Winter and May were planning today on what to do with training their Pokémon. As they both had five contest ribbons each, the Hoenn Grand Festival was all they could think about now.

And of course, Winter had the Hoenn League to think about now as well.

Winter and May found out from Nurse Joy that the Hoenn Grand Festival was going to be held in Slateport City and Winter found out that the Hoenn League was to be held in a city called Ever Grand City.

So the gang had two things to look forward too.

Apart from obtaining a fifth contest ribbon, May also had a new Pokémon.

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The day after the Pacifidlog Ribbon, the gang encountered a Munchlax who kept on eating berries from some berry trees.

The gang had remembered what Munchlax was like, because Max's Snorlax was a Munchlax before he caught it.

To stop the Munchlax from causing trouble, May captured it for her own.

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Right now Brock had made lunch for the gang; he made sandwiches and rice balls.

"So May and Sky, what are you two going to do?" Brock asked.

Well I am going to train my Snorunt more," Winter answered, "she wants to learn new moves and evolve into a Froslass, so I gave her an everstone to hold of the evolution."

"Can I train with you sis? My Numel wants to evolve." Tomo said.

Certainly, we'll battle each other after lunch Tomo." Winter smiled.

"What about you May? What are you going to do?" Max asked.

"I'll be practicing with some of my Pokémon," May said, "but I won't use Munchlax in the Grand Festival. It's too early since I only just got it."

"I agree with that." Brock nodded.

At that moment a boy with tied up red hair ran past the group and stopped running to catch his breath.

"Hey, easy there what are you in a rush for?" Winter asked curious.

"I'm heading towards an area, where wild Beldum are swarming." The boy replied breathing heavily.

The boy introduced himself as Morrison and he explained to the gang that a swarm of Beldum was living in a forest a bit far from where they were standing now.

Beldum, the Iron Ball Pokémon.
The magnetic force generated by its body repels the ground's natural magnetism, letting it float.

"Hey Beldum's final evolved form is Metagross." Max said.

"That's right," Morrison said, "and I want to catch a Beldum, so that I can have a Metagross like Steven Stone."

Steven Stone not only had an Aron, he also had an Aggron, a Beldum and a shiny Metagross.

"Can we go and see the Beldum swarm too please? I'd love to see them." Max begged.

"Yeah, I want to see them too." Tomo said excitedly.

Winter and May saw nothing wrong with that, and they agreed to see the Beldum too.

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What the gang didn't know was that two people and a Pokémon were already in the forest, where the Beldum swarm was.

It was, of course, Jessie, James and Meowth.

"So these Beldum evolve to Metagross?" Jessie asked.

"Well they evolve into Metang first and then to Metagross." James said showing her the information.

"It's great that we found out about this Beldum swarm," Meowth said, "and the best part is that no one else is here yet. Let's get gathering."

"Let's!" Jessie and James together.

"Meowth get the empty Pokéballs ready, while Jessie and I do the rest." James said.

"Pokéballs all ready." Meowth said.

Jessie sent out her Seviper and Loudred and James sent out his Nuzleaf and Teddiursa.

"Seviper you use flamethrower and Loudred use fire punch on Beldum." Jessie said.

"Nuzleaf use dark pulse and you use shadow claw Teddiursa." James said.

Seviper, Loudred, Nuzleaf and Teddiursa attacked the Beldum swarm with their Pokémon and then Meowth captured the Beldums in Pokéballs.

They ended up capturing thirty Beldums.

"You see any more Beldums?" Jessie asked James.

"No I don't, we must have captured all of them," James answered, "we better skedaddle before anyone finds us and realize that we've captured all the Beldum."

"Great idea." Jessie agreed.

Jessie and James returned their Pokémon back, they and Meowth left the area as quick as they could.

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Meanwhile, the gang just made their way to the area where Morrison said that the Beldum were.

"I can't wait to see the Beldum and truthfully I want to catch one for myself." Tomo said.

"Me too," Max said, lI'd love to have a steel type on my team, since I don't have one yet."

"We are almost there." Morrison said.

Morrison continued to walk on, but then he stopped.

"What's wrong Morrison?" Winter asked.

"Something isn't right," Morrison answered, "I mean we should have seen the Beldum by now, but I don't see any Beldum anywhere."

The gang didn't see any Beldum either.

"Where could they be?" Brock asked.

"You don't suppose they could have been captured by trainers already do you?" May asked.

"It's possible, I mean news travels fast whenever a Pokémon swarm has happened." Brock answered.

"So that means we can't capture a Beldum at all." Marrison said sadly.

Morrison, Tomo and Max were very disappointed that they couldn't catch a Beldum.

"Wait a minute." Winter said, stopping everyone in their tracks.

"What is it Sky?" Brock asked.

"I feel some psychic energy around here," Winter answered, "and since Beldum are steel and psychic type, it must mean that not all the Beldum are gone."

"Really? Then where are they?" Max asked.

Winter took a look at the area and then she pointed to an old tree, "They're in the tree." She said and ran over to the tree and saw a tree hollow, she looked into it and found three injured Beldums, "Brock come here quick!"

Brock rushed over to Winter and saw the three Beldums too, he picked them out of the tree and settled them onto the grass.

Morrison, Max, Tomo and May saw the three Beldums and were horrified to see them injured.

"What happened to them?" May gasped.

"It seems they were attacked by some Pokémon," Winter said, "and it seems to me that the other Beldums that were here were attacked and captured."

Truthfully Winter had looked into the Beldums memories and she saw the other Beldums being attacked and captured in Pokéballs.

As Brock cared for the three injured Beldums, Winter tried to see if she could sense the other wild Beldums, but she couldn't and she didn't sense any other people in the area either.

"It's no good," Winter sighed, "I don't sense any other Beldums, so it seems they are all gone except these three."

"Well who ever captured the other Beldums, I hope that they are well looked after." Morrison said.

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At that time Jessie, James and Meowth were cheering for their capture of thirty Beldums.

They had come to a place far, far away from the area, where they captured the Beldums, so it was no wonder Winter couldn't sense them anywhere.

James was looking up on Beldum on his laptop, "Hmm, it says here that Beldum aren't much, when they're Beldum," he read out, "they only know take down, and they won't learn anymore attacks till they evolve to Metang."

"Well that's no good," Meowth said, "this well be like sending Magikarp who only know tackle, splash and flail to the boss."

"Then we shall train them till they evolve," Jessie said, "we've come too far now to get these Beldum for the boss and I am certainly not going to make a Mankey out of myself with this. So we shall evolve them to Metang and then send them to the boss."

James and Meowth agreed with that.

So they got ready to train the Beldums they captured and make them evolve to Metang, even if it took them a whole day or two.

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Back with the gang, the three Beldums were recovering nicely thanks to Brock's medicines.

"Good thing we were here, otherwise these Beldums would still be in pretty bad shape." Brock said.

Winter looked thoughtful, "Morrison, Tomo and Max," she said, "I think you three better catch these three now. I mean some more trainers may come here to catch these three."

"I agree with Sky," Brock said, "these three are still recovering, and they may end up more injured later."

Morrison, Tomo and Max saw the point, so they captured the three Beldums at once.

"We better take them to a Pokémon Centre at once, and then they will get more treatment from there." Morrison suggested.

The others agreed and they went to a Pokémon center to get the Beldums healed.

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Thanks to Nurse Joy, Morrison's,Max's and Tomo's new Beldums were fully healed.

"Well thank goodness that the Beldums will be okay now." Brock said.

"Well I better go soon," Morrison said, "I still need to earn my eighth gym badge for the Hoenn League. And then I will win the Hoenn League."

"Dream on Morrison," Winter said, "I'm entering the Hoenn League too and you will have to defeat me first to win it."

"Well I look forward to challenging you in the Hoenn League," Morrison said, "now I must go and get my eighth badge. Later."

Morrison left the Pokémon Centre with his Pokémon at once.

Winter noticed at once that she had a rival for the Hoenn League, "It's obvious," she said to the others "I have got rivals for both the Grand Festival and Hoenn League."

"Pipichu!" "Chipachipa!" Two electric nodded.

"You're right about that Sky." Brock agreed.

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Sorry for the wait and short chapter....

1. Sorry if Winter doesn't catch a Beldum in this chapter, but she is going to catch the shiny Metagross in Sinnoh.

2. I didn't like the attitude the Morrison in the anime had much, so I toned it down as much as I could think.

3. I decided to give Jessie, James and Meowth a successful capture for once. After all it's been awhile since we have heard of them.