Jeez fine it's not like I died for your sins or something
TRIALS AND ADULATIONS!
"We've run out of places to run!"
Score: 7/10
Dawn wanders off by herself and gets attacked by a wild Aggron. She slips into a river, and by the time she escapes the flow she's been separated by quite some distance. Dawn checks her pokedex for information on Aggron, and is astounded to learn that life exists that eats iron.
Welp.
Meanwhile, Ash and Brock realize Dawn has fallen into the river and get attacked by the same Aggron, so they run away like the heroes they are instead of just having Staraptor use close combat on a pokemon that’s x4 weak to it. Brock realizes that there's iron in the boulders near the river, so it's probably just protecting its territory (someone probably wrote this in after his internet creative writing 101 course mentioned that antagonists are supposed to have motives). Ash sends out his flying pokemon to search for Dawn while he and Brock... search for her on foot.
Team Rocket attacks Dawn, but when Aggron appears, Dawn just runs away and leaves Team Rocket to be murdered. Jessie doesn't recognize Aggron even though she's encountered them before.
Dawn eventually finds an open spot, so she tells Pachirisu and Buneary to aim ice beam and discharge at the sky to attract attention. Even though there's also an Aggron and Team Rocket looking for-- and of course Aggron shows up five seconds later (by the way, Ash, Brock, Staraptor, and Gliscor, the latter two who are in the air, all miss the attacks).
It corners her, and realizing that she can't run and must fight, sends out Mamoswine. Who ignores her order to use take down on a pokemon x4 resistant to normal damage. Eventually Mamoswine agrees to fight Aggron, but it just gets its ass kicked. Dawn and her pokemon slide down a cliff, and while they're safe from Aggron, Mamoswine is seriously injured and Dawn lost its pokeball during the fall. Dawn decides the only solution is to hide Mamoswine under several dozen branches because, well, why not? Dawn is so worried that she resorts to continuity, and has a flashback to when Pachirisu got sick. She then has a flashback to a scene that never happened where Brock explains what kinds of plants can ease pain, gathers some, and blahblahblah next several minutes are Dawn and her pokemon taking care of Mamoswine.
The next day, Team Rocket finds Mamoswine, and Dawn tells them to go away. Amazingly, this demand us not heeded, but Mamoswine is now better and ready to-- oh, Ash and Brock show up and blast Team Rocket off. Well, at least Aggron appears, and Mamoswine now wants to battle Aggron together instead of just having Staraptor use close combat on the x4 weak pokemon and murder it. Following Dawn's orders allows Mamoswine to win a close battle, and the episode ends as it begins: with me pressing the power button on my laptop to put it into hibernation mode.
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Started: July 6, 2005