For the whole scene, Megan and her mudkip had been treading water. While she was certainly capable of pulling Lars out of the water herself, Ty got to him first. I'm just glad they didn't drown eachother, Megan thought as she sighed.
"Mudkip?" the small amphibious creature looked questioningly at Megan. After hearing Ty name his new pokemon, Megan was reminded mudkip still needed a name.
"Do you want me to give you a name?" Asked Megan, speaking to the mudkip directly just as she had seen other trainers doing.
"Mudkip!" He answered happily.
"I guess that means yes," she giggled. "So, uh...are you a boy?"
"Muuudkip!" He answered again, affirming he was in fact a boy.
"Alright then, here it goes," Megan looked into her partner's big, glassy eyes. "How about Neo?"
"Kip." he replied in a disapproving tone.
"No? Okay...Waterford?"
"Kip." another no.
"Oh...uh....Okay, what about Lamar!"
Mudkip considered for a moment then peeped happily, "Mud!" Then jumping into Megans arms, the newly named Lamar was content just to be held.
"Alright! Lamar it is," Megan said quietly, drawing her partner in close. She looked up to see Ty and Lars talking.
"Yeah Lars, this is my water type pokemon, Lamar! He's a mudkip!" Megan's head was spinning. There was something thrilling about learning to talk about pokemon. Lars's pokemon is already so big, thought Megan, I wonder if he will accept a battle on his first day as a trainer....I'm not sure I could. Megan pet Lamar's squishy head, "That's awesome Lars!," she said. "If you guys want to battle, I read that the stadium on the very top deck is open until 23:00.