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Isadora chuckled, her breath freezing on the crisp mountain air. "Yehs... It certaihnleh is tha'. It seems lihke at least sohme people are enjohyin' thehmselves." She shot a scathing glare behind her at the two nincompoops who were pelting each other with ice, then turned back to her friends, her countenance sunny. "An' the prohspect o' the weekend is vereh excitin' indeed. I cahn't wait t' hit th' skatin' rink, m'self."

While her trainer was busy speaking about who knew what, Iditarod was busy making sure these new humans were safe for her own. She carefully sniffed each one individually to be sure that they were not dangerous, and when she recognized the familiar scent of Team Rocket [to which she had become so accustomed to] Iditarod began to wag her tail happily, barking her message to her trainer. These ones were safe, yes. The other ones that were throwing things at each other... Well, Iditarod wasn't too sure.

A ski resort, it was almost too exciting to be true. A field training exercise randomly at a ski resort, how could Acacia pass up the chance to get out of the base.

'Okay, so it really isn't a training exercise but at the rate everyone is going, there might be some frostbite in the near future.'

Acacia mentally noted with a large grin as she eyed the other rockets already playing in the snow, the blonde grunt however wasn't ready to start the snowy folly. First she needed to make sure that Ampule was doing alright in the feathery white bliss, it was after all his first time with snow.

Hopping with excitement the pudgy totodile made his way in front of his trainer sporting the matching outfit that his owner was wearing. A large furred purple parka with matching boots, mittens, and white pants, he certainly was strutting confidently among his peers his head held high with his blue snout barely visible; he was styling and he showed it cheekily.

“Dile, toda toda, toda, dile!” Ampule exclaimed jubilantly, tossing his small body into the wintery fluff rolling wildly while chomping his maw into the water-based substance. It was incredible, it was like a snowcone but without any flavor!

Lifting a gloved hand to her face the pale complexioned medic hid into her palm, Ampule was a mess and he hadn't even been outside for five minutes yet.

'One of these days he isn't going to embarrass me, but today isn't that day. And tomorrow isn't looking any brighter either.' She mused silently to herself, bending down she hefted the spirited Big Jaw pokemon into her arms and held him. From a distance, if it wasn't for his tail she was sure he would be mistaken for a toddler, she really hoped that none of the other Rockets would question her on why her totodile was dressed in snow gear, or for that matter a matching outfit.

So many noisy people. While the shrieks of merriment grated on his nerves a little, today he was able to tolerate the tomfoolery much better than he usually could. This was probably because, today, Mr. Frost found himself in his element. He hadn't quite caught what the reason/excuse for their coming up here was, but he didn't really care that much when it came down to it. Snow covered everything, clean and crisp. His footsteps squeaked, leaving behind clear prints in his wake. On arrival he had amused himself briefly by treading out various shapes in the snow; an equilateral (more or less) triangle, a square, and an ambitious octagon which hadn't come out as well as he'd hoped.

A born perfectionist, he had had felt forced to spend some time tidying up the wonky shape; this had involved rolling along a large snowball. Naturally as it grew, any line drawn with it would have grown larger too, and so he had meticulously moved it inward with every roll so that, eventually he had a very large (acceptable though still not perfect) octagon carved out of the snow, and an extremely large ball of snow in the middle of it.

It was when he was studying the massive sphere (it was slightly taller than he was) that his brain registered the sounds of pokemon around him was well as people. Ah. He had intended to surprise Skiron with the mountain trip, but instead he'd completely forgotten about him. Feeling rather embarrassed, Frost quickly removed the luxury ball from his belt... And twitched a slight, and slightly mischievous smile to himself.

A moment later the glaceon appeared in a flash of red light and cast around, joy lighting up his black eyes as he took him his surroundings; snow!... A large ball of snow. He was standing on a very large ball of snow, and his trainer was smirking up at him. Oh very funny. Skiron stuck out his tongue, and scuffed some snow at Frost's face. "Glaaace." Very mature, Frost, very mature.

"Ice skating, huh... I might need to pass on that." He stuffed his hands into his pocket with a vaguely sheepish grin. "I've never tried it before. Can't imagine I'd be much good." Sledding, however, sounded like a winner. And possibly snowmen. And hot chocolate, mmm...

Lucas spared a glance over his shoulder at the other Rockets, pleased to see so many of them enjoying themselves. He felt a bit like the awkward chaperone compared against the ages of the others in attendance, but that was a matter that couldn't be helped.

"Oh, grahcious, y' hahven't? You're wehlcome t' join me if yah wish." Isadora smiled kindly at her younger friend, then looked to the oldest of the three. "Tha' goes f'r you too, Luhcas. It's ahll about prahctice, right?"

Iditarod herself was looking forward to merely romping around in the snow. Indeed, she was acting like a young Growlithe, running about the flakes and catching them with her paws and her tongue. Isadora had never really seen her newest Pokemon act this... silly. Or happy, even. She chuckled at the large Arcanine and scratched her Pokemon's ears when she walked back to her human, her furry coat covered in snow.

Lucas reacted similarly to the prospects of ice skating, waving a hand slightly in a small expression of refusal, "Ah, no, I'm good, I think. Wouldn't want to hurt my manly pride by falling all over myself, right?" He flashed a bright grin, returning his hand to his pocket. Though his tone implied jest, he sincerely had no intent to fall all over himself in front of his coworkers. That just seemed like a terrible impression to give.

He took note of the Charmander attached to his leg and turned a smile towards it, leaning over briefly to rub a hand over its head and offer a friendly "hey, Nika." He returned his attention to Claire when she spoke, making a mental note to keep out for someplace for sledding. "Mm, I'm good with whatever," he said with a shrug and a grin, ceding the decision to his company. "Name it and I'm there."

Eep! An attack!
Tambrey then completely embarrased herself by letting out a noise not dissimilar to the mental eep that had come into her head at the surprise of Acacia's sneak attack.
She flushed with scarlet cheeks, already touched by the cold, but now embarrassed at being surprised, and bashful at the whisper caught in her ear.
The dark-haired grunt shook it off and grinned though, turning as she was released and facing her friend. Her cheeks retained some of the blush, but she was happy to see the pale woman.
"Hiya, Ace." She nicknamed back and laughed a little. "Thought I saw you on the way out. Glad to see you did come out for this; seems more fun than work."

Palu straightened up and flapped happily as she saw her little blue friend and his trainer. She stood proudly and warbled a pleased hello to the clearly excited Totodile, gesturing afterward at her snowpile and inviting him to help. Though... she still hadn't given any indication of what an Earth it was supposed to be, beyond... a pile of snow.

"Certainly... a lot of the others don't look like they're training. I can see snowball fights, people building giant snowballs... And pokemon just running around." Tam' commented with obvious pleasure. "I think we might actually be here for a little break."

“A break,” gasping loudly the pale medic mock swooned staggered then 'fell' against Tambrey giggling with amusement. “Oh my goodness! A break, at a ski resort! The boss man doesn't spare any expense on us does he?”

Once again pushing away from her friend the rosy-cheeked blonde giggled and spun in her tracks kicking up snow as she faced the other grunt, the twirl was cutesy almost too feminine for Acacia to manage but somehow the slender woman pulled it off without looking overly flirty. “Trust me, people might be playing right now, but I have a very strong feeling that I am going to end up getting overtime on this trip. Frostbite, broken bones, springs, contusions---frozen pokemon.” She pointed towards Palu and Ampule a cheeky curled grin playfully pulled at the corners of her pink lips clearly show her white bleached teeth.

Prancing around the glorious castle of snowy delight the pudgy blue totodile examined the creation of his friend. He didn't know what it was but it was fantastic! Bending down and scooping as much of the cold fluff into his arms he began to aid Palu in her task. He had no idea what he was doing but it was fun! Lowering his drum like body near the ground Ampule snorted loudly allowing for a large bellow of steam to erupt from his nostrils, straightening himself as quickly as he could he raced the plume of white, he loved the way his nose made shapes with the air, he loved the cold, and he loved snow!

Arching her eyebrow at her own pokemon she could only shake her head at his antics before continuing her conversation with the dark-haired grunt. “Do you know how much of a bitc---erm” she bite her tongue trying to shy away from profanities in front of the mixed company of higher and lower ranking Rocket members. “How much of a pain it was to find matching snow boots for my coat? Until yesterday I never noticed that I didn't own a single pair of boots besides the ones that go with my issued uniform. I have like a pair of flip-flops but that is it. I think I might need to buy some sneakers sometime in the near future. Ugh---I hate shoes!” Whining she shifted from foot to foot. If it hadn't been for the fact she liked having all of her toes on the proper feet, she would have been barefooted in the snow, she went barefooted everywhere else but not in snow. Brrrrr!