Chapter Summaries

Su Hao learned that Terapagos had chosen to die peacefully and could not be revived, but it agreed to burn its remaining life to help in the coming battle. Empowered by Terapagos’s final Terastal radiance, Blue Star’s Legendary Pokémon pressed Dark Mewtwo X into a desperate fight.

• Su Hao discovered that Terapagos had willingly accepted its death and could not be persuaded to keep living, so it asked only to remain active long enough to aid the battle.
• Terapagos transformed into its Stellar Form and empowered Reshiram, Mewtwo, Kyurem, Zygarde, and the other Legends with Terastal energy.
• Terapagos attacked Dark Mewtwo X with Crystal Light Star Cluster, drawing its attention away from the World Tree and dispersing its power.
• Mega Mewtwo X and the other Legends attacked Dark Mewtwo X, whose armor could no longer repair itself fast enough to withstand their blows.
• Mega Mewtwo X provoked Dark Mewtwo X into losing its temper and told it that the bonds and cooperation it had rejected would defeat it.

Su Hao’s allies stole the Prison Bottle, but Dawn Wings Necrozma’s attempt to make the Ultra World collide with theirs opened a passage for Dark Matter’s army. As Zygarde sacrificed itself to hold the passage shut, Dark Mewtwo X reconsidered its past and chose to resist Dark Matter.

• Little Hoopa stole the Prison Bottle from Giovanni and delivered it to Su Hao, who held off on opening it as the world’s stability continued to collapse.
• Dawn Wings Necrozma opened countless Ultra Wormholes in an attempt to make the Ultra World collide with this world, accelerating the collapse and opening a vortex to Dark Matter’s world.
• Calyrex identified the figures beyond the vortex as Dark Matter’s army, and Zygarde resolved to follow its Emotional Core’s example and sacrifice itself to block their invasion.
• Zygarde transformed its Cells into meteors that clung to the spatial vortex, while Kalos sensed the loss of something important.
• Dark Mewtwo X stopped fighting Mega Mewtwo Y and the other Legends, admitted it had been wrong to distrust its companions, and chose to resist Dark Matter.

Dark Mewtwo X remembered how it became Giovanni’s weapon and realized its surrender at Clear Pond had betrayed its original desire to fight back against humanity. It chose to sacrifice itself to seal the Space Channel as an act of counterattack against Giovanni, and its consciousness faded as the channel was blocked.

• Dark Mewtwo X recalled its past, from its capture and enslavement by Giovanni to Team Rainbow Rocket’s defeat and their arrival in a new world.
• As its battle with Mewtwo and the Legendary Pokémon turned against it, cracks formed in Dark Mewtwo X’s mental shackles and it remembered its original wish to fight back.
• Dark Mewtwo X decided to use its negative-energy body to seal the Space Channel and ignored Giovanni’s furious protests.
• Dark Mewtwo X pushed the Zygarde Core toward Xerneas and Diancie, then released the restraints holding its body together.
• Dark Mewtwo X disintegrated into particles that blocked the Space Channel, and its consciousness faded after it wondered whether Amber would be happy for it.

After Dark Mewtwo X sealed the Space Channel, Giovanni ordered Solgaleo to open an Ultra Wormhole so he could escape. With Dark Mewtwo X gone, Solgaleo turned on Giovanni and killed him.

• Dark Mewtwo X sealed the Space Channel with his own existence, earning recognition from Su Hao and the other Legends.
• Giovanni called Solgaleo and ordered it to open an Ultra Wormhole so he could leave.
• Su Hao and the others let Solgaleo approach Giovanni, suspecting it was seeking revenge now that Dark Mewtwo X was gone.
• Solgaleo swatted Shiny Genesect aside and pierced Giovanni's chest when he turned around.
• Solgaleo attacked Giovanni again, killing the founder of Team Rainbow Rocket.

After Giovanni’s death, Su Hao assessed the Legendary Pokémon’s injuries and ordered the survivors to join a final assault on the World Tree. Star Creation prepared to destroy the corrupted roots to reopen a passage, but Su Hao and the others arrived to stop it.

• A crimson Solgaleo killed Giovanni and then vanished into the sky.
• Mewtwo told Su Hao that Genesect had retrieved Shiny Genesect, whose genetic locks would be removed after they returned.
• Su Hao assessed the Legendary Pokémon’s condition through their Aura channels and ordered the injured ones to rest while the others attacked the World Tree.
• Star Creation realized Dark Mewtwo X had sealed the passage and decided to detonate the World Tree’s corrupted roots to destabilize the world and open another passage.
• Su Hao arrived with the Legendary Pokémon and told Star Creation he would purify it.

Su Hao and the Legends fought Star Creation’s negative-energy tentacles while Calyrex led Su Hao and Diancie toward the World Tree’s core. After Calyrex and Spectrier broke the final barrier, Su Hao and Diancie prepared to act.

• Articuno, Black Kyurem, Reshiram, Primal Groudon, Primal Kyogre, and the other Legends attacked the tentacles surrounding the World Tree.
• Su Hao and Diancie rode Miraidon behind Calyrex and Glastrier as they charged into the World Tree’s interior.
• Calyrex recalled that destroying the tentacles would be useless unless they reached the core before Star Creation took control and detonated the World Tree’s roots.
• Calyrex and Spectrier unleashed Star Shower to break the final barrier, then Calyrex called for Su Hao and Diancie to act.
• Su Hao and Diancie answered together that they would handle everything.

Su Hao and his Pokémon plunged into the World Tree’s inner space to reach and purify its core crystal before Star Creation could destroy the roots. Guided by the World Tree’s blessing, they raced through the hostile passages, where Star Creation sent a pitch-black giant to stop them.

• Su Hao entered the World Tree with Miraidon, Diancie, and Little Hoopa while Reshiram and the others held off the tentacles outside.
• Little Hoopa could not sense the outside through the Dark Matter’s influence, so Su Hao relied on the Prison Bottle as a backup plan.
• Su Hao summoned Lucario and Mega Evolved it, then joined their Aura to search for the World Tree’s core crystal.
• Mega Lucario sensed the core’s aura, and Miraidon carried the group at full speed toward it through the passages.
• Star Creation sent a pitch-black giant to block Su Hao’s path.

Su Hao sent Milotic, Metagross, and Zeraora to fight the Dark Regirock guarding the World Tree. They broke through its attacks and left it severely injured, clearing the way forward.

• Su Hao recognized that Star Creation had turned the World Tree’s guardian, Dark Regirock, into a Class Two Legendary puppet.
• Su Hao sent Milotic, Metagross, and Zeraora into battle while telling Mega Lucario to conserve its strength.
• Dark Regirock fired a powerful Zap Cannon, which Mega Metagross pierced with Psychic Break.
• Zeraora used Plasma Speed Fist to smash through the rocks Dark Regirock launched at it.
• Milotic unleashed a strengthened Pseudo-Origin Pulse that severely injured Dark Regirock.

Su Hao bypassed Dark Regirock with Mega Lucario’s time stop, then defeated Dark Registeel before moving deeper into the World Tree. Near the core crystal, Su Hao encountered Dark Regice and sent Incineroar, Braviary, and Ogerpon to fight it.

• Dark Regirock repaired its damaged body with negative energy, so Su Hao had Mega Lucario stop time while Miraidon carried the group past it.
• Mega Lucario ended the time stop as the negative energy began adapting, and Dark Registeel appeared in the passage.
• Su Hao sent the Dragalge siblings and Leafeon to overwhelm Dark Registeel and put it into a crashed state.
• Su Hao used Mega Lucario’s time stop again, and Miraidon sped toward the core crystal.
• Su Hao noticed the negative energy had adapted further to time stop and sent Incineroar, Braviary, and Ogerpon to face Dark Regice.

Su Hao and his Pokémon reached the World Tree’s heart and confronted Star Creation, whose true core had fused with the core crystal. Star Creation revealed that attacking it would also damage the World Tree, leaving Su Hao unable to strike without risking the world’s destruction.

• Hisuian Braviary and Incineroar coordinated their attack, and Incineroar badly injured Dark Regice with a Flare Blitz elbow strike.
• Su Hao had Miraidon fly past Dark Regice and into a chamber filled with thick malice, where Diancie’s Radiant aura protected the group.
• Star Creation confronted Su Hao and claimed he could not hurt it, but Diancie pierced its humanoid form with Photon Geyser.
• Star Creation’s body melted into black sludge and reappeared elsewhere each time Diancie attacked, while the World Tree trembled.
• Su Hao realized Star Creation had fused its true core with the World Tree’s core crystal, making any attack against it a threat to the tree.

Su Hao rejected Star Creation’s offer to help it rule the world and released Hoopa’s Evil Thoughts from the Prison Bottle. Little Hoopa and the Malice fused, leaving Star Creation facing a newly empowered Hoopa.

• Star Creation offered to spare the World Tree’s roots if Su Hao surrendered and helped it rule the world.
• Su Hao refused to answer Star Creation’s proposal and summoned Little Hoopa instead.
• Su Hao opened the Prison Bottle, releasing Hoopa’s Evil Thoughts into the World Tree’s inner space.
• Little Hoopa and Hoopa’s Evil Thoughts fused after agreeing to fulfill their arrangement with Su Hao.
• The fused Hoopa declared itself the strongest Hoopa.

Su Hao and his Pokémon protected the frail World Tree Mew and fought through Star Creation’s negative energy. Mega Lucario teleported Su Hao and Mew to the corrupted core crystal, where Star Creation screamed in terror.

• Hoopa Unbound opened a Hyperspace Hole and summoned the weakened World Tree Mew, shocking Star Creation.
• Miraidon blocked Star Creation’s first wave of negative energy while Hoopa Unbound and Diancie redirected attacks through Hyperspace Holes to suppress it.
• Su Hao caught Little Mew and realized it needed to form a new symbiotic bond with the World Tree to survive.
• Su Hao led Miraidon, Hoopa Unbound, and Diancie through the negative-energy tentacles toward the World Tree’s core.
• Mega Lucario teleported Su Hao and Little Mew to the corrupted core crystal, and Star Creation screamed for them not to come closer.

Su Hao and Mega Lucario used Aura to help Little Mew reconnect with the World Tree’s surviving self-awareness and fight Star Creation for control of its core. Outside, the legendary Pokémon battled the spreading corruption to ease the pressure within, while Su Hao and Mega Lucario entered the consciousness space and headed toward its faint emerald-green star.

• Su Hao and Mega Lucario chanted their Aura pledge, allowing Little Mew to connect with the World Tree’s core and awaken its remaining self-awareness.
• Star Creation lashed out with negative-energy tentacles while Su Hao and Mega Lucario remained immobilized, and Mega Lucario supported the exhausted Su Hao.
• Outside the World Tree, legendary Pokémon fought Dark Mewtwo X and destroyed roots to weaken Star Creation and support Su Hao.
• Reshiram urged the fighters onward, declaring that their battle would clear the way for Su Hao’s victory.
• Su Hao entered the World Tree’s foul consciousness space with Mega Lucario, which carried Little Mew, and they headed toward the surviving emerald-green star.

Su Hao and Mega Lucario fought Star Creation inside the World Tree's consciousness space, using Aura and Su Hao's soul as fuel to restore the World Tree's control and expose Star Creation's core. Su Hao sacrificed himself to expel Star Creation, leaving Lucario back in the physical world holding its lifeless Trainer as Diancie confronted the core.

• Su Hao placed Little Mew inside the World Tree's will, allowing it to shelter Little Mew while it recovered.
• Su Hao and Mega Lucario poured Aura into the World Tree's will to drive back Star Creation's darkness, and Su Hao burned away his soul to strengthen it.
• The World Tree's will reclaimed the space and revealed Star Creation's dark red core, while Star Creation begged Su Hao to spare it.
• Su Hao dismissed Star Creation's pleas and prepared to expel it, while Mega Lucario tried to sacrifice itself in his place.
• The World Tree's will pulled Mega Lucario back to its body, and Su Hao used the remnants of his soul to shatter Star Creation's protective shell and cast it out.
• Lucario returned to the World Tree's core crystal, found Little Mew sleeping there, and caught Su Hao's lifeless body as Diancie faced Star Creation's core.

Diancie purified Star Creation, restoring the World Tree and stopping the invasion as the Legends realized Su Hao had died and his soul had vanished. In Cosmic space, Dawn Wings Necrozma turned its hunger toward Blue Star, while rain fell across the world in mourning.

• Diancie unleashed her signature Z-Move, purified Star Creation’s core, and restored the World Tree and the damaged world.
• Dawn Wings Necrozma sensed a powerful light on Blue Star and began spreading a vast black curtain toward the planet.
• Mega Rayquaza sensed that Su Hao’s presence had ended in death and cried out in grief.
• The Legends sensed Su Hao’s Life Energy was gone, and Reshiram confirmed that their soul-bound contract had disappeared.
• The Legends realized neither Ho-Oh’s Sacred Ash nor Xerneas’s Life Sharing could save Su Hao because his soul had dissipated.
• Rain fell across the world as it mourned the human who had saved it.

After Su Hao’s apparent death, Diancie took charge of the Legendary Pokémon and organized their response to the threat beyond Blue Star. Su Hao then awoke in a strange void, unsure how his consciousness had survived.

• Articuno froze Su Hao’s body, and Kyurem, Calyrex, Xerneas, and other Legends reinforced the preservation with ice and blessings.
• Diancie comforted Little Hoopa and the grieving Pokémon, then urged the Legends to continue fighting the threat beyond the heavens.
• Diancie assigned guardians to the World Tree and coordinated the remaining Pokémon to confront the danger targeting Blue Star.
• The Legends agreed to begin the Necrozma subjugation battle while Arceus and other deities remained occupied guarding the universe’s Edge Wall.
• Su Hao opened his eyes in a Land of Nothingness, surrounded by Plate Fragments, and wondered how his consciousness remained after his soul had been burned away.

After sacrificing himself, Su Hao found himself conscious in the repechage, caught between a higher-dimensional state that threatened his humanity and an eternal death. As he struggled to preserve his identity, an unknown voice addressed him.

• Arceus cursed a black figure that kept trying to break through the barrier into its world, then berated the other Arceuses watching from nearby prisms.
• Su Hao worried about whether Diancie and the others had defeated Star Creation and whether they could handle Dawn Wings Necrozma.
• Su Hao felt his emotions calm as he looked at a pulsing Plate Fragment, but sensed that surrendering to its influence would erase his humanity.
• Su Hao recognized that he had to balance the fragment’s alienating influence against the pull of eternal death and resolved to keep struggling.
• An ethereal voice sighed and told Su Hao that he had arrived earlier than expected.

Su Hao encountered an echo of another world's Arceus, formed from the remnants of its will on the Plate Fragments. After discussing the doomed world and Su Hao's unstable condition, Arceus asked what he would do once the crises were resolved and whether he wanted to become a god.

• Su Hao heard a voice from the five Plate Fragments and watched them form a holy figure resembling Arceus.
• Arceus revealed that it had created its own world but had failed to prevent its destruction, and that it now existed only as an echo of fragmented will.
• Su Hao asked Arceus what had happened to the world after Reshiram left, and Arceus confirmed that it was no longer truly alive.
• Su Hao described his unstable condition, and Arceus's presence steadied the balance between him and the Plate Fragments.
• Arceus asked what Su Hao planned to do if every crisis in the world was resolved, and Su Hao said he and Reshiram had already made an agreement.
• Arceus told Su Hao it could entrust the world to him, then asked whether he wanted to become a god.

After entrusting Su Hao’s body to his Pokémon, Diancie led the legends toward the black canopy surrounding Blue Star to confront the threat in cosmic space. They realized that breaking through the canopy would only bring them to a battle they might be too exhausted to fight, and Kyurem questioned whether Reshiram could keep up.

• Diancie led the legends into the sky and announced that they would break through the black canopy to confront the visitor from another spacetime.
• The legends saw Mega Rayquaza battling Dawn Wings Necrozma against the canopy, while Little Hoopa’s Malice demanded to know where Arceus was.
• Calyrex explained that Arceus was occupied resisting foreign enemies alongside the other gods, so the legends had to protect Blue Star themselves.
• Mewtwo warned that reaching cosmic space would drain their strength before they faced an opponent nearly as powerful as Arceus.
• Xerneas, Primal Kyogre, and Primal Groudon doubted they could fight effectively in cosmic space, while Kyurem said it could manage and asked whether Reshiram could endure its declining strength.

After Su Hao’s death, Diancie organized Blue Star’s remaining Legendary Pokémon for a final assault on Dawn Wings Necrozma’s black canopy. With Terapagos’s last power granting them Stellar Terastallization, Rayquaza and the others launched their attack, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Reshiram resolved to fulfill Su Hao’s final wish and help restore peace, while Diancie formed a plan to confront Dawn Wings Necrozma.
• Xerneas gave Diancie nearly all its Fairy and Life Energy, then returned to the ground to recuperate.
• Diancie gained Mewtwo’s support, rallied the remaining combat-ready Legendary Pokémon, and began the campaign against the canopy engulfing Blue Star.
• Terapagos transformed into motes of light and spread Teraform Zero across the sky, granting the gathered Pokémon a final Stellar Terastallization.
• Rayquaza led Mega Rayquaza, Mega Mewtwo Y, Black Kyurem, Calyrex, Reshiram, and the others in a full-power assault on the black canopy.