Home Is Where The Start Is!
"Why should we dwell on the past when we can look forward to our future mess-ups?"
Score: 5/10
Ah, the final time I need to listen to this awful theme song. It's almost as bad as the Orange Islands theme.
The smoke clears and we see that Ash and May tied, so both are declared the winners. The last time this happened, the contest went into Sudden Death mode, but… that was in an official contest battle and this is a local one, so I'll let that pass. Nurse Joy has only one medal for the winner, however, so Sceptile cuts it in half and each trainer takes a piece. Hey guys did you know Japan recently invented this cool thing called "symbolism?" I bet you didn't.
As the heroes have dinner, May tells everyone that she's entering the Johto Contest League by herself, and tells Max that she won't take him along because she wants to be more independent and she believes she can only learn new ways to make her pokemon shine by herself. Max is depressed by this information, but Ash tells him to cheer up because when he becomes a trainer, he can battle Ash. Wow, that’s… not something cool to offer him at all. It’s been established that you battle Brock for practice every so often, so that’s not even a real reward or anything, it’s just something you’ll do because Max’s pokemon will be convenient punching bags.
Max and May leave on a ship to go back to whatever the starting town is in Gen 3. I can't remember if I've even taken a boat to travel to another city, but hey, maybe the heroes are too cheap for airline travel. Pikachu is saddened by May's departure, no doubt hearkening back to that other of Ash’s closest companions that he abandoned at the end of season 5: his first hat.
Cut to what is presumably a few days later. Ash and Brock are at a fork in the road, and say their goodbyes. Don't worry, Brock. This time your goodbye will stick. I'm sure of it.
Since Ash is now alone, Team Rocket decides to capture Pikachu, but they instead stumble across an Electivire. Ash arrives just in time to stop them from catching what is, to his knowledge, a wild pokemon, but it turns out it has a trainer: Gary Oak. Gary commands Electivire to blast Team Rocket off, and Ash scans Electivire with his pokedex, only to learn it has no data on it. Oh, sure, but it has data on Munchlax.
Sure.
Sure.
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Started: July 6, 2005