Episode Number: --
US Movie Name: Jirachi The WishMaker
Jap Movie Name: The Wishing Star of Seven Nights
Events: Ash and company meets Jirachi!


It's a starry night outside and Ash and the others walk along for the festival. May asks about the Millenium Comet and Max tells her that it won't come for another 23 hours. May calls Max a know-it-all. She realizes that she has fallen behind and hurries along. Ash asks Brock if they are close to the festival. Brock tells him that it's right up ahead. Ash runs towards the festival, but he is disappointed when he gets there. An open area remains with nothing in it. Brock rechecks his book and tells them that they are in the right place. Ash clutches his stomach and gets hungry, and so they build a fire and eat. Then they fall asleep and the fire dies out.

Pikachu hears something. It looks up and see a bunch of trucks heading their way. The trucks are pulling equipment for the festival. Then the trucks stop, and they start setting up the equipment. Ash and co. goes down to take a look at all the Pokemon equipment. The men set up the roller coasters, the games, and much more. Another truck stops and a magician walks out. He gets out his wand and taps the chest he was holding before. A big red blob pops out of the chest and it bounces away. More red blobs comes out and they bounce away as well. A girl dressed in a red outift uses her hands to hit the blobs to the side. The blobs hit each other and then they pop. Ash and co. are amazed at what just happened. With the magician's magic, a tent forms. A train moves along the tracks.

Ash and co. are on the bumper cars. Brock sees a woman that he likes. The woman rides away and Brock crashes into the wall. Team Rocket are dressed in clown costumes. They throw papers in the air. Ash picks up one of the papers. He sees that it's a flier. Ash sees a picture of the same magician from last night. The flier is advertising his magic performance.

The magician's name is Butler. He takes out his hat and a bunch of Swablu flies out of it. Then Butler gets his other hat. He taps it with his wand. He lifts the hat up and a Kirlia appears. Butler gives the hat to Mightyena and it takes it away. Butler puts Kirlia in a box and he covers the box with a red cloth. Butler burns the cloth and his assistant comes out. His assistant holds up a purple crystal. The crystal glows across the room. A voice comes into Max's mind and it says,"Wish the star." The crystal stops glowing and everyone claps for them. Butler introduces himself and his assistant, Diane. Butler thanks his Mightyena and Kirlia for a spectacular job. Max hears that same voice again, except now it's talking about the comet. Max sees that the voice is coming from the crystal.

Max runs from his seat and onto the stage. Dianne tells him that he has to get back to his seat. Then Ash runs onto the stage too. Butler tells the audience that Ash and Max will volunteer for his next trick. Dianne asks for their names. Jessie and James comes out with a big box. Butler says that they must go inside the box and escape it before it bursts into flames. Jessie and James leads them to the box and they walk inside it. Brock is really jealous of Ash and Max because he's not with Dianne. A Dusclops comes out to the stage. Butler tells the audience that Ash and Max has only 10 seconds before Dusclops destroys the box. Butler shouts the countdown and Dusclops prepares for its Hyper Beam attack. Ash and Max still hasn't figured the way out. Dusclops fires the Hyper Beam. Just before the Hyper Beam hits the box, Ash and Max falls down from the stage. They are transported to another part of the stage. Everyone claps for Ash and Max.

Ash waves to the audience. Suddenly, a mechanical arm appears and it snatches Pikachu. The arm transforms into a circular ball. Pikachu shocks the ball but it doesn't work. Team Rocket takes off their costumes and they begin to float away. Meowth flips a switch and the ceiling opens up. They also have Mightyena and Kirlia trapped in a net. Ash is about to stop Team Rocket, but Butler tells Ash that he'll do it instead. Dusclops uses a Will-o-wisp attack to cut one of the ropes. Jessie accidently drops Pikachu, and Ash catches it. Max pulls Ash back onto the stage before he can fall. Pikachu angrily shocks Team Rocket and the net falls. Mightyena and Kirlia are free! For the finale, Dusclops fires a Night Shade at Team Rocket, and they go blasting off again.

The audience cheers wildly because they though Team Rocket was part of the show even though they weren't. Max still has his eye on the crystal that Dianne is holding. After the show, Butler shares his information on Jirachi to Ash and co. Butler thinks that Jirachi might be sleeping in the crystal. In order for Jirachi to reappear, the Millenium Comet must be visible in the sky and Jirachi will need a friend. Brock realizes that the Millenium Comet appears tonight. May thinks that Max is talking to a dumb rock. Max gets mad at this and he just thinks that May is jealous. Butler tells them that Jirachi has the power to grant wishes.

Butler lets Max hold the crystal. May wants to see, but Max moves away, and reminds May that it must be crazy to be friends with a rock. May changes her mind and says that she was just kidding. Ash and co. decides to walk around the festival for a bit. May spots a beautiful necklace at a shop. The shop owner tells her that it's a wishing star. The shop owner tells her that it only works when the Millenium Comet appears. All May has to do is fold down one of the pieces on the necklace and make a wish. The shop owner adds in that if she doesn't it all seven nights, her wish will come true. May excitedly takes the item. The shop owner tells her that she can only wish for one thing.

Fireworks of Pokemon faces pop in the air. It won't be long until the comet appears. After the festival ends for the night, Ash and co. look up into the sky to watch the comet. Brock thinks that they might not be able to see the comet. Max hugs the crystal tightly in his arms. Soon later, the lights to the festival turns off. The clouds shift away and the wind blows gently. They are all amazed when they see the Millenium Comet. May takes her necklace from her pocket, and she holds it up to the Millenium Comet. She folds one of the pieces down and makes her wish. They are really lucky to see a comet that appears only once every thousand years. May looks down and she sees Max sleeping. She gets down next to him and hears Max mutter,"Mommy." Then May begins to sing a lullaby. Ash and Brock listen to May sing. May gets back onto the rock and sings some more.

Suddenly, the crystal begins to glow and Max wakes up. Jirachi says,"The star, the star is calling." Absol looks down at the energy waves being brought down to the festival. It jumps from rock to rock towards the festival. The energy waves are going into the crystal. The crystal lifts up into the air and it transforms into Jirachi. Jirachi floats down and Max catches it. Jirachi opens up its eyes and it sees Max. Everyone introduces themselves to Jirachi. Jirachi says hello to everyone. Dianne runs up towards them. Max tells her that Jirachi hatched from the crystal. Dianne runs off to tell Butler about this.

The ceiling to the tent opens and Dianne runs in to tell Butler. A bunch of equipment (probably used to capture Jirachi) comes out of the ground. Ash and co. are in the trailer. Max asks Jirachi if it can really grant wishes. Max decides to test it out and he wishes for candy. Jirachi glows but nothing happens. They think that no one can grant a person's wish. They are wrong, however because candy pops into the air and falls down. The candy is actually being teleported from a nearby shop to their trailer. The candy has filled up the trailer to the top. Ash, May, and Brock fight over Jirachi for their wishes. The doors burst open and all the candy falls out. Butler and Dianne rush over to see what has happened. Jirachi pops out from underneath the candy. Dianne picks up a box of candy. She notices that the candy is from the nearby shop. Butler tells them that Jirachi has the power to teleport things back and forth. Ash and Brock realize that the candy was stolen. Max picks up a bar of chocolate and every stares at her. The shop owner cries over his stolen candy.

May shouts at Max for wishing for candy. May orders Jirachi to get rid of the problem. Jirachi looks at her and May vanishes. Max asks Jirachi where May is. May is screaming above. She has fallen in the heap of candy. Ash and Brock helps May out of the candy. Jirachi gets sleepy and soon it falls asleep. May wonders what they are going to do with the candy. Ash and Brock tells her that they have to carry it back themselves.

The sun shines the next day. Jirachi wakes up and Max is there. It floats up and bumps its head on the ceiling, then it floats back down. Jirachi says,"Max!" Ash comes out of the tent with a clown costume on. Brock also has a costume on. Max tells them that he's going to go play with Jirachi. May tells Max to be ready before the show starts. Ash notices that Max is in a good mood. Him and Jirachi are just like brothers and May smiles. Max and Jirachi rides on the spinning Wingull. Then they ride on the spinning Aron, and take the ferris wheel. On the ferris wheel, Max and Jirachi look out at the mountains. Team Rocket spies on Max and Jirachi with their binoculars. Jessie knows that Jirachi is the Pokemon that can grant wishes. James says,"Our first wish should be that Jirachi doesn't teleport when we capture it." Jessie thinks the wish is really stupid. She can't believe that James and Meowth would wish something like that. Jessie suggests that they wish for 100 more wishes.

Absol runs on another rock, and it looks down at the festival. May is carrying a tall cart towards backstage. The cart hits a piece of wood and tilts. May tries to push it back up, but she can't. Max tries to help her. Jirachi wants Max to play some more. Jirachi takes Max's glasses away. Max lets go of the cart and chases Jirachi. The cart falls on May and she falls to the floor. Max tries to get Jirachi, but he's too slow. Ash runs over to May and asks what happened. May gets angry at Jirachi. Finally Max grabs Jirachi and he gets his glasses back. Max and Jirachi hears something. An Absol bursts through the mirror and it walks out of the shadows. The blade on Absol's head begins to glow. It releases a scythe of energy to block Max's path. Max runs to another direction, but Absol releases another scythe of energy at Max. Max barely dodges it, and he runs onto the stage. May runs out and she sends out her Torchic. Torchic fires an Ember attack at Absol, but Absol receives no damage. Pikachu uses Thunderbolt and Absol falls backwards. Jirachi tells Max that Absol is there for it. Jirachi teleports Pikachu and Torchic outside in the air. Pikachu and Torchic fall onto the top of the tent and they roll over to the sides.

Absol sees Ash and Brock in their clown outfits. It charges towards them but it falls into a trap door, courtesy of Butler. Butler presses a button and Absol comes out, but it's in a cage. Then Butler sends out his Kirlia. He tells Kirlia to use Hypnosis. Absol falls asleep.

It's nighttime now, and Ash and co. are sleeping in the bus. May rushes outside to the same rock as she was before. She has almost forgotton about her wishing star. May gets out her wishing star, and she folds the second piece and makes her wish. Then she sees Butler walking out of the bus. He walks into his tent and sets Jirachi down. Dianne thinks that they should've left Jirachi alone in the first place. Dianne knows that this is a bad idea, but Butler goes along with his plan. The machine activates. Jirachi is picken up and it receives a great deal of pain. Butler tells his story on how he wants to make a new Groudon for Team Magma. His experiment fails and the head admin from Team Magma says that he's booted off the team. Butler takes the rock and places it in the machine. Butler orders Jirachi to absorb the comet's power. Jirachi refuses to do so. Dusclops uses Psychic but Jirachi still resists.

May wakes up Ash, Brock, and Max. She tells them that Jirachi is missing. Max looks all over the trailer for Jirachi, but he doesn't find it. Jirachi is still resisting. Suddenly, a blue light from Jirachi's body bursts out towards the comet. The comet sends back another beam of light to Jirachi. The machine explodes, and Jirachi lays on the floor. Max picks up Jirachi and asks if it's okay. Butler tells Max to give him Jirachi, but Max refuses to do so. Dianne pleads for Butler to stop with his plan. Butler refuses to stop and he pushes her away. He orders Dusclops to use Psychic to stop Max. Dusclops lifts Max into the air, but Pikachu's Thunderbolt stops Dusclops's attack. Absol continues to ram the cage with its blade. Dianne tells everyone to follow her and everyone does so.

Absol finally breaks the cage and it fires a scythe of energy at Butler, and then it runs away. Butler sends out his Mightyena. Meanwhile, everyone else gets into the bus and they drive away. Team Rocket spies on them from above. Jessie knows that Jirachi is in the bus and Wobbuffet pops out. Jessie puts Wobbuffet back into its Pokeball. Mightyena runs as fast as it can towards the bus. It places a tracking device on the back of the bus.

Dianne explains to them Butler's history. He used to work for Team Magma on the Groudon project. Butler tried to make Team Magma a Groudon, but failed. Max still doesn't understand of why Butler needs Jirachi. Dianne goes on and tells them that Butler needed a strong energy source such as the Millenium Comet. Jirachi has the ability to absorb the comet's power, and then the power would get drained to make a Groudon. Max doesn't want Butler to do this. They all decide to take Jirachi back home. Butler is recording Dianne's location thanks to the tracker. He presses a button, and a machine comes out to get Groudon.

Day three of the Millenium Comet arrives. Dianne is driving a bumpy road now. The car shakes so much that Ash falls off his seat, and Max and Jirachi laugh. The tracker that was planted on the car falls off. At night, May takes out her wishing star and wishes again. Ash, Max, and Jirachi are sleeping. May goes inside the bus. She sees Dianne looking at a flier. May goes to the sink for a glass of water. Dianne starts off by telling May that she knew Butler since she was a child. Dianne looks outside and hopes that the real Butler comes back once the comet disappears. Absol is watching them sleep from above.

The next day, Ash and co. continues the ride to bring Jirachi home. They ride on the edge of a cliff. Team Rocket is following them in their balloon. They are also gobbling down some noodles. The bus gets stuck in the mud, and so everyone except for Dianne tries to push it out. Eventually, they get the car out of the mud, but the mud splahes on them. They have a good laugh. During the fourth night, May folds down another piece to her wishing star and wishes. Ash is teaching Max how to throw a rock. Max throws the rock farther than Ash. May feels a bit sad that Jirachi has to leave.

The fifth day arrives. Max is feeling a bit down that Jirachi has to leave. During the night, May takes out her wishing star to wish. Max wants May to quit the counting. He runs towards the river. Ash goes after him and they sit to talk. Max tells him that he only has a few more days left with Jirachi. Ash comforts him by telling him that Jirachi will always be with him in his heart. Max feels much better now.

They still head up towards Jirachi's home on the sixth day. Dianne stops the car. Jirachi's home is just ahead. A flock of Swablu flies above and a Tropius eats a berry from a tree. Ash and co. hike the rest of the way. Jirachi asks Max if he likes its home. Max replies that he loves it. The night has come again, and May takes out her wishing star and wishes again. Only one more day left! Max and Jirachi are playing with a stick. May comes down and tells Max that he has to go to sleep. Max doesn't want to, but she tells him that he has a big day ahead of him. Max angrily takes off his glasses and he puts his head under the blanket. He whispers to Jirachi that they'll play once everyone else has fallen asleep. May sings her lullaby again and everyone sits down to listen. Ash notices that Pikachu has fallen asleep. Even Max and Jirachi are sleeping.

The next day, Ash and co. walk closer towards Jirachi's home. They meet up with Absol, who leads the rest of the way. The sun is about to set. Breloom and Poochyena appears from behind a rock. A Flygon flies down and watches them. All of the Pokemon are welcoming Jirachi back home. Dianne turns on a flashlight as they enter a cave. There's a hole in the roof of the cave, and you can see the comet. Jirachi heads upwards to the star, but Max grabs onto it. Max cries because his best friend is about to leave. Jirachi tells Max that it must go, and so Max lets go of Jirachi. Jirachi begins to open up its true eye so that it can absorb the comet's energy.

Suddenly, Butler's machines comes in and it brings Jirachi up. Jirachi is trapped in a purple energy ball. Dianne tells Butler that he's gone mad, but Butler says that he's just angry. Butler takes Jirachi and he puts it in his machine. Butler stands back, and pulls down a lever. A beam of light comes out of Jirachi's body. The light is directed towards the comet. The comet shoots out a beam of energy at Jirachi. Butler presses another button and three switchers comes up from the machine, and three spikes shows from the bottom. The spikes generate energy and the energy is blasted at the ground. The energy begins to draw the Groudon.

Pikachu tries to shock it, but the roof is made out of the energy which is used as a barrier. Absol fires an attack at the machine that was causing the barrier. Flygon fires a Hyper Beam at the other machines and the barrier disappears. Ash wants Flygon to lift him up so that he can save Jirachi. Max wants to come too, and Ash tells him to hang on tight. Then Groudon image is almost finished. Butler sees the Flygon above. He sends out his Salamence to get rid of them. Butler hops on Salamence's back. It uses a series of Flamethrowers to stop Flygon. Ash tells Max that him and Pikachu can go free Jirachi while he goes to distract Butler. After circuling the air a few times, Flygon lands and Max and Pikachu hop off Flygon. Pikachu shocks a part of the machine. Jirachi falls out and Max catches it. Max and Pikachu gets back on Flygon again. Butler looks at the Groudon image. He sees that the image is about complete.

Jirachi closes its true eye and it opens it eyes. Jirachi is happy to see Max again. Flygon lands on the ground and they all hop off. Ash thanks Flygon for its help, and then Flygon flies off. Brock, May, and Dianne rush over to Ash and Max. May asks if Jirachi is okay. Max tells her that it is fine. May hugs Max and tells him that she was really worried.

The Groudon slowly rises from the ground. This Groudon is about 10x bigger than a normal-sized Groudon. Groudon slowly walks and all the plants die ask Groudon walks by them. Butler examines the Groudon and he can't believe what he's seeing. It's not even a Groudon, but some enormous monster! The Groudon is sucking the energy from the earth. Absol runs ahead to try to stop Groudon. It fires an attack at Groudon. Groudon feels the attack and he uses its green tentacles to trap and consume Absol within it. Then the spikes on Groudon's back turns into tentacles. It starts to suck up all of the Pokemon. Dianne asks if Butler has a way to stop the Groudon. Butler just stares at the Groudon and sadly says that he doesn't.

Team Rocket is above in their balloon. They decide not to drop in unexpectedly. A swarm of Swablu goes behind them and the tentacles sucks in the Swablu and Team Rocket. The Pokemon are shown in Groudon's body with bubbles around them. The Groudon aims a tentacle right at Butler. Dianne rushes in and the tentacle takes Dianne instead. Butler quickly grabs a hold of Dianne's hand. Dianne is happy to see Butler and she lets go. Butler is mad now. More tentacles head straight for Ash and co. Butler has his Salamence for protection and the others have to run. The tentacle grabs May and Brock. Another tentacle grabs Ash and Max, but Jirachi teleports them all out of the tentacle. Groudon unleashes more tentacles at Ash and Max, but Jirachi teleports them once again.

Groudon slowly moves to closer towards Ash and Max. The tentacles are just about to get them again, but a Flamethrower from Salamence saves them. Butler tells them that the tentacles are after Jirachi. Salamence uses Flamethrower again to stop the tentacles. Flygon comes to the rescue. Ash and Max hop onto Flygon and they take off. Flygon manages to dodge a lot of the tentacles. It flies in the cave, but the tentacles continues to come. The tentacles are much too fast for Flygon. Before they reach Flygon, Jirachi teleports them back outside. Butler approaches them and he tells them his plan. Ash doesn't trust him, but they have no other choice. Suddenly, Salamence gets captured, but Jirachi teleports Salamence out. Butler asks Ash and Max to keep Groudon distracted while he sets everything up.

They take Flygon out to distract Groudon. Flygon does a good job with avoiding getting caught. Meanwhile, Butler heads back to his machine. The machine starts to slide but then it stops. Butler goes to each lever and pulls them up or down, depending on the direction it was before. Butler takes the rock out, but before he can reverse its direction, the rock slips out of his hands. Luckily Ash caught the rock before it fell and broke. Max places Jirachi on the machine.

Groudon stomps towards Ash and co. Flygon and Salamence tries to protect Ash and co. from the Groudon. Butler is about to activate the machine, when he slides off. He quickly grabs hold on one of the ropes. Unfortunately, Salamence and Flygon are captured. Groudon sees Ash and it walks towards him. Ash grabs the lever and he pulls it down. A tentacle is about to hurt Jirachi, but Butler takes the hit instead. Butler gets sucked into Groudon. Groudon has now covered the whole platform with its body. Suddenly, a bright light shines and Jirachi comes out and smiles. Groudon is lifted up by the powerful ball of light. The Groudon is shattered into pieces. Everyone that was sucked in from the Groudon returns back to the earth. Butler helps Dianne back up. Jirachi slowly comes down from the sky. Max gives Jirachi a bright hug. Jirachi wants Max to grant it one last wish. It wants them to sing it that lullaby. Butler and Dianne watch Ash and co. sing Jirachi the lullaby. Absol watches them too. Jirachi thanks them all and it returns back into its crystal form. The crystal sinks to the bottom. The energy waves from before surrounds them again. Everyone is happy that everything worked out fine.

Team Rocket is above watching the whole thing. James thinks that it was all an illusion. Meowth thinks that the magician was tricking them. "If I could have only one wish, it would be to always feel like this!" says Team Rocket together.

Butler and Dianne offer Ash and co. a ride back to town the next day. Brock reminds May of her wishing star. May is surprised that she forgot about it. May doesn't care about it anymore though. Max hears Jirachi in his mind. Jirachi tells Max that they will be best friends forever. Max smiles and he heads back to town with the others.

~Ending Credits~

Ash and co. have to walk back to the festival. May gets tired and falls to her knees. She doesn't want to walk all the way back. Fortunately for them, the same guy who sold May that wishing star offers them a ride back.

They lay on the grass and spot out different Pokemon constellations. They point out Teddiursa, Ursaring, Milotic, Machamp and Seviper together, Gligar, Kyogre, Gardevoir, and Pikachu.

Ash and co. sit near on the rocks, and they are in their bathing suits. The fireworks with the Pokemon are lit into the sky. Ash and co. watch the glorious site.