Recaps

Roy confronted three impostors who had murdered two Pokémon League rangers and were hunting Mankey to create another Annihilape. After defeating their Pokémon and killing their leader, Roy left the woman from the Wazik Family alive to question her.

• Roy confirmed through Ancient Gengar that the three supposed rangers had killed the real rangers and were connected to the Primeape clan's disappearance.
• Ancient Gengar, Dragapult, and Misdreavus defeated the impostors' main Pokémon and restrained the two survivors.
• Roy revealed that Annihilape was his Pokémon, making the brawny man realize Roy was the Trainer known to the Wazik Family.
• The brawny man pretended to offer information, charged Roy, and died after Roy struck him with a punch.
• The woman begged Roy to spare her, and Roy prepared to question her about the Wazik Family.

Roy learned that the Wazik Family had abducted Primeape and Mankey to create an Annihilape for their young master, Little Fatty, and planned a rescue at the family estate. After killing the informants and uncovering a park ranger's ties to Team Rocket, Roy erased the scene and left National Park.

• The woman revealed that the Wazik Family had disguised itself as park rangers and abducted Primeape tribes for experiments ordered by its young master, Little Fatty.
• She told Roy that the family estate was in Ecruteak City, that the family had ties to Team Rocket, and that she heard screams from the mountain behind the estate.
• Roy released the woman as promised, but Annihilape killed her, while Ancient Gengar's captive was also found dead.
• Roy looted the bodies and found Team Rocket insignia and park ranger IDs on the burly man, confirming his multiple affiliations and the deaths of two rangers.
• Roy took their Poké Balls, had Chandelure burn the scene, and left National Park.

Roy returned to Ecruteak City but followed the festival rule against flying mounts, choosing to keep the Wazik Family’s crimes secret from the local officers. He reached the city by bicycle after reading about its history and the Legendary Pokémon tied to its towers.

• Roy encountered Pokémon League Police officers on Route 37, showed them his ID Card, and learned that flying over Ecruteak City was prohibited during the Ho-Oh Festival.
• Roy decided not to tell the officers about the Wazik Family so the family would not be alerted before he could rescue the Primeape tribe.
• Roy rode his bicycle toward Ecruteak City with Little Absol in the basket, Froslass on the rear seat, and Misdreavus and Mimikyu beside him.
• At the city entrance, Roy read a translation describing the history of Bell Tower and Tin Tower and the former presence of Ho-Oh and Lugia.
• Roy recalled how Tin Tower burned about one hundred and fifty years earlier, after which Lugia left and Ho-Oh revived three Pokémon as Raikou, Entei, and Suicune.

Roy arrived in Ecruteak City and discovered Morty standing against the Wazik Family’s plan to demolish the Burned Tower and drive out its Ghost Pokémon. The Wazik men threatened Morty, and the chapter ended as they prepared to attack him.

• Roy reached the Burned Tower and learned from Marshadow that Lugia had once lived there.
• Roy asked a bystander why Morty was confronting the Wazik Family, and learned they wanted to replace the tower with a trade center.
• Morty refused to let the Wazik Family demolish the tower, explaining that it sheltered Ghost Pokémon and that they had not caused the recent trouble at Silph Shopping Center.
• The Wazik Family’s leader ordered his men to beat Morty, and Morty stood his ground.

Morty tried to stop the Wazik Family from demolishing the Burned Tower, but their valid land acquisition order left Officer Jenny unable to intervene. When Roy stepped forward after the fat man insulted his teacher, Elite Four Agatha, the man summoned a level 53 Rhyperior to confront him.

• The Wazik Family apprentices attacked Morty, but his level 60 Gengar blocked their Pokémon and defeated a Golem before Morty stopped it from retaliating against the trainers.
• Officer Jenny arrived and challenged the demolition, but the fat man showed her a valid land acquisition order and had Morty driven away.
• Morty warned the crowd that the Burned Tower was an entrance to the Spirit World, but the fat man dismissed him and insulted Agatha.
• Roy stepped in and revealed that Agatha was his teacher, prompting the fat man to summon his Rhyperior.

Roy and Ancient Gengar stopped the Wazik Family’s attempt to demolish the Burned Tower, defeating their Rhyperior and overpowering their men. Roy left the fat man alive but injured after Officer Jenny intervened, then departed with Morty.

• Ancient Gengar blocked Rhyperior’s Hyper Beam and defeated it with a close-range Shadow Ball.
• The fat man ordered his Gym apprentices to attack Roy, but Roy tossed them aside one by one.
• Roy grabbed the fat man by the throat, but Officer Jenny warned him that killing the man there would violate League law.
• Roy released the fat man and broke his arm, warning him not to insult his teacher again.
• The Wazik Family members carried the unconscious fat man away, and Morty led Roy from the Burned Tower while Officer Jenny cleared the crowd.

Roy urged Morty to stop tolerating mistreatment and become Ecruteak City's Gym Leader so he could change how people viewed Ghost-type Pokémon. Officer Jenny warned Roy that the Wazik Family might come after him for driving off their people and defeating the Gym apprentices.

• Morty's Gengar served Roy tea, and Roy gave it a Pokéblock that delighted it.
• Roy challenged Morty's reluctance to fight back and encouraged him to make people fear provoking him.
• Roy told Morty to become Ecruteak City's Gym Leader and use education to improve people's understanding of Ghost-type Pokémon.
• Morty's Gengar examined Ancient Gengar, who knocked him into the shadows when he tried to touch his markings.
• Officer Jenny arrived and warned Roy that the Wazik Family might seek revenge for his defeat of their Gym apprentices.

Roy used Officer Jenny’s anger over the Wazik Family and the murdered rangers to secure her support against them. He revealed that Chandelure could produce Ho-Oh’s golden Sacred Fire, leaving Officer Jenny and Morty stunned at what that meant.

• Roy challenged Officer Jenny over the League Police Bureau’s tolerance of the Wazik Family and learned that Ho-Oh’s possible return had kept the family protected.
• Roy gave Officer Jenny the murdered rangers’ IDs, a newspaper, and a Wazik Family badge, then explained his investigation into the missing Primeape groups and the men impersonating rangers.
• Officer Jenny recognized the missing rangers and erupted in anger, while Roy argued that the authorities would have buried the evidence because of the Wazik Family’s influence.
• Roy asked whether the Wazik Family could lose its privileges if Ho-Oh no longer favored them, and Officer Jenny said the evidence could support a conviction but questioned how Roy could know Ho-Oh would not return to them.
• Roy summoned Chandelure and changed its bluish-purple flames into sacred golden flames; Morty searched an ancient book and recognized them as Ho-Oh’s fire.

Roy posed as Ho-Oh’s Messenger and convinced Officer Jenny that Ho-Oh had abandoned the Wazik Family. He arranged for Morty to be publicly acknowledged as Ho-Oh’s chosen Gym Leader, then left to investigate the family and rescue the missing Primeape troops.

• Roy demonstrated that the Golden Flame healed wounds, convincing Officer Jenny that he was Ho-Oh’s Messenger.
• Roy, Morty, and Officer Jenny agreed to keep Roy’s identity secret and use the festival to show Ho-Oh’s flame passing to Morty.
• Roy asked Officer Jenny to help bring down the Wazik Family and secure Morty’s appointment as Ecruteak City’s Gym Leader.
• Officer Jenny tentatively accepted Roy’s terms and left to consult her family and the Pokémon League.
• Roy decided not to wait for Officer Jenny’s answer and set out to investigate the Wazik Family and rescue the missing Primeape troops.

Roy confirmed that the missing Primeape troops were being held on the Wazik Family’s rear mountain and began a rescue attempt. He used Dragapult to lure away the mountain guards and the family head’s Archeops, leaving the path less guarded.

• Morty offered to help Roy investigate the Wazik Family estate, and Roy brought him along as a local guide.
• Roy and Morty watched the estate from a nearby abandoned house before screams from the rear mountain revealed that Mankey’s troop leader was there and in pain.
• Roy canceled Morty’s planned infiltration, lent him Wallace’s communicator to monitor the estate, and approached the mountain from outside.
• Roy spotted dozens of Ho-Oh Badge guards and discovered that the Wazik Family head’s level-75 Archeops patrolled the sky.
• Roy sent Dragapult to draw Archeops away; Dragapult killed two guards and led the bird and most of the mountain patrols off in pursuit.

Roy and his Pokémon infiltrated the Wazik Family estate while researchers tortured captured Primeape in an attempt to force one to evolve into Annihilape. The chapter left the Primeape leader barely alive, with Leo Wazik demanding an Annihilape and no other Primeape remaining in the laboratory.

• Roy killed the guards at the mountain post after learning where the captured Primeape troop was being held.
• Roy and Annihilape headed up the mountain while Ancient Gengar scouted ahead, unaware that another group had breached the estate gates.
• A researcher electrocuted the restrained Primeape leader, but the experiment failed to make him evolve.
• The researcher learned that the next batch of captured Primeape had not arrived and worried that the Wazik Family's young master was pressuring him.
• Leo Wazik arrived and demanded to see his Annihilape that day, so the researcher injected the unconscious Primeape leader and placed him in a containment pod.

Little Fatty forced the researchers to test a Mankey, and the Primeape leader evolved into Annihilape after witnessing the Mankey's suffering. After Stoutland defeated him, he devolved back into Primeape just as Little Fatty tried to capture him.

• Little Fatty ordered the researchers to electrocute a Mankey in an attempt to trigger Annihilape's evolution.
• The Primeape leader woke, saw the Mankey being tortured, and repeatedly struck his chamber glass as the other Primeape joined him.
• The Primeape leader's fists gained Ghost-type energy, and after twenty strikes he evolved into Annihilape and shattered his chamber.
• Stoutland defeated Annihilape, and the middle-aged butler received an order from the Wazik Family head to return because Team Rocket had attacked the family estate.
• As Little Fatty prepared to capture Annihilape, Annihilape's scarlet eyes faded and he devolved back into Primeape.

Roy arrived at Little Fatty’s laboratory and found the Primeape clan tortured and imprisoned. Annihilape flew into a rage and overwhelmed the butler’s Stoutland as Roy’s Pokémon held off the butler’s reinforcements, leaving the butler fearing the Wazik Family’s downfall.

• Roy entered the laboratory after its guards were thrown inside and saw the injured Primeape leader, captive Pokémon, and a Mankey being tortured.
• Little Fatty recognized Roy and urged the butler to take Roy’s Annihilape, while the butler tried to avoid provoking Agatha’s disciple.
• Annihilape saw the captive and injured Pokémon, became enraged, and revealed that he had reached Intermediate King level.
• Annihilape defeated Stoutland in a brutal fight, blocked the butler’s attempt to recall him, and continued attacking.
• The butler sent out Braviary and Ambipom, but Roy’s Chandelure and Flutter Mane intercepted them, while Ancient Gengar attacked Braviary and Ambipom blocked the strike.
• After Stoutland could no longer battle, the butler looked at the frightened Little Fatty and feared the Wazik Family was finished.

Roy stopped Cooper and Ambipom from killing the Primeape leader, but Cooper escaped with Ambipom and abandoned Little Fatty. Roy defeated Little Fatty’s Lairon and turned to rescue the captive Pokémon, while Mankey reunited with the injured Primeape leader.

• Cooper ordered Ambipom to attack the Primeape leader, but Annihilape shielded him and redirected Iron Tail into the laboratory ceiling.
• Cooper recalled Stoutland, escaped through the hole with Ambipom, and kicked Little Fatty aside when he begged to be taken along.
• Roy told Misdreavus (Flutter Mane) to keep watch, then kicked Little Fatty’s Lairon away and stopped Little Fatty from fleeing.
• Mankey reunited with the wounded Primeape leader, who realized Roy had come to rescue them and asked him to save the other Pokémon first.
• The Primeape leader treated his own wounds while Annihilape freed the Primeape from their chambers and Roy rescued the Mankey on the metal platform.

Roy rescued the captive Mankey and punished the Pokémon League researcher responsible for torturing the Primeape tribes, while uncovering the Wazik Family’s forbidden experiments. After learning the tribes had suffered heavy losses and that their leader had once evolved into Annihilape, Roy saw Annihilape decline their request to lead them.

• Roy broke into the laboratory, freed the injured Mankey, and used healing agents and Chandelure’s golden flames to treat it.
• Roy recognized the researcher from the Edge Cup and bound him to an experiment table, where Annihilape made him endure an electric current like the Primeape had suffered.
• Ancient Gengar stopped the researcher’s assistant from escaping, and Annihilape found notes documenting the Wazik Family’s brutal experiments on the Primeape tribe.
• Roy counted the casualties and found that nearly a quarter of the Primeape had died, while the other tribe’s leader had also been killed and most survivors were injured.
• The Primeape leader told Roy that he had once evolved into Annihilape before losing his rage and reverting, and Roy found experimental records that ended with the word “evolution.”
• The Primeape and Mankey asked Annihilape to lead them, but he refused, and Roy teased him about becoming the Monkey King.

Roy freed the Primeape troops and brought them under Annihilape’s leadership, then learned that Team Rocket had attacked the Wazik Family estate. He reached the burning estate and headed toward a fierce battle inside the mansion.

• Roy convinced the Primeape troops to go to Oak Research Lab, and they accepted Annihilape as their leader.
• Roy treated the injured Primeape, collected the laboratory records, and had the troops catch themselves in Poké Balls.
• Morty told Roy that people wearing Team Rocket uniforms had attacked the Wazik Family estate, and Dragapult returned with feathers it had plucked from Archeops.
• Roy found Morty watching the estate, sent him home, and gave Communicators to Morty and Gengar.
• Roy entered the ruined estate, where Marshadow sensed two powerful Pokémon battling inside the mansion.

Roy watched Team Rocket’s assault on the Wazik estate and identified Giovanni’s executives Matori and Athena among the attackers. Gym Leader Wazik Leia’s Tyranitar was overwhelmed by Giovanni’s Nidoking, leaving the family’s defeat imminent.

• Roy spotted Team Rocket grunts killing Wazik Family guards and traced the strongest energy fluctuations to the mansion at the estate’s center.
• Roy recognized Wazik Leia, his Tyranitar, Giovanni’s secretary Matori, and Team Rocket executive Athena on the battlefield.
• Matori accused Wazik Leia of betraying Giovanni, and Leia realized Giovanni had only pretended to abandon his pursuit of control in Johto.
• Wazik Leia ordered Tyranitar to attack Matori with Dark Pulse, but Nidoking repelled the attack and struck Tyranitar down with an energy beam.

Wazik Leia sacrificed Golem to escape Team Rocket’s assault on the Wazik Family, but Roy was discovered and revealed his connection to Giovanni. The chapter ended with Giovanni answering Matori’s call and Roy greeting him.

• Wazik Leia ordered Golem to use its Life Energy for Explosion, then escaped on Archeops while Nidoking and Roy’s Pokémon shielded themselves.
• The Explosion killed Golem and injured people on both sides, while Wazik Leia and his fallen Tyranitar disappeared.
• Matori ordered Team Rocket to treat the injured and clear out the remaining Wazik Family members before they left.
• Athena confronted Roy after Weavile discovered him, and Roy claimed he was one of them because Giovanni was his big brother.
• Matori recognized Roy from the S.S. Anne, and Roy said he also had a problem with the Wazik Family.
• Matori called Giovanni, who answered from Viridian City Gym, and Roy greeted him as Big Brother Giovanni.

Roy met Giovanni at the Wazik Family estate and learned that Giovanni was Team Rocket’s boss, then stayed behind when the League police arrived. After giving Officer Jenny evidence of the family’s experiments, Roy told her to expose their crimes and announce Morty as Ecruteak City’s Gym Leader at the festival.

• Giovanni revealed that he led Team Rocket, and Roy reacted without fear before the two discussed the Wazik Family and Roy’s strength.
• Giovanni invited Roy to challenge him at Viridian Gym after Roy earned four high-difficulty Badges in Johto.
• Matori and the Team Rocket grunts left the estate when League police arrived, while Roy stayed to meet Officer Jenny.
• Roy gave Officer Jenny the Wazik Family’s laboratory records and freed the injured Mankey, then told her to publicize the evidence and announce Morty as Gym Leader.
• Officer Jenny ordered officers to search the estate for more evidence and prepared to expose the family’s crimes at the festival.

Roy treated nearly a hundred rescued Primeape and Mankey at the Ecruteak City Pokémon Center, then used Joy Lando’s inspection card to send them to Professor Oak’s lab. Professor Oak agreed after Roy revealed that one Primeape leader had briefly evolved into Annihilape, and the chapter ended with Oak and Delia overwhelmed by the arriving Poké Balls.

• Roy brought nearly a hundred Primeape and Mankey Poké Balls to Nurse Joy, who treated the injured Pokémon after learning Roy had rescued them from a Wazik Family laboratory.
• Nurse Joy refused Roy access to the transfer machine until he showed Joy Lando’s inspection card, after which she and Blissey helped him send Pokémon to Oak Research Lab.
• Roy told Professor Oak about the Wazik Family’s experiments and explained that he had rescued both Primeape groups.
• Roy persuaded Professor Oak to accept the Pokémon by revealing that one Primeape leader had briefly evolved into Annihilape before reverting.
• Roy and the Pokémon Center staff transferred the Poké Balls, leaving Professor Oak and Delia to sort through the nearly hundred arrivals.

Roy helped Officer Jenny expose the Wazik Family’s crimes at Ecruteak City’s Ho-Oh Festival and prepared Morty to become Gym Leader. As the crowd celebrated the repeal of the city’s restrictions, Roy spotted a possible threat watching from the sky and secretly sought help.

• Roy found Morty at the Ho-Oh Festival and urged him to accept the Gym Leader position, with Gengar joining in to push him past his doubts.
• Officer Jenny led the festival crowd to the Bell Tower and had a police officer reveal evidence of the Wazik Family’s crimes and its downfall.
• Marshadow warned Roy that someone in the sky was watching, and Roy recognized the person as the rider of an Archeops from the previous day.
• Roy messaged Officer Jenny for help, and she discreetly contacted the Pokémon League while continuing the festival announcements.
• Officer Jenny repealed the Wazik Family’s restrictions on modern equipment, home renovations, and letting Pokémon out in the city, prompting the crowd to cheer.

After the Wazik Family fled, Officer Jenny nominated Morty to become Ecruteak City's Gym Leader, and he faced the crowd’s objections with Gengar’s help. A Golden Flame appeared on Bell Tower and took Ho-Oh’s form before entering Morty, convincing the residents that Ho-Oh had chosen him.

• Officer Jenny recommended Morty as Ecruteak City's new Gym Leader, but residents objected because he was young and used Ghost-type Pokémon.
• Morty summoned Gengar to explode a Shadow Ball, then challenged anyone who doubted him to battle after Ho-Oh's festival.
• Roy directed Marshadow to climb Bell Tower and light its peak with the Golden Flame.
• A Golden Flame descended from Bell Tower, took the form of Ho-Oh, and entered Morty’s body.
• The residents accepted Morty as Gym Leader because they believed Ho-Oh had chosen him, and the trainers who had challenged him lost their nerve.

Morty became Ecruteak City's new Gym Leader with Ho-Oh's approval, while Roy noticed Pryce had arrived and Officer Jenny learned Lance was on his way. As Morty tried to delay Wazik Leia, Wazik Leia's despair turned into a desire to destroy Ecruteak City.

• Officer Jenny used Ho-Oh's choice to quiet the crowd, and Morty became Ecruteak City's new Ghost-type Gym Leader.
• Morty began the festival, while Officer Jenny told him Lance would arrive in thirty minutes and they needed to keep Wazik Leia occupied.
• Marshadow told Roy that someone had noticed him, and Roy spotted Pryce watching Bell Tower with his level 89 Swinub.
• Pryce noticed the figure that had climbed Bell Tower and hoped Ho-Oh's flame could heal his legs, while Roy hid from his gaze.
• Morty led the worshippers to Burned Tower to stall Wazik Leia, who watched from the sky and resolved that Ecruteak City had no reason to exist if his family could not rule it.

Wazik Leia tried to destroy the Burned Tower and open the entrance to the Spirit World, while Roy confronted him and worked to protect Ecruteak City. Tyranitar’s Dark Pulse brought the tower down, leaving the Ghost-type Pokémon evacuated and the Spirit World entrance’s fate unresolved.

• Wazik Leia ordered Archeops to burn the Burned Tower, but Misdreavus (Flutter Mane) blocked the attack as Roy arrived and called for an evacuation.
• Roy sent Dragapult to attack Archeops and told Wazik Leia that his son was dead, driving Wazik into a rage.
• Wazik Leia recalled Archeops to the ground and brought out Obstagoon and his wounded Tyranitar.
• Tyranitar unleashed a powerful sandstorm and fired Dark Pulse at the Burned Tower, breaking through Misdreavus (Flutter Mane)’s shield.
• The Burned Tower collapsed completely, while Morty gathered the evacuated Ghost-type Pokémon around him.

Pryce intervened to protect Roy from Wazik Leia, while a rift above the Burned Tower released spirits into Ecruteak City. Roy organized a defense against the spirits and prepared to deal with the opening as reinforcements approached.

• As Dark Pulse destroyed the Burned Tower, a rift opened above it and spirits poured into the sky over Ecruteak City.
• Pryce arrived with Swinub, shielded Roy from Tyranitar’s Dark Pulse, and confronted Wazik Leia while Roy turned to face the spirits.
• Marshadow told Roy that Pryce carried Ho-Oh’s presence, and Roy sent Dragapult toward the Burned Tower to help contain the rift.
• Roy ordered Morty to calm the Ghost-type Pokémon and Officer Jenny to evacuate residents and organize Trainers to attack the spirits from a distance.
• Officer Jenny and the Trainers used ranged moves to destroy spirits while Morty gathered the Ghost-type Pokémon, and they waited for League reinforcements.