Get Along, Little Pokémon – Pokémon Season 2, Episode 21

Filler / stand-alone episodeMagnemite evolves into Magneton

Get Along, Little Pokémon is the 21st episode of Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands, the second season of the Pokémon anime, and the 101st episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 103, Bulbapedia code EP101). It first aired in Japan on 17 June 1999 and in the United States on 29 April 2000. It falls within the season’s Prima & the road to Trovita stretch (EP99–EP102).

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Synopsis

Bound for the next Orange League gym in Trovita Ash and friends find themselves trekking across the rugged landscape of Trovita. Our heroes are already pretty tired and Tracey says they still have three days ahead of them to the Trovita gym! But there is another town nearby which they could reach by morning. Just then a huge storm begins to approach, and Ash and friends notice a big group of Magnemite who appear to be absorbing the lightning from the storm, as the group watch the Magnemite a Jolteon appears on the Cliffside above them and begins to emit electricity.

A man named Ethan arrives just behind the Jolteon on a carriage being pulled by two Tauros, he invites the group to take shelter on the carriage. The storm section passes and Ethan explains that he runs a Magnemite ranch, he uses his Magnemite to absorb the lightning then he provides the neighbouring towns and villages with electricity.

It becomes quickly apparent that Ethan’s Magnemite group are extremely well trained, with the exception of number 6 which keeps trying to run off, Ethan uses his Jolteon to herd and control the Magnemite.

Ethan and the group get back into the Tauros powered carriage and Ethan tells them he’ll take them as far as the next town, on the way they encounter another lightning storm which Ethan collects all the power from using his Magnemite. The group stop for a rest on the way but are being watched by Team Rocket who are on a ridge above them, plotting to steal not only Pikachu, but Jolteon and all the Magnemite too.

Meanwhile Ethan takes a call from an Officer Jenny who tells Ethan that lightning hit their powerplant and they’re in a complete blackout minus the power from a few of the Pokémon Center’s Magnemites, just then Nurse Joy rushes in and says the Magnemites are out of power and both the Pokemon Center and Hospital are without power, Ethan and co need to get that power there quickly but something goes wrong with the Magnemite and they all start to fly off.

It becomes quickly apparent that the Magnemite all wandered off because of Team Rocket, who have attached a giant magnet to their balloon, which the Magnemite are now all stuck to. Team Rocket then proceed to mock the group and then grab Jolteon and Pikachu with some shock proof grabbers.

Ethan however thinks quickly and uses Jolteon’s pin missile attack which prompts Team Rockets machine to release both Jolteon and Pikachu who both fall to the ground, Jolteon gets straight back up and uses it’s thunder wave to round up the Magnemite even overpowering the force of the magnet, while its doing this its tackled by Arbok and knocked back into Ethan. Ash uses Pikachu to send Team Rocket blasting off once more.

Jolteon is exhausted and Ethan has a broken arm and can’t make the urgent trip they need to make to the town. Ash steps up and says he will do the delivery, he mounts a Tauros, takes Ethans whistle and gallops off toward the town, leaving Ethan and his friends behind.

As Ash is nearly at the town all of the Magnemite wander off, Ash is about to accept defeat but Pikachu has the idea to round them up using its own electricity, exhausting itself in the process. All of the Magnemite are now back with Ash except the rogue number 6 which is notorious for running off. Ash finds it and tries to bring it back but its being dragged toward yet another of Team Rocket’s devices; an electro magnet machine, they have returned for a second round.

Ash manages to escape Team Rocket briefly with Magnemite #6, but Team Rocket catch up to where the other Magnemite group is and they pull in and capture the main group in a big sack. Pikachu uses the last of its strength to try and bring them back but Team Rockets device is too strong, Magnemite #6, the only one that isn’t captured then uses its own built up electricity to bring its friends back and rescue them from Team Rocket, as it then evolves into Magneton!

The group of Magnemite then recharge Pikachu, and together with Pikachu they unleash a giant combined thunderbolt sending Team Rocket blasting off (again). As the sun sets Ash finally sees the town up ahead and finishes the job. Ethan, Misty and Tracey arrive shortly after to see the town lighting up.

Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy thank Ash on behalf of the town, and Ethan asks Ash if he’d like to become his partner in wrangling the Magnemite, Ash politely declines and tells him he has to follow his own dreams. The group wave goodbye to Ethan, Jenny and Joy and hit the trail once more, headed toward the next gym and their next adventure.

Major Events

• Ethan’s Magnemite ranch
• Number 6 evolves into Magneton to restore the town’s power
• Team Rocket blast off twice
• The title card reads Get Along Little, Pokémon

Captures and evolutions

• Magnemite → Magneton#0082 · Ethan’s “Number 6”

Trivia

• The English title plays on the cowboy song "Git Along, Little Dogies".
• The screenplay is by Junki Takegami.
• This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Orange Islands story.
• The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Magnemite in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Chansey in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.

Changes in the English Dub

• Ford becomes Ethan, a Searchers-style cowboy with a Southern accent
• Instrumental The Time Has Come (Pikachu’s Goodbye)

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