Jirarudan is a Pokémon collector out to capture the most rare and mysterious
Pokemon of all, Lugia. No one has ever see it,
but it is written that it will appear when all three of the Legendary Birds are
brought together in one place. It is for this reason that each bird has its own
Island. Jirarudan approaches the Island of Moltres in the Hikoukyu. He attacks
it with ice, freezing the island and injuring Moltres. Weakened, Jirarudan is
able to capture Moltres using an electric net. The flying fortress moves on
toward the island of Zapdos, and the weather begins
to take a turn for the worst... Ash, Kenji, and Misty are riding a boat (piloted
by Mic-chan, a guide) to Asia Island. They have just let their Pokemon out of
their balls to relax when a storm blows in. Their ship is badly shaken, but
Mic-chan manages to get it into the port (all but destroying it in the process).
Team Rocket are following Ash in their submarine, the Mecca-Gyarados, and are
hit by the same storm.
They hit something and lose their rudder. Helpless, they are swept up in a
school of REAL Gyarados, which carry them towards the port but land them on the
rocks instead... Misty's mom is out on her
front lawn when Professor Oak comes up on his bike, commenting on the nice
weather. Out of nowhere, a herd of Digletts come down the road, picking up Oak's
bike and carrying it with them down the road. Behind the Digletts come another
huge group of Pokémon, heading in the same direction, South. Dumbfounded, the
two notice that it has started to snow even though it is the middle of the
summer... Having landed at Ashia Island, Ash and his friends get off the damaged
boat, only to be surrounded by a group of strangely dressed people. One takes
off his mask and explains that there is a festival going on to celebrate the Pokémon
Gods.
They are introduced to Furura, the Miko (a young girls who acts as the messenger
for the gods) for the ceremony. She seems to like Ash, but gets on Misty's bad
side (she first asks if Misty is Ash's sister,
then his girlfriend.) The group leaves the beach for a pavilion where the
ceremony will take place. Since Ash revealed himself as a Pokémon trainer
(apparently the only on on the island at the time...), during the festival; he
is chosen to go to the islands of the Legendary Pokémon to retrieve their power
crystals. Apparently, the weather disturbances are caused by an unbalance in
their powers, and bringing all three stones to a stone circle on the main island
will calm these forces. "Never catch a god of fire, a god of thunder, or a
god of ice. If you do, it will evoke their anger
and the marine god would destroy Heaven and Earth. The world would fall to
ruins." Mic-chan and Ash set out on the boat (apparently it wasn't THAT
damaged...) to the Island of Moltres on the stormy sea... Upon reaching the
island, Ash runs from the boat up the stairs to the top of the mountain, where
Moltres's shrine is located and where he will find the power crystal... Misty
and Furura decide to follow the others in a faster (very spiffy) boat.
Of course, the waterlogged Team Rocket manage to hitch a ride... They are thrown
from the boat when it hits a big wave, but end up near the top of the mountain.
They are at the top of the stairs up the mountain (beginning their speech) when
Furura's boat (propelled up the mountain stairs
by a wind sail) jumps over them and into the depression on top of the mountain.
Ash has gotten the stone and is getting ready to get into the boat for the trip
back down when who should appear... Zapdos! He is looking for Moltres, scared of
something. He begins shooting out Thunderbolts, his way of communicating.
Pikachu begins to thunderbolt back, explaining why they are there and what they
know. Their conversation is cut short when something from about begins to draw
Zapdos's electricity away... Jirarudan's net drops Ash on the floor of a great
hall. They see both Zapdos and Moltres trapped still, Zapdos fighting the new bonds,
but Moltres has submitted and is sitting quietly. Furura notices a copy of the
stone tablet (which is in a shrine on Asia Island) between the cages of the
birds. On it is the legend of the God of the Sea, Lugia. Jirarudan's computer
notified him of his "guests," and he came down to explain his plan
(like any good villain). He returns in his hydraulic chair to the bridge (above
the great hall) when he is notified that they are approaching the Island of
Articuno. Somewhere during all of this, I don't know where, Professor Oak
consults with his friend, the breeder whom Brock has gone to live with. She
agrees to meet him to take a helicopter to the Orange Islands in order to find
out what is causing all of the weather fluctuations. Brock is seen running
around in the background when he is talking to her, carrying Nidoran back and
forth.
Ash's mom also insists on coming along to make sure he is OK. Determined to stop
Jirarudan from creating a permanent unbalance
in the world by capturing Lugia, Ash decide to free Zapdos and Moltres. They
bring out all of their Pokemon and begin to work on Moltres first. The Rockets
send their Pokemon out at Zapdos. The combination of water, fire, and electric
attacks causes an explosion, and Moltres's cage is broken. Immediately Moltres
lets out a huge burst of flame at Zapdos's cage, freeing him. Pokemon from all
over the world are traveling as far south as
they can get, those who cannot fly or swim sit anxiously at the southernmost
shore they could reach. They seem to sense the struggle between their gods...
The weather keeps getting colder as Articuno's powers are getting out of
control. Zapdos and Moltres break their way out of the airship, and meet up with
Articuno (who was so upset he had frozen the entire sea). Together they begin to
attack the airship. Damaged badly and getting worse, the airship crashes into
the Island of Zapdos. Ash run from the ship as it breaks apart.
It has crushed the Shrine containing the orb of Zapdos's power, and the ball
rolls over. Ash picks it up and keeps running.
Somehow they all manage to get back into the broken boat (the one captured with
them on the airship). The ship falls from the cliff, but a mysterious spout of
water catches it an deposits it at the shrine on Asia Island... Team Rocket
inflate the emergency raft on the boat and sit in it, feeling a bit safer until
the spout of water came up. Their raft was tossed from the boat and flew away...
After the boat lands, everyone jumps out, and the boat falls to the frozen sea
below. Professor Oak is being filmed by a news
crew in the helicopter to the Orange Islands. he explains that the "gulf
stream," the path all the world's water flows through among the islands, is
normally controlled by the balance of powers among the bird gods. The disruption
in that balance was causing the terrible weather fluctuations being felt
throughout the world. The film crew happens to catch Ash's mom, and she explains
she is there because her son is in this dangerous area. Just as they are
finishing the interview, the helicopter is caught in a huge gust of wind and is
propelled into the mountain on Asia Island below. All get out safely, but Ash's
mom worries about her son... Ash brings the two power orbs to the shrine, and
places them in their corresponding places inside the shrine. Slowking comes
up behind him and expresses concern that he has only found two of them. Ash is
about to leave to get the other orb, when the three bird gods begin to attack
him. As one of the birds dives towards them (Ash bravely stepping out in front
to protect the others), the strange spout of water comes up and gets in the way,
only this time, Lugia appears out of the top of the spout. Lugia begins to fight
with the birds, when Furura recognizes the sound he is making. It is the same as
the music she has learned for the festival, the music said to be used to call
the gods. All three birds attack him at once, and he falls under the ice...
Furura plays a few notes on her flute, which revives Lugia. Lugia bursts from
the ice and flies over, talking about what they need to do to get the world back
into order (basically, "you have to go get the third orb and put it in the
shrine in order to save the world").
Ash reluctantly agrees to go, and starts out on
foot towards the Island of Articuno. He realizes quickly that the snow on top of
the ice is way too thick for him to walk, then notices the wreckage of the boat.
He has an idea... Charizard, Bulbasaur, and Pikachu now pull Ash on an
improvised sled (made of part of the boat). The birds begin to attack from
above, but Lugia flies in and shields them. They are about halfway across the
sea, when a huge attack from Moltres and Articuno causes the ice to break up
under them, and freeze again. There is now a huge iceberg in front of him, and
Ash doesn't know what to do. From behind he hears a noise... it is the Team
Rocket, who have taken the tail blade from the crashed helicopter and fastened
it to their emergency raft, creating a hydrofoil. They give their speech again,
and motion Ash and Pikachu (the others went back into their balls) to get in.
All of the Pokemon who had been lined up on shore now are running across the ice
towards the battle. There are literally thousands here now (computer animated
when looked at from above).
Lugia provides cover while the group blasts across the ice and up the path on
the mountain towards the shrine. The have to go
inside a very long cave to get to the shrine, and Ash runs up to the statue and
grabs the orb. He jumps back into the raft to make the way back when Articuno,
having been injured by one of the other birds, crashes through the roof and
demolishes the shrine. The destruction of the room also blocked off the escape
route through the cave. Lugia swoops down and tells Ash to get on his back. Ash
does so, and Lugia takes off (the Rockets hanging from his leg) Lugia is having
trouble now dodging the attacks of the Bird Gods,
and decides to go way up high to try to lose them. He can't go fast enough, and
the Rockets realize they are weighing him down too much. They let go, saying
they have done all they could to "Protect the world from devastation."
As they plummet, they remember that the sea is frozen and they think they'll die
when they hit, but when they reach the sea, they plunge into the water. When
they surface they see that the gathered Pokemon have broken a hole in the ice to
save them. Ash nears Asia Island with Lugia, when Jirarudan (does the guy ever
quit?) focuses in on them with his trapping machine and sends out the electric
traps at Lugia. Lugia destroys many of them as the try to capture him, but they
move too fast and eventually snare him. Lugia lets out a huge beam from his
mouth at Jirarudan and what remains of his ship, destroying it and
de-electrifying the cage/nets. Worn out, Lugia falls into the ice, breaking
through and sinking... Ash surfaces, but is unconscious. The friends on the
shrine above are scared, and argue about who should go save him. Furura is about
to go, but Misty says it is her job.
She runs down the slope and drags Ash from the water; he doesn't seem to be
breathing (we almost thought something was coming here, but it didn't happen),
but manages to come to in a moment. Ash insists on climbing the slope himself as
part of his quest, and finally gets to the shrine and places the last stone in
the shrine. By now, all of the birds have fallen exhausted to the ground. Ash
places the third power orb in its place in the shrine, causing a reaction
between the three which makes the shrine glow. Furura now takes a step into the
center of the shrine (it looks like stone hence, with the platform in the middle
with the prophecy stone and the receptacles for the power orbs). She begins to
play the Festival song, which magically brightens the sky and makes water flow
over the shrine ledge, making all of the grass grow again through the snow and
flowers bloom.
Each of the stone monoliths glows when she hits a different note on the flute,
and the healing of the song begins to spread over the water. The Bird Gods begin
to wake up, and all of the gathered Pokemon begin to rejoice. After a seeming
long wait, Lugia himself rises from the water.
He thanks them all for their help, and asks Ash to once again ride on his back.
As the two (and Pikachu) fly, Lugia summons the damaged gulf stream up into the
air, eventually placing it back down where it belongs. All of the Bird Gods
return to their islands, and the gathered Pokemon all begin to return home (the
land ones riding on the backs of water ones). When Ash and Lugia land, Ash
asks if he will ever see him again. Lugia says he is looking forward to it, but
that Ash will have to catch him on his own. They both have their own duties, but
should their paths cross again he will be glad. When Lugia leaves (returning
into the ocean water), Ash's mom and the others climb down the mountain onto the
cliff, relatively unscathed. Ash's mom berates him for once again getting
himself into a dangerous situation, but she is glad that he is OK.
all, Lugia. No one has ever see it,
but it is written that it will appear when all three of the Legendary Birds are
brought together in one place. It is for this reason that each bird has its own
Island. Jirarudan approaches the Island of Moltres in the Hikoukyu. He attacks
it with ice, freezing the island and injuring Moltres. Weakened, Jirarudan is
able to capture Moltres using an electric net. The flying fortress moves on
toward the island of Zapdos, and the weather 
begins
to take a turn for the worst... Ash, Kenji, and Misty are riding a boat (piloted
by Mic-chan, a guide) to Asia Island. They have just let their Pokemon out of
their balls to relax when a storm blows in. Their ship is badly shaken, but
Mic-chan manages to get it into the port (all but destroying it in the process).
Team Rocket are following Ash in their submarine, the Mecca-Gyarados, and are
hit by the same storm.
Misty's mom is out on her
front lawn when Professor Oak comes up on his bike, commenting on the nice
weather. Out of nowhere, a herd of Digletts come down the road, picking up Oak's
bike and carrying it with them down the road. Behind the Digletts come 
another
huge group of Pokémon, heading in the same direction, South. Dumbfounded, the
two notice that it has started to snow even though it is the middle of the
summer... Having landed at Ashia Island, Ash and his friends get off the damaged
boat, only to be surrounded by a group of strangely dressed people. One takes
off his mask and explains that there is a festival going on to celebrate the Pokémon
Gods.
asks if Misty is Ash's sister,
then his girlfriend.) The group leaves the beach for a pavilion where the
ceremony will take place. Since Ash revealed himself as a Pokémon trainer
(apparently the only on on the island at the time...), during the festival; he
is chosen to go to the islands of the Legendary Pokémon to retrieve their power
crystals. Apparently, the weather disturbances are caused by an unbalance in
their powers, and bringing all three stones to a stone circle on the main island
will calm these forces. "Never catch a god of fire, a god of thunder, or a
god of ice. If you do, it will 
evoke their anger
and the marine god would destroy Heaven and Earth. The world would fall to
ruins." Mic-chan and Ash set out on the boat (apparently it wasn't THAT
damaged...) to the Island of Moltres on the stormy sea... Upon reaching the
island, Ash runs from the boat up the stairs to the top of the mountain, where
Moltres's shrine is located and where he will find the power crystal... Misty
and Furura decide to follow the others in a faster (very spiffy) boat.
(propelled up the mountain stairs
by a wind sail) jumps over them and into the depression on top of the mountain.
Ash has gotten the stone and is getting ready to get into the boat for the trip
back down when who should appear... Zapdos! He is looking for Moltres, scared of
something. He begins shooting out Thunderbolts, his way of communicating.
Pikachu begins to thunderbolt back, explaining why they are there and what they
know. Their conversation is cut short when something from about begins to draw
Zapdos's electricity away... Jirarudan's net drops Ash on the floor of a great
hall. They see both Zapdos and Moltres trapped still, Zapdos fighting the new 
bonds,
but Moltres has submitted and is sitting quietly. Furura notices a copy of the
stone tablet (which is in a shrine on Asia Island) between the cages of the
birds. On it is the legend of the God of the Sea, Lugia. Jirarudan's computer
notified him of his "guests," and he came down to explain his plan
(like any good villain). He returns in his hydraulic chair to the bridge (above
the great hall) when he is notified that they are approaching the Island of
Articuno. Somewhere during all of this, I don't know where, Professor Oak
consults with his friend, the breeder whom Brock has gone to live with. She
agrees to meet him to take a helicopter to the Orange Islands in order to find
out what is causing all of the weather fluctuations. Brock is seen running
around in the background when he is talking to her, carrying Nidoran back and
forth.
Jirarudan from creating a permanent unbalance
in the world by capturing Lugia, Ash decide to free Zapdos and Moltres. They
bring out all of their Pokemon and begin to work on Moltres first. The Rockets
send their Pokemon out at Zapdos. The combination of water, fire, and electric
attacks causes an explosion, and Moltres's cage is broken. Immediately Moltres
lets out a huge burst of flame at Zapdos's cage, freeing him. Pokemon from all
over the world are 
traveling as far south as
they can get, those who cannot fly or swim sit anxiously at the southernmost
shore they could reach. They seem to sense the struggle between their gods...
The weather keeps getting colder as Articuno's powers are getting out of
control. Zapdos and Moltres break their way out of the airship, and meet up with
Articuno (who was so upset he had frozen the entire sea). Together they begin to
attack the airship. Damaged badly and getting worse, the airship crashes into
the Island of Zapdos. Ash run from the ship as it breaks apart.
Ash picks it up and keeps running.
Somehow they all manage to get back into the broken boat (the one captured with
them on the airship). The ship falls from the cliff, but a mysterious spout of
water catches it an deposits it at the shrine on Asia Island... Team Rocket
inflate the emergency raft on the boat and sit in it, feeling a bit safer until
the spout of water came up. Their raft was tossed from the boat and flew away...
After the boat lands, everyone jumps out, and the boat falls to the frozen sea
below. Professor 
Oak is being filmed by a news
crew in the helicopter to the Orange Islands. he explains that the "gulf
stream," the path all the world's water flows through among the islands, is
normally controlled by the balance of powers among the bird gods. The disruption
in that balance was causing the terrible weather fluctuations being felt
throughout the world. The film crew happens to catch Ash's mom, and she explains
she is there because her son is in this dangerous area. Just as they are
finishing the interview, the helicopter is caught in a huge gust of wind and is
propelled into the mountain on Asia Island below. All get out safely, but Ash's
mom worries about her son... Ash brings the two power orbs to the shrine, and
places them in their corresponding places inside the shrine. Slowking 
comes
up behind him and expresses concern that he has only found two of them. Ash is
about to leave to get the other orb, when the three bird gods begin to attack
him. As one of the birds dives towards them (Ash bravely stepping out in front
to protect the others), the strange spout of water comes up and gets in the way,
only this time, Lugia appears out of the top of the spout. Lugia begins to fight
with the birds, when Furura recognizes the sound he is making. It is the same as
the music she has learned for the festival, the music said to be used to call
the gods. All three birds attack him at once, and he falls under the ice...
Furura plays a few notes on her flute, which revives Lugia. Lugia bursts from
the ice and flies over, talking about what they need to do to get the world back
into order (basically, "you have to go get the third orb and put it in the
shrine in order to save the world").
Ash reluctantly agrees to go, and starts out on
foot towards the Island of Articuno. He realizes quickly that the snow on top of
the ice is way too thick for him to walk, then notices the wreckage of the boat.
He has an idea... Charizard, Bulbasaur, and Pikachu now pull Ash on an
improvised sled (made of part of the boat). The birds begin to attack from
above, but Lugia flies in and shields them. They are about halfway across the
sea, when a huge attack from Moltres and Articuno causes the ice to break up
under them, and freeze again. There is now a huge iceberg in front of him, and
Ash doesn't know what to do. From behind he hears a noise... it is the Team
Rocket, who have taken the tail blade from the crashed helicopter and fastened
it to their emergency raft, creating a hydrofoil. They give their speech again,
and motion Ash and Pikachu (the others went back into their balls) to get in.
All of the Pokemon who had been lined up on shore now are running across the ice
towards the battle. There are literally thousands here now (computer animated
when looked at from above).
mountain towards the shrine. The have to go
inside a very long cave to get to the shrine, and Ash runs up to the statue and
grabs the orb. He jumps back into the raft to make the way back when Articuno,
having been injured by one of the other birds, crashes through the roof and
demolishes the shrine. The destruction of the room also blocked off the escape
route through the cave. Lugia swoops down and tells Ash to get on his back. Ash
does so, and Lugia takes off (the Rockets hanging from his leg) Lugia is having
trouble now dodging the attacks of the Bird 
Gods,
and decides to go way up high to try to lose them. He can't go fast enough, and
the Rockets realize they are weighing him down too much. They let go, saying
they have done all they could to "Protect the world from devastation."
As they plummet, they remember that the sea is frozen and they think they'll die
when they hit, but when they reach the sea, they plunge into the water. When
they surface they see that the gathered Pokemon have broken a hole in the ice to
save them. Ash nears Asia Island with Lugia, when Jirarudan (does the guy ever
quit?) focuses in on them with his trapping machine and sends out the electric
traps at Lugia. Lugia destroys many of them as the try to capture him, but they
move too fast and eventually snare him. Lugia lets out a huge beam from his
mouth at Jirarudan and what remains of his ship, destroying it and
de-electrifying the cage/nets. Worn out, Lugia falls into the ice, breaking
through and sinking... Ash surfaces, but is unconscious. The friends on the
shrine above are scared, and argue about who should go save him. Furura is about
to go, but Misty says it is her job.
rises from the water.
He thanks them all for their help, and asks Ash to once again ride on his back.
As the two (and Pikachu) fly, Lugia summons the damaged gulf stream up into the
air, eventually placing it back down where it belongs. All of the Bird Gods
return to their islands, and the gathered Pokemon all begin to return home (the
land ones riding on the backs of water ones). When Ash and Lugia land, A
sh
asks if he will ever see him again. Lugia says he is looking forward to it, but
that Ash will have to catch him on his own. They both have their own duties, but
should their paths cross again he will be glad. When Lugia leaves (returning
into the ocean water), Ash's mom and the others climb down the mountain onto the
cliff, relatively unscathed. Ash's mom berates him for once again getting
himself into a dangerous situation, but she is glad that he is OK.
