11x48 - Aiding the Enemy!

[bunniefuu]

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]