Recaps

Chen Shi helped rescue a Carbink colony whose future Queen Diancie was beginning to mutate, and arranged to escort them home to Oluans Forest. He stayed behind to guard them after learning Officer Jenny Yoko was Officer Jenny Muko’s older sister.

• Steven noticed the unusual-colored Carbink but did not realize she was a future Queen Diancie, while Chen Shi chose not to reveal her identity.
• The Carbink agreed to follow Chen Shi’s arrangements, and their future Queen thanked him for saving the colony and herself.
• Chen Shi learned the Carbink lived in Oluans Forest and decided to stay overnight to protect them, sending Dragapult back with Cynthia for his backpack.
• Officer Jenny Yoko thanked Chen Shi for helping apprehend the Pokémon Hunters, and he recognized her as the older sister of Officer Jenny Muko.
• Officer Jenny Yoko agreed to leave the Carbink in Chen Shi’s care.

Chen Shi introduced Froakie to his Pokémon and asked the mutating Carbink about her home and impending transformation. The Carbink revealed that she had been unable to complete her final mutation for a very long time.

• Chen Shi introduced Froakie to his Pokémon, and Froakie vowed to train hard so he could fight beside them.
• Chen Shi asked Carbink about Oluans Forest and the Diamond Kingdom, and she said she remembered the way home and invited him to visit.
• When Chen Shi said Carbink was about to become Diancie, the colony gathered around her protectively.
• Chen Shi reassured the Carbink colony that he meant no harm, and the mutating Carbink asked them to let him approach.
• Chen Shi congratulated Carbink on becoming the new Queen Diancie, but she said she had been unable to complete her final mutation for a long time.

Cynthia returned to the abandoned inn and learned that Carbink could mutate into the Mythical Pokémon Diancie. Carbink explained that the Diamond Kingdom’s Sacred Diamond was failing and pleaded with Chen Shi for help, sensing that Florges possessed something that could aid her mutation.

• Cynthia returned to the abandoned inn, told Chen Shi she would stay the night, and helped settle in beside him.
• Chen Shi told Cynthia that the mutating Carbink could become Diancie, the Diamond Kingdom’s Queen.
• Chen Shi explained that Diancie alone could create the Sacred Diamond that sustained the Carbink’s Diamond Kingdom.
• Carbink told Chen Shi that the Sacred Diamond was nearing the end of its life and asked him to help her complete her mutation.
• Carbink sensed that Florges possessed something useful to her mutation and asked to trade for it.

Chen Shi refused Carbink’s request for Florges’s Xerneas antler fragment but agreed to escort the mutated Carbink back to Oluans Forest. Zygarde sensed Mew’s arrival and confronted the group, demanding to know why it had come.

• Chen Shi refused Carbink’s request for the item Florges needed to keep, while Mew decided it would help the Diamond Kingdom if its Sacred Diamond faced destruction.
• Chen Shi, Cynthia, Steven, and Diantha woke, and Chen Shi asked Diantha about the dangerous Oluans Forest.
• Chen Shi told the Carbink he would take them home, and Mew used Psychic power to transport the group to the forest.
• Zygarde sensed Mew’s familiar Psychic power and went to investigate.
• Zygarde appeared before Chen Shi’s group and asked Mew why it had come.

Chen Shi and his group encountered Zygarde guarding the entrance to Oluans Forest, then continued toward the Diamond Kingdom with the Carbink. As they traveled, Chen Shi explained that the Zygarde they saw was not in Complete Form and described the form as a land dragon that could learn Dragon Dance.

• Zygarde appeared in 10% Form and demanded to know why Mew and the group had come to Oluans Forest.
• Mew said Chen Shi was their World Tree guardian, and Zygarde noticed his ties to several Legendary and Mythical Pokémon before leaving.
• Cynthia identified Zygarde from Kalos legends, and Diantha became thrilled that she had seen the region’s guardian deity.
• Chen Shi asked the Carbink for directions to the Diamond Kingdom, and they pointed the group onward.
• Cynthia and Steven questioned Zygarde’s apparent strength, and Chen Shi said they had not seen Zygarde’s Complete Form.
• Chen Shi described Zygarde’s Complete Form as a land dragon that could learn Dragon Dance.

Chen Shi explained how Zygarde monitored the world through its scattered cells and described its different forms and strength. After Jirachi teleported the group and the Carbink, they reached the entrance to the Diamond Kingdom and followed the Carbink into its dark cave.

• Chen Shi explained that Zygarde scattered countless cells around the world and used them to observe events everywhere.
• Chen Shi said Zygarde had 10% and 50% forms, and he guessed it was roughly as strong as Rayquaza.
• Chen Shi asked Jirachi to teleport the group and the Carbink, while a Zygarde Cell Core watched them disappear.
• The mutated Carbink invited Chen Shi and the others to visit the Diamond Kingdom, and Chen Shi accepted.
• Chen Shi, Steven, Cynthia, and Diantha followed the Carbink into a dark cave, where diamonds became more numerous as they went deeper.

Chen Shi and his companions reached the Diamond Kingdom, where the Diamond Elder welcomed them. Chen Shi helped timid Victini join Jirachi and the Carbink at play, leaving the cavern filled with laughter.

• The Carbink led Chen Shi, Steven, Cynthia, and Diantha into the Diamond Kingdom, where the Diamond Elder greeted them and offered hospitality.
• Chen Shi shared Fairy-type Pokéblocks with the curious Carbink, who eagerly ate them.
• Jirachi went to play with the Carbink while Victini clung nervously to Chen Shi instead of joining them.
• Chen Shi put Victini on Togekiss and pretended to fly her around, cheering Victini up and drawing Jirachi and the Carbink into the game.
• Steven called Chen Shi childish, while Cynthia smiled and said she loved him just as he was.

The Diamond Elder thanked Chen Shi for rescuing the Carbink and asked how to help the princess complete her mutation into Diancie. With Mew’s help, Chen Shi presented a fragment of Xerneas’s antler as the solution, leaving the Carbink astonished.

• The Diamond Elder returned with Berries and thanked Chen Shi for bringing the Carbink home safely.
• The Diamond Elder explained that the princess had been unable to complete her mutation into Diancie for two years and asked Chen Shi for advice.
• Mew told Chen Shi that the princess needed advanced Fairy-type energy and offered him another fragment of Xerneas’s antler.
• Chen Shi showed the antler fragment to the Carbink and identified it as a piece of Xerneas’s antler.

Chen Shi gave the mutating Carbink a fragment of Xerneas’s antler, completing her transformation into Diancie and offering hope for the Diamond Kingdom. He also hinted that Kalos’s legendary Pokémon would soon awaken.

• Diantha recognized the antler fragment as belonging to Xerneas and worried that Yveltal might also be real and nearing awakening.
• Steven compared Kalos’s life-and-death legends to Hoenn’s Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza, then feared another regional crisis was coming.
• Chen Shi gave the antler fragment to the Diamond Elder so he could witness Princess Diancie’s birth.
• The mutating Carbink thanked Chen Shi, took the fragment, and pressed it to her forehead as her mutation progress reached one hundred percent.
• The Carbink transformed into Diancie, who declared that the Diamond Kingdom could be saved.

Chen Shi revealed that Diancie was a Rock- and Fairy-type Mythical Pokémon, leaving Steven bitterly regretting that he had overlooked her. Diancie then demonstrated that she could create a new Sacred Diamond, giving the Diamond Kingdom hope for its future.

• The Diamond Elder thanked Chen Shi for saving the Carbink colony and helping Diancie complete her mutation.
• Steven asked Chen Shi what Diancie was, and Chen Shi revealed that she was a Rock- and Fairy-type Mythical Pokémon.
• Steven resented Chen Shi for knowing Diancie's identity and regretted not befriending her before her mutation.
• Chen Shi told Steven that Diancie had to remain with the Carbink colony, then asked how she felt after transforming.
• The Diamond Elder asked whether Diancie could create a new Sacred Diamond, and Diancie produced the phantom image of one.

Diancie failed to create a true Sacred Diamond, leaving her and the Diamond Kingdom in despair. Chen Shi encouraged her to draw strength from her people, and Diancie resolved to keep going as their new queen.

• Diancie created ordinary red diamonds instead of a Sacred Diamond, despite exhausting herself trying again.
• Diancie blamed herself for failing the Diamond Kingdom, while the Diamond Elder and Carbink could only watch in silence.
• Cynthia asked Chen Shi to help Diancie, and Steven and Diantha looked to him with hope.
• Chen Shi challenged Diancie to stop blaming herself and reminded her that her people still trusted and relied on her.
• Diancie found strength in the Carbink's faith, promised to pull herself together, and Chen Shi told her that she alone could nurture life.

Chen Shi told Diancie that she had to understand the mysteries of life to create a Sacred Diamond and suggested seeking Xerneas in Oluans Forest. Mew persuaded Chen Shi to help search for the sleeping Xerneas, leaving him suspicious of Mew's motives.

• Mew recognized Chen Shi's words as ones Xerneas had once said to the First Diancie, while Diancie felt they held a deep significance.
• Chen Shi told Diancie that only she could discover what the words meant and that understanding life's mysteries could let her create a true Sacred Diamond.
• Chen Shi suggested that Diancie seek Xerneas, then revealed that it was sleeping in Oluans Forest.
• Diancie asked Chen Shi to take her to Xerneas, and Steven and Diantha eagerly supported the idea.
• Mew urged Chen Shi to search for Xerneas, saying it might reveal the truth behind the disappearance of Fairy-type energy, and Chen Shi grew suspicious of Mew's intentions.

Chen Shi agreed to help Diancie seek Xerneas, hoping to save the Diamond Kingdom and earn a tail feather from Mew as a reward. He left the kingdom with Diancie and his companions, while the Carbink watched them depart.

• Mew revealed that Xerneas was connected to the disappearance of Fairy-type energy and offered Chen Shi a legendary tail feather if he went to find Xerneas.
• Chen Shi agreed to accompany Diancie, and Mew promised him a tail feather from Yveltal once they found Xerneas.
• Steven declined the Diamond Elder’s offer to send Carbink with the group, explaining that they would attract attention and slow the journey.
• Chen Shi gathered Jirachi, Togekiss, Mew, and Victini and set out with Steven, Cynthia, Diantha, and Diancie.
• Diancie looked back at the tearful Carbink and Diamond Elder, then resolutely left the Diamond Kingdom to seek hope for its future.

Chen Shi's group neared the place where Xerneas slept, but a powerful Beedrill ambushed them and tried to drive them away. Chen Shi suspected Beedrill was protecting Xerneas or the source of his strength, and continued forward with the captured Pokémon.

• Mew guided Chen Shi, Steven, Cynthia, Diantha, and Diancie through Oluans Forest while Jirachi stopped hostile Pokémon from attacking them.
• Jirachi sensed danger when a Champion-Level Beedrill nearly struck Chen Shi, and Jirachi restrained the attacker with Psychic power.
• Chen Shi scanned Beedrill and discovered that he had Legendary potential and had reached early Champion Level.
• Beedrill told Chen Shi to leave, claiming he had only meant to teach him a lesson, but Chen Shi refused.
• Chen Shi guessed Beedrill was guarding something connected to his strength or to Xerneas, then ordered Jirachi to bring Beedrill along as the group continued.

Chen Shi, Steven, Cynthia, Diantha, and Diancie found Xerneas sleeping in the form of a withered tree in Oluans Forest. Mew awakened Xerneas with a ball of rainbow light, and legendary Pokémon around the world sensed its return.

• Chen Shi identified the withered tree as Xerneas, though Steven, Cynthia, and Diantha struggled to believe him.
• Zygarde confronted the group, and Mew accused it of pretending to stop them despite wanting to see Xerneas too.
• Diancie took responsibility for asking Chen Shi and the others to find Xerneas.
• Mew teleported to the tree and merged a dazzling ball of rainbow light into it.
• The tree trembled as a rainbow pillar rose into the sky and life energy spread across the world, awakening legendary Pokémon.

Chen Shi and his companions witnessed Xerneas awaken, and she explained to Diancie that creating a true Sacred Diamond required understanding the mysteries of life. The group realized Chen Shi had already given Diancie similar advice, leaving him to insist that knowing a little about Pokémon breeding was reasonable.

• Chen Shi confronted Mew about the rainbow pillar, and Mew handed him a black-and-red feather instead of explaining.
• Xerneas emerged from the vanished withered tree, greeted Mew, and confirmed she had endured three thousand years of darkness.
• Zygarde confirmed Xerneas was unharmed, warned her not to fight Yveltal, and left after Mew teased it about its speech.
• Xerneas called Chen Shi special, and Mew revealed that he was the guardian of the World Tree.
• Diancie asked how to create a true Sacred Diamond, and Xerneas said she had to understand the mysteries of life and nurture it herself.
• Steven, Cynthia, and Diantha recognized that Chen Shi had given Diancie similar advice, and Chen Shi claimed his knowledge came from being a Pokémon Breeder.

Chen Shi learned that Xerneas had suppressed poison from its battle with Yveltal using the Fairy Plate, causing Fairy-type energy to disappear until Xerneas awakened. As Fairy energy returned worldwide, Yveltal awakened and its black wind began turning the forest and its living creatures to stone.

• Chen Shi urged Diancie, Cynthia, Diantha, and their Fairy-type Pokémon to experience Xerneas's Fairy Aura, which helped Togekiss and Florges grow stronger.
• Xerneas asked Chen Shi to release Beedrill, and Jirachi lifted its Psychic restraint.
• Chen Shi asked why Xerneas's slumber had caused Fairy-type energy to vanish, and Xerneas explained that poison from its battle with Yveltal had forced it to use the Fairy Plate to suppress the poison.
• Xerneas said Fairy-type energy had returned throughout the world upon its awakening.
• Xerneas, Mew, and Jirachi sensed a threatening presence as Yveltal awakened and its black wind turned the forest's plants and creatures to stone.

Yveltal awakened and petrified much of Oluans Forest, but Zygarde stopped its death wind before it could spread farther. Xerneas revived the forest at the cost of its strength and began to fade toward sleep again, leaving Chen Shi and Victini ready to help it.

• Diantha feared that Yveltal's awakening would lead to a battle like the one in Hoenn, while Chen Shi remained confident that Zygarde would prevent a fight.
• Zygarde ordered Yveltal to stop, and Yveltal halted its death wind before facing Xerneas and flying away without fighting.
• Xerneas surveyed the petrified forest, told Mew it was going to sleep, and unleashed life energy that revived the forest and its Pokémon.
• Xerneas weakened and began fading toward its dormant form, prompting Chen Shi to ask Victini whether they should help it.
• Victini eagerly agreed to help Xerneas.

After Victini restored Xerneas, Xerneas offered Beedrill a chance to leave the forest with Chen Shi if Chen Shi could defeat him. Chen Shi shortened the challenge from three years to one, and Beedrill eagerly accepted, believing he would win.

• Victini used its power to stabilize Xerneas, restoring the forest and allowing Xerneas to remain active.
• Xerneas explained that Beedrill had grown strong by repeatedly breaking his own wings and enduring Xerneas's aura.
• Xerneas told Chen Shi he could take Beedrill if he defeated him and earned his recognition, but Beedrill resisted leaving Xerneas.
• Beedrill agreed to leave with Chen Shi if Chen Shi defeated him head-on within three years.
• Chen Shi declared he would beat Beedrill within one year, and Beedrill accepted the shorter deadline, expecting to win.

Chen Shi promised Xerneas that he would defeat and catch Beedrill within a year, then welcomed Diancie into his group as she searched for a way to create a Sacred Diamond. Jirachi teleported them back to Lumiose City, where Chen Shi and his Pokémon settled into their hotel.

• Xerneas left with Beedrill after promising to return in a year, and Chen Shi assured Steven and Cynthia that he could defeat Beedrill and catch it.
• Diancie failed to create a Sacred Diamond again, so Chen Shi advised her to explore the outside world; she decided to travel with him instead of returning to the Diamond Kingdom.
• Chen Shi asked Diantha to keep Carbink secret, and she agreed before heading to Professor Sycamore's laboratory.
• Jirachi used Teleport to take Chen Shi, Steven, Cynthia, and Diancie back to their hotel in Lumiose City.
• Chen Shi asked Dragapult to hand out Pokéblocks, then teased it for acting like a big brother.

Chen Shi planned to leave Kalos for Kanto with Cynthia and Steven so his Pokémon could train with his teacher’s Dragonite. Before departing, Professor Sycamore asked him to explain the Kalos Three Gods, and Chen Shi began identifying them.

• Chen Shi told his Pokémon he planned to travel to Kanto for training, and Diancie happily tried Florges’s Pokéblock.
• The next morning, Chen Shi told Cynthia and Steven about his plan to visit his teacher, and they decided to go with him.
• Chen Shi, Cynthia, and Steven headed to Professor Sycamore’s lab to say goodbye and met Diantha outside.
• Professor Sycamore asked Chen Shi about the Kalos Three Gods, and Chen Shi agreed to explain them.
• Chen Shi began by naming the Kalos Three Gods as Zygarde, Yveltal, and Xerneas.

Chen Shi told Professor Sycamore what he knew about the Kalos Legendary Pokémon and then traveled with Steven and Cynthia to Kanto. In Viridian Forest, they found a little girl with a Greninja who called Chen Shi “Daddy.”

• Chen Shi explained the Kalos Three Gods’ types and Abilities to Professor Sycamore, warned him about Yveltal, and confirmed that Xerneas’s slumber had caused Fairy-type energy to disappear.
• Chen Shi, Steven, and Cynthia left the laboratory and flew to Saffron City, where Mew teleported them to the place where Mew had first met Chen Shi in Viridian Forest.
• Chen Shi led Steven and Cynthia toward Pallet Town after Mew confirmed their location.
• The three heard a child calling for Sweetie and found a little girl standing beside a two-meter-tall Greninja.
• The little girl rushed to Chen Shi and called him Daddy, leaving Chen Shi, Steven, and Cynthia stunned.

Chen Shi and Cynthia met their future daughter, Chen Yanxi, when Celebi brought her to them. Celebi took Yan Yan back to the future after warning Chen Shi to beware of the darkness and go to the Sinnoh Region, leaving him to face Cynthia’s anger.

• Chen Yanxi clung to Chen Shi and called him Daddy and Cynthia Mommy, while Greninja confirmed their connection.
• Chen Shi recognized Yan Yan as his daughter from the future and took photos with her and Cynthia before offering her snacks.
• Celebi appeared and confirmed that Yan Yan was Chen Shi and Cynthia’s daughter.
• Celebi, Greninja, and Chen Yanxi returned through a distortion in space after Celebi warned Chen Shi about the darkness and urged him to go to the Sinnoh Region.
• Cynthia grabbed Chen Shi’s ears and twisted them as he pondered Celebi’s warning.

Chen Shi returned to Pallet Town with Cynthia and Steven after Celebi urged him to go to the Sinnoh Region to confront an unknown darkness. They planned to stay at Professor Oak’s laboratory and train, where Gary greeted Chen Shi and teased him about sharing a room with Cynthia.

• On the way to Pallet Town, Cynthia asked Chen Shi about Celebi’s warning, and he admitted he did not know what the darkness was or where in Sinnoh to go.
• Chen Shi said he would train at Professor Oak’s laboratory before traveling to Sinnoh, then invited Cynthia and Steven to stay and train with him.
• Chen Shi, Cynthia, and Steven arrived at the laboratory, where Gary greeted Chen Shi and said he was hungry.
• Gary suggested Chen Shi and Cynthia share a room because Professor Oak had said they were a couple, and Steven teased them about their future daughter.
• Cynthia rejected the suggestion and told Gary to prepare three rooms.

Chen Shi discovered that Little Rayquaza had grown fat from overeating at Professor Oak’s house and ordered it to train. After preparing dinner with Cynthia, Steven, and Gary, Chen Shi confronted Professor Oak about Rayquaza, but Oak laughed at its appearance.

• Gary told Chen Shi that a black dragon Professor Oak had brought home ate constantly and made him prepare its food.
• Chen Shi found Little Rayquaza in Gary’s room, where it had grown plump after eating Professor Oak’s food.
• Cynthia and Steven laughed at Rayquaza’s appearance, and Chen Shi told it to train with Dragapult and the others.
• Chen Shi and his guests prepared dinner, and Professor Oak emerged from the laboratory and joined them.
• Chen Shi asked Professor Oak for an explanation about Rayquaza, and Professor Oak burst out laughing.