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It's been a consistent storyline since R/B, but a bigger storyline started in Diamond and Pearl that has continued up to (and especially including) Pokemon Legends revolving around Team Galactic and wormholes. And alternate universes. As explained in DP and further expanded in Platinum, Dialga/Palkia/Arceus and Giratina exist in a delicate balance that prevents making the normal flow of spacetime unstable. But Giratina is released in Platinum, a Pokemon that exists in a sort of anti-world that is incompatible with normal space-time, and Team Galactic is left destabilized. This leads to a recurring character...

The Looker, a character that is somewhere between a detective and a time/space traveling FBI agent (and may be a Doctor Who homage) has played an increasingly important role in the more recent Pokemon games. In addition, he seems to have ushered in the increased focus on trying to stop the wormhole problem.

Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire, you encounter The Looker in a house, having nearly drowned and having lost all of his memories. Many Pokemon fans suspect he "regenerated" after some event like The Doctor does. Shortly after you encounter him, wormholes appear in the sky and legendary monsters can be encountered. No explanation for this is given in the game.

Later, he appears again in Sun and Moon, enlisting you in stopping the Ultra Beasts, which are appearing in various locations without explanation. It isn't clear how they're appearing, but this is expanded further in Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon, where it's revealed that they are actually from other dimensions in both time and space (Guzzlord is clearly from a distant future alternate history of Alola, amidst the ruins of the mall).

But US/UM appears to be a split timeline from the original games, in which Lusamine does not merge with Nihilego due to the intervention of the Ultra Recon Squad - a time and space traveling team that essentially acts like the Time Variance Authority from Loki. Because they intervene and enlist the main character, The Looker doesn't really appear in US/UM (he probably doesn't need to). This culminates with Team Rainbow Rocket presumably forming from Team Galactic opening wormholes and gathering the previous "Teams" under Giovanni's (Team Rocket) banner. This story arc concludes with Giovanni noting that he has bigger plans. In this game, it's revealed that Necrozma is actually an interdimensional-traveling being that consumes energy.

Little of this is discussed in Sword and Shield, except that Chairman Rose mentions he needs Dynamax energy (the energy generated from Eternatus) in order to power both Galar and "other advancements." Eternatus, a being that looks remarkably similar to Necrozma, is strongly implied to be from another dimension.

All this leads to Pokemon Legends. The opening involves a tear in spacetime above an ancient version of Mt. Coronet, with the main character falling from it with modern-day (appears to be from Alola or Galar) clothing. Arceus talks to you and gives you a smartphone, which is a clear out-of-place artefact in Hisui (supposedly ancient Sinnoh). This seems to be the game where the bigger plotline starts to come more into focus, though how it will play out in the "main series" is yet to be seen.