JN089

The Gates of Warp! (Japanese: ディアルガ＆パルキア！時空大異変！！ Dialga & Palkia! The Space-Time Cataclysm!!) is the 89th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,174th episode of the Pokémon animated series. It first aired in Japan on December 3, 2021, in Canada on March 19, 2022, in South Africa on May 10, 2022, in Australia on May 17, 2022, and in the United States on May 26, 2022.
==Blurb==
When Dawn’s Piplup is taken through a mysterious portal by someone who looks just like her, she asks Ash to help, and Goh and Chloe come along. And when an unusually competent version of Team Rocket emerges from another portal and steals Lucario and Inteleon, Dawn and Goh chase them into a parallel world—a world without Pokémon! They meet the other Dawn, who explains that time in her world is running backward, causing Pokémon to forget moves, devolve, and even become Eggs. After doing some research with Sinnoh Champion Cynthia, Ash and Chloe arrive in the other world as well! Can they solve this mystery?
==Plot==
In a different dimension, Legendary Pokémon and clash and start fighting each other. A trio of shadowy figures observes them from afar, declaring that soon, all Pokémon will belong to .
Meanwhile, in Sandgem Town, is prepping for some training, but her is dozing off. Dawn wakes him up and berates him for slacking off lately. The frustrated Piplup runs off into a nearby forest. Dawn chases after him, but suddenly stops in surprise when she sees someone who looks exactly like her grabbing Piplup and walking through a strange portal. She tries to catch the person's attention, but before her doppelgänger can do more than turn around, the portal shrinks away and vanishes. Alarmed, Dawn immediately makes a phonecall to and informs him of what's happened. Professor Cerise tells Ash and Goh that similar cases of Pokémon disappearing without a trace have been happening all over Sinnoh lately. As Ash and Goh agree to go to Sinnoh to investigate the disappearances, Chloe, having overheard that Dawn's in trouble, declares that she'll come with them too.
Ash, Goh, and Chloe travel to Sandgem Town, where they find Dawn being upset over losing Piplup. Ash manages to restore Dawn's optimism with some s he bought, after which she explains the details of what happened. Hearing that the person who took Piplup looked exactly like Dawn makes Goh and Chloe remember a recent case of them meeting someone who looked exactly like Chloe. However, Dawn thinks this case is different, as the person had disappeared into a strange shining hole after taking Piplup. Ash wonders if it was an Ultra Wormhole, and while Dawn is uncertain, Officer Jenny had afterwards told her of the other disappearances and that they've started calling the portals "Gates" for now.
Just then, swoops in with their Meowth balloon and snatches with a claw attached to a fishing line. Their moment of triumph is cut short when Ash has set Pikachu free and Goh has puncture the balloon with to blast the trio off again. However, only moments later, a Gate opens before them, from which another Team Rocket trio, this one clad in black suits of armor, emerges. Their fires a at Lucario and Inteleon, before their fires an electric net at each of them, ensnaring the two Pokémon as the villains begin to retreat back through the Gate with their quarry. Ash, Dawn, and Goh give chase, but Meowth's Dark Pulse throws Ash off, leaving him and Chloe behind as Goh and Dawn dive through the Gate a moment before it vanishes.
On the other side of the Gate, Dawn and Goh find themselves in a place that looks almost exactly like where they just were, except that there's aurora in the sky. With Team Rocket nowhere in sight, Dawn decides the best course of action would be to go see her home for clues. They travel to Dawn's home in Twinleaf Town, where Dawn notices that the garden next to the house is devoid of blooming flowers, which had been there this morning. Goh realizes that the park they had appeared in was devoid of them too. Thinking back, they realize another reason why the place they're in seems so strange: there are no Pokémon either. They enter the other Dawn's room, where they learn that she's placed second in a Sinnoh League , showing that she's a different person. Despite their differences, though, both Dawns have a as their partner, as proven by photos Goh and Dawn find. Just then, they hear footsteps approaching, which turn out to be from the other Dawn, carrying Dawn's Piplup. As soon as Piplup sees his real , he runs back into her arms.
The other Dawn explains to Dawn and Goh that Gates connect different worlds, so she and Dawn are the same person, just from alternate realities. She apologizes for taking Dawn's Piplup, admitting that she had wanted to return it, but the Gate had closed before she could do so. Goh asks why there don't seem to be any Pokémon in this world. In response, the other Dawn takes them to the Sandgem Town Pokémon Center and shows them an that used to be her Piplup. The whole Pokémon Center is filled with Eggs that used to be Pokémon. One day, Gates had started appearing in Sinnoh, and soon afterwards, Pokémon had started to forget their moves, then turn back into their previous forms, and finally revert all the way into Eggs. has gathered the affected Eggs and Pokémon to this Pokémon Center while trying to figure out the cause behind everything. When the other Dawn had seen Dawn's Piplup through a Gate, she had been reminded by her own Piplup so much that she had been unable to resist herself and taken it. The other Dawn apologizes for what she's done, as now Dawn and Goh's Pokémon will suffer the same fate as the Pokémon of this world, causing Dawn to panic at the thought of losing Piplup. Thinking about everything they've heard, Goh figures that time and space are being distorted, and recalls that there were some Pokémon that had something to do with those concepts. After a moment of thinking, Dawn remembers that the Pokémon in question are Dialga and Palkia.
Meanwhile, in the regular world's Sandgem Town, Ash and Chloe are wondering where Dawn and Goh are. Based on a novel she's read, Chloe theorizes that the Gates could connect to different worlds. They start wondering if there is a Pokémon with the power to travel between worlds, and Ash quickly remembers that Palkia can do so. Chloe consults her Rotom Phone, which confirms their assumptions about Palkia's ability to travel between dimensions, and says more information about it can be found at the Canalave Library. Ash and Chloe travel to the library, but before they can find anything, they're spotted by . Ash introduces Chloe to her and tells her that they're looking for information about Palkia. Understanding they're looking into the recent Pokémon disappearances, Cynthia tells them about Dialga and Palkia, as well as the Pokémon said to have created them, .
Ash, Chloe, and Cynthia exit the library while coming to the conclusion that Palkia is behind the recent incidents. Suddenly, the alternate version of Team Rocket appears next to them to steal more of their Pokémon. Cynthia sends out her , whose clashes with Meowth's . Cynthia tells Garchomp to follow up with , but the suddenly becomes unable to use the move. A similar result occurs when Ash tries to have Pikachu use . Wobbuffet launches a pair of electric nets to capture the two Pokémon, but Cynthia calls out , whose Outrage tears the nets apart. Seeing their capture operation is being jeopardized, Team Rocket decides to retreat, with Ash and Chloe leaping through the closing Gate after them. The regular Team Rocket, having landed on a nearby tree following their earlier blast-off, witness all of this, and soon see a Gate opening right next to them as well.
Ash and Chloe discover themselves in the world on the other side of the Gate, but Team Rocket has gotten away. Like Dawn and Goh before, they quickly notice the aurora in the sky and the absence of flowers and Pokémon. Always a positive thinker, Ash doesn't worry about a way to return to their world and instead decides to focus on finding Dawn and Goh. He runs over to a nearby person to ask them something, but stops in surprise when he realizes the person is his alternate self. In another dimension, Dialga and Palkia continue their clash.
==Major events==
* , Goh, and Chloe travel to Sinnoh again and reunite with .
* Ash's Lucario and Goh's Inteleon are stolen by Alternate World Team Rocket.
* Ash meets again.
* Cynthia is revealed to own a .
===Debuts===
====Humans====
* Alternate World Ash
* Alternate World Dawn
* Alternate World Jessie
* Alternate World James
* (flashback)
====Pokémon debuts====
* Alternate World Meowth
==Characters==
===Humans===
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* Goh
* Jessie
* James
* Chloe
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* Professor Cerise
* Chrysa
* Ren
* Officer Jenny (flashback)
* Soleil (flashback)
* Alternate World Ash
* Alternate World Dawn
* Alternate World Jessie
* Alternate World James
* (flashback)
* Trainers
===Pokémon===
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* (Alternate World Dawn's; flashback)
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* (Alternate World Dawn's; devolution; flashback)
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* (Alternate World Team Rocket)
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==Trivia==
* Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: 
* This episode marks the first appearance of and Palkia since The Battle Finale of Legend!, 556 episodes earlier.
* The uniforms Alternate World Team Rocket wears are highly similar to the ones the regular wore in Pokémon the Series: Black & White.
* This episode marks the first time has been mentioned by name in the animated series.
* owning a could be a reference to Pokémon Masters EX, where in her sygna suit forms a sync pair with one.
** This marks the first time Cynthia has revealed a new Pokémon in her possession since All for the Love of Meloetta!, 432 episodes earlier.
* makes a reference to Ultra Wormholes when talking to about how disappeared.
* This episode marks the first time a devolution occurs on-screen in the animated series, with Alternate World Dawn's and reverting to and , respectively.
* Despite Palkia having made its first physical appearance in the animated series in The Battle Finale of Legend!, 556 episodes earlier, this is the first time it has received a Pokédex entry.
* Yūichi Nakamura replaces the late Unshō Ishizuka's voice role as Dawn's Mamoswine in this episode.
* Alternate World Ash, Ash, , Dawn, and narrate the preview for the next episode.
* The English dub title could be a reference to the novel, .
===Errors===
* 's eyes are missing when Goh stands in Alternate World Dawn's room.
* In the dub, Pokémon Contest is referred to as "Konkurs" instead of "Pokaz".
* In the dub, Dawn is referred to by her Japanese name, Hikari.
===Dub edits===
* The texts depicting the location names in the regular and alternate world are edited out.
==In other languages==
089
Category:Episodes written by Shōji Yonemura
Category:Episodes storyboarded by Noriaki Saitō
Category:Episodes directed by Yoshitaka Makino
Category:Episodes animated by Chiaki Kurakazu
Category:Episodes by one-time animation directors
Category:Episodes by multiple animation directors
Category:Episodes in which a main character joins the group
Category:Episodes in which a Legendary Pokémon appears
Category:Episodes in which a Champion appears
Category:Episodes which aired in Canada before the United States
Category:Episodes which aired in South Africa before the United States
Category:Episodes which aired in Australia before the United States
de:Portale der Verzerrung!
es:EP1178
fr:LV089
it:EP089
ja:新無印編第89話
zh:宝可梦 旅途 第89集