LogFAQs > #32820

In the morning, they take a humvee to follow Lucario, who apparently has no problem accepting that, oh yeah, the internal combustion engine has been invented. Kidd discusses what aura is with the heroes (why would she know this?), and tells us that it's an energy field created by all living beings and absolutely nothing like the Force. Also, there was an organization of knights that could manipulate this energy and no one else could, but those guys are nothing like the Jedi. Since Ash's aura is like Sir Aaron's, that must mean Ash can manipulate it too, a line of logic that doesn't quite make unsense, but it's close.

At the Tree of Beginning, Mew plays around with Meowth and Pikachu, and we see Mew's personality is basically "playful derp."

Cut to the heroes, who literally take time out of the journey to search for Pikachu and Mew to... take an impromptu hot spring bath.

Ash does feel a little guilt for wasting time like this, but quickly forgets that his friend is possibly in trouble. Lucario has a flashback to sitting at this hot spring with Sir Aaron, because the geography of this place has remained completely static for centuries, but doesn't want to join the heroes in the hot spring because, oh yeah, it had its entire worldview destroyed by someone who looks like Ash to its aura vision and distrusts humans.

Ash just happens upon a time flower, a flower that can show you the past if you have the power of aura, and when he touches it a second time, it shows him a flashback of the first time he touched it because "Ash and Aaron's aura are the same." Ash talks about how he became friends with Pikachu, and Lucario has another flashback to Sir Aaron's aura training where he had to dodge logs using aura, even though logs aren't alive and the movie clearly establishes that living beings have auras. So... did Aaron have natural control over aura? Because Ash has had no training but he can still manipulate it. But then, Aaron trained Lucario to use its aura, so... I'm kind of unclear on this.

Lucario gets frustrated for no reason and decides that all humans are untrustworthy, even though literally every single human except one has thus far been trustworthy. It accuses Ash of being willing to abandon Pikachu if it came down to it, and when Ash points out that there's no proof that Sir Aaron abandoned the queen other than Lucario's word (which is, in this entire conversation, the only legitimate point), Lucario tells Ash that Pikachu probably didn't want him for a master and left him. Ash tackles Lucario, and unsurprisingly, gets his ass completely owned. Lucario then runs off. Later, Max gives Lucario some chocolate (because nothing is good for dogs quite like chocolate), Lucario admits that it's pretty good, and everything is suddenly better now. This will be Max's final contribution to the movie.

Cut to Mew playing with Pikachu, and I begin to suspect that Meowth is only here because without him, Mew and Pikachu would be incomprehensible. Pikachu likes Mew, but wants to go back to Ash, which disappoints Mew. Want to know something else that probably disappoints Mew? I bet it's brought back dozens of pokemon like Pikachu to its home in the tree, and all of them have died of old age while Mew remained immortal. We know pokemon age, there have been old pokemon in previous episodes.

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Started: July 6, 2005