Chapter Summaries

Mewtwo revealed its Mega Evolution to Su Hao, transforming into Mega Mewtwo X and demonstrating its immense new physical power. After explaining that it had chosen a form able to fight even if its Psychic powers were suppressed, Mewtwo and Su Hao prepared to strike Team Rocket.

• Su Hao recalled the exhausted Metagross and watched as Mewtwo prepared to Mega Evolve.
• Mewtwo reflected on its past and affirmed its identity as an independent Pokémon, while Reshiram used Imprison to conceal the transformation.
• Mewtwo completed its Mega Evolution and became Mega Mewtwo X, gaining the Fighting type and powerful Aura.
• Mega Mewtwo X tested its strength by shattering a massive rock with the gusts from a few restrained punches.
• Mewtwo explained that it had developed a form capable of fighting through Psychic suppression, and Su Hao agreed that it was time to launch a lightning strike on Team Rocket.

Mewtwo revealed that Team Rocket had learned of its existence and that Goh’s Poké Balls contained alien negative energy, which Su Hao and Diancie linked to Dark Matter. They agreed to delay attacking Team Rocket until its forces gathered, while Su Hao sought reinforcements and Mewtwo proposed visiting World Tree first.

• Mewtwo told Su Hao that the trace of Mental Power it had planted in Goh’s mind had vanished, suggesting Team Rocket might know about Mewtwo.
• Mewtwo showed Su Hao and Diancie wrecked Poké Balls and explained that they contained alien energy that corrupted living beings.
• Su Hao and Diancie described their encounters with negative energy in Sinnoh and on the Matori Matrix airship, and suspected Team Rocket was experimenting with it.
• Mewtwo decided Team Rocket had to be destroyed but proposed waiting until its members gathered at Headquarters.
• Su Hao said he would find more companions to help, and Mewtwo suggested they first visit World Tree because Lucario had completed its inheritance.

Su Hao learned that Lucario’s Origin Power let it adapt to one Legendary Pokémon’s power, giving it an immense but carefully limited potential. Before leaving the World Tree, he invited Mew to join the plan to destroy Team Rocket and considered which other Legendary Pokémon could help.

• Su Hao arrived with Mewtwo at the World Tree, where Mew led them to Lucario after it completed its inheritance.
• Su Hao’s information panel revealed that Lucario had gained Origin Power, which could adapt to one Legendary Pokémon’s power regardless of type compatibility.
• Lucario greeted Su Hao, while Mewtwo sensed that Lucario’s vitality and presence had changed dramatically.
• Mew explained that Lucario’s Origin Power came from the World Tree and differed from Mew’s ability to copy powers while transformed.
• Su Hao invited Mew to help destroy Team Rocket, since Dark Matter and negative energy could threaten Mew and the World Tree.
• Su Hao planned to seek help from Calyrex, Glastrier, Spectrier, and Zygarde as well.

Su Hao told Lance that he had located Team Rocket Headquarters and planned to attack within days, asking Lance to keep the information secret and prepare to collect the dead. Outside Olden City, Su Hao reassured Mewtwo that Team Rocket’s fate had been sealed by its use of Dark Matter and the Observers of Order.

• Su Hao told Lance he had found Team Rocket Headquarters and planned to attack before the Pokémon World Championship.
• Su Hao instructed Lance to keep the plan secret and prepare to collect Team Rocket personnel’s bodies rather than provide reinforcements.
• Su Hao left Olden City and met Mewtwo, who asked whether he truly intended to act against Team Rocket.
• Su Hao told Mewtwo that Team Rocket’s use of Dark Matter had left its members with no way back, and that the Observers of Order would not allow them to threaten the world.

Su Hao asked Calyrex to notify the Rational Core Z2 about a coordinated attack on Team Rocket, setting the operation for 11:45 the next morning. As Team Rocket fortified its hidden Johto headquarters against Mewtwo, an unknown figure appeared on its surveillance screens.

• Su Hao arrived at the Crown Snowfield with Mewtwo and asked Calyrex for help with the threat from beyond their world.
• Calyrex agreed to notify the Rational Core Z2 and asked when the operation against Team Rocket would begin.
• Su Hao set the attack for the next day at 11:45 in the morning.
• Team Rocket Grunts and Executives prepared defenses and weapons at their hidden Johto headquarters, fearing Mewtwo and planning to control its companions with Reborn Dark Balls.
• A figure appeared on the screens of Team Rocket's internal surveillance system.

Giovanni learned that Team Rocket's important members had returned to headquarters, then received an alarm about an intruder at the north gate. Su Hao and Mewtwo reached the base, where Diancie defeated the guards and blasted open the gate, leaving the alarms blaring inside.

• Giovanni heard that most Team Rocket members had returned and decided to leave the three members still chasing Pikachu outside.
• An alarm reported an intruder at Team Rocket's north gate, and Giovanni ordered security to deal with the visitor seriously.
• Su Hao and Mewtwo faced dozens of Team Rocket Grunts, and Su Hao sent out Diancie to fight them.
• Diancie knocked out the Grunts and their Pokémon, then used Moonblast to blast open the alloy gate.

Su Hao and Diancie fought their way through Team Rocket Headquarters, drawing executives Athena and Apollo into battle. Diancie’s Diamond Storm overwhelmed their forces, leaving the two executives wounded and stunned by her Champion-level strength.

• Athena recognized Su Hao on surveillance footage and joined Apollo in preparing to capture him, with Athena claiming Su Hao for herself.
• Su Hao continued defeating Team Rocket grunts and noted that their technology was using negative energy in Poké Balls and other tools.
• Apollo and Athena confronted Su Hao with elite members, powerful Pokémon, and armed grunts, believing they had him surrounded.
• Diancie unleashed Diamond Storm and incapacitated the Team Rocket forces while leaving Apollo and Athena standing but wounded.
• Apollo and Athena realized Diancie had reached Champion Level, far beyond the Professional Level she had been two years earlier.

Giovanni arrived during Su Hao and Diancie’s fight with Team Rocket and stopped Apollo and Athena from attacking. He offered Su Hao the position of second-in-command, but Su Hao weighed the offer against Giovanni’s crimes before responding.

• Apollo and Athena prepared to use Team Rocket’s weapon against Su Hao, but Diancie’s overwhelming attack cleared the battlefield.
• Giovanni arrived and ordered Apollo and Athena to stand down, then rebuked them for mistreating Su Hao, Ho-Oh’s Rainbow Hero and the True Hero of the True Dragon.
• Giovanni offered Su Hao Team Rocket’s second-in-command position and promised him power, influence, and access to Legendary Pokémon.
• Su Hao pointed out that he had killed Team Rocket executive Lance, but Giovanni dismissed the death as a personal grudge and said the organization would compensate its members.
• Giovanni waited for Su Hao’s answer as Su Hao considered the offer and recalled that Giovanni had touched the one thing he absolutely should not have touched.

Su Hao rejected Giovanni’s offer to join Team Rocket and fought back when Giovanni ordered Mega Beedrill to attack. As Diancie battled Mega Beedrill, Giovanni revealed his Earth Legion, but Su Hao brought out Mewtwo and Reshiram, prompting Giovanni to order Team Rocket personnel to withdraw for a battle to capture Legendary Pokémon.

• Su Hao refused Giovanni’s recruitment offer and declared that he had come to end Team Rocket.
• Giovanni sent Mega Beedrill to assassinate Su Hao, but Diancie blocked the attack and used Ultimate Burst to suppress Beedrill with a radiant field.
• Diancie and Mega Beedrill clashed in the sky, with Beedrill holding the advantage while Diancie countered with powerful wide-ranging attacks.
• Giovanni summoned more than a dozen Ground-type Pokémon and challenged Su Hao to reveal his trump card or call for reinforcements.
• Su Hao revealed Mewtwo and Reshiram, and Giovanni ordered Apollo and Athena to withdraw Team Rocket’s personnel before the battle to capture Legendary Pokémon.

Giovanni activated Team Rocket’s defenses to suppress Mewtwo and bombard Su Hao, Reshiram, and Diancie, confident that his technology could defeat them. Su Hao revealed that he had prepared a counterattack, and the chapter ended as a storm gathered, an ice-riding ruler appeared, and green lights converged on the base.

• Athena and Apollo withdrew to organize Team Rocket’s evacuation while Giovanni used a Ground-type barrier to block Mewtwo and Reshiram’s attacks.
• Giovanni activated devices that sealed Mewtwo’s Mental Power and summoned twenty-five Rock Cannon R-Types to target Su Hao, Diancie, Mewtwo, and Reshiram.
• Giovanni fired the cannons and declared that Su Hao was too young, but Su Hao remained calm and said his group had come prepared.
• Mewtwo began Mega Evolution, and Reshiram melted the incoming Rock Cannons with a powerful fireball.
• Su Hao snapped his fingers as a dragon roared, a storm darkened the sky, an ice-riding ruler appeared, and green streaks of light converged on Team Rocket’s base.

Su Hao and several powerful Legendary Pokémon overwhelmed Team Rocket’s evacuation force and base defenses. He refused Giovanni’s offer to negotiate and ordered Team Rocket to take flight as the Legendary Pokémon prepared to attack.

• Calyrex and Glastrier confronted Team Rocket’s evacuation force, while Calyrex’s royal pressure incapacitated many Grunts and their Pokémon.
• Mega Rayquaza descended and used Delta Stream to control the sky, while the two Vortex Worm-like creatures combined into Zygarde Complete Forme.
• Mega Mewtwo X and Reshiram destroyed Team Rocket’s mechanical insects and weapons, turning the battle against Giovanni.
• Giovanni asked Su Hao why he was targeting Team Rocket and whether they could avoid mutual destruction, but Su Hao demanded that Team Rocket cease to exist.
• Su Hao ordered Team Rocket to take flight as Mega Rayquaza, Zygarde Complete Forme, Mega Mewtwo X, and Reshiram prepared devastating attacks on the base.
• Lance and Pokémon League elites saw the distant battle and wondered what Su Hao was doing.

Giovanni released Team Rocket’s mutant Void Shadow, an alien substance that could infect and corrupt living beings, hoping it would turn the battle in his favor. Su Hao and the Legendary Pokémon countered its attack, and Diancie prepared to unleash its signature Z-Move.

• Giovanni ordered Dr. Zager to release the creature Team Rocket had cultivated in its underground base.
• Diancie sensed the danger and alerted Su Hao, who stopped the Legendary Pokémon from attacking first.
• The mutant Void Shadow emerged from a warehouse and began devouring negative emotions as Reshiram, Mega Mewtwo X, Zygarde, and Mega Rayquaza shielded themselves from it.
• Su Hao sent Ultimate Burst Diancie to contain the Void Shadow with Radiant Aura.
• Reshiram protected Diancie from the creature’s black vapor with a shield of Azure Flames.
• Su Hao activated Diancie Z with Wave Power and began Diancie’s signature Z-Move.

Su Hao and the Legendary Pokémon destroyed Team Rocket’s base, annihilated the organization’s upper ranks, and captured surviving members. A day later, Lance told the Elite Four that Su Hao, the new Kanto League Champion, had single-handedly destroyed Team Rocket.

• Diancie annihilated the Void Shadow with Radiant Power and broke through to mid-Champion Level.
• Reshiram burned Giovanni and Team Rocket’s upper ranks with Blue Flare, while Calyrex spared and froze some Grunts for the Pokémon League.
• Reshiram, Calyrex, Diancie, and Mewtwo helped erase the Team Rocket base and cleanse the area of Dark Matter.
• Z2 warned Su Hao that protecting Xerneas and Yveltal would eventually force him to fight another version of Z2, then flew away.
• Lance arrived at the flattened base, and the next day he brought captured Team Rocket members to Cerulean Plateau.
• Lance told Kiyo, Lorelei, Bruno, Koga, Karen, and Will that Su Hao had destroyed Team Rocket, leaving the Elite Four stunned.

Su Hao rejected his appointment as Kanto Champion and asked to train his Pokémon at the Ho-Oh Institute on Mt. Silver. Later, his decisive victory over Drake drew widespread attention, while Dande arrived in Galar to meet Raihan before their match.

• Su Hao learned Lance had arranged for him to become Kanto Champion and enrolled him in the Kanto-Johto Alliance Chairman election, but asked Lance to cancel the appointment because he planned to leave the world.
• Lance offered Su Hao a reward for defeating Team Rocket, and Su Hao requested permission to train at the Ho-Oh Institute on Mt. Silver; Lance agreed.
• Mewtwo teleported Su Hao to his next Pokémon World Championship ranking battle, where he was ranked forty-ninth and needed several more wins to reach the Elimination Tournament.
• Half a month later, Su Hao's battle against Drake went viral after Diancie defeated Flygon, Dragalge, and Mega Salamence, strengthening his claim to a Masters Eight spot.
• Dande arrived in Galar to meet Raihan, who teased him for getting lost and offered him a room at Hammerlocke Stadium before their match.

Su Hao secured sixth place in the Masters Eight and traveled to the Ho-Oh Institute on Mt. Silver to train Incineroar with Sacred Fire. There he ran into Ash, who had come to accept a Kanto Elite Four position, and watched Incineroar dismiss Ash’s deceptively powerful Pikachu.

• Raihan complained to Dande that Su Hao’s ranking rise had pushed him down to eighth, then declared he would defeat Ash, Su Hao, and Dande.
• Su Hao learned that Ash had beaten Raihan three to one and that the Masters Eight lineup placed Dande first and Su Hao sixth.
• Su Hao recalled defeating Lucian, Alder, Nemona, and Flint on his way up the rankings, then watched Ash’s victory over Raihan.
• Su Hao reached Mt. Silver, released Incineroar to begin Sacred Fire training, and encountered Ash and Pikachu.
• Incineroar barely acknowledged Pikachu’s friendly greeting, while Su Hao recognized that Pikachu was far stronger than it appeared.

Su Hao and Mewtwo arrived at Ho-Oh Institute so Incineroar could comprehend the preserved Sacred Fire. The abbot explained the flame’s dangers and origins before allowing them to proceed.

• Su Hao parted from Ash and Pikachu, then discussed their growth and Mewtwo’s preparations while traveling to Ho-Oh Institute.
• Mewtwo explained that it still had not completed half its preparations and had yet to train its Y form for the journey to the Ultra World.
• Su Hao and Mewtwo reached Ho-Oh Institute, where the abbot welcomed them and led them toward the guarded flame seed.
• Su Hao named Incineroar as the Pokémon that would comprehend the Sacred Fire.
• The abbot warned Su Hao that the flames came from Ho-Oh’s heavenly fire and could cause irreversible harm to ordinary Pokémon, while strong Pokémon might gain different insights from them.

Su Hao left Incineroar at Ho-Oh Institute to study the Sacred Fire with Reshiram while he and Mewtwo went to the Silver Mountain Range for Milotic’s breakthrough. Milotic reached Champion Level, and Su Hao then headed to Crown Temple with Mewtwo to meet Calyrex.

• Reshiram used the Flame Plate Fragment to shield Incineroar as it touched the Sacred Fire and began studying its power.
• Su Hao and Mewtwo traveled to a lake in the Silver Mountain Range, where Milotic spent three days preparing to break through.
• Milotic reached Champion Level, transformed through the power of the Water-type Plate Fragment and Infinite Source, and gained insight into purification.
• Su Hao and Mewtwo returned to Ho-Oh Institute, saw that Incineroar and Reshiram were still training, and left for Crown Temple to meet Calyrex.

Su Hao reunited with Leafeon and Ogerpon after they completed Zacian and Zamazenta’s final Trial. In a snowy field, Leafeon revealed its sword Azure and a new form, then demonstrated its strength by slicing Calyrex’s thick ice wall in half.

• Calyrex sensed Su Hao and Mewtwo approaching and told Leafeon and Ogerpon they were coming.
• Su Hao and Mewtwo arrived at Crown Temple, where Leafeon and Ogerpon eagerly embraced Su Hao.
• Calyrex moved the group to a snowfield to demonstrate the Pokémon’s changes, while Mewtwo insisted on handling its own teleportation.
• Calyrex created a thick ice wall as a target, and Leafeon revealed the sword Azure and changed form while holding it.
• Leafeon used a refined technique learned from Kartana to slash through the ice wall with one swift strike.

Su Hao witnessed Leafeon and Ogerpon awaken powerful new forms after inheriting aspects of Zacian's power. Calyrex revealed that Ogerpon's resolve to protect its companions had shaped its new abilities, leaving both Pokémon with their strength dramatically increased.

• Leafeon transformed into King of Swords, gaining the Steel type, the Azure Sword, the Verdant Leaf Swordheart ability, and the Giant Beast Slash move.
• After Leafeon changed back, Ogerpon urged Calyrex to continue its training, and Calyrex transported the group to a mountain where Weavile were hunting.
• Ogerpon donned the Steel-Forged Mask and used protective light shields to absorb the Weavile's attacks on Leafeon.
• Leafeon and Ogerpon defeated the Weavile with Giant Beast Slash, shield-based energy blasts, and Ogerpon's spiked club.
• Calyrex healed the Weavile and returned them to their nest, then explained that Ogerpon's desire to protect its companions had transformed its powers.
• Su Hao inspected Ogerpon's King of Shields form and saw its Guardian Shield ability, Behemoth Shield move, and improved stats.

Su Hao received Calyrex’s farewell gift and returned from Crown Temple after Leafeon and Ogerpon gained powerful new abilities. He left with a stronger team, while Calyrex, Glastrier, and Spectrier said goodbye.

• Ogerpon gained a Steel-Forged Mask and the Guardian Shield ability after awakening its desire to protect its companions, then angrily chased Su Hao when he reacted with disbelief.
• Calyrex gave Su Hao a Radiant Flower containing much of its stored energy, and Glastrier and Spectrier reluctantly said goodbye to him.
• Calyrex used Confusion to teleport Su Hao from Crown Temple back toward Ho-Oh Institute, then mourned his departure as Glastrier and Spectrier cried.
• During the journey, Su Hao reviewed Leafeon’s new Verdant Leaf Swordheart ability and Ogerpon’s defensive powers, including its ability to shield allies and counter attacks with Behemoth Shield.