Pokémon the Movie 2000
The Power of One Summary
The Legend:
"Disturb not the Harmony of fire ice or lightning, lest these titans reek destruction upon the world in which they clash. Though the waters great guardian shall rise to quell the fighting, alone its song will fail and the world shall turn to Ash"
Slow King is looking out onto the ocean, and the pokémon collector (Jiralden) reads the legend. He talks to the computer and they go to the island where Moltres is, and capture it with some kind of electric floating cage. He brings it into the ship.
Meanwhile Ash, Misty, and Tracy are out on a boat in the water. They decide to let their pokémon out for a break. After a little while, an unexpected storm comes out of nowhere. Team Rocket is in their Magikarp sub, and get caught in a school of Magikarp and tossed into the rocks. The ship driver lets the travelers know they have been thrown off coarse but have reached Shamotie Island.
In Pallet, Ash's Mom (Delia) and Professor Oak (Samuel) are talking. All of a sudden it begins to rain fiercely. Mr. Mime gives Mrs. Ketchum an umbrella. Then all of a sudden the rain stops and it begins snowing. This is very odd, especially since it is summer! Then a heard of Diglett comes and takes Professor Oak's bike away, and he says how the pokémon are more in tune to nature than humans.
Back in the Orange Islands, the group gets off the boat and the ship driver talks to Carol, an old friend. It turns out that it is the festival now, and Carol's little sister Melody will be doing the "festival girl" role, much to her dismay. The ship driver introduces the group and says Ash is a pokémon trainer. Everyone is very excited because of this and jumps around and tells him about the legend. Them Melody comes down from where she was, and she comes over to the group and says to Ash that since she will give him a welcome kiss, and kisses him on the cheek. Misty gets really mad (it's funny). She asks Misty if she's his sister she says "No!" then his girlfriend "NO!" Then they get ready for dinner and Melody says "I'll dance for him, try not to get too Jealous Misty".
It goes to a dinner, and Melody is on stage in her festival girl costume playing her flute. Misty is mad, and talking to herself "Me, Ash's girlfriend? Humph!" while Ash and Tracy watch the show. Then she comes over to Ash and sits next to him explaining the ritual. He must go to three different islands, and collect the treasures from each. Then bring them to the main island, and she will play her flute. Misty seems very uneasy while she is saying this. Ash says he will go right then, but Melody tells him he doesn't have to rush. The Ship Driver gets up and says she'll go with him. Ash asks Misty if she want's to go and she says "If you want someone to follow you around and do whatever you want go get a girlfriend" (or something along those lines). So Ash and the ship driver go, leaving Misty, Tracy, and Melody at the island.
Meanwhile Team Rocket is in there broken Magikarp Sub. They decide to follow Ash. Melody decides she is going to go help Ash because a storm has started. Misty decides to go and says (funny line!) "He's a boy and he's my friend, but he's not a boy friend" then Tracy comes running over and says, "Are you talking about me?" (He's so dumb :) ) They get in Carol's boat and head out into the waters. Jiralden is in his ship and is moving toward Zapdos Island.
On the news there is a report about how they believe the strange weather patterns are from the Orange Islands. Then it shows Pallet, and Mrs. Ketchum says that's where Ash and his friends are. Professor Oak talks to Professor Ivy, who is in the orange islands, and we see Brock in the background dealing with the pokémon who are all going crazy.
Meanwhile Ash is in the boat and the rudder is broken. They land on one of the three islands. Ash follows Pikachu up a set of steps to a temple. Back with Misty and Melody, they are all in the ship and it is being tossed around. Melody is like don't be afraid, I know what I'm doing and Misty brags about how she is from a water pokémon gym. Then the boat flies up and they come to the island. Melody says "Ash should have an easier time with his girlfriend here". Misty says, "I thought I told you . . . " and Melody says "Well you are a girl and you are a friend, so you must be a girl friend," Misty just nods. The Ship Driver gets in Carol's boat and they all fly up the steps.
Meanwhile Ash and Pikachu come to where the treasure is. Team Rocket is there, and Ash insists on continuing. Misty says something like "You see what I have to put up with everyday?" and Melody says something like "You'll get used to it when you marry him!" making Misty mad once again. Jessie says, "When you get involved with the opposite sex, your asking for trouble" and James says, "Those are problems I don't have to deal with" (are we implying something here?)
Then Pikachu tries to beat Zapdos, which has come to fire island to take over now that Moltres is gone. Then from out of the sky Jiralden has those electric box cages come to get Zapdos, after the ship drains all of its energy. It pulls Zapdos and the boat with everyone on it into the ship. Jiralden is happy that he has only one more god to get. Then the computer informs him that the boat was brought into the ship too, it was a mistake.
Downstairs where everyone is being held, Melody sees the stone tablet with the legend on it. She begins to read, realizing what is happening. Then Jiralden comes down to where everyone is trapped, and Misty asks why the pokémon are in cages rather than pokéballs. He tells her he is a collector who started off with a mew card and has made his way to where he is now. Then he gets an update on Articuno and goes back up to the main level.
Back at the main island it is snowing a lot now. Carol and the other islanders are watching the news, and Professor Oak, Ivy, and Mrs. Ketchum are on a helicopter. Oak and Ivy explain what is going on, and how Articuno, Moltres, and Zapdos are changing the weather patterns and the currents are going crazy. All the pokémon are going as close to the island as possible, and they are all on the shores if they are land pokémon, all in the water if water pokémon, and all in the sky if flying pokémon. They are doing this because they are predicting the end of the planet. The reporter asks why Mrs. Ketchum is there and she says her son is in the middle of this all.
Then we see Slow king who is covered in snow and says, "I need pants" (very funny line!)
Meanwhile in the ship, Melody is reading the tablet. Every intelligent being will be destroyed and the earth is going to turn to Ash, and Meowth says, "Don't worry James you'll be fine" (funny!). Everyone decides to break the two birds (Moltres and Zapdos) free. Ash's Pikachu and Charizard begin to go at it. James sends out Weezing, but nothing happens, then Jessie sends out Arbok, but nothing. Ash sends out Squirtle and Bulbasaur, they all attack trying to defeat it. Finally the cage blows up, and Moltres frees Zapdos. The big floating ship crashes into the island and everyone runs off of it. Articuno has come out and all of the birds begin to fight. They all go in the boat and it goes out of control spinning and flying around. Team Rocket gets into blow up lifeboat. Ash and everyone else get on the island and see Slow King who tells Ash to put the treasures in the altar. He puts two in, and they match with where the islands are, but the Ice one is missing.
They all look out where the birds are fighting and a huge cyclone rises into the air, and out of the cyclone appears the legendary sea guardian Lugia. It begins to fight the three birds that are out of control. Lugia plunges into the water, it's gone.
Slow King says that the world is going to be destroyed because of what the legend says that Lugia will appear but will fail and the Earth will turn to Ash. Misty is thinking and then she says something like "It's in the Legend, the Earth will turn to Ash for help. What do you think Ash?" Ash says (funny line!) "Right now I wish my mom had named me Bob." Then he says, "What can I do that someone else can't?" Everyone is like "You can do it Ash" and he cried a little bit, then pulls himself together and says he will. Somewhere in there Melody realizes that the song on her flute is also the sound Lugia makes. She plays the song and Lugia rises once again. Ash heads out to the Ice Island and walks on the frozen water.
Team Rocket is sitting watching this, and say, "The hero is always him!" Meanwhile Professor Oak and company is in the helicopter and it crashes into land, thankfully they are all okay. Then Jessie and James, come up with a plan. They hook the helicopter spinner to the lifeboat and make a motor. Ash is getting help from his pokémon to get there, but there is no use. Then Team Rocket comes and says they want to help. They get to the island, and they run to the temple and Ash gets the treasure. Lugia comes out of the water and takes him and Team Rocket to the main island. Lugia begins to get attacked and Team Rocket decides that they are weighing Lugia down, and jump off, prepared to die, but thankfully they survive.
Lugia goes on and tells Ash that all the pokémon are there at the shores in case Ash needs help. Ash waves to his friends, and then Lugia is having trouble and it crashes into the water with Ash on his back. Ash is unconscious and floating on top while Lugia sinks. Pikachu tries to wake him up, but can not. Then on shore Melody hands Misty her flute and says Ash can't do this alone and she is going to help. Misty shakes her head and hands the flute back saying "He's not alone, he has . . . me." And she goes to save him. She swims out to him, and drags him back to shore, holding onto a rope Tracy is pulling in. They reach shore and Misty shakes Ash and pleads for him to wake up. He finally does, and tries to go, pushing Misty and Tracy away as they try to help him up the mountain to put the treasure at the alter.
Slow King tells him to put it in it's place, and Melody plays the flute son (very pretty) and green glowing water pours from everything and goes into the waters, and all over the orb. Everything, all the cyclones and all the ice, and the three fainted birds all rise and begin to fly back. Lugia comes out of the water and Ash gets on its back. Everything is back to normal, the pokémon begin to return home and it is once again perfect. Professor Oak says he must return back to Pallet to inform everyone of this. The news report shows all of this, and then Jiralden finds a mew card and says, "This is where I began and this is where I ended" (or something along those lines).
Then Team rocket says that they didn't get credit for how they were the good guys. Slow king tells them that everyone saw! And points to the audience (you watching the show). Then they have a conversation like this.
Looks like Team rocket was the good guys!
That's good
But what if the boss finds out.
That's bad.
Well we'll start our own team!
That's good.
But we don't have any money
That's bad.
Well we'll steal some!
That's good, or is that bad?