Like It Or Lup It
"We may have messed up, but we looked great doing it!"
Score: 3/10
Dawn practices with Piplup for the upcoming contest, but it keeps screwing up. Dawn wants a move where it spins around while using bubblebeam, but it gets too dizzy to finish it. It’s too prideful to admit it can’t do it, however, and keeps trying.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket steals a ton of berries from some water pokemon, and accidentally frame some Ludicolo for doing it. Not ones to waste a good situation, they then tell the water pokemon that they have no grounds for accusing the Ludicolo because the evidence isn’t conclusive, beat them up just to be jerks, and leave. Wow, they’re… tremendous pieces of crap. That’s a douche move even by Ash’s standards.
The water pokemon bump into Piplup and explain what happened from their perspective, so it leads them to the Ludicolo to talk while the heroes secretly follow and watch. Piplup tries to confront the Ludicolo, but they don’t take it seriously and kick its ass.
Team Rocket shows up and capture all of the pokemon present, including Pikachu, except Piplup using their submarine. Ash easily sends out Swellow and Turtwig to nah it’s all up to Piplup. It tries to fight, but Team Rocket’s submarine has hundreds of missiles that prevent it from getting close enough to the submarine to do anything (though what it could even do to a submarine to begin with is beyond me). As it’s pelted by missiles and too weak to stand, Dawn gives a stirring speech (looks like Ash's style is no longer “his and his alone”), which gives it the strength to successfully use the contest move, spinning and using bubblebeam at the same time, destroying all of the missiles. It then creates a hurricane around the submarine using the same move even though that doesn’t make any sense. The submarine explodes, and the berries fly into the air.
The water pokemon realize that the Ludicolo were innocent all along, blahblah, blastingoffaaagaaaiiin.
I have to say, guys, I kind of like Piplup so far. It’s been seven episodes and while it’s screwed up several times, it’s kind of entertaining and at least it has more personality than most pokemon.
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Started: July 6, 2005