EP065: Difference between revisions

As a crowd of people cheer on, {{Ash}} throws his {{i|Poké Ball}}, happy to be competing in the Pokémon League. However, upon throwing the ball, it comes right back at Ash, becoming larger. Just then, he wakes up with [[Mimey]] using the vacuum to clean his face. Ash walks into the kitchen where {{ashfr}} and {{Delia}} are, and complains about Mimey. Delia replies that he cleans whatever is dirty, and claims that Mr. Mime only listens to her.

Meanwhile, {{TRT}} is walking down a dirt path toward the {{an|Team Rocket HQ}}. They begin complaining about how they haven't successfully captured a single Pokémon for {{an|Giovanni}}. Too afraid to see what he would say, they quickly declare their resignations before trying to run off. Just then, the HQ explodes and {{OBP|Mewtwo|M01|a mysterious Pokémon}} flies out of the debris and into the sky. Team Rocket runs toward the HQ and finds Giovanni, just as a helicopter comes for him. [[Jessie]] asks if there is anything they can do, and Giovanni replies that they can do their job for a change before boarding the helicopter with his {{TP|Giovanni|Persian}}. With renewed confidence, Team Rocket aspires to catch more Pokémon.

At the lab, Gary mocks [[Ash's Krabby]] and shows off his own, which is {{pkmn2|giant}} and goes on to say that he rotates his Pokémon, and that Ash probably doesn't. He also states that Ash probably uses the same Pokémon all the time. {{an|Brock}} asks what kind of Pokémon Gary would use against his {{TP|Brock|Geodude}}; Gary replies that he would use a {{type|Water}} and have a {{type|Grass}} as backup, and asks Ash what kind of Pokémon he would use. Misty answers that Ash would use Pikachu. Gary mocks him, saying that it would be a bad move to match an {{type|Electric}} with a {{type|Rock}}. Finally, Gary asks him how many Pokémon he has captured. Oak scans their [[Pokédex]]es and reveals that Gary has seen only 60 Pokémon, while Ash has seen more than 100. However, Oak adds that Gary has captured way more Pokémon than Ash. Gary suggests to go see all of the Pokémon he caught, and Oak agrees.

The group enters a section of the lab where Oak keeps the Pokémon caught by the Pallet Town Trainers in their Poké Balls. Ash has his own shelf, though almost all of the many Poké Balls on it are his {{AP|Tauros}}'s thirty [[Safari Ball]]s. Gary is later mentioned to have caught over 200 Pokémon, meaning he has multiples of some Pokémon. Gary says that the more Pokémon a Trainer has, the better chance of winning. Ash retaliates, saying that Gary's Pokémon are not his friends, and that being friends with Pokémon is more important. Oak goes on to explain that people have different personalities, thus also having different ways of caring for Pokémon. He also says that Pokémon need to be respected and cared for like people.

Back at the lab, Oak explains his day, and says that he starts off by checking on all of the Pokémon's health. He decides which Pokémon to let out of their Poké Balls and into a habitat built especially for that type, and feeds them breakfast. By the afternoon, he studies Pokémon and has recently been studying individual Pokémon of the same types. Then, it is time for dinner and he puts the Pokémon back in their Poké Balls. As they walk through the field, a {{p|Doduo}}, revealed to be one of Gary's Pokémon, greets the gang. Oak states that Pokémon frequently become more like their Trainers overtime. After explaining that since {{AP|Muk}} and Krabby usually stay with him, that they have become more like him, Muk rushes over and tackles Oak to the ground.

Meanwhile, Ash remarks that Oak must have all of the Pokémon in the world, but he disagrees and says that there are many more undiscovered species of Pokémon. Ash realizes that Togepi is a Pokémon no one ever saw before, and then remembers {{an|Ho-Oh|the mysterious Pokémon}} he saw at the beginning of his journey. Gary suggests a battle for practice, and Ash accepts. Before they can begin, however, an explosion occurs at the far end of the field, and Oak realizes it was coming from the {{t|Electric}} Pokémon preserve. Upon arrival, they see that many {{p|Voltorb}} and {{p|Electrode}} have {{m|Explosion|blown up}} because Team Rocket trotted onto their territory.

Team Rocket tells them that they are there to steal Pikachu. As Gary and Oak are stunned to hear a {{pkmn2|talking}} {{MTR}}, Team Rocket performs their {{motto}}. Gary challenges them to a fight, but before the fight begins, Ash's thirty Tauros stampede at them, sending them blasting off. Gary departs, saying that he and Ash could have their battle at the Pokémon League; Ash agrees. At that, Oak makes Ash and his friends fix the fence his Tauros broke through. Irritated at first, Ash and his friends begin working on the fence, knowing there is two months left before the Pokémon League starts.