"Come, let us show our power! Mega Evolve, Metagross!" Steven shouted in a low voice.
As someone who had already used Mega Evolution quite a few times, he was very familiar with the process.
The energy of the Mega Evolution contained in the Key Stone connected with the Mega Stone that Metagross was holding. A large number of fine, dense threads wrapped around Metagross and quickly formed a cocoon. In the blink of an eye, those threads of psychic energy scattered into dust, revealing the Pokémon inside.
Mega Metagross!
Without a doubt, it was the first Mega Shiny Metagross in the Pokémon world at that moment!
A Shiny Pokémon, moreover a pseudo-legendary one, and equipped with a Mega Stone. It was practically a bug-like existence within the Pokémon world.
Cain immediately scanned the data of this Mega Metagross.
Pokémon: Shiny Metagross (Light Black) – Mega Form
Gender: Genderless
Level: 83 (85)
Types: Steel + Psychic
Ability: Tough Claws
Held Item: Metal Coat, Metagrossite
Egg Moves: None
Basic Moves: Hammer Arm, Confusion, Metal Claw, Magnet Rise, Take Down, Bullet Punch, Miracle Eye, Scary Face, Agility, Meteor Mash, Iron Defense, Pursuit
Learned Moves: Gravity, Thunder Punch, Ice Punch, Zen Headbutt, Icy Wind, Signal Beam, Ally Switch, Telekinesis, Laser Focus
TM Moves: Protect, Psyshock, Hidden Power (Flying), Hyper Beam, Earthquake, Psychic, Shadow Ball, Brick Break, Rock Slide, Substitute, Flash Cannon, Grass Knot, Rain Dance, Rock Polish, Confide
Originally, Metagross evolved from the combination of two Metang. Its body had the shape of a metallic disk, and its strong legs resembled Beldum, extending in four directions from the body. Its eyes were red, it had a silver metallic cross in the shape of an "X" on its face, and on its abdomen it had a large mouth full of teeth.
After mega evolving into Mega Metagross, its appearance also changed.
Mega Metagross looked like the combination of 1 Metagross, 1 Metang, and 2 Beldum. Its four original legs transformed into four robust arms that extended forward, and on its back four smaller arms also grew, with the upper pair slightly larger than the lower one. The metallic cross on its face turned golden, and a sharp spike grew from its lower jaw.
That was the greatest change in Mega Metagross' outward appearance after mega evolving.
And since Steven's Metagross was a Shiny Metagross, the color changes after Mega Evolution were also somewhat different. The "X" on its face was blue, most of its body remained gray, but its claws and the spikes on its body were golden, making it appear even more noble and dominant.
After mega evolving, Metagross changed its original ability Clear Body to Tough Claws.
The ability Tough Claws increased the power of close-combat moves by thirty percent, something very fitting for a Steel- and Psychic-type Pokémon like Metagross, which already excelled in physical attack and physical defense.
After mega evolving, its original physical attack and defense were not only preserved very well, but were even strengthened to a certain degree.
Additionally, one very important weakness and shortcoming of Metagross was that, due to its great weight, even with the help of its psychic powers, speed had always been its flaw.
But out of the one hundred base stat points provided by Mega Evolution, forty went directly into speed, compensating for that deficiency.
Cain briefly and discreetly explained to Steven and Mr. Stone what kind of changes Metagross had undergone after mega evolving. Naturally, both of them were very satisfied with Metagross' Mega Evolution. Although the offensive increase had not been extremely large, simply compensating for the speed disadvantage was already more than enough.
And that was not even counting the considerable improvements it had also received in other aspects.
"Well? Are you satisfied or not?" Cain asked with a smile.
"Satisfied! Very satisfied!" Seeing the Mega Metagross floating beside him, Steven, rarely, smiled without any composure at all. He looked like a three-year-old child who had just received candy; his mouth was open so wide he did not even know how to close it.
Mr. Stone was obviously also very satisfied and kept nodding repeatedly.
In this way, the Stone family finally had a Mega Evolution worthy of display, and their reputation would not fall short.
In fact, if he knew that the Drako family of the Johto region, as famous as the Stone family, did not have a mega evolved form for a pseudo-legendary Pokémon like Dragonite, who knows what he would think.
He would probably wake up laughing even in his sleep at night.
Just as Steven was still delighted and Mr. Stone was considering whether to tell the kitchen to prepare dinner earlier to invite Cain to stay and eat—since Vivian had also happened to return to Rustboro City after completing a mission—
At that very moment, Cain's communicator suddenly rang.
Upon hearing the sound of the communicator, the smiles on Cain and Steven's faces froze instantly.
Without the slightest hesitation, Cain took out the communicator and directly pressed the answer button.
"Cain, they've arrived!"
As soon as those words were spoken, the communication was immediately cut off.
"Mr. Stone, it's urgent. We'll be leaving first!" Cain said to Mr. Stone. Then he grabbed Steven by the shoulder and, without giving the old man time to respond, the two of them disappeared from the place together with Steven's Metagross, which had just undone its Mega Evolution.
His use of Teleport was becoming more and more perfected.
He arrived directly at the place where he had left psychic marks on Vivian and the other two. As soon as he landed, he felt the dense spatial fluctuations around him; with a single glance, one could tell that a large-scale spatial transmission was occurring.
The people of the Sacred Church were about to arrive!
There was not the slightest deviation from the location Cain had calculated.
Seeing Cain and Steven arrive, the agents of the Investigation department present felt as if they had seen their pillar of support, and all of them immediately approached.
"Cain, the spatial device has detected violent fluctuations in space. We estimate that the people of the Sacred Church are about to arrive, so I notified you immediately," Vivian said to Cain.
Upon hearing this, Cain nodded. Even without that so-called spatial device, he had already perceived the violent spatial fluctuations.
(End of Chapter)
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