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Saving the World From Ruins!

DP111   EP577 鋼鉄島の遺跡！ The Ruins of Steel Island!

First broadcast Japan January 22, 2009 United States June 20, 2009

English themes Opening Battle Cry - (Stand Up!) Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ Ending あしたはきっと

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka 山本珠代 Tamayo Yamamoto Assistant director 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Animation director 広岡歳仁 Toshihito Hirooka Additional credits

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Saving the World From Ruins! (Japanese: 鋼鉄島の遺跡！ The Ruins of Steel Island!) is the 111th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 577th episode of the Pokémon anime. It aired in Japan on January 22, 2009 and in the United States on June 20, 2009.

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

Synopsis

Continuing from the last episode, Lucario is trying to attack Ash and his friends. Riley blocks it using his aura and comments that he and his Lucario are aura guardians in training. After Lucario gets shocked by Pikachu's Thunderbolt, it runs away to the source of the waves, which is a machine that Team Galactic had made.

Lucario faints after a battle with Mars, so Ash and friends go to help. While jumping over a big hole, Piplup accidentally falls in. Dawn discovers this is the hole where Barry and Team Rocket are. Dawn tries helping them up from the hole when a Steelix appears, making Dawn fall in as well, and attacks them. Riley goes back to help them, while Ash battles with Mars and destroys the machine allowing Team Galactic to scan only 60% of Mt. Coronet in their search for the Spear Pillar. Mars is defeated, but escapes with the Spear Key and informs them that she has installed bombs in the ruins, and will blow it up at any second. She then gets off the island in a helicopter. Ash informs every one of this causing James to cry with Mime Jr.. Carnivine watches James crying and then learns Vine Whip, and uses its new move to help everyone escape the hole.

Riley says that he and Lucario would try something to disarm the bomb and tells the others to run as far as they can. When Riley and Lucario find the bombs, they attempt to take it off, but can't. Mars then detonates the bombs but there is no explosion. Riley and Lucario had used an Aura Bubble to trap an explosion in it. They then send it to the sky and the island is safe. Professor Carolina arrives and studies the stones Team Galactic had left and asks Riley to help her study the island's mysterious connection with the Veilstone City meteorites.

Back at Team Galactic HQ, Mars apologizes to Cyrus for her failure in destroying Iron Island. Cyrus tells her it's only a temporary setback, and places Saturn in charge of excavating Spear Pillar. Even with only a 60% scan, Team Galactic have still made headway in their search for Spear Pillar and their quest for the ability to control Sinnoh space-time will continue...

Major events

• Ash and Brock succeed in stopping Team Galactic in their search for Spear Pillar.
• James's Carnivine learns Vine Whip.
• Mars attempts to blow up Iron Island using bombs but is stopped by Riley and his Lucario.

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

Debuts

• Charon

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Barry
• Riley
• Mars
• Cyrus
• Saturn
• Professor Carolina
• Team Galactic Grunts
• Scientists
• Jupiter (cameo)
• Charon (cameo)
• Reggie (cameo)
• Yuzo (cameo)
• Professor Rowan (cameo)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Grotle (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Yanmega (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Lucario (Riley's)
• Empoleon (Barry's)
• Purugly (Mars's)
• Staraptor (Reggie's)
• Golbat (Team Galactic's; multiple)
• Magnemite (multiple)
• Magneton (multiple)
• Lairon (multiple)
• Aron (multiple)
• Geodude (multiple)
• Skarmory (multiple)
• Steelix
• Aggron
• Kricketot
• Bidoof
• Dialga (statue)
• Palkia (statue)

Trivia

• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew is used as background music. In the dub, music from Pokémon Heroes is also used.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Skarmory
• The way Carnivine learned Vine Whip is somewhat similar to how Arbok and Weezing evolved.
• This episode marks the second time in the anime that one of Team Rocket's Pokémon is seen learning a new move.
  • The first was James's Cacnea in Once There Were Greenfields. Both of them are also James's Pokémon.
• The ruins discovered by Team Galactic have the same name as a real in-game location in Platinum.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		鋼鐵島的遺跡！
Dutch		Red De Ruïnes!
Finnish		Maailmaa uhkaavat rauniot!
German		Auf den letzten Drücker!
Italian		Salviamo il mondo dalla rovina!
Polish		Uchronić świat od dewastacji!
Portuguese	Brazil	Salvando o Mundo da Ruina!
	Portugal	Salvando o Mundo das Ruínas!
Russian		Руины Железного острова! Ruiny Zheleznogo ostrova!
Latin American Spanish		¡Salvando al Mundo de las Ruinas!

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