BW009

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BW009   EP666 ペンドラー暴走！キバゴを救え！！ Out of Control Pendra! Rescue Kibago!!

First broadcast Japan November 11, 2010 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending 心のファンファーレ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 山崎友正 Tomomasa Yamazaki Animation director 大谷房代 Fusayo Ōtani No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: ペンドラー暴走！キバゴを救え！！ Out of Control Pendra! Rescue Kibago!) is the ninth episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 666th episode of the Pokémon anime. It aired in Japan on November 11, 2010.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Dent and Iris are having a battle in the forest to train Kibago. Dent instructs Yanappu to take it easy on Kibago, who is far weaker that it. Ash attempts to give Iris some advice, but she only gets agitated with him. Even an extremely gentle Bullet Seed proves too much for Kibago. They try again when Yanappu attacks with a small SolarBeam. Frustrated, Kibago unleashes a powerful Dragon Rage which causes a large crater in the ground and covers everyone in soot.

Meanwhile, in an abandoned building, Team Rocket receives orders to travel to the Resort Desert and investigate a meteor that is located there.

Taking a break, Iris explains how she first got Kibago from an elderly woman from her hometown, while Kibago wanders off to pick apple-like fruit out of the nearby trees. Pikachu follows behind when Kibago decides to get some fruit that are just out of its reach and falls in some bushes below. The ground suddenly rises from underneath Kibago revealing that it is stuck between the horns of an angry Pendra who had been napping.

Pikachu hurriedly attacks Pendra with Iron Tail. Enraged, the Pendra charges about trying to shake the dragon Pokémon out of its horns while Pikachu runs back to where Ash and the others are. Kibago unleashes a Dragon Rage trying to free itself, only to further upset the Pendra.

The group arrive at the scene where Ash and Dent attempt to use Yanappu and Tsutarja to release Kibago only to realize they underestimated the Pendra as it defeats Tsutarja, and melts some of the foliage with its Toxic attack. Iris then decides to use one of her own Pokémon only to hesitate the thought for a second. She reconsiders after Ash tells her to hurry up and hurls the Poké Ball into the air releasing a curled up Pokémon. Ash then scans the Pokémon revealing that it's a Doryuzu.

Iris begs the stationary Doryuzu to help Kibago. After not receiving any kind of a response, she decides to help Kibago herself. Ash has Pikachu and Pokabu distract the Pendra while Iris swings on a vine over its head grabbing Kibago's leg and pulling it to safety. The Pendra then turns to Iris, ready to attack, when it accidentally knocks Doryuzu into a boulder.

Agitated, Doryuzu burrows underground and comes up hitting Pendra in the face. Pendra fires some poison at Doryuzu who simply slaps it away, Dent noting that being part Steel-type, Doryuzu isn't affected by Poison-type attacks. Doryuzu then uses Drill Liner to knock Pendra across the forest before curling up and returning to its remote state.

Ash later offers to help train Kibago to which Iris refuses, telling Ash to instead train with Pikachu. So Ash does... acting as Pikachu's opponent! Pikachu starts off their training by shocking Ash with Thunderbolt and ramming him into a tree with Volt Tackle. They continue their training, lighting up the forest with powerful shocks of electricity, as Iris and Dento look on in surprise that Ash took her advice so literally...

Major events

• Iris's Kibago is revealed to know how to use Scratch and Dragon Rage.
• Jessie, James and Meowth are told to head to the Resort Desert.
• Iris is revealed to own a Doryuzu.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Pendra
• Doryuzu (Iris's)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Dent
• Jessie
• James
• Giovanni
• Old woman (flashback)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Kibago (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Pokabu (Ash's)
• Tsutarja (Ash's)
• Yanappu (Dent's)
• Doryuzu (Iris's; debut)
• Pendra (debut)
• Kibago (multiple; flashback)
• Onondo (×2; flashback)
• Ononokus (fantasy)
• Mamepato (multiple; flashback)
• Reshiram (statue; flashback)
• Zekrom (statue; flashback)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Live Caster: Gym Leader
• Music from Arceus and the Jewel of Life is used in the background.
• This is the first episode where Iris's Kibago is seen using any moves.
• This is also the first episode where a Steel-type Pokémon has displayed an immunity to Poison-type moves.
• When rotated 90 degrees, some continents or parts of them shown in Team Rocket's computer highly resemble areas of the real word, such as Greenland and Fennoscandia.

Errors

• When facing off face-to-face against Pendra, the ridge in front of Doryuzu's left middle claw is missing and when the battle was over both ridges on the right middle claw are missing as Iris and company thanks Doryuzu.
• During the break in Iris and Dent's battle, Ash's eyes are colored the way they were from prior to the Best Wishes series.

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