NARRATOR:Ash's next Gym Battle awaits,
our heroes' journey toHearthome City continues,
and we now findthem making their way
through a small town en route!
ALL: [SURPRISED]
ASH: What's up with them?
DAWN: They sure seemexcited about something!
JENNY: Are you here to observe?
If so, please get inthe back of the line!
BROCK: Jenny!
BROCK: Whatever you say!
If a beautiful babe, suchas you, wants me to observe,
then observe iswhat I live for!!
CROAGUNK: [ATTACKING]
BROCK: And die for!
CROAGUNK: [CROAKING]
ASH: Excuse us!
DAWN:I don't think we're exactly sure
what you mean by observe.
JENNY: What? You're herewithout knowing what's going on?
JENNY: You see the one-and-only
Aaron's holding apublic training session!
ASH: Aaron who?
PIKACHU: [CONFUSED]
ASH:Dawn, you sick or something?
DAWN: Aaron's on the front pageof this month's Pokéchic! Look!
DAWN:He's one of the Elite Four!!
On a road, far from home,
you don't haveto feel alone.
Brave and strong,
together we will be.
It's our destiny!
We will be heroes,
We can change theworld if we try!
I go where you go,
Forever friends,you and I!
We will be heroes!
Battle DimensionPokémon!
[ASH READS ON-SCREEN TEXT]
AARON:Now, Drapion! Use Pin m*ssile!
DRAPION: [PIN m*ssile MOVE]
AARON: Nice shot, Drapion!Vespiquen, use Slash now!
VESPIQUEN: [DETERMINED]VESPIQUEN: [EXERTION]
AARON:Yes! You're both looking great!
DAWN: Wow, I can't believe
we're going to meet anothermember of the Elite Four!
PIPLUP: [THRILLED]
ASH: The Elite Four.
ASH: I remember when wemet Lucian a while back.
PIKACHU: [DREAMY]
JENNY: The amazing Lucian,who uses Psychic-type Pokémon,
Bertha who uses Ground types,Flint, who uses Fire types,
and Aaron, who uses Bug types!
JENNY: Of course,
together those awesomechampion Trainers who reign over
the entire PokémonLeague form the Elite Four!
But of all four of them...
JENNY: Aaron's the one who
combines strengthand popularity!
He really walks the walk!
AARON:Now, Drapion! Hyper Beam, go!
DRAPION: [DETERMINED]
DRAPION: [HYPER BEAM MOVE]
AARON: Yes! Excellent work!
DRAPION, VESPIQUEN, SKORUPI:[PROUD]
JENNY: What's more,
Aaron actually understandsthe language of Bug types!
So his combinations are alwaysspot on, perfect and amazing!
BROCK: Jenny!Pull yourself together, please!
JENNY: Don't you see?
Aaron has finally risenup and challenged Cynthia,
Master of the Champion League!
JENNY: And very soon
they're going to have abattle to end all battles!
ASH: Cynthia and Aaron?!
DAWN: I wondered about thechallenger Cynthia mentioned
back in Celestic Town
ASH: I guess she wastalking about Aaron!
BROCK: Sure sounds like it!
JENNY: And Aaron isdefinitely going to win it, too!
JENNY: Then my hero will becomethe latest and the greatest
Champion Master of all!Go, Aaron, go!
BROCK, DAWN, ASH,PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [AMUSED]
AARON: Vespiquen, the timehas come! Use Gust, let's go!
SKORUPI: [FOCUSED]
VESPIQUEN: [GUST MOVE]
AARON: Thank you very much!
We'll put everything we'vegot into our battle with Cynthia
so please know we'll becounting on your support!
DRAPION, SKORUPI, VESPIQUEN:[CONFIDENT]
GIRLS: Aaron!
JENNY: Hey, hold on!I want an autograph, too!
Uh, I mean Please form a line!Calm down everyone!!
DAWN: Oh yeah! That means Icould get an autograph as well!
PIPLUP: [EXCITED]
AARON: Thanks! Now who's next?
ASH: Man, some day I'm gonnaclean up in the Champion League!
ASH: And then, when I challengeAaron and Cynthia, watch out!
PIKACHU: [DETERMINED]
JENNY:Okay, okay. Now no pushing!
Everyone stay in line!
JESSIE: Wow, did you get a lookat that Drapion and Vespiquen?!
Let's steal them and fast!
JAMES: But, I'll have oneof the Elite Four in my face!
MEOWTH: Aaron's not going to
hand over hisPokémon with a smile.
JAMES, MEOWTH, WOBBUFFET:[DEJECTED AFFIRMATIVE]
JESSIE: Stop!
JESSIE: Don't yourealize we'll make a fortune
by selling our exclusiveElite Four brand Pokémon line?!
JAMES: Wow, we can do that?
JESSIE: Sure!
JESSIE: Get a load of this:
"Where peasantsand Elites meet!"
That's the kind ofsloganeering that sells!
JAMES: Well, perhaps.
JESSIE:Kids today will buy anything!
MEOWTH:When it comes to immaturity,
no one knows better than Jessie,
so maybe our girlis on to something.
JAMES:How can I argue with that logic?
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
JESSIE: Then let's prepareto morph into merchant moguls!
AARON: Here you go!
AARON: And thanks for coming!
GIRL: No, thank you!
I'll treasurethis moment forever!
AARON:Well! You're the last one.
DAWN:I'm Dawn! Please sign this?
AARON: I'd be happy to!
DAWN: Also...
DAWN:Cynthia told me the Elite Four
are powerful battlers so she'snot going easy on you, no way!
AARON: Do you knowher personally, then?
DAWN: Yup! We all mether in Celestic Town!
Right? Ash? Brock?
ASH: That's right, and we'll bethere rooting for both of you!
BROCK: Good luck, Aaron!
DAWN: We're allexpecting quite a battle!
AARON:Cynthia's definitely powerful
but I've been training alot as well! Feeling great!
DRAPION: [DETERMINED]
VESPIQUEN: [DETERMINED]
SKORUPI: [DETERMINED]
ASH: Here's what I wanna do.
I wanna battle my waythrough the Champion League
and then become a League Master
or maybe even becomeone of the Elite Four!
PIKACHU: [EXCITED]
AARON: Well, you give it a shot!
I know! Maybe youfolks would like to come out
and see my training center.What do you all say to that?
ASH, DAWN, BROCK: Sure!
AARON: It would be anhonor for me to have a visit
from friends of Cynthia!
BROCK:Do you know what this means?
No one gets the chance to
witness one ofthe Elite Four train!
DAWN: Wow!
ASH:We'd love to come! Thank you!
PIKACHU: [HAPPY]
PIPLUP: [HAPPY]
DAWN: Beautiful!
DAWN:What a gorgeous place to train!
PIPLUP: [AMAZED]
AARON: I built it afterI joined the Elite Four.
It's nice. I love it!
COMBEE [X], MOTHIM: [EXCITED]
SURSKIT [X]: [HAPPY]
LEDYBA: [FOCUSED]VENONAT: [CALM]
ASH:Hey, are those all wild Pokémon?
AARON: Right! And it's obvious
they're all enjoying thenice weather we're having today!
BROCK: This place seems like acomplete paradise for Bug types!
PIKACHU: [AMAZED]
AARON: Drapion! Vespiquen!Come on out and say hi!
DRAPION: [GREETING]
AARON: Good work today!How about some time off?
DRAPION, VESPIQUEN: [HAPPY]
AARON:All right, guess it's my turn.
ASH:Don't you get to relax, too?
AARON: I work out every day!
If I don't keepin tip-top shape,
all my Pokémon will have afield day making fun of me!
BROCK: Well, that's quite agrueling regimen you go through!
DAWN: That's the Elite Four!
ASH: Hey! I wanna try it!
AARON: Just makesure you don't overdo it.
ASH: Nah, I'm fine!
PIKACHU: [ENCOURAGING]
DAWN:Whoa! Would you look at Ash go!
BROCK: I'm sure his rematchwith Fantina's got him inspired!
DAWN: You're right, Brock!
PIPLUP: [AFFIRMATIVE]
DRAPION, VESPIQUEN: [SLEEPY]
JAMES: Nothing like alittle honey on a tree
to lure the Elite Four's Pokémonto be caught by clever me!
MEOWTH: For once I'm kind ofwith you on the clever part!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
JESSIE: Ah. Sweet success!
MEOWTH: You can catch aPokémon with honey much better
than with stupid jokes!
JAMES: So then,let's snare the snoring blokes!
MEOWTH: Okey dokie!
JAMES, MEOWTH: Casting off!
JAMES, JESSIE, MEOWTH:What a catch!!
MUNCHLAX: [HAPPY]
JAMES: Munchlax?!
MEOWTH: There ain't enoughgrub in the world for you!
JAMES: True! De-net at once!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
JESSIE: Perhaps an Elite FourPokémon
wouldn't even like syrup.
MEOWTH: Syrup?
JAMES: What syrup?Not my pancake syrup?
JESSIE: Please.
Grade-A Honey just doesn'tgrow on trees you know.
JAMES: It's for pancakes!
I've been looking forward topancakes and syrup all week!
BEEDRILL [X]: [EXCITED]
MEOWTH: I get the feeling
those Beedrill lovesyrup as much as you do!
WOBBUFFET:[PANICKED AFFIRMATIVE]
BEEDRILLS: [DETERMINED]
JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH:Points taken!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
AARON: All right!
SKORUPI: [URGING]
AARON: Skorupi, thanks!
SUKORUPI: [HAPPY]
BROCK:Did you overdo it a little?
PIKACHU: [QUESTIONING]
ASH:Don't worry about me, I'm great!
AARON: Even so it couldn'thurt to take a little break.
ASH: Good idea!
DAWN:Hey Aaron, who's in the picture?
AARON: Oh, that's the veryfirst Pokémon I ever caught!
In the forest you all just saw!
AARON: When I was young,I lived in town...
AARON: so I'd sneak out tothe forest as much as I could!
KRICKETOT [X]: [CURIOUS]
BURMY [X], VENOMOTH ,BUTTERFREE [X]: [CURIOUS]
AARON: That tree,the tallest one in the forest,
it was beautiful!
AARON:I tried as hard as I could
to climb all the way to the top.But then...
WURMPLE: [GREETING]
WURMPLE: [ENCOURAGING]
WURMPLE: [REASSURING]
YEAR OLD AARON:Thank you so much, Wurmple!
WURMPLE: [HAPPY]
YEAR OLD AARON, WURMPLE:[HAPPY]
AARON: It wasn't longbefore we were best friends!
We were always hanging out inthe forest, playing together!
BROCK: Wow, that sounds great!
You both musthave had so much fun!
AARON: Yup!
ASH: I know just what you mean!
The first Pokémon I capturedon my journey was a Caterpie,
which of course youknow is a Bug type!
AARON: Whoa. I'm impressed!
ASH:Soon it evolved into a Metapod!
ASH: And then a Butterfree,and that was that!
ASH: I wonder a lot whatit's doing and where it is!
PIKACHU: [CURIOUS]
DAWN: So Aaron,
what's that Wurmple friendof yours doing these days?
AARON: Huh? You see...
BROCK, DAWN, AARON, ASH,PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [SHOCKED]
PIKACHU, PIPLUP, SKORUPI:[STRUGGLING]
AARON: Skorupi!DAWN: Piplup!
ASH: Pikachu!
DRAPION: [STRUGGLING]
VESPIQUEN: [SHOCKED]
AARON: Vespiquen, Drapion, no!
PIKACHU, PIPLUP, SKORUPI:[PANICKED]
DRAPION, VESPIQUEN: [PANICKED]]
AARON: All right!I want to know what's going on!
JESSIE: You may be elite,
but you can't alwaysget what you want!
JAMES: Makes it thatmuch more fun to taunt!
-JESSIE: On the wind!-JAMES: Past the stars!
MEOWTH: Love to flaunt!
JESSIE: Bringing chaosat a breakneck pace!
JAMES: Dashing all hope,and putting fear in its place!
JESSIE: A rose by anyother name is just as sweet!
JAMES: When everything's worse,our work is complete!
-JESSIE: Jessie!-JAMES: And it's James!
MEOWTH: Meowth, that's a name!
JESSIE: We're putting thosedo-gooders in their place!
JAMES:After all we're Team Rocket!
JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH:And we're in your face!
AARON: Who's Team Rocket?
BROCK: They're ahorrible group of criminals
who steal people's Pokémon!
JESSIE: "Horrible" may havea completely different meaning
to the non- Twerpish persuasion!
JAMES: After all,
having stolen bothElite Four and Twerp Pokémon.
JAMES: I'd say we'resome kind of wonderful!
MEOWTH:Now that we can start selling
our Elite Four Pokémon line,
we'll give TwerpPokémon as a bonus!
AARON: Well, not so fast!
AARON: Those are our Pokémon!
JESSIE: Seviper, use Haze!
SEVIPER: [HAZE MOVE]
ASH, DAWN: No! Aaron!
BROCK: Aaron, are you all right?
JESSIE: Oh, he'll be fine!
JESSIE: Of course, not as fineas we are, but c'est la vie!
JAMES: Since our inventory isup as you fools can plainly see.
MEOWTH: Bye baby!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
BROCK:Those crooks never change!
DAWN: Up to their dirty,no-good, rotten tricks as usual!
ASH:We can't worry about that now!
We've got a bunch ofour Pokémon to go save!
JESSIE: I'd say that"Elite" was on Empty!
JESSIE: The real "Elite Four"are we four, you see!
JAMES: Authentic champions
are the ones who refuse tolive their lives in denial!
MEOWTH: And of course
we're authentic 'causewe're keeping it real!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
JAMES, JESSIE, WOBBUFFET:[PANICKED]
MEOWTH: What'd I say?
PIKACHU, VESPIQUEN,PIPLUP, DRAPION: [ATTACKING]
JAMES:You're inventory, not a*tillery!
MEOWTH: Stop rocking the boat!
JESSIE:Who wants exploding merchandise?
PIKACHU, VESPIQUEN,PIPLUP, DRAPION: [ATTACKING]
JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH:Oh no. We're in a down market!
LEDIAN: [WORRIED]
DAWN: I was certainTeam Rocket came this way!
BROCK: Well, I sure don'tsee any sign of them now!
AARON: I've got to find them!
AARON: Those are my Pokémon!
My Drapion. My Vespiquen!
My Skorupi!
ASH: Aaron?
AARON: Huh? Uh, I'm sorry.
AARON: See the truth is,
when I was a kid I wasquite a bit of a crybaby.
AARON: I was nogood at battling either.
I was always crying.
WURMPLE: [REASSURING]
YEAR OLD AARON:What?! It's your fault we lost!
YEAR OLD AARON:It's because you're weak!
YEAR OLD AARON:It's totally your fault!
WURMPLE: [CONFUSED]
WURMPLE: [SAD]
AARON: I said horrible thingsto my best friend in the world!
AARON: I felt so awful
AARON: that I went back!
AARON: But too late.
AARON:My Wurmple. My friend was gone.
AARON: After that, I putall my energy into training!
I worked with everyBug-type Pokémon I could find
until I could finallyunderstand their language!
AARON:But losing Wurmple like that...
I never want to gothrough that again!
AARON:I can't let them get away!
I have to help out my friends!
LEDIAN: [CALLING]
LEDIAN: [URGENT]
AARON: Ledian!
LEDIAN: [URGENT]
AARON: What? You're sayingyou saw their balloon crash
right up ahead?!
ASH: Let's go!
AARON: Yeah! Come on!
MEOWTH:Just like goody-goody Pokémon
to band togetherand blow us apart!
I got to say they suredid a bang-up job though!
JESSIE: Will you cut thekudos and get us cranking?
JAMES: Stop being a buffoonand blow us up another balloon!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
MEOWTH: Yes sir!!Soon as you get over yourself
PIKACHU: [ANGRY]
SKORUPI, PIPLUP,DRAPION, VESPIQUEN: [DETERMINED]
JESSIE: Our inventory!
JAMES: Go, Carnivine!
JAMES: BACK BITER!!PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [DETERMINED]
JESSIE: Up and at them, Seviper!
JESSIE: Return our merchandise!
SEVIPER: [THREATENING]
PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [ANGRY]
DRAPION: [ANGRY] / [DETERMINED]
DRAPION, SEVIPER: [EXERTION]
JAMES: All right, Carnivine!Use b*llet Seed!
CARNIVINE: [b*llet SEED MOVE]
VESPIQUEN: [YELP]
VESPIQUEN: [WEAK]
DRAPION, SEVIPER: [SHOCKED]SEVIPER: [EXERTION]
DRAPION: [YELP]
SEVIPER: [TAUNTING]
CARNIVINE: [TAUNTING]
JESSIE:Back in business at last!
JAMES: With no return fees!
PIPLUP, SKORUPI, PIKACHU:[ANGRY]
ASH: Pikachu!
PIKACHU: [SHOCKED]DAWN: Piplup!
AARON: Hey, everybody all right?
AARON: That tree!
AARON: That's whereWurmple and I first met!
PIKACHU: [DETERMINED]
SKORUPI, PIPLUP, PIKACHU:[PANICKED]
MEOWTH: Our Super-SuckerMark Nine's working just fine!
MEOWTH: Time to restockthe proverbial shelves!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
DRAPION, VESPIQUEN: [STRUGGLING]
AARON: Drapion! Vespiquen!
SKORUPI, PIKACHU, PIPLUP:[STRUGGLING]
ASH: Hang on, Pikachu!
DAWN: They can't win, Piplup!
JESSIE: I can't tolerateTwerps with tenacity!
JAMES:Meowth! Turn it up to ten!
MEOWTH: Rock and roll!
SKORUPI, PIKACHU, PIPLUP:[STRUGGLING GRUNTS]
AARON: No! Not that tree!
SKORUPI, PIKACHU, PIPLUP:[STRAINING]
PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [YELLS]
-ASH: Pikachu!-DAWN: Piplup!
SKORUPI, PIPLUP, PIKACHU:[SCREAMING]
JESSIE: Slick!
JAMES:Super Sucker's a suck-cess!
PIPLUP, SKORUPI, PIKACHU:[SCREAMING]
AARON: What was that?!
BROCK: A Solar Beam?
MEOWTH, WOBBUFFET: [PAINED]
PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [SHOCKED]
DRAPION, VESPIQUEN : [CONCERNED]
ASH:Pikachu, are you guys all okay?
PIKACHU, PIPLUP, SKORUPI:[RELIEVED]
ASH: Check it out!
DAWN, BEAUTIFLY: A Beautifly!
BROCK: Of course!
The Solar Beam had to havebeen launched by that Beautifly!
AARON: Are you?
AARON:So, you're really my Wurmple?
You evolved into a Beautifly!
BEAUTIFLY: [HAPPY]
DAWN: That means aftereverything you went through,
your Wurmple evolvedand then came back home!
BEAUTIFLY:[HAPPY] / [REASSURRING]
AARON: Beautifly says it wantedto get stronger and help me
so it went off byitself and started training!
ASH: Awesome! So Beautiflyremembered all the good times
you two had battling together.
DAWN:And then hurried back home!
BEAUTIFLY: [REASSURING]
JESSIE: One second saps!
BEAUTIFLY: [SURPRISED]
JESSIE:Your reunion is making me sick!
JAMES:And we've got a business to run!
So now the peasantsand Elite meet,
except we're the Eliteand you're the peasants!
JESSIE: Now Seviper, once more!
JAMES: Carnivine, full bore!
SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [ATTACKING]
ASH: Yeah? No way!
ASH: Pikachu, go!
DAWN: Piplup, go with Pikachu!
PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [AFFIRMATIVE]
JESSIE: Use Haze!
SEVIPER: [HAZE MOVE]
PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [SHOCKED]BEAUTIFLY: [PLEADING]
AARON: You bet!
AARON: All right Beautifly,use Whirlwind!
BEAUTIFLY: [WHIRLWIND MOVE]
SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [SHOCKED]
AARON:All right Vespiquen, use Slash,
and Drapion, use Hyper Beam!!
DRAPION, VESPIQUEN: [ATTACKING]
SEVIPER: [YELP]
CARNIVINE, VESPIQUEN:[YELP][EXERTION]
AARON:Great! Let's wrap this up!
ASH, DAWN: Right!
ASH:Pikachu! Thunderbolt, let's go!
DAWN: Piplup! Use Bubble Beam!
AARON: Beautifly!Solar Beam, full blast!
PIKACHU: [THUNDERBOLT MOVE]
PIPLUP: [BUBBLE BEAM MOVE]
BEAUTIFLY: [SOLAR BEAM MOVE]
MEOWTH: Again! Twerp Pokémon,
when combined withElite Four Pokémon, can rock!
A combination worthy of respect!
JESSIE: Unlike you
and that turn-coattraitor tongue of yours!
JAMES:Well, I'll call our attorneys
and close our business,and it's all your fault!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH:We're blasting off again!
ASH: We did it!
PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [EXCITED]
AARON:And thank you, Beautifly!
AARON:None of this would've worked
without your help. And look!
AARON: It all happenedin front of our tree!
BEAUTIFLY: [HAPPY]
AARON: We'll be ateam from here on out!
And now there'snothing that can stop us
from becomingChampion League Masters!
SKORUPI, DRAPION, VESPIQUEN:[EXCITED CRY]
BEAUTIFLY: [HAPPY]
SKORUPI, DRAPION, VESPIQUEN:[EXCITED]
BEAUTIFLY: [EXCITED]
DAWN: I'm so glad that Wurmple,I mean Beautifly, came home!
PIPLUP: [HAPPY]
BROCK: Wow, with Beautifly alongtheir team's even more amazing!
ASH: Well, we've gotan amazing team, too!
Ready to train harder, buddy?
PIKACHU: [AFFIRMATIVE]
ASH: Aaron, thank you somuch for an awesome day today!
BROCK: I can't believehow much we all learned!
DAWN: I'm really looking forwardto your battle against Cynthia!
PIPLUP: [EXCITED]
AARON: Thanks! I knowwe'll give it all we've got!
Good luck with your rematchagainst Fantina! Do your best!
ASH: Right!That's the only way I roll!
PIKACHU: [CONFIDENT]
ASH: See you around, Aaron!
AARON: Bye bye! You take care!
SKORUPI, DRAPION,VESPIQUEN, BEAUTIFLY: [FRIENDLY]
NARRATOR: And so,
an amazing day spent witha member of the Elite Four
turns out to be aheartwarming day as well!
NARRATOR:As witnessing a reunion
with Aaron's belovedPokémon from the past
has given our heroes anexperience they'll never forget,
as their journey continues!
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
11x47 - A Trainer and Child Reunion!
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Japanese anime follows Ash a young trainer of fictional creatures called Pokémon.
Japanese anime follows Ash a young trainer of fictional creatures called Pokémon.