Elio and Lillie exit the elevator, as they found themselves at the summit of Citadark. Ahead of them is a metal bridge leading to a large dome, built above the mouth of the volcano. As the two found the elevator leading to the docks bellow, Elio grinned to lighten the mood. "If we unlock the elevator from this side we wont have to take the long way back. Not that we would want to come back here."

Lillie stared at the dome, she knew that the Cosmoem was there. "We will get you out of there. Just hold on a little longer."

Emerging from the elevator leading to the port was a man in blue and golden robes; he was wearing a golden helmet.

He looked at the two, then looked at the dome. "You two are the ones trying to foil our plans?"

The man stood with a staff at hand, Elio approached the Admin and shouted. "We are not trying to foil your plans. We are going to foil them."

The man tilted his head at what was either foolishness or courage. "Very well my name is Setesh, by the Grand Masters orders I am here to stop you dead in your tracks."

Vs Cipher Admin Setesh

Setesh sent out a Slowking and a haunted chandelier known as Chandelure. Aura reader activated as Lillie recognized the Chandelure in fear. "Slowking and Chandelure are shadow pokemon."

Lillie yelled. "Elio watch out for that Chandelure it is dangerous even when it isn't a shadow pokemon!"

Elio tossed a pokeball and dusk ball to shout. "BRIMMY, MAKUTA; GET ON OUT AND SHOW THEM HOW IT IS DONE!"

The Inciniroar and the Cofagrigus emerged from the balls as Elio shouted. "BRIMMY USE DARKEST LAIRAT ON THE SLOWKING! MAKUTA SHADOW BALL THE CHANDELURE!"

As the Slowking was hit, the Chandelure was going to aim at Elio for ordering the attack. It found that the two pokemon standing before it would never let it get the shot off, it instead aimed its shadow flame at the Cofagrigus. Slowking used shadow sky on being slammed across a rock by the Incineroar.

Elio fed a net ball into the machine to capture the Slowking.

"GO SNAG BALL!"

Shake... shake... shake... click!

Setesh sent out a large metallic penguin, the Aura Reader activated. "That Empoleon is a shadow pokemon."

Elio shouted. "Makuta, expect that Chandelure to get another pot shot at us."

The Cofagrigus knew that meant use protect. As the Chandelure tried to burn the Cofagrigus once again, the barrier held.

Elio charged a dusk ball for the Chandelure. "GO SNAG BALL!"

Shake... Shake... Shake... click!

The Emploleon used a shadow pump on the Incineroar, nearly knocking him out. Setesh sent his next pokemon, a green gelatinous Pokemon.

The Aura Reader activated again. "That Reuniclus is a shadow pokemon."

Elio prepared two pokeballs, one ready to call the Incineroar back, the other. "BRIMMY FALL BACK! GO REMMER!" To send the Hypno out; Elio ordered the Cofagrigus to use shadow ball on the Reuiniclus for super effective damage. The Emploleon shot another shadow pump at the Cofagrigus and missed before using a shadow cannon in its place. Elio prepared a dusk ball for the Reuniclus, it tried to use shadow hypnosis on him; the Hypno got in the way and blocked the hypnotic waves.

Elio still felt himself getting dizzy. "Thanks Remmer. GO SNAG BALL!"

Shake... shake... shake... click!

The Admin took a deep breath. "Well this is going to suck for one of us in the next ten minutes."

He sent out his next pokemon, a brown alien looking creature. The Aura Reader activated. "That Beheeyem is a shadow pokemon."

As the Hypno put the Emploleon to sleep with hypnosis, he noticed the Beheeyem aiming its flashing fingers at Elio. Once again, Hypno took the hit by redirecting most of the psychic waves to himself. The Hypno screamed as its kept holding its head it pain.

Elio tossed in a timer ball at the Beheeyem, he felt dizzy. "Crap! I got you Remmer! GO SNAG BALL!"

Shake... shake... shake... click!

Both Hypno and trainer felt like their brains were put under significant pressure as the Cofagrigus hurled a shadow ball at the Emploleon. Dealing critical damage.

The Admin stood there not even phased. "Well that didn't work."

Elio hurled a net ball at the opening. "GO SNAG BALL!"

Shake... shake... shake... click!

Setesh shrugged before he asked. "You expect this to be the part where the Admin and or important person in this nest of idiots sends a mega evolved shadow pokemon to kick your ass?"

Setesh stared at the two, he tossed out his last pokemon, a fiery fox with a stick known as Delphox. Setesh shouted out before Elio and Lillie reacted. "No she is not a shadow pokemon and she is a pokemon that doesn't mega evolve, Salem has been with me too long for that treatment."

Anticipated a psychic move, Elio swapped to his Incineroar. Delphox turned her attention toward the Cofagrigus as she hit him with a psychic blast. She turned around and shot at the Incineroar with mystic fire; the Incineroar was still able to battle as Elio posed for the Z move. "Ma... MALICIOUS MOONSAULT!" The Incineroar leaped toward a rock formation to perform the finishing move ending the fight.

Setesh glared at the two. "I should have figured that aiming the shadow pokemon at you would not work, if it is not avoidable your pokemon probably have been blocking blows that would have killed you!"

He shook his head he gave a warning. "Are you two sure you want to go in there? One of the scientist thought it was a good idea to move the XD project onto this island. Instead of you know, out off this region!"

The man faced toward Lillie, pointing at her in questioning what would be the right choice. "My reports on you say that you hate seeing pokemon in this state, least of all get hurt. Oh boy! You have only heard of XD-001. Lovrina did not want to cooperate with this project, despite this being the evolution of the XD series."

Lillie gritted her teeth as the man hinted toward what they done to the Cosmoem. "Yes, it would be safe from you monsters!"

Setesh nodded his head at the remark and stood smug. "I respect your determination girl, but you two are about to halt a major part of our plans and piss someone off. But go on right ahead!" The Admin went back towards the elevator he anticipating the worse. "If the Grand Master makes another temper tantrum over this."

Elio's head cleared before rushing toward Lillie. "Are you.." Before he was able to ask a mentally breaking down Lillie, he saw that she was not feeling well as she rushed towards the dome. Elio followed as they head toward to dome to confront the last obstacle Citadark had to offer.

As Lillie and Elio rushed into the dome, they found nothing of note on the first floor save for lingering scientists working on something with a large blank screen.

Lillie was about to unleash everything she had on these people when Elio stopped her. "We will deal with them later, if we sneak around we would find more in this place."

Lillie looked back at him with vengeance in her eyes. "Only if you promise to join me. These people cannot get away with this!"

The duo found an elevator going down and an elevator going up. They took the one going up, leading to a wide open area that is mostly black before the walls opened up to a stormy sky.

In the center of the room, was a large creature, looking like that of a lion. Dark purple, edges blue, part of its face look like the color of a red giant, eyes glowed white. Lillie gasped and looked in tears as she knew of this creature; the Sunne counter part to Lunala, Solgaleo. The Solgaleo noticed the two intruders and let loose a bellowing otherworldly roar. What ever warm affectionate Lillie sensed in from the Lunala known as Nebby was absent in the Solgaleo Cipher had corrupted. She whispered to Elio. "I want to do this alone, please."

Before Elio questioned why, she looked back in a mixture of tears and anger. "Make sure no one tries to attack us while me and my pokemon are busy with this!"

Elio nodded as he let the Yanmega out. "Odon, you are to fly out of that opening and scout. If you find anything heading here that way you are to get back here and alert us. I don't care how, but if it has something that will hit us anywhere on the ground, get us out of the blast zone!"

The Yanmega grunted in agreement as he flew. Elio faced toward the elevator, ready for any one who dare try to interfere. Lillie prepared her pokemon to confront

XD-004 Shadow Solgaleo

Lillie shouted. "Shockums! Onua, we need to save him."

She sent out the Raichu and Golurk who were startled by the look of the shadow pokemon.

Lillie ordered. "Shockums use thunder wave!" The Raichu paralyzed the Solgaleo as he glowed a dark aura and opened his third eye. He leaped toward the sky and glowed like a dark sun before crashing at the Raichu in a ray of dark sunlight, knocking her out quick and brutally.

Lillie took out the pokeball and shouted. "Sockums come back! Go Swoops! Onua use shadow punch!" Lillie swapped the Raichu for the Pidgeot, the Golurk slugged the Solgaleo in the face with a fist from the shadows, sending Solgaleo flying back. Lillie knows her pokemon won't last against the kind of damage Solgaleo is doing and shouted. "Swoops use sand attack!"

As the Pidgeot tossed sand in the Solgaleo eyes, it roared a shadow down. The defenses of both pokemon have gone down as Lillie shouted "Both of you do it again!"

As the attacks repeated, the Solgaleo's third eye glowed. It tried to Shadow Sun Strike on the Golurk, he missed and crashed towards the ground, it struggled to get up still determine to destroy its targets. Lillie charged up an ultra ball into the snag machine as she wanted the nightmare to end.

"GO SNAG BALL!"

Shake... shake... shake... Click! Solgaleo was caught!

Lillie rushed toward the ball and began to cradle it "We can help you... please!"

The Yanmega zoomed back to screech at the Pidgeot to get Lillie. The Pidgeot signaled Lillie to get the Golurk into its ball! The Yanmega and Pidgeot swooped the duo off the ground as they saw something shot into the dome. A pillar of dark flame engulfing the lower section of the dome. As the flames died down, Elio saw a creature he recognized. It was a bamboo like rocket, only instead of green it is purple in most areas, baring its face and neck which were black. Its fingers were velvet and its eyes are a sharp red. As the Yanmega and Pidgeot found a place to land, the Celesteela crashed on the floor.

Elio spoke calmly. "Lillie, go wait bellow the room. This is between me and the Ultra Beast!"

Lillie whimpered. "Elio... please don't fight this thing alone!"

Elio turned around and smiled. "And get yourself in the cross fire? No, I dealt with two of these before." He took the balls containing his Incineroar and Cofagrigus, he faced the creature. "BRING IT ON!"

Lillie rushed toward the elevator, as it rose up she looked in fear that she was about to leave him to this thing. She heard Elio taunt the Ultra Beast as it roared.

XD-010 Shadow Celesteela

Its aura flared to life, its speed increased.

"BRIMMY! MAKUTA LETS DO THIS!" As the Incineroar and Cofagrigus was sent out, the Celesteela leaped in the air glowing a dark aura, in an attempt to crush Elio with a shadow slam. The Incineroar grabbed Elio and dodged while the Cofagrigus crawled in his place place.

SLAM!

The Celesteela stopped roaring as its otherworldly energy was mummified.

Elio shouted. "BRIMMY, FIRE FANG THAT CELESTEELA! MAKUTA IF YOU CAN STILL HEAR ME USE WILLO WISP!" The Incineroar bit into the Celesteeela with fiery fangs and pushed it off the Cofagrigus. Despite the impact of the shadow slam, the Cofagrigus looked bent but still shot out spectral flame at the Celesteela, burning it.

The Celesteela's arms glowed, it was about to shoot a shadow flame for flight. The Cofagrigus crawled in front of its his trainer to used protect; he shielded himself and Elio from the shadow flame. Elio saw his Incineroar out in the flame and ordered, hoping for the Incineroar to still be fine. "BRIMMY! DARKEST LAIRAT!"

The Incineroar was burned from the flame but still taunted the shadow pokemon and spun right into it. The Celesteela struggled as it began to fall to on the ground.

Elio kept his grin as he reached for his bag. "Let's see how well this baby works with a snag machine."

Elio placed blue ball with white lines and yellow baubles into the snag machine as he saw the Celesteela crash, its arms trying to lift itself up.

"GO SNAG BALL!"

The image of an opening Ultra Wormhole emerge from the ball, a hand emerged from the middle to yank the Celesteela in.

SHAKE...SHAKE... SHAKE... CLICK!

Elio jumped for joy at the successful capture as he huddled his Incineroar and Cofagrigus together. "We did it boys! This is your first successful Ultra Beast capture!"

He rushed down the elevator to go find Lillie, he heard noise crying, screaming, crushing.

Elio went to the main room and saw Lillie shouting orders to her Golurk and Gardevoir; she cried toward the people in the room. "Why did you hurt them?! Answer me now!"

The Golurk and Gardevoir were attacking the scientists as the Raichu and Pidgeot tried to calm their trainer down.

Elio frowned sharply. "Elio... your an idiot! You forgot that these ass holes are still down here."

Elio went behind Lillie and embraced her. "Lillie, please stop."

Lillie flinched as she realized what she was doing; Elio continued to speak. "We got what we came for, we can leave and help these pokemon." Lillie's legs were shaking in stress as she called the Gardevoir and Golurk back before they tore the Cipher scientists apart. Elio released Lillie from the embraced as her Raichu and Pidgeot approached to give their trainer a hug. Silence was felt as Lillie called back the two pokemon who were with her since before she came to Orre.

Elio held Lillies hand as they left the dome and back to the Robo-Kyogre. He tossed a tied up and squirming Lovrina into the back seat. "Don't do anything stupid or your just going to drown!"

Since Elio never drove anything besides a ride pokemon and Lillie was in no condition to respond, he was going to have to drive the boat. It was a rough ride since he has to focus on multiple things, like where he was going and what buttons to press.

The Dex was shouting. "BZZT! Watch your driving! BZZT!" As Elio was able to park the boat back at Gateon Port without causing a dent.

As he and Lillie returned to the H.Q, Krane noticed a few things odd. First was how broken Lillie looked, second is the weird ball Elio was holding, third and lastly a familiar looking woman the Incineroar was trying to carry as she was squirming; trying to break free.

Elio shouted toward Krane. "You got a room that can make a good holding cell? At least until I can make contact with two people who would take this one away!"

The professor looked at the Purify Chamber before having the Incineroar carry Lovrina to an unused living quarters in the back before he asked. "What exactly do you two have?"

Elio answered as he manually placed these two balls into the P.C. while Lillie tried to calm down. He asked. "Do these look familiar to you?" He showed the image of what lurked in the balls.

The professors two answers were. "No and Yes; No because I never even seen these pokemon before. Yes because this looked like the color Lugia had whe..."

Lillie sprung back up in desperation. "If there is a way to save them please tell us!"

Krane looked at the machine. "How many chambers do you have?"

Elio recalled the number of chambers. "Seven, about to get nine once this next batch is done."

The Dex smiled and buzzed. "BZZT! Boss they are ready! BZZT!"

Elio smiled in pride. "I figured there was a connection between the nine chambers and how you lot were able to save Lugia. We had to heal these pokemon in bulk anyways so kill two birds with one stone. Lillie, if you are feeling better let us see if this would work."

As the two enter the chamber. The first thing done is the seven pokemon was pressing the button to have the door to their hearts opened. Elio thought to himself what would work in rhythm. "Swalot, Azurill, Honchkrow and Spoink."

As Elio finished chamber 8. Lillie was in a stoic stare as she placed in Basculin, Armaldo, Sealeo and Carnivine, making chamber 9.

Lillie and Elio looked each other in the eyes. "This is it, the moment of truth. You place Solgaleo in any of the chambers and I get Celesteela in."

The Solgaleo was placed in chamber 1, something happened as a green light embedded him. Solgaleo's appearance did not change, but he was still glowing green. Celesteela was placed in chamber 5, the same thing happened.

Dex flared up an exclamation point. "BZZT! Boss! I don't know what was done to it, but my scanners show the door to their hearts is slowly loosening. This may take longer than all the other shadow pokemon. BZZT!"

Elio looked nervously at the Dex. "How long are we talking about? A year? More?"

Dex laughed back. "BZZT! No, around a month, BZZT!"

Elio walked toward the first chamber to tell Lillie the news, she had no idea if the chamber was working or if it was a fools errand.

He grinned widely at the stoic Lillie. "Guess what."

Lillie knew Elio would grin like this if he had good news in a bad moment. "What?"

Elio place his hand on her shoulder. "It is working. It would take a month with these two. But it is working."

Lillies look of despair flared up into tears of joy as she embraced him. They placed in the Lopunny, Darmanitan, Magmotar, Elevtrivire, Froslass, and Slowking into the other chambers before leaving.

The scientist's who monitored the room outside congratulated the two on the breakthrough. "With how otherworldly these pokemon are and how the door is even more locked in comparison to Lugia. We had doubt it would work."

Lillie closed her eyes in peace. "Now we know they can still be saved.

Elio shouted loudly as the mood returned to normal. "You all have the prison cell ready? I'll call some buddies of mine shortly."

As Elio left to check on his Incineroar and the prisoner Lovrina, she was unbound and shouting as she was tossed into the room. "You like so can't do this. My fan club would so get me out!"

Elio grinned as he locked her up in what was a reasonably pleasant room that was equipped with a bathroom, a bed and even a radio; He taunted. "What are they going to do? Barge in here and say how much of an angel you are not?"

Loverina heard the insult and was banging on the door, acting like a spoiled brat.

Elio walked back toward the main room to find Lillie hugging the Banette. "So Lillie, how are you feeling?"

Lillie looked back at Elio with a smile and tears of joy. "Better. I can't believe that we were still able to save those two even after all that."

Elio turned toward the Rotom Dex who was half way done with downloading the maps. "Dex, are we about ready for Realgem tower?"

The Dex answered in a buzz. "BZZT! Yes, but there is a minor complication. Thing is closed for maintenance BZZT!"

Elio's cheerful mood died of boredome. "Crap! Still I am worried that the Celesteela is not the only you know what that Cipher have in their clutches."

Lillie pulled him down to the couch she was in and embraced him. "We will worry about that later. Let us focus on healing what we have now."

Elio hugged her back as they enjoyed an other wise pleasant evening.