"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!"
"Jesse!"
"And James!"
"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare for a thirsty fight!"
"MEOWTH, THAT'S RIGHT!"
James then at full volume decides to admit that they were manipulating Florges, even though she only did like one thing for them.
Team Rocket stole all the water from the wetlands, and Jesse tells Florges that Floette's not feeling well beause of them. Though, that doesn't explain why she wasn't healing before they arrived, or Team Rocket's need for subterfuge but whatever.
Why would they steal water? Because water that has healing properties would go for a fortune... though, water is a renewable resource, so "stealing" is a bit of an overstatement.
Meowth then basically calls Florges an idiot, even though she has an entire army at her disposal.
They blast a smoke bomb and leave, revealing a giant Mantine air ship. The rest of the twerps meet up with Ash as he reveals the reason Florges took over the spring. and as Kenan puts it, Florges did all of this so Floette can finally get well.
This doesn't exactly exonerate her or anything, she still lead a military style invasion.
Ash decides to take back the water, and has Goodra throw him into the air with it's.. feeler?
Fortunately Goodra's a good shot, as Ash lands on the wing of the ship, like a gremlin or something, and Florges rides a Yanmega up because the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and Goodra, who's clearly been watching one-too-many Godzilla movies uses it's Dragon Pulse and flies itself onto the wing.
Team Rocket can see them on the wing from their on-board dashboard, and try to shake them off, while forgetting that aircraft can fly upside down, not for long of course, but long enough to knock their passengers off.
Goodra regains it's footing and blasts the hull with Dragon Pulse, forcing Team Rocket to seal that section ff. They figure they can't ignore them so they have to face them, which always works out well for them.
Before the section completely closes, Goodra uses it's... things on it's head to force the wall open long enough for them to get through. They spot the Pokémon, but before they can get to them, Team Rocket walks through the door to block them.
They shit talk Florges, making them a powerful enemy in the process, who wants her water back.
Well, Team Rocket ain't ready to just let that happen, so they send in Inkay and Pumpkaboo, Jesse starts with Shadow Ball, that Florges knocks out of the air. James jumps straight in with another attack on Florges, because, well you might as well take out your strongest and most diabolical enemy first.
Goodra takes the hit for Florges, and Ash mentions at full volume that he's still not healed from before, so Team Rocket decide to double team him first, but Florges intercepts the attack sending Inkay and Pumpkaboo flying back, and smacking into the panel keeping Pikachu and the others contained.
Well, Team Rocket's fucked now, but they decide they might as well go down in flames, then like a couple of punks and order two more attacks before getting blasted off again.
Well, Team Rocket's dusted, but the airship is doing none-to-well. Serena manages to get Florges' air troops to fly up and attempt to rescue them, they send Pikachu, Dedenne and Wooper down on the back of a Yanmega.
This presents a problem for two of the last three passengers. Sure, Florges can just fly back down on another Yanmega, but there's no way that Ash and especially Goodra are riding a Beedrill down. Granted, them dying horribly in the resulting air ship crash would solve all of Florges' other problems.
But the ship has explosion that knocks it off kilter and drops Florges to the ground. Her dying horribly by splatting on the ground would solve the Native Wetland Pokémon's problems, but Goodra decides against it's better judgment to rescue her by grabbing her with it's antennae or whatever, but then it ends up falling out of the ship as well, and Ash taps into his Action Hero senses and tries to help by jumping out of the ship.
Now, you may be thinking "But wait, Ash can't fly. What was his plan here?"
To which I respond, "Ash? Have a plan? Is this your first episode?"
Ash catches up, and the Beedrill attempt to save them with their sharp javelin-like spears-for-hands.
Now, you may be thing "But wait, there's no way those Beedrill have the strength to carry this Dragon, Grass Fairy and 10-year old boy weighed down by his extra stupidity."
To which I respond, "Nah man, these Beedrill totally got it."
Actually wait no they don't, and they all fall horrifically to their deaths.
Well, fortunately Kenan has the foresight to have all the Pokémon use Water Gun to cushion their fall, and they all land safely.
However, apparently none of the water that was on the ship made it back onto the land as it's still dry, and all the plants are going to die. Kenan's also worried about all the Pokémon losing their home, which is weird since they already did thanks to Florges, when Kenan refused to help. Well, it's a pyrrhic victory if I ever saw one.
Goodra however says "fuck that" and uses Rain Dance, and Florges uses Grassy Terrain to revive the plants, that have only been without water for like an hour.
Back at Florges' hide-out, she places Floette in her little pool of water, and miraculously, almost like it was convenient or something, she recovers even though she's been out of it for a long while, and the water didn't help before.
For whatever reason, when Floette revives she makes Goodra and her mother (I guess) touch hands, and apparently all that nasty genocide and military occupation Florges initiated is all water under the bridge, because sure, why not.
Later on, everyone's marveling over how much fun the Native Pokémon, and the aggresive invaders are having... and Ash decides that Goodra should stay here to protect the wetlands, even though the actual threat is apparently over.
We have flashbacks of all great moments that Ash and Goomy/Sligoo/Goodra had as Ash cries and insists they'll always be friends. Unlike Inkay, Goodra doesn't really fight it, and decides to stay behind s the twerps cry over the Pokémon they'll likely never see again.
And thus ends the saga of Goodra the former slimy mucilaginous gumball turned Barney-like Dragon... thing.
Well, now Pikachu's back on top as Ash's most important Pokémon and all was right with the world, except Ash is now back to 4 Pokémon. Maybe he'll catch another Pokémon, evolve it and release it, we'll find out next time as the journey is...
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Pokemopolis Episode Name: The Wetland Wars!
Dodgyness Rating: 3/5
Animation: 3/5
Story: The Twerps meet the strategic juggernaut, Florges.
Team Rocket: They use the art of subterfuge completely incorrectly.
Moral Learnt: Invading a foreign nation and putting lives at risk is A-OK if you were trying to save a different life instead.
864 - 865: Defending the Homeland! - Beyond the Rainbow!
As the twerps must they've stopped somewhere to eat. Clemont has apparently come up with a new recipe in that time when he was away involving berry juice and mushrooms, and Ash brazenly declares it the best food he's ever had.
Meanwhile the Pokémon themselves are all enjoying a nice meal as Chespin eats all it's food because hes a fucking slob and tries to steal from Pancham. Yes, we've seen this all before of course Pancham still isn't going for it, and knocks Chespin away and into Dedenne's food knocking it o the ground. Apparently Dedenne's too sophisticated to eat food off the floor like an animal and instead cries like a little baby.
I hope the other Pokémon tell Chespin constantly how they all got along fine without him pulling this bullshit over and over.
Dedenne shocks Chespin for his crimes, and Clemont comes over and admonishes his greedy Pokémon yet again.
Playing peacemaker Goodra offers Chespin and Dedenne some of it's food and all is right - all though, not really because Chespin already ate, and knocked over Dedenne's bowl, so if anything, only Dedenne should actually get any of Goodra's food. This ironically becomes a great analogue to what happens later.
While they're all making nice because they're all friends again (as opposed to Clemont putting his foot down and disciplining his Pokémon or whatever) and man and a weird eyed Bellsprout drive by, with Bellsprout urgently babbling it's name at the man. The an takes note, and somehow immediately knows it's referring to the Goodra that it never saw before in it's life.
Perhaps they deem Dragon-types to be dangerous and are just...
No, that's not it.
Anyway, they seemed to have watched the twerps long enough that they finished eating and have packed up as Bellsprout runs down to Goodra. They both somehow recognize Goodra from the time that it was a Goomy, even though they look nothing alike.
Ash wants to know why this creepy old man, who watched them from afar is and why he's rubbing up on his Goodra. The man asks them who they are, even though he came up on them. Fortunately they are all to happy to give their names to some stranger they've never seen before.
The man introduces himself as Kenan - a man with a plot, to make it to the top, but he's always in the middle because he's aways getting caught - ugh, ahem. He also points out that he's caretaker of a nearby wetland that Goodra used to live in, and Bonnie has to brilliant idea to go back to whence Goodra came.
Goodra doesn't seem to happy about it though, until Bellsprout "Bellsprouts" and convinces him.
They get back, and it looks like a regular Wetlands, I guess. The twerps realize that they have absolutely no clue as to why Goomy was on that Swanna when they met it, and not the Wetlands, and Kenan tells them the sordid tale, but not before mentioning the Spring with water that has amazing healing effects on Pokémon.
Sounds like someone could sell that and make an assload by overcharging for it. Get on that shit, Voss!
Anyway, as Kenan continues, he brings up that thing we keep seeing in Goodra's memories. Outside Pokémon initiated a goddamn military invasion lead by a flowery Pokmon known as a Florges. The invasion included ground troops of Seviper and Ariados, and Air Troops of Yanmega and Beedrill dropping Pinsir like goddamn bombs from the sky.
This is probably one of the most violent actions that has been shown in the anime especially initiated exclusively by Pokémon, with no human interference what-so-ever. And all lead by a single militaristic leader.
The invading Pokémon all attack at once blowing up huge swathes of the wetlands, while I guess Kenan decided he didn't want to actually help his poor outmanned Pokémon or nothing. Some caretaker he is.
Goomy watches as it's friends all die... or at least get blown up and circled in fire, helpless to do anything.
Florges especially comes to blow Goomy's shit the fuck up, which sent it flying away on Swanna's back.
The twerps can't believe it, what happened to the other Pokémon? Well, Kenan informs them that "happily" they still live there... in secret... forced into seclusion for fear of retaliation.
Yeah, what a "happy" existence, maybe some time down the line they'll be allowed to protests for small swathes of their native land back.
Anyway, Goodra is none too happy at this news and calls out as Kenan notices that the water is a little bit lower like, maybe two inches, this is an American Dub after all, so we're going with Imperial measurements, here.
Meanwhile, Goodra's calling out get's the attention of a Wooper, probably the same Wooper we saw back in the flashback, thus revealing the native Pokmon's location. It's a spot carved into some sort of small plateau.
This also however catches the attention of the occupying troops, at least a Pinsir and a Yanmega.
Goodra is still pretty depressed until Wooper comes out and greets it. Again, it can somehow tell this is the same Goomy it was friends with, and the other Native Pokémon all come out of hiding to greet Goodra.
Meanwhile, in the middle of another plateau (possibly the obverse of the same Plateau) we see Florges sitting in the water as the Pinsir tells her what it heard.
Goodra is having fun re-acquainting with it's friends, who it hasn't seen for awhile, and Ash suggest showing them how strong it's gotten. He's obviously proposing a Pokémon battle, because Ash's brain only has two settings, "Battle" and "BATTLE RIGHT NOW".
Goodra blasts Dragon Pulse into the air as a demonstration, until a Swanna flies by screeching in it's rather horrible voice warning about... something.
They run off and the twerps immediately hear an explosion, what could that be? Kenan says it's coming from "their home" which is a pretty shitty way of looking at it, as the entire Wetlands was at one point "their home".
The twerps head off the help but Kenan stops them, he tells them that this is a quarrel between Wild Pokémon, and that they shouldn't get involved. Again, he's completely underselling the actual events at play here, these Pokémon got their asses kicked into hiding by a militarized force of invading Pokémon.
Clemont translates Kenana's request as "Pokémon should solve their own problems", which flies in both the logic of the show itself, and Ash's baser instincts, but Ash still wants to cheer for Goodra, and Kenan thinks cheering would be fine.
Wow, what an asshole, yes clearly cheering is all the Native Pokémon need to get through this. I guess Kenan didn't cheer hard enough last time. Meanwhile Team Rocket watch from afar as they use a machine to suck in the water, possibly to sell it at an insanely inflated price, stepping on FIJI's toes, as Bellsprout bables it's own name and Kenan agrees.
The siege has re-begun as Florges now corners the weakened Natives in their tiny corner of a home.
Aggressively attacking non-confrontational Pokémon trapped in the one spot you've forced them into puts Florges pretty high on the Villain scale for this series.
She commands her final attack on the defenseless and weak Pokémon and... and...
Goodra flies by in the knick of time to save their asses.
Florges invites the fight and sends her ground team to attack and the Natives tired of getting pushed around like tiny babies shoot back with Water Gun (I assume) and manage to hit the Pinsir, Florges then sends in her entire air troops in and Pikachu leaps down to assist, but Ash reminds him of that thing that Kenan said about not getting involved, even though the show would be much much shorter if Ash were to "not get involved" in other Pokémon's conflicts.
The natives hold their own fr a second and the twerps celebrate the fact that it looks like an even fight, forgetting that the natives got forced into their reservation not by accident of course.
Well, Florges decides that the time for bullshitting is over and enters the battle herself because you never send an army to do a Woman's job, and drops into the pool in front of Goodra like a certified badass. The best villains always have great entrances. Florges also somehow recognizes that Goodra is the same Goomy she punked before.
Goodra is having bad times remembering her, and Ash encourages Goodra that he can do this. Ash, you're getting involved!
He continues his pep talk, and gets Goodra prepped for battle.
Florges starts off with Petal Blizzard, and Serena gets involved and tells Goodra to be careful, as Goodra blasts back with Dragon Pulse, negating the petals.
Florges then initiates Grassy Terrain... even though they're already on a grassy terrain. Whatever, Florges then launches the fastest fucking Solar Beam in the history of the anime as Goodra knocks it out of the air with another Dragon Pulse, but you don't lead a military seige by playing fair, as she blasts another beam channeled through some flowers near-by at the weakened Pokémon around Goodra, somehow.
She then shoots another blast at them... through the flowers again, somehow and Goodra steps in to take the full brunt of the attack on it's back. Flroges is done playing stupid kiddy baby games, and blasts Goodra with some Moon blast or something (I guess, I don't know). it looks pretty cool, but the coolness is immediately sapped away by her immediately re-using the move with the exact same animation.
Ash continues to get involved by talking Goodra through the fight, and telling him to "wrap it up", at which point Goodra summons power from deep within and uses Ice Beam, Ash still heavily involved give him to go ahead to use it and... knocks out Florges. Goodra won the battle for it's land, but the victory is short lived as two Pokémon attack from some unseen location knock Goodra out, and Florges' team beat a tactical retreat.
The twerps take Goodra to heal at Kenan's bachelor pad, and Kenan brazenly declares that Florges isn't going to try that for awhile, and thus a truce has obviously een struck.
Kenan is not exactly the most logical mind of his generation.
Clemont however wonders if there's any Pokémon in the area able to learn Psybeam and Shadowball. Which seems like a weird question, because those are pretty common moves.
Back at the plateau Florges is healing her wounds in the water, looking like a goddamn boss as the only thing she's missing is a cat to menacingly pet... speaking of cats, Team Rocket talk over her asking that if she lost what would happen to "that little one", and tell her that's why they aided her escape. Meowth proffers a deal, they know all about Goodra, so they can join forces to defeat Goodra as the camera pans over to a tiny Pokémon who shares Florges' look sitting comatose in a tiny pool of water.
Back at Kenan's Ash sits over Goodra and his Pokémon and determines that Goomy wanted to get stronger to help his village setting up something for next episode perhaps? Anyway, Clemont and Kenan check over the video footage, and for some reason they refuse to show us what they see, even though we already know who did it, but as Clemont determines "it's them", someone busts Kenan's windows in and I'm going to take a wild guess and say the Ariados then steal Dedenne, Pikachu and the wild Wooper.
Well, things have certainly taken a turn for the worse, especially with Team Rocket doing their best evil maniacal cackling to end the episode. What'll happen to poor Dedenne, Pikachu and Wooper? Will the the tiny Pokémon that so many have been hurt for pull through, will Florges be redeemed, even though she's in a pretty irredeemable place right now after leading multiple assaults against non-willing combatants? Find out next week as the journey is...
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You know what? Nevermind that shit, let's find out now as we go...
Goodra against everyone's better judgement gets out of bed, Ash sends Frogadier and Fletchinder out to help, but Frogadier gets stopped by Stone Edge, and Fletchinder eats a load of shit and gets knocked out of the sky.
Poor, poor Fletchinder.
Serena wonders why they'd do such a thing, because apparently she hasn't been paying attention, they're being lead by an evil militaristic Florges who cares not for the safety and welfare of others.
Goodra goes to challenge the remaining troops, but they all blast it and beat another tactical retreat.
Clemont reveals what he saw, and announces that Team Rocket are a part of this. Ash says he should've known, though I don't really know why he should since all out militarized warfare is distinctly not Team Rocket's style.
Ash then asks if Goodra knows where Florges' secret base is, and I don't know why he does know, but he apparently does know.
Back at Florges' not so secret base, her "Dear Floette" according to Jesse seems to not be getting better, despite being in the healing water.
A distinct twisting of the narrative begins as Meowth tells Florges that none of this would have happened if it wasn't for Goodra and the twerps.
Jesse tells Florges that Goodra wants to chase her and her troops out of the area to keep the wetlands for itself, which I mean, let's not forget who invaded who, here.
The Twerpokémon protest, but Meowth insists to her that they're lying pieces of shit, as they assure Florges that they're on her side, not that she realy needs help or anything.
Back at Kenan's Lonely Loft he's determined that the water is losing it's healing property.
The Twerps run into a few troops positioned outside and try to appeal to them that they're not here to start a fight, and that Team Rocket are the bad guys, which doesn't make sense, because they didn't like them before Team Rocket showed up, either.
Clemont and Serena then get involved and send their Pokémon out to fight in a wild Pokémon feud. They serve as a distraction because I guess the other troops' shift ws over and they manage to make it to Florges' Apparently Very Well Known Base.
They crawl around until Florges shows up with two Seviper, and Ash bets that Team Rocket put them up to this, and this is really starting to fall apart. Flroges point out the water and Ash guesses that this means she thinks they're responsible for the water-level.
Ash pleads that they're not responsible for the Water-level before scanning Floette with his Pokédex. It's basically looks exactly the same as Flabébé.
Suddenly, EARTHQUAKE! and the water is completely gone. Where'd the water go?
"Prepare for trouble, it's running dry!"
"And make it double, because we know why!"
"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!"
"Jesse!"
"And James!"
"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare for a thirsty fight!"
"MEOWTH, THAT'S RIGHT!"
James then at full volume decides to admit that they were manipulating Florges, even though she only did like one thing for them.
Team Rocket stole all the water from the wetlands, and Jesse tells Florges that Floette's not feeling well beause of them. Though, that doesn't explain why she wasn't healing before they arrived, or Team Rocket's need for subterfuge but whatever.
Why would they steal water? Because water that has healing properties would go for a fortune... though, water is a renewable resource, so "stealing" is a bit of an overstatement.
Meowth then basically calls Florges an idiot, even though she has an entire army at her disposal.
They blast a smoke bomb and leave, revealing a giant Mantine air ship. The rest of the twerps meet up with Ash as he reveals the reason Florges took over the spring. and as Kenan puts it, Florges did all of this so Floette can finally get well.
This doesn't exactly exonerate her or anything, she still lead a military style invasion.
Ash decides to take back the water, and has Goodra throw him into the air with it's.. feeler?
Fortunately Goodra's a good shot, as Ash lands on the wing of the ship, like a gremlin or something, and Florges rides a Yanmega up because the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and Goodra, who's clearly been watching one-too-many Godzilla movies uses it's Dragon Pulse and flies itself onto the wing.
Team Rocket can see them on the wing from their on-board dashboard, and try to shake them off, while forgetting that aircraft can fly upside down, not for long of course, but long enough to knock their passengers off.
Goodra regains it's footing and blasts the hull with Dragon Pulse, forcing Team Rocket to seal that section ff. They figure they can't ignore them so they have to face them, which always works out well for them.
Before the section completely closes, Goodra uses it's... things on it's head to force the wall open long enough for them to get through. They spot the Pokémon, but before they can get to them, Team Rocket walks through the door to block them.
They shit talk Florges, making them a powerful enemy in the process, who wants her water back.
Well, Team Rocket ain't ready to just let that happen, so they send in Inkay and Pumpkaboo, Jesse starts with Shadow Ball, that Florges knocks out of the air. James jumps straight in with another attack on Florges, because, well you might as well take out your strongest and most diabolical enemy first.
Goodra takes the hit for Florges, and Ash mentions at full volume that he's still not healed from before, so Team Rocket decide to double team him first, but Florges intercepts the attack sending Inkay and Pumpkaboo flying back, and smacking into the panel keeping Pikachu and the others contained.
Well, Team Rocket's fucked now, but they decide they might as well go down in flames, then like a couple of punks and order two more attacks before getting blasted off again.
Well, Team Rocket's dusted, but the airship is doing none-to-well. Serena manages to get Florges' air troops to fly up and attempt to rescue them, they send Pikachu, Dedenne and Wooper down on the back of a Yanmega.
This presents a problem for two of the last three passengers. Sure, Florges can just fly back down on another Yanmega, but there's no way that Ash and especially Goodra are riding a Beedrill down. Granted, them dying horribly in the resulting air ship crash would solve all of Florges' other problems.
But the ship has explosion that knocks it off kilter and drops Florges to the ground. Her dying horribly by splatting on the ground would solve the Native Wetland Pokémon's problems, but Goodra decides against it's better judgment to rescue her by grabbing her with it's antennae or whatever, but then it ends up falling out of the ship as well, and Ash taps into his Action Hero senses and tries to help by jumping out of the ship.
Now, you may be thinking "But wait, Ash can't fly. What was his plan here?"
To which I respond, "Ash? Have a plan? Is this your first episode?"
Ash catches up, and the Beedrill attempt to save them with their sharp javelin-like spears-for-hands.
Now, you may be thing "But wait, there's no way those Beedrill have the strength to carry this Dragon, Grass Fairy and 10-year old boy weighed down by his extra stupidity."
To which I respond, "Nah man, these Beedrill totally got it."
Actually wait no they don't, and they all fall horrifically to their deaths.
Well, fortunately Kenan has the foresight to have all the Pokémon use Water Gun to cushion their fall, and they all land safely.
However, apparently none of the water that was on the ship made it back onto the land as it's still dry, and all the plants are going to die. Kenan's also worried about all the Pokémon losing their home, which is weird since they already did thanks to Florges, when Kenan refused to help. Well, it's a pyrrhic victory if I ever saw one.
Goodra however says "fuck that" and uses Rain Dance, and Florges uses Grassy Terrain to revive the plants, that have only been without water for like an hour.
Back at Florges' hide-out, she places Floette in her little pool of water, and miraculously, almost like it was convenient or something, she recovers even though she's been out of it for a long while, and the water didn't help before.
For whatever reason, when Floette revives she makes Goodra and her mother (I guess) touch hands, and apparently all that nasty genocide and military occupation Florges initiated is all water under the bridge, because sure, why not.
Later on, everyone's marveling over how much fun the Native Pokémon, and the aggresive invaders are having... and Ash decides that Goodra should stay here to protect the wetlands, even though the actual threat is apparently over.
We have flashbacks of all great moments that Ash and Goomy/Sligoo/Goodra had as Ash cries and insists they'll always be friends. Unlike Inkay, Goodra doesn't really fight it, and decides to stay behind s the twerps cry over the Pokémon they'll likely never see again.
And thus ends the saga of Goodra the former slimy mucilaginous gumball turned Barney-like Dragon... thing.
Well, now Pikachu's back on top as Ash's most important Pokémon and all was right with the world, except Ash is now back to 4 Pokémon. Maybe he'll catch another Pokémon, evolve it and release it, we'll find out next time as the journey is...
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Pokemopolis Episode Name: The Wetland Wars!
Dodgyness Rating: 3/5
Animation: 3/5
Story: The Twerps meet the strategic juggernaut, Florges.
Team Rocket: They use the art of subterfuge completely incorrectly.
Moral Learnt: Invading a foreign nation and putting lives at risk is A-OK if you were trying to save a different life instead.
