Chapter Summaries

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.

Iono chose Bellibolt for the game and began exploring a Hisui shrouded in black mist. After defeating a corrupted Charmander, she reached a terrace overlooking a gigantic golden tree and spotted a pink figure near its top.

• Iono skipped Magikarp and selected Bellibolt, whose stats and Static ability appealed to her.
• The game transformed Ditto into Bellibolt and declared that Iono must journey to Hisui and become its new lord.
• Iono examined the interface, found a player message, and looted Black Sludge from a near-death Muk.
• A corrupted Charmander lunged at Iono, but Bellibolt defeated it and earned a level and a stat point.
• Iono looted blackened Charcoal and opened the door onto a terrace, where she saw a vast golden tree and noticed a pink figure near its top.

Iono encountered a powerful Muk that defeated Bellibolt in one hit, then a mysterious blue Gardevoir revived him and led her into the Stranded Graveyard. After repeatedly dying to a tutorial Rattata, Iono learned to dodge and counterattack, leveled up, and decided she was ready to head outside.

• Iono crossed a bridge and encountered the Scion of the Devourer Nobles, whose Muk defeated Bellibolt in one hit.
• A blue Gardevoir appeared in a cutscene, healed Bellibolt, and left him with a red bottle in his inventory.
• Iono learned the basic controls in the Stranded Graveyard, then panicked and was defeated by a Rattata.
• Iono returned to the Rattata, dodged its attacks, and defeated it and other Rattata as she grew more proficient.
• Bellibolt reached level three, and Iono decided there should be no problem heading outside.

Iono explored the ruined wilderness with Bellibolt, then challenged the powerful Tree Sentinel guarding a golden treasure chest. After repeated attempts and learning to dodge and counter, she reached half its HP before an unexpected combo defeated her and damaged her table.

• Iono defeated low-level wild Pokémon, raised Bellibolt's stamina, and equipped a Worn-out Bone Club.
• Iono found a golden treasure chest guarded by a Ceruledge riding a corrupted Venusaur, which she recognized as a boss.
• Iono trusted the chat's encouragement and challenged the Tree Sentinel, but its attacks quickly defeated Bellibolt.
• Iono repeatedly returned from the bonfire, learned to dodge attacks and counter during recovery, and eventually reduced the boss's HP by half.
• The Tree Sentinel surprised Iono with Venusaur's Vine Whip and Ceruledge's rising slash, defeating Bellibolt and prompting Iono to punch the table.

Iono repeatedly challenged the Ceruledge and Venusaur boss before giving up and losing the Strength Shards she had dropped on death. She bypassed the boss, reached Gatefront, met Gardevoir at a bonfire, and began fighting the local Pokémon, where a Chatot's call left her uneasy.

• Iono learned the boss's attack patterns and brought Ceruledge down to its final third, but its faster dismounted attacks and Venusaur's Razor Leaves defeated her.
• After several more failed attempts, Iono decided to bypass the Tree Sentinel and discovered her dropped Strength Shards were gone.
• Iono reached Gatefront and rested at a bonfire, where Gardevoir offered to convert her shards into strength, but Iono had none to spend.
• Iono defeated several sleeping Tyrogue and a Chatot in the camp, then missed a Thunder Shock against another Chatot, which called out and made her uneasy.