"Right!" the professor said to the four waiting children. "Aa you know, today will be the day where you start your mechemon journey!" he paused, as if waiting for applause. Someone coughed.
"Thank you, thank you," Professor Zip said. "All right, first we need to get you into pairs."
There were moans at this. None of the children knew each other- but Ren was sure that the blendon's trainer had come from Swire Marsh. He remembered someone saying something about it.
"Fine, then I'll pair you. Boys with boys, I think, unless you want to travel differently?"
Nobody answered, instead shuffling into the selected pairs. Ren found himself next to a boy with a toastra. He was pleased by this- if they battled, he'd have a type advantidge.
"Hey," the boy said. "My name's Carl, and this is Crumb."
Ren shook hands with the trainer, and introduced himself and Steamy.
"Well," the professor said, "now that you're all set up, I'll give you some mecheballs and a mechedex, and you can leave on your journey!"
Carl and Ren were last in line. Ren's pokedex was blue, and he recieved five mecheballs. They were the traditional black and silver, and he happily put them in his backpack.
"I'm going to be the greatest mechemon trainer ever!" he told Carl as they left.
"Yeah," he replied. "Me too."
Ren didn't bother to correct him, so instead the two trainers walked into Route 54,836,392. Then he turned to Carl, excited. "How about a battle?"
"Now?"
"Yeah!"
"OK," Carl said. "But I won't go easy on you."
"No need. Go, Steamy!"
"Rilll!" chirped Steamy, landing in front of him.
"Don't worry Crumb, you can take it!"
"Toast!"
"OK Steamy, use Boil!"
"Toast Cannon!"
Steamy's eyes closed as she stored up energy. Meanwhile Crumb was building up energy too. In a sudden "ping", two slices of charred burnt toast flew out and crashed straight into the kettleril.
"No! Quick Steamy, use Steam Gun!"
The energy Steamy had made by boiling was suddenly unleased through her spout, hitting Crumb full on and driving him backwards. Because of the type advantidge, Crumb was very badly hurt. Ren wasted no time.
"Great, now use Shove!"
With a full-on body charge, Steamy ran up to Crumb and sent it flying. Carl sighed and returned Crumb to his mecheball.
"I suppose we need more practice."
Ren nodded. "Maybe you should heal him before we move on."
"OK," Carl said. "I'll be back in a moment."
As soon as he ran off, Ren picked up Steamy happily. "You did it! You beat Crumb brilliantly!"
"Rill!" Steamy said.
Ren paused as he heard a growl, and saw a long shadow come up in front of them. It hissed.
"Pluwor," it said, showing three sharp metal teeth.
E/N: Dum dum dum! Dum de dum dum, dum de dum de dum... dum... um... Well, that was another chapter. And you thought I wouldn't update this! Mwhahahaha!
Well, in this chapter the oddness of this story actually hit me. It came to me just as I was typing up Crumb using Toast Cannon. But what do YOU think? Remember, new mechemon are always welcome! Submit yours now, in a nice review.