@SAF "The Solaceon Ruins, actually." Dawn remembers. "After a chaotic clash with some high ranking Galactic goons, I was separated from the boys."
All Marissa could say at Dawn's story was a somewhat awkward "O-oh..." right before an Alolan Vulpix came to the camp. The little guy looked desperate to the point that Marissa felt something off about them. (@WavePearl @Ignem after a pretty long break... should we start the max raid thing? Lemme copy-paste it from the OOC thread in case you forgot: Someone needs to get the ball rolling, after all. )
@SAF @Ignem Dawn noticed the Alolan Vulpix. "How'd this little one get here?" She noticed it shaking. "It looks like it's seen a ghost type!"
"Waitaminute..." the sight of a somewhat familiar Vulpix made Marissa wince. She slowly approached the distressed Vulpix, then crouched down and asked, "Hello. I think Kaimana is-" only to be cut off by the Fox Pokémon running away. The catch? Neither Kantonian nor Alolan Vulpix have Run Away as their ability. "W-wait!!!" Marissa stood up and ran to the white Vulpix's direction. (Iirc the Kubfu's control is still with Wave in case Emiyou and/or Chika wanna tag along.)
@SAF [I will follow it!] Emiyou volunteered. [I'll be back once I have located it!] With that, she dashed away, careful to follow the frightened white Vulpix...
The chase soon ended near a Pokémon Den where the Alolan Vulpix looking back to see if anyone followed them. They desperately looked back and forth between Marissa and the den, practically begging to save someone from the den. "Eh? Your sibling's in there?" Marissa made a wild guess to which the poor Vulpix confirmed with a nod. She then turned to her Kubfu (who had been tagging along) upon realizing that they would be roped into a max raid battle and told her, "Emiyou, can you please go get help? I can't fight alone here."
@SAF @Ignem Even the Kubfus shuddered at the size of the den. [Who could help us?] Emiyou wondered. [What kind of help should we look for?]
Marissa let out a rather dejected sigh at the Kubfu's question. The cause for her needing help here should be obvious among Galarian folks. But to be fair though, they probably hadn't ever ventured out from the Kikuzu Dojo until she and Cobalt, uh, had graduated (?) from there. "Cobalt and Dawn, maybe?" the redhead suggested. "It usually takes four trainers to take down a Dynamaxed Pokémon in a den like this. They're so huge that one can't expect to defeat them alone."
@SAF @Ignem "Let me see if I can locate Ash and the gang..." Dawn suggests before finding MapNav. "If they're close to us, maybe they can help." She smiles when she sees a red dot, a blue dot, and a green dot close to where we are. "There they are... After fumbling for a walkie talkie, she tries contacting Ash. "Shining Pearl calling Ruby Hero, SOS!" (You're going to need more than four to take down your opponent...)
(Question: are Cobalt and Dawn already with Marissa near the den? Or are they still at the campsite?)
(Okie~ And speaking of this: It's true for this particular case, right? I'm basing Marissa's past experience of "four trainers vs Dynamaxed mon" on the games tbh.)