Chapter Summaries

Mark accompanied Red Fire after a Resource Department alarm was revealed to be a test, and Red Fire was demoted and sent to another branch. Lan Run later revealed that both Groudon and Kyogre had achieved Primal Reversion, that Boss Phoenix was dead, and that a Pokémon was calling to Mark.

• Mark and the others underwent inspections after an alarm summoned Resource Department personnel to headquarters.
• Krama announced that Minister Phoenix had staged the alarm as a test and that combatants would receive rewards and Pokémon treated with an Active Reagent.
• Red Fire emerged injured and demoted, and Mark reset his dislocated arm before accompanying him toward the Teleportation Hall.
• Lan Run returned Red Fire's Pokeball Capsule Warehouse and took Red Fire and Mark to a secluded room.
• Lan Run revealed that Groudon and Kyogre had both achieved Primal Reversion and that Boss Phoenix was dead.
• Mark heard a Pokémon's voice calling him to come over.

Mark heard an unseen Pokémon call him the chosen boy and followed a mysterious pink arrow while his Pokémon failed to identify the voice. Meanwhile, Lan Run explained how Boss Phoenix had come to trust Krama, then asked Red Fire to assess the Resource Department’s strength.

• Mark asked his Pokémon whether they could sense the voice in his mind, but only Shaymin and Victini found it vaguely familiar.
• Mark speculated that Zarude or Arceus might be calling him, then set the question aside as Lan Run and Red Fire discussed Phoenix’s death.
• Mark explained that Primal Reversion Groudon and Kyogre could have made Earth Star dangerously hot, and Red Fire accepted that Phoenix could have died.
• Red Fire suspected Krama had deliberately caused Phoenix’s death, but Lan Run said Krama likely had no reason to hurry and probably had not expected Phoenix to die.
• Lan Run revealed that Boss Phoenix had killed Bulu after Bulu accused Krama of being a Science Department spy, then later came to trust Krama completely.
• Lan Run asked Red Fire what he thought of the Resource Department’s strength within the Rainbow R Organization.

Lan Run revealed that Phoenix’s changed nature and his campaign against other Phoenixes had weakened the Resource Department, then confessed that he was a spy and urged Red Fire to flee to the Emerald Archipelago. Mark left ahead of them and followed a mysterious call through the Mecha Fortress, where the Rusted Sword began to react.

• Lan Run explained that Phoenix’s barren-world victory shattered his ideals, leading him to suppress or kill other versions of himself and leaving the Resource Department among the organization’s weakest departments.
• Lan Run admitted he had betrayed the Resource Department three years earlier and said Ho-Oh had saved Red Fire in another Parallel Time-Space.
• Lan Run gave Red Fire a Special Operations Team pass and told him to go to the Emerald Archipelago, where he could verify Lan Run’s claims and meet him five days later.
• Lan Run discovered Mark had already left, while Mark used a walkie-talkie to tell Red Fire to go ahead and promised to find him later.
• Mark traveled through the Mecha Fortress’s underground jungle toward a voice in his mind, and the Rusted Sword Zacian had carried began trembling in his hands.

Zacian drew Mark into a dream to test his courage by recreating a dangerous memory. Mark found himself facing a vast Arbok horde alongside Caterpie, and Shiny Shaymin appeared as the test continued.

• Mark realized Zacian had mistaken him for someone who could help fight Eternatus, and Zacian demanded that he prove his courage.
• Mark let Zacian’s Fairy and dream powers take hold, allowing his Pokémon to enter the test with him.
• Mark and Caterpie awoke in Clear Stream Forest with their memories partly erased and fought off Ekans.
• Mark saw a million-strong Arbok Group led by a giant overlord and prepared to use it for training.
• Shiny Shaymin appeared, questioned why Kakuna had become Caterpie, then transformed into Sky Forme and flew into the air.

Mark passed Zacian’s trial, but he refused to give her the Rusted Sword because it belonged to the Zacian in his parallel time-space. After learning about parallel time-spaces, Zacian accepted that the sword was not hers to take.

• Shaymin used Seed Flare to knock out the Ekans pack and restore Mark and Kakuna’s memories during Zacian’s dream trial.
• Mark told Zacian that Shaymin’s interference and the trial’s low difficulty meant he did not consider the test a fair measure of his courage, but Zacian still recognized him and the Rusted Sword reacted.
• Zacian tried to seize the Rusted Sword, but Mark grabbed it first and deflected her attacks.
• Mark explained that the sword belonged to the Zacian in his parallel time-space, then showed Zacian a video about parallel time-spaces.
• Zacian understood that taking the sword would deprive her counterpart of it and dejectedly gave up trying to claim it.

Zacian told Mark how it and Zamazenta fought Eternatus, fled to Earth Star, and were later overwhelmed by the Rainbow R Organization. Mark explained that Rayquaza’s disappearance may have sent it to another Parallel Time-Space, while Rayquaza revealed it no longer cared much about Eternatus occupying the sky.

• Zacian recounted how it, Zamazenta, and Calyrex fought alongside Eternatus before the battle left them badly wounded and separated them from their weapons.
• Zacian and Zamazenta later failed to stop Eternatus, fled to Earth Star, and tried to find their sword and shield while resisting the R Organization, which became the Rainbow R Organization.
• The Rainbow R Organization released Eternatus, and Rayquaza joined the battle, but a machine beam made it vanish while Zacian and Zamazenta barely escaped.
• Zacian hid inside the Rainbow R Organization Headquarters, where Eternatus's energy was absent, until Mark and the others found it.
• Mark suggested the machine beam had sent Rayquaza to another Parallel Time-Space, and Rayquaza explained that it now cared less about protecting Earth Star's sky and wanted to keep its new pink paint from getting damaged.

Mark explained his thoughts about Eternatus and advised Zacian to forge its own sword rather than rely on the Rusted Sword. Zacian learned that Calyrex was away growing coffee on Mars, and Mark began showing it videos about Earth Star and the Solar System.

• Mark told Zacian that Eternatus might have acted from simple instinct and that resisting its invasion had still been justified.
• Mark argued that relying on the external Rusted Sword could limit Zacian’s growth and suggested it train to forge a sword of its own.
• Jirachi transformed into Forest Form and showed Zacian the sword it could create.
• Mark offered to train Zacian in exchange for learning its sword techniques and said Zacian could borrow a Rusted Sword from Calyrex or Mark’s Zacian.
• Jirachi, Mew, and Hoopa told Zacian that Calyrex had gone to Mars to grow coffee, and Mark showed Zacian videos about Earth Star and the Solar System.

Mark showed Zacian videos about the universe, life, and mathematics, leaving him overwhelmed and confused. After seeing how cheerfully Mark’s Pokémon lived, Zacian asked why they could be so happy and was told that strength let them live freely and deal with threats.

• Mark finished showing Zacian an advanced mathematics video and suggested mathematical principles might help his swordsmanship.
• Jirachi accidentally struck Zacian with Comet Punch while aiming at Mew, and Mark caught Jirachi, Mew, and Hoopa as they squabbled.
• Zacian noticed that Mark’s Pokémon were relaxed and cheerful despite the grim situation around them.
• Jirachi shared cola with Zacian and explained that becoming stronger had improved the Pokémon’s lives and helped them handle trouble.
• Mark agreed that strength gave them confidence, while noting that they still avoided confronting the Rainbow R Organization headquarters directly.

Mark learned that the Rainbow R Organization had hidden more than twenty hostile Mewtwo in a frozen Chaos Space and planned to stay at its headquarters before traveling with Zacian. Meanwhile, Shi Xiaoling received word that the OTZ404 Parallel Timeline’s danger level had risen again, despite having recently returned from there.

• Zacian told Mark about the frozen Mewtwo and warned him that their Chaos Space was dangerous, while Mark reasoned that Krama might be hiding in one of the connected spaces.
• Zacian showed Mark its Pokeball, and Mark took it along as they prepared to travel together and search for Calyrex.
• Lan Run sent Red Fire toward the Emerald Archipelago and urged him to learn more about Phoenix and to stay wary of Mark.
• Shi Xiaoling reviewed Mark’s report on the Ancient Revival Plan and wondered why the Child of the Forest had become a researcher in some parallel timelines.
• Xiao Bei told Shi Xiaoling that Blue Enchantress and Sun Dasheng planned to find Groudon and intercept the plan’s seeds, then reported that OTZ404’s danger level had risen again.

Shi Xiaoling investigated the elevated danger rating of the OTZ404 Parallel Timeline and went to meet Blue Enchantress and Sun Dasheng. Mark met Red Fire near the Emerald Archipelago, demonstrated his electromagnetic teleportation technique, and offered to explain why he had left earlier if Red Fire joined his Gym.

• Shi Xiaoling returned to the peaceful OTZ404 Parallel Timeline and headed toward Bluel Basin to discuss its danger rating with Blue Enchantress and Sun Dasheng.
• Red Fire rode Charizard toward the Emerald Archipelago, where Mark appeared aboard an aircraft made of Magnet Pokemon.
• Mark demonstrated Electromagnetic Levitation · Electromagnetic Flicker and sent Red Fire its move parameters, explaining that Porygon's AI had enabled the Magnet Pokemon to use it.
• Mark showed Red Fire an AI-simulated video confirming that he had said goodbye before leaving Lan Run and Red Fire earlier.
• Mark refused to disclose why he had suddenly left, then offered to tell Red Fire if he agreed to join Mark's Gym.

Mark invited Red Fire to join Clear Stream Gym in exchange for revealing his origins, but Red Fire refused while agreeing to help Mark meet Chief Researcher Krama. On the Emerald Archipelago, they encountered another Red Fire in an electric wheelchair, who greeted Red Fire as the Son of Ho-Oh.

• Mark invited Red Fire to join Clear Stream Gym, promising to explain his origins and help with Red Fire's training.
• Red Fire refused to join the Gym, though he admitted he could not bring himself to deceive Mark for information.
• Mark told Red Fire he intended to meet Chief Researcher Krama, and Red Fire warned that Krama's security would block Teleport.
• Red Fire offered to find another way for Mark to reach Krama despite the Resource Department's decline.
• Mark and Red Fire landed on the reception island at the southern end of the Emerald Archipelago, where an electric-wheelchair-bound Red Fire greeted Red Fire as the Son of Ho-Oh.

Red Fire learned that Ho-Oh had granted him healing power, making him the Son of Ho-Oh, and met Red Three, a wheelchair-bound version of himself from another Parallel Time-Space. Red Three led him and Mark to a hidden base inside a semi-modified Chaos Space, intending to explain why he had been waiting for Red Fire.

• Red Three explained that he and Red Fire came from different Parallel Time-Spaces and revealed that Ho-Oh had acknowledged Red Fire and left power within him.
• Red Three said his injuries came from a battle and that they were partly related to Red Fire, but postponed explaining further until they returned to the base.
• Red Three connected Red Fire's unusually fast healing to Ho-Oh's power of regeneration and healing, rather than to the Gene Optimization Serum alone.
• Red Three sensed forest-related power in Mark, who denied that his abilities came from Zarude and showed a green ball of mixed power.
• Red Three led Mark and Red Fire to a deserted beach, opened a concealed entrance to a semi-modified Chaos Space, and entered the passage with them.

Red Three introduced Ideal Land, a secret organization researching how bonds could awaken the true power of Legendary and Mythical Pokémon, and explained why Mark might be suited to its work. He revealed that Lan Run had brought Red Fire to Ideal Land so Ho-Oh could awaken sleeping captives, but Mark had already brought one of them to life.

• Red Three explained that the organization’s headquarters occupied Chaos Space and led Mark and Red Fire through its experimental hall.
• Red Three introduced Ideal Land as a secret organization created by Chairman Flaming to study the power of the heart in Legendary and Mythical Pokémon.
• Red Three said Ideal Land needed a genuinely good person to earn Pokémon’s trust, and Mark recognized that its research could help him train his Pokémon.
• Red Three showed Mark and Red Fire sleeping captives in Cultivation Pods, including Red Fire, Boss Phoenix, and members of the Aqua Legion and Magma Legion.
• Red Three revealed that Lan Run wanted Red Fire to use Ho-Oh’s power to wake the captives, then noticed that Mark had awakened the person in a Cultivation Container.

Mark explained that Bulu could be revived because his brain had remained intact, while Lan Run’s damaged brain and divided soul made his recovery far more difficult. He concluded that Lan Run was only half dead, with part of his memories, will, and emotions still in the Spirit World.

• Mark disappeared after waking Bulu in the Cultivation Container, then reappeared and explained that Bulu’s injuries had spared his brain.
• Mark examined Lan Run and said that repairing his brain would be difficult and could damage his memories and personality.
• Mark explained that restoring Lan Run might require retrieving his soul from the Spirit World, though he did not know whether it remained intact.
• Mark described how memories, will, and emotions could gather in one body, calling this the Soul Transfer Characteristic.
• Mark said Lan Run was half dead because some of his memories, will, and emotions remained in his damaged brain while the rest had become a remnant soul in the Spirit World.

Mark revived Bulu and explained the parallel time-space situation while inspecting the Ideal Land Cultivation Containers. He identified which occupants were dead, badly injured, or dangerous, and planned to examine the devices and treat the rest.

• Mark brought Bulu's Kangaskhan, Piloswine, and Torterra to calm him, then opened the Cultivation Container and lifted Bulu out with Multi-Magnemite.
• Bulu woke, learned from his Pokemon that he had been brought back to life, and watched Mark's video explaining parallel time-spaces.
• Mark learned that Lan Two, rather than Lan Run, had calibrated the Cultivation Containers, and Red Three said Lan Two was away from headquarters.
• Mark assessed the thirty-three occupants, identifying two who were already dead, ten who were more seriously injured, and several he recommended disposing of as dangerous scum.
• Red Fire recognized Pompeii in Container 18 as someone who had escaped from the R Organization, while Bulu accepted Mark's explanation and asked what to do next.
• Mark said he would inspect the Cultivation Containers and begin treating the less severely injured people.

Mark rescued qualified people from Ideal Land’s Cultivation Containers, learned that Krama would visit in August, and gained useful research on Xerneas. Two days later, Lan Run returned to Ideal Land and was shocked to find a crowded research hall centered on a massive Cultivation Container holding a Pokemon.

• Mark rescued the people in the Cultivation Containers and showed them educational videos about the Parallel Time-Space.
• Red Fire learned from Ideal Land’s records that Phoenix had secretly tried to harm him and accepted the evidence.
• Mark failed to find Krama’s location or the Rainbow R Organization headquarters’ coordinates, but learned that Krama would inspect Ideal Land on August 13.
• Mark studied Ideal Land’s research on Xerneas, while Lan Run helped remove two captains and Doctor Krama from their Resource Department posts.
• Lan Run returned to Ideal Land and found more than a hundred people working in the hall around a massive Cultivation Container holding a Pokemon.

Lan Run discovered that Mark had created a Xerneas and impressed Ideal Land’s top researchers with his work. He learned Mark had also healed Red Three, but Mark and Red Fire had left for the dojo and were expected back the next day.

• Doctor Noah and Doctor Jialan argued over the correct order for analyzing Xerneas’s data, then agreed to ask Mark for guidance.
• Doctor Noah told Lan Run that Mark had created Xerneas in just over a day and asked him to contact Mark.
• Lan Run found that most of the Cultivation Containers were gone and saw Red Three walking again.
• Red Three told Lan Run that Mark had cured his paralysis caused by the Gene Virus.
• Red Three said Mark had gone with Red Fire to handle something at the dojo and would return tomorrow.

Lan Run investigated whether Mark had mentally manipulated Red Three, but the Spirit Repair Instrument found no damage. Red Three recounted Mark’s work reviving the Cultivation Pod subjects and helping restart the Xerneas cultivation plan, while rumors about Mark’s hidden identity spread through Ideal Land.

• Lan Run scanned Red Three with a Spirit Repair Instrument, which reported that his mind was normal.
• Red Three told Lan Run that Mark had revived Bulu and helped bring back people from the other Cultivation Containers.
• Red Three recounted that Mark and Doctor Noah had argued about souls before working together on the Xerneas cultivation plan.
• Red Three said Doctor Noah had claimed Mark belonged to the Rainbow Plan’s seventh phase, prompting Lan Run to search Mark’s records.
• Lan Run found Mark’s public profile but could not access further details, while old Noah’s speculation spread into rumors that Mark had joined Ideal Land through Red Fire.

Red Three told Lan Run how Mark had cured his paralysis, and Lan Run realized Mark could leave Ideal Land whenever he wanted. Mark brought Red Fire and five revived prisoners to his OTZ404 Parallel Timeline, where Red Fire finally agreed to join Clear Stream Gym and saw Mark’s Pokémon emerge into Fallen Sky Forest.

• Red Three told Lan Run that Mark had treated his paralysis with an injection made from a fruit condensed by Leafeon.
• Lan Run concluded that Mark had earned enough trust and authority in Ideal Land to open passages and leave freely.
• Mark asked Red Fire whether he would join Clear Stream Gym, and Red Fire hesitated between trusting Mark and heeding Ho-Oh’s warning.
• The five other revived people agreed to join, but Mark said he would bring them back and make them work regardless of their wishes.
• Red Fire finally agreed to join Clear Stream Gym, and Mark transferred the group to the OTZ404 Parallel Timeline.
• Mark’s Pokémon emerged from their Pokeballs and flew through Fallen Sky Forest as Red Fire and the others watched in amazement.

Mark revealed to Red Fire that he was a Pokémon Trainer and showed him his Legendary and Mythical Pokémon. He explained that he had met Zacian at the organization’s headquarters, though Zacian was not yet his Pokémon.

• Rayquaza grew to enormous size and flew into the clouds, prompting Red Fire and the others to question whether it was Mark’s Pokémon.
• Mark told Red Fire that Rayquaza had recovered from its injuries and had only gone out for a flight.
• Jirachi and Mew confirmed that they belonged to Mark, who said his research was only a hobby and his true identity was a Pokémon Trainer.
• Jirachi used Kakuna to perform a bizarre fusion that gave it bulging muscles, leaving Red Fire bewildered.
• Mark clarified that Zacian was not yet his Pokémon and explained that he had met it after sensing its call at the organization’s headquarters.