11x47 - A Trainer and Child Reunion!

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NARRATOR:Ash's next Gym Battle awaits,

our heroes' journey toHearthome City continues,

and we now findthem making their way

through a small town en route!

ALL: [SURPRISED]

ASH: What's up with them?

DAWN: They sure seemexcited about something!

JENNY: Are you here to observe?

If so, please get inthe back of the line!

BROCK: Jenny!

BROCK: Whatever you say!

If a beautiful babe, suchas you, wants me to observe,

then observe iswhat I live for!!

CROAGUNK: [ATTACKING]

BROCK: And die for!

CROAGUNK: [CROAKING]

ASH: Excuse us!

DAWN:I don't think we're exactly sure

what you mean by observe.

JENNY: What? You're herewithout knowing what's going on?

JENNY: You see the one-and-only

Aaron's holding apublic training session!

ASH: Aaron who?

PIKACHU: [CONFUSED]

ASH:Dawn, you sick or something?

DAWN: Aaron's on the front pageof this month's Pokéchic! Look!

DAWN:He's one of the Elite Four!!

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]

AARON:Now, Drapion! Use Pin m*ssile!

DRAPION: [PIN m*ssile MOVE]

AARON: Nice shot, Drapion!Vespiquen, use Slash now!

VESPIQUEN: [DETERMINED]VESPIQUEN: [EXERTION]

AARON:Yes! You're both looking great!

DAWN: Wow, I can't believe

we're going to meet anothermember of the Elite Four!

PIPLUP: [THRILLED]

ASH: The Elite Four.

ASH: I remember when wemet Lucian a while back.

PIKACHU: [DREAMY]

JENNY: The amazing Lucian,who uses Psychic-type Pokémon,

Bertha who uses Ground types,Flint, who uses Fire types,

and Aaron, who uses Bug types!

JENNY: Of course,

together those awesomechampion Trainers who reign over

the entire PokémonLeague form the Elite Four!

But of all four of them...

JENNY: Aaron's the one who

combines strengthand popularity!

He really walks the walk!

AARON:Now, Drapion! Hyper Beam, go!

DRAPION: [DETERMINED]

DRAPION: [HYPER BEAM MOVE]

AARON: Yes! Excellent work!

DRAPION, VESPIQUEN, SKORUPI:[PROUD]

JENNY: What's more,

Aaron actually understandsthe language of Bug types!

So his combinations are alwaysspot on, perfect and amazing!

BROCK: Jenny!Pull yourself together, please!

JENNY: Don't you see?

Aaron has finally risenup and challenged Cynthia,

Master of the Champion League!

JENNY: And very soon

they're going to have abattle to end all battles!

ASH: Cynthia and Aaron?!

DAWN: I wondered about thechallenger Cynthia mentioned

back in Celestic Town

ASH: I guess she wastalking about Aaron!

BROCK: Sure sounds like it!

JENNY: And Aaron isdefinitely going to win it, too!

JENNY: Then my hero will becomethe latest and the greatest

Champion Master of all!Go, Aaron, go!

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

AARON: Vespiquen, the timehas come! Use Gust, let's go!

SKORUPI: [FOCUSED]

VESPIQUEN: [GUST MOVE]

AARON: Thank you very much!

We'll put everything we'vegot into our battle with Cynthia

so please know we'll becounting on your support!

DRAPION, SKORUPI, VESPIQUEN:[CONFIDENT]

GIRLS: Aaron!

JENNY: Hey, hold on!I want an autograph, too!

Uh, I mean Please form a line!Calm down everyone!!

DAWN: Oh yeah! That means Icould get an autograph as well!

PIPLUP: [EXCITED]

AARON: Thanks! Now who's next?

ASH: Man, some day I'm gonnaclean up in the Champion League!

ASH: And then, when I challengeAaron and Cynthia, watch out!

PIKACHU: [DETERMINED]

JENNY:Okay, okay. Now no pushing!

Everyone stay in line!

JESSIE: Wow, did you get a lookat that Drapion and Vespiquen?!

Let's steal them and fast!

JAMES: But, I'll have oneof the Elite Four in my face!

MEOWTH: Aaron's not going to

hand over hisPokémon with a smile.

JAMES, MEOWTH, WOBBUFFET:[DEJECTED AFFIRMATIVE]

JESSIE: Stop!

JESSIE: Don't yourealize we'll make a fortune

by selling our exclusiveElite Four brand Pokémon line?!

JAMES: Wow, we can do that?

JESSIE: Sure!

JESSIE: Get a load of this:

"Where peasantsand Elites meet!"

That's the kind ofsloganeering that sells!

JAMES: Well, perhaps.

JESSIE:Kids today will buy anything!

MEOWTH:When it comes to immaturity,

no one knows better than Jessie,

so maybe our girlis on to something.

JAMES:How can I argue with that logic?

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

JESSIE: Then let's prepareto morph into merchant moguls!

AARON: Here you go!

AARON: And thanks for coming!

GIRL: No, thank you!

I'll treasurethis moment forever!

AARON:Well! You're the last one.

DAWN:I'm Dawn! Please sign this?

AARON: I'd be happy to!

DAWN: Also...

DAWN:Cynthia told me the Elite Four

are powerful battlers so she'snot going easy on you, no way!

AARON: Do you knowher personally, then?

DAWN: Yup! We all mether in Celestic Town!

Right? Ash? Brock?

ASH: That's right, and we'll bethere rooting for both of you!

BROCK: Good luck, Aaron!

DAWN: We're allexpecting quite a battle!

AARON:Cynthia's definitely powerful

but I've been training alot as well! Feeling great!

DRAPION: [DETERMINED]

VESPIQUEN: [DETERMINED]

SKORUPI: [DETERMINED]

ASH: Here's what I wanna do.

I wanna battle my waythrough the Champion League

and then become a League Master

or maybe even becomeone of the Elite Four!

PIKACHU: [EXCITED]

AARON: Well, you give it a shot!

I know! Maybe youfolks would like to come out

and see my training center.What do you all say to that?

ASH, DAWN, BROCK: Sure!

AARON: It would be anhonor for me to have a visit

from friends of Cynthia!

BROCK:Do you know what this means?

No one gets the chance to

witness one ofthe Elite Four train!

DAWN: Wow!

ASH:We'd love to come! Thank you!

PIKACHU: [HAPPY]

PIPLUP: [HAPPY]

DAWN: Beautiful!

DAWN:What a gorgeous place to train!

PIPLUP: [AMAZED]

AARON: I built it afterI joined the Elite Four.

It's nice. I love it!

COMBEE [X], MOTHIM: [EXCITED]

SURSKIT [X]: [HAPPY]

LEDYBA: [FOCUSED]VENONAT: [CALM]

ASH:Hey, are those all wild Pokémon?

AARON: Right! And it's obvious

they're all enjoying thenice weather we're having today!

BROCK: This place seems like acomplete paradise for Bug types!

PIKACHU: [AMAZED]

AARON: Drapion! Vespiquen!Come on out and say hi!

DRAPION: [GREETING]

AARON: Good work today!How about some time off?

DRAPION, VESPIQUEN: [HAPPY]

AARON:All right, guess it's my turn.

ASH:Don't you get to relax, too?

AARON: I work out every day!

If I don't keepin tip-top shape,

all my Pokémon will have afield day making fun of me!

BROCK: Well, that's quite agrueling regimen you go through!

DAWN: That's the Elite Four!

ASH: Hey! I wanna try it!

AARON: Just makesure you don't overdo it.

ASH: Nah, I'm fine!

PIKACHU: [ENCOURAGING]

DAWN:Whoa! Would you look at Ash go!

BROCK: I'm sure his rematchwith Fantina's got him inspired!

DAWN: You're right, Brock!

PIPLUP: [AFFIRMATIVE]

DRAPION, VESPIQUEN: [SLEEPY]

JAMES: Nothing like alittle honey on a tree

to lure the Elite Four's Pokémonto be caught by clever me!

MEOWTH: For once I'm kind ofwith you on the clever part!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

JESSIE: Ah. Sweet success!

MEOWTH: You can catch aPokémon with honey much better

than with stupid jokes!

JAMES: So then,let's snare the snoring blokes!

MEOWTH: Okey dokie!

JAMES, MEOWTH: Casting off!

JAMES, JESSIE, MEOWTH:What a catch!!

MUNCHLAX: [HAPPY]

JAMES: Munchlax?!

MEOWTH: There ain't enoughgrub in the world for you!

JAMES: True! De-net at once!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

JESSIE: Perhaps an Elite FourPokémon

wouldn't even like syrup.

MEOWTH: Syrup?

JAMES: What syrup?Not my pancake syrup?

JESSIE: Please.

Grade-A Honey just doesn'tgrow on trees you know.

JAMES: It's for pancakes!

I've been looking forward topancakes and syrup all week!

BEEDRILL [X]: [EXCITED]

MEOWTH: I get the feeling

those Beedrill lovesyrup as much as you do!

WOBBUFFET:[PANICKED AFFIRMATIVE]

BEEDRILLS: [DETERMINED]

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH:Points taken!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

AARON: All right!

SKORUPI: [URGING]

AARON: Skorupi, thanks!

SUKORUPI: [HAPPY]

BROCK:Did you overdo it a little?

PIKACHU: [QUESTIONING]

ASH:Don't worry about me, I'm great!

AARON: Even so it couldn'thurt to take a little break.

ASH: Good idea!

DAWN:Hey Aaron, who's in the picture?

AARON: Oh, that's the veryfirst Pokémon I ever caught!

In the forest you all just saw!

AARON: When I was young,I lived in town...

AARON: so I'd sneak out tothe forest as much as I could!

KRICKETOT [X]: [CURIOUS]

BURMY [X], VENOMOTH ,BUTTERFREE [X]: [CURIOUS]

AARON: That tree,the tallest one in the forest,

it was beautiful!

AARON:I tried as hard as I could

to climb all the way to the top.But then...

WURMPLE: [GREETING]

WURMPLE: [ENCOURAGING]

WURMPLE: [REASSURING]

YEAR OLD AARON:Thank you so much, Wurmple!

WURMPLE: [HAPPY]

YEAR OLD AARON, WURMPLE:[HAPPY]

AARON: It wasn't longbefore we were best friends!

We were always hanging out inthe forest, playing together!

BROCK: Wow, that sounds great!

You both musthave had so much fun!

AARON: Yup!

ASH: I know just what you mean!

The first Pokémon I capturedon my journey was a Caterpie,

which of course youknow is a Bug type!

AARON: Whoa. I'm impressed!

ASH:Soon it evolved into a Metapod!

ASH: And then a Butterfree,and that was that!

ASH: I wonder a lot whatit's doing and where it is!

PIKACHU: [CURIOUS]

DAWN: So Aaron,

what's that Wurmple friendof yours doing these days?

AARON: Huh? You see...

BROCK, DAWN, AARON, ASH,PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [SHOCKED]

PIKACHU, PIPLUP, SKORUPI:[STRUGGLING]

AARON: Skorupi!DAWN: Piplup!

ASH: Pikachu!

DRAPION: [STRUGGLING]

VESPIQUEN: [SHOCKED]

AARON: Vespiquen, Drapion, no!

PIKACHU, PIPLUP, SKORUPI:[PANICKED]

DRAPION, VESPIQUEN: [PANICKED]]

AARON: All right!I want to know what's going on!

JESSIE: You may be elite,

but you can't alwaysget what you want!

JAMES: Makes it thatmuch more fun to taunt!

-JESSIE: On the wind!-JAMES: Past the stars!

MEOWTH: Love to flaunt!

JESSIE: Bringing chaosat a breakneck pace!

JAMES: Dashing all hope,and putting fear in its place!

JESSIE: A rose by anyother name is just as sweet!

JAMES: When everything's worse,our work is complete!

-JESSIE: Jessie!-JAMES: And it's James!

MEOWTH: Meowth, that's a name!

JESSIE: We're putting thosedo-gooders in their place!

JAMES:After all we're Team Rocket!

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH:And we're in your face!

AARON: Who's Team Rocket?

BROCK: They're ahorrible group of criminals

who steal people's Pokémon!

JESSIE: "Horrible" may havea completely different meaning

to the non- Twerpish persuasion!

JAMES: After all,

having stolen bothElite Four and Twerp Pokémon.

JAMES: I'd say we'resome kind of wonderful!

MEOWTH:Now that we can start selling

our Elite Four Pokémon line,

we'll give TwerpPokémon as a bonus!

AARON: Well, not so fast!

AARON: Those are our Pokémon!

JESSIE: Seviper, use Haze!

SEVIPER: [HAZE MOVE]

ASH, DAWN: No! Aaron!

BROCK: Aaron, are you all right?

JESSIE: Oh, he'll be fine!

JESSIE: Of course, not as fineas we are, but c'est la vie!

JAMES: Since our inventory isup as you fools can plainly see.

MEOWTH: Bye baby!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

BROCK:Those crooks never change!

DAWN: Up to their dirty,no-good, rotten tricks as usual!

ASH:We can't worry about that now!

We've got a bunch ofour Pokémon to go save!

JESSIE: I'd say that"Elite" was on Empty!

JESSIE: The real "Elite Four"are we four, you see!

JAMES: Authentic champions

are the ones who refuse tolive their lives in denial!

MEOWTH: And of course

we're authentic 'causewe're keeping it real!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

JAMES, JESSIE, WOBBUFFET:[PANICKED]

MEOWTH: What'd I say?

PIKACHU, VESPIQUEN,PIPLUP, DRAPION: [ATTACKING]

JAMES:You're inventory, not a*tillery!

MEOWTH: Stop rocking the boat!

JESSIE:Who wants exploding merchandise?

PIKACHU, VESPIQUEN,PIPLUP, DRAPION: [ATTACKING]

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH:Oh no. We're in a down market!

LEDIAN: [WORRIED]

DAWN: I was certainTeam Rocket came this way!

BROCK: Well, I sure don'tsee any sign of them now!

AARON: I've got to find them!

AARON: Those are my Pokémon!

My Drapion. My Vespiquen!

My Skorupi!

ASH: Aaron?

AARON: Huh? Uh, I'm sorry.

AARON: See the truth is,

when I was a kid I wasquite a bit of a crybaby.

AARON: I was nogood at battling either.

I was always crying.

WURMPLE: [REASSURING]

YEAR OLD AARON:What?! It's your fault we lost!

YEAR OLD AARON:It's because you're weak!

YEAR OLD AARON:It's totally your fault!

WURMPLE: [CONFUSED]

WURMPLE: [SAD]

AARON: I said horrible thingsto my best friend in the world!

AARON: I felt so awful

AARON: that I went back!

AARON: But too late.

AARON:My Wurmple. My friend was gone.

AARON: After that, I putall my energy into training!

I worked with everyBug-type Pokémon I could find

until I could finallyunderstand their language!

AARON:But losing Wurmple like that...

I never want to gothrough that again!

AARON:I can't let them get away!

I have to help out my friends!

LEDIAN: [CALLING]

LEDIAN: [URGENT]

AARON: Ledian!

LEDIAN: [URGENT]

AARON: What? You're sayingyou saw their balloon crash

right up ahead?!

ASH: Let's go!

AARON: Yeah! Come on!

MEOWTH:Just like goody-goody Pokémon

to band togetherand blow us apart!

I got to say they suredid a bang-up job though!

JESSIE: Will you cut thekudos and get us cranking?

JAMES: Stop being a buffoonand blow us up another balloon!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

MEOWTH: Yes sir!!Soon as you get over yourself

PIKACHU: [ANGRY]

SKORUPI, PIPLUP,DRAPION, VESPIQUEN: [DETERMINED]

JESSIE: Our inventory!

JAMES: Go, Carnivine!

JAMES: BACK BITER!!PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [DETERMINED]

JESSIE: Up and at them, Seviper!

JESSIE: Return our merchandise!

SEVIPER: [THREATENING]

PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [ANGRY]

DRAPION: [ANGRY] / [DETERMINED]

DRAPION, SEVIPER: [EXERTION]

JAMES: All right, Carnivine!Use b*llet Seed!

CARNIVINE: [b*llet SEED MOVE]

VESPIQUEN: [YELP]

VESPIQUEN: [WEAK]

DRAPION, SEVIPER: [SHOCKED]SEVIPER: [EXERTION]

DRAPION: [YELP]

SEVIPER: [TAUNTING]

CARNIVINE: [TAUNTING]

JESSIE:Back in business at last!

JAMES: With no return fees!

PIPLUP, SKORUPI, PIKACHU:[ANGRY]

ASH: Pikachu!

PIKACHU: [SHOCKED]DAWN: Piplup!

AARON: Hey, everybody all right?

AARON: That tree!

AARON: That's whereWurmple and I first met!

PIKACHU: [DETERMINED]

SKORUPI, PIPLUP, PIKACHU:[PANICKED]

MEOWTH: Our Super-SuckerMark Nine's working just fine!

MEOWTH: Time to restockthe proverbial shelves!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

DRAPION, VESPIQUEN: [STRUGGLING]

AARON: Drapion! Vespiquen!

SKORUPI, PIKACHU, PIPLUP:[STRUGGLING]

ASH: Hang on, Pikachu!

DAWN: They can't win, Piplup!

JESSIE: I can't tolerateTwerps with tenacity!

JAMES:Meowth! Turn it up to ten!

MEOWTH: Rock and roll!

SKORUPI, PIKACHU, PIPLUP:[STRUGGLING GRUNTS]

AARON: No! Not that tree!

SKORUPI, PIKACHU, PIPLUP:[STRAINING]

PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [YELLS]

-ASH: Pikachu!-DAWN: Piplup!

SKORUPI, PIPLUP, PIKACHU:[SCREAMING]

JESSIE: Slick!

JAMES:Super Sucker's a suck-cess!

PIPLUP, SKORUPI, PIKACHU:[SCREAMING]

AARON: What was that?!

BROCK: A Solar Beam?

MEOWTH, WOBBUFFET: [PAINED]

PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [SHOCKED]

DRAPION, VESPIQUEN : [CONCERNED]

ASH:Pikachu, are you guys all okay?

PIKACHU, PIPLUP, SKORUPI:[RELIEVED]

ASH: Check it out!

DAWN, BEAUTIFLY: A Beautifly!

BROCK: Of course!

The Solar Beam had to havebeen launched by that Beautifly!

AARON: Are you?

AARON:So, you're really my Wurmple?

You evolved into a Beautifly!

BEAUTIFLY: [HAPPY]

DAWN: That means aftereverything you went through,

your Wurmple evolvedand then came back home!

BEAUTIFLY:[HAPPY] / [REASSURRING]

AARON: Beautifly says it wantedto get stronger and help me

so it went off byitself and started training!

ASH: Awesome! So Beautiflyremembered all the good times

you two had battling together.

DAWN:And then hurried back home!

BEAUTIFLY: [REASSURING]

JESSIE: One second saps!

BEAUTIFLY: [SURPRISED]

JESSIE:Your reunion is making me sick!

JAMES:And we've got a business to run!

So now the peasantsand Elite meet,

except we're the Eliteand you're the peasants!

JESSIE: Now Seviper, once more!

JAMES: Carnivine, full bore!

SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [ATTACKING]

ASH: Yeah? No way!

ASH: Pikachu, go!

DAWN: Piplup, go with Pikachu!

PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [AFFIRMATIVE]

JESSIE: Use Haze!

SEVIPER: [HAZE MOVE]

PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [SHOCKED]BEAUTIFLY: [PLEADING]

AARON: You bet!

AARON: All right Beautifly,use Whirlwind!

BEAUTIFLY: [WHIRLWIND MOVE]

SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [SHOCKED]

AARON:All right Vespiquen, use Slash,

and Drapion, use Hyper Beam!!

DRAPION, VESPIQUEN: [ATTACKING]

SEVIPER: [YELP]

CARNIVINE, VESPIQUEN:[YELP][EXERTION]

AARON:Great! Let's wrap this up!

ASH, DAWN: Right!

ASH:Pikachu! Thunderbolt, let's go!

DAWN: Piplup! Use Bubble Beam!

AARON: Beautifly!Solar Beam, full blast!

PIKACHU: [THUNDERBOLT MOVE]

PIPLUP: [BUBBLE BEAM MOVE]

BEAUTIFLY: [SOLAR BEAM MOVE]

MEOWTH: Again! Twerp Pokémon,

when combined withElite Four Pokémon, can rock!

A combination worthy of respect!

JESSIE: Unlike you

and that turn-coattraitor tongue of yours!

JAMES:Well, I'll call our attorneys

and close our business,and it's all your fault!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH:We're blasting off again!

ASH: We did it!

PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [EXCITED]

AARON:And thank you, Beautifly!

AARON:None of this would've worked

without your help. And look!

AARON: It all happenedin front of our tree!

BEAUTIFLY: [HAPPY]

AARON: We'll be ateam from here on out!

And now there'snothing that can stop us

from becomingChampion League Masters!

SKORUPI, DRAPION, VESPIQUEN:[EXCITED CRY]

BEAUTIFLY: [HAPPY]

SKORUPI, DRAPION, VESPIQUEN:[EXCITED]

BEAUTIFLY: [EXCITED]

DAWN: I'm so glad that Wurmple,I mean Beautifly, came home!

PIPLUP: [HAPPY]

BROCK: Wow, with Beautifly alongtheir team's even more amazing!

ASH: Well, we've gotan amazing team, too!

Ready to train harder, buddy?

PIKACHU: [AFFIRMATIVE]

ASH: Aaron, thank you somuch for an awesome day today!

BROCK: I can't believehow much we all learned!

DAWN: I'm really looking forwardto your battle against Cynthia!

PIPLUP: [EXCITED]

AARON: Thanks! I knowwe'll give it all we've got!

Good luck with your rematchagainst Fantina! Do your best!

ASH: Right!That's the only way I roll!

PIKACHU: [CONFIDENT]

ASH: See you around, Aaron!

AARON: Bye bye! You take care!

SKORUPI, DRAPION,VESPIQUEN, BEAUTIFLY: [FRIENDLY]

NARRATOR: And so,

an amazing day spent witha member of the Elite Four

turns out to be aheartwarming day as well!

NARRATOR:As witnessing a reunion

with Aaron's belovedPokémon from the past

has given our heroes anexperience they'll never forget,

as their journey continues!

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]