Chapter Summaries

Steven and Ash’s group met Meray in Dahara City, where Barza arrived and opened the Prison Bottle, transforming Hoopa into Hoopa Unbound. With the evil power now controlling Hoopa, Steven asked the dazed Barza to hand over the bottle.

• Steven used Hoopa’s ring to bring Ash’s group to Dahara City, where they met Meray and learned she had lost contact with her brother Barza.
• Meray recalled how doughnuts had become Hoopa’s favorite after she, Barza, and Hoopa repaired a Golden Ring of Creation statue they had broken.
• Barza arrived on Braviary with red, bloodshot eyes, and Steven noticed something was wrong as Barza opened the Prison Bottle.
• The evil shadow from the Prison Bottle engulfed Hoopa Confined and transformed it into Hoopa Unbound.
• Barza’s eyes cleared as Hoopa Unbound took on the red-eyed power, and Steven held out his hand and asked Barza for the Prison Bottle.

Steven stopped Hoopa Unbound by drawing the Shadow energy back into the Prison Bottle, and Ash caught the exhausted Hoopa. With the bottle contained but no permanent way to seal it, Steven decided to wait for Li Wei and Cynthia while the group took Hoopa for treatment.

• Barza opened the Prison Bottle while under its influence, releasing the Shadow energy and transforming Hoopa into Hoopa Unbound.
• Steven used the Prison Bottle to draw the Shadow energy out of Hoopa Unbound, while Metagross caught the bottle with Confusion and Ash caught Hoopa.
• Barza thanked Steven and explained that he had wanted to return Hoopa's power, while Steven concluded that the Prison Bottle had seized Barza's mind and changed Hoopa's personality.
• Steven kept the Prison Bottle under Metagross's control and decided to wait for Li Wei and Cynthia before choosing where to seal it.
• Meray worried that Hoopa might destroy Dahara City, but Steven reassured her and suggested taking Hoopa to a Pokémon Center.

Li Wei and Cynthia prepared to face Hoopa’s crisis while hoping to avoid a battle between Legendary Pokémon. In Dahara City, Steven learned how Hoopa’s power had been sealed and decided to help it understand the meaning of punishment.

• Li Wei told Cynthia he would try to resolve the crisis without calling in other Legendary Pokémon, and she promised to face it with him.
• Steven failed to contact Li Wei, then joined Ash’s group for dinner at the Pokémon Center, where Hoopa recovered and befriended Pikachu and Dedenne.
• Baraz and Meray showed their necklaces and explained that Arceus had granted their family the Power of Overcoming; Sheena said Li Wei possessed it most strongly.
• Baraz and Meray explained that their great-grandfather Ghris had sealed Hoopa’s power until it understood the meaning of punishment.
• After hearing their account, Steven promised to help Hoopa understand punishment and regain its true power.

In Dahara City, Li Wei reassured Hoopa that its sealed Shadow was not its true nature and explained that Hoopa had been innocent before humans influenced it. He then prepared to tell everyone Giratina’s firsthand account of what happened a hundred years ago.

• Li Wei and Cynthia arrived at the Pokémon Center, where Steven, Sheena, Barza, Meray, Robin, Ash, and Hoopa were pondering the Prison Bottle and its Shadow.
• Li Wei fed Hoopa and the other Pokémon, while Barza and Meray sensed that Li Wei’s Power of Overcoming surpassed their great-grandfather Ghris’s.
• Li Wei told the group that he and Cynthia had just visited the Distortion World and learned about the past from Giratina.
• Li Wei explained that Hoopa had originally been innocent and kind, and that humans had caused the Shadow’s evil nature.
• Hoopa happily repeated that it was innocent and kind, and Li Wei began to tell Giratina’s eyewitness account of the events a hundred years earlier.

The group learned how Hoopa’s fighting urges and the Shadow’s influence had led to the destruction of Dahara Town, and they planned to purify the Shadow and restore Hoopa’s full power. They chose to try purification at Dahara Tower and began gathering people to help.

• Steven explained that Dahara Town’s residents had encouraged Hoopa to fight, until negative emotions awakened the Shadow and Hoopa lost control.
• Li Wei and Steven reassured Hoopa that the Shadow’s power was part of Hoopa, though it had taken Hoopa down the wrong path.
• Robin suggested keeping the Prison Bottle sealed at Michina Temple, but Li Wei convinced him that this would only postpone the danger.
• Li Wei proposed purifying the Shadow or releasing it in the desert and defeating it, and everyone chose to try purification at Dahara Tower.
• Li Wei suggested using Hoopa to bring Palkia over, while Steven said he had already posted a message in the Chat Group to gather help.

Li Wei and the others gathered at Dahara Tower to purify the Prison Bottle’s century-old Shadow using Aura, the Viridian Force, and the Power of Overcoming. Their combined effort met fierce resistance, and the Shadow began draining their strength as it resisted purification.

• Red, Blue, Lance, and Yellow arrived in Dahara City through Hoopa’s ring to help Li Wei.
• Li Wei warned the group not to touch the Prison Bottle and led them to Dahara Tower for the purification.
• The group placed the Prison Bottle on the tower’s ancient formation, while Red, Blue, Steven, and Cynthia prepared to guard the others.
• Li Wei, Ash, Sheena, Meray, Barza, Lance, and Yellow joined their powers to bind and soothe the Shadow inside the bottle.
• The Shadow resisted the purification, began eroding their minds, and drained their power as Sheena said it refused to communicate or be purified.

After their attempt to purify the Prison Bottle failed, Li Wei and the others decided to release the shadow inside and fight it in a remote valley. They opened the bottle, and the taller shadow Hoopa emerged while Hoopa Confined remained safely behind the Diancie.

• Li Wei and Steven called off the purification attempt and settled on fighting the shadow away from Dahara City.
• Steven chose a barren valley north of Route 111, and the group agreed to meet there the next morning.
• The group traveled to the Nameless Valley, where Sheena suspected Yveltal had once unleashed Death Wing.
• Li Wei arranged for Hoopa Confined to stay behind two Diancie while Yellow joined the fighters and the others watched from the cliffs.
• Li Wei remotely opened the Prison Bottle, releasing a violet haze that revealed a taller shadow Hoopa.
• Yellow noticed there were two Hoopa as the shadow Hoopa opened all six rings.

Shadow Hoopa summoned six formidable Legendary Pokémon from other worlds to face the group in the Nameless Valley. The chapter ended as the enraged Pokémon gathered beneath the storm, with the Time-Space Instrument sounding an alarm in Michina Temple.

• Li Wei and the others faced Shadow Hoopa after it emerged from the Prison Bottle, and Cynthia recognized it as consciousness born from power.
• Shadow Hoopa opened six Hyperspace Holes and summoned Origin Forme Dialga and Origin Forme Palkia from other worlds.
• Shadow Hoopa also summoned Kyurem, Primal Groudon, Primal Kyogre, and a Shiny Regigigas, while Groudon's Desolate Land and Kyogre's primordial sea clashed.
• Li Wei warned everyone that the Legendary Pokémon were not the ones they had met before, and Lance noticed their eyes had turned bloodshot under Shadow Hoopa's resentment.
• The battle's arrival triggered the Time-Space Instrument's alarm at Michina Temple as space-time shook beneath the storm.

Li Wei and his allies faced Shadow Hoopa’s otherworldly Legendary Pokémon as Black Rayquaza and Giratina answered his call. Red, Blue, Lance, Cynthia, and Hoopa Confined joined the battle, which continued with Li Wei preparing another summons.

• Shadow Hoopa summoned Origin Forme Dialga and Palkia, Primal Groudon and Kyogre, Shiny Regigigas, and Kyurem to attack Li Wei’s group.
• Li Wei sent out Regigigas and called Black Rayquaza, which Mega Evolved and cleared the storm with Delta Stream.
• Origin Forme Giratina emerged from the Distortion World after evading Shadow Hoopa’s attempt to summon it, then roared at the invaders.
• Shadow Hoopa ordered its six controlled Legendary Pokémon to attack, while Barza and Meray watched in shock as Li Wei’s allies fought back.
• Red Mega Evolved Charizard, Blue Mega Evolved Blastoise, and Lance Mega Evolved Dragonite as Garchomp and Darkrai joined the battle.
• Li Wei asked Hoopa Confined to summon a couple of Pokémon for him.

Li Wei and his allies fought Shadow Hoopa and the Legendary Pokémon it had summoned in Nameless Valley. As the battle remained deadlocked, Li Wei encouraged Hoopa to summon reinforcements, and Hoopa brought Reshiram, Zekrom, and Lugia through its golden rings.

• Giratina attacked the summoned Pokémon while Black Rayquaza and Regigigas joined the battle against them.
• Steven, Blue, Red, and Ash led their Pokémon in attacks against Primal Groudon, Primal Kyogre, Shadow Hoopa, and Black Kyurem.
• Li Wei sent Milotic to help Blue, and Milotic used Origin Pulse to break the stalemate against Primal Kyogre.
• Li Wei reassured the guilty Hoopa and asked it to summon powerful allies, naming Reshiram and Zekrom.
• Hoopa opened three golden rings and brought Reshiram, Zekrom, and Lugia to Nameless Valley.

Hoopa brought Reshiram and Zekrom to the battlefield, where Ash and Cynthia rode them into battle, while Lugia arrived to aid Blue. Li Wei and the allied Legendary Pokémon continued fighting the otherworldly forces, and the chapter ended with Lugia charging Shiny Regigigas.

• Hoopa summoned Reshiram and Zekrom, and Ash and Cynthia mounted the dragons to join the battle.
• Lugia emerged from Hoopa’s third ring, calmed the chaotic currents, and agreed to fight alongside Blue.
• Ash, Cynthia, Blue, Li Wei, and their Pokémon coordinated attacks against the otherworldly Legendary Pokémon as the tide of battle began to turn.
• Li Wei told Cynthia to join Ash while he stayed with Darkrai, Garchomp, and Giratina.
• Steven joined Black Rayquaza in the sky, while Giratina fought Shiny Regigigas at close range.
• Blue ordered Lugia to use Dragon Rush, and Lugia charged into Shiny Regigigas.

Li Wei coordinated the defenders through Lucario’s Aura as their Pokémon fought the Otherworld Legendary Pokémon. Giratina defeated Shiny Regigigas and joined the aerial battle, while Latios and Latias were enveloped by Meloetta’s Eon Flute as Black Kyurem prepared Glaciate.

• Li Wei and Mega Lucario used Aura to coordinate the defenders’ attacks and warn them of incoming moves.
• Giratina struck Shiny Regigigas with Shadow Force while it was immobilized, causing the first Legendary Pokémon to lose the ability to battle.
• Giratina joined Black Mega Rayquaza and Steven’s Metagross against Origin Forme Dialga and Palkia, helping break Palkia’s barrier and knock Dialga from the sky.
• Zekrom and Reshiram battered Black Kyurem, but Cynthia recognized that it was gathering energy for Glaciate.
• Li Wei ordered Latios and Latias to join Meloetta, which played the Eon Flute and enveloped them in its music.

Li Wei, Cynthia, and Ash worked together to defeat Kyurem, while Red and Pikachu battled Shadow Hoopa. Red’s Gigavolt Havoc shattered Hoopa’s ring defense and sent it falling from the sky.

• Li Wei used the Eon Flute to Mega Evolve Latios and Latias, whose attacks weakened Kyurem and restricted its movement.
• Cynthia, Reshiram, Latios, Latias, Garchomp, and Ash’s Pikachu combined their attacks to render Kyurem unable to battle.
• Red and Pikachu attacked Shadow Hoopa, but Hoopa used its rings to redirect Thunderbolt toward Mega Charizard X.
• Yellow boosted Charizard and Pikachu with the Viridian Force, and Pikachu disrupted Hoopa’s ring so Charizard’s Flare Blitz could hit it.
• Red and Pikachu unleashed Gigavolt Havoc, breaking through Hoopa’s stacked rings and sending the charred Shadow Hoopa plummeting from the sky.

Red and Pikachu defeated Shadow Hoopa, restoring Hoopa Unbound and allowing it to send the visiting Legendary Pokémon back to their worlds. When Hoopa could not pass through its own rings, Li Wei explained that it still needed to understand Arceus’s punishment, and Hoopa began to grasp its place in the family around it.

• Red and Pikachu defeated Shadow Hoopa with Gigavolt Havoc and World-Cleansing Thunder, restoring Hoopa’s full power and true form.
• Hoopa sent the visiting Legendary Pokémon back to their respective worlds, while Giratina returned to the Distortion World and Rayquaza flew through a golden ring.
• Hoopa tried repeatedly to travel through its own rings but was bounced back, leaving it confused and hurt.
• Li Wei told Hoopa that regaining its power was not enough and asked whether it understood what punishment meant.
• Hoopa remembered Ghris telling it that it had become part of his family, and it began to understand as it looked at its friends.

Hoopa understood that its restriction was meant to teach it responsibility and protect it from its own power, allowing Arceus to lift the restraint. The real Arceus then departed, and Li Wei explained that the Arceus they had encountered in Michina was only an avatar.

• Cynthia said punishment restrained the heart that wielded power, and Ash encouraged Hoopa by pointing out how it had used its power to help others.
• Hoopa realized its heart had to be stronger than its power and resolved to use that power to protect everyone.
• The real Arceus descended and explained that it had restricted Hoopa to protect Hoopa and the world, teaching that power was a responsibility rather than a plaything.
• Hoopa accepted the lesson, and the invisible lock on its power dissolved as Arceus lifted the restriction.
• Arceus departed after nodding to Li Wei, who confirmed it had been the real Arceus.
• Li Wei explained that Arceus observed multiple parallel worlds and that the Arceus they had met in Michina was an avatar.

Li Wei explained the immense power of Arceus's true body after helping resolve the Hoopa crisis. He and the others returned to Dahara City, then traveled to the Valley of Creation to help seal the Prison Bottle.

• Li Wei said Arceus had reached the multiverse level and described how Black Rayquaza had repeatedly challenged its true body without injuring it.
• Hoopa brought everyone back to the Pokémon Center in Dahara City, where the arrival of six renowned Trainers alarmed the residents.
• Nurse Joy treated everyone's Pokémon, and Sheena and Robin left while Barza and Meray invited the group to the Valley of Creation.
• Red, Blue, Yellow, and Lance chose to return to the Kanto Region, while Li Wei, Cynthia, Ash, Serena, Clemont, Bonnie, and Steven accepted the invitation.
• Hoopa transported the group to the peaceful Valley of Creation, where they prepared to help Barza and Meray seal the Prison Bottle.

Li Wei, Cynthia, and their group arrived in the Valley of Creation and explored the village, where the residents welcomed them because Hoopa had accepted them. Li Wei offered to cook for Hoopa, hoping to build a bond while letting Hoopa stay with its family in the valley.

• The group arrived in the Valley of Creation and admired the Golden Wheel of Creation statue as Meray explained its origins.
• The residents recognized Li Wei, Cynthia, and their Pokémon, and Barza held back from announcing that Hoopa had regained all its abilities at Li Wei's request.
• Meray showed the group the village's buildings and murals, and Bonnie asked to paint a picture of herself with Hoopa.
• Li Wei offered to make dinner for Hoopa, who eagerly celebrated the promise of food.
• Li Wei planned to let Hoopa visit the Theme Park while remaining with its family in the Valley of Creation, and Serena and Bonnie volunteered to help cook.

After returning home with Hoopa, Li Wei invited it, Barza, and Meray to visit and welcomed them at breakfast the next morning. Hoopa explored the Theme Park under Li Wei’s warning to use its powers carefully, and Li Wei promised to introduce it to a new friend later.

• Hoopa opened a ring to Li Wei’s home, and Li Wei invited Hoopa, Barza, and Meray to visit again.
• Hoopa poked through a ring the next night, and Li Wei promised to give it doughnuts the next day.
• Hoopa startled Leon at breakfast by appearing through a golden ring, and Li Wei explained its ability to travel through space.
• Hoopa ate noodles with Li Wei’s friends, who learned it was a Mythical Pokémon like Victini and Diancie.
• Li Wei told Hoopa to be careful with its powers at the Theme Park and promised to introduce it to a new friend.

After receiving the Mind Plate, Li Wei welcomed Hoopa to stay at the Theme Park and planned to introduce Hoopa and his Pokémon friends to Mew at Cameran Palace. The next day, he found Hoopa playing happily at the Little Ranch and invited it to meet new friends.

• Li Wei realized that he received no duplicate Plates and counted eleven of Arceus's Type Plates in his possession.
• Hoopa chose to stay at the Theme Park, and Li Wei told Hoopa it could treat the park as a second home.
• Hoopa, Victini, Shaymin, Larvitar, and Alolan Vulpix went to play hide-and-seek while Li Wei planned a visit to Mew at Cameran Palace.
• Cynthia stayed behind to prepare for the Master League, while Li Wei aimed to take his first-year competition as far as he could.
• The next day, Li Wei found Hoopa playing with children and Pokémon at the Little Ranch and asked if it wanted to meet some new friends.

Li Wei brought Hoopa, Barza, and Meray to Cameran Palace, where they met Mew and began making friends. He then took Barza and Meray to meet Queen Arianna, who greeted Li Wei and asked about his companions.

• Li Wei used Hoopa's ring to bring Hoopa, Barza, and Meray from the Valley of Creation to Cameran Palace.
• Li Wei introduced Barza and Meray to Mew, who welcomed them and showed affection after sensing their Power of Overcoming.
• Mew, Hoopa, Victini, and Shaymin began playing hide-and-seek in Mew's playground while Li Wei took Barza and Meray to Queen Arianna.
• Queen Arianna greeted Li Wei in her reception room, and Li Wei explained that he had been too busy to visit before she asked who Barza and Meray were.