Cara Liss' Wild Ride Continues....

[indigo_league]

After a month of hard work finding the missing parts to Cara Liss' wrecked machine... and helping her assemble said machine... and feeding her and keeping her sheltered, plus the whole lot of you... while assisting the Ginkgo Guild in all of their various missions out of gratitude, guilt, and/or the goodness of your hearts... all without getting murked by a Murkrow and becoming the first transplant ever to actually die that anyone knows of.... uh, where was this going again?

Oh, right! After a month of work! The machine is (mostly) intact and everything is (almost) in place for Cara Liss to fire that sucker up and go further into the past take everyone home!

Mostly. Almost.

Some parts are still missing.

But! As a result of all that hard work and re-inventing showers and surviving without even any real coffee... everyone is much better at roughing it, including the part where Pokemon partners have grown stronger alongside their new human friends! Heartwarming, really. Hopefully that warm heart will keep you plenty cosy, because Ginter and his crew have a chilling proposition for you.

It seems (he says, sounding very weary indeed) that the last four parts have been sighted in the Alabaster Icelands. He (and everyone else, frankly) had been hoping to avoid the risks, but the fastest way to get ahold of those parts and get you home is to send the lot of you out to search.

The final mission.

Semi-final mission. Cara Liss butts in to correct him.

She intends to take her machine to the Temple of Arceus in the Coronet Highlands in order to activate it. That’s the actual final mission.

Okay. So. Semi-final mission. Three parts. One massive tundra.

A whole lot of time travellers.

Get to it!

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Part #4: Alpha Avalugg

[indigo_league]

The final part was spotted from the sky by one of the Wardens... apparently it's lodged in the ice on the back of a wandering Alpha Avalugg.

Unfortunately, this means someone (or ideally many someones) need to either chase down and stop this unstoppable, immovable Pokemon in its tracks or redirect it someplace where it can be... er... okay, well, okay, just climbing on its back isn't going to work, and the ice up there is cartoonishly slippery, and the part itself is stuck...

This one is hard! Time to get creative.

Re: Part #4: Alpha Avalugg

[instrumentally]

Rei is not certain how to help with this, but she did formerly pilot a giant sentient monster/robot, so how different could piloting a giant iceberg be?

Oh, very, probably. So she will assist any recovery efforts with her fire pokemon, aiming to soften the ice so they can just slide the part out. Somehow.

[captainash]

Is it a terrible idea to send a Bug/Flying Pokémon to deal with a massive, rocky bloc of ice? Why, yes it is!

Is that going to stop Ash from trying? No.

His Scyther will fly in and just... try to pull the part out from above without attracting the Avalugg's attention, with strict orders to get the hell away if it sees him. It is very likely that no one involved will enjoy the experience.

Re: Part #4: Alpha Avalugg

[orangesmith]

Narancia's going to have his relatively new Heracross fly up and start trying to pull the piece out of the ice using its horn as a lever. If needed, the Heracross can break off a bit of the ice with her fighting type moves to try and make this easier.

Re: Part #4: Alpha Avalugg

[blue_ice]

Kaiba offers his Mothim, who will not be engaging directly! Instead he fires String Shot on the Avalugg's back, to make a sticky landing pad for anyone trying to remove the part.

As for getting them off the sticky pad...he has a Sliggoo to attempt Water Pulse, and a Ponyta to try Ember if that doesn't work.

[heartofalioness]

Allura's going to be pulling distraction duty. She'll be using her Quilava and Arcanine to steer the Avalugg towards Kaiba's Mothim, then to keep its attention with Rock attacks while the others work to extract the piece.

[shiro2hero]

Assisting with the use of "Big Spheal" technique!

... it's just a larger sized Spheal and Shiro chucking either snowballs or using Rollout depending on who it is. To help Allura's Quilava and Arcanine herd the big guy.

[neverbreaks]

Luisa will try to assist with keeping the Alpha Avalugg distracted so other people's Pokemon can try to reach the part in its back. She also has a Scyther that can also try to help fly up and either assist other airborne Pokemon or try to reach the part too.

[tempredmental]

Keith will be using Sneasel to distract and herd the Avalugg into place in order to give everyone a shot at getting on the back for that part. His Growlithe will also assist with that until such time as Avalugg is in place, then Scyther will lift Growlithe to the Avalugg's back. Using the sticky pad from Kaiba's Mothim for help, Growlithe will then try to soften the ice around the part so people can grab it. As for Keith, he'll be working to keep Avalugg in place as well by throwing snowballs, sticky globs, rotten apricorns, and mudballs as needed until he runs out.