On their way to Nacrene City, the gang is harassed by a group of  schoolchildren with the Garbage Pokémon Trubbish. They head to a nearby  Pokémon Daycare and kindergarten, where they learn from the kids'  teacher Miss Daniella that the kids found the Trubbish at the garbage  dump and decided to bring it back to the school. However, Miss Daniella  told them that the Trubbish could not stay and brought it back to the  dump, only for the kids to bring it back and form a gang called the  "Trubbish Squad" and barricade themselves in a treehouse rounded with a  wall of trash. Ash goes up to the treehouse to convince them that the  Trubbish has to go, but is attacked by the group yet befriends them as  well. Elsewhere, Team Rocket is given a fake meteorite from Flint and  are told that they will get more information later. Back at the school,  the Sandile with sunglasses arrives and the children have Trubbish fight  it. Miss Daniella then decides that she should battle the Trubbish  Squad to determine whether or not Trubbish should stay. Ash challenges  her, as he has joined the squad, and she sends out her Deerling to fight  Pikachu. The fight causes the trash wall to collapse, almost crushes  one of the kids and Trubbish; however, Ash, Miss Daniella, and the  others save them by holding the wall back. After the fight, she decides  that Trubbish can stay and everyone cleans up the school. Before Ash and  his group leave, the owner of the Daycare gives Ash a Pokémon Egg. 

 
