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Episode 111: Why? Wynaut!
"WE DID IT!" Ash smiled as he, Misty, Brock, and Clair enjoyed a picnic by the river a few days later. "I've got my last Badge, Brock's completed his Lore Stage rainbow, and Misty can get one last medal on the way back to New Bark! Johto League, here we come!"
"Well, in order to do that, you'll have to return to New Bark." Clair explained. "But you should have plenty of time for your friend to earn her last Pokethlon medal and train--the League--officially called the Silver Conference, isn't due to begin for another three months."
"So, what's the Johto anthem named?" Brock was curious. "Kanto's is named 'Red, Blue and Yellow Bold', and retells a legend from the region's past--although what is actually sung before Leagues and other competitions is the last verse."
"It is called 'Golden Hearts and Silver Souls', and tells of Ho'oh's, Lugia's, and the Beasts' guidance and protection upon the region." Clair explained. "The song has verses for each of them in turn, but only the first verse, the chorus, the final verse, and another chorus are sung before competition--like Kanto's, it is very rare to hear the whole thing sung."
She smiled as she noticed a few of her attendants arriving to join the group "Although I can at least sing what is typically sung before competition, if you would like to hear it."
"Yes please!" Misty replied, her eyes shining with excitement.
"Need a note?" Brock asked as he fished the pitch pipe he often used to tune his guitar from his bag.
"Sure--an F, please." Clair replied.
"Okay..." Brock set the pitch pipe to sound an F, then blew the note in Clair's direction. Clair hummed it back to him, which also told her attendants what key she would be singing in.
With that, Clair sang Our golden hearts and our silver souls
Shining brightly on our homeland,
Sets the fire of our hope ablaze
And never will it falter!
Our courage flies across the land,
And we rise to meet the challenge;
So the sun will rise, and the moon will shine
Upon Johto forever...
May our golden hearts and silver souls
Shine on the land forever. Clair's attendants joined in, harmonizing with their leader as Brock kept the beat with a frame drum.
As the golden sun rises in the east
So will Johto endure.
Though darkness falls, the stars will shine
And the silver moon lights the way
The aurora shines across the sky
And our path never will be gray...
---------
"Just lookit 'em, being all patriotic..." Meowth smiled as he and his human companions watched the performance from the safety of a bush. "What a catastrophe it would be if da twerps got to da League Badge-less, medal-less, and stripe-less!"
"Imagine how much Badges, medals, and Lore Stripes go for! We would have our dues paid down for years to come, and still have plenty left over!" James smiled, his eyes turning into credit signs as he dreamed of the luxuries he would buy with the hypothetical money from Ash's Badges, Misty's medals, and Brock's Lore Stripes.
"Why sell them when we can use them to enter the League ourselves?" Jessie snapped her partner back to reality.
"Dat's anudder idear, but ya can't be in tree places at once." Meowth interjected. "So once we get da goods, we'll decide who's gonna compete in what from dere."
Excited cheers and applause snapped him to attention. "Looks like dey're done with da patriotics, so here's our chance." he whispered before he and James cast a fishing rod into the grass.
"I got the lady twerp's medals..." James reported as Meowth reeled in Ash's badge case.
"But what about Robin Hood twerp's stripes?" Meowth asked as he noticed the Badge case and the medal box.
"Those appear to be sewn on his clothing, and reeling him in would be a very bed idea indeed." Jessie cautioned. "So we'll make do with just hat twerp's badge's and lady twerp's medals."
As the Rockets raced through the brush with their ill-gotten prizes, they did not see a small blue blob Pokemon similar to Wobbufett take Ash's Badge case while James tried to untangle himself from a bush...
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"WHAT???" Ash gasped when he noticed his Badge case gone. "NOW how am I supposed to enter the League???"
"My medals are gone too!" Misty was just as panicked. "All our hard work, gone--my first one, earned with Casey looking on..."
"Zephyr Badge, when Blaze beat Falkner's Pidgeot Taka..." Ash sighed.
"Second one, putting a braggart Poliwrath trainer in his place." Misty sighed.
"Cyndy's comeback against Bugsy..." Ash replied as he remembered how he had gotten a Hive Badge. This call and response continued as they each remembered how they had won their prizes:
"Plain Badge for saving Whitney's farm and her Miltank..."
"Third one, against Koga's sister Aya...
"Fog Badge, Mina came through with a Dark move..."
"Fourth one was my favorite, with Koga and Janine looking on..."
"Storm Badge, showing Chuck the power of Mega Evolution..."
"Fifth one, against the Nurse Joy of the lake..."
"Mineral Badge, showing Jasmine big things come in small packages..."
"Sixth one defending your honor from Gary..."
"Glacier Badge from teaching Pryce to love again..."
"Seventh one, Ami proved herself..."
"Rising Badge, I earned a few days ago..."
"...and I still have one more medal left to earn!" Misty finally finished the long lament.
Suddenly, Ash remembered something. "Where's that year's supply of chocolate you won, Misty?"
"Here in the cooler...we haven't eaten any more since we ate a good chunk of the first tier." Brock replied.
"Think we could polish off that first tier to ease our sorrows?" Misty asked.
Brock nodded as he took the massive box out. "Besides, chocolate's even better cold."
He smiled. "I'm a little glad mine can't be swiped...so to inspire you guys, I can still remember how I earned them all."
"Okay, master storyteller, how did you earn them all?" Misty challenged as she bit into a dark chocolate diamond.
"Red, helping a Sunflora smile again..." Brock began, counting each color on his fingers as he named it. "Orange, earning a friendly rival's respect...Yellow, teaching a friend of Suzie's what inner beauty means...Green, telling an ancient story alongside the Kimono Girls...Blue, salvaging a TV star's show...Indigo, salvaging 'Oak's Pokemon Talk'...and Purple, earned with the Brains of the Battle Frontier looking on, and you guys helped me earn it!"
"Then what are we doing here having a pity party for?" Misty cried. "The thieves can't have gotten far, so let's go find them!"
---------
"You lost the hat twerp's badges???" Jessie gasped as Sahana glumly nodded yes. "Did you see who or what took them?"
Sahana waddled to a pad of white Post-it notes, and started drawing the smaller blue blob as best as he could remember. "Ooh! Ooh! I love dis game! I love dis game!" Meowth cried, believing Wobbufett was conveying his message in a game of "Win, Lose, or Draw". "It was a great big sapphire with legs!"
"No, it was my childhood nanny, Ms. Gorman!" James suggested.
"Since when do people have blue skin?" Jessie retorted. "It looks more like a Wooper to me!"
With the Rockets lost in their game, they did not see the Pidgeot and the Marill combing the forest for any sign of the small blue blob Pokemon. [I found it!] River reported as she spotted the small blue blob admiring one of Ash's Badges as it added the Badge case and the medal box to a basket full of Berries and other trinkets.
[Good work!] Mina circled down to join River in the brush. [Do you remember what Ash told you this little blob was?]
[It's a Wynaut, like we saw back at the Wobbufett festival!] River smiled before quoting the tiny Pokemon's Pokedex entry. [The young form of Wobbufett, they tend to move in a pack. Individuals squash against one another to toughen their spirits.]
[I see...] Mina smiled as she watched River emerge into the Wynaut's burrow, and emerge with both the Badge case and the medal box some moments later.
Just then, River gasped when she found Arbok and Weezing waiting for her in the brush! [Ambush!] she called as Weezing sprayed a cloud of Smog, forcing the Pidgeot and the Marill to cough while they made off with the Badges...
---------
"Did you find them?" Ash asked as he led Misty, Brock, Clair, and Minerva into the brush, near where Mina and River had found the Wynaut's burrow.
[I asked the Wynaut that lives here to give the Badges and medals back, but just before we could go back, the Rockets ambushed us.] River tearfully explained.
The hiss of a balloon in the distance snapped Clair to attention. "The rogues are about to take flight in Blackthorn Field! Quickly, to the north!"
As the group followed Clair through the grass and brush, Brock offered one of his arrows to Minerva. "So long as we're gonna shoot down Team Rocket, can you imbue this with a little dragon power?"
[Of course.] Minerva smiled, imbuing Brock's arrow with a tiny Dragonbreath, making the head gain a deep teal glow. [That should give your shot a little pizzazz.]
Clair smiled. "What a great idea! Are you sure it will be sharp enough to take the rogues down?"
"I'm sure--they are mainly for stage archery, but I've popped more than a few balloons this trip." Brock replied as he followed Minerva to a hill overlooking where the Rockets were preparing to take off.
Ash smiled as Brock aimed his shot, just as the Meowth balloon started to rise. "Team Rocket's gonna get a nice little surprise..."
Everyone watched as Brock fired some seconds later, a POW confirming he had hit his shot. "Bullseye!" Misty smiled as she hurried to catch her falling medal box. "I am SO glad to get my medals back!"
Ash dove to catch his Badge case, then decided to check and see if all the badges were present. "One...two...three...four...five...six...seven...where's the Rising Badge?"
[Here...] River replied, offering the Rising Badge to Ash. [The Wynaut told me to give you this.]
"If you see him again, will you tell him thank you?" Ash smiled as he put the Rising Badge with the other Badges.
"Now, as I was saying before we were rudely interrupted..." Clair began. "To quickly reach New Bark from here, the Blackthorn Hills are a well known route..."
To Be Continued...
Episode 111: Why? Wynaut!
"WE DID IT!" Ash smiled as he, Misty, Brock, and Clair enjoyed a picnic by the river a few days later. "I've got my last Badge, Brock's completed his Lore Stage rainbow, and Misty can get one last medal on the way back to New Bark! Johto League, here we come!"
"Well, in order to do that, you'll have to return to New Bark." Clair explained. "But you should have plenty of time for your friend to earn her last Pokethlon medal and train--the League--officially called the Silver Conference, isn't due to begin for another three months."
"So, what's the Johto anthem named?" Brock was curious. "Kanto's is named 'Red, Blue and Yellow Bold', and retells a legend from the region's past--although what is actually sung before Leagues and other competitions is the last verse."
"It is called 'Golden Hearts and Silver Souls', and tells of Ho'oh's, Lugia's, and the Beasts' guidance and protection upon the region." Clair explained. "The song has verses for each of them in turn, but only the first verse, the chorus, the final verse, and another chorus are sung before competition--like Kanto's, it is very rare to hear the whole thing sung."
She smiled as she noticed a few of her attendants arriving to join the group "Although I can at least sing what is typically sung before competition, if you would like to hear it."
"Yes please!" Misty replied, her eyes shining with excitement.
"Need a note?" Brock asked as he fished the pitch pipe he often used to tune his guitar from his bag.
"Sure--an F, please." Clair replied.
"Okay..." Brock set the pitch pipe to sound an F, then blew the note in Clair's direction. Clair hummed it back to him, which also told her attendants what key she would be singing in.
With that, Clair sang Our golden hearts and our silver souls
Shining brightly on our homeland,
Sets the fire of our hope ablaze
And never will it falter!
Our courage flies across the land,
And we rise to meet the challenge;
So the sun will rise, and the moon will shine
Upon Johto forever...
May our golden hearts and silver souls
Shine on the land forever. Clair's attendants joined in, harmonizing with their leader as Brock kept the beat with a frame drum.
As the golden sun rises in the east
So will Johto endure.
Though darkness falls, the stars will shine
And the silver moon lights the way
The aurora shines across the sky
And our path never will be gray...
---------
"Just lookit 'em, being all patriotic..." Meowth smiled as he and his human companions watched the performance from the safety of a bush. "What a catastrophe it would be if da twerps got to da League Badge-less, medal-less, and stripe-less!"
"Imagine how much Badges, medals, and Lore Stripes go for! We would have our dues paid down for years to come, and still have plenty left over!" James smiled, his eyes turning into credit signs as he dreamed of the luxuries he would buy with the hypothetical money from Ash's Badges, Misty's medals, and Brock's Lore Stripes.
"Why sell them when we can use them to enter the League ourselves?" Jessie snapped her partner back to reality.
"Dat's anudder idear, but ya can't be in tree places at once." Meowth interjected. "So once we get da goods, we'll decide who's gonna compete in what from dere."
Excited cheers and applause snapped him to attention. "Looks like dey're done with da patriotics, so here's our chance." he whispered before he and James cast a fishing rod into the grass.
"I got the lady twerp's medals..." James reported as Meowth reeled in Ash's badge case.
"But what about Robin Hood twerp's stripes?" Meowth asked as he noticed the Badge case and the medal box.
"Those appear to be sewn on his clothing, and reeling him in would be a very bed idea indeed." Jessie cautioned. "So we'll make do with just hat twerp's badge's and lady twerp's medals."
As the Rockets raced through the brush with their ill-gotten prizes, they did not see a small blue blob Pokemon similar to Wobbufett take Ash's Badge case while James tried to untangle himself from a bush...
----------
"WHAT???" Ash gasped when he noticed his Badge case gone. "NOW how am I supposed to enter the League???"
"My medals are gone too!" Misty was just as panicked. "All our hard work, gone--my first one, earned with Casey looking on..."
"Zephyr Badge, when Blaze beat Falkner's Pidgeot Taka..." Ash sighed.
"Second one, putting a braggart Poliwrath trainer in his place." Misty sighed.
"Cyndy's comeback against Bugsy..." Ash replied as he remembered how he had gotten a Hive Badge. This call and response continued as they each remembered how they had won their prizes:
"Plain Badge for saving Whitney's farm and her Miltank..."
"Third one, against Koga's sister Aya...
"Fog Badge, Mina came through with a Dark move..."
"Fourth one was my favorite, with Koga and Janine looking on..."
"Storm Badge, showing Chuck the power of Mega Evolution..."
"Fifth one, against the Nurse Joy of the lake..."
"Mineral Badge, showing Jasmine big things come in small packages..."
"Sixth one defending your honor from Gary..."
"Glacier Badge from teaching Pryce to love again..."
"Seventh one, Ami proved herself..."
"Rising Badge, I earned a few days ago..."
"...and I still have one more medal left to earn!" Misty finally finished the long lament.
Suddenly, Ash remembered something. "Where's that year's supply of chocolate you won, Misty?"
"Here in the cooler...we haven't eaten any more since we ate a good chunk of the first tier." Brock replied.
"Think we could polish off that first tier to ease our sorrows?" Misty asked.
Brock nodded as he took the massive box out. "Besides, chocolate's even better cold."
He smiled. "I'm a little glad mine can't be swiped...so to inspire you guys, I can still remember how I earned them all."
"Okay, master storyteller, how did you earn them all?" Misty challenged as she bit into a dark chocolate diamond.
"Red, helping a Sunflora smile again..." Brock began, counting each color on his fingers as he named it. "Orange, earning a friendly rival's respect...Yellow, teaching a friend of Suzie's what inner beauty means...Green, telling an ancient story alongside the Kimono Girls...Blue, salvaging a TV star's show...Indigo, salvaging 'Oak's Pokemon Talk'...and Purple, earned with the Brains of the Battle Frontier looking on, and you guys helped me earn it!"
"Then what are we doing here having a pity party for?" Misty cried. "The thieves can't have gotten far, so let's go find them!"
---------
"You lost the hat twerp's badges???" Jessie gasped as Sahana glumly nodded yes. "Did you see who or what took them?"
Sahana waddled to a pad of white Post-it notes, and started drawing the smaller blue blob as best as he could remember. "Ooh! Ooh! I love dis game! I love dis game!" Meowth cried, believing Wobbufett was conveying his message in a game of "Win, Lose, or Draw". "It was a great big sapphire with legs!"
"No, it was my childhood nanny, Ms. Gorman!" James suggested.
"Since when do people have blue skin?" Jessie retorted. "It looks more like a Wooper to me!"
With the Rockets lost in their game, they did not see the Pidgeot and the Marill combing the forest for any sign of the small blue blob Pokemon. [I found it!] River reported as she spotted the small blue blob admiring one of Ash's Badges as it added the Badge case and the medal box to a basket full of Berries and other trinkets.
[Good work!] Mina circled down to join River in the brush. [Do you remember what Ash told you this little blob was?]
[It's a Wynaut, like we saw back at the Wobbufett festival!] River smiled before quoting the tiny Pokemon's Pokedex entry. [The young form of Wobbufett, they tend to move in a pack. Individuals squash against one another to toughen their spirits.]
[I see...] Mina smiled as she watched River emerge into the Wynaut's burrow, and emerge with both the Badge case and the medal box some moments later.
Just then, River gasped when she found Arbok and Weezing waiting for her in the brush! [Ambush!] she called as Weezing sprayed a cloud of Smog, forcing the Pidgeot and the Marill to cough while they made off with the Badges...
---------
"Did you find them?" Ash asked as he led Misty, Brock, Clair, and Minerva into the brush, near where Mina and River had found the Wynaut's burrow.
[I asked the Wynaut that lives here to give the Badges and medals back, but just before we could go back, the Rockets ambushed us.] River tearfully explained.
The hiss of a balloon in the distance snapped Clair to attention. "The rogues are about to take flight in Blackthorn Field! Quickly, to the north!"
As the group followed Clair through the grass and brush, Brock offered one of his arrows to Minerva. "So long as we're gonna shoot down Team Rocket, can you imbue this with a little dragon power?"
[Of course.] Minerva smiled, imbuing Brock's arrow with a tiny Dragonbreath, making the head gain a deep teal glow. [That should give your shot a little pizzazz.]
Clair smiled. "What a great idea! Are you sure it will be sharp enough to take the rogues down?"
"I'm sure--they are mainly for stage archery, but I've popped more than a few balloons this trip." Brock replied as he followed Minerva to a hill overlooking where the Rockets were preparing to take off.
Ash smiled as Brock aimed his shot, just as the Meowth balloon started to rise. "Team Rocket's gonna get a nice little surprise..."
Everyone watched as Brock fired some seconds later, a POW confirming he had hit his shot. "Bullseye!" Misty smiled as she hurried to catch her falling medal box. "I am SO glad to get my medals back!"
Ash dove to catch his Badge case, then decided to check and see if all the badges were present. "One...two...three...four...five...six...seven...where's the Rising Badge?"
[Here...] River replied, offering the Rising Badge to Ash. [The Wynaut told me to give you this.]
"If you see him again, will you tell him thank you?" Ash smiled as he put the Rising Badge with the other Badges.
"Now, as I was saying before we were rudely interrupted..." Clair began. "To quickly reach New Bark from here, the Blackthorn Hills are a well known route..."
To Be Continued...