Dark clouds blotted out the sky.
Hoopa Unbound and little Hoopa faced each other across the air.
The divine beasts they had each summoned were arrayed at their sides.
Hoopa Unbound's lineup: Groudon, Kyogre, Dialga, Palkia, Reshiram the Dragon of Truth, and Regigigas.
Little Hoopa's lineup: Shiny Rayquaza, the twin gods of Alto Mare, Kyurem, Zekrom the Dragon of Ideals, Giratina, and Lugia.
Hoopa Unbound fixed its violent gaze on little Hoopa. Demonic energy churned all over its body.
It had been sealed inside the Prison Bottle, forced to endure countless sunless days and nights.
Meanwhile, the other Hoopa had roamed freely in the outside world.
That extreme imbalance only deepened the killing intent in its heart.
It was going to devour the other one and become the true Hoopa!
"Hoopa!!"
A voice like rolling thunder exploded from Hoopa Unbound's mouth, like the signal to attack.
The instant those words fell—
ROAR!!
WOOO!!!
The six divine beasts at its sides erupted with dark violet demonic energy, red light flashing in their eyes, their faces twisted with savagery.
They all roared at once. Though they used no actual move, visible soundwaves rippled through the air.
The divine beasts on Hoopa Unbound's side howled as crimson malice blazed in their eyes. Their auras, mixed with their own presence, surged forth like a tide.
Strange phenomena began appearing across the sky.
Above Groudon's head, its aura transformed into a vast sea of fire, with magma rolling through the heavens.
Above Kyogre's head, a phantom ocean spread out, monstrous waves rising sky-high.
Above Dialga's head, its aura became a great river winding out from the void itself.
That was the river of time.
Above Palkia's head, the void continuously collapsed and reformed, layers piling atop one another.
Everyone stared in shock at these manifestations.
In the previous ranking videos, battles between divine beasts had never shown anything like this.
It seemed to be because these divine beasts were releasing their auras simultaneously while not standing in opposition to one another, causing the laws they governed to resonate and attract each other, which led to these changes.
Buzz, buzz, buzz—
The manifestations of Groudon, Kyogre, Palkia, and Dialga began to connect.
Their phenomena collided—
then merged.
An unbelievable scene appeared.
In the sky above them, a massive phantom planet materialized.
Inside that world, magma rampaged and seawater roared.
Then the auras of Reshiram and Regigigas fused into it as well, causing the phantom world to swell several times over.
And because Reshiram's aura had joined it, the world phantom no longer felt purely illusory.
It existed in a state between illusion and reality.
That entire world-shaped phantom came crashing down toward little Hoopa's side.
Wherever it passed, space collapsed layer by layer, and the sky shattered like glass, splitting into countless cracks.
Divine majesty blazed across the world.
"Th-This… they created a world!?"
"Holy shit?!"
"What kind of nonsense is this? Their abilities merged and created an entire world?!"
Viewers across the dimensions stood frozen, dumbstruck.
This was simply too insane!!
In the Dragon Ball world—
On King Kai's planet—
"Hiss, that's incredible! King Kai, why is that happening?" Son Goku asked, stunned.
King Kai was equally shaken. He drew in a deep breath before speaking.
"Time and space are the two great frameworks that make up a world. Without those two, a world cannot exist."
"Now I finally understand why, in that Pokémon world, Palkia and Dialga stay at opposite ends of the world, and why their subspaces must never overlap."
"Because they govern the divine authorities of time and space. If they come too close, they might create another world—or at least lay down the framework for one."
"And Groudon and Kyogre are land and sea. That's why within that world framework, there are oceans and magma."
"Can you do that too, King Kai?" Goku asked.
"Yes."
King Kai gave him a resentful look.
"The very planet you're standing on right now was created by me."
Goku stared blankly. King Kai's planet was tiny, only around fifty meters in diameter. If gravity didn't affect you, you could circle it in half a minute.
"You call this a planet?"
"That's already incredibly impressive, alright?!" King Kai snapped. "That's an ability unique to a Kai."
"As for creating worlds—that's something only the great Supreme Kais can do." King Kai's face filled with reverence. Supreme Kai was the god of all Kais, and also a god of Universe 7.
Goku scratched his head. Too deep. He didn't get it.
All he knew was—
it was awesome.
Goku stared at the screen, looking at the terrifying pressure there. His Saiyan battle instinct was stirring, his blood boiling.
He wanted to fight them so badly.
In the Digimon world—
countless Digimon stared at that divine world phantom in horror.
This was far too terrifying.
No Digimon could possibly do this, right?
The stronger and more extraordinary a Digimon was, the more aware it was of the limits of its own world.
They looked at that world phantom in disbelief.
If these divine beasts worked together, they could create a second world for real.
At the heart of the Digital World, Homeostasis fell silent.
Reality itself was what their Digital World lacked.
These divine beasts all governed laws.
Each law formed part of the world.
If the Digital World also had laws—and Digimon capable of governing those laws—then could the Digital World also become a true world?
In the Ling Cage world—
aboard the Lighthouse flying high in the sky—
all the upper and lower citizens stared in shock. It was a good thing those weren't creatures from their own world. If the Devourer Beasts were that powerful, despair would be absolute.
On the ground below—
"Boss, they can reconstruct a whole new world," Xia Dou said, her mouth hanging open. "If they could make one for us, that'd be amazing."
The worlds of Naruto, One Piece, Fairy Tail, Assassin, Slime, Re:Zero, and many others were all shaken to their core.
Little Hoopa's expression grew grave.
Hoopa Unbound possessed the vast majority of its power. It only retained one-third.
"Everyone, I'm counting on you."
It turned to the seven divine beasts at its side.
"Roar…"
Giratina and the others all nodded.
Only then did the viewers realize something—
the seven divine beasts little Hoopa had summoned all had clear eyes. None of them had been controlled.
And they were clearly helping little Hoopa willingly.
Only the divine beasts on Hoopa Unbound's side had their minds taken over.
"ROAAAR!!"
Giratina let out a great cry. Its aura rose like a storm, and black power shot into the sky.
The god of the Reverse World—
the one who governed dark matter.
Shiny Rayquaza let out a dragon's roar. White light flashed across its body as it assumed its Mega Evolution form, its dragonic might rising to the heavens.
Then came Lugia. One beat of its wings, and its aura surged skyward.
Kyurem, Zekrom, Latios, and Latias erupted in turn.
Their seven auras began to change, producing strange phenomena of their own.
Giratina's aura became a transparent phantom of the Reverse World.
The auras of Rayquaza and the others fused into it.
Using Giratina's aura as the framework, their energies intertwined and merged.
In the end, they too formed a phantom of a planetary world.
It looked exactly like the Reverse World.
The only difference was that this phantom Reverse World had a vast sky.
Storms raged above it.
And under the weaving of Zekrom's power of ideals, the entire world seemed dreamlike and surreal.
That world phantom, formed entirely from aura, pressed down on Hoopa Unbound's side.
BOOM!!
A thunderous explosion shook the heavens. Everyone's ears rang so hard they almost went deaf.
The two worlds collided.
Crackle, crackle, crackle—
Countless black bolts of lightning spread in every direction, terrifying beyond words. Sparks burst everywhere, followed by blinding white light.
It was like two suns had smashed into each other.
The entire sky continued to break apart and fall away, revealing the empty void beyond.
Shockwaves rippled outward.
Buildings on the ground below were constantly destroyed by the aftershocks.
In the city beneath, countless humans screamed in terror, chaos erupting everywhere.
Little Hoopa's eyes glowed white. Immense psychic power surged outward and formed a mental barrier, protecting the humans in the city below.
Buzz—
The three rings on its body flew downward and arrived before Ash.
"Ash, help me send everyone out!"
The golden rings expanded into transmission gates over ten meters wide, their interiors shimmering with ripples of light.
"Got it!"
Ash knew how serious this was.
"Serena, Clemont, Bonnie, let's go! Help evacuate everyone!"
He immediately called out to his companions.
They scattered through the city, dashing everywhere as they organized both humans and Pokémon to escape.
In the Kalos region—
At the Lumiose Gym—
"Brother, that's you! And me too!!" Bonnie shouted excitedly at Clemont. She was in the ranking video too.
"So in the future, we really will travel together with Pikachu and the boy who owns Pikachu…" Clemont sighed in amazement. "Science really can change the world. I need to make more inventions. I'm so excited. I wish that day would come sooner."
In a small village in Kalos, a girl was lying on her bed with her face in her hands, cheeks flushed red.
"So in the future… I'll travel together with Ash?"
Last year, she had gone to Kanto for summer camp.
That very day, she'd gotten lost in the forest and scraped her knee. Just as she was crying and trying to leave, Ash had carried her out of the woods and bandaged her up.
The collision of worlds still continued.
At this point, the entire sky of that world had already shattered and fallen away.
Or rather—
there was no sky anymore.
Only an empty void remained.
The space barrier of the world had been torn open.
And the piece of land where the divine beasts were fighting was visibly separating from the main continent.
It was as if someone had torn a section out of a sheet of paper and was slowly pulling it away.
BOOM!!!
With an unimaginable explosion, the clash of worlds reached its climax.
The two worlds collided, collapsed, and ground each other down.
Then they began to cancel each other out.
But the final aftershock was often the most terrifying.
Accompanied by a roar beyond description, a gigantic shockwave swept across the battlefield.
Wherever it passed—
the seas evaporated,
the land was shorn flat.
All the city's buildings were reduced to ruins.
And then, that city completely broke away from the main world and fell beyond the world barrier into a void of nothingness.
The collision of auras ended in a draw.
After all, both sides were divine beasts who governed authorities.
Little Hoopa had seven divine beasts, but Latios and Latias weren't first-class gods. They were only second-class divine beasts.
Roar! Roar! Roar!
Since aura alone couldn't overwhelm the other side, all the divine beasts charged.
Every side was roaring and howling.
Groudon and Kyogre entered their Primal Reversion forms.
Latios, Latias, and Rayquaza Mega Evolved.
Giratina shifted into its six-winged Origin Forme.
The transformations left everyone staring in shock.
On little Hoopa's side, the divine beasts whose minds were still free all felt grim.
They had to stop this as quickly as possible.
Otherwise the world would be in serious trouble!!
BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!
Aside from Hoopa Unbound and little Hoopa, every other divine beast charged into battle.
Thirteen mountain-sized divine beasts—
all in a chaotic melee.
Every kind of rainbow-colored attack flew wildly across the sky.
These were all first-class divine beasts. If even one of their attacks landed freely on the ground, the entire area would instantly be turned to ash, exposing the hollow void beneath.
The amount of land left beneath them was shrinking under the force of their battle.
Crackle, rumble, boom—
Reshiram, the Dragon of Truth, and Zekrom, the Dragon of Ideals—those two fated opponents—were fighting each other.
Besides their Dragon typing, one wielded fire and the other lightning.
And theirs was the fiercest battle of all.
Inside the city—
there were still a small number of humans and Pokémon who hadn't escaped yet. Little Hoopa's psychic barrier was protecting them.
"…You actually handed over all your rings to these humans. You still care about such insects."
Hoopa Unbound's voice rolled like thunder.
"As expected, you're no longer worthy of being called Hoopa. Hoopa is the strongest. Hoopa is meant to make the world fear it."
"This world deserves to be destroyed!!"
"Since you have no rings left…"
"Then die!"
Demonic energy churned violently around Hoopa Unbound as a savage grin spread across its face.
Buzz—
One of the rings on its wrists detached and floated before it. Then it thrust a hand into it.
Above little Hoopa's head, a golden ring appeared.
Hoopa Unbound's arm passed through space itself, emerging from that ring and reaching down toward little Hoopa.
Everyone held their breath.
No way…
Had the battle only just started, only for little Hoopa to be caught already?
The people of the Pokémon world all went pale.
Hoopa Unbound was hostile to the entire world. If it regained complete power—
wouldn't the world truly be doomed in the future?
And just as Hoopa Unbound's hand was about to grab little Hoopa—
something changed.
"Holy shit!!"
Everyone blurted it out at once.
A bolt of lightning struck that hand just before it could seize little Hoopa, making the arm go rigid for an instant.
In the sky—
Ash had somehow flown up without anyone noticing.
He was riding Noivern.
Pikachu had leapt into the air and was falling back down, where Ash caught it in his arms.
Clearly, Pikachu had just jumped up and used Thunderbolt.
"Nice one, Pikachu!"
Whoosh—
Noivern swooped in, and Ash whisked little Hoopa away.
Hoopa Unbound grabbed nothing but empty air.
"Holy shit, Pikachu!!!"
"Holy shit, Daddy Ash!!"
In the Pokémon world, countless Trainers had gone numb.
Even Professor Oak was no exception.
He stared in utter disbelief at the six-year-old Ash standing right next to him.
"C-can I hug your leg?"
This was just absurd.
A Pikachu—
one of the lower-ranked Electric-types—
had just stunned a Hoopa that stood above countless first-class divine beasts and controlled many of them.
This wasn't even fantasy anymore.
It wasn't just Hoopa Unbound that got shocked senseless—
every Trainer in the Pokémon world,
every viewer across the myriad dimensions—
had been electrically stunned right along with it.
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