FACING FEAR WITH EYES WIDE OPEN!
"Derp."
Score: 4/10
The heroes stop at a lake, and Ash, remembering that Oshawott has trouble opening its eyes while underwater, decides to work on the problem. This means that when the other pokemon are attacked by wild Foongus (the deadliest of all pokemon), Oshwaott is the only pokemon not poisoned.
The only solution is to find a local weed that can be used to cure the poison, and it can only be found in the very small crevices between rocks at the bottom of the lake. Those crevices are too small for a human to enter, so Ash decides to keep his eyes open underwater and guide Oshawott by pulling on its ears… okay…
He and Oshawott start swimming, but another threat lurks: a Palpitoad and some Tympole see him and attack the two for no reason. Oshawott tries to fight back, but without opening its eyes, it's hopeless-- Ash encourages it, however, and finally, Oshawott forces open its eyes and-- the Tympole all swim away rather than fight it. Now that the weeds are unguarded, Ash and Oshawott leave immediately rather than get them.
Palpitoad tells a Stunfisk it’s friends with to attack Ash and Oshawott because they called it Derpfish behind its back, I guess, and Ash goes to Cilan for help. Cilan’s solution? Fish Derpfish up and swing it in the air to distract it while Ash battles Palpitoad.
Oshawott gets its ass kicked, so Ash decides Palpitoad is strong enough to be worth catching. Oshawott still has trouble opening its eyes underwater, but it gets over it and uses aqua jet correctly, and Palpitoad is defeated in one hit. Both Ash and Cilan catch their respective pokemon. Woo. Cilan owns a Derpfish now. Truly, the show is improved by this. By the way, I want to make this clear: Palpitoad and Derpfish are jackasses. I don’t mean they’re cool or anything, I mean that they’re straight-up mean-spirited jerks.
Almost as an afterthought, Ash tells Oshawott to get the weeds, and the pokemon are soon healed.
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Started: July 6, 2005