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I'm Your Biggest Fan, Donphan/VS Donphan

VS ドンファン

VS Donfan

Info

Series

Pokémon Adventures

Other

Location

Route 110

I'm Your Biggest Fan, Donphan/VS Donphan or Rampaging Robot (Japanese: VS ドンファン VS Donfan or 襲いくるカラクリ Rampaging Mechanism) is the 203rd round of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

On Route 110, Sapphire is contemplating about Steven's whereabouts. She resolves herself to challenge the Gyms and progress across Hoenn to search for clues. While overlooking Mauville City, Sapphire notices that the patch of grass she is standing on is markedly different to the other sections, and she springs a pitfall trap. While dangling, Sapphire wonders where she has gotten to but is unable to see due to the perpetual darkness.

Sapphire manages to free herself from the trap by swinging out of it, landing hard on her rear. As she does so, she is approached by a mysterious looking robot, which proceeds to attack her with an array of punches. More robots then emerge, surrounding Sapphire. A huge robot disguised as a tree uproots from the ground, snatching Sapphire, Chic, and Rono. Sapphire shouts at the machine to let her go, but it then flings both Sapphire and her Pokémon onto a conveyor belt, leading to a railroad and eventually trapping them inside a ball.

Wattson and the Trick Master then emerge, celebrating their success in capturing a Donphan through a high five. Wattson then realizes suddenly that they mistakenly captured a human girl. The Donphan then appears, and on a rampage one of Wattson's robots, as Sapphire chides the two for mistaking her for a Pokémon. Wattson and the Trick Master then inform Sapphire that they were merely trying to capture the troublesome Donphan. They introduce themselves to Sapphire, who informs the two of her predicament with the pitfall trap. She asks whether that was one of their traps to capture Donphan, but they confirm that they only set the robot tree trap for Sapphire. Both Wattson and the Trick Master confer on the issue, asking one another whether they are thinking the same thing. Wattson concludes that Sapphire accidentally uncovered the entrance to the "Phantom Underground", New Mauville. Both Wattson and the Trick Master are ecstatic at this development, leading to Wattson creating a terrible pun, much to Sapphire's dismay.

Major events

• Sapphire is attacked by many robots under Wattson and the Trick Master's control after the two mistake her for a rampaging Donphan.
• Wattson, the Trick Master, and Sapphire uncover the entrance to the Phantom Underground, New Mauville.

For a list of all major events in the Pokémon Adventures manga, please see the history page.

	Spoilers end here.

Debuts

• Wattson
• Trick Master

Characters

Humans

• Sapphire
• Wattson
• Trick Master

Pokémon

• Lairon (Rono; Sapphire's)
• Combusken (Chic; Sapphire's)
• Donphan (later Sapphire's)

Trivia

• The joke Wattson tells in the original version is lost in translation. In the Japanese version, he calls New Mauville "地下都市", or "Underground City" and makes a pun on the kanji used in it being near-homonyms for "近" and "遠し", which mean "near" and "far" respectively.
• In the Brazilian Portuguese translation, the Trick Master makes a reference to Sherlock Holmes with the phrase "Elementar, meu caro Wattson!".

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		VS 頓甲 (Taiwan) VS 顿甲 (Mainland China)
European French		La ville secrète
Korean		VS 코리갑
Brazilian Portuguese		VS Donphan
Vietnamese		VS Donfan - Bị robot tấn công

This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.