On the other side, Baraz and the others finally reached the Prison of Hoopa.
They arrived at the top of the tower, where four pillars stood; three were arranged in a triangle, and the fourth was located in the center.
"Is this the place?" Clemont asked.
"That's right," Baraz confirmed.
"Then let's get started quickly!" Serena urged anxiously, her face showing worry. "I just don't know how Ash is doing..."
Clemont comforted her, "Don't worry, Ash will definitely be fine. Besides, isn't Mr. Ange there? Mr. Ange is so powerful; he will surely have a way to deal with Hoopa Unbound."
"That's true, it will definitely be fine," Serena said, wearing a forced smile.
"Let's begin!" Meray said, placing the broken Prison Bottle on the central pillar.
Immediately, Serena commanded her Braixen to step forward, and Clemont commanded Ash's Frogadier to do the same.
Bonnie patted her Hippowdon on the head and said, "Hippowdon, I'm counting on you, too."
Hippo hippo~
Hippowdon nodded and took a step forward.
The three Pokémon stood before their respective pillars.
Then, Meray and Baraz stepped forward, stretching out their hands toward the pillar holding the pieces of the Prison Bottle.
"Hya!"
As they both shouted, a golden light converged in the siblings' hands and rapidly spread to the fragments of the Prison Bottle.
The light echoed with the Arceus light-wheel pendants around their necks, looking quite profound.
"Everyone, hurry!" Baraz shouted.
Hearing this, Clemont hurriedly commanded Frogadier, "Frogadier, Water Pulse."
Poli poli~ Frogadier nodded and condensed a water sphere in its hand, throwing it toward the pillar in front of it.
Serena also commanded Braixen, "Braixen, Flamethrower!"
Fle fle~ Braixen waved the wand in its hand and fired a pillar of fire at the pillar before it.
Bonnie touched Hippowdon's head and said, "Hippowdon, Sand Attack!"
Hippo hippo~ Hippowdon responded, turned around, and frantically kicked its hind legs, spraying a large amount of sand toward the pillar behind it.
The power of fire, water, and earth was gathered together by Baraz and Meray, and the fragments of the Prison Bottle gradually fused.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket was hiding in the shadows, watching them.
"Are we still going to steal that bottle?" James asked.
Jessie replied, "Steal what? Didn't you see the monster that came out of the bottle? Even if we stole it, we couldn't control it."
"Yeah, yeah! That guy is so scary," Meowth said, still feeling lingering fear.
"So, we'd better just let those guys seal the monster away quickly!" Jessie said.
With no one interfering, the reconstruction of the Prison Bottle proceeded very smoothly.
As soon as the Prison Bottle was repaired, Serena said, "Let's hurry and get this to Ash and the others!"
Baraz nodded and took out a Poké Ball, releasing Braviary.
Meray also took out a Poké Ball and released a Togekiss.
"Let's go," Baraz said.
Then, Meray, Serena, and Bonnie boarded the Togekiss, while Baraz and Clemont boarded the Braviary. They flew out of the Prison of Hoopa and headed toward the desert.
Back with Ange and Ash, the battle had reached its white-hot stage.
Because Hoopa Unbound had been beaten so badly by Xerneas, it summoned another helper.
This helper was Regigigas, the Legendary Pokémon said to be able to drag continents.
Constantly summoning Legendary Pokémon was a burden on Hoopa; otherwise, Hoopa Confined wouldn't have only summoned Rayquaza, Latias, and Latios.
Summoning three Legends was already its limit.
After summoning Regigigas, Hoopa Unbound reached its limit.
As soon as Regigigas appeared, it stretched out its giant palm to grab Xerneas.
Its signature move was Crush Grip; if Xerneas were caught by it, it would be disastrous.
This was a Legendary Pokémon capable of dragging continents; the thought of being caught in its full-power grip was chilling.
Regigigas's Ability was Slow Start; for a period at the beginning of the battle, its physical move damage and Speed were halved.
Therefore, Xerneas leaped up, easily dodging the attack, and used Geomancy once again while in the air.
With Regigigas stalling Xerneas, Hoopa Unbound pursued Ange and Ash without hesitation.
A Dark Pulse struck Ange, who was on Latios's back, without warning.
Fortunately, Latios's reaction speed was fast enough; it dodged the attack narrowly with a sidestep.
Seeing her brother under attack, Latias immediately sped over to his side, opened her mouth, and fired a Dragon Pulse at Hoopa Unbound.
Hoopa Unbound had just dodged it when Latios's Dragon Pulse arrived.
BOOM!!!
With a loud noise, Hoopa Unbound was knocked flying.
Over at Yveltal's side, because it no longer had the help of Latias and Latios, it fell back into a bitter fight with Kyurem.
Ange noticed the situation and immediately took a purple orb from his System backpack and threw it to Yveltal.
Countless Tera energy surged from the orb, instantly enveloping Yveltal.
What Ange threw was, of course, a Tera Orb.
Since he had fully charged the Tera Orb in Area Zero, he hadn't used it once, but it finally came in handy.
As Yveltal absorbed the Tera energy, it released a dazzling light like a gemstone, its body covered in faceted crystals.
Yveltal did not change its Tera type; its primary type was Dark, so its type after Terastallizing was naturally still Dark.
Cry~ Yveltal chirped excitedly and used Snarl.
Hit by the Snarl, White Kyurem's Special Attack began to drop. It controlled its Glaciate to hit Yveltal, but Yveltal dodged it.
Cry~ Yveltal released another Snarl.
Under the influence of the sharp sound waves, White Kyurem looked pained and began sweeping its Glaciate around wildly.
Crackle, crackle~
Countless ice spread across the desert, turning the entire area into a world of ice.
After this great war, this ice never melted, later becoming a summer resort in the desert and even gradually forming a small town.
Furthermore, this town was famous for its specialty, Never-Melt Ice.
It wasn't just Kyurem that had a huge impact on this desert; Kyogre did too.
The ocean it created turned part of the desert into a body of water, thus forming an oasis.
Groudon and Regigigas changed part of the desert's terrain, creating many lava cave spectacles.
Of course, these are stories for another time.
Relying on Terastallization, Yveltal finally turned the situation around.
Because its Special Attack was continuously being lowered by Yveltal, White Kyurem switched forms, becoming Black Kyurem, which was more adept at physical attacks.
Black Kyurem, interwoven with cold air and lightning, roared as it charged toward Yveltal.
Yveltal was undeterred, using Sucker Punch to collide with Black Kyurem.
Sucker Punch had higher priority than Black Kyurem's Freeze Shock, and since Freeze Shock required charging, Sucker Punch took effect first, and Black Kyurem was sent flying.
In the sky, Diancie stood on Salamence's back, looking down at Z2 in her arms and asking:
"Zygarde, are you really not going to take action?"
She knew from Ange that Zygarde was the Pokémon that guarded the order of the Kalos region.
After a long while, Z2 suddenly closed its eyes.
"My dear friend, please lend me your strength!"
This time, it was not calling out to Xerneas or Yveltal, but to another Zygarde Core.
Clemont, Serena, and Bonnie were on their way to the battlefield.
Bonnie, sitting in front of Serena, suddenly saw something moving in her backpack. She looked down and saw it was Squishy.
Squishy was precisely Z1, the other core of Zygarde.
Only when the two cores became one could Zygarde's complete form appear.
Seeing Squishy crawl out of the backpack, Bonnie asked curiously, "Squishy, what's wrong?"
Squishy didn't speak but hopped all the way to the top of Togekiss's head.
"My dear friend, why do you summon me?"
After an exchange between the two Zygarde Cores, they reached a consensus.
Then, in the surprised eyes of Bonnie, Serena, and Meray, Squishy turned into a green streak of light and flew into the sky.
"Squishy, where are you going?" Bonnie cried out in a panic.
Seeing this, Serena comforted Bonnie, "Don't worry, Squishy must have something to do; it should be back once it's finished."
At the same time, Z2 in Diancie's arms also turned into a green stream of light and rushed into the sky, colliding with the arriving Z1.
As a brilliant green light erupted, countless green cells gathered from all over the Kalos region onto Z1 and Z2.
Zygarde transformed into its complete form, floating high in the sky.
Mega Rayquaza was currently fighting three opponents, being besieged by Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina.
Just then, a thick green beam of light descended from the sky, simultaneously striking Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina, knocking all three dragons to the ground.
Zygarde used its signature move, Core Enforcer. Among the three time-space dragons, except for Dialga who had a Steel type, the other two were weak to Dragon-type moves, so they were hit hard by this attack.
Rayquaza looked up at the sky in surprise. When it saw Zygarde, it nodded toward it.
Zygarde nodded back, then flew toward other battlefields to provide support.
The three time-space dragons, in pain, had just flown up from the ground when Rayquaza roared and launched its ultimate move, Dragon Ascent.
In an instant, countless meteors rained down from the sky. The three time-space dragons that had just flown off the ground were struck one after another and fell back to the ground with wails.
Lugia was holding its own against Kyogre.
Although Kyogre had undergone Primal Reversion and was powerful, Lugia was resistant, and it also had recovery moves like Recover, so Kyogre couldn't do anything about it for the moment.
Volcanion, however, was having a much worse time. It was no match for Groudon and was being suppressed; it was already covered in wounds.
Fortunately, it had a System backpack, which contained many desserts with special effects made by Magearna. When injured, it would eat one to recover stamina; when mentally exhausted, it would eat one to recover spirit.
Because of this, it had been able to persist under Groudon for so long.
Groudon launched Precipice Blades at Volcanion, and Volcanion used Steam Eruption to counter.
Unfortunately, although Volcanion defeated part of Groudon's lava blades, it was ultimately outmatched. The Steam Eruption was dispersed, and the remaining lava blades rushed toward it.
Seeing it couldn't dodge, Volcanion prepared to take the hit, thinking it would just find a chance to eat more of Magearna's desserts later.
Just then, a figure descended from the sky, transformed into a green ball of light, and crashed into Groudon, sending Groudon flying instantly.
The newcomer was naturally Zygarde, using the move Thousand Waves.
After finishing the attack on Groudon, it stabilized its form in mid-air and launched Thousand Arrows at Kyogre not far away.
In an instant, countless green arrows turned into streaks of light and shot toward Kyogre.
Caught off guard, Kyogre was hit and fell to the ground with a scream.
Zygarde's Thousand Arrows was specifically designed to counter those that could fly! (Thousand Arrows: Ground-type move, but can hit Pokémon that are not on the ground and knock them down.)
Groudon and Kyogre! These two were the ones that had the greatest impact on the ecology of the Kalos region! Therefore, Zygarde had dealt them a heavy blow.
With Groudon and Kyogre knocked down, Volcanion and Lugia certainly wouldn't miss the golden opportunity.
"Aung~~" Lugia roared, launching its signature move, Aeroblast. Countless arc-shaped air vortices slashed at Kyogre, rolling it across the desert.
Everywhere it rolled became a vast ocean.
"Aung~~" Lugia flew low over the ocean, bringing up a large amount of water vapor that blew across the entire desert region along with the monsoon.
Every Pokémon living in the desert felt the cool breeze at this moment.
Volcanion used Hydro Pump to send Groudon flying.
The place where Groudon fell immediately turned into a sea of lava.
After Primal Reversion, Groudon gained a Fire type, and its 2x weakness to Water became a 4x weakness, so it was heavily injured at this time.
Originally, the Abilities Desolate Land and Primordial Sea of Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre would have made them immune to Water and Fire-type attacks.
Unfortunately, the weather was currently covered by Mega Rayquaza's Delta Stream, turning it into strong winds, so their Abilities naturally didn't take effect.
Over here, the battle between Xerneas and Regigigas was also very intense.
By now, Regigigas's Slow Start Ability had worn off. It launched a fierce assault on Xerneas, each hit leaving a huge crater in the desert.
These craters turned into lakes when Kyogre passed by and soon formed an oasis.
Xerneas, having been strengthened by multiple Geomancy charges, had increased its speed to the limit, helping it easily dodge Regigigas's attacks.
It was brimming with the aura of life. The power of life reacted with the water vapor brought by Kyogre and the monsoon brought by Lugia.
Therefore, wherever Xerneas passed, trees grew, grass became lush, and flowers bloomed... it was like a fairyland on earth.
Unfortunately, such beautiful scenery would be destroyed by Regigigas's fist in an instant.
But what did that matter? Life had already been born in this barren land and would soon multiply rapidly.
When Baraz, Clemont, and the others arrived, this was the chaotic scene they saw.
They were dumbfounded.
What on earth could have happened to cause all this?
"Brother! Hurry, hurry and put Hoopa Unbound into the Prison Bottle!" Seeing her brother in a daze, Meray hurriedly reminded him.
"Oh, oh~~" Baraz, snapping back to reality, hurriedly took out the Prison Bottle and opened the lid.
Hoopa Unbound, which was chasing Ange and Hoopa Confined, suddenly couldn't move. Then it discovered in horror that Baraz was aiming the Prison Bottle at it.
"How could this be?" Hoopa Unbound roared, "It should have been destroyed! Hoopa doesn't want to be sealed!"
With a roar of unwillingness, Hoopa Unbound was absorbed into the Prison Bottle.
Baraz hurriedly closed the lid, and to prevent himself from being controlled again, he quickly placed the Prison Bottle into a special device Clemont had prepared.
This device could insulate people from touching the Prison Bottle, and Hoopa Unbound naturally couldn't control anyone anymore.
The moment Hoopa Unbound disappeared, all the Legendary Pokémon in the melee stopped their movements immediately.
They had only helped Hoopa Unbound because they were controlled by the rings; now that the effects of the rings had vanished, everyone was left with nothing but confusion.
Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
Primal Kyogre and Primal Groudon were released from their Primal Reversion state.
Mega Rayquaza also returned to its normal state.
Latias and Latios placed Ash and Ange on the ground, then returned to their normal forms and flew back into the sky.
The cells on Zygarde's body turned into green streams of light and returned to various parts of Kalos, continuing their duty of monitoring the region.
After reverting from its 100% form, the two cores, Z1 and Z2, descended from the sky.
Seeing Z1, Bonnie's eyes lit up.
"Squishy!"
Seeing this, Togekiss hurried over with her on its back to catch Z1.
At the same time, Salamence also flew past quickly, and Z2 fell into Diancie's arms.
Diancie had also returned to her normal state.
Cry~~ Yveltal flapped its wings and landed quickly beside Ange.
Ange patted its wing and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
Immediately afterward, Xerneas walked slowly to his side.
Ange touched Xerneas, "Thank you too, Xerneas."
Hoopa Confined, in Ange's arms, saw this and happily thanked Xerneas and Yveltal.
"Thank you both so much, otherwise Hoopa would have been eaten!"
The many Legendary Pokémon looked at each other, not knowing where to go for a moment.
"Dang~~"
Suddenly, a bell chimed, and rays of golden light projected from the clouds. Then, in the surprised eyes of everyone, the Creator Pokémon, Arceus, appeared.
"Arceus!" Ash and Ange exclaimed at the same time.
Arceus looked down at the many Legendary Pokémon below, and then, as if the Pokémon understood something, they left one by one.
The three time-space dragons each disappeared into their own dimensions.
Kyurem turned into White Kyurem and disappeared into the clouds one after the other with Lugia.
"Aung~~" Rayquaza hissed, then dove into the thick clouds, with Latias and Latios following closely behind.
"Woo~~~" Kyogre waved its fins, riding the water currents into the sky, and flew toward the Hoenn region.
Groudon slowly disappeared into the depths of the desert.
Regigigas followed closely behind.
At this moment, Volcanion and Diancie returned to Ange's side one after another. Ange looked at the backs of the departing Legends and said:
"It's finally over!"
After the Legends left, Arceus also dove into the clouds and disappeared.