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'''Showdown at Dark City''' (Japanese: '''たいけつ！ポケモンジム！''' ''Showdown! Pokémon Gym!'') is episode 42 of the [[Pokémon anime]]. It was first broadcast in Japan on April 30, 1998 and in USA on October 29, 1998. | '''Showdown at Dark City''' (Japanese: '''たいけつ！ポケモンジム！''' ''Showdown! Pokémon Gym!'') is episode 42 of the [[Pokémon anime]]. It was first broadcast in Japan on April 30, 1998 and in USA on October 29, 1998. | ||
In this episode, Ash and company arrive at Dark City, a town whose residents live in fear of Pokémon Trainers. | |||
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Ash and company arrive in Dark City, a place where it appears to be a ghost town, much to Brock's dismay. They are even more curious to see a parent herding their child off for fear of Pokémon trainers in the area. As Ash and company ponder why that is, {{AP|Pikachu}} is hit by a rock thrown from the roof of a nearby building. When Ash tells Pikachu to retaliate using a {{m|Thunderbolt}}, they hit three kids on the rooftop. When they go apologize to them, however, they get a cold shoulder treatment, as the kids want Ash and company out of the town. The kids, however, are stopped by a local restaurant owner, who invites them to his restaurant. | |||
At the restaurant, while eating lunch (Pikachu, in particular, taking a liking to eating ketchup from the bottle), the restaurant owner explains to Ash and friends, as well as a mysterious patron who had happened to overhear, that Dark City has two rival Pokémon Gyms, the Yas Gym and the Kas Gym. Both Gyms seek official status, but to do so they would need the approval of the Pokémon League inspector, who is scheduled to arrive at any moment. As there could be only one official Gym per city, each gym seeks to eliminate the other before the inspector arrives. The restaurant owner further explains that Pokémon trainers who have neared Dark City are recruited for the cause of either gym. At that moment, fighting between the two Gyms breaks out. As Ash and company watch from the safety of the restaurant, the three note that the fighting is not as much of a Pokémon Battle as it was a gang war. The Yas Gym's {{p|Scyther}} and the Kas Gym's {{p|Electabuzz}} in particular are dispatching the men of the opposing gym with ease. | |||
At that point, the safety of the restaurant is shattered when Team Rocket, hired by the Kas Gym as elite bodyguards, invades the restaurant and demand food. When they send out {{TP|Jessie|Arbok}} and {{TP|James|Weezing}} to deal with the restaurant owner when he refuses (due to the Kas Gym having run up a large tab), Ash (with Pikachu) and Misty (with {{TP|Misty|Starmie}}) attempt to intercept Team Rocket, but is beaten by Brock, whose {{TP|Brock|Vulpix}} quickly forces Team Rocket out of the restaurant with a {{m|Flamethrower}}. However, Vulpix has garnered the attention of a female Yas Gym recruiter, who tries to recruit Ash and company for their cause. At the advice of Misty (who claims that taking sides would ruin their reputations as trainers), Ash introduces himself as Tom Ato (after Pikachu's fondness of ketchup), Misty as Ann Chovy, and Brock as Caesar Salad, who, because Brock could never say no to a beautiful girl, takes them to the Yas Gym. | |||
The Yas Leader is introduced to "Tom" and his two "disciples", who proceeds to judge how powerful he is by suddenly releasing his Scyther to attack Pikachu. His {{p|Cut}} attack, however, is blocked by Pikachu's ketchup bottle, squirting Scyther in the eyes with ketchup, blinding it and making it attack its own trainer. Surprised, the Yas Leader recalls Scyther and asks Ash to join him. When asked why the Yas Gym wanted to be an official Gym, the Yas Leader responds that it is simply a means to earn money quickly, as with official Gym status comes prestige and funding. Because Ash does not see this as a worthy cause, he declines. However, the Yas Leader, mad at Ash for refusing, orders his underlings to physically beat him up (making him unable to help anyone else), and they do so by sending out a {{p|Hitmonchan}}, {{p|Hitmonlee}}, {{p|Machoke}}, and {{p|Mankey}} to do so. Ash, aided by Misty and Brock, proceed to make a hasty retreat. Back at the restaurant, Ash is curious as to why he was able to escape the Yas Gym so quickly - and uncovers the answer from his Pokédex: Scyther and Electabuzz are color-sensitive, and the color red in particular will send the two into an outrage. Knowing this, Ash and company devise a plan to stop the fighting once and for all by defeating both the Yas and Kas forces in one fell swoop. | |||
Once again, fighting breaks out on the streets of Dark City between the Yas and Kas forces. Scyther, using a {{m|Swords Dance}} boosted {{m|Cut}}, manages to destroy Kas forces and city buildings with ease, while Electabuzz and {{m|ThunderPunch}} manages to do the same against the Yas forces. When Ash sees an opening, he tells Misty, Brock, the restaurant owner, and the kids to dump tomato juice (stored in barrels on the roofs of various buildings) on all the trainers, soaking them. This makes Scyther and Electabuzz go into a rage, and they begin to attack their own trainers. The Yas and Kas leaders are at Ash's mercy, and Ash decides to end this by having {{AP|Bulbasaur}} {{m|Vine Whip}} two barrels of tomato juice on Scyther and Electabuzz, soaking both. When the two turn to attack each other (due to the rage), they run into each other, knocking the two out. | |||
When Ash asks whether the two Leaders have learned their lesson and resolved their differences, the two leaders finally agree... to team up and deal with Ash. In response, Ash orders Pikachu to unleash {{m|Thunder}}, shocking both sides. Before any more can be done, however, the mysterious patron appears. The patron reveals herself to be [[Nurse Joy]], the Pokémon League inspector, and tells everyone that neither Yas nor Kas deserved to be an official Gym because street fighting would not be tolerated. However, Nurse Joy allows the two Leaders a second chance, and tells the two that Ash would make a fine tutor with regards to how to be a proper Pokémon trainer and how to start over as one united Gym, but even "Tom Ato" is at a loss of words with regards to how to be one. However, Ash does manage to tell the two Leaders to repair all the damage to the city that they had caused. | |||
As Ash leaves Dark City, they are met by the kids again, who had quickly became fans of Pikachu, and as such decide to become Pokémon trainers themselves. Meanwhile, Team Rocket, having been covered in juice just as a building falls on them during the battle, are run out of town by Scyther and Electabuzz in their red-induced rage. | |||
= Major events = | = Major events = | ||
*Pikachu seemed to have learned {{m|Thunder}}. | *Pikachu seemed to have learned {{m|Thunder}}. | ||