Ash tries be friendly with Tory, but Tory wants none of it. Ash tries to make friends the only way he knows how.
Ash does eventually succeed in befriending Tory, but Tory still doesn't like pokemon. The heroes seem disappointed that they failed to cure a deeply nestled phobia in an hour of work.
Cut back to Deoxys. As you recall, electricity blinds it, and this is a city of high technology. Thus, it compensates by using its psychic powers to blast whatever is in the way of what it's looking at. At night, it summons another aurora, and everyone in the city thinks it's beautiful. Only one person, Rebecca (the girl with a Metagross) realizes that it's impossible for an aurora to appear here because, hey, LaRousse City isn't in the North Pole! After she explains why it's impossible, everyone else is like "Well, I guess we're just lucky." I'm sorry, but this is the equivalent of snow in Los Angeles, and this is a city full of scientists, and only one person thinks this is strange? Only one person bothers to record data on the aurora using her laptop?
We then get a really boring montage of all of the heroes' pokemon playing. Tory shows up and plays with them, but avoids actually touching them.
While they play, Rebecca tries to analyze the aurora on her laptop, because she is literally the only person in the city who thinks this is worthy of research. Deoxys eventually disperses the aurora, but this causes Rayquaza to notice its reappearance and come to LaRousse City... for some reason. Seriously, Rayquaza's motives in this movie are incomprehensible.
In the morning, Tory takes all of the heroes, as well as the minor characters like Rafe, to the greenhouse in his dad's laboratory. He shows them the CGI effect, and the excited non main characters introduced their pokemon to it.
Just then, Rayquaza reaches the city, and the city's advanced aerial defense grid picks it up. Why didn't it pick up Deoxys earlier? Because shut up.
Officer Jenny has her underlings contact Professor Lund, and this actually does make some sense because Lund is one of the only people in the world to have actually seen Rayquaza. What doesn't make sense is that Lund wonders why Rayquaza has left the ozone layer again, somehow not putting together the mysterious auroras from yesterday because, yes. Yes, we have yet another stupid professor. Where are these people getting their doctorates? I don't think you can get a doctorate from a community college, can you? They do figure it out eventually, but only because Deoxys flies by a camera.
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Started: July 6, 2005