In the scene—
Necrozma's eyes lit up, one red and one blue, as psychic power surged outward.
[Necrozma is using its psychic power to tell Ash and Zygarde what happened in the distant past.]
The world on screen shifted with it.
The heavens were desolate, and the world had not yet given birth to the concept of light.
There was no day.
There was no night.
At this point, the world was hazy and dim. One could see the scenery, yet there was no such thing as "light" itself.
[This was in the far distant past. Although stars could be seen in the sky above, because the concept of "light" did not yet exist, the world possessed not a single trace of illumination.]
[And then—]
[The world came to recognize that it needed light.]
In the cosmos, from unimaginably distant reaches of the universe, countless stars cast their radiance toward the Pokémon world.
Across the night sky, the starry dome blazed, and every single star sent a strand of light toward the Pokémon world.
This was the first light in the world.
And also the first time all the stars ever shone their light upon the Pokémon world.
That light did not reach the surface of the Pokémon world.
Instead, it gathered high above it, condensing there without dispersing.
Soon—
Some time passed.
The countless stars in the sky faded from view.
Replacing them, a gigantic burning sphere appeared overhead, turning the world white with brilliance.
That enormous fiery celestial body also sent its light toward the Pokémon world.
Its radiance merged with the vast amount of starlight that had already gathered above the world.
And so…
Time passed for an entire year.
In the heavens above, for half of that time, countless stars formed a glittering sea of starlight.
For the other half, only a single blazing sun hung in the sky.
A whole year's worth of light—
Gathered above the Pokémon world.
All of that radiance became a vast golden ocean.
On one particular day, that golden ocean began to compress.
In the end, a creature was born from it—
A being condensed entirely out of light.
It stood upright, possessed a dragon-like body, had four wings on its back, and shone with brilliant golden radiance all over.
Necrozma.
It was born from light itself, and took hold of the authority of light.
[From that point on, the Pokémon world began to possess the concept of light.]
[Necrozma was also known as the Great God of Radiance.]
[A world that had once possessed no light—]
[Now came to know light.]
[For half the time, the world lay beneath the endless stars.]
[For the other half, it was scorched by a blazing sun.]
[This was day and night.]
As the narration unfolded—
The viewers across the anime dimensions were stunned.
So Necrozma really was the divine beast that governed the authority of light, not some divine beast of "black holes."
And it had actually been born in the Pokémon world!?
Then what about the Ultra World?
Wasn't Necrozma supposed to be a creature from there?
[Necrozma had been born. But because it was too powerful—]
[Even stronger than Palkia and Dialga—]
[Remaining in the main Pokémon world would endanger the stability of that world's framework.]
[So it prepared to leave the main world and carve out its own subspace.]
In the scene—
Necrozma used overwhelming divine power, opening a small crack at the weakest point in the Pokémon world. Light turned into a glowing portal.
Within the void, it carved out a subspace.
Or rather—
Instead of a mere subspace, it had created a small world.
It broke through the world wall and entered the empty void.
All the Trainers of the Pokémon world finally understood where the Ultra World had come from.
That weakest point in the world—
Judging from the direction and location—
Wasn't that the present-day Alola region?
And wasn't the portal Necrozma had opened the Ultra Wormhole?
So the Ultra World was not another natural world at all.
It was a small world Necrozma had personally carved out.
Holy crap!
Wasn't that far too terrifying!?
Creating an entire world— even if it was called a "small world," it was still a world!
That image of world-creation made viewers across all dimensions feel their scalps tingle.
And it wasn't just the weaker worlds.
Even in the Dragon Ball world, it caused a storm.
In the Dragon Ball world—
"Creating a world… that's an ability only the great Supreme Kais should possess!!" King Kai shrieked in shock. Why could a divine beast governing light create a world!?
"Ahhhhhhh! Why do all these ants have abilities like this!?" Frieza raged, practically jumping. Destroying a planet was easy. But creating one? That was billions of times harder.
[Once the small world had been created, Necrozma remained within it.]
[Then one day—]
[Necrozma gazed at the main Pokémon world. For half the time it lay under the endless stars, and for the other half under the burning sun.]
[It gave those two states names: night and day.]
[Necrozma had been born from the "endless ocean of light," and a portion of that ocean's power still remained within its body, not yet fully digested.]
[So during the night, it gathered a year's worth of starlight, and fused into it a portion of the light within itself that it had not yet fully absorbed.]
[It wished for there to be those who governed those countless stars and that blazing sun.]
[And during the day, it gathered a year's worth of sunlight, and likewise fused into it a portion of the light within itself that it had not fully absorbed.]
[And thus—]
[Lunala, who governs the authority of the night—]
[And Solgaleo, who governs the authority of daylight—]
[—Were born.]
In the scene—
Within the small world created by Necrozma, Lunala and Solgaleo were born.
They were given a mission—
To go to the main Pokémon world and govern day and night.
The two Legendary Pokémon opened an Ultra Wormhole, left that small world, and arrived in the main world.
But…
Neither day nor night would yield to the other.
Each wanted the celestial body it governed to remain in the sky longer.
And so daylight and darkness began appearing chaotically in the heavens.
The two Legendary Pokémon fought.
Later, Necrozma stopped them.
And it laid down rules.
The period when the sun's light was at its most blazing—
Would be called summer.
In summer, the days would be long and the nights short.
The period when the sun's light was at its weakest—
Would be called winter.
In winter, the days would be short and the nights long.
[At this point, nearly all the rules of the Pokémon world had stabilized.]
[The main Pokémon world flourished, and life began to be born.]
[In the small world Necrozma created, there was no alternation of day and night; all light was supplied by Necrozma itself.]
[Yet within that small world, life also began to appear.]
[But because there was only light, and neither sunlight nor starlight as separate phenomena, the life born in Necrozma's small world differed somewhat from the life born outside.]
[Its biodiversity was also far poorer than that of the Pokémon world.]
Everyone watched as, in the main world, life burst forth in green abundance.
[But a crisis was also approaching the world.]
[Once a world has stabilized, if it wishes to truly give birth to life nurtured by the world itself, then it must undergo an external trial.]
The camera suddenly pulled upward.
One star-like body after another came hurtling down toward the Pokémon world.
Not meteors—
Planetary bodies.
Necrozma looked on gravely.
[These small planetary bodies falling toward the world were a trial imposed by the universe upon a newborn life-bearing planet.]
[They were not ordinary celestial bodies.]
[They carried a special kind of power.]
All the viewers were nearly frightened out of their minds.
This scene was simply too horrifying.
Entire small planets were crashing down toward the Pokémon world.
And each carried a boundless divine might.
The screen flashed with the figures of one divine beast after another.
Groudon.
Kyogre.
Rayquaza.
Palkia.
Dialga.
Giratina…
Under that overwhelming divine pressure, even these Legendary Pokémon were trembling.
Their power seemed completely sealed.
The Legendary Pokémon watching the video themselves all stared in disbelief.
They had never imagined they would show up again—
And in such a humiliating way.
But they had no choice!
This trial was aimed at the entire world—
Or perhaps more accurately, it was aimed at Arceus.
They themselves could not move.
"H-Holy crap, if all those little planets crashed down, wouldn't the world be destroyed??"
Professor Oak and the others felt inexplicable dread, but also confusion.
How had this crisis been resolved?
Since they were all still standing here now, that meant the crisis had been solved back then.
Otherwise, if the world had been destroyed, how could they possibly still exist here watching this ranking video?
"Holy crap, what's that!?" someone cried out.
Everyone saw—
The first small planet had already reached just beyond the Pokémon world's atmosphere.
It was about to smash down.
And then suddenly—
The planet shattered apart, vaporized into powder.
No one understood.
Why had it broken apart for no visible reason?
And just before it shattered, many of them thought they had seen a glowing stele-like object flash past.
Then, one after another—
More small planets came crashing down.
All of them shattered.
No one understood what was happening.
Why were they suddenly breaking apart?
Was it the will of the world itself?
Or some kind of law?
As more and more small planets descended—
They were shattered, but not as completely as the very first one.
The planetary bodies broke apart into countless giant meteorites, which then rained down toward the Pokémon world.
Terrifying impacts sounded one after another.
Meteorites smashed into the earth, producing huge energy explosions.
Shockwaves flattened everything, and the ground was gouged into one gigantic crater after another.
"ROAR!!!"
At that moment—
A light portal opened.
The Ultra Wormhole.
Necrozma's figure appeared.
A terrifying aura rose from its body as it continuously intercepted those falling meteors, trying to prevent even greater destruction from reaching the world.
But in the end, those meteors still scattered everywhere.
It made a decision.
Suddenly—
It merged the small world it had created with the main world for a brief moment.
It stretched across the sky above the main world like a great umbrella, shielding it from the storm.
Boom boom boom!!
One meteor after another crashed into the small world Necrozma had created.
Necrozma continuously blasted them apart with skill after skill.
This lasted for most of a day.
At last, the number of meteorites began to decrease.
The entire Ultra World by this point had become a complete ruin.
Countless plants and the newly born forms of life within it had been destroyed.
The Ultra World had become utterly barren.
Enormous cracks, formed by the impacts, stretched across it like a spiderweb.
The Ultra World had nearly been destroyed completely.
Professor Oak and the others could not imagine the terrible consequences if those same meteorites had struck the main world instead.
Now, seeing the devastated state of the Ultra World, they finally understood why it looked so desolate.
So that was why—
It had been that catastrophe.
It was Necrozma that had protected the whole world.
After constantly intercepting meteors, Necrozma was breathing heavily.
Then, in the scene, a terrifying motion arose. The sky darkened.
Everyone looked up—
And their pupils shrank to pinpoints.
A gigantic planet—
An incomparably enormous celestial body—
Was crashing down toward the Pokémon world.
Boom!!
Then everyone saw it—
Above the world, one brilliant stone slab after another emerged, each expanding to the size of mountains.
Rather than steles, they looked more like token-like stone plates.
There were seventeen of them.
All seventeen were resisting that gigantic world-body.
The scene was unimaginably grand.
Yet the collision itself could not be clearly seen, because the endless impact phenomena obscured the details.
All anyone could hear was the constant thunder of deafening explosions.
This lasted for half an hour…
Crack—
The massive celestial body finally shattered.
But one huge fragment remained—
A giant meteor the size of an entire continent, crashing downward.
Necrozma attacked it with every skill it had, yet could not shake it in the slightest.
Seeing that gigantic meteor getting closer and closer—
"Haaah—!!"
Necrozma's whole body exploded with boundless radiance, then shot up into the sky to block it.
Dong!!
A muffled thunderous sound rang out.
Necrozma's body slammed into the meteor.
The moment the two touched—
Terrifying white brilliance surged violently from Necrozma's body, spreading and wrapping around the giant meteor.
The meteor kept forcing it downward toward the earth.
Necrozma unleashed all its strength. White light spread, engulfing the meteor and eroding it bit by bit.
The size of the meteor visibly shrank.
Then, at last, it shattered completely.
But Necrozma's body, carried downward by the force and inertia, smashed heavily into the land of the Ultra World.
It buried itself deep underground.
The crisis that threatened the world had been resolved.
The Ultra World once more concealed itself above the main world.
In the Ultra World, there was now a giant crater nearly reaching the planet's core, and Necrozma lay within it.
[After enduring the catastrophe, Necrozma fell into a grievously wounded sleep.]
[At the same time, it lost its form, and lost the radiance it had once been so proud of.]
[Its whole body darkened like ink.]
At the bottom of the great pit…
Necrozma had lost consciousness.
Its body was shattered into many fragments.
It had suffered fatal injuries.
But the more fatal thing was this—
Its broken body, which had once shone brilliantly, was now entirely black crystal, with not a trace of radiance remaining.
The dazzling light that had once been its pride was gone.
Time passed quickly…
The giant pit was eventually buried over.
Necrozma was buried at the bottom.
Its body healed itself little by little—
But not a trace of radiance remained.
Finally, the self-repair completed.
Necrozma had become a pitch-black creature like a dark gem, slumbering deep beneath the Ultra World.
As it slept, part of its aura merged into the Ultra World—
And through the connection between the Ultra World and Alola, seeped into the Alola region.
That—
Was the true origin of the golden aura energy that permeated Alola.
The scene slowly faded…
The memory ended.
Light returned.
The view shifted back to the present.
High in the sky above the Ultra World—
Necrozma, which had swallowed Solgaleo and Lunala and regained its true form, now floated overhead.
Looking at it…
The viewers across the anime dimensions needed a long time before they recovered.
So Necrozma had truly not been an invader from another world at all.
It was the divine beast that governed the authority of light.
It had never been evil.
Swallowing Solgaleo and Lunala was only its way of reclaiming its own lost power.
And the reason it had once become that pitch-black creature—
Was because, long ago, it had risked its life to protect the Pokémon world.
Across the dimensions, people discussed fervently.
But…
They all had the same question.
What exactly had those golden token-like stone slabs been—the ones that kept shattering those falling planetary bodies?
Were they the world's own means of defense?
In the Pokémon world—
All the Trainers also fell silent.
Was Necrozma wrong for causing eternal night, for swallowing Lunala and Solgaleo?
Those two Legendary Pokémon had themselves been born from Necrozma in the first place.
And yet, if Solgaleo and Lunala were not rescued, then the world would no longer have either day or night.
If not for Necrozma, the world would already have been destroyed long ago.
Within the ranking video—
Ash himself also didn't know what to do.
Solgaleo was his partner.
He could not simply give up on Solgaleo like that.
"If you swallow the authorities of night and day, can you yourself restore day and night to the world?" Zygarde stared at Necrozma, speaking through telepathy.
"No. Those are their authorities. When they were born, it was they who inherited the control of night and day."
Necrozma answered.
Boom!!
Zygarde fixed Necrozma with its gaze, releasing a surge of power.
"As the guardian of order, I cannot allow the world's order to remain broken. You swallowed day and night. The world's order has fallen into disorder. Then I must defeat you and free them both."
"In my current state, you cannot defeat me."
"Hmph!"
With a cold snort, Zygarde's body surged with energy. Several colors lit up in the patterns across its chest.
An even stronger aura gathered around it.
Chains of order appeared behind it.
Then—
Everyone suddenly felt their bodies grow heavy.
The gravity of the earth had changed!!
It had increased by at least a hundredfold.
And the change in gravity beneath Necrozma's feet was even more terrifying—
A massive force of attraction dragged it down from the sky.
It suddenly found movement difficult, and the sheer weight forced the ground beneath it to collapse layer by layer.
"Core Enforcer!"
Boom!!
A gigantic green beam blasted from the pattern on Zygarde's chest.
[Core Enforcer]
[Zygarde's strongest signature move.]
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