The Clash of the Pallet Town Trainers

The episode starts on Route 22 with Jessie and Leaf standing far away from each other, forming a made-up battlefield while staring down at each other. Meowth is right next to Jessie. Domino and James are standing on the sidelines, ready to watch this battle happen.

Leaf chuckles. "I have been waiting for this rematch for months ever since our first ever battle at school when we tied!"

Jessie chuckles back. "You better believe that I have also been waiting for the rematch with you! This battle is going to be great and it's a six-on-six full battle too!"

Domino looks over at James, holding tight to her blue Pokémon Egg. "Who do you think is gonna win this battle, James?"

James shrugs in response to Domino's question. "I don't know. Both Jessie and Leaf have started their Pokémon journey on the same day and both also have eight respective badges! This battle could go either way."

Meowth looks at Jessie. "I'm counting on ya to win, Jess! We need to prove that we're definitely ready for the Kanto League Tournament!"

Leaf pulls out a coin. "Jessie, heads or tails?"

"Umm… heads?" Jessie answered with a not-sure look.

Leaf flips the coin and it lands on her palm. She looked at the coin and it did land on heads. "Wow, it is heads. I guess I'll be sending my Pokémon out first, but it wouldn't make a difference when I'm already going to beat you anyway!"

Jessie smirks at Leaf's confidence. "You're still the same old Leaf with that confidence of yours!"

Leaf laughs and gives her rival a thumbs-up. "You got it!"

Jessie and Leaf have another stare-down as the narrator starts talking. "The battle of rivals, Jessie vs. Leaf, who's going to come on top with this six-on-six Pokémon battle? I'm so excited for this! Are you?"

The title screen shows.

"The Clash of the Pallet Town Trainers"

Leaf pulls out a Poké Ball to start the battle. "My first Pokémon will be… Machamp, I choose you!" Leaf sends Machamp into battle.

Machamp materializes. "Machamp!"

"A Machamp huh?" Jessie pulls out a Safari Ball. "Then my first Pokémon will be Scizor, I'll start the battle with you!" Jessie sends out Scizor to battle.

Scizor materializes. "Scizor!"

Leaf commands the first move of the battle. "Machamp, use Cross Chop!"

"Machamp!" Machamp crosses its top two arms to form an 'X' and its arms start to glow. Machamp then dashes at Scizor.

"Dodge it, Scizor!" Jessie countered.

Scizor flies up in the air to dodge Machamp's Cross Chop.

"Now use Swords Dance!" Jessie commanded.

While in the air, Scizor crosses its claws across its chest and spins around rapidly, boosting its attack power.

Leaf starts thinking inside her mind. "If Jessie is boosting her Scizor's attack, then I should lower its defense!" She now commands her next move out loud. "Machamp, use Leer!"

Machamp's eyes glow blue and glare right at Scizor, as the pincer Pokémon shivers with its defense lowered.

Jessie commands the same move she used before. "Use Swords Dance again!"

Once more, Scizor crosses its claws across its chest and spins around rapidly, boosting its attack power even higher.

However, Leaf also commands the same move as well. "Machamp, you use Leer too!"

Machamp's eyes glow blue once more, glaring right at Scizor, which shivers, and its defense is lowered.

"It seems like Jessie is taking her time to attack." Domino pointed out.

James nods. "Right, Jessie is raising Scizor's attack to make sure to be an absolute knockout, however, Leaf is also lowering Scizor's defense so that Scizor will be knocked out easily. It's a smart way to counter a move that raises a Pokémon's attack."

"Wow…" Domino looks back at the battle. "I hope Jessie knows what she's doing."

Leaf smirks. "Come on, mama's girl, you're going to try to attack me?"

Jessie grits her teeth. "Scizor, use Swords Dance for the third time!"

For the third time, Scizor crosses its claws across its chest and spins around rapidly, boosting its attack power to the maximum limit.

Leaf follows up by using the same move thrice as well. "Then I'll use Leer for the third time too!"

Machamp's eyes glow blue and glare right at Scizor with its defense lowered for the third time.

Meowth groans. "This is so boring, I didn't pay to see a Pokémon battle with both Pokémon using the same moves over and over!"

Jessie glares down at her talking Pokémon. "You didn't pay for anything, I already boosted Scizor's attack power to the maximum level!" She turns back to pay attention to the battle. "Scizor, use Metal Claw!"

"Machamp, Karate Chop it before that Metal Claw hits you!" Leaf countered.

Scizor's claws start to glow metallic-like and then dash towards Machamp. One of Machamp's hands started to glow white and was ready to Karate Chop Scizor when the pincher Pokémon got too close. As Scizor and Machamp become exactly close enough to strike, Scizor can strike Metal Claw before Machamp can hit Scizor with Karate Chop, as the superpower Pokémon faints in battle.

Jessie chuckles. "And that's one down, five to go!"

Leaf chuckles back and recalls Machamp. "Machamp, return!" Leaf then turns to Jessie. "You got the first round, Jess, but are you sure you still want to keep Scizor when its defense is down?" She smirks.

Jessie then realizes and begins to think to herself. "She's right… Leaf's Machamp caused Scizor to have its defense lowered… but I think Scizor can do some damage to Leaf's next Pokémon." She then stood there without saying or doing anything.

"Guess that's a no then! Alright, Alakazam, you're up next!" Leaf sends out Alakazam into battle.

Alakazam materializes. "Alakazam!"

Jessie raises an eyebrow. "You have eight badges, yet you're sending out a psychic type against my part bug type? What are you planning, Leaf?"

Leaf shrugs. "I don't know, maybe you will find out!"

"Who could be Leaf be planning, James?" Domino asked.

James shakes his head. "I don't know at all."

"Alright Scizor, use Fury Cutter!" Jessie commanded.

"Scizor!" Scizor's claws began to glow green as it dashed towards Alakazam, repeatedly slashing Alakazam with its claws as the psi Pokémon took major damage and fell onto the ground.

"And that's another round for us!" Jessie thought she had won this round until she noticed that Alakazam slowly got up and was still able to battle. "No way!" Jessie said in disbelief.

Leaf smirks. "Alright Alakazam, Disable!"

"Alakazam!" Alakazam's eyes glow yellow and then Scizor briefly becomes surrounded in a red aura. Scizor cannot use Fury Cutter as long as Alakazam is on the battlefield

Jessie grits her teeth. "Damn, I can't use Fury Cutter anymore on Alakazam. Alright Scizor, use Metal Claw!"

"Dodge it, Alakazam!" Leaf countered.

Scizor's claws glow metallic and dash at Alakazam, trying to strike the psi Pokémon with its metallic claw, but Alakazam teleports out of the way to dodge it.

Leaf immediately commands her next move. "Now use Psybeam!"

Jessie then counters with her move. "Double Team!"

"Scizor!" Scizor starts making illusion copies of itself surrounding the battlefield.

Jessie smirks. "You better hope your Alakazam can pick the real Scizor."

Leaf however smirks back to Jessie's surprise. "Oh, I'm pretty confident they will."

Jessie's smirk goes to confusion. "Huh?"

Alakazam crosses its spoons, then releases a multicolored beam from them, and Alakazam manages to hit the real Scizor as the pincher Pokémon cries in pain and then faints in battle as the illusions disappear.

"NO WAY!" Jessie yelled out in disbelief. "How did your Alakazam manage to pick the right Scizor?"

"That's an easy question to answer. My Alakazam is psychic!" Leaf answered with a confident smile.

Jessie grits her teeth. "Damn… should've guessed."

It cuts to the Team Rocket trio, watching the battle with binoculars from a safe distance where they can't be spotted.

"Okay, what's our plan this time, Cassidy?" Mondo asked.

Cassidy explains her plan. "Simple, we just wait for those twerps to send Meowth and Eevee to face each other on the battlefield and that's where we will swipe them!"

"Wait, how do you know that both of the twerps are going to send out Meowth and Eevee to face each other?" Butch questions.

Cassidy starts explaining. "Well it's simple, Meowth is the pink hat twerpette's ace Pokémon and Eevee and the other twerpette's ace Pokémon. They're likely gonna send them out to face each other. For now, let's sit back and watch this battle."

All of a sudden, Muk bursts out of its Poké Ball. "Muk!"

This causes Team Rocket to gag in disgust from Muk's stench and they hold their noses.

Cassidy screams at Muk while holding her nose. "WHO ASKED YOU TO COME OUT OF YOUR POKÉ BALL?!"

"Muk…" Muk looks dumbfounded as Cassidy recalls it back in its Poké Ball.

The Team Rocket trio sighs in relief as they stop holding their noses and they continue watching the battle, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike as it cuts to the battle between the two Pallet Town rivals. "Scizor, return!" Jessie recalls Scizor back in its Safari Ball and pulls out a regular Poké Ball for her next Pokémon. "Gengar, I choose you!"

Gengar materializes on the battlefield. "Gengar!"

Leaf commands the first move of the round. "Alakazam, use Psybeam once more!"

Alakazam crosses its spoons once more and fires a multicolor ray right at Gengar, hitting the shadow Pokémon and it cries out in pain from the super effective move.

"Gengar, use Hypnosis!" Jessie commanded.

"Gengar!" Gengar's eyes begin glowing red and is ready to put Alakazam to sleep.

Leaf immediately commands Alakazam to try to avoid it. "Alakazam, try to avoid it by not looking at Gengar's eyes!"

Alakazam looks away to avoid looking at Gengar, but Gengar floats up to where Alakazam is looking away and psi Pokémon look in the other direction, but once more Gengar floats up to the other direction where Alakazam is looking. Alakazam ends up looking at Gengar's red eyes and falls asleep.

Leaf grits her teeth. "Dammit!"

Jessie commands her next move since Alakazam is asleep. "Now use Dream Eater, Gengar!"

"Gengar!" Gengar releases a shadow-like version of itself at the sleeping Alakazam and the shadow goes through it, sucking up the psi's Pokémon energy and restoring its health.

Jessie chuckles. "And just like that, my Gengar's health is back to full and your Alakazam's health is drained and still asleep!"

Leaf grits her teeth before her expression changes to happiness. "I have to say, Jessie, you came a long way when we left Pallet Town together!"

Jessie nods. "Thank you, I appreciate it!"

Domino and James are continuing watching the match from the sidelines. "Leaf should know that Jessie has improved her skills as a trainer after a month has passed!" Domino says.

James nods in agreement. "But let's not sleep on Leaf now, unlike her Alakazam. Leaf is also experienced too and might be more experienced than Jessie, even though I am rooting for her to win."

It cuts back to the battle between Jessie and Leaf with Jessie's rival smirking. "Luckily, I have this!" Leaf reaches into her bag and pulls out a medicine spray with a blue label.

Jessie raises an eyebrow. "What's that?"

"It's an Awakening!" Leaf answered. "Although it might skip my turn, using this on Alakazam will automatically wake it up!"

Jessie's eyes widened as Leaf sprayed the Awakening onto Alakazam, automatically waking the psi Pokémon up. "Alakazam!"

"Well then, I guess I have to put it back to sleep then!" Jessie says. "Gengar, use Hypnosis!"

"Gengar!" Gengar's eyes begin to glow red once more and try to look at Alakazam to put it back to sleep.

"Alakazam, close your eyes and don't open them to avoid the Hypnosis!" Leaf countered.

Alakazam closes its eyes and won't open them as long as Gengar's Hypnosis is still in play.

Jessie raises an eyebrow and crosses her arm. "Quite the strategy, but it's not going to work that easy, Leaf! Gengar with Hypnosis still in play, move around the battlefield, stay in a random area, and keep quiet!"

Gengar continues putting Hypnosis in play as the shadow Pokémon begins floating around the battlefield; it finds a good space to stay there and keep quiet.

"What are you going to do, Leaf? With Gengar's Hypnosis still in play, if you let your Alakazam open its eyes to see where Gengar's location is on the battlefield, Hypnosis will activate and put your Alakazam back to sleep. Even if you tell your Alakazam where Gengar is, I would simply command Gengar to move to a different location. Which means you have no other option but to let your Alakazam take a random guess and attack with its eyes closed!"

Leaf smirks. "Good strategy Jessie, I would admit, but not good enough! Remember, Alakazam is a psychic Pokémon, which means I have faith even if its eyes are closed that Alakazam can land a hit on your Gengar! Alakazam, find Gengar and use Psybeam!"

Jessie sweats and grits her teeth. "No way, Alakazam can't land the hit on my Gengar with its eyes closed, right?" She says quietly to herself.

Alakazam, with its eyes closed, crosses its spoons once more, reads the battlefield, and finds out where Gengar is. Alakazam fires a multicolor ray right directly where Gengar is on the battlefield. Gengar cries out in pain from getting hit by the Psybeam and faints from the battle.

"IT CAN'T BE!" Jessie yelled out in disbelief from Alakazam guessing Gengar's location on the battlefield right.

Alakazam opens its eyes back as Leaf chuckles. "Psychic Pokémon are wonderful, aren't they?" She says.

Dominos sighs and shakes her head. "And Jessie's strategy failed."

"I told you before that Leaf and Jessie both have experience as trainers," James says.

"Gengar, return!" Jessie recalls Gengar back in its Poké Ball and pulls out a different one. "Rapidash, you're up!" She sends Rapidash into the battle.

"Rapidash materializes onto the battlefield. "Neigh!"

Leaf commands the first move of this round. "Alakazam, use Psybeam!"

"Alakazam." Alakazam crosses its spoons as it fires a multicolor ray right at Rapidash.

Jessie quickly counters with her move. "Dodge it with your Agility, Rapidash!"

"Neigh!" Rapidash was able to avoid the Psybeam with its extremely fast speed as it started running around in circles around Alakazam, as the psi Pokémon tried to keep up but ended up getting confused.

"Alakazam, use Future Sight!" Leaf commanded.

"Alakazam!" Alakazam closes its eyes and a pentagram symbol appears on the psi Pokémon's forehead.

"Future Sight? What does that do? Oh well, better just attack it." Jessie says in her mind before calling out her move out loud. "Alright Rapidash, Take Down!"

"Neigh!" Rapidash starts charging towards Alakazam, ready to slam its body right on psi Pokémon, but Alakazam quickly opens its eyes and catches Rapidash, telepathically, right in mid-air as the flaming horse Pokémon was surrounded by a blue aura and levitating, then the pentagram on Alakazam's forehead disappears. "Neigh?!" Rapidash cries in confusion.

Jessie's eyes widened in shock. "H-how did Alakazam do that? It's like it knew what move I was gonna use!"

"That's the power of Future Sight, Jess!" Leaf responded with a smirk. "It has the power to let your Pokémon know what move they're gonna use next. Now Psychic attack, Alakazam!"

Alakazam's eyes glow a bright orange color as it sends Rapidash right into a tree with its psychic powers.

"Rapidash, are you okay?!" Jessie immediately called out.

Rapidash slowly gets up off the ground, still able to fight as the flaming horse Pokémon nods at Jessie. "Neigh…"

Jessie nods with a smile. "Alright, use your Agility again!"

Rapidash starts running around circles with its extreme speed right around Alakazam, confusing the psi Pokémon again as it tries to keep up.

Leaf raises an eyebrow at Jessie's strategy. "If you're gonna use Agility again, then I'll use Future Sight again!"

"Alakazam!" Alakazam closes its eyes and then a pentagram appears on Alakazam's forehead once more.

Jessie stood still and did not order a move at all as she crossed her arms. Leaf looks on, waiting for Jessie to call out a move. "Are you gonna call your next move or not, Jessie?" Leaf said.

Jessie looks on, thinking inside of her mind. "There's got to be a way to beat that Future Sight. Hmm… maybe with Rapidash's fast speed, I could inflict damage as soon Alakazam figures out what my next move is." Jessie now commands her next move out loud. "Fire Blast!"

Rapidash stops moving and then opens its mouth to shoot out flames shaped like a kanji right at Alakazam.

"Teleport out of the way!" Leaf commanded.

Alakazam opens its eyes, glowing white, and quickly teleports out of the way to dodge the Fire Blast.

Jessie quickly commands her next move. "Rapidash, find out where Alakazam is teleporting and use Take Down!"

Rapidash starts looking around the battlefield to find where Alakazam would be teleporting and as soon as a glow starts appearing, Rapidash quickly starts running in that direction. Alakazam fully teleported back to the battlefield but was immediately met with a Rapidash slamming onto the psi Pokémon, taking damage and fainting from the battle.

Jessie laughs. "Way to go Rapidash! I guess one way to beat a psychic Pokémon is with psychic strategies!"

Domino and James start smiling and cheering for Jessie on the sidelines. "You got this Jessie! Way to go!" "That's some nice battling, Jess!"

Leaf looks on at Jessie while talking in her mind. "The one Jessie that started her journey a while back would have never thought of a strategy like that. I have to say that Jessie has come a long way." Leaf smiles and recalls Alakazam. "Alakazam, return!"

Meowth smirks. "So whatcha next Pokémon, huh? I bet Jessie can take any Pokémon on!"

Leaf smirks back and pulls out a Poké Ball. "Oh really now? I'll fight fire with fire. Ninetales, I choose you!" She sends out Ninetales onto the battlefield.

Ninetales materializes. "Ninetales!"

Jessie commands the next move. "Fire Blast, Rapidash!"

Leaf immediately counters with her move. "You use Fire Blast too, Ninetales!"

Both Rapidash and Ninetales open their mouths, shooting out flames shaped like a kanji. Once both moves collide, the entire battlefield is surrounded by smoke. Both Pokémon couldn't see their opponent in this smoke.

"Rapidash, use your Agility!" Jessie commanded.

"Neigh!" Rapidash starts moving through the smoke to increase its speed until the fire horse Pokémon accidentally bumps into Ninetales from not seeing it from the smoke as it slowly clears.

Leaf took the opportunity to command an attack. "Quick Attack, Ninetales!"

"Ninetales!" Ninetales quickly dashes towards Rapidash, tackling the fire horse Pokémon and flinging it back towards their side of the battlefield and sending it to the ground.

Jessie grits her teeth before trying to get Rapidash back up. "Come on Rapidash, I know you still have some fight in you!"

Rapidash slowly gets up, still able to fight. "Rapidash!"

Leaf immediately commands the next move. "Confuse Ray!"

Ninetales opens its mouth and releases a purple orb ball right at Rapidash, making the fire horse Pokémon confused.

"Oh no, Rapidash is confused!" Jessie exclaimed, before commanding her next move. "Fire Blast!"

Rapidash opens its mouth to release a flame shaped like a kanji, but due to the confusion, Rapidash aims up and fires the flame up, only to come back down and hit itself from the confusion. "Neigh!" Rapidash cries in pain.

"This is bad!" Jessie exclaimed.

Lead commands her next move. "Now use Sunny Day, Ninetales!"

Ninetales looks up in the sky and sends out a loud cry. "NINETALES!" This causes the sun's rays to intensify around the battlefield, making the whole area more hot.

Domino and James both start sweating from the sidelines. "Who turned up the heat? I'm sweating so much!" Domino complained.

Meanwhile Meowth, by his trainer's side, also complains about the temperature as well. "Did it just get hot in here or is it just me?"

"What did that Sunny Day do? Whatever, I'm so hot right now." Jessie takes off her pink hat and tosses it aside then commands her next move. "Fury Attack!"

Leaf quickly counters. "Dodge every one of them!"

Rapidash dashes towards Ninetales, trying to attack the fox Pokémon repeatedly with its horn, but Ninetales manages to avoid every single one of them by jumping from aside.

Leaf immediately commands her next move. "Fire Blast!"

"Ninetales!" Ninetales opens its mouth and shoots out a flame shaped like a kanji right at Rapidash. Once the flame-shaped kanji hits the fire horse Pokémon, it deals some serious damage as Rapidash cries out in pain despite being an ineffective move.

Jessie gasped out in shock at what she just experienced. "Despite being a fire type, that Fire Blast looked like it dealt some serious damage to Rapidash. But how?" She begins to think before looking up at the powerful rays in the sky. "Maybe it has to do with that Sunny Day that Ninetales did earlier that charges up fire-type moves! I should take that advantage too!" Jessie then commands her next move out loud. "Fire Blast, Rapidash!"

Rapidash opens its mouth, ready to send out another flame-shaped-like kanji, but due to the confusion, the fire horse Pokémon looks up to the sky sending the flame out and causing it to hit itself once more, but due to Sunny Day, Rapidash takes even more damage from last time as the fire-horse Pokémon was heard crying in pain.

Jessie grits her teeth from frustration. "That damn confusion!"

Leaf clutches her fist to seize the opportunity. "Quick Attack!"

Ninetales dashes toward Rapidash and tackles the fire horse Pokémon quickly, sending it directly toward the ground and taking more damage. Rapidash is seen on the ground and not moving a muscle at all.

"RAPIDASH!" Jessie called out.

James and Domino both look at Rapidash on the ground, thinking it's out of the battle. "Well that's it for Rapidash, they gave it their all, but it wasn't good enough for Leaf's Ninetales," Domino stated, earning a nod from James.

However, to everyone's surprise, Rapidash slowly gets up, still able to battle a little as it shakes or head to snap itself out of confusion. "N-neigh!"

Jessie smiles in delight as Rapidash is still able to battle. "Rapidash!"

"How is your Rapidash still moving after taking so much damage?!" Leaf exclaimed.

James widened his eyes, knowing why. "I get it now!"

Domino looks at James. "What is it, James?"

"Rapidash doesn't want to lose to another fire-type like Ninetales. It's just like with Magmar, Rapidash is determined to come on top with any other fire-type Pokémon to prove they're the best fire-type Pokémon of them all." James answered.

"Wow…" Domino looks back on the battlefield. "I'm impressed by the determination Rapidash has."

"Such a heartwarming story that your Rapidash has the heart to keep going, but not anymore after this move! Ninetales, Fire Blast!" Lead commanded.

Jessie immediately counters with the same move Leaf commanded. "You use Fire Blast too, Rapidash!"

"Ninetales!" "Neigh!" Both Ninetales and Rapidash open their mouths to release a flame-shaped kanji at each other. Once both moves collide, the Sunny Day causes the moves to be more powerful to cause a mini explosion, as smoke immediately surrounds the battlefield. After the smoke slowly clears, it's revealed that both Ninetales and Rapidash have fainted from the battle.

Both Leaf and Jessie gasped from seeing both of their fire-type Pokémon faint before recalling them back to their Poké Ball. "Rapidash, return!" "Ninetales, return!"

Once both Leaf recalls Ninetales, the harsh rays of the sunlight end as Domino and James sigh in relief. "The temperature is finally dropping a little!" James says.

"This battle is intense. Jessie and Leaf are both down to three Pokémon." Domino added.

"I know both trainers want this win for the League Tournament to see how each trainer has become stronger so far," James added.

Jessie pulls out a different Poké Ball, ready to send into battle. "Blastoise, you're up next!"

Blastoise materializes. "Blastoise!"

Leaf smirks. "A water type, huh? Then I'll start with this Pokémon! Venusaur, I choose you!" She sends out Venusaur into battle next.

Venusaur materializes. "Venusaur!"

Leaf immediately commands the first move. "Venusaur, use your Razor Leaf attack!"

"Venusaur!" Venusaur starts launching multiple razor-sharp leaves from the leaves on its back right towards Blastoise.

Jessie immediately counters. "Blastoise, withdraw into your shell quickly!"

Blastoise quickly withdraws into its shell as the razor-sharp leaves from Venusaur bounce off of Blastoise's shell, which did little damage to the shellfish Pokémon.

Jessie immediately commands her next move. "Now Rapid Spin!"

While still inside its shell, Blastoise starts spinning around in circles like a disc and then directly spins towards Venusaur, catching the seed Pokémon off guard as it takes damage, being flung back to its side of the battlefield.

"Venusaur, no!" Leaf called out from being worried.

Jessie pumps up her fist in the air. "Nice Rapid Spin, Blastoise!"

Blastoise withdrew out of its shell to look back at its trainer with a happy cry response. "Blastoise!"

Venusaur slowly gets up, still able to fight in battle. "Venusaur!"

"Good, you're still able to fight. Now use Leech Seed!" Leaf commanded.

"Venusaur!" Venusaur sprouts a seed from its big flower on its head and shoots it directly at Blastoise. Once the shellfish Pokémon gets hit by the seed, Blastoise gets wrapped in thin vines and leaves that restrain it.

"Blastoise!" Blastoise cries in pain as the vines and leaves glow red as its health and energy get sucked out of and then transferred to Venusaur.

Jessie begins to grit her teeth from being worried. "Blastoise, try to use your Rapid Spin to get those vines off of you!"

Blastoise tries to withdraw into its shell to use Rapid Spin to get those vines off of them, but no good as the vines have a good grip on Blastoise.

Domino and James have worried expressions on their faces. "This is the perfect opportunity for Leaf to attack as Blastoise is stuck from those vines!" Domino says.

James nods. "Let's see what Leaf does here."

However, out of shock from them, Leaf commands Venusaur a non-attacking move. "Now use Growth!"

The big flower on top of Venusaur begins glowing white as it begins growing a little. Venusaur's flower is now a little bigger as the glow fades out.

"Leaf didn't attack?!" Domino exclaimed, shocked. "Why?"

James starts to think before realizing what Leaf might be doing. "I think I know what Leaf is doing. Jessie better get those vines off of Blastoise, quickly!"

Jessie begins to think inside her mind. "Those vines might have a lock on Blastoise, but they're not blocking their cannons." She then commands her next move out loud. "Hydro Pump!"

Despite being wrapped by vines and leaves, Blastoise manages to shoot out a blast of water right toward Venusaur and hits the seed Pokémon directly as it cries in pain.

Jessie snaps her fingers in delight. "Haha, got them!"

Leaf smirks. "You might wanna look again, Jessie."

"Huh?" Jessie looks at her Blastoise as the vines and leaves glow red once more, sucking out the health and energy of the shellfish and then transferring to Venusaur as Blastoise cries out in more pain. "Oh no!" Jessie exclaimed after what she was witnessing.

"As long as Leech Seed is in place on your Blastoise, each time my Venusaur gets damaged, those vines on your Blastoise will keep sucking its health up and transfer to my Venusaur! So you better know how to get rid of those vines!" Leaf explained. "In the meantime, Venusaur, use Growth again!"

"Venusaur!" Venusaur's flower begins glowing white and growing larger again, then the glow fades away.

Jessie starts sweating in fear and starts thinking inside her mind. "Whatever Leaf is planning, I have to get those vines off of Blastoise, but how?" Jessie then tries to use the same strategy she used earlier. "Try to use Rapid Spin and get those vines out!"

Blastoise tries its best to withdraw into its shell, the shellfish Pokémon gets a little closer than last time, but the vines are still able to prevent Blastoise from doing so. "B-Blastoise!" Blastoise was heard struggling to free itself.

Leaf was ready to go on the attack now with her next move. "Now use Solar Beam!"

The inside of the flower on Venusaur's back glows white as the seed Pokémon starts gathering sunlight in its flower.

"I knew it! Leaf was commanding her Venusaur to use Growth twice to power up its Solar Beam!" James explained.

"Oh no! This is bad news for Blastoise. Jessie better think of something to get those vines off or this might be the end for her Blastoise!" Domino stated.

Jessie closed her eyes and started gritting her teeth more hard at how worried, before she thought of an idea. "Maybe I don't have to get those vines off to inflict damage." She says quietly to herself before commanding her next move. "Blastoise, use Rain Dance!"

"Blastoise!" Blastoise fires two orbs of water from its hydro cannons into the sky at the sun. Then, rain clouds appear and it starts to rain all over the battlefield.

"AH!" Meowth jumps onto Jessie's shoulder and then goes under her pink hat to shield himself from the rain.

Leaf clutches her fist with determination. "Now Venusaur… HIT BLASTOISE WITH YOUR ULTIMATE POWERFUL SOLAR BEAM!"

Jessie immediately also screams out her counter move. "HYDRO PUMP!"

"Venusaur!" "Blastoise!" Both Pokémon let out a battle cry as Venusaur fires a white beam of energy from its flower right at Blastoise and then Blastoise fires blasts of powerful jets of water out from the cannons right at Venusaur. Blastoise ends up getting hit by the Solar Beam, destroying the vines in the process, and then Venusaur gets hit by the Hydro Pump with both Pokémon going down and taking damage. Once both Venusaur and Blastoise slowly get up, both Pokémon have an intense staredown before Blastoise cries out in pain before falling back on the ground and fainting from the battle. Once Blastoise faints, the rain clears and the sky clears up.

"Blastoise, no!" Jessie called out from being worried.

Meowth peaks from under Jessie's hat. "Is the rain over? Good!" The talking Pokémon jumps back onto the ground.

Domino frowns. "Blastoise lost against Venusaur."

"Yes, but look at Venusaur." James points out that Venusaur looks extremely hurt. "That Hydro Pump did some damage on Venusaur despite being a water-type move and that Rain Dance Jessie ordered earlier dealt even more damage to Venusaur and since the Solar Beam blew the vines off of Blastoise, Venusaur didn't gain any health back at all."

"Blastoise, return!" Jessie recalls Blastoise back in its Poké Ball and then looks at it. "You did great, Blastoise, you deserve a nice rest." She then puts the Poké Ball back in her purse and pulls out a different one. "Electabuzz, you're up next!" Jessie sends out Electabuzz next into battle.

Electabuzz materializes. "ELEBUBUBU!"

Leaf immediately commands the first move of the round. "Venusaur, Leech Seed!"

"Dodge it and use Swift!" Jessie quickly countered.

Venusaur sprouts another seed from its big flower on its head and shoots it directly at Electabuzz, but the electric Pokémon immediately dodges by moving out of the way before opening its mouth as yellow stars shoot out of it at Venusaur. Once the yellow stars hit the seed Pokémon, Venusaur cries out in pain before dropping to the ground and fainting from the battle.

Meowth clutches his fist in excitement. "And it's all tied up! Jess, try to win the next round to get a lead!"

"Venusaur, return!" Leaf recalls Venusaur and then she looks at the Poké Ball. "You did great, take a long rest!" Leaf puts the Poké Ball in her yellow handbag and pulls out a different one. "Lapras, the battlefield is all yours!" She sends out Lapras next onto the battlefield.

Lapras materializes. "La!"

Domino immediately falls in love once seeing Lapras "Oh my goodness it's Lapras! I hope they win this round!"

James sweats out of embarrassment as he looks at Domino. "Did you forget who you were rooting for earlier?"

Jessie starts out this round with the first move this time. "Electabuzz, start this off with Thunder Wave and paralyze it!"

"ELEBUBUBU!" Electabuzz creates a ball of yellow electricity in front of its hands and releases rings of yellow electricity from it at Lapras.

"Lapras, use Safeguard quick!" Leaf countered.

"La!" Lapras' body becomes outlined in blue as the ball of electricity gets reflected off of Lapras and doesn't get paralyzed at all.

Leaf smirks. "You're not going to paralyze my Lapras that easily, Jessie."

Jessie has an annoyed expression on her face as she commands her next move. "Screech!"

Electabuzz takes a deep breath as the electro Pokémon lets out a powerful screech right at Lapras. "ELEBUBUBU!"

"L-la…" Lapras shivers a little as its defense lowers to two stages.

"I'm going to use the same move that your Blastoise did earlier. Lapras, use your Rain Dance now!" Leaf commanded.

"Laaaaaaa!" Lapras opens its mouth to sing from its voice as a light blue energy ball comes out from it, sending it to the sky. A few seconds later, the sky is cloudy and the battlefield is once more filled with rain.

"NOT AGAIN, COME ON!" Meowth jumps onto Jessie's shoulder and goes back under her pink hat once more to avoid the rain.

"Use Screech again, Electabuzz!" Jessie commanded.

Electabuzz takes a deep breath once more and lets out a powerful screech toward Lapras to lower its defense two stages once more. "ELEBUBUBU!"

Leaf clutches her fist. "Now use Hydro Pump, Lapras!"

"La!" Lapras opens its mouth, a powerful flow of water comes out, and then aims it directly at Electabuzz.

Jessie immediately counters. "Dodge it and use Thunder!"

Electabuzz ducks onto the ground to dodge the flow of the water from the Hydro Pump. The electric Pokémon stands up before letting out a battle cry. "ELEBUBUBU!" Electabuzz then starts gathering electricity in between the horns on its head, and it fires a blast of yellow electricity from its horns at Lapras.

Leaf also immediately counters as well. "Lapras, you dodge it and use Hydro Pump again!"

Lapras rolls over on its shell to dodge the Thunder from Electabuzz then it opens its mouth once more as more powerful water flows out of its mouth directly towards the electric Pokémon.

Jessie orders Electability to dodge the Hydro Pump once more. "Dodge it! Don't let that Hydro Pump hit you while Rain Dance is in effect! Keep using Thunder!"

Electabuzz jumps out of the way this time to avoid the Hydro Pump before firing another blast of yellow electricity right at Lapras.

Leaf immediately commands what Jessie just did to Electabuzz with her Lapras. "You also keep dodging and use Hydro Pump too!"

Lapras rolls over its shell to dodge the Thunder again before opening its mouth and sending another Hydro Pump again toward Electabuzz, but the electric Pokémon manages to dodge the move again.

Domino and James look so impressed by each Pokémon dodging. "Neither Pokémon wants to get hit by either move and I can see why," Domino says.

Both Lapras and Electabuzz let out their battle cry as Lapras opens its mouth to send out a more powerful flow of water towards the electric Pokémon and Electabuzz fires a blast of electricity from its horns at the same time. Both moves end up colliding, causing an explosion and smoke to surround the battlefield as Jessie and Leaf shield their eyes and mouths from the explosion and smoke. Once the smoke clears, Lapras and Electabuzz are still standing and having a staredown.

Jessie notices the blue outline surrounding Lapras disappears, giving her the fact that Safeguard has worn off. "Quick, use Thunder Wave, Electabuzz!"

"ELEBUBUBU!" Electabuzz quickly creates a ball of yellow electricity in front of its hands and releases rings of yellow electricity from it at Lapras.

The rings of yellow electricity grab a hold of Lapras, it start electrocuting the transport Pokémon, paralyzing it as Lapras cries out in pain. "LA!"

Leaf's eyes widened, realizing what happened. "Oh no, my Safeguard must've worn off! Lapras, use Ice Beam to freeze Electabuzz!"

Lapras tries to open its mouth to send out an Ice Beam towards Electabuzz, but the paralysis prevents Lapras from doing so as the transport Pokémon cries out more in pain. "La!"

Jessie clutches her fist tightly before pointing directly towards Lapras. "Thunder!"

"ELEBUBUBU!" Electabuzz charges up its horns before sending a power bolt of electricity right at Lapras and it hits, completely electrocuting the transport Pokémon, crying out in a lot of pain before fainting from the battle.

Domino falls over in disbelief and sadness. "No, Lapras lost the round!"

James chuckles and rubs his head. "Maybe next time?"

Once Lapras faints, the sky clears once more as Meowth jumps back onto the ground from Jessie's hat. "Nice one Jess, you're in the lead now!"

"Lapras, return!" Leaf recalls Lapras back onto its Poké Ball before looking at it. "You did fantastic, Lapras, take a long rest!" She puts the Poké Ball back in her handbag before looking at Jessie with a chuckle. "Wow Jessie I'm impressed, you got me down to my last Pokémon!"

Jessie smiles. "I came a long way after all. I didn't earn all eight badges for nothing!"

Leaf nods before pulling out a different Poké Ball. "I can see that, but next up is Eevee!" She sends out Eevee, her last Pokémon, into battle.

Eevee materializes. "Eevee!"

Jessie commands the first move of this round. "Electabuzz, use Thunder!"

Electabuzz tries to power up its horns once more, but can't as the electric Pokémon looks tired from using the move. "Elebububu…"

Jessie's eyes widened. "Oh no, Electabuzz is tired from using it a lot with Lapras!"

Leaf immediately takes advantage of this situation. "Quick Attack!"

"Eevee!" Eevee dashes towards Electabuzz and tackles the electric Pokémon with its fast speed, flinging Electabuzz towards the ground and crying in pain, but it gets up.

Leaf commands her next move already. "Now use Swift!"

Jessie immediately counters with the same move Leaf commanded. "You use Swift too, Electabuzz!"

Eevee jumps up in the air as it swishes its tail, releasing multiple yellow stars right at Electabuzz. Electabuzz opens its mouth, also sending out yellow stars as well. Both yellow stars start colliding and after a few minutes of both moves colliding, Eevee's Swift gets the upper hand from Electabuzz's tiredness as the electric Pokémon ends up getting hit, falling, and fainting from the battle.

Jessie grits her teeth. "Damn! Lapras must've tired out Electabuzz a lot." She recalls Electabuzz back and looking at the Poké Ball. "You did great, Electabuzz. You get that rest now." Jessie looks at her Meowth. "Ready, Meowth?"

Meowth nods. "Ready as ever!" He jumps onto the battlefield, having a staredown with Eevee.

"Well this is it, the final round, and it all comes down to Eevee or Meowth," Domino says.

James nods. "This battle can go either way."

It cuts to the Team Rocket trio, watching the entire battle as Mondo sees that Eevee and Meowth are both on the battlefield. "Alright, let's commence our plan now, Meowth and Eevee are both on the battlefield!" However, Mondo looks at Cassidy and Butch, not replying to him as they're too interested in the battle to go with their plan. "Guys?"

It cuts back to the battle between Jessie and Leaf as Jessie commands the first move of the round. "Meowth, use Fury Swipes!"

"Dodge them, Eevee!" Leaf countered.

Meowth's claws glow white and sharpen as it tries to swipe Eevee, but the evolution jumps out of the way. "Hey! Stay still, you annoying pest!" Meowth tries to swipe Eevee again, only for the evolution Pokémon to dodge again by moving out of the way.

"Quick, now use Sand Attack!" Leaf commander.

"Eevee!" Eevee turns around and kicks sand at Meowth with its hind legs, blinding the talking Pokémon.

"AH! MY EYES! I CAN'T SEE!" Meowth starts covering his eyes with his front paws.

Jessie tries to command a move. "Meowth, quick use Slash!

"JESSIE, I CAN'T SEE!" Meowth screamed out while rubbing his eyes to get the dirt off.

This gives Leaf an opportunity. "Quick Attack!"

Eevee dashes towards Meowth and tackles the Pokémon with its fast speed, flinging and causing Meowth to yell to his part of the battlefield.

Meowth gets up and shakes his head fast to get the dirt off of his face. "Now you're gonna get it!"

"Meowth, use Thunderbolt!" Jessie commanded.

Yellow sparks surround Meowth's body before a bolt of yellow lightning right at Eevee, hitting and electrocuting the evolution Pokémon, as Eevee takes damage.

"Sand Attack once more, Eevee!" Leaf commanded.

"Eevee!" Eevee once more turns around and kicks sand at Meowth with its hind legs.

Meowth gets blinded again by the sand as he holds his face in pain. "So much sand in my eyes, it hurts!"

Jessie starts to get worried. "Meowth, try to rub the sand off your face, quick!"

Meowth starts rubbing his face, trying to get the sand off, but can't. "I-I can't, there's so much sand!"

"Quick Attack after Quick Attack Eevee! Let's go!" Leaf commanded.

Eevee dashes towards Meowth and tackles him quickly. Eevee then quickly turns around to face Meowth, dashing and tackling the talking Pokémon again, then Eevee starts hitting Meowth over and over with Quick Attacks like a ping pong ball then Eevee stops.

Leaf clutches her fist. "Now Take Down!"

Meowth slowly gets up, breathing heavily before finally rubbing all the sand off of his face. "Hey, I can finally see-" The talking Pokémon was cut off by Eevee slamming into him as Meowth gets flung back to his side of the battlefield and faints from the battle.

"MEOWTH!" Jessie called out, dashing to Meowth and picking him up.

"Where's the leak ma'am…" Meowth says lying on the ground with swirly eyes.

Eevee starts taking deep breaths from being tired but is still standing. "Eevee…"

"YOU DID IT EEVEE, YOU WON ME THE BATTLE!" Leaf immediately dashes towards Eevee and picks her Pokémon up with a smile as she nuzzles Eevee's cheek.

Eevee nuzzles its trainer back with a smile. "Eevee!" The evolution Pokémon soon gets recalled back in its Poké Ball.

"Wow! What a great battle! I was definitely on my feet during most of it!" Domino says, impressed.

James nods in approval. "If these two have a rematch at the Kanto League Tournament, I believe it would be even more intense than this one!"

It cuts to the Team Rocket trio as Cassidy and Butch finally realize the battle is over. "Alright, let's capture Eevee and Meowth!" Cassidy said, raising her fist in the air.

"Yeah! Let's do it!" Butch added.

"Umm guys…" Mondo takes a deep breath. "We had our chance and you two blew it because you both got so interested in the battle that we missed our chance!"

"WHAT?!" Both Cassidy and Butch yelled out in shock and fell in disbelief before quickly getting back up. "Why didn't you try to tell us the opportunity was there, Mondo?!" Cassidy asked in disbelief and an angry expression.

"Yeah! What gives, Mondo?!" Butch added.

Mondo clutches his fist in anger before letting it out. "I TRIED TO WARN YOU TWO, BUT YOU GUYS WERE TOO INTERESTED IN THE BATTLE!"

Cassidy realizes. "Oh… oops." She and her partners-in-crime sigh before lying down in disappointment. "Looks like Team Rocket messed things up again…" All three members said together.

It cuts to Viridian City, outside of the Pokémon Center as the door opens to reveal the gang and Leaf exiting after healing up their Pokémon.

"Well, I'm planning on staying in Viridian City for a little before heading to the Indigo Plateau. Are you staying with us, Leaf?" Jessie asked.

Leaf shakes her head no. "Sorry, but I'm planning on getting prepared for the Kanto League Tournament by training while heading to the Indigo Plateau. So I guess this is where we part ways, Jessie."

Jessie nods as she fist-bumps her rival Leaf with a smile. "Good luck getting there Leaf. It was nice having you traveling with us for a little bit. I hope we both end up facing each other in the tournament!"

Lead smiles back at her rival and gives her a thumbs up. "I hope we do Jessie, I hope we do."

Jessie and her friends wave goodbye to Leaf as she turns around and starts heading off, waving goodbye back to her rival and her friends. One Leaf was out of Jessie's sight, her smile faded into sadness, and started walking in the opposite direction, being sad. "I can't believe I lost to Leaf…"

"Jessie?" Domino asked, concerned.

Meowth shakes his head in disappointment. "She's sad that she lost to Leaf, it's pretty obvious."

James looks at Meowth with an annoyed look. "Well if you did your battle better against Eevee, she wouldn't be in a sad mood in the first place."

Meowth's eyes widened before turning around and crossing his arms. "Yeah whatever, Jimmy…"

"What a battle indeed, but even after an awesome battle that we experienced, Jessie feels down after losing to her rival Leaf! Will she cheer up and be ready for the tournament in a few days? Find out as the journey continues!"