Sorry that I haven't updated, don't worry this story will be updated every other day hopefully. Uh oh, Giovanni is going to be mad when he hears that Victoria failed, who was that man she fought? How did he know how to fight? Will Victoria recover from her burns?

Chapter 2

Lights were flashing as I was brought to a hospital in Team Rocket's headquarters. I could see Hydreigon flying next to the stretcher I was on, everything was fuzzy, I could hear my heartbeat pounding in my ears, everything hurt, and the burns had destroyed my beautiful skin.

Doctors were everywhere; I could see them rubbing things on my burns, while they tried to dry my blood. My Hydreigon was roaring angrily and had to be restrained, they were pumping blood in my system, I could feel the needles in my flesh, and I could hear them speaking, even though I was half conscious.

"_She's lucky to be alive, the burns are severe, but with our advanced medicine she will be okay."

My breaths were shallow, and soon I blacked out as doctors surrounded me poking me with more needles.

~Later~

I gasped for air, the doctors were gone and Hydreigon was resting his head on my lap, his eyes were closed as his giant lungs heaved. I scratched his head and he opened one eye, he looked like he was smiling as he licked my face.

"Hey buddy, it's going to take a lot more than that to kill me," I said. Hydreigon seemed extremely happy that I was up, he started to purr as I scratched his throat. Soon doctors entered the room, they checked my vitals, and saw that the medicine had completely healed my burns.

"You made a remarkable recovery, Giovanni had the best doctors tend to you," a girl said. Hydreigon seemed a little scared that Giovanni was already notified about my injuries, but I did shoot the trainer who was defending the city, for all I knew he bled out somewhere and died.

"Get Giovanni on the phone and tell him Victoria is awake," another doctor said. I flinched as they poked a needle in my arm trying to locate a vein, Hydreigon growled at the doctors, making sure they were gentle.

I was asked a few questions, did I feel pain? Did anything feel wrong? Things like that they asked me. I felt pretty good for someone that was bleeding and severely burned not too long ago.

"_Yes sir, she is awake, okay we will prepare for your arrival," someone said. I buried my face in my hands, Giovanni was going to be furious, I had failed my mission and I had never done that before. I always killed my target, even if it meant shooting them down from miles away.

Hydreigon licked my hand as I slowly stroked his nose, he could tell that I was nervous, but he knew I could take care of Giovanni's wrath. Within an hour I could hear marching footsteps from the hallway, I swallowed hard as I saw Giovanni with several officers marching into the room.

The doctors dispersed, as two officers opened the metal doors to my room. I avoided eye contact as Giovanni walked in, his face was twisted in a scowl, as beads of sweat formed on his brow.

"Leave us," Giovanni said. The two officers and the grunts following him bowed and left the room. Giovanni put his hands behind his back and walked to the side of the bed.

There was silence between us; Giovanni was angry, furious even. I could hear my heartbeat thundering in my ears, as his eyes burned holes into my skull.

"You have ruined my reputation, when I give you a job I expect it to be fulfilled without any hesitation, when I heard you had been injured, I was furious, how could you let that trainer escape alive!" Giovanni said. I flinched at his words, I had no excuse for my behavior, and I was a failure.

"My deepest apologies for letting the teenager escape, but I did shoot him in the shoulder, his blood is on the roof so you can take samples and find out who he is," I said. Giovanni seemed a little bit pleased that he could collect blood samples, but he was still furious.

"You have failed me Victoria, and you will receive strict punishment, you will be training every minute of every day until I say otherwise, I want you to be so sharp you can pin a fly with an arrow and not kill it," Giovanni said. I bowed my head, I needed more training, I wanted it, and I did not want to fail again.

"Yes sir," I said respectfully. Giovanni seemed pleased with himself, as he looked over me, wondering what else he should say.

"You will also be participating in the arena fight tonight, if you emerge victorious, I will consider ending your punishment earlier than if you lose," Giovanni said. I breathed a sigh of relief, at least I had a little bit of a chance to redeem myself.

"Yes sir, I will not fail you again," I said bowing my head. Giovanni seemed happy with my answer, as he started walking out of the room.

"Once you are cleared to leave the hospital, I expect you start training right away," Giovanni said. The boss of Team Rocket left the room, leaving me alone with my thoughts, I slapped my forehead, I couldn't believe I failed him, this was the worst day of my life.

Once Giovanni's body was completely gone from view, dozens of doctors came in checking me for clearance. Once of them brought my uniform that was freshly made to replace the one that was in ribbons. I went to the bathroom to change, before heading out of the hospital with hydreigon.

I wanted to start training right away, I would do exactly as Giovanni asked, and I wanted to be back on his good side, so badly. I went to the underground subway, and got onto the luxurious officer train, the seats were made of gold and had many designs on them, and the cushions were extremely soft and comfortable.

The train started to go towards the training center, it was huge and had ten sections, a new grunt could easily get lost in it, and it still wasn't our biggest training center.

Hydreigon and I hopped off the subway train, and walked down the hall until we saw a huge double door at the end of the hallway. I could smell the sweat coming from the training center, as I stood in front of the scanner as it scanned my face, the light turned green as I was accepted.

"Welcome Leader Victoria," a robotic voice said. The doors swung open and I saw dozens of floors all surrounding a grassy area, it was huge and indoors, even though the screen on the ceiling made it look like it was outside. Fountains gushed as grunts walked around the courtyard, there was a bar in the corner, as glass walls showed all the grunts training on the other floors.

Hydreigon nudged me as we approached the elevator, I decided to go to the close combat floor, there they had punching bags and virtual enemies you could fight to improve your fighting skills.

Soon enough the door opened and I saw a tan looking girl beating the crap out of a punching bag. I giggled, as the girl screamed kicking the punching bag as hard as she could, as the bag popped right off the chain.

The girl sighed sadly as she picked up another punching bag and hung it on the chain, several ripped up punching backs were being taken away by grunts as the girl continued punching the bag once again.

"Careful, you don't want to scare the grunts with your intensity," I teased. The girl wiped sweat off her forehead as she turned to me, my best friend smiled as she ran over to me and gave me a big hug.

"Girl when I heard you got burned I was so worried, Giovanni wouldn't let anyone come see you," she said. I chuckled a little bit, I knew how Giovanni was, he was always making everything secretive.

"He was pretty mad, but I can make it up to him, I just need to train for tonight," I said. My best friend looked at me curiously, she was an officer in Team Rocket, and a very skilled assassin too. Her strength was enough to scare most leaders in Team Rocket, but if she had a weapon, you were as good as dead.

"Do you think in a parallel universe you would have won?" she said. She was always talking about parallel universes, she always felt like when we failed or other self succeeded. "I always have wondered what my other self is doing."

I looked towards Leah as she smiled, the girl was crazy, and there were no such thing as parallel universes. If there were she was probably the leader of Team Rocket, and was probably the ruler of the world.

"I don't know, perhaps I would have won," I replied. Leah turned her head as she took a sip out of a container, I knew it was alcohol, this girl could drink until she dropped.

"Man this is good stuff, it keeps me on my toes," Leah said. I laughed, it did indeed keep her on her toes if she drank enough of it, but if she drank too much she started to get a little slutty towards the grunts and other officers.

"Don't drink too much, remember last time you started flirting with Athena's boyfriend, and she almost got into a fist fight with you," I said. I remembered the memory well, Leah would have kicked Athena's butt, but it would have angered Giovanni.

"Ugh, I hate that girl," Leah said. It was true we both hated Athena, she was our mortal enemy, she was snobby and horrible to the both of us, and has taunted us ever since we first joined Team Rocket.

"Hey look I have to go train, I will catch up with you later," I said. Leah waved at me before taking another sip of her alcohol and boxing the punching bag once again.

Hydreigon and I made our way to the virtual attack gym, the attackers were just illusions but they could touch you, and weapons were given to you so you could attack them. Hydreigon and I used to go in here just to have fun, I have become so good at fighting that it was hardly a challenge anymore.

I entered the gym and chose twin swords as my weapon, the room immediately turned dark as green figures started to surround me. Hydreigon watched from the sidelines, I waited until I heard a bell, and then I stabbed as many figures as I could.

I twisted around and swung the blade over my shoulder, I cut the head of the figure clean off as it shattered into pieces. I spun around slashing another figure across the chest, grunts were gathering on the balcony to watch, it's been a while since I tried this training exercise.

I slid under a figure's legs, while slashing under his legs, the figure dropped to its knees and shattered. I recovered as I jumped on another figure's shoulder and slammed the blades in its chest. I dropped to the ground and did a roll as it shattered, I twisted around knocking the figures surrounding me to their feet, before leaping on them and stabbing them each.

Not before long all of the figures were down, and the lights came on, cheers erupted from the balcony. I rolled my eyes, as I exited the arena with hydreigon, I heard a slow clap behind me as I turned and growled.

"That was a nice show, but unfortunately you are a little rusty," Athena said. I rolled my eyes, I didn't want to talk to her right now, but she grabbed my shoulder.

"Ugh, what do you want Athena," I growled. Athena laughed as she took my twin swords from my hands and twirled them in her fingers.

"I just wanted to wish you luck on the arena tournament tonight, it must be embarrassing having to fight your way back to the top," Athena taunted. I rolled my eyes again as I left her, she was the most annoying person in Team Rocket, and I wanted to get as far away from her as I possibly could.

I trained for several hours, until it was time to start heading towards the arena. My skills were sharpened, and I was all warmed up, I left the training center as I hopped on the train. I returned Hydreigon to his ball, as the train moved carefully towards the arena. Team Rocket had several underground tunnels leading towards the different bases, it was the fastest way to go to other bases.

I waited for a long time until the train came to a stop, I hopped off of it and heard the loud cheers from inside the arena. I went towards the locker room, the weapons Giovanni wanted me to use were neatly sitting on a table that was reserved for me.

I picked up my twin swords and strapped them on my back, I saw nervous swallows of my enemies as they looked at my sharp swords. They haven't seen me participate in a while, but every time I fought I sent my opponents to the hospital, and it was usually very bloody.

"Alright people, everyone who is participating get out there, Giovanni is going to choose the match ups," the arena master said. I groaned, I didn't want to fight just yet, who knows who Giovanni picked for me, probably someone hard.

Soon enough the iron doors were pulled up, revealing the inside of the arena. Several people walked out into the arena, it looked like the mini show was already over for they were cleaning the blood off the floor.

I stood firmly on the ground as I looked towards Giovanni, his head was leaning on his two fingers, and he was sitting on a throne made of gold, two officers sat beside him. They would whisper something to him and he would nod his head occasionally.

An announcer cleared his throat as she stood under Giovanni's box seat, the arena was silent as they waited for the man to speak.

"The first match up this evening is Victoria vs. Luca, this was handpicked by Giovanni himself," the announcer said. I rolled my eyes, Luca was the guy who always bragged when he accomplished a mission, he always talked big, and that's the only reason he was an officer.

Luca grinned as he marched towards me with a battle axe, he looked smug and cocky, did he forget he was fighting me?

"It makes me feel a lot better knowing you are injured, now I can easily win," Luca said. He extended his hand, and I took it squeezing it as hard as I possibly could. I brought his ear to my mouth, as I thought of something to say.

"You are about to find out what a true injury looks like," I said. I broke away from Luca as the arena cleared, I unsheathed my twin swords as Luca spun his battle axe in his hand.

"May the best warrior win, now fight!" the announcer said. The arena erupted with cheers as Luca charged at me with a battle cry, I dodged his battle axe, kicked his shin, knocked his weapon out of his hand, and slammed my elbow into his collarbone.

Luca cried out as he fell to his hands, not so cocky now huh? The arena screamed at me, as I tapped my twin swords together, Giovanni shook his head, I knew what he meant. I grabbed Luca by his hair, he squirmed as I took my blade and slashed him across the chest.

He had lost, but he would be alive, the scar that I left will always be with him. I wiped the blood off my sword and walked away, Luca was writhing in agony as the medical team picked him up and carried him out of the arena.

"O-Okay folks, that was quick," the announcer said. I chucked, off course it was quick, he had zero skill, and it was all talk.

I walked out of the arena, as several more battles took place, I knew my fight wasn't over, the hardest part was coming, I knew Giovanni was just playing with me. Officers and grunts were now terrified of fighting me, and I didn't blame them, I wasn't a nice person.

I relaxed in the locker room until the final fights started, I was brought out by officers as I looked at the bloody battle field in front of me. It looked like prisoners were executed, bodies were on the ground as a familiar face looked back at me while she wiped the blood off of her spear.

"The final match will put two skilled assassins against each other, please give a round of applause for both Athena and Victoria," the announcer said. I wanted to stab someone, of course Giovanni put me against Athena, he didn't want it to be an easy fight, and he wanted some gory action.

I walked out into the arena as Athena swayed her hips walking towards me, she was the most cocky out of all of Team Rocket.

"When I heard that you were in the tournament, I couldn't help myself not to humiliate you in front of Giovanni after you so conveniently failed him," Athena said. She held the spear behind her back, the tip was a long blade that curled at the end, and several markings were etched in the steel.

"Trust me you did me a favor by entering, now I can bash your face in without getting in trouble," I said. Athena laughed as she bat her hand at me, I clinched my teeth together angrily as she turned away getting ready for the fight.

I cracked my knuckles as I spun my swords in my hands, Athena yawned as she leveled her spear at me. She would regret not taking this fight seriously, there was a reason I was Giovanni's best assassin.

Giovanni had the honor of ringing a gong to start the fight, Giovanni gave me a dirty look, and I knew he did not want me to fail. Athena and I circled each other, Athena kept her spear sturdy, as I kept my swords to my sides.

Athena roared as she jabbed her spear at me, I blocked her attack with my twin swords. She swung the spear around her head, as I dodged the swinging spear, I could feel the wind coming off the spear as it missed my head by inches.

The spear was too heavy to knock out of her hands, and I knew she would be holding it tightly with two hands. Since she was holding the spear she would be slower, all I needed to do was beat her at speed and she wouldn't be able to block my blows.

I jumped to her side and tried to slash her ribcage, but she was quick to counter, as her spear got me right on the arm. The arena gasped, as blood started dripping from my arm, I looked towards Giovanni and he looked displeased.

I was angry now, I whipped around and leapt into the air, Athena had hardly any time to deflect my attack as she blocked with her spear. My swords were inches away from her face, her arms were shaking as I put my entire body weight on my hands. She fell to her knees, and eventually my strength overpowered hers, her arms collapsed and she was open.

Before she could recover I knocked the spear from her hands and kicked her to where she fell on her back. She scrambled to get her sword, but I stepped on it so she couldn't grab it. I knocked my two swords together and looked towards Giovanni, the leader of Team Rocket shook his head.

I smiled, now was the fun part.

Athena tried to scoot away when she saw Giovanni shake his head, I quickly leapt upon her and pinned her down. I slowly started sliding my blade across her cheek to make an ugly scar for eternity, she screamed and cried for me to stop, but I wouldn't show any mercy, showing mercy was weakness in Team Rocket.

The giant gash on her cheek would be a permanent reminder that she lost this fight, and it was revenge for all the time she made fun of me. I smashed the hilt of my sword into her ribcage until it gave out, blood spewed from her mouth as she gasped for air.

I then stabbed my sword into her shoulder, pinning her down to the ground, she screamed as the sword ripped through her flesh. I stood up and lifted my remaining sword up into the air as the arena cheered.

Athena cried out in pain as I approached her, blood was pooling around her body, as her eyes spat hatred at me. With one final move I drove my sword in her abdomen, she screamed as I twisted the sword around until she passed out from pain.

The arena roared with cheers, as I wiped my bloody hands on my uniform. Giovanni seemed extremely pleased as he clapped, I left Athena alive, since we weren't allowed to actually kill Team Rocket members, but I was pretty sure if Athena won she would have toyed with me a bit longer.

I exited the arena, I had no idea I had made the biggest enemy possible that day, her hatred for me would boil for eternity, but in my mind it was revenge well served.