005 - A Blue Day: Showdown At The Viridian City Gym!

## Episode Synopsis

It's an eventful episode as our heroes Rose and Colbalt's egg hatch, Cobalt makes a trade, and Rose gets a cryptic message from her grandmother. Plus: How do they fare at the Gym? Only one way to find out!

## Episode Summary

Bango and Treble both surround their respected trainer's bags, with Bango wiggling his butt excitedly while Treble sniffs in trepidation. Rose goes to investigate, ignoring the lightning and thunder crashing outside, and sees that the egg in her bag is starting to hatch. Cobalt, a little slower on the roll, sniffs his bag with Treble, and thinking he might have left a bad sandwich in there, dumps out the contents and causes his egg to fall out.

Both trainers then lay their eggs on their beds, Rose a little wary while Cobalt is rather excited, having seen the hatching off Pokemon many times before. With more noises from the storm deafening them, a bright light from both eggs blinds the two for a moment, and when they can see again, two new Pokemon lay on their beds.

On Rose's bed lays a Togepi, an egg Pokemon hatching from and Egg, while Cobalt has a Nidoran♂ on his. The Togepi starts to waddle towards Rose, and once picked up, chirps happily at her new trainer. Cobalt tries his best to pet the Nidoran♂, who enjoys it begrudgingly, but doesn't like when Treble comes up to them and puffs up his chest. Seeing Treble run away in fright makes the Nidoran♂ laugh, a hint to his nature.

Rose takes this time to take a selfie with her new Togepi, which she names Scramble, places her into a Pokeball, and immediately lets her back out. She then tries to take a picture with the Nidoran♂; since he's less friendly, however, she makes due with a subpar picture of him sniffing her fingers.

Cobalt more or less does the same, but keeps the Nidoran♂ in the ball to help keep the peace throughout the night. As the excitement of the new Pokemon calms down, the boy decides that this is the best time to call his mother. Before he heads over, he grabs a Pokeball from his bag that contains his previous catch, Otoo, and places it inside the terminal of the computer.

He then calls his parents, saying a hello to them as well as their Pokemon, before telling them about the highlights of their trip so far. Besides catching them up, the main reason for the call was to tell them about his fight with Otto, something they disapprove of, but thankfully his mom has an Oddish she can trade him, and decides that raising Otto will be a fun challenge for Cobalt's father. After the trade and a bit more conversation, Rose asks if they can end the call soon since it's so late at night, to which Cobalt's mom apologizes and repremands him for "not telling her that his girlfriend was sleeping". Neither of the two deny that they are in a relationship before the call ends.

Saving his meeting with the Oddish for another day, Cobalt puts the Pokeball away before settling in for the night.

When Rose wakes up the next morning, she notices that the temperature has severely dropped and finds herself freezing, while Cobalt is snuggled in bed with Treble without a care in the world. Finding herself too uncomfortable to go back to bed, Rose gets up to put on her warmest outfit, then heads downstairs to the PokeCenter. There she sees the Chansey on duty, who is wearing a sweater and handing out hot beverages. Rose finds it strange that it could suddenly be so cold while it's still spring, but the thought is pushed to the side when the Nurse Joy from last night offers her a chance to visit her grandmother in the back.

Once in her room, Rose notices that Odessa looks better than she had the last time the younger Jenny had seen her, but it still rather pale. In the background, the news channel is on talking about the freak change in weather, and in the corner of the room is Odessa's Arcanine, Jango, snuggled up with a sleeping Ambrosia.

Odessa is concious for very little time while Rose is there, but again starts to talk about Moltres and how Team Rocket has done something with the legendary bird before she falls back asleep. Nurse Joy tells the young trainer not to worry, and that her grandmother is being taken good care of. Rose urges that she leaves before her mother wakes up and makes her way upstairs.

Once back in their room, Rose jumps on Cobalt's bedframe to jostle him and his Pokemon awake, catching Treble from the air before he can land back on Cobalt. The boy jostles around in fright, knocking Nidoran♂'s Pokeball off the nightstand and calling him out. After complaining about the cold, the the group of six quickly pack up and make their way downstairs, ready to continue their journey until a new Nurse Joy stops them. Recognizing the two trainers, she passes them each a letter, which once opened reveals their official Pokemon Trainer Badges.

With new badge in hand, Rose crumples up her old, temporary one and throws it towards the back, where her mother will certainly see it and deduce that Rose had been there and left without saying anything. Not trying to chance her luck, the duo decides to leave.

As they walk, Rose looks up into the sky and sees the ominous looking clouds above, ignoring Cobalt as he takes a swift kick in the chest from Nidoran♂, and suggests that maybe the three legendary birds are somehow responsible for the weather. When Cobalt catches his breath and puts Nidoran♂ back in his ball, he agrees it's a possibilty, then suggests they challenge the Viridian City Gym Leader, Blue. Rose agrees and they head there, completely pushing the though of the odd weather from both their minds.

Walking into the gym, they both notice an older looking man with glasses standing to the side, and when he notices them, greets them with the iconic honorific of "champs in the making". He explains that this is Blue's gym, and tells them that Blue has a multitude of pokemon teams he uses to battle, keeping each battle fresh and a mystery to the challengers.

Taking the elevator down to the challenger floor, they are greeted by a booming voice that intimidates Cobalt, having him insist Rose goes first. Not leaving her with another option, the boy rushes over to the side and makes his way to the second level where he can watch.

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## Cast

Jake as Rose

Josh as Cobalt

Alan as Everyone and Everything

## Trivia

The episode starts out with Jake and Josh talking about how they've leveled up their characters and Pokemon, but since this does not stay a regular thing and is then too hard to track, it will not be included in the Wiki

When Cobalt calls his parents, he has a brief conversation with Bella, and seems to understand what she's saying