(That first line is really in the movie, unedited), and Carl explains that twenty years ago, almost all of the trees and flowers in the city died off. No one knows the cause, but it’s likely to be explained in the movie at some point. Fortunately, despite this setback, everyone worked together and returned the city to normal.
They soon find proof that Kodai doctored the footage to show Zoroark destroying the city in the guise of the legendary pokemon, but don’t worry, this literally will not come up again and has no significance to the plot. Zorua manages to find Mima’s scent, and the heroes follow it.
Kodai has a flashback to when he met Rowena for the first time, during which he had a vision of the future showing him the time ripple in Crown City... but not its precise location, only that it’s next to a countdown clock (the countdown clocks are scattered throughout the city to show when the boccer match begins), and that the Legendary Beasts are somehow involved. This is the first future vision he's had in some time, and he realizes that he's losing his power. I love how, in the present, Kodai is thinking back to the past, where he thinks about the future, which is now the present, during which he’s thinking about the past.
Knowing that the time ripple is near a countdown clock, Kodai finds a map of them (because… apparently someone needed to make a map of all of the countdown clocks in the city?) and begins examining them with his Shuppet’s foresight one-by-one. He has twenty more spots to examine when he learns that Ash and the others are here. He is somehow surprised to learn that the people he saw in his vision are where he saw they would be in his vision.
The heroes meet up with Carl's grandparents, Tammy and her husband. I’m going to condense like twenty minutes now: Zorua, Piplup, and Pikachu get split up from the humans while Tammy and her husband also get split up from the heroes. The pokemon meet Celebi, who joins them. Celebi is very impressed by Zorua’s ability to turn into another Celebi, and Zorua very specifically informs everyone that it can’t fly when it turns into a Celebi. Remember this point: Zorua cannot fly when it pretends to be a Celebi. Celebi takes the pokemon to the highest tree in the city (did you know penguins can climb?) and has Zorua howl, but though Zoroark hears, it can't escape its cage.
Kodai has Hairman trap the heroes in another cage, and then needlessly explains that he must remove the heroes from his path even though he could just not introduce himself, and then goes off to continue examining the countdown clocks.
Meanwhile, Rowena goes through Kodai’s computer databases, and is surprised to learn that "his most important files are locked." She breaks the password (VISION, she gets it in literally one try) and finds books of ancient prophecies, which apparently “explains everything.”
She learns about the trapped heroes, and for some reason, when she introduces herself as Kodai's secretary, the heroes don't believe her even though there is literally no reason at all to doubt her… I mean… Come on, right? She admits that she's actaully an undercover journalist "like Carl" who is investigating Kodai, and she proves it by letting down her hair. No, seriously, that is her evidence. She's apparently finished her investigation, and frees the heroes.
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Started: July 6, 2005