The Legend of Blue Shell Man Guy

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**Legend of Blue Shell Man Guy** is the 10th and latest episode of Starter Squad.

## Plot

Ten years after the events of the previous episode, the episode starts in Sinnoh region with a Chimchar fighting against six Bidoofs in order to bring "Anarchy" to the "Beaver Society". Suddenly, Squirtle and a Turtwig appears to help Chimchar who has been defeated after by several Water Guns after deciding to use their "water reserves". Chimchar is very angry at being saved by Squirtle and Turtwig as he wants to evolve independently. He snatches and throws Squirtle's pendant (which was holding an Everstone) away. It is revealed to us that Squirtle is now level 98. Frustrated by Squirtle's method of progress, Chimchar decides to climb the "literally the highest mountain in the entire world" as Squirtle won't be able to climb as easily. Hoping to bring back Chimchar, Squirtle is hellbent on sticking together as a team and Turtwig agrees to accompany Squirtle.

Squirtle tells Turtwig the full story long before he arrived Sinnoh, and also what happened after Charmander's death: Leader Caterpie started brainwashing him and Squirtle kept blindly following her, even though her orders went against his better judgement and prevented himself from evolving. Later they are met by a Snover. The Snover offers to guide them to Snow Way, where there is "snow in the way". However, when Turtwig suggests that they leave Chimchar, since the latter clearly doesn’t want to be followed, Squirtle tells him to shut up, but absent-mindedly calls him Bulbasaur. Angry at the realization that Squirtle only kept him and Chimchar around to relive his childhood, Turtwig leaves Squirtle on the mountain and walks away. Snover then brings over another Snover to replace Turtwig.

The three then arrive at snow way, and when the pile of snow is revealed to be an Abomasnow, the two Snover leave. The Abomasnow reveals himself to be the "Emissary of the Gods" guarding the path towards the mountaintop of Mt. Coronet. Squirtle ensues in a fight to defeat the Abomasnow, certain that the Chimchar has gone through him. When Abomasnow laughs it out for believing in the previous interloper, he reveals that he in fact had killed Chimchar under block of solid ice, only because he claims to follow the orders of the gods by not letting any mortals to defy them, including him. Brokenhearted by Chimchar's death, Squirtle realizes that he had pushed Chimchar too far in sticking together with rules due to coping up with the loss of Charmander, apologetically. With nothing else to decide, he agrees to leave under Abomasnow's order as the guardian has spared him for his realization (even telling Squirtle to tell the tale of his legend about his failed encounter).

Squirtle then has a flashback to Kanto's utter destruction after the war between the Caterpie race and the birds had reached its limit and beyond in demise. Realizing that it was her responsible for the calamity and that Squirtle had warned him about the consequences of sheer power and mutual survival of her race, the Leader Caterpie desperately struggled to seek help from Squirtle whom he expected to follow as full loyalty towards her. But, as she knew that loyal Squirtle was just as afraid as she was to give orders, she agreed to free Squirtle to be passed among others and she left. Receiving an epiphany, Squirtle openly declares that they always had a choice, as Abomasnow simply made his choice to kill the trespassers, which the gods had nothing to do with their actions. As a last straw to carry out his only choice, he relinquishes his Everstone, throwing into the Snow's jowl. Triggered by Squirtle's another strike, Abomasnow smashes him into solid ice.

Then, Squirtle bursts out of the ice as he has evolved into a Wartortle, wielding the god-like strength. Holding the guardian's arm that is attempting to strike him down, Wartortle declares that the gods are not present since it is the battle between him and the Abomasnow. He pulls the arm off and launches a massive shell impact from the air before the amputated Abomasnow finishes the F-bomb. Cheered by Wartortle's impressive power to overwhelm Snow, the Snover returns to tell the legend of “Blue Shell Man Guy”. Wartortle retrieves Chimchar’s corpse from the block of ice and decides to venture to the top of the mountain, as whatever is up there has made him suffer time and time again through rules. He begins his journey to overthrow the gods.

## Characters

* Squirtle/Wartortle
* Bidoof
* Chimchar
* Turtwig
* Big Bibby
* Fearow (Flashback)
* Spearow (Flashback)
* Leader Caterpie (Flashback)
* Leonard (Flashback)
* Whiskers (Flashback)
* Snovers
* Abomasnow
* Bulbasaur (Mention)
* Arceus (Mentioned)
* Noctowl (Found dead in background)

## Trivia

* This Episode takes place 10 years after "The Lizard Slayer".
* This marks the first episode to feature Pokemon introduced after Generation I (Chimchar, Bidoof, Bibarel, Turtwig, Snover, Abomasnow, which are Generation IV). It's possble Squirtle did the same to the starters of Generations II and III.
* Piplup is the only Sinnoh Starter to not appear, Squirtle possibly might have either done something to Piplup or Squirtle only befriended Chimchar and Turtwig.
* This episode confirms that Charmander has been killed by Leader Caterpie.
	+ This episode also reveals that Bulbasaur never left the underground hideout. Unlike Charmander, however, his current fate is unknown.
* This is the first episode where Bulbasaur is completely absent, though he was mentioned a few times. Although Charmander is also technically absent, his severed head appears to be worn by the Leader Caterpie in a few flashbacks.
* Turtwig states that he shouldn’t have been laughing at Squirtle’s story in the beginning, which could possibly lampshade the fact that the “Starter Squad” series started off as a simple comedic Pokémon parody before becoming more story-driven and dramatic as the series went on.
* The Leader Caterpie's hat has "勝利" written on it. Roughly translated, it says "Victory".
* Abomasnow refers to the God of Gods as Aruseusu " (according to the captions). This translates to "Your Mother".