She had come to investigate the people going missing, kidnapped by Abomasnow. The informant had looked rather surprised and sort of worried that she didn't have a partner for this, but being a Dragon-type trainer, she was able to convince him she'd be fine. And maybe she would have been had she had her pokemon out of their balls. But it was cold up here, and despite her pokemon being Dragon- and Steel-types, none of them liked the cold like she did. So she had left them in their balls, intending to bring them out when she found the Abomasnow caves. Well, she'd found them, but not the way she'd expected.

Honoka groaned quietly but her voice still echoed. Her head was killing her, and she was laying on the floor of one of the caves. She wasn't too far in yet, she realized as she turned to look around. She was probably twenty or thirty feet from the entrance of the cave, or one of the caves. Looking the other way, the cave she was in seemed to go deeper, and she figured it was probably a series of caves all attached to one another. If you didn't know them, you could probably get lost pretty easily. No sign of the Abomasnow, not one, which could have either been a good thing or a bad thing. She rolled over, the world swimming slightly from the pain in her head, and reached down to her belt. Good, the pokemon were still there. She pressed the button on one of the mini pokeballs, releasing the Metang inside. He took one look at her and was instantly worried, prodding her gently to get up.

"I'm ok Haku, I'm ok. Just-just help me get up." The Metang wasn't big enough to ride on, but as he hovered down lower to help pull her up, he was plenty large enough to use as a good crutch until she got her wits back. Maybe she should have waited for another trainer; two might not have gotten surprised like that. Too late for that, she supposed. Honoka grunted in pain as she hauled herself upright and into a standing position with the help of Haku, and leaned on him for a second as the dizziness subsided. Haku was making worried sounds, and she patted him comfortingly.

"I'm ok bud. Just give me a second to get my feet again." She pressed the button on a second and third pokeball, her Dragonair and Magnezone popping out in flashes of red light that she hoped wouldn't be seen by anything else in the caves. Or outside of them. "Keep an eye out you guys. There's bound to be Abomasnow everywhere."

Her Magnezone was now on high alert, charging a Flash Cannon to have ready just in case it needed it, and at the first sign of life other than them it went to investigate. It was fully ready to blast whatever it found, assuming it would be an Abomasnow because what or who else would be crazy enough to be out here right now, right? It had to find its owner help, too. As luck would have it, the sets of footsteps did not belong to an Abomasnow, and the Magnezone almost reacted before it saw what it found. The light of the charging Flash Cannon died down as it realized that there was another trainer and pokemon in front of it, and while it didn't recognize the badge it looked pretty official so of course it must be.

The Magnezone made little panicked beeping and buzzing noises, looking back at the area it had just come from and then back at the trainer several times, trying to get him to follow it. When it was asked if it had a trainer, it bobbed up and down vigorously, as it had no head to nod, and began to bob at a slower rate whilst moving back toward where Honoka was, hoping the other trainer would follow it.

The Magnezone's trainer in question was still leaning on her Metang, but not as heavily anymore. The pounding in her head was fading, much to her relief, and she was using the time to gather her bearings and figure out a plan. She had no idea what her Magnezone had gone off to find and while that worried her, she wasn't about to be left helpless. If she could help it anyway. Seeing as she hadn't heard the Flash Cannon go off, Honoka could assume that whatever was out there was no in fact an Abomasnow, but she wasn't going to take any chances in case it was. Her Dragonair had wrapped itself around her legs in a wide loop, ready to catch her should she fall or protect her from oncoming attacks. A few more minutes and she figured she'd be ready to get out of here.