- With three badges down, Ash and the gang's next stop is the gym in Saffron City. But first, they decide to take a cruise on the Saint Anne, where trainers cruise for free. Unknown to the trainers, the cruise is a trap set by Team Rocket.
- Satoshi wins a ticket to take a trip on a luxury cruise ship, the St. Anne. Satoshi enjoys the journey, even trading Butterfree for a Ratta, but feels guilty afterwards and asks for Butterfree back. However, the whole cruise is a scheme devised by the Rocket-Dan, who plan to steal the Pokémon of all the trainers on board. During the confusion, Kojiro purchases a Koiking from a devious salesman, under the impression it will make him rich.—Michael L Ballard, edited by Toby Clark
- Ash and his friends arrive at a harbour and dream about going on a cruise, but realise that they could never afford to go on one. They end up running into 2 girls (Jesse and James) who offer them three tickets for free for the world famous St. Anne (cruise ship) and Ash happily accepts.
After theyve boarded the ship they find out that the ship is like a big Pokemon convention. Ash hears a gentleman asking if anyone wants to battle his Raticate. Ash pushes his way through the crowd and asks the gentleman if he wants to battle his Butterfree. The gentleman says yes and so the match begins. Raticate tries a high jump kick, but miss and gets paralysed by Butterfrees Stun Spore. And just when it looks like Butterfree is going to win the gentleman ends the match.
After the match he says that Ashs Butterfree was quite impressive and that he wanted to trade it for his Raticate. Ash isnt convinced, but the gentleman tells him that its good to trade because hell make more Pokemon friends. Ash says that hell trade him Butterfree for Raticate and so they do.
James meanwhile is walking by a store when a man in the store calls him over and tricks James into buying a Magikarp with Jessie and his money.
Later James meets up with Meowth and Jesse and tells them about his purchase. Jesse asks him how he got the money for it and he tells her that he just used the advances on their salaries. Jesse is about to clobber him, when she realises that its time for their plan to go into action, so they go to the main room and announce that Team Rocket will now take possession of everyones Pokemon. Everyone then sees a whole bunch of Team Rocket members come out of hiding. One of them demands for Ashs Pikachu and instead gets a Thundershock, which convinces everyone to fight back.
At the end of the fight all of Team Rocket except Jesse, James and Meowth blast off. The captain of the ship then announces that the St. Anne has sprung a leak and for everyone to get on a lifeboat. Ash is thinking about Butterfree and misses him, so he asks the gentleman if he will trade back his Butterfree. The gentleman says ok and they trade back, but just as Ash is about to get on a lifeboat with everyone else, the ship hits a wave and he drops his Pokeball with Butterfree in it and he starts running after it, followed by his friends.
At the same time on the other side of the ship, James also drops his Pokeball with Magikarp in it and he too (with Jesse and Meowth) start running after it as it rolls away. Ash and James both manage to get back their Pokemon, but get knocked out when the ship hits another wave, capsizes and starts to sink with Team Rocket and the twerps trapped.
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