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チェリンボ！けなげなバトル!?
Cherinbo! A Brave Battle!?
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First broadcast
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April 30, 2009
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September 26, 2009
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Battling a Cute Drama! (Japanese: チェリンボ！けなげなバトル!? Cherinbo! A Brave Battle!?) is the 125th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 591st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 30, 2009 and in the United States on September 26, 2009.
Synopsis
Upon arriving in Shelter Town via a tunnel, Ash and his friends recieves a cold welcoming from the weather conditions of the town, the gang decides to take a pit stop before moving on into Snowpoint City. While in a Pokémon Center, Dawn awaits a package being delivered to her, she sends out Buneary out of her PokéBall to let her have some fun with the other Pokémon. Then, stranger comes racing for Buneary and starts to hug and play around with it chanting the word "So cute", the stranger is a girl called Marilyn, who believes cute Pokémon are the best. Dawn introduces her Piplup to Marilyn to see if she think Piplup is cute or not, Marilyn discourages the fact it's cute and starts to remark on the features that turns off Piplup's cuteness, thus enraging Dawn. After calling Dawn "Dawny", claiming it was cuter than Dawn, Marilyn is challenged by a furious Dawn, she accepts the battle.
Once the battle begins, Dawn uses Buneary causing Marilyn to infactuate over Buneary's cuteness, almost forgetting about the battle, she then sends out Cherubi. At the start of the battle, Marilyn orders Cherubi to stall while Buneary attacks, making Brock angry and tell her to battle properly, Marilyn tells Brock what she thinks battling is, which is the valiant of a Pokémon and how it stands up after being hit, thus enraging Brock and yells at her some more, she finally obeys Brock and defeats Buneary with a single Solarbeam.
Nearby Team Rocket plans on taking Marilyn's Cherubi by tricking her to battle them, seeing as they have no Pokémon below 2 ft or unevolved, Meowth tells them to use Mime Jr., James hastily disagrees but has no choice. Jessie confront Marilyn and tells her she wants to battle and shows Mime Jr. to her, Marilyn however disagrees that it's cute crushing Mime Jr. feelings.
Brock tells Marilyn that he wants to battle her and say she has to pick two Pokémon Brock has to battle with, They are Sudowoodo and Croagunk, Marilyn doesn't want to battle them because they aren't cute and asks Brock for another Pokémon. Brock releases Happiny and Marilyn wants to battle Happiny, Brock accepts but as long as Sudowoodo and Croagunk battle to, so they have a 3 on 3 battle. Then James, disguised as a Pokémon Battle referee, asks Marilyn if they need a referee, Marilyn accepts and the battle starts.
After James announce the rules, Marilyn and Brock sends out Cherubi and Sudowoodo, Sudowoodo starts with Double-edge which scores a direct hit, Marilyn however ignores the fact it hit and remarks on how Cherubi took the hit, causing Brock to scold her some more. Brock orders Sudowoodo to use Mimic and Fake Tears causing Marilyn to realize the true battle strength of Pokémon. With nothing coming out of this, James declares the round as a tie as the two trainers return their Pokémon to their Pokéballs.
Brock sends out Croagunk while Marilyn sends out Chingling, and the battle restarts. Croagunk gains the upper hand against Chingling, this is all however a act played out by Marilyn to see Chingling take the attacks, Dawn then talls her to get to the point with Marilyn hastily obeying. Marilyn orders Chingling to use Growl along with Confusion almost knocking it out, however Brock encourages Croagunk to get up, which it does and uses Brick Break, defeating Chingling. Brock tells how any Pokémon can be valiant regardless of their looks, unless the trainer bonds with their Pokémon. The two then return their Pokémon.
With the lesson taught by Brock, Marilyn opens up the truth about her need for cute Pokémon, and switches a Pokéball containing another cute Pokémon for another Pokémon which when she sends out, turns out to be a Shellder shocking Meowth and Jessie who are peaking from outside. Brock sends out Happiny, however Jessie and Meowth interrupts and tells Marilyn how disappointed they are with Shellder, then James starts to go into Marilyn's bag and steal two Pokéballs containg Cherubi and Chingling, angering Marilyn who orders Shellder to use Brine to catapult itself to Team Rocket. After being hit by Shellder and dropping the two balls, Marilyn orders Shellder to use Ice Beam causing Team Rocket to be frozen rock solid, Happiny uses Pound to send Team Rocket Blasting off.
At the end of the day, Dawn recieves a package from her mother, inside is winter clothing for their journey towards Snowpoint.
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Errors
- When Dawn was holding the box of clothes and walking toward the benches, Piplup was nowhere to be seen. However, when the screen zoomed to the box and bench, Piplup is seen near the box.
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