Zarude's tribe arrives, having been convinced to help save the jungle by Zarude who raised Koko. Zed seizes control of the tank from his henchmen, and Ash, Pikachu and Koko try to fight him to no avail. Before they perished, Chrom and Phossa sent the infant Al down the river with a drive containing the rest of their research, leading to Zarude finding him.ĭr. Zed, who suffers a psychotic breakdown and admits that, when Chrom and Phossa Molybden discovered the Great Tree's location but refused to continue researching it out of respect for the Zarude tribe, he killed the couple by running them off a road and stealing their supply of the spring water before leaving them to die in the explosion of their wrecked car. Ash, Pikachu and Koko escape with unwitting help from Team Rocket as they wrestle with the Cramorant from earlier and confront Dr. He then fires missiles at the Great Tree, blasting open holes from which the spring water gushes forth. Koko and Ash try to stop Zed's actions, but he restrains them using his Ariados and throws them into the back of one of his trucks. Zed arrives with his research team, which Team Rocket have infiltrated, along with a giant, spider-like tank. Distraught over the news of his parents' fate, Koko flees to the Great Tree as well.Īs soon as he reaches the Great Tree, Koko discovers a tracking chip planted on him by Dr. Zed scans Koko's pendant and discovers partially corrupted data on it that reveals an image of the Great Tree. However, Chrom and Phossa were killed in a car accident ten years ago, which was presumed to have killed Al as well. He reveals that Koko's parents are Chrom and Phossa Molybden, a pair of scientists who led the organization in researching the healing springs, and that Koko's real name is Al Molybden. Zarude then leaves, returning to the Great Tree alone.ĭiscovering a wallet from Biotope Company, Ash brings Koko to their headquarters, where they meet with Dr. Zarude brings them to an abandoned laboratory he found shortly after adopting Koko, where he shows them a photograph he found of an infant Koko with his human parents. Discovering that Koko believes himself to be a Pokémon, Ash and Pikachu spend time with him in the town, helping him to learn about humans for the first time.Īsh, Pikachu and Koko later encounter Zarude, who is forced to admit the truth about Koko's heritage. When Koko awakens, he becomes alarmed and escapes the building, having never seen other humans before. Later, Ash sees Koko go over a waterfall, after he got knocked out from a pipe while swinging on a vine with a wild Skwovet, and retrieves him from the water, bringing him to Milyfa Town's Pokémon Center for treatment. Team Rocket, covertly following them, look up information on the Biotope Company and its leader Dr. While attempting to capture a wild Cramorant, Ash and Pikachu encounter a research team from the Biotope Company, a scientific organization studying the jungle. Ten years later, Ash Ketchum and Pikachu visit the Forest of Okoya from nearby Milyfa Town. Zarude leaves his tribe, which inhabits a Great Tree deep in the jungle where humans are forbidden to venture, to raise Koko who grows up as a feral child. Unable to leave the child on his own, Zarude adopts him as a son, giving him the name "Koko". In the Forest of Okoya, the Mythical Pokémon Zarude finds an infant boy in a cradle washed up on a riverbank.