Across the field, Jasmine had already recalled Empoleon, defeated after its appeal points fell to zero.
She took a deep breath, and the confusion in her eyes quickly faded.
She pulled a second Poké Ball from her waist and hurled it!
"Go, Steelix!"
Roar-
An incredibly deep roar instantly drowned out the clamor of the crowd!
White light exploded, and an enormous steel serpent crashed onto the field, occupying nearly half of it!
Jasmine kept moving. She raised her arm high, and the Key Stone on her wrist erupted with dazzling light!
"Answer our bond, Steelix! Mega Evolve!"
At Jasmine's firm, ringing command, the Mega Stone necklace fastened around Steelix's neck burst with brilliant Mega Evolution light.
Within that radiance, its already massive, heavy steel body swelled again!
Its head of rock and steel grew even fiercer and more imposing.
A ring of enormous floating fragments appeared out of thin air, gleaming with cold metallic light as they orbited its thick neck like planetary rings!
The three pairs of thick, rodlike projections along its body, along with its tail tip, transformed into translucent diamond crystals that refracted rainbow light!
The light faded, revealing a terrifying beast in the center of the field, cold and heavy as a steel fortress.
Mega Steelix!
[Steelix? What's Steelix? Is that Pokémon even in the Pokédex? (Adding a Growlithe-head emoji so nobody kills me)]
[Holy shit, Mega Steelix looks awesome too! Fine, you can go back in the Pokédex~]
[Those diamond spikes look so cool. Did it strap seven Carbink onto itself?]
Even the seventh Mega-Evolved Pokémon to appear in a single day couldn't dampen the spectators' enthusiasm.
Facing this colossal beast that combined steel, earth, and dazzling diamonds, the entire Sootopolis Arena erupted in thunderous applause and cries of amazement!
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