Ash and Lillie vs The Radiant One

Last minute preparations were currently being made for the trip into Ultra Space, everyone appeared to be ready to go but May had a visible look of concern as she looked upon Zach from a distance. He was busy chatting with Marnie and Kiawe so he didn't notice the look his girlfriend currently had but Mallow did, she tilted her head lightly before approaching her.

"What's up? You look like something's troubling you."

May shook lightly as she glanced at Mallow before focusing her gaze back at Zach. "R-Remember how I was sick on the day that you and Zach befriended Zarude? W-Well I just found out that... I'm pregnant!"

Mallow's face lit up as she was happy for her however she noticed that May kept looking at Zach with a worrisome expression. "It is his, right?" Mallow asked with slightly narrowed eyes.

"Of course! He's the only one I've... I'm just worried how he'll react when he finds out!" May exclaimed, looking at Mallow with a fearful expression. "W-What if he doesn't want me anymore?"

Mallow rolled her eyes lightly before giving May a reassuring smile as she placed her arm on her shoulder. "You're as anxious as he can get, don't worry so much! You've heard him, he wants a family to settle down with after becoming Galar champion and you're giving him one! He'll be delighted to hear that the love of his life is going to have his child! You should go tell him now, you shouldn't be worrying about this when we're in Ultra Space trust me."

May took a deep breath and gave Mallow an appreciative look as she nodded in response and walked off to meet up with her boyfriend. Marnie caught her eye and backed away leaving the two of them alone after she walked up to him.

"May?" Zach tilted his head with an anxious look as May looked troubled. "Something wrong...?"

"Zach, I want to talk to you I-"

"You're not breaking up with me, are you?!" Zach's face was full of worry and May couldn't help but smile lightly at his response, chuckling lightly as she gently shook her head before guiding her hand towards her stomach.

"You remember what happened after you beat Kabu?"

"I caught Eevee?" Zach tilted his head with visible confusion causing May to giggle lightly.

"No silly before that!" May flashed him a light smirk.

"You mean what we do every night?" Zach blinked, clearly not getting the hint. May rolled her eyes lightly before whispering into his ear, his eyes shot wide as an ecstatic look formed across his face. "You serious?!"

May could only smile as she gave him a nod in confirmation. "Completely serious, I'd never lie to you. I love you... t-that's why I was so nervous about telling you! I've known for a week but I was so scared that you'd-"

"Leave you? I love you May, I'd never leave you..." Zach smiled before pulling her in for a kiss as their lips would soon meet. "I'll always be here for both you and our child!"


"Alright so group one will head in first and provide a distraction as the Beast King will surely send out his army once he senses invaders." Dulse spoke.

"That would be May, Mallow, Lana and Sophocles." Gladion stated.

"Hold up! No disrespect to Lana or Sophocles but I think keeping the strongest of us for later groups is just stupid. I'll go in their place, we don't want them to be overwhelmed!" May smiled lightly at the visible concerned tone in Zach's voice, noting that he'd make a great father. They hadn't told the others yet as they didn't want to distract them but Marnie started giving them suspicious looks as if she knew.

May squeezed his hand and gave him an affectionate smile.

Sophocles raised up his hand. "I'll go in group two!"

"Whatever," Gladion muttered. "Group two will come in and provide cover fire as the final group makes their way up the tower to confront the Beast King. That will be Sophocles, Chloe and myself, Marnie and Kiawe. Ash and Lillie will go up to face the Beast King on their own alongside the two spacemen." Much as Gladion didn't want to send Lillie up there, she was the one that bonded with Lunala. Gladion reached into his pocket before handing Lillie a purple z-crystal.

"Almost forgot to give you this, last time we saw a Lunala I received that but it's just been collecting pocket lint as I have had no use for it since. You'll get more use of it than I will and you might need it."

Lillie smiled before giving her brother a quick hug. "Thank you,"

Gladion smiled lightly as he held his sister.

Marnie walked towards May and Zach, shifting her gaze between them before speaking up. "Be careful you two, I expect to be a bridesmaid soon." She gave them a light smirk as Zach and May began sweating lightly. "Oh please of course I know, Zach's my best friend! You think I wouldn't find out?"

Dulse let out a cough to get their attention as he stood nearby with Lunala, beckoning for the two lovebirds along with Mallow and Lana to step forward. The group bade their farewells before hopping onto Lunala's back as she soon disappeared into a wormhole. After a few minutes Lunala showed back up and cried out for the other group as Kiawe, Chloe, Sophocles and Gladion all stepped forward with Gladion giving one last look at his sister before climbing onto Lunala as she soon disappeared. Lunala then reappeared for the final time and Dulse beckoned for Zossie, Ash and Lillie to climb aboard.

"It feels so strange going back home!" Zossie spoke up before looking around to take in earth's view for a final time. "I'm really going to miss this place..."

Dulse was rather silent and his helmet masked visible facial reaction, he soon let out a shout and Lunala opened up another portal before flying on into it. Ash had a tight hold on Lunala as she flew through Ultra Space, he could feel Lillie's arms having a tight grip around his wrist and it honestly made him a bit calm as during his last Ultra Space trip he winded up stranded in another dimension and didn't want that to occur again! When Lunala went through another portal, transporting them to another world Ash couldn't help but let out a gasp of awe. This world wasn't like the worlds where Nihilego and his Poipole, or even the two wasteland dimensions that he'd visited! There was a vastly large and futuristic looking city that stretched for as far as the eye could see however strangely enough none of the buildings were lit up as everything was cast in darkness!

The only visible light he could see was off in the distance as a green flame was visible, most likely Zach utilizing Marshadow's z-move and as they flew above his suspicions were correct as they'd see Zach, May, Mallow and Lana currently engaged against a horde of Buzzwole and Pheromosa as Lucario, Cinderace, Dragonite, Zeraora, Marshadow, Zarude, Tsareena, Blaziken, Munchlax, Glaceon, Blastoise, Venusaur, Delcatty, Primarina and Vaporeon could be seen sparing off against the Ultra Beasts!

Further on ahead another light occurred as Kiawe and Gladion utilized Inferno Overdrive while Marnie's Mega Houndoom blasted back a Kartana with a powerful Flamethrower! The second group was currently under siege by a horde of Kartana, Xurkitree and Blacephalon! Dulse didn't make any attempt at slowing down to aid either group as they made their way to a large tower that had a source of light up at the top of it, Dulse directed Lunala to fly up to the top of the tower as that was where their target laid before they were suddenly shot down from the sky by a barrage of Dragon Pulses! Lunala was struck in a critical spot on her wing resulting in her rapidly speeding towards the ground before crashing into it and sliding across the dirt!

The four heroes were thrown off Lunala, thankfully for Dulse and Zossie they were wearing helmets which helped dull the pain. Ash and Lillie weren't so lucky as they held onto their heads while uttering out a soft groan of annoyance, Pikachu copying their actions before going wide eyed as he pointed at the sky above them. A horde of Naganadel were flying around the tower, making it impossible for them to simply just fly up! They'd have to go in and walk the stairs! Dulse let out a groan of annoyance and waved his hand. "Come on Zossie, you two... up." He walked towards the tower before freezing up and Ash soon saw why as two people with light blue skin tones walked right on out of the tower, their eyes looking like Lusamine's were when she was possessed by Nihilego! One of them had short blue hair along with quite the fancy looking moustache and goatee while the other was a female around the same age as the male, her hair was a long blue coloring much like his. The two gave a creepy smirk as Dulse as he growled out.

"Soliera, Phyco! What did he do to you...?"

"He made us whole Dulse." The male, Phyco spoke as the two stretched their arms forward and began walking towards him and Zossie like zombies. "Join us, you'll be complete just like us!"

"I refuse to be some lowly human's slave, Naganadel let's go!" Dulse sent out his Naganadel only for it to quickly get overwhelmed as Phyco whistled, he was apparently the leader of Dulse's world as the Naganadel all listened to him despite his mind control stated though that was likely due to Beast King having control over them as well!

"Pikachu we've got to help him!" Ash growled out while Lillie was busy tending to Lunala, spraying the Ultra Beast with a Hyper Potion in order to help it regain it's strength. Ash whipped out his z-power ring and activated it as he threw Pikachu his hat! "10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt, let's go!"

Pikachu's cheeks sparked as thunder clouds formed above his head, Pikachu was quick to begin absorbing electricity from the clouds and appeared to still have some excess power from draining Mirror Pikachu completely dry as the resulting attack was quite larger and more spread out than usual! Multiple colored streaks of electricity burst through the air, striking each and every Naganadel along with the two brainwashed aliens as they all let out a pain filled shock before dropping down to the ground in defeat!

Dulse looked around before looking back at Ash. "Impressive, quite impressive... I've never seen-look out!" Dulse suddenly shouted out as one of the Naganadel quickly shot up and raced right for Ash! Zossie was quick to cover her eyes as she was expecting her friend to get impaled however instead she merely heard laughter along with the familiar happy cries of the species.

"Naga!" Zossie uncovered her eyes and couldn't help but smile at the sight as Dulse stared in disbelief and even yanked his helmet off to ensure that he was seeing correctly.

"Impossible!" Dulse gasped. "How on earth did you get that Naganadel to show you that amount of affection, you're just a human!"

"This is my Naganadel or at least it was. I set him free to live in his home world back when he was a Poipole and he returned a few months later as a fully grown Naganadel to fend off a Guzzlord invasion and also aid me in cementing my status as the Alola champ! It's good to see you again, buddy!" Ash grinned as Naganadel let out a happy cry.

"So cute!" Zossie gushed out as she watched the admiration that Naganadel had for Ash and felt rather jealous as she wished to have a Pokemon look at her that way! She had yet to receive a Poipole and had always wanted one but now after seeing Ash and the love and connection he had with all sorts of Pokemon, she was starting to desire the idea of having a different Pokemon for her starter.

The other Naganadel looked around in confusion before slowly rising upwards while Phyco and Soliera stood up, rubbing their heads while two unconscious Nihilego laid next to them. Lillie was rather quick to act and chucked two Beast Balls at the Nihilego as she didn't want to risk Nihilego enhancing their connection to them like one had done with her mother, figuring to set them free later. Everyone had come with a full arsenal of Beast Balls as other than Poipole and Naganadel, the Ultra Beasts weren't native to the world at all!

Ash looked at the Naganadel as the spell appeared to have been broken, he glanced back in the direction of his friends before looking back at his own Naganadel. "Naganadel I know we just got back together but could you help my friends back there? They probably need the assistance more than we do." Ash nervously chuckled as Naganadel gave Ash a nod before emitting a cry of it's name as it took to the sky with the other Naganadel soon following behind!

"You two okay?" Dulse asked as he approached his friends.

Phyco rubbed his head with a light groan before shaking his head. "I-I think so... wait, the Beast King! He's got Solgaleo and the Radiant One captured! We must save the-Ugh!" Phyco dropped to his knees alongside Soliera as Dulse placed his hands on their shoulders.

"No, you two need to rest. I'll take care of it."

"But Dulse your Naganadel is toast! How are you going to fight?!" Zossie exclaimed. Dulse clenched his fists as he realized that she was right, he gave Ash and Lillie one last look.

"I guess you two are our last hope then. Go... reach the top and save Solgaleo and the Radiant One!"

Ash and Lillie gave a quick nod with Lillie returning Lunala so she could rest up as they climbed the tower. "Don't you worry, we'll handle this!" Ash exclaimed as he pumped his fists.

"Pika!"

"Yeah, we'll save Solgaleo and free your people!" Lillie chimed in as she copied the other two's actions before the three rushed into the tower and quickly began ascending the long flight of stairs where upon reaching the top they'd notice a Dusk Mane Necrozma standing at the top alongside a man wearing a similar suit to the Ultra Recon Squad members only his was entirely plated in gold colorings while the top of his helmet was shaped in the form of a crown!

"So you're the Chosen One that this Solgaleo warned me about..." The man spoke up as he looked Ash over before letting out a crazed laughter. "Don't look impressive to me!"

"Wait a moment, a Solgaleo?" Lillie spoke up, her words caused the Beast King to flinch for a brief second as he recognized the voice before quickly falling back into his crazed state. Being stranded in Ultra Space for nearly two decades and being stuck eating nothing save for a diet of strange alien plants would do that to a man. "The only Solgaleo we know is..."

"Nebby?!" Ash was quick to exclaim as he looked upon the Dusk Mane Necrozma, no wonder Nebby hadn't shown up to help he was already captured and under control! "Nebby this is Ash, I know you're in there buddy so please wake up! We don't want to hurt you, I've even got some of your favorite candy!" Ash pulled out the bag full of star candy and began shaking it causing Nebby to stir for a brief moment as a smile faintly crossed his face before quickly disappearing as the beast let out a growl.

"I'm afraid that you won't be able to stop me, hahaha! Lunala, especially a newborn is just too weak to fight against Necrozma!"

"We'll show you, get ready Lillie!" Ash growled out to his girlfriend, Lillie gave him a firm nod as the two began quickly posing in synch with Lunala and Pikachu.

"10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt!"

"Menacing Moonraze Maelstrom!" Lillie called out.

Pikachu began firing off the series of multicolored thunder bolts, the attack still proving to be juiced up as the bolts were quite large and had visible impact on Dusk Mane Necrozma as he was pushed back. Lunala transformed into her Full Moon form and fired down six powerful looking purple energy beams simultaneously down upon her opponent, knocking Dusk Mane Necrozma back and pushing him against the edge as Beast King could be heard letting out a grunt of annoyance, quickly activating what appeared to be a homemade z-ring as he shouted out.

"Light that Burns the Sky!" Necrozma began shifting and changing form into Ultra Necrozma! Ash and Lillie took a step back and looked fearful for a second, Lillie even letting out a scream that caused Beast King to hold the top of his head as he uttered out a groan. Ultra Necrozma lifted up his head as he began forming a rather large green energy sphere within his mouth that kept growing and growing, looking like the size of a building as Ash gave Lillie a look before beckoning her to get far from the Pokemon. He'd never see nor knew of this z-move but it felt like bad news and his suspicion was proven correct as the massive energy sphere was flung at Lunala and Pikachu before forming a massive explosion that shook the tower around them, the floor began getting unstable while pieces of the siding began falling off, offering little to no protection if somebody were to fall off!

Pikachu was out cold as the explosion died out while Lunala was down on her knees and grunting out in pain.

"Greninja, fetch Pikachu!" Ash threw forward the ball containing his faithful Water type before grabbing another ball. "Charizard use Flamethrower!"

As Greninja fetched Pikachu, Charizard flew forward and assaulted Ultra Necrozma with a powerful stream of fire.

"Moongeist Beam!" Lillie extended her arm as Lunala fired off a massive beam of blue energy down upon Ultra Necrozma. The Pokemon was still standing strong however, giving Ash and Lillie an intimidating stare.

"Prismatic Laser!" Necrozma fired off a series of multicolored lasers at Charizard and Greninja, Greninja stayed firmly upwards and looked as if it had no effect making Ash realize that Necrozma was definitely a Psychic type as there was no other reason for Greninja to not be harmed! Unfortunately for Charizard though the beam proved to much and he collapsed in defeat.

"Greninja, let's go!" Ash pumped his fist as the two began posing his synch, Greninja's body becoming encased in a bright orange sphere before it faded away to reveal Ash-Greninja!

Ash then threw forward the ball containing Latias before activating her Mega form. "Greninja use Water Shuriken, Latias use Dragon Pulse!"

Greninja began forming his giant orange Water Shuriken while Latias fired up a sphere of green-blue energy and fired it at Ultra Necrozma! The two attacks struck and knocked Necrozma back, the Pokemon began looking dazed and Ash thought of this as an opportunity to try once more to get through to Nebby!

"Nebby, please wake up! I'll give you all the star candy you desire if you just wake up now!"

"Roar?" A lion roar could be heard as Necrozma turned back to normal for a brief second as Nebby began attempting to claw his way out only for Necrozma to shove him back in!

"Power Gem!" Ultra Necrozma fired a bright blue and white energy blast from his mouth, sending the attack flying towards Mega Latias and Ash-Greninja and sending them flying back! The two Pokemon got back up but were looking visibly tired, things were looking bad as Lunala was also looking worn out, having to have sat the past few rounds out as she recovered. Ash began wondering if it was even possible to win against him for a moment before shaking it off. "No, nothing's impossible. Greninja use-"

"Ash!" Dulse's Naganadel flew up and opened up a portal as the rest of the Ultra Guardian's stepped on out, it appeared as if they'd finished up cleaning the streets and the rest of the Ultra Recon Squad also looked fully recovered and ready to fight alongside Dulse and the others.

While Ash was distracted he wouldn't notice a blue feline Pokemon quickly teleport right in front of him and Lillie, touching their z-power rings and recharging them as Mew offered his aid too before going invisible once more.

"Come on everyone, if we all use our z-moves together that should be enough to finish Necrozma!" Kiawe shouted as he held up his z-ring followed by the rest of the z-ring wielders doing the same. Ash happened to look down at his own ring and was pleasantly surprised to see it recharged, Lillie noticed and let out a gasp as she saw it was the same situation with her z-ring as well!

Naganadel appeared in front of Ash and dropped a purple z-crystal into his hand as Ash looked down at it before looking up. "Is this Poisonium?" He asked. Naganadel nodded as Ash thought back to Professor Kukui teaching them all the poses. "Alright Acid Downpour right? I've got this!"

"Acid Downpour!" Ash shouted as he utilized a z-move with his faithful Ultra Beast for the first time.

"Inferno Overdrive!" Kiawe shouted.

"Devastating Drake!" Gladion shouted.

"Gigavolt Havoc!" Sophocles cried out.

"Oceanic Operetta!" Lana shouted.

"Bloom Doom!" Mallow cried.

"Extreme Evoboost!" Chloe shouted.

"Soul-Stealing 7-Star Strike!" Zach exclaimed before Lillie finished it off with.

"Menacing Moonraze Maelstrom!" All the z-moves combined into a massive and powerful sphere of multicolored light as it hovered above Naganadel, Marowak, Silvally, Vikavolt, Primarina, Tsareena, Eevee, Marshadow and Lunala before blasting Ultra Necrozma and engulfing the powerful legendary in a bright light! Nebby was thrown out of the beast but it appeared that the light was enough to keep Necrozma in his Ultra form permanently once more much like they'd down before with a different one! Ultra Necrozma was laying face first against the tower surface as Beast King started backing up against the edge of the tower, part of his mask started to crack and fall off.

"N-No! T-That's impossible!" His voice sounded normal after the mask broke causing Lillie and Gladion to let out a shared gasp while Ash's eyes shot wide as he recognized the man from a picture Lillie showed him!

"And before you get any ideas," Zach reached for his final Beast Ball and chuckled it at Ultra Necrozma, the ball absorbed the downed legendary before chiming out. Zach immediately turned and handed it to Dulse. Not knowing who Mohn was he wasn't distracted by the situation and not being the great at reading faces he didn't know there was some drama going on. "There you go, I trust it won't fall into enemy hands now that it has a Pokeball!"

Dulse stared at the Beast Ball in disbelief for a moment before bowing his head in appreciation. "Thank you human-er Zach." Dulse corrected himself as both his and Ash's actions that day had finally cleansed away his hatred for humans. He couldn't judge an entire species due to the actions of one human, Zossie was right! He took the ball while Lillie let out a shout.

"Dad!"

"Lillie? I-" Mohn held onto his head before the edge of the tower began to crumble and he fell out of view.

"Dad!" Lillie and Gladion rushed right over and saw their father hanging from an edge not far beneath them.

"Hang on dad, we can save you!" Gladion shouted, acting very emotional and quite unlike his usual self.

"No, it's... it's too late for me." Mohn groaned out. "I can already feel my mind slipping, he's coming back... I-I don't want to make you guys have to see me like that. I-I'll destroy you!" He shouted up at them with an enraged expression before holding his forehead once more. "I-I've managed to put another hold on him briefly, I-I just wanted to say it's an honor to see you two have grown into such lovely young and strong adults. I'm so proud of you, I-I'll kill you!" Mohn suddenly let go as 'Beast King' took control again but unfortunately his alter ego failed to process the situation he was in as he began to plummet towards the ground, a loud splat was heard seconds later as he laid at the foot of the tower. Lillie began crying while Gladion clenched his fists out of frustration.

"Damn it! An entire year of searching for nothing, we could have saved him... we could have..." Gladion hung his head as Chloe rushed over and placed her arm on his shoulder in a comforting manner.


"Alright Buzzwole first," Soliera spoke up as her Naganadel opened up a portal to a vast jungle world. May, Mallow, Zach and Lana walked forward before releasing the captured Buzzwole into the portal. "Now for Phemorosa!" The first group didn't need to move as they were quick to release the captured Phemorosa into a strange desert planet!

Lillie was crying into Ash's shoulder as he comforted her, Marnie kept her distance for the time being and took charge of sending their captured Ultra Beasts to the right worlds.

"I-I can't believe he's gone!" Lillie sniffed.

Gladion said nothing and kept his head lowered as tears continued to flow from his eyes.

Phyco crossed his arms as he looked Dulse and Zossie over. "You two sure about this? Cause as our laws state once you change your home world to a different one you may never come back, this is it." Phyco looked at Dulse in particular as he said that. "You'll be stuck with those humans you hate so much forever with no escape!"

"I'm sure!" Dulse stated as he clenched his fists. "There are so many things out there to be discovered and earth is actually quite a lovely place. I'd like to accompany Zossie on her quest to gather up these 'badges' at this 'Indigo League' we've heard about."

Zossie was shaking in excitement as she looked up at her best friend before pulling him into a tight hug. "I knew you had a heart!"

"Very well, well to ensure that you can't come back Naganadel will have to be reassigned to a different individual. I'm very sorry about this by the way," Phyco addressed. "But rules are rules, I can't break them for even my brother."

Dulse looked at his yellow Naganadel before looking towards the one who'd given them Necrozma to watch over and protect. "How about him? He's always had a thing for aliens and expressed sorry at not being allowed to keep one, and giving us Ultra Necrozma proves that he won't misuse it's power!"

Phyco crossed his arms as he looked towards Zach before looking back at Dulse, uttering out a light sigh before rolling his eyes. "Very well, but this better not be some excuse to keep it!" Phyco turned to walk away and Soliera gave her younger brother a look of sorrow before rushing after her elder brother.

Dulse approached Zach as he and May appeared to be talking excitedly about something, Dulse tilted his head for a moment before coughing. "Ahem,"

"Huh? Oh hey Dulse, are we in your way? Sorry we'll go!" Zach was quick to back away as he thought Dulse still disliked them.

Dulse raised up his hand before placing a beast ball into his hand. "That's Naganadel, take good care of it for me will you? I aim to start all over on earth with Zossie traveling by my side, and I'd appreciate it if Naganadel's in the hands of somebody that I can trust."

Zach stared down at the ball for a moment before looking up. "This isn't a trap, is it?"

Dulse shook his head resulting in Zach doing a little dance of joy as May couldn't help but giggle at the sight of her boyfriend's action. "Thank you Dulse, I've always wanted to own an alien! I'll take good care of him, I promise! And you can visit him whenever you like if you're ever in the area of Galar!"

Dulse smiled lightly, thankful that Naganadel would be well taken care of before turning around to meet Zossie as Naganadel opened up a portal for his friend and former trainer one last time. "Goodbye Naganadel, maybe I'll see you on the other side one day." Dulse fully smiled for the first time ever before stepping on through the portal and Zossie turned and gave an excited shout before waving at all her new friends.

"Bye everyone, I hope to see you again someday!" She cried out before skipping happily into the portal as it closed up after her.

After Lillie had grieved for a few hours she'd calmed down enough that Ash felt comfortable enough informing her that they should get going. Lillie could only nod before wrapping her arms around him as she continued to silently cry into his shoulder.

"Naganadel's ready to go!" Zach waved. "Let's get going!" Gladion stuffed his hands into his pockets and silently stepped on through before quickly being followed by Chloe, Lana gave Lillie's shoulder a light tap before she and Kiawe walked on through along with Sophocles, Mallow followed after them and Zach stepped through hand in hand with May. Ash was about to step through with Lillie before hearing a series of growls, he turned around and saw both Nebby and his own Naganadel looking at him with longing gazes.

"You two wanna come with?" The Pokemon nodded and Ash couldn't help but smirk, he also carried his released Pokemon's Pokeballs with him in case they ever wanted to come back so returning Naganadel was little problem! "Welcome back buddy," Ash grinned at the ball before looking up at Nebby. Ash fished around in his bag before holding out a beast ball to him.

"You wanna officially join the team?" Nebby gave a nod before gently tapping the Pokeball with his nose, disappearing in a beam of red light before the ball chimed instantly within Ash's hands to announce the capture a success!


A week had gone by and Lillie was feeling better, well enough that Ash felt comfortable leaving her behind anyways. She was still grieving just not as heavily. Zach, May and Marnie descended the steps of the Aether Foundation as they were to catch a boat straight to Galar, courtesy of Lusamine as Zach was set to earn his fourth gym badge in a few days! Ash took a bit longer as he and Pikachu helped themselves to some last minute snacks at the buffet bar, they began to descend the steps and follow their three friends before Chloe spoke up.

"Um... everyone?" They turned to face her as Chloe's face turned bright red. "I-I think I'm gonna stay here, much fun as it is traveling with you guys I've learned so much studying here at the Foundation and getting to hang out with Gladion is like nothing I've ever experienced!" Chloe sighed out as stars filled her eyes. She gave them an apologetic look. "I hope I don't upset you, I-I'll still show up to watch the Galar League and the finals of the World Championship like I promised!"

Zach gave Chloe a smile before stepping forward and placing his hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry about it Chloe, we understand. You've finally found your goal in life and seeing how the rest of us are traveling with our significant other, it'd be unfair to judge you for wanting to stay and get closer to Gladion and further your research profession as well."

"Yeah we support ya all the way, Chloe!" Marnie smirked, giving her shoulder a light nudge as Chloe smiled at them.

"It won't be the same traveling without you but at least you're happy!" May smiled.

"Good luck with your goal and... Gladion." Ash sweated lightly as the thought occurred to him that if things worked out, Chloe would be technically related to him if she married Gladion and he married Lillie.

"Wait for me!" Lillie cried out, hurriedly rushing down the steps in her 'z-form' attire.

"Huh?" Ash turned before a large grin crossed his face as he realized that Lillie was wanting to travel with him again!

"I-I wanna come with you guys, I-I wanna get out there and see the world... there's so many regions out there and Pokemon to discover! I-I'd really like to see them!"

Chloe smiled before turning around after wishing them all a farewell, thankful that her place would be taken by a girl as friendly and loving as Lillie!

Ash looked towards Marnie, Zach and May to see what their say on the matter was. None of them appeared to have any issues as they gave a nod before forming a light circle and holding out their hands as Ash took his place next to Marnie before beckoning Lillie to stand next to him. May placed her hand out first and Zach placed his on top of hers, Marnie followed by covering his and Ash covered hers in turn, Lillie gave a bright smile before placing hers on top as she appreciated being welcomed into the group as an equal!


Far away in the Sinnoh region Team Rocket executives Butch and Cassidy were currently seeing the uncovering of an ancient ruin.

"Come on move your butts faster people, that ruin isn't going to uncover itself!" Butch shouted.

"We're working as hard as we can Biff!" One of the grunts retaliated causing Butch's face to light up bright red before stomping his feet.

"It's Butch! Even as the leader of the Sinnoh branch I still can't get treated with respect, what is so hard with saying my dang name?!"

"Calm yourself Butch," Cassidy placed her hand on his shoulder as a grunt soon came crawling out of the ruin with what appeared to be an ancient looking piece of blue fur.

"S-Sir, Madam! I-I think this is what you want..."

Butch and Cassidy's eyes lit up before they cast each other an sinister smirk, they were close to cloning the mythical Pokemon Mew and making the ultimate Pokemon!

So Chloe is staying in Alola with Gladion, similar to how Brock stayed with Professor Ivy only it's permanent.

The Alola arc is finally over and they're going back to Galar where Zach will face off against Allister, more Galar plot progression, and Ash meets a certain canon Galar capture!

This took me awhile as it was hard to come up with an ending I was satisfied with, I wasn't sure how to handle Mohn...

Anyways since this is chapter 40 and it's been awhile I'm gonna post the current team changes/additions to refresh memories.

Ash:

Captures- Kubfu, Dreepy, Inteleon, Latias(Mega), shiny Gardevoir(Mega), Toxtricity, Silver/Lugia, Tyranitar, Alola Sandshrew, Centiskorch, Nebby/Solgaleo

Evolutions- Emboar, Gabite, Servine, Dewott, Scrafty

Greninja, Goodra, Primeape and Naganadel returned

Traded- Scizor

Given away- Murkrow

Sceptile and Gabite have Mega stones.

Releases- Regigigas

Zach:

Captures- Lucario, Cinderace, Obstagoon, Corvisquire, Empoleon, Dragonite, Alolan Raichu, Porygon 2, Zeraora, shiny Eevee, Scizor, Vibrava, Marshadow(z-move), shiny Naganadel

Released- Butterfree, Furret, Regice, Regirock, Buzzwole, Pheromosa, Necrozma

Traded- Centiskorch, Vulpix, Litwik

Given away- Swablu

Marnie:

Morpeko, Grimmsnarl, Nickit, Deino, Bisharp, Houndoom (Mega), Murkrow

Released- Registeel, Buzzwole, Pheromosa

May:

Additions- Indeedee, Swablu

Evolutions- Delcatty

Released- Beautifly, Regice, Buzzwole, Pheromosa

James:

Ampharos(Mega), Cramorant

Jessie:

Mawile(Mega), Drednaw

Lillie:

Additions- Wigglytuff, Lunala

Evolutions- Ninetails/Snowy

Hope you all enjoyed the read! Until next time, chapter location updates just depends on the place and mood I'm in!