Zander

Xander (Japanese: ゼンキチ Zenkichi) is a character of the day who appeared in Caterpie's Big Dilemma.

A student of Dr. Gordon's, Xander appears to spend most of his time at the doctor's lab. It was there that the young boy met and, who he believed were thieves trying to sneak into the lab. When he realized that they were actually heading to Saffron City, he immediately apologized. Soon afterwards, broke into the doctor's lab and spilled some of Dr. Gordon's Mystery Candy Complete, which a  Xander cared for immediately ate. The Bug Pokémon immediately began to grow, until it became bigger than any human.

Caterpie escaped the lab and climbed up a tower structure, where it promptly evolved into. Suddenly, Team Rocket reappeared and kidnapped Dr. Gordon after they fed the candy to their and. Metapod then evolved into and, with Xander and Ash, saved the doctor from Team Rocket.

After the rescue, Butterfree shrunk down back to its normal size. Xander was proud of Butterfree for saving the doctor and vowed to train it. He then bade farewell to Ash and the others, hoping that he and Ash would meet again someday.

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Groß, größer, am größten! Xander Xander Xander