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Chapter One: "The Pockemon Pippi Enters!!"
The manga begins in Masara Town, where two young boys are running in the street. The two youngsters are rounding the corner of the same building when they bump into each other, causing them to stop in their tracks. As the boys get up, they recognize one another; one is Akai Isamu, aka "Red," and the other is Midorikawa Kai, aka "Green." Green asks Red where he's running to in such a hurry, and Red proudly replies by saying that he was summoned to Orchid-Hakase's laboratory. Green bursts Red's bubble by telling his rival that he was also called to Orchid's lab, prompting a race to see who can get there first.
Red decides to go
off the path to take a shortcut, which leads him to a
grassy field filled with wild pockemon. A group of these
pockemon,
led by a male Nidoran, approaches Red and tells him that they're
monsters, making Red laugh. Nidoran responds by hitting Red with
a fire breath attack, setting the wannabe trainer on fire. After
Red runs to the nearest body of water, coconuts begin to fall from the
sky, hitting Red's attackers. When Red looks up, he sees that the
coconuts are being thrown from a tree by the fairy pockemon,
Pippi. Nidoran immediately orders the strange pockemon to climb
down, but when Pippi tries to obey Nidoran's orders, it slips and
falls, landing on Nidoran's head! Nidoran is knocked out, so Red
thanks the mysterious pockemon for saving him. He asks Pippi if
it's also a monster, and Pippi responds by saying that it doesn't
know. Red says that he didn't know that there were so many
different kinds of pockemon, and Pippi nods in agreement.
Suddenly, Red remembers that he's supposed to be heading toward
Orchid-Hakase's place, so he bids his savior farewell as he resumes his
mad dash to Orchid's lab.
When Red shows up at the laboratory, he is dismayed to find that Green had already arrived. As Red catches his breath, Orchid-Hakase arrives on the scene and tells the kids that he has an important announcement to make: he's bald! After he's told to get serious, Orchid-Hakase tells the two youngsters that he wants them to complete his pockemon Zukan for him. Orchid-Hakase is getting too old to do fieldwork, so he wants these two young trainers-in-the-making to do the work for him. Red asks him how they can complete such a task, and Orchid-Hakase approaches a strange object covered in a blanket. He uncovers the blanket to reveal: umeboshi (pickled plum)! Orchid-Hakase says that he uncovered the wrong table, and then tries the next table. This time, he lifts the cover to reveal three Monster Balls, each containing one of the Kanto starter pockemon! Orchid-Hakase gives a brief explanation of what they are before Green steps up and chooses Hitokage as his starter pockemon. Orchid-Hakase tells Green that Hitokage is a strong pockemon, after which Green heads out the lab's exit in order to start his journey.
However, before Green is able to get outside, the door swings open! Suddenly, the Pippi from outside bounces into the room, jumping off Green's head before landing on the ground. Orchid-Hakase yells at the pockemon, telling it that he told it not to come to his lab. Pippi begins to massage Orchid-Hakase's shoulders, and for a while the pockemon succeeds in making Orchid-Hakase forget what he was yelling about. The pockemon professor soon comes back to his senses and begins yelling again. Red steps up and tells the professor that he wants to make Pippi his starter pockemon, much to Orchid-Hakase's surprise. Pippi is ecstatic at the prospect of having a trainer, so the little pockemon begins licking Red's face. Orchid-Hakase tells Red that Pippi is a dumb pockemon, so Pippi jumps up and steals Orchid-Hakase's toupee in retaliation. Orchid-Hakase begins yelling at the pockemon as Red laughs hysterically at his pockemon's antics. Green wonders if Red can win with such a pockemon, and Red responds by saying that he doesn't know. However, he boasts that his new pockemon once beat five pockemon single-handedly. Just then, Green's Hitokage goes over to Pippi and burns the pockemon with its tail! Green laughs at the pockemon as Red tries to find a fire extinguisher to put out his pockemon. As Pippi runs around frantically, he starts wrecking Orchid-Hakase's lab, causing the pockemon professor to become angrier and angrier! The chapter ends with Pippi sitting outside Orchid-Hakase's lab, still on fire, while Orchid-Hakase yells at the pockemon from the ruins of his lab.
Chapter Two: "The Big Battle in the Tokiwa Woods!!"
Red is in a grassy field, headed for his next destination: the Tokiwa Woods. Red proclaims that he will complete his pockemon Zukan in the woods, but his declaration is cut short by Pippi's complaints that he's hungry. Red tells his pockemon that he should be more concerned with fighting, but the pockemon says that he doesn't like to fight; he wants to lead a peaceful life instead! Red becomes upset, saying that he chose to travel with Pippi because he thought the pockemon was the best choice. Pippi walks off without a word, so Red follows Pippi, asking if it heard what he said. But Pippi hadn't walked off in anger; he walked off so that he could pee! Red becomes angry and yells at his pockemon some more.
Later, Red and Pippi are walking through the aforementioned Tokiwa Woods. Red says that he's hungry while Pippi runs to sit under a tree, saying that he can't walk another step. Red runs off and comes back with a coconut, but Pippi dismisses it as being too small. The pockemon says that he can't fight unless he has a full stomach, so Red fetches a bigger coconut. The pockemon happily eats the food up and says that he's now fighting fit.
Red and Pippi continue to make their way through the woods, and Red asks Pippi if lots of wild pockemon really do live there. Suddenly, Pippi runs off and starts digging a pitfall trap to capture pockemon! Red scolds Pippi, telling him that he has to actually fight the pockemon they encounter. Suddenly, the two hear a group of pockemon laughing at them. One of the pockemon, a Myuutwo-lookalike, asks Red if he's the main character of this manga. Red turns to Pippi and tells him that this is his chance to battle, but Pippi doesn't seem to be too interested. The Myuutwo-lookalike then asks if Red's Pippi is "that stupid Pippi," and Pippi is delighted to know that he's famous. Red, of course, gets angry.
And with that,
Pippi's first real pockemon battle begins! Pippi
starts to charge toward the Myuutwo-lookalike, but he inadvertently
rushes right past his target and starts beating up on a smaller, much
weaker pockemon. Red scolds Pippi for attacking the wrong target
as the other pockemon just sit and laugh. However, Pippi tells
Red
that it's his chance to capture the weak pockemon with a Monster Ball,
but Red doesn't seem to know what they are. Red starts to look
around in the bushes for one, and Pippi tells him that they should be
on his waist. Suddenly, Red pulls down his pants, clutches his
own "balls," and ask if those the "Monster Balls" Pippi was referring
to! Pippi runs up to Red and
shows him the Monster Balls he has on his belt, prompting the young
trainer to throw one at the pockemon Pippi just beat up. Without
any trouble at all, the unidentified pockemon is captured!
The Myuutwo-lookalike laughs at Red and proclaims that weak bug-type pockemon are useless, but Red says that he'll capture him next. Pippi steps up and says that he has a technique that can help them win; suddenly, Pippi vanishes in a poof of smoke! Everybody looks around to see where the pockemon had disappeared to, but it turns out that Pippi only shrank himself with his Minimize attack! Pippi claims that he can enter the pockemon's body and attack them from the inside out, and so without hesitation the pockemon jumps toward the Myuutwo-lookalike's gaping mouth. However, before Pippi can enter the Myuutwo-lookalike's body, a bird swoops down and scoops up Red's pockemon! The pockemon yells for help, but all the wild pockemon just sit there and laugh. The bird flies off into the distance, and soon Pippi returns looking all battered and bruised! Pippi doesn't give up, however, and says that his next attack is sure to be great. Pippi uses a Barrier attack, and Red tells his pockemon that the Barrier technique is for defense, not attack! Suddenly, the wild pockemon start to charge, so Red desperately throws a Monster Ball at the Myuutwo-lookalike. The Ball bounces off with no effect! The Myuutwo-lookalike tells Red how stupid he is for throwing a Monster Ball without weakening the pockemon first, but the trainer from Masara Town just ignores him as he keeps throwing Monster Ball after Monster Ball. The pockemon keeps charging around, chasing Pippi, until the Myuutwo-looalike kicks Pippi off a cliff! Red runs after his pockemon while the wild pockemon turn around and leave. Red carries Pippi to the pockemon Center, thinking how he'll get those guys back someday.
At the entrance to the pockemon Center, Red bumps into Green and his Hitokage. Green comments on how Red only has one pockemon, but Red corrects him by saying that he has TWO pockemon. Green laughs, saying that he already has ten pockemon himself! Green tells Red that he should just give up on his quest and return home, and Pippi nods in agreement. Red scolds Pippi for thinking that way before running into the pockemon Center to treat his pockemon's wounds.
Inside, Pippi is put into a giant tank, where electricity is used to help heal the pockemon. Green watches from a nearby window and decides to play a trick, so he has his Hitokage release a fly into the room. The insect lands on the pockemon Center worker's head, causing the worker to swat at the insect. The fly then lands on a button on the worker's control panel. The worker smacks the fly, but he accidentally hits the 10,000 volt button in the process! 10,000 volts of electricity are sent to Pippi's tank, electrocuting the pockemon. Pippi manages to break out of the glass tube, startling Red into dropping the Monster Ball with his bug-type pockemon. The Monster Ball breaks open, and Red's newest pockemon runs away! The chapter ends with Pippi yelling at the worker for trying to kill him as Red chases after his runaway pockemon.
Chapter Three: "Take Out the Rival Iwaku!!"
It's a hot day in Nibi City, where we see Red running toward Pippi with some good news. The young trainer looks for his pockemon in the spot he had last seen him, but Pippi is nowhere to be found. Red looks around and finally spots his pockemon eating parfait at an outdoor ice cream shop! Pippi tells his trainer that he's full now, so Red proclaims that he can fight now. However, instead of jumping up to fight, Pippi decides to take a nap instead! Red angrily wakes his pockemon up, who thinks that he has no chance of ever winning a pockemon battle. Red then informs Pippi of his good news; the city that they're in is called Nibi City, and it has a trainer named Takeshi who runs a pockemon Gym! Red tells Pippi that if he fights this trainer and earns the gym's badge, he can become stronger. Pippi starts to get excited as the two head for the gym.
The gang arrives shortly, ready to battle. Pippi decides to do some training first, so he starts to lift weights, do sit-ups, run, and jump rope. After Pippi's workout is finished, Red thinks his pockemon is ready to battle, but the only thing the now-tired Pippi wants to do is take a nap! Suddenly, a loud noise is heard coming from the gym, followed by Green being thrown through one of the gym's window! As Green tries to recover from the shock, he tells Red that Takeshi and his pockemon are too strong to battle. Green's Hitokage is also worn out, causing Pippi to try to run away. Red notices a little bit too late as Pippi manages to duck into an alley. Red chases after, but when he arrives at the alley, he's greeted by an old man instead! The old man is obviously Pippi in disguise, so Red wastes no time in scolding his pockemon for trying such a stupid trick. As Red recaptures his pockemon, Green starts to walk away, warning Red to be careful.
Just then, Takeshi appears at the door of his gym with his Iwaku wrapped around him like a scarf! Pippi is intimidated by Takeshi's pockemon, who recognizes Pippi as "that stupid Pippi." Takeshi simply snubs the young challenger, saying that he can defeat him in five minutes. Red tells Pippi that they have to fight, but Red's pockemon is still apprehensive about battling. Eventually, Red coerces Pippi to enter the gym.
Inside, Red and Pippi are amazed to see all the Monster Balls that belong to Takeshi. As Red and Pippi look around, Pippi hears a cry that belongs to his cousin, Pikachu! Takeshi had caught Pippi's cousin somewhere along the way, and this fills Pippi with anger. The fairy pockemon charges toward Iwaku, but the attack has no effect! Iwaku tells his opponent that his body is made out of rock, and that an attack like that is like suicide. Pippi doesn't quit yet; he gets out a jackhammer and a hard hat and starts using it on the rock pockemon! However, the assault seems to be like a massage to the large pockemon, not causing any damage at all! Next, the tenacious Pippi throws a stick of dynamite at Takeshi's pockemon! Iwaku is worried for a second before he successfully swats it back with his tail. The TNT explodes in front of Pippi, sending him hurtling toward the ceiling! Takeshi laughs at Pippi's efforts as Red's pockemon proclaims that it's only getting started.
All of a sudden, Pippi shouts out "Transform!" (Henshin!) and vanishes in a puff of smoke! Red is happy since Iwaku can't attack what he can't see. However, Red's Pippi didn't really vanish; it just used Minimize to shrink itself before hiding itself under a desk! After Iwaku discovers Pippi's ruse, the fairy pockemon returns to normal size. Red then bends over to Pippi and tells him that Iwaku is weak against water, so Pippi runs off and fetches a bucket full of water. Iwaku becomes nervous, but his fears are laid to rest when Pippi accidentally slips and falls, pouring all the water on himself.
Takeshi has had
enough, so he orders his pockemon to finish the
battle. As soon as the command to attack is given, both Red and
Pippi start to retreat. Iwaku chases after them, unaware that
Pippi is leading it around one of the columns supporting the
ceiling. Suddenly, Pippi stops to laugh at Iwaku, who has
inadvertently coiled itself to look like poo! Takeshi calls his
pockemon stupid for being made a fool of, causing Iwaku to hurry up and
resume the battle. The rock-type pockemon wraps its body around
Pippi and begins to crush the pockemon as it tells Pippi to die.
Suddenly, Pippi gets an idea! The fairy pockemon grabs a marker
and starts to draw a picture of himself on the end of Iwaku's
tail. Iwaku looks down and mistakes the drawing for the real
Pippi, so he releases Red's pockemon and starts chasing after his own
tail! Takeshi yells at his pockemon to stop, but it's too late;
Iwaku has managed to make himself dizzy! Now's Pippi's
chance! Pippi grabs one of the gym's pillars and whacks Iwaku
over the head with it, knocking Takeshi's pockemon out. Pippi
wins
the battle! Red is awarded the Grey Badge as Pippi approaches
Pikachu's Monster Ball to let it out. Red offers Pikachu to join
the group, and the pockemon shows its acceptance by hugging Red and
electrocuting him! Pippi takes the opportunity to mention that
Pikachu will sometimes shock people when it's happy. The chapter
ends with Red chasing Pippi and Pikachu, demanding to know why he
wasn't told this in the first place.
Chapter Four: "Receive the Moon Stone!!"
Red, Pippi, and Pikachu have stopped to camp for the night. Red complains that they haven't eaten anything for two days, but stops when he notices that Pippi has gorged himself out on fish! And he has another fish with him! Red tries to take the fish away from Pippi, but the pockemon argues that he has to save it for tomorrow. As the two struggle, Pippi's fish falls from their grasp and right into Pikachu's mouth! The mouse pockemon swallows the fish in one gulp, much to Pippi's dismay! Since his meal is now gone, Pippi feels that it's Pikachu's responsibility to catch him another fish. So, he takes Pikachu over to the nearby river and plans to use his tail as a fishing lure! Red warns Pippi, saying that Pikachu's body conducts electricity when placed in water, but Pippi ignores Red's warning as Pikachu poops into the river! After being scolded by Pippi, Pikachu's tail is dipped into the water, causing all the fish in the water to become electrocuted! Now the trio has all the fish they can eat! The gang gathers around a campfire and start pigging out on all the meat Pikachu got for them.
That night, the gang is still eating when a Zubat swoops down and takes one of Pippi's fish. Pippi tells him to give it back, but the Zubat won't return the fish to "that stupid Pippi." Pippi responds by tackling Zubat, sending it spiraling down toward the earth. When it lands, a glow of light is seen; Zubat has evolved into Golbat! And he's pissed off! Golbat starts to chase after Pippi, threatening to drink his blood, until a Monster Ball is thrown at the bat pockemon. Golbat is caught in the Monster Ball, and before long the trainer who threw the Monster Ball is revealed to be Green! Green taunts the trio for a little while before telling him that he doesn't bother with small fry like them. He's on a mission to find all 151 pockemon, including the legendary pockemon Myuu! Green turns around and walks off, wishing Red good luck. Red is now determined to surpass his rival, so he thinks of ways of getting new pockemon. Red reasons that Pikachu should be able to evolve, and Pippi pipes up and says that he can evolve too! Red asks him how, and he responds by saying that he needs a lot of delicious food before he can evolve! Red runs off to fetch some, thinking that Pippi won't be able to evolve until then. Red returns shortly after with a buffet of fruit! After the fairy pockemon is done eating, he says that the next step is to have a hot bath. And after that, Pippi takes a nap! Red yells at Pippi, telling him to be serious for once.
After Red's beaten
up Pippi, the fairy pockemon tells his trainer that
here at the Moon-Viewing Mountain (Mt. Moon), there is a mysterious
stone called the Moon Stone that will enable Pippi to become
stronger. This motivates Red to start a search for this stone, so
Red, Pippi, and Pikachu start to look through the grass. Red asks
his pockemon what the stone looks like, but Pippi doesn't have any idea
because he'd never seen one himself! Red starts to yell at his
pockemon until he is told to be quiet by a Kabigon sleeping in a nearby
tree! Red, who had never seen a pockemon like that before, is
told
that the Kabigon has been living in the forest near the Moon-Viewing
Mountain for 100 years. Pippi becomes excited and asks the
pockemon if he knows anything about the Moon Stone, and he responds by
telling him that a leader in Hanada City named Kasumi has one of these
stones. Red and Pippi become excited, so they instantly head
toward Hanada City.
When the trio arrives in Hanada City, they are shocked to learn that the gym is situated in the middle of a river! As they try to figure out a way to get to the gym, Red and the gang are approached by the Gym Leader, Kasumi! Pippi notices that Kasumi is wearing a Moon Stone around her neck, and Kasumi guesses that the stone is the gang's objective. She tells them that if they want it, they'll have to defeat her in a pockemon battle first! Pippi is fired up until he sees Kasumi's pockemon rise from the river around her gym; it's a Kamex! Pippi starts to run away, but Red pulls him back, saying that he has to battle. Meanwhile, Kamex starts to taunt the "cowardly pockemon," a comment which insults Red's pockemon. Pippi jumps up and moves in to kick Kamex, but the turtle pockemon withdraws its head into its shell to avoid the attack! Pippi goes crashing into the gym's wall, but he won't give up yet! Pippi returns to the battle, this time holding a large stick. Pippi approaches Kamex and starts trying to flip Kamex over on its shell, but it's no use! Kamex simply slaps the pockemon away, confusing it for a while.
Kasumi decides to get serious, so she orders her Kamex to give their opponent an example of their power. Kamex's cannons appear on its shell as two tubes slide out of its back and into the river behind it. Water comes rushing up the tubes and are fired out of the cannons on Kamex's back, producing a Hydro Pump-like attack! The attack hits Pippi dead-on, pushing it further against the wall! Luckily, Pippi is able to muster enough energy to create a Barrier attack which repels Kamex's stream of water. Red laughs at how easily Pippi deflected the attack, but it's Kasumi who has the last laugh when debris such as seashells and leaves start pouring out the Hydro Pump! The shells hit Pippi, knocking him into the water! Pippi is unable to swim, so Red can only sit by helplessly as he watches his pockemon sink below the water's surface.
Suddenly, Kasumi notices that the water around her gym has started to recede. Before too long, everyone is able to see the cause; Pippi has been sucking up all the water in the river! The fairy pockemon has ballooned out to a huge size, and soon he releases all the water onto Kamex! The large amount of water sends Kamex blasting off (the way the Rocket-Dan is sent blasting off in the Pocket Monsters anime series), earning a victory for Red and Pippi! As Red and Pikachu congratulate their comrade, Kasumi concedes defeat. She approaches Red to give him the Moon Stone as his reward, but a mysterious figure whizzes by and snatches it from her hand! As everyone wonders what happened, Green and his Hitokage approach our heroes and asks them if the legendary pockemon Myuu just came by as everyone realizes who it was who stole Pippi's Moon Stone! Red wonders what the pockemon could want with an item like that, but there's no time to ponder that now; they have to find Myuu and retrieve Pippi's Moon Stone!
Chapter Five: "Search for the Phantom pockemon Myuu!!"
In a forest, Red and Pippi are searching for the elusive pockemon, Myuu. As Red wonders where the pockemon could have disappeared to, Pippi is heard, from a distance, making a discovery! When Red rushes to see what it was, he is disappointed to see that the "discovery" is nothing more than a berry lying in the middle of the forest floor. Red reminds his pockemon that they're searching for the Moon Stone that Myuu took so that he can evolve, but Pippi says that he forgot. Just then, Pippi sees a bunch of footprints on the ground that could belong to Myuu! As Red and Pippi follow the trail, they see a shadowy figure in the distance that looks like Myuu! When the two arrive, they find that the figure belongs to Pikachu, whose busy taking a poop! After Pippi yells at Pikachu for fooling them (while kicking his face into his own turd), the fairy pockemon complains about how tiring all this searching is and how he can't go another step. Just then, Green and Hitokage rush past, with Hitokage telling his trainer that he saw Myuu run off in the direction they're running toward. Red, Pippi, and Pikachu develop huge grins on their faces as they secretly follow Green and his pockemon to a nearby water mill. There, Green is determined to capture Myuu without fail!
Green enters the water mill and closes the door behind him, so Red and his pockemon follow. When they enter the building, they are surprised to see that both Green and Myuu are nowhere to be seen! Red breaks out a flashlight to help them search the dark building, where he soon finds Green searching in the dark! After the two trainers scold each other for scaring one another, Green tells Red that he found no trace of the pockemon in the mill. Suddenly, Pikachu starts to go crazy, jumping up and down and speaking in its pockemon language. Pippi interprets for his cousin, saying that Pikachu thinks that there's a secret room hidden underneath the floorboards. When Red lifts up the floorboard, he is shocked to see that there's a huge, underground laboratory filled with computers! Green wonders why such a room would be built underground as Pippi runs from computer to computer, ecstatic that there are video games at each terminal. Suddenly, Green lets out a gasp, prompting Red to run to Green's side to see what the fuss is about. He sees four new pockemon (all of which were made up for the manga) standing in front of them! Pippi wonders where such pockemon could be caught, and Green responds by saying that the pockemon weren't caught; they were created!
Suddenly, the creator of the pockemon, a humanoid leopard creature, appears out of nowhere! The unidentified creature assures our heroes that he means them no harm, much to everyone's relief. Green asks him why he created those pockemon, and he responds by saying that he's performing an experiment to create the strongest pockemon by combining two pockemon together. Green guesses the the computers in the room allow him to combine the two pockemon, and the leopard creature confirms this for him. However, he hasn't had any successful experiments yet! Red them wonders what the pockemon they saw were, and the leopard responds by saying that they're merely plush animals!
Suddenly, the leopard man starts to go crazy and bears his fangs, ready to attack! He starts chasing after Pippi, planning to use him as an ingredient in his next experiment! As Pippi is being chased, a voice is heard, telling them to stop; it's Myuu! Pippi tells the phantom pockemon, whose wearing the Moon Stone around her neck, to return the Moon Stone. Myuu then tells the leopard man, Masaki, to stop attacking these innocent creatures. Myuu tells our heroes that both Masaki and herself were once humans who were trying to create the strongest pockemon ever. Masaki had struggled with failed attempt after failed attempt until he decided, one day, to try combining a human with an animal to create the strongest pockemon. The couple decided to be the human guinea pigs, but the experiment ended in failure when Masaki was turned into a leopard man while his partner was turned into a Myuu! They hadn't been able to find a way to return to normal before, but Myuu says that they found that if they set the Moon Stone into one of their machines, they'll be able to return back to normal! Pippi argues that he needs the Moon Stone to become stronger, but the little pockemon agrees to share the Moon Stone with them for the time being.
Suddenly, without warning, Green throws a Monster Ball at Myuu! Masaki jumps in the way in time to block the Monster Ball, preventing the capture. Everyone is shocked at Green's actions as Red wonders how far Green will go to complete his pockemon Zukan. Pippi becomes especially angry, so he decides to fight Green's Hitokage.
The first thing
Pippi does is run off and grab a
firefighter's truck,
uniform and all. Pippi threatens to spray the fire hose on
Hitokage, extinguishing his flame, but the fire-type pockemon simply
laughs as it disappears in a poof of smoke. When it reappears,
everyone is shocked to see that it has evolved into Lizardon! (Somehow,
Hitokage was able to skip past the Lizard stage and evolved into
Lizardon right away). Lizardon begins chasing Pippi right away,
attacking it with a Flamethrower-like attack. Red wonders how
Pippi can defeat such a huge pockemon while Masaki, who's being ignored
by the battling trainers, runs over to his computer. He plans to
use his computers to make Lizardon smaller, enabling Pippi to defeat
him. When Masaki finishes his preparations, he tells Pippi to
lure Lizardon onto a capsule in the middle of the room. But how
is he supposed to do that!? Pippi tries anyway, taunting Lizardon
while running away from him. Pippi leaps into the capsule,
followed by Lizardon. However, Pippi is unable to get out in
time! Masaki ends up shrinking both the pockemon, causing Red and
Pikachu to laugh at Pippi while Green decides to give up on his quest
for Myuu at the moment.
Soon after, Red takes the Moon Stone over to Masaki's machine in order to return both Masaki and Myuu back to normal. After the machine does its thing, Myuu is turned into a beautiful woman while Masaki it turned into an ugly man! The chapter ends with both Red and Green running away from the scary monster that Masaki had become.
Chapter Six: "The Big Activity in the Mountains and the Ocean!?"
One day, Red is eating a piece of onigiri (rice ball) on the top of a grassy hill. Pippi approaches Red and asks Red if he can share, but the pockemon's trainer responds by saying that Pippi already ate. Pippi doesn't give up, asking for half a rice ball as he tries to wrestle it from Red's hands. The onigiri falls out of Red's hand during the struggle and lands inside a cave. Red and his pockemon follow, noting how the cave is too dark to see anything. Suddenly, Pippi accidentally steps on a Digda's head! The pockemon becomes furious and starts causing an earthquake that shakes the entire cave. Red and his pockemon all attempt to leave before they're trapped, but it's too late; rocks have fallen in front of the entrance, preventing them from leaving! As everyone wonders what they'll do, Pikachu starts to use some of its electrical powers to illuminate itself like a light bulb. Now they can see to navigate themselves around the cave! Pippi picks up Pikachu and starts to light the way, stating that they can now continue their search for the lost onigiri! After Red scolds Pippi for being stupid, the gang starts their search for a way out.
Suddenly, the trio hears a voice telling them to wait. The voice ends up belonging to a Digda, who's still angry at Pippi for stepping on his head. Digda retreats underground before reappearing underneath Pippi, hitting him in the balls! As Pippi writhes around in pain, the mole pockemon tells our heroes that there's only one exit left, but they'll never find it since the cave is filled with a countless amount of holes and tunnels! Suddenly, Pippi runs off and comes back with a mallet. He's ready to play a Whack-a-Mole game with the Digda! Pippi tells the pockemon that if they don't tell him where the exit is, he'll hit them with the mallet. The Digda laugh at his threats as it effortlessly dodges all of Pippi's attempts. After a short while, Pikachu approaches Pippi and whispers in his ear, prompting Pippi to run off. When he comes back, he has a mallet with five hammers on it! Since there are so many hammers, Pippi is able to cover five different holes with each hit, enabling him to quickly find and whack the Digda. The mole pockemon concedes defeat, so he tells our heroes that the exit is the hole that has air flowing out of it. Red licks his finger and raises it into the air, and soon he is able to detect a flow of air. However, he notes that it has a strange odor to it and wonders why that is until he notices Pikachu sitting in the corner, farting!
Red and his friends eventually find their way out and wander their way to the Kuchiba City pockemon Center. After Red drops his Pippi and Pippi off with the receptionist, he notices that Green and his Hitokage (!) are sitting by a computer nearby. Red notices that Orchid-Hakase is on the computer screen, and Green tells him that he's having his pockemon Zukan evaluated by the professor. The results are that Green has captured 50 pockemon while Red has only captured three! Orchid-Hakase becomes angry at Red's lack of progress, so a boxing glove appears from the computer and punches Red in the face! Green departs to continue his journey, leaving Red left to wonder why Orchid-Hakase was so angry at him. He then looks around and notices that Pikachu is sitting in the lobby, but that Pippi is nowhere to be found. Much to his surprise, Red finds out that Pippi is busy getting a massage in the center's massage room! Red pulls his pockemon out of the room and leaves the pockemon Center, ignoring the employees who ask him to pay his bill.
Outside, Red is determined to work harder to complete his pockemon Zukan. Pippi looks around and sees a luxury cruise ship called the St. Anne. This ship has an amusement park on the deck, and the fairy pockemon desperately wants to go. However, Red tells him that they came to that area to check out the fishing spot, much to Pippi's dismay. Red approaches the stand and looks over the selection of fishing rods before choosing the Old Fishing Rod that costs 350 yen (about $3.00 US). After choosing a spot to fish, Pippi sits down with the rod in his hand, but soon he becomes bored when he doesn't catch anything. Suddenly, he feels a heavy tug, so he pulls and pulls until he fishes out...a tea kettle! Red questions whether or not there really are fish pockemon in the area while Pippi sneaks off and grabs a Super Rod from the fisherman's stand. The salesman notices, but Pippi feels a tug on the line before the salesman is able to stop him. Pippi pulls on the fishing line and fishes out a large Kingler! The crab pockemon quickly clasps onto Pippi's nose, causing Pippi to flail about helplessly!
Just then, the gang hears the voice of a foreigner telling the Kingler to return. Red wonders who this man on the ship is, and a few of the people on the street tell Red that the man is an American naval officer named Machisu! Machisu tells Red that he wanted to capture some Japanese pockemon, but the townspeople start throwing rocks at him, saying that he's already captured 500 of their creatures! Red climbs the walkway leading to the ship's deck, thinking of how they can use Machisu's pockemon to complete his pockemon Zukan. However, Machisu says that he'll take Red's pockemon to add to his collection! With that, a pockemon battle starts!
Machisu begins by throwing a Monster Ball at Red's Pippi. Pippi puts up a barrier, preventing the Monster Ball from capturing him! However, the Ball is stuck to Pippi's barrier, and he soon finds out why; the Ball that was thrown wasn't a Monster Ball--it was a Biriridama! The sphere-shaped pockemon lets out an electrical attack that shocks Pippi, so he asks his cousin to come to his rescue. Pikachu appears and jumps onto Biriridama's body, attacking it with an electrical attack of its own! Biriridama seems to be losing, so Machisu tells it to hurry up and evolve. The pockemon evolves, disappearing in a poof of smoke and reappearing as a Marumain!
Machisu's pockemon
starts to chase Pippi, eventually
hitting him on the head. Then, the pockemon starts to bounce
about, ricocheting off the ship's walls and hitting Pippi each time it
passes. As Pippi gets pummeled by attack after attack, he gets
an idea; he'll take a plank of wood and hit Marumain like a
baseball! Marumain laughs and invites Pippi to try, but the fairy
pockemon is unable to score a hit. Marumain laughs and taunts its
opponent some more while Pikachu, who's going around unnoticed, uses
its electrical attacks to break one of the ship's giant steam
pipes! Pippi grabs the pipe and swats Marumain with it, knocking
the electrical pockemon into one of the ship's cannons! Machisu
screams and says that if Marumain goes off inside, they're all done
for! As soon as he says this, a light emanates from the barrel
of the cannon before it explodes! The ship has been completely
destroyed! The chapter ends with everyone floating among the
driftwood with all of Machisu's captured pockemon declaring their
freedom.
Chapter Seven: "Get Rid of the Ghost pockemon!!"
It's a dark and stormy night, and our heroes are running around in the rain, trying to find shelter. The trio of Red, Pippi, and Pikachu find a tree that they hope will shield them from the rain, but it's proven to do no good when Pikachu's tail is accidentally used as a lightning rod to lure the lightning right to them! After the gang recovers, Pippi sneezes and announces that he think he's caught a cold. Red is now worried about his pockemon's health, so he desperately searches for shelter. The young trainer spots an old mansion in the distance, so he takes his pockemon there to get shelter from the rain.
When Red and his pockemon enter the mansion, they are spooked out by the eerie atmosphere of the place. Pippi notices a human-shaped shadow, but when he gets closer, he sees that it's a cross-shaped gravestone! In fact, there are dozens of gravestones lined up against one of the mansion's walls! Pippi thinks that the gravestones are hard, rock-like people until Red tells him what they really are. But what are gravestones like this doing in a mansion in the first place? Lighting strikes again outside, which causes Pippi to quiver in fear. Red says that he usually sings whenever he's scared, so Pippi decides to break out a karaoke machine to help him calm his nerves. However, instead he pulls out a coffin instead! (In Japanese, the word for coffin, kanoke, sounds very similar to the word karaoke).
While Red is busy
calling Pippi stupid, a Ghos emerges from the coffin
that Pippi brought out! Pikachu notices the pockemon and tries to
tell everyone, but the ghost pockemon disappears before Pikachu can get
everyone's attention. Pippi doesn't believe his cousin, thinking
that Pikachu was just seeing things. Pippi says that they should
hurry up and find the owner of the mansion, but when he does, Ghos
appears before Pippi and says that he's
the master! Pippi runs away, scared, so Ghos follows him.
The ghost-type pockemon then swoops in front of Pippi and uses its
psychic
powers to lift Pippi up off the ground! Ghos then slams Pippi to
the floor as Red tells his pockemon to beware of Ghos' hypnotism.
Pippi stands up and says that it's his turn to attack, so he performs a
jumping kick to Ghos' body. However, Pippi's kick passes right
through the ghost pockemon's body, causing him to smash right through a
window! Pippi gets back into the battle and tries punching it a
few more times, causing Ghos to laugh at Pippi's futile attacks.
Pippi sees that his strategy isn't working, so he runs off and gets a
giant Buddha statue! Pippi, dressed as a priest, starts to
perform some ghost exorcism chants! Before long, Ghos disappears,
meaning that Pippi has won!
After the battle, two more figures approach our heroes from behind. At first, Red and his pockemon are startled, but soon they realize that the figures are humans! The man approaches Pippi and says that he saw his power and wants him to help out his son, Blue. He wants Pippi to get rid of the ghost pockemon so that his son will become a cheerful boy, adding that if they don't, they'll have to go back out to the rain and thunder. Red and his pockemon, with an annoyed look on their faces, turn around to leave, but they stop when Blue's father pleads with them to come back.
Red and his pockemon decide to help, so they climb the stairs in the center of the room leading up to Blue's room. When they enter, they are shocked to see that everything in the room is either blue or has something to do with the word blue! Soon, they see a bespectacled boy hunched over a book, and everyone guesses that he must be the son of the man from downstairs. Blue comes off as being very cold and gloomy, and he tells Red that he uses ghost pockemon. Red says that they came there to get rid of all the ghost pockemon, so Blue angrily calls out his pockemon, Ghost! Ghost uses a hypnotism attack, just like the Ghos downstairs, to make Pippi believe that there's a huge plate of food in front of him! Blue's pockemon then orders Pippi to start attacking itself, and so the fairy pockemon obeys! After beating himself senseless, Pippi looks so horrifying that Ghost accidentally slams itself against a wall in terror! Red seems happy that his pockemon is winning, but Blue isn't finished yet; he orders his Ghost to evolve into Gengar! Ghost obeys, and with a puff of smoke, Blue's Ghost evolves!
Gengar starts off by punching Pippi in the face. Pippi becomes angry, so he starts charging toward Blue's pockemon! However, Gengar vanishes in mid-air and then reappears behind Pippi, where it attacks the fairy pockemon! Gengar continues to attack, invisible, while Blue watches on while wearing a special pair of goggles. Pippi continues to get beaten, so he starts to flail his arms about until he accidentally knocks Blue's special goggles off his face! Red tells Pippi that those glasses are called the Silph Scope, and that if he wears them, he'll be able to track Gengar's movements. Pippi puts them on and quickly finds Blue's pockemon, dodging all the attacks the pockemon can throw at it. Pippi announces that it's his turn to attack, so he uses Metronome attack to make Gengar fall asleep! Red tells Pippi that this is his chance, but Pippi has fallen asleep as well! Red's pockemon quickly wakes up and resumes the battle, taking out a vacuum cleaner to slurp up Blue's pockemon, defeating the last of the mansion's ghost pockemon! Blue's parents come upstairs to thank Red as the young trainer asks Blue if he feels any better without the ghost pockemon around. However, Blue turns around and glares at Red, angry at his pockemon for wrecking his collection of blue items! The chapter ends with Red and his pockemon running away from an angry Blue.
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Table
of Contents
01) "The Pockemon Pippi Enters!!"
02) "The Big Battle in the Tokiwa Woods!!"
03) "Take Out the Rival Iwaku!!"
04) "Receive the Moon Stone!!"
05) "Search for the Phantom Pockemon Myuu!!"
06) "The Big Activity in the Mountains and the Ocean!?"
07) "Get Rid of the Ghost Pockemon!!"
01) "The Pockemon Pippi Enters!!"
02) "The Big Battle in the Tokiwa Woods!!"
03) "Take Out the Rival Iwaku!!"
04) "Receive the Moon Stone!!"
05) "Search for the Phantom Pockemon Myuu!!"
06) "The Big Activity in the Mountains and the Ocean!?"
07) "Get Rid of the Ghost Pockemon!!"
Chapter One: "The Pockemon Pippi Enters!!"
The manga begins in Masara Town, where two young boys are running in the street. The two youngsters are rounding the corner of the same building when they bump into each other, causing them to stop in their tracks. As the boys get up, they recognize one another; one is Akai Isamu, aka "Red," and the other is Midorikawa Kai, aka "Green." Green asks Red where he's running to in such a hurry, and Red proudly replies by saying that he was summoned to Orchid-Hakase's laboratory. Green bursts Red's bubble by telling his rival that he was also called to Orchid's lab, prompting a race to see who can get there first.
Red decides to go
off the path to take a shortcut, which leads him to a
grassy field filled with wild pockemon. A group of these
pockemon,
led by a male Nidoran, approaches Red and tells him that they're
monsters, making Red laugh. Nidoran responds by hitting Red with
a fire breath attack, setting the wannabe trainer on fire. After
Red runs to the nearest body of water, coconuts begin to fall from the
sky, hitting Red's attackers. When Red looks up, he sees that the
coconuts are being thrown from a tree by the fairy pockemon,
Pippi. Nidoran immediately orders the strange pockemon to climb
down, but when Pippi tries to obey Nidoran's orders, it slips and
falls, landing on Nidoran's head! Nidoran is knocked out, so Red
thanks the mysterious pockemon for saving him. He asks Pippi if
it's also a monster, and Pippi responds by saying that it doesn't
know. Red says that he didn't know that there were so many
different kinds of pockemon, and Pippi nods in agreement.
Suddenly, Red remembers that he's supposed to be heading toward
Orchid-Hakase's place, so he bids his savior farewell as he resumes his
mad dash to Orchid's lab.When Red shows up at the laboratory, he is dismayed to find that Green had already arrived. As Red catches his breath, Orchid-Hakase arrives on the scene and tells the kids that he has an important announcement to make: he's bald! After he's told to get serious, Orchid-Hakase tells the two youngsters that he wants them to complete his pockemon Zukan for him. Orchid-Hakase is getting too old to do fieldwork, so he wants these two young trainers-in-the-making to do the work for him. Red asks him how they can complete such a task, and Orchid-Hakase approaches a strange object covered in a blanket. He uncovers the blanket to reveal: umeboshi (pickled plum)! Orchid-Hakase says that he uncovered the wrong table, and then tries the next table. This time, he lifts the cover to reveal three Monster Balls, each containing one of the Kanto starter pockemon! Orchid-Hakase gives a brief explanation of what they are before Green steps up and chooses Hitokage as his starter pockemon. Orchid-Hakase tells Green that Hitokage is a strong pockemon, after which Green heads out the lab's exit in order to start his journey.
However, before Green is able to get outside, the door swings open! Suddenly, the Pippi from outside bounces into the room, jumping off Green's head before landing on the ground. Orchid-Hakase yells at the pockemon, telling it that he told it not to come to his lab. Pippi begins to massage Orchid-Hakase's shoulders, and for a while the pockemon succeeds in making Orchid-Hakase forget what he was yelling about. The pockemon professor soon comes back to his senses and begins yelling again. Red steps up and tells the professor that he wants to make Pippi his starter pockemon, much to Orchid-Hakase's surprise. Pippi is ecstatic at the prospect of having a trainer, so the little pockemon begins licking Red's face. Orchid-Hakase tells Red that Pippi is a dumb pockemon, so Pippi jumps up and steals Orchid-Hakase's toupee in retaliation. Orchid-Hakase begins yelling at the pockemon as Red laughs hysterically at his pockemon's antics. Green wonders if Red can win with such a pockemon, and Red responds by saying that he doesn't know. However, he boasts that his new pockemon once beat five pockemon single-handedly. Just then, Green's Hitokage goes over to Pippi and burns the pockemon with its tail! Green laughs at the pockemon as Red tries to find a fire extinguisher to put out his pockemon. As Pippi runs around frantically, he starts wrecking Orchid-Hakase's lab, causing the pockemon professor to become angrier and angrier! The chapter ends with Pippi sitting outside Orchid-Hakase's lab, still on fire, while Orchid-Hakase yells at the pockemon from the ruins of his lab.
Chapter Two: "The Big Battle in the Tokiwa Woods!!"
Red is in a grassy field, headed for his next destination: the Tokiwa Woods. Red proclaims that he will complete his pockemon Zukan in the woods, but his declaration is cut short by Pippi's complaints that he's hungry. Red tells his pockemon that he should be more concerned with fighting, but the pockemon says that he doesn't like to fight; he wants to lead a peaceful life instead! Red becomes upset, saying that he chose to travel with Pippi because he thought the pockemon was the best choice. Pippi walks off without a word, so Red follows Pippi, asking if it heard what he said. But Pippi hadn't walked off in anger; he walked off so that he could pee! Red becomes angry and yells at his pockemon some more.
Later, Red and Pippi are walking through the aforementioned Tokiwa Woods. Red says that he's hungry while Pippi runs to sit under a tree, saying that he can't walk another step. Red runs off and comes back with a coconut, but Pippi dismisses it as being too small. The pockemon says that he can't fight unless he has a full stomach, so Red fetches a bigger coconut. The pockemon happily eats the food up and says that he's now fighting fit.
Red and Pippi continue to make their way through the woods, and Red asks Pippi if lots of wild pockemon really do live there. Suddenly, Pippi runs off and starts digging a pitfall trap to capture pockemon! Red scolds Pippi, telling him that he has to actually fight the pockemon they encounter. Suddenly, the two hear a group of pockemon laughing at them. One of the pockemon, a Myuutwo-lookalike, asks Red if he's the main character of this manga. Red turns to Pippi and tells him that this is his chance to battle, but Pippi doesn't seem to be too interested. The Myuutwo-lookalike then asks if Red's Pippi is "that stupid Pippi," and Pippi is delighted to know that he's famous. Red, of course, gets angry.
And with that,
Pippi's first real pockemon battle begins! Pippi
starts to charge toward the Myuutwo-lookalike, but he inadvertently
rushes right past his target and starts beating up on a smaller, much
weaker pockemon. Red scolds Pippi for attacking the wrong target
as the other pockemon just sit and laugh. However, Pippi tells
Red
that it's his chance to capture the weak pockemon with a Monster Ball,
but Red doesn't seem to know what they are. Red starts to look
around in the bushes for one, and Pippi tells him that they should be
on his waist. Suddenly, Red pulls down his pants, clutches his
own "balls," and ask if those the "Monster Balls" Pippi was referring
to! Pippi runs up to Red and
shows him the Monster Balls he has on his belt, prompting the young
trainer to throw one at the pockemon Pippi just beat up. Without
any trouble at all, the unidentified pockemon is captured! The Myuutwo-lookalike laughs at Red and proclaims that weak bug-type pockemon are useless, but Red says that he'll capture him next. Pippi steps up and says that he has a technique that can help them win; suddenly, Pippi vanishes in a poof of smoke! Everybody looks around to see where the pockemon had disappeared to, but it turns out that Pippi only shrank himself with his Minimize attack! Pippi claims that he can enter the pockemon's body and attack them from the inside out, and so without hesitation the pockemon jumps toward the Myuutwo-lookalike's gaping mouth. However, before Pippi can enter the Myuutwo-lookalike's body, a bird swoops down and scoops up Red's pockemon! The pockemon yells for help, but all the wild pockemon just sit there and laugh. The bird flies off into the distance, and soon Pippi returns looking all battered and bruised! Pippi doesn't give up, however, and says that his next attack is sure to be great. Pippi uses a Barrier attack, and Red tells his pockemon that the Barrier technique is for defense, not attack! Suddenly, the wild pockemon start to charge, so Red desperately throws a Monster Ball at the Myuutwo-lookalike. The Ball bounces off with no effect! The Myuutwo-lookalike tells Red how stupid he is for throwing a Monster Ball without weakening the pockemon first, but the trainer from Masara Town just ignores him as he keeps throwing Monster Ball after Monster Ball. The pockemon keeps charging around, chasing Pippi, until the Myuutwo-looalike kicks Pippi off a cliff! Red runs after his pockemon while the wild pockemon turn around and leave. Red carries Pippi to the pockemon Center, thinking how he'll get those guys back someday.
At the entrance to the pockemon Center, Red bumps into Green and his Hitokage. Green comments on how Red only has one pockemon, but Red corrects him by saying that he has TWO pockemon. Green laughs, saying that he already has ten pockemon himself! Green tells Red that he should just give up on his quest and return home, and Pippi nods in agreement. Red scolds Pippi for thinking that way before running into the pockemon Center to treat his pockemon's wounds.
Inside, Pippi is put into a giant tank, where electricity is used to help heal the pockemon. Green watches from a nearby window and decides to play a trick, so he has his Hitokage release a fly into the room. The insect lands on the pockemon Center worker's head, causing the worker to swat at the insect. The fly then lands on a button on the worker's control panel. The worker smacks the fly, but he accidentally hits the 10,000 volt button in the process! 10,000 volts of electricity are sent to Pippi's tank, electrocuting the pockemon. Pippi manages to break out of the glass tube, startling Red into dropping the Monster Ball with his bug-type pockemon. The Monster Ball breaks open, and Red's newest pockemon runs away! The chapter ends with Pippi yelling at the worker for trying to kill him as Red chases after his runaway pockemon.
Chapter Three: "Take Out the Rival Iwaku!!"
It's a hot day in Nibi City, where we see Red running toward Pippi with some good news. The young trainer looks for his pockemon in the spot he had last seen him, but Pippi is nowhere to be found. Red looks around and finally spots his pockemon eating parfait at an outdoor ice cream shop! Pippi tells his trainer that he's full now, so Red proclaims that he can fight now. However, instead of jumping up to fight, Pippi decides to take a nap instead! Red angrily wakes his pockemon up, who thinks that he has no chance of ever winning a pockemon battle. Red then informs Pippi of his good news; the city that they're in is called Nibi City, and it has a trainer named Takeshi who runs a pockemon Gym! Red tells Pippi that if he fights this trainer and earns the gym's badge, he can become stronger. Pippi starts to get excited as the two head for the gym.
The gang arrives shortly, ready to battle. Pippi decides to do some training first, so he starts to lift weights, do sit-ups, run, and jump rope. After Pippi's workout is finished, Red thinks his pockemon is ready to battle, but the only thing the now-tired Pippi wants to do is take a nap! Suddenly, a loud noise is heard coming from the gym, followed by Green being thrown through one of the gym's window! As Green tries to recover from the shock, he tells Red that Takeshi and his pockemon are too strong to battle. Green's Hitokage is also worn out, causing Pippi to try to run away. Red notices a little bit too late as Pippi manages to duck into an alley. Red chases after, but when he arrives at the alley, he's greeted by an old man instead! The old man is obviously Pippi in disguise, so Red wastes no time in scolding his pockemon for trying such a stupid trick. As Red recaptures his pockemon, Green starts to walk away, warning Red to be careful.
Just then, Takeshi appears at the door of his gym with his Iwaku wrapped around him like a scarf! Pippi is intimidated by Takeshi's pockemon, who recognizes Pippi as "that stupid Pippi." Takeshi simply snubs the young challenger, saying that he can defeat him in five minutes. Red tells Pippi that they have to fight, but Red's pockemon is still apprehensive about battling. Eventually, Red coerces Pippi to enter the gym.
Inside, Red and Pippi are amazed to see all the Monster Balls that belong to Takeshi. As Red and Pippi look around, Pippi hears a cry that belongs to his cousin, Pikachu! Takeshi had caught Pippi's cousin somewhere along the way, and this fills Pippi with anger. The fairy pockemon charges toward Iwaku, but the attack has no effect! Iwaku tells his opponent that his body is made out of rock, and that an attack like that is like suicide. Pippi doesn't quit yet; he gets out a jackhammer and a hard hat and starts using it on the rock pockemon! However, the assault seems to be like a massage to the large pockemon, not causing any damage at all! Next, the tenacious Pippi throws a stick of dynamite at Takeshi's pockemon! Iwaku is worried for a second before he successfully swats it back with his tail. The TNT explodes in front of Pippi, sending him hurtling toward the ceiling! Takeshi laughs at Pippi's efforts as Red's pockemon proclaims that it's only getting started.
All of a sudden, Pippi shouts out "Transform!" (Henshin!) and vanishes in a puff of smoke! Red is happy since Iwaku can't attack what he can't see. However, Red's Pippi didn't really vanish; it just used Minimize to shrink itself before hiding itself under a desk! After Iwaku discovers Pippi's ruse, the fairy pockemon returns to normal size. Red then bends over to Pippi and tells him that Iwaku is weak against water, so Pippi runs off and fetches a bucket full of water. Iwaku becomes nervous, but his fears are laid to rest when Pippi accidentally slips and falls, pouring all the water on himself.
Takeshi has had
enough, so he orders his pockemon to finish the
battle. As soon as the command to attack is given, both Red and
Pippi start to retreat. Iwaku chases after them, unaware that
Pippi is leading it around one of the columns supporting the
ceiling. Suddenly, Pippi stops to laugh at Iwaku, who has
inadvertently coiled itself to look like poo! Takeshi calls his
pockemon stupid for being made a fool of, causing Iwaku to hurry up and
resume the battle. The rock-type pockemon wraps its body around
Pippi and begins to crush the pockemon as it tells Pippi to die.
Suddenly, Pippi gets an idea! The fairy pockemon grabs a marker
and starts to draw a picture of himself on the end of Iwaku's
tail. Iwaku looks down and mistakes the drawing for the real
Pippi, so he releases Red's pockemon and starts chasing after his own
tail! Takeshi yells at his pockemon to stop, but it's too late;
Iwaku has managed to make himself dizzy! Now's Pippi's
chance! Pippi grabs one of the gym's pillars and whacks Iwaku
over the head with it, knocking Takeshi's pockemon out. Pippi
wins
the battle! Red is awarded the Grey Badge as Pippi approaches
Pikachu's Monster Ball to let it out. Red offers Pikachu to join
the group, and the pockemon shows its acceptance by hugging Red and
electrocuting him! Pippi takes the opportunity to mention that
Pikachu will sometimes shock people when it's happy. The chapter
ends with Red chasing Pippi and Pikachu, demanding to know why he
wasn't told this in the first place.Chapter Four: "Receive the Moon Stone!!"
Red, Pippi, and Pikachu have stopped to camp for the night. Red complains that they haven't eaten anything for two days, but stops when he notices that Pippi has gorged himself out on fish! And he has another fish with him! Red tries to take the fish away from Pippi, but the pockemon argues that he has to save it for tomorrow. As the two struggle, Pippi's fish falls from their grasp and right into Pikachu's mouth! The mouse pockemon swallows the fish in one gulp, much to Pippi's dismay! Since his meal is now gone, Pippi feels that it's Pikachu's responsibility to catch him another fish. So, he takes Pikachu over to the nearby river and plans to use his tail as a fishing lure! Red warns Pippi, saying that Pikachu's body conducts electricity when placed in water, but Pippi ignores Red's warning as Pikachu poops into the river! After being scolded by Pippi, Pikachu's tail is dipped into the water, causing all the fish in the water to become electrocuted! Now the trio has all the fish they can eat! The gang gathers around a campfire and start pigging out on all the meat Pikachu got for them.
That night, the gang is still eating when a Zubat swoops down and takes one of Pippi's fish. Pippi tells him to give it back, but the Zubat won't return the fish to "that stupid Pippi." Pippi responds by tackling Zubat, sending it spiraling down toward the earth. When it lands, a glow of light is seen; Zubat has evolved into Golbat! And he's pissed off! Golbat starts to chase after Pippi, threatening to drink his blood, until a Monster Ball is thrown at the bat pockemon. Golbat is caught in the Monster Ball, and before long the trainer who threw the Monster Ball is revealed to be Green! Green taunts the trio for a little while before telling him that he doesn't bother with small fry like them. He's on a mission to find all 151 pockemon, including the legendary pockemon Myuu! Green turns around and walks off, wishing Red good luck. Red is now determined to surpass his rival, so he thinks of ways of getting new pockemon. Red reasons that Pikachu should be able to evolve, and Pippi pipes up and says that he can evolve too! Red asks him how, and he responds by saying that he needs a lot of delicious food before he can evolve! Red runs off to fetch some, thinking that Pippi won't be able to evolve until then. Red returns shortly after with a buffet of fruit! After the fairy pockemon is done eating, he says that the next step is to have a hot bath. And after that, Pippi takes a nap! Red yells at Pippi, telling him to be serious for once.
After Red's beaten
up Pippi, the fairy pockemon tells his trainer that
here at the Moon-Viewing Mountain (Mt. Moon), there is a mysterious
stone called the Moon Stone that will enable Pippi to become
stronger. This motivates Red to start a search for this stone, so
Red, Pippi, and Pikachu start to look through the grass. Red asks
his pockemon what the stone looks like, but Pippi doesn't have any idea
because he'd never seen one himself! Red starts to yell at his
pockemon until he is told to be quiet by a Kabigon sleeping in a nearby
tree! Red, who had never seen a pockemon like that before, is
told
that the Kabigon has been living in the forest near the Moon-Viewing
Mountain for 100 years. Pippi becomes excited and asks the
pockemon if he knows anything about the Moon Stone, and he responds by
telling him that a leader in Hanada City named Kasumi has one of these
stones. Red and Pippi become excited, so they instantly head
toward Hanada City. When the trio arrives in Hanada City, they are shocked to learn that the gym is situated in the middle of a river! As they try to figure out a way to get to the gym, Red and the gang are approached by the Gym Leader, Kasumi! Pippi notices that Kasumi is wearing a Moon Stone around her neck, and Kasumi guesses that the stone is the gang's objective. She tells them that if they want it, they'll have to defeat her in a pockemon battle first! Pippi is fired up until he sees Kasumi's pockemon rise from the river around her gym; it's a Kamex! Pippi starts to run away, but Red pulls him back, saying that he has to battle. Meanwhile, Kamex starts to taunt the "cowardly pockemon," a comment which insults Red's pockemon. Pippi jumps up and moves in to kick Kamex, but the turtle pockemon withdraws its head into its shell to avoid the attack! Pippi goes crashing into the gym's wall, but he won't give up yet! Pippi returns to the battle, this time holding a large stick. Pippi approaches Kamex and starts trying to flip Kamex over on its shell, but it's no use! Kamex simply slaps the pockemon away, confusing it for a while.
Kasumi decides to get serious, so she orders her Kamex to give their opponent an example of their power. Kamex's cannons appear on its shell as two tubes slide out of its back and into the river behind it. Water comes rushing up the tubes and are fired out of the cannons on Kamex's back, producing a Hydro Pump-like attack! The attack hits Pippi dead-on, pushing it further against the wall! Luckily, Pippi is able to muster enough energy to create a Barrier attack which repels Kamex's stream of water. Red laughs at how easily Pippi deflected the attack, but it's Kasumi who has the last laugh when debris such as seashells and leaves start pouring out the Hydro Pump! The shells hit Pippi, knocking him into the water! Pippi is unable to swim, so Red can only sit by helplessly as he watches his pockemon sink below the water's surface.
Suddenly, Kasumi notices that the water around her gym has started to recede. Before too long, everyone is able to see the cause; Pippi has been sucking up all the water in the river! The fairy pockemon has ballooned out to a huge size, and soon he releases all the water onto Kamex! The large amount of water sends Kamex blasting off (the way the Rocket-Dan is sent blasting off in the Pocket Monsters anime series), earning a victory for Red and Pippi! As Red and Pikachu congratulate their comrade, Kasumi concedes defeat. She approaches Red to give him the Moon Stone as his reward, but a mysterious figure whizzes by and snatches it from her hand! As everyone wonders what happened, Green and his Hitokage approach our heroes and asks them if the legendary pockemon Myuu just came by as everyone realizes who it was who stole Pippi's Moon Stone! Red wonders what the pockemon could want with an item like that, but there's no time to ponder that now; they have to find Myuu and retrieve Pippi's Moon Stone!
Chapter Five: "Search for the Phantom pockemon Myuu!!"
In a forest, Red and Pippi are searching for the elusive pockemon, Myuu. As Red wonders where the pockemon could have disappeared to, Pippi is heard, from a distance, making a discovery! When Red rushes to see what it was, he is disappointed to see that the "discovery" is nothing more than a berry lying in the middle of the forest floor. Red reminds his pockemon that they're searching for the Moon Stone that Myuu took so that he can evolve, but Pippi says that he forgot. Just then, Pippi sees a bunch of footprints on the ground that could belong to Myuu! As Red and Pippi follow the trail, they see a shadowy figure in the distance that looks like Myuu! When the two arrive, they find that the figure belongs to Pikachu, whose busy taking a poop! After Pippi yells at Pikachu for fooling them (while kicking his face into his own turd), the fairy pockemon complains about how tiring all this searching is and how he can't go another step. Just then, Green and Hitokage rush past, with Hitokage telling his trainer that he saw Myuu run off in the direction they're running toward. Red, Pippi, and Pikachu develop huge grins on their faces as they secretly follow Green and his pockemon to a nearby water mill. There, Green is determined to capture Myuu without fail!
Green enters the water mill and closes the door behind him, so Red and his pockemon follow. When they enter the building, they are surprised to see that both Green and Myuu are nowhere to be seen! Red breaks out a flashlight to help them search the dark building, where he soon finds Green searching in the dark! After the two trainers scold each other for scaring one another, Green tells Red that he found no trace of the pockemon in the mill. Suddenly, Pikachu starts to go crazy, jumping up and down and speaking in its pockemon language. Pippi interprets for his cousin, saying that Pikachu thinks that there's a secret room hidden underneath the floorboards. When Red lifts up the floorboard, he is shocked to see that there's a huge, underground laboratory filled with computers! Green wonders why such a room would be built underground as Pippi runs from computer to computer, ecstatic that there are video games at each terminal. Suddenly, Green lets out a gasp, prompting Red to run to Green's side to see what the fuss is about. He sees four new pockemon (all of which were made up for the manga) standing in front of them! Pippi wonders where such pockemon could be caught, and Green responds by saying that the pockemon weren't caught; they were created!
Suddenly, the creator of the pockemon, a humanoid leopard creature, appears out of nowhere! The unidentified creature assures our heroes that he means them no harm, much to everyone's relief. Green asks him why he created those pockemon, and he responds by saying that he's performing an experiment to create the strongest pockemon by combining two pockemon together. Green guesses the the computers in the room allow him to combine the two pockemon, and the leopard creature confirms this for him. However, he hasn't had any successful experiments yet! Red them wonders what the pockemon they saw were, and the leopard responds by saying that they're merely plush animals!
Suddenly, the leopard man starts to go crazy and bears his fangs, ready to attack! He starts chasing after Pippi, planning to use him as an ingredient in his next experiment! As Pippi is being chased, a voice is heard, telling them to stop; it's Myuu! Pippi tells the phantom pockemon, whose wearing the Moon Stone around her neck, to return the Moon Stone. Myuu then tells the leopard man, Masaki, to stop attacking these innocent creatures. Myuu tells our heroes that both Masaki and herself were once humans who were trying to create the strongest pockemon ever. Masaki had struggled with failed attempt after failed attempt until he decided, one day, to try combining a human with an animal to create the strongest pockemon. The couple decided to be the human guinea pigs, but the experiment ended in failure when Masaki was turned into a leopard man while his partner was turned into a Myuu! They hadn't been able to find a way to return to normal before, but Myuu says that they found that if they set the Moon Stone into one of their machines, they'll be able to return back to normal! Pippi argues that he needs the Moon Stone to become stronger, but the little pockemon agrees to share the Moon Stone with them for the time being.
Suddenly, without warning, Green throws a Monster Ball at Myuu! Masaki jumps in the way in time to block the Monster Ball, preventing the capture. Everyone is shocked at Green's actions as Red wonders how far Green will go to complete his pockemon Zukan. Pippi becomes especially angry, so he decides to fight Green's Hitokage.
The first thing
Pippi does is run off and grab a
firefighter's truck,
uniform and all. Pippi threatens to spray the fire hose on
Hitokage, extinguishing his flame, but the fire-type pockemon simply
laughs as it disappears in a poof of smoke. When it reappears,
everyone is shocked to see that it has evolved into Lizardon! (Somehow,
Hitokage was able to skip past the Lizard stage and evolved into
Lizardon right away). Lizardon begins chasing Pippi right away,
attacking it with a Flamethrower-like attack. Red wonders how
Pippi can defeat such a huge pockemon while Masaki, who's being ignored
by the battling trainers, runs over to his computer. He plans to
use his computers to make Lizardon smaller, enabling Pippi to defeat
him. When Masaki finishes his preparations, he tells Pippi to
lure Lizardon onto a capsule in the middle of the room. But how
is he supposed to do that!? Pippi tries anyway, taunting Lizardon
while running away from him. Pippi leaps into the capsule,
followed by Lizardon. However, Pippi is unable to get out in
time! Masaki ends up shrinking both the pockemon, causing Red and
Pikachu to laugh at Pippi while Green decides to give up on his quest
for Myuu at the moment. Soon after, Red takes the Moon Stone over to Masaki's machine in order to return both Masaki and Myuu back to normal. After the machine does its thing, Myuu is turned into a beautiful woman while Masaki it turned into an ugly man! The chapter ends with both Red and Green running away from the scary monster that Masaki had become.
Chapter Six: "The Big Activity in the Mountains and the Ocean!?"
One day, Red is eating a piece of onigiri (rice ball) on the top of a grassy hill. Pippi approaches Red and asks Red if he can share, but the pockemon's trainer responds by saying that Pippi already ate. Pippi doesn't give up, asking for half a rice ball as he tries to wrestle it from Red's hands. The onigiri falls out of Red's hand during the struggle and lands inside a cave. Red and his pockemon follow, noting how the cave is too dark to see anything. Suddenly, Pippi accidentally steps on a Digda's head! The pockemon becomes furious and starts causing an earthquake that shakes the entire cave. Red and his pockemon all attempt to leave before they're trapped, but it's too late; rocks have fallen in front of the entrance, preventing them from leaving! As everyone wonders what they'll do, Pikachu starts to use some of its electrical powers to illuminate itself like a light bulb. Now they can see to navigate themselves around the cave! Pippi picks up Pikachu and starts to light the way, stating that they can now continue their search for the lost onigiri! After Red scolds Pippi for being stupid, the gang starts their search for a way out.
Suddenly, the trio hears a voice telling them to wait. The voice ends up belonging to a Digda, who's still angry at Pippi for stepping on his head. Digda retreats underground before reappearing underneath Pippi, hitting him in the balls! As Pippi writhes around in pain, the mole pockemon tells our heroes that there's only one exit left, but they'll never find it since the cave is filled with a countless amount of holes and tunnels! Suddenly, Pippi runs off and comes back with a mallet. He's ready to play a Whack-a-Mole game with the Digda! Pippi tells the pockemon that if they don't tell him where the exit is, he'll hit them with the mallet. The Digda laugh at his threats as it effortlessly dodges all of Pippi's attempts. After a short while, Pikachu approaches Pippi and whispers in his ear, prompting Pippi to run off. When he comes back, he has a mallet with five hammers on it! Since there are so many hammers, Pippi is able to cover five different holes with each hit, enabling him to quickly find and whack the Digda. The mole pockemon concedes defeat, so he tells our heroes that the exit is the hole that has air flowing out of it. Red licks his finger and raises it into the air, and soon he is able to detect a flow of air. However, he notes that it has a strange odor to it and wonders why that is until he notices Pikachu sitting in the corner, farting!
Red and his friends eventually find their way out and wander their way to the Kuchiba City pockemon Center. After Red drops his Pippi and Pippi off with the receptionist, he notices that Green and his Hitokage (!) are sitting by a computer nearby. Red notices that Orchid-Hakase is on the computer screen, and Green tells him that he's having his pockemon Zukan evaluated by the professor. The results are that Green has captured 50 pockemon while Red has only captured three! Orchid-Hakase becomes angry at Red's lack of progress, so a boxing glove appears from the computer and punches Red in the face! Green departs to continue his journey, leaving Red left to wonder why Orchid-Hakase was so angry at him. He then looks around and notices that Pikachu is sitting in the lobby, but that Pippi is nowhere to be found. Much to his surprise, Red finds out that Pippi is busy getting a massage in the center's massage room! Red pulls his pockemon out of the room and leaves the pockemon Center, ignoring the employees who ask him to pay his bill.
Outside, Red is determined to work harder to complete his pockemon Zukan. Pippi looks around and sees a luxury cruise ship called the St. Anne. This ship has an amusement park on the deck, and the fairy pockemon desperately wants to go. However, Red tells him that they came to that area to check out the fishing spot, much to Pippi's dismay. Red approaches the stand and looks over the selection of fishing rods before choosing the Old Fishing Rod that costs 350 yen (about $3.00 US). After choosing a spot to fish, Pippi sits down with the rod in his hand, but soon he becomes bored when he doesn't catch anything. Suddenly, he feels a heavy tug, so he pulls and pulls until he fishes out...a tea kettle! Red questions whether or not there really are fish pockemon in the area while Pippi sneaks off and grabs a Super Rod from the fisherman's stand. The salesman notices, but Pippi feels a tug on the line before the salesman is able to stop him. Pippi pulls on the fishing line and fishes out a large Kingler! The crab pockemon quickly clasps onto Pippi's nose, causing Pippi to flail about helplessly!
Just then, the gang hears the voice of a foreigner telling the Kingler to return. Red wonders who this man on the ship is, and a few of the people on the street tell Red that the man is an American naval officer named Machisu! Machisu tells Red that he wanted to capture some Japanese pockemon, but the townspeople start throwing rocks at him, saying that he's already captured 500 of their creatures! Red climbs the walkway leading to the ship's deck, thinking of how they can use Machisu's pockemon to complete his pockemon Zukan. However, Machisu says that he'll take Red's pockemon to add to his collection! With that, a pockemon battle starts!
Machisu begins by throwing a Monster Ball at Red's Pippi. Pippi puts up a barrier, preventing the Monster Ball from capturing him! However, the Ball is stuck to Pippi's barrier, and he soon finds out why; the Ball that was thrown wasn't a Monster Ball--it was a Biriridama! The sphere-shaped pockemon lets out an electrical attack that shocks Pippi, so he asks his cousin to come to his rescue. Pikachu appears and jumps onto Biriridama's body, attacking it with an electrical attack of its own! Biriridama seems to be losing, so Machisu tells it to hurry up and evolve. The pockemon evolves, disappearing in a poof of smoke and reappearing as a Marumain!
Machisu's pockemon
starts to chase Pippi, eventually
hitting him on the head. Then, the pockemon starts to bounce
about, ricocheting off the ship's walls and hitting Pippi each time it
passes. As Pippi gets pummeled by attack after attack, he gets
an idea; he'll take a plank of wood and hit Marumain like a
baseball! Marumain laughs and invites Pippi to try, but the fairy
pockemon is unable to score a hit. Marumain laughs and taunts its
opponent some more while Pikachu, who's going around unnoticed, uses
its electrical attacks to break one of the ship's giant steam
pipes! Pippi grabs the pipe and swats Marumain with it, knocking
the electrical pockemon into one of the ship's cannons! Machisu
screams and says that if Marumain goes off inside, they're all done
for! As soon as he says this, a light emanates from the barrel
of the cannon before it explodes! The ship has been completely
destroyed! The chapter ends with everyone floating among the
driftwood with all of Machisu's captured pockemon declaring their
freedom.Chapter Seven: "Get Rid of the Ghost pockemon!!"
It's a dark and stormy night, and our heroes are running around in the rain, trying to find shelter. The trio of Red, Pippi, and Pikachu find a tree that they hope will shield them from the rain, but it's proven to do no good when Pikachu's tail is accidentally used as a lightning rod to lure the lightning right to them! After the gang recovers, Pippi sneezes and announces that he think he's caught a cold. Red is now worried about his pockemon's health, so he desperately searches for shelter. The young trainer spots an old mansion in the distance, so he takes his pockemon there to get shelter from the rain.
When Red and his pockemon enter the mansion, they are spooked out by the eerie atmosphere of the place. Pippi notices a human-shaped shadow, but when he gets closer, he sees that it's a cross-shaped gravestone! In fact, there are dozens of gravestones lined up against one of the mansion's walls! Pippi thinks that the gravestones are hard, rock-like people until Red tells him what they really are. But what are gravestones like this doing in a mansion in the first place? Lighting strikes again outside, which causes Pippi to quiver in fear. Red says that he usually sings whenever he's scared, so Pippi decides to break out a karaoke machine to help him calm his nerves. However, instead he pulls out a coffin instead! (In Japanese, the word for coffin, kanoke, sounds very similar to the word karaoke).
While Red is busy
calling Pippi stupid, a Ghos emerges from the coffin
that Pippi brought out! Pikachu notices the pockemon and tries to
tell everyone, but the ghost pockemon disappears before Pikachu can get
everyone's attention. Pippi doesn't believe his cousin, thinking
that Pikachu was just seeing things. Pippi says that they should
hurry up and find the owner of the mansion, but when he does, Ghos
appears before Pippi and says that he's
the master! Pippi runs away, scared, so Ghos follows him.
The ghost-type pockemon then swoops in front of Pippi and uses its
psychic
powers to lift Pippi up off the ground! Ghos then slams Pippi to
the floor as Red tells his pockemon to beware of Ghos' hypnotism.
Pippi stands up and says that it's his turn to attack, so he performs a
jumping kick to Ghos' body. However, Pippi's kick passes right
through the ghost pockemon's body, causing him to smash right through a
window! Pippi gets back into the battle and tries punching it a
few more times, causing Ghos to laugh at Pippi's futile attacks.
Pippi sees that his strategy isn't working, so he runs off and gets a
giant Buddha statue! Pippi, dressed as a priest, starts to
perform some ghost exorcism chants! Before long, Ghos disappears,
meaning that Pippi has won! After the battle, two more figures approach our heroes from behind. At first, Red and his pockemon are startled, but soon they realize that the figures are humans! The man approaches Pippi and says that he saw his power and wants him to help out his son, Blue. He wants Pippi to get rid of the ghost pockemon so that his son will become a cheerful boy, adding that if they don't, they'll have to go back out to the rain and thunder. Red and his pockemon, with an annoyed look on their faces, turn around to leave, but they stop when Blue's father pleads with them to come back.
Red and his pockemon decide to help, so they climb the stairs in the center of the room leading up to Blue's room. When they enter, they are shocked to see that everything in the room is either blue or has something to do with the word blue! Soon, they see a bespectacled boy hunched over a book, and everyone guesses that he must be the son of the man from downstairs. Blue comes off as being very cold and gloomy, and he tells Red that he uses ghost pockemon. Red says that they came there to get rid of all the ghost pockemon, so Blue angrily calls out his pockemon, Ghost! Ghost uses a hypnotism attack, just like the Ghos downstairs, to make Pippi believe that there's a huge plate of food in front of him! Blue's pockemon then orders Pippi to start attacking itself, and so the fairy pockemon obeys! After beating himself senseless, Pippi looks so horrifying that Ghost accidentally slams itself against a wall in terror! Red seems happy that his pockemon is winning, but Blue isn't finished yet; he orders his Ghost to evolve into Gengar! Ghost obeys, and with a puff of smoke, Blue's Ghost evolves!
Gengar starts off by punching Pippi in the face. Pippi becomes angry, so he starts charging toward Blue's pockemon! However, Gengar vanishes in mid-air and then reappears behind Pippi, where it attacks the fairy pockemon! Gengar continues to attack, invisible, while Blue watches on while wearing a special pair of goggles. Pippi continues to get beaten, so he starts to flail his arms about until he accidentally knocks Blue's special goggles off his face! Red tells Pippi that those glasses are called the Silph Scope, and that if he wears them, he'll be able to track Gengar's movements. Pippi puts them on and quickly finds Blue's pockemon, dodging all the attacks the pockemon can throw at it. Pippi announces that it's his turn to attack, so he uses Metronome attack to make Gengar fall asleep! Red tells Pippi that this is his chance, but Pippi has fallen asleep as well! Red's pockemon quickly wakes up and resumes the battle, taking out a vacuum cleaner to slurp up Blue's pockemon, defeating the last of the mansion's ghost pockemon! Blue's parents come upstairs to thank Red as the young trainer asks Blue if he feels any better without the ghost pockemon around. However, Blue turns around and glares at Red, angry at his pockemon for wrecking his collection of blue items! The chapter ends with Red and his pockemon running away from an angry Blue.
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