Synopsis

Ash and his companions encounter Sho, a boy with both a Pichu and a Raichu. Sho, mistaking the sight of Ash's Pikachu, assumes it is a wild Pokémon. The encounter presents Ash and Pikachu with a renewed opportunity, much like their experience at the Vermillion City Gym – a chance to evolve Pikachu into a Raichu following a defeat against a formidable foe. Paul observes this loss and chides Ash for falling to such an opponent, though he later finds a measure of redemption by avenging the defeat i