Chapter Summaries

Yan Yang questioned Mewtwo about Iris Elite Boarding School and the Dark Hunters, but Mewtwo warned him to keep quiet and took Cosmog as payback for his nonstop questions. Back at the Fossil Research Institute, Yan Yang found almost no information about the school and began planning an investigation using its address.

• Yan Yang guessed that Mewtwo had come because of Xiao Ai and pressed him with questions about the Dark Hunters and the school.
• Mewtwo threatened Yan Yang not to reveal anything about him, then vanished after Yan Yang promised to keep quiet and continued asking questions.
• Yan Yang discovered that Mewtwo had taken Cosmog and hurried back to the Fossil Research Institute, angry at losing his Pokémon.
• Yan Yang searched for information about Iris Elite Boarding School and found its records sparse, concealed, and possibly linked to the Dark Hunters.
• Houndoom and Silvally felt guilty that they could not protect Yan Yang from Mewtwo, while Yan Yang decided the school’s address was enough to begin planning the operation.

Yan Yang arrived in Kinan City to investigate Iris Elite Boarding School while using the Battle House to gather information and test himself. He accepted a challenge with Silvally, drawing a crowd and the attention of a well-dressed middle-aged man who seemed to recognize something.

• Yan Yang reached Kinan City early to search for Iris Elite Boarding School and left Pita a recording to pass to powerful Pokémon looking for him.
• Yan Yang visited the Battle House, observed its powerful Trainers, and dismissed the idea of testing his own durability in battle.
• A young Trainer named Jerry challenged Yan Yang, who accepted and released Silvally, startling the spectators with the unknown Pokémon.
• Jerry sent out his level 55 Grapploct, while Yan Yang recognized that Silvally would need to hold back to make the battle competitive.
• A middle-aged man in an immaculate suit stopped at the edge of the crowd and watched Yan Yang and Silvally with an amused, knowing expression.

Silvally began its official battle against Jerry’s Grapploct, overpowering its close-range attacks and countering Octolock with Poison Fang. As Grapploct tried to boost its strength and defense, Silvally finished charging a water attack and stopped Octazooka’s ink, leaving the fight poised for its next exchange.

• Silvally met Grapploct’s Aqua Jet with Crush Claw and sent it staggering back with the force of the clash.
• Jerry ordered Octolock, but Silvally bit through the binding tentacle with Poison Fang and forced Grapploct to retreat.
• Jerry had Grapploct use Bulk Up to raise its Attack and Defense while Silvally gathered power.
• Jerry sent Grapploct’s Octazooka ink toward Silvally, but Silvally’s charged water jet struck and dispersed it.

Silvally combined Water Pledge and Fire Pledge to create a powerful energy torrent and an indoor rainbow, then overwhelmed Grapploct with attacks whose added effects repeatedly triggered. Jerry’s attempt to force a final exchange failed, and Grapploct fell while Silvally remained unharmed.

• Silvally fused its water and fire attacks into a torrent that nearly broke Grapploct’s Detect shield and produced a rainbow overhead.
• Yan Yang recognized the rainbow as the field effect of the combined Pledge Moves and ordered Silvally to press its attack.
• Silvally’s Fire Fang burned Grapploct, Crush Claw lowered its Defense, and Iron Head made it flinch.
• Jerry ordered the weakened Grapploct to use Reversal, hoping to force a mutual defeat.
• Silvally evaded Grapploct’s sluggish attacks until Grapploct exhausted its strength and collapsed, causing the rainbow to fade.

Yan Yang earned money at the Battle House as Silvally and Houndoom defeated challengers, then met a sharp-eyed Trainer who deduced the effect of Fire Pledge and Water Pledge. The Trainer asked Yan Yang to confirm whether the rainbow field effect boosted secondary effects like Serene Grace.

• Silvally defeated Jerry’s Grapploct in his first official public battle, and Yan Yang collected the prize money.
• Silvally quickly won two more battles, discouraging the crowd from challenging him.
• Yan Yang sent out Houndoom, who overcame Poliwrath’s type advantage and defeated it after surviving a powerful Surf.
• Yan Yang secretly used healing energy to restore Houndoom, but the crowd remained reluctant to challenge him.
• A bespectacled Trainer approached Yan Yang and asked whether the rainbow from Fire Pledge and Water Pledge increased secondary-effect chances like Serene Grace.

Yan Yang confirmed that pairs of Pledge Moves could create different effects, then healed Jerry’s traumatized Grapploct after defeating it. He learned the remote location and secretive reputation of Iris Elite Boarding School, leaving him more suspicious about what the school was hiding.

• Yan Yang confirmed that different pairs of Pledge Moves produced distinct effects, but declined to reveal what the other combinations did.
• The bespectacled Trainer rushed off to test the discovery, while Yan Yang realized he had forgotten to ask him something.
• Jerry asked about Silvally’s strength and showed Yan Yang that Grapploct had been left fearful after their battle.
• Yan Yang used a gentle emerald power to heal Grapploct’s body and restore its fighting spirit, earning Jerry’s gratitude.
• Yan Yang asked Jerry about Iris Elite Boarding School, and Jerry described its remote location, strict security, and secrecy.
• Yan Yang memorized Jerry’s directions and suspected that Iris Elite Boarding School was hiding something.

Yan Yang headed to Iris Elite Boarding School to investigate its secrets, while Dark Hunters operatives tracked his movements. After finding Yan Yang gone, Entei learned where he had gone and set out with Yan Yang’s Pokémon companions to find him.

• Yan Yang thanked Jerry for the information, left the Battle House, and headed toward Iris Elite Boarding School, intending to infiltrate it.
• A Dark Hunters agent reported Yan Yang’s approach to the school and warned that its secrets must remain hidden.
• Cheng Yu learned that Yan Yang was investigating the school and decided to wait and see what he would do.
• Entei arrived at the fossil research institute carrying Yan Yang’s Pokémon companions, but found Yan Yang missing.
• Pita played Yan Yang’s recording, which told Entei that Yan Yang was at Iris Elite Boarding School in Kinan City.
• Entei set off toward the school to find Yan Yang and planned to teach him a lesson for leaving on his own.

Yan Yang reached Iris Elite Boarding School and found it to be a heavily fortified, eerily silent compound with no visible guards. He waited for nightfall to infiltrate, disguising Silvally as Mudsdale while Houndoom rested nearby.

• Yan Yang cautiously approached Iris Elite Boarding School and found no people or sentries along the route.
• Yan Yang observed the school's high walls, barbed wire, watchtowers, and cameras, then decided to wait until dark before entering.
• Yan Yang released Silvally and Houndoom and told them they would rest until nightfall.
• Yan Yang disguised Silvally in a Mudsdale costume to hide his recognizable appearance, while Houndoom resisted the idea of wearing a costume.
• As twilight fell, Yan Yang prepared to begin the infiltration.

Yan Yang and his Pokémon infiltrated the grounds of Iris Elite Boarding School under cover of darkness, hoping to find Xiao Ai’s mother without alerting the school. He cleared a gap in the barbed wire and prepared to enter.

• Yan Yang, Houndoom, and Silvally approached the school wall while avoiding the watchtower searchlights.
• Yan Yang had Silvally carve footholds into the wall and boost him upward.
• Yan Yang evaded a searchlight, checked that the grounds below were clear, and spotted the main building, gardens, and a fountain.
• Yan Yang used a small flame to melt through the barbed wire and make an opening large enough for the disguised Silvally.

Yan Yang infiltrated the compound and slipped past a security patrol by hiding in a fountain pool before reaching the garden district. A mysterious yellow figure watched his progress, restored the damaged fence, and announced that the second step of the “Curtain Call Plan” could begin.

• Silvally leaped over the wall, and Yan Yang followed it into the shadows by a fountain after recalling Houndoom.
• Houndoom detected an approaching patrol, so Yan Yang recalled both Pokémon and hid in the fountain pool.
• A security guard and three canine Pokémon searched the fountain, but the water confused Mightyena’s tracking and the patrol moved on.
• Yan Yang climbed out of the pool and used Potential Activation to reach the garden district quickly and quietly.
• A yellow figure watched Yan Yang enter the garden district, restored the melted fence, and said the second step of the “Curtain Call Plan” could begin.

Yan Yang and his Pokémon searched the garden district for a hidden way into Iris Elite Boarding School. They found an abandoned ventilation duct and entered the school through it, reaching an apparently empty interior room.

• Yan Yang sent Silvally to watch for danger and Houndoom to search the garden for artificial traces.
• Houndoom found a rusted ventilation duct concealed by ivy near the main building, and Yan Yang confirmed it seemed unused.
• Yan Yang recalled Silvally and followed Houndoom through the dark, winding duct.
• Yan Yang and Houndoom quietly passed through the duct's exit and entered Iris Elite Boarding School.

Yan Yang and his Pokémon infiltrated the school, split up to search it, and agreed to regroup in their storage-room base before dawn. Elsewhere, a mysterious figure withheld a response to Yan Yang’s call, while Florges sensed a familiar aura from the sleeping Xiao Ai and Mewtwo confronted it.

• Yan Yang searched the storage room for useful supplies, then decided to explore the school in two groups with Houndoom and Silvally.
• Yan Yang explained that his badge with Silvally could transmit faint sounds, ordered Silvally to search the left side, and told both groups to return before dawn.
• Yan Yang gave Silvally his Friend Ball and worried over Master Hu’s unresponsive Premier Ball as the two groups set out.
• A yellow figure sensed Yan Yang calling for Master Hu but chose not to answer, saying Yan Yang must uncover the school’s filth before the Curtain Call Plan’s third movement could begin.
• In Miare City, Florges sensed a familiar soul imprint coming from the sleeping Xiao Ai and approached her before Mewtwo emerged from the shadows to confront it.

Mewtwo investigated the mysterious black Florges and noticed that Cosmog and the hair clip were connected to powers he could not understand. After Xiao Ai woke from a nightmare and gave the hair clip to Cosmog, the chapter revealed that it had calmed Cosmog’s inner energies and awakened its desire to evolve.

• Mewtwo found that he could neither sense the black Florges nor understand its strange existence, but judged it timid and potentially dangerous to Xiao Ai.
• Xiao Ai trembled and mumbled about not killing a bad guy, prompting Mewtwo to consider investigating Iris School and recall that he had brought Cosmog back from Yan Yang.
• Cosmog settled on Xiao Ai’s hair clip, while Mewtwo’s psychic senses failed to make sense of Cosmog as well.
• Xiao Ai woke from her nightmare, saw Cosmog beside her, and fastened the hair clip onto its antennae, saying it could keep the accessory until it truly belonged to it.
• Cosmog felt the hair clip calm the two powers within it and began longing to awaken those powers and evolve.

Xiao Ai worried about Yan Yang while reflecting on how Mewtwo had entered her life. Mewtwo realized that another powerful Psychic-type had manipulated the psychic signal that drew him to Xiao Ai, and he suspected he knew who it was as Xiao Ai feared Yan Yang would uncover the secrets hidden at the school.

• Xiao Ai wondered what Yan Yang was doing and worried that he had not contacted her.
• Xiao Ai recalled how she had met the mysterious silver-white Pokémon Xiao Meng after fainting from fear of Shedinja, and how he had secretly followed her ever since.
• Mewtwo remembered being drawn to Xiao Ai by a powerful psychic fluctuation and becoming interested in her fear of existence and her sealed memories.
• Mewtwo connected the earlier psychic fluctuation to the weaker one from Xiao Ai's nightmare and concluded that a powerful counterpart had interfered with his investigation.
• Mewtwo suspected someone he had questioned before, while Xiao Ai silently hoped Yan Yang would bring her mother out safely without discovering the school's hidden secrets.

Yan Yang and Houndoom infiltrated Iris Elite Boarding School while Silvally searched elsewhere for Xiao Ai’s mother. They discovered staff forcibly taking a terrified child named Andrew for a mysterious checkup, confirming that the school concealed a sinister secret.

• Yan Yang and Houndoom moved through the school while Silvally explored another area alone and stayed in contact through the badge.
• Yan Yang considered approaching the students to learn about Xiao Ai’s mother, whose photograph he carried.
• Yan Yang and Houndoom heard Andrew pleading as a researcher named Robin dragged him toward a room, threatening him with Zangoose.
• Andrew said his friend Robin had changed after going into the room, and the researcher claimed the children needed to become like that to leave.
• Yan Yang restrained himself from rescuing Andrew immediately, deciding to uncover the school’s secret and its source first.

Yan Yang followed a white-coated man and Andrew into the school’s underground level, where he lured the Zangoose guarding a sealed room away with Houndoom’s help. Alone at the door, he overheard that Andrew was being used as a test subject and that the people inside planned to destroy evidence if someone came to investigate.

• Yan Yang and Houndoom followed the white-coated man as he dragged Andrew into a secured underground room guarded by Zangoose.
• Yan Yang decided to lure Zangoose away so he could investigate the room, and Houndoom posed as a lost Pokémon pursued by a Seviper.
• Yan Yang imitated a Seviper’s cry, enraging Zangoose and drawing it and Houndoom down the corridor.
• Yan Yang rushed to the metal door and listened as Andrew begged not to be changed, while the people inside discussed his transformation and destroying evidence if an investigator appeared.

Yan Yang and Houndoom infiltrated the laboratory’s inner core, where a researcher prepared to make Andrew a “perfect subject” through Intelligence Gene fusion and memory extraction. Yan Yang knocked out two men and reached Andrew, leaving the experiment’s purpose and the child’s fate unresolved.

• Yan Yang ambushed the man leaving the laboratory door, took his Access Card and keys, and locked him in a cabinet.
• Houndoom returned after knocking out Zangoose, and Yan Yang entered the laboratory with him.
• Yan Yang and Houndoom found a hidden passage leading to the inner core, where Andrew was restrained on a metal platform.
• A researcher revealed that Andrew’s Intelligence Gene fusion was progressing well and that memory extraction was next.
• When the researcher spotted Yan Yang and reached for the alarm, Yan Yang struck him unconscious.

Yan Yang rescued Andrew from the researchers and discovered that the laboratory was creating a clone using the child’s memories and an Alakazam’s genes. He photographed the evidence and began forcing a researcher to explain how to remove the device from Andrew’s head safely.

• Yan Yang freed Andrew from his restraints and reassured him that he had defeated the researchers, while Houndoom gradually helped the frightened child feel safe.
• Yan Yang searched the laboratory and found records describing memory extraction and the injection of an Intelligence Gene into Experiment Subject Number 76.
• Yan Yang opened the incubation pod and discovered a clone with Andrew’s face, then photographed it and read a notebook describing the clone’s compatibility and the original Andrew’s possible further use.
• Yan Yang learned that the Intelligence Gene came from an Alakazam and suspected the Pokémon had been exploited, then decided to expose the laboratory and prioritize Andrew’s safety.
• Yan Yang bound and awakened a researcher, demanded instructions for removing Andrew’s helmet, and signaled Houndoom when the researcher refused to cooperate.

Yan Yang rescued Andrew from the underground laboratory and returned with him to their hiding place, while Silvally went silent after finding a highly encrypted data repository. As Yan Yang waited for night to search for Silvally and learned more about the school’s experiments, Andrew recognized the woman in a photograph as Teacher Alice.

• Yan Yang knocked out the researcher, then learned Silvally had found a suspected core data repository and needed to focus on processing its encrypted data.
• Yan Yang carried Andrew out of the laboratory and escaped to the abandoned room where they had hidden before.
• Yan Yang slept while Houndoom kept watch, but woke at eight o’clock to find Silvally unresponsive over the badge.
• Yan Yang learned from Andrew that children taken away each month returned changed, and Andrew identified the woman in the photograph as Teacher Alice.

Yan Yang learned more about Teacher Alice’s hidden identity and the school’s experiments from Andrew, then prepared to disguise himself as a student and infiltrate the dormitory area. He began using Inner Focus to alter his face so he could carry out the plan.

• Andrew described Alice as a kind science teacher whose experiments attracted close attention from the school’s leaders.
• Andrew recognized similarities between Alice and the woman in Yan Yang’s photo, though he said they looked different and had never heard that Alice had a daughter.
• Andrew told Yan Yang that the dormitories were heavily guarded, pointed out the suspected database’s location, and explained that children who were selected returned changed before their parents took them away.
• Andrew said he feared both the school and his home, where his parents had sent him because they considered him disobedient and unable to meet their expectations.
• Yan Yang found a student uniform and decided to disguise himself to enter the dormitory area.
• Yan Yang concentrated his Inner Focus and began trying to reshape his facial features.