Team Rocket Disbands?! Picsummary!

I knew it was going to be hard to decide which pics to use! I ended up taking waaaay too many of them, mostly of Kojiro. That's to be expected, though.

It starts out with another one of Team Rocket's attempts at stealing Pikachu. Pikachu Thunderbolts them away as if they were nothing (Which, sadly, is true.), and they blast off into a lake. After shaking off the seaweed from their bodies, Musashi and Nyasu are feeling down. Kojiro, on the other hand, recovers quickly, and tries to keep up the morale.

After walking to a nearby city, they catch a whiff from a ramen stand. Kojiro knows they don't have any cash, but Musashi and Nyasu go ahead anyway.

Nyasu's expression upon burning his tongue is priceless! (Actually, there's a bunch of funny expressions, in this episode.)

After attempting to dine and dash, TR sees the twerps coming into the restraunt. One of the cooks corners them and tells them that the manager wants to see them. Naturally, they thought they got busted, but that wasn't the case. This guy, Yusaku, was one of their kohai in training to become a part of the crime organization. Despite his bland design, I think he's quite cute.

D'AAAAWWWWW! The first thing this scene reminds me of, is the Lockon's Special Milk scene from G00. In fact, I could almost picture Kojiro saying, "It's on me".

Yusaku tells TR that they're more than welcome to eat as much as they like, which makes them very happy. However, the cook from before is kneading noodle dough, and it manages to escape his grip. Nyasu is quick with the Scratch attack, and cuts up the dough like something you'd see in a samurai movie.

Yusaku suddenly wants Nyasu to come work for him, which gives the Scratch Cat quite the fantasy. A rich kitty, surrounded by his ho's; Meowzy, Haruka's Skitty, and a random Lopunny, which I'm assuming is supposed to be his Playboy bunny.

LOL! If he's that turned on about his little fantasy, I'd hate to see how he would've reacted if Sakaki-sama was in it, too. XD However, Musashi and Kojiro tell Yusaku that Nyasu's their partner, thus putting an end to that idea.

Later, they confront the twerps again, in a giant Ramen bowl mecha. To accompany the mech, they even changed the motto to reflect the theme. Check out Koji-kun's Arcanine-print outfit, too. I want to say that's a throwback to Growly, but I'm not totally sure. Musashi's dress had a Gyrados on it. But, as usual, they get their butts handed to them again, and they blast off into the lake...again.

After re-emerging from the lake, Musashi yells at Kojiro about how the failure was his fault. Then, he yells back that it was Nyasu's fault, that time, which pisses the cat off. He then decides that he would follow the voice from heaven, and work at Yusaku's place. Kojiro doesn't want him to go, but Musashi tells him otherwise. Later, she decides to go her own way, too; following her path as Candy Musalina, the girl aiming to be Top Coordinator. After she takes her leave, Kojiro flips the hell out and screams that he'll fulfill their dreams himself.

You just can't help but feel bad for Kojiro; he's completely lost without his friends. However, he overhears Team Twerp talking about a Shiny Metagross, which gives him an idea. He'll catch the Metagross, give it to Sakaki, and Musashi and Nyasu, upon hearing about his success, will come back. Aww, Koji~! But, being Kojiro, you really can't expect him to do it, right? But like he says, "If you dream, you gotta dream big!".

Musashi overhears two plot device trainers about "a guy with an R on his shirt" going into the Shiny Metagross' domain. She runs back to the ramen stand to get Nyasu to go help rescue Kojiro, but he won't do it. He's finally found happiness in doing something he's good at, even though he knows he's abandoning Kojiro. Musashi understands, but she still runs off to help Kojiro, whilst trying to hold back her tears.

Kojiro calls out the Shiny Metagross, and starts to battle with it, but (of course) the Shiny Metagross is too powerful. It uses a psychic attack, causing a little human/Pokemon bondage in the process. Fortunately, they're saved by Musashi and her Megayanma. Kojiro's being tsun-tsun about Musashi saving him, saying that he was doing fine by himself, but Musashi teases him saying, "Don't be so cold! I know you were more than happy to see me!".

(Hey, Metagross, what does your scanner say about their power level?) OVER 9000 jokes aside, they decide to attack the Metagross together, but it uses disable on them; freezing them mid-air.

Just when it looked like it was the end, Nyasu comes in and saves them with his trusty bazooka! They have a little reunion hug, and the Shiny Metagross blasts them off. Despite blasting off again, they're happy to be back together.