01x74 - The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis

[bunniefuu]

♪ I wanna be
the very best ♪

♪ like no one ever was ♪

♪ to catch them
is my real test ♪

♪ to train them
is my cause ♪

♪ I will travel
across the land ♪

♪ searching far and wide ♪

♪ each pokémon
to understand ♪

♪ the power that's inside ♪

♪ pokémon ♪

♪ gotta
catch 'em all ♪

♪ it's you and me ♪

♪ I know it's my destiny ♪

♪ pokémon ♪

♪ oh, you're
my best friend ♪

♪ in a world
we must defend ♪

♪ pokémon ♪

♪ gotta
catch 'em all ♪

♪ a heart so true ♪

♪ our courage
will pull us through ♪

♪ you teach me,
and I'll teach you ♪

♪ pokémon ♪

♪ gotta catch 'em all ♪

♪ gotta catch 'em all ♪

♪ pokémon ♪

♪ gotta catch 'em all ♪

♪ gotta catch 'em all ♪

[Birds twittering]

Ash:
Pickachu, agility attack!

Then we'll use
an agility attack, too.

Vulpix, go!

Narrator: With the pokémon league
competition drawing ever closer,

ash is finallly doing
some serious training.

But his training is
about to get off the track!

Pickachu, electric attack!

Pi... cka... chu!

Vulpix, flamethrower!

Pickachu, hold it!

Vulpix, deflect it!

Huh?

Huh? What was that?

Eve: I'm not sure.

Wow, pickachu. Your attacks
are gettin' pretty strong.

Pika.

Looks like we accidentally
uncovered something.

But, what?

Yeah.

Hmm... looks like some
kind of temple or something.

H-e-e-e-y! Look at this.

It looks sort of pretty.

Yeah, pretty weird.

Ash: Wonder what it is?

Huh? Huh? Huh?

[Gasp] I finally found it!

You did?

Professor!
Look what I found!

Dunlap:
Well, you've done it again.

That's great work, Eve!

Uh, sir, I'm the one who found

whatever it is that is.

And we were having
a training battle...

Yes, thanks a lot.

Couldn't have done
it without you.

Very helpful.

This is the discovery
we've been hoping for.

I can hardly believe
we found it.

We found it.

Congratulations.
Your discovery proves

your hypothesis
beyond any doubt.

I think we should
move the camp here

and begin a Major
excavation of the temple

and the surrounding area.

Ha ha, just take a look.

Oh, Professor,
you've already done it.

Oh, hello.
Can I help you?

Jessy: Looks like the
twerps are on to something.

Something valuable.

It could be a veritable
vault of valuables.

And now it's our vault.

Ash: You know, this statue
looks like a Psyduck.

I remember reading
about a hidden City

where the people built
temples to honor pokémon.

If they built a temple
to honor Psyduck,

they weren't hidden,
they were lost!

What was the name of the City?

I think it was called
pokemopolis,

and it got destroyed
in a giant storm

and then totally disappeared.

Right, Brock?

The people who lived
there believed pokémon

were symbols of nature's power.

At least that's how
the legend goes.

Hey, maybe pokémopolis was here!

We may have discovered

the first positive proof

of the real pokémopolis!

It's a real find!

Doctor, look here!

Eve: The same material
as the other relic.

Where was it?

Right near the original one.

The great powers
of destruction.

These relics might be the key.

To what?

How come you
called Eve "Doctor"?

She's way too young
to be a real Doctor.

By age , Eve was
already an expert

in ancient
pokémopolitan civilization.

Her research
revolutionized the field.

She got her phd at .

She must be a super brain!

Pika!

Ha-ha, when she was ,

Eve wrote a best-selling book

about her new theories
on pokémop...

OK, that's enough
about me, Professor.

You've got work to do!

Yes, Doctor!

A Doctor.
Already.

When I was ,

I was still afraid of doctors.

Please, it's no big deal.

And it's not like I had
perfect grades or anything.

I got an a-minus once, heh-heh.

Pi...

What's the matter, pickachu?

Pi-pickachu.

Here, look at this stone
tablet I discovered.

That writing, what
does it say, Eve?

Is it about pokémopolis?

It says, "beware the great
powers of destruction."

"The shadow of the dark device

"will grapple with the prisoner
of the unearthly urn.

"The sacred City will be no more

"as day is swallowed
up by night.

"Darker still for you

"when they return
to lay waste the world.

"But no human knows the secret

"to soothe the powers

and guide them back
to the shadow world."

Oh, I get it!

Well, I don't and I'm
trying to figure it out.

It's one of the toughest
mysteries I've ever had to solve.

Eve, what are we waiting for?

Let's both start digging
and solve that mystery.

Brock must love mysteries.

He loves something.

I'd sure love to have lived

in an ancient City

that built temples pokémon.

Huh?

Bow down humans and obey!

To protect the world
from devestation.

To unite all peoples
within our nation.

To denounce the evils
of truth and love.

To extend our reach
to the stars above.

Jessy!
James!

Shh! Let's swipe all
their swag and scram!

Let's sneak into their
camper and grab those relics.

Those little trinkets
aren't worth the effort.

The really big stuff
must be hidden

deeper in that temple, and
I know just how to get it.

Go, arbok!

Arbok, burrow into that temple

and bring back the most
valuable treasure you can find.

Ha ha ha! Well, soon
we'll all be filthy Rich.

What wastefully
extravagant things

will you do with your share?

Well, first, I'll pay the
boss all the money I owe him.

What?! That's the most
ridiculous idea I've ever heard!

Don't you know
with all that money

you won't have to do
the decent thing?

If the treasure's large enough,

I can make myself the boss!

The big enchilada!

The top tamale!

The King quesedilla!

It's such a shame
they're so power hungry.

Jessy: The grand guacamole!

James: The number one nacho!

Ah-ha! Here's arbok!

James: Wasn't there
anything glitzier?

It sure looks mighty measly.

You mean that's the most
valuable treasure you could find?

Ah! Ah! Ah!

Ahh!

We're not moving!

I'm catatonic.

Brock: Eve, look!

Eve: Giant footprints!

And they're coming
from the temple!

This could very well be

the "dark device" that's
mentioned in the tablet.

Let's analyze it in the camper.

Right!

Ah! Ah! Ah!

Team rocket?

Run! Hurry!

I can't move!

What's happening?

Where are we?

Somehow we've been transported

inside the "dark device".

Fascinating!

I'd rather be in Miami beach.

Hey look!
It's a giant gengar!

How could a gengar
get to be so humongous?

Misty's right. It
can't be a gengar.

The last gengar I saw
wasn't even as big as me.

And it didn't have those
weird markings on it.

Hmm. Gengar, a shadow pokémon,

the evolved form of haunter.

Details about this
pokémon are unknown.

Details unknown?

This must be
what the tablet meant.

The shadow of the dark device.

Maybe so,

and maybe we're
right in the middle

of a mystery that's
too scary to solve!

Gengar.

Hmm.
Looks like a storm.

Gengar's going somewhere.

It's probably going
to head straight

for the nearest
town to wreck it!

I've gotta stop it!

It's too powerful!

The nearest town's my hometown.

But you won't
be able to stop it.

Maybe you're right, but
I've gotta do something.

Let's go, Pikachu!

Ash, I'm coming with you!

I'll go with them. You
go back to the camper

and try to figure
out this mystery

before it's too late.

Who's that...

It's...

Gengar.

I can handle this.

Onix, go!

Hurry, Onix, go underground
and block that gengar.

Pidgeotto, I choose you!

Pidgeotto!
Gust attack!

Gengar.

Oh, no!

Me-ouch! It's getting
crowded in here.

Ugh! Huh?

Can't you battle
better than that,

you bumbling bird brain?

I'm not getting stuck

in this stomach forever!

Gengar.

Onix! Use your
bind attack!

Whoa!

No!

I don't think any pokémon

can stop that!

We gotta stop it somehow!

Huh?

Eve!
No!

You'll get caught in
the spell just like her.

We can't let Eve
get swallowed up, too!

We'll think of some
way to save her.

Let me go!

I've got to save Eve!

Are you OK?

What happened?

I can't remember a thing.

Oh!

Alakazam.

Ash: Is that kadabra?

Brock: No,
that's an alakazam.

Misty: Don't you mean,
alaka-lossal?

Alakazam, a psy-pokémon.

This pokémon
uses psychic attacks

to overcome its opponents.

Attacks must be
times stronger

from the super-sized alakazam.

Alakazam!

What are those?

I don't know, and I'm not
so sure we wanna find out.

Gengar.

Eve: Beware the great
powers of destruction.

The shadow of the dark device

will grapple with the
prisoner of the unearthly urn.

The sacred City will be no more

as day is swallowed up by night.

Darker still for you

when they return
to lay waste the world.

Now I understand.

These creatures destroyed
the City of pokémopolis

and now they're
going to destroy us!

Ash: We gotta stop 'em!

Misty: How can we stop them

if the pokémopolitans couldn't?

Eve: I'm sorry.
This is all my fault.

I should never have tried to
solve the mystery of pokémopolis.

Don't blame yourself, Eve.

Archeologists are
supposed to solve mysteries.

He's right. You didn't know

this would happen.

Yeah, I say it's the ancient
pokémopolitans' fault

for making their stupid
tablet so hard to figure out.

Misty: You're gonna try
catching them?

They may be ancient
and superpowerful,

but they're still pokémon to me!

Go Pokéball!

[Gasp]

Ash, I wanna save
your hometown, too,

but these pokémon
are way too powerful

for us to handle.

Maybe we better get help!

My body's frozen.

Gengar.

Oh!

Pikachu escaped the spell.

Quick! Go jump
into that water!

Use your thundershock and hurry!

[Sigh]

Nice going, Pikachu.

Gengar.

Alakazam!

We can't give up now.

But, ash, the tablets
say nobody knows

the secret to stopping
these creatures

from destroying everything!

Eve's right, ash.

It's jigglypuff!

Jigglypuff.

Maybe jigglypuff
can knock 'em out!

It could be a
heavyweight knockout!

Ash: OK, jigglypuff!

If this works,

you'll be pallet town's
favorite vocalist.

[Singing]

That's the most beautiful
music I've ever heard.

Yeah, encore!
Encore!

[Singing]

How come they're
not gettin' sleepy?

Maybe jigglypuff
isn't loud enough.

I'd love to talk more

but I need my beauty sleep.

Yeah. [Sigh]

Jigglypuff's just too small.

Huh?

Ash: What's happening now?

Alakazam.

Wh-what's that?

Some pokémon!

Jigglypuff?

[Singing]

Al-a-ka-zam...

Ah!

That's the secret that soothes

the powers of destruction.

I'm feelin'
kinda soothed myself.

Yeah, me, too.

Me three.

[Stops singing]

Wake up!

Where's that jiggly giant?

Hey!

What a nightmare.

But it's over now.

We survived!

Welcome back, team rocket.

It's him!

We let you off
easy this time, twerp,

but next time you
won't be so lucky.

Let's go!

Team rocket's dashing off again!

But what happened
to gengar and alakazam?

Returned to the shadow
world again, I guess.

Brock: This is awesome!

Eve, maybe a giant jigglypuff

was the protector of
pokémopolitan civilization.

If you're right, Brock,
then it's also possible

then it's also
possible these relics

were actually the first
primitive Pokéballs.

Whoa.
Really?

That'll be the next
mystery I try to tackle.

And this could be
the key that unlocks

all the secrets of pokémopolis!

Narrator: And so the journey
of discovery is just beginning!

Who knows what new mystery
will turn up?

Of course, we still haven't
solved the biggest mystery of all.

Will ash ever
get around to training?

Don't go away!

Pikachu's jukebox is next.

♪ Good friends are those
who stick together ♪

♪ when there's sun
and in the heavy weather ♪

♪ and smile after smile
that's how it will be ♪

♪ just you and me ♪

♪ to the end
I will be with you ♪

♪ we will go where
our dreams come true ♪

♪ all the times that
we have been through ♪

♪ you will always be
my best friend ♪

♪ to the end
I will be with you ♪

♪ We will go where
our dreams come true ♪

♪ all the times that
we have been through ♪

♪ you will always be
my best friend ♪

♪ I wanna be
the very best ♪

♪ like no one
ever was ♪

♪ to catch them
is my real test ♪

♪ to train them
is my cause ♪

♪ pokémon ♪

♪ gotta
catch 'em all ♪

♪ a heart
so true ♪

♪ our courage
will pull us through ♪

♪ you teach me ♪

♪ and I'll teach you ♪

♪ pokémon ♪

♪ gotta catch 'em all ♪

♪ I wanna be
the very best ♪

♪ like no one ever was ♪

♪ to catch them
is my real test ♪

♪ to train them
is my cause ♪

♪ I will travel
across the land ♪

♪ searching far and wide ♪

♪ each pokémon
to understand ♪

♪ the power that's inside ♪

♪ pokémon ♪

♪ gotta
catch 'em all ♪

♪ it's you and me ♪

♪ I know it's my destiny ♪

♪ pokémon ♪

♪ oh, you're
my best friend ♪

♪ in a world
we must defend ♪

♪ pokémon ♪

♪ gotta
catch 'em all ♪

♪ a heart so true ♪

♪ our courage
will pull us through ♪

♪ you teach me,
and I'll teach you ♪

♪ pokémon ♪

♪ gotta catch 'em all ♪

♪ gotta catch 'em all ♪

♪ pokémon ♪