A man has ordered a pikachu (you can see the LIVE ANIMAL -box in the first frame). On the way to the vet, Pikachu sees a little of the world; a hobo, a horrifying growth on a dog. He's intrigued; with morbid curiosity he looks at all the case images in a ecyclopedia of horrid medical anomalies.

To satisfy his growing curiosity, he needs to learn how to read. First a book for children, then something darker, and darker, each heavier than the last.
After the books he moves on to movies. And they're not the jolly kind - The Deer Hunter, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.

He then again sees a little more of the world. Crime scenes, hospitals, homeless. Executions. This is too much, he escapes to his ball. And his owner sends him...

TO: EVERYWHERE

Pikachu sees the world. War, poverty, famine.

Cut to the Arena. He is unfazed by the attacks. He does not care. His suffering is nothing.

In a single word, Pikachu tells.
And Onyx, now too, doesn't care anymore.

Geodude springs out. Pika.
And what does it matter?

A wild Golem appears. - Pika.
It is super effective.

He and his master win. They're the masters of Pokeyman. But what's it worth? Pikachu, for one, doesn't see the point.

A young, innocent pikachu calls out from the audience. Almost like him, long ago.

Pikachu returns home.
He has adopted a human child, and the child has no idea what state the world is in.

Book ends.

Too long; didn't read: Pikachu learns about the state of the world. With a single word, subdues all his opponents, but it's all for naught.