12x35 - A Faux Oak Finish!

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NARRATOR: Dawn's home in Twinleaf Town

is bustling with activity,

as our heroes attend to a few chores,

while preparation continues for the upcoming Twinleaf Festival!

JOHANNA: Good! That takes care of the schedule, then!

JOHANNA: The Twinleaf Festival's almost here!

And the first event is a Pokémon lecture by Professor Oak!

BROCK: What a perfect way to start things off!

Professor Oak is known as a Pokémon expert!

BROCK: His reputation is worldwide!

Everyone loves him!

DAWN: Piplup! We'll see him in person!

PIPLUP: [EXCITED]

ASH: How about letting us help you out with more stuff?

PIKACHU: [EAGER]

JOHANNA: Sure! Plenty to do around here!

ASH: Great!

Sometimes it's hard to know,

Which way you're supposed to go.

But deep inside, you know you're strong.

If you follow your heart, you can't be wrong.

Stand up! [Stand up!]

For what is right.

Be brave!

Get ready to fight.

Hold on! [Hold on!]

We're friends for life.

And if we come,

together as one,

Complete the quest, that we've begun,

We will win the battle!

Galactic Battles! Pokémon!

CARA: Dear me, I hope he gets here soon.

IZZY: This is peculiar.

IZZY: His balloon should have already landed

quite a long while ago.

JOHANNA: Excuse me. Is there a problem?

JOHANNA: Where's Professor Oak?

IZZY: I'm afraid he hasn't arrived yet.

CARA: Maybe something went wrong en route!

JOHANNA: But his lecture's about to start.

This is not good!

ASH: We'll go check things out!

JOHANNA: That would be great.

ASH: Pikachu, let's go!

PIKACHU: [DETERMINED]

DAWN: Piplup, us, too!

PIPLUP: [AFFIRMATIVE]

SAYER: Come on!

SAYER: Where are those three, anyway?

I told them to get that booth ready now!

JESSIE: You heard the man!

Let's move it while the moving's still good!

JAMES: The jury's out on the "good" part.

JESSIE: Oak merchandise will be a goldmine! Peanuts,

popcorn ba*ls, and cookies!

MEOWTH: Peeps are going to buy that junk?

JESSIE: If the real Professor Oak sells it!

JAMES: He's out of our price range.

JESSIE: Don't you worry!

MEOWTH: The three scariest words I know!

FAKE OAK [JAMES]: Me? Oak?

MEOWTH: The only thing missing now is a poem!

JESSIE: I'm good, all right.

JESSIE: And, if it fooled you. just think of the naive public!

CARA: Dear me!

CARA: Now what in the world are you doing out here?

IZZY: Professor Oak!

JAMES But. I'm not.

IZZY: We must hurry, sir!

CARA: Your lecture is about to begin soon!

IZZY: And we'll just make it in time!

JAMES: Uh, Jessie!

SAYER: When I find those three.

MEOWTH: If Sayer gets wind of this, we're toast!

JESSIE: I suggest a little exercise!

JAMES: All alone with precious little more than an alter ego!

CARA: Good news, Johanna!

CARA: Our special guest has finally arrived!

JOHANNA: Great! We were so worried!

JAMES: You've got nothing on me!

JOHANNA: Hmm.

JAMES: The jig is up! My tenure is terminated!

JOHANNA: Guess what they say about videophones is true.

You do look much younger in person, you know!

JAMES: The game continues!

JOHANNA: We'll be starting soon! Thanks again for your help!

JAMES: My pleasure!

DRIVER: Sincerest apologies, Professor Oak!

DRIVER: It will only take a minute to change the tire.

DRIVER: Until then, please relax!

PROFESSOR OAK: Now there's a sight!

PROFESSOR OAK: A most impressive-looking marshland,

to be sure!

PROFESSOR OAK: And I'll wager it's the home

of some exciting Pokémon!

DRIVER: Professor, please!

Since we're late, it's best if you don't go far.

PROFESSOR OAK: I'll be right back!

I'm just going to have a quick look!

DRIVER: I hope.

ASH: What the.

ASH: Excuse me, was that Professor Oak?

DRIVER: Yes! He went off to look for some Pokémon!

BROCK: Well, that's Professor Oak, all right!

ASH: But, guys, his lecture's about to start soon!

DAWN: Oh, no! Worse than that,

I've been hearing rumors that that marshland

is chock full of quicksand!

ASH: No time to waste! We've got to bring him back!

JAMES: If I don't extricate myself from this fiasco,

I'm doomed!

IZZY: This is the nicest turnout I've ever witnessed!

CARA: For once I agree!

Thanks of course to Professor Oak!

JOHANNA: So, Professor,

I understand you're going to be speaking about

"The Interrelation of Pokémon and Evolutionary Stones," right?

JOHANNA: Hello?

JAMES: Isn't that special! Run that by me again?

MEOWTH: You think he's actually going through with it?

JESSIE: Could be. though running has served him well in the past.

POLIWHIRL: [CURIOUS]

POLIWHIRL: [DELIGHTED]

PROFESSOR OAK: This calls for a poem!

PROFESSOR OAK: Poliwhirl, leap!

Through the silence and to the deep!

PROFESSOR OAK: I knew I was onto something out here!

This marshland is a Pokémon treasure trove!

PROFESSOR OAK: I wonder what Pokémon I'll see next!

POLITOED: [CURIOUS]

PROFESSOR OAK: Excellent! It's a Politoed!

POLITOED: [SURPRISED]

POLITOED: [INTRIGUED]

PROFESSOR OAK: Come here. Politoed, Politoed!

QUAGSIRE: [CURIOUS]

QUAGSIRE X : [FRIENDLY]

PROFESSOR OAK: This is.

PROFESSOR OAK: .excellent! And another creative burst!

PROFESSOR OAK: A Quagsire team.

And a friendly duo is just how they seem?

QUAGSIRE X : [DETERMINED]

ASH: Hey, look, it's Professor Oak!

PIKACHU: [RELIEVED]

BROCK: Professor! Hey, Professor Oak!

DAWN: But. why's he just walking away?

PIPLUP: [CONCERNED]

ASH: Check it out.

QUAGSIRE X , POLITOED: [DETERMINED]

OAK: Come, come! Where are you three taking me?

QUAGSIRE X : [DETERMINED]

ASH: I know he loves Pokémon.

but playing with them when he's got a lecture to give?

BROCK: Hold on! Something's not right.

DAWN: Let's go. Hurry!

ASH: Right, Dawn!

PIKACHU: [CONCERNED]

MEOWTH: Won't be long until it's crunch time.

JESSIE: Just watch.

The perfect time to promote us, and he won't.

JOHANNA: Oh, going somewhere?

JAMES: See, I just remembered an important engagement.

IZZY: You'll deal with that after the lecture!

CARA: Right now times a-wasting!

JOHANNA: I'd like to thank you all for waiting!

JOHANNA: Folks, it's lecture time!

Our topic today:

"The Interrelation of Pokémon and Evolutionary Stones"!

So, please welcome our guest of honor, Professor Oak!

JESSIE, MEOWTH: Crunch!

JAMES: The truth is, I'm not who I seem.

JESSIE: This is going well.

MEOWTH: He's coming on like a train, all right.

JESSIE: We're racing the clock!

If they find out that's James, he's Professor Mud!

DAWN: Now where could he have gone?

BROCK: Professor Oak!

ASH: Let's look, Pikachu!

PIKACHU: [AGREEMENT]

DAWN: Ash, wait!

ASH, PIKACHU: [SURPRISED]

BROCK: Dawn, what is it?

DAWN: I told you this marshland's

supposed to be full of quicksand and really dangerous!

ASH: Man, that's right! Now what?

We can't just leave Professor Oak there like that!

BROCK: Yeah. It's risky,

but we've got to take a chance and help!

PIPLUP: [DETERMINED]

PIPLUP: [DETERMINED]

DAWN: Piplup! You'll lead?

PIPLUP: [AFFIRMATIVE]

BROCK: Piplup's a Water type!

I'm sure it will know where it's safe!

PIPLUP: [ENCOURAGING]

ASH: Awesome!

BROCK: Piplup, way to go!

ASH, DAWN, BROCK, PIKACHU: [SURPRISED]

PIPLUP: [TERRIFIED]

DAWN: Piplup!

ASH: Dawn, have Buneary use Ice Beam, quick!

BUNEARY: [APPEARING]

DAWN: Ice Beam, let's go!

BUNEARY: [ICE BEAM MOVE]

PIPLUP: [DAZED]

DAWN: Buneary, return. You were great!

PIPLUP: [IMPACT]

DAWN: Piplup, when are you going to learn?

PIPLUP: [DETERMINED]

ASH, PIKACHU: [WARY]

PIPLUP: [SURPRISED]

CROAGUNK: [CROAKING]

DAWN: Croagunk?

CROAGUNK: [CROAKING]

BROCK: Yeah, of course!

Croagunk's the one who really knows its way

around a marshland.

CROAGUNK: [CROAKING]

PIPLUP: [OBLIVIOUS] / [FRANTIC]

CROAGUNK: [CROAKING]

BROCK: All right! Way to go, Croagunk!

PIPLUP: [SURPRISED]

CROAGUNK: [DISMISSIVE]

ASH: Keep up the good work, Croagunk!

PIKACHU: [ENCOURAGING]

DAWN: Piplup. I think we might be better off if we listen

to Croagunk from now on.

PIPLUP: [DEJECTED]

JOHANNA: Is there something wrong with Professor Oak?

IZZY: No! He's drinking in the adulation,

as a scholar and a showman should!

CARA: Impressive!

JOHANNA: I still think he's taking a long time.

JESSIE: James! James!

JESSIE: Just think of this as a golden opportunity

to pilfer Pokémon!

MEOWTH: Ask the audience for their Poké ba*ls, see?

Say you need them for your lecture!

Think of the possibilities!

JAMES: Not bad. Creepily creative as well!

JAMES: There's something about the thought of evildoing

that makes my spirit soar!

JAMES: Now.

JAMES: Greetings, youth, and thank you for your patience!

AUDIENCE MEMBER A: This is what we've been waiting for!

CROWD: All right!

JAMES: Listen, are those voices I hear?

And is it all for me whom they cheer?

JAMES: Delivering data at a breakneck pace!

Crushing ignorance

and leaving knowledge knowingly in its proper place!

JAMES: A poet! And I'm poetically in your face!

MEOWTH: Man, talk about a quick turnaround!

JESSIE: Unless James thinks he's doing something for Team Rocket,

his brain is Jell-O!

JOHANNA: What a relief.

IZZY: How nice! What a master showman!

CARA: Although there's something different

about watching him live.

JAMES: All right! Let's get this party started!

But first I'd like to ask you a favor.

If you all would be so kind as to lend me your Poké ba*ls,

I can then use them in today's lecture!

What do you say?

CROWD: Yeah!

JESSIE: Swing and a hit!

MEOWTH: Professor Slugger!

CROAGUNK: [CROAKING]

BROCK: Aha!

Something's going on in that cave!

POLITOED: [CAUTIOUS] / [ENCOURAGING]

QUAGSIRE X : [EXCITED]

ASH: Quagsire and a Politoed, whoa!

POKEDEX: Politoed. The Frog Pokémon.

It gathers groups of others as their leader.

Its cries make Poliwag obey.

POKEDEX: Quagsire. The Water Fish Pokémon.

Quagsire has an easygoing nature,

and it doesn't care if it bumps its head on boats

and boulders while swimming.

QUAGSIRE X : [CURIOUS]

PIKACHU, CROAGUNK: [SURPRISED]

ASH, DAWN, BROCK, PIPLUP: [SURPRISED]

PIKACHU: [PROTECTIVE] / [CONFUSED]

CROAGUNK: [CHALLENGING]

QUAGSIRE X : [PLEASANT]

POLITOED: [CHALLENGING]

DAWN: Hey, what's going on?

BROCK: Unless I'm mistaken,

I think that Politoed's challenging Croagunk to a duel!

ASH: Head to head, that's great!

CROAGUNK: [DETERMINED]

POLITOED: [DETERMINED]

CROAGUNK, POLITOAD: [BATTLING]

BROCK: Okay, so who won?

PIKACHU: [WORRIED]

CROAGUNK: [DISMISSIVE]

POLITOED: [PAINED]

DAWN: Looks like Croagunk did!

POLITOED: [STRUGGLING]

QUAGSIRE X : [ANGRY]

POLITOED: [COMMANDING]

QUAGSIRE X : [CONFUSED]

ASH: We're supposed to follow Politoed?

BROCK: Yeah! Looks like Politoed recognizes Croagunk's strength!

ASH: Let's go!

BROCK: Right!

LOMBRE: [DEJECTED]

PROFESSOR OAK: Wow! Well, hello, Lombre!

PROFESSOR OAK: Yes, I mean you!

ASH: Professor Oak!

PROFESSOR OAK: Ash!

PROFESSOR OAK: Hi, everyone!

ASH: Professor, is everything all right?

PROFESSOR OAK: Of course it is!

It's me who should be asking you that!

BROCK: We were very worried about you, sir!

PROFESSOR OAK: No need for that!

Why, these Pokémon are as nice as nice can be.

ASH: So why'd they bring you here?

PROFESSOR OAK: I believe it has something to do with Lombre.

ASH: Whoa, a Lombre, huh?

POKEDEX: Lombre. The Jolly Pokémon.

Lombre is a playful trickster.

If it spots an angler,

it will tug on the fishing line to interfere.

PIPLUP: [GREETING]

LOMBRE: [SURPRISED] / [DEJECTED]

PIPLUP: [SAD]

PIKACHU: [COMPASSIONATE]

ASH: It doesn't look like a playful trickster to me.

ASH: Not by a long shot!

PROFESSOR OAK: I would agree. At least it's supposed to be.

Something's off.

POLITOED: [INSISTENT]

PROFESSOR OAK: It appears Politoed would like

me to do something to lift its spirits!

DAWN: That's amazing!

How can you always understand what Pokémon are feeling,

Professor?

PROFESSOR OAK: Why, it's nothing you can't do! Open your heart!

Join it with a Pokémon's heart, and you're there!

ASH: That's why he's the professor, right?

PIPLUP: [IMPRESSED]

PIKACHU: [IMPRESSED]

PROFESSOR OAK: And in fact.

I believe what really happened is that

Politoed smelled something I was carrying.

BROCK: Hey, look! A Water Stone!

DAWN: That's a Water Stone?

PROFESSOR OAK: Correct!

It can be used to initiate a Lombre's Evolution!

ASH: Amazing!

PROFESSOR OAK: The fact is,

Politoed's the leader of the marshland.

and seems to want to coax this timid Lombre into evolving!

PROFESSOR OAK: I brought it since my lecture concerns

the connection between Pokémon Evolution and stones. but.

PROFESSOR OAK: This works, too!

POLITOED: [GRATEFUL]

LOMBRE: [CURIOUS]

POLITOED: [FRIENDLY]

LOMBRE: [SURPRISED]

LOMBRE: [DETERMINED]

LOMBRE: [NERVOUS]

LOMBRE: [SHOCKED]

PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [AMAZED]

LUDICOLO: [EXCITED] [JOYOUS]

PROFESSOR OAK, ASH, DAWN, BROCK, PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [HAPPY]

POKEDEX: Ludicolo. The Carefree Pokémon.

If Ludicolo hears festive music,

all its muscles fill with energy.

It can't help breaking into a dance.

LUDICOLO, PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [EXCITED]

BROCK: Talk about lifting its spirits!

POLITOED: [PLEASED]

DAWN: Now everyone's happy!

ASH: I can't believe how quickly you took care of this!

You're an amazing professor, Professor!

PROFESSOR OAK: Then, time for a poem!

PROFESSOR OAK: The Water Stone. Giving Ludicolo a joyful tone!

DAWN: Wow! And I got to hear it right now in the flesh!

No! Look what time it is!

ASH: Hurry, Professor Oak! We've got to move!

PROFESSOR OAK: Take care now! Goodbye!

Have fun with each other!

LUDICOLO, POLITOED, QUAGSIRE X : [GRATEFUL]

JESSIE: Wow! A pile of Poké ba*ls is my favorite pile!

MEOWTH: We're rolling in them,

and I didn't even have to break a sweat!

PROFESSOR OAK: Hi! I'm sorry that I'm late!

JOHANNA: What's going on here?

IZZY: I don't recall the contract

stating we were to get two professors!

CARA: One of them has to be fake!

DAWN: All right, that Professor Oak is an impostor!

PIPLUP: [ADAMANT]

JESSIE: Oh well. Easy come, easy go.

MEOWTH: Funny you should mention the word go.

JESSIE, MEOWTH: Gone!

JOHANNA: Now what's this all about?

BROCK: This Professor Oak is the real Professor Oak!

ASH: No doubt about it!

DAWN: Fake!

You were going to steal those Poké ba*ls, weren't you?

JAMES: That's poppycock! I'm the real Professor Oak!

PROFESSOR OAK: No, that would be me.

JAMES: No I'm the real Professor Oak!

PROFESSOR OAK: I'm Professor Oak, phony!

JAMES: I am!

PROFESSOR OAK: I am!

JAMES: No, I am!

BOY: Excuse me!

BOY: My Tyranitar has been acting out for weeks,

and now it won't listen to anything I say!

BOY: So I figure the real Professor Oak

should be able to figure out why that is.

PROFESSOR OAK: I'm happy to help!

Let's have a look at your Tyranitar.

BOY: Tyranitar, come on out!

TYRANITAR: [AGGRESSIVE]

IZZY: All right, I suggest we first let

the original Professor Oak have a nice little look.

CARA: Yes, good luck!

JAMES: Well, of course I don't need luck.

The authentic Professor Oak never requires luck.

Ooh! Let's see now!

TYRANITAR: [SUSPICIOUS]

TYRANITAR: [ATTACK]

JAMES: Blasting off again!

JESSIE: And to think everything was running like clockwork!

MEOWTH: Until our boy popped the main spring!

JESSIE: Boing.

TYRANITAR: [CAUTIOUS]

DAWN: Be careful, Professor!

ASH: It's too dangerous!

PROFESSOR OAK: Everything's fine!

I'm simply joining my heart with Tyranitar's.

TYRANITAR: [FOCUSED]

PROFESSOR OAK: Oh, I see. Yes, of course.

ASH: Please, tell us! Getting any clues, Professor?

PROFESSOR OAK: Yes, of course I am, Ash!

You poor thing.

PROFESSOR OAK: That must hurt!

TYRANITAR: [AFFIRMATIVE]

PROFESSOR OAK: Now don't be scared.

TYRANITAR: [AGREEMENT]

DAWN, BROCK, ASH, PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [WORRIED]

PROFESSOR OAK: Don't worry. It'll be over soon.

PROFESSOR OAK: All right. I've got it!

TYRANITAR: [PAINED]

TYRANITAR: [RELIEVED] / [AFFECTIONATE]

PROFESSOR OAK: Aww.

BOY: Awesome! You figured out the problem just by looking!

PROFESSOR OAK: This poor little thing was very angry

because it had a painful thorn stuck in its foot!

So, does that prove to you now that I'm the real Professor Oak?

JOHANNA: Yes!

JOHANNA: So, everybody,

let's all make sure we give the real Professor Oak

a warm welcome!

With his lecture entitled

"The Interrelation of Pokémon and Evolutionary Stones"!

ASH: I'm glad it turned out all right!

Now the festival can get started!

PIKACHU: [EXCITED]

DAWN: I still can't get over that fake Professor Oak

showing up and trying to steal all of those Poké ba*ls!

PIPLUP: [DISAPPROVING]

BROCK: I guess people try and imitate you

when you achieve fame.

NARRATOR: And so, the exciting Twinleaf Festival kicks off,

as Professor Oak demonstrates once again to our heroes,

and so many others,

just how important a genuine heart connection

with Pokémon truly is!

JAMES: Hello? Help me, please?

JAMES: Anyone will do!

JESSIE: Keep your lab coat on!

MEOWTH: We'll spring you from that tree, space boy!

SAYER: All right, you three!

JAMES: You're a bit too late!

JESSIE, MEOWTH: Glasses!

JESSIE: You screamed, Sayer?

MEOWTH: What can we do for you?

SAYER: You can stop being out here!

The Twinleaf Festival's already begun!

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: Yes, Sayer, sir!

Whatever you say, sir!