BW121

Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony!

BW121   EP778 プラスマ団襲撃！復活の儀式！！ Plasma-dan Attacks! Ceremony of Revival!!

First broadcast Japan April 11, 2013 United States July 13, 2013

English themes Opening It's Always You and Me Ending

Japanese themes Opening やじるしになって！2013 Ending サクラ・ゴーラウンド

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 西田健一 Ken'ichi Nishida Animation director 小山知洋 Tomohiro Koyama No additional credits are available at this time.

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Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony! (Japanese: プラスマ団襲撃！復活の儀式！！ Plasma-dan Attacks! Ceremony of Revival!!) is the 121st episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 778th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 11, 2013, and in the United States on July 13, 2013.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Blurb

Team Plasma continues to implement its evil plan to steal the Light Stone and secure N. But Cilan and Iris are battling back hard, while Ash and N are trapped underground. N can sense the disturbance on the surface, as he hears the inner voices of his Pokémon friends screaming in distress. Ash decides they have to get out of there and help, and recalls one of Professor Cedric Juniper’s adventure rules: Never give up until the very end! And as N watches in astonishment, Ash brings out the rest of his Pokémon, and they all work together to dig a tunnel to the surface as N marvels at the bond between them.

Meanwhile, above ground, Colress has again activated his Pokémon control device, forcing Cilan and Iris to return Crustle and Dragonite to their Poké Balls so the machine can’t control them. This leaves our heroes vulnerable, and Team Plasma moves in to capture them! Aldith wants Colress to send the controlled Pokémon underground after their targets—and just at that moment, Krookodile bursts through the ground, followed quickly by Charizard, Ash, and N, holding the Light Stone!

Colress refocuses his device on Ash’s Pokémon, and Ash scrambles to return them all to safety...all except Pikachu, who has a well-known dislike of its own Poké Ball. Colress’s machine takes control, and a growling Pikachu turns to attack our heroes. Ash gently attempts to make his best buddy recognize him, but it’s not working, and Pikachu unleashes a full-power Thunderbolt on Ash at close range, knocking him unconscious.

Desperately, N offers to give himself up—along with the Light Stone—if Colress turns off the device and sets Pikachu free. Colress agrees, N is taken into Team Plasma’s custody, and Pikachu comes back to its senses and sadly cuddles up to the wounded Ash. Ghetsis soon arrives and reveals his ultimate goal: awakening the Legendary Pokémon Reshiram from the Light Stone and taking control of its mind! Can our heroes stop this villainous scheme before it’s too late?

Plot

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While Ash and N are still underground at the White Ruins, Team Plasma continues attacking Iris, Cilan, and Professor Cedric Juniper. Iris and Cilan fight back with Dragonite and Crustle only to have Colress threaten to control them with his mind control machine. They call back their Pokémon as Team Plasma captures and restrains them. The leader orders the members to get the Light Stone and N as Ghetsis is on the way. Team Rocket continues watching unnoticed.

Ash and Pikachu try digging their way out as N watches not knowing what to do. Ash calls out Krookodile, Charizard, Oshawott, Pignite, and Snivy to help. The seven continue digging through the dirt while N, moved by everyone working together, goes to help. Krookodile breaks free out of the floor, takes one look at the angry Pokémon surrounding them, and ducks back in as Charizard takes the first step out. Everyone gets out of the hole safely. Team Plasma attack them wanting the Light Stone. Charizard blocks their attacks up until Colress powers up his mind control machine.

Iris calls Ash and tell him to put everyone back in their Poké Balls which he does except for Pikachu who won't go in his ball. Colress's machine laser hits Pikachu, which makes his eyes become red and he growls viciously as electricity sparks from his cheeks. He attacks everyone with a Thunderbolt. Ash approaches him and tries to calm him down only to get zapped. He keeps on trying until he passes out. N, overcome with sadness as he watches Pikachu zap Ash, begs Colress to stop. He makes an offer if Colress leaves Pikachu alone, he'll give Team Plasma the Stone and himself. If they refuse, he'll destroy the Light Stone.

Colress turns off the machine reverting Pikachu back to normal. Realizing what he did, Pikachu lays against Ash shamefully until he wakes up. Team Plasma restrains N as Ghetsis arrives. Ghetsis is about to begin the ceremony to resurrect Reshiram and reveals his plans to control Reshiram with the mind control device. As the ceremony begins, our heroes watch in horror.

Major events

• Team Plasma continues their attack on the White Ruins.
• N surrenders the Light Stone to Team Plasma in exchange for Colress freeing Ash's Pikachu from his control.
• Ghetsis arrives and starts the ritual of awakening Reshiram.

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Jessie
• James
• Cedric Juniper
• Looker
• N
• Ghetsis
• Colress
• Team Plasma Grunts
  • Aldith
  • Barret
  • Weiss
• Cedric Juniper's assistants

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Timburr (US and international) Charizard (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Charizard (Ash's)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Pignite (Ash's)
• Snivy (Ash's)
• Krookodile (Ash's)
• Dragonite (Iris's)
• Crustle (Cilan's)
• Liepard (Team Plasma Grunts'; multiple)
• Golurk (Cedric Juniper's assistants; multiple)
• Conkeldurr (Cedric Juniper's assistants; multiple)
• Timburr (Cedric Juniper's assistants; multiple)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Munna

Errors

• As Professor Juniper shouts that the Pokémon are heading their way, his eyebrows are colored the same as his hair.
• After Iris warns Ash about Colress's machine, the Poké Ball symbol on Ash's hat changes size, being smaller than usual in the first shot.
• As Ghetsis turns around after walking up to the altar for the Awakening Ceremony, his hand is briefly flesh-colored instead of covered by his black glove.

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  Juniper's miscolored eyebrows

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  Ash's hat error

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  Ghetsis's ungloved hand

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		電漿團襲擊！復活的儀式！！
Dutch		Team Plasma en de lichtsteenceremonie!
Finnish		Plasmaryhmä ja herättämisseremonia!
Greek		Η Ομάδα Πλάσμα και η Τελετή Αφύπνισης!
Italian		Il Team Plasma e la cerimonia del risveglio!
Korean		플라스마단 습격! 부활의 의식!
Polish		Zespół Plazma i ceremonia przebudzenia!
Brazilian Portuguese		Equipe Plasma e a Cerimônia do Despertar!
Russian		Команда Плазма и церемония пробуждения!
European Spanish		¡El Equipo Plasma y la Ceremonia del Despertar!
Swedish		Team plasma och uppväcknings-ceremonin!

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