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Ash and N: A Clash of Ideals!

BW120   EP777 白の遺跡！サトシ対Ｎ！！ The White Ruins! Satoshi VS N!!

First broadcast Japan April 4, 2013 United States July 6, 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 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Assistant director 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Animation director 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf Dub review thread on BMGf

Ash and N: A Clash of Ideals! (Japanese: 白の遺跡！サトシ対Ｎ！！ The White Ruins! Satoshi VS N!!) is the 120th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 777th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 4, 2013 and in the United States on July 6, 2013.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis The gang arrive at White Ruins and meet up with Professor Cedric Juniper. Professor Juniper unearths the Light Stone and tells the gang that it may be Reshiram in a different form. He tells them that he wants to research the Light Stone and puts it into a metal protective case. N arrives and after hearing Professor Juniper's plans, he gets disgusted and snatches the case away from him. He starts to run off while Ash gives chase. Ash falls into a small pit in the stone floor. N turns back and tries to help but winds up falling too and lets go of the Light Stone to grab a hold of Ash's hand. The Light Stone falls out of sight in the pit. The two are dangling from part of the floor where it crumbles off and they fall down into the pit with some stones covering the hole as Cilan, Iris, and Professor. Juniper watch in horror.

Ash awakens in a small cave under the Earth with Pikachu at his side. N appears unharmed and points where the Light Stone has fallen. He and Ash realize there's no way out and decide to wait it out until help arrives. N bonds with Ash and Pikachu while they wait. N tells Ash all about the relationships he seen between people and Pokémon. He tells Ash how he witnessed people treating Pokémon like family and people abandoning their Pokémon leaving them all alone in dark alleys. Ash smiles and tells N that Pokémon are his friends and that he wants to learn more about them.

Meanwhile, Team Plasma attacks Professor Juniper and the others to try to get N and the Light Stone as Team Rocket watch in the shadows.

Major events

• Ash, Iris and Cilan are escorted to the White Ruins by Cedric Juniper's assistant, who later is revealed to be Looker undercover.
• Ash and his friends meet up with Cedric Juniper and N again.
• Cedric Juniper finds the Light Stone, but it is taken away by N.
• Team Plasma begins their operation by attacking the White Ruins.

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

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy (fantasy)
• Looker
• Cedric Juniper
• N
• Ghetsis
• Colress
• Anthea and Concordia (fantasy)
• Team Plasma Grunts
  • Aldith
  • Barret
• Cedric Juniper's assistants

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Golbat (US and international) Crustle (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Dragonite (Iris's)
• Crustle (Cilan's)
• Audino (Nurse Joy's; fantasy)
• Sawsbuck (Summer Form)
• Golurk (Cedric Juniper's assistants; multiple)
• Timburr (Cedric Juniper's assistants; multiple)
• Conkeldurr (Cedric Juniper's assistants; multiple)
• Magnezone (Barret's)
• Liepard (Barret's)
• Magnemite (Team Plasma Grunt's)
• Liepard (Team Plasma Grunt's; multiple)
• Zangoose (Team Plasma Grunt's; multiple)
• Bisharp (Team Plasma Grunt's)
• Golbat (Team Plasma Grunt's)
• Reshiram (statue/fantasy)
• Zekrom (statue)
• Lillipup (fantasy)
• Purrloin (flashback)
• Darumaka (fantasy)
• Pidove (fantasy)
• Scrafty (fantasy)
• Beartic (fantasy)
• Snivy (fantasy)
• Tepig (fantasy)
• Oshawott (fantasy)
• Lilligant (fantasy)
• Petilil (fantasy)
• Duosion (fantasy)
• Pansear (fantasy)
• Lampent (fantasy)
• Scolipede (fantasy)
• Golurk (fantasy)
• Bisharp (fantasy)
• Pidove (multiple)
• Elgyem (fantasy)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Sawsbuck
• The chamber where Cedric Juniper finds the Light Stone is highly similar in design to the Relic Castle's appearance in one of the skipped episodes. It is also similar to the chamber where the Golden Dark Stone was found in Explorer's of the Hero's Ruin!.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		白色遺跡！小智對N！！

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