Before long, the light enveloping Beldum completely faded, and what appeared before Xia You, Ash, and Brock next was a Pokémon in an entirely new form.
It looked somewhat like a flying saucer, with a cyan-blue body and two arms. It had a silver spike on its face and another on its back, with two pairs of sharp silver blades extending diagonally backward from the sides of its body. If anything, it looked a little like two Beldum joined together.
"What Pokémon is that?"
Although Ash had been very unhappy with their battle just now and thought Xia You had been stringing him along, the moment he saw Beldum evolve, those feelings vanished into thin air. Putting them behind him, he took out his Pokédex and pointed it at the Pokémon's new form instead.
The Pokédex responded almost instantly.
"Beep. Metang, the Iron Claw Pokémon. Steel and Psychic type. This Pokémon has two brains, connected by magnetic nerves to generate powerful psychic energy, but its intelligence remains unchanged. Its steel body will remain unscathed even in a collision with a jet plane. The claws on its hands can tear through thick iron plates as though they were silk. It can also float in the air using magnetism and rotate its arms backward to move at high speed. It can fly using magnetism, traveling through the air at 100 kilometers per hour and speeding through rugged mountains. If it spots prey, it grips it firmly with its sharp claws and uses powerful psychic energy to immobilize it, leaving its quarry nowhere to escape. Additional information: it is extremely fond of minerals that emit magnetism and will relentlessly pursue Nosepass at 100 kilometers per hour."
The long stream of information from his Pokédex made Ash realize that this new form called Metang