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| Season | Pokémon: Black & White (Season 14) · Emolga, Bianca & Iris’s dragons arc (BW024–BW033) |
| Episode | Never broadcast · produced for the fourteenth season · Bulbapedia code BW024 (unaired) |
| English title | Rocket-dan VS Plasma-dan! (Part 2) |
| Japanese title | ロケット団ＶＳプラズマ団！（後編） Roketto-dan Tai Purazuma-dan! (Kōhen) — “Rocket-dan VS Plasma-dan! (Part 2)” |
| First aired (Japan) | Never aired |
| First aired (US) | Never aired |
| Screenplay | Atsuhiro Tomioka |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Besuto Uisshu! (Best Wishes!) – Rica Matsumoto · Kokoro no Fanfāre (Fanfare of the Heart) – Aki Okui |
| Previous episode | Rocket-dan VS Plasma-dan! (Part 1) (BW023U) |
| Next episode | Battling For The Love of Bug-Types! (BW023) |
Plot episodeUnaired – never broadcastGhetsis’s planned debut
Rocket-dan VS Plasma-dan! (Part 2) is an episode produced for Pokémon: Black & White, the fourteenth season of the Pokémon anime, that was never broadcast anywhere (Bulbapedia code BW024 (unaired)). It falls within the season’s Emolga, Bianca & Iris’s dragons stretch (EP24–EP33).
Never aired anywhere: postponed indefinitely in Japan after the Tōhoku earthquake of 11 March 2011 and never dubbed, although The Pokémon Company International received it. Read more about the unaired two-parter.
Synopsis
The conclusion of the cancelled two-parter, scheduled for 24 March 2011, was postponed with Part 1 and has never aired anywhere. In the known story, Team Plasma raid Giovanni’s masquerade and steal the Meteonite, Team Rocket and Team Plasma fight over it at an abandoned airfield as it overheats, Ghetsis appears in shadow, and Pikachu destroys the unstable stone with a giant Electro Ball; Giovanni returns to Kanto with Dr. Zager and Pierce, leaving Jessie, James and Meowth to operate on their own with a Yamask following them. TV Tokyo’s promise to show the two episodes “someday” was removed from its website in late 2018; The Pokémon Company International received them but never dubbed them, Emolga the Irresistible! took this slot three weeks early, and elements of the story resurfaced in later Black & White episodes and the 2013 opening Be an Arrow!.
Major Events
- Never broadcast. Scheduled for 24 March 2011
- Team Plasma steal the Meteonite
- Ghetsis appears in shadow
- Pikachu’s giant Electro Ball destroys the overheating Meteonite
- Giovanni, Dr. Zager and Pierce return to Kanto and the trio stay on alone
- Would have debuted Ghetsis
- Elements reused in BW096, BW097, BW106, BW120 and the 2013 opening Be an Arrow!
- Non-canon
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Atsuhiro Tomioka.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Unova storyline.
Part of our Pokémon: Black & White guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.