Chapter Summaries

Lin Hao and the League Elite Squad overwhelmed Cyrus's God-Hunting Weapon No. Zero by exploiting its processing delays, but the damaged machine began a self-destruct charge toward the mine entrance. Arceus contained the blast in a spatial barrier, and Lin Hao prepared to confront the still-living weapon before it could destroy the route to Cyrus's headquarters.

• Team Galactic's God-Hunting Weapon No. Zero emerged from the mine and attacked Lin Hao and the League Elite Squad, reflecting Red's Blast Burn and resisting Suicune's Ice Beam.
• Steven identified the weapon's brief calculation intervals, and the group coordinated attacks from several directions while Pikachu baited it into striking its own barriers.
• Metagross, Garchomp, and Charizard shattered the weapon's barriers and exposed its core, but the machine began a self-destruct sequence and charged toward the mine entrance.
• Lin Hao called on Arceus to contain the explosion in a spatial barrier, accepting that it would weaken Arceus's suppression of the rift at Spear Pillar for twenty-five minutes.
• Lin Hao drew a Poké Ball and prepared to enter the barrier because the weapon was still alive.

Lin Hao and May fought their way toward Team Galactic's control room to stop its machine from linking Arceus's barrier to the rift. They reached the lowest level, where Cyrus was waiting before the Spear Pillar rift display.

• Lin Hao realized the machine was using its cables to connect headquarters' control network to Arceus's barrier, and he sent Steven and Red to destroy it while Cynthia held the perimeter.
• Lin Hao and May descended into the mine tunnels as Arceus warned that its barrier would last only fifteen minutes and Dialga would awaken early if the connection completed.
• May and Lin Hao fought off Crobat and Team Galactic members, then Lucario broke through a steel door by striking its lock with Aura Sphere.
• Lin Hao defeated commander Morin after Morin attacked him and May, and the pair continued down the elevator shaft.
• Cynthia warned Lin Hao that Cyrus was in the control room, and Lin Hao and May found Cyrus waiting beside a screen showing the rift at Spear Pillar.

Cyrus revealed his plan to use Dialga and Palkia to remake the world, while Lin Hao and May searched for a way to stop the system without triggering a catastrophic collapse. As Pikachu freed Tyranitar from one control conduit, Cynthia reported that Red had been trapped in Palkia’s spatial turbulence.

• Cyrus activated the Red Chain fragments and summoned Dialga and Palkia toward the rift at Spear Pillar.
• Cyrus threatened that destroying the main console would cause a chain collapse, so Lin Hao decided to target the energy lines instead.
• May found Cyrus’s Backup Power Diagram and identified seven key relay points among 97 nodes.
• Cyrus sent a conduit-controlled Tyranitar to attack Lin Hao, and Lucario’s Aura Sphere was absorbed by the device on its back.
• Lin Hao recognized Tyranitar’s distress, and Pikachu broke one of its conduits with Iron Tail.
• Cynthia told Lin Hao that Palkia’s rift had opened early and Red was trapped in the spatial turbulence.

Lin Hao coordinated a rescue across Mt. Coronet’s collapsing spatial and temporal distortions while fighting Cyrus and his modified Pokémon. May discovered that one of the seven relay points lay beyond the rift, and Cyrus revealed that the gate was not meant for Dialga and Palkia.

• Lin Hao summoned Ho-Oh to stabilize the control room, then assigned Steven, Cynthia, and Red tasks to disable relay points and escape the distortions.
• Lin Hao told Red to find the boundary of folded space and strike where Palkia’s Scale resonated most strongly.
• Cyrus sent Tyranitar and a modified Salamence to attack Lin Hao and May as they worked to locate the relay points.
• May identified three relay points, and Lin Hao directed Steven, Cynthia, and Red to their locations.
• Pikachu’s Volt Tackle broke Salamence’s control tubes, and May found a fourth relay point beyond the rift.
• Cyrus said the gate had never been meant for Dialga and Palkia.

Cyrus used his life force to become the rift’s final relay point and summon an unknown god from beyond the space-time interlayer. As Lin Hao prepared to enter the rift and destroy the node, an enormous eye opened within it and its ancient will demanded to know who had awakened it.

• Cyrus revealed that he intended to summon a god hidden in the primordial chaos and bound himself to the system as its final relay point.
• Dialga and Palkia fully manifested, but the Red Chain dragged them toward the rift as space collapsed around Mt. Coronet.
• Red shattered the Palkia Scale, but Cyrus replaced the severed relay with his own body and reconnected the energy conduits.
• Lin Hao told Arceus to summon every mobilizable Legendary Pokémon and announced that he would enter the space-time interlayer to destroy the final node.
• May gave Lin Hao her Communicator and made him promise to keep the channel open as he prepared to enter the rift.
• An enormous eye opened beyond the rift, and an ancient will asked who had awakened it.

Lin Hao learned that the rift held an echo of chaos that was using Cyrus as a doorway to enter the world. He kept Cyrus alive and planned to force the entity into physical form so it could be fought, then challenged it to descend.

• May reported widespread space-time anomalies around Mt. Coronet as the rift expanded, while Arceus identified the entity as an echo of chaos that had once tried to devour time, space, and the Distortion World.
• The entity turned Cyrus into its vessel and pierced him with the Red Chain; when Cyrus begged for help, Lin Hao refused to rescue him immediately, fearing Arceus's true descent would let the rift swallow half of Sinnoh.
• Lin Hao summoned Ho-Oh to keep Cyrus alive, then told Steven to send the God-Hunting Weapon's remaining energy beneath the rift so the entity would absorb it and take physical form.
• Lin Hao declared that Cyrus would serve as the entity's doorway and challenged it to descend; the entity accepted, and white light surged across Mt. Coronet.

The Chaos Will began descending into the world by devouring Cyrus and the God-Hunting Weapon's core, revealing its space-time anchor as its weakness. Lin Hao and his allies pinned it down and launched a coordinated assault, ending with Pikachu charging toward the core.

• The Chaos Will used its white arms to tear the Red Chains from Cyrus and devour his life force as it descended.
• Steven delivered the God-Hunting Weapon's remaining core, which the Chaos Will absorbed and used to solidify its body.
• Arceus and May identified the Chaos Will's glowing space-time anchor as its weak point, and Lin Hao's team fought to protect May while she calculated its shifting waves.
• May found a brief opening in the anchor's defenses, and Steven, Cynthia, Red, and Lin Hao's Pokémon launched a coordinated attack.
• Lin Hao sent Pikachu surging through the allies' attacks toward the Chaos Will's core as May ordered them to shatter it.

Lin Hao entered the collapsing rift to rescue Pikachu and escaped with it as Arceus, Dialga, and Palkia closed the gate. Cyrus was defeated and captured, and May reunited with Lin Hao at Mt. Coronet.

• Pikachu damaged the chaotic shadow’s core, but a chain dragged Pikachu into the collapsing rift, so Lin Hao asked Arceus to teleport him inside.
• Lin Hao followed Lucario’s aura to Pikachu, broke the chain with Pikachu, and fled toward the exit as the remnant of chaos attacked.
• Cyrus tried to reconnect the control system outside the rift, but Lin Hao emerged with Pikachu while May and Blaziken confronted him.
• Arceus, Dialga, and Palkia shrank the rift, and Pikachu’s Thunderbolt knocked Cyrus away from the control console.
• The rift closed, League members captured Cyrus, and May scolded Lin Hao as Steven, Cynthia, and Red confirmed the crisis had ended.

After Team Galactic’s defeat, Lin Hao tried to avoid League duties, but Arceus revealed that fragments of the Chaos Echo remained scattered across the regions. Lin Hao agreed to travel and search for them after a vacation, while May joined him and Red invited them to fish in Sandgem Town.

• Steven reported that Team Galactic’s forces had been captured and Team Rocket’s hidden Sinnoh bases had been eliminated.
• Cynthia confirmed the space-time anomaly was gone and told Lin Hao to attend the League’s press conference, while May assigned him reports and follow-up duties.
• Arceus appeared and called Lin Hao “Master,” then warned that fragments of the Chaos Echo had scattered across various regions.
• Steven announced that the League would establish a Survey Corps, and Lin Hao said he would vacation before traveling to look for the fragments.
• Lin Hao invited May to travel with him, and Red asked them to join him fishing at Sandgem Town the next morning.

Lin Hao, May, Red, and Steven went fishing at Sandgem Town's harbor, where they encountered a Red Gyarados empowered by a chaos fragment. After they freed Gyarados and sealed the fragment, Lin Hao fled the crowd with May and Pikachu, leaving Steven behind.

• Lin Hao confirmed that he was stepping down as Hoenn Champion and that Steven would take over, despite Steven's protests.
• Pikachu noticed an abnormal presence in the sea, and Lin Hao learned that a chaos fragment had been swallowed by a Pokémon.
• A fragment-empowered Red Gyarados attacked the harbor, and Lin Hao's group worked together to restrain him without hurting him.
• Lucario used aura to draw the fragment out of Gyarados, Pikachu smashed it, and Arceus sealed it as Gyarados collapsed safely into the sea.
• As the crowd gathered around them, Lin Hao grabbed Pikachu and ran, with May following and Steven shouting after them to leave the lunch money.