FLIGHT AND FREEZE

[heartonachain]

Who: Kris, Umemiya, Archnemon, Shoka, Bigby, Siffrin (SA), Kinger, Sanji, Need, Ren, Akechi, Anasui, Emporio, Ingo, Emmet... and Noelle!!
What: Move over Team Intimidate, there's a cooler Pokemon that needs saving.
When: Early October
Where: All over
Warnings: Will update as needed!!

Noelle has vanished while recovering at the clinic and nobody can find her! She may have run away while having a mental health crisis. Please, bring her back safely!

Mightyena doesn't know where Noelle went, just that she was still in recovery when she vanished. She thought Noelle couldn't have gone far in her condition... but if that's the case, why hasn't she been found yet?

[ QUEST START ]

After a tense day of discussion, organizing and planning, Kris and Ingo gather the volunteers at the outskirts of Bottlecap Bay. Supplies are handed out, groups are chosen, and everyone is given a quick debriefing on the plan: start close to home, then work their way further out as they narrow down her location. Some groups should hang back, ready to set out once a fresh lead is established—the pearls are perfect for this, so everyone should keep their own handy. Spreading out too wide will only make things difficult once they find her trail, so it's important that everyone stays on task.

Once everyone's roles have been assigned, it's time to set out. It's going to be a long, long day.

BEFORE THE SEARCH
TEAM A | TEAM B
TEAM C | TEAM D
TEAM E

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[offtracks]

Ingo backs off a little, face turned away from the wind. He knows what a territorial, protective Pokemon looks like. But how many times has he already tried to talk her down? They can't just turn around and go home!

Violet embers leap from the flames on his back, hovering unnaturally in the air around him. The start of an Infernal Parade, though he holds it at bay for a moment. "If you will simply tell us WHERE SHE HAS GONE, we will go after her and be on our way!" he snarls. "I am a WARDEN! I will not leave a lost child to fend for herself out here!"

[seacub]

Another yelp- this time it's that much harder to keep holding onto Emmet's mane, but by sheer luck he manages it...

Even if his helmet absolutely doesn't remain on his head. The cubone shudders at the exposure to the chill, but rather than duck back down he tries to reach into his satchel for what he's supposed to use for fling.

Rocks.

"If you're so worried about others, stop trying to freeze us!"

And that's another fastball, with a good deal more weight to it than some snow.

[outbounds]

From further into the copse of trees, low to the ground and hidden in the brush, there's a squeak and a whimper, a break in the dam that gives way to a quiet susurrus of nonononono, go away, go away, leave us alone, stop hurting us, stop hurting mom—

Perhaps because of the reminder, the frost tree stands tall, refusing to back down despite the injury. "And what of the children she's hurt?" snarls Abomasnow right back. "This lost child of yours, she comes tearing through the snow and up the mountain with no care for those in her way, no care at all for the many, many Pokemon she's hurt—"

A broad sweep of one of her large arms sets the storming white around them aflurry again, but not in an attack; the gesture seems only to be intended to make and emphasize her point, with the renewed Snow Warning as a side effect.

(In the air around Emmet's collar, flames blink and flicker into life as well, blue-white and pale. Like Ingo's flames they linger near to him; unlike his, they are nowhere near as powerful a promise of an attack, and are meant only to provide what warmth they can for the passenger riding along. He himself won't offer anything to the conversation other than a watchful eye.)

"And I am just supposed to let you retrieve her and go about on your merry way? I suppose she is the one who matters most here, is she not?" A derisive snort escapes her in a visible cloud of breath. "Freezing you ... child, I will explain this to you alone: there are only four of you. Even if you should be lost beneath the snow ... How many Pokemon do you think your little lost Deerling has come across on her way here? Do you think all of them were found?"

[offtracks]

Ingo's ears flatten at the sound, easily the most dramatic expression Emporio has probably ever seen out of him. He didn't want this to be a fight before; knowing there are young Snorunt here makes it seem impossible.

But what is he to do? They cannot just abandon Noelle. Maybe she's not around, and this is all for nothing...but, the way that Abomasnow is speaking of her, Ingo finds it difficult to believe that is the case.

"She was not like that before Froslass!" he calls out, something a little like anguish in his voice. Ingo doesn't know Noelle that well. He'd been worried about her, but only as a distant neighbor, the way he would about nearly any of the young displaced Pokemon here. But in this too, they're the same. "She came among us and took control of many Pokemon...bending them to serve her whims! It seemed to affect Noelle more than most - I do not know why, but she is unwell!"

Does that make a difference? Ingo...isn't sure. He may not have been so far gone as Noelle, but he is not happy with everything he did for Froslass either. For all that he's willing to forgive the Deerling, he can understand where Abomasnow is coming from. He's much less willing to forgive himself.

Still - still! "What is any of this to accomplish? If there are more passengers who require assistance, then let us organize a proper search instead of standing about attacking one another! The others have already found and aided several such Pokemon - if we can determine her path more exactly, we will have a much easier time of it!" Which would, of course, be aided if Abomasnow could provide them information about her movements! Instead of attacking them with snow!

His flames remain lit brightly, but there's no attack from Ingo. Is he brewing up a Strong style move, or passing altogether?

[seacub]

To be addressed this way by the Abomasnow- to be looked down on while still being attacked, it feels- it causes Emporio to take a moment to pause. To think.

To focus, in fact, as he gathers his might under Focus Energy. Realistically he doesn't know what they should have expected from her. She very clearly doesn't want to talk, and very definitely won't see any reason, but now he knows for a fact that Noelle is back there.

And Noelle, whatever the case, was at least nice to him.

Emmet will feel Emporio standing up within the mane- even adjusting himself, muttering an apology. It's not going to feel great, what he's about to do. Does he think 'all of them' were found?

Better question, he supposes. Why assume there's only four? He could answer with that, point out how multiple teams have all been coming and going with various other Pokemon, their leads being the exact reason that their own group came this far, but instead he eyes the snow below them with a shaking grimace.

He really hopes this works.

"...Do you think they weren't?" He says, and then, he throws his hand forward in a move the other two will find very familiar.

He expects something like what Abomasnow does, really. That he'll end up unleashing a 'blizzard' that can't actually hit his partners. The latter part is true- as always, Secret Power is Normal Type. But it's not a Blizzard.

An avalanche, or at least the vision of one, comes barreling forward from where the three stand. Emporio jumps, the motion and pressure from which explains the cubone's pre-emptive apology, and in the false snow he quickly vanishes.

He vanishes into the normal snow too, ice burns be damned. If they can't go through the lot, then he's going under- and he can!