The episode starts with Ash and co. walking over a bridge, Scottie trips over and falls to the ground, dropping his notebook, he gets up and put the notebook in his front pocket, as he continues walking, the notebook falls on the bridge.
Soon Team Rocket walk over the bridge and find the notebook, Meowth flips through the pages and Jessie fangirls over seeing Steven and has a fantasy of marrying him
Back with the gang, they are ready to have lunch, Scottie has a bite and goes crazy at how great the food is, he then starts talking and suddenly realises that his notebook is not with him, he then starts being upset and talks about how he got the notebook during his travels when he got Treecko from Prof. Birch and battles and wins against Taillow, he then flashes back to meeting Steven. he remembers it falling when he was on the bridge.
The gang go back to the bridge and have a montage of looking for the notebook.
They all meet together and say no one found it, Clemont then asks Scottie if he has any Pokemon that can track his notebook,he sends out Slurpuff which licks Pickachu, Dedenne and Bonnie, it then runs off smelling the notebook, it finds Team Rocket who are fantasising about Steven, it takes the notebook with its tongue and brings it back to Scottie, Team Rocket run after Slurpuff and meet Ash and co.
Dare da? Treecko
Team Rocket send out Pumpkaboo and Inkay and lose the battle and get blasted off
Scottie then looks at his notebook and feels releived
Serena goes to a place nearby and watches TV, she sees the performance show's host talking about an upcoming showcase in another town, Serena shows this in excitement to her Pokemon and tells Ash and co. thats where they are going next.
Scottie decides he wants to battle Ash again, this time a 3vs3 where all battles are one-on-one.
The battle begins.
Ash sends out Pikachu, and Scottie sends out Bagon. Bagon uses sth which looks like Hurricane and Pikachu uses Electro Ball, Bagon and Pikachu then collide in the air, where Bagon uses Dragon Claw and Pikachu uses Iron Tail, Pikachu hits first and sends Bagon towards the ground. Pikachu wins. Ash 1 - 0 Scottie.
Scottie sends out Slurpuff, Ash sends out Hawlucha, Hawlucha easily wins the battle in quick time and Ash 2 - 0 Scottie, Ash decides he should let Scottie use his 3rd Pokemon.
Ash sends out Frogadier, and Scottie sends out Treecko. Frogadier uses cut and aerial ace consistently, this wears Treecko out, who gets mad, in its rage, it evolves. Upon evolving, Grovyle learns Leaf Blade. Grovyle then tries to attack Frogadier, but Frogadier is too fast and moves like a ninja with Double Team to avoid all the attacks, Frogadier then moves fast towards with Grovyle with Cut, while Grovyle uses Leaf Blade, When Grovyle is about to hit, Frogadier disappears and ccmes behind him but Grovyle jumps very high and uses Bullet Seed on Frogadier which hits and creates smoke, Grovyle then goes towards the weak Frogadier with Leaf Blade and pulls through with the same animation Sceptile finished Darkrai.
But....Frogadier has jumped and the attack misses, Frogadier uses Water Pulse and finishes Grovyle off...
After the battle Grovyle and Frogadier stare at each other indicating a big rivalry.
Scotties says goodbye to the Group and heads off