IL040: The Battling Eevee Brothers

Synopsis
While traveling through the woods, Ash, Misty and Brock find an Eevee that was apparently abandoned next to a tree. When MIsty learns of Eevee's stone evolutions, she wants to keep it and evolve it into a Vaporeon. They take the Eevee to the adreess written on its collar in Stone Town. They take the Eevee to the house written on the collar and they find a big evolution party going on. There are many trainers there evolving their pokemon with evolution stones. Ash and his friends find out that the Eevee belongs to a little boy named MIkey. Mikey left Eevee in the woods because his older brothers wanted him to evolve it, saying that it would only win if it evolved. Mikey's brothers offer stones to Ash and Brock and they ask them if they would evolve Pikachu and Vulpix. Ash and Brock both refuse.

Misty tells him to let his brothers know how he feels, but Team Rocket show up to get the food, stones, and the Pokémon. They find Team Rocket thanks to Horsea leaving a trail of ink and they recover everything. During the fight, the small boy proves his Eevee can fight well just as it is and tells his brothers he wants to keep his Eevee just how it is. They agree and let him keep his Eevee.

Debuts
Human Characters Pokemon Characters
 * Mikey
 * Pyro
 * Rainer
 * Spark
 * Eevee (Mikey's)
 * Flareon (Pyro's)
 * Vaporeon (Rainer's)
 * Jolteon (Sparky's)

Major Events

 * Misty's Psyduck is revealed to know water gun.

Trivia

 * Pyro, Rainer and Sparky's names are connected to the types that their Pokemon are (Fire, Water and Electric)
 * This is the first episode to introduce evolution stones; fire stones, water stones and leaf stones.
 * Ash and Brock are asked to become members of the Evolution Club if they evolve their Pokemon using the evolution stones; Brock with his Vulpix and Ash with his Pikachu.
 * This is the second time that Ash is persuaded to evolve his Pikachu with a Thunder Stone, the first being Episode 14.
 * This episode featues another recurring gag: Calling Jessie an Old Lady. Another character voiced by Rachael Lillis (Ursula from Dinosaur King), also suffers from this gag.