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The Pokémon Water War

EP106   ひけしたいけつ！ゼニガメＶＳカメール Firefighting Showdown! Zenigame VS Kameil

First broadcast Japan July 29, 1999 United States August 26, 2000

English themes Opening Pokémon World Ending

Japanese themes Opening ライバル！ Ending ラプラスにのって

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

The Pokémon Water War (Japanese: ひけしたいけつ！ゼニガメＶＳカメール Firefighting Showdown! Zenigame VS Kameil) is the 106th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on July 29, 1999 and in the United States on August 26, 2000.

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

Blurb

Our heroes try, but are unable to extinguish a dangerous fire, until the local fire brigade—a trained team of Wartortles—arrives and squelches the flames. As a second fire rages, however, Team Rocket abducts the Wartortles, leaving Ash, Misty, Brock, and their Pokémon to somehow save the nearby town from a fiery end.

Plot

Arriving at the next port located on Ascorbia Island, Ash and his friends are eager to get something to eat. However, their plans are shelved when they approach a warehouse on fire. Defying Officer Jenny's orders, Ash and Misty rush towards the inferno. They send out Squirtle and Staryu to douse the flames, but their efforts are in vain, as the fire begins to spread. Just when some debris begins to fall on the group, a team of Wartortle appear to save them. With a blow of a whistle they proceed to douse the flames in a coordinated display. Still, Squirtle is none too pleased and focuses much of its attention on the lead Wartortle, which wears a yellow bandana around its neck.

Later that day, the team's Trainer, Captain Aidan, introduces Ash and his friends to his firefighting force: Teams Squirtle, Wartortle, and Blastoise. Team Blastoise is used for large-scale fires, Team Squirtle for tight-space rescues, while Team Wartortle is used in more general-purpose scenarios. Ash notices Squirtle discontent, and is even more shocked when it puts on its signature black shades. Tracey is initially confused, but Ash details Squirtle's past as part of the troublesome Squirtle Squad. Ash quickly notices Squirtle's attention to the proceedings, and quickly realizes that its firefighting confidence had been shot when Squirtle itself had to be rescued. Ash begs Captain Aidan to have Squirtle join Team Wartortle for a day of training, which Captain Aidan reluctantly accepts.

Squirtle proves to be every bit as capable as the head of Team Wartortle. In a running exercise, the two were able to outpace the rest of the team. Even though Squirtle had tripped over a pebble and rolled its way to the finish, it also set a new Turtle Pokémon land speed record in the process. In a shooting exercise, Squirtle and Wartortle were able to shoot down moving targets with equal precision. However, one rogue target leads the team astray from Captain Aidan, and soon the team finds themselves falling into a Team Rocket pitfall trap. Team Rocket emerge from the crater in their Meowth Balloon with Team Wartortle and Ash Squirtle's ensnared in a net. The evil trio perform their motto, and with a pair of mechanical hands, Meowth snatches Pikachu as well. Weezing's Smokescreen chokes the air and allows Team Rocket to make their escape. Tracey sends out his Scyther to clear the air, leaving the Pokemon exhausted. Team Rocket have landed at a log cabin, using Pikachu’s electricity to power a fan while the trio admire their loot. Jessie and James begin arguing over who should get to keep one of the Wartortle, while Meowth tries to bribe the Turtle Pokemon with food. Jessie interrupts, but Meowth responds and Scratches his teammates’ faces. Squirtle seems to have come up with a plan and discusses it with Wartortle as Team Rocket fight amongst themselves.

While busy looking for Team Rocket, Captain Aidan receives a call to alert him to an apartment fire. Jenny explains that an overturned truck has delayed Team Blastoise and while Team Squirtle is on the scene, but is easily overwhelmed. At a loss and without Team Wartortle, Misty offers Staryu as a stopgap measure, and Tracey sends out Marill and Scyther to help out. Meanwhile, Venonat continues to search for the missing Pokémon and soon spots the Meowth Balloon.

Inside, Team Rocket are still fighting amongst themselves. Squirtle and Team Wartortle flood Team Rocket's cabin with water, and the pressure bursts the doors open. While Team Rocket are washed out of the building, Squirtle and Wartortle remain trapped in their nets, but manage to bunny-hop over each other to slowly inch their way out of the cabin. Now outside, they lure Mewoth into having him scratch them free from their net, as they Withdraw into their shells to avoid getting hurt. As if on cue, Ash and Captain Aidan arrive on the scene, and Venonat Tackles Team Rocket out of the way. In a last-ditch effort to claim Squirtle and Team Wartortle, Team Rocket send out Arbok and Weezing. However, they are propelled backwards by Water Gun and Pikachu’s Thunderbolt sends Team Rocket flying.

At the fire, even Misty is at her limit because Scyther has worn itself out, while Staryu, Marill, and Team Squirtle are unable to contain the fire. However, Squirtle and Team Wartortle arrive in time but just as Team Blastoise also clear the overturned truck. The troubles continue, as a child is trapped in the building. Captain Aiden tells Ash to stay behind. Squirtle puts on its black shades and is eager to meet the challenge. It and the head Wartortle, with help from a Blastoise, are propelled into the fiery building. They soon reach the child, and Wartortle has the boy cling onto its back. Unexpectedly, the floor crumbles under Wartortle’s weight, but Squirtle manages to pull it and the child back to safety. Wartortle then notices a falling door, and uses Water Gun to save Squirtle from injury. Wartortle and Squirtle emerge from the scene with the boy in hand, leaping over a fire wall to make a dramatic exit. Team Wartortle, Squirtle and Blastoise's efforts manage to put out the fire. The young boy is reunited with his mother, and thanks Captain Aidan for his efforts. Ash urges her to thank the Pokemon as his Squirtle and the lead Wartortle shake hands. In the end, Ash and his friends part ways with Captain Aidan, but not without performing a final salute.

Major events

• Ash and his friends meet Captain Aidan and Team Wartortle.
• Tracey's Venonat is revealed to know Tackle.

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Humans

• Captain Aidan

Pokémon debuts

• Team Wartortle

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Misty
• Tracey
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Captain Aidan
• Little boy
• Mother

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Tangela (US and international); Wartortle (The leader of Team Wartortle) (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Lapras (Ash's)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Venonat (Tracey's)
• Marill (Tracey's)
• Scyther (Tracey's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Wartortle (Team Wartortle)
• Blastoise (Team Blastoise)
• Squirtle (Team Squirtle and Squirtle Squad)

Trivia

• This is the first episode in broadcast order for the third dub season. However, the Pokémon: Adventures on the Orange Islands title remains for this and the remaining ten episodes of the Orange Archipelago saga.
• When this episode first aired in the United States, the Japanese version of Meowth's Party played. However, in reruns, home video releases and streaming releases, it was replaced with Pikachu's Jukebox.
• The voices of Who's That Pokémon? changed again and remained this way until Watt's with Wattson.
• Instead of saying "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe", Jessie says, "Eevee, Mankey, Hitmonlee."

Errors

• When Ash recalls Lapras at the beginning of the episode, his gloves are missing. The same happened with Officer Jenny when Squirtle and Staryu were trying to stop the fire.
• When Team Wartortle lined up to put out the first fire, the leader of the team is missing its signature yellow bandana.
• In the scene of the final fire, Tracey is holding Togepi. However, Togepi's face is missing, although it may just be hiding, and Tracey's arm is painted the same color as his shirt.
• In one scene where Misty is seen trying to put out the fire with her Staryu and Tracey's Marill and Scyther, Ash and Tracey are seen next to her. In the next scene, they are shown running to meet up with her.
• The Pokemon.com blurb mentions Brock instead of Tracey, even though Brock isn't a part of the group at that time. Also, Wartortle is spelled with an s.

• 

  Togepi's missing face and Tracey's green arm

Dub edits

• Pikachu's Jukebox: Viridian City
• The scene in the log cabin with Team Rocket fighting over who gets to pick a Wartortle first was slightly edited for the dub. During that scene, Meowth scratches Jessie and James's faces and they have a brawl. In the original Japanese version, Meowth is actually seen to be violently scratching Jessie and James's faces with an almost perfect and fluid scratching animation, with the resulting bloody scratch marks on their faces. In the English dub, the scratching shot was cut, and was replaced with two shots of colored stars with a black background, as it was very violent for this type of show.

In other languages

Language		Title
Bulgarian		Покемон – водна битка
Mandarin Chinese		滅火大賽，傑尼龜對抗卡咪龜
Czech		Vodní dobrodružství
Dutch		Het Pokémon Watergevecht
European French		La guerre aquatique Pokémon
German		Wasser Marsch!
Hebrew		מלחמת המים milchemet hamayim
Hindi		वाटर गन की जंग! Water Gun ki Jung *
Hungarian		A vízi csata
Italian		Brigate antincendio* La battaglia d'acqua Pokémon*
Polish		Wodna wojna pokémonów
Portuguese	Brazil	A Guerra de Água Pokémon
	Portugal	A Guerra dos Pokémon de Água
Romanian		Războiul Pokémonilor de Apă
Spanish	Latin America	¡La guerra de agua Pokémon!
	Spain	La guerra de los Pokémon de agua
Tamil		தி போகிமொன் வாட்டர் வார் The Pokémon Water War *
Telugu		ది పోకెమోన్ వాటర్ వార్ The Pokémon Water War *

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