Diamond And Pearl: Movie 01: The Rise Of Darkrai

**The Rise Of Darkrai** is the 1st film of *Diamond And Pearl*.

## Overview

In Alamos Town, a large shrine to Dialga and Palkia, the Space-Time Towers, sits. But when Dialga and Palkia begin to battle in their dimension, the fight spills over into the Pokémon world, trapping Alamos Town away from the rest of the world. A Darkrai that lives in town tries to help, but is ultimately blamed by the town as the cause of the problem. Can Tom and his friends save Alamos Town before it is destroyed, and prove Darkrai's intentions?

## Plot

The film opens where Tom and his friends are seen continuing on their journey through Sinnoh, this time en route to a Pokémon Contest in Alamos Town. However, they discover the town is actually raised on a mountain surrounded by a lake, and they are lost. A hot air balloon, flown by a red fox named Jade descends, and Jade offers the group a lift. After Daffy attempts to flirt with Jade, she takes out a leaf whistle and performs a song, attracting several flying animals to her. Following on behind, Team Plantium appear in a hot air balloon of their own, but they get sidetracked by a group of Pterodactyl and Pteranodon. After angering them by Tin’s repeated failed attempts at capturing them, the Balloon Birds use Gust to send Team Plantium blasting off again.

Tom and his friends finally arrive over Alamos Town, and end up in awe at the sights. However, disturbance in the air causes their balloon to go out of control, as Swifty's computer warns about a disturbance in time and space. After everything calms down, the group heads into town to soak up the sights, eat some cotton candy, and watch some Pokémon battles. In his excitement, Tom runs into Erik, quickly followed by his friends Boadicea and Atticus. Tom and his friends begin to battle their new acquaintances. Jerry is able to topple Erik with Hyper Beam, while Piplup and Boadicea have a pride contest and Bugs exchanges a flurry of attacks against Atticus. Finally, Piplup and Boadicea battle inside Piplup's Whirlpool, which explodes.

Continuing their sightseeing, everyone heads down some stairs and stops by a fountain, leading to a garden full of wild Pokémon. A Shinx, Luxio, Azurill, Azumarill, and Marill watch from behind the bushes, but greet Lisa once they see her. Sensing an opportunity, the group sends out all their team to play: Tom summons his team; Jerry Mouse, Scooby-Doo, Cindy, Wally, Snagglepuss, Hokey, Atom, Huckleberry, Magilla, Captain, Dino, Astro and Smurfette. Bugs summons his team: Daffy Duck, Courage, Rita, Grizz, Migo, Anais, Jake, Rigby, Mr. Gus, I.M. Weasel, Garfield, Woody, Sonic and Casper. Tom and his friends go to the end of a flowery pathway and check out the view of the lake and the mountains, leaving their team on their own. Meanwhile, as the rest of the Pokémon play, Piplup notices a Pecha tree with three Berries growing. However, as he goes to eat, Pachirisu grabs one, Migo grabs another, and the Shinx nearly grabs the last before Piplup starts fighting for it. They roll down the hill and send several of the wild Pokémon flying, and Pachirisu instinctively uses Discharge. As the attacks increase, Tom and his friends run to see what is going on, and discover their Pokémon in a stand-off against the wild Pokémon. Jade uses her leaf whistle from earlier to play the same song, and they all calm down. Garfield hands her Pecha Berry to Shinx and Piplup, and the two share it.

Interrupting their moment, Meeko jumps through some trees in front of everyone. He tells them that there is trouble, so everyone returns their team and head off. They find some strangely distorted pillars. A rather confident raccoon named RJ comes out of an opening, greets them, and discusses the broken pillars. He believes that a Pokémon named Darkrai was responsible for it. Team Plantium watches from a distance with binoculars. He brings out his Lickilicky and has it use Hyper Beam into some bushes, only to hit Swifty instead of Darkrai. Swifty shows Jade the disturbance readings on his laptop, and then studies the broken pillars very carefully. As Swifty gets hit on the head with some debris, RJ shows his love to Jade, but she rejects him, to the great a relief of both Bugs and Swifty. Jade runs to Swifty away from RJ, and Swifty recalls being hugged by her after saving her a long time ago.

Meanwhile, back in the other dimension, Palkia and Dialga continue to fight each other. They both use Hyper Beam at each other creating an explosion. In the real world, the Pokémon sense that something is wrong, as the area begins to glow, and Swifty’s laptop screen shows a major disturbance in time and space. A dark shadow moves around the trees, eventually revealing itself to be Darkrai, and he yells at everyone to go away. Team Plantium looks at Darkrai through their binoculars and decide they want to capture it. Lickilicky uses Hyper Beam which doesn't connect, and Darkrai uses Dark Void, which hits Tom and puts him to sleep. The next thing Tom knows, he lands hard on the ground in the park, completely alone and walks around. A huge shadow with glowing eyes appears in front of him, as a pink creature of some sort attacks him. Darkrai appears, and as Tom tries to call Hokey, the keystone disappears. Darkrai drops down below the ground while creating a funnel in the ground that pulls Tom and Jerry in, and they fall. Jerry bites Tom's tail and Tom finally wakes up from his nightmare, confused.

Tom wakes up in the Pokémon Center where Ajar, Jade, and his friends are there to make sure that he is okay. Swifty looks at the woodwork on the floor, says to everyone that time and space are going to be destroyed, and immediately leaves. Back at his laboratory, he looks through his father's diary and notices a picture of him and a young Jade’s grandmother, Melvin, on a bench. In flashback, Melvin runs outside and sees a group of Pokémon having nightmares. As a Luxray attacks Darkrai, it collapses, and she goes approaches the Mythical Pokémon as Godey looks on. Jade plays her leaf whistle so that all of the Pokémon can recover. Swifty looks at a picture of a very important tower which holds a large musical instrument.

Meanwhile, at RJ's house, Team Plantium goes to him disguised as a TV crew so that they can help him go after Darkrai. The next day in the street, Dawn buys a Lunar Wing, as Tom remembers his nightmare. They see a large building that looks exactly like the one Ame was looking at earlier: the Space-Time Towers. Once inside, they see they see a huge stone monument with a lot of Pokémon carved in it and several moving gears hanging from the ceiling. They enter Swifty's office, and after waking him up, he hands Jade the photograph that he was looking at earlier. Jade explains the picture to them. On the back of the picture is the music score of the song Oración that she played on her leaf whistle before. The Pokémon find some old music disks, and Tom narrowly catches one. Tom places the disk back where it belongs, and notices open spaces for other disks. Ame tells them about the music playing machine, and they decide to go and see it.

They start to climb up the enormous stairwell to go and see the instrument, but start having trouble getting up the stairs because there are so many. Tom begins to get exhausted, only to see his friends riding in the hot air balloon to the top. Eventually reaching the top, they enter the new music disk and start the music instrument as it begins to play. The whole town hears it as people start dancing in the streets. Having demonstrated, the group head back down to the ground, where they meet the three baby penguins from before and being another battle. Meanwhile in the other dimension, Palkia and Dialga continue fighting, causing another disturbance indication on Swifty's computer. Palkia tries to get away from Dialga and enters through a portal to try to escape him. The portal opens up in the real world, causing a pink light to shine, and strong winds to blow through the town. The portal eventually closes, leaving Dialga alone.

As Tom and his friends look up at the Tower, Darkrai reappears behind them. Tom wants to battle it, but RJ decides to go after it instead and attack, but Darkrai dodges and uses a mass Dark Void which hits many of the Pokémon on the street, including Captain Caveman and I.M. Weasel. Tom chases after Darkrai, but it continues to disappear into a dark alleyway. Tom sees what looks like a Bibarel mysteriously floating through the walls, as Darkrai reappears but continues to dodge Tom and Jerry's attacks. RJ and the cats arrive to confront Darkrai. Lickilicky uses Hyper Beam, while Darkrai dodges and uses Dark Void to put it to sleep. RJ checks on Lickilicky as Darkrai disappears again. As the floating Bibarel reappears, more strange occurrences start happening as RJ turns into a Lickilicky, and he screams at the sight.

At the Pokémon Center, Ajar, Dawn, and Bugs look after all of the Pokémon that were affected by Dark Void, as several other spirits of Pokémon float around. Jade and Swifty join in to help, quickly followed by Tom and the transformed RJ, who only convinces everyone that he is supposed to be human when Team Plantium drags Lickilicky in. Swifty looks at his laptop and theorises that some disturbance is causing the real world and dream world to merge, leading to the strange events. Just then, the three penguins from before run in and tell the group about the strange fog surrounding the town outside.

Investigating, Boadicea use Defog, but the attack does nothing. Tom and Jerry try to run through the fog to leave the town, but end up back on the other side of the street instead. RJ is still convinced that Darkrai is responsible for everything that is going on, and rallies together the townspeople to find it. Jade and Swifty tell Tom and friends that there is likely something else going on that is responsible for everything that is happening. Swifty explains that when he was a young pup, he witnessed Jade falling off a cliff, and Darkrai appeared to save her, believing her to be her grandfather. However, it disappeared as Swifty went to check on her, making her believe that he was the one who saved her and not Darkrai. Swifty explains the truth to Jade, much to her surprise. After hearing the story, Tom and his friends are convinced that Darkrai could not be responsible for everything that has happened, and Swifty explains that the distortion was caused by an multidimensional disturbance from when Palkia entered their realm.

The townspeople continue to hunt for Darkrai, and he is eventually spotted by Erik. Swifty's Drifblim flies overhead to record everything as, inside his lap, he watches the footage of one of the disturbances. Noticing something strange, he zooms in to discover Palkia. Meanwhile, a huge group of Pokémon attack Darkrai, but it holds on through many attacks and uses Dark Pulse followed by Dark Void on all of the Pokémon that attacked it. RJ decides that he should give battling a try, but his attacks miss as well, and Darkrai sends him and Team Plantium blasting them off across town.

Back at the Pokémon Center, Swifty shows the footage of Palkia to Tom and his friends. Outside, the winds from the portal appear again, while Darkrai tries to use Dark Void towards it. Tom suddenly realizes that during the nightmare he had, Darkrai was trying to warn him about Palkia and Dialga. Palkia suddenly emerges, attacking Darkrai, as Tom and friends run to the Tower. As Darkrai attempts to attack, Palkia transports the town to her own dimension, which has the side effect of resolving all the strange occurrences, as the sleeping Pokémon wake up and RJ transforms into a raccoon again.

With all the Pokémon awake again, Darkrai and Palkia continue to battle as Dialga suddenly appears and attacks the two, but as they battle, the outskirts of the town begin to fade away. Eventually, Palkia uses Spacial Rend while Dialga uses Roar of Time, and the attacks collide, causing an explosion that sends strong shock waves through the town, speeding up the rate that the edges disappear. Jade runs up to Dialga and Palkia and yells for them to stop fighting. They fall towards her, but Darkrai steps in and uses Dark Pulse to send them backwards, saving her. Attempting to stop their fighting, Darkrai gets hit by Dialga and Palkia's attacks, sending it flying through the trees.

Everyone runs towards Darkrai, and Jade approaches him. However, she has to tell him that she is not Melvin, but her granddaughter. Tom and Dawn apologize for not believing and understanding Darkrai earlier as he disappears to find Dialga and Palkia again. The town continues to fade away, now reaching the buildings in the center, and Swifty's laptop predicts that the whole town will eventually disappear if the Pokémon continue battling. Swifty remembers reading his father's diary about the music machine and the Oración song the diary talks about, suggesting that they should play it with the music machine as that it can calm down any Animals and Pokémon.

Jade heads inside the Tower and remembers her grandfather telling her about the song, but as everyone else arrives, they realize they need to choose the correct music disk. Noticing a pattern on the photo of Melvin, the group obtains the correct disk, as The animals go to place it in the machine at the top of the Tower. Meanwhile, Dawn and Ajar evacuate the townspeople, using their Pokémon to stop Dialga and Palkia's attacks.

The fire begins to propel Jade's hot air balloon into the air, but the Pokémon's attacks cause another shock wave, and Piplup falls out, only narrowly being saved by Atom. One of Dialga's Draco Meteors breaks open the basket of the hot-air balloon as Bugs almost falls out. Tom grabs his hand, but another gust causes the two of them to fall onto the tower itself, followed by their Pokémon and team. With Jade and Swifty diverting, another attack sends the balloon hurtling towards the ground, and RJ runs after it. Jade manage to jump onto a ledge, but she slips and falls. Lickilicky tries to save her, but it slips and Swifty barely saves her by holding onto Drifblim. However, with everyone saved, the street starts to disappear as well.

Tom brings out Hokey and Wally and has them climb the tower with him. As the buildings of the town start to disappear, Tom's team need to work to deflect Dialga's attacks. Meanwhile, Dawn and Jade recover Darkrai from a pond, just as Melvin did in the past. Eventually, the stairs of the Tower begin to disappear too, and Bugs brings out Jake and Courage to create new steps out of ice. The wild Pokémon of Alamos combine their attacks to try to stop the town from disappearing. Dialga and Palkia prepare to use their signature moves once again as Swifty's computer shows that the attacks would have devastating results, and hearing this, Darkrai gets up out of the water. As Dialga and Palkia attack, Darkrai gets in the middle of them and surrounds them in a shadowy orb to take the hits. Tom looks on, knowing that they only have as much time left as Darkrai can take.

As the Tower continues to disappear, Tom falls out, followed by Bugs as he tries to save him, but Buizel uses Water Gun to push them onto another part of the building, and the gang make their separate ways up. Darkrai's protection finally runs out, and together, Dialga and Palkia attack it. Out of energy, Darkrai takes both attacks, and fades away into nothingness as a result. Tom's group finally reach the music machine, but Tom realizes that Oración's music disk does not fit in. Dialga and Palkia continue fighting as they prepare to use Roar of Time and Spacial Rend one last time. Swifty says to everyone that if the two attacks connect, the town will be completely destroyed.

Eventually, Bugs notices one slot in the middle of the music machine, but the machine does not have enough power. With time running out, Astro and Migo attack the machine, as it finally works into life. The music starts playing loudly across what's left of the town, causing Dialga and Palkia to stop their attacks. The machine begins to glow, returning the Tower to its normal state. The whole Tower shines, forming huge golden wings, as Palkia's injury is finally fully healed and Dialga returns to his own dimension. The four ask Palkia to restore everything to the way it was before, and she obliges, returning the town to the real world before disappearing.

As the sun sets, and with disaster averted, Tom and his friends look across the lake, upset at the thought of never seeing Darkrai again. However, as he walks away, Tom notices a mysterious shadow on the cliff face, a shadow being cast by Darkrai, fully healed and stood on top of the Tower. Overjoyed, Jade moves in closer to Swifty as Darkrai looks over Alamos Town, safe at last as the film ends.

## Characters

* Tom Cat
* Jerry Mouse
* Scooby-Doo
* Cindy Bear
* Top Cat
* Wally Gator
* Snagglepuss
* Hokey Wolf
* Atom Ant
* Huckleberry Hound
* Magilla Gorilla
* Captain Caveman
* Dino
* Astro
* Smurfette
* Bugs Bunny
* Daffy Duck
* Courage
* Rita
* Grizz
* Migo
* Anais Watterson
* Jake The Dog
* Rigby
* Mr. Gus
* I.M. Weasel
* Garfield
* Woody Woodpecker
* Sonic The Hedgehog
* Casper
* Tin, Pan & Alley
* Pterodactyl Ghost
* Muttley
* Marvin The Martian
* Red Guy
* Shadow The Hedgehog
* Zeta
* Ajar
* Darkrai
* Dialga
* Palkia
* Dawn

## Voice Talent

* D.B. Sweeney as Tom, Shadow
* Robert Naylor as Jerry, Ajar
* Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Pterodactyl
* Sofía Espinosa as Cindy
* Jeremy Renner as Top Cat
* Will Arnett as Wally
* Billy Crystal as Snagglepuss
* Matthew Broderick as Hokey
* Brendan Fraser as Huckleberry
* Jim Gaffigan as Magilla
* Cheech Marin as Atom
* Liam Neeson as Captain
* Eric Bauza as Dino, Daffy, Woody, Marvin
* Jeff Bergman as Astro, Bugs, Muttley
* Demi Lovato as Smurfette
* Marty Grabstein as Courage
* Chloë Grace Moretz as Rita
* Eric Edelstein as Grizz
* Channing Tatum as Migo
* Kyla Rae Kowalewski as Anais
* J.K. Simmons as Jake
* William Salyers as Rigby
* Kevin Michael Richardson as Mr. Gus
* Michael Dorn as Weasel
* Ben Schwartz as Sonic
* Max Charles as Casper
* Greg Ellis as Tin
* Jess Harnell as Pan
* Richard McGonagle as Alley
* Charlie Adler as Red
* Leslie Jones as Zeta
* Scott Williams as Darkrai
* Willem Dafoe as Dialga
* Awkwafina as Palkia
* Emily Jenness as Dawn
* Martin Scorsese as Narrator

## Opening Credits

Based On Characters Created by:

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera

Executive Producer:

Sam Register

Produced by:

Bobbie Page

Associate Producer:

Judge Plummer

Music by:

Shinji Miyazaki

Casting And Voice Direction by:

Maria Estrada

Edited by:

Kyle Stafford

Story by:

Robert Zappia

Written by:

John Edwards

Directed by:

Darrell Van Citters

## Dialga Vs. Palkia Vs. Darkrai

### Producer

Bobbie Page

1. Main Titles 0:57
2. And Today is, too ~ By Your Side 1:03
3. The Fox Who Rode on the Balloon 0:48
4. Riding The Wind 1:16
5. Friends To The End 3:58 - William Hanna, Don Messick, Julie Bennett, Arnold Stang, Daws Butler, Mel Blanc, Lucille Bliss, Lorenzo Music, Ben Schwartz
6. The Animals Of Godey's Garden 2:33
7. Jade's Grass Flute 1:04
8. RJ Appears 1:13
9. Enter: Darkrai 1:35
10. Tom's Nightmare 0:52
11. Done With Monsters 2:50 - William Hanna, Don Messick, Julie Bennett, Arnold Stang, Daws Butler, Mel Blanc, Lucille Bliss, Lorenzo Music, Ben Schwartz
12. Jade's Flashback 1:23
13. Team Mates 2:26 - William Hanna, Don Messick, Mel Blanc, D.B. Sweeney, Leslie Jones
14. Take Me toooooo~! 1:06
15. My Best Friend 2:47 - William Hanna, Don Messick, Julie Bennett, Arnold Stang, Daws Butler, Mel Blanc, Lucille Bliss, Lorenzo Music, Ben Schwartz
16. Darkrai Appears In The Square 3:53
17. Trapped In Fog 1:41
18. Swifty And Jade 2:01
19. Darkrai Vs. RJ 2:17
20. Palkia Appears 0:54
21. Clash ~ Dialga's Attack ~ Those Who Should Not Meet ~ Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai 6:01
22. I Always Thought I'd See You Again 4:05 - Emily Jenness
23. City Begins To Dematerialize 1:26
24. To The Space-Time Tower! 4:12
25. Darkrai Is Treated By Jade 1:16
26. Darkrai Risks His Life 3:26
27. Ring Oración! 1:54
28. Oración! 3:27
29. Back To Our Original World 1:22
30. Best Day of My Life 3:11 - William Hanna, Don Messick, Julie Bennett, Arnold Stang, Daws Butler, Mel Blanc, Lucille Bliss, Lorenzo Music, Ben Schwartz
31. Feelings Toward Darkrai 1:49
32. Epilogue: Darkrai - From Within The Shadows 1:08

TOTAL TIME = 1:07:53

## Trivia

* This was the 1st film of *Diamond And Pearl*.
* This is the first Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl movie not to have a antagonist.