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16th Spell: [Video/Action for Goldenrod]

[The feed clicks on to show Twilight hugging what looks like a spaceship with eyes. Looks like her Magneton finally evolved.]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes! Finally, my very own Magnezone!

[She practically giggles in glee, clambering up onto the top of her newly evolved Pokemon with a grin. The Magnezone waits for her to be settled on top of it, and then slowly rises up into the air.]

I am Twilight Sparkle, Captain of the Starship Tesla! Our mission is to search the cosmos for-

For...

Megasoma, Snails, what are you two doing with my gear?

[The feed suddenly clicks off.]

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[Oh look, it's the last person she wanted to see this.]

Ah... Sir El-Melloi. This is, um... nothing you need concern yourself with. At all. Just a bout of excitement from having my Pokemon evolve, and... a certain personal appeal its form holds for me. I hadn't intended to have it broadcast, but...

[She glares down at her Heracross and Slowpoke.]

It looks like some of my Pokemon had other ideas.

[...maybe in April he would have been thoroughly dismissive of all of this and just broken everything off with a snide comment

but he's spent six months traveling with a man who takes off his shirt at the slightest provocation and four with a man with the social skills of a rock

at some point

at some point you just learn to accept that everyone around you has some sort of bizarre, embarrassing quirk

it's almost as though he learned a lesson about relating to people who aren't mage association

perhaps if he were some sort of magical horse, he would think this:

dear princess celestia today i realized that i'm okay with being surrounded by people who are absolutely mad

but he is not a magical horse so he doesn't.

what is this place doing to him

god

...so after a withering stare that lasted the entire length of how long it would take a somewhat slow reader to get through this action tag as he processes this revelation...]

...so... I had gathered. About your Pokemon, I mean. I was quite sure this wasn't an intentional broadcast.

[...composure]

What sort of Pokemon is that, anyway? I don't think I've seen... anything like it before now. It looks more like a machine than anything, really...

[She just waits while Kayneth keeps staring at her, slowly shrinking and waiting for him to mock her or hang up in disgust or... something, gulping a bit as she waits to see what his reaction is going to be.

But fortunately, Kayneth has finally realized something Twilight's known all along...

All the ~~ponies~~ people in this ~~town~~ world are CRAZY!

And she can't help but sigh a bit in relief when she finally hears his response.]

It's called a Magnezone. It's an Electric/Steel type, the final evolution of Magnemite, which you can find along the route between Olivine and Ecruteak. It requires a piece of rock from the Sinnoh Region to reach the final evolution, called a Coronet Rock, which isn't one of the standard evolution stones. As for why it looks like a machine, I would imagine that's related to its typing.

[congrats Kayneth you were not as much of a jerk as you would have been in April

progress]

...I suppose that does make a certain amount of sense, yes, though...

Well. I suppose I can't complain given that I didn't have much of a problem with the animate floating mirror, but something about a thing that's so mechanical being a Pokemon bothers me on some level.

...That is an odd evolution method, though. I imagine those must be somewhat difficult to come by, given how bizarrely specific that is.

I don't mind it, but I guess it does seem a little odd to have living, self-ambient machines, even for Pokemon. It's the sort of thing that could very easily be unnerving, especially if you aren't very mechanically inclined in the first place.

As for the difficulty in obtaining the stones, the only place they're available is in Goldenrod's department store. Possibly Celadon's, too, I haven't been there to check. I don't know about the stock, but they are quite expensive at fifteen thousand Pokeyen. Of course, as far as I know this evolution method is unique to Magnezone and one other Pokemon, Probopass, so it's unlikely that most trainers would run into this problem.

Surely they must be biological on some level, given that they presumably hatch from eggs like everything else here. However, I have no real idea what that level would be...

...So I see. Do these stones have any odd properties that would specifically effect those Pokemon in particular? The price is a bit steep for me to buy one myself, especially since I don't really have any intention of using the Magnemite line and I know very little about Probopass or the Pokemon that evolves into it.

Given that the Magnemite line are, well, magnets, and Probopass seems to be Nosepass with some additional features (including a mustache, for some reason), I'd say it's fairly clear that it's simply a powerfully magnetic stone, strong enough to amplify the magnetic strength already present in those Pokemon. Supposedly, the same effect could be achieved by battling with them at the same mountain, though it would be very difficult for us to test that.

I assumed it was something like that, but I didn't know enough about Nosepass and Probopass to say for sure. That is quite fascinating, though-most Pokemon have very straightforward methods of evolution, but some of them are downright bizarre. This at least seems to have a logic to it rather than seeming totally arbitrary, but I'm somewhat baffled as to why some Pokemon need to be traded to evolve, particularly given that there's rarely anything about them that would justify it.

I have to agree with you completely there. There's a slight justification with ones that carry items when they're traded, like Onix or Scyther, but the ones that just need to be traded... the best hypothesis I can think of is that there's some sort of recessive trait that's only triggered by changing trainers. Certainly, it does seem that having a trainer in the first place makes a Pokemon much more likely to evolve and to do so quicker.

The ones that need items do have a certain amount of justification to them, since the item is usually related to either the Pokemon or the evolution-though it doesn't explain why trading itself is the catalyst for them to activate. Perhaps trading Pokemon causes some sort of energy to be released during the transfer that either causes evolution or reacts with the catalyst?

Hmmm... I've never actually preformed a trade before, so I haven't had a chance to catalogue that information. And I do have a Kadabra...

I think an experiment is in order, sometime soon.

Tell me if you find anything interesting. I have two Pokemon that evolve in that fashion, but they both only require trading after their first evolution and one seems to require an item that I don't have on me at the moment.

Of course, if by some miracle I manage to test it first, I'll be sure to share my findings with you.

You have my word that I'll tell you as soon as there's something to share.

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