NARRATOR: On their way to Ash's next Gym battle in Coumarine
City, our heroes have come across a sprawling ranch.
ASH: Wow, who knew there was a ranch out here?
PIKACHU
SKIDDO CROWD
SERENA: It says it's the Baa de Mer Ranch.
POKEDEX: Skiddo. The Mount Pokémon. Because of Skiddo's
mild temperament, they're thought to be one of the first
Pokémon to live in harmony with people.
CLEMONT: You see, Skiddo and humans have interacted
for quite a long time.
BONNIE: Look over there!
I see Gogoatand Mareep Dodrio and Doduo, too!
SERENA: Also, it says this ranch has all sorts of Pokémon, and
it's famous for its delicious cheese and ice cream made
from Skiddo milk!
BONNIE: Ooh, I want some! I want some!
ASH: I do, too!
CLEMONT: So why don't we go check it out?
BONNIE: Hurray!
PIKACHU
JAMES: The Twerps are running to the Baa de Mer
ranch double-time!
JESSIE: For once, those Twerps and I agree!
Cheese and ice cream
MEOWTH: Eating that grub'd be a dream!
WOBBUFFET
You're just a kid on a quest
To be the best of the best
Someday you're destined for power and glory
You know you're up to the test
There's only one way to tell this story
Be a hero!
Be a hero!
All the power is at your command
Face your fears and show you're a hero
The future of the world is in your hand
Pokémon!
CLEMONT: It looks like that's their store!
BONNIE: Excuse me?!
Will one of you please take care of my brother?
CLEMONT: Bonnie, NO!
BONNIE: You, or you. You're all keepers!
CLEMONT: Bonnie, I told you to stop this a million times!
A million one
SERENA: Bonnie, here. This is for you!
BONNIE: Thanks! Yummy!
BONNIE: Wow They let you ride Skiddo, too. Oh boy!
SERENA: I wonder if this could be...
GRACE: It is, Serena!
The first step to becoming a Rhyhorn racer!
SERENA: Mom!
BONNIE: Serena's mommy?!
CLEMONT: Talk about a strange coincidence
GRACE: It's been a while, Serena. How are you, dear?
SERENA: I'm fine. What are you doing here?
GRACE: I was invited here to be a special coach for the Rhyhorn
racer training camp. Isn't that just wonderful?
GRACE: But I never thought I'd be running into you here,
Serena. Dear
SERENA: Mom!!
GRACE: So tell me.
GRACE: Have you been doing your race training like you should?
SERENA: Well
GRACE: It's so good to see all of you. Serena looks so happy!
Thanks so much. You've taken good care of her.
ASH: She's been taking care of us.
BONNIE: Hi-dee-hi!
CLEMONT: It's been a long time.
PIKACHU
ASH: You're a Rhyhorn racing camp coach, huh?
ASH: So the campers really get to ride on Rhyhorn?
GRACE: Yup! But today is for beginners, so we start their
training with Skiddo.
ASH: How come?
GRACE: Rhyhorn are a bit too big and strong for beginners.
That's why we start with Skiddo.
GRACE: When you hold their horns while riding them, they
can actually sense your feelings.
GRACE: Even kids can ride them.
ASH: Wow, I had no idea. You know? I started riding Rhyhorn
right off the bat, didn't I?
PIKACHU
SERENA: That's because you said you just had to be a part of the
Rhyhorn race, remember?!
ASH: Yeah, and because you're an awesome teacher,
I learned how to ride!
SERENA: Well, it's really because you worked
so hard at it.
GRACE: In that case, since you've ridden a Rhyhorn already,
there's no need to start with a Skiddo.
ASH: But wait. I've never ridden a Skiddo before.
I really wanna try it!
GRACE: Great!
BONNIE: I wanna ride, too!
BONNIE: Those Skiddo are so cute! Can I, can I?!
GRACE: YES! Why don't you all do it together!
BONNIE: So, how about it?
CLEMONT: You mean me?!
BONNIE: It'll be more fun if we all ride together.
CLEMONT: But I don't want to!
GRACE: Serena, you'll help too, right?
GRACE: My hands are quite full, with all the riders.
GRACE: All right, shall we get started?
ASH: Yeah!!
CLEMONT: Yeah
BONNIE: Wow, Ash. You're great!
ASH: Come on, really?
GRACE: Here, Bonnie, I think this is the perfect
Skiddo for you.
BONNIE: Yay! Oh
DEDENNE
BONNIE: Can you watch Dedenne for me?
SERENA: I'd love to!
DEDENNE?
PIKACHU
GRACE: Now, get on slowly
GRACE: And make sure you don't speak too loudly.
Skiddo frighten easily.
BONNIE: Right.
BONNIE: I'd really like to make friends with you, Skiddo.
So do you wanna go take a walk together?
BONNIE: Look at me! I'm riding! I'm riding!
CHILD SERENA: Mommy! I'm scared!
GRACE: Don't cry, dear
GRACE: Take it slow and stay calm.
GRACE: Very few people do so well their first time!
GRACE: You've got the stuff to be a Rhyhorn racer!
SKIDDO
SKIDDO
ASH: Hey Clemont, are you okay?
CLEMONT: Yeah, I guess so...
GRACE: You see, you were nervous, so the
Skiddo was nervous too.
CLEMONT: I can understand, but...
I'm not sure what can I do about it.
BONNIE: What an embarrassing big brother!
ASH: Don't worry. You'll get the hang of it soon.
CLEMONT: Thanks!
CLEMONT: I just can't do this
BONNIE: Come on, you're acting like a little kid.
CLEMONT: Bonnie! People are good at some things
and not good at others!
GRACE: Okay, it's break time!
GRACE: We'll all have some lunch, then pick it up again
in the afternoon, 'kay?
KID CROWD: 'Kay!
BONNIE: 'Kay!
CLEMONT: You've really become one of the students
here now, huh?
BONNIE: Yup! If I can learn to ride a Skiddo, then I can
become a Rhyhorn racer! And I'm gonna do it, too!
GRACE: You've got what it takes, no doubt.
You'll get the hang of it in no time.
BONNIE: You mean it?!
GRACE: Of course!
ASH: Is something wrong, Serena?
SERENA: It's nothing.
ASH: Great!
GRACE: Everyone, I think we should all have a nice lunch
over at the inn where I'm staying.
SERENA: Mmm! I love the smell of my mom's soup!
BONNIE: Wow Yeah, it smells so good
SERENA: She makes the best soup in the world!
BONNIE: Can't wait to try it!
GRACE: Honestly, Serena's never really been much of a cook.
Is that a bother?
CLEMONT: Not at all! She's a big help! Serena's always giving me
a hand with the cooking.
ASH: And she makes the best desserts in the whole world
all the time!
BONNIE: I just love Serena's desserts!
BONNIE: She always puts pretty flowers on the table.
And, she puts on a nice tablecloth!
BONNIE: Serena's the best!
GRACE: Wow, you do all that?
SERENA: I guess. I just try to help make our mealtimes
a tiny little bit more fun.
GRACE: Before you started your journey, all you ever did was
sleep late, skip out on your Rhyhorn training and you'd
start projects, but you'd never finish even one!
SERENA: Mom!
GRACE: I guess that means my little girl has grown up a lot!
ASH: All right! Everbody come on out!
FROGADIER
FLETCHINDER
HAWLUCHA
CLEMONT: You, too!
CHESPIN
BUNNELBY
LUXIO
BONNIE: Come on, it's lunchtime!
DEDENNE!
SERENA: Now, Fennekin and Pancham, let's eat!
FENNEKIN
SERENA: Okay, Mom, say hi to Fennekin and my newest Pokémon,
Pancham.
GRACE: Hi there! Nice to meet you both. How are you?
FENNEKIN!
PIKACHU!
ASH
ASH: Looks awesome!
PANCHAM
CHESPIN
PANCHAM!
CHESPIN
PANCHAM
CLEMONT: Now what are those two fighting about?!
BONNIE: Just stop it. Both of you!
CHESPIN
PIKACHU
GRACE: Listen, I have an idea. I'd like you to do some Rhyhorn
race training after lunch.
GRACE: Look, I know you have to do your Pokémon training as
well, but you still need to prepare for your future as
a Rhyhorn racer.
ASH: But Serena's gonna be a Pokémon perf... What'd I say?
SERENA: Ash!
SERENA: I haven't been on my journey long.
So, I haven't given it much thought.
ASH: "Who's that Pokémon?"
ASH: "It's Skiddo!"
GRACE: Now, time to start afternoon training.
ASH: Right!
CLEMONT: Do I really have to?
BONNIE: Of course you do! Baby
FENNEKIN?
ASH: Serena?
SERENA: Oh, I forgot something. I'll catch up with you in a bit.
ASH: Okay. I'll see you later then.
SERENA
FENNEKIN
SERENA: I'm just fine. Come on, let's practice!
FENNEKIN!
FENNEKIN
SERENA: Pancham, forward roll and jump!
PANCHAM
PANCHAM
FENNEKIN!
PANCHAM!
FENNEKIN!
SERENA: I wonder why nothing seems to be going right
SERENA: I guess we're just not ready. I can't tell my mom I
want to be a Pokémon performer if I look this awful...
FENNEKIN!
PANCHAM!
SERENA: I know just what you mean. And you're right! No way
I'm gonna give up.
SERENA: It's just like Ash always says. Never give up until
it's over! And I agree. Now let's take it once more
from the top!
FENNEKIN
PANCHAM
GRACE
JAMES: Ooh la la!
A veritable mountain of cheese, yogurt, and milk!
JESSIE: It'll be an all-you-can-eat day every day!
MEOWTH: My tummy says YAY!
WOBBUFFET
JESSIE
JAMES: What a load!
JESSIE: Okay, time to hit the road!
CHEESE WORKER: Hold on, what do you think you're doing?!
MEOWTH: Let's cheese it! And split!
WORKER: Come back here! Thieves!
SERENA: He said thieves!
FENNEKIN
PANCHAM
SERENA: I've got to do something! Return, now!
GRACE: Yes, very good.
CHEESE WORKER: Come back!
GRACE: What's going on?!
CHEESE WORKER: They're cheese thieves!!
ASH: Cheese thieves?
PIKACHU?
SERENA: I knew it!
ASH: Skiddo, after them!
SKIDDO
PIKACHU
ASH: STOP!
CLEMONT: W-Wait!
BONNIE: Clemont?!
GRACE: Serena?!
SERENA: Rhyhorn are faster than Skiddo!
SERENA: Rhyhorn, please. I need your help. Your power.
And your speed, too!
SERENA: I need to ride with you!
RHYHORN!
SERENA: Thank you!
GRACE: Serena?
SERENA: Look straight ahead!
GRACE : Sit up straight
GRACE : and be one with your Rhyhorn!
SERENA: Let's go, Rhyhorn!
RHYHORN
GRACE: Look at that
GRACE: Hya!
RHYHORN
GRACE: After them!
ASH: Come back!!
CLEMONT: Stop, please?!
JESSIE: Twerps!
JESSIE: The whole Twerp- ish herd of them!
CLEMONT: S-Stop! Please
SKIDDO
BONNIE: Are you okay?!
SERENA: Leave it to me!
CLEMONT: Serena?!
GRACE: Hey Clemont, is everything all right?
CLEMONT: Yeah!
SERENA: Ash, out of the way!
ASH: Serena!
JESSIE: A Twerpette!
JAMES: Pursuing us on a Rhyhorn!
MEOWTH: No fair!
SERENA: Now, Rhyhorn, I want you to use Tackle on that truck!
RHYHORN!
JESSIE
MEOWTH: She's gone loco!
JESSIE
SERENA: All right, give it up, now!
JESSIE: Prepare for trouble, don't boss us around!
JAMES: And make it double, we rule, pound-for-pound!
JESSIE: To protect the world from devastation!
JAMES: To unite all people within our nation!
JESSIE: To embrace the virtues of milk and cheese!
JAMES: We'd never forget about yogurt. Puh-leeze !
JESSIE: Jessie!
JAMES: And James!
JESSIE: Team Rocket blasts off with a truck full of treats!
JAMES: Surrender now while we steal your good eats!
MEOWTH: Meowth, that's neat!
WOBBUFFET
SERENA: Team Rocket!
ASH: Not you guys again! Give back all of that stuff!
PIKACHU
JESSIE: It's not "stuff"! Still, the answer is no.
JAMES: Here I go
JAMES: Inkay Let it flow!
INKAY
JESSIE: And you too, Pumpkaboo!
PUMPKABOO
ASH: Okay, Pikachu. Use Quick Attack!
PIKACHU!
INKAY!
JAMES: Psybeam, now!
INKAY
ASH: Dodge it
PIKACHU
SERENA: Go, Fennekin!
FENNEKIN
SERENA: Flamethrower. Quick!
FENNEKIN
PUMPKABOO!
JESSIE: Pumpkaboo!
JESSIE: You're such a brat. Shadow Ball, stat!
PUMPKABOO
FENNEKIN!
SERENA: Fennekin!
FENNEKIN
SERENA: You're right! We won't give up!
RHYHORN
GRACE: Serena!
BONNIE: Team Rocket!
SERENA: Now Flamethrower, once more!
FENNEKIN
PUMPKABOO!
INKAY
JESSIE: Pumpkaboo!
JAMES: Inkay!
GRACE: Serena...
ASH: Now, Pikachu! Finish this with Thunderbolt!
PIKACHU
JESSIE
JESSIE: Not one bite!
MEOWTH: Unfair fight!
WOBBUFFET!
JAMES: We're taking flight!
BONNIE: Wow! You guys really did it! Hooray!
ASH: I gotta say you were really moving on that Rhyhorn
SERENA: Oh yeah oh I guess so!
GRACE: Serena?
GRACE: I see now that you really do have what it takes
I mean to be a Rhyhorn racer.
SERENA: Mom
GRACE: I want you to come back home with me
and start training again.
BONNIE: Hey, that means you'd be leaving us!
ASH: But Serena wants...
SERENA: Hold on, Ash.
ASH: But, Serena...
SERENA: I'll say it. You see Mom
SERENA: I've decided I wanna become a Pokémon performer!
SERENA: Which means... I'm not going home.
GRACE: Are you serious? Dear, as soon as you think
it's getting too hard, you'll simply give up.
SERENA: I know how we'll settle this.
SERENA: We'll have a Rhyhorn race. I'll come home if I lose.
GRACE: Serena...
SERENA: But Mom, if I win, you have to respect my dreams!
CLEMONT: That's crazy!
Your mother's a professional Rhyhorn racer, after all
GRACE: He's right. In that case, we'll have our race on Skiddo!
SERENA: I agree. Let's go.
BONNIE: Serena can't win, can she?
CLEMONT: Well, I'm sure she'd lose in a Rhyhorn race, but in
a Skiddo race, she might just have a chance.
GRACE: Right. Compared to Rhyhorn, Skiddo do much better
with a light rider. And that favors you. But we'll see.
GRACE: The race is one lap around the training grounds,
and first to the goal wins.
GRACE: Serena? Sound good?
FENNEKIN!
ASH: Go for it, Serena!
CLEMONT: Ready? And you're off!
SKIDDO X
BONNIE: Go Serena!
SERENA: She's ahead!
DEDENNE!
SERENA: Faster. Faster! Faster!! Faster!!
Faster!! Faster!!
BONNIE: Serena took the lead!
SKIDDO
ASH: Serena...
CHILD SERENA
SERENA
SERENA: Not yet...
SERENA: I won't quit until the end!
SKIDDO
SERENA: I wasn't thinking about the future when I started my
journey. I set out because I didn't want to be a Rhyhorn
racer, like Mom said!
SERENA: But then I met Ash, Clemont, Bonnie,
Fennekin and Pancham...
SERENA: And after going through so much together, I finally have
a dream! I've finally found what it is that I want to do!
SERENA: And I'm not giving up!
SKIDDO
BONNIE: Look! She's catching up!
ASH: Way to go, Serena!
CLEMONT: Just a little bit more!
SERENA: Faster, faster, faster!
GRACE: She's serious, isn't she?
SKIDDO
CLEMONT: Finish!
ASH: Yeah! Great! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! YEAH!!
GRACE: Serena? Looks like you won.
SERENA: But Mom... You see... it's just
GRACE: Right. I understand.
SERENA
GRACE: I understand how you feel.
You know, you needn't be so surprised, sweetheart.
GRACE: After all I'm your mother!
SERENA: Oh, Mom
GRACE: I saw that secret performance practicing of yours.
GRACE: And racing while covered in mud, you didn't give up.
You raced to the end.
GRACE: You've really grown during your journey with Ash
and all your wonderful friends.
SERENA: Thanks, Mom.
GRACE: Skiddo can sense feelings. That's the reason
we raced with them to sense your feelings.
SKIDDO X
GRACE: The Skiddo picked up on your dream.
They could sense how strong it is.
GRACE: So I decided that's good enough for me.
GRACE: Follow your dream.
SERENA: Thank you... Mom!
ASH: That's awesome, Serena.
Let's both follow our dreams together!
FENNEKIN!
SERENA: Fennekin!
SERENA: Thanks. Mom. Stay well!
GRACE: You too, Serena. By the way, where to next?
ASH: Coumarine City's next. I'm gonna challenge the Gym there to
get my fourth Kalos Gym badge!
GRACE: You know, I hear they're going to have a Pokémon Showcase
in Coumarine City
GRACE: Why don't you be a part of it?
SERENA: Really?
GRACE: Take on every challenge...
And rise above them all!
NARRATOR: Serena was finally able to share her real dreams
with her mother, and show her how much she's grown.
NARRATOR: And, not only is Coumarine City the site of Ash's
next Gym battle, a Pokémon Showcase awaits Serena there as
well! Will our two heroes emerge triumphant? The answer to come,
as the journey continues!
18x05 - A race for home!
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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.