On Cloud Arcanine (Japanese: ライバル対決！ウインディをゲットかも！, Hepburn: Rival Confrontation! Get Arcanine!) is the 47th episode of Pokémon: Advanced Battle.
Episode Plot
The gang is waiting in a long line for the famous bakery. May promises to Ash it will be worth waiting, but they spot an Arcanine running. It jumps across the crowd with relative ease, dazzling May. Arcanine goes away, while they spot none other than Drew and Flygon going after it as well. Flygon uses Flamethrower, but misses. Arcanine uses Heat Wave, but Flygon dodges. Arcanine uses ExtremeSpeed, running away quickly. Drew insults her by telling her "only an amateur would ask a question like that". Drew tells them he came to Kanto for winning the Grand Festival, showing his first ribbon. Drew runs away to get the Arcanine. The gang goes as well, helping May to capture it as well. Team Rocket spot them (working as bakers), but the boss (who looks a lot like the one they worked at Ever Grande City) yells at them to get back to work.
Mudkip searches, so the gang follows it. Soon, it fells something. Arcanine is shown to be eating berries, so May sends Combusken to battle it. Combusken charges to get it while it runs. Still, Arcanine uses ExtremeSpeed, so it goes away. Brock decides they need to learn about it before capturing it. They go to a woodcutter and ask him about Arcanine. The woodcutter tells them a man with a Flygon asked the same question - it was Drew, so he decides to tell May and her friends about it as well. Team Rocket is delivering the cakes, while Jessie and James taste a portion of cake. They begin to be greedy and take larger portions. Later, the cake is ruined, so the boss wants it. The boss comes and sees the cake inside Wobbuffet's mouth. Naturally, the boss kicks and fires them.
The woodcutter tells them Arcanine lived in mountains, but lately he saw it often. He noticed it goes to same locations day per day. They start at the spring, where Arcanine should drink water. May suspects Drew took it already, but Brock tells her he should be battling it already, due to its power. Ash's stomach growls, so May tells him he needs to stop it. So, they have a lunch break, though Arcanine drinks water. May spots it, so Arcanine runs away. Team Rocket is hungry, too, blaming each other for eating the cake. Still, Wobbuffet comes with some berries as food, but eats all of them, much to Team Rocket's anger.
The gang comes to woods where the berries are. Brock has made a plan - May and Max will wait for it on north side, while Ash and him on south side, so they are bound to encounter it. Ash sends Corphish, Brock sends Mudkip and May sends Squirtle. Everyone waits, so Arcanine appears - Corphish uses Bubble Beam, so Arcanine runs away. Mudkip uses Water Gun, so Arcanine runs towards May and Max. May is prepared, but Squirtle isn't because it's sleeping. May yells at it, so it wakes up and goes to Arcanine. Arcanine uses Roar, so Squirtle is sent back to its Poké Ball. As a replacement, May sends Munchlax to use Metronome. Metronome turns into ExtremeSpeed, so Munchlax is near Arcanine. May orders to jump on it, but Munchlax speeds up - it collects the berries and eats them. Once again, Arcanine runs away.
Team Rocket goes downwards a mountain for the berries. Wobbuffet takes them to the place with the berries, but as Munchlax ate the berries, there are none left. Still, they spot Arcanine running, so Meowth tells Jessie and James that the boss would sleep near Arcanine when he has cold. The gang came atop the mountain - it is their last chance, as Arcanine goes here. Arcanine appears, so May goes to battle it, but instead, Drew comes. Still, Arcanine jumps and runs away. May is annoyed and challenges Drew to a battle. Squirtle starts with Tackle, but Flygon flies. Flygon uses Steel Wing, so Squirtle counters with Bubble, but Flygon evades and attacks Squirtle, making it cry. Drew climbs up, and so do the others, but see that there is nothing up.
However, they spot it, feeding the baby Growlithe. However, the Growlithe are taken by Team Rocket. The gang demands them free, so Arcanine goes to free them, but it is taken by Team Rocket as well. Team Rocket goes away, though Flygon flies and uses Steel Wing, cutting the balloon. The gang comes to the site, so Ash and Brock go to send their Pokémon, but May and Drew decide to finish this, since they are the ones starting this. Flygon cuts the net using Steel Wing, setting Arcanine and the Growlithe free. James sends Cacnea, who uses Pin Missile, but is gets countered by Squirtle's Bubble. Jessie sends Dustox, who uses Poison Sting, but is canceled by Flygon's Flamethrower.
Cacnea uses Sandstorm, pushing Squirtle away, but Flygon stands to protect it. Squrtile jumps on Flygon, so Flygon flies and goes down. Squrtile uses Tackle on Dustox and Flygon uses Steel Wing on Cacnea! pushing the Pokémon to the balloon. Team Rocket is blasted off by Squirtle and Flygon'sWater Gun and Flamethrower. Later, May decides Drew should capture it, but Drew admits he will not, as he will separate Arcanine and the baby Growlithe, so the Pokémon goes away. At the end of the day, before Drew say goodbye, he tells May there is a Contest at Saffron City. He will not enter, as he needs to find another Pokémon, so he goes away. So, the gang's next new destination is Saffron City.
Trivia
- This is the last episode with Pete Zarustica voicing Drew.
- Featured Pokémon: Mightyena, Shuppet, Dusclops
- This episode's name is a reference to "cloud nine", a state of happiness.
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