Note: Stay tuned for the final part. Level Ten will the one that takes the cake in this Cyberspace Misadventure.


Meanwhile, at Gryphicent's oasis, Nebby, Nebula, and the rest of their party managed to recover from their latest ordeal while they chatted away with said Pokemon and Delosky and her sisters. But, the baby Ultra Beasts and Snowflake were growing worried as there was no sign of Flygon, Sarah, her adoptive parents, Tsukumaro, Race, and Magearna. It had been nearly an hour since the Mystic Pokemon had burrowed into the sand to search for them and having no idea what's going on down below, Snowflake was starting to expect the worst as was Nebula and Nebby.

"Mommy, is Big Brother going to be okay?" she asked Draco as she stopped pacing and went in front of her while whimpering a little while the female Dragonite nestled with Hydreigon.

"Now, now, Snowflake, your brother is stronger and faster than he looks now that he's a Flygon. He'll find them and come back," she reassured sweetly, bringing her daughter figure close and nuzzling her gently as she hugged her.

"...Guys, I can't help but think," Blitz finally said as he and Curly snuggled together with Mudsdale providing them support as he laid down. "In that bout with Jin and Teng at Level 2, Mom and Race were almost damn killed by them."

"And, those velociraptor bastards nearly picked us off twice on the way there and Level 7", sighed Robbie, he and Bella huddling together in the oasis.

"We were even indirectly responsible for destroying the Griffons' old home back at Level 2 when they attacked. Good thing they didn't hurt or kill their young and eggs, otherwise Gallus and his flock would have our heads," sighed Star in solemn remembrance.

"Those meanies aren't as scary as that Hungarian Horntail back at Level 3 at Dragon Mountain," Mai put in, sharing Star, Blitz, and Robbie's sentiments. "Mommy Sarah couldn't take her after getting that capsule, didn't stand a chance."

"...And, those dorks took us by surprise back at Level 4 before we were saved by that Pachycephalosaurus," Danny added as he and Danielle sat together with Umbreon and Leafeon.

"We were lucky to escape when it came to our rescue, must've known somehow that we're friendly and it can trust us," Danielle said while giving an agreeing nod to everyone.

"You think anything might've happened to Sarah and the rest after they were kidnapped?" pondered a concerned Sylveon, she, Goodra, and Noctowl sitting by Umbreon and Leafeon's right and Gryphincent's left.

"If they did manage to escape, I'd imagine the Sandbuster making it hard for them to do so," Gryphincent said grimly.

"Oh, brother! What are we supposed to do now?" groaned Jolteon as she slumped down, feeling bored. "Why couldn't we take that creep down while we had the chance before she and those with her got sucked down under?"

"Because if you did attack, you little rascal, you'd end up hurting your friend and her loved ones as well. Even if you could get a proper and exact shot on its tail, you'd drag your humans into the crossfire and wound them hard. You'll get yourselves into more trouble."

"Who said we would, Long Wings? I'm a sharpshooter with my Pin Missile attack, I can't miss even if it tries to escape, right?" Jolteon spat suspiciously as she pointed her paw at Gryphincent, only for him to swat it away as she got in his face and was restrained by Noctowl as he held her with his left.

"Cut it out, Young Jolteon," the Owl Pokemon put in, unimpressed.

"That's not funny," Delosky peeped, she and her sisters resting opposite to the ones speaking.

"If they really are in trouble, we better find them once we're ready," Naxoreal suggested.

"All of us against a giant dragon that acts like a Tiger Shark on land?" quizzed Parosea worriedly.

"We've all gotten past those mythicals Ming Wu created as well as that hack Jin and Teng did back at Level 8 so compared to them, the Black Dragons are our biggest gripe to worry about," Snivy reminded as she and her brothers rested with Silvally and Tou-Tou.

Calyrex sighed as he soothed Spectrier and shook his head at the thought of Jin and Teng, his eldest son nuzzling him gently to offer him comfort, "Those hooligans and the other Black Dragons, they're all experts. They've really planned this whole thing out and it won't be long until they run us to the ground completely. Even if we do have the advantage of numbers, Jin and Teng have their dinosaurs and their Move Cards from the Fire Capsule as well as the last map piece we still need and their brothers are continuing to give the Jungle Fury Rangers and the princess' friends a hard time so the possibility of reinforcements is unrealistic right now. While they have us all stretched thin with us being sitting ducks and Faraji and her party trying to find the Diricawl on Level 5 while they're on our tails, nothing we can do, for now. And, that's for sure."

"What, why not?!"

"If we're all together, there's over 200 of us and four of them!" Tepig and Oshawott protested.

"Alright, Larry and Curly-Joe, you tell us how we can beat those stooges," Silvally scoffed.

"We can't beat them now but if we keep on learning as we all did with the Pai Zhuq Masters, we'll beat them!" Oshawott spat defiantly.

"Learn, learn!?" Silvally spat back in the Sea Otter Pokemon's face as they glared at each other.

Suddenly, everyone stopped as they took in Oshawott and Silvally's argument and what they had said, looking at them in surprise. It was at that moment when Ching Wan snapped his fingers in realization and quickly approached them from his and the Shiny Pokemon's spot next to Race's other team members, joining the Synthetic Pokemon brothers and the Unova Starters as he looked to Silvally and Oshawott.

"That's it! You're right, you two! We can learn; since we still have time and Level 9 before we reach the final level, there's still much more we'll have to learn in order to find out how to beat Jin and Teng!" the Single Strike Style Urshifu explained. "It's our fault that we were beaten and outmatched by Ming Wu's creatures that tried to hurt us and the Black Dragons. But, we'll remedy that, I'm sure of it."

"It's going to take us a while to even figure out what we have to do to retrieve the Fire Capsule and the map piece as well as deal with the Black Dragons and whatever the boss of the final level could be when we get there, Ani-Chan," reminded Hashimoto, even though he agreed.

"And, by the sound of it, you're all on a time limit as it is," Gryphincent warned skeptically.

"It doesn't matter if it takes all of us days as long as we're in the game, Gryphincent. We've lots of time," Arcanine reassured as he and Tundra laid down together in another part of the oasis. "According to what Sarah told us regarding Ming Wu's creation, she designed it to be a little bit like that Zelda game released a few years ago called Breath of the Wild."

"If that's so, we'll also need to find out what's ahead of us on Level 9 and if Jin and Teng will be there so we can have all of the capsules and map pieces before we take on the boss at the final level," Tundra put in with a nod.

"...I know how we can do it; my and Ella's team can scout ahead and report back through reconnaissance," put in Kit as he and Ella flew to Ching Wan, the Unova Starters, Silvally, and Tou-Tou after thinking. "Those bastards will never expect us to spy on them alone while you all hang back to be ready."

Oshawott gulped over this as he tried to backtrack his words, "Hey, wait, wait a minute! I was only kidding about the learning part, I didn't mean it, really!"

"Nuts!" snapped an annoyed Silvally, slapping Oshawott hard and getting some chuckles and amused/unamused eye rolls from everyone.

"We'll start as soon as Sarah, her loved ones, Race, and Magearna are found and we tell them everything," finished the elder Wushu Pokemon as he stood up.

Everybody gathered nodded in agreement, knowing that once they found the Diricawl and are ready to roll to the final level from the Warp Zone at the fork between Levels 5 and 6, their giant family and their friends would be reunited and ready to take on Levels 9 and 10.

"Well, let's first recap what we know about Terry and Blaze while they were in the Black Dragons' hands. What have we found out already?" Azelf quizzed.

"Well, according to my calculations, there's a 100% chance that they're the dinosaurs belonging to the Fire Capsule Ming Wu had designed for us to find and use. And, they were found indefinitely by Jin and Teng after hacking the game," Nitro put in, the gears in his computer-like brain turning. "With their Move Cards belonging to them, like the rest of the dinosaurs in our possession, they only have two Move Cards with their attacks akin to Flamethrower and Fire Pledge as far as we know."

"Yes, but there's something that's 35% different about those two moves and those slight changes make all the difference in terms of power, effectiveness, and the knowhow," Calculator put in, adding to the scientific Totem Vikavolt's theory.

"And, each of the Element Stones we have along with the Fire Stone in those stooges' hands have their own elements engraved. In that respect, the dinos must have different typings akin to the typings we Pokemon have," Zorua included.

"Yeah, but don't forget, Kid, while we have six dino types with those stones, we have 18 type variants," Mischief interjected.

"If we're thinking that, we can classify Terry and Blaze as Fire Dinosaurs. In the classic match-up of Fire vs. Water, those Water Dinosaurs we found thanks to the Zouwu at Level 1 could do us a world of good against them, logically speaking," Braivary suggested.

"And, regarding those Ceratopsians, their main element of attack is lightning. Not only that, from our lessons on the real world's history in prehistoric times, Ceratopsians are known as the most formidable fighters that existed during that time second only to the T-Rex," Star informed.

"Well, at least we have an idea on what to do when we get to Level 9 and Level 10," sighed Spectrier. "The only problem now is how do we check up on Flygon to see if he found Sarah and the others."

"Uh... Hang on, what's that?" asked Slurpuff, pointing to what looked like a series of blurs coming from the skies above that are heading towards them.

"Are they birds?"

"I hate giant birds..."

"They could be planes."

"I doubt Ming Wu would have planes invented in the game."

"That was never her intent given how much she surprised and terrified us with what she's put in."

"I d-don't deny t-t-that."

"If they're not birds or planes, then what are they?" Enya, Luna, Tyrunt, Kaji, Mesprit, Uxie, and Zeraora bantered, leaving Zorua and Mischief to shapeshift into a Corviknight and a Garchomp to see what the blot are.

"See anything familiar or off about them, Sensei?" Zorua questioned as they flapped and narrowed their eyes to get a better look.

"It's hard to see but by my bird's eye view, I'm seeing... Hold on," Mischief began, seeing the blobs change as they got closer until they formed a sight they're most relieved and happy to hear. "Yes, it's Flygon! And, the kid along with her family, Champion Man, and Magearna, they're alright!"

Zorua gasped as she looked closer and saw Sarah, her family, boyfriend, and guardian returning to them and the others while flying onboard Polar, Orpheus, Ivory, and Ivy with Swirls continuing to fly alongside her parents. And, to Snowflake and her parents' joy and relief, Flygon was amongst them as he led the way back to the group from the Sandbuster's cavern labyrinth, unharmed as he promised.

"Sarah ahoy..." the Tricky Fox Pokemon gasped, relief filling her before she turned to the rest of their party down below and called out, in pirate speak, "Sarah off the port bow, Sarah off the port bow!"

"MAMA!"

"MAMA OFF THE PORT BOW!" cheered Nebby and Nebula.

"Sarah/Mom!" Milotic and Aqua cried in elation.

"Hey, it's Sarah!"

"YAY!"

"They're alright!" Delosky and her sisters peeped excitedly.

"She's back, they're all back!"

"They made it!"

"Princess!"

"Thank Arceus!"

"Alright, Mother! YEAH!"

"Mother!" Scorch, Ponyta, Calyrex, Rapidash, Silvally, and Nyasi shouted in overwhelming joy and relief.

"DADDY!"

"Father!"

"May the heavens be blessed that all of them and Master Race are 100% unharmed!"

"DAD!"

"You're alive!"

"I knew they could do it!" Race's entire team cried ecstatically, Cocoa jumping up and down as she barked excitedly.

Everybody down below cheered as they celebrated the safe return of their human mother/trainer/caretaker and her adoptive parents, Tsukumaro, Race, and Magearna touching down from their new friends. However, the reunion was also met with shocked and awestruck looks as they all took notice of the five new Pokemon that had brought them back from out of the underground desert caverns. None of them had any idea of the wild adventure the six of them had as well as the newest members of their family (the thought and previous endeavor that caused the new Pokemon to join them still causing James and Nikki to mentally chagrin despite supporting their adopted daughter's decision) and what became of the Sandbuster so they were bombarding them with questions about what had happened while they were waiting for them and if the Sandbuster would appear again should it go after them again.

Even Snowflake couldn't help herself as she ran to Flygon and nuzzled him happily while their parents joined the two and hugged their son, relieved that he wasn't hurt and he managed to find Sarah and bring her, her parents, Tsukumaro, Magearna, and Race back safely.

Absol calmly went over to his master with a relieved and soft smile but Deerling, Bambi, Axew, Dragonite, Lucario, and the rest of his, Nikki, and James' Pokemon didn't exercise restraint as the younger Pokemon jumped into their arms and cuddled them while the others hugged or nuzzled the trio.

While Race's entire team came to their trainer (with Bella jumping in his arms and cuddling him, afraid to let go of him in fear of the moment being a dream), Cocoa was still as ecstatic as ever as she joined Bella and nuzzled his neck happily with her rock-like collar (making him wince as he kept his smile on his face, also happy to see his female Rockruff again).

"All right, Pipsqueak," smirked Eternatus softly as he stood by from his spot and watched, trying but failing to hide his own relief for his trainer returning to them, alive and unharmed.

"As I live and breathe..." breathed Gryphincent with an amazed look in his face and widened eyes, stunned and in awe of Sarah, her loved ones, Race, and Magearna's survival.

Reshiram just nodded with a relieved yet proud smile; even he had to admit that he was worried for the little princess and was glad to know that Sarah and those with her were safe and none the worst for their misadventure.

Everyone in their party, apart from Gryphincent, Reshiram, and Eternatus, continued to bombard their supposed lost loved ones with questions until Sarah had to stop them, wanting to explain the full story to them at a point when the Black Dragons aren't hot on their tails again or once they're all out of the game.

"Guys, please, we don't have time for this," she told them as Silvally came up to her, his concern and worry for her evident in his face which made her give a soft smile to him as she rubbed him. "I'm alright, Silvally. We all are..."

"...I know, but," he replied quietly with a sniffle, leaning into her as he tried to keep himself from crying in relief while he nuzzled her.

"Hey, what's with the Pegasi Flight Service?" Zorua quipped, turning the others' attention to Polar, Orpheus, Ivory, Ivy, and Swirls (currently being crowded by the awestruck younger Pokemon).

"Sarah, these Pokemon... What are they to you?" Zeraora added in surprise.

"Princess, what have you all been doing after you were kidnapped by that Sandbuster?" Cobalion quizzed, raising an eyebrow at the little princess as he directed her to the new Pokemon with her group.

"Where did they come from?" added Tou-Tou just as Sarah and Race released Torch and Freya from their balls to join the new Pokemon currently out with them.

"Tou-Tou, Zeraora, everybody, meet my and Race's new Reliquine and Burstallion: Torch, Freya, Polar, and Orpheus, and Ivory, Ivy, and their daughter: Swirls, a family of three Majestekh and Magistrate Pokemon," the princess introduced, directing the group to the new Pokemon currently with them.

"They're five of an army of new Pokemon that Ming Wu and her team created just for the game alone. We came across them along with a few others that helped us escape from the Sandbuster and agreed to help us get out of the game. And, what's more, I'm having them join us so they can have a new life away from the strife Jin and Teng had given them ever since they hacked into the game and stirred up nothing but trouble for everyone here."

Everyone froze in surprise and bewilderment over what they heard, Jolteon immediately breaking the silence three minutes later as she voiced everyone's thoughts, "You, did, WHAT?"

"Princess, you can't be serious!" gasped Virizion in astonishment.

"Mommy, did you seriously meet and take in new Pokemon after you guys got kidnapped?" Stufful peeped in surprise.

"I did and they're not the only ones. Some of them, I met by chance and unexpectedly with one of them nearly making off with my amulet," Sarah admitted as she took out the other balls housing the rest of her new Pokemon and opened them, bringing out the Pokemon in question while her Pokemon jumped back in utter shock when they were revealed.

The Pokemon released also jumped back in shock as they yelped, all of them staggered and immediately overwhelmed as they all stood face-to-face with the majority of Sarah's Pokemon in their new family. Flameaconda, Akira and his herd, Umbra, Kamakazi, and their pride, Donka and Donkapa, and even Gerudeon and her children were blown away to see their new friend having, in her possession, over 100 Pokemon under her wing and eclipse the total amount of Pokemon from her parents, godfather, and boyfriend combined.

Everyone was stunned and even Cobalion was baffled before he raised an eyebrow in response while his eyes steeled towards Sarah, demanding a fuller explanation, "Some, Princess?"

"What the-?!"

"STRANGERS!"

"Sarah!"

"YIKES!"

"WAH!"

"Jinkies!"

"Ekk!"

"AHH!"

"What is this?!"

"Bloody hell!"

"Who are you people?!" the new Pokemon belonging to Sarah shrieked in surprise, shock, bewilderment, and fear with some cowering and others getting into battle stances, preparing to fight who/what they perceived as enemies.

"Hey, guys, guys! It's okay, that's my family you're meeting," Sarah cut in, raising her hands in reassurance and in surrender to soothe her startled newbies before she turned to her family.

"Guys, allow me to introduce my new Pokemon that'll be joining us from today: Umbra, Kamakazi, and their pride of Snolions, Snolionesses, Iccubs, Akira and his herd of Knight Pokemon: Debstriker, Naguara the Inundation Pokemon, Flameaconda, Donkapa and her daughter Donka, Gerudeon and her Alatian Luxray children: Andres and Whiskers..."

She paused impressively as she saw Ching Wan and Hashimoto slowly come up to Wang Lun as he gave a soft smile and a nod to his real-life counterparts in both their evolved and pre-evolved descendants. The wide-eyed and shocked Wushu Brothers didn't know what to think but the two of them feel a sense of familiarity with the new Wushu Pokemon standing before them and their family.

"Hashimoto, Ching Wan, meet your ancestor and the original master/creator of Aura Sphere. This is Wang Lun, the Dual Strike Urshifu," she finished, throwing the Wushu Brothers for a loop.

Even Star, Cobalt, and Nikki's Lucario were taken aback that Wang Lun's species was the original creator of the Aura Sphere attack that their own species would become known for. They thought that a Lucario was the original creator of Aura Sphere and they never bothered to question its origins but with the reveal of the new Urshifu and the bombshell from Sarah, this turned that conventional bit of Pokemon logic on its head. They were even more astounded when Wang Lun confirmed this, recounting everything Ming Wu detailed to his new master and her family about his species and the fact that it was a Dual Strike Urshifu like him that taught a Lucario that went to its current remote mountain home in a new region how to control its own Aura (called 'Qi' by martial artists and martial art historians).

"A pride of snow lions, medieval horses, Pegasi, Sphinx-like lions, a serpent, ice camels?" recounted a stunned Hydreigon, looking over the newcomers before he turned to Sarah and his son.

"Son, what exactly have you all been up to while you were looking for Sarah and her loved ones and Magearna?"

"...Long story," Flygon replied sheepishly.

"But, what's that on your wrist and waistbelt, Mom?" Star quizzed, seeing her human mother's Dino Bracer and Dino Gadget.

Sarah looked towards her new devices from Ming Wu and gazed towards Race's set before she turned to her Aura Pokemon daughter and told her, "These? Oh, these are from Ming Wu: a Dino Bracer and a Dino Gadget. She made them for Race and I as he's got a set as well. We can use them to carry our Elemental Stones as well as the Dinosaur and Move Cards we have on us, we won't have to worry about lugging their capsules around all the time."

"So, we don't have to worry about carrying the cards and the stones by hand in their capsules all the time?"

Sarah nodded which got a relieved and grateful smile from the Shiny Aura Pokemon over the subject of the capsules and the items they've obtained from them.

"My friends, I don't know how we can thank you enough," Calyrex thanked the newcomers, he and his sons bowing gratefully to Umbra, Kamakazi, Akira, Wang Lun, and the rest of the new Pokemon regarding Sarah's safety and that of her loved ones. "Until she returned, we believed the princess was lost to that horrid monster but we can rest easy, knowing that she and her loved ones were all in your care."

One of Akira's brothers, Blackie, nodded back to the King of Bountiful Harvests and his Wild/Swift Horse Pokemon, "We're glad that she's unharmed when our old friends managed to chase off that ghastly beast your enemies hacked into Cyberspace. Even if we were in our new Pokeballs, we could hear your human speak highly of you all while talking with her family and her friend's new Mystic Pokemon steeds on the way here according to her strange watch."

"Your human's kindness and compassion know no bounds," added one of Akira's sisters, Paddie. "She made her infamous offer to have any and all Pokemon who had been hurt and made homeless in great magnitude to join her and her family, which we've gratefully accepted."

"Oh, brother..."

"I had a feeling that pipsqueak of mine would do that," grumbled Silvally and Eternatus knowingly.

Totem Luxray, Kion, Kiara, and the latter two's pride soon approached Umbra, Kamakazi, and their Snolion/Snolioness/Iccub pride as they took in the digital Majestic and Cub Pokemon. The latter pride were in awe of the small pride before them, Kion, Kiara, their fellow Pyroar, and their own cubs along with Totem Luxray; together, they were about as unconventional of a lion's pride as lion-like Pokemon such as them could get.

"So, you're all the small pride Sarah told us about earlier," Suruk remarked, looking over the lion Pokemon menagerie before them before he turned to Totem Luxray while Sengo and his siblings started to play with Cinder, Tifu, and Zuri.

"Are you the leader, then? The one who's meant to be the leader of this motley crew of yours?" Totem Luxray chuckled softly as he shook his head with a kind smile and directed the Ice Types to Kion and Kiara.

"Yes and no; I was once the leader but as I'm past my prime and after a leadership battle fought on my behalf, these two belonging to Sarah were able to save my pride and become our leaders, effectively allowing me to hand over my old position to them. I'm deeply indebted to them for what they've done, especially when they've allowed me to remain with my pride until the end of my days." Kamakazi smiled as she and Umbra met up with Kion and Kiara as they watched the Iccub and Litleo cubs mingling and roughhousing together, "I see a few somebodies enjoying themselves, there aren't many cubs their age or similar to them so this is a nice development for our babies."

"That's one of the most beautiful things about us Pokemon and our young; the innocence of our children, it never fails to bring the most of out all of us whether many of us are loving parents or caretakers in all forms," Kion nodded in agreement, he and his sister smiling towards the cubs continuing to play with each other. Tou-Tou and the Eevee Squad joined by Sylveon, Eevee, Skitty, Goodra, and Noctowl met up with Gerudeon and her children, the Eevee Squad being intrigued to know of a digital and unknown Eeveelution made by Ming Wu that's unlike any other conventional Eeveelution in the real world.

"Are you Gerudeon?" asked Tou-Tou, getting a nod and a cheeky smile from the Thief Pokemon. "What is it you do?"

"Well, I'm called the Thief Pokemon for a reason because..." Gerudeon began, looking towards Umbreon before she darted to him and back to her original spot like lightning but with one tiny difference... Umbreon felt something off with his face as he felt around his eyes until he saw an item of his in front of Gerudeon's eyes, causing him to gasp in shock,

"My Black Glasses!"

"Hey, you just took Daddy's Shades!" blinked Glaceon in surprise.

"How did you-?!" spluttered Jolteon in shock.

"As I told you, I'm the Thief Pokemon for a reason," sniggered Gerudeon. "Stealing's my specialty, these things don't look too bad."

"Gerudeon..." Sarah hissed, sending her a warning stink eye and making her return Umbreon's Black Glasses and give a disgruntled sigh. "Hmph, spoilsport," she grunted.

"Oh boy, here we go again," Houndoom dreaded, his memories of Carmen Sandiego flooding back into his mind after seeing Gerudeon's stunt.

"That brought back some unpleasant memories," Salamence put in, grimacing.

"And, you both are her children?" Flareon quizzed Andres and Whiskers. "Yeah. But, the thing is, we're both adopted," nodded Andres.

"Our mother found us as a pair of eggs a while before you guys came into the game and ever since then, especially after we hatched and evolved into the Alatian Luxray you see before you, we've been living with her and learning her ways to survive," Whisker finished.

"But, don't you darlings think stealing from others is inherently wrong from the get-go?" asked a concerned Espeon.

The two Alatian Luxray looked at each other nodded but Andres responded, "Yeah, it is wrong but with the Sandbuster causing so much trouble since it showed up and we only had so much to go on while he was in those caves, we had to do what we must in order to survive. You should know about that since we heard Sarah mentioning you guys despite us being in our Pokeballs throughout the whole flight to this oasis."

Umbreon and his daughters blinked but they looked at each other and grew sheepish, remembering their previous life growing up before meeting Sarah and being accepted into her family.

"...Right, of course. You, you have a point," the Shiny Midnight Pokemon stammered before he sighed, not denying Andres' words.

Seviper, on the other hand, came across Flameaconda as she slithered to another corner of the oasis by herself. Wondering why she was isolating herself from the others and the rest of his family, the Hoenn Poison Type slithered close to her which got the Fire Anaconda Pokemon's attention as she gave a hard stare towards him. The former didn't flinch as his eyes softened at the lone wolf Fire Type as he inched himself closer to her.

"What do you want?" she hissed suspiciously.

"Nothing, jusssssssst wondering why you're by yourssssssself," Seviper began carefully as she turned away, giving off a small pout and scoffed. "Are you a Fire Type? Not like you to live in a desert, really."

"Hmph, a Fire/Poisssssson Type, thank you. I'm known asssssss the Anaconda Pokemon, Flameaconda. I have my ways of surviving, however; the heat from that giant sandy sauna doesn't bother me, anyway."

Seviper was confused but he tried to press on gently, "What's wrong? You can't be that angry all the time..."

Flameaconda looked back at the concerned Fang Snake Pokemon from out of the corner of her eye and turned away just as Donka appeared and happily bleated before nuzzling her, the moody Fire/Poison Type admitting, "Look, it'sssss... It hassssss nothing to do with you. I've, I've been alone for sssssome time ever sssssince I wasssss created, never knew anything about friendssssss or family; never had the time or never bothered to make ssssssome... I'm jussssst, going along with the flow. It ssssstayed that way for me until I came acrosssssss a pair of donkeyssssss that wouldn't leave me alone when we first crossed pathssssss, like Donka here..."

Seviper looked at Donka and how she was being affectionate towards Flameaconda and he couldn't help but grow a soft smile towards them with Donkapa eventually joining them as she looks at them sweetly.

"She likes you," he continued, looking at Donka as she continues to nuzzle Flameaconda.

Said Pokemon looked to Donka as she said softly, "...Yeah, ssssshe alwaysssss did that to me and I don't know why. SSSSSSShe and her mother, they didn't ssssssee me assss a threat like mossssst Pokemon in Cybersssssspace do given the world-wide reaction to poisssssssonousssssss sssssssnakes."

She scoffed again as she then decided to turn to Seviper, confronting him fully, "What would you know about that, even if I do have friendsssssssss?"

Seviper sighed heavily as his face became remorseful, the painful memory of seeing his old trainer and best friend along with the human belonging to Dawn and Beautifly, Clark and Lois, dying before them, Dia, and his Zeraora back in their world coming back to him in full force.

"More than you'll ever know, me and my friends... Where I'm once from; my old trainer, Lois, was a good soul and we did everything together ever since she found me at the Pokemon Nursery around Petalburg City in the Hoenn Region. The kindest woman you'll ever meet, not want to let her smile dampen down whens she's a beacon of light to everyone she meets. Was quite the coordinator herself before she became a Runner-Up and ended up with a special elite team to help fight against crime of sorts years later. But, she and her brother, a man named Clark who once owned my siblings-in-arms: Dawn and Beautifly, they both died to protect a friend. My old home where we and the Legendary Beasts once lived in was destroyed by the might of an Ultra Beast known as Guzzlord."

Flameaconda was baffled when she heard this and even Donka and Donkapa couldn't hold back their shock as they all gazed at the mournful Seviper in stunned silence, not failing to see his eyes well up with tears as he started to cry but held on as he continued.

"My friends and I had almost given up hope of defeating that monster ever since we joined forces and ended up in the care of our trainer's friend, Dia. We were at the end of our rope no matter how hard we fought to force him out of our world. But, before we could give in to the thresholds of despair, Sarah and her family came into the fray and we managed to do away with that bastard. Soon after, Dia gave us his blessing to go with her to her world and Alola Region, knowing that it's what Clark and Lois would want for us with how much we've suffered. Ever since then, it's been nothing but one good turn after another despite the unexpected setback every now and then."

"...Oh, S-S-S-Sir, we... W-We're sorry you h-h-had to go t-through t-that," Donkapa sympathized, offering her condolences.

Seviper wiped his tears away before he gave a sad smile to them, "No, it'sssss alright... We got over that, we had to fulfill Clark and Lois' lassssst wisssssh for usssss and we made the right choice to join SSSSSSarah. We're living in their honor and memory with SSSSSSSarah and we intend to live life to the fullessssst for them now that we're done with Guzzlord. We had a feeling sssssshe'd extend that offer to ussssss at any time even if ssssshe asked usssss after accepting the Legendary Beastsssss and ssssshe'll do the ssssssame for you, too, if you want."

He then looked to Flameaconda as he slowly extended his tail to her and gave her a kind smile, his sadness forgotten, "But, on her behalf, Flameaconda, would you and your friendssssss like to come with usssss?"

Flameaconda looked at Seviper's tail end but she hesitated; she wasn't sure if she could trust him if Sarah really does want to extend the offer to come with her and her family to everyone who's suffering from she meets. But, looking back to Donkapa and Donka for their responses, Donkapa just smiled at her and nodded while her daughter bleated to her cheerfully and nuzzled her again, essentially begging her to say "yes" if it'll cheer her up more. She looked back at Seviper and saw that he never lost his smile and he just nodded, mentally asking her if she trusts him.

The more she looked into his eyes, the more she saw that they don't hold any malicious intent of any sort and she sees him as someone she can trust and confide her deepest thoughts in. Eventually, seeing a chance to change herself for the better and see if this new life with Sarah that Seviper alluded to is worth a risk to her life personally, she gave a stiff nod and slowly reached out to his tail with her own before wrapping it in confirmation. Maybe staying with the little princess and her family won't be as much of a pain as she would initially think.


After a bit of bonding time between the newcomers and her family with her, Sarah, Nikki, James, Tsukumaro, Race, and Magearna hydrated and washed themselves in Gryphincent's Oasis, the water from it giving them some utmost relief. Given that they finally cleared Level 8 and are away from the desert, Sarah was able to bring out her Water Types and Ice Types again to rejoin them and have a splash or help everyone else finish getting rehydrated and wet for what was to come. Of course, they took some time to get used to the new Pokemon she had joining them but they found Umbra, Kamakazi, their pride, Akira and his herd, Flameaconda, Donka and Donka, Ivory, Ivy, Swirls, and Gerudeon and her children easy to become accustomed to and be firm friends with.

Sarah couldn't hold back a bright smile to see her Water and Ice Pokemon enjoying themselves as they jumped into the oasis, feeling as though everybody could use a much-needed extended break before they could love on to Level 9. Admittingly, as with all Griffons and with how prideful yet lonely they could be and with his heart touched by what he had seen out of her family, Gryphincent allowed them to stay in his oasis for the time being until they're ready to move on.

So, deciding to rest and make camp before moving on the following morning to Level 9 and hoping to reunite with Faraji's group by the time they reach Level 10, the little princess and her family rested to regain their strength and recover from their latest ordeal.

During this time, the Swords of Justice, Zorua, Zeraora, Magearna, Tsukumaro, Race, Nikki, James, and Sarah all gathered together underneath a large palm tree at an open spot next to their enchanted tent along with a few of her Pokemon and Race's entire team. While the other Pokemon rested and continued to bond with the newcomers, the princess, her loved ones, and Race along with Magearna were all told of the plan they had in mind on how to deal with Jin and Teng and be ready for whatever the final level could throw at them.

Deciding to put their idea into practice, Sarah and Race set about experimenting with their new items and began organizing their Dinosaur and Move Cards to start off with the Hoenn BF Champion deciding to take up the Water, Wind, and Earth cards while his girlfriend takes on the remaining Fire, Lightning and Grass cards (of course, Terry and Blaze and their Move Cards are out of the picture, for now, as they're still in Jin and Teng's possession).

Through much discussion and planning, Tsukumaro also decided to cast a Doubling Charm on the Move Cards which would allow Sarah and Race's Pokemon to have their own Elemental Cards to use should their dinosaurs be put out of commission at any time. The young couple even put their respective Elemental Stones in the stone slots inside their Bracers, the last spot in Sarah's being left open for the Fire Stone as they placed them along with their respective Element Boosters on the mounts of their Dino Gadgets.

While going through their new devices, Sarah and Race have discovered that swiping the card up the slots on their Dino Bracers would wind up summoning the dinosaurs in their possession in an adorable baby form, allowing them to have big heads and small eyes, something which Ming Wu would call: Chibi Form. They first tested this new form out on the Triceratops, Styracosaurus, Amargasaurus, and Ampleosaurus (which they named Chomp, Munch, Nessie, and Guru respectively, and saw that their colors and features remained intact from their original forms).

This worked out well for Sarah, her family, and Race as they didn't have to worry about dealing with their dinosaurs being at their full regular size all the time.

However, as per their names and while in their Chibi Forms, Chomp and Munch were revealed to be biters as they playfully teethed on the pair's arms which garnered unimpressed reactions from their masters as they freaked and tried to make them let go while they pulled off the puppy eyes. The others, on the other hand, are amused by this with James laughing like crazy as they now knew when he had to deal with after meeting Dracovish and suffering through his playful teething.

Once they managed to get the playful Chomp and Munch to stop teething them, Race and Sarah rejoined their current group to discuss their next actions to reach Level 10 and defeat the first two Black Dragons (and retrieving the Fire Capsule in the process).

"Well, at least we know what the Dino Bracers and Dino Gadgets can do," put in Sarah as they sat down on a table set up for them, Nikki, James, and Tsukumaro while they and everyone else were having dinner (comprised of some dishes from Pokemon Cafe ReMix: Lilligant Floral Tea, Fluffy Eevee Pancakes, Hot Litwick Cocoa, Dugtrio Sandwich Trio, Piquant Pikachu Curry, and Poppin' Pachirisu Float). "Now, all we have to do is to get the final map piece and the Fire Capsule from Jin and Teng since we have a plan set in motion thanks to the Pokemon."

"With our own dinosaurs in our possession now, we'll hopefully have it easier than we did before," nodded Race as they ate.

"Yeah, but we have to remember that video games tend to be at their most difficult in the last few levels as per the difficulty curve depending on the game being played," James reminded them while eating. "We've been lucky to get this far into Ming Wu's game but I can imagine Jin and Teng having hacked a few last-minute surprises for us at the end with Levels 9 and 10."

"And, if that Sandbuster's proof of anything that can go wrong when we least expect it, we have to be prepared for the worst should it come to that," added Nikki, nodding in agreement.

"If only we had a lead as to where the last piece could be if they still have it," Tsukumaro pondered, scratching his chin thoughtfully.

"Hey, Sarah, check this out!" Snivy called as she and her brothers joined them and handed their trainer what looked like a torn piece of paper.

Taking the paper piece from her Vine Whip, Sarah looked at it and gasped in shock and surprise; the paper that Snivy had given to her was something everybody had been looking for and the lucky break that they were hoping for. Showing the piece to her loved ones and Race, the BF Champion quickly brought out the other pieces and put them together along with the final piece in Sarah's hands, effectively showing a layout of the entirety of Cyberspace down to the final level's location.

Even her parents and Tsukumaro were aghast and amazed by what Snivy had found; the Grass Type Unova Starter had stumbled upon and found the final piece of the map they all desperately needed.

"Well, I'll be-it is! It can't be..." breathed Tsukumaro, stunned as he observed the completed map. "It's showing all of Cyberspace including the final level!"

"That means Snivy somehow found the final piece of the map, the piece meant to be inside the Fire Capsule!" Nikki cried in relief and awe.

"Finally, this must be the lucky break we needed!" James cheered.

"Island Girl, it looks like our way out is closer than we might think," Race concluded with a smile.

"Snivy, this is amazing! The final map piece shows where the last level is along with Level 9, how did you find it?" gasped Sarah, looking towards her female Unova Starter and her brothers in surprise.

"We found it in one of the bushes on the edge of Gryphincent's oasis leading south back the way we came. Those lizards must've thrown it away when they found out it isn't a Dinosaur Card or a Move Card from the Fire Capsule and it floated over there," she replied.

But, that joy was also short-lived and premature as Sarah turned to Race but found him frowning as he stared at the final piece but found something off about the final level's location as he looked between it and Level 9 along with the path connecting both levels.

"What's wrong, Race?" Sarah quizzed, concerned.

"Island Girl, I can't help but notice something off about the final level. There's something Ming Wu isn't telling us about it," he told her, making his concerns known as he pointed to what looked like a clearing that had a Skull and Crossbones on it.

"Look there, Level 10 is supposed to be some sort of clearing but there's a symbol depicting the pirate symbol of a Skull and Crossbones. That mark told me that whatever's down there, it's bound to be the most powerful and dangerous boss of all of the creatures and monsters we've faced. I'm not liking this one bit; there are just too many question marks surrounding that clearing and if anything, who knows what or who the final boss would be?"

"The human sign for Death's Door? Great, just great, whatever would you humans would come up next to get is killed in this cyber prison?" Eternatus remarked, floating close to the humans and hearing everything.

"Whether it's really Death's Door or not, Eternatus, it doesn't matter," Sarah stated to her Gigantic Pokemon, looking at him before she turned her attention back to the completed map. "We have to clear that very level to finish the game and get out of here, we won't get a second chance if we die if the Unlimited Continues feature isn't integrated here."


The following morning, with Gryphincent deciding to tag along to help Sarah and her growing family and their new friends complete the game and destroy Jin and Teng, the group went back to the desert to make their way to Level 9 and the final level. This time, they were all able to traverse Naroseal's home with ease; with Umbra, Kamakazi, and their pride freezing miles of desert sand around them, it became much cooler which allowed Sarah to keep her Water Types and Ice Types out in the open while she and Race galloped on Orpheus and Nikki, James, and Tsukumaro galloped on Torch and Ivory.

Before long, they finally cleared Level 8 and they soon made their way to Level 9. True to form; Level 9 is a jungle and remembering the promise they all made to Gallus and his flock to find them a new home after their old clearing at Level 2 was destroyed by Teng and Jin, Sarah looked around the foliage and discovered it to be much thicker and the trees look much sturdier which could allow the Griffons to shield their eggs and nests better from any potential predators. It looked magnificent and the perfect place for them to call their new home.

"Wow, if Gallus and his flock could see this, they would have a field day and would immediately claim this jungle as their new home," Sarah remarked, looking around at the trees around the group.

"Well, we are partially responsible for destroying their old home, Island Girl. I don't see them rejecting this place if they're here now," put in Race in agreement.

"This could be our only chance to get to Level 10 and hopefully, without any problems," Magearna replied as she looked around for any danger.

"I hope we could only we'll have it easy until we get to the end of this unbearable game."

"I wanna go home!"

"Me, too!" Nebby and Nebula added pleadingly.

"But, we can't go home unless we clear the final level and I have a feeling things are only going to get worse from here until we do get there," put in Mudsdale.

"Well, we better hope our luck doesn't run out or otherwise. We're doing really well now that we have all of the map pieces and we know where we're going from here," interjected Houndoom hopefully.

"I wonder how Faraji and the others are doing back at Level 5?"

"Let's hope they find the Diricawl and get out of there before whatever's living at that lake the cavern drawing mentioned has them for lunch," Danny and Danielle put in.

However, Sarah's entire party wouldn't have long to figure out how Faraji and her party are doing with the Diricawl. For as soon as their thoughts turned to her and with a quick blink of light, said group appeared via the Warp Zone branching off from which caused everybody to jump back and/or fall down in surprise while they yelped after Faraji looked back and replied with a cheeky "Boo".

"Sweet Plusles and Minums, we were just talking about you!" Kurma gasped.

"DON'T DO THAT!" Persian and Blossom screeched angrily, trying to recover from the unintended jumpscare.

"Ease up on the element of surprise, okay?! You'll end up giving us all heart attacks!" snapped Star, trying to compose herself and control her frantic heartbeat.

"For the love of Giratina, Faraji, darling! We had just managed to cross over from Level 8 to Level 9 after everything we went through yesterday and just now, not even five minutes after we came here, you showed up the way you did!" Espeon barked indignantly, not appreciating the jump-scare.

"Your appreciation of our return is noted," chuckled Faraji with a smirk, her party with her letting out amused chuckles or laughs from the sight they've seen. "All the same, you have made progress on your end, have you?"

"Your appreciation of our return is noted," chuckled Faraji with a smirk, her party with her letting out amused chuckles or laughs from the sight they've seen. "All the same, you have made progress on your end, have you?"

"Did we ever, we're now at Level 9 and we have the final piece of the map we need to get to the last level!" Tepig chirped happily.

"And, we have new friends to help us deal with the Black Dragons and get out of Cyberspace!" Mienshao put in.

"They're right, we only managed to find the map piece since Jin and Teng threw it away like it was some sort of useless paper scrap without realizing what it really is," Race nodded in confirmation.

"New friends, who-?" Shadow began before he and everyone else in Faraji's party took note of Akira and his herd, Gryphincent, Delosky and her sisters, Umbra, Kamikazi and their pride, Flameaconda, Donka and Donkapa, Gerudeon and her children, Wang Lun, Naguara, Polar, Orpheus, Freya, and Torch.

"...What did you do?!" gawked Medusa, flabbergasted by the new Pokemon she's seeing.

"What are we seeing-bzzt?" Manteon gasped, awestruck.

"You haven't been signing figurative adoption forms already while we were gone, have you?" Flo inquired, raising an incredulous eyebrow at her human rider.

"Are those really Pokemon living here in Cyberspace?" Thundereon noted, stunned.

"Sarah, what have you been doing while we were off finding the Diricawl?" Guardeon questioned, a little flustered.

Sho tilted his head curiously at the newcomers, particularly towards Donka, Sengo, his siblings, and Swirls as he became the first Pokemon in Faraji's group to approach them. Avel, ever the curious and energetic baby Storm Dragon who's eager to have fun and make friends, followed his lead as they approached the surprised younger Cyberspace Pokemon in Sarah's group.

But, Sarah and her half of her family then took note of the Wampus Cat family as the female adult and her kittens were happily reunited with her mate/their father after their escapade with the Kelpie along with the Diricawl family as Eevee, Skitty, Sylveon, Flareon, Lolita, Blossom, and Zorro came over to them and greeted them warmly. They were surprised; Faraji and her party were able to find them easily the previous day and without fail. But, they were even more shocked to find the myhticals' saviors: Oliver, Opal, Rompiregon, Radian, and Thora with them.

"Wait a minute, are those really Diricawls?" Race noted, seeing the Diricawl family. "They're the last creatures we need to beat the game!"

"They are, Sir Race, and it looks like our friends and their party found a few extra faces with them, too!" Tsukumaro added, nodding in agreement.

"What's this all about, Chance?" Nikki questioned the equine leader.

"My friends, meet the Diricawls, the Wampus Cat's mate and her kittens' father, and our new Pokemon friendswho helped us save them from the monster residing in Level 5: Oliver, Opal, Rompiregon, Radian, and Flora," Chance introduced, directing his herd's friends to the mythicals as well as the Dragomy and Apocalitz couples and the Crystal Dragon Pokemon.

"And, if you want to know what happened, we arrived at Level 5 after we parted which turned out to be the lake the cavern drawing in the Wampus Cat family's old home noted yesterday. Upon arriving, we started to look around for the Diricawl you're in need of and when Aku found the creature in question, we saw that it was in trouble along with its own family and the female Wampus' mate. We thought we would have it easy now that we discovered what's gotten the female Wampus so agitated and overprotective of her kittens but we came face to face with the monster that dwelled within the lake, a Scottish Kelpie. It looked to be too big and too powerful for us to tackle but Oliver, Opal, Radian, Flora, and Rompiregon came to our aid and managed to help us escape from the beast but by the time we got back to the Warp Zone and found out what the male Wampus was doing, it was getting late. We had to return to Rune Mountain with the Wampus Cats before we could reunite with you all unless you made it to the final level or gotten close to it i.e. Level 9."

As Chance introduced Faraji's party's new friends/allies to the rest of the reunited group and started to explain everything, the Diricawls then took notice of James. The Diricawl and its hatchlings tilted their heads curiously at Sarah's adoptive father and they went over to him as they kept their curious eyes on him. James gulped as he gave a nervous smile and waved to them but he didn't worry about appearing to them as a threat because they started cooing cheerfully with one of the hatchlings hoping on his body before getting on top of his head.

"As it turned out, after talking with our cavern feline hosts, the Wampus Cat's mate was out on patrol to make sure there weren't any threats to his family and their old home when he heard the Diricawls crying out for help," continued Spookeon, picking up where Chance left off according to what the male Wampus Cat said to them the day prior. "He told us that he found them somehow drifting to the middle of the lake and tried to save them and ended up drifting with them for days while he tried to soothe them."

"With his unexpected absence, the female Wampus Cat grew worried and agitated over her mate going missing after their kittens were born recently and as a result, she would go on a rampage at anyone who dared to trespass and hurt them. She genuinely thought she lost him and was devastated when he didn't return from his patrol," added Seleneon.

"Scottish Kelpie?!" a majority of Sarah's party gawked in shock.

"That's impossible, Kelpies are known to be the most dangerous mythical creatures in the history of Scotland! Those monsters are only dwarfed by the Nundu and in our case, Karabi is much tamer and friendlier compared to it! How the devil did you all manage to escape from such a death trap?" Tsukumaro spluttered in shock.

"We managed to get away after Oliver delivered a Dragon Breath to the Kelpie's ugly mug but even after that, Little Miss Brawler wanted to clobber it," Brawleon said, glowering at Hydro.

"I was edging for a bit of payback for that jumpscare it gave us and since it nearly tried to eat those harmless chickens and Mr. Cat in the Hat alive!" Hydro defended herself. "Let's not get bogged down with who's trying to beat down who-!"

"There's no being bogged down with it, Sis! You were actually prepared to sign your own death warrant!" snapped Hurricane, he and his sister sharing glares.

"Alright, you water-logging hotheads, break it up!" called Rosa, getting between them. "The important thing here is we finally got the last of the three mythicals we need to beat the game."

"She's right; we have the Diricawls, we have the Wampus Cat, and we got ourselves a unicorn (should it be either Celestia or Roseluck)," added Tyson, wanting to get things over with. "Now, all we got to do is beat Level 9 and make our way to Level 10 even though the bosses here won't be easy to beat."

"Guys, I'm just realizing something," Hashimoto pointed out, starting to get a nasty feeling in his stomach as he recounted everything the entire group did.

"Whatever do you mean, Little Cub?" questioned a curious Sapphira.

"Since we came into the game and we began looking for the mythicals we have on us now, I'm starting to think that Ming Wu designed this game to be something akin to a martial arts movie but in game form through her own original ideas and what influenced her. We've managed to plow through two rounds of velociraptor madness between Levels 1 and 2 and at Level 7 in Nintendo and Rare/Rareware's Conker's Bad Fur Day, Sarah and Drogon outwitted a mad Hungarian Horntail like Harry did in Goblet of Fire, we just barely survived a crazy and unpredictable desert that's home to not only Naxoreal but a hacked Sandbuster like in the Ninja Quest saga of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, does anybody get the feeling we're about to tread towards a ninja martial arts movie climax sort of thing as we reach the final two levels or is it just me thinking out loud?"

"Really, I didn't think about that."

"Me, too. You all and your humans are strange," Drogon and Zephyr quipped, tilting their heads.

"What are you on about?" Roseluck questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"Picture this; in the climax of the Shaw Brothers film, Five Element Ninjas, this guy named Xiao Tien Hao, he and three brothers of his are going through a connected pathway that had areas pertaining to five natural elements: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. And, on each element, the four of them had to battle four ninjas of each element along with their head honcho at the tail end of the movie who's the leader of the ninja. After killing the ninjas in all five areas pertaining to their elements, when they started fighting the head ninjas, this Modou-guy whatever he is, really, is proving himself to be a huge challenge for them to beat until Tien Hao makes a hero's sacrifice to give his brothers an edge in killing the idiot head ninja using a pair of makeshift handcuffs, a literal kamikaze charge (no offense), and he dies while splitting the guy's body in half."

The Cyberspace Pokemon grimaced and were wide-eyed as they heard what Hashimoto told them as they can only picture what he was talking about and not get a good result from his explanation.

"That's...very interesting, Young Hashimoto," Chance finally said, starting to recompose himself.

"What makes you think that, Hashi?" Ching Wan puzzled, confused.

Hashimoto turned to his brother and continued, "It's like this, Ani-Chan; whatever's in front of us should pertain to not just some grunts for us to beat but also another boss of some kind pertaining to one particular element or creature we've yet to tackle. Everything we've done recently is building up to a huge climax that Ming Wu decided to take advantage of using when she created the game and I think she wanted players to go out with a bang should they win or lose. Either way, she's already got something big planned for players like us."

"You mean we could face something in our own climax like what Tien Hao and his brothers went through in the final part of Five Element Ninjas?" Latios clarified, getting what Hashimoto was saying.

"Yeah, the boss of all bosses, that's what she's aiming for in the final level and this one to round off the difficulty curve. Think of it like Jafar in Nintendo's version of Aladdin for the SNES, Calamity Ganon in Age of Calamity and Breath of the Wild, Dracula from the Castlevania games, that type of thing. I won't be surprised if Ming Wu learned from their examples and more and did her own twist on that video-gaming logic."

"And, if the last levels should come to that kind of design and logic...?" put in Freezeon, getting only a nod from the younger pre-evolved Wushu Pokemon.

"We'll have to be ready no matter what the cost, even if we have to use everything at our disposal including all of the Dinosaur and Move Cards in Master's possession and her boyfriend's. That also implies that we somehow retrieve the Fire Capsule containing Terry and Blaze and their Move Cards from Jin and Teng."

"That's not far off from what we've been through," Robbie nodded in agreement. "We did have several close calls with danger while we were here."

"Then, I suppose we better be ready and think rationally on what's about to pop up before us if we're to survive the final level and this one," Sarah deducted.

"And, this level and the level after are the last ones we have to deal with so if Jin and Teng are going to come at us one last time before the final boss, they won't be easy to beat," Race added.

"Anyway, what do you think, Mr. Gallus?" Mai questioned the Cyberspace Griffon leader, directing him and his flock to the thick trees around them. "You could make this your home for your young and your eggs."

"Hmm... This place doesn't seem half-bad," Gallus pondered curiously, his fellow griffons checking the foliage. "I guess it'll do. Practically perfect..."

When they had deemed the foliage safe and good-enough cover for them, the flock eventually decided to leave their nests and eggs along the branches, using much of it to keep them hidden from danger.

But, Gallus and his flock didn't want to get their hopes up too high; even though the jungle they're in is more suitable for them to prosper again and for their young to grow up happily and without fear, they knew that they can't rest or make it their home yet until they're given some sort of sign that they can live in it. So, with a reminder to return to the jungle so as to live their lives in peace again once they were finished helping Sarah and her family leave the game, the griffons continued on their way with their new friends as they kept an eye out for the second-to-last boss/bosses they'll have to beat to move on to the final level. But, for mile after mile for the next half-an-hour, there wasn't anybody around as they kept their eyes and ears open for anything suspicious.

"Well, so far, I'm not seeing anything that's a level boss for here," quipped Nikki, looking around the jungle.

"This looks pretty lifeless for a jungle, I thought Ming Wu was going to add more creatures in it for additional wildlife," James added, seeing how bare the forest currently is.

"Um, maybe the animals living here have found a new home and decided to leave," Snom theorized timidly, looking around and sticking close to his siblings to make sure he won't be jumpscared.

"Then, why does it feel like we're being watched?" asked Nyasi.

"Either way, we can't stay here for too long. We have to get to Level 10 and get out of here," Solar reminded, knowing that everyone is still in danger.

"Well, good thing we won't be hearing those stupid Jumanji drums again. I've had enough of those for one day," Dusk commented in relief, only for everyone to hear a familiar sound ringing out from around them.

"Jinx/Jinx," grumbled Misa and Luna, glaring at an embarrassed and blushing Dusk.

"Alright-bzzt, now I'm annoyed! Are those drums ever going to stop-bzzt?!" snapped Manteon, wanting to get out of the game more than ever.

"If those drums are anywhere near us, I swear I'm gonna crush them and run through the cocks that are banging them!" Brawleon growled in annoyance.

"But, who's the joker of a level boss coming up this time?" Dawn (Midday Lycanroc) questioned just as a musical roar suddenly echoed through the jungle.

"What was that?" cried Twilght in surprise.

"Is somebody roaring?" Sunset pondered.

"That doesn't sound like any normal roar to me," said Phoenix.

"It sounded like the owner of the roar is...singing?" Salamence piped up, hearing the roar clearly.

"But, who's playing for the carnival when it's not even in town? I don't think there'd be anybody else living in this jungle after seeing it supposedly abandoned," Simba interjected.

Suddenly, Sarah felt her blood running cold and an air of dread brewing around her; she whipped around to each of her Berkian dragons and saw them suddenly freeze up before they relaxed as their eyes turned to slits. Then, without warning and bewildering everybody else that didn't know about their current state, they started to march towards the owner of the musical roar in a total trance. Even Sarah's entire family couldn't help but become horrorstruck as they recalled everything that went on during their adventure with Hiccup, Zenna, and their friends in Berk and one particular dragon that could have that effect on them.

"Hmm?"

"What's going on with them?"

"Are they okay?" Umbra, Gilda, and Celestia questioned curiously.

"Uh, Mom, what's happening to Shadow and his friends and family?"

"Yeah, they don't look so hot."

"I don't know, I've never seen this kind of behavior from them, at all. Strange," Sapphira and her children commented.

"Oh, no... No... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no," Sarah panicked. "Guys, guys! Come on, snap out of it! Don't listen!"

The princess tried to get them to snap out of their trances with help from the younger Pokemon but they couldn't get through to them as she continued, "What are you doing?! You know what that sounds like, don't you? You can't keep on listening to that; you know what kind of dragon that roar belonged to! I thought you all better than that when you hear a roar like that!"

But, her dragons, still entranced by the musical roar, didn't seem to hear her as they kept on marching. Groaning and seeing that she has no choice on what to do with them, she had to take out her Dragon Heart Scepter back out to unleash her new Dragon Command ability again. Recognizing that their human mother/caretaker was backed into a corner, her younger Pokemon (with the surprise assistance of Sengo and his siblings, Donka, Andres and Whisker, Celestia, and Delosky) pitched in to help as they blocked the dragons and Sarah joined them as she faced her dragons and pointed her scepter in front of them.

"Guys, listen to me! As your rider, I command you to stop!" she shouted, only to get nothing as she started to get more frantic and scream after a moment, "...I said, STOP!"

At that moment, the gem on the scepter's head glowed brightly and a shockwave of light passed through the Berkian dragons which amplified her last command, her voice breaking them out of their trance from the musical roar. Shadow and the other dragons blinked in surprise as they shook their disorientated heads, trying to remember what happened before they blacked out and became hypnotized.

"...Hey, w-what happened?"

"Did we fall asleep?"

"My head..."

"What's going on?"

"Urgh, I don't know," Camo, Echo, Rosethorn, Flo, and Charger muttered in confusion, still feeling a little disorientated and lightheaded.

"Ugh... Sarah, what in the world...?"

"Oh, what in the name of Thor were we doing?" Shadow and Winter peeped, trying to compose themselves.

"Like, you guys were all hypnotized by that crazy roar. Even your babies were not immune to its power when you all blacked out," Piplup answered them.

"You guys had been hypnotized by that roar and were about to march towards the source of it in a trance before I had to stop you using my Dragon Heart Scepter with some help," the princess told her older Night Fury and Light Fury.

But then, Yamper perked up as his ears twitched before he started sniffing again and found something that got him excited as he started barking. Avel, with his own acute sense of smell, was also able to pick up on what the Galar Puppy Pokemon was able to pick out and even he was getting excited when he began to squeak, both of their tails wagging like crazy in response to their overwhelming excitement.

"Smell, we smell! Smell something! Smell, smell, smell!" they peeped after another as they jumped.

"Hey, what's with Yamper and Avel?" quizzed Helioseon in confusion at them.

"It looks like their noses locked onto something that's just ahead of us, something that would explain those awful drums," Delcatty pointed out.

"You're right, I smell it, too. What did you smell, boys?" Boltund questioned the two after taking a whiff himself.

"Music, music, source, source! Outside jungle, outside!"

"Music from outside jungle! Beyond opening up ahead! That way, that way, that way!" Yamper and Avel barked eagerly, wanting to see what they smelled.

"Is that where the roar is coming-huh?!" Tsukumaro began before everyone saw Yamper and Avel running too far ahead to the clearing, forcing the entire group to run, fly, or waddle after them before they would get into trouble.

"Avel!"

"Yamper, come back!"

"Wait, young ones! Don't bust out into the open! Easy!"

"Stop, you two!"

"Wait up!" Pyrrah, Lilac, Arriety, Sho, and Melody cried frantically.

"Not so fast! Please, Little Avel, Tiny Yamper! We can't keep up with you! Little ones, wait!" Naguara shouted to the pair.

The chase was wild and hectic despite how short it is; with Avel and Yamper letting their excitement get the better of them, nobody knew how much trouble they and everyone else would run into when they finally bust out into the open. It wasn't long before the Galar Puppy Pokemon and the baby Storm Dragon finally lead everyone to a canyon in the middle of the forest where the source of the musical roar they found is located.

"What's that?" gasped Sho in bewilderment.

"A canyon in the middle of Level 9's jungle layout?!" spluttered Rubble in stunned shock.

"What's that doing in there and what could be the source of the roar Yamper and Avel found?" Kaji puzzled, confused.

"I don't know, let's just keep our eyes peeled and our ears open. If the roar sounds off again and if you think you found it, shout and show where it's coming from," Tai Lung suggested as they carefully made their way to the entrance leading to the canyon.

But, they haven't closed off much distance between themselves and the entrance before they came across what looked like a pile of solid white objects of different sizes just outside it. Just the sight of what those objects could be sent shivers down everyone's spines as they had an eerie feeling of what they could really be.

"Something tells me that's not a very fine welcoming committee if I've ever seen one," Breezeon commented as he grimaced.

"Are those things really bones lying around over there? I don't mingle well with the skeletons of dead creatures," shuddered Inferno, getting a closer look at the white objects and finally identifying what they really are.

Sokka narrowed his eyes as he stepped forward towards the pile of bones and looked them over. From what he could tell, they are a variety of bones ranging from skulls and lower and upper arms to the lower legs and feet of different animals. A grim feeling stirred from within him as he nodded in confirmation as to what Inferno clearly saw the objects before him as.

"Those are bones, alright. Several of them lying around here, they all came from different animals, too," he replied grimly.

"Looks like we finally know what happened to the wildlife here on Level 9," sighed Azul. "We better bring it up with Ming Wu when we get back, wouldn't surprise me if those lizards' hacks were responsible for this mess."

"Oh, those poor cuties..." Misa whimpered.

"Oh, man..."

"The poor dears, they didn't have to die as they did..." James and Nikki mourned sadly.

"Rrgh, those bastards have gone too far this time, we've got to destroy them if we're going to save everyone in Cyberspace and get out of here! It's bad enough that they're still after us to get the Twilight Gem's powers, now they're starting to involve whatever innocence in this outbreak of theirs for what they want for Dai Shi's return!" grumbled Race, angered by what Jin and Teng had done with their hacking Ming Wu's game.

"What do you supposed happened to whoever else from the jungle or in the canyon if anyone's living there?" Veneon inquired worriedly.

"I don't want to stop for too long to find out. Those bones are a close sign that Jin and Teng are right on our tails," Dracozolt replied, feeling antsy and angst from seeing the bones of deceased wildlife.

"I suggest we make our way into the canyon. Level 10 is just beyond it from the other side; if we hurry, we should be able to make it out and deal with the final boss and this level's adversaries," Xena interjected, knowing what they still have to do.

Sarah just nodded, "You're right, Xena. It's still too dangerous to stick around in one place for too long and if Jin and Teng are still around, we'll need to get rid of them before they and their lizards kill anybody else again if they're responsible for those bones."

"Then, let us make haste for the final level, Princess," agreed Tsukumaro, giving his goddaughter a knowing nod which prompted everyone to start heading into the canyon.

The walk into the canyon carried on for several minutes as they hurried to the other side, making sure to look back and around them and be ready for the first two Black Dragons should they get the drop on them for the umpteenth time. So far, there has been no sign of danger or the ones who are responsible for the deaths of the jungle wildlife but as they cleared the first third of the jungle canyon, the entire group came across a giant ball of amber that held what looked to be six custom Pokemon Ming Wu had once again made for the game alone frozen inside it as well as a herd of dragons trapped inside the ball with them.

"Great Zhi Shan's beard, those Pokemon!"

"And, those dragons!" shrieked Wang Lun and Drogon in shock, rushing up to the amber ball and seeing the Pokemon and dragons stuck in it with the others following as they shared their shock and horror.

"No, this can't be! Those Pokemon and dragons are dead!" Silver cried frantically, banging on the amber ball as hard as she could but to no avail as it didn't break.

The devastated Berkian dragons could only watch in despair as they took in the horrified faces of the dragons and Pokemon that fell victim to whatever or whoever trapped them inside. Sarah walked over to the ball, her face pale as she felt the amber just as a thunderstruck and startled Shadow, Winter, Dart, Ruffrunner, and Pouncer came to see the creatures that were left with a fate worse than death.

"Sarah! What's wrong with them?" Shadow asked, completely devastated.

"I don't know if they're dead or not but it looks as though they recently had a fight with something or someone in this canyon and they lost before ending up like this," the princess replied breathlessly.

"But, that doesn't make any sense! Who would be so selfish let alone stupid to imprison them inside amber?" Winter demanded, heartbroken.

"It couldn't have been us!"

"We'd never sink so low to commit such an act like this," Echo and Melody denied.

"Yeah, there's no way Mom and Dad would do such terrible things to other dragons and Pokemon!"

"Somebody would have to be stupid to consider accusing them of hurting these guys even though anybody can make that mistake just by the amber here," snorted Twilight and Dawn (Deathgripper) in disgust.

"But, if it isn't Melody and Echo since they don't use their abilities for evil such as imprisoning those Pokemon and dragons here, who's to blame here?" Guardeon questioned, wanting to know the true culprit behind what they witnessed.

Then, another roar sounded off from above them as everyone whipped around to find the source of it while Yamper and Avel growled and squeaked angrily with a snarl, trying to pinpoint the owner as they looked high and low. But, following their acute sense of hearing as well, they suddenly gasped as their eyes widened before they let out angry barks and squeaks as the pair found the owner of the roar and the real perpetrator behind the heartless massacre of the wildlife and imprisonment of the dragons and Pokemon with them in front of them from the air.

The Berkian dragons all gasped in shock over the true culprit; it was a dragon but it was derived from the exact same species Melody and Cantana hailed from - a Death Song. But, unlike the two friendly Death Songs, the virtual Death Song before the group seemed to be more malicious as it was black and red all over with some red bits looking like it had dripped from its mouth. Everyone gave horrified and shocked cries as they realized that from the blood marks, the Death Song before them was indeed the real culprit behind the dead wildlife and the imprisoned creatures in its amber ball.

"Impossible!"

"It can't be true!"

"Is that a Death Song?"

"It is, and it's got blood stains trailing from its mouth!"

"But, look, it's black and red all over aside from the blood on it!"

"You think it's responsible for the dead wildlife we saw earlier at the canyon mouth?"

"It has to be, that would explain the bones we saw just as soon as we entered! That Death Song must be the level boss for Level 9!" some of the dragons bantered in stunned shock.

"That's not just any Death Song like me and Cantana, that's a Death Song Titan!" Melody hissed, glaring at his species' virtual counterpart.

"And, it knows we're here and found out what happened to what might've been its prey!" Charger gulped as the evil Death Song roared at its new targets before it fired multiple blasts of amber straight at the group.

"INCOMING!" screamed Sarah.

"PRINCESS, LOOK OUT!" shouted Tsukumaro, rushing to his goddaughter and shoving her out of the way as he, Race, Nikki, James, their teams, and the rest of her family were caught in the blasts and imprisoned inside.

"NO!" the princess cried in horror as Eternatus, Nebby, Nebula, Reshiram, the Mystic Thirteen, the Cyberspace Pokemon, Sapphira and her children, Winter, Shadow, and the other Berkian dragons (all of whom managed to dodge along with her) joined her.

"Oh no!"

"Impossssssssible!"

"They're trapped!"

"Not cool, not cool!"

"That dragon's not playing around!"

"It's got everyone trapped in that amber!"

"That infernal beast, it'll stop at nothing to satisfy its thirst for destruction! We won't have a chance unless we think of a plan to destroy it!" Drogon, Flameaconda, Chance, Delosky, Parosea, Camo, and Reshiram gasped and cursed, seeing the Death Song eying them as it hovered around them in a circle to prepare another attack.

"Um, Dad, I think we should do something fast 'cause your copycat looks twice as powerful with those blasts that trapped everyone else in that prison," Twilight quivered as she, Dawn (Deathgripper), and their babies huddled close to their parents.

"What'll we do now, Mama?" whimpered Nebby, feeling very frightened.

"The only way we can free everyone and get to the last level is if we destroy the Death Song! But, how?" Sarah theorized.

"Ah! I was hoping you'd have a plan for getting rid of that party crasher!"

"Me, too!" Naxoreal and her sisters peeped, feeling scared.

"There's no point in fighting a battle we can't win right now! We have to get out of here and figure out a plan later, we'll come back for them when we do!" informed Reshiram, knowing that there is nothing they can do for now.

"No way! I'm not running from a monster like that if it's got our family stuck in that amber! We gotta get them out of there, we're going to finish this together and that titan's not going to stop us!" Hydro boomed before she went to the amber and tried to claw it off the others but to no avail.

"Sis, there's no time! The amber's too thick and the Death Song Titan's coming for us next!" Hurricane protested, holding his sister back.

"We have to get out of here! Head for the canyon mouth on the other side!"

"RUN!" Eternatus and Shadow bellowed, answering for a terrified and thunderstruck Sarah as they immediately went deeper into the canyon with Winter quickly grabbing the princess who struggled to get back to her family despite her protests.

The evil Death Song Titan, angered at its remaining new prey getting away, roared loudly before it grabbed a nearby Terrible Terror it had trapped in amber prior and flew off with the poor beast. It was clear that it wasn't done with its targets yet and wanted to finish what it started, no matter what the cost.


When they finally got some distance from the Death Song Titan that nearly killed them, Sarah and her surviving friends and family were forced to take a breather as they panted. Things had definitely gone from bad to worse for them as a wrench was thrown in their intended plans to beat the Black Dragons and clear the game; with the rest of her family and her boyfriend trapped in their amber prison and Jin and Teng still at large, she and the survivors were in a real pickle over what they should do in order to stay alive.

"What, the...bloody, Dr. SSSSSSSStrange, wasssssss, THAT, about!?" bellowed a frustrated and tired Flameaconda.

"That was no ordinary Death Song from the way it totaled our family like that, I promise you that!" Pyre panted, trying to compose himself.

"Indeed, you all don't know a thing about us dragons hailing from Berk in the real world but to give you an idea of one such dragon from there, that was a Death Song Titan," Melody explained, also desperately trying to control himself. "My and Cantana's species are renowned for our siren-like songs that latch onto and lure unsuspecting dragons in a hypnotic state before they eventually trap the victims in barriers of hardened amber."

"Hmm... I see; that explains why you dragons belonging to Master Sarah were unfortunate to fall for its masterfully deceptive tactic earlier before we came across this canyon and all that were unfortunate enough to cross paths with that monster," Wang Lun nodded, beginning to understand everything.

Wildfire nodded as he tried to control his panicked heart so he doesn't have a heart attack, "I swear, that crazy lizard that got everyone else besides all of us is out for blood and most likely something the Black Dragons must've hacked into the game when they first infiltrated it after we got zapped in here."

"But, what I don't get is why Mom, Drogon, and I weren't affected even though we're dragons?" Zephyr quizzed, confused as to how she, her brother, and their mother weren't caught by the siren-like song from the Death Song Titan.

"Yeah, we all heard the Death Song Titan's call but we weren't hypnotized like you all were earlier," nodded Drogon. "In fact, even though they're dragons, I don't know Oliver, Opal, Rompiregon, Torch, Orpheus, and Naguara along with some of the others before they became amberines were affected."

"Hmm... Perhaps my and Cantana's species' song is only heard and affected by dragons from Berk's Barbaric Archipelago like myself, Echo, and the rest of our friends including Shadow, Winter, Camo, Rosa, and the rest of our group along with our children," Melody thought as he scratched his chin thoughtfully with his tail and hummed. "Since you're all from a different world and were created by Ming Wu for the game, you obviously have vastly different lifestyles compared to how we lived in the real world. So, in terms of the predator-prey relationship with other Berkian dragons and ourselves, you're out of the question."

"Anybody wanna bet those meanie dragons made that monster?" Nebula squeaked, exhausted.

"I won't be surprised, those two and their brothers still have a bone to pick with us. Especially Sarah and Race since they're still after the Twilight Gem's powers for Dai Shi's revival," Mirage commented, knowing who's exactly to blame for their current predicament.

"You think they've meddled with our creator's game on this stage as well? It's possible they also tampered with the coding on the Level 9 boss and altered it to create that demon from earlier," Roseluck theorized.

Chance nodded grimly, "You may be right, Rose. And, right now, after what we've seen from those bones and the imprisoned Pokemon and dragons we were able to find, we now know that it's been hunting down any nearby creatures and dragons living here. It was mainly driven by its own natural instincts unless it can somehow be trained and tamed."

"Trained, tamed?! I'm not going near that freakazoid again, did you not see it clobber us with those amber meteors that took down almost 75% of our entire group after we got here?" snapped Whisker, not looking forward to fighting the Death Song Titan if possible.

"We didn't stand a chance against that foul twat. It pounced and fired on us before we could break out of our stupor and make a move on it," Polar added with a heavy sigh.

"Now, what are we going to do? Whatever we CAN think of will be out the window given how powerful that titan us," Tesla grumbled before she looked over to Karabi for any solutions. "Hey, Karabi, what are we gonna do?"

"We can't do anything right now. We're finally on the home stretch but before we could reach the real boss and make a break for it, the Black Dragons' substitute teacher for it nails us with a shower of amber blasts, and much of our new family is lost and trapped in their new prison along with the other victims it got... I can't believe how this is gonna end because we weren't ready for that creep," Karabi seethed in self-loathing with a sigh as he laid down on his stomach.

"Then, why are we all just being sitting ducks right now? We got to go back and fight, start pummeling them with a full-throttle frontal assault and a sneak attack from behind, anything!" Sunce exclaimed, coming over to join them and hopefully lift their disheartened spirits.

"Running away did get us here away from that crazy menace but how long will it last before we're eventually found and picked off? Eventually, that titan's going to come for us once we let our guard down at the worst possible time again! We don't have much time left, we'll just waste what little we still have left if we try to keep running from it. And, without the rest of our family to help us fight it and keep it off our backs if we do, we're completely screwed!"

Karabi sighed sadly as he looked towards Sunce but didn't share the mythical tiger's hopes, "I admire your newfound hope, Sunce, I wish I could believe you. But, I'm just not sure if our numbers as they stand now will help us pull whatever plan we'll eventually have off. The backbone of our family is trapped in amber just like those other Pokemon and dragons back there. How exactly are we supposed to believe that we, a bunch of Cyberspace gaming rookies from the real world, can pull off a suicide mission like this?"

"I mean, let's assume that our numbers and our current strength will allow us to tackle that hacker's meat fest head-on and we survive the initial assault... Then, what? The strength of that Death Song Titan might be twice that compared to what we've learned about Melody and Cantana's species during our Berk Dragons 101 lessons with Sarah, I just don't see us accomplishing much and we don't know if all that had been imprisoned by it or died would be brought back even if we do win..."

"We just got our butts and cupcakes handed to us by the scariest party crasher ever in Cyberspace!" Delosky squeaked fearfully.

"I don't have any ideas on what to do since that dragon doesn't want to play with us," sighed Parosea, Naxoreal nodding in sorrowful agreement.

Sarah was quiet as she took the time she needed to recover from losing much of her family before her very eyes again as the others spoke. Then, deciding that she had moped around for long enough and that it was time to take action, she steeled herself for what was to come as she went over from her personal spot to her fellow survivors to discuss what she had in mind.

"Well, we don't have a choice, do we? We made it this far into the game despite everything the Black Dragons threw at us along with Ming Wu's game design," she began to the group. "The only thing we can do right now is to finish what we started and hope we can get the others out of there and at least save the prisoners that Death Song Titan imprisoned before we met up with it."

"But, how will we do that? That amber's indestructible and we can't just move on to the final level without them given the stigma of all-powerful bosses for the final level of each game," Andres noted.

"Do Death Songs have a weakness of some sort we can exploit?" Gallus suggested. "If there is, we should use it to our advantage if only to give us time to take down the scoundrel and free your family, Sarah."

"Yeah, we'll bite. What've you got?" inquired Hydra.

"As far as I know, the only known weaknesses of a Death Song are that of a Thunderdrum and a Slitherwing; the Thunderdrum has really poor hearing so its immune to its song but the Slitherwing can change its skin coating which prevents a Death Song's amber from sticking and materializing on its body which is compounded by its large size and its sensitivity to sound. And, if I had my Moon Shield with me, I can use it in Crossbow Mode and use my Explosive Arrows but I left them back in the hotel back in the real world and what's worse, my godfather still has Gerudeon's chest so the Phrenic Bow is out of the question..."

"If I may offer an adequate alternative, Sarah, perhaps you can use your Pyrokinesis as a substitute?" Faraji offered.

Sarah blinked but then she began to think through Faraji's solution. It was then that she remembered Teng's Fiendfyre curse and how it took out much of the temple she, Sho, Arrietty, Slither, Aku, and the rest of the Mystic Thirteen once called home and what can be caused by fire along with Sunflare and Phoenix managing to free her, Race, Nikki, James, and Tsukumaro from being trapped along with Tesla in their own amber prison while she was under the Black Dragons' control.

"Fire, it worked on us when we got stuck in amber days ago along with Tesla... Fire, that's it! Faraji, you genius," she gasped in realization. "Amber, when melted, can be a liquid; some materials, in liquid form, have some sort of component of water in it. And, Sunflare and Phoenix were able to free us from Melody and Echo's amber prison using their dragon fire!"

"You think fire can burn through that much amber trapping those Pokemon and dragons and our family, Mama?" Nebby questioned, looking to his human mother with renewed hope.

"It has to, Nebby! I'm sure of it, Sunflare and Phoenix did free my parents, Tsukumaro, Race, and I after we were saved from Tesla while she was still influenced by the Black Dragons!"

"One problem, that thing that attacked us earlier is not stupid. It'll be guarding its captured horde and it won't let go for anything else unless we take it by surprise," Naxoreal replied skeptically. "How exactly can you expect yourself, Sunflare, and Phoenix to get close to the others without it going on the hunt for you again?"

"I still have my dinosaurs with me so Chomp and Munch along with my Grass Dinos can give us cover. They'll be our best chance to block out the Death Song's roar and distract it long enough to get them back; that Death Song Titan knows how to fight against other dragons and Pokemon but it'll have no clue whatsoever on how to deal with dinosaurs. They're literally prehistoric fighting machines in their own right when they're forced to fight to feed themselves and protect their own herds when needed back in the day. With their giant sizes and physical strength, they won't be that easy for the titan to overpower."

"That makes perfect sense, honestly."

"I won't argue with that," nodded Mist and Spark in agreement.

"I agree, whatever floats your boat. It's not much but it's the best course of action we'll have to take," Gryphincent nodded, deciding to go along with the plan.

"And, what's Plan B if that doesn't work out, Pipsqueak?" Eternatus questioned.

"I'll think about it as we go along," Sarah just said.

With a finalized plan in place and in the hopes that nothing could go wrong in their rescue mission, Sarah and her surviving friends and family were in agreement and prepared to make their next stand against the Death Song Titan in an upcoming rematch.


Returning to the spot where they were forced to abandon the rest of Sarah's family and the other captured Pokemon and dragons in their amber prisons, the Death Song Titan emerged from where it went off as it gave off its siren roar again. It hovered for a brief moment after returning and landed near the group, hoping to find the victims that gave it the slip or some new prey.

At the moment, with the Death Song Titan looking to its prey already stuck in its prisons while keeping an eye out for the survivors, there was no hope for the prisoners escaping with how thick the amber is so they were stuck in a state of suspended animation until they can be saved. Its satisfaction, however, was halted when it perked up at the feeling of whatever prey is coming its way. The evil dragon looked around until it came face to face with Chomp, Munch, the Fukuisaurus, a Maiasaura, and a Parasourlophus at their full sizes as they charged into the area at the cannon and roared.

The Death Song Titan was shocked by what it was seeing as it was not its escaped prey but five dinosaurs that proved to be too much for it. Even if it wanted to fight them off, the dinosaurs looked much stronger and it had never encountered such creatures but it steeled itself before it growled back, not wanting to back down and lose the prey it caught. It was about to get worse for the evil dragon as Sarah and the other survivors remerged with the princess preparing her Dino Bracer and Dino Gadget to use a Move Card of her choice to help her dinosaurs deal with the Death Song Titan while everyone else frees the prisoners.

"Alright, you, time to dance with the devil in the pale moonlight," she said before activating her Dino Gadget and a Grass Move Card slipped into her hand before she held it out, the card glowing as she did so. "Ability, activate! Metal Wing!"

Using a Metal Wing Move Card, she then slashed it through the slot on her Dino Bracer and summoned three spectral Pteranodons to attack the Death Song Titan and keep it occupied while the five dinosaurs that were brought out circled the survivors and gave them cover while they got to the victims.

"Are they alright?"

"They're stuck hard in that amber!"

"We gotta get them out!" the Night Lights chirped, clawing the amber prison holding the rest of their family and the other Pokemon and dragon prisoners.

"We'll need big-time flames if we're to ever commit such a jailbreak, don't know what good that'll do, though," Eternatus muttered.

"Maybe... Let me try something. Nebby, Reshiram, Sunflare, Phoenix, Flameaconda, lend me your power!" Sarah pleaded as the two dragons, the Vast White Pokemon, and her first grown-up baby nodded.

Flameaconda was hesitant over the offer but Donka came up to her and nuzzled her again, giving her a pleading bray as she did the sad puppy eyes on her. The Anaconda Pokemon couldn't resist the cute look Donkapa's daughter was giving her so she gave a reluctant sigh and just said, "Oh, alright, if it'll get us out of here and away from that beast faster..."

With the princess beside them from their left or right as a team of six and as she concentrated her new power from the Twilight Gem and focused it onto her right hand, the heroes set the amber prisons containing their family and the innocent Pokemon and dragons ablaze. While her Pokemon were using Flamethrower and Sunflare and Phoenix were using their fire breath, Sarah used a Fire Hand Blast as they scorched the amber cells and started burning them away. That did the trick as the amber started to melt into a liquid form but they also did their best to be as careful as they could so as to not burn it all the way through and risk burning the captives in the process.

It took some time while the spectral Pteranodons were doing their utmost to keep the Death Song Titan at bay until they were destroyed Chomp and Munch along with their fellow dinosaurs were forced to step in and fight it themselves to give the heroes more time. Of course, their sizes proved to be cumbersome for them to fight the evil dragon, and seeing that Sarah, Reshiram, Nebby, Flameaconda, Sunflare, and Phoenix needed more time, most of the survivors decided to jump in and distract the monster terrorizing Level 9 and its wildlife that once lived in it and get a few knocks on it in the process to avenge them.

It wouldn't be easy for the survivors along with Chomp and Munch and the other three dinosaurs to hold the Death Song Titan back as it proved to be much stronger compared to its original real-world counterpart on account of Jin and Teng's programming. Even so, they still managed to hold their ground as best they could until at last, Sarah and her small fire party were able to burn through the amber and release her family trapped within their own prison. The amber of her family's prison, despite being hardened prior, was still fresh in a sense so it didn't take too long for her, Flameaconda, and Nebby to burn them out.

Finally freed from their state of suspended animation, the princess' family all breathed heavily as they tried to catch their breath from being stuck in their makeshift cell for minutes on end.

"FREEDOM!" the Jungle Pokemon younglings and their older siblings cheered in relief as they cried and hugged each other.

"...We're free," grunted James, trying to get his bearings.

"W-What just happened?" Nikki questioned, looking around and feeling a little stiff.

"What were we just doing?" Kaji asked, cracking and rubbing his stiff neck.

"Why did I feel like a draconic statue made out of hard glass?" Ghost pondered in confusion as he shook himself.

"Urgh, that, I'm going to feel in the morning," groaned Race as Sarah, Nebby, and Flameaconda finished their work and the princess rushed over to him and her godfather as they tried to get up but failed as they groaned.

"Race, Tsukumaro," she breathed, looking them over along with the dragon hatchlings as they cooed and nuzzled them and the others.

"...Princess, ugh," moaned Tsukumaro, seeing his goddaughter having managed to free them with Nebby and Flameaconda's assistance.

Progress was made on Sunflare, Phoenix, and Reshiram's end as the amber prison holding the Pokemon and dragons unlucky to escape the Death Song Titan finally melted away completely and they were all soon free.

The Pokemon and dragons that were imprisoned earlier were disorientated and they were out cold but thankfully, they started to breathe normally despite the obvious fact that they had been deprived of whatever strength they used to have from their incarceration. Sunflare, Reshiram, and Phoenix could see that even though the former captives were still alive and well, it'll be a while before they'll be back on their paws/feet/claws again.

Meanwhile, with the Death Song Titan, the evil dragon was getting more and more aggravated with its distractors as the Berk dragons and Sarah's dinosaurs did everything they could to stop it from continuing its initial assault from before. It soon got to the point when the monstrous dragon finally had enough and decided to go all out in its power, going for a full barrage of amber shots again to trap its current foes so that nothing can stop it and it can check its prey. While some of the dragons were able to dodge the renewed barrage (with two particular ones managing to tank the blows in accordance with its weaknesses), the others weren't so lucky and this even included the dinosaurs as they got caught in the blasts and were trapped.

"Ugh, now we're trapped in amber!"

"It's playing dirty!"

"What did it do?!"

"I can't move!"

"I'm stuck!" some of the dragons screeched in frustration, trying in vain to break free from their amber locks covering their wings, tails, and claws along with the dinosaurs roaring as they struggled to break free from their bonds.

Eternatus heard the scuffle taking a turn for the worst and gasped before he turned to his human trainer, "Pipsqueak, that creep's getting your lizards and dinos pinned down!"

Sarah looked to her dragons and dinosaurs after Eternatus called her to the problem at hand and she gasped, seeing much of her family and friends that escaped the Death Song Titan the first time were now trapped in its amber with only a few remaining stragglers going off against it.

Just when it seemed over for the survivors and their plan to destroy the Death Song Titan was about to go belly-up and give them no chance of progressing to the final level and their only way out of the game, the evil dragon was taken completely by surprise when a powerful lightning bolt shot forward from a random direction and struck it, sending it tumbling to the ground. With the Titan down and out for the time being, several more bolts shot down towards the trapped dragons and dinos and broke them free from their own prisons. Also, more bolts were shot down and they broke whatever amber bits on the prisoners that were left over that Sarah and those that helped her had forgotten to melt.

"We're free, too!"

"But, how?!"

"What's going on?" Winter, Shadow, and Silver gasped. Another roar sounded off and to everyone's surprise and to the utter shock of Dart, Pouncer, and Rufferunner, the culprit was revealed to be a Broad Wing Night Light. The difference between the new Night Light and Shadow and Winter's children is that it's at what it is assumed to be its full size instead of the trio's hatchling size from Dwarfism but that's not the only thing that sets it apart from them.

It was 24 ft. long and it had six ear appendages while bearing a strong resemblance to Shadow from its Night Fury body shape and that of Winter and Dart from the pure snowy white scales running from its lower jaw to the tip of its tail. A series of large triangular spins also lined down the back to the tail but unlike with Toothless, Shadow, Stryka, and Winter, it doesn't have a dual tail fin but more of a three-pronged "Tail Spade" with an additional dorsal fin on it. Finally, with its bat-like wings, they looked more like those of a Charizard having only a single hook in the middle and thinner membranes.

"Whoa!"

"It's a Night Light, like us!"

"But, in full size!" Dart and her brothers gawked in shock as they saw the new Night Light coming over.

"...Alright," smiled Voltage, relieved.

"What's crackin', Lil' britches?" the full-size Night Light chirped as it flapped over to the group, revealed to be a male. "You guys are having hell with that Titan-like punk of a Death Song, need help?"

"That's putting it lightly but we appreciate it!"

"We'd be happy if that thing's gone from our lives since we're not gonna miss it much!" Starlight and Eclipse replied.

"You could've knocked!"

"But, better late than never!" joked Zorya and Hawkeye with relieved smiles.

"Right. Then, allow us to get the show on the road. Wu and Wei, Feathers, let's boogie!"

Heeding the older and larger Night Light's call, two more dragons appeared from the horizon to assist the heroes in destroying the Death Song Titan still on the verge of killing everyone just as it managed to recover from the unexpected surprise attack from the new savior.

The two new dragons that appeared to assist the heroes were intriguing in their own right; the first dragon looked similar to Mist and Spark as well as Ruby and Sapphire akin to Hideous Zipplebacks with two long necks and two heads that shared one 14 ft. long body. But, its looks were inspired by Chinese culture and patterns with both of their heads having frills on either side, long pairs of horns, eyebrows, whiskers, goatees, and spikes stretching from their necks to their tails. The differences were stark from their heads; the red right dragon head indicates that it breathed fire which is decorated with wavy horns and large head frills and the blue left dragon head shows that it breathes ice that's peppered with curved horns and smaller head frills.

The dragon was gold in body coloration contrasted with a cream underbelly, knees that bent backward, two larger wings, and a long tail holding two fins. However, the wings and tailfins were based on the colors of their heads (left - blue, right - red).

The second dragon that, at first glance, looked to be invisible uncloaked itself from the shadows and revealed itself to be 6'06" in length with long legs and fins perched behind them, a long neck, a big rounded head paired with big eyes, and a long tail tipped off with two tailfins. The dragon lacked horns or spikes apart from one spike set on each wing but instead, it had what looked like a "crown" atop its head made out of feather-like scales which was tipped off with brighter colors on the ends.

An interesting note about it was that its wings were much longer compared to its body and its tail ended with a large fin similar in model to the tail of a peacock. The body coloration of the dragon is mainly pure green with red shading along the edges of its wings, its back, the back of its neck, and its thigh legs. The edges of its feather-like "crown" and the tailfin were both a bright yellow while the paws and back of its legs were both plum purple.

The Death Song Titan snarled at the three dragons coming to the rescue and it tried to charge at them as punishment for interfering in its fun but the second dragon, a female known to the Broad Wing Night Light as Feathers, roared and let out a Sonic Blast. The power of the blast and the sonic waves from it greatly disorientated the Death Song Titan as it thrashed about in the air and roared in agony as it tried to block out her cries with Sarah, her family, Race, and his team along with the Cyberspace Pokemon and the Mythical Thirteen doing their best to block out the noise as it did hurt them a bit.

The other three Pokemon and the dragons that were freed from their amber prison stirred and twitched for a bit from Feathers' Sonic Blast but then they relaxed as they were still out cold from their prolonged imprisonment.

Once the evil Death Song Titan was completely thrown off its game after Feathers finished her Sonic Blast, Sarah shook herself and brought out a second Grass Move Card to help the newcomers stop it.

"Now, we'll give that demon dragon a taste of some real dino power," she declared before she swiped the card across her Dino Bracer's slot and activated it, shouting, "Dino Move Card, activate! Paris, Fuki, Mia, Emerald Green!"

From her Grass Move Card, there emerged three female spectral Grass Dinosaurs as leaves swirled around them and formed a sphere of Grass Energy in each of their mouths. Once they were ready, the three of them fired back at the Death Song Titan which didn't react in time and got caught in the converged attack, its energy being drained away before it finally fell to the ground in exhaustion.

"It's working, the Death Song Titan's down!" Melody grunted, seeing the heroes' chance to destroy the evil dragon.

"We gotta destroy it before it gets back up!" Nova called, seeing the Death Song Titan struggling to get back up and continue fighting.

"Ugh, my turn, then..." Race grunted, trying his best to stabilize himself and while he brought out a Move Card and two Dinosaur Cards from his Dino Gadget.

"Race, wait!" Sarah pleaded, not wanting him to help fight until he gently stopped her with his right arm stretched out in front of her.

"...I'm edging for a bit of payback and let's consider this a calling card of reckoning from one player to a level boss like that sucker of a Titan. You had your fun with that idiot, now it's my turn at-bat."

With that said and revealing his Move Card in his right hand to be a Wind Move Card to coincide with his Dino Cards, he swiped them across the slot on his own Dino Bracer and summoned Nessie and Guru (both of them in their original sizes after they were brought out) onto the field as they glowed a bright arctic blue while strings of wind whirled around them.

"Now, Nessie, Guru! Attack, with Biting Wind!" shouted the Hoenn BF Champion, his two dinosaurs roaring as they multiple blades of wind (similar to Air Slash) that struck the downed Titan hard, making it screech in agony before it exploded minutes later.

Race just glared at the dissipating cloud and the spot where he, Sarah, the dragons, and their dinosaurs along with the new dragon and his friends destroyed the Death Song Titan as he said, "...And, your death came at the hands, dragons, and dinosaurs of Race Konami and Sarah Tomoe."

Sarah walked over to him as she also watched the cloud disappear as they leaned into and held each other; it was over, the hacked Level 9 boss was beaten and now, they and the rest of Sarah's family and their virtual friends can move on to the final level. Once everything was clear and all was calm again, with the dead wildlife and the once-imprisoned Pokemon and dragons avenged, the two deactivated their Dino Bracers and returned their summoned dinosaurs back to their Chibi Forms and recalled their Move Cards.

The Broad Wing Night Light and its friends, Wu and Wei and Feathers, quickly joined them and nodded at the pair to follow them out of the canyon and back into the jungle on the other side. With no other choice and seeing that they've only one level left to clear, Sarah and Race gathered everyone around them along with the freed Pokemon and dragons and followed their saviors out of the canyon and back into the jungle. Sunce carried Sarah and Race to help them recover from their earlier predicament as everybody kept up with the newbies, all of them hoping that they won't be taken by surprise again.

When they finally made it back into the jungle, the older and larger Night Light, Wu and Wei, and Feathers turned to their rescued victims as they all did their best to recover with some of them tending to the Pokemon and dragons the Death Song Titan once trapped.

"Is that everybody?" Sarah questioned her family while her fellow survivors checked everyone over as best they could.

"That's it, Princess. Everyone's present and accounted for, they're alright," reassured Reshiram.

"I managed to do a body count, nobody's missing so we're peachy," added Spike in agreement.

"Nice of you to join the party and free us, Ponchita," coughed James with a chuckle.

"Looks like you saved us all once again as expected," added Nikki amusingly.

"Well, we did have a bit of help," replied Sarah sheepishly, looking towards the Broad Wing Night Light and its companions as they came face to face with the Berkian dragons.

"My friend, how can we ever thank you three for what you've done?" Shadow thanked, grateful to his family's rescuers.

"Hey, Hakuna Matata, we're just glad we're able to get rid of that virtual beast before it could kill you. It clearly had a bone to pick with you so we thought we'd jump in and give you guys a helping wing," chuckled the older Night Light (discovered as male from its voice) as its friends nodded in agreement.

"Who are you?" inquired Winter.

"I am Thunder and these pretties with me are Wu and Wei and Feathers, we hail from this level's jungle and the canyon we've managed to help you escape from," greeted the dragon, Thunder.

"Wow, are you a Night Light, too, Mr. Thunder?"

"Are you what we would look like if we're not as small as we were?" Dart and Pouncer asked excitedly, getting a chuckle from Thunder as he looked at Shadow and Winter's children.

"Dwarfism is what's ailing you three, huh?"

"Yeah, we're shrimps compared to you. But, cool shrimps, really!" nodded Ruffrunner before he yawned.

"You really saved our bacon back there, thanks," Race thanked as he and Sarah joined the dragons.

"What he means is, thanks for saving us from that Death Song Titan back at the canyon," Sarah translated, knowing that the dragons can't understand her boyfriend fluently.

"Hey, don't worry 'bout it. You guys can cool your jets knowing that we've beaten the dork and you can move on to Level 10," replied the two-headed dragon's left head, Wu.

"Yeah, that creep couldn't lay even one talon on you after Feathers blew up its eardrums with her sonic boom," laughed the right head, Wei.

"In all my years, I've never seen such a dragon like the on such as the little one and you two being a Chinese copy of Mist and Spark as well as their parents," Starfire commented, taking in Feathers and Wu and Wei's looks.

"Okay, pallie, two things you need to get straight - One) We're not a copy of any dragon, and plus, Feathers isn't a dragon to play around with when she gets mad."

"And, Two) We're nothing like these Hideous Zippleback things your humans mentioned," Wu and Wei remarked with narrowed eyes, slightly offended.

"They're not far off on that, Starfire. If I recall and unless I'm wrong, they're both new species that had been created for the game as well or appeared in Berk after we got that recent status report from Hiccup and his friends about the dragons' condition," Shadow informed, looking at the dragons carefully.

"The smallest of the trio is actually a Featherhide; it's a Mystery Class dragon that's extremely adept at camouflage similar to Camo, Rose, and Mirage, their main attack being Sonic Blast which disorientates humans and dragons alike. The two-headed dragon before us is a Mist Twister, a Tidal Class dragon that uses fire and ice instead of the usual Zippleback attack combo of gas and fire as Mist, Spark, and their parents do."

"We are truly in your debt for helping us destroy and stopping that horrible Titan, you three," thanked Pyrrah.

"But, that Titan was no cakewalk. It took much of us down despite our best efforts to keep it off our family while Sarah and those that survived with us freed the others from their amber cages," Sunce added, looking towards the three new dragons. "How is it that it didn't see you or you managed to slip in and out from under its nose?"

Thunder sighed before he started to explain, "Long story but we were busy playing with our friends you guys managed to free when the Death Song Titan appeared from out of nowhere. They attempted to fight it but they soon got caught."

The Broad Wing Night Light then looked to the Pokemon and dragons Sarah and her family managed to set free as he, Wu and Wei, and Feathers made their way over to them to see how they're doing in their recovery with some of their acquaintances joining them.

"It started ambushing the place after it has its sight set on us and we were the most vulnerable which forced our friends to give themselves up to protect us and they ended up paying the price for it. With no other options and since we can't save them with that monster lurking around, we had to figure out how to save ourselves and not get picked out. Feathers and I managed to master our cloaking abilities so we were able to blend in with the environment around us and Wu and Wei combined both of their blasts to create a thick fog to allow us to escape from it unharmed. Since then, we've tried many ways to break them free from the amber rock they're trapped in but it was too thick and that Titan couldn't leave them alone for more than a second..."

"Our pallies took the brunt of that amber storm for us and we paid the price for their bravery, it was our fault they ended up like that until you came along..."

"We had no idea how to break them out until your human and her fire-breathing buds melted that stuff away from them."

"Earlier, while we were trying to figure out a new plan, we heard the Titan roar and found you all tussling it with until it froze much of your pals in its amber penitentiary brigs."

"We kept an eye on you from a distance since we didn't know where you came from but when we saw you risk your lives to save our friends and destroy that monster, we had to do something since you've proven you're not a threat," Wu and Wei spoke after one another somberly.

"Well, I'm glad we're able to prove that to you even if it's haphazard and we could've met on better terms," Sarah nodded. "Still, we owe you our lives for saving us from that Death Song Titan at the canyon."

"And, we-you for our friends," smiled Feathers gratefully, rubbing herself against one of her, Wu and Wei, and Thunder's freed Pokemon and dragon friends.

The rest of the group finally took a look at the Pokemon and dragons they managed to save with the assistance of their new allies and what they saw out of them had their brains wracking on what kind of creatures they are:

- The first of the five Pokemon freed resembled something of a San Joaquin Kit Fox at a height/length of 7'00" with its black fur dotted with red spikes that occasionally popped up with one of them on its chest. Its face on both sides is purple which matched its underbelly and its lower legs had fiery red shading.

- The second Pokemon stemmed at a height of 9'00" by contrast and it was much more intimidating from the black, grey, and white spikes that covered its body along with its bulkier body structure. Its front paws and lower legs were covered with a very strong while marble substance in addition to its tail and it looked as though it was a creature that came from the depths of hell.

- The third Pokemon, however, was at a height of 8'00" and it resembled more of a wolf from its grey fur, its purple face and underbelly, and a large purple ring circling around its body. Instead of the white marble-like substance or the fiery red shading of its Pokemon counterparts, the third Pokemon's front paws and back legs as well as its tail tip were all coated in crystalized purple poison.

- But, the fourth and fifth Pokemon were the most unique of the five; both of them had body structures similar to the body structure of a Lucario and would stand at a height of 3'11" but their dark blue ears were a little longer and thinner and their blue faces were contrasted by their white mouths and lower jaws, the white coloration being running along its fur covering their necks and the top of their chests. They also had their fur tied into a small ponytail behind their heads.

Around each of their necks, there was a necklace that had two orbs (one blue and one red) encased in metal plating and connected together through a diamond-shaped pendent that had a strange symbol on it. Also, hovering around their wrists are two single yellow rings while their legs and thighs were blue, the thighs having several white diamond-shaped markings on either side and dark blue feet.

- However, there was a sixth Pokemon amongst their ranks; the final Pokemon with them shared the fourth and fifth Pokemon's height of 3'11" but its arctic blue head had three several long ice shards (one of them atop its forehead and two more on its cheeks). It had a grey face and the majority of its body was also the same arctic blue coloration with the only exceptions being its grey thighs, legs, and chest.

The small dragon flock was no slouch, either; amongst them, there are five Deadly Nadders, three Gronckles, two Monstrous Nightmares, four Zipplebacks, and two other dragons that are the size of small kittens/cats (meaning that they're newly hatched) and three of them are the same as the last two but are similar in size to horse foals (indicating that they're four years old).

The smaller dragons were the first to awaken after being freed from their amber cage and looked around before they eyed Sarah and her family along with Thunder, Wu and Wei, and Feathers. They all chirped before they fluttered over and nuzzled the princess gratefully and the two newly hatched dragons (being six-seven years older) went to Drogon and Zephyr after catching sight of the Antipodean Opaleye family of three, their curiosity taking them over.

Soon, the other wild dragons heard the hatchlings' grateful and happy chirps before they got their bearings after waking up. The Nadders, Nightmares, Gronckle, Zipplebacks soon noticed Skystorm, Sunflare, Mist and Spark, and Rubble and went over to them in surprise before they grew comfortable around their real-world counterparts and nuzzled them.

"At least a few somebodies are happy now that they're free," chuckled Race. "Yeah, I'm surprised Ming Wu managed to make identical cyber clones after my family and I told RJ and Ming Wu about our escapades in Berk," Sarah admitted with a flustered smile, seeing how easily the cyber dragons were getting along with Skystorm, Sunflare, Mist and Spark, and Rubble.

Then, through a series of groans and twitches, the six rescued Pokemon finally stirred as they slowly got onto their paws and legs and shook themselves. They had been trapped in the amber prison created by the Death Song Titan for quite a while so they were feeling surprisingly stiff. Eventually, once they also got their bearings in check, Thunder, Wu and Wei, and Feathers came over to them as they quickly inspected them for any damage the Death Song Titan had done (which was, thankfully for them, very minimalistic or non-existent).

"Chen, Mae, Glace, Sully, Mercy, Salty, you guys okay?" Thunder asked, gently nuzzling both of the Water Types as they then looked at him, their vision blurred until they saw Thunder's worried face clearly.

"Little Thunder," panted the female Water Type gently as the Broad Wing Night Light nuzzled her.

"Thunder, you rascal... I had a feeling, even from within the amber prison we're trapped in, you, Feathers, and Wu and Wei would come back for us when you could've continued running. Quite reckless but you three did the right thing in the end, my boy... Ugh, thank you," sighed the male Water Type, sounding disappointed but eventually growing a tired but proud smile at the dragon.

Thunder just gave a tearful smile as he nuzzled the two Pokemon again, "It was our fault you all fell to that monster, we couldn't leave you even if we tried. We loved you too much..."

"Well, all's well that ends well."

"Even if it's far from over, Sis," Mist and Spark bantered.

"Who are you guys?" asked Rubble, looking surprised yet humbled at his cyber double.

Feeling everyone else's eyes around them and their friends now as they directed their attention to the new dragons and Pokemon, Thunder, Feathers, and Wu and Wei helped the exhausted Pokemon back up onto their feet and paws while Sunflare, Phoenix, Mist and Spark, and Rubble's cyber doubles regrouped with them, deciding to introduce themselves before things could get complicated and awkward.

"So, you all must be the ones responsible for our freedom and destroying that savage beast that nearly killed us and Thunder, Feathers, and Wu and Wei," the male wolf-like Water Pokemon said, looking at Sarah, her family, and Race and his team in gratitude.

"I'm impressed and relieved to know that you've saved our home and the three of them as well as us, so thank you. I am Chen Li and this is Mae Ling and my student, Glaceil, Sulfuur, Mercuur, and Saltaar. We are Water and Dark Type Pokemon known as Obscuring, Glaceil is an Ice Type, and our three friends are labeled as a Fire/Dark Type, Poison/Psychic Type, and Rock/Fighting Type respectively."

"But, you will also know those as the Lunar Wolf Pokemon and Glacial Fists Pokemon while my brothers and I are renowned by everyone in Cyberspace as the Extinction Trio - 'Tria Prima', for short," added Sulfuur, he, Mercuur, and Saltaar bowing in greatness to their saviors for rescuing them as well.

The entire group before the new Pokemon looked on in surprise while some of Sarah's family along with Bella and Race's Rockruff (particularly the younger Pokemon) gulped in slight fear, echoing, "Extinction Trio/Extinction Trio/Extinction Trio?"

"And, dare I ask why would you three be referred to as such?" Sarah gulped quietly, feeling on edge over what she heard.

"Before we have them get to that, M'Dear, perhaps we should clear your mind for a bit," Chen Li requested before he then said, "My mate and I and our species are Tai Chi masters and we have the power to control the ocean's tides as well as the moonlight in our rings which are our primary weapons to use in battle, utilizing powerful Dark Type attacks."

"What about those things around your necks?" Blitz pondered curiously as he and Curly joined Sarah.

Chen then looked to the trinkets he and Mae Ling are wearing with a fond smile as he gently caressed his own while continuing, "Oh, these? These 'things' around our necks are called Spiritual Necklaces; where our real-world counterparts originated from, it is a custom of sorts for Pokemon to earn a Spirit Necklace as we Norden Region Pokemon have the ability to harness what is called Spiritual Energy. Only three Pokemon are known to unleash the true power of our Spiritual Energy known as Unearthly Mode; our species, Aurequine, and Infernound, resulting in an increase of power depending on how it's channeled."

"My mate's student, on the other hand, is much more combative and determined as you can see from the ice on his paws being much harder and thicker compared to normal snow and ice," smiled Mae Ling, seeing Glaceil demonstrate this as he did a series of punches before he demonstrated some kicks.

"Yeah, and my signature ability is known as Thick Ice which boosts my physical attack stats by cutting the damage of moves that are super effective in half. By the sound of it, I'm a lot tougher than some people think-OW!" Glaceil replied, starting to get cocky as he gave a smirk and put his paws on his hips before Chen chuckled in amusement before he gave a small bonk to his student's head.

"Glaceil, what did I tell you about the lesson of the day?" he warned gently.

"I know, pride comes before a fall. Sorry, Shi-Fu," Glaceil apologized quickly with a bow.

Thankful for their friends allowing their saviors to give them a breather before then, Sulfuur and his brothers then faced Sarah, her family, Race, his Pokemon, and their cyber friends before they began to tell their own story.

"We wandered around Cyberspace for some time after we were created and usually go around areas that required growth but we acted very differently upon arriving in said locations. For one thing, I burned these areas to the ground and in the process, I can examine the history of the land we traverse upon as well as those who are part of the land after their time. I'm the only one out of all of us said to have a true connection to what is known as 'The Soul of the Earth'."

"I also smash apart these areas in order to reduce them to nothing more but rubble. Some of the soil I destroy is then used to destroy any lingering deposits on its body. My brother is one with 'The Soul of the Earth' but I'm the only one who has a true connection to what we know as 'The Body of the Earth'."

"And, as for me, I poison the areas we've destroyed in order to have old life that once inhabited them make way for new life through evolution. All life in the real world and here in Cyberspace depends on survival and the Pokemon before us test 'The Spirit of Survival'. Some species can survive my mental poisoning and grow with it and between us brothers, I'm the only one to have a true connection with 'The Spirit of the Earth'," the Tria Prima explained as best they could.

"We are known to one and all as the Missing Link in the Circle of Life," the three brothers finished together with dignity and honor.

"So, that's it; you're responsible for bringing new life to Cyberspace with your powers. You burn places that are flourishing with life and examine how it was inhabited and used by others, then you destroy them and the foundations they're on, and you destroy whatever old life remains to allow for new life to grow and prosper," Tsukumaro theorized thoughtfully.

"That means while Delosky and her sisters have dibs on changing the climate, you three are in charge of monitoring and controlling this world's ecosystems?" James deducted to the Extinction Trio.

"Of course," Sulfuur nodded in confirmation.

"You could say that but we prefer to see ourselves as Cybernetic life bringers," Saltaar shrugged simply.

Suddenly, after hearing everything, an idea came into Fennekin as she blinked and herded her brothers and sisters for a group huddle. They spoke for several seconds on end about what she had in mind regarding the new Pokemon and while there was some debate going on between them, the others eventually warmed up to the idea and they all vouched for it. With all of them in agreement on the baby Fox Pokemon's plan, the baby Jungle Pokemon, Piplup, Skiddo, Snom, Appletun, and Buneary went over to Sarah and the newbies with their proposition.

"Well, aren't you going to do it, Mommy?" Skiddo chirped.

Sarah blinked as she looked to the baby Jungle Pokemon and their older siblings, "Do what?"

"Capture them!" Fennekin peeped.

"Come on, Mommy! Can't they come to help us?" Phanpy nodded in agreement.

The princess was surprised as she balked over the thought, "Why would I do that? I already have enough Pokemon from Cyberspace on me already! Why would I want more than I actually need?"

Buneary hopped over to Sarah and placed a paw on her as she said, "We talked it over with Fennekin and we agreed we can help them find a new role for them to have in our world along with the other Cyberchase Pokemon. You did the same thing for Mr. Eternatus when you brought him from Galar; maybe they can help you with your new life and nurture all of Alola while patrolling the castle when they're off-duty."

Sarah stopped protesting as she began to think over Fennekin's idea; she remembered Olivia and her specialty in Rock Types as well as Saltaar's connection to what he referred to as "The Spirit of the Earth" and thought over how they would get on with him being a fellow patriarch of Akala Island. She also recalled Delosky and her sisters' connection to the climate and weather and how they can use it to their whim and remembered Gerudeon's nature with her treasure, thinking how she and her children can help safeguard her family's wealth.

She then began to think about what use and how of any help her new Cyberspace Pokemon could be; granted, she knew Race would take care of Orpheus and Torch as his own but she realized that she'll need to help the others find a new purpose in their new lives with her should any of them choose to join her after clearing and escaping the game. Maybe she could find something new for them to do in the real world if any of them would like to join her and her family and friends despite her capturing them, after all. With all the trouble Jin and Teng put them and everyone else in Cyberspace through with their meddling just to kill her and Race for the Twilight Gem's powers, perhaps a second chance at making their own lives in any way would be best for them. But, perhaps, if she couldn't take care of all of them...

"Ponchita, I wouldn't do that if I were you," James warned with a straight face, knowing what she was thinking. "Actually, I was going to consider...having, Race and Tsukumaro take some of them in," she replied, giving a sheepish smile with a sweatdrop.

"Huh?"

"Pardon-?" Race and the old advisor blinked in bewilderment as they turned to her as Zeraora and Zorua (still on Zeraora's head) came to them.

"Eh, why not, Old Man? You can have Mr. Tai Chi's girl and you won't have a problem with the Flying Serpents. And, what's wrong with having more Pokemon on you than the original limit?" the Tricky Fox Pokemon quipped.

Zeraora hummed as he crossed his arms and looked over the Cyberspace Pokemon before he nodded in agreement to Zorua's words as well as Sarah's proposition.

"Are you seriously going to fight Mom over her uncanny ability to be a Poke-Magnet wherever she goes? I thought we agreed not to discuss something like the plotholes," Star remarked.

"You may be right," sighed Tsukumaro in resignation, knowing that the Shiny Lucario's right before he chuckled. "But, I won't deny that my goddaughter's continuing to make a perfect first impression on any and all Pokemon."

"I'm not a perfect Pokemon magnet!" snapped Sarah, blushing in embarrassment and pouting as her family laughed at her expense.

Just as the arrangements for which Cyberspace Pokemon Race and Tsukumaro would have to take into their own teams, Yamper and Avel, ever the curious puppy and Storm Dragon hatchling they are, sniffed the ground to keep themselves from being bored until they came across something that was buried in the ground a few feet from the others on the path leading to the final level.

"Yamper!"

"Avel!"

"DIGGING TIME!" they cheered before they started to dig, drawing everyone's attention. "Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig..."

"What's with them?" Wu questioned, raising an eyebrow at the energetic duo.

"Something is definitely wrong with them," quipped Wei, not sure what to make of the scene before them and their friends.

"What's up, you guys?" Sarah quizzed, coming to Yamper and Avel before they eventually clawed and pawed out a pack of five small spheres that had a familiar swirl-like pattern but in several different colors for each of them.

The sight of the stones left Sarah and Race flabbergasted; the stones that they found were none other than a set of five Mega Stones. But, unlike the stones carried by their Pokemon capable of Mega Evolution, these were meant for a specific group of Pokemon according to their looks.

The first Mega Stone was yellow and had blue and purple curved stripes in the center while the second Mega Stone has an ocean blue coloration but coupled with DNA-like swirls of purple and white. The third Mega Stone is fiery red with orange and grey swirls and the fourth Mega Stone is a much brighter red which instead had yellow and brown swirls. Finally, the fifth Mega Stone had a pink rose coloration coupled with white and yellow swirls.

"Are they really..."

"They are..."

"Mega Stones...!" Race and his girlfriend breathed in quiet shock.

"Mega Stones, what are they to you?" pondered Wang Lun, he and Magearna coming to the pair and observing the stones (the latter accidentally stumbling and falling next to her charge again before Sarah brought her back up again).

"They're powerful objects that can allow a Pokemon to use the power of Mega Evolution as long as it has a strong and unbreakable bond with its trainer," Magearna explained as she looked at the stones. "But, I've never seen these stones before. They're not among the ones that mankind knows to exist as of now. What kinds of stones are they, exactly?"

"Mega Stones?!"

"Are you serious?"

"Zacian's Beard!" James, Nikki, and Tsukumaro shouted, totally flabbergasted as Sarah carefully brought them out of the dirt.

"Aside from Cobalt and Amber, the rest of my Pokemon already have their own Mega Stones," the princess noted while Keldeo approached her. "If we do find one for them, it'll have to be another Lucarionite and a Charizardite Y."

"But, what kind of Pokemon would those new Mega Stones belong to, Princess?" the Colt Pokemon inquired.

Everybody soon got their answer because, at that very moment, the Mega Stones all glowed were now blinking before they began floating in the air after she released them. Then, the stones shone brightly and darted towards Cresselia, Raikou, Entei, and Kion before they hit them and reappeared as charms held on five collars they were now wearing.

While Entei, Suicune, Raikou, and Kion had collars around their necks with their new Mega Stones similar to the collar being worn by Kaji, Cresselia's Mega Stone, on the other hand, was held on by a sterling silver Singapore Style necklace.

"No way..."

"Totally wild..." Sarah and Race breathed again, completely stunned.

"Sweet Mother Heliolisk...!"

"Entei, Suicune, Raikou..."

"Those Mega Stones are for them," gawked Nikki, James, and Tsukumaro again.

"Kion, you got yourself a Mega Stone!" Kiara (standing with Kion and Cresselia) exclaimed, seeing her brother with his new Mega Stone.

"Hey, you're right! And, even Cresselia has one!" added Kion, stunned beyond belief as he looked at his stone and Cresselia's stone.

"What is this?!"

"How did it-?"

"Amazing!"

"This is new...!"

"Freaky!" Simba, Nala, Kovu, Sarafina, and Sarabi cried in shock and awe over their new garments and power-ups.

"Impossible, Mega Stones for the Legendary Beasts and Kion?!"

"By thunder!"

"Did Ms. Wu make those stones for them?"

"If she did, then I'm glad she gave us an energy pick-me-up!"

"Those dumb bot dragons, Team Eclipse, Lothor, and Darkrai won't know what hit 'em!"

"Welcome aboard the Mega Evolution Express, guys!"

"Phenomenal!"

"Yeah, now Auntie Sarah has more Mega Pokemon on her!"

"Team Eclipse, eat your heart out!"

"I wonder what they'll look like when they're Mega Evolved." Cobalt, Xena, Tyson, Candy, Hydreigon, Draco, Saba, Snowflake, Tundra, and Arcanine remarked in awe and fascination.

"USE 'EM, USE 'EM, USE 'EM, USE 'EM!" Yamper and Avel barked excitedly, jumping up and down repeatedly.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Yamper, Avel, slow down! Mega Evolution isn't so simple, I can't use it on a whim as I please as you're hoping. We have to be in battle against another Pokemon or two in order to use it and it should only be used as a last resort," Sarah replied.

"That's true. But, don't you think you should know what they'll be like in their Mega Forms, Island Girl?" Race noted.

Sarah nodded but she didn't think it right to Mega Evolve them when there was no battle on hand yet; what's more, after hearing what Ash had to say about Mega Evolution given his experience in seeing it in action through trainers like the Shalour Gym Leaders, Korrina and Gurkinn, and the current Kalos Champion, Alain, trainers were supposed to use it as a last resort and nothing else.

So, deciding to hold off the Mega Evolution of her Pyroar, Cresselia, and the Legendary Beasts after some thinking, Sarah decided not to chance testing out their new power until they would need it.

"No, we'll have to wait until the final level and we beat not only the final boss but also destroy Jin and Teng before they and the other Black Dragons destroy us. And, this isn't it," she decided at last.

"Awww..." moaned Yamper and Avel in disappointment as they got a gentle rub and smile from their caretaker/trainer.

"You'll see their Mega Forms in action soon enough; you'll just have to be patient and we need to wait for the right moment to use them when we need them. Can you both do that for me?"

Immediately perking up at the thought of seeing the Pyroar, Cresselia, and the Legendary Beasts breaking out their new Mega Forms when the time comes for them to use their new power, they both nodded vigorously in agreement as they panted excitedly.

"Although, with what she and her team have managed to crack up for the game, I'll have to thank her for what she did for us."

Soon, with everyone now in agreement to go to the final level and go forth in combating the final boss and destroying Jin and Teng in what would be the last stand against the leading members of the Black Dragons, Sarah began making plans on who else between Race and Tsukumaro besides her would keep and look after the mythical creatures and Cyberspace Pokemon that they currently have on them.

To start off, Sarah and Race decided to split the Westros Dragons, the Zouwu, the ShiShi, the Jui Wei Wu, and Qilin couples between them as Sarah took care of christening them with their new names:

4-Year-Old Westros Dragons (2 male, 2 female) - Viserion (creamy white and gold dragon), Vhager (silver, blue, and gold dragon), Sunfyre (red and gold dragon), and Syrax (black and silver dragon)

Newly Hatched Westros Dragons (female) - Sheena (chocolate brown and silver dragon) and Summer (fiery red-orange and red dragon)

Zouwus - Silentstalk (male) and Farleap (female)

ShiShi - Furaha (male) and Shauku (female)

Jui Wei Hu - Kistune (male) and Kybui (female)

Qilins - Swala (male) and Muhimu (female)

Shenna, Vhager, Syrax, Zephyr, Silentstalk, Furaha, Kitsune, Swala, and Roseluck agreed to go with and be entrusted to Race with his female horned serpent, Neptune, joining him.

Sapphira, Drogon, Summer, Viserion, Sunfyre, Farleap, Shauku, Kyubi, Muhimu, and Celestia instead will be staying with Sarah and her male horned serpent, Nimbus, as he had grown accustomed to her as his new companion.

Chance was concerned for Roseluck and Celestia's safety since they decided to leave his herd for their new friends/families but both Sun Princess and Hoenn Battle Frontier Champion promised to take care of them as best they can upon leaving the game after they and everyone else defeated the leading two Black Dragons and the Level 10 boss.

Deciding to relax for the time being and make camp in Cyberspace for the last time, knowing that they'll have to be ready for whatever Jin, Teng, and the final boss on Level 10 would throw at them. Having helped to decide which mythical creatures his goddaughter and her boyfriend would keep, Tsukumaro helped them create a pair of suitcases similar to the suitcase belonging to Fantastic Beasts' Newt Scamander, enchanting them with the Undetectable Extension Charm so they could stay there and be safe with lots of room to roam around inside.

To make sure they don't confuse who's suitcase is who's, Sarah and Race designed the exteriors of their enchanted suitcases as follows:

- Sarah's suitcase had symbols of Nebby and Winter stitched on the front with both of them in a Yin-Yang symbol behind a pink-rose background with the back having an azure-blue background that had Nebula and Shadow in the exact same style

- Race's suitcase, on the other hand, had a Bella patch and a Robbie patch stuck together on the front with a Frontier Symbol (the Brave Symbol) stitched on the back.

Naturally, since he was still new to the prospect of actually having and using real magic, the BF Champion was further surprised to have a magic suitcase in his possession along with some magical creatures of his own. This caused a cheeky Zorua and Sho to poke fun at him and Sarah as they labeled him and Sarah as Newt Jr. and Tina Goldstein II, much to their embarrassment as they glared at the laughing Zorua pair.

Adding to their list of precautions was Tsukumaro enchanting them with the use of the Summoning Charm, Accio, so either one will be able to retrieve their cases easily should they ever be taken or lost and they notice them gone in a matter of seconds or minutes within casting distance.

Using Atmospheric Charms, inside both cases, there were different habitats created for their mythical friends depending on each of their preferences that would come into effect when it was time for them to leave Cyberspace after beating the game:

Callisto and Telsa - A large rock formation surrounded by desert and forest reminiscent of the Arizona desert and Coconino National Forest

Orion, Orchard, Storm, Flurry, Karabi, Aku, and Sunce - a rainforest with many trees and rocky outcrops

Celestia, Chance, Gallus, their herd/flock, Shauku, Kyubi, Muhimu, and Farleap - large Bamboo forest habitat with tall trees that provided sturdy and large-enough branches for Gallus and his flock's nests. Just outside of the bamboo forest was a vast field where the ShiShi, Kristine, the Zouwu, and Qilin females in her care would reside peacefully

Hydra - small Chinese pagoda which transforms into a magically-expanded cave upon entry with several smaller cave tunnels from within as well as dozens of stalactites and stalagmites

Sapphira, Drogon, Summer, Viserion, and Sunfyre - large mountain range with large caves not unlike Dragon Mountain

With Race's suitcase and its habitats for his mythical creatures: a similar bamboo forest habitat for the ShiShi, Kristine, Zouwu, and Qilin males and a similar mountain range also inspired by Dragon Mountain for Zephyr, Sheena, Syrax, and Vhager.

As for the remaining creatures belonging to the pair:

Wampus Cat family (Sarah) - Wanda (female), Will (male), kittens (2 sons, 1 daughter): Felix, Cosmo, and Lyla.

Diricawl family (Race) - Bubble (female), hatchlings (2 daughters, 1 son): Blueberry, Poof, Fluffy.

Since they didn't want to be corralled in the suitcases and their habitats for too long and they had grown accustomed to their new owners, they decided to stay out with them for a little longer.

"Well, that did it. They should be alright in there after we beat the game and return home although, I can only imagine how the others and my team's predecessors would react once we tell them everything," Sarah said once the pair and Tsukumaro had finished and dusk started to break.

"We've taken all of the necessary precautions we could think of thanks to your old man so we'll tell them or let them figure it out on their own," Race reassured as he chuckled a little. "I'll tell ya; if we had a video camera on us right now apart from Rotom and recorded their reactions, we could send it over to America's Funniest, if you want."

Sarah giggled before she looked up at the virtual sky and noticed dusk continuing to break with the night pending. It was getting late and they'll need all the strength they need for the final boss, Jin, and Teng before they could leave, especially after dealing with the Death Song Titan and hearing everything they've learned about some of the new Pokemon she and the others now have on them.

"Our third night out in Cyberspace, we'll need to find a place to make camp," she sighed as Thunder, Feathers, and Wu and Wei joined the pair once they had finished they and Tsukumaro finished the pair's suitcases.

"But, where can we go this time? We can't camp out in the open knowing those hooligans and their dinosaurs are still out there," Tsukumaro noted.

"If you want, you can stay with us in our cave for the night," Thunder offered. "You do have nowhere else to go right now and you're all on track to beating the game, anyway."

"You'd do that?" Race asked, surprised.

"Yeah, we owed you one for saving our friends earlier."

"...Thank you, Master Thunder," smiled Tsukumaro after a while of thinking with Race and Sarah nodding in appreciation.

And, so, it was arranged; Feathers, Thunder, and Wu and Wei led the entire group to their cave and after they had dinner, pitched up the tent, and got to know their new friends further once they confirmed they're safe from Jin and Teng or any other dangers they've hacked into the game, the heroes spent what would be their final night in Cyberspace before their last rumble on the final level. They can only hope things will be much smoother for them once they get to Level 10 and that they'll have a plan to beat the Black Dragons.

Feeling at peace with their freed friends once more, Thunder and Feathers waddled over to the slumbering Race and nuzzled him gently while Wu and Wei decided to sleep with Sarah for the night. All while Sapphira and her children shielded the group and kept them warm with their open wings.


Disclaimer Note:

Obscuring and Glaceil belong to trainer_matz. Saltaar, Sulfuur and Mercuur belong to pangeo_region. All of these users on on Instgram and gave me permission to use these pokemon in our story.