Yong walked through a completely empty space, shimmering with crystalline pink motes of light. Before him lay nothing but a blank void...
"Where am I?"
Yong frowned as he looked around.
"Wasn't I supposed to be on Fakola Island? The island collapsed... and then... huh? I think I heard... Mew's voice?"
"Ny?"
"Not that one!"
"Mew?"
"Yes! That's the sound!"
The boy clapped his hands and nodded in recognition, only for his eyes to widen as realization suddenly struck him.
"Mew!?"
Before him, a white, kitten-like Pokémon stared wide-eyed at the boy's rather comical reaction, then broke into a happy smile.
The familiar figure reminded Yong of when he had first set out on his journey.
Back then, he had happened to run into this little "wanderer" while it was out roaming the streets...
It had later lured his Swampert away, but had also helped Swampert inherit energy from Groudon and Kyogre, granting it the [Primal Reversion] form.
"Long time no see, Mew! How have you been?"
"Nyyy~~~"
Watching the little creature act so affectionately, Yong smiled and reached out, only to see his hand pass straight through Mew's body...
"Huh?"
The next second,
Mew's figure suddenly changed. An enormous, twisted black shadow surged toward him, radiating powerful resentment and an icy chill, then plunged straight into his head!
"Aah!!!"
Agonizing pain!
In that instant, something seemed to detonate inside Yong's mental world!
The intense shock made him let out a low roar, and his eyes snapped open!
"Ah..."
A moment later, the sight before him left the boy stunned. He stared blankly at everyone in the room...
Cynthia, Miss Olivia, Lana, Kiawe, a young man in a black Pokémon League Investigator's uniform, a short, somewhat plump man in a white lab coat, and beside him, Nurse Joy, a Chansey,