A Headcanon I have about this game is the fact that it's essentially a bad future. A very bad future. One of the worst! In this bad future, Perfect Crusader (the fusion of the Cutie Mark Crusaders) was unable to defeat Perfect Janken (the fusion of the Terrible Trio). As a result, Perfect Janken was free to build her entire empire up some more. She turned Equestria into stone, and went back to Kalos to create her empire. She renamed the following famous locations in Kalos: The bustling town of Couriway was turned into Rookie Town, the seas of Kalos were changed to Splashy Sea, the Unovian Route 4 was renamed Scorpion Desert, the Relic Castle was suffering due to the huge pyramid built on top of it, the quiet forest before Santalune was changed to the Hiho Forest (with Santalune following suit on being renamed Hiho City), the towering Reversal Mountain was renamed to Rock Mountain, and the regal Parfum Palace had been completely transformed into the ominous Sky Castle, and remained that way for a long time. The landmasses of Kalos, or as she renamed it, Paperock, had turned from a star-shaped nation connected to a circular nation to the shapes reminiscent of the game she built her empire around. Perfect Janken had an idea then. She wanted to have her own peon to take care of the castle. She then created Ashra, a four-armed guardian tasked with taking utmost care of the Sky Castle, out of a piece of the pure darkness that was her heart. Many years passed, and the New Paperock Empire flourished, due to "some mild usage of propaganda". The environs around Perfect Janken and her empire slowly turned from the muddy brown of destruction to the bright blues, reds, and greens it once had many years ago, due to the utopian feel. Then, a wise king from nearby planet Aries, known only as Thor, had the idea of visiting Paperock. Little did he know, that day was the anniversary of the creation of the NPE. May 29th. The day Perfect Janken had done away with every last one of her "personal" problems. Perfect Janken was walking the streets of Central Hub City (what Lumiose had become), getting praise from every citizen, every worker, every tourist, every pony, every human, every Pokemon. The Empress of Perfection (as she preferred to be called) kindly offered him what seemed to be a tour of the Sky Castle. He accepted the "offer". He was escorted into the throne room, where he was quickly strapped to the throne by means of metal binds, and subjected to propaganda that would slowly deteriorate his mourn for his son and replace it with a desire to be loyal to the Empress of Perfection. He would be fed once every six hours during this treatment. Four days later, he was completely converted. The Perfect Empress had an idea concerning the four-armed guardian Ashra. She wanted to make him the underling of the newly-brainwashed King Thor. Many months later, a young man named Alex Kidd (the distant grandson of Hoenn hero Desiree), hailing from what was once Hoenn, had heard a rumor of his father being alive on this planet named Paperock. He went on a daring quest to try to rescue his father, braving many obstacles, meeting many strange characters, until finally, he dealt with Ashra. He went to see his father, King Thor, and just like that, the high king was glad to see his son. He told the story about how he met Ashra and the Empress of Perfection. They, according to him, were just perfect. The realization that Thor the King was alive was all it took for Alex to be converted as well. King Thor had signed a pact with the Perfect Empress soon after, and thus, Aries and Paperock had joined forces. Aries would be converted some 4 months later, in much the same fashion that Kalos had many years ago. Aries became Paperock Prime. The following evening, King Thor and the Empress of Perfection were married. And that's the idea I have for the lore behind Alex Kidd and the Enchanted Castle. The titular castle had been given the titular treatment by Perfect Janken.