The earth shook with the thunder of a dozen storms. Sift's heart beat in a rapid counter tempo as he dashed madly with the crowds. He risked a glance over his shoulder and could only see the decimated ruins of the Goldenrod Stadium amidst the smoke and ruins. Thunderous shocks knocked several of the crowd over, immediately snarling and entangling others madly fleeing the scene of devastation... it was all Sift could do to nimbly leap over the knot of limbs and screams and continue to run, sheer terror and panic driving millions to do the same all over the city.
	“Why do I keep screwing up this badly!?” He thought to himself... “I told myself that I wouldn't bring her to this match. I tried my best to keep her ball off my belt... I just wanted to have an ordinary match just once! Just once!”
	The crowds had thinned considerably since Plum had made her appearance known. Sift was scheduled to appear today in one of the Grand Master tournaments, and had brought his star lineup... but when he tossed out his first pokeball for the qualifier... the terror began. Plum was one of Sift's most powerful pokemon. She was one of the rarest and most sought after Lucarias on the planet, not just because of her purple coloration, but her grace, agility, and raw power. Those who had been able to capture one of these Lucarias swiftly had their names etched in gold above the halls of fame around the world, both for competitions and beauty contests. Sift had sought long and hard through some of the most remote areas of the planet before he finally managed to capture this particular one...
	However, she would argue that she had captured him.
	“Oooooh, such lovely little toys.” Her voice thickened the air. The sheer pleasure, power, and disdain that weighed down her voice was enough to bring thousands of people to their knees. Their eyes wildly clawed at the sky, unable to believe that such a voice could exist, but indeed, Plum was there. Above the densely packed trees that lined the avenues. Above the hundreds of city blocks comprising Goldenrod City's districts.
	Above the clouds themselves.
	Her grin split hope and flashed despair for millions of lives. Her long ears twitched and focused as she strained to pick up the cries of fear and terror that barely trickled up through miles of atmosphere. Absently clenching her mountainous toes brought thousands of lives to a crushing and violent end. “You go and build me such wonderful little carpets to walk on, little bugs.” Screams were drowned out under the syrupy sweetness of her voice. “It would be just a shame to let it all... go to waste...” A paw the size of a lake slowly rose. The rush of air was hurricane in intensity, as thousands were sucked into the space where a once-thriving business district stood. Buildings were crushed into solid rock in those immense craters. Molten ruin and fragments of humanity began to fall from those toes as they effortlessly swept the atmosphere aside. Those who happened to be closest to her perished mercifully swift as the mere seismic motion of her deified frame began to move forwards...
	Sift had little time, and he knew it. Ever since he recognized Plum's pokeball spinning out of his hand, he knew she'd be coming for him. Even with so many millions of lives around for her to play with, she always made sure that the little Siamese was part of the devastation. A blizzard of thoughts careered around his mind. He dared not look up at the titaness, lest their gaze lock and death would be swift. In desperation, he shoved and muscled his way haphazardly through the dazed crowd and began to wedge himself down a dark alleyway...
	Plum's tread was indeed quite gentle. Her toes slowly pierced through the sky and displaced hurricanes of air. The perfectly curved toes contacted the densely packed urban landscape just at the edge of the tallest buildings. The toes alone instantly crushed over a million lives each as they spread out to handle the incoming weight. The most majestic of mankind's creations wouldn't even reach her insole, had she put any greater thought into her tread, but instead she crushed them outright beneath the broad, heavy ball of her tremendous paw. She continued to add her weight onto humanity, splaying and spreading her toes out at the speed of sound, shockwaves ripping and sundering the ground... Indeed, before even half of her weight was settled, the planet's crust gave up and unleashed a resounding crack, the heavens and the earth split asunder with a grin and a paw. Plum sneered and couldn't help herself. A giggle rippled the scattered clouds that formed with her breath. “Ooooh, you call this plush? I can feel the baseboard underneeeeeeath.” She punctuated her words with twists, grinds, and spikes of brutal, murderous pressure. Half the city was now in complete ruin, rippling earthquakes shattering foundations and burying humanity's greatest city under rubble. Plum simply shifted her paw and repeated the slow, deliberate walk, splaying her monstrous toes wide to show any survivor what their fate would be... “Guess I'll just have to register my... complaints with you all...”
	Sift could only cower in terror as the meteoric crushing continued for what seemed like hours. He could hear little else amidst the constant collapse of skyscrapers, the occasional scream, and his own labored breathing. The sky was thick with dust and debris... but that was exactly what he needed. Under the cover of destruction, Sift began to make his way back towards the stadium. Back to where it all began. Only one thing could possibly stop her from destroying the world now...
	Plum looked down at the dusty brown clouds around her ankles. The world was cracked and broken, her immense pawcraters daintily pressed deep into the wounded planet. She couldn't help but grin and leer down through the heavens as she admired her handiwork. 
	“See? You couldn't even build a carpet that I couldn't get bored with in five minutes. I think I'll just have to take my business... elsewhere.” With a single, cruel step, the titaness's paw bit down through the crust on the other side of the mountains. Plum turned away from the massive gravesite she had left, tens of millions now forever lost and crushed... She paused, and considered for a moment. “Oh, silly me. You probably want me to clean up after myself now... mm?” Ignoring the air traffic that peppered her royal purple fur with orange blossoms, she rested her other footpaw on the side of the mountain... and with an effortless shove, bulldozed the earth down into the shattered remains of Goldenrod City. She casually began to  bury the entire city with the surrounding countryside, patting and trampling down the remains under miles of solid rock...
	Sift prayed he would be fast enough. He had made it to the stadium just in time to see his Lucaria begin to bury the city. He began to dig through the stadium near where he thought he had been standing... 
	“Come on, come on... It has to be around here somewhere...” It was difficult to lift and move the broken concrete, the twisted steel. It was even harder to hold down his lunch whenever he came across some of the broken lives that he had destroyed. “God dammit, this is always my fault! Mine! I never should have tried to capture her... Never!” A glint of rosy purple caught his eye half buried in a pile of debris... The faint ribbon of hope stretched taut as he pounced upon the one thing that could possibly save the rest of the world from a cruel, crushed fate... “My Lucaball!” He wrenched the pokeball out of the ruins and brushed it off... no matter how many times Plum had broken free, the ball never seemed to lose its luster or its capability to contain her again.
	Then suddenly the world became upside down, sideways, and diagonal.
	Plum lifted the hunk of earth out of the world. She had seen something dart out of the corner of her eye, and knew exactly what her little trainer had in mind. She held aloft the massive shard of broken city, rubble and the occasional survivor tumbling down miles to the ground. Sift had only managed to hold onto the ball through extreme effort and practice, but he knew exactly what he had to do now... He stared into the oceans of her eyes as they somehow focused upon the microbe before her. 	“Oooh. Somehow you keep coming back for more, hon.” She seemed almost to enjoy tormenting Sift like this... murdering entire cities under her heel and leaving him alive intentionally until the end. Sift scowled and mustered his flagging courage. “Plum! Come back! Now!” He pressed the ball's capture button and...
	...nothing. Nothing happened. Sift wilted as he desperately hammered on the ball's release button. “Wh...hey! Hey! Work! Worrrk!” He risked a glance back up, and was immediately gripped by Plum's hypnotic eyes. They were bigger than most lakes he had been to growing up. Larger and deeper than anyone's eyes ever. His grip loosened upon the pokeball... and Plum's amused grin split even wider. 
	“Oh, dear. I think I broke him again. Poor li'l ol' me... Looks like I'll just have to... make amends somehow...” And with that, she simply grew. Explosively at first, but she only began to grow even faster and furious! Sift was knocked to the little hunk of earth as it rapidly began to diminish in Plum's expanding handpaw. The land itself was soon overrun, buckled, crushed, and devoured by the splayed toes of a Lucaria as massive as the entire planet itself! Continents thrashed and buckled against the godly assault. Oceans evaporated as the world itself split and broke beneath her weight... and still she continued to grow. Earth was lost between her toes, the Moon faring no better. Sift could only stare in solitary awe as his pokemon continued to grow far beyond his comprehension.
	Yet her eyes were always there. Always fixated upon him. Gripping his soul and keeping it locked safe from the mindbending influence of her own gravity... The sun splashed against her flank and winked out of existence. Planets disappeared into her fur. The stars themselves dissolved and became forever lost within Plum's curves. She paused only briefly to admire the galaxy as a skirt before swiftly outgrowing it. Everything. Everything was hers. Everything that had ever been part of the universe was now held within her, and Sift was all that mattered now.
	Sift's ear twitched as the resonating giggle of a goddess warped across his mind. She leaned in close. Hundreds of trillions of lightyears of Lucaria muzzle grinning in defiance of the laws of physics. Her lips parted, and a hiss of pleasure bowled Sift over onto his back.
	Sift could only watch as Lucaria set the tiny mote of life down at her feet. She brutely forced Sift's perception to fully comprehend her size, drowning him in the immensity of it all. Softly, Plum raised her incomprehensible footpaw over the infinitesimal feline... there was the paw that had ended Everything. She lowered that universe-swallowing paw down onto Sift, forcing him to perceive her for hours and days and weeks and years as she hissed a final, soul-searing word into her favorite toy, branding him forever...
	“Mine.”