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Puck was still relatively low level and the Blizzard knocked her out cold in an instant before sweeping her away on the winds.

Char, more resilient, had time and strength enough to dive for cover; he crashed awkwardly through the branches of a tree and landed hard, panting and shaking his head in an attempt to clear it.

Aulus' dex was chattering to the ground where it had fallen when he'd grabbed at his mega stone. The Agent himself was pitched out of his perch by the onslaught of ice and wind; he rolled as he landed but it was still jarring and for a few moments all he could do was lie there struggling to get air back into his lungs. As soon as he could he scrambled upright, shielding his face from the weather as best he could. Tam. Where was Tam? "Tam!" Aulus bellowed, hoping but doubting that his voice would carry over the storm. Which way had she gone? The fall from the tree had disoriented him and he couldn't see too far thanks to the billowing snow.

Killer - just as instructed - threw up at Protect over Tam as the storm surged down at them, quickly ducking behind the protective barrier himself. As it turned out perhaps it wasn't strictly needed but at least for a little while he was managing to maintain a tiny bubble of calm in the storm.

Phaethon, who was outside the bubble, gave a cry of distress; he had just been gathering himself to leap and try to catch Pygi but now he couldn't see her anymore, or much at all for that matter.

"Tam?" Aulus headed for the voice, stumbling now and again on treeroots he couldn't see. He also failed to see Pygi in the tree.

Gradually however the almighty blizzard began to abate and the blazing sunshine of Drought began to take over once more.

Char picked himself up slowly and painfully, trying to muster the strength to resist another attack but none came. He squinted upwards at the blue sky above but there was no sign of the legendary. Rumbling deep in his chest he headed towards the sound of a human voice and soon located Aulus' dex, which he picked up. "Charrrrr," he said in what he hoped was a reassuring tone of voice; he could hear Tam and Aulus shouting now too so they were alive and presumably reasonably intact.... But where was Pygi? After a couple of moment he spotted her sprawled in a nearby tree and with an alarm bellow to attract his master's attention he hastened over to her.

"I'm fine, you?" Aulus called, still trying to pinpoint his partner. "I don't-" At that point he heard Char's call, spun around and took off at a dead run; that noise was not a good noise, it was a call for help. Phaethon burst out of some thick bushes and overtook him after a few paces; he followed after his longtime friend, trusting in the Rapidash's superior directional hearing.

It wasn't long before he found Char and then it was only a couple of moments before he saw Pygi. "s**t!" This time Aulus was up in the branches before he was consciously aware of the decision to climb. Heart in his mouth he lent over the slumped bird and only relaxed a fraction when he saw her breathing; it was a start but the rest... the rest was not good at all. "Tam, over here! Get Pygi's pokeball out ready, you need to call her back!" Inside a pokeball matters didn't get worse at least.

Phaethon added his own call to Aulus' and turned around to head back the way he'd come just in case Tam and Killer hadn't been able to follow him.

"Hey, hey, it's okay," Aulus half climbed half slid out of the tree and hastened over to his partner, concern etching deep lines into his scarred slightly scratched up face and softening his sharp red eyes. "Hey, look at me," he reached up to give Tam's shoulder a gentle squeeze and lent down to be on eye level with her. "It's going to be okay, okay? They were sending us backup, they'll be here soon and then we can go back." s**t, he wanted- he really wanted to stay here and comb the whole area for feathers so he didn't feel like he'd somehow failed but he couldn't do that, Tam was what mattered most right now.

Speaking of backup though; "Char, dex." He reached out for it without looking away from Tam and because Char was Char it was promptly placed in his hand as the effects of mega evolution dissipated. "Base, Agent Aulus here. Tambery and I are okay but her Pidgeot is going to need some treatment.... Articuno's vanished, I'm sorry." What more could they have done? Nothing he could think of, or at least nothing sane. "Can I get an ETA? Need to get our teams back to base for treatment." Speaking of, where was Puck? Damn, he didn't want to go without her.... Maybe he could leave Phaeth to search, he seemed to be unhurt and Aulus knew he could count on him.

Though not exactly sure of the protocol of this kind of thing or where Tam stood with it Aulus made a decision and stepped forward to pull his partner into a hug. It was a bit of a lopsided one what with only having about a third of an arm on the right side but it was the best he could do. "Neither of us were prepared," he replied, "and even if we had been two people couldn't be expected to face down a legendary. It's not your fault, and it's going to be alright."

Perhaps he should have suggested they leg it at first sight of the legendary rather than trying to plan out how to get a sample, perhaps he should have advised against Tam getting Pygi out at all. Perhaps it was his fault, he was supposed to be the field agent. Some good he was.

He gave Tam a squeeze.

"I'll get you some snow, okay?"

"We have a group headed towards your location now," came the familiar voice through Aulus's dex, "but they were delayed by the sudden blizzard. Should be there in another minute or two. They'll also scout the area and see if they can find anything useful."

One, maybe two, minutes. That sounded good; it sounded like a short time.
It wouldn't be too long before she could get Pygi seen to properly.
She didn't have the initiative to point out that the berry case would likely contaminate the sample... Not that she expected very much out of the sample anyway... Instead, she was just rather pleased that they were, at least, leaving with some snow.

But then Aulus was staying on the ground... That was worrying too.
"Aulus?" Well... He said he was fine, but she found herself doubting, then worrying, and trying to scrutinize him for injury as she offered a hand to meet his and help him up.
"Are you sure? You didn't fall out of the tree, did you?" She realised she hadn't seen his descent...

She was a scientist not a medic (dammit Jim- the phrase popped into her head, despite the stress) and that, for now, irritated her too. Another thing she couldn't be of help with.
She really hoped they hadn't just been through all that for nothing.
At least Paul was okay... and Aulus did -seem- okay.
Still, she was worried; he admitted falling out of the tree, and he'd just been 'woozy', and he, apparently, had a cut back...
His reassurance was good, but the help it offered sent her from being fairly panicked to, after taking a deep breath, being rather focused.

"Okay." She went to grab her 'dex to relay a message of her own, but found it missing, and cursed under her breath.
Another thing gone wrong.
"I lost my 'dex. Uh. You should make sure they're bringing a medic. Even if it's just a cut, it needs to be cleaned up... and stuff, as soon as possible... And you fell out of the tree. I mean. You might feel fine, but, uh, you, know, just in case. Adrenaline might be masking stuff, right?"
She had a thought then.
Bayleef. The aromatic properties of the pokémon were calming and quite good at making people feel somewhat better.
If nothing else, she could do with that chemical influence herself, and so Tambrey released Treestar, after a moment of fumbling with his ball in the same hand that she carried her stick.
The Bayleef, worried, a little confused, but glad to be out, stood next to the pair; his worry automatically affecting the output of the scent from his leaf.
"I, uh, thought he'd be a good idea right now."