Chapter 56

"AHHH!" Waking up to the loud scream, Jax opened his eyes and looked around the room in a panic. Not seeing anything out of the ordinary inside his room, he turned to the only other person in his room, Metsys. What should have been a metallic grey-haired fairy was a grey missile that came straight from his nightmares! Screaming along with Metsys, Jax couldn't believe that his horrible nightmare back to life! They were back! The Metagross family that he had decimated came back from the dead to take him with them!

Running into the room after hearing the children screaming, Doria found Jax and Metsys huddled in the corner of his room staring at something on his bed. Turning to look at what had them so frightened, Doria found a Beldum floating on the bed. Doria could understand why Metsys was surprised but she had no idea why Jax was too. "Jax, honey, congratulations! Your egg finally hatched! Look! It's even grey! You know what that means?"

Hearing his mother's words, Jax perked up his ears and stared at the floating chunk of metal currently occupying his bed. 'That's right! Why did I freak out too! Finally! Beldum finally hatched! And it's even a shiny! Just like Steven Stone's!' After finishing his thoughts, Jax ran up to the Beldum and gave it a tight hug! He had been carrying the egg around for so long in his school bag that he had nearly forgotten about it! While storing his items away earlier in the night, Jax had taken out the end and placed it in the middle of the them on the bed so that the egg wouldn't be lonely by itself in his sub-space.

"A shiny! Wow! Mommy, look! I have a shiny pokemon now!"

As the three of them went back to bed after the midnight surprise, Jax hugged Beldum to sleep. Even though Beldum was literally a chunk of metal, surprisingly, it didn't feel bad holding it to sleep. Waking up the next morning to the sun shining on his face and the smell of bacon and Chansey eggs being cooked greeting his nostrils, Jax stretched and looked at the grey lump of metal by his side. Remembering the events in the middle of the night, Jax couldn't help but feel excited. Spreading his psychic powers out towards Beldum, Jax checked his stats and was beyond surprised.

Beldum

HP: ★★★★★

ATK: ★★★★★

DEF: ★★★★★

SP ATK: ★★★★☆

SP DEF: ★★★★★

SPD: ★★★★★

Grade: Diamond? (LVL 1)

Ability: Clear Body

Nature: Jolly

Moves:

MAX:

LVL 4:

LVL 3:

LVL 2:

LVL 1: Take Down, Headbutt

Looking at his new pokemon's stats, Jax was beyond excited! Beldum by itself was already an amazing pokemon, not to mention its final evolution, Metagross. What was even more amazing was that his Beldum was shiny! Back on Earth, pokemon who were different from their species were usually shunned because they were weaker than their normal counterparts but that was the complete opposite on Kalpotron! It was exactly because they had such a harder time surviving out in the wild that they were birthed with extraordinary potential compared to their normal counterparts! Jax even reckons that if Beldum had a neutral nature, all six of his basic stats would have been five stars across the board!

Looking at Beldum's move pool left much to be desired, however. In the games, anime, and manga, Beldum doesn't learn any egg moves either. Guess some things were accurate across dimensions. Seeing that Beldum had an extra move aside from the standard Take Down, Jax remembered that in the remake of HeartGold and SoulSilver, Beldum could be taught Headbutt and then have it transferred to later games. 'Mhm, looks like I'll have to ask Mommy if there are any Move Tutors in Arklight City.' Jax could only count on a Move Tutor now since Beldum couldn't learn any TMs. He could try teaching Beldum himself like how he was doing with Jax, but he'll leave that as a last resort. 'Let the professionals do what they do best.'

After doing his morning exercise and power training, Jax washed up and ate breakfast with his mother. Metsys was already eating when he exited the bathroom and was still busy shoveling food into her mouth. Doria just had a sad smile on her face thinking that the little girl must have been starving up in the mountains by herself. If only she knew that Metsys was just a glutton and didn't even actually need to eat since she didn't have a stomach! After finishing his light breakfast, Jax ran back to his room and got ready. While eating breakfast, he found out from his mother that there was a Move Tutor living in a secluded part of the city to the south!

"Mommy, Mommy! Hurry! Start the car already!"

"Haha! Relax, baby, that old man isn't going anywhere. Since he owes me a favor, we'll squeeze him dry today!"