Episode 53: Electric Soldier Porygon
The long long journey of Hana and her friends has brought them to a town called Matcha City. Their journey has its ups and downs, but they are always able to find a way to make the best of it. As of now, Akira is brushing his new Zorua, Shippo, after he got himself into mischief.
Akira brushes Shippo's fur as he sighs, "I can't believe you actually rolled around in the dirt, Shippo. Now I have to clean you all day."
Shippo simply giggled on Akira's topic.
"Pi Pikachu," (That's not funny.) Alistair sternly says.
Winnie barks agreeing to it. Shippo simply smiles and barks in reply.
"To think that Shippo would do such a thing," Hana replies.
"That's a Zorua for you. Always bound to be tricky," Akira says.
"Zorua?" Diana says, confused.
"Yeah. Zorua are known as the Tricky Fox Pokemon and can be very mischievous," Chase says.
"I remember Professor Oak telling me about it once. Apparently they're a very rare Pokemon, and can change its shape like Ditto could," Hana says.
"But Shippo is still a baby, I don't think he can transform yet," Diana says.
"That's right, so I need to keep an extra close eye on him, especially when he could transform," Akira says.
"Sounds to me that Shippo won't be easy to look after," Hana says.
"Pikachu," (I agree.) Pikachu says.
"No kidding. At least now I might get to know my stepmom better," Akira says, brushing Shippo's fur.
"Your stepmom?" Hana says, confused.
"Didn't you know? My stepmom is a Zoroark," Akira says.
This shocked Hana and the others.
"You're kidding?!" Chase asks.
"Your stepmom is a Pokemon?!" Diana asks, shocked.
Hana then asks, "Is that even possible?!"
Diana then confirms, "Then again, you end up with Pokemon for parents and siblings, Hana."
Hana giggles and says, "That's true."
Akira laughs, "Yeah. I guess it's not that different. I'll explain all the details when we get to the Pokemon Center."
"Sounds like a plan," Hana says.
In the Pokemon Center of Matcha City, there seems to be trouble going on. Nurse Joy receives a phone call.
Nurse Joy picks up the phone and answers, "Yes? This is the Matcha City Pokemon Center. What? Another Pokemon that should have transferred didn't get there?"
Soon, Nurse Joy begins to receive other calls as her Chanseys continue with their work.
She picks up another phone and says, "I'm investigating it now, so please wait a while longer."
She then hangs up one of the phones and picks up another, "I'm very sorry! We'll work it out very soon."
That is when Hana and her friends arrive to see some trouble Nurse Joy is having.
"What's going on?" Chase asks.
"It seems quite noisy," Diana says.
"I think Nurse Joy is having trouble with something,"
Suddenly, someone says, "That is impossible! I built this transfer machine myself!"
The group turns their heads to see a man with green color hair, and wears swirly glasses with an orange shirt and lab coat.
The man types on the computer and says, "There are no problems in the hardware or the programming!"
"But complaints have been coming in all morning," Nurse Joy says.
Hana and the others step in the computer room to see the Pokeballs being transported and Nurse Joy is with the man.
Hana walks over and asks, "Nurse Joy, what's happening here?"
"What hasn't been happening? I want to know, too…" Nurse Joy says.
"We heard something about the Pokeballs aren't able to be transferred to their destination," Akira says.
"That's correct. When we transfer a Pokemon as rare as, say, a Ninetales, the Pokemon that arrives at their destination is switched and the original never gets there at all. Anyway, it looks like a bug in the system is causing it," Nurse Joy says.
Hana and her friends are shocked to hear it. Just then, the scientist leans to the computer to notice a red section of the program appears. It looks like it's been blocked by something.
"This is…" The man says.
He then realizes, "No way, that can't… could it be?"
Suddenly, Nurse Joy asks, "Akihabara-hakase? What did you find out?"
The scientist Akihabara nervously says, "Err… no… nothing really."
"A computer virus could have caused it," Chase says.
Hana turns to the others, "Um, what's a Computer Virus?"
"A Computer Virus is kind of like a flu virus. It spreads to computers and causes them to go wrong or even shut down," Diana says.
"How do we help the computer?" Hana asks.
"A Vaccine program. It's kind of like a vaccine people get from doctors," Akira says.
"Oh," Hana replies.
Suddenly Akihabara shouts, "Impossible! The Pokemon Transfer Machine used advanced circuits! No virus could just get inside that easily."
"But in reality, it did happ…" Nurse Joy says.
But the scientist shouts, "There's no way! It couldn't be so!"
Then hurries outside of the room as Nurse Joy calls out to him, "Professor! What's the cause of the incident!"
"Who is he?" Diana asks.
"Akihabara-hakase. He developed the program for the transfer system. He's a famous professor, even though he might not look it," Nurse Joy says.
"Just now, he looked like he'd figured something out and then took off. I think he knows what is going on, but didn't want to tell us," Hana suspects.
"Then it's best we go talk to him, and see if he knows the cause of it," Akira says.
Hana and the others head off to look for Akihabara. Chase looks at the map Nurse Joy has given to them to see which way they need to go. Soon, the group comes to the stop. They look at the house, and then the map, then look at the house again.
"This is the place," Chase says.
The place is actually a large green brick mansion with a purplish-pink roof with a gate and brick wall at front.
"So this is Akihabara-hakase's laboratory," Hana says.
The group enters the mansion to see it's dark inside.
"Excuse me, Mr. Harbara," Hana calls out.
The group then walks down the hall to see a few lights are on.
"This is wrong, just walking into someone's house because we feel like it," Diana says, concerned.
"Well, we need to talk to him right away before the problem gets worse," Hana says.
Suddenly Diana becomes frightened.
"What's wrong?" Hana asks.
Then Diana points forward causing the others to turn in her direction. What they see is a giant head version of the scientist that makes them freaked out.
The head says, "People who just walk into my house get this!"
Then opens its mouth to chomp on them.
Hana calls out, "Pikachu Thunderbolt!"
Pikachu springs into action and uses Thunderbolt on the robot, shattering it. Then the head comes back together.
He says, "Just kidding! That stuff has no effect!"
"It restored itself?" Akira says, shocked.
"Just what is it?" Chase asks.
Hana notices something, "Look there."
What they see is a small robot and it has a small projector on top of it.
"It's a projector. With that machine, he's making a realistic image in midair," Chase says.
The head says, "So you found me out? You all seem pretty smart. Well then, follow me!"
The machine then rolls away. Hana and the others decide to follow it. They follow the robot to a strange large container or a test tube.
The robot says, "Come on, get in! Don't you have some business with me?"
The group looks at each other with concern, but decides to step inside the tube anyway.
"It's dark in here," Hana says.
"I can't see a thing," Daina replies.
Suddenly, the lights turn on as the container closes shut.
Hana turns her head, "Hey, what's going on?
"You're not going to lock us up?" Diana asks, scared.
"What you just stepped into is a machine for sending Pokeballs. Huge, ain't it?" Professor Akihabara says.
"What are you talking about?" Akira asks.
Suddenly, a Pokemon appears in front of them. It has a pink polyhedral body with a blue front, blue triangular prism feet, and a blue rectangular prism tail. It has a pink, polyhedral head that ends in a blue beak and has hexagonal eyes. That makes Hana and her friends become surprised.
"What is that?" Diana asks.
"This is the true form of the CG Pokemon 'Porygon, produced by me, the genius Akihabara-hakase!" Akihabara says.
"GS Pokemon?" Chase asks.
"Porygon?" Diana says, confused.
Hana pets the Pokemon on the head, "I think it's kind of cute."
The Porygon shows a happy expression from Hana's comment.
Hana turns to the professor, "Professor um, do you know what the problem with the transfer system is. You seem to know the problem is, but felt that you can't tell Nurse Joy."
"You are correct. I have found out the problem and it's connected to a problem I had. I'll explain," Akihabara says.
Then shows the screen of what happened along with three familiar figures, Team Rocket.
The screen plays as Akihabara explains,"A strange group snatched my prototype Porygon. They used the transfer to the PC world… In other words, they went into the electronic world. Those people must be in there stealing Pokemon as they are transferred.
Hana and the others are shocked to see the ones who have taken the Porygon and went into the system.
"That's Team Rocket!" Hana says, shocked.
"So they're the ones behind it," Daina says.
"Once again, Team Rocket decided to cause problems for everyone," Chase says.
Then Akira says, "We gotta stop them before they take any Pokemon they can."
"Yes. If I put a strong vaccine software in the computer right now, the humans inside will be blown to pieces. That's what had me so worried," Akihabara adds.
"But is there a way to stop them?" Hana asks.
"There is one solution. If someone would use this transfer machine, go into the electronic world and bring out this 'Team Rocket' or whoever, everything would be resolved," Akihabara says.
Hana says, "then that means, we need to go in there and stop them."
"We dealt with those three crooks before and we can do it again," Akira says.
"I'm in too," Chase says.
"Don't forget about me," Diana says.
Pikachu, Alistair, Winnie, and Shippo reply with a nod.
"Glad that you can help, now hold still just a second," Akihabara says as he types on the computer.
The machine begins to turn on as the scientist says, "You guys will enter the electronic world for the sake of scientific progress."
The group of friends and Pokemon look at each other with a nod.
"Let's do this," Hana says.
The scientist then pulls the switch, "Good luck!"
With the switch pulled the machine turns on. Then one by one, Hana and her friends and Porygon are zapped and digitized into the computer system. Soon, a portal opens in front of the group of friends and they pop out, including Porygon. As they fall, they see multiple streams of glowing lights running through.
"Where are we?" Hana asks.
"The electronic world… basically inside a computer," Chase says.
Just then, Porygon flies down past then, and grows into a large size so Hana and the others can land on it.
Diana says in relief, "Thank you Porygon! You saved us!"
Porygon turns its head to the group with a happy expression. The group looks down to see the glowing lights traveling through strange railings and into different directions.
Chase says, "That's the Network highway. That highway is what sends the Pokeballs. If we follow it, we should reach Team Rocket."
"Then let's find them, stop their plan, and get out of here quickly," Hana says.
Diana and Akira nod their heads.
Hana turns to Porygon, "Alright Porygon, lead the way."
Porygon nods its head and travels over the Network Highway. Up ahead, the Pokeballs are blocked by some kind of red and yellow bar and stop signs.
Just then, Jessie and James appear to do their motto, (Even if it is annoying.)
Jessie:
To protect the world from devastation.
James:
To unite all peoples within our nation.
Before they can continue, Meowth lands on their heads and shouts, "While you're over here chatting, you leave me to collect the Pokeballs!"
Soon, Jessie and James are having tea and goodies.
James says. "Calm down!"
"We're the only ones who came into this world, right?" Jessie replies.
Suddenly, Hana's voice shouts, "Team Rocket!"
Team Rocket turns their heads to see the large Porygon with Hana and her friends on it.
Hana shouts, "Because of you, the Pokemon Center is in a panic! Get out of here right now!"
"Not you twerps again!" Meowth angrily says.
Jessie and James throw their Pokeballs, "Leave it to us!"
Jessie calls out, "Go Arbok."
"Weezing!" James adds.
They throw their Pokeballs and Arbok and Weezing come out of them.
Meowth shouts, "Show your courage in the electronic world!"
Weezing then releases its gas and covers the gang up with smoke. Porygon locks on Weezing and changes to a gray color with holes on its body. It flies through the fog and rams into Weezing. Then it falls on top of Arbok, and both Pokemon fall on top of the rest of Team Rocket. Porygon is happy and changes back to normal.
"What was that just now?" Akira asks.
"Pika," (Amazing.) Alistair adds.
Just then, the back of Porygon opens and a screen appears and Professor Akihabara appears on the screen.
The scientist says, "A move called 'Conversion.' Porygon has the power to take the appearance of another Pokemon and attach it to its surface."
"That's amazing," Chase says.
Suddenly, Meowth says, "Then we'll fight with Porygon too!"
Still dizzy, Jessie tosses a Pokeball, "Porygon Zero, go!"
With that, the Prototype Porygon comes out and enlarges. Hana and her friends hurry off the Pokemon.
Hana says, "Go for it, Porygon."
With that, both Porygon charge at each other and ram against one another. Porygon Zero turns to a sword while Porygon turns into a shield. Then the two begin to attack each other. Porygon Zero turns to a hammer and slams it.
"Those two are really going at it," Diana says.
"This battle could take forever," Chase
Hana turns to her friends, "Nevermind that, we can get the Pokeballs moving while Porygon is battling with the Prototype."
Just then, the professor on the screen says, "Your friend is right. Take this chance to restore the highway so the Pokeball can flow properly."
"Right," The gang says.
"We're going to need some help," Hana says.
She then throws her Pokeballs, "Eevee twins! Bulbasaur!"
"Clarissa! Judy!" Akira says, summing his Pokeball.
The Eevee twins, Clarissa, and Judy come out of their Pokeballs.
Hana says, "Come on guys, we need your help."
Hana, Pikachu and the Eevee twins push the hurdle out of the way and the Pokeballs begin to float in the air. Soon, they began to flow down the highway. Akira, Diana, Chase, Alistair and the rest of the Pokemon begin to do the same. Soon, Team Rocket sees what is happening.
"Aah, what are you doing?!" Jessie shouts.
"All the Pokeballs here are our!" James adds.
"Yeah," Meowth adds.
Team Rocket hurries over in an attempt to stop Hana and the others. As they try to reach them, they are beginning to dodge the Pokeballs that are flying through.
Diana exclaims, "Team Rocket!"
Akira shouts, "Clarissa!"
"Pikachu!" Hana shouts.
Then they shout, "Thunderbolt!"
They both give Team Rocket an electric shock. Soon, Team Rocket is electrocuted. Meanwhile, Porygon defeats Porygon Zero and it lands on top of Team Rocket. Then, they are carried away by the current.
They all scream, "We're blasting off again!"
Everyone waves as they say, "Goodbye!"
"Great! Now's my chance…" Akirhabara says.
But notices something and says, "Hm? Excuse me a sec."
Then the screen turns off.
"What happened, Akihabara-hakase?" Diana asks.
At Akihabara's end, he says to notice, "What? The Pokemon Center is accessing the Transfer Program? Just what are they trying to do?"
In the Pokemon Center, Nurse Joy places a disc inside the computer of the Transfer system.
Nurse Joy turns to a man, "Well then, if you please…"
"Understood," The man says.
The man begins to type in the program into the computer. Suddenly, the phone begins to ring and Nurse Joy answers.
Akihabara appears on the screen and asks, "Joy! What are you doing in my Transfer Program?"
"The main center sent us someone. Right now he's using a strong vaccine!" Joy says.
Akihabara screams in fright to hear Joy's statement.
Joy says, "Please don't worry Akihabara-hakase. No matter how strong the virus, this will knock it out!"
Then hangs up the line, Akihabara realizes that this situation has gone from bad to worse, "This is terrible!"
In the Highway of the network, an ambulance is flying through it and attempts to get rid of the virus. Meanwhile, Hana and her friends are pushing away the hurdles that are stopping the Pokeballs. They continue to move it as the Pokeballs are beginning to pass through. Winnie, Alistair, and Akira are able to move the last of the hurdle.
"There. Now we only have one more," Akira says.
"We only need to move that big sign and the program will be fixed," Chase says.
Suddenly, Akihabara appears on the screen, "There's trouble! Hurry and get away from there!"
"What's wrong?" Diana asks.
"A strong vaccine was released! It's going to break up your program!" Akihabara panics.
"I think that means trouble," Hana says, worried.
"Trouble is right. If that thing gets us, we'll never be able to return to the real world," Akira says.
The group soon begins to panic. And soon, they hear the sound of a siren. The vaccine travels through and with a robotic eye sees Hana and the others. It then shows the vaccine program that looks like needles doctors use.
"The vaccine!" Chase exclaims.
"Let's get out of here!" Diana panics.
Hana turns her head and calls out, "Porygon!"
Porygon flies down and picks them up. Then begins to fly away from the area. At the same time, Team Rocket begins to fly down the highway with their Porygon and try to reach them. They soon notice Hana and the others flying past them.
Jessie calls out, "Hey, this fight's just starting! Are you trying to escape us?"
"Wait up, cowards!" James shouts.
Hana calls out, "If you guys don't get out of the system, you'll never get back to the real world!"
Team Rocket becomes confused and at the same time, the Vaccine fires at the stop sign. The vaccine destroys the stop sign in the matter of seconds. Team Rocket realizes they are in deep trouble and soon, they are carried away by the Pokeballs. The vaccine doesn't stop them, and is ready for another launch.
Jessie screams, "It's coming!"
"Are we going to die inside a PC?" James asks.
Jessie panics, "No no no, that's absolutely wrong!"
On the Porygon Zero, Meowth calls, "What are you babbling about? Get up here before I leave!
Jessie and James quickly hurry on to the Porygon Zero and fly away from the Vaccine. The Vaccine spot Team Rocket and turns into a rocket to attack.
James panics, "It… it's coming!"
"Get us out of here Meowth!" Jessie screams.
The Vaccine begins to fire it's weapons and attack them. The two Porygon dodge the attack. They try to get away, but they are almost hit and Hana and her friends fall off of Porygon. Porygon regains itself and flies down, and catches them in the nick of time.
Akihabara notices, "Look! Over there! The Transfer Point!"
The group looks ahead to see their existence.
Hana then says, "Porygon, hurry!"
Porygon begins to fly in the air and with Team Rocket flying after them. Back in the Pokemon Center, they see the vaccine is determined to destroy the virus, unaware what is really happening.
"This is a very resistant virus," The Center officer says.
"It's no good?" Nurse Joy asks.
"No. The vaccine has an even stronger command," The maintenance man says.
The vaccine begins to launch on it's attack and it's aiming directly at Hana and the others along with Porygon along with Team Rocket. With that, vaccine fires. Hana and the others see the fire and begin to panic. Just then, something stops the fire. Everyone turns their heads to see the Two Eevees and Clarissa are able to protect and stop the fire. However, Team Rocket is now falling.
Back at the center, an alarm goes off and the screen is beeping red.
Nurse Joy asks, "What's going on?"
"The shock just now caused a system error?" The man says.
"What did you say?" Nurse Joy asks.
Then says, "Fix it immediately and don't use that command again. If the transfer program crashes we can't start over," Nurse Joy sternly adds.
Back in the program, Jessie wakes up and asks, "Where are we?"
"We fell into that bug hole" Meowth says.
James tries to climb up, but slides down the wall, "If we don't get outta here quick, the vaccine will get us!
"No good. Porygon can't help," Meowth says.
Jessie glares at Meowth, "Porygon?! Where is Porygon?"
Meowth points to Porygon who is knocked out.
Jessie picks it up, "Porygon."
Porygon's head flops sided, meaning it's out cold.
Jessie screams, "Oh NO!"
At the same time, Hana and the others reach the exit, the professor says, "The Transfer Point is right there!"
"True, but it looks like Team Rocket fell into that hole. We need to save them," Hana says.
"What are you saying? If the vaccine comes we'll be in danger too,?" Diana replies.
"I know, but we can't just leave them," Hana says.
"Hana is right. We can't just leave them there," Akira says.
Hana says, "Then let's go save them."
Meanwhile, the Vaccine finds the hole where Team Rocket is.
Nurse Joy says, "First close up the bug hole!"
"Right," the man says.
Team Rocket soon sees the Vaccine coming directly at them.
James panics, "It's the Vaccine!"
"We're not viruses, we're humans! Please help us!" Jessie cries out.
"I think humans and computer viruses are the same thing to the vaccine," Meowth replies in fright.
Vaccine sees Team Rocket as the target and fires at them.
Suddenly someone shouts, "Bulbasaur, use Vine whip! Eevee twins, use Shadow ball! Pikachu uses Thunderbolt!"
"Claris, use spark! Judy, Flamethrower!" Another voice shouts.
Team Rocket becomes confused as the Vine whip times them up and pulls them up. At the same time, the attacks strike in front of the Vaccine to distract them. Porygon flies up to take them in the air. Team Rocket looks up to see Hana and her friends have rescued them.
"Hey! You alright?" Hana asks.
Jessie mutters, "The brat… huh?"
They soon see that they have been rescued, and they are happy.
"We're saved!" James cheers.
"Now we can get to our world!" Jessie adds.
Suddenly, they feel wobbling from Porygon.
"Porygon what's wrong?" Hana asks.
Porygon then answers, Hana translates, "We're over weight?"
"Are you going to be okay?" Chase asks.
Porygon nods its head.
"This isn't looking good," Diana says.
"Well, we better hurry, cause the Vaccine might see us," Akira says.
Too late, the Vaccine notices them and begins to fly towards them.
Hana calls out, "Porygon, please hurry! You can do it!"
Porygon continues to fly towards the Transfer point as the vaccine begins to aim directly at them and fires.
Hana exclaims, "Porygon, hurry! Please!"
Porygon continues to fly as fast as they can. With that, Pikachu, Clarissa use Thunder bolt while the Eevee twins use their Shadow balls and Judy uses Flamethrower to destroy the missile. However, a few more missiles come at them as they reach through the transfer point. The missiles cause a huge explosion, destroying the laboratory. Soon, enough, Hana and her friends are able to get back to the real world.
"What a trip," Chase says.
Akihabara notices them and says, "Welcome back."
Hana hugs Porygon, "Thank you, Porygon."
"You really helped us," Diana adds.
Just then, the transfer point opens and Team Rocket falls through it and reaches to the ground. They quickly get up to see Hana and the others.
"You guys remember this!" James calls out.
"This is not our true power!" Jessie adds.
"But for today," Meowth says.
Then they all say, "Thank you." And runs off.
The group becomes confused.
Suddenly, they hear the professor scream and turn to see him upset about his transporter.
Then falls to his knees, "My perfect invention… The Human Transfer System is in pieces! I thought if this was around, everyone's lives would be more convenient!"
"It was a great invention, but it will be best to make it safer," Hana says.
"I agree," Diana says.
"And what really matters is that we're still in one pieces," Chase says.
The Pokemon agrees. Suddenly, Clarissa, and the normal color Eevee begin to glow and soon their shape begins to change.
"Eevee…" Hana says, surprised.
"And Clarissa…" Akira says.
"They're evolving," Diana says.
Everyone watches to see them both change their shape. When their shape finishes changing, they both have evolved.
Clarissa is now a quadruped, canine Pokémon. Its two front paws are white with a yellow stripe on each leg above the white part, which leads to its desaturated green legs. Its back two back paws are a darker yellow with a lighter yellow on top of it that also leads to desaturated green legs. It has a thin, yellow tail and hind legs with two spikes on the top of each of them. When it raises its tail, the tail takes the shape of a lightning bolt. The bottom half of its body is mainly desaturated green, while the upper part is mainly yellow. Its head is yellow with white markings that extend over its muzzle, under its eyes, and in between its eyes, going up to its forehead. This white spot also goes down and ends in a triangle shape on the front of its chest. Its eyes are yellow, mint-green, white, and black with no distinct pupil. An outer ring of a light yellow is also around each eye. The inside of its ears is yellow with an outer ring of black. The desaturated green and yellow halves of its body connect on the shoulders, with the yellow part extending down in its front to cover the underbelly.
At the same time, Eevee is now a quadruped, mammalian Pokémon with slender legs and dainty paws. It is covered in fine, lilac fur. Its ears are large, and it has purple eyes with white pupils. There are tufts of fur near its eyes, and a small, red gem embedded in its forehead.
"Wow! Clarissa evolved into a Boltund," Akira says.
"And Eevee evolved into an Espeon," Hana says.
Clarissa jumps on Akira causing him to fall and licks him on the cheek, making him laugh.
Hana says "It's great. You evolve."
"Eevee," (Congratulations bro.) Shiny Eevee says.
"Espe," (Thank) Espeon says.
Suddenly, Porygon floats to Hana and snuggles against her.
Akihabara says, "I think Porygon has taken a liking to you. Maybe I should let you take it."
Hana becomes confused, "Are… are you sure?"
"I'm sure. Consider this as an apology for getting you caught in this mess. Plus, there is more for it to see than having to be cooped up in the lab. Besides, I'm sure Porygon wants to come with you and that way, it will be able to learn more attacks and more of the world," Akihabara says.
Hana turns to Porygon, "You want to come with me?"
Porygon nods its head with reply and seems happy.
"Well then, I'm glad to have you on our team. I promise to take good care of you," Hana says.
She then catches it in a Pokeball and now is able to take Porygon. Hana and Pikachu are happy to have another friend. Hana and the others return to the Pokemon Center to see it working again, and Hana and Diana switch Pokemon for the trip. After that, they continue to head off on their journey to who knows what will take them, as the Journey Continues.
