Pokemon Learning League

The Moon
Written By
Timothy Whitfield

(Episode opens with Iris, Axew, Clemont, Bonnie,

Dedenne, Cilan, Dawn and Piplup going along
Route 3 on a mostly clear, late afternoon. Theres
a small breeze in the air, a few clouds are moving
and its quiet around the area. The atmosphere is
very calm. Dawn glances over to the audience and
nonchalantly speaks to them.)
Dawn (nonchalantly): Oh, hey guys.
Piplup: Piplup.
Cilan (nonchalantly): Hello.
Bonnie (nonchalantly): Hi, there
Dedenne: Dede.
Clemont (nonchalantly): Hi.
Iris (nonchalantly): Hey.
Axew: Axew.
Dawn: This is a really nice place.
Piplup (agreeing): Piplup.
Bonnie: It sure is.
Dedenne: Dede.
Dawn: What do you think the Clefairy do during the
full moon?
Cilan: Who knows? Well just have to see.

(They continue on down the path. Just then, they

fear a faint cry nearby.)
Clemont: What was that?
Iris: I dont know. Its coming from over there.
Axew: Axew.
(They go quickly to the source, where they find a
Clefairy trying to fight off a few Spearow near a
Sitrus Berry tree by firing a ThunderBolt at them,
but they keep coming at him and he eventually
faints and falls to the ground. The Clefairy is bright
pink with green ear tips.)
Clefairy (exhausted): Fairy.
(He falls to the ground.)
Bonnie: Hey, thats not fair.
(Just then, Iris steps up.)
Iris: Dont worry. Ill handle this one. Emolga, lets
go!
(She tosses a PokeBall up and Emolga emerges
from it.)
Emolga: Emolga!
Iris: Emolga, stop those Spearow with Discharge!
Emolga: Emolga!

(Her body gets surrounded in yellow sparks of

electricity and fires multiple bolts of yellow
electricity from her body at the Spearow, directly
hitting them and doing serious damage to them.)
Iris: Now use Hidden Power!
Emolga: Eeeee-molga!
(Emolgas body becomes outlined in light green
and puts her hands together. Three green-yellow
orbs appear in between them and then she
separates them, firing the orbs at the Spearow. As
it goes on, we see Clefairy slowly waking up and
see Iris defending him.)
Iris: Use Shock Wave!
(Her body get surrounded in yellow electricity and
releases a beam of yellow electricity from her body
at the Spearow, directly hitting them and doing
serious damage to them. They quickly fly away.)
Iris: Great job, Emolga.
Emolga: Emolga.
(She goes over to Clefairy, picks him up and gently
strokes his face.)
Iris (gently & motherly): Hey. Are you all right?
(Clefairy nods his head.)

Iris: Thats good. You really took that pretty hard,

huh?
Clefairy: Clefairy.
Iris: Hey, Cilan. Do you have a Super Potion with
you?
Cilan: Let me check.
(He goes into his bag, searches through it and pulls
one out.)
Cilan: Here you go.
Iris: Thanks.
(She sprays it on Clefairy.)
Iris (gently): You feel a little better?
Clefairy: Clefairy.
Iris: Oh, good. Im Iris, and these are my friends.
Others: Hey.
Axew: Axew.
Dedenne: Dede.
Piplup: Piplup.
(She puts Clefairy back on the ground. Bonnie
comes over to him.)
Bonnie: Youre really a friendly one.
(She gently strokes his face.)

Clefairy: Fairy.
(Iris climbs up the tree, picks eight Sitrus berries
and climbs back down.)
Iris: Here you are.
(She hands them to Clefairy. He eats one and
gives a happy look on his face.)
Clefairy (satisfied): Clefairy.
(He places the berries down on the ground and
raises his arms up. Three thick masses of light
blue, blue and purple energy form above his head.
He juggles them for a bit, then tosses them up into
the air and they explode in the sky like fireworks.)
Bonnie: That was a good trick.
Cilan: Yeah.
(Piplup steps up and starts spinning around, while
opening his mouth and firing a stream of blue
bubbles from it. The bubbles spread everywhere.
Pan over to the gang.)
Clemont: Hey, you want to know something?
Dawn: What?
Clemont: Clefairy is a Fairy Type.
Dawn (intrigued): Really?
Clemont: Yeah. Theyre known to have really good
defenses and special attacks, as well.

Bonnie: Thats right. Dedennes a fairy type.

Dawn (understanding): Oh. Thats cool.
(Now, we look over to see Emolga and Dedenne
doing a combination attack of Hidden Power and
Thundershock. He gives one Sitrus Berry to Axew,
Piplup, Emolga and Dedenne.)
Iris: Well, that was very nice of it.
(They each eat them and give off a satisfied look.
Clefairy starts down the path.)
Bonnie: Oh, youre leaving now?
Clefairy: Fairy, Clefairy.
Bonnie: Okay, see you later.
(He waves to them and resumes on back to Mt.
Moon.)
Cilan: Well, lets get going.
(Iris calls Emolga back to her PokeBall, puts it away
and they start down the path again. Twenty-three
later, as the Sun starts setting, they come to an
entrance to a cave.)
Clemont: Hold on a minute. Come on out, Luxray.
(He tosses the PokeBall up and Luxray emerges
from it.)
Clemont: Luxray, help us out with Flash.

(It nods, raises up its tail and the tip of it lights up,
shining very brightly. They go inside the cave. As
they go on, they see a Lunatone moving a boulder
out of its way & freeing a Bronzor, a Durant
searching for food and a Sandslash battling over
territory with another Durant.)
Dawn: Man, those two are really going at it.
Clemont: Yeah, they sure are.
(Just then, a Noibat and a Woobat fly overhead and
head up into the ceiling. They look up to see
many colonies of Zubat, Woobat and Noibat
hanging in different sections.)
All (amazed): Ahh!
(They resume onward. Twelve minutes later, they
find a unique-looking rock formation in the shape
of an Eevee that has a few crystals in it. The gang
marvels at it.)
Clemont: That looks amazing.
Dawn: Yeah, and its really cute.
(They see an exit up ahead and go towards it.
They exit the cave and come across a river at
dusk. The light from the Sunset gleams in the
water. It has a calm atmosphere, and the gang
breathe in and sigh with comfort.)
Iris: It feels really nice here.

(We dissolve to moments later, where we see they

have set up their camp and theyre doing various
activities. The stars start appearing in the sky &
the Moon rises. Now, we zoom in on Dawn and
Clemont with Lopunny and Chespin. Clemont sets
up a special targeting system for him and Dawn.
He turns it on and they start moving.)
Dawn: Thats impressive, Clemont.
Clemont: Thank you, Dawn. Now, Chespin, hit the
target with Pin Missile!
Chespin: Chespin!
(The spikes on its head stiffen and starts glowing
white. It fires white orbs with trailing green
streams of light at the target overhead, hitting it.)
Clemont: That was pretty good, Chespin.
Chespin: Ches.
Dawn: Okay, Lopunny. Use Focus Blast!
Lopunny: Lo!
(She puts her hands together and forms a light
blue ball of energy. She then does spins around
and fires it, hitting the center of the target.)
Dawn: That was great.
Lopunny: Lopunny.

(Now, we pan to the left to find Bonnie & Iris

relaxing near the river, with their feet in the water
and Dedenne & Axew are with them. They look up
at the stars.)
Iris: Dont they look beautiful tonight?
Axew: Axew.
Bonnie: Yeah, they sure do.
Dedenne (agreeing): Dede.
Iris: So, Bonnie, what kind of trainer will you be
when you begin your journey?
Bonnie: Hmm, I dont know yet.
Iris: I see. Well, heres something you should know:
whatever you go with, keep an open mind for what
you might encounter and try to be ready for it.
Bonnie (understanding): Ahh.
Iris: Also, try not to get too reckless or push
yourself & your Pokemon too far.
Bonnie: All right, then.
(Cilan comes over to them.)
Cilan: You two doing okay?
Iris: Yeah, were fine.

Cilan: Thats good. (He turns to Bonnie.) You

know, Bonnie, I can tell that you and Dedenne have
a very strong bond.
Dedenne: Dede.
Bonnie: Thanks, Cilan.
Cilan: Youre welcome. Well, come on. Dinners
ready.
(They go over to the table and have dinner.
Theres lasagna toss, meatball nirvana and a Taco
Pie laid out.)
Iris: Mmm, this is really delicious.
Axew: Axew.
Clemont: Yeah. You did a great job on it, Cilan.
Cilan: Thanks, you guys.
(They continue on eating.)
Clefairy (O.S.): Clefairy.
All: Huh?
(They look over to the cave and see Clefairy
coming out of it.)
Bonnie: Hey, Clefairy.
Clefairy: Clefairy, Fairy Clefairy.
Iris: Oh, you want to show us something?
Clefairy (affirmative): Fairy.

Cilan: All right, then. But first, have some of this.

(He gives Clefairy a small piece of the nirvana and
he eats it.)
Clefairy (satisfied): Clefairy.
Cilan: Glad you enjoyed it.
(Minutes later, they get up from their seats and he
shows them along a path heading up north of the
river. Moments later, they come to a different
cave. They go inside to find a giant moon stone
in the center of the area, beneath an opening in
the roof with the moonlight shining down. The
stone sparkles in the light.)
All (in awe): Wow!
Dawn: It looks beautiful.
Cilan: It sure does.
(Just then, groups of Cleffa, Clefairy and Clefable
come forth and gather around the stone. Some of
the Cleffa and Clefable are bright pink with green
ear tips.)
Iris: What are they going to do?
Clemont: Lets just wait and see.
(They encircle around the stone and start dancing
& jumping around it. The Cleffa & Clefable go
clockwise, while the Clefairy go counterclockwise.)

Dawn: This is pretty cool.

Piplup: Piplup.
Bonnie: Yeah. Why do you think theyre doing this?
Cilan: Its probably to pray the stone & the moon.
Bonnie: I see.
(They look up through the hole and see the moon
shining down.)
Iris: The Moon looks really nice tonight.
Cilan: It sure does.
Dawn: Lets tell Siara about this.
(She goes into her backpack, gets out the
Pokepilot, turns it on and calls Siara, who is
working on a new device and has a Solrock with
her.)
Siara: Evening, guys.
Iris: Hey, Siara. Hows it going?
Siara: Its going very well. How about you?
Cilan: Okay. I see you got a Solrock.
Siara: Yeah. I got it not too long ago.
Dawn: Thats cool, and what are you working on
there?
Siara: Its a special amplifier thatll increase any
Psychic or Fairy type attacks.

Clemont: Oh. Thats pretty interesting.

Siara: Yep. So, what are you guys up to?
Bonnie: Were watching the Cleffa, Clefairy and
Clefable doing a special moon worshipping dance.
Siara: Really?
Dawn: Yeah. Have a look for yourself.
(Dawn turns the Pokepilot around and shows her
the dancing.)
Siara: Thats really amazing.
Cilan: Yeah, we figured youd think that. That
stone really shines in the moonlight.
Siara: Yeah, it sure does. Oh, speaking of the
moon, there are many fascinating things about it.
Iris: Yeah, there are.
Siara: In fact, there are some things about it that
arent relatively known.
Iris (intrigued): Like what?
Siara: To start off, did you know the moon always
shows the same side towards Earth?
Bonnie: It does?
Siara: Yep. At one point, it actually used to rotate
at a rate different from its orbit around Earth, but
as time went on, more of its mass was shifted

towards the planet, and its rotation got locked in

the orbit.
Cilan: Thats very interesting.
Siara: Oh, theres more. The moons surface is
consisted of mountainous, heavily cratered regions
known as the terrae, or the highlands, and the dark
areas, called maria, cover 15% of the surface.
Many of them are prominent, like the Mare
Tranquilitatis, the Mare Nubuim, the Mare
Serenitatis, the Mare Nectaris, the Oceanis
Procellarum and the Mare Imbrium.
Dawn: Oh, thats a good one.
Siara: Well, if you think that was good, then heres
a surprising one: recently, it was discovered that
there is frozen water concealed in permanently
shadowed craters at the poles, and it could even
be beneath the soil.
Clemont: Wow that is pretty fascinating. What
else?
Siara: Another thing is that the moon has an
exosphere that is made up of helium, neon and
argon. The helium & neon come from the solar
winds, while the argon comes from the decay of
the potassium-40 in the Moons interior.
Iris: Thats a very interesting one. What else is
there?

Siara: Its been hypothesized that 4.45 billion years

ago, when the Earth was forming, a Mars-sized
object collided with it, and the impact threw debris
from the mantle region and the crust into space.
While the impactor melted and merged with the
Earths interior, the debris had coalesced and
became the moon.
Cilan: Okay, anything else?
Siara: Yes, there is. The moon will sometimes
experience moonquakes, and there are four kinds
that can occur: deep quakes caused by tides,
thermal quakes, meteorite-induced tremors &
shallow quakes.
Clemont: Those are some really interesting facts.
Siara: They sure are. Well, guys, how about I show
you something?
Dawn: Sure thing.
Piplup: Piplup.
(Pan left over to a side panel displaying the moon
and six blank spots are on either side of it.)
Siara: All right, you ready to go?
Clemont: Yes, we are.
Siara: Oh, good. Now, what are some of the
moons prominent maria?

Clemont: Hmm. The Mare Tranquilitatis and the

Mare Imbrium.
Siara: All right, Clemont. What is the moons
exosphere made up of?
Dawn: Its made up of helium, argon and neon.
Siara: You got it, Dawn. Finally, why does the moon
only show one side to the Earth?
Cilan: Its mass was shifted towards Earth and got
locked in its revolution.
Siara: Very good, Siara. You did very well, guys.
Iris: Thank you, Siara.
Axew: Axew.
Siara: Youre welcome, Iris. Now, I better get back
to this. You have a good night, guys.
Bonnie: See you.
Dedenne: Dede.
(Dawn turns the Pokepilot off and puts it back into
her bag.)
Cilan: Hey, guys. How about we give them
something special?
Clemont: Good idea. Ive got just the thing.
(He pulls out a bag of specially-made Poke Puffs.)
Dawn: Those look really good.

Clemont: Thanks. Serena helped out with them.

(He places them out on the ground.)
Cilan: I think theyll really like them.
Iris: Yeah.
Clemont: Oh, yeah. (He pulls out one more.)
Bonnie, heres one for Dedenne.
(He hands it to her.)
Bonnie: Thanks, Clemont.
(She breaks off a small piece and gives it to
Dedenne.)
Dedenne: Dede.
Dawn: So, how about we continue what we were
doing before?
Cilan: Okay, but before we do, lets see if the
viewers would like to do it?
Iris: Okay, then. (She glances over to the
audience.) You guys up for it? (She casually waits
for an answer from the audience for one second.)
Okay, then.
(Dissolve back to the image of the moon.)
Iris: All right, lets do it. Where is water located on
the moon? (She casually waits for an answer from
the audience for one and a half seconds.) Its in

permanently shadowed craters at the poles. You

got it.
Cilan: How was the moon formed? (He casually
waits for an answer from the audience for two
seconds.) When debris from the mantle and the
crust was thrown into space and coalesced. Very
good.
Bonnie: Lastly, what are the kinds of quakes the
moon has? (She casually waits for an answer from
the audience for one and a half seconds.) Deep
quakes, thermal quakes, meteorite-induced
tremors & shallow quakes. All right.
(Fade back to the gang and Cilan casually speaks
to the audience.)
Cilan: You guys did great.
(Bonnie stretches out her arms and yawns.)
Clemont (gently): Hey, you getting tired?
(She slowly nods her head.)
Clemont: All right, then. Lets go.
(They leave the cave and head back down to their
campsite. Moments later, they go inside the tents,
get into their sleeping bags and fall asleep. Fade
to the next morning, and the sun rises over the
mountain. Now, we cut to the inside of the girls
tent, where we see Bonnie waking up from her

sleeping bag. She sits up and stretches out her

arms.)
Bonnie: Good morning, Dawn.
(Dawn sits up & stretches out.)
Dawn: Mmm, morning Bonnie. How are you?
Bonnie: Im doing fine.
(The others start waking up and come out from
their tents. Moments later, they have breakfast.)
Bonnie: Hey, Cilan, whats Cerulean City like?
Cilan: Well, its a pleasant city. There have a few
places that are worth checking out.
Bonnie: That sounds great.
Dedenne: Dede.
(They continue eating. Minutes later, they pack up
their camp and head en route to Cerulean City. As
they go on, Bonnie spots Clefairy following them.)
Bonnie: Hey, look whos following us.
(They stop and turn around to Clefairy.)
Clefairy: Clefairy.
Dawn: What do you think it wants?
(He walks closer to Iris.)
Cilan: Ahh, I get it. It wants to go with you, Iris.

(Iris goes over to him and kneels to his level.)

Iris: Is that what you want?
(He nods his head.)
Iris: Well, of course you can.
Clefairy (happily): Fairy.
(He jumps into the air and gets into a battling
pose.)
Iris: Oh, you want to have a battle?
(He nods his head.)
Iris: Okay, you got it.
(She gets into position.)
Clemont: Hold on, Iris. Theres one thing you need
to know.
Iris: What?
Clemont: Fairy types are immune to and strong
against Dragon types.
Iris (accepting it): Oh, okay. Thanks. Emolga, I
choose you!
(She tosses her PokeBall up and Emolga comes out
of it.)
Emolga: Emolga.
(He leaps up into the air and closes his eyes. Three
thick masses of light blue, blue and purple energy

form in front of his body, and fires them at Emolga,

directly hitting her and dealing damage.)
Iris: Use Shock Wave!
Emolga: Emolga!
(Her body get surrounded in yellow electricity and
releases a beam of yellow electricity from her body
Clefairy, hitting him and doing damage.)
Iris: Now, use Hidden Power!
(Emolgas body becomes outlined in light green
and puts her hands together. Three green-yellow
orbs appear in between them and then she
separates them, firing the orbs at Clefairy, doing
some damage. Now, he leaps up and releases a
red-orange stream of fire from his mouth.)
Iris: Quick, dodge it!
(She opens out her arms and starts floating above,
narrowly missing the attack.)
Iris: Now, use Iron Tail!
(Her tail becomes surrounded in white sparkles
and it becomes surrounded in a white outline. It
then turns to iron.)
Emolga: Eeeee-molga!!

(She turns around and heads towards Clefairy with

it, but he quickly moves out of the way and it
slams into the ground.)
Iris: Now, use Air Slash!
(Her patagium glow light blue and starts flapping
them, firing multiple light blue glowing disc-like
energy blades from them at Clefairy, directly
hitting him and doing damage.)
Iris (complementing): Great job, Emolga.
Emolga: Emol.
Cilan: That was a pretty good move.
Dawn: Yeah, it was.
Piplup: Piplup.
(Clefairy raises his hands up and gathers energy
from the moon. It forms an orb of pink energy in
front of her hands.)
Clefairy: Clefairy!
(He fires it at Emolga, hitting her and doing serious
damage.)
Iris: Now, use Discharge!
Emolga: Emolga!
(Her body gets surrounded in yellow sparks of
electricity and fires multiple bolts of yellow
electricity from her body at Clefairy, but he

counters by firing a powerful bolt of yellow

electricity from his body and cancels out the
attack.)
Clemont: That was a really good counter.
(Now, a silhouette of a golden meteor appears
around his hand and throws it at Emolga.)
Iris: Quick, use Iron Tail!
(Her tail becomes surrounded in white sparkles
and it becomes surrounded in a white outline. It
then turns to iron.)
Emolga: Eeeee-molga!!
(She turns around and throws it. Both attacks
collide, resulting in an explosion, which sends both
Pokemon flying back. They both land on their feet,
but theyre scuffed up and breathing heavily.)
Iris: Emolga, are you okay?
(She turns and nods her head.)
Iris: Oh, good.
(Clefairy fires a red-orange stream of fire from his
mouth at Emolga.)
Iris: Dodge that!
(She floats into the air and narrowly avoids it, but
Clefairy redirects it and it hits her, doing a great
amount of damage to her.)

Iris: Hang in there, Emolga.

(She endures the attack and shakes it off, but
barely manages to stay afloat.)
Iris: Use Iron Tail again!
(The tail becomes surrounded in white sparkles
and it becomes surrounded in a white outline. It
then turns to iron.)
Emolga: Eeeee-molga!!
(She turns around and throws it at Clefairy. He
jumps over it, but Emolga swishes it back around
and directly hits him, dealing a great amount of
damage.)
Iris: Now, finish it with Discharge!
(Her body gets surrounded in yellow sparks of
electricity and fires multiple bolts of yellow
electricity from her body at Clefairy, landing a
direct hit and knocking him out.)
Iris: PokeBall, go!
(She throws an empty Pokeball at Clefairy, and he
goes inside it. It rocks back & forth and a red light
blinks. Iris waits a moment and then, the ball
stops rocking and the red light fades. She goes
over and picks it up.)
Iris: All right! Clefairy is now mine!

(She raises up the Pokeball.)

Axew (excited): Axew!
(She goes over to Emolga.)
Iris: Emolga, you were great out there.
Emolga: Emolga.
(The others come over.)
Dawn: That was a great battle, Iris.
Piplup: Piplup.
Clemont: Yes, Emolga did very well.
Iris: Thanks, guys.
(They all turn over to the audience.)
All (casually): Thanks a lot, you guys.
Dedenne (casually): Dede.
Axew (casually): Axew.
Piplup (casually): Piplup.
(Dissolve to them now on the road to Cerulean
City.)
Iris: That was a pretty good episode. Did you enjoy
it? (She casually waits for an answer from the
audience for one second.) Okay, then. Well see
you later.
Axew: Axew.

(They casually wave goodbye to the audience and

head on their way down the road. We then fade
to black, ending the episode.)