pokemon season 1 episode 5 showdown in pewter city.

the episode starts with team rocket diging a hole for ash and friends to fall in but they fall in it themselves and we don’t see them till the end of the episode. ash and misty meanwhile arrive in town and run into a man named flint who sells rocks who shows them to the pokemon center and charges them for them sitting on their rocks. at the pokemon center ash is supprised to see another nurse joy (they are the same name in every place and she knows who ash is because of the events of episode 2). ash sees a poster for the pokemon league which he wants to enter finding out that he needs to win gym badges in battle against gym leaders but flint thinks ash has no chance. at lunch misty offers to help ash but he doesn’t agree to her help and she leaves ash with the bill which annoys him. ash gets his pokemon back from nurse joy and finds the gym where he meets brock the gym leader the battle is two on two but brocks onix is too strong for pikachu using bind after making fun of ash using pikachu. with pikachu trapped by the onix ash forefits the match and is discouraged and talks to flint about what happened and doesn’t think he could win at this point but after hearing brocks story about how brocks parents abandoned him and his siblings so he has to look after them on his own. flint tells ash he has a way of powering up pikachu to win the match which is a bit risky and misty thinks its a bad idea but pikachu learns thunderbolt in the process. ash challenges brock to a rematch first he uses pidgeotto who can’t beat brocks geodude or even damage it so ash is behind already but pikachu beats geodude in one hit with thunder bolt but onix is a much harder foe for pikachu who is scared and can’t aim thunder bolt well and after bind attack is not doing that well in the match until the sprinkler system goes off due to pikachus poor aim this helps ash who nearly wins the match but brocks siblings and the fact it was a little unfair advantage causes ash to forefit even though he was about to win. but brock finds ash leaving pewter city and gives him the boulder badge and wants ash to follow his dreams flint than reveals himself as brocks dad and agrees to look after his kids again so brock can travel with ash and become a pokemon breeder misty also joins ash and brock perminately as a travelling companion even though ash tries to run from her they trample on team rocket on the way out.

next time mt moon leads to several mysteries.