Chapter Summaries

The three Champions discovered that senior Trainers in all three nations had betrayed them and concluded that the Illuminati was behind the crisis. In the Alola Spirit Realm, Tapu Koko and Tapu Fini confronted the Three Cloud Gods and their human allies, including Elite Four Arman.

• Aiden Deimos, Lin Wuya, and Lucas learned that the Space Node had been sealed and its night-shift staff had vanished.
• Major Karl reported that Morey had stolen the Reveal Glass, Alpha Gem, and intelligence; Aiden realized his trusted Elite Four had betrayed him.
• Lin Wuya learned that Kou Yan had stolen the Omega Gem and Virus Meteorite, while Lucas learned that his son Noah had stolen the Cocoon of Destruction and Arman had kidnapped Meloetta.
• The Champions recognized the Illuminati as the likely force behind the coordinated betrayals.
• Tapu Koko sensed the sealed passage and Tapu Fini's distress, then rushed to Poni Island, where it found Landorus, Thundurus, Tornadus, Noah, Morey, and Arman.
• Arman greeted Tapu Koko as the Three Cloud Gods faced Tapu Koko and Tapu Fini with killing intent.

Roy learned that mysterious invaders were trying to enter the Sun Altar and joined the other challengers gathering to stop them. As suspicion kept the Trainers from uniting, the Overlord Pokémon arrived and chose Roy to lead them in battle.

• Tapu Koko sent a warning about the invaders and Morey and Noah’s approach to the Sun Altar, prompting Roy and the other challengers to head there.
• Roy joined the challengers near the Sun Altar, where Trainers from France and the United States guarded the ground route and the group struggled to trust one another.
• Roy explained that his Aura could sense basic goodwill and hostility, but a challenger questioned who could verify Roy’s own innocence.
• Kommo-o led an army of more than a hundred Overlord Pokémon to the gathering and selected Roy as their commander.
• The Four Great Overlords and the rest of the Overlord Pokémon submitted to Roy, while the challengers watched in shock.

Roy led the trial participants into the Sun Altar to stop Morey and Noah, where ancient murals revealed the altar’s history and the Radiant God’s sealed light. Roy deduced that the Illuminati planned to use an evolved Cosmog to absorb that light and wield divine power, then the group found Morey Evan on a sacrificial platform.

• Roy used Aura Power to expose and capture two enemy informants, then divided the participants between the battle outside and the search inside the Sun Altar.
• Xiao Muyi, Lin Xingchen, Master Amora, Aihara Take, and Kommo-o joined Roy’s group as they entered the altar.
• The group read murals describing the Radiant God, the Guardian Deities, Sun and Moon, and the war that ended with Sun and Moon dead and the Radiant God sealed away with their light.
• Roy realized the Illuminati had stolen two Cosmog and intended to make one absorb the altar’s sealed light and evolve to wield a god’s power.
• Xiao Muyi spotted someone ahead, and the group found Morey Evan standing on a massive sacrificial platform.

Roy and Xiao Muyi confronted Morey at the Sun Altar and learned that Noah Reginald had taken the Star Child into Ultra Space to recreate the radiance of Ultra Sun and Moon. Meloetta’s song incapacitated most of their allies, but Roy and Xiao Muyi resisted it, leaving Roy and Kommo-o to face the Illuminati’s forces as Xiao Muyi began the attack.

• Morey explained that Noah Reginald had taken the Star Child into Ultra Space to recreate the radiance of Ultra Sun and Moon, allowing the Illuminati to wield divine power.
• Roy, Xiao Muyi, Aihara Take, Master Amora, and Lin Xingchen ordered their Pokémon to attack Morey, but Meloetta appeared and sang a song that overwhelmed most of them.
• Roy and Xiao Muyi resisted Meloetta’s song with Aura Power and Psychic Power, while Lucario and Overlord Kommo-o also remained free of its control.
• Roy recognized Meloetta’s authority over song and realized that Kommo-o’s Soundproof Ability made it immune to the song.
• Roy sent Lucario to carry Aihara Take, Master Amora, and Lin Xingchen to safety, recalled his other Pokémon, and linked minds with Kommo-o to coordinate their battle.
• Xiao Muyi launched the first attack against Morey.

Xiao Muyi and Morey Evan’s Pokémon fought to a standstill until Meloetta used Relic Song to weaken Xiao Muyi’s team and turn other Pokémon hostile. Roy’s Kommo-o overcame the song-controlled attackers with Dragon Tamer Power and powerful moves, leaving Morey to recognize Roy as a dangerous variable.

• Xiao Muyi Mega Evolved Gardevoir, whose Psychic Power matched Morey Evan’s Slowking as their Pokémon battled across the psychic realm.
• Morey pressured Meloetta by reminding her that failure would lead to ‘her’ death, and Meloetta changed her song to Relic Song.
• Relic Song weakened Xiao Muyi’s Pokémon and drove Aihara Take’s Pokémon to attack her, but Roy’s Kommo-o knocked them all out with Mach Punch.
• Amora’s Medicham and the Dragon-type Pokémon led by Garchomp attacked Kommo-o, but Roy’s Dragon Tamer Power let Kommo-o unleash Clanging Scales and blast away all twelve Master-level Pokémon.
• Roy and Kommo-o followed with Aura Sphere and Close Combat, defeating the twelve attackers and prompting Morey to call Roy a variable.

Darkrai, secretly controlled by the Illuminati president, emerged to protect Morey and overwhelmed Kommo-o with its Dark Hole. Roy prepared a special Z-Move as Darkrai’s attack threatened to tear Kommo-o’s soul away.

• Kommo-o attacked Morey, but the Illuminati president’s hidden Darkrai appeared and stopped the blow with a barrier.
• Darkrai fought Kommo-o, but Kommo-o’s Overlord aura and armor let it withstand Darkrai’s attacks and injure it.
• Darkrai unleashed Dark Hole, drawing Kommo-o’s consciousness toward an eternal nightmare.
• Morey declared victory, but Roy revealed a golden crystal and began channeling a special Z power.

Roy and Xiao Muyi survived the Dark Hole’s explosion, which destroyed the Sun Altar and left their Pokémon unconscious or badly injured. Golden light then poured through an Ultra Wormhole, revealing that the Radiance Seal had broken and a Star Child was ascending toward godhood.

• Roy empowered Kommo-o’s Clanging Scales, which overwhelmed Darkrai’s Dark Hole and caused it to explode; Mega Metagross shielded Roy, while Kommo-o and Darkrai vanished.
• Roy recalled the unconscious Metagross and stored the unconscious Meloetta in a spare Poké Ball amid the Sun Altar’s ruins.
• Xiao Muyi told Roy that Morey Evan was dead, explaining that she had stopped his Pokémon from protecting him during the explosion.
• A brilliant torrent of Nature Power poured through the Ultra Wormhole, allowing the four Guardian Deities to use Guardian Giant: Alola and gain the upper hand against the Three Cloud Gods and Arman’s Icebound Legion.
• Tapu Koko warned Roy to get inside because the Radiance Seal had broken and the Star Child was absorbing its light to ascend to godhood.

Roy and Mega Lucario entered the Ultra Megalopolis, where they found Noah Reginald guarding the tower as a Star Child absorbed radiance within its pillar of light. Roy assembled his remaining Pokémon to face Noah and clear the way for his own Star Child.

• Roy Mega Evolved Lucario and entered the Ultra Wormhole leading to the sealed Ultra Space.
• Roy and Lucario reached the lifeless Ultra Megalopolis, where Roy recognized the tower as the cage built to contain Necrozma.
• Roy flew toward the tower on Dragonite and used its Turbulent Current Realm to deflect Walrein's Ice Beam.
• Noah Reginald recounted the Illuminati's failed plans to reclaim the Star Child and explained that Roy had repeatedly disrupted their schemes.
• Roy faced Noah on the tower platform with his Pokémon, while Cosmog watched its counterpart absorb radiance inside the pillar of light.