ash and friends return to saffron city where ash is ready to battle the gym and convinces misty and brock to watch but haunter doesn’t follow them and ash has to forefit again and barely gets away (misty and brock don’t) from sabrinas powers. the man from before rescues ash and explains that ash will need to find haunter as well as the history of sabrina and how she used her psychic powers since she was littlle the man is revealed to be sabrinas father. team rocket plan to use a net on pikachu but haunter stops them luckily ash convinces haunter to help him beat sabrina. but when the rematch happens haunter won’t battle so pikachu battles in its place and despite doing well when kadabra uses recover and attacks it looks over until haunter appears and makes sabrina laugh her dad gives ash the victory so he gets the marsh badge.
next time charmander learns a new attack ash finds out he is behind the other pallet trainers.
Harrison’s world 