Chapter Summaries

Yan Yang slipped into the dormitory area to reassure the children and organize a possible escape, but a Little York spotted him. The chapter ended with his cover blown as the dog barked in the corridor.

• Yan Yang used psychic power to blur his face and ordered Andrew to stay hidden while he investigated the dormitories.
• Yan Yang evaded patrols and entered the children's dormitory corridor, where he found a sobbing girl in an unlocked room.
• The girl mistook Yan Yang for an administrator, but he identified himself as a rescuer and told her that Andrew was safe.
• Yan Yang told An Ke to guide the children to the ventilation duct and garden if they got a chance to escape, then asked whether she had seen a strange horse-like Pokémon.
• A Little York appeared at the end of the corridor and barked at Yan Yang, revealing his presence.

Yan Yang escaped the administrators pursuing him and hid in Alice’s laboratory, where she covered for him after he disrupted her experiment. When he asked whether she remembered the name Irene, she denied knowing it, leaving him unsure whether he could fulfill Xiao Ai’s request by taking her back.

• Little York’s alarm alerted the administrators, and Yan Yang sprinted through the corridors while they chased him.
• Yan Yang evaded a Fire-type attack and broke an administrator’s wrists as he forced his way up the stairs.
• Yan Yang burst into Alice’s laboratory, where his arrival disrupted her experiment, then hid in a cabinet as the administrators searched for him.
• Alice angrily drove the administrators out and claimed she had not seen the intruder.
• Alice demanded compensation from Yan Yang for the ruined experiment, and he asked whether she remembered the name Irene.
• Alice insisted that she was Alice and had never known anyone named Irene, leaving Yan Yang uncertain about bringing her back to Xiao Ai.

Yan Yang confronted Alice with evidence that the school was abusing children, but she asked for time to verify it and agreed not to expose him. Searching for Silvally in the data archive, Yan Yang found a hidden notebook titled “Observation Record: Alice.”

• Yan Yang told Alice that Xiao Ai was alive and showed her photographs of the school's experiments, shocking her into questioning what she had been helping with.
• Alice refused to leave with Yan Yang but agreed to pretend she had never seen him while she investigated the evidence herself.
• Yan Yang tore open a ventilation grate and crawled with Houndoom to the suspected data archive, where Silvally was missing and his badge received no reply.
• Houndoom found a blank-looking notebook, and Yan Yang used a Purple Light Pen to reveal hidden writing titled “Observation Record: Alice.”

Yan Yang uncovered records revealing that Alice was a memory-wiped researcher exploited by the project and that Xiao Ai was a clone who had killed the original. He copied files from the main computer, but the transfer triggered an alarm, forcing him to flee with only part of the data.

• Yan Yang read Alice's observation record and learned about her assassination, memory loss, and role in advancing the project’s research.
• Yan Yang discovered that Clone No. 1, Xiao Ai, had killed the original and become the first Perfect Experiment Subject.
• Yan Yang used clues on a sticky note to solve the computer password and began copying the files onto a USB drive.
• The computer detected the large data transfer, activated a location program, and summoned security forces.
• As pursuers broke through the door, Yan Yang took the USB drive, recalled Houndoom, and escaped through the ventilation duct.

Yan Yang’s double weakness left him unable to escape, and he was captured by the people running the experiments. He woke restrained in an interrogation room, where the principal ordered guards to torture him for information while Silvally remained missing.

• At 11:30, Yan Yang’s daily weakness overwhelmed him in the pipeline, and it returned even more fiercely after half an hour.
• As pursuers approached, Yan Yang ordered Houndoom to hide his flash drive and phone, then recalled it and let himself fall unconscious.
• Several Pokémon found Yan Yang, and the pursuers dragged him away, shackled him, and confiscated his belongings and Poké Balls.
• Yan Yang woke restrained in an interrogation room, spotted the school principal and other hostile figures, and confirmed Silvally was not there.
• Yan Yang mocked his captors and denounced their experiments on children, prompting the principal to order an appetizer of torture.

Yan Yang escaped his restraints and searched the facility while Silvally fought a malicious program with his help. After recovering Houndoom and his backpack, Yan Yang discovered that the notebook’s hidden writing had vanished.

• Yan Yang endured the failed interrogation, escaped his guards, and searched the detention area for Silvally.
• The badge picked up Silvally and an unknown Professor, who revealed that he had infected Silvally and intended to override its owner-recognition program.
• The Professor triggered Silvally’s system overload, but Yan Yang’s song calmed it and helped it begin repairing itself.
• Yan Yang hummed while moving through the facility, incapacitating lone guards and recovering Houndoom’s Poké Ball and his backpack.
• Yan Yang found Master Hu’s Premier Ball missing and discovered that the hidden writing in the notebook had disappeared.

Yan Yang attacked the people who had drugged Doctor Alice and fought his way into the laboratory. After luring their leader inside, he defeated the level 41 Iron Treads in close combat, leaving the remaining men stunned.

• Yan Yang learned that Silvally had removed the system virus but needed time to break through its reinforced enclosure.
• Yan Yang found the minor boss and his subordinates confronting Doctor Alice, who accused them of using children in illegal experiments.
• One subordinate injected Alice with a syringe, and the minor boss ordered her taken for more “cognitive correction.”
• Yan Yang and Houndoom attacked the group, with Yan Yang using Evergreen Power to strengthen Houndoom as it fought their Pokémon.
• The minor boss held Alice at knifepoint, so Yan Yang agreed to enter the laboratory with him and the others.
• The minor boss released Iron Treads to attack Yan Yang, but Yan Yang dodged its blows and knocked it down, pinning it to the floor.

Yan Yang pretended to be helpless so the captors would move Alice and attack him, while he waited for Entei to arrive. Entei burst into the laboratory, and Yan Yang called him Dad and claimed the villains had bullied him.

• Yan Yang pinned Iron Treads down and offered to surrender in exchange for the captors moving Alice, then faked weakness to convince them to bind him.
• The captors tied Yan Yang up, but their anesthetic needle could not pierce his skin, and Iron Treads held him as ordered.
• After the captors placed Alice on an experimental table, Yan Yang provoked them into attacking him while secretly waiting for something.
• One captor punched Yan Yang and hurt his own hand, then another raised a metal pipe to strike him.
• Entei melted through the laboratory doors and walls, and Yan Yang called out to him that the villains were bullying him.

Yan Yang and Entei subdued the criminals in the laboratory and returned to their hideout with Alice and a surviving prisoner. Yan Yang laid out a plan to interrogate the prisoner, recover their belongings, and rescue the children at the school.

• Entei burned the captured criminals, sparing their leader for interrogation after Yan Yang asked him to keep one alive.
• Entei explained that he had left Yan Yang's backpack somewhere safe under a dragon's watch, and Yan Yang returned Entei to his Luxury Ball to keep a low profile.
• Yan Yang ordered Houndoom to retrieve the USB drive from the ventilation duct, then carried Alice and dragged the prisoner to the hidden refuge on a handcart.
• Yan Yang reunited with Silvally and Andrew at the refuge, where Andrew timidly hid from Entei and Silvally.
• Yan Yang told his companions they would interrogate the prisoner, recover the backpack and gather their companions, then free the children and uncover the school's secrets.

Yan Yang recovered his backpack, reunited with most of his Pokémon, and secured evidence from Houndoom as he prepared to interrogate the captive. A knock at the hideout interrupted him, and he found An Ke leading a crowd of frightened children to the door.

• Entei explained that he had stormed through the school’s defenses and led Yan Yang to the backpack he had hidden.
• Yan Yang unlocked the Poké Balls and reunited with Pyroar, Turtwig, Lycanroc, and Armorouge, while Entei said Banette was still on his way.
• Houndoom returned with the USB drive and phone, giving Yan Yang evidence to take back to the research institute for examination.
• As Yan Yang prepared to question the captive, someone knocked at the hideout door.
• Yan Yang opened the door and found An Ke and a crowd of children seeking refuge.

Yan Yang helped An Ke lead the children out of the hideout through a ventilation duct, along with the unconscious Doctor Alice. With the children protected in the garden, he turned to interrogate the captured minor leader about the school’s crimes.

• An Ke brought the children to Yan Yang after finding the dormitory area unattended, and he reassured them that he would help them escape.
• Andrew vouched for Yan Yang, and Yan Yang instructed the children to crawl through a ventilation duct to hide in the garden until the police arrived.
• An Ke restored order, and two older boys carried the unconscious Doctor Alice into the duct with the other children.
• An Ke confirmed that every remaining child had escaped, though some children taken away earlier had never returned.
• Yan Yang sent Houndoom to guard the children, then woke the captured minor leader and demanded that he reveal the school’s secrets.

Yan Yang confronted the Professor alone after the captive died before revealing anything, choosing to face the apparent trap to protect Silvally and the rescued children. The Professor admitted his threats about Silvally were a bluff and began probing Yan Yang, whose suspicion grew as he found the laboratory seemingly empty.

• Yan Yang interrogated the burned captive, who panicked upon learning the children had escaped and died before sharing useful information.
• The Professor used the school broadcast to summon Yan Yang to the core laboratory, threatening Silvally and warning that the children needed his antidote.
• Yan Yang decided to go alone while Entei stayed behind as backup, and Silvally guided him to the laboratory.
• Yan Yang entered the wrecked laboratory and met the Professor, who admitted that his claim about hidden viruses or backdoors in Silvally was a bluff.
• The Professor questioned Yan Yang about his unusual abilities, while Yan Yang insulted him and searched the apparently empty room for a hidden threat.

Yan Yang confronted Doctor Poppy, who defended Iris School’s experiments and tried to recruit him before forcing him to cross an electric field to retrieve an antidote. Poppy secretly recorded Yan Yang’s abilities for a plan involving him as an energy vessel, while revealing that the original children had been killed and the school’s leaders planned to abandon the base.

• Doctor Poppy introduced himself as the school’s research chief and defended cloning, memory alteration, and experimentation as human evolution.
• Poppy offered Yan Yang resources and a place in the organization, but Yan Yang refused and spat at his feet.
• Poppy threw the children’s real antidote into an electric field, and Yan Yang crossed it unharmed to retrieve the bottle.
• Poppy revealed that his hidden sensors had recorded Yan Yang’s physical and life signals, believing he could become the vessel they sought.
• Poppy admitted that the original children had been disposed of and refused to hand over the Alakazam whose genes had been extracted.
• Poppy’s thoughts revealed that the Dark Hunters planned to abandon Iris School, taking Doctor Irene’s research and leaving the League to handle the fallout.

Yan Yang discovered that Doctor Poppy had planted explosives throughout the school and rushed to evacuate everyone. After teleporting the captive children and Pokémon to safety, he sensed a familiar psychic signal inside the building and charged back in as the explosion neared.

• Doctor Poppy told Yan Yang that explosives would destroy the school in ten minutes, then vanished.
• Yan Yang broadcast an evacuation warning, and Entei rushed to his side.
• Master Hu's Premier Ball appeared, and a faint psychic message led Yan Yang and Entei to survivors trapped underground.
• Yan Yang used a Teleportation Crystal to send the captive children and Pokémon to safety, leaving himself and Entei behind.
• With two minutes remaining, Entei carried Yan Yang out of the building, but Yan Yang sensed a familiar psychic intent inside and rushed back in.

Banette searched the hidden Iris Elite Boarding School for Yan Yang and encountered an Alakazam who called him Curse Flame and arranged a secret meeting at Mount Coronet. When Banette froze in terror at the announced explosion, Yan Yang returned and captured him in a Poké Ball, triggering Banette’s buried memories.

• Banette entered the ruined school, reflecting on his uncertain bond with Yan Yang and deciding he wanted to belong with him.
• Banette followed an Alakazam who rescued unconscious children, and Alakazam called him Curse Flame and told him to have Yan Yang meet him at Mount Coronet in one week.
• Yan Yang’s broadcast announced an impending explosion, and Banette became immobilized by an overwhelming fear he could not understand.
• Yan Yang returned as the countdown neared its end and pressed the Poké Ball he had prepared for Banette against his forehead.
• Inside the Poké Ball, the contract’s resonance broke through Banette’s buried memories, and he remembered that he was a real existence belonging only to himself.

Yan Yang rescued Substitute from the exploding Iris Elite Boarding School, and Substitute regained his memories and returned to him as Substitute Entei. After learning why Substitute had left, Yan Yang formally welcomed him as his tenth partner.

• Yan Yang rushed into the school and captured Banette in a Poké Ball just before Entei shielded him from the explosion.
• Entei and Yan Yang emerged from the rubble, and the Pokémon watched as the Poké Ball released Substitute Entei, who recognized Yan Yang.
• Substitute Entei explained that he had left out of fear, then took Number 66's explosive device away from the school and was blown apart before Celebi saved him.
• Yan Yang comforted Substitute Entei and asked him to become his partner willingly.
• Substitute Entei touched the Poké Ball and joined Yan Yang's team as his tenth official partner.

Yan Yang named the recaptured Substitute Entei Curse Flame and learned that Master Hu had rescued the children and arranged a meeting at Mount Coronet in one week. After reuniting with the children, Yan Yang told Doctor Irene the truth about the institute, leaving her devastated and questioning whether the cloned Xiao Ai was still her daughter.

• Yan Yang named Substitute Entei Curse Flame, who recalled meeting a powerful Alakazam that Yan Yang identified as Master Hu.
• Curse Flame told Yan Yang that Master Hu had rescued the children and left a message and agreement involving Mount Coronet one week later.
• Yan Yang examined Curse Flame's unusual abilities, then rode him to the garden district to check on the children.
• Yan Yang reunited with the children, gave them medicine, and assured them they were safe while the sirens approached.
• Yan Yang told Doctor Irene about the crimes at the institute, and Irene questioned whether the cloned Xiao Ai was still her daughter.

Yan Yang helped Doctor Irene face the League investigation and watched the authorities take over Iris Elite Boarding School. After the Teleportation Crystal returned Iron Treads, the children, and the Pokémon, Yan Yang calmed the violent Pokémon and recovered the Phantom Crystal, bringing the rescue to a close.

• Doctor Irene agreed to cooperate with the League investigation and accept responsibility for her part in the experiments.
• Police and League staff arrived at the ruined school, questioned Yan Yang, and arranged the children’s evacuation and placement.
• The Teleportation Crystal brought Iron Treads, more than a dozen unconscious children, and a group of aggressive Pokémon back from an unknown cave.
• Yan Yang approached the Pokémon and used Evergreen Power, causing their fury to fade and restoring their clarity.
• Yan Yang reclaimed the Phantom Crystal from Iron Treads, spoke with the recovered Pokémon, and agreed to let them return to the wild.
• League staff took the children for treatment while police began clearing the ruins and collecting evidence.

After the Iris School case exposed the experiments and the parents who enabled them, Yan Yang watched Xiao Ai reunite with Irene and learned that Xiao Ai was the original girl, not a clone. Xiao Ai revealed how she survived by secretly taking the place of her newly created copy, leaving mother and daughter weeping together.

• Yan Yang gave the police his account of the incident and provided the USB drive containing part of the school's database.
• Silvally told Yan Yang it had saved the first seventy percent of the data, completing the evidence against Iris School's executives, researchers, and the wealthy parents who funded the experiments.
• Investigators found no physical evidence tying the Dark Hunters to the crimes, while the rescued children received placements and the Teleportation Crystal was sealed off.
• Xiao Ai arrived at the police station to see Irene, and Yan Yang stayed to watch their meeting.
• Xiao Ai told Irene that she was the original Xiao Ai and described killing the newly created copy, then pretending to be a perfect clone to survive.

Xiao Ai revealed how Yan Yang’s actions helped her face the truth about her childhood and decided to step away from her celebrity identity to live for herself. At her home, Yan Yang received his promised rewards, learned Mewtwo had secretly helped her, and discovered the embroidery needle Mewtwo gave him came with a strict limit.

• Xiao Ai told Yan Yang that she had wanted to spread happiness as a celebrity but now planned to rest and live for herself.
• Xiao Ai realized the Alakazam who had frightened her as a child had secretly helped her escape, and Yan Yang reaffirmed his plan to go to Mount Coronet in a week.
• Xiao Ai invited Yan Yang to her home in Miare City and gave him a Mega Bracelet and an Evolution Stone for Houndoom.
• Yan Yang learned Cosmog already had the Sun Moon Hairpin, and Mewtwo revealed himself after no longer needing to hide his strength from Xiao Ai.
• Xiao Ai gave Yan Yang an embroidery needle Mewtwo had enchanted, and God's Eye revealed that Yan Yang could use it only once per week.