[RAID] Attack on Rocket

[BlackFireKitsune]

Lin

"Lin," the redhead echoed, and managed to reach around to offer his hand to shake, though it was still rather close to the front seats. "Alder. It's a pleasure to meet you. What part of Kodo are you from, if I may ask?"  

[League Trainer Rosie]

[Dith, Dove]

delighted by the returned affection from the larger man, having missed his kind nature greatly, it felt nice to have him back, he was good at looking out for them.
Glancing over to Dove as she seemed to shrink away, she nodded lightly when Dith spoke to her, he had her back "we'll all look out for each other, we'll be okay." She agreed the golden haired man whole heatedly.  

[Gwennythe]

Well, this could be somewhat awkward.
Alder was an important guy in the League, Lin was, at least, aware of that by now, but he wasn't totally sure why nor knew a lot about his home region. To be honest, he didn't know -a lot- about /his own/ home region, having just started travelling outside Sandalwood recently.

"Uh... A please to meet you too, Alder. Sandalwood." The boy explained. "I know you're from a place called Unova, but I'm afraid I don't know very much else."  

[Suudonym]

[Rosie]

"Well," she shrugged, mildly embarrassed, "I'd feel better letting you see what I can do firsthand than just having you assume." The question about her division wasn't an unexpected one, however, considering it wasn't as glorified as the Indigo Plateau, and she had no qualms against explaining, "It is, though not one that most people hear about. We conduct investigations on abuse-related crimes involving pokemon and trainers."  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Lin

The man nodded, not even remotely taking any kind of offense when Lin admitted to not knowing much about himself or Unova. "That's quite alright," he said amicably, his smile still present and, he hoped, at least a little encouraging. "Unova is a region like Kodo, except quite a bit larger. I was the Pokemon League champion for quite a few years, before relinquishing the title to a young colleague of mine named Iris," he explained. Figuring that was more than enough of an explanation, he instead focused on the young man's origins. "Sandalwood; the city in the trees, yes? I was there for a few days last month, and it's a very charming city. How long have you lived there?"  

[League Trainer Rosie]

[Petra]

The blond grinned and let out a light giggle, "Yes, I guess you're right," Though Rosie had no doubt they would see amazing things from the League member who's been in it for this long, let alone in a 'special operations'

When her job was explained Rosie perked up a little, her eyebrows arching in surprise, and interest. "Oh- I didn't know that the League had a team for that." She paused, looking a little sheepish "Though now that I think about it that would make sense."  

[Tori Honoo]

She accepted Dith's reassurance, feeling incredibly uncomfortable now that someone had vocalized her fears. Rosie's intent sank quickly, and though the girl tried to offer the blonde a fleeting smile, it all but failed, and she looked down to her belt, drawing up a ball and releasing it's contents into her lap, more ready to defend the appearance of the little pink pokemon than to talk about her fears. Plus, it was a comfort to have something innocent and small in her arms as they rode out into the heat and sand.

Trill peeped up at its trainer, curious as to where exactly they were, and why there were so many people here.

With a glance back at the four in the back seat and to Dith again (as Lin seemed to be talking to Alder, and the other two in their own worlds), she asked the large man, "You're a doctor, right?" Sure, the question was a little out of the blue, but it was something to talk about. Something besides fear and inner thought.  

[Gwennythe]

Alder

"I'm a little unfamiliar with how the League works," Lin admitted "but it's been clear enough that you've, uh, got a reputation for a reason."

He nodded to confirm that yes, he was from the city in the trees.
"It's got its plusses. All my life."  

[TRHQ Agent]

The three vehicles continued unimpeded into the heart of the desert as the van's occupants carried out their various conversations, the horizon fading into a haze of heat and sand. Eventually, three small beeps sounded from a device on the van's dashboard - presumably a GPS. "Sorry to interrupt, but if our investigations have been accurate," Petra announced, "we just passed into their security perimeter. Get ready; I doubt it'll be smooth sailing much longer."

As if on cue, what felt like a small earthquake shook the van, suddenly and effectively halting its progress as something forced the front end up off the sand. It dropped heavily back onto the ground as something beneath the vehicle loosed an angry, muffled bellow. The vehicle shifted a little as the terrain below it shifted as well, and then a second or two later, a huge spray of sand erupted from the ground on one side of the van as an angry, black Hippowdon emerged. With another enraged bellow, the large pokemon moved to push the van on its side. Smaller, muffled cries joined in with the Hippowdon's calls as a group of half a dozen Hippopotas emerged from the sand as well and circling the vehicle, a second, tan Hippowdon following shortly after.

"Everyone out!" Alder called out as he hastily put his goggles on, as first the black Hippowdon then the tan Hippowdon blasted sand out of the holes in their backs, causing a blinding sandstorm. "Use ice, water, or grass type moves if your pokemon have them!" That said, he opened his door and exited as he pulled out a pokeball, loosing his Bouffalant out onto the sands. With an angry snort, the pokemon charged the large black ground-type, trying to push it away from the vehicle to allow everyone within to get out. The rest of the angry ground-types loosed sharp cries as they closed in on the front of the vehicle, not close enough yet to block the doors.  

[TawnyAngel]

Dith nodded to Rosie and smiled but let her get on with her conversation with Petra.

When Dove let a pokemon out into her lap his eyebrows raised involuntarily but it was only a small one so he supposed it didn't matter. Not exactly a pokemon expert Dith had no idea what it was other than kind of cute. "That's right," he nodded to her question, "surgeon, orthopaedic and trauma."

At that point the van rocked and Dith said something not especially polite in Russian.

Pulling down his goggles he piled out of the van along with the others trying not to squash anyone. Zla was the first pokemon he called out, the ground type attacks wouldn't hurt him, and he sent Viktor, Luna and Teazer not far behind. Dolly remained in her pokeball, he wasn't going to send the fire type out against the ground types if he could possibly help it.  

[Gwennythe]

Excellent. They were getting somewhere.
The sudden event was proof, finally, that all this was real. They were going after Rocket and whatever was trapping the van was a defense. Lin felt excited, and frustrated.
This was encouraging that they were on the right track, that all this was real, yet this was a delay, delaying him from the fight he'd been waiting for for so long already.

When it turned out to be wild Hippo-something-or-others, Lin frowned. He didn't want to be fighting seemingly wild pokémon.
Still, he pulled his goggles down and leapt out of the van, releasing Moriko and Jeeves in quick succession.  

[Tori Honoo]

She had listened and was about to respond to the man when the van was jostled, and instead found herself clinging to the seat as Trill latched onto her neck. Her heart picked up its pace, and she watched with widening eyes as the pokemon surrounded them, and as Alder gave his orders.

Crap!

As everyone else poured out of the van, the young woman called the confused little legendary back into its ball, and instead released Aurora, knowing the pokemon wouldn't have the upperhand at all, but unwilling not to let her fight. Her bag secured on her back and her gun to her thigh, the girl followed the rest of the team out into the sands, sliding her goggles into place and hissing at the sting of the sand on her skin.

Aurora released an immediate roar, quickly surveying the situation at hand and setting off in an ExtremeSpeed toward the closest target.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

The sudden jerking of the vehicle startled her and Sera instinctively reached out to grab onto the seat in front of her with both hands - except she only had one hand with which to do so - and inhaled sharply. Once the vehicle ceased moving and pokemon began emerging, she quickly made sure her goggles were still on properly before exiting with the others. Grass, water, ice... Did she have any of those? It took her a few seconds to go over her pokemon in her head - most knew dark-type moves, but one stood among among the rest. Her hand flew to her belt, pulling a dusk ball from her left side with her right hand. Man, this was awkward as hell, but she didn't have time to worry about it. She covered her nose and mouth with the crook of her elbow as she loosed her pokemon, the white light that shot out from the ball morphing into the small form of a Sneasel - one who stood erect for a split second before stumbling back with an irritated cry as the sandstorm whipped around them. "Agatha, Icy Wind!"

The dark-type obliged, though she didn't enjoy this nearly as much as she couldn't. Regardless, with a sharp, shrill cry, the small pokemon loosed the ice attack at the nearest pair of Hippopotas.  

[Suudonym]

The vehicle's sudden lurch was nothing short of unexpected, and Luke instinctively braced himself in the seat to steady himself as he searched the windows to try and gain an understanding of the situation. Alder's harried call pulled his attention, and he drew the goggles up to their proper place before rising from the seat as much as the low ceiling would allow. With a glance to Rosie and Seraphine that was perhaps less nervous than he had been feeling earlier - fighting against pokemon was familiar territory and something they trained to do on a regular basis - he exited the van and assessed the situation.

Ground-types, weak to water, ice, and grass. Water, of course. The type he had foregone in favor of electricity, to which ground was immune. With no real advantages to speak of, he released a large Pidgeot into the building fray, the bird voicing her discomfort at being buffeted by the raging sandstorm. "Give it a Whirlwind," her trainer encouraged, the back of his hand to his mouth to prevent inhaling the airborne earth. The flying-type complied, flapping her great wings at the nearest Hippopotas in an effort to push it back from their transport.
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Petra extracted herself from the van alongside the other trainers, loosing a pokeball from her thigh and releasing a large Victreebell. "Gloria," she said, lowering her goggles over her eyes and covering her mouth with her sleeve, "up, please." Understanding the request, the large grass-type extended a vine to wrap around her trainer, lifting the small woman and placing her on the car's roof. Her task complete, the Victreebell moved on to the next order of business, joining Alder's Bouffalant in deterring the black Hippowdon with an aggressive display of Vine Whip.

The grass-type's trainer observed the sudden battlefield from her new perch, calling out a plan of action, "Drive them back! We can't stay here long!"  

[Gwennythe]

Once clear of the van, Lin swung himself up onto Moriko's back, as Jeeves found a perch on his right shoulder.
He rode the Sawsbuck toward the Hippowdon, holding up a hand to gesture intertwining fingers to the Snivy on his shoulder, then pointed forward, hand flat.

As soon as the silent command was given, Jeeves ran down, and leapt from, his trainer's arm, launching himself, as Lin and Moriko broke off their charge so as not to get in the way as Jeeves released a Leaf Tornado toward the Hippowdon.

Meanwhile, Moriko's target was one of the Hippopotas.
Unused to silent commands, as yet, she had to rely on her rider's shout for the attack to use.
"Moriko! Leech Seed!"