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Rin visibly cringed, albeit slightly, at the sudden increase in light, a hand rising to shield her dark-accustomed eyes from the blazing 'sun' which illuminated the ring. She stepped backwards into the semi-shadow of an overhang near the doorway.

The silvery eevee immitated Rin with odd precision. His ears dipped and he crept backwards, tail swishing as he attempted to vanish beneath his trainer's shadow- made deeper in blackness by the brighter lights. It was wishful thinking, regardless, based on his shimmering, 'shiny' coat. Ugh.

Lilith watched closely from behind her black framed glasses. "He's using sunny day for a good reason." She spoke to herself. She was studying the Typhlosion's attacks, weakness, and offense. She had her pokeball siting in front of her. "We'll try to have a change against him, Fenrir." Lilith said as she looked down at the pokeball. ~Sunny day will help Pele with the water moves by powering up it's fire moves.~ She thought to herself as she rested her hands under her chin. She was itching to fight Seth.

As Akemi ordered her Wartortle to use Surf, Seth smirked. "Hmph. A commendable effort." His eyes following the wave of water as it crashed into Pele, threatening to knock her off her feet. Now wet, the Typhlosion was considerably grumpy and snarled.

"As you may already know. Sunny Day increases the the power of fire type attacks by 50% and lowers the power of water type attacks by 50%. But that's not all... Pele! Solar Beam now!"

The Typhlosion reared her head, red eyes flashing as the move that would normally taken a turn to charge, did so much quicker. Her maw parting and a brilliant beam of light shooting forth and towards the Wartortle.

Bright. Sunny day was a powerful move, and exceptionally bright, luckly his sunglasses had the same effect here they had in the sun and saved him from being blinded and he was able to watch as the Warturtle got cooked by the Typhlosion. It wouldn't be long now, the Warturtle would not be able to surive another attack.

He smirked to himself. At least he wouldn't be the only one who was crushed.

Given Shinju's already weakened condition from the last attack, no matter what move Pele had used it would still have knocked the Water pokémon out. As soon as Eruption was over and the arena returned to normal, Akemi rushed to her fainted companion and picked it up. She could hardly even carry Shinju, the turtle pokémon being half her weight and almost as big, but she still managed to drag it out of the ring. A visit to the infirmary would be in order, as using a Revive wasn't enough to fully restore a fainted pokémon's health.

The young Grunt bowed at Seth politely before completely exiting the battle ring and joining the other Grunts and Trainees, curious to see who would be picked next. In her mind, the girl swore to herself that the next time she had to battle Seth or another Elite Agent, she wouldn't go down as easily.

Rin stood rigidly, keeping against the wall with the flat of her back. It was bright, of course. But, to her, it was uncomfortably bright. Despite this being a learning experience, she seemed unphased by the end of battle- neither surprised by the overkill nor sedated to have guessed the obvious outcome. Just.. uncomfortable at the lingering brightness, accentuated by the eruption technique.

Nails 'veee'd through clenched teeth, as if attempting a very quiet and displeased growl. He took a step forward, pulling out ever so slightly from Rin's relatively small shadow. He shoulders hunched down, paws out with tiny fox-like claws extended. Rin, however, ignored his aggitation, the Rocket as exciting as a shadowy statue.

Not surprisingly, the Wartortle went down and the Typhlosion was recalled back to her Pokeball. The bright light faded and the temperature then returned to normal. So far neither grunt had shown any common sense in battle. Even though Seth's was meant to improve their grunts, it was still disappointing that Team Rocket had recruited such losers.

"Only idiots and amateurs put more than two damaging attacks of the same type on a Pokemon, and even two is pushing it unless you have a good reason. Not to mention Hidden Power is a complete waste of time! Get rid of it and Bubblebeam, and give it something useful like dig. Or evolve the damn thing already and give it earthquake."

Yes, the fact that her wartortle was past the point of evolution had not escaped Seth's notice, and he found it pathetic.

However, the elite then lifted a brow when the girl picked up her Pokemon.

"You have got to be kidding me. Are you so dense that you don't even know how to use a pokeball?" Seth scoffed and then looked towards the rest of the crowd. His finger pointed at the girl in the ridiculous ninja attire. "You." Apparently Rin was the next one up.

(( By the way Thanassa. You need to take off Bubblebeam anyway because Wartortle can't learn it in the most recent generation. Also, if you're going to have Hidden Power you need to list its type and power in your journal. ))

((Okay. ^^; Better reason to replace it when it came up in this context. I'll update Shinju's moveset before I roleplay any battles with her again..))

"Shinju can't evolve, Sir..." Akemi replied in a low tone, using a Revive and spraying some Super Potion on her beat up Wartortle. "And the reason why I didn't return her to her ball was because it's better to tend to the wounds when she's out, sir." Finally, the turtle pokémon had recovered well enough to stand on its own once more, and Akemi returned it to its ball in a red flash. Her thick black bangs covered her downcast face, hiding her pained expression. She knew she had no chance, but she wasn't expecting to fail this bad. To get chewed out like this...

Akemi moved to the back of the group, biting her lip to keep the tears back as she feverishly went through her mind to come up with two Technical Machines that she could use for Shinju. Another Grunt was called up to the arena, but she hardly paid any attention anymore.