A Real Cleffa hanger

The herd (that’s really the only word for that huge group) is on the way to the Battle Factory, but they stopped for lunch at the base of Mt. Moon.  There Brock tells them that he left Ludicolo with his family.  Misty gets a call from Daisy who says they have a problem.  The lobby is filled with trainers who want a battle.  Daisy wants to hand out gym badges without battles, but Misty tells them to wait for her.  That means they need to get moving, and Max and May are excited about traveling through Mt. Moon and seeing cleffa and clefairy.  Max says that cleffa never reveal themselves to humans, but then something pops out of a nearby bush – it’s a cleffa!  They think maybe it came down to see the Hoenn pokemon because they are rare.  May tries to approach it and it runs so may sends her azuril to coax it out.  Then Team Rocket comes out and snatches all the pokemon except Pikachu.  Pikachu gets hit head on by a poison tail and falls to the ground.  Meowth tries to suck it up but Ash grabs it.  They turn up the power and all of them have to hold on.  Jesse gets impatient and accidentally puts the machine in reverse, which frees all the pokemon and causes them to blow up.  Misty, Max, Pikachu, and cleffa are blown off the edge of a cliff into a river. They all make it, but Pikachu doesn’t look too good, and there isn’t a Pokemon Center nearby.  Misty has azuril use refresh to heal it.

Ash and the others are having no luck searching for the other half of their group.  It is too cloudy to search by air, and mudkyp’s radar doesn’t find anything.  They then stumble across a clefariy and celfable who also appear to be looking for something.  Brock thinks they are looking for cleffa, but they run off.

Misty, Max, and Pikachu follow cleffa to some berries, but when they start to eat they are attacked by beedrill and run right off a cliff!   This time they fall into a forest.  The fog is so thick they can’t see the mountain anymore, and then it starts to pour.  Cleffa is scared, and Max has to hold it.  They seek shelter in a cave.

Ash and the others are forced to take shelter as well, but they only have a tree.  Ash and Brock aren’t too worried because Misty is with the others, but May is beating herself up for missing Max’s hand.

In the cave Max and Misty are talking about being younger siblings.  Max wishes May would listen to him, but Misty reminds him that having older sisters can be good too.  By the time they are done talking the sky has cleared and they head back toward the mountain.  Because the rain left the ground wet Ash and the others (including clefairy and clefable) are able to find and follow Misty and Max’s footsteps. 

Pikachu and cleffa are walking hand in hand… err… paw in paw? when Team Rocket tries to suck them up.  Max is getting pulled too, but May catches him.  Our heroes are reunited at last!  Too bad they have to fight Team Rocket right away though.  Fortunately the Mt. Moon pokemon call out a bunch of friends and they all use metronome.  First it calls munchlax out, and then it makes Team Rocket and their pokemon dance…  Finally it powers up solar beam and Pikachu’s thunder keeps the Team Rocket pokemon busy long enough for the group hyperbeam to send Team Rocket flying.  And May learned that munchlax knows metronome and hyperbeam.  Then the Mt. Moon pokemon all run up to the mountain.  Brock and Misty tell everyone that since it is a full moon they will probably do the moon dance.  Our heroes head up to watch.

The next day as they head out again Misty gets another call and she really has to hurry.  Misty says farewell at the crossroads wishing them all luck.           

Location: Mt. Moon

Notes: Brock has a mother?  Since when?  In the beginning he had to care for his family because his dad was gone, then his dad showed up and he was able to travel – where did he get a mother?

            Looks like its going to be the same crew… boring.

            Try to get around the cleffas’ sudden existence by saying they never reveal themselves to humans… losers…

            Max likes Misty, he says her idea is better than May’s ^_^  He says Misty is amazing and May could learn a lot form her.

            It’s not like Misty’s sisters weren’t gym leaders for years… why are they being so stupid now?  Misty only went home because they wanted to go on a trip right?

            May seems really tall this episode.

            I thought clefairy were cleptos who are around humans all the time – why so shy now?

            Since when do berries from Hoenn grow in Kanto?

            You can tell that bubble is now done by computer instead of drawn like it used to be…

            The moon dance has certainly changed over the years…