Trials of Sarah VOL 3: Pokemon Sun & Moon - The Warrior Princess

by Snow Nadder

(Continuation of VOL 1-2) After completing their journey, Sarah is reunited with her birth parents; Doug and Delilah and the Alolan Monarchy is restored once more. With Team Eclipse gone, Sarah balances her personal life and her royal duties. All the while, the young Princess makes her own destiny and path and shows that friendship and love can do amazing things.

18. Chapter 112: Alternate Showdown Part II

Soon, they arrived back at the domed city of Twinleaf Town where they found the rest of the resistance including more of Commander Cynthia's officers standing by to greet them and help the prisoners they freed from the prison complex.

"So, you are the ones whom the princess deemed as her friends and bodyguards, correct?" the commander questioned Ash and the Pokemon School Gang.

"That's us," Ash nodded in confirmation before he turned to Pichu.

"Sarah told us everything that happened to you all and your world on the way here, we're sorry," Kiawe sympathized while holding Turtonator and Pyroar's eggs.

"If defeating Team Rocket's something to help you take back your world and if you have a plan in mind to destroy them, we're on board with what you and our leader and best friend have," Mallow agreed, holding her Shaymin and Tsareena's eggs.

"Anything to understand what happened to our Pokemon and save your world," Sophocles agreed while holding Vikavolt and Togedemaru's eggs.

"I see, thank you," the commander thanked before she looked sympathetically at the current state of their Pokemon. "I see your Pokemon, unfortunately, met the same fate as Dawn's."

"Dawn's?" Lana asked curiously, holding onto Sandy and Primarina's eggs.

"You mean, as in, her twin's Piplup, as we were told?" Lillie questioned while holding Snowy's egg, causing Dawn's twin to tense up with fear and worry over the mention of her lost partner.

Brock's twin sympathized with her and came over to his friend, putting a reassuring hand on her left shoulder as he nodded and told her, "It's time you told everybody..."

Alternate Dawn nodded solemnly as everybody else looked on in worry and confusion for her until she led them to a nearby Pokemon Center and they entered a room chocked full of Pokemon eggs in egg capsules (which now included all of the Pokemon eggs that were rescued from Team Rocket's destroyed prison complex). All of them were stored on separate shelves as they were being studied for the cause of their current state with Alternate Dawn picking up and showing the heroes, Ash, and the Pokemon School Gang an egg that had blue spots inside it.

"This is it," she confirmed with a heavy heart while hugging the egg capsule, stunning and shocking everybody gathered.

"But, that-?!"

"That's your Piplup?"

"I-It's an egg!" Sarah, Ash, and Dawn gasped in horror.

"Oh, dear..." Delilah breathed, aghast as she held a hand over her mouth.

"This happened with much of the Pokemon that I rescued and with the gang's partners!" Race balked.

"This is serious, whatever happened to those Pokemon must be tied to what Team Rocket must be doing with Dialga and Palkia," Burnet replied grimly, having a bad feeling about everything that's been happening.

"Yes, and this is no coincidence that they would somehow turn to eggs in the blink of an eye given the incident at Alamos Town in our world years ago. Young Lady, I know this may not be easy as a Tackle Attack on you but could you tell us what happened to the Pokemon including your Piplup?" Kukui nodded, gently coaxing Alternate Dawn to explain everything.

"Of course, it's my fault you were here, after all. You see, somehow, through Dialga and Palkia, my Piplup reverted back to being a Pokemon egg just like all the other Pokemon here as well as those of your friends."

"But, how did all of this start in the first place?" Marena pondered, growing more worried.

"...One day, two years after Team Rocket took over the world safe for here, Paldea, and Alola, in locations all over the Sinnoh Region, gates made out of a strange light began to open without warning. And, soon after they appeared, things began to change for all of us; first off, the Pokemon began to forget moves that they should've known."

"Forget their moves?"

"Are you serious?" Kukui and Burnet gasped, astonished.

Alternate Dawn gave a solemn nod as she recalled how her entire team including her Quilava and Mamoswine slowly turned back into eggs, one by one, soon after forgetting their moves, "My Piplup forgot how to use Whirlpool and Hydro Pump along with the rest of my team and their own moves like Flamethrower, Ice Shard, and Aura Sphere. And, to make matters worse, it felt as though time was running backward and they and the other Pokemon that had been affected returned to their pre-evolved forms until eventually, it happened to my Piplup. They began gathering the eggs and Pokemon at the Pokemon Center once the reports became more and more serious and the resistance, which included our Professor Rowan, began researching the cause. Then, one day, a gate opened near me by sheer coincidence, and beyond it, I saw your Piplup, and, well..."

Alternate Dawn took a deep breath before she recalled the entire incident that brought the unexpected help she and everybody else that survived Team Rocket's wrath needed and continued while looking at her counterpart, "...He looked so much like my own Piplup. I had no idea he already belonged to you and, well, you know the rest. I'm so sorry, Dawn, please forgive me."

"Hey, no need to worry! I need you to forgive me, I had no idea what you'd been through before you told us the whole story," reassured Real Dawn as she took her twin's hands. "You and your Piplup loved each other, right? If so, I think I get how you feel; you know, how painful it is when your Pokemon is taken away from you."

Alternate Dawn started to whimper as both Dawn and Sarah's Piplup cooed at her as she confessed while looking at them both, "But, Dawn, you don't understand; I did something terrible. If you all stay here a moment longer, you and your friends' Pokemon will soon forget their moves until eventually..."

"They'll become like my Pikachu and the others' eggs, right?" Ash frowned with great concern, looking at the eggs the gang has with them and Pichu and getting a nod from Alternate Dawn as the real Dawn soon became scared as it suddenly hit her.

"NO! That can't happen, it just can't! Isn't there anything we can do to stop it?" she panicked, grabbing onto her partner and fearing he'll suffer the same fate as her twin's partner.

"Take it easy, Dawn, panicking should be the last thing you ever do at a time like this. Besides, I have an idea on how to help slow down or prevent what happened to all the Pokemon here do the same to your Piplup. Take this and put it on him," Sarah said, taking out a Mystic Water necklace and giving it to Dawn.

"But, why?"

"I've enchanted a Mystic Water necklace my Piplup was wearing to make him immune to the effects of the Space-Time Continuum and this one should do the same for your partner since I've taken the liberty of using the Doubling Charm to create a copy with the same enchantment on it. Besides, I have a feeling something might've been wrong with Dialga and Palkia if Team Rocket had something to do with it."

"The Space-Time Continuum?"

"You mean like it's somehow been warped because of Team Rocket?" both Dawns gasped in surprise.

Sarah nodded, "I have a hunch but earlier, back at the prison complex since we couldn't question them while we were fighting and they left after we've beaten them, I seem to remember that Alternate Meowth saying that Dialga and Palkia are dancing in the palms of their hands. Now, come on, Dawn. Put the necklace on your Piplup now so he'll be immune to the Space-Time Continuum as it is."

The real Dawn dried her tears and nodded as she took the Mystic Water necklace given to her and placed it around her Piplup's neck, the enchantment placed on it making him immune to the effects of the warped Space-Time Continuum as he gave off a faint glow. Dawn was relieved as she gave a thankful sigh and smile to the little princess before Sarah turned to her twin, Race's twin, and the other twins as they had knowing yet sad looks on their faces.

"I'm sure you took the same precaution when you found out what was going to happen to your Pokemon and the dragons, right?" Sarah asked her twin.

Alternate Sarah nodded in confirmation as she said, "Right. And, that happened when the effects of the Space-Time Continuum began to make themselves much more prominent before we met you all and your team. The strange event that happened was all the Pokemon you see here transforming back into eggs so you were right on the money."

"And, we were able to enchant her husband's Pokemon and dragons just in time but the same can't be said for your friends, unfortunately," Alternate Lillie grimly added. "Because they weren't enchanted in time, their Pokemon were doomed to suffer the same fate from the Space-Time Continuum being thrown out of balance and they became eggs while that Pikachu became a Pichu as a result."

"NO!"

"As in, their Pokemon devolving into babies again?!"

"It can't be true!" Mai, Calyrex, and Skiddo gasped in shocked horror.

Brock breathed in stunned shock as he turned to Ash's twin and questioned, "So, that's what happened to your Pikachu, right?"

Alternate Ash sighed sadly and gave a confirming nod as he showed everyone what became of his Pikachu despite his squadron's best efforts. His Pikachu was unfortunate enough to not be enchanted in time and he became an egg as a result as he recalled, "It's possible that time started to flow backward as Dawn said. My Pikachu started to forget his moves before becoming a Pichu and reverting back to...an egg."

The real Ash suddenly started to panic as he looked at Pichu and thought about what could happen to him and the others if all of their Pokemon are eggs, "WHAT AM I GONNA DO?!"

Suddenly, Mai gasped in surprise and realization as she turned to Reader, remembering the final part of her Sinnoh prophecy and recalling what Alternate Meowth said about Dialga and Palkia as well, "Wait! Isn't this what the last part of your prophecy foretold, what happened to Dialga and Palkia? What if they're somehow fighting again like the time when Ash told us they fought in Alamos Town from a petty territorial dispute that caused them to fight each other years ago?"

"She's right, I remember now after we heard something like this back home years ago; Dialga and Palkia once crossed paths in the Space-Time Continuum by mistake and started fighting each other, thinking they were invading each other's dimension. This led to them fighting in Alamos Town which nearly resulted in the entire town being trapped in another dimension and everyone disappearing with it had it not been for the efforts of the townsfolk, Ash and his friends, and a Pokemon named Darkrai that once gave his life to save everybody before they were soothed by the song known as 'Oracian'," Cyborg recalled in realization.

"Yeah, it was all over the news! Dialga and Palkia were duking it out with each other because of that and sure enough, we were surprised to find that Alamos Town somehow disappeared from our world and dimension before it came back when we tried to look into it," Beast Boy nodded in agreement.

"Yep. And, it seems the final part of my prophecy, the nightmare I had about all this, is coming true," Reader replied with a grim nod before she recounted, "*When two deities collide, time and space will fall.*"

"And, if Palkia's power was used to open all those gates, the parallel worlds tied to this one will soon have the same things happening here affect them, too!" Robin grunted in frustration.

"Of course! If the Team Rocket we fought knew about them, then by forcing Sinnoh's Deities of Time and Space to fight somehow, they knew this would happen and would have it easy collecting all of the affected Pokemon. They knew very well that as long as they're eggs and they forgot their moves, they couldn't fight back against our oppressors as we can which makes them completely vulnerable!"

Then, Reader suddenly gasped in horror as she realized the full extent of Alternate Team Rocket's plan, "Oh no... There's no way they'd fight for no reason; Team Rocket knew this would happen and if they somehow got them to fight each other... Dialga''s power, as a result, would thus reverse the natural flow of time and turn all of the Pokemon who are caught in the warped Space-Time Continuum which will make them vulnerable to being captured! And, once time and space have been returned to their natural state, all of them will become Team Rocket minions and their previous lives would be erased which would also make Dialga and Palkia indispensable and leave them as targets for Team Rocket, too, once they're both weak enough to not be able to fight back! All of that - total world domination and then, wiping out all of humanity against them and the end of Twinleaf Town, Alola, and Paldea..."

Everybody was shocked until Commander Cynthia grunted in stunned horror as she blurted out, "No, it can't be! Could Team Rocket be that cunning, to possess that kind of foresight?"

"URGH! So, that's it; they want to use our own Pokemon against us! I can't believe it!" Alternate Sarah gritted her teeth, slamming a right fist angrily on a nearby table over Tema Rocket's true endgame.

"I guess we won the battle at the now-defunct prison complex but not the war," Palm remarked. "Aww, man! And, just when it was about to be over," groaned Beast Boy.

"Yeah, I thought we'd be done looking over our shoulders," agreed Altaria with a cute but angry pout as she crossed her wings.

"That must also be why they were wearing those strange suits of armor while we were fighting them, too. As long as they have all of that protective gear on and use it at their disposal and to their true potential, the changes being made to this world can't be done on them," Starfire (Teen Titan) nodded.

"But, there's one thing I don't get. How could they possibly control Dialga and Palkia if they're powerful deities?" Raven (Demon Wolf) questioned.

Everybody thought for a moment until Dawn, Brock, and Ash suddenly gasped as they recalled their initial final battle against Team Galactic and how Cyrus was able to summon Dialga and Palkia, "The Red Chain!"

"Red Chain?" asked Alternate Ash, Alternate Dawn, and Alternate Brock in confusion at their counterparts.

The Lake Guardians looked grim as they caught on to their friends' realization and nodded before Azelf confirmed, "Yes, it is a tool that the likes of Team Galactic back in our world used to control and bind Dialga and Palkia, made from our own Mind Crystals. By the sound of it, Team Rocket somehow recreated it and they must be using it to force our brothers into fighting. And, since it's made from the Mind Crystals themselves, only Mesprit, Uxie, and I can destroy it and break them free from its power."

"Guess that means we better break out your necklace ploy again since it worked out nicely with the grunt dragons we now have," Alternate Sophocles suggested, knowing where Azelf was going.

Mallow agreed as she added, "Right, you guys still got plenty of necklaces on us so we'll leave them for any of the remaining grunts along with this boss they follow and Alternate Team Rocket. This also means we should give them the ultimatum of surrendering to us or we bring them in by force given that we have the mercy of transforming them quickly however painful it may or may not be."

Sarah nodded, "Yes. No matter what happens, we're ending this stupid war, right here, right now."

"Let's do it!" Ash concurred.

But, Sarah wasn't going to allow her friends to fight again after what they just went through, telling them with a heavy heart, "No, guys. You're not going anywhere, you have to stay."

Ash and the others were surprised as Lana and Kiawe blinked in bewilderment, "Sarah, no!"

"Sarah, we've already failed to protect you again despite our best efforts and we can't let you all go alone!"

"If Team Rocket wants to get you for your power involving world conquest, we have to be there to help you!" Sophocles grunted in agreement, glaring worriedly at the little princess.

Sarah sighed as she smiled sadly and told her friends, "Guys, I'm grateful to you, I really am. And, I appreciate your concern but this time, my family and I really do need to go it alone along with your twins. The dangers we're facing now are greater than we could ever imagine and the future of life in this world and ours hangs in the balance. If something were to happen to us, why, you're the only ones left who will be able to help the resistance put Team Rocket down for good."

Her friends were a little crushed but they knew that she was only looking out for them and they went through quite an ordeal given the current state of their Pokemon since they were not enchanted like the rest of Sarah's family. With much reluctance and knowing there was only so much they can do to help fight without their Pokemon with them for help and after being tortured as they were by Alternate Team Rocket, they nodded in agreement to her request.

But, before everybody could begin the final preparations for the final battle ahead of them, one of the commander's officers barged into the Pokemon Center looking flustered and jumpy.

"COMMANDER! Commander, emergency! Something's starting to appear from a strange wormhole, it's coming from below the city!" the officer called.

"What?! It can't possibly be Team Rocket, not so soon!" Commander Cynthia cried in shock and disbelief, much to Sarah, Ash, Dawn, and Brock's surprise.

Without warning, the four rushed out of the Pokemon Center to see what the officer was talking about. Everybody else followed until they came out of the entrance, only for them to be greeted by the sight of the Renegade Pokemon crossing over from the Reverse World once again and appearing from her Origin Form to her Altered Form. She stood before them once she crossed over and eyed her old friends amongst the heroes and the twins.

"Giratina," Sarah greeted, trying to keep a straight face while everyone looked on in surprise, shock, relief, disbelief, and bewilderment.

"Princess."

"It's alright, Commander, it's not Team Rocket," Ash smiled warmly.

"Yeah, that there is Giratina," Brock added in agreement.

"Giratina, the Renegade Pokemon?"

"How come she came here when she should be in the Reverse World? I thought that, apart from the Heatran incident recently, reports sighted her in Michina Town and the town where there were Gracedia Flowers growing near an iceberg years ago," Robin and Cyborg remarked in surprise.

"It happened a little while after we stopped Dialga and Palkia fighting in Alamos Town with Darkrai's help; we first encountered her after meeting a wild Shaymin friend of ours and we were pulled into the Reverse World by mistake, meeting a man named Newton and his Shieldon in the process. He told us that when they both fought, time and space were badly warped and it caused Giratina's home to be plagued with so much toxicity to counter the effects of their battle," Dawn informed.

"Giratina was furious with her brothers fighting and hurting her home so she tried to capture Dialga to get revenge but the wild Shaymin accidentally allowed him to escape when she used her Seed Flare, causing her to become trapped in a time loop as a result," Ash added.

"Trapped in a time loop?"

"No way," blinked a stunned Beast Boy and Raven (Teen Titan).

"Our sister was...not often in Father's good graces given her relentless anger," Azelf sighed lamentedly.

"Hence why he was forced to banish her to the Reverse World when she went a step too far at one point," Mesprit agreed.

"B-B-But, it wasn't a-a-a-all, bad, really," Uxie reassured. "S-S-S-She's just m-misunderstood and s-she made it her h-h-home after a w-w-w-w-while."

"I'm right here, you know," Giratina acknowledged, trying to keep herself level-headed despite feeling a little irked from the Lake Guardians stating the truth about her.

"I take it you've heard about what this world's Team Rocket is plotting with your brothers fighting, Giratina?" Tsukumaro inquired.

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I have. Father told me what had happened to them a short while after Team Galactic's short-lived return when they went missing after returning to their dimensions and the heavy flux in the Space-Time Continuum happening in this world which I saw from the bubbles in my home. He fears that even though Dialga and Palkia are not to blame as far as he knows, the Team Rocket you're fighting against is using their power for something deadly as I'm sure you've all known by now."

"And, Father sent you here to help us because the threat of Team Rocket growing here can no longer be ignored and we need your power and he found out what happened to Ash and the others?" Azelf questioned, getting a confirming nod from his Renegade Pokemon sister.

"We appreciate it, Giratina," Sarah nodded gratefully.

"Giratina coming is a great idea, Sarah. But, the problem is we don't know exactly where Palkia and Dialga are fighting right now and if Team Rocket is there with them," Nate replied, knowing how grim the situation was becoming.

"Time is definitely not on our side this time, Princess. Unless we can find them and put an end to Team Rocket's scheme, we're finished, especially if they find a way to remove the enchantment you've placed on us," Jarrod agreed grimly.

"There has to be a way to reach them and Dialga and Palkia easily, but what?" Permafrost pondered thoughtfully.

As if to answer the Snow Cat's inquiry, Dialga and Palkia's Pokemon Gems, sensing their former masters in trouble, reappeared as they continued to shimmer before they were joined by Giratina's gem and the three gems began to spin around in a circle. They went faster and faster as they circled around each other until, through their combined powers (with Palkia's gem shimmering at its brightest as its powers were being focused the most), they conjured a small but powerful beam that opened another gate before the heroes.

The new gate was much larger than the previous one Sarah and her family and friends took to pursue Alternate Team Rocket the first time they arrived and it was big enough for even a giant like Giratina to squeeze through. What surprised them the most, however, was that it was leading them to where Dialga and Palkia currently are along with Alternate Team Rocket which was a familiar place they'd once been to in the heroes' world: the Spear Pillar on Mt. Coronet on the dimensional wasteland.

"Awesome," breathed an astounded Casey.

"It's another gate," Lily added in awe.

"It looks like it's leading us to what looks like Mt. Coronet's Spear Pillar."

"Only it's in the wasteland given how much doom and gloom it's giving off," Javi and Steel remarked in surprise.

"Let's go, Team Rocket must be there along with Dialga and Palkia," Zayto noted to everyone.

"I see, the gems belonging to me and my brothers gave us this passageway; they want us to break Dialga and Palkia free from Team Rocket's grasp and break the cycle they're hoping to unleash," Giratina realized.

"And, it looks like our only way through to where those monsters are," Shadow mused knowingly.

"No offense, dude, that doesn't give off a lot of confidence that bodes well with me," Feathers admitted.

"Whatever the case, Dialga and Palkia must be there no doubt," Dawn suggested, getting a knowing nod from Brock and Ash as they both shared her sentiments about Giratina's brothers.

"Ash, we'll go ahead and see if we can stop Team Rocket before they do any more damage to this world. As Sarah said, you'd better stay here since you're in no condition to help us fight and your Pokemon turning back to eggs," Brock replied to his best friend.

"Okay," Ash sighed despite his reluctance over his friends going off to fight Team Rocket alone.

The others couldn't help but agree given their current state and that of their Pokemon as Mallow and Kiawe said on behalf of them, "We'll wait to hear what's going on and keep contact in the Command Center."

"Just be careful when you do meet up with them, Dialga, and Palkia, okay?"

"Good luck, Sarah," finished Lillie, getting a knowing nod from her best friend.

With that, the little princess, her family, and her friends going with them joined Giratina as they passed through the gate and it closed, leaving Ash, Sophocles, Mallow, Lana, Kiawe, and Lillie to wait and hope that things would turn out alright for everyone in the end.

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After passing the gate and entering Mt. Coronet, the heroes looked around the Spear Pillar and saw that unlike the original Spear Pillar in their world, it was completely wrecked with most of the pillars missing and the rest being broken.

"Whoa, this place has seen better days," blinked a stunned Cruise.

"Ooh... Hoo-hoo, what a dump," Smash winced.

"Looks like Team Rocket has been working overtime ever since they got their hands on the Red Chain, Dialga, and Palkia," added Solar in agreement.

"The destruction before us could be a sign of Team Rocket's ploy for world dominance through the Space-Time Continuum so they should be nearby. But, all the same, we should exercise caution knowing that we're not alone given their forces will be with them as well," Tsukumaro noted.

"That's reassuring," Zoey replied sarcastically.

"Dialga, Palkia!"

"Are you out there?" called Dawn and Brock.

"Oh, where could they have gone?" muttered a deeply-worried Aurequine as they looked around.

"Let's hope those rocket ruffians haven't done more harm to them, otherwise, time will flow backwards regardless and this world will be ripe for the picking on their part," Inferhound prayed with a small growl, his disdain for Alternative Team Rocket growing just as a gate opened and featured a distorted landscape on the other side.

"Another gate!"

"And, there's a distorted landscape on the other side!" breathed Spike and Appa.

Giratina grew worried, "*This is worse than Father and I thought, it must be another dimension my brothers are making while fighting so they must be there already.*"

"And, Team Rocket's already having a field day with them. If we don't stop them now, both this world and ours will cease to exist under their iron fists," said Hiccup.

"Well, my boy, let's show those hooligans what happens when they cross a line with us Vikings and all our friends," Stick replied, knowing what his son is thinking.

"If it's a fight they want, then it's a fight they'll get," Gobber concurred.

"YEAH!" Ruffnut and Tuffnut cheered as Barf and Belch roared in agreement, the four of them banging their helmets and heads together as they began their final mission.

"Okay, since we're dealing with Team Rocket having Dialga and Palkia in their grasp, we'll need to play the ninja card and that means we'll have to be super sneaky to pull off a rescue," Ryder told everybody.

"Sounds like a job for the Lake Guardians themselves while we stage a front. Mesprit, Uxie, Azelf, I'll need you three to shield yourselves and make your way to the Red Chain once you see it. Do not destroy it unless I give the order," Sarah informed the Lake Guardians.

"Right," Azelf, Mesprit, and Uxie saluted as they turned invisible and went ahead while everyone else crept closer and closer to Team Rocket's current location until...

"Hey, look!" Jakanee gasped as she saw and pointed everyone to the Sinnoh Deities of Time and Space themselves.

To their surprise, the heroes could see that Dialga and Palkia were both surrounded by the Red Chain as the two of them clashed with each other in a forced neverending battle. A beam was shot straight out from Palkia from their continued clash which caused several gates to more parallel worlds to appear with Dialga's power seeping through them in several energy jolts.

"Your hunch was right, your brothers really are creating a mess against their will under Team Rocket's treachery," the Kumandra dragon told Giratina.

"We gotta do something to save them!"

"And, fast!"

"But, what can we do?" Fennekin, Cyndaquil, and Phanpy fretted before the heroes heard some Capture Guns being deployed before Asha, Cyborg, and Solar blasted the Electric Nets that were fired before any of them could be captured.

"So, you finally wormed your way to your final resting place," a familiar voice sneered, the heroes looking down to find Alternate Team Rocket and an army of their remaining grunts (all of them wearing the same combat suits they were wearing) and drones they had on standby.

Behind them and the battling Dialga and Palkia, there stood a large cage covered by a giant tarp which held all of the Pokemon they captured already. And, with the grunts, there was a Purguly, a Rhyperior, a Skuntank, and a Toxicroak that wore combat suits as well as they stood before the heroes.

"**Team Rocket!**" the dragons of Berk all shouted, growling as they anticipated what would be the end of the war between the resistance and the merciless syndicate.

"Not much gets passed by you fools, impressive," Alternate James sniffed, smirking.

"You freaks can't shake us!" snapped Frosmoth defiantly while glaring at the villains.

"So, this is the princess who proved stubborn to comply with our demands and destroyed our prison complex while she and her family and fellow Power Rangers rescued her friends and the prisoners. Ever the hero," scoffed a smirking Alternative Giovanni as he appeared.

The heroes' twins and Commander Cynthia and her officers glared hard at the headman of Team Rocket responsible for the destruction of their world and the loss of the people and Pokemon they failed to save and protect, knowing that they're finally coming face to face with the ringleader of their sworn enemies. They couldn't hold back their anger as he appeared from behind the covered cage and eyed Sarah before he turned his attention towards them and his smirk grew, giving off an amused scoff in the process.

"Well now, the resistance comes to play as well. I've been waiting for you, my friends, you and your world-hopping allies have been a real headache throughout the past few days but I'm impressed you've managed to come this far after two years of being in a stalemate with us," Alternate Giovanni remarked as he and his Persian faced the heroes from their and their syndicate's current position.

"Giovanni, this madness has got to stop! What you and Team Rocket are doing is not only sadistic, it's unjust to the highest degree!" Commander Cynthia demanded.

"This is where you fall, for all those harmed and killed under your merciless tyranny!"

"We're going to settle the score, once and for all!" Alternate Ash and Alternate Mallow spat.

"Right, but in addition to coming here to end things between us, I've come to see for myself just what exactly the princess is capable of," Giovanni informed before he turned again to Sarah.

"Well, I didn't expect you and your army to outwit us this well since you came and found out about our ploy, Princess. You've cost us many of our finest soldiers and nearly all of our drones when you ambushed and destroyed the prison complex with your rescue attempt. But, it won't last long since we've wised up to your tricks and none of them will work a second time once Dialga and Palkia finish remaking the world in our stead and every last human, Pokemon, and creature in this pitiful world that dared to defy us will soon be extinct."

"That all changes, here and now! Dialga and Palkia were never meant to be toyed with, how is it possible that you made the Red Chain and used it to repeat the mistakes Team Galactic made when they used it to create the world they wanted?" Sarah spat angrily.

Alternate Meowth couldn't help but smirk in response as he said to her and the rest of the heroes, "Oh, you wanna know, our royal twerpette? Very simple; you were right when you said we'd be repeating Team Galactic's misfortunes in your world upon recreating and using the Red Chain on Dialga and Palkia, but in truth, it's not as hard for us..."

"When Team Galactic was first dissolved after being caught and that stupid commander bailed on his former team, Team Rocket heard about the legend involving the Sinnoh Deities and their power. From our research, we've found out that we can control Dialga and Palkia and force them to fight using the Red Chain itself since when it was first shattered, it was now nothing but mere fragments of the Mind Crystals belonging to the Lake Guardians. Sending out and joining an elite scouting and research team days after Team Galactic's downfall, we've searched high and low across the Spear Pillar and the rest of Mt. Coronet for the Red Chain fragments and, to our luck, we were able to find some. Then, with our advanced technology and the knowledge we've gained from the old legends, we were able to perfectly recreate the chain and make our rendition of it indestructible to ensure that once we summon both deities, we'd be able to control them with no problem at all. Those fools didn't suspect a thing the whole time we used it on them and made use of their powers for our great ambition."

"You...! You murderous dogs," the commander snarled angrily. "Do you wish to kill yourselves or do you want us to do it?"

"Your time has come, Team Rocket!"

"It ends here!"

"We're not letting you destroy our home a second longer!" Alternate Lillie, Prince, and Alternate Kiawe seethed.

"And, how can you hope to defeat us once your world is about to reach its end and your extinction is nigh?"

"You might've wrangled and captured Dialga and Palkia for your plans but you've forgotten one thing," Sarah replied, undeterred. "Dialga and Palkia aren't the only deities Sinnoh knows of; alongside them, there was one other Pokemon that ruled over all antimatter our worlds create."

"There weren't just two deities as you've obviously known, there were actually three!" Alternate Sarah finished, her counterpart snapping her fingers and signaling Giratina to appear after she used her Shadow Force to turn herself invisible for a brief moment until she was called.

"(?!) NOOO!" screamed Purguly with a horrified and shocked gasp.

"SURPRISE!" the baby and younger Jungle Pokemon taunted as they laughed at Alternate Team Rocket's reactions.

The Renegade Pokemon gave off an aggressive roar as she glared at Alternate Team Rocket and saw the current state of her brothers. This shocked Alternate Giovanni and his remaining soldiers as they realized they had indeed forgotten about her with one grunt cursing, "Shit! That's the Renegade Pokemon!"

"AH! IT CAN'T BE!"

"IMPOSSIBLE!"

"It's the Legendary Pokemon of Shadows!"

"Giratina!"

"The Banished One!" cried the other grunts, Skuntank, and Rhyperior.

"How is it possible?! Urgh, why didn't you fools do your homework more on the Sinnoh Deities and capture it had we known that beast from the Reverse World would interfere?!" Alternate Giovanni snapped furiously at his minions.

"It would've been a mistake for you to capture me, I was sentenced to my home by my father years ago for a reason! You took my brothers without warning and now, I'm about to show you what happens when you invoke the wrath of Arceus' Shadow!" Giratina bellowed, letting out another roar.

"Your minions will have nothing against all of our power! Right, boys?" Alternate Sarha asked the Inuan Pikachu who all replied, "YEAH!".

"We'll blow you all away with our friendship and love for each other so you won't have a chance to capture Dialga and Palkia and end our worlds, Freakazoid!"

"You got nothing else on us this time!" Alternate Lana and Palm sneered at Alternate Team Rocket.

"Ready to rumble, Piplup?" Dawn asked her partner.

"Ready, Dawn!" he told his best friend as he took to the field.

Dawn then turned to her counterpart as she gave a determined smile and said, "You with me?"

"Yeah! Buneary, come on out!" Alternate Dawn smiled back, bringing out a Pokeball and summoning her Buneary to help fight.

"Alright, everybody, this looks like this world's final battle with Team Rocket! Now, let's show them what we can do with our combined power in the face of adversity! Together, we can do this!" Sarah shouted to everybody on the heroes' side as they all gave a proud cheer.

"Get them!" Alternate Giovanni snapped.

"ATTACK!" Alternate Jessie barked as she and the rest of Alternate Team Rocket along with their remaining grunts, their Pokemon, and their final drones make their last stand against the heroes.

The heroes all made battle cries as well and they charged into battle, the final battle against Alternate Team Rocket for the fate of their two worlds finally commencing as they clashed for what would be the final time. In the midst of the battle, Alternate Sarah, Alternate Race, Alternate Ash, and the Alternate Pokemon School Gang pulled out what looked like morphers inspired by the Cell Shift, Rev, and Sky Morphers from Power Rangers RPM but the symbols on them for the RPM Rangers have been replaced by their own specific Pokemon and the animals that denote the ninja powers for the MMPR Team in Season 3 of Power Rangers (the main six going to Alternate Ash and the Alternate Pokemon School Gang and two more (the dolphin and the shark) with Alternate Sarah and Alternate Race).

"Let's power up!"

"Right!" Alternate Sarah, Alternate Race, and her friends shouted.

"RPM Ninjetti, Get in Gear!"

Pulling out what looked like Engine Cells, they inserted them into their Morphers and either pushed a button or pulled a trigger upward, initiating a similar Morph Call akin to that of the RPM Rangers. Once they morphed into their own alter egos, they were revealed to be in ranger suits akin to the Ranger Series Operator suits by Dr. K but they also had an armor-like look to them. The only other difference apparent was the fact that the numbers on the suits of the rangers with the Cell Shift and Rev Morphers were replaced by emblems of their Pokemon and Ninjetti animal together on their chest plates and Alternate Sarah and Alternate Race having their emblems of their Pokemon and Ninjetti animal replacing the RPM symbol on their winged chest plates.

"Whoa! Look at those guys, they got super cool ranger duds!" Javi gasped in amazement as he saw Alternate Sarah, Alternate Race, and their friends morph and fight in their own ranger alter egos.

"I think we're gonna need some major firepower to keep up with them, Island Girl!" Race called to his girlfriend.

"Got it! Let's go, it's Morphin' Time!" shouted the little princess, allowing herself, Race, the Dino Fury Rangers, and their predecessor teams to morph as well.

"Activate, Beast Power!"

"Link to Morphin Grid!"

"Jungle Beast, Spirit Unleashed!"

With all of the current rangers morphed, the heroes continued on with their assault even as Alternate Giovanni sent out his Persian along with his Machamp, Kingler, and Rhydon (all of whom are also wearing the same protective armor that prevented them from being affected by the continued warping of the Space-Time Continuum).

But, even so, it wasn't easy because Alternate Team Rocket was determined to see their plan through as well as getting revenge on the heroes for not only humiliating them but also for losing much of their forces to Sarah's planning. Needless to say, despite being a smaller army now, they were putting up quite a fight.

"You'll pay for everything you rocket bozos did!" the first Inuan Pikachu screamed with fury as he unleashed an Iron Tail at Purguly.

"This one's for all of us!" agreed the second Inuan Pikachu as he charged at Purguly with a Quick Attack.

"Eat this, you tin cans! Flamethrower!" shouted Eternatus, shooting his Fire Type attack at the drones.

"Don't be so sure, you scaled lizard, some things are never worth breaking if you know how to fix them!" mocked Alternate Giovanni as he smirked and pressed a button on one of his gauntlets, firing a beam from his right gauntlet towards the drones Eternatus destroyed and repairing the damage done to them while creating a few more.

"OH, COME ON!?"

"No way!" Eternatus and Sarah cried in shock.

"Too bad it never caught your attention that we've been working on that Fixer Upper 3000 in secret and we had it on standby ever since you dimensional trespassers made your mark yesterday. Never through we'd have to use it, finally, before you crashed the party," Alternate James sneered.

"If you destroy our drones, all the boss has to do is charge it up, point it at the destroyed drones, and bingo, the fight continues. And, the best part, we can use that new cloning feature in it to clone more drones to rebuild our army," Alternate Jessie added, smirking.

"If you like, as long as our Fixer Upper 3000 is operational and with the boss, we'll keep on partying because it's only a matter of time until Dialga and Palkia will be ours," put in Alternate Meowth, smirking darkly.

"And, when we win and you lose: Game Over!" finished a smug Alternate Wobuffett.

"Not if we can help it!" Alternate Sarah spat back before addressing her team, "Power Weapon Time, guys!"

"Right!" Alternate Race, Alternate Ash, and the Alternate Pokemon School Gang summoned their Power Weapons akin to the MMPR Power Weapons but all in their own colors along with an enchanted saber and Power Sword akin to Saba for Alternate Sarah and Alternate Race.

"Pikachu Street Saber!"

"Primarina Cannon!"

"Vikavolt Charger!"

"Tsareena Plasma Launcher!"

"Pyroar Axe!"

"Vulpix Blaster!" Alternate Ash and the Alternate Pokemon School Gang cried, summoning their weapons and slashing, blasting, hacking, and firing away at the grunts as they combatted against them with their electric batons.

"Let's do it, Taiyo!"

"Take 'em down, Kaze!" Alternate Sarah and Alternate Race told their weapons as they brandished them before a group of cloned drones surrounding them.

"I'm with you, m'lady!" Alternate Sarah's enchanted Solgaleo-inspired Power Sword, Taiyo, concurred.

"Let's rock!" agreed Alternate Race's enchanted Latios-inspired saber, Kaze, as the pair swung them about and slashed, blocked, parried, chopped, swept, and thrusted away at the drones.

"Feel my wrath, rocket dorks! Crush Slash!" Silvally bellowed, combining Air Slash and Crush Claw as he shattered a cloned drone with Crush Claw and unleashed Air Slash soon after at Rhydon and Machamp when they came at him.

The Dino Fury Rangers and Solon let themselves loose with some more drones that are cloned while they also deal with Alternate Giovanni's Kingler and the armored Skuntank as they blasted and slashed at them each moment they found an opening their enemies left for them while they were fighting, doing their best to avoid Skuntank's stinky surprises and Kingler's power house bashes and smashes through its Crab Hammer attack.

The Jungle Fury and Beast Morphers teams joined forces against Rhydon when it came at them along with Rhyperior and a few drones (Casey, Lily, and Theo morphing to Jungle Master Mode through their Claw Boosters and Devon, Ravi, and Zoey activating Beast-X Mode to even the odds against them).

"Should we go Mighty Pup?" Marshall asked his friends.

"Good call, Marshall, let's give them a hand!" Chase agreed with his best friend, the other pups nodding in agreement as they focused and channeled their Mighty Pup energy from their collars.

Ryder nodded in agreement as he donned his Mighty Suit while the pups shouted, as they donned their Mighty Pup suits and summoned their powers, "Mighty Pup Power!"

The pups soon went into battle as Chase immediately zoomed across the battlefield with his super speed and knocked several drones and one of the grunts off their feet while Skye used her supercharged whirlwinds to distort their vision so as to blind them for a sneak attack. Zuma and Marshall gave some of the cloned drones cloned from the rebuilt ones by combining thier fire and water powers to create a cloud of steam that blinded their vision before Rubble snuck up from behind them and used his super strength to run and barrel through them, destroying them completely.

"That's how we rock n' roll, Rubble Style! Arrroooooooo!" Rubble howled excitedly.

"Time to chill out!" Everest snarked cheekily as she was surrounded by four cloned drones before she breathed ice at them, immobilizing the robotic menaces by their feet.

"Oh, you're not the only ones with crazy tricks like that! Try this!" Silvalyl smirked as Blitz and Curly unleashed a combined Thunderbolt attack on some drones, short-circuiting them and causing them to explode.

Then, Dusk, Luna, and Dawn (Lycanroc) joined forces with their twins-Griz, Teddy, and Katie-as they unleashed a flurry of Close Combat attacks just as Misa and her twin-Sadie-used Rock Slide to shower rocks onto another platoon of drones that tried to blast them. In the meantime, Snivy, oshawott, and Tepig joined forces with their Shiny twins to use Double Team to fool one of the grunts and Skuntank fighting them before they unleashed Grass Pledge, Fire Pledge, and Water Pledge on them that extended to the drone onslaught.

Danny and Danielle along with their Shiny twins-Carly and Charles-mainly acted as Support Pokemon to their families by using Light Screen in order to shield them as well as themselves from Alternate Team Rocket's Pokemon's Special Attacks.

Alongside their Shiny twins-Python, Nightshot, Petra, Raine, and Cooper-Medusa, Tyson, Ghost (Dragapult), Rapidash, and Scorch unleashed Scorching Sands, Breaking Swipe, Close Combat, High Horsepower, and Acrobatics on the incoming drones Alternate Giovanni fixed and cloned to attack them as well.

"Roar, Lion Strength!"

"Cheetah Speed!" Leo and Wild shouted, activating their super suits and using their enhanced strength and speed to take down two cloned drones trying to pounce them.

"Tiger Pounce!" Rory smiled, jumping into the air and landing on one drone causing it to crash near a small group of cloned drones after losing its balance.

Nearby, Arcia and Cam noticed the fallen drone and pinned it to the ground, allowing Aurora and Shade to tear it open and try to figure out how to tweak the drone's circuitry so as to figure out how to disable the connection of the drones to Alternate Giovanni's Fixer Upper 3000. As they were fighting, the technical pup and Shade noticed how tedious and tiring it was becoming for them and their family and friends to fight Alternate Team Rocket with Alternate Giovanni's machine making things difficult for them to reach and save Dialga and Palkia despite the Lake Guardians not being within the evil syndicate's reach due to their invisibility should they finally make it to their brothers. They realized that dragging out the battle was something he wanted so he and his syndicate could finally get the one-up they needed to end the resistance and their family and friends and claim them all and the world for their own which meant they had to figure out how to destroy their enemies' ultimate hail mary.

"Got any idea how to turn the tables on Team Rocket, Aurora?" Shade asked.

"It's risky but we gotta try this; if I can cut off the connection between the drones and that bad guy's Fixer Upper 3000, we should put an end to the story of Tema Rocket's Venjix-like drones," Aurora replied, bringing out her tool kit as they went to work.

"You think we'll have enough time before they catch on?"

"If they do, we'll have to make time! Let's cross these wires!"

"Got it!"

Despite the danger they were currently in, at their own initiative (and to the chagrin and behest of Alternate Sarah and Alternate Race), Amber Light and Sunlight Bright joined their family (with the other seven pups and the pair's sisters deciding to stay behind and help Blaze watch over the egg as well as Twinleaf Town to ensure that the domed city and everyone in it is safely guarded) and the heroes along with Hippy and Cupcake with the two Pokemon using Baby-Doll Eyes and Yawn to halt any of the nearby grunts and either put them to sleep or try to so as to give the heroes an opening to knock them down when they least expect it.

"Good boy, Hippy!"

"You too, Cupcake!" cheered Amber and Sunlight while the Secret Six issued some long-awaited payback against their former pursuers.

"Come on, ponies! Let's show these creeps what we got!" Sunny declared proudly, still in her Alicorn form as the Mane 5 faced off against three grunts that surrounded them and had their Capture Guns primed and ready to ensnare them.

"Yeah! Team Friendship rules!"

"Hooves to Heart!" Izzy, Hitch, Pipp, and Zipp screamed, all five ponies tapping into their magic as their Cutie Marks glowed and responded to their wishes to stop Team Rocket's treachery and magical vines suddenly sprouted out.

The sight of the vines sprouting out caught the grunts by surprise as they suddenly become ensnared by them instead, causing them to scream and struggle in panic. But, it was too late as they become enveloped by the vines' magic and they were soon turned into three magical creatures as a result:

- The first creature was an Alicorn/Dragonequus hybrid resembling Fluttershy by her appearance but she had small purple horns on her head, a shell necklace, and violet back hooves while her mane was more minion yellow but with light yellow shading and blue highlights

- The second was a mixture of creatures akin to Discord complete with aquamarine curved horns, a small nose, and a lighter shade of aquamarine coated the inner parts of his ears that had purple earrings inside clashing with his gray-blue face and chest. He had what looked like rings of bones present on the back of his neck with part of his back shifting in shades to a darker blue halfway down, running along to his bright blue tail that had a cream underside. His legs, on the other hand, are a mix of two different colors as his front legs sported a shade of purple from the left and blue sparkles on the right that ended with his front claws while his back legs are those of a yak's hoof and a pony hoof

- The third, instead, became a light-pink pony that had long legs akin to Luna's but she instead had a horn akin to that of Mistmane, one of Equestria's original Six Pillars, and she had deer antlers on her head

"Whoa..." the ponies gasped once they saw the grunts-turned-creatures looking at each other confused as their transformations wiped their memories clean.

"Sweet!"

"Amazing!"

"Incredible!" cried Rainbow Dash, Cadence, and Luna in awe.

"Oh, nice choice of colors; too bright for my liking but loving the designs," Discord muttered, impressed.

The Teen Titans were also holding their own with Robin using his extended bo staff to whack the drones and grunts coming at them along with their remaining armored Pokemon and teaming up with Cyborg as he fired his Sonic Cannon to blast at the drones firing at them in turn. Beast Boy turned into a myriad of animals before settling on a T-Rex as he fought the drones pitted against him while Starfire (Teen Titan) instead fired her Starbolts at them. Towie and Raven worked together to use their shadow magic to immobilize some of the syndicate's Pokemon attacking the heroes.

Sarah was using her Sun Sword and Dragon Blade in tangent as she neutralized the grunts with the Deathgripper darts from within her Dragon Blade.

"Mega Punch, pretty please," Alternate Dawn said to her Buneary, pointing to and glaring at Purguly.

"**How do you like this?! HYAH!**" her Buneary spat at Purguly as she landed a hard right Mega Punch at the evil Normal Type which knocked it over to its trainer before they fell over.

Giratina was also no slouch in fighting for her brothers as she unleashed her signature move, Shadow Force, to get the drop on her targets and the evil Pokemon and drones unsuspecting of her power before they were taken down.

Even Qibli and Smolder were showing no mercy to the drones as they punctured them with their tail stingers while Reader used an Animus Charm to strike at and transform any incoming drones trying to charge her into harmless animals such as Tiger Eyes and Diamonds. Cyrus dashed through the battlefield with the speed and agility of a Seviper and slashed at the drones he passed by, causing them to explode and be destroyed when he was finished with them.

Sequoia made good use of her Leafspeak ability to make thick vines sprout out and surround some of the grunts that targeted her, allowing her to place some of the heroes' remaining necklaces on them before moving on to a few others.

Coral, Thorn, Moorhen, Glory, and Ruby used their tails to smack some grunts away from them with Glory restraining herself from using her venom on the Pokemon fighting with Team Rocket, knowing they were innocent victims mercilessly roped into the evil syndicate's cruel mission. Marena resorted to barehanded fighting as she fought against the grunts using moves she made akin to the Hung Gar Tiger Style like a Kung Fu master.

While she was fighting, Reader used the necklaces that had been slipped on the downed grunts, allowing the enchantment to take them over and transform them into Pyrrhia and Pantala dragons while the Legendary Beasts and their regular counterparts used Extreme Speed to dart across the battlefield before Sarah's Suicune used Sheer Cold to subdue a group of Weavile.

"Spirit of the Wolf!" shouted R.J., unleashing his Wolf Spirit as it howled and barreled itself through multiple grunts and Pokemon.

Through her invisibility provided to her by her Chameleon Spirit through her Beast Armor, Camille took many of the cloned by surprise as she swiftly struck them before they knew what had happened to them.

"Transport: Beast-X Saber/Striker Saber!" Zoey, Devon, Nate, and Ravi bellowed as they summoned their Beast-X Sabers and Striker Saber to defend themselves against the drones, grunts, and evil Pokemon.

"Hey, Zoey! Mind if I give your and Bro's Spin Saber a spin this time?" Steel asked Zoey.

"Go ahead!"

"Thanks! Transport: Beast-X Spin Saber!" Steel thanked, summoning Nate and Zoey's Beast-X Spin Saber that can be spun around via a custom handle in battle and using it with great efficiency against the foes he, his friends, and his human brother were pitted against. "Time to feel the lion! Tornado Takedown, HAH!"

The Noctowl Brothers, Ravi's Lucario, Devon's Incineraor, and Zoey's Cinderace were also showing no mercy to their enemies as they fought back with Pyro Ball, Darkest Lariat, Aura Sphere, and Double Air Slash which struck several drones and tore them apart.

"I call forth the Spirit of the Mighty Lion! Unleash your fury and tear your enemies apart!" Jarrod roared to his Black Lion Spirit, allowing it to tear the clone drones it was up against apart while knocking back more of the remaining grunts.

But, Alternate Giovanni just smirked as he pointed his Fixer Upper 3000 at the ruined drones and rebuilt them to continue fighting and make more out of them and it was already becoming grating to the heroes.

"Not again! How many more drones is that creep going to make after fixing them?!" grumbled Casey as he took his frustration over the situation on a nearby grunt.

"We got to stop him somehow!"

"Yeah, I'm so over that guy and his gadget!" Dom and Lily concurred, feeling just as annoyed over the whole thing.

"You don't stand a chance as long as we have the Fixer Upper 3000, my friends!" smirked Alternate Giovanni.

"I wouldn't bet on it, old man! Check this out!" Aurora spat as she appeared before him with a newly-reconfigured drone next to her before she activated a remote from her Pup Pack and the drone started to glow.

Alternate Giovanni narrowed his eyes as he watched the drone (unbeknownst to the Science Pup's modifications to it) before it suddenly sent out a frequency wave that caused the other drones to spark up without warning before falling to the ground in pieces. Their destruction also had a profound effect on Alternate Giovanni's gadget as the Fixer Upper 3000 suddenly malfunctioned and sparked violently before it exploded, causing him to give off a pained grunt and cry before he held his right arm.

"The Fixer Upper!"

"It's been fried!"

"Boss!"

"Impossible!" Alternate Team Rocket cried in alarm once they noticed.

"Your drones are toast!" Aurora barked with a narrowed glare.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" screamed a shocked grunt.

"Maybe you've forgotten but between us pups, I'm the smartest in our fleet and I had a little help. While confiscating one of your toys after beating it down, Shade and I took the liberty of reconfiguring it and installing a custom frequency that allows us to take out your Fixer Upper 3000 and every other drone in the field. Without your only means of reviving them, you're all left high and dry with no one left to fight for you all," she smirked smugly while Shade joined her and gave a cheeky wink.

"Thanks for your only remaining drone!" Shade snarked, laughing.

"Meow-wow! Genius work, you two!"

"Pawsome!" Wild and Rory cheered.

"And, if I were you, I'd be more worried about you becoming extinct! Thanks for all your grunts, by the way!" Reader smirked, revealing a total of 1000 new Pyrrhia and Pantala dragons from the grunts that were given the remaining enchanted necklaces that snarled dangerously at their former team.

"Damn! That princess is smarter than we initially thought!" Alternate James cursed.

"She's definitely got the brains to prove it," agreed a disgruntled and angered Alternate Jessie.

"Hit 'em with Bubblebeam!"

"Croagunk, Poison Jab! Let's go!" Dawn and Brock called to their partners, allowing Piplup and Croagunk to blast Skuntank and knock it back toward its own trainer before they went down as Purguly and its trainer did.

"Next up is yours truly," sneered Alternate Meowth as he and Alternate Wobuffett went up against the heroes this time.

"Oh no, you don't! Rama, Water Pulse on Meowth and his thrusters!"

"Absol, do the same on Wobuffett!" Race and Tsukumaro called out to the Johto Royal and Disaster Pokemon, both of them firing Water Pulse on Alternate Wobuffett and Alternate Meowth's armor.

"Too easy," Alternate Wobuffett smirked after the Water Pulse attacks made contact.

But, he spoke too soon; while his and Alternate Meowth's armor may have protected them against the effects of Dialga's powers warping the Space-Time Continuum, they're still pieces of technology powered by electricity. So, when they made contact with the water from Water Pulse, the armor suddenly short-circuited and exploded from the huge flux of power as they were overloaded.

"Grr! What are you doing?!" snapped Alternate Jessie.

"Heh, I must've forgotten when I called for Water Pulse from Rama and Island Girl's Old Man did the same with Absol," sneered Race mockingly as he and Tsukumaro smirked at the villains. "I hate to break it to you but those attacks have left your big mouth and wobbling lug's armor useless."

"Why, you-!?"

"Smart! But, tough luck that'll do for you-!"

"Ah-ah-ah, I wouldn't count on any more backup or a Plan B on your end now that you're out of time," Sarah halted cheekily to Alternate Team Rocket before she turned to the still-invisible Lake Guardians as she saw their figures in position near the Red Chain, primed and ready. "Azelf, Uxie, Mesprit, now!"

Alternate Team Rocket gasped in shock as they whirled around to Dialga and Palkia and found the Lake Guardians nearby as they turned visible and used their combined power on the Red Chain. Not wasting any time, the three of them shattered the Red Chain into hundreds of fragments, freeing the exhausted and badly-wounded deities of time and space as they fell to the ground.

"The Deities are free!" Alternate James cried in shock.

"The Lake Guardians!" Alternate Jessie added, just as alarmed.

"IMPOSSIBLE!"

"Oh no, not again!" two of the downed grunts spluttered as they got back on their feet.

"Blast, the princess played us for fools! I've underestimated her and her posse! How did we not notice the Lake Guardians until the last minute? I thought we had a majority of the Pokemon including the Lake Guardians fighting back destroyed!" Alternate Giovanni growled in his thoughts as he clutched his wounded arm, angered and flustered that he was outfoxed by the little princess.

"What now, old man? That royal brat and her heroic stooges pulled the plug on us!" demanded a third grunt.

"Don't just stand there! Catch them before they can recover, they haven't won yet!" barked Alternate Giovanni as he gritted his teeth.

The four grunts that picked themselves up tried to reach for their pokeballs but to their surprise, there weren't any clipped onto their belts. They heard a whistle and they turned to find Hayden with all of their balls with her in a bag, smirking at them.

"Surprise!" she peeped mockingly as Harmony joined her.

"Ha! You can't pull anything over this pup's eyes knowing you'd catch them at any time behind our backs!" she mocked, sharing Hayden's smirk.

"Snivy, Blossom, Nature's Blessing! Shaymin, Aromatherapy! Go!" Sarah screamed, pointing the three Grass Types toward Dialga and Palkia.

"On it!" the Shiny Shaymin agreed as he, Blossom, and Snivy rushed over to the two deities and used Nature's Blessing along with Aromatherapy to heal them.

"It's working!"

"Alright!"

"We got Dialga and Palkia back!" Alternate Ash, Alternate Lillie, and Alternate Kiawe cheered.

"STOP THEM!" Alternate Giovanni bellowed, finally having enough and seeing the tide turn in favor of the heroes. "THEY MUST NOT ESCAPE!"

But, Alternate Team Rocket didn't get a chance to fight back because as soon as Shiny Shaymin, Snivy, and Blossom finished healing them, Dialga and Palkia used Roar of Time and Spacial Rend to blast Alternate Meowth, Alternate Wobuffett, Persian, Rhydon, Machamp, Kingler, Purguly, Toxicroak, and Skuntank, cutting off their advance and sending them flying back to their syndicate as they crash-landed before them.

"How dare you use that accursed chain to control us just as Team Galactic once did!"

"You got some nerve thinking you can use that blasted item to force us to fight so you can destroy this world and remake it as your own!"

"Brothers!" cried a relieved Giratina.

"Sister!" Dialga and Palkia gasped in surprise.

"You slimy, sneaky... I should've known you'd break us with that little trump card involving the Lake Guardians from your world, you stubborn little brat of Alola royalty!" Alternate Giovanni growled again, glaring daggers at Sarah.

"You haven't seen anything out of me yet!" Sarah spat back.

"This is ridiculous, I can't understand why a lowlife royal such as you would outfox Team Rocket at the last stages of our plan for world conquest when you had your back against the wall with your friends captured just as we broke your counterparts after taking their world and everyone they know and love away from them!"

"What do I have to worry about right now since everything you did just now made us and our twins of this world stronger? I got my friends in spirit and with me now, the Pokemon and dragons, the ponies, and everybody else you see before you. As much as I'd love to go back to my old life before coming to the future, I'm happy to say I don't have any problems right now!"

"Impossible, there's not a single soul from this world or any other that could withstand the might of Team Rocket without cracking like an egg!"

"Well, you just met one through me! Congratulations, you big shot of a power-hungry lunatic, I suggest you go back to your little power trip!"

"Oh, I'll go on a little power trip with you in mind, especially, Princess. Don't you think, however, it's a little early for you meddling kids to be celebrating right now? You may have taken Dialga and Palkia from us but this fight is over for you..."

Alternate Giovanni nodded to Alternate James who nodded back with a knowing and malicious smirk and took out a remote before he pressed a big red button on it.

At that moment, a loud roar resonated throughout the area and before everybody knew it, from out of the ground came (sending some of the heroes flying back from the eruption) came a giant Triassic dinosaur robot.

The robot was designed after the Spinosaurus but it had a long slender snout which had a split jaw, an orange headpiece, and a pair of quad optical sensors. Its body was entirely covered from head to tail in sturdy armored plating that protects it from even the most minute of damage. Armor also jutted from around its neck and up to its back where a saw-bladed sail rested along with two smaller spines of a similar size positioned around the main sail. There was even a plasma earthblaster covering a plasma core on its chest along with a plasma energizer and it has two large forelimbs along with Metalbite sacs on its shoulders with its long tail ending at a three-pronged fin. And, it also had Chillwater canisters fastened to its neck while it had Purgewater canisters fixed to its tail limb.

"Dudes! Are you getting this?!"

"What is it!?"

"It's a robot!"

"It's huge!"

"A robotic dinosaur, what next?"

"Are you kiddin'?"

"A giant, attack, robot?"

"Nuts," Beast Boy, Nagiji, Robin, Cobalt, Amber, Camo, Star, and Proud, and Flax balked in disbelief.

That was the least of their worries as the heroes saw the robot, which Alternate Giovanni and Alternate Team Rocket called the Slaughterspine, roaring proudly and firing missiles from its smaller spines while the end of its tail fired multiple lasers at them.

"LOOK OUT!" cried Robin in alarm before the missiles and lasers hit their intended targets and blasted at spots near their feet, knocking them down and sending much of them crashing into the ground despite their best efforts to dodge, consequently causing the RPM Ninjetti Rangers to lose their helmets in the process (their suits thankfully holding despite them taking a great fraction of the blast).

Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina did their best to protect the heroes as they fought back and fired their attacks at the Slaughterspine but its armored plating made it difficult for them to penetrate and deal it massive damage.

"You didn't mention anything about a stupid fighting robot like that after we freed Dialga and Palkia, you big rocket ass! You cheated!" Tyson snapped angrily as he got his bearings back despite the damage he and everyone else on the heroes' side took.

"One thing I've learned from the resistance and after you destroyed our prison complex, my fellow lumbering ape: Always have a Plan B," Alternate Giovanni mocked, smirking back at the heroes.

"Any last words before you all die before our hands at last?" Alternate Jessie sneered.

"Yeah, try and stop us!" spat Alternate Sarah as Alternate Race, Amber, Sunlight, Hippy, and Cupcake helped her to her feet after picking themselves up.

"You think we'll quit...just because you have a big fat robot like that?"

"Hah! This is nothin'!" Alternate Mallow and Alternate Lana added in agreement, glaring at Alternate Team Rocket and their final hail mary.

"Whatever you have on you AND the Sinnoh Deities, they're nothing against the Slaughterspine. Our ultimate piece of machinery we've created and held onto, just for you," Alternate Jessie sneered again.

"Even a robot like that has an expiration date and we're gonna find out when that is, like right now! Guys, Vecna, battle dance!" Sarah shot back, summoning her dinosaurs from all nine of her Elemental Dinosaur cards and a new prehistoric face in the form of a Black and Gold T-Rex the princess named Vecna (who stood as the Slaughterspine's equal in terms of height).

"You're kiddin'!"

"UGRH! That royal kitten has a whole dino-palooza platoon on her, how rich!" snapped Alternate Meowth and Alternate Wobuffett, more annoyed than ever.

Back in top form with their Battle Forms primed and ready, alongside Vecna, Maximus, Paris, Fuki, Mia, Chomp, Munch, Terry, Arcane, and Gigas roared proudly at the Slaughterspine as they got ready to fight this time just as Sarah summoned their Elemental Boosts to power them up (sans Maximus and Gigas as they don't have any Elemental Boosters at the moment).

Ready, Elemental Boosters

"Elemental boost!" the princess screamed, throwing the other eight dinos their booster power-ups and activated her Dino Bracer, covering them in their Elemental Battle Armor.

"If that robotic dino can win you over and level this world as we know it, it's time we settle the score with an all-out dino rumble, your robot against my dinosaurs - the real deal!"

"Actually, now that you mentioned dinosaurs, why not have my dino crew join the party?" Race remarked, summoning Swift, Nessie, Meg, Guru, Quake, Hanna, Bronty, and Armatus in Battle Mode before giving them their Elemental Boosters as well. "Now, you and your mechanical menace have all of OUR dinosaurs to worry about!"

"Fine, then our Slaughterspine will have no problem killing them all once we've ripped that pathetic armor of theirs into a million pieces!" Alternate Giovanni snarled as the dimensions shifted for the heroes and Alternate Team Rocket into what looked like a huge valley with a lake and trees off to the side in what appeared to be the Mesozoic period.

"Hey!"

"What in Odin's-?!"

"Where are we?"

"How'd we even get here?! Hiccup, Astrid, Tuffnut, and Snotlout barked in surprise and amazement as they looked around.

"The Time-Warp Battlefield," Dialga answered.

"What...?" the pups all puzzled in confusion.

"Since we're within the confines of the Space-Time Continuum because of my and Dialga's powers and we're in the midst of a battle, the dimensions suddenly shifted to an area suitable for the fight before us. The princess and her betrothed are about to fight alongside all their dinosaurs against that metal monstrosity so the dimension we're in suddenly shifted to an environment akin to the Mesozoic Era," Palkia explained.

"This last battle will be a final clash between all of us and Team Rocket through their dinosaurs. Whether or not our worlds live or die will be decided here and now, life or death through survival of the prehistoric fittest," Giratina nodded.

"Now, my mechanical beauty, attack!" Alternate Giovanni commanded, having his Slaughterspine make the first move as it charged forward.

Venca and Bronty made the first move from the heroes' side as they charged forward and met with the Slaughterspine before they ended up in a head-on collision between them. Bronty and Venca valiantly pushed hard against the mechanical dino as they pushed at each other before the two live dinosaurs began using their full strength to, slowly but surely, force it back.

The Slaughterspine was distracted as Terry, Arcane, and Gigas seized the opportunity for a sneak attack and jumped into the air before they bit the monster's spine. This got the Slaughterspine's attention as it pushed away from Bronty and Venca and gave an aggressive roar before it shook itself to try and latch its three attackers off.

"Quake, Hanna, Armatus, Quake Saber! Go!" Race ordered, the Euxplocephanosaurus and the two Stegosaurus readying themselves as their tails glowed a bright violet color before they turned into crystal swords.

The Slaughterspine roared again as Bronty and Venca knocked it back while it tried to throw Terry, Arcane, and Gigas off of it.

"Go, Bronty/Venca! KNOCK IT DOWN!" Sarah and Race bellowed, allowing their largest dinosaurs to charge at the Slaughterspine again but at full speed now and ram into its forehead as it bent its neck down within battering ram range while it was distracted.

This caused the mechanical prehistoric beast to tip over from the force of their charge as the pair used their momentum against it and forced it down, Terry, Arcane, and Gigas all letting go at the last moment just before the evil Combat Machine can hit the ground before they landed back to their original places beside their masters and their families.

"Now, guys! Strike at its underbelly!" Race called, allowing his readied dinos to use their Quake Sabers and thrusted them down the middle of the Slaughterspine's underbelly, causing it to roar in pain.

"You're going to regret piercing our beloved robotic fighter, you meddling kids!"

"Strength's just one of many things our metal hulk's got that surpasses your hadrosaurs!" Alternate Jessie and Alternate James cursed at Race and Sarah.

"My dinosaurs are anything but has-beens!"

"Neither are mine so why not get this through your heads, the real deals are a thousand times stronger than any robotic metal copycat any day!"

"Girls, take it to 'im! Ability, activate - Stomping Hammer!" Sarah shouted, drawing and using a Move Card that allows Paris, Fuki, and Mia to roar together before jumping into the air and slamming into the Slaughterspine three times consecutively.

"Come on, kids! Show that phantom menace what you're made of!" Nagaji cheered.

"Go for it, guys!"

"Finish it!"

"YES/GO/WHOO!"

"Give it to that monster, Mother!"

"Cleave 'im to the brisket!" Phanpy, Brawleon, the Night Lights, Nyasi, and Elklace shouted in encouragement.

"You can do it!"

"Don't let up!"

"YEAH!" Zayto, Casey, and the other rangers cheered.

Chomp and the other dinosaurs charged forward to continue the assault on the Slaughterspine once Hanna, Quake, and Armatus did their part but Alternate Team Rocket was anything but happy. They had no response to the relentless assault from Race and Sarah's dinosaurs in flesh and blood and what made it worse was that the four dinosaurs they lost to the heroes were now rebelling against them completely after changing their allegiance once they were secured by them.

"Slaughterspine, don't give them another inch! Use your lasers and kill off those ingrates before they get the jump on you again!" Alternate James snapped to the robot, having it use its tail to whack the princess and her boyfriends' dinosaurs back hard and prepping its Tail Lasers to blast them to bits.

"Try this one for size!" Race cried before he and Sarah brought out another Move Card and shouted while they were activated, "Ability, activate - Tag Team!"

As the other dinosaurs regrouped, the pair's two Pawpawsaurus emerged to fight as they absorbed the lasers that were fire and they roared loudly.

"Are you kiddin'?! First, we lost four dinosaurs, then you idiots stole them from us, and now, they're unleashing a full-scale war against us along with the ones already under your wing!" Alternate Wobuffett snarled, gritting his teeth.

"Including those two intruders who clearly don't know when to show up at the right place at the right time!" snapped Alternate Meowth, growing more and more annoyed by what he was seeing as he eyed the Pawpawsaurus pair with disdain.

"No matter, we'll destroy you both as well! Attack!" Alternate Jessie huffed with contempt as she pointed the Slaughterspine to the heroes..

But, the Pawpawsaurus pair wasn't going to let the robotic monster get close to their friends and masters as they darted in front of the Slaughterspine and halted its charge as it tried to run them over and run the other dinosaurs through.

"Out of our way!" Alternate Giovanni barked at them.

"Fat chance, bigshot! You can try to attack again but our new Pawpawsaurus stand in as our shields whenever we needed their help and through their own attacks, they can send that energy you throw at us right back at it! So, in hindsight, they're our very own Mirror Force! Alright, boys, let 'im have it!" Race barked back, pointing Terry and Gigas to the Slaughterspine and allowing them to go nuts with it as they smacked their tails at the robot and send it flying and rolling back to Alternate Team Rocket before it stood back up and roared in defiance.

"Keep it up, you guys! Use Attack Burst, now!" Sarah shouted as Maximus, Chomp, and Munch roared together and generated a cloud of dust that blinded the monstrous Combat Machine before they rammed into it and threw it into the air where it was struck by lightning bolts from all sides and then forced it back to the ground after coming at it via an aerial assault and their horns after jumping into the air and taking it by surprise.

"Whoa..." the heroes' twins were left speechless as they watched Sarah and Race's dinosaurs battling the Slaughterspine with ease as they and their masters were in sync with each other throughout the entire fight.

"Nessie, Guru, Shock Wave! Let's go!" Race commanded again, bringing out a Water Move Card and allowing his smaller Sauropods to take to the field and surround themselves with water before they shot it at the Slaughterspine.

As the Slaughterspine was now trapped within a powerful water cyclone as it roared in agonizing pain, Alternate Giovanni was left aghast as he could only holler to his beast, "No, no, no, no, no, NOOOOOO! Impossible! This can't be happening! You worthless hunk of junk, what are you doing?! Break out of that damn cyclone and fight! NOW! AHH, there's no way out!"

"That's right, you muppet! Once your Slaughterspine is nothing but a mangled pile of cheap scrap metal, you'll automatically lose this duel!" Race confirmed.

"No, this can't be happening!"

"As powerful as your robotic tower of terror is, no creature of any kind is without weakness and your creation's flaw draws upon the one thing that makes it a liability and a detriment against our dinos: its lack of an ability or incompatibility to feel emotions and draw its true strength from them!"

"And, this is the end for you and your robotic long neck's story! Race, are you ready?" Sarah added, bringing out a Final Move Card.

"You bet!" Race nodded, bringing out a Final Move Card as well.

"Final Ability, activate - ELEMENTAL ULTIMA!"

Activating their Final Move Cards and as the dinosaurs that had been brought out regrouped, the young couple watched as Maximus, Chomp, Venca, Munch, Paris, Fuki, Mia, Terry, Arcane, Gigas, Nessie, Guru, Quake, Hanna, Armatus, Swift, Meg, and Bronty all gave off proud roars before they unleashed their final attacks (their Ultimate Finishers) and targeted the Slaughterspine upon Sarah and Race's final call, "FIRE!"

- Terry, Arcane, Venca, and Gigas used Ultimate Fire in which their bodies are coated with fire and they pushed the flames forward, creating a firewall that turned into a streak of fire

- Nessie and Guru unleashed Ultimate Water as water geysers erupted from the ground below them and a giant wave pushes them forward for a full-on aquatic tackle

- Paris, Mia, and Fuki utilize their Ultimate Grass attack as their combined power surges in a burst of elemental grass energy and then they charge forward head-on in a group tackle

- Ultimate Wind allows Meg and Swift to surround themselves with raging gusts of wind and shoot themselves forward from within a wind-cone

- Ultimate Thunder gives Chomp, Maximus, and Munch the ability to charge themselves up with electricity, creating a pathway from lightning bolts and paralyzing the Slaughterspine and charging at it via a ball of electricity

- Ultimate Earth allows Quake, Hanna, and Armatus to summon giant crystals to border their path and break through them as they charged toward the Slaughterspine while crystal shards fly around them

- Bronty instead uses his Spectral Destroy ability to add to his fellow dinosaurs' combined power as a powered-up hail mary

The attacks all converged into one powerful beam coated in Bronty's energy from Spectral Destroy as the trapped robot dinosaur could do nothing but roar as it eyed the final attack coming at it. The robotic menace had nothing in response to this ultimate assault as it took the beam head-on and all of its enemies' power is unleashed upon it at once, causing it to splutter and spark violently before it started to shut itself down as it roared in agony a final time as it eventually exploded from within the cyclone.

"NOOOOOO/NOOOOOO!" Alternate Team Rocket and the remaining grunts along with their Pokemon cried in horror, the realization that their hail mary was gone forever sinking in.

"BOO-YAH!"

"Our worlds are saved, the princess and her loved one are victorious! WHOO!"

"Now, THAT is a true Dino Fury victory if I've ever seen one!"

"YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES!" Cyborg, Starfire (Teen Titan), Aiyon, and Sally hollered as the heroes cheered.

"It's over, Team Rocket! Now, give it up!"

"You've lost your robot as well as your grunts and drones and our worlds are safe from your villainy at last!" Alternate Ash and Alternate Mallow spat at Alternate Team Rocket, knowing for sure that the war between them and the resistance's sworn enemy force is finally over.

"No, how can this be...?"

"We lost, we failed..."

"We dropped the ball and even our dino robot's toast," grunted Alternate Jessie, Alternate Meowth, and Alternate James, all of them and the rest of what little remained of Alternate Team Rocket gritting their teeth in defeat and frustration.

"How did they beat us...?" groaned Alternate Wobuffett.

Alternate Giovanni didn't know what to say as he remained silent and stewed in his own frustration and sorrow that his and Alternate Team Rocket's plans for world conquest had been destroyed. He couldn't begin to imagine how things went so wrong for them when they were super close to success only to have it all undone by their main target despite everything they did.

"Team Rocket, I doubt you'll understand what you just saw before you. Our daughter, our family, and her friends have something you took for granted and failed to grasp."

"The bonds that bind us together can overcome even your evil and your underestimating the true power of family, love, and friendship we all share was your greatest mistake along with forcing us to come here after you kidnapped them," Delilah and Doug scoffed, unimpressed.

"The flow of time and space that led us all from the moment you've taken the princess' friends and bodyguards and forced their twins in this world into a corner they couldn't escape from to where we stand now denied you hooligans your coveted victory and sided with my goddaughter, our family and allies, and her friends. The Deities of Time and Space, once they had been freed, had chosen the ones who deserved to live," Tsukumaro finished as everybody else on the heroes'side looked at their defeated enemies with contempt.

Sarah glared silently at Team Rocket as Azelf, Uxie, and Mesprit joined her and shared her glare as they looked at Alternate Team Rocket with disdain. They then nodded to each other, knowing what must be done as the Lake Guardians turned invisible again and grabbed some necklaces (courtesy of Reader) before dropping them on Alternate Giovanni, Alternate Jessie, and Alternate James while they wallowed in their defeat. The three of them panicked once they felt the enchantment taking place and they tried to remove them but they stopped struggling once they were turned into an IceWing, a SeaWing, and a SandWing respectively.

The shocked and terrified evil Pokemon including Alternate Wobuffeet and Alternate Meowth didn't know what to think let alone do as Sarah and Race returned their dinosaurs to their card forms and thanked them for their help before Race took notice of Alternate Team Rocket's Pokemon before he took out his wand and cast a Reborn Spell on them. With that spell, Alternate Meowth, Alternate Wobuffett, Persian, Rhydon, Rhyperior, Kingler, Machamp, Toxicroak, Purguly, and Skuntank were all reverted into eggs, causing the Time-Warp Battlefield to return to its normal state following the heroes' victory.

With the Sinnoh Deities and the Lake Guardians back together and the war finally over, Dialga and Palkia immediately set to work righting the wrongs Alternate Team Rocket made through their powers, absorbing the excess energy that was unleashed by their fighting and restoring everything that was affected by the warping of the Space-Time Continuum. Along with closing the opened gates once they've absorbed all of the energy unleashed, this included the restoration of the flow of time which caused all of the affected Pokemon to turn back to their original forms including the ones trapped in the cage with Edge Blade destroying it and freeing Alternate Team Rocket's former captives.

This also meant that even Alternate Dawn's Piplup was brought back to life as his egg was transported from her dimension in a ball of light and back into her arms, becoming the Penguin Pokemon she knew and loved throughout her travels once more.

"Piplup!"

"Dawn! Dawn, I'm back, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! I'm really back!" cheered the alternate pair happily as they shared a loving bear hug, relieved and overjoyed to see each other again.

Even back in Twinleaf Town, Ash, along with the gang, noticed everything returning to normal as all the Pokemon were fully restored.

"Pikachu!"

"Snowy!"

"Primarina, Sandy!"

"Tsareena, Shaymin!"

"Pyroar, Turtonator!"

"Vikavolt, Togedemaru!" they cried happily.

Their joy was also extended to everyone else at the Twinleaf Town Pokemon Center with all of the eggs remaining there returning to normal after the effects of Alternate Team Rocket's crimes were reversed, reuniting with their respective trainers as they all shared joyful and tear-jerking reunions after such a tumultuous time which was made all the sweeter for them they realized that Alternate Team Rocket was finally done for as they all gave hearty cheers.

The war over and Alternate Team Rocket no longer a thing, Palkia opened another gate back to Alternate Sinnoh with everyone (including the Lake Guardians and the Sinnoh Deities) returned to the wasteland outside of the city but this time, they were subjected to fresh clean air with the dust cloud from before being blown away completely. They all breathed in the fresh air and smiled, chuckled, and laughed happily, knowing that they'd finally found peace for Alternate Sinnoh and the rest of the world before they noticed the entrance opening again. From the domed city, out came more of Commander Cynthia's officers, all of them looking ecstatic as they were joined by Sarah's friends and all of the restored Pokemon including their own.

All of the restored Pokemon belonging to the heroes' twins cried happily as a tearful reunion was shared with the rest of them hanging back with the officers and a few other citizens joining them applauded and cheered while Ash, Lillie, Mallow, Lana, Kiawe, and Sophocles along with their Pokemon reunited with the rest of their party.

"Race/Sarah/Your Majesties/Guys!" the gang all called out.

"SARAH!"

"RACE!" Lillie and Ash screamed happily.

"You did it! You really did it, Team Rocket's gone forever! We were so worried!"

"Thank goodness you're alright!"

"Idiots! Don't ever scare us like that again, 'kay...?" Sophocles, Mallow, and Kiawe reacted in turn, all of them relieved and happy that everything involving everyone's war against Alternate Team Rocket is finally over.

"Team Rocket...?" Lana quizzed.

Sarah looked at her Water Type best friend and nodded, mentally giving them the news that Alternate Team Rocket is finished and that their world and their twins' world are safe from them and the harm they've wrought upon every last person, creature, and Pokemon that suffered and died under their tyranny (and all by her and the heroes' chosen means as she directed Lana and the others to the dragons all converted from Alternate Team Rocket).

"Sarah!"

"Thank you!" Pikachu and Snowy cried, joyful tears coming out of their eyes as they jumped onto the little princess' arms and nuzzler in eternal gratitude.

"I can't believe it..."

"Yeah, it's finally over..." Alternate Race and Alternate Sarah mused as they joined Sarah and continued to take in the now-peaceful and clean atmosphere no longer ruined by Team Rocket's actions and treachery.

"You got that right," Asha confirmed with a warm smile as Amber and Sunlight along with Hippy, Cupcake, and the Secret Six happily reunited with the rest of their family. "Your world's Team Rocket is history, no more blood belonging to innocent Pokemon, creatures, and humans will be shed, and now, you're all free to restore your world to its former glory or something even greater as you live out your lives again."

"Princess, we'll never thank you and your family and friends enough. You've done so much for all of us and we'll always honor and remember you and all of the brave and noble sacrifices and acts you've done to save us all from certain doom. I only wish there was more we can do to help you," Commander Cynthia commended as she joined the group and gave Sarah and her sister and friends a warm smile.

"No thanks, Commander, we're all good. We're just glad to be back with our Pokemon," Mallow smiled as her restored Shaymin and Tsareena hugging and nuzzling her happily.

"You'll have plenty of help to rebuild your world once we head back," Sarah informed as everybody gathered.

Commander Cynthia was surprised but she smiled warmly again as she nodded and said, "I see... I guess, this is where we part now that our worlds are safe."

"Thanks, you guys, you're the greatest."

"You brought back hope we thought was lost and everything we did now paid off, thanks to you."

"We're really gonna miss you, everybody," Alternate Lana, Alternate Lillie, and Alternate Mallow thanked gratefully.

"Yeah, you have to return to your world so that there will be no more dimensional trouble given everything we had to go through no thanks to Team Rocket."

"It does suck you have to leave so soon without staying a little longer to join in our victory celebration but we'll always remember you guys for helping us save our world in our darkest hour," said a grateful Alternate Kiawe and Alternate Sophocles.

"Goodbye!" the heroes' counterparts and everybody with them smiled as Palkia enlarged the gate everybody in the final battle came through and began taking the heroes back to their homeworld.

"Take care! Bye, guys!" Ash called.

"See ya later!" Pikachu shouted to his restored twin.

"Thanks for everything, Ash! I wish we could've gotten to know you all on friendlier terms but thanks for all you've done to end our war with Team Rocket," Alternate Ash smiled fondly.

"We'll miss you!" Alternate Ash's Pikachu replied, bidding a fond farewell to his counterpart.

"I know we'll see you again someday, bro! Good luck with your world's restoration!" Race shouted to Alternate Race.

"You stay out of trouble yourself, my boy! Just try and keep us out," smirked Alternate Race as he and Prince (who's riding on his right shoulder) waved goodbye.

"You take care, Leader!"

"Goodbye, you guys!"

"Thank you!" Sarah, Blitz, and Curly called to her twin and the Inuan Pikachu.

"Good luck, Sarah!" Alternate Sarah smiled.

"Don't worry about us, take care of yourselves!" the first Inuan Pikachu smirked as he and the other Inuan Pikachu bid their farewells.

"Take good care of your Piplup!"

"Stay out of trouble!"

"Goodbye, friend!" Dawn, Brock, and Piplup called to their twins (even if Alternate Dawn's Piplup slept as he grew exhausted from the whole ordeal even as an egg for an extended period).

"We will! No need to worry, Dawn!"

"Good luck on becoming a Pokemon Doctor, Brock!" smiled Alternate Dawn and Alternate Brock.

"I wish we could've had more time to talk with you all but thanks for helping us!"

"See ya later!"

"Bye!" Mallow, Kiawe and Sophocles, and Lana and Lillie smiled toward their doubles as they returned a smile and wave farewell along with their Pokemon.

"Good luck on your world, our friends!"

"Goodbye!"

"See ya!"

"Take care of yourselves!"

"Thank you, all of you!"

Sarah smiled at everybody from Alternate Sinnoh along with the converted dragons staying with them as she said to them one last time, "We may never meet again, everybody, but we'll never forget each other and today and yesterday's miracles. Through all of the struggles you've gone through and the trials we faced together, I know that someday, your world will be reborn through your coming together, your love, your friendship, your hearts, your trust in each other, your own boundless compassion that has allowed it to see the light of day again. No matter what happens, we'll always remember each other and be together forever in our hearts. My friends, I leave the dragons that were once Team Rocket and the Pokemon they once had that are now eggs in your hands! As long as you work and live together to overcome any and all odds against you, you'll be eternal and nothing can ever stop you! Because today, on this very day that saw the end of your Team Rocket, everybody can celebrate and none of you will be here today if it wasn't for my family and friends and I and our twins, the forerunners of your resistance! And, now, farewell wherever you may fare! If we meet again, I assure you, you'll be welcomed to our world with open arms!"

Everybody cheered as they said goodbye to each other once last time before the heroes passed through the gate with the Sinnoh Deities and it closed, leaving the heroes of Alternate Sinnoh alone with their new dragons to not only restore their world but also to prepare to spread the news to any surviving civilizations everywhere that Team Rocket is done for and a new day is finally dawning.

"Well, everybody, you heard the princess! What are we all doing standing around here? Let's get busy!" Commander Cynthia smiled as she gave the all-clear for everybody to celebrate and begin restoring their world.

"YEAH/YEAH/YEAH!" everybody cheered as they including the converted Team Rocket dragons went straight to work on their world's restoration.

"Bye, Princess Sarah!" both Hippy and Cupcake called out as they, their family, and their own friends continued to bid goodbye to their world's saviors even after they had gone.

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Finally returning to their world, the heroes were dropped off back in Twinleaf Town, and to their surprise and delight, Dialga and Palkia's complete restoration of the Space-Time Continuum as well as their defeat of Alternate Team Rocket had also restored their homeworld back to its former glory as if the entire affair in Alternate Sinnoh was nothing but a bad dream.

"Hey, look at all of the flowers!"

"And, the Combee, too!" Lily and Zoey (Yellow BM Ranger) gasped in delight, seeing some restored flowers and a flock of Combee pollinating happily around them as if they didn't disappear at all.

"Pokemon, too!"

"They're all back!" Ash and Pikachu cheered, seeing all of the disappearing Pokemon back in the flesh in their world with their rightful trainers.

"Our world's back to normal again as well!"

"And, that means...!"

"We're home!" Sophocles, Kiawe, and Mallow, Lana, and Lillie shouted with joy and relief as everybody cheered and Sarah and Race looked up at the sky, wondering how their twins and their friends are faring.