Unfiltered Rage

As Shin stared down at the fallen body of his latest arena victim, a Furret that didn't really put up much of a fight. The main reason it lasted as long as it did was due to Shin taking his time and enjoying himself and wondering if this was for real, if Giovanni actually thought that weakling would put up much of a fight. After a few more seconds passed by, Shin finally punctured the windpipe of the pitiful creature and watched the life slowly drain out of the pokémon until it stopped all movement.

"This is pathetic, did you really think I'd have problems with a pokémon like this?" he called out to Giovanni who he knew would be watching.

"Whether or not I thought he'd be a challenge is not for you to decide, your match is done, please leave 03."Giovanni's voice answered before an audible click came through the speaker's, signaling that the channel had been closed.

"Not for me to decide…" Shin repeated as he slowly began to walk out, something was amiss… He just didn't know what that something was just yet.

Before he got too far though, another Team Rocket lackey approached him and gave him instructions to follow him that were straight from Giovanni. After turning a few corners he led Shin to a door and stopped next to it before it opened up to him. Once inside, Shin grew a tad frustrated as he realized something…

"Another observation room?" he yelled out, "What makes you think I want to stand around and watch others fight? This is unbelievable!" he ranted while the grunt quietly made his way out of the room, the door closing behind him.

Once on the other side of the door, the grunt held his radio to his mouth and clicked the button for him to speak. "Subject 03 is in observation room 2, sir."

"Good…" was the answer through the speaker before transmission ended and he began to walk off once more.

Inside the room, Shin glanced around at his surroundings and noticed that this room looked exactly the same as the last one he was in, minus the damage he did to the other one. The only difference that he could make out was that this room had a 2 on the wall while the other room had 5 on it.

"The only reason Giovanni would have me in here would be because Firefly's about to fight." he surmised before looking through the one way glass and seeing nothing but an empty battlefield, illuminated by the overhead lights from above since the sky had darkened when nightfall came about.

"Something doesn't feel right…" Zan spoke up which caught everyone's attention.

"What do you mean?" Rio asked, not understanding the worry. "He's at the arena, there's no telling what he's fighting and how long it'd take him to finish it."

"I don't know, I just…. Just have a bad feeling is all." Zan continued, "Call it a hunch or something…"

"I think you're worrying way too much." Nite chimed in from behind as he twirled his bone around with his fingers.

"Say what you want, but something just doesn't feel right…" Zan repeated before walking off, trying to either figure out just what that feeling was and/or shake that feeling. He knew from experience that arena battles can sometimes take a bit of time and he also remembered that there were other times when Shin didn't return until rather late from battles.

After waiting around for roughly fifteen minutes, Shin saw the doors begin to open and a familiar silhouette come through.

"I should've known you'd want me to sit around and watch her fight again…"

"Not quite…" Giovanni taunted before the other door opened and revealed a Pikachu that looked strangely familiar to Shin.

The sharper-than-normal point on the tail… Brown fur darker than normal…

"No… You… You didn't…" Shin stuttered, his eyes growing wider by the second as he pressed closer to the thick, glass window. "Br-brother?"

"Yes 03, that is your brother. I found him after we captured you two years ago, he begged to be let go just like you." Giovanni taunted once more, "Your parents would be proud…"

"You… If she…"

"All arena fights are to the death, one way or another. You should know this by now."

"Stop this, Giovanni. Right! Now!" Shin ordered, becoming frenzied at the sight of his brother for the first time in two years fighting to the death in front of him. "End this, now!" Shin yelled but noticed there was no response, Giovanni had stopped replying.

"You bastard!" he yelled before turning back to the glass and noticing that the fighting had already started and Firefly had the upper hand easily. After seeing his brother get slammed against a rock and clearly labor to return to his feet, Shin began banging on the glass. "P.K! P.K!"

From his vantage point, things didn't look good at all. Firefly was slowly making the battle more and more one-sided with every attack and it looked as if P.K wasn't thinking his attacks through like he should. Almost as if he was hurrying for some reason. The next thing he saw was them trade Iron Tail attacks and, once again, Firefly sending him back into another rock which caused Shin to wince to himself while still trying to find a way into the enclosure as panic begin to set in. He could see his brother was beginning to slow down rapidly.

"No, no, no!" he yelled out before seeing P.K begin to charge up for Volt Tackle, "No, Don't! Brother!" he continued before seeing Firefly charge up for Flare Blitz.

"Giovanni, stop! Don't let them continue!" he pleaded to the speaker and slammed his fist into the wall in frustration after getting no response. A few seconds later he sighed before hearing an explosion from the arena and turning back just in time to see his brother slam against a rock once more.

"Br… Brother?" he whispered to himself as he slowly made his way to the looking glass. No matter where he looked, there was no movement in his brother's body. "No… No…. No, no" he repeated as a single tear began to trickle down his cheek.

All the forgotten memories of his family began to flood into his mind, when he and his brother went out hunting for berries, the goofy sparring matches they had to entertain their parents on rainy nights. The one time P.K. sprained his ankle and Shin had to carry him home and they both received a tongue-lashing from their mother and a punishment from their father.

"You… You'll pay…" he began muttering as the tear reached the pouch on his cheek and sparking began to emanate from it as well as the other. "I'll make you both pay… Firefly… Giovanni…"

Soon his entire body began to pulse with energy causing the window to start to lightly rattle. As his gaze shifted upwards, his arms began to shake while he gritted his teeth and lunged for the glass in a blind rage.

"I'll Kill You!" he screamed at the top of his lungs as he crashed through the glass, particles of it becoming lodged in his fur and cutting into his skin but that didn't matter. All that mattered was vengeance… Vengeance for his brother on the two responsible for this…

"Y-You! What are you…" Firefly gasped as she took a precautionary step away, the sound and scene shocking her.

"I'll rip your heart out, Bitch!" he roared before drawing back his fist as it began to glow white. After closing the distance between them he struck her in the ribs with a mighty Focus Punch which caused Firefly to gasp in pain as he pinned her to a rock while he drew back for another. With each blow he delivered to her, he put more and more of his energy than the previous shot. After the fifth punch, the rock shattered and she fell painfully to the ground, writhing in pain and confusion.

"S-Shin… w-what's wrong w-with you?" she stuttered out as she continued to struggle for breath.

"You… I should have killed you when I had the chance…" he grunted out, glaring a hole through her. "Now I'll make you pay for what you've done!"

"But… I have no idea what I did," Firefly argued.

"You killed my brother, now feel my wrath!" roared before charging up in the blink of an eye and striking her with Discharge. Firefly screamed in agony as the attack tore through her body and wracked her with massive amounts of pain until the attack finally ended.

"S-Shin… I'm s-sorry… I d-didn't know… he was… your b-brother," she stammered out, hoping to halt the Raichu's rampage but to no avail. The only thing that would stop him was if his brother were alive or if Firefly were dead… And he was working on one of them…

"His death is on your head!" he started before the look on his face twisted even more, "Until I detach it from your neck!"

"P-Please, Shin! Listen to… ack!" she began before being silenced by a kick to her stomach which caused her to double-over once more.

As she slowly looked up again, wincing as she did so she saw Shin slowly walking towards her and cracking his knuckles ominously. Rage still filling his animalistic eyes as he did so.

"You won't be so lucky to die quickly. This will be slow… and painful…"

"I'm going out, c'mon Rio." Zan spoke out before making his way to the doorway leading to the other enclosures.

"What about me and Glint?" Nite called out.

"You two stay here incase Shin comes back, if he does, come find us Glint."

"Alright," the metallic bug replied soundly.

"Zan, are you sure this is a good idea?" Rio asked, unsure of what was going on. "I mean, if something is going down wouldn't it be better to stay in a group in here instead of going off and possibly being caught in the middle of something?"

"I'm willing to take that chance, if you don't want to come just say so and you can go back with Nite and Glint." he replied as he continued marching onward, he knew something was amiss and he was determined to find out what was happening that had him so on edge tonight.

After leaving the enclosure they run across the door leading to the arena and other areas and the guard on the other side. Once reaching it they bang on it to try and get his attention but to no avail.

"He's ignoring us…" Zan mumbled before turning away while Rio walked up to the door and smirked.

"Not for loooooong," he replied in a sing-song way. Afterwards, he placed his paw on the window and grinned. "Hey, can this window withstand a Force Palm attack?" he asked to which the guard turned to him and did a double-take at the paw.

"You two get back to your enclosures, now!" he ordered before turning back away.

"Suit yourself…" Rio added before using a weakened version of the aforementioned attack which caused a large crack in the glass to spread from top to bottom and the guard's eyes to bulge out in shock while Rio was grinning ear to ear. "You could've answered, you know."

"You idiot, what'd you do?" the guard yelled out, his voice cracking a few times.

"I asked you something and you didn't answer, so I had to find out myself." Rio responded before Zan turned back to the guard with a slightly bewildered look on his face since he didn't expect him to do that either.

"So now that we have your attention, is something going on?"

"Stupid pokémon, go back to your enclosures before I call in security to force you back in." he threatened.

Knowing that he and Rio could easily bust through the door and take care of him, Zan knew that back-up would come and things would get bad for them for a while. So he thought against rushing the door and told Rio to follow him.

"What's up" Thought we wanted an answer?"

"We do, but if we tried to force something out of him the only thing we would've gotten was a load of grunts staring at us…"

"Well… I guess that makes sense to walk away, but what do we do now?" Rio asked as they slowly walked along to a pond for a short drink.

"Don't know… guess we wait a bit and see if something happens…"