Ash Ketchum and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

Ash Ketchum and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland is another Pokémon crossover film made by Toonwriter.

Plot

Bert and Ernie open the film and the story starts with Ash and his friends from Kalos are all eating breakfast. Bonnie wants to take in the sights on Sesame Street, but Serena reminds her that they only came to do laundry and that they will have to leave immediatly after, much to Ash and Bonnie's disappointment. After they leave, the scene changes to Elmo's room. Elmo welcomes the viewer, finds his fuzzy cotton blue blanket, and plays with it in his bedroom. After spilling juice on his Blanket, he takes it to the laundromat and has it washed and dried. Elmo then makes music with the laundry equipment, but Big Bird, the Count, Rosita, Baby Bear, and Prairie Dawn and Ash and his friends hear it unexpectedly and join in the music. When he is about to take his blanket home, Elmo encounters his friend Zoe, who is feeling depressed because her father, due to having to work, cannot take her to the zoo, so Elmo decides to cheer up Zoe up by imitating some zoo animals. When Zoe sees Elmo's blanket, Elmo denies sharing with her, resulting in a tug of war that rips Elmo's blanket. Upset at this, Elmo declares that Zoe is no longer his friend. Ash jumps back in surprise, due to this being the first time to hear a kid Elmo's age say something like that. Suddenly, Telly Monster inadvertently takes away the blanket while rollerskating wildly, leading into a chase around Sesame Street. The blanket accidentally lands into the hands of Oscar the Grouch, who drops it in his trash can after sneezing into it. Elmo, Ash and Pikachu dive into the bottom of Oscar's trash can, where they find Elmo's blanket snagged on a door. Elmo attempts to retrieve it, but he, Ash, Pikachu and his blanket are all teleported through a colorful, swirling wormhole to Grouchland, a city filled with Grouches, stinky garbage, and Huxley, a mean, immature and greedy man who steals anything he can grab, including Elmo's blanket and Ash's Pikachu. Wanting their belongings back, Ash and Elmo begin a journey through Grouchland. A kind-hearted Grouch girl named Grizzy tells them that thier belongings are all in Huxley's house at the top of the faraway Mount Pickanose, but also warns the boys that they may never make it there. Feeling that Grizzy is right, Elmo becomes discouraged and Ash tries to cheer him up. However, a green plant named Stuckweed, encourages them that they will make it and that they just have to take their first step into the journey, and Elmo and Ash set out on a quest to get Elmo's blanket and Ash's Pikachu back. Meanwhile, the Sesame Street residents and Ash's friends are informed of Ash and Elmo's absence and go to Grouchland to find them, with help from Oscar. When Big Bird and Zoe find a Grouch police officer and ask him for help, the entire group ends up arrested and imprisoned as the police officer informs them that it is against the law to ask for help in Grouchland.

Meanwhile, when Huxley is informed of Ash and Elmo coming to retrieve their belongings, he has his trusted sidekick, Bug the bug, and his minions, the Pesties, trap the duo in a tunnel. However, they both get out with the help of fireflies. Upon noticing that they're still coming, Huxley has Bug and the Pesties pose as construction workers, set up a fake construction zone, and misdirect Ash and Elmo into a nearby garbage dump, where they are forcibly brought before the Queen of Trash for trespassing in her kingdom. At first she assumes that Elmo might be in league with Huxley, Elmo denies this, but then, he remembers that he refused to share his blanket with Zoe, and feels ashamed. The Queen gives him what she believes is an impossible test by requesting that they blow 100 raspberries for her, in a set time of 30 seconds. Due to his competitive nature, Ash eagerly accepts the challenge. By getting help from the audience, they succeed at this and the Queen allows them to continue on their way to Huxley's house. Left with no other remaining options to stop them, Huxley sends his humongous chicken to confront Ash and Elmo, as the chicken mistakes Elmo for a worm. However, Elmo successfully convinces the chicken that he is not a worm, but this only prompts the chicken to toss Elmo far away, leaving Huxley to conclude that he defeated Elmo. Ash chases after Elmo as fast as he can. Resting on a rock, Elmo realizes that night has come, and gives up on retrieving his blanket. Ash sings him a lullaby that Serena taught him, while coincidentally, Ash's friends and the Sesame Street residents in jail sing the song as well. They all fall asleep shortly after.

Meanwhile, Grizzy sneaks into the jail where she informs Elmo and Ash's friends that they went to Huxley's house. Oscar is convinced to help set things right as well as admitting that Elmo, Ash and Pikachu are his friends. He then convinces the police officer as well as all of the Grouches of Grouchland that even though Grouches hate to cooperate, the only way they can finally stop Huxley from stealing any more of their trash once and for all, is if they swallow their pride and work together just once. The police officer releases the Sesame Street residents and the Grouches aid them to go to Huxley's house to fight for their trash and rescue Elmo.

A caterpillar wakes up Elmo and Ash the next morning on the rock. He gives Elmo advice to look inside himself and he'll see that he has what it takes to be brave. Taking the caterpillar's advice, and following a strategy Ash has planned, they make it to Huxley's house before Huxley has the chance to make Elmo's Blanket "his" blanket, and Pikachu "his pet." However, Huxley sends the Pesties to stop Elmo from making his getaway, but Elmo evades the Pesties by jumping into a nearby laundry basket, and Huxley foils Elmo's getaway himself, by grabbing the basket with a remote controlled claw while Elmo is in it, intending to rubber stamp "MINE" on him. Just as Elmo is about to face the fate of never seeing his friends again, the Sesame Street and Grouchland citizens appear in time to rescue them, and the Pesties flee in a panic. However, Huxley takes Elmo's blanket again in all the chaos, and it is suddenly sucked it up with the vacuum cleaner nozzle on the front of Huxley's helicopter, as Elmo intentionally falls and lands on,  incapacitating him. Promptly, everyone sees Bug at the controls of the helicopter with Elmo's blanket and Ash's Pikachu, and Huxley demands both of them back. Bug refuses, as he has been sympathetic to Elmo, and gives Elmo back his blanket. While Huxley, shocked at being betrayed by his own sidekick, fails to regret being greedy and selfish, promising to give back everything that he stole. However, Serena's Pancham uses Arm Thrust on him (off-screen), knocking him out cold. Elmo is hailed a hero by the Sesame Street residents, the Grouchland citizens and Ash and his friends themselves.

Happy to have finally gotten his blanket back, Elmo returns to Sesame Street with his friends (using a shortcut that Oscar knows of), where he apologizes to Zoe about hurting her feelings(after Ash finally gets the chance to talk to him(he intended to do so at the beginning)), and then allows her to hold his blanket and she happily accepts his apology, agreeing that they can permanently resume their friendship. Ash and Bonnie ask Serena if they really do need to hit the road, and Serena decides that they maybe they do need a vacation, to which Clemont agrees, especially since they need to recover after their time in jail. As the story concludes, Elmo says good-bye to the audience and thanks them for helping before going to dance with his friends, while Bert and Ernie congratulate the audience for playing along and head home, closing the film as the credits roll.

Trivia

• Ash Ketchum, Pikachu, Serena, Clemont, Bonnie, and Dedenne will appear in this film.
• Team Rocket will work for Huxley in this film.
• Officer Jenny will be shown at the end of this film where she is taking Huxley to solitary confinement where he will receive a capital punishment decided by his family and the court. Huxley's punishment was a trip to Arkham Asylum located in Gotham City.
• This film will also be dedicated to Caroll Spinney, the former puppeteer of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, who died in 2019.

Transcript

Ash Ketchum and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland/Transcript