WAAPT:Current events/2026-01

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January 1

• [Meta] New Year's Day.
• Poppy mentally goes over the events of the past couple years.
• Muninn tells Ever about their original plans with the circlet.
  • [TS] Ever and co encounter an Iron Leaves.
• Kai vs. the Legendary Beasts:
  • Nix brings Kai back from the dead.
• Tangent and co end up in Lumiose.
• Pele comes to visit Grandpa Mountain and grants Dune a certain stone.
• Deziree tells the rest of the group about some weird dreams she's been having.
• Liliaceae evolves to Hisuian Lilligant.

January 2

• Thalia suffers an accident while training and falls unconscious, before Misaki is attacked by an Iron Crown.
• Gale's team deals with the Quaking Earth Titans.

January 3

• [TS] Alice catches Galernia.
• Kai informs the Paradox Initiative about their investigation into the Paradox Beasts, and invites Alice and Brie to venture in with them.
• [TS] Misaki battles the Iron Crown.
  • The Iron Crown nearly succeeds at killing her, only to be stopped by a Protect.
  • Misaki uses her newly-awakened Auric abilities to defeat and catch the Iron Crown.
• Megan battles the mysterious Emmy Uu.
• Matilda has a flashback.
• Hiro readies for an expedition to Area Zero, while Logan and co. find themselves under attack by strange Pokémon and request help.

January 4

• Ever's mons abscond them from the Iron Leaves.

• Kieran explains to Xavier how Blueberry works.
  • Xavier catches Zoro.
• Tangent and co learn from Merle that it's been more than seven years.
• Suit agrees to help hatch an egg in return for Herba Mystica.
• Logan and co deal with a Titan Sandy Shocks.

January 5

• [TS] Gale's team defeats the Quaking Earth Titans.
• [TS] Tera Spelunking.
  • Mrs. Pig tells the group about Terapagos.
• Xavier battles Danse.
• Misaki tells Thalia about how she was born.

January 6

• Kai tells Brie and Alice about Saros' mention of Walking Wake and Raging Bolt.
• Apollo and team face Titan Klawf.

January 7

• [TS] The Titan Sandy Shocks is defeated.
• Duck explains the nature of the Herba Mystica to Gale.

January 8

• Crispin gifts Xavier a Hisuian Growlithe.

January 9

• Jessica convinces Elizabeth to join her on her Paldea League challenge.
• Orpheus decides to start going by Shaun again and take on a new path, only to get cut down by an Iron Valiant.
  • Siobhán and team fight the Iron Valiant.
• [TS] Tera Spelunking.
  • Iris and Trill come across Terapagos' sleeping chamber.
  • Mr. and Mrs. Pig explain how the Great Crater's instability has been affecting the greater Paldea region.
  • Iris and Trill enter mysterious ruins.

January 10

• [TS] The Titan Klawf is defeated.
• Baby Phosphora obtains Bolter.

January 11

• Dune catches a Helioptile.
• [TS] Tera Spelunking.
  • Iris and Trill find robots in pieces containing objects resembling Tera Jewels.
• Buster evolves to Cinderace.
• Xavier catches a Mankey.

January 12

• Siobhán catches the Iron Valiant.
  • Her mons discuss their feelings amongst themselves regarding Orpheus' death.
  • Shaun meets a Sakura in the Dream World before heading off with them.
• Dune has a talk with a mysterious man.
• [TS] Tera Spelunking.
  • Iris and Trill come across a mural.
  • Tagg identifies the structure as an Alakagross ruin, while Chiyo comes across a mysterious shield.
• The Iron Valiant battles a False (?) Iron Valiant.

January 13

• [TS] Tera Spelunking.
  • Iris and Trill come across the second portion of the mural.
  • Tagg identifies the first portion of the mural as showing Aura Hounds discovering the Great Crater.
• The Iron Valiant and Big Dom have a talk.
• Dune meets an Absol that mentions feeling another calamity approaching Kalos.

January 14

• Dune and Phosphora come across a Numel carrying a sick Dratini.
  • The Dratini turns out to be originally from the Dream World.
• Scáthach is nicknamed.
• Misaki mulls over actually being Auric.
• Gale arrives at the Segin Squad Base.

January 15

• Following their acquisition of Herba Mystica, Apollo's Glimmet egg hatches.

January 16

• Lucy ends up at an Area Zero facility commandeered by PEFE!Every.
• [TS] Tera Spelunking.
  • Iris and Trill come across the final portion of the mural.

January 17

• [TS] Tera Spelunking.
  • Iris and Trill are attacked by a mysterious figure in the dark.

January 18

• Nothing much happened.

January 19

• Ever crushes a Scream Tail in battle.
• The Titan Sandy Shocks fully faints.
• [TS] Tera Spelunking.
  • The parents arrive and enter battle with the Iron Valiant, which is revealed to be a Stellar Tera Pokémon.
• Mattie tries on a Pokémon to human Armband.

January 20

• Hiro enters Area Zero and manages to find Ever.
• Mattie and Ludmilla find Deziree and Helen out for ice cream.

January 21

• Isbrand reads through Siobhán's notes on past Paradox mon edibility.
• Siobhán meets Queen.
• Mattie reveals that she was raised by Smoochum and Jynx.
  • Mattie and Ludmilla declare their partnership.
• Heather and Percy arrive in Celestic Town.
• [TS] Tera Spelunking.
  • Boron and Louise fail to get in contact with Sol and/or Channah.

January 22

• Andarna and co confront Layla and Gideon.
• [TS] Moss tries to find Technetium out of mostly bile fascination, but fails to find anything.
• Ludmilla tells Deziree that she's not ready to delve into Area Zero at this time in favor of taking on the Paldea League.
• [TS] The Titan Orthworm grants Jessica its Involith.
• Heather is introduced to Percy's basically adoptive fathers.
  • Percy explains how she met them.
• Hiro and Ever discuss the latter's feelings regarding Tantivy's death.
• Misaki and Thalia spot Ludmilla and Mattie at the ice cream stand.

January 23

• Percy explains to Heather how Z-Crystals work.
• [TS] Moss theorizes that Molybdenum may have simply created an echo of Technetium out of desperation.
• Ludmilla catches a Tinkatink.
• Gale's handler is revealed to know about the CU.
• Ludmilla catches Ek Chuah.

January 24

• Mattie returns to Tumblr.

January 25

• Nothing much happened.

January 26

• The Iron Valiant submits to joining Deziree's team.
• Ludmilla meets Siobhán.
• Stewart and co arrive at the Stormchaser.

January 27

• Grieve and Elegy discuss their (former) Trainers.
• Misaki gets the Iron Crown to listen to her.

January 28

• Donut finds Poppy inside her cell.
• [TS] Molybdenum realizes that Technetium cannot come back due to having not been ensouled prior to her death.
• Ludmilla meets with Hastur, who explains how they ended up in the OU, how Darkrai tasked them with dealing with departed Schoolchildren, and how Ludmilla had originally died of exposure during her mission to the seed vault, only for him to revive her.

January 29

• Nothing much happened.

January 30

• Naps and some poachers go over a Latii sighting.
  • Mattie is kidnapped by said poachers while Ludmilla battles Katy for the Bug Badge, only for her to rescue her soon afterwards.
  • The poacher's boss claims to follow a "Lady Amarin" before escaping.

January 31

• [TS] Tera Spelunking.
  • The Iron Valiant activates its Quark Drive using Booster Energy.
  • The Iron Valiant is defeated, revealing that they've ended up in the Depths.
  • Chiyo explains how the Depths work.
• Fenrir the Iron-Heart attempts to collect information on Thalia.
• Ludmilla obtains a Vulpix that was previously in the possession of the poachers.

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