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(Pokémon, I'll get you!)

Whether in fires, in the water, in the grass, in the forests,

In the ground, in the clouds, in that girl's skirt, (KYAA~~~!!)

It's very, very, very, very tricky, but

I'm sure I'll get you!

Pokémon, I'll get you!

Pallet Town, farewell, bye-bye,

I'm going on a journey with this guy (Pikachu~)

We'll win every time with skills we've trained,

Make new friends, and head off to the next town. (We're waiting)

That things will always go well

Is never guaranteed (That's right),

But, forever and always, I live life to the fullest,

When these guys are with me.

Ah! I aim to be a Pokémon Master,

I want to be, I have to be,

I know I'll be one!

I'm finally here.

I'm going to win the Pokémon League and become a Pokémon Master!

Go, Monster Ball!

What the...?!

Cut it out, Mr. Mime!

Satoshi has gotten his eighth Badge and has returned to his hometown, Pallet Town.

For the first time in a long time, he's home for the morning and has begun to have strange dreams.

Rival Showdown! Ōkido Laboratory

Good morning.

Good morning, Satoshi. Did you sleep well?

It's harsh to let Mr. Mime wake me up like that.

Oh, did something happen with Mimey?

He put the vacuum cleaner on my face!

I'm sure he just wanted to clean you up, Satoshi.

Right, Mimey?

Isn't that great? He saved you the trouble of washing your face.

Mr. Mime, clean Kasumi's face, too!

Mimey here only listens to what your mama says.

Now, Mimey, please go pick some herbs from the back garden.

He's a sly one.

All right. It's done!

Come on, let's eat. Aren't you going to the Professor today?

That's right!

We're returning empty-handed after all...

What will we say to the Boss?

No matter what we say, we'll be fired for sure.

This feels bad...

But, you know...

If we do get fired...

...and are returning just to be told off...

It makes no sense.

In that case, we should...

Run away!

What?

What was that just now?

Not a clue.

It's in ruins...

Damn them...

Boss!

What happened?

You three?

Why did you come here?

Well, you see...

Boss, the truth is, we...

Boss!

Umm... What should we do from here on?

Just do what you've been doing so far properly!

What we've been doing so far?

Whatever you say about us doing what we've been doing...

Not getting fired is the world's pity?

Does this mean we're still in the Rocket Gang?

We can't just cry...

On our Rocket Gang dignity...

This time we will get that Pikachu!

Yeah!

Professor Ōkido, it's me, Satoshi!

Oh, you've come!

I've wanted to see you, Togepi!

Pr-Professor...

At any rate, you're looking well, above all else. I was a bit worried.

Oh, here he is...

The certain someone always seeing me from behind.

What was that?

Come on, don't squabble.

You two are the stars of hope for Pallet Town.

Star of hope? This guy?

That's right.

You two are promising newcomers who may become Pokémon Masters in the future.

It makes me very happy.

Thank you very much.

It's been a while, Krabby, have you been keeping well?

Been a while?

Of the four who journeyed from here...

The only ones to have gathered 8 Badges and returned...

...are you two, Shigeru and Satoshi.

What about the other two?

Seems they started off just fine, but started to struggle after a while.

Really?

They didn't train enough.

Shigeru has 10 Badges and you have 8 Badges, Satoshi.

You two have done very well.

Thank you, Professor.

...and Pikachu and the others have worked hard too, right?

I've just done my best within my own capacity...

Anyway, it means you two can enter the Pokémon League.

All right! Then let's launch into the Pokémon League without delay!

Let's go, Pikachu.

Hang on.

What is it?

To start with, Satoshi...

Do you even know where the venue grounds are?

Sheesh...

Didn't we come here to ask that?

The period when the Pokémon League is held is decided each year...

It's still a long way off...

Where is it? When is it?

The place is the Indigo Plateau and the time is two months from now.

There should be over two hundred participants.

Two hundred?

I'm looking forward to that two months from now!

You two better get cracking on training properly until then.

You've got to prepare for the tournament.

Yeah. Satoshi especially is going to have double, double, double the work he's put in so far.

What?

We may be fellow stars of hope...

However, that doesn't mean we're on the same level.

What do you mean by that?

Hello. We are reporters for the Pallet Times.

We've heard that your son got eight Badges and made a triumphant return.

We'd love to get an interview with the brat-boy– ah, no, I mean Satoshi.

Oh, thank you so much.

Now then...

About Satoshi...

Satoshi has gone to the Ōkido Laboratory!

Understood!

Thank you!

Satoshi...

You said that you hadn't seen your Krabby in a while, right?

What's wrong with that?

This...

That's huge!

Totally different.

I regularly rotate the Pokémon I have on hand for battles.

Because I think a true trainer raises all their Pokémon to be strong.

He has a fair point in a way.

Here you come, exposing for all to see in just a few words that you haven't trained your Krabby.

Do you always bring out the same ones no matter what the battle is?

Bing-bong! Absolutely correct.

Battles where you don't use your head aren't particularly beautiful.

Dear me...

He's provoking Satoshi...

Those two have been at it like that for a long time now.

For example, a Gym Leader battle...

The Pokémon types differ depending on the Leader's specialty...

I check that beforehand...

I switch out my Pokémon with ones holding more advantageous affinities.

That's my grandson. Well done.

Of course, you can't forget to factor in your opponent's level, too.

So what would you use when your opponent has Rock-type Pokémon?

Water-type. That's fundamental.

But I'd usually prepare a Grass-type too for back-up.

What about you, Satoshi?

He used Pikachu.

See? Using an Electric-type against a Rock-type is worse than an amateur.

I don't know how you got this far.

I got the Badge anyway. What's wrong with that?

Then how many Pokémon have you got?

You're not answering. Are you that embarrassed?

I-I'm not embarrassed.

Please get a grip.

It doesn't matter how many Pokémon you get.

This is amazing.

I've just checked your Pokédex's.

Shigeru's encountered about 60 Pokémon.

But Satoshi's over 100!

What?

I win! I win!

But Shigeru's got a large lead over the number he's actually gotten.

Darn...

You open your Pokédex every time you catch sight of a Pokémon, right?

Let me explain. If you have the free time to listen, you should just make a decision and get them.

That's what you do, Shigeru?

Absolutely. That's what a Pokémon Trainer does.

Gramps, let's show them all my Pokémon.

Okay.

Come and follow me.

Who is it?

Muk

What do you think?

These Monster Balls are sent by Trainers who started from Pallet Town.

All of these are Pokémon people have gotten?

Here are the ones you've sent, Satoshi.

That's surprising!

To be fair, they're nearly all Tauros he got from the Safari Zone.

Shigeru's section has roughly 200, I think?

Probably.

200?!

There're only about 150 Pokémon species, so some must be the same type.

I can't be satisfied with getting them just once.

The next one you encounter might be even stronger, right?

There it is! You don't understand Pokémon at all!

What?

My Pokémon and I are companions. Numbers don't matter.

You can't win in numbers, so you're just making excuses.

What was that? How about a match right now then?

See. You get hot-tempered so easily. You really are a child.

Aren't you a child, too?

Neither of your ways of thinking is wrong.

Satoshi has his style and Shigeru has his.

You're trying to understand Pokémon.

Understand?

Pokémon are truly mysterious creatures.

With their evolutions and special abilities, you could say they're beings that surpass other living creatures.

We have to get along with and befriend Pokémon in order to understand their secrets.

People and Pokémon co-exist.

That's the theme of my life's research...

It begins with trying to understand each Pokémon one by one.

That's why you take care of everyone's Pokémon, right?

Exactly.

Every Pokémon you send to me is so important to the subject of my research.

Subject of your research?

We've been walking for ages.

Who said we had to enter from the back way?

Musashi did.

This laboratory is way too spacious.

If you've got complaints, why don't you go through the front way?

I don't have the energy.

Then shut up and walk.

So many Kakuna...

That means...

Their evolved form is Beedrill!

We should have expected this from a Pokémon laboratory yard.

They've been raised well.

This isn't the time to be impressed!

Nyouch...

Who's in the middle on the path?

Snorlax?!

My day begins with health checks for the Pokémon.

Now then, who should I take out today?

I release them from their Balls into the yards.

Of course, each environment is prepared to suit each one.

Next up, I take care of the Pokémon food.

There are so many varieties of Pokémon...

It can be difficult to prepare meals for each species.

Usually the morning has passed by now.

Then research starts in the afternoon.

I settle on a topic and investigate all sorts of things.

Right now, I'm researching the individual differences between Pokémon.

...and that's how my research life goes.

It's sort of like you're a zookeeper!

Communication during the feeding is an important part of the research everyday.

Hello, my sweet. Are you keeping well?

That's your Doduo, Shigeru?

Doduo: the Twin Bird Pokémon.

Their special ability is to run faster than they fly.

The Pokémon here live so peacefully.

Of course.

The yards here allow the Pokémon in my custody to live naturally.

To know their individual differences, it's essential to get their environments...

...as close to the ones they were in before they were gotten.

I found out something very interesting recently.

What was it?

Pokémon that have been gotten...

...resemble the people who get them.

Huh?

I see! Like Kasumi and Psyduck!

We don't resemble each other at all!

I get it!

Vulpix and I are two hearts beating as one.

Due to Vulpix and Yuki's hearts beating as one.

In other words...

My heart and Yuki's beat as one!

Hey. What's wrong with him?

He's always like that. Just leave him be.

That's only true for ones like Shigeru...

...who regularly rotate the Pokémon they have on hand.

Instead of always using the same Pokémon like Satoshi.

The Krabby and Muk you've left with me, for example...

Have developed an emotional attachment to me.

That's why they're always sticking themselves on me.

Cut that out, Muk.

See what I mean? Even the Pokémon's individuals differences evolve.

What's up with these yards?

Maybe we are lost...

I'm hungry and tired...

Shut up with all your droning on and on, and climb and climb and climb!

What are you doing?

Good grief...

How cruel! My poor face!

We're sorry!

Amazing!

So many Water-type Pokémon!

Professor, do you have every single Pokémon in these yards?

That would be quite impossible.

First of all, we can't even say that we know all the Pokémon yet.

Right now, there're about 150 species known, but there are examples like Togepi too.

Come to think of it...

The day I journeyed from Pallet Town...

I saw a bird type that wasn't listed in the Pokédex.

We still have much to learn about Pokémon ecosystems and distribution.

There're no end to the encounters and research with them.

I'm going for it! I'm going to befriend Pokémon across the world!

Me too!

I'm going to get new Pokémon at a mad pace.

Those two are getting all fired up.

That's what happens between rivals.

How about it, Satoshi?

Won't you have a Pokémon battle with me?

Test out your ability a bit before the Pokémon League?

Sounds good. I accept.

An explosion?

That part is the Electric-type Pokémon area.

What in the world happened?

I'm hungry, in pain, tired. I want to go home!

You're the Rocket Gang!

You're up to something again, aren't you?

You know it!

Thank you for coming all this way.

We'll be taking that Pikachu once more!

That Meowth talked!

Pardon me. Could you speak once again?

Clean out your earholes and listen up!

Whatever it is

...you ask us about...

it is nya world's pity to answer you!

To prevent the world's destruction.

To protect the world's peace.

Fulfilling the evils of love and truth.

The lovely, charmy villains.

Musashi...

Kojirō...

Meowth!

You! Don't butt in!

Yeah! Yeah!

The Rocket Gang duo soars through the galaxy!

A white hole, a white tomorrow awaits us...

Nya-t's about right!

We'll be taking Pikachu and all the other Pokémon, too!

Yeah!

I don't think so!

You've got some nerve to be involving my Pokémon in this.

Time for a match!

We just needed to take one more step!

Where though?

But at least we didn't get fired.

It's some kind of feeling!

Goodbye now!

What did they come here for?

Gramps, we drove out the bad guys.

We didn't do anything, did we?

No, no. The peace of the laboratory is protected, thanks to you, Satoshi.

How so?

Those Tauros right now are yours.

Really?

They're always running around like that.

A very interesting mode of life.

I see!

Thank you, Tauros!

I'm going home.

What about the battle?

I'm not in the mood after all the fuss earlier.

We'll postpone our battle until the Pokémon League.

All right. I'm not going to lose, though.

Make an effort to train as much as possible then, Satoshi.

See you.

Two months until the Pokémon League, huh?

It's a long time away, but also not so long at all.

Still so much to do.

I know.

Right, Pikachu?

All right. I'm going to prepare for the Pokémon League...

...and be spot on with my training!

Great enthusiasm.

What's this?

First, you need to repair the fence that your Tauros broke.

Here. You two as well.

Us too?

Hard work, determination, moral obligation and a sense of humanity...

They say anything can become experience points for a Trainer.

Thus, a new battle has begun.

To face the Pokémon League,

Satoshi must endeavour to train all sorts of ways.

The chapter of fierce battle training will continue...

In a blue blue quiet night

In a blue blue quiet night

I philosophize alone-nya

I philosophize alone-nya

Down in the thicket

Down in the thicket

The bugs tumble

The bugs tumble

and chirp deliciously, but

and chirp deliciously, but

Tonight I'm not eating them-nya

Tonight I'm not eating them-nya

The moon is so round

The moon is so round

So round, round...

So round, round...

There is nothing rounder in the entire world-nya

There is nothing rounder in the entire world-nya

There is nothing rounder in the entire world-nya

There is nothing rounder in the entire world-nya

Professor Ōkido's Pokémon Lecture

Now, the Pokémon this time is...

Pi-Pikachu!

#101.

Yes, that's Electrode.

Electrode are often found motionless near power plants and the like.

They're said to be charging energy.

It is also said that it's not quite yet known if Electrode is really a living creature.

But why is that?

Okay, open your mouth up wide, please.

Oh my...

They readily use Self-Destruct when I try to check up on them.

Now for the poem...

It has a popular alias...

It's the bomb ball.

That's Electrode.

Take care when treating them.

Everyone, you must get Pokémon as well!

Professor Nishinomori wrote the Pokédex.

Just listening to him speak would be excellent independent training.

But the Professor is puzzled by the mystery of Slowpoke's evolution.

That's where the Rocket Gang appears.

The Professor's Slowpoke is in danger!

Leave it to me. I'll save Slowpoke!

Next time on Pocket Monsters:

"When Slowpoke Becomes Slowbro"

Everyone, get Pokémon!

When Slowpoke Becomes Slowbro