A Splashing Showdown!

**A Splashing Showdown!** (Japanese: **ハナダシティのすいちゅうか** *The Suichūka of Hanada City*) is the fourteenth episode of season 1 of Pokemon Legends.

## Summary/Synopsis

*Nanette seeks the Cascade Badge in Cerulean City—but for some reason, Elizabeth develops a strange chill after realizing that. When the heroes show up, the city is buzzing about a break-in that just took place—and Cheren is angered when Nanette's initially accused of the crime! (We see Team Rocket commit the robbery, but no one else knows about their involvement yet.)*

*Nanette and her Gym Challenging friends arrive at the Cerulean City gym, which resembles an aquarium with an Olympic-sized swimming pool. They see a water show performed by the Sensational Cerulean City Synchronized Swimming Sisters. Later on, Nanette learns that the sisters are actually the Gym Leaders. He challenges them, but they don't feel like battling and instead offer him the Cascade Badge without a fight.*

*It looks like everyone will have their Cascade Badge without breaking a sweat...but then a fourth Gym Leader step up! Who is this mysterious Gym Leader? What does Team Rocket plan to do with the stuff they stole? And why are the Élémens glowing?*

## Plot

Excited about winning her Boulder Badge, Nanette travels quickly to Cerulean City to battle for her Cascade Badge. For some reason, however, Elizabeth is hesitant and says she and her best friends will go shopping instead. She nervously leaves the heroes as they enter the city.

When everyone enters Cerulean City, they see a big crowd of people surrounding a building. Unbeknownst to them, Team Rocket had stolen a vacuum machine from the store overnight. Nanette pushes through to the front, and after seeing Officer Jenny, she accuses her of being a criminal, much to Cheren's angst. When she proves her innocence by showing her team badge, she lets her go, and ushers the crowd away. After that, everyone sits on different benches and Nanette asks Brock for inside information on the Gym Leader. Brock tells her that as a Gym Leader, he cannot give out that information. Then Brock decides to check something out that he has been meaning to look at. Everyone splits up, and Nanette heads to the Cerulean Gym with Chase and Elaine.

When the trio reach the Gym, they find three sisters performing a synchronized swimming show for a lively crowd. They meet the girls backstage, and after finding out that they are the Gym Leaders, Nanette challenges them to a battle. The girls, Lily, Daisy, and Violet, explain that their Pokémon are too tired to battle from matches against three Trainers from Pallet Town. Lily shows Nanette the trio's final Pokémon, a Goldeen. Daisy claps her hands and a Seel with the badge in its mouth appears, whereupon she offers her the Cascade Badge without a proper match. Another girl who had been spying on the entire scene, Misty, intervenes and challenges Nanette, Chase and Elaine to a battle. As it turns out, Misty is herself a Cerulean Gym Leader as well, and also the youngest of the Sensational Sisters, but because she is so much younger than her three sisters, they call her a runt.

After Misty argues with her sisters, she challenges the trio to an official Cerulean Gym battle, the rule concerning the amount of Pokémon per side nullified after an agreement. Nanette tries to send out Gigi, but she refuses to go into battle because Fire-types like her are weak against Water-types. Realizing that, Nanette instead sends out Catie to battle Misty's Staryu. She hits Staryu with a Tackle, and Staryu replies with several Water Guns. Catie's Stun Spore paralyzes Staryu temporarily, though it dives and washes the powder off. Ashton tries a powered-up Thundershock to help out, though Staryu dives once again. Staryu performs several Tackles and eventually knocks Catie into the pool, causing her to lose the battle. After that, Misty sends out Starmie and Elaine sends out Evolite in order to help Nanette recover. Evolite uses Quick Attack on Starmie, but it jumps into the water and attacks her. Evolite uses Tackle, causing Starmie to hit the wall and its red core to flash. Just as Elaine is about to win the battle, Team Rocket interrupts and tries to steal all of the Water-type Pokémon and the water from the Gym using a giant vacuum machine – the one stolen the previous night. Realizing this is a bad attack, Nanette uses her communicator watch to get her friends to get to the Gym right away. Even though Nijiko, Yume, Fubuki, and Momoka are waiting for Dragonet's ultrasound to be finished (they're in there with her), they get the message on their watches and come as well.

While Team Rocket's vacuum is sucking up the Water-type Pokémon, Nanette's friends (minus Brock) come to the scene via Hilda's Teleport. Out of rage, Bianca uses the Fleur Élémen to unleash Flowering Heart Bloom Doom, which causes Team Rocket to fall into their machine and be blasted off. Chase rushes over to the machine and reverses the vacuum, just as Ashton is sucked in. After Team Rocket is gone, Daisy gives the Gym Challengers the Cascade Badge in recognition of Bianca's efforts, said girl also getting a crystal replica. Misty tries to argue, but her sisters convince her that if Chase battled with Ashton all by himself, he would have easily beaten her Water-type Pokémon. Misty agrees with her sisters and claims that when she comes back from her journey with the Harmonic Starlight Skies, she will be a great Trainer. Brock then meets the heroes outside of the Gym. Misty decides right away to join Team Go-Getters, much to Nanette's delight, as everyone heads for Vermilion City.

## Major Events

* The heroes arrive in Cerulean City.
* The Harmonic Starlight Skies and their allies are revealed to have gotten badges for their respective teams and color-coded communicator watches.
* Nanette meets Daisy, Violet, and Lily, the Cerulean Gym Leaders, for the first time.
	+ She later learns that Misty is also one of Cerulean City's Gym Leaders and that Daisy, Violet, and Lily are her sisters.
* Nanette finds out that Blue and two other Pallet Town Trainers have already defeated the Cerulean Gym.
* Nanette, Chase and Elaine take part in their first Triple Battle, despite Misty only having two on hand.
* Catie is revealed to know Stun Spore and Sleep Powder.
* Ashton is revealed to have gotten a boost of power after his first time using Thunder Strike.
* Evolite is revealed to have learnt Quick Attack.
* The 3-V-2 Gym Battle ends in a no-contest due to the interruption by Team Rocket.
* Bianca successfully uses the Fleur Élémen for the first time during the fight against Team Rocket, and as a result, she and everyone else who didn't get their Élémen Item finally get one off-screen, except for Jim, Brock and Misty.
* The Cascade Badge is given to the Gym Challengers by Misty's sisters for protecting the Gym from Team Rocket.
* Misty joins Team Go-Getters, leaving her Gym in the care of her sisters.
* Jim collapses into the near-death state. As Ellie inspects him, she saw half of his body got corrupted.
	+ Bloom's Strength of Life Charm is awakened and Jim wakes up from the coma. He asks Amelia to hand him the pistol to kill himself since he knew he was going to transform into a Nightmare. Amelia refuses and said to her uncle that he shouldn't die too soon and things are just getting started.
	+ Nanette warns Jim he may need to deactivate himself so that Hilda and Bloom can help her get rid of what's turning him into a Nightmare, not knowing that *she* might turn into a Nightmare ***AGAIN***. Ellie said that deactivation is the only way to slow down the corruption but Lily's afraid that her father won't last any longer.
		- Ellie also stated that the corruption might be contagious so she need an heavy machinery to carry him and advised the heroes that they shouldn't touch him.

## Characters

#### **Humans**

* Nanette Daisy
* Marina Daisy
* Glorysia Melody
* Karyll Aguilar
* Red Fire
* Green Leaf
* Chase Ketchum
* Elaine Gabena
* Ethan Gold
* Lyra Silver
* Brendan Birch
* May Maple
* Lucas Diamond
* Dawn Berliz
* Barry Pearl
* Verity Platinum
* Sorrel Virile
* Hilbert Miller
* Hilda Mari
* Bianca Tulip
* Cheren Harkabune
* Nate Miller
* Rosa Mari
* Calem Xavier
* Serena Yvonne
* Elio Sunne
* Selene Moonne
* Mallow Flores
* Lillie Aether
* Lana Davis
* Pollen Yellow
* Victor Woods
* Gloria Tate
* Jim Porter
* Leah Rosie
* Parker Robertson
* Asumi Breeze
* Elizabeth Storybook
* Bloom Peters
* Flora Gabena
* Stella Star
* Musa
* Tecna
* Aisha
* Chloe Porter
* Mirta Springriver
* Amelia Porter
* Lily Porter
* Ellie Porter
* Jane Springriver
* Fiona Woods
* Marie Fragans
* Yvonne Burns
* Jessie
* James
* Brock Harrison
* Charlie Garcia
* Charlene Garcia
* Misty Waterflower (debut)
* Daisy Waterflower (debut)
* Violet Waterflower (debut)
* Lily Waterflower (debut)
* Officer Jenny

#### **Pokemon**

* Tepig (Nanette's, Gigi)
* Pidgey (Nanette's, Pidge)
* Butterfree (Nanette's, Catie)
* Popplio (Nanette's, Jessica)
* Fennekin (Glorysia's, Skylinda)
* Riolu (Glorysia's, Kestin)
* Charmander (Red's, Char)
* Bulbasaur (Green's, Saur)
* Clefairy (Green's, Limey)
* Pikachu (Chase's, Ashton)
* Eevee (Elaine's, Evolite)
* Star Lucario (Jim's)
* Charizard (Jim's, Flaris)
* Chespin (Jim's, Chester)
* Rotom (Elizabeth's)
* Ninja Dragonet (Elizabeth's, Bubbles/Dragonet)
* Castform (Elizabeth's, Casty)
* Cherrim (Elizabeth's, Bluey)
* Scorbunny (Bloom's, Kiko)
* Chikorita (Flora's, Plante)
* Eevee (Stella's, Whiteley)
* Bounsweet (Musa's, Stena)
* Rotom (Tecna's, Tony)
* Piplup (Aisha's, Pippy)
* Spritzee (Marie's; Citronelle)
* Bounsweet (Marie's; Reena)
* Cherrim (Marie's; Pinkie)
* Clefairy (Marie's, Clefy)
* Vulpix (Yvonne's; Pixie)
* Eevee (Yvonne's; Flare)
* Cherrim (Yvonne's; Reddie)
* Ninja Dragonet (Fiona's; Pumpkin Bread)
* Mudbray (Fiona's; Muddy)
* Cherrim (Fiona's; Brownie)
* Meowth (Team Rocket)
* Ninja Dragonet (Carrot Cake)
* Ninja Dragonet (Pudding)
* Staryu (Misty's, debut)
* Starmie (Misty's; debut)
* Onix (Brock's; flashback)
* Zubat (Brock's; flashback)
* Seel (Cerulean Gym's; debut)
* Goldeen (Lily's, debut)

## Scripts

* Japanese Version
* Italian Nick Version
* Italian Clieume Version
* Italian DuArt Version
* English Nick Version
* English Clieume Version
* English DuArt Version
* 4Kids Version
* Viz Version

## Trivia

* It is implied in this episode that a Gym Badge serves as a secondary ID for a Trainer, or a primary ID for a Gym Leader.
* This episode begins the gag where Brock becomes immediately infatuated by almost every girl he sees, as he asks Officer Jenny out.
	+ This episode is also the first episode where Brock is turned down by a girl.
* The absences during the episode are never explained.
* During this episode, the Cerulean Gym initially offers Nanette a Cascade Badge without a fight. This is the first time the Cerulean Gym was shown surrendering a Badge without a fight, the second being when Jimmy challenges the Cerulean Gym in *Judgment Day!*. Instead of a battle, his Badge was awarded by Daisy for cleaning the pool. The sisters imply situations like these were very common when the Gym was under their leadership in *Gotta Catch Ya Later!*.
	+ This was the only Gym which had ever offered Nanette a Badge without a fight until *Flint Sparks the Fire!*, 624 episodes later.
* This is the first Gym where Nanette doesn't use a starter Pokémon.
* What Violet sings to Nanette after she asks them to battle her is a parody of a Japanese folk song, "Agarime Sagarime".
* Bloom, Stella, Flora, Aisha, Musa, Tecna and Roxy all read the preview for the next episode.
* The extra scene concerning Jim and the Nightmares became a Nexflix exclusive clip due to 4Kids knowing it's very dark. It's still seen in the Viz dub, however.
* It is heavily implied that the real reason Nijiko went shopping was to take Dragonet for an ultrasound since she is pregnant and due soon, as evidenced when she pouted and says "this is what sucks about being pregnant" under her breath.

#### **Errors**

* In one scene, a part of Ashton's right ear is missing, making his left ear look longer than his right.
* When Team Rocket is coming out of their tank, Nanette's hair bow is missing while James is holding a light blue rose instead of red.
* When Bianca attacks Team Rocket, the edge of Meowth's ears are cream colored instead of black.
* When the recap of the last episode is shown, in the English dub, the sign is shown to be written in Japanese.
* When Jim destroy the Team Rocket Trio's tank with the FGM-899 to preventing the trio from escaping, the missile launcher fires a 40mm HE grenade instead of a HEAT munition. This is odd since missile launchers are fires missiles, not grenades!

#### **Dub Edits**

* The outside of the store Team Rocket looted says "マシーンD" (Machine D) in the Japanese version, while it says "MACHINE SHOP / Industrial supplies / All makes and models" in the dub. The next shot replaces "ルーム" (room) with "LS".
* Like the Pewter Gym, the "Hanada Gym" sign is changed to "Cerulean Gym".
* When Nanette's Rotom Phone reads Staryu, it classifies the Pokémon as a hermaphrodite. Nanette calls this strange, and Misty tells her it shouldn't matter who someone falls in love with. In the English dub, the Pokédex makes no mention of Staryu's gender and instead highlights its shining core, which is sold as a type of jewelry. Nanette now remarks that it is typical of a girl to "show off her jewelry", and Misty responds by telling her to "quit stalling". The 4Kids dub, on the other hand, edits the scene so that Elaine would snap at Nanette before the Rotom Phone could be taken out.

#### **Easter Eggs**

* Karyll is seen playing the *Mega Man* game for the NES.
* During the scene where Karyll enters the Cerulean Gym, Ice Man can be seen.