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Meeting at Terminus Cave!

XY101   EP900 ついの洞窟！動き出したZの謎！！ Terminus Cave! The Mystery of Z is Set in Motion!!

First broadcast Japan December 24, 2015 United States April 16, 2016

English themes Opening Stand Tall Ending

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

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation directors 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane 中矢利子 Toshiko Nakaya 酒井裕未 Hiromi Sakai 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 Dub review thread on BMGf

Meeting at Terminus Cave! (Japanese: ついの洞窟！動き出したZの謎！！ Terminus Cave! The Mystery of Z is Set in Motion!!) is the 101st episode of the XY series, and the 900th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on December 24, 2015 and in the United States on April 16, 2016.

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

Blurb

Our heroes head out in search of new Pokémon inside Terminus Cave, but instead find Team Flare! They have their sights on catching Squishy—and another, similar-looking Pokémon. When the villains make their move, Squishy finds help in the most unusual ways!

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• Ash and his friends arrive at Terminus Cave and encounter Team Flare again.
• Ash's Noibat is revealed to know Tackle.
• Ash and his friends see Squishy change form (to Zygarde 10%) for the first time.
• Squishy gets separated from Ash and his friends.

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

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Lysandre
• Xerosic
• Celosia
• Bryony
• Mable
• Aliana
• Team Flare Grunts

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Drapion (US and international)
Pokémon Quiz: Drapion (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Greninja (Ash's; Ash-Greninja)
• Noibat (Ash's)
• Luxray (Clemont's)
• Braixen (Serena's)
• Gourgeist (Jessie's)
• Drapion (Celosia's)
• Manectric (Celosia's)
• Bisharp (Bryony's)
• Liepard (Bryony's)
• Houndour (Team Flare Grunts'; ×4)
• Skorupi (Team Flare Grunt's ×2)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core and 10%; Squishy)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core; Z2)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Cell; multiple)
• Ariados
• Lairon
• Shuckle

Trivia

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The title card segment focuses on Ash for this episode

• Poké TV: "Poké Love TV" focusing on Luxray and its power of X-ray vision.
  • The Poké TV segment was skipped for original airings.
• Bonnie and Clemont narrate the preview for the next episode.
• This is the 900th episode of the main anime if Holiday Hi-Jynx and Snow Way Out! are not counted.
• This is the first time since its debut that Noibat has used a new attack.

Errors

• When the Team Flare Grunt contacts Xerosic, the Team Flare logo on the back of Xerosic's coat briefly disappears.
• In the dub, when Gourgeist peeked down into the passage that Ash and everyone else went through, Gourgeist's mouth moves but no sound comes out. The closed captions, however, do include the cry.
• Celosia's Manectric used Scratch, a move that it cannot legally learn.
• After Greninja reverts to its normal form, its chest is the same from Ash-Greninja Form.

Dub edits

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The dub's title card with Serena's old design

• The title card segment in the dub features Serena's old design.
• In the original Japanese version of this episode, Celosia commands her Manectric to use Scratch on Ash's Greninja. In the dub, she tells Manectric to "Go after it!", meaning that Manectric's claws glow for no reason in the dub.

In other languages

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