[FIN] Kanto Competition

[Suudonym]

This was all because of what had happened with Izaya, wasn't it? Luke fought the very distinct feeling that he was going to be sick, drew a breath, and responded, "He told me that you're a Rocket, and he told me that Izaya's a Rocket. You can go now."  

[Blood_Goddess]

Faleen stood for a few moments. taking in what he had just said .Asch had ratted her out?
"What else?" She asked, calmly  

[Suudonym]

He shook his head. "Nothing."  

[BlackFireKitsune]

While Isabella very desperately wanted to get up and continue to fight, her shoulder ached painfully and made it even more difficult to get out from under the Zoroark. Ray's words though finally caused her to still, though she continued to growl.

As soon as she felt someone else grab her, Sera tensed and tried to pull away, but in her shocked and wounded state the attempts were weak at best, and short-lived once she realized it was Ray who was helping her. She tried to move to wherever the woman was pulling her, moving as if in a daze, and once they stopped she leaned back against the table and curled in on herself, her knees tucked in close to her chest and her left hand clinging to her right shoulder. The conversation between the two sisters and Luke went almost completely unheard, so much was the brunette absorbed in her pain and the adrenaline that coursed through her veins.  

[lZAYA ORlHARA]

Izaya listened hard, approaching slowly as the action died down. His lips frowned slightly at the mention of Faleen also having been betrayed by Asch. It seemed his ill will toward Izaya had not been the only reason he'd given the information to his brother and the other trainers. The red-headed Rocket had been trying to protect them after all.

As he neared Faleen, he slowly recalled each of his pokemon one by one, Delic having been the first. It seemed, at least for now, that the worst of the conflict was over. His pocket monsters were not needed and he didn't like them to be out when not strictly necessary. Aside from being tedious, he found it was also a hindrance to having good conversation with the so-called enemy.  

[Tori Honoo]

From her place on the ground, Dove watched Ray cross to Sera as though in a haze, glad for Ray's assistance. The adrenaline was rushing through her body, and though it still hurt terribly, the swimming of her head was what concerned her most, at least, when it came to her own well being. Sparky had pulled the Absol away, but it had done it's damage. At least she wasn't dead, she thought, as she curled in on herself completely and tightened her hold on her torso even more.

The words the others spoke were slow to process, but she closed her eyes and listened all the same as Luke told Faleen that Asch had outed them...and she knew he was honest, even when he offered no more. She couldn't remember anything else--not that she'd wanted to-- being told in the letter that could even concern Faleen, or Team Rocket in general...and though she might have spoken up to agree with him, she couldn't force the words to form on her lips.  

[Blood_Goddess]

Faleen's frown deepened, clearly not pleased with that information. It made her angry enough that Asch would tell the trainers, one of ROSIE'S friends that she was a Rocket, blowing her cover completely.
Faleen's face flushed red, her brow furrowing as she took a step closer to Luke.
"I don't believe you." she said, lifting the gun toward him.

"Faleen no, no no please." Rosie's voice became a little shrilled with fear when her sister started pointing her gun at her friends again, stepping up next to her sister.
"Faleen please, He doesn't know anything else, he would have told us."
Faleen didn't look over at Rosie, keeping her eyes on Luke, though there was a growing disgust over the women's usually stony face as her sister spoke.

"Please stop, I know you're not like this Faleen, don't... don't hurt anyone else, He's telling the truth."

In one swift movement Faleen jerked her gun back, turned to Rosie and swung the butt of the gun up to crack it over the side of her head.
"For the love of ARCEUS Rosie, SHUT UP!" Faleen yelled at her. "I cannot tell you how much I HATE listening to the s**t that you spew from your mouth."

Taken by surprise the blond could only stagger a couple of feet before she fell to the ground, losing all sense of balance, and most sense of anything.
Dizzy, unable to see anything Rosie tried to push herself back up, but couldn't seem to move herself but a couple of inches before her disorientation froze her.

Faleen had rounded on the fallen girl, feeling somewhat rewarded by the blood that was now running down the side of the girl's face.
"You're fake! everything about you is fake," she gestured the gun to the people behind her. "Everyone of these people you charm and obsess with getting them to like you becasue you cannot STAND to have someone actually not like you, so you bend to their will and put on that cheap smile and fake everyone into thinking that you're so great, when really you're a liar! You only care about yourself and you DON'T EVEN ADMIT IT!"  

[lZAYA ORlHARA]

The tension was visible in the hooded man's body as Faleen's voice rose and she acted almost too quickly to follow. His face was blank, but his body language spoke volumes for him. His gaze strayed from his partner to the trainers and back again. Something was going to give.

Pulling down his hood and taking off his shades, Izaya used slow, deliberate motions as if preparing to enter a lion's cage. He closed in on Faleen as he placed his sunglasses in his jacket pocket, sensing he had to keep her away from Rosie...and the other trainers. Yes, they were enemies, but they were no use to them dead. On top of that, their mission as Rockets did not generally involve murder and it would be best to avoid that if possible. Emotions always messed everything up.

"Faleen-chan...breathe for a moment..." He glanced at Rosie, but he knew the other girl would be alright. Her friends would take care of her. It was Faleen who needed to be worried about.  

[Suudonym]

He maintained his gaze unfalteringly, fearing primarily the ease with which he decided he deserved the bullet. Faleen's attention fell to her sister, and her actions thenceforth elicited a sound that he thought to be a word similar to 'no' or 'stop' but occurred more as an aimless shout. Willing himself to move, he clambered unsteadily into a more or less upright posture and took up a protective stance between Rosie and her sister. "Are you ******** blind, or just insane?!" He shook his head lightly; that was an empty argument and he wasn't about to go there. "I told you what you asked, now get out of here already!"  

[BlackFireKitsune]

It was the shout from Luke that pulled Sera's attention away from the throbbing pain in her shoulder. Her gaze moved from her knees and over to see Luke standing and Rosie on the ground, bleeding, and her expression immediately went from pained and nervous to one of shock and fear, suddenly and immensely fretful over the fact that Rosie was suddenly on the ground, and she attempted to move towards the blonde, though she wasn't sure how far she'd get since almost two thirds of her upper body didn't exactly want to help her move.  

[Blood_Goddess]

Faleen's features contorted to a bitter darkness when she suddenly found Luke in front of her, blocking her way toward Rosie, With her building rage the dark types she owned seemed to bristle.
Faleen reached to the strap on her side, pulling up two Dark Balls, Oh she could think of the best death for both of them right now, and she would be rid of that disgusting sister of hers.

Luke was not the only one who stepped over however, As Izaya seemed to step in as well.
At his words Faleen took a step back, looking harshly over at him, "how DARE you interrupt! This is NONE of your business Izay-"
She didn't finish getting the name out before she realized who she was yelling at.
It was probably the words that many of the Rockets would have liked to say to him, probably apart of her that wanted to throw her rank around and get him to shut up sometimes, or do what she told him to do.
But this wasn't what she wanted. She was a Rocket, she wouldn't jeopardize that, and he was her partner, and that meant something to her.
It occurred to her that he was stopping her from making a huge mistake.
"Breathe..." she repeated, stepping away again, but keeping her eyes fixed coldly on like. speaking in a more leveled voice, though still laced with hatred "Are you the one who tried to strangle my partner?"  

[Tori Honoo]

Faleen's attack on Rosie was heard clearly, and though she kept her eyes closed, Dove knew the 'battle' was coming to a close, one way or another. Faleen hated her sister... why was Rosie even trying anymore?!

Another voice was added to the tense atmosphere, one she recognized. Izaya... she thought bitterly, staring at the blood smeared on her legs from her own wounds. She was sure she wouldn't have the worst of it in the end, but it was enough to make her heart race painfully-- as if the rest of the situation hadn't already taken care of that.

She forced her head up again to look around them. Almost all of them were down...Luke seemed to be their only hope, from where she kneeled, and though they outnumbered them, Team Rocket clearly had the upper hand in the situation. They had no reason to stay now, now that they had the information they wanted, unless they planned to kill them all.

This was just between Rosie and Faleen now, and she wouldn't allow her friend to do this on her own. Though she stayed in her place, she watched Luke confront the woman, silently willing him to stay strong, not for himself this time, but for the girl on the ground behind him.

When the topic changed, however, her eyes widened. Her eyes darted to Luke, and though she had no idea what the woman was talking about, it was clear from her abrupt, even tone that this was bad. Uncontrollable rage was one thing, but rage directed at one person, in such a focus...  

[Kitomyx]

"No! Sera, don't," Tymiko cried. The girl had been standing and watching with out much action or many words up until the point she noticed Sera's attempt to get to Rosie. Dropping to her knees, she gingerly put a hand on the older girl's uninjured arm. "Please don't move! You'll just lose more blood. It'll be okay."

The informant flinched at the unexpected tone of the young woman who had, up until this moment, shown him seemingly unlimited patience. For an instant, the iron fortress of an almost robotic woman fell to reveal the very vulnerable human behind within. He was silent, waiting for her to recompose herself, but when she spoke again he wondered if that had been wise to do.

"...Agent, this is not the time or place," he said. "We're not so foolish or unprofessional as to seek out self-destructive things like revenge. You're better than this."  

[Suudonym]

Luke's response was in an even tone despite the heat in his eyes, "Yes." And a damn shame he hadn't succeeded, or perhaps this mess never would have happened. "And you're the one who hurt all of my friends." If she was about to start on about revenge...  

[Blood_Goddess]

Ray was on her feet, watching the exchange between Faleen Luke and Rosie go down. Eventually another person joined in, as the two males seemed to try and stop the eldest sister from further attacking Rosie, she seemed to have no idea about what was going on, as she just stared at the ground, wavering between awake and unconscious.

When Sera fell Ray walked over toward her, lowering herself onto her knee and helping her back up.