The Lizard Slayer

Charmander in the midst of a fierce war against the Caterpie army.

**The Lizard Slayer** is the ninth episode of Starter Squad.

## Plot

The episode starts off with a Caterpie explaining a story related to the events of the show, then Yellow (a shiny Caterpie) interrupted the story. Then Sandshrew fell from the celling along with Bulbasaur and Charmander, causing the Caterpies to run away and warn the others, after they ran off, Bulbasaur names Sandshrew, Dirtle.

The trio went off to find Squirtle and Charmander finds a trap with Bulbasaur unknowingly falling into the trap, causing him to get wet, then a Butterfree comes out of nowhere and kidnaps Bulbasaur in her Pokeball, next to come were some falling boulders. Charmander and Dirtle run away as fast as they could till a boulder blocks their path, leaving them unable to continue, then the same Butterfree that captured Bulbasaur uses a Shellder to stop Charmander, the two argue whether to catch Charmander or kill him, with Dirtle running towards then holding sand in order to attack them, it didn't really work, so the Butterfree uses the Shellder to attack Dirtle, while doing so, Charmander grabs the Shellder and kills it in one stomp. Ok that is just... brutal.

After seeing her Shellder get killed, the Butterfree takes out a Golbat which only seems to scream due to its big mouth, because of the Gobalt just screaming and being useless, the Butterfree returns her Gobalt back to its Pokeball, then she unintentionally takes out her Beedrill who acts really annoying, after a conversation with her annoying Beedrill, Charmander sets the Beedrill on fire and pulls out his left arm, killing him. The Butterfree still doesn't give up and takes out her Geodude, who starts singing the Rock Smasher song, after some time, Charmander managed to find the trap from earlier and uses it to kill the Geodude, which worked since the Geodude flew right into the trap and sank to the bottom, drowning him lol

The Butterfree sees this and takes out her Golem, who unintentionally stomps on her due to his lack of control, giving Charmander a chance to run. Meanwhile, in a room filled with caterpies, most of the caterpies are dining on Bulbasaur by sucking his bulb. While having a nice time relaxing, Charmander and Dirtle make it to the room and Charmander angrily yells at everyone, asking where Squrtile is, this caused all the caterpies to go haywire and charge right at Charmander, causing a giant battle in the room. Charmander uses the Beedrill's left arm he pulled out earlier after he killed the Beedrill in order to attack the Caterpies, Dirtle was able to knock out one Caterpie, only for him to get stuck in a cocoon made by Caterpies, with too much Caterpies attacking him, Charmander gets extremely angry and breathes out lots of fire, causing the entire room to get set ablaze and getting a lot of Caterpies set on fire to their death, after ripping a Caterpie in half, he once again begs for Squirtle, only for Leader Caterpie to show up.

Charmander tries to run to Leader Caterpie to beat it up but gets kicked by Whiskers, who is now a Nidorina, while the two fight, the giant cocoon starts glowing, why? The Sandshrew inside the cocoon is turning into, a Sandslash! Seeing this, Charmander asks for Dirtle to help him fight Whiskers, but Dirtle left due to not being involved in the battle. After a few attacks, Charmander was able to knock out Whiskers, fainting her. While Charmander was about to kill Whiskers with the Beedrill's left arm until a wave of water comes out of nowhere and knocks Charmander back, as the camera pans, we see that the one who shot out the water was Squirtle! Bulbasaur, who is still stuck in the web, sees Squirtle and thought that Squirtle looked different, or had evolved by now.

Charmander was glad to see Squirtle but Squirtle keeps shooting water at Charmander because he wanted to get revenge on Charmander for doing all the cruel stuff he did, with the help of the Caterpies, he is able to fight back, after shooting loads of water, Charmander is almost about to faint, with his tail's flame shrinking. Just as Squirtle was about to capture Charmander inside his Pokeball, Leader Caterpie tells Squirtle (Bluey because that's the nickname that he was given) to stand down, then Leader Caterpie uses a shiv to kill Charmander, after that, the screen is blocked by a black screen, leaving the episode on a cliffhanger. WHY?? WHYYYYY???

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first time:
	+ An episode has a 2D scene.
	+ To feature an evolution, as Dirtle (Sandshrew) evolves into Sandslash.
		- Whiskers is also revealed to have evolved into a Nidorina off-screen.
	+ A Shiny Pokemon.
	+ To have a song.
* One of the drawings on the walls depicts a Geodude beating up Charmander, something that ends up happening later in the episode.
	+ Another drawing depicts a Caterpie wearing Charmander’s severed head as a hat, foreshadowing his fate as shown in the next episode.