Chapter 46: Where Mo and Aaron are in danger.

Tapu Bulu, Ziggy and Aaron and Mo turned around. Steve already did and was apparently crying, he was sobbing in fear at least. And there he stood like Tapu Bulu described, taller than anyone else of the Pokémon, and what wasn't bug was pure muscle. Buzzwole just stood there, menacingly, and looked down at the group. Mo quickly hid the Origin Stone behind his behind.

"Tapu Bulu ...", Buzzwole finally said. He had a deep dark voice, almost like he was wearing a helmet.

"Hi, Mr. Buzzwole!", the Poipole called out and waved at him like an overexcited child, Tapu Bulu was still holing it.

Without warning Tapu Bulu threw the imp like Ultra Beast at Buzzwole, it made a joyful "weeee" sound as it happened, and was the caught by the muscular bug with ease and with one hand. Buzzwole threw the Poipole again, this time into the ground similar like Amy did before with that strange Meowth.

"Not the ones I was looking for.", Buzzwole said. "Say, Tapu Bulu, are there more baby adventurers around here besides them and the two with the stone? Where are your buddies, eh?"

Tapu Bulu did not answer, and neither did the group.

"I count that as a yes.", Buzzwole concluded and cracked his fingers. "But one guardian at the time."

Tapu Bulu shouted and raced at Buzzwole, similar like a bull with his horns pointed at the Ultra Beast. Buzzwole was almost caught off guard and grabbed him by his red, wooden hat, pushing him away. Both grunted in their struggle.

"Run!", Tapu Bulu ordered the adventurers. He was then lifted up, spun around and thrown behind Buzzwole.

Ziggy completely ignored said order to escape while there was still time and darted at the swollen Ultra Beast with high speed, trying to attack it. Buzzwole, apparently unimpressed by the Pikachu, raised his right arm, formed a circle his thumb and index finger and as Ziggy was about to him in his chest, he was simply "snipped" away. The next moment Ziggy collided with the petrified Steve. The strength of his fingers alone was enough to sent them both sliding across the ground and almost to the edge.

Mo took a sharp breath and clinched his eyes. This won't be good!

Buzzwole looked directly at him.

"What are you holding?", he asked.

"Oh, no!", Mo thought and Aaron stepped back.

"If it's another Poipole ...", he further said.

From behind, Tapu Bulu swung the Bell he had on his tail and hit the Ultra Beast directly on the head. Buzzwole shouted up in pain and held his scalp.

"What are you waiting for?!", Tapu Bulu ordered them just before getting Buzzwole's elbow round his ringed nose.

Buzzwole turned to Mo and Aaron again.

"Show me what you got!", Buzzwole ordered in a monotone voice.

Mo felt Aaron preparing to run, and running he then did, but now away, and not really running in the term of running, rather charging directly at Buzzwole. Realising what Aaron was trying to do, my tried to stop him, tried to yell, but at that moment Aaron got complete control over his body.

Aaron raced over to Buzzwole whole patiently awaited Aaron's attack, he jumped up and tackled the Ultra Beast directly on his stomach. ... it was not effective at all. In fact, Aaron probably suffered more damage than his opponent.

Back on the ground, Aaron looked up, they both looked directly and awkwardly at each other. Mo began to cry on the inside. Buzzwole then bent over and grabbed Aaron and Mo by their torso, picking him up and holding them in a way they were facing upside down now.

"Let go!", Aaron cursed and started biting Buzzwole in his finger and tried pushing him away with his ribbons. What firs started with pushing his arms soon became, at least it felt like to Mo, admiring that Ultra Beats rock hard muscles.

It did not took long before Buzzwole spotted what Aaron and Mo were trying to hide and he easily took it from him, now holding Aaron in hone hand and the Origin Stone in the palm of his other hand.

"The Origin Stone?!", Buzzwole said out loud surprised. "Where did you got it from?!"

"The heck I'll tell you!", Mo cursed and tried to get the Origin Stone back.

"You found it lying around somewhere, did you?", Buzzwole answered for him and sounded awfully calm for someone who just got his hands on an item like this.

Mo and Aaron remained quiet, and so were the other ones. Tapul Bulu meanwhile got up again. Then ... Buzzwole began to laugh as if someone just told him an incredibly funny joke.

"What's so funny?!", Tapu Bulu shouted from behind him.

"It's just ...", Buzzwole tried had to keep it together. "You want to bring it back to the Chosen One, are you?"

Ziggy and Steve returned to help Tapu Bulu and Mo and Aaron get the stone back. Much to everyone's surprise, Buzzwole simply put Mo and Aaron down again and not only that, he politely handed them the Origin Stone. Just like that! Aaron took it right at once.

"I don't like you, Baby Beasts, but I also don't like Necrozma, you know.", Buzzwole began to tell. "Using this stone is just cheating to me. The stone should either be not used at all or at least by someone who's already rotten inside."

"Stay were you are!", an unfamiliar voice shouted out from above them, something with a young an heroic sounding voice.

Everyone looked were the voice came from. Another Pokémon, similar to Tapu Bulu, but different. This one was a lot thinner with, what looked like, large, yellow arm protections, a mohawk and was surrounded by lightnings. While Tapu Bulu was similar to a cattle, this one was like an eagle.

"Tapu Koko!", called out to him in surprise.

Tapu Koko flew down to Buzzwole looked him right in the face.

"Be gone, Buzzwole! You're well aware what happened the last time we met each other!"

No answer from him at first.

"Okay!", Buzzwole then said and shrugged, confusing the Tapu. "I just wanted to 'buzz off' anyway."

Buzzwole turned his back on the group and began flapping his, especially for his stature, small insect wings.

"Where are you going?!", Tapu Koko yelled at him, expecting a fight.

"My job here is done.", Buzzwole answered.

"But you didn't do anything!", Aaron pointed out, and with that Buzzwole, somehow, flew away and out of sight and left everyone dumfounded.

Silence. The adventurers looked over to the newly arrived Tapu Koko. He looked over to Tapu Bulu and quickly flew over to him, poking him on his forehead.

"What did you think you were doing?!", he argued with him.

"I believed the escaped adventurers needed our help! It was not like you could deal with the Nihilego by yourself!", Tapu Bulu defended himself.

"Then say before you act! I thought you wanted to get that forsaken stone for yourself!", Tapu Koko further shouted at him.

Mo and Aaron joined Ziggy and Steve and watched the two guardians further argue. Mo poked Ziggy on the shoulder with his paw and pointed to Tapu Koko.

"Another guardian?", he asked.

"Yes, that's Tapu Koko, while Tapu Bulu is the guardian of harvest, he's the guardian thunder and lightning.", Ziggy answered and noticeably fascinated by the verbal fight going on.

"So ... he's his superior?", Mo further asked and that moment Tapu Koko apparently struck Tapu Bulu down with a thunder bolt.

Ziggy did not get to answer as Tapu Koko approached them angrily.

"What were you thinking going out by yourselves so far?", he asked them in a threatening way.

"IT WAS HIS IDEA.", Steve excused and looked over to the smoking Tapu Bulu lying on the ground. "WE WERE ALSO CLOSE TO TRACK DOWN EITHER AXEL OR AMY, BUT ..."

Ziggy rushed over to the still buried Poipole and pulled it out like a large vegetable. The Poipole giggled and spat out some dirt. Ziggy rudely grabbed it by the red scarf and took it off of it.

"That's property of the Adventurer Guild. Now get lost!", he told it.

"Okay!", it answered joyfully and flew away as it was told. Ziggy presented the red scarf to Tapu Koko from the distance.

"And if it's making the situation better ...", Mo added and presented the Origin Stone to the guardian, very much to his surprise.

After Tapu Bulu got back up again, Tapu Koko was explained what had happened before now, how Mo found the stone, how they tried and failed to find Axel and Amy, and about Aaron being possessed by Mo. Tapu Koko struck Tapu Bulu again, thinking it was a bad idea searching by foot and a waste of time in the end.

"Then what do you suggest?!", Tapu Bulu argued back when he got back up yet again.

"Easy.", Tapu Koko answered. "I'll take Steve and the Pikachu, and you take the Sylveon."

Tapu Koko turned to Aaron and Mo.

"And you hold on to the Origin Stone.", they were told. Mo saluted quietly in response.

"Let's hope we're not too late.", Tapu Koko mumbled quietly just before approaching the two electric type Pokémon.

Something was getting through Mo's head he did not dared to tell out loud. Some members of the Forces of Evil were here as well. According to that Poipole they also had the Origin Stone with them, or at least something that looked like one. Yesterday, back on Destiny Tower, that Ribombee told him, Aaron and Charlotte there was another Origin Stone from another time and space, brought to this world to hide it. Said other Origin Stone is useless in this world of theirs. And Buzzwole from before acted incredibly suspicious when he got his hands on it. Thinking about what may had happened and what was going on now made Mo sick.

"Mo, you still there?", Aaron asked. Mo did not noticed they already took off.

"I think I messed up ...", Mo confessed.

"... what do you mean?", Aaron asked.

Mo remained quiet for the next while. Because of his thoughts and his still existing fear of highs he couldn't calm down. He also was unsure if Aaron was able too feel this inner sickness Mo had or not. It wasn't until later Mo realised that the so called Deep Sea of Ultra Space was both scary and fascinating at the same time. Beautiful from a certain point of view. Thinking about the SPA in Baram Town, Mo began having the idea for a similar SPA in this area as well. Maybe the Ultra Beast they had met before would have been nicer if they had something like this in this dangerous world.

"THERE THEY ARE!", Steve suddenly called out.

Like Tapu Bulu did with Aaron and Mo, Tapu Koko held Steve with both his arms while Ziggy held on to one of the guardian's shoulders.

"DOWN THERE!", Steve began to struggle. "HEY! HEEEEY!"

"Stop it, or I could drop you!", Tapu Koko told him.

"Is it really them?", Tapu Bulu asked.

Ziggy took a look.

"The one sticks out. Looks like Axel.", he confirmed.

Over the large floating island they were walking on and flying over the whole time Mo could see two Pokémon. One yellowish and red, the other one dark and harder to see.

"Let us hurry down.", Tapu Koko told TApu Bulu.

"YES! HURRY, HURRY!", Steve supported with haste.

As the guardians flew lower and eventually prepared for landing it became cleared these two were, in fact, Axel and Amy, with Amy having lost her scarf! The two also soon realised that the approaching Pokémon from the sky were their friend and began waving as.

The two Guardian Pokémon did not even really landed when Steve freed himself and rushed over to his two partners.

"AXEL! AMY!", he called out and the three embraced in a heartily hug.

"I WAS SO WORRIED. I THOUGH SOMETHING MIGHT HAD HAPPEN TO YOU AND ... AND ...", Steve began to glow like he was about to explode any second. Luckily, the two managed to calm him down in time.

"Tapu Koko, Tapu Bulu, what are you doing here?", Axel asked as he looked up from Steve. "And Ziggy and Aaron?"

"I suppose we're the only one left.", Ziggy answered. He walked over to Amy hand handed her the scarf. "I think this is yours."

Amy happily took it and put in on again. Now Team Red was truly united again.

"We came as fast as we heard what had happened.", Tapu Koko answered as well and floated towards the now complete Team Red. "Now we only need to bring you and the Origin Stone back to our world and Necrozma won't be a threat to us anymore.

Axel and Amy suddenly went very calm and very pale, especially Amy. She sat down on the ground next to Steve and tears rolled down her face in streams.

"The stone ... the thing is ...", Axel wanted to explain.

"It's all my fault!", Amy bursted into tears. "I just wanted to help, I just wanted to keep Axel by my side, and now we're stuck in this heck-hole and I don't know what to do and ...!"

Amy began hitting herself. Steve unsuccessfully tried to stop her from doing it.

"I lost the Origin Stone!", she confessed. "I got into a fight with Axel when this bearded Meowth suddenly showed up! I don't know how it got here, but it ran off with the stone and we could not track it down! It's gone, and now we lost because of my stupidity!"

Mo and Aaron stepped forward.

"You mean this?", Aaron said and presented the Origin Stone to the two. Their faces had a priceless expression, almost hilarious. Pure speechlessness.

"Where did you got that?", Amy asked, now too surprised to show emotions.

"It was just laying around and I literally almost hit my head on it.", Mo explained. "I guess something happened to this Meowth and it dropped it."

Mo tried to be and sound happy, but this thought of unsureness was still in his mind.

"Maybe it got eaten by one of these creatures.", Ziggy suggested.

Mo thought this would be quiet possible.

Amy whipped away her tears and quickly stood up.

"Aaron, your amazing!", she called out as she rushed over to Aaron and Mo and hugged them. Aaron smiled and blushed while Mo held the stone up high, fearing she would snatch it.

Ziggy clapped his hands together.

"Alright, let's not waste more of our time. Everyone is probably worried sick and, Axel, you want to get back home yourself, right?"

The Cyndaquil nodded but then remembered something.

"But Lunala ...!", he pointed out.

"Necrozma won't gain is full strength without the stone or Solgaleo. Solgaleo is still into hiding, not even we know where he is, and once the stone is brought to your world, there is no way Necrozma will ever get it.", Tapu Koko explained to Axel and the group. "Yes, Lunala will still be a prisoner to his control and he will remain a threat, now greater with Lunala's body, but this will not be your problem anymore.

Axel quietly accepted this outcome.

Ziggy grasped Amy roughly by her hand.

"And don't you do anything funny again, young lady.", he told her. Amy looked away upset and pulled her arm away.

Axel approach Mo and Aaron.

"Aaron.", he asked. "Can you give the Origin Stone to me?"

He reached out with his tiny, tiny arms. Amy glimpsed worriedly.

For a moment, Mo's idea of taking and using the stone for himself came up again and he hoped for a better idea how to use it. This thought was encourage by the idea of Axel misusing it instead. But was there another choice? And what if his thoughts were true? Should he tell his suspection?

While Mo was thinking, Aaron, either to kind or to stupid, reached his ribbons out and was just about to give it to him.

What he they both did not knew, a bright purple portal just opened right behind them. Tapu Koko tried to warn them, but it was too late.

Before he knew it, Mo felt a stinging around his chest and back and Aaron shouted in pain. Everyone else gasped in shock from the large, black, crystalline claw the had grabbed Aaron and Mo and lifted them up.

Necrozma, still in possession of Lunala's body emerged from the portal.

"I knew you would find the stone when I keep an eye on your long enough.", Necrozma laughed.

Aaron cried out for help. Tapu Bulu tried to step in, but Necrozma simply flapped his large wings and literally blew everyone to the ground.

"Devine help won't work anymore, Chosen One.", Necrozma mocked. With his other claw he grabbed the Origin Stone and, despite both Mo's and Aaron's force to keep it, eventually took it for him with ease.

Necrozma had finally got hold of the Origin Stone.

"Game Over!", Necrozma declared and triumphantly slammed Mo and Aaron to the ground as hard as he could.

A pain, similar as strong as Mo felt with Lunala's Moongeist Beam, ran through their body and they were lift in a print like crate on the ground, crushed like a bug.

"Aaron, no!", Amy called out, her voice sounding as desperate as every before.

Mo was in great pain and could not move his limbs, but still consciousness. Both of his eyes were bright yellow again.

Tapu Koko and Tapu Bulu got up again and tried to attack the prism like Ultra Beast, but Necrozma slashed at them with the claw that held Mo and Aaron seconds ago and again, this time injured, send them down again.

Necrozma turned around and another portal slowly appeared. Not one like he did before or Lunala used yesterday. A portal like the one Mo and the others used to get into Ultra Space, blue and like a rip in space.

Amy tried to stop him, somehow. She rushed to him, but Necrozma disappeared into it, into the unknown, and escaped, taking the Origin Stone with him.