EP067: Difference between revisions

Ash and friends, training for the Pokémon League, are jogging on a cliffside road.  Ash, decked out in his white and orange shirt, is ahead of Misty (in her blue suit) and Brock (in his basketball jersey).  However, Ash's progress has stopped when a truck passes by, spewing its exhaust in its wake.  Blinded, Ash does not see that he is in the path of another truck heading in his direction.  Misty and Brock look in horror as Ash is seemingly hit by the truck.  Fortunately, the truck had swerved out of the way, leaving Ash unharmed, but it has created a large pileup behind him.  [[Officer Jenny]] quickly arrives to defuse the volatile arguments caused by Ash and the drivers, who quickly speed off.  As Ash wonders why the road would be so crowded, Officer Jenny tells them that it is the surfing season, and that the famous wave, Humunga-Dunga, is coming.  Surfers from all over have tried to ride the Humunga-Dunga, which only appears once every 20 years, and plant their flag at the top of a rock, much like a famous surfer named Jan had done some 40 years ago.

Ash decides to also try surfing out, but his first go-around does not bode well.  He wipes out often, and when on one occasion his foot cramps up, he is saved by an older man and his Pikachu.  As Ash recovers, Misty and Brock introduces him to Victor and his Pikachu, [[Puka]], who had help saved him from drowning.  As Pikachu meets Puka outside and watch the sea together, Team Rocket, in the [[Gyarados submarine]], plots to steal both.

In the mean time, Victor's past is revealed: 40 years ago, he had been a young surfer, who had tried to emulate Jan.  Although his skills were not good, Jan eventually took him under his wing, teaching him all about surfing.  After Jan had conquered Humunga-Dunga and planted his flag atop the rock, he had given his own surfboard to Victor, simply saying "You can do it, too".  With that, Jan had left to see the world.  20 years later, the Humunga-Dunga had arrived, but he had failed.  Discouraged, he was about to give up on surfing, but he then saw a Pikachu that had been cast away in a box out at sea.  This was when he first met Puka, and since then, the two have worked as a team: Puka had the ability to sense the waves, emitting a bluish glow when a big wave had approached, and it had helped the two conquer many big waves on the island - Humunga-Dunga was the only one that they have yet to conquer.

* [[Ash Ketchum|Ash]]

* {{Ka|Victor}}

* {{p|Pikachu}} ([[Ash's Pikachu|Ash's]])

* {{p|Meowth}} ([[Meowth (Team Rocket)|Team Rocket]])

* {{p|Togepi}} ([[Misty's Togetic|Misty's]])

* {{p|Bulbasaur}} ([[Ash's Bulbasaur|Ash's]])