Recaps

Chen Shi captured the berserk Salamence and brought her back to Shate's tribe, where he discovered that Shate's Bagon was her child. When Bagon attacked Florges as she prepared to treat Salamence, Chen Shi ordered Metagross to intervene.

• Dragapult struck the injured Salamence with Shadow Ball, and Chen Shi captured her in a Poké Ball.
• Chen Shi returned to Shate's tribe, declined the food because he was wearing a mask, and learned the tribe was celebrating its food stores.
• Chen Shi released Salamence and asked Florges to treat her, but Bagon hit Florges with a weak Flamethrower.
• Shate called for Bagon to come back, and Chen Shi realized Salamence had gone berserk after losing her child.
• Bagon stood protectively before Salamence, so Chen Shi ordered Metagross to attack.

Chen Shi let Florges punish Bagon for attacking her, while praising Shate for standing by his partner and advising Aji about treating Pokémon with sincerity. After Salamence reunited with Bagon, Shate revealed that his tribe was known to outsiders as the Draconids, leaving Chen Shi stunned by the discovery.

• Shate offered to take Bagon's punishment, but Chen Shi let Florges decide; she struck Bagon with Magical Leaf and then healed Salamence.
• Chen Shi praised Shate for protecting his partner and told Aji that Pokémon needed sincere care if they were expected to fight alongside a Trainer.
• Florges healed Salamence with Grassy Terrain and Wish, and Bagon rushed to embrace his reunited mother.
• Chen Shi asked Shate about the Draconids, and Shate explained that his tribe was called the Meteor Tribe by its members and the Draconids by outsiders.
• Chen Shi realized he might have become the Draconids' ancestor and reacted with shock.

Chen Shi realized he was the psychic figure who had guided the Draconids a thousand years earlier, and he struggled to understand why he had been sent to Hoenn. After Salamence failed to persuade Bagon to leave with her, Chen Shi settled in the tribe and wondered what to do next.

• After learning Shate's tribe was the Draconids, Chen Shi realized he had been the psychic who summoned Rayquaza and left the tribe its prophecy.
• Salamence apologized to Chen Shi and explained that she wanted to take Bagon back to the depths of Meteor Falls.
• Bagon refused to leave Shate, and Salamence eventually left after their argument ended with Bagon's decision to stay.
• Chen Shi recalled Florges and Metagross, then followed Shate to a clean house the tribe had prepared for him.
• Alone in his new house, Chen Shi chose his sleeping bag and asked Dreepy what they should do next.

Chen Shi grew restless while waiting for Groudon and Kyogre to awaken, so he set out from the Draconid tribe to visit the Psychic Tribe. The chapter leaves him stopping to feed his Pokémon after Dragapult flew ahead without Togekiss.

• Chen Shi decided to explore nearby tribes with Dragapult and told the Draconid children he would return soon.
• Chen Shi learned from Neo about three Great Tribes and chose the Psychic Tribe as his first destination.
• Victini asked for food, so Chen Shi had Dragapult land in a clearing and brought out Pokéblocks and his other Pokémon.
• Togekiss and Leafeon caught up, and Togekiss complained that Dragapult had flown too fast and left her behind.
• Chen Shi tried to placate Togekiss with Pokéblocks, but she suspected he had deliberately blamed Dragapult.

Chen Shi discovered that a shiny Ralts had stolen Togekiss’s Pokéblocks and tried to befriend her. The short-tempered Ralts ignored him and kept eating, leaving Chen Shi wondering if she was carrying a Big Root.

• Togekiss panicked when Chen Shi threatened to put away her Pokéblocks, then went off to eat them.
• Togekiss found that her Pokéblocks had vanished and attacked Chen Shi, believing he had taken them.
• Metagross returned with a filthy shiny Ralts, who was eating Togekiss’s missing Pokéblocks.
• Chen Shi stopped Togekiss from attacking Ralts and gave Togekiss more Pokéblocks, persuading her to let the hungry Ralts eat.
• Chen Shi tried to speak with Ralts, but she snapped at him and kept eating, prompting him to suspect she was carrying a Big Root.

Chen Shi caught a Shiny Ralts after promising her food and inviting her to join his team. He suspected she was the final partner Jirachi had mentioned and wondered if his past self had deliberately kept her identity secret.

• Chen Shi scanned Ralts and confirmed she was female, then reassured her that he and Metagross would not eat her.
• Chen Shi persuaded Ralts to press the Poké Ball button by promising to forgive her stolen food and give her more to eat, and the capture succeeded.
• Chen Shi released Ralts and invited her to join his team, then learned she had lived alone after being ostracized by her companions.
• Chen Shi asked Florges to wash Ralts, and Florges enlisted Swampert to provide water.
• Dragapult asked whether Ralts was the final partner Jirachi had mentioned, prompting Chen Shi to suspect his past self had hidden her identity to mess with him.

Chen Shi took Ralts with him toward the Psychic Tribe, while Ralts feared he wanted to lay eggs with her and revealed she had left the tribe to spare her mother from being ostracized. At the Psychic Tribe, Lia learned that a Gardevoir had died.

• Florges washed the green liquid from Ralts, and Charizard dried her before Chen Shi carried her on his shoulder.
• Ralts mistook Chen Shi's wish to make her his partner for a plan to force her to lay eggs, then despaired at the thought of escaping.
• Chen Shi traveled with Dragapult and Togekiss, asked people from a small tribe for directions, and learned where the Psychic Tribe was.
• Ralts told Chen Shi she was from the Psychic Tribe and remembered leaving because her people scorned her and her mother for her appearance.
• Lia met with the Psychic Tribe's women and confirmed their food stores were sufficient for winter.
• Xilin told Lia that a Gardevoir in the tribe had died.

Chen Shi brought Ralts back to the Psychic Tribe so she could see her mother, only to discover that the tribe was hiding a grave problem. Lia and the others realized Ralts’s mother had been killed, and Chen Shi demanded that they bring her to him.

• Xilin told Lia that Ralts had run away after being bullied and that her mother had attacked the bullies before the other Gardevoir killed her.
• Lia decided the Gardevoir community’s killing was an internal matter and said the tribe should not intervene.
• Chen Shi flew to the Psychic Tribe with Ralts, who asked to see her mother, and he agreed to accompany her.
• Lia and the tribe members encountered Chen Shi, while Ralts stared at Gallade, her father, without reacting.
• Lia realized Chen Shi had brought Ralts back to see her dead mother, and Chen Shi demanded that the tribe bring her mother to him.

After Gallade badly injured Ralts, Chen Shi treated her and confronted the Psychic Tribe, whose fighters joined the battle against his Pokémon. Victini broke through to champion level, leaving Lia convinced the situation was beyond saving.

• Lia told Chen Shi that Ralts's mother had died, and Ralts panicked and teleported to her.
• Gallade struck Ralts into a wall while protecting Lia, badly wounding her and enraging Chen Shi.
• Chen Shi sent Swampert to attack Gallade, then had Metagross bring Ralts back so he could treat her with Togekiss and Florges.
• Seven or eight Gardevoir appeared to aid Gallade, and Chen Shi's Pokémon joined the fight against the Psychic Tribe.
• Victini's pressure erupted from its Poké Ball as it broke through to champion level, and Lia thought all was lost.

Victini reached Champion Level as Chen Shi defeated Gallade and learned that Ralts's mother had been killed by her own tribe after years of ostracism. Chen Shi woke Ralts so she could decide the Gardevoirs' fate, but he struggled to tell her what had happened to her mother.

• Victini broke through to Champion Level, and Chen Shi congratulated it while Victini worried about losing its daily treats.
• Swampert defeated Gallade and brought him to Chen Shi, who demanded that Lia explain Ralts's mother's death.
• Lia revealed that the tribe had ostracized Ralts and her mother, and that the Gardevoirs had killed the mother after she attacked another Ralts.
• Chen Shi rejected Lia's offer of compensation and said the Gardevoirs' fate depended on Ralts's decision.
• Florges woke Ralts with a slap, and Chen Shi told her that Gallade had paid for hurting her before faltering as he tried to explain her mother's death.

Chen Shi told Ralts how she had been involved in her mother’s death, and helped her take revenge on the Gardevoir responsible. As he flew away with her, he reassured her that she was his companion and promised to help her grow stronger.

• Chen Shi told Ralts that she had played a part in her mother’s death, and she broke down in grief.
• Chen Shi reminded Ralts that the Gardevoir were responsible for her mother’s death, and Ralts attacked the wounded Pokémon.
• Chen Shi had Metagross shatter the minds of the unconscious Gardevoir, while Ralts chose to spare her father, Gallade.
• Chen Shi told Lia his name was Autumn and invited her to seek revenge on him before leaving the tribe with Ralts on Dragapult.
• Ralts asked Chen Shi why he had chosen her as a companion, and he reassured her that he wanted her to grow strong and promised they would face life together.

Chen Shi followed a mysterious pull to a tribe, where he found an amethyst-colored stone that Victini recognized as what had drawn him there. He took the stone and addressed it as Jirachi.

• Chen Shi felt something drawing him west and flew with Dragapult toward a stone-built tribe.
• Shi Yuan met Chen Shi and agreed to guide him through the tribe after Chen Shi said he meant no harm.
• Victini sensed Pokémon watching them as Chen Shi followed the pull toward the tribe's core.
• Chen Shi stopped at Shi Yuan's home and identified the amethyst-colored stone on its roof as what he had come to find.
• Shi Yuan let Chen Shi take the stone, and Chen Shi stroked it and said, "Jirachi, I found you."

Chen Shi retrieved Jirachi's Sleeping Meteorite from the Stubborn Stone Tribe and camped in the forest ahead of Jirachi's awakening. He introduced Ralts to his Pokémon, where Togekiss tried to befriend her so she would share future treats, but Chen Shi caught on.

• Chen Shi took the amethyst-like meteorite from Shi Yuan and left the Stubborn Stone Tribe, while Shi Yuan sent Shi Jian to gather information about Autumn.
• Chen Shi camped in the forest and wondered why he had felt an inexplicable sensation shortly before Jirachi was due to awaken.
• Chen Shi introduced Ralts as part of his group, and his Pokémon warmly welcomed her.
• Togekiss gave Ralts a lollipop and showed her how to lick it.
• Togekiss whispered that Ralts should act cute to get treats from Chen Shi and share them, but Chen Shi overheard and warned Ralts not to share with her.

Chen Shi and his Pokémon welcomed Jirachi as she awakened beneath a meteor shower a thousand years in the past. Their reunion was interrupted by a terrifying battle in the sky, where Rayquaza roared at an unknown opponent.

• Chen Shi gave Togekiss extra lollipops, then told his Pokémon that Jirachi would awaken during the coming meteor shower.
• Chen Shi shared food with his Pokémon and watched the meteor shower begin with them.
• A beam from the brightest comet struck Jirachi’s meteorite, and Jirachi awakened in its place.
• Chen Shi introduced himself and his companions to Jirachi, while Togekiss and Ralts shared a lollipop with her.
• Rayquaza roared overhead, and Chen Shi looked up, wondering who the Legendary Pokémon was fighting.

Chen Shi learned that Rayquaza was fighting Deoxys and that Rayquaza appeared to be losing. Zygarde and another Rayquaza joined the battle, and Chen Shi had Dragapult carry him toward the sky to investigate.

• Chen Shi guessed that Rayquaza's opponent was the extraterrestrial Pokémon Deoxys after Jirachi described a human-shaped Psychic-type Pokémon fighting Rayquaza.
• Jirachi said Rayquaza looked close to losing and was afraid to approach Deoxys, so Chen Shi asked Jirachi to take him closer, but Jirachi refused.
• Zygarde appeared in its Complete Forme and told Deoxys to leave, intensifying the battle.
• Jirachi spotted another Rayquaza joining the fight, leaving Chen Shi puzzled about why so many powerful Pokémon were involved.
• Chen Shi convinced the frightened Dragapult to carry him toward the battle so he could investigate.

Chen Shi took Jirachi toward the battle in the sky, but the fight ended before they arrived, and he spotted Mew disguised as Rayquaza. Back at camp, Chen Shi spoiled Jirachi with sweets, leaving Togekiss feeling replaced before Jirachi shared the treats with her.

• Chen Shi reassured Jirachi and rode Dragapult toward the battle while wearing a mask to avoid recognition.
• Jirachi told Chen Shi that Rayquaza and the others had won, so he decided to turn back rather than approach them.
• Chen Shi glimpsed Mew disguised as Rayquaza, and Mew noticed Victini with him before flying away.
• At camp, Chen Shi gave Jirachi the sweets he had supposedly been rationing, and Togekiss realized he had saved them for Jirachi.
• Jirachi teased Togekiss about keeping the treats, then shared sweets with her, while Ralts shared Skittles with Jirachi and Victini.

Chen Shi took Jirachi and his Pokémon to the beach, where Swampert found a shadow-tainted meteorite on the seabed. Chen Shi identified it as a sleeping Shadow Deoxys and concluded it was not the Deoxys that had fought Rayquaza the previous day.

• Chen Shi brought Jirachi and his Pokémon to the beach to play.
• Swampert found a black rock emitting an aura like Shadow Lugia's and alerted Chen Shi.
• Chen Shi sent Metagross and Swampert to retrieve the rock without touching it.
• Chen Shi scanned the meteorite and learned that it had formed around a sleeping Shadow Deoxys.
• Chen Shi reasoned that the meteorite held a different Deoxys from the one that fought Rayquaza, while Jirachi asked him to throw it away.

Chen Shi purified Shadow Deoxys’s meteorite with his Psychic power and stored the sleeping Deoxys in his backpack while he considered what to do with it. Later, he coaxed the sulking Togekiss into abandoning her decision to step down by offering her three special Pokéblocks.

• Chen Shi purified the meteorite, removing Shadow Deoxys’s dark aura, and Jirachi praised him.
• Chen Shi put the sleeping Deoxys in his backpack because he could not catch it and expected Rayquaza to oppose it.
• Chen Shi checked Metagross and Swampert for lingering corruption, then watched them and Jirachi play in the sea.
• Chen Shi found Togekiss sulking and tried to cheer her up with a special Pokéblock made with Threefold Honey.
• Togekiss resisted Chen Shi’s offer of one and then two Pokéblocks, but agreed to stay his little angel when he produced a third.

Chen Shi spent three happy days showing Jirachi around before Cogita’s Shiny Gardevoir arrived with urgent instructions. Chen Shi agreed to find Rayquaza that day and make a splash in Hoenn, hoping the mission would help him return.

• Chen Shi gave Togekiss Secret Recipe Pokéblocks, and she shared them with Jirachi and Leafeon before eating the last one herself.
• Chen Shi spent three days taking Jirachi to the beach, desert, Undersea World, forest, and sky.
• Cogita’s level 99 Shiny Gardevoir appeared and offered to deliver her mistress’s message to Chen Shi.
• Chen Shi tried to refuse after learning the mistress was Cogita, but Gardevoir persuaded him by mentioning his chance to go back.
• Gardevoir told Chen Shi to find Rayquaza that day and make a splash in Hoenn so the Legendary Pokémon would notice him.

Chen Shi and Jirachi found Rayquaza in the Ozone Layer, where Chen Shi revealed that darkness had infected it and offered to remove it. Rayquaza began to suspect that Arceus had sent Chen Shi, but the chapter ended before it decided whether to trust him.

• Chen Shi persuaded a wary Jirachi to carry him to the Ozone Layer to find Rayquaza.
• Rayquaza noticed Jirachi and Chen Shi approaching and confronted them after recovering from its fight with Deoxys.
• Chen Shi told Rayquaza that darkness had invaded its body and offered to help purge it.
• Chen Shi reasoned that Rayquaza had been infected while fighting Shadow Deoxys and pointed out that Mew and Zygarde did not know about the infection.
• Rayquaza considered how Chen Shi knew about the darkness and suspected that Arceus had sent him.

Chen Shi cleansed the dark energy from Rayquaza and persuaded it to help when Groudon and Kyogre awakened, promising to help Rayquaza Mega Evolve. Rayquaza then fell silent after Chen Shi described a Pokémon about as strong as Jirachi that had been overtaken by darkness without noticing.

• Chen Shi used his Psychic power to remove the dark energy from Rayquaza, astonishing Rayquaza and earning its offer of a favor.
• Chen Shi asked Rayquaza to intervene when Groudon and Kyogre awakened and offered to help it Mega Evolve; Rayquaza agreed.
• Chen Shi asked Rayquaza about how the darkness had affected it, and Rayquaza said it had noticed nothing until Chen Shi cleansed it.
• Chen Shi described a Lugia that had been consumed by darkness without realizing it, and Rayquaza fell silent after hearing Lugia had been about as strong as Jirachi.

Chen Shi learned that divine roles might help Legendary Pokémon resist the encroaching darkness, while Rayquaza revealed that Xerneas had been infected for two thousand years. Rayquaza proposed making Chen Shi the World Tree Guardian to grant him eternal life, and Chen Shi recalled a legend in which immortality became a human’s torment.

• Chen Shi told Rayquaza that Jirachi had been invaded by darkness, and Rayquaza suggested divine roles might explain why it and Xerneas had resisted.
• Chen Shi explained how he could help Rayquaza undergo Mega Evolution by using his Key Stone and Psychic power to connect with its Emperor Organ.
• Rayquaza revealed that Xerneas had first been infected two thousand years earlier and warned that the darkness could plunge the world into crisis.
• Rayquaza proposed taking Chen Shi to Mew so he could become the World Tree Guardian and gain eternal life.
• Chen Shi remembered a legend about a human granted immortality by Xerneas, who watched his loved ones die, eventually broke down, and killed himself.

Chen Shi rejected Rayquaza’s offer to become the World Tree Guardian, preferring a finite life spent with the people he loved. That evening, after reassuring Jirachi and planning a visit to the Meteor Tribe, Chen Shi confronted a Shiny Gardevoir sent to take Deoxys away.

• Chen Shi told Rayquaza to trust in Arceus’s plans and asked it to come quickly when needed, and Rayquaza agreed before flying away.
• Around the campfire, Chen Shi explained to Jirachi that he wanted a happy, limited life, and promised to see it again when it next woke.
• Chen Shi apologized for not taking Jirachi to play with Rayquaza and promised to take it to an amusement park the next time it woke.
• Chen Shi planned to visit the Meteor Tribe with Jirachi the next day to check on Shate and the others’ efforts with Salamence.
• A Shiny Gardevoir arrived and said it had come to retrieve Deoxys’s meteorite for its master, and Chen Shi challenged its right to take it.

Chen Shi traded Deoxys's meteorite to Gardevoir for a projection of the Spooky Plate, then learned that Arceus wanted him to reveal his Psychic Power to warn hidden beings. Gardevoir left with the meteorite, and Dragapult absorbed the Plate, gaining a powerful surge of pure Ghost-type energy.

• Chen Shi refused to give Deoxys to Gardevoir until she offered him a projection of the Spooky Plate, which he eagerly accepted.
• Gardevoir took Deoxys's meteorite and told Chen Shi that several Pokémon in the Hisui Region had Plate projections and that he would eventually be taken there.
• Gardevoir explained that Chen Shi was meant to show Legendary Pokémon that more than one person possessed Psychic Power, then left with the meteorite.
• Chen Shi gave the Spooky Plate to Dragapult, which absorbed it and began drawing in and purifying Ghost-type energy.

Chen Shi and his Pokémon discussed the Spooky Plate, the other Plates rumored to be in the Hisui Region, and their uncertain stay in the past. He decided they should use the time to train, while Togekiss tried to bargain her way out of it.

• Dragapult showed off its new Spooky Plate, and Chen Shi promised Metagross and Charizard they could look for Plates suited to them in the Hisui Region.
• Chen Shi recalled Gardevoir's warning about hidden beings and wondered whether Arceus had arranged events around him.
• Togekiss asked whether they could return soon, and Chen Shi explained that their return depended on Gardevoir and the others.
• Chen Shi urged Togekiss and Leafeon to train while they were in the past, and Togekiss asked if she could skip training.
• Chen Shi threatened to give Togekiss's Pokéblocks to Jirachi, who eagerly accepted the idea.