20x16 - They Might Not Be Giants!

[bunniefuu]

[Popplio squeals happily]

[Mallow] Watch! Popplio is amazing!

[narrator] It’s a sunny afternoon
and Ash has come to the beach

to watch Popplio practice making balloons
under the watchful eye of Lana.

All right, Popplio, big balloon!

[squeaks]

-[chuckles]
-Pika.

Impressive! The balloon’s strength,
durability and elasticity are evident

because they’re all in perfect balance
with each other.

Oh, yeah!

Isn’t that amazing?
Harper and Sarah can ride in it!

-Bounsweet.
-That’s how you do it, Popplio!

You’ve been working really hard!

You’re one step closer
to your dream, Lana!

-[chuckles]
-[Popplio squeals happily]

-I want to take a ride in that balloon!
-Pika.

-I’m not sure--
-Don’t you think it’ll work?

When I got into the balloon,
it popped right away.

Pop! Pop!

-Pikachu.
-[gasps and laughs]

-Yeah, Pokémon are small enough!
-Pika.

[barks]

[hoots and snores]

-Asleep again.
-[chuckles]

[Rockruff barks and both laugh]

Now, take turns. I doubt all three
of you will fit in at one time.

-Pikachu.
-Then you’re first, Pikachu.

-Popplio?
-Pop! Pop. Pop.

Pop!

-Pika.
-[Ash gasps]

-Ah! Bounsweet.
-[Mallow gasps]

[hoots]

-Bounsweet!
-Pika!

[all gasp and whoosh of wind]

[both gasp]

[all scream]

♪ I could get used to this heat
On my skin ♪

♪ I can feel every day
I'm a little bit stronger ♪

♪ I only wish each day was longer

♪ Yeah! We're having fun in the sun ♪

♪ Week after week
It's just like we're on vacation Yeah! ♪

♪ Now our journey's begun
Friends till the end ♪

♪ Number one's our destination ♪

♪ Under the Alolan sun
Pokémon! ♪

[pants] Come back!

What do we do, Lana?

Hm. Mm!

-[Ash] Huh?
-Let’s go!

Uh... Whoa!

Okay, I can run by myself!

Ash, hold on! Your backpack!

I’ve never seen Lana like this before!

When it comes to Popplio,
she can really switch gears!

-Bounsweet.
-Pikachu.

[squealing and hooting]

[squealing and hooting]

[Rowlet snores and Popplio yaps]

[Rowlet hoots and Popplio yelps]

[trills]

[chuckles]

-[hoots]
-Pop!

[trills]

[yelps]

[Rowlet trills and Popplio yelps in fear]

[Rowlet trills and Popplio yelps]

-Pop! Pop! Pop!
-[trills]

[grunting hoot]

[happy yelp]

[Popplio yelps and Rowlet trills]

[Popplio yelps in fear and Rowlet trills]

[trills]

Huh? Pop!

[Popplio yelps in fear and Rowlet trills]

-Mareanie.
-[Jessie] Install complete!

With this baby, we’re gonna catch all
of Alola’s data as well as its Pokémon!

With this ring, I do thee steal!

Our secret base is finally real.

All right, big ears, on!

[screaming]

[all groan]

-[hoots]
-Pop!

[grunts]

[both grunt in fear]

-What are you doing?
-My pretty parabolic antenna!

[Popplio yelps and Rowlet trills]

[shrieks]

The ring seems to be
stuck around its neck.

That Rowlet, it’s the Twerp’s!

And that Popplio is the blue-haired
Twerpette’s. Perfect timing!

-Let’s catch them both!
-And exchange them for Pikachu.

-Our hostage duo!
-Wobbuffet.

All right, Mareanie, Spike Cannon!

-Mareanie-ni-ni-ni.
-Pop?

Pop!

[all scream]

[grunts] Huh? Hey. Come back!

Mareanie. Mareanie.

[panting]

-Pika. Pika.
-Oh, no.

Where could they have gone?

-Lana? Has this ever happened before?
-Hm.

Mm.

Don’t worry. It’s fine.

[chuckles]
Well, we know they came in this direction.

-So, let’s split up and look!
-Right!

Pika!

[hoots]

-Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!
-[trills]

[both cackle]

That was a surprise.

-Meowth, attention, please.
-Meowth’s in hot pursuit!

Wobbuffet.

-We should be, too.
-Hm. Mm!

[all scream]

Let us breathe, please!

[Popplio yelps and Rowlet trills]

[both shriek]

[both yelps and trill in fear]

[groans]

Show’s over, dopes! [laughs]

Very statuesque, Rowlet. Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Mareanie, how about giving Popplio
a dose of your Toxic Spikes?

-Nie!
-[squeals]

[Mareanie screams]

Hey, what gives?

[trills]

Pop?

-Litt!
-Pop.

Now, what’s your deal?

[hisses and snarls]

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Litten!

[both grunt]

You’re not so stro... [groans]

Pop?

[squeals happily] Pop! Pop! Pop!

-Pop?
-[hoots]

[trills intensely]

[meows]

Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!
Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!

Popplio! Pop!

Pop!

-Meow!
-[hoots angrily]

-Meow!
-Pop! Pop!

-Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop...
-[Rowlet hoots]

[Team Rocket] Who’s that Pokémon?

It’s Bewear!

[Bewear sighs and shrieks]

-Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop...
-[Rowlet hoots]

-Meows!
-Pop?

-Pop!
-[trills]

[narrator] Oh, yes. If I recall,
this elderly Pokémon is Stoutland,

who’s been seen with Litten in the past.

Stoutland.

[narrator]
They disappeared after meeting Ash

and it looks like they now live here.

Stout. Stoutland.

-[Litten meows and Rowlet trills]
-Stoutland.

-Meow!
-[hoots in surprise]

[hoots softly]

-Stoutland. Stoutland
-[Rowlet trills softly]

[Stoutland sniffs and Rowlet trills]

Pop? Pop? [squeals softly]

[trills softly]

[hoots and gags]

-Stoutland.
-Meow.

Stout. Stoutland. Stout. Stout. Stoutland.

-[hoots]
-Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!

[trills happily]

[shrieks]

[laughs] Huh?

[meows]

-Pop?
-Stoutland. Stout.

-Litten. Meow!
-Popplio.

[meows]

Pop! Pop! Po-Po-Pop. Po-Pop. Pop.

Pop-Pop. Po-Po-Pop. Popplio. Popplio!

Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop!

Pop! Pop! Pop!

-[Rowlet snores]
-Pop!

[grunts and hoots angrily]

Stoutland.

-[meows]
-Stout. Stout. Stout.

-Stoutland. Stout. Stout. Stout. Stout.
-Meow!

Pop! Pop!

Meow!

[Popplio yaps]

[all pant]

-Anything?
-Nothing.

And I asked a whole bunch of people.

[Lana] Nobody’s seen them.

-Pika.
-[whines and sniffs]

-[whines]
-Pi?

What’s up?

-Wow, would you look at that!
-Huh?

Rockruff has a powerful sense of smell
that can distinguish scents.

So it can trace Rowlet and Popplio
by using their scents.

-[gasps] That's great, Rotom!
-It’s got to work!

So, let’s get Rockruff familiar with
Rowlet and Popplio’s scents right away.

Scents, huh?
What would have Rowlet’s scent?

Ruff. Rockruff!

Huh? [chuckles] That’s it!

-[whines]
-Rockruff, give this a sniff.

You've got to learn Rowlet’s scent.

[barks]

Of course! Rowlet always sleeps in there.

Here. It’s Popplio’s scent.
I hold it all the time.

[yaps and sniffs]

Now, remember what you learned!

We’re counting on you, Rockruff!

-[barks]
-Wow, that was quick!

When Rockruff wags its tail, it’s trying
to let you know it found something.

So we should go that way, right?

-Toward the forest!
-Bounsweet.

-Thanks so much, Rockruff!
-Ruff. Ruff.

-[Ash] Let’s go!
-[all pant]

[snores softly]

Finally. It’s fast asleep.

-A chance to rendezvous with Meowth.
-Wobbuffet.

[Popplio yaps and Rowlet trills]

[Rowlet trills angrily]

[chuckles]

[sniffs]

-[whines]
-Huh? Did you lose the scent?

Poor Rockruff.

Rockruff? Let’s keep on trying anyway.
Sound good?

-Pika. Pika.
-Ruff!

[trills]

-It’s getting late.
-Let’s move!

Ah.

Pop! Pop!

-Pop! Pop!
-Meow?

-[groans]
-Meow!

[all scream]

[barks]

-Pika.
-Uh! Its tail’s wagging!

-Does that mean...
-You found them?

[barks]

-Uh?
-[barking]

-It’s that way!
-[Ash gasps and pants]

[Jessie and James laugh]

The beauty so radiant,
the flowers and moon hide in shame!

[James]
The nobly heroic man of our times!

[Meowth] A glittering dark star
that always shines bright!

[all] Short, sweet and light!
We know how to do it right!

You guys are geniuses!
You b*at them at their Twerpy game!

But of course! They don’t call
Team Rocket a team for a joke.

-Mareanie.
-[grunting]

Thank to you brats, our plans to finish
our secret base are kaput!

Give us back our all-important
eavesdropping ring!

-[Team Rocket] Huh?
-[Pokémon whine]

-[Jessie] Translate.
-[James] It’s an extra Pokémon.

Let’s see.

It’s a Litten, the Fire Cat Pokémon.

I was just about to catch those two

and you messed it up!

Oh? A party crasher, eh?

-[gibbers]
-Huh?

Translate.

Litten said let 'em go.

Huh?

What an attitude. Posing as a hero.

You do know your friend’s asleep,
don’t you?

[James laughs] Some stress.

-Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop.
-[hoots]

You really know how to rock and roll.

-Hey, want to join Team Rocket?
-[snarls]

-Good idea!
-We can use you.

[both cackle]

Litten!

[Team Rocket] Hot-hot-hot-hot-hot!

-[both gasp]
-I remember getting fried by that move!

That’s the Litten who grabbed our grub!

[Jessie] It is?

-[meows]
-[gasps]

[meows]

-[meows]
-Pop!

Oh. Yeah? Sounds like you got
some serious backstory.

-[meows]
-Huh?

-[trills]
-Huh?

-[meows]
-Wobbu! Wobbu! Wobbu!

[both] Huh? Huh!

[sobs] I feel your pain.

Who knew a Pokémon
could go through stuff like that stuff?

-What stuff? Meowth, translation!
-Fill us in, old chum!

That Pokémon is a true leader.

Litten’s dedicated its life and world
for the sake of the weak.

We’re talking a Ph.D.
from the school of hard knocks!

-I’m actually touched.
-So selfless.

Litten’s such a great Pokémon
in such a cruel world!

Hey, now, dig!
Put your skills to good use!

Hook up with our Team Rocket team
and live the dream!

We’ll take that old school
of hard knocks

and turn it into the college
of lucky breaks!

I second that!

Say the word and we’ll forget
about the food snatching.

[Rowlet trills
and Popplio squeals in panic]

[groans]

Pop!

[meows]

-[meows]
-[Rowlet and Popplio whimper]

[meows]

Litten just gave
the membership green light!

-[Jessie and James] Really?
-Litten.

-[all] Ah!
-Straight from a big-hearted Pokémon!

Yay! It reminds me of the old saying,
the bigger they are, the bigger they are!

With a big dose of hard work,
you’ll rocket to success!

Wobbuffet!

We’re breaking you out of there
and as for you Twerp Pokémon,

stay put, if you know what’s good for you.

[meows]

[all] Oh no!

Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!

[all scream]

[trills]

[screaming]

-Pop!
-Litten!

[screaming]

Listen, bub!
You’ve got a special place in my heart!

It’s Litten joins Team Rocket or bust!

-All right, is everybody ready?
-An Alolan first, to boot!

And here we go.

-[all] We’re blasting off again!
-Wobbuffet.

[pants] Huh? What?

[both gasp]

[barking]

-[Ash] You’re all safe!
-Pika.

-Popplio! Missed you so much!
-I’m so relieved.

[trills excitedly]

Rowlet! Hey, what’s that ring
around your neck?

I’ll get that thing off of you. Uh!

-There!
-[hoots excitedly]

[Ash laughs and Rowlet trills]

-You look a whole lot better!
-[meowing]

Hey, what’s that?
I think I know that sound.

[meows]

[Ash] It’s Litten!

Pop!

Ash! That’s the same Litten
who was with Stoutland!

Mm-hm.

[chuckles]

[hoots]

Pop. Pop. Popplio.

I guess you helped them.
That’s really nice of you, Litten.

How’s Stoutland doing?

[all] Huh?

-Pik!
-Litten!

Ash, Litten left again. Are you sad?

Wow, Litten sure is a mystery.

-We’ll meet again.
-Pikachu.

[whines]

[narrator] And so, the little trio
of Rowlet, Litten, and Popplio

has successfully
wrapped up a big adventure!

Now, will Ash and Litten ever meet again?

Only the stars in the Alolan sky know
the answer, as the journey continues!

[all scream]

Bewear.

Mareanie.

-[Team Rocket] We’re off with a new blast.
-Wobbuffet.