Unfortunately, the vegetation in that area was quite dense, with thick branches and leaves blocking the space about three meters above the track.
Since the track was straight and had no thrilling obstacles, the drone took the safe approach and flew above the canopy. Missing this short stretch would do no harm.
There really would not have been any spectacular racing maneuvers in this blind spot, but it meant missing the footage from before and after the female ninja was attacked.
"Squeak..."
Emolga indicated that she had filmed the entire way without avoiding the canopy.
As a Pokémon that flew, glided, and jumped between trees, she could instinctively plot a route through dense vegetation.
So her footage would not have the blind spots the drones had to avoid.
The organizers had enough drones to film multiple race cars in several groups at once. There was only one Emolga, though, and she could not be everywhere at once. That was beyond her abilities.
"Let me see the stretch where I rescued her."
"What's up?" Little Reporter asked with a smile, holding a chicken strip. "Want another look at how cool you were?"
"I'm not that vain."
Emolga took a lightweight laptop out of Little Reporter's backpack. The full recording had already been imported onto it, and quite a few exciting clips had been cut out and submitted.
Since Little Reporter's work equipment was limited and the computer only had so much storage, these recordings might be deleted after a while.
"Let me find it..."
They dragged the progress bar to a point a little past the middle of the second lap of the race. At the time, the leading Little Sheep had just cleared a difficult obstacle, with Janine's Yuanbao 1st Generation pursuing about fifty meters behind.
Emolga had flown ahead