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At that moment, a dust devil appears in the desert, and heads towards the village. A herd of {{p|Bouffalant}} are startled by this, and they begin to stampede towards the village. Damon goes to check out the disaster and holds up his hand, cuing the appearance of {{OBP|Reshiram|movie 14}}. Damon then climbs on Reshiram's back and orders it to destroy the dust devil, which it does with power and ease. Damon then asks the townspeople, who are shocked by the [[legendary Pokémon]]'s appearance, to give him another chance.

Near Eindoak Town, Ash, {{an|Iris}} and Cilan find a pair of {{p|Deerling}} in danger on a cliff face. Ash attempts to rescue them but begins to fall himself; however, he is rescued when {{OBP|Victini|movie 14}} touches his foot out of his sight, giving him the ability to jump hundreds of feet across the canyon. Now separated from his stunned friends, Ash agrees to meet Iris and Cilan later and heads into a cave with the two Deerling. Victini shows Ash visions of the path he should take, allowing him to find his way through the cave.  He reaches a giant cavern with a mesh of crystal paths, and Ash's presence mysteriously activates an orb and the crystals, before he is guided again to the cellar of Eindoak Town's castle and up to its balcony.  There, he reunites with his friends. Cilan explains that the castle is known as the "Sword of the Vale" (''Earth's Sword'' in Japanese), and is said in legend to have flown to its current location from a valley far away. While exploring the castle, Ash, Iris and Cilan share some macarons among themselves, but an invisible Victini keeps stealing Ash's macarons, much to his disbelief. The group hears fireworks outside, which causes Victini to choke on a macaron as the group realizes they must hurry to the town's battle tournament.  In the ruckus, Ash runs into the invisible Victini — this confuses him for a moment, but he brushes it off.  The group encounters a relatively plain-clothed Damon, who introduces himself as the castle's caretaker and offers to escort them to the town, which they accept.

In the first round of the tournament, Ash faces {{mov|Mako}} and her {{p|Serperior}}, which he defeats with Pikachu's {{m|Electro Ball}}. Iris battles a trainer named [[Tatsuki]] and his {{p|Emboar}} with her {{TP|Iris|Emolga}}, but Emolga uses {{m|Volt Switch}}, forcing {{TP|Iris|Excadrill}} to come out in its place, against the rules; the referee promptly awards the match to Tatsuki. Juanita's daughter, [[Carlita]], and her {{p|Hydreigon}} ({{Shiny}} in ''White—Victini and Zekrom'') quickly dispatches of [[Cilan's Pansage]]. Ash and {{AP|Oshawott}} later battle Tatsuki and defeat Emboar with {{m|Aqua Jet}}. Ash sends {{AP|Tepig}} to face [[Leeku]] and his {{p|Samurott}}, and Samurott's {{m|Razor Shell}} effortlessly smashes Tepig into Juanita's stand of Victini trinkets. However, Victini covertly appears and powers up Tepig, allowing it to defeat Samurott with an absurdly powerful {{m|Ember}}. Carlita witnesses this, and, becoming suspicious, challenges Ash. When Ash's {{AP|Scraggy}} attempts to {{m|Headbutt}} Hydreigon, it is knocked into the trees.  Carlita sees Victini give Scraggy a powerup, after which Scraggy quickly defeats Hydreigon with a second Headbutt. Carlita surrenders her necklace to the judge, and then confronts Ash, informing the group of Victini's role.

At Mannes's home, Victini is found in a group of other Pokémon. Inside the house, Mannes tells the group the legend of the People of the Earth - one thousand years ago, they were a prosperous people who lived in a place called the Kingdom of the Vale, the location in the valley where the Earth's Sword originally was. They used a power in the earth called the "Dragon Force" to enrich the land, and all was well. However, one day, the twin sons of the [[King of the People of the Vale|king]]—the Hero of Truth, who controlled Reshiram, and the Hero of Ideals, who controlled Zekrom - began a war over their beliefs. The kingdom was devastated, and the Dragon Force corrupted and reversed, ravaging the earth instead of healing it. Desperate, the king asked Victini to lend him its power, and he created the "Protecting Pillars" and their barrier to control the flow of that power. Using this system, the king flew the Earth's Sword with all of the townspeople inside out of the Kingdom of the Vale to the location where Eindoak Town is, as by landing it there, the castle stopped up the flow of the Dragon Force. However, as soon as the castle landed, the king died, causing the Protecting Pillars to never be destroyed. Meanwhile, Reshiram and Zekrom, tired out from their battle, turned into orbs called "Dragon Stones" and were hidden deep underneath the castle by the two princes.

While watching Ash and his friends play with Victini, Damon informs his mother that her dream can now come true. In a flashback, a younger Juanita is shown alongside Damon as a boy in the ruined Kingdom of the Vale. Juanita tells her son that she wishes the People of the Earth could one day live there again, which, Damon says in the present day, can now happen. He intends to borrow Victini's power just as the king did and return the Earth's Sword to its rightful place. Inside, Damon describes his journeys over the past three years, in which he visited the settlements to try and find support for his plan. He was always rejected until one day, after convincing Mannes to help him, he discovered the Dragon Stone containing Zekrom (in ''Black—Victini and Reshiram'') or Reshiram (in ''White—Victini and Zekrom''). He and Mannes were in the chamber that Ash found in the cave, walking on a crystal path. Suddenly, Damon is on a lower path! He then says that he himself does not know how he got there. He then found the [[legendary]] {{t|dragon}}. With the dragon as his ally, the villagers in those towns agreed to help him, and now appear in Mannes's study in support of Damon's goal: the resurrection of the glory of the People of the Earth.

Ash is awoken the next morning by a dream which Victini has, in which it sees time rapidly passing from the castle and then the king saying goodbye and fading away; he inexplicably sees the dream as well. Victini takes Ash, Iris and Cilan to a balcony where it shows them the beach; Ash comes to understand that Victini wishes to go there, and promises to take it. Meanwhile, at the Earth's Sword, Juanita and Carlita watch as Damon prepares to execute his plan. He sends out his {{p|Sigilyph}}, and it takes its place in a mechanism atop the chamber. Sigilyph's power awakens the hundreds of {{p|Solosis}} and {{p|Duosion}} in the lower chambers of the castle, and in turn, the Protecting Pillars activate and begin to rise. Victini becomes alarmed and flees in a frenzy from the ever-constricting barrier, eventually flying into the castle, where Damon requests that it lend him its power. At first seeing the king instead of Damon, Victini initially relaxes before being caught in another barrier that forces into the mechanism, which then begins draining its power. Just as Ash, Iris and Cilan arrive; the castle ascends into the sky, and the healthy Dragon Force flows out, returning to the Kingdom of the Vale and beginning to restore it.

Ash, Iris, Cilan, Juanita and Carlita rush into the main chamber and find Damon torturing Victini. Horrified that this was her son's plan, Juanita demands he stop, which shocks and upsets him. When Ash attempts to destroy the machine draining Victini's power, Damon attacks the group with his Reuniclus or Gothitelle. Reshiram or Zekrom then arrives, and Juanita attempts to fight the dragon with Golurk, but Golurk is defeated easily. Ash once again tries to climb the mechanism, but Damon's {{t|Psychic}} type knocks him out.

While unconscious, Ash has a vision of the king warning Victini to never let the Earth's Sword be moved again, because if it is, the Dragon Force will corrupt again and destroy the entire world. This has already begun happening, but Damon and his dragon are unaware of it due to the fact they are flying above the clouds. Ash awakens in the cellar of the castle, and Juanita begs him to forgive Damon, as he truly believes he is doing the right thing. She then reveals that one thing can stop Damon's dragon - the other dragon, which should still be deep in the castle's dungeons where Ash explored at the beginning of the film. Setting out with his friends, Ash soon finds himself on a path he has no idea how he reached, followed by the total collapse of the cavern. At the bottom he finds the Dragon Stone, and hears a voice asking him of his ideal or truth. He answers that he wants to save Victini and make it happy, satisfying the voice, which reveals itself to be Zekrom (in ''White—Victini and Zekrom'') or Reshiram (in ''Black—Victini and Reshiram'').

Back up at the top of the castle, Juanita again attempts to get Damon to stop, but he refuses, insisting that sacrifices must be made for great accomplishments. Mannes arrives, having flown to the castle in a helicopter powered by his Klink, Klang and Klinklang to warn the group of the disaster on the surface, but they already know. Golurk then returns to again fight Reshiram or Zekrom, but fails; however, before the dragon can deliver a finishing blow, its opposite arrives with Ash. Ash jumps off at the courtyard of the castle, then Zekrom and Reshiram engage in an epic battle in the sky. Inside the castle, Pikachu engages Reuniclus or Gothitelle.  

Finally, Ash's dragon defeats Damon's, forcing it below the clouds, where they both see the unfolding tragedy of the deadly Dragon Force. Pikachu defeats Reuniclus or Gothitelle and Ash climbs the mechanism, but Damon's dragon arrives before he can destroy the barrier around Victini. Damon orders it to finish Ash off, but it ignores him and instead destroys the mechanism to free Victini. It tells him that it has heard the "Fury of the Earth," and the two dragons blow away the clouds, revealing to him the devastation his actions have caused. Panicking, Damon immediately becomes remorseful and begs Reshiram and Zekrom to help him stop the disaster and save the world. They agree and redirect the destructive Dragon Force into the Earth's Sword itself.  

Damon warns Mannes, his family and Ash's group that they must leave immediately, as the castle may be destroyed. Iris escapes with Carlita on Hydreigon's back, while Cilan and Juanita board Mannes's helicopter. Damon, meanwhile, insists that he will stay until the disaster is averted and the world is saved. However, when Ash tries to flee, the barrier generated by the Protecting Pillars continues to trap Victini inside, and Ash refuses to leave without it. The others flee to avoid being hit by the pillars, and the castle rocks back, throwing Damon out presumably to his death. Suddenly and without warning, the castle begins to go into overdrive and soars high into the sky at an uncontrollable rate.  

In the Earth's atmosphere, the castle begins to ice over, and the cold and lack of air begins to cause Ash to struggle to breathe. Damon returns on Golurk's back, having been saved by his mother's Pokémon, and tells Ash to hold on, as he is one of the dragons' chosen. Reshiram and Zekrom attack the Protecting Pillars, but they malfunction and begin to constrict even further around Victini, forcing Ash out into the castle's courtyard. Damon is powerless as the pillars completely close around Ash, Pikachu and Victini, trapping them. In a desperate bid to save them, Damon has Golurk try to pry the pillars apart with its hands, but they close back up. Attempts by Reshiram and Zekrom to destroy the pillars similarly fail. Inside the prison created by the Protecting Pillars, Ash—delirious as he is near death from the freezing cold and lack of air—sadly apologizes to Victini for failing in his promise to take it to the ocean, before it becomes so cold that Ash's tears freeze and he falls unconscious.

Summoning up all of its power, Victini activates {{m|V-create}}, its ultimate move. Ash is warmed and wakes up due to the attack, and witnesses Victini use all its strength in an attack that finally destroys the Protecting Pillars once and for all. With the barrier gone, Damon re-enters the castle and wraps Ash in a blanket that helps keep him alive. Later, with Reshiram, Zekrom and Golurk pushing the castle, Damon steers it down toward the source of the deadly Dragon Force. He lands it just as Ash wakes up, stopping the tragedy before it can destroy the entire planet. On the beach, Ash, Iris and Cilan stare out at the ocean, saddened by the apparent death of Victini. Believing that Victini sacrificed itself to destroy the Protecting Pillars and save him, Ash apologies again before flinging one of Cilan's macarons toward the ocean. However, the macaron suddenly stops in mid-air and is eaten—Victini survived the incident and is now freed from the barrier, just as it always dreamed.  

Damon falls to his knees, overwhelmed with guilt that his actions have caused such a horrible disaster. However, Juanita encourages him by telling him they will have a lot of work to do to rebuild the Kingdom of the Vale. Victini sends Ash a vision of it helping them, and he understands that their time together is at an end. Bidding farewell to Damon, Juanita, Carlita, Mannes and the other People of the Earth, Ash, Iris and Cilan depart for new adventures.

During the credits, Damon and Juanita lead the People of the Earth in their reconstruction efforts. A single sprout is seen on the once-dead land in the Kingdom of the Vale, implying that the area can indeed be revived. While traveling around, Ash, Iris and Cilan get caught in a windstorm created by {{p|Tornadus}} (in ''White—Victini and Zekrom'') or a thunderstorm caused by {{p|Thundurus}} (in ''Black—Victini and Reshiram''). They later travel through a town where the [[Team Rocket trio]] watches them from a café, with [[Peg]] passing by as well. Reshiram and Zekrom continue flying throughout the world, appearing in the skies in all possible places.