[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

It is now Day 60.

When you release your Pokemon for breakfast, you find that several are missing!

-Mightyena!
-Durant!
-Ralts!
-Slowking!
-Zippy!
-Raticate!
-Growlithe!
-Slurpuff!

AHHH!

Their footprints can be found in the frost of the tunnel to the North.

Mr. Finder: "Oh no, no, no, this is not good. This is not good. This is not good. Without Slurpuff, I only know the next two or three twists and turns. We're lost down here, lost forever, no no no! I knew I should have charged more, or just never accepted at all!"

Uh oh.

I'd probably say this very, very likely overrides the surprise of what Ditto is Transformed into today almost immediately...

Just for the sake of describing it, though...

It's a dog pokemon.  Primarily brown in coloration, but it looks like it's wearing a yellow mask of some kind, is wearing a yellow cape, has a picture of a crescent moon on its chest, and its hands and feet are red (making it look like it's wearing gloves and boots)...Nathan's never seen this pokemon species in person before!  The only other person in the group who might know what species it is off the top of their head is Heart!

Oh, and this dog is very, very wild looking, just like that Mightyena that Ditto took the shape of in Nathan's battle against Valder.

Unfortunately, attempts to get Ditto to Transform (since I assume that's something we'd end up trying for one reason or another before setting out) end in failure again today.  Ditto is stuck as this 'mystery' pokemon species for the entirety of the day.

Nathan is shocked for multiple reasons.  Ralts...wandered off?  In the middle of the night?  Without anyone noticing or even telling him?

...he would...never, ever do that...not...without good reason...right?

...he needs to find Ralts.  And Solomon and Zippy (who's still in Valder's care) as well, obviously, but Ralts especially!

That's the only thing he's thinking about right now.  The only thing he can think about for the most part.