February 24, 2025.
It had only been a day since the Dragon Raising Its Head festival on the 23rd, when Su Hao launched his blitz attack on the R Institute, and the full outbreak of the war to defend the world.
Yet to most people, that single day had felt as long as months, or even years.
Atop the world's highest peak, the World Tree, seeming to hold up heaven and earth, scattered motes of light brimming with Life Energy across the world. Some merged into the land, while others seeped into space, healing the scars left by the war of legends and the world's near-collapse into imbalance.
But when the many lives scattered across the planet looked up at the sky in the wake of their survival,
their hearts were still shrouded by a lingering gloom.
—Just like the pitch-black curtain that covered Blue Star's entire sky, as though it intended to swallow the whole planet.
The rain, as if washing away the world's remaining filth or mourning someone, had not stopped.
Nor was the crisis anywhere near over.
After entrusting Su Hao's body to Incineroar, Articuno, and the others,
Diancie, taking up Su Hao's unfinished responsibility, led the silent legends into the skies.
"We are heading beyond the planet, into cosmic space."
"We will break through the black canopy surrounding Blue Star, stand before the visitor from another spacetime, and make it stop this madness."
Diancie calmly stated their foremost objective.
Mewtwo, Kyurem, Calyrex, and the others all looked up. With their vision, they could clearly see an emerald green streak of light bombarding the curtain with wild abandon, as though venting some emotion.
That was Mega Rayquaza.
Even someone as proud as Kyurem had to admit that this fellow truly had some skill.
It had actually fought