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All hell just broke loose. “We have to leave, now.” He said to Luxury. The legendaries would do the job of destroying the place. He grabbed her hand and started back for the entrance.

Swift Wing attempted to navigate the air with the sudden flurry of pokemon attacks in every direction. What happened? He tried to spot his human below him, and got clipped by some shrapnel throwing his flight off a moment. Flapping his strong wings he flew higher.

When the lucaio burst into tears, Shade left him alone, it was not a moment to intrude upon. Then suddenly pokemon were unleashed and started firing attacks in every direction. Shade flew off to his human and blocked one side of him, planning to protect him from being hurt. Unfortunately his presence did not help as much as he hoped for because a few large chunks of cement came flying from the ceiling and landed right behind them, the force from the impact of hitting the walkway flinging Agent and Luxury across the room to hit a the wall near the entrance.

Shade was also tossed a few feed into the air and let out a surprised cry, which alerted Swift Wing, and the pidgeot spotted his human against the wall. He landed by the fallen pair, and spread his wings as cover for them, and looked down at the fallen pair. Something was wrong. The human, usually full of energy even at the worst of times, wasn’t getting up.

There was a great deal of crackling and static on the other end of the communicator Faleen had spoken into. It was a good couple of minutes before there was a response, and when it came, the speaker sounded distant and dazed. His voice broke up almost inaudiably at times, the static continuing to punctuate the words, but enough seemed to come through to be comprehensible.

"...Fine, I'm - Galactics - on the catwalk...Mairu - be down soon..."

Had Faleen even known that one of the Galactics had fallen, and died in the few moments between the shot, she still probably would not have reacted, her priority was on her team along with the sudden rumbling and degrading noises of the facility around them.
Attacks were still showering from all Pokemon in the room, but the most devastating seemed to happen as Faleen got the very distinct idea that the Legendary were not released.

There was a moment, when Faleen straightened herself up, fingertips sliding off of the floor as the brought her balance back to just her legs, everything was trembling, but not with the calm pulsing that it once had in its life, this trembled with pain, and creaked as things pieces started to fall around them.
Her eyes found the machine, and she watched with a moment... just a moment of still silence.
It was a shame... really,
This was what ran through her mind in those moments she allowed herself, watching this machine... this impossibility, this beautiful creation.
In another life, this might have been something more spectacular then what it was going to be reduced to, the potential, what it could have taught, what she could have learned from it.
But that was not this life, and this was the last she would get to see of it, though the impact of its creation, and its inspiration would not leave her so quickly.

Faleen knew she would never be able to build something like this, never come even close.
But this was going to only drive her to do the best she could, for Rocket.

Moment was up though, And Faleen was faced with the situation again.
They did it!
Faleen couldn't help but smile, reaching up to call her Pokemon back to her, recalling Sharpedo and Fainted Charizard, jerking out of the way when a fallen piece of rubble falls way to close to her head and she feels the sharp edges scratch the side of her face.
This cause her to stagger back closer to Nyx.
Objective seemed to have been met, it was time to get out of there before this place fell down on top of them.
Catching her footing again, she looked up to where Izaya was when she heard his voice respond to her, only it wasn't the same kind of voice she had heard from him moments ago, this drew a frown from the Agent.
"That doesn't sound convincing, Nakura, you can't be down soon, you need to get down now!" She had to speak louder over the noises of destruction around them.
Faleen knew she could not be able to get up there.
Reaching out to grab a fist full of her Zoroark's fur to her the shiny pokemon's attention.
"Get up there and make sure to cover him!"

Zoroark blinked, but she obeyed, leaping away from her master easily, scrambleing and jumping off the sides to get to the level the human was on.
Her eyes drifted over him, seeing, and getting a nose full of the smell of blood.
Her eyes then drifted around to locate each of his pokemon out to point them out to Faleen, and Banette.

Everything was falling apart. Literally. He wanted to finish off Tethys, but amidst the chaos, he'd lost where she had gone. He gave up, for now. They didn't matter. What did matter was getting out. All of them. He turned towards the door where the others were. He saw Aila and Faleen beside the fallen Nyx. He waded through the sea of chaos towards the door. The debris falling made it difficult to get there, but he had. He dropped down beside the women. "How is she?" He couldn't help but check her over. The patchwork done on her was impressively sufficient. He looked around, Aila was searching for something. And he noticed Sierra. He spotted her leg and winced. "Can you stand?" He asked her, sliding his arms gently under Nyx to lift her up.

He was thankful for Maxwell acting as a shield. As the concrete that had nearly taken out Panther and Luxury fell, debris fell around them. Some chunks of concrete and metal hit Mau, but nothing he couldn't shake off. He'd be purple come tomorrow though, he knew. He looked at Faleen. "Are you alright?"

As he spoke, Ire and Aki came running over. Ire looked worriedly up at the humans before bounding out and yipping at them. Why were humans taking so long?

Aki nudged Sierra to try and encourage her to stand. She could use him as support, if she needed to. Being as gentle and fast as he could, Mau picked Nyx up and carried her out of the collapsing Machine.

Khalon moved to help Marle, while Layla crossed to Celeste. After checking on their teammates, the Eeveelutions, being in only slightly better shape, helped them put out any smoldering fur and feathers, then assisted them in getting back to Sierra. Marle insisted on aiming a weak kick at the Flareon's fallen form as they passed, making a face.

They had more important concerns, however, when they got back. A pool of blood had formed from their trainer's leg, and the other Rockets seemed more concerned with Nyx. It was understandable, as she was more seriously injured, but her Pokemon didn't necessarily see it that way. Well, at least one asked if she was okay...and Aki was willing to help as well. Panting slightly, still trying to manage the pain radiating from her torn calf, Sierra looked up and smiled weakly at them. She was struggling against shock, and somewhere in the back of her mind, she was aware of it. Something kept telling her to stay alert, hold on, help would come.

Her Pokemon were a welcome sight.

Khalon rushed forwards, looking at her leg, then up at her face, then down at her leg again. The bleeding; had to stop the bleeding. But how? Sierra seemed a bit out of it, but maybe he could keep her moving, paying attention. He'd need her help...to help her. He grabbed ahold of her Galactic uniform sleeve at her wrist, tugging at the material. Sierra stared at him puzzled for a bit, then back at her leg and blinked. "Oh." It was a simple statement, but she got it now. Holding her uniform at the shoulder, she attempted to pull in the other direction. Catching on, Layla stepped in to bite the material at the shoulder to help tear it.

It took some effort, but soon the sleeve tore free of the uniform. They went to work on the other one next, soon leaving Sierra in a modified sleeveless version of her disguise. Struggling to focus, she took the sleeves, tied one end to the other sleeve end, then wrapped the long strip of fabric tightly around her leg, above the wound and just below her knee. She pulled the cloth as tightly as she was able before tying it off. It was all she could do to help for now. They needed to move.

Finally, she nodded, acknowledging Mau's question and Aki's offer of help. "I think so...I'm about to find out," she muttered, shaking her head. She tried to pull herself up, grunting softly at the pain that shot up her leg. Ignore it, no time for weakness now. She didn't want to die here.

The building was collapsing and the Legendaries raging. No wasting time. She recalled Celeste and Marle, her worst hurt, leaving Khalon and Layla out to assist as needed. Between Khalon and Aki's help, she managed to drag herself to a semi-upright position. This would not be pleasant. Wincing with each step, she tried to run/hobble/walk towards the exit with all the speed she could muster.

She felt like passing out.

Pain had exploded though his body, he couldn’t breath couldn’t think . He tried to take a breath, and only managed a half gasp, and then another that caused more pain to shoot through his chest. He was suffocating, unable to get air in. His frame wouldn’t move until a hand touched him and he gasped, air coming back to his lungs. And it hurt. He was ok. The next breath told it he wasn’t, pain shot through the left side of his chest where he had hit the wall air catching inside. He was lucky, he had the ability to move his face out of the way before impact. And had managed to keep from a face plant. That would have been worst. At the moment he wasn’t thinking about that, he wasn’t thinking about anything except pain. Hands touched his ribs and he gasped again, black shooting across his eyes as those hands touched something that felt wrong.

Blood rushed to his ears and he tried to look at the person beside him. The world came back to him, they were on a mission, Luxury was next to him when they were tossed into the air. The million years of flying and then thunk thunk. That’s what happened. Something was definitely broke. Endorphins flooded his system, calming the pain.

A shaky hand moved to underneath him. They had to go. Feathers touched his cheek and coo from above alerted him to Swift wing. Strange the bird was, encouraging him? He tried pull his feet under him but only managed to get to sitting, pain wrapping around his chest. Breathing came in short gasps. “I’m… I’m ok.” It wasn’t true, he was not ok. But they couldn’t focus on that at the moment, not yet. Another cry from the building confirmed that. Being in a building with angry legendaries was bad, very bad.

Another explosion rocked the building and Swift Wing pulled his body close to the humans, wings acting as a barrier reducing the worst of the shrapnel. A particularly large piece strung his cheek and another cut open his shoulder. He let out a soft cry of pain.

Shade who was unaffected by the shrapnel, but blown up against the wall, looked up in a panic, as the Keldo came too close, and very angry. His human had to get up now. “Gengar gen.” he tugged at Panther and Luxury's cloths, voice insistent. There was no time, they had to go.

If he could have cursed, Aki would have. His human was in danger with that Lucario. But he had a mission right now. Sierra. Get her safe. One task at a time. He was no help.

Ire growled at the Lucario and with a quick attack, attempted to intercept the attacks with teeth bared. But there was a closer pokemon then Ire. The tank-like aggron was still shielding her trainer from harm. With the approaching Lucario she turned about with a dragon claw. "Thanks Maxwell." He said to the pokemon as his steps quickened to get Nyx out of there.

Closing in on the Yanmega, Mau glanced about. Where had that damn chimecho gone? Uta had left when Nyx was taken care of, but he had come out of the transport with flailing little arms. "Uta, get Mai and let her out." The chimecho drooped, being less then useful. "NOW!" Yeep. Uta obeyed. The orange blossomed Venusaur was released. "Mau, use your vines to help everyone inside."

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Oh thank Arceus. Luxury nearly fainted from relief when the Agent took a breath, and her chest grew tight when her hands touching his chest earned a gasp. Oh crap. His ribs. He'd broken his ribs.

She tried to help him sit up, and in the next instant there was ice and shrapnel everywhere, some of it slicing through Swift Wing's feathers and cutting up her face and arms. None of it hurt nearly as bad as her ankle.

In the next instant Shade was being quite insistent and Kunai was using the last of her energy to tell them to scram. "Nioshii!" Luxury released the giant dog. "We need to get out of here, think you can carry us both?" She earned a nod, and turned to Panther. "Can you stand?" Worried eyes flickered between him and his Pidgeot. After that blast... He couldn't be in good shape.

"I can get up there." he slowly stood to his feet, using the pidgeot's feathers as a support. He was shaking just a little, just enough to notice but he looked at her, trying to focus. His free hand grasped at his chest, crinkling the cloth, but not putting pressure. There was still a hitch with his every intake of breath.

"Good." Luxury, on the other hand, was struggling more to stand. Nioshii reached down and hauled her up with his teeth, holding her and crouching down for the Agent. They had to hurry.

Panther looked at the pokemon, still feeling a little shakey.  He swung a leg over his side and pulled a pokeball from his hand, returning shade and Swiftwing.  somewhere in the back of his mind he felt he should help the others, but as he jerked a litte, taking his position on the dog, pain swam before his eyes.  this wasn't the time to be playing hero.

After the Agent was in place, Nioshii swung Luxury up on his back behind him, earning a gasp and glare since he had bumped her leg. Oops. "Go." The grunt ordered through gritted teeth, hands gripping Panther's hips and knees gripping the Arcanine. Without another word or nod of acknowledgment, disaster and destruction on his heels, Nioshii made a run for it.