Editing Ash Ketchum Meets Bambi/Transcript (section)

== Meeting Faline/Meeting the Great Prince of the forest ==
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Ash Ketchum: Well, well, Bambi. Who's your friend, there?

(Bambi is too shy to answer.)

Bambi's mother: That's little Faline.

Ash Ketchum: Faline, huh?

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Bambi: He stopped and looked at me.

Bambi's mother: Yes, I know.

Bambi: Why was everyone still when he came on the meadow?

Bambi's mother: Everyone respects him. For of all the deer in the forest, not one has lived half so long. He's very brave and very wise. That's why he's known as the Great Prince of the Forest.

Ash Ketchum: Wow....

(The Great Prince moves away to the depth of the forest, but suddenly he stops and hears the crows screeching. Ash and his gang head back to his cabin until Pikachu hears something. He hears the crows' screeching as well)

Ash Ketchum: What's wrong, Pikachu?

Pikachu: (runs back to the meadow and sees something shiny in the bushes far away from the herd) Pika!

Ash Ketchum: What is it?

Pikachu: Pika, Pika! (points to the shiny light)

Ash Ketchum: Huh? (hides behind the bushes, pulls out a pair of binoculars and looks closer; he sees a shiny tube peaking through the leaves with two small holes; he realizes it is a rifle and there's a poacher behind there; he gasps in horror) Poacher! Bambi! 

(The Great Prince understands the crows' message and rushes back to the herd to report the danger. The deer and the animals perked up and they all run for their lives.)

Ena: Faline!

(Faline runs up to her mother. Ash runs through the herd to find Bambi.)

Ash Ketchum: Bambi! Bambi! Bambi, where are you?!

Bambi's mother: Bambi!

(Bambi is confused at the commotion as he frantically looks for his mother.)

Bambi: Mother! (he dodges the incoming deer as they leap over him)

Bambi's mother: Bambi! Bambi!

Ash Ketchum: Bambi! Bambi, answer me! (he spots Bambi in the middle of the meadow; he is out in the open where the poacher can see him; gasps) Bambi! (runs up to him as fast as he could)

(Bambi continues to look for his mother out in the meadow.)

Bambi: Mother! Mother! Mother!

Ash Ketchum: Bambi! (runs up to Bambi) Come on, Bambi! We gotta go! (grabs Bambi and goes to run, but he bumps into the Great Prince) Oh, it's you! (The Great Prince shakes his head to follow him) You want us to follow you? (he nods) Oh, okay! Okay! Come on, Bambi! Let's get out of here! Quickly! 

(The Great Prince leads Ash, Pikachu and Bambi out of the meadow before meeting up with Bambi's mother. Soon after, they all reached to the safest part of the forest as a gunshot is heard from a distance. Crows is heard cawing. Later, Bambi's mother comes out of the bushes to check if the coast is clear. Ash comes out next along with Pikachu.)

Ash Ketchum: Is he gone?

Bambi's mother: Yes. Come on out, Bambi. Come on. It's safe now. We don't have to hide any longer.

Bambi: (a bit shaken comes out of the bushes) What happened, Mother? Why did we all run?

(Ash lowers his head down sadly.)

Bambi's mother: Man...was in the forest.

Ash Ketchum: (sighs sadly) I was afraid it might come to this. (gets up to his feet) Bambi, that creature, whom your mother, the Great Prince and the other animals ran away from and is dubbed "Man", is a human. Just like....me. (Bambi gasps in horror at the revelation) And just like Misty, Brock, Daphne, Fred, Velma, and Shaggy. They're humans too. But that guy is no ordinary human. He's a hunter. Or poacher as I like to call it. Those kinds of humans hunt wild animals. And they've have been doing things like this since the very beginning of time. Including your species.

Bambi: What?! But why?

Ash Ketchum: Because they need to provide enough food for their families so they can last the whole winter. It's been this way for a very, very long time, Bambi. We humans have gotta eat what we gotta eat. And there's nothing we can do to change it. It is how we developed ways to provide food for other people. And from the looks of what happened out in the meadow today, that poacher was sure looking forward to making a fine meal out of you. When someone like him appears again, you must always be on high alert. Because you never know what harm they'll do if they strike the forest.

Bambi: Are there always bad humans out there?

Ash Ketchum: Not all humans are bad, Bambi. There are also good humans who help protect the animals of the forest. Like, um, rangers. They help protect mountains, forests, and the environment. And they help protect the animals who are in danger. One time, I met a ranger who arrested two poachers when they were trying to capture a massive herd of elephants in Africa.

Bambi: Whoa! That's amazing!

Ash Ketchum: Yeah! And she was very friendly too. So, you see, Bambi. While there's humans who are bad and do harm to animals and their environments, there are also good humans who actually care about animals and their environments. And me and my friends are one of those good humans who do care. We all mean well. And we would never do harm to this forest nor do harm to any kind of animal. Please remember that. Okay?

Bambi: Okay.