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'''Kalos, Where Dreams and Adventures Begin!''' (Japanese: '''カロス地方にやってきた！夢と冒険のはじまり！！''' ''We've Arrived in the Kalos Region! The Beginning of Dreams and Adventures!!'') is the first episode of the {{series|XY}}, and the 800th episode of the [[Pokémon anime]]. It first aired in Japan on October 17, 2013, and in the United Kingdom and the United States as a sneak peek preview of the full series on October 19, 2013 to coincide with the worldwide release of [[Pokémon X and Y]]. It was later broadcast in sequence in the United States on January 18, 2014.

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The episode begins as a {{p|Fletchling}} flies into a house. A woman, [[Grace (Kalos)|Grace]], asks Fletchling to wake her daughter {{an|Serena}} up after she failed the first time. Fletchling obediently flies up to Serena's bedroom and {{m|peck}}s Grace's daughter awake, much to Serena's annoyance. Despite the prospect of training with {{p|Rhyhorn}} later for Rhyhorn racing, Serena feels today will be interesting.

Meanwhile, {{Ash}} arrives in the [[Kalos]] region on a plane with [[Alexa]], anticipating a new adventure. As Ash and {{AP|Pikachu}} leave the plane, Ash sees two {{p|Spritzee}} flying above and trips on the steps, landing heavily on the ground. Ash is dismayed to discover that Alexa's [[Viola|sister's]] Gym is not in [[Lumiose City]], but is in [[Santalune City]] instead. While Alexa makes a phone call to her sister, Ash decides to look around for new Pokémon, when suddenly {{p|Blaziken|a mysterious Pokémon}} appears on the top of the airport traffic control tower and jumps over Ash's head. Ash heads to the lobby and runs to Alexa's {{p|Helioptile}}, telling Alexa about the amazing Pokémon he saw, to which Alexa promises that he will soon see many more amazing Pokémon. Although Alexa's sister is still away from the Santalune Gym, Alexa cheers Ash up by suggesting that he challenge the Gym in Lumiose City instead. Taking him to a map, she explains that Lumiose Gym is housed inside [[Prism Tower]] which is in the centre of the city. Ash gets very excited, and Alexa then tells Ash they'll need to go their separate ways now. Ash thanks her for all her help recently, and Alexa in turn thanks him for the fun they've had on their recent travels together. With that, Ash departs and Alexa comments on his energy and wishes him luck in his new adventure.  

After seeing many Pokémon in Lumiose City, some familiar and some new to him, Ash finds Prism Tower, which houses the Lumiose Gym. Watched by {{an|Clemont|a boy}} and {{an|Bonnie|his younger sister}}, Ash walks inside and requests a Gym battle, but [[Clembot|a robotic voice]] asks him how many badges he currently has. Unbeknownst to Ash, the Lumiose Gym has a strict requirement that only Trainers with four or more Gym Badges may challenge the Gym Leader. Since Ash has no Badges, Ash and Pikachu are hit with an electric shock and are dropped through a trapdoor to the exit. The two children from before see him falling out of the tower and they attempt to rescue Ash and his Pikachu. The boy throws his [[bag|backpack]] below Ash, which immediately produces a large airbag-like contraption to cushion Ash's fall. The little girl catches Pikachu and falls over herself. After the boy helps Ash to his feet, the girl excites herself over how adorable Pikachu is and hugs him tightly, causing Pikachu to shock her in protest. As the scene is occurring, a {{AP|Froakie}} is watching them from a building. Recovering quickly from the shock, the girl apologizes to Pikachu after her brother chides her for not considering Pikachu's feelings. Introducing himself to the boy and the girl, Ash tells them how he traveled here from the Kanto region so he could participate in the Kalos League. The three of them head to a Pokémon battlefield in Lumiose City, where the boy and the girl introduce themselves as {{an|Clemont}} and {{an|Bonnie}}. Ash challenges Clemont to a Pokémon battle, to which Clemont accepts after encouragement from Bonnie.

For their battle, Clemont sends out his {{TP|Clemont|Bunnelby}} and Ash uses Pikachu. Pikachu, like usual for Ash's Pokémon battles, starts off with a {{m|Thunderbolt}}, but Bunnelby uses its ears to use the sand to block the attack. Bunnelby responds with {{m|Dig}}, while Ash tells Pikachu to take off and use his speed to confuse Bunnelby. However, Pikachu is unsuccessful and Bunnelby lands its attack. Pikachu and Bunnelby continue trading attacks, while Ash notes that Bunnelby's ears are a great asset to it in battle and that Clemont is a skilled Trainer.

Just then, the battle is interrupted when some sort of device is thrown onto the battlefield, which Pikachu narrowly dodges. Looking around, Ash and the others see Team Rocket there, having followed him all the way to Kalos. Although the talking {{TR|Meowth}} catches Clemont's attention, Ash explains to him and Bonnie how Team Rocket have been following him around, trying to steal Pikachu. Although Pikachu and Bunnelby both put up excellent fights against Team Rocket, [[Jessie]]'s {{TP|Jessie|Wobbuffet}} {{m|Mirror Coat|blocks their attacks}}. Just before Pikachu is struck by a rebounding Electro Ball, the {{p|Froakie}} that had been watching them before jumps in and takes the attack for Pikachu. Using its frubbles as an attack, Froakie incapacitates Wobbuffet and gives Ash, Clemont, Bonnie, Pikachu, and Bunnelby time to escape. However, Froakie is severely injured in the process and Ash rushes it to [[Professor Sycamore]]'s laboratory, fearing for the little Pokémon's safety.

* {{p|Froakie}}

[[File:Title Card XY Ash.png|thumb|200px|The title card segment focuses on Ash for this episode]]

** Due to this fact, this episode is tied with the [[XY002|following episode]] as the shortest gap between the airdates of the Japanese version and the English dub. However, both were aired as a sneak preview, not regular episodes, as the {{series|Best Wishes}} hadn't completed its run outside Japan yet, so the record that ''[[BW134|The Journalist from Another Region!]]'' held wasn't broken for regular episodes until ''[[BW137|Celebrating the Hero's Comet!]]''.

** When James's crosses his arms, the fingers on his left glove are colored like his skin, instead of black. This is corrected in subsequent episodes.

File:XY001 error.png|Alexa's missing one earring

* For unknown reasons, the title card is lacking the characters' shadows and the ''To Be Continued'' text does not appear in the end of the episode in the {{pmin|the United States|American version}}. The {{pmin|the United Kingdom|UK version}}, and presumably all international versions, has the ''To Be Continued'' added in, while US [[iTunes]] release adds the characters' shadows along with the ''To Be Continued''.

* For unknown reasons, the title card segment was skipped in the Hindi dub. It will be doing so regularly from this point on.

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[[Category:XY series episodes|001]]

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