| Queen of the Serpentine!
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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!!
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First broadcast
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January 5, 2006
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| United States
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October 21, 2006
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Ota
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| Screenplay
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米村正二 Shōji Yonemura
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| Storyboard
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藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto
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| Assistant director
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秦義人 Yoshito Hata
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| Animation director
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志村泉 Izumi Shimura
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| No additional credits are available at this time.
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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 the 158th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 432nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 5, 2006 and in the United States on October 21, 2006.
Synopsis
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The episode starts with Ash stepping outside of the Pokémon Center, eager for the next battle with the next Frontier Brain. However, Bonsly begins to cry uncontrollably, startling Ash, and Brock tells them it's feeding time, asking them to go ahead without him. Ash then wonders where May is. Max tells him that she did say she wanted to show her Eevee the ocean, leaving Ash in temporary bewilderment as he decides to search for her at that area. Ash and his Pikachu subsequently continue 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 disguised as three servants, greeting him. As Ash enters the Battle Pike, Meowth pulls the curtain revealing Jessie, disguised 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 is 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 are about to head towards the Battle Pike, Barbara and her two friends come upon them asking where Ash is. She is angry after hearing he left as they were supposed to greet him. Fortunately, Scott comes in the nick of time to stop the arguing. He says that he was supposed to greet Lucy, Barbara and her friends at the Battle Pike but it was closed for today. Just then, projectile shoots off from the distance, revealing the real Pike Queen Lucy and she apologizes towards them for Barbara's rudeness. As usual, Brock flirts with her but is quickly pulled away by Barbara while Lucy blushes. She snaps out when Scott asks her if she's alright.
As Jessie places Pikachu inside of the container, suddenly a net falls down onto Ash and Team Rocket reveal themselves. Making their escape, 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 comes and saves Pikachu by throwing her trademark projectile. Losing their balance, the box opens and Ash saves Pikachu 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 it a surprise to Ash and Team Rocket. Not too happy, Jessie sends out her Seviper while Ash is about to battle her, Lucy tells him to let her deal with Jessie and sends her Seviper. The gang is surprised about Lucy's Pokémon but Barbara commented that Lucy's Seviper is stronger than hers. Proving her wrong, both Seviper use Poison Tail. A few seconds later, Jessie's Seviper loses and knocks back towards Team Rocket. For the finishing blow, Lucy's Seviper uses Flamethrower at Team Rocket, sending them blasting off.
Scott then re-introduces Pike Queen Lucy. Ash is 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 open 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 is impressed by his choice and his Phanpy evolved into Donphan so fast. As the match begins, Donphan makes its first move by using Take Down but Seviper defends itself, using Poison Tail attack. Next Seviper uses Bite attack but Donphan quickly uses Defense Curl and Rollout attacks together, knocking out Seviper. Donphan uses Rollout again but this time, Seviper dodges it and hits it with its Poison Tail.
Fortunately, Donphan rolls towards the wall, using Rollout again, and manages to avoid hitting it. Instead, it jumps towards the wall and uses Take Down directly at Seviper. Just then, Lucy closes her eyes, bewildering Ash and the gang. Scott tells them that 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, Donphan maintains its stance and uses Hyper Beam at Seviper, but Seviper uses Poison Tail towards the water and makes a huge envelopment of smoke. Seviper uses Flamethrower at Donphan, but Donphan dodges it and uses Rollout again. However, it is hit by the Flamethrower, turning it into a Fireball. Donphan then heads towards where the Flamethrower is coming from. As the smoke subsides, Seviper jumps up, about to use Poison Tail. However, Donphan uses a rock to catapult itself up in the air, hitting Seviper and Seviper is knocked out due to the combination of Rollout and the flames from the Flamethrower. Ash is 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 for 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 disperses 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 is 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 is about to use Iron Tail at Pikachu until Pikachu Volt Tackle making a huge hit towards Milotic. Pikachu is about to use Volt Tackle again to finish it off but then Milotic pushes it aside and knocks back Pikachu. Thinking of the next move, Ash tells Pikachu to uses Thunderbolt on himself. Wondering of his strategy, Milotic uses Twister at Pikachu but this was Ash's plan as Pikachu manages to goes through the Twister 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 is 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 loss. 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 that his next battle takes places at the Battle Palace while Max begins to analyze the PokéNav and finds out that it is located near Seafoam Island. Brock then tells her if she wants to travel with him and shows 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 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
Debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
* No official credit was given for this character.
Trivia
Errors
Dub edits
In other languages
- Brazilian Portuguese: A Rainha da Serpentina
- Chinese (Taiwan): 對戰水管大熱鬥！對抗水管皇后小薊！
- Finnish: Ottelukeihään kuningatar
- French: La reine de Pike
- German: Flotte Lotte
- Italian: Ash contro la Regina Fortunata
- Latin American Spanish: Reina de la serpentina
- Iberian Spanish: Reina del sierpe
- Dutch: De slangenkoningin
