OOC: I'm just going to go ahead and apologize for what feels like a giant mess of a post, but hopefully this will get things moving again~

Rain Calder and Liz Redwood
Ryme City Entrance
Affected RPers: @Neo Emolga, @Saraibre Ryu, @Noblejanobii

Everyone started talking almost all at once, leaving Rain struggling to keep up yet again. "The Pangoro's down," Azriel told her, and began to say something else when a roar of pain ripped through the air. As her Pokemon watched, the cotton spores Sonata had directed the dragon into stuck to its wings and froze in place thanks to Grace’s attack, and it struggled to flap its wings once, twice, three times before it began to descend.

"Salamence is losing air fast, the Noivern guided it into a cloud of cotton spores before Grace's Blizzard hit, which made it much more effective," Nuala supplied before Rain could ask what in the world was going on. "If we don't stop it--"

"Ein, can you slow the Salamence's fall with Psychic?" Liz asked, raising her voice to be heard over the roaring of the dragon. Rain nor her companions heard the Slowking's response, but there was a firm, "Anything is better than nothing, just do your best. If it's not going to work, just warn me," a moment later. There was a pause before the sound of a pokeball releasing its resident filled the air, and the bellowing croak of a Politoed greeted those in the vicinity. "Linus, I'm gonna need your help, buddy--think you can Ice Beam that Pangoro down for me? He's real grumpy and I don't want him going anywhere and hurting anyone else." The bipedal frog Pokemon gave a peculiar humming noise in reply before bouncing off towards the downed Pangoro to freeze it into immobility. Before the Salamence could fall much further, Ein broadcasted his intent to attempt a Psychic catch of the Pokemon in the area and quickly followed the announcement with the move, attempting to lower it to the ground slowly and gently, an effort which drained him.

"The two Cinccino, including the one who used the taser, seem to be allowing another trainer's Haxorus and Jangmo'o to help lead them out of the area to a safer location. I'm very curious about them--what would you like to do?" Azriel asked her, and Rain knew she had to make a decision quickly.

“Nuala, follow the Cinccino.” That she should remain unseen was understood, that was part of her permanent job description. “Figure out where they’re going. If you need to keep an eye on them for a while, meet us back at the hotel, but make sure we can find them again later if need be.”

“Understood.” The Gastly’s reply was quick and flat before Rain felt her presence disappear, leaving her with Azriel and Cerridwen to face the rest of the situation present. “Cerridwen, how’s Ollie doing?”

Ollie, as it turned out, was managing, but not excelling. Though the Luxray’s Wild Charge had weakened the Zoroark, it’s hadn’t put it down for the count yet. He was relieved to see that his battling companion, the Galvantula, had managed to avoid the brunt of the attack as well, but all the web she’d spun to confine the Zoroark was mostly gone now. This left the rogue Pokemon more free to move, and now that it was capable of doing so, it went absolutely wild, whipping around and lunging towards him, but this action only lasted for a moment. He felt the temperature of the air around him plummet, and realized then that Grace had seemingly finished her own business with the Salamence, and had turned her attention to the remaining Pokemon still in motion. “Don’t. You. Dare!” the Froslass snarled a moment before another Blizzard exploded around it, the force of which pushed him back. He threw a wing up to shield himself from the force of the wind, and when he lowered it, he was mildly impressed to find the Zoroark encased in a block of ice. Unlike the reaction that had brought down the Salamence, which had been fueled mostly by the free-floating Cotton Spores, Grace had actually managed to freeze the Zoroark in place, effectively stopping its reign of terror...much to the seeming shock of the Vaporeon standing beside her.

“Typical,” Flicker muttered, more to himself than anyone else. “She’s cool under fire until Ollie looks like he might be getting it a little rough…” To her credit, Grace didn’t reply to the Litwick, nor did she rush to Ollie’s side as the bipedal bird straightened before making his way over to Rain with a bit of a wobble to his step.

Meanwhile, Liz was focused on the status of her team. As her Politoed gleefully finished freezing the Pangoro in place, Ein, who had nearly finished bringing the Salamence to the ground, sat abruptly. “Whoa, whoa, easy bud!” she cried, her hands reaching out to brace themselves against one of the Slowking’s arms. “You alright, Ein?”

/That Salamence is indeed as heavy as it looks, that’s all. I’ll need some rest after this, but I’ll be okay,/ he assured her, though he didn’t risk taking his eyes off the Salamence. /You should redirect Linus, before he starts trying to serenade us all./ Liz blinked, and looked up to see the Politoed bouncing and clapping around the downed Pangoro, letting out excited little croaks that most of her team knew were the prelude to an entire ballad if they didn’t redirect his attention soon.

“Linus, if you could be a dear and put that Salamence in timeout as well, we’d all appreciate it~” she called before shifting her gaze to where Splish stood by Rain’s Froslass, looking somewhat horrified by Grace’s freezing of the Zoroark. “Splish, it’d be great if you could start working on the fires burning in the area. I’m sure the fire department will be here soon, but until then, let’s try and halt some of the damage, okay? Linus, you help Splish out when you’re done, got it?” The Politoed gave a much louder, bellowing croak in acknowledgement before bouncing off towards where Ein was lowering the Salamence to the ground. Splish gave a swift shake of her head, as if to clear it before bounding off to the biggest fire burning in the area and unleashing a Hydro Pump at it.