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The Lake of Rage

PG04   いかりの湖 The Lake of Rage

Web release Japan December 9, 2016 United States September 30, 2016

English themes Opening N/A Ending

Japanese themes Opening N/A Ending N/A

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 柳沼和良 Kazuyoshi Yaginuma Assistant director 柳沼和良 Kazuyoshi Yaginuma Animation directors 赤井真吾 Shingo Akai 末澤慧 Kei Suezawa No additional credits are available at this time.

The Lake of Rage on the official English Pokémon YouTube channel. Review thread on BMGf

The Lake of Rage (Japanese: いかりの湖 The Lake of Rage) is the fourth episode of Pokémon Generations. It was first released on the official English Pokémon YouTube channel on September 30, 2016. It was uploaded to the official Japanese Pokémon YouTube channel on December 9, 2016.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Blurb

With rumors of a Red Gyarados rampaging in the Lake of Rage, Lance of the Elite Four decides to investigate.

Plot

In Mahogany Town, Lance of the Elite Four and his Dragonite arrive at the local souvenir shop. Inside, Lance knocks on a wall two times and then has Dragonite use Fire Punch to crack the wall open. The wall breaks, revealing a secret passageway to an underground room. Lance and Dragonite go down a slide and arrive at a hallway that is part of Team Rocket's secret headquarters. While running down the hallway, Lance has a flashback of why he came to investigate the Team Rocket HQ. Earlier, at the Lake of Rage, he and Dragonite encountered a rampaging Red Gyarados, which fiercely attacked them. Concluding that it wasn't acting normally, Lance deduced it had been forced to evolve by a mysterious radio wave. He decided to find the source of this radio wave, which led him to the souvenir shop.

As the two keep running down the hallway, they accidentally trigger a security signal as the eyes of a Persian statue light up. The statue turns out to be a secret security camera which is monitored by a Team Rocket Grunt. The Grunt warns his fellow Grunts that their headquarters have been intruded. One of the Grunts recognizes the man on the security footage as Lance. The screen next switches to other security footage which shows that there is another intruder, which turns out to be Ethan. The Grunts decide to go stop them in their tracks and sound the alarm.

As Lance and Dragonite arrive at a bridge, their path is blocked by four Team Rocket Grunts. Lance remarks that he was right in thinking Team Rocket was behind this but also that he thought Team Rocket had been disbanded. In response, the Grunts smile and send out a Grimer, Magnemite, Raticate, Golbat, and Houndoom. Lance orders Dragonite to break through and it lets out a huge roar. The Grunts have their Pokémon attack simultaneously, but Dragonite fends off the attacks with no trouble at all. Dragonite easily defeats all the opposing Pokémon with a single Flamethrower and uses its tail to knock them off the bridge. The Grunts realize Lance and Dragonite are too powerful, and the Elite Four member and his Pokémon are now able to continue on their path.

Next, Dragonite knocks down an iron door and the Pokémon and its Trainer arrive in a control room. Lance runs over to a window and sees how multiple Electrode are attached to a large machine. The Ball Pokémon are forced to give off electricity to power the radio transmitter that emits the mysterious radio waves. As Lance watches, he hears a voice behind him. Petrel, a Team Rocket Executive, appears and concludes that Lance and Ethan have been working together, with Ethan being a diversion for Lance. Petrel sends out his Weezing and has it use Poison Gas. Lance orders Dragonite to do something and it simply walks through the poisonous gas clouds. Following this, Dragonite uses Thunderbolt, hitting both Weezing and Petrel and fainting the former. Lance tells Petrel that Team Rocket's operation is finished and orders him to leave. As Dragonite intimidates Petrel, Lance communicates with Ethan through his Pokégear and tells him that they're going to take down the source of the radio waves. In response, Ethan simply smiles.

Lance walks over to the Electrode and promises to free them. He has his Dragonite destroy the control panel and break open the window. After doing so, the generator is shut down and the Electrode are freed from the machines they were attached to. Lance tells the Electrode to escape and they happily bounce away from the generator. They gather in front of Petrel and shock him with Thunderbolt as revenge for what he did to them. Later, at dusk, Lance stands at the shore of the Lake of Rage. Seeing that the Red Gyarados has calmed down, he walks away as the Atrocious Pokémon dives back into the depths of the lake.

Major events

• Lance and Ethan infiltrate the Team Rocket HQ in Mahogany Town.
• Lance destroys Team Rocket's radio wave generator, stopping their plan to force Pokémon to evolve.

Characters

Humans

• Ethan
• Lance
• Petrel
• Team Rocket Grunts

Pokémon

• Dragonite (Lance's)
• Weezing (Petrel's)
• Grimer (Team Rocket Grunt's)
• Raticate (Team Rocket Grunt's)
• Golbat (Team Rocket Grunt's)
• Magnemite (Team Rocket Grunt's)
• Houndoom (Team Rocket Grunt's)
• Gyarados (Red Gyarados; Shiny)
• Electrode (multiple)

Trivia

• During the episode, Lance is referred to as being a member of the Elite Four. However, in the games, he is instead the Pokémon League Champion at the time of these events.

Errors

• When the four Team Rocket Grunts confront Lance, they are each holding one Poké Ball. However, when they send out their Pokémon, five Poké Balls are shown.

In other languages

Language		Title
Dutch		Het Meer van Razernij
European French		Le Lac Colère
German		Der See des Zorns
Italian		Il Lago d'Ira
Korean		분노의 호수
Brazilian Portuguese		O Lago da Fúria
European Spanish		El Lago de la Furia

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