Above the skies of the Alola region—
Originally, the sun and moon had both hung in the heavens, with night and day descending at the same time.
Half the land was shrouded under moonlight and starlit skies, while the other half lay beneath daylight, with the blazing sun overhead.
But after Necrozma devoured Lunala—
Night disappeared.
It was extremely strange.
By all logic, since the sky had been divided between darkness and daylight, once the half belonging to night vanished, daylight should have naturally spread and taken over the whole sky, turning the entire world into daytime.
But that didn't happen.
Daylight still occupied only half the heavens.
As for the other half—
Just moments ago it had still been a magnificent black sky glittering with stars.
Now, with Lunala having been swallowed—
That entire half of the night sky was simply gone.
It was as if half the sky had been dug out by force, leaving behind a darkness blacker than any words could ever describe.
It was as though the very concept of night had ceased to exist in this world.
Terrifying pressure spread wildly through the air.
Beneath that pitch-black sky, Necrozma had completely fused Lunala into its body.
Its appearance changed completely.
Its new form was as though Necrozma had grown Lunala's wings, while the main body itself still remained Necrozma's original torso.
Its core body was still formed from black crystal.
But all the parts beyond that central body were primarily composed of Lunala's physical elements, though fused with parts of Necrozma's structure as well.
The whole new form looked like Necrozma's original body had split into many pieces and embedded itself into every part of Lunala's original body.
"ROAR~!!"
Necrozma let out a howl, and the whole world trembled in a daze. Its roar shook the air, producing countless visible shockwaves.
Its ferocious might filled the heavens.
Its aura was several times stronger than before.
Feeling that pressure spilling out through the screen—
Viewers across the myriad dimensions were horrified.
Necrozma had actually devoured Lunala!!
Its new form—
Dawn Wings Necrozma.
In the One Piece world…
Aboard the Moby Dick, everyone in the Whitebeard Pirates felt their scalps go numb.
It had devoured Lunala and caused the world to lose the existence of night itself.
Necrozma was terrifying beyond belief.
It really was worthy of being TOP 2.
In all the previous ranking videos, there had never once been a case where the law-authority governed by one divine beast had been swallowed by another.
A certain man named Blackbeard stared with wide eyes at Necrozma.
Inwardly, he muttered,
"Necrozma… the holder of black hole authority? As expected. That fruit is invincible."
The Dark-Dark Fruit.
The most special Logia-type Devil Fruit.
With it, he too could吞噬 other Devil Fruit abilities!
In the Dragon Ball world—
On King Kai's planet—
"Damn… amazing! Necrozma's ki just skyrocketed!! It really swallowed Lunala!?" Goku exclaimed in disbelief. Necrozma's ki had surged by several times over. It was unbelievably immense.
Beside him, King Kai wore a grave expression.
Just as he had guessed.
From the very beginning of the battle, Necrozma had been constantly lunging at Lunala.
It really had been trying to swallow Lunala all along.
As King Kai, he knew many of the deepest secrets, including those of Universe 7.
Majin Buu.
A being whose name struck terror into all life.
Long ago…
While the God of Destruction was asleep, a terrifying existence had appeared in the universe.
Majin Buu.
That thing had once arrived at the Supreme Kai's planet.
It killed two Supreme Kais.
It even devoured the South Supreme Kai.
And then, when the Grand Supreme Kai came to support them—
He too was devoured.
The Supreme Kais and the Gods of Destruction were two sides of the same coin.
They represented the creative and destructive aspects of a universe.
If either died, the other would die as well.
Fortunately, Universe 7 was different from the others.
It did not have only one Supreme Kai and one God of Destruction.
The authority of the Supreme Kai in Universe 7 had been divided into five shares.
East Supreme Kai, West Supreme Kai, South Supreme Kai, North Supreme Kai, and Grand Supreme Kai.
Each held part of the law-authority.
After the Majin Buu incident—
Only East Supreme Kai remained alive.
The others had all been killed or devoured by Majin Buu.
And fortunately, because the Supreme Kai authority in Universe 7 was split into five parts—
If it had been like the other universes, with only one Supreme Kai—
Then it would have been over. The death of that one Supreme Kai would have also killed the God of Destruction.
King Kai stared at the video—
At Dawn Wings Necrozma, which had swallowed Lunala—
His gaze turned grave.
If one ignored pure battle power, then in a certain sense—
Necrozma was even more terrifying than Majin Buu.
Majin Buu's swallowing was just a simple devouring. If it swallowed someone stronger than itself, it could raise its own battle power.
But Necrozma—
Did not merely devour the opponent's body to strengthen itself.
It had swallowed the very law-authority Lunala possessed as well!!
That was horrifying to the extreme.
That was law-authority!
And it could actually be swallowed.
If Majin Buu had possessed that same method—
Then after devouring the five Supreme Kais, if it had also swallowed their Supreme Kai authority—
The consequences would have been unthinkable.
The thought alone was enough to make one's scalp tingle.
At the same time…
On Earth…
"Necrozma really is a lot like my Majin Buu. Though its battle power is nothing compared to Buu…"
"It can actually devour law-authority."
The evil magician Babidi looked on with dark eyes.
Majin Buu was the monster his father, Bibidi, had created.
It had once nearly ruled all of Universe 7.
Watching Necrozma, a different idea began to sprout in Babidi's heart.
Necrozma could swallow law-authority.
So then—
Could he modify Majin Buu so that it could do the same?
"If Majin Buu could also devour law-authority…"
As soon as the thought appeared, ambition began to breed in Babidi's heart.
"Then Majin Buu could devour all the Supreme Kais, all the Gods of Destruction, and gather the laws of both creation and destruction into itself!"
"And even… even beings above the Gods of Destruction could also be devoured!"
In the Pokémon world—
All the Trainers stared at Dawn Wings Necrozma in the sky with utter disbelief.
Just one second ago, they had thought victory was certain.
Then the very next second, Lunala had been swallowed—
And its law-authority had been swallowed right along with it.
The sheer whiplash was almost unbearable.
The world no longer had any such concept as night.
"ROAR ROAR ROAR!!!"
Though everything had taken many words to describe, it had all happened in no more than two seconds.
Solgaleo roared continuously.
It had been too late to save Lunala.
It had only just evolved from Nebby into Solgaleo and was still unfamiliar with using its power.
After using its signature move just now, its body had stiffened briefly.
That momentary delay had left it able to do nothing but watch Lunala be swallowed.
Solgaleo could sense it—
As long as Necrozma was defeated, Lunala could be released again.
It sent its aura, mixed with psychic force, crashing toward Necrozma.
Necrozma hovered high above the nine heavens, glanced at it indifferently, and let loose a horrifying surge of pressure that met Solgaleo head-on like a collapsing mountain.
Poof~!
Solgaleo's aura was smashed apart instantly.
Then Solgaleo itself was slammed violently from the sky, crashing into the earth and creating an enormous crater.
Buzz~!
Energy surged across Necrozma's body. Its eyes flashed, and a seven-colored tunnel of light appeared in the sky once more—
The Ultra Wormhole.
Its body entered it and vanished.
As it disappeared, the Ultra Wormhole slowly began to close.
[Necrozma returned to the Ultra World so it could better fuse with and absorb Lunala's law-authority and power.]
[Thus it opened the Ultra Wormhole and returned to the Ultra World.]
"ROAR!!"
Solgaleo burst out of the crater and chased after it into the sky. Light surged around its body. It roared, the cry turning into visible soundwaves that blasted through the air.
Buzz—!
The Ultra Wormhole opened again.
"Solgaleo, come back!!!"
Ash shouted toward it.
But the enraged Solgaleo could hear nothing at all.
It rushed into the Ultra Wormhole and disappeared.
And just as the Ultra Wormhole was about to close—
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh~!
Four figures streaked across the sky.
They were Tapu Koko, Tapu Lele, Tapu Fini, and Tapu Bulu—the four guardian deities of Alola.
At the very last instant before the Ultra Wormhole sealed shut, they followed Solgaleo in and vanished as well.
Everyone looked at each other.
So they'd all just disappeared and headed into the Ultra World?
The sky in the video remained indescribably strange—
Half of it held nothing at all, while the other half remained glaring daylight.
Looking at the place where Solgaleo and the others had vanished—
Viewers across the dimensions felt as though there were cats clawing at their hearts.
They desperately wanted to know what the Ultra World was like.
"Why is the camera still staying in the main world? Hurry up and follow them into the Ultra World!"
"Exactly! What's happening over there!?"
All the viewers were burning with curiosity about what happened after Solgaleo chased after Necrozma.
They also wanted to know—
How strong had Necrozma become after absorbing Lunala?
But the camera did not move.
It remained focused on Alola.
In the Pokémon world—
All the Trainers wore gloomy expressions.
Especially the Trainers of Alola.
They had already gone to confirm it.
The valley on Melemele Island really did have a festival altar there—
The Sunne Altar.
But no one dared touch it recklessly.
Who knew what might happen if they disturbed it?
Looking at the world in the video, where only daylight remained—
Their faces turned bitter.
Even in its normal form, Necrozma had already left Lunala helpless.
Now it had entered Dawn Wings Form and swallowed Lunala on top of that.
Without even thinking, it was obvious—
If Solgaleo followed it, it would lose.
Just then—
A disturbance appeared in the video again.
All the viewers froze.
Had the camera finally shifted into the Ultra World?
They hurriedly looked—
But no.
The scene was still in Alola.
Their pupils contracted.
In Alola—
Seven presences were rising into the air.
Seven figures soared upward.
It was the seven Ultra Beasts that had been defeated earlier by the guardian deities.
Seven beings at the level of Third-Tier Legendary Pokémon.
Their auras spread out, suppressing the skies above the Alola region.
The Pokémon world's viewers understood instantly.
"Holy crap—the seven Ultra Beasts woke up!!"
"This is bad! They're all Third-Tier Legendary Pokémon!"
"Solgaleo and the four guardian deities all went into the Ultra World through the Ultra Wormhole, so aren't these seven now basically invincible!?"
Panic.
The Island Kahunas of Alola panicked.
These seven Ultra Beasts were enough to devastate the whole Alola region, weren't they?
Even if Pikachu could hold one off alone—
There would still be six more!
The eyes of the seven Ultra Beasts burned with fury as they stared down at the land of Alola beneath them.
Energy surged across their bodies, gathering and condensing.
It was as if they intended to repay in full the humiliation they had just suffered at the hands of Tapu Koko and the others—
By venting it across the entirety of Alola.
Their gathered power was terrifyingly dazzling.
In the video, some Trainers tried to stop them—
But under the combined pressure of seven Third-Tier Legendary Pokémon, even Champion-level Pokémon found it difficult to breathe.
Ordinary Pokémon simply fainted outright from the pressure.
Before the mouths of the seven Ultra Beasts, spheres of energy swelled larger and larger, each one like a miniature sun.
And just at that moment—
From the distant sky, a pillar of flame blasted across the heavens, radiating ultimate heat.
Flamethrower.
A signature Fire-type move.
But this Flamethrower had become almost tangible, like liquid magma.
Seeing that terrifying column of flame, all the viewers froze.
A Flamethrower condensed into magma?
Their hearts filled with joy.
Could it be—
Groudon had come!?
The Flamethrower streaked across the sky.
The seven Ultra Beasts had been spread out in the air.
Four of them occupied the daylight half of the sky.
Three of them were on the side where night had vanished.
That Flamethrower targeted the four Ultra Beasts on the daylight side.
Sensing danger, the four of them broke off their attacks and hurriedly dodged.
On the other half of the sky—
The three Ultra Beasts had still been accumulating energy and had not been interrupted.
And then—
Shiiing~!
An enormous shuriken tore through the air, ripping across space as it slashed toward them.
That giant shuriken was made entirely of flowing water.
Water Shuriken!
The three Ultra Beasts hurriedly dodged as well, interrupting the skills they had been charging.
Just like that, Alola's crisis was neutralized by the sudden appearance of Flamethrower and Water Shuriken.
[Bug Catcher]: T-That… that Water Shuriken is huge… I remember… the only one who can use a Water Shuriken that big… should be Ash's Greninja, right?!
[Brock]: Y-Yeah… I think only Ash's Greninja can do that.
Sure enough…
At the mountain peak where the Sunne Altar stood, there was a blue figure.
A body of pure blue.
Unbelievably cool.
Greninja!!
Its body flashed, and it came to Ash's side.
"Greninja, you're back!!! So your mission has finally been completed!!"
Ash's face lit up with excitement.
"R-right… and that Flamethrower…"
Ash's eyes seemed to shimmer with tears.
That Flamethrower—
Though far stronger than before—
Was one he knew all too well.
Once upon a time, he had no idea how many times he had been accidentally scorched by it.
That guy…
That guy had once been such a difficult, rebellious existence.
He had picked it up after it had been abandoned by its Trainer.
He had raised it all the way to its final evolution.
Even though it had been the first fully evolved Pokémon in his team—
After evolving, it had refused to listen to him at all.
Later, only through Ash's tireless effort and endless sincerity—
Had it finally accepted him.
Tears shimmered in Ash's eyes as he looked up into the daylight sky, where a Pokémon hovered.
It was a Charizard.
The final evolved form of Charmander, one of Kanto's three starter Pokémon.
Ash's very first fully evolved Pokémon.
And also the Pokémon that had caused him the most worry.
"Just as I thought…"
"You got stronger at Charicific Valley… and you've got quite a few more scars on you now."
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