Episode 21 - "Abra and the Psychic Showdown" 
    Ash and friends get lost on the way to Saffron City, as usual. Along their way find a girl in the woods who runs off when asked they for directions. Ash decides to run after her, but nearly falls off a cliff instead, when Bulbasaur uses his vine-whip.  The cliff over-looks Saffron City, which looks more like a city than the other cities in the previous episodes. As Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu enter the city entrance, they're greeted by some Hawaiian girls (who are actually Team Rocket) and are told that they're the one-millionth visitor to the city. Their prize isn't't so glamorous, Pikachu gets snatched away from them and while being shoved onto a warp tile that takes them to a windowless and doorless room. Team Rocket mocks Ash and company through TV when the signal suddenly cuts out.  In the control room, the girl from the forest appears, and paralyzes James and Jesse.  The girl then teleports with Pikachu to the windowless room and then teleports everyone back outside. 
    Ash and his friends manage to find their way to the gum.  Out of nowhere, a jogger warns Ash to forget about challenging Sabrina, the Gym Leader because it is too dangerous. Still determined to beat the Gym leader, Ash enters the temple-looking gym where they find many people praticing some of their psychic powers. A man in a surgical mask tells them that psychokinetic powers are necessary to control psychic Pokémon, and starts to bend a spoon with the powers of his mind.  After, he tells Ash he is not worthy of challenging Sabrina since Ash lacked any psychic powers. Ash bends the spoon with his hands and demands to see Sabrina immediately. When Ash and the gang reach the arena, they see through a 
see-through curtain to see the girl from the forest. She will only accept Ash's challenge under one condition: If Ash loses, he and his friends must be her friends and play with her. Thinking this is just a mere little girl's request, Ash accepts and discovers the girl is actually a doll controlled by the psychic powers of Sabrina, the teenaged gym leader. 
    And so, Ash calls upon Pikachu to battle.  Sabrina summons Abra (a psychic pokémon that sleeps a lot), which just snoozes while Pikachu hops around, taunting it. Pikachu attempts to open with the Thundershock attack, but 
Abra's psychic powers cause the electricity to go back on Pikachu, shocking Pikachu. Pikachu attempts a quick attack, but Abra teleports behind him and Sabrina evolves it into the spoon-wielding Kadabra. Ash commands Pikachu to fill the arena with lightning, but Kadabra manages to make the lightning turn at Pikachu.  Pikachu takes the hit pretty badly, but it gets worse as Kadabra's psychokinetic powers kept slamming Pikachu against the ceiling and floor. Not long after, Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu are shrunk down to doll size and teleported into a town made of dollhouses. 
    It takes Ash a while to figure out that he's actually a doll and Ash's gang find themselves chased down the street by Sabrina's dolly. The street is block by a picture in a frames and the doll rolls a gigantic ball to them that would surely crush them if something doesn't save them. Something in the form of the mysterious 
jogger saves them, as he teleports into the doll town, teleports everyone out and back to normal size outside the gym. The jogger tells Ash not to challenge Sabrina again because he won't be able to save them next time and no one without psychic powers could beat her. Ash says that all they need to do is attack faster and the jogger uses his psychic powers to cause Ash's pants to fall down and make him do a little dance. Seeing the jogger's point, Ash asks him to teach him psychic powers. The jogger says that usually only people born with the powers can learn them. I forget why, but for some reason Ash tries to get near the jogger, but he's blasted back with psychokinetic force. It'll take more than guts to defeat Sabrina explains Jogger, but Ash crawls his way to Jogger's foot. Jogger thinks he just might have what it takes "to save Sabrina" (whatever that meant...) and tells Ash the only Pokémon capable of beating a psychic is a ghost Pokémon that can be found in Lavender Town. Ash and friends then head straight for Lavender Town, while Jesse and James are still paralyzed and Meowth drags them along 
  
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Episode 22 - "Tower of Terror" 
    Taking the advice of the mysterious jogger, Ash and friends head for Lavender Town. Along the fog-shrouded way, Ash scares Brock and Misty with a mask. Ash thinks that they need to overcome fear if they're to catch a ghost Pokémon and beat Sabrina, but Brock and Misty are less than appreciative. They eventually get to Lavender Town and the haunted Pokémon Tower, but no one is willing to go inside. Meanwhile, inside the tower, Team Rocket awaits with a plan to catch Pikachu.  James falls through the floor and is followed by Meowth when he slashes Jesse's face trying to defend himself from a Ghastly surrounding her head. Jesse doesn't see it until she looks in a mirror, panics, and falls through the hole in floor. Team Rocket then falls through a few more floors into the basement. 
    Ash and company finally muster up enough courage to enter the tower. The door closes behind them, sending them into complete darkness. Charmander lights a candle (and Brock, who was holding it) and the five of them eventually find themselves in the dining room. Ash pulls a rope labeled "Pull me" and they get showered with confetti and big sign that reads "Welcome". Dinnerware and chairs fly all over the place and Team Ash beats a hasty retreat outside. Ash bravely (or stupidly) marches back inside while Brock and Misty wait outside. Hearing sounds coming through a hole in the floor, Ash has Pikachu send down a lightning blast and Charmander let loose with a fire blast. He tosses down a Pokéball which hits a toasted Jesse in the face. Jesse swears revenge and Meowth points out that her 
hair is on fire. 
    As Ash just stared down at what seemed like a twirling fireball, Haunter (Ghastly's second stage of evolution) sneaks up behind Ash and startles him. Ash has Charmander leer at Haunter and the two get into a staring match. Charmander makes a face, Haunter bursts out laughing and licks Charmander, which really freaks him out. Ash puts the lizard back into its ball and Gengar (third-stage Ghastly) appears, whaps Ash with a huge paper fan, and procedes to whap Haunter vigorously. After a while, Ash realizes that they're trying to be funny. He tells the ghosts they aren't and they sink into the floor. Then a chandalier falls on Ash and Pikachu, knocking them out cold. Ghastly, Haunter and Gengar check to see if they're OK, then Haunter separates Ash and Pikachu's spirits from there bodies. Ash and Pikachu panic, then the three ghost Pokémon take them on a trip through the sky. 
    Ash sees Misty and Brock and decides to have some fun with them. Misty thinks she heard something, then Ash lifts her up into the air and drops her. Brock catches her then the two of them go inside to check on Ash. The ghostly trio take Ash and Pikachu into an enormous play room and Ash figures out that the ghosts just want to have fun, not scare people. Ash explains he has to now and, after a good cry, the ghosts put Ash and Pikachu back into their bodies. Misty and Brock are glad to 
see their friends are OK, and the four of them leave the tower. Ash explains he could never catch the ghost Pokémon, then Haunter appears and scares off Brock and Misty, and Ash finds himself with a new friend with Haunter. 
  
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 Episode 23 - "Haunter vs. Kadabra" 
    With Haunter at his side, Ash, Brock and Misty return to Saffron City. Before entering the gym, Ash releases Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Charmander and entire group storms their way into the arena.  Sabrina calls out her Kadabra but when Ash calls for Haunter, he's gone missing. Panicing like crazy, Ash calls it quits and everyone makes a break for it. The exits are sealed, but the mysterious jogger rescues everyone except Brock and Misty who got turned into dolls. 
    Outside the gym, the jogger tells Ash about Sabrina's past. As a little girl all Sabrina wanted to do was practice her pyschic powers. She didn't even want to make friends. Her parents tried to curb her powers, but Sabrina used her psychic powers to turn them away. Eventually, her powers split her into two people: the emotionless pokémon trainer who'll stop at nothing to win, and the doll who tries 
her hardest to make friends. Seeing that the jogger has the same picture as the one blocking the street in episode 20, Ash makes a connection. Most people would make the connection that the jogger was Sabrina's dad, but Ash thinks he's a photographer (he's wrong, of course). But that doesn't matter, as Ash must find Haunter again if he's ever to defeat Sabrina. 
    Not known to Ash as he walks about town, Team Rocket is waiting on a window-cleaning platform above him. Their apparently most ingenious plan ever: to catch Pikachu in a fish net! (hehe) Haunter appears and starts freaking them out, as they topple off the platform. Jesse hangs to the platform on for dear life (while James hangs on her and Meowth hangs on him) as Haunter goofs off in front of her. Finally, she can't hold her laughter in much longer. She bursts out laughing and 
they leave Team Rocket-shaped holes in the sidewalk. Ash realizes Haunter just saved Pikachu then makes him promise not to dissapear like that again until he defeats Sabrina's Kadabra. 
    Ash, Pikachu, and Haunter head back to the Gym to challenge Sabrina. The stakes: If Ash wins, Sabrina turns Brock and Misty back into humans. If he loses, Ash and all his Pokémon get turned into dolls! Sabrina sends in Kadabra, but Haunter has disappeared again! Pikachu bravely dives into the fray with several thundershock attacks, each of which is dodged by a timely teleport! Kadabra 
lets loose with a psychic assault that sends Pikachu reeling! Pikachu's thunderbolt attack fries Kadabra, but he recovers! Suddenly Haunter appears out of nowhere next to Sabrina and starts to goof off. Sabrina's doll objects, but the jogger points out that Haunter isn't fighting, so he stays. 
    Haunter does a great many entertaining tricks, ending with a cartoon bomb that covers Sabrina, the doll and the ghost with ash. Finally Sabrina can't hold back anymore and bursts out laughing and doll fades off into the background. Ash doesn't understand, and the jogger points out that Kadabra, whose psychically linked to Sabrina, is rolling around on the arena floor laughing his head off. Since Kadabra can no longer battle, the jogger declares the match over with Ash as the victor! The jogger remarks that it's the happiest he's seen Sabrina in her entire life, then Ash finally makes the connection! He also took her baby pictures! (Geez! How dense can you get, huh?) Not that it matters, because Brock and Misty are back to normal, Sabrina has a new friend, Ash has the Marshbadge, and Team Rocket is covered with cement after they escaped from the hole they made. 
  
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 Episode 24 - "Primeape Goes Bananas" 
     Ash decides to show off to Professor Oak about the four badges that he's won so far.  Oak tells him that the other trainers from Pallet Town, including Gary, already have five badges and has passed through Celadon City. Also, Gary has over 30 Pokémon now, and Ash hasn't caught any since Krabby was transported to Oak's house. The two of them have been getting along quite well, enjoying tea and 
writing poetry. Not good poetry, but poetry none the less. According to Professor Oak, poets and trainers have a lot in common. You can't be a good poet without rhyming and you can't be a good trainer without catching loads of Pokémon. With that, the conversation ends and Ash walks back to where Misty, Brock and Pikachu are eating Brock's homemade doughnuts (with no artificial ingredients, might I add). Brock says it's a day's walk to Celadon City, or less if they hurry. A Mankey (a pig-nosed little monkey thing) appears and Brock gives it a doughnut. Ash tries to catch it by throwing a Pokéball at it, but catches a half-eaten doughnut instead. Mankey is upset and thrashes Ash, steals his official Pokémon League hat (which he won by sending in about a million postcards), and climbs into a tree. Ash shakes his fist at Mankey and demands his hat back, but Mankey shakes his fist right back at him and makes monkey-like hooting sounds. Ash climbs up the tree only to be thrashed again. Since this is a bad time, Team Rocket shows up and demands 
Pikachu. Mankey hops out of the tree to inspect Team Rocket and James kicks it over a rock. Brock warns them not to make the Mankey angry, and Team Rocket turns to see Mankey evolve into Primeape (NEVER look a Primeape in the eyes). 
Deciding to ignore the pig-monkey-thing, Jesse and James sends in Ekans and Koffing to capture Pikachu and Primeape sends Jesse face-first into a boulder. Enraged, Jesse commands Ekans and Koffing to attack the white, fluffy monkey thing and the entirety of Team Rocket dog piles on Primeape. Ash and friends make a break for it, but wait! Ash forgot his hat! Pikachu goes back for it, but his path is block by the Primeape who just beat up Team Rocket. Despite his best efforts, 
Pikachu looks Primeape in the eyes and is forced to Thundershock him. Primeape (whose wearing Ash's hat now) throws fit and Brock thinks he just wants some attention. Brock gets thrown over the horizon like a rag doll and Primeape rampages after Ash, Pikachu and Misty! Team Rocket decides to cut them off at the pass. 
    Misty, Ash and Pikachu split up to try to lose Primeape, but he's rapidly gaining on Ash! Brock, who just caught up, thinks he and Misty should catch up with them. Meanwhile, further down the road, Team Rocket dig themsleves into a hole. Jesse peers out of the pit just long enough to see Ash fall on her. Koffing belches a cloud of noxious gas, and climbs out of the hole to see the eyes of Primeape. Remembering what Oak said about poetry and Pokémon training (not that it applies to poetry), Ash sends in Squirtle to attack Primeape. The blue squirrel-turtle's clear geyser makes the white pig-monkey see red, so Ash recalls him and sends in Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur's razor-leaf attack is none to effective, so he trades places with Charmander. Charmander seems to be getting pulverized by Primeape, but Dexter the Pokédex reports on Charmander's Rage attack, which gets stronger as 
Charmander gets damaged. The rage attack sends Primeape down for the count and Ash catches him in a Pokéball. He then uses Primeape to uppercut Team Rocket, Pokémon and all, into the upper stratasphere. Ash welcomes Primeape to his team, and Primeape welcomes Ash to a black eye. 
    The chase brought them all the way to Celadon City. In the end, Ash gets his hat back, a new Pokémon, and Team Rocket lands in the middle of Primeape nest. Hee hee hee. Silly monkey-pig things. 
  
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Episode 25 - "Pokémon Scent-sation" 
    In Celadon City, Ash and friends follow there noses to a perfume shop. Ash doesn't like perfume because he thinks it smells bad and turns men into zombies, much like Brock was at this time. He gets thrown out of the shop and goes to the Gym, but they won't let him in because he doesn't like perfume (which just happens to be manufactured in this very gym) and stamps a big, red "X" on his face. While Ash gripes Team Rocket climbs in thru the window to steal the perfume's secret 
ingredients and make a bundle selling them. Inside, James finds and awakens a napping Gloom (Oddish's second stage of evolution). James's Koffing poison gases the Gloom, but the plant Pokémon just inhales it and lets off a malodious odor of its own. The stink is excrutiating, even to Meowth (who wasn't drawn with a nose), leaving Team Rocket open to being wacked with mallets, having big, red X's stamped on their faces, and being strung up in a tree. Jesse offers Ash a plan to get in the gym if he 
gets them down. 
    They dress Ash up like a girl and disguise themsleves as "Ashley's" parents and enroll him, uh, her, in the gym. While one of the trainers shows "Ashley" around, Team Rocket removes their disguises as the search the gym and has Meowth plant a bomb. "Ashley" asks to see Erica, the Gym Leader, who turns out to be the manager of the perfume shop! She's reading a story to a group of trainers, including Misty and Brock. He hopes the don't regonize him, which they don't, but Pikachu does! 
While "Ashley" tries to do his best to dupe his friends, Pikachu walks up and hugs his leg. He tries to kick him off, but Pikachu shocks him and the wig burns off. Ash admits to dressing up as a girl to challenge Erica, and Erica decides to accept the challenge. 
    First up is Tangela (a mess of vines with feet), and Ash sends in Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur grabs Tangela with the vine whip, but Tangela reels him in and sprays him with stun spore. Erica offers to give Ash some Paralyz heal potion later, and Ash chooses Primeape, remembers the black eye he got from it, and releases Charmander. Erica's Weepinbell's razor leaf attack is useless against 
Charmander's full-force flame thrower, so she sends in Gloom. Erica tells Ash he can't be good trainer unless he has empathy with Pokémon, and Ash can't figure which Pokémon would hold up best against Gloom's rampant reek (which, in the wild, it only uses when threatened). Pikachu is up to the task, but Team Rocket cuts the match short when they leap in, blow themsleves to kingdom come, and escapes with the secret formula! The explosion sets the gym on fire and all the Pokémon and trainers except Gloom escapes safely. Ash runs into the gym to save it. 
    Ash finds Gloom in the arena, where it's been spewing its evil fumes for while. Ash holds his breath and rushes in. He tells Gloom he's here to save him, but Ash can't hold his breath any longer and falls to the ground. To his surprise, the odor's gone and he remembers that Erica said earlier that it won't produce a stench if it feels safe. Ash runs out with Gloom and, once the fire has been put out, is rewarded with the Rainbow Badge. And what about Team Rocket stealing the secret formula? It turns out they only stole one ingredient without knowing what it was: essence of Gloom! 
  
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Episode 26 - "Hypno's Naptime" 
    Ash and friends leave Celadon city and find themselves in a city apparently called "Hop-hop-hop City". A strange woman mistakes Ash for her son Arnold and hugs him. It turns out that Arnold has been missing for three days and, according to Officer Jenny (Maiden Peak's Jenny's cousin's cousin), so have a lot of other kids. Brock, who beleives this is the most beautiful Officer Jenny he's ever seen 
(they all look alike), and Ash, who thinks Arnold's mom looks a little like his own, decide to help out. Jenny, Ash, Brock and Misty head to the Pokémon Center to ask around and discover another mystery. All the Pokémon Center's Pokémon, including a Cubone, an Oddish, a Magikarp, a Charmander, and a Psyduck (a huge duck whose powers come from a mysterious force), have all gone to sleep and haven't woken up in three days! There has to be a connection. Pikachu falls asleep and Jenny's detector starts picking up sleep waves (a psychic wavelength that induces sleep). 
Our brave detectives leave to check out the source. 
    Meanwhile, in an undisclosed location, Team Rocket has figured out that the source of the sleep waves is coming from Hop-hop-hop City. Their dastardly plan: To find the source, steal it, put their boss to sleep and take a much needed vacation. They may be the bad guys, but even they need a little R&R. Jenny, Ash, Brock and Misty trace the source to mansion located on the top of a giant building. Inside the mansion they find the elegantly dressed Pokémon Fan Club celebrating their loss of insomnia due to the fact that one of their Drowzees (a tapir-descended Pokémon with psycho-hypnotic powers) evolved into a Hypno three days ago. Hypno's been trained to put humans to sleep, which Brock pointed out might have a side effect thats affecting the Pokémon in the Center. Ash (I think) suggests that it might also affect children who are sensitive to Hypno's effects. 
Misty looks into Hypno's pendulum, falls into a trance, starts clapping her hands and saying "Seel, Seel. Seel, Seel", and runs out the door. (A Seel is a white-colored Pokémon not unlike a seal or walrus) 
    Ash, Brock and Jenny follow Misty to a lake in the park where other kids are acting like Pokémon. Jenny tries to wake them from their trance but to no avail. The Fan Club's Drowzee or Hypno may be able to bring them back to normal, so they bring Misty back to the mansion where Drowzee awakens Misty and Pikachu. The Fan Club lends them Drowzee and our heroes are about to make their way to the elevator when Team Rocket swoops down in hang-glider packs and challenges 
Hypno to hypnotize himself in a mirror. Ash breaks the mirror, so Jesse and James just snags Hypno and Drowzee with bullwhips. (They would've done that first, but they had to fill up half an hour) Misty's Staryu snaps the whips and Ash's Pidgeotto blows away Team Rocket (who were still wearing their hang-glider packs). Ash and friends take Drowzee to the park and cures the afflicted children. Arnold (who kinda looks like Ash) is reunited with his mother and Drowzee is taken to the Pokémon Center. The Pokémon return to normal, but Nurse Joy is worried about Psyduck, who still has his hands on his head. Brock offers to cure him. 
They walk down the street, followed by Psyduck, arguing over who gets Psyduck. No one wants it. Brock thinks Misty should get him, since she's fond of water Pokémon, but she objects, especially after Dexter the Pokédex says that Psyducks always have headaches. Walking backwards, Misty trips and one of her Pokéballs rolls toward Psyduck. To Misty's dismay, the cerebrally inflamed duck opens the ball and gets sucked inside. Looks like she's stuck with it now. 
  
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Episode 26 - "Pokémon Fashion Flash" 
    Ash, Misty and Brock take a walk down Scissor Street, also known as "Breeder's Lane," trying to find a salon that Brock is looking for. Along the way, they pass "Salon Rocké," a beauty parlor that puts Pokémon in outrageously bad yet trendy fasions. They find the place Brock's looking for, a salon run by world-champion Pokémon breeder Susan. An incredibly tense Brock shocks everyone by asking Susan if he could be her student, but Susan doesn't take students. Also in the salon is Susan's pet Vulpix (a fire-breathing fox with six tails) which doesn't like to be touched by strangers, as Misty found out the hard way. 
    They decide to have lunch (it's a slow day) and talk about Salon Rocké. Susan is surprised to see Vulpix eat some of Brock's home-made Pokémon food, since she only eats food that Susan has prepared for her. Returning to the main plot, Susan tells Ash and friends that Salon Rocké has started a fad. Trainers should care about what Pokémon is like on the inside, but lately trainers has been flocking to Salon Rocké for the latest fashion. Ash agrees its whats on the inside that counts, a 
Pokémon's personality and abilities, but Misty thinks whats on the outside is important too. They get into an arguement and Ash suggests that if Misty's so sure, she should take Psyduck (who's definately no fashion model) down to Salon Rocké. Misty releases Psyduck and swears to return as the cutest things Ash has ever seen. 
    Susan says that these days trainers are going for looks instead of substance. Brock has a plan: give customers beauty and substance. Pretty soon, people are flocking to Susan's salon to see Susan's seminar on Pokémon health and beauty. If a Pokémon feels good on the inside, it'll look good on the  outside. Meanwhile, Misty finds that the line outside Salon Rocké has gotten surprisingly short surprisingly fast. After getting a fashion make-over, Misty discovers that Salon Rocké is a front for  Team Rocket (kinda obvious with the name and a large picture of Ekans and Koffing out front)! She  gets tied up and commands Psyduck to attack, but the migrane-surplused duck has already made his  way to Susan's salon, where she's having Ash demonstrate how to massage a Pikachu, and tells  Pikachu who tells Ash that Misty's in trouble. Ash and Brock storm into Salon Rocké to find Misty looking absolutely ridiculous (actually, she likes her new look) and being held captive by Team  Rocket. Ash refuses a ransom of Pikachu, and James introduces Ash and Brock to Salon Rocké's combat platform/fashion runway. 
    After saying Salon Rocké's fashion-inspired and Team Rocket parodied motto (Jesse and James are  reeeally into fashion), Jesse and James unleashes a tutu-wearing Koffing and an Ekans that looks like  a christmas tree. Ash and Brock defend with Pikachu and Geodude and the fight is underway. Pikachu gets knocked for a loop and retaliates with a devastating Thundershock and Geodude give  Ekans the ol' seismic toss! Balerina Koffing gives the heroic Pokémon a sludge-attack make-over,  effectively blinding them! Ekans and Koffing move in for the kill, but trip on their ridiculous outfits and  fall on their faces. A sports jacket clad Meowth rallies his Pokémon compadres and Susan enters the  fray with Vulpix. The cute little Vulpix dishes out a fire-tornado of justice and Team Rocket blasts off 
again. 
    Susan has realized that she still has much to learn, so she still can't accept Brock as her pupil. They  become friendly rivals and Susan gives Brock Vulpix. Ash, Brock and Misty stride off into the sunset and Team Rocket gets chased by rabid, refund-hungry and generally unsatisfied customers. 
  
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 Episode 28 - "The Punchy Pokémon" 
    Our heroes go on their way as they stumble upon a wild Hitmonchan (a weird-looking Pokémon with boxer gloves). Ash decides to capture it so he teaches Pikachu his special punch to beat it. Pikachu jumps into the attack with a flurry of punches that don't land as Hitmonchan literally keeps him at arm's length. Ash commands Pikachu to use the special punch and with a blaze of pyrotechnic effects, Pikachu blasts off with the rocket punch! The punch lands but has little or no effect. Hitmonchan's trainer appears and tells him he let his gaurd down. The trainer's daughter, Rebecca, comes out from behind a tree and begs her father to give up his foolish dreams of Pokémon training and spend some time with his family. Her father ignores her and goes to his gym to take on challengers. 
    Rebecca's worried and Brock offers to help in any way possible. Rebecca's father wants to win the P-1 Grand Prix, and Rebecca wants Ash and Brock to enter the tournement and defeat Hitmonchan to bring her father to his senses. The P-1 Grand Prix is a tournement for fighting Pokémon and Team Rocket has their sights set on the championship belt and the prize money. Unfortunately, neither Jesse 
nor James has a fighting Pokémon (or many other Pokémon), so the tie up a trainer and steal his clothes and Hitmonlee (a humanoid creature with no head, also known as the kicking fiend). Disguised as Hitmonlee's trainer, Jesse (sitting on James's shoulders under a trenchcoat) enters the grand prix. 
    The first match begins as Ash's Primeape faces off against Machop (a grey lizard-like thing with hands). A flurry of kicks and a seismic toss sends Primeape flying and Ash leaps to catch him as he flies out of the ring. Ash attempts to bring Primeape's spirits up before putting him back in the ring. Misty (in the audience next to Rebecca) notes that this is the first time Primeape has done as Ash 
asked, as he usually does what he feels like. Apparently, trying to save Primeape has made him trust Ash. Primeape thrashes, bashes, and scratches and wins the match. Next up, Brock's Geodude takes on Team Rocket's Hitmonlee. Geodude gets kicked like a soccer ball into the back of Brock's Rebecca-gazing head but gets back in the ring. Hitmonlee's kicks wear down Geodude and Rebecca's father convinces Brock to throw in the towel. Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan and Primeape battle their way to the final rounds. The match between Hitmons lee and chan is sabatoged as Meowth, from beneath the ring, glues Hitmonchan's feet to the 
floor. The only thing standing in the way of Team Rocket and the championship belt is Ash's Primeape, and Meowth has another trick up his kitty sleeve. Pikachu spies on Team Rocket as Meowth explains that when Hitmonlee jumps, they'll press a remote button and the device planted under the ring will electrocute Primeape and explode! Pikachu tries to warn Ash, but he's to busy directing Primeape. Hitmonlee jumps, but the device doesn't do anything. Hitmonlee now has to play fair and he and Primeape leap into battle. Once on the ground, Hitmonlee's flurry of kicks keeps Primeape at bay. Rebecca's dad says he can't beat Hitmonlee unless he gets on the inside of the kicks. Primeape ducks Hitmonlee's kick and gives him an uppercut that sends him flying! Primeape leaps up after him and slams Hitmonlee onto the mat with a seismic toss. Primeape and Ash won the P-1 Grand Prix! Rebecca's dad is impressed and offers to train Primeape to be a real P-1 championn. 
    Meowth can't figure out what went wrong. Pikachu crawls out from under the ring, hands Meowth the device and walks off. Meowth inspects the device which then electrocutes Team Rocket and explodes, throwing them from the stadium. In the end Rebecca's dad promises to train Primeape well and Rebecca promises to get her dad to spend more time with his family. 
  

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Episode 29 - "Sparks Fly for Magnemite" 
    Gringy City. Factories, pollution, and little life. That's the location of this episode as Ash and friends enter the grimy little burg. Pikachu doesn't look so well, so they rush him to the Pokémon Center. A somewhat indifferent Nurse Joy says that Pikachu just has a cold and he'll be better after a nights rest. Meanwhile, Team Rocket begins their dastardly plan. They try to sneak into the center by sewer, but a city-wide blackout shuts off the oxygen pump to their suits and they're forced to surface. This is bad news not only for Jesse and James stuck under a river of smelly sewer slime, but for the Pokémon in intensive care at the Pokémon Centre as well.  Officer Jenny points Ash and company in the way of the electric plant. Although ill, Pikachu insists on tagging along. Once there, an unseen presence chills Misty to the bone and Brock soon sees it too. Ash challenges it to step forward so they can it, unless it's a monster or a ghost, in which case it could stay where it is. The presence is a Magnemite (a metallic orby-thingy with screws and magnets stuck to it) that is obviously quite attracted to Pikachu as it floats around, following him. (This Magnemite has been stalking Pikachu since he entered the city) Pikachu isn't too pleased to have a creepy metal ball float behind him and Ash tells it to buzz off. Magnemite zooms off, but most likely from the stench of the Grimers (living piles of smelly sludge) that drop down from the air ducts a moment later. Misty loudly expresses how bad they smell, and a Muk (a bigger pile of sludge, second-stage Grimer) whose apparently the leader orders an attack. 
Ash and pals get chased down the hallways of the electric plant and run into the guys who run the place. They all run to the control room and lock the door. The plant technicians explain that the Grimers have blocked the pipes that lead to the generators, and without that water they can't run the plant. The Grimers knock down the door and Pikachu's thunder shock is practically useless (because he's ill). All hope seems lost, but it's Magnemite to the rescue! It brought along some Magnetons (three Magnemites stuck together, second-stage Magnemite) that electrocute the attacking Grimers and the herd the Grimers out the pipes. All that remains is an attacking Muck, which is weakened by a combined electric attack from Pikachu and Magnemite. Ash catches it in a Pokéball, but it still smells terrible. 
    The next morning, Pikachu feels alot better. When an electric Pokémon, like Pikachu, gets sick, it stores up a lot of energy and becomes magnetized. It could explain why Magnemite was "attracted", so to speak, to Pikachu, and why it's ignoring him now. Now Pikachu really feels better. Just then, Team Rocket splashes out of the bay with huge magnet on a submarine. Thinking Pikachu is still sick, they turn on the magnet and attract a ton of Magnetons. The weight of the Magnetons cause the submarine to sink, dragging them under water. Also, Professor Oak isn't too pleased when Ash sends him his new Muk. 
  
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Episode 30 - "Dig those Digletts!" 
    Like most of the time, our heroes, Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu are lost in the forest.  Fumbling over his map, Brock tries to figure out where they are until he realizes that they're surrounded by mountains.  Meanwhile, Team Rocket are planning to have a little picnic not far from Ash and the gang.  James decides to go eat some crumpets as Jesse settles for some chinese food, while Meowth does some sit-ups.  Just before they eat, a huge explosion causes the ground to shake and Team Rocket has their food flipped onto their heads.  Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu feel the explosion too and run towards the sound to see what's happening. 
    The gang arrive at a narrow road that runs through the forest.  There were some huge construction vehicles and trucks that were lining up on the road.  The explosions were from the dynamite that was planted on the mountainside.  Suddenly, the tire of one of the huge trucks fall into a hole and causes a chain reaction among the other trucks.  Pretty soon, there was a huge pile of overturned trucks along the road.  A worker with a funky accent jumps out of one of the trucks and starts complaining about Digletts (a weiner-looking Pokémon that lives in the ground).  The worker tells Ash that some Digletts are creating havoc for the construction workers by making their trucks fall over.  He says that they're going to build a dam, called the Giva Dam but it's pretty obvious that the Digletts don't like the idea of it and keep preventing the construction workers from doing their work.  The worker offers Ash the reward of staying 7 days at a resort if he could get rid of the Digletts.  Without warning, Gary shows up in a red convertible with some girls.  With some sly talk, Gary tell Ash that he's a loser and that he'll be able to get rid of the Digletts for sure.  Drooling, Brock asks who the girls are and Gary just tells him that they're just some friends of his.  Brock desperately asks the girls for their phone numbers but they don't give it to him.  After a while, Gary drives off. 
    A rally is held later on by the worker to address all Pokémon trainers about the Digletts.  Meanwhile, Jesse, James and Meowth are watching from above.  Jesse gets an idea and plans to take all the people's Pokémons from the rally but she soon realizes that Team Rocket can't go up against them with just Ekans and Koffing.  Then, Jesse and James suddenly say talk about how much they'll miss their Pokémons (Ekans and Koffing) when they evolve.  Crying, they huge their Pokémons and without warning, Ekans and Koffing begin to evolve.  Back at the rally, some Digletts appear and all the Pokémon trainers, including Gary and Ash, start throwing their Pokéballs, but nothing happens.  None of the Pokémons jump out of their Pokéballs.  Pretty soon, a huge pile of Pokéballs form, but the Digletts give them back their owners (pretty polite creatures) and the pile is soon gone. 
    That night, Ash and company are enjoying themselves in a hot spring.  Then, some Digletts appear from the rocks near them.  Pikachu and the rest of them start following the Digletts as they form a huge line and head towards some place with branches and sticks on their heads.  Some people are trying to hit the Digletts with some sledgehammers but they don't succeed.  The worker, Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu follow the Digletts to a mountainside filled with working Digletts and Dugtrios (the evolved form of a Diglett) who help plant flowers and trees.  The worker finally sees that the Digletts are trying to protect their land and which is why they're trying to stall the construction of the dam.  As usual, Team Rocket show up but with a surprise this time.  Instead of bring out Koffing and Ekans, they have Weezing (the second stage of Koffing) and Arbock (the second stage of Ekans).  It wasn't long until there was a loud rumble.  The Digletts formed a huge, moving pile of dirt towards Team Rocket.  Jesse and James manage to stay on the top of the moving pile and pretend that they're surfing.  Without realizing it until the last moment, the huge pile of dirt, as well as Team Rocket surfing on top of it, smash into the unfinished dam. (what a mess) 
    Pretty soon, it is over.  The worker realizes that the habitants of the forest would be without a place to live if the dam was built, and that the water would be flooded over their former homes.  He decides to stop the building of the dam (well, the dam is already destroyed anyway). 
    Ash and the rest of the gang happily leave on their way to becoming great Pokémon trainers. 
  
Read Episodes 31-40 to read about their latest adventures
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