Recaps

Lance caught and trained new Pokémon before defeating Roxanne’s Rustboro Gym with help from Cynthia’s advice. Treecko evolved into Grovyle, but Lance doubted the owner’s claim that it would eventually gain the Dragon type.

• Lance trained a Caterpie until it evolved into Butterfree, then caught a Rockruff in a cave northeast of Rustboro City.
• Lance challenged Roxanne again and used Rockruff to counter Archen, eventually winning after half an hour of careful battling.
• Treecko evolved into Grovyle after the Gym battle and learned Giga Drain.
• Lance wondered when Grovyle would gain the Dragon type and questioned whether the owner had been lying to him.

After earning the Stone Badge, Lance defeated Paul after grinding his team and left for Dewford Town. He entered Granite Cave, curious about its legendary Pokémon story sequence but convinced that Legendary Pokémon were only myths.

• Lance left Rustboro Gym with the Stone Badge and TM-Rock Tomb, but Paul challenged him outside the Pokémon Center and defeated his team.
• After grinding his Pokémon three levels, Lance returned and narrowly beat Paul, then told the camera that Pokémon were partners and should not be judged by their worth.
• Lance boarded Mr. Briney's boat for Dewford Town and spotted a shipwreck, but the chat explained that he needed Surf to reach it.
• Lance arrived in Dewford Town, healed his Pokémon, and went to Granite Cave to see the story sequence about legendary Pokémon.
• Lance entered the cave while dismissing Legendary Pokémon as inventions and wondering whether they could be real.

Lance explored Granite Cave, caught Aron, and discovered Team Rocket searching for something. When the real Lance appeared in the game and drove Team Rocket away with an unfamiliar Dragon-type Pokémon, he praised the player character for reminding him of himself.

• Lance navigated the first floor of Granite Cave in under five minutes and brushed off the chat's complaints that he had not gotten lost.
• Lance caught Aron on the second floor and noted its Sturdy Ability and Steel and Ground typing.
• Lance found Team Rocket members in Granite Cave discussing a mission to retrieve something that was not there, and they confronted his character after noticing him.
• The real Lance appeared, summoned a powerful white Dragon-type Pokémon, and sent Team Rocket and their Pokémon fleeing.
• The in-game Lance introduced himself as a Kanto Elite Four member and praised the player character for reminding him of his younger self, leaving Lance surprised to be praising himself.

Lance’s game session ended after he lost to the Dewford Gym and ran out of computer time, but he earned a mystery box and an Ability Capsule. He left determined to beat the Gym and investigate Team Rocket’s base in Mauville City when he returned the next day.

• In the game, Lance received a Dragon Fang from his in-game counterpart, then became fixated on finding the white Dragon-type Pokémon he had seen.
• Lance delivered Steven’s letter, trained in the Cave, and challenged the Dewford Gym, where his team was defeated by the Gym Trainers’ Pokémon.
• Lance’s computer time expired as he tried to reload his save, and he awkwardly explained to Iono that he had stood up because his wireless mouse’s cord was tangled.
• The session results gave Lance six Internet Café Points and a blue mystery box, which contained an Ability Capsule for unlocking a Pokémon’s Hidden Ability.
• Lance told Luo Chen goodbye and left with Dragonite, while Iono remained nervous around him and Dragonite planned to practice the Outrage techniques Luo Chen had explained.

After Lance left the internet café, he ordered an investigation into a suspected Team Rocket base in Mauville City and defied Pokémon League officials who tried to stop him. Meanwhile, Iono started a livestream and chose to keep playing on easy after viewers urged her not to raise the difficulty.

• Lance returned home, sent Dragonite to practice, and learned that Cynthia had found flower seeds connected to her search.
• Lance ordered two squads to investigate a suspected Team Rocket base in Mauville City, despite a League official warning that personnel were scarce.
• Lance argued with another League official, insisting that protecting ordinary people mattered more than safeguarding the League’s headquarters or his own position.
• Iono restarted her game and livestream, greeted her viewers confidently, and thanked them for their support.
• Iono asked whether she should try the harder difficulty, but her viewers urged her to stay on easy, and Luo Chen thought it was fortunate Lance was not there to read their comments.

Iono explored the Pokémon Emerald game, caught Pikachu after a disastrous first attempt, and tried to quiz her viewers about it. The chat revealed that it knew facts and game mechanics she had never heard of, leaving her confused by references to Alola Raichu, Volt Tackle, and Z-Crystals.

• Iono explored the area around Rustboro City and followed the chat’s directions toward Dewford Town.
• Iono encountered a rare Pikachu in Petalburg Woods and failed to catch it with five Poké Balls before Pikachu knocked out Combusken and made her black out.
• Iono reloaded her save and caught Pikachu with her third Poké Ball.
• Iono asked the chat how to tell a Pikachu’s gender, and viewers correctly explained the difference in its tail shape.
• Iono answered that Pikachu evolved into Raichu, but the chat told her about Alola Raichu and questioned her about other mechanics she did not know.

Iono thanked her viewers for helping improve Levincia Gym’s streams, then finished her game session and received a mysterious USB drive. Luo Chen suspected Iono’s game module had yet to activate and prepared to give Gengar a turn at the computer.

• Iono guessed that Ma Zhide had the world’s strongest Pikachu, but her chat insisted it was the Pikachu that could zap Arceus.
• Iono thanked her viewers for their earlier streaming advice and asked how to turn her audience into fans of Levincia Gym.
• The chat suggested Gym check-in rewards, challenges, prize draws, and tournaments, and Iono resolved to try their ideas.
• Iono played through Granite Cave, defeated Brawly with Pikachu and Combusken, and reached the beach before her two-hour session ended.
• Iono received eight Internet Café Points and a Wondrous Black USB Drive that could choose music and help edit videos.
• Luo Chen concluded that Iono’s special game module might activate later, then turned his attention to Gengar, whose computer session was next.

Iono watched Gengar begin livestreaming and playing Ultimate Emerald, where his charm quickly drew a large audience. After Gengar cleared the Rustboro Gym with help from spawned items, he asked Luo Chen where he could find a Gengar in the game, and Luo Chen checked what rewards the stream had earned.

• Iono saw Gengar adapt the computer and headphones to fit him, then watched as his livestream audience surged past five hundred when he greeted viewers.
• Luo Chen told Iono that any Pokémon could use the computers and invited her to bring Bellibolt next time; Iono considered whether Bellibolt could attract viewers too.
• Gengar played Ultimate Emerald, collected items that appeared in front of him, and used them to beat the Rustboro Gym with a Combusken.
• After his computer time ended, Gengar told Luo Chen he wanted to find and battle as a Gengar, but Luo Chen explained that the nearest place was Mt. Pyre, which he could reach only later.
• Luo Chen suggested Gengar seek out other Ghost-type Pokémon in the game, then checked the rewards after Gengar's livestream passed a thousand viewers.

After Gengar’s livestream earned him a red mystery box, Luo Chen discovered it contained a Mega Stone for Mewtwo, then received special rewards from Cynthia and Iono when he closed the café. Cynthia’s reward was a map pointing to a legendary relic in Unova, far from the café on Mount Coronet, and Luo Chen turned to see what Iono’s reward was.

• Gengar opened his red mystery box and found a Mega Stone, which Luo Chen recognized as Mewtwo’s, then agreed to keep it safe for him.
• Luo Chen closed the internet café, reviewed the day’s point earnings, and received higher-tier rewards tied to Cynthia’s and Iono’s sessions.
• Cynthia’s reward gave Luo Chen a map that could locate a legendary sacred relic, though its destinations were dangerous and the map had a month-long cooldown after a treasure was obtained.
• Luo Chen activated the map and found its red marker in Unova, far across the world from his café on Mount Coronet in Sinnoh.
• Luo Chen put the map away and turned to inspect the special reward from Iono.

Luo Chen redeemed Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, completed the internet café’s first main quest, and upgraded the café and its facilities. The café now had four computers, while Luo Chen prepared to test his upgraded Berry Juice Machine.

• Luo Chen redeemed Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX and completed the main quest, earning a B-rank treasure chest, Building Points, and an internet café level increase.
• The café expanded to twice its previous size and gained four computers, leaving Gengar stunned by the sudden change.
• Luo Chen unlocked new game and building options, then spent Building Points to obtain an Automatic Restocking Snack Cabinet.
• Luo Chen upgraded the Berry Juice Machine to Lv. 2, increasing its drink output and its chance of producing special drinks.
• Luo Chen decided to use his three additional chances to make drinks immediately.

Luo Chen unlocked a special Elden Ring game set in Hisui and received a quest to promote non-Pokémon games. Meanwhile, Team Aqua operatives broke into a Slateport museum and found themselves surrounded by League enforcers and Lance.

• Luo Chen made two special drinks that boosted Emotion Points and Building Points, then opened a B-rank chest and used its voucher to create Elden Ring: Special Edition.
• Luo Chen discovered the game featured Pokémon battling powerful foes in Hisui and received a quest to get at least three customers to play non-Pokémon games for more than ten hours total.
• Gengar used Will-O-Wisp inside the internet cafe, triggering its fire-safety system to drench him and Luo Chen, who then banned Gengar from using the move indoors and entering the kitchen.
• A Team Aqua officer led operatives to the Slateport museum to steal submarine construction documents, believing the League’s forces were occupied at the shipyard.
• The operatives entered the brightly lit museum and found dozens of League special enforcers waiting, while Lance and his Dragonite blocked their escape.
• The Team Aqua executive recognized Lance and asked whether it was too late to quit Team Aqua.

Luo Chen wondered about the Dragon Plate Fragment and the café’s connected worlds before going to bed, unaware that the café had sharply accelerated worldline alterations. In Kanto, Giovanni investigated Team Aqua’s failed operation and the League’s movements while Team Rocket’s Mewtwo embryo began developing consciousness.

• Luo Chen finished dinner with Gengar, considered the Dragon Plate Fragment and the incomplete worlds connected to his café, and planned to sell the special edition of Elden Ring the next day.
• The internet café’s final settlement triggered a warning that a special story event had intensified worldline alterations, raising progress to 15%.
• A Team Rocket executive told Giovanni that Team Aqua’s operation in Hoenn had been defeated, and Giovanni ordered him to monitor their movements without diverting much effort.
• The executive reported League personnel near Mauville City, so Giovanni ordered operations at Team Rocket’s underground base suspended while they watched the League.
• Giovanni observed researchers announce that the Mewtwo embryo’s life signs were intensifying and that it had developed an initial consciousness, prompting him to believe Team Rocket’s era was near.

Lance, Cynthia, and Iono arrived at Luo Chen’s expanded Internet Café, where they discussed Team Aqua’s thwarted operation and wondered what new games might appear. The chapter ended with Dragonite and Garchomp competing for Luo Chen’s attention, leaving Iono to wonder whether he had a special charm over Dragon-types.

• Lance arrived at the Internet Café with Dragonite after helping capture more than thirty Team Aqua members during their attempted theft of submarine plans in Hoenn.
• Cynthia joined Lance and concluded that Team Aqua’s plan to find Kyogre was probably real, while suspecting the group might target other shipyards.
• Iono arrived with Bellibolt, who hid from the tension between Dragonite and Garchomp before the dragons ended their face-off.
• Lance, Cynthia, and Iono entered the expanded Internet Café, where Luo Chen greeted them and pointed out a Vending Machine with items that had special effects.
• Dragonite and Garchomp rushed to Luo Chen and began competing for his attention, making Iono wonder whether the owner had a special appeal to Dragon-types.

Dragonite defeated Garchomp after mastering Outrage, and Garchomp began playing Elden Ring to get stronger. Cynthia noticed Garchomp at a computer and realized he had lost the spar.

• Garchomp and Dragonite left the internet café to settle their rivalry with a spar while Luo Chen, Cynthia, and Lance stayed inside.
• Dragonite returned triumphant and showed Luo Chen that he could enter and leave the Outrage state, which had helped him beat Garchomp.
• Luo Chen encouraged the dejected Garchomp to try a game, and Garchomp chose Elden Ring after Dragonite smugly whisked Luo Chen away.
• Garchomp's stream went live, and viewers reacted to seeing him play a game they did not recognize.
• Cynthia noticed a viewer's message, looked over, and realized Garchomp had lost to Dragonite.

Cynthia continued her Pokémon Emerald stream, using the game to investigate how to grow Gracidea Seeds while learning about the next Gym route and Pokémon Contests. The viewers’ explanations made her wonder whether the game world was truly virtual.

• Cynthia noticed Garchomp absorbed in a computer game, then started her stream and asked viewers about the Gracidea Seeds she had found.
• Viewers said Gracidea could change Shaymin into another form but could not explain how to grow the flower, so Cynthia continued toward the next Gym.
• Cynthia followed chat’s advice to battle Trainers along the road, gaining experience for her team before reaching a small town.
• Cynthia discovered the Pokémon Contest Hall and learned that Feebas could improve its Beauty through contests, but needed moves and a Pokéblock Case first.
• After learning that Pokéblocks were made from Berries, Cynthia considered how advanced the game’s Trainer systems seemed and questioned whether its world was really virtual.

Cynthia returned to Granite Cave with a mountain bike and uncovered a hidden route leading toward a legendary Pokémon. After crossing two cracked-floor bike challenges, she entered a room where Flash could no longer illuminate the darkness and saw a towering figure.

• Cynthia used Combusken's Rock Smash to break two rocks in Mauville Cave, and the grateful NPCs gave her the Hidden Machine Strength.
• Cynthia obtained a mountain bike and returned to Granite Cave, where she used Dottler's Flash to explore the upper level.
• Cynthia read two Braille tablets that warned of a treacherous path and a legendary rock Pokémon whose power brought calamity.
• Cynthia fell through the cracked floor once, then crossed two bicycle challenges, navigating past rocks on the second attempt.
• Cynthia entered the next room, where Flash stopped working, and a towering figure appeared before her.

Cynthia discovered the sealed Legendary Pokémon Regirock in a cave and learned that ores were needed to break its seal. Unable to identify the ores herself, she called Steven for help, but he did not answer, so she left him a message about her discovery.

• Cynthia found a sleeping Regirock standing within a vast seal and sketched the Pokémon and the pattern beneath it.
• Cynthia examined the seal’s shaped recesses and read a tablet warning that breaking the seal could unleash Regirock’s destructive power.
• Cynthia realized that different ores had to be placed in the recesses but could not identify which ones were needed.
• Cynthia called Steven, the former Hoenn Champion known for his devotion to ores, but he did not answer.
• Cynthia left Steven a message saying she had made discoveries about ores, while the chat speculated about his reaction to Regirock.

Cynthia continued toward Lavaridge Town, activated one of Regirock’s seals with Scizor’s Mega Stone, and battled through the route’s tough trainers and wild Pokémon. In a cave, she found another Sealed Urn seal but avoided approaching it, only to be confronted by Xurkitree at the exit.

• Cynthia placed Scizor’s Mega Stone in a recess in Granite Cave, lighting one point of the six-pointed star before the stone returned to her bag.
• Cynthia headed north toward Lavaridge Town and struggled through repeated battles, eventually raising her whole team to level 27.
• Cynthia tried to enter the desert but turned back after the game warned that the sandstorm was too strong, then entered a hot cave instead.
• Cynthia found a dark purple Sealed Urn seal in a side passage but avoided triggering it, and she realized the nearby boulder could be moved with Strength.
• As Cynthia tried to leave the cave, Xurkitree rushed past and knocked her back, leaving her stunned by its appearance.

Cynthia watched Gladion capture the Ultra Beast Xurkitree with Silvally, then accepted Gladion’s challenge expecting a friendly spar. Gladion’s level 85 Silvally swept her entire team, leaving Cynthia to wonder whether powerful Trainers in the real world would really use their strongest Pokémon against rookies.

• Xurkitree fled deeper into the cave, but Gladion arrived with Silvally and stopped it.
• Silvally changed its markings to Ground-type, resisted Xurkitree’s Electric attack, and defeated it with Fissure; Gladion then captured Xurkitree.
• Gladion told Cynthia that he planned to take the captured Ultra Beasts to the Aether Foundation, and the chat identified his Pokémon as Silvally.
• Gladion challenged Cynthia, and she accepted because she expected him to hold back and saw a chance to earn experience and money.
• Gladion sent out his level 85 Silvally, which defeated Cynthia’s entire team before they could attack.

Cynthia received a Beast Ball from Gladion after losing to him, while Lance searched Mauville City for the Team Rocket Secret Base mentioned in his game. He found a hidden entrance beneath the Game Corner and realized the enormous Game Corner also stood in the real Mauville City.

• Gladion gave Cynthia a Beast Ball and warned her to be careful around Ultra Beasts before leaving.
• Cynthia headed toward the next town after viewers mentioned Team Aqua, Team Magma, and Meteor Falls.
• Lance lost to his rival because the rival’s other Pokémon differed from the team he had seen on Cynthia’s stream, then trained and won a rematch.
• Lance searched Mauville City for Team Rocket’s Secret Base, spoke to a girl whose Pikachu had gone missing, and found a switch behind a crooked picture in the Game Corner.
• Lance descended into the hidden base and wondered whether Team Rocket had evacuated before the Pokémon League arrived.
• Lance checked a map of Hoenn and saw that an enormous Game Corner stood in the center of real Mauville City.

Lance explored Team Rocket’s deserted Secret Base in Zige City and discovered a hidden laboratory where a researcher had turned an Eevee into a Pokémon that could transform into different evolutions during battle. As the injured Eevee suddenly attacked its handler, Lance’s fight against it remained unresolved.

• Lance memorized the layout of Team Rocket’s base and decided to lead an operation to clear it out, then found a hidden passage and opened its locked door with the password ROCKET.
• Lance entered a laboratory filled with cages, bloodstains, and surgical tools, where a mysterious researcher confronted him and sent out a strange Eevee.
• The Eevee transformed into Flareon and defeated Grovyle with a super-effective Flamethrower, then changed back into its original form.
• Lance sent out Butterfree and prepared to use Sleep Powder, but the Eevee began convulsing in pain before Butterfree could act.
• The researcher ordered the Eevee to attack again, but it transformed into Jolteon and fired a bolt of lightning at him.

Lance uncovered a Team Rocket experiment log linked to the Mewtwo Project and left the Internet Café to act. Meanwhile, Iono streamed Ultimate Emerald, earned the Mauville Badge, and reconsidered raising the difficulty after seeing Cynthia lose another battle.

• Lance found an experiment log connecting the Eevee experiment to the Mewtwo Project and ended his stream to take action.
• Lance left the Internet Café with Dragonite while Cynthia and Iono inferred that he had found urgent information.
• Iono began her stream, thanked viewers for helping her Gym stream, and promised to learn to dance for them.
• Iono played Ultimate Emerald on easy, reached Mauville City, defeated Wattson, and earned the Mauville Badge and Thunderbolt Technical Machine.
• Iono saw Cynthia black out after losing a battle and decided that playing on easy seemed fine.

Lance rushed out of the Internet Café with Dragonite, apparently after discovering Team Rocket’s base in Mauville City, while Luo Chen served Iono and Cynthia free Berry drinks. Iono tried the café’s pickled chili chicken feet, mistakenly ate the bones, and insisted they were not spicy until the heat overwhelmed her.

• Lance abruptly left the Internet Café with Dragonite, and Iono welcomed viewers who had come from Lance’s stream.
• Luo Chen gave Iono and Cynthia free drinks, which both found unusually delicious.
• Iono used an Internet Café Point to redeem pickled chili chicken feet, then learned she could only redeem one snack per day.
• Iono mistook the chicken feet’s bones for edible parts, ate them, and realized the snack tasted good.
• Although Iono declared the chicken feet were not spicy, the heat soon hit her and she screamed for water.

Iono recovered from Luo Chen’s spicy snack, discovered Garchomp playing Elden Ring, and spent her remaining points to try the new game. Its opening cinematic introduced the shattered Creation Plate and Hisui’s descent into chaos, then ended on a mysterious figure riding a colossal black horse.

• Iono ate Special Pickled Chili Chicken Feet, which boosted her and her Pokémon’s pain tolerance and doubled her Internet Café Points for the day.
• Luo Chen received a Building Point for Iono’s purchase and considered how to earn more green Emotion Points.
• Iono saw Garchomp playing Elden Ring and spent 10 points to unlock the game.
• Iono began streaming Elden Ring, while viewers assured her that the game was easy and welcomed her to try it.
• The cinematic showed the Creation Plate shattering, Hisui falling into chaos, and powerful beings fighting over its fragments.
• Iono saw a pale, crowned figure riding a huge black horse and wondered what Pokémon it was.

Iono watched the game's cinematic reveal powerful Pokémon corrupted by Plate fragments and learn that she must reclaim the Plates to save Hisui. At character selection, she discovered that Lucario was locked until she completed the game and was left baffled by the option to play as a nearly powerless fish.

• Iono watched the cinematic show powerful Pokémon and learned that collecting the Plates could make her the King of Hisui and help the world survive.
• Iono interpreted the story as a mission to defeat the corrupted Pokémon and recover the fragments, while her livestream chat praised the cinematic.
• Iono reached the starting-character selection and found that Lucario had strong stats and abilities but was locked until she completed the game once.
• Iono compared the available Pokémon, including Gardevoir, Snorlax, and Weavile, before turning to another character page.
• Iono found Useless Fish, which had only 1 in every stat and no abilities or starting spells, and wondered who would choose it.