Cut to Maxie and Archie meeting each other on Monsoon Island while Team Rocket watches. Archie thinks Maxie should disband Team Magma because he's already lost, and Maxie thinks Archie is a stupidhead.
In the helicopter, Pikachu gets the glowing tattoos again and freaks out, attacking everything around it until it faints. Lance then rescues Ash and explains that Pikachu bonded with the blue orb, which has overcome its mind with its power, and that the orbs are incredibly dangerous to handle, even though there is absolutely no way he could possibly know any of this.
Cut to Team Rocket breaking into the submarine Team Aqua is keeping Kyogre in. Bizarrely, Cacnea defeats two Crawdaunt by itself, showing that if Team Rocket doesn't have to fight named characters, they're actually decent combatants. Team Rocket's plan? Capture Kyogre with a net. Yes. Capture the ridiculously huge and powerful pokemon with a really big net. Unsurprisingly, they get their ass kicked and blast off, but the distraction allows it to escape into the ocean again.
The episode ends with a cliffhanger. I have to say, this is a solid episode. Sure, there's a ton that makes no sense, but hey, it sets everything up really well, and that's as much as you can hope for in the first part of a two-part episode.
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Started: July 6, 2005