This could really be interesting, really be a proper rival, at his level. A small part of him was feeling maybe the tiniest bit guilty but if Sollux wanted to toy with him, he wasn't going to wait around when there was another purpleblood who wanted to fight.

He was standing on the beach, ready for shouted insults to begin with, and he flinched slightly when the energy shot by him. He liked her style, though. No wasting time, just straight into the fucking battle. Tilting his rifle forward, he lifted and shouldered it, pointing the flaming tip at Rose. Either she'd block it or she wasn't worth his rivalry. He aimed it to miss her upper half, anyway, just in case, and then pulled down on the trigger.