Episode 2 - "Pokémon Emergency!"
    Ash heads into Viridian city with his injured Pokémon, a public announcement was made that there were Pokémon poachers in the area.  Ash is stopped by a policewoman who thinks that Ash might of stolen Pikachu.  After saying that he didn't steal it, the policewoman asks Ash for some I.D.  Not knowing that the Pokédex was some form of I.D. Ash continues to plead that he didn't steal Pikachu.  Suddenly, the policewoman takes out Dexter from Ash and confirms that he was a trainer.  She then takes Ash and Pikachu directly to the Pokémon Centre (it's like a Pokémon hospital).  When they arrive at the Pokémon Centre, Ash gives Pikachu to the nurse where she lays Pikachu on a stretcher and take him to the emergency room.  Ash is stuck waiting in the waiting room where he decides to call his mom and then receives a call from Professor Oak.  Out of nowhere, Misty shows up with her badly, broken bike and starts insulting Ash.  Then, Pikachu is brought out and the nurse tells Ash that Pikachu would be alright.  Without a warning, Team Rocket (the villains who steal Pokémons), shows up at the Centre with their two strong Pokémons, Ekans and Koffing.  Ash, Misty and the nurse head to the Pokémon Transformation Centre where Team Rocket finds them and start a battle between Koffing, Ekans, Rattata, Pidgey and Goldeen.  To save the other Pokémons, the nurse starts transporting all the Pokéballs to the Pewter City Pokémon Centre.  In the middle of it all, Ash turns to run away to get Pikachu.  As Ash was running with Pikachu still on the stretcher, Team Rocket's monsters follow.  The stretcher hits a wire and Pikachu wakes up and calls his other Pikachu friends to help take care of the monsters with a gigantic electric surge which destroys the Pokémon Centre.  The explosion forces Team Rocket to run away as they vow to steal Pikachu, knowing that Pikachu was was not just an ordinary Pokémon. 
    Ash, Misty and Pikachu start heading to Pewter City.  They walk into a forest and Misty discovers a Caterpie (a bug Pokémon that looks like a huge caterpillar).  Then, Ash threw a Pokéball at it.... *read the next episode to see if Ash caught the Caterpie* 
 
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Episode 3 - "Ash Catches a Pokémon"
    Ash throws a Pokéball at the Caterpie and manages to catch it.  This is Ash's first time to catch a Pokémon.  He lets the Caterpie out and Pikachu gives it a warm welcome then the Caterpie goes over to Misty.  She becomes disgusted with it and admits hating carrots, bell peppers and bugs.  The Caterpie seems to like Misty and starts crying when she rejected him.  She wants to be Pikachu's friend instead and suggested Ash to be Caterpie's friend.  Mad and jealous, Ash threatens that he'll abandon Misty in the forest so Pikachu jumps out of Misty's arms and quickly follows him.  Misty starts to follow Ash so Ash has no choice but to take her along.  When night came long, Pikachu and Caterpie were having a little conversation. 
    The next morning, Caterpie is found sleeping next to Misty.  Ash finds a Pidgeotto, an evolved form of Pidgey.  It chases Caterpie until Ash him in a Pokéball.  Then, Ash sent for Pikachu to capture Pidgeotto.  Not long after, Team Rocket shows up and demands that Ash give up Pikachu.  Ash refuses their demand so Team Rocket releases their Pokémons.  Pidgeotto fights but the battle was going nowhere.  Ash calls upon Caterpie, who was injured from Pidgeotto earlier.  Caterpie uses his String attack on Ekans and Koffing.  He then wraps Meowth in the string and Team Rocket flees again.  After the battle, Misty agrees to become Caterpie's friend.  As she was going to pet him, Caterpie mummifies himself in string and becomes Metapod.  The Pokédex said that Caterpie evolved into Metapod quicker than the others.  Misty wants to leave the forest but Ash insists on staying and catching more Pokémons.  *And that's the end of the episode....* 
 
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Episode 4 - "Challenge of the Samurai"
    Well, Ash, Misty and Pikachu are wandering around forest in search of more Pokémons.  Misty REALLY wants to get out of there and on to Pewter City when she discovers another bug Pokémon called a Weedle (a caterpillar with a poisonous stinger) She screams and Ash tries calling upon Pikachu to catch it but he's napping so he sent Pidgeotto instead to try to catch it.  In the middle of the battle, Misty runs away and meet a Samurai Pokémon trainer, Ososhru.  He tells her not to scream or else she'll attract attention of some Beedrills (a Weedle's the third-stage of evolution)  Then, Ososhru asked Misty if she knows of any Pokémon trainers from Pallet Town.  Immediately, she thinks that he's talking about Ash.  As the battle between Pidgeotto and the Weedle was still going on, and Ash was about to catch the Weedle, he is interrupted by the Samurai, who declares a battle.  The Weedle manages to run away and Ash agrees to the battle.  Ash calls upon the weaken Pidgeotto to fight against the Samurai's Pincer.  In no time, Pidgeotto loses to Pincer so Ash calls upon Metapod.  Metapod's shell hardens and Pincer is unable to penetrate it.  Ososhru calls his Pincer back and brings out his Metapod.  His Metapod also hardens.  Meanwhile, Team Rocket is lurking somewhere in the forest and is trying to avoid the Beedrills.  Back at the battle, Ososhru and Ash still urges their Metapods on when some Beedrills interrupt them.  The samurai takes his Metapod back but the Beedrills gets a hold of Ash's Metapod.  Ash, the samurai and the others run to the samurai's cabin as the Beedrills come after them.  In the cabin, the samurai tells his story of how he's lost to three trainers from Pallet Town and vowed to defeat one. 
    The next morning, Ash finds Metapod near a bunch of Kakunas.  Suddenly, Team Rocket shows up and demands for Pikachu again.  This awakes the Beedrills and they start chasing everyone.  Ash escapes but Team Rocket didn't.  A Beedrill swoops down towards Ash but Metapod saves him by jumping in front of him.  They beat the Beedrills and Metapod miraculously evolves to Butterfree.  The samurai doesn't see Ash as a novice anymore and shows them the way to Pewter City. 
 
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Episode 5 - "Showdown in Pewter City"
    Team Rocket tries to set up a trap for Ash and the others but lost the site of the trap and fall in it themselves.  Meanwhile, Ash, Misty and Pikachu are relieved to get out of the forest.  They meet this rock-seller who said that they were standing on his merchandise.  The seller notices Ash's worn out Pokémon so he takes them to the Pewter City Pokémon Centre.  Ash enters the centre and gives another Nurse Joy (all the nurses are identical in every Pokémon Centre) his Pokémon.  The nurse shows Ash a poster about the Pokémon League's National Championship Tournament, but Ash needs to get a badge from the Pewter City Gym.  Ash and Misty eat at a restaurant until Ash leaves Misty with the bill since he didn't want her to help him defeat the gym leader.  Ash runs to the Pokémon Centre to get his Pokémon back and turns to go towards the gym.  There, Ash challenges Brock, the leader of the Pewter City gym.  Brock tells Ash the tournament qualification matches and then the battle begins.  Ash sends Pikachu to go against Brock's Onix (a rock Pokémon)  Pikachu loses the battle and Ash leaves the gym.  The rock-seller shows Ash that Brock is the guardian of 10 brothers and sisters.  This makes Ash a little sad, but he is still determined to beat Brock.  The rock-seller offers to help Ash out and make Pikachu stronger. 
    Ash goes back to the gym and tries to beat Brock again.  Ash loses again with Pikachu in Onix's grip.  Brock calls his Onix to stop because he didn't want to see Pikachu hurt anymore.  The fire from Pikachu's blast starts the water sprinkling system to go on which weakens Onix.  Ash decides to take advantage of the situation and calls Pikachu to strike at Onix.  Suddenly, Brock's brothers and sisters holds back Ash.  Ash remembers what Brock has to go through so he called back Pikachu.  Ash and Pikachu leave the gym when Brock catches up with them.  He gives Ash a badge for caring about other people and other Pokémons.  Brock tells Ash that he can't go with him because he still has to take care of his siblings.  Suddenly, the rock-seller appears and says that he is actually Brock's father.  His father suggests Brock to go with Ash and he will take care of his children.  After, Brock is all ready to go and joins Ash on his quest.  As they're running to the next city, they trample over Team Rocket's heads. 
 
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Episode 6 - "Clefairy and the Moonstone"
    Misty, Ash, Brock and Pikachu head towards Cerulean City where they reach Mt. Moon. Legend has it that a meteor known as the Moonstone smashed into the mountain during prehistoric times. On Mt. Moon, they meet a scientist named Seymour, who was swarmed from a flock of some Zubats (a bat Pokémon). Pikachu saves him with his famous electrical blast.  After giving his thanks, Seymour tells them that a moon rock is very special and helps increases a Pokémon's power and that some troublemakers looking for the Moonstone had put up lights in the cave that are confusing the Pokémon. Inside the cave, a  Clefairy (pink powder puff) carrying a Moonstone fragment passes them.  Ash wants to catch it but Seymour says not to.  After the Clefairy disappears within the caves, it screams and Ash, along with the others, come rushing to its rescue.  Then, they find Team Rocket and Meowth.  They let loose Koffing and Ekans to capture the Clefairy. Ash tells Misty to help Clefairy and Seymour escape as he and Brock stall Team Rocket with Butterfree and a Zubat that Brock captured outside the cave. Misty, Clefairy and Seymour escape as Zubat uses his super-sonic attack to confuse Ekans and Koffing into attacking each other, then Butterfree whirlwinds Team Rocket outside the cave. 
    Outside, the Clefairy is attacked by Meowth again.  Misty calls upon her Staryu (a starfish-looking Pokémon), who lets loose its star-attack and then beat Meowth out as Staryu fills him up with water Meowth blows up like a balloon and then blast away away as the water rushes out of his mouth. Later on, they all sit down and eat some of Brock's special Pokémon food.  Clefairy and Pikachu are having a conversation and then lead the group to a cave that contains the Moonstone.  Clefairy takes out his rock fragment that he has been holding the whole time and puts it near the Moonstone.  Suddenly, more Clefairy appear and dance around it. Pikachu, tries to communicate with Ash and he finally gets it-- the Clefairy pray to the Moonstone.  Again, Team Rocket shows up and challenges Ash and 
Brock to a another battle.  They start battling but it's not long when Koffing's smoke fills the air.  Pidgeotto whirls away the smoke, they 
discover that the Moonstone is stolen by Team Rocket.  Onix chases them them underground.  Onix jumps out of the ground and they collide, which sends Team Rocket airborne.  Meanwhile, Seymour explains to the Clefairy why they must help return the Moonstone. The clefairies appear and use an attack called Metronome.  It blasts everyone into the air and blows up the Moonstone as well.  As fragments Moonstone fall from the sky, several Clefairies evolve into Clefables 
(they're bigger and have bigger wings). The Clefairies and Clefables gather around a pile of Moonstone fragments, Seymour tells the gang that he'll be staying with the Clefairies and do some more research.  Soon, the group head for Cerulean City. On the way, Ash rinds a message scribbled on the sign that reads, "Gary was here! Ash is a loser!" The mad Ash runs down the road with Brock and Misty following after him. 
 
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Episode 7 - "The Water Flowers of Cerulean City"
    The gang are heading down the path to Cerulean City.  Ash is getting excited to get another badge as Misty starts getting uneasy that they are nearing Cerulean City. She said that there are lots of scary ghost Pokémons there, and suggests that they go to Vermilion City instead. But, still, Ash and Brock go down the path into Cerulean City. Meanwhile, in a Cerulean store, Team Rocket sneaks in and steals a vacuum and a giant hose. Ash  and Brock wander around and discover that they lose Misty.  Soon, they across a crime scene. A person says there are burglars, and a policewoman who looks a lot like the one from Viridian City, says she is the twin sister-in-law of the policewomen in the previous episodes. The policewoman starts getting suspicious, but Ash proves her wrong with his Pokédex. The policewoman tells Ash and Brock about the theft, but they don't know who did it yet.  They sit down on a bench, and Ash wants some info on the Cerulean City Gym, but Brock won't tell him anything. After, Brock says he needs to do some "stuff" and leaves Ash by himself. Finally, Ash finds the gym, and enters it, ready to fight. He's really surprised and finds a group of sisters performing on a long pool, doing dives and synchronized swimming. Ash leaves the main room, and he sees that the gym is like built like an aquarium. He soon runs into the three, beautiful sisters, and he discovers they are called the "Sensational Sisters," and he challenges them, but they are all worn out by fighting other people. They didn't feel like fighting so one of the sisters offers to just give Ash a cascade badge (badge that you get after winning a battle) and skip the hassle of battling.  Ash says he rather earn it, then suddenly, Misty enters, and challenges Ash to a battle. Misty admits that she is a sensational sister also, but her older sister says she is a runt. Her sisters start insulting her and say Ash is her boyfriend. Misty denies it and they start to battle. Ash calls on Pikachu, but Pikachu doesn't want to fight a Misty, his friend. So Ash calls upon Butterfree instead.. Misty calls upon her Staryu.  Butterfree uses a tackle, but Staryu uses a counter attack and blocks it. The battle goes on for a while, as Butterfree definitely has an advantage. Staryu washes it off, but Butterfree uses its sleeping powder, and Misty's Staryu uses some more tackles.  Now Ash calls Pidgeotto, so Misty calls Starmie. They go at it for a while, and Pidgeotto blasts Misty into the wall. 
    Without a warning, there's a rumbling noise, and Team Rocket appears with this machine with a large hose to suck up all the Pokémon from the pool. They were actually the ones who stole the stuff from the store earlier.  Team Rocket suck up Seel, but Pikachu uses a thunderbolt and electrocute Team Rocket, but Pikachu is also being sucked up too. Ash climbs up on the giant hose and turns the switch. Pikachu gets out safe and sound.  Team Rocket blasts off again. After that, Ash gets the badge for his heroic deed while Misty argues that she should of had it instead.  Brock catches up with them while Misty and Ash begin to fight again.  They go on their path to get more badges.  *What lies ahead on their path, they'll soon find out* 
 
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Episode 8 - "The Path to the Pokémon League"
    Proud Ash is on the path to Vermilion City, with two Gym badges, he is determined to beat the trainer at the next gym. Along the way, Ash uses his Pokémon, Pidgeotto, to defeat a trainer, and he compliments him about his skills. After Ash gets his tenth victory, the trainer tells Ash to challenge A.J.. Ash finds the gym, A.J.'s Gym, which is unofficial by the Pokémon League. Ash meets up with A.J., and Ash finds out that he has 98 wins so far. Confidently, Ash challenges A.J.. to a battle.  A.J. takes out his whip, and Ash shows off his badges.  A.J. calls the badges are from loser gyms which makes Misty and Brock angry and tells Ash to pulverize this guy. A.J. calls upon Sandshrew (an armadillo-looking Pokémon), as Ash takes out Pidgeotto. Pidgeotto is suppose to have an advantage over Sandshrew (a ground-type Pokémon), but the Sandshrew has had some good training and knocks Pidgeotto from the air. Ash calls Pidgeotto after being defeated, and takes out Butterfree. After using another attack from Sandshrew, Butterfree is knocked down too. Ash loses the match when Pikachu didn't want to fight. Team Rocket is close by, and they think the Sandshrew is tempting. James hits Meowth down, and Meowth falls down somewhere. But Ash, in the ring, cries and asks for a rematch, but A.J. doesn't want one. Then, Ash suspects foul play.  The group finds out how A.J. trains his Pokémons, but it looks like he's torturing the Pokémons. Sandshrew dives in the water, but Ash pushes A.J. into the water. A.J. tells his story to the gang that Sandshrew was the first Pokémon he ever caught, and they promised to be the best there ever was. Team Rocket lurks nearby, in the tent.  The bell rings in the gym tent, and A.J. gives the Pokémons a short break.  Team Rocket disguise themselves and mistake Sandshrew Pikachu and kidnap him! A.J. is devastated when he discovers Sandshrew is missing. A.J. calls for him, but there was not response.  Ash suggested that Sandshrew might of ran away due to A.J.'s harsh training methods.   Elsewhere, Sandshrew jumps out of the bag and Meowth is knocked out.  Sandshrew manages to escape underground with Meowth's mouth latched on its tail.  Soon Sandshrew and Meowth are found in the tent. Ash, Misty, and Brock discover that A.J. really does care about his Pokémon after an emotional moment, as Pikachu points out Meowth is on the floor. Team Rocket suddenly appear out of nowhere. . Jesse and James come to Meowth's and insult A.J.'s Pokémon and the gym. A.J. challenges them for his 100th win and, as usual, Jesse chooses Ekans while James calls out Koffing.  Bringing the match to a close, Sandshrew leaps into the air, smashing into the ground hard enough to split it in half. The monsters freak out and run away, as A.J gets his 100th win. A.J decides leaves on his own, in search for some badges.  In the end, Ash decides A.J. isn't as bad as he thought, and promises he'll beat him next time as the world' greatest Pokémon trainer. 
 
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Episode 9 - "The School of Hard Knocks"
    Once again, Ash, Misty, and Brock are heading down the path and on their way to Vermilion city. At the beginning, Ash and Misty are in a fog-shrouded place, fighting over the bike, while Brock tries to settle them down. Then he says the group needs some food, so he sets up the table. Brock says Ash and Misty are too young for the coffee, so he offers some prune juice instead. Misty wants tea, and Brock takes out his official "Pokémon Tea Set." Then Brock takes out his "sparkling water" and offers Ash and Misty some French snacks, (they were crêpes actually) but he can't make any if he doesn't have any firewood. Misty doesn't want to go and stays with Brock, so Ash is the one left to get some. Pikachu finds a fire in the distance.  Ash actually finds a group of kids in suits interrogating some other kid on a treadmill. It seem like they were bullying the kid so Ash bursts into the group, and tells them to stop bullying him. The group of kids finally leave and Ash learns that they are from Pokémon Tech, a school for Pokémon trainers who want to join the Pokémon League without travelling around the fighting for badges . While Brock reads the brochure Misty had about it, Pikachu is having some fun and working out (it was cute). The group finds the school, and Joe, the kid who was getting bullied, tells them that he was just pretending that he didn't know the answers to the questions, so he won't to get any harder questions. Joe tells them that a beginner is as good as a person with 2 badges, a intermediate student is as good as someone with 4 badges. And an advance student is as good as someone with eight badges. Joe also mentioned that many students don't graduate but are too embarrassed to leave without a diploma.  Ash says he wants to meet the person in charge of the student-helping course, and Joe shows them a picture of a girl, who Ash and Brock immediately like. Misty gets jealous right away, and decides to look for the girl. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is getting flashbacks from when they were in Pokémon Tech, and remember how they did in that school.  Anyway, the group head towards the place where the girl usually practices.  Joe tells them that he's better than the rest. Misty and Joe want to battle after Joe insults her gym. Misty calls upon Starmie while Joe calls upon his Weepingbell.  Starmie uses some water attacks which blasts Weepingbell down. Joe wonders why he lost, and Gazelle, the girl, tells them that Misty's Pokémon is much more stronger than his. Misty and Gazelle have a cat fight and decide to battle.  Graveler (a rock Pokémon) and Starmie go at it. Rock Pokémon are weak against water ones, but Gazelle beats Misty anyway.  Ash butts in and says some stuff to Gazelle.  After a heated chit chat, Ash and Gazelle decide to battle.  Ash calls upon Pikachu and Gazelle calls on her Cubone (a lizard wearing a cow's skull and wielding a bone). Pikachu uses shock attack, and Cubone counters. Cubone uses his bone to throw at Pikachu, so Pikachu decides makes some faces to stare Cubone down.  After approaching each other, Cubone clubs him on the head with his bone. Ash tells Pikachu to give it his best shot, and when Cubone throws the bone again, Pikachu jumps over it, and manages to beat Cubone.  Gazelle calls back Cubone when he starts to cry. Out of nowhere, Team Rocket, who had the worse grades ever, show up. Soon gazelle calls up her group of classmates to fight against Team Rocket, and after being pelted by Pokéballs, they blast off again. After, Gazelle learns an important lesson. Joe decides to go home and start from scratch, just like Ash. 
 
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Episode 10 - "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village"
    Ash, Misty, and Brock are traveling in the forest, lost.  Misty and Ash start fighting again and Brock tries to break the fight up.  While resting near a pond, Ash spots an Oddish (a blue radish with feet) taking a drink. Misty wants to catch it.  She starts with her Staryu and the battle begins.  Just before she was about to throw the Pokéball at the weakened Oddish, another Pokémon called Bulbasaur, intercepts it and knocks away Staryu.  Ash wants to catch the Bulbasaur and calls upon Butterfree to do it.  Butterfree tries to wear Bulbasaur down with a a sleep attack but Bulbasaur just blows it back at Butterfree and makes Butterfree sleepy instead.  In all the confusion, Bulbasaur and Oddish run away to the bushes.  Eventually, Ash forgets about it and the gang tries to cross a suspension bridge that isn't on their map.  Suddenly, the ropes break.  They cling on for a while until Brock couldn't hold it any longer and falls into the river below.  Ash and Misty are able to climb back up.  Ash, Misty and Pikachu start running to look for Brock.  Suddenly, Misty falls into a big hole but manages to get out.  She manages to get out the group starts running to look for Brock again.  This time, they get caught in a net.  Unable to move Ash, Misty and Pikachu are left hanging up on a tree in a net.  Bulbasaur comes along but just leaves them hanging there.  Suddenly, Brock appears and cut them down.  Brock tells them that a beautiful girl, Melanie, saved him from being washed away in the river.  Soon Brock brings them to a small house, which is suppose to be like a Pokémon Centre.  When the arrive there and meet Melanie, Misty starts teasing Brock because he had a crush on her.  Later on, Misty sees Oddish there and apologizes that she tried to catch him earlier.  The little house is protected by Bulbasaur.  Bulbasaur wants to fight because he doesn't like Pokémon trainers, and wants Ash, Misty, and Brock to leave.  Melanie tries to tell him that they mean no harm.  Then, as usual, Team Rocket appear to ruin things up.  They ride on top of a floating on a stadium roof that is suspended by balloons. The huge roof lands and a giant vacuum tube pops out and begins to suck everything up, including the Pokémons.  Melanie urges everyone to go into the house for safety.  Bulbasaur bursts out the front door and attacks the vacuum to save them.  Soon, Team Rocket wants to suck all the monsters in inside the house. When Team Rocket tries various attempts, Ash comes out and foils their plans.  Bulbasaur uses his vine attack to knock away the huge hose.  Ash calls upon his Pidgeotto.  Pidgeotto uses his gust attack and blows away Team Rocket but caused a huge tornado after the gust met the vacuum suction.  Team Rocket blasts off again at the speed of light.  Finally, it's over.  Melanie asks Ash to take Bulbasaur along.  Ash agrees, but Bulbasaur wants a battle first so Ash calls Pikachu to fight.  After a good match, Pikachu manages to weaken Bulbasaur down with one his electric bolts.  Then, Ash throws a Pokéball at Bulbasaur and catches it.  Now it's time to bid farewell to Melanie.  Brock offers to stay and help out, but she doesn't want to keep him away from his adventures.  The gang walk away, leaving the little house behind.  Once again, they set off for their quest. 
 
Read Episodes 11-20 to find out more about their adventures
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