Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon

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**Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon** is the 46th episode of *Liam's Adventures of Pokémon: Indigo League*.

## Plot

Ash and his friends are walking in an area called Grampa Canyon when they see a large group of people walking with picks and shovels. Gary appears and explains that he and the group are here for the Fossil Rush, because of a great discovery. Ash decides to join, so as to embarrass Gary by finding a Fossil before he does. Jigglypuff also appears, ready to sing, but the group leaves without noticing it.

Ash, Misty, and Brock soon find a large area of the canyon where many people, including Gary, are digging. However, they also stumble across Team Rocket, who accidentally reveals their plan to blow up the canyon and steal all of the Fossils. Misty and Brock run off to alert everyone to the danger, and Ash agrees to handle Team Rocket. As Meowth lights the fuse, Ash runs up to Team Rocket and sends out Squirtle in an attempt to put the flame out. Squirtle, Pikachu, and Ash chase the fuse, trying to put it out, while Jessie, James, Meowth, Arbok, and Weezing try to stop him. Team Rocket then falls and starts rolling, resulting in a ball of people and Pokémon rolling into Ash, landing right beside the dynamite. As the fuse draws near to the dynamite, Pikachu panics and uses Thunder Shock, causing the dynamite to detonate. The blast opens up a giant fissure in the ground, which disturbed rocks soon fill. Ash, Pikachu, Team Rocket, and their Pokémon are now trapped in an underground cave, and only Squirtle escapes from the rubble. Hearing the explosion, Misty and Brock run over and start digging out rock and soil with Squirtle.

In the cave, Ash, Pikachu, Team Rocket, and their Pokémon start to argue. Then, they soon notice that they are surrounded by mysterious glowing eyes and fall silent. Ash checks his Pokédex for details, and the Pokémon are revealed to be Omanyte, Omastar, Kabuto, and Kabutops. Jessie and James begin to speculate that the explosion must have awakened them from thousands of years of sleep. Regardless, Team Rocket begin to contemplate stealing the Pokémon for their boss, and attempt to catch them by throwing Poké Balls at the Fossil Pokémon. A Kabutops blocks the balls, and they are rebounded at Meowth. All of the Fossil Pokémon start approaching the group to attack, so Ash sends out his Charmeleon, but it refuses to help. A chase scene ensues, where the Fossil Pokémon are winning the chase. Then, all of a sudden, the Pokémon run away deeper into the cave. Originally confused, the group soon realize why, and an Aerodactyl swoops in, knocking over Charmeleon. Angry, Charmeleon tries to attack the Aerodactyl, but is knocked out before it gets a chance. Aerodactyl then grabs onto Ash with its claws, and begins to fly towards the surface. Before the Flying-type Pokémon can get too far, Pikachu and Charmeleon jump on board.

Back above ground, Brock's Geodude had finally dug a hole through the rubble. The Aerodactyl flies out of the hole in the ground, dropping Pikachu and Charmeleon on its way out, and perches on a cliff with Ash still in hand. Charmeleon wants to battle the Aerodactyl out of revenge, but the Aerodactyl just taunts it. Fueled with anger, Charmeleon evolves into Charizard. Ash is happy, as he thinks that Charmeleon has evolved to rescue him. Unfortunately, he soon realizes Charizard merely wants to battle Aerodactyl for his own pride and has no intention of rescuing Ash.

Meanwhile, Misty sees Jigglypuff and tells it to sing its slumber song to make Aerodactyl fall asleep. Jigglypuff agrees and quite happily sings, sending everyone in the canyon to sleep. Aerodactyl, now asleep, falls into the rubble, dropping Ash before plummeting. Luckily, Charizard manages to stay awake by covering its ears and catches the sleeping Ash before he hits the ground. However, he also falls asleep after landing. Ash rolls off of Charizard, landing next to a Pokémon Egg. Jigglypuff, seeing everyone has fallen asleep, draws markings on their faces out of spite. After awakening, Officer Jenny announces that the whole incident was a dream caused by Jigglypuff's song, although Ash knows it wasn't.

As Ash and the gang leave, Ash takes the Egg out of his backpack, revealing that he had found it at the site. This causes the trio to fight playfully about who should get to raise and keep the Egg. Brock takes the Egg and runs away, promising to take good care of it, with Ash and Misty in tow. Meanwhile, Team Rocket and their Pokémon remain trapped in the cave, with the sleeping Fossil Pokémon only a few feet away.

## Major events

* Ash and his friends encounter Gary again.
* Jessie and James try and fail to catch Kabutops.
* Ash's Charmeleon evolves into Charizard, but remains disobedient.
* Ash finds a Pokémon Egg, and Brock decides to be in charge of taking care of it.
* Azusa and Yui each find a Pokemon Egg, after waking up from Jigglypuff's song.
* Liam, Ben and Azusa each find a Fossil which revealed to be actual Pokemon.
* Liam's Fossil that he found is revealed to be a Dome Fossil.
* Ben's Fossil that he found is revealed to be a Helix Fossil.
* Azusa's Fossil that she found is revealed to be a Cover Fossil.
* Dairy learns Psychic.
* Rapture evolves into Staraptor, and saves Ritsu from her demise.
* Ritsu finds a Skull Fossil and asks Rapture to collect it.
* Liam's Eevee evolves into Espeon, and learns Confusion.
* Liam's Dome Fossil is revived into a Kabuto.
* Ben's Helix Fossil is revived into an Omanyte, and nicknames it Spiral.
* Ritsu's Skull Fossil is revived into a Cranidos, and nicknames it Rammy.
* Azusa's Cover Fossil is revived into a Tirtouga, and nicknames it Ton-chan II.

## Characters

### Humans

* Ash Ketchum
* Ritsu Tainaka
* Tsumugi Kotobuki
* Mio Akiyama
* Yui Hirasawa
* Azusa Nakano
* Liam Hammerfield
* Agent Ben Rockefeller
* Misty
* Brock
* Jessie
* James
* Nurse Joy
* Lilo Pelekai (cameo)
* Officer Jenny
* Gary Oak
* Gary's cheerleaders
* Fossil hunters

### Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Kabutops

* Pikachu (Ash's)
* Alcremie (Tsumugi's; Dairy)
* Meowth (Team Rocket)
* Staravia (Ritsu's; evolves)
* Staraptor (Ritsu's; newly evolved)
* Charmeleon (Ash's; evolves)
* Charizard (Ash's; newly evolved)
* Squirtle (Ash's)
* Geodude (Brock's)
* Arbok (Jessie's)
* Weezing (James's)
* Jigglypuff (anime)
* Omanyte (×2; debut)
* Omastar (×2; debut)
* Omanyte (Ben's; Spiral)
* Cranidos (Ritsu's; Rammy)
* Kabuto (×2; debut)
* Eevee (Liam's; evolves)
* Espeon (Liam's; newly evolved)
* Kabutops (×2; debut)
* Aerodactyl (debut)

## Trivia

* Liam, Ritsu, Azusa, and Ben each break the fourth wall in this episode.
	+ There are two Indiana Jones references in this episode. First, Gary's digging clothes are very similar to the titular character's clothes; and then, when Ash is attempting to put out the fuse lit by Team Rocket, they roll into a boulder, similar to *Raiders of the Lost Ark*.
	+ The events of this episode will be recounted in *Pokémon Paparazzi*, as it turns out that Todd Snap happened to be in the area, so he took a picture of the Aerodactyl as it was flying off with Ash.
	+ This marks the second time that Ash had two Flying-types in his team simultaneously. That hadn't happened since *Bye Bye Butterfree* and won't happen again until *Riding the Winds of Change!*.
	+ Three books were at least partially adapted from this episode: Charizard, Go! and Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon of the novelization series, and Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon of the Adventure series.
	+ This episode is featured on *Volume 3: Charizard* from Viz Media's Pokémon All-Stars series.
	+ A shot of Aerodactyl performing an *akanbe*, which involves pulling its eyelid down and sticking out its tongue at the same time, is still present in the dub, despite similar shots being removed from *Clefairy and the Moon Stone!* and *A Ruin with a View!*.
	+ Parts of this episode were reanimated and used for flashback material for *The Fires of a Red-Hot Reunion!*

## Transcript

*Main article: Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon/Transcript*