PS203

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I'm Your Biggest Fan, Donphan
Menacing Gadgets

VS ドンファン

VS Donfan

Info

Shogakukan full volume	Chapter 203 in Vol. 17
VIZ Media full volume	Adventure 203 in Vol. 17
Series	Pokémon Adventures

Other

Location

Route 110

I'm Your Biggest Fan, Donphan (Japanese: VS ドンファン VS Donfan), titled VS Donphan in the Chuang Yi translation, is the 203rd chapter of the Pokémon Adventures manga, and the 23rd chapter of the Ruby & Sapphire arc. It is subtitled Menacing Gadgets (Japanese: 襲いくるカラクリ Rampaging Mechanism) in the VIZ Media translation and Rampaging Robot in the Chuang Yi translation.

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 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 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 emerge, celebrating their success in capturing a Donphan through a high five. Wattson realizes suddenly that they mistakenly captured a human girl. The Donphan 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 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

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

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Ruby & Sapphire arc

PS204 : Plugging Past Electrike I →

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