as ash and his team going they saw an odish neary as misty try to catch it a balbasaur come and save it deafting misty sharyu. then both run away
Giselle: Huh, misty you not even able to beat an wild balbasaur
as mistry get angry as saying: don't talk to me like that, you win because i wasn't taking the match seriously as both of girl fighting mikey sighed and focus his aura but he couldn't find so he ask raphel about direction. then ash said girls to stop fighting and finding balbasaur
misty: so you want to catch it ash??
Ash: of course that balbasaur is strong.
as ash walking towards there the three of them heard a loud noice coming from hidden village direction. as team rocket already find it and catching the pokemon of village with balbasaur as he stuck with arbok and weezing.
ash: so team rocket pokemon evolve. its too early according to story.
soon ash throw a pokemon calling pidgeot and tell her to free the pokemon from net
as pidgeot go into fast speed towards ballon direction.
team rocket smirking as attacking balbasaur with pokemon in baloon heard a sound as they tilt thier head the see a big bird coming at thier direction. they paniced. pidgeot make a hole into a ballon crushing it into a ground.
jessie: ahh.. that boy again
as jessie said that she see pikachu already attacked them with a thunderboult flying them.
after rescueing every pokemon ash ask balbasaur if he okay.
then they meet melanie. she takes care of wounded pokemon that there trainer leave.
after hearing that misty and giselle sadly looking at pokemons.
melanie: balbasaur is like a hero to this village. he always protect all the pokemon of here.
ash: if its like that then i will not catch balbasaur as he is protector of here after all.
then meleanie said: no ash please take balbasaur with you. as ash look at her in confusion
meleanie: my work is healing any pokemon who is wounded but my work doesn't complete as this pokemon don't return to thier orignal places.
balbasaur looking at meleanie. meleanir: please balbasaur i know if you stay here you will never grow.
then balbasaur come in front of ash in fighting position
ash: then okay i choose you scizor
"scizor"
as they take stance for fighting
balbasaur used vine whip against scizor
ash: scizor use sword dance
scizor start spinning as saving himself from vine whip attack of balbasaur
then balbasaur start running at scizor for take down attack
Ash: scizor use double team then use agility
scizor make images of himself as balbasaur crash with one of its image
scizor start running as increasing its speed.
soon seeing this balbasaur destroy all of scizor image using vine whip.
and attack scizor with leaf seed
as seed touch scizor taking away his health. ash: scizor use air slash then metal beam
scizor attack balbasaur with slashes of air and the hit balbasaour with an beam.
making balbasaur injured heavly.
soon ash throw his pokeball towards balbasaur.
pokeball shake sometime but soon a ring hear confirm the balbasaur capturing
but he know balbasaur go into professor oak lab. he ask raphel as raphel tell him he can send any other pokemon instead of balbasaur. then ash asked is there any way to hold more then 6 pokemon as raphel says " if you win indigo league the limit increase by 3 pokemon"so he will be able to hold 9 pokemon at same time.
but now he has to send his another pokemon he can't just take away balbasaur without letting him meet his friend one last time ash send is cloyster to professor oak as keeping balbasaur.
soon cloyster pokeball disappear and balbasaur pokeball stay with him
misty and giselle also notice this but not as they know ash not normal like in jouney he always told someone coming thier way, can see when pokemon going to attack from underground. they didn't ask him in hope that he will tell them himself someday.
misty also catch an odish and giselle catch a vulfix from there
as they take there leave from hidden village