Siam could feel an arm wrapped around his neck and another gripping his arms, he could breathe but not voluntarily move. He was marched forward, with each footfall he felt the broken bones in his leg grinding apart against each other, he was only kept standing by the arm around his throat. Siam was led into the smoke slowly, gradually making his way across the glass walkway, he found himself only a few feet from a tall slender man in hornrimmed glasses and a large machine. "The power contained in the Meteorite". Siam could hear Maxie begin "If we merge the explosive energy contained within the planet's core with the Meteorite's power". Maxie looked up from typing into the machine, a smile spread across his lips as he saw Siam. Maxie approached and simply stared at Siam for a second "I remember those eyes, and the indomitable will that seems to burn behind them.". Maxie looked past him at the man holding him. "He can't do anything Tabitha, just drop him there". Siam felt the arms release him, and suddenly his full weight was up to his legs to support, he collapsed straight down shattering further the bones in his legs as he smashed onto the glass walkway. "You show some true promise". Siam found himself on his hands and knees, staring through the glass floor and down the pit to the broiling, molten rock lake below "So I will attempt to educate you.". Siam couldn't see anyone else, his eyes would not tear away from the lava below. "Thousands of years ago, there lived a most powerful being-". Something was moving in the lava, Siam could see it; huge chitinous plates shifting around just below the surface. Siam had tuned out, not hearing most of what Maxie was preaching "Our research has led us here, to Mt. Chimney. Here, to this very Meteorite". he was able to tear his eyes away from the pit and glance up at Maxie. Maxie wasn't even watching him anymore, he was staring into a viewing window in the strange machine "If we create the right conditions, we should find outselves able to alter this Meteorite's qualities". The tall man turned back to Siam, a somewhat manic grin on his face. "Yes, even into a Mega Stone", it wasn't really the words, so much as the concept behind them that seemed to echo in Siam's mind 'Mega Stone'. "Even into a Key stone". At this phrase, Siam's hearing suddenly cut out, echoing the last two words over and over, every time he heard them it sounded more and more like the last word 'stone' began to morph into his own name.
Looking up, Siam watched as Maxie took a step back and levelled the revolver at him. Though his lips moved, Siam couldn't tell what Maxie was saying. Siam could see up the barrel of the gun, he could almost imagine the bullet at the end. He watched as the hammer was pulled back, Siam didn't flinch as he readied for the shot, but in the moment that the bullet should have fired, the walkway shook and the glass fractured. A massive rock hand was between Siam and the gun, Siam followed the arm of this thing back to see a massive boulder, bearing four long stone arms and two small rock feet. A Graveler? Siam could not see what was happening any more as the large boulder creature moved in front of him, blocking his sight completely. He could feel the smoke around him swirl and clear, as a large amount of wind forced it away, enabling everyone to see the bridge clearly. Looking around, Siam noticed Vipsania the Crobat, and a strange blue pokemon; it's body resembled a teardrop, with two large antennae apparently painted as a pair of eyes. A Masquerain? Graveler and Masquerain, evolutions of Geodude and Surskit, the pokemon had broken out of the Cable car.
Three quick flashes of red light, barely noticable in the light of the sea of magma below. Siam watched as a Golbat, the stage between Zubat and Crobat, the form that Vipsania evidently skipped, materialised in the sky and began to strike out at the Masquerain. Drawing his attention slowly back to the glass walkway, Siam noticed a splotch of lava apparently oozing along the glass, far above the pit. As it oozed toward the Graveler, it's eyes became apparent, and the nature of this creature was evident. Seeing this entity, Siam pushed himself up, attempting to stand on his shattered legs, his weight and the agonising, searing pain ripped him back to his knees. Finally the echoing of his own name ended, and Siam found himself in a surreal sensation of watching this viscious battle roar all around him, in silence. He watched Vipsania soar past, no pokeball in her claws. He watched the Masquerain being chased in rings around the walls of the volcano by an aggrivated Golbat. He watched the Graveler punch, unsuccessfully, at the magmatic creature. He watched Maxie at the machine, with a creature beside him; a squat, four legged creature with two volcanic looking humps on it's back, and a strangely unreal glow about it. The creature glowed with a colour Siam had never seen before, a colour indescribable and beautiful, he could feel the glow reaching into him, but knew it was not and could never be real. Every shake of his head to try and shake the colour from his eyes, only rattled his stunned and painful brain.
As the Graveler gradually beat back the small puddle of magma, this strangely glowing pokemon stepped forth. Fire erupted from its back and blasted the Graveler hard on the side, sending it rolling and tumbling in the opposite direction. Before the poor creature could grab the sides of the walkway, it had tumbled into the open air and downward. Siam watched through the floor as this creature, which was only trying to protect him, fell uncontrollably down, down into the crashing waves of magma below. It was consumed almost instantly, disappearing forever below the surface of what Siam could imagine to be its own molten siblings. He watched as Vipsania, unable to catch the heavy creature, rocketed back up the cliff to slam into the Golbat. On the walkway however, Siam watched the reflection of Maxie, the puddle of lava, and the strange squat creature approach. As they drew nearer, the strangely beautiful glow of this creature flowed over him. The more of this glow he saw in his own reflection, the more his muscles seemed to burn. It felt like he was on fire, and every muscle in his body seemed to be stretching, ripping apart as they burnt.
Name: Clodia
Species: Graveler
Type: Rock/Ground
Nature: Sassy
Level Lost: 16
Met: Route 111
Lost: Mt. Chimney(VS Maxie) ++=++ | ++=++
"Vipsania doesn't have the pokeball.". Was the only thing Siam could think of, the only chance he knew he could have had was in that pokeball, and there was no way of getting to it. Siam couldn't walk, he couldn't even stand properly. In what he knew to be a futile gesture, Siam held his hand out, as if holding the pokeball. In a flash of light, the great blue serpent appeared, wrapped around the other end of the glass walkway. It's roar shook the cavern "How the fuck did that work?". shaking the question from his mind and using only one hand to support himself, Siam raised the other into the air and snatched at nothing. Duilius the great serpent simply reached out and snatched the Golbat out of the air in response, A flash of light followed, and once again the Golbat was sealed in a pokeball. Returning his hand to an open palm, Siam swept it from side to side, Duilius copied; shoving both the puddle of lava, and this stout glowing creature over the edge. Two more quick flashes of light and they were once again safe inside their pokeballs. Maxie glared down at Siam, stepped on Siam's support hand, and before Siam could call the Gyarados down on him, fled. Siam nodded up at Duilius as the great serpent vanished in a flash of light. Once he felt nothing would attack him, Siam began to crawl using his one good hand and the one that had been stepped on. He reached up to the machine's glass window and smashed through it with a now bloody fist, from within he pulled a small lump of rock he recognised as the one taken from the man at Meteor Falls.
Having collected what was stolen, the beaten and broken Siam collapsed onto the glass, staring down at the fiery pit below. In the reflection from the glass he watched as a little white pokeball rolled past him. As he watched it, Siam could feel someone searching around in the backpack he was still wearing. He was too weak to move, incapable of even reaching out and grabbing the pokeball that had likely saved his life. He felt something take the Meteorite from his hand, as Vipsania landed and picked up the pokeball. Six long, leaf-like fingers gently turned him over before picking him up. Siam looked up at a long brown nose and what seemed to be a huge white mane that covered the majority of the creatures face. Knowing himself to be safe, Siam allowed himself to finally fade to black.