CYNTHIA:Now, Garchomp! Battle dance!
GARCHOMP: [APPEARING]
AARON:Now, Drapion. You're the star!
DRAPION: [APPEARING]
ANNOUNCER [MALE]:The Title Battle for Champion
has finally begun!
And challenging Champion Cynthiais Aaron of the Elite Four!
ANNOUNCER:Here's what's at stake for our
Bug- type Pokémonspecialist challenger:
If he emerges victorious,
the title of ChampionMaster will be his!
The question is: Who will ladyluck be smiling down on today?
DAWN: Woah,they're just getting started!
PIPLUP: [EXCITED]
ASH: Looks like wegot in under the wire!
PIKACHU: [RELIEVED]
ASH: It's Paul!
AARON: Drapion, Pin m*ssile!
DRAPION: [PIN MISSLE MOVE]
On a road, far from home,
you don't haveto feel alone.
Brave and strong,
together we will be.
It's our destiny!
We will be heroes,
We can change theworld if we try!
I go where you go,
Forever friends,you and I!
We will be heroes!
Battle DimensionPokémon!
[ASH READS ON-SCREEN TEXT]
NARRATOR:Arriving in the nick-of-time
on their way to Hearthome City,
our heroes havestopped at a Pokémon Center
along the way to watchthe championship battle
between Cynthia andAaron of the Elite Four!
NARRATOR: Which includes achance meeting with Ash's rival,
Paul.
ANNOUNCER:And Cynthia dominates the action
as Aaron's last Pokémon,Beautifly,
is in a real tough spot!
AARON: Solar Beam, let's go!
BEAUTIFLY: [SOLAR BEAM MOVE]
CYNTHIA: Quick, Stone Edge!
GASTRODON: [DETERMINED]
GASTRODON: [STONE EDGE MOVE]
BEAUTIFLY: [YELP]
ANNOUNCER:Beautifly is unable to battle,
and Cynthia keeps her title!
Is there anybodyCynthia can't take down?!
AARON: You battled like a truechamp, Beautifly, and thank you!
ANNOUNCER: That was somefierce battling indeed!
Aaron's skillful use ofhis Bug-types was admirable...
JAMES: Say, Cynthia wassome kind of wonderful!
JESSIE: I thought the Bug-typebattler was quite the hunk!
MEOWTH: It's heart-warming
to see a guy get messedwith for messing with us!
WOBBUFFET: [SMUG AFFIRMATIVE]
ASH: Cynthia's strong,but who knew that strong?
Aaron was in wayover his head out there!
DAWN: And he was so excitedafter having his Beautifly back.
BROCK:She's the Champion, all right!
I don't see her losingthat title for a long time!
DAWN, BROCK, ASH,PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [SURPRISED]
PAUL: How did everything end up?
PAUL: I mean withChimchar's Blaze!
CHIMCHAR: [SCREAM]
ASH: I know Blazeis a strong Ability,
but you'd never find merelying on something like that
in the middle of a battle!
DAWN: Man, what's his problem?
ASH: Hey, why don't we train?
PIKACHU: [EXCITED]
ASH: Pikachu! Chimchar! Buizel!
Let's run through ourplan for the Hearthome Gym!
PIKACHU, CHIMCHAR, BUIZEL:[DETERMINED]
ASH:I'm counting on you guys, okay?
TURTWIG: [DETERMINED]
GLISCOR: [DETERMINED]
DAWN: All right! Now Piplupand Buneary, Pachirisu, Ambipom,
and Swinub, let's go!
TURTWIG: [ATTACKING]
GLISCOR, STARAVIA: [ATTACKING]
PIPLUP, BUNEARY: [ATTACKING]
PACHIRISU: [ATTACKING]AMBIPOM: [ATTACKING]
SWINUB: [ATTACKING]
ASH, BUIZEL, PIKACHU, CHIMCHAR:[BRACING]
PIKACHU: [DETERMINED]
CHIMCHAR: [DETERMINED]
BUIZEL: [DETERMINED]
DAWN: Awesome, but scary!
BROCK, SUDOWOODO,CROAGUNK, HAPPINY: [STRUGGLING]
ASH: Now, that'sexactly the way you do it!
ASH: You use everything you got
to send their attacksright back at them!
PIKACHU, CHIMCHAR, BUIZEL:[EXCITED]
JESSIE: What a pleasure it is
to see such strongand healthy growth!
MEOWTH: A good trim is worthits weight in gold, you know?
JAMES: You're in goodhands with our hands!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
PAUL: Will you stopbabbling and finish up?
JESSIE: Tactless Twerp!
Never appreciatesour trouble and toil!
MEOWTH:Forget about that sourpuss!
Twerp money is still money,that'll buy us a scheme or two!
JAMES: Cold cash from a crank isbetter than no cash in the bank.
ASH: Let's go!
TURTWIG: [ATTACKING]
GLISCOR, STARAVIA: [ATTACKING]
PIPLUP, BUNEARY: [ATTACKING]
PACHIRISU: [ATTACKING]AMBIPOM: [ATTACKING]
SWINUB: [ATTACKING]
ASH, BUIZEL, PIKACHU, CHIMCHAR:[BRACING]
PIKACHU: [ATTACKING]
CHIMCHAR: [ATTACKING]
BUIZEL: [ATTACKING]
PIKACHU, CHIMCHAR, BUIZEL:[SHOCKED]
TURTWIG: [CONCERNED]
BUNEARY, PIPLUPSWINUB, PACHIRISU: [GRUNTS]
DAWN: Everyone okay? Ash?
PIKACHU: [REASSURING]
ASH: We're fine! You callthose att*cks? It was nothing!
PIKACHU, CHIMCHAR, BUIZEL:[CONFIDENT]
BROCK:Using your own moves to defend
against your opponentis good strategy.
But Ash, you've gotto hold some moves back,
or else you'llhave nothing left!
ASH: Yeah! We've also got alot of work to do on our timing.
PIKACHU, BUIZEL, CHIMCHAR:[FOCUSED]
ASH: Okay, let's do it again!
PIKACHU, BUIZEL, CHIMCHAR:[DETERMINED]
BROCK: Paul, I thought youwere already headed out of here.
HAPPINY: [SURPRISED]
HAPPINY: [FRIENDLY GREETING]
PAUL: If you've got somethingyou want to say to me, say it!
BROCK: To tell the truth,
your style of trainingis pretty interesting!
BROCK: I was wondering why youasked Ash about Chimchar before.
BROCK: I'm starting tothink Ash is getting to you!
PAUL: I can't believe hewon't use Blaze, that's all.
BROCK: That's just Ash;it's how he operates!
BROCK: You see, Ash is trying todevelop his own battling style.
BROCK: I talked to Reggiewhen we were in Veilstone City.
BROCK: He told meyou were training hard
and trying to come up withyour own style of battling.
Is that true?
PAUL: That brother ofmine's got a big mouth!
BROCK:He worries about you, you know.
But I was a littlesurprised when he told me
he had challenged his way arounda lot of regions and Gyms!
BROCK: Let's see,
I think he was missing theBattle Frontier
Brave Symbol, right?
PAUL: Yeah that's the one.There he was,
winning Symbolafter Symbol until he
PAUL: loses one battle andgives it all up just like that!
He should havebeen bitter, but no.
Instead, he was always smiling,always happy.
I'll never understand it!
PAUL: I'm not Reggie!I won't do what he did!
And I will not make thesame pathetic mistakes!!
PIPLUP, TURTWIG, BUNEARY:[PAINED]
PACHIRISU, AMBIPOM, GLISCOR:[PAINED]
ASH: Everyone okay?!
PIKACHU: [CONCERNED]PIPLUP, TURTWIG: [REASSURING]
DAWN: Awesome, Ash!
You really took it toa new level this time!
ASH: You mean theytook it up to a new level!
ASH: Paul!
CHIMCHAR: [SCARED]PIPLUP, TURTWIG: [PROTECTIVE]
JESSIE: Now there's a sight!
Twerp against Twerpon offense and defense!
JAMES: All that'smissing is a program guide.
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
PAUL: You're doing the exactsame thing as me when you train!
ASH: No way, Paul!How's this just like you?
PAUL: You're havingother Pokémon attack you
so you boostyour Pokémon's moves.
PAUL: How is that any different?
DAWN: He's training for hisrematch at the Hearthome Gym!
PAUL: So you're going tobattle at the Hearthome Gym?
ASH: Right! Hey youbattled there, didn't you Paul?
PAUL: Sure did,and obviously, I won!
ASH: Okay,I did challenge Fantina
andher Ghost-type Pokémon before,
but she kept hittingus with Hypnosis,
and I couldn't doa thing about it!
That is until next time!
PAUL: So now you thinkthis time's the charm.
All you have to dois keep hammering away
and all her Ghost-typePokémon will fall over!
ASH: I'll win it!
ASH: I happen tohave faith in my Pokémon!
ASH: And they've got faith inme too! This time's different!
PAUL: You're pathetic.
ASH: All right!
We'll just show you whatwe've got! Let's have a battle!
PAUL: All you had to say isyou were using Chimchar's Blaze.
That would have been enough!
ASH: I already told you,I don't mess around with Blaze!
PAUL: All right, then.But only one Pokémon per side!
That should be quite enough!
ASH: Okay! Fine with me!
PIKACHU: [DETERMINED]BUIZEL: [DETERMINED]
TURTWIG: [PLEADING]
ASH:Hey Turtwig, what's going on?
TURTWIG: [PLEADING]
ASH: Oh, I get it!You want to get in there, too!
MEOWTH: Turtwig'ssaying there's no reason
the other Pokémon needto knock themselves out
before their Gym Battle!
JESSIE: Aw, how magnanimousof the little green goober.
ASH: It's you, Turtwig!
TURTWIG: [DETERMINED]
PAUL: Now Honchkrow,stand by for battle!
HONCHKROW: [APPEARING]
HONCHKROW: [PROUD]
ASH: A Flying type.
POKEDEX: Honchkrow,
the Big Boss Pokémon,and the evolved form of Murkrow.
Honchkrow recruits manyMurkrow to travel with it,
and it spends much of its timeat home preening its feathers.
DAWN: Sounds likequite a Pokémon to me.
PIKACHU: [CONCERNED]
BROCK: Thing is,Turtwig's a Grass type,
soHonchkrow will be a challenge!
Ash will have his hands full.
ASH: Turtwig!When it comes to pure speed,
nobody can touch you!
So let's use that to ouradvantage and win this battle!
TURTWIG: [DETERMINED]
PAUL: All right!Honchkrow, use Sky Attack!
HONCHKROW: [CHARGING]
ASH:Quick, Turtwig. Energy Ball!!
TURTWIG: [ENERGY BALL MOVE]
BROCK: This's great! Sky Attacktakes some time to charge up!
Turtwig will land first!
HONCHKROW: [IMPACT]
PAUL: Like that didanything at all! Go Honchkrow!
HONCHKROW: [SKY ATTACK MOVE]
ASH: Heads up, Turtwig!
TURTWIG: [EXERTION]
HONCHKROW: [SHOCKED]
TURTWIG: [CONFIDENT]ASH: Awesome!
DAWN: Even against Honchkrow,
Turtwig's amazingspeed can't be beat!
PIPLUP: [CHEERING]
PIKACHU: [CHEERING]
PAUL: Use Night Slash!
HONCHKROW: [DETERMINED]
ASH:Dodge it, and use Razor Leaf!
TURTWIG: [EXERTION]
HONCHKROW: [RAZOR LEAF ATTACK]
TURTWIG: [YELP]
PIKACHU: [CONCERNED]
BROCK: You're going too easy!Stop dodging!
DAWN: Come on! You can do it!
TURTWIG: [DETERMINED]
PAUL: Use Aerial Ace!
HONCHKROW: [AERIAL ACE MOVE]
ASH: Now, Turtwig,use Bite! Let's go!
TURTWIG: [EXERTION]
HONCHKROW, TURTWIG: [IMPACT]
PAUL:Use Aerial Ace, one more time!
HONCHKROW: [DETERMINED]
ASH: Turtwig, get up!
HONCHKROW: [AERIAL ACE MOVE]
TURTWIG: [YELP]
TURTWIG: [DETERMINED]
ASH:Can you still keep battling?
ASH: What's going on?
PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [SHOCKED]DAWN: Could it be?
BROCK:Turtwig's starting to evolve!
STARAVIA, GLISCOR,CHIMCHAR, BUIZEL: [SHOCKED]
GROTLE: [PROUD]
GROTLE: [DETERMINED]
POKEDEX: Grotle.The Grove Pokémon
andthe evolved form of Turtwig.
Grotle lives nearwater in forests
and leaves theforest during the day
to allow light to shineon the tree on its shell.
DAWN: Wow!Turtwig finally evolved! Great!
PIPLUP: [THRILLED]
ASH: Yeah!All right, Grotle,
I thinkit's time for us to mix it up!
PAUL: Use Aerial Ace!
HONCHKROW: [AERIAL ACE MOVE]
ASH: Perfect!
Now, let's givethem a little taste
of some of yournew power by dodging
and then using Energy Ball!
GROTLE: [AFFIRMATIVE]
HONCHKROW: [AERIAL ACE MOVE]
GROTLE: [YELP]
PIKACHU, PIPLUP, CHIMCHAR:[SHOCKED]
DAWN: I guessHonchkrow's fast after all.
BROCK: You're right,but it's more than that.
DAWN, PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [CURIOUS]
PAUL: Sky Attack, let's go!
HONCHKROW: [SKY ATTACK MOVE]
GROTLE: [SHOCKED]
ASH: Now's your chance Grotle,so use Bite!
GROTLE: [FOCUSED] / [STRUGGLING]
ASH: Oh no!
JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: Go boom!
GROTLE: [STRUGGLING]
ASH: What's wrong, Grotle?!
PAUL:C'mon Honchkrow! Get going!
ASH:Grotle, you gotta turn AROUND!!
ASH: Hey, c'mon Grotle!You're super-fast!
You should beable to dodge that!
PAUL: A pathetic Trainer andhis equally pathetic Pokémon.
ASH: What?!
PAUL: All right,so where's that faith?
If you really think youcan win with faith alone,
then you're nobetter than any lowlife,
loser Trainer out there.
PAUL: Because you have noidea how Grotle's changed!
PAUL: Honchkrow, Dark Pulse!
HONCHKROW, TORTERRA:[DARK PULSE MOVE]
GROTLE: [PAINED]
ASH: Grotle, no!
GROTLE: [STRUGGLING]
ASH: Grotle, hang in there!
DAWN: Ash, tell meif I'm wrong,
but I thought Pokémonwere supposed to get stronger
when they evolved.
So then, what happenedto all of Turtwig's speed?
BROCK:Hmm. Its body did get heavier.
ASH, DAWN, PIKACHU, PIPLUP:[SURPRISED]
BROCK:When Turtwig evolves into Grotle
its body gets ten times heavierand all in a very short time!
So even if Grotlewants to move quickly,
its body is just notable to follow along.
DAWN, ASH, PIKACHU, PIPLUP:[WORRIED]
ASH: Oh man!
PAUL: Frenzy Plant, let's go!
TORTERRA: [FRENZY PLANT MOVE]
WEAVILE: [EXERTION]
WEAVILE: [EXERTION]
TORTERRA: [GRUNT]
PAUL: Your reaction's too slow!
TORTERRA: [DODGING]
WEAVILE: [EXERTION]
WEAVILE: [PAINED]
PAUL: All right,that was more like it.
TORTERRA: [DISTRACTED]
PAUL:What's the matter with you?
TORTERRA: [GRUNT]
PAUL: Stop.Why don't you just let it be?
ASH:Grotle, in case you didn't know,
I thought it wasthe coolest thing ever
that you evolved inthe middle of our battle!
ASH: It just felt like nothingcould keep us
from winning, you know?!
ASH: It's like when you got hitwith that intense Dark Pulse,
and you didn'teven budge one bit!
Man, you just stood thereand took the whole thing!
ASH: I'm sorry I didn't tellyou to attack when I should've.
Of course you're feelinga little off right now
since you just evolved,I know that!
PIKACHU: [ENCOURAGING]
ASH: But your power's wayup and once your speed is too,
no one'll be able to touch you!
GROTLE: [DISAPPOINTED]
DAWN: I don't thinkGrotle feels so well.
PIPLUP: [WORRIED]
ASH: Don't forget Grotle,we're in this together!
GROTLE: [TIRED]
HOOTHOOT: [SNORING]
ASH, BROCK, DAWN, PIKACHU,GLISCOR, BUIZEL: [SNORING]
CHIMCHAR: [SHOCKED] / [CURIOUS]
BUIZEL: [SHOCKED]
CHIMCHAR: [CONCERNED]
GROTLE: [SURPRISED]
PIKACHU: [CONCERNED]
GROTLE: [GRUNT]
CHIMCHAR: [CONFUSED]
PIKACHU: [CURIOUS]
PIPLUP: [TIRED]
PIKACHU: [URGENT]
PIPLUP: [CURIOUS]CHIMCHAR, GLISCOR: [DETERMINED]
GROTLE: [EXERTION] / [IMPACT]
GROTLE: [PAINED] / [UPSET]
GROTLE: [PAINED] / [UPSET]
GROTLE: [PAINED] / [UPSET]
GROTLE: [PAINED] / [UPSET]
JESSIE: Talk aboutburning the midnight oil...
MEOWTH:Now that Grotle's king-size
it's on a training missionto get its speed up to speed!
JAMES: Everything didget crazy when it evolved.
You know how Twerpscan slow you down!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
GROTLE: [MOAN]
PIKACHU: [CONCERNED]
GROTLE: [SURPRISED]
PIKACHU: [SURPRISED]
TORTERRA: [GREETING]
PIKACHU, GROTLE: [SHOCKED]
STARAVIA: [URGENT]
PIPLUP: [URGENT]
DAWN: Piplup, what's wrong?
ASH: Hey, what the-Where is everybody?!
PIPLUP: [URGENT]
PIKACHU: [ANGRY]TORTERRA: [DETERMINED]
GROTLE: [DEFENSIVE]CHIMCHAR: [PLEADING]
TORTERRA: [POINTED]
GROTLE: [SURPRISED]
TORTERRA: [AFFIRMATIVE]
GLISCOR: [SHOCKED]
ALL: [SURPRISED]
DAWN: A Torterra!
ASH: It's got to be Paul's!
ASH:Whoa! Here comes Steel Wing!
GLISCOR: [STEEL WING MOVE]
TORTERRA: [CALM]
BROCK: Wow, it absorbed it!
GLISCOR: [ATTACK]
TORTERRA: [DETERMINED]
JESSIE: Rigid, like you, James!
DAWN: Look at that!Torterra can't dodge a thing!
BROCK: No, it can dodgeit just doesn't want to!
BROCK: It's choosing tostand there and take it!
ASH: Stand there? But what for?!
GLISCOR: [ATTACKING]
GLISCOR: [ATTACKING]
PIKACHU, GROTLE,BUIZEL, CHIMCHAR: [AMAZED]
GLISCOR: [ATTACKING]
TORTERRA: [DETERMINED]
GROTLE: [AMAZED]
GLISCOR: [IMPACT]
TORTERRA: [DETERMINED]
GLISCOR: [BRACING]
GLISCOR: [SURPRISED]
DAWN: Torterra was just waiting
for the perfectmoment to attack,
just like when Piplup uses Bide!
PIPLUP: [AMAZED]
BROCK: And also likea heavyweight boxer!
TORTERRA: [ENCOURAGING]
GROTLE: [AMAZED]ASH: Torterra!
JAMES, JESSIE, MEOWTH:Twerp alert!
CHIMCHAR: [SURPRISED]
PIKACHU: [CURIOUS]
ASH: Yeah, I justsaw the whole thing!
And I know whatTorterra was up to, too!
ASH: Thanks, Torterra!
You were giving Grotle
some serious pointers on howto battle, isn't that right?
TORTERRA: [AFFIRMATIVE]
ASH: I know exactlywhat you were talking about!
First you takeyour opponent's att*cks
then when the time is right,whammo!
TORTERRA: [PLEASED]
TORTERRA: [SATISFIED]
GROTLE: [GRATEFUL]
PIKACHU, GROTLE: [ADMIRING]
BROCK:Using itself as an example
was a great way to teach!
Turtwig may have lostsome speed when it evolved,
but the truth is Grotle'spower more than makes up for it
by a long shot!
ASH: Yeah!
ASH: Grotle, you've gotyour very own battle style,
and my job as a Trainer is tohelp make it the best it can be!
GROTLE: [HAPPY]
ASH: Sorry I got kind of crazed.
It's my faultfor not knowing it!
ASH: So from here on out,
we're going to work together
to build your battlestyle from the ground up!
GROTLE: [PLEASED]
JESSIE: So let us wisely take alesson from the Grotle playbook!
JAMES: Team Rocket has its ownstyle, dark though it may be!
MEOWTH: And not worryingwhat other wise guys are doing
makes a wholelot of sense to me!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
TORTERRA: [CALM]
PAUL:You're certainly a curious one.
TORTERRA: [AFFIRMATIVE]
ASH: Hey Paul!
ASH:Last night was really something!
We wanted to thankTorterra for everything it did.
GROTLE: [GRATEFUL]
PAUL: I had nothing todo with what Torterra did.
DAWN:What's wrong with you Paul?!
PIPLUP: [ANGRY]
ASH: Well, Chimchar.CHIMCHAR: [CURIOUS]
ASH: Guess you can'tjudge a Pokémon by its Trainer,
don't you think?
CHIMCHAR: [RELIEVED]
ASH: Next time we battle Paul,we're going to win it.
I promise!
GROTLE: [DETERMINED]
BROCK: First, you've gotthe Hearthome Gym to deal with!
DAWN: And I know you'regoing to do just great!
PIPLUP: [ENCOURAGING]
ASH: Thanks! It's abouttime we win our fifth badge,
and I can't wait!
PIKACHU: [EXCITED]
NARRATOR: A confident trainer
and his newly-evolvedGrotle look to a bright future.
NARRATOR: While at long last,
Ash's Hearthome Gymrematch draws near!
NARRATOR:And as for Paul, well...
NARRATOR: you'll justhave stay tuned and see!
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
11x48 - Aiding the Enemy!
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Japanese anime follows Ash a young trainer of fictional creatures called Pokémon.
Japanese anime follows Ash a young trainer of fictional creatures called Pokémon.