PS Recap Ten: Because You're Worth It
First off, I'd like to extend a hearty WELCOME to all my new friends from the Pokemon Friending Meme that I promoted in the previous post! You're about to witness my particular brand of PokeSpe-related derpery: the semi-regular recaps.
Second off, it's time for me to recap Nym's favorite part. :3c
LAST TIME ON POKEMON SPECIAL: Red walks in as Koga is about to make Green deader than dead. IS THIS THE END??????
Chapter Thirty-One: Vs. Articuno (American title: The Art of Articuno)
Not if Red has anything to say, it's not. He attacks Koga with Poliwrath, which works out GREAT.
No, it doesn't.
Koga chuckles that Green's done for either way, as he just took a Razor Wind to the gut. He prods Green's limp body with his boot, because that is Standard Procedure, and Golbat readies to strike his head off. Koga lunges! IS THIS THE EN--
oh snap.
Green releases Pidgeot from under his elbow to strike Koga right in the Ultra Balls, so to speak. BADASS BD
Koga gasps in a voice that has just gone soprano that Green shouldn't be able to move after taking a Razor Wind to the heart. If you've ever seen a Zorro movie, or the second episode of Code Geass, you'll know that anyone ever wearing any hard object on their person that once belonged to a treasured family member is eventually going to have their life saved by said object.
Green's ever-present pendant that didn't seem to do anything has just saved his life. Oh, Pokemon Special and your attention to Conservation of Detail, I love you.
Green gets up and dusts his bad self off, and Koga calls out his heavy artillery - Articuno! Koga has Golbat put a sharp wing (don't think about it, Biology majors. Actually, if you're a Biology major, you should probably escape now before you have an aneurysm) to Red's throat. Koga taunts Red that his choice not to chase Articuno down at the Seafoam Islands in favor of cuteness and friendship is what allowed Team Rocket to capture the bird! Nice job breaking it, Red. Red feels bad :c
Koga attacks with Ice Beam. Green thinks to himself, "Something's not right... Koga shouldn't be able to control Articuno so easily, even if Team Rocket did capture the bird..."
Turns out Koga and the other Evil Gym Leaders are controlling the birds via their respective badges, which both heighten their Pokemon's power and make them more docile.
Koga laughs! Articuno attacks! Red and Green are frozen today! (Bad place for a meme? YOU DECIDE.)
BUT WAIT!
As Koga turns his back, he gets smacked by Porygon. What? Red and Green have melted? Turns out Green sent Charizard out the window in the final moments to heat the air in the building from the outside! Koga is defeated through the power of Green's awesomeness. (You know, I never realized how much of a backseat our supposed protagonist takes in a couple of these early fights :/a STEP IT UP, RED) One Soul Badge is acquired.
Red fumes (literally, OHO) at Green because he almost cooked the two of them like a pair of frozen Hot Pockets. (oh great, now I'm hungry) Green smirks, but then wobbles - he's not immune to those quick shifts in extreme temperatures, either. They check to see if Golduck can scan the building mentally, but no such luck - Sabrina's Psychics have too many cross-pulses going in the building. Next option: steal Koga's Golbat and use it's Supersonic to scan the building using sound waves. Hey, to the victor goes the spoils.
Professor Oak seems to be tied up in the basement (:C), but suddenly, they hear a female scream from the floors above - Blue! Green tosses Red the Soul Badge, and they split up to do their respective hero things. But what horrors could be befalling Blue up above...?
Chapter Thirty-Two: Vs. Kadabra (American title: A Little Kadabra'll Do It!)
Oh, sure, pun on hair-care products in the girls' fight chapter. I AM ON TO YOU, AMERICAN TRANSLATORS >C (except that Brylcreem is a men's... hair... care product, um WELL WHATEVER)
Oooh, this set of scanlators has the pages in the right direction...AND gave Sabrina a cool-looking font. Neat. UM ANYWAY. Sabrina is blasting the shit out of Blue despite it being pitch-black. Sabrina explains that she is not only a trainer of Psychic-types...she's ALSO a gifted psychic in her own right! And when she can't see with her physical eyes, she can navigate with her spidey-senses! Blue can tell she's in deep shit.
Kadabra paralyzes her with Disable, and Sabrina walks up close to gloat and finish her off. Blue nevertheless refuses to be cowed, and taunts Sabrina that she's just not as sexy and good-looking as Blue. She even sticks her chest out for good measure - hell-loooo, early puberty. Sabrina flushes angrily and has Kadabra slash Blue right across the collarbone to reveal -
OH SNAP!
GO GO GADGET VICTORIA'S SECRET COMPARTMENT! YEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
(As an aside, you will never find this in the American release. They c/p'd an untorn dress over Blue's chest in that panel and pretended Sabrina's sudden loss in fortune was due to a loss in concentration because of Blue's insults...never mind the fact that Clefairy and Jigglypuff then came out of NOWHERE and it makes no goddamn sense. Sheesh. >C)
Clefairy and Jigglypuff combine a Growl and Sing attack to create a discordant cacophony that disrupts Sabrina's mental focus and hurts her ears. The room's illusions completely disappear, and Blue takes the opportunity to swipe Sabrina's badge and sneak out while she has an auditory seizure.
I love our badass ladies ;~;
MEANWHILE, Red comes across a room with a mysterious thing in it that looks like a fancy pie plate or something.
Oh, and some Rocket Grunts reveal that the building is now on fire. GOOD JOB, RED AND GREEN.
The thingy turns out to be an amplifier for the energy stored in the seven (available) Gym Badges of Kanto. Sabrina, apparently recovered from having her eardrums ruptured, shows up and sends the goons off to search for those meddling kids. Red recognizes her as the mysterious lady who put the fear of God in him back in Pallet Town. Sabrina enters the room, apparently looking for the amplifier that Red is holding while hiding behind the table. Oh wait, except it's BLUE in disguise with her Ditto! Scorrrrrrrre~
Meanwhile, Green is snooping around the basement and finds his grandpa! Professor Oak warns Green that Team Rocket kidnapped most of Pallet Town and attempted to force Oak to be their new evil scientist. DUN DUN DUN.
Blue shows Red the Marsh Badge she swiped from Sabrina, the last one he needs to complete the magic amplifier doohickey. Red asks for it, but Blue gives nothing away for free - she wants the Moon Stone in return. (You remember how Red had the Moon Stone? You know, when he swiped it back in Chapter Five or so? You liar, you didn't remember.) Red attempts to logic his way out of it and Blue soundly schools him in persuasive logic. They swap their respective items.
Blue explains that the device enormously boosts the strength of a trainer's Pokemon when all the badges are placed in it. However, she cackles in the direction of the fourth wall, she doesn't tell Red that it is actually supposed to create an entirely new Pokemon! Which she intends to capture once Red lets it out. Oh, you sneakthief, Blue.
BUT SABRINA HAS FINALLY FOUND THEM! Red pops the last badge in and holds the device out, and.... nothing happens. Whoops. Blue snags the device and makes a break for it, telling Red that she never returned his first two Gym Badges in the first place - she gave him carefully crafted doubles! OHOHOHOHOHO~ ♥
Red: FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU -
Sabrina calls in the three legendary birds to face Red down. Things are looking grim...
I only did two because I got lazy. |D;;
NEXT TIME: Fusion dance! Doom! Dramatic exprosions! The end of Team Rocket? TUNE IN!
Second off, it's time for me to recap Nym's favorite part. :3c
LAST TIME ON POKEMON SPECIAL: Red walks in as Koga is about to make Green deader than dead. IS THIS THE END??????
Chapter Thirty-One: Vs. Articuno (American title: The Art of Articuno)
Not if Red has anything to say, it's not. He attacks Koga with Poliwrath, which works out GREAT.
No, it doesn't.
Koga chuckles that Green's done for either way, as he just took a Razor Wind to the gut. He prods Green's limp body with his boot, because that is Standard Procedure, and Golbat readies to strike his head off. Koga lunges! IS THIS THE EN--
oh snap.
Green releases Pidgeot from under his elbow to strike Koga right in the Ultra Balls, so to speak. BADASS BD
Koga gasps in a voice that has just gone soprano that Green shouldn't be able to move after taking a Razor Wind to the heart. If you've ever seen a Zorro movie, or the second episode of Code Geass, you'll know that anyone ever wearing any hard object on their person that once belonged to a treasured family member is eventually going to have their life saved by said object.
Green's ever-present pendant that didn't seem to do anything has just saved his life. Oh, Pokemon Special and your attention to Conservation of Detail, I love you.
Green gets up and dusts his bad self off, and Koga calls out his heavy artillery - Articuno! Koga has Golbat put a sharp wing (don't think about it, Biology majors. Actually, if you're a Biology major, you should probably escape now before you have an aneurysm) to Red's throat. Koga taunts Red that his choice not to chase Articuno down at the Seafoam Islands in favor of cuteness and friendship is what allowed Team Rocket to capture the bird! Nice job breaking it, Red. Red feels bad :c
Koga attacks with Ice Beam. Green thinks to himself, "Something's not right... Koga shouldn't be able to control Articuno so easily, even if Team Rocket did capture the bird..."
Turns out Koga and the other Evil Gym Leaders are controlling the birds via their respective badges, which both heighten their Pokemon's power and make them more docile.
Koga laughs! Articuno attacks! Red and Green are frozen today! (Bad place for a meme? YOU DECIDE.)
BUT WAIT!
As Koga turns his back, he gets smacked by Porygon. What? Red and Green have melted? Turns out Green sent Charizard out the window in the final moments to heat the air in the building from the outside! Koga is defeated through the power of Green's awesomeness. (You know, I never realized how much of a backseat our supposed protagonist takes in a couple of these early fights :/a STEP IT UP, RED) One Soul Badge is acquired.
Red fumes (literally, OHO) at Green because he almost cooked the two of them like a pair of frozen Hot Pockets. (oh great, now I'm hungry) Green smirks, but then wobbles - he's not immune to those quick shifts in extreme temperatures, either. They check to see if Golduck can scan the building mentally, but no such luck - Sabrina's Psychics have too many cross-pulses going in the building. Next option: steal Koga's Golbat and use it's Supersonic to scan the building using sound waves. Hey, to the victor goes the spoils.
Professor Oak seems to be tied up in the basement (:C), but suddenly, they hear a female scream from the floors above - Blue! Green tosses Red the Soul Badge, and they split up to do their respective hero things. But what horrors could be befalling Blue up above...?
Chapter Thirty-Two: Vs. Kadabra (American title: A Little Kadabra'll Do It!)
Oh, sure, pun on hair-care products in the girls' fight chapter. I AM ON TO YOU, AMERICAN TRANSLATORS >C (except that Brylcreem is a men's... hair... care product, um WELL WHATEVER)
Oooh, this set of scanlators has the pages in the right direction...AND gave Sabrina a cool-looking font. Neat. UM ANYWAY. Sabrina is blasting the shit out of Blue despite it being pitch-black. Sabrina explains that she is not only a trainer of Psychic-types...she's ALSO a gifted psychic in her own right! And when she can't see with her physical eyes, she can navigate with her spidey-senses! Blue can tell she's in deep shit.
Kadabra paralyzes her with Disable, and Sabrina walks up close to gloat and finish her off. Blue nevertheless refuses to be cowed, and taunts Sabrina that she's just not as sexy and good-looking as Blue. She even sticks her chest out for good measure - hell-loooo, early puberty. Sabrina flushes angrily and has Kadabra slash Blue right across the collarbone to reveal -
OH SNAP!
GO GO GADGET VICTORIA'S SECRET COMPARTMENT! YEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
(As an aside, you will never find this in the American release. They c/p'd an untorn dress over Blue's chest in that panel and pretended Sabrina's sudden loss in fortune was due to a loss in concentration because of Blue's insults...never mind the fact that Clefairy and Jigglypuff then came out of NOWHERE and it makes no goddamn sense. Sheesh. >C)
Clefairy and Jigglypuff combine a Growl and Sing attack to create a discordant cacophony that disrupts Sabrina's mental focus and hurts her ears. The room's illusions completely disappear, and Blue takes the opportunity to swipe Sabrina's badge and sneak out while she has an auditory seizure.
I love our badass ladies ;~;
MEANWHILE, Red comes across a room with a mysterious thing in it that looks like a fancy pie plate or something.
Oh, and some Rocket Grunts reveal that the building is now on fire. GOOD JOB, RED AND GREEN.
The thingy turns out to be an amplifier for the energy stored in the seven (available) Gym Badges of Kanto. Sabrina, apparently recovered from having her eardrums ruptured, shows up and sends the goons off to search for those meddling kids. Red recognizes her as the mysterious lady who put the fear of God in him back in Pallet Town. Sabrina enters the room, apparently looking for the amplifier that Red is holding while hiding behind the table. Oh wait, except it's BLUE in disguise with her Ditto! Scorrrrrrrre~
Meanwhile, Green is snooping around the basement and finds his grandpa! Professor Oak warns Green that Team Rocket kidnapped most of Pallet Town and attempted to force Oak to be their new evil scientist. DUN DUN DUN.
Blue shows Red the Marsh Badge she swiped from Sabrina, the last one he needs to complete the magic amplifier doohickey. Red asks for it, but Blue gives nothing away for free - she wants the Moon Stone in return. (You remember how Red had the Moon Stone? You know, when he swiped it back in Chapter Five or so? You liar, you didn't remember.) Red attempts to logic his way out of it and Blue soundly schools him in persuasive logic. They swap their respective items.
Blue explains that the device enormously boosts the strength of a trainer's Pokemon when all the badges are placed in it. However, she cackles in the direction of the fourth wall, she doesn't tell Red that it is actually supposed to create an entirely new Pokemon! Which she intends to capture once Red lets it out. Oh, you sneakthief, Blue.
BUT SABRINA HAS FINALLY FOUND THEM! Red pops the last badge in and holds the device out, and.... nothing happens. Whoops. Blue snags the device and makes a break for it, telling Red that she never returned his first two Gym Badges in the first place - she gave him carefully crafted doubles! OHOHOHOHOHO~ ♥
Red: FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU -
Sabrina calls in the three legendary birds to face Red down. Things are looking grim...
I only did two because I got lazy. |D;;
NEXT TIME: Fusion dance! Doom! Dramatic exprosions! The end of Team Rocket? TUNE IN!