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Queen of the Serpentine (Japanese: 熱闘バトルチューブ！VSチューブクイーン・アザミ!! Fierce Fighting At The Battle Tube! VS. Tube Queen Azami!! is episode 158 of Advanced Generation. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 5, 2006 and in the United States on October 21, 2006.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

A newly revived ambition and the flames of courage engulf our heroes as Ash steps outside of the Pokémon center as fired up as ever until Bonsly begins to cry uncontrollably. Brock tells them it's feeding time and asks them to go ahead without him. Ash then wonders where May is. Max tells him that she and Eevee are at the beach and decides to search for her at that area. So Ash and his Pikachu go to the Battle Pike without them.

At the nearby shore, May is showing Eevee the beach when Max comes running towards them telling them to head to the Battle Pike. Arriving at the Battle Pike, the doors open to reveal James, Meowth and Wobbuffet disguise as three servants, greeting him. As Ash enters the Battle Pike, Meowth pulls the curtain revealing Jessie, disguise as Pike Queen Lucy, the Battle Pike Frontier Brain. As Jessie makes introductions, she makes a mistake in her speech by calling Ash, 'twerp' but quickly corrects her words. Failing to notice it, Ash challenges her to a match. But then James holds up a strange container, which he says it's a Pikachu Power Purifier, and instructs Ash to place Pikachu inside. Back at the Pokémon Center, Brock manages to calm down Bonsly after feeding it as May and Max joins him. As they were about to head towards the Battle Pike, Barbara and her two friends came upon them asking where Ash is. She was angry after hearing he left as they were supposed to greet him. Fortunately, Scott came in the nick of time to stop the arguing. He'd said that he was supposed to greet Lucy, Barbara and her friends at the Battle Pike but it was close for today. Just then, projectile shots off from the distance, revealing the real Pike Queen Lucy and apologize towards them for Barbara's rudeness. As usual, Brock flirts with her but was quickly pulled away by Barbara while Lucy blushes. She snaps out when Scott ask her if she's alright.

As Jessie placed Pikachu inside of the container, suddenly a net falls down onto Ash and Team Rocket reveal themselves. Making their escaped, the fake Battle Pike walls fall off while Team Rocket flies away with their balloon with the trapped Pikachu. Worse, after Ash frees himself, Ash tells Pikachu to use Thunderbolt attack but it has no effect inside the box. Luckily, Lucy came and saves Pikachu by throwing her trademark projectile. Losing their balance, the box opens and Ash saves Pikacu while Team Rocket's balloon falls down in front of them. The rest of the gang met up with Ash while Scott tells him about Lucy, making a surprise to Ash and team Rocket. Not to happy, Jessie sends out her Seviper while ash was about to battle her, Lucy tells him to let her deal Jessie and sends her Seviper. The gang was surprise about Lucy's pokémon but Barbara commented that Lucy's way stronger than hers. Proving her wrong, both Seviper uses Poison Tail. A few seconds later, Jessie's Seviper lose and knock back towards Team Rocket. For the finishing blow, Lucy's Seviper uses Flamethrower at Team Rocket, sending them blasting off again.

Scott then re-introduces Pike Queen Lucy. Ash was going to challenge her but Brock tells him that it's closed and it’s sad that they have to come back tomorrow. Hearing those words, Lucy blushes and then said that the Battle Pike is opens for good friends. The gang realizes that Ash can challenge Lucy now while Brock flirts with her again only to be carried away by Max. Inside the real Battle Pike, Ash analyzes the battlefield that has both water and land. In the first match, it is Lucy's Seviper against Ash's Donphan. Scott was impressed of his choice and his Phanphy evolved into Donphan so fast. As the match begins, Donphan makes its first move by using Take Down but Seviper defense itself uses Poison Tail attack. Next Seviper uses Bite attack but Donphan quickly uses Defense Curl and Rollout attacks together, knocking Seviper. Donphan uses Rollout again but this time, Seviper dodges it and hits it with its Poison Tail.

Fortunately, Donphan rolls towards the wall a uses Rollout energy again and manages to avoid hitting it. Instead it jumps towards the wall and uses Take Down straight at Seviper. Just then, Lucy closes her eyes, shocking Ash and the gang. Scott tells them this is her battle style and to the gang's surprise, Seviper uses Flamethrower at the exact moment Lucy tells it to, knocking Donphan down. Changing strategy, Donphan begins to charge its Hyper Beam attack. Even with Seviper's Poison tail attack, it maintains its stance and uses Hyper Beam at Seviper but it uses Poison Tail towards the water, making a huge smoke. Seviper uses Flamethrower at Donphan. Donphan dodges it and use Rollout again but it gets hit by the Flamethrower, turning it into a Fireball. Donphan then heads towards where the Flamethrower is coming from. But as the smoke subside, Seviper jumps up and was about to use Poison Tail but Donphan uses a rock to catapult itself up in the air, hits Seviper and Seviper is knock out due to the combination of Rollout and the flames from the Flamethrower. Ash was happy of his first victory but Barbara cheers Lucy up when she's getting started, followed by Brock's cheer. May wonder of Brock's cheering and Brock realizes it and decides to cheer both of them but Max pulls his ear again not wanting to see his head explode.

Lucy regains her ferocious battle spirit and sends out her second Pokémon, Milotic. Donphan quickly goes fo a direct attack towards Milotic but Milotic uses Hydro Pump at it, knocking out Donphan with just one hit. Ash chooses Pikachu as his second pokémon. As Pikachu uses Thunderbolt attack on Milotic, it makes contact with Milotic, making Ash wonder about it. Milotic then dispersed the attack by its tail and hits Pikachu with Hydro Pump. Scott and Barbara explain that Lucy prefers offense moves rather than defensive moves. Coincidence that Brock has the same method, Brock displays his love speech towards Lucy again and said both of them make a perfect couple, while Barbara and her two friends are not to happy of what he says although Lucy blushes happily. Impressed of her battle skills, Ash tells Pikachu rushes to use Iron Tail, but was pushed away by Milotic's Iron Tail attack. Pikachu then uses Quick Attack at Milotic but Milotic uses Twister at Pikachu and then uses Hydro Pump. Milotic was about to use Iron Tail at Pikachu until Pikachu Volt Tackle making a huge hit towards Milotic. Pikachu was about to use Volt Tackle again to finished it off but then Milotic uses Aside and knock back Pikachu. Thinking of the next move, Ash tells Pikachu to uses Thunderbolt on himself. Wondering of his strategy, Milotic uses Twiser at Pikchu but this was Ash's plan as Pikachu manages to goes through the Twiser attack. Pikachu uses a maximized Volt Tackle attack at Milotic, knocking it out due to the attack, making Ash the winner of this battle.

The gang was amazed and Brock and Scott explains how his strategy works in defeating Lucy's Milotic. Scott is impressed of his strategy while Barbara and her friends are sad of her lost. As both meet face to face, they congratulate towards each other and Ash is presented with his newly obtained Frontier Symbol, the Luck Symbol by Lucy. As it turns into evening, Scott informs Ash thathis next battle takes places at the Battle Palace while Max begins to analyze the Pokénav and found out that it is located near Seafoam Island. Brock then tells her if she wants to travel with him and showing his never-ending love for Lucy but again Max pulls his ear and pulls him away. As Lucy, Barbara and her friends waves them goodbye to Ash’s and the gang, Lucy begins to blush again towards the affection given from Brock. Later, Lucy was seen in her home greeted by Skitty and various other Pokémon as her face then begins to turn cherry red as she tells them that he met a guy (Brock) who has the same cute eyes she likes as they have. While Brock still falls in love with Lucy while looking at the ocean in the ship, Ash is waiting for his next battle while May is waiting for her next ribbon contest.

Major events

• Ash Ketchum wins the Luck Symbol with his Donphan and Pikachu.

Debuts

• Pike Queen Lucy

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Scott
• Pike Queen Lucy
• Barbara
• Female referee (Seiyū: 半場友恵 Tomoe Hanba)
• Female student A (Seiyū: 小平有希 Yuki Kodaira)
• Female student B (Seiyū: 大谷育江 Ikue Ohtani)*

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Donphan (Ash's)
• Eevee (May's)
• Bonsly (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Abra (Lucy's)
• Snorlax (Lucy's)
• Cyndaquil (Lucy's)
• Swinub (Lucy's)
• Makuhita (Lucy's)
• Skitty (Lucy's)
• Seviper (Lucy's) (Seiyū: 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara)*
• Milotic (Lucy's) (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō)*

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• May's Eevee was added to the opening credits.
• The L·O·V·E·L·Y ~Dream-Seeing LOVELY BOY~ instrumental is used.
• Pokémon Symphonic Medley is used during the latter part of the battle.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: La reine de Pike
• Italian: Ash contro la Regina Fortunata

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