Recaps

Ye Li prepared Team Rocket's Johto operation while learning that the three orbs were losing energy and needed to be recharged at Mt. Silver. After Apollo left to scout the mountain, Giovanni gave Ye Li classified data on the Mew Gene experiments.

• Ye Li ordered his secret network in Vermilion City to activate the Vermilion plan and seize control of the region's underworld intelligence channels.
• Engineer Wang told Ye Li that the three orbs were slowly losing their energy and would become ordinary stones unless they were recharged.
• Ye Li chose Mt. Silver as the place to recharge the orbs, and Apollo volunteered to lead an advance team there.
• Giovanni gave Ye Li an encrypted chip containing top-secret data on the Mew Gene experiments.

Ye Li learned that Mewtwo’s unstable genes could cause it to collapse and agreed to help Giovanni develop a repair model. After wild Tyranitar blocked Team Rocket’s work at Mt. Silver, Ye Li prepared to confront them, while Lance mobilized the League’s elite Dragon-type unit to stop Team Rocket.

• Ye Li read the Mewtwo experiment report and discovered that its unstable genetic sequence could make its body collapse.
• Giovanni asked Ye Li to use the energy of three orbs to create a stable gene repair model for Mewtwo, and Ye Li agreed to do his best.
• Apollo reported that an aggressive colony of wild Tyranitar was blocking Team Rocket’s engineering vehicles at Mt. Silver.
• Ye Li equipped Umbreon with enhancement armor made from Dark Moon Stone offcuts and prepared to go to Mt. Silver with an elite force.
• League agents reported Team Rocket’s activity near Mt. Silver, and Lance ordered the elite Dragon-type unit to assemble and head there.

Ye Li led Team Rocket through a Tyranitar attack at Mt. Silver and found the underground hot spring needed to recharge the three orbs. As the team began setting up the charging equipment, a familiar dragon roar sounded from the cave entrance.

• Tyranitar attacked the convoy with a sandstorm, and Ye Li sent Umbreon to Taunt them into charging.
• Ye Li activated magnetic storm traps that immobilized the Tyranitar, allowing the convoy to break through.
• Ye Li followed ancient records to a cave beneath a glacier and found an underground hot spring rich in life energy.
• Engineer Wang's team confirmed the spring was suitable for recharging the three orbs, and Team Rocket began setting up the equipment.
• A familiar dragon roar sounded from the cave entrance.

Lance and Dragonite attacked Team Rocket’s cave, but Ye Li’s defenses stopped his assault. Ye Li sowed doubt in Lance by accusing the Pokémon League of creating biological weapons, then had Engineer Wang recharge the three Energy-Depleted Orbs from Mt. Silver’s leyline.

• Lance ordered Dragonite to fire a Hyper Beam, but Apollo’s Heavy Armor Unit blocked it with an Energy Deflection Shield.
• Lance sent Aerodactyl underground to destroy the hot spring, but Umbreon struck it with Dark Pulse and forced it back to the surface.
• Ye Li mocked Lance and accused the Pokémon League of using living Pokémon to create biological weapons, making Lance hesitate.
• Ye Li signaled Engineer Wang to activate the Charging Instrument, and the three Energy-Depleted Orbs began absorbing energy from Mt. Silver’s leyline.

Team Rocket activated the three orbs, triggering a massive avalanche that devastated the Pokémon League’s forces on Mt. Silver. Ye Li escaped with the charged orbs while Lance ordered his survivors to retreat, leaving the cave set to collapse.

• The three orbs absorbed Mt. Silver’s earth energy and unleashed powerful pillars of light that shook the mountain.
• The resulting tremors triggered an avalanche that swept away the Pokémon League’s forward positions, while Lance escaped on Dragonite.
• Team Rocket’s fortified position withstood the avalanche, and Ye Li collected the charged orbs and activated the cave’s self-destruct countdown.
• Ye Li taunted Lance over the broadcast, warning that the cave and the geological structures beneath it would collapse in ten minutes.
• Lance ordered the surviving Pokémon League troops to rescue the wounded and retreat, while Ye Li led Team Rocket through an underground tunnel to escape with the orbs.

Ye Li used the three orbs’ energy to repair and enhance Mewtwo, earning control of Team Rocket’s Johto bases and authority to build a Ghost Unit. After Lance faced blame for the League’s defeat at Mt. Silver, the Pokémon League ordered live combat testing of its new biological weapons.

• Ye Li directed Dr. Anya’s team as they infused Mewtwo with purified energy from the three orbs, stabilizing its genes and repairing its defects.
• Ye Li reported that Mewtwo’s strength, energy capacity, and affinity had greatly improved, calling it a perfect artificial god.
• Giovanni gave Ye Li supreme control over Team Rocket’s underground bases in Johto and ordered him to build a loyal Ghost Unit.
• At Pokémon League Headquarters, council members condemned Lance for the failed Mt. Silver operation and the loss of the three treasures.
• The League’s senior leadership ordered live combat testing of its new generation of biological weapons.

After learning that the Pokémon League planned to test its Rampage weapon in Goldenrod City, Ye Li led a Ghost Unit team there to investigate. They exploited citywide disturbances to infiltrate the League’s underground testing site, leaving the test itself still ahead.

• Lin Feng warned Ye Li that the League would secretly test its Rampage biological weapon in Goldenrod City in three days.
• Ye Li decided to observe the test and traveled to Goldenrod City with Apollo and elite Ghost Unit members disguised as a Hoenn business delegation.
• Lin Feng breached the city’s surveillance system and identified the underground shelter where the League planned to conduct the test.
• Ye Li ordered Apollo to create small disturbances across the city to draw away League police before the test.
• Apollo’s diversions overwhelmed the city’s security force, creating a brief gap in the shelter’s defenses.
• Ye Li’s Ghost Unit cut the surveillance system’s backup power and infiltrated the shelter perimeter.

Ye Li and the Ghost Unit discovered the Pokémon League testing a brutal Ursaring-based weapon and sent Umbreon to steal its core data. Umbreon triggered an alarm, and as automated guns fired through the smoke, it raced to escape with the hard drive.

• Ye Li and the Ghost Unit reached an observation opening and saw a heavily armored Ursaring restrained in the testing ground.
• Pokémon League Researchers tested the creature, which smashed through a powerful alloy wall with one punch.
• Ye Li recognized the Rampage series insignia and ordered Umbreon to steal the control terminal’s hard drive.
• Umbreon removed the hard drive but accidentally tripped an infrared alarm as it tried to retreat.
• Ye Li threw smoke grenades and ordered Umbreon to use Agility while automated guns opened fire.

Ye Li and the Ghost Unit escaped the Pokémon League’s testing grounds with an encrypted hard drive containing the Rampage mass-production plan. After Lin Feng cracked it, they discovered the League had secretly completed fifty biological weapons, and Ye Li sent the evidence to Giovanni with a suggestion to reveal it during the Johto League Conference.

• Ye Li organized the Ghost Unit’s retreat through the corridors while the armored Ursaring rampaged after them.
• Apollo’s Houndoom burned Ursaring’s exposed eyes, giving Ye Li’s squad time to reach the ventilation duct and escape through a surface exit.
• The squad detonated explosives that ignited gas pipes and blocked their pursuers before fleeing Goldenrod City in a black truck.
• Lin Feng decrypted the stolen hard drive and found the Pokémon League’s plan for mass-producing Rampage biological weapons, including fifty completed models.
• Ye Li sent the encrypted evidence to Giovanni and suggested exposing it as a surprise during the Johto League Conference.

Ye Li secured Giovanni’s approval to expose the Pokémon League’s Rampage weapons at the Johto League Conference and decided to summon Ho-Oh as an undeniable witness. Team Rocket activated a generator at the Bell Tower, creating a vast ring of golden fire in the sky.

• Giovanni scorned the Pokémon League’s Rampage models but approved Ye Li’s plan to reveal them at the Johto League Conference.
• Ye Li decided to draw Ho-Oh to the Bell Tower, believing its appearance would strengthen his case against the Pokémon League.
• Ye Li asked Engineer Wang to build a generator that could simulate Ho-Oh’s Sacred Fire energy frequency, and Wang promised to finish it in half a month.
• Apollo led Team Rocket troops to surround the Bell Tower, clear out the wild Pokémon, and assemble the generator.
• Ye Li activated the generator, which sent a beam into the sky and formed an enormous golden ring of fire.

Ho-Oh descended over the Bell Tower and attacked Ye Li’s generator, mistaking its imitation of Sacred Fire for a desecration. Ye Li’s preparations absorbed the attack, and he used three sacred orbs to make Ho-Oh stop and listen to his offer.

• Ho-Oh appeared from a rainbow vortex and became enraged by Ye Li’s generator.
• Ho-Oh attacked the generator with Sacred Fire, but Ye Li activated a reverse absorption field that channeled the flames into underground storage units.
• Ho-Oh prepared to leave after its attack failed, but Ye Li activated the Frost Orb, Thunder Orb, and Fire Orb.
• Ho-Oh sensed the orbs’ power and turned back toward Ye Li.
• Ye Li told Ho-Oh that they were not enemies and offered to discuss a deal about the world’s future.

Ye Li exposed the Pokémon League’s biological weapon experiments to Ho-Oh and asked it to help reveal the League’s crimes. Ho-Oh gave Ye Li a Sacred Feather and accepted a temporary alliance, while the League’s response team arrived too late to find Team Rocket.

• Ye Li used Lin Feng’s projector to show Ho-Oh footage of a tortured Ursaring being transformed into a killing machine.
• Ye Li warned that the Pokémon League was mass-producing biological weapons and asked Ho-Oh to help stop them.
• Ho-Oh gave Ye Li a Sacred Feather, agreeing to a temporary alliance against the Pokémon League.
• Ye Li ordered Team Rocket to withdraw, and Ho-Oh flew away into the clouds.
• The League’s rapid-response unit reached the Bell Tower after Team Rocket had left and found only a mysterious generator and traces of Ho-Oh’s aura.

At the Johto League Conference, Team Rocket exposed the League’s secret experiments on Pokémon by hijacking the event’s broadcast. The League president called the footage fake, but Lin Feng kept it playing as the scandal erupted.

• Ye Li, Apollo, and Team Rocket elites disguised themselves among the conference attendees while Lin Feng hacked the broadcast system.
• The Johto League president began a speech praising the League’s fair and peaceful competitions.
• Lin Feng took control of the broadcast and replaced the conference feed with footage of Pokémon being mutilated and altered in secret League facilities.
• Reporters and attendees reacted with horror and demanded answers from the League officials.
• The president denounced the video as a frame-up and ordered the signal cut, but Lin Feng’s lockdown kept the footage playing.

Ye Li exposed the Pokémon League’s Pokémon-modification atrocities at the Silver Conference, igniting public outrage and shattering Lance and Lorelei’s faith in the League. When League officials unleashed the Guardian robots on civilians, Team Rocket revealed itself and charged in to protect them.

• A disguised voice broadcast footage of modified Pokémon and accused the Pokémon League of turning them into emotionless weapons.
• The crowd condemned the League, while Lance and Lorelei watched the footage and recognized that Ye Li’s warnings had been true.
• The League president called the footage fake, and a council member secretly ordered the Guardians to clear the venue.
• The Guardians switched to attack mode and began killing civilians with energy beams and blades.
• Ye Li snapped his fingers, prompting Team Rocket operatives disguised among the crowd to reveal themselves.
• Apollo led Team Rocket elites against the Guardians and called on them to protect the civilians.

Ye Li used Umbreon’s Dark Pulse to destroy the modified weapons attacking the venue, while Lance moved to confront the League officials who had ordered the civilians’ slaughter. Ye Li then used Ho-Oh’s feather to bring down the officials’ escaping helicopter, and Team Rocket captured them alive.

• Apollo ordered Team Rocket’s heavy troopers to form a shield wall and protect the civilians from the modified weapons.
• Ye Li fed Umbreon the Dark Moon Stone, and Umbreon’s Dark Pulse destroyed the attacking modified weapons.
• Lance flew into the sky on Dragonite and moved to confront the senior Pokémon League officials.
• The League officials fled toward their waiting helicopter as Ye Li used Ho-Oh’s feather to summon Sacred Fire.
• Sacred Fire melted the helicopter’s rotor and brought the aircraft crashing down in the plaza.
• Team Rocket members pinned the injured League officials and captured them alive.

Ye Li exposed the Pokémon League’s crimes to the world after Team Rocket seized Silver Town, provoking worldwide protests and a crisis of trust. Giovanni arrived to claim victory and declared that Team Rocket would take control of Kanto and Johto, establishing a new order.

• Ye Li brought captured Pokémon League officials to Silver Town’s central square as reporters recorded the scene.
• Ye Li displayed financial and experimental records proving the officials’ involvement in the League’s biological weapon project, sparking protests across the Pokémon world.
• Lance and Lorelei admitted that the Pokémon League was corrupt but rejected Team Rocket’s methods.
• Ye Li argued that the world needed absolute power to maintain order rather than the League’s claims of justice and light.
• Giovanni arrived by airship, congratulated Ye Li, and announced Team Rocket’s control of Kanto and Johto.

After Team Rocket seized control of Kanto and Johto, Ye Li became their joint grand administrator and introduced decrees to win public support. While Giovanni tolerated his growing influence, Ye Li secretly built a loyal network within the new regime.

• Giovanni appointed Ye Li Joint Grand Administrator of Kanto and Johto, giving him authority over both regions’ resources, officials, and military.
• Ye Li issued decrees requiring discounted supplies and relief payments for civilians, while banning large-scale harm to wild Pokémon and establishing an Ecological Protection Force.
• The public began to accept Team Rocket’s rule as daily life appeared safer and wild Pokémon received stronger protections.
• Ye Li ordered an underground faction leader to infiltrate Team Rocket’s administration, military, and logistics with agents loyal only to him.
• Giovanni learned of Ye Li’s covert recruitment but chose to tolerate it, believing the younger man’s ambitions posed no threat to his rule.

Team Rocket used Legendary Birds torpedoes to defeat the Hoenn League fleet as it approached Kanto, securing its dominance over the region’s seas. Giovanni honored Ye Li at headquarters, leaving him celebrated as the architect of the victory.

• The Hoenn League sent an elite fleet from Slateport City to intervene against Team Rocket, but Team Rocket’s upgraded cruisers met it off Kanto.
• Ye Li ordered Lin Feng to activate Laplace's Demon, which predicted the Hoenn fleet would attempt a diamond assault through the center of Team Rocket’s formation.
• Ye Li ordered the cruisers to launch Legendary Birds Mark One torpedoes, which pierced the Hoenn fleet’s energy shields and destroyed several escort ships.
• The Hoenn commander ordered a retreat, and Team Rocket won the naval battle.
• Giovanni held a celebration at headquarters and awarded Ye Li Team Rocket’s Highest Honor, an R-shaped gold medal set with a ruby.

Giovanni revealed the Genesis Gate to Ye Li and explained his plan to cross dimensions and reshape the Pokémon world with the power of higher-dimensional Legendary Pokémon. Ye Li pretended to support him, accepted the final energy coordinates, and returned to his laboratory to find a way to stop the catastrophe.

• Giovanni led Ye Li to a forbidden underground chamber and showed him the Genesis Gate.
• Giovanni revealed that unifying Kanto and Johto had only been a step toward opening a passage to another dimension.
• Ye Li recognized the danger of Giovanni's plan and secretly resolved to stop him while hiding his opposition.
• Ye Li feigned admiration and offered to give everything for Giovanni's plan.
• Giovanni gave Ye Li a data chip containing the final energy coordinates needed to activate the Genesis Gate.
• Ye Li returned to his top-secret laboratory to investigate the plan's risks and search for a way to prevent disaster.

Ye Li learned that forcibly opening the Genesis Gate would create a black hole capable of swallowing the solar system, so he secretly planned to sabotage its startup code. He traveled to Mt. Coronet under Giovanni’s watchful escort to find a Space-Time Plate, the last hope of preventing the catastrophe.

• Lin Feng reported that opening the Genesis Gate would create a singularity that collapsed into a supermassive black hole.
• Ye Li decided to hide an infinite loop in the Genesis Gate’s control code to stall its startup during energy injection.
• Ye Li told Giovanni he needed a Space-Time Plate from Mt. Coronet to stabilize the device, and Giovanni approved the trip while assigning him a Personal Guard escort.
• Ye Li flew to Sinnoh and paid a black market merchant for a lead about a seal of the Space-Time Duo deep within Mt. Coronet.
• Ye Li led the escort into Mt. Coronet to seek the plate.

Ye Li led his escort through Mt. Coronet to an ancient chamber and found the Space-Time Plate. When he tried to take it, ancient Bronzong guardians awakened and proved impervious to the escort’s attacks.

• Ye Li’s Umbreon frightened off a group of wild Glalie that attacked the expedition.
• Ye Li used his memory of an ancient map to guide the team through Mt. Coronet’s caves despite their failed navigation equipment.
• Ye Li and the escorts reached a hidden chamber depicting Dialga and Palkia, where the Space-Time Plate rested on an altar.
• As Ye Li reached for the Plate, ancient runes lit up and enormous guardian Bronzong rose from the floor, surrounding the team.
• The escort captain ordered an attack, but the Pokémon’s Hyper Beams and Flamethrowers only sparked against the Bronzong’s impenetrable armor.

Ye Li defeated the Ancient Guardians guarding the Space-Time Plate and discovered that it could stabilize the spatial tearing caused by the Genesis Gate. He returned to Team Rocket Headquarters and completed a Safety Valve designed to stop the coming apocalypse while deceiving Giovanni and the others.

• Ye Li identified gaps at the Bronzong's arm joints and ordered the Guard Team to focus their attacks there.
• Ye Li gave Umbreon the Dark Moon Stone fragment, and Umbreon destroyed the Bronzong's energy cores with Shadow Claw.
• Ye Li took the Space-Time Plate from the altar and had Lin Feng scan its energy structure remotely.
• The scan showed that the Plate could neutralize the spatial tearing caused by the Genesis Gate.
• Ye Li led the Guard Team out of Mt. Coronet and returned to Team Rocket Headquarters by plane.
• Ye Li integrated the Plate's energy data with his safeguard program and completed the Safety Valve.

Ye Li and his Team Rocket guards were ambushed by Team Galactic while flying over Sinnoh with the Space-Time Plate. He used evasive maneuvers, Umbreon’s Dark Pulse, and the Plate’s spatial power to disrupt the attackers, while the air battle continued.

• Team Galactic aircraft appeared through the clouds and attacked Ye Li’s jet, targeting its engines and tail to force it toward a prepared landing zone.
• Ye Li took command, ordered the pilot into extreme evasive maneuvers, and dodged the incoming energy beams.
• Team Galactic’s unmanned craft destroyed the two Team Rocket escort fighters, while Jupiter sent Flying-type Pokémon to attack the jet’s doors and windows.
• Ye Li ordered Umbreon to fire a compressed Dark Pulse through the cabin door, disabling the lead aircraft’s left propulsion engine.
• Ye Li released a trace of spatial power from the Space-Time Plate, disrupting Team Galactic’s fire-control radar as the jet continued evading the attack.

After Team Galactic shot down Ye Li’s aircraft, he used the forest and the Space-Time Plate to turn the crash site into an ambush. He defeated the pursuing troops, forcing Jupiter to flee, then left with the Plate after ordering the survivors to cover their tracks.

• A stray energy beam damaged the aircraft’s tail fin, and Ye Li’s aircraft crashed in a forest clearing.
• Ye Li rallied the surviving guards and had them set concealed energy traps around the wreckage.
• As Team Galactic troops entered the ambush zone, Ye Li used the Space-Time Plate to trap their Pokémon in spatial turbulence and triggered the traps.
• Umbreon attacked the stunned troops and their Pokémon, overwhelming them in a one-sided battle.
• Jupiter fled into the forest with his remaining guards, and Ye Li ordered the survivors to erase evidence before leaving with the Space-Time Plate.

Ye Li secretly prepared to disrupt Giovanni’s plan to use the Genesis Gate, while Giovanni mistook Ye Li’s military redeployments for ordinary ambition and allowed them to proceed. The chapter left Ye Li’s hidden network spreading under Giovanni’s tacit approval.

• Ye Li ordered Lin Feng to monitor the Genesis Gate project and alert him as soon as Giovanni began its final procedure.
• Giovanni presented his plan to open a passage to another dimension and capture unknown Legendary Pokémon, winning the core executives’ enthusiastic support.
• Athena grew jealous and suspicious when she saw Ye Li receiving important responsibilities in Giovanni’s plan.
• Ye Li used his authority to redeploy forces and position troops loyal to him near key energy stations and transportation hubs.
• Giovanni read a report on Ye Li’s movements, dismissed them as normal ambition, and secretly ordered his intelligence department to look the other way.