SAVING DARMANITAN FROM THE BELL!
"Maybe Pikachu ate it and forgot?"
Score: 3/10
The heroes have stopped at Nameless Town. Yes, it’s time for Best Wishes’ very first true filler episode! Joy. Cilan cooks lunch, but two wild Darumaka appear and steal their food. Seriously, I cannot even begin to guess how many times “wild pokemon steals the heroes’ food” has started an episode.
The Darumaka try to escape, so Ash sends out Oshawott to miss with water gun and get hit by two flamethrowers. This knocks Oshawott out, which is apparently a huge deal because Ash's pokemon have never been hit by two flamethrowers before, so they take it to a pokemon center.
Nurse Joy tells the heroes about the two Darumaka and the Darmanitan which lived with them. They used to be kind to humans, but now the Darumaka are stealing food and the Darmanitan has disappeared, which is a bit of a problem. Also, on a completely unrelated note that definitely won't be brought up again, a local old clocktower is going to be torn down. Don’t worry about it, though, it’s not important.
Then the heroes have dinner.
Nurse Joy appears and tells everyone staying at the pokemon center that they have dumplings for dessert, when what should happen but the Darumaka appear and steal the food. Never could’ve seen that one coming. Ash sends out Pidove to follow them and then follows on foot, but the Darumaka split up and escape. You know, given that Iris literally lives in a forest and can literally jump up tall trees in like two movements, you would think that she would be a faster runner than Ash.
Anyway, Pidove still catches the Darumaka entering the clocktower and tells the heroes about it. The heroes corner the Darumaka and ask why they're stealing the food, and after more padding than anything ever, the Darumaka take them to a Darmanitan at the top of the tower in zen mode, sitting beneath the bell. The Darumaka have been stealing food to feed it.
Then, the heroes see that the bell above Darmanitan is floating: it's using psychic to keep it up. You see, the bell was going to fall when the hook that kept it suspended broke, which would have destroyed the floors on each story as it did and bring the entire tower down (because that’s how floors work, right?), so Darmanitan has been keeping it floating using psychic. Thus, the heroes decide that they simple need to fix the hook.
SUPER EXCITING HOOK FIXING MONTAGE GOOOOOOO
Sometimes you gotta fix a hook / It’s not something
You learn in any book
You just gotta improvise
If you’re lucky / It’ll fix before your eyes
Pokemon!
After they fix the hook, Darmanitan does literally everything else for them and thanks them for thirty seconds of actual aid they provided. The next day, as the heroes leave, Nurse Joy tells the heroes that the town has decided to restore the clocktower (presumably at a high cost to the taxpayers) and let the pokemon live there. Cilan's response?
"Delicious!"
Seriously I don't understand why people like this guy more than Brock.
There’s also a subplot where Team Rocket, as inconspicuously as possible,
Meet another agent and are given a briefcase and new orders: go to Nacarene City and await further orders.
Dun dun dun
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Started: July 6, 2005