[FIN] Kanto Competition

[Gwennythe]

Well, Henrietta had been trailing them for a while, wanting to help and just generally be involved- the kid in her just wouldn't let herself be excluded from something so many of her, admittedly mostly new, friends were getting into. Plus it was something about Team Rocket! They kept popping up in conversation and were a menace and everything!
She'd gotten over the little bit of shock of Faleen being involved and gotten more into the spirit of helping Rosie- she was so nice and awesome at battling and had seemed so positive and kind of cool; it wasn't very nice to see her upset.
She nodded her agreement at the positive statements that others were throwing out. Even adding "We'll totally find her!" more than once.

She'd, thankfully, not been touching the table when the electricity happened, but went for her pokéballs when everyone else did, after the shock (literally for some) only to remember they were still weak from the earlier battle.
Still, she couldn't just stay out of anything.
"HEY! What do you think you're doing!" She yelled at the figure, Gummy's pokéball clutched in her fist. It was a bit frustrating that everyone else was going to be able to deal with this while she didn't want to disturb her pokémons' rest.  

[Blood_Goddess]

Ray glanced over her shoulder at the sudden feeling that someone else was there,
"Wha-" she barely had time to fully see the person behind them when she was suddenly experience a great deal of pain for a good few seconds.

Ray didn't scream, her teeth clenched to tightly for that, though there was a sharp scream from the blond next to her.

When the shock passed the pain didn't go with it, and she suddenly found herself on the ground, seeing stars, but otherwise completely aware, and completely unable to move.

She saw the pink form of Rosie next to her, as well as Sera, either of them able to move.

Oh god... everything hurt. But it was not being able to MOVE that was the worse.
what happened!

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(Dove)
An Absol with inky black eyes suddenly the table, the instant the charge was removed from it,
The person standing there seemed to take its time as it removed the smoking glove from its hand, flexing its fingers as the pokemon launched into action.
The Absol let out a vicious snarl, his claws trusted in front of its slick form as it completely ignored the pokemon that humans had sent out, and instead dove straight for the brunette, fanged jaws open. If the Tyflosion did not stop his own attack and help his trainer he would likely be sinking his teeth and claws into the girls flesh.

"Thirty seconds, grab one." The person said, its notice muffled through the mask.

(Yuri)
When Repede attacked the path of the humans was suddenly obstructed by the form of a large shiny Zoroark, who let out a roar of her own and took the flame attack full on, as well as the oncoming Absol.
Wincing backward in her hunched form as she took the brunt of the hits it before she broke away and launched at the Growlith and his human with her claws.

With the Zoroark now no longer obstructing the human, it would be seen again, standing as calmly as it had before, though this time there was a gun in its hand, and it was pointing at the three helpless trainers on the ground.
"Recall all you're pokemon." the masked figure demanded with a level voice.  

[BlackPidgeot]

If Yuri had his sword... he could possibly put up a fight against the Zoroark. But unfortunately the man hadn't had a chance to retrieve it from where they had been staying. Thus he could only move out of the way as the dark type came leaping at him and his dog.

Repede, however, met the other Pokemon head on. Leaping at the other to intercept it with a Wild Charge. They wants to play with electricity? Fine, they could have a taste of it themselves.

However, Yuri quickly turned his attention to his fallen friends, only to freeze upon realizing that a gun was being pointed at them.

"Sorry, I can't do that," the man said tersely. "How about calling off your overgrown hairball." Repede, after all, didn't have a pokeball to be recalled to.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

(Un)fortunately, Sera was still paralyzed at the demand of the figure, and was therefore unable to recall Isabella. The dark-type had absolutely no intentions of recalling herself, and though her attacks were suddenly aimed at a shiny Zoroark instead of the figure, that didn't bother her in the least. Repede was helping Yuri, and the annoying Typhlosion was with the other girl, and that covered the two pokemon out. Thus, she turned again and made another lunge at the hooded figure, fangs bared.  

[Suudonym]

Were Luke of a different mindset he might have felt inclined to gesture emphatically at the scene with an exclamation of 'goddammit Yuri this is exactly what I was talking about before,' but that was very much the furthest thought from his mind. He in fact expended very little energy on thoughts, crouching almost immediately by Rosie but unsure of whether or not touching her would hurt her or not but firmly set on her protection, especially upon the realization that there was a gun aimed in her general vicinity. He watched their assailant with nothing short of plain malice in his expression.

Great place, Kanto. Just like home.  

[Tori Honoo]

Though she desperately searched for a way to help those that had been shocked, the Absol's appearance drew her immediate attention, and as it launched, she screamed, drawing her arms up to deflect the worst of the blow as it attacked.

At his trainer's scream, Sparky cut his Flamethrower short and bolted toward her-- but a moment too late. Though he grabbed the other pokemon and attempted to tackle it to the ground before it was able to completely grab her, it had managed to sink its teeth into her arm and its claws into her sides, and as he did his best to pull it off of her, she screamed again as the pain exploded from the sharpness of its attack pulling through her skin.

Dove fell hard from the impact of Sparky's attempt of ripping the pokemon off of her, panic exploding in her chest as the Absol's bite didn't let up, her limbs trembling from the pain that now coursed through the areas the Absol had caught--Sparky's assistance was welcomed, without hesitation, but his attempt to shove it off of her had forced its claws to pull and tear as he hoped to dislodge them. As bad as it hurt, however, she pushed herself up a little from the ground, wincing and breathing rather hard, her arm wrapped around her middle to staunch the flow of blood, and looked around, her eyes falling on the figure with the gun, swallowing hard.

Sparky continued to go at the Absol, attacking it with a ThunderPunch aimed at its face, furious at both the other pokemon's attack toward his trainer and his failure to protect her. <>

When Yuri refused the order and left Repede to fight, she paused, then shakily pulled Sparky's ball from her belt, holding it tightly. If Repede was still fighting, Sparky could too. He had been trained all his life to protect her, and while she didn't know how to handle him in battle just yet, he would be prepared for this. However, if asked again, she would call him back... She wouldn't let her choices harm the others.  

[Kitomyx]

Another Absol joined the first, this one predominantly black with white stripes. He attacked Sparky with a Slash before pushing off the fire-type to get to Luke.

At the same time, a strange glow began to surround one of the unconscious trainers. The blonde girl with the resemblance to Faleen began to rise into the air, a psychic force levitating her slowly, but faster and faster as she gained height. The source of the psychic power seemed to be getting the hang of the levitation.

Not far away, a man with a drawn hoodie and sunglasses stood leaning against a tree, watching the battle over the top of his shades with a dark expression. A Chingling, hidden in the shadows beside him, did his best to control his Psychic powers as Izaya whispered quiet instructions to him.  

[Gwennythe]

"That's not fair!" Henrietta growled more than whined as she watched the gun being aimed and heard the order to recall pokémon. She hadn't even sent hers out- she knew enough that just pure confidence in them wouldn't magically make them 'at the top of their game' after the day they'd had, but she was sorely tempted just to feel like she could do anything at all.

She found herself shrieking as a pokémon flung itself on Dove and hurried over to her when Sparky tackled the Absol away. She didn't know medicine or anything about what to do here though and could only crouch there after asking "Are you alright?!" before glaring and shouting at the attackers.
"Stop it! It's not fair, stop it!" She hadn't even thought to try and call the police yet until Rosie started to fly. Her eyes widened and she reached for her 'dex. What was the number for the police in Kanto? Was it the same as Johto? Dove probably needed an ambulance or something though... And they had the gun still. Her hand froze in place. Too many things were needed and she couldn't bring out Gummy or Winglet to solve this.
Panic made her more angry. "Stop it and get lost or you'll be really sorry!"  

[Kitomyx]

Tymiko stood and watched this, not moving or bothering to bring out her pokemon. She kept her eyes on the figure before Rosie began to rise and her attention shifted to the levitating girl.

"What do you want?" The water trainer asked the figure. "Why are you taking Rosie?" She pointed to the girl. "What did she ever do to you?"  

[Suudonym]

The imminent threat was the Absol's sudden approach, addressed without a moment's hesitation by a hand on a pokeball and an Aggron at his side - turned out the competition was beneficial after all, bringing Luke close enough to a battling mindset to issue his command, "Tartarus, Protect!"

Within a moment the large steel-type complied, and within a moment Luke's attention was drawn to movement beside him. He didn't understand the cause, but he didn't really have to to know that it was something he found highly disagreeable. He took hold of her desperately, unwilling to let go come hell or high water. He tried to produce sound, some kind of reassurance, but no strength would lend itself to his voice. There was only a silent, continuing rejection. No one else could die, no one could disappear, it would be okay, it had to be.  

[Blood_Goddess]

Yuri's comment did not seem to be appreciated, thought he figure didn't look at him, the gun was cocked already, the figure shifted to take up a single target, the figure held it firmly to the fallen people, its blank white face now clearly emblazed with a red R stared with emptiness back at Luke.

An Umbreon with white rings was on the table, its hard pupil-less silver eyes staring down at the pokemon still trying to fight back, though specifically on the Absol that was diving for the masked Rocket.

(Isabella)
People were not doing what the person with the gun had told them to. And as the Shiny colored Absol leaped up into the air at her, the gun was lifted to point at it, and the trigger was pulled, the masked perking stepping swiftly out of the way.

"I believe I'm being quite serious, the next one goes through a human." It spoke again. this time the gun was pointed down at the brunette on the ground.

(Henrietta)
The figures head turned toward the smallest of the group when she called out, seeing the dex in her hand "Get that away from her." She told the Umbreon.
"if you move once, your friend's death will be on you."

It didn't take much longer then that for Izaya to have selected someone.
... the blond, or course.  

[Blood_Goddess]

(Dove)

Absols eyes were on the approaching fire type.
with a snarl, not letting go of Dove's arm, he thrust his head up, jerking the girl along with him and with a hefty thrust moved to stab his horn into the fire types chest before it got too close.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Isabella's attack missed due to the figure's movement, and she was prepared to jump again when the weapon was aimed at her and silently fired, and she staggered back with a yelp as the bullet lodged itself into her shoulder. The Absol had no idea what the hunk of metal was, but she now knew it was dangerous and painful. Instead she growled menacingly despite the blood that seeped from the wound on her shoulder, staining her white fur red, and quickly tried to think of what to do.

With a soft groan, Sera finally stirred, her limbs protesting as she pushed herself uncertainly onto her hands and knees, though as yet her body didn't appear to want to move much more than that.  

[Kitomyx]

Kid would have been happy to continue slashing at the Protection, but for one, small little detail. The user of the technique had captured his interest. Tartarus' unique and detailed exterior seemed to enchant the striped Absol and he stood there, dumbfounded by his beauty.

It took everything in his trainer's power not to turn around and repeatedly beat his head against the tree he was leaning against. Damn stupid steel monsters! Just another reason to hate them so damn much. Being more closely-related to robots than animals, pokemon of those type were rarely asymmetrical, Izaya realized. Time to change tactics.

While too far away to call Kid back, the Rocket Grunt had more tricks up his sleeve. Out came two blue Zorua who ran up to Ray and Sera in the form of a black-haired young lady with pink eyes and a blue-haired, blue-eyed boy. Both had furry tails. They each grabbed a limb of a body and attempted to drag them away.

Meantime, the pair of Purrloin from before darted through battles and legs, going around to see how many pokeballs they could swipe from distracted trainers.

Tymiko tensed as she saw the little furball theives. "Grab your pokeballs, guys!" she called, clutching hers tightly. She was a little less sure now exactly what this attacker wanted. Was it people, pokemon, money, or a combination?  

[Gwennythe]

"No it won't! It'll be on you but it's not going to happen!" Henrietta retorted sulkily, but she would give up her pokédex for the immediate safety of her friends, even if it was infuriating and upsetting to do so.
"You're not gonna get away with any of this and you're gonna be so sorry!"