DP090: Ghoul Daze!

is the 38th episode of Pokémon: DP Battle Dimension.
==Synopsis==
On the fifth day of the Pokémon Summer Academy, Professor Rowan has a special assignment for his campers: they'll each team up with a partner and go to the Summit Ruins at night. They're sure to meet Ghost-type Pokémon along the way, but the first team to retrieve the Summit Ruins medal will win! Ash and Angie team up, while Brock's partner is a nervous kid and a macho boy named Kendall wants to be Dawn's partner. Conway's partner is a strange little girl. That night, the teams enter a forest on their way to the ruins, but Conway's partner doesn't seem to be anyone from the Summer Academy...
Ghost-type Pokémon try to spook Angie's Shinx, but Pikachu shocks them into leaving it alone. As for Dawn, her partner runs away as soon as he sees the Pokémon! Conway's partner turns out to be a ghost who hypnotizes him into walking off a cliff, but a Dusknoir appears just in time to save him! Unfortunately, he faints before he has a chance to realize Dusknoir is one of the good guys.
Dusknoir also saves Meowth from the ghost girl, but now everyone thinks Dusknoir is the real menace. According to Professor Rowan, there shouldn't even be a Dusknoir here, unless it emerged from the mysterious cavern discovered in the Summit Ruins.
Ash and Angie reach the Ruins and find the Summit Medal. They've also found the ghost girl—so when they see Dusknoir, they battle it to protect the girl. Big mistake: the girl opens up a swirling portal to the spirit world and tries to suck in Angie and Ash. Dusknoir wakes up in time to save them and blast the ghost girl back into the cavern, which collapses behind her. Everyone realizes that Dusknoir was really trying to protect people from the ghost! Now that she's gone, things return to normal and Professor Rowan awards everyone equal points. That's the end of another day at the Pokémon Summer Academy!
==Episode plot==
The fifth day of the summer academy is focused on ghost-type pokemon. The goal is to teach them to how to safely approach ghost-type pokemon. To that end, they have a contest. In the ruins there is a hidden medal that the teams have to find. The group is split into teams, with the teams who find it quickest getting more points than the teams that find it later. Ash is paired with Angie, Brock is paired up with Mitchell, Dawn is paired up with Kendall, and Conway is teamed up with a Mysterious Girl. As night falls, they set off for the ruins. But not long after, it is discovered that one of the girls has disappeared, and a panic begins to ensue. As they search for the girl, each team encounters a ghost type and react to it in a different way. Ash's team attack it, Brock's team feed it, Dawn's team runs away from it, all the while, the Ghost Girl is leading Conway toward a cliff. However, a Dusknoir catches him before he falls. Waking up, Conway sees the Dusknoir and faints from fear. Dawn sees this and misinterprets it as the Pokemon attacking Conway, and drives it off. They also mistakenly believes that the pokemon stole the Ghost girl's soul and took it to the Spirit World. Elsewhere, Meowth attempts to scare Ash, but has a malfunction with his disguise and is helped by a Banette and then flees. He ends up following the Ghost Girl, but is saved from her by the Dusknoir, much like Conway was. And just like Conway, Meowth passes out, and Jessie discovers this and misinterprets it as well. She flees past Brock and his team, with the Dusknoir appearing thereafter. Brock attempts to feed it, but instead, it uses Will-O-Wisp on them, scaring them off. It then spots the Ghost Girl. Everyone but Ash and Angie return to the Academy to inform Professor Rowan of the incident. Ash and Angie then encounter the Ghost Girl, who tries to lead them to a cave. Dusknoir appears though and attempts to attack the Ghost Girl, but ends up battling Ash and Angie. The Ghost Girl attempts to suck them into the cave though, but they are caught by Dusknoir, revealing itself to have been secretly trying to protect them all along. As they continue to be pulled into the cave, Dusknoir fires a blast at the Ghost Girl and collapses the cave. Due to the actions of the night, Professor Rowan awards all teams 30 points. Team Blue has 260 points and Team Red only has 220 points. Still, Ash is certain that they can still win.
==Debuts==
===Pokémon===
Dusknoir
==Trivia==
*The title is a pun of the phrase "school days".
*The dub title of this episode is similar to Sick Daze and Training Daze.
*An updated version of the music from the Sealed Chamber, Desert Ruins, Island Cave and Ancient Tomb in Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald is used.
*Ghost types introduced in each of the four generations appeared in this episode.
*Similar to the previous episode, this episode also features scenes of hypnotic trance.
*In one scene, Ash mentioned to Pikachu to just count to ten when a Haunter grabbed Shinx's tail and Pikachu zapped it. This could refer to a Japanese myth about a ghost who is unable to count to ten, then suddenly disappears. It could also refer to the common teaching in America to control anger.
*Like Darkrai, who was framed for things it didn't do, Dusknoir finds itself in a similar situation. Even music from The Rise of Darkrai is used in Dusknoir's scenes. It's also worth mentioning that both Darkrai and Dusknoir are main antagonists in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness, and they are final boss Pokémon in Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia's main storyline as well.
*The book Pokémon Academy is based on this episode.
===Mistakes===
*In one scene, Professor Rowan's neck and ear are the same color as his hair.
===Dub differences===
*Dango is called a fried cakeball skewer.
*In the English DVD version, the sound the ghost girl makes as she dissipates back to the Spirit World is removed. 
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