Part 31

Dawn is gearing up for her first pokemon contest in Jubile City...

Ash: What are we looking for again?

Dawn: A poketch shop.

Ash: Poke-what?

Sarah: Don't tell me you've never heard of poketches! They're like a mini computer on your wrist. Here, I'm wearing one right now. holds up her left wrist with her red poketch on it

Brock: Oh yeah, I've seen those things.

Dawn: How did you get one, Sarah?

Sarah: This isn't my first time in Sinnoh, it's my second.

Ash: Hey, there's a place that sells Poketches!

Inside the shop...

Dawn: SOLD OUT?

Cashier: I'm afraid so. A representative from the Poketch company just came and took them all back.

Sarah: Sorry Dawn.

Dawn: Now how am I supposed to get a poketch in time for my contest?

James(in a clown suit, from across the street): Poketches here! Get your poketches here!

Jessie: Quality poketches here!

Ash: There ya go, Dawn! You can get one from those clowns.

Sarah: I dunno, they look suspicious.

Dawn: goes up to James and Jessie I'll take one!

James and Jessie huddle up

Jessie: The twerps are here! We get to nab those pikachus, too!

Dawn: Is there a problem?

James: None at all. Take this with our compliments hands Dawn a fake poketch

Dawn: -thinking the poketch is real- Thanks! Check it out, guys!

Later that day...

Ash: Well you got your poketch, Dawn!

-a shinx goes up to Dawn and barks loudly-

Sarah: A shinx! What does it want?

Landis(the son of the poketch maker, correct me if I got his name wrong): It's trying to tell you that that poketch is fake!

Dawn: Fake?

Landis: Yep, I'll show you. -grabs Dawn's poketch and runs water on it, which doesn't affect it at all- See, fake?

Sarah: I knew something was up with those clowns!

Ash: How did you know it was fake?

Landis: My daddy would never make something so cheap!

Ash, Brock, Dawn and Sarah: Daddy?

Part 32

At the Poketch factory...

Poketch Creator(his name was never mentioned in the episode I saw): Oh I am so sorry about what happened. As soon as I heard there were fake poketches in circulation, I had by distributors pull my products off the market, but unfortunately I wasn't in time to stop the television commercial ads.

Dawn: It's ok, but will you be selling poketches again in time for the Pokemon contest?

Poketch Creator: Truth is, I'm not sure. Until this fake poketch problem is solved I can't put any of my products on the market, but here's something you may be interested in. My newest prototype, it actually measures the friendship level between a trainer and their pokemon.

Ash: Sweet! Can you test the friendship between pikachu and me?

Poketch Creator: Sure. You two ready?

Ash: All set

Poketch Creator: -presses a button and a big heart appears on the graph, almost going off-screen- That's the highest reading I've ever seen!

Ash: Of course, pikachu and I have been friends a long time.

Brock: I'd like to have a go next. -lets croagunk out of its pokeball-

Landis: How long has croagunk been with you?

Brock: Not long, honestly, I just caught croagunk.

Landis: You did?

Poketch Creator: Let's test you two anyway. -presses button again and a medium sized heart shows up on the graph- You two are extremely close, like you've known each other for years!

Dawn: Me next! -lets piplup out of its pokeball-

Poketch Creator: That sure is a very spirited pokemon you've got there. –presses a button and a tiny heart appears on the graph-

Dawn: Oh the shame!

Poketch Creator: No, no, the friendliness level has a lot to do with how long you've known your pokemon. It'll go up in no time!

Sarah: That leaves me last. Ready, pikachu?

Poketch Creator: Alrighty. -presses button and the heart that appears on the graph is so big that the poketch overloads and has a mini-explosion- WOW! Your score was so high that it overloaded the system! Amazing!

Sarah: Sorry about the overload, pikachu and I have been friends since we met.