299: Seeing is Believing
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Her Pokemon, you perverts!
She calls out Silcoon and Birch looks it over, congratulating her on it and telling it will be soon evolve into a Beautifly, which of course makes May a happy camper. Brock - having decided he likes the attention - brings out Lotad and Mudkip but gets a less than enthusiastic response this time. Professor Birch is confused, why does Lotad just stand there looking confused?
Because it is confused?
As he looks it over, Mudkip puts some paws up onto Lotad's sombrero-lilypad because it is a water Kitty and Kitty's love attention.
Don't believe it? Well....
Seeing is Believing.
Jesse is happily scrubbing her Cascoon, excited that soon her "Silcoon" will evolve into a Beautifly. James and Meowth exchange the nervous looks we've come to know in the last few episodes, then finally decide it is time for her intervention. James shows Jesse a card (collect all 350 kids! Failure to do so will label you a social pariah!) with a Silcoon on it, and the information that this Pokemon evolves into a Beautifly. He explains to her that her "Silcoon" looks nothing like the one in the picture, and Jesse's face drops into an angry look for a second before calming as she exclaims that HER Silcoon is special.
Unfortunately that was it, that was all James and Meowth had in them, and so they sigh and go back to living in fear and horror of their Bitch-Goddess-Queen.
The twerps and Professor Birch make their way into a forest, and as Max walks underneath a branch with what look like acorns hanging from the limb. One of these "acorns" falls and bops Max on the head, and as he stands rubbing it he looks down and sees the acorn is staring at him with big eyes. It is actually a Seedot, which looks like a acorn that has had eyes painted on, little bark shoes attached and a little bark beanie popped onto its head. It is very cute, and two more Seedot drop down beside the first, the twerps staring down at them. May notes they don't look happy and Birch suggests it might be a lack of water, so Max offers them some but they don't want it. Luckily in his efforts to become a Breeder
Well all right! Ash knows just what to do then. He grabs a Seedot, lifts it up to a branch and sticks the top of its head against the underside. He lets it go and it remains for a moment, then falls off and crashes into the ground.
Hehe!
Birch looks about the surrounding area and notices a lot of fallen trees and moved earth, and guesses that the Seedot's favourite trees have been destroyed recently, and these new ones they've been trying lack the moisture and nutrition they need. Still, where there is life there is hope, and he suggests to Max a way to cheer the Seedot up.
"You can cheer up a Seedot by polishing its body with a leaf!" he declares. Well Max has to try that so he rubs one and it likes it (well, yeah, no shit sherlock! Rubbing nuts to lift the spirits is one of mankind's greatest discoveries!) and then... well then Professor Birch begins rolling around on the ground, with the Seedot following suit.
May - as perplexed as us all - asks Brock if Birch's "research" involves him playhing with Pokemon all day and Brock defends the expert by guessing that this is probably a pretty good way of getting closer to Pokemon.
Watching from a ledge high above the trees, Team Rocket are as confused as May by Birch's behaviour. Meowth asks if it is a new kind of dance and Jesse says it will never catch on if it is. But then Meowth adds that while Birch is rolling around they can take the chance to steal the Seedot.
"Are you thinking about giving them to the Boss?" asks James, and we're treated to another patented Meowth Crazy Giovanni Fantasy.
"He'll wake in da morning with a smile on his face," explains Meowth, as we see a smiling Giovanni in pyjamas stretching in bed, "And da Seedot will be dere to help him wif his daily exercise programme."
"Does he have a daily exercise programme?" asks James, as we see a still pyjama-ed Giovanni doing arm and leg warm-up stretches. Meowth ignores him to continue his crazy story.
"Da seedot will help wif his ryhtym and motivation, and he'll look at dem kindly and say, "Meowth and his assistants who caught dese Pokemon for me are a credit to Team Rocket!""
"I don't know," mutters James.
"It doesn't matter," grins Jesse, "Let's just catch'em anyway!"
"WOBBA!" declares Wobbuffet, who apparently concurs.
Birch meanwhile is STILL rolling around, but he quickly gets to his feet when Team Rocket arrive on the scene, demanding to know who they are.
"Team Rocket!" cry the twerps, answering the question nicely. Jesse sends out Seviper to attack, but Corphish smashes it over quickly, so she decides to send her new favourite, "Silcoon".
"CASCOON!" cries "Silcoon".
"That's not a Silcoon you know!" yells Birch, "It's a Cascoon!"
"What? Cascoon?" asks Jesse, confused, then snaps back at Birch, "You hurt its feelings! This is a Silcoon so don't go calling it anything else!"
"Oh boy," whispers James.
"Tried telling ya," sighs Meowth.
"Let me show you a real Silcoon!" yells May, and calls out her Silcoon.
"Yeah big deal, they look just alike!" cries Jesse.
"Yes, they share a SLIGHT resemblence," yells Birch, which isn't an appropriate tone of voice for agreement (but then again he did have a Loudred scream directly in his face yesterday, "But there's a big difference in their eyes!"
A close up of Silcoon's eyes show it to have a spiked eyelid and a surprisingly sad look for a "good" Pokemon to it, while Jesse's "Silcoon" has a angry, slanted look.
Oh yeah, plus Silcoon only has ONE FREAKING EYE!
"A Cascoon has bright, clear eyes!" yells Birch.
"Yes you're correct, my Silcoon does have nice bright and clear eyes, thanks," says Jesse, completely refusing to accept reality, "I'm eager for it to turn into a Beautifly."
She then orders it to tackle, and May tells her Silcoon to tackle back. The two football shaped Pokemon smack face first into each other (if they had lips they'd be kissing!), and then the Silcoon begin to glow, causing Ash to ask what is going on.
IT HAS BEEN OVER 300 EPISODES NOW ASH! YOU KNOW WhAT THIS IS YOU DULLARD!
Yes, Gentle Dodgers, Silcoon is evolving! Changing into.... Beautifly!
"YAY!" squeals May, "Silcoon evolved into a Beautifly!
"Beautifly, the Butterfly Pokemon," explains Dextina, "Beautifly is the evolved form of Silcoon. It loves sweet pollen and riding the spring breeze from flower to flower."
Jesse can't believe it, May's Silcoon evolved first!?! Well that tears it, she'll just have to motivate it more!
"We've lost her for good this time, Meowth," whispers James.
"It's a crying shame!" sighs Meowth.
Jesse says she'll show what her Silcoon can do against that no good dirty Beautifly, and has it use Stringshot. But Corphish leaps up and cuts the Stringshot down before it can hit, then rushes in and Crabhammer's Cascoon into Seviper's mouth, which knocks Seviper back into Team Rocket and sends them flying backwards.
"Why does my darling Silcoon refuse to evolve into a Beautifuly?" cries Jesse.
"Simple," cries James, who has had enough, "It's a Cascoon!"
"Like we've been trying to tell ya!" adds Meowth.
"Not true!" demands Jesse.
"It's trueeeeeee!" they cry, as they fly deep into the forest and disappear into a twinkle.
The Seedot seem pleased with the violence instigated against Team Rocket, and Beautifly lands on May's head, leading to Professor Birch embarassing himself further by declaring that, "That is one fly Beautifly."
Oh you the illest, Professor Birch.
Brock suddenly remembers a present he bought for May (she's not going to let you bang her, Brock) and hands it to her, a small tin with the silheoutte of a Beautifly on it. He explains it is a special jelly for Beautifly that he made himself.
Oh Jesus.
Beautifly sucks up the jelly while Birch offers her advice, telling her she'll do well in contests if she practises attacks. May thanks him for the advice, and asks what attacks Beautifly can do. Max suggests she try out Gust or Stun Spore and she goes with the former, having Beautifly let loose with a good burst of gust. Next they decide to work on the attack and skill at the same time, and May throws Beautifly a frisbee and has it practise keeping it spinning in the air using Gust.
But all this Beautifly action is distracting, and the Seedot remind everyone that THEY are the special guest Pokemon of the day with a little "lost home" subplot to be resolved.
Meanwhile we find Team Rocket hanging on a limb sticking out of a cliff. Jesse clings to her "Silcoon" demanding that she is right, it will evolve into a Beautifly! In fact, if it doesn't evolve in the next 30 seconds then she'll hold James and Meowth personally responsible.
James insists that it is a Cascoon and even if it does evolve, it'll be into a Dustox! Meowth moans that he doesn't want to be there when that happens, and has a variation on the crazy Meowth Giovanni Fantasy, this one the probable Meowth Jesse fantasy.
"Despite my orders this Silcoon still hasn't evolved into a Beautifly!" fantasy Jesse roars at Meowth and James, "This is a scam, I demand satisfaction!"
She then hammers Meowth and James with a hammer as the fantasy ends, the real life James and Meowth muttering that things have taken a nasty turn, and they could end up with a nasty bruise if they don't figure a way out of this. Jesse demands to know what they're talking about, then changes tack to announce that they have a plan to make her "Silcoon" evolve. James asks with understandable trepidation what "their" plan entails, and she replies that they're going to battle Silcoon till it evolves.
"Let's go, Meowth I choose you!" she snaps, grabbing Meowth by the scruff of the neck.
"You do?" moans Meowth, horrified.
Meanwhile in another part of the forest the twerps are watching as Professor Birch tries to find a new Seedot habitat, putting them on branches and watching them fall off (hehe, what fun!) then declaring they'll have to try a new forest.
While that is going on, Meowth is getting his ass kicked by Cascoon, being smacked around and asking if he can quit.
"Meowth, unable to battle!" cries James, acting as Judge, "Jesse's Cascoon wins!"
"It's a Silcoon!" she hisses.
"Right, uhh... I forgot!" stammers James.
Next is Cacnea, which uses Pin Missile which simply bounces off of Cascoon's Harden Defence before Cacnea is tackled once, then twice and knocked out.
Meowth declares Cascoon the winner, and Jesse yells it is Silcoon! Meowth corrects himself, then says he is just happy it is over.... but Jesse insists they'll stay there until it evolves!
Meowth tries to reason with her, telling her that Cascoon...... she glares down at him with righteous fury..... he means Silcoon is plenty tough already.
James tries to cheer her up too, telling her it'll probably evolve into Dustox so..... she glares at him with righteous fury..... he means Beautifly, really soon.
Jesse agrees that her "Silcoon" is strong, but that just means that it needs to fight stronger Pokemon, and the strongest she knows of nearby belong to the twerps.
Birch is trying again to find a spot for Seedot that it likes, and success! They've found just the sport, and the Seedot roll aroun on the ground happily.... and then Team Rocket shows up!
"Now hear this, twerps!" Jesse cries.
"Team Rocket!" shouts Ash, who is always proud to declare one of the few facts he has learned.
"Prepare for trouble, I challenge you!"
"Make it double, while I enjoy the view!
"To protect the world from devastation."
"To unite all peoples within our nation."
"To denounce the evils of truth and love."
"To extend our reach to the stars above."
"Jesse."
"James."
"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light,"
"Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight!"
"Meowth! Dat's right!"
The balloon lands and Jesse says that she wants a challenge, she wants to battle so that her Silcoon will evolve into a Beautifly. Professor Birch against insists that this is impossible, since she has a Cascoon, but Jesse doesn't listen, throwing out Cascoon which gets blown back by Beautifly's Gust. Jesse shouts encouragement as James decides to help her out with Cacnea, and gets a hugh full of needles for his troubles. Ash throws out Treecko which dodges Pin Missile and then uses Pound, missing Cacnea which dodges aside.
Meowth tries to grab the Seedot while all this is going on and gets Water Gunned by Mudkip for his troubles, and then "Silcoon uses tackle on Beautifly. Max reminds May that Beautifly knows Tackle as well and it smacks over Cascoon, causing Jesse to declare that it can do better and should try Tackle at full power. Cascoon jumps forward and Beautifly replies with Gust, holding the straining Cascoon in place as it begins to suddenly glow!
It's evolution, baby!
"OH IT'S HAPPENING!" gasps Jesse, "My cute little Silcoon is finally going to become a Beautifly!"
"The moment of truth," gasps Meowth, "I can't bear tah look!"
"Maybe if I close my eyes maybe it'll go away," sighs James.
"This is so exciting, in just a moment I'll have a Beautifly!" gasps Jesse in ectasy.
It begins to evolve... and then a blanket is thrown over it by a grinning James as Meowth runs around with Beautifly wings on shouting, "BEAUTIFLY! BEAUTIFLY!"
"Ahhhhhhhh!" ahhhhhh's the twerps and Professor Birch.
"You were right all along, you are now the proud owner of a Beautifly," says James with a desperate grin. Jesse glares, then hauls Meowth up and demands to know what he is doing, Meowth insisting that he IS Beautifly, he never even heard of Meowth! Jesse growls and tosses him aside, then demands James move out of the way and let her see her Beautifly. He moans it was Meowth's idea as she pulls aside the blanket and a Dustox - puple body, green wings, segmented yellow and black eyes - lunges up and begins raping her face.
Jesse pulls it away and stares at it as it grins back at her, muttering, "Dustox," over and over again as she stares and mutters that her cute Beautifly looks almost like.... almost like.....
A Dustox.
"Dustox, the Toxic Moth Pokemon," says Dextina, "Dustox is the evolution of Cascoon. When flapping its wings it will scatter a poison dust."
"I didn't get a Beautifly," gasps Jesse, "I got a Dustox."
Professor Birch is still yelling - despite agreeing with her - telling her that it was a Cascoon, it HAD to evolve into Dustox. Jesse though still can't understand, her and May both caught a Wurmple, they both evolved at the same time, but May's then evolved into a Beautifly while she got a Dustox.
James agrees that this is strange, they were both Wurmples after all, and Meowth wonders why Wurmple decided to become a Dustox.
"This is... my Dustox," gasps Jesse and begins to grit her teeth as James and Meowth cringe, knowing she is finally going to blow her top.
"Hold on to me James," gasps Meowth, "She's going to blow!"
And then it happens, as Jesse screams....."I LOVE MY DUSTOX!"
James and Meowth collapse in shock as she turns with a grin to them, "Don't you guys love it too?"
She turns and stares in wonder at her Dustox, describing its amazing virtues with great delight, proclaiming it far superior to that lousy Beautifly the twerp has and demanding to know why no one told her earlier this was going to happen.
Well Meowth and James both know that some things are better left unsaid.
Jesse proclaims that her superior Dustox can beat May's useless Beautifly any day, and demands to know what attacks her Dustox can use. James reads from one of his handy tradeable, collectible cards that it can use Tackle, Poison Sting and Psybeam, which Jesse prolaims to be a good range of moves before using the most basic of them, Tackle.
Dustox tackles Beautifly which irritates May, since she wasn't ready. She declares Jesse to be a rotton cheat and promises to defeat her Dustox, then mentions she plans to win a lot of Pokemon contests using Beautifly. Jesse tells her she is going to need luck then, since she'll be competing against her and her Dustox, then they fight.
Beautifly uses Tackle back, then Dustox uses Poison String which is blown away by Gust, then Dustox tries Psybeam which is assisted by Pin Missile by Cacnea. Professor Birch declares two on one unfair, and Treecko leaps in front of Beautifly and takes the attack. Ash calls Treecko back and sends out Corphish, which dodges Pin Missile from Cacnea while Beautifly dodges Poison Sting from Dustox. It tackles Dustox into Jesse, then Corphish Crabhammers Cacnea into James and Meowth before using Bubblebeam to send them blasting off again!
Jesse grips to her happy looking Dustox, congratulating it for being great as James and Meowth comment that it seems ignorance IS bliss.
As the sun sets, Professor Birch scoops up some dirt and says it seems nutrient rich, so the Seedot will have a good home here. They swing on their branch happily above the twerps while a happy May has Beautifly on her head, and in general everyone just seems happy.
Well, not quite, Ash was kind of hoping to have done some training today!
Brock - more relaxed now that he has probably written up a new training schedule - assures him they'll do some proper training tomorrow and Ash - too dim to stay upset for long - happily agrees.
Professor Birch announces that dusk is the absolute best time to set off into a strange forest so that he can find his way back home, laughing that he can't leave his Assistants to do ALL of his research!
He says goodbye to the twerps and walks away, but not before telling May exactly what she wants to hear. She and her Beautifly are going to be winners.
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