"Stop being taller than me!"
Score: 4/10
The heroes reach Fennel Valley, in which lays the Battle Pyramid. Scott and a Nurse Joy greet them, and Nurse Joy all but tackles Ash. She's a huge fan of Ash and May and asks for their autographs, and, of course, Brock is disappointed that she doesn't know him. Brandon is too busy to battle today, so Nurse Joy invites them to her pokemon center.
Ash asks May to help him train, but Nurse Joy volunteers for the job instead, telling him that she used to be quite a good trainer. I love Nurse Joys with unique personalities, they're always fun. It's a shame every Officer Jenny is always the same. Nurse Joy and Chansey remove their nurse hats, and suddenly, both are super aggressive and flex a lot. It's honestly funny.
Chansey versus Corphish! Corphish's attacks land perfectly, but Chansey can just absorb everything like it ain't no thang. It doesn't take long for Nurse Joy to win and immediately take Corphish to heal it. Team Rocket watches it happen, and decide to steal Chansey to give to Giovanni.
Everyone wonders if Ash can take Brandon, telling him that he lost the first time because he "didn't have a handle on Brandon's pokemon." Uh. No he didn't. He lost because he was possessed by the ghost of an evil king who didn't know anything about pokemon battling. I admit, there’s probably no official rule that undoes a loss caused by that circumstance, but I’m still going to count that as Ash not losing.
Team Rocket kidnaps Chansey, but accidentally knock off its nurse hat, whereupon it goes into ninja mode and blasts them off. What significance does this have? Why, absolutely none, of course.
As the sun sets, May mulls to herself: Ash and Brock are working so hard to make their dreams come true, but what is she doing with her life? This would have meaning if she wasn't ten years old. Like, seriously, these are the thoughts of a forty year-old officer worker who’s about to buy an Escalade and pick up nineteen year-olds pretending to be twenty-one year-olds at a bar, not a ten year-old adventurer.
Cut to Brandon, who is investigating some ruins. There's a big riddle on a wall, which Brandon solves just as Ash gets there, and they are rewarded with a hologram.
Brandon translates: "As the sleeping light comes to our planet, the sky and earth will reverse." Brandon announces that he's found the Secret Chamber, and that he'll need a special pokemon for this… and I guess that’s it for this scene.
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Started: July 6, 2005