John
"Heh, hopefully your friends can respond soon. Mine are asleep," He shrugged. Blue had a bad feeling something was up with his swablu, for a guy like Anvi there's no way his companions would leave his side. Plus, Swablu only really freak out in urban areas and this place is barely considered urban.. Before he was about to take Arcanine out, Lycanroc was there and probably knew the scent of Swablu far better than his pokemon. He followed the wolf and paused when he saw the pond. "Waaaait a sec-" He stared at the cotton floating in the pond. "I don't think Swablu's shred naturally do they?" The boy scratched his head contemplating. It's not like the cotton came from clothes or any kind of plants either. He could hope that was the case, but it was more likely that those *Did* Belong to Swablu.
Richard
"Dunno," She admitted. Seems like none of them were available to even look. Hop was busy, Sonia was busy, Leon and Allister just weren't responding, and she hadn't been able to contact Piers and Raihan for a while. "Looks like it's up to us, huh." She followed them, looking around and squinting so she could see if anything moved, but came up short. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary until Blue pointed something out.
Swablu don't shred naturally...
'No, they don't." She agreed, stepping forward to take a closer look. "That's... Really unusual..." She turned to Anvi, now a little confused. "Where would the cotton even come from..."
Elaine
He typed something out. 
 *'Sometimes they do. Just not in this amount. For this amount, she could have struggled to get away...'* His fingers trembled as he held the phone. First it was fear, then anger...
He had a strong team, he was confident in them. But even now this didn't help with getting back Swablu. She was so sweet... Why would something like this happen to her. 
He pushed past the two and went over to Lycanroc, who was carefully treading around some footprints. Anvi took a look and narrowed his eyes. He then takes a picture. The footprints were bipedal. Anvi looked around, trying to find the trees. He points to them around and looks back to Blue and Nessa. 
*'Check the trees for claw marks. I'll look down for more tracks.'* He already had an idea on what Pokémon was behind this. And it wasn't one that wouldn't be in this type of environment. That would mean... It had to *Belong* To someone else.
John
His eyebrows furrowed as he saw Anvi's hand shook. Blue figured it would have been the works of maybe a wild pokemon, but he came to realization there was someone else behind this. From his pockets, Blue tossed his pokeball up and down a few times and threw out his Alakazam. "Alright buddy, check for any markings around the trees." The Alakazam nodded and with his telekinetic powers lifting himself up. He closed his eyes twirling around and teleported to one of the trees nearby. Blue ran towards it seeing rugged scars on one of the trees, "Yo Nessa , Anvi I-" He stopped shouting almost forgetting Anvi was deaf. "I found some markings!" He called out louder.
Richard
That... That wasn't good. Originally, Nessa thought that Swablu might have just wandered off, but now looking at the scratched up tree, she was getting the same thought that the boys were. "Did something happen to Swablu," She wondered out loud, starting to get that gut feeling of something being wrong. She bent over by the tree, running her hand over the scratches. They were much to large to belong to the baby, so... Was there some kind of fight here?

She pulled out her phone to check.
Anything, anyone?

...

And of course, no one had found her yet. Nessa sighed, frustrated about the guy who called everyone stupid for being decent human beings. Then, Blue interrupted her thoughts, drawing the group over to another tree. She ran over, now able to take a look at what he saw, and it didn't look good.
"Guys..." She said. "These markings don't belong to one species..." Nessa shook her head. "I think a fight happened here."
Elaine
Anvi had to calm down. They wouldn't get anywhere if he got too angry. He just felt... So helpless. Swablu did so much for him and now, what wasn he able to do...? No. They weren't giving up yet. Seeing these other trainers reaching out to help them really meant a lot. He'd have to do something for them after this. 

*'Based on the single footprints, I think that one of the Pokémon is a Sneasel. The other one might have been able to cover theirs up.'* Now what Pokémon could do that? He knew of a couple. He looked dowk the tracks, seeing tbat the ground had been swept a bit, even on some of the Sneasel tracks. Anvi went over, since Lycanroc was tapping him when Blue started talking. He went over and examined the claw marks, taking a picture so they could keep it on record.
John
Blue smirked pointing at the mark on the tree. "So whatcha think? Maybe there's more of these somewhere," It's probably not the right time to be proud of finding a clue as Anvi seems more serious than anything. He glanced back at his Alazakam, his pokemon nodded closing his eyes and teleporting to tree that was farther from them. "Oi Alakazam! Ya found something? Tell me!" He waved his hand impatiently finding that there wasn't a response from him. He went a little further into the forest to see if Alakazam was there, "Yoooo! Ya there buddy?" He called out once again.