12x20 - To Thine Own Pokémon Be True!

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NARRATOR: Following Dawn's Sandalstraw Pokémon Contest, our

heroes have decided to stay in Sandalstraw Town for some

Pokémon Ping Pong!

ASH: All right! Pikachu! Time for some Ping Pong training!

BARRY: It's finally time for my Sinnoh

Pokémon Ping Pong conquest!

ASH: Huh?

DAWN: Guys? Not to slow you champs down, but I don't really

even understand the rules of Pokémon Ping Pong!

BARRY: So I'll tell you! Okay first of all you have a Pokémon

and its Trainer that form a team and while only the trainer is

allowed to use a Ping Pong paddle his or her Pokémon is

allowed to use a part of its body instead!

DAWN: Is that it?

BARRY: Well other than the fact that the Trainer always serves

that's really about it! First team with eleven points wins the

game.first team to win three games wins the match!

DAWN: Cool! Okay, I'm going to enter too!

- BARRY: Now you're talking! - ASH: So, let's do it!

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!

EMPLOYEE A [FEMALE]: Now just write your name in here, along

with the Pokémon you're going to be teaming up with!

EMPLOYEE A: After you turn in your paperwork,

you're registered!

ASH: Great! And thanks for everything!

ASH: 'Course be Right bud?

DAWN: And I'm choosing Ambipom!

I get the feeling Ambipom really likes Ping Pong,

and Barry agrees! AMBIPOM: [EXCITED]

BROCK: Okay Piplup, looks like the bleachers for you and me!

PIPLUP: [HAPPY]

BROCK: Wow! Look at all the practice Ping Pong tables

they have available!

DAWN: Then that means we'll be able to get in

plenty of practice, Ambipom! AMBIPOM: [EXCITED]

ASH: So Dawn, since there's not much time until the competition

how about a practice match to warm things up?

DAWN: Sure You're on! So call it heads or tails?

ASH: I call heads!

ASH: Yes! All right! We serve first!

DAWN: Bring it on!

ASH: You got it! Remember Trainers do the serving!

ASH: Get it Pikachu!

AMBIPOM: [EXCITED] AMBIPOM: [EXERTION]

ASH: [SHOCKED]

ASH: [SHOCKED] DAWN: Look out!

DAWN: Sorry! Are you okay?

O: Fine! That Ambipom of yours has excellent reflexes and good

thrust in those power sh*ts that I'm guessing comes from rigorous

daily training, right?

DAWN: Well, actually, if you really wanna know,

this is our very first time!

O: Impressive! It's great to see new teams involved. I would say

the main thing is don't worry about making mistakes and do

- your best! Have fun! - ASH: You bet!

BROCK: Hey, look at this! ASH: [SURPRISED]

ASH: Whoa!

EMPLOYEE B: All athletes will please proceed to the arena!

ASH: So it's tournament style huh? Dawn that means if we both

win in the first round; we get to go up against each other!

DAWN: Then I'll see you in round two!

ASH: Right!

BARRY: Well, I won't be running into either of you unless you

somehow make it into the semifinals. Of course we'll be

fine, but for you guys that's impossible!

DAWN: We'll see about that! Look!

DAWN: See that's the guy from before!

BARRY: Guy?! Excuse me folks,

but for your information that guy is none other than O!

He's last year's winner,

with a rep of being the strongest ever!

And the fans really respect him because he searches

high and low for strong trainers and Pokémon to help spread the

good word on Pokémon Ping Pong and he does it all

over the world!

ASH: Who knew? Sounds like a cool guy all right!

BARRY: He's cool all right, but we're gonna beat that cool guy

and show him who's the strongest! Now please try and

- give it all you've got, okay? - ASH: Yeah, you too!

EMPLOYEE A: Attention all Ping Pong athletes. It's time to

begin so gather together if you please!

JAMES: Excuse me!

JAMES: Zots! The Twerp with the Twerpette's Piplup!

Could be trouble.

BROCK: Hello!

I was just wondering if you have any

friends competing today.

JAMES: Saved by sleight of hand!

Funny you should ask, since a chum of mine who's never

even played a single game of Ping Pong is, in fact, competing

today! My heart's going pitter pat!

BROCK: So is mine! My friends are actually beginners as well,

and I'm just so anxious!

JAMES: Pitter, pitter, pat-pat. Pitter, pitter, pat-pat!

BROCK: Yes. Pitter, pitter, pat-pat!

I can't believe we've never met before!

Great minds think alike!

JAMES: And we've got the greatest!

PIPLUP: [SURPRISED]

EMCEE: All right athletes, the winners of this competition

will receive these: solid gold Ping Pong balls!

And our supplementary prize is a year's supply of

special Pokémon food so best of luck in winning a prize!

MEOWTH: When it comes to having gold fever, I've got it good,

and that ain't bad!

JESSILYNLYN: Zip it! You'll tip off the Twerps with that

- blabbermouth of yours! - MEOWTH: Zip. I'm hip.

EMCEE: All right then, get to your tables and stand by!

ASH: Okay, Dawn. Don't forget we're here to have fun!

- DAWN: Ash that's a fan! - ASH: Oh no!

DAWN: Come on you've got to relax Ash, please?

JESSILYNLYN: Bombs away, Meowth!

- MEOWTH: Bam! - JUDGE : One moment Jessilina.

Your Meowth is not allowed to hold a paddle

according to the rules!

JESSILYNLYN: Please! Please note that Marowak over there is

holding a bone!

JUDGE : According to the official rules that Marowak's

bone is allowed.

JESSILYNLYN: Well, mister. Your rules aren't fair!

Don't hurt the hair! What's up?

MEOWTH: I don't need a stinking paddle! I'll slice and dice any

dish they serve up!

JESSILYNLYN: Since a genius like me needs some kind of handicap,

I agree with your rules!

JUDGE : Well, genius or not, the rules apply to everyone.

EMCEE'S VOICE: Each table,

toss a coin to decide who serves first!

JUDGE : The Halverson/Marowak team is first! And go!

HALVERSON: Here!

JESSILINA: Meowth! Slice and dice!

MEOWTH: It's gonna be nice!

MEOWTH: Now.Fury Swipes!

JESSILYNLYN: That's slice and dice, not "slice and dice!"

MEOWTH: Next time I take Jess literally somebody stop me!

JUDGE : Since the Jessilynlyn/Meowth team used a

move, you're out, according to the rules!

JAMES: I'm doomed!

BROCK: So, the guy with the Farfetch'd is well -known too

then is he.

ASH: Here goes!

ASH: [EXERTION] / [FOCUSED]

ASH: Pikachu get it!

PIKACHU: [EXERTION] / [DETERMINED]

ASH: Okay! I got it!

FARFETCH'D: [FOCUSED] / [EXERTION]

PIKACHU: [CONCERNED]

- ASH: Fine! I'm sorry! - JUDGE : Wilkinson, point!

WILKINSON: [PROUD]

DAWN: [FOCUSED] / [EXERTION]

ALAKAZAM: [FOCUSED]

DAWN: Right, or left? So which way will it go?

DAWN: Ambipom, to the left! AMBIPOM: [FOCUSED]

ALAKAZAM: [DETERMIEND] DAWN: No way!

JUDGE : Good! Scientist team point!

DAWN: Guess I won't know if they're going to hit with the

right hand or the left until right before.

ALAKAZAM: [GRUNT]

DAWN: Which?!

ALAKAZAM: [EXERTION] / [FOCUSED]

AMBIPOM: [DETERMINED] / [EXERTION]

DAWN: Hey, that's an idea! We can return with your two tails!

AMBIPOM: [DETERMINED]

AMBIPOM: [EXERTION]

SCIENTIST: [SHOCKED]

- JUDGE : Dawn team, point! - DAWN: Thanks so much, Ambipom!

DAWN: Now, let's keep this up!

AMBIPOM: [DETERMINED]

MEOWTH: I blew it Jess; I'm sorry!

JESSILYNLYN: Look! We lost in the first round and

it's your fault!

MEOWTH: "I'm sorry" is supposed to take care of that.

JESSILYNLYN: We'll have to grab the golden Ping Pong balls by

force! Quick! Make a robot.

MEOWTH: Yeah? With what?

Our bank account's as empty as a Twerp's head!

JESSILYNLYN: You're less than useless!

- MEOWTH: She's the expert. - ASH: Man, we lost!

BROCK: Don't feel bad Ash, it's your first time!

ASH: Yeah, but I let Pikachu down... I'm sorry, buddy.

ASH: But, on the other hand, Dawn won the first and second

round and man is she doing great!

BROCK: And you'd never know it was Ambipom's first time out the

way things are going! PIPLUP: [ENCOURAGING]

PIKACHU: [EXCITED]

JAMES: That team that beat Jess.ilynlyn - Halverson and

Marowak is who she'll be facing off in the third round!

EMCEE: This is positively amazing! What a rally!

O: They couldn't have just started playing Ping Pong,

could they?

DAWN: Ambipom quick! AMBIPOM: [DETERMINED]

AMBIPOM: [EXERTION]

MAROWAK: [GROAN]

EMCEE: And the winner of that artistic rally is the team of

Dawn and Ambipom!

BROCK: I can't believe how Dawn and Ambipom just keep getting

better with every Ping Pong match!

ASH: Yeah, those two are looking great!

JAMES: Though it's Ambipom who's making it all possible.

JESSILYNLYN: My current circumstance would be much

different if I had made Aipom mine when we won the festival

contest! I'd be down in the winner's circle instead of

sitting up here with a sap like you!

MEOWTH: "Sorry" ain't what it used to be.

EMCEE: Our two hard-working newcomers Dawn and Ambipom have

made it from the A Block all the way up to this point! But while

they take a well-deserved breather, up next we've got

Barry and Empoleon versus O and Shiftry!

BARRY: Dawn and Ambipom are really going for it! But first

up, we're going to make quick work of O, and then we take

those two on! After all that's what totally awesome champions

do! Ready, Empoleon?

EMPOLEON: [DETERMINED]

EMPOLEON: [EXERTION]

BARRY: Way to go!

SHIFTRY: [EXERTION]

BARRY: What's up with that?!

EMCEE: That's it.the famous delayed attack!

JUDGE : The O and Shiftry team. Point!

DAWN: Incredible technique. Whoa!

AMBIPOM: [DETERMINED] / [COMPETITIVE]

EMCEE: And the winner is the team of O and Shiftry!

EMCEE: The winner from the B block has already been decided:

the team of Theodore and Gliscor! We still have one match

left remaining in the A block. It's the Dawn and Ambipom team,

versus the O and Shiftry Team!

SHIFTRY: [DETERMINED] / [EXERTION]

DAWN: [PAINED] / [STRUGGLING]

DAWN: Incredible. They're just too strong for us!

JUDGE : O and Shiftry Team! Game!

ASH: What's wrong with Dawn?

They're not moving as well as they were before.

BROCK: They've been completely dominated by the other side,

and their teamwork is falling apart!

ASH: Dawn, relax!

PIKACHU: [ENCOURAGING] PIPLUP: [ENCOURAGING]

DAWN: Relax, relax, relax, relax!

AMBIPOM: [DETERMINED]

DAWN: Okay, let's do our best!

O: Here it comes!

DAWN: [DETERMINED]

AMBIPOM: [EXERTION]

DAWN: No! Not this time!

DAWN: My paddle! No!

O: Well, a win is a win, so I'll take it!

AMBIPOM: [DETERMINED]

O: How did they return my shot like that?

EMCEE: This is beyond belief!

Ambipom is covering for Dawn who broke her paddle by taking on O

and Shiftry at the same time!

DAWN: Ambipom.

AMBIPOM: [DETERMINED] / [EXERTION]

DAWN: You can do it, Ambipom!

AMBIPOM: [DETERMINED] / [EXERTION]

JUDGE : Game! Dawn and Ambipom team!

DAWN: Ambipom, thanks! Now let's win this!

O: I'm impressed! But I'm the champion.

and there is no way I'm going to let you win this match!

EMCEE: And so, while once again dazzling all of their many fans,

the experienced and skilled O and Shiftry Team came back from

one loss in the semifinals to win the match against the

Theodore/Gliscor Team and take their second consecutive

championship!

JOY: Ambipom was extremely exhausted, but no real injuries.

You have nothing to worry about!

DAWN: Thanks so much, Nurse Joy!

AMBIPOM: [HAPPY]

DAWN: Ambipom, I'm sorry I put so much responsibility on your

shoulders...while I did nothing.

O: Dawn? DAWN: [SURPRISED]

DAWN: Mister O!

O: I just witnessed tremendous skill in that last match!

I'd love to train what could be one of the most powerful Pokémon

Ping Pong players yet!

DAWN: Uh, I do appreciate the offer, but it's Pokémon Contests

that really interest me. Today I realized that I still have a

whole lot of training left to do!

O: I'm sorry! But the truth is it's Ambipom I want to train

- with, not you! - DAWN: Ambipom?!

AMBIPOM: [CONFUSED]

O: You see, I'm very impressed with your abilities!

I want to take you to the very top of the Ping Pong world!

AMBIPOM: [EXCITED]

O: Dawn, I do hope that you'll think about it!

DAWN: Oh dear, I really don't know.

AMBIPOM: [SURPRISED]

ASH: [SURPRISED]

ASH: Hey Dawn, what's the matter?

DAWN: I can't find Ambipom anywhere!

BROCK: What did you say?

ASH: C'mon, let's start looking!

PIKACHU: [WORRIED] PIPLUP: [WORRIED]

- ASH: Ambipom! - DAWN: Ambipom!

BROCK: Wait a minute!

BROCK: What's that noise?

ASH: Sounds like it's coming from the back!

ASH: [EXERTION] / [STARTLED]

AMBIPOM: [EXCITED] / [EXERTION]

DAWN: Look at how much fun Ambipom's having!

BROCK: Yeah, I've never seen Ambipom so inspired!

ASH: Wow, Ambipom seems to be totally hooked on playing

Pokémon Ping Pong!

DAWN: I still don't know what to do.

DAWN: Earlier today the guy named O I played against made me

an offer to train with Ambipom and make Ambipom a powerful

Pokémon Ping Pong player, see?

ASH: Of course! Ambipom was super amazing out there today.

DAWN: What would you do if you were me, Ash?

ASH: What's important is what Ambipom wants to do!

BROCK: But there's a choice the Trainer needs to make!

Between what a Pokémon wants and what's best for them.

Part of your responsibility, see?

DAWN: Thanks Brock; you're right!

DAWN: Mister O?

O: Well, hi there, Dawn!

DAWN: I thought a lot about what you asked me last night,

and I've decided the best thing is to let Ambipom figure out

what it wants to do!

O: That's great, Dawn!

DAWN: So Ambipom, do you want to continue contests with me,

or do you want to play Pokémon Ping Pong?

AMBIPOM: [SURPRISED]

DAWN: Come on, choose!

AMBIPOM: [NERVOUS] / [CONFUSED]

AMBIPOM: [CURIOUS]

AMBIPOM: [HAPPY]

DAWN: Ambipom?

ASH: Have you figured out what you're going to do?

DAWN: So, what is it going to be?

AMBIPOM: [STARTLED] / [CONFUSED]

AMBIPOM: [FOCUSED]

DAWN: So that means you want to play Pokémon Ping Pong, right?

AMBIPOM: [HAPPY]

DAWN: Take good care of Ambipom! Promise me?

O: Promise! That's something you'll never

have to worry about.

AMBIPOM: [EXCITED]

AMBIPOM: [CONFIDENT]

PIKACHU: [EXCITED]

O: My Pokémon Ping Pong Training Center is located in Vermilion

City. Come visit anytime!

BROCK: Wow, in Kanto?

ASH: So that means we can go back there anytime we want!

DAWN: Now you stay well and get strong!

ASH: Good luck! AMBIPOM: [HAPPY]

BROCK: Make lots of new friends!

- DAWN: And good luck, Ambipom! - ASH: See you soon!

PIKACHU: [EXCITED]

NARRATOR: A new life for Ambipom, complete with a new set

of hopes, and dreams!

Goodbyes for now, yes, but each having faced their

separate futures honestly, our heroes can joyously continue

their journey with focused and renewed determination!