12x52 - A Meteoric Rise to Excellence!

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NARRATOR: Although our heroes want to continue

toward Daybreak Town and Dawn's next contest,

their sense of direction is being less than cooperative!

DAWN: What do we do? So how did we get this lost?

PIPLUP: [WORRIED]

BROCK: Good question!

And the Pokégear isn't able to find any nearby roads, either.

ASH: Man. So, left or right? Which way do we go?

ASH: We go full speed ahead!

PIKACHU: [SURPRISED]

DAWN: What in the world could that be?

ASH: Let's check it out!

GIBLE: [CURIOUS]

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!

GRANDMA WILMA: Perfect, just like that, Altaria!

GRANDMA WILMA: Now, one more time!

ALTARIA: [DRACO METEOR MOVE]

BROCK, ASH, DAWN, PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [SURPRISED]

DAWN: Wow!

BROCK, ASH, DAWN, PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [SCARED]

ALTARIA: [SURPRISED]

GRANDMA WILMA: Land sakes!

ASH: Hey, is everybody all right?

DAWN: Whoa, what was that about?

PIPLUP: [UPSET] GRANDMA WILMA: Children?

GRANDMA WILMA: What are you doing out here?

ASH: See, we were walking through the forest when we saw

this strange light flying through the skyand then...

GRANDMA WILMA: It's called Draco Meteor. It's not strange!

DAWN: Draco Meteor?

BROCK: Then of course that means it was the work of a Pokémon!

DAWN: So it must've been your Altaria!

POKEDEX: Altaria. The Humming Pokémon,

and the evolved form of Swablu.

As Altaria flies across the sky, it resembles a soft cloud.

It hums using its high voice.

GRANDMA WILMA: Well, I do believe that

fate has brought us together today!

I'm Grandma Wilma. Pleased to meet you!

ASH: Hi! I'm Ash!

PIKACHU: [GREETING]

DAWN: Nice to meet you. I'm Dawn!

PIPLUP: [GREETING]

BROCK: Pleasure! I'm Brock!

PIPLUP, ALTARIA, PIKACHU: [PLAYFUL]

ASH: So you can only teach Dragon types, huh?

GRANDMA WILMA: Right! A Trainer left his Altaria with me

so I could teach it Draco Meteor!

But it's just a beginner,

so who knows where the meteors fall...

GRANDMA WILMA: Of course, you can see

why no one's allowed to pass through here!

DAWN: Yeah, I sure can. We're really sorry we just barged in!

GRANDMA WILMA: The important thing is that everyone is still

in one piece! Right, Altaria?

ALTARIA, PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [HAPPY]

GRANDMA WILMA: Smart as a whip! I'm sure Altaria

will be able to graduate before you can say boo!

ASH: It'd be awesome if you'd let us watch you

two train a little bit!

BROCK: I would be really interested

in learning about the way you teach!

DAWN: We'd really appreciate it!

GRANDMA WILMA: Of course!

I'd be happy to! It's not a big secret, you know.

ASH: That's great! Thank you!

- DAWN: What's that? - BROCK: Is that...

ASH: A Pokémon?

GIBLE: [GREETING]

BROCK: A Gible?

GRANDMA WILMA: Back again, I see!

GRANDMA WILMA: You see, this little Gible lives in the forest

very near here! And it appears to me that it might be quite

interested in all of you!

ASH: How are you? I'm Ash...

BROCK, GIBLE: [AGGRESSIVE]

DAWN: Hey, Ash? PIKACHU: [SHOCKED]

PIPLUP: [DETERMINED]

ASH, GIBLE: [AGGRESSIVE]

PIPLUP: [PAINED]

DAWN: Piplup, no!

GRANDMA WILMA: All right, now, Gible, that's quite enough,

so let it go, please...

GIBLE, PIPLUP: [STRUGGLING]

PIPLUP: [UPSET]

DAWN: Are you okay, Piplup? PIPLUP: [ANGRY]

BROCK, ASH, PIKACHU: [WORRIED]

GIBLE: [SURPRISED]

GRANDMA WILMA: All right, that's enough for now.

It's back to the forest for you!

GIBLE: [EXERTION]

DAWN: Amazing, Grandma Wilma!

GRANDMA WILMA: Altaria, shall we get back

to working on Draco Meteor? What do you say?

ALTARIA: [AFFIRMATIVE]

JESSIE: Well well...

JAMES: That Altaria uses Draco Meteor? Meteoric!

MEOWTH: Draco Meteor rates a solid ten on the fierce move

meter, and that's no jive!

JESSIE: And abducting Altaria would bring Team Rocket alive!

JESSIE: Allowing us to conquer Sinnoh by giving us that

little extra drive!

JAMES: So for what shall we strive?

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: It's time to grab

that gifted fluff and thrive!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

GRANDMA WILMA: Now let's begin. First off,

concentrate every bit of your energy,

collecting your entire Dragon-type powers!

ALTARIA: [FOCUSED]

GRANDMA WILMA: Then, direct all of those powers into the center

of your body!

GRANDMA WILMA: Now face the sky and let her rip!

ALTARIA: [PROUD]

GRANDMA WILMA: I would give that a ten out of ten!

ALTARIA: [PLEASED]

DAWN: So Draco Meteor's a really powerful move

that works to make the most out of the special powers

of Dragon-type Pokémon!

BROCK: And the key to great training is to work hard on

concentration and use it to build up those

powers to the max!

GIBLE: [DETERMINED]

ASH: Gible? PIKACHU: [QUESTIONING]

GIBLE: [FOCUSED]

DAWN: Wait, could that be Draco Meteor, too?

BROCK: Could be! Gible is a Dragon type as well!

GIBLE: [DRACO METEOR MOVE]

GIBLE: [WORRIED]

ASH, DAWN, BROCK, PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [SCARED]

PIPLUP: [PANICKED]

PIPLUP: [STUNNED]

DAWN: Piplup! You all right?

GIBLE: [APOLOGETIC]

GRANDMA WILMA: Well, uh...not quite...

Gible's watching our work and trying to copy Altaria, you see.

But that? That was less of a Draco Meteor than a meteor,

plain and simple...

ASH: So then, why don't you give me a sh*t training Gible!

What do you say?

PIKACHU: [EXCITED] GIBLE: [EXCITED]

ASH: Okay, the first thing we need to do is concentrate

and boost your Dragon-type power!

GIBLE: [FOCUSED]

ASH: Great! Now focus that power into the center of your body!

ASH: All right! Draco Meteor!

GIBLE: [DRACO METEOR MOVE] GIBLE: [WORRIED]

PIPLUP: [PANICKED]

DAWN: Piplup, you okay?

PIPLUP: [FURIOUS] GIBLE: [CONFUSED]

ASH: Now, guess we've got to boost Gible's energy even more,

Gible, let's try it once more!

PIPLUP: [SURPRISED]

ASH: Hey, Gible, what's wrong?

GIBLE: [AGGRESSIVE]

BROCK: I'd sure like to know what's going on in Gible's head

when it does that...

ASH: Thanks. Guess I needed that...

GRANDMA WILMA: Patience and affection...those are the keys

to mastering Draco Meteor.

ASH: Patience and affection?

ASH, DAWN, BROCK, ALTARIA, PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [SCARED]

ASH: What was that?

BROCK, ASH, DAWN, PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [PANICKED]

DAWN: Is that Draco Meteor?

GRANDMA WILMA: Those are just plain old rocks!

ALTARIA: [STRUGGLING] GRANDMA WILMA: Altaria?

BROCK , ASH, DAWN, PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [SHOCKED]

ALTARIA: [SCARED]

GRANDMA WILMA: All right! Who are you crooks?

JESSIE: Listen, crooked is as crooked does!

JAMES: That includes poaching puffy Pokémon with fuzz.

- JESSIE: On the wind! - JAMES: Past the stars!

MEOWTH: Dig, what's the buzz?

JESSIE: Bringing chaos at a breakneck pace!

JAMES: Dashing hope, putting fear in its place!

JESSIE: A rose by any other name's just as sweet!

JAMES: When everything's worse, our work is complete!

- JESSIE: Jessie! - JAMES: And James!

MEOWTH: And Meowth, that's a name!

JESSIE: Putting teacher in her place!

JAMES: We're Team Rocket!

JESSIE, MEOWTH, JAMES: And we're in your face!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

MIME JR.: [MIMICKING]

GRANDMA WILMA: What's a Team Rocket?

DAWN: Team Rocket is a very bad g*ng

of thieves who steal other people's Pokémon!

PIPLUP: [ANGRY]

JAMES: True, though you're utilizing the word bad to mean

good, of course...

GRANDMA WILMA: Hang on! Altaria's not my Pokémon!

It belongs to a Trainer! Now give it back!

JESSIE: Silly! If we give Altaria back, then the stealing

part is moot!

MEOWTH: Yeah, but if we hold on to it, we get big and strong!

Sinnoh strong to last the whole region long!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

ASH: Give me a break! Pikachu! Use Thunderbolt!

DAWN: Now, Piplup, Bubble Beam!

PIKACHU: [THUNDERBOLT MOVE]

PIPLUP: [BUBBLE BEAM MOVE]

ASH: What?

ALTARIA: [ICE BEAM MOVE]

BROCK: Whoa, not even Ice Beam is working!

MEOWTH: I've gotten so good at keeping you Twerps out, soon I'm

going to keep you from being a pain in the neck!

JESSIE: Tall order!

JESSIE, MEOWTH, JAMES: Now we cross the border!

ASH, DAWN, BROCK, GRANDMA WILMA, PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [SHOCKED]

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: Our load is light with Altaria in flight!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

ASH: We've got to go help Altaria!

Okay, Pikachu, let's move!

PIKACHU: [DETERMINED]

DAWN: Right, Piplup, you too!

PIPLUP: [DETERMINED]

BROCK: Me too?

GRANDMA WILMA: Giddy-up! Move those legs!

BROCK: Yes, ma'am!

GIBLE: [CONFUSED] / [DETERMINED]

DAWN: There! Over that cliff!

BROCK: I can't go another step!

ASH: What's wrong?

BROCK: Sorry, guys! You go on!

ASH: Okay, you got it, Brock! PIKACHU: [DETERMINED]

GRANDMA WILMA: You're in sad shape for a young man.

BROCK: Sad? The shame...

ASH: Oh, man. Looks like we're going to lose them!

ASH: Now where? PIKACHU: [CONCERNED]

DAWN: Over there!

ASH: But how do we catch them?

DAWN, ASH, PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [SCARED]

GIBLE: [GREETING]

ASH: Whoa, Gible! PIPLUP: [SURPRISED]

DAWN: Hey, hold on a sec!

You live in this forest, don't you, Gible?

Help us out, please?

We need a shortcut over the mountains!

GIBLE: [EXCITED]

ASH: Let's go, quick!

ASH, DAWN, PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [SHOCKED]

GIBLE: [EXCITED]

PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [FRUSTRATED]

DAWN: Some shortcut. Straight to a snack!

ASH: All right, Staraptor, I choose you!

ASH: I need your help! We've got to stop Team Rocket!

STARAPTOR: [AFFIRMATIVE]

ASH: Okay, let's go, too! PIKACHU: [AGREEMENT]

GIBLE: [CONFUSED] / [AGGRESSIVE]

DAWN: Are we there yet?

ASH: Not exactly.

ASH: All right. We'll just have to climb it!

PIKACHU: [DETERMINED]

ASH: Come on, Dawn, you can do it!

DAWN: Don't worry, Ash, I'm just fine!

PIPLUP: [SCARED]

DAWN: Mamoswine!

MAMOSWINE: [APPEARING]

PIPLUP: [STUNNED]

ASH: You okay?

PIKACHU: [SCARED]

ASH: Gible?

ASH, PIKACHU: Ow...[IMPACT]

ASH: That was great, Gible! Thanks!

PIKACHU: [EXCITED]

GIBLE: [OBLIVIOUS]

ASH: Dawn, how's it going down there?

DAWN: We're fine! You go on ahead!

ASH: You got it!

ASH: Gible, see you later!

GIBLE: [AFFIRMATIVE]

STARAPTOR: [SURPRISED]

STARAPTOR: [CURIOUS]

STARAPTOR: [SCARED]

JAMES: Operation Relocation sweeps the nation!

MEOWTH: I knew the Twerp was going to sic that silly

Staraptor on us like I know the back of my paw!

JESSIE: Leisurely leaving without the wrong

end of a Thunderbolt is what I'm talking about!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: With style and clout!

ALTARIA: [ICE BEAM MOVE]

STARAPTOR: [STRUGGLING]

PIKACHU: [SURPRISED]

ASH: Staraptor!

ASH: You okay? Hey, I'll get you out!

PIKACHU: [CONCERNED]

ASH: I can't believe even Team Rocket

would pull astunt like this!

ASH: What's going to happen to Altaria?

GIBLE: [DETERMINED]

ALTARIA: [ICE BEAM MOVE]

JAMES: Give it a rest!

JAMES: Experience should've informed you that

whatever you can dish out, we simply soak up!

JESSIE: Whatever you resist will persist. So why not give some

Team Rocket spirit a spin?

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

ALTARIA: [att*ck]

MEOWTH: All right, look at it this way! If you were heating up

and cooling down over and over, you'd cr*ck up, too!

ALTARIA: [EXERTION]

GIBLE: [SURPRISED]

GIBLE: [DETERMINED]

JESSIE: I'm sorry, Officer,

I didn't see their license plate...

ALTARIA: [EXERTION]

MEOWTH: Stop mauling the merchandise!

JAMES: We need you to recoup our investment!

WOBBUFFET: [PANICKED]

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JESSIE: What's with you? If you're bored, watch TV!

GIBLE: [AGGRESSIVE]

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH, GIBLE, WOBBUFFET: [STRUGGLING]

MEOWTH: What's this got to do with me?

JAMES: Unclamp this woman!

GIBLE: [DETERMINED]

JAMES: Our most expensive robot reduced to a snack!

GIBLE: [SATISFIED] JESSIE: Look, metal muncher!

You're about to learn that there's

no such thingas a free lunch!

JESSIE: Seviper, turn the tables with Bite!

SEVIPER: [APPEARING] GIBLE: [att*ck]

SEVIPER: [IMPACT]

JESSIE: One more try. With Poison Tail!

SEVIPER: [POISON TAIL MOVE]

GIBLE: [IMPACT]

GIBLE: [FOCUSED]

DAWN: Ash! Pikachu!

PIPLUP: [PANTING]

ASH: Sorry. I let them get away.

PIKACHU: [EXCITED]

BROCK: Could that be?

GRANDMA WILMA: There's no doubt that was Gible

whojust used Draco Meteor!

ASH: Come on!

SEVIPER: [THREATENING]

JAMES: That's no Draco Meteor. That's merely a non-threatening,

garden-variety meteor meteor, and nothing more!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

JESSIE: All right, Seviper, use Bite!

SEVIPER: [BITE MOVE]

GIBLE: [DRAGON PULSE MOVE]

JESSIE: Dodge it, Seviper!

SEVIPER: [SHOCKED]

MEOWTH: Yeah? There's a thr*at!

JAMES: True, that Dragon Pulse presently packed

a peck of a punch!

GIBLE: [TIRED]

JESSIE: Aww, it looks like someone needs a nappie-poo!

JESSIE: Seviper, finish the job with another Bite, now!

SEVIPER: [BITE MOVE]

PIKACHU: [THUNDERBOLT MOVE] SEVIPER: [PAINED]

ASH: Okay, Team Rocket, you're done!

PIKACHU: [ANGRY]

GRANDMA WILMA: I want Altaria back right now!

JESSIE: Sorry, sister, but in my book, your now is my never!

JAMES: Carnivine, heads up!

JAMES: Heads up actually means pay attention, not chomp down!

JESSIE: Seviper, use Bite, pronto!

JAMES: Carnivine, Vine Whip!

SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [att*ck]

DAWN: Quick, Piplup, use Bubble Beam!

ASH: All right, Pikachu, use Thunderbolt!

PIPLUP: [BUBBLE BEAM MOVE]

PIKACHU: [THUNDERBOLT MOVE]

CARNIVINE: [PAINED]

SEVIPER: [PAINED]

SEVIPER, CARNIVINE: [STUNNED]

ASH: Pikachu, use Iron Tail, now!

PIKACHU: [IRON TAIL MOVE]

ALTARIA: [EXCITED]

GRANDMA WILMA: Altaria, sweetheart!

ALTARIA: [EXCITED]

GRANDMA WILMA: You're safe! Grandma's so happy you're back!

JESSIE: Come on, show me some Seviper spine!

JAMES: Get those vines out!

GIBLE: [EXCITED]

ASH: Awesome! You helped us out, too, Giblethanks!

GIBLE: [PLEASED]

GIBLE: [FOCUSED]

ASH: Draco Meteor! Do it!

GIBLE: [DRACO METEOR MOVE]

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH, WOBBUFFET: [SCARED]

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: We're blasting off again!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

ASH: We did it!

GIBLE: [PLEASED]

ASH: Hey, Gible, thank you! You were great out there!

GIBLE: [HAPPY]

DAWN: I'm impressed!

Gible totally figured out how to use Draco Meteor!

GIBLE: [DRACO METEOR MOVE]

GIBLE: [WORRIED]

PIPLUP: [PANICKED]

DAWN: Not again! Are you okay?

PIPLUP: [STUNNED] GIBLE: [APOLOGETIC]

BROCK: I guess that's the way it goes. You can't win them all!

PIKACHU: [RESIGNED]

GRANDMA WILMA: See that road?

Turn right there to go to Daybreak Town.

Now don't get lost, you hear?

ASH: Right! Hold on Where'd Gible go?

BROCK: Good question. I know Gible

was standing here just now.

GRANDMA WILMA: It must've hightailed

it back to the forest!

GRANDMA WILMA: Thank you! You were all such a big, big help!

Be sure to stop by when you're in the neighborhood!

DAWN: We will, promise!

PIKACHU: [FAREWELL] PIPLUP: [FAREWELL]

- ASH: See you later! - DAWN: Bye for now, Altaria!

NARRATOR: Thanks to our heroes, another Pokémon is safe from the

evil clutches of Team Rocket, which allows Dawn to put her

undivided attention toward Daybreak Town

and her next Pokémon Contest!

DAWN: Think of it, Piplupour next contest!

Ready to work hard?

PIPLUP: [EXCITED]

GIBLE: [CURIOUS]