as ash and friends walk in the fog with ash and misty still arguing over the bike when brock suggests to calm them down they have a tea break and he gets ash to get some firewood which he does on misties insistance. ash finds a boy named joe running on a treadmill answering questions from his classmates from a rich persons boarding school joe doesn’t answer the questions right deliberately the bullies leave him after revealing they are from pokemon tech. joe reveals he has been bullied a lot but has to stay in school due to how his parents paid for him to go at least originally. joe explains how the school works saying students at certain stages have the qualifications of certain gym badges and shows a picture of giselle the head student. we find out team rocket went to the school and failed the exams with the lowest scores in the history of the schools. joe shows ash and friends the simulator of the battles and than they acctually battle with joes weipenbell versus misties starmie despite the advantage being with weipenbell joe loses in one hit. giselle than shows up and explains that gym leaders have tougher pokemon than normal trainers and says joe is an embarasmenet leading to a battle and her graveller beats mistys starmie quickly. ash than uses pikachu to battle giselles cubone and again despite the type disadvantage this time pikachu wins in a unconventional battle. at this stage team rocket turn up to steal the pokemon but giselle and the other students beat them quickly. joe decides to go back home and start his journey again with his starter pokemon and they say goodbye to ash and friends who continue their journey.
next time a hidden village with a lot of traps leads to a starter appearence.
Harrison’s world 