The Arcane Tournament

The End

Marshadow and his friends all gathered together and Solgaleo opened a portal for them. "Farewell everyone, it was wonderful to meet you all. This was a truly strange experience, but one I surely won't forget."

Gold gave the tiny Pokémon a thumbs up. "Same to you, Marshadow. We're in good hands if Arceus is going to be listening to you now."

Marshadow smiled. "Thank you. I hope so. Ideally, our paths with cross again so I can truly thank you all. Without your assistance, and your standing up against darkness... we wouldn't have made it here."

"It's definitely an experience I'll never forget about." Selene remarked.

"Selene, if I may say." Marshadow started. "Your Pokémon training is impeccable. I'd heard stories of Necrozma's Tragedy, but to see its Light shine so bright again... your efforts will go down in history."

The trainer wiped a tear from her eye and the Pokémon turned to leave alongside his allies. The portal closed and Solgaleo opened two more portals for Ralph and the Ultra Recon Squad to vanish into after saying their goodbyes.

Selene had her Pokémon create a portal for Lynn and the trainer walked to step into it. She turned around and looked at Andy. "Are you coming?"

The man seemed to process the opportunity he was being given and his face lit up. "Oh-absolutely! Don't need to pack or anything. Real convenient I'm ready to just jump realms like that."

"So you're going home, Andy?" Gold confirmed. "Guess there won't be a tournament next year."

Andy chuckled. "There absolutely WILL. I mean, I'd be down to come back for a cameo and all but the bigwigs have rarely had an event so profitable. I promise Gold, it's happening one way or another. Which reminds me, the capitalists are going to bring about the end of humanity! Do not under any circumstance-"

"ANDY!" Lynn cut him off and sighed. "Are you coming, or what?"

Andy stopped his rambling and hurried after her. "Yeah, I'm coming! It's been real peeps! See you... or not. I don't know and I don't really need to. So Lynn you would NOT believe what's happened with Author. She's-"

"Oh for the love of Arceus Andy. Not this again!" Lynn groaned. "If you're going to be like this I'm not going to let you visit!"

"Visit?" Andy confirmed as he jumped into the portal. "I've been gone for over a decade, do you think I have property? No. Fun uncle couch Andy is on!"

Their bickering was cut off by the portal closing shut. "Anyone else need to go to their home realm?" Selene asked. "No? Alright. Well, this has been a Distortion of an adventure."

Elio smiled and put his arm around her. "Sure has been. That's just how it is, one adventure after another."

Red looked up at the sky and then over to Daisy. For a kid, he's pretty weathered. Though, I hope we at least get some more downtime before the next adventure.

"We'll see about that, Red." Daisy winked. "Too much downtime and you might finally be ready for another 'adventure.'" Red's face pinkened and Daisy laughed.

Gold couldn't help but enjoy the retrospective atmosphere. It was like one last event. Nobody wanted to leave as they all continued chatting about future plans and the next tournament.

"Whatever hacks determine who gets invited better wisen up and bring the big guns next time." Bill stated. "How do you not include THE Professor Bill?"

"Ah, it'll be alright Bill. I'm sure they'll need more competitors next time around." Blue consoled. "Who's going to want to come back after Arceus itself attacks?"