Ah, yes, Chapter 5, midway to the double digits… HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY, PEOPLE! Here you (Rolling R's) arr-rr-rre, lassies an' laddies and me fellow authorr-rrs!

CHAPTER 5:

Team Scheme!

Roy had spent the night on Route 102 and rushed through Petalburg City. He knew he'd have to wait to battle Norman. Anyway, after getting past the seaside part of Route 104, he entered… Petalburg Woods (Insert Beethoven's 5th Symphony here). Maybe that was over dramatic, but would YOU like it if YOU had to go through a Bug-infested forest and YOU were scared of bugs? Didn't think so! A Wurmple suddenly dropped in front of Roy's face. It was like he suddenly became an Exploud and used Hyper Voice! The speed of his run, though, was as if he became Rayquaza (MWA HA HA HA HA HA!) and used Extremespeed! Nevertheless, a tree… or two… always stops you! And hurts you…

"OWWW!" Roy bellowed. Tears welled up in his eyes.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HAAAH HAAH!" he cried, doing the famous anime version of mega-crying: tear fountains.

"Oh, fa' cryin' out loud, kid! (HAAAAA HA HA HA!) Shut up!" came a deep voice from behind Roy.

Roy stopped crying instantly "somehow" and looked up. What he saw would not be pleasing if he knew who 'twas. He saw a man about twenty. The man had a red shirt on with only short, jagged sleeves, dark gray pants, a dark gray shirt, most likely sleeveless, under the aforementioned one, dark gray shoes, gray cloves, and red sleeves on the wrists and ankles. The only distinguishing mark was a strange mountain M on the shirt.

"Who are you?" Roy asked.

"I am Team Magma Grunt Ibson! If I were you, I'd stay outta my way, kid." Ibson growled and left.

After Roy calmed down, he set out again. Until, after a while:

"STOP! NO! AUGHHH!"

Roy rushed to the scene of the scream. He saw someone in a business suit backing away from (Beethoven's 5th here!) Ibson!

"Listen," Ibson said, "just give it up. Those goods are vital to Team Magma's plans and I shan't be letting up."

Roy gulped and then, mustering up courage, yelled:

"STOP RIGHT THERE, IBSON!"

"Huh?"

Roy pulled out a Poke Ball.

"Ibson, I challenge you to a Pokemon Battle! If I win, get you're smelly butt outta here."

Ibson growled at this.

"And if I lose," Roy continued, "you can take whatever! Got it?"

"Yeah! Do it Poochyena!" Ibson roared, throwing out a black Poke Ball with the mountain M symbol on it. (The Magma Ball! Good for Fire-, Dark-, Poison-, and Ground- Types!)

A Poochyena came out, snarling. Roy could tell it was a lot stronger than Benjamin's.

'Okay… Machop is good, but I wanna use Surskit.' Roy thought.

"Suskit, let's do this!"

"Sursk!" Suskit shouted.

Battle statistics: This is a one-on-one battle with no time limit or substitutions.

Roy's Surskit vs. Magma Grunt Ibson's Poochyena

BATTLE COMMENCE!

"Poochyena, Bite!" Ibson ordered.

Poochyena began running at Surskit, fangs ready to bite.

"Surskit! Water Pulse!"

A ball of water formed in front of Surskit, and then rushed at Poochyena, crashing into him as it waved out more, also stopping Bite.

"Poochyena! Get up and use Poison Fang!" Ibson roared.

"Egg move…" Roy mumbled.

Poochyena ran again at Surskit faster than before, teeth glowing purple. He chopped down on Surskit, luckily not poisoning him.

"Ha ha! Surskit, use your Quick Attack!"

Surskit suddenly dashed around with great speed, and slammed Poochyena with a tree!

"Now Bubblebeam!"

A huge amount of bubbles shot from Surskit to Poochyena. The final attack made the dog faint!

"Grr… return, Poochyena!" Ibson yelled angrily.

"Yeah, Surskit! You deserve a rest." Roy said and recalled him. Both Pokemon turned to red energy and returned to their Balls.

"Well, you beat me here, but Team Magma is after something in Rustboro City, too." Ibson said and let out an evil cackle, then ran away.

"Oh, thank you." the businessperson said to Roy after all was settled. "I owe you! Anyway, I work at Devon Corporation. We make all the Poke Balls and stuff for Hoenn. If you didn't save me, my job would be the least of my worries! To show you my appreciation, take these items."

The staff member gave Roy a Great Ball, which was like all Poke Balls except for a higher catching rate than regulars and the blue top and red top pieces. Roy also got a Full Restore, the highest-ranked Potion for Surskit.

"Now, what did Ibson say…?" Suddenly the worker's eyes popped out! "Oh no! It's a CRISISSSS!"

Roy followed him to Rustboro City, home of Gym Leader Roxanne, where he lost sight of the staff member. Roy just shrugged and went into the Pokemon Center for the night. He hadn't used the Full Restore yet, but he would. And tomorrow, he might need it against Roxanne!

Author: I forgot this, but if you wanna use Roy (THIS Roy), you must ask! Gack ack ack ack ack!