On the screen—
a pillar of light as large as the entire Galar region shot upward, piercing into the crimson vortex in the heavens.
Everyone was stunned.
At first, they had merely been wondering why everything had turned red.
It wasn't until the camera rose sharply—rising all the way into outer space and looking back down—that they realized the truth.
A single Dynamax pillar the size of the Galar region itself had risen from the earth and pierced straight through the sky.
They stood frozen.
Stunned.
Slack-jawed.
Their expressions gradually turned blank with disbelief.
This was just too terrifying.
The camera returned.
In the sky, the crimson cloud vortex continued to spread, quickly covering most of the world.
Red waves churned, scarlet light filled everything, and thick black lightning flashed within it.
Aside from red—
the world held no other color.
A pressure far more terrifying than before spread across heaven and earth.
Within the swirling cloud mass, the center of the vortex surged. The clouds on both sides were being forced apart, as if something was about to emerge.
Then—
from the center of the cloud vortex, an incomparably savage head slowly pushed out and looked down.
Its head was triangular.
There was no flesh on it—
only bone.
Sharp spikes jutted out from the ends of the skull.
There were no eyeballs in the sockets.
Only black-and-red light intertwined within them, like two suns, burning so brightly that no one could look straight at them.
On the screen, every Trainer and civilian in the Galar region—
was frightened out of their wits.
Their bodies trembled uncontrollably.
Some collapsed onto the ground at a single glance.
"Th-This… th-this… what is that…?"
They wanted to say something, but their throats locked up.
Not a single sentence could come out.
There was only endless terror.
And that was just for those experiencing it firsthand.
Even across the screen—
among the countless viewers across the anime dimensions, those with weaker strength were nearly scared unconscious.
Even the top experts felt numb all over, cold sweat drenching their bodies as they stared at that savage skeletal head that their eyes could not fully take in.
"Th-This is way too terrifying!!"
At Marine Headquarters, even Garp—who feared neither heaven nor earth—was so shocked that the senbei in his hand fell to the ground. His body instinctively covered itself in Busoshoku Haki.
Beside him, Sengoku had already transformed into his Great Buddha form.
They both knew full well that this was only a video—
but the immersive function of the dimensional platform felt far too real.
Their bodies instinctively activated their powers to resist the pressure.
It was useless, of course.
But it still brought the slightest bit of psychological comfort.
On Onigashima, within the territory of one of the Four Emperors—
Kaido felt it more deeply than anyone.
His body had already transformed involuntarily into his Azure Dragon form.
Dragon might.
Within that aura, he sensed dragon might.
That meant Eternatus possessed Dragon-type power.
In the Fairy Tail world—
every Dragon Slayer was completely suppressed by that pressure, unable to move.
This was dragon might that surpassed theirs by countless dimensions.
And it wasn't just the Dragon Slayers.
Even the dragons hidden within them, protecting them for so long, were trembling violently.
Black Dragon?
Black Dragon, my ass.
In the Digimon world—
those dragon-type Digimon weren't doing much better either.
They were digital creations, the lowest of the low in world rank. Every dragon-type Digimon stared in horror.
If they had actually been there, they would have been crushed apart by that dragon might.
To them, Eternatus gave off the strongest draconic pressure of all.
Not even Rayquaza, nor the gods of time and space, had ever given them such a feeling.
But the world that was truly the most shaken—
was the Pokémon world.
Because this was happening in their own world.
One by one, their minds went blank.
The Galar region was the second-largest region in the world.
And the sheer size of that head—
it had to be nearly half the size of Galar itself, didn't it!?
—World-Destroying Red Light… Ultimate Power.
Only now did everyone truly understand the weight of that title.
Only now did they realize the true meaning of TOP 3.
Fight it?
Forget fighting—
just looking at it was enough to plunge people into despair.
Thankfully, this disaster could still be prevented.
"Damn, it's huge… way too huge… Is this the divine beast ranked TOP 3? Can an ordinary Poké Ball even hold that? How many Ultra Balls would it take to catch it?" In Kanto, a boy named Goh widened his eyes in shock.
"Catch your ass, get lost!! Is that something you can catch!?"
"Damn it, I'm going to beat Rose to death later!"
"Fucking Rose!!!"
"If energy runs out, then let it run out! Can't you just import it from other regions? Why the hell did you have to drain its energy and wake it up!?"
"Exactly! Disgusting! If you had to extract it, couldn't you do it little by little instead of going full power all at once!?"
"Capitalists are all rotten!"
In the Pokémon world chat, everyone was cursing wildly.
The people of Galar were on the verge of tears.
At first, they had thought Dynamax would make Galar the strongest of all regions!
Who would have thought there was a world-destroying time bomb buried beneath their land!?
At the top floor of Galar League Headquarters—
Rose looked at the chat that was furiously cursing him, and his whole person felt numb.
Just a few minutes ago, they had all been praising him like crazy.
So…
love really could disappear, huh?
Of course, he couldn't blame them.
After seeing that terrifying Eternatus, even he wanted to slap himself.
The video continued.
As Eternatus emerged from the cloud vortex—
its entire body followed.
Its full form burst out from the vortex, a colossal being that spanned more than half of Galar.
Its body had no flesh.
Only bone.
It coiled beneath the crimson cloud vortex, its full body impossible to see in its entirety.
Of all the divine beasts shown so far—
it was the largest by far.
Groudon and Kyogre looked like little brothers in front of it.
Crimson light flashed from its body, and shapeless black flames, like erupting black lightning, burst from either side of it.
Wrapped in red energy and black flame-waves, Eternatus began shrinking rapidly.
As its body shrank—
its full form gradually entered everyone's view.
Its size reduced to nearly two hundred meters.
Still enormous.
But compared to that immeasurable size from moments ago—
this was child's play.
Its body had shrunk, but the aura filling heaven and earth had not weakened in the slightest.
Eternatus stared down at the earth, the black-and-red light in its eye sockets flickering with anger.
It had been sleeping perfectly well—
only to be forcibly woken up by someone shamelessly draining its power.
"ROAR!!!"
It bellowed.
Within the cannon-like ribcage of its chest, dazzling crimson energy gathered.
It looked like a nuclear reactor—
blinding and terrifying.
"This is bad—Charizard, use G-Max Wildfire!"
Leon's Gigantamax Charizard was wreathed in blazing flames. It let out a furious roar, and a giant fiery phoenix made entirely of orange-red flames charged straight at Eternatus.
Even though it was called Charizard—
it didn't actually have Dragon typing.
So it could barely withstand Eternatus's pressure.
Facing Charizard's Gigantamax move—
Eternatus didn't even bother dodging.
It simply let G-Max Wildfire strike its body.
Completely unharmed!!
The Gigantamax move that had instantly destroyed Eternatus's energy avatar couldn't even break its defense!
At last, the energy inside Eternatus's ribcage reached an utterly terrifying level.
BOOM!!
An enormous red pillar of light suddenly erupted from Eternatus's chest, plunging from the sky to the earth like a heavenly pillar.
On the screen, Leon and the others turned deathly pale, their minds going blank as they stared at that attack.
It's over…
Galar is finished.
When the beam struck the ground, however—
everyone was stunned.
It had no destructive force at all.
It didn't destroy heaven and earth as they had imagined.
"Wh-What's going on??"
Countless people cried out inwardly.
That crimson beam, so terrifying that even seeing it through the screen made one shudder—
had produced no devastating destructive power after striking the surface.
It was like a stream of water hitting hard ground.
The energy dispersed.
Under the force of the impact, it broke apart into red mist and swept across the entire Galar region at incredible speed along the surface of the earth.
In less than half a second—
the whole Galar region had been washed over by this crimson shockwave.
It was unbelievably strange.
The shockwave had no destructive force whatsoever.
Forget destroying buildings—
even the dead leaves hanging from tree branches remained perfectly still.
The sight left everyone baffled.
What the hell was this?
Could it be that Eternatus only looked impressive?
And then—
"Woooo—!"
"Blastoise—!"
"Hisss—!"
Countless Pokémon cries rang out.
Including the Pokémon of Trainers.
Only some Flying-type Pokémon that had stayed in the air avoided the red shockwave spreading along the ground.
Under the horrified gaze of everyone—
every Pokémon in the entire Galar region began rapidly increasing in size.
In the end, they all became the size of small mountains.
Within the cities, Trainers' Pokémon also ballooned in size, crushing buildings beneath them.
Thankfully, Pokémon still kept inside Poké Balls were unaffected.
The Trainers hurriedly threw out Poké Balls and rode their Flying-type Pokémon into the sky.
They stared down in terror.
From above, as far as the eye could see—
there were gigantic Dynamax Pokémon everywhere, countless as hairs on an ox.
If the cities were already like this—
the wild areas were even worse.
After all, many Trainers in cities didn't have the habit of keeping their Pokémon outside.
But in the wild—
the situation was far more horrifying.
That red shockwave…
had turned every Pokémon in the entire Galar region—
into Dynamax Pokémon.
Galar had returned to the ancient era!!
And these Dynamax Pokémon—
whether wild or belonging to Trainers—
all had blood-red eyes.
They had gone berserk.
They attacked everything in sight.
Boom boom boom!!!
The whole Galar region fell into misery and chaos.
It had become a living hell.
Cities, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes—
everything was being destroyed.
In the Pokémon world—
all the people of Galar stared blankly.
Would their future homeland really be ravaged like this?
But…
thankfully, Dynamax only lasted five minutes.
Then the next lines hit them like a bucket of cold water.
And in their hearts, they cursed Rose a thousand times over again.
[Pokémon illuminated by Eternatus's Eternabeam are not bound by the normal time limit of Dynamax.]
[As long as Eternatus does not withdraw its power, these Pokémon will remain in this form forever.]
[Furthermore, Eternatus's power will gradually spread to the entire world.]
[When that happens, the whole world will return to the ancient era.]
[The hearts of all living things will be filled only with violence and destruction.]
[When Eternatus awakens—]
[—The Darkest Day—]
[Will descend.]
Everyone's minds buzzed violently.
Holy shit!!
If the world returned to the ancient era—
wouldn't all of human civilization and development regress by countless years!?
Wouldn't humanity once again be reduced to barely surviving!?
Forget Eternatus itself—
even these Pokémon that had been Dynamaxed by its power were already impossible enough.
Professor Oak and the others racked their brains, but couldn't think of a single way to deal with them.
With those enormous bodies, even attacks from Pokémon at the Elite Four level might not be enough to break their defenses.
Everyone's teeth ached.
How the hell were they supposed to deal with this!?
They had to stop it.
They absolutely had to stop that idiot Rose!!
If he ever even showed signs of trying to extract energy in the future, they would drag him out and beat him to death first.
At the same time, Professor Oak and the others were also deeply curious—
who had stopped the terrifying Eternatus in the end?
Was it one of the beings ranked above it?
Had TOP 2 or TOP 1 made a move?
Could it have been that little golden Pokémon that resolved the multi-layered warped spacetime?
In subspace—
Palkia and Dialga were also very curious about the answer.
Who had stopped Eternatus?
This Darkest Day phenomenon—
could only be stopped by Eternatus itself.
As long as it withdrew its power, the Pokémon would lose their Dynamax forms.
That meant it had to willingly stop.
Simply defeating or overpowering it was useless.
Unless—
someone killed it.
But could a divine beast just be killed like that?
And who the hell could possibly beat Eternatus one-on-one!?
Even Palkia and Dialga felt numb from the pressure it emitted.
Could it be that Arceus had stepped in?
Other than Arceus, they couldn't think of anyone else.
"ROAR!!"
Eternatus howled.
Terrifying white light began condensing before it, gathering frantically.
Now everyone recognized it.
—Hyper Beam.
If that struck the ground—
it would destroy heaven and earth.
It would probably blast straight through the entire region.
But no one could stop it.
Leon's Charizard had been in the air just now, so it had avoided the red shockwave and didn't go berserk.
But…
Gigantamax could only last five minutes.
Now, without Gigantamax, Charizard had already returned to its normal form.
And attacks in its normal form—
weren't even worth mentioning.
And just then—
"Pikachu, Gigantamax move!"
"—G-Max Volt Crash!"
Above Eternatus's head, above the crimson clouds, dark thunderclouds gathered.
Golden lightning flashed within them, snaking like dragons.
The next second—
the whole world was lit by lightning.
It was like an entire sea of thunder had poured down from the heavens, transforming into billions of lightning arcs that slammed into Eternatus's body.
Eternatus's Hyper Beam was interrupted.
The camera turned.
It moved into the distance.
On the ground—
at some unknown moment—
a Pikachu over a hundred meters tall had appeared.
This Pikachu's body looked chubbier than usual, round and pudgy.
Its tail had turned pure gold, formed entirely from lightning, while golden electric arcs crackled all over its body.
This form—
was not Dynamax.
It was Gigantamax!
A Gigantamax Pikachu???
Everyone looked at each other.
A certain possibility suddenly flashed through their minds.
And sure enough—
above Gigantamax Pikachu, they saw a Dragonite.
On Dragonite's back was a person.
An extremely familiar person.
—Ash!!!
"Holy shit!! Father Ash!"
"Holy shit!! Godchu!!!"
In Kanto, at Professor Oak's Laboratory—
Ash scratched his head.
"I showed up again? In the future, my Pikachu is actually that awesome? And I even caught a Dragonite!"
Gary and Professor Oak had already gone numb.
What the hell!?
Why are you everywhere!?
Leon's Charizard couldn't even break Eternatus's defense with a Gigantamax move.
But Pikachu's Gigantamax move not only interrupted Eternatus's Hyper Beam—
it even stunned it!?
The people of the Pokémon world were completely numb, but also wildly excited.
Ash had appeared—
which meant things were stable now!!
Hadn't Rin Aokawa already said it during [Special Episode Part 2]?
That Ash would save the world in the future.
Could this be that moment?
But then again, that didn't seem right.
Hadn't it said he would save the world together with Greninja?
Where was Greninja?
Was it still inside a Poké Ball?
In any case—
the appearance of Ash and Pikachu sent the countless dimensions into another frenzy.
Pikachu had broken a divine beast's defense again.
Godchu is incredible!!
Father Ash is incredible!!
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