PIPLUP: [STARTLED] / [BIDE MOVE]
PIPLUP: [EXHAUSTED]
Sometimes it's hard to know,
Which way you're supposed to go.
But deep inside, you know you're strong.
If you follow your heart, you can't be wrong.
Stand up! [Stand up!]
For what is right.
Be brave!
Get ready to fight.
Hold on! [Hold on!]
We're friends for life.
And if we come,
together as one,
Complete the quest, that we've begun,
We will win the battle!
Galactic Battles! Pokémon!
[CHEERING]
NARRATOR: As Dawn excitedly prepares for her newly
discovered upcoming Pokémon Contest in Sandalstraw Town, our
heroes find shelter at a quaint nearby Pokémon Center.
DAWN: All right, everybody, come on out!
MAMOSWINE, BUNEARY, AMBIPOM, PACHIRISU: [APPEARING]
DAWN: We're closing in on our fifth ribbon! So let's train
like there's no tomorrow!
MAMOSWINE, AMBIPOM, BUNEARY, PACHIRISU, PIPLUP: [EXCITED]
PIPLUP: [WEAK]
BROCK, ASH, DAWN, MAMOSWINE, AMBIPOM, BUNEARY: [SURPRISED]
DAWN: Piplup?
ASH: Hey, are you feeling all right?
PIKACHU: [CONCERNED]
PIPLUP: [DAZED]
DAWN: You've been acting strange lately.
Are you certain you're all right?
BARRY: Look out look out look out look out!
ASH, PIKACHU: [IMPACT]
BROCK: Ash, you okay?
PIKACHU: [CONCERNED]
BARRY: Why you, I ought to.
ASH, BROCK, DAWN, PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [SURPRISED]
BARRY: What do you think you're doing? I'm going to make you pay
a fine for that! It's you, Ash!
ASH: Barry!
PIKACHU: [SURPRISED]
KENNY: Hey there, Dee Dee. Long time.
DAWN: Kenny?
KENNY: Obviously you're going to enter the Sandalstraw Contest,
too. Right, Dee Dee?
DAWN: Look, you'd better stop calling me "Dee Dee," or else!
BARRY: Just a cotton-picking minute! Are you trying to say
you two know each other?
ASH: You know Kenny, too, Barry?
BARRY: Of course! Best buddies! Right?
KENNY: Yeah! Although we just
met each other now for the first time!
BARRY: See, I just found out both Kenny and I
are from Twinleaf Town!
BARRY: So that means we're practically like brothers!
The deal is, Kenny's going to enter the contest, and then I'll
enter Pokémon Ping Pong for a double win! We're going to do
some special training!
ASH: Pokémon Ping Pong?
BARRY: You don't know what that is?
Let me see if I've got it. Yeah, here!
BARRY: You see, they're holding ping pong after the contest,
and all the strongest competitors
are going to be there!
BROCK: I remember reading about this at the Pokémon Center!
It's doubles ping pong where Trainer and Pokémon form a team!
BARRY: Okay, Empoleon! Come on out!
EMPOLEON: [APPEARING]
BARRY: Empoleon and I are going to kick up a mighty massive wind
with our super-special smashes!
BARRY: Lookie here! All right!
PIPLUP: [PANICKING]
DAWN: Piplup, what's wrong?
BROCK: I wonder if that light means.
KENNY: Yup! Piplup's starting to evolve!
DAWN: Evolve?
ASH: Piplup's going to become Prinplup!
PIKACHU: [EXCITED]
PIPLUP: [BIDE MOVE]
DAWN: That looks like Bide!
PIPLUP: [STRUGGLING]
ASH: The Evolution stopped!
PIKACHU: [SURPRISED]
ASH, BROCK, DAWN, KENNY, PIKACHU: [CONCERNED]
DAWN: No, Piplup, please! Say something!
BROCK: Let's get Piplup to Nurse Joy! Quickly!
DAWN: Right!
BARRY: Hey! Wait!
DAWN: How's Piplup? Everything will be okay, won't it?
JOY: Dawn, don't worry!
Your Piplup just used up a lot of its energy.
A good rest is all that's needed right now!
CHANSEY: [ENCOURAGING]
DAWN: Thank goodness!
PIPLUP: [PEACEFUL]
DAWN: What a surprise! I had no idea Piplup was about to evolve!
DAWN: Of course I knew that this day was going to come
eventually, but when it happens, it's still a surprise!
KENNY: Well, it's not surprising me! It's because of what a good
Trainer you are!
BARRY: Yeah, Kenny's right! Great job, Dawn!
BARRY: I'll tell you, the evolutionary road from Piplup to
Empoleon only gets harder and harder, you just mark my words!
KENNY: And compared to Piplup, Prinplup's twice as big!
Which gives you twice as much of a chance
KENNY: to show off what you've got in a contest, of course!
ASH: You're going to have to change the way you do battle,
Dawn. Remember, with Grotle, it was the exact same thing for me!
DAWN: That's right. Hey, no need to worry!
I went through the same thing with Swinub
evolving into Mamoswine!
ASH: Oh yeah?
DAWN: Yeah, Ash! I'll have a Prinplup soon! I'm starting to
get really psyched!
ASH: Hey, Brock, what's up?
PIKACHU: [PUZZLED]
BROCK: Oh, it's nothing.
JAMES: Note the Twerp trio! A Twerpette, a contest Twerp,
and fining Twerp in one place! And with their Piplup, Prinplup,
and Empoleon, it's a steal!
MEOWTH: With the emphasis on "steal"! We can't pass up an
evolutionary set like that!
JESSIE: Comprising a triple-play power gift for the Boss!
While the Twerps take the loss!
JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: We're sneaky, and snarky, and crafty,
and soon we'll be richie with money!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
PIPLUP: [STARTLED]
DAWN: Glad you're awake! Want something to eat?
PIPLUP: [DISMISSIVE]
DAWN: Okay, then, maybe later.
DAWN: Piplup, I'm sorry!
I should have known you were going to evolve.
But hey, isn't it great?
PIPLUP: [SURPRISED]
DAWN: Wow, soon you're going to be a Prinplup! Awesome.
PIPLUP: [DENYING]
DAWN: Hey! It's natural to be scared, but you'll be fine!
I'm going to be right there with you! Okay?
PIPLUP: [AGITATED]
DAWN: Piplup, stop! You've got to calm yourself down, please!
DAWN: There's that light!
Piplup, just let it happen this time!
PIPLUP: [BIDE MOVE]
DAWN: Are you using Bide again?
PIPLUP: [EXHAUSTED]
DAWN: That was Bide. Piplup, why do you keep on doing that?
DAWN: See, if you evolve into Prinplup, then you'll get bigger
and be able to learn all sorts of amazing new moves!
DAWN: And then we'll be able to win more contests, and.
DAWN: What's wrong?
PIPLUP: [UPSET]
DAWN: Piplup, wait!
DAWN: Piplup!
ASH, BROCK, KENNY, PIKACHU: [AGITATED]
BARRY: Chill! You'll enter Pokémon Ping Pong, too!
So of course you'll need to train! We'll all train together!
BROCK: Wait a minute, Barry! I never said I was going to enter!
BARRY: But, Brock, don't you get it? We can't lose!
The doorway to becoming the world's strongest ping pong team
is about to open before our eyes!
EMPOLEON: [INSISTENT]
DAWN: Guys!
KENNY: Whoa, Dawn, what's wrong?
DAWN: You've got to help me. It's Piplup!
BROCK: I get it. Now it makes sense.
ASH: What makes sense?
BROCK: Piplup wanted nothing to do with evolving, which is why
it's using Bide!
ASH: For sure? Whoa!
BROCK: And Piplup's been at this for a while. That's why
Piplup's been using up so much energy!
DAWN: I don't understand it.
Poor Piplup must be starving by now.
DAWN: One thing's for sure.we've got to look for Piplup now!
ASH: Right! Let's split up!
ASH: Okay, Brock, we'll go this way!
BROCK: Right!
PIKACHU: [DETERMINED]
KENNY: All right, Prinplup! Come out and help!
PRINPLUP: [APPEARING]
KENNY: Come on, Barry. We'll go this way!
BARRY: Right!
PRINPLUP, EMPOLEON: [DETERMINED]
DAWN: Thanks! And good luck!
DAWN: What's that?
PIPLUP: [BIDE MOVE]
PIPLUP: [STARTLED]
DAWN: Piplup. Oh no! Are you okay?
PIPLUP: [EXHAUSTED]
DAWN: You used Bide again to stop from evolving, didn't you?
Why do you keep doing that? You do want to evolve, don't you?
PIPLUP: [INDIGNANT]
DAWN: What, Piplup? Why are you so mad?
PIPLUP: [UPSET]
PIPLUP: [BUBBLE BEAM MOVE]
DAWN: Piplup?
DAWN: Where could Piplup have gone?
PIPLUP: [SCARED]
DAWN: Piplup! Hold on!
DAWN: Ariados!
ARIADOS: [ATTACK]
PIPLUP: [BUBBLE BEAM MOVE]
ARIADOS: [PAINED]
DAWN: Now's my chance!
PIPLUP: [CONCERNED]
PIPLUP: [SCARED]
DAWN: I'll catch you!
PIPLUP: [GRATEFUL]
DAWN: You're safe!
PIPLUP: [WEAK]
ARIADOS: [THREATENING]
PIPLUP: [SURPRISED]
ARIADOS [X ]: [THREATENING]
DAWN: Whoa. There's a lot of them.
PIPLUP: [NERVOUS]
DAWN: Is that what I think it is?
DAWN: It is. It's Hyper Beam!
PIPLUP: [SCARED]
DAWN: It is. It's Hyper Beam!
PIPLUP: [SCARED]
ARIADOS [X ]: [HYPER BEAM MOVE]
PIPLUP: [DEFIANT]
DAWN: Piplup?
DAWN: Piplup,no!
PIPLUP: [EXHAUSTED]
DAWN: Piplup.
DAWN: Piplup.
KENNY: I don't see Piplup, do you?
BARRY: No, let's try somewhere else.
KENNY: Yeah, right.
PRINPLUP, EMPOLEON: [PAINED]
KENNY: Prinplup,no!
PRINPLUP, EMPOLEON: [STRUGGLING]
PRINPLUP, EMPOLEON: [SHOCKED]
BARRY: Whoever's doing that, you're going to get fined!
Empoleon! Hydro Cannon!
KENNY: All right, Prinplup, use Bubble Beam!
EMPOLEON: [HYDRO CANNON MOVE]
PRINPLUP: [BUBBLE BEAM MOVE]
EMPOLEON, PRINPLUP: [STUNNED]
KENNY: No way!
BARRY: Okay, who's doing that?
BARRY, KENNY: What the.
PIPLUP: [CURIOUS]
DAWN: I don't know how to thank you, Piplup!
You saved my life back there!
PIPLUP: [PROUD]
DAWN: Piplup, remember? This very same thing happened once
before. A long time ago, on the first day you and I met.
PIPLUP: [FRANTIC]
ARIADOS [X ]: [ATTACK]
PIPLUP: [BIDE MOVE]
DAWN: And because of what happened that day in the forest,
I chose you at Professor Rowan's research lab!
PIPLUP: [URGENT]
ASH : Dawn!
PIKACHU: [RELIEVED]
DAWN: Hey guys!
BROCK: Wow! What a relief to see Piplup's okay!
ASH: Yeah, so let's get back to the Pokémon Center!
PIKACHU: [AGREEMENT]
PIPLUP: [SHOCKED]
DAWN: Piplup!
BROCK: Oh no![SHOCKED]
DAWN: What's that?
ASH: It's Prinplup and Empoleon!
KENNY: Give back my Prinplup right now!
BARRY: Do you have any idea how much I'm going to fine you
for stealing Empoleon?
JESSIE: Chitter chatter!Is that the lurid lilts of hot air I'm
hearing, whether I like it or not?
JAMES: Putting my poor eardrums on the spot!
JESSIE: On the wind!
JAMES: Past the stars!
MEOWTH: There's a lot!
JESSIE: Bringing chaos at a breakneck pace!
JAMES: Dashing hope,putting fear in its place!
BARRY: Save it for someone else.You're Team m*ssile, right?
MEOWTH: That's Team Rocket, lug nut!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
DAWN: Piplup, Prinplup, and Empoleon belong to us!
JESSIE: Such Twerpish denial.
The fact is we're the only team worthy of owning a great
evolutionary set like this!
KENNY: Are you nuts?
ASH: They sure are!
ASH: Pikachu! Thunderbolt, let's go!
PIKACHU: [THUNDERBOLT MOVE]
PRINPLUP, EMPOLEON: [PAINED]
ASH, BROCK, DAWN, KENNY, BARRY, PIKACHU: [SHOCKED]
JESSIE: The more zapping you insist on doing, the more zapped
your Pokémon friends will be feeling!
JAMES: You're powerless against our Piprinoleon,
so just give it up!
MEOWTH: Although watching you dopes do the dumbest things
overand over takes its toll, we've got our pride! Ride!
JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: Let's slide!
DAWN, BROCK, ASH, BARRY, KENNY, PIKACHU: [SCARED]
PIPLUP: [SCARED]
DAWN: Piplup!
ASH: Dawn,no!
PIKACHU: [DETERMINED]
DAWN: You okay, Piplup?
PIPLUP: [SCARED]
DAWN: Don't worry, I'll get you out of there! No good!
MEOWTH: When the Boss gets this evolutionary package deal,
we'll be rich while keeping it real!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
MEOWTH: Jumping Twerpettes!
DAWN: Piplup belongs to me! Give Piplup back now!
PIPLUP: [PECK MOVE]
PIPLUP: [DETERMINED]
JESSIE: We get the word "now"!
It's the "give back" part of your pointless demand
that falls upon deaf ears!
JAMES: Not to mention that our Piprinoleon is private property!
And you're trespassing!
PIPLUP: [CONFIDENT]
DAWN: Piplup!
PIPLUP: [CHALLENGING]
MEOWTH: That impudent little Twerp Pokémon's saying if we
want the Twerpette, we're going tohave to go through
Piplup first!
JESSIE: Impudent's a big word, but well used!
JAMES: Compared with catching Empoleon and Prinplup, catching
you will be a day at the beach!
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
PIPLUP: [OFFENDED]
MEOWTH: Whoa, tough talk! Piplup says it'll take us apart like it
did those scary Ariados! Big mouth!
DAWN: Don't overdo it! I can still protect you!
PIPLUP: [INSISTENT]
MEOWTH: Now Piplup's saying it's going to protect the
Twerpette just like it did way back on Day One!
MEOWTH: "I'll always be here to protect you"
is what I'm hearing.
MEOWTH: I dig where Piplup's coming from! I always wanted to
protect the Boss by keeping that pompous Persian
mucho miles away!
DAWN: I get it now. That's why
you've been using Bide so you wouldn't evolve.
PIPLUP: [AGREEMENT]
DAWN: And I also realize that you chose me! Because of what
happened that day in the forest!
PIPLUP: [AGREEMENT]
MEOWTH: Wow! Gets me right here!
I've neverheard a beautiful story like that!
JESSIE: Will you stop wearing your heart on your sleeve?
JAMES: Truly! Now, you saps, let Meowth's sappiness be!
DAWN: That means you and I will be the most special of special
partners forever! Now use Whirlpool!
PIPLUP: [WHIRLPOOL MOVE]
PRINPLUP, EMPOLEON: [WEAK]
DAWN: Oh my. Are you okay?
PIPLUP: [CONCERNED]
JESSIE: Tacky Twerpette!
JESSIE: The only arrogance I can stand is mine!
JAMES: I think a Pokémon battle would be just what the
doctor ordered!
JAMES: All right, Carnivine, hop to it!
CARNIVINE: [APPEARING]
JAMES: Why you can't seem to hop to it without biting is
beyond me! Vine Whip!
JESSIE: Quick, Seviper, use Poison Tail!
SEVIPER: [POISON TAIL MOVE]
DAWN: All right, Piplup, use Bubble Beam!
PIPLUP: [BUBBLE BEAM MOVE]
SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [PAINED]
DAWN: Excellent!
PIPLUP: [PROUD]
DAWN: No, not at a time like this!
PIPLUP: [BIDE MOVE]
SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [CONFUSED]
MEOWTH: I'm thinking Piplup's getting ready to evolve!
JAMES: But if we end up with a pair of Prinplup, the Boss's
gift will be kaput, and our evolutionary set spoiled!
JAMES: Piplup! Evolve not!
JESSIE: Stop! If it wants to evolve,
let the poor thing evolve!
JESSIE: We can head this heist into an Empoleon triple play!
And if we were to give three tops of the Evolution heap to
the Boss, he'd be so giddy he'd give us the shirt off his back!
JAMES: I don't like his shirt.
JESSIE: Stop being so literal and trust me!
JESSIE: Seviper, let's go!
JAMES: Carnivine, you follow suit as well!
SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [ATTACK]
SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [PAINED]
ASH: Dawn! Piplup!
PIKACHU: [RELIEVED]
KENNY: Prinplup. You're all right!
BARRY: Empoleon!
EMPOLEON: [HAPPY]
ASH: You okay?
PIPLUP: [BIDE MOVE]
BROCK: Looks like Piplup's still fighting evolving!
DAWN: Yeah!
JAMES: Time to put the kibosh on this calamity!
JESSIE: Now Seviper, Poison Tail, pronto!
JAMES: Carnivine, beguile with b*llet Seed!
SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [ATTACK]
ASH: Pikachu, Thunderbolt!
PIKACHU: [THUNDERBOLT MOVE]
SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [PAINED]
JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH, WOBBUFFET: [SCARED]
JESSIE: Come on, Seviper, show some spine!
JAMES: Carnivine! Upright!
SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [STRUGGLING]
PIPLUP: [SATISFIED]
DAWN: All right!
DAWN: Piplup! Wrap it with Whirlpool!
PIPLUP: [WHIRLPOOL MOVE]
SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [PAINED]
JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH, WOBBUFFET: [PAINED]
MEOWTH: That Piplup's a lot tougher than meets the eye.
We may have made a royal mess, but I'm satisfied nonetheless!
JESSIE: Will you put a cork in the prose?
JAMES: We pummeled our Piprinoleon, and you want
to wax poetic?
WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]
JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: We're blasting off again!
PIPLUP: [IMPRESSED]
DAWN: Piplup, thank you!
PIPLUP: [SURPRISED]
DAWN: Looks like you saved me again!
PIPLUP: [SATISFIED]
DAWN, PIPLUP: I know you treasure the memory of the day
you and I first met.and that's why you want to keep on as my
Piplup! I'm sorry.
DAWN: Forgive me for not understanding your feelings!
PIPLUP: [PLEASED]
DAWN: Piplup!
PIPLUP: [HAPPY]
DAWN: I want you to stay being my Piplup forever!
I promise we'll always be a team!
PIPLUP: [DELIGHTED]
JOY: Piplup, Prinplup, and Empoleon are all completely
recovered now, and they're feeling just fine!
PIPLUP: [HAPPY]
PRINPLUP, EMPOLEON: [HAPPY]
DAWN: Thanks so much, Nurse Joy!
KENNY: Yeah, Nurse Joy. Thanks a lot!
BARRY: Hey! We can get back to some serious
Pokémon Ping Pong training!
JOY: And now, Dawn,
I have something I'd like to give to you.
CHANSEY: [HAPPY]
DAWN: What is it?
JOY: It's an Everstone!
DAWN: An Everstone?
BROCK: An Everstone has the power to prevent Piplup from
evolving.ever!
JOY: Now Piplup won't have to keep on using Bide.
Isn't that great?
DAWN: That's awesome! Thanks so much, Nurse Joy!
PIPLUP: [THRILLED]
ASH: And seeing that it's almost time for your contest,
Dawn, good luck!
PIKACHU: [ENCOURAGING]
DAWN: Thanks, Ash! I'll do my best!
NARRATOR: While excitement and emotion run high, the bond
between Dawn and Piplup has certainly deepened, making them
that much closer. But who knows how that will affect the
Sandalstraw Contest? We all want to know, so
stay tuned!
12x18 - Stopped in the Name Of Love!
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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.