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Characters in Episode: Current Episode Guide Info Correct? Yes
Pokemon in Episode: Current Episode Guide Info Correct? Yes
Characters Pokemon Attacks used in Episode:
* Ash's Metapod - Harden, Tackle
* Ash's Butterfree - Sleep Powder
* Ash's Pidgeotto - Gust, Sand Attack
* Samurai's Pinsir - Tackle
* Samurai's Metapod - Harden
* Wild Weedle - Poison Sting
* Wild Beedrill - Twineedle

Episode Location: Viridian Forest, towards Pewter City
Episode Highlights:
- Ash battles a wild Weedle, and nearly captures it. The samurai distracts him, and the Weedle crawls away.
- The samurai wants to battle Ash, claiming he had battled all of the trainers that came from Pallet Town.
- The battle is interrupted midway by a swarm of Beedrill, forcing everyone to flee into the samurai's house for safety.
- Team Rocket show up again, however they are also attacked by the Beedrill and quickly retreat.
Ash realizes he had left Metapod out in the wild while running away, and sets out to find it.
- Metapod evolves into Butterfree, and stops the Beedrill swarm by using Sleep Powder.
- The group continue their journey toward Pewter City

Eyecatch info: Who's That Pokemon?: Metapod (JP&Eng)
Number of Times Team Rocket Blasted off in the episode:: 1 - A retreat.
Team Rocket Balloon Enhancements: No.
Did Team Rocket use a Mecha in the episode?: No

Pieces Kept:
1997-1998-M01: ~Opening~
Attack!
1997-1998-M24
If You Ask Us About Whatever...
If You Ask Us About Whatever...
Attack!
1997-1998-M01: ~Opening~

Summary:
As they wander through Tokiwa Forest, Satoshi and Kasumi encounter a mysterious samurai boy. He duels up-and-coming Pokémon Trainers who pass through the forest in order to improve his own skills as a Trainer. And now Satoshi has become one of his targets. A Pokémon battle between Satoshi and the samurai starts, and the match is really close when a group a Spear suddenly attack. The match is put on hold, and the samurai runs off to escape the Spear.

Satoshi tries to store the Transel he sent out in its monster ball as well, but right before he is able to do this, the Spear fly off with Transel. The group makes it through with the help of Pikachu's electricity, but Transel is gone. As they look for Transel, they eventually find it in a nest of Spear's pupal stage, Cocoon.

As they attempt to rescue Transel, the Rocket Gang butts in. In the commotion, the pupa Cocoon wake up and turn into Spear, who attack the group together. Satoshi manages to escape by using the Rocket Gang, who are unaware of what's going on, as a decoy, and goes to rescue Transel. But as Transel uses its own body to shield Satoshi and the others from an attacking Spear, it is pierced by the Spear's stinger. But although its body is torn apart, the very next moment it evolves into a Butterfree. Satoshi orders Butterfree to use Sleep Powder, and it puts both the group of Spear and the Rocket Gang to sleep. The samurai is impressed with the way Satoshi and Butterfree fought together.

Voice Cast:
Rica Matsumoto: Satoshi
Ikue Ohtani: Pikachu
Mayumi Iizuka: Kasumi
Megumi Hayashibara: Musashi
Shinichiro Miki: Kojiro
Inuko Inuyama: Nyarth
Yukiji: Samurai
Rikako Aikawa: Caterpie
Unsho Ishizuka: Narration