Grunty Z5 was quite proud of himself, yes indeed. He'd came out victorious in the grunty intramural ping-pong tournament.

  In the grand scheme of things it wasn't really much of an accomplishment considering how.... thin the henchmen population was getting these days, but give the guy a bone. It's not like ever managed to accomplishment anything else with his life, now did he?

  He barely managed to get to level 1-3 of Super Mario Bros before giving up on videogames forever. It was quite impressive he managed to best three or four other people in ping-pong, alright?

  Best of all... the reward for winning the tournament was being handed out by the big boss lady herself - Hellion! Grunty Z5 had never seen her in real life before! He was so over the moon, he could die happy this day!

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  "And now we have our winner. Grunty Z5."

  Oh! It was his turn!

  He flopped his way in a foppish, happy manner to stand in front of the big boss lady. She was so big and strong!

  Hellion looked down at him balefully. Smoke stood behind her with his arms crossed.

  "So? And you're content? With this much?"

  Grunty Z5 didn't know what she was getting at, but he nodded his head enthusiastically. Gimme the reward, already!

  "Very well."

  A column of fire erupted from the ground, cooking Grunty Z5 just on the side of extra crispy.

  "You shall provide sustenance for the other minions. They will inherit your strength."

  At the post tournament celebration dinner, the 'grunty strips' went untouched by the meager few employees left.

  Internally, Hellion was secretly very sad about this. But she'd never show weakness to her subordinates.