Recaps

Chen Shi told his grandparents that he had discovered the Fairy type and explained that Fairy-type energy was returning to the world. He proved it by having Florges gather the unfamiliar energy, leaving his grandparents convinced.

• Chen Shi revealed that Togetic and Florges had awakened as Fairy-type Pokémon and described how he had discovered the new type.
• Chen Shi explained that Fairy-type energy had disappeared and was now returning, rather than his Pokéblocks causing the type to awaken.
• Chen Shi argued that Florges and Togepi awakened on the same day despite eating the Pokéblocks for different lengths of time.
• Chen Shi brought his grandparents to Florges, who gathered Fairy-type energy for them to see.
• Chen Shi's grandparents confirmed the energy was unlike the other types and accepted that Florges was a Fairy-type Pokémon.

Chen Shi kept the Fairy type and Mega Evolution plans secret while asking Grandpa Chen about Mega Stones, then went to Mauville City to buy a Metal Coat. After local shops had sold out, he visited an underground black market and found a Lucario Mega Stone.

• Chen Shi told Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen he planned to keep the Fairy type secret until it had fully reawakened, and suggested Mega Evolution could help him earn a Doctor title.
• Grandpa Chen gave Chen Shi three Mega Stones for Charizard X, Mawile, and Aggron, but none were for Pokémon Chen Shi could use.
• Chen Shi learned the family had no Metal Coat and took Grandma Chen's Garchomp to Mauville City to buy one.
• After three shops had sold out of Metal Coats, Chen Shi went to a secluded bar and paid its owner to enter the underground black market.
• Chen Shi bought a Lucario Mega Stone from a black-robed stallholder for one hundred thousand League Coins.

Chen Shi bought a Charmander who had Near-Champion potential but could not breathe fire or evolve, then persuaded him to become his partner. Charmander accepted Chen Shi’s promise to help cure and train him.

• Chen Shi spotted an underdeveloped Charmander in a Black Market cage and agreed to buy him for one million League Coins.
• The stallholder tried to raise the price to two million, so Chen Shi used Garchomp’s aura to intimidate him and left only a hundred coins.
• Garchomp demanded payment for helping at the Black Market, and Chen Shi gave him three bottles of liquor.
• Chen Shi released Charmander in his room and learned that he could not use Fire-type moves.
• Chen Shi promised to cure Charmander and help him grow stronger, and Charmander accepted him as his Trainer.

Chen Shi discovered that Charmander’s Dragon-type energy suppressed its Fire-type energy, preventing it from breathing fire and evolving. After Grandpa Chen assessed Charmander, he explained how it could recover, leaving Charmander determined to get healthy before evolving.

• Chen Shi offered Charmander food, then acknowledged Beldum’s wish to battle and encouraged it to train toward becoming stronger.
• Chen Shi examined Charmander and used his psychic powers, discovering that its excess Dragon-type energy suppressed its Fire-type energy.
• Chen Shi brought Charmander to Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen, who confirmed its condition and recognized its exceptional talent.
• Grandpa Chen advised Charmander to use Dragon-type moves to release excess energy, build up its health, and strengthen its Fire-type energy with resources.
• Chen Shi told Charmander to focus on recovering before evolving, and Charmander resolved to get healthy.

Chen Shi asked his grandparents for Fire-type resources for Charmander and shared his Fairy-type Pokéblock formula with Grandma Chen. After Pheobe caught an elite-level Onix, Chen Shi used a transfer machine and a Metal Coat to evolve it into Steelix.

• Chen Shi's grandparents promised him Fire Stones and special Pokéblocks for Charmander, while Grandma Chen began studying his Fairy-type Pokéblock formula.
• Chen Shi gave Grandma Chen one of Florges's Pokéblocks and demonstrated how he made it before she hurried to her laboratory to research it.
• Pheobe returned with an elite-level Onix and asked Chen Shi for money; Chen Shi agreed to pay her later.
• Chen Shi healed Onix with a Potion and Gardevoir's Life Dew, then asked him to cooperate with his evolution.
• Chen Shi put a Metal Coat in Onix's mouth and used a transfer machine to evolve him into Steelix.
• Grandpa Chen expressed amazement at Onix's evolution, and Chen Shi remarked that Pokémon were incredible.

Chen Shi’s paper on Onix evolving into Steelix gained attention from prominent professors and earned his anonymous account Junior Researcher status. At his farm, he considered publishing more research to build influence and secure access to valuable League resources.

• Researchers praised Severe Indecisiveness’s paper explaining how a Link Cable’s magnetic field could trigger Onix’s evolution into Steelix, and the League gave Chen Shi Junior Researcher status.
• Professor Carolina praised the paper, and Cynthia learned that Severe Indecisiveness was Chen Shi and realized his username teased her indecisiveness.
• Chen Shi sneezed at his farm while Togetic fetched ice cream, and Pheobe asked if he had caught a cold.
• Chen Shi wondered how Leafeon and Swampert were doing, assessed the challenges of coordinating his team, and considered publishing more papers to gain influence.
• Chen Shi planned to use knowledge of Mega Evolution and the Fairy type as bargaining chips for legendary-grade resources from the League.

Chen Shi's Pokémon continued training and growing stronger before Pheobe challenged Drakloak to a battle with her newly gym-level Dusknoir. Drakloak countered Dusknoir's strategy and won, leaving Pheobe to surrender and Chen Shi to praise him.

• Florges learned Dazzling Gleam, while Togetic, Drakloak, and Charmander continued training and Metang began training after evolving and drinking Grandpa's Potential Potion.
• Pheobe told Chen Shi that her Dusknoir, Little Spirit, had reached gym level and challenged Drakloak to a battle.
• Chen Shi and Pheobe took Drakloak and Dusknoir to an open space near Salamence's cave to battle.
• Pheobe used Gravity to slow Drakloak, but Drakloak used Phantom Force, Protect, and Astonish to counter Dusknoir's attacks and confuse him.
• Drakloak avoided further damage by retreating into subspace, and Pheobe surrendered before he could continue attacking.
• Drakloak eagerly returned to Chen Shi, who praised him for his performance.

After Pheobe lost a battle against Chen Shi’s Drakloak, Chen Shi advised her to gain experience by traveling, and her grandparents agreed to let her go. Pheobe departed from the Chen Family Farm under Gengar’s secret protection, while Chen Shi asked her to catch him advanced-level Scyther and Sneasel.

• Chen Shi treated Dusknoir after the battle and advised Pheobe to travel and gain more battle experience.
• Chen Shi discussed Pheobe’s proposed trip with Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen, and they agreed to let her go.
• Chen Shi arranged for Gengar to secretly protect Pheobe and helped her pack for the journey.
• At the Chen Family Farm entrance, Chen Shi gave Pheobe one million League Coins and asked her to catch advanced-level Scyther and Sneasel.
• After Pheobe departed, Chen Shi told Grandpa Chen that he had discovered evolutions for Scyther and Sneasel through casual research.

Chen Shi trained Charmander, Metang, Florges, and Togetic while reflecting on how content he was with his Pokémon. In Sinnoh, Cynthia welcomed a newly hatched Togepi and discussed Chen Shi’s theory that friendship could trigger evolution, leaving her embarrassed by her grandmother’s teasing about Chen Shi.

• Chen Shi taught Charmander to conserve energy between attacks and encouraged it to practice repeated Embers.
• Chen Shi instructed Metang in Meteor Mash, then checked on Florges and Togetic as they trained.
• Cynthia watched Togepi hatch, cleaned her, and fed her Miltank milk.
• Cynthia told Professor Carolina that Chen Shi believed Togepi and Lucario evolved through friendship, but Carolina questioned how the theory could be proven.
• Professor Carolina teased Cynthia about Chen Shi, and Cynthia denied that they were anything more than ordinary friends before walking away with Togepi.

Steven visited Chen Shi to report that the Stone family had revived the first Fossil Pokémon, an Aerodactyl, using Munna’s dream energy. He also told Chen Shi about the exceptional Pokémon Eggs and valuable items offered at the upcoming Pokémon World Championships, leaving Chen Shi determined to train his Pokémon harder.

• Steven told Chen Shi that the Stone family had revived an Aerodactyl with Munna’s dream energy, crediting Chen Shi’s advice and his father’s support.
• Chen Shi congratulated Steven and reassured him that they were friends, while Steven reflected on the pressure he had faced pursuing the research.
• Steven said the first energy conversion device had exploded, but the researchers had gained experience for another attempt.
• Steven told Chen Shi that the Pokémon World Championships would award each of the top sixteen a Pokémon Egg with at least as much potential as Chen Shi’s Beldum.
• Steven added that competitors could also choose an item from the League’s treasure vault according to their ranking, prompting Chen Shi to resolve to intensify his Pokémon’s training.

Chen Shi and Steven discussed the powerful trainers gathering for the Pokémon World Championships, and Chen Shi asked Steven to arrange a harmless scam to teach Pheobe about the world. They agreed to visit an Elite Four exhibition match and Meteor Falls, and Chen Shi gathered his Pokémon for the trip.

• Chen Shi and Steven discussed prominent trainers from several regions and the hidden talents the Pokémon World Championships would bring together.
• Chen Shi asked Steven to arrange for people to scam Pheobe so she could learn a lesson, and Steven agreed after hearing her guardians had approved.
• Steven invited Chen Shi to watch Sidney face Mura in an Elite Four exhibition match in Lavaridge Town, and Chen Shi agreed to visit Meteor Falls with him.
• Chen Shi went to Back Mountain and invited Dreepy and Leafeon to gain battle experience, while Salamence helped gather the Pokémon.
• Swampert and Empoleon left their young Swampert behind, and Leafeon rushed into Chen Shi's arms when she saw him.

Chen Shi and Steven traveled to Meteor Falls to search for stones, where Togetic’s random pointing led them to a top-grade Moon Stone. They continued their search after Steven’s detector finally found something.

• Chen Shi told his grandparents he planned to visit Meteor Falls for training and prepared his Pokémon, asking Gardevoir to watch Florges’s garden.
• Chen Shi rode Skarmory with Steven, and they headed straight to Meteor Falls to dig for stones.
• Chen Shi and Steven passed the waterfall and continued into the depths, where Steven used Devon Corporation equipment and Aggron to search for minerals.
• Chen Shi asked Togetic to point toward a place to search, and Steven’s detector sounded when he scanned the spot she chose at random.
• Aggron dug up a top-grade Moon Stone, and Steven reconsidered the usefulness of his detector.

Chen Shi discovered that Steven had found an Aggronite while digging in Meteor Falls and asked him to set aside any similar stones they found. A visitor arrived at the Chen family farm while Chen Shi was away, then hurried off after learning where he had gone.

• Steven spent the day digging in Meteor Falls while Chen Shi took his Pokémon out to battle.
• That night, Steven showed Chen Shi the stones he had found, and Chen Shi recognized one as an Aggronite.
• Steven said Aggron had picked up the Aggronite and agreed to set aside similar stones for Chen Shi.
• Chen Shi planned to keep searching Meteor Falls for Mega Stones and told Steven to get some sleep before their next day of digging.
• A visitor came to the Chen family farm, learned Chen Shi was away at an Elite King exhibition match, and hurried off as the two elderly people exchanged knowing smiles.

Chen Shi and Drakloak discovered a Dreepy fossil in Meteor Falls, and Chen Shi promised to have it revived. He planned to give the revived Dreepy to Pheobe.

• Steven woke Chen Shi early and rushed ahead to dig for rocks.
• Drakloak sensed something in a rock wall that made him feel deeply sad, so Chen Shi asked Swampert to dig there.
• Drakloak uncovered a Dreepy fossil and mourned the dead Pokémon it belonged to.
• Chen Shi told Drakloak that fossil revival could bring Dreepy back, and Drakloak happily entrusted the fossil to him.
• Chen Shi planned to take the fossil to Steven's family for revival and give the revived Dreepy to Pheobe.

Chen Shi and Steven discovered Team Magma members searching Meteor Falls for a meteorite and forced one to reveal their mission and the strength of their group. Yoshino identified Firetree as the leader and gave Chen Shi a map to their nearby base.

• Chen Shi suggested that Steven consider catching Mawile after Steven found a Mawile Mega Stone and a high-grade Moon Stone.
• Chen Shi and Steven encountered two Team Magma members, including Yoshino, who had dug into Steven's tunnel while searching for a meteorite.
• Chen Shi and Steven captured the intruders and took their Poké Balls before questioning them.
• When Yoshino refused to answer, Chen Shi ordered Leafeon to cut off his companion's foot, terrifying Yoshino into cooperating.
• Yoshino revealed that Firetree led the search with three advanced-level members and more than ten intermediate-level members, and offered Chen Shi a map to their nearby base.

Chen Shi explained the League’s corruption to Steven and urged him to become Champion and reform it. The two planned a raid on Team Magma’s base, where Drakloak secretly stole a pile of stones for Chen Shi.

• Chen Shi had Swampert carry Yoshino and his companion away, then told Steven how the League had cheated Yuko out of her promised Pokémon and compensation.
• Chen Shi warned Steven about Team Magma and Team Aqua and urged him to become Champion to clean up the League.
• Chen Shi and Steven decided to raid Team Magma’s base for the strange stones, despite the presence of executive Firetree.
• Drakloak turned invisible and scouted the base, judging Firetree’s Pokémon too strong to fight directly.
• Drakloak packed the stones Team Magma had dismissed as useless into a Space Backpack and left without Firetree noticing.

Chen Shi and Steven recovered three Mega Stones from Team Magma’s digging site and agreed that Steven would later help revive a Fossil Pokémon. They met Ada, a Draconid searching for five missing Bagon, and set out with him for the Team Magma base.

• Drakloak returned with a backpack of stones and reported that Firetree had five Bagon and several powerful Pokémon.
• Chen Shi found Mega Stones for Garchomp, Venusaur, and Glalie, then gave Steven the other stones in exchange for help reviving a Fossil Pokémon.
• Drakloak noticed someone hiding behind a boulder, and Chen Shi and Steven confronted Ada, a Draconid.
• Chen Shi told Ada that Firetree had the missing Bagon and warned that he was a powerful Senior Elite King.
• Ada said he could handle Firetree, and Chen Shi and Steven agreed to take him to the Team Magma base.

Ada, Chen Shi, and Steven raided the Team Magma Base and recovered five stolen Bagon after defeating Firetree and his Pokémon. Ada invited Chen Shi and Steven to his village, and they followed him toward the depths of Meteor Falls with Firetree as their prisoner.

• Chen Shi led Ada and Steven into the Team Magma Base, where Firetree denied stealing the five dragon hatchlings and sent out six Pokémon.
• Ada's Hydreigon, Altaria, and Flygon overwhelmed Firetree's Pokémon, while Drakloak and Steven's Metagross stopped Camerupt from triggering an Earthquake that could collapse the cave.
• Drakloak used Phantom Force to knock Firetree unconscious and bring him back, and Steven and Chen Shi found five Poké Balls containing Bagon in Firetree's backpack.
• Ada reunited with the five Bagon and thanked Chen Shi and Steven for helping him recover them.
• Ada decided to take Firetree to the Grandmother-in-Chief and invited Chen Shi and Steven to visit his village, then led them deeper into Meteor Falls.

Ada brought Chen Shi and Steven to the secluded Draconid village, where Granny asked to meet them and requested their help. She began by asking whether they knew about the disaster from a thousand years ago.

• Ada told Chen Shi and Steven that the Draconids worshipped a Dragon God said to live in the ozone layer and to have stopped a disaster a thousand years earlier.
• Ada led Chen Shi and Steven through a gorge to the hidden village, where they flew in on Altaria and Flygon as she rode Hydreigon.
• Zinnia met the group at the village entrance and said Granny wanted to welcome the guests personally.
• Ada and Zinnia brought Chen Shi and Steven to Granny’s cabin, where Granny thanked them for helping recover five missing dragon youngsters.
• Granny told Chen Shi and Steven that she had invited them because she wanted their help, then asked whether they knew about the disaster a thousand years ago.

The Grandmother-in-Chief told Chen Shi and Steven that an ancient prophecy foretold another disaster and a hero who would awaken the Dragon God. She believed Chen Shi was that hero because he shared the Dragon God's power and had rescued five dragon hatchlings, but Chen Shi tried to nominate Steven instead.

• The Grandmother-in-Chief recounted how a thousand years earlier two terrifying beasts fought until an ancestor summoned the Dragon God to stop the disaster.
• The Grandmother-in-Chief revealed a prophecy that the disaster would return a thousand years later and a hero would awaken the Dragon God.
• Chen Shi asked whether they were expected to find the hero, and the Grandmother-in-Chief suggested that he could be the one.
• Chen Shi denied being a hero and pointed to Steven as a stronger, more righteous candidate.
• The Grandmother-in-Chief said Chen Shi had power similar to the Dragon God's and that rescuing the five dragon hatchlings was no coincidence.
• Chen Shi offered to teach Steven the power so Steven could become the hero, leaving Steven, the Grandmother-in-Chief, and Zinnia astonished.

Chen Shi and Steven chose treasures from the Draconids’ cellar, where Chen Shi found the Metagross Mega Stone he had been seeking. After they agreed to return if the ancient disaster struck again, the Grandmother-in-Chief explained her choices to Zinnia and urged her to explore the world.

• The Grandmother-in-Chief offered Chen Shi and Steven two items each from the Draconids’ treasury in exchange for teaching their power, if possible.
• Chen Shi and Steven searched the cellar’s stones and found more than twenty Mega Stones and eight Key Stones.
• Chen Shi chose a Metagross Mega Stone and an Outrage scale from a Champion Peak Salamence, while he and Steven also selected three stones.
• The Grandmother-in-Chief asked Chen Shi and Steven to return if the thousand-year-old disaster came again, and they agreed before leaving with Ada.
• Zinnia questioned the Grandmother-in-Chief about the pair and their power, and the old woman warned her not to judge by appearances or demand secrets.
• The Grandmother-in-Chief urged Zinnia to leave the village and see the world, and Zinnia agreed.

Chen Shi and Steven met the penniless Pheobe outside Lavaridge Town after Steven’s people had scammed her on Chen Shi’s orders. Chen Shi fed her and gave her a Dreepy fossil, and the chapter left Pheobe discovering she needed money to attend the Elite King Exhibition Match.

• Steven and Chen Shi arrived near Lavaridge Town and heard Pheobe calling for Chen Shi.
• Pheobe told Chen Shi that scammers had taken her money and beaten her, while Steven realized his people had carried out Chen Shi’s plan.
• Chen Shi took Pheobe to a hotel, bought her a meal, and argued privately with Steven over their shared responsibility for the scam.
• Chen Shi gave Pheobe a Dreepy fossil and explained that Steven could revive it once the Revival Machine was repaired.
• Pheobe said she had come to see the Elite King Exhibition Match, then learned she needed money to buy a ticket.

While soaking in Lavaridge Town’s hot springs, Chen Shi explained to Steven that the rare stones they had found were tied to a powerful, temporary transformation and had to be kept secret. He encouraged Steven to collect them discreetly and hinted that Mawile was a good choice, leaving Steven ready to search for one while Pheobe agreed to focus on Haunter.

• Chen Shi refused to teach Steven about the power yet, saying they should wait until they were stronger.
• Chen Shi told Steven to secretly collect the rare stones and keep their importance confidential.
• Steven guessed the stones were connected to the Dragon God’s power, and Chen Shi confirmed that they enabled a temporary transformation that could last through a battle.
• Chen Shi hinted that Steven should seek a Mawile, and Steven said he would look for a suitable one when he returned.
• Pheobe asked whether she should catch a Mawile, but Chen Shi told her to focus on raising Haunter.

Cynthia found Chen Shi at Steven’s private hot spring, where she teased him about his indecisiveness and introduced Togepi, Togetic’s newly hatched daughter. Cynthia and her Pokémon reunited with Chen Shi and met Steven and Pheobe.

• A staff member told Chen Shi and Steven that a woman named Cynthia had come to see them, and Chen Shi asked for her to be let in.
• Cynthia joined the hot spring and confronted Chen Shi about calling her “Severe Indecisiveness” on the Researcher Forum.
• Cynthia revealed that Togepi had hatched, and Togetic reacted with shock before smacking Chen Shi on the head.
• Chen Shi introduced Cynthia to Steven and Pheobe, and Steven complimented her beauty by comparing it to a Shiny Stone.
• Cynthia released Garchomp, Lucario, Milotic, Glaceon, and Spiritomb, and Glaceon happily jumped into Chen Shi’s arms for a massage.

Chen Shi revealed that he was the researcher Severe Indecisiveness and gave Cynthia three gifts containing unusual stones. Lucario and Garchomp sensed something significant about two of the stones, and Cynthia suspected they were connected to them.

• Steven asked whether Severe Indecisiveness was the researcher behind recent Pokémon findings, and Chen Shi admitted that he was.
• Chen Shi told Steven that Scyther had another Bug- and Steel-type evolved form, while Pheobe said she had caught a Scyther for him and agreed to look for Sneasel.
• Chen Shi gave Togepi a specially formulated Fairy-type Pokéblock, which Cynthia recognized as unusual.
• Chen Shi gave Cynthia three boxes: one held lipstick with a rainbow-marked stone, and the others held stones that drew Lucario's and Garchomp's attention.
• Cynthia closed the boxes after noticing both Pokémon react and thanked Chen Shi, saying she liked the gifts.