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Excited about winning his Boulder Badge, Ash can't wait to get to Cerulean City to battle for his Cascade Badge. For some reason, though, Misty is trying to avoid Cerulean and tries to convince them to go to Vermilion City but fails,She then leaves Ash and Brock as they enter the city.
When ash and brock enter the city they see a big crowd of people in a circle surrounding a building when they get to the front they see Officer Jenny and she accuses Ash and brock of being the criminals. When they prove their Innocence she lets them go she then sends the rest of the crowd away. After that Ash and Brock sit on a bench and Ashs ask brock for inside information on the gym leader. But brock says he is a gym leader to and he can not give out that information. Then Brock says to him "I have to take care of some bussiness in town". They split up and Ash heads to the Cerulean gym and brock does his own thing.
When Ash gets to the gym, he find three sisters performing underwater. Ash confronts the girls backstage, finds out that they are the Gym Leaders and challenge them to a battle. The girls (Lily, Daisy and Violet) explain that their Pokémon are too tired to battle, and offer Ash the badge without a battle. Ash is about to take it, when Misty appears and challenges him.
It turns out that Misty is the youngest of Sensational Sisters but they call her the runt. After Misty argues with her sisters she challenges Ash to an official Cerulean gym battle with rules of 2 on 2. Ash tries to send out pikachu but he refuses to go into battle because he did not wwant to hurt Misty and/or her pokemon. So insted Ash sends out butterfree to battle Mistys Staryu after a quick battle Ash butterfree gets knocked in to the water causing butterfree to lose the battle. After that Misty sends out Starmie and ash sends out Pidgeotto during this battle ash starts to win and just before ash is about to seal his win team rocket interupts and tries to steal all the water pokemon in the gym.
As Team Rocket is stealing all the water pokemon in the gym long with the water pikachu gets sucked in as well and he release a thunderbolt causing the machine to explode sending team rocket flying. After team rocket is gone Daisy gives Ash the Cascade badge and says he earned it Misty tries to argue but her sister convince her that if Ash would of used Pikachu from the start he would of beat all her water pokemon. Misty agrees with her sister and claims that when she comes back she will be a great trainer