Episode 11 – Charmander – The Stray Pokémon

Episode Summary

Season 1 – Indigo League

On the way to Vermilion City, Ash, Misty, and Brock come across a Charmander sitting on a rock. Ash tries to catch it, but it turns out it has a trainer and can’t be captured, so they head to the Pokémon Center. At the center, a hotshot trainer named Damien is bragging about how he left it, promising to come back for it. After hearing this, they head back out to get the poor pokémon as the rainstorm threatens its very life.

Full summary

Ash and his friends are just outside of Vermilion City, when they run into a weak Charmander on a rock. Ash tries to catch it twice, but fails. Pikachu asks Charmander what�s it doing and tells Ash that it says it�s waiting for its trainer to come back and get it. Ash understands and leaves it alone.

Ash and his friends walk along route 24 for a while until they see a Pokecentre and enter it. While they are resting Ash overhears a man named Damian say that he had a Charmander, but he left it on a rock and said he�d come back and that he isn�t intending to. Brock is angry so he tells Damian to go get his Charmander. Brock explains that it could die because it�s raining out. Damian says no and Brock almost gets into a fight with him, but Nurse Joy breaks it up. Brock, Ash and Misty are worried about it, so they go back to get it and bring it to the Pokecentre.

When they get back to the rock, some Spearows are attacking it, so Pikachu electrocutes them and they grabs the Charmander and starts on their way back to the Pokecentre. Brock is worried because the flame on its tail is almost out, so they go as fast as they can.

Luckily they make it to the Pokemon Centre and the Charmander�s tail is still burning. Brock gives it to Nurse Joy and she takes it to the ER to help it and Ash, Brock and Misty play the waiting game. About an hour later, Nurse Joy comes out of the ER and says Charmander is recovering just fine, so Ash, Misty and Brock go to sleep.

The next day when they wake up and find out that Charmander has disappeared. Brock says that it has probably went back to the rock where they found it, so they go to see, but instead everyone except Pikachu falls into a trap. Team Rocket them comes out of hiding with some blue rubber suits on and say that they made the trap.

Pikachu tries to shock them, but we all know rubber doesn�t conduct electricity, so they don�t get hurt. They then use an �Anti-Pikachu rubber balloon bazooka� on Pikachu and trap it in a giant rubber balloon, but Charmander comes along and saves the day by frying Team Rocket with its Flamethrower. Team Rocket is so shocked they drop Pikachu and run off, just as Ash, Misty and Brock escape from the hole, but just as everyone is about to leave, Damian comes along and says that he wants his Charmander back. Damian then throws his Pokeball at it, but Charmander knocks it right back at him. Then Pikachu uses its Thunderbolt and Charmander uses Flamethrower on Damian turning him black and making him run away yelling mommy and crying like a baby. Charmander is happy now and it willingly jumps into one of Ash�s Pokeballs, making it Ash�s most recent capture.

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