> Pokemon Ultra Cosmos
>  by FandomPlays1234
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> Prologue: Felix
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It was a beautiful summer morning in the Alola Region and Felix was celebrating his eleventh birthday. Yawning Felix slowly got up and scratched his eyes as his mother called out to him from the kitchen. 

"Felix breakfast is ready!" 

"Coming mom!" Felix answered. He jumped out of bed and walked towards the door. His Lycanroc slowly lifted it's head yawning. "Here boy," Felix called over to his Lycanroc. Ears perking up, Lycanroc immediately  jumped up and walked over to his side. "Come on let's go get some breakfast," said Felix. His Lycanroc barked in agreement as it followed Felix out the door. 



The dining room was, as usual, pretty lively this morning. Felix grabbed his plate of Bacon and eggs and walked over to the living room and turned on the T.V. 

"Felix I washed Lycanroc's bowl last night, it should be dry by now so come and get," Amber called out to him.  Felix ran over and grabbed Lycanroc's bowl and the bag of Pokemon food and walked back into the living room where Lycanroc was already sitting on the couch. 

"Alright breakfast," said Felix pouring the Pokemon food into the bowl. Lycanroc barked as he began eating. Felix grabbed is own plate and ate while watching the news. It was giving the updates Professor Burnet's and Aether's progression in their studies on the Ultra Wormholes and Ultra Beasts. 

"Ugh they're still at it, haven't they learned their lesson?" asked Symon looking up from his paper. 

"Hey at least it's not all bad maybe we'll show up soon," said Amber. That's right. Felix had completely forgotten that the news crew had visited their house yesterday to interview Felix's Lycanroc. In all the years that Felix had lived in Alola he had seen both the Midday and Midnight form for the Lycanroc, and decided that he wanted the Rockruff his parents had gotten him for his 6th birthday, to evolve into Lycanroc midnight form. However up until a week ago, Rockruff had stayed as Rockruff and showed no sign of evolution. But seven days prior to today Felix had gone out to catch some wild Pokemon and ended up running into Team Skull. Just as he was about to lose his Pokemon, the setting sun began to glow green and soon his Rockruff began to change. Before he knew it Rockruff had evolved into a Lycanroc that nobody had seen before. After beating Team Skull for good, Felix confronted Professor Kukui and learned that his Rockruff had evolved into a rare species of Lycanroc called the Dusk Form. 

"I'm glad you evolved into the Dusk Form Lycanroc," said Felix petting it's orange fur. Lycanroc let out a small bark as it nuzzled Felix under his chin. Suddenly the doorbell rang as a voice called out from the other side.

"Mail Call, Special Delivery for Felix Boon!" Amber and Symon looked at each confused, then turned towards Felix. 

"I didn't order anything I swear," said Felix. Symon got up and walked towards the door followed by Amber, Symon, and Lycanroc. When he opened the door, he found a delivery man standing on their porch with a red penguin with white fur around it's face. 

"Good Morning sir how's your day?" asked the delivery man. 

"Good," answered Symon. "So can we help you with something?"

"Yes, is Felix home?" asked the delivery man.

"Yes he is why?" asked Symon.

"We got a package for him," answered the delivery man. 

"Are sure, we didn't order anything," said Amber.

"Felix Boon right?" asked the delivery man reading off of his clipboard. 

"That's me sir," said Felix. 

"Yes, uh delivery from Mr. Vincent," said the delivery man.

"We  don't know anybody named Vincent," said Symon confused. 

"Well he sent you're son a birthday package," said the delivery man. "Delibird if you would," said the delivery man turning towards the bird. His Pokemon quickly reached inside it's bag and pulled out a brown box and a white envelope that read To Felix Boon From Vincent. The Pokemon walked over and handed Felix the package and letter and walked back to it's trainer. 

"Can I open it?" asked Felix. 

"Sure but be careful," said Symon. As Symon and Amber talked with the delivery guy, Felix ran back to the living room and plopped down on the ground with his package.

"I should probably read the letter first," said Felix tearing opening the envelope. Felix cleared his throat as he began to read. 

Dear Felix Boon,
As someone who hasn't me met in person I know what you're thinking, but trust me this is no prank. I was just feeling generous enough to send you this special gift. Don't ask how I knew about your birthday, just treat it like any normal birthday gift. I just hope you can take good care of this gift since it wasn't easy to get my hands on. Hopefully, if fate is kind enough, we can meet each other in person someday. But until then, Happy Eleventh Birthday, good luck on your island challenge, and may the best come from your future
Sincerely, Vincent

"Huh take good care of it, I wonder what it is?" asked Felix. Shrugging he puts the letter on the coffee table and opened the package. Inside there were 18 different cases with discs with the name of every Pokemon typing written on each case. Among the discs was a red Poke ball. Confused, Felix pulled out the Poke ball and threw it to see what it contained. The ball popped open as a blinding white light burst out and eventually took the form of a strange creature. Once the light dissipated, a mix-matched creature stood there. The creature was standing on all fours and had talons o as it's front legs but with some sort of animal paws as it's hind legs. It had a fish fin as it's tail and the cream colored coat sparked in the light. It had a beak with green ears and a large head dress like piece on top of it's head. "Wow," said Felix.

"Hey Felix how's the gift?" asked Amber. Felix looked over to see a surprised Symon and Amber standing at the entrance to the living room. 

"What?" asked Felix.

"Felix is that?" asked Amber.

"What?" asked Felix.

"It can't be," said Symon.

"What is it?" asked Felix.

"Felix darling, is this what Vincent sent you?" asked Amber. 

"Yeah, why is it a Pokemon?" asked Felix.

"Yes, it's an artificial Pokemon called Silvally," said Symon. 

"Silvally?" asked Felix. 

"Yes it was originally a Pokemon created at Aether, but to think that there were more of these guys hanging around," said Symon. 

"But wait we don't know Vincent right, maybe he works for Aether," suggested Felix. 

"That could be a possibility, but we won't know unless we ask Lusamine," said Amber. 

"And another thing," said Symon.

"What?" asked Felix.

"This isn't the Silvally we know," answered Symon.

"What do you mean?" asked Felix.

"The Silvally we know has white fur with red ears," answered Symon.

"Now that you mention it, it DOES look different," gasped Amber.

"Then that means," said Felix.

Symon nodded,"Yes this is most likely a SHINY Silvally," said Symon. Felix looked at Silvally who stared intently into his eyes. "Your lucky to have something like this as a birthday gift, you need to take good care of it ok?"

"Yes father," said Symon. 

"What now?" asked Amber.

"We should probably talk to Lusamine about this, maybe she'll know who Vincent is," suggested Symon.

"I'll get the phone," said Amber walking upstairs. 

"Silvally nice to meet you," said Felix. Silvally said nothing but stared back into Felix's eyes. The two continued to stare each other for a long time. Could this day get any better? That's what Felix hoped for. Unfortunately he would soon find out the real reason why Vincent sent over the Shiny Silvally.
> Chapter 1: Adventure Start
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A day has passed since Felix's birthday and now he was on his way to see Melemele Island's Guardian Deity Tapu Koko for a visit. Along the way he ran into Professor Kukui who had the three starters he was looking after while the kahuna was gone. As he walked, he explained the whole Shiny Silvally delivery from Vincent to Kukui.

"Sorry Felix never heard of anyone named Vincent," said Kukui. 

"Oh well that's too bad I guess," said Felix. 

"Why don't you ask Lusamine?" suggested Kukui. 

"I could try," said Felix. The two stopped in front of the entrance of the woods leading towards the ruins. "Thanks Professor I'll take it from here," said Felix.

"You sure you don't want a Starter?" asked Kukui. 

"Nah I'm good but thanks," said Felix. "Lycanroc, Silvally lets go," said Felix turning towards his two companions. The two looked back at the professor before following their trainer in.

"I should probably tell Burnet about this," said Kukui once he saw Felix was gone. 



It was another beautiful day in Equestria and Starlight had just finished her magic lessons with Twilight. Feeling hungry she decided to stop by Sugercube Corner for some sweets. 

"Starlight I'm sure we can find better food someplace else," scoffed Starlight's friend Trixie.

"Come on Trixie don't be like that," said Starlight. 

"Well it's true, most of the things they have there is too sweet," said Trixie. Just as Starlight was about to counter her argument, a bright flash caught the two's attention. The two looked up at the sky to see a slight tear in the middle of nowhere. "What is that?" asked Trixie. 

"it looks like a hole in the sky," said Starlight. 

"A what?" asked Trixie.

"A hole, but for some reason it looks like I've seen something like this before," said Starlight. 

"Must be your imagination," said Trixie. Just as Trixie said that, the tear flashed as it soon transformed into a giant hole in the sky. "Sweet Celestia!" Trixie yelped.

"Wait I HAVE seen this before," said Starlight. 

"What?" asked Trixie.

"I don't remember it's like a giant hole in the sky that spawns some sort of alien creature or something," said Starlight. 

"Aliens!?" Trixie yelped. 

"I don't remember it was like creatures from another world or something," said Starlight. Suddenly a strange jellyfish like creature slowly appeared from the hole and hovered down in front of the two mares. 

"Monster, alien, beast!" Trixie screamed. 

"That's it Ultra Beasts, that's what they called it!" said Starlight suddenly remembering. Just then the strange jellyfish like creature grabbed Trixie with it's tentacles and picked her up. 

"Ah eww no get it off!" Trixie screamed. 

"Trixie!" Starlight called out. Starlight jumped up to grab the creature, but it had already carried Trixie up to the hole. "Give her back!" Starlight growled charging her horn. The thing turned around and screeched as Starlight struck it with a blast of her magic, dropping Trixie in the process. "Trixie!" Starlight quickly ran over to her friend in attempts to see if she was unharmed only for the creature to suddenly drop on top of her and pick her up in Trixie's place. 

"Starlight!" Trixie called out. 

"Trixie go get help!" Starlight ordered as she continued to struggle. But before Starlight could even break free from the creature's grasp, she was instantly pulled into the hole and disappeared. Terrified, Trixie turned and ran towards Twilight's castle. Surely she'll know what to do. 



Felix didn't like this. Sure Lillie was several years older than him, but even so asking him to walk across a bridge that was close to breaking was too much. The Spearows didn't make the situation any better. Thankfully Lillie had gone through the trouble of healing his only two Pokemon, one of which had an advantage against the small birds. As soon as Felix took one step on the bridge, one of the Spearows attacking Nebby came flying at him.

"Lycanroc I'm counting on you," said Felix. His orange coated wolf nodded as it jumped in front of him growling. "Lycanroc Accelrock!" Felix commanded. Lycanroc charged at the tiny bird and tackled it headfirst sending chunks of stones flying everywhere. The Spearow yelped as it flew back and went back to pecking poor Nebby. Lycanroc growled as it tried to advance on the three Spearows before his trainer halted him. "I got this," Lycanroc hesitated at first but moved back anyway. Turning his attention to Nebby Felix takes a deep breath as he advances forward.

"Be careful Felix!" Lillie called out to him. Felix gave a thumbs up as he slowly but surely inches his way towards the poor Pokemon. Once he manages to reach Nebby he swats away the three Spearow and shields Nebby with his entire body.

"Don't worry I got you," Felix told Nebby. The Nebula Pokemon looked up to see a trainer relentlessly being pecked and clawed by the Spearows. Feeling the need to save his guardian, Nebby began absorbing energy and lets the energy loose causing an explosion and destroying the bridge in the process. As Felix fell he grabbed Nebby and held him to his chest to protect him.

"FELIX, NEBBY!" Lillie cried out As Felix continued to fall, a bright light suddenly flew and struck the three birds and continued to fly after him. Before Felix could hit the water, the light suddenly swoops in and carries him back to the top where it lays him down next to Lillie and moves out of the way.

"Nebby are you alright?" Felix asked. Nebby let out a happy Pew as he looked up at his protector. The two plus Lillie turn towards the light that saved them. 

"Tapu Koko," Lillie said. The four stare at each other before the island guardian let out a screech and shot up into the sky in a ball of electricity. 

"Are you two alright?" asked Lillie turning towards the two. 

"Yeah we're fine," answered Felix. Suddenly Nebby jumps out of Felix's arms and crawls over to a spot near Lillie and picks up something. He turns and crawls back to Lillie. 

"Nebby you found this?" asked Lillie. She took the object from Nebby and states,"This Sparkling Stone it's almost warm somehow," "Oh um Felix I think this belongs to you," said Lillie giving Felix a black stone. Reluctantly he took the stone and placed it in his pocket. "One more thing, I'm afraid we might get attacked again so can you see us back in Iki Town?" asked Lillie.

"Yeah sure thing," said Felix. Lillie smiled as she made her way down the stairs leading to Iki Town. "Come on you two," Felix said to his Pokemon. The two followed after their trainer not noticing the guardian watching them from the trees.



"Hey Felix looks like you already met with my assistant yeah!?" said Kukui greeting them. 

"Yeah had to help her out of some troubles," said Felix. 

"Meh no worries as long as she's safe it's cool," said Kukui.

"Don't worry Professor i'm fine, and I've already met Felix so no intros needed," said Lillie.

"Heh guess you're eager to meet everybody I guess," said Kukui. Felix shrugs. "Oh by the way I've contacted Burnet about Vincent, she said she'll come talk to you," 

"And here I am," a female voice spoke up. The group turned around to see a woman wearing a grey tank top. She had white hair with a green head band. 

"Burnet this is Felix, he's a trainer due to start his island challenge soon," said Kukui. 

"Nice to meet you Felix, I'm Burnet," said the woman shaking his hand. 

"Felix, and these two are my companions Lycanroc and Silvally," said Felix. Suddenly Silvally began growling at something catching the group's attention. "What is it Silvally?" asked Felix. 

"Felix look," said Lillie pointing to the sky. The group looked up to see a strange tear appear out of nowhere. 

"Is that?" Felix asked. Suddenly a bright flash covered the area and soon a giant hole had opened up where the tear was. 

"An Ultra Wormhole," said Burnet. Suddenly a familiar Jellyfish like creature slithered out holding something in it's tentacles. 

"UB-O1 Nihilego," said Lillie. 

"Wait it's holding something," said Felix pointing to the purple mare struggling to break free from the beast's grasp. 

"Is that?" asked Lillie.

"Help!" the mare screamed. 

"Did it just talk?" asked Burnet. 

"Yeah well if it needs help, Silvally save the pony!" Felix commanded. Silvally hissed as it lept up and tackled the beast causing it to drop the mare. Both Burnet and Lillie ran over to help the mare up while Silvally retreated back to it's trainer. 

"Are you alright?" asked Lillie. 

"Yeah I'm fine answered the mare.

"Wait aren't you?" asked Lillie.

"Yeah I'm Starlight Glimmer," said the pony.

Lillie's eyes widened as she recalled the memories of Starlight from 10 years ago,"Starlight oh it's so good to see you," said Lillie hugging her.

"Uh what?" asked Starlight.

"Starlight it's me, Lillie" said Lillie. 

Starlight's eyes widened when she realized that it was the same person who helped her get back to Equestria,"Lillie!" 

"So you finally remembered me," said Lillie Starlight nodded. 

"Guys get out of the way!" Felix ordered. The three looked up to see Nihilego approaching them. Lillie got up and held out her arms glaring at the beast.

"I won't let you hurt my friend," said Lillie. Nihilego screeched when it attempted to capture Lillie. That's when it happened. Sudden memories from when see was a child came flooding back, the horrifying experience of almost being captured by the beast when Silvally saved her at the very last moment. Back then not even her brother Gladion could save her. With fear in her eyes she watched as Nihilego continued to approach. Unable to contain her fear Lillie let out a scream.

"Lillie?" asked Starlight. She watched in horror as Lillie collapsed onto the ground trembling. "Lillie what's wrong?" asked Starlight. Suddenly a stream of light dropped down in between the group and the beast as Tapu Koko let out a screech and stared down at the beast. "Is that?" asked Starlight.

Lillie looked up to see the guardian in front of her,"Tapu Koko the guardian deity of Melemele island," Tapu Koko lunged at Nihilego and knocked it back towards the Ultra Wormhole where it fled and disappeared. 

"And there it goes," said Kukui. 

"Lillie are you alright?" asked Starlight.

"Yeah I'm fine thanks to Tapu Koko," said Lillie facing the guardian. Tapu Koko stared at her before it let out a screech and shot up into the sky back towards the ruins of conflict. 

"Hey what's all the ruckus out there?" a voice asked. The group turned behind them to see a young man wearing an orange coat with orange khaki shorts and sandals. His green hair tied back into a ponytail by a yellow band. 

"Sorry Hau did we interrupt your beauty sleep?" asked Kukui. 

"Nah just wanted to see what was going on out here, thought I saw an Ultra Wormhole just now," said Hau. "Did I miss something?" 

"Well it's a long story," said Felix. 

"Well go on then, I like long stories," said Hau.
> Chapter 2: Ultra Recon Squad
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"I swear it just appeared out of nowhere and it captured Starlight," said Trixie running to Ponyville's plaza. 

"Are you sure it wasn't just your imagination?" asked Twilight running next to her.

"I'm serious, it was white and slimy!" said Trixie. 

"But then where did this thing take Starlight?" asked Sunburst. 

"I don't know, it just took her and disappeared into the hole," said Trixie. 

"Twilight from what she said, doesn't this creature sound familiar?" asked Spike.

"Definitely, but I can't remember where I heard about this creature," said Twilight.

"Ah hope she's safe," said Applejack. Trixie continued to lead the group down to the plaza where Starlight had been abducted. Twilight praying that nothing would happen to Starlight picked up her pace. Wherever this creature took Starlight, she hoped that Starlight would be ok. 



"And that's the situation so far," said Starlight finishing her explanation. Hau rubbed his chin and nodded. 

"Well Hau what do you think?" asked Burnet.

"Well for one thing we can't send you back unless we can somehow open an Ultra Wormhole to your world and the only ones who can do that is the Legendary Pokemon Solgaleo and Lunala who currently resides on Poni Island," said Hau. 

"Can't we just ask Lusamine to help us?" asked Felix. 

"We could, but after what happened with the Cosmic Beast incident, mother promised that she wouldn't use the legendary Pokemon for experiments," said Lillie. 

"You mean the one from years ago?" asked Kukui. 

"Yes that one," said Lillie. 

"Well if it's the legendary Pokemon you need why not just go to Poni?" asked Burnet. 

"I guess that's our only option so far," said Hau. 

"I can take her, after all I'm doing the Island Challenge," said Felix. 

"But you won't be able to reach Poni until you finish all the other trials on the other three islands," said Hau.

"I can wait, besides it's been a long time since I've been in Alola, I think revisiting the islands will make me feel better about being with Felix," said Starlight. 

"Are you sure?" asked Burnet.

"Yeah it's cool," said Starlight. 

"Alright whatever you say," said Hau. 

"Oh shoot, it's getting late, if I don't get home my parents will kill me," said Felix. 

"I guess we should be heading back as well," said Burnet. Kukui nodded his head in agreement.

"Wait what about me?" asked Starlight. 

"You can stay overnight, I got you covered," said Hau. 

"I'll take you up on that offer," said Starlight. And so everyone said their goodbyes as they left for their houses for the evening. Tomorrow was the festival and Felix was asked to take part in a Pokemon Battle. He wanted to make sure he was prepared for tomorrow. 



Larry stopped in his tracks as he felt a sudden chill run up his back. He turned around only to find nothing behind him. He was sure something was following him, but maybe he was just imagining things. No there was no way he could be imagining. For the past few days, Larry felt uneasy about something. It wasn't just him, the league was also getting the same feeling. He felt as if something bad was going to happen. He felt that his job as champion just got harder. 

"Larry are you alright?" asked Acerola. 

"Yeah I'm fine," answered Larry. 

"It's that feeling again isn't it?" asked Kahili. Larry nodded. 

"My, my it truly does feel sinister doesn't it," said Molayne, the newest member of the league. As the group looks up they notice the moon slowly inching closer towards the sun. They knew that within several weeks the Solar Eclipse was going to take place. But Larry knew that Alola wouldn't live to see it. 



Felix grabbed his bag and checked his bag for potions and other supplies he might need. Today was important. The festival in Iki Town was being held in honor for Tapu Koko and he was to take part in a battle against a trainer. "Mom, dad I'm going ahead!" Felix announced as he put on his shoes. 

"Alright sweetie good luck," said Amber. Felix opened the door and was about to run out when he stopped himself after seeing Starlight standing next to Lillie and Kukui. 

"Hey cousin you ready?' asked Kukui.

"Sure am," said Felix running down the steps with his Lycanroc and Silvally following behind. 

"It's been a while since I saw a Pokemon battle," said Starlight.

"Well be ready to go wild," said Felix. The four walked to Iki Town laughing and talking about the festival and the island challenge. "Almost there," said Felix. 

"Wait," said Starlight.

"What is it?" asked Lillie. 

"Look," said Starlight pointing a hoof. The group turned around to see two figures dressed in strange white outfits and helmets. 

"Who are they?" asked Lillie.  

"Quiet they're saying something," said Felix. The group stopped talking to eavesdrop on the two figures. 

"Captain this is where the aura readings are strong," said a female voice. 

"I'm sorry, what were you saying I wasn't really paying attention, definitely not envying the strange festivity going on here," said a man's voice. "So the readings are strong, must be from the one they called the kahuna,"

"I must say Alola is glowing beautifully from the light, if only our world was like this," said the woman. 

"Indeed, we must continue our investigation here before the blinding one awakens," said the man. The two suddenly turned to face the four. 

"You," said the woman pointing towards Starlight. 

"Me?" asked Starlight. 

"Yes you, I can tell you're not from Alola, perhaps from another world just like us?" said the woman. 

"Um yeah," said Starlight. 

"You must agree that Alola is a beautiful place, it would be a shame if the light was stolen," said the woman. Confused Starlight was about to ask what they meant, but the two figures slowly walked past them and in the direction where the four came from originally. 

"Well that was weird," said Felix.

"Yeah, wonder what they meant by blinding one," said Lillie.

"Well no time to be thinking we have a festival to get to," said Kukui. The three nodded in agreement as they walked up the steps into Iki Town. 

"Welcome," said Hau greeting them. "So are you ready Felix?" He nodded with a determined look on his face. "Very well come this way," said Hau leading him onto the small platform in the center of the town. Felix made his preparations while Hau said the introductions, feeding his Pokemon Poke beans and grooming them, giving them items to hold. Once the introductions were complete and Hau announced Felix's opponent, the battle begin. It didn't last very long and Felix managed to beat his opponent easily since he was much stronger than them. "Man what a heated battle I'm sure even Tapu Koko liked it," Just as Hau said that, Tapu Koko let out a screech responding to his comment. "Aye see what I meant," said Hau. 

"That was amazing Felix," said Starlight. 

"It wasn't that hard to be honest," said Felix. For the remainder of the festival, everyone talked and laughed as they hung out with friends and family. Even Felix's parents were happy with their son. Eventually Felix switched the topic and told his parents his plan with Starlight. They hesitated at first but eventually agreed. They even went as far as to letting Starlight stay over for the night, before Felix started his Island Challenge. Eventually the festival came to an end and everyone left for their homes to furn in for the night. "Well see you all tomorrow," said Felix.

"Goodnight to all," said Hau. Just as Felix and Starlight left Iki Town, the two figures from earlier showed up. 

"So what did you think?" asked the woman. 

"Not what I originally thought it would turn out to be," answered the man.

"At least you seemed to be enjoying it," said the woman.

"Yes but back on topic, that Z-Power Ring and the so called Tapu Koko creature, they both had a lot of light," said the man.

"Indeed they did," said the woman. 

"There is a lot more things we don't know about Alola, we must continue our investigation," said the man.

"And the blinding one?" asked the woman. 

"That's exactly what we,The Ultra Recon Squad, are here for," said the man.
> Chapter 3: Team Skull
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This was it, the day where Felix officially starts his Island Challenge. He had been eager to start his trials and now was the time. However that would also mean having to watch over Starlight until they could reach Poni Island. Luckily for him Starlight didn't mind tagging along. His day started as usual, he went over to Kukui's place met Rotom, went to the trainer school completed his lesson and petted Hau's Tauros. Now he was on his way to Hau'oli City. 

"So what exactly do you do in these trials?" Starlight asked. 

"What you don't know, I thought you were with my parents the last time you came to Alola," said Felix. 

"No I was pretty much stuck in Aether Paradise for the majority of the visit," Starlight said embarrassed. 

"Well here in Alola, if you're doing the island challenge, trainers take part in these trials which teaches us to overcome our limits as trainers," said Felix. 

"Sounds like something Rainbow dash would be interested," said Starlight.

"Each of the four islands in this regions has at least one trial in which trainers has to battle random wild Pokemon to reach the end where the trainers go up against the strongest Pokemon out of all the others called the Totem Pokemon," said Felix.

"Totem Pokemon?" asked Starlight.

"It's easier to say, it's like the final boss of the trial," answered Felix. 

"So it's stronger than any of the Pokemon you face before," said Starlight.

"Pretty much, also each island has a Grand Trial where trainers battle the Island's Kahuna after completing all the trials on that specific island, for example Hau," said Felix. 

"That's cool," said Starlight. 

"Oh hey there's Illima," said Felix pointing to the Melemele trial captain. The two walked over to see Illima putting up some sort of yellow sticky on the wall of the Pokemon Center. "Hey Illima," said Felix. The trial captain turned around smiling.

"Oh why hello Felix didn't think you would be here, starting your trials I assume," said Illima. 

"Sure thing," said Felix.

"Nice, and I see you've brought your pony friend, Starshine was it?" asked Illima. 

"Starlight actually, Starlight Glimmer," corrected Starlight.

"Oh of course my apologies," said Illima.

"So Illima what exactly are you putting up on the wall there?" asked Felix.

"Oh, well so you caught me putting up these Totem Stickers," said Illima.

"Totem Stickers?" asked Starlight. 

"It's a trial-goers thing," said Illima. 

"Really is it new, cause I've never heard of Totem Stickers until now," said Felix.

"Indeed it is new, the Kahunas recently established the Totem Sticker system, in which if a trial-goer collects a certain amount of Totem Stickers, they'll get a chance to receive a Totem sized Pokemon," said Illima. That caught Felix's attention. 

"You're bluffing," said Felix.

"I am not," said Illima smiling. 

"You mean actual Totem Size Pokemon," asked Felix. Illima nodded. "That's so cool," said Felix.

"What about it?" asked Starlight.

"You see Totem Pokemon, compared to normal Pokemon are not just different in strength but also in size, a Totem Pokemon is a lot bigger than any normal Pokemon in the wild, thus it's not something you can just find walking around," answered Felix. 

"So what you're saying is, it's rare?" asked Starlight. Felix nodded still smiling.

"But recently we've had reports of those Team Skull thugs causing trouble, I suggest you be careful when you're out there," said Illima walking off. 

"Great Team Skull," said Felix.

"Who's Team Skull?" asked Starlight.

"They're a group of trainers, that likes to cause mischief, and interfere with trial-goers during their island challenge, as well as stealing Pokemon from others," answered Felix. 

"Wait so these so called trouble makers are roaming around the city?" asked Starlight. 

"I don't know, but we should try a be careful like Illima said," answered Felix. "In the meantime we should try and get to the trial site as soon as possible,"

"Wait before we move on, can we get something to eat, I'm getting kind of hungry," said Starlight.

"Hmm not a bad idea, I know a place nearby, follow me," said Felix. Starlight, really happy that Felix was going to feed her, ran to catch up with him. Lucky for her, Felix had led her to a nearby Malassada shop that was nearby the Pokemon Center. It's been a while since Starlight ate the sweet surgery doughnut so she was happy that the place was only several blocks. Although she felt kind of bad having Felix pay for her meal. But for some reason he didn't mind. After several pieces of Malassada the two walked out, full of energy and ready to take on the trial. 

"That was delicious,"  said Starlight licking the glaze and powder sugar off her lips. 

"I'm glad you liked it," said Felix.

"So Trial?" asked Starlight.

"Yep," answered Felix. 

"Yo, yo, yo check it, whenever, wherever we meet you, Team Skull don't even greet you!" a voice called out from the distance. The two turned around to see two figures walking up to them. Both figures, wore a black tank top with two white lines crossing each other in a X formation along with black shorts. A black bandana covered their mouths while a silver necklace with the letter S in the shape of a skull hung around their neck. But the most distinguishable part of the figures clothes was their white hat and two black circles to make it look like a skull. "Hmph a trial-goer in this city huh," said one of the figures.

"You, you're from Team Skull!" said Felix. 

"You know it, so how about you hand over that new rare Pokemon you got there homie," said Skull Grunt A.

"What rare Pokemon?" asked Felix.

"You the pony next to you, hand it over or we gonna take it from you," said Skull Grunt B.

"Well I hate to break it to you but I'm not a Pokemon," said Starlight. That's when the two grunts let their arms drop and stare at the two looking defeated. 

"What you mean you ain't a Pokemon?" asked Grunt A.

"She means she isn't a Pokemon," said Felix.

"Aye we know home slice, toss us a bone will ya?" asked Grunt A.

"The only thing you'll get from us is a beating," said Felix pulling out a Pokeball. 

"Oh that's how's it gonna be aye?" asked Grunt B.

"Starlight stay back I got this," said Felix. Starlight nodded as she backs away giving Felix space. 

"Yo check how I change the game with my mad Pokemon Skills!" said Grunt B pulling out his own Pokeball. "Go Zubat!" said Grunt B tossing his ball. As the ball popped open a white energy burst out and takes the form of a small blue bat. 

"Lycanroc let's go!" said Felix throwing his Pokeball. Starlight watched as Felix's orange coated wolf emerges from it's ball, it's green eyes glaring at the opposing Pokemon. 

"Zubat wing attack!" Grunt B ordered. 

"Lycanroc steady," said Felix as the Zubat flew towards Lycanroc, it's wings glowing white. "Now Accelrock!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc let out a howl as it charged towards the Zubat and tackled it causing a small explosion sending the Zubat and several shards of stone flying in every direction. The Grunt ran over to check on his Pokemon only to find it lying on the ground not moving indicating it had fainted. 

"For real, over already!?" yelped the Grunt calling back his Pokemon. 

"Nice job Lycanroc and Felix," said Starlight clapping her hooves. Lycanroc happily walked over and began licking Starlight on the face happy for the compliment. 

"No fair, I was playing a different game!" groaned the Grunt. 

"Let's get up out of this port B, nobody has to know about this," said Grunt A. "We don't need your wack pony anyway, wouldn't even take her if you gave her to us!" With that the two grunts run past them and in the opposite direction they came from. 

"Well excuse me for being wack," said Starlight offended. Lycanroc turned around and growled at the two grunts still running in the distance. "Oh who's a good boy?" cooed Starlight scratching Lycanroc's chin as it happily nuzzled Starlight. 

"Heh gotta say, Lycanroc has really taken a liking to you Starlight," said Felix. 

"He's so adorable when he's not battling," said Starlight petting Lycanroc. 

"Hey I know how about I let you use him until I can get you home," suggested Felix.

"Wait you mean lending your Pokemon to me?" asked Starlight.

"I mean i's not like you're going to take him back home with you right?" asked Felix. 

"No, but are you sure about this?" asked Starlight.

"It's cool, if Lycanroc's happy with it I don't mind lending him to you for the time being, plus you'll have a Pokemon to protect you while I'm not around," said Felix.

"That's true I guess," said Starlight. 

"Come on don't break Lycanroc's heart," said Felix. Starlight looked into Lycanroc's eyes as it whimpered obviously wanting her to say yes. 

"Alright if you insist," said Starlight. With that Lycanroc jumped on top of her and began licking her face. "Ok, ok I get you'r happy, I'm happy too," said Starlight laughing. 

"Now come on you two let's go, I have my trial to complete," said Felix. Both Lycanroc and Starlight got to their feet and followed Felix as they headed towards the Pokemon Center.
> Chapter 4: Starlight becomes a trainer
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Felix checked his watch to see how long it would be before he could even get to the trial site. 

"3:20, great still have plenty of time before it gets dark out," said Felix. 

"Hey Felix look," said Starlight pointing to a nearby Totem Sticker. 

"Hey good eye Starlight," said Felix. Starlight blushed at his compliment as Felix opened the gate and walked into the tall grass. Smiling Starlight ran in after him. After a whole lot of straggling through the tall grass, Felix managed to pull himself next to the yellow sticker and gently peeled it off the wall. "Got it," said Felix as Starlight caught up. 

"I find it quite interesting to find out if these small stickers can really get you Totem sized Pokemon," said Starlight looking at the yellow sticker. 

"Well we won't know until we collect a lot," said Felix. 

"I guess you're right,"said Starlight.

"Come on let's start heading back," said Felix. Starlight nodded as the two turned around to head back. But just as the two were about to take a step, sounds of rustling came from the tall grass. "The hell is that?" asked Felix. Suddenly a small yellow mouse with red checks and a zigzag shaped tail jumped out and squeaked.

"Pika!"

"Aww it's so cute," cooed Starlight.

"Huh a Pikachu, didn't know they could be found," said Felix.

"What do you mean?" asked Starlight. 

"Normally finding Pikachu like this in the wild is a rare encounter," said Felix. The wild Pikachu let out a determined Pika as it got on all fours. "Hmm a battle, I know Starlight why don't you take this moment to catch your own Pokemon?" asked Felix.

"My own Pokemon?" asked Starlight. 

"Yeah, you're going to need your own Pokemon if you plan to travel with me, plus you won't need my help if it's with you," said Felix. 

"You do have a point," said Starlight. 

"Come on I'll teach you," said Felix. He reached into his bag a pulled out an extra Pokeball and handed it to Starlight. "Normally you would need to weaken the Pokemon before you can catch it but for now, try and throw it to see if you can catch it," said Felix. Starlight hesitated but eventually took the Pokeball and turned towards the wild Pikachu. 

"Alright here I go," said Starlight swallowing hard. She nervously looked at the Pikachu who stared back at her with a determined look. With one strong swing of her magic, Starlight threw the Pokeball hitting the Pikachu on the head and sucking it up into the ball as red energy. The ball dropped on the ground and shook once, then a second time, and finally a third time before the ball clicked shut as stars popped out. 

"You did it Starlight, you caught your first Pokemon!" Felix cheered.

"I did it," said Starlight surprised. "I caught my own Pokemon," A huge grin formed on her face as she ran over to pick up the ball. "Felix I did it!" said Starlight.

"I know, congrats," said Felix. Smiling Starlight threw the ball and called out her Pikachu which landed near her. It let out a happy squeak as it looked up at Starlight who picked it up with her hoofs. She happily nuzzled it cuddling the Pikachu. "It's so cute," she cooed.

"Well now that you've caught your Pokemon why don't you try and evolve it," suggested Felix. 

"Evolve?" asked Starlight. 

"Yeah," said Felix. "Well you don't have to if you don't want to," 

"What does it's evolution look like?" asked Starlight.

"Allow me," said Rotom flying over to her. Starlight looked over as Rotom pulled up an image of medium sized mouse with orange fur, yellow spots on it's cheeks, blue eyes, white ends on the small chubby paws, cream colored belly, hovering above the ground on it's tail. "This is the Alolan forme of Raichu, the evolved form of Pikachu, it's Electric Psychic type," said Rotom. 

"It surfs on it's tail?" asked Starlight.

"In a way yes, it hovers above the ground on it's tail using electromagnetism," answered Rotom. 

"Neat and cute at the same time," cooed Starlight. 

"So I suppose that's a yes for evolving?" asked Felix. 

"Of course," smiled Starlight. 

"Well then it's a good thing I have one of these," said Felix pulling out a small green stone with a lighting bolt engraved in the center. "Use this Thunderstone and evolve your newly caught Pikachu into an Alolan Raichu," said Felix handing Starlight the stone. Starlight took the stone and held it out to her Pikachu who happily touched it. Suddenly the Pikachu's body began to glow white as it's body began to morph and shift. It grew bigger until it was the size of Starlight herself. The tail extended and short stubby paws. Eventually the light disappeared revealing the new Raichu hovering above the ground on it's tail. 

"Well done Starlight, your Pikachu evolved into Alolan Raichu," said Rotom. 

"Raichu I'm glad to have you on my team," said Starlight holding out her hoof. Raichu squeaked happily as it touched it with it's paws accepting her friendship. 

"Alright Starlight let's go," said Felix. 

"Right," said Starlight. Suddenly the grass patch behind Starlight began to rustle as a small yellow creature popped out. The creature was yellow with a bit of brown on it's shoulders and abdomen, and tail.  

"Oh great another one?" groaned Felix. 

"What's that?" asked Starlight.

"It's an Abra, another Psychic type," said Felix. 

"Abra huh, hey you won't mind if I catch this will you?" asked Starlight.

"Be my guest I mean I guess it be better if you have at least two Pokemon on your team," said Felix handing her another Pokeball. Starlight took the ball with her magic and faced Abra. With one strong swing, she threw her Pokeball hitting Abra on the head and sucking it up into the ball as red energy. The ball shook once, then a second time, and a third before it clicked shut. "Alright I caught my second Pokemon!" cheered Starlight. 

"Nicely done, you're learning fast," said Felix. 

"Thanks I try," said Starlight.

"Alright now let's go, I want to finish my trial before dark," said Felix walking into the patch of grass," 

"Coming," said Starlight running after Felix with Raichu following behind. Meanwhile a dark figure walked out from behind a tree and watched the two walk off. 

"Those two, could they be the one?" mumbled the figure.



Larry stood outside the league looking up at the night sky. He could tell that the darkness was closing in on Alola. But what about the other regions he heard about. Equestria seemed to be in danger as well. From the reports he's received the same eerie feeling in Alola was detected in Equestria. The two that called themselves Dulse and Zossie who worked for The Ultra Recon Squad had been working alongside  with a scientist from Unova who called himself Colress. The three had traveled beyond the Ultra Wormholes and into Equestria to do some research on the mysterious eerie feeling. 

"You alright?" asked the familiar voice of Kahuna Olivia. 

"Yeah I'm fine," answered Larry.

"You're worried aren't you?" asked Olivia.

"Indeed, this eerie feeling has been floating above our heads for quite some time now, it's something I simply cannot just ignore," answered Larry. Larry quickly looked down to see Dexio and Sina return with the five trainers they had mentioned. "So you've returned," said Larry.

"Yes, and we've brought the five with us," said Dexio. 

"Serena, Tierno, Trevor, Shauna, Sawyer, this is Larry Dawes the Champion of Alola I mentioned," said Sina.

"Nice to meet you," said the five in unison. 

"The same goes for you," said Larry. 

"And we've returned as well," said Colress's familiar voice. The group turned to find. Colress standing near the edge with five figures behind them. 

"Welcome back Colress, Dulse, Zossie," said Larry. 

"Oh and are those the two trainers we've heard about?" asked Olivia. 

"Yes, allow me to introduce Hilda and Hilbert," said Colress. 

"Trainers of Unova, I am Larry Dawes of Alola, nice to meet you," said Larry. 

"Same here," said Hilbert. 

"And I presume the other two aren't here?" asked Larry. 

"Don't get ahead of yourself Champion of Alola," said a man's voice. 

"Well, well Looker took you long enough," said Larry. Just as Larry called out his name Looker, Anabel, Unova Champion Alder, and Kalos siblings Bonnie and Clemont. walked up next to the other two groups. 

"I hope you haven't forgotten about us," said another familiar voice. 

"So the battle legends finally show," scoffed Larry. Following behind Looker's group was some of the Pokemon region's famous trainers, Grimsley from the Unova region, Cynthia from the Sinnoh region, Wally from the Hoenn region, and Red and Blue from the Kanto region. "Great and the Aether Foundation and the other two remaining Ultra Recon Squad are still out their proceeding with their side of the mission I presume," said Larry. 

"And would you look at that the rest of the Elite four came to join us," said Olivia. 

"Good, you're right on time," said Larry turning towards Molayne, Acerola, and Kahili as they joined up with the massive group. "I would like to thank you all for coming today, I understand if you we're busy and had to take your time off to come, but trust me it will all be worth it in the end," said Larry. 

"I hope you're right," said Trevor nervously. 

"Trust me, you won't regret coming to Alola," said Larry. "Now if you would be so kind as to follow me inside, I'll explain everything later," said Larry walking back towards the league. The separate groups following after Larry and the Elite four. Meanwhile the group not taking any notice of the small Ultra Wormhole opening above the League.
> Chapter 5: Skull Grunts are idiots
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

The sounds of hoofsteps echoed through the halls of the Crystal Empire as Twilight, Cadence, Sunburst, Rarity, Spike, and Shining Armor ran around the library looking for the book that held information about the Ultra Wormholes when Twilight took notes on it 10 years ago. 

"Don't you remember what it looks like?" asked Spike panicked.

"Spike it's been 10 years, of course I don't remember what it looks like," answered Twilight flipping through a book.

"What exactly did you call it?" asked Shining Armor.

"Ultra Portals or something like that," suggested Sunburst.

"Wormholes darling, Ultra Wormholes," corrected Rarity. 

"And you say those Ultra monsters appears from these Ultra Wormholes much more dangerous than any other creature!?" yelped Cadence.

"I think that's how others described it," said Twilight.

"Indeed," a voice answered. The six turned around to see two Ultra Recon Squad Members standing behind a scientist. "Those Ultra Beasts as you mentioned are far more dangerous than any other Pokemon that exists, said the scientist.

"Professor Colress do you perhaps know of those Ultra creatures?" asked Cadence.

"I don't but these two do," said Colress pointing behind him. The two Ultra Recon Squad stepped forward and moved their hands in a shape of a square. 

"We are the Ultra Recon Squad, our mission is to research the mysterious phenomenon regarding the Ultra Wormholes, Ultra Beasts, and Z-Moves," said the male Ultra Recon Squad member. "I am Dulse," said the male member.

"And I'm Zossie, nice knowing you," said the female member.

"If you have any questions just ask these two, now I have some important research I have to turn my attention to so I'll leave the rest to you," said Colress walking out the library. Zossie happily waved goodbye as the six walked up to the two. 

"So you two know about Ultra Wormholes?" asked Cadence.

"Yes, especially since the fact that we're also trying to prevent the blinding one from stealing the light," answered Dulse.

"The Blinding One?" asked Sunburst.

"Well that's what we call it, but really it's called the Legendary Pokemon that steals the light, Necrozma," answered Zossie. Twilight's ears twitched upon hearing that name.

"Necrozma?" Twilight asked.



Felix and Starlight walked out of the Pokemon Center as they've finished their battles with the trainers on route two. Now they were heading toward big wave beach. 

"To be honest I don't think I've seen that part of the island before," said Felix as they walked.

"Well it's nice to know that you'll be seeing new landscapes," said Starlight.

"True, true," said Felix. Once the two walked down to the beach a female swimmer near a giant billboard called them over. 

"So you two new to mantine surfing?" asked the female swimmer.

"Yes ma'am," Felix answered.

"Well good news and bad news, I would teach you how to do it, but I suggest you beat the grand trial first, once you do come back and then we can talk how about that?" asked the swimmer.

"Sure thing," answered Felix.

"Great, my name's Stacy by the way, I'll be looking forward to seeing you guys," said the swimmer.

"I'm Felix, and this is Starlight," said Felix. 

"Well Felix good luck on your trials," said Stacy smiling.

"Thanks and Alola," said Felix as he and Starlight made their way back to the motel.

"Nice swimmer isn't she?" asked Starlight.

"Definitely, now let's hurry so we can go mantine surfing," said Felix. Just then a familiar voice spoke up.

"You'd better be ready for the mischief masters of Team Skull to do some Mantine Surfing too!" The two turned around to see the same Team Skull Grunts running down from the giant sand hill beside Stacy. 

"Oh Team Skull, you know you guys can't ride here," said Stacy.

"What's up with that, we look like kids to you or somethin!?" asked Skull Grunt B.

"No the real reason is..." said Stacy stopping short. 

"Yeah the real reason is?" asked Skull Grunt A rubbing his chin. 

"Every time you try, you keep up those ridiculous dance moves even on the Mantine's back, and then you end up in the water," answered Stacy.

"Those idiots," said Felix face palming himself while Starlight next to him covered her mouth with her hooves to keep herself from laughing. 

"You want us to stop dancing, that's our identity yo, it's all we've got!" yelled Skull Grunt B.

"Man forget her B," said Grunt A.

"We're Team Skull, no one can stop us from acting hardheaded," said Grunt B. Felix and Starlight watched as the two grunts ran over to mantine to try and surf.

"Somebody, please help keep these numskulls away from mantine!" Stacy cried out.

"Come on Starlight let's go," said Felix running over to Stacy. 

"Hey wait for me," said Starlight following.  

"So who's going first?" asked Grunt A.

"Hey you idiots!" Felix called out. The two grunts turned around to face Felix and Starlight.

"What're you looking at short stuff, huh, huh, wait, huh!?" Grunt A yelped.

"It's you two again!" said Grunt A.

"You wanna scrap tiny trainer, a battle?" asked Grunt B. 

"You might've beat us in Hau'oli City , but we'll put our heads together to beat you this time!" Grunt B announced taking out his Pokeball. "Go Drowzee!" said Grunt B tossing his Pokeball. The ball popped open to reveal a yellow anteater creature with a brown on it's lower body. 

"Drowzee huh," said Felix taking out his Pokeball. "Go Lycanroc!" he said tossing his ball. The ball popped open to reveal Felix's green-eyed orange coated wolf as it growled at the opposing Pokemon. 

"Drowzee Confusion!" Grunt B ordered. The opposing Drowzee clapped it's hands together as Lycanroc was struck with a pink aura. 

"Lycanroc are you ok!?" Felix asked. Lycanroc looked behind and barked an approval. "Great now use Crunch!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc bounded towards the opposing Drowzee and opened it's jaws. It's teeth began to glow in a white light as it bit down on Drowzee three times before throwing it back to it's trainer while unconscious. 

"Oh come on!" Grunt B pouted as he called back his Pokemon. "Seriously home slice, you're too strong for a kid yo!" said Grunt B. "Argh I've gotta go make someone else miserable to feel better!" announced Grunt B. 

"Let's go mess with Illima again B," suggested Grunt A. 

"I'm down with that, Verdant Cavern's pretty close by anyway," said Grunt B. The two grunts turned towards Felix and Starlight and began dancing again. "Hey you!" said Grunt B pointing his finger towards Felix. "You better listen to what my homie says and drill it into that thick skull of yours!" "Seriously you better not forget numskull!" said Grunt B. The two Grunts turned around and ran back towards the direction Felix and Starlight was heading. 

"Nice one you two, Mantine won't be subjected to their terrible surfing skills thanks to you," said Stacy walking up to Felix and Starlight. "You're a decent trainer just like I'd expect from a trial-goer on the island challenge," said Stacy facing Felix. 

"I try," said Felix. "Though to be honest I'm sure Starlight could've done it too," said Felix.

"Oh really?' asked Stacy surprised.

"Yep, Felix has been teaching me a lot about Pokemon," answered Starlight.

"How nice," said Stacy smiling. "You know I bet you could take on Illima's trial with how well you handled that battle," said Stacy. "Even Kahuna Hau would probably say you're ready to take on all of Alola,"

"Even me?" asked Starlight.

"Probably," said Stacy. "Though you won't know unless you try," "If he says you're ready, come back here and we'll get you both up on mantine in no time," 

"Great thanks, we'll see you later then Stacy," said Felix. The two waved goodbye to Stacy as they headed back to the Pokemon Center.

"Impressive, to think that he would be able to take that Drowzee in one hit," said a voice. Stacy turned around to see a figure walk out from behind the billboard. He was wearing a black hoodie with dark blue shorts and black sandals. His sandy color hair wavered as a gentle breeze blew through.

"Wha who are you" asked Stacy. The figure adjusted his hair so it wasn't covering his left eye. 

"My name is Argo," said the figure. "I'm currently the Admin of Reformed Team Cosmos," answered Argo. 

"Reformed Team Cosmos?" asked Stacy.

"Oh don't worry I'm not planning to cause any mischief unlike those scoundrels," said Argo. "But that pony, it's not from this world is it," said Argo.

"No definitely not," said Stacy.

"Hmm well I say this is going to be interesting,"said Argo.

"What do you mean?" asked Stacy.

"That pony, if the rumors are true, then she should have been brought here by that Ultra Beast," answered Argo.

"Ultra Beast!?" yelped Stacy.

"No worries, as of now we don't have any sightings of any Ultra Beast, or that's what Aether Paradise has said," said Argo. "But maybe, just maybe, those two will be the one to stop the one that steals light," said Argo.

"What?" asked Stacy.

"Please do me a favor and if you see those two tell them that Team Cosmos will be waiting on Akala Island," said Argo. 

"Wait what, what are you talking about?" asked Stacy. But Argo just turned around and walked off in the direction towards the motel.
> Chapter 6: Versus Totem Gumshoos
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

The sun was starting to set as Felix and Starlight both made their way to Verdant Cavern for Felix's first trial. Along the way the two took turns battling trainers and wild Pokemon that attacked them. The finally reached the Pokemon Center where Lillie was standing on the steps. 

"Hey Lillie!" Starlight called out. Lillie turned around to face them. 

"Oh Starlight and Felix I assume you'll be starting you're first trial?" asked Lillie.

"Yep and boy am I excited," said Felix grinning. His Lycanroc let out a cheerful bark while Silvally scratched it's talons into the ground. 

"Great and you Starlight?" asked Lillie. 

"Well Felix taught me how to train Pokemon, but I'd rather just sit back and watch," answered Lillie.

"Oh I see I guess you're not interested in battles either," said Lillie. Inside Lillie's bag, Nebby let out a small pew as if it was telling Felix good luck. "Oh before you go to heal your Pokemon did I tell you about Roto Loto?" asked Lillie. Felix and Starlight looked at each other then back at Lillie and shook their heads. 

"Well if it's explanation you need allow me," said Rotom flying out of Felix's bag. "It's pretty easy, when the center of my screen starts spinning, just tap to win a special Roto Power," said Rotom.

"Hmm sounds cool," said Felix.

"Indeed it is, here try it," said Rotom. Suddenly the map on Rotom's screen disappeared as several symbols popped up and began spinning downwards like one of the machines at a casino. Felix waited before he tapped the screen on a red arrow pointing up. "Hey that's an amazing power," said Rotom. Suddenly the screen popped open as two small blue diamonds with the red arrows popped out. Felix quickly grabbed them and held it out show Starlight could see them.

"What are these?" asked Starlight. 

"They're Roto Boosts, it boosts all the stats of a Pokemon in a battle," said Rotom. 

"That's neat," said Felix. 

"Isn't Rotom amazing, possessing all kinds of different functions to help you along you're island challenge," said Lillie. 

"It really is," said Starlight.

"Well I better be going, but good luck on your trial Felix," said Lillie.

"Thanks," said Felix. The three shared their goodbyes as Lillie walked off up the hill while Felix and Starlight walked into the Pokemon Center to heal their team. 

"Hmm those two, could they really be the one?" asked Soliera

"Perhaps Soliera, then maybe we can-" but Phyco's statement was cut short when a voice interrupted from behind. 

"Hmph you fools truly believe that those two can stop Necrozma?" Phyco and Soliera turned around to the third figure standing behind them. He was wearing a similar outfit to the Ultra Recon Squad, but instead his armor was black and his helmet had two antenna like features protruding out from each side. He had a small visor over his eyes that seemed to glow in a rainbow light. On his chest plate was a rainbow N that completely stood out from the black armor. 

"Boss," said Soliera. The figure stepped forward and looked towards the Pokemon Center. 

"That boy, the Z-Power Ring he wears, could it be the source of the aura?" asked the Boss. 

"Perhaps," said Phyco. 

"Hmph, well either way, he obviously doesn't know about the blinding one yet, we better make sure it remains that way, go on you two continue on with your research," said the boss. The two performed their greeting and walked back towards Hau'oli city. "Hmph those idiots, soon they'll know my true intentions with Necrozma," snickered the boss. 



Both Felix and Starlight waited patiently as their Pokemon we're being fixed up. Meanwhile they took the time to buy some items and get a drink of Tapu Cocoa and receive some Poke Beans from the cafe owner. Once they were finished with business they walked out and headed into Verdant Cavern where Illima was waiting. 

"Welcome you made it!" greeted Illima. 

"Yeah and ready for my trial," said Felix. 

"Great and I assume your pony friend will be watching?" asked Illima.

"Yeah, but I hope you don't mind me following Felix," said Starlight. 

"No, no it's fine, anyways your parents probably told you how these trials work I reckon?" asked Illima. 

"Yeah so no introduction needed," said Felix.

"Great, then let the trial of Captain Illima begin!" announced Illima. 

"This way Starlight," said Felix running off. Starlight chuckled as she raced after Felix. 



Felix and Starlight stopped short when they came across a small den near the entrance,"Now if I remember correctly, in a trial we have to battle two or three Pokemon and defeat the Totem Pokemon to complete it, simple enough, said Felix. "Hey Starlight wanna see what's in this den?" asked Felix. Starlight nodded as she walked over and poked her head in. Just then a small creature with brown fur and yellow hair jump out causing Starlight to jump back. 

"What is that?" asked Starlight. 

"Allow me," Rotom. "Yungoos Loitering Pokemon, Normal Type, With it's sharp fangs , it will bite anything, it did not originally live in Alola but was imported from another region," said Rotom. 

"Heh normal type huh, well then Lycanroc I choose you," said Felix pointing his finger forward, Lycanroc jumped in front and got into battle stance. "Let's do this Brick Break!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc howled as it lunged at the Yungoos and raised it's left claw. Suddenly it brought it down and slapped the Yungoos on the cheek as it began to glow in a brownish red color. The Yungoos was knocked back and lazily lay on the ground indicating it had fainted. "Alright Lycanroc nice work!" Felix complimented. Lycanroc let out a happy bark and nuzzled it's trainer.

"That's one, two more I suppose?" asked Starlight. 

"Yep let's go," said Felix running off with Starlight following behind. The two were about to climb up and elevated piece of land when something popped out of the ground and attacked them. 

"Another Yungoos?" asked Starlight. 

"No worries, Brick Break!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc once again lunged at the Yungoos and slapped it across the cheek as it's paw began to glow in the brownish red color, knocking the Yungoos unconscious. "Heh too easy," said Felix. 

"My goodness Felix how strong are your Pokemon?" asked Starlight. 

"Too strong," answered Felix."Now come on we still have one more," said Felix running off with Starlight trailing behind. The next Pokemon was hiding in the den right above Felix and Starlight's head but when they checked it nothing was there. The two noticed it had moved up to the den above them. Once again the two pursued the Pokemon and looked in only for it to disappear again. This time the Pokemon was in the den across from where they were. For a third time they followed and once again there was nothing in the den. This time the Pokemon had returned to it's original den. The two ran after it once more. 

"Sweet Celestia this Pokemon is annoying," said Starlight 

"All the better," said Felix. Just then the two heard footsteps as the same two Team Skull Grunts ran up to them. 

"Yo, yo, yo," Grunt B called out. 

"It's you're bad beach boys, back, back again remember us?" asked Grunt A. Starlight was about to answer before Felix stopped her. Starlight looked at him annoyed that he interrupted her but for some reason he had a big grin on his face. He turned around and answered. 

"Sorry, who are you?" asked Felix. Starlight looked at him confused. What did he mean they JUST met them several minutes ago. Little did she know that the Grunt's arms slumped down over their side as they looked defeated. 

"Oh I see," said Grunt B. Just then the two grunts faced each other and switched spots before facing Felix and Starlight again, "Just 'cause we switched places, you can't tell who we are anymore?" asked Grunt B. At this point Starlight wanted them to see her laugh. Starlight face hoofed herself while snickering. What the hell were wrong with these guys. Just because Felix said he doesn't remember them doesn't mean they should switch places. As if that would change anything in the first place.

"You two are idiots," laughed Starlight.

"What?" asked Grunt B. "Wha you think that's funny?" asked Grunt B offended. 

"We'll beat you and that'll teach you not to laugh at us," 

"She's right you know, and besides even if you DID manage to beat us, that doesn't change the fact that you two will be dumb ass grunts no matter what," said Felix. That was it the two Grunts looked at Felix defeated realizing they had just been dissed by an 11 year old. The quickly regained their composure before hissing. 

"Oh that's how it's gonna be huh, well then we'll prove you wrong," said Grunt B pulling out a Poke ball. "Go Drowzee," said Grunt B calling out his Pokemon. 

"Bite," said Felix. Lycanroc jumped up and bit down down hard on Drowzee and throwing it back to it's trainer unconscious. "That was easy," said Felix.

"Is it cool for me to be in Team Skull if I'm this brittle?" asked Grunt B calling back his Pokemon. 

"What's up with that?" asked Grunt A. 

"For real though, I can't get my Skull around it, this kid's mad strong yo!" said Grunt B. 

"Naw it ain't even like that, this kid's straight up dangerous homie!" said Grunt A. Felix stomped his foot on the ground tapping it impatiently. 

"Well are you gonna get out of our way or what?" asked Felix. The two Grunts yelped as they ran up towards the back of the cavern. After a while the two returned looking more scared then ever.

"Yo, kid, you know there's a mad strong Pokemon lurking back here somewhere right, I'd run if I were you," said Grunt B. 

"Naw we ain't going out like that, we gotta get our revenge, go stand over that den and catch the skulking Yungoos yo!" said Grunt A.

"For real fine I got now bones to pick with you," said Grunt B. The two then turned around and ran towards the two den near the back entrance of the Cavern and stood there trying to catch the Yungoos. 

"Those idiots are helping us," said Starlight. 

"Well better than nothing," said Felix running over to the only open den with Starlight following behind. For the fourth time Starlight looked into the den only for a bigger version of Yungoos to pop except this one was standing on it's hind legs and had it's hands behind it's back. 

"Whoa that's new," said Starlight.

"Gumshoos Stakeout Pokemon, Normal Type, the evolved form of Yungoos, When it finds a trace of prey, it patiently stakes out the location, but it's always snoozing by nightfall," said Rotom. 

"Perfect another Normal Type, Lycanroc Brick Break!" Felix ordered. Once again Lycanroc lunged at the Gumshoos and struck it with it's glowing claws only for it to survive the attack and get up. "Huh not an instant knock out," said Felix. Gumshoos hissed as it picked up and threw a pile of dirt into Lycanroc's face causing it to yelp. 

"What was that?" asked Starlight.

"Sand Attack, it's a move that lowers the accuracy of a Pokemon to make them most likely to miss an attack," answered Felix. 

"Isn't that bad?" asked Starlight. 

"It is but I'm taking chances, Brick Break!" Felix ordered. Felix prayed as Lycanroc lunged and managed to strike the Gumshoos with it;s claws knocking it out for good. "Yes," said Felix.

"That's all three right, now we should be able to go face the Totem," said Starlight.

"Right, follow me," said Felix running towards the back entrance. The trial guide stopped them but eventually let them in after Felix told him that he defeated the Pokemon. Once they were inside they saw a pedestal with a shiny clear crystal placed on it. The two walked up to the pedestal right as a large Gumshoos suddenly jumped in front of them blocking the pedestal. 

"Whoa that's big," said Starlight stepping back. 

"Alright Totem Gumshoos lets do this," said Felix. The Totem Gumshoos hissed at the two as bright orange aura burst out from it's body. "Lycanroc you know the drill," said Felix Lycanroc nodded as it stepped forward. "Now use Brick Break!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc lunged and struck the Gumshoos with it's glowing claws causing an explosion, but when the dust cleared it looked as if the attack had done nothing. 

"It didn't do a thing," said Starlight.

"That's a Totem Pokemon for ya," said Felix. The Totem Gumshoos suddenly jumped up and tackled Lycanroc knocking it back. "Are you ok?" asked Felix. Lycanroc let out a happy bark. Just then Gumshoos let out a loud hiss and before he knew it, a Yungoos had appeared next to Gumshoos. "A Yungoos huh, well it won't be long, Rock Slide!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc jumped up and stomped on the ground hard just as a large pile of rocks fell on top of the two knocking out the Yungoos but doing no damage to Gumshoos. 

"It's still not doing anything," said Starlight. The Totem Gumshoos hissed as it tackled into Lycanroc. 

"Hang in there," said Felix. This time the Totem didn't call for help and Felix saw his chance. "Brick Break!" Lycanroc once again lunged at the Totem Gumshoos. and struck it against the cheek with it's paws this time knocking it back sending dust and dirt flying.

"Did we do it?" asked Starlight Once the dust cleared, an unconscious corpse of the Totem Gumshoos lay on the floor still. 

"Haha beat you!" announced Felix. 

"Wow that was amazing," said Starlight clapping her hoofs. 

"Indeed it was!" said Illima walking. "Well done Felix you've beaten the Totem Pokemon and completed my trial, the Z-Crystal is yours!" Illima beamed. Felix gently picked up the clear Z-Crystal and held it up in the air. "Now observe," said Illima. The two watched  as Illima brought both of his hands up to his face in the form of an X before swing up and bringing his arms down then bringing them forward, his left arm right on top of his left, then brought them down diagonally to his right and brought his left arm back up across from his right, before finally bringing his left arm over his forehead and his right over his stomach to form a Z. "That is how you use the Normal Type Z-Move," said Illima. "Just give that Normalium Z to a Pokemon that knows how to use a normal type move and strike that pose I showed you to unleash it's Z-Power," 

"Great thanks," said Felix. 

"Anytime friend," said Illima. "Oh before I forget, now that you've cleared my trial, you can catch any Pokemon in here, just use these Great Balls," said Illima handing Felix 5 blue balls with two red pieces coming out. "And some for you too Starlight," said Illima handing 5 more Great Balls to Starlight.

"Thanks," said Starlight. 

"Come on Starlight let's go," said Felix running back into the Cavern. Once the three reentered the Cavern they were greeted by two members of the Ultra Recon Squad. 

"So you obtained the Z-Crystal did you, using the power of your Pokemon to overcome the trial, amazing," said the male.

"Hey you two again," said Starlight.

"It is a pleasure to meet you, my name is Soliera," said the female member.

"I am Phyco, I believe this is where we should say Alola?" said the male member curling his mustache. 

"Yes, Alola," said Felix. 

"We are investigating the Z-Crystals found here in Alola for our own particular reasons," said Soliera. "And I also find those Poke balls that you use to be most intriguing, perhaps we will find reason to work together sometime in the future," added Soliera. The two performed their greetings before turning around and heading out towards the entrance.

"Well that was weird," said Starlight.

"Yeah but even so, they didn't seem like bad people, anyway we need to visit the Pokemon Center, thanks again for everything Illima," said Felix. Illima nodded as he waved the two off goodbye.
> Chapter 7: Team Cosmos
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Twilight paced up and down the castle balcony still nervous about what they were planning. It's been 10 years since her last visit to Alola and now it was happening again. Only this time it was only Starlight who was in Alola. If only she'd been there for her friend when the Ultra Beast appeared none of this would've happened. But she wasn't, luckily for her The Ultra Recon Squad was willing to help. They had suggested that they talked to their "Boss" whoever they were, and maybe they could convince him to help. But Starlight's safety wasn't the only problem now. Back then Necrozma had acted as the Guardian of Alola, to think that he turned his back on the entire Pokemon world was bad enough but now the possibility of him showing up in Equestria and stealing IT's light was worse. 

"Twilight are you ok?" asked Spike.

"Oh Spike I don't know what to do, Starlight is missing, Necrozma's evil, everything is going wrong, can't this get any worse?" asked Twilight panicked. 

"Twilight," Fluttershy called out to her. 

"Oh Fluttershy thank Celestia you're here, listen how are things going," asked Twilight smiling nervously. 

"Um well actually I think things just got a lot worse," answered Fluttershy.

"Oh what now?" groaned Twilight. 

"Um well I think the other princesses wants to see you," whimpered Fluttershy. That instantly made Twilight freeze. Whenever the princesses needed to she her it always meant something big.

"Ok I'm on my way," said Twilight rushing out the door. 

"Poor Twilight I think it's getting to her," said Fluttershy. 



Twilight rushed into the throne room where the three princesses, Shining Armor, Sunburst, and two figures were waiting. The two figures looked awfully familiar as they were wearing dark blue hoodies and black shorts. One figure was male and the other female. The male had black hair that was cut short while the female had dark blue hair tied back into a ponytail. The female had badges with the letter C in the shape of a Crescent moon with three stars next to it, pinned to their chest while the male wore a necklace with the same symbol around his neck. 

"Twilight thanks for coming on further notice," said Celestia. 

"Princess Celestia what's going on, and who are those two humans?" asked Twilight pointing to the two. 

"Well, well so you're the princess of friendship?" asked the male figure. 

"To be honest I didn't think she would be the one, I mean the last time we saw her..." 

"She was a princess back then Comet," interrupted the male figure.

"Wait that voice sounds familiar," said Twilight. 

"So you finally remember," said the male figure. 

"Wait you're Nebula!" gasped Twilight. 

"Once a Team Cosmos Leader, always a Team Cosmos Leader," answered Nebula. 

"What are you doing here?" growled Twilight. 

"Whoa, whoa wait, wait just a moment you've got the wrong idea, we're not here to cause mischief, we're reformed," said Comet putting her hands up in surrender. 

"Wait reformed?" asked Twilight.

"These two members of Team Cosmos came to this world because hey need you're help," answered Cadence.

"What do you mean?" asked Twilight.

"You remember Nova right?" asked Comet.

"I think so, wasn't he Nebula's right hand man or something?" asked Twilight.

"Cosmos Admin, yes, well the thing is he's gone missing," said Comet.

"Wait missing as in like he vanished!?" asked Twilight shocked.

"I've got myself to blame for that," said Nebula.

"What happened?" asked Twilight.

"It was after I disbanded Team Cosmos, everyone was shocked about the news, but Nova he wasn't exactly too happy about what I did and ran off before I could talk him into accepting it," answered Nebula. 

"We didn't think much of it at first but after what seemed like a month, we just couldn't leave it alone," added Comet.

"Wait you mean he's been missing for a month?" asked Sunburst.

"We reunited Team Cosmos and started a search in hopes that we might find out anything about his whereabouts, but when we asked the locals, police, Aether Paradise, even the Champion, they claimed that they don't remember anyone named Nova hanging around in Alola," answered Nebula. 

"He's just gone," said Comet. 

"It's a shame isn't it," a voice spoke up. The group turned to find Dulse and Zossie walking in while somebody followed behind them. 

"You're back," said Celestia.

"Yes and we've brought a guest," added Dulse. 

"Who?" asked Twilight. Both Dulse and Zossie moved out of the way as a third figure wearing a black Ultra Recon Suit walked up to them. To black antenna features was sticking out from both sides of the figure's helmet and the rainbow visor shined brightly in the sunlight. A Rainbow N was engraved on the chest plate of the figure's suit. 

"Hello princess of friendship," said the figure in a robotic tone. 

"Who are you?" asked Twilight. 

"I'm afraid I'm not keen on introducing myself, so I'd really appreciate it if you'd just call me N," said the figure. 

"Just N?" asked Shining Armor. 

"Yes, unless you're fond of Ultra Recon Boss," said N. 

"N's easier," said Spike suddenly. Twilight looked over as Spike and Fluttershy walked in. 

"I thought you guys were hanging out in my room," said Twilight.

"Uh actually we were hiding behind the door," corrected Fluttershy.

"Wait so you heard everything?!" asked Twilight.

"We couldn't help it," groaned Spike. 

"Well that doesn't matter," said N. "Right now we need to focus on the threat at hand," said N.

"We know Necrozma right?" asked Luna.

"Not just Necrozma actually," answered N.

"How many of you are aware of the one named Faba?" asked Dulse.

"Faba from the Aether Foundation?" asked Comet.

"Yeah him," answered Zossie.

"I've heard of him he's a terrible person who attempted to summon Ultra Beasts into Alola," said Nebula. 

"Well if the rumors are true, then we should let you know that Faba is working with someone other then the Foundation to create an army of Ultra Beasts," said Zossie. 

"An army of those monsters!?" asked Spike.

"Indeed he's planning to use that army to attack Alola but Equestria as well, said Dulse.

"What!?" gasped Cadence.

"We don't know how he found out about Equestria in the first place, but we believe that he's planning to attack Equestria in order to help Necrozma steal the light from you're world," said Zossie. 

"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Nebula. 

"We have yet to figure that out, but for now we can conclude that either an enemy from here is working in parallel with Faba and the mystery perpetrator or a close ally of yours is working undercover and sold you out to the two," said N. 

"But we haven't had any reports of anypony suspicious of working with this Faba," said Sunburst. 

"Even so your world is now in danger of an Ultra Beast attack," said Dulse. 

"Do you know when the attack is going to take place?" asked Celestia.

"We are working alongside with the International Police and the Aether Foundation as well as the Champion to try and figure out anything about the invasion," answered N.

"In the meantime we suggest that you warn your kind and prepare for any sort of attacks," said Dulse.

"Also don't trust anyone, they might be a spy," said Zossie. The group looked at each other worried, first Starlight gets kidnapped and taken to Alola by an Ultra Beast, then Necrozma turns against the Alola region, then Nova goes missing, and now this. Twilight knew that this would end up leading to the destruction of Equestria but something didn't seem right. Why would Necrozma suddenly turn evil? Where and why did Nova vanish and why doesn't anyone remember him? Who was this mysterious perpetrator working with Faba and why were they trying to attack Equestria? There was so many questions without answers and Twilight was determined to find out.
> Chapter 8: Emergency Mission
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Starlight gasped as she ran to catch up with Felix who was already back on route 1 on his way towards Iki Town. 

"Hurry up Starlight," Felix said tapping his feet impatiently.

"Slow down will you I can't run as fast as you," gasped Starlight. 

"Well no worries you can take a break as soon as we reach Iki Town," said Felix. 

"Sweet Celestia who knew you humans were this energetic," said Starlight wiping away a bead of sweat off her forehead. 

"Well, if it isn't Felix and Starlight," Lillie's familiar voice called out. The two turned around to see Lillie approaching them. "If you're going to Iki Town I presume you'll be undergoing your Grand Trial am I right?" asked Lillie.

"Yep then it's off to Akala," said Felix. 

"Well then let's not waste time," said Lillie. Nebby inside Lillie's bag let out a small pew in agreement. Felix nodded as the three of them headed off to Iki Town. 



N stood on top of Megalo Tower gazing out at Ultra Megalopolis with great ease. He looked down at the single Beast Ball in his hand and gripped it as tightly as he can. 

"Those fools, they know nothing," growled N. Suddenly three Ultra Wormholes appeared behind him as three pony figures stepped out. The pony that appeared from the left Wormhole was a pony insect hybrid with holes in her mane, hooves, wings, and even horn. The pony that appeared from the center wormhole was completely black, from the wings, to the mane. Only it's eyes were glowing in a white light. The pony that appeared from the third wormhole was covered in metal armor from head to hooves. it's menacing red eyes glowed brightly in the darkness of Ultra Megalopolis. "Hmph what are you doing here?' snorted N.

"Geez grumpy as always aren't you N," snickered the insect queen. 

"Cut the sarcasm Chrysalis, I'm not in the mood of your word games," N hissed. Chrysalis snickered while King Sombra chuckled leaving the shadow pony looking at both of them with a confused look. "Now tell me why you decided to show your face here?" growled N turning to face them. 

"Oh come we just came to visit you and this is how you treat us?" asked Sombra. 

"Now listen here you, once I get my hands on Necrozma, there will be no jokes, do I make myself clear?" hissed N. 

"Yes, yes," said Sombra rolling his eyes. 

"I would disagree, but I'm not in the mood to argue," said N. He quickly shoved the three out of the way as he made his way down Megalo Tower leaving the three behind. 

"Geez sour as always," said the Shadow Pony.



Felix, Starlight, and Lillie climbed up the stairs leading into Iki Town, Felix unable to contain the excitement. 

"Alright Hau, I'm ready for my...." But Felix stopped short once he saw who was standing several yards in front of him. 

"Felix is something wrong?" asked Starlight.

"Um Lillie is it just me or did Hau change his clothes?" asked Felix. Confused, Lillie looked ahead to see a guy wearing black work out suit, blue shorts that matched his hair and black sandals. 

"Hau?" Lillie called out. But when the guy turned around he was obviously not Hau.  

"Oh hey you must be here for the Grand Trial am I right?" asked the guy. The three looked at each other and shrugged as they walked up to the new guy. "What never seen a buff guy before?" asked the man. 

"Um no it's not that," said Lillie.

"Oh then I suppose you're looking for Hau?" asked the man. The three nodded in unison. Looking defeated, the guy scratched his head in shame,"Sorry guys but I'm afraid Hau isn't here right now," said he man. 

"Did something happen again?" asked Lillie. 

The man nodded,"He got called in by the professor for some sort of quote on quote Emergency Mission and left just a while ago," said the man. 

"Emergency Mission?" asked Starlight. 

"Yeah man and it's not just me, ALL the Kahunas and even the trial captains got called in," said the man. 

"Well where is he now?" asked Felix.

"Away, somewhere, I don't know where, the professor didn't say man, I'm only here as temporary Kahuna," said the man. 

"I see so can I?"

"Take the Grand Trial?" interrupted the man. "Yeah sure meet me on the platform," said the man. 

"Oh wait we didn't get your name sir," Starlight called out. 

"Oh right, I'm Brawly, I normally run a fighting type gym in the Hoenn Region, but right now I'm temporary Kahuna for Hau," said the man. The three followed Brawly as he rushed off towards the platform. 



Felix gently rubbed the Shiny Silvally he received from the mystery man Vincent, as he inserted the Flying type memory into the opening on the side of it's mouth. As the opening closed shut it's eyes flashed in a blue color as it's head and tail fin suddenly changed from white to blue. "I'm counting on you buddy," said Felix. Silvally let out a screech as if it was saying don't worry. Felix smiled as he got to his feet and walked onto the platform with his Silvally following behind. 

"So are you ready?" asked Brawly. 

"Totally," said Felix. 

"Then let's go, no introductions needed, let the Grand Trial begin!" announced Brawly pulling out a Pokeball. "Go Makuhita!" said Brawly calling out his Pokemon. The ball popped open as a small yellow creature with black hands and small red rings on it's cheeks. 

"Silvally let's go!" said Felix thrusting his arm forward. Silvally jumped forward letting out a screech. It's yellow fur sparkling in the setting sun. 

"Interesting, so that's what Alola's Pokemon looks like," said Brawly. 

"Well this is one of them," said Felix. 

"Well let's see f it can survive this trial, Makuhita Fake Out!" Brawly commanded. Makuhita walked up to Silvally and clapped it's hands together in it's face causing Silvally to flinch. 

"Hmm nice, now it's our turn, Silvally Multi Attack!" Felix ordered. Silvally lunged forward raising it's talons as it went in for the attack. Before Makuhita could dodge the attack, Silvally slashed it's talons into it's chest knocking it back as a gust of wind sent it flying. The Makuhita slid to a stop near Brawly's feet as it lay still on the ground.  "Yes nice work Silvally!" Felix cheered. 

"Impressive, but I'm not done yet," said Brawly pulling out a second Pokeball. "Go Hitmonchan!" Brawly threw his second Pokeball to call out a humanoid creature wearing red boxing gloves.

"Hmm pretty cool, but not good enough, Silvally Air Slash!" Felix ordered. Silvally opened it's mouth as a small orb of light appeared. Silvally thrusted the orb forward as multiple blades of air flew out and struck the Hitmonchan sending it back to it's trainer. 

"Nice, but not enough to take out my Pokemon, Hitmonchan Thunder Punch!" Brawly commanded. The Hitmonchan's gloves suddenly began to glow in a yellow light as sparks began flying out. It came charging at the Silvally at full speed. 

"Silvally dodge it!" Felix ordered. But before Silvally could make a move, Hitmonchan brought it's arm up and punched Silvally in the left cheek as electricity erupted from the bruise. Silvally stopped short trying to withstand the pain. "Silvally are you all right, can you keep fighting?" Felix asked. Silvally looked back and nodded. "Alright now use Multi Attack!" Felix ordered. Silvally let out a screech as it lunged at the Hitmonchan raising it's talons. 

"Thunder Punch!" Brawly ordered. Hitmonchan pulled it's arm back as it's glove began to glow in a yellow light with sparks flying out. Silvally brought it's talons down as Hitmonchan thrusted it's arm forward going in for the punch. As the attacks collided, it caused a small explosion that sent both Pokemon flying back to their trainers. Once the dust cleared Felix saw that both Pokemon was still standing. Silvally winced as it tried to keep on it's feet. Meanwhile the opposing Hitmonchan grinned only for it to collapse on the ground unconscious. 

"He did it," said Starlight looking shocked. 

"Impressive who knew that Alola's Pokemon was this powerful," said Brawly calling back his Pokemon. "Well you've done it, here you deserve this," said Brawly giving Felix a brown Z-Crystal with a fist engraved in the center. Smiling Felix took the Z-Crystal from Brawly. Both Lillie and Starlight ran up to join Felix. The three turned to face Brawly to see what he had to say. "Watch carefully as I demonstrate the movements, I think it goes like this," said Brawly. First he brought his arms up in the form of an X in front of his face, then he threw his arms  up and around and held them out with his right arm over his left. Then he pulled his right arm back and thrusted his left arm forward, then did the same with his opposite arm. He did this several times before he thrusted his left arm out for a final time while bending his hips. 

"Wow," said Starlight.

"That's how you use the Fightanium Z," said Brawly. "I suggest you give that to a Pokemon who knows a fighting type move," said Brawly. 

"Great thanks Brawly. 

"Anytime little man, I suppose you're heading off to Akala now, I suggest you go talk to your folks before you head out, they might be interested in how you're doing," said Brawly. 

"We will thanks again Brawly," said Felix. 

"Be careful out there, and good luck on your Island Challenge," said Brawly. The four exchanged goodbyes as they left Iki Town. The trials on Melemele were complete, next stop Akala Island.
> Chapter 9: Solar Eclipse
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

It's been almost a week since the encounter with Ultra Recon Boss N and eight days since Starlight's abduction. The ponies of Equestria had heard about what happened and prayed for Starlight's safety. Even the ponies from her village came for visit wanting to help get her back. But now Starlight's safety is not the only thing the ponies have to pray for. Two days after the encounter with N, mysterious dark clouds appeared over the skies of Equestria and the sky had darkened to a state where it almost seemed like night. The moon had passed over the sun and settled in that spot causing a permanent Solar Eclipse. When Luna was confronted, she had admitted that she had nothing to do with this. Now as the ponies continue their daily lives, the Solar Eclipse continues to strike fear to those in Equestria. 

"I don't like this," said Spike nervously.

"None of us does sugarcube," said Applejack staring up at the darkened sky. Spike jumped off the stool and headed back into the castle with Applejack following behind. The two entered the room where Twilight was flipping through pages to try and see if history was repeating itself only to have no luck. 

"Did you find out anything?" asked Spike. 

"No, there's nothing in these books that explains this situation," says Twilight panicked. 

"There has to be some sort of explanation," said Cadence nearby. 

"I'm sorry but there really isn't anything about a permanent Solar Eclipse," said Twilight. 

"Do you think that maybe Necrozma has something to do with this?" asked Spike suddenly scared.

"No, I don't believe in that, there's no way Necrozma would just...." Twilight stopped sort when something hit her. She had remembered something Dulse had said. Necrozma had it's light stolen from himself many years ago, now his unending rage would lead him to steal the light that was stolen from him. But why would Necrozma target Equestria of all places. Nothing made sense, Twilight had questions with no answers, and now Equestria was contaminated with paranoia. Ever since Celestia spread the word about the Ultra Beast Army and Necrozma, everypony would be too afraid of going outside. Now their fear was starting to come true. 

"Twilight!" Applejack's voice had brought her back into reality. 

"Wha, what happened?" asked Twilight.

"You're sweating are you ok?" asked Fluttershy. 

"I'm fine," lied Twilight. Nothing was ok, not even her. This world was being driven towards the darkness and nopony knew how to stop it. Time was running out and she still had so much to do, so many questions left unanswered. The only thing she and her friends do right now, was to pray that their world would be ignored a little bit longer. 



Above the skies of Equestria the permanent Solar Eclipse continued to linger as the changelings in the hive nervously gazed at the darkened sky. Thorax had tried to calm down and ease the panic running up and down the hive. They had received a warning from Princess Celestia 48 hours ago and since then, the hive had been spreading disturbing rumors about the situation. 

"Now, now everyone please calm down," said Thorax.

"How can we calm down, this is not normal," argued a changeling. 

"Everyone please I'm sure Princess Celestia has everything under control," said Thorax. 

"I'm telling you this is a bad omen," said another changeling. The other changeling began to talk amongst themselves leaving Thorax in a tight spot. He looked up at the eclipse and prayed that Celestia would find a solution. 



The darkness had hung above ponyville and Canterlot for a while, but now that the changeling hive was also experiencing the same sinister crisis the dragons hoped that they wouldn't have to go through the same thing. Unfortunately for them, their prayers were left unanswered as the darkness slowly crawled over the dragon lands as well. Princess Ember had gotten the warning and was prepared for what was to come next. However fighting back against the darkness, she had yet to figure out. 

"I have a bad feeling about this," mumbled a dragon. The other three in the group nodded. 

"Princess Ember any responses from the princess of friendship or Spike?" asked a dragon. 

"Afraid not, I don't think we'll be hearing from either for a while," answered Ember.

"Shouldn't you be trying to calm everyone down at the very least?" asked the dragon. 

"Even if I did, it wouldn't be very effective," answered Ember. 

"I guess you're right," said the dragon. He jumps up next to Ember and looks up at the Solar Eclipse. "Do you think they'll be able to fix this?" asked the dragon.

"Hopefully," answered Ember. The two looked up as the dark clouds slowly flew over their heads. 



Celestia's castle was easily one of the most distinguishable piece of architect in all of Equestria, but now that it was completely dark nopony could see the building itself except the lights inside the building. Deep inside Luna was attempting to fix the problem by trying to lower the moon. However the moon itself seemed to be surrounded in some sort of dark energy that prevented Luna from using her magic. Not even Celestia, who once lowered it without any trouble at all, could lower the moon. 

"Princess is it working?" asked Sunburst.

"Afraid not, we tried everything, the moon just won't go down," answered Celestia. 

"What do we do?" asked Fluttershy. 

"If only there was some way we could take control of the moon, we could easily lower it without any problem," answered Luna.

"But at the moment there seems to be some sort of dark energy surrounding the moon hat prevents us from lowering it," added Celestia. 

"Who would do this?" asked Rarity.

"Whoever it is, I'll beat them," said Rainbow Dash. 

"I wouldn't act so confident," a voice responded. The four turned around to see N, Zossie, and Dulse walking up to them.

"Wha, who are you?" asked Rainbow Dash. 

"You may call me N, and these are my two subordinates Dulse and Zossie," answered N. "As for you I wouldn't try and threaten Necrozma," said N in a serious tone. 

"Necrozma?" asked Rarity. 

"Do you three perhaps know something about this?" asked Celestia.

"I wouldn't say for sure," answered N. "But don't start jumping to conclusions just because I said Necrozma," said N. 

"What do you mean?" asked Sunburst.

"We're just assuming this is Necrozma's doing but we can't be sure," answered Dulse. "After all we've never heard of Necrozma possessing the ability to move the moon," said Dulse. 

"Well if it's not Necrozma then who is it?" asked Rarity. 

"That's something you should hope to discover in the future," said N pointing out the window. The group turned around and looked out towards the Solar Eclipse. Could Necrozma be responsible for this? Nopony knew. Somewhere out of Canterlot and ponyville, the Hippogriffs watched as the darkness slowly devoured the light above their home. The skies over Appleloosa was also experiencing the sinister clouds over their skies. Along with them, Los Pegasus, Baltimare, Filly Delphia, Cloudsdale, Griffonstone and even the Crystal Empire. Soon all of Equestria's skies will be covered in darkness and the Solar Eclipse will soon be the only visible thing in the sky.



Larry sat in the Champion's chamber looking up at the sky through the see through ceiling. The night sky was filled with nothing but sparkling stars. Tonight was it, the night of the Lunar Eclipse. Sure enough from the corner of his eyes, Larry saw it. The red moon shining brightly. However even with it's shiny bright red tint something was off. Getting up from his chair, Larry walked down the stairs and onto the warp platform and was instantly transported to the entrance of the league. 

"What are you doing out here?" asked a female voice. Larry turned around to see Professor Burnet standing near a giant boulder next to the entrance. 

"Burnet didn't think you'd be here," said Larry. 

"Though I'd might come since I have a better view from up here," answered Burnet. "You didn't answer my question though. 

"I can't shake this feeling," Larry answered. 

"It's about Necrozma isn't it," suggested Burnet. Larry nodded. "I figured, yeah no doubt about it, everyone is on edge about this," said Burnet. 

"Has Gladion called you back since our last meeting?" asked Larry. 

"Not yet, it appears Aether is very busy," answered Burnet.

"I see, well no need to rush it," said Larry. Suddenly the sound of footsteps came from towards the hill leading towards the league. The two turned to see Argo climbing up the slope. "So you've returned," said Larry. 

"Of course wouldn't want to waste your time now would I," said Argo. 

"True, I suppose, anything new?" asked Larry. 

"Afraid not, the public is only getting more and more paranoid with the situation," answered Argo.

"I see, thanks for the update Argo, your free to go," said Larry. Argo nodded as he walked back down the hill.

"Burnet, contact Lusamine, we're taking drastic measures," said Larry.
> Chapter 10: Welcome to Akala
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Felix yawned as he slowly got up. Scratching his eyes he slowly pulled himself off the Professor's sofa. He and Starlight had stayed overnight at Professor Kukui's place to prepare for today. He looked over to his clock to check the time. 8:30. He slowly got up and looked over to the loft where Lillie was sleeping. He could still see her sleeping peacefully next to Starlight. Smiling he got up and walked into the bathroom with a change of clothes and a bath towel. Felix wanted to shower before Starlight and Lillie woke up so that he could be prepared for the day. 

"Phew finally now that I've completed the Melemele trials I can move on to Akala, hopefully I can find more Pokemon to add to my team, maybe even Starlight will find a Pokemon or two she likes," Felix thought to himself as he showered. He turned off the shower and slowly stepped out of the bath and dried himself off with the bath towel Kukui had lent him, meanwhile the bathroom door behind him started to open instantly grabbing his attention. He turned around to find Lillie walking in. 

"Wha Lillie!" Felix yelped. Lillie scratched her eyes as she looked up.

"Oh morning Felix, something wrong?" she asked not noticing.

"GET OUT!" Felix yelled. Confused Lillie rubbed her eyes to clear her vision. Once her vision cleared she saw Felix standing there naked trying to hide himself with the bath towel. Realizing what she just did, she took a step back and gasped.

"Oh my god, Felix I'm so..."

"I SAID GET OUT!" Felix repeated. Without hesitation Lillie ran out and shut the door behind her. Feeling embarrassed Felix quickly started changing into his clothes and fixed up his hair before finally opening the door and walking out. He saw Lillie standing next to the door covering her pink face. "Geez Lillie don't you know how to knock?" Felix groaned. 

"I'm so sorry Felix, I didn't mean it, I didn't think you'd be in there," Lillie started apologizing in a panicked voice. 

"Lillie it's fine, just be sure to knock next time," said Felix. Lillie nodded and that was the end of that. The rest of the morning seemed normal. Both Starlight and Kukui woke up several minutes after Felix and Lillie did and the four ate breakfast together. Neither Felix or Lillie wanted to mention the incident from earlier. Once the four finished breakfast and made preparations to head out, they walked over to Felix's house and to say goodbye. Then they made their way to the marina. 

"Oh boy a new island full of new Pokemon, aren't you excited partner?" asked Rotom. 

"I guess so," answered Felix. 

"Felix what's wrong, you don't seem energetic as usual," said Starlight. 

"I mean I might be going crazy but, something doesn't feel right," said Felix.

"What do you mean?" asked Lillie. 

"I don't know, something in my guts is telling me that going to Akala isn't safe," answered Felix.

"That's ridiculous, you're just overthinking things," said Kukui. "Come on cheer up, you'll have plenty of time to make new experiences on Akala, don't let things get to you,"

"Yeah I guess you're right," said Felix smiling.

"That's the Felix I know," said Starlight. 

"You know, actually you guys take the boat, I wanna try out that mantine surfing thing," said Felix. 

"Ooh good idea partner, hey professor how about we meet on Akala?" asked Rotom.

"You wanna go mantine surfing, you do that," said Kukui.

"Alright then see you on Akala," said Felix as he and Rotom made their way to big wave beach. 

"Starlight you're not going?" asked Lillie.

"No I'm fine, I'd rather take the boat," answered Starlight.

"Nothing wrong with that," said Kukui. "Now let's get over to Akala Island with extreme speed woo!" declared Kukui as he led the two towards the marina.



The sun was high up in the sky as a gentle tropical morning breeze blew through Koni Koni City on Akala Island.Meanwhile  Viola was snapping photos of nearby bug that was crawling on a leaf in the Lighthouse point area. She was visiting Alola with her sister Alexa for a vacation. Alola was a completely different region from Kalos. She'd never thought that she would come to liking it so fast. They had just arrived several days ago and was staying at the Hano Grand Resort for the time being. This was her third day here in Alola and she had already met a lot of new Alolan Pokemon. 

"You like taking pictures?" a voice called out. Viola quickly turned around to find Larry standing at the gate. 

"Well of course, I mean bug types at the very least," Viola answered. 

"Just bug types?" asked Larry.

"Well mostly bug types," answered Viola. Larry nodded his head as he walked over and bent down to get a closer look.

"You know what this is?" asked Larry pointing to the bug. 

"I'm afraid I don't," answered Viola.

"This is a Grubbin, this is a very popular bug type among the people here in Alola only because of it's final evolution," said Larry.

"Well final evolution or not, I'm a huge fan of bug types," said Viola. 

"Nothing wrong with that," said Larry standing up. "I'm Larry, Larry Dawes, Champion of Alola," said Larry holding out his hand.

"Viola, I'm a gym leader from the Kalos region that specializes in bug types, me and my sister are here vacationing in Alola," said Viola shaking his hand. 

"Welcome to Akala Island, one of the four main islands here in Alola, we're glad to have you here," said Larry.

"Thanks," said Viola.



All these years that he lived in Alola, he never thought that he had a surfer's talent, but after going mantine surfing Felix had proven himself wrong. Even after learning as a beginner he managed to strike a high score.Now he had landed in Heahea beach. Jumping off the mantine he took his beach points and went off to look for his friends. 

"Man that was fun, hey partner thanks for letting me tag along with you," said Rotom.

"Anytime Rotom," said Felix. Felix walked up the stairs leading into Heahea city and noticed Professor Kukui's boat pulling in. He ran over to the harbor as his friends were getting off. 

"Hey Felix it seems you made it here before us," said Kukui. 

"How was mantine surfing?" asked Starlight.

"It was actually really fun," answered Felix. "Rotom and I really enjoyed it,"

"Good to hear that cousin," said Kukui. 

Well, well looks like you finally show up," said a voice. The four turned around to see Argo walking up to them. "Welcome to Akala Island, glad you could make it," said Argo. 

"Wha, who are you?" asked Lillie.

"My name is Argo, I'm the current Team Cosmos Admin," answered Argo.

"Team Cosmos, you mean the one that got disbanded?" asked Lillie.

"Yes, however don't get me wrong, i'm not here to cause trouble," said Argo.

"Then why ARE you here?" asked Starlight.

"It's about Necrozma," answered Argo.

"Necrozma?" asked Lillie. 

"If you want to know more, just meet me in the Aether lab on route 8 I'll explain everything from there, until then I do hope we can get acquainted,"said Argo turning around. "I bid you four Alola!" he beamed as he walked off. 

"That was weird," said Felix.

"Well he told us to meet him on route 8," said Starlight. "But who is he?" she asked.

"Who knows," said Kukui. 

"Well we're here in Akala, let's not waste time and start exploring, the next trial is just up ahead Paniola Town partner so let's get to it Felix!" Rotom said. 

"Alright calm down, no need to rush, come on Starlight," said Felix walking off towards the Pokemon Center.

"I suppose it's about for us to head out too," said Kukui.

"Of course Professor," said Lillie. Nebby in her bag let out a pew in agreement. As the two walked off, they split off with Felix and Starlight and headed towards the Tide Song Hotel. None of the four noticed the Ultra Wormhole above the harbor, or the Ultra Beast that emerged from it.
> Chapter 11: Ultra Aether
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tempest looked up and inhaled the fresh tropical Alolan air as she stood outside the roadside motel on Akala Island. She had been invited by Twilight and somepony by the name of Trixie Lulamoon to come and visit Alola. Ever since the day that the storm king fell, Tempest had been looking for ways to redeem herself. Unfortunately for her she couldn't find ways up until now. Tempest hadn't heard anything about the rumors until Twilight contacted her and asked her to come immediately. So this was the Alola region, it was a really nice place. If what Twilight said is true, then this Necrozma or whatever will no doubt try to steal it's light. She turned around to see Trixie still trying to get off the creature called Solgaleo while Twilight and the two humans called Dulse and Zossie tried to help her off. 

"Maybe this is it," Tempest mumbled to herself. If the information she received was correct, then maybe she could help stop these so-called Ultra Beasts from attacking and use that as her redemption, but could her broken horn really play it well during the attack? That's what she hoped.

"Sorry it took so long Tempest, we should get going," Twilight said walking up to her. 

"Oh uh ok then," said Tempest shaking herself back into reality. 

"Geez I never wanna do that again," groaned Trixie. 

"Come on Trixie it wasn't THAT bad," said Twilight trying to cheer her up. But Trixie didn't take the joke as lightly as Twilight hoped. She cleared her throat and changed the subject before she could make Trixie angry,"Anyways we should probably head out now,"

"Who exactly are we looking for again?" Tempest asked.

"Someone named Argo, Dulse said he would be here somewhere on route 8," answered Twilight.

"So you're looking for Argo you say?" asked a voice. The three turned around to see a scientist standing several feet behind them. He was wearing glasses he was tapping a small keypad on his arm. "Why hello there," said the scientist with a friendly smile. 

"Um sorry who are you?" asked Trixie.

"Oh how rude of me not to give a proper introduction, my name is Colress, I'm a scientist currently researching about Pokemon here in the Alola region," said the scientist. 

"I'm Twilight, and these two are my friends, Trixie and Tempest," said Twilight introducing her friends. 

"It's very nice to meet you three," said Colress, anyway I apologize if it sounds like I was eavesdropping but I couldn't help but overhear that you're looking for Argo," said Colress.  

"Do you perhaps know where he is?" asked Twilight.

"Indeed I do, just follow me," said Colress turning around. The three looked at each other and nodded before following Colress down the streets. 



Somewhere out in the waters of Alola, the members of the Aether Foundation was hard as work. However the noise didn't bother Gladion. Right now he had to inform Lusamine about the Ultra Beast sighting located on Akala Island. He quickened his pace as he ran down the halls of Aether as he made his way to Lusamine's office. He began to slow down as Lusamine's office came into view. 

He knocked on the door as a female voice responded from the inside,"Come in," Gladion opened the door and walked in to see his mother hard at work at her desk. 

"Gladion!" Lusamine shot up from her desk surprised to see her son. Gladion opened his mouth to speak when he noticed Larry, Professor Burnet, and one other woman sitting in a chair holding a pencil and notepad. 

"Sorry did i interrupt, I didn't know you had company," Gladion apologized. 

"No it's fine, anyway is something wrong?" asked Lusamine. 

Gladion glared as he answered,"We've gotten reports of an Ultra Beast sighting on Akala," 

'What did you say?!" Lusamine asked.

"An Ultra Beast sighting on Akala," repeated Gladion. 

"Ultra Beast?" asked the woman. 

"It's the creatures Lusamine was describing earlier," answered Burnet.

"I'm sorry who is that woman mother?" Gladion asked.

"Oh right, her name's Alexa, she's a news reporter from the Kalos region," answered Lusamine. 

"You must be Gladion, Lusamine told me a lot about you," said Alexa. 

"She did huh," said Gladion. Suddenly a ringtone of Gladion's theme began playing as Larry pulled out a cell phone and answered it. 

"Hello?" asked Larry. The entire room goes silent as they prepare for the news. "Argo what is it?" "What Lillie you say?!" Both Gladion and Lusamine looks at each other with worried looks on their faces. "Ok got it, I'm on my way," said Larry before hanging up. 

"What was that?" asked Burnet. 

"Lillie could be in trouble," Larry answered in a serious tone. 

"Lillie!" Lusamine gasped. 

"Is it the Ultra Beast?" asked Gladion.

"More or less, not to mention it's pretty close to where she is now," answered Larry. Gladion clenched his teeth as he he opened the door.

"Wait Gladion," Lusamine stopped him. Gladion turned to face his mother who was looking at him with a worried expression. "Please, don't let anything happen to her," she begged. 

"I won't," said Gladion running out. 



Tempest, Trixie, and Twilight continued to follow Colress to a white trailer just in time to see Argo walking down the steps while talking a woman wearing a white uniform. 

"There he is Argo," said Colress. Colress called out to him grabbing his attention. "Argo these three wanted to see you," said Colress leading the three to Argo. 

"Nice to meet you, I'm Twilight Sparkle and these are my friends, Trixie Lulamoon and Tempest Shadow," said Twilight introducing the three. 

"Ponies,huh?" said Argo scratching his chin. "Perhaps acquainted with that one pony traveling with the trainer," said Argo.

"Wait another pony?" asked Trixie.

"I presume you're looking for a friend?" asked Argo. 

"Yes, she was brought here by an Ultra Beast," answered Twilight. 

"Hmm, I thought so, how about you follow me I was just heading in their direction right now," said Argo.

"You know where she is?" asked Trixie. Argo nodded. 

"Follow me," he said as he walked towards the tunnel, the three following after him.



Felix and Starlight walked out of the Heahea Pokemon Center, after fixing up their Pokemon and restocking on items, like potions and Pokeballs. 

"So now that we're done with that, I suppose we're off to complete another trial?" asked Starlight.

"Actually I was thinking about going to see what Lillie and Kukui are up to," answered Felix. 

"Oh alright then," said Starlight shrugging. 

"Starlight is that you?" a familiar voice asked. Both Starlight and Felix turned towards their left to see Argo walking up to them with three ponies following behind. 

"Twilight, Trixie?" Starlight asked. The three looked at each other with shocked expressions as they ran up and hugged each other. 

"It's so good to see you Twilight," said Starlight.

'We were so worried you know," said Twilight.

"I know I'm sorry," said Starlight.

"Hello again friend," said Argo.

"Argo what are you doing here, I thought you were on route 8," said Felix. 

"I was until now," said Argo in a serious tone. 

"Why what happened?" asked Felix.

"Haven't you heard, an Ultra Beast was sighted near the Tide Song Hotel," answered Argo.

"What, but that's where Lillie is!" said Felix. 

"I thought so," said Argo running off towards the hotel. Felix running after. The ponies looked at each other confused but decided to run after them. 



Lillie and Kukui were standing just outside the hotel talking to each other. Nothing seemed wrong and Lillie seemed fine. 

"Lillie!" Felix called out as he ran towards her. 

"Oh Felix finished with your trials already?" asked Lillie.

"What no, haven't you heard?" asked Felix as the rest of the group caught up with him.

"Heard what?" asked Lillie.

"There's an Ultra Beast near here," answered Felix.

"What where?" asked Lillie. 

"Right here!" a voice responded. The group turned around to see two figures walk out of the bushes nearby. Both figures looked like members of the Aether Foundation, but instead of wearing white, they were wearing black with helmets instead of hats. Both figures had rainbow prism logo pinned to their chest. 

"Wha, who are you?" asked Lillie.

"Why we are the Aether Foundation's rival of course," answered the left figure.

"The complete opposite of the actual Aether Foundation, the Anti Aether Foundation as you will," said the figure to the right. 

"We are Ultra Aether," the both said in unison. 

"Ultra Aether?" asked Argo.

"That's right," said Ultra Aether Employee A. 

"You know how Aether works to protect Pokemon, well Ultra Aether works to protect it's threat, The Ultra Beasts!" said Employee B. 

"Why, what about Pokemon?" asked Starlight.

"Useless, worthless, who needs Pokemon when you can have something ten times more powerful," said Employee A. 

"Pokemon are not useless," said Lillie.

"Ha that's what you think, but our boss told us that Ultra Beasts are much more useful, especially the one called Necrozma," said Employee B.

"We would battle you right now, but we just finished capturing that Ultra Beast, so you're lucky you got off the hook," said Employee A. 

"But mark our words, get in our way and you will live to regret it," said Employee B. The two walked past the group laughing with the Beast Ball in their hand. 

"Ultra Aether, what terrible people, I must notify Larry at once," said Argo running off towards the Pokemon Center. 

"God, first Team Skull, then Necrozma, and now this," groaned Felix.

"Starlight will you be ok?" asked Twilight.

"Yeah, but those people," said Starlight.

"It appears we have another threat on our hands, we can't let them push us," said Kukui. Right said the group in unison. They all turned towards the direction where the two employees walked off. Boy was things getting crazier every day.
> Chapter 12: Aether in Equestria
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lusamine tightened her grip as Solgaleo carried Burnet, Alexa, Dulse, Zossie, and herself through Ultra Space. They've been traveling through Ultra Space for a while now and the Wormhole they needed was nowhere to be found. 

"This is incredible," said Alexa breaking the silence. 

"It truly is amazing isn't it?" asked Zossie. "Both of the legendary Pokemon has the ability to carry humans like you through Ultra Space,"

"It really is, I must take notes so I can spread the word about Alola's Legendary Pokemon to Kalos when I go back," said Alexa. 

"There it is," said Dulse pointing forward. The group looked over to his side to see a rainbow colored wormhole with black energy flowing out of it. 

"That's the wormhole that'll lead to Equestria?" asked Lusamine,

"Yes, we must hurry," said Dulse. He gave Solgaleo a little pat to his left side reminding Solgaleo which way to turn. Solgaleo made a hard left as he dove into the rainbow colored wormhole. 



"Sweet Celestia, it's so dark I can't see a thing," moaned Rarity. 

"It's scary," whimpered Fluttershy. 

Ever since the permanent Solar Eclipse began the mane six had been invited to stay at Celestia's Castle until everything returned to normal. At this point everypony in Equestria was probably hiding in their homes out of fear and paranoia. If this darkness really was the work of Necrozma, then Rainbow Dash couldn't wait to beat it down. 

"I hope Twilight is ok," said Spike fidgeting with his claws.

"Ahm sure she's fine," said Applejack comforting him. 

"Yeah it's ok Spike, here have a cupcake maybe it'll make you feel better," said Pinkie Pie shoving a cupcake in his mouth. 

"More importantly, I hope they found Starlight," said Sunburst. 

"I'm sure she's alright," said Cadence walking over to his side. Suddenly a burst of light grabbed the group's attention as an Ultra Wormhole appeared over their heads. Then from within Solgaleo lept out carrying the four humans on it's back and landed in front of the group. The group ran over as Dulse and Zossie jumped off. 

"Well did you find her?" asked Spike.

"No, but we brought someone who can help," said Zossie. Both Dulse and Zossie moved out of the way as Lusamine, Burnet, and Alexa jumped off Solgaleo's back. 

"This is Lusamine, President of the Aether Foundation," said Dulse. "When we mentioned you to her she seemed to recognize you almost immediately," The ponies eyes widened as memories from 10 years ago began to flow back in.

"President Lusamine!" Applejack exclaimed. 

"Hello my dear ponies it's so good to see you again," said Lusamine. 

"Same from us, how have you been?" asked Rainbow Dash. Lusamine's warm smile melted away as a frown soon replaced it. 

"I'm afraid not good," answered Lusamine. 

"Is everything ok darling?" asked Rarity. 

"Let me explain everything," said Lusamine in a serious tone. The ponies went silent as they prepared for the news.



The halls of Aether Foundation was swarming with employees as N walked down the halls. He had to make sure he wasn't being followed so nobody suspects a thing. Once he was alone he quickly turned left at a corner where The Branch Chief was waiting. 

"So you actually showed up," said Faba. 

"Like you're the one to talk," said N. "Anyway how are things looking?" N asked.

"Very well, in a moments notice we'll be able to get that Cosmog from Lillie," answered Faba. 

"Hmm good, good," said N nodding his head. 

"Sir," a voice spoke up from behind N. N turned around to see two Ultra Aether Employees walking up to them. 

"We've managed to capture the Ultra Beast sir," said Employee A. 

"Very well let me see," said N. The Employee pulled out the Beast ball and tossed it calling out a familiar jellyfish looking Ultra Beast.

"Hmph UB-01 Symbiont," grunted N. The beast called Symbiont also know as Nihilego screeched as it waved it's tentacles at N. "Good work you two, give me the beast and I'll allow you your break. 

"Thank you sir," said Employee A calling back Nihilego and giving N the Beast ball. N puts the beast ball in his pocket as he watches the two employees walk off. 

"Let's go, with have much to do," said N as he continues down the hallway with Faba following behind. 



Larry sat at the base of Mt. Lanakila stroking his Ninetails as he waited. Eventually the Kahuna of the Island showed up with his Persian following behind. 

"So you actually came," said Larry getting up. 

"I mean I didn't want to but when it's the champion that calls me here then I can't really go against that," said Nanu. 

"Well I'm glad you made the right decision," said Larry .

"Yeah whatever, anyway what do you want?" asked Nanu. 

"We have to talk," answered Larry.

"It's about Necrozma isn't it," said Nanu.

"Not just Necrozma, but also the Ultra Beast, and the group that calls themselves Ultra Aether," added Larry. 

"I've heard about Necrozma from a couple of people, but Ultra Aether?" asked Nanu.

"Apparently they're an Anti-Aether Foundation that works to ensure the containment and protection of the Ultra Beasts," answered Larry.

"That doesn't sound so bad," said Nanu.

"It doesn't at least not until you hear that they care ONLY about the Ultra Beasts, normal Pokemon doesn't matter to them," said Larry.

"Hmm and you say these guys are dangerous?" asked Nanu.

"From the reports I received yes, they have been spotted on Akala Island catching an Ultra Beast that suddenly appeared near the Tide Song Hotel," answered Larry. 

"Hm and how does this Ultra Aether apply to me?" asked Nanu.

"I just wanted to warn you about them, I have a feeling they're a lot more dangerous than Team Skull, Team Cosmos, or even the Aether Foundation themselves," answered Larry.

"So you want me to keep an eye out for them, is that what you're saying?" asked Nanu.

"Pretty much, I would do it myself but I've been busy recently due to the whole, Necrozma, Ultra Beast, and other bullshit going on right now," answered Larry. "And if you hear anything or see anything suspicious just contact me and let me know," said Larry.

"Alright, just be careful on your side too," said Nanu. 

"Yeah I will," said Larry. 

"Is that it?' asked Nanu. 

"That's it thanks for taking your time to come talk to me," said Larry.

"Yeah sure whatever," said Nanu as he walked off. Larry watched as he disappeared off to the right before he got on the lift and made his way back to the league.
> Chapter 13: Gladion
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

After the encounter with the two Ultra Aether Employees, Felix and Starlight decided to move on with the Island Challenge. Meanwhile Kukui and Lillie decided to go over to the Dimensional Research Lab to talk with Kukui's wife Professor Burnet. Twilight, Trixie, and Tempest was upset having to say goodbye to Starlight just as they met up but agreed that the safety of Equestria was first priority so they went back to the Aether lab on route 8 with Argo. Along the way Felix and Starlight decided to catch more Pokemon to add to their team. 

"Well that's the another one down," said Felix as a third Pikipek fainted.

"You know, if you keep taking out Pokemon like that, your team won't be getting any new additions," said Starlight.

"I know, it's just that I'm not a huge fan of normal types," answered Felix. 

"Your Silvally is a normal type," said Starlight.

"Silvally is different," said Felix. Before Starlight could make another argument the grass in front of them began to rustle as another Pokemon jumped out. This time it was a small brown creature with long ears, and a big fluffy brown tail with a white tip at the end. The white fur around it's neck bounced as it bobbed it's head up and down. 

"Aww how cute," cooed Starlight.

"An Eevee, haven't seen one of these in a while," said Felix. Suddenly Rotom flew out of Felix's bag as it scanned the Pokemon and read off it's Dex entry.

"Eevee, Evolution Pokemon, Normal Type, It's genes are easily influenced by it's surroundings, even it's face starts to look like that of it's trainer," read Rotom. The Eevee let out a squeal as it sniffed at the two. 

"Aww," cooed Starlight clapping her hooves together. 

"Yeah I'm not catching this thing," said Felix. 

"But it's so cute," whined Starlight.

"If you want it go ahead, I'm not stopping you," said Felix. 

"You mean, you'll let me catch this thing?" asked Starlight.

"Yeah it's not like it's a law, I'm pretty sure the Guardian Deity of Akala isn't gonna come hunt you down for catching a wild Eevee," said Felix. 

"Very funny," said Starlight pulling out a Pokeball. Eevee's ears twitched and looked up as Starlight aimed. Just as it looked like the Eevee was gonna run of, Starlight threw the ball, hitting it on the head and sucking it in as a white energy. The ball fell to the ground and shook once, twice, and finally three times before it clicked shut. Smiling Starlight walked over and picked up the ball and threw it calling out her new team member. Eevee popped out and happily ran over to it's new trainer and nuzzled itself against her hoof. "So cute," said Starlight cuddling her new Pokemon. Felix cleared his throat grabbing her attention. 

"You done?" he asked tapping his foot impatiently. 

"Yes, yes I'm done," said Starlight with a smug look. Felix rolled his eyes as Starlight got up and continued to Paniola Town. 



Gladion sipped his tea as his Pokemon sat next to him eating the Poke beans Gladion had received from the guy at the cafe. He flicked his finger on the tablet in front of him. His mom had asked him to research more on the Ultra Beasts and Necrozma for future references in case anything happened. As he continued his search, he came across a news article from 3 years ago. Former Team Cosmos Admin Presumed Dead. 

"Hmph so they finally gave up," grunted Gladion. He remembered how many Team Cosmo Grunts approached him and asked him about their missing "brother." The search had gone for about for about 6 years before they finally gave up for good. But now wasn't the time to think about this. What had they called themselves, Ultra Aether? Whoever they were they obviously knew about the Ultra Beast. But Gladion didn't seem to recall any organization called Ultra Aether. No news about this had been spreading. So who were they, they had said something like Anti Aether Foundation. Gladion decided that this should be something his mother should know about. Suddenly his Zorua nudged him by the leg obviously wanting his attention. "What is it boy?" he asked looking down. Zorua walked over to the window and scratched at something. Confused Gladion walked over and looked out to see two figures, a trainer and.... was that a pony? He quickly picked up his stuff and whistled. His Pokemon got up and followed their trainer out the door. 



"Finally that was the last set of trainers," said Felix wiping away the sweat. 

"Hey at least my Raichu had fun," said Starlight. Her Raichu let out an electric squeak as if it was agreeing with her. 

"Yeah but of course you needed help with that Vullaby, since it was a dark type," said Felix.

"At least my attacks didn't miss two times in a row," snickered Starlight. Blushing Felix tried to come up with a way to retaliate only for him to completely miss the ball. 

"Ok you got me," said Felix embarrassed. Starlight laughed as she nudged him.

"I'm kidding, you did great," said Starlight. 

"Really, cause i think you're doing great for a beginner," said Felix.

"Only because I have the greatest tutor ever," said Starlight. 

"You're the easiest student I've ever had to teach," said Felix. The two laughed as the made their way towards Brooklet Hill. 

"Stop right there you two," a voice spoke up. The two stopped and looked forward to see a young man in his teens standing in front of the entrance to Brooklet hill. For someone living in Alola he had a black hoodie along with black pants both covered with tears and rips. A red fanny pack was wrapped around his waist and his blonde hair covered his left eye as a bang. "You," he said pointing towards Felix. 

"Me?" Felix asked.

"Yes, you, you're Felix?" asked Gladion. 

"Who?" Felix asked. Starlight looked at him confused. Did he just respond who when this guy asked his own name. And why did he look so familiar? 

"Hmm, so you have enough sense to be wary, not bad," said the teen.  "I'm Gladion," That's when it hit her. Gladion, wasn't he the brother of Lillie? His name seemed to ring in Starlight's mind, but she just couldn't remember who Gladion was. "Me and my partner, Type: Null, are training to get stronger, we have to get stronger!" Gladion announced. 

"Is that right?" asked Felix. 

"Wait, now just wait a second," said Starlight stepping in. 

"You I thought I recognized that face," said Gladion. 

"What?" asked Starlight. 

"You, you're one of those ponies who appeared from the Ultra Wormhole 10 years ago," said Gladion. That's when it struck her. That's right she met with this Gladion guy at Aether 10 years ago when Team Cosmos was still evil. "Not that any of it matters now," said Gladion. He looked over to Felix and crossed his arms,"Battle me, I won't take no for an answer," 

"Wait so you're FORCING me to battle?" asked Felix. But before Felix could argue, Gladion pulled out Pokeball and threw it calling out his first Pokemon. 

"Go Zubat!" The ball opened as the small blue bat appeared flapping it's wings. Felix realizing he had no other choice but to do battle pulled out his Pokeball and called out his Pokemon. 

"Lycanroc let's go!" His orange wolf burst out and growled at the opposing Zubat as it hissed back at him. 

"Hmph a Lycanroc, well it won't take too long, Zubat supersonic!" Gladion ordered. The Zubat hissed as it howled at the Lycanroc leaving it in a confused state. 

"Lycanroc bite on Zubat!" Felix ordered. But Lycanroc looked around as if it didn't see a Zubat and instead of attacking Gladion's Pokemon, bit down on it's own paw letting out a yelp. "Damn," Felix cursed. 

"Hmph come on is that all you've got?" asked Gladion. Felix clenched his teeth before thrusting his arm forward. 

"Accelrock!" he ordered. Lycanroc once again spun around looking for the Zubat. This time it managed to spot the Pokemon. Lycanroc charged only for it to miss the Pokemon by an inch and slam it's entire body into the side of a nearby tree. "Not again," said Felix face palming himself. 

"Wing attack," Gladion ordered. Zubat's wings began to glow white as it turned around and struck the Lycanroc on the back knocking it back down onto the ground. Felix couldn't believe this, he was battling what seemed to be a level 17 Zubat with a Pokemon that was several levels higher with a type advantage and was still losing. But he couldn't go down, not like this.

"Accelrock!" Felix ordered. This time his Lycanroc shook itself back to normal and locked it's eyes on Zubat. It lunged at the Zubat and struck it right the center of it's stomach and knocked it down to the ground where it lay unconscious. Lycanroc quickly returned to it's trainer as Gladion called back his Pokemon. "Alright, nice work Lycanroc, I knew you could do it," said Felix. Lycanroc let out a happy bark as it licked his trainers face. 

"Hmph, don't get too excited now," said Gladion pulling out a second Pokeball. "Go Silvally," said Gladion calling out his second Pokemon. 

"Wait Silvally, Gladion you have a Silvally too?" asked Starlight. 

"What do you mean too?" asked Gladion. 

"I'll show you what she means," said Felix calling back his Lycanroc and pulling out his second Pokeball. "Go Silvally!" said Felix calling out his Shiny Silvally. As the Pokeball opened, Felix's Silvally emerged and landed  swiftly onto the ground, it's yellow fur sparkling in the sunlight. However instead of it's head and tail fins being pure white, they were colored in an orange tint. Gladion's eyes widened upon laying it onto Felix's Silvally. 

"What a Shiny Silvally, but how?" Gladion asked. 

"Well in all honesty I don't know myself," answered Felix.

"What do you mean, you don't know yourself?" asked Gladion. 

"Truth is I got this Shiny Silvally as a birthday gift from someone named Vincent," answered Felix. 

"Who?" asked Gladion. 

"Vincent," repeated Felix. Confused, Gladion decided to put this battle on hold. For some reason the name seem to linger in his head, as if he knew someone named Vincent except he didn't know where. "Well are we going to continue or what?" asked Felix.

"I'm afraid not, we're putting this battle on hold, in the meantime, you," said Gladion looking over to Starlight. 

"Me?" asked Starlight. Gladion nodded.

"Remind me of your name," said Gladion.

"Starlight, Starlight Glimmer," said Starlight. Starlight Glimmer, yeah no doubt about it this WAS one of the ponies that appeared from the Ultra Wormholes 10 years ago. "Um sorry what does my name have anything to do with this Vincent Felix mentioned?" asked Starlight.

"Listen closely, you've heard about Nova right?" asked Gladion. 

"Nova, you mean that one guy from Team Cosmos, who was always dressing differently from the grunts and was being bossed around by Nebula?" asked Starlight.

"Yeah that's him," said Gladion. "I don't know if you've heard but 10 years ago after Team Cosmos got disbanded, Nova suddenly disappeared without a trace," said Gladion. 

"What you mean he just suddenly disappeared?!" asked Starlight. 

"Yeah, according to rumors he got into an argument with Nebula and ran off before he got a chance to talk. After that he wasn't seen in almost a month and everyone had forgotten about him," answered Gladion. 

"What happened?" asked Starlight.

"Nobody knows for sure, but about a year after the search has started almost everyone in Alola had denied Nova's existence," answered Starlight.

"I've heard about it, apparently everyone said, they've never seen or knew a guy named Nova right?" asked Felix.

"Yeah pretty much," said Gladion. 

"So what does this have to do with this Vincent guy?" asked Felix. 

"About a year and a half after Nova's disappearance, a member of the Aether Foundation named Vincent also disappeared without a trace," answered Gladion.

"What Vincent too?" asked Starlight. 

"Yeah, both of these vanishing was so close to each other we thought there might have been a connection to each other, but since Vincent's disappearance, no other vanishing has been reported," answered Gladion.  "Nobody in Aether knows where or how Vincent disappeared, and the last time anybody saw Vincent was the day he left Aether," 

"Wait what do you mean left Aether?" asked Felix. 

"Vincent was suddenly called down by Aether's Branch Chief, Faba and the day after he got called down, he told everyone in Aether he was leaving for vacation," answered Gladion. "Truth is Lusamine didn't allow him to take the week off, and when she tried confronting Faba, he said he knew nothing about this, since then nobody has seen or heard from Vincent,"

"And you're saying that after all these years Felix got a birthday present from someone who's gone missing for 8 years,"asked Starlight.

"That's what I want to know, how did Vincent manage to get his hands on Shiny Silvally, especially since Faba was the only one who knew about this, where did Vincent go, and why he's suddenly sending birthday gifts to someone he doesn't even know," said Gladion. 

"This is starting to get really weird, we should probably report this to the professor," said Felix. Starlight nodded in agreement. 

"Listen sorry for getting you caught up in my problems, I suggest you take on the trial before you go talk to the professor," said Gladion. 

"Alright," said Felix.  Gladion took out his Pokeball and called back his Silvally and walked past the two in the opposite direction Felix and Starlight had come from. 

"Vincent where are you?" Gladion mumbled to himself. 

"This is getting creepy," said Starlight.

"I understand how you feel, but for now let's just try to focus on the Island Challenge," said Felix. Starlight nodded in agreement as she followed Felix into the Pokemon Center.
> Chapter 14: Versus Totem Araquanid
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Felix and Starlight walked down the hill entering Brooklet hill for Felix's first trial on Akala. He remembered his parents telling him that the water trial captain was a young girl named Lana. However thinking back on what Brawly said back on Melemele, he remembered that ALL the trial captains and kahunas were on some sort of emergency mission and that temporary captains and kahunas were running the trials. If Lana was gone, who could've possibly be running the water trial. Felix's question was answered immediately when he noticed a woman with green shorts and yellow shirt. 

"That's her I suppose," said Felix.

"What?" asked Starlight confused.

"The temporary trial captain of Brooklet hill," answered Felix. 

"Oh yeah, Brawly did say that the actual trial captains and kahunas were out on a emergency mission," said Starlight.

"No matter the trials are still the same no matter what, let's blast through this," said Felix walking towards the gate. Starlight sighed as she ran after Felix. Felix assumed that the woman knew they were behind her cause she turned around before he could reach the gate. 

"Hiya, you here to take the trial?" asked the woman. Felix nodded.

"And I assume you're the temporary trial captain of Brooklet hill?" asked Felix. 

"That's right, my name's Misty, I'm originally the Cerulean City Gym Leader in the Kanto Region, but I was asked to cover for Lana," answered Misty. 

"Great, so what exactly do I have to do?" asked Felix. 

"Simple, there's a group of fish called Wishiwashi here in Brooklet hill, all you need to do is herd them and drive them down the stream into the Totem's Den," said Misty. 

"Hmm, Wishiwashi huh?" said Felix. 

"They don't sound as threatening," said Starlight.

"Allow me," said Rotom flying out of Felix's bag. He pulled up the Dex entry for a small white fish and read out loud. "Wishiwashi, small fry Pokemon, Water type, When it's in a jam, it's shining eyes attract others of it's kind. The light from it's eyes is visible almost 25 miles away," 

"Hmm Water Type, then I suppose I should use Silvally for this trial," said Felix. 

"Oh before I forget, you DO have a ride pager right?" asked Misty. 

"Yeah," answered Felix pulling out a small green object. He remembered when Professor Kukui first gave him this when he started his Island Challenge, he had no clue how this thing worked. All the memories of him having to try a ride a raging Tauros made him feel almost stupid. 

"Lana asked me to give you this before you start your trial," said Misty taking his ride pager. When Felix got his ride pager back he noticed that aside from Tauros and Stoutland another Pokemon was registered. 

"Oh thank god it's a Lapras," said Felix. 

"I'm not gonna question that, so without further ado let's get this trial started!" Misty announced. "I'll see you at the bottom, said Misty running ahead. 

"You ready for this?" asked Felix. 

"Why are you asking me, it's YOUR trial," said Starlight.

"Yeah I guess you're right," said Felix walking through the gate. Starlight smiled and rolled her eyes as she followed Felix in. 



Both Felix and Starlight made their way down Brooklet hill and found Misty waiting at the first lake.

"Look over there," said Misty pointing outwards. Felix and Starlight looked out to see two areas bubbling up. "See those two areas over there, one of those is the Wishiwashi, if you want to herd the Wishiwashi find the right bubbles and battle the Pokemon that emerges," said Misty. 

"Doesn't sound too tough," said Starlight. 

"No it shouldn't be difficult," said Misty. 

"Well I'm ready," said Felix. He pulled out a Pokeball and called out his Silvally. Felix pulled out a yellow colored drive from his bag and inserted it into Silvally. It's eyes flashed yellow as it's head and tail fins changed into the same yellow color as it's eyes. 

"Alright get out there and herd those Wishiwashi," said Misty. Felix took out his ride pager and summoned Lapras from it's Pokeball. Felix pulled of his shirt and shorts to reveal swimming trunks underneath his shorts.

"Wait you had that on this whole time?" asked Starlight.

"No I changed at the Pokemon Center, I figured since it's the water trial things were gonna get a bit wet," answered Felix as he jumped on top of Lapras. "You coming?" Felix asked Starlight. 

"I think I'll stay here," said Starlight.

"Suit yourself," said Felix as he headed out towards the bubbles on the left. 

"So you a friend of his?" asked Misty.

"Well yes and no, I'm not originally from here," answered Starlight.

"Tell me about it," said Misty.



As Felix approached the bubbles he made sure not to make too much noise for he didn't want to scare off the Pokemon. Once he got close enough he pulled out Silvally's Pokeball ready to fight off the Pokemon. But what jumped out wasn't a Wishiwashi, rather it was a small bug with blue eyes and a bubble for a head. "What the hell?" asked Felix. 

"Allow me," said Rotom scanning the Pokemon. "Dewpider, Water Bubble Pokemon, Water Bug Type, It can only breathe oxygen that has dissolved in water, so it wears a water bubble on it's head when it walks around on land," 

"It's not a Wishiwashi, do I still have to battle this thing?" asked Felix.

"Well it's part of the trial so yeah pretty much," answered Rotom.

"Well at least it's weak to my Silvally," said Felix. He tossed his Pokeball and called out his Silvally which landed gracefully on Lapras's back. "Air Slash!" Felix ordered. Silvally jumped up and opened it's mouth as a orb of air began to form. Silvally aimed at the Dewpider and let loose a barrage of blades made of wind striking the Dewpider. The Dewpider let out a pained gurgle before it fell back into the water. "That was easy, let's go see what the other bubbles are," said Felix as he steered Lapras towards the other bubbles. Once again he quietly approached the bubbles to make sure he didn't startle the Pokemon. "Alright get out here," said Felix. This time the guaranteed Wishiwashi emerged and splashed around in the water.

"All right, it's a Wishiwashi," said Rotom. 

"Let's finish this fast, Multi Attack!" Felix ordered. Silvally jumped up and raised it's talons high in the air. Yellow sparks began to appear as it brought it down and slashed at the enemy Wishiwashi with a loud zap. The Wishiwashi let out a pained gurgle like the Dewpider before it jumped back into the water and fled. Felix kept an eye on the Wishiwashi and saw it fall down a nearby ledge and into the next lake. 

"Great job out there!" Misty called out to Felix. But when Felix turned around he noticed the both Misty and Starlight were gone. 

"Wha, where'd they go?" asked Felix. 

"Over here Felix!" Starlight called out to him. Felix quickly turned back around to see both Starlight and Misty on the other side of the lake. 

"How the hell?" asked Felix. Felix decided not to think to much about it and steered Lapras over to where Starlight and Misty were.

"Great hustle out there," said Misty as Felix jumped off. 

"How the hell did you guys get here so fast?" asked Felix calling back Lapras. 

"Teleportation," answered Starlight puffing out her chest. "Neat huh?" 

"You're such a show off," said Felix patting her on the head. 

"Well let's move on shall we?" asked Misty as she ran off. The two looked at each other and smiled as the followed after Misty. 



"Well you know the drill," said Misty.

"Hell yeah I do," said Felix calling Lapras. 

"Meet you on the other side," said Starlight. 

"Sure thing," said Felix as Lapras swam out to the bubbles. 

"Alright let's take the left one this time," said Felix steering Lapras to the bubbles on the left. Just as Felix approached the bubbles he felt something fall on his arm. He looked up to see black clouds appearing over the sky as rain drops began to fall. "Oh great rain," said Felix. "Hopefully it can't be that bad," As Lapras snuck up on the bubbles another Dewpider jumped out and bobbed it's water bubble head. "Let's do this, Air Slash!" Felix ordered. Silvally jumped up and opened it's mouth as the orb of air began to form. Once Silvally locked eyes on the Dewpider, he sent a barrage of blades raining down knocking the Dewpider back into the water. "Alright nice job Silvally," said Felix petting Silvally on it's head. 

"Alright next Wishiwashi," said Rotom. Felix nodded as he steered Lapras to the bubbles across from where he was. Once again Felix slowly and quietly approached the bubbles as another Wishiwashi emerged. "There, Multi Attack!" Felix ordered pointing at the Wishiwashi. Silvally jumped up and raised it's talons as it began to spark with electricity and brought it down hard on the Wishiwashi sending it flying back into the water. "Yes," said Felix.

"Once again, nicely done my fine trial-goer!" Misty called out. Felix steered Lapras over to the other side of lake. He jumped off and called Lapras back as Starlight handed him his bag. 

"Thanks," said Felix.

"No problem," said Starlight. 

"Alright this is it, the Totem Pokemon is just down this hill, strike out with all your strength and gain victory!" said Misty. Starlight shot Felix the biggest smile she could give and nodded.

"Good luck," she said. 

"Don't worry star, I got this," said Felix. The two turned and ran after Misty for the final challenge of the trial. 



"All right there it is, the Totem Pokemon," said Misty pointing out towards the center of the lake where the biggest bubbles were popping out causing large ripples in the water. At this point the rain was falling really hard. 

"Let's do this," said Felix calling out Lapras. Felix remembered what his parents told him. Wishiwashi, the Totem Pokemon of Brooklet hill was tough, but he should have no problem as long as he had either grass or electric type on his team. He jumped up onto Lapras and looked out. "Totem Wishiwashi I'm coming for you," said Felix. Little did he know of the smirk on Misty's face. Once Lapras had swam out, Starlight asked.

"Um Misty is something funny?" 

"Felix, he thinks the Totem Pokemon is Wishiwashi, but he'll soon find out that things aren't the same as they used to be," snickered Misty. Confused Starlight turned her attention towards Felix and decided to watch what would happen. 

"The rain is falling really hard now, at this point all water type moves should be boosted, you sure you're ready?" asked Rotom. 

"Trust me Rotom, the rain may end up boosting water type moves, but my Silvally's Multi Attack should take out the Totem without any problems," said Felix confidently. As Lapras slowly approached the bubbles, it stopped. Lapras looked hesitant to move any closer. Suddenly lighting struck as a large shadow appeared beneath the water. "Here it comes," said Felix. 

"Um Felix what's that?" asked Rotom.

"What's what?" asked Felix looking up. He suddenly noticed a slightly bigger shadow that was slowly approaching the Wishiwashi. Just then as lighting struck two blue lights flashed and the shadow shot forward towards the Wishiwashi. Just then the water burst upwards as multiple Wishiwashi was knocked out of the way in every direction as three large green legs burst out followed by three more. Before he knew it, a giant three legged spider with a blue eyes and head inside a giant water bubble emerged and stood before Felix. Felix's jaw dropped once he saw that the Totem wasn't Wishiwashi. "What the hell!?" he yelped.

"What in the name of Celestia!?" Starlight yelped upon seeing the giant spider. 

"That's it, the Totem of Brooklet hill," said Misty. 

"That ain't Wishiwashi!" Felix yelped. The spider let out a deep toned gurgle as the orange aura suddenly burst to life. "What is that thing?" Felix asked. Rotom quickly flew up to it and scanned the Pokemon. 

"Araquanid, the Water Bubble Pokemon, and the evolved form of Dewpider, It has a habit of storing things it values in it's water bubble. If it's trainer doesn't watch out, Araquanid will try to put them in it's bubble!" said Rotom.

"That ain't safe!" screamed Felix. The Totem Araquanid let out a gurgle as it stomped it's six legs in the water. "Damn it's huge," said Felix.

"You know it, better take it out fast if you don't want to end up in it's bubble!" Misty called out. 

"That ain't funny!" Felix yelled back. Suddenly Araquanid opened it's mouth as it blasted a stream of bubbles at Silvally covering it in water. "Ugh, I ain't going out like this, Multi Attack!"Felix ordered. Silvally shook the water off and lunged at the Totem raising it's talons as it sparked with electricity. Silvally brought it's talon down and slashed right through the water bubble striking the Totem on the head. "Haha got 'em," said Felix. But the Totem shook it off like it was nothing and glared at Felix. "Uh oh," said Felix. Araquanid let out another gurgle startling Felix. Before he knew it another bug appeared next to the Totem. This bug had wings with two large half circles attached to it's head making it look like two large eyes. "Now what?" asked Felix. Rotom quickly scanned the second Pokemon and read it's Dex entry.

"Masquerain, the Eyeball Pokemon, Bug Flying Type, It's thin winglike antennae are highly absorbent. It waits out rainy days in tree hollows," said Rotom.

"And yet its out here in the rain!?" asked Felix. Suddenly the opposing Masquerain hissed at Silvally making it freeze and step back in fear. "What was that?" asked Felix. 

"That was Masquerain's ability Intimidate," said Rotom. 

"Oh great just when I thought this couldn't get any harder," said Felix. Suddenly Araquanid opened its mouth as it let loose another blast of bubbles drenching Silvally. "No you don't, Multi Attack!" ordered Felix. Silvally shook off the water and slashed at the Totem with it's sparking talons. Once again the Totem shook it off like it was nothing. "Damn it," Felix cursed.

"Uh oh," said Rotom. 

"What?" asked Felix. Suddenly the opposing Masquerain began flapping its wings as it launched a barrage of air blades at Silvally. "It can use Air Slash!?" Felix said. Felix could tell that the attack did a large amount of damage seeing how Silvally was wincing and struggled to stay on it's feet. "Silvally hang in there, Multi Attack on the Totem!" Felix ordered. Silvally toughed out the pain as it lunged at the Totem and slashed at it with it's sparking talons. This time the attack seemed to do some damage to the Totem. "Did I get it?" asked Felix. Although the Totem looked beat, the Masquerain wasn't done. It began flapping it's wings as it let loose another Air Slash attack striking Silvally. Silvally let out a pained howl as it collapsed into the water.  "Silvally!" Felix gasped. 

"Oh no," said Starlight as she watched Silvally collapse. 

"Yeah, that Totem isn't like the Wishiwashi, it means business," said Misty. Felix quickly pulled out Silvally's Pokeball and called it back before it could get into anymore harm. He held the Pokeball up hi forehead and closed his eyes. "You did good, take a nice long break ok?" He put Silvally's Pokeball into his bag and pulled out his second ball.He looked at it and nodded. "Its all on you now," He threw it calling out his Lycanroc. The Araquanid gurgled and the Masquerain hissed but Lycanroc didn't seem to care. It growled baring it's teeth at the two. "Alright let's finish this, Accelrock on Araquanid!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc jumped up and lunged at the Totem slamming into it as chunks of rocks burst out and flew off into many directions. The Totem let out a pained gurgle as it collapsed into the water. "Got 'em!" said Felix. 

"but you're not done," said Rotom. The Masquerain hissed as it prepared to attack. "What now?" asked Felix. Suddenly the Masquerain began to flap its' wings as grass and leaves began to condense into a small green orb. 

"It knows Energy Ball too!?" asked Rotom.

"Not gonna happen, Stone Edge!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc howled as it jumped up and slammed it's paws into the ground as multiple pillars of rock burst out of the ground and towards the Masquerain. The Masquerain hissed as it launched the green orb into a pillar of stone causing it to explode. 

"It didn't work!" said Rotom.

"Wait for it," said Felix. Just as the Masquerain thought it was safe on final pillar of rock erupted from beneath it and struck the Masquerain in the middle of the stomach and sent it flying into the water.

"Whoa what?" asked Rotom. 

"Lycanroc wasn't done attacking," said Felix. 

"My goodness you knew that would happen didn't you," said Rotom. 

"Hell yeah I did," said Felix. 

"Well done Felix please come back this way!" Misty called out to them. Felix nodded as he steered Lapras back to shore. "Amazing job Felix," said Misty as Felix jumped off Lapras with Lycanroc. 

"It was nothing really," said Felix. 

"Nothing, that was nothing, are you kidding, I've never seen someone who could stay in total sync with their Pokemon like that," said Misty. "Here I think you deserve this," Misty dove her hand in her short's pocket and pulled out a shiny blue Z-Crystal with a water droplet engraved in the center. "Your very own Waterium Z," Smiling Felix took the Z-Crystal and held it up to the sky. "Now watch closely ok?" said Misty. She started off by forming an X with her arms in front of her face, then swung them up and out and brought them froward with her right arm on top of the left. Then she began sway her arms starting from the left side and ended with both hands pointing upwards with the arms on the right side. "Pretty simple, shouldn't be too hard to remember," said Misty.

"No problem I got it," said Felix. 

"Great oh and one more thing, this is one of Lana's homemade fishing rods, she wanted me to give this to anyone who completed the trial. Felix took the rod and placed it in his bag.

"Thanks," said Felix. 

"Well this is the end of your water trial, the next one is located on Wela Volcano Park, it shouldn't be too hard to find, though if you get lost just ask Rotom," said Misty. 

"Great thanks for everything," said Felix. 

"No problem, good luck on you're Island Challenge, oh and before I forget If you happen to meet someone named Ash Ketchum, say hi to him for me will you?" said Misty. Both Felix and Starlight nodded and waved goodbye to Misty as they made their way back to the Pokemon Center.

"She was nice, wasn't she," said Starlight.

"Definitely," said Felix. 

"Well let's go Felix," said Starlight. Felix nodded in agreement. At this point the rain had stopped and something in the sky had caught Starlight's attention. "Hey Look Felix, a rainbow," said Starlight. Felix looked up to see a bright rainbow stretching across the sky. This was it, he had completed the water trial, yep he felt that something good will happen from this point on. Felix ran after Starlight who had already started off. Meanwhile the dark figure hiding behind the tree came out of hiding and watched the two run off. 

"Hmph Wela Volcano Park," said the figure. He looked up at the sky and gazed at the rainbow. "That rainbow, if only it had been created by Necrozma, could things have ended differently?" The figure looked back down and walked in the direction towards Paniola Town.
> Chapter 15: Team Aqua
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

It was another quiet day in darkness corrupted Equestria and several royal guards waited out in the royal garden. The Ultra Recon Squad had helped illuminate Celestia's Castle using their technology so that the area around them wasn't as dark. Princess Celestia had sent out a notice to Captain Celaeno several hours earlier asking for support. If what Lusamine said was true, then Necrozma would surely show up in Equestria any time soon. When that happened Celestia would need help to calm the beast. While the group waited, Alexa went around interviewing and talking to the mane 5 and Spike about their lives in Equestria. 

"Ugh we get it Pinkie Pie, you've told that story for the 10th time already," groaned Rainbow Dash tired of Pinkie Pie repeating the same story. 

"Oh come on Rainbow, I thought this one was your favorite," laughed Pinkie. 

"Yeah but now that we've heard it for the 10th time, it's just getting annoying," said Rainbow. 

"Oh ok then," said Pinkie.

"It's fine, thanks for the story again Pinkie," said Alexa. 

"No problem miss Alexa!" laughed Pinkie. Suddenly the double doors opened as two guards walked in. 

"Ahem sorry to interrupt, but they've arrived," said one of the guards.

"Alright Let them in," ordered Celestia. The guards bowed as they quickly walked out and stepped off to the side. Suddenly five anthropomorphic parrots walked in. Four were green feathered while the 5th was white feathered. All five were dressed in pirate attires as they walked. "You must be Captain Celaeno," said Celestia. 

"That's me," said the white feathered Pirate Parrot. 

"We're so glad you could make it on a short notice," said Celestia.

"Well it wasn't exactly easy, but we tried," said Celaeno. "So what's the trouble?" asked Celaeno. 

"Why don't we let her do all the explaining," said Celestia turning towards Lusamine. 

"Nice to meet you, I'm Lusamine, the President of Aether Foundation," said Lusamine. "Our job is to protect the lives of many innocent Pokemon from harm,"

"I don't exactly know what you're talking about but, nice to meet you, Captain Celaeno," she said. "And this is my crew, Boyle, Lix Spittle, Murdock, and Grin," The pirate parrots all finished their introductions finally giving time for Lusamine to explain. "So what's the problem?" Celaeno asked again. Lusamine took a deep breath as begin to explain the situation that Equestria was in. Everything from Necrozma, to the Ultra Beasts, The Ultra Recon Squad, and so forth. Once Lusamine finished her explanation, she could tell that the pirate parrots were feeling uneasy. "So what you're saying is this Necrozma or whatever is planning to steal Equestria's Light," said Celaeno.

"I have a feeling it's not just Equestria, but our world as well," said Lusamine. Celaeno scratched her chin before responding. 

"Alright we'll do what we can, in the meantime you give us the orders," said Celaeno. 

"Got it," said Lusamine.

"So what now?" asked Rainbow Dash. 

"Well first things first we have to..." But Lusamine's statement was cut short when the guards outside their door started screaming and a loud crashing sound was heard. 

"What in tarnations is going on out there?" asked Applejack. Suddenly the door burst open as two large black and grey canines entered. Both of them growling at the stunned group. 

"What in the name of Equestria?" asked Cadence. Suddenly a group of people ran in and began circling the group. All of them were black blazers with a rainbow R imprinted on the center. They had grey gloves and boots with black hats and rainbow belts. 

"What's going on here?" asked Rarity. Suddenly three more figures walked in, two males and one female. The female was had long black hair with yellow goggles and a blue top with the letter A in the shape off a white circle with the ends in the shape of bones imprinted on her chest. Her belly was showing and her pants seemed to be one piece of clothing along with her boots. One of the male was shirtless and had blue gloves and was wearing pants similar to the female. The same A logo was tattooed on his chest and had a golden chain around his neck. The man the center of the three was wearing a black shirt with the same logo imprinted on the center of his shirt and was wearing a chain necklace and a blue bandana with the same A logo on the center. His black pants along with his shirt made him blend in with the other group of people surround the ponies The man in the center looked around and laughed. 

"Hmph so this is what I had to deal with, man that guy from Ultra Aether really know how to play it," He looked at the ponies and laughed. "Seriously ponies, that scamp trying to play jokes on me,"

"Who are you and what do you think you're doing here?" asked Cadence. The man looked at her and puffed out his chest.

"The name's Archie, I'm the Leader of Team Aqua, to be honest I don't know how I managed to get here," said the man. "But when that guy from Ultra Aether told me he would reward me big if I got my hands on the Legendary Pokemon Necrozma, I knew that maybe it wouldn't be so bad," said Archie. 

"What are you planning to do?" asked Lusamine. 

"I've been tryin' to figure out a way to get back to my own home, and I do want to go back eventually, but I find myself thinking," said Archie. "Maybe I should make this world more like my ideal while I'm here anyway," 

"What are you planning to do?" asked Celestia. 

Archie snickered as he answered,"Back in my world, Pokemon are suffering due to the actions of those foolish humans who wants to take away the sea by polluting the oceans, I couldn't forgive those humans, so I flooded the entire world with nothin' but water and before I knew it, all the Pokemon were happy," "If I can flood this world with water and bring the Pokemon here, not a single fish would have to fight for territory," 

"You mean, you're planning to overload Equestria with water?!" Rarity asked.

"I've got the Sea Basin Pokemon Kyogre, with it's power to control the rains, I'll call down a great deluge to wash away this world's land!" Archie exclaimed. 

"We won't let you get away with this," said Celestia.  

"Oh so you want to get in my way, just like that buffoon from Team Magma, well then you little scamps it's the ropes end for you and your Pokemon!" exclaimed Archie. 

"Everyone please let me handle this," said Lusamine.  Archie pulled out a purple Pokeball with the letter M and threw it to call out his first Pokemon.

"Go Mightyena!" The ball opened to call out the same canine with grey and black fur with red eyes. 

"Clefable go!" said Lusamine throwing her Poke ball to summon a large pink creature with pointed ears small wings and a curly tail. The Mightyena growled at the Clefable causing it to whimper and step back in fear. "Clefable don't worry I'm here for you," said Lusamine. Clefable regained it's courage and faced the opposing Pokemon. 

Archie smirked as he thrusted his arm forward,"Thunder Fang!" Mightyena lunged forward and opened it's jaws revealing electricity sparking out from the fangs. It bit down on the Clefable's arms causing it to yelp in pain. 

"Shake it off!" Lusamine ordered. Clefable started thrashing it's body wildly eventually throwing off the Mightyena. "Good now use Dazzling Gleam!" Lusamine ordered. Clefable turned towards Mightyena as it raised both arms up and thrusted them forward as a bright light struck the Mightyena square in the chest. The Mightyena howled as it collapsed on the ground unconscious. Archie called back his Pokemon and pulled out a second Pokeball. 

"You did good scamp, but I'm not done yet, Go Crobat!" yelled Archie throwing his Pokeball. The ball burst open as a four winged purple bat with glowing yellow eyes popped out. Lusamine called back her Pokemon and pulled out another Pokeball and threw it.

"Go Milotic!" the ball opened as a long slender serpent appeared. The end of it's tail was sparkling with the red and blue scales.   

"Crobat, Cross Poison!" Archie ordered. Crobat's wings begin to glow as a purple substance surrounded it. Crobat charged at Milotic at full speed and slashed it directly in the chest. before flying back to it's trainer.

"Milotic are you ok!?" Lusamine asked. Milotic looked back and nodded ready to fight. "Blizzard!" Lusamine ordered. Milotic began moving in a graceful dance as it whipped up a gust of freezing air and howled at the Crobat striking it out of the sky. The ponies around Lusamine clapped their hooves  as Archie called back his Pokemon. He pulled out a third Pokeball and threw it.

"Go Muk!" The ball popped open to summon a pile of purple glob. 

"Another one, well it shouldn't take too long," said Lusamine. "Blizzard!" Once again Milotic began to dance as it whipped up a gust of freezing air. It let out a howl as Muk was struck in the face only for it to take it like a wall of poison. 

"Nice try scamp, Gunk Shot!" Archie ordered. Muk inhaled as it spit out a giant ball of purple substance hitting the Milotic and knocking it unconscious. 

"Milotic return!" said Lusamine calling back her Pokemon. She quickly took out here third Pokeball and threw it. "Go Mismagius!" The ball opened as a purple ghost appeared. It's head looked like it was wearing a hat, three small red jewels hung on it's chest and it's red and yellow eyes glared at the Muk. "Shadow Ball!" Lusamine ordered. Mismagius started to absorb black energy that began to build up into a shadowy blob and hurled it at the opposing Muk. Once again Muk took the attack but this time not as well. 

"Muk, Gunk Shot!" Archie ordered. Muk inhaled and once again spit out a giant ball of purple substance which Mismagius dodged immediately as it fell threatening to strike it. 

"Shadow Ball!" Lusamine ordered. Mismagius begin absorbing black energy and forming the shadowy blob which it hurled at the Muk to take it out for good," Archie sneered as he called back his Pokemon. 

"So far so good," said Applejack. Archie pulled out his fourth Pokeball and threw it. 

"Go Sharpedo!" said Archie. The ball popped open as a large blue shark with a white underbelly and red eyes emerged. The yellow star on it's forehead completely outmatched the white and blue. Lusamine called back her Pokemon and pulled out another in replacement. 

"Go Lilligant!" said Lusamine calling out a green flower with petals for hands and a small orange flower attached to it's head like a crown. "Petal Blizzard!" Lusamine ordered. Lilligant began to dance around as it began to whip up a storm of leaves and grass and threw it at the Sharpedo taking it out in one hit. Archie growled as he called back his Pokemon. While the ponies gathered around Lusamine to cheer her on. 

"You think you've won scamp?" asked Archie. "Well tough luck I still have one more," said Archie pulling one last Pokeball.

"Bring it," said Lusamine. 

Archie threw the Pokeball to summon a large blue Orca whale with red markings, white underbelly, white spots, and glowing yellow eyes.  "Go Kyogre!"

"What the hay!?" Rainbow screamed.  Kyogre roared as a dark cloud appeared over the group's head. Before anyone could question anything it began to rain. 

"Lilligant Petal Blizzard!" Lusamine ordered. Lilligant danced as it whipped up a storm of grass and leaves and attacked. However Kyogre took the attack as if nothing happened.

"Ice Beam!" Archie ordered. Kyogre inhaled and breathed out letting loose a blast of ice knocking out Lilligant in one hit. Lusamine called back her Pokemon as she pulled out another Pokeball. 

"Go Mismagius!" said Lusamine calling out her ghost type Pokemon. "Shadow Ball!" she ordered. Mismagius began to charge up the shadowy blob and hurled it doing massive damage. 

"Hydro Pump!" Archie ordered. Kyogre quickly inhaled before blasting a stream of water at Mismagius nearly taking it out. 

"Mismagius can you keep going?' Lusamine asked. Mismagius let out a screech and turned to face Kyogre. "Alright let's finish this Shadow Ball!" Lusamine ordered Mismagius built up the shadowy blob and hurled it at Kyogre one final time taking it out for good. Archie called back his Pokemon growling as the ponies ran over to Lusamine cheering.

"Like I figured," growled Archie.  

"Alright we beat you now please leave this place without any more trouble," said Lusamine. 

"All right, all right you've made your point, I can see you 're not one to be trifled with," said Archie. "But I'll have you know that just because you beat me here, doesn't mean I won't return," said Archie. "I'm sure we will meet again someday, but for now I'll leave you," said Archie. He turned around and walked out the door with the other two people standing behind him and the group of people along with the two canines. 

"Yeah beat it!" said Rainbow Dash.

"We really appreciate what you did for us," said Celestia. 

"I did what I could," said Lusamine. 

"It was more than enough," said Cadence.

"We managed to scare them off, but who are they?" asked Spike.

"I don't know, but hopefully they were only kidding when he said they'll return," said Lusamine.
> Chapter 16: UB Adhesive
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Felix and Starlight walked out of the Pokemon Center ready to head over to Wela Volcano Park to tackle their next trial. As they walked Felix held up his shiny new Waterium Z up to the sun to see it reflect light. 

"You excited to test it out?' asked Starlight.

"You know I am, in fact this should help me with my next trial," answered Felix.

"That would be the case, that is if you had a water type," said Starlight. Felix's hopes were instantly crushed to find out that Starlight was right. He knew that he couldn't give this to Silvally since he would already be holding the water type memory drive. 

"Damn it I knew I should've caught that Wishiwashi when I had the chance," said Felix. 

"Hey relax, I'm sure you'll be able to find another water type before the trial," said Starlight. 

"I hope you're right," said Felix. 

"Trust me you'll be fine," said Starlight winking. 

"Hey look," said Rotom pointing forward. The two turned to see two strange trees blocking their path. Both had small green balls attached to their hands like leaves and small yellow dots on their stomach. 

"Are those trees?" asked Starlight.

"No their Sudowoodos," answered Felix.

"Allow me," said Rotom scanning the two trees. "Sudowoodo, Imitation Pokemon, the evolved form of Bonsly, The result of it's holding the same pose all the time is arms that have become supple yet strong," read Rotom.

"Truth is they may look like trees so you may think they're grass type, but they're really rock type," said Felix.

"So water types have an advantage?" asked Starlight.

"Hmm you learn quick my little apprentice," answered Felix. "One dose of Waterium Z should do the trick," said Felix inserting the blue Z-Crystal into his Z-Power Ring. However instead of engaging in a battle, both Sudowoodos turned around and ran off. 

"Well that was easy," said Starlight. Suddenly a familiar voice spoke up from behind them. 

"Oho, These Sudowoodo are fascinating Pokemon as well, worthy of being a research topic all on their own!" The two watched as both Phyco and Soliera of the Ultra Recon Squad walked up next to them. "The way they mimic plants in order to avoid water.... How very interesting," said Phyco.  

"Just as our research suggested, Captain Phyco," said Soliera.

"Indeed...We must gather data about Pokemon if we want to win Pokemon battles after all," said Phyco. The two turned around and faced Felix and Starlight. "That being said, there is no need for us to use these odd Alolan Pokemon," said Phyco.

"What do you mean?" asked Felix. Phyco turned to Soliera and nodded,"Soliera, if you would be so kind...."

"Trainer could I ask you to face me in a Pokemon battle?" asked Soliera. 

"Well I mean we're not in a rush or anything so I guess it's fine," answered Felix. 

"Then I will face you with my Poipole," said Soliera pulling out a beast ball. Soliera threw her ball and called out a mysterious purple creature. The thing was small and glowing blue eyes. Three small needles were sticking out on the top of it's head making it look like some kind of stinger.

"Go Silvally!" said Felix throwing his Pokeball to call out his Pokemon. 

"Hmm what an interesting looking Pokemon," said Phyco scratching his mustache.

"So is yours," said Felix. 

"Well we'll see which one is more rare in a minute," said Soliera pulling out a small yellow bottle. She pointed the bottle at her Pokemon and sprayed it with some sort of substance. 

"Oh great," said Felix.

"What is it?" asked Starlight.

"She just used a X Special Defense," answered Felix. 

"What does it do?" asked Starlight.

"It raises the opponent's Pokemon's Special Defense by two stages, so that Special Attacks can't do as much damage," answered Felix. 

"That doesn't sound good," said Starlight. 

"Damn Straight it doesn't," said Felix. "Silvally, Iron head!" Felix ordered. Silvally's head suddenly turned into a light grayish color as it charged at Poipole and slammed it in the stomach. 

"Hmm interesting," said Soliera. "Charm," she ordered. Poipole began dancing around as small hearts began to pop out and around Poipole. Silvally took one look and shook itself to keep itself from falling for the opposing Pokemon. 

"Oh great," groaned Felix. 

"What now?" asked Starlight.

"She just lowered Silvally's Attack Stat by two stages. answered Felix. "Well no matter, Iron Head!" Felix ordered. Silvally's head began to shine in the same light grayish color as it slammed itself against Poipole's stomach, however Poipole shook it off like nothing mattered. "Damn it, that barely did anything," groaned Felix. 

"Charm," Soliera ordered. Poipole began to dance around again as more hearts began to pop out of Poipole. Silvally shook it's head trying hard not to fall for it's looks. 

"Multi Attack!" Felix ordered. Silvally lunged at the Poipole while raising it's talons. It's talons began glowing in a white light as Silvally slashed Poipole. Silvally quickly returned to it's trainer only to find Poipole not fazed. 

"Venoshock!" Soliera ordered. A large puddle of purple ooze suddenly appeared beneath Poipole. As it screeched. a stream of ooze shot out and struck Silvally in the chest. 

"Silvally are you alright?" asked Felix. Silvally looked back at it's trainer and nodded. "Alright Multi Attack!" Felix ordered. Silvally lunged at Poipole while raising it's talons as it began to glow in the white light. Silvally brought it down slashing Poipole, this time doing actual damage. "Yes nice work Silvally!" Felix complimented. 

"Venoshock," Soliera ordered. Another small puddle of purple ooze appeared beneath Poipole, as another stream of ooze shot out and struck Silvally on the left side of it's face. 

"Silvally steady," Felix ordered. Silvally shook off the remaining of the purple ooze and readied itself by getting into battle stance. 

"Hmm you're strong, but let's see if you can keep going," Soliera smirked as she pulled out a yellow spray with an orange handle. She held it up and sprayed Poipole on the wounds completely healing it from the damage it had taken earlier. 

"Oh come on a Super Potion!?" Felix groaned. "Fine you wanna play like that, Air Slash!" Felix ordered. Silvally opened it's mouth as a small orb of air began forming over it's mouth. It thrusted it's head forward towards Poipole as multiple blades of air struck Poipole in the chest. However Poipole didn't look fazed as if the attack didn't do anything. 

"Venoshock," Soliera ordered. Poipole launched a stream of purple ooze, from the puddle that appeared beneath it, at Silvally. Silvally was once again struck and struggled to stay on it's feet. It winced as a small drop of tear appeared over it's eye. 

"Silvally hang in there," said Felix pulling out a super potion of his own. He quickly sprayed the wounds healing Silvally before it could take anymore hits. 

"Toxic," Soliera ordered. Poipole screeched as it emitted a nasty purple gas that surrounded Silvally. Silvally began to gasp and cough as it's face began to glow in a deep shade of purple. 

"Oh shit," cursed Felix.

"What?" asked Starlight. 

"Silvally just got poisoned," Felix answered.

"Poisoned!? Quick take it to a Pokemon Center so he can be healed," said Starlight. 

"I can't I have to finish this battle," said Felix. "Iron Head!" Felix ordered. Silvally gasped as it's head began to glow in the light grayish color and headbutted Poipole in the stomach. Poipole yelped as it backed up from the impact. "Alright finally some damage," said Felix. Suddenly Silvally began to cough as it began to tremble. "Silvally hang in there," said Felix. "Iron Head one more time!" Felix ordered. Silvally lunged at Poipole and tackled it with it's metallic head causing Poipole to flinch. "Alright nice job Silvally," However Silvally only seemed to be getting worse. 

"Felix," said Starlight. 


"Don't worry I got this," said Felix. "Let's finish this with an Air Slash!" Felix ordered. Silvally opened it's mouth as it began to charge up the attack. Once it was fully charged Silvally thrusted it's head forward and struck Poipole with a barrage of air blades. Poipole let out a pained screech as it collapsed.

"Poipole return," said Soliera calling back her Pokemon. 

"Alright we did it we beat Soliera," cheered Felix. 

"It is not Poipole that failed in this battle, It is I, as a trainer, who have failed," said Soliera slumping down. 

"Alright Silvally let's get you fixed up," said Felix. pulling out a first aid kit. He opened the case and pulled out a small stick like object and called over his Pokemon. Silvally walked over and let Felix rub the stick over it's chest as the poison was attracted to it like a magnet and was absorbed by the stick. Before Starlight knew it, Silvally looked in better shape in no time. "There feel better?" asked Felix. Silvally let out a happy screech as it nuzzled Felix.

"What was that?" asked Starlight. 

"What oh this?" asked Felix holding up the stick. "This thing is a tool that allows trainers to heal their Pokemon's status condition after each battle," answered Felix. "We call this Pokemon Refresh," said Felix. 

"Cool, I assume this is a function where you get to care for you're Pokemon?" asked Starlight. 

"That's right," Felix answered. The two turned towards both Phyco and Soliera who were still watching them. 

"Thank you very much," said Soliera. "I was able to understand Poipole better, but it seems my Pokemon battle skills leave much to be desired," 

"That Z-Power Ring of yours, it's light feels somehow nostalgic," said Phyco. 

"Do you think it is the same light our ancestors gazed upon?" asked Soliera. "The light said to have come from the Blinding One?" 

"Who can tell, yet is our duty as the Ultra Recon Squad to find that out," answered Phyco. The two greeted Felix and Starlight farewell before walking off in the direction the two originally came from. 

"Well that was weird," said Starlight. 

"True but none of that matters right now, come on let's continue to Wela Volcano Park," said Felix. Starlight nodded as the two continued down the path.
> Chapter 17: Larry and Celestia
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Celestia walked down the corridors of her castle talking to local ponies and giving out orders to her guards. Although nothing has happened since the permanent Solar Eclipse, the ponies, dragons, even the changeling's paranoia continued to spread like wildfire. Completely unsure, she had Dulse return to Alola to fetch the so-called Champion. From what Luna could salvage from her memories, the Champion had acted like the guardian of Alola and was responsible for ensuring peace throughout the nation. When she received the news of his arrival, Celestia wasted no time to go visit this Larry Dawes. She came to stop in front of the dining room which had been converted into a briefing area under the request of the Champion himself. Celestia sighed and knocked on the door as a male's voice responded from inside. 

"Come in," Celestia opened the door and walked in with high expectations for the Champion. But when she took one look her hopes were immediately crushed. What she saw was an empty room with a young man sitting in the seat across from where she was. The only problem was he looked too young, almost 17 or 18 in human years. Was this the Champion Dulse had mentioned? If so then there must've been a mix-up. Celestia knew that there was absolutely no way this human could've been the guardian. Her thoughts were interrupted when the figure spoke up. "Something wrong your majesty?"

"Um excuse me?" asked Celestia shaking her thoughts out. 

"I asked if something was wrong your majesty," repeated the figure concerned. Celestia couldn't form words. How could she ask questions without offending him? "Your Majesty, i'm not trying to sound offensive or anything, and well I can't tell if it's from your fur, but you look pale, are you alright?" asked the figure slowly sitting up. 

"Uh yes, I'm fine," answered Celestia. 

"Are you certain?" asked the human. 

"Definitely," answered Celestia. 

"Alright then, I don't need you to go fainting on me now," said the human. 

"Um I hate to sound rude but, you're the champion?" asked Celestia.

"Indeed," answered the human.

"But you're too young to be running an entire nation," stuttered Celestia. She quickly covered her mouth were her hooves realizing that she might've just offended him. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to-"

"No its fine, I understand that seeing a 17 year old protecting an entire region must be quite a shock to you," interrupted the human. 

"Well of course," said Celestia. 

"But you got one thing wrong, I don't run a nation, I'm just doing my part in protecting the Alola region from other worldly threats just as the Island Kahunas and Guardian Deities are doing," said the human.

"Even so, it's terrible for making a youth work in terrible conditions is it not?" asked Celestia. 

"To be honest many would think of the same, however I swore my loyalty to the Guardians that I would protect and act as a role model for all of Alola, and plus if it means I can get back massages, free meals at restaurants, first call in everything, fans who admire the champion while being strong and unbeatable all at the same time, I wouldn't give up my role anytime sooner," answered the human. That completely caught Celestia off guard. Back massage, free meals, first call in everything? What kind of life was this guy going through? She NEVER got back massages from anypony even if she asked.

"Well, that's nice," said Celestia. 

"Oh how rude of me, I didn't even give out proper introductions," said the human. "I'm Larry, Larry Dawes," said the human.

"Princess Celestia," she said. 

"Well it's a pleasure to meet you," said Larry. 

"Back at you Larry Dawes," said Celestia smiling. 

"Wow you're good," said Larry.

"I try," said Celestia. 

"Anyway, is there something I can help you with?" asked Larry sitting back down in his chair. 

"We need your help Mr. Dawes," Celestia answered in a serious tone. 

"Ah yes of course, if I say that Necrozma could be a prime suspect of what happened here, it would mostly likely make the situation worse, fortunately Necrozma is yet to be blamed for," said Larry.

"What do you mean?" asked Celestia taking a seat next to him. 

"It's true that you and your sister has the power to raise and lower the sun and moon, am I correct?" asked Larry.

"Right on point," answered Celestia. 

Larry scratched his chin,"Well this is certainly troublesome," said Larry. 

"Is something the matter?" asked Celestia.

"You say that the skies grew dark at the same time the Solar Eclipse took place right?" asked Larry. Celestia nodded with a confused look. "Necrozma can steal the light of a single world, but to cause a permanent Solar Eclipse?" 

"Is there anyway we can fix this?" asked Celestia. 

"The darkness over Equestria yes, the permanent Solar Eclipse I don't know," answered Larry. 

"And the Ultra Beast invasion?" asked Celestia. 

"Ah yes that's right, the Ultra Beasts," said Larry. "Well for now I suggest we focus on the real threat," said Larry.

"Necrozma," said Celestia.

"He's the biggest problem we have to deal with especially since we recently discovered that he can open Ultra Wormholes," said Larry. 

"Those portals that lead into the beasts world?" asked Celestia. 

"Yes, it's obvious that if we don't try to halt Necrozma in his tracks, he'll most likely attempt to summon Ultra Wormholes in order to escape, but there is a likely chance that some other Wormhole will open up someplace else," answered Larry. 

"If only we had more knowledge on Necrozma, we'll let you deal with the planning for now, but we'll also try to support you as much as we can," said Celestia. 

"Appreciate it," said Larry. 

"Is there anything I can do for you at this moment?' asked Celestia. 

"Just sit and wait, I'll explain everything a moment when the others arrive," answered Larry.

"Others?" asked Celestia. Suddenly a knock was heard from the other side of the dinning room door. 

"Come in," Larry said. The door opened as Lusamine, an member of the Ultra Recon Squad, Team Cosmos Boss Nebula, Colress, and two other humans walked in followed by Princess Ember, King Thorax, Luna, Cadence, Shining Armor, six ponies from the ancient times, and queen of the hippogriffs. "Oh good you're all here, please do take a seat," said Larry. Celestia watched as her sister Cadence and Shining Armor took the three seats to her right. 

"You're early sister," said Luna. 

"I was just uh, discussing about what are plans are going to be from here on out," said Celestia. Once everyone had settled in their seats, Larry stood up from his seat to start the meeting.

"Welcome all, I would like to thank you all for taking your time off to attend this meeting," said Larry. 

"So what's this announcement you wanted us to hear?" asked Nebula. 

"Right so all of you are aware of the current situation here in Equestria right?" asked Larry. Everyone nodded their heads in unison. 

"Well let's just say that I know things are looking bad right now but I've already discussed this with Celestia," said Larry. "And well during my 5 hours I've been here, I've noticed that something definitely seems off," 

"Yeah no kidding," said Ember. 

"Sorry to break it to you Ember, but I'm afraid that's not what I meant," said Larry. 

"What?" asked Luna shocked. 

"What did you mean?" asked the queen. 

"Please Queen Novo don't rush me," said Larry. "As I was saying, from my observations it appears that Equestria is currently the only world that's submerged in darkness," announced Larry. Everyone in the room gasped as they started chatting with one another. 

'Wait what did you mean by that?" asked an stallion with a grey beard and wizards outfit. 

"Starswirl the bearded wasn't it?" asked Larry. "You must be the leader of the Pillars," said Larry. 

"Indeed I am," answered Starswirl. 

"The Alola Region, the world that was supposed to be the target of a single Pokemon by the name of Necrozma, was thought to have it's light stolen, however Alola still has it's light and Equestria is the world covered in darkness," answered Larry. 

"We still don't know if Necrozma is responsible for this but one things for sure is that the permanent Solar Eclipse is caused by some other unknown force," added Celestia. 

"I would would explain Necrozma and it's motives, but Phyco of the Ultra Recon Squad has more in depth knowledge about Necrozma, therefore I would Like to invite Ultra Recon Member Phyco to give a brief explanation of Necrozma," said Larry. Phyco stood up and walked up to the front of the room where Larry was standing and introduced himself.

"Just as the Champion states, I am Phyco, The Captain of The Ultra Recon Squad," said Phyco. "I want to thank the Champion for that introduction, and once again, as he states I'll do my best to explain Necrozma," Everyone all looked up to listen to Phyco. "First off Necrozma is creature hailing from the world beyond Alola, he travels through otherworldly portals called Ultra Wormholes in order to travel to different worlds, he has been called the legendary Pokemon that steals light and is considered as a very hostile and dangerous creature known to all mankind," said Phyco. Everyone in the room looked at each other with worried looks. 

"Wait so you're saying that this Necrozma stole Equestria's light?" asked Thorax. 

"Like I said, we can't be sure that Necrozma was truly behind this terrible act, but we can say that he is a likely suspect," answered Larry. 

"We, The Ultra Recon Squad, are using our technology to hold Necrozma captive in our world to prevent him from doing any severe damage," announced Phyco. "But so far our technologies are starting to weaken, Necrozma's awakening is close, but we can ensure you that we are doing everything in our power to calm this terrifying beast," Phyco turned around and walked back to his seat allowing Larry to take over. 

"Thanks Phyco," so now that you know a little bit about Necrozma, I would like to invite up Aether Foundation President Lusamine, and International Police Members Anabel and Looker to explain to you a little bit about Ultra Beasts," said Larry. Lusamine, Anabel, and Looker got up and walked to the front taking Phyco's spot.

"Thanks Larry," said Lusamine. "I am Lusamine, President of the Aether Foundation, our job is to find and protect creatures called Pokemon from people who harm them for their own selfish reasons," said Lusamine. 

"And I am Looker, I am a member of the International Police, and this is my chief Anabel," said Looker. "As Larry said, we will be explaining to you all a little bit about Ultra Beasts," 

"Ultra Beasts?" The pillars began to whisper among each other before Starswirl silenced them. 

"First things first, unlike any normal creatures, Ultra Beasts are considered to be much more deadly and hostile compared to other Pokemon and animals," said Lusamine. "They are otherworldly beings that appeared in Alola terrorize the people and Pokemon of the Alola Region,"

"In short you could say they are a little bit like Aliens," added Looker. 

"The Ultra Beasts live in unknown habitats completely different from our world called Ultra Space, and they travel through Ultra Wormholes in order to enter Alola," said Anabel. "As Ultra Wormholes open, mysterious auras called Beast Boost showers down from the Wormhole down into the world we live in," 

"The Ultra Beasts have the ability to sniff out these auras and immediately track down the source of the aura," said Looker.

"However we have come to find that Ultra Beasts are not the only one who can enter Ultra Wormholes, humans like us and other creatures can also enter these Wormholes," said Lusamine. 

"However those not an Ultra Beast, enters a wormhole, they will be covered in Beast Boost and will be hunted by the Ultra Beast as soon as they sniff you out," said Anabel.

"Those who have traveled through Ultra Wormholes and is not an Ultra Beast, we have dubbed them as Fallers," said Looker. 

"Finally Ultra Beasts can come in different shapes and sizes, and each and every one has different characteristics, their is never a time when there is only one of a certain kind of Ultra Beast, thus multiple of one Ultra Beast have been sighted in the past," said Lusamine. 

"That's pretty much it, thanks, you guys can sit down," said Larry. The three quickly returned to their seats as Larry continued the meeting. "So now that you know a little bit about Ultra Beasts, and Ultra Wormholes, I'll get straight into the reason why I called you all here," said Larry.  "First things first, Necrozma is not an Ultra Beast and yet he has the ability to open Wormholes like the Ultra Beasts," said Larry. "This is considered a huge problem because Necrozma has a tendency to summon more than one Ultra Wormholes at once," "When this happens it's no doubt that an Ultra Beast will enter Equestria and start creating chaos," 

"I don't like the sound of that," said Cadence. 

"I've discussed this with Celestia and we came to a conclusion that Necrozma will be our first priority," said Larry. 

"If we can prevent Necrozma from opening any Wormholes to escape into, then we can surely prevent an Ultra Beasts from entering Equestria," said Celestia. 

"Which leads me to the point, I have assigned Anabel, Looker, and Lusamine to creating a group of trainers to form the Ultra Beast Task Force, in order to stop any Ultra Beasts in their tracks once they enter Equestria," said Larry. "In the meantime, Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and Shining Armor, I want you four to build up an armed force group that can help fight off Necrozma when he appears in Equestria, Colress and The Ultra Recon Squad will be in charge of building technology to help fight back against Necrozma and the Ultra Beasts," "Ember, Thorax, and Queen Novo, I want all three of you to create an army of Changelings, Dragons, and Hippogriffs and communicate with Nebula and Team Cosmos to map out a plan on how to stop Necrozma in case he does show up," "And finally the Pillars, I want you to focus mainly on evacuation, and support," said Larry.  "Now that I've given you all a task, are there any questions?" Larry shrugged when nobody responded. "Alright that's that, if you need anything I'll be here, just come talk to me if there is anything you are unsure of, in the meantime Dismissed," said Larry. Everyone got up and walked out the door. But Celestia turned and asked before she walked out.

"Do you really think this would work?"

"Trust me I know what I'm doing," said Larry. Celestia nodded as she walked out closing the door behind her. 

"I know it's going to work, it has to," mumbled Larry.
> Chapter 18: V.S. Ultra Aether
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Gladion walked out of Lush Jungle still unsure if he should be trusting that Gardenia Lady. It was true she had been covering for Mallow but still, she was a stranger to Alola's shores. But even if he didn't trust her it was still worth checking out the Aether lab on route 8. If all doesn't go well, hopefully that new Admin of Team Cosmos Argo should have some clue to where the three other ponies were. Specifically that purple unicorn pegasi hybrid that had the pet dragon. Silvally nudged Gladion by his side looking concerned for it's trainer. 

"I'm fine, thanks buddy," said Gladion. He looked up at the sky. "I wonder how much longer until this scene is taken from us," said Gladion. He looked down at Silvally and nodded. "Let's go," said Gladion. Silvally followed after it's trainer as he made his way down route 8 towards the Aether lab. Meanwhile he didn't notice the two figures walking out from behind the boulder. 

"That trainer," said the left figure.

"Yes it's no doubt that he'll be able to lead us to the Ultra Beast that girl had," said the figure to the right. 

"Let's follow after him," said the left figure. The quickly but quietly walks out and follows after Gladion trying to hide themselves best as possible. 

As Gladion walked down the path he noticed two figures approaching him from the distance. "Dexio, Sina didn't think to see you here," said Gladion. 

"Just doing our job," said Dexio.  "Where you headed right now?" Dexio asked.

"The Aether Lab near the entrance of Dividing Peak Tunnel," answered Gladion. 

"Oh perhaps to go see Argo and the three ponies?" asked Sina.

"So they ARE there aren't they," said Gladion. 

"Yeah and apparently your sister as well," said Dexio.

"My sister, you met Lillie?" asked Gladion. 

"We did indeed, well we better be off, the Champion has asked us to complete more tedious tasks," said Dexio. 

"I guess I'll see guys around then," said Gladion. He watched as Dexio and Sina walked off in the other direction, towards Lush Jungle. "Come on Silvally lets keep going," said Gladion. 



"What did he say?" asked Lillie. Argo took off his headset and turned around in his chair. 

"The Champion asked us to keep an eye out for any strange happenings here in Alola," answered Argo. 

"Well that's unfortunate considering that nothing has happened so far," said Trixie. 

"Don't get ahead of yourself Trixie, you don't wanna jinx it," said Argo. Suddenly a knock on the door grabbed everyone's attention. "Come in!" Argo called out. The door slid open as Gladion walked in. 

"Gladion," said Argo.

"Brother!?" gasped Lillie. Trixie, Twilight, and Tempest shot up from their seats.

"Lillie so you ARE here," said Gladion looking over to the three mares. "And so are the ponies," 

"Of course they came to me asking for help," said Argo. 

"Is it that Starlight?" asked Gladion. 

"Wait you've met Starlight?" asked Twilight. 

"Well of course, as a matter of fact I just-" But Gladion's statement was suddenly interrupted when the window suddenly smashed open and a strange object came flying in. 

"The hell?!" asked Argo. Gladion opened his eyes and knelt down to inspect the object. 

"What is it?" asked Lillie.  Suddenly the small hatches on the small object opened as gas started spewing out and started filling the room. Twilight coughed and gasped, while Tempest wrapped her hooves around her to help her. 

"Shit it's a smoke bomb," cursed Argo. 

"Everyone out!" Gladion said opening the slide door. The group bolted out of the lab and gasped as a blast of fresh air hit them in the face. 

"'Who did that?" coughed Trixie. 

"Wouldn't you like to know," laughed a voice. The group turned around to see two figures in black Aether uniforms standing at the entrance of Dividing Peak Tunnel. 

"Who?" asked Gladion. 

"Wait you two, you're from Ultra Aether!" gasped Tempest. 

"Ah, sharp as ever Miss Shadow," laughed Employee A. 

"Ultra Aether?" asked Gladion. 

"They're an evil organization who works to protect Ultra Beasts, they show no care for Pokemon, basically an Anti-Aether Foundation," answered Lillie. 

"Exactly, as for you young lady, we know you have an Ultra Beast," said Employee B. 

"If you just hand over the beast, we'll let you off the hook without a fight," laughed Employee A. 

"Never!" said Lillie. 

"Hmph stubborn as ever, just like that man Faba said," said Employee B.

"Faba you know Faba!?" asked Gladion. 

"Indeed we do, in fat he's our boss, and we've received strict orders to capture the beast Miss Lillie possess," answered Employee A. Twilight growled as she stepped in front of Lillie to protect her. "Hmph fine that's the way it's going to be," said Employee A pulling out a Beast Ball followed by Employee B. 

"You're going to give us the beast,or we'll beat you for it!" declared Employee B. He threw his Beast Ball calling out his Pokemon. "Go Stakataka!" Employee A followed B's example and threw his Beast Ball calling out his Pokemon.

"Blacephalon take this!" said Employee A. When both Pokemon emerged, it was obvious that both were never to be seen Ultra Beasts due to their Unnatural looks. Employee A's Beast was a creature with a long slender body with pink, blue, and yellow stripes running all over it's body. It had small white, blue, and pink colored orbs attached to it's body and legs and had a large white ball with pink and blue polka dots and two stars on the side as it's head. Employee B's Beast was a large structure like creature with legs. It's entire body looked to be made up of grey colored bricks with blue eyes, that constantly stared at the group as the bricks flipped over onto it's opposite side. Gladion glared at the two and pulled out his Pokeball and threw it calling out his Pokemon.

"Lycanroc show you're crimson glare!" said Gladion. The ball popped open as a red bipedal wolf emerged. It's glowing red eyes drilled mercilessly into the two beasts and their trainers while it slashed with it's claws. Argo ran up next to Gladion and threw his Pokeball calling out his Pokemon. 

"Let's do this Krookodile!" said Argo. The ball opened as a red and black crocodile with a white underbelly emerged. 

"Heh you won't stand a chance, Blacephalon use Shadow Ball on Krookodile!" Employee A ordered. The beast's head began to roll around as a shadowy blob began to take shape. Blacephalon then hurled it at Krookodile only for it to do barely any damage. 

"Nice try, Krookodile use Crunch on Blacephalon!" Argo ordered. Krookodile let out an angry growl as it opened it's jaws and bit down on Blacephalon and held on while the beast tried to shake Krookodile off. 

"Use Stone Edge," Gladion ordered. Lycanroc raised it's claws and slammed it down on the ground as multiple pillars of rock burst out from the ground and struck Stakataka from underneath. Employee B smirked as he thrust out his arm towards Lycanroc. 

"Iron Head," he ordered. Stakataka's body began to glow in a grayish color as it lunged towards Lycanroc and struck it hard in the stomach. 

"Quick use Counter," Gladion ordered. Lycanroc quickly regained focus as it brought it's arm back and swung striking Stakataka and knocking it back to it's trainer. Meanwhile Blacephalon managed to shake Krookodile off and sent it back to it's trainer.  "Damn they're strong," growled Gladion. 

"Hey Gladion I know we're supposed to be working together, but I have to apologize," said Argo. 

"What?" asked Gladion. Argo glared at the two employee and thrust out his arm. 

"Use Earthquake!" Argo ordered. Krookodile let out an angry roar as it jumped up and landed hard on the ground causing the ground beneath them to shake. Lillie behind them broke her balance and fell back before Twilight and Tempest caught her before she hit the ground. The attack was strong enough to not only take out both of the beasts and their trainers, but Gladion's Lycanroc as well. Once the ground stopped shaking. Both Blacephalon and Stakataka let out pained screeches before the collapsed on the ground. Meanwhile Lycanroc next to him let out a yowl before falling down. 

"Lycanroc return," said Gladion calling back his Pokemon. He looked over to Argo who looked at him ashamed. 

"Sorry," Argo apologized. 

"It's fine," said Gladion. The two Employees got to their feet and called back their beasts.

"Damn it, the boss is so going to kill us," said Employee A. Gladion and Argo approached the two along with Lillie, Twilight, Trixie, and Tempest, all glaring at the two. 

'You lost, now beat it or we'll beat you," said Argo. The two employees clenched their teeth before turning around and ran back where they came from. 

"We'll remember this!" Employee A screamed.

"Just you wait, once our boss gets his hands on Necrozma, you'll regret messing with Ultra Aether!" Employee B yelled. 

"Don't count on it," said Argo. 

"I appreciate you helping me out there Argo," said Gladion. 

"Anytime," said Argo. 

"Do me a favor and look after my sister while she's still here," said Gladion looking at Twilight, Trixie, and Tempest. 

"Wait where are going brother?" asked Lillie. 

"I have other business I have to deal with, but don't worry we'll meet again," said Gladion walking the other way towards the Pokemon Center. 

"Gladion, he really cares about you doesn't he," said Tempest.

"Just like Shining Armor cares about me," said Twilight. 

"Alright ladies, lets go," said Argo. 

"Where?" asked Tempest.

"A certain place on Ula Ula Island," answered Argo. walking towards the tunnel. Twilight, Trixie, and Tempest looked at each other confused but decided that sticking with Argo was better than staying around in the middle of nowhere. The three followed Lillie as they ran after Argo.
> Chapter 19: Supernova
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

"I'm not gonna keep telling you this, except when I keep telling you this!" "You better listen to what my homie says and drill it into that thick skull of yours!" "Seriously, you better not forget, numskull!" said Grunt A as he turned around and ran off with his partner. 

Both Felix and Starlight had just finished beating the two Team Skull Grunts they keep running into. At this point Felix didn't know whether or not he should be annoyed with them or if he should be happy to see them every time. Sure they were annoying as hell but at least he didn't get tired of laughing and insulting them at every opportunity. Next to them Hapu turned and face the Drifloon.

"You'll be fine getting home?" asked Hapu. The Drifloon let out a happy squeak as it turned around and flew away.  "Glad to see that one will get home on her own," said Hapu. "I've got to thank you both for what you did," said Hapu turning towards Felix and Starlight.

"It was nothing," said Starlight.

"Well I like to hear that, why don't you give me your names," asked Hapu.

"I'm Felix," he said. "And this is Starlight Glimmer," said Felix introducing Starlight. 

"Felix and Starlight, eh?" "Those are some fine names, although I feel as if I've met you somewhere," said Hapu turning towards Starlight. 

"Now that you mention it, you DO look like someone I've met before," said Starlight. 

"Ah, it must be some sort of coincidence," said Hapu. "Anyhow, I like the way you two handle yourself in battle, Mudsdale and I are always wandering all about Alola to try and achieve our goals, so perhaps we'll meet again someday," said Hapu. 

"Perhaps we will," said Felix. Mudsdale nudged Hapu as it let out a neigh.  Hapu nodded as if she was agreeing to something.

"Ah yes, you might want to try you hand at a Battle Royal or two, Mudsdale here thinks you'd be well suited to it, given how strong you both are," suggested Hapu. 

"Great we'll take you up on that Hapu," said Felix. Hapu nodded as she hopped on top of Mudsdale and rode off. 

"Well should we go give it a try?" asked Starlight. 

"Definitely," answered Felix as he ran into royal avenue. 



Serena crossed her arms and tapped her foot impatiently as she stood behind the police barricade. The police department had closed off the Battle Royal Dome for an unknown reason and this was the one thing Serena had been excited for every since she arrived in Alola. 

"Serena waiting here isn't going to change anything, come on we should just move on," Shauna said returning from the Pokemon Center with Tierno, Trevor, and Sawyer. 

"Yeah i guess you're right," said Serena finally giving up. 

"Hey no worries maybe they'll open first thing tomorrow morning," suggested Clemont. 

"Maybe," said Serena. 

"What's going on here?" a voice asked.  The seven looked over to see Gladion walking up to them. 

"The Battle Royal Dome is closed for some reason," answered Bonnie. 

"Closed?" asked Gladion. "That's strange it's open 24/7"

"Um sorry who are you?" asked Tierno.

"I'm Gladion," he answered. "Me and my partner Null are training to get stronger," 

"I'm Bonnie and this is my brother Clemont," Bonnie spoke up. 

"Bonnie," Clemont hissed.

"No worries I'm not planning on causing trouble," said Gladion. 

"I'm Shauna, and these are my friends Tierno, Trevor, Sawyer, and Serena," said Shauna. Gladion put his hands to his hips and gave them a serious look.

"Hmph you don't look like you're around from here," said Gladion.

"Yeah because we're from Kalos," said Bonnie. 

"Kalos?" asked Gladion. "I've think I've heard of that name from somewhere," "Well that doesn't matter right now, what DOES matter is-" But Gladion's statement was suddenly cut short when someone called out his name. Gladion turned around to see Felix and Starlight running up to them. "Felix?!" Gladion gasped.

"Gladion I didn't think we'd run into you," said Felix. 

"How have you been?" asked Starlight with a smile. 

"Good I guess," answered Gladion. 

"That's cool I guess, say who's your new friends," asked Felix.

"They're not my friends," answered Gladion in a irritated tone. 

"Alright, alright no need for the scary look," said Felix. During this time Felix and Starlight introduced themselves and exchanged greetings with the Kalos Gang. 

Once they were finished Felix turned towards Gladion and asked,"Anyway, Gladion what's going on?" 

"The battle royal dome is apparently closed," answered Gladion. 

"What but why?" asked Starlight.

"We don't know why," answered Trevor. 

"How about a little explanation from me," a voice spoke up. The group turned around to see N walking up to them. 

"Hmph it's you again," Gladion scoffed.

"Gladion you know this guy?" asked Starlight.

"His name is N, he's the boss of The Ultra Recon Squad," Gladion answered.

"What!?" gasped Starlight. 

"Who?" asked Sawyer.

"The Ultra Recon Squad is an organization that's working to protect Alola," answered Felix. 

"Oh so then that means you're good right?" Bonnie asked N. 

"Hmph, do you truly believe that anybody who works for the Ultra Recon Squad is good?" N snickered. 

"What do you mean?" asked Gladion. 

"I'll tell you, the reason why the Battle Royal Dome is closed is because Ultra Aether is using it as their secret hideout," answered N. 

"What!?" gasped Felix.

"Ultra Aether?" asked Shauna. 

"Ultra Aether is an organization that works to protect dangerous and deadly creatures called Ultra Beasts, however when it comes to Pokemon they don't care about what happens to them," answered Starlight. 

"So they're the bad guys," said Bonnie. 

"Indeed they are an evil organization with evil intentions," said N.

"Wait but how do you know that?" asked Clemont. 

"You really want to know?" asked N. "Well then," N grabbed his helmet and pulled it off to reveal something that took Gladion and Starlight off guard. 

"What you, but that's impossible, there's no way you could be," Gladion stuttered. 

"But I am," chuckled N. N had a slightly tan colored skin with brown hair and a large scar over his left eye. He slowly put his helmet down and looked at the group. Smirking he opened his eyes and spread out his arms. "I am Supernova, The Boss of The Ultra Recon Squad and President of Ultra Aether!" he beamed.  Just as he said several Ultra Aether Employees suddenly poured out of the Battle Royal Dome and surrounded the shocked group. 

"What's going on?" asked Trevor. 

"Don't you see, I can't let you interfere with my plans to catch Necrozma," said Supernova. 

"But, Nova Team Cosmos is reformed so why?" asked Starlight. 

"Hmph you gullible fool, the Nova you used to know is gone, now he's evolved into a much more powerful trainer, Supernova!" Supernova beamed. 

"Supernova, what are you planning?" growled Gladion. 

"Don't you get it, it's all in an effort to get my hands on Necrozma," Supernova laughed. 

"What do you mean?" asked Felix. 

"Equestria is currently covered in darkness, they have a Solar Eclipse, and the Ultra Recon Squad is the only beings that has the power to travel between worlds," laughed Supernova. 

"No, you didn't," whimpered Starlight. She clenched her teeth and roared. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY HOME!?" 

"Hmph you don't get it do you," snickered Supernova. With the Ultra Recon Squad's help, I can use their technology to capture Necrozma, and when I do I'll use him to summon the Ultra Beasts, I'll create my Ultra Beast Army and soon not just Alola but Equestria will also fall victim to darkness," said Supernova. "If you and your friends hadn't been there, Nebula wouldn't have disbanded Team Cosmos," said Supernova as the Ultra Aether Employees began to close in on the group. 

"You're trying to get your hands on Necrozma and the Ultra Beasts just to take revenge on Starlight and her friends!?" Felix asked. 

"Hmph a fool like you wouldn't understand, Team Cosmos was one of the most feared organizations until your parents and those ponies came along, we would've had the Cosmic Beasts destroy everything and soon nobody would've been able to oppose our great power," said Supernova. "We would've ruled Alola as supreme leaders,""But now that's the past, and this is the present, the rise of the Ultra Beasts, and my wrath," laughed Supernova. The Ultra Aether Employees continued to close in on the group leaving them in a tight spot.

"You won't get away with this Supernova," growled Starlight. 

"Ha too late for that, my master plan is already 50% complete, I cannot allow you to interfere at the most critical moment, so I'm going to have to ask you all to conveniently disappear," said Supernova. 

"Gladion what do we do?" asked Serena.  Gladion clenched his teeth, he knew there was now way they could fight off all these Ultra Aether Employees. They had been deceived and outnumbered. Even if they DID manage to beat all the Employees Supernova would surely show them no mercy, they wouldn't stand a chance. Gladion didn't have plan out of this, Supernova's betrayal was completely out of nowhere and unexpected. Before Gladion could come up with something, an Employee grabbed Serena by the arm and pulled her in. 

"Serena!" Tierno called out. before he could reach out and help her, two employees grabbed him by the arm and restrained him. Several more Employees did the same with Shauna, Trevor, Sawyer, Clemont, and Bonnie. 

"Guys help us!" Shauna called out to Felix. Suddenly two more employees pounced on Felix and pinned him to the ground. 

"Get off me!" Felix yelled. 

"Felix!" Starlight gasped. Suddenly without warning an employee came up behind and slapped her at the back of her neck, knocking her unconscious. 

"Starlight!" Felix yelled. Two more employees reached out and grabbed Gladion and held him tight. 

"Let me go!" Gladion yelled. The Employees all turned towards Supernova for orders. 

"Search them, confiscate all Pokeballs, and remove every possession they own," Supernova ordered. Several Employees who had their hands free began walking around and taking the group's Pokeball, and other valuable belongings they had on them. Once they knew for sure they collected every last piece of valuable from the group, the employees dumped the Pokeballs and items on the ground in front of Supernova. "Take them in and lock them up, we'll deal with them later," ordered Supernova. The other Employees forcefully picked up the group and escorted them into the Battle Royal Dome leaving Supernova standing outside with two employees. 

"Krater," he said looking to the employee on his left. The Employee looked up at him. "Take the Pokeballs and lock them up in the safe so that nobody can get to them. 

"Right away sir," said Krater picking up the Pokeballs and carrying them inside. 

"And you Vincent," he said looking over to the employee to his right. The Employee flinched and looked up.

"Sir?" Vincent asked stuttering. 

"Clean up this mess, by the time I come back out,I want everything gone you hear?" ordered Supernova. 

"Yes sir," stuttered Vincent. 

"Helmet," he said. Vincent quickly picked up his helmet and handed it to Supernova. Supernova looked at him with deadly look causing Vincent to shrink. Supernova put his helmet back on and walked back in the Battle Royal Dome leaving Vincent outside. Vincent looked down at the pile of items and rubbed his arm. 

"I don't like this," whimpered Vincent. He bent down and nervously began picking up the items. "May the Guardians watch over them," whimpered Vincent.
> Chapter 20: Vincent
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Vincent took a step forward towards the Battle Royal Dome but hesitated. He thought about why he had agreed to this. Nova had sacrificed himself to Necrozma in order to save his life. He had been envious of that kind of bravery and courage and wanted it so badly. he had lived his entire life acting like a wimp and everyone would tease him because of it. Lusamine had been the only person who seemed to understand his struggle and did everything she could to help. But ever since Faba had fired him, he was forbidden to show his face at Aether for the rest of his life. That's when Necrozma found him. He didn't know why Necrozma was so interested in him, all he knew was his life was in jeopardy. Until Nova showed up and saved him. Wanting to repay him he gave his loyalty to him. Now he was starting to regret his decision. If only he'd kept his mouth shut about Cosmog none of this would've happened. 

"I'm sorry Lusamine," Vincent whimpered as a tear roll down his cheek. There he goes again crying like a big baby. He wiped his eyes when he froze. Maybe he still had time to fix his mistake, he just had to find help. He looked around to make sure he was alone and dropped the items. Who could help him at a time like this. The Ultra Recon Squad. If he told them about Supernova's true intentions maybe they would agree to help him. Looking around himself he quietly snuck away from the Royal Battle Dome in search of the Ultra Recon Squad. 



"Alright, alright I'm coming," said Symon annoyed of the knocks on the door. He opened the door to find Phyco and Soliera standing on the porch. 

"Greetings, you must be Felix's Father," said Phyco. 

"Can I help you?" asked Symon.

"We have been sent here to retrieve you under the Champion's request," said Soliera.

Symon quickly turned around and spit out his coffee and looked at the two in shock,"You mean The Champion!?" 

"Indeed he has some things he would like to discuss about your son," answered Soliera. 

"Honey who is it?" Amber's voice called out from inside the house. 

"Is that your wife, we would like to see her if you don't mind," said Phyco. 

"Uh yeah, Amber can you come here for a sec!" Symon yelled inside the house. As the two waited the sound of footsteps grew louder as Amber ran by her husband's side.

"Oh um hello," said Amber.

"You must be Miss Amber right?" asked Soliera.

"Um yes, I am," answered Amber.

"Oh forgive us we have yet to introduce ourselves, I am Soliera," said Soliera introducing herself.

"I am Phyco, we are the Ultra Recon Squad," said Phyco. 

"Ultra Recon Squad?" asked Symon.

"We will explain everything in due time, but for now we would like to ask you to come with us," said Soliera. 

"Why?" asked Amber.

"Apparently the Champion wants to meet us," answered Symon. 

"The Champion!?" gasped Amber.

"Yes, please we don't have much time," said Phyco. 

"Well if it's the Champion that summoned us, I guess we can't say no to that," said Symon. Symon and Amber walked out of the house and followed Phyco and Soliera as they jumped onto Solgaleo's back. 

"Is that the legendary Pokemon!?" gasped Amber.

"Indeed now please hope on," said Phyco. Suddenly somebody called out to them as Symon and Amber was getting on. The four turned around to see Vincent running up to them. 

"Please wait, take me with you!" Vincent begged. Vincent stopped to catch his breath as the four stared at him.

"Um sorry who are you?" asked Symon. 

"My name is Vincent," said Vincent. 

"Wait Vincent, you mean the anonymous person who sent our son the Shiny Silvally?" asked Amber.

"Yes, please I'll explain everything later, but please wherever it is you're going please take me with you," gasped Vincent still catching his breath. 

"What do you think sir?" asked Soliera. 

"Why not he seems to be panicked, maybe he can tell us why," said Phyco. 

"Oh thank you so much," said Vincent. 

"So where exactly is the Champion right now?" asked Symon. 

"Wait you're going to see the Champion?' asked Vincent. 

"Yes, he asked us to come and get these two," answered Soliera.

"Oh thank Arceus, please hurry I must talk to him at once," said Vincent. 

"Ohh kay, hop on then," said Phyco in a confused tone. Vincent waited as Symon and Amber hopped on before he joined them, then Soliera and Phyco. "Solgaleo to Equestria!" Phyco ordered. Solgaleo roared as an Ultra Wormhole appeared. Solgaleo jumped up and ran into the Wormhole leaving Alola behind them. 



Larry sat in his chair tapping his finger on the table as he read the reports. From the news Nebula received from Argo, the mysterious force by the name of Ultra Aether had used Ultra Beasts in the battle against him and Gladion. Specifically two new Ultra Beasts that had never been sighted before. The door suddenly opened as Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Ember, Thorax, Shining Armor, Queen Novo, Lusamine, Looker, Anabel, Dulse, Zossie, and Nebula walked in. "Hmm all of you at once?" asked Larry as each one of them took their seats. 

"We wanted updates on the situation," answered Ember. 

"I see, well please bear with me, I'm still looking over the reports from Argo," said Larry. 

"Wait so you still haven't figured out about Ultra Aether?" asked Nebula. 

"Afraid not, this is the first time I've ever heard of an organization called Ultra Aether," said Larry. 

"Do you think Ultra Aether has something to do with the situation going on right now?" asked Lusamine. 

"That I'm still unsure about, I've asked Phyco and Soliera to go back to Alola and get both Symon and Amber for me," said Larry. 

"The two trainers that helped us with the Cosmic beast incident," said Anabel. Larry nodded. Just then there was a knock on the door that grabbed everyone's attention. 

"Come in!" Larry said. The door opened as Phyco, Zossie, Symon, and Amber walked in. 

"We've brought them sir," said Phyco.

"Great work," said Larry. Suddenly his eye looked over as if someone was hiding behind the door. "I know your hiding here why don't you come out?" asked Larry. The group turned around as Vincent slowly walked in. 

"Hi," he said nervously. Everyone's eyes widened and gasped as Nebula shot up from his seat.

"YOU!" he shouted making Vincent flinch.

"Your from Ultra Aether!" said Cadence. 

Vincent yelped as he took a step back. "Please don't hurt me, I'm not here to cause trouble I swear!"  

"Likely story pal!" yelled Nebula.

"How dare you attack my daughter!" growled Lusamine.

"And my sister!" hissed Shining Armor.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" screamed Larry slamming his fists down on the table making everyone in the room to go dead silent. "I understand that this young man is a part of the enemy and that his comrades caused problems for us, but please let him speak," said Larry. Everyone slowly sit back down in their seats obviously not wanting to get on his bad side. "Now who are you and why have you come here?" asked Larry. 

"Oh um yes, my name is Vincent," said Vincent nervously. He began to feel uneasy as everyone's eyes were on him. 

"Ok, and why are you here Vincent?" asked Larry. 

"I need your help Champion sir!" said Larry. 

"Why do you need help from the Champion?" sneered. Luna.

"LUNA!" screamed Larry making her jump. Larry looked over to Vincent and nodded. "What can I do for you Vincent?" asked Larry.

"It's about Ultra Aether, I know what's going on," said Vincent. Everyone's eyes widened and gasped at Vincent's statement. 

"How much do you know?" asked Larry. 

"A lot sir, I can explain as much as I know about Ultra Aether's ambitions," answered Vincent. Everyone, even Symon, Amber, Phyco, and Soliera turned their attention towards Vincent. 

"Very well then let's here it," said Larry. 

"Alright so I don't know how much of you know about the disappearance of Team Cosmos Admin Nova," said Vincent.

"Who doesn't know that?" asked Nebula.

"Well the truth is Ultra Recon Boss N, is actually Nova," said Vincent. Everyone's eyes widened and gasped in shock.

"Wait so Nova's alive?" asked Nebula.

"Yes, however Nova, he isn't what he used to be, the reason why nobody has heard from him in a while is because he was captured by Necrozma," answered. Vincent. Everyone again gasped. "He sacrificed his life to save me from Necrozma when he suddenly attacked me many years ago, but I couldn't do the same for him, I tried but in the end he was taken into the Ultra Wormhole and vanished," said Vincent. 

"But he's still alive?" asked Larry. 

"Yes," answered Phyco. Everyone turned towards Phyco with a worried look. "When Necrozma appeared in Ultra Megalopolis with Nova we managed to save him before Necrozma could kill him," said Phyco. 

"Ok and then what happened?" asked Larry. 

"When we explained to him about our goals, he said that he was a part of Team Cosmos who's trying to stop the Ultra Beasts and wanted to help," answered Phyco. "We knew that since he came from Alola he had more knowledge about Pokemon than us, so we agreed,"

"We made him our boss," said Zossie.

"Wait you mean to tell us that you kept Nova alive and never told us!?" asked Nebula.

"He requested that his identity be kept a secret even from Team Cosmos so we agreed," answered Dulse. 

"Then?" asked Larry.

"We don't know, after he became our boss he started working on some sort of project and wouldn't tell us what he was working on," said Soliera.

"He was working to create Ultra Aether," answered Vincent. Everyone turned their attention back to Vincent.

"Wait so Nova has been alive this whole time, and was working to create Ultra Aether behind our backs!?" asked Nebula. Vincent nodded.

"Wait but why would he be creating Ultra Aether?" asked Cadence.

"To get revenge against Symon, Amber, and all of Equestria," answered Vincent. Everyone once again gasped as they looked at Amber, Symon, and the three princesses. 

"What why!?" asked Luna.

"Nova was furious that after all this time he would just disband Team Cosmos, they had been so close to their goal only  for Nebula to disband team Cosmos because of the influence of Amber, Symon, and the ponies," answered Vincent. "He couldn't forgive the fact that they were so close to their goal only to be crushed in the end by the two trainers and ponies," 

"So he wanted revenge against those who ruined their goals," said Celestia.

"Yes, however that's not all," said Vincent.

"Is there something else we must know?" asked Larry. 

"Yes, in order for him to fulfill his  ambitions he needed support, therefore he lied to the Ultra Recon Squad, saying that he was creating Ultra Aether to stop Necrozma, when he really was creating Ultra Aether to capture Necrozma and use him as the key to his master plan," answered Vincent. 

"Did we hear that right, you mean to tell us he was planning to aid us in capturing Necrozma so that he can use him to achieve his own goals?!" asked Phyco. Vincent nodded.

"That imbecile, he knows nothing of Necrozma's power and yet he's trying to use him as his own!?" yelled Dulse. 

"What's he planning to do?" asked Thorax. 

"While he was building Ultra Aether, he continued to act as if he was supporting The Ultra Recon Squad because he knew they were getting help from Lusamine and the Aether Foundation, so he would continue provide everything he knew about Ultra Beasts in exchange for Aether and Ultra Recon Squad's technology and use that to create duplicates and build Ultra Aether," said Vincent. 

"He's using our technology against us!?" asked Lusamine. 

"Yes, he believes that by creating a much more powerful version of Aether by combining  the knowledge of Aether's technology, with the Ultra Recon Squad's knowledge of Necrozma and his knowledge of Ultra Beasts and Ultra Wormholes, he'll be able to create a machine that will help him capture Necrozma and use him to summon Ultra Wormholes not just in Alola but in Equestria as well," said Vincent. 

"He's trying to summon Ultra Beasts in Alola and Equestria!?" asked Anabel.

"Not just summon, but to create an army of Ultra Beasts that he can use to attack Equestria and Alola," answered Vincent. 

"And I suppose by creating an army of Ultra Beasts and using it for the invasion, is his way of getting revenge?" asked Larry. 

"Yes that's exactly right, and not only that but he's planning to have Necrozma lead the invasion," answered Vincent. 

"Sister this is bad," said Luna.

"Indeed it is," said Celestia. 

"It only gets worse from here, Felix, Starlight, Gladion, and several other trainers have been captured by Nova and is being held captive to prevent them from interfering with Nova's plans," said Vincent.

"Gladion!" Lusamine gasped.

"Our child!" Symon and Amber gasped.

"Is that it?" asked Larry.

"Oh uh one last thing, he's not doing this alone, he's getting support from Faba who's planning to summon the world's most strongest villains the Pokemon world has met, as well as Queen Chrysalis, King Sombra, and The Shadow pony who are acting as loyal agents to Nova," answered Vincent. "Oh and before I forget, his name is no longer Nova, but Supernova," said Vincent.

"Queen Chrysalis," growled Celestia.

"The Shadow Pony," growled Luna.

"King Sombra," gasped Cadence. 

"Alright, thanks for the information," said Larry. he slowly got up from his seat and announced. "Well folks it seems we have a new task on our hands, first things first, if what Vincent here said is true, then Nova or rather Supernova will surely stop at nothing to get what he wants, it's our job to protect the Alola Region and Equestria from harm," said Larry. "I will contact the trial captains, and kahunas to prepare an all out rescue operation to save the captives from Supernova and his forces," said Larry. "Meanwhile the rest of you prepare for what comes ahead, our first priority is to prevent Supernova from capturing Necrozma," Everyone nodded. "If we can at least keep him away from Necrozma he won't be able to form his army of UBs," said Larry. "For now I need you all to go prepare for what the future may bring, I'll be here planning on how to counter Supernova's plans, until then you're all dismissed," said Larry. Everyone got out of their seats and walked out the door following behind Vincent. Once everyone was out the door closed shut and Larry was once again alone. He walked over to the balcony and looked up. "Don't worry y'all we're coming for you," said Larry looking up at the Eclipse.
> Chapter 21: Ultra Aether Ambush!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lusamine, Amber, Symon, and Shining Armor stood in front of the Battle Royal Dome with Vincent as they prepared for their Ambush on Ultra Aether and Supernova. Around them multiple police vehicles stood silent as officers prepared to bust in. 

"You sure this is the place?" asked Officer Jenny. 

"According to Vincent, he's positive," answered Lusamine. 

"Yes I swear this is the place!" yelped Vincent. 

"Then you should know how to get us in there," said Symon.

"Oh of course!" said Vincent running up to the door. 

"Let's hope this works," said Shining Armor. 

"Don't worry Felix we're coming for you," said Amber.  After a while Vincent turned around and gave them a thumbs up. Lusamine, Symon, Amber, and the police all called out their Pokemon. They slowly approached the door and nodded. Vincent nodded back and turned back towards the door while pulling out a walkie talkie. 

"Champion, commencing operation Ambush now,"



"Damn it where the hell is Vincent!?" screamed Supernova as he paced around. 

"Sir please calm down!" said an Employee. 

"I gave him one job, and he even fails at picking up simple objects," Supernova growled.

"Hey look on the bright side sir, at least we have the fools who tried to interfere with your plan," said another Employee. Suddenly the doors burst open as a blinding light poured in the dark building causing Supernova and all the employees to shield their eyes. Supernova squinted to get a better look at the figure that was slowly approaching them. 

"Who's there!?" Supernova demanded. 

"Wouldn't you like to know Supernova," Vincent answered. 

"Wha Vincent is that you?" asked Supernova. 

"Yes sir," answered Vincent. 

"You bastard where the hell have you been?" growled Supernova.

"I brought help sir," answered Vincent. 

"See sir, he just brought in reinforcements, told you it wasn't anything bad," said an Employee.

"Yeah I brought in reinforcements alright, for the captives," answered Vincent. 

"What?" growled?" Supernova. Just as he asked, Lusamine, Amber, Symon, Shining Armor, and Officer Jenny walked in with their Pokemon next to them. 

"Supernova," Lusamine growled. 

"Wha Vincent you mean to tell me that you.." stuttered Supernova.

"Yes sir, I told these folks here about your plan," answered Vincent. "Sorry, but not sorry," Vincent shrugged. 

"You little snitch!" hissed Supernova. 

"It's all for the good, now release the captives or else," Officer Jenny ordered. 

"Over my dead body," growled Supernova pulling out a Beast Ball. "Go Naganadel!" he said throwing his ball. The ball popped open as a large arachnid creature emerged. It's large purple body had three stingers protruding from the bottom of it's body, and two large wings flapped with two more stingers protruded from it's shoulders. It had sharp pink claws and glowing blue eyes. 

"What's that?" asked Shining Armor. 

"Let me check," said Amber pulling out her Pokedex and scanning the Pokemon. 

"Naganadel, The Poison Pin Pokemon and the evolved form of Poipole, One kind of Ultra Beast, it fires a glowing, venomous liquid from it's needles. This liquid is also immensely adhesive," said the Pokedex. 

"An Ultra Beast," growled Lusamine. "Not to mention it's a poison type," added Lusamine. 

"If it's a Poison type, let me handle this," said Symon pulling out a Pokeball. "Go Sandslash!" he threw his Pokeball calling out his Pokemon. The ball popped open as a light blue mouse with metallic claws and icicles on it's back, emerged. 

"I will not let anyone stand in my way, Naganadel Nasty Plot!" Supernova ordered. Naganadel began scratching it's chin as if it was thinking and then began cackling loudly as if a dark thought popped into it's mind. 

"Damn," cursed Symon.

"What happened?" asked Shining Armor. 

"It just used Nasty Plot, which raises both your Attack and Special Attack on it's Pokemon," answered Amber.

"If Supernova's raising stats then so am I, Swords dance!" Sandslash began dancing around and knocking it's claws into each other with a loud clang. 

"What now?" asked Shining Armor. 

"Swords dance is a move that raises a Pokemon's attack stat," answered Lusamine. 

"You got that right, Naganadel Flamethrower!" Supernova ordered.

"Shit!" Symon cursed. The opposing Naganadel opened it's jaws it inhaled and launched a stream of fire at Sandslash. Sandslash was struck in the chest and knocked back several feet by an explosion after it came in contact. "He's so strong," winced Symon. 

"Don't give up sir," said Vincent. 

"i don't plan to, Icicle Crash!" Symon ordered. Sandslash got to it's feet as it howled. A cloud of freezing cold air flew up and began collecting above Naganadel as multiple large icicles came crashing down on top of it doing massive damage. "Got it!" said Symon. 

"I'm not going down that easily, Flamethrower!" ordered Supernova. Naganadel opened it's jaws and inhaled preparing to attack. 

"Dodge it!" Symon ordered. Naganadel launched another blast of fire at Sandslash just as it lept off to the side avoiding the attack. 

"Now use Icicle Crash again!" Symon ordered. Sandslash howled as a gust of freezing cold air began to collect above Naganadel's head. A barrage of icicles came crashing down striking Naganadel down onto the ground. Symon threw his fist up in victory while Supernova called back his fainted Pokemon. 

"Damn it how did I lose, I'm supposed to be the creator of the most powerful organization in all of Alola!" growled Supernova.

"You lost, now release the captives," ordered Shining Armor. 

"Fuck this shit I'm out!" said Supernova. Without warning he shoved past the group and ran out with his employees following behind.

"Felix!" Amber gasped as she ran into the building looking for her son. Shining Armor, Lusamine, and Officer Jenny ran in after her with the police and Vincent following after them. Symon quickly called back his Pokemon and ran after them. 



After what seemed like hours of struggling Felix only managed to pry off his gag. But he still had to free his feet and hands as well as help the others. If only those employees hadn't tied them up so tightly maybe they would've escaped by now. 

"Damn," cursed Felix. Next to him Starlight and Gladion let out muffled moans as if they were telling him to hurry up. Suddenly the sound of footsteps began approaching causing Felix to stop struggling. After a couple of seconds Amber ran in with Lusamine, Shining Armor, and officer Jenny, followed by Symon, Vincent and the rest of the police. 

"Felix!"Amber called out. 

"Mom?" asked Felix confused. Amber ran up and hugged her son. 

"I'm so glad you're safe," said Amber. 

"Mom I'm fine, I just need to get out of these restraints and help the others escape," answered Felix. 

"Ahem, miss if would just let me do it," said Vincent. Amber turned around and nodded. She slowly got to her feet and back away, giving Vincent some space. He pulled out a beast ball and threw it. "Go Kartana!" he said throwing his ball. The ball popped open as a small white creature emerged floating around. "Kartana, cut those ropes!" Vincent ordered pointing towards Felix's restraints. Vincent's Kartana jumped up and slashed the rope, cutting free Felix. Felix got up and pulled the ropes off his wrists and legs and turned towards Vincent. 

"Thanks," said Felix. 

"Anytime cousin," said Vincent. Meanwhile the Police had finished undoing the restraints on Starlight, Gladion, Serena, Shauna, Tierno, Trevor, Clemont, Bonnie, and Sawyer. Once again Amber and Symon ran over and hugged Felix as Lusamine ran over and hugged Gladion.

"We're so glad you're alright," said Amber. 

"Mom you're embarrassing me," groaned Felix. 

"Hey at least they care about you," said Vincent. 

"Yeah I guess you're right," shrugged Felix. 

"Come on let's get you guys to the Pokemon Center," said Symon. Felix nodded as he walked out with the rest of the group.
> Chapter 22: Versus Totem Marowak
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Felix and Starlight continued to make their way up Wela Volcano. Ever since the incident with Ultra Aether the two promised to be more careful so that Felix's parents wouldn't worry. Gladion and the others had moved on with their own adventures while Officer Jenny and three cops ran off in search of Supernova and his employees. Felix never would've thought that former Team Cosmos Admin Nova had been the President of Ultra Aether. The question was why he was here. Felix decided to shake that thought off as he wiped a bead of sweat off his brows. To think that climbing Wela Volcano was this difficult. 

"Man it's hot," groaned Felix. 

"No kidding," gasped Starlight as she pulled out her bottle of water she purchased at the Pokemon Center. Her Raichu let out a sad squeak as he hovered next to her. "Thanks Raichu, I'm fine," said Starlight. 

"Man who could of thought that Supernova was the one behind all this," said Felix. 

"Hey let's not talk about that now, look we made it," said Starlight. She was right the two came to a stop in front of a set of trial gates.

"Well here I go," said Felix passing through the gates. The two walked passed the gates and up the Volcano to the peak where a female figure was waiting for them. 

"Alola!" she called out to them. The two walked over as the girl put her hands on her hips. "I assume one of you is here for the trial," she said. The girl clearly was still a teenager due to her young looks. She wore green pants and nothing more than a black tank top. Her red hair was tied back into a ponytail in a way that they looked like a red flower sprouting from the ground. "Nice to meet you, I'm Flannery, from the Hoenn region," said the girl.

"I assume you're the temporary trial captain," said Felix. 

"Oh so you already know about that," said Flannery. "That's right, I'm covering for Kiawe," answered Flannery. 

"I'm Felix, and this is my friend Starlight Glimmer," said Felix introducing themselves. 

"It's nice to meet you," smiled Starlight. 

"Well then now we got that out of our way, what do I have to do?" asked Felix. 

"Easy, I'll show you three different dances using Kiawe's Marowak and then you have to find the difference in each one," answered Flannery. 

"Doesn't sound too bad, alright I'm ready," said Felix. 

"Alright then, come now Marowak!" Flannery called out. Just then three creatures jumped out from behind the Volcano. All three had purple scaly bodies with a skull on their head with a purple star engraved on the forehead. Each held large bones twice their size with blue flames engulfed on both ends. 

"Whoa what are those?" asked Starlight.

"Allow me," said Rotom scanning the Pokemon. "Marowak, Alolan Form, Ghost Fire Type, and the evolved form of Cubone, The bone it possesses were once it's mother's. It's mother's regrets have become like a vengeful spirit protecting this Pokemon," said Rotom. 

"Alolan Marowak huh," said Felix. "Well I already know how this will turn out," said Felix pulling out his Pokeball. 

"Now hold on a sec," said Flannery. Confused Felix lowered his Pokeball as the three began swinging their bone clubs in a circle as they began dancing. After a while the three stopped for a pose in different directions. The two Marowak on the end held their bones up while looking upwards while the Marowak in the middle held it's bone in it's left arm behind it's back and in the air with it's right arm was on the ground. "Watch carefully and memorize this dance," said Flannery. Then the Marowaks once again began dancing and eventually struck another pose. The two Marowak on the ends held the same pose as before but the Marowak in the center held it's bone in front of it while it's head was bent backwards. "What was different from the previous dance?' asked Flannery. Felix looked at the Marowak and scratched his chin. 

"The middle Marowak," he suddenly answered. 

"B-but how, that was truly spectacular, and to add to the spectacle," said Flannery snapping her fingers. Suddenly the Marowak in the center jumped out and swung it's bone around.

"Heh, this is going to be too easy," chuckled Felix raising his arm. "Go Lycanroc!" he said calling out his Pokemon. Lycanroc emerged and growled at the opposing Marowak. "Crunch!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc lunged at the Marowak and bit down on it hard just as it lifted it's bone as self defense. However, when Lycanroc bit down on the bone, it bit down on Marowak's arm as well causing it to yelp. Marowak managed to shake off Lycanroc but instead ran back to join the other two. 

"Marowak was so pleased by your right answer that it simply had to battle you!" Flannery exclaimed. Felix raised an eyebrow while Starlight and Raichu giggled in the background. "Well anyway onward to the second dance," said Flannery. The Marowak once again began dancing and stopped for a pose. This time all but one Marowak held out their bones in front of them while one had it's back turned and held it's bone behind him. But this time a hiker was staring at Felix instantly sending chills up his spine. "Watch carefully and memorize this dance," said Flannery. The Marowak once again began dancing and stopped for a pose. This time all the Marowak was in the same position but this time the hiker was smiling at Felix. "What was different from the previous dance?" asked Flannery.

Disgusted, Felix answered,"How they're smiling,"

"B-but how, that was truly spectacular, and to add to the spectacle," said Flannery snapping her fingers again. This time the hiker ran up to Felix and did the usual Alolan greeting. 

"Alola!" he said pulling out a Pokeball. "Go Magmar!" he said throwing his Pokeball. The ball popped open as a strange creature emerged. The creature had yellow and red scales and red spikes running down it's back. It's tail and head was emitting flames as it's whole body glowed like flames in a campfire. 

"What is that?' asked Starlight. 

"Allow me," said Rotom scanning the Pokemon. "Magmar, the spitfire Pokemon and the evolved form of Magby, In battle, Magmar blows out intensely hot flames from all over it's body to intimidate opponents. This Pokemon's fiery bursts creates heat waves that can ignite grass and trees in it's surroundings," said Rotom. 

"Another fire type no problem, Rock Slide!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc howled as it stomped the ground summoning multiple large rocks out of the ground and threw it at the opposing Magmar. The rocks struck the Magmar from every side eventually knocking it unconscious. "Got him!" said Felix. Starlight and Raichu clapped as they watched from off the side. The hiker called back his Pokemon but didn't look disappointed. 

"You're a fool if you dance.... and a fool if you just look on," said the hiker. 

"The hell does that mean?" asked Felix. 

"Hiker David was so pleased by your right answer that he simply had to battle you!" exclaimed Flannery. Felix shot the two a smug look while Starlight could be heard eating popcorn behind their backs. "And now, onward to the final dance!" Flannery announced. For the fifth time, the Marowaks began dancing and stopped to pose. This time two Marowaks were standing behind and in front of Hiker David while holding their bones in front of them and sticking their butt outwards, with David mimicking them, while the third Marowak had it's back turned and had it's arms up as if it was taking a picture. "Watch carefully and memorize this dance," said Flannery. For the sixth and final time, the Marowaks began to dance and struck a pose. This time everything looked the same, except for the bigger Marowak standing behind the two smaller Marowaks and David, and was doing the same exact thing as the two Marowaks but facing in the opposite direction. "What was different from the previous dance?" asked Flannery. 

"The Totem Pokemon?" asked Felix. 

"B-but how, that was truly spectacular, and to add to the spectacle," said Flannery. This time she called out the Marowak as she clapped her hands loudly. Just then the Totem jumped out from the group and stared down at Felix while swinging it's bone. It let out a screech as the orange aura burst to life. 

"It won't be long, let's do this, Rock Tomb!" Felix ordered. Just as Lycanroc was about to attack, the Marowak lunged at Lycanroc as a burning fiery wheel and retreated back to it's spot. "Lycanroc are you alright?" asked Felix. Lycanroc turned around and gave him a solid look. "Great, Rock Tomb!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc let out a howl as multiple chunks of stone began to levitate around him. Lycanroc stomped it's claws on the ground and the stones flew into the Totem doing barely any damage. "Damn too strong," said Felix. Suddenly the Totem Marowak let out a screech and soon another Pokemon appeared beside it. "The hell?" asked Felix.

"Allow me," said Rotom scanning the Pokemon. "Salazzle, The Toxic Lizard Pokemon and the evolved form of Salandit, Filled with pheromones, it's poisonous gas can be diluted to use in the production of luscious perfumes," said Rotom.

"Oh great on of these reptiles," groaned Felix. "No matter right now the Totem is first priority," said Felix. "Rock Tomb one more time!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc was about to attack when Marowak suddenly glared at Lycanroc and swung it's bone club to create an invisible barrier that protected it from the attack. "What the hell!?" Felix asked.

'What is it?" asked Starlight.

"This thing has Detect!?" gasped Felix once he realized what happened. 

"What's Detect?" Starlight asked Flannery as she walked over. 

"Detect is a move that allows a Pokemon to protect themselves from any attacks that the opposing Pokemon makes," answered Flannery. 

"Cool, wait what am I saying!?" gasped Starlight. 

Lycanroc let out a small whimper as it looked back at Felix. "Don't worry buddy we got this," said Felix Suddenly the Salazzle looked at Lycanroc and hissed at it obviously making Lycanroc angry as it growled back. 

"What was that?" asked Starlight. 

"That was Torment, a move that prevents the opposing Pokemon to use the same move twice in a row," answered Flannery. 

"Oh no," said Starlight. She knew that from the past trials, Totems were tough, but she didn't think it would be THIS tough. Felix clenched his teeth as he glared at the duo. Right now the only option was to knock out the Totem first and keep it from calling in another ally. 

"Rock Tomb!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc was about to attack when Salazzle hissed making it angry. Felix face palmed himself and groaned. "Oh Lord Arceus kill me for forgetting about Torment," He shook himself back into focus. If Rock Tomb wasn't going to work then he still had that one move. "Rock Slide!" Lycanroc let out a howl as Suddenly a huge wave of rocks came raining down on the two doing massive damage on Salazzle and only driving the Totem's health to half. "Damn it wasn't enough?" growled Felix. The Totem Marowak lunged at Lycanroc hitting him with another flame wheel as Salazzle went for a Venoshock. Lycanroc gasped as he struggled to stay on his feet. "Hang in there boy!" Felix called out to his Pokemon. 

'You can do this!" Starlight and Raichu cheered. 

"Yeah," said Felix. "Rock Slide!" Felix ordered. But as Lycanroc let out another howl, the Totem went for another Detect protecting it from the raining rocks. Felix clenched his teeth as the move knocked out the Salazzle but do nothing on the Totem. Just as things were already bad enough, the Totem lets out a cry as another Salazzle soon replaces the one before. Felix clenched his teeth as he tried to come up with some sort of plan to take out the two. "Rock Tomb on Marowak!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc howled and threw the chunks of rock that appeared around it at Marowak doing much more that before indicating that Lycanroc had gotten a critical hit. "So close," winced Felix. It was then that Marowak lunged at Lycanroc and raised it's left hand in the air as it began glowing in a orange light and brought it down on Lycanroc's head. Lycanroc let out a yowl as it fell onto the ground unable to proceed. "Lycanroc!" Felix gasped. 

"What just happened?" asked Starlight. 

"Brick Break is a Fighting Type Move," answered Flannery trying to give Starlight a hint. Starlight gasped as she remembered that Felix had told her that Fighting Types were good against a lot of other types, Rock being one of them. Felix called back his Pokemon and nodded.

"You did good, get some rest," said Felix. He put away the Pokeball and pulled out his second. "This is on you buddy," he whispered. "Go Silvally!" he said throwing his Pokeball. The ball popped open as his Shiny Silvally emerged sparkling in the sunlight. Felix dug into his bag and pulled out the drive that read water and pulled out the disc. "You may be the strongest Totem I've faced so far, but I refused to be defeated!" said Felix throwing the drive into Silvally. Silvally's eyes,  head and tail fins flashed in light blue light as it changed into the light blue color. Once again the Totem went for another Detect before Felix could make a move and Salazzle went for a Torment angering Silvally. "So it's this again, no matter I'll finish this, Silvally Air Slash on Salazzle!" Felix ordered. Silvally opened it's mouth as an orb of air began to form. It jumped up and let loose a barrage of air blades raining down onto Salazzle doing massive damage. 

"Heh not bad," said Flannery. 

"Alright let's finish this, Multi Attack on Marowak!" Felix commanded. Silvally hissed as it lunged at Marowak. It raised it's talons as bubbles began to gather and slashed at the Marowak spurting water in all direction. Marowak let out a pained cry as it collapsed onto the ground unable to battle. "Yes!" said Felix. Both Starlight and Raichu behind them began to clap before Flannery interrupted. 

"Don't forget Salazzle is still here," Just as she said that Salazzle went in for a Venoshock doing only half. 

"Silvally can you keep going?" Felix asked. Silvally looked back and nodded. "Great let's end this with one final Air Slash!" Felix commanded. Silvally jumped up and launched the air blades into Salazzle taking it out for good. "Yes!" said Felix jumping up with glee. He ran over and gave Silvally a hug to show his appreciation. "Good work Silvally, I'm so proud of you!" Starlight, Raichu, and Flannery ran over to him to congratulate him on his achievement. 

"We knew you could do it!" said Starlight. 

"It wasn't just me," said Felix.

"Well done!" said Flannery. "You've cleared the Fire Trial, as a reward you deserve a piece of Firium Z!" Flannery announced. Just then the Totem slowly rose to it's feet and walked over to Felix. It held out it's arm towards Felix and nodded. Felix opened up his hand as the Totem dropped a shining red Z-Crystal with a small flame engraved in the center. 

"Thank you Flannery," said Felix. 

"No problem buddy," said Flannery giving them a thumbs up. "Now watch carefully," said Flannery. She put her arms in the form of an X in front of her face, then swung them up and out and over to her side. She thrusted both arms forward, her right arm over her left then fanned her arms upwards then brought his right arm forward with it's palm facing forward and his left hand on his right arm. 

"Got it thanks," said Felix. 

"Anytime, now before I forget Kiawe asked me to do one last favor, here give me your Ride Pager," said Flannery. Felix reached in and pulled out his Ride Pager and handed it to Flannery as she began imputed something in. "I've registered Charizard in your Ride Pager, now you can fly to the places you've already visited instantly," said Flannery handing back the Ride Pager to Felix. 

"Sweet thanks again," said Felix.

"Don't mention it," said Flannery.

"So what now?" asked Starlight. 

"The final and toughest trial before the Grand Trial," answered Felix. 

"Yep, the Grass Type Trial," added Flannery. 

"Grass Type, maybe you should catch some Pokemon," suggested Starlight. 

"Nah I'll be fine," said Felix.

"You're catching another Pokemon whether you want to or not," hissed Starlight. 

"Ok, ok calm down," said Felix. He turned towards Flannery and nodded,"Thanks again for everything," 

"Good Luck on the Grass Trial," said Flannery. Felix and Starlight was just about to start heading down the Volcano when a voice spoke up. 

"Impressive, you are a talented child aren't you?" The two turned around when a horde of people suddenly ran up to them. All of them wearing black outfits with rainbow Rs on their chest. 

"Wha what's going on?" asked Starlight. Just then three people walked up as the the group quickly moved out of the way, two male and one female. The man on the left was wore a red vest with a hoodie and had black hair while the man in the center looked more serious, had red hair, and robe like suit. The woman on the right wore a dress similar to the man on the left and had purple hair with horns sticking out from the hoodie. All three wore clothes with big red Ms imprinted somewhere on their outfit and made the usage of black and red a lot.

"Well, well that was certainly eventful," said the man in the center. 

"Leader Maxie, this IS the trainer we heard about isn't it?" asked the man on the left. 

"Yes, no doubt this is it," said the man in the center. "Trainer I am Maxie of Team Magma, and these two are my accomplices, Admins Tabitha and Courtney," said the man. 

"Team Magma?" asked Starlight.

"That's right, and you," said Tabitha pointing to Felix. 

"Me?" asked Felix. 

"Yes you cutie," said Courtney winking. Both Maxie and Tabitha gave her looks of disapproval obviously not happy with what she just said. "Um I mean, trainer," said Courtney quickly trying to change the mood.

"Ok what can I help you with?" asked Felix. 

"We have been told that you have some sort of connection to the one called Necrozma," answered Maxie.

"Who?" asked Felix.

"Doesn't matter, tell us all you know or we'll have to force it out of you," said Tabitha.

"Hey wait you can't just start battling here," said Flannery.

"Stay out of this girlie!" one of the man in the black outfits yelled. 

"Look I'm telling you I don't know anything," said Felix.

"Doesn't seem like you're willing to speak, our boss never tells lies," said Maxie pulling out a Pokeball. Felix, Starlight, and Raichu glared at the three. "Looks like we've got no choice, come get your punishments," said Maxie.
> Chapter 23: Team Magma
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Mightyena your up," said Maxie tossing his Pokeball. The ball popped open as the black and grey furred canine emerged, growling and glaring at the group. 

"What's that?" asked Felix. 

"I don't know, I cant' seem to find any info on this Pokemon," said Rotom. 

"Here take a look at this," said Flannery pulling out her Pokedex. Felix, Rotom, and Starlight gathered around her to read the entry.

"Mightyena, the biting Pokemon, Dark Type, Mightyena gives obvious signals when it's preparing to attack. It starts to growl deeply and then flattens its body. This Pokemon will bite savagely with it's sharply pointed fangs," stated the Pokedex. 

"Dark type, I guess I can't be as much use in this battle," said Starlight. 

"Don't worry Starlight I got this," said Felix pulling out an orange drive out of his bag. Silvally knew what was coming and walked over. Felix removed the water drive and replaced it with the fighting drive. Within moments, Silvally's eyes, and fins were in a deep orange color. "We're counting on you," he whispered to Silvally. Silvally nodded as he growled at his opponent.

"What a fool," laughed Maxie. "Ice Fang," he ordered. Mightyena opened it's jaws as ice began to form on it's fangs. It lunged and bit down on Silvally as he winced and shook him off immediately. "Hmm it wasn't effective?" asked Maxie.

"But sir surely that thing is ground type right?" asked Tabitha. 

"Nice try, but my Silvally is actually a fighting type right now," smirked Felix.

"What!?" growled Maxie.

"To late though, Multi Attack!" Silvally lunged and slashed at the Mightyena with it's talons as a loud smack rang out knocking Mightyena unconscious.

"What impossible!" Maxie said. 

"Leader Maxie should we...." stuttered Courtney.

"No I can handle this," said Maxie calling back his Pokemon. "If you think I'll let you win, that's a mistake, Go Crobat," said Maxie calling out his second Pokemon. The ball popped open as a large, purple, four winged bat emerged. 

"Now what?" asked Starlight. Flannery walked over holding up her Pokedex. 

"Crobat, the Bat Pokemon and the evolved form of Golbat, Crobat sneaks up on it's intended prey using wings that barely makes a sound. This Pokemon rests by hanging on a tree branch with it's rear legs that serves as wings," stated the Dex. 

"And it's Poison Flying," said Starlight. She looked over to Felix and nodded.

"Are you sure?" Felix asked in a concerned voice.

"Don't worry, I'll use everything you taught me to beat this thing," said Starlight. Felix nodded as he called back Silvally and let Starlight take his place. 

"Hey you can't just switch out like that during battle," said Tabitha. 

"It's not called switching, it's called helping a friend," said Starlight. "Raichu let's do this," said Starlight. Raichu grinned as it hovered up to face Crobat. "Raichu use Thunderbolt!" Starlight commanded. Raichu let out a high pitched squeak as thunderclouds appeared over Crobat's head and a bolt of electricity came crashing down doing massive damage. 

"Impressive for someone who's not a native to this world you have some talent, but it's not good enough for me, Crobat Sludge Bomb," Maxie ordered. Crobat inhaled as it spat out a large glob of poison at Raichu only for it to do half of it's health. "Not effective?" asked Maxie.

"Why don't I show you why, Psychic!" Starlight ordered. Raichu squeaked as a pink aura surrounded Crobat and knocked it down unconscious. 

"Impossible!" said Maxie. 

"Heh too good for you," smirked Starlight. Maxie called back his Pokemon and pulled out his third ball.

"We'll see about that, Camerupt deal with these meddlers," said Maxie throwing his Pokeball. The ball popped open as a large 2 humped orange camel emerged. Flannery quickly pulled up the Dex entry and showed it to Felix and Starlight.

"Camerupt, the Eruption Pokemon and the evolved form of Numel, Camerupt has a volcano inside it's body. Magma of 18,000 degrees courses through it's body. Occasionally, the humps on this Pokemon's back erupt, spewing the super heated magma," stated the Dex.

"Ground and Fire, in that case, Silvally you're up again!" said Felix calling out his Pokemon. Starlight's Raichu retreated and was replaced by Silvally. Felix took out the water drive again and replaced it for the fighting drive. Silvally's eyes and fins once again turned to a light bluish color. "Now Silvally Multi Attack!" Felix commanded. Silvally growled as it lunged at Camerupt and slashed it with it's talons spraying water everywhere and knocking it out in one hit. 

"Nice," said Starlight.

"Down in one hit!?" yelped Tabitha. 

"So cool," said Courtney. Maxie clenched his teeth as he called back his third Pokemon. 

"You can keep trying but I will not let the president down," growled Maxie pulling out a fourth Pokeball. He threw it as a large purple two headed creature with the toxic symbol engraved on it's stomach, emerged. 

"Oh great now what?" asked Starlight. 

"Weezing, the Poison Gas Pokemon and the evolved form of Koffing, Weezing alternately shrinks and inflates its twin bodies to mix together toxic gases inside. The more the gases are mixed, the more powerful the toxins become. The Pokemon also becomes more putrid," states the Dex. 

"Poison Types are easy to handle when you got Psychic by your side," said Starlight. Silvally retreated as Raichu took it's spot. "Psychic!" Starlight ordered. Raichu let out a happy squeak as a pink aura surrounded Weezing and knocked it's health down to half. 

"Don't get in my way," hissed Maxie. Weezing gasped as it hurled a shadowy blob towards Raichu doing massive damage.

"Raichu are you ok?" asked Starlight. Raichu let out a squeak as it winced trying to keep it's stand. 

"Be careful Starlight, that Weezing has Shadow Ball which is a ghost type move," said Flannery. 

"Don't worry that thing won't stay up for another minute, Psychic!" Raichu squeaked as the pink aura surrounded Weezing and took it out for good. Maxie growled as he called back his Pokemon. 

"Alright four down," said Felix. 

"You have done well thus far, however you leave me no choice but to use this final Pokemon," said Maxie pulling out one last Pokeball. Only this time it was a purple ball with a large white M engraved on the center. "Groudon let's finish this," He threw his ball as a large red creature emerged. It had large claws with white spikes coming out from the side of it's head and multiple black veins ran up and down it's body. It's yellow eye drilled relentlessly into the three below it. 

"What in the name of Equestria!?" Starlight yelped.

"Groudon, the Continent Pokemon, Ground Type, Groudon is said to be the personification of the land itself. Legends tell of it's many clashes against Kyogre, as each sought to gain the power of nature," states the Dex. Suddenly Groudon let out a large roar as the sunlight suddenly grew bright and it became really hot. 

"Wha it became so hot all of a sudden," said Felix.

"That's Groudon's ability drought," said Maxie. "With this we'll surely take you out," 

"Over my dead body, your Pokemon is weak against mine," said Felix. 

"We'll see about that, Solar Beam!" Maxie ordered.

"Oh crap," said Felix. Groudon began to absorb energy eventually letting out a single roar as a beam of green light shot out and struck Silvally knocking it out. "Silvally!" Felix exclaimed as he ran over to his Pokemon. "You did good rest up for me," said Felix returning Silvally back into it's ball. Felix was about to bring out his Lycanroc when he remembered it was still fainted. "Shit I'm out of Pokemon!" cursed Felix. 

"Don't worry I got your back," said Starlight. "Grass Knot!" Starlight ordered. Raichu jumped up as a small emerged from the ground underneath Groudon and tripped it doing massive damage. 

"Heh nice try but you won't survive this next attack," laughed Maxie. "Earthquake," Groudon slowly got up and stomped the ground beneath it causing the ground to shake and knocking Raichu down. Raichu let out a pained squeak as it collapsed on the ground unconscious. 

"Raichu!" Starlight gasped. 

"Good work Leader Maxie," said Tabitha. Starlight called back her Pokemon and pulled out her second Pokeball. "Abra let's go!" The ball popped open as Starlight's Abra emerged from the ball. 

"Hmph too easy," laughed Maxie. "Solar Beam," Groudon began absorbing energy and blasted Abra with the same green light that took out Silvally. Abra let out a pained cry as it fainted. Starlight clenched her teeth as she called back Abra and sent out her final Pokemon. 

"Eevee!" The small brown creature popped out and stared at Groudon with a happy look. "Quick Attack!" Starlight ordered. Eevee dashed out with great speed and tackled its entire body against Groudon's leg doing nothing. 

"Solar Beam," Maxie ordered. Groudon once again began absorbing energy and blasted Starlight's Eevee with the green light knocking it out. 

"No," Starlight whimpered as she caught Eevee with her magic. 

"Hmph, looks like you failed," chuckled Tabitha. 

"Now tell us what you know," ordered Maxie. Felix glared at Maxie and was about to open his mouth when something landed in front of the two. The Totem Marowak swung it's bone club in a circle and growled. Following behind the Salazzle slithered up next to Marowak and hissed at the Groudon. 

"Marowak," said Starlight. 

"More interference?" groaned Maxie. "No matter I'll take these fools out, Earthquake," Maxie ordered. But before Groudon could attack Marowak swung it's bone creating an invisible barrier in front of Salazzle, Felix, and Starlight protecting the three from the attack. "What?" asked Maxie.

"It just used Detect," said Felix. The Salazzle jumped in front of Marowak and hissed at Groudon making it angry.

"And Salazzle's Torment," said Starlight. This time Marowak jumped in front of Salazzle and began spinning towards Groudon in a wheel of fire and striking it in the chest. Salazzle slithered around Marowak and hissed at it as a disgusting purple substance covered Groudon's body. Suddenly the once healthy Groudon now looked hurt as if wanted to vomit.

What's the meaning of this!?" asked Tabitha. 

"Salazzle's Toxic," answered Flannery. 

"No matter use Earthquake," ordered Maxie. Groudon was about to attack when the Salazzle hissed at it forcing him to back off. 

"Forget about it, your Pokemon's been tormented," said Felix. Maxie growled obviously angry. But before he could give out any more orders, Marowak began spinning it's bone as purple smoke suddenly surrounded Groudon and drove its health down to nothing. Groudon let out a pained roar as it collapsed on the ground unable to continue. 

"What is the meaning of this!?" asked Maxie.

"Your Pokemon was poisoned so Marowak's Hex attack did double damage," answered Felix. 

"Impossible I couldn't have been defeated by a mere child and his pony," said Maxie. 

"You just did," snickered Starlight. Maxie called back his Pokemon and glared at the group. 

"You may have beaten us, but just you wait, we will return," said Maxie as he turned around and walked down the Volcano with Tabitha and the group of people running after him. 

"Yeah that's right scram!" Flannery called out. 

"Hmm not bad," said Courtney walking up to them. 

"And what do YOU want from us?" growled Starlight. 

"Oh not much, just thought you guys were cool," answered Courtney. 

"Really?" asked Felix. 

"Of course, by the way take these, hope they can make up for their actions," said Courtney handing them several bottles of potions and revives. Both Starlight and Felix reluctantly grabbed them from her hand and went to work healing their Pokemon. 

"We really appreciate what you're doing, but why are you helping us?" asked Felix. 

"Cause I'm interested in you," giggled Courtney as she winked at him. 

"What me?" asked Felix looking surprised. 

"Oh don't worry I'm not planning anything creepy," she said smiling. "Oh by the way you're going to take on you're next trial right?" she asked. 

"Um yeah," answered Felix. 

"Then I suggest you take this," said Courtney slipping a Pokeball into his hand. 

"Wait what?" asked Felix. Courtney placed her finger over his lips and shushed him. 

"Don't tell anyone about this alright?" asked Courtney. Felix hesitated but eventually nodded. "Great hope to see you again soon," she scooted over next to Felix and kissed his cheek making him blush and Starlight stare at them in shock. She got up and walked down the Volcano giggling. Felix looked over to Starlight and pointed at her.

"You didn't see anything," Starlight shook her head, promising to forget what she just witnessed.
> Chapter 24: Visitor from Another Dimension
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Faba continued to descend on the lift as he made his way towards the secret labs located in the basement. Supernova had summoned him to the meeting we the three strange ponies that he didn't like the minute he saw them. They were rubbing him the wrong way and it was clear those three had different plans compared to the whole 'create an army of UBs and take over the world' plan that Supernova and Team Rainbow Rocket had in mind. All those three wanted was to take control of a single nation using fear, or something even more ridiculous like gather love and feast on them like some sort of demented cannibal. It was clear that none of them had agreed with this master plan, but they had no choice to follow it unless they wanted Necrozma to beat the living hell out of them and Faba already knew very well how terrifying Necrozma can get. Even if Supernova's threats were scary, everyone knew he still hasn't gotten his hands on Necrozma, but they figured it wasn't a good idea to get on his bad side. Faba got off the lift where he was greeted by two Ultra Aether Employees.

"Branch Chief Faba, Mr. Supernova is expecting you," said one of the Employees. 

"Yes I am very much aware of that thank you very much," said Faba walking past the two. 

"Geez sour mood," said the second Employee.

"I bet he's still not happy with the plan," said Employee A.

"Yeah no kidding," snickered Employee B. Faba rolled his eyes as he continued towards the secret labs. 

"Stupid Ultra Aether, I understand that there supposed to be advanced versions of Aether but did Supernova really have to make them this irritating?" groaned Faba. He stopped short in front of secret lab B and sighed. "Well here goes nothing," He opened the door and entered. 

"Took you long enough Branch Chief," Supernova said in a irritated voice. 

"Hey it ain't easy ok, I had to make sure I wasn't being followed too," said Faba. 

"You're late and you don't even apologize for your delay?" asked Supernova angrily. 

"Supernova sir, please let it be," said an Employee. 

"Tch fine, you got lucky this time Faba," hissed Supernova. Faba rolled his eyes as he took his seat. "So now that everyone is here how about that update Krater?" asked Supernova. The Ultra Aether Employee standing next to Chrysalis pulled out a tablet and began tapping on the screen. 

"So far we haven't heard any news on Necrozma's awakening, or from the Champion's motives, plus the Ultra Beasts haven't made an appearance at this moment, we can only assume that they've quieted down since two of our Employees caught that loose Nihilego near the Tide Song Hotel on Akala Island, no news from the Ultra Recon Squad, and so fourth," answered Krater. 

"Hmph do we really have to go through the trouble of finding this Necrozma guy, I think you're just wasting your breath Supernova,"  said Chrysalis. 

"I agree with her on this one, we tried to get some information from that Lusamine lass, but she wasn't playing around," said Archie. 

"Hmph of course YOU would fail, I can't understand why we couldn't beat a measly kid and his pony companion," said Maxie.

"Oh you wanna go Maxie?" said Archie standing up. 

"Settle down you two," said Cyrus. Archie snorted as he fell back into his seat.

"I can't believe we have to work with these buffoons," grunted the Pony of Shadows. 

"I'd rather be at the Crystal Empire trying to get my revenge," groaned Sombra.

"Enough!" roared Supernova. He slammed his fists on the table making the room go silent. "If it wasn't for me you'd all still be dead, be grateful you're alive," hissed Supernova. The villains groaned as they sat up. Suddenly the door opened as two Ultra Aether Employees walked in.

"Sir we've brought her," said Employee B. 

"Good, bring her in," ordered. Supernova. The two Employees moved out of the way as a restrained Lillie was shoved into the room by two more Ultra Aether Employees. "So you ready to start talking?" asked Supernova. 

"I'm not telling you anything," growled Lillie. 

"Do you even know the situation you're in right now?" hissed Supernova. "You've lost Cosmog, you're Pokemon, what more can you have that prevents you from speaking?" 

"Common Sense," answered Lillie. 

"You Idiot!" roared Supernova slapping Lillie across the face. He reached down and grabbed her by the collar of her shirt and glared into her eyes. "You're going to tell me everything you know about Necrozma or else!" he growled.

"You won't get away with this, once mother finds out where I am, she'll send someone to rescue me," said Lillie wincing. 

"Hah you're so much of a fool to believe that the president will actually send help, you're mother doesn't love you, not a wretched thief like you," said Supernova throwing her down. That's when it hit him. Smirking he walked over to the built in T.V. near the wall. "Fine, if you're not planning to talk, then surely your mother will do the honors,"

"What are you talking about?" asked Lillie. 

"Faba do you still have the machine that Burnett constructed?" asked Supernova.

"Definitely," smirked Faba.

"Do you have Cosmog?" Supernova asked the Ultra Aether Employees. 

"Yes sir," said Employee A. 

"Faba connect us to President Lusamine's phone, and bring the machine before you do that," Faba nodded as he walked out the lab. 

"What are you planning to do?" asked Lillie. 

"Heh, just watch," snickered Supernova. He turned around pointed towards the two Ultra Aether Employees standing near the door. "Bring the girl here," One of the Employees grabbed Lillie by the restraints and lead her to Supernova as he was told and held her near the television. "Wait," said Supernova. A few minutes later Faba returned with a large machine placed on a cart, and pushed it behind the table. "Connect Cosmog to the machine," Supernova ordered. The employees and Faba instantly got to work and hooked up the cage holding Cosmog to the strange machine. "Done?" he asked.

"Yes sir," answered an Employee once they were ready.

"Faba connect us to President Lusamine," ordered Supernova.

"Yes sir," said Faba turning on the television. Lillie watched as the Ultra Aether Employee began operating the machine. She closed her eyes as a tear rolled down her cheek. 

"Nebby, I'm sorry," she mumbled. 



It's been several hours since Lusamine saved Gladion and his friends from the likes of Supernova and Ultra Aether and now she was back in Equestria and was discussing some things with Larry, Celestia, Anabel, and Looker. She had shared some of her knowledge on the Ultra Beasts and Necrozma that Larry ordered to be classified as top secret information. 

"So you believe that Necrozma is an Ultra Beast?" asked Larry. 

"Well considering that he can open and travel through Ultra Wormholes, yes" answered Lusamine. 

"But there's something off, if Necrozma is an Ultra Beast, he should at least have the ability Beast Boost," said Looker. 

"Not necessarily," added Phyco. The five turned around to see Phyco walking in. "He may not have the ability Beast Boost, but he does have that strange aura that emits from the Totem Pokemon back on Alola," answered Phyco. Larry put down his pen and rubbed his forehead. 

"This whole Necrozma thing is starting to get to me, I'm becoming more stressed out than usual," said Larry.

"Hopefully we can put an end to this before matters get even worse," said Celestia

"Hope you're right," said Larry. Suddenly Lusamine's phone went off catching everyone's attention. "What is it?" asked Larry.

"It's a message from Aether," answered Lusamine. 

"Hook it up to the monitor, it may be important to us," said Larry. Lusamine nodded as she hooked up her phone to his laptop and turned on the projector. Once everything was set, she answered the call. Instantly, Supernova's face appeared on screen catching everyone off guard. 

"Hello President Lusamine," said Supernova. 

"Supernova, what do you want?" growled Lusamine. 

"Wouldn't you like to know," snickered Supernova. He quickly moved out of the way as two the two Ultra Aether Employees in the background pushed Lillie forward.

"Mother!" Lillie called out to her.

"Lillie!" Lusamine gasped. 

"Supernova what are you planning?" growled Larry.

"Oh nothing much, just here to pass the message, Lusamine, I am very much aware that your daughter's life is important to you," Supernova smirked.

"Release her Supernova!" Lusamine roared.

"Oh I will, in due time, under one condition," said Supernova. 

"One condition?" asked Celestia. 

"I know that you possess highly classified information regarding Necrozma and the Ultra Beasts, surrender them over to us and we'll spare your daughter's life,"

"No mother don't do it!" Lillie cried out. 

"If you try any tricks or funny games then your daughter will.... heh well how about I show you what happens," snickered Supernova as he moved out of the way. In the background the group could see Faba and an Ultra Aether Employee operating a large machine while the sound of Cosmog's desperate cries could be heard. Lusamine's eyes widened with terror when she realized what he was planning. 

"No don't do it please Supernova I beg you!" However it was too late, before anymore objections could be made, an Ultra Wormhole suddenly appeared over the machine. 

"Supernova shut off that machine this instant!" Larry roared.

"After you surrender those files!" Supernova yelled. Lillie gasped as a strange creature suddenly emerged from the Ultra Wormhole. 

"That's UB-01 Nihilego," said Anabel. 

"Supernova I demand that you send back that beast to it's world!" Larry ordered.

"Surrender the files!" yelled Supernova.

"No don't do it!"Lillie cried out. Everyone looked towards Larry who clenched his teeth. 

"Please Supernova stop!" Lusamine begged. Supernova snapped his fingers as the Employee holding onto Lillie turned her around and held her in front of the beast. 

"No," Lillie whimpered as the beast approached her. 

"PLEASE SUPERNOVA!!!" Lusamine yelled close to tears. 

"ALRIGHT YOU WIN!!!!" Larry yelled. The group looked at Larry in shock. "I'll give you the files, just let her go," Larry ordered. 

"I knew you'd give in," laughed Supernova. He turned towards the Employee and nodded. The Employee cut off her restraint as she collapsed onto the ground sobbing. 

"I'm sending one of my Employees over there to retrieve the files, be ready to...." But Supernova's statement was cut off when a loud crash could be heard. When he turned around Faba was on the ground and the employee was knocked out. The cage containing Cosmog had fallen to the ground and smashed. The machine was destroyed as Nihilego slammed it's tentacles into another employee and sent him flying. 

'What's going on!?" asked Celestia.

"Oh hell no," said Supernova. Suddenly Supernova was knocked into the T.V. causing the screen to crack and began to static. The sounds of muffled screams and crashing could be heard as occasionally the static would cut off and several scenes of Nihilego rampaging could be seen. 

'What's happening?" asked Larry. 

"The television must've been smashed," said Lusamine. Lusamine's eyes widened when she heard the muffled scream of Lillie come from the other end. "Lillie!?" Lusamine called out to her. The static continued and the screen would occasionally flash to scenes of Nihilego grabbing Lillie and dragging her into the Wormhole. "Lillie!" Lusamine called out to her. Lillie's muffled cries could be heard as Lusamine watched Nihilego drag her daughter into the Wormhole and disappear. "Lillie!!" But Lillie's voice faded as the screen finally cut to black. "No!" she screamed slamming her fists on the table. 

"Phyco, we need to get to Aether Paradise now!" Larry ordered. 

"Right away," said Phyco running out the door. 

"Don't worry Lusamine, I'm sure we can save Lillie," said Celestia comforting her as she sobbed. 

"Damn you Supernova, DAMN YOU!" Larry roared. "Looker Anabel, I need you to go back and find a way to save Lillie," said Larry. "I don't know how we can save her, but I'll think of something, in the meantime head back to Alola," 

"Right, let's go chief," said Looker. Anabel nodded as she and Looker ran out the door. Larry clenched his teeth and glared at the blank screen. 

"Just you wait Supernova, I won't forgive you,"
> Chapter 25: Versus Totem Lurantis
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Felix and Starlight stood in front of the Lush Jungle trial site with nervous looks on their face. Felix had remembered his parents saying that the totem, Lurantis, was possibly one of the more difficult totems he would be facing. Looking back, the only two totems that had changed was the Araquanid and Marowak. Felix gulped as he clutched the Pokeball Courtney had given him after he and Starlight beat Team Magma. 

"You ready?" asked Starlight.

"No," Felix answered nervously. Throughout the entire Island Challenge he hadn't been afraid of a single totem up until now. 

"Me neither," said Starlight. Her Espeon letting out a sad whine. Before the two decided to challenge the trial, Starlight had helped Felix complete some regiments, little did she know that her Eevee would end up evolving into an Espeon and her Abra evolving into a Kadabra. However, during the training Felix hadn't used the Pokemon Courtney had given him for some unknown reason. Starlight only hoped that whatever mystery Pokemon was in the ball, would help Felix beat the totem.

"Well let's go," said Felix. Starlight nodded as the two walked into Lush Jungle. The first thing that Felix noticed upon entering Lush Jungle was that it looked nothing like the Lush Jungle his parents had described. First off he felt that there were more trees than usual. Lush Jungle probably grew over the years. "Wow," said Felix.

"It looks like the Everfree Forest back in Equestria," added Starlight. 

"Hey there!" a male's voice spoke up. The two looked forward to see a man wearing a tux suit and a green bowtie walking up to them. "You must be here for the trial," said the man.

"Well Felix is, I'm just his audience," said Starlight.

"Wow a talking pony, say what kind of Pokemon is it?" asked the man.

"I'm afraid she's not a Pokemon, let alone she's not from this world," answered Felix.

"A creature from another world, exquisite!" the man beamed. 

"Excuse me?" asked Starlight.

"Sorry from what your friend said if you're not from this world, you're obviously rare," answered the man. Starlight gave him a disgusted look clearly not amused being called rare. "Sorry I didn't mean to offend you, anyway let's get to it," said the man.

"I assume you're the temporary captain?" asked Felix. 

"Actually the funny thing is, I'm actually covering for the temporary captain, the original temporary captain, Gardenia is on her lunch break so I'm taking the shift for her," answered the man.

"Huh interesting, oh before I forget, I'm Felix and this is Starlight Glimmer," said Felix.

"My name is Cilan, I'm the Grass type gym leader back in the Unova Region, nice knowing you two," said the man. 

"So what exactly do I have to do?" asked Felix. 

"You have to find three key ingredients and bring them back, they are the Mago Berry, some Honey, and a Big Root," answered Cilan.

"Hmm seems easy enough, I suppose we're going to use those ingredients to cook up something to call out the totem," said Felix.

"Indeed I hope you're ready, oh and before you go searching here's a Forge Bag to put all the ingredients in," said Cilan handing Felix a small yellow sack. Felix took the bag and passed it to Starlight for her to hold onto. "Great just follow me and I'll take you to find the first ingredient," said Cilan as he walked into the Jungle. The two followed after him with Espeon trailing behind Starlight. The two followed Cilan as he led them into an area with several big trees and large patches of grass. Two Fromantis that had gathered under a single tree noticed the three approaching and ran off to hide. "You'll find several Mago Berries on the ground in this area, however there are some berries that Pokemon had claimed, so be careful which berry you take, since taking the wrong berry might drag you into a battle later on," said Cilan. "Once you found the ingredient you want, come talk to me,"

"Alright let's go," said Felix. Starlight nodded as the two split up to look for the right berry. As Felix and Starlight ran around looking for the berry they needed, they could see Pokemon gathered around some areas giving them a signal to avoid them. Eventually Felix walked over to a spot under a tree where a single berry lie. However although there was a berry there no Pokemon had crowded around clearly telling Felix it wasn't claimed. He ran over and grabbed the berry and ran back to Cilan to show him. 

"So you picked that one?" asked Cilan as Felix ran up to him holding a berry. 

"Yes," answered Felix. 

"Alright then moving on," said Cilan turning around. Felix called back Starlight and Espeon and the three continued on with the trial. The next area was an open field with several bushes holding different colored flowers. "The next item is some honey, you know how this works so come back to me when you think you have the right one," said Cilan. Both Starlight and Felix took off in search of some honey with Espeon following behind. 

"So how should we do this?" asked Starlight. 

"I suggest you go find the bush with the least amount of flowers," answered a familiar voice. The two turned around to see Flannery walking up to them. 

"Flannery what are you doing here?" asked Felix.

"You're doing the grass trial right, I brought some tools to help you complete the trial," said Flannery. "Anyway if you're looking for honey, take some from the bush with the least amount of flowers," suggested Flannery. 

"Great thanks for the advice," said Starlight. Flannery nodded as the two ran off looking for the right bush. As Felix continued to search Starlight noticed a bush with only two to three flowers on the other side of the field and ran over to it. She examined the bush to confirm that the bush was the right before pulling out a small jar and poured in some honey from the flowers. "Felix I got some honey!" Starlight called out to Felix. The two reunited with Cilan who checked to see if they were certain they wanted the honey Starlight picked before leading them towards the final ingredient. 

"This is it, the final ingredient, you will find the Big Root as a part of the trees located here, however you will notice that the trees that look like the Pokemon Sudowoodo ARE Sudowoodo, you'll need to be careful when searching for the Big Root, once you find the one you want to take, come meet me here," said Cilan. 

"Starlight, let's go together for this one," suggested Felix. Starlight nodded in agreement as the two ran off. As the two ran around examining the trees they eventually ran into Misty who showed them the right tree. Felix thanked her and returned to Cilan with the Big Root. 

"Alright you have everything, let's go back to the entrance," said Cilan. The two followed Cilan back to the entrance of the trial site where Flannery and Misty were waiting for them. Before them was a large pot with several cooking tools. "Thanks for waiting ladies," said Cilan.

"Anytime," said Flannery.

"Alright let's get cooking," said Cilan walking behind the pot. "First let's put the Mago Berry," said Cilan. Felix dug through the Forge Bag and pulled out the pink berry and tossed it into the pot. "Next we'll pour in some Fresh Water," said Cilan. Misty pulls out a bottle of water and pours out all the content into the pot as Cilan mixes. "Next the honey," Starlight hands him the jar and watches as he pours out all the honey into the pot while still mixing. "Finally the big root," Felix pulls out the brown root and throws it in as Cilan mixes the content with the rare bone he received from Flannery. "And there we have it!" Cilan announced after several minutes of mixing. Before they knew it, a strange smell began to fill the area. 

"Oh god that smells hideous," said Felix covering his nose. Starlight nodded in agreement when the sound of rustling leaves could be heard coming from behind them. The two turned around as something tall lept out and landed in front of them. The creature was tall with pink and white stripped legs. It had two large pink sickles as it's arms and two red bulbs over it's eyes. 

"So you finally appeared," said Felix as Starlight hid behind him. Rotom flew out and scanned the Pokemon. 

"Lurantis, the Bloom Sickle Pokemon and the evolved form of Fromantis, It fires beams from it's sickle shaped petals. These beams are powerful enough to cleave through thick metal plates," Rotom stated. The Totem Lurantis let out a high pitched screech as it's aura burst to life. 

"Hmph it won't be long, let's go Lycanroc!" said Felix throwing his Pokeball. The ball popped open as his orange coat wolf emerged growling at the Totem. "Fire Fang!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc dashed out as it opened it's jaws and bit down hard on the Totem as flames scorched the area where Lycanroc bit it. Felix thrusted his arm down in celebration before the Totem could shake it off. Lycanroc retreated back to it's trainer and growled. Lurantis raised both of it's sickles in the air as green energy began to surround Lurantis. 

"What is that?" asked Starlight.

"It's Lurantis's signature move, Solar Blade!" Rotom exclaimed. 

Heh isn't that a two turn move, I'll just attack before Lurantis finishes charging, Lycanroc Fire Fang one more-" But Felix took a step back in shock as a bright green beam appeared over Lurantis's head. "What already!?" Felix yelped. Lurantis raised it's sickles up to the beam and brought it down hard on Lycanroc. Felix's eyes widened as his Pokemon collapsed on the ground unable to continue. "With one hit!?" he yelped. Lurantis let out another screech as another Pokemon appeared beside it. The Pokemon was small and had a grey body as it bounced around it midair. 

"What is that?" asked Starlight. Rotom quickly flew up to it and scanned the Pokemon.

"Castform Weather Pokemon, Normal Type, Castform's appearance changes with the weather. This Pokemon gained the ability to use the vast power of nature to protect it's tiny body," stated Rotom. Felix called back his Pokemon and pulled out his second ball. 

"I'm not going down easily, Silvally let's go!" he said throwing the ball. The Pokeball popped open as his Shiny Silvally emerged it's coat sparkling in the sunlight. It's eyes and fins were shaded in a lime green color indicating that it's type was bug. "Multi Attack on Lurantis!" Silvally growled as it lunged at Lurantis slashing it with it's talons followed by the sound of buzzing. "Alright it's super effective!" said Felix. But Lurantis was quick to recover as it raised it's sickles in the form of an X. It lunged at Silvally and slashed at it with it's sickles in the shape of an X. Silvally shook off the attack like it was nothing. "That's my Silvally," said Felix. Just then the opposing Castform let out a cry causing a large amount of sunlight to shine down on the group. 

"What the?" asked Starlight. That's when she noticed the Castform looked different. This time the face was a deep shade of orange with seven orbs attached to it's head to make it look like the sun. 

"Damn it just used Sunny Day," said Felix. "No matter I'll take care of that Lurantis-" But Felix's statement was cut off when he noticed Lurantis absorbing energy. "Shit not Solar Blade again," he cursed. He was so focused on Lurantis that he didn't notice an orange ball heading straight towards Silvally. By the time he realized Silvally was struck by the orb followed by Lurantis's Solar Blade. Once the dust cleared Silvally was on the ground unconscious. "SILVALLY!" Felix gasped.

"Oh no," said Starlight. Espeon nudged her hoof with a worried look on it's face. Felix called back his Silvally and nodded.

"You did good Silvally rest up," He put away Silvally's Pokeball and sighed. He reached in his pocket and pulled out the Pokeball Courtney had given him. "Whatever you are, I'm counting on you," he said as he threw it. The ball popped open as a strange Pokemon emerged. The Pokemon was small had white fur covering it's face. Five red horns stuck out of it's fur and it's deep blue eyes stared at the Lurantis. 

"What is that?" asked Starlight. Rotom flew up to it and scanned the Pokemon.

"Larvesta Torch Pokemon, Bug Fire Type, said to have been born from the sun, it spews fire from it's horns and encases itself in a cocoon of fire when it evolves," states Rotom.  

"A Larvesta, that's a bug and fire a 4x advantage towards Grass, I've always wanted one of these guys on my team," exclaimed Felix. "But this one looks different, did she breed it?" Felix mumbled.

"Go on it's the last stretch, finish the battle!" Cilan called out. 

"No matter, bred or not you're going down, Flamethrower on Lurantis!" Larvesta inhaled and blasted a stream of fire towards Lurantis striking it in the chest. Lurantis let out a pained screech as it collapsed on the ground unable to continue. 

"A single hit?" Starlight asked.

"Flamethrower is super effective for a Pokemon like Lurantis, but since Sunny Day was up it boosted the power!" Rotom answered.

"Huh neat," said Starlight. Starlight stopped talking as the sky suddenly darkened. She looked up as a drop of rain fell on her nose. "Rain?" asked Starlight. 

"The Castform must've used Rain Dance," answered Rotom. "Look," Rotom pointed towards Castform. When she looked forward she noticed that Castform now looked like a rain drop. 

"Solar Beam!" Felix commanded. His Larvesta began to absorb energy and waited as their turn ended. The Castform began to dance around as a blue orb this time formed over Castform's head. "Damn weather ball, quick avoid it!" Felix commanded. As the Castform attacked, Larvesta quickly jumped to the left. "Now Solar Beam!" Felix commanded. Larvesta let out a loud buzzing noise as a large green orb appeared over it's head and a green beam struck the Castform knocking it out. "One hit?" Felix asked confused. He looked down at Larvesta who turned around and smiled as a little heart appeared over it's head. "It must've gotten a critical hit because it likes me," Felix mumbled to himself. 

"Felix you did it!" Starlight said giving him a hug. 

"Splendid!" Cilan beamed as he walked up to them. 

"I couldn't have done it with my Pokemon," he said looking down at Larvesta. Larvesta blushed as it jumped up into his arms and snuggled closely to him. 

"Aww," cooed Starlight.

"And as a congratulations here you are," said Cilan holding out his hand. Felix opened his palm to retrieve the Z-Crystal when Cilan suddenly spoke up. "Just kidding, I don't have it," 

"What!?" asked Felix. Suddenly the sound of Grass rustling could be heard behind them. Felix and Starlight turned around to see Lurantis standing behind them. 

"Since when!?" asked Starlight. But Lurantis shook off the shock from Starlight as it held out sickle towards Felix. Felix nodded as he held out his hand and the Lurantis dropped the shiny green Z-Crystal in his palm. 

"Alright I got the Grassium Z!" Felix announced. Around him everyone including Lurantis applauded for his achievement. 

"Now watch," said Cilan. Felix turned towards him as he raised both of his arms up to his face in the X formation. He threw his arms up and off to his side before bringing them back up in front of him with his right wrist over his left. Finally he put his palms together and thrusted them upwards and out into a Y formation. "Congratulations, this should be the last trial before the Grand Trial," said Cilan. 

"Yep Grand Trial here I come," said Felix. 

"Well good luck, I suggest that you use that Grassium Z to your fullest, since I heard the Grand Trial uses Rock Types," said Cilan.

"Great thanks for the info," said Felix. Starlight and Felix waved goodbye as they left the last trial site on Akala Island. As the two made their way towards the Pokemon Center, a large rainbow had formed over the sky. As the two walked past the large boulder towards the Pokemon Center, three figures walked out. 

"Hmm nice job Felix, you're getting strong," said Dexio. 

"He really is," chuckled Sina. 

"What do you think Io, this is the son of Symon and Amber," said Dexio looking towards the hooded figure. 

"I'm impressed, those two gave birth to a talented child," said the figure. 

"They really did," said Sina. Io looked up at the rainbow and sighed. "Something wrong?" asked Sina. 

"Nothing just wondering, if Necrozma had created that rainbow, would Alola really learn to fear him?" He shook his head and turned around. "Let's go," he said as he walked towards Brooklet hill. Dexio and Sina looked at each other and shrugged as they followed him.
> Chapter 26: Team Galactic
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

The cool summer breeze blew through the air high above where the moon shined down on Ula Ula Island as Acerola lead Wally, May, Max, and Dawn to Aether House. 

"What a nice breeze," said May. 

"Definitely," added Max. 

"it's so much different than Hoenn," said Wally. 

"Come on just a little bit further," giggled Acerola as she continued to skip down the path. The four continued to follow Acerola to a large white house standing aloft on an elevated piece of land. Besides it were some trees and a hill leading to the shores. As the five climbed up the stairs, the shining Aether Logo sparkled in the moonlight. "Come on in," said Acerola opening the double doors. 

"Please excuse us," said Dawn entering the house with the other three. The inside was a lot more spaced out than the four had expected. Two large white doors stood next to the counter in the center across from them. Two more doors stood to the left and right walls near the entrance. Inside the five were greeted by Twilight, Trixie, and Tempest who were talking with two Aether Employees. Meanwhile Argo was hard at work behind the counter. He was the first to take notice of their five visitors. 

"I see you aren't with the others Acerola," said Argo. 

"I was, I'm planning to rejoin with them later, but right now you have guests," said Acerola. The four plus the two employees exchanged greetings with the remaining four. 

"So Acerola what brings you back here?" asked Argo. 

"Oh you know the usual, Larry giving us orders, but the strangest thing was that he seemed really upset about something," answered Acerola. 

"Upset?" asked Tempest. 

"Yeah, I don't know what but he seemed really furious about something," answered Acerola. 

"Well whatever it is we better be prepared, after our encounter with Ultra Aether on Akala Island, we can't possible waste any time to....." But Argo's statement was cut off when a bright flash appeared over them. The group looked up to see an Ultra Wormhole appear. 

"Is that?" asked Tempest.

"Yes an Ultra Wormhole!" Argo exclaimed. Suddenly a strange jellyfish like creature emerged from the wormhole carrying something in it's tentacles. 

"What is that?!" Trixie yelped.

"An Ultra Beast," answered Argo pulling out a Pokeball. 

"Wait it has something in it's tentacles!" May pointed out. Sure enough, the thing looked down at the group and reached out. 

"Mr Argo is that you!?" asked the girl.

"Miss Lillie!?" Argo asked.

"Mr. Argo please help me!" Lillie cried out.

"Krookodile save Lillie!" Argo ordered as he threw his Pokeball. The ball popped open to reveal Argo's red and black crocodile. Krookodile growled as it stomped it's feet on the ground causing the earth to shake and striking the beast causing it to drop Lillie. Panicking, she quickly scrambled to her feet and ran over to Argo. Meanwhile the beast had lost interest in Lillie and disappeared back into the Ultra Wormhole. 

"Looks like that did it," said Dawn. 

"Are you alright Miss Lillie?" asked Argo.

"Yes thank you," said Lillie. "But where am I?" asked Lillie.

"You're in Aether House on Ula Ula," answered Acerola. 

"What Ula Ula!?" asked Lillie.

"Is something wrong?" asked Wally. 

"I was supposed to be meeting someone on Akala, sorry guys but I have to go," said Lillie running out. 

"Hey wait!" May called out to her.

"Let's follow  her, I don't trust her being out on her own like that," said Argo. Everyone nodded in agreement as they ran out after her. But when the found her standing on the front porch they stopped short. 

"Lillie, is everything alright?" asked Twilight.

"Who, who are you people?" Lillie asked. The group stepped next to her to see a group of people, all wearing the same black blazers and pants with grey gloves and boots. They all had rainbow Rs imprinted on their chest and smirks on their face as they surrounded Aether House. 

"Well, well, looks like we have some guests," said a voice. The group looked down in the center isle that the group made as three four individuals walked up. All four were wearing black pants with either white shoes or heels. All four either had a white vest or white dress with a golden G imprinted  on their chest. One female had bright red hair while the other purple. One of the man had dark blue hair while the other had light blue hair and had his arms behind his back. 

"Well this is quite the audience here," said the man in the dark blue hair. 

"Who are you people?" asked Trixie. 

"We are from Team Galactic, and I am one of it's Commander, you may call me Saturn," said the man in the dark blue hair. 

"I am Jupiter," said the woman in the purple hair.

"And I'm Mars," said the woman in red hair. 

"And this is Master Cyrus," they all said in unison. 

"Team Galactic?" asked May. 

"That's right," answered Cyrus. He looked at Lillie and nodded. "You must be the daughter of the President," "Even though you aren't the one we're looking for, I can sense in you the strong desire to protect something, You have all have a powerful spirit," said Cyrus. Argo gave him a look of determination. "I used the power of the Pokemon that control time and space to create a perfect world, where the human spirit does not exist," said Cyrus. 

"The human spirit does not exist?" asked Wally. 

"That's right, I must remove the weak incomplete human spirit from this world and bring it to perfection!" Cyrus announced. Argo growled as he stepped forward and pulled out his Pokeballs. "How foolish, I will not let anyone get in my way," said Cyrus pulling out his own Pokeball.  "Houndoom go," said Cyrus throwing his Pokeball. The ball popped open as a black canine with a red muzzle and two horns sticking out of it's head, emerged. 

"Krookodile I'm counting on you," said Argo looking over to his Pokemon. Krookodile nodded as he jumped forward. 

"Get out of my way," Cyrus demanded. Suddenly without an orders, Houndoom inhaled and blasted a stream of fire at Krookodile only for it dust off itself like nothing happened. 

"Earthquake," Argo commanded. Krookodile roared as it stomped the ground causing the earth to shake and knocking out the Houndoom in one hit. Cyrus, not even fazed, called back his Pokemon and pulled out his second Pokeball. 

"Impressive," said Saturn. 

"But he's still no match for me," said Cyrus throwing his second Pokeball. The ball popped open as a black Pokemon with white claws and red scales emerged. 

"A Weavile not too shabby," said Argo. 

"We'll see who's shabby, use Fake out," Cyrus ordered. His Weavile lunged forwards and clapped it's claws in front of Krookodile making it flinch. 

"Krookodile hang in there!" Argo called out. Krookodile shook itself back into reality and growled. "Great, use Superpower," Argo ordered. Krookodile growled as it charged at Weavile with it's claws up. It pulled it's arm back getting ready for a punch. Meanwhile Cyrus nodded at Weavile and jumped as Krookodile threw his punch.

"Aww man he missed," groaned Dawn. But while Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter clapped their hands, Argo smirked before screaming. 

"Grab it by the legs and throw it down!" Argo ordered. Krookodile turned it's attention and grabbed Weavile's legs and threw it down onto the ground.

"What!?" Mars gasped. 

"Now finish it off with Superpower!" Argo ordered. Krookodile pulled back it's arm and swung it as hard as it can into Weavile's stomach knocking it out. 

"Impossible how strong is this guy!?" asked Jupiter. Cyrus called back his Pokemon as the group around Argo cheered. 

"Give up yet?" asked Argo smirking. 

"Never," said Cyrus throwing his third Pokeball. The ball popped open as a large purple bat with four wings emerged. "Crobat, X-Scissor," Cyrus ordered. Crobat's wings began to glow in a green light as it slashed Krookodile in the stomach.

"Hang in there Krookodile," Argo called out. Krookodile pulled itself together and waited for it's next command. "Alright Stone Edge!" Argo commanded. Krookodile roared as it punched the ground. Just as it did, several pillars of stone popped out and struck Crobat sending it falling to the ground unable to battle. 

"Not again!" Saturn yelped. However Cyrus said nothing as he called back his third Pokemon and brought his fourth. This time a pitch black bird Pokemon with white feathers puffing out it's chest and red tail feathers, emerged. 

"Honchkrow, too bad all of his Pokemon were weak to my Krookodile," laughed Argo. "Stone Edge," he ordered. Krookodile once again punched the ground causing more stone pillars to erupt from the ground. But Cyrus didn't seem to care as his fourth Pokemon fell unconscious to the attack. Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn all looked at Cyrus as he pulled out his last Pokeball. 

"Well looks like this is it," he said calling back his Honchkrow. 

"Go on call it out why don't ya," said Argo while his friends cheered him on. Cyrus looked down and smirked.

"Alright you asked for it," he said throwing his Pokeball. What emerged caused everyone to go silent. A large white dragon with two pink orbs on both it's arms and small wings, landed on the ground with a boom and let out an angry roar. Even Argo seemed shocked by his final Pokemon.

"A.....A Palkia!?" Argo gasped. 

"The legendary Pokemon that controlled space," said Dawn. 

"Wasn't this thing a Water Type?" asked Max.

"Yes, which means that Argo could be at a disadvantage here," answered Dawn. 

"Surf," Cyrus ordered. It was obvious that Argo was freaking out on the inside but assuming that he didn't want to show fear, he remained calm. Palkia let out a roar as water from the nearby shore began to rise higher and higher and came crashing down on Krookodile with a loud splash. Everyone watched in terror as Krookodile fell unable to continue. Argo pulled out his Pokeball and called back his Krookodile.

"You did well, rest up real good," said Argo stuffing his Pokeball. He pulled out his second Pokeball and threw it. The ball popped open as a large three headed green dragon emerged. "Hydreigon is a Pokemon my boss used to have so I decided to catch one myself, didn't expect it to be shiny now did you?" asked Argo. 

"A shiny Pokemon?" asked May. 

"What's a shiny Pokemon?" asked Tempest. Wally, Dawn, May, and Max each took turns explaining what a shiny Pokemon was and it's rarity. 

"Wow," said Twilight. 

"Yeah, it's pretty rare once you find one as a trainer," said Wally. The group returned their focus back on the battle. 

"Hey but that's a dragon, Master Cyrus could easily beat you," laughed Saturn.

"Oh but I also have n advantage too you know," said Argo. "With that being said let's end this, Draco Meteor!" he ordered. Hydreigon let out an angry roar as multiple flaming large rocks appeared from the sky and fell down striking Palkia with devastating power and taking it out for good. The Galactic Admins all looked shocked at what just happen and began to panic as Cyrus called back his Pokemon. 

"He did it!" cheered Lillie. 

"Master Cyrus!" Mars said panicked. But Cyrus didn't seemed faze by his current situation and looked up. 

"Impressive, your prowess is notable," he said. 

"Indeed," said Argo. This time Cyrus looked a little disturbed. 

"Why are you able to create such strong bonds with your Pokemon, and how are you able to turn those bonds into strength?" asked Cyrus. 

"Don't you get it, Argo is kind to his Pokemon!" Twilight exclaimed. 

"I see," said Cyrus. He paused for just a minute before looking Argo straight in the eyes. "Argo was it, you need not worry, you may have defeated me, so I'll pull back for now, but just you wait, when I return, it won't be the same," said Cyrus. He turned around and started walking back in the direction they came from. "Come, let us report to the boss our experience," said Cyrus.

"Yes Master Cyrus!" exclaimed his admins as they ran after him. The people surrounding Aether House panicked and ran after them, leaving the group behind. Argo sighed as he called back his Pokemon. 

"That was amazing, Mr. Argo!" exclaimed Trixie. 

"It was actually too easy, considering that majority of team was weak to my Krookodile, but I can't say he didn't try," said Argo. "You said you had to get to Akala am I right?" Argo asked turning towards Lillie. 

"Why yes, in fact I might still make the meeting if we go now!" answered Lillie. 

"Then let's go, I'll escort you in case you run into anymore trouble," said Argo. 

"Oh thank you so much Mr. Argo!" said Lillie. 

"We'll go too," said Twilight. 

"Very well come along," said Argo.

"I'll stay here, I still have some business to deal with," said Acerola. 

"Suit yourself," said Max. The group exchanged goodbyes with Acerola before finally turning around and walking off to the marina. Acerola looked up to the full moon and smiled.

"Team Galactic huh, I have one big tale to tell to the Captains and Kahunas when I get back, especially my uncle," giggled Acerola. Smiling she turned around and walked back into Aether House.
> Chapter 27: Enter Plumeria
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Yo step it off, enough with the beating up yo!" the female grunt exclaimed calling back her fainted Pokemon. 

"We may not be trying to take over the world or nothing, but we're still hard as bone out here!" said the male grunt. 

"Yeah, yeah whatever just get outta here before we beat you again," scoffed Felix crossing his arms. Felix and Starlight were on their way to the ruins of life in order to challenge the Grand Trial of Akala Island. But the two had been told that they were to go through Diglett's Tunnel in order to reach the ruins. Everything had gone smoothly until those Team Skull thugs showed up and interfered again. Luckily for the two, they weren't tough opponents and managed to scare them off easily. 

"Geez I can't tell whose worse, Supernova and Ultra Aether or those guys," said Starlight watching the two grunts run off. 

"In my opinion I think Ultra Aether is a lot worse," said Felix. 

"Yeah I suppose you're right, come on let's keep moving," said Starlight. Her Espeon jumped on her back as usual and the two walked out of Diglett's Tunnel as they continued to make their way to the ruins of life. Along the way the two took a pit stop at the Pokemon Center in Koni Koni City to heal up their Pokemon and buy items. Once they were done the two quickly battled trainers in the cemetery while dodging wild Pokemon. They eventually came across two figures standing along an elevated piece of land. Both were obviously from Aether due to their clothing. 

"Wonder what's going on here," said Felix.

"Let's check it out," suggested Starlight. The two slowly approached the two trainers so they could hear what they were saying. 

"Team Skull, give back that Pokemon!" ordered a female voice. Starlight and Felix looked over to see a small pink Pokemon that seemed to resemble a hippo. 

"Don't give me trouble, I'll reduce you to rubble!" said Grunt A. 

"That's right, we're gonna sell this Pokemon to get rich, and we won't make no bones about it!" said Grunt B. "If you want it back, you're gonna have to take it!" 

"Stand firm, think of what the president would say!" a male voice ordered towards the female. 

"That's what you would say chief but you don't lift a finger," complained the female. 

"Why, I am the Aether Foundation's last line of defense, what would become of the foundation if something were to happen to me now?" asked the man. 

"Ahem excuse us but why don't you leave these two to us," said Felix stepping forward. The four turned to face Felix and Starlight. Starlight's eyes widened when she saw who the man was. 

"Psst Felix, that guy, I know him, he's Faba of the Aether Foundation," Starlight whispered. 

"Faba huh, well then allow me to show these two not to mess with Aether," Felix said confidently. 

"Ah, a promising young trainer, very well then go on," said Faba moving out of the way. Felix and Starlight stepped up to face the two grunts. 

"You ready, cuz I was born ready yo!" said Grunt A. Of course both Felix and Starlight had no trouble defeating both grunts and the battles were over before they knew it. "Yo, yo, you..... you're no joke," said the grunt calling back his Raticate. 

"Hmm, that's what happens when you mess with us," Starlight said boldly. 

"That loss was pathetic, your moves were so kinetic!" said Grunt A. 

"We don't need this Pokemon anyway, take it then, good luck and good riddance!" said Grunt B. With that the two grunts left the Pokemon and ran off in the direction towards the cemetery. The female employee wiped away a bead of sweat as she walked over to the Pokemon.

"Thanks you two," said the employee. 

"Yes indeed you are a trial-goer aren't you, you're a splendid trainer, especially that pony of yours," said Faba. 

"It was nothing, we're only doing what's right for Pokemon," said Felix. 

"I am deeply impressed, I'd like to reward you by showing you something truly outstanding," said Faba. 

"Let me guess, The Aether Foundation right?" asked Felix. 

"My, my you knew about our president's wondrous creation did you, well how about it?" asked Faba. Felix was about to answer when Starlight nudged him. He looked over to her and saw that she looked uneasy about something, she shook her head as if she was telling him to reject Faba's offer. 

"Uh sorry sir, I bet The Aether Foundation is a beautiful place, but I would rather finish my trials first," said Felix. 

"I see well then, maybe some other time," said Faba. "Come along, let's get that Slowpoke to paradise," said Faba.The employee nodded as she slowly picked up the Pokemon. 

"I hope you can come visit us sometimes, and good luck on your island challenge," the employee giggled as she ran off after Faba. 

"Well that's that, let's keep going," said Felix. Starlight nodded as the two continued. After battling two more trainers and avoiding more Pokemon, the two finally reached the hill leading to the ruins of life. "Here we are," said Felix. 

"You ready for this?' asked Starlight.

"Definitely," said Felix. 

"So you're the one Gladion was talking about?" a voice asked. Felix and Starlight turned around to see a woman who seemed like she was either 19 or 20 standing behind them. "Hmph you don't look like anything special to me," said the woman. She was wearing black pants and tank top with a pink Team Skull logo tattooed on her belly. She had two streams of pink and yellow hair dropping on both sides of her head and her yellow eyes glared at the two. 

"Um sorry who are you?" asked Starlight. 

"I'm Plumeria, I help keep Team Skull together, I'm like a big sister to all these numskulls," said the woman. "You have realized what idiots all these guys are, right?" 

"Who can't tell?" asked Felix. 

"Hmph so you DO know, well let me ask you, don't you think some dummies are cute in their dumbness?" asked Plumeria. 

"Not really," answered Starlight. 

"Hmph, I don't expect a trial-goer and his pony to understand, either way, you picking on my cute, dumb brothers and sisters is really annoying me," said Plumeria drawing her Pokeball. 

"Oh you wanna go do you," said Felix. But before he could draw his own Pokeball, Starlight stopped him. "Wha... Starlight what are you doing?" asked Felix.

"Oh not much, but the fact that she thinks insulting me because I'm a pony is good taste, isn't going to be something I can let go," said Starlight with fire in her eyes. "Let me handle this," 

"Oh uh ok then," said Felix stepping back. He had never seen her like this so he decided it was best to stay out of it in case she got anymore pissed than she already was. 

"Hmph, sending your pony friend to fight, well it doesn't matter, it won't take long to crush her," said Plumeria throwing her Pokeball. The ball popped open as a large blue bat emerged. It had small stubby legs but with a big gaping mouth with four small fangs protruding from it's mouth. It's two eyes glared at Starlight. 

"What is that?" asked Starlight. Rotom quickly jumped out of Felix's bag and scanned the Pokemon for Starlight.

"Golbat, Bat Pokemon and the evolved form of Zubat, Golbat loves to drink blood of living things. It is particularly active in the pitch black of night. This Pokemon flies around in the night sky, seeking fresh blood," stated Rotom. 

"Hmph, it's a poison type isn't it, then Espeon I'll leave this to you," said Starlight Espeon jumped off of Starlight's back and hissed at the Golbat. 

"Hmph don't count on it, Confuse Ray," Plumeria ordered. Golbat hissed as a ghostly ray suddenly surrounded Espeon causing it to become dizzy within moments. 

"Espeon Psybeam!" Starlight ordered. Espeon blinked once and shook itself trying to process it's orders. It growled at Golbat as a pink beam shot out from the red orb hitting Golbat in the face. However it shook off the attack like it was nothing. Starlight clenched her teeth in frustration. 

"Golbat Wing Attack," Plumeria ordered. Golbat flew up and swooped down on Espeon with it's glowing wings and struck it in the chest knocking it back several feet. 

"Espeon are you ok!?" Starlight called out to her Pokemon. Espeon looked back and nodded. "Great then Psybeam one more time," Starlight ordered. This time Espeon shook itself out of confusion and growled at Golbat as the same pink beam shot out and hit the Golbat knocking it down. "Heh gotcha," said Starlight. Plumeria called back her Pokemon as she pulled out her second Pokeball. 

"Hmph not bad for a pony, but let's see if you can handle this," said Plumeria throwing her second ball. It popped open as a small lizard emerged. The lizard had a grey body with black hands and feet and black head. It's purple eyes stared at her with a smug look. 

"That's..." Starlight hesitated.

"Salandit, Toxic Lizard Pokemon, Poison Fire Type, it burns it's bodily fluid to create a poisonous gas. When enemies become disoriented from inhaling the gas, it attacks them," Rotom states. 

"Another Poison Type, well then we're staying in," said Starlight.

"Not for long, Flame Burst," Plumeria ordered. Salandit hissed as it spat a ball of fire at Espeon causing it to bounce off and fly into many different directions. 

"Psybeam!" Starlight ordered. Espeon growled as the pink beam shot out of it's red orb and struck the Salandit. Salandit hissed as it collapsed on the ground unable to battle. "Alright I did it!" Starlight cheered.

"Phooey," scoffed Plumeria calling back her Pokemon. 

"Can't talk trash now can you?" smirked Starlight. 

"Hmph, you're pretty strong for a pony, I'll give you that, but mess with anyone in Team Skull again, and I'll show you both how serious I can get," growled Plumeria. Frustrated, Plumeria turns around and walks off in anger. 

"Well done my student," said Felix patting her on the back. 

"It's all thanks to you," said Starlight. Her Espeon cooing in agreement. 

"Well we better move on, I want to finish up my trial and move on to the next island," said Felix. Starlight nodded as the two began walking uphill towards the ruins.
> Chapter 28: Hard as Rock
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Felix clenched his teeth as he stood before the ruins of hope. If he recalled, the Kahuna would always take battle here in front of the ruins, was it to please the guardian deity? Maybe he would find out. 

"This is it Felix, are you ready?" asked Starlight. 

"Yeah, I am," answered Felix. 

"Looks like we need to find the temporary Kahuna first though," said Starlight. 

"Well look no further!" a voice spoke up. Looking towards the ruins, the two noticed a man in his twenties walk out. He was wearing brown pants, orange shirt and green vest. Although his eyes were closed, he had the brightest smile Felix had seen. "You must be here for the Grand Trial right?" asked the man walking up. 

"Yes sir," answered Felix.

"Well glad you could make it, I'm Brock from the Kanto Region," said the man pointing to himself. 

"I'm Felix and this is my friend Starlight Glimmer," said Felix. 

"Well it's nice to meet you both," said Brock. "I assume you're ready to take me on," 

"Bring it," Felix smirked pulling out a Pokeball.

"Good luck," said Starlight as she walked off to the side. Both Felix and Brock took their positions and the Grand Trial was soon in play. 

"Let's see how long you can survive without getting beat," said Brock throwing his own Pokeball. The ball popped open as a small rock with arms emerged. 

"Is that?" asked Felix. 

"Geodude, Rock Pokemon, Rock Ground Type, The longer a Geodude lives, the more its edges are chipped and worn away, making it more rounded in appearance. However, this Pokémon's heart will remain hard, craggy, and rough always," states Rotom.

"Rock and Ground, this must be the Kanto form, well perfect I have the perfect solution to this, Silvally!" said Felix throwing his Pokeball. The ball popped open as Silvally emerged. It's eyes and fins were glowing in a green tint that sparkled brightly in the sun. 

"Ho so that's one of Alola's Pokemon eh," said Brock scratching his chin. 

"That's right, with that being said, Multi Attack!" Felix ordered. Silvally lunged at Geodude raising it's talons and slashing at it's face as leaves erupted from the damage. 

"Ho, a Grass type is it, well then use Tackle!" Brock ordered. Geodude shook off the remaining leaves and slammed into Silvally with full force. Silvally slid to a stop trying to stay on it's feet.

"Careful Silvally let's not let a piece of rock take us down, Iron Head!" Felix ordered. Silvally raised it's head as it began to glow it lunged and headbutted Geodude sending it flying back to Brock. Geodude winced as it slid to a stop. "Damn it's strong," Felix said to himself. "But it won't be long before I take this thing down," 

"Impressive, your skills as a trainer is amazing," said Brock. 

"Thank you sir," said Felix. 

"But to early to be celebrating, Tackle" Brock ordered.

"Counter that with Iron head!" Felix ordered. Both Silvally and Geodude lunged at each other and flew past each other with a loud metallic clang. Both Felix and Brock watched as the two Pokemon stood in silence. After several seconds the Geodude collapsed on the ground unable to continue. "Yes one down," said Felix. 

"Great job Felix," said Brock calling back his Pokemon. "But it's not over yet, here's my second Pokemon!" Brock threw his second ball as a large snake made of rocks emerged. 

"Whoa," said Felix.

"Onix, The Rock Snake Pokemon, Rock Ground Type, Onix has a magnet in its brain. It acts as a compass so that this Pokémon does not lose direction while it is tunneling. As it grows older, its body becomes increasingly rounder and smoother," states Rotom. 

"Another Rock and Ground Type, I thought this was going to be easy when I heard about the rock type trial, but I didn't think it was going to be THIS easy," said Felix. 

"I wouldn't talk big if I were you Felix, you might jinx it," said Brock. 

"We'll see about that, Multi Attack!" Felix ordered. Silvally growled as it lunged at Onix and slashed at it with it's talons as leaves erupted from the attack. Onix growled as it threw Silvally back at Felix. Silvally slid to a stop several feet away from Felix and growled. Onix looked back at Silvally and let out an angry roar. 

"You're good but let's see how much longer my Onix can survive before he falls, Bide!" Brock ordered. Onix snorted as it slammed it's tail into the ground. 

"You won't last, Multi Attack!" Felix ordered. Silvally once again lunged at Onix raising it's talons and slashing Onix in the face. Onix shook of the attack and slammed it's tail into the ground in anger. "Alright let's finish this, Iron Head!" Felix ordered. Silvally raised it's head as it began to glow and headbutted into Onix. Felix could tell he was going to win until he saw the smirk on Brock's face.

"Now Bide!" Brock ordered. Onix ignored the damage from Silvally and slammed it's tail sending Silvally flying. Silvally landed near Felix unconscious and unable to continue. 

"Silvally!" Felix gasped. 

"Nice try but it seems I managed to take out one of your Pokemon," said Brock. 

"You did good rest up for me," said Felix calling back his Pokemon. "You may have beaten Silvally, but that was only the beginning," said Felix.  "Lycanroc let's go!" said Felix throwing his second ball. It popped open as Lycanroc emerged howling. Starlight watched nervously as Felix continued his trial. 

"Onix Bind!" Brock ordered. Onix leaped on the ground and began slithering towards Lycanroc. 

"Lycanroc be careful he's coming!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc prepared for Onix to attack but instead Onix began wrapping it's body around Lycanroc. "Lycanroc get out of there!" Felix commanded. Lycanroc tried to pull itself out but Onix began squeezing Lycanroc with it's body. 

"Oh no Lycanroc is in trouble," said Starlight. 

"Let's see how you get out of this," said Brock. Felix clenched his teeth trying to come up with a plan to save Lycanroc but nothing was popping into his head.

"Lycanroc hang on!" Felix called out. Lycanroc winced and let out a howl of pain as Onix squeezed tighter. Felix watched helplessly as his Pokemon get crushed to death by a rock snake. That's when it hit him. "Lycanroc use Accelerock!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc howled as it burst out of Onix sending multiple chunks of rocks flying some of it hitting Onix. Onix let out a growl as it let go of Lycanroc and slithered back. "Alright it worked!" said Felix. 

"Impressive, you truly are amazing," said Brock.

"It's not over yet, let's finish this with one final Accelerock!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc dashed out out headbutted into Onix sending rocks flying in the process. Onix let out a roar as it collapsed on the ground unable to continue. 

"Alright he did it!" Starlight cheered. 

"Good work Lycanroc!" exclaimed Felix hugging Lycanroc. Brock called back his Pokemon and walked over to Felix. 

"Well done, I must say you did an amazing job beating me," said Brock. 

It was nothing," said Felix. 

"Hmph, you did seem to struggle with my Onix though, any who let me give you this," said Brock holding out his hand. Felix smiled as he reached out and took the shining brown Z-Crystal from Brock. 

"Alright another Z-Crystal!" said Felix holding up his brand new Rockium Z. 

"Great job Felix," said Starlight clapping her hooves. 

"Hold on, I still need to show you the movements," said Brock. Felix turned and watched as Brock crossed his arms in an X formation and swung his arms up and out over to his side. he thrusted his arms forward with his right arm over his left and bent down then jumped back up while flexing his muscles. he then turned around so that his back was turned and flexed his muscles again only this time his left leg was out and his right leg behind both of them bent. 

"Nice," said Felix. 

"Well that's it for your Akala Trials, congratulations, I suppose you're moving onto the next island am i right?" asked Brock.

"That's right," said Felix.

"Well good luck, try not to get into too much trouble, if you plan on coming back to Akala, why not come visit me again, many people like my cooking," said Brock.

"Thank you we'll take up on your offer," said Starlight. 

"Well then, I hope to see you again," said Brock. The three exchanged goodbyes as Felix and Starlight made their ways to the docks. This was it, Felix had completed his Akala Trials. Now things were starting to get more difficult. Now it was time to move onto the third island, Ula Ula.
> Chapter 29: Supernova's Revenge
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lillie stood outside the Pokemon Center shuffling her feet as she waited for Argo to finish healing up his Pokemon. Meanwhile Twilight sipped on a cup of tea nearby. She looked down at the single Pokeball in her hand. For the majority of the time she had Nebby with her, she had completely forgotten about the Pokemon she hatched from the egg herself. Snowy she had called it. An Alolan Vulpix that she had named when it was still an egg. It was all thanks to Snowy that she was able to catch that Comfey and Clefairy. She had Kukui look after her for the time being, but now that Nebby was captured by Supernova, she had to use Snowy along with Clefairy and Comfey. 

"Hey Lillie," Twilight called out to her. She slowly raised her head towards Twilight. "You ok, you look kind of down," said Twilight.

"Oh no it's nothing," said Lillie.

"Is it about Nebby?" asked Twilight. Lillie said nothing. She had explained to Twilight everything that had happened back at Aether Paradise and about Supernova. Now that Argo, Twilight, Trixie, and Tempest knew about N's true identity and ambitions, things had gotten more complicated than usual. With the whole permanent eclipse in Equestria, the Ultra Beasts and Necrozma, things were already bad enough. But now that Supernova, and Ultra Aether were involved along with Queen Chrysalis, King Sombra, The Shadow Pony, and Faba things were getting even more messed up than usual. Plus with Team Skull running around as well as that Team Galactic, they made the problems even worse. This was no doubt the biggest threat that both Alola and Equestria faced in all the years they existed. 

"Thanks for waiting," Argo spoke up as he walked out of the Pokemon Center. 

"Welcome back," said Twilight.

"Hmm where's the three kids from earlier?" asked Argo. 

"They said they had business of their own so they left," answered Lillie.

"I see well it's sad to see them go but I guess it can't be helped," said Argo. 

"So should we go?" asked Tempest.

"Definitely," answered Argo.

"Hey Twilight!" a familiar voice spoke up. The five looked over to the side to see Felix and Starlight walking up to them. 

"Starlight!" Twilight cheered as she ran over to her. The two mares gave each others hugs as Argo, Trixie, and Tempest walked up to them.

"Starlight you planning to leave us out?" asked Trixie. 

"Sorry Trixie," said Starlight hugging her friend.

"Well Trial-goer how have you been?" asked Argo. 

"Very good, just finished my Grand Trial," answered Felix. 

"Impressive, moving onto Ula Ula I see," said Argo. 

"That's right," said Felix. 

"Well, well if it isn't Argo," another familiar voice spoke up. Felix and Starlight turned around to see two figures walking up to them.

"Detective Looker and Anabel of the International Police," said Argo. "What brings you hear," he asked.

"We have been given orders from the champion to save Lillie, but it seems like that's not needed any longer," said Looker. 

"How have you been Miss Lillie?" Anabel asked walking up to her. 

"I'm fine Miss Anabel, thank you," answered Lillie.

"I'm glad, your mother was very worried when she saw Nihilego capture you," said Anabel. 

"I'm sorry, I didn't know what to do," said Lillie.

"It's not you're fault, Lusamine explained everything, it must've been terrible for you to experience the same thing from your past," said Anabel. Lillie walked over and hugged Anabel sniffling. "Shhh, it's ok, I promise you're safe with us," cooed Anabel.

"Well Felix I must say you're doing an excellent job protecting that pony friend of yours," said Looker.

"I try," said Felix. 

"Lillie, come you're going to be late for your meeting," said Argo.

"Actually I'm not because they're already here," said Lillie. She smiled as she looked towards Looker and Anabel. 

"I see you were planning to meet with the International Police," said Argo. That's when an idea came into Felix. 

"Hey Miss Anabel, do you mind if we talk about something?" asked Felix. 

"Is it about Supernova?" asked Anabel. 

"Wait do you know what's going on?" asked Felix.

"Yes, we heard from Vincent and the Ultra Recon Squad about Supernova's ambitions," answered Anabel.

"We also got the news from Lillie," added Twilight. 

"What should we do?" asked Starlight.

"Right now the best course of action is to keep Supernova from capturing Necrozma," answered Looker. 

"I guess that's the only logical explanation to this problem," said Tempest. 

"How about you give up your futile efforts to thwart my plans?" suggested a voice. The group turned back around to see an angry Supernova walking up to them from the direction of the Tide Song Hotel. Beside him were two Ultra Aether Employees. 

"Supernova!" Starlight growled.

"You," he said pointing to Lillie.

"Me?" she asked.

"Yes you, don't forget about what happened at Aether, thanks to you my plans have been ruined," growled Supernova.

"What did I do?!" Lillie yelped.

"Don't play with me princess!" Supernova roared. "If it wasn't for you, that beast would've been in my hands right now!" 

"Supernova!" Argo hissed. Supernova looked over to Argo fuming. "Lillie had done nothing to thwart your plans, you knew that beast was dangerous,"

"Keep you're mouth shut, I'm so angry right now I ought to crush you all right now!" roared Supernova drawing a Beast ball. "Naganadel destroy these fools!" said Supernova throwing his Beast ball. The ball popped open as Naganadel emerged hissing at the group. 

"What is that!?" yelped Trixie.

"Allow me," said Rotom flying out of Felix's bag. He flew up and scanned the Pokemon. "Naganadel, The Poison Pin Pokemon, and the evolved form of Poipole, It stores hundreds of liters of poisonous liquid inside its body. It is one of the organisms known as UBs," states Rotom.

"An Ultra Beast, in that case," said Anabel drawing her own Pokeball. But Felix stopped her before she could make a move. Anabel looked over at him confused. But Felix looked back and smiled. 

"Hey Starlight why don't you show your friends what I taught you?" suggested Felix.                

"Sure thing teach," said Starlight stepping forward. 

"Wait since when can Starlight battle?" asked Trixie.

"Don't ask questions, this is going to be interesting," said Twilight. Starlight pulled out a single Pokeball and tossed it as her Raichu emerged hovering above the ground. 

"Is that?" asked Argo.

"Raichu, Alola Form, Mouse Pokemon and the evolved form of Pikachu, It uses psychokinesis to control electricity. It hops aboard its own tail, using psychic power to lift the tail and move about while riding it," states Rotom. 

"Don't get in my way!" growled Supernova. Naganadel hissed as fired a blue beam at Raichu. 

"Dodge it!" Starlight ordered. Raichu smirked as it swiftly moved left dodging the attack. 

"What was that?" asked Tempest.

"Dragon Pulse," answered Felix. 

"Raichu, Psychic!" Starlight ordered. Raichu let out a happy squeak as a pink aura surrounded Naganadel and knocked it back towards Supernova. But Naganadel was quick to recover from the attack. It pointed it's stinger at Raichu as it hissed. 

"Throat Chop!" Supernova ordered. Naganadel raised one of it's claws as a black aura flared to life. Naganadel flew at Raichu and attempted to slash it at the throat. 

"Dodge it and use Psychic!" Raichu quickly moved out of the way just as Naganadel flew past it and squeaked as the same pink aura surrounded Naganadel once more but this time knocking it down onto the ground. Naganadel let out one final hiss before it collapsed on the ground unconscious. "Hmph too easy," said Starlight. Both Twilight and Trixie clapped their hoofs together seeing how skilled Starlight had become, while Lillie, Argo, Looker, and Anabel watched in awe. "Looks like you lose Supernova,"

Supernova clenched his teeth as he called back Naganadel, "This isn't over you hear, I'll surely beat you one day!" he turned around and quickly ran off screaming, his two employees following behind. 

"Serves him right," said Trixie. 

"Starlight that was amazing!" said Twilight.

"it's all thanks to my tutor," said Starlight looking towards Felix. 

"Your tutor huh, maybe he could teach us one day," suggested Trixie. 

"Trust me it's not that hard to learn," said Felix. "Now we're done with that how about we move on?" he asked Starlight.

"Yeah we should get going," said Starlight. 

"Wait, you guys wouldn't mind if I tagged along with you would you?" asked Lillie. Felix and Starlight looked at each other and smiled.

"Sure thing," answered Felix.

"The more the merrier," added Starlight. 

"Great thank you," said Lillie.

"We better get going too," said Argo. 

"Right," said Tempest.

"And we better report to Lusamine about this news," said Anabel.

"Of course chief, let's go," said Looker. And so the three groups exchanged goodbyes before splitting ways. With another travel companion, Felix now heads to Ula Ula Island for his next set of trials.
> Chapter 30: Project U.G.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

It was another sunny day in Equestria. If only the citizens could see the sun. But Equestria would continue to remain in the darkness thanks to the permanent Solar Eclipse. However thanks to the technology of the Ultra Recon Squad, the ponies have gotten used to using the lights that the Recon Squad had provided. Meanwhile Larry continued to investigate the situation from Celestia's Castle. Thanks to the Argo and the three ponies Lillie had been saved from UB-01 Symbiont. Now Larry could stop worrying about Lusamine's daughter and continue to focus his attention to Necrozma and the Ultra Beasts. For a while Larry had struggled to find a backup plan if the first one had failed. Now he had an answer. The Trial Captains and Kahunas had been set off to the side under his commands, but now was the time to put them under good use. "Phew this should be good," said Larry wiping away a bead of sweat.

"Do you think this would actually work?" asked Comet. 

"Trust me, those guys have been ignored for quite some time, it's about time we give them a job," answered Larry.

"But most of them are still just kids, especially that one boy," said Nebula.

"You mean the one with the Pikachu?" asked Larry.

"Larry, I really don't think we should be trusting kids even if the Kahunas are adults," said Celestia. 

"Well you got any other ideas?" asked Larry. The room went silent as Comet, Nebula, and Celestia looked at one another. "I thought so," said Larry, Suddenly a knock on the door caught their attention. "Come in," Larry called out. The door opened as Lusamine and Wicke walked in. "Ah you two, how are things looking?" asked Larry.

"Honestly, I didn't think you would come up with something like this, but the uniforms are ready," answered Lusamine. 

"I see, and I assume that Lillie is going to be a part of this?" asked Larry.

"I don't know, we know that Lillie has had a terrible experience with Ultra Beasts in the past, but I hope that she could contribute to this Project," answered Wicke. 

"I agree, I have high hopes for this Project," said Larry. 

"Does anybody else know about this?" asked Comet.

"Yes, I've sent out a message about this, hopefully everyone got the news," answered Larry. 

"I did and I demand to know what it is you're planning," a voice spoke up. The six turned towards the door to see Luna standing there with Cadence. 

"Ah yes, I guess I have yet to explain myself," said Larry. "Well I'll speak once everyone has arrived, for now take your seats," Luna and Cadence walked over to their chairs and sat down. After a while the Ultra Recon Squad walked in followed by Looker, Anabel, Shining Armor, Ember, Thorax, Queen Novo, Captain Celaeno, Professor Kukui, and Professor Burnet. Once everyone was settled down, Larry stood up and walked up to the projector with a pointer. "Alright now that everyone's here I would like to begin," announced Larry.

"So what's this Project U.G. about huh Larry?" asked Ember.

"Glad you asked, you see Project U.G. is a little something I threw together in case plan A failed," answered Larry.

"Yeah, we got that now what's the juicy stuff?" asked Soliera. 

"You see, Project U.G. is a special task force that's undergoing a formation process," answered Larry. "It's a little mini organization used to counter the UBs that enter either Alola or Equestria," 

"Task Force?" asked Thorax.

"That's right, Professor Kukui, remember how I asked you to gather the Kahunas and Trial Captains for a special Emergency Mission?" asked Larry. 

"Sure do, could this be the Emergency Mission you mentioned?" asked Kukui

"Indeed, I would like to ask that the trial captains and kahunas to play their role in Project U.G. this is of course very risky, but it would also save the lives of millions if they contributed," answered Larry. "Don't worry, the International Police, UB task force, Aether Foundation as well as I will be supporting this Project," Burnet and Kukui looked at each other and nodded.

"Alright we'll do it," said Kukui. 

Larry smiled widely,"I appreciate your cooperation," said Larry. 

"Wait but is that boy also a part of this?" asked Burnet. 

"The young man with the Pikachu insisted that he take part in this project so I agreed," answered Larry. "He seemed eager to help out," 

"I see, so he volunteered on his own," said Burnet.

"Yes, now that I've explained a little bit about the project, I just need all of you're support in order to make this project a success," said Larry. The entire room erupted into a chatter as the groups discussed the matter with one another. After a while the chattering died down and Celestia stood up. 

"We understand that this project is risky, but if those trial captains and kahunas are willing to sacrifice their lives to protect Alola and Equestria then we agree," announced Celestia. Larry smiled. 

"Thank you all, with of our power we'll do everything to put an end to Supernova's ambitions," announced Larry. The entire room erupted in cheers as everyone jumped out of their seats. "You're all dismissed until then prepare for everything," said Larry. "Kukui, do me a favor and report back to the captains and kahunas, Lusamine and Wicke continue with the preparations," Larry ordered. Kukui, Lusamine, and Wicke nodded as they followed the others out the door. 

"You're determined aren't you," said Celestia.

Larry nodded,"Once Project U.G. goes into full effect, surely even Necrozma will see we're not to be trifled with," said Larry. Celestia nodded as she closed the door behind her. "It has to work, after all, the fate of Alola and Equestria is resting on their shoulders," He pulled out a portfolio and opened it up to a sheet of paper with a photo of Naganadel on it. "Let's see Naganadel aka UB Stinger, Poison Dragon Type, Zygarde has an advantage over this one along with UB Adhesive," He flipped the file over to reveal another file with a photo of Blacephalon. "Blacephalon aka UB Burst, Fire Ghost Type, again Zygarde has an advantage," He flipped the file over to reveal one final file behind it with a photo of Stakataka. "Stakataka aka UB Assembly Rock Steel Type, hmm perfect Zygarde has an advantage over all four newly discovered UBs," Larry stood up and looked out the window. "I suppose we should start searching for Zygarde then,"
> Chapter 31: Versus Totem Togedemaru
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Starlight threw the Pokeball hitting the Elgyem on the head sucking it in. The ball fell on the ground with a plop and started wiggling. After three complete wiggles the ball clicked shut as little stars popped out. Smiling she walked over and picked up the Pokeball. 

"Great work my student," said Felix walking over.

"I'm really enjoying this," said Starlight smiling. 

"Who knew that you could be such a good trainer," said Lillie. 

"Well if we're done catching Pokemon how about we head back to the Hokulani Observatory?" asked Felix. 

"Sounds like someone is eager for their trial," said Rotom. 

"Well you know me," said Felix. The three talked and laughed as they made their way to the Hokulani Observatory. As the three approached the entrance they could see a man in his mid thirties standing out in the front. He was wearing a blue jacket black work pants and shoes of the same color. His sandy cream colored hair flowed in the wind. 

"Hey there!" he said waving the three of them over. 

"Hello," said Lillie. 

"Well, three at once I suppose," said the man adjusting his glasses. 

"Actually it's just me sir," said Felix. "And I guess you're the temporary captain?"

"Actually no, the temporary captain is inside, then again I'm not a captain at all," said the man. 

"Wait you're not?" asked Starlight.

"No, but I once was, anyways I'm Molayne I actually run the PC boxes here in Alola," said the man. 

"I'm Felix, and these are my friends, Starlight Glimmer and Lillie," said Felix. 

"Well it's nice to meet you," said Molayne. 

"So..." Felix began.

"Ah yes the trial, well before that there's something I would like to give you," said Molayne. He held out his hand towards Felix. "Go on take it," said Molayne. Confused, Felix reached out and grabbed the shiny grey Z-Crystal Molayne had in his hand. 

"Is this?" Starlight asked. 

"Behold!" Molayne announced. Felix looked up as Molayne put his arms up in front of his face in an X formation, threw his arms up and out over to his side, then brought them up in front right wrist over left. He then clenched his hands into fists and tapped them against each other then pulled both arms back and thrusted them forward. "Cutting sharpness, unyielding power, yes this move has them both!" Molayne announced. "And it is what you need to know to draw forth the Steel Type Z-Power," 

"That's great and all, but are you sure it's alright to be giving me this?" asked Felix. 

"I gathered these Z-Crystals when I was on my own Island Challenge back in my own day, adventuring with Kukui and my Pokemon in search of strength, I have no use of it anymore so you should go ahead and use it," answered Molayne. 

"Wow Molayne thank you so much!" said Felix. 

"No problem, now let's get that trial started shall we," said Molayne walking into the observatory. Felix took a deep as he followed Molayne inside with Lillie and Starlight tagging behind. 

"Wow nice place," said Felix.

"Twilight would love this," said Starlight. 

"Hey look," said Lillie pointing to her right. The three looked over to see Molayne standing before a group of small green box like creatures with two blue eyes a wide jaw and two yellow stubs sticking out under the eyes. However one Pokemon was small round and grey with brown and yellow spikes on it's back. It had two small yellow cheeks and stubby arms and legs. 

"What are those?" asked Starlight. 

Rotom quickly flew over and scanned the small round Pokemon and pulled up it's data,"Togedemaru, Roly-Poly Pokemon, Electric Steel Type, The long hairs on its back act as lightning rods. The bolts of lightning it attracts are stored as energy in its electric sac," states Rotom. 

"Aww how cute," cooed Lillie. Rotom flew over and scanned the green box Pokemon next. 

"Charjabug, Battery Pokemon, Bug Electric Type and the evolved form of Grubbin, Its body is capable of storing electricity. On camping trips, people are grateful to have one around," states Rotom.

"Here at Hokulani we get help from Pokemon like Charjabug and Togedemaru for work," said Molayne. He turned towards the Charjabug and nodded. "Well I guess it's time to feed you guys," The Charjabug buzzed in unison as if they were happy that they were being fed. 

"Well let's not bother the Charjabug during their meal, so let's go find the captain," suggested Starlight. Felix and Lillie nodded in agreement and the three headed over to the double doors at the back and walked in. The three looked around the small area before they finally walked through the only accessible door. Inside looked almost tidy if it wasn't for the sofa, and coffee table scattered with stuff to the left. But everything else was almost filled with some sort of technology almost making it seem like an actual lab. 

"Wow," said Lillie.

"Twilight would go crazy for this," said Starlight. The three looked ahead to see a young woman in her mid twenties standing before them. She had a yellow vest with black pants and yellow high heels. Her hair was dyed yellow with a what seemed to be a headset with long black wires drooping down. 

"Is that her?" asked Lillie.

"Definitely looks like it," said Felix. 

"Oh hello, you must be here for the trial," she said. 

"Yes I am," said Felix. 

'Well good to hear, I'm Elesa from the Unova Region," said the woman. 

"I'm Felix, and these are my friends, Starlight Glimmer and Lillie," said Felix. 

"Nice to meet you miss," said Lillie bowing. 

"Nice to meet you too," said Elesa. 

"So what do I have to do?" asked Felix. 

"Oh you want to start now, I'm afraid I can't do anything until you have those Charjabug," said Elesa. 

"Oh, but they're having dinner," said Lillie.

"Not anymore!" Molayne announced. The three turned around to see Molayne standing in front of the door. "They're ready for you miss," said Molayne. 

"Good to hear, this way then," said Elesa walking out of the room. The three followed her into a room with a large table set in front a giant mechanical version of a Pokemon. "Alright the trial is simple, you just need to connect the Charjabug that are on the roller," said Elesa. 

"Hmm sounds simple enough," said Felix. 

Use the four button on the edges of the roller to rotate the panels," Elesa explained. "Watch this as an example," Molayne walked to the top right side of the roller and pushed the button as the Charjabug in the center moved to the right. He then went to the top left and pushed the button moving the Charjabug on the left to the center and the Charjabug on the top left, down. "You don't need to worry which way the Charjabug are facing," said Elesa.

"I think I get it now," said Felix. 

"Good then let's start the trial!" announced Elesa. Felix ran over to the Roller as Molayne put two Charjabug on the top and one on the top right while he put a third on the center right panel. Felix walked over to the button on the top left and pushed it to move the Charjabug on the top one panel to the left. He then walked over to the button to his right and pushed it to move the Charjabug on the top right panel, one panel to the left and the Charjabug on the right panel up one panel. Once the Charjabug was in place the panels popped out and slid the Charjabug into the gutters near the edge. 

"Got it!" announced Felix. 

"Great then let's start up the Pinger," said Elesa. She pushed the yellow button near the machine as a stream of electricity began flowing through the circuits and into the machine. The machine sparked to life as the green bar on the back began to glow. "Great now we just need to wait for the Totem," said Elesa. But just as she said that a loud zapping could be heard as a small yellow Pokemon jumped out. It head two ears like plugs and four black stripes on it's stomach leading to a black lighting bolt symbol. 

"That's not the Totem," said Molayne. Rotom scanned the Pokemon and pulled up the data.

"Elekid, Electric Pokemon, Electric Type, Elekid stores electricity in its body. If it touches metal and accidentally discharges all its built-up electricity, this Pokémon begins swinging its arms in circles to recharge itself," states Rotom. 

"Well it can't be too hard to beat, Go Lycanroc!" said Felix throwing his Pokeball. The ball popped open as Lycanroc emerged barking. "Accelrock!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc charged and tackled the Elekid sending multiple chunks of rocks flying. The Elekid let out a buzzing sound as it ran off. 

"That was easy," said Starlight. 

"Yeah but it seems like one row of Charjabug isn't going to be enough to call in the Totem," said Elesa. She walked over and placed three more Charjabug onto the roller and nodded. "Let's try again," Felix walked over and pushed the button on the bottom right to move the Charjabug on the right to the center and the Charjabug on the bottom to the bottom right. He then walked over to the bottom left button and pushed it twice to move the Charjabug into place. The panels flashed green and popped out to push the other three Charjabug into the gutter at the bottom. 

"Got it!" Felix announced. 

"Alright let's try again," said Elesa pushing the yellow button. This time the stream of electricity traveled through the first row of Charjabug as well as the second row. The electricity flowed through the circuits as the yellow bar on the machine flashed on. 

"Great maybe it'll work this time," said Molayne. Just then another yellow Pokemon jumped out. This one was a lot bigger than the last one and had multiple black strips running up and down it's body. It had two antennas sticking out from the side of it's head. 

"Electabuzz, Electric Pokemon, Electric Type, and the evolved form of Elekid, When a storm arrives, gangs of this Pokémon compete with each other to scale heights that are likely to be stricken by lightning bolts. Some towns use Electabuzz in place of lightning rods," states Rotom. 

"Lycanroc Stone Edge!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc stomped the ground with it's claws as multiple large pillars of rock erupted from the ground and struck Electabuzz. Electabuzz hissed as it ran off. 

"Seriously this is too easy," said Felix. 

"Yes but it's still not enough," said Molayne. 

"I guess then you'll add another?" asked Lillie. 

"Indeed I will," said Elesa. She walked over to the roller as she added the last three Charjabug. "Well that's the last three, let's see if you can figure this one out," said Elesa. Felix walked over to the roller but realized he had no clue what to do. The first two times was easy since the panels had shown him where to put the Charjabug, but now there was nothing. 

"Um sorry which panels am I supposed to move the Charjabug?" asked Felix.

"I'll give you a hint, Sparkling Stone," said Molayne. Felix looked at him completely dumbfounded. He had no idea what that meant and looked at the roller. What did Sparkling Stone have to do with this? 

"Oh I get it!" Starlight announced. 

"As do I," said Lillie. Felix looked the four completely lost He had no clue what they were thinking. He looked back at the roller. Nine Charjabugs, Nine panels, Sparkling Stone, that's when it hit him. He didn't know if it was correct but it was worth trying. He walked over to the top right button and pushed it to move the right Charjabug up a panel. He then walked down to the bottom left and pushed the button to move the left Charjabug down. He pushed it again to move it to the center bottom. He went back up to the top left and pushed the button to move the Charjabug down one panel, then went back to the bottom left and pushed the button to move the Charjabug into place making a Z formation. The panels flashed green. 

"Got it!" Felix announced. 

"Great job Felix," said Starlight. His hunch was correct now he understood Molayne when he said Sparkling Stone. The Sparkling Stone is what is used to make the Z-Power Ring so that he can put in Z-Crystals and use Z-Power to use Z-Moves. The letter Z was the key. 

"Alright take three, let's hope this works," said Elesa. She pushed the yellow button as electricity began running through the rows of Charjabugs in the Z formation. As the electricity ran through the circuits the red bar on the machine flashed red and it began to vibrate violently. Suddenly the machine unhooked itself from the wires and faced the Charjabug. 

"Oh no the Charjabug will get blasted with electricity if we don't do something!" Elesa exclaimed. The machine began to shake as it launched a stream of electricity towards the Charjabug. Just then, Togedemaru jumped up in front of the Charjabug and began absorbing the electricity. 

"Togedemaru!?" Lillie yelped. 

"Togedemaru's ability Lightning Rod, can attract electricity to itself, but the current is too strong, there's no way Togedemaru's electric sacs can handle all of it!" Molayne exclaimed. 

"We have to save it!" Starlight exclaimed.

"No Starlight it's too dangerous!" said Felix holding her back. 

"But....but..." Starlight whimpered unable to bear watching Togedemaru suffer. Then a loud metallic clang grabbed everyone's attention. 

"Bzzt!" Rotom yelped. "Up there!" Rotom yelled. The five looked up to see a giant Togedemaru standing above them. It jumped up and into the electric current absorbing the electricity so that Togedemaru could escape. The machine eventually died down as the giant Togedemaru landed on the ground and turned to face Felix. It let out a metallic squeak as electricity ran up and down it's body. 

"That's it the Totem of Hokulani Observatory, Togedemaru!" Molayne announced. Togedemaru let out another squeak as it's orange aura flared to life. 

"Heh so you finally showed yourself, let's do this Lycanroc Fire Fang!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc opened it's jaws as it lunged towards Togedemaru and bit down on it's steel body as sparks of flames burst out. But Togedemaru shook it off like it was nothing. Lycanroc retreated back Felix and growled. "How'd you like that!?" Felix boasted. But before anybody could say a word Togedemaru's body began to glow in a grey tint as it tackled Lycanroc with it's entire body. Lycanroc howled as it collapsed. "What!?" Felix gasped.

"Hmm Iron Head, super effective isn't it?" asked Elesa. 

"I'm not going down that easily, Go Silvally!" said Felix throwing his second Pokeball. The ball popped open as Silvally emerged from the ball. It's yellow fur sparkled in the light and it's eyes and fins glowing in a brown tint. "Ha with a Ground Type you can't scare me!" Felix beamed. But Togedemaru didn't seem intimidated. It let out a squeak and before he knew it, A bird with steel coating appeared next to the Totem. 

"What is that?" asked Starlight. 

"Skarmory, Armor Bird Pokemon, Steel Flying Type, Skarmory is entirely encased in hard, protective armor. This Pokémon flies at close to 190 mph. It slashes foes with its wings that possess sword like cutting edges," states Rotom. 

"Hmm Skarmory I'll deal with you later, but for now Multi Attack on Togedemaru!" Felix ordered. Silvally growled as it raised it's talons to attack. But before Silvally could land a hit, Togedemaru turned around and raised it's spikes. Just as Silvally slashed it pricked it's talons on one of Togedemaru's sharp spikes causing it to howl in pain and retreat back Felix. "Silvally are you ok?" Felix asked. Silvally whimpered as it licked its talon in pain. 

"Spiky Shield not bad," said Molayne.  Skarmory let out a cry as it threw multiple pointed stones that floated around Silvally. 

"Stealth Rocks too!?" Lillie gasped. 

"What's wrong?" asked Starlight.

"Stealth Rocks is a move that sets up pointed stones on the opponent's field so that it they ever switch out, their Pokemon takes damage from the stones," answered Lillie. Starlight looked at Felix with a worried look. 

"Hang in there Silvally we can't let this thing beat us, Multi Attack on Togedemaru!" Felix ordered. Silvally growled as it lunged at Togedemaru and slashed at it's face with it's talons as chunks of dirt flew off into separate directions. "Yes its super effective!" Felix announced. Just than Togedemaru pulled out a small yellow berry and gobbled it up restoring some of it's HP. "Oh come on a Sitrus Berry!?" Felix groaned. Skarmory wasn't planning on showing mercy either. It began to flap it's wings a gust of wind began blowing towards them. "Seriously Tailwind!?" Felix complained.

"What's Tailwind?" asked Starlight. 

"It's a move that increases the speed of the party that used the move," answered Lillie.

"This isn't looking good," said Starlight. 

"Fine that's the way it's gonna be, Swords Dance!" Felix ordered. Silvally howled as multiple transparent swords began swinging around Silvally as a red aura began flowing upwards. Felix knew that he made the right move considering that Togedemaru's Spiky Shield had failed and Skarmory's Torment wasn't going to help it for now. "Alright Silvally let's end this Multi Attack on Togedemaru!" Felix ordered. Silvally howled as it lunged towards Togedemaru and slashed at it's face with it's talons causing dirt to fly everywhere. Togedemaru let out a pained screech as it collapsed on the ground unable to continue. "Yes Totem down!" Felix beamed.

"He did it!" Starlight cheered. 

"Yeah now he has that Skarmory to worry about," said Lillie.

Felix smirked as he suddenly called back Silvally,"Oh don't worry I got a special treatment for you," He pulled out his third Pokemon and threw it. The ball popped open as Larvesta emerged. Skarmory cried as it flew towards Larvesta it's wings glowing.  "Dodge it!" Felix ordered. Larvesta swiftly jumped off to the left as Skarmory flew past it missing it by an inch. 

"What could he be planning?" asked Elesa. 

"Who knows," said Molayne. 

"Hey Starlight wanna see what a Z-Move looks like?" asked Felix. 

"Is he?" asked Starlight.

"He is," answered Lillie.  Felix raised his arms up to his face in an X formation and swung his arms up and out and down to his side, then brought them forward with his right arm over his left. He began fanning upwards and held out his arm with his palm facing forward and his left hand on his right arm. The bright orange aura erupted from his body and into Larvesta. "Larvesta let's finish this, Inferno Overdrive!" Larvesta let out a cute squeak as a ball of fire began to grow as it absorbed flames that appeared out of nowhere. The ball of fire grew and grew until it was five times as big as itself. Larvesta let out a loud buzz as it launched the ball of fire straight at Skarmory and swallowed it whole before exploding. Once the light died down Skarmory was on the ground unconscious. "Heh too easy," said Felix. 

"Nice work Felix!" said Lillie. 

"Thanks," said Felix. He turned towards Starlight who was still staring at him in shock. "So what did you think?" he asked.

"Felix......that........was........AMAZING!!!!" Starlight exclaimed. "I've never seen such power with my eyes!" 

"Well that's a Z-Move for ya," said Felix. 

"Congratulations Felix," said Elesa as she and Molayne walked up to them. 

"It wasn't just me it was my Pokemon," said Felix smiling. Larvesta let out a happy squeak when it's body suddenly began to glow. The five watched in awe as Larvesta began to grow bigger and change forms. Very soon Larvesta was gone and in it's place was a large moth with six large orange wings and blue eyes with red horns. 

"Did, Larvesta just?" asked Starlight.

"It evolved!" Lillie announced. 

"Volcarona, the Sun Pokemon, Bug Fire Type, and the evolved form of Larvesta, A sea of fire engulfs the surroundings of their battles, since they use their six wings to scatter their ember scales," states Rotom. "Data updated!" Rotom announced.

"Volcarona, you've grown so much," said Felix. "I'm so proud of you," Volcarona let out a happy buzz as it nuzzled close to it's trainer. 

"Hey, now we're not done yet, you still need your reward," said Molayne. 

"Right," said Felix. Elesa walked up to him and held out her hand. Felix happily took the shining yellow Z-Crystal from Elesa and held it up to the light. 

"It's so beautiful," said Starlight. 

"This is how you use it," said Elesa. She raised her arms up to her face in an X formation and swung up and out and to her side, then held out her arms with her right over her left. She then swung her arm around and bent her right arm downwards and her left arm upwards with only their elbows touching and both of her palms facing out to form a lightning bolt with her arms. "It may look tricky, but once you use it you'll get used to it," said Elesa.

"Thanks, I really appreciate it," said Felix.

"You're going to tackle another trial right, I suggest you go to Tapu Village for that," said Molayne. 

"Got it thanks," said Felix.

"I wish you luck On your Island Challenge," said Elesa. 

"Oh before I forget actually, there's someone who wanted to meet you in Malie Garden, you should go see what is it they need," said Molayne. 

"Ok," said Felix. 

"Come on, we'll walk you out," said Elesa. Felix, Starlight, and Lillie made their way towards the front door with Elesa and Molayne following behind. 

"Be careful out there and good luck," said Elesa. 

"Thank you both for everything," said Starlight. 

"Stop where you are!" a voice spoke up. The five turned around to see the same group of people that had ambushed them on Wela Volcano Park surround them. 

"Wha these guys!" said Felix. From within the crowd. A single man emerged from the crowd. He was wearing a blue and yellow robe and large P was engraved on the collar. He had a strange red visor over his left eye and his cream green colored hair flowed in the wind. 

"So these are the ones, the others mentioned?" asked the man. "Hmph they don't look like much," 

"Wait I know you!" said Elesa.

"Ah if it isn't the electric type gym leader," said the man. 

"Who..... who are you?" asked Lillie. 

The man closed his eyes and laughed. "I am Ghetsis, I'm representing Team Plasma, as for you I've been given specific orders from my boss, Supernova,"
> Chapter 32: Team Plasma
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Felix glared at the very man that stood before him. He called himself Ghetsis, the leader of Team Plasma. Although Felix didn't understand why he was here and what it was he wanted from them, but it was obvious that if he was working for Supernova, he was immediately confirmed as an enemy. However there was something he didn't understand. From what his parents had told him, Lusamine had battled against Aqua leader Archie from the Hoenn Region and he and Starlight battled their counterpart Magma leader Maxie. Lillie had said that Cosmo Admin Argo had faced off Galactic leader Cyrus from the Sinnoh Region back in Tapu Village and now here was Plasma leader Ghetsis from the Unova Region. All these Team Leaders from the different Pokemon Region had somehow gathered here for an unknown reason. Who had summoned them here and why? Could these leaders have something to do with Necrozma and the Ultra Beasts. There was so many questions without answers and Felix was determined to find answers.

"Ghetsis, I don't know why you are here, but if you're planning to cause trouble I cannot let this go unchecked," said Elesa.

"Please Elesa, I'm only here for one thing and one thing only," laughed Ghetsis. 

"One thing?" asked Lillie.

"You see I too was summoned here from another world, much like the other leaders that you've heard of," said Ghetsis. 

"Another world?" asked Starlight.

"You see I have been thinking long and hard about the reason I have been sent to this world, and now I believe I have an answer," beamed Ghetsis. "My purpose.... it is to travel between the worlds, freeing all Pokemon from foolish people.... and at the same time consolidate all the power in all the worlds to myself!" 

"You," Starlight growled. This man was crazy. Consolidate all power in all worlds? If he also meant Equestria, her friends could be danger. 

"In order to achieve this beautiful ideal, however, I have need of a useful pawn...and my boss, Supernova, is a man of pure evil!" Ghetsis beamed. "If I can make good use of him, and set him up as a king, I shall be able to reign supreme above all existence!" 

"You... you're crazy!" stuttered Rotom. 

"I have found that humans with their predictable ambitions, are easier to use and control than a freak without a human heart," said Ghetsis. "It wouldn't do at all to have you get in his way, especially when I must establish him as my king!" 

"Don't count on it," said Felix stepping forward. 

"Must you insist on interfering with my plans?" growled Ghetsis. "Very well then... all obstacles to my ambitions must be removed!" Ghetsis announced. 

"Starlight, give me hand!" Felix asked. Starlight nods as she stepped forward next to Felix. Ghetsis smirks as he threw his first Pokeball. The three stared in awe as a large coffin with red eyes and four ghostly arms emerged.

"Cofagrigus, the Coffin Pokemon, Ghost Type and the evolved form of Yamask, Grave robbers who mistake them for real coffins and get too close end up trapped inside their bodies," states Rotom

"A Ghost Type, well I know it's risky but let me handle this," said Starlight. 

"Go get him Star!" cheered Lillie. Starlight pulled out her Pokeball and threw it, calling out her Espeon. 

"Ha what a fool, sending out a Pokemon with a disadvantage," snickered Ghetsis. 

"Don't count on it, Shadow Ball!" Starlight ordered. Espeon's red gem began to glow as a shadowy orb formed out of thin air. Espeon knocked the orb with it's head, sending it flying into Cofagrigus's face. 

"Will-o-wisp," Ghetsis ordered. Cofagrigus began waving it's arms in a weird motion as three  blue flames appeared and hovered over to Espeon. Espeon yelped as it's tails suddenly caught on fire burning it. 

"Espeon hang in there!" said Starlight. Espeon shook off the flames and broke through the burn. "Alright one more time Shadow Ball!" Espeon began creating another shadowy blob and hurled it at Cofagrigus knocking it out for good. 

"Alright!" cheered Lillie. Ghetsis scoffed as he called back his Pokemon. 

"Don't get too excited," said Ghetsis calling out his second Pokemon. His next Pokemon was a black and blue three headed dragon. 

"Hey I've seen one of those before," said Lillie. 

"Hydreigon, Brutal Pokemon, Dark Dragon Type, and the evolved form of Zweilous, The heads on their arms do not have brains. They use all three heads to consume and destroy everything," states Rotom. 

"A Dark and Dragon, which means it has a four times weakness to Fairy," said Felix. 

"Then let me..." But Lillie was interrupted when Starlight held out her hoof. 

"Don't worry I got this," she said with a determined look. Lillie looked like she wanted to argue with her but Felix nodded.

"It's ok she knows what she's doing," said Felix. 

"Dazzling Gleam!" Starlight ordered. Espeon let out a cry as it's red gem began to glow. Suddenly the space around Espeon lightened up from the sun as Hydreigon was suddenly struck by a stream of light. Hydreigon let out a roar of pain as it fell to the ground unconscious. 

"Impossible!" said Ghetsis. 

"Hmph too easy," said Starlight with a smug look. Ghetsis called back his second Pokemon and called out his third. His third Pokemon was a large buffalo type Pokemon with black fur that made it look like it had an Afro. 

"That's new," said Starlight.

"Bouffalant, The Bash Buffalo Pokemon, Normal Type, Their fluffy fur absorbs damage, even if they strike foes with a fierce headbutt," states Rotom.

"Normal Type, in that case," Starlight called back her Espeon and pulled out another Pokeball and threw it calling out her Raichu. 

"Hmph this one should be easy," snickered Ghetsis. 

"Don't jinx it," said Starlight. "Focus Blast!" Raichu let out a squeak as an orange orb began to form. Raichu kicked the orb straight into Bouffalant head taking it out. 

"How!?" Ghetsis asked. 

"This is too easy, and you call yourself a leader?' asked Starlight. Ghetsis growled as he called back his Pokemon. 

"She's got talent," said Molayne. 

"Indeed to be taking on the Team Plasma Leader on her own, I'm impressed," said Elesa. Ghetsis threw his fourth Pokeball and called out a tall Pokemon with red armor attached to it's shoulders, and legs, and one on the head with a large yellow blade like a helmet. It had two blades around it's stomach and hands.  

"Another new one," said Lillie.

"Bisharp, Sword Blade Pokemon, Dark and Steel Type, and the evolved form of Pawniard, Bisharp pursues prey in the company of a large group of Pawniard. Then Bisharp finishes off the prey," states Rotom.

"Dark and Steel Type, another four times weakness, this time against Fighting Types," said Felix. 

"Really?" Starlight sighed. "Focus Blast," she ordered. Raichu began forming another orange orb and kicked it into Bisharp once again taking it out in one hit. 

"Are you kidding me!?" roared Ghetsis. 

"Wow, Starlight you're good," said Lillie.

"Yeah well it gets kind of boring when you find out you're overpowered," said Starlight.

"Well see who's overpowered this time," said Ghetsis calling back his fourth Pokemon. "This is where I crush you," Ghetsis threw his fifth Pokeball calling out a large white dragon with wings. It's deep blue eyes staring into the three. 

"What is that?" asked Lillie.

"Reshiram the Vast White Pokemon, Dragon Fire Type, When Reshiram's tail flares, the heat energy moves the atmosphere and changes the world's weather," states Rotom. 

"Finally it's my turn," said Felix pulling out his own Pokeball. Starlight nodded as she called back her Raichu and switched spots with Felix. "Lycanroc let's go!" said Felix summoning his orange furred wolf. "Accelrock!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc charged and headbutted into Reshiram's chest causing rocks to fly off into different directions. But Reshiram shook off the attack. Lycanroc returned to his trainer's side growling. 

"Blue Flare," ordered Ghetsis. Reshiram inhaled and blasted a stream of blue fire at Lycanroc doing massive damage. Lycanroc yelped and fell down. 

"Lycanroc!" Felix gasped. Lycanroc winced as it tried to stand. "Hang in there," said Felix. 

"Hmph looks like you can't beat a legendary, anyhow let's finish this, Blue Flare," Ghetsis ordered. Reshiram inhaled getting ready to let loose another stream of blue fire, when Felix smirked.

"That's how you wanna play it then fine," Felix removed his Firium Z and replaced it with the Rockium Z that Brock had given him. Reshiram stopped and looked at Felix as he raised his arm up to them. "Lycanroc it's time, you ready?" Lycanroc absorbed the pain and glared at Reshiram with eyes of determination. "Alright let's do this!" said Felix raising his arms up to his face in an X formation. He then swung his arms up and out and over to his side then brought them up and in front of him with his right arm over his left. He bent down and jumped back up bending his arms as if he was flexing his muscles. He then turned his back on Ghetsis while facing the side and bent both of his legs while flexing his muscles again. The orange aura bust out of Felix's body and into Lycanroc as it burst to life.

"Oh here we go," said Starlight excited. Ghetsis, the people surrounding the observatory and even Reshiram looked uneasy. 

"Let's finish this, Continental Crush!!!!" Felix announced. Lycanroc howled as it lept in the air followed by multiple large chunks of rock found nearby on the mountain. More and more rocks began to gather above Lycanroc until one large boulder was hovering above the sky.

"Holy Arceus!" one of the people nearby screamed. Everyone watched in awe as the boulder hovered over Reshiram. 

"Now Lycanroc!" Felix ordered Lycanroc howled as it threw the boulder right on top of Reshiram followed by a large explosion so big that the people nearby had to shield their eyes from the light emitted from the explosion. Once the light died down, everyone looked over to see what had happened only to find Reshiram on the ground unconscious. 

"Impossible!" said Ghetsis. 

"Alright we beat him!" cheered Starlight.

"Amazing job once again Felix," said Elesa. 

"Thank you miss," said Felix.

"Impossible, I couldn't have been defeated by some random trainers from who knows where," said Ghetsis. 

"Hmph not so tough now are you good sir," snickered Felix. 

"I created Team Plasma with my own hands, I am absolutely perfect, I AM PERFECTION!" said Ghetsis. 

"You lost now please, we have some business of our own to deal with so please step aside," said Lillie. 

"This cannot be possible, I will not accept this!" said Ghetsis. He suddenly ran towards the three and pushed Felix and Starlight out of the while at the same time grabbed Lillie by the arm and pulled her close to him. 

"Wha, what are you doing!?" Starlight gasped.

"Myah-ha-ha! No, no, no, no, no! You don't get it do you? I can't be defeated! I won't be! IT. CANNOT. BE. ALLOWED!" screamed Ghetsis. "You pathetic trainers, if you value this girl's life, throw aside all your Pokeballs, at this moment!" 

"Y-you cowardly... Felix, Starlight please don't listen to him!" Lillie begged. 

"Shut your mouth!" Ghetsis roared.

"What's this? Your Pokeballs are shaking, could it be that they're shaking with rage?" asked Ghetsis. "No matter throw away all your Pokeballs right this instant!" 

"We refuse!" Starlight answered.

"Were you not listening, or did you simply not understand? Well you leave me no choice," said Ghetsis. Suddenly a familiar voice interrupted before Ghetsis could say more.

"I see you are dedicated to your own desires, Ghetsis," Within a flash Lillie was gone and right next to Felix and Starlight along with one other familiar face. 

"Y-you!" Ghetsis screamed. 

"Mr. Colress!" Lillie gasped.

"It has been a while," said Colress smirking. Ghetsis glared at the scientist as if he was looking at him as a traitor. "Felix, Starlight, we meet again!" Colress beamed. 

"Same here Colress," said Felix. 

'We really appreciate you for saving Lillie for us," said Starlight.

"Hmm well of course, it seems Ghetsis here has caused you quite some trouble!" said Colress. "Although it appears this Ghetsis is from a different world than the one I know," 

"Of course... The Colress of this world! But you should have no reason to meddle in my plans or my boss's," said Ghetsis.

"Indeed and that is why I'm here," said Colress. Smiling he pulled out some sort of device and began tapping on it. 

'What are you doing?" asked Ghetsis. 

"Just came to pick these three up," answered Colress. 

"Wait you don't mean, no I cannot allow you to do that, I have been given orders to eradicate those three," said Ghetsis. 

"Ah tough luck Ghetsis, but looks like you'll be hearing no end from Ultra Aether President Supernova," said Colress. With just a push of a button and the four had vanished completely. 

"No, NO!" Ghetsis roared. He turned to one of the men in the suit and growled,"You Team Rainbow Rocket Grunts are useless, but that doesn't matter right now, find those three and bring them back to Aether Paradise," The Grunt saluted and ran down the mountain with the rest of his buddies to start their desperate search. 



Felix  had been standing on top of Mt. Hokulani but before he knew he was standing in front of the Malie City Pokemon Center with Lillie, Starlight, and Colress. 

"Wha how did we get here?" asked Starlight.

"Oh just a little teleportation device I invented," answered Colress. 

"Thanks for saving us Mr. Colress," said Lillie.

"No problem Miss Lille, now for you Felix, you've completed the electric trial right, I suggest you head down to Tapu Village if you're going to take on you're next trial," said Colress.

"Yes I know," said Felix.

"I see, oh before you do that...."

"Yes I know somebody wants to meet me," interrupted Felix.

"They're waiting in Malie Garden, I wouldn't keep them waiting if I were you," suggested Colress.

"Of course, thanks for everything Mr. Colress," said Felix. 

"Good Luck and do be careful," said Colress. He waved goodbye to the three as they made their way towards Malie Garden. "Well then, I suppose I should report back to Larry, I would like to see how Project U.G. is going as well," Smiling Colress made his way down  to the docks.
> Chapter 33: Enter Guzma
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Felix walked into Malie Garden followed by Starlight and Lillie. As the three looked around, they could see nothing but greenery and nature. It was completely different than what the rocky Mt. Hokulani was like. 

"Well this is it," said Felix. 

"We should probably start looking for the person who asked us to come here," said Lillie.

"I suggest we split up," said Felix.

"Actually before we do that," said Starlight pointing ahead. Felix and Lillie looked towards the bridge to see someone in a black hoodie standing before two Team Skull Grunts. 

"Oh great Team Skull," groaned Felix.

"Why are THEY here?" asked Lillie.

"We should probably go check it out," said Felix. He pulled out his Pokeball and walked towards the small crowd that had formed. Starlight and Lillie followed after him. As the three approached the bridge they could here the man with a girl in her teens, talking with the grunts. "Um excuse me miss, but can you let us through?" asked Felix. The woman moved out of the way as the three joined the crowed. 

"Yo, yo yo, hold up, yo Mr. Io or whatever," said Skull Grunt A.

"What're you doing protecting that little girl for, we just wanted to see her Pokemon," said Grunt B. 

The man snickered. "So stupid," 

"Huh?" both of the Grunts asked in unison. 

"You Skull grunts are spineless, you even gang up on this girl, how shameful," said the man. "You want to gang up on someone, you gotta gang up on me!" 

"Mr. Io," the girl whimpered. 

"Yo for real?" asked Grunt A.

"F-fine you asked for it!" said Grunt B. The crowd around the man began cheering for the man while the booed the Grunts. 

"Gang up on the big man huh? Nice idea there, Io, you can beat down three Pokemon at once?" a voice asked. The three looked up to see a man walk up as the grunts moved out of the way. He was wearing black pants and hoodie over a white T-shirt. A golden Skull necklace was hanging around his neck and yellow sunglasses sat on top of his head. He had a purple Team Skull logo tattooed on his left arm and his white hair matched perfectly with his white sneakers. 

"It's Guzma," said one of the man in the crowd.

"The boss has graced us with his presence!" said Grunt A.

"The hated boss who beats you down, and beats you down, and never lets up....Yeah Big Bad Guzma is here!" said the man. The girl yelped as she hid behind the man named Io. "Greetings cowering public, We have an exciting bout for you tonight! In the opposing corner, former Team Cosmos Grunt Io, and in this corner, the boss of Team Skull and the hardest guy around, Guzma!" Guzma announced. "Hmph to think that a former Team Cosmos member is hanging around here, shouldn't you be looking for your missing Admin?" Guzma snickered.

"How dare you!" the girl gasped.

"Shut up punk!" Guzma yelled. The girl yelped and hid behind Io again. 

"Don't get yourself caught up Guzma, I'm only here waiting for someone," answered Io. "Three strong trainers as I have heard," 

"And what, you gotta date with them or something?" asked Guzma. "Man you're even more ridiculous that Kukui,"

"Trust me Guzma assuming isn't going to help, I know Nova is out there, I also believe that those three trainers I'm waiting for is the key to beating the biggest threat in Alola and protect the trainers and Pokemon living on it's islands," said Io.

"When you mean three you mean the three behind you?" asked Guzma. The girl and Io quickly turned around to see Felix, Lillie, and Starlight standing there with determined looks on their faces. 

"Well would you look at that, the three trainers I've been waiting for!" beamed Io.

"My name is Felix, and these are my friends Starlight Glimmer and Lillie," said Felix. 

"Nice to meet you, I'm Io," said Io. "As you can already see we're in a bit of a pickle here," 

"Yes we know, and if you don't mind, but would you please let me handle this?" asked Felix. 

"Be my guest," said Io. 

Guzma looked over to Felix's wrist and scoffed,"You've got a Z-Power Ring, huh, kid?" "Why even bother with the island challenge, what's the point of it?" asked Guzma. 

"It'll make me strong, strong enough to protect my friends," answered Felix.

"No it won't you dumb kid!" said Guzma. "You think you can beat me, you won't get to see the day of light after I destroy you!" "Wanna see what destruction looks like? Here it is in human form- it's your boy Guzma!" announced Guzma pulling out his Pokeball. He threw it as a giant insect like creature emerged. It had large grey scales covering it's body like armor and had two large claws.

"What's that?" asked Starlight.

"Golisopod, Hard Scale Pokemon, Bug Water Type and the evolved form of Wimpod, With a flashing slash of its giant sharp claws, it cleaves seawater—or even air—right in two," states Rotom. 

"Let's go Lycanroc!" said Felix summoning his orange wolf. 

"Wait Lycanroc? But isn't Guzma's Pokemon water type, that means he's at a disadvantage," said Starlight.

"Don't worry, if Felix knows what he was doing, then he should be able to take down his Golisopod no time flat," said Lillie. 

"Hey kid, you have a Lycanroc?" asked Io.

"Um yeah I do, I've had it since I was little," answered Felix. 

"Then let me give you something," said Io. "Give me your hand," Confused Felix held out his hand as Io dropped a a beige colored Z-Crystal with Lycanroc's face engraved in the center. 

"I this?" asked Felix.

"Yes, it should work like the Rockium Z so you should know the movements, however it'll only work if your Lycanroc knows Stone Edge," whispered Io.

"Stone Edge, got it thanks," said Felix. Io nodded as he backed off. Felix took a look at the Z-Crystal, his Lycanroc DID know Stone Edge, it might be worth trying in this battle. "Alright Lycanroc Accelrock!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc growled as he dashed out and headbutted into Golisopod sending shards of rock flying in every direction. Lycanroc smiled as it retreated back to it's trainer. Golisopod suddenly looked panicked as it looked back at Guzma. Guzma nodded as he called back his Golisopod and pulled out a second Pokeball. 

"Masquerain Go!" said Guzma throwing his Pokeball. The ball opened is a white bug with four sets of wings and two large antennas emerged. 

"That's new," said Starlight.

"Masquerain, Eyeball Pokemon, Bug Flying Type and the evolved form of Surskit, Masquerain's antennas have eye like patterns that usually give it an angry look. If the “eyes" are droopy and appear sad, it is said to be a sign that a heavy rainfall is on its way," states Rotom. The opposing Masquerain hissed at Lycanroc making it take a step back. 

"What happened?" asked Starlight.

"Intimidate is Masquerain's ability, it lowers the opposing Pokemon's attack," answered Felix. "But that isn't going to stop me, Stone Edge!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc jumped up and pounded the ground with it's claws as pillars of rock erupted from the ground and struck the Masquerain knocking it down. 

"Alright one shot!" said Starlight. The crowd around them began to cheer. Guzma sneered as he called back his Pokemon and once again sent out his Golisopod. 

"Only two eh, well then we'll finish this," said Felix. He removed the Rockium Z from the Z-Power Ring and attached the Z-Crystal Io had given him. "Alright Lycanroc let's do this!"said Felix holding his arms up to his face in an X formation. 

"Alright Z Move!" said Starlight. The crowd watched in awe as Felix swung his arms up and out and over to his side. Then he brought his arms up in front of him with his right over his left. He bent down and jumped back up flexing his muscles then turned his back on Guzma while bending both of his legs and flexing his muscles one more time while facing the side.  The orange Z-Power burst out and into Lycanroc as it growled at Golisopod. 

"Now Lycanroc, give it all you got!" said Felix. Lycanroc howled towards the sky as multiple large shards of stone began appearing out of nowhere surrounding Golisopod. Lycanroc jumped up and in front of the sun as Z-Power burst from it's body. The stone shards began tilting so that the tips were facing Golisopod. Felix smirked as he clamped his hands together like jaws, as Lycanroc lunged at Golisopod followed by the the stone shards that barraged the Golisopod from every side causing a massive explosion of stone and dirt. Once the dust had cleared the only thing on the field was a fainted Golisopod in the center of a crater. "Whoa," said Felix.

"He did it," said Lillie and Starlight cheerfully. The crowd around them cheered with joy as Guzma called back his Pokemon.

""Impressive," said Io. The cheering died down as they watched to see what Guzma would do.

"Guzma, what is wrong with you!?" Guzma yelled clutching his hair. "Now's the time for your vaunted team to let loose and destroy everything!" "It was Felix right? I'll remember you as someone I'll be happy to beat down anytime!" said Guzma. Full of disbelief, Guzma began heading towards the entrance to Malie Garden with his two Grunts following behind. 

"Well done kid, you really showed him your skills," said Io walking up to him. 

"Actually I have to thank you too for giving me that Rockium Z," said Felix.

"Actually that's not a Rockium Z," said Io.

"What do you mean?" asked Felix.

"That's called the Lycanium Z, its a Z-Crystal made exclusively for Lycanroc," answered Io.

"Huh Lycanium Z, that's interesting," said Felix. 

"Yeah, well I WAS planning on giving you the Z-Crystal for your starter, but after Kukui mentioned that you didn't HAVE a starter, he asked me to give you the Lycanium Z instead," said Io.

"I see, that makes sense," said Felix. 

"By the way, is she alright?" asked Starlight.

"Oh, um yes, I'm fine thank you," said the girl. "I want to thank you for saving me Mr. Felix," said the girl.

"Anytime, miss," said Felix.

"Please just call me Evelyn," said the girl. 

"Well then, Evelyn, make sure you stay with your guardian," said Felix.

"Actually Mr. Io is just a kind man who agreed to help me, he isn't my supervisor or anything," said Evelyn.

"Wow, that's surprising," said Starlight.

"Well anyway, I want to thank you for everything, I hope we can meet again someday," said Evelyn. Smiling she ran off towards the Pokemon center, her blonde hair flowing behind her as she ran. 

"She's a good girl alright," said Io. "Now about our meeting?" he asked turning towards Felix.

"Ah right, is there something you wanted to tell us?' asked Lillie.

"Indeed, but we can't discuss it here, come let's go someplace where it's safe," said Io. He began walking out of Malie Garden with the three following him.
> Chapter 34: Zygarde
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dexio wipes away the bead of sweat as he bends down to pick up the Pokeball. For a while now he and Sina had been searching of Zygarde and now they managed to find him. That is only a part of it. After finding all 40 of cells, they had returned to all the other locations they can remember to collect the other 60 only to find that they were gone. They had to expand their search to find the legendary Pokemon and finally they managed to find it in it's 10% forme. Now that Dexio had caught, they just need the other 50%. 

"Dexio, you're looking tired, we should rest," Sina suggested. 

"Not by a chance, not until we find that other 50%," said Dexio. 

"Come on Dexio, it's getting late, we can only hope that the International Police managed to track it down," said Sina. Dexio sighed knowing that he couldn't argue with her. 

"Alright let's go," said Dexio. Exhausted, the two quickly made their way back to their room in the Tide Song Hotel.

"Thank Arceus we managed to find this guy near the hotel," said Dexio.

"Yes, it really is helping us save energy," agreed Sina. Once the two checked back in, they headed over to the cafe and ate dinner before returning to their rooms. 

"Hmm, that's strange I guess their not back yet," said Dexio.

"What, but it's already dark out, I wonder if their still searching?" asked Sina.

"Actually we just got back," a voice spoke up from behind. Dexio and Sina turned to find Anabel and Looker standing behind them. Smiling Anabel held up an Ultra Ball and tossed it towards Dexio. "No worries, we had it fixed up at the Pokemon Center before we came back," said Anabel. 

"Great we really appreciate it thank you," said Sina. 

"How about you two?" asked Looker. "Any luck?" Smiling Dexio pulled out his Pokeball with his Zygarde inside. 

"Great then that means....." said Looker.

"Yes tomorrow, we head over to route 16 on Ula Ula to combine the two Zygardes as well as the 40 cells we managed to find," said Dexio. 

"We'll need plenty of energy so let's rest up for tomorrow," said Anabel. 

"Wait you need some food in you first," said Sina.

"Oh no worries we already ate at the restaurant on Poni Island," said Looker. 

"Poni Island, is that why you were late?" asked Dexio.

"Guess you could say that," answered Anabel. 

"And I suppose that's where you found Zygarde," said Sina. 

"Deep inside Resolution Cave," added Looker.  

"Ah, Resolution Cave on Poni Island, I should've known," said Dexio. 

"Hey at least we found the other 50%, just be happy with that," said Sina.

"Yeah I guess your right," said Dexio.

"Well let's turn in for the night shall we?" suggested Looker.

"Good idea," said Anabel. Saying their good nights, the four jumped into their beds and fell asleep. 



"What are you crazy Lusamine!?" Larry asked. 

"Please listen Larry, you know how much I care about Lillie, I cannot allow this to go on," said Lusamine.

"Listen Lusamine, I'm aware of your concerns, I'm worried about your daughter as well, but going through an Ultra Wormhole to defeat Necrozma is far too risky!" Larry said. 

"Please Larry, I have to do this, for the sake of Pokemon, for the sake of Alola, for the sake of my daughter," said Lusamine. 

"No I will not allow such dangerous actions unless ask of it, you'll have to wait until the International Police returns with Zygarde," said Larry. 

"He's right Miss President, Necrozma is not a beast you can stop on your own," said Dulse.

"Then you'll come with me," said Lusamine. 

"What!?" Dulse asked.

"Miss President, that's not a good idea," said Zossie. 

"Look, you can't stop me, I'm going after Necrozma no matter what!" announce Lusamine. Before Larry could object, Lusamine turned around and ran out the door. 

"What a mess," sighed Larry. "You two follow her and make sure she doesn't do anything stupid," Larry ordered turning towards Dulse and Zossie. The two nodded as they ran out after her. "I'm only hoping she'll be safe,"



Supernova paced up and down mumbling and kicking the ground in frustration. He had just received news stating that Ghetsis had failed. His final hopes were placed on the shoulders of Lysandre now. This was the final sixth time that those fools interfered with his plans and he wasn't happy about it. Luckily he had managed to create enough distractions to slow them down enough for his master plan to finally meet it's climax. A knock on the door immediately grabbed his attention.

"Come in!" Supernova called out. The door to his office opened as Faba walked in with Sombra, Chrysalis, and the Shadow Pony. 

"President Supernova, our scientists have confirmed the location of Necrozma," said Faba.

"Really where?" asked Supernova.

"It's at the top of Megalo Tower sir," said Chrysalis. Supernova's eyes widened as his frown was replaced with a smirk. 

"Yes finally after so long," said Supernova.

"Should we prepare to start the capturing process?" asked the Shadow Pony. Supernova was about to answer but managed to stop himself. He did remember that awakening Necrozma wasn't going to end well. 

"Actually, no instead do you know if the Ultra Recon Squad plan to awaken Necrozma anytime soon?" asked Supernova. 

"No but we did receive reports from the undercover changeling stating that Lusamine lady was planning to go beat Necrozma herself," answered Sombra. 

"Then that's it, we're going to Equestria," said Supernova.

"What why?" asked Faba.

"You see going to capture Necrozma ourselves isn't going to help complete my master plan, but rather hinder it," answered Supernova.

"What do you mean?" asked Chrysalis. 

"The Ultra Recon Squad told me, waking Necrozma is only going to throw it into a rage, when that happens capturing it will surely fail, however if that woman Lusamine plans to beat Necrozma, she'll have awaken it," answered Supernova. "When that happens, surely she'll end up beat and be forced to retreat to Larry, however Necrozma isn't that dense, once he spots a prey, he'll think that they're leading him to sources of light so he'll most likely follow them," 

"But Equestria's light is gone thanks to that permanent Solar Eclipse," said Sombra.

"Or is it," said Supernova snapping his fingers. 

"Actually the Solar Eclipse hasn't done anything but block the light, thus there is still some sources of light that nobody can see," said Faba. 

"Once again Necrozma isn't stupid, he knows when there is light," said Supernova. 

"So what your saying is we wait in Celestia's castle until Necrozma appears," said Shadow Pony. 

"And that's when we strike," said Supernova. 

"Hmm sounds like a plan," said Chrysalis. 

"Then I guess nobody has any other objections," said Supernova. Everyone shook their heads in unison. "Perfect very soon everything will be ours," laughed Supernova. "Just you wait, revenge will be ours,"
> Chapter 35: Greed and Rage
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

"We're almost there," said Felix as he stopped for Starlight. She walked up next to him gasping heavily. 

"Why do you run so fast?" asked Starlight.

"Because I want to get on with my next trial," answered Felix.

"Eager as always aren't you?" asked Starlight taking a sip from the water bottle she bought at the Pokemon Center. "You know I'm actually sad that Lillie had to leave just like that," After the battle with Guzma, Felix and Starlight had a discussion with Io. He had mentioned that Champion Larry had something planned out for the Ultra Beast Invasion that was likely to take place. He had called Project U.G. Whatever U.G. stood for it was obvious that Larry had spent most of his time putting this project together considering that he had high hopes for it. But why would he want Lillie to take part was a complete mystery. Either way the two split up with Lillie and Io and the two were on their own again.

"Well she did agree to help her mother with that project," said Felix. "Anyway we need to move on," 

"Hmph so, it's you two again, been a while I suppose," a voice spoke up. The two turned around towards the motel and saw Gladion walking up to them. 

"Gladion," said Starlight. 

"Listen, Team Skull is looking for a Pokemon called Cosmog, do you two know anything?" he asked.

"What, not that'd we tell you," said Starlight.

"So you do know something," said Gladion. "Look Cosmog isn't even a strong Pokemon, but it has the potential to summon Pokemon so terrifyingly strong that you don't even know," "If something like that happened, it would be a disaster for Alola,"

"Ultra Beasts," said Felix. Gladion looked at him with a shocked expression. 

"You know about that!?" he asked. 

"Guess you could say that, either way what is it you want us to do?" asked Felix. 

"Protect it, if you do know where Cosmog is or if you find anything out.... just keep it safe!" said Gladion. "I'm going to tell you once, you have to protect Cosmog no matter what!" Felix and Starlight looked at each other and looked back at Gladion as he  started towards the way the two came from. "I still don't even understand how Team Skull found out about Cosmog in the first place,"

"Felix I know Lillie left with Io, but is she going to be ok?" asked Starlight. 

"Don't worry, I'm sure she can handle it," answered Felix. No matter what, those words rang in Felix's head as he and Starlight made their way to Tapu Village. 



"Well we're here," said Felix. The two looked around the empty village as they walked over to the Pokemon Center.

"Seems kind of, empty," said Starlight.

"Yeah, I guess so," said Felix. The two stopped nearby an entrance to a mountain where two statues stood. "That must be the Pokemon League, I guess I'll be coming back here after I complete my Island Challenge,"

"Hey look," said Starlight. Felix turned around to see two Ultra Recon Squad members walking up to them. "Alola," said Starlight. 

"An Alola to you!" Zossie said cheerfully. 

"So this is Tapu Village, we will need to investigate it quite thoroughly," said Dulse. "According to the records we have left to us, it seems that this is where Necrozma battled against the Tapu when it came to Alola long ago, hungering for its light"

"Necrozma battled the Tapu?" asked Felix.

"Yes, it may be the case that the power which came pouring out of the Ultra Wormhole at the time is what changes Pokemon's regular moves into Z-Moves. Such theories have been suggested... our ancestors were greedy, and they sought to control all of Necrozma's light," said Dulse. "but what was the result of all of that? They only hurt Necrozma, making it lose a part of itself and causing it to run wild and steal all the light it could find," 

"How terrible," said Starlight. 

"Yeah, and that's why we have Necrozma cooped up in the Megalo Tower our great ancestors built, it contains Necrozma in it's rage," said Zossie. 

"But that facility has reached it's limit, and Necrozma hungers for light, that is why we came to Alola in hopes of finding a new method to defeat Necrozma, " added Dulse. 

"Eventually Necrozma will come here I assume," said Felix. 

"Yes, it seems it will be a difficult mission for us, who are so new to Pokemon battling, to ever hope to defeat Necrozma," said Dulse. 

"Well no worries if Necrozma ever shows up, we'll beat him," said Felix confidently.

"Oh but wait, he might show up in Equestria too you know," said Zossie.

"Well then I'll deal with that when the time comes," said Starlight. The four exchanged goodbyes and watched as Dulse and Zossie walked off. 

"Starlight, you noticed too right?" asked Felix.

"Yeah, the Ultra Recon Squad are in a in a pretty hopeless spot," answered Starlight. 

"I know Necrozma is a bad Pokemon, but I gotta give it to ya, you have to feel kind of bad for it after hearing what it's been through," said Felix. 

"I hope there was something we can do to help Necrozma," said Starlight.

"We'll worry about that later, right now let's keep moving, according to Io, he told us to head over to Aether House," said Felix. 

"But first let's fix up our teams," suggested Starlight. Felix agreed and for the next 10 minutes the two had their teams fixed up and bought some more items at the Pokemon Center before the they started towards Aether House. It was pretty obvious considering that it was big and white with the Aether Logo. The two entered the house to find it nice and quiet. 

"I guess no one's home," said Starlight. Suddenly from one of the rooms two kids and a Yungoos walked up and noticed the two standing there.

"Strangers!" the both cried in unison. The two ran up to them and began jumping with glee. 

"This means battle!" cheered the little girl. 

"What why?" asked Starlight.

"Don't ask questions, just do," said Felix pulling out his Pokeball. Starlight sighed and decided that making little kids cry when their parents weren't around wasn't a good idea. So the two took the time to battle and defeat the kids in a simple double battle. 

"You, you!" said the little boy. "I tried really hard, I am a kid you know!" said the little boy. 

"I know you are, you battle pretty well actually," said Felix. 

"Phew so i won yeah? Then why is this little fellow still gnawing on me?" asked Starlight. 

"Well, well looks like we have some visitors," a voice spoke out. Felix and Starlight turned around to see a man in his twenties or thirties standing there. He was wearing white pants a black sweatshirt. A purple scarf was wrapped around his neck and a bandana of the same color was wrapped around his forehead. "Hey there, my name is Morty, I'm covering for Acerola," said the man.

"I'm Felix and this is my friend Starlight Glimmer," said Felix. 

"Hello," said Starlight.

"And hello to you too, I guess I should thank you for looking after these kids, I'm supposed to be their guardian while Acerola's out," said Morty.

"Yeah, we know temporary captain," said Felix.

"So once you're ready, I'll show you to the trial site," said Morty. "Just meet me outside. 

"Got it," said Felix. Suddenly a girl's scream rang out from the front of the house.

"What was that?" asked the little boy. 

"I'll go check," said Felix running out the house. 

"Hey wait for me," said Starlight running after him. 



Felix bolted out of the house to see Evelyn standing out in the front with a worried expression on her face. "What do you think you're doing, stop it, stop it right now!" she demanded. Confused Felix walked to the side to see a Team Skull Grunt standing there harassing her. 

"For real girl, I saw you call back that Pokemon of yours, and I'm just supposed to ignore that?" asked the Grunt.

"It was just a Pikachu, leave me alone!' Evelyn cried.

"It don't matter, I'm gonna have to take it and make some cash, even if it's just a Pikachu, I bet I could still get paid yo," said the grunt. Felix could tell Evelyn was close to crying from the expression on her face. 

"Hey!" Felix called out. Evelyn and the Grunt looked up as Felix ran down the steps and stepped in front of Evelyn to protect her.

"Mr. Felix," Evelyn said.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

"Yes, now that you're here," answered Evelyn. 

"Oh so we're following that script are we? A trainer dashes forward to save the girl, huh? I'm not gonna let you be the hero in this scene!" announced the grunt pulling out a Pokeball. He threw it as a Drowzee emerged. 

"Hmph, pathetic as always aren't ya," chuckled Felix. He turned his around so he could see Evelyn. "Stand back let me handle this," said Felix. Evelyn nodded as she stepped back. "You messed with the wrong trainer buddy," said Felix pulling out his own Pokeball. "Go Volcarona!" said Felix. He threw the ball summoning his fire moth onto the field. 

"Drowzee Meditate yo!" the grunt ordered. Drowzee clasped it's hands together and moved up and down. 

"Too easy, Bug Buzz," Felix ordered. Volcarona made a buzzing noise as small insects appeared and tackled into Drowzee knocking it out. "Heh one shot," said Felix. 

"This result what's up with that!?" asked the grunt calling back his Pokemon. 

"How does it feel to lose your role as hero huh?" asked Felix.

"When I saw that adorable Drowzee, that was enough for me! Later!" said the grunt as he ran off. Felix sighed as he called back his Volcarona. 

"Stupid Team Skull," Felix groaned. 

"Mr. Felix thank you!" said Evelyn hugging him.

"Yeah, no problem," said Felix. "By the way, what are you doing out here?" asked Felix. 

"Well I heard that you can catch an Alolan Vulpix here, so I wanted to get one for my team," answered Evelyn. "But it seems like that Team Skull Grunt saw me catching that Vulpix with my Pikachu and followed me,"

"Geez stalking a girl like you, too creepy," said Felix. 

"Impressive!" beamed Morty. Felix turned around to see Starlight and Morty walking down the steps. "To be able to beat a Team Skull Grunt with one Pokemon, you truly are an outstanding trainer," 

"Thank you sir," said Felix. 

"No problem, anyhow let's get that trial done, as for your friend, why don't you stay here for a bit, you must be exhausted," suggested Morty.

"Why thank you, I'll take up on that offer," said Evelyn.

"Well then, Felix, follow me, I'll take you to your next trial site," said Morty running off towards the Pokemon Center. 

"Well this is it," said Starlight.

"Yep Ghost Trial here I come," said Felix. The two exchanged goodbyes with Evelyn as they ran off after Morty.
> Chapter 36: Versus Totem Mimikyu
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Felix swallowed hard as he stood in front of the worn down supermarket. In all the trial sites he had visited, this was considered to be the creepiest one of them all. Even Starlight who was standing next to him was closer to him than ever. The terrified look on her face was obviously a hint telling Felix that she wasn't in the mood in entering such a creepy place. 

"Well what do you think, perfect place to hold the Ghost Type trial isn't it?" asked Morty.

"Ghosts!?" Starlight yelped.

"Do we really have to go in there?" asked Felix trembling. 

"Well of course, otherwise you'll never be able to finish the Island Challenge," answered Morty. "Now if you don't mind, I would like to borrow that Rotom Dex of yours," Rotom popped out and looked at Felix with a worried look. Felix knew he had no choice and nodded. Rotom hovered over to Morty who began tapping on the screen. "Now if I just input the information she had given me, you'll be able to use the Rotom Dex for your trial," said Morty.

"What exactly does he have to do?" asked Starlight.

"You have to take the picture of the Totem of course, easy as that," answered Morty. 

"Ha, photographing Pokemon, th-that doesn't sound that bad," Felix laughed nervously.

"Oh come on, it's just a few harmless ghosts, well then again, they aren't exactly harmless," said Morty. "Either way get in there," said Morty pushing the two towards the door. The two looked at each other and swallowed hard as they entered the creepy haunted supermarket. 



This was it, Starlight was never going to enter any creepy buildings no matter how who pressured her to do it. When Morty said it was just taking pictures, Starlight thought it couldn't be as bad. She should've known that the entire inside was dark and creepy as well. Plus the smell of rotting produces didn't make things any better. As the two nervously walked down the walk way near the conveyor belts, the sound of mechanical whirring made her jump and hug Felix.

"Starlight don't scare me like that!" Felix yelped.

"I'm sorry," said Starlight close to tears. "It's just that I.... I can't," she whimpered. Felix swallowed hard as he slowly turned his head towards the whirring. He noticed that one of the conveyor belts had automatically began moving. 

"Oh hell no," said Felix. He slowly pulled Rotom out of his bag and held it up. When looking on the screen, he noticed a small black orb with eyes and small fangs covered in purple gas looking back at him. Once he realized what it was, Felix calmed down and snapped the photo. There was a loud screech that made Starlight yelp, and once he lowered Rotom, the Pokemon suddenly flew over the two and next to them. 

"Ghost!" Starlight yelped.

"Gastly, Gas Pokemon, Ghost Poison Type, Gastly is largely composed of gaseous matter. When exposed to a strong wind, the gaseous body quickly dwindles away. Groups of this Pokémon cluster under the eaves of houses to escape the ravages of wind," states Rotom. 

"Nope," said Felix summoning his Lycanroc. "Crunch!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc lunged at the Gastly and bit down hard causing the Gastly to yelp and vanish from sight. "Well that was easy," said Felix. That's when Felix noticed a Pikachu staring at them and ran off towards the right. 

"Pikachu?" asked Rotom.

"Let's follow it," suggested Felix.

"No!" Starlight screamed.

"Why?" asked Felix.

"Ii don't trust it," answered Starlight.

"Look I know you're scared, but we need to finish this," said Felix. Starlight knew that objecting wasn't going to help so she clutched onto Felix as he followed the Pikachu. That's when a cart in sitting in the corner began rattling causing Starlight to hide behind Felix. Felix gathered up his courage and held up Rotom to see a purple creature with no legs and two floating hands shaking the cart. Felix snapped the photo as the creature turned to face them.     

"What is that!?" Starlight yelped.

"Haunter, Gas Pokemon, Ghost Poison Type and the evolved form of Gastly, Haunter is a dangerous Pokémon. If one beckons you while floating in darkness, you must never approach it. This Pokémon will try to lick you with its tongue and steal your life away," states Rotom.

"Sweet Celestia!" Starlight yelped as she began to wobble.

"Hey don't go fainting on me!" Felix demanded. "Crunch!" Lycanroc lunged at the Haunter and bit down making it screech and vanish. "See too easy," said Felix. Once again, Felix noticed the Pikachu from earlier staring at them and ran deeper into the building. "Come on," said Felix grabbing Starlight by the hoof. The two continued to follow the Pikachu to a display with two large plushies. Starlight screamed as the two plushies suddenly began to float. Once again Felix held up Rotom to see a purple creature with stubby arms and legs and glowing red eyes levitating the plushies. Felix snapped a photo and the Pokemon instantly took notice.

"Gengar, Shadow Pokemon, Ghost Poison Type and the evolved form of Haunter, Sometimes, on a dark night, your shadow thrown by a streetlight will suddenly and startlingly overtake you. It is actually a Gengar running past you, pretending to be your shadow," states Rotom. 

"Crunch," Felix ordered. Lycanroc lunged at Gengar and bit down forcing it to retreat back into the darkness. "Seriously for being Ghost Pokemon, they're weak as hell," said Felix. 

"Are we done yet?" whimpered Starlight.

"No," answered Felix. That's when he noticed the Pikachu run into a room where Acerola was blocking the door. 

"Who are you?" asked Acerola.

"Acerola?" Felix asked.

"Oh never mind that, looks like you're done with the trial, right? We should hurry up and leave this place," said Acerola.

"Yeah good idea," said Starlight. But Felix grabbed her and pulled her back. 

"I'm not done yet," said Felix. 

"This place is dangerous, you should give up on your trial and get out," warned Acerola.

"I'm not done yet," said Felix.

"I told you to get out," warned Acerola.

"I'm not leaving," said Felix. 

"Get out," warned Acerola. 

"NO!" Felix yelled. 

"Get out, Get out, Get OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT!!!!!!!!!" Acerola yelled. Starlight whimpered and hid behind Felix. Shocked Felix quickly grabbed Rotom and took a photo. When the flash died, Acerola was no longer there and the door suddenly opened on it's own. Starlight slowly looked up trembling with fear. 

"Let's go," said Felix. Starlight yelped and tried to run before Felix grabbed her and dragged her into the room. Once the two were in the door behind them slammed shut and the two felt a pair of eyes gazing upon them. Suddenly Rotom flew up to Felix and the Poke Finder suddenly fired up on it's own. "What in the name of Arceus?" asked Felix. That's when the two heard an eerie giggle behind them. The two slowly turned around and took a photo to see a small creature wearing a rag resembling Pikachu standing behind them. The Pokemon let out a happy screech as it's orange aura flared to life. 

"What's that!?" Starlight yelped.

"Mimikyu, The Disguise Pokemon, Ghost Fairy Type, Its actual appearance is unknown. A scholar who saw what was under its rag was overwhelmed by terror and died from the shock," states Rotom. 

"WHAT!?" Felix yelped.

"I can't take this anymore, said Starlight as she fell on the ground unconscious. 

"Are you kidding me!?" Felix yelped. Felix desperately wanted to wake up Starlight, but right now he head to finish this. "Alright Lycanroc, Accelrock!" Lycanroc charged forward and tackled head first into the Mimikyu sending chunks of rocks flying. But when Lycanroc retreated, the attack looked like it did nothing. Instead the head suddenly fell off to the side as if it went limp. "WHAT THE HELL!?" Felix screamed. That was absolutely terrifying. In all the trials he faced, not a single Totem was as creepy as this. The Totem suddenly raised it's rag by a small amount as a black shadowy claw slithered out and slashed Lycanroc in the face. "Are you ok?" Felix asked Lycanroc shook of the attack and nodded. "Good then let's keep this up!" Mimikyu let out a screech as a another Pokemon appeared beside it. The Pokemon had a grey body with red eyes and a golden zipper for a mouth.

"Banette, Marionette Pokemon, Ghost Type, and the evolved form of Shuppet, A cursed energy permeated the stuffing of a discarded and forgotten plush doll, giving it new life as Banette. The Pokémon's energy would escape if it were to ever open its mouth," states Rotom. 

"Good to know Rotom," said Felix. He looked back at Mimikyu and smirked. "But that won't stop me from using a Z-Move," said Felix raising his arm. Felix crossed his arms in front of his face and swung up and out so his arms would be to his side, he then crossed his arms in front of him. Next he bent down and jumped back up flexing his muscles, then he turned sideways so his back was against the Totem and flexed his muscles again. The orange Z-Power flowed out of Felix and into Lycanroc as it's aura burst to life. "Alright let's finish this, Splintered Storm Shards!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc howled as large stones began hovering around the Totem. Lycanroc jumped up and glared at the Totem. The rocks around Mimikyu tilted so that the points were facing it. Felix clamped his hands together as Lycanroc and the stones flew into Mimikyu in a barrage of stone. The pained screech of Mimikyu echoed throughout the building and once the dust cleared the Totem was on the ground unconscious. "Haha yes take that Totem Mimikyu!" Felix cheered. Lycanroc landed on the ground panting. Meanwhile Banette hissed at Lycanroc.

"Banette used screech!" Rotom announced. 

"Not gonna be enough to stop me, Crunch!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc lunged at the Banette and bit down hard.Banette let out a pained screech as it retreated back into the darkness. "Ha,ha yes I did it!" Felix announced. Lycanroc howled with glee to celebrate their achievement. Meanwhile Starlight groaned as she slowly got to her feet. 

'What happened?" she asked.

"Just finished the trial," answered Felix.

"Wait really?" asked Starlight.

"Yep now without anymore interruptions, let's get out of here," suggested Felix. Confused, Starlight followed Felix and Rotom out of the building where Morty was waiting. 

"Welcome back you two, I can check your pictures right away," said Morty. Felix nodded as Rotom flew over to Morty. "Now let's see how you did," Morty took Rotom and began flipping through the photos. "That's Mimikyu alright, it's pretty hard to catch on film, so this is a really great attempt," said Morty.

"Great thanks," said Felix. 

"Hey don't thank me yet, especially when I have yet to give you this," said Morty holding out his hand. Felix nodded as he took the purple Z-Crystal from Morty. 

"Alright Ghostium Z!" Felix announced. Starlight smiled as she clapped her hoofs. 

"Now if I remember correctly I'm pretty sure the dance went something like this," said Morty. He crossed his arms in front of him and threw his arms up and out and over to his side. He crossed his arms in front of him then bent down with his hands next to his cheeks. He began moving his body in squiggles as he moved upwards moving his arms so that the were covering his face and finally moved his hands away from his face with his palms facing forward. 

"I'm glad you finished your trial, but I wonder what Acerola was doing near that back room?" asked Starlight.

"What's that? You say Acerola was in there and then you went in the back room?" asked Morty. "Oooh very clever you two, you're trying to scare me huh?" 'You'll have to come up with something a bit more believable than that!"

"What?" asked Felix.

"You, yourself should know that Acerola isn't here, and there's not even a room in the back of that shop, for starters," answered Morty. 

"But...but.." stuttered Starlight. 

"Now, now, how about we head back to the Aether House, I've gotta watch those two kids after all," said Morty running off. Starlight tried to make an argument before Felix stopped her.  

"Don't bother Starlight, even if he doesn't believe us, we know what happened, so how about we keep it a secret to ourselves?" asked Felix.

"Ok," answered Starlight in a disappointed tone. 

"Come on let's go to the Pokemon Center, I'll buy you a drink," said Felix.

"Thanks," said Starlight smiling. The two talked and laughed as they made their way towards the Pokemon Center.
> Chapter 37: Team Flare
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Larry walked down the halls of Celestia's castle with Celestia, Luna, Anabel, and Looker following behind. The five eventually came out into the castle's lobby where Dexio and Sina were waiting.

"Took you long enough Champion," said Dexio.

"Sorry, I had to look over the files again," said Larry. "By the way you DO have it with you right?" 

"Of course," answered Dexio. He pulled out a Pokeball and threw it as a large black and green slug like creature emerged.

"Wow," said Luna.

"I'm impressed that you actually managed to find it," said Larry.

"It wasn't easy but we somehow managed," said Sina.

"Well that's good to hear," said Larry. Dexio called back Zygarde into it's ball and handed it to Larry. 

"Well I suppose we should go check on Lusamine," suggested Celestia. 

"Hold it right there!" a voice spoke up. The seven turned around to see the entrance doors burst open and a horde of people poured in. It was the same group of people wearing the black uniforms with the rainbow Rs. Following behind were two figures wearing white uniforms with orange shirts underneath. The male was bald and the female had orange hair with both wearing similar orange sunglasses. Following behind the two was a man wearing black pants and jacket. He had orange hair and orange beard and wore a ring on one hand with a strange stone encased in it. "Hmph so these are the meddlers that interfered with that Team Leader from that one world, you don't look like much," said the man.

"Who are you?" asked Celestia. 

"I am Lysandre, Supernova had told me about you, you fools must be those foolish beings that also support this miserable world," said the man.

"What are you talking about?" asked Anabel.

"Don't you get it, the only way to create a world where people live in beauty, a world without conflict or theft, is to destroy the current world we live," answered Lysandre.

"Over my dead body," growled Larry.

"Still trying to interfere with Supernova's plans, well then it looks like I'll have to put an end to your miserable lives," said Lysandre. He threw a Pokeball to summon a tall slender creature with white fur and long whiskers. 

"A Mienshao huh, I'll clean this up as fast as possible," said Larry pulling out his own Pokeball. "Go Ninetails!" said Larry. He threw his Pokeball to summon a fox with white fur and nine tails. "Moonblast!" Larry ordered. Ninetails howled towards the sky as a pink orb began to form. 

"High Jump Kick," Lysandre ordered. Mienshao jumped up and attempted to kick Ninetails but crashed into the wall as Ninetails avoided the attack. 

"Now's your chance!" Larry ordered. Ninetails turned around and hurled the pink orb as Mienshao freed itself from the rubble only to be struck in the chest with the orb and fell to the ground unconscious. "Alright nice work!" said Larry. Lysandre called back his Pokemon and threw his second Pokeball. It popped open as a lion with brown fur and red and orange mane emerged. "A Pyroar?" asked Larry.

"Let's see how well you handle this," said Lysandre. Larry called back his Ninetails and threw his second ball. The ball popped open as a blue seal mermaid hybrid emerged. "Hyper Voice," Lysandre ordered. Pyroar roared at the seal as multiple sound waves struck it knocking it back. 

"Primarina Sparkling Aria!" Larry ordered. Primarina jumped up onto its tail and held out it's arms as a blue orb of water formed and erupted near Pyroar knocking onto the ground unconscious. Lysandre called back his Pokemon and threw his third ball. It popped open as a black crow with white feathers puffed out emerged. "Honchkrow, this is too easy," said Larry. "Moonblast," Larry ordered. Primarina raised it's arms as a pink orb began to form. After a minute Primarina hurled the orb into Honchkrow's chest knocking it down. 

"Too strong," growled Lysandre. 

"Wow, he's on a roll," said Dexio. Lysandre growled as he pulled out his fourth Pokeball and threw it to summon a large blue, scaly sea serpent flying above Primarina.

"A Gyarados for Lysandre, but what about Larry?" asked Sina. Larry called back his Primarina and threw his third Pokeball as a large stag beetle with long grey body and green and yellow pincers appeared. 

"Alright Vikavolt let's do this," cheered Larry. Vikavolt let out a cheerful buzz as it flew around. Lysandre smirked as he held up his left hand.

"I'm not going down that easily," said Lysandre. Gyarados growled at Vikavolt forcing to back up. Lysandre held up his left hand and tapped the stone on the ring with his right hand. The stone began to glow as a pink aura trapped Gyarados inside like a shell. Once the light died down Gyarados looked a lot different then the one they saw before. It was still long like a serpent, but it had two fins made to look like wings  as multiple red bulbs bulged out on both sides. 

"What Mega Evolution?" gasped Larry.

"Mega what?" asked Luna. Dexio and Sina took the time to explain to Celestia and Luna about Mega Evolution. The two were fascinated by this new form of evolution that they asked Dexio and Sina to teach them more later on. But now they had to focus on the battle. 

"Waterfall," Lysandre ordered. Gyarados growled as a pillar of water erupted underneath it and Gyarados rushed towards Vikavolt a fast speed. 

"Dodge it and use Thunderbolt!" Larry ordered. Vikavolt quickly moved off to the side and turned to face Gyarados. It let out a loud buzz as a bolt of electricity struck Gyarados. However the move didn't seem to faze it. 

"Stone Edge," Lysandre ordered. Gyarados slammed it's tail into the ground as pillars of stone erupted from the ground towards Vikavolt. A pillar erupted from the ground and struck Vikavolt knocking it down. 

"Damn," cursed Larry calling back his Pokemon. "Go Primarina!" said Larry summoning his seal mermaid hybrid. "Moonblast!" Larry ordered. Primarina jumped up and held out it's arms as the pink orb began to form. After a minute, Primarina hurled the orb and striking Gyarados in the face. Gyarados let out a roar as it fell to the ground unconscious. 

"Impossible, how's this trainer beating me!?" gasped Lysandre. "This is what Supernova meant when he said that these trainers shouldn't be trifled with. He called back his Pokemon and pulled out his final ball and threw it. The ball popped open to summon a large black and red bird. 

"That's the...." Sina stuttered.

"The legendary Pokemon of destruction, Yveltal," answered Dexio.

"It sure doesn't look friendly," said Celestia. 

"I wonder how he's going to beat this?" asked Luna.

"Oblivion Wing," Lysandre ordered. Yveltal held out it's wings as a red orb began to form. It let out a screech as a red beam shot out and struck Primarina hard.

"Steady, can you keep going?" Larry asked. Primarina looked back and gave a little nod. "Alright Moonblast!" Larry ordered. Primarina hurled another pink orb striking Yveltal in the chest, but Yveltal shook it off like it was nothing. 

"Oblivion Wing," Lysandre ordered. Yveltal shot another beam at Primarina.

"Dodge it!" Larry ordered. Primarina quickly moved left to avoid getting hit by the beam and prepared itself for the next attack. "Moonblast one more time!" Larry ordered. Primarina hurled another pink orb at Yveltal this time beating it for good. 

"Alright he did it!" cheered Celestia. Lysandre growled as he called back his final Pokemon.

"I can feel the fire of your convictions burning deep within your heart!" announced Lysandre.

"You lost, now go tell Supernova to give it up," ordered Larry.

"Hmph don't count on it," said Lysandre. "You may have beaten me here and now, but Supernova's plan is close to completion, very soon he'll be king of this world and the other world,"

"He can try but we don't plan on stepping aside anytime soon," said Larry.

"Hmph, you fools truly are irritating even in the end," said Lysandre. "Don't think this is over," With that Lysandre turned around and walked out the door followed by the two figures and the horde of people. As they walked out they slammed the door behind them and disappeared. 

"Now that that's done, let's get back to business, I have a feeling that very soon things are going to get crazy," said Larry. The six nodded in agreement and followed Larry back to the meeting room.
> Chapter 38: Felix vs Team Skull
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Felix, Starlight, and Morty chatted and laughed amongst each other as they walked back towards Aether House. But just as they reached their destination they could see a woman standing in front with two Team Skull Grunts next to her. 

"Oh what's going on here?' asked Morty

"Team Skull!" Starlight gasped.

"And Plumeria!" Felix growled.

"Who?" asked Morty.

"Plumeria is Team Skull's Admin, last we saw her was on Akala Island," answered Felix.

"I wonder what she wants now?" asked Starlight. 

"One way to find out!" said Felix rushing ahead. Starlight quickly ran after him with Morty following behind. 

"Back so soon hmm? I wasn't expecting you just yet," said Plumeria as Felix approached. 

"Cut to the chase what do you want?" growled Felix. 

"It takes these dumb grunts way too long to deal with you kids, so I guess it's my turn now!'announced Plumeria. Felix glared at her just as Starlight and Morty caught up with him. "What I told you before, next time you get in our way, I'm not holding anything back!" 

"Bring it on Plumeria," hissed Felix pulling out a Pokeball. "You two give me a hand," said Felix looking back.

"You don't even have to ask," said Starlight 

"I suppose it's time," said Morty. 

"Golbat Go!" said Plumeria throwing her Pokeball as Golbat emerged. 

"Lycanroc you're up!" said Felix calling out his orange wolf. "Lycanroc, Accelrock!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc charged and headbutted Golbat as chunks of stone burst out sending Golbat down. 

"Get up!' Plumeria hissed. Golbat shook off the remaining rocks and flew up hissing. "Poison Fang," Plumeria ordered. Golbat flew up and attempted to bite Lycanroc with its fangs, but Lycanroc knew and attacked without Felix's instructions knocking down Golbat for good. 

"Ha gotcha!"said Felix. Plumeria growled as she called back her Pokemon and threw her second ball. The ball popped open as a large black lizard with sassy purple eyes emerged. "The hell is that?" asked Felix.

"Salazzle, The Toxic Lizard Pokemon, and the evolved form of Salandit, Poison Fire Type, For some reason, only females have been found. It creates a reverse harem of male Salandit that it lives with," states Rotom. 

"Poison, Fire, well then we're staying in," said Felix. "Lycanroc hit it with a good Accelrock!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc charged forward and slammed it's head into Salazzle's body as chunks of stone burst out and struck Salazzle. It let out a pained wail before it fell on the ground unconscious. "Ha, ha one hit!" Plumeria winced as she called back her Pokemon. 

"Hmph, I can't even stand myself right now," said Plumeria. "Hmph, guess you are pretty tough," "Now I understand why my grunts waste so much time battling kids,"

"That's why you don't mess with us," said Felix. He could see the two grunts look pained as they called back their Pokemon. "Well what now, you lost," said Felix.

"I wouldn't get cocky if I were you, but if you want us to return the Pokemon, then you'll have to come with us, alone, the boss is dying to meet you, hmph," said Plumeria. She turned around and walked towards the shore with her grunts following behind as she called out. "See you at our base in Po Town!" 

"Stupid Team Skull," said Felix. That's when it hit Starlight.

"Wait but what about the kids!?" she gasped. 

"Oh shit!" said Felix. The three ran into Aether house where they found the little girl crying and Evelyn trying to calm her down. 

"Shh, it's ok I promise everything is going to be fine," said Evelyn. 

'What happened?" asked Starlight. 

"My... my Yungoos," sniffled the girl. 

'We can't forgive this, darn those numskulls actually did something pretty clever for once," said Starlight. 

"But if we want to get the Pokemon back, then Felix has to go to Po Town all alone, with no backup?" asked Morty. 

"So that's the way it's gonna be, fine I'll do it," said Felix. Everyone looked at him shocked. 

'What are you crazy!?" asked Starlight. 

"Look I know it's dangerous, but I have to get that Pokemon back, and plus I want to beat those guys for causing trouble all the time," said Felix. 

"Team Skull has taken over Po Town, it's basically their private playground now," said Evelyn. Wiping away her tears, the little girl approached Felix with a sad face.

"H-here take this..... just.....just get my Yungoos back for me!" Felix took the rare candy from the little girl and gently pat her head. 

'Don't worry I'll make sure to come back with it," said Felix. He nodded as he walked out the door leaving his friends behind. 



Felix kicked the sand in frustration now that he realized that he didn't even know how to get to Po Town when he couldn't even cross the water. And Charizard couldn't even help out because he hadn't been there before so that was out of the question. 

"Damn, now how am I gonna get to Team Skull?" Felix cursed. 

"Hmph wouldn't you like to know," said a voice. Felix turned around to see a gloomy guy wearing a white kimono and black scarf staring out towards the sea. He turned around and looked towards Felix with a gloomy smile,"But before I tell you, how about you take me on?" he asked.

Confused Felix walked over and asked,"What do you mean?"

"Tell me, Uncle Grimsley is going to flip a coin, will it be heads or tails?" asked the man. Felix was about to say he didn't have time, but he realized that this man might know something so he decided to play along. 

"Uh Heads?" answered Felix. 

The man named Grimsley flipped the coin and covered it with his hands. he looked intently at Felix for a while before speaking,"Astonishing, you just took a stab at it, like you're some sort of prophet, right now you and your Team is shining brilliantly," 

"Is that good or bad?" asked Felix. 

"Well a loss is a loss, I'll give you Sharpedo's info for your ride pager then, ride it to victory," said Grimsley. Felix took out his ride pager and handed it to Grimsley as he tapped in the info. He then looked out towards a giant rock in the water. "Maybe you don't need to hear this from me, but I going to tell you anyway, while riding Sharpedo, you can jet forward and smash through rocks like those ones there," said Grimsley. 

"Wow, thanks Mr. Grimsley," said Felix. 

"No need, oh and I couldn't help but overhear you saying that you wanted to get to Team Skull," said Grimsley. 

"Yes, I know where they are, I just needed to find a way to get to Po Town,' answered Felix.

"Well now you do, although I must warn you to be careful, I wouldn't go there unless you want trouble," said Grimsley.

"Don't worry I know what I'm doing," said Felix.

"I guess everyone has there own reasons, well do be careful," said Grimsley. Felix thanked him once again before calling out Sharpedo and rode off towards Po Town. 



As Felix made his way towards Po Town, he battled his way through trainers that stood before him, eventually after one battle after another he finally reached Po Town where he battled and beat his way through several Team Skull Grunts. Eventually he reached the entrance where two grunts were waiting. 

"Yo what's up , you wanna join Team Skull?' asked Grunt A. 

"Hold up.... is that a Z-Power Ring?" asked Grunt B. Felix smirked as he held up his wrist.

"The very bane of your existence," said Felix. 

"For real, you're actually on the island challenge?" asked Grunt A. 

"Alright then.... I get it..... came to laugh at us losers who gave up on the island challenge, huh? asked Grunt B. 

"You showed up so suddenly and got the nerve to laugh at me!?" asked Grunt A. Felix rolled his eyes as he was dragged into a multiple battle with the two grunts. But of course the two didn't stand a chance as he destroyed the two grunts in battle. "You're on a whole other level than me, I've just got to laugh at myself," said Grunt A.

"Ack the island challenge has made you way too strong!" said Grunt B.   

"Now with that being said how about you let me in?" asked Felix. 

"No fair, I hate strong kids like you, I'm not letting you in!" said Grunt B. The two Grunts quickly turned around and walked inside slamming the door on Felix's face. 

"Well screw you too," said Felix. He was about to turn back when he noticed Io standing there. 

"Hey Felix, seems to me you're trying to get into Po Town, you sure you've thought this through?" he asked. "You better be ready, if you're thinking of coming in here, ready to live as Team Skull or ready to take on Team Skull, you really think you're ready for that?" asked Io. 

"Definitely," answered Felix. 

"I guess, everyone has their own reasons, I've got my reasons, too, for doing what I do, I'll have them let you in," said Io opening the door. 

"Thanks for this," said Felix as he entered Po Town. 

"Careful in there," said Io as he shut the door behind him. Felix walked over to two grunts standing behind a barricade. 

"Huh what's this numskull doing here, what, oh what, should we do?" asked Grunt A.

"Forget about it, we've got this barbaracle, I mean, we've got this barricade, do you really wanna bother moving it out of the way just to take one kid on?" asked Grunt B. 

"True, true," said Grunt A. 

"Go home, go you're not coming in here, got it, not unless you find some path through here," said Grunt B. Felix rolled his eyes as walked up, grabbed the barricade and knocked it down leaving the grunts dumbfounded. Shrugging he walked on top of the barricade and onto the other side and past the grunts leaving them still confused of what just happened. 

'Dumb asses," snickered Felix. From that point on he continued to make his way through Po Town battling and beating every Team Skull Grunt he ran into occasionally peeling off Totem Stickers he found around. He eventually reached the Shady House standing in the center and explored it once again beating every grunt he ran into. Sometimes he would walk into rooms where there was nothing or a piece of paper with some sort of secret password for Team Skull. He eventually made it to the second floor where a grunt was blocking a window leading out. 

"Greetings visitor, if you wish to meet with Master Guzma, then give the three secret passwords," said the Grunt.

"Alright," answered Felix.

"Then tell me today's first password, which one of these does our big sis like best?" asked the grunt holding out a piece of paper. But Felix feeling confident took the paper and crumbled it up. 

"The first password is poison jab, the second is Bounsweet, and the third is Tapu Cocoa, and no these are NOT the passwords," answered Felix. "Yes I'm one of you, now if you'll excuse me I have business to deal with," said Felix pushing past the grunt and onto the balcony. After beating the one grunt on the roof he entered through the broken window and into the room where the two grunts were. When he entered he found Guzma standing in front of a large painting with the Team Skull logo painted over it in pink paint. next to him was a grunt and a large chest full of lime green Z-Crystals and the girl's Yungoos. 

"The hated boss, who beats you down, and beats you down, and never lets up....Yeah big bad Guzma is here!" announced Guzma. "I don't really get you kid, but at least this is a change of pace, it's not every day someone comes straight to me for a beating!" 

"I'm not here for you," said Felix. 

"No bone to pick with me huh?" asked Guzma. "Then it's for Yungoos, I guess, how sweet of you to help out a sad little girl," "Tch!"

"Come on Guzma, give it back or else," said Felix. 

"Or else what? You came all the way here just for that huh?" asked Guzma. "Can't you just watch out for your own Pokemon and stay out of other people's businesses?!" 

"In your dreams, you son of a bitch," growled Felix.

"You're one messed up kid," said Guzma. "You wanna know what I do when some machine messes up?" "The first thing I do is give it a nice hard smack, I mean, most of the time I smash it to pieces, but hey, what can you do?" "Now let's see if I can't fix you!" beamed Guzma.  Felix growled as he pulled out his Pokeball and threw it calling out his Lycanroc. Guzma pulled out his own Pokeball and threw calling out his Golisopod. 

"Lycanroc, let's do this Stone Edge!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc stomped the ground with it's claws as giant pillars of stone erupted from the ground and penetrated the Golisopod knocking it out in one hit. "Yes," said Felix. Guzma sneered as he called back his Pokemon and threw his second ball calling out his Masquerain. "Too easy, Stone Edge!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc stomped the ground once more as another row of stone pillars erupted from the ground striking Masquerain and knocking it down. "Come on seriously this is too easy," said Felix. At this point Guzma was not happy, he called back his Pokemon and threw his third ball calling out a brown bug with two grey antlers and gaping mouth. "What is that?' asked Felix.

"Pinsir, The Stag Beetle Pokemon, Bug Type, Pinsir is astoundingly strong. It can grip a foe weighing twice its weight in its horns and easily lift it. This Pokémon's movements turn sluggish in cold places,"  states Rotom

"Bug Type huh, well then I'm staying in, Lycanroc let's finish this with a Rock Slide!" Felix ordered. Lycanroc howled as multiple large rocks suddenly appeared over Pinsir's head and tumbled down crushing it. Once the dust cleared Pinsir was on the ground unconscious. 

"What!?" asked Guzma. Felix cheered as Guzma called back his Pokemon. "Yeah, yeah I gotta admit, that was great," said Guzma. 

"Heh, how'd you like that?" asked Felix. 

"Guzma, what is wrong with you!?" Guzma roared clutching his hair. "Yo give the Pokemon back to the kid NOW!" Guzma roared at the grunt. He yelped and moved out of the way as Yungoos ran out of the room. "Tch," said Guzma glaring at the grunt. 

"Eek!" whimpered the Grunt as he ran out. 

"I'm gonna beat you down one of these days, no matter whose help I need to do it," said Guzma as he stormed out of the room. Felix shrugged and started to walk out of the room before stopping. Looking around to make sure nobody else was there he walked over to the chest and took a piece of Buginium Z before running out. He took the long way around and exited the mansion to find Io waiting for him. 

"Have I got to thank you for this?" asked Io. Felix looked down to see Yungoos hiding behind Io. 

"Yeah that was me," answered Felix. 

"I thought so, you have someplace to be right, you better get a move on if you don't want to keep your friends waiting," said Io. 

"I know," said Felix. 

"Oh before you go, let me heal your team for you," said Io. Felix watched as Io fixed up his team before waving goodbye and flew off towards Aether House with Yungoos on Charizard.  "That boy has some talents," said Io as he made his way back to the police station.
> Chapter 39: Versus Totem Kommo-o
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Felix hopped off Charizard as it landed in front of Aether House and gently lowered Yungoos onto the ground. Yungoos squealed as it ran up the steps and into Aether House. Felix called back Charizard and ran up to reunite with his friends. 

"I'm back!" Felix announced closing the door behind him. But the warm and cheerful welcome he was waiting for didn't come. Instead Starlight and Evelyn had worried looks on their faces and was joined with Lillie. "Um what's going on?" asked Felix. Lillie turned to face Felix, her cheeks wet with tears. 

"Felix," Lillie whimpered.

"Lillie what are you doing here?" asked Felix. Then, without warning, Lillie ran into his arms sobbing. "Oh Felix I don't know what to do!" 

"Lillie calm down whats wrong!?" Felix asked.

"Her mother disappeared into an Ultra Wormhole," answered Starlight. 

"WHAT!?" gasped Felix. 

"Mother, she obviously hasn't forgotten what Supernova did several days ago, so in attempts to put an end to his evil schemes, she entered the Ultra Wormhole to find and defeat Necrozma," said Lillie.

"But there's no way she can stand up to Necrozma herself," added Starlight.

"What about the Ultra Recon Squad, didn't they try to go after her?" asked Felix. 

"They did but, when I asked to go with them they refused, saying it was too dangerous," answered Lillie. 

"What about Nebby, I mean Cosmog?" asked Felix. 

"I believe that Cosmog you mentioned has fallen in the hands of Supernova," answered a voice. The group turned around to see Io closing the door behind him. 

"Mr. Io," said Evelyn. 

"So we meet again eh Felix," said Io.

"Mr. Io do you perhaps know something that we don't?" asked Starlight. 

"How about I tell you after you beat me in a battle, I'm covering for Kahuna Nanu after all," said Io. 

"Alright, let's get this Grand Trial over with," said Felix. 



Larry angrily slammed his fists on the table. "That Lusamine, what is she thinking!?" 

"Larry please calm down," said Celestia. Larry let out heavy breaths as he let his anger subside. "Better right?" asked Celestia.

"A little," answered Larry."By the way, where's Dulse and Zossie?" he asked.

"Right here sir," said Dulse walking in. 

"Do you have the flute?" asked Larry. Dulse nodded as he pulled out a small yellow flute with the Sun symbol engraved on it. "I want you to take it to Felix," said Larry. "They'll be needing it to play at the alter," Dulse nodded as he and Zossie walked out the door. "Celestia, would you mind telling the others to meet me in the castle lobby, I have a bad feeling about this,"



"DAMN IT!!!!!!" Supernova roared. 

"Sir please calm down!" said a changeling.

"How can I calm down when I can't even find that damn flute and Pokemon!?" roared Supernova. The changeling yelped and hid behind a plant. 

"Supernova please, destroying everything around you isn't going to help fix the situation," said an Ultra Aether Employee. 

"Don't be a smart ass Krater, you of all people should know that Io couldn't be trusted!" Supernova growled.

"And you of a people should know that it was Faba who invited him here in the first place," said Krater. 

"WHAT!?" asked Supernova.

"What you seriously didn't know that?" asked Krater.

"THAT IDIOT!" screamed Supernova. 

"Look I know you're upset but shouldn't you be looking for Io right now?"asked Krater.

"Hell yeah, I'm going to look for him," said Supernova storming out of the room. 

"Well better make sure nobody gets in his way," said Krater following after Supernova. 



"Hmm well done," said Io calling back his third Pokemon. 

"Man who knew that a former member of Team Cosmos could be this tough, especially since you were a grunt, no offense," said Felix. 

"None taken, but any who, I think you deserve this," said Io holding out his hand. Felix reached out and took the black Z-Crystal from Io. "Now watch carefully," said Io. He held up his arms in front of his face in a X formation then swung them up and out and over to his side. He then brought his arms back up in front of him. Finally he hunched then brought his body back up with his arms and held them out in front of him like claws. "And that's how you bring out the Dark Type Z-Power," said Io. 

"Great thanks," said Felix. 

"No problem, as for Cosmog, well I'm sorry to say but it isn't a Cosmog anymore," said Io. 

"What, what do you mean?" asked Lillie. Io dug through his bag and pulled out a small, black core encased a blue core in the center of a yellow shell. "Nebby is that you?" gasped Lillie. 

Rotom hovered over to the strange object and scanned it,"Cosmoem, Protostar Pokemon, Psychic Type, and the evolved form of Cosmog, Motionless as if dead, its body is faintly warm to the touch. In the distant past, it was called the cocoon of the stars," states Rotom. 

"It appears this is what Supernova was holding onto ever since the incident with Nihilego," said Io. 

"The incident with Nihilego?" asked Starlight.

Io nodded,"Not only that but I was asked to give you this," said Io pulling out a small yellow flute. 

"Is that a flute?" asked Felix. 

"Yes, this is the Sun Flute, I believe Lillie has it's counterpart the Moon Flute," answered Io. "According to legends, if you play both flutes at the alter on Poni Island at the same time, you'll be able to summon the legendary Pokemon," 

"The legendary Pokemon, the only beings that has the power to travel between worlds," said Lillie. 

"So if we summon the legendary Pokemon we'll be able to go after Lusamine?" asked Starlight. 

"That's the best case, anyhow now that you've completed the Ula Ula Trials, I'll escort you three to Poni, that way you can head up to the alter to play the flutes," said Io.

"Thank you Mr. Io," said Lillie. 

"Anytime, now let's go I'll see you three at the docks," said Io walking out. Felix, Lillie, and Starlight looked at each other and nodded. They exchanged goodbyes and walked out of Aether House. 



Supernova was not amused. After so long they had finally gathered the things they need only for Io to sneak out with them. Supernova would surely punish Io for his betrayal the same way everyone else in Team Cosmos had betrayed him. Surprisingly Krater was the only member who stayed behind with Supernova. His hate for the past was growing stronger by the minute, but right now wasn't the time, he had to get his hands on Necrozma no matter what, but now that Io stole everything he needed there was no way for them to travel to Equestria, that is unless they somehow manage to do without the legendaries. 

"Sir?" asked an Ultra Aether Employee.

"What is it?" asked Supernova.

"I believe we have the answer," said the Employee.

"Well spit it out don't leave me hanging," ordered Supernova.

"It appears that Io turned the items in to the kid and his pony friend," said the Employee. 

"That damn brat," growled Supernova.

"Yes, they're currently heading to Poni Island, but if we can somehow get there first, we can ambush them and take back what was rightfully ours," said the Employee.

"Very well, then prepare to head over to Poni, if Io gave them that flute, they'll surely be heading to the Alter of the Moon," said Supernova. The Employee nodded as he walked out."Oh just you wait, now that my master plan is complete, surely you won't be able to stop me," said Supernova.



Surprisingly the ferry ride to Poni didn't take too long knowing that the distance from the two islands was pretty far off. Once the four hopped off the ferry, they exchanged goodbyes with Io and headed over to the Seafolk Village Pokemon Center. After buying items and healing up their teams, they began to make their way to the alter. Along the way they battled several trainers and made their way to Vast Poni Canyon. From there they battled more trainers and avoided wild Pokemon battles the best they can. Eventually the three came across a trial gate just before the alter.

"A trial gate here of all places?" asked Felix. "I mean I get that there's supposed to be two trials plus the Grand Trial here on Poni but why before the alter?" asked Felix. 

"Nobody knows, but right now, we don't have time to be thinking about that," said Lillie. 

"Yeah I guess you're right, well then let's get this trial over with, so where's the captain? asked Felix.

"I don't think there is one," answered Starlight.

"That's ridiculous, every trial HAS to have a captain," said Felix. 

"Actually she's right, the Dragon Type Captain is never around for some reason," added Lillie.

"Well Captain or no, I'm clearing this trial," said Felix walking through the gate. Lillie and Starlight looked at each and followed after Felix. 

"Whoa," said Starlight. 

"So this is the trial site huh?" asked Felix.

"Hey look there's something written on this monument," said Starlight walking over to a large stone slab. "Ahead lies a sacred ground of trials, none who do not take part in its trials will be allowed to walk upon this earth, those lacking the courage to defeat the Totem guarding this land will be denied entry, but those who believe in their Pokemon and walk beside them shall gain great power!" Starlight read.

"Interesting, well that shouldn't be any problem for me," said Felix. "Oh before I forget," He pulled out a Pokeball and tossed it calling out his Shiny Silvally. Silvally let out a cry as it walked over to it's trainer. It's fins and eyes glowing in a deep shade of pink. "Let's go," said Felix moving forward. But just as he took one step, a loud screech echoed throughout the canyon. The three looked up to see something jump off a cliff and in front of them. The creature was small and had grey scales and one large yellow scale on it's forehead in the shape of a heart. 

"Aww how cute," cooed Starlight.

"Jangmo-o, Scaly Pokemon Dragon Type, It expresses its feelings by smacking its scales. Metallic sounds echo through the tall mountains where Jangmo-o lives," states Rotom.

"Silvally, Multi Attack!" Felix ordered. Silvally growled as it lunged at the Jangmo-o and slashed at it with it's talons. The Jangmo-o yelped and ran back into the canyon. "Too easy," said Felix moving forward. Just as the three made it halfway, another screech could be heard. When they looked up a much larger creature jumped down in front of them. This one had grey scales like the Jangmo-o but it also had large yellow oval scales on it's arms. 

"Hakamo-o, Scaly Pokemon, and the evolved form of Jangmo-o, Dragon Fighting Type, It leaps at its prey with a courageous shout. Its scaly punches tear its opponents to shreds," states Rotom. Silvally didn't need to be told. It growled as it lunged at the Hakamo-o and slashed it's face with it's talons. Hakamo-o screech before disappearing back into the cavern. 

"Thanks buddy," said Felix moving forward. Silvally nodded and followed after it's trainer. The three finally made it to the pedestal in the center. But Felix knew it wasn't over, yet he still reached out to grab the crystal only for a loud roar to interrupt them. The three looked up to see a giant creature land in front of them. This one was a lot larger than the last two mons, and had grey scales and yellow scales covering its body. 

"That's the Totem!?" Starlight yelped.

"Kommo-o, Scaly Pokemon, Dragon Fighting Type, and the evolved form of Hakamo-o, Its rigid scales function as offense and defense. In the past, its scales were processed and used to make weapons and other commodities," states Rotom. The Totem let out an angry roar just as it's aura burst to life. 

"Alright let's do this, Multi Attack!" Felix ordered. But just before Silvally could make a move, Kommo-o pulled out a berry and popped it in it's mouth. Silvally lunged at the Kommo-o and slashed at it with it's talons but Kommo-o shook off the attack like it was nothing. "Great that did nothing, just then the Totem's arms began to glow in a deep shade of purple as it jabbed at Silvally doing some damage. "Poison jab seriously!?" Felix asked. Silvally quickly dodged the attacks trying not to get hit. Kommo-o let out a loud screech just before a large flying creature with big ears appeared. 

"Noivern, Sound Wave Pokemon, Flying Dragon Type, and the evolved form of Noibat, They fly around on moonless nights and attack careless prey. Nothing can beat them in a battle in the dark," states Rotom. 

"I'll take care of Noivern later, for now, Multi Attack!" Felix ordered. Silvally growled as it lunged and slashed at Kommo-o's face causing it to roar out in pain before collapsing on the floor unconscious. "Well that was easy," said Felix. The Noivern turned towards Silvally and let out a high piercing screech. "One more time Multi Attack!" Felix ordered. Silvally jumped up and slashed Noivern with it's talons, the pink aura flowing out. Noivern let out a screech as it flew off. "Phew well, trial complete I guess," said Felix. 

"You did it.....again," said Starlight smiling. 

"I sure did," said Felix. The three turned towards Kommo-o as it slowly got up and disappeared back into the canyon. 

"And now," said Lillie. Felix nodded as he walked up to the pedestal and took the Z-Crystal. "Alright Dragonium Z!" announced Felix. 

"That's 7 of 8 trials complete, you really did grow a lot didn't you Felix," said Lillie. 

"Yeah well, i really enjoyed it," laughed Felix. "But now it's time," Starlight and Lillie nodded in agreement. "Let's go," said Felix. The three turned to face ahead and made their way to the alter.
> Chapter 40: Necrozma Attacks!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

By the time Felix, Starlight, and Lillie had climbed to the top of the alter night had fallen upon them. The three had talked amongst themselves and agreed that Felix and Starlight were to be the ones to play the flutes. Now Felix was standing on the right panel with the Moon Flute while Starlight on the left with the Sun Flute. This was it, the time to summon the legendary Pokemon had come. Both took a deep breath and played into the flutes. The soothing music suddenly filled the alter causing the panels beneath Felix and Starlight o glow as light shot up towards the center of the alter where the circle hatch slid open and a beam of light shot down to the center where Lillie had placed Cosmoem. From the light of the moon, Cosmoem had suddenly disappeared and a new Pokemon was in it's place. A large blue bat. Excited Felix and Starlight rejoined with Lillie at the center.

"Nebby, th-thank goodness....you're all right, please don't do that ever again, you made me worry very much," said Lillie close to tears. "And I never imagined that sounding the flutes would give you so much power....or let you evolve into the legendary Pokemon!" 

"Wait this thing?" asked Starlight.

"Lunala, The Moone Pokemon, Psychic Ghost Type and the evolved form of Cosmoem, Said to live in another world, this Pokémon devours light, drawing the moonless dark veil of night over the brightness of day," states Rotom. 

"Not in all of my reading...never did I ever come across any hint that you would evolve into the Legendary Pokemon," said Lillie. Lunala let out a loud screech as it flapped it's large wings. "Please Lunala...no....Nebby please I need to go to where my mother is," Lillie begged. "We want to protect Alola and Equestria, but there's no need for her to try to catch Necrozma all on her own," said Lillie. 

"Actually," Felix spoke up. Starlight and Lillie turned to face Felix. "We should probably head over to Equestria first," Felix suggested.

"What why?" asked Starlight.

"The only ones who knows where Lusamine went, is the Ultra Recon Squad, if Lusamine went to defeat Necrozma, then obviously only the Ultra Recon Squad knows where that is, but they're currently in Equestria, going ourselves would take too much time, it'd be faster if we ask them where to go," answered Starlight.

"Yeah that makes sense," said Lillie. "Alright Nebby, please take us to Equestria," Lillie pleaded. Lunala let out screech as it shot up it faced towards the alter and tap it's wings together. Suddenly a large  blue beam shot out of Lunala's body and behind the three where an Ultra Wormhole opened up. Lunala swooped down and grabbed the three as it flew into the Wormhole. Meanwhile nobody noticed the strange figures coming up the alter. 



Larry had waited long enough everyone should be here by now. Everyone except Lusamine. But even so the Ultra Recon Squad had brought Twilight, Trixie, and Tempest back from Alola. Ember, Thorax, and Queen Nova had agreed to leave their subjects to stay behind while they came for this meeting. "Alright everyone let's settle down!" said Larry. The room immediately went silent as everyone turned their attentions towards Larry. "I want to thank you all for taking your time to gather, I know we're still missing Lusamine but we don't have anymore time to waste,""First things first, I asked you to gather cause I would like to know if you're prepared,"

"Prepared for what?" asked Captain Celeano.

"I have the feeling that the time has come," answered Larry.

"You don't mean?" asked Nebula. 

"No not the Ultra Beasts!" whimpered Fluttershy.

"Calm down Sugarcube, you still have us," said Applejack. 

"I understand you're all scared but, I have made sure to prepare for this occasion," announced Larry. "I would like to start off by saying-" But Larry's statement was cut off when a flash appeared behind him. Everyone gasped in unison as they started to back up. "What?" asked Larry.

"Uh behind you darling," said Rarity. Confused Larry turned around to find an Ultra Wormhole had opened up behind him. 

"ALREADY!?" Everyone was prepared as a loud screech came from inside the wormhole. Just as Larry was about to draw his Pokeballs, a bright blue light shot out as Lunala made her entrance. A series of oohs and ahhs filled the room followed by Fluttershy's terrified squeal. Lunala slowly descended as Felix, Starlight, and Lillie hopped off Lunala's back. 

"Looks like we made it," said Felix. 

"STARLIGHT!" Twilight called out. Starlight turned around as her friends came rushing towards her in a small group. The group laughed and talked while Lillie ran off to find the Ultra Recon Squad. 

"It's so good to see you darling," said Rarity. 

"We missed you, you know," said Pinkie. 

"I know I'm sorry I made you worry," said Starlight. Meanwhile Felix was explaining everything to Larry. After all the talk and explanation the three got together once again. 

"Guys it seems like my mother left for some place called Ultra Megalopolis," said Lillie. 

"Really?" asked Starlight. 

"Yes now we can follow after mother," said Lillie. 

"Stop right where you are!" a voice spoke up. The group turned around to see the double burst open as Supernova walked in followed by Sombra, Chrysalis, The Shadow Pony, and the Team Leaders that everyone had faced in the past. 

"Supernova," Felix growled. 

"What a fool, to think that she can defeat Necrozma on her own," sneered Supernova. "For someone as weak as her, she doesn't stand a chance," 

"Don't you dare talk about our mother like that," growled Gladion. 

"Don't believe me?" Supernova snickered. "Why don't you find out for yourself then?" Lillie was about to ask what he meant, but the Ultra Wormhole suddenly flashed behind them. The group turned around to see Lusamine fall out and onto the ground. 

"MOTHER!" Lillie gasped as she ran to her side. Gladion, Felix, Starlight, and the mane six ran to join Lillie."Mother please wake up!" Lillie begged. Lusamine groaned as she looked up. Her eyes widened as she looked at Felix. 

"Felix listen to me right now, you have to take Lillie and get out of here!" said Lusamine taking his hand. 

"What?" asked Felix.

"Please just do as I say....HE'S COMING!!!" begged Lusamine. At that moment Felix realized that she was dead serious about this, the fear in eyes foretold his true powers. A loud screech could be heard from the Wormhole. "He's here!" Lusamine announced. The group faced the Wormhole just as a large creature in all black emerged. It had large claws and short legs, and it's body seemed to be reflecting light like a giant prism. "Lillie, Felix, Everyone....run away that thing is a monster!" Lusamine announced.

"Mother!" Lillie said helping her up. 

"No it can't be," said Felix. Rotom flew up and scanned the creature to pull up it's entry.

"Necrozma, The Prism Pokemon, Psychic Type, Light is apparently the source of its energy. It has an extraordinarily vicious disposition and is constantly firing off laser beams," states Rotom.

"Yes after so long, I finally found him!" beamed Supernova. "The final key to my master plan!" 

"What are you planning Supernova?" growled Celestia.

"Heh you wouldn't understand," he snickered. He snapped his finger as an Ultra Aether Employee ran over and handed him a purple Pokeball with small red studs and the letter M engraved in the center. "But now he's finally mine!" he said throwing the ball. The purple Pokeball hit Necrozma on the head and sucked him up as a white light and closed shut. The ball fell and wiggled once, then twice, then three times before it finally closed shut. 

"He just caught it!" squealed Pinkie. Supernova walked past the group and picked up the ball. 

"Yes, after so long....Necrozma is mine!" he laughed. "Looks like you fail, now all shall fear the power of Necrozma!" "Equestria and Alola will fall into darkness, like it should!" beamed Supernova. 

"Don't you dare!" said Larry.

"Oh trying to get in my way as always I see, fine, Necrozma show them whose boss!" said Supernova. He tossed the ball as Necrozma appeared. "Let's see, yes you three," said Supernova pointing towards Felix, Starlight, and Lillie. "You are the three biggest threats to my plan, therefore you shall be first," announced Supernova. "Necrozma, get rid of those rats!" Supernova ordered. Necrozma turned towards Felix, Starlight, and Lillie and slowly began approaching them. Just then, Lunala jumped in front of the three causing Necrozma to stop in it's tracks. Lunala looked back at Lillie and nodded before it turned it's attention towards Necrozma. Glaring at the Pokemon, Lunala lunged at Necrozma and tackled him into the wall behind them then bounced off in two streams of lights. The two clashed and collided with each other as the group viewed the battle from beneath. This went on for 10 seconds before the two lights crashed onto the ground. When the dust cleared, Lunala was on the ground unconscious while Necrozma had it pinned. 

"Nebby!" Lillie cried. She tried to run to Lunala's side but Fluttershy and Twilight held her back. 

"No Lillie that thing is too dangerous!" said Twilight

"But I have to save Nebby!" said Lillie. Suddenly Lunala's entire body began to glow in blue light that soon enveloped both of the legendary Pokemon.

"What's happening?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"Necrozma's absorbing the light from Lunala's body," answered Dulse. When the light died down, Necrozma was gone and only Lunala remained, but something didn't look right. It's entire body was glowing in a blue light. Nobody could see it's face except the black prism that covered it like a visor, it's glowing red eyes and a prism encased in the center of it's forehead. A giant black prism piece covered it's entire chest like a knight's armor with Necrozma's claws hanging at the bottom. 

"Nebby?" asked Lillie. The Necrozma possessed Lunala slowly turned to face the group. Rotom quickly flew up and scanned it pull up it's Dex entry.

"Necrozma, Prism Pokemon, Dawn Wings Form, Psychic Ghost Type, This is its form while it's devouring the light of Lunala. It grasps foes in its giant claws and rips them apart with brute force," states Rotom.

"That's Necrozma!?" asked Tempest. Necrozma let out a screech just as 5 Ultra Wormholes suddenly opened up around him. 

"Ultra Wormholes!?" gasped Burnet

"And five at once!" said Ember. Suddenly from one of the wormholes, a large brick wall with eyes emerged and landed near the group. 

"Is that?" Sina asked.

"An Ultra Beast!" announced Dexio. 

"Stakataka, Rampart Pokemon, Rock Steel Type, When stone walls started moving and attacking, the brute's true identity was this mysterious life-form, which brings to mind an Ultra Beast," states Rotom.  At that same moment another creature emerged from the third wormhole and landed on top of Stakataka. It's body was long and slender and it's head was a large white ball with pink and blue dots. 

"Another Ultra Beast?" Trevor. 

"Blacephalon, Fireworks Pokemon, Fire Ghost Type, It slithers toward people. Then, without warning, it triggers the explosion of its own head. It's apparently one kind of Ultra Beast," states Rotom. The two beasts let out a horrifying screech as it broke through the castle window and ran off. 

"We have to stop those beasts!" said Hilda. Suddenly more screeches could be heard as a swarm of beasts suddenly began to appear one by one. Every beast that appeared all jumped out the window and ran off. 

"Haha yes run wild my little beasts!" Supernova laughed. Just then, one of Celestia's guards flew in looking troubled.

"Your Highness we've got trouble on our hooves!" said the guard.

"What is it what happened?" asked Celestia.

"We've gotten reports of those portals opening up around Equestria!" said the guard. 

"What!?" gasped Cadence. 

"Haha, yes it seems my plan is a success, very soon this world will be overrun by beasts!" Supernova laughed. 

"I won't let you get away with this!" growled Felix. 

"If you want to stop me, then you'll have to catch me," laughed Supernova. He jumped on Necrozma and disappeared into an Ultra Wormhole. 

"Get back here you coward!" Rainbow Dash yelled. But the Wormhole closed before Rainbow Dash could get him. "oh for Celestia's sake!" she yelled. Supernova's words rang in Felix's ears as he slowly walked over to the Ultra Recon Squad. 

"You got anything I can use to travel through the Ultra Wormholes?" he asked. 

"Wait, don't tell me you're actually planning on going after him!?" asked Dulse.

"I have to, if I want to save Alola and Equestria I have to stop Supernova," answered Felix. 

"I'm going too," said Starlight walking up to him. Felix smiled and looked back at the Ultra Recon Squad. 

"Well we do borrow both of OUR Solgaleo and Lunala's powers to travel through Ultra Wormholes," said Zossie. 

"Then please let us go after them!" begged Felix. The three looked at Phyco. He obviously had no choice. 

"Alright but please be careful," said Phyco. 

"Thank you," said Starlight. 

"But first you'll need these," said Soliera handing both of them Ultra Recon Suits. Felix and Starlight nodded and quickly put on their suits.

"We're ready," said Starlight.

"Lunala, Please help us out!" said Zossie.

"Solgaleo, aid us!" said Soliera. At that moment Solgaleo and Lunala appeared from two of the Wormholes. Felix and Starlight looked at each other and nodded. Felix walked over and jumped on top of Solgaleo while Starlight jumped on Lunala. The two said their goodbyes before they disappeared into Wormholes.
> Chapter 41: Ultra Necrozma!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Solgaleo and Lunala emerged from the Ultra Wormhole as they settled into a mysterious world where everything was enveloped in darkness. The only sources of light was from a large tower located at the center of the otherworldly city. Felix and Starlight hopped off the legendary and looked around. 

"This must be Ultra Megalopolis that the Ultra Recon Squad has mentioned," said Felix.

"Yeah but where do you think Necrozma could be?" asked Starlight. 

"Well considering he's not around here, he must be at the top of that tower," suggested Felix. 

"Let's check it out," said Starlight. The two approached the tower in the center and looked up. "Whoa," said Starlight. Felix walked over and pushed a red button as the doors in front of them slid open. The two looked at each other and nodded and entered the elevator as the doors closed behind them and began rising. After a minute or so, the doors slid open. the two stepped out finding themselves at the top of the tower. Felix tilted his head towards the flight of stairs leading up. Starlight nodded as the two began climbing the stairs until the finally reached the top where Dawn Wings Necrozma was on the ground under a barrier of light. Supernova stood in front of Necrozma with his back turned towards the two. 

"So you actually came," said Supernova not turning away from Necrozma. 

"Like we could leave you with Necrozma," said Felix.

"Hmph your persistent, but it's already too late," sneered Supernova turning to face them. "Necrozma has already consumed large amounts of light, very soon he'll become the most powerful being in the world,"

"Don't count on it," growled Starlight. 

"Hmph, don't believe me well then let me show you Necrozma's TRUE power," said Supernova. He snapped his fingers as a large prism suddenly separated itself from Necrozma's head. The prism hovered several feet above Necrozma as a burst of light erupted from both Necrozma and the prism. Felix and Starlight shielded their eyes as light swallowed up the entire area. When the light died down, the two could see a much larger form of Necrozma slowly rise. It's body was glowing brightly with four large wing like appendages could be seen flapping just above Supernova's head. A large tail could be seen swaying back and forth but the most distinguishable part was it's face. It's eyes glowed in multiple colors of blue, red, and white. "Behold the god of Alola and Necrozma's True Form, Ultra Necrozma!" Supernova beamed.

"Ultra Necrozma!?" Starlight gasped. Necrozma let out a cry as it studied the two intensely. 

"That's right, now you wouldn't want to keep the challenger waiting," snickered Supernova. Felix growled as he drew his Pokeball and engaged Necrozma to a battle.



The mane six ran around trying to get the ponies to a safe location as Ultra Beasts ran around destroying anything that came in their path. Multiple Nihilego floated around chasing after scared ponies trying to catch them with it's tentacles. 

"It's no use, there's too many of them!" said Twilight blasting a Nihilego with her magic.

"I hope the others are not having as much as trouble as we are," said Fluttershy.



Changelings flew around trying to avoid the swarm of Buzzwole and Pheromosa that attacked them while Thorax with the help of of several changelings escorted the remainder of the hive evacuate into a nearby cave as they watched their home get destroyed. 

"Our hive," whimpered a scared changeling. Thorax sadly looked out of the cave hoping that somepony might come to rescue them, but then again these were Ultra Beasts, nobody could stand a chance. Their only hope was Starlight. If she could defeat Necrozma, then they would be able to send the beasts back. But who knew how long that would take. 



Ember ordered the dragons to keep fighting as five Guzzlord walked around plucking giant rocks and eating them angrily.The dragons continued to breath fire and throw rocks but the Guzzlord wouldn't budge, instead it would make them angry as they soon came stomping after the dragons.

"Ember this isn't working!" one of the dragons called out. 

"Keep trying, until Starlight beats Necrozma, we have to keep these beasts away!" Ember ordered. She watched as the dragons went back to fighting. Hopefully Starlight would be able to stop Supernova and beat Necrozma. 



As Captain Celeano and the pirate parrots continued to shoot at the three Celesteela flying around, Spitfire and the Wonder bolts as well as the rest of the pegasi in Cloudsdale fought off the eight Xurkitree running around and zapping unfortunate pegasi. 

"What are these things!?" Spitfire asked. 

"They're not from this world that's for sure," answered Celeano. "Keep at it boys!" she ordered. The parrots continued to to shoot but every time they hit the Celesteela, the ammo would just bounce off with a dink and leaving not a single scratch. 

"What are these things made off?" asked Boyle. 

"Whatever it is, it's obviously hard," answered Celeano. "Don't give up, surely Starlight will be able to beat Necrozma!"



Braeburn and Sheriff Silverstar ran around Appleloosa trying to calm down the ponies and buffalo while several Blacephalon skipped around tossing their heads and creating explosions leading to fires. However even with 6 still running around, more Blacephalon kept emerging from the Ultra Wormhole that was still open. 

"What are these things?" asked Braeburn. 

"Whatever they are they ain't friendly," answered the Sheriff.

"They're so creepy," yelped Little Strongheart. 

"Hopefully, cuz isn't experiencing what we are now," said Braeburn. 



Meanwhile in Starlight's old Village. Sugar Belle, Night Glider, Party Favor, and Double Diamond fought off three Stakataka as ponies ran around screaming. The beast would walk up to buildings and stomp on them, smash them, or would pick them up and throw them around as it's many eyes would stare at the cowardly ponies. 

"Since when did walls move on their own?" asked Night Glider kicking a Stakataka in the eye. 

"Until now," answered Party Favor.

"Ha ha very funny," laughed Double Diamond sarcastically. 

"I hope Starlight's not getting into trouble like us," said Sugar Belle. 



After all the beasts that have been sighted, not even the Crystal Empire was safe. Shining Armor and Cadence let their guards around as terrified ponies ran from 20 Kartana that were bouncing around chopping buildings in half or causing damage to anything they saw. 

"Were these Ultra Beasts always this hard to catch?" asked a guard. 

"Not what President Lusamine said," answered Shining Armor. 

"They're such troublemakers," said Cadence blasting a Kartana with her magic. 

"Look at all the damage that's been done already," yelled another guard. 

"Starlight, Felix please hurry," begged Cadence. 



However even after all the chaos going on, Canterlot was also on the verge of chaos. As Poipole and it's evolution Naganadel flew around squirting poison on ponies, Giovanni's newest organization Team Rainbow Rocket was also creating chaos. As Celestia, Luna, Lusamine, Larry, the Ultra Recon Squad, and even the International Police ran around assisting ponies, more Poipole and Naganadel emerged from the Ultra Wormhole and began their attack. 

"Sister this is too much to handle," Luna yelled over the noise. 

"Don't give up Luna, we have to keep fighting!" Celestia ordered. The group continued to battle Rainbow Rocket Grunts and the Ultra Beasts while praying for Felix and Starlight's success. 



Espeon groaned as it collapsed unable to continue.

"Espeon!" Starlight gasped as she ran over and held her Pokemon.

"Well, well looks like you're out of Pokemon too," snickered Supernova. Felix glared at Supernova as Starlight held Espeon close to tears. This wasn't possible, there was no way Necrozma could've been THIS powerful. Even if it was in it's true form it still doesn't explain the fact that it out sped and destroyed both of their teams in one hit. "Aw come on is that seriously it, I wanted to have some more fun," groaned Supernova. "Then again maybe fast is for the best, either way ready to give up and surrender?"

"Like we'd turn over to your side," growled Felix.

"Oh come on you see to reason, you're friends can't save you, not a single one of your Pokemon could beat Necrozma, you're nothing but weak, just give up already," sneered Supernova. Felix winced and looked down frustrated. "I mean seriously why keep pushing, when it's only going to make things worse, by now Equestria should've been completely overrun by the beasts and you KNOW that they can't stand up to face such terrifying creatures, just give up I'm telling this for your own good," Felix looked over to Starlight and shook his head. "Come on, it's useless this outcome isn't going to change, you've lost everything, there isn't anything worth fighting for, why keep going when it's only going to make the pain worse, what more do you have?" That's when it hit Felix. There is one thing he still had. 

"What do I have? What do I have?" Felix snickered. He slowly got to his feet as Starlight saw he had something planned. "I have my friends," answered Felix. 

"Hmph your friends?" sneered Supernova. "What can friends do, they're nothing but worthless beings," 

"That's where you'd be wrong," said Felix. 

"What?" asked Supernova. 

"My friends might not be here with me right now, but they're the ones that taught me  to stay confident and believe in myself, that will, that determination is what keeps me going, the very individual that helped me understand that is none other than Starlight herself," answered Felix. Starlight's eyes widened as tears began to roll down her cheeks. 

"Ha such pathetic junk you speak off, why trust in friends when they're just going to betray you in the end?" asked Supernova. "Who needs friends when you can have power?"

"Because friends are irreplaceable," answered Felix. "And as much as I don't want to admit it, Starlight is the greatest friend I've ever had, she may not be perfect, but I had enjoyed every moment we made together, I'm glad that I decided to be her mentor," Starlight smiled as she started to sob. 

"Ugh how disgusting, your still weak, you don't even have Pokemon who can fight for you," said Supernova. 

"I may not have my team, but there are certain Pokemon who are willing to fight, because they care," said Felix. Starlight slowly got to her feet and walked up next to Felix smiling. "The legendary Pokemon," Just as he said that both Solgaleo and Lunala appeared behind the two. 

"Hmph interesting, Photon Geyser!" Supernova ordered. Necrozma opened it's mouth as an electrifying green orb began to form. 

"Thanks Felix," said Starlight. 

"Anytime," said Felix. Starlight smiled as Felix pulled something out of his pocket. "Also before I forget I want you to take this," Starlight quickly grabbed the purple Z-Power Ring that Felix tossed to her. 

"Is this?" Starlight asked. 

"It's my mothers, she wanted you to have it," said Felix. 

"But why?" asked Starlight.

"For you to remember us by," answered Felix. More tears began to form in Starlight's eyes as she slipped the ring on her hoof, that's when she noticed a purple Z-Crystal was already place in the notch. Lunala's symbol was engraved in the center.

"Felix is this?" asked Starlight.

"You remember how to do the Ghostium Z pose right?" asked Felix. "When I give the signal I want you to hit Necrozma with your Z-Move," 

"But can I really do it?" asked Starlight.

"My mom gave that Z-Power Ring to you, because she believes you can do it," answered Felix. Starlight did remember how to do the Ghostium Z move pose, but she was worried about getting it right, it was just best to try it out for herself. 

"Necrozma Photon Geyser!" Supernova ordered. Necrozma hurled the charged orb at the two. Solgaleo grabbed Felix and threw him on it's back as it jumped out of the way. Lunala picked up Starlight and flew into the air avoiding the attack. Once clear from the attack Felix jumped off and got ready for his Z-Move.

"Alright Solgaleo let's do this!" announced Felix. Felix held up his arms in a X formation as the crystal in his ring began to glow in a orange light. He swung upwards and brought his arms to his side. He held out his arm forward and clenched his fist. He pointed both fists at each other and lightly tapped them before thrusting both fists forward as if he was punching. The orange Z-Power burst out of his body and into Solgaleo. "Now Solgaleo use Searing Sunraze Smash!" Felix ordered. Solgaleo's forehead began to glow as he let out a fierce roar summoning an Ultra Wormhole behind Necrozma and sucking him up. Solgaleo ran and jumped into the wormhole after Necrozma. Very soon Necrozma found itself in Ultra Space looking for it's target. Solgaleo suddenly burst out of an Ultra Wormhole above Necrozma and charged down at it as if it was using Sunsteel Strike. Halfway down it curled up into a ball and began rolling down as the sound of metallic whirring could be heard. Necrozma finally got a glimpse of his target but it was already too late. Solgaleo rolled into Necrozma with full force and drove him into another Ultra Wormhole and slammed into the ground next to a surprised Supernova. Solgaleo jumped off and returned to Felix's side.

"What how!?" asked Supernova.

"Because trust," answered Felix. Necrozma slowly began to rise and growled. "Now's your chance!" said Felix. Starlight nodded as she pushed herself up onto her hind legs. She quickly took her balance as Necrozma was getting up. Taking a deep breath she held up her hooves in an X formation as the crystal began to glow. She threw her arms up and by her side. She held out her arms in front of her. She bent down her hooves next to her face and moved upwards while covering her face in the process. She moved her hooves away from her face and made a creepy smile. Orange Z-Power burst out of her and into Lunala. 

"Alright Lunala, let's do this!" said Starlight. "Menacing Moonraze Maelstrom!" Lunala let out a screech as another Ultra Wormhole sucked in Necrozma. Lunala quickly flew in after him and Necrozma once again found himself in Ultra Space. Lunala appeared over Necrozma and raised it's wings. Six ghostly blue orbs appeared on the outer side of the wings and blue beams shot out from the orbs. Lunala carefully took aim and and moved the beams so they struck Necrozma in the chest. With one final strike, Lunala blasted Necrozma backwards into another Wormhole and sent him crashing next to Supernova followed by an explosion. Lunala reappeared next to Starlight as Necrozma let out a pained screech and collapsed on the ground unable to continue. 

"NO!!!!" Supernova yelled. Felix congratulated Starlight on unleashing her first Z-Move as she stood there stunned at what she just did. Necrozma's body began to glow as the small specks of light began to flow out from it's body. Before the two knew what was happening, Nebby had transformed back into Lunala as both Necrozma and Supernova disappeared into an Ultra Wormhole. 

"Alright we saved Nebby,"cheered Starlight. Felix smiled as he watched Starlight jumping with glee. At that moment his bag started to vibrate. Confused he looked through his bag to find that the helmet from the Ultra Recon Suit was vibrating as if someone was sending him a call. He pulled out the helmet and answered. 

"Hello?' Felix asked.

"Felix it's me Zossie, how are things going on over there?" asked Zossie. 

"Great, we beat Necrozma!" exclaimed Felix. 

"Really, that's amazing!" said Zossie. 

"Yeah we managed to free Nebby in the process, anyway how are things over there?" asked Felix. 

"Not good, actually, we thought that beating Necrozma might send the Ultra Beasts back, but unfortunately that's not the case," answered Zossie. 

"What!?" asked Starlight. "What are we supposed to do?"

"Solgaleo and Lunala should know, ask them," answered Zossie. 

"Wait what?" asked Felix.

"Sorry can't talk gotta go bye!" said Zossie. 

"Wait!' said Starlight. But the microphone cut off leaving Starlight and Felix with worried looks. 

"What are we going to do now?" asked Starlight. That's when Lunala hovered over to her side and nudged her. "Thanks Lunala but now's not the time,"

"No wait Starlight I think they have something planned," said Felix. Starlight looked at both Solgaleo and Lunala. The two legendaries looked at each other and nodded. The both grabbed Felix and Starlight and threw them on their backs. Nebby quickly summoned two Ultra Wormholes as they two jumped into the Wormholes. The two began running through Ultra Space with Felix and Starlight on their backs. Confused at where they were taking them the two held on to their legendary Pokemon. After a while they split off and began to approach two different colored Wormholes. But something was different about them. They looked a lot bigger and had some sort of rainbow aura flowing out. Felix and Starlight looked at each other and nodded. Whatever Solgaleo and Lunala had in mind they decided that they would trust them. If they were heading into those two wormholes it was obvious that there was something special about them. The two exchanged good lucks and disappeared into the Wormholes.
> Chapter 42: Legendary Battles
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Faba and several Ultra Aether Employees quickly moved out of the way as Supernova emerged from the Ultra Wormhole. The Employees began to gather around their boss as he got to his feet groaning. 

"How'd it go sir?" asked an Employee.

"THAT DAMN KID!!!!!!!" Supernova roared. Faba and the Employees quickly back up terrified of Supernova's sudden outburst. "And just when I was so close too," 

"Sir please calm down," said an employee. Supernova got to his feet and glared at the employee.

"I swear if I hear that the beasts have been captured I will beat someone," hissed Supernova.

"Actually the beasts have been doing well, we've received news that Equestria is currently being overrun by beasts just as your plan states," said another employee. 

"I see well I guess that's good enough," said Supernova. "But just you wait Felix, once I get my hands on you and your pony friend, i will personally destroy you for good," 



"It's no good there's too many of them!" exclaimed Luna as she dodged one of Naganadel's poison blasts. 

"Lusamine, it's time!" said Larry. Lusamine nodded as she pulled out a walkie talkie.

'Wicke, send out the Ultra Guardians," Lusamine ordered. 

"Roger, initiating Project U.G. Ultra Guardians to the rescue!" responded Wicke. 



Twilight and her friends continued to fight off the Nihilego back in ponyville with no progress in sight. 

"Sweet Celestia who knew fighting Ultra Beasts were hard!" exclaimed Rainbow.

"We can't give up, if we fall here Equestria could end up as the next Ultra Space!" said Twilight. 

"Hey look!' Pinkie said pointing up. The ponies looked up to see a black scaled dragon with glowing yellow eyes and red chest descending. As the dragon landed the ponies could see a young man wearing blue and white outfit with blue gloves. He wore a red hat and a yellow mouse with red cheeks sat on his shoulders. He had an Aether Paradise logo pinned to his chest like a badge. 

"Looks like I'm still time for the excitement," he said. 

"Um sorry who are you?" asked Applejack.

"I'm Ash Ketchum, I'm part of the Ultra Guardians Project," he answered with grin. 



Twilight and her friends continued the battle against the Ultra Beasts was Ash explained everything about the Ultra Guardians. Seeing that he could be trusted, Twilight and her friends continued holding off the Ultra Beasts. However the Nihilego continued to surround them and soon the group had been drained of all their energy. 

"There's no end to them!" shrieked Rarity. Suddenly the Nihilego stopped and began to back away leaving the group in their spot. 

"What's going on?" asked Fluttershy. 

"Well, well it seems that my Nihilego were too much for you to handle," laughed a voice. The group turned around as Supernova walked up to them with two Ultra Aether employees by his side. 

"Supernova!" Twilight gasped.

"Hmph thanks to your friends, I lost Necrozma and ended up back in this miserable place," sneered Supernova. "Luckily their not around now, so I'll finish the job while I can,"

"Don't you dare!" growled Twilight.

"Oh yeah and who's going to stop me?" asked Supernova. But just as he asked that, a bright flash appeared above Supernova. When he turned around he found an Ultra Wormhole had appeared. "Oh great now what?" Suddenly a loud roar could be heard coming from the Wormhole as Solgaleo jumped out with Felix on it's back. 

"What!?" asked Supernova.

"It's Felix!" Applejack cheered. Solgaleo landed in the center of a group of Nihilego. Felix jumped off it's back and turned towards Supernova.

"Just when I thought we would never see you again," said Felix. 

"Shut up, the Ultra Beasts have already overrun most of Equestria, there's no way you can stop them," hissed Supernova. 

"I figure you would say that so I brought reinforcements," said Felix snapping his fingers. Suddenly another loud roar came from the Wormhole as boiling lava began to pour out of the Wormhole. 

"What the hell!?" Supernova gasped. The Wormhole began to expand as two large red claws with strange black markings emerged. Soon a large beast emerged from the Wormhole and stepped into ponyville. The beast was red and had black markings running up and down it's entire body. Its yellow eyes stared down at the group. 

"What is that?" Fluttershy yelped. 

"Behold the Legendary Ground type Pokemon, Groudon!" Felix announced. "He agreed to lend us his powers to battle against the Ultra Beasts, so I expect you to take care of him, in the meantime I gotta go make some more surprise entrances for the others so see ya," said Felix. He jumped onto Solgaleo's back and took off towards Canterlot. Ash and the ponies stared at Supernova who was being stared down by Groudon. 

"Well fuck me," Supernova cursed. Groudon let out an angry roar as he began his attack on the Nihilego.



Thorax, the Changelings, and Olivia did their best to hold of the Buzzwole and Pheromosa but even still they were no match for the Ultra Beasts.

"They're too strong!" yelped a changeling.

"We can't give up surely we can find a way to beat them!" said Olivia. Just then a loud screech echoed throughout the area as an Ultra Wormhole suddenly appears as Lunala flies out with Starlight on it's back. 

"Hey guys sorry I'm late!" apologized Starlight.

"Starlight!" Thorax exclaimed.

"Hey Thorax nice to see you again, do you need any help by any chance?" asked Starlight.

"Yes please!" answered a changeling. Smiling Starlight whistled as a large flying white creature emerged from the Wormhole. It had a blue underbelly and eight blue scales flapping around on it's back. "Alright Lugia it's time!" said Starlight. The creature screeched as it flew over the swarm of Buzzwole and Pheromosa blasting streams of air. 

"Hey thanks Starlight!" said Thorax.

"Anytime, now I have to go, I'm sure there are others who need my help!" said Starlight. Thorax and the changelings waved goodbye to Starlight as she took off.



Felix and Starlight quickly made their way to each of the different locations in Equestria where Ultra Beasts were sighted in order to send out legendary Pokemon to aid them. Felix next stopped by the Dragon Lands and summoned Legendary Pokemon Xerneas and Reshiram to deal with the five Guzzlord. Meanwhile Starlight took a visit to Appleloosa and summoned legendary Pokemon Yveltal, and Kyogre to deal with the Blacephalon. The two latter met up in Canterlot where they summoned legendary Pokemon Dialga, Latios, and Latias, to deal with the Poipole and Naganadel. They then traveled to the Crystal Empire where they summoned, Ho-oh, Heatran, Entei, and Regigigas to deal with the 20 Kartana. They then traveled to Cloudsdale and summoned, Raikou, Zekrom, and Thunderus to deal with the Celesteela and Xurkitree. They then split off and Felix revisited the changelings to summon Tornadous to assist Lugia with the Buzzwole and Pheromosa. Meanwhile Starlight visited her old village and summoned Palkia to deal with the three Stakataka. Once that was over they met up in Canterlot again to finish the job.

"Well this is it," said Felix.

"Ready?" asked Starlight. 

"If you are," answered Felix. They both tapped Solgaleo and Lunala on the head. Then at the same time the two legendaries let out a loud cry as 10 Ultra Wormholes appeared around them. From within the Wormholes, more legendary Pokemon emerged as they all rushed off in their own direction to help aid their comrades in the battle against the Ultra Beasts. Articuno flew towards the Dragon lands while Zapdos towards Cloudsdale and Moltres towards the Crystal Empire. Mewtwo took off towards the changeling hive, while Suicune headed towards Appleloosa. Regirock left for Appleloosa, while Regice towards the Dragon lands, and Registeel towards Ponyville. Rayquaza remained in Canterlot with Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf while Giratina left for Appleloosa. Cresselia left for Ponyville, as Cobalion, Terrakion, and Virizion left for Starlight's old village. Landorus and Zygarde took off for Cloudsdale and Kyurem towards the Dragon Lands. Once all the legendaries were summoned, Felix and Starlight jumped off their respectable legendaries and watched Solgaleo leave for ponyville and Lunala towards Appleloosa. 

"Well now that's done," said Felix. 

"What now?" asked Starlight. Her thought was interrupted as two Team Rainbow Rocket Grunts called out to them.

"You know what's next," smiled Felix. 

"Let's do this," agreed Starlight. And so the two continued their rampage for justice.