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"I . . ."[break][break]
El's words, both more correct and more wrong than they ever could have known.[break][break]
MUGEN engaging, not simply to fight but to kill, stinger slicked red as it threw the Taloflame's broken body to the ground below.[break][break]
Rockets, one familiar, one a mystery, turning to eagerly face their new foe. Even as a Genesect itself, MUGEN registered all too clearly as the enemy. Judging by the way their grill lights lit up in the image of a leering grin, MUGEN didn't mind that one bit. They hunched down, both from their natural hunter's stance and from the sudden weight of
Gravity pushing down against them.[break][break]
None of this was what Isaac wanted. He wanted nothing more than to shout for MUGEN, to order them to stand down. Yet as he did, the world beneath him started to give way. Was it because of the Gravity, him and El standing at its fringes even before they made themselves known? Was it because of his own nerves, the contents of his emptied stomach churning in furious protest?[break][break]
Or was it because of the sonic boom from the explosion off in the distance, smoke rising from where Isaac's home once was?[break][break]
Isaac paled. the bags under his eyes looking like the sockets of a skull. His hand in El's trembled. He tried to speak, but any and all words turned to ash on his tongue.[break][break]
He could do this whole song and dance again. He could tell MUGEN to stand down, make a show of being the bigger man. Knock out a Pokemon or two, tell Priam and his new colleague to try working towards a better way. Leave, patting himself on the back, as they slunk back into the shadows to continue plotting the next tragedy to befall Hoenn.[break][break]
Half the Rockets he tried to help just tried to kill him without a care in the world.
bryan delarosa,
Tempest Quinn,
jayden cross, for all the love they once claimed to hold for him they wouldn't hesitate for a moment. And what of the ones who did say they care?
howard slayte, who kept saying that Isaac was the man the world needed out of one corner of his mouth while ordering Dewford's destruction out of the other.
Naomi Sato, who promised Isaac that they would stop this madness together while gleefully benefiting from every bloodthirsty operation Rocket conducted.[break][break]
Fuck's sake. At least
Cillian Quinn was upfront about the fact that Isaac needed to die.[break][break]
Shame. Grief. Regret. Self-loathing. Helplessness. Pure, unadulterated terror. A million and one emotions seized Isaac more tightly than any Gravity could, and he found himself helpless to even move. He stared not at Priam and Wright, not at the agony of the Petalburg Woods, not at the distant smoke that had once been his home, but instead straight through them all with hollowed eyes.[break][break]
MUGEN cared not for their trainer's silence. They didn't need his approval. Instead, letting out a keening hiss, they folded themselves into their travel mode and rocketed forward. It looked for all the world like a standard
Flame Charge. However, before making contact, MUGEN broke ever so slightly to the right. They hooked an arm out, seeking to pierce Espeon with a hooked claw in lieu of a direct hit. If successful, it sought to drag the Espeon against the ground, making the second hit of this battle a particularly painful one.[break][break]
Isaac was helpless to stop their bloodthirst, just as he was to stop Rocket's.
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