Chapter Summaries

Heath agreed to take May on as a cooking apprentice and drove his Food Truck toward Meteor Falls to investigate its eerie rumors. After passing Rustboro City, he arrived at an unfamiliar village called Jushan Village.

• Heath learned that May intended to study cooking under him and agreed to become her mentor.
• Heath drove toward Meteor Falls after reading a rumor about strange sounds that lured visitors toward cliffs, though the League attributed the sounds to wind.
• Heath considered visiting Rustboro City but chose a highway route and planned to take a cableway to Meteor Falls.
• Heath arrived at an unfamiliar village and saw that it was called Jushan Village.

Heath visited Jushan Village on his way to Meteor Falls, finding the prosperous village and its affordable tourist services impressive. He flew to the falls on Charizard, entered the League-maintained tourist area, and saw how crowded it was.

• Heath arrived in Jushan Village and noted its skyscraper and thriving businesses near Meteor Falls.
• Heath chose to approach Meteor Falls from Jushan Village, parked his vehicle, and flew up the mountain on Charizard.
• Heath bought a ticket and entered Meteor Falls, where the League’s safe tourist area was clearly marked and excursions beyond it carried risks and rescue fees.
• Heath found the falls packed with visitors and remarked that the crowds explained why people kept leaving the safe area.

Heath left Meteor Falls’ safe zone to search the caverns and encountered Steven while exploring. After recognizing that the figure he saw was an illusion, Heath used his Ingredient Identifier to break free and found Charizard waiting anxiously as Mew fought something inside the cavern.

• Heath signed the League’s waiver, received a tracking device, and left the safe zone to explore Meteor Falls.
• Heath wandered through the cavern, collected a Groudon-shaped crystal, and came across Steven digging for stones with Metagross.
• Heath heard an eerie voice and realized that the Steven before him had turned his neck impossibly far, revealing that Heath was trapped in an illusion.
• Heath used his Ingredient Identifier to escape the illusion and appeared at a cavern entrance beside an anxious Charizard.
• Heath heard Mew fighting something inside the cavern and went in to investigate.

Heath entered a cave and found Mew battling Darkrai, then learned that a mysterious stone had caused his illusion. Heath identified it as a Mega Stone for Zoroark and offered it to her, but acknowledged that Mew had found it.

• Heath arrived as Darkrai fled from its fight with Mew, leaving Mew holding a glowing stone.
• Mew explained that the stone had caused Heath's illusion and that Darkrai had attacked when Mew investigated it.
• Heath scanned the stone and learned it could allow Zoroark to Mega Evolve and strengthen her illusions.
• Heath called Zoroark over and explained what the Mega Stone could do, while noting that it was Mew's find.

Heath explored Meteor Falls, where Mew gave Zoroark a Mega Stone and Heath discovered a hidden group of Dragonair and Dratini, including a Shiny Dratini. He returned to Petalburg City and began planning a room for May, but postponed buying furniture until he could ask what she liked.

• Mew gave Zoroark the Mega Stone, and Heath explained Mega Evolution to Kirlia as they walked through Meteor Falls.
• Heath found Dragonair and Dratini in a hidden cave, including a Shiny Dratini, but left without disturbing them.
• Heath finished exploring Meteor Falls without finding Steven and rode Charizard back to Jushan Village before driving to Petalburg City.
• Heath considered preparing a room for May and went to a furniture mall, but decided to wait until he knew what furniture she would like.

Heath watched the disastrous opening of Black Skin Fish and prepared for May to become his apprentice. He left the day ahead uncertain but intended to judge May’s cooking talent honestly.

• Heath watched news report that Black Skin Fish had earned just over three million on opening day and angered its fans with its changes to the original.
• Heath and Zoroark agreed that Black Skin Fish was unbearable, and he jokingly threatened to make her watch it.
• Heath noticed that Zoroark’s transformation into Betty had become lifelike enough to have body heat and breathing.
• Heath sat in the Lounge and considered May’s impending apprenticeship, which he had discussed with Cynthia the previous day.
• Heath decided he would not go easy on May and would send her home if she lacked the talent to become a chef.

Heath accepted May as his apprentice after she insisted she wanted to become a chef despite the hard work. As Heath prepared to leave for the Kanto Region the next afternoon, Norman was left worrying that he had not spent enough time with his daughter.

• Norman and Mitsuko asked Heath to take May as his apprentice, and Heath warned May about the difficult training involved.
• May affirmed that she wanted to cook food that made customers happy, so Heath accepted her parents' gifts and tea and formally took her as his disciple.
• Heath introduced Farfetch'd as May's senior fellow apprentice, and May obediently greeted him as such.
• Mitsuko comforted Norman, who admitted that May's apprenticeship made him feel he had not given her enough attention.
• Heath asked Norman whether he had anything else to say to May before Heath returned to the Kanto Region the next afternoon.

Heath welcomed May to his Food Truck after Norman and Mitsuko said goodbye, then helped her settle into her new room. May began her apprenticeship with wok-tossing practice under Farfetch'd.

• Norman talked with May for over an hour before he and Mitsuko left, and he gave Heath money for May's expenses while Heath refused an apprenticeship fee.
• Heath showed May the lounge Pokémon, and she was thrilled to see Mew.
• Heath took May to a furniture mall, where she chose furniture for her room, and Machamp helped move it into the Food Truck.
• Heath showed May the bathroom he had arranged for her, then told her to begin practicing the basics of cooking.
• Heath called Farfetch'd to teach May how to toss a wok for three ten-minute sets a day.

Heath began training May in the fundamentals of cooking by having her practice tossing a pan, and she discovered how exhausting the exercise could be. After setting a daily training pace, he guided her through stretches and brought her electrolyte honey water, leaving May to wonder at Farfetch'd’s quick progress when he first trained.

• Heath explained that May needed to build her cooking fundamentals and started her on pan-tossing practice.
• May confidently began the exercise, but her arms grew tired and trembled as she pushed through the sets.
• Heath stopped May at her limit and told her to practice pan-tossing every day before moving on to the next step.
• May promised Heath that she would keep training, and he had her stretch before resting.
• Heath made May electrolyte honey water and told her that Farfetch'd had adapted quickly when he first started training.

May completed the training Heath assigned her and decided to keep working to become stronger. Heath called Mr. Fujiyama, who was recovering in the hospital, and asked him to create a training plan for her.

• Heath praised May for finishing her exhausting lessons, and Farfetch'd agreed that she had worked hard.
• Heath gave May honey lemonade and explained that regular training would make difficult tasks, such as preparing Three-Not-Sticky, easier.
• May vowed to work hard after learning how much effort the dish required, and Heath decided she needed a systematic training plan.
• Heath called Mr. Fujiyama and learned he was still in the hospital under Nurse Joy's observation.
• Heath asked Mr. Fujiyama to draw up a training plan for May, and Mr. Fujiyama agreed to come over.

Heath arranged for Mr. Fujiyama to make a workout plan for May and reflected on a gigantic shadow he had seen moving through the sea near Petalburg City. He then decided to experiment with lychee juice in Dongpo Pork for Mr. Fujiyama, who needed a hearty meal while recovering from a wound.

• Mr. Fujiyama tested May and concluded she was a beginner, then prepared a workout plan for her to start the next day.
• Heath planned to rest and keep his shop closed, noting that Norman would bring May a Pokémon the following day.
• Heath recalled seeing an enormous shadow, possibly over three hundred meters long, swim past Petalburg City's seafront at night.
• Mr. Fujiyama asked Heath for a hearty meat dish because Nurse Joy had advised him to eat more while his wound healed.
• Heath considered making Dongpo Pork and using lychee juice to caramelize the sugar and color the meat.

Heath discovered that lychees gave Dongpo pork a distinctive sweetness without making it greasy, then offered Mr. Fujiyama the dish. He began teaching May about fruit in cooking and prepared to show her how to make pineapple rice.

• Heath found that lychees did not make caramel coloring but gave Dongpo pork a pleasant, lingering sweetness, and he wrote down the recipe.
• May asked Heath whether fruit could be used in cooking, and Mr. Fujiyama showed her examples of fruit dishes on his phone.
• Heath told May that fruit cooking was common and offered to teach her pineapple rice, a dish more familiar in Alola than Hoenn.
• Mr. Fujiyama ate Heath's lychee Dongpo pork with tomatoes and eggs and dry-fried eggplant, finding the meal satisfying and less greasy than expected.
• Mr. Fujiyama decided to keep eating meat as Nurse Joy had instructed until his wound healed, and he ate the remaining pork more eagerly.

Heath explained to May why beef was expensive, then offered to teach her how to cook. The chapter ended with Heath preparing to teach May to make Baumkuchen.

• May asked Heath why beef was so expensive while he was teaching her cooking tricks.
• Heath explained that raising cattle cost more than raising pigs or chickens and that beef products lost weight during preparation.
• Heath asked May what she wanted to learn to cook, and she was unsure.
• Heath suggested making Baumkuchen together, and May wondered whether she could manage it.
• Heath reassured May that Baumkuchen was simple and offered to teach her.

Heath taught May to make Baumkuchen, then prepared to leave Hoenn for Kanto with her the next day. May’s curiosity about Heath’s cooking led him to give her a cookie containing a slip of paper.

• Heath guided May through making Baumkuchen, and she happily enjoyed the cake she had made.
• Heath told May they would leave the next day and arranged for Norman to pick her up so she could say goodbye to her parents.
• May asked Heath about the unfamiliar dishes he cooked, and he claimed he had once learned them from a cookbook that had burned in a fire.
• Heath gave May a cookie to distract her from asking more questions, and she broke it open to find a slip of paper inside.

Heath made fortune cookies for May, then took her from Hoenn to Cinnabar Island through the Anywhere Door. After arriving, they found a crowd gathered because the famous researcher Dr. Fuji was leaving.

• Heath explained his fortune cookies, and May was delighted by the message inside hers.
• Mr. Norman picked May up for a visit, then later returned her and paid for the furniture she had bought.
• Heath took May and Kirlia from Petalburg City to Cinnabar Island in his food truck through the Anywhere Door.
• Heath planned to report to the Officer Jenny Building for a vending permit, but a crowd blocked the road.
• Heath learned that the crowd had gathered because Dr. Fuji was leaving Cinnabar Island.

Heath recognized Dr. Fuji as a leading Pokémon geneticist and saw him riding with Lt. Surge, a Team Rocket executive. Connecting Team Rocket’s interest in genetics and Mew, Heath suspected they were already working on Mewtwo, though he knew the organization was dangerous.

• Heath searched online and learned about Dr. Fuji’s research into Pokémon genetics and his Pokémon Mansion on Cinnabar Island.
• A cheering crowd greeted Dr. Fuji as he rode by with Lt. Surge, whom Heath recognized as a Team Rocket executive.
• Heath connected Team Rocket, Dr. Fuji’s expertise, and Mew, and concluded that they were likely researching Mewtwo.
• Heath considered Mewtwo’s power but recalled Team Rocket’s crimes and the League’s efforts to find and dismantle the organization.

Heath watched Dr. Fuji and Lt. Surge leave Cinnabar Island, whose residents were preparing to relocate before a future volcanic disaster. After encountering two people protesting the evacuation, he returned to his food truck and continued his city achievement quest.

• Dr. Fuji and Lt. Surge left Cinnabar Island as residents discussed where they would move, and Heath noted that the League was offering replacement homes and relocation support.
• May reflected on leaving her own hometown as Heath considered how the island's residents might feel about losing theirs.
• Two people protested the evacuation and urged residents to protect Cinnabar Island, while the others left their group and continued on.
• Heath wondered whether the protesters loved the island or wanted more compensation, then returned to his food truck to continue his quest.
• Heath drove through the island's oppressive heat and arrived at the small Nurse Joy building.

Heath obtained a vending permit on Cinnabar Island and chose the Pokémon Mansion as the site for his food truck, hoping to serve explorers and treasure hunters. There, Mew sensed a familiar presence, and Heath encountered Jessie helping move Dr. Fuji’s experimental equipment for her company.

• Heath received permission to set up his stall anywhere on Cinnabar Island and decided against the crowded, dangerous area beside Blaine’s Gym.
• Heath drove his food truck to the Pokémon Mansion, where workers were removing experimental equipment as Dr. Fuji moved out.
• Mew emerged from the truck and said it sensed a familiar scent at the mansion.
• Heath suspected Mew’s genes were present because of the mansion’s possible connection to early Mewtwo experiments.
• Jessie greeted Heath and explained that her company had agreed to work with Dr. Fuji and was removing the equipment in a hurry.

Heath hosted Jessie and May in his food truck on Cinnabar Island, where Jessie gave May a bracelet and Heath taught her to make ice jelly. He prepared servings for Jessie, May, and Farfetch'd, then went to the lounge and found Mew and Kirlia by the window.

• Heath invited Jessie into his food truck and offered to make her something cooling.
• Jessie noticed May, learned she was Heath's apprentice, and gave her a black pearl bracelet.
• Heath taught May to make ice jelly while Jessie played five-in-a-row with Farfetch'd.
• Heath gave May bowls of ice jelly for herself, Jessie, and Farfetch'd.
• Heath entered the lounge with more ice jelly and saw Mew and Kirlia beside the window.

Heath learned that Mew sensed a frightened presence communicating through Psychic power, which he suspected might be Mewtwo, though the signal quickly vanished and he could not confirm its identity. He later found Jessie playing gomoku and discussing the expensive Yunzi stones he had bought.

• Kirlia happily ran to Heath, while Mew asked why the place felt familiar and described sensing a unique power trying to speak to it.
• Mew told Heath the presence seemed frightened and unable to see or feel anything, then said its Psychic power had disappeared.
• Heath suspected the presence might be Mewtwo, tried asking the Magic Conch for an answer, and received none.
• Heath brought Mew ice jelly to distract it, then went out and found May watching Jessie and Farfetch'd play gomoku.
• Jessie asked Heath about his Yunzi stones, and Heath confirmed he had bought them.