Episode 119: Three Men and A Sudowoodo
Before we get started on this chapter, I would like to announce that this chapter will feature a special guest; well three of them actually. I figured I was in a Three Stooges mood and went along with it. So enjoy. Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk.
A couple of hours came and went since the Bug Catching Contest and Sora gave Kairi the Sun Stone he won.
"You're just giving me this Sun Stone? But, it's yours," Kairi said.
"Yeah. It's mine to give to you and you're the only one that has a Pokémon that can evolve with a Sun Stone in use," Sora pointed out. "But, it'll be up to you if Sunkern wants to evolve or not." Kairi took the Sun Stone from her boyfriend and smiled.
"Thanks Sora," Kairi said taking out Sunkern's Pokéball and threw it letting out Sunkern. Sunkern spins the leaves on her head. "Sunkern. You can evolve with the use of a Sun Stone and I want you to decide if you want to evolve or not. The choice is yours, of course." Sunkern went to the Sun Stone in her trainer's hand and started to evolve. Sunkern was now a Sunflora.
"Sunflora, flora, flora," Sunflora said.
"Looks like Sunflora made up her mind," Sora said.
"You're right, Sora. And thanks so much for the Sun Stone, Sora," Kairi said.
"You're welcome, Kairi. Besides, I won it for you anyway. That was why I entered the Bug Catching Contest in the first place," Sora said making Kairi smile.
"This is why I love you so much, Sora! You're always thinking of me!" Kairi said in a pleased tone. Kairi gave Sora a kiss on the lips making Pikachu and Togepi smile warmly.
The next morning, the group continued on to Ecruteak City when they came across what looks like a tree, but something was a tad off about it. Sora approached the strange looking tree quite curiously.
"What in the heck is this?" Sora asked.
"This is a funny looking tree," Sophocles said.
"But, what kind of tree is it?" Mallow asked.
"Not any tree I have ever seen," Illima said.
"Looks too small to be a tree. It must be still growing," Sora said. Kairi took out a water pail.
"It looks like it could use some water," Kairi said. "I was going to use this on Sunflora, but she won't mind sharing it." The tree sprang to life and began running off.
"Sudowoodo! Sudowoodo! Sudowoodo!" It turns out it wasn't a tree after all. It was just a Pokémon that looked like a tree. The tree-like Pokémon ran into the shrubs losing them
"What was that?" Acerola asked.
"That wasn't a tree at all. It was just a Sudowoodo," Lillie said.
"Sudowoodo?" Sora asked taking out his Pokédex. He looked up Sudowoodo to hear what information it has on it.
Sudowoodo, the Imitation Pokémon
The evolved form of Bonsly
Type: Rock
Sudowoodo camouflages itself as a tree to avoid being attacked by enemies. However, because its hands remain green throughout the year, the Pokémon is easily identified as a fake during the winter. It also has a distaste for water.
"It has to be since Sudowoodo is a Rock Type," Sora said.
"That explains why he ran off like that," Kairi sId.
"Toge, Toge, Togepi."
"That is pretty obvious," Illima said.
"A lot of us thought it was a Grass Type Pokémon when we first saw it," Lana said.
"And that ended up being such an argument," Lillie said. "But because we all saw how it behaves, we all realized Sudowoodo is a Rock Type Pokémon afterall."
Sora had thought about what was being said and did think Sudowoodo is a Grass Type because of its appearance, but the appearance of the Pokémon can play tricks on your eyes.
Elsewhere, the same Sudowoodo manages to come across three men; one with a bowl cut haircut, one with curly red hair, and who is fat and bald. Sudowoodo took his position pretending to be a tree. They were out on a hike with the man with the bowl haircut behind the other two moving brances as they walked. One of the brances smacks the man and he glared angrily at the other two. He pulls the red-haired man by the hair.
"Hey! Why don't ya watch where ya are swinging!" The bowl cut man hissed.
"If I was watching where I was swinging, then I wouldn't be looking where I was going!" The man with the curly red hair said. The bowl cut man smacks him on the head.
"Get out of here!" The bowl cut man said. He pokes in the eye and conks him on the top of his head.
The fat bald man came to Sudowoodo not knowing it was the imitation Pokémon. He swung his arm thinking it was a branch. Sudowoodo conks him on the head.
"Oh!" The fat bald man exclaimed. "MMMM!" He stood up as the other two men walked up. "What's the idea of smacking me?"
"I didn't smack you," the bowl cut man said, "yet!" He slaps him on the cheek and punches him in the gut, conks him in the forehead, and pokes him in the eye. Sudowoodo smacks the bowl cut man and he turns to the curly haired man. "Oh a wise guy, huh? A head conker."
"No I didn't. I was only," the bowl cut slaps him across the face.
"That was bonking me on the head!" The man with the bowl cut said. Sudowoodo moves a little slower not to get attention. As Sudowoodo moves slowly, a snap of a twig is heard and they all hear it.
"Hey Moe. You hear that?" The fat bald man asked.
"Hear what?" Moe asked. The men hear nothing and Sudowoodo moves a little slower not being noticed. They turned and saw the tree-like Pokémon and froze in place realizing he was caught red-handed. The three men shriekd in horror as did Sudowoodo as they all ran. Moe and the curlt-haired man ran one way as the fat bald man ran the other way. Sudowoodo ran straight through the shrubs and stops to catch his breath.
Over to Moe and the curly-haired man they ran far enough and stopped to catch their breath.
"If I knew these woods were haunted, I should never have agreed on this camping trip," the curly-haired man said.
"You can say that again, Larry," Moe said.
"If I knew these woods were haunted I should never have-" His sentence was cut when Moe pulls him by the hair.
"What are ya repeating yourself for?" He slaps Larry on the forehead. "Get outta here!" Larry noticed the third memeber of the trio is missing.
"Wait a minute! Where's Curly?!" Larry asked. Moe looked around and noticed he wasn't with them.
"He was with us just a moment ago," Moe said.
"We have to do something and find him before that ghost gets him," Larry suggested.
"Good idea. I'll lead the way. Go ahead!" Moe said as they started looking for Curly. Curly is seen running around the forest getting away from the Pokémon he and the other two thought was a ghost.
"Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-! Hey Moe! Hey Larry!" Curly called out. "Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo!" He looked around for them. Sudowoodo manages to catch his breath and walks backwards keeping his eyes open for anyone following him. They bumped into each other from behind. "Excue me, stranger."
"Sudowoodo," Sudowoodo said. They both screamed and ran off into different directions.
Over to Moe and Larry, they continued looking for Curly and to keep their eyes open for any signs of the 'ghost" lurking around the forest.
"Curly," Moe called out quietly.
"Curly," Larry also called out quietly.
"Curly. Come out or I'll tear your tonsils out," Moe whispred. A Weedle crawls by and sees the two men. Weedle climbs up Moe's leg and he stops and looks to see anyone behind him. He shrugs and went back to searching as Weddle climbs up tt he top f his head. Larry notices and grabs a huge tree branch. Weedle saw the branch and jumps off before Moe gets smacked in the head. Moe glares at Larry seeing him with the tree branch. "What's the idea?"
"I'm sorry, Moe! I just saw a Weedle and-" Larry tried to explain when Moe grabs th branch and chases Larry with with.
"Why you!" Moe barked chasing Larry to hit him with it. He threw the branch and it unexpedidly hits an Ursaring in the baack of the head as it was happily eating some lunch and turned to dee them. Ursaring roars and chases after the two men. The large bear Pokémon swings its claws at the men.
Over to Sora, Kairi, Pikachu, Togepi, and the Alolan nine, they heard the two men screaming and they saw them both being chased by the angry Ursaring.
"Guys! An Ursaring!" Sora excalimed.
"He's chasing after those two guys!" Kairi said.
"We should help them!" Sora said. Kiawe stepped in.
"Leave that to me!" Kiawe said as he stepped in.and took out a Pokéball and threw it ."Marowak! Go!" The Pokéball opens and uneashes the Alolan form Marowak twirling his bone. "Marowak! Use Flame Wheel!" Marowak ignites the green flames at the edges of his bone and swirls them around and heads towards the Ursaring. Flame Wheel hits the bear Pokémon and it charges towards te bone keeper Pokémon only for Marowak to dodge the claws. "Now use Iron Head!" Marowak's head shines metallicly and conks the Ursaring on the head. "Now finish it with Flare Blitz!" The Alolan Marowak taps the bone on his head a few time igniting the green flames setting the boone on fire. Marowak twirls the bone around before his body is surrounded by the green flames and while running towards the Ursaring. The Alolan Marowak rams into the Ursaring sending the attacking Pokémon packing as it whimpers and retreats. Kiawe walks up to his Marowak and smiles. "Good work, Marowak. That should prove your point to that Ursaring."
"Marowak," Marowak said before he felt the recoil kick in. Kiwae gave Marowak a Sitrus Berry to recover. Eeryone else went up to Moe and Larry.
"You guys okay?" Sora asked.
"It was a good thing we were nearby when you two were being chased by that Ursaring," Mallow said.
"Thanks for helping us out, kids," Moe said.
"What happened that caused that Ursaring to chase you?" Sophocles asked.
Moe and Larry thought for a moment and they realized they were looking for Curly.
"Curly!" Moe and Larry exclaimed.
"We were looking for Curly!" Larry said.
"Yeah, that's right! Were doing a little hiking when a ghost just popped out and gave us a scare," Moe said.
"A ghost?! Where?! Where, where?!" Acerola exclaimed.
"Right in the woods and it probably got Curly! The poor kid!" Moe said.
Sora, Kairi, and the Alolan nine looked among each other and all nodded in full agreement.
"We'll lend a hand to help find your friend," Sora said. "And just so that we don't all get lost, we'll all stay together. And no chasing after any ghosts; I'm looking at you, Acerola!" He turns to the Ghost Type trainer and stuck her tongue at him.
Meanwhile, Curly manages to make a stop resting his feet up to a tree. He gave off a sigh of relief having to lost the 'ghost' again.
"That was a close one. But, what am I scared for? Only babies are scared and I'm no baby," His stomach starts growling making him hungry. Curly said to himself. He pulls out a small bag and takes out an Oran Berry to eat. He sets the berry down only for A Paras to grab the berry and eat it. He looked back to pick up the berry only to see it gone. He shrugs his shoulders and took out a cookie and this time he held it. Paras climbs up the tree behind him and grabs the cookie and eat it before Curly bit his index finger and thumb "Ow!! He realized the cookie was gone. "That's a coincidence. He took out a Razz Berry only for Paras to eat that one. Curly turned to eat it when he saw the berry was he was holding was no longer there and he runs hiss hands down his face. "MMM!" He took out a banana and this time it was an Aipom that came down shooing Paras away and grabbing the banana.Aipom unpeeled it and eat the inside and threw the banana peel on the ground. Curly growls as he saw the banana gone. "RUFF! RUFF!" He clangs his teeth and made a metalic sound.
"Aipom!" The wild Aipom said making him look up. Aipom blows a raspberry and did an eyeball taunt at the man. Curly got up and stammered his feet.
"Oh! A comedian, eh?" Curly said. Aipom climbed down and poke Curly in the eyes with its palm tail. Aipom takes off through the woods. Curly was still hungry and his stomach starts growling in frustrastion. "Ruff! Ruff!" He clutched his growling stomach and he spots Farfetch'd sitting in a pond. He pictured the wild duck Pokémon as an oven-roasted duck laying on a bed of lettuce. His mouth watering. "Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo!" He grabs a tree branch and a piece of shrubbery to disguise himself.
"Farfetch'd!" The duck Pokémon wan't fooled by the disguise and saw him approaching him as he got into the pond with branch in hand. Curly moved the shrub from his face and was about to whack at Fafetch'd only for Farfetch'd to quickly take some water in its mouth a srayed Curly in the face.
"MMM!" Curly groaned as Farfetch'd laughs at his face. Curly swings the branch down only for Farfetch'd to dive down and miss resulting ina huge splash. "I'll get you." Curly held the branch above his head not knowing Farfetch'd was behind him and whacks his rear end with its stalk. "Ow!" He turns to Farfetch'd laughing at him. "Aw, a back fighter, eh?" He attempts another swing when Farfecth'd spits some more water in his face. Curly swings again and Farfetch'd dives down resulting in another splash. "I'll fix you!" Curly takes another swing only for the results to be same with every swing. He looks around knowing Farfetch'd will pop out at any moment. Farfetch'd bites him on the nose with his beak. "MMM!" He rubs his nose with Farfetch'd laughing. "I'll get you!" He dives down after Farfetch'd and come back up a few seconds later looking for the duck Pokémon unaware of it sitting on his head. "Where'd it go? Here ducky, ducky! Here, duck, duck, duck, duck. Got away, huh? I'll find you! MMM!" He searches for Farfetch'd.
A couple of Pokémon trainers come walking through the forest one has a a small Ghost Pokémon with a dark bluish-green coloring and yellow eyes with red irises. With no arms or legs, its body ends in a small "skirt". Around its neck are spherical, jewel-like, red pieces that give it the appearance that it is wearing a necklace. The Pokémon also has gaseous, long, flowing hair with faded magenta highlights (Misdreavus). And the other has a Girafarig with him.
"Look! A Farfetch'd!" The trainer with the Farfetch'd exclaimed. They were unaware that they were sitting on Curly's head as the shrubs were pretty tall.
"First one to catch it wins!" The trainer with the Girafarig stated.
"Gotcha!' The trainer with the Misdreavus said.
"Psybeam!" Both trainers ordered as they fired Psybeam right at the same time both hitting Curly as the duck Pokémon took off flying. Both trainers groaned as their luck has just ran out.
"Crap! It took off!" The trainer with the Misdreavus groaned.
"Don't worry about it. We can just chase after it. C'mon!" The trainer with the Girafarig said. Both trainers took off looking for the Farfetch'd not noticing Curly getting up.
"What happened?" Curly asked.
Elsewhere, Sudowoodo looks around not seeing any sign of anybody, but he wasn't gonna take any chances here. Sudowoodo kept walking through the forset when he came across a crying Pichu because it couldn't reach the apple it wanted; it was a pretty big apple. Sudowoodo knew Pichu could easily climb tree, but this one just can't. The tree-like Pokémon felt sorry for the baby Pokémon and decided to help it out. Sudowoodo looked up and used Wood Hammer to smack the tree making the apple to fall. Sudowoodo grabbed the apple and handed it to the crying Pichu. This made the tiny mouse Pokémon happy, but it was too big to eat by itself. Sudowoodo broke the apple in half and gave it to Pichu. Sudowoodo took the other half of the apple and ate it.
Apparently Sudowoodo is afraid of water, but he has a big heart. Over to Sora, Kairi, Pikachu, Togepi, the Alolan nine, Moe, and Larry, they search the woods for Curly.
"Where do you think he could be?" Illima asked.
"I just hope that he isn't hurt out there," Lillie said.
"Same here," Hapu said.
"Let's just hope that there isn't a real ghost out here. No offense to Acerola," Sophocles said.
"None taken. But I would like to see one just like the one back at the Pokémon Tower. That was pretty amazing," Acerola said. That made Larry turn around to attempt to get away only for Moe to grab him by the hair and smack him.
"What are you? A fraidy cat?" Moe asked.
"Meow," Larry said. Moe pokes him in the eye. "Ow! I can't see! I can't see!"
"What's the matter?" Moe asked.
"I got my eyes closed," Larry said in a playful tone. Moe slaps him in the face, and flicks on the nose and conks him on the top of his head.
"Now c'mon! The sooner we find Curly, the sooner we get out of here," Moe said as they continued to search for Curly.
"So, Moe and Larry, right? You said the reason you three got seperated was because of a ghost?" Kiawe asked.
"Yeah. It was a horrible terrible, scary ghost!" Moe said. "Larry, you explain it." Larry was about to speak when Moe interuppted him. "That's enough! We were out taking a hike and then one the trees came to life!"
Sora, Kairi, and the Alolan nine all froze in place when Moe said that.
"One of the trees came to life?" Kairi asked.
"Yeah. It had red eyes and smoke coming out its mouth. It was like we met with the devil himself," Larry said. He turns to Moe with a stern glare on his face and flinched at the sight. "Just like that."
"Who?" Moe asked as he bonks with both his hands in fists him on the nose making a honking sound.
The kids all knew it had to be a Pokémon that to scare them, and the only one that matches the description was a Sudowoodo since a Pokémon known as a Trevenant aren't native in the Johto region. They figured by the red eyes and the smoky mouthes must have been slightly exaggerated since they were too scared to tell the difference.
"Say. How about we find your friend and we keep an eye out for this ghost. And we can catch the ghost if it gets in the way," Sora suggested. Moe and Larry were surprised to hear him say that.
"You sure you wanna do that, kid?" Moe asked.
"Don't worry. I dealt with a real ghost before and drove it off," Sora said making Moe and Larry feel better and safe despite the fact it's the adults that's supposed to do make the kids feel safe.
Kairi leans towards her boyfriend and whispered to remind him, "That ghost was only a mother Marowak worried about her baby and then descended to the great beyond after seeing her baby again or did you forget that?"
"They don't know that," Sora whispered back.
"Pikachu," Pikachu said.
"Togepi," Togepi said.
"So let's keep looking for Curly and keep our eyes open for the 'ghost' while we're at it," Sora said.
"Right," Kairi and the Alolan nine all said at once.
The eleven kids and the two adults kept searching for Moe and Larry's missing chum and at the same time kept watch for Sudowoodo in case of he shows up.
Elsewhere, Team Rocket floating in their hot air balloon searching for Sora and Pikachu as well as cooking some potatoes.
"They should be around here somewhere," Jessie said.
"You've been saying that for days, Jessie," Meowth said.
"You wanna start that again?" Jessie hissed at Meowth. She turned to James doing the cooking. "James! Aren't those potatoes ready yet?"
"Not yet, Jess," James said.
"Can't you hurry it up a little?" Jessie asked. That gave Meowth a real red hot idea.
"Maybe we can them cook faster if we turn up the heat," Meowth suggested.
"Good idea," James said turning up the flames, but it proved to be a terrible idea when the flames spread quickly burning the balloon making them fall. The fall created a small dust cloud and it had cleared up and the potatoes had burned up.
"Maybe that wasn't such a hot idea," Jessie said in a daze.
"Are the spuds done?" Meowth asked in a daze.
"Well done," James said in the same daze.
Curly makes his way to the crash sight and not noticing Team Rocket. He accidentally steps on Meowth's tail.
"YEOW!" Mepwth exclaimed.
"N'gyahh-ahhh-ahhh!" Curly screamed as he started running once again. "Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo!" Meowth rubs his tail.
"It's bad enough that a certain Snubbill takes a bite of my tail, but having someone step on it is even worse," Meowth said.
"At least the worset of our problems hasn't happened," Jessie said. James sat up and his eyes got wide.
"Not yet anyway," James said. Beofre she could ask him what he meant by not yet, she saw a bunch of wild Stantler and they all attack Team Rocket chasing them off.
"IT LOOKS LIKE TEAM ROCKET'S RUNNING OFF AGAIN!"
They yelled as they kept running.
Sora, Kairi, Pikachu, Togepi, Moe, Larry, and the Alolan nine all hear Team Rocket's voices echo in the woods.
"What was that?" Mallow asked.
"It's probably just Team Rocket again," Sora said.
"At least we don't have to deal with them for right now," Lana said.
"Yeah," Mina said.
"We can worry about them another time. We have Curly to find," Hapu said.
"She's right. They sound pretty far away just by the way they screamed," Kairi said.
"My thoughts exactly," Sora said.
Sudowoodo had to make certain nobody was around this time and sighed. Just to make sure, Sudowoodo posed as a tree once again since he was too pooped from all that running he did. Curly shows up a little while later and sat right up to Sudowoodo. He wipes some sweat off his head As he pants, Sudowoodo was getting nervous not wanting to give himself away again.
Sudowoodo starts shaking and Curly notices the shaking and conks Sudowoodo behind him.
"Stop shaking, tree!" Curly said as he froze as he realiazed what he said. "Wait a minute! Trees don't move." He turns around and he sees Sudowoodo smiling nervously. "N'gyahh-ahhh-ahhh!"
"Sudowoodo!" Sudowoodo said as he managed to run despite being tired, but he ran right into the same humans from before coming to a screeching halt. Larry jumped right into Moe's arms shaking in fear.
"That's it! That's the ghost!" Moe exclaimed with Larry pointing at the tree-like Pokémon. Sora, Kairi, and the Alolan nine all laughed.
"Your ghost just happens to be a Sudowoodo," Illima said.
"Sudowhatto?" Moe and Larry said at once.
"Sudowoodo. It's a Pokémon," Sora said laughing. "You guys were running from a Pokémon that can pretend to be a tree." Sora looked at the Pokémon remebering his word. "Looks like I got a new Pokémon to catch. And I know which one to use." Sora took out Totodile's Pokéball and threw it. "Totodile! Go!" The Pokéball opens and Totodile does a little dance upon entry. "Water Gun!" Totodile fires Water Gun making Sudowoodo dodge the water attack.
Curly comes after the imitation Pokémon with a pretty big club only to get a facefull of water.
"A victim of soicumstance!" Curly said.
"Water Gun again and again!" Sora ordered. Totodile fires Water Gun at Sudowoodo again and again hoping that it'll land a hit, but Curly ended up getting wet himself.
"MMM!" Curly said as he kept getting sprayed on by water. He hides behind a tree and the water hits it again. "Ya miss me!" He sticks out his tongue only to sprayed by water again. He runs up to the group. Only to notice Moe with them.
"If I knew you were coming over, I would have baked a cake," Moe said.
"Oh, how nice," Curly said before Moe smacks slaps him in the face, bonks him on the forehead, pokes in him in the eyes, punches him in the stomach and conks him in the forehead. "What's the matter with you?"
"I'm a victim of soicumstances!" Curly said as Larry smacks him in the side of the head.
"You puddinghead!" Larry said before Moe smacks him on the forehead.
"You stay out of this!" Moe said. He pokes Larry in the eyes.
"Ooh!" Larry groand.
"Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!" Curly laughed before Moe smacks him in the face.
"Totodile! Ice Fang!" Sora ordered as Totodile moved in with his fangs emitting ice. Sudowoodo jumps up and one of his legs glows white, and he kicks Totodile with it.
"That was Low Kick," Lillie said. Sudowoodo moves in with a Wood Hammer and manages to smack the crocodile Pokémon with it.
"Now it used Wood Hammer!" Illima said.
"Dosen't that cause recoil damage?" Sophocles asked.
"Normally yes, but that Sudowoodo must have the ability known as Rock Head; it prevents recoil damage," Lillie said.
"Water Gun!" Sora called out as Totodile fires a huge Water Gun hitting Sudowoodo hard. Once he was sure that he was at his weakest, Sora took out a Pokéball and threw it. Sudowoodo flows inside the Pokéball and began to wobble around and around stars swirls around the Pokéball confirming the catch. Sora's Pokédex starts buzzing asking him if he wants to keep Sudowoodo or send him to Professor Oak's lab. He chose to keep Sudowoodo in exchange for Meltan. He figured Professor Oak would like to do some research on the hex nut Pokémon. "Gotcha Sudowoodo."
"You see that? That kid just the ghost," Curly said.
"You dummy! It was a Pokémon that was scaring us," Moe said before conking him on the head.
Sora, Kairi, and the Alolan nine all knew it was the one they were looking for and saw that he was safe at the most part.
"So now Curly is found, what are you guys gonna do?" Sora asked.
"We're gonna go back to our camping," Moe said.
"Yeah our wives are probably wondering where we are," Larry said.
"And they'll probably kill us when they found out we left them too long even after we promised a few minutes," Moe said.
"What if we told them we went out for a cup of coffee?" Curly asked. Moe just looked at him.
"How many lumps do you take with your coffee?" Moe asked.
"I'll take two," Curly said holding up two fingers.
"You've got it," Moe said giving him two conks on the head. "Anyway, thanks for helping us out, kids."
"It's not a problem," Sora said.
"We were just happy to help out," Kairi said.
"Pikachu."
"Toge, Togepi."
A trio reunited and a brand new Pokémon has once again had been added to the team. Our young friends continues on to Ecruteak City and who knows what other misadventures might unfold?