ZAP! Ash flew backwards and writhed in pain from the shock. ZAP! ZAP! His other friends didn't see Ash in time to stop eating and flew back into the wall with a few sickening crunches.
"Ow! What was that?" asked Ash. "It was the cake!" exclaimed May. "Someone's trying to hurt you!" "It couldn't have been on purpose," Ash said, still rubbing his head. "That cake was from my mom!" Brock pulled apart the cake and found the cake was filled with open copper wire connected to a joy buzzer at the bottom. "Hey guys, look at this!" he shouted. Everyone crowded around and gasped at the sight.
"Someone must have forged the letter!" Ash shouted. "But, who?" "Duh," Dawn said, "the same guy who stole your Pokémon!" Ash slapped a hand against his forehead. "Of course! Why didn't I realize that?"
At that moment, Gary ran back to his house and laid out the next part of the plan. He would wait until Ash realized it was him and confronted him at his house. Then Gary would attack him with Ash's own Pokémon. But until the battle, Gary would wait and watch The Notebook. "Hey," Gary said, "it's a great movie!" "I wasn't judging," I said. "Just watch the movie, Gary!" He continued to watch the movie, munching on cheap, stale popcorn.
Meanwhile, Ash and his friends were ready to interrogate the entire Pallet Town to find who Ash's enemy was. Once again, in the light of the full moon, they set off and searched across town. When late dinner came with no leads, they sat down at Pokégrill and ate the best barbecue chicken in town (as well as the only). Pondering, the group thought about Ash's few enemies. Team Rocket was already out of the picture and Gary (so they thought) wouldn't go to those extremes.
While finishing up the chicken lathered in barbecue sauce, an unknown figure came out from the shadows. "Good evening, children!" exclaimed Professor Oak. The group raised their eyes in weariness. "What's the matter?" he asked, casually. Ash said, "some of my Pokémon are gone." "Oh, how tragic," said Professor Oak, and walked with uneasiness- whether be from his too brief cameo or Ash's sob story, I don't know.
"No lead after hours of searching through the night," Ash said sadly, in final defeat. All of a sudden, a lightbulb went off in Ash's head. He knew who it was. "I've got it!" he shouted, much to his friends' surprise. "Who?" they asked. Ash said with much disgust, "Gary Oak."