-Today...the Subway Masters are on high alert! TR is messing around with a train! And the announcer is...oh wait, this is a recap of the Subway Master scenes from past eps/preview of these eps.
-The twerps are finally at Nimbasa City! Now the forums will have to find something new to complain about!
-The twerps are excited...but Meowth is tired. And I think he just asked to be taken to the Pokemon Center? Well, whatever he asked, Iris volunteered Ash to do it.
-Ash argues, but then his stomach growls, leading to the usual Iris mockery. And Dento...is REALLY EXCITED to go. Why is that? Well...he leads everyone directly to the subway!
-Ash is still grumpy about being led to neither food nor a gym battle, but Dento is just so excited because
TRAINSTRAINSTRAINSOMGTRAINS they can ride the train to the Pokemon Center.
-And for the first time, Iris calls Dento a kid. ...kind of hard to argue against that, when Dento's getting all hyper because
TRAAAAIIIINSSSS he's a Metro Sommelier(no, not THAT kind of metro. Although I guess he technically would qualify as that other kind...).
-Since when does Dento have a camera? Or is he SO GODDAMNED EXCITED ABOUT TRAINS that he materialized one from nowhere?
-OH GOD THAT FACE
-OH GOD THAT OTHER FACE
-IT'S SUBWAY TIME!
-IT'S ALSO I SHOULD STOP TYPING IN ALL CAPS TIME!
-Iris continues to be less-than-amused at Dento's antics. And...well, I AM amused by them, but then again, I'm not the one who has to deal with a...grown man? teenager? How old is Dento anyway?...spazzing out over trains.
-Dento starts sperging out about trains(complete with conductor hat!), which really just confuses Ash and Iris further.
-Haha, even ASH looks like he's had enough of Dento's obsessive bulls
hit.
-Dento is STILL going on and on about trains, but
Ash is hungry dammit.
-And then Meowth drags Dento away while Dento basically goes BUT TRAAAAIIIIINNNSSSS 8(.
-...did they just use an outline of Dento's bowtie as a scene transition?
-Now that everyone's actually on the train...well...um...uh...
yeah.
-Haha, a little kid is pointing at Dento while her mom(and some other random woman) stare nervously at the strange man who's way too excited to be on a subway train. And Iris is just plain
embarassed.
-Ash finally gets a peek at what Dento was looking at...it's apparently a computer controller for the subway train!
-I'm pretty sure this episode is going to teach people more than they ever wanted to know about subway trains, all because of Dento.
-OH GOD A BEEPING ERROR MESSAGE THEY'RE ALL GOING TO DIE.
-Or the train might just come to a stop. And why? Because they were about to hit another train!
-Dento wonders how that happened, but Iris and Ash have a more pressing concern...a pair of lights is heading towards them! (Thankfully, not at train speed) It's...the Subway Masters! And Dento knows their names!
-The train gets running again and they all get to the station. Afterwards, Dento talks to the Subway Masters...who seem to recognize him as the Metro Sommelier Dento! Wait, does this mean his various Sommelier things are
actual things and not just him liking something so much he decides to stick a "Sommelier" after it?
-...and did Dento just mention a subway convention? Oh god, he did. How many people can care that much about trains?!
-All three of the subway geeks chat about the ghost train, and Dento...gets fired up with rage! So much so that Meowth drags him away!
-And they finally get to the Pokemon Center, which...well, it's a nice, big Pokemon Center for a nice, big city.
-All their Pokemon(and Meowth!) get carted off to be looked after, and now it's lunch time!
-Meanwhile, Meowth hops off the cart to use the phone...I think we can all tell where this is headed.
-Yup, he's calling Seger.
-Back with the twerps...Ash suddenly decides to call Oak. (offscreen, without any viewers seeing or hearing, Delia sobs as her son only ever remembers to call Oak and never his own mother)
-Apparently the Pokemon Center is so high-security that it scans the pawprints & bodies of the Audino to open the doors!
-Ash calls up Oak, and all's well and...the call cuts off?
-Meanwhile, the Driftveil Drawbridge's controls go haywire, causing the bridge to raise! I...hope nobody was crossing the bit that actually raises up it when that happened.
-And in the pokeball storage area of the Center...Meowth is stealing EVERYTHING. Including Pikachu and Axew!
-The twerps find out about the drawbridge from Nurse Joy, and Dento starts putting the pieces together. He...realizes they should check on the Pokemon!
-And just as he does that, Meowth finishes up his heist and makes his escape.
-Dento doesn't take long to find the vent everything got taken through. Naturally, the twerps give chase!
-And Meowth reunites with Jessie and James. Welp, we're definitely gonna hear a LOT of bickering about that for a while...
-The Subway Twins are back at their control center, but everything is going nuts! Graphs and rapidly scrolling text are popping up everywhere!
-The twerps reach the end of the vent, and make a...very...graceful...landing.
-Blah blah blah Meowth reveals that he was tricking the twerps blah.
-Goddamn it's been a long time since we've had a motto.
-Jessie is polite enough to have Woobat fire Air Slash at the twerps(causing them to dodge off the rails) before the train starts moving again. Though the twerps getting ran over by a train would certainly be an
interesting way to add drama...
-The twerps give chase, but Ash...trips. Oh, Ash. Too bad they don't have anyone around who's good at running around train tracks. That seems like a useful skill to master in a subway.
-...and the twerps go straight to the control room. I'd ask how they knew where it was, but I'm guessing that was all Dento's doing.
-The twins seem to have pinned down a D3 point as important. And they agree to bring along
deadweight the twerps, since the twerps REALLY WANT TO HELP.
-They all find some sort of mini-subway car, and Dento is all too happy to hop on as the conductor(complete with hat!). And Ingo hands him a tiny map showing where to go.
-Catching up to TR was easy enough...now to get the Pokemon back. While nobody on board HAS any Pokemon. Why didn't either of the Subway Masters come with them, again?
-Okay, that was one HELL of a jump. And that train is...oddly...squishy...
-And then it blows up and expels purple gas. Oops.
-...ahahaha, did they seriously blow up the fake train that was supposed to stop TR's train? GOOD GOING, ASH.
-TR's train passes through D3, and...then the subway tracking system shows them splitting into several trains?!
Pretty fun episode, although it was pretty much pure set-up for the second half of this two-parter.