Ash and his friends are at a Pokemon center when he gets a telegram from Professor Oak. Ash calls Professor Oak and Muk is acting insubordinate towards him. Professor Oak tells Ash how to upgrade his pokedex and Ash follows his directions. Our friends talk over a table about what Pokemon they want to hatch from that thing, naturally they pick their favorite types. Team Rocket pretends to be egg sellers and steal the egg from Brock. Meowth takes the egg and cares for it like no one else could; he slept with it, ate with it, bathed with it, and even slept with it; who would have thought that Meowth could be a mother. Our heroes follow a trail of broken eggs and show up the small shack the Team Rocket is hiding in and decide to bust in and get the egg back. As they break in Weezing uses his poison gas attack and turns the fray into a small football game under a shroud. In the end, Pikachu holds the egg. Pikachu gives the egg to Ash and it begins the hatch. As its hatching Misty pushes Ash away to get a closer look at the egg is the first thing it sees when it hatches. After they escape from Team Rocket, Ash uses his newly updated Pokedex to find out that the new species is called Togepi. They all decide to have a tournament to see who gets to keep Togepi; and Meowth declares Jessie and James illegal contestants because they never cared for the egg. Meowth is forced to battle for himself because he has no Pokemon; but it looked he was having a personality crisis. After a series of a 3 battle tournament, out of Brock, Misty, Ash and Meowth, Ash wins by beating Meowth no contest. Disgusted with Meowth, Jessie and James drag him away. But after the tournament Misty still gets to keep Togepi because it was the first person that it saw. Meowth should have gotten Togepi.