Recaps

Mark captured Rayquaza after facing it in battle, then helped it and Deoxys resolve their past conflict by rescuing Deoxys’s companion from the past. After training his Pokémon and searching for Jirachi’s comet and Manaphy, Mark traveled to a parallel timeline to investigate the Rainbow R Organization, while an uninvited guest arrived there without him.

• Mark and Aya received their competition awards, performed for the crowd, and met Feishi and Qinglu, who asked them to help bring light back to Ultra Space.
• Mark traveled to Outer Space to face Rayquaza, and Mewtwo battled it after Mark refused to abandon Jirachi, but Deoxys interrupted the fight with a sneak attack.
• Mewtwo and Rayquaza joined forces to defeat Deoxys, and Mark returned home with Rayquaza following him before later catching it with a pink Poké Ball.
• Mark awakened Deoxys and learned it was searching for a companion, so he traveled with it to the past and recovered its companion’s Crystal core after Rayquaza destroyed the meteor carrying it.
• Jirachi awakened the Crystal core, reuniting the two Deoxys, who chose to become Mark’s Pokémon without a battle.
• Mark trained his Pokémon as Rayquaza learned to Mega Evolve, the Deoxys developed complementary battle skills, and Mark and Mewtwo built a telescope to search for Jirachi’s comet.
• Mark visited Lilith at Rose Palace, gave her a device to restore Pokémon from the Judgment Legion, and searched for Manaphy with Phione but found no trace of it.
• Mark returned to Clear Stream Village and traveled to a parallel timeline to investigate the Rainbow R Organization, while an uninvited guest arrived there after he had left.

Mark explored the dream Battle Arena, infiltrated the Rainbow R Organization, and learned of its Ancient Revival Plan. He recruited Groudon and Kyogre, helped them claim territories beyond Earth, and ended with Calyrex showing him another image of Mars.

• Lan Sanji told Sun Jun that Boulder, secretly infiltrating the Rainbow R Organization, was on her way to Clear Stream Village, while Mark discovered a Battle Arena connected to his Spirit Control Panel.
• Shaymin slipped through the Battle Arena’s spatial barrier to take a golden trophy, which turned into power that made Victini an unconventional Shiny Pokémon and strengthened the others.
• Mark joined the Rainbow R Organization as a Level Two Researcher, while Lan Sanji met Boulder, who revealed she was Shi Xiaoling and warned him not to tell Mark about the transmigrators.
• Shi Xiaoling forced Mark and three other researchers to steal information about the Ancient Revival Plan, but Red Fire soon gave Mark the plan to assess and promised him a future position as Chief Researcher.
• Mark returned to his own time-space and used Rayquaza to awaken Groudon, who befriended Jirachi, agreed to join Mark, and failed to fit into a Poké Ball.
• Mark awakened Kyogre, learned where Manaphy was, and took Groudon to Saturn, where it claimed territory and grew stronger as Kyogre settled on Neptune.
• Rayquaza chose the Sun as its territory, while Hoopa planned to challenge its other self, Jirachi asked for a black hole, and Calyrex showed Mark an image of Mars before sending another.

Mark’s Pokémon gained new powers as he entered the Rainbow R Organization’s headquarters, where he uncovered Zacian’s history and Ideal Land’s secret experiments. After reviving Bulu, Mark began assessing the other captives and preparing to treat them, while Lan Run remained near death.

• Rayquaza returned from the sun as a Shiny Pokémon, discovered new abilities, and shrank to a fraction of its former size.
• Mark went with Red Fire to the Rainbow R Organization headquarters, where he encountered the Mecha Fortress’s defenses and learned of the Steel Mewtwo project.
• A mission to Saturn ended with Phoenix dead and Groudon and Kyogre in Primal Reversion, while Lan Run revealed his past betrayal and sent Red Fire to the Emerald Archipelago.
• Mark followed a voice to Zacian, passed its dream trial, and learned how Zacian, Zamazenta, Calyrex, and Rayquaza had fought Eternatus.
• Mark agreed to help Zacian develop its own sword, then traveled with Red Fire toward the Emerald Archipelago and met Red Three.
• Red Three brought Mark and Red Fire into Ideal Land, where they found sleeping captives, including Bulu, Phoenix, and members of the Aqua and Magma Legions.
• Mark revived Bulu and explained Lan Run’s damaged brain and remnant soul, then assessed the other captives and began treating those he deemed less dangerous.

Mark brought Red Fire and other rescued people to Clear Stream Gym, while Hoopa overcame and absorbed its other self. As Mark expanded his work across parallel time-spaces, he brought Mi Yang and Doctor Hosen into Ideal Land and returned to the Rainbow R Organization’s headquarters time-space with Red Fire.

• Mark rescued people from Cultivation Containers, learned Red Fire had been betrayed, and discovered Doctor Krama would inspect Ideal Land on August 13.
• Mark recruited Red Fire and the other survivors to Clear Stream Gym, where Red Fire recognized John Two as his old friend Lei Meng and endured a year of Dream Cultivation World combat training.
• Mark traveled three centuries into the past to find Doctor Hosen, saved him from dying, and returned with Zygarde, which became trapped inside Nihilego.
• Hoopa Confined confronted and absorbed Demon God Hoopa, gaining control of its fused body and later becoming Shiny as it freed counterparts across parallel time-spaces.
• Mark worked to understand Nihilego’s new form and Zygarde’s core, while his Pokémon continued training and Zacian stayed on Mars with Calyrex.
• Youth Mi Yang joined Ideal Land, and Mark took him, Doctor Hosen, and Red Fire to the Rainbow R Organization branch and headquarters, where Hosen registered as a researcher and Mi Yang passed a Trainer assessment.
• Mark and Mi Yang searched the Frozen Tundra for the headquarters’ time-space coordinates as Lan Run found Red Fire distressed and restored his awareness by showing him medicine bottles.
• Red Fire drank a Memory Potion, and Mark told Lan Run he would reveal what had happened to the others only if Lan Run joined Clear Stream Gym before giving him reagents for Xerneas.