Recaps

As Ghost-type Pokémon overwhelmed the island, Sara sent Cheng Tian and Su Han to the Museum to retrieve a sealed item while the defenders held out for reinforcements. The little old man stayed behind with Chandelure to stop Banette from pursuing them.

• Sara ordered Mega Audino to heal the injured and called for reinforcements as the defenders struggled against the Ghost-type assault.
• Gamino sent out Copperajah, which charged through the Ghost Pokémon and opened a path for the group.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han flew past Miyamoto Ryunosuke's besieged administration building and continued toward the Museum as Sara had instructed.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han helped the little old man fight a powerful Banette, then retrieved the sealed item from the Museum.
• Chandelure struck Banette with Will-O-Wisp as Cheng Tian and Su Han escaped on Noivern, and the little old man remained behind to fight Banette.

Cheng Tian stayed behind to hold off the Ghost-type Pokémon while Su Han carried the black box to safety, and reinforcements turned the tide at the clearing. As the battle continued, Sara sent Yu Xiao to help Miyamoto Ryunosuke at the Administration Building, while planes from five countries sought a way through the sand wall surrounding Bakia Island.

• Cheng Tian sent Su Han toward the clearing with the black box and stayed behind to buy her time as Ghost-type Pokémon attacked them.
• Nier and Pokémon from Trial Peak arrived, helping the Trainers push back the Ghost-type Pokémon and rescuing Han Yu from a Golurk's attack.
• Sara and Zeraora joined the fight against Golurk, then Sara sent Yu Xiao and some reinforcements to help Miyamoto Ryunosuke face a powerful Spiritomb at the Administration Building.
• Sara learned that planes from five countries could not get past the sand wall around Bakia Island, and Gamino volunteered to bring them in.
• Yang Yonggang spoke with Sama Tetsuya, who suggested that an Apex Pokémon might be surrounding the island and said he had begun contacting Australia for help.

Nalu and the Temple of the Sea led thousands of Gyarados in an assault on the sand wall surrounding Bakia Island. The Shiny Gyarados broke through level 80 and unleashed a towering Liquidation against Apex Palossand, opening a path as the battle continued.

• Yang Yonggang learned that Australia could not mobilize an Apex Water-type Pokémon to help break the sand wall.
• Nalu arrived with Manaphy, the Temple of the Sea, a Shiny Gyarados, and thousands of Gyarados, then charged the wall with a Waterspout.
• Sama Tetsuya recognized Nalu and, with Yang Yonggang and the other Trainers, jumped from the planes to help her.
• Nalu and the Temple of the Sea empowered the Shiny Gyarados, which broke through level 80 and formed a colossal Gyarados from water.
• The giant Gyarados struck Apex Palossand with Liquidation and tore open the sand wall, while the dying Uxie welcomed their arrival.

The battle situation stabilized as reinforcements arrived, and Su Han learned that Sara needed her help with a half-bead in the black case. Zeraora rescued Cheng Tian, while the other survivors regrouped and headed toward the chairman.

• Nalu collapsed into the Waterspout after seeing Sama Tetsuya, leaving him shaken by her look of disappointment and disgust.
• Manaphy sent a final message that the Sea Ancients had broken through the blockade, while Yang Yonggang and Gamino decided to retake the apron so supply transports could land.
• Su Han returned with the black case, and Sara told her that Zeraora had gone to rescue A-Tian before showing her a half-bead.
• Cheng Tian and his exhausted Pokémon prepared to face Banette, but Zeraora arrived and punched through its head.
• Granny Du offered to escort Miyamoto Ryunosuke to find the chairman, while Nier reunited with Old Man Xia and Han Yu told him the chairman had sent them.

Cheng Tian recovered enough to rejoin the defenders as reinforcements arrived, but Uxie warned that Giratina was about to break through its seal. A powerful Shiny Spiritomb emerged and targeted Sara and Su Han, leaving the gathered Trainers to face its attack.

• Dusknoir used Pain Split to restore Cheng Tian’s stamina, and Cheng Tian asked where Xiaohan was while Sara and Su Han worked inside a tent.
• Gamino and Yang Yonggang arrived with relief supplies as reinforcements gathered around the clearing.
• Dark clouds covered the sky, Giratina roared from the black hole, and Uxie appeared to warn that Giratina was about to break through the seal.
• A powerful Shiny Spiritomb emerged from another black hole and fixed its attention on Sara and Su Han’s tent.
• Cheng Tian, Gamino, Miyamoto Ryunosuke, and the others stood between Spiritomb and the tent as it unleashed a domain filled with attacking specters.
• Miyamoto Ryunosuke raised his cane and ordered everyone to meet the attack.

Cheng Tian and the others fought Shiny Spiritomb while Giratina battered the seal, until a divine Zapdos destroyed Spiritomb. As the seal began collapsing and Lugia appeared to evacuate the survivors, Sara realized the half Bead was connected to the chains and that someone had made the same choice he had.

• Chandelure used Imprison and Inferno Abyss to restrain Shiny Spiritomb, but Spiritomb broke through the attacks as Giratina continued assaulting the seal.
• A divine Zapdos arrived, bound Spiritomb in lightning chains, and destroyed it.
• Su Han emerged from the tent with Sara, and Sara acknowledged that helping him complete something was the best solution despite its consequences.
• Giratina stopped attacking and sent a Shadow Ball into the seal, causing its chains to slacken and the seal to collapse faster.
• Sara's half Bead shone in harmony with the chains, and he realized someone had already made the same choice as him.
• Lugia emerged from the sea, identified itself as the God of the Sea, and called on anyone who wanted to live to follow it away.

Cheng Tian refused Lugia’s offer to escape, and Giratina broke through the final seal and unleashed a swarm of Ghost-type Pokémon. As humanity fought back against overwhelming odds, Sara led an attack toward Giratina, leaving the chapter with the group charging into danger.

• Cheng Tian refused to leave his friends and partners behind, so Lugia departed without rescuing him.
• Giratina broke through the Light Membrane, emerged in a grotesque form, and summoned Ghost-type Pokémon to slaughter everything nearby.
• The human forces suffered devastating losses while Zapdos fought the Pokémon swarm.
• Sara asked the survivors to lend him their strength and led a charge toward Giratina as Granny Du and the others cleared a path.
• Uxie watched the humans resist, while Giratina gathered terrifying energy in its open maw.

Giratina overwhelmed the defenders, killed Zapdos, and threatened to destroy every Legendary Pokémon and all life. Zapdos’s Divine Office passed to Zeraora, while Uxie taunted Giratina about its origins, enraging it further.

• Chandelure absorbed the Trainers’ Fire-type attacks with Flash Fire, but Giratina’s Psychic broke through its Inferno Abyss and devastated the defenders.
• Giratina mocked Uxie’s efforts to protect the world as Drifblim attacks brought down Liang Pingfeng and other Trainers.
• Giratina declared it would wipe out the Legendary Pokémon, then killed Zapdos with a Dragon Claw.
• A lightning bolt struck Zeraora, healing its wounds and granting it the Divine Office that passed on after Zapdos’s death.
• Uxie taunted Giratina about what it truly was, and Giratina attacked Uxie in a rage, vowing to destroy all life.

Sara and the trainers fought through Giratina’s forces to deliver the Griseous Orb, while Zeraora gained Zapdos’s Divine Office and defeated Aegislash. Sara reached Giratina, but Giratina froze him with Spatial Power and revealed that it had expected the sealing attempt and planned to reunite the two halves of the Griseous Orb.

• Zeraora inherited Zapdos’s Divine Office, instinctively used Plasma Fists, and smashed Aegislash’s blade.
• Giratina mocked Uxie and taunted the humans as the battle against its Pokémon swarm continued.
• Long Weixi shielded Sara from Aegislash’s sword energy, then fell with her Noivern as Wen Xu reached for her.
• Cheng Tian stayed behind to fight the pursuing Ghost-type Pokémon while Su Han continued escorting Sara toward the vines’ end.
• Sara used Arcanine’s leap to launch himself toward Giratina and poured his Aura and life force into the half-orb, demanding that Giratina be sealed again.
• Giratina used Spatial Power to freeze Sara, Uxie, and the battlefield, then said it would restore the Griseous Orb with the two halves.

Giratina completed the Griseous Orb and swallowed it, but the orb’s power suddenly wounded it from within. Enraged, Giratina summoned enormous stone spikes and aimed them at Cheng Tian and Su Han.

• Giratina fused the two halves of the orb into a complete Griseous Orb as time remained stopped.
• Giratina swallowed the Griseous Orb and gloated that its power would make it unstoppable.
• Time resumed, and Uxie caught the now-elderly Sara as he fell; Su Han hesitated while Cheng Tian stood protectively before her.
• Giratina’s power abruptly vanished, and it suffered severe wounds as Uxie mocked it for trying to absorb the orb.
• Giratina summoned enormous rocks, reshaped them into sharp spikes, and aimed some at Cheng Tian and Su Han.

During Giratina’s attack, Cheng Tian saved Su Han from Stone Edge but was impaled and died in her arms after confessing his love. Su Han and their Pokémon grieved as the battle continued around them.

• Uxie shielded everyone from Giratina’s falling stone spikes, while Noivern was wounded protecting Cheng Tian and Togekiss.
• Giratina used Stone Edge to destroy the Frenzy Plant and raised a stone spike beneath Cheng Tian and Su Han as it prepared Draco Meteor.
• Su Han stayed in place to shield Cheng Tian from Draco Meteor, but Cheng Tian leaped to pull her aside and was impaled through the abdomen.
• Su Han desperately tried to save Cheng Tian as Noivern and Togekiss cried out in grief.
• Cheng Tian told Su Han to live on, confessed that he loved her, and died with his eyes fixed on her.
• Su Han screamed and mourned Cheng Tian, recalling their promises to return home, open a breeding shop, and marry.

Sara and Su Han completed the transformation of the half Orb into a Sealing Object while Sara asked Su Han to seal Giratina if he died. After Cheng Tian was killed protecting Su Han, she faced Giratina in a rage, consumed by grief and determined to make it pay.

• Sara and Su Han combined their Aura to transform the half Orb into a Sealing Object, while Sara warned that the technique could cost him his life.
• Sara asked Su Han to continue the mission if he died and told her that Miyamoto Ryunosuke was his chosen successor as Pokémon League Chairperson.
• Su Han hesitated over Sara's request because she could not bear the thought of losing Cheng Tian.
• After the Sealing Object was completed, Sara went outside and told Su Han to live well if he died.
• Cheng Tian was pierced through and died before Su Han, driving her into madness.
• Su Han confronted Giratina and vowed that it would pay for everything it had taken from her.

After Cheng Tian died, Su Han charged Giratina to seize the Griseous Orb. The orb showed her the sacrifice her mother had made to imprison Giratina, and Su Han used it to unleash her final attack.

• Noivern and Togekiss lowered Cheng Tian’s body, and Su Han asked Noivern to take him to Greninja before turning to face Giratina.
• Su Han leaped toward Giratina on Togekiss, aiming to take the Griseous Orb above its head.
• Noivern distracted Giratina with a Hurricane and Draco Meteor, while Lugia struck Giratina with Extrasensory from afar.
• Su Han grabbed the Griseous Orb and saw her mother sacrifice herself to bind Giratina with chains.
• Su Han jumped from Togekiss, poured her aura and life force into the orb’s Imprison, and roared that Giratina must repay its blood debt.

Su Han used the Griseous Orb and her remaining life force to seal Giratina, disappearing as the black hole swallowed the cocoon and restored peace to Bakia Island. The survivors realized Su Han was gone, then found Cheng Tian gravely wounded and unconscious, leaving Greninja pleading for him to wake.

• The Griseous Orb produced chains that bound Giratina as Su Han poured her remaining life force into the seal.
• Su Han saw her mother, said goodbye to A-Tian, and promised to be his girlfriend again in their next life.
• The completed cocoon and the rampaging Ghost-type Pokémon were pulled into a black hole, which vanished and ended the calamity on Bakia Island.
• Long Weixi and Cao Min wondered where Su Han was, while the Chinese team feared she had died.
• Greninja and the battered Pokémon returned without Cheng Tian, then Noivern fell from the sky with Cheng Tian hidden beneath its wings.
• Greninja found Cheng Tian pierced through the abdomen and broke down, urging him to wake up.

After the Great Calamity ended, the survivors mourned Cheng Tian and the countless dead. Uxie took Cheng Tian’s body away, while his friends and family faced the loss and life continued.

• Miyamoto Ryunosuke called the survivors to observe silence for the dead, and the account recorded the devastation and sacrifices of the Great Calamity.
• A light appeared around Cheng Tian’s body, and Uxie said it had to take him away despite Granny Du’s protest.
• Cheng Tian’s six Pokémon understood one another and each departed in a different direction; Greninja then vanished.
• Old Master Su mourned over a photograph of Cheng Tian and Su Han’s engagement, while Cheng Tian’s parents grieved at home.
• At Wudang, Bai Yun ran into the mountains and found the Human Bear waiting beside the pool beneath the waterfall.

After Cheng Tian died, he met Arceus and learned that Su Han had died in the hour after his own death. Arceus revealed that Cheng Tian’s transmigration was part of a plan to stop the beast, leaving him furious and despairing as Arceus insisted the plan still depended on him.

• Cheng Tian and Su Han agreed to marry the next day before Cheng Tian vanished into a dark void.
• A ball of light restored Cheng Tian’s senses, and Arceus appeared before him.
• Cheng Tian recognized Arceus as the system and accused it of creating the Great Calamity.
• Arceus showed Cheng Tian what had happened during the hour after his death, including Su Han’s death.
• Cheng Tian cursed Arceus and demanded to die, but Arceus said his refusal would ruin the game it had set up to stop the beast.

Arceus revealed that Cheng Tian's world was one of six worlds it had created and explained that the rampaging Giratina was an impostor formed around its Ghost-type Plate. After Cheng Tian blamed the Plate for Xiaohan's death, Arceus offered him a chance to bring her back.

• Arceus explained that it had created six connected worlds, including Cheng Tian's former human world and the world where Ash lived.
• Arceus revealed that Giratina had been born alongside it as its shadow, but the creature destroying Cheng Tian's world was an impostor.
• Cheng Tian discovered that the impostor contained Arceus's Ghost-type Plate, which had escaped the Reverse Space Arceus created to contain it.
• Arceus explained that Uxie's Imprison had inadvertently strengthened the Plate, and that Cheng Tian's girlfriend had returned it to the Distortion World.
• Cheng Tian angrily blamed Arceus for Xiaohan's sacrifice, and Arceus asked whether he wanted to save her and bring her back.

Cheng Tian rejected Arceus’s offer to move on and chose to find Giratina, remove the evil aura from the sealed Plate, and bring Su Han back. Arceus revived him and gave him a one-time burst of Origin Power, then Cheng Tian awoke after three years and was reunited with Florges as Uxie appeared.

• Cheng Tian vowed to bring Su Han back, and Arceus explained that undoing the Plate’s seal might make her revival possible.
• Arceus told Cheng Tian to find the real Giratina and enlist its help against the impostor and a portion of Arceus’s Origin Power.
• Cheng Tian accepted the task, and Arceus gave him a small amount of Origin Power before sending him away to continue alone.
• After three years, Cheng Tian awoke beside Florges, who embraced him in relief.
• Uxie appeared and asked Cheng Tian how he felt, and he said he was fine.

After waking from a three-year slumber, Cheng Tian learned that the world believed he had died in the Great Calamity and vowed to bring his beloved back with Florges at his side. He reunited with Miyamoto Ryunosuke, who led him to the rebuilt Pokémon League and Sara’s memorial statue.

• Cheng Tian learned from Uxie that he had slept for three years, that Florges had cared for him, and that the outside world believed he was dead.
• Cheng Tian vowed to bring his beloved back and face the threat with his companions, while Uxie revealed that his other Pokémon were missing and that Florges had grown stronger.
• Cheng Tian left the Lake of Wisdom with Florges and met Miyamoto Ryunosuke, who welcomed him back to the world of the living.
• Miyamoto Ryunosuke took Cheng Tian to the rebuilt Pokémon League and told him about Sara’s life and sacrifice.
• Cheng Tian stood before Sara’s statue and softly told the chairperson that he had returned.

After returning from the dead, Cheng Tian received help from Miyamoto Ryunosuke and set out to find his Pokémon partners on Trial Peak. He reunited with Zeraora and Noivern, while his plan to bring his girlfriend back remained unresolved.

• Cheng Tian told Miyamoto Ryunosuke that he planned to find his partners and bring his girlfriend back, and Miyamoto offered League support, identification, a visa, funds, and empty Poké Balls.
• Miyamoto explained new World Pokémon League champion rules, including title challenges and off-season matches broadcast worldwide.
• Cheng Tian visited Nier, learned her grandfather had died two months earlier, and borrowed an Insulating Suit before climbing Trial Peak alone.
• A Lucario guided Cheng Tian toward the thunderclouds, where he reunited with Zeraora and asked to find his partners.
• Zeraora summoned Noivern, and Cheng Tian greeted the scarred Pokémon and praised its strength.

Cheng Tian reunited with his Pokémon and returned to China, where Nalu helped him secretly reestablish his identity. He then faced Su Mulin, who demanded to know where his daughter was and threatened to kill Cheng Tian again when he learned she had not returned.

• Cheng Tian reunited with Noivern, Milotic, and Manaphy in the Pacific Ocean and told them he would bring the missing woman back himself.
• Nalu offered to help Cheng Tian return to China and arrange identification for him.
• Cheng Tian secretly visited Training Island and reunited with Gengar.
• Nalu gave Cheng Tian an ID card, phone, and cash in Magic City, while he admitted he was not ready to tell his family and friends that he was alive.
• Su Mulin confronted Cheng Tian with a saber and asked where his daughter was; when Cheng Tian apologized for not bringing her back, Su Mulin threatened to kill him again.

Cheng Tian tried to convince Su Mulin that Xiaohan was alive and sought help from the late old gentleman, then reunited with Yang Yonggang and returned to the mine to find his partner. He found four young Aron and was joyfully crushed in a hug by the scarred Aggron.

• Su Mulin confronted Cheng Tian over Xiaohan, but Cheng Tian said he believed she was still alive and would keep searching for her.
• Su Mulin told Cheng Tian that his father had died of bone cancer, and Cheng Tian opened a hidden chamber to borrow something from him.
• Yang Yonggang defeated a Gym challenger, then recognized Cheng Tian when he arrived to challenge the Gym.
• Cheng Tian told Yang Yonggang he had died and returned to life, and Yang Yonggang directed him to the mine to find his partner.
• Cheng Tian encountered four young Aron in the mine, and a scarred Aggron rushed over and hugged him so hard that he struggled to breathe.

Cheng Tian said goodbye to Aggron and his family before returning to Bingzhou, where he reunited with Lin Lin and learned how much had changed during his absence. He finally went home and told his aged father, “Dad, I’m home.”

• Cheng Tian met Aggron’s mate and four young Aron, then reflected on Aggron’s new family and their life guarding the mines.
• Cheng Tian told Aggron he was leaving for a dangerous adventure and could no longer ask him to come along; Aggron and the four Aron saw him off at dawn.
• Cheng Tian reunited with Lin Lin, learned Bai Yun had become a Fighting-type Elite Four member, and said he would visit Bai Yun and his parents.
• Cheng Tian returned to his family’s apartment and reunited with his father, who had aged noticeably during his absence.

Cheng Tian reunited with his parents after returning from three years away, then set out to find Greninja. Greninja prepared to defend Barbaracle from four hostile Pokémon, but sensed several powerful creatures approaching from elsewhere in the forest.

• Cheng Tian reunited with his parents and apologized for failing to protect Xiaohan.
• Cheng Tian released Noivern and flew toward the mountains, certain Greninja was there.
• Greninja cared for the aging Barbaracle in their remodeled cave and shared a warm meal with its master.
• A Nido couple, Ursaring, and Arbok came to challenge Greninja after years of being defeated by it and Barbaracle.
• Greninja confronted the four attackers, but sensed several creatures of comparable strength approaching from the far end of the forest.

Cheng Tian reunited with Greninja and Barbaracle, then set out with his companions to bring Xiaohan back. Two weeks later, he found Jirachi emerging from the ruins of Meteor Falls and asked it for help.

• Cheng Tian returned to Greninja, who joyfully embraced him, and greeted the aged Barbaracle.
• Cheng Tian explained that he had survived and planned to bring Xiaohan back, and Greninja chose to join him after Barbaracle urged it to go.
• Cheng Tian set out along the highway with his companions and thanked them.
• Two weeks later, Jirachi awakened among the ruins of Meteor Falls and rejoiced at seeing the stars.
• Cheng Tian approached Jirachi, reminded it that they had met before, and asked for its help.