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Valor Rising - The Story So Far · Pokémon Adventures by Kaden’s Korner

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: This episode is brought to you by Wait.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_01: This episode has a sponsor?
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_01: Caden's Corner Co.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Do they tell anything dangerous?
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_01: So, no fire?
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: No giant Pokemon?
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_01: No mysterious explosions?
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_02: Probably not.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, good.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_01: Well then I officially recommend it.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_02: Check out Caden's Corner Cow on Etsy.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_01: And please, shop responsibly from somewhere safe.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_01: See ya!
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: In Ballora, where steel and spirit are forged as one, a new journey begins.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: With friends by his side and courage in his heart, Caden sets out to rise above every trial.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: This is Pokemon Valor Right.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: Seven months.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we disappeared for a while.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Baseball happened.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_02: Then football happened.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: And apparently Pokemon trainers are not allowed to travel through Valora during youth sports seasons.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, pretty sure that's unofficial league rule.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: But while we were gone, something pretty crazy happened.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: More and more people kept finding the show, and Pokemon Valorising has now been downloaded more than 10,000 times.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_02: Which is awesome.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Seriously, whether you've been listening since Caden first walked into Professor Buckeye's lab, or you just found us recently, thank you.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: And since we suddenly showed back up with episode 14 after disappearing for more than half a year.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_02: We figured everybody might need a reminder of what's actually happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Including us.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_02: Definitely including you.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: Fair.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: So, before we continue the journey, this is everything you need to know about Pokemon Valor Rising.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_02: The story so far.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: Our story begins in the small town of Unionville, where a boy named Caden had finally turned 10 years old.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: And like countless trainers before him, he woke up ready for the day he had been waiting for his entire life.
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  SPEAKER_02: The day I finally got my first Pokemon.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: There was only one problem.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: When Caden reached Professor Buckeye's laboratory, the three-starter Pokemon that had been waiting for new trainers were gone.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: Someone had broken into the lab during the night and stolen them.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_02: Which is a pretty terrible way to start a Pokemon journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Caden was crushed.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: But while he sat in the lab wondering what he was supposed to do next, a small Pokemon came over to comfort him.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: An Eevee.
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  SPEAKER_00: She wasn't supposed to be one of the starters, she simply lived with Professor Buckeye.
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  SPEAKER_00: But something clicked between them.
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  SPEAKER_02: And Professor Buckeye asked if I wanted Eevee to become my partner.
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  SPEAKER_02: Obviously, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And suddenly, what looked like the worst possible beginning became the beginning Caden was supposed to have all along.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: Caden and Eevee left Unionville together.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on Route 43, they discovered very quickly that becoming a great Pokemon trainer might be harder than it looked.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because we almost got destroyed by a badoof.
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  SPEAKER_00: An absolutely ferocious Badoof.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: Terrifying creature.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_02: Stop!
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  SPEAKER_00: Caden and Eevee barely won their first wild battle, but that battle caught the attention of two other young trainers traveling the same road.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: A brother and a sister named Crush and Libby.
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  SPEAKER_02: Libby is an energetic, competitive, pretty much always ready to battle.
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  SPEAKER_02: She travels with her squirtle and dreams of becoming strong enough to run her own gym battle someday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Calmer, steadier.
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  SPEAKER_00: Crush is the oldest of five kids, and he grew up feeling responsible for helping protect his younger brothers and sisters.
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  SPEAKER_00: His dad taught him that real strength means taking care of people.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: Which Libby absolutely loved hearing him say.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_02: She definitely does not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Together, the three decided to travel across Valora.
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  SPEAKER_00: Caden wanted to become one of the greatest trainers in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Libby wanted to become a gym leader.
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  SPEAKER_00: Crush wanted to grow strong enough to make a difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: And none of them realized how much bigger their journey was about to become.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stubborn, hungry, and extremely angry for something that small.
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  SPEAKER_02: So obviously I had to catch him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gibble became the second member of Caden's team, and inside Forgemon's massive steel-type gym, Caden defeated gym leader Jax and earned his first badge.
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  SPEAKER_00: But while leaving the city, Caden, Crush, and Libby discovered something strange happening in an abandoned steel mill.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: Hundreds of Pokeballs were being loaded onto a barge, and there they met two people who would become very familiar faces.
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  SPEAKER_02: Ray and Jay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Members of a mysterious group called Team Crucible.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jay travels with a powerful Valoran Pokemon called Grito King, a new variant of Nitto King.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ray battles alongside her Mudsdale.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then pfft, there's their third teammate.
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  SPEAKER_02: Bosse.
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  SPEAKER_00: A talking Mabostiff who looks terrifying.
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  SPEAKER_02: And is basically afraid of everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: The trio escaped, but not before Gibble surprised everyone by unleashing his first dragon rage.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one phrase was beginning to appear wherever Team Crucible went.
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  SPEAKER_02: Reforge Valora.
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  SPEAKER_00: The road eventually brought the group to Lake Vale City, on the shores of Valora's enormous inland sea.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: There, Caden added an electric type Mareep to his team and defeated the water and ice gym leader Marina.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_02: And Eevee started doing something very strange.
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  SPEAKER_00: Very strange.
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  SPEAKER_00: Without being taught, Evie began using Iron Tail, a steel type move, but nobody knew exactly why.
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  SPEAKER_02: We just knew Evie was getting stronger.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: Before leaving Lakevale, Caden received a fishing rod from a local fisherman after helping rescue his daughter from the water.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_00: At first, that rod seemed like a simple thank you gift until Caden tried fishing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Libby got a horsey on her first cast, and I got nothing.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then more nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: There may have been some comments about Caden being bad luck.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_02: There were definitely comments.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Caden refused to quit, and cast after cast, he finally hooked something.
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  SPEAKER_00: A brilliant, golden, shiny magic harp.
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  SPEAKER_02: I knew he was going to be special.
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  SPEAKER_00: Other people mostly thought he was a shiny, floppy fish, but that's fine.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_02: Next came Grenora City.
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  SPEAKER_02: Fields, windmills, farms, miltink, everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: And another future member of Caden's team.
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  SPEAKER_00: A fiery little bird called Emberd.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: Caden caught Emberd on the road to Grenora and eventually relied on it heavily during his battle against grass-type gym leader Chloe.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: The battle pushed Emberd farther than ever before, and when it seemed like Caden might lose, Emberd evolved into Syndrinal and learned wing attack in the process.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: But the celebration didn't last long.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: That night, the group discovered burned farmland outside Grenora, and among the ashes was yet another message.
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  SPEAKER_02: Reforge Valora.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: The damage led them straight back to Ray, Jay, and Bossy.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: During the battle that followed, Libby Squirtle evolved into War Turtle.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: More importantly, the group started learning what Team Crucible actually believed.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: They thought Valora had become weak, soft.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: They wanted to force the entire region through hardship, fire, destruction, and pressure, and rebuild whatever survived.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: Their idea of strength was simple: break everything first, then reforge it.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: The trail led next toward Sindrel Town, a city built around coal, mines, and railroads.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_02: But along the way, we got attacked by a tree.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: Technically, a Pokemon living in a tree.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_02: Bucknot.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: A valoran grass-type Pokemon that decided the best way to introduce itself was by repeatedly dropping buckeyes onto Caden's head.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: Eventually, Caden caught it, and shortly after arriving in Sindrill, disaster struck.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: A coal rail car tipped over.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: Workers and Pokemon were trapped beneath the wreckage.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: Everyone helped.
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  SPEAKER_00: Machop lifted beams, War Turtle fought the fires, Eevee searched through the wreckage, but one Pokemon simply refused to stop.
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  SPEAKER_02: Gibble.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: Even when everyone was exhausted, Gibble kept digging, and his determination triggered another huge moment.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: Gibble evolved into Goite and learned dig, allowing him to tunnel beneath the wreckage and rescue the remaining workers.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_02: That was one of the coolest things that's happened so far.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: Until the gym battle, because against Cindrel's fire-type leader, Caleb, Caden found himself almost completely out of options, which finally left him with that shiny Magikarp.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_02: And he was ready.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: Magikarp fought upstream through the gym's heated cooling channels, and then he evolved.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: Not into any ordinary Gyarados, but a massive, brilliant, red, aka shiny Gyarados.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: One hydro pump later, Caden had yet another badge.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_02: Then we found out the real accident might have not been an accident.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: During the confusion, someone stole plans for an experimental drilling machine.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: The trail led towards Orok City.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: Along the way, Bucknut evolved into Valarut during another battle with Caden's slightly unusual rival.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_02: Uncle Wes.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: We should probably explain Uncle Wes.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_02: Do we have to?
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: Wes is a 30-year-old cowboy-dressed Pokemon trainer who was supposed to start his journey when he was 10.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead, he fell on the way to choose his starter and somehow managed to break Basically anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eventually, Professor Buckeye gave him a Meowth.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: Twenty years later, Wes finally started his Pokemon journey at almost exactly the same time as Caden, which Wes considers deeply unfair.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_02: And now he keeps showing up to beat me.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has not beaten Caden yet.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: But he is getting better.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: His Meowth has evolved into Persian, and his growing collection of cat Pokemon is becoming a real challenge.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: At Orok, Caden also faced twin rock type gym leaders, Rev and Avery.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: And during that battle, the mystery surrounding Eevee finally reached its answer.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: Under enormous pressure, Eevee began to glow.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: Her body changed, her fur became dark metallic armor, and Caden discovered a Pokemon nobody in the group even knew existed.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: A valoran steel-type evolution of Eevee, Caden's very first partner had become something completely unique.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: After defeating Reb and Avery, the twins kept a promise.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: They introduced their trio to their father, Durac.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: The man who designed the stolen drilling machine, and what they learned changed everything.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_00: The drill wasn't designed simply to mine coal or stone.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: It could reach deeper beneath Valora than almost any machine ever built.
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  SPEAKER_02: Deep enough to reach a legendary Pokemon.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: Foundrake.
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  SPEAKER_00: An ancient dragon connected to the earth beneath Valora.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: Suddenly, Team Crucible's plan became much clearer.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: They weren't simply stealing Pokemon or starting fires, they were searching for the power to wake Foundrake.
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  SPEAKER_00: And somehow use that power to reforge Valora.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_02: Next up, Buckland Town.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: Quiet farmland, simple homes, a town that didn't look especially dangerous, which naturally meant its gym leader was extremely dangerous.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: But before the battle, the trio helped a farmer round up a group of escaped Valoran Miltank.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_00: There, Crush met their powerful male counterpart.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_02: Moo Tank.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which Crush thought was incredibly cool.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_02: Even though he tried hard to not look impressed.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: As thanks for helping, the farmer gave Crush and Libby each a mysterious Pokemon egg, and Caden received something different: a necklace.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: Hanging from it was a shining white scale.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: The farmer told them an old story about two legendary dragons.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: One connected to the earth and another connected to the sky.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: For the first time, the trio began to wonder, what if Foundrake wasn't alone?
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: Eventually, Caden challenged Buckland's normal gym type leader, Clara.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: And Clara taught him an important lesson.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: Normal does not mean easy.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: Her strategy was built around patience, adapting, and wearing opponents down.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: Her team included Valoran Miltank and Mootank, and Caden was forced to use everything he had learned.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_02: And Mareep finally got its moment.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: Under pressure, Mareep evolved into Flaffy, helping swing the battle and earn Caden his sixth gym badge.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: But afterward, Clara revealed something even bigger.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: She was part of a hidden network of trainers and researchers who had also been watching Team Crucible.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: And they'd been watching Caden, Crush, and Libby too.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: And they wanted to meet.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: The meeting would happen in Rivara City, which is important for another reason.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_02: Team Crucible might be heading there too.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: Because, according to Durac, building the giant drill is only one part of the problem.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: Running it would require an unbelievable amount of energy.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: And Rivara produces more power than anywhere else in Valora.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_02: So, right now my team is.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: Let's hear it.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_02: Steelia, my original partner, the bite, our stubborn dragon, Red Gyarados, definitely not just a floppy fish anymore, Sindrenal, our fire and flying powerhouse, Valarut, former tree terrorist, and Flaffy, our newest evolution.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: Caden has earned six gym badges.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: Two remain.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_00: Crush and Libby have become stronger trainers too.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: Wes is still somewhere out there training his army of cats.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: Ray and Jay are still moving pieces around Valora.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: Team Crucible has the plans for a machine capable of reaching Foundrake, and around Caden's neck hangs a white scale connected to a story about another mysterious dragon.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: And there's one more thing.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_02: The eggs.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: At the end of our last adventure, the trio sat around a campfire outside Bucklin.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: Crush and Libby held the Pokemon eggs they'd received earlier that day.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: The fire burned low, everybody was getting ready to sleep, and then Crack! Both eggs moved.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: Crack! Light began shining through the shells, and just before we discovered what was inside.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_02: The episode ended.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: Cruel?
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_02: Very Oh well.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: But that brings us to now.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: We are entering the final stretch of the first season of Pokemon Valor Rising.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: We aren't gonna tell you what happens.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_02: Because spoilers are terrible!
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: But we can tell you this.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: There are still two gym badges standing between Caden and the Pokemon League.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: There are still mysteries surrounding the legendary Pokemon of Valora.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: Team Crucible's plan is getting closer to becoming reality, and the road ahead is going to test Caden, Crush, and Libby in ways they haven't experienced yet.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_02: There are going to be more Pokemon.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: More battles.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_02: More evolutions.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: More Uncle Wes.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_02: Unfortunately, probably.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: And eventually the strongest trainers in Valora will be waiting.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_02: But first, we have some eggs to hatch.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: If you're new to the show, welcome to Valora.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: And if you've been here since Unionville, thanks for sticking with us.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: More than 10,000 downloads later, Caden's journey is still going, and somehow.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_02: It feels like the biggest part hasn't even happened yet.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: Six badges earned, two still waiting, a mystery beneath the earth, another in the sky, and one road leading forward.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_02: This is Pokemon Seller Roger.