As they fought outside, the heroes felt the ground shake as a large dragon flew from the castle and into the sky above as it took off.
"Is that...the Chaos Dragon?" Natsu said seeing it fly.
"That thing's free already? Then that means...oh...Darios." Pit said.
"I'm afraid so." Sectonia said arriving. "It looked like he was freed for a brief moment, but...the Chaos Dragon killed him… Rowan, Lianna, I'm sorry. I couldn't save him."
"It's alright. We won't let his sacrifice be in vain." Rowan said taking the Shield of Flames in hand.
Hope then looked to the Chaos Dragon flying above. "We still got a chance to save this place. We have the Shield, right? But more than that, we have all of our friends by our side. It's not just about the shield, but what came from trying to assemble it."
"Uh...Hope. Not that the speech isn't amazing...but now really isn't the time!" Lacy said pointing to the town as the fiends were going berserk in it.
"The Outrealm Fiends!" Hope said.
"They all started going berserk the moment the Chaos Dragon was freed. We'll have to hold off on fighting it. We need to drive out the fiends from Aytolis first." Shun said.
"Yeah, that's probably the best course of action. Let's get to it!" Zoro said as they dashed into the action.
In the wake of entering the town to defend it, they saw Lyn still cutting her way through the fiends.
"Sweet mercy, she's still going?" Leo asked.
"Now that's dedication." Jesse said.
"Thankfully the fiends are mindless. I'm sure they're the least of our worries." Jexi said before they saw the air crack a bit before some sort of hole opened up. "What in the world?"
"Is that a…?" Indigo asked.
"I've seen them enough times to know. It's an Ultra Wormhole. But why did it open here?" Twilight wondered.
"Should we… go through?" Lacy asked.
"Definitely not. Those wormholes lead to various alternate worlds within Ultra Space." Twilight said. "Besides...something's forcing its way through."
They looked in shock as a strange creature stomped out of the portal. It was It was one eyed, made of many blocks that flipflopped repeatedly.
Mayumi and Aria left arrived to witness this.
"What the…? What is that?" Mayumi asked.
"An Ultra Beast. But it doesn't look like the ones we caught." Indigo said.
"It must be an undiscovered species of Ultra Beast." Twilight said.
"What's it doing all the way out here?" Jude asked.
"Given how dangerous Ultra Beasts are if left alone, just two words: Not good." Mayumi said.
"I still have some Beast Balls in my bag from my days as a Beast Hunter. We need to weaken it and capture it before it causes any trouble." Indigo said.
"From looking at it...it has to be some sort of Rock Type. So a fighting type would probably do the best work. Hakamo-o!" Twilight said sending it out.
"You might want to take cover, Kazuichi." Jude said.
"You don't gotta…" Kazuichi said before Hakamo-o got close. "Damn it!" he said before being beaten ferociously and sent flying.
"Well that was expected. Hakamo-o, attack the creature with Sky Uppercut!" Twilight said as the dragon ran at the Ultra Beast. The beast then shook before parts of it flew out and blocked the attack. "What in the...I see now...it's not one beast. It's made of many different organisms."
"An attack on a single front isn't going to work against this guy. We need to attack it from more than one angle." Natsu said.
"Agreed. Go, Bewear!" Indigo said sending it out.
Bewear and Hakamo-o surrounded the large amalgamation.
"Bewear, Hammer Arm!" Indigo said.
"Hakamo-o, Sky Uppercut!" Twilight said.
The two tried to attack only for both attacks to be blocked as both pokemon were smushed against buildings.
"No!" the two trainers said.
"This thing is a lot smarter than we give it credit for." Indigo said.
"Of course it is. The way it's stacked, it was made for defense and attack." Twilight said.
"Hmm…" Pinkie said. "Does it even have a name yet?"
"A name? Pinkie, a names the least of our problems right now!" Lucy s
"I have finished Scanning the creature." Vera said. "It's called Stakataka, the Rampart Pokemon. It's a Rock and Steel type. When stone walls started moving and attacking, the brute's true identity was this mysterious life-form, which brings to mind an Ultra Beast."
"Rock and Steel? So both Fighting and Ground work very well against it." Jude said.
"Uh… one problem. Bewaer and Hakamo-o both tried to hit it with fighting type moves, and it didn't even flinch. This thinks built like a fortress." Natsu said.
"He said Fighting AND Ground. Were you seriously not paying attention?" Mayumi better use Ground types to try and change up our strategy.
"We need to…" Twilight said before she saw the creature move at Mayumi. "Mayumi look out!" Twilight shouted.
"Swampert! Use Mud Bomb!" David called sending him out. Meanwhile, Stakataka was charging at Mayumi with Iron Head.
"He won't get it in time." Twilight said.
Before Stakataka made it, the strike was blocked. "Huh?" Mayumi said before seeing Hakamo-o growling as it took the attacks for her.
"Hakamo-o!" Twilight said in shock.
"It's trying to protect Mayumi." Indigo said.
Stakataka continued to attack the creature while ignoring the damage Swampert was trying to lay on it.
"Damn it. It won't budge. What's wrong with that thing?" David growled. "And… why is it going after Mayumi?"
"Maybe it knows something we don't?" Hope asked. "That's usually the case with Ultra Beasts. You never know what they're thinking."
"Yeah, that's only with the ones we captured so far. But this thing...Stakataka… we've never seen this guy before." Indigo said.
Hakamo-o continued to block, taking on more and more damage as Stakataka attacked. But on the next Iron Head, it was uppercutted at the right moment and knocked on its back. Hakamo-o then knelt to the ground, feeling pain from its injuries.
"Hakamo-o…please...you don't have to keep doing this. You don't have to keep fighting like that!" Twilight said.
Stakataka was getting back up as Hakamo-o stood back up tall with its arms spread out as it prepared to take another attack for Mayumi.
"That's enough, Twilight! Just call him back!" Jude said.
But when Twilight tried to, it shook off the return beam and kept standing.
"Hakamo-o, what are you doing?" Mayumi asked.
"I think...it just wants to keep you safe from that thing." Aria said.
"Hakamo-o...you keep thinking of others than yourself…" Twilight said as she remembered when it would protect other pokemon when still a Jangmo-o. "Even now...but...it's not worth your life."
Stakataka charged at it once again as Hakamo-o tried to push against it being slowly overpowered.
"Stop already! Just what is it you want with Mayumi?!" David asked to Stakataka.
Stakataka ignored this and kept the attack going.
"Hakamo-o...please...you have to keep living." Mayumi said.
Stakataka seemed like it was about to plow over Hakamo-o when something happened. Hakamo-o was soon pushing back and quickly overpowering Stakataka as it glowed.
"Is it…" Indigo said.
"It's….evolving." Twilight said.
When the glow subsided, there stood a tall dragon like creature with many scales over its body and tail as it gave a punch and sent Stakataka into a building. "Kommo-o!" it roared.
"Holy mother of god!" Kazuichi said.
"He evolved into Kommo-o!" Indigo said.
"I have this." Rotomdex said. "Kommo-o, the Scaly pokemon and the Evolved form of Hakamo-o! A Dragon and Fighting Type! It battles valiantly with its fists, which are armored in steel scales. Kommo-o specializes in uppercuts."
"It's even learned a new move." Twilight said. "Okay...Kommo-o...use Clanging Scales!"
Kommo-o then clanged its scales together as a loud noise was being emitted as the parts of Stakataka was opening and closing rapidly as the attack hit the beast hard.
"Whoa!" Luffy said.
"David...finish it now! We don't have much time before it recovers!" Twilight said.
"Right!" David said as he tapped his Mega Ring. "May the bonds that unite us pave the way towards the future! Mega Evolve!"
A bright light enveloped Swampert before he emerged in his Mega Form.
"Now, run it down with Bulldoze!" David said.
Swampert charged and rammed into it, knocking it down as it had trouble standing again.
"Now is the time!" Indigo said tossing a Beast Ball at it before it went inside. The ball shook for a bit before it clicked. "Phew. There...it's done."
"Man… What a fight. Thing was built like a brick wall." David said.
"A brick wall that was able to shift to counter attacks, but yeah." Mayumi said as the Ultra Wormhole sealed itself up after that.
"What I don't get is why Stakataka went after Mayumi only." Twilight said.
"Maybe once we get it in the Pokemon Habitat, we can have Pheramosa or Celesteela talk to it." Pinkie said.
"That won't work." Indigo said. "Ultra Beasts don't really have their own language. They mostly act on instinct."
"Guess we'll have to figure it out ourselves once we get to the Pokemon world." Jude said.
"But first, we have a few things to take care of here." Lloyd said.
As the others went off, Kazuichi walked over to Kommo-o.
"Okay big guy, let's go. We got a dragon to slay." Kazuichi said as Kommo-o stared at him. "Look, i get it, you hate me. You bited my hand, and you pounded me to submission more than once already. Whatever you'll do to me in this form, just...get it over with."
Kommo-o stared for a bit before scoffing and walking away from Kazuichi.
"Well, at least he didn't hurt me this time." Kazuichi said.
"I think it just decided that you're so insignificant you aren't worth its time." Hiyoko said.
"GAAAAAH!" Kazuichi said in shock.
As Kommo-o walked off, Hope came beside him.
"Why did you always hurt Soda for no reason? He's a nice guy, what's there to hate that you had to bite and punch him all the time?" Hope asked.
Kommo-o then scoffed at Hope and walked away from him.
"Guess you aren't worth its time either." Hiyoko said.
"Seriously. What does Mayumi have that Kazuichi and I don't?" Hope asked.
"I honestly don't know myself. Who knows what Kommo-o is thinking." Mayumi said. "At least its heart's in the right place."
The fight on the battlefield continued before the fiends had been cleared out of Aytolis and the kingdom was once again free of evil.
"Okay… that's all of them." Lianna said.
"Now that Aytolis is free...we need to give chase to the Chaos Dragon." Rowan said.
"I can sense its evil energy...It seems to be headed for...the World Tree." Tiki said.
'Why head there?" Chrom asked.
"It's possible the light energy of the Divine Dragon still resides in the tree. It's trying to snuff it out once and for all." Tiki said.
"Then we haven't got a moment to lose. We must make haste!" Kirumi said.
