Badge (episode)

Badge is the seventh episode of the Kanto season of Pokémon Tricolor. It is the seventh episode of the series overall.

Summary
After a good night’s sleep, Leo decides it’s time to try to beat Chris once again. Unfortunately, a member of a mysterious evil team is also planning an attack on the gym.

Plot
The episode begins with Adrian waking up. He feels an unexplainable dread, and fears something bad might happen.

Leo wakes up as well. He gets dressed and quickly goes to the gym, ready to battle despite the early hours. When he goes to the gym, he sees a mysterious person with a green R on their shirt, but otherwise completely black clothes. Leo ignores this, however, instead getting upset that he woke up so early only for the gym to still not be open. However, Chris soon arrives to open the gym. Immediately the man in black runs inside the gym, trying to excite the bug types living there in order to capture them. Leo and Chris run inside the gym. Both are about to send out their Pokémon, but Adrian arrives. When the man sees Adrian glaring at him, he runs away, apologizing. Leo asks Adrian what that was all about, but Adrian just looks away, saying he doesn’t know why the grunt was scared of him. He blushed nervously. Leo believes him and thanks him for scaring the crook away, but Chris, despite his young age, doesn’t seem to be buying it. In spite of the incident that had just occurred, Leo challenges Chris to a rematch, to which the young gym leader accepts. Chris sends out Kakuna, and Leo sends out Jynx. It’s an easy victory, as Jynx uses Psychic and one-shots the poor Kakuna.

Chris exclaims that it’s time for the real star of the show, and sends out his Butterfree. It immediately becomes apparent that Butterfree isn’t going to be an easy win, as it repeatedly dodges Ice Beams and fires back with Swift. Leo gets and idea and switches to Bulbasaur and commands it to use Sleep Powder. The plan works, and Butterfree gets put to sleep. Leo switches back into Jynx and finishes the sleeping bug off with Ice Beam. Chris awards the badge to Leo, and Leo and Adrian leave, as Chris still looks suspicious. Later, Leo is at the Pokémon Center alone, and Chris finds him and gives him an egg. Leo cheerfully thanks Chris for his kindness.

Returning

 * Adrian Fulbright
 * Leo Maxwell
 * Chris
 * Leo’s Jynx
 * Leo’s Bulbasaur
 * Chris’s Kakuna

Debut

 * Team Reformation
 * Chris’s Butterfree

Major Events

 * Leo gets his first badge.
 * Team Reformation (unnamed) appears for the first time.
 * Adrian scares off the Team Reformation grunt.
 * Chris gives Leo a Pokémon Egg.