Welcome to Route 113
By Lord Agravane the Undead and with lots of help from Rattlehead
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon or the characters from the games. I do own the grunts I invented :P
Part 1
M5 and M6 were feeling proud. Team Magma had recently recruited a new grunt; a lad about their age who was originally called Jeremy Alberio but who was now known as M43. M43 already had his own Pokemon; a young Eevee who had been a gift from his grandparents in Unova. So Maxie had asked M5 and M6 to have some practise battles with M43, to help him train up his Eevee.
"Hey, you looking forwards to your first battle?" M6 asked the new recruit. M5 eyed him up curiously. M43 was a couple of inches taller than him and had longish, midnight-blue hair. His eyes were bluish-grey and he had a kind of naughty look about him.
"Yeah", M43 said, nodding and patting the Pokeball on his belt. "You guys wanna see my Pokemon?"
"Sure", M5 and M6 said. M43 released his Eevee, who gazed around curiously at its new surroundings, then squeaked in greeting. Both boys got down on their hands and knees to pet the Eevee. Enjoying the attention, Eevee strutted about and purred loudly.
"Awww, your Eevee's really cute", said M5, tickling the fluffy creature under its chin. "What's his name?"
"He's called Aventurine", said M43. "My Granddad bought him off a lady called Amanita for a thousand Pokedollars. He has Anticipation as his hidden ability and his IVs are all 31".
M5 caught M6's gaze and M6 rolled his eyes. That was the only problem with M43 so far; he kept showing off loads. He thought himself better than all the grunts and didn't even have a lot of respect for the admins. But as the lads had been entrusted to train him (and as they were still pretty new themselves), they didn't tell him off.
"Um, that's cool", said M5 and M6 nodded.
"Yes", said M43, tossing his hair back. "I have the best Pokemon out of all the grunts and he will win all of his battles".
"OK, so wanna put your money where your mouth is?" M5 asked. M43 blinked in confusion.
"He's asking you for a battle", said M6
"Oh! Oh yeah, sure". M43 petted Aventurine on her head. "Come on sweetie; let's show M5 what you can do".
M5 pressed the button on his Pokeball and his Slugma burst forth. "Go Bob!" he yelled.
"You called your Pokemon Bob?" scoffed M43.
"Bob, use Ember", said M5.
M6 smirked at M43. "You wanna pay attention rookie".
"Oi, who are you called rookie? Oh no, Aventurine!" Bob's fiery attack hit the Eevee and he yelped and staggered backwards.
"Oh, oh! Aventurine, quick use...Swift!" M43 gasped.
Aventurine shot out a flurry of bright stars, which smacked into Bob, causing him to topple over. However, he was quickly up again; gazing at M5 and ready for his next command.
"Bob, use Rock throw!" said M5.
M43 flapped his hands in dismay as his Eevee was pelted with a barrage of rocks. Finally Aventurine keeled over in a faint. M5 and M6 high fived each other and M43 rushed over to his Pokemon.
"Ohhh, poor Aventurine!" he howled. "Did that nasty Slugma beat you? There there, Daddy's got a lovely Revive here for you".
"Well done Bob!" said M5, hugging his Slugma (he was wearing his heat resistant outfit). "You did brilliantly".
M43 quickly revived Aventurine and soon, the little Eevee was back on his feet, rubbing round and round M43s' legs. M5 went over to him and held his hand out.
"Good battle M43", he said.
"Humph", said M43, grudgingly accepting M5's handshake.
"Hey, how's it going?" A voice from behind made the three boys look round. Tabitha and a couple of female grunts had just entered the Battle Chamber.
"We're doing Pokemon battles and it's really great", M6 said eagerly. "M5 just had one with M43".
"The clue's in the name, M6", said M4, folding her arms across her chest. "The BATTLE Chamber, uhuh?"
"Oops", said M6.
"Nice one", said Tabitha. "Ok, I'll battle the winner. Who won?"
M43 made a face. M5 blushed and M6 pointed to him.
"M5, oh cool! OK, get ready then kid. Make sure you win cus if you don't, I'm gonna do something terrible to you".
"Balls!" said M43 rudely. He was still annoyed at M5 beating him. "Something terrible? M5, I hope he sits on you".
M5 raised his eyebrows. The other grunts tried desperately not to laugh and Tabitha did his best Cyrus Face.
"That's not funny", he said.
The Battle Chamber was mostly silent, apart from frantically restrained sounds of snorting and choking.
M43 looked delighted but Tabitha was far from happy.
"It's not funny, it isn't! You lot, stop trying to laugh. Shush, all of you. Now!"
All the grunts burst out laughing, some of them falling onto the floor from it.
"What's going on?" said Maxie, who had just walked in. "What is wrong with these grunts?"
"They're laughing at something that is NOT funny", said Tabitha. "M43 insulted me!"
Maxie turned to M43, who was laughing hardest of all. He managed to sober up and scrambled to his feet.
"Uh, yeah Boss?"
"What did you say to Tabitha?"
"No, don't say it out aloud again!" said Tabitha, as he envisioned the other grunts going hysterical once more. "Whisper it in Maxie's ear".
Still sniggering, M43 went over to Maxie and did as he was bid. Maxie's eyes widened and his lip twitched slightly.
"There, wasn't that a dreadful thing to say about such a respected admin as me" Tabitha said indignantly. "It's not funny at all, is it Boss? You must tell M43 off".
"Uh, well, yes. Yes, actually that was very rude", said Maxie, assuming a stern expression. "M43, I insist that you apologise to Tabitha at once".
"But it was funny!" said M43.
"No, no, you can't say things like that to the admins", said Maxie. "If I would have been rude like that at your age, my Mom would have spanked me".
M43 looked uncomfortable. Then he said, "But your Mom's not here".
"Well, yes", said Maxie. "But...SHE CAN BE!" He whipped out his mobile phone and showed M43 a picture of one of his contacts; a middle aged lady who looked rather like him.
"Hahaha, it's my Mom! I'm going to call her unless you apologise to Tabitha, right now".
The grunts starting laughing again, except for M43, who had gone quite pale.
"You wouldn't, would you Boss?" he gasped.
Maxie began typing numbers into the keypad.
"OK, OK!" said M43. "I'm sorry, Tabitha! Better?"
Tabitha smirked. "Call that an apology?"
M43 sighed. "Alright, fine! I'm really sorry that I was so rude to you Tabitha. I won't do it again".
"With a cherry on top?" asked Tabitha.
"Oh, that's pushing it" M43 cried.
Tabitha looked at Maxie.
"Oops, my finger nearly accidentally hit the call button", said Maxie.
"Alright, that too!" M43 exclaimed. "Can I go now? I've got to spend the next 10 years hiding under my bed with embarrassment".
"Yes, off you go", said Maxie. M43 turned and shot out of the room like a Ninjask with its arse on fire. The girls yelled in delight and M6 did a naughty hand sign after him.
"Good, he's gone, the big babby", said M5. He looked at Tabitha. "Can we have our battle now?"
"Hmm..." said Tabitha.
"I didn't laugh", said M5. "Well, I sort of didn't. OK, I tried the hardest out of all the grunts not to".
"Yeah, go on then", said Tabitha, smiling again and patting M5 on the shoulder. M6 gave M5 the thumbs up and the other grunts giggled.
"Haha, we're going to watch you guys!" said M4. M5 blushed and Maxie shook his head.
"No, no watching. I know you girls; you'll just be back seat battlers".
"But I can watch", said M6, poking himself in the chest. "I do everything with M5".
"Yeah, you two are permanently glued together", said M27.
M6 opened his mouth to protest. "Come on", Maxie said to the female grunts. "Let's go and find Courtney and..."
He was interrupted by another grunt charging in.
"Oh, there you are Boss!" she exclaimed. "Can you come and tell off M3? She drew a picture of me kissing Archie!"
The other girls (who had just about recovered), exploded in mirth again. M5 and M6 did revolted faces at each other and Tabitha put his hand over his mouth.
"Ok M42, I'm on my way", said Maxie. M42 led him out of the room by his jacket and M5 and M6 heard him muttering under his breath.
"I don't know about being the leader of a villainous team. It's more like running a kindergarten!"