Chapter XXXII: The Battle of Mt. Chimney

"Don't worry, he's coming," said Brendan. From behind, the small green haired figure was running from behind to catch up with them. May had just remembered that they left Wally back in Mauville, but he was coming, as the Mauville skyline was disappearing.

"Wait…for…me!!!" he shouted as he almost tripped on his feet.

"Just ignore him, he'll be here," said Brendan. May was slightly worried.

"We should wait for him, Brendan," said May.

"3…2…1…"

"What the hell was that all about!!!" shouted Brendan as he took a deep breath. "I've been looking all around the damn city, searching in buildings, watching for a hint of white hair; you…left me…back…there!" he continued.

"Hey, I would have left you, but May remembered, and you were coming anyway, so what's the big deal?" asked Brendan.

"I would have been left in the (ding dong) city, and you'd have been sipping on cream cakes in Lavaridge City while clipping your (ooh ah AH!!!) toenails in the damn Lavaridge Hot Springs!" he shouted. Brendan didn't eye him at all, but continued to look down.

"And why am I supposed to care?" he asked tiredly. "I know it's only 3:30 in the afternoon, but dammit Watson really tore me up," said Brendan. "I'm happy that I have four badges, and instead of running off to dad like I should be, I'm going by this by the book," said Brendan.

"What do you mean 'by the book?'" asked May.

"Well, you know. Like in the anime, or an instruction manual to a video game or something," said Brendan. "We already disturbed the main storyline by so much ways," said Brendan. "If one more disturbance of normal happens, I think this story will be deleted," he said. May and Wally continued to eye Brendan as if he had three heads.

"What the (beep beep) are you talking about?" asked May.

"Well, you know…this story…" said Brendan. "Over 100,000 words typed in some retard's computer," he said. Wally looked as if Brendan grew another head. "Well don't look at me as if I grew another head!" shouted Brendan.

"I think Watson left you needing to go to a nut house," said May. "But anyway, what happened after Bagon hatched," she asked. Before they left the city, Brendan had found a Pokeball for the baby Bagon, but was still trying to find a nickname.

"Well, after that, Bagon has the egg move of some water move stronger than Muddy's Water Gun," said Brendan.

"Hydro Pump, retard," said Brendan and May's Pokedex.

"Right," said Brendan. "And in some strange way, the water hitting the electrical rod made it turn into negative energy…"

"And the bolts hit Manectric because negative and negative make positive energy!" said May happily. Brendan groggily nodded.

"So then, why was Watson so evil in the first place?" asked Wally. "I thought he was a nice old man…" Brendan silently handed May a small computer chip without Wally's notice. While Wally continued to babble on, Brendan began whispering.

"That was found beside Watson after the explosion," he said. "Apparently, it knows that it's a robot, so it gave me about P5000 to keep my mouth shut and a Dynamo Badge; said a group of engineers stuck that in him, and programmed him to dominate any trainer he sees." He said. "But not like how he battled me; the referee told me he's used that arena only twice." Continued Brendan silently as Wally finally noticed they weren't listening. May pocketed the computer chip in her bottomless fanny-pack sneakily.

"Uh…hello," said the green haired kid annoyedly. "My theory of quantum physics isn't done you know," he said. After Wally's extremely boring rant on quantum…something, they came across another familiar aspect of May and Brendan's travels.

"I guess the Winstrates fixed up their homes," said May as they still had some of a while to go before they reached up to the Cable Car station in the Frontside of Route 112.

"Pss…I remember those people; they're strange as…"

"GGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRR!!!!" shouted a voice from inside the house. Without any dire warning, a washing machine skyrocketed from the inside of the house, made a gigantic hole in the roof, and the familiar voice of Momma Winstrate shouted through Route 111. "I HATE SET IN STAINS!!!" she shouted as the washing machine literally landed 1 ft. of Wally's toes.

"Eek!" he shouted.

"Should we tell Victoria Winstrate about SHOUT Advanced?" asked May. The three of them thought about it for two seconds. "Nah!!!" the three of them continued through, and before they entered Route 112 (frontside), two familiar faces poked their heads out.

"And here we have Pokemon trainers from the Pokemon Fan Club, Brendan Birch and May Maple, as they continue their journey with…" they eyed Wally. "Some green haired kid." Gabby Wontshut Thehellup was standing in front of the three of them with her goofy cameraman, Ty.

"Listen, if it's a battle you want…" started Brendan.

"Good," said Gabby and Ty while pulling out Pokeballs. "Let's get it on," they said while so pumped. Wally blocked May and Brendan's path, as they too, pulled out a Pokeball and ready to square off with them.

"Now wait just a damn minute," said Wally as he pulled out two Pokeballs. "I'm not just some 'green haired kid,'" he said offensively. "Just like Brendan's not just 'some white haired kid…'"

"He never was 'just some white haired kid…'" said Gabby. "He's actually a kick ass trainer, and so's his dad. So, get the (bbbbrrrrrrriiiiinnnngggg) out of my way," said Gabby. Wally stood his ground.

"I'll battle the both of you in a team battle," said Wally. "When I win, just the money rule I guess," he said. "But I really am a lot more than what you think!" he said determinedly. Gabby rolled her eyes.

"Fine kid, we'll face you," she said. "But I know you'll lose," she said.

"Yeah? We'll just see about that," said Wally angrily…

The next thing anybody knew, Wally's Kirlia and Magnemite went flying to the space behind Brendan. Whismur and Magneton had literally dominated against Wally, and Gabby undusted her hands business like when Wally wailed over his lost.

"Sorry to waste you guy's time," said Gabby.

"Meh, don't worry about it," said Brendan. "It was expected from him…"

"Brendan!"

"What," said Brendan while receiving a punch to his arm. "I knew he'd get his ass whopped all over the floor like this!" he said. "It's not my fault he sucks," said Brendan. Wally was forced to give up P2500, as the money rule, and because they "taxed" Wally for wasting their time.

"Nice doing business with you, wimp," said Ty as the duo walked away without another word. It was really quiet as they approached the Cable Cars nearly 15 minutes later, but the good thing about it, was that no one was blocking entrance. There was a small trail for retards who wanted to hike up the mountain (A/N: I hiked up Mt. Fuji earlier this summer; it was a complete bitch for my legs), and the Cable Cars, which was self operatable.

"If nobody controls it, how do we go up?" asked Brendan.

"Simple," said May. She pointed to the timer at the side of the Cable Cars. May walked to the operating machine, and began pressing a few buttons. When she finished, a sign saying "P1500 please," she placed in a 1000 bill and a 500 coin, and a small counter was in place, saying "Will leave in 10…9…8…"

"Come on," said Brendan as the three of them boarded the beige Cable Car. They all finally got in at 5 seconds to go, and when it finally hit zero, they were off. Wally was extremely sad and embarrassed about getting beaten by the two newspeople.

"Cheer up, Wallykins," said May happily. It didn't seem to rub off of him, but Brendan saw in Wally's eyes that he wanted her to hold him. He mentally rolled his eyes as he looked out the window. They were still in building, but when they got out, they were on a small straight zip line, until it thickened as they were held diagonally. A huge explosion occurred to the mountaintop

"Wally, I think you losing a battle is the last of our problems," said Brendan. Black smoke with the Team Magma signal flew to the sky, and then vanished before May and Wally got a glimpse of it.

"How come?" asked Wally annoyedly, as May was so close to giving him a hug.

"I don't know it, but I think our trip on the mountains won't be so pleasant," said Brendan upfrontly.

"Well, by the size of that explosion, I think you're…" started May, but another explosion happened, just adjacent to the one that happened, but a white smoke came out, with the Team Aqua ensign. The view of the mountain and trees was beautiful from where they were at, but those explosions so close to the cable car base was creepy.

"Oh god," said Wally. "You don't think the cable car's gonna…gonna…"

"Don't say it!" said Brendan fiercely. "You say it, it's bound to happen!"

"Yeah, especially when two crazy motha (deck the halls with boroughs of holly) teams are bombing all over the mountain," said May. Wally shot a nasty look to Brendan, but continued as normal, as he began shaking while looking down. May and Brendan did notice that they were in a pretty high elevation from the ration of the height of the Cable Cars to the floor. But, they were reaching the top; because Mt. Chimney was a volcano, they didn't go on the very very top, but went into an indoor area with good lighting and good views of the molt and lava (A/N: Kind of like the Sears Tower or Empire State, when you're at the top, but not the outdoor top of the building). The trio didn't even get at the damn stop when they saw parades of blue and red battling each other to the death. A small brown rope was blocking people from the lava, but that didn't halt on Magma member from literally being pushed into the bubbling hotness. He literally rolled in, and the Aqua grunt laughed as smoke lifted from the lava pot. When the Cable Car stopped, the trio shot out, being introduced to more heavy explosions, gunshots, Pokemon commandments, and loud barking from the amount of Mightyena's in battle from Team Aqua and Magma. They climbed a couple mounds of mountain, and saw as one Team Magma's Mightyena was dominatig the ones owned by Team Aqua members. It was quite eerie, as it almost tore off one of their heads.

"We've got to split up," said May.

"What'll that do?" asked Wally, as a nearby explosion caused rubble to fall from the top.

"She's right," said Brendan. "If we find the exit to go down the mountain, or another Cable Car or something, then we'll be able to contact the others to our coordinations, and…"

"HOW!?" asked Wally.

"We call it PokeGear," said May and Brendan as they held up their watches. Wally shrugged.

"I don't have that," he said.

"Then you're screwed," said Brendan. "May, I don't like this guy; you stick with Wally, and I'll contact you if I find an exit, and vice versa," he said. May nodded, as she grabbed his hand, and sped off one way, and Brendan went the other. After taking a few steps, he just realized something.

"Wait, May!" he shouted. But they had already gone. "Dammit; I should have taken Wally. He'd have been away from May…and then she'd be alone," said Brendan. "Oh well, it's not like they'll be hooked up when the exit's found by someone," said Brendan. He rushed off the other way to look for the exit…

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"Wally, we've got to find the exit, now," said May. She still gripped onto his hand, and started having funny thoughts, as a goofy smile appeared on his face. They did some running, and saw more dramatic TM/TA battles happen all around them. A couple of Team Aqua members got a look at May, and whispered a few things among themselves.

"Get her," one of them said. Somebody pressed a button, and in a flash, a bomb triggered off right between them. Wally fell down onto his side, but it was May who was in trouble; she began rolling off the side of the cliffs. After a few seconds, she landed hard on her butt, and slowly looked up to see a few figures surrounding them. One of the faces was quite familiar, as she gasped silently.

"Good afternoon to you May," said the voice. It was deep, and rough, and sounded anything but welcoming…

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"Warrior, Razor Wind!" shouted Brendan. He was in the middle of a fight between two Magma members. Nuzleaf shot a couple big winds down to the Poochyena and Zubat, striking the Pokemon, and knocking them out.

"Damn," said the Magma Grunts. One of them dug into their pokets, and threw small things of change to Brendan, which ended up only being P520. Brendan literally kicked the change into a small nearby hole, and then grabbed one of them.

"Where's an exit!" shouted Brendan.

"Let go of me," said the man while pushing Brendan off. He was really strong, for that when Brendan hit the ground, he hit his head badly, as he saw stars. He stood up straight, and saw that the Magma members were gone. Brendan slowly got up, and started looking around some more. The only lights that were shown were lava blotches from large craters. While he gave more looks around, Brendan saw something shining white from down a small ally. Brendan rushed down to the source, and saw that it was actually a Meteorite on a confusing machine. All Brendan did know, was that with this Meteorite, the super Pokemon that the teams wanted to rise was with the power of this space stone. Brendan tried to lift the rock, but it was suctioned onto that device. Brendan saw a small button on the side that said 'eject, so that's what he reached for…

"Trying to take my stone, are we?" asked a voice from behind. Brendan sharply turned around, and saw somebody who seemed quite important; he had long red hair down to his shoulders, and a Team Magma suit that seemed different from the others. From the distance, Brendan saw that he had ruby eyes.

"Who're you?"

"I am Maxie," said the man while approaching Brendan silently. "One would say, that I lead the 'land lovers' group," he said while eyeing him.

"You lead Team Magma?" asked Brendan.

"Hm…in the flesh," he said. Brendan continued to eye in fearful awe…

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"…Archie?" asked May.

"That's right, my sweet child," said the leader of Team Aqua while walking up to May with open arms. "I am the leader of the team that you have to join," he said.

"Wait….what?" asked May.

"Sweet child," he said while getting on one knee, eye level to May. "I have wonderful friends who tell me all about you; you currently hold two ribbons of Pokemon Contesting," he said. "You travel with an idiot child Brendan Maple, and a younger gentleman named Wallace Wallaby," he said. "Layette's told me a lot about you…until she got (vroom vroom!) up by Team Magma last week," he said.

"But you guys are bastards who're trying to increase water," said May. "You guys are so irrational; Layette gave a good fight, but I'm not going to join just too…just too…"

"Just to what?" asked Archie. He placed a hand on May's shoulder. She shoved it off quickly. "May Birch," he said. "Joining Team Aqua won't do anything bad to you," he said. "As you are young, I can make you into an Alpha based spy," he said. "Due to the fact that you're on the team, you'll get paychecks to financially help you're friends, like you did down in the Cable Cars; paying the P1500 for their tickets," he said.

"How'd you…" she asked.

"And we're not trying to increase the power of the water," he said kindly. He placed his hand on her shoulder again. This time, she didn't push off. "Team Magma made an entire subcontinent, an island the size of the country of India, out in the side of New Zealand," he said. "We were formed to prevent Team Magma to increase the land like how they did in 1990." He said. "When we fixed it, they found out ways to increase land, and we found more ways to prevent," he said. "Increasing water would be quite irrational, especially due to the fact that glaciers are melting in Antarctica, doing our…that job, already," he said. May still eyed him. "Being a spy has no bad transactions…" he said silently as her sapphire eyes looked into his chocolate brown ones…"

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"You're a strong young man to step up to me, son," said Maxie. "But you're foolish to stand up for false reasons," he said. He pulled out a Pokeball. "I will take you on in a one on one battle," he said while pointing the Pokeball to Brendan. "I know you've faced top Admins of mine, and failed miserably. Are you sure you wish to risk it again?" he asked. Brendan did small thinking; the Admin down in Meteor Falls had an Onix, a dominating Rock Snake Pokemon that made a bad sandstorm, and Iron Tailed into it. But Brendan didn't wish to show fear to Maxie.

"Maxie, I'm gonna take you down," said Brendan. "And when I do, I want that Meteorite," said Brendan. The redheaded man nodded.

"And when I win, the bubbling magma behind you will become your new home," said Maxie while pulling out his Pokemon. An extremely tall, magestic fire based horse popped out of Maxie's Pokeball.

"What the hell?" asked Brendan as he pulled out his Pokedex as a switchblade once again. "That thing looks like Entei from InuYasha," said Brendan.

"Rapidash, the Fire Horse Pokemon," said his Pokedex. "Rapidash usually can be seen casually cantering in the fields and plains. However, wen this Pokemon turns serious, its fiery manes flare and laze as it gallops its way up to 150 mph." It finished.

"Woah, that's fast," said Brendan.

"I've traveled the plains of Kanto a few years back," said Maxie, "…and I highly doubt you can face this baby with ease," said Maxie with a slight grin. Who knows what Pokemon Brendan's cooking up?

"Muddy," he said as the mud fish Pokemon popped out of his Pokeball. Maxie didn't look amused.

"A-TD," he said. Rapidash rushed through the space the Pokemon were in, and as it ran and rand around, Marshtomp was knocked the fudge out by a Take Down by Rapidash; it was extremely fast, as it could probably compete with Seth's Grovyle.

"Muddy, Water Gun!" he shouted. Marshtomp gave a shot of water to Rapidash, but the Fire Horse Pokemon ducked, and then shot for him again. "No, dodge," said Brendan. When Rapidash got close, Marshtomp Matrix jumped out of the way, and shot another Water Gun to Rapidash. When it hit, steam came out of the Pokemon, and it gave a big glare to Marshtomp.

"Bounce," said Maxie. Rapidash shot for the sky.

"Muddy Water," shouted Brendan. Marshtomp shot a huge mud filled Water gun to Rapidash. It did connect, but that didn't stop the Fire Horse Pokemon from falling down onto Marshtomp…

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"No, what're you gonna do to me!?" asked Wally.

"Huh…no Pokemon," said an Aqua Grunt with a grin. "Then you might as well give us 'ya money!" said another one.

"But I just bet all of my money away!" shouted Wally.

"We'll just see about that!" they shouted as he began getting jumped…

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"Uh…uh…" said Brendan as Rapidash was getting closer. "Alright Marshtomp, Iron Tail Rapidash!" he shouted.

"Fire Blast!" shouted Maxie silently. Rapidash was ready to blast bad fire to Marshtomp, but it got to close to the fish; Marshtomp spun around, and hit Rapidash around the neck area. It flew over to Maxie's side of the arena, he developed an extremely angry look on his face, before forcing it back to neutral. He returned his Pokemon silently as Brendan and Muddy cheered. "What a disappointment," he said while clipping it back to his belt. "I should have trusted Rumpy more than Rapidash," he said silently.

"I whooped your butt," said Brendan happily as he returned Muddy.

"Yes, and it's a bother that I am a man of my word," he said. "It's also a bother that my robot didn't destroy you when you got back," he said. Brendan halted for a second, and then gave him a bad glare.

"Wait, you it was you who placed that chip in him!" shouted Brendan.

"No, when those who told me that a member of mine destroyed Watson, we saw that he was now a headless robot," said Maxie. We fixed him up, and placed in a Burza Chip in him." He said. "He was to take out every trainer in sight; he made an arena that puts his Pokemon in a home field advantage," he continued.

"But you rigged it," said Brendan. "I'll kill you…" but with those words, Maxie did the most eerie glide over to Brendan, and began holding Brendan's neck over the pool of magma under Brendan. Fear was finally shown by the white haired boy, and as Maxie's ruby eyes looked into Brendan's hazel ones, Brendan literally saw a tiny white light circle in his pupil.

"An alpha team 45 Gage spy?" asked Maxie. "Well the, I guess I should give you this," said Maxie. He slipped a small white envelope into Brendan's bag, and contined to grin heavily.

"Let…me…go!" choked Brendan.

"Know this, Maple," he said while grasping on harder. "You might have won this battle, but you haven't won the war!" he said. He then let go of Brendan, and flipped over the brown rope to the magma. Brendan looked over, and saw that the redhead was gone. May walked into the room, holding a knocked out/scratched up Wally.

"Brendan, are you okay," she asked as he was still coughing. Brendan denied her help to help him up. He stood up from the ground, and brushed off his clothing.

"Yeah; I'm fine," said Brendan. "What happened to him" he asked.

"I think he was beat up because his Pokemon were already knocked out," said May. Brendan turned around to face the Meteorite that he won. He pressed the 'eject' button, and the suction from the machine and the rock let go. Brendan placed the Meteorite into his bag, and decided to help Wally get out of here

"Damn, this guy's heavy," said Brendan. They found the exit of the top of the mountain, and began climbing down a section called Jagged Pass. A couple of trainers were denied battles as they were walking Wally down the mountain. They were trying not to go to fast, but it was hard due to the fact that this was a really steep mountain. But, their climb wasn't in vain, as the couple buildings of the Lavaridge skyline was visible.

"Come on May," said Brendan happily. "It's time to get my next badge," he said. "And after I get this one, I guarantee that I will be out to fetch my father's," he said. May rolled his eyes. Wally metally rolled his eyes.

"Cool; acting knocked out got May to hold me, and that I got a free ride down the mountainside!" he thought as a small smile developed on his face.

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Just a few side notes; I think that Team Galaxy's a rip off of Team Magma/Aqua (to use the power of the Sinnoh super Pokemon to make new universes). It's probably bad in some way, but there're already thousands of universes, why do they want to add more? Oh, and my celebrity of the story (who I won't reveal) wasn't in this chapter; it just wasn't the correct moment. But I promise they'll make their way in here somehow.

Other than that, I hope you guys are enjoying the story; please review!