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Terapagos テラパゴス Terapagos ?

Artwork of Terastal Form Terapagos for The Indigo Disk

Debuts in The Indigo Disk Caught at Area Zero Underdepths Gender Male Ability Tera Shift (Normal Form) Tera Shell (Terastal Form) Teraform Zero (Stellar Form) Nature Hardy Current location With the player/ At Area Zero

This Pokémon is fully evolved.

Terapagos (Japanese: テラパゴス Terapagos), also referred to as the hidden treasure of Area Zero and the indigo disk, is a Legendary Pokémon and a major character for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2: The Indigo Disk expansion.

In the core series

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Character profile

Main article: Terapagos (Pokémon)

In both its Normal and Terastal Forms, Terapagos is shown to be a docile and friendly Pokémon. Once it awakened after hundreds of slumbering in the depths of the planet, it yawned and looked happy to see the group of humans looking down at it. Terapagos is heavily implied to be the very last one of its species after it was said that seismic shifts brought its kind to the brink of extinction. It's also implied to be a very young-minded Pokémon as shown when it gladly walked towards the player upon seeing them for the very first time.

It also appear to enjoy granting desires to others, as seen when it brought a Professor Sada^S/Professor Turo^V from a parallel timeline for its trainer. Even though it is a good Pokémon by nature, when Kieran Terastallized it as instructed by Briar, Terapagos is abnormally overloaded with Terastal energy, causing it to lose control of itself and become enraged, so furious that it not only destroyed the Master Ball used to catch it, but also tried to kill everyone there, specially Kieran with a huge Terastal energy blast.

Appearance

See also: Terapagos → Form data

Terapagos has two forms, its regular, Normal Form and its Terastal Form, as well as its Terastallized state, known as Stellar Form. Terapagos transforms into its Terastal Form through its Tera Shift ability and due to being the source of all Terastallization, it causes a significant change to its appearance when Terastallized, unlike most other Pokémon.

Normal Form	Terastal Form	Stellar Form

Backstory

Over 2,000,000 years ago, Terapagos inhabited the Paldea region in a bygone era along with other Terapagos, however, according to one of its Pokédex entires, seismic shifts started to occur on the earth, which was said to have doomed its species to the brink of extinction. It was thought that this species went extinct, having been caught up in these seismic shifts; however, it seems that one Terapagos protected itself by changing the energy in its body into hard crystals and going into hibernation deep underground. Terapagos laid dormant in deep caverns in Area Zero, currently known as Area Zero Underdepths.

As thousands of years passed, as Terapagos slumbered, it unintentionally caused crystals to start growing all across the Area Zero Underdepths and Area Zero itself. Thanks to these crystals, Terapagos gave origin to a phenomenon that would later be named Terastallization, a phenomenon that crystallizes Pokémon and can even change their Types. Furthermore, along with said phenomenon, a new type was also created from the mix of all Tera types, which would be later named Stellar type. It is also heavily implied that these crystals gave birth some rare crystal Pokémon, such as Carbink, Glimmet and Glimmora. Terapagos's power even caused Pokémon from parallel timelines to be temporarily brought into Area Zero.

200 years ago, during an expedition in Area Zero, after the group was attacked by one of the Pokémon brought by Terapagos, a Great Tusk^S/Iron Treads^V, one of the members however, a man named Heath, somehow found himself in Area Zero Underdepths and encountered Terapagos while in its Stellar Form. Fascinated by the sight, Heath included Terapagos in his Scarlet Book^S/Violet Book^V, dubbing its page, "A Disk Pokémon?". Although he was unsure if it was a Pokémon or even alive at all, he named it Terapagos and suspected it is the origin of the Terastallization, which turns out to be true. When the team returned to the surface, most people who read the Scarlet Book^S/Violet Book^V believed everything in it was fake, which included Terapagos itself.

10 years ago, Professor Sada^S/Professor Turo^V went on another expedition to Area Zero, wishing to find a way to bring Pokémon from other timelines to their own due to witnessing these creatures in Heath's Scarlet Book^S/Violet Book^V. During their research, they find Terapagos in its crystal form and study it and its power, managing to use it to create Tera Orbs, an AI copy of themselves and even a time machine, capable of bringing the Pokémon they desired to see for so long to their timeline, now known as Paradox Pokémon.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

In the present time, copies of the Scarlet Book^S/Violet Book^V can be found in the library of the Naranja Academy^S/Uva Academy^V and in them, there's a page dubbed "A Disk Pokémon?", which includes a sketch of Terapagos in its Stellar Form, however, most of the page's text is censured.

Path of Legends

Inside Poco Path's lighthouse, in the lab's screen, an image of a Tera Orb and Terapagos in its slumbering state can be seen, supposedly as part of the professors's research.

The Way Home

As Nemona, Penny, Arven and the player make their way down Area Zero, they go into the Research Station No. 1 and the player has the option to read a journal written by Professor Sada^S/Professor Turo^V before their death, describing their research and theories on Terapagos, that had its name censored for unknown reasons.

Part 1: The Teal Mask

At some point, a descendant of Heath, Briar, starts to study and prepare herself for another expedition to Area Zero, specifically to find Terapagos and prove to the world that Heath's writings were true. She's also revealed to possess the original manuscript of Heath, where the information about Terapagos is uncensored and completly readable. She took part in a school trip to Kitakami made by sister schools, the Naranja Academy^S/Uva Academy^V and the Blueberry Academy, while also attempting to get permission from the Paldean Pokémon League to go do her expedition to Area Zero.

Part 2: The Indigo Disk

Later on, Briar is finally allowed to travel into Area Zero with a small team of students from Blueberry Academy: Carmine, Kieran and the player. They together venture into the Area Zero Underdepths thanks to the Zero Lab's elevator. As they go deeper, they are forced to defeat many Pokémon Terastallized into the Stellar Tera Type in order to remove crystal barriers in their path. Finally, they arrive at the chamber where Terapagos is slumbering; however, determined to defeat the player, Kieran awakens and catches Terapagos with his Master Ball. He is then encouraged by Briar to battle the player, but Terapagos is defeated.

Briar however, believes Terapagos power should be way bigger than that and after looking into the book, she tells him to Terastallize Terapagos convinced that filling it with Terastal energy, will turn it into The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero. This causes Terapagos to transform into its Stellar Form but loses control as result of energy overload. As the cavern starts to crack and collapse due to its power, Kieran tries to recall Terapagos, but it manages to destroy the Master Ball. The player and Carmine challenge Terapagos, but soon Carmine is defeated due to being weakened by the Wild Pokémon earlier outside of the cavern. Terapagos allows the player to Terastallize four times, but it absorbs the energy back, forming a Tera Raid Shield, the first three. The player soon manages to encourage Kieran into joining the battle, so both together succeed in weakening Terapagos enough for it to return to its Normal Form, which allows the player to catch it, saving everyone from its wrath.

After the four return to the Blueberry Academy, Briar apologizes for putting them in danger and reveals that she wrote a book about their expedition, finally confirming Terapagos's existence to the people of Paldea. If the player travels to Kitakami's Crystal Pool with Terapagos in their team and Briar's Book in their bag, it will use its powers to temporarily bring a Sada^S/Turo^V from another timeline to this one. After a brief conversation, the player will trade their copy of Briar's Book for the Professor's copy of the Scarlet Book^S/Violet Book^V, before the professor returns to their own timeline.

	Spoilers end here.

Moves

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2: The Indigo Disk

Area Zero Underdepths

It is coded to never be Shiny.

Type: Normal Unknown Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Tera Shell Held item: None Terapagos♂ Lv.85 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical   --       Earth Power Ground Special   --       Water Pulse Water Special   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

It is coded to never be Shiny.

Type: Normal Unknown Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Teraform Zero Held item: None Terapagos♂ Lv.85 Tera Starstorm Stellar Special   --       Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical   --       Earth Power Ground Special   --       Water Pulse Water Special   --

Trivia

• Terapagos knows Zen Headbutt, despite it being a wild Pokémon and can only learn the move via TM.
• Terapagos may be inspired by Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island Tortoise (a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise), as Terapagos is said to be extinct aside from a lone male survivor.

Related articles

• For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Terapagos.
• Scarlet Book
• Violet Book
• Heath
• Briar
• The Indigo Disk
• Kieran
• Professor Sada
• Professor Turo

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