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PS Recap Five: Rhapsody in Blue
By now, you have probably been sitting here, scowling and muttering, "You know, Random talks about the badass ladies in this series all the time, but other than that disconcerting Misty chapter, I haven't seen any dang badass ladies yet. :/"
Well, scowl and mutter NO LONGER, MY FRIENDS!
Chapter 15: Vs. Wartortle (American title: Wartortle Wars)
The chapter begins with Red being sighted in the binoculars of this mysterious lady:
Ohoho~
Red and Bulbasaur defeat a Primeape, and Bulbasaur evolves into Ivysaur! Red is pretty pleased. Behind him, the girl from the first page is clapping and squeeing over how cool that was to see. She compliments him, and Red blushes. But, the girl goes on to say, it's a shame Red doesn't have any cool items or supplements to take his badassery to the next level... Lucky for him, she has such an assortment of items RIGHT WITH HER for the low low price of as much as she can wring out of him. Red is unsure, but the girl turns on her moe feminine wiles, and he is helpless.
Red walks away giggling to himself about how she was totally into him, but the laughter stops once he tries to use some items on Pikachu in their next battle. He got hosed - they're nothing but crap! :O
At the next stop at a Pokemon Center, Red chats it up with Professor Oak via videophone. Professor Oak is pleased to see that Saur evolved, along with Green's Charmander evolving to Charmeleon (which happened a while ago, due to Green's intense burning badassery). Oak mentions that it's a shame he has no idea what's happened to Squirtle, as the third starter was STOLEN a while ago. Red is saddened at all the bad people in the world, scamming and stealing...
Speaking of scamming, he runs into the sneaky con girl again, hawking her illicit wares in the streets of Celadon! She spots him and makes a break for it, with Red in hot pursuit. She attempts to make a river escape on the back of a Water Pokemon that Red doesn't recognize, but Red blocks her escape route with Snorlax.
The girl admits that she knew what she was doing was wrong...but she just wanted to see Red again! She glomps him and Red is like WAT. Over Red's shoulder, we see the girl dabbing spit onto her eyelashes for some quick fake tears, and once again distracts Red with her method acting skillz.
Red falls for it again, and the girl shoves him to make another break for it. She attacks with her Wartortle, but the ball's now in Red's court. "Maybe next time you'll think twice about trying to outsmart a trainer with two badges!" he crows.
After apparently knocking her out with a Mega Punch, Red takes his money back, but not before he sees the girl's name on her wallet - Blue. (Yes, that Blue.) He also checks his Pokedex to find that Wartortle is an evolved Squirtle! So she's the thief! Red decides to just leave with a parting shot about staying out of trouble. Apparently, his heart is too big to steal the Wartortle back. Either that or he still harbors hopes of getting lucky someday. But as he leaves, we see a sneaky grin appear on Blue's face...
Yup. She pretended to be unconscious to get the opportunity to steal Red's badges.
Bad. Ass. BD
Chapter 16: Vs. Tauros (American title: Tauros the Tyrant)
At the Rocket Game Corner in Celadon, Team Rocket is throwing a bitch fit. Apparently Blue has pissed them off, too, because they're on the hunt for her.
Oh, and Red is among them in disguise.
A short flashback shows How We Got Here: Red overhears two Rocket Grunts searching for Blue at the same time that he's looking to get his badges back. Hmm. Red's Hardy Boy instinct kicks in, and he pulls the old "knock out a grunt and steal his uniform" ploy to infiltrate the Rocket base. Red enters the basement of the Game Corner, which turns out to be the Rocket HQ. Tanks and test tubes full of creepy things are everywhere, and in the corner, Red spots an incomplete monster Pokemon being formed.
A scientist speaking to another Rocket over on the side reveals that this is their future trump card, an enhanced clone of Mew named MEWTWO (aww yeah biznatches, it's that Mewtwo). However, the cell of Mew's they used to clone him lacks all the genetic material necessary to create a complete body. The Rocket says that they need to capture the original Mew, which they cannot do as long as Blue still has the EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FLOPPY DISK that she stole. (Lol, this really dates this series, huh? Floppy disks...)
Red's like, "all of a sudden, I don't totally hate that girl's existence..." However, he's still not sure what this "Mew" is that they're talking about. (Remember, Red never found out Mew's name in the first chapter.) Suddenly, they're all running off, for Blue has been spotted!
Blue maintains insane amounts of coolness in the face of being surrounded by Team Rocket.
She tosses the disk into Wartortle's mouth. If they attack, Wartortle chomps the disk to pieces! ♥ Red is kind of like "holy wow, how is everyone more of a badass than I am?" (This state of affairs does not last beyond the first arc XD) Team Rocket tries attacking anyway, but ends up embarrassing themselves. Blue just lols at their failure. "You shouldn't try to outsmart a trainer with two badges~" she says, revealing that Red's badges are now her smexy earrings. Red fumes. XD
The leader of this Rocket squad is fed up, and releases his trump card: Tauros, a bull-like Pokemon with the ability to coordinate the movements of its "herd" by cracking its three whip-like tails. With this advantage, they retrieve the disk from Wartortle, but Blue's not done yet. She releases...a pink blob. Team Rocket is like "ahaha lol kill it," and Tauros charges at them. Red leaps forward and knocks Blue out of the way, leaving Tauros and the blob to go tumbling down the small cliff (really more like a lengthy drop-off, not much of a cliff).
Blue sees that it's Red who saved her, and immediately starts in with the "my hero" stuff. Meanwhile, Tauros is climbing back up the cliff. Red's like "why are you not more worried about this," and the Rocket leader chuckles - but Tauros's tails crack, and suddenly Team Rocket is under attack by their own Pokemon!
The leader yells at Red to capture Blue, but she whips his uniform off to reveal that he is... "her sweetheart! ♥" (Fridge Brilliance: who else do we know who's whipped off the uniform of someone attempting to infiltrate Team Rocket at the least convenient time? I guess Blue's taught him more than infiltration techniques and how to escape island fortresses... ;D) They then escape on Blue's flying Jigglypuff, because that is how she rolls. But what about Tauros and the pink blob? Well, the pink blob is Blue's Ditto, a Pokemon with the ability to transform into any Pokemon it's seen. Sneakiness and subtlety save the day again!
Except Team Rocket still has the disk...
Chapter 17: Vs. Jynx (American title: The Jynx Jinx)
...Oh wait, except it's actually a fake and Blue has the real disk. LOL.
Blue shows Red what Mew looks like with her Ditto, and sends Ditto out to fool Team Rocket while they find the real Mew. Blue mentions they don't have a ton of time until Team Rocket figures out that Ditto doesn't know any of Mew's abilities. To track Mew, Blue has goggles that can identify the brainwaves of Psychic Pokemon and match their signatures to individuals. Apparently Blue can make amazing gadgets that work - she just sells fakes to keep her con business going. Oh, Blue, so fabulous ♥~ They zero in on Mew's location and set off.
Red tells Blue about the monster Pokemon he saw in the Rocket base, and how they want Mew to complete it. Blue has no such complex plans. She wants to capture Mew for the money she'll rake in for catching the "Phantom 151st Pokemon." Red is displeased with her gray morals. But they have no more time for filosofee, because they've caught up to Mew. Red and Blue team up and manage to restrain Mew with Saur's Vine Whip.
But Team Rocket shows up! They've beaten up Ditto and tracked Red and Blue with their own Psychic, Jynx. Jynx blasts the living shit out of them with Psybeam. Red stands in front of Blue to take the brunt of it and tells her to escape with Mew - no matter how dubious Blue's intentions are, it's better than Team Rocket getting their non-dubiously evil hands on Mew. But Jynx's Psybeam is too much for them, and they're unable to run due to probably developing brain cancer. Just when it looks like Team Rocket's going to get Mew, Red throws Poli out to stop them. But Poli gets frozen by Jynx's Ice Punch! All seems lost.
Mew decides she's fed up with this shit, and blasts the crap out of Team Rocket, leaving Red and Blue unharmed. After giving the two of them an "I've got my eye on you troublemakers" look, Mew jets off for Vegas, leaving Red and Blue to at least be happy that Team Rocket didn't get their way. Oh, and Blue managed to snap some photos of Mew she can sell to the newspapers! Ohoho~ Red's pissed that she was snapping pics while he was doing his vague hero thing, but then he finds his badges and a note that she slipped into his pocket at some point. "Thanks for everything, cutie~!"
Red kind of smiles in a "lol I have no idea what just happened" way, and the day is saved by badassery. :D
Next Time: Switcharoos, Green being badass, and a possible secret evil conspiracy. Oh, and more badass ladies. BD
Well, scowl and mutter NO LONGER, MY FRIENDS!
Chapter 15: Vs. Wartortle (American title: Wartortle Wars)
The chapter begins with Red being sighted in the binoculars of this mysterious lady:
Ohoho~
Red and Bulbasaur defeat a Primeape, and Bulbasaur evolves into Ivysaur! Red is pretty pleased. Behind him, the girl from the first page is clapping and squeeing over how cool that was to see. She compliments him, and Red blushes. But, the girl goes on to say, it's a shame Red doesn't have any cool items or supplements to take his badassery to the next level... Lucky for him, she has such an assortment of items RIGHT WITH HER for the low low price of as much as she can wring out of him. Red is unsure, but the girl turns on her moe feminine wiles, and he is helpless.
Red walks away giggling to himself about how she was totally into him, but the laughter stops once he tries to use some items on Pikachu in their next battle. He got hosed - they're nothing but crap! :O
At the next stop at a Pokemon Center, Red chats it up with Professor Oak via videophone. Professor Oak is pleased to see that Saur evolved, along with Green's Charmander evolving to Charmeleon (which happened a while ago, due to Green's intense burning badassery). Oak mentions that it's a shame he has no idea what's happened to Squirtle, as the third starter was STOLEN a while ago. Red is saddened at all the bad people in the world, scamming and stealing...
Speaking of scamming, he runs into the sneaky con girl again, hawking her illicit wares in the streets of Celadon! She spots him and makes a break for it, with Red in hot pursuit. She attempts to make a river escape on the back of a Water Pokemon that Red doesn't recognize, but Red blocks her escape route with Snorlax.
The girl admits that she knew what she was doing was wrong...but she just wanted to see Red again! She glomps him and Red is like WAT. Over Red's shoulder, we see the girl dabbing spit onto her eyelashes for some quick fake tears, and once again distracts Red with her method acting skillz.
Red falls for it again, and the girl shoves him to make another break for it. She attacks with her Wartortle, but the ball's now in Red's court. "Maybe next time you'll think twice about trying to outsmart a trainer with two badges!" he crows.
After apparently knocking her out with a Mega Punch, Red takes his money back, but not before he sees the girl's name on her wallet - Blue. (Yes, that Blue.) He also checks his Pokedex to find that Wartortle is an evolved Squirtle! So she's the thief! Red decides to just leave with a parting shot about staying out of trouble. Apparently, his heart is too big to steal the Wartortle back. Either that or he still harbors hopes of getting lucky someday. But as he leaves, we see a sneaky grin appear on Blue's face...
Yup. She pretended to be unconscious to get the opportunity to steal Red's badges.
Bad. Ass. BD
Chapter 16: Vs. Tauros (American title: Tauros the Tyrant)
At the Rocket Game Corner in Celadon, Team Rocket is throwing a bitch fit. Apparently Blue has pissed them off, too, because they're on the hunt for her.
Oh, and Red is among them in disguise.
A short flashback shows How We Got Here: Red overhears two Rocket Grunts searching for Blue at the same time that he's looking to get his badges back. Hmm. Red's Hardy Boy instinct kicks in, and he pulls the old "knock out a grunt and steal his uniform" ploy to infiltrate the Rocket base. Red enters the basement of the Game Corner, which turns out to be the Rocket HQ. Tanks and test tubes full of creepy things are everywhere, and in the corner, Red spots an incomplete monster Pokemon being formed.
A scientist speaking to another Rocket over on the side reveals that this is their future trump card, an enhanced clone of Mew named MEWTWO (aww yeah biznatches, it's that Mewtwo). However, the cell of Mew's they used to clone him lacks all the genetic material necessary to create a complete body. The Rocket says that they need to capture the original Mew, which they cannot do as long as Blue still has the EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FLOPPY DISK that she stole. (Lol, this really dates this series, huh? Floppy disks...)
Red's like, "all of a sudden, I don't totally hate that girl's existence..." However, he's still not sure what this "Mew" is that they're talking about. (Remember, Red never found out Mew's name in the first chapter.) Suddenly, they're all running off, for Blue has been spotted!
Blue maintains insane amounts of coolness in the face of being surrounded by Team Rocket.
She tosses the disk into Wartortle's mouth. If they attack, Wartortle chomps the disk to pieces! ♥ Red is kind of like "holy wow, how is everyone more of a badass than I am?" (This state of affairs does not last beyond the first arc XD) Team Rocket tries attacking anyway, but ends up embarrassing themselves. Blue just lols at their failure. "You shouldn't try to outsmart a trainer with two badges~" she says, revealing that Red's badges are now her smexy earrings. Red fumes. XD
The leader of this Rocket squad is fed up, and releases his trump card: Tauros, a bull-like Pokemon with the ability to coordinate the movements of its "herd" by cracking its three whip-like tails. With this advantage, they retrieve the disk from Wartortle, but Blue's not done yet. She releases...a pink blob. Team Rocket is like "ahaha lol kill it," and Tauros charges at them. Red leaps forward and knocks Blue out of the way, leaving Tauros and the blob to go tumbling down the small cliff (really more like a lengthy drop-off, not much of a cliff).
Blue sees that it's Red who saved her, and immediately starts in with the "my hero" stuff. Meanwhile, Tauros is climbing back up the cliff. Red's like "why are you not more worried about this," and the Rocket leader chuckles - but Tauros's tails crack, and suddenly Team Rocket is under attack by their own Pokemon!
The leader yells at Red to capture Blue, but she whips his uniform off to reveal that he is... "her sweetheart! ♥" (Fridge Brilliance: who else do we know who's whipped off the uniform of someone attempting to infiltrate Team Rocket at the least convenient time? I guess Blue's taught him more than infiltration techniques and how to escape island fortresses... ;D) They then escape on Blue's flying Jigglypuff, because that is how she rolls. But what about Tauros and the pink blob? Well, the pink blob is Blue's Ditto, a Pokemon with the ability to transform into any Pokemon it's seen. Sneakiness and subtlety save the day again!
Except Team Rocket still has the disk...
Chapter 17: Vs. Jynx (American title: The Jynx Jinx)
...Oh wait, except it's actually a fake and Blue has the real disk. LOL.
Blue shows Red what Mew looks like with her Ditto, and sends Ditto out to fool Team Rocket while they find the real Mew. Blue mentions they don't have a ton of time until Team Rocket figures out that Ditto doesn't know any of Mew's abilities. To track Mew, Blue has goggles that can identify the brainwaves of Psychic Pokemon and match their signatures to individuals. Apparently Blue can make amazing gadgets that work - she just sells fakes to keep her con business going. Oh, Blue, so fabulous ♥~ They zero in on Mew's location and set off.
Red tells Blue about the monster Pokemon he saw in the Rocket base, and how they want Mew to complete it. Blue has no such complex plans. She wants to capture Mew for the money she'll rake in for catching the "Phantom 151st Pokemon." Red is displeased with her gray morals. But they have no more time for filosofee, because they've caught up to Mew. Red and Blue team up and manage to restrain Mew with Saur's Vine Whip.
But Team Rocket shows up! They've beaten up Ditto and tracked Red and Blue with their own Psychic, Jynx. Jynx blasts the living shit out of them with Psybeam. Red stands in front of Blue to take the brunt of it and tells her to escape with Mew - no matter how dubious Blue's intentions are, it's better than Team Rocket getting their non-dubiously evil hands on Mew. But Jynx's Psybeam is too much for them, and they're unable to run due to probably developing brain cancer. Just when it looks like Team Rocket's going to get Mew, Red throws Poli out to stop them. But Poli gets frozen by Jynx's Ice Punch! All seems lost.
Mew decides she's fed up with this shit, and blasts the crap out of Team Rocket, leaving Red and Blue unharmed. After giving the two of them an "I've got my eye on you troublemakers" look, Mew jets off for Vegas, leaving Red and Blue to at least be happy that Team Rocket didn't get their way. Oh, and Blue managed to snap some photos of Mew she can sell to the newspapers! Ohoho~ Red's pissed that she was snapping pics while he was doing his vague hero thing, but then he finds his badges and a note that she slipped into his pocket at some point. "Thanks for everything, cutie~!"
Red kind of smiles in a "lol I have no idea what just happened" way, and the day is saved by badassery. :D
Next Time: Switcharoos, Green being badass, and a possible secret evil conspiracy. Oh, and more badass ladies. BD