The Sand Continent gets its own story in the PMD universe! Beetle is the son of a nomad chief. Their tribe, the Rovers, summoned Protectors for the Continent. Then Yveltal and the Void defeated them. Now, ten years later, one appears before Beetle! Except he seems... off? With a rival tribe on the rise, they must summon the other three protectors before it's too late!

Shy the shaymin encounters adventure and strife in Zruaset, home to a rekindling exploration scene, in the hopes of finding a cure to mindbreak-an illness that inhibits the use of powers. At half the strength & half the size of all the other explorers, Shy will have to try ten times as hard to find his own style, in a world where the consequences for failure run high. Post SPMD.