While heading toward Blackthorn City for Ash’s final Gym Badge, Ash and his friends come across three sick Oddish underneath a tree. Brock cures them with some Pokémon food. Ash wonders how the Oddish got sick in the first place, so Pikachu asks them. The three Oddish lead Ash and his friends over a hill where they find a plain meadow with a huge tree home to many Gloom, Vileplume, and Bellossom. Soon, the Vileplume and Bellossom start fighting. Pikachu fails to break up the fights, so Ash sends in his Bayleef who separates them with her Vine Whip. Ash tries to get the Pokémon to apologize to each other and make friends with each other, but they refuse.
