ash and friends are still lost heading for vermilion city and can only find spearow in the forrest but they spot a lizard pokemon on a rock which is a charmander a fire type. they find out that if its tail goes out it dies ash tries to catch it but it refuses to go into the pokeball despite being weak after talking to pikachu they find out that is waiting for its trainer so they leave it and find a pokemon center nearby. as they near the pokemon center it starts to rain heavily the situation bothers brock and ash but they don’t think someone would abandon it until they hear a guy named damian laughing about the pokemon he caught and said he abandoned charmander due to it being weak so brock starts to get into an argument with him about it that doesn’t go well and nurse joy has to break it up. brock ash and misty go out in the storm to get charmander and have to fight off some spearow with pikachus electricity (they got shocked too). at the pokemon center nurse joy heals charmander which is badly wounded but it gets healed. but the next morning they find that it has escaped by the pokemon center to head back to find damian. meanwhile team rocket plan an attack to get pikachu using a rubber balloon and a pithole trap this works until charmander turns up and uses flamethrower on them which stuns damian its power after ash and friends get out of the hole damian shows up to get charmander back but it refuses to go with him and ends up that ash catches it (despite him suggesting brock does).
next time a squad of squirtle can ash catch one.
Harrison’s world 