About an hour later, everyone was healed and ready to go. At this point, Colress appeared.

"Colress, what are you doing here?" Elio asked, to which Colress replied: "I will be using the Colress Machine 1102 to adjust the dimensional "channel", if you will, of the Villager and send them back to their original world. But turning Aether Paradise back to its original form, I can sense that without Lillie, even I won't be able to do that. I don't know why though"

"Probably because she's a target of ICAVAC" Elio replied, to which Gladion added "Almost certainly. So if Lillie's in this realm, that'd be great"

"But I have a bad feeling she's been taken into the other realm. So we're going to have to go into the other realm to rescue her" Elio said, to which Gladion nodded.

"So, we've got to open the portal, and to do that we basically have to redo the whole thing with Team Rainbow Rocket," Guzma said, to which Steve replied "If any of you encounter a Villager, call me and I'll battle it"

"Right" Elio replied. The group then headed out to the front section, and they find that the four doors are already open.

"Well, this is interesting," Gladion said. Elio then added "We'll take one of the wings of the castle each. Guzma, you take a third, and Gladion, you take a fourth. Hau, you're still hurt, so you'll have to stay in the healing chamber, keep guard"

"Alright" Hau replied, wincing as he headed back inside. Steve then turned to the others, took out four crystal-like objects, and gave one to each of Elio, Gladion, Professor Kukui and Guzma.

"What's this?" Guzma asked, to which Steve replied "This will detect whenever you have a Villager in the room you're in. I can then teleport to you, and challenge the Villager in your place"

"Alright. Now let's get going. The sooner we get to that portal, the sooner we can rescue my sister" Gladion said. The others nodded and split up into each wing of the mansion.

Following Gladion, who went through the Southeast Wing.

Gladion arrived in the first room and defeated the ICAVAC member's Altaria with his Porygon-Z. He moved into the second room and found a Villager and an ICAVAC member waiting for him.

"Right," Gladion said, and he activated his Crystal, calling Steve to take on the Villager. While the IACAC member's Bibarel was defeated by Gladion's Silvally-Grass.

At the same time, Steve defeated the Villager's Stray using his Super Iron Golem. Defeated, the Villager was pulled out and left something behind. Picking it up, he discovered its a key. He returned, and found Gladion in the 3rd room, having defeated two ICAVAC members Simipour and Dugtrio with his Silvally and Porygon-Z.

"Hey Gladion, I found something. It's a key" Steve said. Gladion took the key, then said "I guess I'll pocket it for now, see what it's going to be used for"

"Alright," Steve replied. Gladion then said "Steve, the top teleporter from lines one and two, and the bottom teleporter three go-to side rooms that have a Villager in it. Could you please take care of them?"

"Sure" Steve replied and headed on the teleporters. By the time he had cleared out the Villager's, Gladion was already preparing to face one of the ICAVAC Commanders. However, Steve was called to the other side of the Castle.

This battle didn't turn out to be a normal battle. The ICAVAC Commander had only one Pokémon, a Meowstic, but, as it turned out, Gladion wasn't fighting the Meowstic. Instead, the Meowstic called in backup wild Pokémon to fight Gladion. In addition, it turned out that Meowstic was a supporter, using Status moves to support the Wild Pokémon she had called. Initially, the fight was annoying, as the awkward damage amounts meant that Gladion wasn't reducing Meowstic's over six hundred hit points each time he knocked out a Wild Pokémon.

This fight, however, did, for a bit, get easier when Gladion called in his Zoroark, which meant that, because Meowstic was using Prankster to support the Wild Pokémon, it couldn't support the Wild Pokémon. And this meant that, until it was KO'ed, Meowstic had lost over half of its remaining Hit Points.

As it also turned out, however, for whatever reason, Gladion couldn't attack the Meowstic itself. He had to lower the Hit Points of Meowstic by KO'ing Wild Pokémon. Eventually, however, Gladion was able to KO enough Wild Pokémon to KO the Meowstic and win the battle.

"Well done, you defeated me. Now you can press the switch behind the painting, and not only activate the teleporter, but also deactivate one of the four switches to the top floor" the IACAVC Commander said. He then departed.

Gladion pressed the switch behind the painting, then teleported back to the entrance, while Steve defeated the final Villager and his Witch.

Meanwhile with Steve

As it turned out, there was only one more Villager that Steve needed to defeat and banish back to the Minecraft Realm. It was a little more difficult to defeat With this one, however, the Villager did reveal that ICAVAC was responsible for stealing his tech and that the Villagers had been Hypnotised, and thanked him for liberating him. Steve then returned to the main foyer and waited for everyone to return.

Meanwhile with Elio

Elio entered the South-West wing of the Mansion, and when he entered the first room, he took on, and easily defeated, the ICAVAC member's Masquerain with his Salazzle. He then headed into the second room, where he finds his first puzzle.

He attempted to solve the puzzle, half-way through the ICAVAC member attacked him to stop him. He avoided the attack, and his Primarina defeated the ICAVAC member's Sharpedo. Once he had knocked down the ICAVC member, he easily solved the first puzzle and headed onto the next room.

Once again, he saw that there was an ICAVAC member waiting for him. Elio knew exactly what to do, and defeated the ICAVAC's Hippowdon with his Primarina, then started the puzzle. The ICAVAC member tried to distract him by loudly shouting at him and making a weird dance, but Elio ignored it, his goal of rescuing Lillie keeping him focused on making it to the next room and solved the puzzle easily.

At the fourth room, a Villager spots him and runs away. He calls Steve in and points to the teleporter where a Villager had gone through. Steve nodded, then charged after the Villager. Meanwhile, Elio headed to the next room, where he defeated the ICAVAC members and their Mismagius and Druddigon, which he defeated with his Lickilicky and Primarina, the former, to the surprise of the ICAVAC members, was a Special attacker.

Elio then entered the main room and found himself also facing a Meowstic. And, just like Gladion, he had to battle Wild Pokémon controlled by the Meowstic, while the Meowstic stayed back and supported the Wild Pokémon, and Elio was surprised to discover that he couldn't attack Meowstic directly.

Unlike Gladion, Elio didn't have Dark-type Pokémon, so Prankster was always used. However, the power difference meant that Elio was able to inflict some decent damage to Meowstic every time he KO'ed one of Meowstic's Wild Pokémon and won more quickly.

"Well done, you defeated me. Now, press the switch behind the painting, and you can deactivate another one of the switches to the top floor" the ICAVAC member said before he departed. Elio walked up to the painting, presses the switch behind the painting, which deactivated the 2nd switch and allowed Elio to return to the main entrance through the now open teleporter.

With Guzma

Guzma finds his first ICAVAC member waiting for him in the first room of the Northeast wing.

"Alright, time to beat you down, and down, and never let up," Guzma said. Soon, his Pinsir had defeated the ICAVAC member's Walrein. Guzma then proceeded into the next room.

It is here that he discovers that there are statues that he'd have to get past. He looks around and spies his path. He then looks at the statues and knows which statues he must move. He walked up to both statues that are stopping him proceeding and pressed a button on the back so the statue would spin, allowing him to move on. But not before having to use his Vikavolt to defeat the ICAVAC member's Avalugg.

"Now then, next" Guzma said, and he headed for the next room.

Here, Guzma found that there were four statues in the room and that two of them had their eyes crossing his path. He moved to one, and moved it, but found himself jumped by an ICAVAC member and his Swoobat, which was swiftly put down by Guzma's Scizor.

"Alright, now to turn the other statue, and the other ones that now block my path," Guzma said. He had to move all the statues at least once but was able to open a path to the next room.

When he arrived, he found his path blocked by two ICAVAC members. The two members had a Lanturn and a Flareon, respectively. After using his Pinsir and Masquerain to defeat them, Guzma entered the main field.

Once in that room, Guzma was also engaged with a Pokémon. This time, however, it was a Xatu. Guzma didn't need to do too much, he had about as much difficulty as Gladion had but eventually managed to defeat enough of Xatu's Wild Pokémon to reduce Xatu's HP to zero.

"Well done, you defeated me. Now, press the switch behind the painting, and you can deactivate another one of the switches to the top floor" the ICAVAC member said before he departed. Guzma walked up to the painting and pressed the switch which both deactivated the third switch, but also allowed Guzma to return to the central room.

With Professor Kukui

Professor Kukui headed for the first room, and encountered an ICAVAC member, who's Crobat was defeated by Professor Kukui's Lycanroc. Once he had defeated the ICACAC Member, he headed towards the second room.

Unlike the others, Professor Kukui found himself having to spin around on spin tiles, which made Professor Kukui a bit dizzy. But after a few attempts, he managed to get around the tiles and reach the end.

Just as Professor Kukui finished spinning around to the next portal, he must battle another ICAVAC member. Professor Kukui's Braviary defeated the ICAVAC member's Vileplume soon, and he was able to head on

When he got to the third room, Professor Kukui managed to get to the other side of the room. He briefly looked around to find the last time that'll allow him to use the portal to the fourth room. Soon, he finds it, but just as he does, he's ambushed by an ICAVAC member, and his Gardevoir is defeated by Professor Kukui's Magnezone. It turned out, there was one final ICAVAC member to defeat in the room, and that member of ICAVAC had a Gigalith. And this time Professor Kukui had to use Magnezone and Decidueye to win.

There was just one more room to pass to get closer to his final goal. This one he figured out quickly, and this time there wasn't an ICAVAC member waiting for him.

Instead, the final room before the Commander room had two ICAVAC members waiting for him. The two ICAVAC members' Cacturne and Liepard were defeated by Professor Kukui's Snorlax and Alolan Ninetales. Professor Kukui then travels into the last room.

Finally, when Professor Kukui faced off against the ICAVAC commander, he went up against a Togetic and the Wild Pokémon that the Togetic summoned. And there, showing his experience, Professor Kukui actually defeated the Togetic by defeating enough Wild Pokémon in the shortest time.

"Well done, you defeated me. Now, press the switch behind the painting, and you can deactivate another one of the switches to the top floor" the ICAVAC member said before he departed. Professor Kukui headed up to the painting and pressed the switch. He, in fact, was the first person to defeat the section they had been assigned to. He then returned to the central room using the teleporter.

When the four of them reunited, they headed back to the healing room, and restored the strength of their Pokémon. Then, one by one, the group of Elio, Guzma, Gladion and Professor Kukui head out of the now open portal to the top floor.

And when they got to the top floor, oh boy were they in for a shock.

"Luasmine, oh no, what have they done to you?" Gladion said as he ran up to check on her. Elio, however, was horrified to discover that Faba had joined forces with a member of the Aether Foundation.

"Faba!" Elio snapped. Faba said "You will never get to the Minecraft realm. I'll use the combined power of the strongest member of the Aether Foundation, and myself, to crush you guys to bits"

"Not if we destroy you first" Elio said, and he and Gladion teamed up, ready to battle Faba and the strongest member of the Aether Foundation.