24x18 - Under Color of Darkness! (Flabebe's White Flower)

[bunniefuu]

[playful music]

[narrator] Ash's goal is to battle one of the world's greatest Trainers, Leon.

Goh's goal is to catch one of every kind of Pokémon, including Mew.

This is the story of their adventure-filled journey

through the world of Pokémon!

[camera shutter clicks]

[birds chirping]

This is the Cerise Park flower garden.

With its wide variety of beautifully colored flowers,

it's a favorite spot for Pokémon to relax.

[happily chatter]

[both] Exeggutor!

[laughs] Does it feel good?

Grookey-key!

Water's the best! Don't you think?

Pikachu!

-[ Flabébé chattering] -Huh.

-[ Flabébé chattering continues] -Uh… huh?

[ Flabébé gibbering]

Look at that!

Are the Flabébé having a race?

Yeah! Do your best, everyone!

[all gibbering]

[pants]

-[Goh] Oh. -[Ash] Huh?

[all gibbering]

-[delighted gasp] -Awesome! They evolved!

[Goh's Rotom] Floette has been registered to your Pokédex!

[chimes]

Floette. The Single Bloom Pokémon.

A Fairy type.

Floette flies around fields of flowers,

caring for the ones that aren't getting enough water.

It battles by using the innate power of flowers.

Great! All five Flabébé have evolved into…

-Wait a minute. -Huh?

[Goh] Uh… Where's the White Flower Flabébé?

[Grookey mumbles]

Hey! Flabébé?

[both gasp]

[mumbling]

Ah!

-[grunting] -[Goh yelps]

[both] Argh!

Pikachu.

[Goh gasps]

[Goh] Its flower is missing a petal!

[Ash] No wonder it couldn't fly so well.

[groans sadly]

Now, what'll you do?

There's nothing else for us to do but find another white flower.

Guess you're right.

But then where do we find it?

I don't see any around here.

I bet we find one in Kalos near where I caught Flabébé!

[mumbles]

Don't you worry, Flabébé!

We'll get you a white flower for sure!

Flabébé!

Let's go find Flabébé its flower now!

Off to Kalos!

-[Ash, Goh] Let's go! -Pika, pika!

[whooshing]

♪ Take me on a journey ♪

♪ Please choose me ♪

♪ We could be the best team of all time ♪

♪ We'll do everything together ♪

♪ Learning, training, never stopping ♪

♪ Go, go, go! ♪

♪ Anywhere you're going so am I ♪

♪ Take me on a journey to your heart ♪

♪ The journey to your heart ♪

♪ Pokémon! ♪

[theme music]

[Ash and Goh] "Under Color of Darkness!"

[tranquil music]

[Ash] Hmm.

I'm pretty sure I caught Flabébé right around here.

Do you think you'd be able to show me where the white flowers you like are?

Ba, ba!

-Oh. -[both gasp]

Flying on that flower is dangerous!

[groans]

Once it's on top of the flower, it wants to fly.

You're right.

That's why I'll keep this flower safe.

Ba.

Ba!

-Ba. -Huh?

[happily] Ba.

Flabé!

-[Ash and Goh] Up there? -Pika?

What's up?

[Ash] It must feel more comfortable up there

since there's your hair to grab onto.

Really? My hair?

Ba, ba.

-Uh… -Ba, ba.

Are you trying to say…

Flabébé!

I think it's saying forward march!

Yeah. Makes sense.

He wants to pilot me instead of the flower!

Oh. Whaddaya know! I'm suddenly marching!

-Hup, hup, hup. -[chuckles]

Flabé! Flabé!

Good going, Flabébé! Keep it up!

Pika!

I wonder where we'll we end up marching to?

[gibbers]

-[babbling] -[groaning]

Ah, that hurts!

Grookey, you're pulling too hard!

[Goh] Stop! Stop!

-[nervous chuckle] -Pikachu.

[birds chirping]

[Flabébé mumbles]

-Is this the place? -[gasps]

Ba, ba.

Ba, ba!

[Ash and Goh gasp]

You're serious?

Are you telling me you found your flower where that boulder is?

[groans sadly]

[screaming]

[Goh] Who would've predicted a boulder would land on that very spot?

And there wasn't a single white flower in the whole area.

We'll find some place else.

Yeah. We've only just begun the search.

[Goh] So cheer up, okay?

[sadly sighs]

Hmm.

Ah!

Hey, Flabébé?

Would you like to give this yummy honey a taste?

-[sadly mumbles] -[gasps]

[sadly sighs]

[worried mumble]

Grookey!

[mumbles]

Grookey-key!

-Huh. Ah! -[Ash] Ah!

-[squelches] -[mumbles]

[gibbering]

[mumbles]

[gibbers]

[giggling]

Flabébé laughed!

-Pikachu! -[Goh grunts]

-[both chuckling] -[giggling]

Huh.

[Cerise] I see, an unforeseen complication, huh?

[Ash] What do we do? Is there any other place it blooms?

Hmm.

The problem is White Flower Flabébé aren't seen much.

As a result, hardly anyone has ever found their flowers.

That's too bad.

[Cerise] But we'll research what we can,

and if we find something, we'll be in touch.

Thanks, Professor.

-[chimes] -[sighs]

This sounds a lot harder than I thought it would be.

-Yeah, but we've gotta try! -You're right.

[Goh] We'll go our own way and search for another spot.

-[Ash] Yeah! -[Pikachu] Pikachu!

[mumbling happily]

[all snoring]

[Flabébé] Ba. Ba.

Ba! Ba!

-Flabébé? -Ba, ba. Ba!

[suspenseful music]

Just where is it you want us to go?

[sadly mumbles]

I know. It's not easy to sleep.

[Goh] You know? The air at night is pretty nice.

[Flabébé] Ba…

[Goh] It's not the same as the daytime.

It's just… kind of special.

-Flabé! -Hmm.

Why don't we take a short walk?

[chuckles]

[crickets chirping]

[all panting]

We're gonna look everywhere for Flabébé's white flower!

There's no doubt we're gonna find it!

-Grookey-key! -Pika-pika!

Flabé!

-[Ash sighs] -Grookey, grookey!

Hey, Goh! Come here!

[sadly] Ba.

Pika.

[sadly] Ba.

Ba.

Pikachu!

Ba.

Grookey-key.

Ba.

What about this?

Ba.

Ba. [echoes]

Ba…

Ba… [echoing continues]

[sadly] Ba.

[all groaning sadly]

[Ash] We searched hard and didn't come up with a thing!

Although there were plenty that looked right.

But for Flabébé, they just weren't right, you know.

Maybe we should go back to the lab and work on a new plan.

Ba, ba.

Huh?

[chuckles]

[Goh] Here!

[happily] Ba.

It sure looks happy!

You're right.

Flabébé seems to be enjoying its perch up on my head.

-[Grookey gasps] -So Flabébé, don't worry one bit!

You can stay up there as long as you want till we find your flower,

or even if we never find it.

[sadly] Ba.

What if, somewhere down the line, you start flying like a flower?

That'd be fantastic!

Ba!

[sadly] Ba.

[crickets chirping]

[both snoring]

-Grookey. -[groans]

That hurt.

Huh. Huh?

[gasps]

Huh?

[grunting]

Ba!

[yelps]

[worried gasp]

[grunts]

Ba!

[yelping]

[surprised groan]

[Goh relievedly sighs]

I understand.

Even though I don't mind,

being on top of my head isn't what you really want.

Tell you what!

Tomorrow we find you a new flower!

Ba. Ba!

Flabé!

[chuckles quietly]

[Ash] Who's that Pokémon?

[cheerful music]

Pika?

[Flabébé] Flabé!

Pika, pika!

That all happened last night?

Wow! I'm sorry, but I didn't hear anything.

Well, it was really, really late.

Come to think of it,

I went for a walk with Flabébé the night before, as well.

I wonder if it prefers the night.

-[Rotom phone chimes] -Huh?

[Goh] Professor Cerise!

-Did you find something? -[Cerise] Yes.

I managed to get in touch with someone

who knows about White Flower Flabébé flowers!

-All right! -Who's that?

They're at a plant lab.

I'll send you the info.

[Ash and Goh] Hello?

[researcher] Welcome.

I hear you've come quite a long way.

I heard everything from Professor Cerise.

-Huh? -A Florges!

Flabébé's final evolved form!

[Goh's Rotom] Florges. The Garden Pokémon.

A Fairy type.

Long ago, the governors of castles invited Florges

to help with their gardens, which they built by working together.

Flabé.

Flor… Florges.

Pika?

It's all right. Just watch.

[both] Huh?

Florges. Flo.

Florges.

-Flo. Florges! -[tinkling]

[both groan happily]

Flabé! Flabé!

Pika!

That move… Was it Grassy Terrain?

That's right.

It's a wonderful way to give new energy to all kinds of plant life.

Wow, Flabébé looks really happy!

Grookey-groo.

All three forms love flowers and live alongside them.

[researcher] Flabébé is drawn to flowers,

Floette raises them,

and it's said that Florges spends its entire life

protecting flower gardens!

Flo, florges.

Flabé!

[impressed gasp]

[researcher] Actually, that Florges lost its orange flower

as a Flabébé a long time ago.

[Ash and Goh] Huh?

[researcher] They're almost as rare as white flowers,

so finding another one was quite a task.

[researcher] I'm sure that's why Florges is so drawn to Flabébé.

They're so similar.

These are Florges's flowers.

I don't seem to have the talent to make them all grow,

so even with Florges's power,

I can't increase their numbers.

Flabé?

Flo.

All right!

I wanna find Flabébé a new flower too!

Yes, about that.

I saw data from a researcher I know

saying if you head north, deep in the mountains,

you should be able to find

-a patch of White Flabébé flowers. -Really?

[both chuckle]

Good luck, you guys.

[both] Yes, ma'am! Thank you so much!

[gentle music]

Isn't this great?

We'll be sure to find them this time!

Fla… bé… bé!

Hey, that's Grassy Terrain, isn't it?

You were imitating Florges, weren't you?

Flabébé admires Florges!

And someday, you will have to make a garden of its own too.

Flabébé!

[cheerful music]

[mumbling]

[Goh] This is supposed to be the area, but…

we can't seem to find anything that looks right.

[Ash] Pikachu, we're looking for white flowers.

If you see them, lemme know.

Pika!

Grookey-key!

-Grookey, grookey, grookey. -[Goh panting]

[Goh] Wow, did you find them?

-[gibbers] -[Ash] Whoa!

[Ash] But they're pink…

-That's not right. -Grook, grook, grook.

Let's search over there.

-Sure. -Pika.

[both squawking]

I was hoping for a patch, but we haven't even found a single flower.

That's true, but she did say that they don't grow all that easily.

Pika.

Grook.

I hope they didn't all wilt for some reason.

That would be awful.

Ba.

Ba, ba!

[groans] What's going on?

I think it wants to go that way!

But that would just be heading backward.

-[surprised groan] -[gibbers]

Ow, ow! Okay! Okay, I said!

Grookey!

[tranquil music]

[Goh panting]

[Flabébé] Flabé!

[Goh] We saw those before.

[Ash] But they're not white. They're pink.

[dreamy music]

[Ash gasps]

[Goh] Oh!

[amazed gasp]

Pika…

-[awed gasp] -Grookey-key.

Flabé!

[Ash gasps]

Pink flower buds blooming into white flowers during the nighttime…

So that's how it works!

Pikachu.

-Grookey-groo. -Mm.

Ba!

Climb aboard. Go!

Ba!

[gibbering]

[Goh chuckles]

You did it! Wow!

You caught a white flower!

-Pika. -[both gasp]

-[mumbling] -[Goh] Huh? Another?

[Ash] It has no flower.

Maybe it's choosing a flower for the very first time.

[grunting]

Flabé. Flabé!

[chuckles]

-Flabéla! -Flabé!

-Bé! -[chuckles]

Flabé!

[chuckles]

Flabébé!

Bye! You take good care now.

Hmm.

-Pikachu. -Grookey-key!

Ba, ba.

[both gasp]

But that only leaves a single flower left for here.

You're right. I wish there were other flowers too, but…

What would happen if they vanished completely?

Ba.

Ba.

[magical music]

Isn't that…

It's Grassy Terrain.

[all gasp]

[dreamy music]

Floette.

It evolved into Floette!

Grookey-key.

Floette.

[dramatic music]

Look at that…

[chiming]

[uplifting music]

Awesome! It used Grassy Terrain!

Floette, you're amazing!

Floette.

Huh?

Flabébé is drawn to flowers,

Floette raises them,

and it's said that Florges spends its entire life

protecting flower gardens!

And someday, you will have to make a garden of its own too.

Flabébé!

I know.

You wanna stay here and protect those white flowers, don't you?

Floette.

Goh…

Hmm.

If that's what Floette wants, then that's what I want too.

We can't let those precious flowers of yours wither, can we?

Floette.

Mm.

[crickets creak]

[Goh] We'll let you go now, Floette.

[Ash] Thanks for seeing us off!

Floette.

-Pika. -You do your best!

Take care of yourself.

[sobbing] Grookey, grookey, grookey…

Floette.

Pika.

You really care about Floette a lot, don't you?

I do too, Grookey.

That's why we'll give it a good goodbye!

That way Floette can give the job its all!

And someday, when all of us come back…

Know what we'll see?

Floette's beautiful white flower garden!

[Grookey sobs]

[Goh] Right?

Floette!

Goodbye. Take good care!

[narrator] Ash and Goh watched over Flabébé as it evolved.

Now they'll go on to meet even more people and Pokémon,

as the journey continues!

[closing theme music]