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When the Player, Partner, and Cresselia reach the bottom of Dark Crater, Darkrai appears and reveals his involvement in Temporal Tower and the Player's transformation into a Pokémon and their amnesia. Darkrai then challenges the Player and Partner to face him at Dark Crater. The Player also realizes something is strange about the situation and the true Cresselia appears and reveal's Darkrai's deception. When the Player and Partner decide to sacrifice themselves in order to save the world, Palkia grows suspicious as he was told the two were malicious and villainous and the two's actions contradict this. Darkrai then takes the two inside the nightmare so he, under the guise of Cresselia, can once again try to get rid of them. While Palkia does take the Player and Partner to the Spacial Rift to dispose of them, he is defeated by them and trapped inside a nightmare. However, before he can act, Drowzee interrupts and Darkrai, still appearing to be Cresselia, leaves after promise to see that the Player and Partner disappear.ĭarkrai then enters the dreams of Palkia, the ruler of space, and deceives him into believing the Player and Partner are the ones distorting space outside of his control so he destroy them. When the Player and Partner enter the nightmare with the help of Drowzee in order to find out why Azurill won't wake up, Darkrai, in the guise of Cresselia, appears and once again states the two must disappear. He also traps Azurill inside one of his unending nightmares. He uses his power over dreams to make it seem like he is Cresselia and claims the Player and Partner are creating in a distortion in space and must be cease existing. He then begins making his move against the Player and Partner so they won't interfere with plans again. Some time after the Player completes Aegis Cave, Darkrai begins disrupting the fabric of space inside a forest, but he is forced to move on when Cresselia closes in on him. However, the scheme to destroy time was ulitmately thwarted by the efforts of the Player, Partner, and Grovyle, so Darkrai set his sights on disrupting the fabric of space which would eventually lead to the world being trapped in a unending nightmare. Grovyle mistook the attack for turblence as was completely unware of Darkrai's interference. He attacked the two in an attempt to get rid of them, but the Player took the brunt of the attack and the resulted in them being separated from Grovyle, being turned into a Pokémon, a developing compete amnesia. He also somehow discovered mission of Grovyle and the Player to change history and entered the time stream when the two traveled back in time. For his first attempt, he somehow accessed Temporal Tower and sabotaged it so would collapse and cause the planet's paralysis. Though he mainly appears in the post-ending plot, he is revealed in the end to have orchestrated the events of the entire game.Īlthough normally genderless, this Darkrai is referred to as a male however, during gameplay it is treated as genderless.ĭarkrai desires to shroud the world in darkness and Cresselia has long pursued him to order to stop his ambitions, but Darkrai always managed to evade capture. Darkrai (ダークライ Daakurai) is the main antagonist of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Explorers of Darkness and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky.