Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl · Diamond and Pearl arc
DP023 · Faced with Steelix Determination!
爆走ハガネール！ビッパの村を守れ！！
Synopsis
What happens.
Jessie, James, and MTR are digging some holes into the ground. Halfway, when digging a particular hole, they hit something hard. It turns out to be a Steelix, and the shovels they were using get stuck in its head.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's DP023 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.
Story arc · DP001-DP052
Diamond and Pearl.
Ash arrives in Sinnoh, meets Dawn and her Piplup, reunites with Brock. Picks Turtwig from Rowan; the Sinnoh badge run begins. Paul introduced as a foil.
Read the full Diamond & Pearl guidePokémon featured · 8
Who appears.
Linked entries open the species page on the Pokédex. Items without a sprite (alternate forms, regional variants, generic group references) fall back to a name pill.
More from this arc
Other episodes in Diamond and Pearl.
Episode synopsis from Bulbapedia, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5. Editorial context (arc affiliation, cultural moments, character signatures) hand-verified May 2026. Pokémon, character names, and series titles © Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., The Pokémon Company, OLM Inc. This is an unofficial fan reference.