Lightning, Mario, Luigi and the rest of their friends all made it back to the Pikachu Village with King Boo and his boo comrades with him.

With the help of the now free Starter Squad members, they all gathered up the Boos and King Boo and brought them to the Pikachu Village to bring them back to their world where they belonged.

Before Mario and Luigi went through the portal, Thunder approached them. "Before you leave, I suppose I owe you two an apology... when I saw you and the others fighting along side Lightning , it changed how I thought about you two, Mario Brothers. You didn't want to harm anyone or trying to take Lightning away from me at all, you were just trying to save your friends and protect my daughter as well. I'm sorry to you too Lightning, I should have listened to you. Swift tricked me and I thought what he said was right and I thought they were a threat. You two really are different than most... humans... I really am starting to respect you both now... or atleast am trying... despite you being humans in your world." Thunder explained with a sigh.

"It's alright Thunder. You're just trying to protect your family like a good leader and father should do." Mario said.

"Thanks... Well you two better go back to your world now... Maybe we'll see each other again soon..."

"Hope so... Bye Lightning... bye everyone!" Luigi replied. "We better get going Mario, he have to bring King Boo and the other Boos back to the professor before they wake up and realize what is going on..."

"I know, Luigi, I'm coming..." Mario stated but he was suddenly halted by a sudden male voice and the sound of wings flapping.

"Wait... Just a few minutes longer you two..." A sudden Shiny Charizard landed in front of them. "Thanks for saving the Starter Squad and sorry about how we acted earlier."

"Don't worry about it, you weren't in control of yourselves..." Mario replied.

"Well... for your bravery for saving the Squad we bestow you these special badges to prove that you are now elite members of the Squad and here's one for you too, Lightning." All three of them received a Golden badge with their names on them.

"Th-thanks sir!" Lightning replied happily.

"Yeah thanks..." the brothers responded.

"We'll see you around sometime you two!" Paarthurnax told the brothers before they jumped into the portal back to their own world.

"Bye guys!!" Lightning cried out to them before the portal closed.

"See you back at the Squad headquarters, Lightning!" Churro, Jake and Max said from behind her. She turned to see them up on Paarthurnax's back.

"You too!" Lightning yelled. "Alex... Gabe... Are you going to stay here for a while or...?"

"I think Alex and I are going to explore the forest a bit... Just so I can get around a bit and explore... Maybe even train and become stronger..." Gabe answered. "I think I'm going to enjoy living my life as a Pokémon now. It's fun and cool at the same time and I do want to become strong enough to evolve into a Gardevoir eventually."

"Good idea.. I can't wait to see how strong you'll become Gabe. Good luck! And also be careful you two... stay safe out there." Lightning retorted to the Lucario and Kirlia.

"We will!" They replied before waving goodbye and leaving the Pikachu village.

Unbeknownst to Lightning, Swift was walking towards her from behind and took her paw. "So... since the wimp is gone, you wanna-"
Before he finished his statement, Lightning punched him right in the face and he collapsed to the ground, knocked out.

"And that's why you don't sneak up on me, Swift..." Lightning sighed and rolled her eyes in annoyance. "And for the love of Arceus... please understand that I don't like you... how hard is that to comprehend at this point..."

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And that's finally the end of this story atleast until the epilogue. I had no idea I was this close to finishing it and it took me this long to complete the final chapter and epilogue. But atleast I did finish it (almost) on Mar10 day. Hope you had a good Mar10 Day though. Wished I could start Super Faith today but I don't think I can but we will see.