Fuecoco… Becomes a Crook?! (Japanese: ホゲータ、ワルになる!?, Hepburn: Hogator, Waru ni Naru!?, trans. Hogator, You're Becoming a Delinquent!?) is the 12th episode of Pocket Monsters: Terapagos' Brilliance of Pocket Monsters (2023 series), and the 37th episode of Pokémon Horizons: The Series of Pokémon Horizons: The Series.
Synopsis[]
The Rising Volt Tacklers answer a request from an archaeologist acquaintance of Friede's to move some rocks at an archaeological dig and head for the dig site. However, they have difficulties getting started with the work, as ferocious Krokorok and Krookodile seem to be interfering. Liko, Roy and Friede set off to investigate inside the ruins to get to the bottom of this.
Episode plot[]
At the Brave Olivine Dining Room, Friede told the rest of the team about another job from an archeologist he knew. He informs them of their request to move some rocks from where Krookodile are digging. The sheer reward rate encourages the team to come along with him.
The Olivine parks in the desert. Roy tries a bit of role-playing on the bridge, but is forced to shield his eyes from the sun's glare while he does so. Murdock gives the group pairs of sunglasses to take on their trip. Roy approves of his new look, posing and taking pictures of himself with his Rotom Phone. Liko passes her pair to Fuecoco at his request. The duo pose together in-front of a cardboard cutout of the Black Rayquaza.
Back inside, the rest of the team become exhausted by the heat, until Orla overheard a rumbling engine sound and became excited, before a whistling sound and shouting discourages them again. Friede and Cap exit the room to find out what's happened.
Soon, the duo meet up with the archeologist, explaining that a family of the Krookodile evolutionary line have damaged their work vehicles, and requested a stop to them before they can enable the repairs need to haul the rocks away. Friede returns back to the ship, informing the team that he'll head to the ruins, accepting an invitation from an excited Roy and Liko.
Inside, Fuecoco notices the glasses of a small Pokemon peeping out of and inside the sand, confusing it, before it gets attacked by it, alerting Roy. As the Sandile gets away, Roy's Pokemon goes after it, before losing it again. Just a Roy was thunking about returning to Friede, they both fall in the quicksand.
Meanwhile, Cap and Friede notice the footprints from a large Krookodile family. Just after Friede informs the team to stick together, they realize that Roy and Fuecoco have gone missing and call out to them, to no avail. In the room below the quicksand, Roy and Fuecoco break free from the sand. They brace themselves after noticing an angry Krookodile and Krokorok looking after a pair of Sandile in the distance. They then notice a trio of newly hatched Sandile crying. Soon, Krokorok and Krookodile start playing a beat with their tails, which Roy and Fuecoco soon recognize and join in, calming the Sandile, and surprising the rest of the Krookodile family.
Above the quicksand, the rest of the team call out for Roy and Fuecoco, before Pikachu rushes ahead and stamps on the quicksand, sucking himself and the rest of the team in. They then heard Roy's familiar chant, before watching the duo dance and clap along with their sunglasses on with sunlight shining above them, along with the Krookodile family joining in. Friede and Liko remain confused as to whether they're the same family that rioted the excavation site. To a beat, the Krookodile family use Round multiple times to break a large rock in the distance, astonishing Roy before Friede confirms the move. The Krookodile family became completely relaxed. Roy suspects that they weren't trying to be mean, in which Liko and Friede agree, before the ruins start to crumble, agitating the Sandile in the Krookodile family before they follow the Krookodile in climbing up the ruins. Liko realizes and makes the connection that the excavation work is unsettling the Krookodile family below them. As Roy and Fuecoco follow the Krookodile family, the rest of the group join in.
By the excavation site, the Krookodile and the group of Krokorok rise from the sand and charge toward the workers, forcing them to battle with their Pokemon. Roy tries to intervene, but it's too late, as the group of Krokorok are knocked out in one hit by Hammer Arm from a worker's Diggersby, upsetting the mother Krookodile and the father Krokorok and causing them to retaliate and knock out the worker's Pokemon. After Roy's attempts to stop the Krookodile and Krokorok from rampaging the worker's machinery, Fuecoco steps forward, puts on his sunglasses and drums his beat with his legs. While it hasn't stopped the Krookodile and Krokorok alone, the Sandile join in the chant, but Fuecoco becomes exhausted from singing, angering Roy. Fuecoco suddenly pulls off a new move, Disarming Voice. The move was overheard by Krookodile and Krokorok, causing them to stop and look at each other. They see their family and reunite with each other. Friede confirms Fuecoco's new move to Roy, leading him to congratulate his Pokemon.
Later on, the archeologist had been told that the excavation site was positioned directly above the Krookodile's nest, and has made plans to avoid the problem from reoccuring, but will still require the rocks to be moved. After noticing the Krookodile family befriending Fuecoco and the other workers' Pokemon, Roy gets an idea. Later, the Krookodile family use Roy and Fuecoco's rhythmic chant to destroy the impeding rocks, elating Roy, Liko, the archeologist and the other workers. The archeologist declares that they don't need the Rising Volt Tacklers' help anymore, disappointing Murdock, Orla and Mollie that they won't be getting paid.
Back at the ship, Roy and Fuecoco wave goodbye to the Krookodile and their family, with the latter delivering one more Disarming Voice.
Trivia[]
- Professor Friede's Pokémon Seminar: Krookodile
- Question
"What do Krookodile's eyes have the ability to do?"
- Choices
Repel water, block out light, or spot things from far away
- Answer
Spot things from far away
Gallery[]
References[]
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