Recaps

Tetsuya and Norman crossed the desert, explored the Mirage Tower, and reached Trainer’s Hill for Hoenn’s Qualification Challenge. Tetsuya won his opening tournament battles, then received an invitation to a Dragon-type trial on Southern Island.

• Tetsuya and Norman explored the Mirage Tower, battled its Illusion Pokemon, and met the sealed Regirock, who revealed that the tower’s system used Dream Energy.
• Tetsuya and Norman escaped the tower with Musharna’s help, reported the Illusion System to Professor Oak, and continued to Trainer’s Hill.
• Tetsuya met Anabel, Greta, Hills, Kukui, and Noland, then defeated Anabel and Greta in a double battle with Blaziken and Ampharos.
• Enishi Tatsuya briefed Tetsuya and Norman on the tournament rivals, and the League announced a 32-Trainer round-robin competition for vacant Hoenn Gym Leader positions.
• Tetsuya defeated Hamon Chigi’s team with Pidgeot, Ursaluna, and Ampharos to win his first tournament match.
• Tetsuya defeated Kinda Bunta’s Electivire, Cloyster, and Fearow, while Asakawa Chinatsu narrowly won her own opening match.
• Miss Joy gave Tetsuya a ship ticket to Southern Island and invited him to a trial for outstanding Dragon-type Pokemon and their Trainers.

Tetsuya won his tournament matches, served as Mauville’s acting Gym Leader, and dealt with New Mauville, Team Aqua, and Team Magma. After finding a time-warped ruin on Mist Mountain and meeting an older version of himself, he returned to the wider story as strange meteors fell toward Kanto and Hoenn and a report said Cynthia had gone on a rampage.

• Tetsuya defeated Tie Xiangping’s team and finished the first round with a perfect record, while Gible evolved into Gabite during training.
• Tetsuya took over Mauville Gym, weakened the Storm Surge near Route 123, and investigated the Static affecting Route 110, where he and Wattson found Mechanical Raikou guarding New Mauville.
• Tetsuya trained with Elder Huixuan in her Divination World, then raided Team Aqua and Team Magma camps near Mt. Chimney and captured their members with help from Higana, an undercover League agent.
• After three weeks as acting Gym Leader, Tetsuya ranked first in the temporary Gym Leader assessment and accompanied Asakawa Chinatsu to investigate Mist Mountain.
• Tetsuya found murals of the Claydol Civilization and met an older version of himself, who used Claydol and a Magic Array to travel through time before vanishing as the cave collapsed.
• Tetsuya learned that a week had passed outside the ruins, warned Asakawa Chinatsu about Mist Mountain, and told Steven that Dialga’s power had warped time there.
• Rayquaza swallowed a meteor as two more fell toward Kanto and Hoenn, and Tetsuya later opened a forum post reporting that Cynthia had gone on a rampage.

Tetsuya fought Deoxys with Steven, then passed the Joy Family’s Southern Island trial and befriended Latias and Latios. Later, he helped uncover danger at Mt. Pyre, where Maxie escaped with the Red Orb and Tetsuya confronted the real Archie over the Blue Orb.

• Tetsuya and Steven battled the Deoxys that emerged from a meteorite crater, and Steven and Wallace eventually defeated it and recovered its crystalline core.
• Tetsuya traveled to Southern Island, built a cabin, and sent Gabite and Dreepy through Latias’s trial at the Dragon Graveyard, carrying them when the aura overwhelmed them.
• After recovering, Tetsuya learned that Latias and Latios considered him a friend and had passed him, then left the island and explored Sea Mauville with Empoleon and Ampharos.
• Tetsuya defeated an Elite Four-level Spiritomb at Sea Mauville and later agreed to help Wallace and Steven investigate unusual movements by the Red Orb and Blue Orb at Mt. Pyre.
• Maxie and Archie attacked the Beyond Shore Family, Steven knocked out a man posing as Archie, and Maxie escaped with the Red Orb after its power protected him.
• Wallace revealed that the captured Archie was a hypnotized fake and warned Tetsuya that the real Archie was searching for the Blue Orb, so Tetsuya tracked him down at Mt. Pyre.
• Tetsuya ordered Blaziken to attack the armored Archie, who used his sword Shun to reflect Blaziken’s Flamethrower.

Tetsuya and the regional Champions faced Groudon and Kyogre as their battle brought disasters across the world, until Rayquaza intervened and ended the conflict. After the League settled the orbs’ guardianship and discussed rebuilding, Tetsuya and Cynthia followed the Ancient Nautical Chart to a hidden island revealed by Mew.

• Tetsuya captured the armored thief Archie, learned that the Blue Orb’s energy was overwhelming his body, and joined Steven’s response to Groudon’s emergence.
• Tetsuya and the Champions fought Groudon and the artificial monster fused with Maxie, then Tetsuya threw the Red Orb into the sea and Kyogre rose to challenge Groudon.
• Groudon and Kyogre underwent Primal Reversion and battled for days, causing disasters across Hoenn, Johto, and other regions.
• Rayquaza Mega Evolved, destroyed a meteor summoned by Groudon, and fought the two Legendary Pokémon until Groudon and Kyogre withdrew and Rayquaza vanished.
• Tetsuya returned to the League, where Alder assigned the Beyond Shore Family to guard the orbs and approved pilot Pokémon schools in each region.
• Tetsuya and Cynthia followed the Ancient Nautical Chart to open sea, where Mew revealed a forested island and they found a weathered message left by earlier visitors.