ash and friends are finally in vermilion city and ash wants to go straight to the gym but brock says they need to go to the pokemon center where they go as pikachu is hungry and find out that the gym is very hard to win at as several pokemon are injured from battling there. at the gym we meet lt surge who thinks he will be battling misty but is battling ash who calls pikachu a baby and uses his raichu the evolved form of pikachu and it is a complete mismatch as pikachu is badly beaten by electric attacks. team rocket think they could steal raichu but instead cheer for pikachu. pikachu is badly beaten and at the pokemon center nurse joy suggests pikachu evoves into raichu with a thunderstone but pikachu refuses so brock comes up with an idea that pikachu should learn attacks like quick attack this leads to a much better rematch and ash ends up winning with pikachu giving him the thunder badge his third gym badge.
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