“friend and foe alike”
ash is worried about battling ritchie in the fifth round of the pokemon league but promises ritchie he will give it his all. Team rocket pretending to be ritchie ring ash in an attempt to get pikachu forcing ash to choose between his match and pikachu ash has to get to the arena through any means nescuary but with team rocket still trying to get pikachu it is not easy. Meanwhile at the arena ash has not turned up in time for his match and is about to lose by forefit when ash finally turns up but pidgeotto is exhausted and so are a lot of ash’s pokemon. The battle bgins but squirtle goes down to butterfree due to sleep powder pikachu beats butterfree but loses to charmanader due to fatigue down 2-1 ash is forced to use charizard (who is unreliable and doesn’t listen usually) ash is able to beat charmander somehow with that but when ritchie uses his pikachu charizard falls asleep and won’t listen ending the match with ritchie the winner. Ash congratulates ritchie but is quite upset.
next time can ritchie stay in the tornument and the end of the indigo league saga.
Harrison’s world 