Electric Training Camp

The gang had a picnic out in the open. But then a Thunderbolt came out of nowhere and nearly hit the gang.

"What was that?!" Dawn gasped.

Before anyone could answer another Thunderbolt came and it headed straight towards Ash.

He crossed his arms and scales covered them.

"You okay Ash?" Brock asked.

"Yeah." Ash reassured him.

Just then an Electrike ran towards the group.

"Stop Electrike!" A voice shouted.

The voice belonged to a young man who was training Electrike.

"I'm so sorry." The man apologized. "I hope none of you got hurt."

"We're good." Ash said.

"My name's Jaco." He introduced himself. "I'm currently training Electrike, but it has trouble controlling it's electric type moves."

"I'm a Pokemon breeder and I really like working with flying types, but working with electric types is a challenge."

Just then an older man approached them. His name was Cal and he was the owner of a Pokemon training center. A Pokemon training center was where types of Pokemon were looked after and trained by Pokemon breeders. He owned a training center for electric type Pokemon. Cal offered to take the gang to his training center and they accepted.

When the gang got to the center they saw there were no electric type Pokemon there. Cal explained that at his training center, the electric type Pokemon train to perfect their electric type moves and then when they graduate they go to the power generating room to make the electricity. So once Jaco's Electrike perfected it's moves, it would graduate and go to the power generating room. Cal had an Electrike too and it had perfected it's moves already, so it would be graduating soon.

Unfortunately Jaco didn't exactly believe his Electrike will ever graduate because it couldn't perfect it's moves yet. Not to mention Jaco was only comfortable with raising flying type Pokemon, not electric type Pokemon. Tomo knelt down to stroke Electrike.

"I believe this Electrike will graduate." He said. "I know, because I own a Electrike too."

"I agree with Tomo." Brock said. "This Electrike has a lot of potential. Hey Tomo, get your Electrike from Prof. Oak. It can help this Electrike."

"Sorry Brock, but I can't do that." Tomo apologized.

Ash explained yesterday he and Tomo got a call from Prof. Oak. The power went out in Pallet Town because the electric company's generator had broken down. So Prof. Oak sent all the electric type Pokemon from the ranch, including Ash and Tomo's electric type Pokemon to make the electricity until the generator was fixed properly.

"Oh that's a shame." Brock sighed. "Never mind, we'll have Pikachu help."

"Oh, and I also have two electric Pokemon with me now." Tomo said. "I got them just before the incident happened."

Tomo sent out his Plusle and Minun.

Suddenly Dawn screamed.

"No, not Plusle and Minun!" She shouted. "Keep them away from me please!"

Plusle and Minun didn't like Dawn's screaming and they ended up using Spark on her. Dawn's hair ended up frizzled and sparkling like a diamond. Dawn freaked out again and fainted.

"What on earth?" Tomo asked.

"Is she afraid of Plusle and Minun?" Ash asked.

Everyone, including Jaco, was confused.

Moments later Dawn woke up and her hair was back to normal.

"Are you alright Dawn?" Brock asked.

"Yes I'm fine, thanks." Dawn said. "Where's Plusle and Minun?"

"They're outside helping Electrike control electric type moves with Pikachu and Jaco." Ash answered.

"I can't believe you have a Plusle and Minun Tomo." Dawn sighed.

"Why are you afraid of Plusle and Minun anyway?" Tomo asked.

"Were you attacked by a Plusle and Minun once?" Ash asked.

"It's more than that, and I might as well tell you now." Dawn said.

Dawn's story was back when she was in nursery school she, Kenny and another childhood friend of hers named Leona were in charge of looking after the nursery school's pets. The pets were a Plusle and Minun. While Kenny and Leona were cleaning out their playpen and sorting their food, Dawn was picking them up and hugging them like crazy. Kenny tried to tell her not to do that, but Dawn simply said no need to worry. But then Plusle and Minun shocked Dawn and her hair became frizzly and sparkled like a diamond. Kenny and Leona found it amusing and decided to call her diamond dandruff from now on, but for short they called her Dee-Dee. The other kids found it amusing too and wouldn't stop teasing her the whole day. So this story was the reason why Kenny called her Dee-Dee and why she was afraid of Plusle and Minun.

The boys thought the story was funny.

"The reason Plusle and Minun did that was because you chased them and hugged them too hard." Ash said.

"He's right." Brock added. "You see, Pokemon don't like it when you try and hug them like crazy. And Plusle and Minun didn't like it when you did that to them."

Dawn ended up understanding that the whole thing was her fault.

"Come on we all make mistakes, you know that." Brock said, trying to cheer her up.

Through the rest of today and the next day Electrike practiced it's electric type moves Charge, Discharge, Spark, Thunder Fang, Thunder and Thunderbolt. It also learned Shock Wave and Charge Beam thanks to Plusle and Minun. Jaco also ended up learning how to take charge of electric type Pokemon properly. In the end to everyone's surprise Electrike evolved into a Manectric. Because of it's evolution and finally perfecting it's moves, Manectric had graduated from the training center and Cal was ready to take it to the power generator room.

Jaco gave Manectric one final hug.

"I'll miss you, and I'll never forget you." He said.

Jaco had come to like electric type Pokemon now and he smiled while Cal drove away with Manectric.

"It must be hard to say goodbye especially after going through so much together." Dawn said.

"Yes, but that's part of a breeder's job." Brock said. "Great breeders prepare the Pokemon for living life to the fullest."

"Yes and now Jaco will be ready to raise the next electric type Pokemon he'll be asked to train here." Ash said.

Jaco thanked the gang for all their help, and then the gang said goodbye to him before continuing towards Hearthome City.