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'''The Water Flowers of Cerulean City''' (Japanese: ''' ハナダシティのすいちゅうか''' ''The Suichūka of {{tt|Hanada|Cerulean}} City'') is the seventh episode of the [[Pokémon anime]]. It was first broadcast in Japan on May 13, 1997 and in United States on September 16, 1998.

Excited about winning his {{Badge|Boulder}}, {{Ash}} can't wait to get to [[Cerulean City]] to battle for his {{Badge|Cascade}}. For some reason, though, {{an|Misty}} seems to be trying to avoid entering Cerulean, and tries unsuccessfully to convince the others to go to [[Vermilion City]] instead. She leaves Ash and {{an|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, and sent the rest of the crowd away. After that, they sit on a bench and Ash asks Brock for inside information on the [[Gym Leader]]. Brock tells him that as a Gym Leader, he cannot give out that information. Then Brock says to him, "I have some stuff I need to check out". They split up, and Ash heads to the [[Cerulean Gym]] alone.

When Ash reaches the Gym, he finds three sisters performing underwater. Ash confronts the girls backstage, finds out that they are the Gym Leaders, and challenges them to a battle. The girls, ({{ka|Lily}}, {{an|Daisy}}, and [[Violet]]) explain that their Pokémon are too tired to battle, and offer to give 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 [[The 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 {{AP|Pikachu}}, but he refuses to go into battle because he doesn't want to hurt Misty or her Pokémon. So instead Ash sends out {{AP|Butterfree}} to battle Misty's {{p|Staryu}}. After a quick battle, Butterfree gets knocked into the water, causing it to lose the battle. After that Misty sends out {{TP|Misty|Starmie}} and Ash sends out {{AP|Pidgeotto}}. Pidgeotto uses {{m|Whirlwind}} on Starmie, but it jumps into the water and attacks Pidgeotto. Pidgeotto uses {{m|Gust}}, causing Starmie to hit the wall. Just as Ash is about to win the battle, {{TRT}} interrupts and tries to steal all the Water Pokémon and the water from the Gym using a giant vacuum machine.  

While Team Rocket's vacuum is sucking up the Water Pokémon, it sucks in Pikachu as well. He releases a {{m|Thunderbolt}}, which explodes the machine, sending Team Rocket flying. After Team Rocket is gone, Daisy gives Ash the {{Badge|Cascade}}. Misty tries to argue, but her sisters convince her that if Ash had used Pikachu from the start, he would have easily beaten all of her water Pokémon. Misty agrees with her sisters and claims that when she comes back from her journey with Ash she will be a great Trainer. Brock then meets Ash outside of the Gym, and together they all head for Vermilion City.

* {{Ash}} reaches [[Cerulean City]] and meets {{an|Daisy}}, [[Violet]], and {{an|Lily}}, the {{gy|Cerulean}} [[Gym Leader]]s, for the first time.

* Ash gets the {{Badge|Cascade}} from Misty's sisters for protecting the Gym from [[Team Rocket trio|Team Rocket]].

* {{p|Seel}} ([[Dewgong (Cerulean Gym)|Cerulean Gym's]])

* {{p|Caterpie}} ({{OP|Ash|Caterpie}}; flashback)

* During this episode, the [[Cerulean Gym]] initially offers Ash a {{Badge|Cascade}} without a fight. This is the first time the [[Cerulean Gym]] was shown surrendering a Badge without a fight, the second being when {{ho|Jimmy}} challenges the Cerulean Gym in ''[[AG092|Judgment Day!]]''. Instead of a battle, his Badge was awarded by {{an|Daisy}} for cleaning the pool. The sisters imply situations like these were very common when the Gym was under their leadership in ''[[EP273|Gotta Catch Ya Later!]]''.

* This is the first Gym where Ash doesn't use a [[starter Pokémon]]. The second time wouldn't occur until [[XY074]], 866 episodes later.

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