[FIN] Call To Aid

[Blood_Goddess]

Greal was much too large to enter this part of the forest, Rosie didn't need the stubbornness of her Sawsbuck not pursuing the man to realize that.
Instead a different option was considered, and executed.

"Pop, go after him, But be careful!"
bursting forth from an explosion of pink, the shiny Lopunny, long ears tossed out behind her as the smaller form pushed to her feet. Shooting a glance over her shoulder to the Sawsbuck supporting two trainers, she shoot him an amused sneer
Greal narrowed his eyes lightly at the tease, but watched as with a crouch, sprinkling her thick legs before she leaped off into the forest after where the sounds of yelling had come from.

Rosie dismounted Grealhorn, looking over at Lin, then over at Zal. "Lin, are you okay? what happened?"  

[Suudonym]

Luke alighted from the Sawsbuck as well, seeing the command given to the Lopunny and frowning lightly as he took a pokeball into his hand and released his Jolteon. "Go with Pop," he said. "Use your Thunder Wave if anyone tries to attack you two." Rem barked her understanding and took off like a bolt after the normal-type to lend her support.

Luke moved carefully to join Leste, raising a hand to rub her neck before looking down the trodden path in search of any indication of other human activity.  

[Gwennythe]

Lin snarled, unhappy as the man slipped away again, leaving him to find himself, after he'd aimed the punch, falling into the dirt.
"Oh for... Arse!" He muttered, pushing himself up, and then leaning to one side as a Whirlwind, and then a Lopunny, was sent after the fleeing man.

He assumed he was fine; scuffed up, a little scratched, but nothing he'd consider worrying about; he got dirt on himself all the time, anyway.
"That guy came down from uphill- near enough ran into us..." He frowned, then blinked and pointed toward where the man had thrown the unconscious... er, what was that pokémon anyway? He really needed to start learning their names better.
"He threw a pokémon; looked hurt... And he pulled a knife on Jeeves' vines!" He spun, and looked for the little grass type, who had followed him back out of the brush, and offered a small salute. No real damage done.
"You okay?"
The Snivy gave a brief nod.  

[Blood_Goddess]

The blond trainer was relived to see that their comrade seemed alright, though it was obvious that he was very annoyed.
She didn't have to ask many further questions before Lin gave Rosie a better understanding as to why they were trying to stop this man. The fact that he held a knife on one of Lin's pokemon was enough.
she let out a light sigh of relief when the Snivy acknowledged that he was okay.

Spinning where she stood, her eyes drifting first up the long half overgrown path
, then to the unconscious pokemon that had been thrown.
".. A Sneasel." Rosie said, walking over to the downed pokemon, placing a hand on its chest to feel for breath.
"It looks like He's alive."

It wasn't a few moments after then the bushes rustled, and the form of a Shiny Lopunny once again stepped back onto the path, but to her trainers surprise.
"Pop, what is it? Where is Rem?"

The Lopunny didn't look the least bit concerned, in fact she looked amused as she made a gesture as it to jab a thumb behind her.  

[Suudonym]

The sound of his pokemon's name drew Luke's attention from the path to Rosie and the Lopunny that emerged from the underbrush. He stared for a moment, confused by the Jolteon's absence and Pop's seemingly contradictively casual demeanor. He recalled Leste for the time being and moved to follow the Lopunny's gesture, picking cautiously through the forest.  

[Gwennythe]

"Sneasel..." Lin repeated the name, committing it to memory. It was kind of a neat looking thing, he supposed, but he'd rather have met it awake, and unharmed.
"What can we do for, uh, him?" He asked, of Rosie, as Jeeves made his way back over to Moriko, bidding her to come out further onto the track and wait.
The boy blinked as the Lopunny reappeared, and gave her 'report' regarding Rem.
He moved slightly aside, so Luke could move more easily into the forest, in the direction given, but stayed where he was for the moment; he didn't want to rush off without knowing what they could do for the Sneasel, but neither did he want to get back onto the path when he felt like, where he was, he could more quickly follow after Luke if needed.  

[Blood_Goddess]

Perplexed as well by what Pop was gesturing too, she wouldn't know if she didn't go find out as well. Greal would do little help in the dence trees, so the larger pokemon was returned, following Luke, though she bend down to gather the Sneasel into her arms, holding it to her chest and walking over to follow Luke and Pop, though pausing by Lin
"For now lets take him with us. Come on."

She had one hand free to be able to part her way through the bushes, following Pop's lead, With Luke not far ahead.

It was obvious where they were heading, as the swearing and struggling continued seemingly stationary.
The reason would become quite odvious, as they drew closer to some bushes, hanging up, several feet from the ground, was a makeshift net, balled up. a struggling form tangled within it, trying to get a limb free and swearing the entire time.  

[Suudonym]

Rem sat beneath the man swaying in the net, watching him with a cheeky expression in her features. She wasn't responsible for his current conditions, but that didn't mean she couldn't enjoy his distressed discomfort.

Luke paused as he approached the area, turning, confused, to the following trainers. It was a relief to see that Rem was fine, but the fact that the man was ensnared in what clearly resembled a trap of human design was questionable. If one wanted to catch a pokemon, a pokeball was obviously the easier choice…

For the time being, however, the man who had apparently threatened Lin and treated a pokemon like a projectile weapon had been detained, and it didn't appear that he had any means of breaking free on his own. "Hey," Luke said, interrupting the steady stream of swears, "who are you? What are you doing out here?"  

[Gwennythe]

Well, if they were going to proceed on foot for the moment...
Lin looked back at Moriko and Jeeves...
He decided to recall the Sawsbuck- with apologies to Akira if he'd hoped to return to riding along anytime soon, and then gestured to Jeeves that he should follow as they went to investigate.

On emerging to the scene with the man caught up in a net, Lin's face split into a grin.
Sure, the implications were either disturbing or just odd... but still, he felt some satisfaction.
"And why are you waving knives about and throwing pokémon?" The boy added his own questions onto the end of Luke's. He continued to grin though; served the guy right.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Luna's progress through the dense foliage became much more difficult the further they went, causing the dark Rapidash to lag behind the others. Luckily they all stopped and dismounted, so Sera did the same, and rather than try to push her fire-type to try and get through, she simply recalled her instead. A quick switch of pokeballs saw three more released in her place - Isabella, Jacques, and Agatha - as Sera moved to join the others. The unconscious Sneasel was hardly noted once she arrived, as her attention focused much more on the man trapped in the net. She hadn't seen his actions, but she wasn't deaf. "Sounds like some kind of a*****e," she quipped, then turned to Luke curiously. "Can I see your cane?"

Agatha hissed lightly before she leaped into the trees, easily climbing up and peering curiously down at the Sneasel Rosie held, before she moved to hang out directly above the trapped human. Well well, what had this chump gotten himself into? Isabella and Jacques, on the other hand, stayed near Sera's side, though the latter not without some obvious and vocal amusement.


Nicolette had dismounted and recalled Epona as well, even though the Rapidash hadn't had as much trouble as Luna, and she joined the small group as well. Mention of unpleasant things, plus the presence of the trap, caused her some discomfort, and she found herself gravitating towards Luke and Rosie, the former especially. "What's going on?" She whispered uncertainly, half-raising her hands to fidget with them a bit. What happened? Where had the net come from, and why was this man trapped in it..? What about knives?  

[Suudonym]

Luke looked to Sera, mildly surprised, and gestured to the cane in question with his empty hand, "I'm kind of using it."  

[BlackFireKitsune]

The brunette looked only briefly disgruntled by his response, but the reaction passed after hardly a second or two. "That's fine," she said easily, already moving to procure herself a long stick for whatever purpose, "I don't need it." She'd almost forgotten where the were for a minute there.

Sera moved to stand close to Rem, raising the stick to try and poke the man through the net. "Alright, you better answer all of their questions or I'm gonna have to stand here and poke you with this until you do," she 'threatened' despite the obvious mirth in her expression and tone of voice.  

[Blood_Goddess]

Oh he was starting to gather a crowd, not just the boy he ran into, but what was this? More!? three other girls at least and another boy.
"Who am I!? Who the hell are you!?"
The man snapped back struggling a little more before falling still. "Ugh, how about you help me down from here, instead."

It was hard to see much of the people down below him without straining to look down. but before long he left a jabbing in his side
"Ow! OW HEY! Knock it off you b***h! Look! You're the ones who attacked me!"  

[Gwennythe]

"I'd be very surprised if anyone stopped her right now." Lin couldn't help but keep grinning, especially as Sera started poking the man.
"You heard the deal she offered you; you waved a knife about! Bad idea. Threw a," what was it called again? "... a sneezely around... Bad idea... So, we'll add getting you down into the bargain... After you answer our questions." He didn't think the others would disagree with the idea; or hoped not, anyway.  

[Suudonym]

"Hey--" He held a hand out discouragingly as Seraphine poked at the suspended man. "Sera, is that necessary? We don't even know who he is." The fact that he had brandished a blade certainly didn't speak well of his character, but certainly there wasn't any benefit to antagonizing him. His language wasn't really helping his case, though.

"Look, if we let you down now, it's going to be paralyzed," he gestured to the waiting Jolteon, an uncharacteristic expression of excitement on her face as Sera poked at their foul-mouthed captive, "and restrained. You might as well answer us; we're not trying to hurt anyone." He nodded towards Lin to second his words, "We'll have no reason to keep you up there anyway if you just answer us."