Metagross had a high IQ, but did Beldum have one too?
Ash pondered this, then pulled up his phone's activity history and reread the news with Beldum, explaining the words, the content, and what it all meant... deepening its understanding while also... teaching it to read. Well, considering how incredibly intelligent Metagross was after evolving, understanding Chinese should only be the basics.
Ash was completely reassured. Beldum was just as easy to look after as he had imagined.
Three leisurely days passed like this.
That day, Ash had already received a message from Ash by the time school ended-he checked his phone after school-and hurried home, only for Ash to hold out a hand and stop him from going any farther. What greeted him was a house full of shattered mechanical parts, with the Pokémon cleaning up-those with hands used their hands, those with wings fanned the debris along, and those with neither nudged along whatever they could.
And one dejected, innocent Beldum.
Ash said, "...You lost control of your magnetism?"
Ash had noticed this while researching how to raise Beldum-the magnetism inside a Beldum became increasingly developed and stable as it grew. A mature Beldum could even deliberately release the powerful magnetism within its body to destroy every mechanical object around it.
That was something to watch out for before raising a Beldum. Just as excessive electrical output could trip a circuit breaker, a massive increase in magnetism before Beldum learned to control it properly could leave it unable to contain the surge inside its body, causing its magnetism to leak out-Beldum's skills were still at the beginner level, but the difficulty had jumped to the intermediate-to-advanced level, or even the advanced level.
It wasn't Beldum's fault. Ash had misjudged its growth.
Ash beckoned to Beldum.
Beldum floated over