Chapter Summaries

Chen Shi persuaded Uxie to help him find Arcanine and Electrode before accompanying it to meet the other Emotion Gods and try to control his Psychic power. He then hinted that he would need Uxie’s help to defeat the Five Kings of Hisui, leaving Victini certain Uxie was about to be tricked.

• Uxie admitted it had not meant to hurt Zorua, and Chen Shi asked whether it knew where Arcanine and Electrode were.
• Chen Shi removed his Mask, and Uxie recognized him as the person Father God had instructed the Lake Guardians to help control his unusual Psychic power.
• Uxie offered to take Chen Shi to meet the other two Emotion Gods, but Chen Shi refused until he had found the remaining Five Kings of Hisui and collected their Plate Projections.
• Chen Shi persuaded Uxie to take him to Arcanine and Electrode first, promising to join it afterward to find the other Emotion Gods.
• Chen Shi claimed he might need help defeating Arcanine and Electrode, and Victini realized he was setting Uxie up to help him.

Chen Shi persuaded Uxie to help him confront Hisui’s remaining kings, prompting Cogita to offer him two Plate Projections and end the trial. As Chen Shi and Uxie set off to find the other Emotion Gods, Cogita recognized that his unpredictable actions made him an Anomaly.

• Chen Shi convinced Uxie to help him fight Arcanine and Electrode by appealing to their connection through Uxie’s Father God.
• Uxie teleported Chen Shi and Victini to Arcanine’s cave and attacked, but Cogita intervened before Arcanine was killed.
• Cogita offered Chen Shi two Plate Projections, and he chose the Water Droplet and the Mysterious Plate Projection.
• Uxie questioned why Cogita had protected the Five Kings, then agreed to continue searching for the other Emotion Gods with Chen Shi.
• Cogita told Gardevoir that Chen Shi had gathered all five Plate Projections through his unconventional actions and concluded that he was an Anomaly.

Chen Shi’s attempt to control his immense Psychic power with the Lake Guardians triggered a catastrophic eruption that forced Arceus to remove him from Hisui. The blast opened space-time rifts above Lake Verity, bringing the conflict between the Time-Space Duo closer.

• Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf examined Chen Shi and decided to draw out his Psychic power despite doubts that his human body could withstand it.
• The Lake Guardians immobilized Chen Shi and used their powers to reach the energy within him, sending his consciousness into a world formed from his memories.
• A rainbow-lit version of Chen Shi warned him that staying would cause disasters, then sent him back to his body.
• Chen Shi’s pure white Psychic power erupted, destroying the area around Lake Verity and leaving the Lake Guardians grievously injured.
• Arceus found that he could not move Chen Shi directly, so he cut away the surrounding space and took Chen Shi with it.
• Cogita noticed widening space-time rifts above Lake Verity and realized the battle between the Time-Space Duo might begin soon.

Cogita sealed the memories of Legendary Pokémon who had sensed Chen Shi’s Psychic power and planned to unleash the Five Kings of Hisui to start a war. She sent Gardevoir to give Giratina a black crystal and the monitoring mirror while Chen Shi remained away as his power was investigated.

• Mew tried to enter Hisui to investigate the unfamiliar Psychic power, but Cogita appeared and sent it back to the World Tree Mystery Realm after sealing its memories.
• Cogita returned to the courtyard after sealing most Legendary Pokémon’s memories of Chen Shi and repairing the damaged terrain in Sinnoh.
• Gardevoir told Cogita that the Five Kings of Hisui would reach the required strength in a month, and Cogita ordered that they be released to provoke a war.
• Cogita told Gardevoir to shelter Hisui’s humans in a prepared mystery realm when the war began.
• Cogita gave Gardevoir a black crystal for Giratina and sent the purple monitoring mirror with her as well.

After a year away, Chen Shi returned to the Goodra group with Pokéblocks and asked Big Goo to come live with him. Big Goo agreed, and the group prepared to leave with Chen Shi.

• Big Goo waited for Chen Shi to return and told Second Goo that Chen Shi had invited the group to go with him.
• Chen Shi arrived on Dragapult, and Second Goo excitedly hugged him so tightly that Dragapult had to pull him away.
• Chen Shi brought Pokéblocks for the Goodra group and let Victini, Florges, and the others out to join them for dinner.
• Chen Shi asked Big Goo whether he had decided to come with him, and Big Goo nodded in agreement.

Chen Shi recruited Big Goo and the Goodra group, then learned that the Five Kings of Hisui had gathered Pokémon near Mt. Coronet. As he camped, he reflected on his team’s immense growth and practiced his newly sealed psychic power, while the Lake Guardians remained unconscious from their injuries.

• Chen Shi and his Pokémon caught the Goodra group in Poké Balls, and he told them the balls would be their second homes.
• Big Goo told Chen Shi that the Five Kings of Hisui had appeared near Mt. Coronet and gathered a huge number of Pokémon.
• Chen Shi set up camp and reflected that Dragapult had reached level 94, most of his team had reached Legendary strength, and Victini was nearing Second-Class Deity status.
• Chen Shi practiced Calm Mind with his psychic power sealed to Elite Four level, while Victini recalled that the Lake Guardians would remain unconscious for over a hundred years.
• Togekiss crawled into Chen Shi’s sleeping bag, and Chen Shi got up to close the tent zipper after her.

Cogita prepared to unleash a rebellion against the Five Kings of Hisui while sealing off the region. After returning, Chen Shi helped the Zoroark group defeat a force of Arcanine and learned the Five Kings were gathering a vast army to conquer Pokémon groups.

• Cogita told Gardevoir to stop holding back the Five Kings and the followers of the Time-Space Duo, and ordered her to protect humans, especially those in Jubilife Village.
• Two days later, Chen Shi set out with Dragapult to find Lake Verity and pay respects to Pokémon who had died there.
• Chen Shi and Dragapult encountered Arcanine attacking the Zoroark group, and Dragapult defeated them with Surf and Dragon Darts.
• Zoroark told Chen Shi that the Five Kings had returned, established a base at Mt. Coronet, and divided their forces to subjugate Pokémon groups.
• Zoroark explained that the Five Kings forced groups to submit by capturing their offspring, and said the gathered army seemed too vast to see its end.

Chen Shi decided to help Zoroark’s pack find a place to hide from the Five Kings War after learning the humans nearby had disappeared. The injured packs gathered to leave with him, and Arcanine asked Chen Shi to protect his pack’s offspring while he and the others prepared to fight for them.

• Chen Shi learned that Zoroark’s pack could not find the humans who had lived nearby, and he proposed that they hide from the Five Kings War.
• Zoroark gathered her kin and their supplies, and Chen Shi used Florges to heal the injured Pokémon.
• The wounded Arcanine leader asked Chen Shi to take his pack’s offspring somewhere safe.
• Arcanine offered to bring the offspring and most of the pack’s Sacred Stones if Chen Shi agreed to protect them.
• Chen Shi realized Arcanine intended to lead his pack into battle to rescue their offspring and asked whether he had truly made up his mind.

Arcanine led his kin in an attack on Jubilife Village to rescue their offspring, and Chen Shi joined the battle with his Pokémon. After Dragapult defeated most of the Garchomp with the Bond Phenomenon, he entered the Distortion World, startling Giratina.

• Arcanine charged Jubilife Village with more than thirty of his kin, and Typhlosion stepped aside after realizing he could not dissuade him.
• Chen Shi sent Dragapult, Metagross, Charizard, and Swampert into the battle against the Braviary defending the village.
• More than twenty Garchomp arrived, including two Legendary Pokémon, and Chen Shi used his Psychic power to trigger the Bond Phenomenon with Dragapult.
• Dragapult used Dragon Rush to knock the Garchomp group down, leaving only the two Legendary Garchomp able to fight.
• Chen Shi ordered Dragapult to use Shadow Force, and Dragapult entered the Distortion World, where Giratina woke in surprise.

Chen Shi gathered the Arcanine, Typhlosion, and Braviary displaced by the Five Kings and brought them to Cogita’s home for shelter. He insisted on staying there even after Gardevoir said Cogita was away and told him to leave.

• Chen Shi had Metagross capture the defeated Garchomp while the Typhlosion and Braviary explained that the Five Kings had forced them to cooperate by capturing their offspring.
• Arcanine thanked Chen Shi for taking its offspring, and Chen Shi invited the whole pack to come with them and bring their food.
• Typhlosion and Braviary asked to join Chen Shi, who agreed and told them to gather food as well.
• Chen Shi told Zoroark and Big Goo that they needed to stick together, then ended Dreepy’s bond phenomenon while they waited.
• Chen Shi led the Pokémon to Cogita’s courtyard and demanded to be let inside; when Gardevoir said Cogita was away and suggested he leave, he declared he would stay and settled into Cogita’s rocking chair.

Chen Shi learned that Cogita expected him to confront the Five Kings of Hisui, then urged the clans he had rescued to unite and prepare to fight. Though they feared repeating the devastating Five Kings War, the Pokémon accepted that gathering forces was their only chance.

• Gardevoir told Chen Shi that Cogita would not let him stay and reminded him that Cogita had called him a hero, making clear that he was expected to face the crisis.
• Gardevoir urged Chen Shi to gather more Pokémon and prepare for the worst; Chen Shi left, frustrated that he was being sent into danger.
• Chen Shi told Zoroark, Big Goo, Typhlosion, Arcanine, and the other clan leaders that they could not escape the Five Kings of Hisui.
• Chen Shi proposed uniting every available fighting force, prompting the Pokémon to recall the devastation of the previous Five Kings War.
• Chen Shi warned that the Five Kings would discover the destroyed outpost in Jubilife Village and send stronger troops, and Zoroark, Big Goo, Arcanine, and the others accepted his plan to gather forces.

Chen Shi and his allies sheltered Pokémon offspring in Gardevoir’s mystery realm, then rallied Hisui’s coerced Pokémon against the Five Kings. After returning to Jubilife Village, they watched their movement grow into an army, but expected the Five Kings to attack soon.

• Chen Shi persuaded Gardevoir to shelter the young Pokémon in Mystery Realm No. 4, and Big Goo, Zoroark, Arcanine, Typhlosion, and Braviary left adult Pokémon to guard them.
• Chen Shi led Big Goo, Zoroark, and the others to fight the Five Kings’ forces and rescue coerced Pokémon and their offspring.
• Hisui’s Pokémon learned of Chen Shi’s growing force and traveled to Jubilife Village to join it, prompting Chen Shi to make the village their base.
• Chen Shi and Zoroark warned that the Five Kings would likely attack Jubilife Village, and Chen Shi told Victini they would stop them.

Chen Shi prepared Jubilife Village for Kleavor’s approaching army and sent Dragapult into battle to help Victini gather enough victory energy to break through. Dragapult’s repeated trips through the Distortion World enraged Giratina, who forced their way into the world as the army approached.

• Zoroark warned Chen Shi that Kleavor was leading an army from Mt. Coronet toward Jubilife Village, and Chen Shi went to scout from the village wall.
• Chen Shi told Victini that a few more battles against Legendary Pokémon could trigger its breakthrough and asked Dragapult to help by defeating some of them.
• Chen Shi used the Bond Phenomenon with Dragapult and flew toward the army on Metagross while Dragapult repeatedly entered and left the Distortion World with Shadow Force.
• Giratina tried to catch Dragapult in the Distortion World, but Dragapult returned, waved at them, and escaped again.
• Furious at Dragapult’s repeated intrusions, Giratina broke through the Distortion World’s barriers, causing the earth to shake and a massive rift to split the sky.

Giratina retreated into the Distortion World when the Time-Space Duo appeared, while Chen Shi realized he might be able to return home by resolving his mission. He sent Dragapult after Kleavor’s army, but Victini intervened when Dragapult was overwhelmed, and Kleavor recognized Chen Shi and confronted him.

• Giratina abandoned his attempt to emerge from the Distortion World rather than face the Time-Space Duo alongside Dragapult.
• Kleavor’s army recognized the Time-Space Duo and celebrated, while Chen Shi guessed that Giratina had caused the dark fissure in the sky.
• Chen Shi decided he needed to deal with the Five Kings of Hisui before pursuing the Time-Space Duo, then urged Dragapult and Victini to defeat Legendary Pokémon and gather victory energy.
• Dragapult charged into Kleavor’s army and was struck by Kleavor’s X-Scissor as the surrounding Pokémon prepared to attack.
• Victini overwhelmed the battlefield with pressure and dozens of Flame Bursts, blasting Pokémon away and injuring Kleavor before Dragapult escaped with Shadow Force.
• Kleavor recognized Chen Shi and grew furious over their past encounters, but Victini’s Second-Class Deity pressure cooled his anger.

Chen Shi and his allies drove Kleavor’s army away, then fled Jubilife Village as the Temporal-Spatial Rift grew more active. After learning the Time-Space Duo were fighting inside it and nearing their world, Chen Shi asked Dragapult to open a way to meet Giratina, whose furious eyes appeared in the entrance.

• Victini’s display of power and the arrival of Big Goo and Zoroark’s forces made Kleavor retreat, but Chen Shi warned that he might return with a larger army.
• Chen Shi and the others agreed to leave Jubilife Village and build up their strength while the Pokémon migrated in large groups.
• Chen Shi approached the Temporal-Spatial Rift with Victini and Metagross, and Victini revealed that the Time-Space Duo were already fighting inside it and drawing closer.
• As the Five Kings’ invasions spread and the rift’s collisions grew louder, Chen Shi asked Dragapult to open an entrance to the Distortion World so he could meet Giratina.
• Dragapult opened the entrance, and Giratina’s furious crimson eyes appeared within it.

Chen Shi explained to Giratina how Dragapult had received authority over the Distortion World and tried to persuade it to stop the Time-Space Duo’s battle. Giratina accepted Chen Shi’s food but rejected his appeal, leaving Chen Shi without a clear argument.

• Chen Shi told Giratina that its future self had given Dragapult authority over the Distortion World, and Giratina recalled Cogita’s message about an opportunity to escape.
• Dragapult realized Giratina did not know him in this era and pretended to be dead while Chen Shi explained.
• Chen Shi offered Giratina Pokéblocks, and Giratina tried them and enjoyed the food.
• Chen Shi asked Giratina to intervene in the Time-Space Duo’s battle before it devastated the Hisui Region.
• Giratina refused, pointing out that the Hisui Region regarded it as a wicked criminal and that the battle had nothing to do with it.

Chen Shi tried to recruit Giratina to stop Palkia and Dialga, but Giratina explained that it could not leave the Distortion World without outside help and initially refused to get involved. Chen Shi then appealed to Giratina’s pride and suggested that stopping the Time-Space Duo could improve its reputation, leaving Giratina to consider the idea.

• Chen Shi asked Giratina to help fight the Time-Space Duo, but Giratina said it had already beaten them before and did not care what they did outside the Distortion World.
• Giratina explained that it could escape by forcing its way out, getting a stronger being to open a passage, or finding Hoopa, while hinting at another method it would not explain.
• Chen Shi realized he could not use any of the escape methods and despaired that he needed Giratina to stop the Time-Space Duo but could not get Giratina out.
• Giratina said it would not help because there was nothing in it for Giratina, so Chen Shi described how the future Sinnoh Region honored Arceus, Palkia, and Dialga but not Giratina.
• Chen Shi argued that Giratina could change its reputation by stopping the Time-Space Duo as they endangered Hisui’s inhabitants, and Giratina listened as Chen Shi asked what the people would think.

Chen Shi persuaded Giratina to help stop Palkia and Dialga, but Giratina’s escape required Dragapult to take its place as a prisoner in the Distortion World. Dragapult agreed after Giratina called him a disgrace, and Giratina began preparing while the group waited amid the growing danger in Hisui.

• Chen Shi convinced Giratina that saving Hisui’s Pokémon would earn it worship and give them both what they wanted.
• Giratina explained that Dragapult would have to enter the Distortion World and temporarily take its place as prisoner.
• Dragapult hid in Chen Shi’s shadow, but Giratina’s taunts provoked him into agreeing to go.
• Giratina said Dragapult was too weak for the exchange and began making preparations, assuring Chen Shi that Palkia and Dialga’s battle would last long enough.
• After Giratina closed the entrance to the Distortion World, Zoroark told Chen Shi that he was making a deal with the devil.

Chen Shi defended his choice to seek Giratina’s help against the Time-Space Duo, but their battle soon tore through the Temporal-Spatial Rift and devastated Hisui. As Chen Shi led fleeing Pokémon toward the region’s edge, a Spacial Rend struck, and he ordered the clans to spread out and rescue the injured.

• Chen Shi told Zoroark, Big Goo, and the clan leaders that Giratina was their only chance to stop the Time-Space Duo and accepted responsibility for the choice.
• During the night, shock waves from the Temporal-Spatial Rift shattered the ground and woke the sleeping Pokémon.
• Chen Shi called out Dragapult and led the Pokémon toward the edge of Hisui as the sky darkened and debris fell from the rift.
• A Spacial Rend carved a ten-thousand-meter chasm into the ground, and Chen Shi cursed the Time-Space Duo for the deaths it caused.
• Chen Shi ordered the clans to spread out and rescue Pokémon who could not move easily, and sent Victini to protect them.

Chen Shi organized the fleeing Pokémon as the battle between the Time-Space Duo destabilized the present, while Cogita watched events unfold from her hidden courtyard. In the original timeline, Chen Shi’s friends investigated Hisui’s ruins and suspected someone had secretly manipulated the ancient conflict.

• Chen Shi sent Victini and his other Pokémon to protect and evacuate weaker Pokémon, then urged the fleeing Pokémon to head north and work together.
• Cogita returned to her courtyard, said the Temporal-Spatial Rift had appeared earlier than expected, and told Gardevoir that Chen Shi had persuaded Giratina to help.
• After Chen Shi had been missing for two months, Cynthia and Doctor Carolina told his friends and grandparents that he had traveled a thousand years into the past.
• Steven, Diantha, the Chen family elders, and Professor Oak examined Hisui murals showing exceptionally powerful Pokémon and the region’s decline after a great battle.
• Doctor Carolina explained that the murals showed Chen Shi’s groups defeating the Five Kings before a mysterious rescue and sudden surge in their strength.
• Cynthia suspected that someone had secretly steered the battle, leaving the group stunned.