Gathering the Gang of Four!
"Hey, wait!"
"We've waited for nine seasons!"
"Hey, you're Team Rocket!"
"And we’ll still be through season ten!"
Score: 5/10
Tracey sends over Bulbasaur, Officer Jenny delivers Squirtle, and Charizard flies in. Ash declares that he will take his pokemon into the mountains and go on a camping trip to experience how he felt back when he first started being a pokemon trainer. Hey, remember when Ash left all but one of his pokemon with Professor Oak when he came to Hoenn, explicitly saying that he wanted to start over? No? Okay.
At a campfire at night, Ash reminisces about he met each of his pokemon, mentioning that Pikachu used to hate going into its pokeball as if it ever goes into it now. Everyone has fond memories, etc, and Team Rocket decides to celebrate their fond memories by kidnapping Pikachu (they claim that normally they would try to kidnap all of Ash’s pokemon, but originally, it was just Pikachu). Thus, it comes to Charizard, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle to save it. But in actuality Bulbasaur does literally nothing and watches Charizard and Squirtle do all of the work. I mean, it eventually helps, but it does literally one thing over the course of one second while Charizard and Squirtle use flamethrower and water gun like seven or eight times each.
Once their balloon is destroyed, Team Rocket is down on the ground, so Ash has everyone use an attack at the same time to blast them off. Brandon stumbles upon Ash as he wins, so Ash introduces them as "my first pokemon," because suck my balls, Butterfree and Pidgeot. Brandon is impressed by Ash's four pokemon, so he asks for a four-on-four battle come tomorrow.
In the morning, the two go back to the pokemon center, and Scott tells Ash that if he wins, he can apply to be a Frontier Brain. So... did all of the existing Frontier Brains earn the Frontier Symbols and beat Brandon? Does it become progressively more difficult to finish the Battle Frontier as more and more Frontier Brains are added? Anyway, Scott admits that he's also the owner of the Battle Facilities, and that he goes around in a Hawaiian T-shirt because…
Um…
Everyone goes to the Battle Pyramid. Professor Oak, Officer Jenny, Nurse Joy, Scott, and all of the heroes are in the stands while Ash and Brandon face off. I admit, it actually is clever to have a professor, a Jenny, and a Joy sit next to each other here.
Brandon sends out Dusclops, Ash sends out Charizard. Aw... I thought Brandon meant they would fight with eight pokemon at a time total. Damn. Dusclops grabs Charizard's wing and uses confuse ray, using mean look to ensure Ash can't recall it. With Charizard confused, Dusclops starts ruining its day with deadly moves like-- Will o' Wisp. Well okay then.
Ash delivers a stirring speech to Charizard and the heroic climax music starts playing, so Charizard now of course recovers. With Charizard in a perfect offensive position and and the music on his side, Ash has this finish, so he then screws up and tells Charizard to use seismic toss on a ghost type, giving Dusclops enough time to finish Charizard off.
Freaking.
Hilarious.
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Started: July 6, 2005