Episode 11 - "Charmander,
the Stray Pokémon"
Once again,
Ash, Misty and Brock are lost. The only Pokémon that's available
in the area are Spearows. Ash points out that Route 24 would lead
them straight to Vermilion City. The gang is about to leave on their
way when they come across a HUGE Pokémon. It's actually a
large rock with a Charmander on it (a lizard-looking Pokémon with
a flame on its tail). The Charmander seems weak because the flame
on its tail is almost out. Legend says that when the Charmander's
flame goes out, it'll die. Brock suggests that it seems injured so
Ash is about to catch it with his Pokéball when Charmander flicks
the Pokéball away. With Pikachu's help, the gang finds out
that Charmander is actually waiting for his trainer to come back.
Since they can't get Charmander to go with them, Brock suggests to leave
Charmander there and let him wait for his trainer.
Ash, Misty,
Brock and Pikachu leave and head towards the Pokémon Centre.
The weather is horrible with lots of rain and lightning. In the Centre,
the gang warm up with a bowl of soup as Brock is getting more worried about
Charmander. Then, in the Centre, the gang hear some people talking.
Ash and Brock hear a boy, Damien, bragging about his collection of Pokémons.
They hear him talk about abandoning his Charmander on the rock. After
hearing this, Ash, Misty and Brock get very angry. Knowing that Charmander's
flame might go out, Brock threatens Damien to get his Charmander back,
but Damien doesn't really care what might happen to his Charmander.
After a heated fight between Ash and Damien, they decide to battle but
Nurse Joy breaks it up. After a while, Ash, Misty and Brock decide
to go out in the rain and rescue Charmander from the storm. When
they reach the rock where Charmander was, they see a flock of Spearows
attacking it. Pikachu rescues Charmander from the Spearows by sending
a electric bolt at them, as well as Ash's gang. Quickly, they take
Charmander back to the Centre as his flame is almost out. At the
Centre, Nurse Joy takes Charmander and puts him in the Emergency Room.
The next
morning, the find out that Charmander is missing. In panic, Ash,
Misty and Brock head back to the huge rock to find Charmander waiting for
Damien again. Nurse Joy had said that Charmander would stay on the
rock until he's convinced that Damien won't come back. The group
finally accepts that Charmander won't go with them, so they go on Route
24 to Vermilion City. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is making another huge
trap. Using their super-duper high-speed whatchamacallit, they drill
a huge hole and cover it up. The trap is done and Team Rocket hide
behind the trees. Pikachu steps right over the disguised pit but
doesn't fall in at all. When Ash, Brock and Misty step on it, they
fall into the pit, leaving Pikachu at the surface. Team Rocket, thanks
to their rubber super-duper anti-Pikachu suits, capture Pikachu with a
red balloon-shooting super-duper anti-Pikachu bazooka. They manage to capture
Pikachu in a huge balloon. Ash hears Pikachu calling him but Ash
couldn't get up from the pit. Suddenly, Charmander comes along and
warns Team Rocket to let go of Pikachu. Charmander gets angry and
lets out a huge ball of fire at them. Quickly, Team Rocket drops
Pikachu and runs away. Not long after, Damien shows up and says that
he wants Charmander back. Charmander refuses to go with him.
Then, Damien gets torched and electrocuted by Charmander and Pikachu.
Brock suggests that Ash should take Charmander so Ash calls him into the
Pokéball. Now, Charmander is happy with his new friends.
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Episode 12 - "Here comes
the Squirtle Squad"
Ash is
really excited about his new Pokémon, Charmander. As the gang
were walking towards Vermilion City, they stumble into another pit.
Looking up, they see a group of Squirtles (blue turtles with red shells),
who had made the pit as a joke. Angry at the Squirtles, Ash tells
Pikachu to electrocute them and Pikachu manages to send a electrical bolt
on one of them. Pikachu and the leader of the Squirtle squad have
a short conversation (the leader is the one with the huge, pointy sunglasses).
Suddenly, Officer Jenny (this is a different Jenny from the other episodes...she's
one of the identical cousins named Jenny) comes by with her police siren,
which scares away the Squirtles. The officers tells Ash, Misty and
Brock about the Squirtle Squad. The Squirtles are part of a Pokémon
gang and they play practical jokes on the townspeople. The Squirtle
Squad was formed after their trainers abandoned them. Meanwhile,
Team Rocket are hungry and decide to have a picnic, but, lurking nearby
were the hungry Squirtles. The Squirtles demand for their food and Team
Rocket fall into a hole as they were trying to call for their Pokémons.
Happily, the Squirtles eat Team Rocket's food as they were tied up a tree.
Jesse had tried to compromise with the Squirtles but the Squirtles didn't
trust humans. Meowth manages to convince the Squirtles to let him
go by telling them that Jesse and James were his pets. Later on,
Misty is fishing when she thought she caught something. It was actually
a Squirtle. Pikachu uses his electric surge to shock the Squirtle
but shocks Ash, Misty and Brock instead. Suddenly, the Squirtle flings
Pikachu into the river. As Pikachu was trying to get back to shore,
a Goldeen (a horned fish) had used its needle attack and weakened Pikachu.
Without warning, some Squirtles threw some ropes at Pikachu and roped him
up. Then, they rope up Ash, Misty and Brock also.
Inside
the cave, the group finds out that Meowth is behind it all. Pikachu
is found inside a cage, all injured and weak. Ash knows that Pikachu
needs some Super Potion and manages to compromise with the Squirtles to
let him get some for Pikachu. Meowth threatens to dye Misty's hair
purple if he's not back by noon tomorrow. Quickly, Ash runs to the
nearest town to get some medicine. He almost makes it to the door
of the shop when Gary opens it, accidentally smacking Ash in
the face. Ash finally
gets back some consciousness to find that Team Rocket had robbed the store.
He is nearly shot by the shop keepers when he runs in to get the super
potion but manages to get the medicine. Officer Jenny escorts Ash
to the cave. Ash goes in by himself with Charmander lighting the
way. Ash gives Misty the potion and she sprays it on Pikachu.
They're interrupted with Team Rocket throwing down bombs. The gang
run for cover but there is one Squirtle who was upside down on its shell
and couldn't get up. Ash risks his life and covers the Squirtle to
protect it. As more bombs drop, Squirtle grabs Ash and runs into
the cave. A huge fire had started and all the Squirtles team up to
hose the fire down.
Afterwards,
the Squirtles get an award for being so brave and are appointed the town's
firefighters. As Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu are on their way,
they find Squirtle, the leader of the squad, following behind them.
He wants to join Ash's team and takes off his sunglasses to reveal a cute
Pokémon. Squirtle runs to Ash to receive a warm welcome from
Ash and Pikachu.
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Episode 13 - "Mystery at the
Lighthouse"
No big
surprise....our heroes are lost. Brock and Misty lack faith in Ash's
Pokémon-catching abilities
and Misty gets Ash angry. Ash suddenly runs off to a beach, where
he finds a Krabby (a crab Pokémon). Using only a stick and
a Pokéball, Ash manages to catch Krabby. Being proud of his
catch, Ash holds the Pokéball in his hand when it disappears.
Ash gets worried about it and Brock explains that in the Pokémon
League you're only allowed to carry six Pokémon at a time and the
rest are all teleported to where you got your Pokédex, which means
that Krabby is with Professor Oak. Brock also tells Ash that he can
change his Pokémon by pressing the white button on his Pokédex.
Ash doesn't want to exchange any of his Pokémons but gets worried
and wants to know if his Krabby is okay. Ash wants to call Professor
Oak but a phone is nowhere to be found. Then, Pikachu points out
a lighthouse in the distance. The group walk up the path and reach
the lighthouse. They ring the doorbell and ask to come inside.
The voice agrees to let them in and the door opens automatically.
Ash asks for a phone and the voice tells him where it is. Then, Ash
calls Professor Oak, who was just cooking dinner. Ash gets upset
and wonders if Professor Oak was eating his Krabby but Oak assured him
that he was just cooking Tofu. Then, Professor Oak explained that
Gary had already caught 45 Pokémons! That had made Ash surprised.
Professor Oak has to leave and asks, Bill, the Pokémon researcher
(the voice) if he could give the group a crash course about Pokémons.
The group step forward towards Bill and the light reveals a Kabudo (an
extinct, prehistoric Pokémon) instead! Brock points out that
Kabudos are instinct and they find out that Bill is just stuck in a costume.
They help Bill out of the costume and then Bill explains the research he's
doing on rare Pokémons. He explains to Ash, Misty, Brock and
Pikachu about all the different kinds of Pokémons that once existed.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket is climbing up the cliff to get to the lighthouse
without being seen. Back inside the lighthouse, Bill says that he
is looking for one specific Pokémon which he describes as a huge
Loch Ness monster. He says that the huge Pokémon wants to
find friends and Bill said that he wants to be friends with it also.
Bill doesn't want to capture it, he just wants to study it. Bill
and the group go outside to the top of lighthouse, where they hear a strange,
beautiful music coming from the ocean. Team Rocket hear the music
also from the cliff side. A huge Pokémon shows up near the
lighthouse and Team Rocket tries to capture it with bazooka-looking weapons.
The huge dragon-like Pokémon attacks Team Rocket and leaves back
to the ocean afterwards. Bill calls for it to come back but the huge
Pokémon disappears into the fog.
The next
day, Bill forgets about the huge Pokémons and wishes Ash and the
group good luck on their journey. Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu continue
down their way to become the greatest Pokémon trainers in the world.
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Episode 14 - "Electric Shock
Showdown"
Like a
dream, Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu finally reach Vermilion City!
Pikachu is feeling hungry so Ash takes him to the Vermilion City Pokémon
Centre to feed him. At the Pokécentre, Ash and Pikachu see
a kid bringing in a Rattata who seem to be very weak. Nurse Joy (a
different Nurse Joy) says that the gym leader of the Vermilion City Gym
had done this, just like all the other injured Pokémons in the Pokécentre.
Ash finds out the name of the gym leader, Lt. Surge, and Misty knows that
Ash is not an experienced enough trainer to battle against him. Finally,
Pikachu is healed and Ash and Misty find him eating happily at some snacks.
Ash warns Pikachu to get ready and battle Lt. Surge, but when another injured
Pokémon passed by, Pikachu cries out and didn't want to go anymore.
Ash is confident that Pikachu will win and they enter the Gym.
At the
gym, Lt. Surge was a huge man who had a Raichu (a evolved form of Pikachu).
After seeing Raichu, Pikachu is very determined to beat him. The
battle is cruel and Pikachu had lost pretty badly. Later on, Pikachu
is taken to the Pokémon Centre, where he was laid in a bed to heal.
Pikachu wakes up and refuses to talk to anyone. Brock and Misty says
that it's almost impossible for Pikachu to win against Raichu. Overhearing
their conversation, Nurse Joy shows Ash and Pikachu a Thunder stone, which
will make Pikachu evolve into a Raichu. Ash isn't sure whether to
make Pikachu evolve so he asks Pikachu if he wants to. After a long
pause, Pikachu whacks the stone away and tells Ash that he wants to fight
Raichu just the way he is. Outside the window, Team Rocket is spying
on them while Meowth is translating what Pikachu is saying. Brock gives
Ash a strategy against Raichu.
AS Ash
and Pikachu head towards the gym, they are stopped by Team Rocket who disguise
themselves. Team Rocket gives Ash and Pikachu a cheer to them.
Misty says good bye, knowing that they were Team Rocket. At the gym,
Ash and Pikachu are ready. After a few slams, Pikachu used his agility
and speed to fight against Raichu. Pikachus and Raichus learn their
agility and speed when they are in their Pikachu stage but Brock found
out that Lt. Surge's Raichu had evolved too quickly to learn agility.
Near the end of the battle, Raichu sends out a gigantic electric bolt that
destroys the windows. Lt. Surge and Raichu are thinking the battle
is over until they find Pikachu standing on top of his tail. Raichu
can't use anymore of his attacks and Pikachu finishes him off. At
the end, Ash is awarded the Thunder badge. Raichu congratulates Pikachu.
Ash gives Pikachu a warm hug. Afterwards, Team Rocket had just realized
that they've devoted the entire episode cheering on the good guys.
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Episode 15 - "Battle Aboard
the St. Anne"
Now, Ash
continues his way with 3 badges pinned to his jacket. The gang sees
a huge ship looming on the dock. They begin to have dreams about
going on a cruise on the ship.
Disguised
as cheesy teenage girls, Jesse and James of Team Rocket fool every Pokémon
trainer, including Ash and his friends, into accepting free tickets for
a cruise aboard the St. Anne. After that, Jesse and James go to their
lighthouse hideout where they communicate via video phone with their boss.
Jesse and James' boss describes his evil plan to get as many Pokémon
trainers as possible on to the St. Anne and steal their Pokémon
once they're all on board! On the St. Anne, it seemed like being on a floating
Pokémon convention. Trainers from all over the place are either
buying, selling, trading or battling Pokémon. Later on, Ash
comes across a Pokémon trainer who's dressed like a magician.
To show off his skills, Ash challenges the man into a battle.
Ash calls upon his Butterfree against the man's Raticate (a huge rat with
a bad hair day) Ash is close to winning when the man decides to call
it a draw. A while after, the man approaches Ash, hoping to trade his Raticate
for Ash's Butterfree. After some convincing, Ash reluctantly agrees to
trade. Meanwhile, James uses an advance on his and Jesse's paycheck
(without her permission) to buy a Magikarp (a fish) which the previous
owner described as "a gold mine." Falling for it, James buys the
Magikarp.
Finally,
it was time for Team Rocket's plan to go into action. The boat suddenly
stops and the exits are all sealed as an army of Team Rocket terrorists
armed with vacuum-powered back-packs burst out of their hiding places and
demand for all the Pokémon. Ash rallies the trainers to fight back
and Team Rocket finds themselves being attacked by Pokémons.
In the midst of battle, Ash's new Raticate makes him realize how much he
misses Butterfree, which is the first Pokémon he captured and raised,
and after the battle he sets out to find the man that was dressed like
a magician.
Suddenly,
the St. Anne began to sink in the midst of a wild storm. Jesse and
Meowth find James as he tries to search for the guy who sold him the Magikarp.
Brock and Misty find Ash trading the Raticate for his Butterfree back.
The ship suddenly lurches and both James and Ash drop their Pokéballs
and chase after them. The boat overturn, knocking out Team Rocket, Ash
and company. All the passengers manage to get out safely and on board
the lifeboats but our heroes and Team Rocket are still unconscious in the
boat as it sinks into the ocean.
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Episode 16 - "Pokémon
Shipwreck"
Our heroes,
including Team Rocket are still stuck under the sea, while Officer Jenny
performs a memorial service on the surface for the main characters (including
Team Rocket). The upside-down cruise ship is balancing on a precipice
in a canyon as Jesse and James awaken to find themselves underneath a blazing
stove. Brock and Misty urges Ash to wake up. Ash does, as Misty
tells him to look outside window. There are fish out there.
Anyway, back to Jesse and James. They find themselves under some
intense heat from the the stove. Then, suddenly, Jesse has an idea.
She has Ekans blast open a hole in the floor (or ceiling). Of course,
it just causes the ship to fill with water. Team Rocket nearly drown but
are saved when Misty's Goldeen, trying to find a way out, finds them and
brings them to the surface and set them near Ash, Brock and Misty. Being
harsh enemies, they start to fight, but the extra weight of all their Pokémons
cause the ship to tip. Quickly, they all put their Pokémons back
into the Pokéballs and decide to call it a truce temporarily.
Misty, who's built a model
of the St. Anne before, knew exactly how to get out. It included crossing
over an inferno-filled room. To get across the fire, Ash has Bulbasaur
to extend his vines across the room, and allow the gang to walk across
the vines like tight-rope walkers. Ash gets Charmander to burn a hole in
the ceiling. The hole is burned through and everyone ties themselves
up to a water Pokémon. Everyone grabs hold of a water Pokémon
except for Team Rocket. In desperation, James calls out his Magikarp,
but Magikarp can't swim, and the ship
topples into the enormous
abyss.
Back on
the surface, Ash and his friends are standing on top of a floating object
and have absolutely no idea where land is. Brock tells Ash about
the story of Noah and how Noah used a bird to find land. After hearing
this, Ash sends Pidgeotto to fly out and bring something back. Pidgeotto
brings back Team Rocket and a floundering Magikarp. Ash, Misty, Brock and
Pikachu are about to give them a funeral when they suddenly wake up.
Hours later, they're all hungry and Magikarp is not fit to feed five people
with. James is very angry at Magikarp's uselessness and kicks him into
the water. Suddenly, Magikarp evolves into a Galadros (a huge Sea
serpent) Misty calls upon her water Pokémons to tow the raft while
everyone rows to escape from the chasing serpent. Eventually, the Galadros
stops its pursuit
and everyone thinks they're
safe, except for Misty. Misty says that the Galadros might be using its
most powerful attack, the Dragon Rage. Summoning more of his species,
Galadros and his friends spin in a circle to create a water-filled tornado.
The tornado manages to suck everyone in. Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu
are holding hands, but can't hold on for much longer. Will our heroes
get away safe and sound?
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Episode 17 - "Island of the
Giant Pokémon"
In the
last episode, Team Rocket and Ash and his friends joined forces to protect
each other...but only temporarily, however, they couldn't shield themselves
from the ultimate attack from Galadro's Dragon Rage. With this attack,
everyone was washed up in the hurricane and they were all stranded somewhere.
Ash wakes up, wondering how he got there, and he wakes up Misty and Brock.
Ash can't seem to find Pikachu, and finds out that he only has two Pokémons
with him. Elsewhere on the beach, Team Rocket is stuck on the dirt when
a Krabby pinches both of them, and they wake up. They begin to think they're
invincible. But soon they don't hear any annoying sounds...Meowth is gone
somewhere, so are Jesse and James' Ekans and Koffing. They find a phone
booth, (weird to have it in the middle of nowhere) but then they find that
they have no change. In another area of the beach, Pikachu wakes up, and
finds 3 Pokéballs on the ground. He calls them out, and asks if
they're ok. They are, and Squirtle wonders where they are. Bulbasaur asks
if they are lost and Charmander asks where are they. Pikachu doesn't have
the answers. They look around, and see a Slow Bro, a Pokémon, resting
on a rock. Pikachu asks him where they are, but he doesn't reply. So they
just leave him alone after he puts his tail into the water. Later that
day, the Pokémons are searching for their masters, courtesy of Charmander's
fire, which lights up the place. Somewhere nearby, Meowth is spying on
them. He challenges the Pokémons to a match. He begins the Team
Rocket motto, but it doesn't even make Ash's Pokémons scared at
all. He asks for help by Koffing and Ekans, but they refuse because he's
not their master. Later on, both groups of Pokémon--Ash's Pokémons
and Team Rocket's Pokémons join forces to try and find their masters.
They have traveled a long way, so they are all obviously hungry. They stop,
make a fire and begin munching, and having a little chat. Very soon, there's
a huge thumping sound coming from near them. They all look up and see that
it's a huge Pokémon! Of course they run away, and Pikachu must untie
Meowth from the tree. Somewhere on the island, Ash and his friends are
also running away from the huge monsters. Team Rocket is also somewhere
in the island, and they are also running away from the huge monsters (what
a coincidence) Team Rocket hit a sign, and thank it for saving them. The
lost Pokémon are now resting with a pal, Slow Bro. Some of them
are crying, while others are fighting or calming each other down. The next
morning, Ash and his group are resting in a cave, and decide they should
go out and look for their Pokémons. Team Rocket wakes up and runs
for the phone booth, planning to make a call. They call the boss, and he
hangs up after Team Rocket say their motto. So, then they have another
plan instead, they decide to follow the phone cable, planning it would
lead them to the phone company. Soon, they see a huge Pikachu. They think
it's a mirage, but its not, and the Pikachu makes an attempt to squish
them. Elsewhere, Ash and his friends make an attempt to escape the fire
of a huge Charizard, an evolved Charmander. The Pokémon see it,
and then they see a Blastoise, an evolved Squirtle, and Pikachu tells him
to ask for directions. Squirtle does, but when he asks the huge turtle,
it shoots out water at the Pokémon. So then they see a Venusaur,
the evolved form of Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur refuses to talk to it, and Squirtle
calls him a coward. Back with Team Rocket, they are running away from the
huge monsters (again). They find a rail road car, and hop in, but they
go backwards instead so they decide to hit the brakes. Unfortunately for
them, it breaks off, and they keep going. Ash and his friends are on a
land bridge, and they see a huge Pikachu. Then they see a rail road car
coming closer. It collides with the bridge, and the bridge collapses. Everyone
falls into the cart. Then they look behind them, and their real Pokémon
are running behind the cart. Then Misty points out a loop up ahead. After
they go around the loop, the Pokémon jump onto the cart. Then, Meowth
appears, and the rest of the Team Rocket group celebrates. Suddenly, a
huge mechanical bird crashes into the giant Pokémon pile and the
rail car crashes into the water. Just then a tour boat floats by that belongs
to a theme park called "Pokémon Land," where you get to see mechanical
reproductions real Pokémon only many times their real size! Then
Team Rocket's boss gets a call that his million-dollar theme park has just
been trashed, while Ash and his friends find their way to the beautiful
town of Porta Vista.
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Episode 18 - "Tentacool and
Tentacruel"
Ash, Brock
and Misty are in the town of Porta Vista without enough money to ride the
ferry off the island. They're waiting at the dock for another ferry to
pass by when a battered Horsea (a blue seahorse Pokémon) tries to
warn them of some danger, but they don't understand what it's trying to
say. Suddenly, a boat on the ocean explodes which sends some sailors flying
into the air. Misty
sends out Starmie, Staryu
and Goldeen to help rescue them while Ash and Brock get a boat. Misty's
water Pokémons get the sailors on the boat and find the sailors
are paralyzed. The sailors ask to see their boss. The sailors boss is Nestina,
a short, ugly woman with a mean temper. Nestina is trying to build
a resort on the reef off-shore, but the Tentacools (jellyfish-looking Pokémon)
keeps
interfering with her plans.
She wants Ash and friends to exterminate the Tentacool and offers them
lots fabulous prizes if they're successful. Ash and Brock are all for it,
but Misty gets mad and storms off because she thinks Tentacools are cute.
Misty loves water-type Pokémon, she's a lot nicer when she's with
them but she especially loves the Tentacool and thinks they're beautiful
(Ash and Brock think otherwise) Suddenly, Ash then realizes that Horsea
was
trying to warn them about
the Tentacools and the picture it made by blasting ink on the water looked
like Tentacools. Just
then, Nestina makes a public
announcement saying that she's offering a generous reward to anyone
who can exterminate the Tentacools. After the announcement, a riot forms
to get rid of the Tentacools. Nestina arrives in a tank to calm everyone
down and a suction-dart rose hits the tank's barrel. It's Team Rocket (James
threw the rose).
Team Rocket accepts the challenge
of getting rid of the Tentacools and rides a boat to the construction site
of the resort. Their plan was to dump stun
sauce on the Tentacool, get
the reward money and then sell the Tentacool for profit! When they arrive
at the site, Jesse realizes that there's not enough stun sauce to have
any affect on all those Tentacools. All the Tentacools team up and
blast the boat to bits, sending Team Rocket flying and the barrel of stun
sauce hits one of the Tentacools, turning it into a gigantic Tentacruel!
(Tentacruel are only supposed to be up to seven feet in length) The Tentacruel
grabs Team Rocket, destroys the construction site, and plans to take down
Porta Vista also. Everyone turn to flee as the giant jellyfish's
approach causes a tidal wave. Jesse and James wind up on pole and
Meowth finds himself the unwitting victim of a Tentacruel. Using Meowth
as a speaker, the Tentacruel announces that he and all the Tentacool will
destroy the human's home like they've destroyed the Tentacool's home (the
ocean). Ash tries to let down the Tentacruel by sending out Pikachu,
Bulbasaur and Squirtle out riding on Pidgeotto, Butterfree and Brock's
Zubat and Misty unleashes the forces of Starmie, Staryu and Goldeen.
Misty's Pokémon and Zubat herd the Tentacool back into the ocean
while the flying Pikachu and Bulbasaur attack the massive Tentacruel. The
Tentacruel smacks Butterfree and Bulbasaur. Then, Horsea and Pikachu try
to reason with it. Finally, Misty convinces Tentacruel to stop the damage.
She says that the people would stop doing that they were doing. The
Tentacruel believes her, tosses Meowth away, and heads back out to the
ocean. Then Nestina tries to
attack the Tentacruel with
machine guns and bazookas, but doesn't seem to do any harm on the Tentacruel
as it smacks her off the island and all the way to her twin cousin's house.
In the end, Misty gets Horsea as her new Pokémon. Team Rocket
gets dragged behind a ferry in a barrel. (what a way to travel) Read
the next episode to find out what happens...
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Episode 19 - "The Ghost of
Maiden's Peak"
Ash, Misty,
Brock and Pikachu are riding on the ferry while Team Rocket are riding
in a barrel tied to the ferry. Brock is heart-broken because the
summer is almost over and he hasn't found a girl yet. The gang manage
to get to Maiden's Peak just in time for the festival. Our heroes
get off the ferry and Brock sees a beautiful girl in the distance.
Team Rocket get off from the barrel and James sees the beautiful girl also.
Suddenly, Brock comes across an old woman who prophesizes that a beautiful
girl will be the cause of something bad happening to Brock.
Later
on, Team Rocket and Ash's gang head into the festival. All day, Brock
can't stop thinking about the girl, while Jesse and James search the ground
for any loose change. James find a penny as and old woman appears
out of nowhere and tells James the same thing she told Brock. Later
the day at the festival, lots of people attend to the unveiling of a painting
that the shrine had kept for so long. The pictures shows the girl
that Brock and James had saw earlier. The host says that the painting
shows the picture of a girl who had once lived over 2000 years ago as she
waited for her warrior who had never come back. The story goes that
the girl waited so long that she turned into stone. Brock and James
immediately fall in love with the girl. Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu
head over to Maiden's Peak to get a closer look at it. Ash, Misty
and Pikachu turn to head to the Pokémon Centre since it was near
curfew time. Brock decides to stay a little longer and says he'll
be back but he doesn't.
Ash and
Misty go back to the shrine to find Brock, but instead find Jesse and Meowth
who are looking for James at the same time. As they met, Jesse starts
her Team Rocket motto but is interrupted when James and Brock fall out
through the shrine's doors, gibbering madly about being in love with the
girl. The old woman appears again, saying it's girl's ghost who lures
lonely men away and drains them of their life. Pikachu electrifies
James and Brock to get them thinking normally. James starts getting freaked
out, but Brock doesn't seem to change much. The old woman told them that
the only way to keep the girl's ghost from getting anywhere near them is
to cover Brock, James and the shrine with anti-ghost stickers, which she
happens to sell. Ash and the other start sticking the stickers everywhere.
They wait inside the sticker-covered shrine to see what happens.
At night,
a strong wind blows the stickers off the shrine, opens the doors and blows
the stickers off Brock. The ghostly girl appears and takes Brock and James
out of the shrine. James manages to hang on to a bar to keep himself from
flying away but he loses his grip. The ghost begins to take Brock
and James off the cliff.
Ash and Misty pull Brock
behind the handrail, even though Brock tried to protest, while Jesse blasts
the girl with a bazooka. This causes James to fall into the ocean.
He climbs back up the cliff and the girl's ghost summons a
swarm of ghostly skulls.
The skulls don't register on the Pokédex, but a chance flinch causes
the Pokédex to identify the ghostly girl as Ghastly, an orb-shaped
ghost Pokémon with hypnotic powers.
Ghastly's
cover is blown. Ghastly reveals that he not only disguise himself
as the maiden, but also as the old woman as well. Ash sends in Pikachu
to attack Ghastly, but ghost's hypnotic powers make him think he's being
chased by a giant mouse trap! Meowth goes for it, but is hypnotized into
believing he's playing with a kitty-ball. Jesse binds Ghastly with
Ekans, but the snake is scared off by a giant mongoose. James shakily calls
upon Koffing's poison gas attack, but is instead stomped by a mongoose
wearing a gas mask. Ash tries his luck with Bulbasaur and Squirtle, teamed-up,
but the ghost frightens them with a Venustoise (the combination of a Venusaur
and a Blastoise...yikes!) Misty thinks she has the answer of getting rid
of Ghastly, as she holds out a holy cross, garlic, and wooden stakes. She's
obviously confused Ghastly with a vampire. As dawn nears, the sun
comes up and Ghastly disappears, screeching from the light. That night,
everyone puts on Japanese robes and dances to the beat of huge drums playing
by Team Rocket, who looks like they're enjoying themselves. Ash and
Misty start dancing as Pikachu sang. Also, the REAL maiden's ghost
thanks Ghastly for his help, and Ghastly was glad to help out ('cause he
got paid for selling the stickers)
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Episode 20 - "Bye, Bye Butterfree"
Along
the way to Saffron City, Ash and friends come to a cliff at the ocean.
There they find flocks of Butterfree during their love season. This is
the time of year when the Butterfree find mates and leave across the ocean
to lay eggs. Ash and pals rent a hot-air balloon to see the Butterfree
up close and release Ash's Butterfree so it too can find a mate. Butterfree
is pretty much rejected by every female he meets (poor Butterfree). Other
Butterfree trainers also hope into their hot air balloons to release their
Butterfrees and Brock sees a pretty female trainer in another balloon.
He tries to hook up Butterfree with the girl's Butterfree (so he could
meet the trainer, of course), but Misty whacks him upside the head, saying
that he shouldn't tell which Pokémon Butterfree should go for.
It was
not long after when Butterfree then falls for a pretty pink Butterfree.
Butterfree tries his courtship
dance to get her interested, but the pink Butterfree just rejects him.
Heartbroken, Butterfree heads down into the forest with Ash and the gang
following him down. They find Butterfree behind a tree and tell him
to not give up. Misty suggests
showing off his attack moves. Brock thinks a new look might help, so he
ties a bandana around Butterfree's neck (it looked really cute). Butterfree
and his friends go back up to the sky once more. Butterfree shows the pink
Butterfree his flying tackle, his stun spore shower, and his whirlwind
attack, but she still ignores him anyway. Like always, Team Rocket shows
up in a
black helicopter and starts
stealing all the Butterfrees in the sky with a giant butterfly net. All
of the Butterfrees, except Ash's, are caught in the net. Butterfree's attacks
against the helicopter are useless, so Butterfree follows the chopper and
leads Ash and the bunch in the balloon to Team Rocket's secret bunker down
in some valley.
Team Rocket
is pretty proud and relieved that their plan had actually worked but then
Ash and his friends show up with their own version of the Team Rocket motto.
While Misty's Starmie keeps Team Rocket busy, Butterfree manages releases
his fluttery friends. Jesse bashes Starmie with a sledgehammer and
Team Rocket chases the Butterfrees
down in the helicopter again. Butterfree takes Pikachu to Team Rocket's
chopper and Pikachu blasts them out of the sky. In the end, Ash and Butterfree
say goodbye with an emotion moment, thinking of all the wonderful times
they've had together. Butterfree and the pink Butterfree flutter
into the sunset as Ash and his friends look from far behind....
Read
Episodes 21-30 to find out more about their adventures
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