misty tries to talk ash and brock into not going into ceurelan but ash still goes as he is after his 2nd badge. team rocket meanwhile steal some hose and other stuff which ash and brock find officer jenny investigating after leaving brock so he can do some stuff ash heads to the gym he finds three sisters doing a water show who are the gym leaders but won’t battle ash due to their pokemon being weakened by the other pallet trainers so misty who is the fourth city battles in their place. with pikachu not battling a friend and butterfree losing to staryu ash nearly catches up with pidgeotto about to beat starmie when team rocket attack which ash using pikachus electiricty beats them and ash gets the badge anyway annoying misty after reuniting with brock leave for vermilion city. end of the episode.
next time a trainer going for winner 100 has bad tactics.