Chapter Summaries

Kasha withdrew from the World Pokemon Alliance Youth Trainer Competition, making Mark the champion without a final match. After the awards ceremony and performances in Bere City, Mark and Aya received their rewards and encountered two strange humans at the Pokemon Alliance branch.

• Mark learned that Kasha had withdrawn and could not be reached, so he became champion by default.
• Mark promised Hoopa Confined a chance to perform and hand out signatures during the awards ceremony.
• Mark and Aya accepted their medals at the packed Giant Shell Battle Arena, while Kasha remained absent.
• Mark learned that online criticism after Aya defeated Li Zhen had driven Kasha to withdraw and leave Bere City.
• Mark, Aya, and their Pokemon performed for the audience, and Hoopa Confined used Unstable Matter and distributed signatures.
• After Mark and Aya received their Pokemon Alliance rewards, they encountered two strange humans at the Bere City branch.

Mark and Aya met Feishi and Qinglu, members of the Ultra Recon Squad from Ultra Space, who explained that they wanted to give them something because of Mark’s Mythical Pokemon and golden Nihilego, and Aya’s Aura Power. Feishi suggested they might accomplish what the Ultra Recon Squad could not, then Qinglu produced two devices.

• Shane introduced Mark and Aya to two unusual visitors and explained that their meeting and reward were being kept secret.
• Feishi introduced himself and Qinglu as members of the Ultra Recon Squad from Ultra Space, a world that had lost its light.
• Feishi explained that he and Qinglu wore visors because their world’s gravity and sunlight differed from those of Mark’s world.
• Feishi said he and Qinglu wanted Mark and Aya’s help because Mark had captured several Mythical Pokemon and had a golden Nihilego, while Aya possessed Aura Power.
• Feishi noted that Shiny Ultra Beasts were nearly unknown in Ultra Space and might bring changes to the world, then Qinglu placed two silver-white devices on the table.

Feishi explained Ultra Space’s history and asked Mark and Aya to use search devices to find the Cosmog destined to become the Sun-Eating Beast and Moon-Inviting Beast. When Mark learned that Feishi and Qinglu were Chen Xing’s children, he decided to investigate before agreeing and left to try capturing Rayquaza.

• Feishi described how the Radiant God’s slumber plunged Ultra Space into darkness and how a prophecy promised two Pokemon would bring back the light.
• Feishi offered Mark and Aya the chance to capture the two prophesied Pokemon and asked them to help illuminate Ultra Space after the Pokemon evolved.
• Feishi explained that compatible people could use the mechanical rods to sense the Pokemon, and that only 127 working devices remained.
• Mark asked whether Feishi knew Chen Xing and Bi Bo, and Feishi revealed that Chen Xing was his and Qinglu’s father.
• Mark put away the Cosmog’s Pokeballs, said he needed two days to consider the request, and left to try capturing Rayquaza.

Shane learned that Mark planned to catch Rayquaza and discovered that he had already teleported away to prepare. Feishi and Qinglu decided to watch from Outer Space, while Shane explained the danger of reaching it and saw Feishi summon Celesteela.

• Shane recalled the real Rayquaza that had appeared in Clear Stream Village and considered the threat of the Rainbow R Organization and the legendary Pokemon's home-field advantage.
• Aya told Shane that Mark had teleported away with Jirachi to prepare for catching Rayquaza, and that Jirachi seemed afraid of it.
• Feishi and Qinglu learned what Rayquaza represented and asked to watch Mark's attempt.
• Aya relayed Mark's chosen coordinates in Outer Space above the central Desert of No Return and his warning that he could not guarantee their safety.
• Shane explained the hazards of reaching Outer Space, and Feishi summoned Celesteela outside the window.

Mark brought his Pokémon to Outer Space above the Desert of No Return to prepare for a battle with Rayquaza, and Jirachi arrived to face it with him. Rayquaza attacked as soon as Jirachi appeared, and Mark ended the chapter confronting it after being blasted away and recovering.

• Mark and his Pokémon acclimated to Outer Space while Kakuna repeatedly fell asleep.
• Jirachi emailed Mark that it would arrive in twenty seconds, then appeared with its body painted black to try to fool Rayquaza.
• Rayquaza appeared immediately and charged at Mark and Jirachi.
• Mark stepped in front of Jirachi's Starlight Shield and used Protect Aura Defense, but Rayquaza's strike sent him flying.
• Mark returned Mewtwo and Jirachi to their Pokeballs, then faced Rayquaza with an uninjured body.

Mark withstood Rayquaza’s attack and drew its attention away from Jirachi’s Poké Ball, earning Rayquaza’s direct gaze. He believed he had taken the first step toward taming the legendary Pokémon by making it regard him as more than an ordinary human.

• Rayquaza charged at Mark again, targeting the Poké Ball containing Jirachi, and its pressure restricted Mark’s movement.
• Mark’s Aura erupted into red flames, and he used Protect Aura Defense to brace against Rayquaza’s attack, though he was blasted downward.
• Mark returned to Rayquaza in Martial Saint Form, which strengthened his body and attacks through his exclusive moves.
• Mark showed Jirachi’s Poké Ball to Rayquaza and then put it back at his waist, prompting Rayquaza to look directly at him.
• Mark reasoned that Rayquaza’s immense strength made it see ordinary humans as lesser creatures, so he had faced it alone to establish himself as an equal.

Mark tried to convince Rayquaza to become his Pokémon, but Rayquaza demanded that he abandon Jirachi. Mark refused and proposed a battle instead; Rayquaza agreed to the battle while keeping its grudge against Jirachi.

• Mark provoked Rayquaza by repeatedly taking out Jirachi's Pokeball, but Rayquaza only warned him instead of attacking.
• Mark told Rayquaza he would not abandon Jirachi, and Rayquaza revealed that it did not know what a Trainer was.
• After Jirachi briefly emerged and Rayquaza attacked Mark again, Mark explained how Trainers and Pokémon helped one another.
• Mark asked Rayquaza to become his Pokémon, and Rayquaza agreed on the condition that Mark discard Jirachi.
• Mark refused to give up Jirachi and challenged Rayquaza to battle, offering to earn its trust and end its conflict with Jirachi.
• Rayquaza accepted the battle but would not promise to let go of its grudge against Jirachi.

Mark arranged a battle in which Mewtwo would face Rayquaza, with victory deciding whether Rayquaza would join Mark or Mark would leave with his Pokémon. Mark and his Pokémon empowered Mewtwo before the fight, while Rayquaza grew furious at the sight of dozens of Jirachi but held back.

• Mark changed the challenge to a battle between Mewtwo and Rayquaza, with the result determining whether Rayquaza would join him or he would return to Clear Stream Village.
• Victini poured Infinite Energy into Mewtwo and Mark’s Pokémon, then Mark recalled the exhausted Victini.
• Mew, Hoopa, Kakuna, Celebi, Leafeon, and Calyrex enhanced Mewtwo with their powers, and Hoopa gave him two rings.
• Jirachi emerged from its Pokeball and summoned dozens of copies to empower Mewtwo, but most fled after seeing Rayquaza and five fainted.
• Rayquaza became furious at the gathering of Jirachi but restrained itself.

Jirachi used the remaining wish power from the gathered Jirachi to help Mewtwo grow stronger, and Mewtwo combined those enhancements into his Ultimate Form to fight Rayquaza. As their battle reached its decisive stage, Deoxys suddenly attacked Rayquaza and interrupted the fight.

• Jirachi used roughly five hundred Small Wishes and two Medium Wishes to strengthen Mewtwo, who also enhanced himself with multiple moves.
• Mark and Mewtwo formed a Bond Evolution, creating Mewtwo's Ultimate Form and prompting him to attack Rayquaza.
• Mewtwo and Rayquaza traded powerful attacks and regenerated their injuries as Rayquaza's combat skills improved and Mewtwo's borrowed enhancements began to fade.
• After nearly half an hour, Mewtwo and Rayquaza were exhausted and evenly matched, but Deoxys suddenly launched an orange-light sneak attack on Rayquaza, stopping the battle.

Rayquaza and Mewtwo joined forces to defeat Deoxys, but their battle left Mewtwo and Mark badly injured. After Bond Evolution ended, Rayquaza set aside their unfinished contest to focus on Mewtwo.

• Deoxys attacked Rayquaza, but Mewtwo suddenly turned on Deoxys and helped Rayquaza overpower it.
• Rayquaza and Mewtwo relentlessly attacked Deoxys until it collapsed unconscious.
• Rayquaza prepared to resume its fight with Mewtwo, but Mewtwo conceded and said they could battle again another time.
• Bond Evolution ended, and the exhausted Mewtwo reverted to his ordinary form and lost consciousness.
• Mark warned Rayquaza not to shake Mewtwo because his injuries were serious, and Rayquaza stopped and focused on them.

After Mewtwo lost to Rayquaza, Mark learned about Rayquaza’s long-running attacks on Deoxys and its inexplicable habit of beating up Jirachi. He took the unconscious Deoxys with him and returned to Clear Stream Village alongside Rayquaza, who stayed to play with Giant Mutation Nihilego.

• Mark examined the unconscious Mewtwo and told Rayquaza that Mewtwo could recover in about half a month and challenge it again.
• Rayquaza moved to attack Deoxys, but Mark stopped it and asked about their history; Rayquaza explained that Deoxys had repeatedly ambushed it for years.
• Mark learned that Rayquaza attacked Jirachi without knowing why, because Jirachi seemed to invite a beating and fighting it made Rayquaza happy.
• Rayquaza agreed to let Mark take the unconscious Deoxys, and Mark said he would capture it properly after it woke up.
• Jirachi refused to leave its Pokeball near Rayquaza, so Mark flew back to Clear Stream Village with Rayquaza following him.
• Mark returned to Clear Stream Gym, where Rayquaza landed behind it and played with the trembling Giant Mutation Nihilego.

Doctor Zhou Tong built a Dragon-type Affinity Device to help Mark approach Rayquaza, but discovered Rayquaza had already followed Mark back to Clear Stream Gym. Mark explained that Rayquaza had acknowledged him after their battle, though he still regretted not defeating it and formally catching it.

• Doctor Zhou Tong watched Mark win the Youth Trainer Competition and built an Affinity Device intended to improve Rayquaza's first impression of Mark.
• Doctor Zhou Tong left the laboratory and spotted Rayquaza playing with the Giant Mutation Nihilego outside Clear Stream Gym, dropping and breaking the device in shock.
• Mark arrived carrying an unconscious Deoxys and asked Doctor Zhou Tong what had happened between Deoxys and Rayquaza.
• Mark waved to Rayquaza, which roared back, and told Doctor Zhou Tong that Rayquaza had flown home with him after acknowledging him despite Mark losing their battle.
• Rayquaza roared and shot into the sky as Mark lamented that he might not get to challenge it again in half a month.

Rayquaza returned to Clear Stream Gym with a sphere of ice and dust, shared it with Mark, and learned how to open and lock a window. While Mark questioned Doctor Zhou Tong about Deoxys and recounted his encounter with it in Outer Space, Rayquaza drew a crowd outside and eventually squeezed its head into the office.

• Rayquaza came back to Clear Stream Gym carrying a huge ice sphere, made an earthen nest, and began eating.
• Rayquaza offered Mark some ice and dust, then followed Mark’s demonstration to learn how to open and lock a window.
• Mew, Hoopa, Leafeon, Celebi, and the others emerged from their Pokeballs, and Shaymin ate the crumbs falling from Rayquaza’s mouth.
• Mark asked Doctor Zhou Tong about Deoxys and described how Deoxys had attacked Rayquaza during Mewtwo’s battle with it in Outer Space.
• Doctor Zhou Tong recalled that Deoxys had attacked a city in the Atali Empire in a Parallel Time-Space, then Rayquaza pushed its head through the office door.

Mark learned that Rayquaza had no concept of the sky or the ground, despite liking its title as ruler of the sky. The chapter ended as Mark realized Rayquaza’s perspective might explain why it could overwhelm Groudon and Kyogre.

• Rayquaza watched Bulbasaur Sage play a mobile game, and Little Fairy invited it to play; Rayquaza declined because its claws would damage the building.
• Doctor Zhou Tong told Mark he had found information about Bickley’s Dark Ball technology and gave him a storage drive.
• People outside Clear Stream Gym approached and touched Rayquaza while it remained absorbed in Bulbasaur Sage’s game.
• Mark asked Rayquaza whether living on the ground felt uncomfortable, and Rayquaza revealed it did not know what the ground or sky meant.
• Mark explained the sky and ground to Rayquaza, then realized its origins beyond those concepts might explain how it could defeat Groudon and Kyogre.

Mark questioned Rayquaza about its territory and learned why it had stopped Groudon and Kyogre's battles. After Rayquaza followed him across the world and threatened to consume Fallen Sky Mountain, Mark asked it to become his Pokemon and caught it in a pink Pokeball.

• Rayquaza told Mark that it stopped Groudon and Kyogre to protect the atmosphere within its territory, and clarified where it lived and how its power changed at the territory's edges.
• Mark learned that Rayquaza ignored most people and Pokemon but followed him, while it watched Bulbasaur Sage because of its strength.
• Mark left Clear Stream Gym for Fallen Sky Mountain Base to awaken Deoxys and treat Mewtwo, but Rayquaza followed and began devouring the mountain's rocks.
• Mark used Jirachi's Small Wish to travel across several regions, but Rayquaza kept appearing beside him, so he asked it to become his Pokemon.
• Rayquaza chose a pink Pokeball, and Mark caught it with a single throw.

Mark’s captured Rayquaza became an ally to his Pokémon, helping Jirachi overcome some of its fear. But after Jirachi, Mew, and Hoopa played increasingly recklessly with Rayquaza’s Pokeball, an unexplained tremor struck the base and the three vanished.

• Mark’s capture of Rayquaza created a bond that made Rayquaza an ally to his other Pokémon, and Jirachi grew less afraid of it.
• Jirachi, Mew, and Hoopa repeatedly touched Rayquaza’s Pokeball, then began lifting it and showing off with it while Leafeon recorded them.
• Leafeon warned the group to stop and rushed to fetch Mark when the three continued treating Rayquaza’s Pokeball like a ball.
• Mark went to stop them, but a violent tremor shook Fallen Sky Mountain Base before he reached the hall.
• Mark found Rayquaza’s Pokeball on the table, the three Pokémon missing, and Victini alone in the room.

After Rayquaza punished Jirachi, Mew, and Hoopa Confined for playing with its Pokeball, Mark treated Deoxys at Fallen Sky Mountain Base. Deoxys resisted capture, but Mark learned it was searching for its companions.

• Victini explained that Jirachi, Mew, and Hoopa Confined had tossed Rayquaza's Pokeball into a passageway before it returned to the table.
• Mark found the three little ones in a crater, where Jirachi and Mew cheerfully described being beaten by Rayquaza while Hoopa Confined remained frightened.
• Jirachi and Mew tried to provoke Rayquaza by painting its Love Ball, but Mark stopped them, then warned Rayquaza to avoid damaging the base.
• Mark brought Jirachi and Mew inside to treat Deoxys, which awakened and was quickly restrained by Mark and his Pokémon.
• Mark used Rayquaza's aura to prompt a reaction from Deoxys and realized from its telekinetic signals that it was searching for its companions.

Jirachi and Victini tried to be Deoxys’s companions, but Deoxys rejected them until Kakuna’s tentacles briefly drained something from it and weakened its struggles. Mark explained that Deoxys was seeking a specific companion, then began retelling the events of Destiny Deoxys to the Pokémon, including Rayquaza.

• Jirachi, Mew, and Victini offered to become Deoxys’s companions, but Deoxys’s tentacles lashed Jirachi away.
• Kakuna woke, extended black-and-white double-helix tentacles, and briefly connected them to Deoxys’s tentacles before both Pokémon retracted them.
• Mark suspected Kakuna had absorbed some of Deoxys’s genes or bloodline, and Jirachi considered attacking Deoxys before Mark stopped it.
• Mark explained that Deoxys meant a particular companion, and Jirachi recalled Deoxys’s transformations and clones from Destiny Deoxys.
• Mark retold the movie’s story, describing how one Deoxys was defeated by Rayquaza and another arrived searching for its companion.

Mark investigated why Deoxys had attacked Rayquaza and concluded that Deoxys’s companion had likely survived inside a meteor before falling into dormancy on Earth Star. After Porygon established communication with Deoxys, Mark learned when the meteor arrived and prepared to travel through time and space to rescue the companion.

• Mark asked Rayquaza about the meteors it had destroyed or eaten, then guessed it had shattered the meteor carrying Deoxys’s companion without killing the Deoxys inside.
• Mark decided to rescue Deoxys’s companion and used Porygon’s AI to develop a way to communicate with Deoxys.
• While Porygon worked, Mark let Rayquaza interact with Jirachi, and Rayquaza agreed to grant Leafeon a new Dragon Eevee form.
• Porygon reached the necessary calculation progress, allowing Mark to communicate with Deoxys and ask when its companion’s meteor arrived.
• Deoxys recalled that the meteor had arrived about 3.52 million heartbeats earlier, and Celebi confirmed that Mark could use Deoxys’s longing to establish a temporal anchor point.

Mark traveled sixty years into the past with Deoxys and several Pokémon to recover Deoxys’s companion’s Crystal core before Rayquaza could destroy the meteorite. After returning to the present, he explained the trip to Rayquaza, which retreated into its Poké Ball in frustration.

• Mark released Deoxys from its restraints and traveled through time with Deoxys, Calyrex, Jirachi, Mew, Hoopa Confined, and Kakuna, knowing they had only three days in the past.
• Deoxys sensed its companion in space and spoke haltingly, so Mark prepared to find the meteorite and rescue it before Rayquaza struck.
• Mark briefly saw Uncle Qian Three searching the forest for Scyther, then headed into space with the Pokémon while Jirachi stayed behind to support them.
• Mark found the meteorite and recovered Deoxys’s Crystal core, then watched Rayquaza smash the meteorite and eat Deoxys’s damaged remains.
• Mark buried the Crystal core at the foot of Fallen Sky Mountain, spent the remaining time helping Deoxys learn the local language, and returned to the present with the Pokémon.
• Mark told Rayquaza that it had been unable to travel through time, and Rayquaza withdrew into its Poké Ball with a resentful expression.