night...
Sophocles and his parents are enjoying the view of the full moon in the middle of a bamboo field that they are camping in.
outside...
Sophocles' parents were staring at the full moon outside while Sophocles stayed in the tent with Tagedemaru.
"The moon looks lovely when framed by bamboo." says Sophocles' mom.
"Isnt it?" wonders Sophocles' dad.
"It would be even better if Sophocles' friends came with us." says Sophocles' mom.
"At the tourism center, we've been thinking of making this bamboo spot a new tourist spot, with the catchphrase 'The hill where you can watch the moon amidst the bamboo.'." says Sophocles' dad.
"Oh my! Impressive as always mister vice president of the center." says Sophocles' mom.
"Me impressive? I doubt it." says Sophocles' dad.
"Sophocles, wont you come out and watch the moon with us?" wonders Sophocles' mom looking at the tent.
"The moon looks amazing!" says Sophocles' dad looking at the tent.
tent...
"You don't get it, do you? According to my simulation, the moon will be most beautiful within an hours time. That's when Ill go look at it." says Sophocles typing on his computer.
'Oh?' wonders Sophocles' moms voice.
Once his parents have gone to bed, Sophocles heads out with Togedemaru and Charjabug to get a better look at the full moon, which inspires him to tell the legend of "The Celestial Starship".
"Hey...have you heard of the fairytale, 'The Celestrial Starship'? Its one of my favorite stories. It goes like this..." says Sophocles.
Togedemaru and Charjabug curiously look up at Sophocles.
"A long, long time ago, a beautiful star, shining green, fell from the round moon. The star fell in a large field of bamboo canes. An old man and woman who lived nearby went to the bamboo field in surprise, where they found a bamboo sprout shining with a mysterious glow. The sprout had a cute lovable face so the childless couple named the sprout 'Celeste' and decided to look after it. But as the sprout grew bigger and bigger, the villagers found that it was drying up all the surrounding bamboo, and came barging in that, the couple desperately tried to protect Celeste and then, Celeste took flight, and returned to the moon looking like a starship as it did. After that, lots of bamboo canes started sprouting in the field where Celeste had lived, and the villagers lived happily ever after, no longer having to care about needing food. That ends the tale of Celeste the celestial starship. Wasn't that a nice story?" says Sophocles.
Togedemaru looked at him but Charjabug just stared ahead almost as if ignoring the story half way.
"It might be a bit too complex for you." says Sophocles looking down at togedemaru and charjabug.
While his Pokémon don't seem too impressed by the story, they spot an odd clearing without any bamboo which Togedemaru, and soon Sophocles and Charjabug, tumble into.
"You alright togedemaru?" wonders Sophocles.
Sophocles finds a metal point sticking out of the ground and looks closely at it.
"Heh? Whats this? Was it buried here?" wonders Sophocles.
Sophocles starts digging, soon discovering that buried a bit deeper is a face.
"A..face?!" wonders Sophocles startled.
Sophocles gets a good look at the mystery thing he found and it reminded him of the fairytale he enjoyed.
"Could this be the celestial starship celeste?" wonders Sophocles.
The face, belonging to what was thought to be Celeste, proves to be alive when it smiles upon seeing the light of the full moon.
"It smiled! Does the moonlight make it happy?" says Sophocles looking at what he called Celeste then the moon.
day...
Pokémon school...
"Youre kidding! The celestial starship celeste!?" wonder the class.
"Yeah! I found it on accident while camping." says Sophocles.
"Fairytales aren't real, right?" wonders Trunks.
"That was a pretty famous one." says Mallow.
"Does that mean it exists?" wonders Kiawe.
"If fairy tales existed, every fairytale ever written would be real and theres never been proof." says Hazzel.
"I dunno….think about Misty. Shes as much that mermaid fairytale as she is the fairytale with selfish sisters but no evil stepmother if you really wanna talk fairytales." says Ash pondering.
"What are you babbling on about?" wonders Lana.
"Comparing the fairytales to our lives. Ignore me." says Ash waving it off.
"Just listen to me! Im telling the truth! Its all green, looks like bamboo and though I can only see the top of it, I know its really big." says Sophocles.
"This is a huge scoop!" says Rotom dex.
"If fairytales are like real life then I want in!" says Ash excitedly.
"As do I!" says Lillie.
"Then lets all go together when school lets out!" says Sophocles happily.
"Yeah!" say Lillie and Ash pumping their fists in the air.
"Yeah..." say Mallow, Lana and Kiawe unamused.
"More talk of space...oy." says Trunks crossing his arms.
"It could be exciting." says Goten looking at trunks.
"We might be in over our heads." says Trunks.
"I still need to catch pokemon." mumbles Hazzel bummed.
Camping spot...
Everyone was amazed by the sight of something coming out of the ground and Sophocles taps the object as if to tell them never to ignore a friends words.
"Hello, are you doing well? I brought my friends to see if we can dig you out." says Sophocles looking at the object with a face.
Sophocles turns to face the rest of the class and smiles back at everyone who were either speechless or looking at the object in confusion.
"See? Looks like the starship celeste, doesn't it?" wonders Sophocles.
"Y...yeah." say the others.
"This is some rocket ship." says Goten.
"Rocket ships don't have faces." says Trunks.
"Then its a pokemon?" wonders Hazzel.
"Hard to say." says Trunks.
"Forget about the face, I wanna know why Celeste doesn't look like a bamboo shoot." says Kiawe.
"If we wanna verify that, we all have to dig this creature up." says Rotom dex.
"Yep! That said, I grabbed shovels for everyone." says Sophocles.
While still skeptical that the discovery is the Celestial Starship of legend, Sophocles provides everyone with shovels to begin digging.
"Why you...!? You only wanted us here to help dig out whatever this is." says Mallow unamused.
"We...well, yeah...more or less." says Sophocles looking away.
"You are cunning." says Mallow.
"Its fine by me! Lets all dig it out." says Ash.
"Who actually feels up to digging up a whatever you wanna call this...celeste the unknown?" wonders Mallow.
"Looks like this will take a while." says Ash out of breath.
"Yeah..." says Kiawe.
"How big is this thing?" wonders Mallow.
Charjabug gets on Celeste and calls for help to dig it out. In doing so, a bunch of grubbin arrive.
"A bunch on grubbin?" wonders Ash.
"But why?" wonders Mallow.
Throughout the time the class was digging up celeste, the ultra beast remains motionless and indifferent, only smiling once the moon rises until it was free.
"That's pretty amazing." says Ash.
"That's a strange rocket." says Goten.
"That's because rockets don't have faces." says Trunks unamused.
"I know but is it a pokemon or not?" wonders Goten.
"It must be the celestial starship Celeste." says Sophocles.
"Really?" wonders Lana.
"Its pretty hard to believe." says Kiawe.
"Rotom, is this creature in the pokedex?" wonders Ash.
"Searching...searching...nothing. No data. If it is an undiscovered pokemon ill be the first to record it." says Rotom dex.
"It can be an ultra beast!" says Kiawe with the thought coming to mind,
"If so, we have to contact mom." says Lillie.
"You mean we have to put it in an ultra ball? But, if we do it cant go back to the moon." says Sophocles saddening.
"Celeste is part of a fairytale. This ultra beast cant be the celeste from the story." says Trunks.
"How would you know!?" wonders Sophocles angrily.
"I don't. It just sounds silly." says Trunks.
"Atleast let me investigate it a bit more...to find out when and why it came here and why it was buried in the ground all this time. I know we need o inform Lusamine for any ultra beast activity but do we really know if it is? Cant we wait on contacting the Aether foundation?" says Sophocles gloomily.
"That is indeed a logical conclusion." says Lillie.
"I'll try digging through a few more layers." says Sophocles looking down.
Day turned to night and soon the ultra beast was finally dug up.
"There you go!" says Sophocles.
"We better get home." says Ash.
Everyone was about to head in the direction of their homes when Sophocles noticed the ultra beast smiling like the previous night.
"Its smiling just like I said! It smiled happily while looking at he moon yesterday too." says Sophocles.
"Heh?" wonders Ash.
"Celeste, you wanna go back to the moon just like the fairy tale, don't you?" wonders Sophocles.
Sophocles' house...
Sophocles was continuing his research when his parents came in his room with supper.
"Sophocles." says his mom.
"Hes really focused." says his dad.
"Yes, he seems to be having a lot of fun. Don't mind us Sophocles. We will just leave your supper here." says his mom.
"Uh huh...sure." says Sophocles paying more attention to the computer.
With a click of a button Sophocles was eager to know how long the creature was on earth and was shocked at the number on the screen.
"What!?" wonders Sophocles.
Next day...
pokemon school...
"Did we really have to dig up that thing? If Sophocles enjoyed the idea of some silly fairytale, he should've dug it himself before telling us." says Trunks.
"True but he wanted to be sure." says Ash.
"Whoever sees fairytales as reality are childish." says Trunks.
"I dunno. Creatures that appear from childrens books is rare." says Ash.
"How moronic can you be to assume fairytales are true? That's just weird." says Trunks.
"Hey...fairytales made me wonder if Mistys life is like them. I never said they became reality." says Ash.
"Fairytales have a strange way of going about things." says Goten.
"Youre too innocent if you still think fairytales are another take on reality." says Trunks looking at Goten.
Soon Sophocles ran into the school frantically trying to tell everyone the news about what he deemed as Celeste.
"Wait what!? 200 years!?" wonder the others.
"Its been here, on earth for that long!?" wonders Ash.
"That's what I calculated." says Sophocles.
"To think ultra beasts can live that long." says Ash.
"I analyzed it so I cant be wrong." says Sophocles.
"Amazing!" says Mallow excitedly.
"Its so long lived." says Lana.
"That beats how long my grandpa lives." says Kiawe.
"Does that mean, its been growing in that dirt this whole time?" wonders Lillie.
"I cant say for certain yet, but if It was rooted there-"
Suddenly the bell rang alarming everyone, causing professor kukui to run into the room.
"Everyone, we've got an emergency! Its a request about a ultra beast! They need the ultra guardians stat!" says professor kukui.
"But that means..." says Ash.
"A new ultra beast has appeared. Lets go everyone!" says professor kukui opening the secret base.
Everyone and their pokemon took the port down to the ultra guardian base, where Clefairy greeted the students after most of them got their ultra suits on.
"Ash! Trunks! Goten! Get the suits on!" says Kiawe.
The trio looked at eachother then at Hazzel.
"What about Hazzel?" wonders Ash.
"She will have to stay back with Clefable! We don't have time to doddle." says Mallow.
The boys shrugged and the moment they grabbed the articles of heroic clothing, the attires clung to their clothes like the others.
"Im lost more than I was before." says Ash.
"Theres another article of heroic clothing. Was it meant for Hazzel?" wonders Goten spotting the Lilac purple heroic suit.
"Mom was eager to get the ultra guardians assembling. This is the first Hazzel has been with us so maybe? For now shes better off watching us to see if she wants to join in." says Lillie pondering.
Clefable brought everyones attention to the holoscreen appearing with Lusamine on it.
'Aola ultra guardians!' says Lusamine.
'Alola everyone!' say wicke and Professor Burnet.
"Alola!" say the class.
'Please have a look at this. We just got some information from a witness.' says Lusamine.
A picture of the ultra beast from the night before appeared on the screen shocking everyone.
"The strong ultra aura readings weve got from the surrounding area confirms its a ultra beast." says Lusamine.
"Celeste is a...a..." says Sophocles in disbelief.
"So it really was an ultra beast." says Ash.
"You know something?" wonders professor burnet.
"I happened to find that ultra beast then when I told everyone, we dug it up." says Sophocles looking down.
'What!?' wonder wicke, Lusamine and professor burnet.
"What did you name it?" wonders Rotom dex.
"We were reminded of the fairytale of the celestial starship Celeste and named it Celesteela." says Wicke.
"Celesteela…" says Sophocles.
"I request that you let me download the information on Celesteela." says Rotom dex.
Rotom dex adds the data from aether foundation to the index.
"Download complete! Celesteela, the launch pokemon and a steel/flying type." says Rotom dex.
"Launch pokemon?" wonders Sophocles.
"According to our data, Celesteela appeared through an ultra hole that opened naturally above melemele island roughly 200 years ago." says Wicke.
"And for 200 years, its absorbing nutrients from the soil and releasing a high temperature and high pressure gas." says professor burnet.
"So the lack of growth right around where Celeste was..." says Sophocles bummed.
"It was because of Celesteela..." says Lillie bummed.
"Just like in the fairytale." says Malow shocked.
"Theres one more problem too. It seems that once Celesteela has stored up enough gas, it ejects it to fly but its power is so great, that theres a risk it might incinerate its surroundings." says professor burnet.
"What!?" wonder the class shocked.
"A...are you sure there isnt some kind of mistake?" wonders Lillie.
"There might be. But if that does happen, it'll be too late." says professor burnet.
While Sophocles is distraught over this, the Ultra Guardians rush to Celesteela's location leaving behind Hazzel.
camping spot...
Sophocles was remembering back to what Lusamine told him before they left.
~flashback~
'Sophocles, it seems you have some special attachment to Celesteela.' says Lusamine.
"I just love the story of the Celestial starship Celeste and I thought that if that really was Celeste, I wanted to let it go back to the moon like in the story." says Sophocles gloomily.
'Don't worry.' says Lusamine.
'Just like last time, if you just retrain it in an ultra ball for a little while, it'll be fine." says professor burnet.
"Then, we'll take it to another place where it can launch safely, ok?" wonders Wicke.
"Right." says Sophocles smiling a small smile.
"Ultra guardians move out!" says Lusamine.
"Ult-roger!" say most of the class.
"Ult-roger." say Trunks and Ash sweat dropping.
"Ult-roger!" says Goten excitedly.
Sophocles on Metang, Mallow on Flygon, Lana and poplio on Dragonair, Lillie and Snowy on Altaria, Kiawe and Marowak on Charizard, Ash and Pikachu on Garchomp, Trunks on Braviary and Goten on Pidgeot. Most of the class were happy to see their ride pokemon again while Ash was amazed to see three there for Trunks, Goten and himself. With no ride pokemon for Hazzel at the moment, she was left to hang out with Clefable until their return. The river close to the Pokémon School opens, as the Ultra Guardians are launched in air with their Ride Pokémon.
~Reality~
team rocket...
Team Rocket is nearby harvesting bamboo shoots when they notice the class in their ultra guardian attires.
"Its the twerp and his classmates but they arent wearing thier usuual attires." says Meowth.
"Theyre wearing strange outfits." says James.
"H...hey, whats the big deal? Why are ride pokemon with them?" wonders Jessie.
"What is that thing?" wonders James looking at something odd.
"That looks like a bamboo shoot." says Meowth.
"Isnt it some sort of decoration." says Jessie.
Ultra guardians...
"Lets get right to it." says Ash.
Sophocles looked at Ash and nodded.
"Please do." says Sophocles.
"You sure you don't wanna?" wonders Goten.
"Tempting as it is, you guys haven't gone on an ultra beast hunt, so it wont be fair if I tossed it." says Sophocles.
"If you say so." says Trunks.
"Alright, id be happy to give it to you." says Ash.
"No...its fine." says Sophocles.
"I don't wanna make things worse if you actually-"
"Do it Ash!" says Sophocles.
"Uhh right. Would be better if you did it." says Ash.
"Don't act like its awkward doing something because I named it." says Sophocles.
"Don't get mad because someone else caught it with an ultra ball if this is how you feel." says Ash.
"DO IT ALREADY!" yell Trunks and Goten.
"G...go Ultra ball!" says Ash sweat dropping.
Ash attempted to catch Celesteela but it didn't go in despite the ultra ball causing it to look like it was going in.
"It bounced back!" says Rotom dex.
Pikachu, Togedemaru and Poipole went up to the open pokeball curiously.
"Alright, lets try again!" says Kiawe taking out a ultra ball.
Kiawe tossed the ultra ball he had but Celesteela still acted like it didn't wanna be caught.
"No good, huh?" wonders Kiawe looking at his ultra ball.
"Why?" wonders Mallow.
"Maybe its still rooted in the ground?" wonders Sophocles crossing his arms.
"Either that or it took to Sophocles. Him being the first person Celesteela saw." says Ash.
"As awesome as it would be if fairytales were real, I still need to take a look." says Sophocles walking up to Celesteela.
After more analyzing, Sophocles looks at his tablet and is shocked at how much gas Celesteela has been accumulating for the take off.
"Its got massive amounts of gas stored up, just like what professor burnet said." says Sophocles.
"Then we must do something before it launches its rockets." says Lillie.
Team rocket...
"Hey, did you hear that?" wonders Jessie.
"Sure did." says James.
"That's a rocket pokemon." smirks Meowth.
"A pokemon, we team rocket, couldn't possibly pass up." says Jessie looking at James and Meowth.
"This is an incredible find!" says James excitedly.
"We'll get to have a rocket pokemon! What a great feeling!" say team rocket sparkly eyed.
evening...
"Its finally taking off." says Sophocles.
"Oh no!" says Lillie shaky eyed.
"Sophocles, what do we do?" wonders Lana.
"Is there no way to stop it?" wonders Mallow worriedly.
"I wanted to just keep watching over it longer but if all this gas ignites, the bamboo shoots really will burn down. I don't know what we can do about celeste." says Sophocles.
Togedemaru was jumping near Celesteela, as if telling them Celesteela was moments away from leaving the bamboo field.
"I know! We need to make a defensive wall to prevent the heat from the rocket launchers, to keep it from spreading." says Sophocles happily.
"A defensive wall?" wonders Ash.
"And how do we do that without a way to build a wall?" wonders Goten.
"We don't have the time to build one!" says Kiawe.
"I know a way!" says Lillie.
After what felt like long chat about the wall building plan, they finally agreed on something.
"Yeah! Lets do that!" says Sophocles.
THe ultra guardians suddenly felt rumbling and knowing it couldntve been the rumbling of rockets starting, they turned their heads to see a robot come into view. Trunks sighed slumping his head.
"If Ash doesnt feel up to killing these insufferable evildoers, I will and id be happy to be rid of them." says Trunks.
"You're not allowed to kill here, tempting as it is. I dont know if ill ever be without these...whatever you wanna put them down as at this point. Its more pity than anything." says Ash unamused.
"Stop talking! What is that thing!?" says Sophocles.
The grey mecha meowth arrived with everyone having their mouths agape as they stepped back.
"When asked 'What is that thing!?'..." says Jessie.
"Let us tell you our names." says James.
"An intense rustle in the bamboo grove! A lone bamboo-splitting evil flower in this bamboo grove cut off from the mortal world. Jessie." says Jessie.
"Still the nobly heroic man of our times, bamboozles back against a cruel and heartless world. James." says James.
"I put up bamboo stalks on the bamboo fence, because I wanted to put bamboo stalks on the bamboo f...that's too much to say. They call me Meowth."
"Team rocket is here!" say Jessie and James.
"Oh yeah!" says Meowth.
Wobuffet chimes in.
"This life doesn't suit them anymore. They try and try again but it's just sad to watch team rocket attempt to do something and get away with it." says Ash.
"If they keep helping you instead of interrupting, we would get this ultra guardian business done by now." says Trunks.
"They need more friends than enemies if they have to bother you Day in and day out." says Goten.
"Don't ignore us twerp and super human freaks!" says Jessie.
"We are kinda busy having a limited time to do this so buzz off!" says Trunks.
"Just tell us why you feel the need to interrupt this time." says Ash unamused.
"team rocket is in need of a rocket." says James.
"That rocket there should be perfect. We will be taking that one!" says Jessie pointing to celesteela.
"Yeah!" says James.
"And then we will become a real team rocket with a rocket pokemon like what you twerps and twerpettes are keeping to yourself." says Meowth.
"LAMOS OF THE EVIL ROCKET COORPORATION OR WHATEVER IT IS, THERES SOMETHING CALLED IF PEOPLE ARE BUSY COME BACK SOME OTHER TIME!" yells Trunks.
JESSIE, JAMES, CASHEW THE TALKING FELINE WHOS REALLY CALLED MEOWTH, THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN SOME STUPID STANDOFF FOR MONSTERS OF THIS EARTH!" yells Goten.
"You little freaks….." growls Meowth.
"We have no time for this. Pikachu, iron tail!" says Ash.
Pikachu nodded then aimed iron tail at the mecha meowths hand, causing it to step back.
"Celesteela, Hold on until we can put up a defensive wall." says Sophocles looking up.
"Lets build it right now!" says Lillie looking at Mallow and Lana.
"Yeah!" says Lana.
"Got it!" says Mallow.
Now fighting off Team Rocket while Celesteela's engines fire up, Ash and Kiawe try to hold off the Ultra Beast while Lillie and the others use their Ride Pokémon's attacks to create a barrier of ice and stone to try to contain Celesteela's blast radius. After building the barrier, they retreat.
"Alright!" says Jessie.
"The pests are gone!" says Meowth smirking.
"Lets get it before they show up again!" says James.
"Team rocket punch!" say team rocket.
At this moment that Celesteela's engines ignite and as the ultra guardians watch from the sky, the force blows the fist away, heavily damaging the mecha meowth in the process.
"Are you kidding me!?" wonder Team rocket.
Bewear arrives riding the mecha's flying fist to rescue them before they are blown away.
"Why must we keep getting taken by Bewear!?" wonders Jessie.
Celesteela manages to take off while leaving the grove unharmed. Sophocles watches bittersweetly as it disappears into the atmosphere.
"Celesteela…" says Sophocles.
Aether paradise...
"Amazing!" says professor burnet.
"Its completely different from what we planned, but still.." says Wicke.
"Yes, but it is fine. They used their own judgement to find a way to send the ultra beast back and protect the peace of Alola. This is what the ultra guardians should be." says Lusamine.
night...
camp site...
sky...
"Sophocles, lets go say goodbye!" says Ash.
Sophocles looked at Ash, nodded then went up to Celesteela with the others following suit.
"Look after yourself!" says Ash.
"Lets meet again someday!" says Kiawe.
"Farewell! "say the girls.
"Bye Celesteela!" says Sophocles waving to the ultra beast.
Celesteela smiled at the ultra guardians before focusing its sights back on the moon.