RS158: Time-Warp Heals All Wounds

is the 12th episode of Pokémon: Battle Frontier.
==Synopsis==
While our heroes are stopped at a Pokémon Center, Squirtle runs off—never a good idea when Team Rocket is lurking nearby! May finds Squirtle at an empty train station with an old lady, Edna. Edna's granddaughter Katrina tells May (and an eavesdropping Meowth) the story: Grandpa Jonathan left to become a Pokémon doctor, but Grandma Edna didn't want to leave town. She changed her mind when she realized they were going to have a baby, but she missed his train and he passed away in an accident before she could see him again.
After May returns to the Pokémon Center, Squirtle disappears again. She goes to the train station and finds Meowth pondering Edna's story. Then she sees Squirtle, who's found Edna's old locket. A bright light envelops all three and they're transported back in time! May spots Jonathan and realizes this is the day he leaves for the city, but she can't enter the train station without a ticket.
Thinking fast, May and Meowth use a hot air balloon and Squirtle's Ice Beam to turn rain clouds into snow. Jonathan's train is delayed and Edna catches up in time to tell him about the baby. Then our trio returns to the present day just in time to see May's Pokémon Egg hatch into an Eevee, watched over by Jonathan and Edna. Not only have their lives been changed, but the entire town is better than ever! May and Meowth look on, happy to have done a good deed.
==Episode plot==
The gang resides inside a Pokémon Center. Brock nurses Bonsly and May waits for the egg to hatch. Nurse Joy arrives to see the egg. Brock comes and flirts with her, but suddenly, Bonsly tackles him. However, Munchlax drinks Bonsly's milk. Bonsly cries, so Brock cheers it up and Joy recommends that he should go to the cafeteria. Max goes with Munchlax and Ash goes to practice with Pikachu. Squirtle follows them, so May goes to get it. Team Rocket sees them running out and plan to capture them. Jessie tells James and Meowth they need to change tactics, or else they will fail to steal anything. Jessie recommends they should split to get the Pokémon, that way they should get "something".
Squirtle wanders to an abandoned part of town. May follows it, recognizing the building is a train station. She goes inside and sees a picture when the station was livelier. May found Squirtle, who is held by an old lady who introduces herself as Edna. After May introduces herself, it suddenly begins raining -- Edna claims that she's waiting for the steam train to come, expecting a man to come. A young girl named Katrina comes by with an umbrella, revealing herself to be Edna's granddaughter. Katrina came to get grandma, but she is sad because the train did not arrive yet. Edna goes away, leaving a picture of herself (but younger) and a man on the bench.
Jessie sees Ash and Pikachu. Pikachu uses Volt Tackle on a rock, destroying it to pieces - one piece falls on Jessie's head. James sees Munchlax, Bonsly, Brock and Max at a table full of food. James tries not to think on the food but catches a cold. Meanwhile, May asks Katrina who the people on the picture are. Katrina explains that the picture is of her maternal grandparents, Edna and her late-husband, Jonathan. Katrina never met her grandfather, who had passed away long before she was born, and explains to May that Edna was waiting for him. Also, she tells that the pendant Edna got on her neck in the picture is important and tells what happened. They were doctor who cared for Pokémon eggs, but one day, Jonathan decided to move to the city. He wanted to become a Doctor and told they would be there as long as he didn't had the degree. Edna replied she couldn't leave as she was raised and born here. Before he left, he sent her a message, so she ran to the station, but she was late - the train left and the pendant she got on her neck disappeared.
Katrina soon reveals that, later on, Edna got a message that Jonathan had died in a tragic accident -- but Edna refused to believe it and, even now, goes to the train station every day to wait for Jonathan. Later, Edna told Katrina that she shouldn't have left Jonathan, as she was pregnant with their daughter (Katrina's mother) at the time, and wished the train came later if it was snowing. Also, Katrina points at a tree - around the tree would Illumise and Volbeat danced each summer, but after the tree withered, they stopped coming and then Edna began to feel sad. Meowth hears them (as he planned to capture Squirtle) and starts crying, saddened by the story of Katrina's grandparents. Later, May tells her friends what Katrina told her. Suddenly, the egg begins to glow, so she gives it to Joy for nursing. However, Max sees Squirtle is gone (again), so she runs to the station. She finds Meowth, who is looking at the moon and thinking about what Edna said. May finds Squirtle, who is on the tracks.
Squirtle found Edna's pendant and May finds Jonathan's picture inside. Suddenly, the pendant begins to glow...! As they open their eyes, they quickly go off the tracks, as a train comes. A man working at a station yells they shouldn't play on the tracks. They go away and see that the town is much livelier and not abandoned, even the tree Katrina told about is different. May thinks they must have came in time, though Meowth denies this. May sees a man, who is Jonathan - he told a man working at the train station he leaves to the city, despite Edna wanting to stay. Meowth worries how they will get back but May is focused on saving Jonathan and making sure that he doesn't leave town. Still, the man who yelled at them takes them out of the station. They notice the rain falls, so May knows what to do.
Edna reads the letter and rushes to the station. May has a plan - they first need to get a balloon. But when they saw a few balloons on the building, they make a hot air balloon (almost like the Meowth's balloon). Squirtle uses Ice Beam on the clouds. After some time, the rain turns to snow. So, the train is stopped. This time around, Edna doesn't lose pendant and manages to reach her husband in time -- Edna then reveals to Jonathan that she's pregnant. Hearing this, Jonathan stays in town and goes home with his wife. They all see the tree, where around it the Volbeat and Illumise perform their dance. The pendant begins to glow again, so this time May, Meowth and Squirtle are sent back to the present. Suddenly, a modern train comes, so they leave. They also see the town lively but modernized.
Ash, Brock and Max come to tell May the egg will hatch soon. Inside, they wait and are accompanied by Katrina, Edna and Jonathan (who is older). Katrina and Edna meet May, leading Meowth (who is outside waiting) to believe that they altered the present. Edna and Jonathan check on the egg up. The egg glows and hatches - the Pokémon everyone anticipated is...an Eevee. Meowth sees that, but Jessie and James come. Meowth tells them he wishes them good luck and goes away. The night came and everyone sees the tree, where the Volbeat and Illumise perform their dance, making an beautiful sight.
==Debuts==
===Pokémon===
*May's Eevee
==Trivia==
*The English dub title is a play on the phrase "Time heals all wounds".
*This episode is similar to "Celebi And Joy!", a special episode where Ritchie helped Nick.
*The song Stay Together was used after May, Squirtle, and Meowth returned from the past.
*The episode aired as part of a 2-hour special in Japan.
*Meowth breaks the "fourth wall" by addressing the audience on altering the past.
===Mistakes===
*When Team Rocket is in a tree talking about stealing Pikachu and Squirtle, in a close-up of James, he has no gloves on.
==References==
Category:Episodes focusing on May
Category:Episodes focusing on Meowth
Category:Episodes in which a main character obtains a new Pokémon