Chapter Summaries

Iono won the Electric-type Experts Tournament after Xia Chi’s training helped her defeat Volkner. Back in the lounge, Xia Chi’s Victini hatched, recognized his voice, and fell asleep in his hands.

• Iono used Pawmot’s Dragon Dance, Dig, and Encore to outmaneuver Volkner’s Raichu and Luxray before her remaining Pokémon defeated his team.
• Iono won the Electric-type Experts Tournament, and she repeatedly praised Xia Chi during her interview.
• Xia Chi’s Pokémon Egg began glowing after the final, and Rotom confirmed that it was about to hatch.
• Victini broke out of its shell as Xia Chi and the other Pokémon watched.
• Victini recognized Xia Chi’s voice, affectionately leaped onto his face, and fell asleep in his palms.

Xia Chi’s Pokémon Egg hatched into the never-before-recorded Mythical Pokémon Victini, which he introduced to his Pokémon and Iono while keeping its discovery off the public encyclopedia. Geeta arrived and asked whether Xia Chi had caught another Legendary Pokémon.

• After Victini fell asleep, Rotom found no record of it in the online Pokémon encyclopedia, and Xia Chi told Rotom to record its name without uploading it.
• Xia Chi invited Misdreavus and Pupitar to meet Victini, and the Pokémon gathered around the sleeping newcomer.
• Iono entered after winning the Electric-type championship, saw Victini, and accepted Xia Chi’s claim that it was a Legendary Pokémon from the Donghuang Region.
• Iono asked Xia Chi to wait for the awards ceremony before they returned to the Gym, and he agreed.
• Geeta entered the lounge, saw Victini in Xia Chi’s arms, and asked whether he had caught another Legendary Pokémon.

Xia Chi discovered Victini’s powerful Victory Star Bond and watched Iono win the Electric-type Experts Tournament before joining her for a celebration at her apartment. The chapter ended with Victini happily sampling Iono’s desserts.

• Geeta recognized Victini as a Legendary Pokémon, and Xia Chi introduced it as a Legendary Pokémon from Donghuang.
• Xia Chi checked Victini’s information and learned that Victory Star shared stats and experience with teammates and increased their Bond counts.
• Iono received the championship trophy after winning the Electric-type Experts Tournament, with Volkner and Lt. Surge placing second and third.
• Geeta drove Xia Chi and Iono to Iono’s apartment, then declined her invitation to dinner and left them to celebrate.
• Victini woke at the apartment, greeted Iono, and ate many desserts before settling on another macaron.

Xia Chi traveled to Medali to join the Area Zero Lab’s research into Terastal energy and the Tera Orb, while Iono considered challenging the Elite Four to become strong enough to impress him. He arrived in Medali and joined Aoki for dinner at the Treasure Eatery.

• Xia Chi told Iono he planned to enter Area Zero, and she worried about the dangers before accepting that Ogerpon would protect him.
• Xia Chi left Levincia for Medali, and Iono decided she would challenge Aoki for an Elite Four position so Xia Chi would admire her strength.
• Victini secretly joined Xia Chi on the flight, revealed its ability to turn invisible, and ate macarons while Xia Chi explained his plan to work with Professors Sada and Turo on Terastal energy and Tera Orbs.
• Xia Chi arrived in Medali after a delayed flight, where Aoki picked him up and invited him to dinner at the Treasure Eatery.
• Aoki’s spirits lifted as he ate grilled eel rice and urged Xia Chi to try the food.

Xia Chi shared a meal with Aoki at the Treasure Eatery, then accepted his invitation to battle. The chapter ended as Floragato and Aoki’s young Staraptor began their match.

• Xia Chi and Aoki ate Grilled Rice Balls and other dishes while watching Trainers battle at the Treasure Eatery.
• Aoki invited Xia Chi to a casual battle, and Victini’s giggling briefly frightened him.
• Xia Chi and Aoki took the battlefield as a crowd gathered to watch, and Xia Chi chose Floragato while Aoki sent out a young Staraptor.
• Aoki commanded Staraptor to use Brave Bird, and Xia Chi ordered Floragato to leap upward and use Thunder Punch.

Xia Chi and Aoki battled in the Treasure Eatery, where Floragato used its vine and boosted attacks to counter Staraptor’s speed and powerful Brave Bird. After Floragato won their second head-on clash, Xia Chi ordered it to pursue, while Aoki commanded Staraptor to use Double-Edge.

• Aoki sent Staraptor plunging at Floragato with a Reckless-boosted Brave Bird, but Xia Chi had Floragato leap up and stop its charge with Thunder Punch.
• Xia Chi had Floragato hook Staraptor’s talon with its vine and fire Bullet Seed while hanging beneath it.
• Aoki used Agility to make Staraptor circle the battlefield, and Xia Chi responded with Shift Gear to boost Floragato’s speed and attack.
• Aoki sent Staraptor into another Brave Bird dive, so Xia Chi used Quick Attack to pull Floragato free before the crash.
• Staraptor doubled back with Aerial Ace, but Floragato met it with Thunder Punch and overwhelmed it in a second clash.
• Xia Chi ordered Floragato to chase Staraptor with Thunder Punch, and Aoki countered with Double-Edge.

Xia Chi’s Floragato defeated Aoki’s Staraptor in a fierce battle at the Treasure Eatery, but the ruined battlefield forced them to stop before Aoki could send out another Pokémon. The next morning, Aoki escorted Xia Chi to the Area Zero Gate, where Xia Chi prepared to descend into the Great Crater of Paldea alone.

• Floragato defeated Staraptor with a Thunder Punch, and Aoki recalled his unconscious Pokémon.
• The Treasure Eatery’s manager stopped Aoki and Xia Chi from continuing after their battle wrecked the battlefield.
• Xia Chi checked his Pokémon’s levels and found that Victini had reached level three after the battle.
• Aoki picked Xia Chi up the next morning and drove him nearly two hours to the Area Zero Gate.
• After security verified their identities, Aoki led Xia Chi to the super elevator and told him to descend alone while he waited above.

Xia Chi shared research about Terastallization and Paradox Pokémon with Professors Turo and Sada, then explored Area Zero with his Pokémon while the lab prepared a route to its deeper depths. The passage opened, and Xia Chi returned to the lab ready to investigate, reflecting that this timeline had spared Sada and left Arven with his mother.

• Xia Chi arrived at the Area Zero Lab and told Professors Turo and Sada that the secrets of Terastallization and Paradox Pokémon lay in a deeper region called Area Zero.
• Xia Chi gave the professors a prepared copy of his research materials so they could work together to investigate the Great Crater of Paldea.
• After a week at the lab, Xia Chi took his Pokémon to explore Area Zero's upper levels and battled wild Pokémon as they traveled toward the Third Research Station.
• Over five days, Floragato and the others gained a level, while Victini reached level 15 and developed notably strong stats.
• Professor Sada contacted Xia Chi to report that the passage to deeper Area Zero had opened, so he returned to the lab.
• Professor Sada regretted that the entrance lay at another site considered for the lab, and Xia Chi comforted her by saying that misfortune could turn into a blessing.

Xia Chi led Professors Turo and Sada on the first expedition into Area Zero, where they found extraordinary Terastal crystals and energy levels far beyond the known depths. A Stellarized Noivern flew in to confront the group, while the intense energy began affecting Ogerpon’s Teal Mask.

• Xia Chi and the researchers rode flying Pokémon down into Area Zero, with Xia Chi riding the lab’s Noivern and bringing Ogerpon along.
• The group landed in a cavern filled with enormous, glowing Terastal crystals, and the researcher measured their depth at about 2,045 meters below the surface.
• Professor Sada found that the Terastal Energy density was more than a thousand times that of Area Zero’s lowest known level.
• Xia Chi spotted a rainbow-wreathed Noivern approaching and identified it as Stellarized rather than Terastallized.
• Xia Chi told Ogerpon not to use too much force as it prepared its Ivy Cudgel, and the dense Terastal Energy made its Teal Mask hum.

Ogerpon used Stellar Terastallization to send a Stellar Noivern flying, then learned to control the transformed mask and returned it to normal. Xia Chi explained Stellar Terastallization to Professors Turo and Sada, and the group reached a giant crystal formation, where he asked Ogerpon to break off a sample carefully.

• Ogerpon's Terastallized Teal Mask grew into an enormous totem, and she struck the diving Noivern so hard that it flew away.
• Xia Chi reassured Ogerpon, who dispersed her energy and returned the mask to normal before jumping into his arms.
• Xia Chi explained to Professors Turo and Sada that Stellar Terastallization strengthened every type but could not change a Pokémon's typing.
• The group reached a huge crystal formation, and Xia Chi asked Ogerpon to knock off a sample without using too much force.

Xia Chi found the crystal believed to contain the sleeping Terapagos in the deepest part of Area Zero and secretly took it. Back at the lab, he discovered that its energy recharged his depleted Tera Orb.

• Ogerpon smashed apart a terastal crystal pillar so Xia Chi and the researchers could collect fragments for analysis.
• Xia Chi led the group to a region of rainbow stellar crystals, where he found a hexagonal crystal that he believed held Terapagos and easily removed it.
• System Bro explained that the sleeping Terapagos had absorbed its dead kin’s Stellar energy to survive and bring Terastal energy to the Great Crater of Paldea.
• Xia Chi kept the Terapagos crystal secret as Ogerpon broke off a stellar crystal sample, then returned to the lab with the group.
• After dinner, Xia Chi tested his empty Tera Orb against the Terapagos crystal, and the orb lit up as its energy was restored.

Xia Chi discovered Terapagos’s crystal could charge Tera Orbs and let Floragato keep it, but the crystal transported Floragato and Misdreavus’s consciousness to an ancient world of Paradox Pokémon. After hearing their account, Xia Chi found a battle record confirming they had fought there.

• Xia Chi decided Floragato should keep Terapagos’s crystal so he could test whether its energy could change Floragato’s Tera Type to Stellar.
• The crystal glowed while Floragato slept, and Misdreavus touched it; both Pokémon then awoke in a vast, ancient wilderness.
• Floragato and Misdreavus boosted their abilities, defeated a Brute Bonnet, and were then defeated by a powerful Flutter Mane.
• After they returned to their bodies, Floragato and Misdreavus told Xia Chi that they had encountered Terapagos after being defeated.
• Xia Chi theorized that Terapagos had carried their consciousness through time and space and checked the Battle Log for proof.
• The Battle Log showed Floragato and Misdreavus had jointly defeated a level 54 Brute Bonnet and gained 42.8 Fear.

Xia Chi and his Pokémon traveled through Terapagos’s crystal to the ancient world, where Misdreavus faced the Flutter Mane that had defeated it before. Misdreavus’s full-power attack failed to harm Flutter Mane, leaving their rematch poised to continue.

• Xia Chi agreed to let Floragato and Misdreavus travel to the ancient world and decided to go with Ogerpon, Victini, and the others.
• After several days of failed attempts, Misdreavus woke Xia Chi when Terapagos’s crystal began to shine, and the group touched its light to travel.
• Xia Chi and the Pokémon arrived in the primeval jungle, confirmed that everyone had come along, and prepared to explore while Ogerpon held back from fighting.
• Flutter Mane burst from the bushes and threatened Rotom, so Floragato pulled Rotom to safety with its vine.
• Misdreavus attacked Flutter Mane with boosted Shadow Balls, but Flutter Mane emerged from the blast unharmed.

Flutter Mane was defeated by Floragato, Misdreavus, and Ogerpon, then awoke among Xia Chi’s group. Victini offered it a macaron, leaving Flutter Mane bewildered by the group’s gentleness.

• Floragato blocked Flutter Mane’s Psychic attack with its Dark typing, then struck it with Shadow Claw while Misdreavus followed with Shadow Balls.
• Xia Chi called Ogerpon, which caught Flutter Mane as it fled and knocked it out with the Thornvine Great Club.
• Flutter Mane awoke and listened as Xia Chi reassured Misdreavus about Flutter Mane’s low Defense.
• Victini offered Flutter Mane a macaron, and Flutter Mane watched the group’s peaceful interactions in confusion.
• Xia Chi noticed Flutter Mane was awake and spoke to it.

Xia Chi questioned Flutter Mane about how its kind came into existence, hoping to learn whether Misdreavus could become one. After trading macarons for information, he learned that new Flutter Mane could be born at the Blood Moon Pool on a full moon, with the next one due in five days.

• Xia Chi introduced himself and explained to Flutter Mane what it meant to have partners.
• Xia Chi asked Flutter Mane whether it knew how Flutter Mane were born, and Flutter Mane demanded macarons in exchange for answering.
• Xia Chi and Rotom theatrically haggled with Flutter Mane and gave it six macarons.
• Flutter Mane revealed that new Flutter Mane could be born at the Blood Moon Pool outside the Giantwood Forest on a full moon.
• Xia Chi gave Flutter Mane more macarons, and it said the next full moon would come in five days.

Xia Chi traveled through time to the ancient world, where he befriended Flutter Mane and searched for the lake where Misdreavus could undergo atavistic evolution, but his trip ended before the full moon. Back in the present, he planned another visit and updated Geeta on the Tera Orb and Time Machine research.

• Xia Chi persuaded Flutter Mane to guide him and his Pokémon out of the Giantwood Forest while learning that Koraidon were rare in the ancient world.
• Ogerpon carried Xia Chi through the forest to a clear lake, where Xia Chi waited for the full moon and learned Rotom had invented the name “Blood Moon Pool.”
• Xia Chi sensed his time-traveling trip was ending, said goodbye to Flutter Mane, and vanished with his Pokémon before he could explain his parting remark.
• Xia Chi returned to the present at 4:43 a.m. on April 3, confirmed that time flowed at the same rate in both eras, and planned a future trip around April 8.
• Xia Chi told Geeta that the Tera Orb had been developed and could soon be mass-produced, while warning that the Time Machine research would take much longer.

Xia Chi and the Area Zero researchers celebrated the successful creation of the first Tera Orb before Xia Chi traveled back to the ancient world under a full moon. There, Misdreavus transformed into Flutter Mane after encountering an ancient boulder beneath the lake, and returned to Xia Chi’s embrace much stronger than before.

• Professor Sada used the newly created Tera Orb to Terastallize her Mabosstiff, and the Area Zero Lab staff celebrated the successful test.
• Xia Chi declined the celebration dinner so he could prepare for his trip through time and told the researchers not to disturb him the next day.
• Xia Chi traveled to the ancient world at six in the morning and arrived at the lake beneath a full moon with his Pokémon.
• Misdreavus hesitated because it feared Xia Chi would like it less after its transformation, but Xia Chi reassured it and sent Rotom to film.
• Misdreavus descended into the lake and transformed above a glowing fossil-like boulder into Flutter Mane.
• Flutter Mane returned to Xia Chi, who welcomed it affectionately, while Victini marveled at its size and Floragato resolved to get stronger.

Misdreavus completed its atavistic evolution into Flutter Mane, gaining a Fairy-type Bond and dramatically increasing its battle strength. After Xia Chi and his Pokémon returned from the ancient world, the other Flutter Mane found their leftover food and wondered why it had ever been allowed to experience their warmth.

• Xia Chi checked Flutter Mane’s updated information and realized its new Fairy-type Bond combined dangerously well with its other abilities.
• Xia Chi worried that Flutter Mane’s strength would deepen the gap between the team’s Pokémon, while hoping the Terapagos crystal would help Floragato and trusting Pupitar’s potential.
• Xia Chi and his Pokémon shared a moonlit lakeside picnic, and he comforted Victini after it cried over being reminded to save food for the other Flutter Mane.
• As their time in the ancient world ended, Xia Chi left the remaining food at their meeting place, and he and his Pokémon vanished in a flash of white light.
• The other Flutter Mane emerged from the lake, ate the food they had left, and reflected bitterly on how meeting them had brought light into its harsh world.

After returning from the Ancient World, Xia Chi decided to reveal Paradox Pokémon alongside Terastallization and proposed a preserve where Trainers and Paradox Pokémon could choose each other. Geeta approved his plan, and as they prepared a launch event and exhibition match, Xia Chi suggested using Flutter Mane to prove Paradox Pokémon existed.

• Xia Chi watched Rotom's recording of Misdreavus becoming Flutter Mane, then confronted Rotom about how it had filmed underwater despite claiming it was not waterproof.
• Xia Chi decided to make Paradox Pokémon public and proposed turning the Great Crater of Paldea into a preserve rather than a breeding facility.
• After leaving Area Zero, Xia Chi reunited with Aoki in Medali and explained that the lab's work could bring prosperity to the town.
• Xia Chi edited a video about the Great Crater of Paldea, Terastallization, and Paradox Pokémon while waiting for Geeta's decision.
• Geeta told Xia Chi that the League had approved his preserve proposal and that the first-generation Tera Orb prototype was ready for mass production.
• Xia Chi suggested announcing Terastallization and Paradox Pokémon together and holding an exhibition match with Flutter Mane; Geeta proposed Iono as the opponent.

Xia Chi agreed to hold an exhibition match against Iono before the Terastallization launch event and posted a video revealing Terapagos, Terastal energy, and Paradox Pokémon. After watching it, Steven decided to travel to Levincia for the event, while Wallace revealed that he and Juan had already booked their flights.

• Geeta suggested an exhibition match between Xia Chi and Iono, and Xia Chi agreed to the plan for the press conference and launch event.
• Xia Chi finished his video and posted “Approaching the Great Crater of Paldea: Terapagos, the Source of Terastal, and Paradox Pokémon” at midnight.
• Steven watched the video and learned of Terapagos, the origin of Terastallization, and Paradox Pokémon from the past and future.
• Steven saw footage of a Tera Orb causing Mabosstiff to Terastallize and realized Paldea was about to gain a major advantage.
• Geeta announced the April 20 launch event and exhibition match, and Steven invited Wallace to travel to Levincia.
• Wallace told Steven that he and Juan had already bought their plane tickets.