Pain, pain dominates her being as Xenon stumbles through the caves of the Ultra Deep Sea, blood covers her from head to toe as she grips her sword tightly. It wasn't fair, it wasn't fair how much shit she had had to go through in the past 12 hours alone, but still she presses onwards towards the future she knows is just ahead. She knows its there because she had seen it now, she had held it, she had caught it! She caresses the cracked Pokeball in her other hand with her thumb, a manic chuckle escaping her lips as she grips it tight. This is her future, the future she fights for, she knows it's real now and it's simply a matter of showing everyone else that beautiful future...

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She sees a man in the distance, mourning the dead, not realizing he's already dead himself. That's okay, some people just aren't aware of the state of things, Xenon is happy to show them their future as she stumbles towards Navy and thrusts her sword for his body, trying to skewer the bastard right off the bat before he could kill her. She wouldn't let him kill her, not yet, not until she could reach the future, she couldn't die until she reached that future and showed everyone.

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A bright flash of light stops the girl from taking a life in this darkness, no, a pokemon without fear, towering above her and laughing at her feeble attempts to kill its master. It's so funny, it's so so funny that she can't help but laugh along with it as the man recognizes her and makes a joke. Everything about her looks wrong, her eyes are steeped deep in mud and light as she looks towards that blinding future that she ever so briefly saw.
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"Are you kidding? Are you stupid? Are your primitive brains leaking out of your ears and dripping into this primordial goop that we call the sea?" The tone of her voice is... it's wrong in a way that can't be described with words. This isn't the girl he traded barbs with by the lake, or maybe it is and that girl had never existed in the first place. Maybe it was just a facade that she had been putting up for modern society.
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"The civilization I saw in this world... ah, it was so beautiful boy. I saw the future that could be, I took a hold of it and captured it for myself. I could show you, but you're not ready to see that future, you're just too primitive, too underdeveloped." She violently wrenches her blade from the Machamp's hand as it lets go, stumbling backwards and blindly grabbing a Pokeball from her belt. A burst of light releases the Scolipede from its home as it curls defensively around its owner, letting out a violent hiss at the Machamp and Michael both as it prepares for battle.

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Xenon didn't particularly care what lies Navy had to tell himself in order to live with himself in this warzone, all that mattered to her was what was about to come next as Radon's body relaxes and lightens up for the battle to come. "Alright Radon, you know what to do. Crush them under the wheel of progress."
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And just like that the Scolipede vanishes in a burst of speed, curling up into a wheel and rushing the Machamp straight from the front without hesitation. Just before the moment of collision when it could defend though, the rolly polly ball of death swerves to the left and circles around them in a flash of lightning, now approaching from behind and to the right to hit the Machamp right in it's blind spot!

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Hit is traded for hit, two dynamic punches slamming into the Scolipede's shell and rattling its brain as it spins past the Machamp and makes its way around for another hit. At a glance the blow was hardly even glancing, leaving little more than a scratch on Radon's tough shell as she turns and spins right for Cassius once more. But there's a wobble to her path that's noticeable, an after effect of such a refined strike delivered to precisely to the nape of its skull.
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Once more Radon slams into Cassius with an even stronger strike than the last, grinding its tough carapace into his body for a few seconds before disengaging and winding up for yet another spinning strike. Cassius might not feel any anger, but Radon was most definitely pissed off as it lets loose a screech of insectile fury and goes in for yet another punishing Rollout.
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"I saw the future you blind fool, a beautiful machine that would soar through the heavens and burn away our primitive roots! Ashes and smog enshroud the sky as an army of machines marches onwards, they look like the creatures we have allied ourselves with, but they're so much more! They're faster, stronger, smarter, a metal hand grips my throat and demands loyalty in a language none can understand, it is the future I built, the future I always strove for! It was Roko's Arbok after it had finally been completed, and it had come to reward me for being the only one faithful enough to see it built!" Xenon cups her face with a bloody hand as she preaches the word of her beautiful future, smearing her cheek with crimson and raising that cracked Pokeball to the sky as if it were a holy relic, to her it might as well have been.

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Her twisted smile grows wider as she gazes upon the horror in his eyes, that's what she was looking for, that's why he couldn't be a part of that beautiful future! He didn't have the appropriate mindset, he was still too chained down by that convenient morality that was passed down to him, he didn't have the FIRE in his gut that would birth new ideals unfettered by the chains of the past!

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"Nope!" If he didn't understand by now, surely that simple answer would tell him everything he needed to know about the girl standing before him. "I could give you any manner of excuses! I'm a member of Team Rocket, you're a Hoenn soldier. I'm just following orders, you know my face and you can't be allowed to live. But that's all just sloppy justification!" She laughs some more as Radon's body grinds against Cassius's, before suddenly unfurling and spewing a deluge of Toxic poison directly into the Machamp's face to try and get him to release her.

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"I'm just killing you because I want to! That's the kind of future I strive for! A future where everyone is free to do as they want, where the strong crush the weak simply because they can! A future unbound by the shaky morality of the past!" As if to punctuate this very idea, Xenon's hand flies to her belt and unclips another Pokeball, throwing it out and releasing a fully grown Cacturne onto the field beside Radon. "Promethium! Fill him full of holes!" She shouts as the living scarecrow points a single spiky claw at Navy, knowing that Cassius couldn't both defend itself and its master at the same time.

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The bug bites and claws at the Machamp as it propels itself off the ground and into the air, venom continuously dripping from her acrid fangs and seeping into Cassius's wounds to bring it closer and closer to a Toxic demise. Even a man of the present cannot escape their future, no matter how they might struggle and laugh in the face of it, all that awaited was death. But as they reach the apex of his leap, even Radon must recognize that her future is rapidly approaching, thus their is only one thing it can do as the duo turn upside down and begin spinning out of control towards the hard stone ground. She tenses up every muscle in her body, directs her energy to her hard shell carapace, curls up as best as she can in Cassius's iron tight grip, and she Protects herself as they slam into the ground with a devastating crunch.

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And even then, she does not escape unscathed. Scratches and cuts litter the Scolipede's body as it angrily glares at the Machamp still holding onto her even now, but she is far from out of the fight. The same will not be said of Cassius as her horn shines a bright green, jabbed straight into the gut of the hero and twisted deep with lethal efficiency. It was difficult to control and aim, but within such a close proximity there was virtually no chance of missing a Megahorn.

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"Rocket didn't put a damn thing in my head you primitive idiot! Ideals passed down from others are nothing but garbage to be tossed into the trash, CRUNCH! Everything I believe, everything I know, everything I feel, these are all things that only I can produce, only I could make these things! But you're right, the future is here! The future is now!" Xenon snaps her fingers and the barrage of bullets ceases from the Cacturne's paw, replaced by five pods that launch into the sky towards the armored Ironsides. Tendrils of leafy green sprout from the pods as they bloom into parasitic flowers, Leech Seeds that snake into the cracks and gaps in the Skarmory's armor to find its blood and water itself, white petals bleeding into a beautiful crimson.

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