25x47 - The Road Most Traveled!

[bunniefuu]

[gentle music]
[yawns]

-Huh?

-Pika?

[Ash] A fork in the road.
Hm.
Mm.
So, which one should we take?

-Pika.

-Uh...

Right!
Pika?
This will decide!
How about we go the way the leaves point?

-[grunts]

-Pika!

Pika.
[playful music playing]
To the left!
Pika!

I thought so,

but I wanna go the other way.

It just sort of hit me.
Pika!
Pi...

-[electricity crackles]

-[grunts]

Just great.
Pika.
Yeah.
So you're innocent. I get it!
Maybe I'll leave!
[yawns]

-[Pikachu grunts]

-[electricity crackles]

[grunts]

-[laughs]

-Oh, come on!

[Ash grumbles]
Later!
Pikachu!
[laughs]
[both grunt]
[both chuckle]

♪ Pokémon! ♪


♪ Gotta catch 'em all ♪


♪ It's you and me ♪


♪ I know it's my destiny ♪


♪ Pokémon! ♪


♪ Oh, you're my best friend ♪


♪ In a world we must defend ♪


♪ Pokémon! ♪


♪ Gotta catch 'em all ♪


♪ A heart so true ♪


♪ Our courage will pull us through ♪


♪ You teach me and I'll teach you ♪


♪ Pokémon! ♪


♪ Gotta catch 'em all ♪


♪ Pokémon! ♪

[theme music]

[Ash]
"The Road Most Traveled!"

[playful music playing]
[both grunting]
[Rattata grunts]

[narrator]
Going where the wind blows.


Where your whims take you.


In a forest somewhere

in a certain region,


Ash and Pikachu's

meandering journey continues.


So, which Pokémon will they meet today?

Pikachu!
Pikachu!
Pikachu!
Pi... Oh, cool! A Starly!
[yelping]

-Pika?

-[grunting]

[yells]
Pika.
[grunting]
Pika?
[yelps]

-[munching]

-[Ash grunting]


[yelps]

Magikarp!

[laughs]

Pikachu, stop!

Don't just lie there laughing!

Pika... Pikachu!
[all screaming]
Pika.
Thanks, buddy.

Yeah!

[Ash laughs]

[Pikachu cheers]
Oh.
Kakuna?

-[Ash yelps, groans]

-[Pikachu yelps]

[sighs]
Pika?

-[Pikachu mutters]

-[grunts]

Pika.
Wonder if it's asleep.
[both grunt]

-Pika? Pika?

-Here? Now?


-Pika! Pika!

-[grunting]

[zapping]

Uh...

[nervous chuckle]

It just evolved.
Pika.
[awkward chuckle]
[buzzing]

-[groaning]

-Pi...

Uh...
[whimpers]
[Ash breathes deeply]
Hm.
[laughs]

-[Beedrill chitters]

-[Ash gasps]

[Beedrill murmurs]
[nervous chuckle]
[sighs in relief]
What a surprise.
Oh, well!
Pika?
Hey, did you see that, buddy? I think...

This means Beedrill and I

might just have become friends!

Pika! Pika!
[calm music playing]
[playful music playing]

-[laughs]

-Pika.

[sighs]
[buzzing]
Pikachu.
[Mimey singing]
[singing stops]
[bicycle bell rings]
Oh, Delia! Good afternoon!

-Hi, Professor Oak!

-I was wondering.

Has Ash been in touch with you recently?
No. It's been a while.

I haven't the foggiest idea

what he's been up to.


[Oak] Well, sometimes, simply

wandering about can be a good thing.


I did quite a bit of that

when I was young.


He seems to be preoccupied

with a new goal.


And that's to make

more and more new friends.

[Oak] Oh! New friends!
A poem springs to mind.

Making new friends with Pokémon


Start with

You're a laureate!
[Mimey murmurs]
[Oak coughs]
[calm music playing]

[soft gasp]

It's a Kricketot!

Pika.
[Ash] And a Patrat!
Diglett.
A Diglett!
And a Meowth.

-Meowth?

-[blasts]


-Pika?

-[grunts]


-Pikachu!

-[Pikachu yelps]


-Bye-
onara!
Later!

-Give it up!

[both laugh]

Prepare for trouble

and a whole lot of woe!


And make it double,

with our Pikachu in tow!

[Jessie and James] Boing! Ka-ching!
To protect the world from devastation!
To unite all people within our nation!
Pika!
To denounce the evils of truth and love!
To extend our reach to the stars above!

-Jessie!

-And James!

[both grunt]

Team Rocket blasts off

at the speed of light!


Best surrender now

or suffer a humiliating fight!

That's right!
Wobbuffet.
Pikachu!
You're so annoying.

[Meowth] But Pikachu's with us,

and that works for me.

All right, Pikachu! Thunderbolt, let's go!

-[Pikachu grunts]

-[electricity crackles]

Pika?
[Ash gasps]
[laughs]

-Our new toy loves Thunderbolt juice!

-Oh, yeah?

Use Iron Tail!
[grunting]
Huh?
Do not pass go!

The truth is we've studied it

from stem to stern.


So we developed a deluxe absorption net

that sucks the att*ck energy


out of all Pikachu's moves

from Iron Tail on down.

Which means it's time to be...

-[all] Homeward bound!

-I don't think so!

Go, Noivern!
[action music playing]
Noivern!
Quick, use Boomburst!

-[yells]

-Wobbuffet, stat!

Wob...
You're up, Donphan!
[grunting]

-[Jessie and James yelp]

-[Wobbuffet groans]


[grunting continues]

Donphan!

[Team Rocket] That's not supposed to work!
Wait, there's more!
All right, Sceptile!
Use Leaf Blade!
Scep... tile!
[all grunting]

-Sceptile!

-Pi...


[Team Rocket in slo-mo]

No!

Let's use Thunderbolt!

-Pikachu!

-[all groaning]

[expl*si*n]
[Team Rocket screams]
Sceptile.

-[Donphan mutters]

-[giggles]

[grunting]
Pika. Pika.

-Thanks, everybody!

-Pi...


-You okay, little buddy?

-Pikachu.

No fair!

We had the perfect

power-down Pikachu plan!


But we never planned

for the possibility of even more Pokémon.

Wo... Wobbuffet.

We should've known before trouble

started...


-[loud thuds]

-[all yelp]

[whooshing]
[both] Huh?

-Huh?

-Pika?


[Ash]
Who's that Pokémon?


-Pika?

-
Noivern.

Pika. Pika.
[Bellsprout duo murmuring]

-So what was that?

-Pika.


-[Ash] Let's check it out.

-Noivern.

Pika. Pika.
[whooshing]
Pika?
Something's over there.

-Pika?

-Noivern?

[gasps]
[Ash] Isn't that...
[panting]
[grunting]
Hang in there, Latias!
[squealing]
[shrieks]

-Pika. Pika.

-Noivern.

Stop! Calm down, please!

What's wrong, Latias?

I'm sorry I scared you.

[suspenseful music]
[Pikachu and Noivern mutter]

[grunts]

Buizel!

[grunting]
Hey, thanks! That's awesome!
[both sigh]

-Pika. Pika.

-[Noivern mutters]

Pika. Pi.
[soft grunt]
[Ash gasps]
It's covered in injuries!
[grunting]
Pika?
Thanks, Pikachu.

I'm gonna give you

some first aid right now.

[mellow music playing]
[hooting]

-I'm simply famished.

-I'm a head-to-toe pain machine.

[Wobbuffet murmurs]
Oh, no!

-[Jessie] Hide!

-[Team Rocket] Stealthy!

Twerps around the campfire!
[Team Rocket] Wow.

-What's with the red and white one?

-Who's that Pokémon?

Spill the beans!
[groans]
[chimes]

[Rotom Phone]
Latias. The Eon Pokémon.


A Dragon and Psychic type.


Latias communicates emotions

through telepathy,


and the feathers all over its body

can refract light,


making it virtually invisible.


In short, it's a Legendary Pokémon.


-
Get it?

-A Legendary Pokémon?

Say, that's a big deal!
So now it's time for the big steal!
Wobbuffet.

-Pikachu.

-Hm. Huh?

[Ash] It got loose, huh?

-Thanks, Pikachu.

-[Pikachu] Pika.

[Ash] Let's give it some more medicine.
Pika.
Perfect! Thanks. This may sting a bit.

[Ash grunts]

Sorry about that.

Pikachu.
This time, it won't come off for sure.
Nice and snug.
[mellow music playing]
There, that oughta do it.
I hope you feel better soon, Latias.
Rest easy. You'll be fine!
[chirping]
[groaning]
[grunts]
[Noivern mutters]
[suspenseful music playing]

-[Ash grunts]

-Pika?

[screeching]
Good morning! Hope you had a good sleep!
Pikachu!
[squeals]

-Pika.

-They can't come off yet!

[Latias squealing]
We're scaring it.
Pika! Pika!

[Ash] I have no idea

what you've been through,

but we're on your side!

-[squealing]

-Pikachu!

We wanna help. We're worried about you.

-See? Won't you come down?

-[grunting]

Do you understand what I said?
[screeching]
Latias, are you all right?

-Pi... Pika?

-Huh?


-Latias, no!

-Pika.

[Ash yells]
[Pikachu yelps]
[wobbling]
[Team Rocket] Na, na, na, boo boo.

-[James] Open sesame!

-[Meowth] Press the button.


[Team Rocket]

We've got Latias under glass!

[squealing]

-[Latias grunts]

-[grunts, nervous chuckle]


-[Ash grunting]

-Huh?

A strange squawk for sure!

-It's cold in here!

-Twerp?


-Unacceptable!

-Come on!

All we'll get from him is a headache!
[Pokémon grunt]
[Meowth] Hold the phone.

Now that we've got the Twerp in tow,

those guys won't even try to att*ck!


Oh, you're so right!

He'll make an excellent hostage Twerp!

And the Boss gives more points for that!
Wobbuffet.

-Pika...

-[electricity crackles]


[Meowth] Chill, Pikachu!

Don't make a move.


[Jessie] You sure you wanna

put your friend in Twerpish danger?

Kids are tough!
Cold temperatures don't mean anything!

-[squeals]

-[grunting]

Hey, Latias, you doing okay?

We're gonna get you out of here

in no time!

I wouldn't bet the ranch!

Our research found that Ice att*cks

work well against Dragon types,


so we developed

our Super Freezer Capsule Plan!


-Ice Goode!

-Wobbuffet.

[Meowth] Super Freezer Success!
[Team Rocket] And we're the freezer best!
[Wobbuffet mutters]
[breathes heavily]
There's gotta be a way.
I've got it! Pikachu!
Pika?
Launch Thunderbolt right at me!
[action music playing]
Pika.

-Pikachu!

-[electricity crackles]

[Ash grunting]
[groans]
[Team Rocket] No way!
Latias, I'm coming!
[Noivern grunts]
Grab onto me!
Let's go!

-Vern!

-Pika?

Way to go, Latias!
[Ash laughs]
Noivern.
[all groan]
Noivern!
Use Boomburst!
Noi... vern!

-[all grunting]

-[expl*si*n]

We were so close.
Love my hair.

Though we didn't account

for Pikachu this time.


We had a Legendary Pokémon

in the palms of our evil hands!


[Team Rocket]

Now we're blasting off again!

[Wobbuffet] Wobbuffet!
[gentle music playing]
Thanks a lot, Latias!
Pikachu.
[Ash] Latias.
Pikachu.
Wonder if we'll see it again.
Pika.

-[chuckles]

-Pika.

[uplifting music]

[narrator]
Meeting Pokémon,

then saying goodbye


and then doing it over again and again.


In this way,

our hero's journey continues.

[tranquil music]
Pika?

-Hm.

-Pika.

[closing theme music playing]

♪ Pokémon ♪