Recaps

Xinhai recruited a Charmander from Lavaridge Gym, developed her training, and established Starfire Studio with Scott and his friends to produce an animation. He then took his team into Mt. Chimney, where a coordinated Beedrill swarm forced them to retreat and camp beside a stream.

• Xinhai signed an investment agreement with Lavaridge Gym, explored its underground habitat, and chose a promising Charmander to join his team.
• Xinhai caught Charmander, introduced her to his partners, and began training her while improving the rest of the team at Lavaridge Gym.
• Xinhai drafted an animation proposal for The Adventures of Lolo, and Flannery, Brawly, and Roxanne helped him secure support and contact Scott.
• Xinhai, Scott, and Flannery founded Starfire Studio, and Xinhai accepted a 51% share with authority over the story’s core creative direction.
• Xinhai took his partners into Mt. Chimney, where Charmander gained battle experience and the group gathered Nanab Berries and Pecha Berries.
• Charmander and Xinhai’s partners fought Beedrill, but a leader empowered the colony and coordinated nearly a hundred of them into a devastating attack.
• Gardevoir Teleported Xinhai and Eevee out of the swarm’s strike, and Xinhai called off the journey and camped with his team beside a stream.

Xinhai survived the unrest on Mt. Chimney, helped defend League Trainers, and recovered Beedrill honey and Eggs from a ruined hive. He saved a dangerously imbalanced Egg with help from Flannery and Joy Luo, then set out for Fallarbor Town with his partners.

• Xinhai learned that Team Magma had tested the Heart of the Furnace on Mt. Chimney, and Maxie ordered the team to destroy its equipment and escape as Mura arrived.
• As the mountain disturbance drove aggressive Pokémon downhill, Xinhai and his partners escaped a Magcargo herd and joined Officer Jenny’s defenders against hundreds of wild Fire-type Pokémon.
• Xinhai’s squad helped Officer Jenny hold the line until Mura suppressed the nearby Elite-level Pokémon, after which Xinhai found the Beedrill hive ruined and its inhabitants dead.
• Xinhai recovered Royal Jelly and eleven Beedrill Eggs from the hive, then brought his exhausted partners to Lavaridge Town for treatment.
• Flannery helped Xinhai test the Eggs, revealing that one faced a dangerous Bug-to-Poison energy imbalance, and Joy Luo supplied a Royal Jelly nurturing formula to treat it.
• Xinhai and his partners followed the formula, and after a week Flannery confirmed that the Egg was stable and expected to hatch in nine to twelve days.
• Xinhai gave most of the other Eggs to friends and children from Lavaridge Town’s orphanages, then prepared to travel to Fallarbor Town and explore Meteor Falls.
• Xinhai and his partners left Lavaridge Town, crossed Fiery Path, and continued north through Route 113 toward Fallarbor Town.

Xinhai rescued a rare Hoothoot from poachers, prepared his Pokémon with training and new supplies, and welcomed Weedle after it hatched. After Sandile evolved into Krokorok, Xinhai led his team into Meteor Falls, where they fought Gravelers and found a cavern inhabited by many Water-type Pokémon.

• Xinhai stayed in Aoki Village after being warned about poachers near Meteor Falls, then intervened when three poachers tried to capture an injured Shiny Hoothoot.
• Xinhai and Gardevoir helped defeat the poachers, and Officer Jenny brought Xinhai to Fallarbor Town to give his statement while Hoothoot received treatment.
• Xinhai used his League Points to buy potions and supplements, trained his Pokémon, and helped Blaziken, Gardevoir, and Eevee improve their techniques.
• Weedle hatched from its egg, joined Xinhai’s team, and was welcomed by his Pokémon.
• Xinhai prepared Sandile for evolution with Ground-, Dark-, and Dragon-type resources, and Sandile evolved into Krokorok.
• Xinhai led his Pokémon into Meteor Falls, where Krokorok and its teammates defeated three attacking Gravelers.
• Linoone found a Moon Stone and companion ores in an excavated cave, then led Xinhai’s group through another passage to a cavern with a waterfall-fed pool full of Slowpoke and other Pokémon.

Xinhai explored Meteor Falls, gathered valuable ores, and welcomed a lonely Axew into his team. After returning to Fallarbor Town to support Axew’s recovery, he arranged new supplies and learned the value of refining his Metal Coat Ore.

• Xinhai explored Meteor Falls with his Pokémon, collecting pearls, fossils, ores, and gems while battling wild Pokémon and mining valuable deposits.
• Xinhai met Axew, who had been abandoned by her clan, and welcomed her onto his team after Eevee helped her trust them.
• Xinhai camped with Axew, introduced her to the team, and decided to leave Meteor Falls without exploring the dangerous Leyline Node so she could recover.
• Xinhai brought Axew to the Pokémon Center, where Nurse Joy found no harmful defects but diagnosed malnutrition, delayed development, weak immunity, and anxiety.
• Xinhai planned Axew and Weedle’s recovery routines and prepared special meals while his Pokémon supported Axew.
• Xinhai sold and traded minerals, bought purified materials, and secured approval for a larger Spatial Backpack.
• Xinhai asked Iron Hammer Old Li to assess his Metal Coat Ore, and Old Li estimated the batch could yield about 78.7 kilograms of refined Metal Coat and offered to make custom alloy Metal Coats.