Aether Paradise

Aether Paradise is a very large floating structure that serves as an artificial island located in the middle of the Alola region, near Akala Island. It was created by the Aether Foundation to serve as a base for their research.

To protect the wild Pokemon being treated in the facility, a jamming signal prevents the use of empty Poke Balls throughout the island. However, in gameplay, this only applies in the battle against Nihilego. The player can use Poke Balls in Trainer battles normally, although they will be blocked by the Trainers, as usual.

After assisting Faba (Christopher Corey Smith/Mitsuaki Madono) in stopping two Team Skull Grunts from harassing a Slowpoke on Memorial Hall, the branch chief invites the player to Hano Grand Resort after they finish their grand trial with Olivia (Claudia Black/Miyuki Sawashiro). Upon arriving at the resort with Hau, Faba will take them to Aether Paradise. The player and Hau are then introduced to Wicke, who gives them a tour of the facility. At the top floor, the player meets the President, Lusamine (Nicole Oliver/Sayaka Kinoshita), who welcomes the two trial-goers and professes her love of Pokemon.

Later, after the player has defeated Team Skull at their base in Po Town, Lillie (Megan Taylor Harvey/Kei Shindo) is revealed to have been taken away by Plumeria (Mae Whitman/Saki Endo). Gladion (Todd Haberkorn/Nobuhiko Okamoto) later reveals that Lillie was taken to Aether Paradise, where the player, Hau, and Gladion start looking for her next. While raiding the facility, new details about Cosmog, the Ultra Beasts, and Type: Null are revealed. It also turns out that the Aether Foundation has been working together with Team Skull and sponsoring their criminal activities, forcing the player to battle their way through members of the evil team, including their Boss, Guzma (Justin Cook/Yasuyuki Kase).

In the big mansion at the end of Aether Paradise, the player finds Lillie, who is facing Lusamine, her mother, about Cosmog's fate. The player, Lillie, Hau, and Gladion follow Lusamine into her secret trophy room, where Lusamine reveals how she is intending to use Cosmog's power to open Ultra Wormholes all across Alola and summon multiple Ultra Beasts through them. As wormholes start opening and Ultra Beasts start emerging all over Alola, the player engages Lusamine in a battle. After Lusamine is defeated, she uses a specially designed Beast Ball to capture the Ultra Beast that emerged through the wormhole she had created inside the room, before both she and Guzma disappear into the fading wormhole themselves.

The following day, Gladion tells the player about the Legendary Pokemon of Alola, which is said to be able to travel between worlds and gives Lillie the Moon Flute/Sun Flute, one of the items required to summon the Legendary Pokemon. Afterwards, the player and Lillie head to Seafolk Village on Poni Island.

In Pokemon Ultra Sun and Pokemon Ultra mOon, after the player has driven off the unidentified Pokemon that appeared from an Ultra Wormhole, Dulse and Zossie or Phyco and Soliera of the Ultra Recon Squad will appear and explain that the Pokemon was an Ultra Beast. Lusamine informs the player and Hau that the Ultra Recon Squad has been working with the Aether Foundation, providing them with information about the Ultra Beasts. The Ultra Recon Squad members also tell how they came from a world from which Necrozma (Willem Dafoe/TBD) had stolen all of its natural light. Afterwards, the player and Hau depart for Ula'ula Island.

During the player, Hau, and Gladion's search for Lillie in Aether Paradise, the player will encounter the Ultra Recon Squad again after defeating Guzma. After defeating them, the player will encounter Lusamine and Lillie and follow them to Lusamine's trophy room along with Gladion and Hau, where Lusamine explains that she intends to travel to Ultra Space and defeat Necrozma in order to keep the Alola region and its Pokemon safe from it. For this purpose, she needed Cosmog's power to open Ultra Wormholes. Although she makes clear that she hates Ultra Wormholes with every fiber of her being, them being what took her husband away from her, but she's still willing to go through one in order to protect Alola. Because of Gladion and Lillie's objections, Lusamine challenges the player to a battle, intending to show everyone she's capable of dealing with Necrozma. Despite being defeated, Lusamine still chooses to ignore her children, forcing Cosmog to open a wormhole which both she and Guzma disappear into.

After Lusamine's departure, the Ultra Recon Squad berate her selfish behavior, and tell everyone that the way to their world, Ultra Megalopolis, where Necrozma resides, si by using the power of the Legendary Pokemon of the sun or moon, which can appear at the alter on Poni Island. The next day, Gladion gives Lillie the Moon Flute or Sun Flute, one of the items required to summon said Legendary Pokemon. Following this, Gladion takes the player and Lillie to Poni Island.

After the player has become the Champion, Aether paradise is invaded by Team Rainbow Rocket in the middle of a live news broadcast. Using the power of an Ultra Wormhole, they transform Lusamine's mansion into Team Rocket's Castle, where in they settle their base of actions, Lusamine tries to stop them, but ends up getting taken hostage. The player and Lillie head to the castle, intending to save Lusamine. On the way, they discover that Faba had actually assisted Team Rainbow Rocket in their takeover of the facility, intending to use their success to advance his own career. After the player and Lillie have defeated Faba and an Aether Foundation Employee in a Multi Battle, they enter the castle. Within the castle, the player must defeat various villainous team leaders sumoned through Ultra Wormholes in order to advance further. After the player has defeated Giovanni (Clancy Brown/Akio Otsuka), the leader of Team Rocket and Rainbow Rocket, Colress (Jeff Goldblum/Junichi Suwabe uses his technology to restore the mansion back to its normal state, sending everyone back to the worlds they originally came from.

Once the player has defeated Gladion in a Title Defense battle at the Pokemon League, Lusamine's husband, Mohn, will appear in the entrance area. Due to suffering from amnesia as a result of going through an Ultra Wormhole, Mohn is unable to remember his marriage with Lusamine, which she chooses not to remind him of simply being happy to see that mohn is enjoying his life of running Poke Pelago.

Aether Paradise debuted in **A Dream Encounter!**. It reappeared **Deceiving Appearances!**, where Lusamine invited Ash (Yuri Lowenthal/Rica Matsumoto) and his classmates to visit the facility. however, due to her being constantly busy with her work, Lillied ended up working as a guide for her classmates instead. While touring around the conversation area, the group met Professor Burnet (Melissa Schoenberg/Sachi Kokuryu) and got into trouble with a runaway Ditto, which used its transforming capabilities to fool them until it was finally caught.

While Ash and his friends were dealing with Ditto, Team Rocket, who had been hired to work as Employees at the facility by Faba, kept trying to catch Nebby, and eventually ended up accidentally finding secret documents about Type: Null and the Ultra Beasts from Faba's personal laboratory.

It appeared in **A Masked Warning!** during a flashback, where Gladion saw Lillie getting attacked by a Nihilego. It appeared again in **Night of a Thousand Poses!**, where Lusamine was seen making a video phone call to Lillie from her office.

In **Mission: Total Recall!**, Ash and Lillie were teleported into the Aether Paradise Lab area by Nebby. Faba, afraid that Lillie could be regaining her memories of the Nihilego attack and thus jeopardize his career, took her and attempted to erase her memories again with his Hypno. However, his plans were foiled by the appearance of Ash and Gladion. Although Ash was subdued by Faba's Hypno, Gladion was able to save Lillie when his Type: Null broke its confinement mask and became Silvally, then proceeding to defeat Faba's Pokemon. Amidst of all this, Lillie managed to recover her remaining suppressed memories, allowing her to completely get over her fear of touching Pokemon.

In **Faba's Revenge!**, Faba tricked Nebby into teleporting him into the Lab area, where he used a device to trap it and started using its power to open an Ultra Wormhole. Although Ash, Lillie, Gladion, and Lusamine appeared to stop him and free Nebby, the wormhole was still opened, allowing a Nihilego to pass through it. Lusamine, Gladion, and Ash attempted to battle against it, but it proved to be too powerful for their Pokemon to handle. The Ultra Beast then attempted to take Lillie with it, but even though Gladion tried to protect her, Lusamine ended up pushing Gladion aside at the last moment, causing her to get taken into the Ultra Wormhole by Nihilego instead, much to Lillie's horror.

Ash and Lillie visited Aether Paradise once more during **Don't Ignore the Small Stufful!**, when they were assigned to deliver Professor Burnet's lunch. Meanwhile, Team Rocket had gotten jobs once again at Aether Paradise and started plotting to steal the Pokemon. However, a Stufful suddenly started following them around before grabbing a hold of Jessie's (Rachael Lillis/Megumi Hayashibara) hair. They were soon confronted and accused of stealing Stufful, only for Bewear to show up. Bewear recognized Stufful as its own child and took it home with her and the trio.

In **The Dealer of Destruction!**, Professor Kukui (Abe Goldfarb/Keiichi Nakagawa) held a press conference at Aether Paradise, where he officially announced Alola's first Pokemon League. The conference was announced to take place on a new artificial island close to Aether Paradise, called the Manalo Stadium.

In **The Secret Princess!**, Lillie and Gladion visited Aether Paradise to search for any possible clues about their father.