Chapter Summaries

After collecting his recovered Pokémon in Azalea Town, Tetsuya followed Miss Joy’s advice to visit a fishing shop and buy a rod. The shop owner confirmed that Solitary Island existed but demanded extra payment for more information about it.

• Tetsuya collected his six recovered Pokémon from Miss Joy at the Pokémon Center.
• Miss Joy recommended Solitary Island Fishing Gear and its nearby fishing ground to Tetsuya.
• Tetsuya found the shop and admired its collection of Good Rods and signed Super Rods.
• The Fishing Gear Store Owner showed Tetsuya a map depicting Solitary Island and sold him a Good Rod.
• The owner confirmed he had visited Solitary Island but said Tetsuya would have to pay extra to learn more.

Tetsuya bought a Good Rod and paid to enter Solitary Island Fishing Ground, hoping to catch rare Water-type Pokemon. After hours of catching only Magikarp and Goldeen, he stubbornly kept fishing for Corsola through the night.

• Tetsuya bought a Good Rod from the shopkeeper for ten thousand Alliance Coins, then declined to buy his nine-million-coin Special Grade Rod.
• Tetsuya paid five hundred Alliance Coins for admission to the Fishing Ground and chose Fishing Ground 3 because he disliked jellyfish and crabs.
• Tetsuya spent an hour fishing at Fishing Ground 3 and caught seventy-three Magikarp instead of the Staryu he wanted.
• Tetsuya moved to Fishing Spot Number Four and caught Goldeen and Magikarp but no Corsola during the next hour.
• Tetsuya refused to give up, and over the next three hours he caught 386 Magikarp while nearby anglers caught Corsola.
• Tetsuya continued fishing, determined to stay until morning rather than return without catching a Corsola.

After an unsuccessful night of fishing, Tetsuya spotted a mysterious island near Fishing Spot Number Four and flew there with Ampharos aboard Pidgeot. He arrived face-to-face with Suicune, which greeted him.

• Tetsuya read Saito Muneyoshi's account of a disappearing island with a freshwater lake and aurora-like lights, and suspected it was connected to Suicune.
• Tetsuya and Ampharos spent the night fishing for Corsola, but caught only Magikarp, which Ampharos accidentally shocked and released back into the sea.
• As dawn broke, Tetsuya agreed to change fishing spots and noticed an island that had not been there before.
• Tetsuya released Pidgeot and asked it to carry him and Ampharos to the island.
• Tetsuya landed on the island and found Suicune, which said hello to him.

Tetsuya met Suicune on a hidden island and asked about its origins and the limits of Pokémon strength. After Suicune explained how Pokémon progressed beyond Champion level, Tetsuya thanked it, though he was left with new questions about the nature of Legendary Pokémon.

• Suicune revealed that it had brought Tetsuya to the island after sensing the scent of nature around him.
• Tetsuya asked whether Suicune was one of the Pokémon Ho-Oh had saved from the Burned Tower, and Suicune explained that the Suicune, Raikou, and Entei clans served Ho-Oh.
• Tetsuya asked how Pokémon grew stronger beyond Champion level, so he summoned Blaziken to translate Suicune's explanation.
• Blaziken conveyed that Pokémon advanced by using bonds to understand their energy, awaken natural energy, and eventually control it, while Legendary Pokémon differed in how much energy or authority over nature they controlled.
• Suicune returned to Tetsuya and Blaziken after their conversation, and Tetsuya thanked it for explaining the strength classifications.

Tetsuya learned from Suicune how talent, effort, and bonds shaped a Pokémon’s strength, then received valuable gifts before returning to Azalea Town. After sleeping through messages from Professor Oak and Professor Rowan, he woke to Cynthia calling about their worry.

• Suicune explained to Tetsuya that Champion Potential marked the limit of a species’ talent and that effort could help a Pokémon advance beyond it, while bonds and natural ability both mattered.
• Suicune gave Tetsuya Mystic Water and a Water Gem, then used its power to gather seven or eight Rainbow Branches for him.
• Tetsuya returned to the Pokemon Center, showed Miss Joy a seven-colored Rainbow Branch, and booked a room to rest in Azalea Town.
• Tetsuya messaged Professor Oak and Professor Rowan, then fell asleep and missed their replies and incoming calls.
• Cynthia called Tetsuya after he woke and told him that Professor Oak and her grandfather were nearly frantic with worry.

Tetsuya reported his encounter with Suicune to Professors Rowan and Oak, then learned that Suicune’s Water Gem might improve a Water-type Pokemon Egg’s potential. After training his six Pokemon and leaving Azalea Town, he headed for Heracross Forest to gather Sweet Honey.

• Tetsuya called Professor Rowan and recounted Suicune’s message, while Professor Oak and Professor Rowan discussed how little reliable information they had about Legendary Pokemon.
• Professor Rowan explained that Suicune’s Water Gem could improve the potential of an unhatched Water-type Pokemon Egg when used with Tidal Incense, though the effect’s limits were unknown.
• Tetsuya decided his seventh Pokemon would be a Water type, finished dinner, and led his six partners through their regular training.
• The next day, Tetsuya left Azalea Town and set out for Heracross Forest to gather Sweet Honey for use during his future travels in the wild.
• An unseen, familiar white-furred Pokemon appeared behind Tetsuya and silently watched him leave.

Tetsuya entered Heracross Forest, where his sharp observation impressed Morio and exposed blind spots in the Forest Guard’s camera network. After collecting the permitted amount of Sweet Honey among docile Heracross, he received an emergency mission notice for temporary conscription.

• Tetsuya entered Heracross Forest, and the Guard’s system sent his League identity information to the branch Command Center.
• Morio noticed Tetsuya locating hidden cameras and frequent Heracross gathering areas, then ordered his team to use the opportunity to find and correct blind spots.
• Tetsuya summoned Serperior and followed the scent of Sweet Honey deeper into the forest.
• Tetsuya collected the maximum permitted amount of Sweet Honey while nearby Heracross calmly fed around him.
• Tetsuya’s wristwatch flashed red and announced the emergency mission, “Temporary Conscription.”

Tetsuya was conscripted with other Elite Trainers to help the Forest Guard stop a severe flood from sweeping through Heracross and Pinsir Forests toward Azalea Town. After the Trainers chose defensive positions, Morio asked Tetsuya to take charge of mobile defense, the most dangerous role.

• Tetsuya flew to the Forest Guard Command Center after receiving an emergency League mission and joined twenty summoned Trainers.
• Morio explained that a powerful flood was expected to overflow the river, enter both forests, and threaten nearby human settlements.
• The Trainers learned that their advance team's task was to calm or stop fleeing wild Pokemon while the League sent more personnel and supplies.
• Morio assigned defensive positions across the forests, and the Trainers selected their posts.
• Morio told Tetsuya he was the strongest Trainer present and asked him to take over mobile defense while Morio guarded Tetsuya's chosen position.

Tetsuya helped defend Heracross Forest as Wild Pokemon fled the rising flood, while the Trainers awaited Pryce’s arrival. When a Quasi-Elite Four-level threat and then a Dugtrio-led group overwhelmed defenders, Tetsuya sent Blaziken and Serperior to assist.

• Morio asked Tetsuya to provide mobile defense, and Tetsuya agreed before flying out on Pidgeot.
• The Forest Guard reported increasingly restless Pokemon, while Morio confirmed that Pryce would arrive in about five hours.
• Tetsuya reminded the defenders to use recovery support as scattered Pokemon groups approached their posts.
• When a Quasi-Elite Four-level Pokemon threatened Number Twelve Point, Tetsuya sent Blaziken to resolve the crisis.
• Tetsuya took Serperior to help a defender overwhelmed by a Dugtrio and its Diglett group, and Serperior bound Dugtrio with Vine Whip.

Tetsuya and his Pokemon battled powerful wild Pokemon while the flood spread through Heracross Forest, and he and Morio grew concerned about the unusually mild Pokemon Riot. Pryce arrived and began freezing the flooded forest, leaving the cleanup underway.

• Tetsuya used Serperior to defeat and capture a Dugtrio, then brought Blaziken to help trainers fight Quasi-Elite Four Pokemon around the forest.
• Tetsuya and his Pokemon fought through a succession of powerful wild Pokemon as the flood spread, while support teams prepared to arrive.
• Tetsuya captured a female Heracross after it and its mate attacked Point Twenty-Six, and he told Morio that the situation felt abnormal.
• Morio explained that the Pokemon Riot was unusually weak for a flood of this scale, with most weaker Pokemon calm and many powerful ones fleeing.
• Morio reported the situation up the chain, and Pryce arrived, summoned Abomasnow to cover the forest in snow, and ordered Delibird to freeze everything.

Pryce’s Delibird froze the flood across Heracross Forest, revealing its Tier 3 Legendary strength, while Tetsuya reassured his discouraged Blaziken. Pryce returned with an Absol and explained that the Pokémon’s reactions to the flood were likely connected to it.

• Pryce’s Delibird froze the flood throughout Heracross Forest without harming the wild Pokémon, and its strength registered as Tier 3 Legendary.
• Tetsuya tested how quickly Blaziken could melt the ice, while Morio estimated that it would take about a week to thaw.
• Tetsuya encouraged Blaziken after it felt discouraged by Delibird’s immense strength, and Blaziken reaffirmed its belief in Tetsuya.
• Pryce returned and told Tetsuya and Morio that he had traced the abnormal reactions to a white Pokémon beside Delibird.
• Morio recognized the Pokémon as the Disaster Beast, and Tetsuya identified it as Absol.

After Absol explained that it had warned Pokemon about the flood, Pryce questioned Tetsuya about Suicune, Absol, and Celebi. Pryce revealed that Xerneas slept in Mysterious Garden, leaving Tetsuya dazed at the possibility that he had encountered two Legendary Pokemon.

• Morio thanked Absol for warning the Pokemon about the flood, and Absol departed after Delibird signaled that it could leave.
• After Morio left, Pryce asked Tetsuya whether he had recently seen Suicune, and Tetsuya said he had met it the previous day.
• Pryce told Tetsuya that Absol had said it followed him, and Tetsuya guessed it might have come from Tohjo Falls.
• Pryce asked whether Tetsuya had seen Celebi, and Tetsuya described his encounter with Suicune and his suspicion that Celebi might have been in Mysterious Garden.
• Pryce revealed that Xerneas slept in Mysterious Garden in its Tree Form and suggested that Celebi might have been visiting it.
• Tetsuya realized he might have encountered both Xerneas and Celebi and tried to calm himself by remembering Pryce's knowledge of Legendary Pokemon.

After helping Pryce resolve the Forest Guard’s ice problem, Tetsuya worried about finding a stable income and settled on bounty hunting for now. He recorded several days of travel in his life log, then prepared to meet Professor Oak’s request to pick something up from an old friend in Johto.

• Tetsuya reported Pryce’s solution to Morio and expected League merit as a reward for his extra work.
• Tetsuya considered several ways to earn steady money, rejected sponsorship and Breeder businesses, and decided to work as a bounty hunter while keeping opening a Gym in mind.
• Tetsuya made lunch for his six Pokemon and wrote life-log entries about his travels from May 11 to May 16, including finding a Gyarados scale and receiving a request from Professor Oak.
• Tetsuya went to sleep in his tent while Blaziken took watch and practiced Aura control in a tree, as a blue-green rock nearby seemed to shift.

Tetsuya trained Ampharos in the wilderness and traveled to a red house on Route 30 to meet Professor Oak’s friend. During a call, Lance investigated whether Team Rocket had used forced evolution to cause the Vermilion City Gyarados riot, and Tetsuya then met the eccentric Mr. Pokémon.

• Tetsuya trained Ampharos to combine Cotton Guard and Discharge, then reviewed its technique and estimated it would master the combo in about a week.
• Tetsuya checked his team’s progress, packed up camp, and headed toward the red house beside Lake Number Three on Route 30.
• Lance called Tetsuya to ask whether Team Rocket’s Forced Evolution via Electric Waves had caused the Vermilion City Gyarados riot, and Tetsuya said the Gyarados had seemed unusually violent.
• Lance asked where Team Rocket might hide, and Tetsuya vaguely suggested cliffs or places with lots of water.
• Tetsuya reached the red house and met its resident, who introduced himself as Mr. Pokémon and said people called him Pokemon Grandpa.

Tetsuya visited Pokemon Grandpa to collect a mysterious Poke Ball for Professor Oak and learned that the GS Ball could not be moved with Space Technology. Before Tetsuya left with the ball, Pokemon Grandpa gave him fruit to deliver to Mr. Steel and a Pokemon Egg to care for.

• Tetsuya met Pokemon Grandpa, who welcomed him in and shared stories of his travels and legendary Pokemon.
• Pokemon Grandpa explained that Professor Uchiki had discovered the unusual ball, and that Professor Mohn had gone missing before he could study it.
• Tetsuya opened the box and saw the yellow-and-white Poke Ball known as the GS Ball, then learned that Professor Oak wanted it kept until Tetsuya next returned to the laboratory.
• Pokemon Grandpa gave Tetsuya fruit to take to Mr. Steel in Azalea Town and entrusted him with a snow-white Pokemon Egg.
• As Tetsuya left with the GS Ball, it trembled against his body inside its sealed box.

Pokemon Grandpa gave Tetsuya an Alolan Vulpix Egg with Elite Four aptitude and a bag of Apricorns, along with a chance to have them made into handcrafted Poke Balls by Mr. Steel. Tetsuya accepted the gifts and revised his plans to raise the Egg as his eighth partner, leaving him to consider the costs and seek advice from his contacts.

• Pokemon Grandpa insisted that Tetsuya accept the Alolan Vulpix Egg and Apricorns, asking him to bring the Pokemon by after it evolved.
• Tetsuya identified the Egg as an Alolan Vulpix Egg and learned about its powerful Ninetales mother and likely Primarina father.
• Pokemon Grandpa told Tetsuya to take the Apricorns to Mr. Steel, who could craft them into special Poke Balls.
• Tetsuya left with the gifts and reconsidered his plan to use Suicune's Present for a Water-type as his eighth partner.
• Tetsuya planned the Alolan Vulpix's early training, including its likely Ice- and Fairy-type needs, and noted that he would ask Kajiyama and Champion Lorelei for advice.

Tetsuya arrived in Violet City, where the monks of Bellsprout Tower secretly struggled to contain something beneath the tower, then met Gym Leader Sutian. Sutian asked Tetsuya to defeat his son Falkner to challenge the young Trainer’s approach to Pokemon training.

• Tetsuya and Ampharos reached Violet City after gathering Spinarak silk along the way.
• Tetsuya visited the exterior of Bellsprout Tower, unaware that its abbot and monks had just reinforced a seal beneath it after the imprisoned entity attacked.
• Tetsuya completed his Gym challenge registration at the Pokemon Center and received a message from Sutian inviting him to Violet City Gym.
• Tetsuya met Sutian at the Gym, where Sutian explained that he wanted Tetsuya to teach Falkner a lesson by defeating him in battle.

Tetsuya was drawn into a battle with Falkner after the two clashed over whether trainers should specialize in Flying-type Pokémon. Their 3v3 match began with Serperior quickly catching Falkner’s Dodrio off guard, leaving the battle underway with Tetsuya in control.

• Sutian brought his reluctant son Falkner to meet Tetsuya, and Tetsuya praised Falkner’s well-raised Hoothoot.
• Falkner claimed his Flying-type team and Starter Pokémon were superior to Tetsuya’s, prompting Tetsuya to challenge his view of the sky’s power.
• Sutian proposed a battle to settle their disagreement and offered the Zephyr Badge as a prize if Tetsuya won.
• Falkner opened the 3v3 match with Dodrio, while Tetsuya sent out Serperior despite Falkner’s objections to the type matchup.
• Serperior’s Vine Whip reversed direction after Dodrio dodged, bound its legs, and knocked it down; Tetsuya then ordered Serperior to use Sweet Scent.

Tetsuya's Serperior defeated Falkner's Dodrio, prompting Sutian to reflect on whether he had sheltered his son too much. Falkner sent out Pidgeot and offered a mirror match against Tetsuya's Pidgeot, leaving Tetsuya eager to teach him a lesson.

• Tetsuya's Serperior used Sweet Scent and Tri Attack to hinder Dodrio, but Dodrio charged through the attack with Rage.
• Tetsuya's Serperior tripped Dodrio with Grass Knot, then knocked it out with U-turn and Dragon Tail.
• Sutian declared Tetsuya the winner and reconsidered whether Falkner needed more hardship to grow as a Trainer.
• Falkner sent out Pidgeot and offered to let it battle Tetsuya's Pidgeot without attacking during the switch.
• Tetsuya accepted Falkner's offer, released his Pidgeot, and resolved to teach Falkner a lesson.

Tetsuya's Pidgeot decisively outmatched Falkner's Pidgeot in their aerial battle, defeating it with a powerful Hurricane. Falkner's Pidgeot was left tumbling toward the edge of the High Tower as a middle-aged man intervened.

• Falkner ordered his Pidgeot to use Gust, and Tetsuya's Pidgeot overpowered it with an identical attack.
• The two Pidgeot clashed with Quick Attack, and Tetsuya's Pidgeot struck harder and left Falkner's partner injured.
• Tetsuya's Pidgeot used Double Team and Feather Dance, then began forming a Hurricane while Falkner's Pidgeot used Heat Wave.
• Falkner told his Pidgeot to sense the wind and evade, but it was swept into the real Hurricane and badly battered.
• Falkner tried to recall his disoriented Pidgeot, but the Poke Ball's red light missed; a middle-aged man ordered Skarmory to bring it back.