Crucible of Ideas

Now that you've beaten Mars, he opened the gate to the inner Solar System, so you can now land on Venus, Mercury, and the Sun.

The Sun is where you're supposed to go, but Venus and Mercury are side quests kind of like Marsotured.

Venus and Mercury have much less to explore than Mars, as they're basically hallways to the god you have to fight.

Venus is the goddess of love, and her team is Luvdisc, Venusaur, Chansey, Swoobat, and Venusessnote .

She gives you the Venus Orb, which raises Special Defense under half health.

Mercury is the god of travelers, and his team is Ninjask, Mega Aerodactyl, Rapidash, Greninja, and Merquicknote .

He gives you the Mercury Orb, which raises Speed under half health.

You can also catch some Pokemon on these planets.

For example, on Mercury you can catch Rogodo who evolves into all the Divine-types who represent certain gods.

Zaydolf notices some artificial structure on the sun, so you fly there to find out what it is.

When you, Anne, and Zaydolf land on the sun, you find yourselves on an artificial structure with a bunch of pillars and a door not yet opened.

Anne notes that there's no way humans built the structure.

The sun god chimes in, and reveals that HE and HIS minions are building a Dyson Sphere on the sun in order to drain its energy.

After that, Anne decides to go to the left and Zaydolf decides to go to the right.

On the sun's platforms, there are a bunch of Nicer enemies who you fight in double battles (with Anne or Zaydolf as your ally depending on your location).

Eventually, you come across a Trainer called Elias, who proclaims himself to be the hero and you to be the villain.

Elias claims that draining the sun's light is for the good of the future of the universe (because he is obviously a minion of HIM), and battles you, claiming he will not lose.

It's a double battle without a partner, and Elias has Dragonite, Mega Lucario, Novais, Gallade, Apollolarnote , and Aegislash.

After beating him, Elias threatens to kill you himself, but HE tells Elias that it's not the time, and Elias retreats.

After defeating Elias, you have to fight more Nicers with Anne or Zaydolf at your side.

You then come across some weird looking Team Wack grunts guarding a door, and you fight them in a double battle with Zaydolf.

As it turns out, many Team Wack grunts gave in to HIS temptations after Team Wack disbanded, and Zaydolf needs your help to put them out of their misery.

At the top of the map, you reach a temple.

Zaydolf realizes that the Team Wack grunts got corrupted because they were still caught up in Zaydolf's dream, and Zaydolf realizes it's partially his fault that this happened.

Then a bunch of corrupted Wack grunts appear and plead Zaydolf not to leave them behind, and Zaydolf feels ashamed.

But then, Anne arrives and fights all the Wack grunts, while you go ahead to a platform with a grassy field and trees.

At the top is Sol, the sun god.

He tells you that HIM and HIS minions are trying to absorb his energy, and that he must battle you to see if you can save him.

He has Solaioss, Novais, Apollolar, Heliolisk, Sunflora, and Solgaleo.

After beating him, Sol opens the door at the place where you landed.

Returning to the entrance and going through the door brings you to another structure, where there's corrupted Juvites instead of Wack grunts.

Some of them also berate Anne for betraying them.

At the top of the structure is a cave entrance where you find Zaydolf, who joins up with Anne.

Going through the cave entrance brings you to a strange place with a few flowerpots moving around.

Going north brings you to a corrupted mess with another cave taking you to the surface of the sun.

There is a white bridge and below that white bridge is a "simple" invisible maze.

Fortunately, there's a plant that you can talk to skip that invisible maze, but only if you're a pleb.

But whether you completed the invisible maze or not, you have to go through a second invisible maze, and this one has a few trainers.

It's even worse than the one in Rayquaza's temple.

Anyway at the end of the maze is a staircase, which takes you down a hallway until you meet a guy who tells you that the sun has been taken by the herald.

He disappears, and lets you travel through a mirror to reach the core of the sun.

In the core, you see Sol, but he's covered in shadows.

He tells you that it's the end, your light will be snuffed out, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.

Sol manages to speak up and pleads you to release his hold on him and save the universe.

Then, you have to fight a 12 vs 6 double battle against Corrupted Sol and Nicer Drainer.

Drainer's Pokemon are Heruptin, Victini, Heliolisk, Wendigore, Sunflora, and Arbok, and Corrupted Sol's Pokemon are Ultra Necrozma, Solaioss, Novais, Apollolar, Solgaleo, and Corrupted Sol himself.

After being freed from corruption, Sol tells you that you can now use the sun's gravity to slingshot out of the solar system and get to HIS world.

He then gives you a Sun Heart.