Anyway, the episode itself was great! I am a huuuge Tepig fan, and I was almost squealing for joy when Ash caught him! I love Tepigs dubbed voice! *oink!*
Looks like my starter pokemon in the new game has been decided.
I'm nowhere near as easily swayed by this Tepig as you are, even though I'm a pyromaniac myself...
Anyhow, time to have a look.
- Looks like we've reached our destination, so now it's time for our Gym Fight! Yay!
- Bombshell time: Iris reveals to Ash that this is a different city altogether, & it has no gym. Talk about a head-desk moment...
- However, this place does have a Battle Club, & it happens to have a bunch of trainers that come here on a regular basis. At least we'll still see some bloodshed at least, even if it's not inside a gym.
- As they're just walking in the club, they instantly walk inside a fight in progress - one in which a Dewott is fighting against a Servine!
- Servine lashes out with a Leaf Blade, but it ended up being dodged & countered with a Water Gun, of all things. Still, that was enough to stop Servine dead in its tracks.
- The club's manager steps in to stop the fight, & orders Servine's trainer to go get it healed back up. In the meantime, introductions abounds from Ash & Iris.
- Some more talking later on, & before we know it, Ash is thrown head first into a fight inside the club, against the same trainer that fought against Servine.
- Ash sends out his Pikachu, but from out of nowhere, his Oshawott comes out to play. Brother... I'm thinking that Oshawott is to Pikachu like Dawn's Cyndaquil is to Piplup: A ^&$%^ that craves for attention!
- The good thing is that it only takes a mean Pokémon like the opposing Dewott to make Oshawott back down quietly & let Pikachu have his spotlight back.
- Pikachu VS Dewott!
FIGHT!!
- Pikachu opens up with a Thunderbolt, but it misses & Dewott counters with a Water Gun!
- That ends up getting dodged, & Pikachu follows up with an Iron Tail, which finds its mark on Dewott's head! That's a hell of a concussion...!
- Pikachu immediately lets out with a Volt Tackle, but it gets stopped dead with a Shell Blade from the opponent! That's going to leave a mark...
- Then... interruption time: The club's storage facility is being pilfered by a bunch of $%^$ing low-life thieves! It always
has to be something, hmm?
- Turns out that Team $&%*ing Rocket are the thieves, but also beforehand, there was a blindingly fast shadow of a Pokémon being caught in the camera's footage. Interesting...
- Ash identifies that as an Umbreon, something that's uber-rare in the Unova region. The Manager & his cohorts went ape%*&$ over this discovery, & immediately set out to catch it.
- Ash & Iris follow suit, & set out into the storage facility, to set up some Pokémon food in order to lure it out. Ash has plans to catch it, but so does Iris...
- They split up to try to find it out in the open, leaving Pikachu & Oshawott to keep watch.
- Alas, the only thing Oshawott has in mind is chowing down. Since Pikachu doesn't take such a thing too well, Pikachu tries to get it back on task, but ends up getting thwacked on by a few boxes, a pan (yeowch!) & ends up getting trapped inside a box itself. Beautiful...
- During that time, TR gets wind about them searching for an Umbreon, & they get a bright idea of having Meowth masquerade as an Umbreon, in order to cause some chaos, thus keeping their attention away from the rest of the team.
- They ended up literally painting Meowth as an Umbreon, which works just fine, seeing that this whole region hasn't seen one in their lives. The plan works down to a T.
- Once Meowth gets cornered, the manager & his cohorts start crying themselves the Niagra Falls. This starts making Meowth feel guilty over tricking them, & he reveals his true colors.
- As he leaves, they soon find out that a Meowth, even if it can't talk, is as equally rare around these parts, & once they realize that, they again, start bawling themselves. Wow... these people are really disillusioned...
- Back with Ash & Iris, they manage to find that Pokémon that was on the run, & it turns out to be a Tepig, not an Umbreon, upon closer examination.
- Turns out that not only is it dirtier than a hobo, it also is malnourished, as if its something that came crawling out from Auschwitz. The reason is its snout is bound with some rope. Very sad...
- Ash gets it cleaned up, & feeds it some food, which it immediately starts hastily going
"OMNOMNOMNOMNOM!!!" That's not a good thing, so Ash starts coaxing it to go slower. As this is happening, Iris is looking at him with a smile, & thus is realizing that he's not what she thought he is.
- As they're coming back to the storage facility, they notice TR shadily making their exit, but Ash soon realizes that they've taken his Pikachu!
- & TR motto incoming! Mute the $&%#ing television!!
- They make a run for it into the skies by using a floaty glass box, which blocks Oshawotts Water Gun, but gets blown out of the sky by Tepig's Ember!
- But instead of getting blown away to god knows where, they deploy their personal gliders & fly off into "safety," which I don't like a single bit. Still, Pikachu is back safe & sound.
- Afterward, the manager explains to them how Tepig was like that in the first place: Turns out that its original trainer abandoned it after it kept losing fight after fight. Another Pokémon Cruelty scenario...
- Ash decides to take Tepig along with him, & off they go.
So now Ash has a Tepig, Iris starts looking at him in a much different way, & we still get to see some fighting in the war-zone. Still, if a trainer would go as low as to just abandon all hopes of their own Pokémon to the point of just tossing them out into the wind, that person is a %^&$ing snitch! I'm sick of these people!
...Turn this $%&% off...