XY110

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XY109   EP908 サンダーとオンバーン！怒りの雷撃！！ Thunder and Onvern! The Lightning of Anger!!

First broadcast Japan March 3, 2016 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening XY&Z Ending プニちゃんのうた

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda Storyboard 北原広大 Kōdai Kitahara Assistant director 渡部周 Shū Watanabe Animation directors 北島勇樹 Yūki Kitajima 中野彰子 Akiko Nakano 中矢利子 Toshiko Nakaya 松永香苗 Kanae Matsunaga No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: サンダーとオンバーン！怒りの雷撃！！ Thunder and Onvern! The Lightning of Anger!!) is the 109th episode of the XY series, and the 908th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 3, 2016.

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

Plot

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The episode begins as Ash and his friends in the forest as Clemont is excited about the Legendary Pokémon Zapdos, talking about a legend reflecting Zapdos's power. Mentioning the three legendary bird Pokémon, Moltres, Articuno and Zapdos gets Bonnie excited, but a lightning strike startles the group as Zapdos itself flies through the stormy sky, catching the attention of everyone and getting them all excited about seeing Zapdos for themselves. Before Ash can stop him, Clemont begins to run to find Zapdos, but is stopped in his tracks not a moment later by a tree collapsing from being struck by lightning. Noticing it isn't safe outside, Serena says it would be best if they find somewhere to take cover from the thunder storm.

Finding a cave, the group decides that they can use it to take shelter from the thunder storm. Once in the cave, they get startled when come across a strange man who is sat inside with a broken leg. Learning that the man was driving out in the mountains, but a lightning bolt caused a rock to become loose and almost hit him, causing him to loose control and crash his van, the group decides to help the man. Noticing they can't leave the cave due to the thunder storm, the man informs them that they could go through the cave, but a boulder is blocking the way. Ash sends out Hawlucha to break the boulder using Karate Chop and then sends out Noibat to help lead them through the cave with Supersonic, as Serena assists by sending out Braixen.

Making their way through the cave, the group approach two tunnels through the cave, but Noibat uses Supersonic down both tunnels and discovers that the left tunnel is the way to go, allowing the group to continue to make their way through the cave.

The scene cuts to outside the cave, which shows Zapdos chasing after a Ferrothorn mecha, but it is soon revealed that Team Rocket is controlling the mecha and is attempting to capture Zapdos, but after a failed attempt, Zapdos attacks them, destroying a rock as Team Rocket narrowly avoids it and makes their escape.

Due to what occurred outside, the cave that Ash and his friends are in starts to quake, which then causes a part of the cave ceiling to collapse, heading straight for Noibat, but Hawlucha jumps and grabs him to bring him to safety. As roof of the cave collapses, it creates a wall between Ash and his Pokémon and Serena, Clemont, Bonnie and Braixen. As Clemont asks if everyone on his side is alright, but Serena becomes worried and shouts out to Ash and his Pokémon, and is relieved to know everyone is fine, but Noibat is shaking with fear from the situation, but once Ash, Pikachu and Hawlucha tell him everything is okay, he becomes much calmer. Hawlucha attempts to clear the rocks with Karate Chop, but Serena tells him not to once she notices that it could make things worse. Serena then says that they will find another way out and meet Ash outside the cave.

As Ash, Pikachu, Noibat and Hawlucha make their way through the cave, they come to another set of tunnels, to which Noibat again uses Supersonic to find the way out. Upon following the correct tunnel, they see the exit, but not long after are attacked by Zapdos who was waiting outside, causing them to run back inside the cave for cover. Ash hears screams from the cave and notices Team Rocket are shaking from their encounter with Zapdos and, upon hearing another crash of thunder, become even more scared. As they run away, Meowth trips over and Ash confronts him, asking if they had something to do with why Zapdos is angry. Learning that they tried to capture Zapdos, Ash attempts to calm Zapdos down, but Zapdos attacks again. Ash sends out Talonflame to battle Zapdos as a distraction so the rest of them can make their way through; putting up a good fight, but being at a type disadvantage, Talonflame gets knocked out, causing Ash to recall it. As Zapdos approaches again, Hawlucha volunteers to battle Zapdos himself so the rest of them can escape. Hawlucha manages to hit Zapdos with High Jump Kick, which seems to deal a lot of damage, but Zapdos shows to be fine as it attacks Hawlucha with a super-effective move, causing Hawlucha to fall through the air.

Noibat flies off to save Hawlucha, and in doing so, evolves into Noivern. After saving Hawlucha and bringing him to safety, Noivern flies off again to battle Zapdos himself, using his newly-learned Boomburst, much to Ash's surprise. Noticing that Noivern can't seem to get close to Zapdos, Ash notices the amount of large rocks around the area and tells Noivern to use Supersonic to navigate around and confuse Zapdos. This proves to be effective as Zapdos loses sight of Noivern and is hit by Boomburst, slamming it into a rock and causing it to drop through the air, worrying Ash. Just then, Team Rocket appears in their Ferrothorn mecha and captures Zapdos. Ash tells Noivern to save Zapdos by using Boomburst and also commands Pikachu to use Thunderbolt, which sends Team Rocket blasting off, as Ash tells Noivern to go and free Zapdos. Thankful to Noivern for saving it, Zapdos clears the stormy sky and flies away. With Zapdos now calm and the skies clear, Ash and his Pokémon continue their way around the mountain.

The scene cuts to a town as Ash says goodbye to Stan and goes to find his friends, who arrive a moment later. After finding out everyone is alright, Ash turns their attention to the top of the tree, to which Clemont, Serena and Bonnie learn that Noibat had evolved into Noivern. As Noivern remains sitting in the tree eating berries, a fireworks display begins as the group sees Zapdos flying through the sky again and starts sparking in relation to the fireworks and then continues flying through the sky once more.

Major events

• Ash's Noibat evolves into Noivern and learns Boomburst.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Ash's Noivern

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Stan

Pokémon

Pokémon Quiz: Zapdos (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Talonflame (Ash's)
• Hawlucha (Ash's)
• Noibat (Ash's; evolves)
• Noivern (Ash's; newly evolved)
• Braixen (Serena's)
• Ducklett (Trainer's; x4)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core; Squishy)
• Zapdos
• Moltres (fantasy)
• Articuno (fantasy)

Trivia

File:Title Card XY Ash V2.png

The title card segment focuses on Ash for this episode

• Poké TV: "Poké Love TV" featuring Noibat
  • The Poké TV segment was skipped for the initial broadcast of the episode and replaced with a trailer for M19.
• XY&Z is used as insert song when Noibat evolves and fights Zapdos.
• This episode is similar to an earlier episode which also involved a part Flying-type Kalos Pokémon that Ash owns, which evolves in the same episode that it battles one of the Legendary birds. In said episode, it was Ash's Fletchinder evolving into a Talonflame while battling a Moltres and in this episode Ash's Noibat evolves into a Noivern before battling a Zapdos.
• Knuckle narrates the preview for the next episode.
• As of this episode, every Pokémon Ash has caught in Kalos is fully evolved.
  • This is the first time all of Ash's Pokémon on hand, which are capable of evolving and not counting Pikachu, are fully evolved.

Errors

• Like in Rivals: Today and Tomorrow! and XY105, when Ash holds up Noibat's Poké Ball, the white center and black band around the white button is much larger than normal.
• Shortly after Noibat informs the group to go through the cave opening on the left, the top of Ash's black undershirt is shown to be blue, as well as part of his blue collar being white.
• When Noivern is putting Hawlucha down to Ash, his lower jaw turned black then back to purple seconds later.
• When Team Rocket capture Zapdos, part of its wing turns black.
• In the final shot of the episode, Noivern's lower jaw is black instead of purple.

In other languages

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