Chapter Summaries

Rayquaza pressured the underground Groudon into surrendering more and more territory until Groudon finally surfaced, expecting to negotiate. After the others mocked its unwillingness to fight, Groudon and Jirachi recognized a familiar bond despite remembering nothing of their past.

• Rayquaza’s calls stirred Groudon underground, but Groudon retreated and yielded the territory where the sky met the earth.
• The change in territory awakened a brownish-yellow power in Rayquaza, which used Sandstorm and Earthquake before asking Mark what to do next.
• Mark suggested claiming land farther underground, and Rayquaza pressured Groudon into surrendering increasingly deep layers of soil.
• After Rayquaza demanded territory ten trillion meters underground, Groudon emerged and bowed, asking to reduce the demand to one thousand meters.
• Jirachi, Mew, Hoopa Confined, and Rayquaza criticized Groudon for not fighting, while Groudon noticed Jirachi and gently touched its head.
• Groudon and Jirachi felt that they had been good friends long ago, though neither remembered their past.

Jirachi discovered that its Eye of Truth resonated with Groudon, allowing it to wield Groudon’s Drought power and seemingly strengthen Groudon as well. Jirachi could not recover any memories of their supposed friendship, and Groudon finally paid attention to Mark after he displayed his strength, then sensed the powerful Pokémon gathered around him.

• Jirachi brought the Eye of Truth near Groudon and used its power to create Drought, while Groudon’s eyes glowed red.
• Jirachi found that the Eye of Truth resonated with the real Groudon but not with Mew transformed into Groudon, and Mark explained its known connection to Groudon and Kyogre.
• Jirachi tested the Eye of Truth against Groudon but remembered nothing, and it told Mark that Groudon seemed to have grown stronger.
• Groudon ignored Mark until Mark transformed into Martial Saint Form, after which Mark introduced himself and his Pokémon.
• Mew, Hoopa, and the other Pokémon introduced themselves to Groudon, while Mewtwo, Calyrex, and two Deoxys emerged and Groudon sensed their strength.

Mark met Groudon and explained that he wanted it to test a method for increasing its strength and join the Ancient Revival Plan. Groudon agreed to become Mark’s Pokémon and accepted the plan to expand its land territory, though Mark had not yet explained the details.

• Rayquaza returned Groudon’s territory and power, then Groudon grew angry when Shaymin, Mew, and Hoopa teased it about being too heavy to fly.
• Groudon backed down when Rayquaza readied for a fight, and Mark disciplined the teasing Pokémon until Groudon asked him to spare Jirachi.
• Mark learned that Groudon felt it had been close to Jirachi in the past, though neither remembered what had happened between them.
• Mark offered Groudon a strength-enhancing method and asked it to become one of his Pokémon, and Groudon agreed to both.
• Mark explained that the Ancient Revival Plan could greatly expand Groudon’s land territory and raise its potential strength, and Groudon agreed to Jirachi’s proposal.

Mark tried to capture Groudon so the Ancient Revival Plan could proceed more conveniently, but Groudon’s poor control over its strength caused every Pokeball to shatter. Groudon was left discouraged, while Mark and Jirachi reassured it that training would improve its control.

• Mark offered Groudon a choice of Pokeballs, and Groudon asked about the ones Jirachi and Rayquaza used before deciding it wanted both an ordinary Pokeball and Rayquaza’s pink Friend Ball.
• Jirachi told Groudon it could use both Pokeballs, and Mark agreed to the request.
• Mark threw a Pokeball at Groudon, but it shattered when Groudon failed to control its strength.
• Mark tried seven more Pokeballs, including two pink Friend Balls, and each one broke.
• Mark gave up on capturing Groudon for now and comforted it, while Jirachi said training with Mark would help it control its power.

Mark awakened Kyogre, who agreed to become his Pokemon but could not enter a Pokeball, and learned Manaphy's location from it. He took Groudon into outer space to let it experience flying, then asked it to choose between Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn as its territory.

• Groudon accepted Mark's plan to awaken Kyogre and separate their territories, then stayed behind while Mark and the others left.
• After remembering Hoopa's story and watching Rayquaza fly away, Groudon repeatedly leaped into the sky, longing to fly.
• Mark awakened Kyogre at Lize Deep Sea; it submitted to Rayquaza, befriended Jirachi, agreed to join Mark, and revealed Manaphy's location.
• Unable to catch Groudon or Kyogre in Pokeballs, Mark left Kyogre at Lize Deep Sea and brought Groudon into outer space with Rayquaza's help.
• After Groudon enjoyed roaming in space, Mark offered it Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn to choose as its territory.

Mark and Jirachi tried to teach Groudon that the Earth was spherical, but Groudon remained convinced it was flat despite recognizing the planet below. After fifteen trips between the ground and Outer Space, Groudon finally accepted that Earth was round and began contemplating the vast universe, before Mark placed a Hyperrealistic AR Interaction Device on its forehead.

• Jirachi explained to Groudon that Earth Star was the third planet in the Solar System, but Groudon insisted its home was flat and not the blue planet below.
• Victini and Mew agreed with Groudon that the Earth was flat, while Jirachi argued with them and asked Mark for help.
• Mark told Jirachi that Groudon needed more time to observe the Earth, so Rayquaza repeatedly carried Groudon between the ground and Outer Space.
• After fifteen round trips, Groudon accepted that the Earth was spherical and sensed how small Earth Star was compared with the universe.
• Mark placed a Hyperrealistic AR Interaction Device on Groudon's forehead, and a massive illusory screen appeared before it.

Mark showed Groudon the Solar System and helped it choose Saturn as a new home, explaining that Saturn's thick atmosphere and rings could aid Groudon's ambition to fly. After reaching Saturn, Groudon settled beneath its dense atmosphere and roared with comfort as it began taking control of the planet's land.

• Mark used an AR panel to show Groudon the moon, the Solar System, and the characteristics of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
• Groudon decided to leave Earth Star because it hated water, but struggled to choose a planet as Jirachi, Mew, Hoopa, and the other Pokémon offered suggestions.
• Groudon asked Mark which planet would help it learn to fly, and Mark recommended Saturn because of its thick atmosphere and distinctive rings.
• Groudon chose Saturn, and Mark brought it there with Jirachi's Small Wish and Rayquaza's flight.
• Rayquaza brought Groudon beneath Saturn's dense atmosphere, where Groudon roared in comfort and began taking control of the planet's land.

Mark and Rayquaza explored Saturn, where Rayquaza enjoyed the planet’s powerful lightning and hurricanes. Mark joined the Pokémon on a descent into Saturn’s atmosphere but had to turn back before reaching the metallic hydrogen near its core.

• Rayquaza emerged from a vortex above Saturn and told Mark that it enjoyed the planet’s lightning and hurricanes.
• Jirachi, Hoopa, and Victini urged Mark to explore Saturn, and Mark prepared to descend with Rayquaza and the others.
• Mark and the Pokémon entered Saturn’s freezing outer atmosphere and continued into increasingly dense, turbulent layers.
• Rayquaza explained that Groudon had found a deeper region of Saturn more satisfying than the hot-rain environment.
• Mark stopped in Saturn’s hot-rain layer because heat and pressure overwhelmed his protections, preventing him from reaching the metallic hydrogen near the core.

After seeing how Saturn exposed his weakness, Mark helped Groudon settle there and chose Neptune as Kyogre’s territory. At Jupiter, Rayquaza rejected both Jupiter and Earth Star, and Mark realized it had chosen the Sun.

• Mark learned that Jirachi, Kakuna, and a Groudon-transformed Mew had reached Saturn’s lava region, then reflected on how weak and overconfident he had become.
• Rayquaza brought Groudon out of Saturn, where it had grown larger and gained traits resembling Primal Reversion, though it still could not fly.
• Mark encouraged Groudon to keep practicing its flight power and returned it to Saturn.
• Mark took Kyogre to Neptune, where Kyogre gained power and found an environment suited to it.
• Mark and his Pokémon traveled to Jupiter, but Rayquaza rejected Jupiter and Earth Star and turned its gaze toward the Sun.

Rayquaza chose the sun as its territory, inspiring the other Pokémon to claim celestial bodies of their own. After Mark corrected the little Pokémon’s grand plans, Calyrex revealed it wanted to transform Mars into a world filled with life, though its exact intentions remained unclear.

• Rayquaza chose the sun as its territory, and Mark assured it that the choice was excellent.
• Hoopa and Mew argued over Jupiter, while Hoopa planned to challenge its other self in three days to regain its full power.
• Jirachi declared that it wanted a black hole as its territory, prompting Hoopa and Mew to compete over how many black holes they would claim.
• Mark scolded Jirachi, Hoopa, and Mew, explaining that black holes were too distant and that they lacked the power to claim such territories.
• Calyrex showed Mark an image of Mars transformed into a living world and appeared to propose making the planet bloom with life.
• When Mark asked whether Calyrex planned to control Mars that way, Calyrex shook its head and sent him another image.

Calyrex wanted to grow coffee on Mars to make better Mars Coffee, while Mewtwo and Rayquaza each challenged a planet’s extreme environment. Rayquaza returned from the sun charred, with a new black layer of scales emerging beneath its ruined shell.

• Calyrex showed Mark its plan to grow coffee on Mars, and Mark agreed to help.
• Mark discovered that Mewtwo had stayed near Saturn to challenge its harsh interior.
• Rayquaza stored Victini’s Infinite Energy in its body and flew toward the sun despite Mark’s warning.
• Mark challenged Jupiter’s interior, but the pressure cracked his Aura barrier and injured him.
• Mewtwo failed to withstand Saturn’s interior and was seriously injured.
• Rayquaza returned to Clear Stream Gym the next morning with its shell burned away and black scales showing underneath.

Rayquaza returned from its failed attempt to claim the sun as territory and discovered that it had become a Shiny Pokemon. Mark explained how Rayquaza’s journey through the sun had burned it and speculated that its new color and power had emerged during the ordeal.

• Jirachi, Mew, Celebi, Leafeon, and the other Pokemon congratulated Rayquaza on becoming a Shiny Pokemon, while Hoopa Confined watched jealously and kept signing papers.
• Mark asked Rayquaza what special power it had gained, but Rayquaza could not tell and instead described its journey through the sun.
• Rayquaza explained that claiming the sun as territory was far harder and slower than claiming planets, and that it had been charred after flying deeper into the sun’s atmosphere.
• Mark theorized that Rayquaza had reached the sun’s Convection Zone or Radiation Zone, and that it became Shiny while being burned.
• Rayquaza inspected its black scales and asked Mark whether its color had simply changed to black.

Mark helped Rayquaza recover from its injuries and paint flashy pink graffiti on its scales before leaving to work at the Rainbow R Organization branch. When he returned to the Clear Stream Gym, he discovered that Rayquaza had transformed into a small version of Mark.

• Rayquaza rejected both black and green scales and asked Mark to paint it pink with patterns.
• Mark, Jirachi, Mew, Hoopa, and the other Pokemon cleaned Rayquaza's scorched scales, treated its wounds, and began painting its body.
• Mark went to the BLK1023 Parallel Timeline, submitted his experiment report, and accepted another project at the Experiment Base.
• Mark learned that Red Fire had been absent for two days and decided to prepare to visit the Rainbow R Organization Headquarters himself in three days.
• Mark returned to the Clear Stream Gym and found Rayquaza disguised as him in a pink floral shirt.
• Rayquaza changed back into its original form, but it was now less than two meters long instead of over a hundred meters.

Mark learned that Rayquaza had gained new powers after trying to imitate Mew, including changing size and form, using human-sized objects, and controlling weather with ease. Mark linked these abilities to the mythical Eastern dragon, then wondered whether becoming Shiny had made Rayquaza a Mythical Pokemon.

• Mark learned that Mew’s demonstration of changing color had led Rayquaza to discover it could grow or shrink, take human form, and turn into smoke.
• Rayquaza showed Mark its new abilities, used a phone, and effortlessly painted a pattern on its body with help from Leafeon, Mew, and Celebi.
• Mark asked Rayquaza to test its weather control, and Rayquaza summoned a brief storm of clouds, rain, thunder, and lightning before clearing the sky.
• Mark explained that Rayquaza’s new abilities resembled those of dragons from his former world’s mythology, and Jirachi recalled Mark’s stories about Sun Wukong and dragons.
• Rayquaza lost interest in Mark’s explanation and went inside to watch a game, leaving Mark wondering whether becoming Shiny had made it a Mythical Pokemon.

Mark traveled with Red Fire to the Rainbow R Organization Headquarters, abandoning his own plan to infiltrate it after Red Fire unexpectedly appeared and summoned him. At the headquarters, Mark discovered powerful electronic, spatial, and time-space suppression, while suspecting an Eternatus controlled the dark skies above it.

• Mark used Rayquaza’s True Dragon power as a reference while developing his cultivation plan and kept Rayquaza and Mewtwo from challenging the sun or Saturn as they recovered.
• Mark sent Shi Xiaoling the prepared Ancient Revival Plan materials, and she said she would remove the fake Nano Bombs from their necks within a few days.
• After three days passed, Mark prepared to breach the Rainbow R Organization’s systems and travel to its headquarters, but Red Fire arrived and told him to come along for a meeting with Minister Phoenix.
• Red Fire took Mark through the branch’s time-space transport machine to the Rainbow R Organization Headquarters, where Mark saw a perpetually dark sky, red energy resembling restrained Gigantamax Energy, and a fortress-like building.
• Mark found that Porygon could barely move through the headquarters’ electronic defenses and that Teleport and time-space transport equipment were suppressed near the fortress.

Mark and his companions explored the Rainbow R Organization headquarters, where Mark discovered the Mecha Fortress was an artificial Chaos Space and saw footage of Steel Mewtwo, codenamed Sigma. After Red Fire left them to register, he went to Phoenix to recommend Mark for responsibility over OTZ404 Parallel Timeline, pending Doctor Krama’s approval.

• Mark sensed that the Mecha Fortress was an unusually stable artificial Chaos Space formed from several types of energy.
• Red Fire showed Mark footage of Steel Mewtwo Unit 3, codenamed Sigma, battling Ultra Beasts and described the Science Department project.
• Red Fire gave Mark his organization ID and sent Mark, Dr. Xia Er, Yamano Kotaro, and the other researchers to register and take an assessment.
• Mark and his companions began the researcher assessment, which combined broad basic questions with practical tasks on a virtual screen.
• Red Fire told Phoenix that Mark was an exceptional talent, and Phoenix said Doctor Krama would judge him before Red Fire could take charge of OTZ404 Parallel Timeline.

Resource Department officers debated whether Mark should be tested for the Ancient Revival Plan when a sudden reading indicated that a highly evolved Primal Reversion Groudon had appeared in the OTZ404 Parallel Timeline. Doctor Krama advised Phoenix to travel there immediately and secure the Groudon before circumstances changed.

• Doctor Krama agreed that Phoenix should assess Mark, while Red Fire objected and warned that Krama would reject him.
• A researcher reported that the decay frequency in the OTZ404 Parallel Timeline had risen to 980%, and Doctor Krama identified it as evidence of a highly completed Ancient Revival.
• Doctor Krama and the officers rushed to the Experiment Base, where they confirmed the readings and investigated unusual time-space coordinates.
• Doctor Krama explained that the coordinate changes were consistent with Groudon's impact after Ancient Revival and urged Phoenix to teleport near it and bring it under control.

Phoenix prepared to enter the dangerous OTZ404 Parallel Timeline to capture and stabilize Groudon, while Red Fire's attempt to involve Mark failed. Mark, Doctor Xia Er, and the others became official Rainbow R Organization researchers and went to meet Red Fire, only to find him missing.

• Krama warned Phoenix that OTZ404's Groudon might mutate during Ancient Revival and said its coordinates would take about an hour and a half to locate.
• Krama explained that OTZ404 was likely filled with magma and lethal gas, and urged Phoenix to wear a protective suit with upgraded filtration.
• Phoenix agreed to prepare for the mission, then removed Red Fire as Third Action Team captain and appointed Lan Run acting captain.
• Mark, Doctor Xia Er, and the others completed their registration as Rainbow R Organization researchers and went to the twenty-third floor, where Red Fire was absent and his lackey appeared.

Bobby handed Red Fire’s ID to Lan Run, who tried to recruit Mark before Red Fire returned devastated and announced he was no longer captain. An emergency alarm summoned the Resource Department as Phoenix’s plan inside Saturn’s core ended with a second Groudon appearing before the first.

• Bobby took Red Fire’s ID from Dr. Xia Er and gave it to Lan Run, who invited Mark to join the Fourth Action Team.
• Mark refused Lan Run’s offer, and Lan Run departed with Boke.
• Red Fire returned in tears, said everything was over, and told Mark he was no longer their captain.
• The communication devices on Red Fire, Mark, and the others sounded an emergency alarm ordering the Resource Department to assemble.
• Inside Saturn’s core, Phoenix’s shrinking metal sphere exploded near Groudon, then a specially made Pokeball broke and released another Groudon.

Saturn Groudon met a silent, puppet-like Groudon in Saturn’s core and tried to explain how Groudon might learn to fly. Their discussion turned into both Groudon flapping their arms, while Mew sneezed near the Resource Department’s Experiment Base and Mark intervened in the Pokémon’s chaos.

• Saturn Groudon questioned the newly emerged Groudon, realized it was a different individual, and demanded to know how it had reached Saturn.
• The other Groudon briefly stirred at the mention of flight and began flapping its arms, sinking into the Metallic Hydrogen magma.
• Saturn Groudon pulled the Groudon from the magma, restrained it, and explained Mark’s ideas about buoyancy and electromagnetic levitation.
• Saturn Groudon recalled Mew’s claim that fast enough arm-flapping could make it fly, then began flapping alongside the other Groudon.
• Mew sneezed repeatedly near the Resource Department’s Experiment Base, Hoopa admitted it had caused the trouble, and Mark pressed down on the Pokeball Capsule Warehouse.