Episode 7 – The Water Flowers Of Cerulean City

Episode Summary

Season 1 – Indigo League

In his search to collect Trainer Badges, Ash heads for Cerulean City, intending to confront the Cerulean Gym Leader. For some reason, Misty expresses a desire to avoid Cerulean City and disappears somewhere along the way. Without concern for Misty, Ash and Pikachu continue toward the Cerulean City Gym. When they arrive, the exterior of the Gym gives the strange appearance of an aquarium. Upon entering the building, Ash and Pikachu are entranced by a synchronized swimming show being performed by three beautiful sisters. Could this truly be the Cerulean Gym? And what could be the role of the three beautiful swimming sisters? More importantly, will Ash be able to defeat the strangely absent Gym Leader to earn his next badge?

Full summary

Ash and his friends arrive in Cerulean City, where Ash wants to try to get a second badge, by defeating the gym leader. Misty tries to talk Ash into go to Vermilion City instead, but Ash won�t change his mind.

The next day when Ash and Brock are walking down the street (Misty has left them), they find out from Officer Jenny that there has been a burglary at a machine store. When Ash and Pikachu arrive at the gym, they find out that instead of there being one gym leader, there are three. They are called the Cerulean City Sisters and they say that they are tired of battling, so they offer Ash the Cascade Badge without a battle. Ash isn�t sure whether he should take it, but before he can make up his mind, Misty stops them and explains to Ash that she is the fourth Cerulean City Sister and she wants a Pokemon battle with Ash, so the battle begins.

Ash chooses Pikachu, but it doesn�t want to battle a friend, so Ash instead goes with Butterfree. Misty selects her Pokemon, a Staryu. Staryu starts out by trying to tackle Butterfree, but misses it and Butterfree uses Stun Spore. Ash thinks that he has won, but Staryu recovers and the battle continues, but eventually Staryu wins by knocking Butterfree out of the air and taking it under water. Ash calls back Butterfree and then chooses Pidgeotto. Misty then calls back her Staryu and chooses Staryu's evolved form Starmie.

The battle doesnt last very long and Pidgeotto is about to win, but Team Rocket interrupts the battle with a giant vacuum. Ash figures out that they must have been the thieves that had stolen some stuff from the machine store. Team Rocket tries to suck up all the Pokemon in the gym, but loose when Pikachu uses its Thunderbolt electrocuting Team Rocket and sending them blasting off again.

Even though the match between Ash and Misty was a draw, the three sisters decide that if it had nt been for Ashs Pikachu, all the Pokemon in the gym would be gone, so they give him the Cascade Badge anyway to Misty's displeasure.

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