Chapter Summaries

Silver defeated Kaiji in a grueling battle to reach the Kalos League final five, where his overall score made him the seeded contestant. He watched Ash and Alain battle for a place in the championship final, with their last Pokémon exchanging powerful attacks.

• Silver and Louise defeated Kaiji’s Articuno, but Lapras’s Sing and Perish Song knocked Louise out after she weakened Lapras.
• Silver sent out Heatran, which defeated Lapras and Regice before Mizunai fell to a single hit; Kaiji’s Aurorus then defeated Heatran with Mud Shot.
• Silver’s Kyurem overcame Aurorus in an Outrage exchange, earning Silver the win over Kaiji.
• Silver learned he had been selected as the seeded contestant and would advance directly to the championship final; Ash and Alain were set to face each other in the other match.
• Silver watched Ash’s Pikachu and Goodra battle Alain’s Mega Charizard X before Ash’s Greninja faced Charizard in a fierce final clash.

Silver prepared for the Kalos League championship match by training his Pokémon, then faced Ash in the final. After Trevenant lost to Pikachu, Louise battled Snorlax and sent it flying with Power-Up Punch.

• Silver watched Ash defeat Alain and advance to the championship match, then left Serena and the others to train.
• Silver held one-on-one battles in the forest, where Louise defeated Kyurem and became the training champion.
• Silver hosted a campfire party, relaxed with his Pokémon at a hot spring, and unexpectedly met N, who said he was looking for Cynthia.
• Silver trained his Pokémon's moves to S rank the next morning and entered the championship arena, where he spotted Meimo in the crowd.
• Silver's Trevenant lost to Pikachu after Ash used the water to spread Thunderbolt through the battlefield.
• Silver sent out Mega Louise against Snorlax, boosted her with Swords Dance and Power-Up Punch, and knocked Snorlax into the air.

Silver and Ash battled through several Pokémon, with Silver’s Heatran defeating Sceptile before Mega Charizard knocked Heatran out. Silver’s Mega Lucario then defeated Ash-Greninja, leaving both trainers and their Pokémon battered as Louise prepared to continue.

• Silver sent out Swampert, but Ash’s Sceptile defeated it with Solar Beam after a fierce exchange.
• Silver’s Delphox damaged Sceptile with a Fire Spin trap, but Sceptile endured and defeated Delphox.
• Silver’s Heatran used Magma Storm to defeat Sceptile, then lost to Ash’s Mega Charizard after Charizard’s Seismic Toss and Overheat.
• Silver sent out Mega Lucario, Louise, against Ash-Greninja, and the two Pokémon traded powerful attacks.
• Louise defeated Greninja with a Giant Rasengan-like Aura Sphere, while Ash collapsed from their synchronization and Silver asked if he was all right.

Silver defeated Ash to become the Kalos League Champion, then discovered that he and Meimo were transmigrators who had to return to their original world. Back as Fuji Kuroda, he searched unsuccessfully for Meimo and ended the chapter resolved to withdraw from others while he mourned her absence.

• Silver defeated Ash's Mega Charizard with Kyurem and won the Kalos League championship.
• Silver registered his Pokémon, received the trophy, and proposed to Meimo during his acceptance interview; she accepted.
• Silver and Meimo realized they were transmigrators, promised to find each other, and wrote their names before the professor deleted them.
• Silver woke in his original world as Fuji Kuroda and found Meimo's unfinished name on his palm.
• Fuji searched his school for a girl named Kasuga for two weeks but could not find Meimo, then decided to focus on studying and isolate himself.

Ethan battled Mewtwo in Cerulean Cave and won his trust by offering to show him the beautiful world. After catching Mewtwo and reuniting with Raine, Ethan left Cerulean City with his Pokémon and named Mewtwo Yoru.

• Ethan and Raine battled Mewtwo in Cerulean Cave, and Mewtwo broke free after Ethan tried to catch him.
• Ethan and Raine defeated Mewtwo again, but Ethan offered him friendship instead of capturing him by force.
• Mewtwo accepted Ethan’s offer to see the world and entered a Poké Ball, introducing himself as Mewtwo.
• At the Pokémon Center, Ethan shared homemade food with Raine and Mewtwo before the group left the next day.
• Ethan nicknamed Mewtwo Yoru, and their journey began.

Hibiki found and nursed an injured, abandoned Eevee, then challenged its former Trainer to a battle so Eevee could surprise him. Eevee agreed to face the Trainer with Hibiki the next morning, while its future as Hibiki’s partner remained its choice.

• Hibiki found a wounded Eevee near his campsite, treated its injuries, and fed it pasta.
• Eevee rejected Hibiki’s Poké Ball, and Yoru translated that Eevee was lost; Hibiki took it to a Pokémon Center and searched unsuccessfully for its Trainer.
• Nurse Joy healed Eevee, and Hibiki promised to keep looking for its Trainer the next day.
• Hibiki overheard Dayou admit that he had abandoned Eevee for being weak, then challenged him to a one-on-one battle the next morning using Eevee.
• Hibiki told Eevee it could choose whether to join him and suggested they surprise Dayou; Eevee nodded.

Ethan defeated Dayou’s Mienfoo with Eevee, let Eevee choose to stay with him, and named him Xing before continuing toward Saffron City. Team Rocket executive Ariana then confronted Ethan over Mewtwo’s origins, and Ethan and Yoru trapped her group with twisters and froze them in place.

• Eevee used Wish to heal himself, then copied Mienfoo’s Aura Sphere and defeated it after dodging its attacks.
• Dayou invited Eevee to join him, but Eevee rejected his Poké Ball and chased him and his friends away with Swift.
• Ethan named Eevee Xing, left town for Saffron City, and spotted Team Rocket members following him.
• Ariana confronted Ethan with eleven Team Rocket members and twenty-three Pokémon, while Mewtwo recognized her as a Team Rocket executive.
• Ethan sent Raine to fight ten Golbat, then released Yoru, who trapped the Team Rocket members in twisters.
• Ethan had Raine fire Ice Beam into the sky, splitting it into beams that froze the Team Rocket members’ hands and feet.

Ethan reached Saffron City, learned about a Hero Festival planned at Cameran Palace, and discovered Team Rocket had seized the city and Silph Co. He joined forces with Sabrina to rescue the hostages while drawing Team Rocket’s attention, leaving the raid underway.

• Ethan escaped Ariana’s group, reached Saffron City, and had his Pokémon healed at the Pokémon Center.
• Ethan showed Yoru an announcement for the Hero Festival at Cameran Palace, which would honor Aaron and take place in a little over two months.
• Team Rocket members infiltrated Silph Co. and took over the Pokémon Center, but Ethan slipped out disguised as one of them.
• Ethan found Sabrina fighting Team Rocket and learned they had occupied Silph Co. and taken the city’s trainers and citizens hostage.
• Ethan and Sabrina agreed to split up: Sabrina and Yoru would rescue the hostages while Ethan drew Team Rocket’s attention.
• Ethan opened Silph Co.’s back entrance for Sabrina and Yoru, then went to the lobby and drew the guards toward himself.

Sabrina and Yoru rescued the Pokémon and hostages held inside Silph Co. while Hibiki fought Team Rocket through the building. Hibiki defeated Ariana’s Pokémon on the top floor, and Team Rocket retreated, restoring peace to Saffron City.

• Yoru and Sabrina disabled the guards in the Pokémon storage room, subdued them, and carried the rescued Pokémon to the basement.
• Sabrina and Yoru defeated the basement guards, freed the hostages, and reunited them with their Pokémon while Hibiki fought reinforcements on the first floor.
• Hibiki used a card key to reach the top floor and challenged Ariana in the Chairman’s office.
• Hibiki defeated Ariana’s Arbok and Vileplume with Star and Raine, then sent Xilian to battle her Galarian Moltres.
• Sabrina arrived with Pokémon Trainers as Ariana recalled Moltres and withdrew, and Team Rocket retreated from Saffron City.

After Team Rocket’s defeat in Saffron City, Ethan reassured Yoru that he mattered regardless of his origin or strength, while learning about the Champion Ball and the Pokémon League’s trainer records. The chapter ended with a boy resembling Hibiki returning toward his hometown and a mysterious man completing a dark ritual in Lavender Town that would alter the boy’s fate.

• The Chairman told Ethan and Yoru that the Champion Ball could capture any Pokémon, that he had given the first one to the boy who saved Silph Co. three years earlier, and that Team Rocket’s objective remained unknown.
• Yoru questioned his identity and purpose, and Ethan told him he would still be Yoru regardless of how he had been created or whether others accepted him.
• Ethan and Xing went to eat after sleeping late, and Ethan checked the Pokémon Association’s records and learned that his Saffron Badge made him a Level 1 Trainer.
• A boy who looked strikingly like Hibiki boarded the Sea Rapidash from the Orange Islands toward Vermilion City, saying he was returning to his hometown.
• Five nights earlier, a blue-haired man entered Lavender Town’s Spirit Tower, cut the chains around a crystal, and plunged his sword into a magic circle, completing a contract with an aged voice.

Hibiki met a black-haired boy in Vermilion City, heard the legend of X Frye, and dreamed of a cloaked warrior sacrificing himself to seal away a man surrounded by black aura. After receiving an invitation to the S.S. Anne party from his sister, Hibiki invited the boy to join him, and they later confronted Team Rocket aboard the ship.

• Hibiki and Yoru arrived in Vermilion City and passed a black-haired boy who watched Hibiki head toward the harbor.
• Hibiki told Yoru the legend of X Frye at June 12 Memorial Plaza, and the black-haired boy objected to the story.
• Hibiki dreamed of a black-cloaked man and his six Pokémon fighting a black-aura enemy before the man sacrificed himself to seal the foe away.
• Hibiki's younger sister sent him an invitation to the S.S. Anne party at sea, and he invited the black-haired boy to accompany him.
• Hibiki and Yoru encountered Team Rocket aboard the S.S. Anne, and Furret froze the Rocket members and their Pokémon with Ice Beam.

Hibiki and Ace attended the S.S. Anne banquet, where Team Rocket attacked the guests and crew. As they fought through the ship, Hibiki searched for Ace and encountered the light-brown-haired boy’s Shiny Gengar, Zig, who pointed out two presences ahead.

• Hibiki and Ace changed into tailcoats and danced together at the banquet, where Hibiki noticed Ace’s blue-glowing ring.
• Guests collapsed and the lights went out as Team Rocket attacked; Hibiki fought off attackers with Raine, Blastoise, and Yoru.
• Ace rescued people aboard the ship and teamed up with Lt. Surge, using a blue barrier to block Team Rocket’s Pokémon.
• Hibiki searched the ship with the light-brown-haired boy and his Pokémon, but could not find Ace in their cabin.
• Zig emerged from the boy’s shadow, mentioned two presences ahead and the person beside him, then refused to help fight.

Ace and Hibiki found Melga, the emperor, aboard the ship after discovering tied-up banquet guests in the Captain's Cabin. Ten years later, Ash learned that Dawn had won the Sinnoh Grand Festival twice, spoke with her by phone, and agreed to have her visit Pallet Town in three weeks.

• Hibiki found Ace and joined him and Lt. Surge near the source of the sinister aura.
• Ace and Hibiki opened the Captain's Cabin, where they found banquet guests and the captain tied up, and Ace recognized Melga.
• Ash's mother, Delia, scolded him at home in Pallet Town, where he was taking a break after conquering three Leagues.
• Ash saw Dawn on television as the two-time Grand Festival winner and called her hotel.
• Dawn accepted Ash's invitation to visit his home and arranged to arrive in three weeks.
• Dawn told May and Zoey about the visit and fell asleep wondering whether Ash knew she liked him.

Ash trained and battled Lorelei while Dawn traveled to Pallet Town early to surprise him, only to discover he was still away training. After Gary directed her to Ash’s house, Dawn reunited with Delia, who welcomed her warmly and began complaining about Ash.

• Ash practiced Flame Whirlwind with Charizard and planned to pick Dawn up when she arrived.
• Dawn worried that Ash might have forgotten her promise as she traveled toward Kanto.
• Dawn arrived in Pallet Town early, while Ash left home to train and battle Lorelei, defeating Jynx.
• Dawn met Gary, who recognized she was looking for Ash and pointed her toward his house.
• Dawn reunited with Delia, who welcomed her inside and chatted with her about Ash.

Dawn arrived in Pallet Town early, reunited with Ash, and learned that Delia had left on a long trip. Dawn realized she would be living with Ash and asked him to show her around Kanto.

• Dawn cleaned Ash's messy room with Piplup and helped Delia prepare dinner while Delia teased her about liking Ash.
• Ash trained with Lance and Lorelei, then rode Dragonite home and was surprised to find Dawn there.
• Ash initially failed to recognize Dawn, but the two reunited and shared stories over dinner.
• Dawn learned Delia had gone on a tour for two or three months and that she would have to stay at Ash's house.
• Ash offered Dawn his bed and agreed to show her around Kanto the next day.

Ash and Dawn began a relationship and spent a happy month together, until Zoey reminded Dawn that she had a pairs performance at the Grand Festival Promotion Conference next week. Dawn chose Ash as her partner, and she ended the chapter worried their performance might go wrong.

• Ash confessed that he wanted to protect Dawn for the rest of his life, asked her to be his girlfriend, and shared her first kiss.
• Ash and Dawn settled into a month of domestic life, balancing training, Contest practice, and time together.
• Zoey called Dawn and scolded her for disappearing without preparing for their pairs performance at the promotion conference.
• Dawn realized she had forgotten the upcoming conference and proposed that Ash perform with her; Ash agreed.
• Dawn admitted to Ash that she was afraid their performance would go wrong.

Ash and Dawn prepared for a paired performance in Verdanturf Town, where Zoey and May teased Dawn about her relationship with Ash and Zoey revealed she had once liked him. Later, Ash returned to Pallet Town after the Kalos League and, after reuniting with his Pokémon and Gary, began questioning what it meant to become a Pokémon Master.

• Ash and Dawn trained for their special performance, then arrived in Verdanturf Town and found Zoey surrounded by fans.
• Zoey showed Dawn and Ash around the venue, and May joined them as Zoey’s partner for the paired Contest Battle.
• Zoey and May learned that Dawn and Ash had kissed and gone further, then Zoey admitted she had once had a crush on Ash.
• After the Kalos League, Ash returned to Pallet Town, greeted Delia, and ran to Professor Oak’s laboratory to see his Pokémon.
• Bayleef knocked Ash over in greeting, and Ash reunited with Gary, who asked what Ash meant by becoming a Pokémon Master.

Dawn told Ash she would cheer him on if he won the Viridian Conference, while a reincarnated Ash entered the Pokémon world with Arceus’s blessing. After awakening in a new family, he embraced his dream of becoming a Pokémon Master and learned that his pure bloodline carried a painful craving for blood.

• Dawn told Ash she had quit Pokémon Contests to pursue fashion design, and Ash invited her to cheer him on at the Viridian Conference.
• Dawn promised to watch Ash’s battles and support him if he won the conference, and Ash began special training with Pikachu.
• A dying man named Ash met Arceus in the afterlife and chose a vampire bloodline, spatial ability, a possible Legendary Pokémon egg, and item rewards before entering the Pokémon world.
• Ash awakened in a new body with memories and a system, then experienced the beauty of the world and the warmth of his parents, Hong Shenglong and Du Xin.
• Hong Shenglong offered Ash a summer camp, and Ash accepted because he wanted to become a Pokémon Master; Du Xin worried that his pure bloodline made his blood craving especially painful.

Ash traveled from Maple Castle to Professor Oak’s Summer Camp, where he met Gary and Serena and quickly became popular with the other children. He partnered with Serena for the camp activities and joined her to choose Pokémon costumes for the first competition.

• Ash used his spatial powers to reassure his parents that they could give him blood in bags, then left for Pallet Town with Arceus’s egg.
• Ash met Gary and Gary’s mother on the way to Professor Oak’s laboratory, where Professor Oak tried to get the egg before realizing Ash was Hong Shenglong’s son.
• Professor Oak opened the Summer Camp, and Ash introduced himself alongside Serena, Gary, and the other children.
• Serena approached Ash, and he complimented her before asking her to be his partner; they received Team Three tags.
• Professor Oak announced a hide-and-seek competition, and Ash praised Serena’s Bulbasaur costume as they chose costumes together.

During the first Summer Camp competition, Ash and Serena grew closer after Serena fell from a tree and Ash carried her to the Infirmary. The next morning, Serena rejoined camp, and she and Ash wondered what the second competition would involve.

• Ash and Serena hid together in the forest, where Ash played the guzheng and Serena fell from a tree.
• Ash caught Serena, carried her to the Infirmary, and apologized after snapping at her; he told her she was his only true friend.
• Professor Oak checked that Ash was unharmed, and Team Three placed sixth in the points rankings.
• That night, Ash spoke with Arceus about Pokémon and the egg, which Arceus said would hatch in a day or two.
• After Blissey treated Serena, she returned to camp the next morning and speculated with Ash about the second competition.