Quick note: Ancient Discovery is not the actual name. The name of this episode is actually called Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon. In case some of you might have forgotten, I will be including some Pokémon from the original series.
The intro shows multiple clips from different Pokémon and Loud House episodes
I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause
I will travel across the land
Searching far and wide
Teach Loudémon to understand
The power that's inside
Loudémon (Gotta catch 'em all), it's you and me
I know it's my destiny
(Loudémon) Oh, you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
Loudémon (Gotta catch 'em all), a heart so true
Our courage will pull us through
You teach me, and I'll teach you
Loudémon Gotta catch 'em all!
Gotta catch 'em all!
Lo-udé-mon!
The intro ends with Ash throwing a Poké Ball before a title that says "Loudémon" appears on screen.
The episode begins with Ash and his friends walking alongside a canyon then camera shows a view of a canyon
Narrator: "Ash and his friends find themselves in beautiful Grandpa Canyon. Our heroes will soon discover that this natural wonder holds an ancient secret."
Our heroes come to a stop on the path
Ash: "Hey, what's going on down there?"
What our heroes see is a sea of humanity heading into the canyon with picks in hand
Ash: "I wonder what everyone is doing with those picks and shovels."
?: "Don't you know anything?!"
Our heroes look behind them and spot Gary wearing an outfit similar to that of Indiana Jones and with a pick in hand
Gary: "Ash. Not only late as usual, but clueless, too."
Ash: "Hey! It's Gary! Why are you dressed like that?"
Gary: "Humph! Don't tell me you never heard about the Loudémon discovery. Even a nerd like you should have heard about the Great Fossil Rush."
Ash, Misty & Brock: "The Great Fossil Rush?"
Soon, Gary's personal cheer leading squad shows up and cheers him on
Gary: "Thank you! Thank you to all my loyal fans! I gotta go, I gotta find all the fossils quick before anyone else does! Can't waste my precious time hanging around with a loser like you."
Ash: "Loser?!"
Misty and Brock hold Ash back before he gets physical
Brock: "Easy!"
Misty: "Ash!"
Ash: "That know-it-all! (breaks free of Misty and Brock) I'm gonna find a Loudémon fossil before Gary even starts digging! That'll show him who the real loser is!"
Brock: "I don't feel right about digging up old Loudémon fossils, especially after they've been resting in the earth for such a long time."
Misty: "If they've been lying underground for thousands of years, maybe they'd like a little fresh air.'
Ash: 'I think its your brain that needs fresh air."
Misty: "Who asked you?"
Soon, everyone in Grandpa Canyon is seen digging for Loudémon fossils, including Gary, who soon finds something
Gary: "Success! My first Loudémon fossil!"
Gary's cheerleaders celebrate as the lead palaeontologist takes Gary's find and examines it
Gary: "Impressive, isn't it? Found it on my first try. Looks like a brain from an extinct Loudémon."
?: "This is.."
Gary: "A brain?"
?: "It's fossilized Loudémon manure."
Gary falls over in disbelief while his cheerleaders react in disgust while our heroes watch from a cliff
Ash: "Whoa. Look at all the people digging."
Lincoln: "Wow."
Misty: "We better hurry before all the fossils are dug up."
Brock: "All these people digging, but nobody's found any fossils yet. I wonder if this Great Fossil Rush is really for real."
Ash: "Sure it is."
However, before anyone can head down further into the canyon, the familiar voice of Ronnie Anne is heard, getting our heroes' attention
Ronnie Anne: "What's taking those two so long? Trainers. The only thing you can depend on is they're always undependable."
Soon, Jessie and James pop up behind a rock
Jessie & James: "Ta da!"
Ronnie Anne: "Finally!"
Jessie: "Prepare for trouble!"
James: "Yes, and make it double!"
Jessie: "To protect the world from devastation."
James: "To unite all peoples within our nation."
Jessie: "To denounce the evils of truth and love."
James: "To extend our reach to the stars above."
Jessie: "Jessie."
James: "James."
Jessie: "Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light."
James: "Surrender now, or prepare to…"
But before James can finish, Ronnie Anne whacks them both with a mallet
Ronnie Anne: "Ugh! Cut the poetry! I bet you two clowns didn't even plant the dynamite like you were supposed to!"
Jessie: (takes the hammer and smacks Ronnie Anne away with it) "Wrong again, young lady!"
Ronnie Anne gets sent into a rock wall, and a bunch of rocks come down on her after she comes out of it face down
Jessie: "Of course we planted the dynamite!"
James: "Once we blast Grandpa Canyon to smithereens, we'll be able to scoop up all those Loudé fossils!"
Ronnie Anne: (breaks out of the rubble) "Next time, I'll make fossils outta you!"
Unbeknownst to Team Rocket, our heroes heard everything
Misty: "Did you hear that?! They're gonna blow up this whole canyon!"
Brock: "You're right! All the people who are digging here are gonna get caught in the blast!"
Ash: "Lincoln and I will stop em! You guys spread the word to run for it, there's no time to lose!" (runs off)
Brock: "Let's go!"
Meanwhile, Ronnie Anne prepares to light the dynamite fuse with a lighter
Ronnie Anne: (laughs) "Pretty soon, we'll have all the Loudémon fossils to ourselves."
Ash: "Hold it right there!
Ronnie Anne's thoughts: "Oh dang it! I shouldn't have said that out loud. Now they know what were up to!"
James: "Oh, it's three of those pests again!"
Jessie: "Always messing up our plans!"
Ronnie Anne: "But this time, you're too late. The fuse is already lit."
Ash: "Whoa! I gotta stop em! Lisa, I choose you!"
He sends out Lisa
Lisa: "You called?"
Ash: "There's no time to lose! Lisa, squirt out that fuse!"
Lisa: "Right!"
Lisa uses multiple Water Guns to try and put the fuse out, but misses every time
Ash: "Lisa, after it!"
Our heroes chase after the fuse, with Team Rocket following behind
Jessie: "Jackie, go!"
James: "Go, Mandee! Keep that fuse lit!"
Both girls materialize
Mandee: "Let's go get them."
Jackie: "We'll make sure they won't interfere with us anymore!"
Ash: "You can do it, Lisa!"
Ronnie Anne: "Stop those twerps!"
Ash: "Keep squirting!"
James: "Quickly!"
Ronnie Anne: "Don't let her hit the fuse!"
James: "Come on, they're getting away!"
Jessie: "Hurry, you slowpokes!"
Ash: "You gotta point it out, somehow!"
Ronnie Anne: "You're running like slugs!"
Jessie: "Faster, Jackie!"
Jackie: "I'm trying to go as fast as I can."
Ash: "There's not much time!"
Ronnie Anne: "Hurry up, Mandee!"
James: "Mandee, Sludge attack, now!"
But before Mandee fires, James trips and sends all of Team Rocket rolling downhill in a ball
Ash: "We're not gonna get it!"
He turns around and sees Team Rocket rolling down towards them
Ash: "Look out!"
Lincoln: "Oh no!"
Lisa: "If my calculations are correct, I'm afraid there's no way out of this!"
Soon, our heroes also end up in the ball and roll and bounce downhill, landing right next to the fuse and the dynamite it led to
Ash: "No! The dynamite!"
Everyone panics as they try and get out of the blast zone, but one panicked electrical attack by Lincoln sets the dynamite off.
Lincoln: (sheepishly) "Oops."
This resulted into opening a crack in the earth and sending Ash, Lincoln and Team Rocket into the depths of the underground as two of the canyon walls crumble and seal the crack, and only Lisa emerges as Misty and Brock rush to the scene of the disaster
Brock: "Ash!"
Misty: "Lincoln!"
They pull Lisa up from the scene.
Lisa: "Thank you."
Brock: "What a disaster!"
Misty: "We've got to get them out!"
Brock: "Let's go!"
Soon, they began digging. Meanwhile, underground, Ash, Lincoln and Team Rocket awake in a cave.
James: "Where are we?'
Jessie: "Looks like we got blown all the way to the moon.'
Ronnie Anne: "Or down to the center of the Earth."
Jessie and James look at her in confusion
Ronnie Anne: "This is a cave. The dynamite must've blown a hole in the roof and we fell in. We must be buried deep under the Earth's crust."
Jessie & James: "Buried?!'
Jessie: "This is all your fault, you twerp!"
James: "If you hadn't tried to put out that fuse, we never would've fallen down here!"
Ash: "Hey, you crooks are the ones who planted all that dynamite up there in the first place!"
Lincoln: "Ash's right!"
Ronnie Anne: "What difference does it make who got us down here?! All that matters is getting outta here in one piece! (looks and points up to the roof of the cave) Look up there!"
Everyone looks up and is in shock
Ash: "The roof of the cave is blocked!"
James starts chuckling to himself
Jessie: "James, it sounds like you got an answer to our problem!"
James: "Hmm? We're all doomed."
Jessie attacks James for his remarks
Jessie: "That's not the answer I wanted to hear!"
Ash: "There must be some way out."
Lincoln: "Yeah."
Soon, Lincoln hears something
Ash: "Uh, what's up, Lincoln?"
Lincoln: "Over there!"
Everyone soon sees pairs of red eyes staring at them
Jessie: "I don't think we're in here alone."
The eyes get closer
Ash: "What are they?"
The eyes are revealed to belong to several Pokémon from the ancient past, including Omanyte, Omastar, Kabuto, and Kabutops
While Team Rocket stands in fear, Ash analyze the Pokémon with his Pokédex
Ash: "Let's see." (gets out Dexter)
Dexter: "Omanyte and Omastar. Kabuto and Kabutops. It is believed that these Pokémon became extinct tens of thousands of years ago. The details of their behaviour is shrouded in mystery, though some have been found alive in different areas in different regions around the world, few humans have ever seen them alive."
Jessie and James begin to celebrate
James: "We're gonna be rich! We'll open a prehistoric Pokémon park that'll be bigger than Poké World!"
Jessie: "Even the boss will be impressed with us!"
Ronnie Anne: (sighs) "I could get my own talk show, or even my own cartoon!"
Ash: "Those Pokémon don't seem as happy about this as you guys do. Just look at those eyes! These Pokémon seem really angry."
Lincoln: "We must've woken them up from the explosion."
Jessie: "They do look like they just woke up. Maybe these Pokémon weren't fossilized, but were just sleeping."
James: "That's it! The dynamite must've woken them up after thousands of years!"
Ronnie Anne: "Some alarm clock!"
Jessie: Never mind! "Let's just capture them!"
Jessie & James: "Pokéball, go!"
However, a Kabutops sends the Poké Balls into Ronnie Anne and then proceeds to rally the other prehistoric Pokémon to attack
Ronnie Anne: "There's no place to run!"
Ash: "We have to battle! (gets out a Pokéball) Linda, I choose you!"
Linda materializes puts her shaded glasses on
Ash: "Linda, use your Flamethrower to stop them!"
However, Linda disobeys Ash's commands
Linda: (takes her glasses off) "How about no?"
Ash: "She still won't obey me."
A Kabutops gives the order to attack, and while Boomer and Gloom fight valiantly, they fall because of the numbers. Right on cue, everyone retreats from the prehistoric onslaught. As they run, an Omastar attacks Team Rocket with Rollout while a Kabutops tries to slice Ash in half with its scythe-like arms. Meanwhile, on the surface, Misty and Brock have found some help
Misty: "Team Rocket blew up the canyon with dynamite!"
Brock: "Ash must be trapped down under these boulders! You gotta help us!"
Officer Jenny: "The bulldozers can't make it down here. We'll have to dig by hand. I'll go and get some help." (runs off)
Brock: "Go, Zach!"
Zach materializes
Zach: "Reporting for duty!"
Brock: "Zach, help us move this pile of rocks!"
Zach: "Right!"
Soon, they start digging again
Misty: "Listen, Ash. You better hold on! Don't forget, you still owe me a new bike."
Meanwhile, Jackie and Mandee are running away from a bunch of Omanyte, Omastar, and Kabuto, to Team Rocket's embarrassment and annoyance
Jessie: "Jackie, Mandee, what are you doing?! Why are you running away from them?!"
James: "You have to chase them!"
Jackie: "We'd love to but…"
Jackie & Mandee: "They've got us!"
However, the two girls get covered with and attacked by the prehistoric Pokémon. Lincoln, meanwhile, is under attack by two Kabutops
Ash: "Go on, Lincoln! Give em your electric shock!"
Lincoln: "On it!"
Lincoln attacks, but the attacks aren't effective at all, forcing Lincoln to retreat
Lincoln: "Oh crud!"
Ash: "Electricity isn't going to work. Linda!"
However, Linda is napping, to Ash's embarrassment
Ash: (groans) "She's useless!"
The two Kabutops charge, but before they land a vicious and mortal strike, they stop right on cue. Then the other prehistoric Pokémon retreat along with the Kabutops.
Ash: "I don't understand what happened."
Jessie: "A miracle! This is a miracle!"
James: "We're alive!"
Soon, a sound is heard
Ronnie Anne: "Oh no. I hear something else!"
Everyone soon panics as the source of the sounds comes into view and knocks Linda off her rock, that being a giant prehistoric creature with wings. Ash soon gets out his Pokédex
Dexter: "Aerodactyl, an extinct flying Pokémon. Its hard fangs suggest it was a carnivore. Its sharp claws were probably used to capture prey."
Ash: "What's a carnivore?"
James: "That means it thinks we're dinner!"
Jessie: "That must be why the others ran away."
Ronnie Anne: "I hope it doesn't have me for dinner! I'm too young to die!"
Aerodactyl soon flies towards and after the terrified group as they run for their lives. However, Linda prepares to confront the Aerodactyl for waking her and giving her a bruise
Linda: "Oh, you are so gonna pay for that!"
Ash: "Looks like Linda's ready to fight! Good Luck!"
However, Aerodactyl sends Linda into a rock and knocks it out
Ash: "A first round knockout."
Soon, everyone notices some rubble coming down from the roof of the cave and then hear the noises of the rest of our heroes
Brock: "Ash!"
Misty: "Hey, Ash!"
Ash: "Get us out of here! And hurry up!"
Speaking of, Aerodactyl drops down and grabs Ash and flies upward with him, while Lincoln and Linda holding onto its tail, toward the cave roof as the blockage gives way
Officer Jenny: "Over here!"
Brock: "Hurry up!"
Misty: "Let's go!
Soon, everyone who was digging in the canyon comes to the blockage and they all see Aerodactyl fly into the sky with Ash in its talon with Lincoln and Linda on its tail, Misty, Brock rushed over as soon as Aerodactyl emerged out and Lincoln and Linda fell down to the ground.
Brock: "Linda!"
Misty: "Lincoln!"
Brock: "Lincoln where did Ash go?"
Lincoln: "Up there!"
Everyone looks up to where Lincoln's pointing and spot Aerodactyl with Ash, ready to make a meal out of him
Misty & Brock: "Watch out!"
As our heroes watch on, Brock starts to get an idea.
Brock: "I've got an idea! Misty, why don't you use Sam? Maybe she can can help us out."
Misty: "That's it! I'll get Sam to sing to Aerodactyl! (Throws a Poké Ball) Okay Sam come on out!"
Sam materializes
Sam: "Let me guess is it time for me to battle?"
Misty: "Actually no. I actually needed you because we know you like to play music."
Sam: "Well you called the right person to do that. What should I do?"
Misty: "We just need you to sing a song that can make them fall asleep."
Sam: "Sure thing. Let me just get my guitar set up and I'll start."
Ash: "Somebody get me down!"
Linda: "Fight, me, now!" (launches a Flamethrower)
Aerodactyl proceeds to mock Linda
Linda: (infuriated, stomping) "OOOH, YOU DARE MOCK ME?!" (Screams in anger)
Linda begins to glow white
Ash: (shocked)
Brock & Misty: (shocked)
Lisa: "What's this?"
Lincoln: "She's evolving!"
The glow fades to reveal Linda's new form, Leni. She had long, pale-blonde hair, with side-swept bangs, and three pairs of eyelashes. She was wearing a sea foam green dress, with white frills, and triangular sleeves. With this, she wears red hoop earrings, white slide slip-on sandals, topped with light green bows, and a pair of rounded white sunglasses with black lenses on top of her head.
Ash: "Whoa! Leni!"
Misty: "Amazing!"
Brock: "She evolved into Leni!"
Leni takes off into the sky just as Aerodactyl prepares to eat Ash
Leni: "Like, you totes asked for it!"
Aerodactyl was about to eat Ash, but it then stopped
Ash: "Huh?"
Aerodactyl sees Leni coming
Ash: "Leni!"
Leni: "Here I come!"
The chase soon begins
Ash: "Leni. You evolved because you wanted to rescue me when I got into trouble! (sheds tears) I thought you didn't want me as your trainer, but now I see I was wrong."
Leni: "Stop Flying away!"
Leni launches multiple Flamethrowers, but Aerodactyl dodges two in time while one burns Ash
Ash: "I was right! Looks like the only reason Leni evolved was to battle Aerodactyl."
Aerodactyl continues to dodge Leni's attacks while the others worry for his safety
Lincoln: "Watch out, Ash!"
Misty: "Careful, Ash!"
Brock: "Pretty soon, Ash is gonna be too overcooked for Aerodactyl to eat."
Sam: "Okay, I'm all set up and ready to go."
Misty: "Perfect, Sing us your slumber song." (turns on a small spotlight)
Sam: "Right! On it!"
She begins to Sing, and gets everyone's attention. Up in the air, Aerodactyl starts getting drowsy
Ash: "Hey! Stay awake, Aerodactyl! If you fall asleep, we'll both…"
But before Ash can say more, he too falls asleep. As for Leni, she plugs her ears and tries to stay awake long enough to catch up to Aerodactyl
Leni: "Can't fall asleep now."
Down on the ground, everyone feels the effects of Sam's music. In the air, Leni gains on Aerodactyl
Leni: "I can't let that Aerodactyl drop Ash."
Suddenly, Aerodactyl falls asleep and lets Ash out of his talon, while Leni zooms in and catches her trainer.
Leni: "Gotcha!"
Aerodactyl plunges back into the underground cave it came from, and the impact of the thud it made while landing seals the entrance up. Leni lands, and she finally succumbs to Sam's music, and causes Ash to roll off her arms next to an egg. As Sam finishes, she notices that everyone is asleep.
Sam: "I guess I must've effected everybody else and made them fall asleep. (Shrugs) Oh well."
Soon after everyone wakes up, Officer Jenny and Ben speak with everyone
Officer Jenny: "Some of you are claiming that you saw a prehistoric Pokémon here in the canyon. That is ridiculous. Let me assure you that it was only a dream caused by Sam's song. I must also announce that due to the danger of further cave collapses, no more digging will be permitted."
Everyone talks among themselves about the announcements
Gary: That Aerodactyl sure didn't seem like a dream.
Gary's cheerleaders start rooting for him
Gary: "Guess they're right."
Ash and the others laugh to themselves
Ash: "I wonder how Sam made everyone fall asleep?
Brock: "Were you hoping that she would get an encore?"
Ash: "Well, at least it deserved to take a bow. Sam and Leni really saved the day this time."
Misty: "That Aerodactyl's one of a kind. It's too bad you couldn't capture it, Ash."
Brock: "But I think Aerodactyl and the others would be happier just going back to sleep."
Misty: "Maybe you're right."
Ash: "Hey, I almost forgot. (gets out the egg he found) I found this when I woke up."
Brock: "Are you sure its alright for you to just take that?"
Ash: What do you mean? Do you think I should've left it with Joy?
Brock: (takes the egg) Okay, Ash. I'll raise it for ya."
Ash: "But I can raise it myself."
Misty: "You would've dropped it and broken it anyway."
Ash: "I would not!"
Brock and Misty start running away with the egg
Brock: "Don't worry, Ash! I'll take real good care of it!"
Ash: "Hey, wait up! Give it back! Finders keepers!"
Narrator: "And so, our heroes leave Grandpa Canyon, resting place of the ancient Pokémon, with a souvenir. Hmm. Maybe they should've just bought the T-shirts. Meanwhile, another group of tourists is still enjoying the sights."
As the narrator talks, underground in Grandpa Canyon, inside the cave where Aerodactyl emerged, Team Rocket is trapped and surrounded by the prehistoric Pokémon, who are all sleeping
Jessie: "Hey there. Somebody help us."
James: "We don't want to be extinct too!"
Aerodactyl starts moving, as if its gonna wake up
Ronnie Anne: "Shh! You're gonna wake it up!"
Jackie: "If it wakes up we're doomed!"
Mandee: "Don't make any movement!"
Team Rocket cowers and try to sing it to sleep.
Jessie, James, Ronnie Anne, Jackie & Mandee: "Rockabye, Aerodactyl, please don't eat us."
They continue to sing a lullaby until..
James: "Achoo!"
Right on cue, James' sneeze disturbs Aerodactyl.
