Recaps

Chen Shi and the Legendary Pokémon fought Eternatus, Zacian, and Zamazenta as Eternatus began to undergo Eternamax. Just as Chen Shi prepared to unleash his sealed power, Black Flash Rayquaza appeared and overwhelmed Eternatus.

• Rayquaza, Giratina, Ho-Oh, Lugia, and Zygarde joined the fight against Eternatus while the two Victini replenished the Legendary Pokémon’s power.
• Hoopa Unbound’s rings released Zacian and Zamazenta, who disrupted the Legendary Pokémon’s attacks and helped Eternatus overpower them.
• Eternatus began releasing dark particles as it prepared to undergo Eternamax, and the Legendary Pokémon stopped the transformation through a reckless assault, suffering severe injuries.
• Chen Shi gave his Poké Balls to Jirachi and told Rayquaza he had a way to help, then began breaking through Arceus’s seal to release his power.
• Black Flash Rayquaza suddenly charged into battle, drove Eternatus through Dahara City, and pierced its Eternabeam with Dragon Ascent.

Chen Shi and the Legendary Pokémon realized Flash Rayquaza risked being corrupted by dark matter while fighting Eternatus, and they debated how to help him. Rayquaza persuaded the others to send Mew with Chen Shi, leaving the little Pokémon unwillingly chosen for the mission.

• Chen Shi teased Rayquaza about Flash Rayquaza being stronger, then watched Flash Rayquaza relentlessly attack Eternatus.
• Rayquaza, Ho-Oh, and Lugia explained that Flash Rayquaza was trying to defeat Eternatus before it could use Eternamax, while their battle tore open spatial rifts.
• Giratina warned that Flash Rayquaza lacked a divine office and could be corrupted by dark matter if the fight went badly.
• The Legendary Pokémon considered sending Chen Shi to help, and Ho-Oh proposed giving him Sacred Ash for protection.
• Rayquaza suggested Mew accompany Chen Shi as his protector, and the Legendary Pokémon agreed while Mew protested his assignment.

Chen Shi and Mew helped Flash Rayquaza purge the Dark Matter and restore its strength, allowing it to overpower Dark Eternatus. A second, normal Eternatus arrived in Eternamax form and joined the fight, pinning Dark Eternatus so Chen Shi could purify it.

• Mew contacted Flash Rayquaza during a brief pause in its battle with Eternatus, and Flash Rayquaza used Dragon Ascent to drive Dark Eternatus into the sea.
• Mew teleported Chen Shi and Little V onto Flash Rayquaza, where they purged the Dark Matter and replenished its energy.
• Flash Rayquaza resumed its assault and overwhelmed Dark Eternatus until a powerful presence approached.
• Chen Shi, Mew, and the Legendary Pokémon discovered the newcomer was a normal Eternatus in Eternamax form.
• Eternatus and Flash Rayquaza battered Dark Eternatus until Eternatus pinned it down and told Chen Shi to purify it.

Chen Shi purified the dark matter from Eternatus, Dark Eternatus, and the Legendary Pokémon, then learned that Dark Eternatus came from a parallel world. While the group waited for Hoopa and the others to wake, Chen Shi introduced Little Rayquaza to Flash Rayquaza, prompting Little Rayquaza to mistake him for his father.

• Chen Shi purified Dark Eternatus and Eternatus, then cleared dark matter from the Legendary Pokémon who had fought.
• The native Eternatus said Dark Eternatus came from a parallel world whose world had likely fallen, though the group could not explain how Hoopa summoned him.
• Mew returned with the battered kings of sword and shield and Hoopa Unbound, and the group decided to wait for them to wake.
• Chen Shi asked Flash Rayquaza to train Little Rayquaza, then had Mew bring back his Poké Balls so he could release him.
• Little Rayquaza saw Flash Rayquaza and asked if he was his real father, and Rayquaza called him an ungrateful brat.

Chen Shi questioned the parallel-world Eternatus about Dark Matter and learned what little it remembered, along with three costly ways its world had tried to remove the corruption. Eternatus learned that Chen Shi could easily purify Dark Matter, leaving it hopeful that he could help its world.

• Rayquaza beat Little Rayquaza after it called Flash Rayquaza its real dad.
• The parallel-world Eternatus explained that it remembered resisting Dark Matter before it was fully assimilated.
• The parallel-world Eternatus said Dark Matter had overwhelmed its world and described three ways to remove it: repeated Luster Purge and Sacred Fire, turning ordinary Pokémon into eggs with Xerneas, or using divine authority over tens of thousands of years.
• Chen Shi told Eternatus that his power could remove Dark Matter from it and the two kings of sword and shield.
• Eternatus grew excited when Chen Shi said he could purify Dark Matter with a wave of his hand.

Chen Shi learned how dark matter had devastated Eternatus’s world and invited the other-world Eternatus to remain in his own. Eternatus accepted and asked to live near Chen Shi for protection.

• Chen Shi asked the other-world Eternatus about its world, where dark matter had infected ninety-eight percent of Pokémon and Arceus had never appeared.
• The other-world Eternatus explained that dark matter spread quickly, transformed living things into violent Shadow Pokémon, and could infect even powerful Pokémon that let their guard down.
• Eternatus advised covering the body with energy to keep dark matter from entering and urged caution when fighting Shadow Pokémon.
• Chen Shi invited Eternatus and the kings of sword and shield to stay in his world, and the Legendary Pokémon agreed.
• Eternatus asked to live near Chen Shi, who gladly accepted.

After the battle, Cogita revealed she had evacuated Dahara City and took Hoopa Unbound away, warning Chen Shi not to investigate further. The otherworldly Eternatus said the dark matter had first spread from the World Tree, leaving Mew terrified because its life was bound to the tree.

• Cogita appeared after the battle and explained that she had evacuated everyone from Dahara City before the city was destroyed.
• Cogita insisted on taking Hoopa Unbound, and Chen Shi agreed after she warned him that learning more could be dangerous.
• Cogita ordered the Time-Space Duo to repair the spatial rifts and criticized the Legendary Pokémon for being weaker than Shiny Rayquaza.
• Cogita asked the otherworldly Eternatus where the dark matter had first spread, and it said the outbreak began at the World Tree.
• Mew panicked because its life was bound to the World Tree, clung to Chen Shi, and begged him to save it; Chen Shi tossed it down and asked who it was calling Little Shi.

After the battle, Chen Shi pressured Mew to share its collected treasures and received a summoning Orb from Flash Rayquaza. With Dahara City destroyed, he faced the League’s questions about the Legendary Pokémon battle and Hoopa Unbound.

• Chen Shi teased Mew about their friendship, then demanded that it share its legendary resources with him.
• The other Legendary Pokémon departed, and Flash Rayquaza gave Chen Shi an Orb he could use to summon it for fights or entertainment.
• Chen Shi told Eternatus and the Sword and Shield kings to wait while he dealt with the aftermath of Dahara City’s destruction.
• Professor Oak checked that Chen Shi was unharmed, then scolded him for risking his life during the battle.
• Alder urged Professor Oak to address the waiting officials, and Professor Oak asked Chen Shi what had caused the battle and what Hoopa Unbound was.

After the League questioned Chen Shi about the battle with Hoopa Unbound, he demonstrated Dragapult’s strength and left on Eternatus. Meray and Barza then asked him to protect Hoopa Confined, and Chen Shi agreed to take Hoopa with him.

• Chen Shi told the League that Hoopa Unbound could summon Legendary Pokémon but said he did not know what had caused the battle.
• When Agatha challenged his honesty, Chen Shi summoned Dragapult, whose Legendary-level presence stunned the Elite Kings.
• Chen Shi left on Eternatus after answering more questions, and the League members abandoned their plans to pressure him.
• Hoopa Confined stopped Eternatus with Meray and Barza, who asked Chen Shi to protect Hoopa because people might try to capture it.
• Chen Shi agreed to take Hoopa with him, while Hoopa protested that it could find its own food.

After returning to the Farm with Hoopa and Eternatus, Chen Shi settled Eternatus in his Mystery Realm and reunited with his grandparents. He decided to study Dark Matter at the new research institute, while Grandpa Chen urged him to stay safe.

• Chen Shi took Hoopa away from Meray and her brother because Dark Matter might return and Hoopa could summon Legendary Pokémon.
• Chen Shi brought Eternatus to his Farm and let it and the Pokémon Sword and Shield Kings live in his Mystery Realm.
• Chen Shi reunited with Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen, who welcomed him home and offered him food.
• Chen Shi told Grandpa Chen he would create a Steel-type Mystery Realm for the Hisuian Goodra group so they would not revert to ordinary Goodra.
• Grandpa Chen told Chen Shi the Devon Corporation's research institute was finished and researchers were waiting to join it.
• Chen Shi resolved to use the institute to study Dark Matter, and Grandpa Chen asked him to stay safe.

Chen Shi showed Big Goo and the Goodra group around his Farm before asking Steven for researchers to staff his new institute. He warned Steven that his secret research concerned a threat capable of destroying the world, then asked him to invite respected professors from every region to the institute in three days.

• Chen Shi showed Big Goo and the Goodra group the Farm and explained that the Berries would be made into Pokéblocks rather than eaten straight from the trees.
• Mew caught Hoopa Confined picking unripe Berries, and Chen Shi calmed them by giving Hoopa Pokéblocks and threatening to study Dark Mew.
• Steven arrived at the Farm, and Chen Shi asked to borrow researchers from Devon Corporation; Steven said he could lend only a few.
• Chen Shi explained that he could not openly hire researchers because the work was too sensitive and might attract spies.
• Chen Shi told Steven that the research involved a possible world-destroying threat connected to Eternatus and asked him to keep it secret.
• Chen Shi asked Steven to invite the most respected professors from every region to his research institute in three days.

Chen Shi sought a way to fight dark matter beyond relying on his own power, while Xerneas arrived with a sealed cactus infected by dark particles for him to purify. The cactus gave Chen Shi a chance to study dark matter without traveling to Eternatus's world.

• Chen Shi decided he needed help researching dark matter and considered traveling to Eternatus's world if he could not find a Shadow Pokémon nearby.
• Xerneas brought Great Needle Peak to fulfill their agreement, and Dragapult defeated the Beedrill in a brief sparring match.
• Chen Shi asked Xerneas where he could find more Shadow Pokémon or dark matter, explaining that his strength alone was limited.
• Xerneas revealed that dark particles had assimilated a desert cactus during Dark Eternatus's attempted Eternamax and that it had sealed the cactus with the Fairy Plate.
• Xerneas reassured Chen Shi that Arceus had inspected the area and found no other infected plants or Pokémon.

Chen Shi investigated the Dark Cacturne and decided he needed Mewtwo’s expertise, then visited Viridian Gym to confront Giovanni. He accused Giovanni of using Mew’s genes to create Mewtwo and demanded that he return Mew’s son.

• Chen Shi studied the Dark Cacturne and concluded that its gene virus could only be removed with Psychic Power or by dying again.
• Chen Shi decided to seek Mewtwo’s help researching the dark matter.
• Chen Shi brought Jirachi, Victini, Hoopa Confined, and Mew to Viridian City and entered the Viridian Gym to meet Giovanni.
• A Team Rocket receptionist contacted Giovanni, who returned to the Gym and met Chen Shi in his office with a psychic girl.
• Chen Shi accused Giovanni of making a son from Mew’s genes and demanded that he return Mewtwo, prompting Giovanni to glare at him with murderous intent.

Chen Shi took Mewtwo from Giovanni and brought it to his research institute, where he asked Xerneas to teach the newly created Pokémon about the world. Mew objected that Mewtwo was its child and argued that it should be the one to guide it.

• Giovanni asked how Chen Shi had learned about Mewtwo, and Chen Shi claimed that Rayquaza and Zygarde had revealed Team Rocket’s secret.
• Chen Shi said he wanted Mewtwo as a researcher, then traveled to Cinnabar Town to retrieve it from Giovanni.
• Giovanni refused until Mew nearly flattened his Mega-Evolved Beedrill, after which he let Chen Shi take Mewtwo.
• At the institute, Mew confirmed that Mewtwo carried its genes and angrily threatened to confront the humans who had taken them.
• Chen Shi explained dark matter’s effects on genes and asked Xerneas to teach Mewtwo, while Mew insisted that it should be the one to guide its genetic descendant.

Chen Shi gathered the regional professors to explain that Dark Eternatus came from a parallel world and that dark matter could infect and transform all living things. The professors realized a Pokémon from that world with the power to travel through space-time might have brought Dark Eternatus to their world.

• Chen Shi welcomed Steven, his father, and the visiting professors, then led them to his laboratory and conference room.
• Chen Shi showed footage of Dark Eternatus appearing in Dahara City and explained that Eternatus's leaked energy had caused Galar's Dynamax phenomenon.
• Chen Shi revealed that Dark Eternatus was a threat to humans and Pokémon alike because dark matter could infect living organisms and turn them into shadow creatures.
• Chen Shi explained that the first Eternatus had come from a parallel world that had already fallen to shadow creatures.
• Steven wondered whether a Pokémon capable of space-time travel had helped Dark Eternatus cross worlds, and Professor Carolina suggested that the Pokémon might have come from the other world.

Chen Shi gathered the professors to explain dark matter’s history and the lack of reliable ways to cure those it assimilated. The professors recognized that he wanted them to join his research, and several began arranging to stay and help.

• Chen Shi showed the professors Dark Cacturne and asked them to lend trustworthy researchers to help find a way to eliminate dark matter.
• Chen Shi explained that Eternatus’s three known methods for saving those assimilated by dark matter were impractical for nearly everyone.
• Chen Shi recounted how Xerneas, Rayquaza, and Lugia had been infected by dark matter in the past.
• Mujin and Professor Oak realized Chen Shi wanted to borrow the professors themselves rather than their laboratory staff.
• Professor Sycamore planned to return with supplies, while Professor Magnolia decided to stay and asked Sonia to bring her things.

Chen Shi arranged safe research on Dark Cacturne and faced Cynthia after forgetting to contact her, then Cogita arrived with an urgent request and triggered an upgrade for his System Panel. The chapter left Chen Shi startled by the upgrade prompt as he dreaded being drawn into another errand.

• Stone Mu Jin offered to build a dormitory and provide staff for the professors at Chen Shi's research institute, and Chen Shi accepted.
• Chen Shi helped the professors put on protective suits so they could take samples from Dark Cacturne without touching it.
• Cynthia confronted Chen Shi for leaving her house without a word, and Chen Shi apologized until she softened.
• Cogita arrived, said she needed Chen Shi's help urgently, and patted him on the head while offering part of his reward in advance.
• Chen Shi's System Panel announced that it had met the requirements to upgrade, and Chen Shi cursed and said he wanted to return to the countryside.

Chen Shi learned that Cogita had created his system and chosen Dreepy for him, then heard about the survivors in Eternatus’s world. He refused to take on a dangerous mission to help them, choosing to protect the people who cared about him.

• Chen Shi confronted Cogita privately and learned that she had created his system and personally selected Dreepy for him.
• Cogita explained that she had chosen Dreepy to help Chen Shi grow stronger and upgraded the system so he could inspect the detailed stats of powerful Pokémon.
• Chen Shi asked about Cogita’s mission, and she revealed that a small group of humans and Pokémon had survived the dark matter disaster inside Mt. Silver but lacked basic supplies.
• Chen Shi refused to go, explaining that he could not save the survivors alone and did not want to risk leaving his loved ones worried or grieving.

Chen Shi resisted traveling to Eternatus’s darkened world until Cogita warned that countless dark worlds could eventually invade their own. She equipped him with protective measures and four Psychic Power Orbs, and Chen Shi agreed to go while planning to seek another way to fight Dark Matter.

• Chen Shi explained that he feared losing the people he loved and did not want to enter a world where the dark side would target him.
• Cogita warned Chen Shi that failing to stop Eternatus’s world from spreading darkness could leave their own world facing an invasion from countless dark worlds.
• Cogita gave Chen Shi four Orbs designed to store his Psychic Power so people in that world could use them to purify Dark Matter.
• Cogita explained that her hidden avatar, Eternatus, and the Pokémon Sword and Shield Kings could protect Chen Shi while he freed Rayquaza and other Tier 1 Legendary Pokémon from the darkness.
• Chen Shi asked when he would leave and how to bring supplies, and Cogita promised to upgrade his Space Backpack.
• Cogita urged Chen Shi to observe the ruined world before rescuing everyone, saying that hope and miracles could emerge from despair.

Chen Shi prepared to leave for Eternatus's world to save its inhabitants, while arranging supplies and deciding who could accompany him. After Arceus's protection reassured Eternatus and the Pokémon Sword and Shield Kings, Chen Shi checked Eternatus's stats and discovered it was a level 121 Supreme God.

• Chen Shi agreed to take Jirachi but refused Steven's request to come along, then asked Steven to have Devon Corporation prepare as much ready-to-heat food as possible.
• Cynthia asked about the woman Chen Shi had met in the Hisui Region, and Chen Shi confirmed they had met but withheld her identity; Cynthia said she would wait for his return.
• Chen Shi entered his Grass-type Mystery Realm and told Eternatus, Zacian, and Zamazenta that he planned to visit their world and try to save its inhabitants.
• Zacian warned that the three Legendary Pokémon might not be able to protect Chen Shi from the Dark Side, but Chen Shi said Arceus would protect him and proposed rescuing Tier 1 Legendary Pokémon first.
• Eternatus, Zacian, and Zamazenta were reassured, and Chen Shi used his System Panel to learn that Eternatus was level 121, a Supreme God.

Chen Shi prepared to enter Eternatus's fallen world with the Legendary Pokémon and his companions to confront the growing forces of darkness. Cogita sent them through a golden gate, while Chen Shi reminded her to protect his Farm and prepare his reward.

• Chen Shi learned that Eternatus was a Supreme God and saw that the Pokémon Sword and Shield Kings were powerful Tier 1 Legendary Pokémon.
• Chen Shi told Eternatus and the Pokémon Sword and Shield Kings they would leave the next day, and they agreed to wait.
• Mew admitted to Chen Shi that it feared the dark world, but Chen Shi explained that they had to take the initiative against the forces of darkness.
• Chen Shi collected supplies from Steven, gathered his Pokémon, and met Cogita at Back Mountain.
• Cogita told Chen Shi to wear the White Robe and Mask, then opened a golden gate to Eternatus's world.
• Chen Shi and his companions entered the gate with Eternatus and the Pokémon Sword and Shield Kings, after Chen Shi asked Cogita to look after his Farm and prepare his reward.

Chen Shi and the Legendary Pokémon entered the Distortion World to find Giratina and rescue it from Dark Matter. Chen Shi began purging the contamination, leaving Giratina astonished as the Dark Matter fled its body.

• After arriving in a desert, Chen Shi and the Legendary Pokémon agreed to find Giratina so they could use the Distortion World to hide and travel.
• Chen Shi released Dragapult, which opened an entrance to the Distortion World, and the group entered.
• They found Giratina resisting assimilation after Marshadow had contaminated it four days earlier.
• Chen Shi reassured Giratina that they had come to rescue it, then teleported onto its shoulder and channeled pure white light into its body.
• The Dark Matter reacted to Chen Shi's power by fleeing Giratina, leaving Giratina stunned.

Chen Shi arranged to use Giratina’s Distortion World as a base for rescuing Legendary Pokémon and traveled to Mt. Silver to find surviving humans. When Steven and the other former Champions confronted him, he introduced himself as “Ba” and invited them to call him “Baba.”

• Chen Shi and the others agreed with Giratina to use the Distortion World as a base for rescuing Legendary Pokémon and clearing the dark matter.
• Chen Shi filled Cogita’s Orb with Psychic Power and gave it to Giratina to use on Rayquaza, then asked Giratina to take him to Mt. Silver.
• Giratina brought Chen Shi through the Distortion World to an exit near the human shelter, and Chen Shi left to check for survivors.
• Chen Shi climbed Mt. Silver with Mew, while the shelter’s staff detected an S-rank Psychic Legendary Pokémon and alerted Steven, Lance, and the others.
• Steven and the other former Champions confronted Chen Shi, who introduced himself as Ba and said they could call him Baba.

Chen Shi arrived at the Mt. Silver Shelter with a group of Mythical Pokémon and agreed to be tested for Dark Matter contamination. After demonstrating that Mew and Dragapult could bypass the Shelter’s defenses through the Distortion World, he called the intrusion a minor incident, and the staff prepared to test him and his companions.

• Steven questioned the masked Chen Shi, while Diantha and Lorelei struggled not to laugh at Chen Shi calling himself Steven’s father.
• Chen Shi asked to join the survivors, and Lance agreed on the condition that Chen Shi and his companions undergo contamination tests.
• Diantha brought the group to the Shelter’s alloy gate, where Lorelei described its extensive defenses.
• Chen Shi had Mew restrain Steven, Lance, and Lorelei, then used Dragapult’s Distortion World gateway to bypass the closed gate.
• Chen Shi called the intrusion a minor incident, Steven accepted his explanation, and staff members approached with blood-drawing equipment.

After proving that he and his Pokémon were free of Dark Matter, Chen Shi joined Steven’s group and learned that the Shelter was running out of food and had no cure for Dark Matter. As Lance and Lorelei argued over who should risk searching outside, Chen Shi brought out a hot pot and invited Diantha to eat.

• Chen Shi passed the Shelter’s inspection, and Steven welcomed him aboard as Baba.
• Lorelei asked how Chen Shi had breached the Shelter, and Chen Shi proposed they sit down and talk over lunch at Diantha’s place.
• Diantha revealed that just over twenty thousand humans and fifty thousand Pokémon remained, Dark Matter had no known cure, and the Shelter’s food would last only twelve days.
• Lance said he would go searching for food, but Lorelei challenged him and then volunteered to go herself.
• Chen Shi unpacked a complete hot pot and ingredients, leaving Steven, Lance, and Lorelei stunned as he invited Diantha to eat.