#024 – Arbok

The Ancient Millennium Puzzle of Pokémopolis

Ash was nearly ready to enter the Indigo League. He just had to smash out a bit of training with Brock before it started. During Pikachu and Vulpix's epic battle, Jigglypuff got in the way and they had to quickly re-direct their attacks to the cliff face. The resulting explosion revealed a structure that looked like it was from the olden days. Ash dug around the rubble for prizes while Brock started reminiscing about "Back in his day", when he and his seventy brothers had to eat stone-cold rocks for dinner. Ash found a strange looking pyramid toy with an eye on it. Then, a weirdo with the same looking eye in his eye socket snatched away the toy pyramid, claiming that HE had found the "Millennium Puzzle". Ash remembered that his mum had told him to stay away from weirdos, so he went with Brock to train somewhere else.

Later, in the cover of night, Team Rocket went over to the ruins. Jessie ordered Arbok to dig around the site and bring back the goods. Twenty boring minutes later, Arbok returned with a bunch of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards in its mouth. It accidentally dropped Left Leg of the Forbidden One onto the playing field. This caused Exodia's left leg to fall from the sky and kill the rest of Team Rocket. Arbok was so fascinated by this hip new card game that it started to collect them and battle the cool kids. It eventually started winning tournaments and making loads of money. It used the money to buy a helicopter, which crashed into the side of the Silph Co. building because Arbok didn't have arms.