ARCHEOPS IN THE MODERN WORLD!
"I guess science can be pretty awesome sometimes."
Score: 3.5/10
Professor Juniper and Fennel have received a plume fossil from Lenora, and they hope to restore it in Fennel’s lab, which is apparently so close to the heroes that Juniper had no problem with inviting them to watch. By the way, Fennel talks about how exciting this is, jumping around and dancing and acting nothing like how she acted in the previous episode with her, and is almost always blushing for some reason. I’m serious, she blushes when she types stuff in a computer.
She sends out her Musharna to go to sleep and its dream energy to power the machine. Despite having literally no assistants, Fennel’s process is successful, and out of her machine comes an Archen and three tiny seeds no one notices.
Archen spends some time freaking out and such while Fennel and Juniper talk excitedly about how much they’ll learn from it. Eventually it calms down, but it can’t eat any modern food, and every time it makes it cry, the seeds grow - but no one is in that room, and thus no one notices the seeds growing into large vines. By the way, seeds grow without sunshine, water, or dirt, didn’t you know?
Finally, the vines grow so large that they consume Fennel’s laboratory, and she is not freaked out by this at all. She’s surprised, but quickly comes to say “eh” and considers just letting Archen have the damn place as its new home. The vines sprout some fruit, and Archen eats them, causing it evolve for some reason even though it’s like two hours old.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket is trying to hack into Fennel's building, because James is a master computer hacker (?!). Doctor Monocle desperately wants the information in Fennel's computers about the pokemon restoration machine - even though it uses Muuna’s dream energy, he still has the dream energy Team Rocket stole in an earlier episode. James’ hacking is successful, so Jessie decides to try to steal Archeops as well, because why not?
Sadly, their attack only succeeds in accidentally setting Archeop’s vine on fire with shadow ball. Archeops is saddened by this, but as the sun sets, several wild Archeops appear to take it with them. Where did they come from? "Some hidden place... that has allowed them to survive all these millions of years." Yep, apparently there’s a place in Unova where, for millions of years, giant ancient birds have been chilling without human interaction. Juniper and Fennel are completely fine with Archeops leaving, even though they had hoped to study it.
At the end of the episode, we learn Doctor Monocle plans to do something with the data James stole. How foreshadowy.
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Started: July 6, 2005