04x32 - Freeze Frame

[bunniefuu]

male narrator: After meeting up
with their old friend Todd,

our heroes joined him
on his quest

to photograph
the legendary Articuno.

Now they're hot on the trial
of this elusive Pokémon.

- [trills]

- Any luck, Noctowl?

Any sign of Articuno up there?

Nothing, huh?

- But we saw it fly this way.

It's gotta be
up on that mountain someplace.

- I don't see how we could get
up to that mountain

to check it out.

- It'll be tough.

Snow Top Mountain's icy
all year round.

Hey, Golbat,
did you find anything yet?

- [clicks]

- Maybe Golbat has a clue
that could lead us to Articuno.

- Let's go see what it found.
- Yeah!

[all gasp]

all: It's Jigglypuff!

- [singing]
Pokémon, Pokémon, Pokémon

- Let's do it.

I wanna be the very best

Like no one ever was

Ever was, ever was

To catch them is my real test

To train them is my cause

My whole life has led to this

Time to test my skills

I know I just can't miss

Gonna show the world

Born to be a winner

- Johto

- Born to be a champion

Born to be a winner

Born to be the very best

- Pokémon
- Johto

- Born to be a winner

Pokémon

- We haven't seen Jigglypuff
in a long time.

I wonder what it's doing
all the way up here.

- From the looks of it,
it's probably freezing.

- Chu!

Pika.

- I have a hunch about this.

I think Articuno
may have done it.

- There's one way to find out.

Cyndaquil,
I choose you!

- Cyndaquil!

- Cyndaquil,
use your Flamethrower,

and get Jigglypuff unfrozen.

- [wails]

- Jigglypuff!

- Hey, Jiggly--

- Jigglypuff, tell me.
Did you see it?

You have to tell me, Jigglypuff.

Did an Articuno do this to you?

- Jigglypuff's acting
kind of cold.

- Guys, you have to treat
an artist gently.

Hey, Jigglypuff, we're trying
to find Articuno.

Do you know where it went?

- That's it.

Articuno must have headed
for Snow Top Mountain.

- Only a few thousand feet more.

- I'm completely exhilarated.

- I'm just cold.

Let's go to that Pokémon Center
we passed.

- Quit complaining.

It was your idea
to get ahead of the twerps

and set a trap for them up here.

- And the only way
we can do that

is to climb straight up the side
of this mountain,

so stop whining
and start climbing.

- How 'bout this.

I'll start climbing,
but I'll still keep complaining.

- I'm actually enjoying
ice climbing.

[Spearow squawks]

Hey, you.
What's the big idea?

Give me back that pick
before I pick your little brain!

- Go on.
Beat it!

Get your flapping feathers
away from me!

- It's a Spearow air force.

- Just lay off the face.

Scratch anything but the face.

[screams]

This can't be.

- It's too early.

- Blasting off already?

[all screaming]

- Hey, guys, look.
- Pika?

- Two Stantler.

- I think it's a mama
and her baby.

- [chatters]

- This'll be great.

Hey, maybe I'll print up
a whole bunch of those

and make 'em
into Christmas cards.

- Pika!
- Huh?

- [laughs]
All right!

- Look, guys.
It's a Pokémon Center.

- Wow.

I never thought they'd have one
all the way up here.

- Wouldn't this be
the perfect spot

to cuddle up with a hot cocoa
and a warm Nurse Joy?

Uh, that's not what I meant.

I meant a warm fire.

- Hey, looks like they've got
some kind of message here

on the bulletin board.

- "Welcome, Trainers.

"This is the Snow Top Peak
Pokémon Center,

the highest Pokémon Center
in the world."

That's pretty cool.
- Pika!

- Go over and stand
next to the sign,

and I'll take a picture
so you guys'll have a souvenir.

Hold it.

[shutter snaps]
Great!

- Eagh!

Officer Jenny!

- Hi, kids.
Let's go warm up.

- I think it's gonna be
a lot harder

to get a picture of Articuno
than I thought it'd be.

- Don't worry, Todd.
We'll get it somehow.

- Hey, I just thought of a way
to get a great picture.

- What?
- Pi?

- If we finally find Articuno,
all we have to do then

is to have Jigglypuff
sing its song.

- Its song?
- Jiggly?

- It'll put Articuno
right to sleep,

and then Todd can take
a million pictures if he wants.

I must be some kind of genius.

- If Jigglypuff sings,

it's gonna put Todd
to sleep too.

Then he still won't have
a picture of Articuno.

- Even if I could stay awake,

I wouldn't want a shot
of Articuno asleep.

- Isn't a sleeping Articuno shot
better than no shot?

- If I get the chance
to take a picture of Articuno,

I want it to look

just like the way
I've always imagined it:

big, powerful, majestic.

I don't need a million shots,
either.

I'll be happy if I can take
just one

that captures a little bit

of what an Articuno
is really like.

- So Officer Jenny says
you're looking for Articuno.

- Yeah, but I'd settle for
a steady girlfriend, Nurse Joy.

- That's right, Nurse Joy.
Have you seen any?

'Cause I saw one yesterday

flying up towards the top
of the mountain.

- That's not too surprising.

- Articuno have come
to Snow Top Mountain

for longer
than anyone can remember.

- What?

- You mean you know about
the Articuno, Nurse Joy?

- An Articuno statue.

- Yeah, it's pretty impressive.

- This statue was brought here
more than , years ago.

Travelers say that the Articuno
watch over them

on their journeys.

- I guess there must've been
a lot of Articuno back then.

- Some people believe that
the Articuno still has nests

in all of the highest mountains
and coldest places

and that it flies
from nest to nest,

bringing winter weather with it.

- Snow Top's
a very high mountain,

and it gets very cold too.

That's the reason why people say

Articuno must have a nest
someplace up here as well.

- There's lots of stories
and legends about Articuno.

Guess that's why they call it
a legendary Pokémon.

- Well, maybe it's just a legend
about those travelers,

but I know I saw an Articuno
flying up here.

- At least one of
the travelers' stories is true.

There's a diary
of one of the people

who brought the statue here

that says Articuno rescued him
and lots of others.

- Really?

- Maybe that's
what it's doing up here now.

- Well...

- It's a good thing
that we landed,

but it's bad thing
that we're stranded.

- Without our equipment,

there's no way to get up
and no way to get down.

- I wish I was snoozing away
on a cozy little coffee table.

- Meowth,
you have to stay awake.

- Don't be so selfish, Meowth.

If you fall asleep,
you'll freeze,

and the boss will blame
the two of us.

- Meowth, come on.
Wake up.

Meowth?

- Maybe Meowth's got
the right idea, Jess.

- [yells]

Help!

Somebody!
We're stuck!

[echoing]
Somebody! We're stuck!

- There's one good thing.

At least it can't get
any worse than this.

- Oh, yeah?
- Huh?

[wind whistling]

- A blizzard.

- Ha ha hee.

My breath is cold.

- We're doomed.

Jessie and James:
Huh? What's that?

- Help us.

- The legend is that
three travelers were stranded

on the mountain.

But an Articuno found them
and led them to safety.

- Then a year later,
the same three

brought this statue here
to thank and honor Articuno.

- If Articuno lived near here
way back then,

I bet there's a good chance

they may still live
somewhere nearby.

- I've gotta go find one.
- Yeah.

And if we all look for it
together, we will.

- Pika.

- I don't think you realize
how difficult it is

to climb an icy mountain
like Snow Top.

It's very dangerous.

- Don't you worry, Nurse Joy.

I'll be leading
every step of the way.

- Will this be the first time
you ever tried ice climbing?

- Yes, it will.

- Then it might be your last.

- Ah, that's cold.

- Come on, Brock.

After a while,
she'll warm up to the idea.

Hey, you really are frozen,
aren't you?

- Jiggly.
- Pika.

- Pikachu and Jigglypuff
both sense something.

- Maybe Articuno's coming.

[wind whistling]

- Let's not take any chances.

Let's get back
to the Pokémon Center.

- Come on, Todd.
Let's go!

- There's something out there.
- Huh?

- I can just feel it.

That looked like--

- I'm glad that's over.

- That was like a mini-blizzard.

- But it dumped more than snow.
- Huh?

- It's Team Rocket.

- This is like
a dream come true.

- Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny
are in the kitchen

making some hot soup for you,

not that you three deserve any.

It'll be ready in a few minutes.

- Brock, can you help me
get these coats out, please?

- Coming!

- All right, let's have it.

How'd you three wind up here
in that snow pile?

- We were stranded.
- Alone.

- Okay, and then what?

- Then this gigantic thing
flew up from out of nowhere.

- Then it lit up,
and we all blacked out.

- What?

- I know exactly what it was.

It's just like the story
Officer Jenny told us.

These three got stranded
in the mountains,

and Articuno came
and helped 'em out.

- An Articuno?

- Let's go.

- Todd, wait.
Let's sit down and plan this.

- I came up here to take
a picture of an Articuno.

I don't have time
to hang around and plan.

- Sounds good to me.

Hey, Todd, wait up!

- Ash, where are you and Todd
going?

- They can't go climbing
around a snowy mountain

dressed like that.

- Guys, wait!

- James, the thing that saved us
must have been an Articuno.

- Jessie, isn't Articuno one of
those legendary Pokémon?

- We had a legendary Pokémon
right in our face,

and we didn't even know it.

- What fools we are.

We let an Articuno get away

just because we were stranded
and freezing!

- What are we sitting here for?

- There's an Articuno out there
to capture!

- Are we ready to bring the boss

the greatest Pokémon collectible
ever?

all: Yeah!

- Okay, soup's ready.

They're gone.

My snowmobile.

- You don't think the kids took
your snowmobile, do you?

- Not the kids.

See those prints?
The other three took it.

There's a storm on the way.

- And it's heading
for the mountain.

- We've got to find them
before that storm hits.

- Let's go.

kids: Who's that Pokémon?

- Oh, man.

It was clear just a minute ago.

- This snow came out of nowhere.

- Hey, maybe this snow means

that Articuno's someplace
nearby.

- I hope you're right
about that,

'cause I'm not giving up
till I get its picture.

- Well, that Articuno's
not gonna come looking for us,

so we better get going.

Come on, guys.
Let's keep walking.

- But, Ash, this is a blizzard.

I can't even see my hand
in front of my face.

- Forget about your hand.
Just use your feet.

- Maybe I should use my fist.

- I think we should stay put.

We might get in trouble if
we can't see where we're going.

- Pika.
Pika!

- Jiggly!

- I think they sense something.

- Maybe more snow's coming.

- Maybe.
- Oh!

- Hey, that tail.

- Looks familiar.

- Pika?

Pika!
- Articuno!

- It looks just like the statue.

- But a hundred times
more beautiful.

- [trills]

- Pikachu!

- Hey there, Articuno.

- [screeches]

- Huh?
What's wrong?

[yells]
What happened to the ground?

- Pika!

- We almost walked off a cliff.

- That would've been bad.

- If we'd just kept walking
through the snow,

we would have gone
right over the edge.

We would've been...

But Articuno stopped us
and saved our lives.

- Jiggly!

- No, Jiggly!

- [muffled]
Jiggly.

- I better get this.

Something's attacking it.

- Who could that be?

- Prepare for trouble.

I think that you know...

- We're here to capture
Articuno.

- To protect the world
from devastation.

- To unite all peoples
within our nation.

- To denounce the evils
of truth and love.

- To extend our reach
to the stars above.

- Jessie.
- James.

- Team Rocket blasting off
at the speed of light.

- Surrender now, or prepare
to fight, fight, fight, fight.

- Wobbuffet--
- That's right.

- I can't believe you.

- How could you try
to capture Articuno

after it saved
your miserable lives?

- That was then,
and this is now.

- So surrender now,
or prepare to fight!

- Meowth.
That's right.

- That's terrible!

- Articuno's here to help rescue
travelers in trouble.

- Well, we're traveling back
to our boss,

and if we don't have
this Articuno with us,

we'll be in big trouble.

- Articuno rescued us once.

I'm sure it would be happy
to rescue us again.

- Come on, team.
Let's grab that big blue bird.

- Wobbuffet!

- Let's go, Arbok.

Get ready to launch
another Poison Sting attack.

- Arbok!

- Go use your Sludge attack,
Weezing!

- Weezing!

- We gotta stop 'em.

Pikachu, use
your Thunderbolt attack!

- Pika!

- Weezing.

- Articuno's getting ready
to use its Ice Beam.

- Wobbuffet, do something.

- Wobbu.

- Look, Wobbuffet's using
its Mirror Coat.

- Wobbu!

- Quick!
Dodge it, Articuno!

Articuno!

- Pika!
- Jiggly!

- Are you okay?
- Say something!

[all screaming]

- Where'd that little blizzard
come from?

- When Articuno was hit
by that falling ice,

the power it was holding back

must have gotten released
all at once.

- We have to go look
for Ash and Todd.

- We better head back to the
Pokémon Center right away.

We're gonna need Officer Jenny
and Nurse Joy's help

to find Ash and Todd
in this snow.

- Okay, let's go.

- Jiggly.

- Pika.

- [groans]

Where are we?

Todd.
Todd.

Take it easy.

We had a real big fall.

- I know, but I'm kind of
surprised we survived it.

both: Huh?

- It's Articuno!

- I'm glad it's safe.

Maybe it can help us
out of here.

- Hey, you know what?

I bet it was Articuno

who made sure we landed
down here okay.

- You know, I bet you're right.

- Thanks for saving us,
Articuno.

- Puff.

- Pika?

- [laughs]

- Pika-Pi!
- Hi, Pikachu.

- I guess Pikachu and Jigglypuff
must've followed us down here

because they wanted to make sure
we were okay.

- Thanks a lot, Pikachu.
You too, Jiggly.

- Pika!
- Jigglypuff, don't sing!

- Yeah, maybe later.

- Hey, what was that?

- Pika?

- Weezing!

- Out in the cold again.

- Yeah, and just when we was
getting warmed up.

- Now I suppose we'll never find
that Articuno.

- It's Team Rocket.
- Pika?

- Look, it's the little twerps.

- Yes, and Articuno's
still here too.

- It's now or never.

We gotta bring
that big blue blizzard buzzard

back to the boss man.

- Wobbuffet!

- We'll get Articuno this time,
won't we, team?

James and Meowth: Yeah!

- We'll see about that.
- Pika!

- You saved us first.

Now it's our turn to save you.

- Go, Articuno.
And hurry!

- First we gotta immobilate
that pesky little Pikachu.

- Arbok, hit it
with your Poison Sting attack.

- Send in
a Sludge attack, Weezing!

- Arbok!
- Weezing!

- [screeches]

- Pika.
- What was that?

- They didn't work.

Articuno used
its Powder Snow.

- Let's both attack it.

Arbok, use your
Poison Sting attack now.

- Weezing,
use your Sludge attack.

- Wow, that's fast.

- Articuno's got
amazing agility.

- Here comes another Ice Beam!

- Just do like you did before.

- Wobbuffet!

Wobbu...

- That's Articuno's strongest
attack, Blizzard.

Team Rocket:
We're blasting off again!

- Wobbuffet.

- Well, they're gone.

- That Blizzard attack
blasted 'em away.

- Huh?
- Oh!

- The sun's coming out again.

- Yeah.

- Pika?

- [trills]

- Pika.

- Big, powerful, and majestic.

If I can get it,

that's exactly the shot
I've been waiting for.

[shutter clicks]

Articuno, you're the best.

- You know, it's almost like
Articuno knew

you wanted its picture.

- You know what, Ash?

I kind of think it did.

- So do I.

- Pikachu!

- Ash!

- Todd!
Pikachu!

- We've been looking everywhere.

- Articuno saved us.

- It just flew away.

- It's so beautiful.

- Yeah,
and it's really strong too.

- It's quite a sight to see.

- Todd, did you get a picture
of it?

- I sure did.

Wait'll you see it.
It's perfect.

- Hey, I thought Jigglypuff was
with you.

- It was for a while.

- Then it got blown away
with Team Rocket.

I hope Jigglypuff'll be okay.

- What?

You're gonna hang around here?

- Yep, I want to stay and take
a lot more shots

of the kind of Pokémon
that live in the mountains.

- Okay.

I guess that means

we're gonna have to go on
without you, then.

- So long, Ash.

Good luck in the Johto League.

I'll be rooting hard for you.

- Thanks a lot.

Good luck with your pictures.

- Yeah.

- Good-bye!

narrator: And so our friends
leave Todd behind

to continue on their journey.

Though they now go
their own separate ways,

one thing will
always unite them:

their successful quest

to capture the image
of the legendary Pokémon,

a magnificent creature

and a magnificent achievement
for them all.

- I'm very cold.

- I'm freezing.

- I'm frozen.

- I'm so sleepy.

- Me too.
I'm exhausted.

- Good night, Jess.

- Good night, James.

- Hey, stay awake!

- What's the big idea?

- We're exhausted!
We need rest!

- You can't sleep!

If you sleep when it's freezing
like this,

you might never wake up again.

- I wouldn't like that.

- We have to stay awake
no matter what.

- Jiggly.

all: No!
Please don't sing!

- [singing]
Jigglypuff

Jiggly

Jiggly, Jigglypuff

Jiggly

Jigglypuff

Jiggly

- Let's do it.

[singing]
Born to be a winner

- Johto

- Born to be a champion

Born to be a winner

Born to be the very best

- Pokémon

- Born to be a winner

- Johto

- Born to be a champion

Born to be a winner

Born to be the very best

- Pokémon
- Johto

- Born to be a winner

Pokémon